I got really bored during a meeting and had time to spare so I figured why not put my imagination to good use. I would really appreciate feedback on my writing so please review. Btw stuff written like this is telepathy, not spoken aloud.
I own none of Losh because if I did there would be more seasons. Warner bros. and their respective owners own the Legion of Superheroes. I only own my characters and most of the plots.
The Beginning
To anyone else I am a normal girl who lives with a normal family. She looks happy, but if you look deeper in my eyes you see a great misery, and even greater than that a fire. A fighter's spirit born from misery. This is my story, and as not to be confusing, from the middle going out both ways. Past and present. Here is my story, or at least when it starts getting better. I am an eighteen year old girl, right now. I am a gang boss with a peculiar power. Scratch that. Powers. I can do anything at all. Whatever power comes to mind. I can control time. I can manipulate the elements. I can basically do anything and everything. My name is Alex. I have blonde hair with blue streaks, blue eyes, and a very angry disposition although you wouldn't know it. The peculiar thing about me is I have a black spade on my wrist and I always paint my nails black. I had just gotten home from a very important job. It was ten at night on the end of a "happy" summer day. I turned my hair to a very tangled mess of long brown hair as I stepped into the house via. the window. I began to reverse my aging process till I looked thirteen years old. Why do I do this? I do it in order to retain my secret identity. Cops don't normally suspect a thirteen year old kid to be capable of running the most revered gang in the world. From that moment I went from Alexandra Muto (pronounced moe-toe) to Hanna C. No one had ever found out my secret, and I planned to keep it that way. That's when I felt his presence. Strange, different, but that's not what truly intrigued me about him. No the thing that most intrigued me about him was his immense loneliness. A loneliness that I identified with. I knew he was following me, for what reason I didn't know, so I climbed out of my window and made sure he was following me. I walked straight into the middle of my parent's (technically they aren't my parents but you'll learn about that later) field and sat down on my favorite thinking rock, making sure that there was enough room for another person to sit next to me.
"Why don't you come sit down and tell me why you're here so I don't accidentally kill you in my sleep" I said. "I know what you are, lonely time traveler. I also know that you are stranded here with no way to get back to your own time line." I said very plainly. "I'm not going to hurt you, unless you give me a reason. I will even swear a blood oath if you like" I told him.
I could feel his aura reflect curiosity at me.
"How do you know that I am here? And I am not stranded here. I am just unable to get back to my own time line at the current moment." he said indignantly.
"Oh really?" I asked slightly amused.
"Yes really" he retorted.
"What if I don't believe you?" I asked.
Silence.
"Okay I guess you don't really need my help future boy." I said getting up and walking back to the house.
"Wait" he said turning off his cloaking device and grabbing my hand.
I looked at him closely and saw that he was green and cute, but mostly cute.
"Deciding to take me up on my offer?" I asked innocently.
"How do you know that I even exist? Or that I'm from the future? It's illogical." he stammered.
"Not everyone and everything can be explained with logic. And I know you're from the future because no one, except a few choice people, has perfected being yet. Also I sensed a temporal anomaly. So you put two and two together. And we get this" I gestured to everything.
"How do you know this stuff?" he asked bewildered.
"Hard to explain to a face without a name" I offered.
"Oh, my name is Brainiac 5" he said flinching.
"Why are you flinching? I'm not gonna hurt you" I said.
He looked at me very, very confused.
"So your not going to scream at me and run away? Like most people of this time era would?" he asked.
"If I were most people, one, I would have already screamed and run away and, two, we wouldn't be having this conversation." I pointed out.
"Why are you helping me?" he asked out of nowhere."You just seem more along the lines of a girl who would shoot first and ask questions later." he said as if that was the explanation for his question.
"Well you are right about the shoot first ask later part, but if anything you are messing up the time stream, and I can't have you doing that. I have worked too damn hard for you too just waltz through and smash the time stream in half and make my life's work worthless." I said through gritted teeth.
