DC's The Legion of Superheroes: Pilot.
Original Material by Otto Oscar Binder, Alfred John Plastino and Mortimer Weisinger.
Story Adaptation by CorgiChief
Since the beginning of human civilization, history was made on the battlefield. Heroes chose to fight for justice, for honor, for glory and for faith. And in time all the fighting was done. With the advancements of interstellar technology, the Earth entered a millennium of utopian peace. Now, at the dawn of the 31st Century, all we, our parents and their parents have ever known is security, stability and order. But there still exist people that choose to thrive on the chaos, and there will always be and need for heroes in this time, for all time, we are The Legion.
A calm autumns day in Metropolis, the people are on about their day without a worry in the world, construction workers nearby are working on a new building, when one of the construction workers notices a man in a futuristic looking radiation suit walks on site. "Hey you!" The workman shouts, "You're not supposed to be here, get out or I'll call security!" The man in the radiation suit ignores the construction worker and walks over to one of the support beam, "Are you listening to me!" the worker shouts again. The man in the radiation suit removes his right glove and places it on the support beam, melting it, which causes the whole structure to collapse.
One of the support beams from the structure comes loose and is about to crush a group of construction workers, when all of a sudden the beam begin levitating above them and moves aside, the construction workers look up to see Rokk Krinn AKA Cosmic Boy, a young Meta-Human who can generate force fields by manipulating the planets magnetic field, who's attire includes a lavender bodysuit with black at the sides and blue stripe down the center of his body with four black circles around the neck area and black gloves and boots each with a white circle on them with a gold ring with an L on it, floating above them.
Cosmic Boy looks down at the man in the radiation suit who reveals himself to be Mano, a Meta-Human whose right hand gives off a corrosive acid that can melt through any material, in the known galaxy. "Again Mano, do you ever get tired of all this vandalism?" Cosmic Boy asked, getting ready for a fight "And besides I think we both know how this is going to play out."
"You're not going to deprive me from my fun and I'm definitely not going back to prison!" Mano shouted. Mano extends his right hand out launching his acid at Cosmic Boy, who extents is hands forward and creates a translucent purple barrier protecting him from the acid. Cosmic Boy then forces the barrier into the palm of his hand and throws the ball of energy at Mano, the impact creates a miniature explosion knocking Mano to the ground. Mano gets back up off the ground and furiously shouts at Cosmic Boy, "You little brat, I'm going to disintegrate you!"
Cosmic Boy levitates down to the ground, presses his ring and talks into it, "You're up Phantom Girl." Mano prepares to fire more acid at Cosmic Boy, but he is drop kicked by Tinya Wazzo AKA Phantom Girl, another Meta-Human who has the ability to turn intangible making her immune to physical harm, she sports a white and black body suit with a cape.
"Why you little!" Mano angrily shouts as he fires his acid at her, but Phantom Girl quickly turns intangible before the acid comes in contact, causing it to phase right through her, "Sorry buddy, but you're going to have to try harder than that." Phantom Girl replied with sarcasm in her tone. Mano continues to shoot his acid at her but she continues to turn intangible and letting the blasts phase through her, to the point where Mano exhausts his power and is unable to fire anymore acid, Phantom Girl roundhouse kicks him upside the head knocking him out, Cosmic Boy then generates a force field around some support beams around the area and forges them into a cage to hold Mano.
The Science Police arrive and take Mano into custody, the two Meta-Humans are then greeted by Officer Erin who congratulates them on a job well done, "Good work Cosmic Boy, Phantom Girl, your help was much appreciated, and this time we'll make sure he never has another away to escape again." Phantom Girl and Cosmic Boy thank Officer Erin before flying back to their headquarters, The Legion Clubhouse.
After arriving back at the clubhouse, Rokk and Tinya are greeted by Brainiac 5, a green skinned cybernetic humanoid, who sports a purple jump suit, welcoming the two of them back to their headquarters. "Well done you two," Brainiac 5 responded congratulatory, "Mano is once again behind bars, there were zero casualties and little to no property damage."
