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

Maybe 'wouldn't swear' , but I'm not sure, it sounds fine.

 

Remove "them".

I'm surprised he finds that noteworthy, given that he can travel at FTL speeds.

 

Radioactive paint... Like the military likes to use for their gun sights and emergency lighting?

 

Thank you, corrected.

Not surprising. More... Intellectually amusing.

 

Phasing, mind alteration via drone and some form of undetectable FTL. Why would someone with resources like that go to the trouble of making a comparatively prmitve fleet and the Cluster ship disappear?

And if they went to the lengths of concealing it, why the glaringly obvious kidnapping of the ships?

Also, guard dogs? Whoever did this must have exoected the League. Sending baseline humans to fight them is a short distraction at most.

This is all an odd mix of high tech and low planning.

 

Classic Black operations personnel. Always double check, there's bound to be something of note.

Spoiler: Commentary spoilered for length

Oh, that's a worry. Mental manipulation of some kind, certainly?

Better to check and be wrong, than not check and be in trouble later.

Let's hope he comes quietly. Let's also hope whatever happened left some signs.

All going well, then. I presume Firebird is on a military flight, rather than under her own power? Not every telekinetic can make themselves fly, after all.

In a place like this, every second of delay could mean bad shit happening sooner. Especially if there's something extra-worrisome hidden deep down somewhere. A viral outbreak, or some dormant war machine...

Lots and lots of fingers in the pie. I'm amazed it was kept hidden as well as it was for so long.

The League really needs to go on a recruitment drive. Something more like Unlimited would be a good idea. Not every person has to be a full-time, 'shifts on the Watchtower' member, but easy enough to have reservists with Zeta Tube access for quick response.

With those drawbacks, I don't think it's quite ready for primetime...

Let's hope they didn't do too much scry-warding there.

At least it makes it easier to ensure everyone stays put. It's a long walk to anywhere.

Good wishes? Not sure what they have that can compete with a power ring or a trained mage.

People are still missing. That's always a concern. And it sets back the cause of Human space exploration.

Not something to be dismissed out of hand, mind. Though I suspect the amount of Rads needed would be noticeable amongst the workers...

So someone's snuck in, put something into the Corporal's mind and snuck back out? The perfect sleeper agent.

Could be a while, given everything else he's doing. Note for Batman: More Mages!

And whoever came in here walked through all of it like it wasn't there. That's significant in itself.

Or they could be remotely triggered and dismissed. If they're committing sabotage anyway, why not have figurative bombs waiting to go off?

He's already dealt with the guy, hasn't he? I suspect there would be more concern in Batman's voice otherwise.

Right. No problems here, then. I take it Kory was already here, or had the same idea OL did.

Well, duh. Unless it was something that needed powered backup. and that would be a lot more noticeable.

Messing with the dogs? That's nasty!

And then mention the dogs, please? I suspect that would be worth mentioning.

Ah, the fine art of the forensic procedural. CSI: JLA edition. Now they have a lead. Time to sniff it back to its' source...

Is that an actual Russian spelling, or should it be 'Mikhail'?

Double space here.

Unnecessary word.

 

Supervillains aren't exactly renowned for their logical thinking.

 

Keep in mind, we don't have any evidence these things are actually connected to the various ships disappearances.

 

High chance that they are.

Though I guess its possible that this may not be connected to the ships vanishing, unlikely but possible.

 

A drone? That’s possible, but there are a lot of other possibilities: a naturally small race, a shapeshifter that can shrink, a small golem or homunculus created by a magician...
I am reminded of that Gotham-based spellcaster who Paragon-Paul brutally trounced a while back. The vampire-like caster’s minion was sacrificing citizens and Paul invited the new Doctor Fate to raid his magical knickknacks. Perhaps there was a loose end.

 

No, he's referring to the mentally altered humans as 'guard dogs'.

Thank you, corrected.

