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Does this version of OL know how to brand or assimilate?
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With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)
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So according to the first set of Invincible snips, OL kept the idea of assimilation a secret. But one of the more recent clips seems to be that he has let Invincible know that he can brand people.
Not sure if continuity error or if he let Mark know about branding but not assimilation.
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I was referring to the Joker as Batman's One True Waifu, a la the Lego Batman Movie.
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6th March 2025
10:01 GMT -5
A.. suspension bridge with a.. weirdly large building on top of one of the towers. I-.
Eve jerks away from me, a weak pink bolt hitting me in the chest and being absorbed by my environmental shield. Then she works out where we are and dives for the structurally-unsound structure. She's going for the entry hatch at the top, a waste of time. I generate a construct drill and slam it into the exterior wall, brick exploding away and flying into the water below! A construct fan blows away the brick dust as my scans feed the interior layout into my brain. I-.
I dodge as a chunk of.. dull brown robot flies past me before armouring up and heading in. Some sort of… Workshop, though I can see a larger interior space through a hole in one of the walls.
"You called in reinforcements?"
That's Invincible's voice. He's holding another robot up by the neck. No, this one is power armour, and from the look of the control system the boy inside is-. Was controlling the other robots littering the floor. There's a injured girl on the ground in a pile of rubble, and… Someone in some sort of orange fire fighter uniform? I connect filaments to both of them and move them to…
"Hey, if you keep calling people in, do you think I could kill more of you than any of the others? Just take a number, I'll get to-" He glances around. "-you-. Oh. Gay Invincible's boyfriend. What do you-"
Eve blasts past me, sword at the ready. Invincible grins, spinning around twice and throwing the power armour at her. Her eyes widen as she tries to viff out of the way but I just generate a crash mat construct to absorb its momentum. The construct fails on impact, but I soaked enough kinetic energy that it just falls to the ground.
"-want-? Hey, what-"
Eve spins around my dissipating construct and blasts herself at him, pink armour around her body shielding her from the transmuted rocket fuel she just ignited on her back. This Invincible smiles as he half-dodges, right arm stuck out to turn aside her swing.
I form a megaphone construct and project the anti-Viltrumite sound wave.
"-givesaagh!"
Eve swings, and his forearm parts company with his body! A second rushed swing as she flies past him slices through part of his neck, though she misses the major arteries and the windpipe. He tries to reach for it with both hands, only for the stump to spurt so much blood over his face that he can't tell how serious the wound is.
Eve hits the far wall with force, her armour fracturing as it prevents her being injured.
"What the Hell?"
The Invincible then tries moving his hands to his ears to block out the sound I'm making, only to jab himself with his exposed radius bone.
"Ah-gh!"
The guy in power armour rises to his feet, checking me out for a moment before turning back to keep careful watch on the Invincible. "I have expended all useful ordnance. If you have a weapon capable of hurting an Invincible duplicate, do not hesitate to use it."
"I've got antimatter."
"I withdraw my previous statement."
Eve goes to lunge at where the Invincible is flailing on the ground, but meets my eyes before she does so. She hesitates, recreates her armour and then lunges at him, sword raised high and then slashing down-
"AAAGhda-hah!"
-and getting embedded in his chest due to being stuck in his ribs. He tries to push it out with his remaining hand, only for the x-ionised metal to survive, get more jammed against the inside of his rib cage, and slice cleanly through the hand he just hit it with because arming swords are sharp on both sides.
"Uu-uhruh!"
I dart forwards, take an x-ionised epée out of subspace and stab it through his left eye socket and into his brain. He's… Shaking as the signals from his brain to his body are getting disrupted, but he doesn't appear to actually be dying.
Eve comes up beside me, reclaims her sword and plunges it through his neck.
Blood spurts from his severed carotid arteries, his shakes growing steadily less vigorous before he finally goes still.
Breathing heavily, Eve withdraws her sword and disintegrates the blood covering her in a wave of pink light. Scan…
There!
