A/N: christlover, this chapter is for you! Thanks for reviewing!

Disclaimer: Sadly, I don't own LOSH. I really wish I did. Maybe if I sing that Disney song… yeah, probably not. I do own Alariah, DC isn't crazy enough to create a nut like him. I am.

"C'mon Brainy! Where are you?" Lightning Lad yelled. They had been searching for the boy for over an hour. It had become more of hide-and-seek, and less of tag.

"Saturn Girl, do you sense his brain waves?" Asked Cosmic Boy.

"No." She replied. She was obviously worried about the boy. She was the only one he had trusted so far.

"Guys! I found him!" Yelled Kell. They ran over to him to see Brainy curled up in a corner sleeping, his little thumb in his mouth.

"Awwwww…" said Phantom Girl. "He looks so cute sleeping like that!"

Saturn Girl lifted him up, brought him to his room, and tucked him in. "Goodnight Brainy." She said.

"Goodnight mother." A small, sleepy voice said from the bed.

Saturn Girl walked into the lounge. She had just finished her part of the night shift and she was more than ready to get some shut-eye. She found Phantom Girl in the lounge, sipping some coffee.

"Couldn't sleep?" Asked Saturn Girl.

"Yeah. It's been a long, crazy day." She replied.

Saturn Girl smiled. "For you and me both."

"Hey, Saturn Girl?"

"Hmm?"

"Do you know why Brainy seems to be scared of everything?"

"It probably has something to do with his upbringing on Colu."

"Oh."

They sat in silence for a minute before Saturn Girl spoke.

"Phantom Girl?"

"Yeah?"

"I think Brainy thinks I'm his mom."

"What?!"

"Shhh! Don't wake everyone!"

"Sorry. What makes you think that?"

"When I got him to his room I tucked him in and told him goodnight and he replied with 'goodnight mother'." She looked worried, she wasn't ready to be a mother.

"You'll do fine. Besides, when he first joined the Legion you were sort of like a mom for him. You taught him how to tolerate the others, especially Lightning Lad." Phantom Girl snickered at that last part, and Saturn Girl stifled a laugh.

"I told him we were his family. I didn't think he'd take it that literally though." Saturn Girl sighed. She didn't know what to do.

"Well, sleep on it. In the morning if he still thinks that you're his mom, you can decide to either tell him you're not or explain it to him that you will be his mom, but you're not his actual mother." Phantom Girl said.

"Do you think he'll understand that?" Saturn Girl asked.

"The kid has a twelfth level intelligence, I think he'll be fine." Phantom Girl replied. "See ya in the morning."

"Yeah. See ya." Saturn Girl said, then drowsily walked to her room, and flopped down on her bed.

Brainy woke up to unfamiliar surroundings in an unfamiliar building on an unfamiliar world. It took him a minute to realize where he was, and he almost panicked, then he remembered: he woke up in a strange lab, and heard someone banging on the door. No, banging down the door. He saw that it was an Ilearian so he made a run for it, but the Ilearian found him. He didn't know why he was surprised, it was inevitable. Then a blonde lady came and tried to calm him down, but the Ilearian wouldn't leave and he just got more and more scared. Finally he came out, met her friends, and went to sleep in the hallway. He didn't know how he ended up in this room, but there was a bathroom attached to it, so he decided to go get ready for the day.

He found some new clothes outside the closet, so he grabbed one of the outfits and went into the bathroom. When he had finished washing up and getting dressed, he realized he was hungry. He found the room with the words 'SATURN GIRL' painted across the door, and wondered if he should knock or wait outside the door. He didn't have to wonder about this for long though, because the Legionnaire called Triplicate Girl came around the corner.

"Hey, little guy. You hungry?" She asked.

He nodded wordlessly. She kinda scared him. He didn't understand how her people on Carrg could split into three, it went against the laws of science.

"Alright, let's go get you something to eat!" She bent down to lift him up, but he backed away, so she offered her hand to him and, after a moment's hesitation, he took it.

"How do you do it?" He asked.

"Do what?" She asked.

"Split into more people. How do you do it?" He asked.

"I don't really know, but I guess there's a gene in Carrgites that allows them to rapidly multiply themselves. So if I had to guess I think it would be a genetic thing. Does that answer your question?" She said.

"Sorta." Brainy said.

"Mmmm, breakfast smells good!" She said.

"Who makes breakfast?" Brainy asked.

"Sometimes Al, sometimes Timberwolf, and sometimes they do it together. It's Saturday, so they're probably doing it together." She said.

"B-but then I have to see the Ilearian again! I'm not going in there!" Brainy screamed.

The Trips sighed. How were they supposed to get Brainy to eat if he was afraid of the cooks? "Well, we can't make you eat, but Saturn Girl won't be happy if you don't eat."

Brainy looked at her, grumbled, "fine…" and followed her to the kitchen.

