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

No.

I'm afraid most of the New Reichsmen are still on Earth 10. What I meant was that he's inclined to try and get as many collectables as he can, regardless of whether that's an optimal strategy or not. In a game you can always generate more engineers, but in real life those engineers you've ordered to rush the Construction Yard have families.

 

I think it first showed up with Max Mercury.

Wally was able to absorb his speed in order to stop him when he was possessed.

I don't think he would have gone for that.

Ploutos is a god of wealth in this story and Paul doesn't really need wealth.

Actually I think before he chose Eris one of the Amazons mentioned him.

 

So those TV evangelicists were 100% correct!

The power of Christ compel ye!

//Slap a guy in the face!

Oh lordy I'm healed!

 

To be clear, it's an ability from the comics.

Didn't work on Hunter Zolomon because his speed comes from temporal distortion, but it works fine on everyone else and it's teachable.

 

Meh, Superman defeated a Kryptontian GODDESS once, by dunking her in Earth's sun.

 

Yeah, but she didn't possess him and then use him to kill and corrupt his friends, as well destroy his home.

I'd say that this is much more traumatizing than that.

 

So, nobody else noticed the switch to demon font in the last paragraph?

 

Good news no more Demon Superman.
Bad news a completely mind broken and soul crushed superman.

Damn it lex stop doing the happy dance!

And an entire earth will need to rebuild.

No Lex we are not doing a GATE: Thus Lex corp exploited here.
and Don't you you other guys get ideas either, GATE: and thus the Nazi's occupied here isn't going to be a thing either.

 

Fairly sure that Paul is doing what might be called a virtuous lie. There have been powered source worshipers in DC that did all sorts of things. The faith seems more important than being correct.

Of course Paul is heading that of at the pass.

 

It looks the same to me.

 

Compare the g in "falling" from the last paragraph to the g in "thwarting" toward the end of the preceeding paragraph. It switches to the Demon!Paul font.

 

I had another look and they are exactly the same... on mobile.

I booted up my PC and yes the second to last paragraph is different to the rest of the text. Good spot! I never would have realised if you hadn't mentioned it.

Edit: The Demons speech is also in the other font too.

 

I think that bit of demon speech was like a bit of influence from it’s death cry or something. It might be meaningful or not.

 

I'm pretty sure the situation is that the super weak Kryptonian demon got some help possessing Superman from a more local Lord of Hell, who is now pissed at everyone.

 

He saw it coming because Rakkar was so unsubtle about what he was doing that we had a couple pages of heroes linked to various forces spontaneously going "He comes for you Superman!"

And then off panel presumably went "Huh. Should probably let Clark know something spooky is coming at him."

Pretty much.

The Lords of Hell supercharged Rakkar on the logic that a kryptonian demon would be better able to possess a kryptonian.

 

Should be 'red beams'

 

Thank you, corrected.

 

Darkseid did it.

 

I remember her from the 90s. Cythonna. Kind of a Kryptonian goddess/yandere obsessive type.

Spoiler: Pics of Cythonna

Chad Rao.

 

And the damage he had Supes commit wasn't anywhere near this level.

 

Well that's just good timing, nice to hear the greenies are on the ball.

 

First time for everything. Is it the Lantern without his legs we saw earlier or someone the Guardians sent to check out non-hell Earth?

 

Poor guy. The survivors have a lot of work to do. I don't envy them for it.

 

I think it is just the ring. Holt was willing himself to be what earth needs at fullpower so a new ring came for him.

 

Fighting the demons was the easy part, its what comes afterwards that will be hard.

Hopefully the GLC can help that along with Guardian support, especially given their newest member.

Man, Mr Holt with a Power Ring will be nuts strong.

 

Good job handing this Universe to Trigon by the way.

