!WARNING! Strongly Implied/Remembered Semi-Graphic Torture and Dismemberment

Disclamer: I do not own Static Shock or Legion of Superheros or Justice League of America. I am not receiving any sort of money or payment for this work of fiction.

Insparation for this fic was PriestessOfNox and her fic Broken Gears (which is an awesome fic if you haven't read it you need to.) and you get Cyber brownies if you catch the referance to the aforementioned story.

Static Gear and a few of the Justice League, whom they had called to help, were fighting off what seemed to be featureless, humaniod, steel colored, life size dolls.

"Where are all these creeps coming from?" Flash griped, racing around them in hopes of confusing them.

"I don't know, But they look strangely familier." Superman shot another out of the sky using heat vision.

"Well think hard cause we're starting to lose people!" Static stressed, flinging another bolt of lightning at their attackers.

"They're not attacking the people they've downed." Gear reported, dodging yet another that tried to swoop down on him.

"So? Are they trying to pick us off so they can take someone or something like that?" Static replied sarcasticly.

A string of explitives erupted from Superman, startled them, "Guard Gear! They're after him!"

"Times like this I hate being right." He muttered and swung around to guard his friends unprotected side and zapped an oncoming attacker.

Gear yelled in surprise when one of them grabbed his legs, he chucked a zap-cap at its face.

A bright light washed over Gear and his attacker and the zap-cap exploded in the air where it's targets face had been.

They were all gone. Gear and all of their attackers.

-Legion Headquarters 31st century-

Brainy was studying one of their new enemy's machines that the others brought back. It was a strange combination of 31st century and 21st century tech and disign. There was something bugging him about this and he just couldn't place it.

The materials were all between Extreamly common to moderatly common. It wasn't that.

There was a motif of gears. Like the kind you'd see in an old clock tower. It was vaugely famililer, but It wasn't that either.

He was about to go on to check out the programing when he noticed Lightning Lad hesitating near the doorway.

"Lightning Lad, is something wrong?"

"When we were fighting those things they completly ignored me. I mean I was right up in ones face and instead of attacking me it went after Saturn Girl who was a couple feet to my right. Not to mention once I zapped them they just went down, and I wasn't even using a lot of power."

Brainy frowned, "That is very odd. Even in the 21st century they had ways to protect agaist electrical overload."

"Huh? I didn't say anything about the 21st century."

"Oh, Something strange I found while disassembling them was; they're a combination of 31st and 21st century technology."

"So maybe it was deliberate?"

"I'm thinkning so. But why?"

Their train of thought was interrupted when Bouncing Boy's voice came over communications, "We have a mission, more of those gear robots just attacked and kidnapped a bunch of scientists. They managed to tag one of the scientists with a tracer so we know where they're heading."

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They slipped in silently into the building the tracer signal led them to.

It seemed all to easy, as long as the people didn't see them noone knew they were there. The doors they needed were all unlocked. That was making them nervous.

The scientists were in a room full of computers. They looked scared and shaken but other wise unharmed. This door opened for them easily like all the others.

Now they knew something was seriously wrong. That door should have been locked and locked tightly.

They gathered the scientists together and were about to leave when all the computer screens flashed.

Across the screens two words scrolled: Help me.

Help me. Help me. Help me. Help me. Help me. Help me. Help me. Help me.

"What the hell is going on?" Timber wolf asked what they were all thinking.

Only one screen changed and it shifted to security footage of another room. It showed a young man, no older then seventeen, bound to a wall with iron, wires, and tubes. What disturbed them, even more then the tubes and wires, was that he was missing his left arm from the elbow down and was compleatly missing his right leg. All that was left of the limbs were dried and peeling scabs. He weakly lifted his head. His dull brown eyes looked directly at the camera, at them, and he mouthed two words.

'Help me.'

His head dropped as if lifting it had taken all his energy.

Triplicate girl and Bouncing boy looked at eachother, "We'll get the scientists out of here. The rest of you get him. Who knows how long he's been here."

"Got it."

Brainy plugged himself into the computer and got a whole lot more then he was expecting.

Pain/Stress/Hope/Fear Brainy flinched at the strength of the emotions.

"Brainiac?" Saturn girl touched his shoulder.

"He's compleatly plugged into the computer system, everything down to his emotions. It suprised me."

Hope/Help me?/Hope The boy asked.

Yes. We'll get you out of here. Brainy sent back to him.

Joy/Greatful

"Can you tell how bad off he is mentally?" Timber wolf asked

"He's pretty incohearant. He's been using emotions to comunicate with me." Brainiac stated, "Now, I just need to locate him."

A map came up on the computer mostly in grey but one room was bright red

Thank you Brainiac sent.

All he got back was Soon/Free/Soon/Free/Soon/Free

"Lets go. I have the path uploaded."

They started their path down the halls as stealthily as possable. But when they got to the room they were looking for they couldn't avoid the gaurds anymore. The room the boy was in was heavily gaurded.

"Let us take care of the gaurds." Timber wolf gestured to himself and Lightning lad.

The moment the path to the door was clear Brainiac and Saturn girl bolted inside. Saturn girl made short work of the Scientists and Gaurds inside while Brainiac started disconnecting their prisioner.

"I'm going to plug myself in to the outlet on your neck so I can moniter you vitals." Brainy whispered softly to him and did just that. After a moments consideration he shifted to battle mode, it'd be easier to carry him in that form.

Thank you/Thank you/Free/Safe/Drowzy He fell asleep clutching on to Brainiac as tight as he could with one hand.