Okays...I SORRY I'M SORRY! I KNOW I HAVEN'T YAPPED MUCH. AND MANY OF YOUS WERE PATIENTLY AWAITING THE NEXT CHAPTER! WELL HERE IT IS. Yes this happens to everyone now. We don't have time cause of stupid school and stupid work. Yup. Yup. I've also been working on YYC again and pictures for a DA contest called EOA (Eye of Arisile) where I play spectator... uh well Spike and Skittles and perhaps Drew play spectator. Sorry again. Phew! 15 pages on Word.

P.S Drew calls Violet, Oreo-Chan. Big sister in Japanese is Onee-Chan somewhat like Oni chan. Same way to say it yet odd way to spell them. Oh well didn't care and wanted to add humor. Also ... two more characters appear.

And yes Stormy, Spike is one of them.

-LadyProtecta (LP) or Squireprincess (SP) out! :funny how both initials end in P 0X0':

“Mom! I saw Oni-Chan and Oreo-Chan kissing,” Drew sneered as he and his twin sister walked through the door.

“Drew!” Skittles shook her head and punched his arm.

Brianna rolled her eyes as her eyes were fixed to the holo-map in front of her. Her own son of her erm…metal had set a course to a large asteroid located in sector 12 of the galaxy that was inhabited with strange creatures and unknown plant life. She remembered that place 17 years back.

As just a robot mother at the age of 21, she had taken Querl to explore the unknown and try to keep him out of her wretched ancestor’s hand. But in the process, he would hide in his quarters calculating the stars and their history by then.

“What’s that Oni-Chan?” Skittles asked.

“That is a memory where Mom took me, as a kid,” he simply replied. His human sister cocked her head; her eyes swirled with her childish curiosity.

The twins bolted out the mini cruiser as it touched the Earthy rug and like all children began to explore this world that their eyes have never seen before. The young Connel siblings had grown up with wildlife and had each had experienced and interpreted this life from each of their own perspectives.

Drew, born with his father’s brilliant mind, found himself naming the strange fauna and trees that he had seen in his childhood. He grinned like crazy as he ran from tree to tree, babbling on about its type and the info on it.

Skittles, on the other hand, flew through the trees with ease, weaving over and under uprooted roots of trees, carving sticks out of tree limbs. As soon as her feet touched the soil, she went into her warrior phase just as her ancestors have done before.

“Mom! Can I explore?” Skittles asked Brianna. The Coluan mother hesitated for a moment. Would she allow two humans who have now made her their own mother to run off into the woods unsupervised?

“Um… ok… but don’t go out of my tracking range,” she called as Skittles scampered off into the trees, cries of irritated birds echoing her fading presence. Drew walked up to her, his eyes still filled with wonderment. “Mom, can we go explore as well?” he asked, “I heard strange cries of birds over on the East hill. Can we go, please?

“Fine, but I want to make sure that Skittles hasn’t gotten herself in trouble.”

”Mom… Skittles is the definition of the word Trouble. Her high curiosity meter stacks up and well, she’s bound to pick a fight with some creature.”

“She likes to fight?” Brianna didn’t like the thought of her new daughter facing off with a giant…something.

“Mom, she was born as a warrior and trained to fight. She’s been ranked the No. 6 warrior in the Warrior brawl and she’s Class A. In fact she and I squared off once and it was impossible to even aim at her while she’s jumping around like a rabbit,” Brainy sighed as he followed Vi out of the cruiser.

“That’s you two are balancing each other out. Smarts against Strength. You lack mana and she lacks intellect, literally. She ran into the door this morning and constantly rammed into it again and again,” Drew grumbled.

Vi walked along side of the waterfall reflecting all those recent events that she went through. The sunlight eliminated her snow-white skin. It had been at least 3 weeks since it happened. She got captured by her enemy, saved a child from becoming a monster, falling in love with her enemy and betraying her teammates by breaking in and freeing her enemy’s mother. Her emerald green outfit was the evidence of these events that she went through.

What would her friends think of her? Would she have to leave the Legion just because she was following her heart?

She looked at the flora and fauna that bloomed around her; the aroma of fresh flowers enticed her senses. It was like being in a dream, or the calm eye of a hurricane of nightmares. But was it all nightmares? She swallowed her tears as she looked at a figure lying in a flowerbed; his dark armor contrasted the pastel petals that fell around him.

