Author's Note: Guys. GUYSSSS. Did you see the Fan Expo that Jesse did where Nicole came and crashed it I was cryingggg it was SO CUTE!
Literally tho- find the video on youtube and go to about 2:30, maybe a little before. Jesse's like, "I can't do this alone- will you come up here?" And Nicole just walks out and is like, "You were doing so well!" And then they hugggg and I was dying.
I was also incredibly inspired, because, no, they're not together but it's still the faces of my babies :))) SO! Fanfiction time.
Summary: Brainy has to cover for Supergirl in a public interview when she's busy .
Spoilers: None, but WATCH THE INTERVIEWWWW it's so adorbs :)))
"Ten minutes until we're ready for you, Supergirl," the host of Supers Today said, poking her head into the sitting/green room area backstage.
Kara glanced up, dressed in her costume and all smiles. "Okay, great!" she chirped.
The words had barely made it out of her mouth before the small TV that was currently playing the news began flashing with an alert. Kara grabbed at the remote and quickly turned up the volume, peering at the screen.
"-stay away from downtown," the reporter was saying, her hair flying across her face as terrific gusts of wind began to actually lift up the cars in the frame behind her. "The whole area is extremely unsafe due to sudden high wind activity that-"
She let out a scream as one of the cars came hurting towards her, but a moment before it made connection a blue-and-red blur knocked her out of the way. The host, a young Spanish woman named Esperanza Lopez, smothered her gasp with her hand and whipped towards Supergirl.
But instead of finding the blond lounging on the couch like she'd been a second earlier, she saw a note.
SO SORRY! Have to go save the day. Call the number below and you'll get an interview from the Superfriends' very own Agent Dox. Sorry again! -Supergirl
Esperanza let out a sigh, then scrambled to pull out her phone and call the number. It was too bad that Supergirl wouldn't be able to make it for her long-awaited interview, but at least they would have someone.
Besides- no one had interviewed Agent Dox before. Maybe it would give her an edge to get some comments from a new superhero voice.
"If you could be one flavor of donut," Nia said through a mouthful of her favorite pastry, cinnamon sugar caught on her upper lip. "What would it be?"
Brainy raised his eyebrow, swiping a bit of filling from his Boston creme donut and licking it off his finger. "You're assuming that I want to be a donut," he pointed out, shaking his head fondly before dabbing a bit of water on his napkin and handing it to Nia.
She let out an aggrieved sigh and dutifully wiped the cinnamon sugar off her face before taking another bite of her cronut and promptly putting it there all over again. "Well yeah, that's kind of the point of the question. See-" She broke off to take another bite. "If I could be a donut, I'd want to be... wait can I be a munchkin?"
"It's your question," Brainy reminded her, trying not to laugh.
"So I can be a munchkin," Nia concluded. "Then I'll be that munchkin with the yellowish sweet crumbles on it that I never know what's called but everyone always wants to eat."
"Butternut?" Brainy supplied.
Nia nodded decisively. "That's the one."
"I think it's a donut flavor, too," Brainy said. "In case you didn't want to be a munchkin."
"Seriously?!" Nia's mouth fell open. "Oh my gosh I never knew that. I guess that kind of makes sense, though."
Brainy smiled faintly. "To answer your question," he said after a moments pause. "I would like to be a plain munchkin."
"Plain?"
"Indeed," Brainy said. "Because that's the one that people wouldn't take. I'd rather like to go through this life without being eaten."
Nia laughed. "But if you were a donut," she countered. "Wouldn't it be your life's purpose to be eaten?"
Brainy was saved responding by his phone vibrating on the tabletop. He frowned at the unknown number and then shrugged and picked it up. Nia stuffed the rest of her cronut into her mouth and then sneakily reached for a bit of filling from Brainy's donut. He sent her an unamused look but she just grinned and licked her fingers.
"Hello?" he said into the phone, then paused. "Um, yes, I am... Agent Dox."
Nia raised her eyebrow, stealing more creme. Brainy swatted at her hand and pulled the donut closer to him in a slightly protective way.
