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

You think that destroying an alien power source in the middle of an inhabited city would be wise? Even if its output was low enough for that to be safe, there's no way for Amon to know that.

Are you suggesting that he keep hold of Ursa while fighting Lyla, who is as strong and fast as Superman?
1 he can pull a Superman with dynamite. 2 you are assuming it would explosively release said energy. Or using super speed he could pull it off her waste and itch it into orbit quite easily. 2 he goes for the depowered pregnant woman instead of the active threat subduing his ally. That's straight up retarded. He then acts like talking is a free action instead of using super speed and strength to remove ursa once he decides to go for her. He's acting like he got intellect drained
 
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Motivations (part 24) New
12th August 2013
22:36 GMT

I stare at Lar-On.

"Well… Where is she, then?"

"The.. pink Lantern picked her up. Aren't they with you?"

I frown, looking away from him as I try to work out what's going on. Looks like the ex-prisoners are wise enough to keep erecting their prefabricated shelters without Karsta Wor-Ul watching over them, if only because it looks like there's going to be rain in a few hours. "No." I raise my left hand. "Orange Lantern to Dame Carol?"



Oh dear.

"Jordan? Arisia?" Level of worry rising. "Mother of Mercy?"



"Illustres to Lantern Son of Great Mother."

My favourite macrosperm appears above my ring. "Illustres. Do you have new orders for me? Because I am excited to fulfil them."

"No, sorry. Something's jamming communications to Sector Two Eight One Three. Carry on."

"I will enjoy that order too."

And he's gone. I should check what's going on, but jumping in blind would be a bad-.

"Why were you looking for Karsta Wor-Ul?"

"Short version? The Phantom Zone was actually an intelligent creature and I got to choose between everyone getting kicked out now and Aethyr eating them."

"Did..? Anyone get eaten?"

"Yes, but just Jax-Ur. Unfortunately, that means that everyone else who was imprisoned is now standing in a tent outside of Kal-El's Fortress. Except Faora Hu-Ul, who I moved to another prison. Some of my colleagues are standing guard, but I wanted to bring them here as quickly as possible."

"They're on Earth? Under a yellow-?"

I shake my head. "Radiation shields all around. But that's not a long-term solution. I was just going to bring most of them here, but now I need to check Two Eight One Three."

But… Do I? No, no, there are multiple powerful superheroes there, in addition to the Xudarian navy. Keeping hundreds of kryptonian parolees from rioting is more urgent.

I transition to a reasonably clear area of land on the other side of the island, and fabricate a sign saying 'Habitation this way' in kryptonese. Then I begin the more complex task of creating a zeta tube terminus.

Now, this may be purely a receiver station, but that still involves emitting zeta radiation to… Not wanting to get into the physics which I honestly didn't understand, to sort of form a hook which the main radiation discharge can grab onto in order to send things to a specific location rather than 'somewhere in that general direction'. Of course it's… Possible to do it the other way ala J'onn J'onzz and Adam Strange, but that's ridiculously inaccurate…

So I need either a huge power source or a decent power source and a decent capacitor. Taking a minute or two to charge isn't going to be a problem here, so I'll go with that option. Zeta sources have half-lives measured in fractions of a second; you don't find them naturally. Build the capacitor around a fusion reactor -not one that generates power, it's just for fusing nuclei- and then create the actual tube part which stabilises the rematerialisation process…

Done. Set it up to fire off the hooking pulse and

step out, the desires of the kryptonians standing

out clearly.

They're not rioting yet, at least.

"Orange Lantern." Kaldur's eyes move to me for a moment before returning to his charges. "Is the Sub-Commander ready?"

"She's not there. Star Sapphire grabbed her for something. I've set up a zeta terminus, so I can overcharge the one in the Fortress to make the connection."

"If she is not there to take possession of the former prisoners, is it wise to send them?"

"As opposed to leaving them here?" I shrug. "It's not good, but it beats the alternative."

"Are they ready for new residents?"

"They're not ready for their current residents." I fan out my hands in a gesture of appeal. "Look, once I've dealt with this I can go and get Karsta Wor-Ul and… Actually help her get things settled. But clearing the Fortress comes first."

