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

And another daiklave gets damaged.....It's a running gag at this point that the things never last, but even this time skipped Grayven still keeps throwing them out there. At this point I'm just going to file it next to that beeping noise Ultraman makes when things get dicey. The Tokusatsu one, not the DC evil superman ultraman.
 
He's not Doomsday-lite. Having an actual personality aside, there's no strength difference between him and Doomsday
Then why was Grayven able to survive his punches?

After all, we have a good idea of Grayvens durability at this point, and it should be far less then survive a punch from Doomsday.
 
Justice Segue (part 20)
17th November 2017
09:38 GMT -5


Fortify. Fortify

My armour glows brilliantly and my ring pours energy into my metaphysique as it fights to keep me in one piece. I deploy a purple death ray and shoot him in the face in the faint hope that death magic will kill him faster than his regeneration can restore him. Adam is checking his damage with his left hand and firing more energy bolts with his right, aiming for Walker's eyes.

Walker hesitates for a moment as he feels the resistance, ducking his head to avoid-.

Adam goes flying back as something hits him-.

Oh. That's my-.

I dodge again, off-balance without the weight of… Most of my right arm and the accompanying blood loss. And the mega-

Walker crushes my mega rod with a stamp.

-rod, which I was holding with my right hand.

**Grayven!**

"Adam, arm!"

Walker swings at me and I'm forced to fly down to duck under his arm. He goes for an overhead smash and I viff to the side.

"What about it?!"

"I want it back!" X-ionised needles, and I get a grip on the Sword of the Fallen. I fly around behind Walker as he stamps forwards, trying to-. No, those spines aren't flesh and I can't reach any of his-. He throws himself back and I have to ring-dodge again. "It'll take a month to grow back on its own!"

**Yes?**

**Are you alright?**

Slash with the Sword and why couldn't Chantinelle have made it bigger than a letter opener? It actually cuts through some of Walker's outer plating but I don't think he notices.

**Do I look alright? I just lost an arm!**

**I apologise. I have completed my scan of Mister Walker's mind.**

Back off, up and back and twist-stab, cutting off the tip of one of his spines. In theory clipping him to death might result in me winning, if I wasn't down an arm already.

**Relay faster.**

**That has risks-.**

**My eldest daughter is a telepath. I'm-**

Walker feints, and I'm already dodging before I realise that's what it is. I try pulling back immediately as his arm comes around but I'm notoooof!

**-used to it.**

Dropped the Sword but didn't stab myself. I grab the Sword with a construct, calculate and slash as I dodge towards him and then roll-

"RAAAAAGHH!"

-aside as the Sword slices neatly through his eyes.

He staggers a step as I back up-. That nick I inflicted a moment ago has already healed. He's not using magic at all so the Sword of the Fallen isn't neutralising his regeneration. But I've still got the purple death ray pointed at his face and his eyes aren't healing, good. Okay.

And then he stops moving.

He's listening. Because Doomsday variants here are mutated kryptonians and so they can hear like kryptonians. Okay, I've stopped bleeding, my environmental shield should prevent noise from my heartbeat or breathing getting out, I'm not touching anything for him to pick up the vibrations. The purple death ray isn't-

I shift it to the side and add sound insulation as he blurs into action, grabbing a broken piece of road and hurling it at the death ray projector. It misses, just, and then smashes into an office building with the force of an artillery shell.

-insulated, so he did hear that, but it's silent again. Okay, he can heal fast, but is he creating matter ex nihilo or can I wear him down? I-.

"I've got your-"

Walker orientates on Adam in an instant, leaping at the sound hard enough to buckle what's left of the road-. Looks like the contractor was cheaping out.

"-arm."

Construct directional speaker.

"Toss it!"

The speaker is smashed by the thrown lump of brickwork an instant later, but Adam has learned his lesson and throws the arm while frantically viffing to avoid Walker's charge. I need to get the purple death ray-

Walker jumps back, moving towards-. My arm, which makes a sound as it moves through the air. I throw out a construct tether to grab it-.

