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Once the Legion regrouped if you will, Paul Levitz had decided that it was time to shake up the group’s membership some, and that meant the exit of a few key Legion players.
The three founders of the Legion, Saturn Girl, Lightning Lad, and Cosmic Boy cast their vote for Legion leader, and then resign from the Legion to discuss with Element Lad (who is reelected as Legion Leader with Brainiac 5 as his new Deputy Leader) what their new roles will be in the group. Coinciding with this event is the fact that the case that brought together these three teens officially comes to a close as the would be assassins of R.J. Brande were due to be released from prison at the same time.
Cementing their new role as “Legion Advisors” the three remain on call when needed, but the vacuum left behind, must be filled and so Element Lad asks Wildfire to organize a mass tryout for Legion membership.
Meanwhile, we find out about Comet Queen who is a student at the Legion Academy. Turns out she has the hots for Bouncing Boy and wanted to be a Legionnaire so badly she had heard about Star Boy’s origin (flying through a More >
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After the Legion defeats the Legion of Super-Villains they find themselves adrift in a bubble in a sea of limbo.
Together Ultra Boy, Phantom Girl, Element Lad, Shrinking Violet, and Chameleon Boy make their way to a strange planet full of industrial machinery making something.. though they are not certain what at first. The only concern our five heroes have is does this planet have the technology to send them home again?
The only thing that was certain is that the planet’s machinery wanted the Legionnaires dead and they began to attack the Legion in wave after wave. Phantom Girl managed to escape the machines long enough to discover that this planet is where the alien race The Controllers, or at least one of their race, have their ultimate weapon created, the Sun Eater. This planet is in full production and is building a new Sun Eater now.
Back home in the Legion’s real universe, Lightning Lass has rejoined the Legion and is welcomed with open arms from all but one, the frustrated Timber Wolf. Lightning Lass makes it crystal clear that she is here for the Legion, not for him, and that their new relationship must be professional in nature from here on out.
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As we begin our next little jaunt through some Legion tales, the theme is exiles. A lot of the team is disconnected and trying to make their way back home it seems, and this thread runs through the Legion from this point on of Legionnaires being “lost”.
The first vignette features Lightning Lass who was warped to the evil Zymyr’s home planet laboratory where the alien in the methane bubble insists upon experimenting upon her and her older brother Lightning Lord. We get the flashbacks of Lightning Lass’ career and how the three Ranzz siblings acquired their electrical powers on the planet of Korbal, how when Lightning Lad died Ayla went and joined the Legion as a miraculously brought back to life Lightning Lad, until Sun Boy pointed out she had no adam’s apple, and we see Lightning Lass become Light Lass in an accident rigged by Dream Girl. Light Lass falls in love with the solo hero Lone Wolf, helps him through his humanity issues and his drug addiction and eventually breaks off the relationship when Timber Wolf will not leave the Legion for her.
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As five Legionnaires lie unconscious and Projectra mourns Karate Kid, Lightning Lass readies to make the landing back on Orando to face the Legion of Super-Villains.
With her husband dead, Projectra screams at the villains to get off her planet. The villains mock her as possibly having gone mad as royals are sometimes want to do.
This is the moment when the cruiser containing Lightning Lass appears and as she comes out of the cruiser to face down the villains, her brother Lightning Lord prevents the other villains from harming her saying that she is now his to slay.
With the electrical fight in full on splendor, Lightning Lass is able to put down her brother Mekt as he rants about the storm having lied to him in his dreams. The rest of the Super-Villains are ready to kill Lightning Lass when most of them pass out due to Element Lad’s reawakening and him changing the oxygen in the air to helium. The remaining five Legionnaires are awake and join a revived Projectra against the remainder of the Legion of Super-Villains.
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On the planet Orando, the Legion of Super-Villains has made its new headquarters, easily taking over the medieval world and downing the cruiser of Queen Projectra and Karate Kid upon their return to their homeworld. The so far silent leader of the Legion of Super-Villain twists the Legion flight ring and says something rather cryptic.
“Then let me twist their alarm signal, as I once did as a Legionnaire—and let them come running to their doom.” – Unknown Leader of the LSV…
The Legion fresh from their detour keeping Mordru under wraps leaves the Sorcerer’s World of Xerox and follows the signal only to land in the midst of one of Zymyr’s teleportation warps, only Dawnstar is swift enough to evade the trap as it sucks Ultra Boy, Mon-El, Wildfire, and the Legion Cruiser containing Shadow Lass, Phantom Girl, Timber Wolf, Chameleon Boy, and White Witch.
On Earth, Element Lad rallies the remaining Legionnaires on Earth to the rescue leaving Cosmic Boy on duty on Earth and Invisible Kid II who is mysteriously missing at this point along with his back from the dead counterpart Lyle Norg.
In the dungeons of the Castle Royal of Orando, Light Lass awakens to see Karate Kid and Projectra imprisoned in machines. More >
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Part Five of the Legion of Super-Heroes roll call.. Here we go!!! 4 Symbols, only 3 Legionnaires though. It’s okay, it DOES make sense, promise.
Here we have Element Lad, represented by the Interlac letter “E”, Lightning Lass, the electric “L”, Light Lass who is the feather, and Dream Girl who is represented by the thought balloon.
Element Lad is Jan Arrah of the planet Trom and on Trom all Tromites have the ability to transmute elements into one form or another. Trom was a very spiritual culture and Tromites never used their powers for evil gains. Unfortunately, Roxxas the pirate was willing to use the entire race to build his personal fortune. When the Tromites refused, Roxxas destroyed the planet. Jan is the only known Tromite to survive the explosion. He joined the Legion on Saturn Girl’s say so under the name “Mystery Lad” and disguised his element changing abilities so Roxxas would not find him. Eventually the Legion encountered Roxxas and he was brought to justice. Jan is now utterly dedicated to the Legion.
Lightning Lass is Ayla Ranzz of Winath, the twin sister of Garth Ranzz. She joined the Legion disguised as her twin brother Garth, after Garth had lost his life in battle versus Zaryan More >
