When Chloe Sullivan put her mind to a task, she did it in such a single minded manner that it was almost scary. Three months had passed since that one hint that she got that Lois was still out there.

Was it just that then, a hint? Chloe had been asking herself that question for the next few months, the blonde placing her hands down on the table. She frowned at that second and thought that she reached something. Then it was pulled out of her grasp just like that.

'Damn it,' Chloe said, slamming her hand down onto the edge of the desk. She could see Diana and Maxima having a sparring session in one of the training rooms to the side. She was sure that it was amazing but the blonde really had other things on her mind than watching a sparring session that was going on.

"So any progress, Chloe?"

Chloe turned her head around and blinked, as she spotted Cir-El standing in the shadows once again. She didn't really want to snap at the dark haired girl, because this was not her fault.

"Sadly, no, and I'm beginning to think that this is a waste of my time," Chloe said, clenching her fist and biting down on her lip in abject frustration. Cir-El placed her hand on the blonde's shoulder in what she hoped was a comforting manner.

"I won't bore you with false words of hope but just keep at it, I guess," Cir-El said, crossing her arms. Lois and Clark….well the last conversation they had….it was rather…..well there were times where her father had a few issues that he needed to work out. Then again, Lois was no stranger to having her own issues.

Judging by the archives, he eventually did, for the most part. And good for him, even though he was ancient history a long time ago.

"So where's Harry in all of this?" Chloe asked, as she could see Tess working on something over in the corner.

"He's off with Imra and Tinya, picking up the newbie," Tess said with a smile on her face. "And….it's funny….the men in this team…..I forgot they exist, but they were here for a few weeks….."

"Yeah, and there was another incident where they had to go out and deal with because the female members of this team weren't able to handle it," Chloe said, happy to keep her mind off of the problem that she had been working on for months. "But I guess they just have to do what they do. It isn't like they haven't been sending in regular progress reports."

"That's for sure," Tess said, as she kept a close eye on the twins. They were working on a project, and she wanted to make sure that they weren't doing anything that….well that they weren't doing anything that would get them into too much trouble. And they could get in a lot of trouble, but then again, they were Luthors.

As Chloe once again got really frustrated, she took a calm breath and mentally counted to ten. That was really all that she could do at this point. Just really calm herself and see what she could do.

Karen meanwhile was frustrated for a different reason. In the past few months, Harry was working with her to try and fine tune her magical powers. There was a reason why they were trained earlier in life.

"You need to separate the logical part of your mind from the magical portion," Zatanna lectured, as Karen tried a simple levitation spell. She had tried to help out Karen where she can. "I know….but logic really has any part with magic."

"Yeah, you kind of have to let your inner Kryptonian just go now," Kara chimed in with a smile, as she chewed on a cracker, leaning back. The blonde watched her older twin and the look on her face when she strained to focus was kind of amusing.

"Trying, but not doing well," Karen breathed, as she shook her head. She nearly levitated the pillow up but it dropped down.

"Don't get too excited as well when you have a moment of success," Zatanna warned her and Kara added.

"Just try and do it, and expand the least bit of energy….."

"Okay, I think that I got it," Karen said, as she felt a bit of a headache going on with her, but she dropped the pillow down on the table once again. Then it shot up to the ceiling.

"That was decent, but you need a little bit more control," Kara said with a smile as she gave her older twin a reassuring squeeze of her hand. "We'll work on it."

"Right, we'll work on it," Karen said and she smiled, as the cargo bay door of the Legion of Super Heroes headquarters slid open, to see that their guests returned.

Imra and Tinya lead the way and they were followed by a third female. Her hair was red and cut rather short. She wore a skin tight bodysuit that wrapped around her nice features, and she continued to walk forward, her mouth open in eye. Bright blue eyes watched around.

"Wow, Garth said….well he said this place was amazing, I should have….I should have joined a long time ago," the young female commented, awe struck when she looked around.

"So, she's one of the newbies?" Chloe asked and the girl's eyes widened, as she looked at Chloe, much to the amusement of the other girls.