She sat beside her dark prince, staring up at the canopy of tall trees withteal and blue leaves that glowed like crystals. They were beautiful. The leaves reminded her of swimming in the sparkling sea as a child and looking up from the water to see the sunlight dance above her. She remembered that she and her best friend, Cousin Butterfly Digsby would chase and be chased by the waves as their foamy hands reached to tag the little girls.

She gasped as something cold and metallic touched her skin. She looked down at Brainy who decide that her lap was a much more comfortable pillow than wildflowers.

“What are you thinking?” he whispered, staring straight up at the embarrassed human.

“Just a memory, nothing big,” she stuttered looking away. He sat up and looked her straight in the eyes and said absolutely nothing as he picked up a wild ember star lily. She felt so nervous in his eyes as he placed the flower in her hair.

“Looks good with the green, Miss Salu,” he hissed, a twinkle in his eye.

She couldn’t breathe. Her enemy sitting right next to her, flirting with her, making her heart beat a thousand times faster. Android or Human, evil or good… it didn’t matter she loved him.

She broke her gaze and looked back up to the clear blue sky dappled with fluffy white cotton clouds.

“You like it here?” Brainy asked.

“Yes it’s so peaceful,” Vi smiled.

“I sometimes come here, to get away from all the drama. My mother took me here before they tookher way. She would tell me how wonderful it was here, and afterI created my alliance with Imperiex, I started coming here to reflect. I don’t know why but it made me feel more at home, more free than usual. Especially now.”

They sat in silence, both fretting over what the future might bring them. What would happen if the Legion came and took her away? Would they once again become enemies? Would their love still be strong even through this time of war? Brainy placed his hand on hers and she squeezed it. He leaned towards her; his breath blew on her neck. He kissed her lips tenderly, feeling the rush of her warmth boil inside of him. They clung to each other, their kiss becoming desperate, enduring the pain of the other felt.

Suddenly a scream filled the air, sending birds into the sky and the two lover birds to pull apart. Brainy and Vi stared in shock, as Skittles shot through the bushes, shrieking like a banshee on a runaway train.

“THE HORROR! THE HORROR! SCARY THING RIGHT BEHIND ME! WAH!” she screamed. The little girl sounded so diluted and mad that she crashed into a tree; the force of the impact left a deep dent in the tree.

“Ow that hurt,” she mumbled, rubbing her head as Brianna franticly ran from the other direction, dragging Drew along.

“Skittles, are you alright, honey?” she cried. The Keonden sat there, dazed.

“Twinkle TWinkle LiTTLE Hostess’s Cupcakes. HoW I Wonder who are! UP-oooh pretty colors!” Skittles sang like a drunken man who drank to many bottles of Jewelinan wine before she fell backwards, fainting.

“Sisters… I doubt I’ll ever find the answer to their odd behavior, especially little sisters,” Brainy mumbled shaking his head.

“You can say that again bro,” Drew answered.

Skittles snapped back to reality and nervously studied the bushes from where she had made her rather bashful entrance. Stranded leaves laid like feathers plucked from a pillow that was used as a weapon in a pillow fight. Petals were crumpled and had muddy footprints stained by Skittles’s black books.

“I’m not lying, Mom, something was following me. I swear on the Keondensoldier’s oath!” Skittles said, still franticly looking for beady eyes that had set interest in stray children who explored their territory.

“It was probably just the wind,” Brianna calmly stated.

“Or her idiotic and wild imagination,” Drew sarcastically added. Skittles mumbled a few words to herself and snapped her fingers, making a pile of pans and metal spoons fall on Drew’s head.

“MOM!” He screamed.

“Take it back or el-” Skittles was cut of by a rustling sound above her. She looked up as a blur of white leap from one tree to the next.

“THERE! THERE IT IS!” she cried.

“Anita, I don’t see anything,” Brianna sighed.

Skittles bit her lip. She wasn’t lying. The little child desperately searched for the creature only to find it landing on her head.

“GAWAHHHH!” the child ran around in circles as a pure white creature clung to her hoodie, screeching. Skittles stopped to lookover her shoulder as a snow-white monkey peered up at her with its primrose colored eyes.

“Awwwww! It’s adorable,” Violet squealed, getting a closer examination of the cute little creature.

The monkey leaptup and snatched Anita’s cap and ran into the bushes. “Gimme back my hat!” Skittle cried as she ran after it.

“She must have snuck a stash of dried mangos,” Drew said, shaking his head. Brainy nodded in agreement.

