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"Wait, what?"
The entire Justice League was gathered in the Meeting Room, with the exception of Firestorm and Supergirl, who were still in school for another twenty minutes. Also gathered were five members of the Legion of Super-Heroes, a team from the future that based their ideals on Superman.
Yup, telepathy rocks. You can get so much information without anyone knowing.
"Either you weren't entered by some mistake or -"
"I heard you!" I snapped. My head was spinning. The blonde had just said I died. Pre-maturely. Or I hadn't been entered because of a mistake. I prayed it was the mistake.
The blonde green skinned guy folded his arms over his chest. "No need to be rude."
"That was a lot to take in, Brainy. Leave him be." A woman with short blonde hair wearing a red and black costume with a symbol of what looked like Saturn placed her hand on Green Skin's shoulder.
"Clark, would you like to introduce your friends?" Batman looked and sounded impassive, as always.
"Is it necessary? You have files on them, and you've all met them before."
I raised my hand. "I haven't."
Superman gave in. "These five are members of the Legion of Super-Heroes. They're from the 31st century. This is Cosmic Boy, Saturn Girl, Phantom Girl, Lightning Lass, and Brainiac 5."
"Brainiac?" I looked at the others frantically. "Why is no one else concerned?"
"Brainy's one of us." Phantom Girl leaned against him. "A good guy." Phantom Girl wore a sleeveless white costume. She wore white gloves that went up to her wrists, and she had four rectangular horizontal slits that went down her chest. She had a golden belt with a P on it and short raven black hair. Her light blue eyes were playful.
Cosmic Boy turned to Superman. Cosmic Boy's costume was black and grey, with a hint of purple. He had four silver discs on his chest and wore a belt with what I assumed was the Legion's symbol: An L with a little star. "You said the Fatal Five were in this time?"
"Yes. A week ago they attacked Siphon."
All five heroes looked at me.
"They attacked you? Why?" Brainiac 5 was sceptical. He wore a purple body suit and an overcoat over top. He wore yellow boots and I noticed they all wore the same ring.
Lightning Lass' electricity flicked around my fingers. I had already discovered what each Legionnaire could do by absorbing a little of their powers. "They did. And how am I supposed to know?"
Brainiac 5 looked me over thoughtfully. He stopped when he noticed my hand and the electricity circling it. "And your still alive? Interesting."
I ground my teeth together. This guy was really starting to tick me off. "Do you even know what my powers are?"
"Judging by your hand and the energy, I'd say you can control and release electricity."
I smirked. "Not even close." I looked over at Batman. "Think we have time for a little demonstration?"
"A short one. Zee, can you teleport us to the Kitchen?"
"On it." Zatanna raised her hands and cast her spell. "Tropsnart su ot eht nehctik!"
My vision filled with purple-blue smoke and I felt an odd tingling sensation. I smelt the smoke and some got into my mouth. It wasn't the best tasting thing. My vision cleared and we were in the Kitchen.
Wonder Woman put her hands on her hips. "Just be careful, Siphon. You're not fully healed yet."
"Actually, I may be able to help with that." Zatanna raised a hand. "Laeh sih ydob!"
My body glowed purple for a moment. I felt extremely well after her rejuvenating. I sucked in a breath, enjoying the fact that my ribs didn't hurt as I breathed. I cracked my knuckles. "Who wants to volunteer?"
Brainiac 5 smirked. "Apparently he doesn't know who he's dealing with."
I shot him a look. "You just volunteered."
He shrugged. "Fine."
All of the other heroes backed up. The League knew that I could go toe to toe with Superman, but these future heroes didn't have a clue.
"Are you sure about this Brainy? You don't usually fight," Lightning Lass warned. Lightning Lass wore a blue and white costume with lightning bolts on the side. Her arms were bare as were her legs. She wore blue and white boots with a gold trim. Her short orange hair was swept out of her face and I saw deep blue eyes and full red lips. She was hot.
Brainiac 5 smirked. "I'll be fine against him."
"Whatever you say." I raised my arm. "Since we just met I'll go easy on ya." A lightning bolt erupted from my outstretched hand.
