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

That's very unfortunate.

As a History Buff, fan of Discworld, Brit Coms and British SciFi (Mostly Doctor Who and Red Dwarf with less interest in Douglas Adams work) I got the reference.

That's good, hopefully he either exposed himself or made another Cave man an immortal superhuman instead.

 

Wouldn't creating another immortal cave-man make a host of new problems? It's possible that this new cave-man does the exact same thing or worse to the world. Also since no one knows how the meteor works just exposing yourself to it could make you insane.

 

Ancient Paul may be able to view how the meteor alters a person and make sure that it doesn't have any negative effects on the individual.

 

Okay, changing my mind. Once he worked out that he was pre-Savage, he just scanned the system for an asteroid heading for Earth that had anomalous properties.

There was actually a comic where Savage haunted the Wayne family for generations until he could get to the main body of the asteroid whose fragment granted him immortality.

 

The astroid sounds pretty magical. Is it kryptonite magical, as in functioning off rules of reality that do not exist in real life, but apply to the world of the story, or metaphysical magical, where the thing functions off of a connection to the Source or the Dream, or some otherwise undetectable by mundane means power source?

 

I think it's the whole 'kryptonite magical', which is basically the science of the comic universe.

 

Wouldn't that have drained his ring to nothing long before he found anything?

 

Wait so did Ancient Paul still stop him from becoming immortal? Or did he befriend him before he became immortal?

 

Judging by Zoat's comment I'm guessing he stopped him from becoming immortal by intercepting the meteor.

 

In canon, it's been radioactive, it's been invested with alien nanites, it's been Darkseid's hyper-adapter, it's been a Controller experiment, and it's been a time travelling piece of sunstone imbued with Superman's powers.

So since YJ made Vandal the granddaddy of the metagene, a fanfic author could make Earth's metahumans the New New Gods of the 5th world, the next Guardians of the Universe, or the inheritors of Krypton.

Or I suppose use Vandal's connection to Cain to tie metahumans to the Jacobian who speaks the Adamic language which is the source code of reality which theoretically brings omniscience and omnipotence.

 

I thought he was called the Ancestor? Or is that what some people call him, and he mostly just uses the Ancient when asked what his name is?

 

Spoiler: Crossover, spider-Savage and Immortal Peter Parker

Now I am interested in a story where Caveman-Savage and Peter Parker swap places. Each of them is capable of becoming the person they are known to be in other universes/timelines, but for this scenario… what would a caveman with “spider” powers do in a modern city (would he get captured by Ozcorp?) and what would an immortal Peter Parker get up to (without his traditional powers)?

I wonder if any Reach infiltrators managed to get a scan of the time machine which returned the Legion members to their future. We know from the Qwa-matter incident that there are technological ways to get around Ring scans.

And now I’m curious if Qwa matter is capable of injuring the Endless siblings.

 

They could ask Jay before bringing Blizen.

 

Broken italics and bold tags.

Never mind.

 

That should say 'reached'.

 

Of course now that he's mid-mission on demon earth he wants to gather allies and form a plan

 

Maybe 'Atlantis once rested'

Hmm, I'm getting some Azazel feelings here.

The guy was basically a black club with multiple mouths in it.

'trying to pierce'

 

I wonder if Hell managed to shove too much energy into an unshackled Titan. Specifically a Titan connected to darkness or something primal, as opposed to “foresight” or so-on. Demons invading the underworld in order to loot Tartarus… fun times!

Alternatively summoning magics are messed up on this planet due to the weird portal situation. Basically if any demon tries to pop up on this world, they are instead redirect and turned into fuel for a portal to another DC universe.


edit: Hey Mr Zoat? Did Paul and Canis Minor ever talk about Warhammer 40k (or Warhammer Fantasy) lore? Does Canis have any thoughts on the various factions or entities?

 

A Titan of Darkness would be Erebus, the Greek underworld.

 

So much for the Atlanteans, then... At least I guessed right about them checking. Presumably Aquaman and his companions are under Demon Superman's sway, while any local survivors are very well hidden away.

Spoiler: Commentary spoilered for length

Not something you want to mess about with, given that it is possible to heat the air around you until it turns into ionised plasma.... Which isn't particularly friendly for anyone.

