Chapter 12

Colossal Boy was tapping his fingers on the table, his eyes on the monitors. It was his turn to keep watch, and so far, it was turning out to be rather boring. He yawned and glanced at the clock. Fifty minutes past midnight. Ten more minutes before he could wake Kell-el for his shift.

Suddenly the alarm rang out loudly as red lights flashed wildly. Colossal Boy jerked upright as Phantom Girl flitted into Legion HQ.

"Call an emergency meeting of the entire Legion! Now!" she cried, ignoring the blaring alarms.

"Phantom Girl!" exclaimed Colossal Boy as he silenced the alarms. "What's going on?"

"Call everyone! I don't care if they're asleep or not. This is urgent!" Phantom Girl said, disregarding his question completely as she headed for the bedrooms to wake everyone else. "Just do it!" she added as she saw Colossal Boy getting ready to protest. "Trust me."

Confused, Colossal Boy nonetheless did as he was told, sending a call to every Legion cruiser in space, alerting all the Legionnaires, who appeared on their digital screens. Some of them had been asleep, and they weren't very happy about being woken up, but they stopped yelling when Colossal Boy told them what Phantom Girl had said.

Soon, the others at Legion HQ, including the Subs, Kell-el, Superman, and Brainiac 5, herded in, followed by Phantom Girl.

"What is this all about, Phantom Girl?" Cosmic Boy asked very pointedly as Kell-el stood with his arms crossed, both not taking kindly to being awoken rather roughly in the middle of the night.

"This!" Phantom Girl replied, waving a scroll of prophecy in front of him.

"Interesting…" remarked Brainy, peering at the aged parchment. "Is that a prophecy?"

"Yes, it is", said Phantom Girl.

"In that case, you may want to stop waving it about like that. It's extremely old and fragile; it might just fall apart."

Phantom Girl glared at him, but she stopped waving the scroll.

"Can we stop talking about the prophetic scroll, whatever's in it, and start discussing why we're here?" asked Timber Wolf from his screen.

"Yeah, what's the deal?" demanded Lightning Lad.

"This! This is the deal!" cried Phantom Girl, holding the scroll out. "This prophecy! It's so totally, completely unbelievable, and yet it all makes sense. You guys better prepare yourself for a huge shock. Listen." She cleared her throat and began reading from the parchment.

"'…but a boy from Braal, a boy from Winath, and a girl from Titan, the moon of Saturn, shall form a group of specially gifted individuals which will be known as the Legion of Superheroes. And this group shall operate together as a team to defend the universe from evil and injustice, facing each threat courageously to ensure the safety of the people.'"

There was stunned silence for a while before Sun Boy's digital image said, "Okay, so the Legion was predicted. That's surprising, but what does this have to do with anything and why is it so important that you have to wake us up in the middle of the night?"

"Oh, that was just the starter", Phantom Girl informed him. She set the scroll down carefully and unrolled a second one. "'And behold, within the Legion shall be found the Protector of the Universe, the one whose destiny is greater than the others. Over the years the Legion shall encounter many dangers and treacherous villains, but none as yet shall be great enough to finally reveal the Protector. But yea, one shall come that is named Brainiac, the Mechanical One, he who has lived a thousand years, and he who will be the destruction of all that is known in the universe if he is not defeated by the Protector'", she read.

There was another amazed pause.

"Protector of the Universe!" exclaimed Double-Header's two heads simultaneously. "Seriously awesome title!"

"Yes, it's serious", snapped Dream Girl. Her premonition once again returned in full force, and a horrible suspicion began to form in her mind. "It's very serious."

"Okay, so who is this 'Protector of the Universe', then?" inquired Superman.

"The scroll reveals that too", said Phantom Girl gravely. Turning back to the parchment, she read one final time, "'Therefore, in time, when the Mechanical One has returned from the depths of space, when these scrolls that bear the prophecies of the ages are discovered by one from the Legion, let it be known then that the Protector, the one destined to confront the Mechanical One in full battle, is none other than the Legionnaire, the Daughter of Titan, she who is known as Saturn Girl.'"

A/N: I'm sorry it's so short, but however much I tried to make it longer, or short enough to fit in Chapter 11, I couldn't. It just wouldn't go. But never fear, the next chapter is coming along tomorrow, so don't kill me. Thanks to The Violet Rose and Lillywhitecherub for their reviews.

Disclaimer: I own nothing here but the story plot.