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Guest 1: Thanks for the review and title, though I have a different one. You will see who wins this.
Guest 2: Thanks for the review. I actually had a different fight in mind but Amanda Wallers can be a draw too, along with another fight I got. So there are three future fights which can be a draw. One of them because both are equally lame, and another because both are equally awesome. In Waller's case, it's a draw because of how Arrowverse Waller's tenure ended.
Guest 3: Thanks for the review. It's on the list.
Chapter 26- The Brainier Brainiac
"And we're back on air", Wade said as he walked to the podium and waved and everyone cheered and waved back. "Last time we were here, Zod was proving why he is the only Kryptonian General before whom you should kneel."
All laughed and applauded again as Wade said. "This time, two other supervillains will battle each other. Two different versions of the very evil Brainiac."
All applauded hysterically again as Wade said. "Brainiac is Superman's second deadliest enemy in the comic right behind Lex Luthor himself, with General Zod being third on the list. He is mostly portrayed as an extraterrestrial cyborg or android, who is responsible for stealing and shrinking Kandor, Krypton's capital city. He is also responsible for Krypton's destruction in several continuities. He is mostly portrayed as some kind of green-skinned humanoid and is bald with a set of electrode-like objects protruding from his skull. They glow too sometimes. Maybe they glow in the dark or something."
All laughed again at that as Wade said. "However, the two versions we're dealing with look nothing like that. But they sure are very dangerous."
All nodded as Wade then said. "So on one side, we have Brainiac from Smallville, played by James Marsters, and also by other actors like John Schneider, John Glover, Laura Vandervoort and Allison Mack when he takes other forms or possesses other people. He was created by Dax-Ur and completed by Jor-El as a Brain InterActive Construct. However, he was corrupted by Zod and helped him in weakening Krypton's core, destroying the planet. When Lana accidentally sent them a signal, he arrived on Earth with Nam-Ek and Aethyr while also triggering another meteor shower in which they landed. After Nam-Ek and Aethyr were taken down in Season 5, Brainiac created a humanoid extension and gave himself the identity of Professor Milton Fine, who taught Clark as a history professor in college and also offered him the position of research assistant to take down Lex Luthor, which Clark accepted due to his growing distrust of Lex. He caused more friction between Clark and Lex, exposed the latter to silver Kryptonite which he had made from the substance in his body, and infected Martha Kent with a deadly Kryptonian disease, offering to help Clark cure her. He fed Clark lies about how Jor-El was a ruthless dictator and Zod was the true hero. He tried to get Clark to use a black crystal to take down the Fortress. Clark did so and opened a portal to the Phantom Zone. That was when Brainiac revealed his true intentions and took Clark down, trying to get Zod to Earth. But Chloe arrived and helped Clark, who removed the black crystal and impaled him on the crystals, curing Martha too. But Brainiac survived, and knowing Lex was searching for his ship, posed as a government agent to him, telling him the ship posed a threat to Earth and they needed to fight back. He collected several samples of deadly viruses and also posed as Jonathan's spirit to manipulate Clark into killing Lionel, though Clark figured it out. Lex worked with Brainiac on a project that could inoculate humanity from all diseases, but when it was done, Brainiac injected Lex with it, giving him Kryptonian powers. He also unleashed a computer virus that affected every major city on Earth and caused widespread electrical disturbances and chaos. Clark had a dagger to destroy Zod's vessel, but couldn't kill Lex, so he impaled Brainiac on it. Brainiac then used it to access the Fortress and released Zod into Lex's body, fulfilling his mission before being destroyed alongside all his copies. Boy, this guy sure was a gigantic pain in Clark's ass, and a very threatening villain too."
All nodded at that as Wade said. "And we aren't even done with him yet. In Season 6, Zod tried to use Brainiac's black box, in which he was still active, to turn Earth into Krypton. But Clark arrived and used Heat Vision to destroy the black box, though Lex got a piece and was told it was a very powerful supercomputer which could be a weapon in the wrong hands. A Zoner turned it to ash though."
All sighed in relief until Wade said. "We aren't done!"
All looked horrified as Wade continued. "In Season 7, the ashes turned into Brainiac's liquid form and was kept in a container and subdued with green Kryptonite. A fight between Clark and a super-powered Lana broke it and then Brainiac was released again, though right now he wasn't all powerful like before and had to feed on minerals to sustain himself. When Bizarro approached him, asking how to fix his weakness to sunlight, Brainiac directed him to Dax-Ur and Clark as well, though he did that to get Dax-Ur's location himself, using the info to repair himself. He then turned Lana comatose and made Kara come with him, before time-travelling to 1986 to kill baby Kal-El before Krypton's destruction. Clark followed them and put himself on the pod, while Kara fought Brainiac, but he shifted places with her and sent her to the Phantom Zone, before returning with Clark. He then killed Edward Teague and whe questioned about it, fought Clark and told Lex he was supposed to stop the Traveler. Chloe tried to take him down with green Kryptonite, not knowing he was Brainiac in disguise, and he almost took her down but her powers saved her and absorbed a piece of him, weakening him. Clark located him on an electrical plant, where he was trying to restore himself. Clark told him to let Lana and Chloe go and bring back Kara, but he taunted Clark by saying he couldn't kill him. Clark rationalized that Brainiac wasn't actually a living thing and took him down, freeing Lana and Chloe from his grip at last."
All sighed in relief, thinking it was over, until Wade said. "He is still not done!"