"Yes….and…."

"Oh you must be Indigo, hi, it's so nice to meet you," the redhead said in a bubbly voice as she nearly walked forward and hit the desk. Imra and Tinya looked amused.

"Well, nice meet you….Ayla, right?" Chloe asked and she nodded.

"Yeah….Ayla Ranzz, it's good to meet you, really good," she said, grabbing Chloe around the hand and shaking it in a rather energetic manner.

"So where did Harry run off to?" Tess asked, noticing that he was conspicuous by his absence.

"He had to check something out, but he should be back in a few minutes," Imra informed them and the girls joined the rest of the group, as they all walked over to introduce Ayla to the rest of the team.

Chloe picked up a cup of coffee, she had been hitting this hard today. She thought that she was so close a couple of weeks ago but it was a dead end.

"So, it's the real Harry Potter?" Ayla asked as the girls were filling her in. "I mean….I couldn't believe it."

"None of us could believe it at first, really," Imra said with a smile as the Legion girls were sitting around and just hanging out, enjoying each other's company.

"But trust me when I say, he's unbelievable," Salu said with smile on her face, as they went around.

"So….the guys are on a mission?" Ayla asked and Tinya jumped in.

"There seem to be an epidemic of crimes in areas where it's unsafe for females to go….even strong super powered females, it's kind of weird," Tinya said, shaking her head. "We should really look into why this was happening."

"It gives the boys something to do, and keeps us out of our hair," Nura added, with a smile and Ayla looked at her, with a confused look on her face.

"But what about Harry…."

"Oh, he doesn't really get in our hair, more like other places really," Salu said and it took Ayla only about ten seconds to really get that.

"Wait….wait…wait….all of you?" she asked, growing kind of flushed. That was really something that put her for a loop and her heart hammered against her chest harder with the thought of what he could do.

"Yes, all of us," Imra commented, without really missing a beat.

"Well, I didn't….I didn't really think," Ayla commented but then she had gotten a good look at Harry and she could feel the power that she radiated. She could see why he attracted so many women.

"It's really amazing what he can do," Atlee said with a smile on her face, as she was hanging out with the girls. "And if you ever have any trouble with your powers…..he really does find ways to understand them."

Ayla didn't have any trouble with her powers, but perhaps she could fine tune them a little bit and it would have an excuse to spend time with Harry. The fact that there were a number of attractive females here with him, it was just an interesting bonus.

And speaking of the man himself, Harry returned. Kara and Karen greeted him at the door as well.

"So….what was the problem….."

"Nothing, that's the thing, but you can never be too careful," Harry said. He had come back from the dead not too long ago, so he had some heightened senses. His powers had always been out of whack after near death experiences, but he was getting back on it.

"So, you're just chasing ghosts, in other words," Kara replied and Harry smiled.

"I wouldn't say that….after the entire Forbidden Zone mess, sometimes you really got to trust your gut….."

"Even if your gut sometimes sends you a false alarm, I know," Kara said, she had been down this road once before. "But things have been quieter than never before….I know, calm before the storm."

Harry smiled, it did give him and Diana time to track down where the Amazons went. But it was hard to really determine that or where Circe might have sent them. He did not exactly have Circe on his speed dial.

"Yes, exactly, but I don't need to tell you of all people that," Kara said and Harry turned to Karen.

"So, how are you going on the levitation?"

"You said it was a simple spell," Karen said in frustration and Harry looked at her with a smile. "But….I guess anything for you is a simple spell, isn't it?"

"You said it, I didn't," Harry replied to her and the blonde sighed, rolling her shoulders back.

"I guess you're right," Karen said, wanting to believe that Harry had her best interests in mind. Harry placed his hand on her shoulder.

"Just take a deep breath and imagine that you're willing the feather, that you're one with it, keep any other thoughts out of your mind, other than the bit of magic that you're performing," Harry told her and Karen smiled.

