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With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)
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Darko
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Don't remember that.
I know he seemed to at least respect her capabilities as a ruler, even if he disagreed with her other choices.
He probably mentioned being attracted and wanting to romance her to mess with someone else.
It sounds like something he'd do.
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He said she was attractive, but I don't think he actually said that he himself was attracted to her.
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There's a difference between finding someone attractive and actually liking or caring about them.
Considering Gravy's response to finding out she got herself killed by one of his security drones was basically "Anyway..." I'd say Gravy didn't actually like her at all, the charms of an evil Deanna Troi notwithstanding.
Considering Gravy's response to finding out she got herself killed by one of his security drones was basically "Anyway..." I'd say Gravy didn't actually like her at all, the charms of an evil Deanna Troi notwithstanding.
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Plus Paul and Grayven have done a lot to reform villains in general. While Paul is bi, I don't think he had a thing for Captain Cold, Abra Kadabra, or Dr. Sivana. Same with Grayven and Circe or Luthor.
My point was more as a comparison of both situations making it so a Green Lantern can't go home. JSI refuses to let Hal in, and any planet with the Reach means that planet's GL can't go home.
Even if xenophobic, there's still a point that the JSI would let the GLs in if they followed certain protocols. Protocols are something the Reach are very good at appearing to follow. In fact, no doubt they would be willing to gift a human who wants to join the JSI with a scarab, providing the JSI with a very capable warrior without the downsides of tearing off pieces of oneself to replace with machinery. As a sign of friendship, of course.
My point was more as a comparison of both situations making it so a Green Lantern can't go home. JSI refuses to let Hal in, and any planet with the Reach means that planet's GL can't go home.
Even if xenophobic, there's still a point that the JSI would let the GLs in if they followed certain protocols. Protocols are something the Reach are very good at appearing to follow. In fact, no doubt they would be willing to gift a human who wants to join the JSI with a scarab, providing the JSI with a very capable warrior without the downsides of tearing off pieces of oneself to replace with machinery. As a sign of friendship, of course.
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He was attracted to Harm at one point.
Granted, he didn't reform him and he was being mentally manipulated at the time.
Feasibility Study (part 12)
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21st November 2012
10:55 GMT -5
And… Yes. Yes, they're not repositioning.
Finally.
Half an hour. Because the Dominion are perfectly capable of tracking Lanterns and Lantern FTL. But they can't track instant transition, and they can't track a Lantern who isn't actually using their ring. So if wave around a construct, drop it and transition and then rely on my armour's life support system, they don't know where I am. For the most part they appeared to assume that I was still in my original location and running silent there.
So they sent ships and didn't find me.
Repeat that fifty or so times-.
Fifty three.
Thank you, ring. Fifty three times, and they appear to be assuming that the Guardians are testing their response times or something because the ships are keeping to their patrol patterns. On the basis of the messages they've been broadcasting, I'd say that they find this mildly irritating but not worth making a fuss about. They've probably got a high caste research group trying to work out how to detect me.
Will detected. Hope detected.
Right on the borders of Dominion space. I
step out and
reappear next to Alan and Jordan where they float in interstellar space.
"What kept you?"
Jordan's eyes narrow, but more in curiosity than anger. "How did you do that?"
"Mysticism. Each colour has an embodiment, a huge elemental life form associated with the emotion that Lanterns use to activate their rings. Each embodiment has a… Place, where all of their associated emotion exists. I can travel to that place, and from there to anywhere that emotion has ever existed. It's a learnable ability."
"You're saying Green Lanterns can do that?"
"I'm saying that there's no logical reason why a Green Lantern couldn't learn to do it. I have never observed a Green Lantern actually doing it."
"I couldn't scan you coming in."
"Magic tattoos. Try now."
He raises his ring a little, a radar dish construct appearing along side him.
"I'm barely getting you on some things and not getting you at all on others."
"Since you're getting the freedom of the planet for this, you should look into augmenting your abilities. Anyway." Two orange packets leap from my ring and flies to each of theirs. "That's the location of the Dominion Home Defence Fleets and those Deep Space Fleets I've spotted so far. The little ships are expendable drones, the medium sized ones are tanks and the big ones are where-."