World of Cardboard, and all that. Is it so unbelievable that he might not want to push his luck? And why do I get the feeling that now he might well have to before this ends...

Well, given that it's one of his few known weaknesses... Even the stupidest Superman would know to cover his ass in that respect. If this is one of the smart ones, with all those Kryptonian Science Council gene-mods that some universes end up with...

Ah, Comics. Everything happens in America, of course.

And poking Eden might put you squarely in the Silver City's sights. Especially since they haven't lifted a finger yet.

Yeah, the downside of always-on superpowers.

Hey, sound does carry further underwater, that's a known scientific fact. What part that might play in Kryptonian supersenses, I don't know...

And all the while Demon Superman is chuckling to himself that sooner or later, one of the new guys is going to break... His demonic rider is probably laughing its' ass off at the chance to corrupt more Kryptonians...

I'm guessing Rakkar, the Kryptonian demon responsible for this, made a deal with the lords of Hell. I bet every soul that dies ends up in their hands, claws, tentacles or other appendages, regardless of previous arrangements.

Funny how that works, huh?

Well, shit. Some ancient Atlantean power taking notice of its visitors, or perhaps something older?

Unfortunately, if it's too magical, the Ring might have trouble making sense of it...

Yeah, definitely time to run. Preferrably as fast as you can possibly move underwater.

To be honest, I suspect he'd be a lot more powerful in the middle depths, where there's little light, but not deep enough that things make their own light... But a proper English Gentleman like him would rather avoid such situations...

And there's a surprising number of people with shadow powers of some kind. I mean, it is one of the more interestingly visual powers in comics, after all...

Ah, OL... I suspect you're already trapped, and don't realise it yet...

Though I suspect this will be like talking to a tornado and expecting an answer...

How very... Eldritch.

Assuming Shade isn't dead or converted into one of Demon-Superman's slaves... I doubt he's in control of things in the Shadows either.

Impressed it didn't simply use the teeth like chainsaws. I suppose it'll try that if this fails...

Not now, OL.Escape the elder thing first, worry about reading your Ring-mail later. Would that make it Maille?

Gee, you think? Ah, OL, that British understatement at work.

Ouch. That would feel rather unpleasant...

Wow, he's actually not just taking the usual swimmer's pose? A rare occasion! Pity he had to be at risk of limb and limb to do it.

Welp. Looks like you're going to have to break out of the Shadowland, then, by the looks of it...

This day is just going from worse to worse (It started out bad and went down from there, honestly...) Compared to this, going back to fighting the Reach is going to be a vacation. Might be time for Superman to see what he can really do when he cuts loose, I think. Because I suspect that's what it's going to take for him to get out of this...

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Something missing in there, I think. Maybe "-the Overs."

 

Nope. Nope! Hell nope!

 

I like that you're finally adding the british accent to his speech.

 

Thank you, corrected.

 

No, that's correct as-is. Also, you misspelled 'Atlantis'.

Thank you, corrected.

The rules held no appeal, but Canis did take a look at the background section. He didn't think much of it.

Thank you, corrected.

 

studded

 

Thank you, corrected.

 

Huh. Seems like something fucked over the seperation between not just Earth and Hell but other places, like the Shadowlands, too.

I wonder what else is leaking?

 

A bit of oddness my OCD noticed with the Chapter Timestamps. A lot of things appear to be happening at once

Part 11: 2005 GMT+1 so, 19:05
Part 12: 19:16 GMT
Part 13: 19:21 GMT
Part 14: 19:26 GMT
Part 15: 19:29 GMT
Part 16: 19:46 GMT <-- The latest events of this sequence so far
Part 17: 19:59 GMT+1 so, 18:53 a step back?
Part 18: 19:04 GMT <-- Paul waiting to speak to the Queen
Part 19: 17:21 GMT-2 so, 19:21.

Paul managed to do his business with who ever is sitting on England's (Britain's?) throne, get back to Superman and do a lookie-loo at the remains of Atlantis in 17 minutes?

For that matter Part 13 and part 19 have the same timestamp, accounting for timezones.

Was this intentional or a flub with the times? Do we have a single Paul and company playing in this Hell-Earth dimension, or have multiple versions all decided to do the tour at the same time.

OCD is a terrible thing.

 

You appear to have missed that yesterday's segment was from the viewpoint of Overgirl.