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With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)
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Ngamer11
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Jack is a human teenager and one of the main characters of Transformers Prime; June is Jack's mother. Jack is interested in Arcee, so Agent Fowler thinks June should probably know that her son might get into some kind of polyamorous relationship with giant alien robots.
BartlettMagic
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aaaaaaand that's where you lost me
Mr Zoat
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What were you hoping for?
June was last seen here: Plus Two (part 1)
Jack, here: Transformed (part 6)
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Definite shades of some memorable fics on ATTFA here. Just with less Minicon docking. Nice.
Ardy
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see, that at least would have been a satisfying explanation to Xalitan Xor about why transformers was such a big motivation for you. And hilarious if the guardians/guy had to look it up. Context.
Edit: Unrelated but did we ever get a follow-up on this?
Cause of the whole Zod v. Amalek thing...
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No. I'll try and remember to put something in somewhere. If I haven't done it within a month, nudge me.
Ardy
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will do, along with a reminder about Barda and those three (Anita fite, question, and someone else) who were wired into the anti life system
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The third person was Black Orchid.
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Wonder what design Slipstream will choose for herself and who will become Shockwave's partner.
Some things I'm wondering about.
Has Paul met Megatron?
Does Paul know that Optimus is the last of the original Thirteen Primes?
Have you considered having The Last Autobot reviving Solus Prime?
Some things I'm wondering about.
Has Paul met Megatron?
Does Paul know that Optimus is the last of the original Thirteen Primes?
Have you considered having The Last Autobot reviving Solus Prime?
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Remind me who this is?
breach
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You said "Nebulon" earlier (capital letter, different vowel). https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Nebulan says it's -an instead of -on outside of G1.
Extra space before the full stop.
I think the "in" is extraneous?
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Charon i presume.
Ohih, you're reputation continues to grow.
"pulls"
Well "favour" may not be necessarily how Melinoe views him.
"look"
And the other thousand years worth of memory.
I thought he'd act more stern and stoic, since if he was brought back to how he was before his marriage then that's the personality he had.
"I check"
Mr Zoat
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Met? Not really. They've seen each other once or twice, but that's about it.
No, and I'm not sure that's true in this setting.
No.
Clarice Sackville.
Thank you, corrected.
No, fight inside.
Unreal (part 9)
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30th March 2013
01:06 GMT +2?
Bragh! Water in my mouth and up my nose! What-.
Something's pulling-.
And I'm back in fresh air, someone pulling me into a boat-!
My environmental shield splutters and… Fails to engage as I fall back onto the floor of the boat.
"Than-thank you."
"Think little of it." I try picking myself up, but it looks like I'm still a little unsteady. "Few try diving in Avernos Lake in order to avoid my fee, and fewer still emerge so intact."
I manage to turn, and see a pale skinned but otherwise fairly normal-looking man with a pale brown bushy beard looking down at me.
"This was something of an accident."
He nods sympathetically. "It often is. I'm not sure whether that's better than war or not. A war one enters into deliberately at least has a personal purpose to it. Accidents are happenstance." He recovers his oar and inserts the paddle into the water. "What was yours?"
"I'm not totally sure, but I think I disrupted what was left of a Nazi attempt to access Erebos by absorbing residual death magic from the shade of a hydra."
He stills his oar and glares at me with narrowed eyes.
"You are Pavlos of the Orange Lantern, aren't you?"
"Yes. And you're Charon the Ferryman. I… Ah." Can't access subspace. I feel for my pouch-. Yes, there we are. "I'm afraid that I can only offer you a blank coin, but it is one hundred percent gold."
He pulls the oar out of the water and sits down, facing me.
"I have managed to avoid you so far. I know that Lord Hades favours you, and that Melinoë does also. And Akhlys… Your intentions were noble, at least."
"My intention was to fix a problem I could not ignore."
"I don't think I approve of this new heroism. There was a time when fighting against the natural order was considered hubristic, not praiseworthy."
"If no one fights how things are, how will they ever change?" I look around.. at… Yes, this is Erebos. "What's been going on here?"
