"There is nothing wrong with me."
Brainiac 5 stood there staring at her, eyes focused on her face but his expression blank. Kara knew Brainy. He wasn't cold. He wasn't emoitionless. He was awkward and dorky, wore his heart on his sleeve. He cared about his friends. He didn't just leave them behind.
"You let Nia and J'onn get captured by the Agents of Liberty! They could have been hurt or worse."
"We rescued them. We rescued all the aliens they were just included in the crowd."
"That isn't the ugh!" Kara wanted to turn away and couldn't hide the disgust in her voice. "This isn't you."
"How do you know?" Brainiac 5 took a step towards her, a flicker of emoitions crossing his face almost too fast for Kara to read. "How much time has passed since our last real conversation? How do you know this isn't who I am?"
Kara hated to admit it, Brainy had a point. "I have been-"
"So busy dealing with Lex Luthor and Ben Lockwood?" A slight smirk lifted the corner of his lips. "As you should have been. Friends are worthless. They hold you back."
"I know you don't believe that. You have friends here, in the future!"
"What? Mon-El? Imra?" Brainy turner away from her, letting out a cold laugh that chilled Kara. "The Legion saw me as a liability if left on my own and gave me no choice in joining. Yes before my Realignment I thought they were doing it out of the goodness of their hearts but they just wanted a pet Brainiac for their Legion."
Kara hadn't been told how Brainy had come to join the Legion. She had heard bits and pieces from him, but he never gave her a clear answer. She knew he had been living a dangerous life before the Legion and they had given him a choice. He could either join the Legion or go to jail. She knew there had to be more to it. Mon-El wouldn't have let Brainy in if he hadn't seen something good in him. The same thing Kara still saw in him even now.
"It must have been easy to leave me behind here in the past, with no one around who trusts me. But that doesn't matter now. Realignment has allowed me to see the flaws I had been allowing everyone to push into me. The legacy they were afraid of, I should have been embracing."
"No. Brainiac isn't you. You aren't like him!"
"Why shouldn't I be like him. I could save you, save everyone. I could," the emoitions that had been filling his voice drained away, "bring order to your chaotic human world?"
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