"Thanks Brainy." Tinya responds with a smile, "Your welcome, oh Rokk before I forget, Garth and Irma, are looking for you, they want to talk to you about the two new potential recruits for the team."
"Thanks for the heads up," Rokk responds back.
Rokk enters the meeting room, with his clothing changed to a black jacket, purple shirt and blue jeans, he spots Irma Ardeen AKA Saturn Girl, a young woman wearing a white top, blue jeans and a red jacket, and Garth Ranzz AKA Lightning Lad, a young man wearing a black shirt with dark grey pants and a dark blue jacket sitting by the table waiting for him, "Sup Rokk," Garth asked with his slightly overconfident tone, "we've been waiting for you."
"How'd your mission with Tinya go?" Irma asked. Rokk pulls up a chair and sits by the other Legionnaires, "Same as it always goes with villains like Mano." Rokk stated. "Talks a big game, but in the end goes down like a wuss." Garth responds to Irma's annoyance.
"You guys needed help with deciding the new recruit right?" Rokk asked. "Yes," Irma quickly responded. "Garth and I are having a bit of a disagreement on who to choose, here are the new candidates we had in mind." Irma activates a hologram showing an image of a pale skinned young man, wearing a dark green shirt and black pants. "His name is Hart Druiter, a Meta-Human who can adapt to any situation, his cells have the ability to make himself impervious to anything that could cause him harm, and is Lightning Lads choice for the newest member."
"Irma, the kid can literally adapt to any situation unlike that metal boy you like so much." Garth stated with an arrogant tone.
"Metal boy?" Rokk asks as he looks at Irma with a confused face. "Yes, give me a second." Irma responds as the hologram changes to young man wearing a silver shirt and red pants. "His name is Andrew Nolan, another Meta, he has the ability to turn his whole body into metal…"
"And nothing else." Garth interrupts with a smug grin. "Garth!" Irma shouts with frustration. "I can't believe we're even debating this, are we seriously going to choose a guy who can just turn to metal, over someone who has the ability to handle anything that gets thrown at him?" Garth rudely states as he turns to Rokk. "Powers don't make the hero Garth," Rokk states, "you have to have the heart. How about this, we'll meet with the two of them first thing tomorrow, see their powers for ourselves, then we'll decide the newest member deal." Irma and Garth look at each other and decide to agree with Rokk, the three Legionnaires leave the meeting room.
Rokk walks down the hall, stops by the elevator, opens it and walks in, "Computo, third floor please." The elevator begins moving up to the third floor and stops, the elevator door opens revealing Tinya standing on the other side wearing a beautiful purple dress putting on her earrings, "Tinya?" Rokk says as his eyes widen in surprise. "Hey Rokk, what do you think of my new dress, just bought it today." Tinya states as she puts her last earring on. Rokk with an embarrassed look replies, "Well, wow comes to mind. What's the occasion?"
"My mom is having some of the council members over for dinner at our house," Tinya responded. "And I have to be there and look nice."
"Guess it can't be easy for the daughter of a member of the planetary council?" Rokk responded. Tinya looks at Rokk, "No it is not, my mom wants me to grow up to be a high ranking member of society and to eventually have a seat on the council, but it's not what I want, I just want to be a normal girl."
"Were Meta-Humans Tinya, are lives are far from normal," Rokk replied with a bit of sarcasm. "But if that isn't the life you want, then why don't you just tell your mom that?" Tinya sighs. "My mom has always looked at me like I'm the perfect girl, I feel like I'll let her down if I'm unable to become the girl she wants." Rokk walks over to Tinya to comfort her. "Tinya, your mother loves you very much, your relationship with your family is the strongest one I've ever seen, tell her you don't want to follow in her footsteps and she'll understand, if you don't you'll end up unhappy."