Walker grabs the tether. It breaks immediately, causing my arm to keep flying away. I send out another tether-.

Walker lands and leaps at me!

I-

**[I feel the shape of his mind, the drive to smash and rend, with a weak and barely noticeable whisper of meaning and context coming from a quiet voice somewhere near the back. Joshua Walker isn't exactly subsumed as he is a guidance system for something more instinctual.**

-dodge but I tried to dodge towards my arm and he's there in the way! I actually slam into his side while his arms strike the ground, and for a fraction of a second I'm looking right into his eyes as he blinks the dried scab out of the way and looks back.

Mother Box, find his parents.

Ping.

Fuck.

I slash at his eyes as I try to move up, because around is too predictable. And predict it he does, smashing his fist through the ground so fast that he's able to keep going and hit me again! Fortunately the angle and rotation are awkward and I just get smacked into the air-.

I immediately accelerate upwards and send a stealth drone for my arm. With his eyes working again that won't stop him seeing me, but-.

Diana dives down, slashing at him with her sword!

It-. Cuts through a spine, and his counter is intercepted by her bracers. Okay! I fly for my arm, grab it and slap the soggy end against my soggy end.

Construct sling, healing ray. Make Me Whole

And now I've got the same number of limbs as I started with, but the one way I know to bring Mr. Walker down easily won't work because his parents were in Smallville when the kryptonians started smashing stuff and were turned into collateral damage.

Mother Box.

Ping.

BOOM!

"Physician! Get through and heal Mister and Missus Walker!"

I raise the Sword of the Fallen, make momentary eye contact with Diana, then charge back in.
 
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17th November 2017
09:38 GMT -5


Fortify. Fortify

My armour glows brilliantly and my ring pours energy into my metaphysique as it fights to keep me in one piece. I deploy a purple death ray and shoot him in the face in the faint hope that death magic will kill him faster than his regeneration can restore him. Adam is checking his damage with his left hand and firing more energy bolts with his right, aiming for Walker's eyes.
Oof. yeah, that'll take some patching up. Let's hope he doesn't start beating you with the wet end out of pure rage. As for death magic... I suspect it won't be all that effective. Doomsday can die, but it gets better damn fast.

Walker hesitates for a moment as he feels the resistance, ducking his head to avoid-.

Adam goes flying back as something hits him-.
Using whatever comes to hand, eh?

Oh. That's my-.

I dodge again, off-balance without the weight of… Most of my right arm and the accompanying blood loss. And the mega-
...Well, at least he won't be doing damage to you with it.

Walker crushes my mega rod with a stamp.

-rod, which I was holding with my right hand.
I'll give him this, he sure knows how to be disarming.

**Grayven!**

"Adam, arm!"
Yet another combination of words only the Renegade could cause to come about...

Walker swings at me and I'm forced to fly down to duck under his arm. He goes for an overhead smash and I viff to the side.

"What about it?!"
The joy of being the tank by virtue of being the toughest fucker there. Even though you're a DPS.

"I want it back!" X-ionised needles, and I get a grip on the Sword of the Fallen. I fly around behind Walker as he stamps forwards, trying to-. No, those spines aren't flesh and I can't reach any of his-. He throws himself back and I have to ring-dodge again. "It'll take a month to grow back on its own!"

**Yes?**
Honestly, that's how many times he's taken that sort of damage? You'd think he'd have an improved method for recovery, at least.

**Are you alright?**

Slash with the Sword and why couldn't Chantinelle have made it bigger than a letter opener? It actually cuts through some of Walker's outer plating but I don't think he notices.
Well, she probably didn't have the physique for an arming sword or larger. And a dagger or short sword is easier to conceal. Useful for a succubus.

*Do I look alright? I just lost an arm!**

**I apologise. I have completed my scan of Mister Walker's mind.**
Oh, joy. Do hurry along with the rundown, there's no time pressure or anything...

