Second chapter! Not much to say about it, just read it and enjoy,
Disclaimer: I do not own legion of superheroes
Bouncing boy stared at the sight before him, not only was it weird, but it was downright scary.
Brainy was grinning to himself as he started munching on a chocolate chip cookie. What was weird was that Brainy didn't usually like sweets, especially chocolate…what was scary was...well…
"MY Cookie! MINE!" He screamed when Phantom Girl tried to take the cookie a moment so he could get a napkin. He turned away from her and munched on the sweet some more.
"O...k…don't use a napkin then." Phantom Girl said putting it down and staring at Brainy weirdly.
"I don't know what happened, Once the alignment started he started acting like this but it was supposed to be over hours ago…he came out like this…"
"Did something happen in there that you didn't see?" Triplicate Girl asked, trying not to snicker at how childish Brainy was acting.
"I don't know…do you think Brainy installed a camera or something in the containment chamber incase something did happen?" Superman wondered, casting a worried look to the youngest member.
"Probably not, probably thought we'd use it as blackmail or something." Lightning Lad spoke up matter of factly.
Everyone gave him a look, except for Brainy who just looked around at everyone else wondering what they were looking at him for.
"Just saying." Lightning Lad said shrugging.
Saturn Girl sighed, "Well it's happened, and until we find out how Brainy is stuck like this….and based on how he's acting…"
Brainy started spinning around in his chair, "Wheeee!" He squealed and everyone else sweat dropped.
"…I think one of us should stay with him, and make sure he doesn't get into too much trouble." She finished. Everyone was silent then stared at Superman. Superman sighed and raised his hand.
"I'll do it." he said reluctantly.
"Yay!" Brainy yelled, grinning like an idiot.
Everyone gave him one last funny look before heading off to do there own thing. Brainy sat there for a moment then started running around the room in circles, laughing his head off at something.
Superman blinked then each time Brainy passed him he asked part of the question, "Brainy….what…are…you doing?"
"I'm…..runnin…" He responded as he kept at it.
Superman slapped his forehead then just as Brainy was about to pass him again he reached out and grabbed the back of his suit near the neck. Brainy's feet continued to run under him for a split second then he halted immediately and went flying back.
Superman sighed and held the android in front of him and off the ground so he couldn't take off again.
"Alright brainy, so what do you want to do?"
Brainy just continued to hum to himself and bop his head around, like he was listening to some unknown music in his head.
Superman sighed as he threw the android over his shoulder, taking a guess and going to his lab. Brainy started laughing again and flailing his arms around.
"Whee I'm flying! Whee I'm flying!" He cried laughing hysterically. Superman barely held in a snicker, this Brainy was so different than the regular Brainy it was hard not to laugh.
He placed Brainy down in the center of the lab, immediately Brainy's eyes brightened at the sight of it and started exploring. Sure most of it was trashed but the other legionaries had done what they could to clean it up a little until Brainiac could make the proper repairs.
"Cool!" He exclaimed, picking up a few gadgets made by himself of course. He started fiddling with one of the weapons.
"Nyhaha lets save those toys for later okay?" Superman said nervously as he grabbed it away from Brainy. Brainy didn't seem to mind all that much because he had already started playing with the computer.
Superman sighed and sat in one of Brainy's rolling chairs. What the heck happened to you Brainy? He thought and glanced at the young android. He didn't seem hurt in any way, or even sick, he just seemed…happy…whereas the real Brainy wouldn't show much emotion at all. Despite the worry Superman felt for his teammate he had to admit it was nice to see Brainy like this, just carefree despite the secrets he held in that head of his.
Superman laid his head back for a moment and closed his eyes, then they snapped open again as he felt someone tug on his cape.
"Hey…big brother?" Brainy asked innocently. Superman's eyebrows raised all the way to the top of his forehead.
"I'm who now?"
"Well, you saved me right? A regular stranger wouldn't do that, and you look too old to be a close friend of mine…so we must be related or something…right?"
Superman stared at the android for a moment. Growing up as a kid who was always being told "You aren't like the rest of us" it made him lonely and long for siblings. Well, this was as close as he was ever really going to get. He paused for a moment, expecting for Brainy to switch back suddenly but then smiled and ruffled the android's hair.