Easier said than done maybe, but the blonde closed her eyes tightly and she had to try. The blonde could feel Harry's hands on her shoulders.

"You know it's really hard to focus with you up against me like this," Karen muttered to herself and Kara was the one that fielded Harry's response.

"That's the name of the game, you know," Kara said and Karen sighed, she hated when her younger self was right, which was with a depressing amount of regularity.

Karen levitated it, with ease and Harry decided to switch out for a harder object, a book.

It took a moment, but Karen was able to really able to do it.

"So, how are you handling things here, Ayla?" Harry asked and the redhead heroine spun around, her cheeks growing red as she looked at him.

"Um….fine…thanks for asking through," Ayla replied, looking rather flushed all things considered. And she was just talking with the girls with Harry.

"Well if you need anything, you know where to find me," Harry said to her and Ayla looked at him, with a slight blushing appearing on her cheeks.

"Yeah, I do….I'll….be sure to ask you….if I need some help," the girl said, trying to maintain her stride and not look like she was too desperate to have a further meeting with Harry. Harry did not really say much of anything to her.

"Well it's all about team work," Harry said with smile. "We all have to be comfortable with each other."

Harry met the other male members of the Legion a few weeks ago and they were cordial, he was cordial with him. But the older he get, the more Harry found himself not connecting with other males. He could get along with them well enough for short term, but in the long term, he could tell that his Alpha-Male tendencies could rub a lot of men the wrong way and Harry wasn't going to not take a girl he was interested in, just because someone else wanted her. It would be unfair to everyone involved.

"I've got it!" Chloe yelled in triumph, which caused Karen to shoot the book halfway across the room and nearly clonk Alexis in the head.

"Hey!"

"So are we for sure this time, or is this one of those false alarms?" Tess asked, as she took Chloe's normal role of mission control, with the blonde joining Harry, Karen, Diana, Ayla, Imra, and Cir-El on the ship.

Ayla could hardly believe it, she was actually on a real mission but a look from Imra told her that she needed to calm down with what she was doing.

"No, I know this time is the real time….the really real time and not the fake real time that I thought about the last time, but….never mind, we're finally going to find her," Chloe said with a smile on her face.

"And…..well that should be something," Cir-El said, on the one hand, she would be happy to reunite with the female that gave her half of her DNA. On the other hand, where her and Clark left off, that wasn't fun to remember.

"Let's just hope this isn't one of those situations where we're going to stumble into something bad," Imra said and Harry smiled.

"Bad luck, perish the thought," Harry told the blonde and she frowned, curling her fist up in agitation. That was true, they had far too much bad luck for her liking. Harry leaned forward. "So….all of your hard work and cups of coffee paid off?"

"Well, it's been a thousand years in the making….not all together but essentially, yes, "Chloe said, as a million questions went through her mind and she didn't have the answers that went with the questions.

"I know what you mean, Chloe, just calm down, and relax," Harry said, the last thing that he needed was someone to get overexicited and do something foolish that would screw all of them over.

"Right, calm down, excited, ready to go, so ready to go," Chloe answered, bouncing up and down in the abject amount of excitement.

"Well, that sent some mixed messages," Tess replied, she was a bit amused, just a little bit. "I'm tracking the energies right now…..it's a wonder the scanner didn't pick them up now….the temporal energy….it's a wonder that it didn't rip open time and space."

"Oh, thankfully it didn't," Diana said, breathing and Harry looked at her. Both were thinking the same thing, time and space ripping open would complicate things a bit more.

"Okay, the ship is charged, we're ready to go," Imra said, as she waited for the go ahead.

"And remember to keep the shielding up, you could get sucked into a time riff if you're not careful," Alexis chimed in through the communication.

"I think they know that Alex…..we just briefed them on this ten minutes ago….."

"It never hurts to be careful…..Alex….don't be such a bitch."

Normally they would be amused by the bickering of the Luthor twins but never the less, both sides had a job to do and not a sufficient amount of time to lose it.

