You would basically have to be dealing with an entire planet of silicon life, which we already know it isn't.
It's not like species in comic book universes always make sense.
"prisoners"
Thank you, corrected.
I'd point out that at that level of fuckery its also possible she just overpowered your mindshield and is making you think its active and working.
Oh hell. I can already see where this is going. One of the Nons is a fake and almost certainly Lyla in disguise. The question is which one. And if it's the one running loose, how much damage can they do before they get caught.
More urgent matters than comforting a confused kryptonian, yes.
At least he's quick on the uptake, and willing to help. I suspect Lyla would be a little more... Combative.
Yes, yes, entire world gone, everyone you knew is dead. But on more time-critical matters...
More important, was he sent as a prisoner, or in a more spontaneously informal fashion?
But he doesn't remember any sort of dark alley or head injury or anything like that. I think i can see what happened: Lyla nobbled him and Zoned him, then replaced him only to be the one who got lobotomised. And then OL fixed 'his' brain...
Argh, psychic illusionists are always such paranoia fuel. More worryingly, what happened to her when you fixed her brain? Is she running around with a hodge-podge of empireth and kryptonian brain matter, or did the Ring correct it based on the genetic model it saw, which would have been empireth in nature, even if OL saw kryptonian...
I'm guessing she took a blood sample or something, presumably to copy his DNA for the illusion so that it would fool biological scanners...
That would be when he got swapped out, then. And the last time we saw Other Non on-screen was... Aboard the Doomsday?
Damn, he was waiting for you to call, it looks like. Or he was about to call you.
I'm betting they gave her whatever shapeshifting ability she may have used to pose as Non-Du. Whether a potent psychic illusion or physical restructuring...
Kan-Z. And boy, is that art of him 80's or what?
And since he wasn't a bomb-maker, someone else had to have made it.
I suspect the average kryptonian scientist or engineer wouldn't have gone along with making a bomb capable of killing their world anyway.
That is a pertinent question. This would have been something like ten thousand kryptonian years ago... Some Dominator may have been playing a long game.
...OL, you barely told them about it a couple of minutes ago. I know Lanterns can work fast, but there are limits.
In other words, Lyla has probably already mind-whammied someone and is just waiting for a chance to flee...
Could well have physical shapeshifting, given her posing as Non. Unless that was a very good illusion too. Was 'he' even actually brain-damaged or did she just make that play for an advantage?
For a second, I wondered if you meant Miss Martian, but I remembered Mary Marvel was there too because if you have one Kryptonian-level combatant in Osiris, another one is better..
And that is going to take some explaining later.
Good plan. Especially Kara-One, who is probably stronger than any local kryptonian from the get go.
Really, they need a catchier team name to avoid that sort of confusion...
Ah, good, he realised that possibility. And the last thing they need is a Dominator fleet turning up and trying to steal kryptonian stuff again.
And would living kryptonians also be highly prized for genetic research, or considered a threat to said acquisition...
Man, this day is just getting worse and worse, isn't it...
Damn, OL needs to invest in developing compact mental-influence protection for allies now... One more thing for the to-do list.
I'm guessing OL is confident this isn't a fake, not only because of their willing assistance, but also thanks to his own mental protections. No illusions here!
Joy... She's probably looking to try and get in touch with her Dominator boss for new orders, depending on how strong their control is. All while OL is stuck on Earth babysitting the former Zone inmates.
Was he really though?
This is the point where you want to call M'gann. If there's anyone on the planet that Paul can be sure about picking Lyla up, it's her.
Clark was the one operating the Phantom Zone projector, so yes.
I wouldn't be too sure of that myself given this is several levels beyond anything we've seen M'gann pull off.
M'gann is still one of the most powerful telepaths he knows.
'likely'?
'its'
This is gold.
'must'
This is pretty neat. Genomorphs continue to be really dang cool, this chapter was great for that.
'telepathic'?
Good question. It's not as simple as the rings functioning off stored charge, given that IIRC they require a sort of catalysis from the emotional spectrum, which would imply that the plane of avarice is still accessible here. Hmm, maybe the reason is that the rings draw on the orange light in Oh El's soul, and a normal Lantern not so steeped in light would not be able to use rings here?
I imagine that quite a few of the prisoners are very abrasive.
I'm going to keep this joke in mind, it's great.
'Its'
'gesture'
Shockingly reasonable. What an insanely fast resolution to what could've been a prolonged fight. I suppose you didn't want it to distract from the main plot?
Come to think of it, this bloke must've lived billions of years ago if his name is plastered on a concept like that. Was he a maltusian or something? Talk about etching your name into history.
'offput' or 'put off'?
Seems like the obvious partial solution is to give them several beacons. Is there a good reason they don't do that?
Until now I had thought the word was 'calligraphied'. Thank you once again for educating me.
'kryptonians''
Wait, they don't know? They ought to have learned it later at least, since Lyla would learn from Jor-El. Unless Lyla wasn't sending them any data, but if she wasn't I'm not sure what the point of her being there was.
'due to'
'Are'? But I'm really not sure.
Thanks for making this. I think you've made a few mistakes, though I could also be wrong.
That's some impressive fuckery. Wow. You're clearly correct, but I'd never have figured that out unless it was explicit.
Ohhhh, that motivation makes sense. Kinda wish a Timaronian older than Amalak spoke up and noticed there was some suspicious things happening (not necessarily looting) during the bombing.
Huh. Okay, I'm seeing a pattern here. I guess Earth suffered some thefts during the Anti-Life, so stirring up chaos is just a fairly good strategy, doubly so when you have a super-alien like this telepath. Telepathically imprints, sure, okay....
Thank you, corrected.
I think that's alright.
That might just be the most recent time the idea has been rediscovered.
I haven't, and the SI hasn't either.
I'm glad you made the timeline, because I was in a confused state, not really sure what was happening with the plot, and if I hadn't been prompted I likely would have languished in that confusion rather than use my brain to figure it out. It makes the story more enjoyable when I put thought into it and successfully (I hope) discover what is happening.
Aw, can I take this to mean that we won't be getting a future plotline where it turns out Avleb is the avatar of the concept of 'technological primitivity caused by the lack of easily available energy-dense fuels' and he teams up with Boss Smiley?
That is not what it means, but you may assume that anyway.