"King Hades is behaving oddly thanks to someone removing all memory of his marriage."
"Are he and Persephone making any progress?"
"Making them forget their marriage hasn't just made them forget their marriage. King Hades acts more like a youth, while Persephone dances with nymphs and dryads in an entirely unbecoming fashion for a woman who has birthed two children. Their children show more maturity than they do."
"They are several thousand years old. They should both be able to manage their own households by now. Look, about that hydra…"
"Why do you think I am on this lake? Prince Zagreus is on the shoreline waiting for it to emerge."
"Can you just reopen the portal which the Nazis opened? Thana's right on the other side."
"Not as things stand." He moan-sighs, then stands and takes up his oar. "I will take you to Prince Zagreus. He appeared to hold you in reasonable regard."
"Ah, look, my friends were fighting shade hydra heads. I sort of need to get back there."
"And do what? Your rings are dulled and you cannot breathe the water."
"Ah, true, but-." I check my pouches, but it looks like I lost the purple healing ray. "I can.. probably fix that."
"You can 'fix' it on the shore. I am unhappy to be-."
The water explodes behind us!
The boat is thrust forwards as Charon glances back, decidedly unhappy. "Get the other oar."
Where-? Oh, there. I plant my feet carefully as the water surges and the boat tilts, picking up the oar and-.
"It's been a while since I've done this."
"I suggest that you relearn quickly."
Something flies out of the-. Oh they can fly!
Oar in the water, try and remember Dad's canoeing lessons and try and keep it in time with Charon's increasingly frantic-
Something zips over our heads and-. And I'm not turning back to look because I'm having a hard enough time with this oar as it is. In-back-lift-turn-forwards, be grateful that I didn't put my heavy armour on because this would be impossible-. Though I would be able to fly using the kinetic belt assuming that it survived passage.
"Lantern!"
I look-. On the shore Zagreus is putting another arrow on his bow.
"Paddle faster!"
More water surges past us, spray splattering against my back and head and I decide to stop twisting the paddle and just pull as fast as I can.
"Do I want to ask?"
"I don't know you well enough to say. Manning a punt for three-." He gasps. "Three thousand years has not prepared me for this!"
"Then I guess we're-. We're both in good company!"
The air hums as Zagreus's arrows fly like autocannon rounds at what I'm guessing are the hydra heads. And if they're coming here, then they're not bothering the others.
I hear a crunch right behind us-.
"Duck!"
I crouch to the side, doing the best I can to keep up my paddle speed as an arrow fzzzmms through the space I was standing in and hits something, probably a hydra head. I-
"Don't stop, that's the immortal one!"
-don't stop frantically paddling until we hit the shore and scramble onto land and only then risk turning back to see…
Heads, laying on the surface of the water, squirming but almost… Anchored in place by the arrows. And one head, clearly not dead even as blood continues to pout from its neck and from the wounds Zagreus's arrows have made, trying with all its might to squirm up the sand towards us.
"And this isn't even the worst of it."
01:06 GMT +2?
Bragh! Water in my mouth and up my nose! What-.
Something's pulling-.
And I'm back in fresh air, someone pulling me into a boat-!
My environmental shield splutters and… Fails to engage as I fall back onto the floor of the boat.
"Than-thank you."
"Think little of it." I try picking myself up, but it looks like I'm still a little unsteady. "Few try diving in Avernos Lake in order to avoid my fee, and fewer still emerge so intact."
I manage to turn, and see a pale skinned but otherwise fairly normal-looking man with a pale brown bushy beard looking down at me.
"This was something of an accident."
He nods sympathetically. "It often is. I'm not sure whether that's better than war or not. A war one enters into deliberately at least has a personal purpose to it. Accidents are happenstance." He recovers his oar and inserts the paddle into the water. "What was yours?"
"I'm not totally sure, but I think I disrupted what was left of a Nazi attempt to access Erebos by absorbing residual death magic from the shade of a hydra."
He stills his oar and glares at me with narrowed eyes.