"Thanks Rokk, but I need to sort through this myself." Tinya stated as he walks into the elevator, "Computo, first floor." As soon as the elevator door closes, Rokk walks down the hall into his room worrying about his friend.
Back at Tinya's home, a beautiful white house located in the center of the city, Tinya is sitting at a table by herself, thinking about what Rokk said to her, while her mother, President Winema Wazzo of Earth, is talking with the other counselors and politicians when she notices her daughter sitting by herself and goes to check on her, "Sweetie what's wrong?" Her mother asked. Tinya looks up to see her mother and answers, "It's nothing, just thinking about some advice a friend offered me."
"What kind of advice?" Her mother asked out of curiosity. Tinya looks at her mother and stutters for a bit before talking, "Well, you see mom, there is something I want to tell you, but I'm not sure how." Winema sits down next to her daughter, "You can tell me anything dear." Tinya takes a deep breath, but before she could speak laser fire is heard from outside causing everyone in the room to get on the ground, Tinya looks up and sees a group of white armor clad men enter the house on the lower floor. Tinya identifies the intruders as Intergang, a believed to be disbanded terrorist group, the intruders begin investigating the area as if they were searching for something.
Tinya quickly crawls over to her mother, "Mom, do you know where my purse is?" Tinya whispered. "My Legion Flight ring is in there."
"It's by the closet, be careful." Winema told her daughter with caution. Tinya turns intangible and heads to the closet and finds her purse, she opens it and finds her flight ring, and she places the gold ring on her finger then her purple dress changes into her white and black body suit.
Phantom Girl turns intangible and phases through the nearby wall to confront the gang members, the Intergang members search the area around them, one of the members next to the wall is tackled by Phantom Girl phases out of the wall and turns solid, she quickly round houses another one of the men knocking him out before phasing back through the wall. Two other members are grabbed by their collars and thrown into the wall, the reaming members see Phantom Girl and begin firing their weapons, before the laser fire comes in contact with her, she turns intangible, causing the blast to phase through her, Phantom Girl proceeds to take on the rest of them, she phases through the floor and pops up underneath of the intruders, turns solid and knocks him out, then knocks out another before he notices her behind him, one of the remaining members fire at her, but she turns intangible at the last second then tangible again to knock him out. Phantom Girl lets her guard down for a bit believing the threat to be over, until she feels a sharp pain in the back of her neck and finds a small dart with a red liquid in it, she sees more Intergang members enter the house with their weapons pointed at her, Phantom Girl tries to turn intangible, but discovers she is unable to. "What the hell?"
The invaders begin firing at Phantom Girl who dodges the blast and hides behind a piece of furniture, she quickly taps her ring and talks into it trying to contact the others. "Brainiac 5, this is Phantom Girl, come in." All she hears is static from the flight ring, "Brainiac 5 are you there?" Phantom Girl asks in a fearful tone, only to hear more static. "Damn it, they must be jamming communication." Phantom Girl peaks from behind the furniture to see more members of coming, as the intruders begin marching towards her, Phantom Girl prepares to fight them off, she leaves her hiding spot and the Intergang members fire their weapons at her, using all the power she can muster she forces herself to turn intangible, causing the laser fire to phase through her, but also putting a strain on her body. As soon as the gang members exhaust their weapons, she quickly attacks them, delivering uppercuts, kicks and jabs, quickly disposing of them. Phantom Girl breathes a sigh of relief, then she starts feeling a pain in her chest and feels a dripping liquid around her upper lip, discovering she has a nosebleed, but before she could react to it she blacks out.
Tinya wakes up in a bed, in hospital clothing back at the Legion headquarters med bay with a massive headache, she sees Brainiac 5 sitting by the medical examination computer when he sees Tinya trying to sit up, "You're awake, thank goodness." Brainiac 5 says with joy, he quickly walks to her bed side, "Easy Tinya, you placed a large amount of strain on your powers, you could've died." Tinya looks at the young green skin man, "My mom and the others, are they alright." Tinya weakly asked. "Their fine," Brainiac 5 reassured. "Your mother is here right now, talking with the others. I'll let them know you're awake."
