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

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Paul should just go to Plan Q, mind control everyone, take away everyone's powers/send them to the Phantom Zone, berate Justice League 12 on their accidental role in all this, and then go home. I wonder how the League and Team on Earth 16 will react after reading OL and Zatanna's report on this. Before that, I want to see everyone, Syndicate, Justice Underground, & JL 12, be fearful of OL's full power.
 
Mr Zoat said:
"Would a kryptonian not be able to fly under his own power?"
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A very pertinent question, given his disguise.

And there's now a longue in place of the library…
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And there's now a lounge in place of the library…

"No. The magics of his house confuse my senses."
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"No. The magics of this house confuse my senses."

A section of the wall panelling next to me grows up to the full height of the wall and sprouts a handle before swinging open. Zatanna steps back from the opening and I see Don Giovanni throwing glowing snakes through the air at a man in gold and blue power armour. He blocks left-handed with an anachronistically simple wood and iron shield, which… Causes the snakes to decay into motes of light. Armour matches what the local Lex Luthor wore, but I can't scan it and the helmet means-.
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First thought was Guardian, but he'd be a crook here... Wonder what the shield is.

The figure in armour immediately raises his right arm and fire a-. A blue laser at my face, which fails to penetrate my environmental shield. I respond with two construct micro-missile launchers, missiles firing and smashing into his weapons with just enough force to render them inoperable. The Don uses the breathing room to step outside of the near-complete warding circles and snarl at the armoured figure.
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Guessing he was expecting power Ring Blue.

My armour's psi-baffles prevent me collapsing on the spot, though a still feel a wave of tiredness pass through me. Shouldn't be surprised, I suppose. I drop off a psi shock grenade tuned to Martian telepathic communication patterns and detonate it-
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Seriously, Manhunter? Not the best time.

...somewhat as I go for a grapple, x-ionised knives...
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Double spacing here.

"Dleihs sparts kaerb!"
Clever. attack the attachment, not the item itself.
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And-. Everything's shimmering and… And I'm in a workshop, in a powerful force field, and… Those are soldiers and that's half the Justice Underground. Huh, that's what Sir Solomon looks like. Pictures don't really do him justice.
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That would be Grundy? I'm picturing the fully intelligent one that turned up back in the Noughties?

"Not to a Made Man, but I'm fairly sure that you're not one." He's wearing the same armour as Mr Crock, though he's left the helmet off in favour of a heavy collar containing a force field generator.
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What is it with Luthors and force-field head protection?

They're current in chains in Shadowcrest."
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They're currently in chains in Shadowcrest."

A weak laser shot from one of the weapons I missed on Mr Crock's armour shoots me in the eye piece and fails to penetrate my environmental shield.
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Dude, just stop. You're beaten, have some dignity.

"Not on a nice country, but there are plenty of places that the Syndicate won't make worse by taking them over. Somewhere lousy with strife which they couldn't make worse if they tried."
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More than a few places in Africa, alas...

Vice President Luthor takes a moment to check that the various armed men and women in the room haven't disappeared. "I'm not sure that you're in any position to negotiate."
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You haven't seen a fully capable lantern, have you? Power Ring Green was a fool, Blue has no energy, Yellow no support AI and Sapphire probably has Zamaron malware.

"-how annoying it is to me that the supervillains are the ones making the peaceful overtures. At the very least-"
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That is a bit worrying...

"-you should be offering pardons to defectors, stripping away the support for the hardcore of nutters." I shoot a mage slayer round into Sir Solomon's left knee, causing the magics animating him to leave it. He stumbled, and I help him on his way with a right hook. "Or offering them terms of some sort. It's like you people want the country to burn. And I find that a very frustrating attitude."
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I can't imagine how intimidating that would be, watching this guy just ignore everything thrown at him...

Let's see how this pans out, then. Will Luthor actually show some sense, or is he stuck in a bad situation, just like Luthor-16?
 
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Still think my earlier suggestion, both sides destroy each other, Zatanna traumatized, Paul saying this is what they want, is a possibility. Other suggestion is an OLC strike force decimating both sides and reducing everyone to baseline human abilities and stone age tech. That would get message that they are all idiots across.
 
That's a awesome montage of no-selling. Someone asks if he feels threatened, and he teleports infront of them and spends the next 30 seconds completely ignoring the attempts of everyone else in the room to attack him, while giving a speech.

Although, how Slade can hear him over 20-something automatic rifles firing is beyond me. Maybe they're something quieter like plasma weapons?
 
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I feel bad for NegaPaul, after OL's merry little vacation in his dimension EVERYONE is going to be keeping a close eye on him after seeing his alternate stomp his way through damn near everyone.
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That is assuming there is anyone left when he and Zorina return.

Also, how can OL disable Q-Ranger non-lethally? I'm also curious on how he counters Medea.
 
Buggy123 said:
That's a awesome montage of no-selling. Someone asks if he feels threatened, and he teleports infront of them and spends the next 30 seconds completely ignoring the attempts of everyone else in the room to attack him, while giving a speech.

Although, how Slade can hear him over 20-something automatic rifles firing is beyond me. Maybe they're something quieter like plasma weapons?
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I'm assuming you mean Luthor. I'm willing to bet he has sound filters of some sort in his armor.
 
I have a feeling that whatever OL does here is a contributing factor to his relationship with Batman becoming strained. I also can't wait to see the JL 12's looks when they realize the consequences of their actions and what OL does to resolve them.
 
