The OmniSight Aegis tapped into the Collective Conscious as it descended to the Earth. It had a mission to accomplish:

"Relics. Power. Lex Luthor!"

On it's path to find these things, it had come across, and disrupted, an aeroplane's movement. But thanks to Supergirl, the plane didn't crash. The only lives that were lost came from heart attacks due to the sheer terror of laying their eyes on the OmniSight Aegis.

OmniSight Aegis: A live Titan made out of energy alone with a troubling appearance. No face. No ears. No eyes. No clear appendages.

The OmniSight Aegis then hit the ground and scaled it's shape human size. It followed traces of magic to the building where Lex had conducted his operations: the old New York Sanctum.

The building was nearly empty as Lex and his goons had already relocated to a more viable base of operations to complete the EMP.

Lex, on the other hand, had gone back to Metropolis to prepare for his final fight with Superman. He had every right to believe that this was the final victory and he would end up victorious.

Not only did he have magic and anti-magic at his advantage, he had the EMP that would soon shot to the skies and inhibit Superman's abilities.

The OmniSight Aegis traced the remnant aura of the relics in the building into the streets of New York. It followed this guided path, not aware of the terrified glances that came it's way.

Having been absorbing unlimited energy from the ley lines of the Earth, the OmniSight Aegis was loaded, and fast. It didn't take long for it to intercept the convoy loaded with relics that were being transported to a facility of Metro Innovations.

It dashed to the front and appeared before the convoy, causing the terrified driver to swerve out of the road in terror. One of the vans crashed and the remaining two vans came to a sudden stop.

The OmniSight Aegis observed keenly, giving a stern "stare" at one of the vans. It's sight was in the astral plane, with the collective conscious. It could perceive thoughts and auras, and it noticed the auras that the relics gave out.

Another van showed a weak aura radiating from a sleeping human form.

"Relics."

It then tuned a bit more into the Collective Conscious as it searched for the phrase "Lex Luthor."

"Lex Luthor is surely going to kill us if we lose even the smallest relic." The OmniSight Aegis came across the thought.

"Power?"

"Lex Luthor?"

The transportation crew came out of the vans, led by Mirage, ready to attack the assailant. Before them was a brainless puddle of energy that didn't understand it's mission in clarity. But it knew what it needed to do.

The OmniSight Aegis extended itself and guided it's energy across the convoy, trapping everyone around in an energy shield. That was what it was supposed to do per Doctor Strange's instructions, but he didn't expect that it would actually manifest itself in this way.

Mirage raised her helmet-head and the light from the OmniSight Aegis reflected from her surface. A radiant golden grow with a continuously rippling surface.

She scanned the monster before her.

"Lex Luthor?" The OmniSight Aegis felt the presence of the incomplete task.

"Power?" It felt the uncertainty of that task.

It narrowed it's focus to the group before it. But the only thoughts that flooded the Collective Conscious were filled with fear tainted with instances of courage.

It connected with the Collective Conscious even more, coming across more diverse thoughts.

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"What do you think we should do?" A goon asked Mirage. But she didn't reply verbally. She had never spoken in her entire life, and no one knew what was beneath that dark helmet of hers.

A dark energy swirled in the helmet frequently. She registered the magic aura before her.

"Doctor Strange." She realized.

"She amped the energies within her, efficiently and harmoniously dividing it, ready to defend the relics and the Woman she had been tasked with transporting.

Both anti-magic and dark energies coursed her body and she took a step forward towards the OmniSight Aegis.

The OmniSight Aegis sensed the energy coming towards it. An ominous energy that should have threatening. Dark magic. But it didn't have any feelings, hence no flight or fight response.

It noticed something even more peculiar in the astral plane, where it was connected to the Collective Conscious. No thoughts seemed to radiate from Mirage as she came even closer.

Mmmmhhh?

"Relic?"

Mirage skillfully short a beam of anti-magic energy from her left hand and directed it towards the OmniSight Aegis, hoping to nullify it completely.