Outside of the med bay Winema is discussing the events of what happened with Garth, Irma and Rokk. "Are you sure you don't know why they attacked." Saturn Girl asked. Winema looked at her teary eyed, "I swear, I don't know why they attacked my family." Brainiac 5 enters the room and lets them know that Tinya is awake, to everyone's relief, as the five of them enter the med bay to check on their injured teammate.
Winema quickly walks over to her bed ridden daughter to hug her, "Oh my God, Tinya are you all right?" she asked worryingly. "I'm alright mom, I was worried about you." Tinya answered. Rokk walks over next to her bed, "What happened out their Tinya?" Rokk asked with concern. "I don't know?" Tinya responded. "I got hit by a dart of some sort then all of a sudden my powers were gone."
"So someone made something that can affect her intangibility?" Garth questioned.
"No, I'm afraid it's much scarier than that," Brainiac 5 stated while examining his computer. "The compound that Tinya was infected with contained a powerful anti-charge pattern in it that can temporarily disable inbred abilities." The Legionnaires all look at each other, confused by Brainiac 5s statement, "English please." Garth impatiently asked. Brainiac 5 turns around facing everyone, "It's a drug that can nullify Meta-Human powers, and from the look of its chemical compound, that attack last night was a test run." Tinya quickly sat up, "Someone attacked my family just to use me as a lab rat!" Tinya tries to get out of bed but nearly passes out again. "Tinya, I think it would be best to go home and get some rest." Irma stated, "You're in no condition to go back in the field."
"My thoughts exactly," agreed Winema. "Thank you all for your help." Winema offer Tinya help up which she refuses, "I can still help guys." Tinya stubbornly stated. "Irma is right," Rokk told her. "You need to get better first." Tinya continues trying to convince the team, that she is fine. "Tinya, I'm not asking you as a friend, I'm ordering you as the team leader get some rest." Rokk ordered. Tinya lets out a sigh of disappointment, "yes sir." Winema grabs her daughters arm and helps her out of the med bay.
"So what now?" Garth asked. "We have a group of armed criminals that found a way to nullify our powers. What are we going to do?" Rokk looks at Brainiac 5, "Brainy is there anyone else we can contact?" Brainiac 5 looks back at his computer scanning for any available Legionnaires, "Negative. Bouncing Boy and Triplicate Girl are off world, Shrinking Violet is currently undercover and Timber Wolf is on a mission with Dream Girl. In other words we're on our own." The four Legionnaires look at each other puzzled, "What about the new recruits?" Garth asked. "Being Meta is one thing, being out on the field is another, they could get hurt." Irma stated. "We're a few Legionnaires short, we need support." Garth responded. "I think it's a bad idea." Irma replied back. The two team members look at Rokk for his opinion, Rokk sighed, "It'll have to be their choice not ours, and we can't force them into this kind of situation without their consent."
In the lobby of the headquarters, Hart Druiter and Andrew Nolan are patiently waiting for their names to be called for their chance to prove themselves as Legionnaires, Andrew notices Winema and Tinya leaving the inner room, with Tinya leaning on her mother, Tinya begins to lose her balance but Andrew quickly steps in and steadies her. "You all right?" He asked. "I'm fine, thank you." Tinya responds as she and her mother leave the building. Hart give Andrew a smug look, "My, my, what a little hero you think you are." Hart says with an arrogant tone. "I was just being friendly." Andrew responded. Hart ignores Andrew and continues to wait for his name to be called. "Hart Druiter and Andrew Nolan, meet us in the main office please." Brainiac 5 calls from the speakers in the room. Hart and Andrew get up and walk further into the building, were they are greeted by Rokk, Irma and Garth.
