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

[ShadowScion626]

I may be misremembering this, but didn't Orange Lantern outright save both Sodom and his friends lives because Sodom's father was trying to kill his friend and Sodom wouldn't let him? And wasn't Sodom offered the ring and chose to leave afterwards?

This women is just on some straight bullshit. How much anyone want to bet she's going to completely disregard Sodoms own angenvy in this by claiming the ring brainwashed him?

 

[Stsword]

Are you talking about the comic version, or this story's version?

In the comic version, he sent police officers. It's not clear whether his country was officially part of India or not, but given the lack of any official protest from the Indian government it seems more likely that they either had a legitimate warrant or were actively persuing a suspect than they just decided to walk over the border and grab someone while wearing a clearly identifiable uniform. Remember, the Justice League were easily able to work out who they were.

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The comics.

It is 100% guaranteed that no they have no legal ties to India. He brags about his country having no contact with the outside world. The language of Jarhanpur has been considered dead in the outside world for 5000 years, and Superman described the country as a "complete mystery."

The only reason they were able to find Jarhanpur is because they had the woman from Jarhanpur and they needed a freaking Green Lantern ring to understand her.

And since his thugs only spoke the language of the obvious conclusion is that they were in fact incapable of speaking any language but the language of Jarhanpur. Because "Hand the criminal over!" is an obvious thing to say when from your perspective you are in fact trying to take in a criminal. Which they didn't do. Or at least, not in any language any one there but the boy's mother could understand.

And it being the Amazons fault? Horseshit. The Amazons gave them a verbal warning to leave, then only resorted to violence in self defense when the Jarhanpur thugs ignored their attempts to deescalate and continued their attack on their women's shelter.

And shoot them? They had no guns, the Jarhanpur thugs had swords and knives, and their bandoleers of grenade-like receptacles of Earth Elementals.

Which means that it must have always have been the plan to invade India and murder anyone who got in the way of their kidnapping attempt.

And they didn't do anything to the boy's mother because the Amazons foiled the kidnapping attempt.

So the entire plotline happened because that stupid bitch Rama Khan, being high on his own farts, had people murdered because he was offended that the boy's mother loved her son more than she had loyalty to him.

He had the boy, he had his heir, he had won. That wasn't enough for the asshole. The woman was no threat, she spoke only a language that had been dead outside of Jarhanpur for five thousand years.

The entire storyline began because he had to see a woman punished for disobeying him because his every whim is law and he is infallible. The same stupid arrogance that caused him to offend Jarhanpur at the end of the storyline. So he was an arrogant stupid shit in the beginning, middle, and end.

As for DC ignoring the logical result of Jarhanpur committing what would be perceived as a terrorist attack on Indian soil against Amazons being ignored, well that happened because of comic book writing.

 

[xSieg]

Angelika's upbringing covers her occasional use of the n-word. If she'd tried building concentration camps 'because obviously you need them' then I assure you the SI would have been a good deal less understanding.

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and it's not like Daxamites aren't morally inferior to Nazis, even if Angelika was a diehard to the party and not a partly indoctrinated experiment. Hell, Cara and her husband would have straight up brainwashed their son and mounted the head of his friend on a pike to display on an alien museum had Paul not interfered.

They're significantly worse than Nazis. Even when Sodam sacrifices himself to power their sun they don't acknowledge him due to his race-traitor ideologies and basically act disgruntled when people want to actually recover his corpse. All this after being saved from an invasion from Mogul, nonetheless!

 

[Mr Zoat]

26th July 2013
09:36 GMT -7

I spot Discord immediately, huddling as he is up against the cavern wall. He's about a third of his 'complete' size, and looks decidedly nervous to see me.

"Oh, it's… You."

Hm. The Castle is fully functional, but it's more inhabited by historians and cleaning staff than it is actual residents. This part is sealed off by locks both conventional and arcane, and it's not… Immediately apparent how he got in here.

I take a moment to consider the giant locus of friendly and harmonious magic on the other side of the cave. Yep, there's the Elements of Harmony. Shame I don't still have Anti-Life in-.

I snort quietly to myself.

No it isn't.

"Oh dear!" Fluttershy flies out of the boom tube and straight over to him, frantically looking him over for any injuries. "Are you okay?"

"I'm within licking distance of the greatest focus of… Ugh." He shudders. "Harmony, in Equestria. I-."

Hawk Horse-Face trundles through the portal, eyes locking onto Discord. "Hey, we found him! Thought you were b-"

The tree glows, then a rainbow beam blasts towards Henry! I-.

Donald's already there, lunging forwards and blocking it with his body! Henry's eyes widen as Donald staggers, and… Checks himself to make sure that he's really find.

I think the Tree is glowering at him.

"-igger. Don, you okay!?"

"Yeah." Donald prances for a moment to make sure that everything's working. "How the heck did you piss off a tree?"

Discord's eyes leap out of his head, landing on Hawk Horse-Face's head and grabbing his eye stalks for stability as they stare at him. "Do my eyes-"

"Hey!"