Chloe understood that if they lost the trail this time, months of work would have been flushed straight down the toilet and they would be back to the beginning. The blonde was interfaced into the system, to the point where she was practically making out with it for lack of a better term.

"Ease up, Chloe, give me some breathing room," Tess commented and Chloe backed up, looking a bit sheepish.

"Sorry but…."

"Yes, I know where you're coming from, but you can tone down the obsession about a notch or ten," Tess suggested and Chloe was about to protest that she was not obsessed. Or she would have, had that statement not sounded like a bold face lie.

"We're on course now," Imra reported to them and Ayla leaned forward nervously, she was on the tetherhooks, crossing her arms together. She bounced back and forth where she was perched but then clammed up when Cir-El gave her a cross look.

"Oh sorry," Ayla said and Cir-El gave her a friendly smile and a pat on the back of the head, as if telling her that it was alright, but not to do it again.

"First day jitters, we've all been there," Harry said, leaning towards her. "And your brother….well he was one of the founding members of the Legion."

"Oh, I know that," Ayla said, and she didn't want to be in his shadow. Karen recognized that expression and she could sympathize.

"Don't worry about following in some else's footsteps, just follow in your old, kid," Karen said to her and she smiled.

"Okay…Power Girl…..Superwoman…Saturn Girl….Indigo…..and…"

"Lightning Lass, I guess," Ayla said and Alexis was about to comment on the abject unorginality of that name, but Alexandria elbowed her in the collarbone.

"That hurt!"

"I know, why do you think I did it?"

"You know, you can be rotten sometimes," Alexandria said, crossing her arms over her chest and throwing her head back. "And you are….."

"Harry…"

"He's….Ultraman…"

"Wasn't that the name of the evil Superman from the alternate dimension…"

"Okay fine….he's Arcane….."

"That sounds too clichely magic."

"Is clichely even a word?"

"It is now."

"You can't just make up words!"

"Ladies, do stay focused," Tess said, normally she would be amused by the banter, but they did have a mission to undertake and she didn't want them to lose their eyes on the prize. She crossed her arms over her chest. "And…..well that explains things."

"What explains things?" Harry asked, this was for the first time, information that he really didn't have.

"Well, according to the Legion…..databanks," Tess said and she whistled. "Where Lois has ended up….it's right in one of the last known strongholds of the Fatal Five."

"Oh boy, there goes the neighborhood," Cir-El muttered.

"The Fatal Five….surely not the sworn enemy of the Legion of Super Heroes?" Harry asked.

"So you read the files, very well done," Chloe said and there was a moment where she realized that they likely had a good idea that she was coming after Lois.

The blonde sighed; it was much too late to turn back now. Even though they could be going into a trap, what choice did they have?

A woman with flowing green hair watched, with a large eye floating above her. Some said that she controlled the eye; others said that the eye controlled her. Various interpretations went down through the annals of time.

The floating woman in the tube was looked at once again and she could sense that the temporal energy that surrounded the woman was being tracked.

The Emerald Empress was not going to sit on her laurels, not when she could give her enemies, the Legion of Super Heroes a suitable reception.

She turned towards the group of evil doers that she assembled, they had come close to beating the Legion before. The fact was that they got lucky, and that luck was going to run out rather shortly.

Mano was a meta-human who could vaporized anything in his path with a blast from his right hand. He was cruel and served to be a good right hand, in more ways than one.

The Persuader was the one who was sent back in time some time ago to destroy Kal-El before he rose to be Superman and inspired that brat pack. Unfortunately, he was thwarted. The BrainInteractive Construct assured them that they would be able to destroy Kal-El during that time and failed rather dismally.

Then there was Tharok, the man that was half mechanical, and he had enhanced intelligence and strength. That combination would allow them to destroy the Legion of Super Heroes.

Validus was also a crown jewel for the Fatal Five, his super human strength and durability, along with energy projection, and telepathic immunity as well. Given that more than a few Legion members, most notable of such being Saturn Girl, used her telepath abilities, that was a vital part of her battle plan.