“SCARY THING IS BACK!” Skittles shrieked again, once again flying out of the bushes like an injured bird. She fled towards Brainy, nearly knocking down the Coluan.

“Kill it Oni-Chan! Kill it!” she whimpered, hugging her older brother. Brainy looked at her to the brambles of short stubby limbs that boarded the rest of the jungle from his hideaway. Rustling sounds filled their ears along with the exotic voices of the forest. Two neon green eyes glimmered in the darkness and a blur of primrose, yellow, orange, and green flew out. Little sister screamed and ran the opposite direction as the creature chased after her,

It was as large as a little dachshund dog and had a flower like head, vine like body with thorns that adorn its body and claws. Its eyes strangely sparkled emerald as it bound after it “friend.”

“It’s a Drakoflora! Whoa! I thought those were only found on Jupiter! Incredible!” Drew cried, struggling to keep up with the rare animal.

Skittles tripped on her shoelaces and fell flat on her face. The lizard like creature jumped over her, landing right in front of her.

“Yip! Grrr! Yip!” it squeak, licking her face, like a dog. Skittles looked stunned and shaken, her face, dripping with slobber.

“Ewwww!” Skittle squealed, wringing her hair dry.

“I think it likes you, Skittles,” Vi giggled and snorted. A white snowball dropped beside her, mocking Skittles as he waved her cap with its tail.

“My hat! GIMMIE!” Skittles screamed. The monkey leapt on Brainy’s shoulder, continuing to taunt the child who effortlessly struggled to reach her cap. Only she was two-thirds the size of her robotic brother. Brainy gently pried the hat from the monkey and hastily dumped it on his little sister’s head.

“Evil… Monkey and Lizard flower…Can we keep’em, Mom?” Skittles asked.

“…” Brianna was surprised by her human daughter’s comment. “Mother?” Drew looked at her, he wanted to keep them too. She was just set free from 17 years of mistreatment, became once again a mother to not only her now teenaged son but also now two human orphans. And she was to live as staging herself as her son’s servant.

“Querl… you’re in charge of these two, what do you think dear?” she thrust the choice on her son. The white monkey climbed up onto Brainy’s head and began picking at it.

“Well…” he looked over at his warrior sisterwhose attention span went from 30 percent to 20 as she chased her new playmate. He wasn’t supposed to make them feelright at home in the main ship yet he wanted to keep them entertained and something to keep them preoccupied, especially young Diana who had that tendency of blowing up one part of the lab. He would have to make up an excuse to slide both the monkey and the Drakoflora into the ship.

The only thing that came to him was to use them as experimental animals. Yea that would work.

“Fine… but don’t tell Imperiex that they are your pets, promise?”

“We promise older brother,” Drew said, tripping his twin.

“MOM! Drew tripped me!”

“Andrew…”

“Sorry…” Drew mumbled.

“Fine… they can stay, but I want to speak of that Legionnaire hostage. That girl is now getting to your head, Brainiac 5. Distracting you in your work, singing when she is to remain silent, even causing the children to be all happy,” Imperiex grumbled.

Brainy looked down. He was right, she was a distraction, pulling him away from his focus to an ordered world.

“What do you request then?” he asked, in his usual bland voice.

“I want her locked away in the solitary room, Confinement X, to be exact. I do not wish of you to see of her again. Your younger slaves are prohibited to visit her nor speak of her. Do I make myself clear?”

“Yes… sir.”

That very moment, Violet was dragged from her cage to Confinement X, the darkish part of the ship where as young Drew had named it, The black hole of no return. As she was taken away from her friends, she saw Drew who had taken her to be his older sister and role model, with tears brimming from his eyes as Brianna held him close. Skittles in the other hand, was loud. She banged against her cage, screaming protests against Imperiex.

Vi calmed down the bashful child and said everything would be fine and that she shouldn’t cry or vow vengeance for her. To the young twins, it felt that everything was being taken away from them, first their parents and now their sister!

They watched as their Jeanne of Arc sisterwas to be lead to her doom of solitary where she was forced to remain there till her death. The darknesswould swallow up her cries of fear like the flames of death.

She was thrown into the frightful prison that seemed to look like The Cask of Amontillado’s cage. There were no other windows aside from the door’s metal window. As they slammed the door in her face, she broke into tears, in fearing that she will never see her friends, her family nigh her lover ever again.