"Well, we're not related, we're close friends but you can call me big brother if you want to…and hey I'm not that old!" he said in mock offense and Brainy snickered.
"Kay. Anyways big bro?"
"yup?"
"that girl in the pink…is she your girlfriend?"
Superman's eyes bugged out and he fell backwards out of the chair. That was unexpected.
"You okay?" Brainy asked squatting down beside his 'older brother'. superman rubbed the back of his head were it had hit the ground.
"Yeah, why would you come up with something like that?"
"Cause you seemed to be talking to each other a lot and you got along real well….I didn't like that yellow and black guy though, he's weird."
Superman chuckled, After that I'm extremely glad Lighting Lad isn't here.
Later on..
Bouncing boy sighed and smashed his head on the keyboard he was sat at. It had been an extremely boring day, no one was committing a crime, the fatal five was safe and sound in jail, and no news on what had happened to Brainiac 5.
"Come on, someone rob a bank or something, just make the stupid alarm go off." Bouncing Boy muttered as he stared intently at the screen. His concentration was broken, however, when he felt something poke his arm. He blinked then looked up and around, he felt someone poke his arm again and he looked down to see Brainy there.
"Oh it's just you Brainy, what do you want?"
Brainy didn't respond, just continued to poke his arm.
"Brainiac 5, that's annoying, stop." Bouncing Boy said getting irritated.
Brainy didn't respond and Bouncing Boy's patience was running out.
"Brainy (poke) if you (poke) don't (poke) stop (poke) I'm going (poke) to (poke) THAT"S IT!"
Both Brainy and Bouncing Boys arms went flying to each others arms and started poking each other in a fury, basically all you could see is a big blur and fingers darting everywhere in a poking war of a life time. The other legionaries just stared at them for a moment, then turned back to what they were doing.
"Any clues as to what happened to the old Brainy?" Superman asked.
Phantom girl shook her head sadly, "No, we can't find a videotape or anything that could have showed us what happened in there."
"told ya so…" Lighting lad muttered and the other legionaries glared at him. Timber Wolf sighed.
"So what do we do? I don't know about you guys but I'd rather not be referred to as 'puppy' for the rest of my life."
"I guess we'll just have to wait for the answer to come to us." Triplicate Girl said worriedly.
Meanwhile, Brainy and Bouncing Boy were both panting tiredly, glaring at each other. The war had been paused for a moment. Suddenly Brainy looked back at the group, then smiled mischievously.
"Come on." He said quietly to Bouncing Boy and Bouncing Boy raised an eyebrow.
Well you wanted something to do.. he told himself as he followed Brainy to behind the computer they were standing at. Brainy took some wires out of the back and started placing them in different orders, using his arms and numerous tools he had built in them to weld the wires again.
"Erm Brainy? What are you doing?" Bouncing Boy asked, getting slightly nervous at the evil smirk Brainy had at the moment. A moment later he closed it and turned on the monitor.
"So, have you guys picked up any crime on the-Whoa!" Superman exclaimed as he turned around and in huge red letters on the screen were the words SUPERMAN + SAURN GIRL.
Everybody stood there staring for a moment as Brainy stood there grinning proudly, then everybody except Saturn girl, Lightning Lad, and Superman collapsed on the floor laughing there brains out.
"BRAINY!!" the remaining three shouted as they started freaking out. Brainy just snickered and ran away from a furious Lightning Lad.
Much chaos ensues and later that night…
Superman sighed as he finally finished his talk with Brainy, telling him how him and Saturn girl were just friends and he was never to do that again.
"Do you understand now?" He asked tiredly as Brainy crawled into his bed.
"Yeah, you and pinky are just friends and its Mr. Ego that has a crush on her."
"…Mr. Ego? Lightning lad! No, you see he's-she's-uh …never mind." superman gave up and decided it was better brainy was advertising the truth instead of fiction. Brainy smirked.
"So what are we doing tomorrow?" Brainy asked curious.
"We're going to go on patrol and see if we can find anything to do with…well…just a problem we're having."
Brainy cocked his head to the side, "What problem?"
Superman smiled and ruffled Brainy's hair again, "Don't worry about it, just go to sleep."
Brainy smiled, "Kay, night big bro…"
Superman smiled and walked out of the room, night little bro..
So how was that? I wrote this chapter basically for fun, it really was too . Please read and review,