This story contains Spoilers to Chained Lightning! If you have not seen the episode then I suggest you do see it now before reading this... or just read it then watch the show. Also this is very long but I loved it anyway.

-Lady Protecta out!

Violet escaped the yakking of her fellow girls. Geez, they were so loud! And what was that? Asking her if she and Brainy were a couple, the very thought! They were only close friends. But would being close friends with a boy really lead to L-O-V-E?

She shook her head and sat at her desk. She noticed the Rosetta Stones poster above it. Boy, it had been a long long time since she saw them. She wondered how they were doing. She then looked at the picture frame of the Legion two years ago.

It was just like yesterday, when she had first walked into the Head Quarters for tryout. She was scared and alone. She wished she was still in her band.

Two years back

"State you, name and your power," Phantom girl's voice boomed. A younger looking Violet trembled at she spoke.

"S-shrinking Violet. And my powers are…"

"To Shrink? That sounds interesting," a robot boy with green skin and a mop of blond hair, sarcastically said. He stood up and landed in front of her. He was a few inches taller but was her age and looked really cute.

"Ok lets get this over with," Lightning lad grumbled as he laid back in his chair. The robot boy transformed into a large mecha version of himself with blasters. Vi took a step back. Suddenly the boy began to fire. The girl dodged each one and shrunk down till she was the size of a microorganism. She entered into his system.

"Hey!"

The boy suddenly went back to his normal form. Violet leaped out and landed before him. "My powers can come in handy for under-cover missions and hacking into machines.

"You're in," Lightning lad said. The others agreed well almost everyone.

"What?" cried the robot. He glared at Vi.

"S-sorry," she said stepping back, "Did I damage anything?"

"Brainiac5 always acts like that, right Brainy?" Phantom girl snorted.

Brainy grunted. He still glared at Vi. "Congrads, and welcome," he mumbled. He opened a box containing a flight ring and a commutation belt. Vi became a legion member that day.

Two months later

"Brainiac5, Shrinking Violet, Bouncing boy, Triplicate Girl, the Fatal Five's monster: Validus is reeking havoc on Mars. We need you there to assist the other legionaries now," order Cosmic Boy.

Violet's first mission! Well sort of. But she was needed! She quickly rushed to the space cruiser, eager to go. Bouncing boy greeted her.

"Well looks like someone is excited," he chuckled, ruffling her hair. Triplicate Girl landed beside him and smiled at Vi. Violet wanted to go now. She saw Brainy walking towards them. He didn't look happy to see Vi.

As they entered the scene, Brainy turned to Violet and leaned in so his face was close to hers. "Don't get in my way," he hissed and stormed off. Sure he was cute and all that but geez why did he hate her so much? Was he still holding that grudge on her? Whatever, Validus was reeking havoc so anyways she was needed.

And there it was the monster with a huge brain. It turns out, the monster wasn't that smart in fact he was completely dumb. Vi kept dodging his swipes and blasts. She shrank and entered into a computer nearby to create an electric net to capture him. She leaped out of the computer as Validus tripped and fell into the electric trap. Violet gave a triumphant smile. But seconds later she found Validus's fist colliding into her body. She flew backwards and into Brainy and the two came crashing down toward Earth. Validus wasted no time and ran off.

"Look what you've done, idiot!" Brainy screamed. Those words…they hurt her. But he was right, she should have dodged or at least blocked. She could feel the others staring down at her as she got off of the outraged robot. She let the villain escape, it was all her fault. She could feel the tears burning in her eyes as she walked away, but Triplicate Girl stopped her.

"Listen, you're new here, it wasn't you're fault, Shrinking Violet, really. Brainy will always just be Brainy but he has no right to scream at you. I'll make sure he doesn't, ok?" she said.

"T-thanks Tri, b-but could you tell Cosmic Boy that I could just go undercover…alone," Vi whispered as she looked at Brainy.

