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

I actually feel bad for Khan here since he obviously values L-Ron a great deal in his own way. I pity the fool that did this because the Comic King will have no mercy for stealing his property.

 

'roll'

edit: ninja'ed. I was about to post an edit from my iphone ten minutes ago, but it was an iphone. You can probably guess what happened.

 

Considering that Dr Mist has white enlightenment and is a 11.000 year old sorcerer I think he'd have at least some skill in reading the emotions of other people using his magic and any powers he may have gotten, aside from his immortality, when he saw the White Entity.

Probably not as strong as the paragons since his soul is made of a piece of an Entity, but still.

 

Thank you, corrected.

No, that's correct.

 

Today on "What resources did Paul forget he could use" we have.

Super Geniuses living on Venus

Kyrptonian Space Station

Scott Free and his Motherbox

 

No, I think that's okay.

Thank you, corrected.

 

USA and Justice League: I see this as an absolute win!

 

Was referring to this:

He has a power ring, one of the universes most advanced pieces of technology.

The tech Supes and the Sivanas have may be more advanced than a large portion of the universe, but it still may be inferior to a power ring.

Supes may not even have any scanning devices with him, he may have the knowledge on how to build them in his records of Krypton, but probably not physical versions.

The Motherbox that Scott has is one Barda took when she killed a soldier from New Genesis, unlike the renegades FatherBox and later MotherBox that one didn't use to be one of the Boxes belonging to a brilliant New God scientist, so its unlikely to have some of the more advanced functions of the renegades Boxes.

 

Oh, boy... This is going to be a loooong day for OL, isn't it? With any luck, it'll be something simple he can take his frustation out on without regrets...

Spoiler: Commentary spoilered for length

And those below are going to get shit on from such a height, they'll think God himself is taking a dump...

...Is he on the 'phone' to his Insurance agent?

Honestly, I am not surprised. This is entirely in character for him.

He needs the proper 'Karen' haircut for best effect... Which simply raises amusing images of him with hair at all...

Can the smarminess, gape-face. This is a serious investigation.

<Pinches nose> Khan... You might be forgetting something.

He better be amazingly powerful when suitably motivated, because he is not making a good showing of worthiness right now.

Well, since he hasn't answered... I'd say that's a sucker's bet.

Good thinking. What's the frequency, Kenneth Khan?

Hiuh, he really is powerful when motivated. I hope no-one takes that pulse wrong, though.

So his brain (as it were) is aglow with whirling, transient nodes of thought careening through a cosmic vapor of invention. How Blanc-ian of him.

Not the L-Ron he wanted. That's a damn good motivation to track him down.

Because they might think of something he can't. Good plan.

Oooh, scary. But I'm hoping it's something less predictable than that...

And such things tend to be flashy, whether by nature or by design. And if some Malign Hypercognitive had done this, they'd be crowing about it...

Must have been some magic, to operate this far from a planetary Thaumaturgic field...

Bugger. A random bleed portal, perhaps? Or would that be detectable with Maltusian tech?

What the... Something he didn't want to say? We've seen that before. Please tell me he has spare meds ready.

Or some hidden feature of the alien tech they used as the design. Who knows what hidden trojan horse code was in a black-boxed system?

Yeah, that would not have gone down well in the court of public opinion, much less the theatre of international politics.

At least, someone you'd never heard of before your arrival, eh, Mr Zoat? Research!

Fingers crossed that they are willing. Hopefully the shouting and such in Moscow is finished.

Gotta admit, Doctor Mist would almost certainly have ways to emulate his empathic vision, assuming as Darko said, he didn't already have some form of it.

And the guessing games of 'Whodunnit' begin. Place your bets, folks. What The Eff happened, and who's responsible? Was it an intentional attack, or some cosmic fluke? From the Future? The Past? Another plane altogether? Let us see!

 

Actually the Sivanas already showed they could defeat everything his Power Ring can do besides Avarice teleporting.

No... The Kryptonian Space Station with the Kryptonian AI that Paul brought back from the Rao system...

All Motherboxes have the same functions.

 

When, exactly, did this happen? The one time they hacked his subspace pocket was because he didn't know how to secure it properly, or that he even should.

 

The last time he visited them...

Or possibly the second to last...

 

And...? What happened?

 

They showed that they could take some of his stuff from subspace when it wasn't closed, not that they would have any better scanning equipment than a thing made by a race of immortal super geniuses.

Kryptonians were advanced, but not as advanced as Maltusians

A MotherBox that was made or FatheBox that was used by brilliant scientists, one of which is their inventor, is most likely going to be more advanced and knowledgeable than one used by a common warrior. As well as have more adavnced features added into it to make it useful for the scientist to perform certain experiments.

Think he used the Honden to travel there not because he wanted to get past any security they may have, but because it was the quickest way back.

 

I’m going to place my bet on “New God or Apokalypian powers/technology” as the source of this strangeness. With that said, I think Paragon-Paul is correct in that he is not currently familiar with the exact perpetrator. I reckon this will be some splinter group or faction, though there certainly are individuals with the resources to pull this off alone.

