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A battle raged above a barren world, the odds against the two heroes fighting side-by-side in the thick of it all, but they both refused to give up; there was simply too much at stake for that.

"Keep fighting, we’re winning!" One hero declared. He looked a little like an older version of Kon-El, but with some slightly different facial features and a different costume.

Brainy turned to say something in return, but his eyes focussed instead on the cannon levelled at Superman’s back and primed to fire.

"Look out!" But he could see that the warning wasn’t going to be enough, so threw himself desperately forward, managing to shove Superman clear as the weapon fired and hit him full force, ripping open his side and exposing the circuitry within. As he spiralled out of control and fell to the lifeless rock below, he could only watch as Superman quickly finished off the last of the enemy’s forces and rushed to his side.

"Hold still! You’re going to be fine," Superman insisted, clutching the Coluan boy’s hand tightly. It felt real and warm to Brainy’s sensors, and he gasped weakly, playing up his injuries.

"No Superman, I’m too—" a break for another gasped breath "—it’s too... late for me..."

"Don’t say that! I won’t leave you here!"

"You have to! I can’t go—" GASP. And a weak, pathetic cough. "—You have to save the... universe... Please..."

Superman’s eyes began to tear up. "I’ll never forget your sacrifice, Brainy," he said. "No matter what happens, you’ll always be a hero in my mind."

"Super—" Brainy tried to say, but he coughed again and, with a final sigh, went limp in the hero’s arms as the music swelled to a crescendo and—

Someone was in the room with him. The moment he realised, Brainiac 5 sat up and snapped out an order – "Stacy, end simulation" – mentally cursing that he hadn’t picked up on the intrusion sooner. Trying to act like he hadn’t just been involved in that simulation, he picked himself up off the ground and turned to face the new arrival.

[[if you’re curious, this is all completely canon, so feel free to wander in and comment as you see fit!]]

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Dani would have asked why he invited her to join then until he spoke the last sentence.

"Hurt?" She asked. "Jeeze, everyone says that everytime I even mention training with someone else other than Dani!" She complained, annoyance obvious. Really, it was getting on her nerves.

"Well, you're the one whose studying the ecto, right? Let me show you what it can do in combat! Even if I got hurt, I'm not some kid whose not used to fighting."

"I don't know why 'everyone' would say that," Brainy said, doing his best to keep his voice level and reasonable (though it was edging towards condescending), "but I'm able to regenerate a substantial amount of damage, create a range of different weapons and forcefields, and fly. A simulation designed to test me and taking that into consideration would be unfair to anyone else.

"And," he continued, "you're right that I'm studying ecto, but as a power source for the most part. Combat isn't likely to factor into that at all."

"If you only study one facet of something, you limit your view of it, then you don't understand how useful it can be," Dani said, crossing her arms. "Besides, if I get too hurt, I just gotta leave the sensorium and then boom, I'm all better. Let me show you just how far a little ecto can go. After all, a real fight is hardly gonna be fair."

Brainy sighed. Clearly this wasn't going to be as easy as he hoped. "Fine, one round. But after that, I really have to get back to my private training session."

Stress on the 'private', less on the 'training'.

"Deal," Dani said, grinning widely. About time someone didn't just brush her off to make sure she 'didn't get hurt.'

"Stacy, begin training program, except without my partner or the..." He hesitated. "...plot I devised. Free for all training."

The scene around them dissolves into the barren landscape again, completely deserted except for the army of robots advancing on them.

"Are you sure you want to do this?" Brainy asked, glancing back at Dani.

"Usually Vlad went without plots anyway. Never needed to achieve a goal as long as I could fight," Dani said. Then a smirk crossed her face, her hands starting to glow.

"Besides, I haven't gotten to show anyone what I can do going all out now that I've been fixed."

"Well then," Brainy said with an amused look. "Let's see what you can really do."