For two whole years, the shy girl worked alone, except during the sun eater attack.

Vi shook her head. That was so long ago. She still remembered when she got stuck with Brainy again during the lightning storm not too long ago. The two of them still held a grudge against each other.

9 months ago in some lightning storm

A very tired not to mention grumpy Violet flew through pipes as she made her way to the bridge. Great her second mission and it had to be with Mr. Sarcastic. Yipdedoda day. As she popped out of the pipes she heard Brainy's voice, sarcastic and rude and speaking about her meanly to the boys.

"Lets see replace the powers of the greatest hero ever with the ability to…um… become smaller, sounds like a fair trade to me," he mumbled.

Sick of his rude comment about her powers, she spoke up, "Um hello, I'm right here." He looked down at her.

"…And for the record, I can do more than shrink."

"Sure you can."

Bouncy gave a snicker.

"Ok you two enough bickering. Lets get on with this briefing," sighed Kell-El. Brainy gave him a bewildered look and Violet blushed. They glared at each other before Brainy started the briefing.

Later during the battle against Mekt, Lightning Lad's big brother, the group split up on attack Destructo-Bots. Violet finished off one Destructo-Bots or as she would call them DBs when she spotted Brainy struggling to deflect off a red-level DB. "Might as well help him, the ungrateful robot," she thought.

"A little help here!" he cried.

"Someone ask for a "little" help?" she joked.

"Oh she gets small and makes puns. Nice."

"Uh…you better—"

Too late Brainy turned and found the DB's claw clasping his face. Vi rolled her eyes; this seems like a job for her. She shrunk even smaller as she entered into the DB's system and ripped out wires and typed in the self-destruct code. She then popped out as its head blew off. She looked at Brainy, giving a snorting laugh.

"Ok…that was kinda cool," he said, making her completely stunned. Did-did he just complement her? Her thoughts were interrupted when Brainy blew up five other DBs.

"Show off," she said. He smirked. Yet they were interrupted when Garth had his arm blown off.

Moments later, Violet found herself shaken by what had happened. She felt a hand rest on her arm. She turned to see two magenta two-toned eyes staring at her hard.

"I need you in sick bay now," he said. All she could do was nodded until she realized his hand. She shook it off and walked off, leaving a confused Brainy.

She watched as Brainy slowly hooked a nano wire to its slot. This was like watching that professor at the institute back on Imsk.

"Electron Scalpel," Brainy's voice broke in. She snapped out of it and handed him the tool. She stared at him. His forehead popping out and becoming goggles looked really creepy. But that just how robots are.

"If I don't get the circuitry connected just right, the Cybernetic arm won't take," he said, mostly to himself.

"Maybe I could help," she said, hopefully.

"No offense but just because you can become the size of a micro circuit doesn't mean you know what to do with one."

"Are you calling me stupid? For you information, I studied Nural-protonics."

Brainy's forehead slid back into place and he gave her a cold stare. "Then you know the difficulty with attaching a titanium membrane with a neural sheath is-"

"-matching the mechanical bio-impedances," she ended his sentence with a grin. He looked surprised with her knowledge. A smile slowly spread across his face.

"Hop in," he said with a chuckle. Totally excited and stunned all at the same time, Vi shrunk herself and flew into the arm. As she entered the arm, she studied the veins and the wires. Nothing she couldn't handle. Just hook on the wires and she'll be done. Piece of cake.

After what seemed like forty-five minutes, twenty-seconds, and eight milliseconds, she flew out of the arm, catching Brainy's attention. He seemed pleased and he…was smiling at her.

"Nicely done, Vi," he said. She grinned and continued to watch him do the finishing touches on the arm.

As they made their way to battle against Imperix and saving Ayla, Gaarth's twin, Brainy stopped Violet again. "I need to speak with you. It's important."

"What's up?" she asked.

"Well…let's just say…you have a job to do. I need you to sabotage the cannon from the inside. I'll help you get in but, you'll be on your own once you get inside," Brainy said.