"Rise and shine campers! Get 'em while they're hot!" Al yelled, flipping the pancakes.

"We're going camping?" Brainy asked, confused.

"No, it's an old Earth expression. It's just when you live with friends, and you wanna call them something else. At least, that's how I use it. I also do it to annoy Kell. It's so easy to get on his nerves…" Alariah trailed off, and began talking about nothing in particular. Brainy got the impression that Al was smart, it was just really hard for him to focus. Typical Ilearian.

"Can I have pancakes?" Asked Brainy.

"Sure, what kind?" Al responded.

Brainy's eyes bugged. There are different kinds of pancakes?! What kind of crazy world was Earth? Or at least he assumed it was Earth, since the Ilearian seemed so fond of using expressions from that world.

"Are we on Earth?" Brainy asked.

"Yup. The melting pot of the Galaxy!" Al replied, completely oblivious to the boy's shock. "So, what kind of pancakes do you want?" Al said, repeating his earlier question.

"Ummmm…" Brainy had absolutely no idea.

"Here!" Al said, placing two with melted brown blobs on them on his plate. Brainy gave him a puzzled look.

"They're chocolate chip. Made out of the same stuff as hot cocoa."

"Oh." Brainy smiled. He knew what that tasted like. He took them to the table, and realized he wasn't tall enough to reach the table unless he stood on a chair on his tippy-toes. He went over to the lounge area, grabbed two pillows, one per hand, and brought them back to put on the chair to sit on. Wen he sat down again, he realized that he was now about six inches higher than he had been without the pillows. He smiled at his own ingenuity.

"You ok, or do you need sit on my lap?" Saturn Girl asked, coming up behind him. He shook his head and picked up a pancake, eating it like a sandwich. Saturn Girl suppressed a giggle. "You're supposed to cut them and eat them with a fork, silly." She said.

"Oh." Brainy blushed, embarrassed once again for making a fool of himself. He looked up at her helplessly.

"Would you like me to cut them for you? You're probably are too young to use a knife anyway." Saturn Girl said.

Brainy nodded sheepishly. She cut them up for him, then said, "You might want to cover your ears, it's normally right about now that Al has a kitchen accident."

Just then, Al ran out of the kitchen screaming at the top of his lungs in his native language.

"Xc'est! Makkar def ronn maffálak! X'hal deign Shb'hull! Kull'rek't makkdur! Nof del rhodf!" Al screamed, trying to keep his hair, which had gone up in flames, from completely burning off.

Timberwolf ran in with a fire extinguisher, and sprayed Al until he looked like the abominable snowman.

Al blew the white foam out of his face, looking extremely annoyed.

"TINYA!" He yelled, "I need a haircut!"

Superman burst out laughing. Phantom Girl had been trying to get him to let her cut his hair for years, since it had been almost three feet long before. If there was one thing you'd never do, it was mess with an Ilearian's hair without their permission, especially if the Ilearian was a warrior, and Al had been a warrior practically since birth.

"WHOO HOO!" She yelled, dashing into the room, and dashing right back out, dragging Al with her. They could hear those two bickering all the way down the hallway.

"But it'd look soooo cool cut short!"

"Tinya…"

"I'm serious!"

"Tinya…!"

"Ooh! We could even make it all spiky and scary-looking! You'd like that, wouldn't you?"

"Tinya!"

They listened to Al whine and Phantom Girl (Tinya) try to convince him to let her cut his hair short.

"I'm gonna want to see this!" Lightning Lad said, and followed them down the hall.

Brainy smiled at Saturn Girl. "I'm not afraid of the Ilearian anymore."

"Really?" She asked, genuinely shocked.

"Nope. He's not scary, just silly." Brainy replied.

"That's one way of putting it." Saturn Girl mumbled.

"I like pancakes!" Brainy declared. "Can I have more?" He looked at her hopefully.

Saturn Girl smiled. "Ok, you can have a few more."

"Yay!" He shouted.

Saturn Girl finally decided to ask the question that had been bugging her since they found Brainy in this condition.

"Brainy, how old are you?" She asked.

"I'll be four years old in exactly one week!" He replied, happily munching on more pancakes.

She smiled. Saturn Girl doubted that he had ever had a proper birthday celebration before, and the Legionnaires were going to give him one!

So, I hope everyone is pleased with this chapter. If anyone has spare time and is a good artist, I would like to see what others think Alariah looks like, and I would love a picture of little Brainy. Anyone who draws for me will get a chapter dedication, and if I really like it I may let you request a fic or oneshot. I can't draw as well as I'd like to. If anyone knows the actual spelling for Triplicate Girl's homeworld, please enlighten me, because I just guessed. Also, suggestions for chapters and more fics are welcome and encouraged! Thanks to the few who have bothered to review, I really appreciate it! Little Brainy gives my reviewers hugs!