A/N:WhooHoo! This is my first fic! Just so everyone knows, Alariah is my OC, so I own him. I would really like reviews on this, I already have chapters 2-5 written for this, but in order to upload more chapters, I would like at least two or three rewiews. Ok, so no more boring Author's Note, I know people don't really read them anyway.

Disclaimer: I don't own Legion of Superheroes, but I have about a million comics, so its almost like I do. . . oh well. Never have, Never will. Oh! I do own Alariah though! :)

It was an average day in Legion headquarters, Brainy was in his lab, shooing away anyone who dared to approach. That was one thing that had not changed after his transformation after Dark Victory. Vi was the only one who's presence he accepted. Accepted. Not liked. Maybe.

Apparently, The Ilearian (Alariah) was a slow learner.

"C'mon Brainy! I wanna see what you're making! I also wanna see the look on your face when you mess up and it goes kablooie!" He whined.

"Al, nothing I have made has ever gone 'kablooie' and nothing ever will. Vi, could you please pass the electron manipulator? Thanks." Brainy replied.

"But-"

"No buts!"

Al burst out laughing and Vi, leaving the lab, began to snicker.

"Real mature you two!" Brainy yelled.

Brainy continued to grovel over how he had immature teammates who would laugh at such an annoyingly stupid statement, when his hand slipped, cutting a wire and spilling some chemicals all over his machine and himself.

"Sprock." He muttered.

The machine began smoking and sparking. He looked around frantically for something to stop it, but the problem worsened quicker than he thought. He looked over his shoulder, shocked to see that it was about to blow.

Suddenly; KABLOOIE! The radioactive core of the machine exploded, catching Brainy in the backlash.

"Brainy?" Alariah called outside the lab. No answer. "Brainy?" He tried again. Still no reply. Al took a deep breath. "BRAAAAAINEEEEE!" He screamed. No one answered him.

Al growled. He didn't like to be ignored. Now he was angry. He backed down the hallway, then charged forward, breaking down the door.

Nothing prepared him for what he saw. His eyes widened in fear, surprise, and, in all honesty, a bit of amusement. Brainy's workspace was a big mess, to say the least. There were chemicals splattered all over the walls, machine parts were blown to bits, and on the table was the remains of his project from earlier.

"Looks like it went kablooie," he snickered to himself.

Suddenly, he heard small running footsteps and the swoosh of a door closing.

"Brainy? C'mon, I know you're out here!" Al called. He saw someone dash around the corner. "X'hal." He sighed. "You're really gonna give me a run for my money, aren't ya Brainy?" He followed who he assumed was Brainy around the corner. He heard a door slam shut about halfway down the hall. The only doors in HQ that didn't swoosh open and closed automatically were the storage closets. "Seriously? Hiding in a closet? How cliché can you get?" He opened the closet and froze. He blinked about twenty times to see if his eyes were playing tricks on him.

"D-don't hurt me." The small figure crouched in the closet pleaded. Al still couldn't believe it. Brainy's biological clock had been reversed. He now looked like he was maybe four or five years old, only he was still human.

"SATURN GIIIIIIRL!" Al yelled, causing the small human/Coluan to shrink back, tears brimming in his eyes. Noticing this, Al slapped himself in the face, muttering, "Oh sprocking X'hal, I'm an idiot."

Saturn Girl flew around the corner. "What do you need, Al? I was in the middle of some important business with Lighting Lad."

Al smirked. "Sure you were…" He gestured towards the closet.

Ignoring Al's remark, Saturn Girl turned to the closet Al seemed to think was the problem. Her eyes widened when she saw its occupant.

"Is that… Brainy?" She asked, shocked.

"I dunno, but he sure looks a lot like him." Al said, grinning like a maniac now.

Saturn Girl bent down to Brainy's level of height. Brainy scooted further back into the closet.

"Brainy?" She asked sweetly.

"M-m-my name is B-Brainiac 5." He stuttered.

"Ok, Brainiac 5. Will you please come out?" Saturn Girl asked, as nicely as she could.

He shook his head frantically.

"Why not?" Asked Saturn Girl.

"Be-because there's a scary Ilearian out there and i-if I come out he's gonna delete me!" Brainy stuttered, and softly started crying.

"Oh, no sweetie." Saturn Girl said, as soothingly as possible. "Alariah is my friend and-"

At the mention of Al's name Brainy screamed and scooted even further into the closet.

Saturn Girl gave Al a questioning look.

I'll tell you later. She heard his voice in her head, making use of his telepathy.

But Al, why is he afraid of you? She asked.

I said I'll tell you later! He thought sternly.

Ok, ok fine. Saturn Girl thought, aggravated. Then she broke the link. She continued to try to lure Brainy out of hiding.

"Brainy- I mean, Brainiac 5- why are you afraid of Alariah?" She asked.

"H-he's an Ilearian, a-and he's in charge of all the army stuff a-and Ilearians are partially in charge of Colu, and I left and I wasn't supposed to so now since I don't belong here he's gonna delete me!" Brainy began sobbing loudly.

Alariah was obviously annoyed that someone was yet again afraid of him because of the Ilearian stereotype.

"Ok, first of all, I've never 'deleted' a Coluan before, second, it's rude to stereotype people; not all Ilearians are like that, and third, yes I do run the Ilearian Military, and I fail to see the problem with that!" Alariah yelled that last part angrily.

Brainy whimpered and scooted even further away into the huge closet when Al yelled.

He's the Ilearian General? Saturn Girl thought.

I can hear you. Al thought.

Oh sprock I have to remember to block my thoughts. Saturn Girl mentally chided herself.

"Well, I'm counterproductive, so I'm gonna go darkly brood with Kell-El." Alariah said, partially joking.

"Brainiac 5, the Ilearian is gone, could you please come out now?" Saturn Girl asked for about the hundredth time now.

"No! You're just trying to trick me! He's gonna come back out the moment I do, and then he'll delete me!"

How do I deal with this child? Saturn Girl asked herself. Then she remembered something the older Brainy loves, and this younger Brainy would undoubtedly be curious about it.

"Alright…" Saturn Girl sighed. "I guess I can't give you any hot cocoa then…" she trailed off at the end of her sentence, and the little Brainy stuck his head out of his hiding place, looking up at her curiously.

"What's hot cocoa?" He asked

"Oh that's right! Most Coluans aren't human like you are, so they have no reason to keep it on world." Saturn Girl said, quite pleased that her plan was working.

"What do you mean 'human like me'?" Brainy asked. Then he looked down at himself, and his face broke into a grin. "I'm human! I'm human! They said it was impossible, but they were wrong! I'm free! Woo hoo! I'm human!"

Then he did the last thing that she expected the frightened boy to do. He came out of the closet and started doing a little happy dance, twirling around her. When he realized that she was watching though, he blushed and sat down, embarrassed to have made a fool of himself in front of her.

"Well, now that you're out, why don't we go get that hot cocoa?" Saturn Girl said.

"Ok." Brainy said looking down. Then he looked up at her, as if waiting for permission.

"You don't need my permission, Brainy. We're just walking to the kitchen." She said. Then she offered him her hand, and he hesitantly took it. "Alright, to the kitchen!"

So what does everyone think? I types it on my phone, and it was super hard to do all the italics and stuff because I didn't have pages (I do now, better late than never). If anyone sees any mistakes, please let me know and I will check the next few chapters for other

errors. Thanks! Oh, and if anyone wants to address me personally or something and they don't feel like writing out my whole username, call me Lioness.