Zyx, Ayla and Pol sat around as the families continued to chat. "Man oh man," the wizard groaned, "if this is the life of a legionnaire, count me out."

"…Maybe we could talk to him," Pol pointed to Dragonmage, "Rokk told me that he's a sorcerer, too."

Alya shrugged. "We could sneak away." She noticed the two boys gawking at her. "…What? You forget that I'm the sister of Garth and Mekt. Guess which one shows me how to fool my parents with the pillow under the bed sheets trick?"

Zyx snorted again. Then everything around him vanished. "Huh?"

"Zyx…Zyx…"

Before him in the darkness appeared a woman with long white hair, blue antennae off her eyes and a white off the shoulder outfit, draping sleeves hanging over the back train of her attire. Her yellow eyes studied him in earnest. "Zyx…"

"White Witch," he recognized her as the guide through his trails a few years ago, "I thought you had left Zerox! Where are you?"

"I have made a grave error, Zyx, and I need your help." She sadly looked down at her feet. "You are the only other wizard here on Earth that can find me."

"Is this about the Helmet of Fate?"

"Mordru is waking up from his entrapment beneath the ground, and soon he will rise. I could not allow the others to know, lest chaos overtake Zerox. I removed the helmet from its vault and fled here to Earth…"

"But I thought it was the Scavengers? There technology was found by the fault!"

"I needed to create a diversion. Please, Zyx, only you can help me."

"Wait," the vision was beginning to fade out, back to the tower, "where are you? What can I do?"

"Locate me. I cannot tell you through this vision in case someone hears. I trust in you, Zyx, but you must hurry. We must find-"

"Zyx," Ayla shook his shoulders, "wake up!"

He was back in the tower, Ayla and Pol on either side of him. Lightning Lad and Cosmic Boy were gone, and only a few families remained. "What happened to you?"

"…I got a message from the White Witch. I need to find her."

"You mean we need to find her," Ayla smirked, "no pushy brother is going to keep me from helping save the world."

"Count me in, too," Pol agreed, "…but we're following the rules, right? Like, no breaking into anywhere and such?"

Zyx and Ayla rolled their eyes. "Let's just get out of here before your bro's get back." He snapped his fingers, and trio disappeared. Mrs. Kent walked into the room, looking around. "Ayla? Is there an Ayla here? Lightning Lad is looking for you…such a big tower…could use some curtains…"

The storage building was bustling with Scavengers moving boxes filled with new weapons. Two head Scavengers worked over a table covered in maps. "Payments will be made to Brainiac tonight, and we'll take the weapons off to four separate locations across the city."

"Brainiac 6, you mean?"

"Who cares what he calls himself? Just make sure the payments are made. This is one robot we don't want on our case"-

Boom!

A large hole appeared in the roof, and in flew the patrolling legionnaires. "Why don't you make this easy for all of us," Timber Wolf offered, "hand over the helmet now rather than later."

"Helmet?" The Scavengers by the table glanced up at them in shock. "What helmet?"

A portal opened on the table, and Gates popped out. "Hey, guys! I just finished up on my mission and came to see what you were doing…hm?" He looked around at the stunned faces. "Am I interrupting something?"

"On the contrary, Gates," Dream Girl smiled, "you're just in time to help deal with a couple rats."

"Great!" Gates grabbed the back of both head Scavengers' heads and smacked their faces together. They hit the table and fell to the floor.

"Take them down," Kel-el said as they split up, Brainy moving towards the table, "Brainy, gather those two up."

The Scavengers lighted up the room with their guns as the legionnaires took to them. Brainy's personal force field activated around him as Dream Girl knocked down the men around him. Timber Wolf howled and slashed through their weaponry before tossing them into one another. Kel-el stuck them to the ground with his kryptonite as Gates dropped them through portals into empty boxes. "This is way more fun that I thought it'd be!"

"Everything here is related to weapon transportation," Brainy spoke aloud as he read over the papers and maps on the table, his eyes narrowing when he came to a certain file, "all bought from Brainiac."

"Okay," Dream Girl stepped over one of the unconscious Scavengers beside him, "so what does that mean? Brainiac is hiring people from all over the galaxy. He's a smarter, scarier Imperiex by the looks of it."

"He has more planned, I know it. No, this means that the Scavengers have been too busy to steal the Helmet of Fate from Zerox."

As the last Scavenger fell Kel-el frowned. "Are you telling me that this entire hunt has been goose chase?"

"Yes," Timber Wolf growled, "and it was all set up by Zyx."

"And to think," Kel cracked his knuckles, "I was about to break my record of days gone without stepping on a child."

"This has been wonderful," Mrs. Kent told Kara and Kal-el as they walked out of the Legion tower, "I'm so glad you two let me come to see what you've been up to. Not that I ever suspected, considering the time travel and whatnot."

Dragonmage flew out beside them. "Cosmic Boy is wondering if either of you have seen Pol, Zyx or Ayla?"

"Zyx is here?" Kal sighed. "That can't be good."

Voom!

A large pink light exploded outside the tower, and standing in the blast center as the smoke cleared was a tall man with a grey beard and green tunic. Two coloured amulets hung from his neck as his dark eyes looked around.

"And neither can that," Superman stood in front of his mother, "Mordru."

Yeah, Mordru is BACK! Magic galore from all corners of the city as he, Zyx and White Witch show up to give the Legion a run for their money. Zerox was such a cool idea for a planet. I love magic. Don't believe in it, but it's fun to read and write about. I wonder if the Santa Claus of the future is a wizard from Zerox that spread gifts throughout the galaxy using magic reindeer...

Until the next chapter!