Chapter 20: Legacy.

Harry could feel trouble brewing on the horizon. This gut feeling was proven to be true when there was a flash of light that nearly blinded himself and the girls, who were standing around him. There was one thing that they could all agree on, the tension could be cut with a knife. Harry stepped forward to intercept whatever exited from the portal in case it ended up being dangerous.

Karen was about ready to stop him, but she decided not to, instead hung back and watched the portal with wide eyes. Her face contorting into somewhat of a shocked look as she leaned forward. Her mind was….well, it was running wild.

"What is it?" she mouthed, but much to her disappointment Harry didn't answer that question right away. As it turned out, he didn't need to answer.

A tall and statuesque female stepped out of the portal. She had shoulder length dark hair that framed her face alluring and a set of blazing blue eyes that locked forward onto them. Her soft face with it's high cheek bones had a determined look to it and there was a murderous look in her eyes. It was almost horrifying to see that look in them since it looked like she was about ready to burn through right through them. Harry in particular could see something familiar in her harsh expression.

The top that she wore was a black half shirt that wrapped firmly around her D-Cup breasts, but left her her toned stomach bare. Particularly noticeable was the silver "S" shield etched upon it. A pair of skin tight black pants seemed to have literally been molded around her ample ass, and showed off that in addition to an amazing posterior, she had a dazzling pair of legs that seemed to stretch on for miles.

"Hello?" Imra asked taking a tentative step forward. The woman walked forward to close the distance between them, and kept her eyes locked upon Harry's as if she was trying to stare him down. It was a bit unsettling that she still hadn't saying anything yet.

"Who are you?" Chloe asked and Karen did a double take as she got a good look at the woman's features from close up. She looked like a younger version of her Aunt Lara, only she had dark hair.

"My name is Cir-El," she said to them in a calm voice. "I have come from the distant future to warn you that there is a threat coming that will affect the past, present, and future. Despite your best efforts to stop it, the Legion has failed."

"Well, that's reassuring," Diana muttered dryly with a shake of her head. Her blue eyes snapped forward as she fixed her gaze upon the woman in front of her. "And what exactly would those best efforts be?"

The girl answered in a crisp and cool voice. "You fought him and failed. His rule transcends time."

She took a step forward and Harry raised an eyebrow at her. Judging by the looks on Zatanna, Diana, Karen, Kara, and Chloe faces, he could tell that they were treating this situation with the same skepticism he was.

Imra was also looking very skeptical, but she knew that they needed to hear this woman out. Although her similarities to Kal-El in looks and body stance, never mind her name, was interesting.

"Come inside then and tell us more," Imra said and the girl agreed, following them into the room.

"I hoped to arrive here and stop you from using the ring to defeat the Infected within the Forbidden Zone, but I was too late," Cir-El said after a brief pause and the reason why hit Harry immediately.

"There was someone or something else pulling their strings."

"Not at first," she stated to him in a crisp voice. "However, as the years passed, their madness and their desperation grew to the point that they were willing to accept help from anyone, and he was able to prey on their deepest, darkest fears because that's what he does."

Harry was intrigued by that answer, but all it did was raise even more questions. Which was something he was very familiar as a result of having to deal with Albus Dumbledore, answers raising even more questions were an occupational hazard when it came to dealing with the man.

"What are you talking about? Who are you talking about? Why are you here?"

Those were all fair questions and Harry wasn't the only one wanting to know the answers. Even Chloe, who thought that she had all of the answers, felt as if they kept changing all of the questions.

"I'm talking about the end of all time. When the big bang happened, they say that he was the one who lit the fuse," Cir-El said grimly. "I've come from the 41st century in one last ditch effort to stop him from taking over. He has already gotten a decent head start, having fed off of and absorbed the energies of the Infected within the Forbidden Zone."

She breathed in and she breathed out, before she concluded what she was saying with one final statement and the horror in her voice was palpable.

"They call him Imperiex."

It was time for them to return to the Forbidden Zone yet again. Harry thought that he'd already combed it over with a fine tooth comb.

'Well, it's a fine Pandora's Box that we've opened,' Alexis commented as she folded her arms and offered a scowl. 'But the energy that is coming from the Forbidden Zone, it is odd.'

The people who had been infected with the plague were gone, but there was no doubt about it, the creepiness of the Forbidden Zone remained. Tinya in particular was particularly spooked by it all and she could feel a shiver running down her spine, the young woman took a couple of steps forward as her heart drummed against her chest as she kept edging forward, closer and closer.

"Still creepy," Tinya whispered, despite her unease she was able to remain calm. She had been at this game long enough to know that freaking out would be a bad thing.

