Chapter 11: Duplication.

Like many moons across the galaxy, this one was a cold and barren wasteland, yet there was four explorers present who'd decided to explore it. Some might call them treasure hunters, some might call them adventurers, some might call them just plain nosy, never the less, they dropped down onto the surface of the moon in question.

The soil had a rather moldy quality to it, making it was hard for someone to get their footing upon it. They understood what they were dealing with and what they were dealing with was a place that wasn't habitable by human means, there might have been habitation here belonging to other alien races at one time, but they didn't know if that was true.

"Look!" one of the explorers stated whispered excitedly, he took a step forwards and saw a large metal box that was laid out on the surface of the moon. They must have been amongst the first of their kind to land upon this location and to say that this was exciting would be putting things very mildly, this was going to be the thrill of their lives.

"This must have been here for a very long time," the second explorer stated as he tentatively placed his hand on the side of an object. The object was extremely cool to the touch, to the point that frost slowly began to creep up his suit due to the momentary contact.

"Should we even be touching it?" one of the explorers, the only female of the group, questioned in a fretful voice. She was getting a vibe from the object that she didn't necessarily like.

The youngest member of the team, who was a bit of a hothead, looked at it closely with excited eyes. "Come on! What's the worst that could happen?"

"Well, it could be a parasitic life form that could destroy us…."

"Yeah, okay, thank you very much for the case of too much information about things that we didn't need to know," one of the explorers commented with a harsh roll of his eyes. He wasn't in the best frame of mind as is, the fact that there were parasitic life forms out her that could eat him? Eat his flesh? Well, that didn't really help his mood much any.

"Ah, will ya' relax already kid!" the laid back explorer stated as he put his hand on the younger man's shoulder. "There ain't anything here that's going to eat your flesh, although considering that it's you, that might be a bit of an improvement."

"Oh funny! Very funny, you're a real laugh riot, you know that?" the younger explorer stated, but then he paused, because he heard something. Actually, everyone present heard something, it was coming from inside the case.

"...Fascinating," the lead explorer stated with an arched eyebrow as he stared at it with extreme intensity, almost as if he was waiting to see if something would occur.

"It's not going to be so fascinating if that thing kills us," the woman chimed in, hoping to be the voice of reason, even though there was little reason to be had amongst this group.

"I'm pretty sure it's not going to kill us," the lead explorer stated in a halfhearted attempt to ease his female companions worry, even then, he kept his eyes firmly locked on what was in front of him. His heart was beating a bit more heavily in his chest as his eyes followed the progress of what was breaking out of the case in front of him.

There were a pair of glow eyes in the shadows, he would say that it was fascinating, but his teammates might bludgeon him for saying it again so soon.

"Who are you?"

"We're…."

They felt as if they were being scanned, as a tingling sensation washed over their bodies. Then pod broke open, it was obviously some kind of containment device and by messing with it, they triggered a release and as a result, an individual stepped from the pod, eyes glowing and hands lifted into the air. The lead explorer raised his hand up and pointed towards the individual at hand.

"Don't be alarmed.…I come in peace, we come in peace," the lead explorer stated, but it had little effect considering the other being charged at him at super speed and there was a loud bang as the explorer crashed hard to the ground. He wasn't trained to fight so the robot overwhelmed him easily.

"You aren't fit to be assimilated, therefore you will be destroyed!" the robot yelled as his eyes glowed red and then he blew a freezing cold wind at the team, which quickly ended up trapping beneath a hard shell of ice, turning them almost literally into frozen popsicle's. "Your ship provides a means of escape from this moon, therefore I will be taking it."

The robot had been created a long ago in the 21st century by the brilliant, yet demented scientist Doctor Ivo. He had fought the Justice League many times over the years they were active until Batman had managed to devise a plan, with help from Superman and Wonder Woman to banish him to this distant moon where his pod laid dormant for years. Without any organic life forms around him, he'd laid dormant until these explorers woke up.

He had been programmed to copy and learn from people, then use their own powers to destroy them. The last time he'd down battle with them, he had given the Justice League one of their most savage beatings and not all of them survived. Regardless of that fact, while the android had no idea what time period it was in, it did know one thing, there would always be heroes.

