A/N: Welcome to the second chapter of Legion: Year one! Thanks to those who reviewed, I hope that you'll like this chapters and the ones to come as well. In this chapter we start to get into the action and we see couple of familiar faces along with familiar enemy. The next chapter will be better, I promise.

I do not own the Legion. They belong to DC and WB. I just borrowed the characters and twisted them around for my own amusment. Please do not sue.

Chapter Two

Legion HQ

Metropills

Cosmic Boy looked at Supergirl as they walked down the hall and was reminded a little of himself when Lighting Lad, Saturn Girl, and he had walked into the Legion HQ for the first time. He had been so full of wonder and aw that R.J. Brand had laughed at him, calling him a star struck boy. He wanted to chuckle at the memory but he knew he had to keep a straight face. This was Supergirl's first day in the Legion and as they said, you never got a second chance at first impressions.

She did remind him of himself, if he had an easier life growing up. But his home world of Braal was a barren wasteland and only the strongest and the corrupt survived to make a name for themselves. What chance did he, a simple boy born to a poor family have at making money and getting a better life? He had left, and now there was no looking back.

"Most of the other Legionaries here are most likely in the mess hall for lunch. That would be the best place to meet the people who will be your new team mates. I have to warn you though-"

"Let her see Brainiac Five for herself. She'll have to learn that not all Legionaries are as nice as we are."

Saturn Girl's voice echoed through his mind, and he turned his head to look at her for a moment. That was one thing about her that he never quite got use to. She was a telepath from Titan and after these last few years he had only seen echo's of her true power. But he would never get use to her ability to talk into his mind. He knew that she only used it when the need arise but still, he wished that she didn't need to do that all the time. He nodded slightly though and she turned back forward.

"I should warn you that the food may not be to your liking. Its Durla day and the food might be a little..."

"Alive."

Supergirl laughed, nodding. "Yeah, they do like their food... moving don't they?"

They turned and made their way into the Mess Hall. It was done in old Earth military style, long tables with stools attached to the bottoms of the tables. Their were six tables with at least forty stools attached to each. One day the Legion would truly be a Legion of heroes, so they needed the possibility for growth. The food was generated sometimes and other times actually cooked. Matter-Eatter Lad did like to cook, though you had to be careful around his cooking at times. Phantom Girl, Sun Boy and Triplicate Girl sat at one table and Brainiac Five sat towards the other side of the room eating one of his specially prepared meals. He lead Supergirl over towards the robots to get her a tray of food and himself one before leading her over to the others.

"Everyone, this is our new Legionaries Supergirl. I'm sure you've heard of her."

"Oh yes I have," Sun Boy said, flashing her one of his brilliant smiles. He was about to say something more when Phantom Girl pulled on his earring and distracting him. "Ow! PG that was uncalled for."

"Says the guy who wants to flirt with the new girl," she said, rolling her only visible gray eye. Then she smiled at Supergirl. "I am Tinya Wazzo, but you can call me Phantom Girl. Or Tinya if you really want to. The boy here is Sun Boy and the lovely fur covered girl is Triplicate Girl."

"Triplicate Girl?"

When Supergirl questioned her name, Triplicate Girl split herself into her three forms. Each one was practically identical body wise except for their eyes. One had purple eyes, the other gold and the middle the normal right gold eyes and left purple eye. Each one of their uniforms were unique, with echo's of the original. They all waved at Supergirl before combining into one again.

"Oh wow, that's a neat power."

"So are your powers from what I've heard," Trip said, grinning. She took a bite from one of the tentacled pasta dishes that she had in her tray, and then made a face. "I don't understand how Cham can eat this stuff. At least on Cragg we killed our food fully before eating it."

"So Supergirl, you have to tell me," Tinya said, leaning forward. "How have you enjoyed the 31st century so far?"

"Oh, its interesting. The technology reminds me of home and I don't have to hide my powers like I would if I actually landed in the 20th century. The only thing I miss is my family."

"That's pretty normal," Sun Boy said, Tinya and Triplicate Girl to both turn towards him in surprise. "What? I can be nice when I want to be."

Before Supergirl could say anything, a loud alarm went off inside of the building. She slipped her hand into her ears while Saturn Girl stood up and turned towards one of the monitors. Before she even had to say a word one of the monitors came out of the wall and floated over to her. It displayed the word C.O.M.P.U.T.O. before a fragmented image appeared.