"You are Pavlos of the Orange Lantern, aren't you?"
"Yes. And you're Charon the Ferryman. I… Ah." Can't access subspace. I feel for my pouch-. Yes, there we are. "I'm afraid that I can only offer you a blank coin, but it is one hundred percent gold."
He pulls the oar out of the water and sits down, facing me.
"I have managed to avoid you so far. I know that Lord Hades favours you, and that Melinoë does also. And Akhlys… Your intentions were noble, at least."
"My intention was to fix a problem I could not ignore."
"I don't think I approve of this new heroism. There was a time when fighting against the natural order was considered hubristic, not praiseworthy."
"If no one fights how things are, how will they ever change?" I look around.. at… Yes, this is Erebos. "What's been going on here?"
"King Hades is behaving oddly thanks to someone removing all memory of his marriage."
"Are he and Persephone making any progress?"
"Making them forget their marriage hasn't just made them forget their marriage. King Hades acts more like a youth, while Persephone dances with nymphs and dryads in an entirely unbecoming fashion for a woman who has birthed two children. Their children show more maturity than they do."
"They are several thousand years old. They should both be able to manage their own households by now. Look, about that hydra…"
"Why do you think I am on this lake? Prince Zagreus is on the shoreline waiting for it to emerge."
"Can you just reopen the portal which the Nazis opened? Thana's right on the other side."
"Not as things stand." He moan-sighs, then stands and takes up his oar. "I will take you to Prince Zagreus. He appeared to hold you in reasonable regard."
"Ah, look, my friends were fighting shade hydra heads. I sort of need to get back there."
"And do what? Your rings are dulled and you cannot breathe the water."
"Ah, true, but-." I check my pouches, but it looks like I lost the purple healing ray. "I can.. probably fix that."
"You can 'fix' it on the shore. I am unhappy to be-."
The water explodes behind us!
The boat is thrust forwards as Charon glances back, decidedly unhappy. "Get the other oar."
Where-? Oh, there. I plant my feet carefully as the water surges and the boat tilts, picking up the oar and-.
"It's been a while since I've done this."
"I suggest that you relearn quickly."
Something flies out of the-. Oh they can fly!
Oar in the water, try and remember Dad's canoeing lessons and try and keep it in time with Charon's increasingly frantic-
Something zips over our heads and-. And I'm not turning back to look because I'm having a hard enough time with this oar as it is. In-back-lift-turn-forwards, be grateful that I didn't put my heavy armour on because this would be impossible-. Though I would be able to fly using the kinetic belt assuming that it survived passage.
"Lantern!"
I look-. On the shore Zagreus is putting another arrow on his bow.
"Paddle faster!"
More water surges past us, spray splattering against my back and head and I decide to stop twisting the paddle and just pull as fast as I can.
"Do I want to ask?"
"I don't know you well enough to say. Manning a punt for three-." He gasps. "Three thousand years has not prepared me for this!"
"Then I guess we're-. We're both in good company!"
The air hums as Zagreus's arrows fly like autocannon rounds at what I'm guessing are the hydra heads. And if they're coming here, then they're not bothering the others.
I hear a crunch right behind us-.
"Duck!"
I crouch to the side, doing the best I can to keep up my paddle speed as an arrow fzzzmms through the space I was standing in and hits something, probably a hydra head. I-
"Don't stop, that's the immortal one!"
-don't stop frantically paddling until we hit the shore and scramble onto land and only then risk turning back to see…
Heads, laying on the surface of the water, squirming but almost… Anchored in place by the arrows. And one head, clearly not dead even as blood continues to pout from its neck and from the wounds Zagreus's arrows have made, trying with all its might to squirm up the sand towards us.
"And this isn't even the worst of it."
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Thank you, corrected.
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Charon, the unhappy ferrymam. Heh, it rhymes!
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A boat, eh? A good likelihood that he's currently post-mortal, then. Since the lake is connected to the underworld, it's probably a feeder for the great rivers that surrounded the Lands of the Dead. And the gentleman in the boat is likely Charon. Hope OL has his fee on him...