Heroes that he would have to take out, heroes that he would have to terminate, his eyes glowed maliciously at the thought of what he had to do. Power radiated from the body of this android, this amazing android, code named AMAZO.

He was going to seek them all out, as for these four….well, they might be found, they might not be found, it was none of his concern. They didn't have any powers.

Revenge on the Justice League would be it's first priority. They had to be around in some form or fashion, he would find them and then he'd show them why he was superior to them in every single way.

The android left the moon and prepared to find its prey.

Diana felt like going to the healers on Paradise might have been a bit less nerve racking of an experience than this. Although to be fair, Chloe was right, this didn't hurt too much, in fact, she could think of many things that were far worse than what she was being put through right about now. Be that as it may, the most nerve racking part of this was the questions that were currently going through her mind. She was glad that Harry and Kara were both here with her, because it allowed her some solace.

"Don't worry Diana," Harry told the Amazon and she smiled as she looked at him, his hand was gripping her right hand firmly, while Kara was gripping her left firmly on the opposite side.

"I'm pretty sure that I'm fine, I feel fine, but…."

"...Appearances can be deceiving," Karen stated and Diana couldn't help but smile at her, it was strange to be meeting an older version of one of her best friends and lovers, but she had seen weirder. So she was going to take this meeting in stride.

"I didn't really think that I'd see you again," Diana remarked carefully to Harry and he offered her a teasing smile.

"So you doubted that I'd come back after dealing with things in the Forbidden Zone, even though I said that I would?" Harry asked her and Diana flushed in embarrassment. That wasn't what she meant and the Amazon Princess thought that she stuck her foot deep into her mouth.

"No, I never doubted that, but…. at the same time, it's was really hard not to imagine what would have happened if you failed. You told me about your mission and during my time in Man's World, I looked for you, but I found nothing. I'd been sealed out of the Zone so I assumed…."

"...You assumed that I had either been destroyed or made a noble sacrifice?" Harry offered to her and Diana nodded in affirmation. "Well, I don't know how noble my sacrifice was, but yes, I made one and I had to, in order to keep them at bay. Magic isn't forever though and I did come back."

"So far, the first round of tests are coming up clean, Harry touching you seems to have gotten your systems working again. Wow, that sounded a whole hell of a lot dirtier out loud than I thought it did in my head," Chloe stated as Luornu walked in to get herself a snack, she smiled at Harry, Kara, and Karen, glad that all of them returned safely from their last mission. She had huge crushes on all of them, but hadn't been able to act on that fact just yet.

Not because of any lack of wanting or any nervousness, but the fact that it seemed like one thing came up right after another, that was part and parcel of life as a member of the Legion thought. That said, she was still pretty despondent that she missed her opportunity on their beach day.

"So far, so good," Kara said encouragingly. "Oh, you're going to have to tell me about your time with the Justice League…."

"Oh, yes please!...I mean...well, it'd be interesting to have a first person account. Chloe left the first version of the JL, you know the Oliver Queen lead version? Although, I guess that wasn't the real Justice League, it was more a collect of ragtag misfits," Imra adding from where as she leaned against a nearby wall, her inner fan girl coming out to play.

"That's as good as a description of that particular League as any," Chloe idly said from were she was monitoring Diana's vital signs. They all looked to be pretty good, perfect even, then again, she was supposed to be the pinnacle of health and skill, being the wonderful woman that she was. The blonde then narrowed her eyes as she carefully double checked everything.

"Knowing Circe, there's always the chance that she'd turn me back into Clay after a certain amount of time had past, just to screw with me," Diana said and Harry raised an eyebrow at that.

"We've got trouble!" Nuru called from the next room and Chloe turned her head slightly towards the younger blonde.

"What is it this time, another premonition?" Chloe asked and there was a bit of a momentary pause, before the other blonde shook her head.

"No, it's actually something that came out of Zone 51," Nuru said and there were a lot of horrified looks shared between the members of the Legion, strangely, Diana looked particularly horrified by this news as well.

