If it's a basic part of their technology, sure. It might take more effort to redesign them to work otherwise.
With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Twelve)
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It can't be (for something that basic, I mean), since their constructs work just fine, so they have a working chunk of techbase on how to make stuff that's not powered by their metaphysical might.
And I sincerely doubt the mook armor is a stripped down version of Darkseid's, it's probably something some flunky cobbled together during lunch and then ordered a bunch of slaves to make it.
Empiricist2
Let's play doctor!
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While I agree that fights should be short, the reason here is different. OL doesn't get physically tired while wearing a ring, and obviously the robot death machine doesn't either. The fights mostly compose of both sides trying to find something to get past the other's defences enough to make damage actually matter, and they aren't well armored enough for that to take a long time given their opponent's offensive power.
Reminds me of what's been said about Grayven's fight with Klarion and OL's eventual fight with Larfleeze: if the fight lasts more than a few seconds, then the more powerful opponent wins outright. There's no place for an extended fight barring special circumstances.
Knightfall
Nui lover and Slaaneshi
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- New York, New York
No then he kills everything.
Blood for the Blood God.
They done fucked up now.14th March 2011
06:56 GMT +2
A purple beam strikes me in my right side and I'm yanked through the air across the burning cityscape towards a still standing eight story building. I manage to slow myself slightly but this is ugh, through the wall and aaagh!
The beam shuts off as a colossal metal something comes at me through the building's interior, striking my construct armour and throwing me out back the way I came! I hurtle out of control for a moment before righting myself just off the ground. Okay, what was-?
Something strikes me directly in the middle of the faceplate, and a second later I'm surrounded in a ball of plasma. Ring, generate a magnetic field to repulse it and fly away from the building.
Compliance.
The ball explodes off me as I leap into the air just in time to avoid a hail of automatic fire from inside the building. The shots are far heavier than anything that could really be infantry-carried and they're moving even faster than I normally fire my own railgun shots. A half-second later there's a smashing sound as the weapon redirects its aim to follow its glowing orange target. I set the ring to jink randomly and aim my particle beam at the bullet's point of origin. Ring, what am I figh-?
The purple beam strikes me again, dragging me forwards as the front of the building explodes outwards, spraying dust and lumps of concrete and stone outwards in my direction. A huge pincer lunges out of the cloud, its task of grabbing me made a good deal easier by the fact that I'm now stuck moving on a predictable path. As it clamps onto my construct armour and begins squeezing the ring finally manages to give me a decent return on its appearance.
It doesn't have the scry immunity that I've become accustomed to, it's just designed not to give much away when a sophisticated scanner starts looking for it. From its feet to the top of its head it's about eight metres tall, though the curve of its spine and the bulky armoured plates on its shoulders make it look taller still. It's also about six metres broad, with a pincer for a right hand, a circular saw for a left hand and gun turrets mounted on either shoulder. The tractor beam appears to come from its mouth, mounted on the lowest part of the beetle-like head. The whole chassis is a bronze colour with only the smallest tron line signature marking it as being of New God design. When the spikes are taken into account it puts me in mind of something from Robot Wars more than a serious weapon, but the files Mister Free gave me indicate that it's quite effective.
The Arakno-Mekkanoid leans its head slightly closer as the claw begins crumpling my construct armour. "Secondary target acquired. Termination in progress." The circular saw arm comes around, aimed at my head!
Three x-ionised blades come out of subspace and hew through the base of the pincer's outer claw. I fire a destructive beam directly at the Mekkanoid's face even as the metal drops off and I fall free, the saw blade slicing through the top of my construct armour and narrowly missing my helmet. I generate a construct-talon and grab the falling claw, interposing it between the two of us as its mouth glows and the purple tractor beam thing lances forth once more. For a fraction of a second the huge blade jumps towards the giant robot's head, then the beam cuts off.
Yes, that would have been a bit easy.
"Fear me, Lantern."
Yellow lights appear along its back and an instant later I feel the gnawing tension and uncertainty that indicate a empathic fear attack. If I were a Green Lantern that might be crippling. If I hadn't experienced enlightenment and had that encounter with the Terror Thing last week it would be damaging. As it is there's barely any drop off in construct strength. I dart to the side, careful to keep the claw between myself and its head as I thrust my right arm forwards.
"Die!"
