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that poor fear elemental.
With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Twelve)
- Thread starter Mr Zoat
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that poor fear elemental.
daimahou
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How is that working out for him? Wouldn't that demon cult thingie send some assassins after him since he just announced he is alive?
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there power was more or less completely smashed by the whole incident, and batman's been cleaning up the british government on top of that. On top of that if they did I would feel rather bad for the assassins.
Family Day (part 11)
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- Hampden Park
25th April
10:07 GMT -6
"So the ruddy Cat's just staring at me from the other side of the window, six metres off the ground above the concrete bit of our back garden. He sort of tries turning around, but loses his nerve part way through, because the window ledge isn't that wide." I mimic my cat's posture. "He looked a bit like he was thinking about trying to jump back through, but he was only a little Cat and I don't think either of us thought he could do it. So I ran downstairs and told my parents and Dad.. got a ladder out of the garage to go up from the outside and bring him down. And then a few days later he goes and does the same thing again. Only this time, before Dad can get the ladder up to him he jumps back through."
Odd to think about it, but this is the most I've talked about my family on Earth Prime since I got to Earth 16. Maybe it's… Sort of a taboo back in the mountain? They know that I've got no way to contact them so they don't bring it up? Don't know.
The travails of my family are a good deal less interesting than those of the Sivana family, but Venus has been politely nodding along. "We never really had pets in the house."
"What about those Crocodiles Magnificus had?"
"That was.. really more.. your father letting him help clean out his test subjects. They weren't supposed to be pets."
Beautia sighs. "Father ended up feeding them a mutagen and turning them into giant rampaging monsters. Poor little Herkimer. He was such a sweetheart when he was a hatchling."
"I imagine that Crocodiles are a bit more manageable when you have super strength. I'm afraid that I.. don't really have any stories that can hold a candle to that. Not from before I arrived on Earth Sixteen."
Beautia looks curious. "Earth Sixteen?"
"This parallel… Ah, the Earth of this parallel. We had an encounter with parallel universe versions of my team mates in February and they had some sort of numbering system."
She nods. "And let me guess: they were number one?"
"No, negative fourteen. I'm assuming it's a reference to some sort of constant, but I don't have any way to-"
There's a loud 'ping' from somewhere.
"-check." I take a moment to try and work out where it came from. There aren't any speakers, but… Ah, that's a sound induction wand! I didn't think anyone on Earth had those. Of course, with this being the pad of the Doctors Sivana, one of them probably independently developed it. "Is that important? "
Venus checks her watch. "Oh, that's probably Magnificus. He said that he might be coming up early." Beautia lets out an exhalation of frustration, earning her a warning look from her mother. "Be nice, Tia."
"Yes, Mom."
"Why don't the two of you go and fetch him while I check on the environmental systems."
"Is.. there a.. problem with them?"
"Not as such, but Thaddeus always thought it best to have Human eyes on vital systems every so often. And I've never been sure whether this base was one of the ones where he deliberately set the system to malfunction if you didn't or not."
…
What?
Beautia rises from her seat next to me, effortlessly pulling me up with her and then gently taking hold of my left hand and tugging me back in the direction of the zeta platform. I wait until we're out of earshot before asking.
"Deliberately malfunctioning environmental systems?"
"Dad.. sometimes.. liked to set us little.. practical tests. Oh, don't worry, even if it breaks down completely we'd still have hours of breathable air left. And Venus' gravity is approximately ninety percent of Earth's, so even without the artificial gravity we probably wouldn't notice the difference."
"I.. know, I'm just… How old were you when you were expected to do the eye-keeping for him?"
"Um… Six or seven? Crawling through the ducts was easier back then, but we had to use a step to check the control panels." She glances at my face and notices my stunned expression. "We knew what we were doing. Dad always said there was no point in getting an education if you weren't going to use it."
"Are we on.. Venus' surface here?"
She stops walking and closes her eyes for a moment, before starting forwards again. "Yes, I think so. There's usually a slight vibration when we're in the air."
"Can I assume that I don't need to draw attention to how amazing this place is and how valuable the technologies here could be to the Human species?"