He returns his full attention to me, looking concerned. "You cannot contact them?"

"Indeed. Not a lot of people can block power ring transmissions. So…"

"I will organise the crowd. We will need Nam-Ek to go through with the first wave."

I nod. "I'll leave you to it."

I head into the Fortress proper, transitioning as far as I can and then waiting for the door-. Jor-El pre-empts me and opens all the doors along my route.

"Thank you!" I land in front of the Fortress's zeta tube and open up the generator. "Have the genomorphs recovered anything else?"

"A dozen memories of 'Lyla' being present at a number of my meetings with the Science Council. I am torn between the hope that their regrettable decisions were not entirely of their own making, and the fear that they were not."

"How could an alien survive on Krypton like that?"

"Once she was on the planet, I imagine that it was fairly simple. If she drew no attention to herself, people would simply assume that she was kryptonian. Who, after all, would look for an alien on a world as isolated as ours?"

"Confirmation bias is a bitch."

Okay, extra power, properly fused, extra reaction mass…

"This look alright to you?"

"According to my sensors, it should hold for long enough to transport the former prisoners."

"Is now a good time to ask why you didn't send people to the Phantom Zone as an escape method?"

"Had it been discovered, they would have been extracted and I would have lost what little access I had left. By the time that I launched Kal-El and signalled my brother that he should launch Kara Zor-El, I would not have had time to send anyone into the Phantom Zone. And since I had been stripped of access to the detainment centre where the projector was stored, I would have had to fight my way in. It is possible that I did that; Jor-El updated me for the final time before launching Kal-El's pod. I have no memories of what Krypton's final moments looked like from the ground."

"And building more ships in secret?"

"It was a balancing act between doing enough to improve the outcome and avoiding being placed in detainment. Nothing I could do could match what the whole of Krypton could do working together. Until… The end, I hoped that the Science Council would change its mind."

"Alright, I'm done here." I close the panels. "Please ask Kaldur to start sending them down. I need to see what's happened in Two Eight One Three."
 
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22:36 GMT


I stare at Lar-On.

"Well… Where is she, then?"
Ah, OL. Watching an operation from afar is always so troubling compared to being there on the ground, isn't it? Especially when you know you can't race to their aid the instant you become aware of their need for aid...

"The.. pink Lantern picked her up. Aren't they with you?"

I frown, looking away from him as I try to work out what's going on. Looks like the ex-prisoners are wise enough to keep erecting their prefabricated shelters without Karsta Wor-Ul watching over them, if only because it looks like there's going to be rain in a few hours. "No." I raise my left hand. "Orange Lantern to Dame Carol?"
Visiting Karkarath to make sure they're ready to receive the full deployment of the prisoners, eh? At least they'll have plenty of help soon before things get wet.

Oh, hell. The Dominators have tech capable of jamming Ring transmissions in the Xudar system? That's not going to ease OL's paranoia any.

"Jordan? Arisia?" Level of worry rising. "Mother of Mercy?"

Not just the Xudar system, if Mother of Mercy isn't answering. The Dominators have to know blocking the data feeds of Green lantern Rings will draw attention from OA...

"Illustres to Lantern Son of Great Mother."

My favourite macrosperm appears above my ring. "Illustres. Do you have new orders for me? Because I am excited to fulfil them."
So it's only Xudar and Timaron being scrambled? Or their entire region of space, perhaps.

"No, sorry. Something's jamming communications to Sector Two Eight One Three. Carry on."

"I will enjoy that order too."
No concern for the others from him, of course. The Illustres is managing the matter, so it's none of his concern.

And he's gone. I should check what's going on, but jumping in blind would be a bad-.

"Why were you looking for Karsta Wor-Ul?"
Oh, right, he was talking to someone. Focus, OL.

"Short version? The Phantom Zone was actually an intelligent creature and I got to choose between everyone getting kicked out now and Aethyr eating them."

"Did..? Anyone get eaten?"
Yes, but they were all bad. No-one that will really be missed.

