Chapter two
The legionnaires watched in disbelief as the creature ripped out one room from the entire ship. "Stop it!" yelled Saturn girl. "Got it, nosey!" Lightning lad received a cold glare from Saturn before shooting at the hands of the thing. When he got close enough he saw a name on the side of it's head. "Hey, guys," he yelled, "the thing is called Decca!" "Great," said Kell, "now we know what to write on it's gravestone." Soon, Bouncing boy arrived to help distract the beast. "Wow! The thing looks like the monster alien from the old movie Cloverfield!" Fire sighed. There he goes again with his movies. "Fire, look out!" yelled Saturn just as she was swiped down and knocked unconscious by the beast. "Wha..?" Wildfire looked behind him, only to see a large clawed hand smack him down hard like an annoying fly. Everything quieted just before he hit the ground. Lightning lad stared at Decca, and saw it rummage around in the room it held like it was it's purse. Decca pulled out a slim blonde gypsy girl, who was at the moment screaming her head off. Unsatisfied, it threw her towards him. Lightning caught her in mid air, and set her down outside the perimeter. She thanked him and ran off.
Decca again slipped his hand into the room, this time grabbing a small white dog, a little blue child with four tentacle arms, and an elderly couple. Obviously not wanting them, it threw them, this time at the side of the building. Wildfire woke up just in time to fly in front of them and catch them. He dropped them off outside the damaged area, and saw them grab the dog and little girl and run away. Suddenly, he heard the rest of the Legion scream out in pain. He raced back to them, only to find that they were all down for the count. Decca was bringing down his arm, which seemed to be a large cannon of some sort. Wildfire landed and tried to wake up Kell. It wasn't like him to fall so easily to a shot like that, no matter the size. Decca once again peered into the room he was holding. After a few minutes, it beeped a few times, and now held an unconscious body in it's right hand. It looks pleased, which can't be good! "What...what happened?" Kell and the others began to wake up. "No time!" Fire flew towards Decca's face and, grabbing his hostage, flew down to Kell again. Decca screamed, sounding very livid this time. "Oh, perfect." Saturn girl sat up and helped Vi to her feet. Lightning lad and Kell brushed themselves off. Wildfire took a look over of the body he was holding.
The person was a little bit smaller than him, and was very thin. They wore a dark black motorcycle jacket, black cargo pants, a white t-shirt, and covered himself with finishing black army boots, small, red gloves, and a dark grey hood over his head. Saturn girl came over and lifted the hood away. Everyone gasped. Wildfire didn't know what the big deal was. The kid was a green teenager, with short blond hair. Decca stopped screaming, as he had been doing the entire time, and smashed his hands into the ground under the Legion. Bouncing boy had left to grab the legion cruiser. If this thing couldn't be stopped without wrecking Metropolis, then it was time to take it into space. "...Brainy?" Vi whispered. Wildfire stared at Violet in disbelief. His eyesight fell upon the boy he was holding up. Sure enough, the kid had a Coluan symbol on his forehead. "This is the terror everyone is scared of?" Saturn girl nodded. "You remember when I told you about his transformation?" Kell slipped over. "Well, he became human." "How?" Lightning lad's yell to move broke the chatter, and Kell pushed himself and everyone else away from the large torpedo heading for them.
"Why does Decca want him!" Saturn girl frantically searched through Brainy's mind, even though she never liked to look without permission. "Well, you can try to ask for his permission, but we really need the information while he's still in one piece!" Lightning lad threw a gigantic electric ball at Decca's chest, causing it to lose balance. It fell to the ground. Kell smirked, and turned to hear a groaning sound come from Brainy's mouth. "What...where...am...I?" He blinked a few times. His green eyes were exactly the same colour as his skin, something Kell didn't get. "You're safe." Vi hugged him, but let go when Brainy yelped in pain. "Looks like your arm is broken," Kell used his x-ray vision on it, "And you've got a large cut on your side. Brainy cringed and looked around. He turned to face Decca. "...It tried to take me, didn't it?" He shakily stood up, and leaned against Saturn girl. "Where did it come from?" As Brainy was about to answer, Decca whirled to life, and aimed it's cannon blast at Vi. "Vi!" Lightning lad stepped in front of her, embracing the impact. Both went out cold. Wildfire began to store energy for a mega cannon attack, but Decca had already grabbed him and thrown him into the nearby broken ship, knocking him out. Saturn girl tried a physic attack on it's programming, and momentarily froze it. However, it still had been able to aim the shot at Vi at hit the rocks above, and they came crashing down on her. Brainiac 5 was now in the open, barely standing and holding his broken arm. "Brainy!" Kell screamed as he used his heat vision at full strength. Decca melted right in front of them, and flooded over the ship, just missing Wildfire. Brainy turned his attention to Kell and smiled, before fainting onto the rocks that had hit Saturn girl. As the Legion grouped, Kell picked up Brainy and flew to the Legion building.
"Brainiac's alive?" Kell yelled, nearly deafening Cham, who had taken Vi's place as she had to run off to repair a broken doorway. "Loud enough," Chameleon boy muttered. Saturn girl had entered Brainy's mind again, and was telepathically talking to the rest of them. He was laying unconscious in the medical bay, being tended to by Lightning lad, who wasn't the best at nursing to people as Saturn girl had said he was. "I've found more," she spoke sternly. "Decca was sent by Brainiac. Apparently, Brainy hadn't noticed that he was bugged before he left to Winath to stock up on supplies. Ever since then, for the past three years, he's been hunted down my an army of robot creatures and assassins, all working for Brainiac." A shadowed figure walked into the room, and floated over to Brainy. "Hey, Superman." Cham smiled. Superman, though, looked very depressed. "...He's fine, you know." Kell pointed at Brainy's arm. "He's tough." Wildfire spoke up. "So, you're Superman, huh?" He stuck his hand out for Superman to shake. "Nice to meet you, Supes." Superman didn't bother to look at Fire. He shook his hand, and stopped when Fire yelled out in pain. "Sorry." His face was blank as it stared at Brainy. "..Who did this?" He stared at Wildfire. "Who DID this!" He banged his arm against The bed B5 slept in, waking him instantly. "LEGION?" Brainy yelled, screaming and crying. Everyone backed away. Saturn girl silently talked to the legionnaires as Superman embraced the sobbing Brainy. "I guess when I left, Brainy went to sleep and started to have a nightmare about the digitization." Cham sneaked away from the group and stood beside Superman. Brainy had began to calm down, but was still shivering. Cham frowned, but quickly shape shifted into Brainiac, still hiding behind Superman. "This guy did it." Superman turned to see Cham in Brainiac's form pointing at his forehead. "...He's back." Superman looked down at his feet. Brainy stared in horror at At Cham. He changed back to himself and waved shyly at him. Brainy wearily waved back, his expression becoming slightly happy. While the rest of the Legionnaires walked out of the room, Superman stayed behind. "Don't worry, we'll find and terminate him." He smiled, shaking his fist in the air. Brainy gazed at him sadly. "He is stronger than ever before, and he has new friends. If only I had been smart enough to finish him off." "Don't worry," Superman reassured him, "Wherever, and however strong, he won't win. Not again." Little did they know that the mysterious figure knew there now every move. His bug had slithered into the room, and was recording and sending all information to it's master.