I transition outside and then upwards as the red fireman groggily rises to his feet while one of Angstrom's drones watches from above. I send a construct cable down, punching through the outer casing and looking for…
Connection established.
Good. Take control, and edit myself from the footage. Not… Seeing any internal component checking, so… Build a Viltrumite Empire standard uplink to maintain control without a connection and transition back down.
"Ah." The fireman is clearly unsteady on his feet, possibly from loss of blood and possibly from head trauma. "Heey. Are you new? There's a… Guy."
"The version of Invincible who attacked you is dead." I scan him. Hm. Nothing… Immediately fatal, though it.. looks like he received a traumatic brain injury relatively recently. Probably from a bullet? Given the lack of residual fragments I'd guess that it was an armour piercing round that over penetrated, but it's still impressive that he's in anything like fighting shape. "Would you-?"
He looks around in a daze, finally spotting the unconscious girl.
"Monster Girl?!" He darts over to her and starts performing a basic health assessment.
"I can heal both of you, if you like."
"Uh. Huh?" He stares at me. "That was an option?"
…
I'm choosing to believe that was a 'yes please'.
I connect a broad orange beam to him and get to work. Cuts and bruises, gone. Brain damage… Well, I can't tell exactly what was there before, but I can reconnect some of the blood vessels and I can work out some of what's missing based on my scans of other human brains. I also know what infant brains look like, so if I just make it highly plastic then he should be alright. His cybernetic forearm…
Huh.
That's a monitoring device and a remote self-destruct.
I shut them both down and remove the prosthetic.
"Hey-! I need that!"
And I replace his forearm with a mirror of his remaining hand.
"Or… Not. Was Cecil keeping you in a basement or something?"
And… 'Monster Girl'… Brain swelling down, small cuts and bruises… Nothing serious. Anything else can wait for an actual physician.
"No, I came in as part of the invasion force."
"Ah…"
"But my Invincible isn't actually interested in destroying your civilisation." I think, and the spy drone floats down. "Are any of you any good with technology?"
10:01 GMT -5
A.. suspension bridge with a.. weirdly large building on top of one of the towers. I-.
Eve jerks away from me, a weak pink bolt hitting me in the chest and being absorbed by my environmental shield. Then she works out where we are and dives for the structurally-unsound structure. She's going for the entry hatch at the top, a waste of time. I generate a construct drill and slam it into the exterior wall, brick exploding away and flying into the water below! A construct fan blows away the brick dust as my scans feed the interior layout into my brain. I-.
I dodge as a chunk of.. dull brown robot flies past me before armouring up and heading in. Some sort of… Workshop, though I can see a larger interior space through a hole in one of the walls.
"You called in reinforcements?"
That's Invincible's voice. He's holding another robot up by the neck. No, this one is power armour, and from the look of the control system the boy inside is-. Was controlling the other robots littering the floor. There's a injured girl on the ground in a pile of rubble, and… Someone in some sort of orange fire fighter uniform? I connect filaments to both of them and move them to…
"Hey, if you keep calling people in, do you think I could kill more of you than any of the others? Just take a number, I'll get to-" He glances around. "-you-. Oh. Gay Invincible's boyfriend. What do you-"
Eve blasts past me, sword at the ready. Invincible grins, spinning around twice and throwing the power armour at her. Her eyes widen as she tries to viff out of the way but I just generate a crash mat construct to absorb its momentum. The construct fails on impact, but I soaked enough kinetic energy that it just falls to the ground.
"-want-? Hey, what-"
Eve spins around my dissipating construct and blasts herself at him, pink armour around her body shielding her from the transmuted rocket fuel she just ignited on her back. This Invincible smiles as he half-dodges, right arm stuck out to turn aside her swing.
I form a megaphone construct and project the anti-Viltrumite sound wave.
"-givesaagh!"
Eve swings, and his forearm parts company with his body! A second rushed swing as she flies past him slices through part of his neck, though she misses the major arteries and the windpipe. He tries to reach for it with both hands, only for the stump to spurt so much blood over his face that he can't tell how serious the wound is.
Eve hits the far wall with force, her armour fracturing as it prevents her being injured.
