Future Perfect: Chapter One

(I promised a review of LOSH #1 but its coming)

Welcome to FUTURE PERFECT chapter one! If anyone of you know a thing about the Legion comics, then you know about how much fun the Legion is. Just read and enjoy the fun! If you have any questions about the story line or characters just note me. I’ll be happy to answer any of the questions you have. Oh yeah, it’s a Supergirl/Brainiac Five coupling.
Disclaimer: I do not own any of these characters contained with in this fan fiction. They belong to DC and those who created them. I just borrowed the characters. Please don’t sue.

Chapter one
What Dreams May Come

Supergirl
Things were crumbling apart around me, the tower was being destroyed around me. Large chunks of the ceiling fell passed me, and I prayed so hard to have my power back. Being the last daughter of Krypton stuck on a planet with a red sun really sucked. I am Kara Zor-El, Supergirl, and I was stuck in the same old dream again.
“Move it Supergirl,” came a voice, and a man with lighting shooting out of his arms came flying back towards me. “Use your flight ring and hurry up!”
I took off after him, memorizing his features. Red hair and a lighting scar running across his left cheek, he was wearing a suit to match his abilities. We dived through crumbling passage ways, and through open ports. Suddenly we were out in the open, fighting against a wave of machines that were being led by Imperix. My skin crawled when I saw him, and he grinned at me. Before he could slam a wave of energy into me, a green skinned man tackled me, getting me out of the waves before they could hit me.
“Be more careful will you,” he said, helping me up. He was hansom, in a strange short of way, but his face was familiar in a creepy short of way. “The red sun robbed you of your power, but it shouldn’t have robbed you of your common sense.”
“Oh haha, Mr. I’m more intelligent than you. Maybe you should find a way to turn the sun back yellow.”
He gave me a grim short of smile and shook his head. He quickly moved me out of the way of another attack before he put up his shield around us. “Imperix made sure to mask what ever technique he used to turn the sun red from me. Knew I would think up a situation too quickly, and he couldn’t risk you getting your powers back.”
I rolled my eyes, looking up at the red sun. I really hated this dream, and this had been the seventh time I had it. Didn’t that mean, by human standards, that it would come true? I sighed and looked back at the man. He was watching Imperix, while we went unnoticed by the alien invaders. Green skin, green eyes and blonde hair framing his head nicely. Then I realized that he had three dots on his forehead in a pattern I knew all too well. Brainiac’s symbol, but why would he be helping me? It didn’t make sense. I heard the force wall begin to give way, and I prepared myself for the next sound to come.
“Kara!”
I was suddenly woken by Kal-El’s strong arms shaking me, and I forced myself to shake the dream away. Kal looked at me in concern but slowly I moved his hands away from me. “Its that dream again, the one with Imperix and the green skin man. Though I think I know who he is now.”
“Who?”
“He’s Brainiac, though it doesn’t make any sense. Why would he try to save me?”
Kal looked troubled for a second before he sat down on the side of my bed. He looked to be in deep though, which is honestly a look I don’t see very often on his face. Then he turned to me. “Have you ever heard of the Legion of Superheroes?”
“Uh, not really. You never really talked about it.”
“The Legion of Superheroes exist is the 31st century as a peace-keeping organization. Its original founding members once visited me when I was younger and helped me figure out what I wanted to do. One of their members is called Brainiac-”
“So he really was a member! How in the world do-”
“Kara, he is called Brainiac 5, and he isn’t even related to Brainiac. Brainiac is a computer construct, not organic like Brainiac 5 is. Now he’s his own person.”
“Why didn’t you tell me about him before,” I said, leaning over to him. “You know, after I had the dream at least four different times.”
“I didn’t think I needed to worry about telling you, but I think the time was right. And who knows, this might mean you’ll meet them.”
I shook my head, knowing that they were just dreams. Besides, why would I want to end up in a future where the sun is red and Imperix is destroying everything? I didn’t say anything though and began to push my cusion out of the room.
“If you don’t mind, I would like to get dressed now, Kal-El.”
“Alright, alright, I’ll see you are breakfast.”
I closed the door behind him, and leaned against the door. What in the world was I going to do if I kept on having these dreams? Slowly though, I decided to move away from those thoughts and get ready. What ever today had in store, it defiantly didn’t have the Future in it. All that I wanted to do was eat breakfast.
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“Do you think anything is going to happen today?”
Lana Lang sat beside me on the swing, going back in forth in the swing, she gave me a look. “I like it when its peaceful like this.”
“I find it boring.”
“Be careful what you wish for, you might just-”