Karen hovered a few inches above the ground. Hogwarts was in ruins, in fact there were large parts of Europe and the rest of the world that were a virtual ghost town. That was even without the plague, and then there were the humans grouped up in pockets, bitter and blaming the aliens for their problems.

That was an entirely different mess of politics, but never the less the group made their way into the Forbidden Zone. It was a place still where the sun never shined, a place where an eerie fog lingered. There was nothing left standing, not even a hint that anyone was ever there.

'I swear I heard something,' Imra thought to herself, but then there was a rumbling in the distance. The rumbling turned into a thunderclap and there was a loud round of laughter. She looked up into the sky right as Nura dropped to her knees beside her, screaming out loud.

Cir-El, who stood in the background, spoke up in a matter of fact voice as Harry moved over to wrap his arms around Nura in an attempt to comfort her. Her blood curdling screams, short and disturbing as they were, did in fact cease shortly after. "She saw something that she shouldn't have seen."

"I can tell," Harry said in a rather irritated voice as he clutched Nura in a one armed hug. Coming back to her senses the young woman looked up into the night sky, which seemed to be growing darker with every passing moment. Her mouth had fallen open in her shock, but she managed to force a few words out.

"I saw….I saw…..I saw the future and it was horrible," she whimpered as she looked around frantically, before she allowed herself to sink into Harry's strong embrace. "All was there, then all was gone, and then there was nothing."

Imra was about to ask her for more information, but then she stopped herself, she couldn't force her to relieve that, no matter how much they wanted details. Her stomach had twisted itself into a tight knot and her breath hitched in her chest, before she forced herself to breath normally. Things were getting more intense and the power in the air chilled them all to the bone.

"You see it, as I see it," Harry said, he could sense the energies in the air.

"This is darker and more tormenting than…." Zatanna started to say, but then she trailed off, words having failed her and they failed many of the other members of the Legion, and their allies as they stood there in silence. Finally, the dark haired woman crossed her arms across her chest and stared off into the distance.

Her heart beat steadily against her chest and she kept her eyes locked forwards, numbness spreading throughout her body as she continued to look off into the distance.

"I will come! You cannot stop me! Harry Potter!"

Harry had lost track of how many times he heard a statement like that or something along those lines, when the person making it, couldn't in fact, stop him. It was pretty much old hat by now and he tried not to let this person get inside his head.

"He's playing mind games with you, you realize that don't you," Cir-El stated more then questioned as she crossed her arms over her chest. She wanted to find him and rip his throat out, because she knew that abomination meant one thing and that was trouble. The woman's eyes locked forward onto Harry's, before she issued another statement. "He was the one who destroyed him all of those years ago."

"Who?" Diana asked, even though she had a pretty good idea who she meant by who and she knew that she didn't like the answer, but she needed to hear it anyways.

Cir-El paused for a moment, before she gave them an answer, short and clipped as it was. Her glowing eyes locked onto the Legion and there was a chill in them that caused their blood to run cold. "Kal-El, he's the one responsible for his destruction."

"Of course," Harry said, he'd figured out that much already. Karen turned around to face Cir-El and asked her another question.

"How…."

"I won't say that he didn't fight bravely, but he was outmatched," she said with a deep breath. "He's not here currently but he sees us all."

They might very well be in the ultimate no win situation. Harry continued to look around for a hint of what was still to come, but much to his agitation the Forbidden Zone was barren.

"So what do we know fact wise?" Chloe asked, although that question was for the most part rather rhetorical. However, it was something that they needed to put together, before their investigation could take place.

Imra picked up a glass of water and drank it slowly, which was more of a way to compose her thoughts then because she was actually thirsty. She'd picked up the echoes on top of what Nura saw and they painted a very grim picture. "This man….has dominion over all time, which is strange….."

Alexis perked up with a few thoughts of her own. "It doesn't make much sense when you think about it, because if he's already taken control, wouldn't it have already happened."

"Please don't ask me to explain the inner workings of time travel," Tess groaned, unable to help herself from doing so at the very thought of it. There was a second pause as the redhead pinched the bridge of her nose and gave an extremely long sigh. "You're going to give me a headache."

"Absolutely," Kara, Karen, Harry, Chloe, Zatanna, and several others said. Alexandra gave her sister a self-assured and smug smirk.

"Quiet," Alexis snapped at her twin, causing Alexandra to raise her eyebrow slightly.

"I didn't say anything..." Alexandra started to say to her sister, but Alexis shook her head in annoyance and cut her off. "...So, he might not have actually done have anything that she says he did."