I just really, really hope this isn’t Mister Mxyzptlk from Superman storylines.

 

What if its Douche Bag Paul from the alternate world? He wants something? "I'll just take it".

 

Ok, this is just getting silly now. How, and more importantly, why the fuck would he do that?

 

Since it was Russian ships that disappeared then the comic book answer would be able me sort of anti- communist, anti- Soviet character. Someone who strongly detests Russians getting a space fleet. That would be the supervillain way of thinking. Other motive could be to keep Earth relatively isolated.
If this is a magic based attack as Paul pointed out it's hard to do magic in space so the magic has to be advanced. So a radical Atlantean in an attempt to get rid of the threats to them.

 

Probably not him.

He has a lot of advanced equipment with him as well as several powerful magic users, one is Circe, the other is a Lord of Order, so that solves the 'How' if it was him, as for the why, well we've seen him do some fairly evil and pointless things that serve in virtually no practical way, and might harm him in the long run, just for his own amusement and pleasure, so that would explain the 'why'.

It's still probably not him though.

It wouldn't be all that surprising if it was the Light though.

I know OL said that they could just negotiate for the tech there, but they may view someone like Manga as being too beneath them to do something like that.

Their stated goal is to advance Humanity, but we know that's just bullshit they tell themselves to justify their actions for what is essentially world domination, as well as to make themselves feel like noble people that are being prevented from achieving their noble goals from those they see as stagnating the world.

If given the choice between ruling the world, but the world no longer advances, and the world advancing, but they are not allowed to rule it, most of them will chose the first option.

This is honestly fairly plausible.

Another person responsible for this could be Boss Smiley.

While it is true he is altering the way he does things, an alien ship coming to Earth to trade would throw a big wrench in his plans and he may think it necessary to remove it.

He was able to convince the Angels to attack Paul, so if he could convince another powerful being or beings to help him then it's possible.

Paul also never got to scan Boss Smiley with his ring so he wouldn't know how he worked if he did this himself.
He may have been connected to those theurgy machines like Karrien was, seeing as he was able to conjure some of that angel fire, and Angels can apparently affect things on a planar level, like making it so that Power Lanterns are no longer connected to their respective elemental plane.

 

Seriously, Aperture Science would be like: too far ClusterCorp, too far

 

Can Paul detect hush tubes? I'm assuming normal boom tubes leave some sort of residue (though I guess they wouldn't make noise in space)?

My guess is Uncle Sam. A sufficiently motivated, literal Spirit of America, pissed off first by the threat from ClusterCorp and then by the Russians having a space fleet before America? And run like Zoat has been running the personifications of different countries (Russia, Nazi Germany)? Quite possible. Or maybe the Spirit of China? A national personification, at any rate.

 

He may have asked Scott to give him some data to detect them so he can deal with any that open on Earth to bring Apokaliptian trouble to it

He could have also gotten the data from the Controllers or Dox, who was working on something that looked like a Boom Tube.

It's probably not Uncle Sam since I don't think this is in his power range to pull off.

He also needs patriotism to be at full power and America is most likely not as patriotic as it was during WWII.

 

Trouble is, culture is so fragmented these days that expecting anyone to get any particular cultural reference can be... rather optimistic. Tricky problem, because a punchy cultural reference can be fun. Sometimes I compromise, throw in a Wikipedia link, or stick something in a Spoiler.

We can't really tell if who made a MotherBox makes any difference. But, they do seem to pick-up characteristics from their owners, like Orion. FatherBoxen? Who knows? Might be the New God super-scientist types (just) get more mileage out of them?

Trouble is that a MotherBox is a 'dea ex machina' ('dea' is goddess as opposed to 'deus' god). They do whatever the story requires, if the writer isn't Kirby.

Probably not, if he knows it's coming from SI OL's world. When he found out about Enlightenment that appeared to really worry him...

Spoiler: This is sheer speculation...

OL could do worse than go have a chat with Hephaestus about this... The whole world (that pays attention to news media) knew about ClusterCorps, and the Russian spaceships might've been enough to trigger creation of an Old God, who is the Defender of Earth from Space? And, neatly removed both of the problems?

That would be an interesting twist...

 

DC earth being kept in a tech stasis by a unseen force + Alien Company trying to uplift earth with uncontrollable Capitalism + Russian Spaceships potentially starting a space race + Both conveniently disappearing as soon as they get close to each other = ?

Boss Smiley, what are you doing?

 

Reading "STELLAAAA" makes me think of this instead :

 

Well Manga did just release a big burst of energy after shouting L-Rons name.

 

Sivana dabbles in magitech.

 

Isn't the obvious alternative that it was earth that was planar shifted, instead of the ships being stolen?

 

The Power Ring is basically an extremely advanced piece of Clarke tech.

 

Also, the Sivanas are a lot smarter than him. It doesn't matter who could beat who in a fight, they'd think of methods and ways to use his existing stuff that he might never.

Also also, Mother Boxes are hax