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TWELVE

Legion

THE DISTANT FUTURE

"He is going for the Legion Ring," A girl dressed in a white outfit said, flying into the air.

"What was he planning?" the one beside her who was dressed in a blue and red outfit one piece.

"We`ve gotten a distress call from Bouncing Boy," the girl in white said, "Titan had attacked him, and he seemed to be after his ring."

"Then we stop him," the girl in red and blue said.

The two landed on the battle arena, finding Bouncing Boy unconscious on the ground and a large man with a metallic mask hold up a golden ring.

"At last, the Legion Ring is mine," he said, "Then I will be able to destroy Superwoman."

"Not on my watch," the girl in red and blue said going after him in a burst of super speed.

"Supergirl eh," Titan said, "Here is your ticket."

He fired a green blast at her which she took in the chest and was send backward before landing on the ground.

Titan activated the time displacement that the Legion Ring had and a flash of purplish light started to appear around him and the girl in white flew at him, taking hold of the hand that had the ring, causing the ring to malfunction sending the two even farther in the past.

The girl in red stood up, her eyes watching the place her teammates and Titan had disappeared.

"Damn it," she said, "going to need Brainy for this…and how the hell did Titan find out about the time displacement within the Ring?"


PRESENT DAY

Lara and her dad were on the road. They had just made a delivery of fruits to Metropolis. Lara was simply leaning back into the car watching the road past by lost in her thoughts as her dad hummed along with the music.

"From what I can see it Lara," he said, "This will be a great year for us, and you did a great job by the way today."

"What?" Lara said, looking back at him, "I hardly did anything. You practically bullied the poor man into giving in to you."

"That`s business Lara," Pa Kent said, "You`ve got to play your best cards to get what you can…"

A bright light suddenly appeared in the middle of the road in front of them, blinding the two Kents from seeing anything. Pa Kent instinctively stomped on the breaks, the tires squealed at the sudden stop.

"Pa you`re okay?" Lara asked looking at the man beside her.

"I`m fine," he answered, "But… what the hell was that?"

Lara got out of the car, looking toward the light had come from and noticed someone lying there, and quickly ran toward the person.

"Pa, there is someone here," she called over her shoulder.

She arrived beside the person and found that it was a girl, a pale one at that who was dressed in a leather clad white outfit, and a belt which had the L symbol with a shooting star.

"Who…?"

"I don`t know, but she`ll need our help."

The two had taken the girl back to the farm after they deduce that she was only unconscious.


Diana who was at the store getting some food was humming a song and walking toward the cashier when a large explosion from within the store drew her attention. Then a man over seven feet tall walked out of the destruction, all muscle and mask on his face. He had strange weapon with large fist covered in some glowing greenish color. Then, the two eyes found her.

"Well, well, what do we have here?" he growled, "Princess Diana herself, thought somewhat younger."

"W…What?" Diana said, not knowing what this man was talking about, "I…I think you`ve mistaken me from someone else."

The masked giant fired a beam at her, sending her flying into a wall which she created a hole and was on the ground with her clothes smoking from the impact.

"Nope," the masked man said, "You are the Princess of the Amazons for if you were a normal person, that blast will have eradicated you."

Diana tried to stand, feeling her stomach throb in pain.

"W…what do you want from me?"

"Oh, you are simply the bait, the one I'm after is your lover."

Diana`s eyes widened.

My what?


Phantom Girl opened her eyes with a groan. She seated up slowly and glanced around herself. She blinked, recognizing the room she was in but looking amazingly different.

How far back did Titan go? She thought, and how long was I out?

The room door opened and Lara Kent walked in, and Phantom Girl couldn`t help but gap at her. It was weird and cool to have this Icon of the superhero world looking so young and without the timid and stuttering persona.

"Hey are you alright?" Lara asked her.

Phantom Girl just gaped, too shocked to even speak, and Lara noticed the look she was getting and scratched the back of her head.

"Look, I don't know if you can even understand what I am saying…"

"I`m…I understand," Phantom Girl said.

Lara smiled, "Oh! Good. How did you get all the way over here? Are you part of the Justice League?"

