With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Twelve)
- Thread starter Mr Zoat
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Hasn't she been in Desaad's tender mercy for months?
Angle
Release Candidate Enby
- Location
- Colorado, USA
- Pronouns
- They/Them/Theirs/Comrade
Also she didn't carry the motherbox, that one dude did.
Ganurath
Literal Enthusiast
- Location
- A Valid Location
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- He/Him
Nah, Desaad's mercy is tough. It's also dry and so well done as to be rather tasteless.
Karuadin
Vago Mundo
Personally, I'd say it's unlikely, if only because the Apokolipitians would have long since confiscated it during their captivity, not to mention the fact that I think one of the other Forever People was carrying it and not her anyway. Unless you're wondering if it had gotten into her possession some time beforehand.
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- Oblivion
Actually I am wondering if it came into her possession some time after.
Would be a good way for the two to escape after all.
Jamie Roberts
Hávamál 127
- Location
- N/A
- Pronouns
- she/her
Members of the Forever People:
- That One Dude
- Sleepy? Dreamy? Dopey? Something like that.
- What's His Face
- Mr. I'm-Clearly-Pulling-Animal-Names-Out-of-a-Hat.
- Cowboylad
- Captain Leader
- Totally Unsexist because we have a girl on the team (Tubwhagott)
- ...Who?
- Stronk Like not-Bear
- Cowboylad
Jamie Roberts
Hávamál 127
- Location
- N/A
- Pronouns
- she/her
That's not what you said last time:
Changing your story so soon, are we? Your case will never hold up in court.
Finagle007
[Verified Great Old One]
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
Ganurath
Literal Enthusiast
- Location
- A Valid Location
- Pronouns
- He/Him
I'd since learned that the guy with metal powers is named Vykin when we aren't joking around. That's an Empire 88 reference waiting to happen.
"We are of the superior Aryan -"
<gets nudged in ribs by another FP>
"-um, I mean the superior New God race."
- Location
- Hampden Park
Australia, and I'm told that similar laws exist in my own country.
Black Reign (part 8)
- Location
- Hampden Park
13th March 2011
17:48 GMT +1
How does Kanto fight? Hm. I slow slightly to watch the first Praexis Demons reach his location. I can't see exactly what he's doing, but the particulars of his desire-flares suggest-. Yes, the first Demon disintegrates without any detectable energy discharge. He stabbed it rather than shooting it. My construct-shield easily soaked Canis' shot and Kanto's gun looked about the same size. Kanto probably has access to better stuff, but that might well be as small as those whatever-they-ares can be made. Another two Praexis Demons reach his approximate location and swiftly vanish. A fourth barely has time to get into the room before disappearing. A shot of some sort? They should be able to consume just about any form of energy. Can they not detect Kanto by themselves in order to respond to his actions? Seems plausible.
There's a tiny flash of well controlled yellow as I pause in a corridor to replenish the Praexis Demon horde. None of them lasted long enough to gain useful information but they're all eager for another try. I re-engage phasing and accelerate. The courtyard which Kanto's in doesn't appear to contain anything absolutely irreplaceable. Okay, how much force am I willing to use here? He's a murderous minor god in the service of Darkseid, and I don't know exactly how tough that makes him. Or how resilient to what. Several walls flash by me, then both I and a tourist get an unpleasant surprise as I phase directly through him.
Up ahead, the Praexis work out that solo attacks aren't working and mass for a charge, only for Kanto to use some sort of explosive, okay, need to sort this out now! I accelerate even more, finally passing through the last wall between us and appearing in the air over his position. With construct armour active there's no point in invisibility. Praexis Demons stream past me as I raise my hands and use my revulsion at the idea of Earth ending up like Apokolips to fire an orange energy pulse at him. There's a little more yellow in the mix now as he dives to evade, sword -I presume- slicing through another couple of Demons.