Back off, up and back and twist-stab, cutting off the tip of one of his spines. In theory clipping him to death might result in me winning, if I wasn't down an arm already.

**Relay faster.**
Somehow, I don't think 'death of a thousand cuts' isn't going to work too well here.

**That has risks-.**

**My eldest daughter is a telepath. I'm-**
...It's your headache, Renegade.

Walker feints, and I'm already dodging before I realise that's what it is. I try pulling back immediately as his arm comes around but I'm notoooof!

**-used to it.**
Impressive that he's got enough conscious thought to manage simple tactics like a fakeout.

Dropped the Sword but didn't stab myself. I grab the Sword with a construct, calculate and slash as I dodge towards him and then roll-

"RAAAAAGHH!"
...Really have to be more careful with that thing, Renegade.

-aside as the Sword slices neatly through his eyes.

He staggers a step as I back up-. That nick I inflicted a moment ago as already healed. He's not using magic at all so the Sword of the Fallen isn't neutralising his regeneration. But I've still got the purple death ray pointed at his face and his eyes aren't healing, good. Okay.
Okay, that'll put him at a disadvantage...

And then he stops moving.

He's listening. Because Doomsday variants here are mutated kryptonians and so they can hear like kryptonians. Okay, I've stopped bleeding, my environmental shield should prevent noise from my heartbeat or breathing getting out, I'm not touching anything for him to pick up the vibrations. The purple death ray isn't-
...If not for super-senses. And his rapid adaption probably allows him to develop a sonar sense.

I shift it to the side and add sound insulation as he blurs into action, grabbing a broken piece of road and hurling it at the death ray projector. It misses, just, and then smashes into an office building with the force of an artillery shell

-insulated, so he did hear that, but it's silent again. Okay, he can heal fast, but is he creating matter ex nihilo or can I wear him down? I-.
Given how crazy bullshit kryptonian designer genetics are, I would not be surprised if he could make new mass out of nothing.

"I've got your-"

Walker orientates on Adam in an instant, leaping at the sound hard enough to buckle what's left of the road-. Looks like the contractor was cheaping out.
Well, at least when they rebuild, they can upgrade the road surfaces.

"-arm."

Construct directional speaker.

"Toss it!"
Good idea, just try to do it quietly.

The speaker is smashed by the thrown lump of brickwork an instant later, but Adam has learned his lesson and throws the arm while frantically viffing to avoid Walker's charge. I need to get the purple death ray-

Walker jumps back, moving towards-. My arm, which makes a sound as it moves through the air. I throw out a construct tether to grab it-.
...Kryptonians are just bullshit.

Walker grabs the tether. It breaks immediately, causing my arm to keep flying away. I send out another tether-.

Walker lands and leaps at me!
Ultra-bullshit.

I-

**[I feel the shape of his mind, the drive to smash and rend, with a weak and barely noticeable whisper of meaning and context coming from a quiet voice somewhere near the back. Joshua Walker isn't exactly subsumed as he is a guidance system for something more instinctual.**
Ah. So if they can get the right stimulus, they can shock the human back into control...

-dodge but I tried to dodge towards my arm and he's there in the way! I actually slam into his side while his arms strike the ground, and for a fraction of a second I'm looking right into his eyes as he blinks the dried scab out of the way and looks back.

Mother Box, find his parents.
...Great. Now he can see you as he kicks your ass...

"Already done. Some bad news, though..." So, dead, comatose or just plain messed up?

I slash at his eyes as I try to move up, because around is too predictable. And predict it he does, smashing his fist through the ground so fast that he's able to keep going and hit me again! Fortunately the angle and rotation are awkward and I just get smacked into the air-.

I immediately accelerate upwards and send a stealth drone for my arm. With his eyes working again that won't stop him seeing me, but-.
At least if he's chasing you, he's not going after the squishy people.

Diana dives down, slashing at him with her sword!

