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

[Bolo]

I don't get why Lex keeps getting a pass for All the stuff he does. While yes it all "small stuff" he just keeps doing It. At a certain point it's like "Again" he held back something or did something….

 

[Mr Zoat]

I don't get why Lex keeps getting a pass for All the stuff he does. While yes it all "small stuff" he just keeps doing It. At a certain point it's like "Again" he held back something or did something….

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Funnily enough, there was a story I read back on Spacebattles where after Klarion's the mass child-killing world split, Lex got black bagged and telepathically violated until the US government had everything he knew and he was a vegetable. All members of the Light save Savage and Klarion died within a week from attacks by US air force and special forces units, along with a lot of other people tangentially involved.

But when it's a small thing, and Lex has several cutouts between himself and actually criminality, nothing would happen to him and the company just gets a fine... If you make $100 million and get a $20 million fine, you're ahead $80 million.

 

[Darko]

Funnily enough, there was a story I read back on Spacebattles where after Klarion's the mass child-killing world split, Lex got black bagged and telepathically violated until the US government had everything he knew and he was a vegetable. All members of the Light save Savage and Klarion died within a week from attacks by US air force and special forces units, along with a lot of other people tangentially involved

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Do you remember the name?

The only story I remember that had a similar thing happen was Judiciary Misadventures.

Though I don't think it was mentioned that Lex was telepathically stripped of everything, just that his company is basically being torn to shreds by other companies.

 

[Mr Zoat]

Do you remember the name?

The only story I remember that had a similar thing happen was Judiciary Misadventures.

Though I don't think it was mentioned that Lex was telepathically stripped of everything, just that his company is basically being torn to shreds by other companies.

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I think that was the one. It wasn't mentioned in the story posts, just an off-hand comment from the author about how after something like that the US government would be done with his shit.

 

[CrazyNoVa]

If they think Superman is OP now, wait 'till he gets exposed to a blue sun.

Would the Eradicator have the idea to try making a machine that could dose Superman with blue sun radiation to make him powerful enough to curbstomp every hero on the planet?

 

[Mr Zoat]

26th July 2013
23:41 GMT -5

"Orange Lantern to whoever just fixed Superman. Good work. What did you do? I need to know urgently."

Mr. Beatty points his primary weapon at Superman. My bubble shield is in the way, but I'm not exactly at 100% right now and we've still got the Eradicator robots to fight.

"He down?"

"Depowered. I dosed him with g-. Kryptonite."

"I guess you're not going to let us take the shot."

"I'd really rather that you didn't. With Superman depowered and hors de combat, there's no longer a legal justification for you to fight him, and the Eradicator androids are still attempting to recover the ship."

Warning! Incoming-

I don't wait for it to complete the warning. I just stick up the giant 'KARA STOP' construct and put a shield bubble around the power armour suits.

-Superwoman.

And apparently those power armour suits have either a direct satellite linkup or decent sensors, because they're looking east too. "What-?"

But to be completely fair to Kara, she does stop.

She's scowling down at us. It wouldn't be a particularly effective scowl, if not for the fact that I don't know how strong she is because I couldn't test that high. "What's going on?! Why are you fighting Superman?!"

"He got mind controlled by an evil A.I. and we only just knocked some sense into him!"

She brightens up immediately. "Oh! Okay! Should I take him to a doctor!?"

"No, I already patched him-" Mister Beatty and Colleagues are pointing their weapons at her back. I frantically make a 'lower them' motion with my right hand. "-up, and a platoon of Eradicator androids are trying to recover a kryptonian spaceship from over-."

"Neat! I'll go help them!"

"K-!"

She's gone.

"Arsenal to Orange Lantern!"

Looks like Mr. Beatty is waiting for new orders. And Kara's going to Kara… "Go ahead."

"We took out the master A.I.!"

"Oh, well done! I was getting my arse kicked!"

"Problem is, the rest of them really don't like that. We-"

I attach a tether to Superman and transition us both to Bir Tawil, drop him off next to the confused-looking Bleez-

"Look after him!"

"Sure, okay?"

-and look for Roy-. There he is.

And then I head towards Daxam, which

doesn't have a planetwide jammer, just something blocking… A substantial portion of the minds of the inhabitants. Roy's flying towards the ship, guns blazing away at the Eradicators who are flying towards… I suppose this is one of the Daxamite tech-bunkers. J'aarkn-

"Cakaw!"

-flies past me at speed in bird form.

"-could use some-"

I form railguns and load crumbler rounds.

"-help!"

Firing.

I hit the closest in the chest, disintegrating a large chunk of it and causing it to crash into the mountainside below us. Unfortunately it looks like they're networked because the rest viff immediately and my second shot just scores a glancing hit on my target's shoulder. It looses the arm, but-

Shield!

-still manages to get off a shot, heat beams blasting from its eyes!

Roy hovers in the air, using the extra space I bought him to bring his micro missile launcher to bear. "Superman okay?!"

The launcher wiggles a little as it acquires targets and then launches, six crumbler-tipped missiles shooting away-.

Eradicators stop in the air and track them-. Which makes them completely open to my railguns.

"A bit roughed up, but he'll be fine."

Roy raises his right thumb. "Doc, get the boom tube open! We can fly through with you!"

Another wave coming in… Construct shield, multiple layers and make it-

BOOM!

-solid.

The ship lifts up-. And that's a lot of heat beams. My construct shields are melting but the ship's in motion towards its own boom tube and Roy and I are falling back towards it…

One of the Eradicators goes in for a punch, the shield plate directly in its path shattering! I immediately fire crumbler rounds but it's prepared and heat visions them before crumbing through the gap! It-.

Roy shoots it with his positron ray, blinding it and shutting its heat vision down permanently. My follow-up railgun shot hits it in the neck, blasting its head clean off. Grab what's left of the head because the sensor logs should be stored there…

And then we're through, the boom tube shutting down behind us.

"Arsenal, are you sure they don't have another way to open boom tubes?"

"Ah, not a hundred percent, but there weren't any records and none of the people J'onn mind-read knew about one."

"Great. Good work. You may have saved Superman's life and you certainly saved mine."

"Oh. Ah. No problem."

"Illustres to Lantern Taranna. Situation with the Eradicators?"

"Ak-Var flew up and shut them down. Apparently they can't refuse orders from an adult kryptonian."

…

"I did not know that."

"He's… It was pretty… Um. Impressive, actually. Don't tell Mum."

I shrug apologetically at Roy, who slumps theatrically in space.

"Okay, I'll be in shortly to help with the cleanup. Illustres out."