Chapter 1

Warning Signal

Querl was surrounded in a bright white light. For a moment, nothing else was there with him, until Kara appeared. She was holding a bundle of pink and white blankets, with a baby in her arms, wrapped in the blankets. He could only see a tiny green-skinned arm.

He started to run towards his mate and baby. Kara looked so sad, just as he reached them. She let the bundle go and let it unravel to reveal that it was empty. The tears were streaming down her face for the baby who wasn't there anymore. The light grew so bright that Kara faded away in the glare.

The glare went down, and in Kara's place was a beautiful young woman. She had the best of Kara and his features. She clearly had his eyes and skin tone, and her eyes held warmth and love as she looked at him.

His daughter. His and Kara's daughter. She was dressed in a pink and white version of her mother's uniform instead of red, blue and yellow, but with the S lower on her midriff, and a pink choker on her neck.

Suddenly something hammered her down onto her knees and she cried out, but no sound could be heard. Querl ran towards her. He was going to rescue his little girl even if she was a full-grown woman. The light grew brighter and brighter the closer he got to her. Just as he reached out to her, the glare caused her to totally disappear from his sight.

Querl sat up with a start in bed. He had had that nightmare again. He looked over at his wife Kara, still sleeping peacefully beside him. Her locks of blond hair fell in a way that looked very lovely around her face and shoulders. He reached over to the nightstand and quietly took out a hand held scanner and turned it on. Querl held it over Kara's stomach with one hand while the other hand reached under the sheet and softly stroked her rapidly growing baby bump. The baby gave a firm kick in response to his touch.

"How is she doing," Kara asked him with smile.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to wake you," he said, quickly turning the scanner off and placing it back on the nightstand. "Everything is fine. The fetus is all right."

"First time father jitters," she stated. Kara sat up, wrapping her arms around him and giving him a light kiss on his cheek. "And I thought about your name suggestion for her."

"And?"

"Karen Dox is a lovely name. I like the fact the Earth meaning of the name means 'Beloved' and like my name Kara also means 'Beloved' on this world, too "

She took his hand and guided it to her belly and adjusted it so he could better feel the baby moving in her womb.

"Oh, and another thing: stop referring to her as 'it', or the 'fetus' from now on if you know what's good for you," Kara said sternly, "She's a baby. She already has a personality of her own."

"Is she communicating with you telepathically?" he asked with concern.

"No," Kara shook her head. "Not like that, it's one of those mother-to-be instinct bonding things."

Something in his face must have given his thoughts away to his beloved Supergirl, for Kara immediately put him into a gentle hug.

"Don't worry," Kara whispered, "It will different this time. This baby is very much wanted and loved and she will be surrounded by people and other children; not government robots."

"Yes," he said, "Thankfully, she won't have the type of childhood that I had."

Kara yawned. She was still very tired; being pregnant was putting her to sleep a lot these days. She was already off the active duty list and on maternity leave for up to a year after the birth. Brainiac 5's restricted paternity leave wouldn't start until a week before the baby was due, and even then they would be staying mostly at the Legion clubhouse. He would still be the group scientist and strategist, but allowed non-combat status for one year.

"Sleep," Querl said. "Karen and you still need your sleep." Kara nodded and laid down, turning onto her side. Querl curled up in spoon fashion against her back. Kara took his hand in hers and placed it over her baby bump.

"I love you," she softly murmured as she drifted off to sleep again.

"I love you too, my beloved," he whispered into her ear.

Querl just wished that he could shake the nightmare.

He heard someone in his lab, slipping out carefully so that he did not wake Kara, putting on his sleeping robe to see what his fellow Legionnaire could be wanting to see him about, at this time of night.

Querl recognized the woman, the instant that he saw her, fully dressed in her helmet and body armor. He remembered her, Lyla the Harbinger, the Monitor, the Anti-Monitor, the Infinite Crisis and he could still fully remember, in all too clear details, the first time his wife, Kara Zor-El, had died to save the universe, and the grief he had once experienced in another life and another time. Her being here wasn't a good sign, but then she was also one of Kara's dearest friends in the 21st century.

"Harbing..." he started to say. She held her index finger to her lips and shook her head for silence.

"I need to speak to you in private," she said softly. "It's about Kara and the baby. There are things you need to know. Things are coming that you need to be made aware of."

Querl lead her to the farthest side of the lab. He wanted to be within hearing distance to Kara in case she needed him.

"You have my full attention," he said, focusing on Harbinger who was standing before him.

"Brainiac 5, I need to set up some foundation as to what I need to talk about with you so you'll know where I am going to lead you" she said. He thought about it for a moment and then nodded for her to go on. "As you know the time stream is in a very unstable condition when it comes to the 31st century. It keeps changing time and time again."

"Yes," Querl stated.

"You are the only Legionnaire who remembers the original Crisis, the other lives you lived in other times. You alone remember the other parallel timelines Legions."

"Yes," he said, a little uncomfortably. "What does this have to do with Kara and our baby?"

"A moment please," Harbinger said. "Do you know why you can remember it at all?"

"I only have a theory, nothing definitive." He didn't offer any more information.

"Your love for Kara is the one constant thing in all versions. Even when they tried to lead you to other women, other loves, somewhere deep inside of your heart, your love for Kara refused to die."