The OmniSight Aegis simply observed the futile attempt while it tried to understand why there were no thoughts forming from Mirage. That piqued it's interest, and started breeding curiosity.

It took a "step" closer to her, and Mirage noticed that anti-magic wasn't doing anything. It would take at least some centuries worth of anti-magic to clear of the magic making up the OA.

She switched her attacks to using dark magic gathered through the help of Felix Faust in his time with Lex Luthor. She channeled it into a hex attack towards the OmniSight Aegis. If she would somehow not be able to corrupt it, she would control it.

The hex attack manifested into a dark stick-man energy shape and catapulted towards the chest area of the OA. It penetrated the energy field quickly and stuck to the chest area, the heart of a Chakra.

The hex attack started to do it's work as Mirage amplified it. It first tried to corrupt the OmniSight Aegis through it's thoughts.

That meant corrupting the astral plane where the OA was connected to the Collective Conscious. All the thoughts coming to the OA now started to appear red instead of white. The astral plane started to take a darker form.

The Collective Conscious concentrated with dark thoughts that expounded the current thought process of the OA.

"Relics... are power."

"Power... is everything."

"Lex Luthor... wants to be the only power."

"I want to become... Everything." The OmniSight Aegis gained a purpose, saying it's first words. "I want to become Power."

Dark thoughts fueled by human nature in the Collective Conscious had pooled together and collected to form a conscious for the OmniSight Aegis, collecting into the thing every one craves: Power.

"If only I was strong enough..."

"If only I had more money..."

"I will become the President of the United States..."

"I am the most powerful..."

"I will become number one..."

All these thoughts translated into one simple word that the OA understood: Power. Power is everything, and the OA was about to fulfill everybody's desire by becoming everything.

It now formed the eyes and the nose, taking a complete human form as thoughts built up in it's Collective Conscious. Thoughts on perfection. The eyes now clearly saw the surroundings.

Before it stood a group of people, not just thoughts coming from the astral plane.

It formed the mouth and painted a smirk.

"Are you more powerful than me?" The OmniSight Aegis asked out a general question, honestly.

Mirage observed closely. The hex had managed to corrupt the energy before her. Now she needed to control it.

She moved her hand up and the "hand" of the OA mirrored it.

The hex had worked.

"I see." The OmniSight said, observing the thoughts coming from the goon's minds.

"She has managed to control it. We are saved."

"Her powers scare me."

"She's a weirdo. She never speaks and she does all these insane things with dark magic. It's just not human!"

"You are not more powerful than me then." The OA said to the goons. " But she is."

"No wonder I can't read her thoughts." The OA said again and Mirage zipped it's mouth using her hex and dark abilities.

"You are controlling me." Not needing the mouth to speak it's thoughts, the OA continued and everyone around heard. "Then I shall give you full control."

The OA dived towards Mirage, changing it's form into a beam. It had no mind, no legs, and no hands. Mirage couldn't control it even if she still felt her hex intact. She couldn't control it's thoughts and it's actions.

It penetrated into her body through her really perfect bossom sheathed in her usual sleek black suit. It entered her, mixing with the dark energies and anti-magic energies in her body, until the only essence of the OA remaining on the outside was just the failing force field.

"This feels... ominous." The OA observed. "Is this what a human body feels like?"

"Humans see from all directions?" It wondered.

"What is that soothing sound I hear?" It wondered again.

A female robotic voice was giving a status update. "Systems overloading. Shut down is imminent."

Mirage was a bot created by Lex Luthor and saturated with magic as Lex explored the arcane. With time, she had grown to be efficient and useful to Lex Luthor's heists. She had become Lex's right-hand bot.

The OA moved it's left arm and right arms as it grasped the new body. The Collective Conscious was now rapidly getting flooded with the dark energies, and darker thoughts. Thoughts with purpose.

Just as it was getting comfortable in the new body, it heard a screeching sound as someone took control of one of the vans and bursted through failing force field.

"Aaarghh!!" The OA screamed. It didn't like the sound. "That is not soothing at all!"

It experienced an outburst of emotions and rage set in, causing it to violently destroy all that was around it.