"Oh'" he said looking at me very alarmed.
Then a flash came from my neighbor's house. This flash blinded me for a few seconds and then I heard a girls jeering laugh.
"Hanna's dirtiest secret revealed. She's a slut!" were her words.
"Oh god it's Makenzie" I groaned.
Makenzie is the girl whose job is to make my life horrible at school. She's the mean girl stereotype. Talks on her phone all day. Has about twenty-seven on and off boyfriends. And may I add that the teachers adore her? They think that she is a little angel, so she never gets in trouble for anything.
"What?" Brainiac 5 asked in shock.
"Remember what I said about waltzing in, tearing time stream in half? Well we have reached that equivalent. And don't you dare turn invisible. I can fix this, but only if you stay visible." I said angrily.
"Why is she not staring at me and calling me an alien, which once again is a common reaction from this time era." he asked.
"I have this thing around me that keeps it so people only see what I want them to see. It's like a veil of sorts. But if you talk about it out loud it's useless." I said making a point while running towards the fence.
"Watcha gonna do about it? Oh right , you can't do anything because I'm gonna post this on Facebook and you can't stop me. Your life will be ruined." she teased.
"Whatever," I said jumping on top of the fence to get a good view of the phone.
After seeing the serial number of her phone I calmly started walking to my lab in the woods. My lab was full of high-tech things. Things ranging from guns that could fry her brains (if any exist in between those ears of hers), to emitters that put out EMP pulses that could send entire governments into blackout.
"What are you doing?" Brainiac 5 asked me.
"Stuff" I replied.
We walked away from Makenzie's torments and into the woods.
"Hello Alex" my faithful lab assistant Bella greeted me.
Bella is a cat who can turn into a human if needed. She, in her cat form, is a gray four-year old cat who looks like a kitten with yellow-orange eyes. She wears a pirate cat collar, even though you can't tell that's what the pattern was because she had scratched it up so much that it just looks black. In her human form she looks like a twenty year old woman with gray-black hair with yellow streaks. She also has other cat-like features like cat ears and the agility of a cat. She also keeps her cat eyes and attitude when she changes.
"And who is this strange green boy, may I ask?" Bella requested in a regal tone.
"Future boy" I replied.
"Why is he accompanying you to the lab?" she asked raising an eyebrow at said future boy.
"Makenzie got a picture of him and I need to wipe her phone's memory." I stated passing by the last landmark by my lab. "Through the trees, under the log, past the clearing, I sit waiting under the star that is not a star." I chanted.
I then put my palm on the trees that I was standing in front of and changed back into Alex.
"Access granted. Welcome back Alexandra, Alexandria, and Bellatrix." Alice, my smart computer said.
"Ali, authorize a new person." I said stepping on to a pile of leaves and motioning for Brainiac 5 to step on the leaves.
"Name of this person?" Alice specified.
"Brainiac 5" I stated simply.
"You are joking right?" both Alice and Bella asked.
"Your reasoning for this?" Alice asked undermining my judgment.
"I don't have to give you any other reasoning than this: My father built you and I can dismantle you. Very easily. And as for you" I said spinning around to face the cat. "you had a past too" I sharply reminded her.
"If it's too much trouble I can" Brainiac 5 started.
"What did I say about waltzing and breaking the time line?" I asked wanting to kill Bella and unplug Alice.
"He hasn't broken it yet, has he?" Bella asked shocked.
"He will if I don't get the paradox inhibitors up! So just authorize him and just let us in!" I yelled.
"New user recognized, welcome Brainiac 5. You are free to proceed to the lab." Alice said unhappily.
"Be careful or I may decide to fix that personality chip of yours" I said watching as a staircase appeared. "C'mon people, we don't have all night" I yelled while walking down the staircase.