He could feel the blush burning onto his face. He never admitted to himself about the lives where he met and fell for Laurel Gand, Andromeda or Dream Girl mainly because he felt like he was cheating on Kara even though it was in another time, and another life.

"They?"

"I'm not sure if it is a group, it could be just as easily one power, one being behind this all."

"Get to the point, woman," Querl said, raising his voice at the Harbinger.

"Shh," Lyla said. "I don't want to wake Kara. She needs her rest for the days ahead.
What do you know about Elementals?"

"They're supposedly the personifications of the Earth, Wind, Fire and Water: the building blocks of life on every habitable planet for life as we know it. Like Swamp Thing is the Earth Elemental, supposedly the Red Tornado was the Air Elemental centuries ago."

"Yes, there are four Elementals, but did you know there is a fifth one?"

"No," Querl shook his head. "Tell me more about this fifth one."

"Not every planet gets one," Harbinger started. "Only those who develop their technology to a certain level when their computers, their artificial intelligences and artificial life start to take on conscientious. A fifth one can come into existence to protect the power balance between humans and machines..."

"Why haven't I ever heard of one? Wouldn't Colu have had one where it concerned the Computer Tyrants of Colu thousands of years ago?"

"Captain Atom was Earth's last known Technology Elemental until the timeline was changed yet again. Anyways…Colu's Technology Elemental was murdered by the Computer Tyrants before they could start their own takeover of your old home world in the original timeline, and eradicated through time manipulation in this one."

"What does it have to do with Kara and our baby."

"This power keeps messing with the very fabric of time. It keeps trying to rewrite history itself to keep you and Kara apart. Even going as far as using time itself to keep you two separated. Which doesn't work no matter how hard they try, because you and Kara still keep finding each other across the barriers of time and space.

In the hidden original timeline, Kara came to the 31st Century Earth first, not the 21st Century. The original Supergirl never knew her cousin, Kal-El, Superman. She read and studied about his exploits and the legends surrounding him and he became her inspiration to follow in his footsteps and she joined the Legion because of him. You, Brainiac 5 and Supergirl met through the Legion, fell in love, married and had a baby girl. That daughter, Karen Dox, became an Elemental, the Technology Elemental for planet Earth."

"Our daughter is fated to become a Technology Elemental," he said, to clarify it mostly for himself.

"Yes," Harbinger softly said. "Being a Technology Elemental means she is also what is called a Technopath."

"Technopath?"

"Instead of communicating telepathically with humans, she will be able to psychically communicate with, control and manipulate, machines with just her mind and will power alone. Imagine a flesh and blood being with your Brainiac level of intelligence, without the mental instability that plagues your bloodline, combined with Kryptonian strengths without the weakness to Kryptonite, with the power and the abilities to take on the likes of the original Brainiac, Brainiac 13, or Imperix, even the very machines of Darkseid's Apokolips itself, able to assemble or disassemble machines at her will."

Querl didn't know what to exactly say. He and Harbinger stood silently for a few moments while he absorbed it all in.

"So what you are saying is that some power or entity is changing time itself, and our lives, trying to prevent Kara and I from getting together because we're fated to have a child that will become a Technology Elemental?"

"Yes," Harbinger nodded. "It will only get much, much worse, the closer it is time for your daughter to be born. They are gathering everything they have to prevent her from being born, for once Karen Dox is born, she will be fated to do battle with them eventually."

"You don't know who, or what, this being or power behind all of this is?"

"No. Please believe me; I would tell you if I knew it, but because of the time instability of the Earth's 31st century, my records are incomplete. I love Kara dearly like the sister I never had. I would do anything in my own power to help her and her daughter. I can only go so far as the Harbinger."

"My dreams lately..." he couldn't finish.

"I must go," Lyla said. "I don't know about your dreams, but I told you everything that I know so you can put it into your memory and your heart. For I do know this: for as long as you can remember Kara and your daughter and love them, you have this unwavering power. This power can never erase them completely from the time stream."

Then she was gone.

Querl walked back into the bedroom where Kara was still sleeping. She was sleeping on her back. Her baby bump was now to the point where she couldn't sleep on her belly anymore. Slowly, Querl pulled a portion of the sheet aside, placing a hand, and the side of his head, against the bump. He could feel the baby move and give tiny slow movements. She was sleeping too.

Not even born and already a troublemaker, Querl thought, and kissed Kara's belly.

Dedicated to Pan202

Her story: Supergirl and the Legion in: Future Perfect it has re-ignited my love for the Brainiac 5 / Supergirl romance.

This story has been in the back of my mind for a long, long time and reading Pan202 story inspired me to finally write it down and put it out onto this fan fiction website.

You can find the daughter of Brainiac 5/Supergirl of Earth-22 in the Kingdom Come series. She only appears in a handful of panels and in a non-speaking role. Her existence is confirmed in later trade paperbacks of Kingdom Come as their daughter. This is the only time she is shown in the DC Comics universe.

Also I don't own anything where it concerns the LoSH or Supergirl or anything DC Comics. I wish I did but I don't.

Reviews are welcome or PM me if you are shy about posting. Please let me know if what I have done so far is any good.