09/19/09

Reminder! Clark+Brainy week starts on the September 21st and goes until the 27!

For my amazing Beta Reader FunkyFish1991's birthday! -hug- (First chapter not beta read because I wanted it to be a surprise) What if Unexpected Changes happened after Broken Gears? Wow, I'm doing a crossover of my own fan fictions. How odd is that?

Explanations: READ IF YOU WANT STORY TO MAKE SENSE!

Legion of Superheroes: Since I've only seen the animated series this is largely based on that instead of the comic books with some influences from them, making this story slightly Alternate Universe. Most of the changes deal with Brainiac Five. I explained most of these in the opening author's notes of Broken Gears which was a crossover with Static Shock and Justice League Unlimited so characters or elements from those shows may come up again here.

WARNING: This is mostly an Alternate Universe story. Also, I'm not afraid to make characters swear. If you can't handle swearing then you may have to block your eyes on occasion. This shall also contain SLASH in the form of two guys liking each other. If you don't like, don't bother flaming. I shall delete them and send COMPUTO after you.

Extra Author's Note: I go back and forth between dubbing Backpack a male and calling him an "it". I do this because Backpack is a machine but I think both Virgil and Richie have said "he" when talking about Backpack at some point or another.

IMPORTANT: This may not make sense if you have not read Unexpected Changes or Broken Gears. If you still want to anyway then the very basic things that what you need to know are that in Broken Gears Brainy and Superman go back in time, meet Static and Gear from Static Shock as well as Batman and older Superman. By the end Brainy and Superman have a romantic relationship as Static/Virgil and Gear/Richie also have a romantic relationship by the end of the story. In Unexpected Changes Brainy is turned into a child of three years old. In the original story Superman and Brainy do not have a romantic relationship (yet?) but since I'm combining the two here they did before Brainy was shrunk but it has been put on hold due to Brainy's new age and belief that he is actually three years old. I recommend reading these stories for full details before reading this one.

On a side note I don't think this series shall be very long. It's just something for fun with short chapters like The Wishing Egg. ENJOY!

Changing Gears

Chapter 1

When Backpack had connected his masters mind to Brainiac Five he had taken the liberty of going through the alien's mind himself. It's programming reasoned that it was for the safety of his master, seeing as they have had dealings with a Brainiac before and it was better to be safe then sorry, but there was a inkling of something in it's reasoning as well. Something that it's downloaded dictionary akin to curiosity.

Moving past the memories, Backpack took a look at what Brainiac Five knew. Most of it was beyond Backpack's programming and he moved it to a folder his master did not have access to, to protect the timeline. Still it remembered everything it had absorbed during the brief connection between the blond geniuses. And it kept that information to himself.

That is until his master began to miss his time traveling friends; Brainiac Five in particular. Backpack's master's partner joked that it was post partum depression but his master kicked him and joked back that "V, missed picking on Mini Supes and trying to make out with him" before returning to his work with a sigh.

Not wanting his master to become seriously depressed, Backpack presented his master with the plans to one of Brainiac Five's inventions; that of the time bubble.

At first his master stared but after 2.05 seconds scooped Backpack up like a beloved puppy, hugged him and petted his camera, which often looked like his head when he walked about, before setting to work.

"V" was seemingly against the idea at first. He didn't like the idea of Richie messing with something called the "space time continuum".

His master argued and, of course, won in the end.

It took weeks but his master worked diligently on his project. Substituting parts that didn't exist yet for parts that did. He often borrowed parts from his mother's hairdryer, his father's lawnmower, which the master's father immediately blamed the missing parts on hobgoblins in front of his son but then hoodlums when alone, and from his boom box, portable CD player and old remote control car.

This time bubble's first attempt at time travel simply blew up. The second one made by it's recovered parts worked through the test of going back a few hours, then days, then weeks. His master thought it was best not to go back any further, in case of disrupting something in the pass.

The completion of the time bubble caused another argument between his master and his partner, the result of which caused Virgil not to speak to Richie for nearly a week before admitting that he understood his point but still saying that he wouldn't try to change it if given the opportunity.

What "it" was escaped Backpack but that matter was dropped and the two of them suited up in their hero garb, preparing to try to take the time bubble to the future.

"Planning on a little trip?"

The partners turned to face what the world referred to as the "World's Finest".

Gear and Static stared at Batman and Superman. The younger duo wide eyed, the darker of the older duo scowling while the other smiled.

Static shook his head, his dreads nearly smacking him in the face as he cleared his head, before turning to Batman.

"Do you have us bugged or something?"

"Something," Batman neither confirmed or denied. "Now answer the question."

"We're just going to go see Brainy," Gear backed towards the opened Time Egg, having been unable to condense it to a proper sphere.

"We'll join you," Superman smiled, following the already moving Batman towards the entrance. He leaned in towards the younger boys once Batman was inside it and whispered, "He misses Brainy too."

"I am just making sure their interference here hasn't altered their future," Batman corrected, though didn't look at any of them.

Trying not to get themselves severely injured by laughing, Static and Gear, with Backpack on his back, loaded into the Time Egg.