"What the Hell?"
The Invincible then tries moving his hands to his ears to block out the sound I'm making, only to jab himself with his exposed radius bone.
"Ah-gh!"
The guy in power armour rises to his feet, checking me out for a moment before turning back to keep careful watch on the Invincible. "I have expended all useful ordnance. If you have a weapon capable of hurting an Invincible duplicate, do not hesitate to use it."
"I've got antimatter."
"I withdraw my previous statement."
Eve goes to lunge at where the Invincible is flailing on the ground, but meets my eyes before she does so. She hesitates, recreates her armour and then lunges at him, sword raised high and then slashing down-
"AAAGhda-hah!"
-and getting embedded in his chest due to being stuck in his ribs. He tries to push it out with his remaining hand, only for the x-ionised metal to survive, get more jammed against the inside of his rib cage, and slice cleanly through the hand he just hit it with because arming swords are sharp on both sides.
"Uu-uhruh!"
I dart forwards, take an x-ionised epée out of subspace and stab it through his left eye socket and into his brain. He's… Shaking as the signals from his brain to his body are getting disrupted, but he doesn't appear to actually be dying.
Eve comes up beside me, reclaims her sword and plunges it through his neck.
Blood spurts from his severed carotid arteries, his shakes growing steadily less vigorous before he finally goes still.
Breathing heavily, Eve withdraws her sword and disintegrates the blood covering her in a wave of pink light. Scan…
There!
I transition outside and then upwards as the red fireman groggily rises to his feet while one of Angstrom's drones watches from above. I send a construct cable down, punching through the outer casing and looking for…
Connection established.
Good. Take control, and edit myself from the footage. Not… Seeing any internal component checking, so… Build a Viltrumite Empire standard uplink to maintain control without a connection and transition back down.
"Ah." The fireman is clearly unsteady on his feet, possibly from loss of blood and possibly from head trauma. "Heey. Are you new? There's a… Guy."
"The version of Invincible who attacked you is dead." I scan him. Hm. Nothing… Immediately fatal, though it.. looks like he received a traumatic brain injury relatively recently. Probably from a bullet? Given the lack of residual fragments I'd guess that it was an armour piercing round that over penetrated, but it's still impressive that he's in anything like fighting shape. "Would you-?"
He looks around in a daze, finally spotting the unconscious girl.
"Monster Girl?!" He darts over to her and starts performing a basic health assessment.
"I can heal both of you, if you like."
"Uh. Huh?" He stares at me. "That was an option?"
…
I'm choosing to believe that was a 'yes please'.
I connect a broad orange beam to him and get to work. Cuts and bruises, gone. Brain damage… Well, I can't tell exactly what was there before, but I can reconnect some of the blood vessels and I can work out some of what's missing based on my scans of other human brains. I also know what infant brains look like, so if I just make it highly plastic then he should be alright. His cybernetic forearm…
Huh.
That's a monitoring device and a remote self-destruct.
I shut them both down and remove the prosthetic.
"Hey-! I need that!"
And I replace his forearm with a mirror of his remaining hand.
"Or… Not. Was Cecil keeping you in a basement or something?"
And… 'Monster Girl'… Brain swelling down, small cuts and bruises… Nothing serious. Anything else can wait for an actual physician.
"No, I came in as part of the invasion force."
"Ah…"
"But my Invincible isn't actually interested in destroying your civilisation." I think, and the spy drone floats down. "Are any of you any good with technology?"
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Mr Zoat
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I'm not exactly sure that I'd equate 'brain damage' with 'character development'.
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Rex can still get character development, something interesting to note orange lantern might give himself rex's enhancements and considering the difficulty x ionized blades have with viltramites while still being successful i can foresee him charging an x-ionized needle before firing it into a viltramite leading to an internal explosion.
Great chapter, it was good to see eves improvement and his conversation with Rudy cracked me up.
Great chapter, it was good to see eves improvement and his conversation with Rudy cracked me up.