 

Out of universe, yes there's a high chance they are because the narrative wouldn't be covering them otherwise.

In universe, he's throwing a giant net that is picking up anything weird. It would be unrealistic if he didn't get at least one or two false positives.

 

It is a secret military base run in a reasonably competent fashion. While it's certainly not out of the realm of possibility for there to be multiple groups attacking it, it's not particularly likely given that the technology demonstrated (or the wizards to cast the spells) doesn't grow on trees. For there to be multiple attackers would require a very small set of people (people with these capabilities) to contain more than one group interested in this one Russian military base.

Again, not impossible, and it is a good point that it could be multiple groups, but not likely.

 

Looking at this situation the whole thing smells like magic. Or, super-powers plus magic.

Spoiler: A magical trick

If you want to get rid of ClusterCorps, send them 'elsewhere', then, a load of smaller ships that surround it, carefully positioned to act as a 3d pentagram, could be a way to do the job without a massive amount of magical power. Ritual magic via spaceship. Then, maybe intentional, maybe an accident of disappearing something that big, the little ships go as well.

Where do you send them? I hear Hell is accepting bookings...

You want to really surprise everyone? Send them to The Dreaming...

No, I don't think this is what happened. I expect Mr Zoat to surprise me, as he's done so many times before in this story.

 

Sheeda? Small size, phasing, mind control... Maybe with the guiding hand of Zachary Zor, this time? Zor would probably be powerful enough to delete (or timeshift) the space fleet, and would have the future perspective to know what ripples that change to his past would cause.

 

Magic, phasing, and advanced mind control... Have we found the last surviving Starro? The one upgraded by Klarion to interface with magic and technology?

 

Don't think the Starros have phasing abilities.

There actually is a race of Plutonians in DC comics, so I don't know maybe their trying to invade the Earth of something like that and this was just a first strike.

 

Maybe Sheeda?

 

Ah, sorry, I meant that I was certain you knew it wasn't a correction, and your response was a joke. I'm totally unfamiliar with A Streetcar Named Desire myself, but I recognize a heartfelt cry of "STELLA!" as a (very dated) pop-culture reference and would probably have guessed it to be an unfamiliar reference in context even if I didn't.

Comma after "Orange Lantern".

 

Hopefully not them since now they would have space ships with them.

Think that the renegade mentioned they may not have spaceships and none of the civilizations they raided had that type of tech.

If they're the ones behind this then now they may be able to raid other planets.

 

If you'd said KHAN I'd have got it.

I think one of the GCSE classes in my Secondary School did A Streetcar Named Desire. I did Hobson's Choice. Which, ironically, it was.

Thank you, corrected.

 

Manga's cry for L-Ron seemed to be more one of despair, kinda like in the Street Car movie, rather than Kirk's more rage fueled cry.

 

Well Darkseid and his gang are a bunch of dicks so they may have a hand in this.

An opposing nation with the right Schizo tech trying to sabotage the Russians and gain a monopoly on the alien tech.

some other group of well equipped supervillains working outside the light's influence.

A competing interstellar corporation.

 

Okay, but I don't want to drag the tone down by posting Darth Vader's 'NOOOOOO'.

 

Zoat are we going to see what 40k Paul has been doing after joining the Tau anytime soon?

Hopefully in this episode, or the next few.

We already saw what Fantasy Paul had done to fight Chaos, would really like to see what 40k has done.

 

Maybe 'made them' instead of 'created them'

 

No, 'created' is what it's called when you give someone a hereditary title. You create X a Y.

I don't have any current plans to. I don't really have anything for him to say at the moment.

 

It is obvious what is going on. It must be a Sheeda riding a Starro.

EDIT

As an alternative, a Sheeda and a Starro have found Twu Love, and you have the result of their... relationship. How about a Sheeda with the head of a Starro?

 

This seems to be similar to what the Sheeda did earlier.

 

Has anyone scanned for chronoton radiation yet?