Saturn Girl was sitting down in the infirmary waiting patiently. She hoped that the others would be back soon. All the kids were doing fine so all she could do was wait... Something she hated because her mind kept on wondering back to Cosmic Boy. She missed him so much... Something got her attention, it was one of the kids who was groaning. The young boy with dark hair and a shield seemed to be waking up. She walked over to check him when he slowly opened his eyes. They were a pinkish colour not to dissimilar to hers.
He looked slightly surprised and tried to get up. Afraid he might hurt himself, she pushed him back down gently. He looked at her surprised.
"It's ok..." She said gently trying to reassure him. "I'm Saturn Girl of the Legion of Superheroes, you're in our head quarters."
There was no reply, couldn't he understand? Didn't he speak English? Saturn Girl tried sending him the message telepathically but was blocked again. The kid made some funny movements with his hands.
"What's your name?" She asked him.
"You're wasting your time señora ." Said the platinum haired boy getting out of his bed before Irma could stop him."He's mute, can't speak. I should warn you, he isn't deaf so be careful what you say, I learnt that the hard way... Hey where's Jubilee?"
"Oh... I'm sorry I didn't realise." She apologised, the kid responded by a hand movement. "Who's Jubilee?"
"It's his stupid bow!"
Now the red haired girl was awake too! Where these kids all on timers or something? Seeing that things were getting a little out of hand. She sent a telepathic message to Brainy who she sensed started to come.
"Your weapons were confiscated." Explained Saturn Girl.
"Normal Legion procedure then..." Said the green skinned girl who stayed in her bed thankfully.
"Um... Yes..." Said Saturn Girl, unsure how they could have known that.
"I'm alive!" Irma jumped as the black boy leapt out of his bed. "Oh... The portal worked."
"Of course it worked!" Said the smallest boy. "Me and Ema spend a month on that thing!"
"I got your message Saturn Girl!" Said Brainy running in.
The Leader of the Legion stopped dead staring at all of the kids. Who stared back. The mute boy pointed a finger at the man and then acted some more much to Brainy's confusion. He then pointed at Saturn Girl and pointed at one of his fingers. She had no idea what he wanted.
"What's wrong with him?" Asked Brainy.
"He's mute..." Explained Saturn Girl. "But I can't figure out what he wants."
"He says : Hallo to you and can he please see your husband."
Both Saturn Girl and Brainy jumped out of their skins at the sound of another teen's voice. It was the large one, he was easily as tall as Brainy and had the same build as Superman. He had his arms folded across his chest and was looking down at them with blue eyes and was standing just behind them.
"Who are you?" Asked Brainy, the mute boy continued to do some more sign language.
"We are just some kids who tried a gizmo out and it kind of back fired." Translated the large boy.
"Yes, but would we at least have your names?" Asked Brainy, there was a moment of silence where the kids started at each other.
"I'm Kreda." Said the platinum haired boy who had light blue eyes.
"My name is Aem." Said the girl with green skin and dark eyes.
"It's Roncon." Said the large boy, the kids all held back some laughter. "It's not my fault, that my name is lame!"
"I'm uh... Ixo." Said the smallest boy who had brown eyes.
"Marga's the name..." Said the black boy with silver eyes.
"I'm Aari." Said the pale girl who had dark brown eyes.
"I'm Bele and this here is Reyphz." The girl with ginger hair and chestnut eyes introducing herself and the boy who made more hand gestures.
"He says can we see Cosmic Boy now?" Explained Rancon.
Saturn Girl gave brainy a sad look. She didn't know why they wanted to see Cosmic Boy but it was obviously impossible...
"Hate to break it to you guys but... Cosmic Boy died... He was killed by Brainiac." Explained Brainy.
"No es posible..." Said Kreda looking shocked.
"I'm sorry, what?" Asked Brainy confused.
"He thinks he speaks spanish..." Explained Ixo, there were more hand movements from Rephz.
"Has Brainiac been defeated yet?" Explained Rancon.
"Looks like you're the ones getting interrogated..." Said Kell coming in. "Brainy, they're heading straight for us..."
Brainy looked at Kell and thought they could always run but then the army would be free to destroy everything in the fleeing Legionnaire's wake... They had to fight Brainiac on their terms...
"Set course for Io, we'll fight them there!" Said Brainy.
"Eso no es una buena idea..." Mumbled Kreda in spanish, the adults raised eyebrows.
