MIND OVER MATTER PART 2

Brainiac 5 gazed into Supergirl's glass tube in a room at the far back of Brainiac's skull ship. She and the other trapped legionnaires floated in the air in their tubes, their hair floating around as they seemed to sleep forever. Energy continued to surge from him, charging up the digitization process for his ancestor to use, and yet he felt…nothing. He thought nothing.

"…Such pathetic organize lifeforms," was all he could say as he left the room, "how can they not see our end goals are the only way of saving this…chaotic universe."

Phantom Girl and Ferro were beside one another as they punched and smacked Phantom Zone prisoners back, but it wasn't nearly enough to keep them from flying in every direction away from their group. "Mon-el, a plan, please?"

He, Sun Boy and Chameleon Boy were trying to keep as many prisoners together as they could, but even with Cham's great size as a man-sucking jellyfish holding them in there was no way to stop them all. "Thinking," he told her as he turned to General Zod and Drax, floating above them with dangerous sneers, the open portal right behind them, "just keeping holding them off!"

"Uh, how?"

"…Punching and smacking!"

"Gee," she grumbled, "never would have thought of that."

Mon-el moved towards Zod and Drax. "Know that should you and your prisoners stay here any longer, Zod, Brainiac will digitize you along with the rest of us."

"So be it," he coldly replied, "I find that a far better fate than being trapped inside that wretched place any longer. Drax, my son, show him how forgiving we are for his actions against us."

Drax gave his father a nod before flying over and knocking Mon-el back into Sun Boy, toppling them onto the nearest roof. "You little heroes stand no chance against my father's orders," he told them as they stood up to face him, "starting today we face a new world order, one where the Phantom Zone cannot hold us back!"

Mon-el gazed up at the portal behind him, and beyond it, Brainiac's skull ship, slowly turning back to face the Earth.

"We're running out of time."

Scavengers were running wild through the Legion Tower as Polar Boy and White Witch chased them down the corridors. "It's a good thing Nemesis Kid and you guys joined us in this fight," he told her, "at least now we have a sort of fighting chance." He froze their feet as White Witch turned their armour to rubber. They ran into Shrinking Violet and Kinetix in front of the main console room. "How are we holding up, Kinetix?"

An explosions came from a few floors below them. "Can I get back to you on that?"

"White Witch," Violet looked out the window as the skull ship, "can you use magic to give us some more time before Brainiac digitizes the planet?"

She thought for a moment before nodding. "There is an old spell I can use, but it'll only give us a bit of a leeway."

"How long?"

"An hour at the most."

"That'll be more than enough," Colossal Boy and Porcupine Pete joined them, "go!"

She flew out of the tower, polar Boy and Violet following her through a large crack in the window. "Kinetix," he turned to her, "how are the others doing outside?"

She flew through the window and looked around. Scavengers were on the ground sneezing in front of Infectious Lass and Blok, and plants were overrunning the right side of the building by Chlorophyll Kid and Tyroc. "Uh…pretty well, actually."

Porcupine Pete's quills drooped. "This isn't going to be enough, is it?"

Colossal Boy didn't answer. They gazed out at Brainiac's ship as White Witch and the others flew higher into the sky, past a large pink portal opened above New Metropolis, which was currently crowded with his robot soldiers and legionnaires.

"This will do," White Witch told the others as they flew just into the reaches of space above Earth, "let our final hour begin." She held her hands out in front of her as a great white force field shape liked a bird spread out its wings over the planet, shielding it from the ship. "I can only hold this shield for so long. Let us hope Supergirl can handle Brainiac before then."

"She will," Shrinking Violet assured her, "she's just…working at a slightly slower pace than desired."

"Violet," Polar Boy spoke to her behind White Witch, "if Brainiac is ready to digitize us like he did the moon, then that means that Brainiac 5-"

"I know," she snapped at him before her shoulders slumped, "I…I know what it means…"

He put his hand on her shoulder as they watched the large bird field made a loud cawing sound, as if challenging Brainiac to try and bring it down.

"Magic," Brainiac sighed on the bridge of his ship, "so they wish to hold out for a little bit longer. So be it. With Querl Dox connected to me and the ship I have unlimited amounts of power now."

The robots at the main controls aimed the digitization laser at the field over the earth. A screen popped up on the side of the window, showing White Witch to be the one holding the shield up. "Fire at the center where that witch dares to defy me."

The laser charged and fired, hitting the shield but reaching no further than an inch through it before cutting short. "Keep firing and do not let up," he commanded as the White Witch glared at him through the screen, "and soon their last wall will fall…."

He glanced behind him to see Brainiac 5 standing at the entrance, light energy still surging through the carvings of his suit to the floor. He watched the screen for a moment with blank eyes before turning around and leaving.

Again Brainiac gave a small, evil smile. "No matter how strong magic is, it cannot stop us. Not with our combined power."

Things couldn't be worse for the Legion...well, save for them all being digitized and leaving Brainiac 5 alone with Brainiac forever and ever and ever and...yeah, things are pretty bad. How will they get out of this mess? And even if they cane somehow turn this all around...what happens to robot Brainy?

Until the next chapter!