At the Mission Monitor Board, the five presently remaining Legionnaires watched Eva, and Domingo, and their monstrous Protean in canine-lizard form, on a split-screen.
Polar Boy issued his commands. "I suspect the girl's heading for the Power Source; Colossal Boy, Dream Girl, stop her from reaching it. Blok, Timber Wolf, Lightning Lass and I will head to the lower levels and capture the boy and the Protean. Let's roll!"
Shortly, Eva's athletically fast running was bringing her closer to her destination, until she turned a corner and found Colossal Boy grown to titanic size, effectively sealing off the corridor. "End of the road, twinkle-toes." he said to her.
"We'll see about that." she sneered. She charged at him as fast as she could, and then she did an astonishing gymnastic flip and impacted feet-first with Colossal Boy's giant solar plexus. Colossal Boy groaned as he faded out of consciousness and slumped over, giving Eva a space to escape through and continue on her way.
Far down below, Lighting Lass and Polar Boy fired, respectively, electric bolts and streams of ice at Domingo and the Protean. The agile intruders were able to dodge the fire and circumvent the heroes, but Polar Boy took another shot at the Protean from behind, and successfully froze the Protean's legs.
Domingo stopped on a dime, changed the setting on his weapon to its highest heat-emission setting, and melted the ice around his Protean's legs. But this gave Lightning Lass an advantage, and she fired directly at the puddle of water the Protean was now standing in. The Protean was stunned unconscious by the electric shock.
"Bad dog." quipped Lightning Lass, "Stay."
Domingo once again changed the setting on his weapon, this time to particle beam, and Lightning Lass and Polar Boy instinctively hit the deck as the deadly beams sailed above them, giving Domingo a chance to escape them...
...only for the intruder to be ambushed by Timber Wolf and Blok. Timber Wolf took the point, yet even his super-strength and considerable martial arts training proved futile against Domingo's liquid-smooth fighting moves. Imagine Domingo's surprise, then, when Blok duplicated the intruder's moves with an agility belying his bulk, and Domingo was knocked out cold.
"I'm...urgh...impressed, pebble-head." remarked Timber Wolf to Blok, even though his injuries made it difficult to talk.
"I recognized his fighting style from...observations made during my questionable past." replied Blok calmly.
While Blok took Timber Wolf to sickbay, Polar Boy and Lightning Lass raced upstairs to the headquarters' Power Source. To their relief, they found Dream Girl standing over an unconscious Eva.
"I got here just as she had started sabotaging the Power Source," related Dream Girl, "and when I blocked her swipe, she broke one of my nails. THAT was when I stopped holding back."
Later, much later, the Legionnaires were exhausted from their unsuccessful attempts at interrogating Eva and Domingo. Even Saturn Girl's telepathy encountered barriers that couldn't be penetrated. In desperation, they had contacted Shvaughn Erin, their Science Police liaison, and asked her to look at their records.
"Sorry, folks," said Shvaughn, "those two's records are classified, and sealed off tighter than my uniform. If I try to hack my way through, it could cost me my job."
"Thanks for trying, anyway." moaned Polar Boy warily. "Well, I guess all we can do is send them off to Labyrinth and hope that Brainy's team is having better luck than us."
At that very moment, Brainiac 5's team had entered the space station, only to find Terlena, Botan, and Lupo inside waiting for them.
"Forza Quattro, I presume," said an unfazed Brainiac 5, "or at least three-fourths of it."
"Yes," hissed Terlena, "and no force in the universe can stop us now."