A red haired man, around the same age as Cosmic Boy and Saturn Girl appeared on the screen. His uniform was a dark blue and had lighting going from the shoulders and down his chest. He looked hurt and stressed, his bangs plastered to his face and one hand up and glowing with electrical energies.

"Persuader got out! I repeat, Persuader got out! He is currently disabling the ship and has most of us pinned down. Requesting help! I am-"

The image cut out and for a second or two the whole room was quiet. Then Cosmic Boy stood up and nodded. "Sun Boy, Triplicate Girl you are staying behind to defend the HQ. The rest of you follow me to the hanger bay. Brainiac Five, is the transport ready?"

"It is."

"Then come on everyone, and that includes you Brainiac. Come on."

Phantom Girl, Saturn Girl, Supergirl and Brainiac Five all stood up and followed Cosmic Boy down the hall and into the hanger bay. It wasn't all that large of one, only enough room for two small cruisers. There was only one inside the hanger at the moment, the other one was with the other Legionaries who had gone on the mission with Lighting Lad. Brainiac Five hit a button on his pad and the docking door came open and everyone ran inside. They were up and out of the hanger within seconds, out of Earth's orbit in minutes.

"Time to destination is two hours, everyone prepare yourselves," Cosmic Boy called to them from the pilots seat, while Brainiac Five rolled his eyes and walked away.

Supergirl decided try to catch his eye, but when she did she realized that might of been a mistake. Cold green eyes met blue, a look of disgust flashed across his face. Brainiac Five may have been good looking a second ago, with that calm expression on his face, but not now. That look seemed to say all that she needed to know about him. He didn't like her, didn't want to like her, and would rather see her go out the nearest air lock than look at him again. He quickly looked away though and sat his way in the back of the room.

"Don't worry, he looks at all of us that way," came Saturn Girl's light voice and she turned, shaking her head.

"But why?"

"You see, its really his upbringing that is to blame. Brainiac Five is from Colu, and right after their last war with the Khunds they started to believe that they are better than everyone else. It is mostly the youth of the planet who think that way but it is enough. They would rather see every other race wiped off the face of the galaxy than deal with them. They would like to be the only race around so their superiority could go unchallenged."

"The rest of the world sounds like loads of fun," Supergirl said, shaking her head. She had seen if before though, back on Krypton. People of her world didn't like people from other worlds, or even from different cities. It was almost as if they thought that they were special and everyone else was inferior to them. When Brainiac came and destroyed Kandor, that feeling decreased a lot between cities.

But his attitude did not discourage her. She knew that somehow, someway she would figure out a way to help him change. She would try to get him use to working with other people, and use to the fact that he had to accept people and races for what they were. If she couldn't help her own people get over it, she could help on person she was sure.

The rest of the trip was spent in quiet. Supergirl closed her eyes and relaxed, knowing that as soon as they got to the ship things would get exciting. She couldn't help but wonder though who this Persuader was and how he got away from them. But the worry faded as her thoughts went blank. The two hour ride seemed to go by in a flash.

When they came to a rest near the Legion's main cruiser, Cosmic Boy called them all up front for a debriefing. He told them all that Supergirl wanted to know about the Persuader. He had started out in a mining colony, working hard to earn a living. Eventually though he was put through genetic experimentation that made him into a stronger worker with more stamina and endurance. He eventually grew tired of working without getting much money so he began to freelance, some how finding the atomic ax and joining the Fatal Five and then being captured.

"So how do you think he escaped," Supergirl asked and Saturn Girl shrugged.

"It could have been any number of things. Most likely what happened is that he got his atomic ax back and caught the others off guard."

"They just weren't watching the bastard well enough," came Brainiac Five's scaffolding comment but no one paid him any attention. Supergirl wanted to roll her eyes but she just went with it. Not much she could do about it now.

"We are heading on board and hopefully we'll meet up with Lighting Lad and he will fill us in on the current situation. Lets go."

They docked with the ship and carefully headed on board. Only the emergency lights and power were on, lighting everything in a blood red light. Supergirl was glad that they had only taken a few with them, any more and they would be noticed right away. They headed down the dark corridor, Phantom Girl floating through the walls until her voice rang inside of their minds. Saturn Girl had linked them all telepathically for stealth.

I found Lighting Lad, he's in the cargo hold.

When Supergirl first saw Lighting Lad she was surprise how up beat he looked. He had one hand against a computer screen and the other at his side, energy cracking in his fist. He looked up at surprise at them but then grinned.

"Sorry I couldn't be there to say hello when you first came to Legion HQ, Supergirl, but the Persuader required some real attention. But I'm glad your here now, the big buy has no idea what he got himself into trying to escape."