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That is a downright bizarre choice for a HQ. Any trouble and that entire bridge gets damaged or destroyed by falling debris. Never mind the tourists who probably lurk around the shore or predestrian walkways hoping to catch a photo of a superhero coming or going. Because you know there would be.
No need to be subtle right now. If Angstrom is watching, his attention would be on the Invincible, not the outside.
'Robot', of course. Fighting with multiple bodies, no matter how awkward it might be to direct them.
And Monster Girl and i presume Rex Splode.
...What is it with these people and using normal names in their superhero names? I mean, I get it on a Doylist sense, all the good superhero names are taken already...I hope the interior had inertial dampening of some kind, or Robot's clone body is gonna be hurting.
Nice style. Being on fire makes it harder for him to think to grab you, since even Viltrumites probably have some of those instincts about fire hurting. And if not, his human half would.
Wasting no time disrupting him, I see. So much for keeping a low profile, though.
At least his goggles do something.
Guess what, buddy? You're not the big dog here anymore. Though I suspect he's not gonna be thinking very straight, between the pain, the increasing blood loss and...
...Some ringing ears. oh, and a new hole in his face thanks to that.
Yeah, given there's a densely populated city right outside, I think weapons of mass destruction are right out.
Good, she's learning not to just go straight in. At least, not without proper protection.
There's that weird interaction again. It must be because of this 'smart molecule' stuff Lantern theorised about.
You'd be amazed how much damage certain parts of the brain can suffer and still function with... Humans are bizarrely tough in some ways, yet fragile in others.
Okay, now he's dead. And even if he somehow gets up, he's been thoroughly disarmed.
Ah, yes, the spy-eye. Might not want it uploading footage of you.
Probably shitty intrusion counter-measures because they didn't expect to need them.
Some of his friends would probably joke there's not much difference between regular Rex and concussed Rex.
If I understand the timeline right, said brain injury is from fighting a Lizard-themed army? And he defeated their leader while missing a hand and suffering said bullet-wound. Guy's tough.
This was before she got her special belt, right? Wonder if the Ring could do something similar, re-aging her to something closer to her true age...
...What, you expected him to try to kill you? Oh, right...
Let's go with that.
Interesting. Wonder if that'll cause another personality shift?
...Because of course Cecil wanted a lethal backup option.
Yeah, I don't think he'll mind that one.
Ah, his Ring didn't pick up the magic-based reverse-aging, then.
'Power Armour Kid' is the guy you want, Lantern.
Bet that's a surprise for them all, one of their 'enemies' turning traitor and helping out. Given the disrupted communications thanks to the fighting, I wonder if Alt!Invincible will end up getting attacked by local defenders if he gets separated from the local one. At any rate, things are progressing nicely, and hopefully Angstrom didn't see any of the fight.
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I hope Matthew reveals this to Rex at least.
Also, is Bulletproof not here?
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It doesn't even look cool! Absolutely no thought was put into that HQ.
I wonder if this Paul is going to store some extra superhuman tissues for his recharge requirements in this setting. Out enough in those storage tubes and it'll blow up in his face, I imagine. Amalgamated undead or something.
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He's in a crater a couple of rooms over.
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'any of the'
'raised'?
'beside'?
So did they change their minds on the 'not killing them' thing because they realised what the GDA was going to do to them, or do these two just not give a shit now that local Invincible isn't here to say anything?
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Is bulletproof hiding under a robot or something? I know his super hero stick is that he is not really trying very hard to be one and is only doing the job because that is the best and easiest way to pretend he is his twin brother (he is not smart enough to be a scientist, so he can only act as a super hero)... Still bulletproof was the strongest person in the bridge base aside monster girl so if he wasn't there then the Mark that went there would have killed them pretty fast.
Edit: Oh he was under the rubble odd for Paul scan to not mention it.
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Thank you, corrected.
Normally, viltrumites are such tanks that they'll survive a massive beating even if they end up looking like a mangled corpse at the end of it. X-ionised swords being able to put them down quicklly is a new thing. Eve probably wouldn't have stabbed him if he was unconscious or if he surrendered, but trying to kill her friends? That's a stabbering.