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

It's a shame he never met Canis they could have been Terrible great friends.

 

Bah, what's there to blame Paul for? Draan Del Daar clearly just took part in an ancient and noble Maltusian tradition, harking back to the very start of the universe itself.

Fucking around and Finding Out.

 

There is no way it was that easy.

 

Hold up

"No Bonus"???

What bonus would the Freelancers get for what???

Helping kill OL? Backing Up Draan?

...Did they find yet another piece of The Butcher?
...a bonus for activating Erdammeru?
...a bonus for staying to witness Passion Unleashed?

 

Could Mother Boxes always read minds freeform from non-gods and communicate through telepathy?

Your memory has been good throughout the years, but at this point, given the length of the story and the fact that you've been writing for almost a decade, it might be a good idea to keep more extensive notes.

considerably

Are the red quotation marks here on purpose? The subsequent ones don't have them.

 

Thank you, corrected.

Yes.

 

TIL that twain was a word.
I don't remember having ever seen it used before. Is it archaic, or too upper class to be found on the internet ?

 

It's a perfectly cromulent word.

 

Is "at there" a Britishism? I would have just expected "there".

 

The other shoe should be the Void Hound intelligence taking over and just destroying everything.

But I am guessing Zoat removed that function from his story.

 

IMO it's not quite archaic but in my experience it's been at least 40 years since it's been in common use.

 

Here is hoping Orion comes out of this with Red Light Enlightenment. With his connection to The Source, he shouldn't require The Butcher's approval.

 

Geoffrey Talbot didn't need the Butcher's approval to gain enlightenment, so Orion shouldn't either.

 

Thank you, corrected.

 

It WAS that easy!?!

That's... very disappointing.

I hope there is a twist or something.

 

On a scale of one to a million how pissed will Hinon be when she learns all the shit that almost happened today?

 

That should say 'built'.

The fact that Hinon didn't know about this hopefully means that the Controllers will consider this a big threat to their defenses. After all, they can't really claim to truly control Maltus if a planet destroying superweapon has been hiding in their system for so long, can they?

 

"to want to"

 

At least 666,666 with only 666 of it directed at OL.

 

Gee, are there any around here? Because I'm sure you can't really be talking about yourselves. Perhaps the captain simply has no fear in him, merely a Joy at living. Or he's simply a simpleton who can't understand things like laws.

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And at least you are going to investigate their business dealings. I was worried you'd just let them go.

Ah, the British statement of the Right to Silence. More or less what you yankees' Miranda Rights are equivalent to. He's taking this seriously.

Play a stupid game, honey, win a painful prize. Let her enjoy her object lesson about pressing her luck.

...Does Harrow and company not really understand the situation they're in? Idiots. Lucky idiots.

Which is probably not a commonly known fact in the galaxy at large, I bet.

Still, their benefits outweighed the drawbacks. Like letting yahoos like these three travel further.

And no doubt got well-paid for that, I bet.

Draan Del Daar was not one of his people. Merely an associate. There is a distinction between the things.

Swindling people and stealing dangerous artefacts is hard work? Sheesh.

Oh, don't be sour, Kalmin. Not everyone has your high standards for their weaponry.

...Though he would like them alive by the end of all this, intact is optional.

Yeah, best to make sure any being with the power of a Maltusian isn't suffering from any mental issues.

"Just about there, Sweetie. Just another couple of hits." Hopefully once it's complete, it won't leak quite so much.

At least it won't forcefully replace the wearer's heart.

A pity the symbol of the Red Light isn't more like a giant middle finger, but I doubt that would have been as marketable.

...How about dealing with your face first? That can't feel pleasant.

His soul is a steady dripfeed of Rage, OL. I don't think he's gonna need anything else.

And depending on how you look at it, the White Light and the Source are the same thing. So charging won't be an issue.

"I'm not happy with this situation, but trying to get him to listen to me in this state..."

Heh. I rather do picture it as having been sullenly watching them in its half-asleep state, waiting for them to try to get a leash on it...

"And better under our control than someone else's."

I doubt it would be that easy...

And it escapes him that Hal Jordan still has Abin Sur's original ring, with its logs and files still in place. Proof the Renegade is a bit smarter in that respect...

Well, that didn't take Orion long. I was expecting it to be noisier.

Brace yourself, Granny. You may want to sit down for this.

...If nothing else, what's left of Draan could qualify as a nice example of modern art? Adam Smasher would approve.

And so it ends with a whimper, rather than a bang. One Red Ring forged, one maltusian turned into chunky salsa for his crimes, and one planetary threat defused. Though I can imagine there being a few arguments to come about the ownership of Erdammeru. And quite a bit of unamused snark from Orange Granny when she finds out about all this...

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Double Space.

... and given that Draan Del Daar was planning ...

 

Hinon's current status: What did that idiot do THIS time?

Hinon's status ten minutes from now: [Externally Screaming]

 

Zero, because Hinon is so old she has to fake her emotions just to function around lesser beings. She'll act pissed, but she won't actually be pissed.

 

Pretty disappointed with the end of this, not gonna lie. It was interesting when they were going to the other planets, searching for the Butcher's traces. And then the expected/unexpected betrayal was cool.

But after that? It really did end with a whimper. As anti-climactic as it can get. And I don't think I really understood what was Draan's plan or how he was defeated as easily as it appeared. Not sure I even want to know.

 

Ah. So that's how you're going to defeat Darksied.
Using the Void Hound.

My favorite solution to the problem of Apokolips so far.

Overwhelming force.

 

You thought that was easy?

 

Mr Zoat, does that mean that the Reach are already aware of Erdammeru? Or will your note about one of the Reach's scouts learning of it and then hightailing it out of there as fast as they can no longer going to happen?

 

His plan, as I see it, was to get angry, control Erdammeru with that anger, use it to destroy Maltus or die trying, and then presumably go on a killing spree until someone strong enough to kill him turned up. He was defeated seemingly through a combination of him being suicidal and greatly weakened by taking the anger from Orion/Orion taking the anger back, and due to Orion being very strong (I’m not sure if he’s comparable in strength to other Entity fusions, given that this was said to be a ‘minor’ appearance, but if he is that strong then it seems credible that he could overpower a weakened Maltusian).

But even with that, it’s a pretty pathetic way for a billion+ year old superintelligence to die. You’d think he’d have planned for this possibility. Maybe he actually didn’t really want to destroy Maltus, but just wanted to experience anger and die, so he made credible threats to bait them into killing him?

 

I mean... yeah? Kinda?

The big bad of the arc reveals themselves. Everything went according to their plan. They have all the power.

Gets chopped to pieces the next time we see him and there are no consequences to what he did except that they have the red ring now and Orion is even angrier.

 

I really hope we get to see her reaction. I’m quite looking forward to it!