Little, auburn-haired Ayla Ranzz was walking down the basement hallway of Legion HQ, looking for her older twin brother, Garth.
She finally found him in the gym, lifting weights.
"Garth? Can I come in?" Ayla asked.
"Ayla. Hey sis." He said, getting up off the bench and smiling. He outstretched his arms for a hug but she shook her head. "What, no hug?"
"Ewww. No way. You're all sweaty." Ayla joked.
"Oh how your words wound me so." Garth sighed. The two did indeed hug, even if he was sweaty.
"Garth, can I ask you a question?" Ayla asked.
"Sure, sis, you can ask me anything." He said as he began wiping the sweat off his brow with a towel.
"Anything?" She repeated.
"Anything." He replied before he began drinking from a water bottle.
"Where do babies come from?" She asked ever so innocently.
"*PFFFFFT*!" Garth spat out the water like a hose on full blast, he began gasping for air as his face blushed redder than a Red Lantern of rage.
"Garth?" Ayla asked.
"The stork. Babies come from the stork." He quickly spouted out as he gasped for air. His reply confused Ayla.
"Huh? But-"
"THEY COME FROM THE STORK." He repeated, horrified and embarrassed at the same time. Ayla was confused.
"But I learned in school storks are extinct." Ayla explained.
Oh sprock, that's right. Garth thought. But that was the same thing their parents had told him when he asked. Granted he was a year younger than she is when he asked.
"W-well, Ayla, babies come from…" he tried to say, his mouth and hands trembling, "they come, from…" he trailed off. The thought of explaining that, THAT, to his little sister of all people, made the omelet he had for breakfast perform gymnastics in his stomach. Looking at her innocent little face made him feel like the world's biggest pervert.
Ayla was eagerly waiting for her reply, when her eagerness died down and concern took it's place.
"Garth, are you okay?" She asked.
His face had just gone from red to a violently nasty shade of green. Or brown. She couldn't tell.
"Eh-excuse me, Ayla!" He said, before sprinting towards the nearest wastebasket.
"*HURRRK*!"
Ayla stuck her tongue out at the sight.
"Garth?"
"Ayla… I gotta… lay down." Garth managed to say with his remaining energy, clutching his stomach with one hand and wiping his mouth with the other. He shuffled out of the gym, his back turned to his little sister.
Hmm, I should ask Brainy. He'll probably know where babies come from.
-------------------- I want to be hated by lies - Bring Back Lian Harper
"Oh, hello Ayla." Brainy said, looking up from his lab table. He had on a white lab coat, gloves, and protective goggles. He was busy working on something that Ayla couldn't possibly comprehend.
"Can I ask you something? I tried asking Garth but he wouldn't give me a straight answer." Ayla explained.
"Well of course it figures your brother wouldn't be able to answer. Not to dismiss his intellect, of course." Brainy explained.
"Thank you, Brainy." Ayla said, beaming.
"So, what can I help you with Ayla?" He asked, but he was paying more attention to his work as he began pouring the contents of one vial into another.
"I was wondering where do babies come from?" Ayla asked.
Brainy's eyes bulged out of his head and he suddenly began pouring the vial into a beaker filled with orange liquid, which caused it to turn pink and the beaker to shake violently as it overflowed.
"Where do babies come-"
BOOM!
The resulting explosion threw Brainy throw the north wall.
"Oh my gosh! Brainy!" Ayla screamed, running towards where Brainy had landed. "Are you okay?" She asked. Obviously he wasn't, as his entire face was blackened, save for the area protected by the goggles.
When he got up, he had on the weirdest smile as he took off the goggles. One eye was dialated, the other closed.
"I'm just fine and dandy, thank you very much. And I'll take Kathy Lee and Regis to block." He said.
"Who's Kathy Lee?" Ayla asked.
"But first, a word from our sponsor. Do you ever wonder if your feminine napkins are feminine enough? Let's ask Betty Sue Baker."
"Huh?" Ayla asked.
"Why thank yew kindly, Brent." Brainy started speaking in a Southern accent. "Now, ah'll have you know that on those days when ah hayve a heavy flow ah tend to run out of-
"BRAND A NAPKINS." he suddenly said in a computerized voice.
"Do tell, Betty Sue." Brainy said, back in his normal voice.
"Uh, I think I'll ask Tinya. Sorry Brainy." Ayla said, slinking away as Brainy continued a conversation with no one in particular.
-------------------- I want to be hated by lies - Bring Back Lian Harper
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