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Mission: Investigation of Meta activity on Ventura.

Invisible Kid - Jacques Foccart of Earth, invisibility
Kinetix - Zoe Saugin of Aleph, telekinetic animation
Kid Quantum - Jazmin Cullen of Xanthu, creation of temporal quantum bubbles, flight
Thirteen – Dann Hortra of Naltor, line of sight probability manipulation


Zoe Saugin had been reaching out with her mind, alert for anything in contact with her physical body. While the simulation had fooled her five major senses into thinking there was nothing around her or her colleagues her prodigious mental abilities proved things were very different.

While Jaz and Dann had been speaking the young telekinetic had impulsively reached out with her psychic abilities and liquefied any solid matter in contact with her body, her real physical body, not the simulation that had fooled her.

She found herself naked on a cold slab in a whitewashed laboratory. At her side were a selection of melting tubes and wires. Across the room she could see Jazmin Cullen, naked on a slab sparkling as her quantum field created the frozen temporal area that had disrupted their illusionary world. Dann Hortra, also naked Zoe realised, lay on a similar slab twenty feet away. Jacques Foccart lay ten feet beyond that. All three had several tubes inserted into their mouths and arms.

There were also eight people in green scrubs backing away; an alarm had been pushed and a siren wailed just outside the room. Although her head ached Kinetix knew she did not have time to dally, her friends needed releasing and they had to get out of here to find the rest of their team. With a thought the people nearest to her flew backwards onto their colleagues further away. As they struggled to get to their feet Zoe stood and telekinetically flung them again, this time into the pipe strewn ceiling and as they fell she reached out and threw their stunned colleagues up towards them. Half a dozen bone crunching collisions later and the scientist who had been monitoring the Legionnaire in the virtual creation were all unconscious. Before attempting to free her friends Zoe used her abilities one more time to shape some of the furniture into handcuffs that interlocked, confining her prisoners to one space in the centre of the laboratory.

As she approached Thirteen Zoe could feel her blush rise again as she glanced on his naked muscular form. Her Naltorian colleague was, she had to acknowledge an incredibly well formed young man and Zoe hoped she could be professional enough to not let her strong attraction towards him get in the way of their work in the weeks to come. Especially now she knew how beautiful he was without his clothes on.

At the last minute she decided to free Invisible Kid first, he was more senior so she estimated he would have more of an idea what to do than her fellow new legionnaires.

It took seconds to release Invisible Kid, who became conscious almost immediately with a startled gasp. Kinetix quickly explained the situation. Jacques congratulated her before he stood up and asked her to release their friends while he would look for their outfits and flight rings. Zoe was grateful that her naked colleague faded from view as he searched for their clothes and equipment as she wasn't sure how much more she could deal with today.

Dann unselfconsciously stood up after Zoe had freed him and with a cursory glance her way and a quick smile walked confidently towards Jazmin.

"She's still in her quantum bubble. I can’t reach her..." Zoe said, more to make conversation that to inform.

"Not for long hopefully..." Thirteen's eyes glowed as he attempted to assist their Xanthuian friend. "Oh this is tough, altering the properties of a quantum singularity is not an ... easy... task..." as he spoke Jazmin’s field flickered momentarily before stopping entirely. Zoe got to work disconnecting the tubes and wires that kept her Xanthuan friend unconscious and locked into the simulated world.

As Kid Quantum awoke Invisible Kid hovered close by holding onto the teams clothes and flight rings.

"Mon ami, 'ere you are, you had better put theez on..."

Zoe's Saugin had never been so grateful for a green skirt and halter neck top in all her life!

If nothing else today had taught Zoe Saugin that she was not quite as liberated, open minded and ready for anything life could throw at her as she had believed she had been when she woke up this morning.

Hey guys, sorry I've been so long getting these posted, I meant to get these to you on Saturday but had forgot it was a friends big six-oh at the weekend so was away drinking champagne and dancing the night away instead, then of course recovering all day Sunday with the obligitary "Never again".

Anyway, hope this is enough to keep you going until I polish up the next batch in my draft folder.

Thanks for your kind words IB and FL, thankfully some heavy antibiotics and lots of home made chicken soup put me right.

Another excellent batch Harbi!

Genius use of Zoe's and Jaz's powers and amazing intelligence going into their use. Wonderful! Zoe's discomfiture is realistic and I admit I am jealous mow of Thirteen's effortless appeal.

Gim's line to Phoebe was priceless. I wonder what Danielle found?