"Well I'm here so are you going to give me a Legion ring or not? I don't have all day." Hart said impatiently. "You'll get your ring when you prove that you are worthy to join the Legion," Rokk stated. "But right now we need your help." Rokk activates a panel which shows a hologram of Intergang. "They call themselves Intergang a terrorist organization believed to be disbanded, they have developed a new weapon that has the ability to weaken Meta powers, we're shorthanded and we would not be asking this of you two if the situation wasn't urgent, but we need both of your help. If you choose to accept it that is." Andrew eagerly steps forward, "Alright, you have my support." Hart steps forward, "As long as it gets me in the Legion quicker, let's get it over with." Rokk looked at Hart with annoyance, "We'll take that as a yes." Rokk turns to Brainiac 5, "Brainy have found Intergang yet?" Brainiac 5 scans his computer and pinpoint Intergang's location, "Affirmative, they are held up at this location 10 miles east from here. I'll stay behind and keep you all up to date on any changes." Rokk nods in agreement, "Alright guys, let's move out." The five young heroes make their way to the location.
At Intergang's base they are packing a crate of new weapons when one of the crates is then struck by a thunder bolt. The gang members look up seeing Cosmic Boy in his lavender bodysuit alongside Saturn Girl, who is in a pink body suit with white around the edges along with white gloves and boots with a yellow circle in the center of her chest, and Lighting Lad, who is in a dark blue body suit with white boots and glove and has two lightning bolts on his shoulders, on the ground is Hart and Andrew ready to fight. "It's the Legion, take them out!" Shouted one of the gang members.
The gang members fire their lasers at them, Hart uses his power of adaptability to turn his body into a reflective material causing the laser fire to bounce off of him. Andrew turns his body into metal and charges at the members knocking them out of the way, Cosmic Boy uses his force field bombs on the gang members knocking them down and using his force field to block laser fire, Saturn Girl uses her telekinesis to disable their weapons and sending the members flying, and Lightning Lad using his thunder bolts to destroy their heavy artillery as well as electrocuting them. Lightning Lad and Cosmic Boy land on the ground and combine their powers to create and electric magnetic pulse knocking down more Intergang members and disabling their weapons. Andrew sees an Intergang member grab a heavy laser weapon and fires it at Lightning Lad, Andrew rushes towards him and pushes him out of the way in time and takes the blast, injuring his leg. Lightning Lad quickly turns around and destroys the heavy weapon as well as electrocuting the member, knocking him out. Cosmic Boy, Saturn Girl and Lightning Lad rush over to Andrew to check on him.
"Kid, are you alright?" Lightning Lad asks with concern. Andrew tries to stand up, but is unable to due to his injury. "Your leg is injured, you won't be able to continue." Saturn Girl stated." Andrew tries standing up again but is still unable to, "You did all you could, now rest, we'll return for you soon," Saturn Girl gives Andrew a Legion flight ring, "use this to call Brainiac 5 and he'll send someone to pick you up." The Legionnaires leave, giving Andrew time to rest.
Back at headquarters, Brainiac 5 examines the unique drug in the med bay and eventually finds out something about the drug which causes his eyes widen in horror. "Oh my God." Brainiac taps his Legion ring, "Cosmic Boy, Saturn Girl, Lightning Lad come in, please come in. "Brainiac 5, is that you?" Getting a response from Andrew. "Mr. Nolan is that you?" Brainiac asked. "Yes, Saturn Girl gave me a Legion flight ring to contact you, what's wrong?" Brainiac warns Andrew to quickly get to the others, as they are walking into a trap.
Cosmic Boy, Saturn Girl, Lightning Lad and Hart eventually find Intergang's main base. Lightning Lad throws one of his bolts at the door knocking it down and the four of them enter the building and find more gang members packing up weapons, they see the Legionnaires and stop. "We can do this the easy way or the hard way, but your all going down." Cosmic Boy stated as he Lightning Lad and Saturn Girl prepare to fight, suddenly all three of them felt a sharp pain in the back of their necks and were unable to use their powers, they three turn around to see Hart holding a syringe filled with a red liquid. Before any of them could ask Hart what is going on, the three Legionnaires are then electrocuted by the Intergang members behind them and fall to the ground, Hart kneels down at the three who are somewhat conscious and tells them, "It's nothing personal, just business." Before the three Legionnaires pass out.