No ring power, eh? Even more likely he's dead, then. Won't operate if he's full of death.
At least he's being generous about people trying to fare-dodge.
And better still than a slow, lingering death in bed from sickness or dotage. At least in the eyes of the Hellenes...
"Ah. You're a Hero, then."
Not quite the traditional two Obol in the mouth, but I expect OL is overpaying for quick service.
Akhlys... The goddess of despair and suffering that he tried to heal? I guess making the effort was appreciated by those who know her.
Indeed. But times change, as do religions and peoples.
Ah... I'm guessing he's been feeling youthful again. Not quite the usual sort of midlife crisis...
Afterlife crisis? That most people go through.Oooh.
I'm reminded of the archetypal meme of the freshly-divorced woman dressing in her daughter's clothes and going out to feel young again with partying and one-night stands....And you're serving as a beater? Or worse, bait...
Let me guess, he doesn't have the administrative privileges to control the gates.
Great. Stuck dead with no rings and thus no inventory access bar what he had in his pockets...
...This is going to be a fun day.
Oh look! More fun! And some exercise to boot!
At least you're in good shape for it.
I was joking about them resembling Castlevania's Medusa Heads...Be glad you're at least getting to keep your physical form for this. It'd be worse if you were stuck as a shade.
Right, then. Time to play the helpless escortee. A rare occasion in escort missions.
Gee, Zaggy, what do you think they're doing?
Well, good to know you two are on equal footing for this little party.
Ah, supernaturally strong archers. Got to love bows that fire like ballistae.
Where's a Punt Gun when you want one...
There's always something more intimidating about arrows whizzing past than bullets. Must be the size and air displacement.
Exacerbated by the absence of Olympus, no doubt.
...Let me guess, OL's going to have to wrangle Hades and Persephone into actually doing their jobs again?I sure as heck hope they're at least dating each other at this point. Otherwise the whole experiment will have been a grand waste and a big old bowl of trouble. And then there's the matter of his currently-up-in-the-air mortality or lack thereof. Gonna be hard to work without responding Power Rings.
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Someone should tell Paul it's supposed to be Silver not Gold.
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OL, as a wise man once sang
"Whatever you do
Don't pay the ferryman
Don't even fix a price
Don't pay the ferryman
Until he gets you to the other side"
Lord Ernest
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I love seeing Zagreus, not only because it reminds me of the Hades game, but also because of his attitude towards the Illustres. He seems to like Paul, in general at least, but he's already so tired of his shenanigans even with knowing him for just over a year or so. For a guy that's been alive for thousands of years that's an accomplishment, that's practically a speedrun friendship.
I'm curious how the Anti-Life crisis was felt or handled in Erebos. And also hopeful for the situation between Hades and Persephone. The Hellenistic pantheon deserves at least one semi-functional family.
I'm curious how the Anti-Life crisis was felt or handled in Erebos. And also hopeful for the situation between Hades and Persephone. The Hellenistic pantheon deserves at least one semi-functional family.
Firewillreign
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On the bright side, at least no one can blame Paul for this one, just regular old Nazi asshole shenanigans.
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Ha! Paul has become rather infamous it seems.
Appropriate that someone who works on a boat would want to avoid someone so dedicated to rocking them.
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Alright then.
Not true to this setting? The Aligned continuity and therefore Prime was where the concept of Optimus being the Thirteenth Prime was created.
Just an a suggestion.
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They haven't decided not to, but 'Prime' is a very toxic brand as far as Decepticons are concerned, and even the Autobots aren't sure how that would go.
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Since he still has his all his limbs, he might be only mostly dead.
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Oooh.
She honestly deserves it after living thousands of years in fear.
Well he's not a death god.
The closest domain he may have connected to death is rebirth, and I'm not sure if that's a thing with him here.
Even if they like each other when their minds are wiped, once they're restored Persephone may still want the divorce since thousands of years of her living in fear trumps a few happy months.
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Good point.