The suspense in the war zone on Skarford is building up. You do such a good job of keeping the action going while tickling our fancies. Tinya"s sense of foreboding scares me a bit. Love how Harmonia and Cece were smart enough to figure out something is not quite right.

Glad you had fun and hope you get well soon. I myself was sick for nearly a month until a saw a specialist who prescribed an antibiotic cocktail that finally got me well!

Harbinger these missions are heating up.

The mission Legionnaires coming back and Yera psyched about the Academy is great to see. I hope she can convince Gim to go along with her and step down. But i wonder would she still do it with out him?

Zoe was amazing as always. i liked how she got herself and the others out of that virtual reality. Her reaction to Thirteen was cute. Could Zoe be getting over Ghangi?"

Thirteen is appealing and slightly piggish at the same time. its the best way i can describe it. i find myself wanting to hate like him with his "i know i'm hot" attitude. lol.

The war! I'm glad that they figured out it was too easy to defeat The Tyrizzians. Thunder and Harmonia are going to kick some but and i can't wait to see it and see what they find.

I like that Tinya's finally starting to feel better and i hope that creeping feeling goes away permanently.

I like that KK is wanting to continue to learn about technology she doesn't know about.

The Green Lantern eroding the root machine was well done and i liked his like "if there's one thing i know its roots."

I agree with IB that your suspense has been building greatly and i look forward to more more more.

Glad you're feeling better Harbi!

Thirteen, Karate Kid and Starkling are all really growing on me...I like Thirteen's kinda narcissism and Karate Kid's unfamiliarity with technology displayed here...all the foreboding in the tunnels is definitely amping up the tension too!

All comments that I agree with lol! Especially the Karate Kid one, I was intending to mention but I forgot

Thanks again for your support, greatly appreciated.

I've loads of ideas for the new teammates but I have to keep reminding myself there are other folk to include as well.

I mentioned a while back about turning tropes on their head and I'm kind of doing that with 13, I mean can you imagine how you would react if it were Zoe being pursued by 13 because he wasn't happy in his relationship? Just a thought. Maybe he isn't quite as piggish as you think. He certainly wasn't meant to be anyway.

Anyway Laurel will be next, though not tonight as I've still to finish a couple of other posts first, more soon though.

Thanks again guys, always appreciate your feedback.

Interesting discussion on 13 here.

I have to say I don't find him piggish. But like Omni I see the "I know I'm sexy" attitude. And the main reason it is love-hate for me is because I am jealous I would love to be insanely well-formed and able to turn heads without even trying

Of course, Zoe is not quite blameless but I am cutting her plenty of slack as she has not actually done anything yet. I am also withholding judgment on mwindaji until we learn more about his wife.

Mission: Investigation of Meta activity on Ventura.
Chameleon Boy – Espionage Squad leader, Reep Daggle of Durla, shape changer
Invisible Kid - Jacques Foccart of Earth, invisibility
Kinetix - Zoe Saugin of Aleph, telekinetic animation
Kid Quantum - Jazmin Cullen of Xanthu, creation of temporal quantum bubbles, flight
Thirteen – Dann Hortra of Naltor, line of sight probability manipulation
Shield – Laurel Kent of earth, physical invulnerability and tactile psychometry

Ventura rescue mission.
Colossal Boy - Gim Allon of Earth, increase personal size and mass at will
Brainiac 5 – Legion World manager, Professor Querl Dox of Colu, 12th level intelligence
Tellus - Ganglios of Hykraius, telepathy and telekinesis
Glorith - of Xerox, manipulation of magical energies
Wonder Woman - Princess Phoebe of Amazonia, incredible strength, speed, invulnerability, space flight, carries magical weapons.
Danielle Foccart –Kid Computo – Technical support - technopathic communication and control over advanced technology

.................................

Laurel walked slowly around the long table, all the while keeping the distorter illusion intact; the old man may have known she was a Legionnaire but that didn't mean she had to give in to his demands quite yet.

The old man was sat in an incredibly advanced chair, sleek and silver with a flock of small colourful holos spinning across the hand rests. His bald head was liver spotted and peeling. His eyes looked water logged and foggy while his left side appeared slightly drooped, as if he were recovering from a neurological problem. As she got closer Laurel could see a discrete tube fed into the old man’s mouth. This was quite obviously a person of very advanced years. He gave a weak smile as she approached, though she could see that there was no affection in his eyes.