Cosmic Boy begins to wake up along with the others, to find their hands chained to poles and Hart looking at them with a smug grin, "Morning sleepy heads." Hart says with sarcasm in his tone. The three Legionnaires try to use their powers to undo the chains, but are unable to, Lightning Lad looks up at Hart with an expression of anger, "Hart, what the hell is going on!" Hart looks toward Lightning Lad, "I'm making a fortune is what's going on," Hart calmly responds, "when I discovered I had the ability to adapt to any situation, I decided to experiment with it, I learned that not only can my adapting cells make me impervious, they can also nullify Meta powers, so I used my blood to make a drug and sell it to whoever wishes to buy it."
"Then why go through all of this trouble to join the Legion?" Saturn Girl asks. Hart looks at Saturn Girl to answer her question. "So I can spy on you for my buyers. I have more demands for my serum and I intend to make more money than I can imagine, and you three are all here by yourselves with no one to come save you." Everyone in the build begins to hear a massive thudding sound by the door, which is sent flying off its hinges and revealed to be kicked down by Andrew who is metaled-up and ready for a fight. Hart turns towards him and begins to laugh mockingly. "Oh my god it's the little reject, I'd go home if I were you kid or you'll soon end up dead." Andrew walks into the room, "I'm not afraid of you Druiter!" He shouts. "Oh you should be. Take his power!"
The Intergang members begin firing syringes of the drug at Nolan who begins charging at them, due to his metallic skin the syringes bounce off of him, Andrew tackles Hart with all of his strength, but his skin turns to metal to adapt to the impact, the force of the tackle forces Hart back knocking Intergang members out of the way and smashing him into crates. The three Legionnaire try to undo the chain to help, Saturn Girl starts forcing her telekinetic powers to work and uses it to make her body quickly metabolize the drug out of her system, she succeeds and her powers begins to return, she looks to Cosmic Boy and Lightning Lad, "Guys my powers are back I think I can get us out of here and restore your abilities too."
"Hurry Saturn Girl." Cosmic Boy urged. Saturn Girl begins loosening the chains and the three of them are now free, Saturn Girl uses her telekinesis to metabolize the drug out of Cosmic Boy and Lightning Lad causing their powers to return as well. Hart climbs out of the crushed crate debris with metallic skin enraged at Andrew, "You little punk I'll kill you." Hart and Andrew charge at each other and the two of them fist fight each of them landing blows on one another other. Intergang members run for their weapons, but Saturn Girl uses her restored telekinesis to grab and crush the weapons, Cosmic Boy then generates a force field around the gang members, lifts them up and then throws them knocking them out, Lightning Lad charges his electricity and destroys the crates of the drug. Hart and Andrew continue their fist fight, but Hart soon gets the upper hand and uppercuts Andrew knocking him down, Hart steps on Andrews's chest causing him to groan, "I told you before kid, you should've walked away."
Hart looks up and notices Lightning Lad charging a thunderbolt and throws it at him, but Hart uses his adaptability to turn into rubber, bouncing it back at Lightning Lad who gets knocked back by the impact. Saturn Girl tries lifting up with him up with her telekinesis, but Harts skin turns into a heavy material, straining her power and she collapses from the strain. Cosmic Boy throws a force field bomb at Hart who turns into an anti-magnetic material nullifying it. Andrew forces Hart off of him throws a punch at Hart, who turns back into metal, Hart grab Andrew by the collar and throws him aside. Hart turns back to his normal self and boasts with confidence, "You cannot stop me, I have the ability to adapt to any situation, I am invincible, but I know you're going to keep trying, so I want you to hit me as hard as you can, give me your best shot!"