Alan frowns in puzzlement. "Tanks?"
"Good shields and armour, designed to survive being hit a lot. As far as I can tell, their guns aren't anything special."
"Tanks have a big gun. Do they have..? A fixed big gun, or-."
"Not a-. Not a literal tank. It's a roleplay term used to refer to-." He's grinning. "Okay, very funny."
Jordan looks blank. "Huh?"
Alan waves his right hand. "Just a… Just a little joke between me and the boy."
He's not getting it.
"Alan's in his nineties. He likes to play up the old man-."
"You're kidding." He looks at Alan, then back at me. "You're not kidding."
"You know Commander Scott-."
"Well, yeah, but I just assumed the timelines didn't line up or something. How?"
Alan floats closer and lays his right hand on Jordan's left shoulder, and I already know-
"I ate my greens, son."
-what he's going to say.
"His ring was damaged, and he ended up absorbing enough green light into himself that he's partially transubstantiated."
"Green."
"Jordan, I'm happy to blow our trumpets all day, but we've got a Dominion to humble."
"That sort of thing got you a blue ticket in my day."
"Do you want to do one more to get it out of your-"
"No, I'm fine."
"-system? Okay, good. So the Dominion don't appear to have anything I couldn't destroy on my own-." I see the look on Jordan's face, and nod seriously. "Those big ships probably have some very creative weapon systems on them, so they're the main target. They will also almost certainly have Lantern interdiction systems on them, so, Alan, you're a distraction-."
"Thank you."
"And that's three. Jordan, you're on evacuation duty and general monitoring."
"And you're going to take those ships on by yourself."
"No, I'm going to take one of those ships on at a time by myself once Alan's drawn off their escorts."
"So you've found which world has the abducted humans on it." He hesitates. "Right?"
"No. This is about making them think that they're being attacked by a Super Lantern so they cluster up their fleets and let us get a good look at their territory without them being able to interfere with our work."
"Do Super Lanterns exist?"
"In our parallel, Larfleeze and Lord Malvolio would both qualify, so if it comes up suggest they look in Vega or Sector One Six Three Four. They're the only Lanterns I know of with more raw power than me. So."
I generate a construct representation of the Dominion, marking major industrial worlds and all fleets with at least one of their largest class of ships.
"That one, that one, that one and then that one. No hanging about. They're probably going to send a threatening message to Oa at that point. If they try to get in touch, just tell them that you're monitoring the situation but haven't engaged the Dominion yourself. If the Guardians want more, put them through to me."
"I.. can do that."
"This fleet appears to be a patrol fleet for the industrial zone here. There might be human prisoners there, but it's probably the easiest fleet to attack. We'll go there first. I'll metaphorically moon a few other fleets to give them a false sense of security while you get into position."
I smile.
"Let's kill some very bad people."
10:55 GMT -5
And… Yes. Yes, they're not repositioning.
Finally.
Half an hour. Because the Dominion are perfectly capable of tracking Lanterns and Lantern FTL. But they can't track instant transition, and they can't track a Lantern who isn't actually using their ring. So if wave around a construct, drop it and transition and then rely on my armour's life support system, they don't know where I am. For the most part they appeared to assume that I was still in my original location and running silent there.
So they sent ships and didn't find me.
Repeat that fifty or so times-.
Fifty three.
Thank you, ring. Fifty three times, and they appear to be assuming that the Guardians are testing their response times or something because the ships are keeping to their patrol patterns. On the basis of the messages they've been broadcasting, I'd say that they find this mildly irritating but not worth making a fuss about. They've probably got a high caste research group trying to work out how to detect me.
Will detected. Hope detected.
Right on the borders of Dominion space. I
step out and
reappear next to Alan and Jordan where they float in interstellar space.
"What kept you?"
Jordan's eyes narrow, but more in curiosity than anger. "How did you do that?"