It steps free of the rubble and turns, interposing its right armour plate as the orange beam strikes home. The beam leaves a ragged scar but that isn't anything like what an attack from a Lantern of my power level should do. Apokoliptians may not use power rings but they clearly understand the theoretical underpinnings of emotional spectrum manipulation. Fine then, freeze rays. The Mekkanoid turns again as my constructs change, the plasma mortar on its left shoulder opening fire at the same time as the autocannon on its right. I swoop, duck and dive around a hail of miniature suns as it brings its circular saw arm around to slash at the claw I'm using to fend off the tractor beam. Alright, x-ionised blades again-.
Devices around the plasma mortar light up, lasers -are those lasers?- burning beams of light through the air to intercept my knives, melting them to slag. Autocannon rounds slam into my construct armour as the blue beams from my freeze rays strike the Mekkanoid's legs. It's got a lot of mass, it's well insulated and its brain is most likely at the centre of the hull. These aren't going to be instant kill weapons as they would be against an organic. The glow from the fear generators cuts out and… Some sort of energised plasma field forms around its body. Not explosive and burning like what it's firing at me, but it's sort of forming a cushion to stop my freeze rays directly striking its armour.
There's the horrible sound of metal rending metal as its circular saw slices into the claw. It makes it about halfway through before jamming as the super hard metal exerts friction on the top and bottom of the blades. Right, highest priority is uuh. Bastard thing got a near miss with the plasma mortar. Ring, how are we doing for power?
Eighty seven percent remaining.
That's what I get for going all day without recharging. The Mekkanoid pulls with its left arm in an attempt to get the circular saw free. I generate a railgun construct and fire a solid slug at the tractor beam projector. It strikes home even as the laser point defence turrets target my railgun construct and fire, slicing through and shattering it. Alright, two can play at that game. I abandon my freeze ray construct and generate a laser turret construct instead, setting it to shoot any rounds from the plasma mortar before they can detonate. I then stop moving and reorientate myself, generating a large multi-layered barrier and a new railgun. The Mekkanoid's autocannon will chew through the outer layers of the barrier quickly enough, but I can just shove them forwards and add new layers to the back. It fires its plasma mortar again and yes, it does work as I thought it did. The shell gives off an nasty burst of radiation but fails to go critical if damaged. Good to know.
Just as the Mekkanoid works its saw blade free enough to start rotating it again I open fire at maximum speed and maximum power at its head with solid slugs of iron jacketed tungsten. Its armour's good, but to have a projector like that on the outside you have to make it at least a little vulnerable and a little is all I need. Even as it slashed my metal barrier in half and warms up the beam to drag me in once more it's shuddering under the power of the repeated impacts. I don't know exactly how the device is structured but from the way the purple light has gone out I'm going to assume that I've been successful.
Laser and autocannon fire is hammering my outer barrier but with the tractor beam out of commission this fight is looking a lot more manageable. I dart out from behind my barrier with my armoured fists glowing and fire another destructive bolt. With the robot's empathic shield deactivated this one has a great deal more effect, wrecking the circular saw and most of the arm bearing it. The Mekkanoid turns to try and bring its laser turrets to bear so I reorientate the railgun and pound them to scrap as well. Finally getting somewhere! Next I point the railgun at the autocannon and this time destroying it causes some sort of flashback to the magazine. Metal sprays outwards as the internal explosion blasts the shoulder apart from within and sends the back-mounted armour plate flying into the facia of a nearby building!
Great! Now I just need-.
Alert: energy build up detected.
Ah, can't see any way for it to fire-. Self destruct. How big..? No way to know. The immediate area around me has been evacuated… Or more likely the people there have already been killed, I suppose. South is the Red Sea, but a big enough explosion there could flood costal settlements. North are some mountains and an empty desert, but making a huge explosion near the border with a decidedly nervous Israel sounds like a very bad plan. West and East are both out of the question and I'm not going to try and load it into subspace.
I try and stick a flight aura around it, but the yellow glow starts up again and I lose the connection. Does that mean I could freeze it? No, can't risk it. I use an x-ionised blade to finish cutting the claw in half, then x-ionise the sharper part and ram it into the Mekkanoid! The robot makes a sort of grunted wail as it goes in. I link construct chains to the parts of the claw still outside the chassis and lift, wrenching if off the ground and into the sky. Don't know how long I have, need to go faster.
BABUM.
Faster.
BABUM.