A sudden shock wave hit us and suddenly a wave of energy appeared in front of me. So much for a boring day. I was caught off guard though when a hand grabbed me and suddenly pull me into the disk of energy. The pain was unbelievable. For a moment I saw nothing but blackness before suddenly a light emerged in my line of sight. That sight expanded into a man standing in front of me, looking at me in concern. I recognized him immediately as being the same lighting scar man from my dreams. I screamed and pushed him away, before I gave a good look at the sky. Oops, still a yellow sun. I watched as the man was grabbed out of the sky and I smiled shyly.
“Sorry about that.”
“She is defiantly related to Superman,” came a chilling familiar voice, and I looked to see the green skin man. He turn his eyes to mine and smiled slightly. “At least she managed not to kill you, Lighting Lad. You were a little too close to her.”
“I was only seeing if she was alright. More than you were doing, Brainy.”
He rolled his eyes. “I knew she would be fine when she came through the time gate, but you couldn’t see that.”
“Who are you?”
I knew the answer, but I chose to ask the question anyway. Brainiac 5 gave me a reassuring look before he turned to the blond haired woman. From her looks, but mostly due to the Saturn on her shirt I knew that this had to be Saturn Girl. One of the founders of the Legion of Superheroes. She turned to me and said,
“I am Imra, Saturn Girl of the Legion of Superheroes. We summoned you here so,” she gave the green skinned man a look, “ungracefully because we need your help.”
“Historical records states that you fought in the Imperix Wars. Well, Imperix is returning to this time, and we need someone who fought him before on our side.”
I stood up, brushing off my pants off as I did. “Why didn’t you just get Superman or Wonder woman? Why me?”
The Lighting user, Lighting Lad, came over. “I asked Brainy the same thing but he just said something about dealing with parallel versions dealing the Legions before or something like that.”
I blinked at him and then looked at Brainiac 5. He looked at me like he suddenly remembered something, or perhaps realized something. “Kara Zor-El, we need you to help us. Without you this war is going to go badly for the United Planets. We will lose this war.”
“Like I was really going to say no to Kal-El’s old friends. Honestly. Besides, I’ve been having dreams about this for weeks.”
“You’ve been having dreams,” Saturn Girl asked, and I nodded. “Dream Girl must have been preparing you for this.”
“Oh well, where’s your hideout?”
“Your in it.”
I stood in a magnificent room, a room kind of like a hall of memories mixed with a reception room. It was done in marble and steel, giving it a futuristic feel. Pictures of the Legionnaires adorned the walls, showing some of their adventures. A picture of Superman and the Legion caught my attention.
“Superman came with us on many of our harder missions. When he left for the last time a few years ago, he promised that he would come back if we needed him.”
I turned to Saturn Girl as a few more Legionnaires joined us. One man looked like an animal with bright red eyes and animal fur covering his body. He didn’t look un friendly though. Another was a girl with long black hair and a ghost on her outfits front. Her had drug along with her a orange skinned boy, with antenna sticking out of his forehead. He held out his hand to me and I shook it.
“Hi Supergirl, I’m Cham. Resident shape shifter of the Legion. That’s Phantom Girl and Timber Wolf.”
“Tinya Wazzo,” Phantom Girl said, flashing a pretty smile. “I’m a big fan of your adventures!”
“Thanks,” I said, not completely sure how to act around them. Yeah, they were teenagers like I was, but to them I was long dead. It felt kind of strange.
“I’m Brin Lando,” Timber Wolf said, nodding. I gave him a smile that seem to put him at ease. At least he seemed less intense.
“I should show you to your room,” Saturn Girl said, taking my arm. As we began to walk away I heard Tinya say to Brainy;
“Hey, are you alright?”
“Yes.”
“You look a little pale.”
“Nothing really, I just remembered something that perhaps I would have been better off not knowing.”
Better off not knowing? That idea made my skin crawl so in refection I rubbed my arms. Saturn Girl led me up two levels of stairs up to the living/recreation level. As we passes door after door I noticed symbols were on the doors instead of names or numbers. A lighting bolt for Lighting Lad, a Saturn for Imra, a Ghost for Tinya, and a ever shifting symbol for Chameleon Boy. He, I knew that was what Cham stood for.
Finally we reached a door were a gold ‘S’ was engraved on the door. I smiled, “My room?”
“Yes. We had known for a week that Brainy was going to bring you to the present so we had time to prepare your room.”
She opened the door and I gasped. It was almost and exact replica of my room back in the 21st century, just a few added bonuses. A better computer for one. I gave Imra a quick hug of appreciation.
“Thanks so much, it wasn’t really necessary though.”
“Brainiac 5 didn’t say how long this conflict is going to last so I thought it would be nice if had something ‘homely’ to come back to after battles.”
I grinned, and she closed the door. ‘Time for some sleep,’ she said and let me get use to this new room. I sat down on the bed, and allowed the tiredness I had been feeling since the sudden leap to the future set in. At least I could get some sleep.

