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

That should say 'do'.

 

do

 

You could just send some of your Lanterns to get rid off it.

Ahh, back to looking for Constantine.

"burned"

"there'd probably"

Your allies could find it problematic.

Ahh, Hub City, it truly is a shithole.

Things can always get worse.

Planning on attacking him?

Well Joanna would probably have the most experience with fighting Uncle Sam, or at least a version of him.

 

Thank you, corrected.

 

And finally, he's tugging on the leads to John Constantine. Don't know how good of one Chas is, but if John's needed anything, he'd have been one of the first people he looked for. Wonder if John's keeping an eye on him? Like, a standing alarm if anything mystical happens to or near Chas...

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Probably a bit of 'Bloody 'ell, how's our Chas know a ruddy superhero, then?'

Give it a year or two, Pluto should reform nicely. A bit of change to the surface maps, but it's not like anyone's bothered about that.

No doubt something utterly disgusting. Taxi drivers see it all.

..Well, that guy was either heading home after a hell of a party, or to the hospital, if he was that sick.

Bet he gave the engine a tune-up at the same time. Could easily put it back in a brand new shape if he wanted to.

To be fair, he's probably been avoiding Chas. He's playing on a new level now, and no doubt the enemies he faces are much nastier.

Along with a 'Hey, orange lad's looking for you. Think you should go see why?'

And now where's he off to? Bet that's made quite the impression on Chas' mates.

Let's hope they're functioning as intended. Delicate spellwork and OL get along about as well as water and phosphorus.

Not surprisingly, really. He's basically pulling physical matter into a realm of pure emotion and back.

So the greediport isn't as quiet as we thought it was, huh? At least, without OL's unique protections...

What's a brief exposure to a little more Orange Light, when the light of Life shines from within the planet?

Really, OL. I would think even you could realise the answer to that question.

After all the time working with him? I would hope so.

Which kind of defeats the whole purpose of using it for precise rapid transit.

Worst case, learn not to arrive directly on top of someone without an emergency reason to? Flying a few hundred meters generally shouldn't be an issue.

Well, good to know you're not leaving messes behind you?

...Ah, Hub City, home of the Question. Founded by a pirate, run by the corrupt for the corrupt, and one of the few places in DC America worse than Gotham. How bad is it? Their most well-know sports team, for Ice Hockey, is called the Slashers.

An orbital laser strike? ...Hey, it worked for Detroit in the Champions Universe.

Why would he want to bother?

Ask Gotham how well that sort of thing went...

Yeah, this is one place where 'open carry' would be considered a survival tactic instead of a crime...

Vic Sage? He'd be the most obvious person to meet, but...

Either cowed in submission thanks to a previous encounter, or not wanting to shit where they eat, so to speak.

Interesting. Seeing what she knows of the Earth-10 equivalent, or..?

Hmm. I wonder where this is going? I can't imagine her knowledge of her universe's Uncle Sam could be applicable here, what with the whole 'not fighting a guerilla war for seventy years' thing. Or is this a follow-up to the Alliance thing they were looking into earlier? Because that's tying into the Uncle Sam thing too... Feels like a major subplot slowly coming to fruition...

 

I double checked, and his name should be Frank William "Chas" Chandler. Is this a mistake Mr Zoat?

 

Ehh, his previous enemies included Satan, so his current enemies may not be all that different.

Granted, they previously may have underestimated him, which he could exploit, but now that he has power, they may be more wary and actually use their brains.

Now I want to see a slasher movie with an evil hockey player.

Or to get her to help fight the fake one in their universe.

 

How do you feel about goalies?

 

Gangers, or gangsters?

 

LePaul really is going full on minimum effort for actually finding Constantine...

 

Well! A city even a Nazi thinks of as filth!

 

Thank you, corrected.

You can tell that a wiki's useless if they don't have a character's full name on the character page. No idea where I got 'Raymond' from, though.

Gangers. Gangsters are more sophisticated.

 

Your subconscious was thinking of this guy probably.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Chandler

 

Well... You haven't really been looking for him Paul, that's how he is doing it.

I imagine even a fairly liberal Nazi (god that's an oxymoron and a half) like her would think of a fair few cities as filth. Hell, I'm not even a Nazi and I think my city is filth.

 

Huh. I thought gangbanger would have been more accurate then, but Paul is a nerd, since he's your SI.

Also, neat. Never come across that term before.

 

I generally think of a 'gangbanger' as someone on the majority team during a group intimacy event. The other meaning gets me rather confused.

 

For the longest time, whenever I saw it used to refer to a criminal I assumed that they were being painted as a rapist or some kind of degenerate. Really surprised me when I found it it’s just a generic word.

 

One of the many problems with Nazis is their unreasonably strict standards for what makes a city filthy, rather than a laxity thereof.

 

If you ever wanted to do a modern Day Noir Detective in DC, Hub City is your place.

 

Is Paul reading their desires here? Or is he projecting his insecurities?

 

This word means that your dinner is full of connective tissue. You're looking for "grisly."

 

It's slang, that means it doesn't have to make much sense. Just look at Cockney.

 

The SI is not insecure.

Thank you, corrected.

I'd rather not. They're an uncomly folk.

 

So it seems strange to me that Paul would be willing to not help Persephone get what she wants. He can clearly read her.

 

Also
"Tell Hades that if he's even pretending to be a good person he should just let her go. I can't imagine what it would be luck to be married for thousands of years to someone who terrified me like he does."

like not luck

 

Now this is more like it.

Empowering Persephone is ten thousand times better than reenacting Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

 

"Olympians, Persephone"

And he kinda never had her in the first place.

Hades wasn't always so mellow.

The guy can be pretty intimidating and he did have sex with Persephone under incredibly questionable consent, so if course she'd be scared of him.

Time to see how this shit show will end.

 

Helping her get what she wants can be detrimental to him since he may potentially no longer have access to a pleasant afterlife.

Paul can be incredibly selfish point of view, Hades may neglect his duties and his realm can fall apart, so all the souls in it could be put in jeopardy.

 

Because without mayonaise, cooked tuna is shit.

He had the consent of her father to marry her, and then was her husband. At that point, she was his property. They weren't married in 2020's America, they were married in 3000 BC Greece. Social rules were entirely different, and understood different.