"We have an agreement about not using each others' inventions without permission and.. Dad.. won't give anyone permission. Besides…" She looks around the corridor we're walking through. "There isn't anything here that humanity actually needs."
"Really? Because I imagine that a place like this has a pretty nifty power generator."
"Oh, it is. It generates power from something Dad calls the 'reality-Bleed membrane'. That's, ah…"
"I know what a Bleed Membrane Instability Generator is. It's on my xenotechnology database." I think for a moment. "How much trouble would I get into if I scan things around here?"
"I'm not sure. If Dad finds out that you used what you scanned to build something then he'll show up and destroy it. But I don't know if there are any actual automated anti-Lantern devices here. Dad hasn't really had anything to do with any of the Green ones."
"I.. note that you're referring to him in the present tense."
"Oh, he…" She flaps her left hand. "Might be dead. But I'm not going to assume anything. He's been declared dead, like… Five times, and there wasn't even a body this time." She releases my hand and heads towards the control console. I hover around just behind her, trying to make sense of the control system without actually scanning it. Just in case. "Seven.. relays… And…" She lowers a lever. "Activate."
There's a flicker of blue-white light from the platform, then a brighter flash as Doctor Magnificus Sivana appears. His hair is a little longer than last time I saw him and I think that he's put oil in it. He's wearing a white polo shirt and a fawn coloured leather jacket with a pair of blue jeans. I'm a little surprised, I hadn't thought of him as the dressing down type. He looks a little down, actually. "Good morning…" He catches sight of me and is momentarily nonplussed. "'Tia. And Orange Lantern." He steps off the platform, a slight frown wrinkling his brow. "You're.. looking… Well."
"Hello Magnificus. How's life treating you?"
"Oh, we.. finally got the go ahead for Human trials… On the Danner Formula, and one or two other things. I.. hadn't realised.. that the two of you…"
Beautia nods. "It's.. a little new, but I wanted him to meet the family early."
"Probably for the best." He's.. actually slouching. "I was.. going to invite Nyssa, but… She had.. a.. thing. Um… Have… Junior and Georgia turned up yet?"
"No, not yet."
"Uh-huh yet."
The three of us direct our attention to an apparently empty part of the room.
"We've been here for-" Whatever invisibility system Thaddeus Junior is using deactivates by increments, first revealing his face, then hands and arms, then torso and lastly his legs. "-nearly a week!"
"Hey Tia." Georgia's invisibility mantle fails in the same manner as her twin's. "Who's the hunk? And would it really be a problem if I cloned him?"
10:07 GMT -6
"So the ruddy Cat's just staring at me from the other side of the window, six metres off the ground above the concrete bit of our back garden. He sort of tries turning around, but loses his nerve part way through, because the window ledge isn't that wide." I mimic my cat's posture. "He looked a bit like he was thinking about trying to jump back through, but he was only a little Cat and I don't think either of us thought he could do it. So I ran downstairs and told my parents and Dad.. got a ladder out of the garage to go up from the outside and bring him down. And then a few days later he goes and does the same thing again. Only this time, before Dad can get the ladder up to him he jumps back through."
Odd to think about it, but this is the most I've talked about my family on Earth Prime since I got to Earth 16. Maybe it's… Sort of a taboo back in the mountain? They know that I've got no way to contact them so they don't bring it up? Don't know.
The travails of my family are a good deal less interesting than those of the Sivana family, but Venus has been politely nodding along. "We never really had pets in the house."
"What about those Crocodiles Magnificus had?"
"That was.. really more.. your father letting him help clean out his test subjects. They weren't supposed to be pets."
Beautia sighs. "Father ended up feeding them a mutagen and turning them into giant rampaging monsters. Poor little Herkimer. He was such a sweetheart when he was a hatchling."
"I imagine that Crocodiles are a bit more manageable when you have super strength. I'm afraid that I.. don't really have any stories that can hold a candle to that. Not from before I arrived on Earth Sixteen."
Beautia looks curious. "Earth Sixteen?"
"This parallel… Ah, the Earth of this parallel. We had an encounter with parallel universe versions of my team mates in February and they had some sort of numbering system."
She nods. "And let me guess: they were number one?"
"No, negative fourteen. I'm assuming it's a reference to some sort of constant, but I don't have any way to-"
There's a loud 'ping' from somewhere.