"Yes, but just Jax-Ur. Unfortunately, that means that everyone else who was imprisoned is now standing in a tent outside of Kal-El's Fortress. Except Foara Hu-Ul, who I moved to another prison. Some of my colleagues are standing guard, but I wanted to bring them here as quickly as possible."
Hopefully the Amazons can handle Faora, or Themyscira might be in for some cultural trouble.

"They're on Earth? Under a yellow-?"

I shake my head. "Radiation shields all around. But that's not a long-term solution. I was just going to bring most of them here, but now I need to check Two Eight One Three."
Eh, bringing them here will be necessary anyway. Better to get that out of the way before you go haring off.

But… Do I? No, no, there are multiple powerful superheroes there, in addition to the Xudarian navy. Keeping hundreds of kryptonian parolees from rioting is more urgent.

I transition to a reasonably clear area of land on the other side of the island, and fabricate a sign saying 'Habitation this way' in kryptonese. Then I begin the more complex task of creating a zeta tube terminus.
The question is whether people will follow that signage and if anyone will start trouble once they arrive at the colony site.

Now, this may be purely a receiver station, but that still involves emitting zeta radiation to… Not wanting to get into the physics which I honestly didn't understand, to sort of form a hook which the main radiation discharge can grab onto in order to send things to a specific location rather than 'somewhere in that general direction'. Of course it's… Possible to do it the other way ala J'onn J'onzz and Adam Strange, but that's ridiculously inaccurate…
Better to do the one-way tunnel approach. Last thing you need is to pull some unfortunate person here and possibly give them superpowers from the exposure.

So I need either a huge power source or a decent power source and a decent capacitor. Taking a minute or two to charge isn't going to be a problem here, so I'll go with that option. Zeta sources have half-lifes measured in factions of a second; you don't find them naturally. Build the capacitor around a fusion reactor -not one that generates power, it's just for fusing nuclei- and then create the actual tube part which stabilises the rematerialisation process…
Making it a receiver terminal instead of a transmitter is also a good move. Even if the kryptonians do manage to work out how it works, they won't be able to leave without an external site opening the link.

Done. Set it up to fire off the hooking pulse and

step out, the desires of the kryptonians standing

out clearly.
I imagine more than a few are considering how they can get free of this confinement. Whether out of paranoia or simple thuggery.

They're not rioting yet, at least.

"Orange Lantern." Kaldur's eyes move to me for a moment before returning to his charges. "Is the Sub-Commander ready?"
Ah, right, Kaldur will need to be brought up to speed on the current issues.

"She's not there. Star Sapphire grabbed her for something. I've set up a zeta terminus, so I can overcharge the one in the Fortress to make the connection."

"If she is not there to take possession of the former prisoners, is it wise to send them?"
What are they going to do? Try to leave? They can't fly far enough to get offworld. At most, some might go and get themselves real lost. Nam-Ek will almost certainly sequester himself apart from the others...

"As opposed to leaving them here?" I shrug. "It's not good, but it beats the alternative."

"Are they ready for new residents?"
They'll have to be. Worst case, the smart ones can knock the rest into line.

"They're not ready for their current residents." I fan out my hands in a gesture of appeal. "Look, once I've dealt with this I can go and get Karsta Wor-Ul and… Actually help her get things settled. But clearing the Fortress comes first."

He returns his full attention to me, looking concerned. "You cannot contact them?"
Ah, yes. He's realised the big problem OL didn't mention outright. 'Grabbed karsta for something' is definitely not the expected status.

"Indeed. Not a lot of people can block power ring transmissions. So…"

"I will organise the crowd. We will need Nam-Ek to go through with the first wave."
I bet he's already getting dirty looks from those stuck in proximity to him.

I nod. "I'll leave you to it."

I head into the Fortress proper, transitioning as far as I can and then waiting for the door-. Jor-El pre-empts me and opens all the doors along my route.
Helpful. Every second saved in this situation is vital, after all.

"Thank you!" I land in front of the Fortress's zeta tube and open up the generator. "Have the genomorphs recovered anything else?"

"A dozen memories of 'Lyla' being present at a number of my meetings with the Science Council. I am torn between the hope that their regrettable decisions were not entirely of their own making, and the fear that they were not."
...Sadly, I doubt they would have needed much in the way of nudging for the latter to be true.