It-. Cuts through a spine, and his counter is intercepted by her bracers. Okay! I fly for my arm, grab it and slap the soggy end against my soggy end.
She is good at that sort of thing. Even if she was a bit out of practice.

Construct sling, healing ray. Make Me Whole

And now I've got the same number of limbs as I started with, but the one way I know to bring Mr. Walker down easily won't work because his parents were in Smallville when the kryptonians started smashing stuff and were turned into collateral damage.
...Ah. Which explains why he probably volunteered for the project that made him what he is now.

"I see where you're going with this. Opening a small tube now."

BOOM!

"Physician! Get through and heal Mister and Missus Walker!"

I raise the Sword of the Fallen, make momentary eye contact with Diana, then charge back in.
At least they can tag-team him until the doc's done and the folks can talk him down. Hopefully.

So, the Renegade's going to try to get the Boy's parents to talk him down? I don't know how effective that'll be, but the big risk is how they'll be talking to him. Bringing them in person puts them at risk of grievous bodily harm. But having them talk via a communicator might not be as effective. It's going to be tricky.


Because Doomsday varients here are mutated kryptonians...
Because Doomsday variants here are mutated kryptonians...
..with the force of an artillery shell
Missing Full Stop.
...but Adam has leared his lesson...
...but Adam has learned his lesson...
...and were turned into colateral damage.
...and were turned into collateral damage.
 
But is this the real plan, or is he going to have the convenient, shape-shifting Martian telepath in the area pretend to be Walker's magically healed parents, in order to talk Mountain Dewmsday down?
He's assuming the actual Physician will do it, but he wouldn't exactly []i]mind[/i] if J'onn did it. The problem is that while Physician can fix things with magic, J'onn can only use the purple healing ray on certain types of injury, and J'onn himself hasn't been trained in its limitations.
 
forget Apokolips, how about just Boom tubing him onto Jupiter? he might escape in a hundred years but at least that buys you.... a hundred years to plan for it
 
forget Apokolips, how about just Boom tubing him onto Jupiter? he might escape in a hundred years but at least that buys you.... a hundred years to plan for it
Better solution. Boom tube him to as deep as possible inside the event horizon of a black hole. If light can't get out, I'll bet that even someone with Kryptonian strength can't get out. Particularly with nothing solid to push off of.

Plus there's a very good chance that even Kryptonian durability won't hold up against the gravity gradient spaghettification effects...
 
I like to imagine Mother Box is live recording, editing a bit out, and streaming this.

Along with the explanation of who this is, who deployed him, and what they did to him. Just proving everything that was released is real and the government actually is that evil.

Grayven is gonna end up with the best PR on this Earth by the end of this.
 
**[I feel the shape of his mind, the drive to smash and rend, with a weak and barely noticeable whisper of meaning and context coming from a quiet voice somewhere near the back. Joshua Walker isn't exactly subsumed as he is a guidance system for something more instinctual.**

This appears to be missing the closing ] bracket.

Side question -

"A single dagger may succeed where a thousand swords would fail. And if I fail…" I shrug. "I am not sworn to you. Should I fail, you can simply give Syrania to him, or to someone else."

The next segment we see him next to Bastet during a time when new underlords would normally be introduced, but the phrasing suggested that he wasn't introduced that way. Did Stargate Paul ever actually swear himself to Bastet? Or did he move up via trust/achievement without actually swearing himself (similar to a field promotion)?
 
Justice Segue (part 21)
17th November 2017
09:40 GMT -5


Walker takes a step sideways as I come in, trying to keep us both in sight.

Pi-

Then he leaps at me while Diana gets a face full of asphalt. I dodge right, because this time he was ready for me to dodge forwards. I-.

-ng.

Brannon's dead? Good. Message Batman, ask him to check the corpse, then retask the drones for Thundermind because I have lost patience.

Ping.

Make sure that they're just helping with the evacuation, then ignore them.