Harry knew that he was going to regret asking this, but since he was Harry Fucking Potter, he was going to ask anyway, because that's kind of what he did.

"So, I know that I'm going to regret asking this, but what exactly is Zone 51?" Harry asked and Diana looked at him for a long moment, before she decided to give him an explanation.

"Zone 51 was a location...where, Superman, Batman and myself had to trap a dangerous threat that nearly brought about the destruction of the entire Justice League," Diana explained to him, her tone indicating just how dire the situation in question was. "It was an android….an amazing Android….hence the name AMAZO, who could replicate the powers and abilities of anyone that he touched."

"I see," Harry answered, well he kind of saw, but science was far from his strong suit. That was neither here, nor there however. "So if this...android...breaks out of where you have him held, bad things will happen in the aftermath."

"Bad things is putting it mildly, but yes, it wouldn't be good for any of us," Diana said as she looked towards the Legion, and found herself glad for the fact they were able to pick up on her urgency.

Imra took charge as only this blonde female could, her lips curled into a smile then she began to speak. "Well, we'll proceed with caution, but we need to intercept it before it does any damage."

"Yes, we know..." Kara started to say, only to quickly clam up when Diana when gave her a stern look.

"She's right, in the past the android managed to absorb the powers of the entire Justice League," she reminded them and there were nods all around to indicate they understood. "Zone 51 was the safest place in the universe to store it's prison at the time, it should have been extremely difficult if not impossible for it to break out."

"Trust me when I say that the impossible is often very possible," Harry reminded her and Diana nodded at his words, she was not going to argue with him as he tended to be correct with an alarming frequency.

"Something's coming, I'll see if it's friendly or not," Chloe said as she turned her attention to the Legion computer and the blipping beacon that flashed across it.

The beacon was kind of eerie the way that it was doing so currently.

"Team, let's gear up and move out," Harry said and Imra opened her mouth to protest, but then she closed it. She was about to say the same thing that Harry did, so it'd be kind of useless to protest and a lot easier to just roll with the punches instead.

Imra, Luornu, Nura, Salu, Kara, Karen, and Harry were the ones going on the mission. Diana wanted to come along, but Harry convinced her that there was one final round of testing that she had to undergo. And she agreed, not wanting to become a liability to the team even though her warrior spirit ached for some action, she would get her chance all too soon.

She had given them a detailed account of what to expect when they went up against this AMAZO, so it wasn't like she wasn't helping with the mission. Far to the contrary in fact, she was able to lead them in the right direction and it was Harry's hope that they wouldn't mess things up.

"On your toes everyone," Karen whispered, she knew that they might be walking into an ugly situation.

"Yes, we know, this isn't our first mission," Imra tried to say calmly, but she was tense as tense could be. Thankfully Harry was able to give her strength by gently grabbing onto her hand; she had no idea if she could have held it together otherwise. She could not hear any outside thoughts at, all which never was a good omen.

"All you girls will do fine, you've been at this for a long time and after Parasite…."

"Eww don't remind me of that creep," Salu said with a shiver, she felt dirty just thinking about her adventure with that creep, although calling it an adventure….well, that was the epitome of using the wrong terminology.

Harry looked at her for a moment. "I know, but….."

"...The ship should be there somewhere," Chloe advised them over a view screen, Harry smiled at her with a raised eyebrow, but said nothing, although he was thinking many things. The one thing that he was thinking was that obviously the ship would have to be here somewhere, there wasn't a shadow of a doubt in his mind that it had to be somewhere. "Yes, I know...but….you've got to figure out…."

Karen shushed them all as she craned her head, then she saw the sleek android in the distance. His eyes glowed and he had a misshapen head, but lack of good looks didn't mean that he wasn't pretty competent in his own right.

"So, you are the heroes that you were sent to face me, I find myself rather underwhelmed," AMAZO stated and Imra tried to grab hold of it's thought patterns, but she found nothing. Which was to be expected given that she was going up against an android.

"Trust me, the feeling is mutual," Salu said as she looked at him, bracing herself for what was to come next.

It opened with a blast of Super breath in an an attempt to freeze them in their tracks and the group scattered, dodging out of the way. It was obvious that the robot was trying to take them down quickly.