"How could an alien survive on Krypton like that?"

"Once she was on the planet, I imagine that it was fairly simple. If she drew no attention to herself, people would simply assume that she was kryptonian. Who, after all, would look for an alien on a world as isolated as ours?"

"Confirmation bias is a bitch."
Especially if she added a little psychic nudge to their perceptions to cover up any slight inconsistencies.

Okay, extra power, properly fused, extra reaction mass…

"This look alright to you?"
Ah, the joy of doing work you don't really know enough about to be sure of.

"According to my sensors, it should hold for long enough to transport the former prisoners."

"Is now a good time to ask why you didn't send people to the Phantom Zone as an escape method?"
Probably not, but it'll take time to spin up the zeta tube anyway.

"Had it been discovered, they would have been extracted and I would have lost what little access I had left. By the time that I launched Kal-El and signalled my brother that he should launch Kara Zor-El, I would not have had time to send anyone into the Phantom Zone. And since I had been stripped of access to the detainment centre where the projector was stored, I would have had to fight my way in. It is possible that I did that; Jor-El updated me for the final time before launching Kal-El's pod. I have no memories of what Krypton's final moments looked like from the ground."
I can't see it being anything other than cataclysmic. Like every disaster movie all at once. Cyclone-force winds, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. And unless you had a high enough elevation, not much of a view of any of it.

"And building more ships in secret?"

"It was a balancing act between doing enough to improve the outcome and avoiding being placed in detainment. Nothing I could do could match what the whole of Krypton could do working together. Until… The end, I hoped that the Science Council would change it's mind."
More chance of Krypton's core spontaneously stabilising itself than that happening.

"Alright, I'm done here." I close the panels. "Please ask Kaldur to start sending them down. I need to see what's happened in Two Eight One Three."
And hope the Team can keep things stable here until all the new colonists have left...

Well, looks like OL will be on the way to Xudar soon. Hopefully he can greediport there, but even if he doesn't, his need to get there fast will ensure any FTL flight will be brief. So Lyla will have a ticking clock she barely knows about hanging over her head. Whatever she's planning next, she's going to be racing a deadline. And who knows what Ursa will be doing...
 
"Yes, but just Jax-Ur. Unfortunately, that means that everyone else who was imprisoned is now standing in a tent outside of Kal-El's Fortress. Except Foara Hu-Ul, who I moved to another prison. Some of my colleagues are standing guard, but I wanted to bring them here as quickly as possible."
'Faora'
So I need either a huge power source or a decent power source and a decent capacitor. Taking a minute or two to charge isn't going to be a problem here, so I'll go with that option. Zeta sources have half-lifes measured in factions of a second; you don't find them naturally. Build the capacitor around a fusion reactor -not one that generates power, it's just for fusing nuclei- and then create the actual tube part which stabilises the rematerialisation process…
'half-lives'
'fractions'
"It was a balancing act between doing enough to improve the outcome and avoiding being placed in detainment. Nothing I could do could match what the whole of Krypton could do working together. Until… The end, I hoped that the Science Council would change it's mind."
'its'
 
Hey Mr. Zoat, I don't recall if this question was answered or not, but who was the first Green Lantern in this universe? And I don't mean the first human one, I mean the first creature to have ever been recruited by a power ring. I'm asking because I know that the identity of the first Green Lantern varies from continuity to continuity.
 
Hey Mr. Zoat, I don't recall if this question was answered or not, but who was the first Green Lantern in this universe? And I don't mean the first human one, I mean the first creature to have ever been recruited by a power ring. I'm asking because I know that the identity of the first Green Lantern varies from continuity to continuity.
I think Zoat once mentioned that scribe that got a ring.

He wasn't the first, but he was among the first four Lanterns.

I think that pink blob was the first one that became a Lantern.
 
Hey Mr. Zoat, I don't recall if this question was answered or not, but who was the first Green Lantern in this universe? And I don't mean the first human one, I mean the first creature to have ever been recruited by a power ring. I'm asking because I know that the identity of the first Green Lantern varies from continuity to continuity.
I went with the story from Green Lantern: Emerald Knights, but I'm not strongly committed to it and it probably won't come up again. In that version, four Green Lanterns got their rings at about the same time.
 