"I... suppose? When is the interview?" Brainy went on. A moment later he was shooting to his feet. "I really don't- ten minutes? I mean, I- if you- fine. I'm on my way. I'll, uh-" He glanced at Nia, catching her hand halfway to her mouth with yet another glob of creme hanging from it. "I'll bring Dreamer."
He hung up and stuck his phone back in his pocket. "We have an interview."
"Right now?" Nia asked, wrinkling her nose. "I was gonna get another cronut."
"You don't need another cronut," Brainy told her. "This woman from, uh... Supers Today, I believe she said? was supposed to interview Kara but there was some action downtown and Supergirl had to rush off. So Kara gave her my phone number. And since I am not doing an interview alone..." He trailed off and gave Nia a significant eyebrow raise.
"Fine," Nia sighed, crumpling up the wax wrapper that had come with her donut and stacking her and Brainy's plates. "When do we need to be there by?"
Brainy winced. "Uh... about seven minutes from now."
"What?!"
"Oh, thank goodness you're here," Esperanza muttered as Brainy and Nia walked in through the back door of Supers Today in full costume. She latched onto Brainy's arm, starting to drag him down the hallway. "Thank you so much for coming. I know that you said you were bringing Dreamer and I should have told you you didn't need to- she did an interview not too long ago with CatCo and I don't want to start up any competition with them, so we really just need you, Agent Dox."
"Uhh-" Brainy floundered, looking back at Nia.
She bit back a laugh at how obviously flustered he was and gave him a finger-wiggle-wave. "I'll be here when you're done," she promised. "You'll be fine."
"I won't be-" Brainy almost hit the wall as Esperanza, still dragging him behind her, turned the corner. "Dreamer-!"
"Have fun!" Nia called, before she settled into the one of the chairs littered across the sitting room and interlaced her hands behind her head. There was a small TV in the corner, and the channel was suddenly changed to show a feed of the stage. Esperanza was somehow already in her chair, looking collected and cheery.
"Going live," a voice from the background said. "In 3... 2... 1...!"
"Welcome back to Supers Today!" Esperanza said brightly. "I know that the original plan was to have Supergirl come in and discuss what it means to be a superhero, but apparently actually saving the world is more important than an interview!"
There was a round a good-hearted laughter, and Nia realized with a start that there was an actual live audience watching the stage. She felt a twinge of pity for Brainy, who really didn't like crowds, or speaking in front of people he didn't know.
Or, now that she thought of it, bright lights. Or interviews. Or-
Wow, this was really going to suck for him.
"So, instead of Supergirl," Esperanza was saying, "I have a very special guest. This is his first interview as a superhero, so please give a very warm welcome to Agent Dox!"
The crowd exploded in cheers, and a moment later Nia saw a very skittish looking Brainy walking slowly onto the screen. Esperanza gave him a bright smile and gestured to the chair next to her. "Why don't you take a seat," she offered, though Nia had a feeling that it was more of an order than a request. "Thank you for coming on such short notice. Hopefully the situation downtown isn't so bad that you need to go rushing off, too."
The look on Brainy's face said that he would absolutely love if the "situation downtown" got that bad.
But for now he was stuck, so he tentatively sat down and picked up the microphone laid out for him. "Uh... hello," he said. "My name is Agent Dox, and... I'm a superhero."
The crowd cheered again, even though Nia was borderline in hysterics at the stiff way he was speaking and the deer-in-headlights look in his eyes.
"That you are!" Esperanza cried when the audience had quieted down. "Which is why I asked you here. Tell me, Agent Dox, when did you first become a superhero?"
"A few years ago," Brainy replied, seeming relieved that this was an easy question. "I joined a group called the Legion and began to stop crime, and that eventually grew into me fighting with the Superfriends."
Esperanza smiled brightly. "And we are all so appreciative that you do," she said. "So, when did the switch happen? What were you doing before you decided to join the Legion?"
