"I give up, can't we just tell them it doesn't concern them?" Vi sighed
"What I don't get is why they've been keeping him so long, they said three days, it's nearly been a week. I'm running out of ideas." Mage titled back in her chair far but not enough as to fall.
"Well, I'm going to see him now. I don't care about excuse now." Vi stood up and was out the building within minutes, she had breskly past Superman. Confused Superman found Mage sitting in the cafetiria titling back, she seemed zoned out.
"Umm, Mage?"
"What's up Superman?"
"It's just Vi booked it past me so apprutily. Do you know what's up?" Absentmindedly she said.
"She's probably just worried about Brainy."
"Brainy? Odd thing to be worried about, don't you think? I mean he has been gone a year."
Mage flinched her mind had been somewhere else completely, she had forgotten she was talking to Superman.
"Yeah, that's the thing he's beenn gone a full year now and after you guys lost track of him after three months, she's been holding in how she was feels about it all up till now."
"I see." Superman simply said.
"Well, thanks for letting me know she left. I'm gonna go look for here." Before Superman could ask to help, she was out the door and halfway into the sky. Superman watch as she soared.
"Something isn't right?"
Brainy opened his eyes from another peacful sleep, when he saw Vi he thought he might still be dreaming.
"Hey Brainy, did you have a good sleep?"
"Yeah, these last few nights have been the best I've had in almost a year."
"Why do you think that is?"
"Maybe the drugs their giving me?"
"Or maybe you finally feel safe enough to actually sleep peacfully, instead of a 3 hour sleep at some bum hotel?"
"ha, that's a good possiblity." Brainy smiled to Vi. As they let the calm atmosphere set in Mage walked into the room.
"Hey Brainy, Doctor just told me, so long as you don't have a relaps of what happened three days ago you can come with us tomorrow."
"Relaps?" Vi questioned "What happened?" There was a hurt expression on her face.
"It was nothing, Vi. I just had a lot of pain in my side three days ago. The doctor proved it was just from me trying to get up too quickly."
"Promise?"
"I promise,Vi."
"Brainy!" The three realized the voice had eminated from behind them. They turn to see Superman in the doorway. Brainy stared blankly at him. "Su..Superman? How did you..."
"I followed Mage. After Vi left so quickly and Mage shortly after I knew there was only one thing that could link you two together, Brainy." He had been speaking in such a harsh tone, people began to notice. Mage walked over to Superman.
"Superman, please lets go speak outside. Vi you stay with Brainy." Just steps out of the hospital, the yelling began.
"When was he admitted? Well, when was he admitted?"
"A week ago" Mage quietly replied
"Who knew?" Superman's temper began to flair.
"Lighting Lad, Chameleon Boy, Saturn Girl, Triplucate Girl, Stormy, Bouncing Boy, Colussal Boy, Sun boy and Cosmic Boy."
"WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME?" She jumped a little as he yelled. He had continued to ramble on, she felt young again when everyone yelled at when no one listened to her, but now she was the leader not him.
"You want to know why I didn't tell you or Kal-El. It's because you both care for him too much."
"What?"
"Are you telling me if I had told you a week ago that he was admitted because he was attacked by Bounty Hunters in the Qutra sector you wouldn't have flown off like the wind? There's no point in lying Superman, Even though it's out of the Red Sun you still would have went."
"Alright, I admit it, I would have. Happy? Tell me who did this to him truthfully?" Mage paused a moment.
"Bounty Hunters and Coluans."
"That's all?"
"...Yes" She hating lying to him but she didn't really have a choice.
"Then where's Cosmic Boy, Colussal Boy and Sun Boy? and don't tell me their on a mission."
"...umm" Before she could say anything, Vilot came rushing toward them.
"YOU GUYS SOMETHING'S WRONG WITH BRAINY!"
Brainy had been sitting there relaxed, well as relaxed as he could be thanks to Superman's outburst. Vi had been trying to relax him in anyway.
"Brainy, Mage could talk sense into a mad bull. She'll have no problems with Superman." Brainy looked at her sincerly. Vi had went to the sink in Brainy's room when he heard someone whispering.
"Did you say something, Vi?"
"Huh? No, not at all" That's when brainy began to feel as if a series of drums were banging around. He gripped his head and screamed in agony.
"aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh".
Violet shook as her friend screamed in pain.
"Hold on Brainy, I'll go get a nurse." She rushed to the closest doctor she could find. After he was inform she rushed to find Superman and Dark Magician.
Mage look to Vi, Within seconds the three were making their way through the hostpial wings up to Brainy's room. On returning to his room, they found three doctors trying to hold him down.
Brainy screamed in agony, his head felt as if it were splitting into two. He could vagly tell that his friends were in the room. He closed eyes hoping the pain would seice and it did but the next thing brainy felt was his back hitting a cold metal surface. He opened his eyes to see a darken room made completely of metal, it look like a prison cell.
"So glad you decide to come Brainac 5.1." Brainy shook as he sat up, he knew who the voice belong to but feared to look as he looked out of the cell he saw him the machincial being that used him only a year earlier. Brainy quivered as he spoke.
"Br..Braniac 1..."