"Mysticism. Each colour has an embodiment, a huge elemental life form associated with the emotion that Lanterns use to activate their rings. Each embodiment has a… Place, where all of their associated emotion exists. I can travel to that place, and from there to anywhere that emotion has ever existed. It's a learnable ability."
"You're saying Green Lanterns can do that?"
"I'm saying that there's no logical reason why a Green Lantern couldn't learn to do it. I have never observed a Green Lantern actually doing it."
"I couldn't scan you coming in."
"Magic tattoos. Try now."
He raises his ring a little, a radar dish construct appearing along side him.
"I'm barely getting you on some things and not getting you at all on others."
"Since you're getting the freedom of the planet for this, you should look into augmenting your abilities. Anyway." Two orange packets leap from my ring and flies to each of theirs. "That's the location of the Dominion Home Defence Fleets and those Deep Space Fleets I've spotted so far. The little ships are expendable drones, the medium sized ones are tanks and the big ones are where-."
Alan frowns in puzzlement. "Tanks?"
"Good shields and armour, designed to survive being hit a lot. As far as I can tell, their guns aren't anything special."
"Tanks have a big gun. Do they have..? A fixed big gun, or-."
"Not a-. Not a literal tank. It's a roleplay term used to refer to-." He's grinning. "Okay, very funny."
Jordan looks blank. "Huh?"
Alan waves his right hand. "Just a… Just a little joke between me and the boy."
He's not getting it.
"Alan's in his nineties. He likes to play up the old man-."
"You're kidding." He looks at Alan, then back at me. "You're not kidding."
"You know Commander Scott-."
"Well, yeah, but I just assumed the timelines didn't line up or something. How?"
Alan floats closer and lays his right hand on Jordan's left shoulder, and I already know-
"I ate my greens, son."
-what he's going to say.
"His ring was damaged, and he ended up absorbing enough green light into himself that he's partially transubstantiated."
"Green."
"Jordan, I'm happy to blow our trumpets all day, but we've got a Dominion to humble."
"That sort of thing got you a blue ticket in my day."
"Do you want to do one more to get it out of your-"
"No, I'm fine."
"-system? Okay, good. So the Dominion don't appear to have anything I couldn't destroy on my own-." I see the look on Jordan's face, and nod seriously. "Those big ships probably have some very creative weapon systems on them, so they're the main target. They will also almost certainly have Lantern interdiction systems on them, so, Alan, you're a distraction-."
"Thank you."
"And that's three. Jordan, you're on evacuation duty and general monitoring."
"And you're going to take those ships on by yourself."
"No, I'm going to take one of those ships on at a time by myself once Alan's drawn off their escorts."
"So you've found which world has the abducted humans on it." He hesitates. "Right?"
"No. This is about making them think that they're being attacked by a Super Lantern so they cluster up their fleets and let us get a good look at their territory without them being able to interfere with our work."
"Do Super Lanterns exist?"
"In our parallel, Larfleeze and Lord Malvolio would both qualify, so if it comes up suggest they look in Vega or Sector One Six Three Four. They're the only Lanterns I know of with more raw power than me. So."
I generate a construct representation of the Dominion, marking major industrial worlds and all fleets with at least one of their largest class of ships.
"That one, that one, that one and then that one. No hanging about. They're probably going to send a threatening message to Oa at that point. If they try to get in touch, just tell them that you're monitoring the situation but haven't engaged the Dominion yourself. If the Guardians want more, put them through to me."
"I.. can do that."
"This fleet appears to be a patrol fleet for the industrial zone here. There might be human prisoners there, but it's probably the easiest fleet to attack. We'll go there first. I'll metaphorically moon a few other fleets to give them a false sense of security while you get into position."
I smile.
"Let's kill some very bad people."
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My favourite thing in fiction is people having their long staid assumptions about the nature of the world challenged, and it's great to see it here.
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Handlewithcare
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I like no-nonsense take-charge Paul (with Alan providing comedy relieve).
But the JSI seems to be completely absent?
But the JSI seems to be completely absent?
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Alan is a peach.
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I'm guessing 'hit a lot'. Though 'bit' sort of works, I don't think that's how he speaks usually.
