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

Dream was directly involved with that. So far, there is no implication that the same can be said for Atlantis. I hope we'll get to see one of the Endless do something truly impressive/terrifying because of this.

 

"Luna, darling, have you ever swum before? In either form?"

She gives me a look of mild affront, and begins growing, darkening, glowing with divine purple cyan trim. "Either, you ask? You gravely miscount. The form we take on your side of the mirror is our fourth form. The form you cherish so much from our side of the mirror is our second, which we gained after ascending in our first. But is it our third form which shall be adopting to act in Atlantis, for it is in that form that we will command his dream to turn against him. And yes, we can swim. We wonder if sinking and drowning is as common a nightmare for Atlanteans as falling is for humans."

 

Ah Grayven forgot about that comic were Diana "Truth" intereacted in a weird way with that Fisher King Kingdom and reality started to breath apart?

 

It wasn't the Fisher Kingdom, whatever that means. It was her refusing to believe a truth expressed under the lasso's influence.

 

If this is the case then why would Clea be affected by it?

Unless she isn't abd is being mind controlled in a different way, or maybe she's not strong enough to resist it.

Or maybe she's on board with Ahri'ahn.

 

Fisher Kingdom is a trope. Though a more accurate trope is Fisher King.

 

Sorry, should have been Fisher King Kingdom, as in the land is defined literally by the ruler cause magic.

Because being "awakened" is not the same as becoming a real New God. Grayven ate one Grayven and took over the body of a second one. Plus had two spirit quests.

 

That should say 'here'.

 

"nods"

Now I wonder who these schmuck are.

Maybe the Crime Syndicate is making a move.

 

In other words, can you get him to stick around longer than an early Final Fantasy Summon? Because if he can exert himself against the Anti-Life, that's a big force multiplier. Especially if he can reclaim his 'bot.

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In other words, how many daily uses can you get out of the spell?

Urgh. I hate once-per-day powers... Still, I suppose the robot is safer than pouring yourself back into the universe in person...

So, no luck there. Still, you did improve your reputation with the New Genesis faction, OL. That'll pay off in future, surely.

Presumably he has hidden backdoors that the people who hacked it didn't find.

I suppose there's only so much prep work you can do against a boss this tough.

Unless Ub'x chooses to make an appearance at the last moment, no.

No plan is perfectly reliable, kid. Random chance is always a factor.

The joy of having a subtle time limit to these things. And no time to respec.

I hope so, this is not going to be easy.

Well, it's better therms than he first arrived on.

Where to now, OL? Maltus to check on the Yellow Battery? Go looking for a replacement for the Indigo? Little side-trip for some last minute nookie?

This could just mean Robin is off-planet, possibly in Minus Sixteen...

To be fair, it does take a lot of energy to kill a planet, after all.

Uh-oh. Some random pirates sticking their nose into Earth's business?

Or it could be one of the many, many one-shot alien races seen in the comics. Like the 'Bloodlines' event aliens.

Appropriately hopeful, OL. The alternatives are a lot worse, after all.

Okay, now it's time to worry a little.

Motherfucker. They're pirates, most likely...

Oh, things just keep getting better and better.

I doubt these people would destroy the base until they have what they came for. Presumably all that tasty kryptonian science knowledge...

Well, keep playing dumb. Hopefully you can turn the tables at an opportune moment.

Damn. That still covers a lot of alien races... Most of them in fact.

Hopefully their sensors don't extend far enough to have spotted you before that.

Yes, good distinction to make, thank you.

A bad day all round for humanity, then.

Why kill those you can enslave, after all?

Heh. Get some kryptonian help to speed-blitz the pirates. Assuming they can be spared.

Well, this was an unpleasant homecoming, and he hasn't even touched down. Bit worrying that someone's come poking around the old kryptonian outpost wreckage, though.Pretty sure it's not the Black Circle group, since OL went through them before during that situation with the Anti-Monitor armour fragment... Assuming I remember it correctly.

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...on a plan you do not think is reliable."

And the last thing Earth needs is a small moon falling to earth.

...not in the sense of accepting the truth of the Anti-Life."

 

Or he's still under the effect of Anti-Life.

That would explain the title.

You're pretty spot-on.

 

‘Red Cross’

 

'here'.

If they are, the lawyers just solved the problem, as they'll eliminate the Anti-Life in an instant so that the Red Cross can sue these schumucks for illegal use of their logo.

...no, I'm not joking. They're ridiculously aggressive in protecting the symbol. And the stated reason - to keep it from being "diluted" from its purpose - sounds reasonable, then you realise that toys companies get sued if they use it.
I don't think having the Red Cross on Ratchet's shoulders makes medics on the battlefield more likely to be shot, but the Red Cross does, which is why the toy has "EKG line" symbols instead, and when the Transformers Hall of Fame had an induction for the character, the artwork used had inverted colors...

