AN: Sorry for the delay, but I've always sucked at fighting scenes. Still not too happy with it, but hopefully it's not too bad.

Thanks to LM, stick_fight3, and SpartanCommander for reviewing.

Chapter 8: Psychosis

How did she break out? Phasing was impossible. A wail before everything went out. Was it possible she set up a bomb? No, not possible, COMPUTO would have altered him to alterations. Why was her skin and eyes different? Her voice? Another transformation? And why seemingly asked if they were thirty first century heroes? She knew. Destroy the future? Nothing like her had come close.

These questions and far, far more were running through Brainiac Five's head as he stared at the being before him.

"Dani?" Bouncing Boy said questioningly.

"Emblem didn't give it away?" Dani asked, holding up her hand, a green energy charging around it. The glow she had before. Then she turned to Brainiac Five, firing the blast.

Brainiac Five just had enough time to put up a forcefield, the force of the blast sending him flyinng back into the wall. Then things went to hell in a handbasket. Brainiac Five could figure out almost instantly why she went for him first. The others? Bouncing Boy and Triplicate Girl were physical fighters. And magnetic fields? Useless on most living organisms, at least in the way Cosmic Boy used them, usually using them to make things he can affect go to other people.

So, for the most part? Her phasing did the trick to get her through their attacks, letting them crash into each other. Get the one who might figure out something out of the way quit and escape the heroes.

But Brainiac Five figured that out as soon as she flew towards the end of the hall, not slowing down. That would lead to the outer wall...

"COMPUTO! Defense P35!" Brainiac Five shouted, pushing himself out of the debris in the wall.

And Dani hit the wall with a shriek and hit the ground. She grumbled, pushing herself up to only have metal wrap around her to try and restrain her. She didn't phase out.

Yet.

She looked at Brainiac Five. "Thought of phasing, huh?"

"It's not only Phantom Girl who possesses phasing capabilities," Brainiac Five said simply, already examining the situation, trying to figure out what exactly had happened. Dani was untrustworthy, but this....this was extreme.

"Or if Phantom Girl went psycho?" Dani asked, quirking an eyebrow, smirking widely.

Brainiac Five frowned. "If she was ever coerced into doing something bad, it would have that advantage, but it's not the sole purpose. It's proven it's worth with just you."

"Ah, not trust worthy of heroes, huh? A good policy. I should know," Dani said, laughing coldly. "Was a hero myself, but I kind of saw that as pointless. What fun is it when you have so much power, to protect the weak? Especially since it's so fun to destroy everything!"

"It's the right thing to do!" Bouncing Boy declared.

"So you were acting this whole time?" Cosmic Boy asked, eyes narrowed dangerously.

"Oh, of course. Brainiac here was correct. I couldn't be trusted," Dani sneered.

"I am not Brainiac." His voice was ice cold. What right did this imposter have to say such a thing?!

"You're Brainiac Five. So who cares if I left off the number?" Dani asked, rolling her eyes.

Brainiac Five's eyes widened. Wait a minute...this wasn't right.

"And now if you'll excuse me," Dani said and phased through the metal, kicking off ecto blasts from her feet at the heroes before flying off quickly.

"Follow her! Don't let her out of the building!" Cosmic Boy ordered, the two Triplicate Girls and Bouncing Boy starting after her immediately. "Brainiac Five, find a way to take her down. If we can't get someone with an ability to hold her, you're all we got," he added. It was obvious he didn't want to make this his only option.

But he didn't have a choice if it was.

"Saturn Girl will be best. She's being controlled," Brainiac Five said.

Cosmic Boy paused. "You're sure?"

"Danielle knows vaguely that leaving off the Five is a very significant thing. Whoever that was did not." Brainiac Five then turned after that, heading back to the lab. "Stop her. I have an idea."

Cosmic Boy watched Brainiac Five leave, wondering if he should believe him. However, it didn't manner much. They'd have to do what the could to stop Dani. Intangibility was dangerous enough without energy blasts.

Brainiac Five sent out an emergency message for specific Legionaires. Namely the ones Dani already met. He ha already a good reading on this controller. One, they have some way to watch what Dani had been doing very closely, but not at all times. Two, they had not heard of Brainiac, which means likely they were either from another world that hadn't heard of the recent incident or perhaps the past and also happened to get a ride here. Three, they were afraid of someone in the Legion.

For someone declaring their desire to destroy everything, but running away from the Legion members that intangibility would be the most effective against without even trying to kill them? Bouncing Boy and Triplicate Girl couldn't touch her and Cosmic Boy would risk killing her if he used his powers in a way that could, but heroes weren't killers. No, this wasn't about a fear of what Cosmic Boy might do. It meant they were avoiding someone. They didn't want to be delayed enough for them to show up.

Someone who could stop them.

But for the moment, he needed a way to restrain Dani. He had just the idea for it too.

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It was a disaster area. Scorch marks covered the halls and rooms, metal bending all over from the walls and ceiling, every piece of furniture broken. Those fighting weren't much better. The heroes were covered in scorch marks from blasts and cuts from when they hit the more ragged walls. Dani, while scorch free, her several cuts bleeding green.

"You three...or five...really want to tempt fate. How long till I hit something vital?" Dani asked with a wide smirk.

"You aren't exactly one hundred percent," Bouncing Boy shot back.

"These little cuts? Please," she scoffed. She wiped away some of the green blood of a smaller cut, the wound already healed up. "It'll take something deeper than that to make any real headway."

"How about something nervous system deep?" A new voice taunted.

Dani's eyes widened, whipping around only to be hit with a full blast of electricity.