That night she laid in the wooden plank bed that was filled with splinters. Her eyes were puffy and blood shot red from the Jordan River of tears she cried. Never in her life had she cried. Always to keep back the tears, she would swollowthem and replace the sobbing with her trademark snorting laughter, or she would fight it out, show that she was not a cry baby. But this time… she was alone with darkness… never to see joys of being in the light.

She saw monsters and lost spirits reach out to grab her, ready to eat her up or take them to their place to be weded to the ugliest troll in the world. She knew that it was nothing but her childish self taking over her and causing her to go insane.

“Its only my imagination! It just my crazy imagination! I gave that up years ago! I’m not afraid! I’m not!” she screamed as she blindly ran into the walls that looked to have gone forever. No one could hear her pleas for help. She could only cower back to her little corner and covered her head.

“It’s just a dream! It’s just a dream! It’s just a…a dream…” she laid on the ground and fell asleep. As she slept, the door moaned as it swung open and a figure walked in and carried her to the bed.

She awoke in the middle of the night, feeling all sore from running and crashing into walls. The wood rubbed against her cheeks and she felt something hard wrap around her waist. She rolled over, staring straight into two-tone magenta eyes that soothed her tramitized soul.

“Brainy?” she squeaked as his lips came crashing down onto hers and his tongue slid into her mouth. The Imskan felt a rush of emotions swell up inside of her, telling her that she wasn’t alone. The Coluan villain held the small heroine close to his body, whispering in her ears soothing words before kissing her neck, his breath tickling her each time his lips made contact with her snow white skin. She gave a soft moan and held him close.

“Now go to sleep…” he whispered.

“But… what about Imperiex?” she whimpered.

“He doesn’t have the power to keep me away from you, Vi. Now go to sleep, I’ll watch over you,” he kissed her lips.

She obeyed her master and fell asleep in his every night the handsome android would hold her in his arms while she slept. Nothing could take him away from his flower.

A few days later, he snuck in again in to visit her, this time he brought the twins and their new animal companions now named Koko and Spike. The twins were thrilled to see their sister, seeing that she was unharmed by the fears of confinement.

That night as Drew and Skittles slept peacefully curled up on what they now believed to be forever their bed, the floor, Brainy leaned against the wall, staring at his family. His fears enveloped him. He felt a gentle hand slip onto his shoulder, he turned around and gazed into those amethyst crystals.

“Brainy?” her sweet voice made his wires spark, “you alright?”

“I can’t- I-I can’t lie to you, Violet… I-I have been fearing,” He whispered.

“What?”

“The thought of-of what would happen… when the Legion comes to take you back along with the twins…”

Vi looked at him and chuckled, shaking her head.

“Brainy, sweetie… they would never miss me. I was always invisible to them. Just a nobody who was only sent on missions and such. They only called upon my expertise for battle and science never for get togethersor parties. No nothing like that. …And that’s when I met you, your mom, Little Skittles and Drew. People who I never thought would actually realize I had existed in this life…I could never leave you guys, especially you, you broke down those walls that kept me locked away from the emotion itself. For some reason…I don’t want to lose you either,” she stroked his cheek. Tears formed in her eyes as she held him close and didn’t want to let go as the cloaked with stars and dreams, the Sandman, blew his spellbinding sand in her face.

The next morn came an unexpected turn. After throwing one of her out of control fits, Skittles and Koko was thrown into another Confinement next door the her sister’s. The walls were thick but noise could easily travel through it.

“Now tell me what happened,” Violet asked sitting right next to the wall.

“I accidentally got mad and rebelled against Mr. Big Fatso Impie, throwing pie at him,” Skittles’s voice muffed.

“Big Fatso Impie? Sis, you are weird,” Vi giggled.

“Kokothrew up a hair ball on his head. Mom tried to talk him out of throwing us into the Confinement but no… he wanted to show Drew what would happen to him if he misbehaved! Drew looked devastated… will he be okay sister?”

“I’m sure he will,” Violet sighed, awaiting Skittles response. All she got was silence.

Drew burstedthrough the door with Spike by his side. “Sister! Sister! The Legion! Your team, they’re raiding the ship! Hurry!” He cried, dragging, her out. As they ran down the echoing halls… they forgotten two other lives that laid in their own cage in deep slumber.

Anguished cries of the guards rang in their ears as smoke filled the halls. Violet could hear the familiar voices echo the walls as she ran. This was it! She was going home!