I went with the story from Green Lantern: Emerald Knights, but I'm not strongly committed to it and it probably won't come up again. In that version, four Green Lanterns got their rings at about the same time.
Ah yes, the first person to receive a power ring was not the first lantern. Very poetic that a scribe made the first construct. Emerald Knights was decent.
 
Motivations (part 25) New
12th August 2013
22:37 UTC


I'll say this for Orange Lantern; him arriving on Earth made me really get into the theory and philosophy of using my power ring.

Yeah, I know my brain doesn't react to stress the way most people's do, but that doesn't make it easier to focus on something boring for hours on end. Or staying fully aware when nothing much is happening but everything could start happening at a moment's notice.

But I'm maintaining focus, because the moment my teleport jammer construct goes down, the Dominion fleet does whatever the Hell it wants and then leaves us to clear up the mess. And there's no way that the Guardians will authorise the Corps attacking the Dominion directly, so anyone they take is gone. And as well as maintaining focus I'm also paying attention to my surroundings, which is why when there's 'boom-crunch' below me-

Ping!

-I'm aware and alert enough to dodge.

And that's why Ursa skims me instead of ramming right into me.

Heh. Missile Command time. I raise my right hand and fire construct missiles as Ursa turns over… A lot slower than Superman would.

But if she's up here-.

"Supes, you okay?"

She blasts my missiles with heat vision, so I convert the damaged constructs into explosions! The blasts buffet her a little, but she's kryptonian; I'm gunna have to bring my A-game to take her down.

And that's not easy while I'm still jamming the damn teleporters.

"Little help, anyone?"

Ursa's eyes glow, so I throw up a shield just in time to block her heat vision… Aiming at me, weird. Shoulda shot the jammer, it's not exactly small. She charges me eyes blazing, and I can't help but smile.

"Batter up!"

Her eyes widen as the slugger construct comes around, and she flinches just a little before it nails her right in the face! She goes flying up, up, up into the sky… That's gotta be a boundary, right? And then-.

Oops, nearly took my eyes off the ball. Make sure the jammer is still working, great, and then-.

Wait, what's that glowing thing she's-?

Ah, fuck, that's a suns-.

Her eyes glow again and I nearly dodge before I realise that I'm flying over a city and if she misses-. So I don't worry about that, I just make a shield between me and her and start flying upwards to try and change the angle to one where thousands of people don't die if she misses.

"Anyone at all."

And that's when the fuck.. me! Giant burning beam blasts out of her face like something Superboy could do! I focus on reinforcing the shield, widening it so there's no spill-over-.

There's a flicker of red, and Ursa knocks it off, blinking as… Match and Ghia'ta approach from below. Match's eyes are glowing, while Ghia'ta's… Checking me over. I hope that's medical, 'cause the last thing I need is two underage girls-.

Match turns his eyebeams off. "That the sunstone?"

"Looks like."

"So she's just gunna keep getting stronger."

"Might wanna get it off her, then. Ghia'ta, can you jam the dominators' teleport signals?"

"Um. Perhaps?"

"Just help Match, then. Match, make sure she doesn't shoot the city while you-."

Ursa blinks, then looks down-. Super hearing!

"Ghia'ta, shield the city!"

Match fires his heat vision at her again, but she ducks her head and she actually takes the shot! Ghia'ta shoots forwards, a giant mass of crystal forming-. She blocks it, but it's burning through-.

Match swings around and punches Ursa in the head, spinning her head around-. I shield most of it, and the rest-.

"Ghia'ta, buildings!"

She darts down, crystal covering sagging walls well enough to prevent anything collapsing. Match-. He carries on punching her, but if Superman is anything to go by she isn't really getting hurt by those punches.

What are the dominators doing? Looks like… Nothing. Take a few minutes for the light from us to get to their ships, so they won't react to that until they see it. Unless they teleported someone down somewhere remote and left them on monitor duty. Which would make.. sense.

Of all the times to miss Orange Lantern's casual 'scan the whole world for one atom' scanning bullshit.

Ursa manages to pull back from Match a little and fire down, but Ghia'ta's there with a crystal shield.

