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The Legionnaires discover, however, that Cypher's actual "soul" resides in an object known as a Soul Crystal. Cypher's body can be destroyed, but Cypher's spiritual essence remains alive as long as the Crystal is intact. [[Dawn Hall]] is contacted for help in disposing of the body and the Soul Crystal is placed in a safe location near the unconstructed Tower.

==Second appearance==

Lou Cypher -- or the force that represents him -- reappeared in LLH after Brittany Taylor received her powers. Using her invisibility powers, she finds the Soul Crystal in Sandi's trailer at the Legion trailer compound. Once she possesses it, the Soul Crystal begins to subvert Brittany's mind and the Lou Cypher personality takes over.

Brittany/Cypher was somehow able to kidnap Stacy Rowe from the Cedars of Lawndale Hospital and somehow "program" Stacy into believing that she was a robot. The plan would be for Stacy to kill the Legionnaires when Stacy's "programming" activated. However, the Legionnaires traced Stacy's disappearance to Brittany and confronted her at the Taylor Home.

Brittany/Cypher attempted to kill the Legionnaires with a rocket launcher. The attack failed and Jane's defensive magnetic shields made a wreck of the Taylor house. Brittany was able to get the best of the Legionnaires during the inital part of the battle, combining her invisibility with combat tactics, but was eventually knocked unconscious. The Soul Crystal is now back in Legion possession, this time in a safe to which only the Leader and Deputy Leader know the combination.

==Powers/abilities==

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Cypher was also immune to psionic attack during the battle. Only when touching the Crystal itself is Daria able to contact the malevolent intelligence that calls itself "Lou Cypher".

Cypher's second incarnation (as Brittany) appeared to be weaker than the first. The first body Cypher used had the Soul Crystal implanted within the abdomen but Cypher had not had the opportunity to implant the Soul Crystal into Taylor's body. (Taylor carried the Crystal in a backpack.) As Taylor, Cypher did not have the borderline invulnerability associated with Cypher's earlier form. Furthermore, Daria was only able to read Cypher's thoughts by touching the Crystal itself the first time they met; in their second meeting, Daria was able to read Brittany/Cypher's mind from a long distance. These limitations might be due to the fact that the Crystal had not been physically implanted.

It could also be surmised that the Crystal more easily affects targets of low intelligence. Cypher's first incarnation was of slightly below average intelligence; Brittany's lack of

intellectual distinction might have made the Crystal's mind control more effective.

==Trivia==