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

Thank you, corrected.

 

Cue Zoat recreating the Elements of Harmony. Then he hits the sun.

 

Place your bets people! Did the preparations of this comic take place before Grayven and Artemis’ adventure or will Grayven create a similar stash when he returns?
If a stash already exists then I wonder if Lynne deposited wishful (heartbreaking) letters in the stash since Grayven’s disappearance.

 

Ow, why would you say that? Now I'm sad.

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I reckon 3:1 odds it's a sad letter about missing him and 1:3 odds it's angry at him for leaving her behind.

 

Why exactly would spaceships made out of shapeshifting crystals be flying bricks?

They grow and shrink as needed.

 

They might be limited in how much they can do that.

 

Because Kryptonians like their ships looking like that. Nothing quite shows the primitives how 'advanced' you are like making your warship out of something that has no business being used as armour - like a glasslike space crystals /s

Lex (depending on the incarnation) has a 'we can do this with a good, old fashined Human Ingenuity^TM/Earth shizotech' thing going on (except for all the times he completely forgets about it). So he might've decided to go completely homegrown on this project. Or Grayven convinced him to for some reason.

 

Paragon wasn't all that willing to share every single bit of alien tech his ring had in its database because he thought the people of Earth would become dependent on him for every single advancement instead of relying on themselves to develop their tech when they could have done so, like depending on him to make them spaceships, powerful energy devices and teleporters when they already had those in Ted Knights inventions and the Zeta Beam that was developed in the fifties.

Maybe renegade also feels somewhat the same in this regard, or maybe Lex also feels that way, at least in some ways.

 

I seriously doubt any incarnation of Lex would see people being dependent on him/his company for the goodies as a bad thing. Grayven might but even he is very cavalier about using alien tech for his purposes.

 

Sorry I was thinking more along the lines of them not getting too dependent on alien technology and wanting humans to advance using human tech rather than alien.

 

Why'd you got to end it on the depressing letter stash note? Now I can just see Lynne or Luna doing this.

 

If Grayven's estimate of 5 billion years is accurate, it's unlikely any such letter would have survived.

No. Not shapeshifting crystals. Growing, programmable crystals. They can't just magic mass out of nowhere and send it back their when convenient.

 

Ehh, given the fact that they have access to advanced tech and powerful magic it just may survive even that long.

 

I think Paragon made a joke about one of his subspace pockets with his breakfast cereal of choice being one of the last things remaining on earth. He'd created it in the kitchen at the Mountain after Wally had a bit of a snacking fit. Soooo, maybe they'll be some granola left for the sheeda to be very confused over.

 

Kryptonian Sunstone isn't glasslike.

And it's a lot more impressive then Zoat makes it out to be.

 

The Doomsday was durable enough that it took Superman to damage it, and even then it could heal instantly using the shapeshifting, and defensive wise it can also use the shapeshifting to build additional defenses like say growing extra armor when needed.

It's not quite up there as a technological cheat as the emotional electromagnetic spectrum, but I'd rate it higher than Nth metal.

At least until DC added a gazillion new powers to Nth metal, like shapeshifting and reality warping.

 

She's a god she can use god magic to make the letter last long enough, or steal paper from the book of destiny (or maybe be actually waiting there herself, I'm sure she can find some form of eternal youth) can't she?

 

She is a New God so she may be able to live that long.

 

Five billions years is long enough for a tectonic plate to have scooted back into the mantle two or three times. It’s a really long time

 

'The ones which'

 

Thank you, corrected.

 

Thus continue the Adventures of Big Grey Meanie and Arrow Lass in: Overleveled Past the Deathworld.

 

Oh my. This isn't life OR death. It goes from being BOTH, undead using normal biological muscle and tissue life processes which need fuel, to being NEITHER, the bodies simply becoming inert inanimate material without stimulus to chase. The ones that fed won't have a heartbeat until they're done digesting their meals, and then their hearts will beat exactly enough to distribute the nutrients, and then stop again. There's no life to maintain. They could have literally been standing there, without decay, for a billion years, until something showed up to eat, and only for those few seconds are they living zombies. And now they're inert again, ready to wait another billion.

 

Cutting them down like wheat, literally. The joy of fighting zombies, at least. No need for concern about wounding future captives.

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So likely.. manufactured.. for purpose. If they were wild, they'd simply be nude. Presumably dispensed from some local fort to harry intruders, since anyone authorised would be able to manage them. But definitely signs of Columbian origin.

And absolutely no thought of self-preservation. Nothing more than attack dogs. Except even dogs would flee before such carnage...

They can barely even damage him, and then only if they hit a gap in his armour, or his head. At a guess, they're probably being monitored from a distance, by some overflying drone Grayven and Artemis can't see. They're nought but strength testers...

Man, getting images of a Musou game here, with bodies (or body parts, in this case) sent flying with every swing of a max-rank weapon being wielded by a max level character. On Beginner difficulty.

The joy of lacking any better sensor gear than the old Mk1 Eyeball. Or in this case, the Mk2?

Either she's a lot stronger than she appears (quite likely, given the probable draw of her bow) or they are made of plasticine!

Cleared some space nicely. Joy of being a ranged build in a melee scrum.

No soul, Grayven, I doubt that'll do much. Besides knock off a limb or something.

Good thing, otherwise all those severed limbs would be dragging themselves after you. That's always double-plus creepy.

If only it were that easy...

Whatever's keeping them moving, it's apparently pretty simple. I suppose it would have to be to be used so casually...

Translation: "Please stop the angry midgets from hammering on my casing. It huuuurts..."

Ah, if only talking were a free action.

That depends. How fast can you run?

Huh. That was spontaneous. I guess they have a fairly simple attack routine: Charge, or recover if you can't reach the target.

Not too close, don't want to set them off.

... Such marvellous sound effects...

That's quite possibly the grossest self-repair method I've ever seen. And that includes Nurgle and Tyranid armies.

Oh, come on, they regenerate that well? Talk about stupidly resilient, for all their fragility. Though, to be honest, that fragility is because they're facing super-strong New Gods.

Hence why I said 'Manufactured' earlier. It's still horrifying and sick. Which means it's perfect for the Sheeda.

Evidently, they have no natural predators. Anything around here is a Sheeda creature, or an intruder. And we've seen how they react to intruders.

No sense of pain at all. No wonder they didn't retreat before they couldn't pursue. Presumably, whoever controls them has other options on the way...

No point standing around wondering, like this is some immersive nature documentary. Their owner is probably mobilising as you speak.

Only you could make that sort of understatement sound profound... The only interesting thing about it was their behaviour.

True, for all you know, this is an area for toons straight out of character creation, and it doesn't scale. Sure, you could farm for kill achievements, but I'd rather be getting ones for exploration.

Not the most difficult fight he's ever had. No doubt the next encounter will be something stronger. If they're lucky, it'll include something they can ride on to get moving faster. Sooner or later, someone important's going to notice them, after all...

Godspeech:

 

Or it may just be her god archery that enhances her shots even if she isn't that strong.

She may have some enhanced strength though.

 

They seem more like a biological weapon system than either zombies or people.

One that self maintains by cannabalising broken parts.

 

Prediction time.

They were dumped near Melmoth's hiding hole, and will somehow defeat him, and then use his time machine to return to the past.

 

my head

 

Thank you, corrected.