Ah, fuck it.

"Green Lantern to Orange Lantern."



Right, just because we can jam them, that doesn't mean that they can't jam us. Something else to warn Salaak about. Okay, I should be able to help-.

"Osiris to everyone! Lyla-"

My construct shatters as… Some purple-haired chick flies though it fists first. She… Sort of slows down as the remaining fragments fade, smiling at me in a way that's… Not a 'I just got one over on you' smile. It's weirdly… Friendly.

"-is here, and she has taken Superman's power!"

Great. Can't keep my jamming construct like that safe from a kryptonian and fight them myself. Just have to hope the Doomsday can handle that. I make a construct A-10 just behind me and reinforce my environmental shield.

"Any chance of you coming quietly?"

She… Actually looks like she's thinking about it.

"I have finally taken the full power which the dominators promised me. But now that I have it… Why should I keep following their orders?"

"Exactly. We just need you to answer a few questions about what you were doing on Krypton before it exploded-."

She frowns. "Why?"

"Zod blew up a planet, and that's kinda bad. You wouldn't happen to know anything about that, would you?"

"And if I do?"

"Then I'll take you down."

And she ain't smiling no m-. Duck!
 
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I'll say this for Orange Lantern; him arriving on Earth made me really get into the theory and philosophy of using my power ring.

Yeah, I know my brain doesn't react to stress the way most people's do, but that doesn't make it easier to focus on something boring for hours on end. Or staying fully aware when nothing much is happening but everything could start happening at a moment's notice.
This has to be Hal Jordan. And it's good to see he's actually been pushing himself more since OL came along. Though he's not wrong about the challenges of maintaining focus during boring stuff. The average human brain is not really wired for that.

But I'm maintaining focus, because the moment my teleport jammer construct goes down, the Dominion fleet does whatever the Hell it wants and then leaves us to clear up the mess. And there's no way that the Guardians will authorise the Corps attacking the Dominion directly, so anyone they take is gone. And as well as maintaining focus I'm also paying attention to my surroundings, which is why when there's 'boom-crunch' below me-
That'll be Ursa, then. Hopefully trying to leave without attracting more trouble on herself.

Ping!

-I'm aware and alert enough to dodge.

And that's why Ursa skims me instead of ramming right into me.
It still stopped you from being smashed out of the air or even being reduced to chunky salsa, depending on how hard and fast she hit...

Heh. Missile Command time. I raise my right hand and fire construct missiles as Ursa turns over… A lot slower than Superman would.

But if she's up here-.
Pity he didn't take one lesson of OL's to heart: Real material ammunition, not constructs, because dividing his focus like that is not helping.

"Supes, you okay?"

She blasts my missiles with heat vision, so I convert the damaged constructs into explosions! The blasts buffet her a little, but she's kryptonian; I'm gunna have to bring my A-game to take her down.
AS we've seen, Clark is having his own problems. Hal's gonna have to show why he made Honour Guard.

And that's not easy while I'm still jamming the damn teleporters.

"Little help, anyone?"
At least he got that lesson: Never be afraid to call for backup.

Ursa's eyes glow, so I throw up a shield just in time to block her heat vision… Aiming at me, weird. Shoulda shot the jammer, it's not exactly small. She charges me eyes blazing, and I can't help but smile.

"Batter up!"
She might not even know what it is, but the fact it's tethered to Hal must be important, right? 😏

Her eyes widen as the slugger construct comes around, and she flinches just a little before it nails her right in the face! She goes flying up, up, up into the sky… That's gotta be a boundary, right? And then-.

Oops, nearly took my eyes off the ball. Make sure the jammer is still working, great, and then-.
That only worked because you caught her off guard and she hasn't really powered up yet, Hal.

Wait, what's that glowing thing she's-?

Ah, fuck, that's a suns-.
Ah, that 'Oh shit, that's..!' energy. And know she's actually going to be a challenge.

Her eyes glow again and I nearly dodge before I realise that I'm flying over a city and if she misses-. So I don't worry about that, I just make a shield between me and her and start flying upwards to try and change the angle to one where thousands of people don't die if she misses.
And a blast like that isn't going to be affected by something like a mirror coating either. That's not going to be heat and light alone...

