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

Oh, thank goodness. I don't think I could have handled a second day.

 

Correct. It appears the Free Lancers made off with nearly the entire prize - making the quest now to find out why - and the residue that was left from so many eternities of the Blood being in place, Orion slurped up like a cherry Misty from Dairy Queen.

I'm not sure this next planet is going to be quite so Paragon on the quest meter, though.

 

When did they learn about the situation on Azmah?

 

Unrelated to the current episode, but can anyone remind me of what Donna’s exact origin was in this fic? I know there was an episode about it but I can’t remember anything that happened in it.

 

I'll try and defend his behavior. Draan didn't put the Butcher's Blood on these planets, he just knew it was probably there. So he knew an environmental hazard (maybe) existed on some random planets he had no connection to. Who made it Draan's job to solve every problem in the universe?

It wasn't even doing that much on this planet. They probably lose way more miners to inhaling rock dust, and I don't see OL dropping everything to help improve industrial air filtration technology (though it's OL so he might do that eventually).

 

The titans re-enacted the ritual that created Diana, so Donna is like the bootleg version of Diana.

Hence she is blessed by the Titans instead of the Olympians.

 

I'm still betting that it's Lysis.

The Qwardians were selling weapons to aliens and they may have used them.

They might have shrines in their homes.

Some religions do not require places of worship, but just the home.

Plus this could be him recharging his batteries so to speak.

Chronos also apparently did it at the same time, so Donna is in a way Diana's twin sister.

 

"Wait a minute you primitive little fucker! The link head is bysy!"

"So the idiot is capable of having an intelligent thought. There really is a Source."

"Finished? It's about Source-damned time!"

More pure art.

"The monkey has a point. You can kill that walking turd later."

"Don't tell me what to do, fuckface!"

 

Then why is Donna a teenager while Diana is a member of the greatest generation?

 

For some reason, she was frozen in time as a baby and protected by a cultist, until a fire in the building where she lived accidentally killed said cultist, leading to Donna being freed, found, and subsequently adopted.

 

Donna wqs literally put in stasis while the cult tried to figure out what to do. And then the building burned down.

 

Pretty much.

Though I think Chronos was trying to figure out how to best use Donna and not the cult.

Guess making her took a lot out of him that he wasn't able to respond for decades, or he's very patient and likes to take his time with planning.

 

Would something retroactive help?

Leaves

Is this a Britishism, or should this be "give it a minute"?

 

Razer and Ilana are going to be the local heroes that people tell their grandchildren about, aren't they?

 

No.

Thank you, corrected.

 

I am feeling withdrawal symptoms...
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Oh, uh, okay then!?

Godammit OL, the Freelancers (employers) obviously know, start presuming enemy action already!

 

Remarkable show of restraint on Orion's part. A good sign.

 

From her wiki page, her Oath of uncertain canonicity:
"The Cosmos through, in every part, one thing endures: a loving heart. Against the knaves who'd quell this song, Green Lanterns stand, to right the wrong!"


How very golden-age.

The guardians expelled her over this, but they didn't fix the planet? Because, presumably, the natives didn't want anything to do with Green Lanterns after Liana? Okay...

 

Just go along with it, guys. The sooner you play along, the sooner he'll be gone. A thing many people didn't learn and suffered through, well, having to deal with OL longer than necessary for.

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Huh, must be siesta time.

And that is still a fucking weird geological phenomenon. How would that even have worked?

I suppose that explains them being part metallic. Natural radiation shielding.

...Okay. What made her think that was a good idea? Did she not even bother to check with the locals before sticking an oar into the magnetosphere and stirring well?

...Off-world traders, huh? I have a sneaky suspicion that...

...Well, shit. There's got to be a catch, then.

How... Inefficient.

No doubt their conversation has an undercurrent of 'We give stupid orange men this, he go away? Good?'

And that sounds extra suspicious. They must have hit a jackpot somewhere.

Or it's so distributed that it's undetectable. Like an invisible fog around everything.

...Also that, yes. Which is getting really annoying.

But not enough to put him in the uncanny valley? Interesting.

Given how many Sportmaster had supposedly 'mastered', and used as fighting styles, I can see why.

Let me guess. It periodically makes the locals angrier?

Given they do have a magnetic sense, that's a reasonable suspicion.

The problem is, will the locals want to tell you anything about that? Would they even be aware of the issue? A culture like this doesn't really strike me as having much of a scientific community.

Looks like a general majority: 'We don't like you.'

Now, on whose word did the Free Lancers set that up, I wonder...

Ah, shunning. The ultimate expression of 'Go away now'...

...And your ego doesn't want to let you be shown up by the Free Lancer assholes, eh?

At least the desires don't have anything about beating your skull into paste... Right now.

What would they care what's above, if someone they reflexively hate is right there in front of them?

Just drop them. If they aggro on the cables, push them back.

Ah, yes. There's always one asshole in a multiplayer scenario who just wants to run to the next quest marker and get in with it, huh?

And OL can always catch up with them easily enough if they run into trouble.

...Until you pick up their trail at the next planet. Because of course they'll have been there.

Dangit, OL. This is no time to get bogged down with busy work. The trail grows cold, and the longer you delay, the more likely the Free Lancers will acquire more of the Butcher's Blood. It might well hit a critical mass, and that would be bad for everyone nearby. All while you run around fixing other people's mistakes...

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Hoo boy. A few typos:

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...they're either too tired or too injured to throw a punch.

"Planet has long had multiple magnetic poles. (Unless they have odd tense use...)

...and they instinctively walk the wrong way. (Also a double space before 'they')

"I don't think that I can turn your planet's magnetic field back...

"It's one of the things we look out for when detecting Reach mind altering technology.

... the desire for normalcy that is its antithesis

 

How old are you? Because if you're my age or younger, then there's a reasonable chance that you'll live to see it.

No. That's why she got fired.

Thank you, corrected.

 

Weird biology for an equally weird environment I suppose.

Hopefully locals are much friendlier when their whole magnetic map thing is back and feel less lost, in both senses of the word.

 

I kind of feel the need to point out here that the Butchers Blood doesn't actually belong to LePaul.

And unless they do something like try to destroy a planet with it, or sell it to The Reach. LePaul would absolutely be in the wrong to just take it from them.

 

I have difficulty understanding just what happened on Azmah and in what order.

 

And even if you could read New God body language there's not a guarantee that you can read his.

Given his discipline it's possible that he has excellent control over his own expressions.

"locals"

 

Go read Green Lantern 162.

Thank you, corrected.

 

Which volume? There's apparently multiple.

 

Two.

 

Because being in the moral wrong ahs stopped him before, yes?
Ignoring all those we would consider 'wrong' (killing them, branding them etc), the Free Lancers are perfectly willing to allow someone to outbid a current client (as shown when they showed up with that Green Ring prototype and were interested to see if the Reach and Paul would have a bidding war).