Andrew gets up and looks at Cosmic Boy and Lightning Lad, "Cosmic Boy I need you to toss one of your field bombs at me, then I need Lightning Lad to throw his thunderbolt at me." Lightning Lad, turned toward Andrew asking what he is thinking. Andrew looks back at Lightning Lad, "Trust me."
Lightning Lad looks Cosmic Boy in the eye who nods yes, trusting that Andrew knows what he is doing. Cosmic Boy creates a force field bomb and throws it at Andrew who catches it and carefully holds it making sure not to detonate it, Lightning Lad shoots his electricity at it and the bomb absorbs the energy creating a little energy bomb within the bomb, Andrew turns toward Hart and throws the sphere of energy at him. Hart opens his arms out in overconfidence believing his body to change to adapt to the blast, but he was unable, to his shock. Hart takes the blast in his normal form, the he impact sends him flying back and knocks him out, leaving the Legionnaires in awe. "How did you know that would work?" Cosmic Boy asked. Andrew turns to him and answers, "I noticed a pattern of change when we all attacked him separately, he can only adapt to one situation at a time, combing your force field, Lighting Lads lightning and my strength created three situations at once, his body couldn't adapt to it." Cosmic Boy, Saturn Girl, Lightning Lad and Andrew walk over to Hart unconscious body, Saturn Girl levitates his body up and the four of them prepare to take Hart to the Science Police.
Back at Tinya's home, Tinya is currently recovering in bed when Winema walks into to her daughter's room to check on her. "How you doing sweetie?" she asks. "I'm doing fine, thanks mom." Tinya answers. "You need anything just let me know." Winema said as she was about to leave, "Well mom, there is something I want to talk to you about." Tinya responds asking her mother to stay. Winema pulls up a chair and sits next to her daughter's bed, "What's on your mind?" Tinya lets out a sigh, "Mom, I love you very much, but I don't want to follow in your footsteps." Winema looks at her daughter with a puzzled expression "What are you talking about?" Tinya sighs once more and reveals the truth to her mother, "The meetings with rich diplomats and the council, it's something I don't want to be a part of when I'm older, I know you've always try to do what's best for me, but it isn't something I want." Winema looks at Tinya placing her hand on her daughters face, "Sweetie, I would never force you to grow up to be something you don't want to be, I thought you only showed up at the meeting because they interested you, the only person who knows what's best for you is you Tinya, and I couldn't be anymore prouder of my daughter, my little Phantom Girl." Tinya and Winema smile, before the mother and daughter embrace each other for a hug.
Cosmic Boy, Saturn Girl, Lightning Lad and Andrew return to the headquarters, were they are greeted by Brainiac 5, "Hart Druiter's drug is no longer in the wrong hands and Intergang is once more disbanded, you all did well out there." Brainiac 5 looks at Andrew, "All of you." Andrew thanks Brainiac 5, "I think I'm going to head back home for some rest." Andrew begins walking out of the room but is stopped by Cosmic Boy, "Andrew wait, we would be honored to join the Legion. You have proven that you have the heart to be a hero and would be an essential addition to the team, if you say yes, meet us here for your initiation tomorrow when Phantom Girl can return." Andrew ponders the thought but agrees as he and Cosmic Boy shake hands.
Tomorrow morning at the headquarters, Andrew is greeted by Cosmic Boy, Saturn Girl, Lightning Lad, Brainiac 5 and Phantom Girl in the main hall. Cosmic Boy walks over to Andrew and holds out his hand holding a golden ring, "Place your hand on the ring and repeat after me." Andrew does what Cosmic Boy instructs and they recite the Legion Oath, To the Legion of Superheroes I make this solemn pledge. To use my powers for good. To fight for justice and protect the innocent. To help my fellow Legionnaires in peril and keep them safe. We are the Legion of Superheroes. "As with the other Legionnaires you may choose your code name." Andrew ponders over the idea for his code name, after a moment of thinking to himself, Andrew chooses the code name, Ferro Lad. Cosmic Boy gives him the ring and welcomes Ferro Lad to the team.