Supergirl grinned but before she could do much more the wall in front of Lighting Lad burst opened and a large man came billowing through. This was the Persuader, she was sure of it. He stood at least seven foot with broad shoulders, he wall all muscle and edge. He wore a mask over his face but she could still see the blue glint in his eyes. What caught her attention the most though was the large ax he was wielding. It glowed yellow and almost seemed... magical? Was that the term she wanted to use? Maybe dangerous was more like it. He turned towards them and looked straight at Supergirl.

"You. You don't belong here. I think I will take care of that for you!"

He swung down the ax at her, trying to take off her head. She managed to move out of the way and the ax slid through her cape like a hot knife through butter. She thanked Rao that it hadn't been her head and watched as Lighting Lad and Cosmic Boy hit the Persuader back with a magnetic and electrically charged beam of energy. It caused him to be thrown back through the wall he had cut through and land in the next room.

"Be careful what you do to the ship." Brainiac Five called, pointing to his pda with his gloved hand. "Too much and we could puncture a hole in the ship and the ship could be lost."

"You could always fix it couldn't you Brainiac, right?"

Brainiac Five rolled his eyes just as Persuader came back through the wall, a large beast attached to one arm while a blond haired, blue eyed man began to try and encase the ax in crystal. He wore a black and pink uniform, that actually looked good on him without being too girly. The Persuader knocked him away with the hilt of the ax and went after the beast attached to his arm.

"Go you Element Lad," Phantom Girl said, scooping him out of the air before he hit the wall. He smiled at her and when she let him down her returned to the fight. Phantom Girl was right behind him, phasing through the Persuader and hitting him from behind.

The blow was enough to hit him back to where Supergirl could slug him, managing to make him loosen his hold on his ax from shock. She grabbed it out of the air and held on to it, flying a distances away while the other Legionaries piled on the hurt. Lighting Lad, Saturn Girl, and Cosmic Boy distracted him while Element Lad began to encase his body in crystal. Persuader was strong, but he couldn't seem to get enough power to break the crystal growing around his body. Eventually all that was uncovered was his masked face, and he was screaming.

"You may have stopped me now Legion, but I will find the Emerald Eye! The Fatal Five will rise again!"

"Yeah yeah," Lighting Lad said, shaking his head. "Just keep saying that. Your going to Takron-Galtos and staying there for a long time buddy. You won't be searching for anything."

It was easy work after that. When they arrived at the planet where they were going Phantom Girl told her a little about it. Apparently it hadn't always been a prison world, at first it had been a harsh training ground for Science Police. Eventually they decided it was the perfect place to store criminals that society couldn't change. It proved hard to get out of even for the cleverest of inmates. She was there to see the guards take the Persuader deeper into the complex and he looked back at her.

"You will fear the Fatal Five, we will be your death."

They decided to restore power to the damaged ship and head back to Legion HQ where Brainiac Five would spent the next week repairing the ship to make sure it was mission ready. The ship ride was spent in quiet, Supergirl just talking to Phantom Girl and Saturn Girl. Cosmic Boy and Lighting Lad were on the other ship helping, or trying to help more like it.

When they arrived back at Legion HQ, Supergirl was excited to see the room that the Legion had already prepared for her. As they exited the ship they were greeted by Sun Boy and Triplicate Girl, and another girl in a green and black uniform. She had dark hair and bright eyes, and a had nervous expression on her face.

"This is Shrinking Voilet," Triplicate Girl said, and the girl nodded a greeting.

"Salu is my first name."

"Nice to meet you Salu," Kara said just as Brainiac Five moved by.

"You guys are idiots. This is just what we don't need," he waved his gloved hand at Supergirl, frustration on his face. "We don't need another idealistic fool apart of the Legion! She will just lead us to ruin, she is far too innocent for her own good."

Before she even had a chance to say anything, he went into the damaged ship and she sighed. Oh, this was going to be hard. Rubbing her eyes, she made her way towards the ship when Phantom Girl placed a hand on her shoulder and lead her away. She looked a little frustrated herself, but she had more experience with Brainiac Five then she did. With a soft voice she said;

"Brainiac Five in the only because he needs it, not because he wants to be here. That's the only reason we even put up with him. Everything will work out, you'll see."

She lead her too her room. It was simple but nice, and she thanked Phantom Girl before she made her way to her bed and curled up. She was tired, and she still had lots to do. But those things could wait until tomorrow.