Bella and Brainiac 5 followed me down into my lab. As soon as I stepped into the lab I turned on my body suit. It's a suit that is fitted to all my needs. Whenever I get hurt in the field my suit comes on and if there is any bone broken, it melds to the bone and creates a cast to make sure the bone heals properly. It also is hands free so that even if I get hurt during a fight I can just keep fighting. It, however, is no substitute for actual medical attention. The suit came on under my clothes and it strengthened my leg brace that I have had to wear since I was five because of an unfortunate incident with a truck.
"So am I gonna help you with that time tech or what?" I asked.
"Okay" he said.
I assumed that this was a yes to first option, so I proceeded to my time manipulation section of the lab.
"Here's the time manipulation section. Ask Alice about anything radioactive before using said radioactive material please. I'll be right back. Bella come here" I said beckoning the cat who had just changed into human form.
"What" she whined.
"I need you to put up the filters."
"Okay" she said suddenly a whole lot chipper.
I grabbed a paradox stabilizer and walked out of the lab. The paradox stabilizer is supposed to stop the time continuum from unraveling even further than it has in the event that some knuckle-head has broken the time laws. If they break the time laws then it is up to me to stop them and right what has been tampered with. In some cases deletion is needed to apprehend these people to prevent further corruption of the time stream. I activated my communicator that was built into my suit.
"Hey, you ready?" I asked encoding the paradox stabilizer.
"Since when have I ever not been ready?" Bella demanded through the comm link.
"Well lets see-"
"That was a rhetorical question you dumb ass." she said hurriedly.
I stepped onto the grass and imagined flying. The wonderful feeling that comes with it. The wind singing through your hair. All of it. My beautiful black silky wings appeared on my back. They looked just like angels' wings, though I am no angel. I took a deep breath and soared up into the sky, taking care to stop just below seven hundred feet. I activated the device and let it float in the air.
"Time device online" I heard Bella's voice through the comm.
"Alright, I'm coming down" I said rising up a few hundred feet and then turning so I was facing the ground.
"Before you begin your descent, may I go hunting?" Bella asked innocently. "I'm wasn't asking you. I'm bound to her by word and command!" I heard Bella yell, presumably at Brainiac 5.
"You can hunt him, if, and only if I can skin you alive and I get to feed the rest of you to the Larnax." I said, hovering in the air.
Silence was what I heard, then a quiet "I'll be a good kitty and not hunt him. He looks half terrified though."
"Well duh, you are threatening to hunt him. I'd be scared, if I were normal, if there were a crazy cat lady with claws like a chainsaw coming after me. But once again, if I were normal." I said exasperated.
"He wants to talk to you. Do I put him on?" Bella asked me sounding bored.
"Wow she does change moods like crazy" Alexis, the voice in my head, commented.
"Yes please" I said very tired. "First the job for the FBI gets botched and now this. What next? An assassin? Great, that would make my day" I thought sarcastically.
"You still need to find Silver in all this mess, don't forget" Alexis reminded me.
Silver is my little brother who was kidnapped during the accident that made it so that I have had to wear a brace.
"So is the cat going to kill me?" Brainiac 5 asked me, sending my train of thought off the metaphorical tracks and killing all the metaphorical passengers.
"If she even thinks about hurting you I'll skin her alive. Do you hear that Bella?" I said simply and calmly as I started to descend toward the lab.
"Yah I heard" I hear Bella say in the background.
"Super hearing I presume" Brainiac 5 commented.
"Yeah, I'm guessing where you come from its not abnormal to be abnormal? Nice to know" I said plaintively.
"Essentially yes" he replied.
I walked into the lab and turned off my comm link. As I came near the laptop area where Bella and Brainiac 5 were sitting. Brainiac 5 was fiddling with a small device in his hands, while Bella was sitting across from him, just glaring at Brainiac 5 like he had trodden on her tail and stepped on her tail on purpose.
"Bella, come here please. I need to talk to you." I said very annoyed.
"Why exactly?" Bella asked pouting.
