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That was really more their own trauma than direct Anti-Life exposure...... did the anti-life residue here make them whole?
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With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)
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Sorry is worthless if you keep doing the bad thing. Does Paul really think someone who calls himself Anarchy is going to refrain from causing problems on purpose?
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He might have been geniunely humbled. Besides Paul has his empathic vision back so I am sure he could tell whether Lonnie is being sincere or not. He doesn't seem to be worried so I assume Lonnie is questioning his own choices now and rethinking how to approach things.
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That's really the story of Orange Lantern's own life since picking up his power ring.
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What you have to remember is that Paul really, really does not want to reel Anarky in unless he has no other choice.
The OMACs are going to end in disaster. Everything the SI knows about how comic book land works screams it will end in disaster. But every investigation[1] he has run says the Justice League taking over is the best path to keep everything running. So what can he do? Having a group of "outside auditors" like the Illuminati continuing to investigate and question is at least keeping the door open for someone to be able to act when the whole thing goes tits up. But... that's only viable if they're not doing evil shit themselves like mind controlling people. He can't justify continuing to let them run loose if they're going to be hurting innocent people. So the ideal case is that a strongly worded warning gets Anarky to reconsider his methods but lets him continue to monitor things.
[1] Though technically Paul still has a team of Darkstars working on a long term investigation. Would not want to forget that. We going to hear from them anytime soon, Zoat?
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Basically, the Illuminati are Paul's 'break glass in case of Justice Lord Batman' option. He can tolerate some tomfoolery from their direction as long as they keep it to a dull roar and don't...y'know...try to mind-control the world themselves.
It's a work in progress.
It's a work in progress.
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Wasn't it Timothy Hunter who kicked it all off? Is he doing something dumb now?
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28th September 2013
14:15 GMT -5
And since I'm back in one mental piece again I know exactly what I want to do.
A sonic shatterer construct appears before I've even finished looking around us, ring scans guiding it to the correct frequency-
Woomn!
-as every one of Lonnie's crystals shatters!
His head jerks up, looking at the piles of fragments now sitting on his work bench and shelves.
"Why did-?!" I glare, noting that he isn't wearing a costume in the physical world. "You didn't need to do that."
"I think I did."
"Aaaah…" Zatanna looks a little disappointed. "It… Might have been helpful to study those."
"Before we start studying making crystals resonate with peoples' characteristics, let's finish studying-" I nod to Timothy. "-Mister Vergence in the Force over there."
Zatanna frowns. "Huh?"
Wait, was that not in the Earth 16 version-? No, Zatanna's a normalish woman who hasn't spent years memorising science fiction trivia.
"I'm comparing him to Anakin Skywalker, from the-"
"Oh." She nods pityingly.
"-Star Wars prequels?"
"Uh. Uh?" Know Man pushes himself into a sitting position, holding his head in his hands. "Wha-? Why can I-? Still see everything?"
I use a construct to wrench his hands behind his back, and bind his arms with my preferred blend of iron, tungsten and carbon nanotubes.
"Because it turns out that the human brain is actually fairly responsive to trauma. We're an empathic bunch, really. Good work, Hunter."
"I wasn't.. trying to permanently traumatise him. Um. I could-?"
"Don't even think about it." I give him a warning look. "We've had quite enough weird magic from you for today, and we're going to have to go through you to make sure that you didn't keep anything from those trauma creatures either."
Zatanna raises an eyebrow. "'We'?"
"Yes, because that's a two-person job and I can eat malevolent influences without any risk to myself."
"Oh."
"And because I know it's going to be a long and tedious job so I thought I'd stick around."
She brightens up slightly. "Oh, thank you."
Lonnie looks around his workspace and pulls out a dustpan and brush. "Am I under arrest?"
"Depends. We can arrest you over the kidnapping and mind control."
"I think-" Zatanna nods. "-we should."
"And because that's a clear example of supervillainy against critical infrastructure, we get to do a full mental trawl just in case you were doing anything else. Which you clearly were."
