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

Yea, he and Cyclops got into a fight during the episode Iceman showed up. They were surprised their powers did not work on each other, not knowing that siblings cannot hurt one another with their mutant abilities. And thus they ended up not putting two and two together during the series. Hopefully X-Men 97 on Disney + fixes this, but I holdout no hope for that show. Even though the show runner seems to be anti ESG Rating approved material.

 

Corsair of the Starjammers, if you want the papa summers. He's no Starlord but he gets around.

 

Thank you, corrected.

Yes. Also, Ms. Dane's a bitch, which is the take-away from that episode.

 

Dude drops bombs like a B-52.

 

It's not really a thing about siblings being unable to hurt each other, and more that Cyclops and Havok have, essentially, the same power just with blasts coming out different places...potentially due to Cyclops' brain damage that rendered his blasts uncontrollable.

 

I'm just loving this X-Men Animated Paul!
An Orange Lantern just steamrolls through most situations with out of context solutions. Ring Scan is a pretty OP skill in this setting
Instantly find out blood connections, find people, and more! All without having to worry about the Light making a blocker and giving it out to everyone and the friends.

Did this Paul also look into improving the tech of this world and spreading knowledge around? Or is he more focused on the Mutant question before any of that?

Personally, I'd be setting up colonies on other planets/moons in the Solar System for Mutants & their friends and then just set up something like the Krakoan Gates that let Mutants teleport through them to wherever they need. Have a fully secure and safe space to put Mutants that is conventionally out of reach of Missiles and Sentinels.

 

No, it was a thing in the animated series. There's a scene where Black Tom and Banshee try and fail to blast each other as well.

 

Paul has a bad habit of dropping bombshells like that. Polaris is in for quite an interesting few days.

 

One of the things that's amusing to me: These are all taking place on 8 February 1992, due to the speed Paul flies and his want to get this done before something interrupts him (and his ring's ability to track people down, of course).

 

Magic is a thing in the various X-verses, so there are things that can be hidden from him, just not to the degree that effective scry-wards have proliferated in the main storyline.

 

Somewhat random question, but how did Scott and Alex get separated? They both went down in the same plane accident I thought, but at that point they thought each other died and nobody ever put together that these two missing kids that reappeared in the same area were related?

 

Paul be dropping bombshells on people lately.

 

"gasps for"

She might just not have realized they were related.

Yep.

"slides"

 

It’s like Oprah handing out blood relatives.

 

In comics, Emma Frost and her sisters are unable to read each other's minds

 

It is an aspect of their powers, so yes. And no they don't have the same power, they have the same power source- photons and other ambient cosmic energy. Cyclops' blasts are extradimensional exotic energy where photon like particles transmit kinetic energy. Havoc generates plasma.

But other related mutants have a similar set up, so kinda no too.

It's not even limited to mutants, funny enough.

Captain Britain, Brian Braddock, is magic Superman, he absorbs magic and channel it into being a FISS.

He was once attacked by a male variant of his sister, Psylocke, and he was immune to his telepathic blade.

Which implies that Psylocke's psychic powers utilize magical energy thanks to her Otherworlder heritage.

But there are related mutants who don't have that situation- Vulcan can hurt his brothers Cyclops and Havoc just fine with his powers, presumably because he can control all forms of energy, including energies that his brothers can't absorb.

I suspect that it's an aspect of the mutations that make mutants generally immune or at least resistant to their own powers- Cyclops can't hurt himself with his own optic blasts, Banshee doesn't liquify himself with his own sonic shouts, and if there were dueling Rogues I doubt they could absorb each other.

 

Well, at least after this he'll be halfway to informing Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch. Since it looks like Quicksilver is also a member of X-Factor.

And I'll second that the stuff with X-Factor made Lorna look like a massive bitch. She truly is her father's daughter.

 

He did.


Though at that time Quicksilver had already become a member of the team while Wanda was apparently an Avenger(and before that a member of Iron Man's Force Works(and for a twist that's now deeply ironic, she was romantically interested in Tony)).


Honestly, I'm kinda surprised they are both in Europe at this time instead of America.

 

Zoat's doing his own thing in this like in his Earth's Mightiest Heroes Rouge is still a teenager and Magneto isn't running Genosha. It works but he's only ever loosely adapted cannon works.

 

No, that's correct.

Thank you, corrected.

I can't find a clip, so I'm working off thirty year old memories here. I think they wound up in different places after the plane crashed, but I don't remember why.

Oh, they're with Force Works, but Wundagore is their home.