I pulled her into the next room over.
"Why are you trying to creep him out?" I asked demanding an answer.
"He is the spitting image of one of our worst enemies." she protested.
"And looks are everything now?" I asked raising an eyebrow. "Now if I play my cards just right I can do what I'm best at. Manipulating people. It is my profession" I thought.
"You know what I mean. He looks like the original Brainiac which was, last time I checked, bad news for us." she argued pointedly.
"He's not the original, nor does he have the same principles. I checked. He does not even share the same future as the original. To a tee." I spat out the last sentence unwillingly.
"To a tee? What does that mean timelord?" Bella demanded and glared at me.
"First of all, I don't know. Second, I'm not a timelord! I don't know what the hell I am!" I yelled, then I stormed out of the room.
I walked over where Brainiac 5 was sitting and I calmly asked him if he needed any assistance with the device.
"No, but I do have a few questions if it's no problem" Brainiac 5 stated.
"Oh good god, questions" I thought, dreading the said questions. "Okay, ask away." I said not expressing the dread I feeling.
"Why are kind to me when everyone else isn't?" he asked quietly.
"Me, kind? I must be slipping, or that kid has a seriously low standard for kindness. Although..." I thought. "Huh?" I asked for clarifiction.
"Well Alice and Bella aren't exactly happy about me being here. You are the only one who hasn't looked at me with malice or fear." he said.
"Oh okay, scared I was slipping there" I thought relieved.
"Me too" Alexis said.
"I say innocent until proven guilty, or if I have a really good hunch on the state of guiltiness." I said.
"Oh, okay. Then you know who I am? Ancestors and all?"
"What your ancestor did isn't your fault and you shouldn't be blamed for it. I know how it feels to be blamed for something someone else did. It isn't fair. Besides the past is only designed to hold us back. To stop us from being who we are. We all focus to much on the past. And if we focus on the past all the time, where do we find the time to focus on the present? Live in the now is my opinion." I said.
"Has my ancestor even attacked here yet?" he asked looking at me doubtfully.
I decided to look into his mind to see what he was thinking, which I hate to do except if it's necessary for a mission. Cause if I'm on a mission all bets are off. So anyway, I looked into the top layers of what he was thinking. He was wondering why I was helping him. Why, if I knew what was to happen, why I didn't just kill him. Why I was so open-minded. It was sad what he was thinking. I suspected that he didn't meet or socialize with many nice people.
"Yes and no." I said and then continued when I got a very confused look. "I am a time traveler and have seen what will happen. Alice is my computer and has all of my journal logs, so that's how she knows. Bella, I rescued from a life of crime, well I'll talk about what we do later, ten years after the devastation of the events. The only reason she chose a life of crime was because her parents were a few of the casualties."
"Oh, I should apologize then" he said getting up.
"What? Why for?" I asked startled.
"I have to apologize for what my ancestor did." he said stubbornly.
"No you don't. It wasn't your fault. You shouldn't be held accountable for something your ancestor did. You had no control over what he did. No apologies. Final." I said glaring at him as if confirming that that had terminated the conversation. "Next question?" I asked almost happily.
He looked very startled at my quick change in moods, but quickly recovered.
"Who's Alexandra and Alexandria? There were only three people who came into the lab, but Alice said four names. I know that either Alexandra or Alexandria is you but who is the other?" he asked sitting back down across the floor from me.
"I am Alexandra"
"and I am Alexandria" Alexis and I both said.
The poor boy looked very confused.
"Why do you go by two different names?" he asked puzzled.
"For the proper explanation I have to form a telepathic link."
"Okay" he agreed.
I looked deep into his eyes mentally forging a bond that could only be broken at my wish or command. When I finished forging the bond my eyes were hurting like heck. I closed my eyes and started rubbing them, then after I was done I sent a telepathic message to him.
"Okay so for that explanation. Hey Alexis wake up and help me explain our strange predicament to him because I have no way to explain it." I said.