"So, he can do anything that Superman could?" Karen questioned and she waited for the nods of confirmation, before speaking once more. "Good."

She reared back her head and then blasted him with a full force punch to the head. The android slid back several feet, but it easily blocked her follow up attack. Karen couldn't but grimace when it grabbed her by the elbow, then hurled her into the distance.

"It can calculate our actions before we can make them," Salu said as she narrowly dodged a beam that shot out towards her from the robots chest.

"I am far more than AMAZO ever was! The Justice League didn't tell you the entire story, did they? Or perhaps Batman and Superman kept it a secret from them until their dying day, not even their pet Amazon knew the truth," the android said viciously.

"Do any of you want to field this one?" Kara asked, she wondered what in the hell they were dealing with. Diana said that this was advanced AI, but the mouth on him seemed to indicate that it was far more than an advanced AI.

"Well, off the top of my head, I think someone might done the fusion dance with AMAZO," Chloe suggested. That statement went over about as well as she expected, which wasn't well at all, all things considered.

"Let me spell it out for you, my name is Corben, John Corben to be exact, but I'm probably better known as Metallo. I went around the bend a few times with the Man of Steel and his little playmates in the Justice League," Corben said as he stared them down. The group waited and watched to see what was going to happen next. "And you little children in this….Legion of Super Heroes aren't going to be a match of me, aren't you just Superman's fan club or something?"

He'd obviously gotten some information on board the ship.

"So, now you're supposed to be this AMAZO character?" Kara said as she struck a heroic pose with her hands on her hips. "I can't say I'm really impressed by you."

"Well, I honestly give a shit about what you think, love," Corben retorted as he stared them down, with glowing red eyes.

'Hit him high, hit him low, hit him everywhere at once, he can't multi-task,' Harry thought to them after doing some rapid calculations in his head.

'Unless he absorbs my powers,' Luornu thought to him and Harry closed his eyes in frustration, he hadn't factored that into his plans and he should have.

'Must you be such a downer….never mind, we can work with it. Luornu stay back and act as support, the rest of you…take him down, but don't stay in one place too long,' Harry said, doing what he did best and that was lead them.

Kara vaulted forwards in a somersault, but her leg was caught in mid air.

"I'm sorry love, am I still not impressing you?" the man-machine hybrid asked as spun three hundred and sixty degrees, before sending her flying.

Karen was the next one up and she nearly took his head off with a punch, but he dodge back at the last second, then kicked her away from him.

"This android of Ivo's was my only life line when Lex Luthor pulled the plug on me and…..well, that slippery son of a bitch finally got what was coming to him when I crushed his head like an overripe melon," he commented as he dodged a telekinetic attack from Imra as she tried to use several extremely large rocks to crush him. "You can do better than that, can't you, love?"

Imra flung several metal orbs that Harry conjured at the creature. It was a tandem attack.

AMAZO was learning more from them as time passed and Corben's human brain was ensuring that he could adapt to what was learned, it was a dangerous combination and one that pushed the Legion's back up against the wall.

Diana wasn't going to lie, she was grinning from ear to ear due to the fact that she had gotten a clean bill of health. Harry's magic had worked wonders upon her as she suspected and she was about to make her way there to help the group out the best that she could. The raven haired Amazon princess flew forwards with purpose, cutting through the air like a jet.

She'd actually gotten on the transport vehicle that brought them there and waited to see if they needed any back up. Given that they were up against AMAZO, Diana suspected that the group was going to need all of the help that they could get. It fought the entire Justice League to standstill once after all.

Not that Diana thought that the Legion was anything, but capable, it never hurt however, to throw a few extra hands on deck. She smiled widely as she landed smoothly on the ground, the Amazon princesses hair flowed in the wind as she stood to her full height, ready for action.

She saw the Legion from the corner of her eye, they were holding their own against AMAZO. However, she found out many times throughout her life, that there was a fine line between a group of people holding their own and a group winning a battle.

"Diana….it's nice to see you that you've joined the party," Kara commented, there was a few scratches on her face and Harry dropped down next to her a moment after.

