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

"Well, I tried. Ring?"

"Transmuting salt, butter, and explosively desiccated corn."

 

I kinda want to hear more stories of people killing Green Lanterns, taking their rings, and becoming the new Lanterns of their sector, if only because Chummuck's story has been repeated a few times already. Also, that should say 'killed'.

 

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Oh boy, this is gonna get ugly

 

Oh Guy you absolute twatwaffle.

 

'got a reasonable'

'changes'

The guy that can inspire fear in others.

They may have sent hom to disrupt Malvolio's concentration.

One of the few that may be able to fight Malvolio and win.

I'm guessing we're going to be seeing some Green Light tricks from him.

Though Jordan wasn't as strong as Guy.

Everyone loves you until you fall.

Also, you're missing a " at the end.

I remember Chip mentioning him before.

Time for the shit show.

 

And here we have Paragon showing once more that he's an utter idiot when it comes to diplomacy...

 

Yeah, best to head off any situation that could send the Green demigod on a rampage. To be fair, if Malvolio does get his hands on whoever this is, it could probably qualify as a bizarre suicide attempt...

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Hmm... I wonder how closely Malvolio was watching OL's little trick. He may well be able to pull a Goku and copy it...

Amazing what fear of a mightier power can do. Or simply veterans recognising him, if the lifespans involved are long enough.

Yeah, that's a pretty clear beacon of 'Something Important Here'. Now, to find out who's poking it.

...I know it's being literal and overly verbose, but damn if it isn't cute sometimes...

Methinks they're pointedly ignoring you, OL. Must be someone who's worked with you before...

Good lord, some of DC's character designs. I'm amazed someone hasn't tried something like that hairdo in real life... The Ultimate Mullet.

Welp. The Guardians are clearly trying to trigger a war, aren't they? Guy hasn't a diplomatic bone in his body...

Don't play coy with OL, Guy...

Potahto, potayto. Which way do you think the demi-elemental who's no doubt on his way back right now will see it?

Seriously, Guy, you are not normally this dumb. Did you actually read Malvolio's files, or ask Jordan about it?

...Admittedly, asking Jordan about it might explain the attitude. About the only impression Malvolio made on him was with his fists, after all. And at that level of power, he won't need crumblers to break constructs.

Oh, so you did talk to Jordan. Did he not impress upon you the sheer power of the man you're ticking off?

Think about that for a second, Guy. Malvolio is hundreds of light-years from here. The prison construct is still active. Consider what kind of focus that takes...

No, he chose not to. There's a big difference. Would you try to kill Hal or John in an outright fight?

Given Priest's level of control, I suspect he's only still in there because he wants to be, Ring or not.

Who rules the Sector. Do the math, Guy. Your ring can help if you need it to.

...Is Guy usually this much of an asshole about this stuff? You'd think he'd tap into the local data networks to check, at least.

Given that saying you didn't like Sinestro's rule would likely get the police looking your way, can you blame them?

Maybe you should learn to use empathic vision a little more, Guy, if you can. It might head off misunderstandings like this...

Because he's presumably under Guardian Orders at this point. There's probably not a lot of wriggle room about 'Retrieve Lantern Priest and capture the despot who defeated him.'

Admittedly, there's a whole magnitude of difference involved. Especially in the Guardian's eyes. Hal was arrested, (presumably) tried and sentenced in accordance with local laws... Malvolio, well...

...Honestly, I'm surprised OL isn't still making his way there right now. Did he stop mid-flight to argue?

Because apparently, 'Overcome Great Fear' has a lot of loopholes concerning criminal activities...

And if you're not seeing a connection, think 'big scary person or polity that can match the Guardians in open war...'

And be very polite to Malvolio about it, presumably. 800-pound gorilla, remember...

Now, Incoming Malvolio, outgoing Priest, or one of Guy's squad deciding to take matters into their own manipulators?

I thought Guy would be smarter about things like this. Read the files, ask around the Corps, maybe check on the locals before diving in... Guess we didn't know as much as we thought. ...Or might Guy be sporting a new ring? At any rate, let's hope he isn't too obnoxious about what happens next, because things might get a bit violent...

 

Guy can be pretty dumb and dense sometimes.

And any files he would have read would come from the Guardians or Jordan, people who would be biased against Malvolio either due to disliking him or only seeing his bad side.

He can be a massive asshole.

He may not be able to use it.

Paul can do it but his soul is made of his particular light while Guy's is just very well aligned to it so he may not have the same powers as Paul.

He loves to talk, even when it's inconvenient.

Especially when it's inconvenient.

To be fair, the Guardians may think that they can take on Malvolio.

And they wouldn't be all that wrong.

