"Wake up, Danielle…we're finished with the operation."
She opened her eyes to find herself lying on the floor, the others looking down at her. "…Do you guys have medical degrees?"
Zyx smirked. "No. On a side note, has anyone seen my watch?"
She stood up and felt her neck, where a metal plate was now fastened just under her hair. "Incredible…how did you guys do that? I mean, really, how?"
"Simple…sort of," Magnetic Kid tried his best to explain, "I bend metal, Light Lass can create and control electricity, and Zyx has magical abilities. All of those combined allowed us to merge parts of C.O.M.P.U.T.O into you."
"…And my illness…is it…?"
Zyx snorted. "White Witch has been teaching me all sorts of magic. With a bit of a tweak here and there, I was able to cure your illness using ancient magical chants that only some of the highest ranked Zeroxians."
"…So," her eyes widened, "that's it? I…I'm cured?"
"Yup. No need for payment."
She smiled, about to cry as her eyes watered. She threw her arms around him in a tight hug. "Thank you! I…I didn't know if I would ever be cured…I thought that…that…"
Light Lass pat her back. "Zyx has to be strong to become Doctor Fate. This is just the beginning of his powers." She noticed him blushing. "But even the strongest wizard can't use magic to hide his feelings." She let out a giggle until Magnetic Kid coughed for attention.
"Alright, so now that Danielle is all better, we need to get moving. Let's see what's going on outside before we make our next move." He led them out of the main console room and to the nearest window, where they all gazed outside.
"…Oh gosh…"
Legionnaires were fighting off Scavengers outside, but what really had their attention was the Legion cruiser high in the sky, doing loop-de-loops over buildings as robots flew around it. "Zyx," Light Lass glanced at him, "do something!"
He sighed. "I didn't teleport you guys here with me for you to start nagging." He waved his hands towards it, and the ship froze. "There, I'm being helpful, and they'll never know what hit them."
Cosmic Boy was flying through the Legion cruiser halls on his own where the ship froze. "At least we're not spinning anymore…but who froze it?"
Thump-thump-thump!
He found robots toppling over one another in front of him. He bent the walls around them and entered the bridge to find the other legionnaires in a pile, having been thrown down during the skirmish. "You guys okay?"
Star Boy groaned under the pile, looking up at him. "Glad you could show up, Cos."
"I was a little busy reinforcing our own power cells. Who froze the ship?"
Dream Girl got up and brushed her hair back over her shoulders. "We don't know, but it's given us time to remove C.O.M.P.U.T.O from the system. Let's hurry before the robots get up again, Cosmic Boy."
"You forget," C.O.M.P.U.T.O told them through the speakers as the legionnaires got to their feet, "I am still in control." It began to cackle as the ship spun around and around, tossing them everywhere.
"Urp," the three triplets covered their mouths, "we're going to be sick!"
"That doesn't look good," Timber Wolf watched the Legion Cruiser turned upside down, "should we get up there and check things out?"
Dawnstar tossed a robot back as Matter-Eater Lad chew out another one behind her. "They can handle it…whatever's happening up there. For now we need to make sure the citizens of New Metropolis are safe."
"Uh, Dawnstar?" Matter-Eater Lad indicated to a new horde of robots chasing people away. "I don't think anyone's safe around here."
"Including us," XS and Ultra Boy moved to Wave's side as they whipped robots back from the building that was beginning to set aflame again, "we need a better plan than this!"
Wave held her ring up and shook her head. "Wave's right," Ultra Boy sighed, "we can't get in contact with Supergirl, it's too dangerous. Hope they're doing okay up there."
Supergirl flew back into one of the tubes, cracking the glass. Robots had her and Projectra surrounded in the cloning room. "Sensor Girl," she glanced at her, "I thought we were hidden by your illusion?"
"We were! I don't know how they saw through it!"
"You made a fatal mistake," one of the robots told them as they wrapped their arms around Projectra, "when you called master Brainiac 6 simply Brainiac."
"…Darn," Supergirl used her heat vision on them, "well no matter! We'll beat our way through to Brainiac if we have to!" She flew at the robots, smashing them apart and freeing Projectra. "Time to regroup and make our way to the bridge, Sensor Girl!"
"On it," she disguised them as robot soldiers and flew them out of the room, "I'm putting up everyone's illusions again. We need to hurry, Supergirl, before Brainiac comes directly for us."
"Let him," she grit her teeth, "he deserves as bad a beating as I can give him."
As they flew down the hallway she noticed part of the wall heating up. "…The power cell room…Projectra-"
BANG!
The wall exploded, sending fire their way. Supergirl lost sight of Projectra in the heat as she was forced to move back from it, a huge shadow moving through the flames. "Projectra! Wildfire! Invisible Kid…!"
Brainiac stepped out of the fire as it boiled down the hall around them, his battle mode smoking but unharmed. "Kara Zor-el, you have brought the Legion forth to their own demise. The only way to save them is the digitization process."
"Monster," Supergirl snapped at him, "you monster! Don't you get it?! We won't let you succeed! We will defeat you!"
"At the cost of your legionnaires?"
She could hear Wildfire and Sensor Girl scream behind him. "Retreat, legionnaires," she called to them, "retreat! Get to the deck!"
"It will not matter," Brainiac's eyes began to glow as he loomed over her, "there is nowhere on this ship that you can run to that I will not find you – you have lost, Kara."
Brainiac doesn't play nice, Kara, so watch out...I never really know what to say in these author's notes anymore, do I? Uh...how's it going? You having a good day today? That's great. Praying for you...um...looking good...
Yeah, okay, so I such at improvising.
Until the next chapter!