Cir-El had remained silent in the shadows up until now. She didn't play well with others in the first place and given the time period that she lived in trust was hard to come by. She had to trust the Legion now.

"Well, are you going to give us any further information?" Alexis asked her rather bluntly.

"You're a Luthor, aren't you?" Cir-El asked seemingly out of nowhere, which cause Alexis to back off. "Because there's nothing else that you could be, given the fact that you seem to be sticking your nose where it doesn't belong and trying to find out secrets that are quite frankly none of your business."

"Hey! Who are you….."

"Enough!" Kara said sharply as she gave both Luthor twins a look of warning.

"It was Alexis who started it! Not me!" Alexandra protested, but she grew quiet and fell back into line when she felt Kara's hand gave a warning tug on her leash.

"I got his memories during the cloning process, so naturally I know what the Luthors were all about," Cir-El said and Chloe was taken off guard by this revelation.

"Wait….time out...are you saying what I think….."

"I'm saying exactly what you think I'm saying, I don't have to spell it out for you, you don't even have to read between the lines, I wasn't born a conventional way. I was created by a group of three scientists in the future as a last ditch effort to stop him, but I failed and the only recourse after that was to come back to this point in time, because their theories indicated that it was the best time to stop him," Cir-El stated without taking a breath. "Are you happy now?"

"Not entirely, but it will do for now," Chloe offered as she went over Cir-El's story in her head. It seemed to make a lot of sense. "So if you've seen the end, you should know everything…."

"...Considering the fact that he can transcend time, chance are the person we're dealing with during this time is the same person she was dealing with in her own time, and therefore, he knows every detail that she knows," Harry told Chloe and Cir-El's mouth snapped open to add something, before she closed it and simply nodded.

She couldn't lie, she wouldn't have been able to say it any better herself if she tried, and she'd had to relive that memory in the back of her mind repeatedly. The dark haired Kryptonian clone fixed her arms across her chest.

"So, you were made from Kal-El's DNA," Tess said, before pausing to think about something. Considering she had run LuthorCorp for years, she was more then familiar with the steps needed to clone a Kryptonian after reading through the documentation surrounding Kon-El's creation after his existence had become known to her. As a result, she knew that there would have to be much more to this.

"But, surely they would have had to use the DNA of someone else to….."

"If they did, they certainly did not share those facts with me," Cir-El snapped at her, and there was a second where things went silent in the room.

Chloe thought that there was certain parts of her demeanor that reminded her of Lois, but maybe she was seeing things. Then again, perhaps she was a cocktail of whatever DNA the scientists had on hand, she was basically throwing things out into the dark here and hoping that they hit.

"Do you know what happened to Lois Lane?" Chloe asked suddenly before she could help herself causing Cir-El to give her what could be considered a smoldering death glare, to the point that the blonde wondered if she had bitten off a bit more then she could chew.

The Legion looked from to Chloe to Cir-El, the glare the brunette was directing at the blond...well, it looked like she was about to set her on fire with her heat vision.

"Do not speak of that about what you don't know," Cir-El said as she got to her feet and walked off without another word and she left the Legion in the dust.

"Good one, Chloe," Alexis said to the blond while shaking her head.

"It was an honest question," Chloe said to her, Cir-El's reaction to her question causing a lot more to spring to mind. "So….what the hell was that all about?"

"...I don't know," Karen said, wishing that she had more answers then she did. She knew that at least part of the DNA that was used to create her came from Kal-El, and maybe she had some connection to Lois Lane as well, but maybe not, they couldn't know for certain unless they did some tests.

Tess couldn't help but wonder if Cir-El's reaction was due to feeling some residual guilt from what happened to Lois, based on what Clark had felt. No one quite knew what happened to Lois Lane after she put on the Legion Ring, and disappeared into the future. She could be trapped a second out of sync with the rest of time where she had to experience past, present, and future at hyper speed endlessly, never coming close to breaking the cycle.

That was a fate that would make anyone scream.

Cir-El sat outside on the deck, she was fairly upset, but she couldn't help but think that perhaps she shouldn't have been that short with them, although seeing some of them brought up a lot of history that she would have sooner left behind her.

Her heart skipped a beat as she heard someone walking over to join her, the dark haired Kryptonian was this close to looking over her shoulder, but after a moment passed she could tell exactly who was coming towards her by listening to the beating of his heart.

"So what was that all about?"

Cir-El barely looked at him.

"Are you the only male member of the Legion here?" Cir-El asked, she'd quickly noticed that this seemed to be a female only party with the notable exception of Harry Fucking Potter.