"What did he say?" Asked Kell, looking and Roncon.
"Don't look at me, I had enough trouble learning his sign language." Reyphz made some more hand movements. "It took me so long because, you wouldn't use the stuff you found in books... You made your own language up!"
Brainy let out an exasperated sigh, he could talk to them later; for now they had to prepare for the fight. To his surprise as he left, with Saturn Girl and Kell the kids followed. He turned around to tell them to turn back around but changed his mind when he caught Roncon's glare. The Legionnaires and League were all assembled in the main room of the cruiser. This was going to be his first speech.
"Legionnaires and members of the Justice League..." He said loudly. "I'm not going to lie to you. There are a lot more of them then there are of us but I'm convinced that if we all work together, we can beat Brainiac! We've already combined the most powerful heroes of both our time lines... That's got to count for something.
The League and Legion stared at the kid who was quickly picked up by the scruff of the neck and dragged off. Brainy sighed and ordered everyone to their battle stations. Bouncing Boy was piloting the ship with Triplicate Girl, the quads, Irma and Lois staying on board with the new comers preferably locked away but they had all disappeared. The rest of the heroes had assembled in the hangar and were ready to fly onto the planet's surface. It was there that he found the kids. Reyphz turned to face Brainy and started to use his special sign language.
"We're going to help." Explained Roncon.
"How?" Asked Brainy.
"Like this." Aari said with a grin.
The kids got some weird metal balls out of their bags which they had somehow retrieved. The objects flew around before somehow merging to create a large jet. Brainy raised an eyebrow, who were these kids?
"We will assist you!" Said Aem.
With that they all boarded their ship. Half an hour later, The cruiser dropped off the ground fighters on the moon Brainy was amongst them. The cruiser flew off into space with the newcomers ship separating and flying off by it's self all be it shakily. Brainy watched the skies nervously, he knew that his ancestor would arrive. He could sense the nervousness of the assembled heroes, he himself was pretty scarred.
There was a sound of marching. Brainy gulped over the a hill of the barren planet appeared an army of dominators they were all marching in a large blockish formation... As he had predicted the Legion of Supervillains and Fatal Five were flying along side them. The army stopped a fair distance away from the heroes. Brainiac floated over head and stopped, hovering over his army.
"Legionnaires, members of the Justice League, I see not need for there to be bloodshed. If you surrender and accept to join my cause, then you may just be given a part of the galaxy to rule as you please."
"Is this a joke?" Asked Kell.
"You know the answer!" Yelled Brainy.
"Sadly I do, it is illogical." Brainiac flew away.
Almost instantly his army started to march towards them. The heroes readied themselves. There was a the noise of lazer fire as the Legion cruiser flew overhead blasting at the army. Followed by the kids ship which also fired but they didn't seem to be so good at aiming and almost hit the heroes. Brainy looked over and readied himself for the fight.
"Come on!" He yelled.
The heroes broke cover and started to charge the army. This would either be their single greatest victory or the worst massacre in league and Legion history... Despite the difference in size of both armies it felt like an earthquake when they collided. From what he could tell they seemed to have knocked Brainiac's dominators back a bit. He didn't have time to think this wasn't a normal fight... Instead he just continued trying to push forwards, hitting all the villains that were in front of him. He looked around him to his right; Kell and Superman were both punching and kicking dominators knocking them backwards. On his left, Batman was using his karate and fighting them off. Maybe, just maybe they stood a chance.
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"Hang on!" Yelled Bouncing Boy.
The cruiser did a barrel role in an attempt to avoid some lazer blasts. Behind him; Lois, Saturn Girl, Triplicate Girl and the quads were holding on for dear life. It was a bumpy ride to say the least. The only comfort was knowing that there was another ship out there with them.
"Chicos! I should warn you, you've got some cling ons!" Kreda's voice echoed over the radio.
"Where?" Asked Bouncing Boy.
"I don't know!" Said Kreda. "I don't know where anything is on my ship! Let alone yours! What do you mean the autopilot's toast? I don't know how to fly this thing! Why don't you try? What? Does anyone know how to fly this thing? Oh sprock... Um... Little problema here chicos..."
Bouncing Boy wasn't listening he had told the others to go and fight off the boarders while he continued to pilot the ship. As they ran past a window, Triplicate Girl and the others couldn't help but stop to watch out of a window, the kids ship preform triple barrel roles sideways as they all desperately tried to fly the ship. There was a crash from down the corridor, the dominators must have gotten in.