Actually-. Ring, scan.
Detected: Victor Sage, Jarvis Tetch, Detective Chimp.
Yes! We can-.
Contact lost.
I glare at Lonnie again, and he smugly holds up… An alert button.
"Okay, I guess we are arresting you, then."
"Ah." Zatanna looks confused. "What just happened?"
"He signalled his co-conspirators and they got out of town." I sigh, focusing my attention on Lonnie. "I was going to offer you a deal, but, fine. I respect the strength of your friendship with the criminal madman and geriatric chimpanzee whom I could have gotten medical attention. Do you want to find someone willing to look after Yap, or has he done a runner too?"
"I'll… Find someone."
"Great. Know Man. Anything that you want to say in moderation before we put you in-?"
He flexes, and his right arm tears itself out of my binding-
"Pots!"
-and there's a very quiet click before his body freezes.
Zatanna stares at him. "How strong-?"
"Wonder Woman, minimum. Right. Orange Lantern to Watchtower, two OMACs to my current location for super strong prisoner transfer." I take an inertia prison out of my harness and step forward-.
Right as he sort of.. sparkles-.
JamjamJAM!
Teleportation jamming in progress, no effect.
And he's gone.
"Lonnie-?"
"If I knew how to do that, I wouldn't be here."
I nod. "Zatanna?"
"I…" She shakes her head. "Don't recognize the spell. Sorry."
"We'll ask your father or Doctor Mist to see if they can work out where he went-."
"That's..." She winces. "Not going to work. All the crystal fragments are going to make it impossible to get any kind of reading."
I sigh as I hear the OMACs teleport to just outside the cabin.
"Looks like you're getting a generous escort, Lonnie. Zatanna, I'll finish up here and meet you in Shadowcrest?"
She nods, and we file out… Ugh, I'll have to notify the local police and get them to do interviews. The people here probably don't know all that much and I'm sure they'll say even less. Lonnie seemed to be popular with the local children, rather than a sinister tearaway.
The OMACs frown. "Lonnie Machin is not on file as having superstrength."
"No, the super strong guy teleported away. Please bear with us while we finish up here, and then take him to processing."
They nod, and I generate a zeta tube terminus construct for the others.
14:15 GMT -5
And since I'm back in one mental piece again I know exactly what I want to do.
A sonic shatterer construct appears before I've even finished looking around us, ring scans guiding it to the correct frequency-
Woomn!
-as every one of Lonnie's crystals shatters!
His head jerks up, looking at the piles of fragments now sitting on his work bench and shelves.
"Why did-?!" I glare, noting that he isn't wearing a costume in the physical world. "You didn't need to do that."
"I think I did."
"Aaaah…" Zatanna looks a little disappointed. "It… Might have been helpful to study those."
"Before we start studying making crystals resonate with peoples' characteristics, let's finish studying-" I nod to Timothy. "-Mister Vergence in the Force over there."
Zatanna frowns. "Huh?"
Wait, was that not in the Earth 16 version-? No, Zatanna's a normalish woman who hasn't spent years memorising science fiction trivia.
"I'm comparing him to Anakin Skywalker, from the-"
"Oh." She nods pityingly.
"-Star Wars prequels?"
"Uh. Uh?" Know Man pushes himself into a sitting position, holding his head in his hands. "Wha-? Why can I-? Still see everything?"
I use a construct to wrench his hands behind his back, and bind his arms with my preferred blend of iron, tungsten and carbon nanotubes.
"Because it turns out that the human brain is actually fairly responsive to trauma. We're an empathic bunch, really. Good work, Hunter."
"I wasn't.. trying to permanently traumatise him. Um. I could-?"
"Don't even think about it." I give him a warning look. "We've had quite enough weird magic from you for today, and we're going to have to go through you to make sure that you didn't keep anything from those trauma creatures either."
Zatanna raises an eyebrow. "'We'?"