I'm enjoying a lot about this arc, not least seeing more of Alan and Paul's dynamic.
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Ah, poking the hornet's nest while you wait for the slowpokes to arrive? Feeling out their capabilities? Sensible, if a bit risky. On the up side, you've probably got the Dominator leadership feeling good and paranoid. And paranoid people make mistakes.
Thank goodness for dumb enemies. Or ones following a dumb script.
No bad for half an hour's work.
Ah, there's the other Lanterns. Of course by this point, the Dominators won't know if they're really there or not.
Making Jordan jump, no doubt. Alan's too used to it to be surprised.
By being an inventively sneaky fellow, and having an intimate encounter with the Embodiment of Avarice...
Looking to learn a few new tricks, Jordan? Gonna have to level up quite a bit, though.
...I wonder if Guy could pull it off now, what with his time with Ion and his Enlightenment...
What, no construct telescope?
Rookie.Ah, information acquired via long-range scans and his little snipe-hunt drill?
Sounds pretty tanky to me. They're certainly going to pull aggro.
Ah, the pleasant interplay of mentor and student.
OL does take things a little seriously sometimes.
And isn't that just going to blow Jordan's mind, huh?
Who's probably a very well-preserved ninety-plus. Unless his Ring has been keeping him in shape too...
Be glad you're at least in the same decade. Some universes and their way-off-scale timelines...
Heh, he did indeed. For sixty-odd years, at that.
Yes, he changed ring colours. It isn't that hard, if you've got the right mind for it.
Alan, you incorrigible joker...
Suuure, you are.
As long as you don't joke around in a fight, it's fine.Hey, he's getting handsomer every day, after all. I'm sure he's gotten a few fangirls out there by now.
Okay, Jordan, we get it, you think he's over-playing his skill level. Just wait, you'll see soon enough.
He will once he gets into the Dominator's computer networks.
...You're looking at one. Though OL is on the low end of 'Super'...
Third place isn't so bad. Especially since second is insane, and first is... Usefully insane.
Man, Jordan's really starting to feel like he's in over his head, doesn't he?
Something which OL has proven he is very good at.
Ah, those little breather moments before combat begins and the excrement starts its flight fan-wards. I have the feeling by the time this day is over, some Dominator leader-caste are going to be having very bad days. And Jordan is going to have an eye-opening look at some advanced Lantern skills that will no doubt give him ideas. I can't wait.
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This is the scouting mission before they bring in the rest of the forces. Actually its the pre scout diversion still.
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I think it was mentioned that he resembled Alan as he is now.
It probably also helps that blue and green are very compatible in the Spectrum.
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Well, while he's gallivanting through space in an alternate dimension, is he going to be stopping by Maltus to see if there is an alternate dimension Hinon that need to get woken up before returning home?
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He's not technically lying he did "eat" a lot of "green" and stopped aging.
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Thank you, corrected.
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I remember Malvolio used some sort of green door instant portal, and I assumed it was essentially the green version of instant travel. What do I got wrong?
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I don't remember it. Do you have a link?
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When the smurfs read Jordan's report they'll panic so hard it would be like the real Smurfs and "Attack of the 50 foot Gargamel"
I hope they wont just straight up kill him or do brain surgery to make him forget two of the top five most classified secrets in the GLCs closet of skeletons.
(What other secrets would qualify apart from Larfleeze and the Vega treaty? Top one is Krona and what he did. Also Manhunters and sector 666 and the prophecy about Blackest Night)
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GLC's particularly disastrous attack on Apokolips.
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Some thoughts.
Do the people in this reality have any idea what other lantern colors mean? With only the green corps being active, do they know that orange means avarice?
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Where The Hell Is John Constantine?!?!
Ahem, with that out of the way...
Ahem, with that out of the way...
It's worth remembering Zoat hinted that OL might get an upsetting reminder that he really should investigate before assuming supposed known-unknowns without investigation, in that Zoat mentioned the Dominator's situation is somehow different in this parallel in a way that will make OL do a brief 180.
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Assuming these things occurred in this universe.
Probably not.
Maybe that distraction spell is still working.