The second energy pulse hits him in mid-air, striking him in roughly the centre of his mass. Empathic vision just shows me where he is, it doesn't let me see him. Much as I'd like to do a called shot to his sword arm that just isn't possible.
"Agg." "Why do I bother with invisibility?"
Whatever device he was using to prevent visible light revealing him fails as he hits the far wall, his costume fraying a little at the edges. Even as he lands he throws two knives directly at my face. I counter with two small railgun constructs, slivers of iron shooting them out of the air. I mean, those can't possibly have been normal knives, right? I let the Praexis horde move to surround him as he regains his feet and points his sword at me in a classical fencing pose.
"Surprisingly effective, for a mortal. But you meddle in affairs-."
"You're Kanto -formerly Iluthin- of Apokolips. You're Darkseid's court assassin. You grew up in Granny Goodness' orphanage and were briefly exiled to Earth after growing too confident -rightly confident- in your abilities for her tastes. You worked for Cesare Borgia and were briefly married to his sister before your predecessor -Kanto Thirteen- attacked and killed her in revenge for you showing him up. You then returned to Apokolips and duelled him, winning by poisoning the water he drank before the fight started. You have a beard now because Darkseid instructed you to grow one when he confirmed your position, because he was concerned that you looked too young for it." He can't see it under my faceplate, but I've raised my eyebrows. "How did I do?"
He tilts his head to the side. "Sur-prisingly well. But you don't know why I'm here now." "Interesting."
"Darkseid instructed you to kill Canis shortly after he was revealed to have killed his father, Canis Major. Not an art lover, I assume." I create a new railgun construct, loading… I don't know… Mageslayer? The advantage of a Mageslayer round being that in addition to the anti-magic effect it's still a supersonic lump of metal and stone. "Tell me why you're here and then go home, and I'll let you go unmolested."
"Let me think for a moment." His free hand dips to his belt and-. What? Space distorted around him, the wall behind him sort of twisting out of his way.
No matter. I wave the Praexis Demons forwards and reactivate my own phase generator before accelerating forwards. He's reached the surface but since I can't see anyone else I'm going to assume that the area has been evacuated. The wall and roof flash past me as I head after him. What's his plan here? Am I.. badly misunderstanding power levels here? One last layer to go. What could gragh?
Kanto smiles smugly at me as I try and work out why I've stopped moving. "A phase shifter? I suppose I should be surprised that you could get something like that on Earth." My body's stuck in the brickwork. Bits of me appear to have fused with it. That's.. not good. "But there are any number of counter strategies a man such as-."
The destructive bolt from my face hits him in the mouth, knocking him off his feet with a few fewer teeth than he started with. Right, my brain's fine. A flare of orange cuts a me-shaped piece out of the wall. I float forwards, trying to ignore the extremely uncomfortable feeling of large parts of my body not really interacting with the others. Wholeness Rightly Assumed oh that's better. Oh, and fix the phase shifter and.. probably the wall as well.
Compliance.
At least I can feel mildly happy that I didn't try using faster than light travel. And that whatever he just did didn't trigger while my brain was… Yeah, okay. Less happy.
Railgun, crumbler.
Kanto's just pushing himself up as my round strikes him in the centre of his sunburst.
"Ggah!" "Firepits!"
He staggers back as the decoration is obliterated, leaving the lilac under-armour showing. That layer is only mildly abraded. Interesting. Wonder how it does that? The Praexis Demons finally start to catch up with us as I grab his wrists with cons-. They dissipate. Fine, I take manacles out of subspace and clamp them around his wrists, pulling him up into the air. A silver burst of energy strikes me in the side of the head as another drone weapon makes an attack. It starts burning through my construct armour in earnest for a moment before my railgun turret tracks the point of origin and fires once. The beam cuts out.
Kanto runs his tongue around the inside of his mouth and spits out blood. Be analysing that later. He looks at me curiously. "Are you a god?"
