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

Eight eight percent to go.

Eighty eight.

 

Red? Tortured Teen Titan Go victim?

 

He got a soul? Good on raul! I wonder if Blackfire stole it for him as a wedding gift

 

No, the version banging backfire.

 

'before the end' not 'before then end'

 

So the big multiverse storyline that's been teased for so long and our main character has been reduced to the role of gofer with no real combat ability as a result of narrative convenience

Thats not incredibly disappointing at all

 

I think that version was a joke for the most part, it probably does exist but I'm guessing this is the normal Teen Titans version.

 

Tried to look up earth 32 and it was that one where the characters are merged.

Martian Superman, Green Lantern Batman etc.

TP and RQ are probably using their own system of naming.

 

The Teen Titans Go Red Lantern is a joke that other posters made.

The actual Red Lantern Paul is in the Teen Titans verse that doesn't suck.

 

Leaving aside the whole "acquire an orange ring", Paul can and in fact already did use a violet one in combat without any inconvenience. He is most probably not at his peak, but I can't see where are you getting "no real combat ability" at all.

 

Before 'the' end I think.

 

While Krona sits comfortably outside entropic causality, popping a science!-boner from all the data... Frigging typical of him.

Spoiler: Commentary spoilered for length

Fascinating. And indicative of Krona's state of mind. 'Oh, someone familiar with the workings of this machinery? An inferior being to be confined and mocked.' Entirely in character.

So, busily building himself up to a climactic explosion of science, at the cost of the Multiverse's stability. Seriously, dude needs to get laid...

Channelling the power of Morpheus' Ruby (aka the Materioptikon) to power their technology? Interesting.

So, the next trip is one-way, unless they can find another way to travel the Bleed and the Continuum.

Because of course he knows her voice. Good to see him making no assumptions about her.

Time-travel, reality-fuckery, cross-dimension shit... See why Crises are such a pain?

That's quite the powerset. I'm guessing said alternates are comparatively short-lived, because entropy.

Remember, folks, Paul's not the only one running around with alternate selves here. Not least of which is the 'Sentinel' Jade, successor to Alan Scott.

Guessing she sensed the spike of Violet light. I can almost hear the deadpan chill in her voice. Probably thinking "Ugh, why a Star Sapphire?"

And presumably, doing so will give them the energy to make more jumps in the process...

Typical DC Crisis plot, then: Gather heroes, make macguffin machine, big fightscene until Comic Book Science! happens.

Because you know some realities won't survive this brouhaha.

And naturally, meeting him early is prime Bad End. Gorram Forced Stealth levels...

"I'll be holding you to that."

Ah, I see she's calmed down a little... Sapphire Crystals are basically the ultimate time-out tool, after all, even if the Zamarons use them stupidly.

I see he knows how to talk her language: The language of violence!

<Cough>Citadel<cough> Excuse me, frog in my throat.

Taking a big chance here, but presumably she's smart enough to realise killing Maul will just strand them here. And as far as she's concerned, 'here' is "Where the ficking Hell are we?"

Been a while since he's had to perform proper charge management procedures, huh? Another reason to have him without his usual gear.

I'm sure he'll likely get the chance. But not right away. That would be poor quest balance.

See, the issue there is assuming your world still exists. We don't know that.

No need to rush. Just watch your back, Crises tend to be hard on Supergirls and/or Superboys...

"You mission, should you choose to accept it..." cue Mission Impossible theme of your choice.

Ah, our dear homocidal bounty hunter, Raul, of the Teen Titans cartoon universe. This should be entertaining to watch...
"Why do you have a violet ring? And how did you avoid the standard uniform?"
"I'm be more interested in the whole 'red ring without being berserk' side of things."

Hmm, wonder if Raul has gotten Rage enlightenment yet? I'm betting no, if only for Mr Zoat's sanity in formatting.

...the person who attacked your parallel.

 

Thank you, corrected.

What is this fixation you people have with Go? I notice dog shit when I walk down the street, but I don't fixate on it after I step around it.

 

Thank you, corrected.

Not at this point in the story.

Thank you, corrected.

 

Thank you Grayven. Although you played a small part, it was a vital one.

Is this going to build up to her finding her version of Earth destroyed? She's not my favorite character, but I don't want to see her breakdown from that.

Who would Paul find more unsettling, Sybarite, Angel!Paul or Zombie!Paul? For some reason, I want Zombie!Paul to be Time Trapper's last resort. When released, he says: "The Blackest Night falls from the skies...". That causes all Pauls who hear that to freak out, especially the ones who've been resurrected.

 

Here's hoping they go to Grayven's world.

 

It is less combat ability and more along the lines of lacking narrative control as he is essentially jerked around.

 

I for one would find it hilarious.

Is the zombie paul still a canon hypothetical or is there an actual update about him?

 

Oh dear God. I forgot that one existed.

 

Only Word Of Zoat so far. We know he's one of the Pauls who got the short end of the stick. Ten seconds after waking up on Buffy Earth, he gets attacked by vampires who kill and ritually sacrifice him. Unfortunately for them, he has no soul, and the demon they summon gets sucked into the ring. He's a barely functioning zombie, and one of the show's characters try staking him or something. However, because he isn't a normal undead, that doesn't kill him. That leads to them communicating. That's all I remember from the one post Zoat made, and it might not be entirely right. I also don't know where it is, except that it is in one of the SV threads.

 

It was actually a gift from Atrocitus when he joined the Red Lantern Corps.

 

Non-lethally took down a kryptonian hybrid immune to kryptonite and (possibly) red sun radiation.

 

You know... I can't help but feel he should probably confirm Time Trappers story before going along with things...

 

Hey Zoat is this episode, and the next one if it is a two parter, going to feature all the alternates we have seen so far, like Angel Paul, Lord Protector, Saul, Sybarite, Common Sense etc.?

 

I don't know, as I haven't written it yet. Some of them, certainly.

 

I'd guess that, to continue the metaphor, it's because you tend to fixate on dog shit a bit more if you only realise what it is when it's already squishing between your toes.

 

Go is like a car wreck.

It is horrible, but something just makes you want to pay attention to it.

Also Zoat if the SI starts thinking about which god to worship in the future, seeing as when he finished with Devlos he seemed to be thinking about his devotion to Eris, I recommend Poros.

He's basically the Greek god of Pragmatism, specifically expedience and contrivance.

 

It is one of the worst DC incarnations there is, this fic is mostly about DC. It is topical.

Was that red lantern not canon? Was that an omake? I might have mixed that up...

 

It was an omake by another reader.

 

In the immortal words of Chief O'Brian "I hate temporal mechanics".

I have been looking forward to this arc for a very long time.