Laurel knew that if only she could touch the man her stasis given psychometry would give her the information she would need to successfully interrogate him. She was only three feet away when a force field sprang between her and the old man.

"Laurel Kent, I’m not going to allow you to get your hands on me. You've studied martial arts I'm quite sure, so I wouldn't stand a chance... Heh heh... I've foreseen you and your garish friends invading my home here for over two centuries now, do you really think I'd let you capture me quite so easily."

Laurel tapped the distorter control pad on her belt, switching the holo off.

"You’re a pretty young thing though as a casino owner I've had my fair share of young flesh over the years..."

"This is getting boring now. You wanna tell me what this about or shall we just wait while my "garish friends rip this badly decorated shit pit down around your ears?"

"For someone from such a distinguished family you have a rude mouth..." the old man’s hand snapped across a holo and a metallic coil sprung from the chair. Laurel ducked just in time as it snapped into the air and ripped across the table.

"If you can see the future you know you need to be better than that to catch a Legionnaire."

The old man chuckled to himself though it was obvious he was not quite as amused as he wished her to think he was.

"My family came here almost three centuries ago. Ventura was a very different place then, a frontier world run by a hedonistic mob boss... Alfonso Dimarccio. He wanted a planet sized brothel to sate his rather base needs. My sister was one of his favourites... "

"You must have been so proud..." Laurel said dryly.

"Oh yes, if it weren't for Kelinda and her scheming we wouldn't be here now... Between my pre-sight and her sexuality the old bastard didn't stand a chance, heh heh..."

"Why are you building an army?" Laurel asked brusquely. She knew she had to get information from the old man and if she let him ramble along memory lane she would be in for a long wait until they got anywhere close to a point. He looked up at her, his eyes twinkling.

"Because I foresaw you Legionnaires attacking me of course... You bloody UP puppets think you can smash me, well not without a fight you can't... you’ll learn that this old bastard has a few tricks up his sleeve before the dark finally takes me... just you wait and see. Not even Superman’s great great grand daughter in her cheap slut’s clothes can barge in on a Venturan Lord and get away with it. The Luck Lords bless those that fight for themselves!"

The circular logic in the old man’s argument was crashingly obvious. The Legion would not be here if he had not started to build the meta-army of his own. If there were any doubts they were gone as at that point Laurel was certain that the old man sat before her was stark raving mad.

Wonder Woman took point with Colossal Boy close behind.

The security services they encountered we're quickly dispatched between them. From behind one of Brainiac 5's force field Danielle Foccart gave directions towards their teammates. Glorith and Tellus brought up the rear, dealing quickly with anyone who's tried to attack the group from behind.

"Professor Dox, the AI's just told me they are free... The security AI has been alerted to send guards... I have asked it to turn off the alarm and cancel the order for additional security so they will be okay."

"Thank you Danielle, you are an asset to the team."

Danielle never stopped looking at the floor but smiled anyway.

Brainiac 5 noticed her reaction to his praise though was too busy telling the team he had brought with him here to Ventura what they would do next to give her a smile in return.

.......................

Chameleon Boy flew through the grill into a huge laboratory space.

Inside there were easily fifty people wearing surgical garb monitoring two dozen tubes with figures floating within. Reep Daggle knew without any further thought that this facility needed to be stopped, they were making the metas that had brought the Legion here.

The Arcturian triple horned rhino he transformed into landed on the floor with a crash, its three ton bulk cracking the ceramic tiles underneath its six wide feet. Within ten seconds he had smashed through four of the tubes and he transformed again; an octoarboreal threw the three clinically garbed people who tried to stop him against a wall. He changed again and a Rimborian Razorbull smashed through two more tubes. As he spun around to charge again laser fire split on of the plates on his back.

He cried out as he changed again. The four security guards that tore into the laboratory added to the confusion as the blasted towards where the Durlan Legionnaire had been moments before. The Durlan Legionnaire was already close to them in the form of a Stanatrixan Burn Wasp. Within seconds he had stung each of the guards on the exposed skin of their necks, the wasp's venom triggering an almost immediate allergic reaction in them, as Chameleon Boy knew it would; humans had no natural resistance to the small creatures poison. Quickly he changed back into the orange skinned humanoid form that the Legion knew him in, reached cross to the door control and punched it, smashing it so the door stuck close.