She felt her feet leave the surface of the floor and looked up into magenta screens she loved so dearly. Brainy, now in his mecha version, held her in his armored arms while carrying Drew and Spike on his back.

“Brainy?” she gasped.

“I was afraid of this,” he mumbled.

He landed behind some rubble, hidding them from Imperiex and the Legion. “You can go on from here, the Legion has already taken mother “hostage” so you don’t have to worry about being sparted with her. I’ll cover for you.” He hissed. Drew nodded and held onto Spike tightly. Violet on the other hand looked as if she was going to cry. Brainy lifted her small chin as he handed her back her flight ring and communicator.

“I d-don’t want to leave you… even if you are a…a … DAMMIT! I can’t say it! I love you, inside and out, boy or mecha… I love you, Brainiac 5.0!Even if we are forever more be Romeo and Juliet. Even if-if…” She couldn’t hold in, it hurt too much to even look into those gorgeous eyes of her dark prince. She began to sob as she took off her green flower, her hair fell in her face. Violet took his large hand and placed the precious emblem of her in it.

With his free hand, he push her bangs out of her face, staring into the amethyst crystals that he had come to love. “Hush… shhh Vi, don’t cry, please…I promise when this all over I-I’ll find you and I would be free. I want to live with you… I love you too,” he whispered. He lifted her up a few meters and held her close. This would be the last time he would ever get to hold her.

The android set the Imskan down and they stared into each others eye for a long time. Drew rolled his eyes. Though he was upset himself, the Keonden felt like he was going to be sick. Screw this mushy stuff… just get to the part now.

“AW JUST KISS ALREADY!” he yelled shoving his older sister into Brainy.

Cold lips met the warmth of the human’s as Vi’s eyes widened and quickly closed as she threw her arms around his neck. Brainy returned back to his original state and kissed back with full force, his arms wrapped around her waist as he breathed in her scent. Why did this have to end so soon?

They slowly pulled away and Violet, looked back at him as she ran with Spike and Drew down towards the corridor where Brianna was hiding.

“PLEASE! I DON’T MEAN ANY HARM! I SWEAR!” Brianna pleaded. Kell held her above the floor by her collar.

“Shut it. Once a Brainiac always a Brainiac. You can save your voice com till we’re on the cruiser, lady,” he growled. Timber Wolf, Bouncing Boy, XS and her cousin, Impluse glared at the android.

Fear… the feeling… she was scared. Where were her three babies? Were they alive?

“Phantom Girl to Bouncing Boy, we have recovered Shrinking Violet as well as another prisoner of the ship. All units have signaled that there is no other hostages. We can end this raid.”

“Bouncing Boy to Phantom Girl, Lighting Lad, and Dawnstar, all units retreat and return to the cruiser. Unit 1 has Brainiac 4 hostage,” Chuck replied.

“Brainiac 4? Exactly how many Brainiacs are in this world?” Lightingin lad asked.

“More than just one… this one seems to act a tad bit odd though… more like… human…”

“MAMA!”

“ANDREW!” Brianna cried out as she was dragged to the Legion’s ship. She was thrown into a prison in the belly of the ship.

Vi stared at the mirror as she dried her face with the towel. She stared at her quarters. It had been a while since she slept in the old room. Nothing had been touched since she was captured. A tad bit of dust… but could fix that up.

She heard a knock at the door. “Come in,” she said quietly. In walked Saturn Girl, XS and White Triplicate.

“Hey are you okay?” XS asked, “Imra sensed that you seemed to have your thoughts clogging your brain.”

Vi sadly smiled and shook her head… her laugh… it wasn’t the same.

“That means you’re lying, Shrinking Violet. Come on out with it, girl,” Lulu demanded.

“Perhaps you can show me what is bothering you,” Saturn Girl suggested.

“NO!” Vi backed away. She didn’t want to tell them…

The Imskan backed away, tipping over and shattering a glassof water, the watersplattered all over her new dress. Her friends looked at her, bewildered at her action. Violet looked down and began to cry.

“Violet…” Jenni began to say. Violet broke down and ran into Imra’s arms.

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry,” she sobbed.

“About what, sweetie?” Lulu asked.

“Violet… why don’t we sit in the sitting bay and talk about it,” Saturn girl said as she and her friends led the teen shrinking girl to the lounge. They were joined by Umbra and Nura.

“Now tell us what happened,” White said soothingly.

“I-I fell in love…” Vi whispered.

“What?”

“I FELL IN LOVE!”