"No," Phantom Girl said, "But was there someone with me when you found me…someone big and large?"

"No, it was just you," Lara said uncertainly, "Why? Is that person your friends?"

"No, just the opposite actually," Phantom Girl said.

"Lara comes down here," Pa Kent voice yelled, "Something you should see."

Lara and the girl headed downstairs toward where the TV was at and noticed that they were giving some kind of news bulletin about something that happened in Smallville town today.

"Reports said that a giant man had appeared out of nowhere and caused the destruction you are seeing right now," the anchor woman said, Fortunately, they had been no one killed but they have been serious injuries. Stay tuned as we continue to develop this story."

"Titan…," the girl whispered.

Lara glanced at her, "You know this guy?"

"His name is Titan," the girl said, "He is a known super villain and enemy of the Legion which i`m part of."

"Legion?" Lara said curiously, "I`ve never heard of it."

"That`s because it doesn`t exist yet," the girl said.

"Er…yet?"

"Titan and I are from the future," the girl said, "and he came back to try to change something that could change the future itself."

Lara starred at the girl in amazement.

"You mean he time-traveled…"

The girl nodded, "The Legion Ring can do that, and somehow Titan find out about it and stole it from one of my teammates, and traveled here. I tried to stop him…"

"Both of you came back together," Lara finished, "But I don`t get it. If you`re right, then why is he here in this time?"

"I…I can`t tell you," the girl said, "I don`t want to change anything…just being here already changes a lot of things."

Lara starred at her for a few minutes.

"This hasn`t anything to do with me is it?"

Before the girl could answer a high whistling noise made her grab her ears in pain.

"Lara are you alright?" the girl asked her.

"I…I don`t know….did you hear that?"

"Hear what?"

"Hello Superwoman," a voice echoed around her.

Lara glanced around the room, not seeing the speaker, and was confused.

"You are the only person on this planet that can hear this transmission I`m sending, so listen carefully. If you don`t hear my signal and don`t show up at the estimated time of 9 o`clock at the place we`ve first met, I will kill the Princess Diana of the Amazons, your lover. Don`t be late, or she dies."

With that the voice was gone along with the high ringing noise.

"What did you hear?" the girl asked her.

Lara told her what she heard and noticed a distressed look on her stow away face.

"I…I`m that Superwoman in your future aren`t I?"

The girl nodded, probably admitting defeat.

"But then…Diana is…wait, he got Diana," Lara said, "But, Diana is not a Princess is she? I know she is good looking and all, but a Princess?"

"He…He is messing with the entire future," the girl said, "Use your super hearing to hear where the signal is coming from."

"Er…sure," Lara said, listening.

The noises amplified in her ears as she listened to all of Smallville and came to a stop at a low ringing noise.

"I`ve got it," Lara said making her way toward the door, "I`m going to get Diana out of there."

"But…he could kill you."

Lara turned toward her, "I`m not going to let him kill Diana, no matter what`s at stakes."

With that she was gone in a burst of super speed, following the signal noise.


The signal led Lara out of Smallville, and into a deserted place in Metropolis and from where she can hear, the noise was coming from that building. She headed straight for it and threw open the door, running into the room.

Just for a cage to fall right unto her, making her gasp around, and suddenly the cage started to glow a greenish color. The pain shot through Lara`s body as she falls down on her knees. The only time she ever felt such pain was when she was near those meteor rocks…but they weren`t any meteor rocks in here, so how…

Don`t tell me that the cage is…

"Didn`t your father ever teach you to look before you leap eh, Superwoman?"

Lara looked up, struggling to stand and found the one knows as Titan standing there his mask over his face but she can see the two eyes watching her.

"The wonders of Kryptonite," he said, "bringing the strongest hero of all time to its knees, but I guess everyone got their own Achilles Heel."

Lara slowly got to her feet…one at the time and could feel her legs trembling to support her, as sweat poured down from her brows.

"Guess you aren`t super for nothing, how about we up the dosage?"

The cage bars started to glow even brighter and Lara let out a yell of pain collapsing on the ground, feeling weaker than ever. She was gasping, spamming a little and feeling something warm dripping from her nose and Lara realized that it was blood…

"You are going to die," Titan said.