"That's complicated." I take hold of his discarded sword and pistol with filaments. "Now, are you going to answer me or do I have to brand you first?"
He smiles reinforcing armour! There's a pulse of vibrations from his wrists as the metal clamps melt and drip off. Brand!
"Extreme resistance detected."
Okay, still not seeing on exactly how he plans on hurting me, but I trigger the Demons anyway. Like the obedient ambulatory mouths they are they swarm forwards as Kanto leaps back and throws another knife. This one isn't aimed at me, but at the closest Demon, which…
"Ahh!"
Appears to be sucked into it. Not good. I do not want an Apokoliptian in a position to analyse my constructs. Kanto raises his right hand and the dagger reverses its course to return to him, before being shot out of the air by a crumbler round. The dagger is reduced to nothing and I feel the Demon return to the ring. Okay, now-. Kanto doffs his hat, steps backwards and… Disappears. Can't see his emotional resonance any longer. I send a construct line forwards after him and it disappears where he did. Okay, invisible portal. I take a neural shock grenade out of subspace and fire it through, only for it to pass where I believed the aperture to be and clank down on the paving stone on the far side. Just to check I wave a ten foot steel pole across the plaza. No, that's it. He's gone.
What was that? Some sort of stealth boom tube? I raise my left hand to my ear. "Orange Lantern here. Kanto appears to have disengaged. I'm uninjured, minimal collateral damage. Any news?"
"Might need you to repair some ueh-. Some statues. This guy's not h-happy about his Dog."
"Barda has indicated that she will be joining you shortly."
I turn to return to Kon. Ah. Probably shouldn't risk phasing until Mister Free can check the area over. I plot a route and instruct the ring to fly me there as swiftly as possible. "I'm going to need about twenty seconds to get back to you, Kon. Are you going to be alright-?"
I hear a yelp in the background. "Turns out his eyes are vulnerable."
"Well spotted." My course takes me back through the main entrance and through the corridors. "I'll check the hostage. Let me know when Barda-." From the end of the corridor comes the flash of light which I remember from New Year signals her teleportation. "Never mind." I stop in front of the hostage. Still pretty out of it. I create a construct stretcher for her and load her onto it before returning to the sculpture room.
Canis' sword is embedded in… Oh dear. I pull it out as gently as possible and use my prior scans to restore the statue. Kon's got Canis pinned front first onto the ground with his arms around Canis' neck. His helmet has been lost at some point and for the first time I can see his face. Brown skin, medium length black hair and a look of exertion on his face as he struggles against Kon's hold.
Barda stares down at him, mega rod in hand. "You have lost. Yield or die."
Canis tries pulling once more then relaxes, exhaling in frustration. "Yes, Aunt Barda."
17:48 GMT +1
How does Kanto fight? Hm. I slow slightly to watch the first Praexis Demons reach his location. I can't see exactly what he's doing, but the particulars of his desire-flares suggest-. Yes, the first Demon disintegrates without any detectable energy discharge. He stabbed it rather than shooting it. My construct-shield easily soaked Canis' shot and Kanto's gun looked about the same size. Kanto probably has access to better stuff, but that might well be as small as those whatever-they-ares can be made. Another two Praexis Demons reach his approximate location and swiftly vanish. A fourth barely has time to get into the room before disappearing. A shot of some sort? They should be able to consume just about any form of energy. Can they not detect Kanto by themselves in order to respond to his actions? Seems plausible.
There's a tiny flash of well controlled yellow as I pause in a corridor to replenish the Praexis Demon horde. None of them lasted long enough to gain useful information but they're all eager for another try. I re-engage phasing and accelerate. The courtyard which Kanto's in doesn't appear to contain anything absolutely irreplaceable. Okay, how much force am I willing to use here? He's a murderous minor god in the service of Darkseid, and I don't know exactly how tough that makes him. Or how resilient to what. Several walls flash by me, then both I and a tourist get an unpleasant surprise as I phase directly through him.
