09/07/12

Chapter 5

"Towel?"

"…What?"

"For your face," the Lord Superman robot clarified, offering a damp hand towel to Brainy.

After Lord Superman had finished, for lack of a word that didn't make Brainy feel ill, the Kryptonian had dressed and carried Brainy to what looked like the main part of the Fortress. There were statues of Lord Superman's Kryptonian parents and some old technology, along with a couch that looked out of place but that's where Lord Superman set Brainy down before going to sit among the old technology and start working on something small.

Without anything to focus on and trying not to think about what just happened Brainy's mind drifted until the robotic duplicate of Lord Superman, half of it's outer disguise torn off to reveal the metal and wires underneath, approached him. Though Brainy heard what the robot had said he wasn't quite up to processing it yet and just stared at him.

When Brainy did not respond the robotic Lord Superman knelt beside him and began to wipe off Brainy's face, his touch surprisingly gentle. Not speaking, the robot cleaned the Coluan's face, some of his hair and shirt from the bodily fluid his master had no doubtedly ejaculated onto the cyborg before they came to the main room. His programming recognized him as Brainiac Five but knew he was not the one who was under his care before.

Standing, robot Lord Superman turned to his creator.

"Master, I thought you had gone to retrieve Brainiac Five."

"That is Brainy," Lord Superman didn't pause in his work to answer.

"This one is far too young to be Brainiac Five," the robot pressed.

"He's not the one who was here before but he is Brainiac Five," Lord Superman pointed out.

"Why did you not retrieve the original?" the robot questioned further.

"I no longer have a time bubble remote," Lord Superman began to sound annoyed now. "I had to use the dimensional portal and that was designed to go to the other dimension, slightly in the past of us and Lord Batman, in his infinite wisdom, locked out the other dimension we had gone to before so I had to go to another dimension and shoot blindly into the future. I was lucky I got to a time where there was a Brainiac Five."

That only made think Brainy he had very bad luck and he didn't believe in that sort of thing. Then again he now knew there was a dimensional portal somewhere that he could use to get home, if he could find it, and he had a possible alley in this dimension's Batman since he had tried to lock Lord Superman out of the portal to begin with.

"I do not understand," the Lord Superman robot looked at Brainy a moment before turning to his master. "Why would you want a Brainiac Five who was not your Brainiac Five?"

"Because Brainy is Brainy and he is mine now shut up before I tare out your voice box!" Lord Superman growled, eyes blazing red.

The robot knew better then to say anything, to even confirm that he had heard. Instead he returned his attention to Brainy and spoke softly, "Do you wish for some nourishment?"

"He eats with me or not at all," Lord Superman's voice held a hint of warning.

It was a good thing Brainy did not have to eat very often. He was going to avoid breaking bread with a dictator if he could.

Without acknowledging him, the robotic Lord Superman left the room.

Now feeling more clear headed, Brainy looked more around the room. There were many side rooms, some old artifacts, more then likely from old battles, but the most noticeable thing was the long corridor just to the side of the statues of Lord Superman's Kryptonian parents.

A moment later the robot returned with a glass of water, offering it to Brainy.

Looking over at Lord Superman, Brainy hesitated to take it. He would be able to last longer without eating if he drank water but he didn't want to get the robot in trouble, he was the only relatively decent thing about this place.

"He said eat not drink," the robotic Lord Superman clarified.

Though Lord Superman heard him, he was ignoring him, so Brainy took the water and began to sip it. He hesitated but he asked the robot, "What happened to the other Brainiac Five?"

"He was rescued by Superman from the other dimension after the Justice League temporarily stripped my master and his fellow Justice Lords of their powers and imprisoned them with Lord Batman as their warden," the robot explained.

"Abducted, he was abducted from me," Lord Superman growled, glaring at the robot with red eyes again.

"Abducted," the robot amended. "After Brainiac Five left here, we do not know what happened."

"The bastard probably kept Brainy for himself," Lord Superman went back to whatever he was working on.

"Indeed," the robot didn't seem to agree but was nodding anyway.

Deciding it was best not to comment Brainy thought over the new information. The other Brainiac Five wasn't dead, that at least was good to know. There was also another Superman who had known what this Lord Superman had done but dimension was locked away so there little chance of a rescue mission from him. Lord Batman would definitely be an alley if he somehow found out about Brainy, though he may come anyway since he was Lord Superman's warden but there was no knowing whether or not Lord Batman was even alive since Lord Superman had escaped somehow.

His best plan of action was to try and get a message to Lord Batman and whether or not he succeeded he would have to try to escape. He would need to find his Legion flight ring, his belt would be a bonus but the ideal thing would be the ring.

Lord Superman continued to work on his small device and Brainy theorized about the most likely placed the Kryptonian could have hidden his ring.