Chapter 1: The Girl of Tomorrow pt. 1

Things at the legion had been hard pressed ever since Brainy had left about 6 months ago, Dream Girl and Shrinking Violet had been working overtime to keep up with the things that now needed to be done, things that Brainy had once done. There was no trace of Brainiac 5, he had completely disappeared from the public eye. The legion was doing things as usual, sitting in the lounge, training in the training simulator, and other things when the alarm went off.

"What is it?" Lightning Lad asked Cosmic boy, who had been on monitor duty.

"It seems that our friend Tharok and the Emerald Empress have finally chosen to come out of hiding."

"Their mistake."

They found Tharok, the Empress, and Validus were standing on the steps of the Superman museum looking smugly at them.

"Coming here," Lightening Lad yelled as he flew toward them, "not very smart of you."

"Well, we got your attention didn't we?" The Empress said, "All our employer wants is Brainiac 5, give him to us and we will leave and no one will have to get hurt."

"Employer, since when are you mercenaries?"

"Listen," Saturn Girl said calmly, "no one has any idea where Brainiac 5 even is."

Tharok smiled, "I realize that, why do you think we brought you here, what better bait than his friends."

"You and what army?" Lightning Lad went to hit Tharok only to be stopped by a robotic arm.

"Glad you asked," Tharok said, as more robots appeared, "these are from our employer, he likes to call them C.O.M.P.U.T.O. 2.0."

With that the the robots attacked.

The Empress smiled and turned towards one of the security cameras, "So what is it going to be Brainiac 5, your friends' lives or you can stay in hiding. You have 2 hours."

Brainiac 5 stared at the holo screen at the Time Institute, where he had spent most of his time hiding. After a moment of silence Rond Vidar, his black haired, blue eyed friend and lab partner, looked at him over his glasses, "So, what are you going to do?"

Cosmic boy tried using his powers on the robots to no avail, he turned to tell Lightning Lad that they were not magnetic, but as it turned out he had already found that out, as he shot lightning at a robot and it did nothing. Just as as he was sure that this was going to be the end of Rokk Krin and Garth Ranzz when the robot's head went flying off.

Karate kid smiled at them, and before disappearing back into the crowd yelled, "Happy that I was let into the legion now?!"

It did seem that some of the legionaries were having more success than he and Garth were with the their or lack of powers. Sun boy and Wildfire flew above the battle throwing fire, and shooting energy anywhere they saw an opening, Element Lad and Chemical King where standing back to back making the robots useless, XS and Phantom girl were phasing through any robot that was unlucky enough to cross their path causing them to short circuit, the robots also seemed to be having trouble with Matter Eater Lad, Timber Wolf, Cham, and Shrinking Violet.

Others like Ultra boy, Colossal boy, and Princess Projectra were fighting Validus. Validus was apparently was stuck in one of the Princess's illusions making it so Ultra boy and CB 2 were getting easy hits on him. Just had to hope that the Princess could keep it up for long enough, and manage to not get knocked out.

The Empress was in a battle with Saturn girl, and Tharok was trying to stay as far from the battle as he could.

Just as he thought that maybe there was a glimmer of hope it all came crashing down when Projectra was finally knocked out, luckily Karate Kid managed to get there in time to stop them from killing her, but the robot had done its job, now more legionaries were going to have to pay attention to Validus and ignore the rest of the problems, he had to think of something quick.

Luckily it turned out he didn't have to after all because Saturn girl had already thought of something, "Lightning Lad, Cosmic Boy, quick we need to get to Legion HQ and get to the Time Bubble to go get Superman for help. Everyone else call for reinforcements."

"Good idea."

"Got it."

"Your going to do nothing!"

Brainy was getting very tired of Vidar saying that over and over again, "Yes."

"Why?"

"Because they are the Legion, they will do just fine without me."

Saturn girl, Lightning Lad and Cosmic boy all stood in the Time bubble, "Look, Imra, not to put any pressure on you but I don't want to find out how long it takes these things to get into the building."

"Cos, I'm trying, but I have no idea what to put in."

"Just put in the last coordinates you remember and some year after the first time we got Superman," offered Lightning Lad.

Saturn girl sighed and giving up, listened to his advice. Next thing they knew they were stepping out in Smallville.

"It was the only thing I could remember."

"Well," said Cos, "lets hope Superman is here."