With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)

This chapter really should have been Paragon's war against the Sheada invasion...

 

Thank you, corrected.

No, feudal inferiors.

Cold Iron.

Thank you, corrected.

 

Now that is how you portray someone pants shittingly terrified. Most fics give us a random mook with no reason to care how said mook feels. It is nice to be a little bit invested so I can empathize. Thanks for the chapter.

 

his -> him

 

Thank you, corrected.

 

And back to Gate-verse to round things out. Wonder how Diabo's getting on...

Spoiler: Commentary spoilered for length

Well, I see he's doing well. Needs to remember to focus on Want, not Fear, but so far, so good.

...Okay, not so good. Focus, lad, focus.

"Well, Diabo's gone bye-bye. Any other suggestions?"

At this rate, he's gonna lose control of the dragon. Unless OL is handling it.

I don't know, maybe he wants it to defecate on whoever he's flying over?

On something much bigger than a wyvern. That would definitely get people's attention, I think.

At this rate, he may well force himself into Fear enlightenment. He's certainly in no danger of a heart attack, at any rate, thanks to Wholeness Rightly Assumed.

Good to see some rational thought at last. Now, back on task, lad.

Show some confidence, kid. You're wearing the greatest tool in the universe on your finger, and have the greatest Illustres of the Orange Lanterns advising you.

There we go, he's finally focusing on how awesome he just was. That's a great help to his desire to continue looking cool.

Given it's modern day military tech, the answer may as well be 'Yes.' Especially when the locals are still wielding spear, shield and bow.

In other words, there won't be quite as much dick-swinging macho bullshit from their leadership. No Americans, after all.

Howsabout not go charging in like a dumb Mob. With Environmental field and Construct Armour in place, you are effectively immune to everything short of a bunker-buster. You have all the advantages here.

Yes, dominating a sapient being with clearer-defined wants isn't as easy as putting the mind-whammy on a dumb overgrown lizard.

Ah, the benefit of OL advising him. Going for the rational, non-combative route. The joy of Diplomancy.

It's something of a near-universal symbol, isn't it? Are there any cultures on Earth that don't have something like it?

Against modern weaponry? Hamburger would be a charitable description...

Yep. Not pretty. At least it'll reinforce his desire not to be hurt.

No wonder people don't like him much. It sound like he's planning to throw his disposable grunts into a meat-grinder.

I doubt it's ever been seen in public at all, outside of formal occasions, probably. Diabo doesn't strike me as having been given much authority anywhere.

Be a badass. You are riding a fricking dragon covered in magic orange light. This is not hard.

Whahahahaha. Time to show these rubes what a Lantern can do.

And now he sees just how tough his desire to stay safe is. More confidence-boosting.

And somewhere inside the ring, OL is smirking to himself about outdated weapons. Good way to show you aren't scared of guns.

And that is how you make an entrance! Bonus style points for him nonchalance. I wonder how long they'll take before one of the Japanese officers steps forward...

Brick joke! ...because he was literally shitting bricks? Eh? Eh? ...Or... Not shitting them as it turns out.

It's almost a pity we'll not be seeing this scenario again for a while, really. I kind of want to get snippets of Diabo and the Japanese sorting things out through jolly cooperation. Bonus hilarity if he goes through the Gate, and OL pops back into humanoid form because the local gods can't stop him.

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You did this multiple times throughout the scenes... Everything I can find says his name is Diabo Sol Caesar... Or maybe Ring-OL just doesn't care enough to keep it straight?

 

No, a faulty assumption of mine that given the number of punny names his would fit that mould.

 

As a ring does he still have to recharge?

 

This is GATE...that...yeah, that really isn't going to happen, sorry.

Remember this is the series written by what is the Japanese version of a hard-right unapologetic nationalist who included a scene where unprepared JMSDF recruits thrashed veteran U.S. Special Forces. You'll get more restraint on the macho jingoism from a Tom Clancy novel.

 

Finally an arc I can follow.

 

So, odds that the Gate MC is a big enough nerd to recognize the Orange Lantern Ring on sight the moment he gets close enough to see it?

 

That's assuming that DC comics even exist in his world.

 

I wouldn't be too bothered if it was just a squad of special forces, the Jsdf are the protagonists so its expected. No what bothered me was that it wasnt just a single US squad, it was an unprepared jsdf vs multiple special forces from around the world... and it was a one sided stomp.

But then again that is far from the worst the writing gets so...

 

NOOOO!

ENOUGH OF THE FUCKING SHEEDA PLEASE!

 

Agreed. We just need an overview of what happened, then we can go to something else.

 

Sadly the next episode will feature them paragon side.

Apparently it's named Cold Iron, something which has a connection to fairies in myth.

 

I mean, Paragon's last episode ended with him discovering that the Sheeda have already started their invasion. The next episode was always going to be about that, one way or the other.

 

Yeah, but I think most people were hoping that it would just have a short segment where he just merges with the Ophidian and eats them, and then just move on to something else.

 

*patpats, offers a muffin*
i know, I know, I hate the psychopathic space elves too!

 

Only if that’s what the corpsman really wants.

 

Honesty would have been so hard to warp this arc earlier? Is getting TNMT 2003 in the future kind of tedious.

 

This is basically the end of 'season 4' of this fic (the other major events, going by rough episode numbering, were the canon season 1 finale, the confrontation with Nabu, the Silver City invasion and now the Sheeda) but usually things are wrapped up in two 'episodes,' while we've had three so far (even if one was Renegade). Unless the Crisis of Infinite Pauls was the end of season 4, in which case it seems strange to have a multi-episode arc so soon after, relatively speaking.

Part of me is hoping for some actual Faerie content instead. I'd like to see how Paragon reacts to/deals with Morgaine le Fey.

 

I prefer this Earth Defense team.

 

IIRC it wasn't a one-sided stomp. It was a bunch of different special forces teams killing each other in a multi-sided fight while the JSDF hunkered down and shot the ones who came at them.

 

Even if DC Comics is a thing in the Gate version of Earth, I'm pretty sure the protagonist was just a huge anime and manga otaku. Not a geek for American comic books.

So someone else would probably have to inform the Japanese what they're dealing with if enough information got out.

 

My understanding is that Gate appeared in April year 20XX, and we aren't getting the Earth dates in these updates.

So this might be happening before orange lanterns were even a thing in DC comics in Jan 2008.

So "Oh, like the green lantern ring?" might be the response.

 

You know... Realistically Paul's actions in Gate would probably backfire...

Because if the JSDF can't actually secure things, they will probably shove a nuke through, and not one of those low yield nuclear weapons Grayven dealt with either, but a double or triple megaton yield big boy that would completely annihilate everything.

 

JSDF don't have nukes. Japan probably could create their own nukes if they wanted to, but it would take months.

 

Affect should be effect.