 

And with a multi-disciplinary super-genius like Holt, those ideas can be creative indeed. Not quite at 'Reed Richards is useless' levels, since some of his stuff probably does make it to general market releases... But I bet big, world-changing stuff was too expensive to get cleared for the public... Bet he has a line of smartphones called T-Phones or something like that.

Spoiler: Commentary spoilered for length

...Ew. Thankfully nothing used the opportunity to come through... Yet. With Rakkar gone, I suspect the Lords of Hell are sorely tempted to make their own moves on a vulnerable Earth...

Oh, boy. He's awake... And hopefully clean, by the sounds of it.

Oh dear, is he suicidal... Again? Given his heroic career started after a visit from the Spectre last time he was this low... Who knows what he's going to do this time.

I see he's been busy. Not bad for under an hour's work. While dealing with multiple puncture wounds to all limbs.

Hopefully they weren't like a Gae Bolg's wounding effect... That would have been nasty. Though he's suffered worse in the comics, including surviving a trip to the Arctic with broken ribs...

...Wow, okay. That is not how I expected Batman to go out.

Surprised you didn't offer a Danner upgrade at the same time. Even at the peak of human capacity, and freshly rejuvenated to his physical peak of that... He's still only human.

Worth remembering, this is not Michael's first ride on the Parallel Universe party bus. 'Infinite Crisis', for a start...

Awkward. How to best explain it...

Right, smartest man on Earth right now. Of course he'd twig to their origin...

Plus, they'd already made contact with Earth-16, technically.

And they would see nothing to be rehabilitated from, having grown up in that world. As far as they're concerned, other Earths are aberrant. Though thankfully, they can't do anything about it. Not if Overman has any say in the matter.

Yes, do tell. Is he awake? Suicidal? How much did he experience of his possession?

Huh. Let's hope he does wake up. Who knows how Kryptonian souls and demons interact?

I suspect if the Sheeda looked at this period, they'd probably go 'Nope! Nopenopenope!' and pick another era.

..And? I'm sure there are other places that survived? Or are you just focusing on ones you bothered to find?

So, smaller tribes might have gotten off relatively scot-free... Traumatised, but not badly harmed? I bet the Accala made a bit of a mess in their part of the world...

If anything I suspect he's feeling a lot healthier than he ever has in a while... The problem comes down to his friends and allies, though...

Ah, yes, his atheism... No Heaven, no Hell... Just alternate worlds with unusual native lifeforms, huh? But... He's probably right about the warlord thing. Sure, some people might be hurt or killed as they take over, but those who play along... They'll be alive, if nothing else.

Though he's probably committed each and every name and face to memory. If their families are still alive, he'll want to make things right by them...

After all, the world needs heroes right now... And because of Rakkar's targetting Superman's friends and colleagues, they're in short supply, I bet.

After that, any problems are the Justice League's to deal with. Though I suspect Dox is going to have quite a headache after reading his report of his 'days off'...

I suspect Michael could handle it, if he can keep his goals in focus.

Oooh. The Guardians have no idea what they're unleashing... Or they want a firm hand watching over the Life Entity's holiday home...

Well. I wonder if discussion of what he could do with a Power Ring inspired that? Still, it's going to be very useful for him to rebuild Earth. And as long as he doesn't use it to seek political power (which I doubt he would,) it's completely within the Guardian's rule of conduct. We know he's smart enough to cheese it out like all hell, right down to mapping constructs in detail, so it should make things much easier...

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His stance changes slightly as he gets confirmation.

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That was a minor Green lantern character form the early Kyle Rayner period. Purgatory, an amputee who connected emotionally with Kayner in a chance meeting. Kyle empowered him with a little Will energy, which he used to create leg constructs... Ended up being tricked by Neron into selling his soul for more power.

 

A Mr Terrific with magic knowhow and a Green Ring is a very strong champion. They will need it though.

 

Was this the green ring that Kyle Rayner had when he died? I'm assuming that Purgatory murdered the previous GL and the ring just shut down and or escaped when it sensed the demonic corruption taking over.