"So you're a telepath I gather." he stated.
"Among other things" Alexis said.
"Who is who" he asked.
"I am Alexandra A.K.A. Alex."I said.
"And I'm Alexandria A.K.A. Alexis." Alexis said.
"She's the polite one." I added.
"So you have two people in one head. Strange I admit, but not entirely unheard of." Brainiac 5 stated. "How did you get stuck together, if you don't mind me asking." he asked.
"Not at all" Alexis replied.
"We think that we were either an experiment gone wrong, or the victims of a black magic spell as infants, cause otherwise we don't know" I said.
"We are trying to find the people who did this to us." Alexis said calmly.
"And then we will shoot them with a 45 and a few machine guns. Then we will blow up their remains with C-4!" I said a tad bit too excited.
"Correction, you want to do that. I just want to find a way to reverse it. Oh and Alex, no killing people." Alexis told me.
I thought for a second.
"Sooo, you're saying no C-4. Cause if we just shoot them and don't blow them up with C-4, then they would technically still be alive. Not alive for long, but alive nonetheless. Technically they would of died of natural causes." I said.
"See what I have to live with? This is the way she talks all the time."
"I do not"
"Yes, yes you do"
"I'm not off topic, just articulate in a gory fashion." I protested.
"Oh yeah, and they're such a different thing?"
"No they aren't" Brainiac 5 butted in.
"Sorry. Waaay off topic!" I said.
"It must be really hard to make a decision, isn't it?" he asked.
"Eh... Ish. I mainly make the decisions, so not really."I said.
"Whether or not they're smart or not is another thing entirely" Alexis jabbed.
"I have saved our ass more times than I can count." I defended.
"Will you two stop mental sparring?! Last time you sparred, you had a seizure." Bella yelled.
"You had a seizure?" Brainiac 5 looked at me with alarm.
"It was a small one" Alexis and I protested.
"Alex it's three in the morning" Alice said suddenly.
"That's nice" I replied.
"Your father. Ya know the guy who gets up like at three in the morning to go to work? Also the guy who you talk to everyday at this time?" Alice said trying to make a point.
"Yes, your point being?" I asked puzzled.
Then I put it all together.
"Oh, I'm an idiot aren't I?" I asked and ran over to my laptop.
"Yes, yes you are" Alice said.
"I agree with Alice" Bella yelled.
"That was a rhetorical question" I said as I activated a digital hologram of myself to make it look like I was sleeping in my bed.
Brainiac 5 got up and looked at my laptop screen.
"I presume that's your secret identity." he said.
"No that's who I'm hiding as. This is my secret identity" I said gesturing to myself.
"Okay then" he said looking at me either not knowing what to think or thinking I was an idiot.
"So back to getting you when you belong." I said tiredly.
We worked all night long to finish the time device. Bella even came in and played nice for once.
In the morning I woke up with a start. I had fallen asleep on the floor. Something I never did around strangers. I checked my memories to make sure nothing happened, cause I'm paranoid about everything. Finally satisfied with the results, I looked over and saw Bella and Brainiac 5 sleeping on the floor. We were all sleeping around a completed device.
"Alice what time is it?" I yawned.
"6:30 A.M. Do you want me to make a cup of coffee for you?" Alice offered.
"Ali, you know I don't drink coffee." I replied.
"I know, but an A.I. computer can hope to be like one of the ones in the movies, can't I?" she asked defensively.
"I never said that you couldn't. Did I? All I said was that I don't drink coffee." I said. "Although, I suppose you could make Bella a cup of catnip tea. And two mugs of hot chocolate." I decided.
"Okay Mrs. Bonde" Alice said a little too cheerfully for even a faulty A.I. program.
I decided to let Bella and Brainiac 5 sleep, while I checked my laptop. I checked every social networking site and ran an auto-scan for any pictures or content regarding me or Brainiac 5. After content with finding none, I logged off and went over to Brainiac 5 and Bella and gently tried to shake them awake.