Sure enough there were two dominators on board. The creatures looked at the Legionnaires and roared. Triplicate Girl multiplied herself. The white one kicked one dominator in the head, the purple one kicked it in the belly while the orange one tripped it up. Saturn Girl used her powers to knock the second one back. Lois Lane sized the chance, to knock the monster out using a metal bar. The women looked at their defeated foes.
"All right, go girl power!" Cheered Triplicate Girl.
They ran back to Bouncing Boy who had just bombed some more dominators. They couldn't help but notice that there seemed to be fewer villains. Where they winning? They might just be able to hope so.
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Superman threw a dominator into another five. There sure was a lot of them! He watched as Flash ran past knocking them over as he went. Wonder Woman seemed to be almost enjoying himself. He smiled they might just win after all. The numbers seemed to be thinning and they seemed to be less powerful. Suddenly he was crushed by a large weight that made him fall over.
He looked up at Validus who had just crushed him. Using his phenomenal strength he threw the monster into a pile of domintors. Validus got up and used his lightning attack Superman braced himself and took the blast head on. It didn't hurt him much if at all, all it did was slow him down. Superman continued to push on until he reached the monster with one powerful right hook he knocked the creature flying backwards. He heard a cheer and looked around Brainiac's army was flying off they were retreating.
They had won! Against all the odds they had one and with only a few bruises as well! Something shinning in the sky got his attention. What was it?
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There was a loud cheer on board the cruiser as they watched the army disappear and fly off. Of course they'd have to chase after them but still it was good news. The kids were even able to learn how to fly their ship, to late of course... Bouncing Boy and Triplicate Girl were dancing with joy at last they'd be able to raise their children in peace! The children were celebrating by bouncing around all over the place. Lois was laughing happily while watching the others rejoice. Saturn Girl smiled thoughtfully, she might just be able to rest for a week considering that her child was due for then.
Lois laughed and looked out the window to see how the kids were doing with flying their ship. Instead she saw a large satellite like ship coming towards them she called over the Legionnaires who ran over. The satellite seemed to create a sort of green energy wave which came towards them and headed towards Io. Bouncing Boy grabbed the controls of his ship and tried to fly away, to late the wave hit them. To her surprise Lois felt no effect but the effect on the others was almost instantaneous, they all fainted.
Surprised she ran over to them and checked their vitals, all were fine it was as if they'd just fallen asleep. She heard an explosion coming from down the corridor and guessing that it was boarders grabbed her metal pole. In came Mano and Esper with five Domintors. Lois prepared herself for a fight but she saw Esper's eye glow then fell asleep.
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Brainy with the rest of the army saw a green light heading towards them. Brainy closed his eyes and braced himself. Though when it hit nothing happened. He opened his eyes to see everyone on the floor out cold. What had happened? Only himself, Batman and Karate Kid were still standing. Brainiac 5 watched as his ancestor appeared along with the Fatal Five and Legion of Supervillains. He saw Batman ready a baterang but keeping it hidden.
"What have you done?" Asked Brainy.
"Those of you who had powers have been rendered incapable as for you, we will soon do the same." Said Brainiac.
Batman threw his baterang at the robot but an inch before it made contact. The three remaining heroes stared at it in shock. It suddenly came back towards them and landed in front of them blowing up and knocking them flying. The impact knocked Batman and Karate kid unconscious instantly. Brainy looked up at a humanoid figure walking towards him, his vision was blurry and he couldn't make it out correctly... He fainted.
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Kreda looked out of the window of his ship with his friends. The villains were carrying all the Legionnaires on board their satellite ship. He turned back to face his friends. They were all watching, his sister clung a little tighter to his arm as a fermilliar face was dragged past. They had successfully cloaked their ship and gotten out of the cannon's range by finding the instruction manuel.
"All right chicos." Said Kreda. "So where to now?"
He caught a glimpse of Reyphz determined look and shook his head.
"No way dude!" Kreda said surprised. "That would go against the code!"
"Just being here is against the code!" Said Aem.
"Ok... Just don't blame me if we get in major trouble!" Kreda gave in.
"What's the plan?" Asked Roncon, Reyphz got up and pointed at the ship.
"Oh, Dios mío, vamos a matar!" He said in spanish.