"Anyone at all."

And that's when the fuck.. me! Giant burning beam blasts out of her face like something Superboy could do! I focus on reinforcing the shield, widening it so there's no spill-over-.
...That's a stream of plasma. Goddamn, kryptonians are busted when they can bypass stuff like energy capacity limits.

There's a flicker of red, and Ursa knocks it off, blinking as… Match and Ghia'ta approach from below. Match's eyes are glowing, while Ghia'ta's… Checking me over. I hope that's medical, 'cause the last thing I need is two underage girls-.

Match turns his eyebeams off. "That the sunstone?"
At least Mitchell knows the benefit of a precise shot at the right place and time. And Hal, she's not underage. She's older than Wonder Woman's civilisation. She's just inexperienced. Good to see he's still wary of that, though.

"Looks like."

"So she's just gunna keep getting stronger."
Until she fills her organelles to capacity. At which point she'd give Superman at full strength a run for his money.

"Might wanna get it off her, then. Ghia'ta, can you jam the dominator's teleport signals?"

"Um. Perhaps?"
Violet Lantern Rings not really being suited to complex constructs, alas...

"Just help Match, then. Match, make sure she doesn't shoot the city while you-."

Ursa blinks, then looks down-. Super hearing!
Ah, the classic shonen issue: Making plans within earshot of your enemy. Those familiar with 'Naruto' will know that problem well.

"Ghia'ta, shield the city!"

Match fires his heat vision at her again, but she ducks her head and she actually takes the shot! Ghia'ta shoots forwards, a giant mass of crystal forming-. She blocks it, but it's burning through-.
Thin, nested layers, missy. Conserves charge and gives you fallbacks when...

Match swings around and punches Ursa in the head, spinning her head around-. I shield most of it, and the rest-.

"Ghia'ta, buildings!"
Dammit, the problem with a high-energy discharge weapon attached to your eyeballs. Sudden chances of facing mean sudden changes of angle of fire.

She darts down, crystal covering sagging walls well enough to prevent anything collapsing. Match-. He carries on punching her, but if Superman is anything to go by she isn't really getting hurt by those punches.

What are the dominators doing? Looks like… Nothing. Take a few minutes for the light from us to get to their ships, so they won't react to that until they see it. Unless they teleported someone down somewhere remote and left them on monitor duty. Which would make.. sense.
Anything to keep her occupied until he can get the sunstone out of her hands, Hal. As for the Dominators, they already have someone on the ground. It's just a matter of whether they're in contact...

Of all the times to miss Orange Lantern's casual 'scan the whole world for one atom' scanning bullshit.

Ursa manages to pull back from Superboy a little and fire down, but Ghia'ta's there with a crystal shield.
I'm sure he'd be happy to know you're missing him...

Ah, fuck it.

"Green Lantern to Orange Lantern."

And know we see the jammign from the inside. Annoying, isn't it?

Right, just because we can jam them, that doesn't mean that they can't jam us. Something else to warn Salaak about. Okay, I should be able to help-.

"Osiris to everyone! Lyla-"
As i Said before, that jamming capability is going to get attention from Oa once they find out. Perhaps they'll actually do something about them now.

My construct shatters as… Some purple-haired chick flies though it fists first. She… Sort of slows down as the remaining fragments fade, smiling at me in a way that's… Not a 'I just got one over on you' smile. It's weirdly… Friendly.

"-is here, and she has taken Superman's power!"
It's times like this I wonder why no Lantern experiencing that hasn't just smirked and reformed the construct instantly because it's all a matter of thought. But then I remember they do suffer feedback from damaged or destroyed constructs....

Great. Can't keep my jamming construct like that safe from a kryptonian and fight them myself. Just have to hope the Doomsday can handle that. I make a construct A-10 just behind me and reinforce my environmental shield.

"Any chance of you coming quietly?"
I hope it's at least firing real energy blasts, not construct bullets...

She… Actually looks like she's thinking about it.

"I have finally taken the full power which the dominators promised me. But now that I have it… Why should I keep following their orders?"
Ah, good. She's getting high on the newfound power. Sadly, I don't think she's going to be easy to talk down.