Walker stops leaping and starts walking, his motions faster than his size implies that he can manage, arms lashing out to grapple rather than punch. Misses involve him throwing things at either me or Diana, releasing bricks or lumps of concrete to distract or obscure our vision. I've learned not to flinch and let my environmental shield handle the dust but at this point Diana's eyes must sting something fierce even from the hits she blocks. Two slam into her bracers as I dodge towards them to make a second swing awkward, Walker aiming directly at her head each time. She blocks the third brick only for a fourth to hit her bare left thigh hard enough to make her stumble.

Walker turns from me and lunges while she's off-balance, and I send the Sword of the Fallen darting in to slice through at least some of his Achilles tendon before pulling it back.

Ping.

Then one over their heads. The rest go into them if they don't get a clue. And deploy more death ray drones here.

Ping.

That's the least of my concerns.

Diana has her sword en garde to block any attempt Walker makes to grapple, but he manages a solid punch on her left shoulder. I hear her bones crack as she goes spinning backwards from the force of it.

"Ah!"

BOOM!

Good. Those drones won't need me to maintain concentration, and they're at least somewhat hard for him to detect. But the slice I made is already almost healed and it didn't stop him knocking Diana-.

No, she's back and doing low level flying while holding her sword in one hand. I could ask J'onn to heal her but that's probably not a good idea on a compound fracture-.

**Manhunter, troops are approaching the city. Please use your civilian identity to keep them away.**

**I will.**

Okay, how do we actually get Walker to stay still? How do we land a meaningful hit? Particularly with Diana completely unable to wrestle with him one-armed.

I consider the ground we're standing on. Walker can't fly, and the road is increasingly being churned up by the force that he's using to leap at us. Based on the strength he used to rip my arm off I don't actually think that he's leaping at full force. But the more smashed up it gets, the slower he'll be able to move. Leaping or walking.

Can't really communicate that to Diana. Just have to hope that she noticed.

Okay, targets are his eyes and ears.

**And have you seen Thundermind?**

**[An image of the wounded Thunderminds merging together and Physician doing something which turns him back into his school teacher mode.**

I move in, trying to tempt him into attacking me without getting close enough to initiate an attack myself. Walker's switching his attention between us, presumably trying to come up with a plan of attack. Or trying to work out what I'm planning.

**Good. Try and get him out of the combat zone, time allowing.**

**[An image of Subjekt-17 tearing his now-helpless body apart.]**



I suppose he had it coming.

Walker decides to advance on me, and I give him more room while maintaining eye contact.

"Diana, how bad's your shoulder?"

"I will live."

I don't speak, I just glare at her over Walker's shoulder. That sort of combat banter isn't appropriate for a disaster like this, and if she had more experience then she'd know that by now.

Walker swings at me with his left, flinging rubble at my face with his right. A construct catches the rubble and throws it back while I use my aero discs to move slightly aside then slash with the Sword, not at the arm but at his newly rubble-covered eyes. Got him! Clean cut through-.

He lunges-. And the rubble beneath his feet gives way, making him fall on his face and slide forwards instead. And then my death rays light him up, preventing his eyes healing while I send the Sword of the Fallen into both Achilles tendons. Success! A bit of a fiddle with the spurs, but he's now hobbled.

He tries to stand, and-

"Uuuuh!"

-he can't, clamping his hands around his ankles to… Try and hold them together? Shield them from the death rays?

Diana's closing the distance, sword extended-.

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"Wait!" She halts her advance, frowning at me. "We've got a chance to talk him down! Physician is healing his parents as we speak. There's enough of his mind left to recognise them."

"He will heal-."

"What did you think the purple beams are for?" She looks up at them, nodding. "Is your shoulder fractured or just broken?"

"I am not sure."

Keeping a good distance from Walker, who appears to be listening intently but isn't trying to drag himself around with his still-functioning arms, I approach her, left hand glowing orange.

"Let me check. Depending on how your powers work I should be able to heal you." She nods, gingerly tilting her head aside while still watching Walker. "Adam!"