He cast a calculating look at their opponents. "Did you want to show me what you're capable of first? Or just see who manages to achieve the better score?"

"Let's go with better score!" Dani declared excitedly before taking off from the ground and flying quickly to one of the robots, throwing a punch to send it flying.

She was a great deal stronger than her size gave her credit for.

Blink. Blink.

He hadn't been expecting that. This might be more of a challenge than he'd thought.

A couple of robots made a grab for him and Brainy stopped boggling at Dani and switched to his battle form, slamming the two together and flying up to deal with others.

Shame, Brainy. You should know that size doesn't always matter to how strong someone is.

Dani didn't stop with just that though. She started darting around the robots, using her small size to avoid most of the hits before countering with another punch or kick. And when she couldn't evade? She'd phase right through them.

Often coming back out of the robot with a part the made the robot malfunction.

Brainy was doing pretty well himself. He had a lot of different armaments after all, not to mention the ability to simply interface with his opponents and overload their systems.

Somewhere along the way he forgot he was technically competing with Dani though, and would sometimes use a burst of speed and a convenient forcefield to guard her back from laser fire, or make a target of himself so she could take out the robots from behind.

It was probably no surprise that between them they made short work of the 'invading forces'.

Edited 2009-10-06 06:14 (UTC)

Dani didn't forget the competition. She was competitive, so she wouldn't forget it easily, but she did spot Brainy helping her.

And even being competitive, she was fair and whenever she saw a robot getting too close to Brainy when he was dealing with another one, she'd fried off an ecto blast or two to either take out the robot or give him enough time to dispatch it himself.

And it seemed all too quickly, the battle was over.

"Believe me now?" She asked, flying over to Brainy with a wide grin. "That I can fight?"

"I didn't say that you couldn't fight," he pointed out, "I said that I didn't want to risk hurting you with a simulation designed to test my own abilities."

That said, he smiled and added, "but I guess you did prove that part wrong."

"...I thought that was just an excuse so you didn't have to say you thought I couldn't because I was too young," Dani said with a shrug. Every once and a while she would actually read into things.

Dani beamed. "You're pretty good too. Everything you did, that was so cool! With the lasers and the force fields, it was awesome!"

"You think so?" Brainy asked, looking both surprised and a little pleased.

"Your own abilities were pretty useful. They remind me of some of the Legion, actually."

Dani nodded. "It was totally awesome! Even cooler than the stuff Valerie has for her Ghost Hunting."

"They do? Who? And what's the Legion?" Dani asked curiously.

"Well Phantom Girl could phase through solid objects as well, and several Legionnaires are able to fire energy in some form," Brainy answered. "And the Legion is the Legion of Super Heroes in my time. We're sort of a group of teenage superheroes that try and help out wherever we're needed."

"Really? Is she a halfa too? Or a ghost?" Dani asked, looking excited at this information. "And you're part of a superhero group? That's so cool!"

"No, Phantom girl is Bgztllian; all of her species can do that," he explained. "But yes, I'm part of a superhero group. It's.. nice. To be able to help people like that."

Even if the Science Police didn't always see it that way.

"And Bgstllian...would be an alien species, right?" Dani asked. "Compared to Earth?" It didn't sound like anything she'd heard of living on Earth and it was just ghosts that phased as far as she knew.

"It does," Dani said and sighed. "Makes me wish it wasn't just Danny and me who were superheroes on our world. Would be a lot easier if there was a group."

"Yes," Brainy affirmed. "So not like you, I'm afraid. And it is a lot easier to operate in a group. You don't feel quite so... alone."

"Ah, okay. Well, still cool to hear," Dani said.

She nodded. "Did you get lonely before?" A completely innocent question, really.

He knew it was an innocent question, but that didn't make it any easier to answer.

"A little... I suppose," he said carefully. "But that was a long time ago."

Dani smiled. "I'm glad. It's not fun being alone," she said. She looked more sympathetic than anything.

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