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

Or means that Hephaestean was one of the first made into bitches by it.

 

The ones with some New God blood may be able to use some of it,, but only on the level of turning it off or on.

That's why she's called Knockout.

Is this a good 'oh dear' or a bad one'

 

True, but how powerful is he?

Knockout has spent time around the most powerful of New Gods, so her idea of power is them.

Anyone below them is a Lowlie, even if they're a demigod.

He might have considered that some may want to visit what's essentially their ancestral homeworld.

Or she may just prefer her fists, which given her domain could make them her most powerful weapon.

She may think that knocking him out will somehow help her.

Which it honestly may.

Heck if she kills somebody then she may potentially be able to either claim their knowledge and skills, or revive them to serve her.

Yep.

 

Yeah, Anti-Life isn't really concerned with power levels, but with mentality.

The more emotionally vulnerable you are, the easier it is for it to insert itself.

Heph has not had an easy life.

His dad threw him out and crippled and deformed him, his wife cheated on him constantly, his fellows mocked him etc.

That is not good for anyone's mental health, so he's out.

If he gets infected then every piece of tech is in risk of becoming a broadcaster.

 

Reminder that Knockout is actually the infiltration specialist among the Female Furies. Yeah... I know, but it's a grading on a curve here.

 

Missed one

 

I'm fairly sure Vaermina's referring to the couple of chapters in coup data that got tweaked slightly.

 

"Not. Any. More."

 

The Evil Overlord list?

What's a Tibia? I searched online but didn't get a good answer.

Is it enveloping his body like a seamless mech suit?

Assuming the Illustres doesn't outlive you or come back from the dead.

Stirred as in turned on?

Do New Gods even need to take a shit?

 

The only re-write in regards to Hephaestean was the actual fight chapters between him and Zeus, nothing to do with the actual power up.

In regards to the anti-life, perhaps Mannheim is using a piece of tech, but if he is, its New God tech, not regular tech. And that still wouldn't change the fact that they all currently believe the actual broadcaster is the Dream, since they can't find any regular Anti-life broadcasters.

 

Not sexually.

Yes, unless they've got a very odd God-Name.

 

That's not actually true.

Sufficient levels of metaphysical power can just straight up crush anti-life fragments, or even the full equation.

 

Actually, it was in the spoiler, but some browsers do odd things to quotes inside spoilers... Ah well...

 

Its location

; instead of ,

 

Thank you, corrected.

 

The colour tag is messed up.

 

I'm now curious as to what will happen to Knockout in this timeline, especially since she seems interested in Jade.

 

I thought I'd reached enlightenment
...
Nope
My eyes hurt now.
So much orange

 

That Godspeech, was it directed towards Zartok in regards to Grood? Or is that Grayven using his powers to somehow contact Paul and is referring Zartok as Paul's mutt, explaining why Zartok is so pissed?

 

Godspeech can be used as almost a spell, having a concrete effect. In this case "Muzzle the yapping hound" is used to silence Zartok directly. He is the yapping hound and Graven is the one muzzling him.

 

Zartok is angry that Grayven ignored him and treated him like he was unimportant. Zartok wants to build and lead an interstellar empire and a New God just dissed him by not even acknowledging him.

 

Knockout is surprised why? I mean seriously, she was raised/trained by Granny Goodness. She should expect to be abandoned given she is badly injured.

 

Because she literally can't understand why someone who's already met Darkseid, let alone one of her master's very sons, would do something as disrespectful towards the Lord of Apokolips as refusing one of His gifts.

 

Ah, a few moments earlier, and on to Drusa's POV. I expect we get to see who the Darkstar attacking Knockout is, not that there's much doubt. But there's the matter of that extra Boom Tube. Who opened it, and did anyone come or go through it...

Spoiler: Commentary spoilered for length

Yeah, most New God power stunts do have a range limit. Unless you're hacking into something universal...

And the other woman would be Agnie, doing as she's told without really getting it.

The old saw always applies: A sergeant in motion outranks a lieutenant not in the know. ...And an explosives tech at a dead run outranks everybody.

And there's where we left them yesterday. Now, that Boom Tube...

It looks like someone here is. Then again, this isn't exactly a stable situation anyway.

Ah, yes... Someone should probably go do something about them? Or at least rig them to explode safely.

And there's the Reach shooting.

Welp, time to ride that explosion across the finish line...

Accelerating her consciousness, I see.

Ah, I see now. That second Tube that had Allyn worried was Knockout's doing, then.

...And now a third one. This place is starting to get crowded.

Well, this fight just went up Shit creek without a paddle. Let's hope this is just a cutscene fight now.

Oof. Did he just fry the Scarab out of its' host? Nasty/

Boy, that's got to suck for Knockout. Too bad, huh?

I knew it, he does have remote control access to his little gifts.

Well, that's rude.

...Hell, this whole thing, Knockout's ship getting disable deep in enemy territory, seems like just the kind of convoluted plan he'd think was sneaky.

I'm choosing to picture that as a howl of victory...

...Well, fuck.

...Hooray for mid-battle cutscenes, huh?

Dang, I'm amazed Zartok didn't lose focus entirely there. What with all that anger.

Honestly? Looks like he dared pretty easily, even if it cost him a whole Citizenry ship.

Well, given that most of his gifts tend to be rather bad for the recipient, It's understandable.

...I assume Darkstar Colos might have something to say about that. Then again, he probably decided to slip away quietly and resume his previous task.

Well, that's a pretty decisive way to end an episode there. A pity real life doesn't wrap up so easily. I expect most of the debriefing will happen off-screen, with OL making an appearance to check on Jade and discuss things with Team Zartok. Wonder how badly they'll get chewed out for going off-task like that, even accounting for their winnings?

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...and the fact that Nguyen's sword won't come out...

 

It's pretty obvious Gravyen engineered the whole thing to be rid of Knockout.

And it's interesting that he decided "I'll leave you alive" instead of letting the Reach get to them. Maybe fuel for OL's desire to "today, a common enemy" with him?

 

If I remove it before you post then it doesn't count.

Thank you, corrected.

 

Hopefully, this is the start of a Knockout/Jade romance. Once Jade dumps OL, he'll finally be free to go back to the best girl, Spiderqueen.

 

She knows Earthlings so well.

'perfect'

'sound'

Grayven is capable of a bit more thinking that most of your kind and like Euron Greyjoy, Darkseid's gifts are poison.

She's already taken.

 

The Citizenry is something that he's going to probably need to get rid off eventually.

They have their uses, but it's best to put down a mad dog even if it can help you in some ways.

Bruno Manheim agrees.

Or he'd probably agree if there was anything left of him in that thing that used to be his body.