The girls’ eyes lit up. “You fell in love?” Squeaked XS.

“Really who?” Dream Girl’s eyes widened.

“OMG! WAIT TILL TINYA HEARS THIS. SHE IS SOOOO GOING TO FLIP!” Shadow Lass cried to Saturn Girl.

“Our little Shrinking Violet… all grown up!” White dried her eyes with a hankie.

Violet blushed. Okay… so she let her guard down… but she let her heart be off guard and it was stolen by her android prince.

“So which prisoner was it?” XS asked.

“Huh?” The Imskan blinked.

“Who? We’ll go and kick Imperiex’s bootie and you two can have the day off!” sighed Dream Girl.

“I-It wasn’t a prisoner… the only guy prisoner was Andrew. Speaking of-”

“Ah- no you stay right on the line girl. If it wasn’t a prisoner… was it a guard? Oooh spicy!”

“Ew! NO! THOSE GUYS ARE GROSS!”

“THEN WHO?”

Violet took a deep breath… it was now or never. “I FELL IN LOVE WITH BRAINIAC 5.0!”

All of a sudden the room went quiet. The girls stared at her with blank looks on their faces as if their favorite band was sold out of the century.

“I’m sorry. But … he- he- YOU DON’T KNOW HIM! Not the way that Drew and I knew him…I love him… but I’m torn between two sides. I’m so sorry…”

Umbra was the first to break out of her trance. She shook her head. A small smile was shown on her pale blue skin.

“(sigh) Well gals… I can’t protest against love nor have the power to control it… this ones a Type: Romeo and Juliet one. Two starcrossed lovers fall in love, their families basically want to kill each other. Blah blah.”

“But this is the Brainiac 5 we’re talkin’n about. The one who nearly killed our Clark, the one who is the desendant of the very first monster himself, the one who is-” White began to speak. Violet covered her ears.

“NO! Brainy was like that but-but- b-but he had another side to him. I was his slave and some how I developed feelings for the boy. I saw something in him… compassion… fear… neglected… he was everything… despite being a figure of evil… inside somewhere… inside those wires… he was something else. Brainy was even the world to the twins.”

“Twins? What twins? We just rescued-” Dream girl began to yap when Phantom Girl called.

“Guys… um our little Guest… Andrew Connel… uh… we have a problem…”

The girls flew over to the meeting room where Tinya, Orange and Purple, and the other guys were awaiting their arrival with Spike in Cosmic Boy’s arm and Drew in some magic shield that kept the Legion separated from him.

“He refuses to eat… he keeps yelling out ‘Diana, Oni-chan, Oreo Chan and Mama’… everytime we close to him, he would raise his staff and send us flying backwards. Violet is there anything you remember about this code names,” Cosmic boy asked.

“I know that he calls me Oreo Chan for big sister…” Vi walked over to Drew’s self encloseure. The Imskan tapped on the glowing force. The brown haired young boy perked up and ran up to her. “Oreo Chan! Big Sister! You’re here! Wheres Diana, Mama and Oni-chan,” he yipped.

“Isn’t his mom dead?” Tinya asked.

“MAMA’S DEAD! MAMA! MAMA! WHAT DID YOU DO TO HER! MAMA!” Drew pounded against his prison, his pupils became small and his eyes went from ruby violet to electric blue.

“Okay… whats wrong with him?” Saturn girl asked as she scooted into Garth’s arms.

“WHERE IS MAMA?”

“Its Lady Areses’s Berzerk trademark. All of her desendantshave it,” Violet stated. She turned to the little boy with the mad glowing eyes.

“Drewbie… sweetie… calm down… Big sister is here. Can you tell my friends who you are talking about,” she cooed.

“Vi, dear sister… I’m not a baby. I know that my birth mother is dead… I meant my adopted mother! Where is my mom Brianna! Where is she! Where is Brianna Dox!” Drew snarled, glaring at the others.

“He thinks that Brainiac 4.0 is his mother? What did they do to him? Brainwash him?” Cham asked as he tapped on the glowing glass. Drew’s eyes flared.

“ANDREW YIN CONNEL STOP IT!” the Imskan jumped infront of her teammate. She turned to Cham, “Don’t intimidate him. You all know very well that Keondens use magic. Both warriors and mages. And Andrew is a Class B mage… and those are considered intermediate warlocks. Don’t be fooled by his age or his size.”

“Vi… I want mother… please… I know she’s here. I want to see her…” The mage sniffed.