The scientists in the lab were desperately trying to save their work, but whatever they were trying to do Reep Daggle knew that he was going to shut them down once and for all. As he thought this his Flight Ring vibrated; it was on stealth mode but still alerted him that one of his colleagues on the Senior Team was urgently trying to contact him. As he transformed into a Recombinant Stegasaurus from Zoon he willed the TP function to activate.

<Are you alright Reep, my scans show you are exerting yourself quite strenuously... I can send assistance if you want?> Querl Dox sounded matter of fact as he asked.

<Hi Brainy, I’m tearing up the laboratory where they’re creating these meta folks... all help appreciated, thanks>

<Wonder Woman and Colossal Boy will be along shortly to assist>

<...thanks, do you want me to save some of the technology? I’m having fun finding new ways to disable it. >

<No, I don’t believe it is advanced enough to pique my interest, it’s most likely some form of RNA modelling... thank you for asking Reep>

Invisible Kid led the way, semi-transparent he floated down the corridor.

The alarm had switched off and they had not been bothered by any more of the casinos security forces.

"Zis is too quiet... Unless our friends 'ave arrived"

Thirteen strode confidently behind Invisible Kid with Kid Quantum just behind. Kinetix brought up the rear; she hadn't spoken since they had left the laboratory. Zoe felt conflicted, her adrenaline was buzzing as the excitement of this mission kicked in yet she felt awkward after being naked in front of her teammates, none of whom seemed to have minded which somehow made her feel worse about her embarrassment. Ahead of them a member of the casino’s staff randomly turned the corner at a junction in the corridors, took two steps and stopped, staring at the approaching Legionnaires. His eyes and mouth wide open in surprise. As he turned to run Thirteen’s eyes flashed and the unfortunate man tripped and crashed head first into the wall knocking himself unconscious.

"Merci Dann, we do not need witnesses..."

"Which way do we go now Jacques?" the Naltorian asked, "...we don't want to split up do we?"

"Non, you are right."

Jacques Foccart raised his right hand and willed the holo mapping function of the flight ring into action. As he did Jazmin Cullen walked past and glanced left and right down the corridor. "We're clear." Kid Quantum remained at the junction as her teammates considered their options, a lookout in case of any other unexpected casino staff accidentally discovering them.

"Why isn't the alarm ringing anymore?" Zoe said to herself as she glanced back the way they had just come.

"... Eet is because our friendz are 'ere... Two level up and ... Danielle iz with them?" Jacques was obviously surprised but smiled at the thought of his sister becoming socially confident enough to venture away from Legion World. He could see from his flight ring read out that Brainiac 5 and Glorith were with her so was reassured the socially awkward young girl would be supported.

"Two levels up?" Kinetix asked. With a glance the ceiling above them started to peel away.
"Better hope none of them are stood directly above us..."

Mission: Report of imminent war on Skarford vi

Harmonia, Professor Harmonia Li of Earth, natural elemental
Timber Wolf - Brin Londo of Zuun, enhanced strength, speed, agility, reflexes and senses
Dragonwing - Marya Pai of Earth, breathes Dragon fire and acid
Backlash, Mrruaw M’Nau of Simballi, enhanced strength, speed, senses, absorbs kinetic energy to boost own size and mass
Gazelle - J’izl Dtutuu from the Khundian Battle Brigade, of Khundia Prime, enhanced strength, speed, agility and metabolic control
Phantom Girl – Senior Team member, Tinya Wazzo of Bgtzl Dimension, intangibility
Wildfire - Drake Burroughs of Earth, composed of sapient anti-energy, extreme strength, speed, durability, space flight, anti-energy blasts
Titan - Nasir N’Cube of Titan, telepathy, and with the Shazam abilities – immense strength, speed, indestructibility, space flight, wisdom
Green Lantern, Chloraja of J586, sapient plant possessing a Green Lanterns ring
Night Girl, Lydda Jath of Kathoon, incredible strength and durability out of direct sunlight
Karate Kid – Mithindrivithis Ngandraffa of Lythyl, strength, heightened reflexes, mimetic motor learning giving incredible martial skills
Flash, Terri Sam’aa of Earth, phenomenal speed
Dragonmage, Xao Jin of Earth, manipulation of magical energies using dragon forms
Sun Boy – Deputy Leader, Dirk Morgna of Earth, generation of intense light and heat
M’Windaji - Gahaji of Kiringyaga, super tracker, carries the Ruby of Life allowing tactile transformative magicks
Ferro - Douglas Nolan of Earth, can assume invulnerable iron isotope form
Thunder, Cecelia Becks of 21st Century Earth, immense strength, speed, indestructibility, space flight, wisdom
Lexikon, Princess Daheenisha of Tamara iv, enhanced speed, strength, durability, flight, omni-linguist
Cosmic Boy, Rokk Krinn of Braal, manipulation of magnetic fields – mission leader
Otaki, Bina Nawoti of Earth, mindsense
Power Boy - Science Police Officer Jedidiah Rikane of Earth, personal density control
Gravity Kid, Science Police Officer Tel Vole of Earth, manipulation of personal or nearby gravity
Dr Richard Kent Shakespeare -Impulse – Chief medical officer - enhanced strength, speed, durability, stamina