I take a closer look at her shoulder, scanning… I'm getting better feedback from her than Diana 16 ever gave me.

"Good news. Multiple breaks, but they're all relatively clean. I've no idea what any anaesthetic I could use would do to you and we don't know each other well enough for me to use magic, so this will hurt."

"I am prepared."

Orange light flows through her, pulling bones back into place. That's actually an advanced technique I learned from a parallel universe version of the man I was before becoming Grayven: using the subject's own desires to bypass some of their defences. Then I take out a purple healing ray and play it over the injury site.

Adam floats down, metal skin regrowing to cover his holes. "Yeah?"

"Help with recovering civilian casualties. I'm not expecting further attacks, but stay on guard just in case."

"Sir." He starts to turn away and then hesitates, frowning as he realises what he just called me. Then he brushes it off and gets back to work.

Ping.

Good. Bring the Walkers through.
 
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Walker stops leaping and starts walking, his motions faster than his size implies that he can manage, arms lashing out to grapple rather than punch. Misses involve him throwing things at either me or Diana, releasing bricks or lumps of concrete to distract or obscure our vision. I've learned not to flinch and let my environmental shield handle the dust but at this point Diana's eyes must sting something fierce even from the hits she blocks. Two slam into her bracers as I dodge towards them to make a second swing awkward, Walker aiming directly at her head each time. She blocks the third brick only for a forth to hit her bare left thigh hard enough to make her stumble.
That should say 'fourth'.

**And have you seen Thundermind?**

**[An image of the wounded Thunderminds merging together and Physician doing something which turns him back into his school teacher mode.**

I move in, trying to tempt him into attacking me without getting close enough to initiate an attack myself. Walker's switching his attention between us, presumably trying to come up with a plan of attack. Or trying to work out what I'm planning.

**Good. Try and get him out of the combat zone, time allowing.**

**[An image of Subjekt-17 tearing his now-helpless body apart.]**



I suppose he had it coming.
Sucks to be him, but the Renegade is right. I hope the pot that gave Thundermind his powers is still intact so that someone more worthy can find it.

Orange light flows through her, pulling bones back into place. That's actually an advanced technique I learned from a parallel universe version of the man I was before becoming Grayven: using the subject's own desires to bypass some of their defences. Then I take out a purple healing ray and play it over the injury site.
Just to confirm, the Renegade's talking about Paul, or rather Future Paul?
 
When did THAT happen? Grayven wasn't involved in the tuning fork kerfuffle. Sadly.

This is a version of renegade from the future, so it probably happened somewhere before this and after the current timeline.

And renegades did contribute to the big battle of the tuning fork, what with depowering Krona.
 
17th November 2017
09:40 GMT -5


Walker takes a step sideways as I come in, trying to keep us both in sight.

Pi-

Then he leaps at me while Diana gets a face full of asphalt. I dodge right, because this time he was ready for me to dodge forwards. I-.

-ng.

"Good news on another matter. The fellow with the eyes is dealt with." At least he's not focusing on just one of you. If he did, he'd probably crush that one in short order, even with the others piling on attacks...

Brannon's dead? Good. Message Batman, ask him to check the corpse, then retask the drones for Thundermind because I have lost patience.

Ping.

Make sure that they're just helping with the evacuation, then ignore them.
"Also, the police are out on the streets. They are wisely avoiding the combat area." I wonder if bats did it with a missile, or one of the drones got him? Because Brannon wasn't super-durable, was he? Either thing would have been enough to kill him...

Walker stops leaping and starts walking, his motions faster than his size implies that he can manage, arms lashing out to grapple rather than punch. Misses involve him throwing things at either me or Diana, releasing bricks or lumps of concrete to distract or obscure our vision. I've learned not to flinch and let my environmental shield handle the dust but at this point Diana's eyes must sting something fierce even from the hits she blocks. Two slam into her bracers as I dodge towards them to make a second swing awkward, Walker aiming directly at her head each time. She blocks the third brick only for a fourth to hit her bare left thigh hard enough to make her stumble.
No doubt Diana has training in fighting blind. But her lower durability will let hits add up.

