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

I wrote an omake about Taylor getting an H-Dial once actually.

She defeated Lung by force feeding him haggis as Meat Bat and helped rebuild/look for survivors after Leviathan with her undead army as the Skeletal Gladiator.

 

Thanks - I don’t remember that from the story, and if it was WOG I missed it. I guess I was wondering/hoping for a Blackest night/ universe-scale semi-brainwash (so that we can have hero vs hero battles with known powers and see how far all the characters have progressed) scenario just a little bit as a thing this story was eventually building up to. It would be the sort of thing that would really work as a last hoorah for this story.

 

Here you go

 

Not everyone wants to mess with making an account. I probably never would have if the default theme here weren't so bad for the established color scheme of the story.

 

No offense, but after the puke inducing idiocy that was Civil war one and two, I'm so fucking over Hero vs Hero fights it's not even funny.

While I would enjoy OL tearing Batman limb from limb after ripping his bat-ego apart, I don't think anyone really has much desire to see OL and the Team go out it because of some mind numbingly stupid political point.

 

Huh didn't notice this moved sites. well cool I guess.

 

Exactly - but I feel like something like the star conqueror arc - where there is no political point to be made and merely some actual megalomaniacal universe-scale villain, such as Darkseid(who I’m half expecting to pull a Superman-level brainwash on Grayven, where 1 side is clearly in the wrong - that of the protagonist, and reasoning might work, but there might be too much ego involved) or Blackest Night (where you are literally fighting an eldritch abomination bound on controlling the universe - a goal that is also obviously evil) can give us a good old fashioned OL vs team/ OLC fight , while also allowing them to maybe eventually get over it. Though if it’s Blackest Night/equivalent, you probably want a bit more development of the OLC before making most of them evil.

It would remove politics from the equation, something people seem to be getting tired of, and replace it with good old fashioned punching and beatemups - heck, if you go with Grayven is brainwashed, you could have an argument over that - with Grayven saying stuff he has been stated to not normally believe that isn’t motivated by the politics of today. If politics were as bad in-universe you could fight over Darkseid’s dictatorship being better than democracy that is considered obviously corrupt by some, but (except for the demon summoners), it’s not in universe due to the presence of superheroes/ gods acting in politics.

That’s one of the good things about some of the DC megapunchups- they’re motivated by clearly evil villains (from an Earth perspective) who don’t care at all about what Earth people think, and nobody on Earth cares about what they think, since they represent things like Death or Tyranny. People liked blackest night in general, due partially to it being against brainwashed zombies with no motivation beyond JOIN US! DIE! Especially when it’s stated throughout that the resurrected heroes aren’t the actual heroes - just pretending to be them to get people to give up. It was known out of universe that Batman was back in time during this event, but there was also a Batman zombie that rose from his (empty) grave.

I also kind of want to see Paul as the obvious, unquestionably evil / brainwashed villain for once, so that we can have an arc of existential horror where he tries to destroy everything he has built, with a sad dramatic ending as he tries to makes amends/ possibly gets over his ego.

 

Uff late update, I guess I go to sleep now.

 

First of all who is Leonid, second of all this is missing a few the's

 

Well shit, having a guy around that can make metahumans as easily as the Master did will certainly make job harder.

 

I've gotta say, while I'm disappointed Mr. Hamill just gave up free superpowers, I really enjoyed him just deciding "Fuck this." and sprinting away when the dial started moving on it's own.

 

Starfire.

 

Starfire's civilian name, apparently.

 

So... worst case scenarios... the master is reborn as a greed elemental/ the ophidian is mixed with the master’s insanity/desire.

On the other hand... if Master is the end, is Wizard (Shazam?) the beginning of the dial? Seems like the sort of thing he could maybe do.

 

I'm surprised he didn't jump to deep space.

 

I don't buy it for a second...

Nothing Robbie was able to do could so much as scratch that and it wants us to believe it just self destructed? Nope, nope, nope.

 

He's trying not to Transition until he gets a chance to have the Controllers take a good look at 'effects of Orange Light exposure on humans'.

 

Also... is the self-destruct an attempt to stop people studying it?

 

"Score." He flips the cap off the bottle and sniffs the contents. "What's it made of?"
(Usually a pluralised term...)

Spoiler: Commentary spoilered for length

Scull! Scull! Scull! Long overdue, I bet.

Dammit, Murphy, he didn't even finish the sentence!

See, he knows what to do when magical shit starts acting by itself. Fucking RUN.

Been a while since that was significant. Nice.

Okay, now that's bullshit DM tricks

I don't think that Jade's flat is really appropriate.

...send it high into the air just as the rotor reaches 'R'.

My construct is annihilated in a sudden explosion of exotic energy and brown mist.

Welp, plot's done. on to the Denouement...

 

Maybe it wants to be used and would rather be destroyed/ fake it than lock it up? Could also just be possessed by a cosmically (5th dimension like Mr. Mxyzpltk?) powered entity - a horcrux? Which then left once it realized it wouldn’t be used anymore.

 

Well, I'm disappointed that all that shit went down on SV for something that had no effect on the story.

 

Is dialect. Russian with English as second language not so good with sentence structure.

 

Leonid is the Russian hero Starfire. Russian accents are known for dropping words like The or A.. I want to say particles?

 

But then it wouldn't exist.

Because it exists because it always exists and always will exist, so if it could be destroyed it wouldn't exist.

 

Calling it now, master has partly taken over paul and is faking.

 

While he never watched Star Trek, I'm guessing he saw Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Pity about the dial, there was a plot line in Silver Age that I would have liked to see Zoat take inspiration from.

The villains used the Thanagarian Absorbascan to download all knowledge on Earth. Including every tactic, secret, weakness, technique, and prop the Justice League has.

So Robbie lets the JL borrow the dial, and as brand new heroes who didn't exist before, they were able to triumph.

Superman becomes Doc Fission, Batman becomes Minuteman, Flash becomes Marionette, Atom becomes Mod-Man, Black Canary becomes Miss Fortune, Aquaman becomes Terra-Firma, Green Arrow becomes Poltergeist, and Martian Manhunter becomes Go-Go.

The stand out for me was Superman as Doc Fission- He didn't have nuclear power, rather he had Naruto's "Me's a crowd" self replication power.

 

Hm... assuming it didn’t get destroyed... did someone turn the dial with psychic powers from a distance or something? That flying brain form from the horror dial? If Richard was the only one to physically hold it while it was turning (I think so, right?) would he turn into the Master?

 

Well, I'm convinced SOMETHING really bad just happened and that it involved the master. Other than that, no idea where this is going.

I do like that even though ol is trying to cut back on using powers that aren't fully understood, in a emergency situation he is willing to use whatever to try and solve it. It feels like a good direction to go in.

Please tell me he would have dropped the dial even if he wasn't reminded. If he would have held onto it, my opinion of his intelligence will have to be lowered a few notches.

 

That makes no sense other than a ploy...