The quiet sorcerer had summoned another dragon-form to search for their opponents. It ranged ahead of the Legionnaires, sniffing the air before them. When it found any of any warmongers it burst into a stroboscopic incandescent glare and scream loudly as it flew towards them. It was the perfect distraction; a glowing screaming dragon was enough to capture anyone's attention! Lydda followed up the dragons attack with one of her own. Wrapped in shadows she was almost invisible in the dark tunnels so she caught the warmongers unawares as their attention was focused on the dragon spell Xao summoned.

They had just finished a rather fun little encounter when the conduit tubing that ran along the caves flashed with an emerald flame. Xao cheered as it passed him by.

"We're winning here, aren't we Lydda... This is great. We'll be home for supper at this rate."

Although Lydda agreed she said, "Maybe. Come on, we're not done yet, so summon another of those dragons and lets finish here, okay?"

"Oh... Yeah... Okay." The sorcerer concentrated and held his hands out, a green light sprung from his palms and formed into another dragon form to chase down their enemies.

Lydda was impressed; he may be young and inexperienced but Dragonmage was a capable and hard working member of the team, when motivated. Lydda knew him from the Academy and was well aware that he was potentially one of the most versatile and powerful members of the team, if only he could match his confidence to his power.

As she flew behind the tracker Dragon her mystic former student had send down the cave Lydda knew that she lived for these moments, where her strength and wits would make a difference. If only Dragonmage could feel that buzz he’d stop over thinking and just get on with doing... he’d be a lot more settled in this role.

As Xao followed his Dragon-form he was wildly aware that this tactic of flying along caves and fighting the Tyrrazians in combat when they came across them was not the most efficient use of the Legionnaires time. It was almost as if the more senior teammates were just using this war as an excuse to cut loose and have fun...maybe, he thought, he should follow their example and try to enjoy the experience.

But still, within the depths of Xao’s self the Jade Dragon that gifted him the bulk of his magical abilities warned him not to become to reckless; this was not an exercise, there was a world full of life above the tunnels that were relying on the Legionnaires to protect them.

Bina Nawoti lightly placed her fingertips upon Rokk Krinn's head.

The Legion Founder didn't react though she could feel how hot he was under her cool touch. She emptied her mind and simply focused herself on what was directly before her. As her psychic abilities stretched out she was immediately taken by a sense of sadness and emptiness. It felt like the Braalians mind had retreated from his surroundings... She had sensed something like this once before when Professor Aven had introduced her to a woman who had recently been widowed after 67 years of marriage. It was as if the mind were protecting itself by removing any direct contact with the world around the person. Aven had described it as a catatonic episode.

She blinked and turned to Dr Shakespeare who was leaning casually on a storage unit at the side of the cruisers small medi-bay.

"Kent, he's in there but not wanting to interact with us... or... well, with anything. It’s almost like he's gone into shock."

"Yes... My readings came to a similar conclusion. I've also found a strange protein in his blood; that must have been what was used to induce this state. I wonder why they did this to him..."

"Perhap his magno-kinesis? I mean, everyone in the galaxy knows of Cosmic Boy so they must have recognised him, don't you think? And if they are excavating this planet..."

" ...Who better to strip metallic ores out than a Braalians super athlete! Very clever Bina, yes that makes sense."

Otaki smiled thinly. "So we can guess why they tried to take him but what do we do now...?”

Dr Shakespeare smiled warmly at the young woman, “That bits the easy part, as now we fix it with a designer phage that'll target these little protein bombs. You don't think Brainiac 5 would allow a cruiser to be anything other than top of the line do you? The man really does think of everything." the large man smiled as he activated the medi-bays hard light control panel, instructing it to create a cure for the poisonous proteins they had found in Cosmic Boys blood.
"So... I think it’ll be twenty minutes to design... Half an hour to build and I'd say another four hours and we'll have Rokk back on his feet again as good as new, ready to dance the Shurgg with Lydda."