Other than their powers, which was the most important tools, she didn't really commit any more details to them with memory. She knew one thing, they were all bound by one thing, and that was the demise of the Legion.

"They approach, closer than ever before," she whispered eagerly once more and the other members of the Fatal Five laid in wait for an ambush.

For many of them, it was personal, after all of the previous battles of the Legion of Super Heroes. The battles were chaotic and quick. It was only a narrow escape that they did not get put in jail after the last battle.

"Empress….do you really wish to bait them to come here, do you think that we're ready…." Tharok asked.

"We don't pass up an opportunity like this," she said and she knew that the Legion had underwent a few changes in their roster. Her last plan didn't work well because the cousin of Kal-El had been added to the team and threw off the well placed plan that she cultivated.

That entire family caused her to be agitated beyond all belief and she hoped for another opportunity to wipe out at least one of the members. While Superman's polluted legacy continued to influence an entire generation of heroes, that really didn't matter for her. Her eyes glowed with malice and with power.

"Are we ready, Empress?"

"Allow them to enter the Stronghold, this is where we will trap them," Empress said and the other members of the Fatal Five moved off.

It continued to go without saying that she had been waiting for this for a very…..very long time to be honest. Everything was coming together fairly nicely, a bit too nicely if she had to be perfectly honest.

They were here; it was about time to see what the Legion was made of but the Fatal Five were ready to defeat them. They had the bait in perfect position. So close last time but now when the trap was perfectly sprung, she would be the one to bring them here before her.

"We came close to defeating them last time, but they slipped away," Chloe whispered, as the ship was hopefully cloaked from the scanners of the Fatal Five. "Never thought that they would be back here."

"Well to be fair, they might not be back here, it could just be a coincidence that Lois ended up here in the first place," Imra suggested and Chloe's gaze flickered onto her face. "Yes, I know, but one must be hopeful that I'm right."

It was a large imperial fortress, with spirals on the walls. It was a fortress that the Legion stormed once or twice before as well and for good reason.

"So, their security….is tighter," Tess said and Chloe smiled in triumph.

"Never mind, I enjoy a challenge, you know that," Chloe said, essentially cracking her knuckles and getting to work.

"Yes, all too well," Tess agreed, she was kind of amused and she wanted to see what Chloe was going to do and how she was going to get in there.

Harry read up on the previous battles between the Fatal Five and the Legion through the Case Files, so he had a good idea what they dealt with in the past. Some of the things that the Legion got up to before he arrived…..well he really had no room to talk given some of the adventures in his formative years to be honest.

His green eyes flashed at the entrance, which slid open. Chloe gave a triumphant smirk and it was obvious that the woman looked really pleased with herself.

"I don't sense anything there," Imra whispered to them, as their cloak ship dropped down.

"You do realize the second that we escape the ship, everything could go completely nuts, don't you?" Harry asked.

"Yes," Karen chimed in an absolutely exasperated tone of voice. She hated sometimes how Harry had to make sense, especially during times like this. But never the less, she was read. The Fatal Five attacked her with great fury the last time and given their hatred for Superman and the fact one of their members attacked him in the past, it was obvious why.

She was guilty by association; Kal had a lot of admirers and even more enemies, because that was really the charming personality that he had to be honest.

Ayla was awe struck and for good reason, she had read up on the battles between the Legion and the Fatal Five were legendary, to the point where….well Legendary was actually a good word to describe them.

"So far, so good," Harry said and then suddenly, there was the sound of footsteps that erupted around them.

"Well, thanks for jinxing it," Karen sighed, in an agitated voice, and the group came face to face with the Fatal Five.

It was going to be just like old times again, Imra mused as she looked at the group of five of the most deranged villains that the universe had to offer.

"DESTROY THE LEGION OF SUPER HEROES!"

Imra gave a prominent sigh, yes; this was really going to be like old times once again. The blonde shook her head, as the Legion prepared themselves for one more battle against their most deadly enemies.

The good news is that they had something else on their side that they didn't before.

To Be Continued.