Walker turns from me and lunges while she's off-balance, and I send the Sword of the Fallen darting in to slice through at lease some of his Achilles tendon before pulling it back.

Ping.
"Actually, some of the police are approaching the battlefield. SWAT Teams, by the looks of it." Somehow, I doubt that'll slow the Boy down...

Then one over their heads. The rest go into them if they don't get a clue. And deploy more death ray drones here.

Ping.
"You do realise they'll shoot at the drone, and it will fight back?" Man, having to keep the squishy folks out of the way is getting annoying.

That's the least of my concerns.

Diana has her sword en garde to block any attempt Walker makes to grapple, but he manages a solid punch on her left shoulder. I hear her bones crack as she goes spinning backwards for the force of it.
Oof. That's gonna make it a lot harder for her to pull her weight...

"Ah!"

BOOM!

Good. Those drones won't need me to maintain concentration, and they're at least somewhat hard for him to detect. But the slice I made is already almost healed and it didn't stop him knocking Diana-.
I wouldn't be surprised if the Boy didn't even feel pain, beyond frustration as his body failing to do what he wants it to...

No, she's back and doing low level flying while holding her sword in one hand. I could ask J'onn to heal her but that's probably not a good idea on a compound fracture-.

**Manhunter, troops are approaching the city. Please use your civilian identity to keep them away.**
Hopefully they won't question what such a senior officer is doing out here.

**I will.**

Okay, how do we actually get Walker to stay still? How do we land a meaningful hit? Particularly with Diana completely unable to wrestle with him one-armed.
Can her lasso hold him? Or are you worried about the risk of him breaking it? And she'd probably struggle to get it in place one-handed anyway...

I consider the ground we're standing on. Walker can't fly, and the road is increasingly being churned up by the force that he's using to leap at us. Based on the strength he used to rip my arm off I don't actually think that he's leaping at full force. But the more smashed up it gets, the slower he'll be able to move. Leaping or walking.

Can't really communicate that to Diana. Just have to hope that she noticed.
Well, hopefully she's got enough combat experience to recognise that.

Okay, targets are his eyes and ears.

**And have you seen Thundermind?**

**[An image of the wounded Thunderminds merging together and Physician doing something which turns him back into his school teacher mode.**
Ah, well, then. He's no longer an issue, then.

I move in, trying to tempt him into attacking me without getting close enough to initiate an attack myself. Walker's switching his attention between us, presumably trying to come up with a plan of attack. Or trying to work out what I'm planning.

**Good. Try and get him out of the combat zone, time allowing.**
With any luck, the human mind will hold back the feral beast long enough to work something out...

**[An image of Subjekt-17 tearing his now-helpless body apart.]**



I suppose he had it coming.
Definitely not an issue any longer. Pity they couldn't have thrown him against Walker, but honestly, he'd have been a speedbump at best.

Walker decides to advance on me, and I give him more room while maintaining eye contact.

"Diana, how bad's your shoulder?"
To be fair, the Renegade's shown he can hurt the Boy worse. Of course he's the higher threat.

"I will live."

I don't speak, I just glare at her over Walker's shoulder. That sort of combat banter isn't appropriate for a disaster like this, and if she had more experience then she'd know that by now.
Sadly, her experience in superhuman combat consists of maybe two fights: Ares and Doomsday. Neither were exactly subtle, or tactical.

Walker swings at me with his left, flinging rubble at my face with his right. A construct catches the rubble and throws it back while I use my aero discs to move slightly aside then slash with the Sword, not at the arm but at his newly rubble-covered eyes. Got him! Clean cut through-.