“Do you think...” Bina said excitedly, “...that this protein could be how they controlled the B’Lari army as well? Maybe we can cleanse the filth from their bodies too with your cure? Save them from any future interference?”

"That’s nice ...and what about Tel?" Jed Rikane asked from the doorway.

Dr Shakespeare turned and looked at the muscular purple skinned young man and said, "He'll be okay after some rest... Three hours tops Jed so please don't worry, your husband is in good hands. If you want to go join your friends down there in the tunnels to win Dirks offer of a night on the town then off you go, I'm sure we'll be okay up here without you."

Power Boy harrumphed as he turned and walked through to the side cubby where his husband lay asleep in a healing tub.

Otaki and Kent Shakespeare shared a small grin as the doctor turned back to the hard light control panel. They both understood without having to say a word the frustration and worry their colleague felt.

On board the legion cruiser Harmonia stood at the controls speaking with holos of Sun Boy, Night Girl and Phantom Girl.
The ancient elemental had explained her plan to her senior team colleagues and they had all agreed, though until she succeeded they would continue their running guerrilla battle with the Forge Chosen in the tunnels that criss-crossed the world’s crust. As she closed the holos down she noticed that they were approaching their target; the edge of the recently nuked desert the Falmoroids called their Great Nest. The cruiser’s sensors had picked up a large gathering of the crystalline beings below; almost eighty thousand within a ten mile radius.

As the cruiser spun down to a relativistic speed to the land below Harmonia could feel the telepathic probing from the Falmoroids. She cleared all the superficial thoughts she had away to allow the ancient race access to her motives. She felt the pressure inside her skull subside and be replaced by a welcoming buzz.
The Falmoroids had accepted her offer to help.

She placed the cruiser on to hover mode and exited from an airlock. As she gently floated to the ground below Harmonia could see that Titan had already joined the ancient crystalline race below. She could feel the telepathic conversation around her as her psychic teammate introduced himself. Harmonia had no concerns about Nasir N'Cube, he was to her mind the most professional of the most recent tranche of new Legionnaires.

"They agree Harmonia, I will share with them what I’ve learned about the psi-baffle pattern that the Warmongers use so between that and the Falmoroid’s collectives telepathic gestalt we may be able to neutralise our opponents en masse in one psychic blow. Let’s keep our fingers crossed..."

Harmonia smiled broadly.

And just in case you thought things were going too well...

Legion World, 2.5 Light Minutes due galactic north of Saturn, Sol system.


Starkling could sense a presence... It had a particular resonance that the composite being recognised as belonging to their missing comrade and former Legion Academy tutor Jenni Ognats.

The small ball bearing like parts of its being congregated from all across the engineering deck in the space where the feeling was felt the strongest. It was as if XS was there yet in a slightly separate room, just a half step away... Starkling could not puzzle it out as it had never encountered such an odd sensation before. It was aware that Ming Sul, the newly appointed Investigative Officer had raced over to stand beside the swirling mass its form created.

<Jenni... XS... Where are you? What can we do to assist your return?> the telepathic cry was concentrated upon the one place. For several seconds there was silence before a distant voice echoed wekly a returning call.

<Starkling... Starkling if tha.... please .... Brainy that we ..... nd we need a di...ens.... esonat.... to thi.... ency...> the missing Legionnaire's telepathic voice faded away.

<Jenni! Jenni! Please tell us again what can we do to assist you?>

Amp Girl had been listening in through the telepathic relay from her earplug. "Damn it! Did you make out what she was asking for? No? Blast... Though at least She'll know we're looking for her now Starkling, so that's something at least... Now, we need to get some help here. Brainiac 5 and perhaps Tellus or Titan to help you communicate with her.... What do you reckon?"

"I'm afraid that is not our immediate concern anymore." Gear sounded firm as his voice echoed across the deck, though the Linsnarian was nowhere to be seen, "It appears we have been infiltrated. We must leave Jenni for now while we protect our home."

Yera and two Luornu's sat in the Mission Monitor Control Room.

The Durlan had explained her ideas and listened in stunned silence as the senior Legionnaire described the work load that she and her husband had taken on when they had ran the Academy. It was far, far more than Chameleon Girl had ever expected.

"Skrattle's Ghost! How did you cope?" Yera exclaimed, "When did you get time for yourself?"