Up ahead, the Praexis work out that solo attacks aren't working and mass for a charge, only for Kanto to use some sort of explosive, okay, need to sort this out now! I accelerate even more, finally passing through the last wall between us and appearing in the air over his position. With construct armour active there's no point in invisibility. Praexis Demons stream past me as I raise my hands and use my revulsion at the idea of Earth ending up like Apokolips to fire an orange energy pulse at him. There's a little more yellow in the mix now as he dives to evade, sword -I presume- slicing through another couple of Demons.
The second energy pulse hits him in mid-air, striking him in roughly the centre of his mass. Empathic vision just shows me where he is, it doesn't let me see him. Much as I'd like to do a called shot to his sword arm that just isn't possible.
"Agg." "Why do I bother with invisibility?"
Whatever device he was using to prevent visible light revealing him fails as he hits the far wall, his costume fraying a little at the edges. Even as he lands he throws two knives directly at my face. I counter with two small railgun constructs, slivers of iron shooting them out of the air. I mean, those can't possibly have been normal knives, right? I let the Praexis horde move to surround him as he regains his feet and points his sword at me in a classical fencing pose.
"Surprisingly effective, for a mortal. But you meddle in affairs-."
"You're Kanto -formerly Iluthin- of Apokolips. You're Darkseid's court assassin. You grew up in Granny Goodness' orphanage and were briefly exiled to Earth after growing too confident -rightly confident- in your abilities for her tastes. You worked for Cesare Borgia and were briefly married to his sister before your predecessor -Kanto Thirteen- attacked and killed her in revenge for you showing him up. You then returned to Apokolips and duelled him, winning by poisoning the water he drank before the fight started. You have a beard now because Darkseid instructed you to grow one when he confirmed your position, because he was concerned that you looked too young for it." He can't see it under my faceplate, but I've raised my eyebrows. "How did I do?"
He tilts his head to the side. "Sur-prisingly well. But you don't know why I'm here now." "Interesting."
"Darkseid instructed you to kill Canis shortly after he was revealed to have killed his father, Canis Major. Not an art lover, I assume." I create a new railgun construct, loading… I don't know… Mageslayer? The advantage of a Mageslayer round being that in addition to the anti-magic effect it's still a supersonic lump of metal and stone. "Tell me why you're here and then go home, and I'll let you go unmolested."
"Let me think for a moment." His free hand dips to his belt and-. What? Space distorted around him, the wall behind him sort of twisting out of his way.
No matter. I wave the Praexis Demons forwards and reactivate my own phase generator before accelerating forwards. He's reached the surface but since I can't see anyone else I'm going to assume that the area has been evacuated. The wall and roof flash past me as I head after him. What's his plan here? Am I.. badly misunderstanding power levels here? One last layer to go. What could gragh?
Kanto smiles smugly at me as I try and work out why I've stopped moving. "A phase shifter? I suppose I should be surprised that you could get something like that on Earth." My body's stuck in the brickwork. Bits of me appear to have fused with it. That's.. not good. "But there are any number of counter strategies a man such as-."
The destructive bolt from my face hits him in the mouth, knocking him off his feet with a few fewer teeth than he started with. Right, my brain's fine. A flare of orange cuts a me-shaped piece out of the wall. I float forwards, trying to ignore the extremely uncomfortable feeling of large parts of my body not really interacting with the others. Wholeness Rightly Assumed oh that's better. Oh, and fix the phase shifter and.. probably the wall as well.
Compliance.
At least I can feel mildly happy that I didn't try using faster than light travel. And that whatever he just did didn't trigger while my brain was… Yeah, okay. Less happy.
Railgun, crumbler.
Kanto's just pushing himself up as my round strikes him in the centre of his sunburst.
"Ggah!" "Firepits!"