"I…haven`t done…anything…to you," Lara gasped, rolling on her back.

"You haven`t yet girl," Titan growled, "but you will in a few years…I will remove you from the sight of the world. Now full power."

The greenish is glowed even brighter and Lara let out a scream of pain as she writhed on the ground, pain taking over her mind as black spot started to appear in her eyes…close to passing out…

Then a large explosion rocked the place and a group of people entered the room heard the Titan yelled, "YOU,"

"Yes me," a voice said, "Triplets take Lara out of that cage, I`ll handle Tin-head."

Loud noises of battle started to echoes around, and Lara noticed the cage being removed and three identical girls were looking down at her, each of them had a unique hair color.

"Are you okay?" one asked.

"Well, off course she is not okay," another one said, "She just got into a load of Kryptonite."

"Let`s take her out of here," the third said, "The sun will help."

"Right," the trio agreed.

Two girls helped her out of the building and unto the sunlight outside and at once Lara can feel her strength returning.

"Thank you," she said.

"You`re welcome," the trio said in perfect sync.

Then the girl from her house landed in front of her, "Lara you`re okay?"

"I`m fine...wait did you just flew?"

"It`s one of my abilities as Phantom Girl," she answered then catching something over her shoulders.

Lara looked and then froze.

A girl was carrying Diana out of the wearhouse, but what drew her attention was the S shaped symbol that was bright red on her chest. She was dressed in a one piece outfit. A golden ring on her fingers.

"Kara," one of the Triplets said.

Lara made her way towards her and took Diana in her hands, and was quickly X-raying the girl to see if anything was wrong.

"She is fine, just unconscious, I already X-rayed her," the girl, Kara said.

Lara then looked up at her, "Who are you? Are you the same as me?"

"We are from the same race if that`s what you mean," Kara told her, "but otherwise…I don`t really know."

"What do you mean?"

"I come from nearly 200 years into the future," Kara said, "I didn`t even know I was Kryptonian until I started to get my powers here on Earth. But I must say, it is quite an honor to meet my inspiration."

Lara starred at the girl…no…woman across her. She was still amazed to learn that she wasn`t alone on Earth…not matter what time it is. Then the woman Kara looked at Diana.

"She won`t remember anything that had occurred today," she said, "and neither will your parents or anyone in Smallville for that matter."

Lara frowned confused.

"How is that even possible?"

Kara smiled and used super speed to show something into her face.

"With this."

All Lara knew next was a flash of bright white light.


Phantom Girl quickly took hold of Lara`s falling body and looked at Kara.

"What was that?"

"A device Brainiac-5 created for this mess Titan created," Kara said softly, "That way they won`t remember anything that had happened today…at least, never meeting us that is. All they will know is that a fire hazard had occurred in the super market."

"He really does think of everything," Phantom Girl said, "For a second there, I thought we really screwed up the timeline."

"Yeah," Kara said taking hold of Lara unconscious form, "I`ll take her to her farm and Phantom Girl, you take Diana at her house, since you know where it is. Then let`s go home and call this mission completed."

"Yes ma`am," the entire group said as Phantom Girl smiled.


Lara was standing in a small place and noticed a bright light in the distance. She made for it, but the light suddenly become brighter and the S symbol flashed in front of her glowing bright red with yellow underneath it and…

Lara snapped awake.

She was dreaming?

Lara blinked and glanced around herself, recognizing the loft of the barn and the setting sun in the distance. Then, she realized she must have felt asleep there. Groaning, she seated up and noticed a small envelop on the table beside her. Curious she took it, and saw that her name was written on it. Wondering what it was, she opened it and a something gold fell unto her palm.

Lara inspected it.

It was a ring with around top and an L symbol with a shooting star on it, and she wondered and she wondered what it was and pulled out the note that was within the envelop.

When you need it, Use the Legion Ring,

and you`re not alone. Good luck, Lara Kent.

S

Lara gazed at the hand drawn symbol and glance at the Ring before putting it on the table with the letter, and left the loft as ghost of a smirk on her face. As she walked away, the Legion Ring gleamed softly in the afternoon sunset.

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