Brainiac 5

Memories, I’ve always found, were a strange but interesting center for focus day to day. And lately, that was all my mind was focusing on. Ever since the strange sudden return of the original Supergirl, my life had been in chaos. Memories that had been locked away for years came rushing to the surface, pushing me almost to the brink of a mental break down. And then I found the message written for me by Supergirl.
‘Querl, Imperix is coming. Get me from the past so I can help. Please, I’m sorry for everything. But the time has come for Supergirl and the Legion to rise again.” ~ Supergirl
As I felt memories play with my mind, I began to realize that maybe these memories were beneficial to the Legion. Perhaps I could help change the tide of the coming war by summoning an old friend from the past. But I couldn’t tell them about my memories, nor what had happened in the past.
Messing with what was meant to be could be very dangerous. I had learned that before.
I went to the Lab, it was the only place that I felt truly comfortable in the whole Legion Headquarters. Going through notes and plans, I found my mind once again falling into the same line of thought.
She had died.
It had been one thousand years since her death and yet, the Infinite Crisis had caused the timelines to change. Our time line had been restored and so had she. Did this prove the existences of some kind of higher power that showed some kindness towards us? Illogical I know, but perhaps it was just the sudden memory return playing my mind.
Shaking my head, I heard the door open. Saturn Girl was strolling in with a plate of food. “You’ve been in the lab all week, Brainy. You need to take care of yourself.”
“I am taking care of myself. You need to make Supergirl feel welcome.”
She set the plate down in front of me and leaned against the desk. She had this amazing way of reading me, even if I kept my mind closed to her. She had known me long enough to know inventively what I was feeling. “She’s resting. And you need to do that yourself, to prepare for the coming conflict.”
“I’ll be fine just tell me something.”
“Anything.”
“Do you remember last year when I had that sudden melt down?”
She nodded at me, her violet eyes sudden filled with concern. Always so feeling, I found it strangely too human for even me to understand. But her race was always filled with empathy towards other races. “Of course I do. It was on-”
“The twenty third of April. Do you remember anything in the 20th century that might correspond with that date?”
“No, but why ask?”
“Oh, its nothing. I was just wondering about something. Thanks for the meal, I’ll eat it shortly then get some sleep. Why don’t you go and rest yourself, you’ll need it just as much as I will.”
After she left, and sighed and turned to the plate. Perhaps this was for the best, but maybe not. I would find out soon enough if following my mind and heart would be enough to save the United Planets in the end.

Confessions of a Comic Book Nerd.

Back when I was a little girl I wasn’t much of a comic book reader, but I was really into some of the more boyish things that were on TV. Such things that were on were Power Rangers, Transformers: Beast Wars/Beast Machines, Beetle Borgs and such other things. The one comic I did read when I was younger was the Sonic the Hedgehog Comics that were being published way back then. Every week when we went to the Kroger’s I would go to the magazines and read every Sonic Comic that came out so far. It was really fun, but eventually we stop going as often and I lost touch with the story line. I’m not even sure what was the last comic I read from that old comic…
I lost interest in comics for a long time but I did follow a lot of the cartoons that came out about superheroes, like Batman. Batman was by far my favorite growing up just because of all the episodes (Superman was okay, Justice League was cool, and I did watch Spiderman) but I didn’t get into comics again for a long time. Then came 9/11, which lead me to the library.
Apparently DC and Marvel had come out with these comics that used their characters to help deal with the pain. When I opened up the DC one I read a story about a little boy who had lost his father in the towers, and a woman named Raven helped him. When I read her I couldn’t help but wonder more about her and I began to research her. She was apart of the Teen Titans, and what else my research uncovered she was the daughter of a demon. At once my interest was up and I followed the cartoon that came out faithfully.
When the show got canceled (like all good shows I like do), I tried to find something else to watch. The show I ended up watching next lead me back into the comics I love now; The Legion of Superheroes. The show caught my attention from the first episode, since it had a young Superman and a strange descendent of Brainiac. Oh, I loved Brainiac Five and it was love for him that brought me back into comics.
Legion of Superheroes was canceled after the ending of season two, much to my dislike, but I wanted more about this group of heroes. Then I joined the Navy, and my interest stayed. When I got to my current base, I found the area had a lot of comic book stores and I began to buy up as many of them as I could. Any to deal with the Legion, and other Superheroes that began to catch my attention, like Green Lantern Corps (I only read that because of Blackest Night but I fell in love with Guy.)
Currently I read Action Comics, Adventure Comics, Blackest Night, Green Lantern, Green Lantern Corps, Booster Gold, Supergirl, World of New Krypton, and a few more. I also enjoy reading old Legion issues from the 1980’s and before and after that time. Anything to do with Supergirl/Brainiac Five is good for me. It makes me feel warm and happy inside, and that kind of feeling is hard for me to find in this place. More to come later.

Next Time: A Review of a issue #1 from the 1989 Legion of Superheroes