She nodded. He was wrong about her powers, they were useful and it was just what they needed. The two young heroes watched as their older comrades headed off to distract Imperix's goons.

Vi followed Brainy throughout the battle, watching the DBs fired at Kell, Garth, and Bouncy. She hoped that the out come of this battle wouldn't be like the last one. Ugh. Suddenly she was yanked away from a blast that was coming toward her. She looked up to see Brainy with a startled look on his face. "Careful," he yelled, cloaking them from the scene and still clutching her wrist. He dragged her till they reached the bottom of the canon. He then let go and began to search for the controls. They landed and Vi carefully watched as Brainy's finger turned into a laser and drilled into the cannon.

"The ships controls would be about 8 meters in. Rewire the hardware—"

"And Imperix will be in for a big surprise when he activates the cannon," she laughed with a snort to follow. Brainy smirked at her joke.

"Yea, just go."

"Gottcha."

She shrunk and leaped into the hole. As she entered, she could hear Brainy's cry out side.

"Get off of me!" his voice screamed. She knew that he was WAY to good to be beaten by those DBs.

She slid down a wire and jumped off. She looked at the hardware. Yeesh! There were so many chips. Oh well throw'em around and screw up the controls. Fun!

"I'd loved to see both Supermen do this," she said laughing, hurling a chip off to the side.

She turned to see her work of…art. Computer chips thrown here and there, wires leaking out spark. Perfect. She needed to take a picture.

When she got out, she saw Brainy in his mecha form. She flew up to him and landed on his shoulder. "Done," she sighed. Brainy grinned and turned towards the others.

"Everyone back to the ship," he cried. Vi noticed that Mekt was following them. His face looked different. More like, "I want to be here for my little siblings, no matter what."

The six of them turned and watched as the cannon exploded behind them as they boarded the ship. Vi smiled with pride. A true work of art. She could see the ugly villain's face now, all outraged and ugly. From the explosion came a force of wind that blew against the cruiser. The force was so strong; it knocked Vi off her feet. Kell and Bouncy helped her up as Brainy checked the controls. Lightning Lad and Mekt stood inside Brainy's lab, awaiting further instructions from the robot.

"The energy cloud has been released. We can begin!" Brainy called. The ship sucked in the cloud and loaded it into a machine above Mekt and Garth. A beam of sapphire light lit their bodies as the joined hands. The brothers then aimed at a bare spot in the middle of the room. In seconds a ball of energy morphed into a figure when Lightning Lad and Mekt were thrown backwards by its force.

Silence…

Through the smoke and dust came a child's cough. And as the dust settled, they're sat up a 6 year old girl with orange hair like Garth's.

"Mekt? Garth? Is it really you?"

"Ayla!" the brothers cried.

Ayla leapt into Lightning Lad's arms as he swung her around. She looked up to see her big brother. She reached for him and he hugged them both, which his little brother didn't mind.

"She hasn't aged a day since the accident…incredible," Brainy said.

"Aww, and so cute," Vi added, ruffling Ayla's hair as she laughed.

"Aww that's not a tear I see from the tough guy is it?" Bouncing Boy said to Kell. The others looked at him.

"Nope…" was all that came out of Kell's mouth.

"Admit, Kell, you're touched."

"I am not."

Vi turned to Brainy and the Ranzz siblings and rolled her violet eyes as the two continued to argue.

That night, Vi and Brainy were put on night shift duty while the others slept peacefully. Terrific….

Violet sat on the window ledge, reading Hamlet as Brainy played one on one with himself in a game of chess. All was quiet inside the room. Just quiet. Insanely quiet. Vi couldn't stand silence

"Playing one on one, huh?" she asked, breaking the silence. Brainy turned to her as she turned a page of her book.

"How many times have you been read Shakespeare?" he asked.

"Uh…47 times, since I joined the Legion."