"The mission the male members of the Legion were sent on is taking a lot longer than they thought it would, but it's something that could put the entire universe in danger. Going off the details Chloe has informed me of, it's about as important as what we're dealing with right now," he said and the girl just nodded stiffly. He could tell that Chloe wasn't somebody that was in her good books. "So what's the deal between you two?"

"She knows what the deal is," Cir-El said as she turned around to face him fully. "I have his memories, not all of them, but enough of them. There was a good portion that had a huge blank spot that slowly came back over time. Why did she do it?"

"She didn't do it to you. She did it to Clark, and from what I can tell, Clark was the one that told her that Clark Kent was dead and she wanted to spare him any guilt surrounding what Brainiac did to her," Harry explained to her as he sat down next to her.

"...Maybe," Cir-El said, grudgingly accepting that. "Didn't she understand…."

"I'm sure she understands plenty," Harry said in a somber voice as he looked at her closely. Which caused her to cross her arms over her chest with a cross look on her face. "Do you understood much about yourself?"

Cir-El said nothing in response to his question, but Harry didn't need her to, he could understand the pressure that was put on her. She was sent from her time into a time that was unfamiliar and scary to her as this last hope to take out a powerful enemy. It was a situation that Harry had been put in a few times himself to be honest, where no one else but them seemed to be able to defeat whoever the enemy of the day was.

"She just brought back some things that I would like to keep suppressed…..I mean, I'm not Kal-El, but his memories keep haunting me, and there are other memories….other memories that keep haunting me, none of which I can wrap my head around," she explained to him. Harry offered her a cup of hot chocolate in response which she took from him with a slight smile. "Thanks."

"No problem," Harry said, he could see that she was calming down a little bit, although that might be something that was short lived, at least from what he could see. It seemed like she had a short temper. "So….."

"I think that the main thing is that I'm just worried that he's coming," she whispered in a hushed voice, causing Harry to nod, there was really no more that he could say than that. His green eyes looked deeply into her ice blue ones. "Until he's ready to strike, he's going to stalk us, never once giving us a chance to catch our breaths."

"Yes, that seems to be the thing," Harry agreed with her. Reaching over he took hold of her hand and squeezed it tightly causing the dark haired Kryptonian to tense up for a moment, before she slowly relaxed. She was starting to feel a lot calmer due to Harry's presence. "I know that your origins are uncomfortable, but I want you to know that no one is going to pressure you for anything, including what happened to a certain person."

She slowly slipped on her hot chocolate and there was one sentence that escaped her mouth. "Good, because I don't know what happened to Lois Lane."

"Well, I figured that much, but we assumed…."

"...You know what assumptions lead to," Cir-El said and Harry raised an eyebrow as he looked at her.

"All too well," Harry said with a smile, watching as the woman continued to drink her hot chocolate. It seemed to be doing a lot to calm her nerves. "Your room is the third one down, right across from mine, between Kara's and Karen's…..so if you need anything…"

"I know, you'll be close by," Cir-El said, she relaxed, just a little bit more, not completely, but just enough. "And I have to say….with you here, I'm a bit more confident that we're going to beat him and save the past, present, and future."

"Don't get too overconfident too soon," Harry warned her, he liked to keep his eyes open along with his mind. There was the chance that things were about to pick up rather intensely before too long, and he wasn't about to let things get out of control.

"I know, I won't," she said as a smile crossed her face. For the first time in an extremely long time, she felt herself relax almost completely, as if she could simple let go for the time being. "Thank you."

In a move that surprised herself more than anyone else, wrapped her arms around Harry in a tight hug and leaned forward towards him, before stopping and pulling herself back at the last moment.

She was about to kiss him, but decided not to, fearful that she might be letting someone into her heart, only to end up losing him like she'd lost everyone else.

'So is she calm?' Chloe asked Harry through the bond.

'Depends on what you mean by calm?' Harry answering his wife with a question of his own, and there was a second where she paused to consider it. 'If by calm you mean that she doesn't want to rip your head off in sheer principle, yes….but the poor girl's confused.'

'Welcome to the mind of most females, no matter the species it's a terrifying place to be,' Imra said and that was a statement that could be heartily agreed on by all of them.

Atlee stayed up late at night, dressed in a thin bathrobe, with her hair wet.

"So you couldn't sleep, could you?" Harry asked and Atlee turned towards him and she could not help herself from spitting out the next sentence, even though it came off as a bit rude in hindsight. But once again, she could not help herself.

"I couldn't….I couldn't really sleep, there's a lot on my mind, I guess after everything that we've been through, I'm not the only one," Atlee said to him and Harry raised an eyebrow. "Although, I have to say, you're up a lot of the time….although I wonder how much sleep that you get, I know you spend a lot of time in bed….."

