This was bad. Really bad.

Phantom Girl looked down at herself. Except, it wasn’t her body, it was Lightning Lad’s. She glanced around and saw that the other Legionnaires were also discovering their predicament. Beside her, in her body, Lightning Lad moaned.

“Aw great,” it sounded weird having his voice come out of her body, “so that was what that machine did.”

The machine he was talking about had just been stolen by the Fatal Four (Validus had been missing). Nobody in the Legion knew what it had been originally intended for, but they had seen Tharok altering it so it could do what it had done to them.

Shrinking Violet—in Superman X’s body—voiced her dismay, “Man! This stinks!” Forgetting she was in a much stronger body, she pounded the floor. The floor immediately crumbled where his—or her—first had pounded. “Great,” she sighed.

Superman X—in Shrinking Violet’s body—looked as if he was about to blow. “How in the—what in—WHY?!” He franticly gestured at his body, “Great! I just traded my powers of strength, flight, and everything else for the power to shrink! Why did I get stuck in this body? It’s a GIRL’S!”

Shrinking Violet stuck out her tongue at him.

“Sweet!”

Everyone turned to see Chameleon Boy—in Brainiac 5’s body—turn into Brainy’s more powerful robotic form, “This is so cool!”

“I am not a toy, stop that!” Brainy demanded angrily from Duo Damsel’s body.

“Whoa,” was all Duo Damsel—in Cam’s body—could say.

“Nobody panic. I’m sure we can—” Brainy began but was cut short by Lightning Lad.

“—nobody panic? I’m in a GIRL’S body! YOU’RE in a GIRL’S body! The mightiest man in the galaxy has been reduced to a teenage shrinking girl!”

Shrinking Violet frowned, accidentally shooting Kel’s laser eyes at Lightning Lad. He ducked, then brought up his fists. “Crap,” he grumbled, “I can’t shoot lightning anymore.”

Brainy sighed, “Lets get on the ship. Vi and I will track the Fatal Four so we can get back that machine and our proper bodies.”

“But,” Phantom Girl asked, “Why’d they steal it in the first place?”

“I don’t know,” Brainy said, “but wondering about that won’t help us now. Let’s go.”