The amused grin abruptly dropped off of Nia's face as she watched Brainy's eyes go wide and hunted again and his hand start to visibly shake. "I, um," he muttered, looking around him desperately, before something in his expression switched to what Nia would almost call... conniving.
"I was... teamless," he said slowly. "As I am right now... and now that I've had a team, it's weird to be without one. In fact..." He stood up. "I don't believe I can do this alone. Dreamer... would you come out here, please?"
Esperanza looked briefly irritated, but she quickly recovered and pasted a giant smile on her face. The crowd erupted into more applause and Nia hopped to her feet and jogged out of the sitting room, onto the stage.
"Hey guys!" she cried once she was close enough to speak into Brainy's microphone. She smiled at him, covertly giving his back a quick rub as she bumped their shoulders together. "For the record, I think you were doing great on your own."
Brainy smiled back at her. "Could we get another chair out here, please?" he requested to the stagehands standing just out of the camera's sight. One of them nodded and hurried dutifully off, and soon there was a metal folding chair being set up next to Esperanza's interviewing table.
"What a surprise!" Esperanza cried, and Nia felt a little guilty that they had gone against her wishes. Not so guilty that she would have left Brainy hanging, but still. "Welcome, Dreamer, it's wonderful to see you."
Nia sat herself down in the chair, scooting closer to Brainy so they could share a mic. Esperanza glanced down at the sheet of paper in front of her and cleared her throat. "So, Dreamer, you happened to be in the neighborhood? Do you have a super-sense for a Superfriend in need?"
The audience laughed and Nia grinned. "Nah," she said. "I was in the back. Gotta be moral support for this guy, ya know." She slugged Brainy in the shoulder and he gave her a seriously kind of look. Nia grinned again. "But I'm really happy to be here," she went on. "It's been awhile since my last interview, and I think I've really changed and grown as a superhero since then."
Esperanza smiled, and it seemed a little more natural. "Well then," she said, glancing at the two of them. "We'd best get started."
About an hour later, Esperanza was wrapping up the interview and the audience was seeing Brainy and Nia off of the stage with a standing ovation. Nia beamed and waved her way toward the sitting room while Brainy nodded once and basically sprinting offstage.
The moment they were out of view of the cameras, Brainy sat down heavily on the couch and buried his head in his hands. "Never again," he mumbled. "That was the most stressful thing I've ever done in my life."
Nia let out a sympathetic half-laugh and sat down next to him, wrapping her arms around him. "You were great," she declared. "I really do believe that."
"Only because you were there," Brainy said, lifting his head and looking at her with a weak smile. He reached over and took her hand, and she could feel him shaking. "Thank you for saving me."
"Hey, we're superheroes," Nia said, shrugging casually. She disentangled one hand from his and reached up to comb her fingers through his hair, rubbing his shoulder for a second before trailing her touch down his arm. "That's our job."
Suddenly feeling a presence enter the room, Nia glanced up and jumped a little to see Esperanza standing in the doorway, her mouth partway open. "I knew it," she breathed. "I knew there was something between you."
"Something-?" Brainy spluttered, pulling back from Nia and cramming his hands into his lap. Nia quickly followed his lead and took back her own hands, smiling innocently at the talk show host. "There's not- we're not- what something?"
Esperanza looked unimpressed. "Seriously?" she deadpanned. "You're going to pretend that I didn't just walk in on you two cuddling on my couch?"
Nia pulled a face, looking over at Brainy. He let out a deep sigh. "Yes, fine," he muttered. "We may be together."
Esperanza's face lit up, and for a moment she looked like a content-hungry shark. "Fabulous," she breathed. "I'll see you next week for another interview."
Author's Note: I thought of this story idea this morning, at around 8:30. Then I proceeded to babysit and have my time completely occupied until 5 o'clock. And then I sat down and wrote this entire thing in under an hour and a half.
Well dang that was productive.
I hope you guys liked this! This is honestly one of my favorite-er ones I've written and it was so fun. I think I needed some fluff, huh? :)