 

Thank you, corrected.

 

Can I have confirmation that Prince Drax somehow has a power capable of equalling or defeating the Omega Effect?

 

I don't believe that it was ever tested. Originally, he was supposed to be the one who absorbed the Omega Force, but DeSaad and Darkseid sabotaged the procedure. The idea that he absorbed just as much of it as his brother did but isn't enough of a dick to use it is technically canon-compliant.

 

Having never read any of the comics, did Drax start absorbing it and then the sabotage sent hom wherever he is, or did Darkseid blast him after.

Also, does anyone actually know where he is stuck? Lightray said getting there required being blasted by the Omega Beam and getting ridiculously lucky.

 

Neither.

Desaad built Darkseid a suit that allowed him to absorb the Omega Effect while Drax was bathing in its energies.

So Uxas cheated.

Which caused the Infinity Pit to explode, which caused Drax to hurtle to another planet, where Astorr the Infinity Man lived.

Astorr was old, so he made Drax his successor.

Unexplained- Astorr was the last New God of Apocalypse who tried to claim the Omega Effect in the Infinity Pit, so in the comics there might be a long line of Infinity Men from Apokalips.

 

"head"

"are many"

Either Constantine or the gods moved it to another plane if existence to protect it.

"realised"

Some people just don't want to face reality.

 

Guessing the Olympians overthrew Hephaestus who wasn't doing anything and welcomed Zeus back?

 

Does any Olympian actually like Zeus enough to go through the effort to do that?

 

"Hephaestus who wasn't doing anything"
Zeus? The Olympian god of "I'm gonna chill and do nothing except cheat on my wife and inconvenience the other gods and mortals whenever I feel like it" Zeus?

Hephaestus probably moved Themyscira to avoid the Anti Life because it's an Old Gods vs New Gods, Fourth World vs Fifth World, thing.

 

Man, I wonder how far down his list of contacts he got before he finally reached someone. And how worried he must have been getting by that point. Seriously, imagine it: No response from friend after friend...

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I'm impressed he can feel that much hope. The situation must be desperate.

...Very desperate.

Since it's a safe bet Adom's capital is the safest place in the continent right now.

And more importantly, how heavily armed. And what composition? Dreadnoughts? Fighter carriers? Troop transports? Or worse, all of the above...

...Not a big fleet, but still worrying. And that doesn't address smaller craft, either.

Gee, you think, Amon? Even worse, they're off-planet, so very few of the League could even reach them.

Not quite kissing the sand, but that can be a bit nasty sometimes. (I would have linked the 'Robin Hood: Men In Tights' moment, but apparently it doesn't exist in clip form anywhere I can find... )

Heh. The joy of dealing with people with supersenses.

That'll be a mistake in the end.

Bah, Adom would have known right where he was. Amon's got a lot to learn.

Or it might be something to do with his deities. They must be struggling in these times.

That seems to be the answer to a lot of issues on Earth right now. Pity it's easier said than done.

Oh, gee, nothing difficult there. Easy as!

Seems a bit iffy. I suppose there's still hope that Ub'x bothers to make an appearance.

Putting a lot of faith in an 'I think', OL.

Oh, yes. That's a given. But they may learn about this plan anyway, once you start carrying it out.

Kind of makes dealing with Apokalips a priority, then. But that can come after you fix Earth...

That's still not a guarantee. He resisted a tiny fragment of Anti-Life. That doesn't mean he's immune to all of it...

Because every additional person in the know is another point of failure for his planning.

Yeah, OL. You're getting sloppy in your confidence.

It could be a counterpart to the Olympian's plan during the Crisis, when they removed it form the mortal world entirely...

ideally, they'll return when you clean out the Anti-Life.

Ah. So things didn't end well for them after all...

Alive, at least, if not entirely whole... More reasons to fix this shit soon.

Honestly, I wonder which part hurt Canis more: The truth of his exile... Or the fact his art sucked.

So, Gotham wasn't a unique occurrence, just an abnormal one.

Oh, is he going to have words for you, OL...

Setting foot on Earth once more... And it doesn't feel at all pleasant, does it? I mean, OL did more good off-world than he could have here, but I bet he's not feeling that sure now, is he? Things are deep in the shit, and OL's plan certainly seems like the best chance to unfuck them. Which makes me worry it won't work... At least, not the way he expects it to.

 

Remember all the one's that were upset over what LePaul did?

And of course, having your new leader do exactly bupkis for weeks while your planet is Anti-Lifed is a good way to send them running back to the old leader under who's watch nothing like that ever happened.

 

I am wondering if the Pyrrhic name means victory here is going to trigger something worse.

My money is on Rock of Ages (or hello Darkseid).

 

Thank you, corrected.

 

And he only resisted it by going in a very deep coma.

It may have just been the first place Manheim did that.

 

High praise. Also an excellent line.