He staggers back as the decoration is obliterated, leaving the lilac under-armour showing. That layer is only mildly abraded. Interesting. Wonder how it does that? The Praexis Demons finally start to catch up with us as I grab his wrists with cons-. They dissipate. Fine, I take manacles out of subspace and clamp them around his wrists, pulling him up into the air. A silver burst of energy strikes me in the side of the head as another drone weapon makes an attack. It starts burning through my construct armour in earnest for a moment before my railgun turret tracks the point of origin and fires once. The beam cuts out.
Kanto runs his tongue around the inside of his mouth and spits out blood. Be analysing that later. He looks at me curiously. "Are you a god?"
"That's complicated." I take hold of his discarded sword and pistol with filaments. "Now, are you going to answer me or do I have to brand you first?"
He smiles reinforcing armour! There's a pulse of vibrations from his wrists as the metal clamps melt and drip off. Brand!
"Extreme resistance detected."
Okay, still not seeing on exactly how he plans on hurting me, but I trigger the Demons anyway. Like the obedient ambulatory mouths they are they swarm forwards as Kanto leaps back and throws another knife. This one isn't aimed at me, but at the closest Demon, which…
"Ahh!"
Appears to be sucked into it. Not good. I do not want an Apokoliptian in a position to analyse my constructs. Kanto raises his right hand and the dagger reverses its course to return to him, before being shot out of the air by a crumbler round. The dagger is reduced to nothing and I feel the Demon return to the ring. Okay, now-. Kanto doffs his hat, steps backwards and… Disappears. Can't see his emotional resonance any longer. I send a construct line forwards after him and it disappears where he did. Okay, invisible portal. I take a neural shock grenade out of subspace and fire it through, only for it to pass where I believed the aperture to be and clank down on the paving stone on the far side. Just to check I wave a ten foot steel pole across the plaza. No, that's it. He's gone.
What was that? Some sort of stealth boom tube? I raise my left hand to my ear. "Orange Lantern here. Kanto appears to have disengaged. I'm uninjured, minimal collateral damage. Any news?"
"Might need you to repair some ueh-. Some statues. This guy's not h-happy about his Dog."
"Barda has indicated that she will be joining you shortly."
I turn to return to Kon. Ah. Probably shouldn't risk phasing until Mister Free can check the area over. I plot a route and instruct the ring to fly me there as swiftly as possible. "I'm going to need about twenty seconds to get back to you, Kon. Are you going to be alright-?"
I hear a yelp in the background. "Turns out his eyes are vulnerable."
"Well spotted." My course takes me back through the main entrance and through the corridors. "I'll check the hostage. Let me know when Barda-." From the end of the corridor comes the flash of light which I remember from New Year signals her teleportation. "Never mind." I stop in front of the hostage. Still pretty out of it. I create a construct stretcher for her and load her onto it before returning to the sculpture room.
Canis' sword is embedded in… Oh dear. I pull it out as gently as possible and use my prior scans to restore the statue. Kon's got Canis pinned front first onto the ground with his arms around Canis' neck. His helmet has been lost at some point and for the first time I can see his face. Brown skin, medium length black hair and a look of exertion on his face as he struggles against Kon's hold.
Barda stares down at him, mega rod in hand. "You have lost. Yield or die."
Canis tries pulling once more then relaxes, exhaling in frustration. "Yes, Aunt Barda."
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- Oblivion
Oh yay!
This means we get to see her give him the apocalyptian version of the shovel speech!
Oh cool. New team member! The caves needed its own Orion after all. Apokoliptian, has a dog. Covers all bases.
Ganurath
Literal Enthusiast
- Location
- A Valid Location
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Shovel speech?Oh yay!
This means we get to see her give him the apocalyptian version of the shovel speech!
Krazyfan1
Worrying for the future.
- Location
- Australia
hmm...where was it embedded?
Massgamer
Advance toward the Future
- Location
- The Future
As far as Apokoliptian family interactions usually go this is actually can be described as a nice family experience.
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