“Rokk, please… Brainiachad done nothing to him. The boy mentally needed someone to love him as a parent. And after we rescued Brainiac4.0, some how he made a bond with her dubbed her his mother.”

Cosmic Boy sighed and rubbed his forehead. “Fine… we’ll take him to see his “mother” but we have to be ready incase she goes rouge. I don’t trust her.”

The prison rooms were mostly empty. The Legion would usually just drop off the prisoners at Takron Glatos and move on. Yet they kept Brianna in a special room, made only to keep “insane” prisoners.

Clark wanted to get to know his old friend’s desendant. He remembered Sol and Areses. They were younger than him but they were powerful. He could see Sol being the dork he was, boss his little sister around as he continued his studies. And Areses… small as she was… she had short temper that could flare up anytime. Her electric blue eyes would glow as she swung her sword madly, taking down any enemy.

To him it seemed as if it was only months ago after the fall of Empress Hay Wan of the Eastern Sea was banished to the Spirit world. And now boom… 1000 years into the future and he meets this kid.

“So you’re Lady Areses’s desendant, eh?” he asked. Drew nodded as he tightened his hold on Spike’s leash. He knew very well that this dude right next to him was Superman… Sensei Areses’s friend, but he was so uptight of how everything.

“Whats it like being Areses’s Desendant?”

“Okay… but we lost the title after my sister recived the Scar of a thousand shames. Speaking of which have you seen her?”

“Uh… I’m not from around here…sorry.”

“Its okay. MOM!” Drew perked up and ran to his mother who stood between Blok and Sun Boy. He ran into her arms and hugged her tightly.

“Drew… oh honey are you okay? I was so worried,” Brianna sighed. At least one of her children was safe… but…

“Andrew… where is your sister?”

“I don’t know mom… I thought she was-”

“Oh no.”

Everyone turned to look at Violet. The girl clutched her sleeve. “She must still be in the prison cell on Imperiex’s ship.”

“Wait… are you say… you all didn’t rescue her,” Brianna stood up… her eye screens scanned everyone’s face.

“We checked every corner of the ship. But no sign of a little girl showed up,” said Phantom Girl.

“But there was another passage. Skittles and little monkey, Koko were tossed into the jail cell- she must have fallen asleep… that’s why she was left behind.,” Drew cried.

Meanwhile back on the ship, the Coluan boy walked down the corridor… the warm inside of him went cold and loneliness embraced him. There was no mom… no twins… no annoying pets that the children had found… and no Vi.

His family… his family… he had to keep them safe. And the only way he could do that was to set them all free. Even his little flower who he loved very much. He had to set her free as well. He felt him lips… they were still stained with her lipstick.

And all he had left was a flower… a toy car from Drew… and the echoing memories that he had for the past month. He walked down the prison cells, playing holograms of his memories. Listening to Violet singing, Drew solving 108th grade math problems, and mom telling stories of heroes of the past. But his most cherised memories,Watching the little nutty girl who called him brother struggle to read.

“’And E-dwa-rd, the l-ad-y and the pu-ss and b-oo-ts li-ved hap-pil-y eve-r af-ter…’ Big brother! I did it!” the child cried. She hugged the boy as the hologram faded away.

Suddenly he heard sobs coming from the confinement prisons. That was odd… he thought all of the prisoners were set free. He once again transformed back into his battle form and raced to the source of the cries.

Cell 12…

Brainiac kicked down the door and to his surprise not all of the prisoners had escaped…

There sitting crossleggedin a pool of tears was little Skittles with Koko the monkey resting on her shoulder. Her eyes were puffy and she hiccuped every few seconds.

“B-big Brother?” she sniffed. New tears formed in the little child’s eyes. “BIG BROTHER!” She ran to him and threw her arms waist, bawling even louder than before.

Brainy shifted back to his boy form and lifted his kid sister up and carried her out of the prison cell. “I thought that you all left. Why didn’t you leave with Drew and Violet?” he asked.

“Me and Koko fell asleep… where are they. Where’s mom?”

“Mom, Drew, Spike and Vi were rescued by the Legion, they must have forgotten that you were still down here.” Brainy had to get his sister out of here. Half of him knew that Imperiex would do something horrible to her if he found out about this. Yet the other half was happy that she stayed put. At least he still had someone to care for. But inside he knew that things didn’t last forever.

He had to keep little Diana away from Imperiex… away from his own allies and away from… himself...