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

Common Sense is a special type of deadly, God damn. You really nail how fast everything is happening from his perspective, and the countdown helps to serve as a more external means of telling us how quickly this brief chapter of combat went.
 
Common Sense (part 9)

1st October 2010
17:31 GMT -6


I place Alan's personal lantern in the cuirass of my power armour and close the hatch.

"Seal, and direct linkup."

"Full power available."
Heh, clever. I'm guessing this is more of a mini-mecha like Paragon's Heavy Powered Armour than something like the sort of thing Alan wore in Kingdom Come. But at least he's loaded for bear. Or rather, magically empowered criminals.

Because that provides a small power boost as well as ensuring that I won't need to recharge. I've never needed to recharge mid-fight before, but Hal told me that there are ways to remotely drain a power ring and Dr. Shugel is in the intellectual class of person who might have found a way to do that. The power boost -naturally- comes at the cost of greater psychological decay
Shugel, Shugel... Ah, right, Ultra-Humanite. Wearing his stolen white Gorilla body.

"Accelerate. Plot route and evasive patterns."

"Route plotted."

"Transition."
He's gonna need that evasion, given Black Adam's speed.

I appear just above the marshy ground, Kaldur appearing on a small root-anchored island to my left. I nod politely, then transition upwards into plain view of the vine nexus. In fact, let's make it more obvious.

Orange sigil backlight.
Ah, drawing the aggro needed to ensure the big boom attack hits clean.

Compliance.

Good. Railgun, white phosphorus load.
And no effing around from the start. That's nasty stuff.

Compliance.

The large magnetically charge tube appears above and behind me, pointing at the vine nexus through the trees. I can't see it with my naked eyes from here, but that's hardly an issue.
Common Sense to exploit the best combat aspect of a Lantern Ring: Multi-vector attacks.

Surprised he's limited himself to one, or is that just to make a bigger target of himself? Since the missiles are going to be on their way shortly.

The round punches through the first few layers of wood, but it's not fused. It's designed to release its fiery load when it hits the target, so while the tip keeps going more or less on track to strike the target the damage the rest of the round takes from the impact sprays burning white phosphorus across the swampland.
Might tick off the Green a little, but given they're already grumpy about the vines...

Trees carbonise, animals screech and flee and I fire again and-

Whoom.

-this time the same obstacles aren't there. This time, the white phosphorus load spreads over the outer surface of the vine nexus and-
Probably got all of the Injustice League looking in that direction, though.

Skip.

-Black Adam flies through the space I was occupying and splashes down, spraying water and mud for miles.
Yep, there's Theo.

Time to impact?

Forty four seconds.
Now to play bait and hold out...

Black Adam's looking for me, and his senses are acute enough that the airborne debris aren't going to obscure my position. And because his resistance is magical, a super flashbang isn't going to stun or distract him. Fortunately, analysis of Black Adam's preferred fighting style shows that he will rush his target in just about every situation.
Hardly drawing on all that divinely-granted wisdom, is he? Just a blunt instrument in the hands of a fool.

X-ionised sword.

So all I really need to-
Ooh, that's gonna sting.

Gotta love speedy guys who aren't actually all that fast in the brains department.

-is drop it in the air when I go and he'll impale himself on it without further prompting. I transition towards him as he slams into the ground in a semi-controlled tumble, using a claw construct to grab the grip and pulling it sideways. I disinterestedly notice that it hasn't gone all the way through and that his flesh is actually resisting a little, but it's not enough and the sword comes free.
Interesting. Because of the divine energies in his flesh? Just like a New God...

Time to impact?

Forty seconds.
Goddamn short combat rounds... At this rate, you'll have Black Adam down before the missiles even arrive.

I back up, rotating the sword as he covers his wound with his left hand and swings at me with his right fist but I'm already out of reach and the action means that his throat is unguarded.

His eyes widen, for an instant as his blood sprays and his windpipe quivers before I swing the sword around again.
Sadly, not a fatal blow due to his inhuman durability and healing factor.

Lightning explodes from his corpse as his head flies, battering my armou-.

Argh!
Huh, I wonder how much of the body interacts during the transformation? Will wounds carry over?

Armour, regenerate.

Ugh.

I know that Captain Marvel uses his lightning as a weapon, but I didn't know-. Huh. He did change back, and… That necklace doesn't match the rest of his clothing. Take it and then disintegrate.
Joy of his regular body being noticeably shorter than his transformed state. On the other hand, you just eliminated him outright and freed Teth-Adom's spirit, apparently without knowing it.

Alright, back in the air. None of the others are anything like as fast as he was, so they're probably irrelevant.

Time to impact?

Thirty seconds.
Wotan is probably trying to weave a defensive barrier against you. Let's hope he makes the mistake of making it limited in direction.

I suppose that's the result of electrocution. I-.

The vertigo effect hits me, but my environmental shield effortlessly prevents it affecting me. Scan and energy p-.
Ah, Count Vertigo. Ordinary guy with one clever trick. Too bad it doesn't work on Lanterns.

Vines leap from the ground, Smilex vapour wafting and transition-! Doesn't work, probably magic. Fly instead, straight up, slash at the vines-.

They're entangling me even as I cut and blast. The cutting works fine but I still need to keep a construct grip on-.
And the Gang are probably warming up their villainous monologues and taunts. "One guy? You thought you could take us with one guy?"

Connection lost.

On the sword. Blasting is making some progress, but the vines are regrowing into a dome around me even as they try to envelop me completely. Blast, blast, blast, time?
Upside is that the vines will maybe act as a nice blast shield when the missiles hit.

Ten seconds..

Construct buzz saw and slash! If they're using magic here then I've got Wotan's attention and he's not looking at the sky. The vines glimmer for a moment, and-. And now my energy blasts are doing nothing. Fine. Construct armour, deploy white phosphorus.
A critical mistake on Wotan's part. Fortunate.

The vines jerk back as the chemical fire ignites, the Smilex somehow enhancing the fires even further. Wood doesn't so much blacken as vaporise, but the vines further away are mutating thicker and.. strangely damp-looking bark which seems to be holding better. My construct buzz saw cuts upwards, breaking through into the air as more vines try to envelop me, pumping out new poisons and acids as the Smilex got nowhere.
Adapting quickly, I see. Too bad it's too little too late.

I think I have their full attention, but even watching for it I don't spot the exact moment that the missiles hit.

KRACKBOOM!
...I hope his armour is up to the task of tanking that.

Welp, so ends the 'Injustice League'. Any of them without a backup plan against close to a thousand kilograms of high explosive aren't going to be making any more appearances in this timeline, that's for sure. So good riddance to the bad rubbish and a lamented farewell to any that might have been redeemable. 😏 ...Which was maybe Ivy if she got de-crazied.
 
Huh, i wonder if Theo didn't want to use the Wisdom power because he figured the Gods might have realised he was a fraud?

Also, dunno if it's necessary, but for chapters like this would it be worth adding seconds to the initial timestamp?
 
Surprised he's limited himself to one, or is that just to make a bigger target of himself? Since the missiles are going to be on their way shortly.
It's more that he's not that good yet.
...I hope his armour is up to the task of tanking that.
He's outside of the blast radius. Plus, he's surrounded by vines.
'magnetically charged'?
Thank you, corrected.
 
Now I kinda want to re-read just the Common Sense posts.

Anyone have a way to do that?

I couldn't find it on the first page of the threadl link list of story arcs.
 

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