"Did you know that John Corben's brain somehow ended up in AMAZO's body?" Harry asked her and Diana raised an eyebrow, her mouth hanging half open, before she shook her head furiously.

All in all, it was a bit of a nasty shock to her system to find out about it in this way. She didn't know what she expected going into the current situation, but that was the furthest thing from what she did, that much was for certain. The Amazon Princess craned her neck for a brief moment as she looked up into the sky.

She could tell that the Legion were fighting with everything they had.

"I'll see what I can do to distract it, because I'm sure that you have a plan to deal with him," Diana said to him and Harry smiled back at her.

"You know me all too well," Harry retorted smugly, he had in fact figured out a plan to deal with Amazo, unfortunately he also hadn't had the opportunity to implement it yet.

Luornu stood next to Harry and she offered this next statement in an extremely crisp manner. "Um, are you sure it's going to work?"

"I'm sure that I'm sure," Harry said to the duplicating girl and she nodded. Harry took hold of her hand and squeezed it, causing her to blush. "I'd say that you need to have faith, but I know that you already have it in spades."

"Yeah, I do," she replied as she shifted on her feet and held her head up in the air. She had to do this, there was no problem at all, she could do this.

Diana dropped down in front of the AMAZO/Corben hybrid to engage it in battle.

"Well, well, Wonder Woman, you're looking as spry as ever," Corben replied icily as he moved in to try and punch the Amazon Princess out, but she dodged his attack.

His attacks were rather varied and Diana knew that she had to summon every ounce of her resolve to even stand head to head with him. It struck her quickly that being stuck inside a clay statue for all of those years had dulled her reflexes.

Her mother said during her training that hand to hand combat was like learning how to ride a bicycle, once you learned how, you never forgot. Yet, Diana found herself to becoming winded a bit more easily than she would have been in the past as Corben went after her again and again.

Karen used her heat vision to knock the android backward onto his ass. It did a handspring in an attempt to bounce back up, only to land on his face as Imra pulled the proverbial rug out from under him, then she tried to trap him within a force bubble.

"Oh clever, very clever, but you know what? The Martian tried to do that before and I've got his powers as well," Corben stated as he phased through the bubble.

There was an explosion as Kara and Karen punched it in the face at the same time. The combined force of two Kryptonians damaged its shell slightly and Diana followed that up by kicking it in the back while he was hurtling through the air.

"No! I...just need...a moment….got to catch...my breath," he stammered sounding rather winded and flustered as he tripped over his words. Only for Harry to respond by grabbing by the head and yanking back on it hard slamming him back onto the ground.

"You don't have any lungs, so that's a no go!" Harry yelled out, sounding rather vicious.

Salu came out from underneath him and caused him to go flying when she expanded to her normal mass. She went off guard.

Luornu stood there, she hoped that Harry's plan wouldn't backfire in a horrible way for all of them, but she stood ready, willing and able, she closed her eyes then divided into three.

"Well, well, triple my pleasure, triple my fun," Corben whispered as he walked towards the three and prepared to scan them. However, his scanners quickly registered an error, there was some kind of residue on them that prevented him from properly doing so.

Diana grabbed him from behind, then kicked him hard in the lower back driving him into the ground. Kara grabbed one of his legs, Karen grabbed another leg and Diana grabbed his head. Then they proceeded to rip him to pieces. It would be an agonizing experience for anyone and it was an agonizing experience for AMAZO as he fell to the ground, a shattered and broken mess.

Harry looked closely at the remains of the android, he wondered if this would be the last they saw of this robot, although he seriously doubted that for some reason. A robot like this always managed to reconstruct itself no matter what the case was.

Imra used her telekinetic powers to hold the pieces apart and then Harry used a spell to banish the separate robot pieces to the far reaches of the universe where he wouldn't be able to reform.

Whether this would be the end of this android hybrid, only time would tell.

"So all and all, that was an eventful mission," Salu summarized with a smile on her face as Imra looked towards the dark haired member of the Legion.