He lunges-. And the rubble beneath his feet gives way, making him fall on his face and slide forwards instead. And then my death rays light him up, preventing his eyes healing while I send the Sword of the Fallen into both Achilles tendons. Success! A bit of a fiddle with the spurs, but he's now hobbled.
So, blinded again, and now he's kind of pinned down. Best time to do some combat healing, if nothing else.

He tries to stand, and-

"Uuuuh!"

-he can't, clamping his hands around his ankles to… Try and hold them together? Shield them from the death rays?
Well, evidently he does feel pain, then. Wanting to cradle a wounded body part is a pretty common instinct.

Diana's closing the distance, sword extended-.

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Going in for the kill, I see. Only problem is...

"Wait!" She halts her advance, frowning at me. "We've got a chance to talk him down! Physician is healing his parents as we speak. There's enough of his mind left to recognise them."

"He will heal-."
...He's more valuable alive, but under control.

"What did you think the purple beams are for?" She looks up at them, nodding. "Is your shoulder fractured or just broken?"

"I am not sure."
Props for grace in the face of such pain, at least.

Keeping a good distance from Walker, who appears to be listening intently but isn't trying to drag himself around with his still-functioning arms, I approach her, left hand glowing orange.

"Let me check. Depending on how your powers work I should be able to heal you." She nods, gingerly tilting her head aside while still watching Walker. "Adam!"
I suspect the mention of his parents has him unsure whether to keep attacking or not...

I take a closer look at her shoulder, scanning… I'm getting better feedback from her than Diana 16 ever gave me.

"Good news. Multiple breaks, but they're all relatively clean. I've no idea what any anaesthetic I could use would do to you and we don't know each other well enough for me to use magic, so this will hurt."
Presumably this Diana has less godhood in her, so to speak. Less active metaphysique than Sixteen's.

"I am prepared."

Orange light flows through her, pulling bones back into place. That's actually an advanced technique I learned from a parallel universe version of the man I was before becoming Grayven: using the subject's own desires to bypass some of their defences. Then I take out a purple healing ray and play it over the injury site.
Well, that's an annoyingly vague suggestion of an interesting adventure.

Adam floats down, metal skin regrowing to cover his holes. "Yeah?"

"Help with recovering civilian casualties. I'm not expecting further attacks, but stay on guard just in case."
Just watch the leakage, shiny. Don't want to set off too many more metahumans, yeah?

"Sir." He starts to turn away and then hesitates, frowning as he realises what he just called me. Then he brushes it off and gets back to work.

Ping.

Good. Bring the Walkers through.
"The police are holding back, and Manhunter has the army under control." Bringing in the big guns as a little leverage to help convince the Boy to stand down, then?

Seems like there's a solid lull in the fight, then. From the looks of it, the Boy is choosing to stay down for a bit in hopes of seeing his folks. While most of his former allies are now former in the permanent sense. And I am more interested in the hint of a crossover with another Orange Lantern alternate who gave him a little training in Avarice use.


...to slice through at lease some of his Achilles tendon before pulling it back.
...to slice through at least some of his Achilles tendon before pulling it back.
...as she goes spinning backwards for the force of it.
...as she goes spinning backwards from the force of it.
 
"What did you think the purple beams are for?" She looks up at them, nodding. "Is your shoulder fractured or just broken?"
You've had them focusing on him for multiple minutes at this point.

The real Doomsday would have adapted by now.

And given you directly stated he had the same power as the real Doomsday, either this is an error, or by "the real doomsday" you were talking about your custom version of the character.
 
That's actually an advanced technique I learned from a parallel universe version of the man I was before becoming Grayven: using the subject's own desires to bypass some of their defences.
Huh, this sidestory might be set in the future, I don't remember Grayven ever interacting with parallel versions of the main character. He stabbed Krona rather than get grabbed and that seems to be the extent of his interaction with parallel versions of paul.
Thinking about it, I wonder what happened to the Paul in the justice lords universe he's interacted with a little bit. Or are there only alternates transported to some of the parallel universes and not all of them.
 

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