All five Legionnaires gaped as the bolt flew past Brainiac 5. Lightning Lass looked down at her hands.
"That was my lightning!"
I switched powers and turned immaterial. I sank through the floor.
"And my power!" Phantom Girl couldn't believe her eyes. How does he have all our powers?
Let's just say I'm called Siphon for a reason, I replied with Saturn Girl's telepathy.
I came up out of the ground behind Brainiac 5. He turned around and was slammed back with a magnetic blast. The green skinned hero tumbled head over heels until he landed at Supergirl's feet.
"Brainy? Are you okay?" My girlfriend helped the fallen future hero up.
Firestorm flew up. "What's going on?"
"Siphon was demonstrating his powers," Martian Manhunter explained.
I folded my arms over my chest and smirked. "Still think you can take me?"
Brainiac 5 patted himself down. "Maybe not. I must admit, I underestimated you."
"I noticed." I also noticed how Kara was looking at Brainiac 5.
Flash noticed it too. "Yo, Jamie. Meet me in here in half an hour for a work out? We'll run Batman's new simulation."
"Sounds good." I kept one eye on Supergirl and Brainiac 5. I sighed. I should be able to trust her. I shouldn't worry about him.
I turned and left the Kitchen, angry at myself. The others looked after me, wondering what was going on in my head.
About half an hour later, I still felt guilty and angry for not trusting Kara. I made the decision to apologize for it. I walked up to her door and took a deep breath. I was never good at this kind of thing. I opened the door.
And my mouth dropped.
On the bed sat Kara and Brainiac 5, kissing. Kara opened her eyes and saw me. Her eyes widened and she pulled away from the green skinned man. Brainiac opened his eyes and gave her a confused look. Then he saw me.
He shot me an irritated look. "Can we get some privacy please?"
My eyes narrowed. "Do whatever you want. I don't give a damn."
"Jamie, please…"
"Don't even try, Kara." I kicked myself for not realizing this would happen. "You can have the robot."
I turned and walked out the door. Kara followed me.
"Jamie, listen to me…"
I spun around and faced her. Our noses were centimetres apart. "There's nothing to listen to! It's kind of obvious what's going on Kara! You were just waiting for him to come back!" I backed up. "I was just there to keep you company until he returned," I said bitterly.
Tears began tenderly rolling down her cheeks. I wanted so badly to wipe them away. "No. That's not true." Her voice was so soft I had to strain to hear it.
"Well, then why? Tell me. Please," I pleaded.
She looked away, a light sob coming from her throat. "I…I…"
"Just what I thought."
As I walked away, she began to cry. I was wearing my costume, so I headed straight for the Kitchen.
Flash was already there waiting. "Hey man."
"Let's start," were my only words.
My fist slammed into Atomic Skull. He went sailing across the giant room. This was just what I needed. Something to hit!
I followed through, flying at him and then delivering a right cross, and a knee to his stomach. I brought my fists down on his head and finished Croc lunged towards me. I stuck out my elbow and it struck Croc's head as he lunged, adding extra force. A side kick to the stomach made him bend over, and an atomic blast put him down.
I looked around to see how Wally was doing. He was a blur of motion as he beat on Captain Cold.
"So she was kissing him?" Wally slowed enough so I could make out his words.
"Yup." Deadshot's nose broke.
"Making out, or just a kiss?"
"It was just a kiss, but it was passionate, to say the least." Kidney strike.
"Yikes." Flash dodged bullets before disarming the Joker.
"Yup." And a roundhouse kick to the head to finish Deadshot.
I focused all of my anger onto the simulation. We had beaten about ten villains already, and only three remained standing. I blasted into the sky and slammed into Bizzaro. I pummelled the disfigured clone with everything I had. Mini sound waves were being created from the force of my blows. His head snapped up as I delivered a bone crushing uppercut.
"So what are you gonna do?" Flash dropped Poison Ivy before attacking Mr. Freeze.
I grabbed Bizzaro by the neck and drained him of any remaining power he still had. I dropped him. He didn't get up.