Sigh...

If he had just stayed and kept talking in their totally ineffective force field thing that was no threat to him he might have gotten somewhere diplomatically... maybe.

But, no. Gotta show how you can't be threatened and are now trying to talk to them after goading them all into attacking you.

Why? If you want to talk then talk, if you want to fight then fight. Why try to reason with them after emphasizing that you are a direct uncontainable threat?
 
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Sigh...

If he had just stayed and kept talking in their totally ineffective force field thing that was no threat to him he might have gotten somewhere diplomatically... maybe.

But, no. Gotta show how you can't be threatened and are now trying to talk to them after goading them all into attacking you.

Why? If you want to talk then talk, if you want to fight then fight. Why try to reason with them after emphasizing that you are a direct uncontainable threat?
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Maybe because the only reason he is even there is because he was tricked. He doesn't really want to help either side. He just wants to go home, and seeing how bullheaded and foolish both sides are has tested his patience. OL should just give an ultimatum, both sides come to an agreement, or suffer the consequences. After this, the JL 12 try to berate him, but is rebuffed by the accusation that they are partially responsible for the turmoil that is consuming America -14. I hope that whatever OL says to them is as scathing and difficult to dismiss as the complete blow out he had with the JL on Earth 16 before he left for Vega.
 
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Nope. Anger isn't the problem, making him want to destroy them is what they should avoid and they are hardcore failing.
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It's kinda close to the same thing, Paragon/Pavlos is REALLY rational so if he gets pissed at someone it is less i'm ANGRY than I WANT to beat this person up side the head until they see the error of their ways.
 
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Sigh...

If he had just stayed and kept talking in their totally ineffective force field thing that was no threat to him he might have gotten somewhere diplomatically... maybe.

But, no. Gotta show how you can't be threatened and are now trying to talk to them after goading them all into attacking you.

Why? If you want to talk then talk, if you want to fight then fight. Why try to reason with them after emphasizing that you are a direct uncontainable threat?
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Didn't Luthor just say he wasn't willing to negociate?
 
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I believe the thought process is that if they think they have him over a barrel, they are not going to take his offer of negotiations and conditional surrender seriously. I mean, not sure Luthor knows who he's dealing with at all, but if they consider him some form of new member of the Syndicate and they believe him trapped in the force field, with their attitude up to this point is uncertain if they were expecting him or even if they would listen to him if he wasn't trapped with Preceptor as well.

Apparently they aren't even making deals with captured members of the Syndicate to try to find the others, like regular police do to regular criminals all the time? But that's just my impression.

The only thing clear here is that this situation is a clusterfuck and I can't fathom the level of patience the Illustres has to keep putting up with parallel and all this constant inconveniences.
 
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I believe the thought process is that if they think they have him over a barrel, they are not going to take his offer of negotiations and conditional surrender seriously. I mean, not sure Luthor knows who he's dealing with at all, but if they consider him some form of new member of the Syndicate and they believe him trapped in the force field, with their attitude up to this point is uncertain if they were expecting him or even if they would listen to him if he wasn't trapped with Preceptor as well.

Apparently they aren't even making deals with captured members of the Syndicate to try to find the others, like regular police do to regular criminals all the time? But that's just my impression.

The only thing clear here is that this situation is a clusterfuck and I can't fathom the level of patience the Illustres has to keep putting up with parallel and all this constant inconveniences.
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By the time they realize who/what they're dealing with, it'll be already too late. I can imagine it now, both sides utterly destroyed, Capo Scott and Luthor or Slade getting angry and demanding why Paul would do this, JL 12 doing something similar, and Paul completely and utterly shutting down their complaints, spelling out how each of them is to blame for what happened, and saying that he was done with them all before leaving with a (possibly stunned) Zatanna. Hope that when he leaves, he brings JL 12 with him so that they can have a little chat with JL 16 and the Team before going home with a lot on their minds. I feel especially sorry for Wally 12 if that happens, as he is the most hopeful of them all.

Edit: What if he decides that this situation is so bad, he deems it necessary to start assimilating people?
 
... to be completely honest i genuinely have no idea why he was wasteing his breath and (valuable) time negotiating with people he knew to be intractable to start with-i mean, at the very least he could have dismantled not-sportsmaster's gear by now and moved onto disarming the conventional troops in the room XD
sometimes, the only way to get past a particularly-dense face-puncher's meat and to reach what passes for a brain is to leave them a pile of hamburger on the floor- if they're unwilling to listern to reason, remove all other options....
 
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Oh. I think I see where we're going now. Paul's hopes are going to get crushed again. Sure we heard the line "We aren't just evil versions of your heroes" but time and time again we've seen that the Joker is crazy, utopian plans are paid for with genocide, etc. etc. Basically good old Lex is not going to agree with Paul. And we will see another example of why Blue-Paul was bitter.

Seriously what are the chances that the public's perception of Lex Luthor is correct?
 
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I feel bad for NegaPaul, after OL's merry little vacation in his dimension EVERYONE is going to be keeping a close eye on him after seeing his alternate stomp his way through damn near everyone.
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I kinda expect this episode to end with PaulPhidian fighting AdaraPaul. Or for blue Paul to return right as Orange is leaving, and to have to deal with the ashes remaining in his passing.
 
Blue!Paul: *Stares at ashes remaining in Paul's wake.* Honey, we're in charge now, before I get started doping people with blue light until they do what I want them to is there anybody left on your must vaporize list?
 
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