"Yes, because that's a two-person job and I can eat malevolent influences without any risk to myself."
"Oh."
"And because I know it's going to be a long and tedious job so I thought I'd stick around."
She brightens up slightly. "Oh, thank you."
Lonnie looks around his workspace and pulls out a dustpan and brush. "Am I under arrest?"
"Depends. We can arrest you over the kidnapping and mind control."
"I think-" Zatanna nods. "-we should."
"And because that's a clear example of supervillainy against critical infrastructure, we get to do a full mental trawl just in case you were doing anything else. Which you clearly were."
Actually-. Ring, scan.
Detected: Victor Sage, Jarvis Tetch, Detective Chimp.
Yes! We can-.
Contact lost.
I glare at Lonnie again, and he smugly holds up… An alert button.
"Okay, I guess we are arresting you, then."
"Ah." Zatanna looks confused. "What just happened?"
"He signalled his co-conspirators and they got out of town." I sigh, focusing my attention on Lonnie. "I was going to offer you a deal, but, fine. I respect the strength of your friendship with the criminal madman and geriatric chimpanzee whom I could have gotten medical attention. Do you want to find someone willing to look after Yap, or has he done a runner too?"
"I'll… Find someone."
"Great. Know Man. Anything that you want to say in moderation before we put you in-?"
He flexes, and his right arm tears itself out of my binding-
"Pots!"
-and there's a very quiet click before his body freezes.
Zatanna stares at him. "How strong-?"
"Wonder Woman, minimum. Right. Orange Lantern to Watchtower, two OMACs to my current location for super strong prisoner transfer." I take an inertia prison out of my harness and step forward-.
Right as he sort of.. sparkles-.
JamjamJAM!
Teleportation jamming in progress, no effect.
And he's gone.
"Lonnie-?"
"If I knew how to do that, I wouldn't be here."
I nod. "Zatanna?"
"I…" She shakes her head. "Don't recognize the spell. Sorry."
"We'll ask your father or Doctor Mist to see if they can work out where he went-."
"That's..." She winces. "Not going to work. All the crystal fragments are going to make it impossible to get any kind of reading."
I sigh as I hear the OMACs teleport to just outside the cabin.
"Looks like you're getting a generous escort, Lonnie. Zatanna, I'll finish up here and meet you in Shadowcrest?"
She nods, and we file out… Ugh, I'll have to notify the local police and get them to do interviews. The people here probably don't know all that much and I'm sure they'll say even less. Lonnie seemed to be popular with the local children, rather than a sinister tearaway.
The OMACs frown. "Lonnie Machin is not on file as having superstrength."
"No, the super strong guy teleported away. Please bear with us while we finish up here, and then take him to processing."
They nod, and I generate a zeta tube terminus construct for the others.
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Probably.
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Wow...
This went quite badly in multiple ways.
Still. Could have been worse.
This went quite badly in multiple ways.
Still. Could have been worse.
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*Stares at Orange Lantern*
Gee, who would have guessed that spitefully blowing up evidence might be a bad idea.
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Ah, wasting no time removing any potential weapons Lonnie might call on, eh? A little unwise to remove them all before they could analyse the crystals, but I bet the effect is not intrinsic to the material.
Do we have your attention now, Lonnie?
There's no guarantee Lonnie wouldn't have tried to use them, after all. And OL can be forgiven for being a little testy.
One complex metaphysical challenge at a time.
Nor does she have the perfect memory granted by a Ring.
Ah, feeling a little sorry your joke fell flat.
Ah, now for this guy.
Despite whatever efforts Know-man might have taken to reduce said empathy...
Preferably in a heavily-shielded magical laboratory, just to prevent any repeats of this little fiasco.
Minimal risk, OL. Remember all the times you fouled up by eating something you shouldn't?
Nice of him.
Don't bother cleaning up, Lonnie, that'll come for the forensic teams that will hopefully go over this place.