It's usually more that I didn't realise that another work was supposed to be in the same continuity.

 

The traditional reason is that Alex was adopted, and Scott wasn't.

Alex's adopted parents tried to remake him in the image of their dead son, while Scott had memory issues. How much was due to brain damage, childhood trauma, and/or Mr Sinister's mental manipulations is up for grabs.

 

Which is the next Bombshell this Paul should drop along with the possibility of a third and fourth Summers brother.

 

This is an arc I want to see instead of Renegade/Paragon.

That's a first.

 

They.

 

And a fifth possible "brother."

In X-Men the End, which is supposed to be a potential future instead of an alternate universe, Gambit was revealed to have been engineered by Mr Sinister with his DNA and Scott's. A nod to Gambit's original intended origin, where he was going to be a mole for Mr Sinister. But then people liked Gambit so they decided to not upset the fans.

So Vulcan, the half brother the half Shiar Adam X, and Gambit.

Although if Gambit is a Summers here, this Paul is going to feel silly for not scanning.

 

Do Boom Tubes make a sound that propagates in a vacuum? Or is his ring transmitting booms as part of “inform Paul” operating procedures?


Hmm. Paul almost certainly won’t retrieve Diana like Renegade!Paul did given the state of Earth. She just hasn’t developed her divine powers enough to toss hands with a clever New God. And he probably won’t feed anyone here to the Rhea ritual below. Heh, I’m amused what a renegade reach soldier and an imprisoned Themysciran space pirate could accomplish after Paul leaves this planet.

 

I suspect this Paul has already scanned Remy partly because he has had so many opportunities and it'd would be unusually foolish not to have done so.

 

Do try to resist that urge, OL. No telling what Best Snek having a taste would do to their ritual, or the thaumosphere that's laid open right now. Fortunately, the Reach and New Ascendants' metaphysical weight is likely too small to have any effect in turn...

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And do you want the headache that having so many experiences downloaded would cause? At least the question of how they'd interact with his Ship Master Construct Lantern has something of an answer.

Oh, yes. Given what else might come through a Boom Tube, it's only fair to be jumpy.

Well, good for you. What of your foe?

...OH, right. Even if they might have seen his Construct Lanterns before, I doubt the knowledge of what they are and how they're made has been distributed...

Don't worry, everyone has that reaction when they hear of it. Well, everyone who isn't a sociopathic bastard, anyway.

...And yet you've been resorting to it more and more often. Usually on bad people, but still...

I mean, if it's information you'd make available without restriction... Things that would be in children's lesson books, basically.

Though that attitude is probably not the norm, I bet.

Other Ascendants, but they might have similar doubts. Who knows?

In part, it comes down to the amount of mystical power at their command, really.

Wise woman.

...How's that boot leather tasting, OL?

Or a particular kind of Wizard. Ultimately, it probably depends on where your divine gifts are focused,,,

Might makes right. Even if it's not solely physical might, eh?

The question is, how well will his metaphysique fit in with theirs? It seems to work well enough with the New Ascendants he commands, but there might have been some rough edges to smooth out...

I suspect anyone with a modicum of metaphysical perception can feel the changes being wrought upon Minosyss' thaumosphere...

Interesting that it hasn't been widely spoken of. Ulterior motives? Concern for some misunderstanding of intentions? Fear of some cocky pup trying to wrest command?

Big Gray might well have felt a tickling on the edge of his perception... Maybe it depends on how invested he is in his soldier's fighting success?

This is why you need more information about the nature of New Godhood, of what a Godname means to a New God, and how it expresses itself in them...

Heck, with the right confluence of conditions, Grayven might well be able to overpower Mannheim and replace him in the centre of the Anti-Life's focus.

Oh, here's trouble. Speak of the Devil...

...And he shall appear?

Even with the advantage of Boom Tubes, it's never a tactically smart move to drop right on top of an unknown location.

Now, who's in charge, though? Astarte? Or her much more aggressive daughter?

Sounds like they might need a war god or two soon. Hopefully the ritual finishes swiftly, and they can get proper leadership and empowerment back amongst the Ascendants. Because I doubt that those already present will be able to hold off the Citizenry's assault without serious aid. And just after OL had a win... Let's hope this doesn't set the tone for the rest of the year.

 

As one who enjoys both Paragon and Renegade storylines, I'm very excited to finally see OL's take on this plot line. Though I have the feeling he's both over leveled, and unwilling to 'play along' with it.
He is much more likely to shoot them all and let the new-New Gods sort them out.