"-deceive me? Another draconequus?"

"Nah, I just-. Get these things off me!" Hawk Horse-Face tries to grab the eyes with his claw arm, but they vanish and reappear on Discord's face before he can grasp them. "I came through the magic mirror and it turned me into this. Kinda like it, wouldn't wanna get stuck like it."

"Ah."

"What, you never seen another dragon-horse before?"

"Actually… No. Not one that wasn't part of some sort of weird crossover event." Having assured herself that he's more or less alright, Fluttershy gives him a nuzzle. Discord responds by awkwardly pattering her on the head. "So… What brings you here?"

Fluttershy adopts an oddly awkward upright aerial stance, putting her forehooves on her hips. "We were worried about you! You disappeared right after Applebloom, Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle got their cutie marks and didn't tell anyone where you were going."

"I point of fact-" I point to Fluttershy with my right forehoof. "-she was worried about you. With me it's more a vague sense of responsibility rather than any deep concern."

"Yes, I have been wondering." He peers at me suspiciously. "You clearly don't like me-"

Fluttershy frowns at me. "Don't say that."

I shrug. "He's right."

"-and yet you gave me that idea. Why?"

Fluttershy turns and gives me the cutest glare. "Did you tell him to do this to himself?"

"No. I just pointed out that just as you've all been sharing the magic of friendship, so he could share the magic of chaos."

"Um." Fluttershy looks uncertain. "The magic of chaos?"

Hawk Horse-Face throws up his arms. "Whooo!"

"See, I don't really mind Discord per se. I certainly don't mind chaos magic. What I mind is the combination of short sightedness and extreme raw power that appears to be the signature of Lords of Chaos. So I suggested a course of action that would both further his goals and weaken him to the point that I wouldn't feel like giving him the Klarion treatment. It would resolving the root of our conflict."

Discord looks mildly hurt. "I thought you were being helpful."

"I was. That's the beauty of it. You get something that actually changes things, and I get to stop worrying about you being on the same planet as Luna. Except that it doesn't seem to be working on your end. What's going on?"

"I was… Of two minds. I mean, chaos everywhere sounded good, but maybe it sounded too good."

"Um." Fluttershy sounds uncertain. "Everywhere?"

"Just a little bit. Like spreading toast evenly on butter. You probably wouldn't even notice most of the time, and even ponies find a little chaos fun."

"I… Suppose that's true. But what happened to you?"

"I was of two minds… Literally." I raise my left eyebrow. "Alright, more than two. I'm not used to being uncertain about things. So I made each viewpoint it's own thing and decided to fight it out."

"Discord, that's not a good way of resolving your problems. You could have come to talk to me about it."

"Some of me did. Or tried to. They got ambushed." He takes a deep breath, shuddering. "I wasn't joking about the 'fight it out' thing."

I frown. "How does that work?"

"You know how salamanders can make their tails fall off if it gets grabbed by a predator?"

"Yes?"

"Sort of the opposite of that." He looks around nervously. "Hopefully none of the others will come here."

Donald takes a few steps closer, careful to keep himself between the Tree and his brother. "So what did you decide?"

"I thought the Tree might have something useful to say."

Donald examines the tree quizzically for a moment. "How?"

"Pathetic fallacy."

Hawk Horse-Face frowns. "Hey! It's not that small! And you don't even have one."

Fluttershy blushes as Donald winces. "Hank, stop talking. Discord, you were saying?"

"Talking to things isn't usually that hard. And why shouldn't they talk back? But it doesn't like me."

Hm. "Why do you think it would have anything useful to say?"

"It gave up the Elements of Harmony. That's what made it weak enough for the Pundervines to work. I thought it might have some perspective on the whole thing. But-" He sticks his right foot into the cavern proper, and immediately a beam of rainbow light blasts towards it. He jumps up, letting the blast hit the ground beneath him. "-it doesn't feel like talking."

Donald looks thoughtful. "I can block those. Do you just need to get closer?"

"I mean, it can't hurt. No, wait it can, but I don't have any better ideas." He jumps onto Donald's back, and ducks down behind his head. "Giddy up, noble steed!"

Donald takes a rainbow bolt to the face, Hawk Horse-Face grinning at his misfortune.

"Taste the rainbow, bro!"

 

[BR549]

Checks himself to make sure that he's really find.

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'fine'

"I point of fact-" I point to Fluttershy with my right forehoof.

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'In'

It would resolving the root of our conflict."

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'resolve'

"You know how salamanders can make their tails fall off if it gets grabbed by a predator?"

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This sentence is like time travel - it's two tense. I suppose it could be Discord being Discord, but barring that, either this needs to be 'they get' or the first part needs to be 'how a salamander can make its tail'.

 

[Coltsguy]

Honestly, this chapter makes me want to go back to my old story on Fimfiction and put myself into this since it would both work and make things really weird for everyone. Just for more chaosy fun.