And hopefully he doesn't just Hush Tube his way out of confinement...
Excellent. Sang them before they...
...Motherfucker. And they will almost certainly be making efforts to recover him at some point.
Right, she doesn't have the live feed minimap functionality OL does.
Worst case he just hangs around the park and plays 'stray dog' until lonnie comes for him.
Because of course he has super-strength.
Thankfully, OL isn't alone.
Good, finally calling in backup.
...That's a real annoying habit people have these days.
No doubt something Maltusian-based, or something else he picked up over the millennia.
At least he's owning up and accepting the arrest. For now.
Well, this has just been a fine day, hasn't it?
Definitely one of those days it wasn't worth getting out of bed.
Let's just hope he can't subvert them.
No, but he has associates who are likely to attempt a rescue.
As senior agent, OL gets to do all the paperwork.
So it's all over bar the busywork. Know-man is definitely going to be an annoyance in the future, but at least they got Lonnie. At least until his buddies bust him out. And now they have more arcane things to look into to find defences against. It's getting kind of annoyingly really. Every time OL wins these days, he makes more work for everyone...
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Gosh, with two OMACs on prison transport duty, Lonnie definitely isn't getting away. Not unless there someone with a documented history of being able to control OMACs intervened, but how many guys like that can there be?
Ah well, nevertheless.
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"look"
Gee, who would have thought that letting a mind control device continue to exist would be a bad thing.
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Is know man the neanderthal guy that makes a time machine to travel to the future and gets fucked by the Sheeda?
Anyways with the light being capable of raiding other earths for resources and the current state of earth 16 and the Justice Lords + OMACs there are more than fair odds light operations have been moved entirely out, even more so with earth 16 also having good Alex Luthor amongst the number of good guys.
Anyways with the light being capable of raiding other earths for resources and the current state of earth 16 and the Justice Lords + OMACs there are more than fair odds light operations have been moved entirely out, even more so with earth 16 also having good Alex Luthor amongst the number of good guys.
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I miss the days when having a Power Ring, the entire GLC database, the pilfered work of a dozen super-geniuses and the support of a billions of years old Controller was actually worth something.
So how long do we think it will be before Anarchy either gets rescued or escapes? I'm betting within a month, assuming he doesn't slip away within the next five minutes.
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Batdad just needs to turn Anarchy into a new Robin. The joker got mulched during the Sheeda war right?
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Thank you, corrected.
No, that was Aurakles, but Know Man would probably have been alive during that period and might well remember their society.
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Uh hi? Newbie fan art poster here? Don't really know if it's cool to just drop it like this... hopefully someone will tell me so I can take it down?
I'm slowly crawling my way through the story-only thread; I wonder if what part I was on then comes across? Sorry if the design is kinda basic; I'm terrible at remembering character descriptions
Thanks for the fic author, my mildly-ish competent art as tribute from this lurker
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Uh hi? Newbie fan art poster here? Don't really know if it's cool to just drop it like this... hopefully someone will tell me so I can take it down?
I'm slowly crawling my way through the story-only thread; I wonder if what part I was on then comes across? Sorry if the design is kinda basic; I'm terrible at remembering character descriptions
Thanks for the fic author, my mildly-ish competent art as tribute from this lurker
When OL gets attacked by red torpedo and red inferno and recovers his ring?
Anyways welcome to the fic, you have tons of things to look forward to, the renegade interludes aren't immediately impactful, but it starts to pay off in the stars crossed episodes.
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Thank you for making it. And since I've worked out how to threadmark with multiple categories, I'm actually going to threadmark that one.
Uh hi? Newbie fan art poster here? Don't really know if it's cool to just drop it like this... hopefully someone will tell me so I can take it down?
I'm slowly crawling my way through the story-only thread; I wonder if what part I was on then comes across? Sorry if the design is kinda basic; I'm terrible at remembering character descriptions
Thanks for the fic author, my mildly-ish competent art as tribute from this lurker