"-check." I take a moment to try and work out where it came from. There aren't any speakers, but… Ah, that's a sound induction wand! I didn't think anyone on Earth had those. Of course, with this being the pad of the Doctors Sivana, one of them probably independently developed it. "Is that important? "
Venus checks her watch. "Oh, that's probably Magnificus. He said that he might be coming up early." Beautia lets out an exhalation of frustration, earning her a warning look from her mother. "Be nice, Tia."
"Yes, Mom."
"Why don't the two of you go and fetch him while I check on the environmental systems."
"Is.. there a.. problem with them?"
"Not as such, but Thaddeus always thought it best to have Human eyes on vital systems every so often. And I've never been sure whether this base was one of the ones where he deliberately set the system to malfunction if you didn't or not."
…
What?
Beautia rises from her seat next to me, effortlessly pulling me up with her and then gently taking hold of my left hand and tugging me back in the direction of the zeta platform. I wait until we're out of earshot before asking.
"Deliberately malfunctioning environmental systems?"
"Dad.. sometimes.. liked to set us little.. practical tests. Oh, don't worry, even if it breaks down completely we'd still have hours of breathable air left. And Venus' gravity is approximately ninety percent of Earth's, so even without the artificial gravity we probably wouldn't notice the difference."
"I.. know, I'm just… How old were you when you were expected to do the eye-keeping for him?"
"Um… Six or seven? Crawling through the ducts was easier back then, but we had to use a step to check the control panels." She glances at my face and notices my stunned expression. "We knew what we were doing. Dad always said there was no point in getting an education if you weren't going to use it."
"Are we on.. Venus' surface here?"
She stops walking and closes her eyes for a moment, before starting forwards again. "Yes, I think so. There's usually a slight vibration when we're in the air."
"Can I assume that I don't need to draw attention to how amazing this place is and how valuable the technologies here could be to the Human species?"
"We have an agreement about not using each others' inventions without permission and.. Dad.. won't give anyone permission. Besides…" She looks around the corridor we're walking through. "There isn't anything here that humanity actually needs."
"Really? Because I imagine that a place like this has a pretty nifty power generator."
"Oh, it is. It generates power from something Dad calls the 'reality-Bleed membrane'. That's, ah…"
"I know what a Bleed Membrane Instability Generator is. It's on my xenotechnology database." I think for a moment. "How much trouble would I get into if I scan things around here?"
"I'm not sure. If Dad finds out that you used what you scanned to build something then he'll show up and destroy it. But I don't know if there are any actual automated anti-Lantern devices here. Dad hasn't really had anything to do with any of the Green ones."
"I.. note that you're referring to him in the present tense."
"Oh, he…" She flaps her left hand. "Might be dead. But I'm not going to assume anything. He's been declared dead, like… Five times, and there wasn't even a body this time." She releases my hand and heads towards the control console. I hover around just behind her, trying to make sense of the control system without actually scanning it. Just in case. "Seven.. relays… And…" She lowers a lever. "Activate."
There's a flicker of blue-white light from the platform, then a brighter flash as Doctor Magnificus Sivana appears. His hair is a little longer than last time I saw him and I think that he's put oil in it. He's wearing a white polo shirt and a fawn coloured leather jacket with a pair of blue jeans. I'm a little surprised, I hadn't thought of him as the dressing down type. He looks a little down, actually. "Good morning…" He catches sight of me and is momentarily nonplussed. "'Tia. And Orange Lantern." He steps off the platform, a slight frown wrinkling his brow. "You're.. looking… Well."
"Hello Magnificus. How's life treating you?"
"Oh, we.. finally got the go ahead for Human trials… On the Danner Formula, and one or two other things. I.. hadn't realised.. that the two of you…"
Beautia nods. "It's.. a little new, but I wanted him to meet the family early."
"Probably for the best." He's.. actually slouching. "I was.. going to invite Nyssa, but… She had.. a.. thing. Um… Have… Junior and Georgia turned up yet?"
"No, not yet."
"Uh-huh yet."
The three of us direct our attention to an apparently empty part of the room.