"Well, if fun is the way that you want to describe it, yes, it's been a fun mission," Imra said as she placed her hand on the scrape that she suffered in battle, it was all about earning ones stripes and hell, what was life without a few scars? Without them, it didn't seem like a life worth living. That much was for certain as she massaged her elbow and craned her neck back, sighing at the thought of everything that had occurred so far.

"AMAZO is gone….although he should have never came back in the first place, those explorers were quite the nosy type, weren't they?" Chloe asked and Harry smiled.

"You and I are the last people who should talk about people being nosy," Harry offered the blonde and Chloe shrugged her shoulders as she admitted that Harry was in fact right, in his own blunt way.

Diana didn't see much action in the battle all things considered, but she thought that there would be more chances in the future. She was a bit sorer than she would have liked to be after an easy battle like that, but that was what the training room was for. It would help her to work out all of those kinks in her muscles and there were quite a few, but with time, she would be able to get back into shape.

"Don't worry, Diana, Harry and I will be able to go a few rounds with you, I'm sure older, less awesome me, over there will be able to help you as well," Kara said.

"I'm not less awesome than you! But yeah I'll help," Karen replied and Harry gave both of the blondes a "don't you start" look to put them back into line.

The two blondes clammed up immediately, although they had bright smiles on their faces. Harry decided to get another more information from Chloe.

"So…..what happened to our quartet of explorers?"

"We managed to rescue them before they froze to death, they were treated, and sent on their way," Chloe informed Harry and he nodded. "They were very lucky. Whether or not they'll learn from this experience….I don't have any no idea whatsoever."

There was something that told Harry that there was no way they were going to learn something from this. Perhaps it was just experience speaking, his own experiences, but the fact of the matter was that he knew that there was very little chance that people would learn from their mistakes.

"So you're fine?" Harry asked Diana quietly and she nodded.

"A bit tired, which I shouldn't be, but with some practice I'll be back to where things used to be," Diana said as she ran her fingers through her hair, she didn't really want to complain. There were days like this where she admired those without her gifts or super powered gifts in general, but still went out in the field anyways.

They didn't really have a safety net and the next time that they went out there it could be fatal, since they often went up against people who could and would kill them. Diana cringed thinking about it, but it was true. So as a result she admired them greatly.

"I'm glad, if you need anything, you know where to find me," Harry told her and Diana smiled at him.

"I'll be sure to take you up on that offer later," Diana said, but she wanted to hit the practice room first to work a little bit of the rust off. Then she would move onto more pleasurable endeavors, with Harry she always knew that it would be worth the wait. She had been considered a bit cold to certain people in a romantic sense, but why settle for the rest when you could go for the best?

She wouldn't want to make anyone feel inadequate, plus once Harry got his hooks into a woman, he left a certain imprint that caused them to keep wanting more and more.

"Luornu you did great out there," Harry complimented the girl and she looked flushed in spite herself as she bit down on her lip.

"You know, I didn't really do much of anything out there," Luornu commented to him, but he put his arm around the girl and took advantage of that fact to press her cheek against his.

"No, I think that you did plenty, you distracted him and a distraction is often times the most vital part of what we do out there," Harry whispered into her ear and she nodded at that, she would have to concede that much was true. "And as such, I think that mandates a little bit of a reward."

"Oh, I think so too," Luornu, biting down on her lower lip as she caught onto what Harry was saying.

'Well, looks like she's going to join the club,' Chloe thought to herself and there was a few seconds where she snickered as Harry lead Luornu off into the next room.

She kissed him furiously the moment that the door closed, she wasn't about to wait for her reward. She captured Harry's lips with hers and kissed him deeply.

She worked his shirt off and then started to hungrily run her hands all over his body. Her smile grew even wider as she worked her hands over his body and saw the treat that waited for her down below.

Diana waited outside, having caught the tail end of Harry's performance in there and it was getting her hot and bothered. She thought about heading to the training room straight away, but she kept her eyes on Harry as she let in a breath and let another breath out.

Training could in fact wait, right now she had other things on her mind that were as far from training is humanly possible.

It could wait, she prepared to pounce the moment that Harry stepped into the hallway.

To Be Continued in the Next Chapter.