The Calm Before the Storm: Part 1.

Querl researched Elementals, there was little information about them, but what little there was he found to be personally alarming. The process of becoming an Elemental was an often gruesome painful death. The father in him did not want his own child to through with this process. The one fated to become the Elemental would only briefly escape it only to be trapped into it in another way. Only one Elemental was born without going through the painful death process to obtain her elemental power. Tefe, the daughter of the Earth Elemental, the Swamp Thing and there was no records to be found about her final fate.

There were so many questions he could have, no should have asked Harbinger but hadn't last night. What did she mean by hidden original timeline? The implications alone this power had knowingly used time itself to divert Kara from the 31st century to the 21st century was awesome. But then she did say Kara and he kept finding each other time and time again. Was this some sort of a sign that a higher power existed? Could love itself reach across the barriers of time and space.

If it was true their daughter would one day be able to take on the likes of Brainiac, Imperix, Brainiac 13 or the very machines of Darkseid's Apokolips. He should take Harbinger's warning things were going to get much worse the closer Kara came to her due date.

Querl watched Kara walking down a hallway heading toward the kitchen with Saturn Girl.

"He thinks I don't notice it, but every night he scans the baby as if he's afraid someone or something is going to snatch her away," Kara was telling Irma.

"I remember feeling that way when I was having Graym," Imra nodded, sharing her own pregnancy experience with her and Lightening Lad's son, "I could've sworn the second baby disappeared on me sometimes I can't help feeling Graym has a phantom brother out there. When is your next appointment with Dr. Gym'll?"

"Tomorrow morning," Kara smiled at the thought of the short, impish-looking multi-armed doctor giving her yet another scolding about what she is doing wrong even before he pronounced everything was alright. Everyone took it in stride, in many ways Dr. Gym'll remind her of the broody mother hens on the Kent's Kansas farm his grumpy exterior was just a cover for the concern he had for all of his patients.

"Sensor Girl is going to cloak me with an illusion so I can go out," Supergirl said joyfully, "Would you like to go with me and go out to lunch with me. I already asked Sensor Girl she just grumbled and said she would pass this time."

"Why not ask Brainy to go with you," Saturn Girl asked, "He should go with you."

"One he gets into it with Dr. Gym'll and I don't want to hear any of their arguing this time," Kara explained, "Plus the way he hovers over me and the baby too much these days, it's starting to get on my nerves. I need some personal space. Once the baby comes it will be a long time before I can have some personal privacy."

Imra nodded in agreement. "Yes, when you have children you lose a lot of privacy. I remember when I finally had some there was so much I wanted to do and for a few moments I couldn't make up my mind about what I wanted to do."

Kara grinned

"I wish I could've seen it," Garth called out from above, "Saturn Girl unable to make up her mind, even for a moment." Chameleon Boy and he were working on the lights on the ceiling. "Imra could you bring up the power tool I left on the table down there."

Kara spotted it and reached for it. "Allow me."

"Are you sure." Imra asked, "Brainy and Dr. Gym'll say you're not to fly around due to your being prone to morning sickness when you fly."

"It was two weeks ago and it hasn't happened since," she assured Irma.

As a group in their uniforms they were flying around Metropolis doing a sky patrol. Brainiac 5 was behind her and she was in the front of it. Everything was going well. When suddenly morning sickness hit Kara in mid-flight and she had hurled several feet in midair down onto the street below. Dizziness hit her and she plummeted down like a rock toward the crowd below. Thankfully Mon-El was there to catch her in time. Just before she would have slammed into some tourists on the ground.

Mon-El and Brainy immediately started to take her back to Legion Headquarters but the faster they flew, the faster, the motion caused her to hurl again and again. Who would've guessed that motion sickness could go hand in hand with morning sickness.

Finally, they put her down at the edge of the Legion Plaza and walk her into the building.

Thankfully, her fellow Legionaries stayed behind to clean up, compensate whoever wanted it and to help cover the fact that Supergirl was pregnant with Brainiac 5's baby for as long as possible. For they realized that when word finally got out that the Houses of El and Dox were having a baby together the publicity alone would become enormous.

After Kara was taken care of, it was decided she would go on Legion foot patrols. It went well until a week later they stopped a robbery in progress. She ran at the criminals intending to knock them out with punches when the speed induced another bout of morning sickness and instead of hitting them with her fists, she hurled on them. Twice.

"Ugh, that's disgusting lady!" one of them proclaimed. After they were handcuffed and being led away by the Science Police.

"You shouldn't be out if you're sick like this," another thug said. "I hope it's nothing contagious."

She was too busy hurling for the third time to reply so she flipped them the bird. Just about everyone was struggling not to laugh at her predicament. Brainy had to turn around to cover his smirk he knew he had to be careful or she would be snarling, at him for hours if not days if he wasn't careful.

After the Legion Founders had talked to Dr. Gym'll, Brainy and her it was decided to put her on maternity leave a month early.

"Like I said it's been two weeks since the flying incident," she conceded, "I'll levitate slowly."

Saturn Girl stepped back and kept her eyes on Kara.

Kara levitated about six feet off of the ground when it hit, the power tool slammed to the floor, while she turned a pale shade of white and green and she held her hand to her mouth. While she crashed to the floor and hurled.

Brainy appeared almost instantly along with several other Legionaries wanting to help her up. He held a cold wet compress for her forehead and Garth showed up with a moistened towel to help clean her off and Saturn Girl got a package of crackers from somewhere. While Computo had the floor robots cleaned up.

After Kara's stomach had settled down. Irma handed her a cracker. "It's unsalted crackers they often helped me during my own morning sickness when I was having Graym."

"Thank you," Supergirl mumbled and carefully nibbled on it. After a few moments she felt much better and nodded her thanks. Saturn Girl handed her the package as Querl helped her walk over to a nearby chair. She could see he was wisely not lecturing Kara at this time.

"Everything is fine," Querl assured everyone in hearing distance. Their teammates drifted away. Phantom Girl and Timber Wolf quietly asked Irma a few questions before leaving the area.

Garth and Irma watched as Querl led Kara back to their rooms. Her arm wrapped around his elbow, clutching the unsalted cracker package while the other hand kept popping crackers into her mouth.

Garth sighed, "I wonder how it's going to be when the cravings hit her."

I have been a fan and collector of the Legion of Super Heroes since the 1970's and of the Brainiac 5 and Supergirl romance.

My personal favorite version of the Legion was during the Mike Grell, Paul Levitz and Gerry Conway days.

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