Malvolio is strong, but I doubt he's an entire Lantern Corps strong like Larfleeze.

And while he has the power of an entire Sector at his beck and call, the technology from there is probably not all that advanced, so he can't equal the Guardians there like the Reach, Psions and Manhunters could.

 

Thank you, corrected.

 

The catch being, this isn't an entire Lantern Corps.

This is four Lanterns.

Who are about to have a glowing green platter construct shown to them, on which to have their asses handed.

 

Reeeally hope Malvolio doesn't think Paul was trying to distract him.

 

But these aren't average Green Lanterns.

At least two of them are Honour Guard and one of them is the Host of Ion.

They do have a fair chance of beating Malvolio.

 

Welp, this is what happens when you exclusively recruit the most stubborn and bull-headed people in the galaxy.
They decide that they can attack a foreign sector and free a criminal who attacked the foreign head of state, and then negotiate afterwards.

Seriously, the GLC doesn't have a diplomatic branch?
I guess this is a side-effect of trying to police the entire galaxy while not actually ruling the whole galaxy. You get the impression that your rules are the only ones that matter when it counts.

I doubt it. The Justice League couldn't take him. Guy and three jobbers haven no chance.
Unnamed Green lanterns might as well be speedbumps.

 

Not really.

The League wasn't trying to beat him, they were trying to escape.

And it was only a few members, not the whole League.

Also at least two of the Lanterns, Guy and Apros, are Honour Guard, as in top tier Lanterms.

And I'm betting the other two are also Honour Guard.

We've seen the type of damage Lanterns can dish out, so these guys are very very powerful.

Guy is also able to bond with Ion, so if he does that then there's no telling what can happen.

The possibility of Malvolio also bonding exists, but it may also be possible that Ion would regard him like the Ophidian regards Larfleeze.

Not to mention any potential techniques Guy has learned.

Also Malvolio may have the same problem that Astarte had.

Lack of strong enemies.

The dude's been locked up for centuries without all that much fighting aside from a few occasions, while the likes of Guy and the other three have probably been fighting extremely difficult opponents for years or even decades.

Even if they lose the battle I doubt they'd be just speedbumps.

 

So question do we know what power level these version of the Guardians are at when the are taking things seriously and going all out because i dont know if Mr.zoat has ever said?

I know that more then a few times in the comic they are under the warf effect and other times they are bullshit powerful

Since Mr.zoat has maltus in this story i was wondering are their any Maltusian/Controllers/Guardians that have specialized in Combat instead of science like most do

 

Renegade mentioned that they're able to destroy planets using their willpower.

 

Guy is treating this as cops and robbers. Paul is treating it as international politics.

Be interesting to know if the Guardians actually have anything to do with this. By the sound of it Guy and some other Lanterns decided that This Will Not Stand on their own initiative.

 

He was in the Ophidian?

 

Thank you, corrected.

 

I'm mostly worried about Guy getting desperate and whipping out his big green...whale.

 

Larfleeze used the Orange Central Power Battery as his personal battery.

And that's a damn good question, which is why unlike Zoat I don't like that interpretation.

Especially since by DC canon the rings can be charged with different energies, including different emotional energy.

 

Do we know what atrocious is doing at this time? because i know the Renegade made a Red ring which you think he would notice since he does use blood magic for Prophecy/Divination/Scying and portals but i know hes a thing in the Red paul path so i was wondering if anyone knows if Mr.zoat has said anything about him in the two Main Paths

 

Alas Guy has a habit of defaulting to the chowderhead school of thought.
Just be grateful powergirl isn't here or his IQ would drop like a stone and he'll be making bazoomba comments knowing full well it pisses her off.

It's not war it's a police action and the Guardians don't really care, hell I think some of them intentionally removed their ability to care.

 

Zoat once mentioned that Atrocitus may show up in year 6.

If this is still true then I guess he's either still imprisoned or is hiding and building up his power.

 

Yes, Atrocitus and the other Inversions are still on Ysmault.

 

The Guardians have a habit of doing stuff like this so it wouldn't surprise if they ordered this. Plus I don't think Guy or any other lanterns knew about Priest beforehand so them rushing in to save him means they needed to be told about him.

 

Then what are they made out of?

 

Well, there’s still time so if I might make a suggestion?

Turn the other Inversions into real characters, people, instead of mere nameless aliens sacrificed for the Red central power battery. I vaguely recall you saying before Atrocitus isn’t inclined to use “the weapons of his enemies” (lantern rings) so… if the “demons” don’t die to Atrocitus’ blind rage, then they have a chance.

I could see at least one of the Inversions having a lot in common with Superman from Injustice.

 

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