"We've been here for-" Whatever invisibility system Thaddeus Junior is using deactivates by increments, first revealing his face, then hands and arms, then torso and lastly his legs. "-nearly a week!"
"Hey Tia." Georgia's invisibility mantle fails in the same manner as her twin's. "Who's the hunk? And would it really be a problem if I cloned him?"
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Not exactly. After the Dick Dragon incident the cult went more or less inactive. Batman realised that going after anyone hard so long after the event -especially when they were so well connected to the British government- would be Sisyphulian task. Nabu removed certain arcane artefacts and tomes and purified their remaining ritual spaces. However, they know that Batman knows and the chance of them ever acting so overtly again has dropped to near zero.
If Siskin went after them, they wouldn't sent assassins, they'd send police.
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A). Was there some sort of cue that told them they were there or such? Or were they just that smart? It's not super clear here.
B). Little creepy there Georgia.
C). Curious and somewhat looking forward to seeing what's got Magnificus down in the dumps. I has my theories, but I'm playing it close to the vest for now.
Z000
If this is trash, then find me in the dumpster
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- Viet Nam
there also a balance to thing
every one is sitting in the table all glaring at each other with all their hand on their cards
introducing new tech is putting your hand under the table and then flipping it
and no one want to do that less they find that the new table and the new cards worse than the previous one
it about risk, do you have the nut to flip the table
daimahou
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To be fair, it also seems in part because, villain or not, Sivana is eccentric as all get out
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- madison
then your reading the right story.
Chaoswind
Lord of nonsense
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- Latin America
Tia beat him to something else as well. She got a date to visit the family before he did, and she managed to bring a "good" date not some random little shit he can easily make fun off.
Eh. The world is unfair.
Doesn't mean these people should get off scott free for murder.
Still. With genius like that, and a xeno-tech database to work off on. Super scienctists can and would turn the earth into the 5th world that much faster.
(New Genesis=4thworld, Earth=5th world accdg to Jack Kirby.)
Both versions of Paul are working towards mankind's Apotheosis in their own way.
It would probably be fitting if they turned into mirrors of each other. New Genesis and Apokolips respectively.
PostwarGryphon
Traveller of Planes
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- Australia
... Do they really not know who he is?
And they wonder why they get beaten all the time...
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- Australia
Yes there was a cue. It was presumably Thaddeus Junior who said "Uh-huh yet."
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- Hampden Park
They were standing there invisibly. They may have been hanging around for their whole talk with Venus.
No, I capitalise specie names.
Nearly, corrected.
Hey! Super advanced technologies don't research themselves, you know!
daimahou
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@Mr Zoat, I don't remember anyone mentioning this but when I was rechecking the Sivana family wiki page I noticed that the younger twins had a "Portia Sivana" as a mother and had Venus listed as a step-mother! 
In fact it is mentioned in Thaddeus Sr. page that she is his first wife!
Do you know what is up with that?
Will it affect this story?
I ask because in the last updates Venus mentions breastfeeding the younger twins and she acts like they are her children.
So, unless Thaddeus Sr. did something supervillainy (messed with her mind, messed with her "eggs", etc) or Venus is deliberately misleading, it looks like she is their mother.
So were does Portia fit in?
Will any of this affect the story, and if no do you know what is up with Portia in the original comics?
In fact it is mentioned in Thaddeus Sr. page that she is his first wife!
Do you know what is up with that?
Will it affect this story?
I ask because in the last updates Venus mentions breastfeeding the younger twins and she acts like they are her children.
So, unless Thaddeus Sr. did something supervillainy (messed with her mind, messed with her "eggs", etc) or Venus is deliberately misleading, it looks like she is their mother.
So were does Portia fit in?
Will any of this affect the story, and if no do you know what is up with Portia in the original comics?
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- Denmark
i guess i can call this the tech version of the Adams family
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Sivana's don't have any problem with using magic actually. Hence the alchemically enhanced twins.
See, this is why you should scan everything. Just because you aren't paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible
Nah, the Addams family gets along with each other better. In their own demented way.
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- Internet, The
I've only found it written as "fawn coloured". Only some people on etsy seem to write it as faun coloured.
Silverias
Seeing is Believing
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- Squiddy Places
fawns are deer, a faun is a mythological figure
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