Fasterfasterfasterfaster
BABUM.
and throw! I take a few breaths as the Mekkanoid flies away at more than its escape velocity. Well. Okay, a quick ring-calculation shows that it would crash back down on Earth eventually, but-.
My view of the outside world darkens as the ring compensates for the sudden brightness. I watch and wait for a few moments, then dart forwards to grab the largest pieces before they can fall on anything. Right. Back to Shiruta.
Also I wonder what the Team is thinking as they are watching this on television.
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Yeah, but his magic is what gives him his toughness and considering what the sword does we can assume it can go right through magical defenses.
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Knightfall
Nui lover and Slaaneshi
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- New York, New York
Bloodlusted Black Adam wrecks everyone's shit.
Chaoswind
Lord of nonsense
- Location
- Latin America
Grayven tested it and it cut though EVERYTHING like it was nothing, all the materials grayven had (including New God armor) AND force fields.
Noted that according to the Table of Contents, we've got a two day jump after the next segment, and then two scattered segments and then the next chapter with more Renegade. So we can guess that between Teth Adom and OL, they're about to have the invaders wiped or retreat.
I'm actually looking forward to the Renegade segments because I want to see the aftermath of the mess with the League and such.
EDIT: Also, there's an entry labeled: "Carpe Tempus (omake, Meanwhile, in Siberia)". Huh. Have we had an omake pre-announced before? Usually those come from other people.
I'm actually looking forward to the Renegade segments because I want to see the aftermath of the mess with the League and such.
EDIT: Also, there's an entry labeled: "Carpe Tempus (omake, Meanwhile, in Siberia)". Huh. Have we had an omake pre-announced before? Usually those come from other people.
Knightfall
Nui lover and Slaaneshi
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- New York, New York
Against pissed off Demigods I wonder what pieces they will be able to find after this is over.
Knightfall
Nui lover and Slaaneshi
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- New York, New York
In other words Paul is going on a two day long killing spree.
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- Hampden Park
They can only see from a distance, as the camera crew aren't dumb enough to get closer. If they did, the transmission would be jammed. They're seeing flashes of orange, a few explosions and then things quieten down.
It's a bit different. For a start, it isn't from an SI-alt's point of view. It's really more of a third person thing. I just knew how it should go so clearly that I felt it was right to put it in. Said the bishop to the actress.
Seems a little out of character.
Knightfall
Nui lover and Slaaneshi
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- New York, New York
And Paul is pretty much like the wrath of God right now.
Empiricist2
Let's play doctor!
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- Baton Rouge
Is Kon not heading in? Everyone else would pretty much just die if they tried to fight, but Kon could do something helpful.
Also, where are the Green Lanterns during this? Two are off world, but that isn't that much of an obstacle, and I find it slightly out of character that OL hasn't contacted any of them so far.
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- Oblivion
Not that I have noticed, if anything he seems worse then ever.
Have we actually seen that love since his trip to the other Earth subsequent supercharges and Anti-Life?
This isn't QQ or Sufficiently Sexy, you know.
Silveraith
Argent Phantasm
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- Terra Atlantus
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- Somewhere out there
He flew up to a position directly between the two, blasted their middles out using energy beams, grabbed the pieces with filaments, and transitioned to the ground. I don't think the transition itself did any damage.
Also, testing for the presence of a jammer is just listening to your radio and seeing if the interference is louder than it was before. It's a totally passive operation.
I like the name but my memory is failing me as to what it refers to. Reminder? ^^()
Silverias
Seeing is Believing
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- Squiddy Places
The sword made of the second and third of the fallen, it can kill anything.
These claims have yet to be tested and I insist that you stop making them until they have been.
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Ah, I see my confusion. I thought "Sword of Second and Third" was an interesting name in its own right, so my mind was going "okay, so what is this different thing with an also-interesting fan name?" Silly mind, stop doing that.
Knightfall
Nui lover and Slaaneshi
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- New York, New York
That's because he has been too busy planning/screwing the League to think about her.
Silverias
Seeing is Believing
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- Squiddy Places
It is purported to kill anything. Better?
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- Hampden Park
Oh, he's thought about her. Just not while on screen.
No, it did. He shot out their internals. When they hit the surface they were in pieces.
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- Canada
Link to that episode, I don't remember it.
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The transition caused them to appear in pieces, because apparently that's what the kind of FTL-jamming being used does.
Wrong kind of jammer; OL was worried about an FTL travel jammer, not a radio one.
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