"Hey guys, wake up." I whispered.
"Huh? What?" Brainiac 5 said, then "oh yeah."
He sat up, yawned, and started staring off into space. Bella however took a little more time and effort to wake up.
"Hey Bellz" I whispered in her ear "time to wake up."
No effect.
"Hey Brainy" I said recalling the nickname that he had shared with us the previous night.
"Huh?" he asked drowsily.
"I'm gonna show you a trick, follow me." I said walking to the kitchen.
"Okay" he said following me.
I grabbed the drinks that Alice had prepared for us and gave one of the hot chocolates to Brainy. I saw the question on his face and explained.
"Hot chocolate. No one makes better hot chocolate than Alice."
I sipped my hot chocolate and went back to where Bella was sleeping. Brainy followed and watched as I positioned the catnip tea by Bella's nose. I carefully fanned the smell to Bella's nose, and as soon as the scent landed on her nose, she bolted up and grabbed the tea. If my hand had been there I would have lost my hand. She greedily drank the tea in one gulp.
"Jeeze, don't take my hand please." I said, holding said hand protectively, but playfully.
"Aww" Bella whined in mock disappointment.
"So did we finish the time thingy?" I asked suddenly serious.
"Well technically it isn't a time 'thingy' as you insist on calling it, but yes it is theoretically finished." Brainy reported.
"Well I can understand what it's called and all that, but my simpleton friend here cannot understand the name time vortex manipulator so I call it a time 'thingy' in consideration." I said.
"I am not a simpleton." Bella whined.
"Okay prove it. Explain what to do and what exactly is time vortex manipulation." I dared.
There was a long stretch of quiet before I heard a small murmur of "can we move onto the next question please?" from Bella.
"My point. Proven" I said.
I gently picked up the small device and it promptly began to shock me.
"Hisheaklchah" I swore in the language I had known since I was little.
I promptly walked over to the table and set the device down hastily, yet carefully.
"That hurt" I said between swear words.
"You weren't supposed to touch it." Brainy protested.
"Okay, okay." I said backing up.
Brainy walked over, pressed a few buttons, and stepped away.
"Now you can touch it" he said.
"Shall we see how it works?" Bella asked.
"I'm ready to gear up when you are" I said.
"It's all ready to go, I suppose" Brainy said.
"So then what are we waiting for? I'll go gear up." I said.
"Gear up?" Brainy asked.
"I never go anywhere without supplies to survive in a siege." I said.
"What do you pack?" he asked.
"Everything except the kitchen sink." Bella intoned.
"I only pack my laptop, a few weapons-"
"A.K.A. the entire armory" Bella interrupted.
"-and a portable medical kit." I continued, checking off everything in my backpack. "Let's go" I said.
"You're coming? How will you get back?" Brainy looked at me shocked.
"I have to make sure you get back to the right place, don't I?" I asked.
"Okay you do have a point." Brainy admitted.
"Plus she's part timelord!" Bella joined in cheerfully.
"For the last fricking time do I have a tardis? Do I? I want you to answer Bella." I demanded glaring at her.
"No" Bella said moping.
"Alright then" I said.
"Shall we get going?" Brainy asked.
"Sure" I replied.
Then a bubble roughly the size of a mini-car appeared and Brainy climbed in. I did the same. He programmed a few coordinates into the device and a few seconds later stepped out of the bubble. So did I.
"We're here." he said.
I felt very queasy.
"We apparently didn't screw up the time line to bad." I said and muttered underneath my breath "So that's what controlled time travel feels like... I don't like it." "I suppose I should go back now" I said opening one of my own portals.
"You could stay" he said very quickly.
"Do you want me to stay?" I asked.
"Yes." he said very, very quietly.
"Okay, I guess I could stay for a little while." I said.
And that's how my adventures with the Legion started.