"What's that?" said both Luornu's at the same time. They laughed.

"...excuse me, I think I'm lost."

The Legionnaires turned around, surprised that they had not heard anyone approach. In the door an Ambassadorial aide from the party that Element Lad had arranged a tour for looking sheepishly in on them. The aide gave the room a quick glance around the whole room before stepping in. Both Duplicate Girls selves stood up but as they did Yera gave a warning cry. When the ambassadorial party had spun into orbit they had been thoroughly scanned by the technology Brainiac 5 and Gear had fitted their planetoid base with and had been given the all clear. Her antennae though were giving a very different reading to what her eyes told her the young man should look like. The Durlan’s shape scanning sense needed to be close to read the subject bur it was accurate enough to notice differences in pore patterns on the skin at 12 feet away...Whoever it was in the door they were must have been wearing a sophisticated holo-disguise. Even as Yera cried out she transformed herself into a Schellian Raptor and dove at the young man.

She was not quick enough to save Luornu Durgo as the Cargggite was blasted across the room. Chameleon Girl smashed the attacker in the face and as he fell she quickly changed into her Legionnaire form and grabbed an incapacity cuff from the small pouch on her belt, snapping it across his wrist.

Yera Allon ducked back into the room to check on her fallen Cargggite friend. Both Luornu Durgo's selves had taken blasts to their stomachs and were on the floor unconscious. Before she could do anything else she heard heavy footsteps approaching. Without stopping to look who could be coming Yera reached does to one of Lu's selves belts and activate the Distorter. Within a second it appeared that an unconscious Chameleon Girl was curled alongside the blasted Duplicate Girl. The real Durlan had transformed herself into a fourth chair.

Two of the Ambassadorial aides rushed into the Mission Monitor Room, guns in their hands.

"... At least Schendakk blasted them as he fell."

"He will face the Forge for his stupidity, idiot got snapped..." the second aide said as he examined his fallen comrade.

"Yes... Leave him, we will take the credit for neutralising the Legionnaires and controlling this hub. We can monitor their teammates from here and control their communications with ease. They won't be able to do anything now without us knowing."

The aides sat down on the seats Luornu Durgo had just stood up from and leaned over the hard light control panel

Sade was knocked out by a small anaesthetic patch stuck onto the back of her hand. She didn't even have time to lift her hand to see what it was before she fell to the floor. The same trick had already taken out Tyroc, Chemical Kid, Comet Queen and Element Lad.

Two of Duplicate Girl's selves saw the attack on Sade and ran towards their fallen comrade though both where blasted in the stomach and fell mere feet from the attacker.

Mon El knew none of this. He was glad that the ambassadorial visit was coming to an end.

He had just shown some boring little woman with a pinched face and bad attitude, along with her four dreary staff into the Warp Control Room; it was the last place on their visit, with a surprise appearance by Henry planned to warp them up to their craft on the Northern Docking bay. According to their itinerary Sade had led a similar party along this way five minutes before and he hadn't heard her complain since so assumed she'd gone for long sonic shower to clean the political slime off her soul.

As the ambassador from some small world that had just been granted full UP status stood in front of the Daxamite there was a rustling behind him. Mon El turned his head and smiled as the aide stood to his side took a small bag from his jacket pocket. The aide smiled back and drew out a small gun. Even as he did Mon El stepped back but as he did the aide at his back another aide slapped a small egg shaped object against the Daxamite’s head.

Lar Gand felt a momentary dizziness and then the world went dark.

"Stupid creature believed he was invulnerable... The Chosen Forge always find their enemies weakness."

As the supposed ambassador finished speaking her disguise melted off her body revealing a small pot bellied red skinned woman with dark eyes and a blue Mohawk with silver beading running along her hairline. She drew another small egg shaped object from her pocket and placed it on the fallen Daxamite’s back; a sphere of blue light erupted around it, an obvious stasis field.

"The other Legionnaires and most of their damned recruits are ours as well. We now have only the support crew and a couple of the children left and this world will be ours."

Before the pot bellied woman could respond to her aide the Holo-man known as Henry appeared before the invaders.

“History will not remember your names; stop now before this goes any further.”

A violet and honey hued warp appeared behind them and as two were tore off their feet and flung into it the third reached under his long jacket and brought out three of the egg shaped devices. Even as he was being dragged into the spatial warp the invading warrior flung these eggs at the giant mushroom shaped console where Henry’s identity matrix and warp powers came from. The three eggs hovered above the control and emitted a cone of energy. The warp stopped immediately and the holo fizzled out leaving a static hiss behind.