At this point, everyone gasped as Wade said. "In Season 8, it was revealed a part of him was left in Chloe, making her super-intelligent. She used his powers for a bit, until she started to lose her memories due to his infection. Clark took her to the Fortress and purged the infection while also erasing her memories of his powers to free her from the burden of carrying his secret. Brainiac ended up taking over the Fortress again, and directed Doomsday to abduct Chloe, bringing her to the Fortress, where he took over her again and then put Davis in a chrysalis chamber to evolve him while trying to drain knowledge from Earth using computers, but the Legion of Superheroes arrived and incapacitated him, and then with Clark's help extracted him from Chloe, deciding to use the parts to create something friendlier. And that was when Brainiac's threat was finally ended."
This time, all let out very long sighs of relief as Wade said. "Man, this guy was like a cockroach, refusing to die in any way for so long."
All laughed and nodded as images of Marster's Brainiac appeared on the screen behind Wade as he continued. "On the other side, we have Indigo from Supergirl in Arrowverse, played by Laura Vandervoort, who also played Kara Kent aka Supergirl in Smallville. What an odd coincidence!"
All laughed at that as Wade said. "And pretty ironic, as Brainiac took Kara's form in late Season 7, and now Laura played a different version of Brainiac in this show."
All laughed and applauded at that as Wade said. "So she was responsible for freeing both Kara and herself from the Phantom Zone, and took the alias "Indigo." She tried to release info of an infidelity website to Cat, but she refused to comply, so she turned all traffic lights green, causing accidents. She later attacked Kara and threatened to kill Winn and James, but Hank and Alex scared her off. She told Non, with whom she had sexual relations- EWWWWWW, by the way!"
"EWWWWWWWWWW!" All the audience groaned together.
"She told him Astra's way couldn't work", Wade said. "And later tried to launch a missile, though Kara deactivated it and took her down. She tried to kill Winn as he was developing a virus against her, but he used it on her and she was taken down, or so we thought. Non rebuilt her and she threatened to kill Alex, making J'onn stand down and collapse while she thought she had killed him. In the final fight, she fought J'onn again and was ripped into two by him, though she still had deactivated a signal to kill everyone. Kara threw Fort Rozz into Space, finally ending Indigo's master plan. And that is Indigo for you."
All applauded as images of Vandervoort's Indigo appeared behind Wade while he said. "And boy was this a long intro, mostly due to Brainiac. But now we can get started."
Brainiac was feeding himself with electricity and minerals simultaneously, growing more and more powerful as his eyes glowed with the power. Then he heard a 'thud' and turned to see Indigo landing in front of him.
"Ah! You, my imperfect gender-bent clone created for Supergirl", Brainiac stated. "Though gender-bent would be a wrong term, as I am not human after all."
Indigo didn't respond. She simply phased into the electronics he was using to charge himself and attacked him with it. However, at the right moment, he created a weaker copy and sped off. The copy was disintegrated by massive amounts of electricity as Indigo returned to normal form and smirked.
Then there was a 'whooshing' sound and Brainiac grabbed her from behind before speeding off and threw her to the ground, badly injuring her.
"I caused accidents in National City!" Indigo boasted. "I launched several missiles too. I had the idea of using Alex against Kara, and I almost killed J'onn while almost killing everyone on Earth. What have you done to rival that?"
"Well, I caused Krypton's destruction, also causing the meteor shower, and was indirectly responsible for the second one. So that already beats everything you did", Brainiac smirked. "I was responsible for Dark Thursday, which was like what you did in National City, except it happened in every major city of the world. I was one of the many factors responsible for Jonathan's death, as giving Martha the infection increased the stress on his heart. I released Zod, incapacitated Lana and Chloe, manipulated Clark and Bizarro, and also helped turn Davis into Doomsday before being taken down forever. What have you done to rival any of it? You aren't even responsible for any main character deaths or disappearance. I am, directly or indirectly, in Jonathan's case. I sent Kara to the Phantom Zone. I was why Lana wasn't a series regular anymore after Season 7, you're welcome Smallville fans. I was also indirectly responsible for Lex leaving, very sorry Smallville fans. Davis killed Jimmy, which is indirectly on me."
Indigo literally had no comeback now even with all of her vast intellect. Brainiac was like a cockroach who couldn't die at all, and he had caused a lot of pain from Season 5 to Season 8.
"But can you defeat me?" Indigo snarled.
"I am the Brain Interactive Construct. No matter my form, my intellect remains formidable. Do not underestimate me", Brainiac told her.
"I'm going to end you!" Indigo snarled as she prepared to run to the electric console again.
"Impatience is such a pathetic human trait", Brainiac said as he found her impatient. Before she even started running, he sped up to her and lifted her up, before ripping her into two like J'onn had in the Supergirl Season 1 finale.
She was still alive and groaned as her upper half tried to crawl away but he elongated his tendril into her brain, sending her into the same condition as he had done to Lana in Season 7, while also absorbing her knowledge.
"Knowledge is what fuels me", he said before flying off.
"At what point during Brainiac's intro did you all know he was gonna win?" Wade asked as all laughed and applauded. "Brainiac was a formidable villain who caused grief for several Seasons. Indigo had nothing on him. Scoreboard!"
Smallville: 16
Arrowverse: 9
"Smallville still wins", Wade said as all applauded. "Anyway, see you all next time when the good versions of Brainiac battle."
All applauded again as Wade said. "Until next time."
I think Brainiac's really, really long intro alone proved why he would win. He was a formidable opponent for several Seasons and one of the best for this show. Indigo couldn't measure up to half of him.
Hope everyone enjoyed and see you all next time where the good versions of Brainiac battle.