"Saturn Girl!" Cosmic Boy shouted. "Read my mind!"

"Understood!" Saturn Girl said a moment later.

"What's the rush? She's down," Lightning Lad said confidently.

"Please..." Dani said, pushing herself up from where she had hit the ground. "Lightning only does so much against me." However, she looked more wary now, eyes glancing to Saturn Girl quite often. "I believe it might be time for me to leave."

Then she made a break for the doorway Lightning Lad and Saturn Girl had arrived through, before something caught on her foot, jerking her back. She glared back. "You!" She hissed.

Brainiac Five was standing from the direction of the lab, holding onto a metal looking rope that was connected to Dani's foot like a lasso, bracing himself against one of the metal plates Cosmic Boy had pulled up. "You didn't think I was taken out that easily, did you?" Brainiac Five asked with a slight smirk. He had been able to cut out some of the material that had made Dani's cell into a makeshift rope. One she couldn't phase through.

Dani grabbed the rope, flying back and jerking it off her foot. "I knew you would be a pain!" She growled, firing an ecto blast at him as he jumped to the side, just avoiding the attack.

"I understand!" Saturn Girl said with a look of sudden understanding.

Dani froze, her eyes looking back. "You...you can't...."

"I do!" Saturn Girl said, a confident grin forming on her face. "And I'll tell. She can be bea-"

"Silence!" Dani shouted, more than just the word forming as a wail left her mouth, along with green energy that slammed into Saturn Girl.

"Imra! You...." Lightning Lad turned the lightning canon on Dani, Cosmic Lad sending another sheet of metal at her.

Dani phased through the metal, avoiding the lightning. "Really, you'd think you'd lea-what the?!" Dani yelped as two Triplicate Girls jumped down at her from above, and flying below to wrap the rope Brainiac Five brought around her before Bouncing Boy slammed her down in the ground.

"You're not gonna get away with that," Bouncing Boy said, pinning her to the ground.

"What does it matter?! Like you can stop me for long!" Dani growled.

"Oh yeah? Well, Saturn Girl gave a nice telepathic message. Something about human blood being bad?" Bouncing Boy said with a grin and pressed his hand over the CW marking on her stomach, his hand already cut.

Dani went still, her red eyes widening. "That...stupid girl...." she gasped as the red liquid was absorbed and vanished into her skin before she fell unconscious, reverting from Ghost Mode to human.

"....kind of creepy that worked," Bouncing Boy said, getting off Dani, two Triplicate Girls working to tie her up properly, the third looking over his hand.

"Imra!" Lightning Lad shouted, rushing over to her unconscious form. "...she...she went into a healing trance."

"She was hurt that badly from a short sonic blast?" Cosmic Boy asked, looking worried.

"Bring her to the Medical," Brainiac Five said. "Triplicate Girl, Bouncing Boy, can you bring Danielle as well?"

"No way! We're not brining that lunatic there!" Lightning Lad protested. "Not with Saturn girl this hurt!"

"It wasn't Danielle," Brainiac Five said. "She was possessed. Cosmic Boy told Saturn Girl to go into her mind. Something was controlling her. Whoever possessed Danielle knew Saturn Girl would know the trick to beat them. She took advantage of that and provoked them to attack her for Triplicate Girl and Bouncing Boy to get in close," he explained as he led the way to Medical, a Triplicate Girl carrying Danielle, Lightning Lad with Saturn Girl.

"But we're keeping Danielle restrained to be on the safe side," Cosmic Boy added.

"That would be best. It was an odd trick. We should hear what Saturn Girl found out exactly before Danielle is allowed out of her bonds. We'll be using the ropes. It's made of what her cell is. She knows a trick around forcefields." Which really confused him. Danielle was from the past. Forcefields shouldn't be COMMON enough for her to figure out a trick that would work with them, let alone his work.

But things would only get weird. After he got them to Medical, he left Triplicate Girl to tie up Danielle and went to work on seeing what exactly the damage was on Saturn Girl.

The results had been very unexpected.

"That shouldn't be possible..." Brainiac Five said.

"What? What is it?!" Lightning Lad asked, looking worried.

"Her ear drums...they're fine. Maybe they'll be ringing when she wakes up, but there's been no permanent damage. Or even much temporary. It's like all she got was a bull horn to them. It shouldn't be that little with a sound based attack that strong," Brainiac Five said.

"But she went into the trance. It has to be more than that," Lightning Lad said.

"I know," Brainiac Five said and looked over the other readings. "What...? How does that work?"

"What?"

"She's....it's like she's been fighting a lot longer than she has been. Her energy is drained significantly and the damage to her mind...it's like when Esper hit her after we came back from the 41st century. But a lesser degree," he added at Lightning Lad's worried and angry look. "But Psychic Attacks...don't usually take the form of wails. And it was a physical thing on top of that..."

"Will she be all right?"

He nodded. "She'll be fine. She's been in worse shape, but rather than the fact she SHOULDN'T have reading like this from that sort of attack, it's not readings that are abnormal for her to recover from."

Lightning Lad visibly relaxed then. She'd recover. That was the important part. Then he shot a glare at Dani. "What about her?"

"I told you, she was possessed then. She was lacking information she should have known," Brainiac Five said, going over to check Dani's readings. "....though it seems a common theme that readings aren't normal with her."

"Why?" Triplicate Girl asked, looking over his shoulder.

"Because it looks like what should be an unconscious mind is working off the charts," Brainiac Five said, looking at Dani. What is it she was still fighting her possessor? But why was it they had trouble now?

What had the blood done to her?