“Keep that machine under control, we will dissect it after we have neutralised the rest of the Legion scum on this base.”

Hey all, apologies for thje long delay in between posts of late, these are all the completed sections I have for this arc so it'll be a week or so until I have time again to polish up the next few sections and post them for you.

Wow! Just when you thought it was safe, another curveball! Happy to see you back too Harbi, I was missing this (though didn't want to post bumping up as I thought you might be busy elsewhere).

I guess it's safe to say that Ventura isn't connected to Skarford VI or the Legion World invasion, but could the latter two be connected?

Brainy's dismissal of the value of the tech on Ventura was so him.

Liked Laurel being all super-spy.

Good insight of Dann, don't split up! And Zoe peeling the ceiling was an amazing visual. In one short scene, you gave all four something to do, great job! Jacques' happiness at Danielle's participation was nice too.

The team on Skarford VI is immense! liked seeing the less confident Xao and Bina making huge contributions. I empathize with Jed's concern over Tel, if that were Blaze in there I would act that way too...

If Cos is in a catatonic state, will the bad guys be trying to control him? Could he suddenly "wake up" and attack his teammates? Uh oh!

Liked Harmonia's calm under pressure.

Titan IS extremely professional. He's making the rest of us look bad! It would be interesting to see what weaknesses he does have. Is he too much of a perfectionist? unable to maintain a relationship?

Oh no, an invasion... at least Yera, Ming, Starkling and Gear remain free! Looks like it's their chance to step up. I love how you give even the students and supporting staff a chance to shine. Quick thinking from Yera, and I liked Lu's line about time for themselves.

XS and resonance. I've been waiting to see her and her missing teammates show up again.

Nice bit of Henry (or at least the Henry AI, to be accurate) acting on its own to warp some of the bad guys away. Cool!

Goes without saying but More, more, more!

Harbinger these were some really good post and i'm glad to see you're back at it.

XS and Starklin trying to reach her was well done.

Cham on the rampage was really cool and loved the descriptions of the forms.

A two pronged attack! i knew those battles were going to well. Tyranzzin's have something crazy in mind...although Henry says history won't know there names...

I love how you write Dragonmage and how powerful he could be. i liked Lydda's encouragement for him.

I'm looking forward to seeing how the Legion defeats them.

Laurel's spying is well done and i wonder who this old man is and what his final plan is..if he forsaw centuries ago that the LEgion would attack him then he would need an army, which brought them there, doesn't rule out that old man helped the Tryrinzzina's spread the legion to thin...idk

Zoe's embaressment is cute.

and i guess piggish isnt the right world for Thirteen but his over confidence is a love hate but i do like how he's learning and contributing to the team.

and i'll agree again with IB, i'm just jealous and would love to turn heads like that.

I can't wait for more.

Guys, thank you again for your feedback.

Theres lots going on but I hope it'll all become clear very soon. IB, it's the Tyrrazians that have invaded Legion World, they do love a moveable planetoids base!

Omni, you've kind of nailed a twist I was planning on introducing, I still will and when you read it give yourself apat on the back.

Henry is still kind of Henry but without direct access to the future knowledge that he once had, only whatever is in his memory banks from before he took his place at the Time Beacon at the end of part 3. I've intentionally left him a bit vague as its fun to have this mystery right at the heart of the base. As for Legion World, well one of the support staff is away to earn their pay in what I hope is a most epic style.

More XS, Spear of Artemis and Dkyun Mu soon as I plan to resolve that storyline in the next arc. Not sure if everyone will be happy with my plans but I have long term ideas that will make sense of it all. I've started plotting out part 5 already so stay with me please, I plan on getting really cosmic.

Thanks again guys, I always appreciate your comments.

Oh this sounds all sorts of exciting!

Looks like Omni did hit the nail on the head, so all 3 are linked somehow. Knew the timing was too good to be true, and sounds like the perfect plan, keep most of the team occupied to make it easier to handle the rest!

Definitely looking forward to more epic-ness and cosmic-ness!

Hi all, I have some problems with word documents on my PC at home right now and cant find an online update that sorts it out so until I can get that fixed it may be a while before I can post anything else here. Sadly I cant figure out how to work on my iPad but am looking into it. So sorry but this story will have to go on hiatus until further notice.