"Oh, what do you mean by that?" Harry asked with a grin and the red which appeared on Atlee's cheeks showed that she had stuck her foot firmly in her mouth and now indulged herself in the tender taste of the soles of her shoes.

"Oh it's just….well, it's just….well you see….it's just….um….it's just….well….oh my god," she finally managed after constant stammering and Harry casually placed a hand on her bare leg which did not help with her flustered circumstances, at all.

"Yes, it's just like that," Harry told her and she looked completely flustered. It was pretty amazing and kind of cute how flustered she looked.

"Yes, yeah, um, okay," Atlee said as she looked at her. "So….are you….kind of stressed out?"

Atlee shook her head, almost annoyed with herself. Words, they were called words, they were formed by letters and the words that were formed by letters, they often formed sentences. The dark haired girl felt her pulse race at the thought of what Harry could do to her right now and she wondered if that was because she walked in on Harry and Karen at a very private moment.

Her hand was now between her thighs at the thought but she pulled it away. She could have sworn Harry was watching her out of the corner of her eye as she nearly did something….well it wasn't appropriate.

"Am I stressed out?" Harry asked as he broke the very uncomfortable silence and he parted his lips, and whistled merrily, as he kept his hand on Atlee's bare, soft thigh.

Atlee could feel her nipples harden against her shirt and she was pretty sure that it was not because of the cool air that was going through the headquarters.

"Well are you?" Atlee asked, cringing as she thought that sounded pretty lame but she honestly could not think of anything else to say.

"Yes," Harry said as he scooted closer to her until they were about hip to hip with each other. The woman's center began to pulse with the heat. "Many times."

"Oh are you?" Atlee asked, once again wanting to face palm herself.

'Oh this is going to be fun, the poor girl might die of embarrassment before you have a chance to make your move, so I'd advise doing it quickly, 'Karen thought to Harry, snickering in amusement.

Harry smiled but did not say anything. "Well, I do a few things when I'm stressed, I find that it's a good idea to build up steam, otherwise that you're going to be so built up that you're going to explode and it's not going to be pretty."

Atlee could see Harry's hand lingering on her thigh and she imagined what would happen if it traveled further than where it was.

"Oh….well that would be bad if we built up….um you had a built up and didn't have a chance to relieve yourself," Atlee managed but then she looked like a deer in the headlights. It was very cute. "I'm sorry….."

"Don't be," Harry said as he placed his other hand on her other thigh and now was standing. Her legs instinctively parted as he could smell the arousal that came from her center. "I know exactly what you mean."

He wondered if she was going to make the first mood. He could hear her heart speed up and he could see the lust that began to flow through her eyes.

'Again, I say, that the poor girl is going to die from embarrassment if you don't make your move,' Karen said although she was rather amused.

'It's all about anticipation, it's all about the build up, it's all about the suspense,' Kara said in an overly dramatic voice.

'Yes…..one could say that,' Chloe agreed as she was feeling the pheromones in the air, it was causing her to become a bit light headed herself.

"Yes, we need to relieve stress," Harry said as she closed her eyes. "And we're going to go into a stressful situation, so….it's best if we….do what we can to have some fun with each other."

"Fun," Atlee said as she reached forward and grabbed Harry's hands but instead of doing anything to remove them, she pulled herself up to her feet and perhaps placed Harry's hands on another location.

They were firmly placed on Atlee's ass and Harry slowly explored her ass.

"Oh, are we having fun yet?" she asked Harry and she leaned forward, giving Harry a nice kiss on the lips, which he returned. She could feel his cock hardening against her thigh, as her bath robe was about to flip over.

She had to have him, she had to have everything. It was burning her up inside to be left without him for too long, the heat kept pulsing from between her legs and she was drooling for him, in more ways than one. Her heart sped up a little bit at the thought of what Harry could do to her.

"I want this," she said as she was about ready to pull down his trousers to reveal what he had to offer.

What she saw, it blew her mind and made her wet.

Harry wrapped his arm around Karen's waist as Atlee had been utterly wrapped. Kara and Chloe were in an embrace as well from their own fun. The rest of the Legion would be kicking themselves for missing this due to being asleep, although they were woken up by Atlee's climax.

"Another round," Karen said as she straddled Harry's lap, her eyes burning with lust, as she rubbed against his rod to get it re-hardened.

"Didn't you have enough?" Harry asked her and Karen smiled.

"Never of you," Karen whispered in his ear as she watched Chloe and Kara share a heated embrace and start kissing each other.

To Be Continued.