"Which was two years ago."

"Yea, I do that in my spare time, when I'm not spy on the enemy." Vi looked at him and smiled. She got up and sat down across from him. "Can I play?" she asked. He nodded. He began to set up the game again.

"How come you never go on missions? I only heard you went on one, which was two years ago."

Vi didn't answer. She just looked to the floor. The reason was right in front of her. Brainy stopped and looked at her. He was one of those who would expect her to answer. She made her first move with a pawn.

"N-no reason…" She lied. She watched him move a black piece.

"You're lying. Is it about me? About what I said to you two years ago?" he asked, his eyes fully focused on her as the game continued. She stayed quiet for a few moments. She had to tell the truth.

" Y-yes. You see, I can still remember what you had said to me. I really did hurt me. I'm sorry about saying this to you right now, even when we are getting to know each other for the first time…" there she said it. Brainy looked at her with curiosity. He moved his king.

"Well, you could have just told me, Vi," he said.

"There were other reasons… I just wanted to be left alone…I messed up big time," She said looking down again.

"Oh… so you didn't keep with events and such?"

"Yea, most of the Legion looked down on me so I was basically considered--"

"An outcast?"

"Yea…"

"I should know that, I am one myself both in the Legion and my own home planet, Colu." Brainy moved his knight, taking her white pawn.

"Really? You're planet threw you out?" she looked surprised. Why would they do that?

"They didn't throw me out. I threw myself out. My old self. They tried to re-program me so I could become one with the Hive mind again and I refused and escaped. They either don't care or they are still looking to re-program me."

Vi stared at him, then looked down.

"I guess that make two of us. I still remembered the Legion sort of disagreeing with me being apart of this mission because of that one incident. Just to feel others look down on me, the youngest female member must I mention the shortest?"

"You got a point about being the shortest."

"Checkmate."

Brainy stared down at the board. She was right her white queen had checkmated his black king.

"You cheated," he said with a grin. He pretended to pout.

"Sore loser," she giggled, sticking out her tongue.

The door open to their surprise. There stood little Ayla holding her monkey stuffed animal and rubbing her eyes tiredly.

"I just want some water," she said quietly. Vi got up and gave Brainy an: if – I come-back-and-you- switched- the- pieces-you-are-so-dead look. She walked Ayla to the kitchen to get her a glass of water.

"Did you have a bad dream, Ayla?"

"No. I was just thirsty, that's all, Shrinking Violet. Can I have some ice cream?"

"Don't push your luck kid. Mekt told me to keep you away from that stuff till after you get home." Vi said as she poured three mugs of hot cocoa. She handed one over to the little girl.

"Yummy," squeaked the child.

"Glad you enjoy it."

"Are you and that robot a couple." Violet became stunned at what came out of the little girl's mouth.

"Um…no, we're just friends." She blushed.

"Oh ok. Mr. Bonanzas says good night," Ayla took her monkey and made it wave. She then skipped out of the kitchen and wish Brainy good night. Brainy only nodded.

Violet came out, her mind still trying to register what the kid had said to her. She really didn't know the boy for crying out loud. She fiddled with a lollipop she had on her dresser.

"Ok how is it logical that you beat me?" Brainy asked.

"Easy, it's called a coincidence. Or that I am better than you at chess." She gave another giggle snort.

Brainy put his hands on the table and stood up. He made a face at her.

"How can you just randomly beat me, a 12th level intelligence, at this? No one's ever beaten me!" Vi unwrapped her lollipop. Brainy began to rant.

His opponent stood up and stuck the lollipop into his mouth, shutting him up. "Sit," she commanded. He obeyed.

"Cherry flavored, my favorite," he mumbled.

"Come on, let's play again before you go crazy on me again."

Vi shook her head. Now that was a memory she would never forget. Especially sticking the candy into Brainy's mouth. From that day, she had become one of his best friends and he, her first friend.

She began to write.

Dear Brainy,