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

Discussion in 'Creative Writing' started by Mr Zoat, Jan 27, 2019.

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  1. Lone Courier 6

    Lone Courier 6 Wanderer of threads

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    ...This is why we don't want Heroes like The Flash or Spider-Man dropping their no kill rules, they are terrifying when they go lethal.
     
  2. Darko

    Darko Connoisseur.

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    maybe 'if they do'

    remove 'in the refugees' or make it 'crew and the refugees'
     
  3. Irked

    Irked Experienced.

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    ...I think Paul might actually be about to get angry here, could derail the fight quite a bit.
     
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  4. RichardWhereat

    RichardWhereat Aia airëa Fëanáro.

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    It's why no-one wants Velocity playing with knives. He'll get a double s rank, and a flee on sight order in the bingo book.
     
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  5. thebishop8

    thebishop8 Umm, ackchyually...

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    I get that Barry was angry at the idea that the Sheeda might go into exile here instead of facing justice, but I was expecting him to argue about it instead of immediately turning murderous. He didn't even wait to see if that was the option Lord Malvolio was going to take.
     
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  6. Chojin Patriarch

    Chojin Patriarch Veteran Lurker

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    :mad: Fuuuuck! Barry, you idiot! For someone who can think faster than anyone alive, you are so dumb!

    As nice as it is that he's been taking OL's guidance, this is not the time to find out about it!

    And Orcus is getting off his throne. Well done, Barry, you just pissed off the big dog.

    :eek: Not even chunky salsa. More like smooth red paint. Flash don't fuck around.

    Presumably he's manipulating the physics of this pocket dimension directly, not by any Spectrum effect. Suggests he's got a lot more control over it than we thought, even if he's still locked inside.

    Barry going for the direct approach to taking out Malvolio, eh? I don't think it'll work, no matter how hard you hit him.

    Although the Queen is unlikely to be permanently dead from that. She was almost as hard to kill as Melmoth, if I remember right.

    Yeah, when even your own teammates are calling you out for it, you know you dun goofed. You dun goofed BAD.

    Unfortunately, he's kind of needed alive for other things, as much as you want to punish him, Malvolio.

    Hmm... Scattering something in the air in front of him to scatter and deflect the destruction pulse? And for fuck's sake, Diana, think!

    Good luck convincing the others to step back and think rationally, when the big boss is trying to kill them...

    Looks like Mallie didn't like that. And it seems what he doesn't like, he smashes...

    Impressive, given his enlightenment. He got smashed so hard, he forgot all desires for a moment?

    Yeah, the entertainment industry has caused a lot of myths like that to become 'common knowledge'... I'd be more worried about anyone who was standing in the path of Malvolio's shot against OL. Again, chunky salsa...

    Blind shot? looks like Barry pissed Malvolio right proper.

    Or they're forgetting about the bystanders in the heat of battle. Typical for comic-book heroes, really. At least on Earth, most people are smart enough to run away...

    So Malvolio's empowering of the station has limited range beyond it. Handy, especially for rescue work.

    He'll save as many as he can, even if he has to pull Malvolio's palace down around the man's head...

    Just have to be careful to stay out of the way of...

    ...the roaming boss fight. And every moment it goes on, both Hal and Malvolio are less inclined to give up. Hopefully it doesn't end up doing too much damage...

    ...Nineteen seconds. Holy shit, OL works fast, even by hero standards. He's not even accelerated, is he?

    Really not the time, Hal. Someone's got to clean up after Barry's fuckup...

    Well, at least Hal can see the value is saving lives. But somehow, I don't think they are good...

    ...I really hope he's at least in one piece. While he's not enlightened-good, Hal is pretty damn good at shielding...

    Somehow, when they get back to Earth, I think Barry is going to be deep, deep in the shit. Seriously, I know he was pissed, but wow. And now any hope of a diplomatic resolution is down the toilet, and Malvolio is not pleased...


    Normal speed, and then the corpses of the Sheeda...
    Another blink and I'm up close to the station again. Next breach-.
     
  7. Darko

    Darko Connoisseur.

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    He was probably tired of seeing the Sheeda still be around and then being given the chance to escape justice.

    Lots of people would be pissed after something like that happened, and may want to do something violent to stop it, but they can't while Barry can.
     
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  8. Darko

    Darko Connoisseur.

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    Hopefully he gets some therapy after this.

    He has been fighting the Sheeda for weeks and saw what they do to the people they capture, so yeah anyone with a functioning morality would be pissed at them.
     
  9. NightmareWarden

    NightmareWarden Versed in the lewd.

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    What do we think, gang? Did the queen have a Contingency spell on her that can reverse death? Perhaps a chronomancy effect to return her body to a point before the injuries.
     
  10. Sockmonkey

    Sockmonkey I trust you know where the happy button is?

