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

Wow they are late.

They literally needed SIGrayven taunting Orion months ago. And that was months ago.

 

That is a little unclear. Artemis notes the fusión result was mostly wearing Renegades armor and equipment, he just looked a lot more like OG Grayven than the Renegade and clearly he thought he was OGGrayven. Who absorbed who and whose body got possessed and rewritten is a tad unclear. Who won the metaphysical struggle after the fusion happened was clearly OG Grayven, but Artemis fixed that shit quite quickly.

 

This might be a little late to ask but how is Ophidian pronounced?

 

Remove the apostrophe.

However you want to pronounce it, of course.

Many people in this thread pronounce it "best-snek". Not sure how it's only two syllables, but what can you do?

 

uh·fi·dee·uhn

It's an actual word you know.

Ophidian-

1. a reptile of the group Ophidia; a snake.
   
   1. relating to or denoting snakes.

 

I don't buy it.

If the Corpse wanted Grayven dead his planet would have been bisected by a dozen singularity projectors before he even realized an attack was occurring.

 

The Corpse is the GLC's black ops division. They would never go for a frontal assault. However, manipulating a group who already dislikes their target into attacking would probably be more up their alley.

 

The Corpse is who the GLC send in when they deem something or someone too dangerous to exist so authorize any and all collateral damage to destroy them.

And you're right. They don't do frontal assaults. They would deliver a ring proof bomb that instantly destroys the planet and everything on it. Or snipe the planet from orbit with some instant death effect powered by all 500% of their disc charge.

Yet what we saw here was a frontal assault... Ergo it can't be the Corpse.

 

Thank you, corrected.

 

And this is why the Guardians suck.

 

Can't blame them too much for not acknowledging black ops. Now, having the black ops in the first place, however...

 

Yeah, after all that she suffered, enslaving others will not be something she does.

Maybe change it 'sixty' since you already had fifty percent.

 

Yeah that was kinda stupid. If they negotiated his release they could at least keep him quiet and keep their secrets. Now that he’s been assimilated Grayven will now every mission Daggle has ever been on and all that entails. It’s very short sighted.

 

So Renegade is getting a Durlan Lantern construct and a lobo lantern construct. Lol. He's going up in the offensive options again.

 

As I understand it, joining the Corpse is voluntary, and comes with forewarning they will disavow your actions. It's on Daggle's head.

 

No, can't really blame them either. Grayven himself has plenty of hidden operations with the Light etc.

And it seems New Genesis hasn't twigged to the fact OtherGrayven was/is a thing?

 

True but in this case they lose LESS by negotiating a release. They don't have to acknowledge Von Daggle as a Corpse member just have help placed under their jurisdiction and probably grant a favor to Grayven for playing along. Now they have lost a key Corpse agent AND all the info he had on other corpse members and missions. That could be very bad.

 

Unless they wiped his memory after every mission or something. Is that something they'd do?

I don't know anything about this Green Lantern Black Ops thing, but if they are unconcerned with his capture, then he must not know anything important.

 

So Zoat decided to make the Corpse lanterns utter incompetents and nerf the Corpse Discs, which are supposed to be five times stronger then a Power Ring, to nothing...

Fun...

 

Didn't Larfreeze assimilate a Guardian? That knew he was coming? Grayven with and Orange and a Yellow ring is above their weight class.

 

They really erred here, didn't they? Someone didn't think to locate weaknesses before they made the play. It is impressive that he's resisting Assimilation so well. Even if the Renegade is going easy, it's normally done in a few moments. That's significant.

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Honestly, if you hadn't opened your big mouth, Faux-Bo, that might almost have worked...

...Pity the Renegade is not without backup. Unlike you.

...Do you really want to stick her with his chuunibyo wanna-be tomfoolery?

A not unreasonable belief, given her history. Though her sister is likely not so restrained.

Who seem to have made a very foolish move. Perhaps not with the blessing of Highfather.

Now, see, kid, if you'd thought to have more than one trick under your codpiece...

Oh-ho. Fans of Green lantern will recognise that detail.

...I half-get the feeling she'd be just as skilled a Yellow Lantern with that kind of theatricality.

As much as he'd like to deny it...

There's always a bigger fish. Or in this case, a bigger gun.

Yes, it is taking quite a while there... Rather noteworthy.

I doubt Orion would have been so subtle. Nor leave the work to any lesser warrior. Not for a Prince of Apokalips.

So, it's just youthful stupidity. Still, I don't envy them...

"Oh, dear... I swear, this was not my idea."

Better out than in, at least.

Yoink! I bet those two will be having an interesting discussion in private any moment.

A disposable, bio-degradable Power Ring-like device. Perfect for places where the Ring might get you noticed. Also tuned so that the colour of the Light is deepened way down. Like, 1% luminosity. Because the Emotional Spectrum can work that way...

It'd be a pretty poor covert tool if its' Spectrum energies could be detected, after all.

And that's why Assimilation is taking so long. he has no shortage of Will to resist it. But that reserve will run dry eventually.

What better species for a covert assassin than a Durlan Lantern?

Since the Renegade's Mother Box doesn't have his number...

No need to translate that response. I wonder if a Box can swear?

At least the Mother Box has style. Let's hope he wasn't in the shower or something.

I suppose having the Original Grayven's body makes him feel all too blatantly evil...

Yeah, they are not going to enjoy what happens when they return home.

Ooof, a Boon. That's a meaty penalty. Especially an open-ended one.

I foresee spankings in the child's future. Or perhaps some discipline at Orion's hands.

Now, for the other half of this little coalition of foolishness...

Going straight to the top, eh?

No love lost there. Probably still a little sting over their defeat way back when.

Well, how rude. Sucks to be the Lanterns, though.

Last chance to offer him something to stop the process, assassin. Not that your bargaining position is very good.

Well, it was the Corpse after all. Kudos to he who called it, Someguy Somewhere. Though I foresee something concealed in their abandonment. I certainly can't believe the Guardians wouldn't know about Assimilation, either from encounters with Larfleeze or from the Sector 2814 Lantern's reports. A kill-switch, or a hidden sniper executing them, perhaps... Too bad for New Genesis, though, having to give Renegade a big concession in that unspecified favour.

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"Oh, that is interesting. Pass it here?"

I have what's left of your 'Corpse' as my prisoners, and I was wondering-."

 

It's literally named as something they do as a standard in the comics.

It's all but stated in the comics that Larfleeze can't turn Guardians into constructs.

 

Probably.

 

No she is not.

I think she even has a Citadelian assimilated.

Though that could be her Paragon version.

We're talking about a universal emotional force that has embodiments that are shaped like animals and the love embodiment is shaped almost like a xenomorph.

Logic doesn't apply here.

 

Quite literally in this case.

 

I mean, the purpose of Black Ops personnel is to conduct operations that one cannot be seen attached to. Though granted, it makes more sense to rotate them out regularly so as to prevent a catastrophic loss/compromise of information and institutional knowledge when a team is captured or killed.

 

The funny thing in all this?

The Guardians are probably being honest. Because if they really wanted to get rid of Grayven all they would have to do is publish the laundry list of his crimes to every planet in the Galaxy and issue a GLC wide arrest warrant for him.

 

Even with "need to know" opsec in place, extracting every last memory from someone with assimilation will still let him infer a great deal. I expect some sort of hidden suicide device to be employed at the start of the next bit.

 

I suspect the Guardians don't like getting called out like that.