"She can have Brainiac 5. Doesn't seem to have too many upgrades from the original, though."
Flash laughed. "You know he's organic, right?"
"Doesn't act like it." I blew fire breath on Mr. Freeze and backhanded him across the room. I touched down and folded my arms.
The villain holograms disappeared as the simulation ended. Some of my anger had subsided, but I was still mad. How could she do this to me? I had covered my pain with the only way I knew how. The only way I ever did. Rage.
"How was the simulation?"
I saw someone enter the Kitchen from the corner of my eye. It was Lightning Lass.
"Too easy."
The pretty redhead smiled. "You're bleeding."
"Huh?" She was right. I licked my lips and tasted the tang of blood.
I blushed. "I'm fine."
"Good." She winked at me. "I'd hate to see that cute face of yours scarred." With that, she walked out, hips swaying.
Flash burst out laughing as soon as the Kitchen door closed. He was leaning over and slapping his knee.
"Was… was she hitting on me?"
Flash wiped a tear from his eye. "Y'think?"
"Shut up Wally."
"What were you thinking?"
Brainiac 5 winced once again. She'd been yelling since that Siphon guy had left. And she was obviously furious with him.
"Did you really think you could just come back here and I'd fall into your arms? 'Cause it doesn't work that way, Querl!"
He winced again. She was using his real name, Querl Dox. That meant she was either really mad or really happy. His twelfth level intellect deduced it was really mad.
"Did it maybe occur to you that, I don't know, I had a boyfriend?"
She had come back to the room crying, and then she had exploded on him.
She collapsed on her bed, her voice a bit sore from the yelling.
"Kara," he began.
"Don't," she said through gritted teeth.
"Can you honestly say you didn't enjoy the kiss?"
Supergirl reflected. Yes, she enjoyed the kiss. Part of her had revelled in it, while the other part had been screaming this is wrong. The kiss had been perfect. At least until it had cost her her boyfriend.
Brainiac 5 took her silence as a no. "It's okay. You don't need him. You have me." He placed his hand on her shoulder.
And the next thing he knew he slammed painfully into the wall outside Kara's room. Supergirl stood in the doorway of her room.
"Don't ever touch me again!" With that, she closed the door.
Brainiac 5 tried to clear his vision. His head was still ringing from the force of the impact.
"Brainy?"
The Coluan looked up to see his friends. Cosmic Boy helped him to his feet.
"What did you do now?" Saturn Girl put her hands on her hips. Being a telepath, she had a limited amount of empathy. Though she didn't need it in this situation.
"I attempted to resume our relationship, but apparently she does not wish too."
Phantom Girl slapped her forehead. "No duh, know-it-all! She has a boyfriend!"
"Is that why Siphon was mad when he saw us kiss?" Brainiac 5 cocked his head to the side, trying to understand the situation.
"You really don't have a clue, do you?" Cosmic Boy was amazed.
"Don't have a clue about what?"
All the Legionnaires jumped. Saturn Girl had been too busy with Brainy to sense Superman's approach.
"Nothing," the Coluan said quickly. He smiled guiltily.
Superman raised an eyebrow. "Okay… is Kara in her room?"
"Yup." Phantom Girl cut Brainiac 5's protests off.
"Thanks." Superman knocked at Kara's door. "Hey. It's me. Can I come in?"
A sniffly "yeah" was the only reply.
Superman gave the Legionnaires a concerned look before he entered his cousin's room.
"The bond isn't strong enough yet," Emerald Empress explained.
"Why isn't it?" Darkseid's voice showed his annoyance.
"Superman and the Justice League were coming. I didn't have time."
"Then I suggest you go back," Darkseid said menacingly.
Empress nodded and led the others out of the room.
"Oh, and Empress?"
She stopped and looked back at the dark lord.
"Do not fail me."
She nodded and left with the others. After they had left, an old woman stepped out of the shadows.
"They will not be enough."
"I know, Granny, that is why I want your Furies to act as backup."
Granny Goodness nodded. "Your will be done, Darkseid." She grinned darkly. And I'll take my revenge on that Siphon brat personally.