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    And OL learns what it's like when a teammate goes ham unexpectedly.
    Seems a bit out of character for Flash though. He's always been the nice one.
    Of course when the nice ones turn, it's scary as fuck.
    Mal is damn lucky this isn't a version with the speed force. Relativistic punches would have killed everything before he knew what was happening.
     
  11. Darko

    Darko Connoisseur.

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    Beware the Nice Ones indeed.
     
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  12. Agent Orange

    Agent Orange Experienced.

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    This was always going to end this way. The Plot demands it! Diplomancy actually working would rob us of this big pointless exciting fight scene. We can't have that.
     
  13. Vaermina

    Vaermina Well worn.

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    The Queen is very specifically the next best thing to Invulnerable and Immortal.

    So whoever that was Barry killed, it wasn't the Queen.
     
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  14. Rebu

    Rebu hey, little Anna, you're the one

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    You...you just combined about three franchises there.

    I'm pretty sure that's not allowed.
     
  15. Stsword

    Stsword Versed in the lewd.

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    She got offed in a car accident in the comics.

    If a car racing towards a hospital can leave her a bug on the windshield, I see no reason to believe this didn't do her in.
     
  16. Mr Zoat

    Mr Zoat Dedicated ragequitter

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    No, he was going to think 'do need'.
    Thank you, corrected.
    Thank you, corrected.
    No, she just used the caldron, and the strike team didn't see that anywhere.
    A car and an arrow made of narrativium.
     
  17. Darko

    Darko Connoisseur.

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    The deadliest substance in the universe, especially the comic universe.
     
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  18. Vaermina

    Vaermina Well worn.

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    Not sure who you are thinking of... But I don't think that was Queen Tenebrae...
     
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  19. Stsword

    Stsword Versed in the lewd.

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    I'm thinking of her death in Seven Soldiers, the mystery is what you're thinking of.

    She got stabbed by Sir Ystin, shot by Spider, fell in the street, and then hit by Bulleteer's car.

    The next panel is Bulleteer being told she's the only one who survived the car accident, so RIP Gloriana and Sally Sonic.

    And "The spear thrown by Mighty Aurakles 42,000 years ago has finally found its mark," is the narration on the next page by one of the Seven Unknown Men of Slaughter Swamp for those that wasn't blatant enough.
     
  20. RichardWhereat

    RichardWhereat Aia airëa Fëanáro.

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    :D

    I'd recommend reading this. It's what I was referencing.
     
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  21. CTrees

    CTrees Chasing the ring

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    Just hopefully not at Sanctuary. That place has a history of not ending well for Flashes.
     
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  22. Darko

    Darko Connoisseur.

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    Or anyone else who went there.
     
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  23. Prince Charon

    Prince Charon Just zis guy, you know?

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    Weeks from the perspective of the other characters, but depending on how his power expresses itself in this timeline, it could have been years, or even longer, from his accelerated viewpoint.
     
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  24. CTrees

    CTrees Chasing the ring

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    That's fair. Even without all the murder, it would be a shockingly terrible place for people to actually get therapy (regularly memory wiping your robot therapists does not lend itself to building rapport with patients!)
     
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  25. Soul Shocker

    Soul Shocker Not too sore, are you?

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    Man, I was hoping Paul would help with murderizing Malvolio
     
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  26. Rafin

    Rafin Not too sore, are you?

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    That's a very... cross franchise example. Is that Velocity from Worm being judged by Naruto fanon standards?
     
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  27. Clell65619

    Clell65619 Making the rounds.

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    So, Iris was harvested, was she?
     
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  28. Darko

    Darko Connoisseur.

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    Probay not, but thousands of others were harvested and he saw what was done to them.

    That would make a lot of people very, very angry.
     
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  29. Pez

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    Flash with a blade like Curare uses (sharpened to the point of a molecule, so it can cut through anything), and almost nothing would be able to stop him. Yes, he can just vibrate his hand into people, but just slicing people in half at relativistic speeds would probably just be faster (if messier).

    He'll get there, now that Hal's been removed from the fight. Someone had to think of the civilians. And since he was first removed from the initial attack, he was best suited for that.

    I'm kind of hoping Paul just goes and assimilates that big Green Battery. Would probably give him a good power boost and weaken Malvolio (or at least, distract him from WW and Flash).
     
  30. Agent Orange

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    A bit too angry unless he knew some of them. People get killed all the time in superfights, in disasters... He's taking this a tad too personally taking into account his character up to this point.

    Either he lost someone important or he got hit by something that makes him act like this. Or this isn't 2012 Barry at all. My money is still on Bad End Barry from a few years in the future (he finally figured out how to break the FTL barrier and went back in time to set right what went wrong... Or just to get revenge. That works too).
     
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