"Exactly. We just need you to answer a few questions about what you were doing on Krypton before it exploded-."

She frowns. "Why?"
And now she's annoyed at you, Hal. Off to a great start.

"Zod blew up a planet, and that's kinda bad. You wouldn't happen to know anything about that, would you?"

"And if I do?"
And Hal's gonna keep antagonising her, isn't he?

"Then I'll take you down."

And she ain't smiling no m-. Duck!
Hopefully she keeps to physical attacks. Last thing they need is two sources of heat vision running amok.

And while they play keep-away from the duo of kryptonian-powered ladies, the Dominators are rolling into the system, no doubt readying all their anti-kryptonian weaponry to capture the Doomsday and any live samples they can. Hopefully Amon can get Superman back on his feet and into the air, if only to help contain the situation there...
 
Checking me over. I hope that's medical, 'cause the last thing I need is two underage girls-.

Wait, so Hal isn't aware of Ghia'ta's actual age?

He really needs to read up on alien biology. At least for the races he interacts the most with. Because if anything, he might be the one who's too young for her.
 
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"Might wanna get it off her, then. Ghia'ta, can you jam the dominator's teleport signals?"
'dominators''
What are the dominators doing? Looks like… Nothing. Take a few minutes for the light from us to get to their ships, so they won't react to that until they see it. Unless they teleported someone down somewhere remote and left them on monitor duty. Which would make.. sense.
Oh, so he's jamming their FTL sensors too? Or the local planetary authorities are? I hadn't thought that was so easy given that IIRC the fighting with the Reach involves FTL sensors.
 
I wonder if Lyla absorbing Superman's power makes her weak to kryptonite?
Depends on if absorbing his power means she now has Kryptonian physiology and is now absorbing external radiation to empower herself, or if she just absorbed all the solar energy Superman has stored up and has a limited battery that she's burning through.

'dominators''

Oh, so he's jamming their FTL sensors too? Or the local planetary authorities are? I hadn't thought that was so easy given that IIRC the fighting with the Reach involves FTL sensors.
FTL sensors might be able to pick up a spaceship in space, but may struggle to detect individual humans in the atmosphere of a planet.
 
Wait, so Hal isn't aware of Ghia'ta's actual age?

He really needs to read up on alien biology. At least for the races he interacts the most with. Because if anything, he might be the one who's too young for her.
I'm not sure that her culture has that idea (or at least not as it applies to people able to understand the concept), given that she's encouraging Arisia's pursuit of Hal. She's over three thousand years old, though, so if Hal were told that, he might say that he's too young for her.
 
I'm not sure that her culture has that idea (or at least not as it applies to people able to understand the concept), given that she's encouraging Arisia's pursuit of Hal. She's over three thousand years old, though, so if Hal were told that, he might say that he's too young for her.

True, but consider this: The Ghia'ta from the animated series had a crush on Hal, and we have no idea what the Zamarons' stance on things like polyamory is like. So regardless, it's entirely possible that she might have a crush on him here too.
 
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Motivations (part 26) New
12th August 2013
22:38 GMT


Looks fine from the border. Though I suspect that something big enough to blot out an entire Space Sector would probably warrant immediate Green Lantern Corps action. Mundane sensors show nothing of note, though neither of the places I want to look at are close enough for the light to have reached where I am yet. But do I go to Timaron or Xudar first? If something's gone wrong then Xudar is more likely to need me… But I'd be going in blind if I emerged from the Honden, and Timaron is a lot closer for regular faster than light travel. And Mother of Mercy is there, and she's on her own and might be able to give me an update.

And the others should be able to handle most things.

I plot course and accelerate, space bending and stars blurring. I've gotten a little out of practice in using this sort of faster than light travel, but it should only take a few-.

Geh!

A few seconds unless someone puts an interdiction field up in a system that didn't have one half an hour ago. It didn't kill me, but that's mostly because my environmental shield is rather good at holding my body together. Peering in-system shows me… Mother of Mercy is… Moving around Timaron, and… There are ships on the far side of the planet. Looks like they're trying to keep it between her and them. Most of the ships look like they could have come from anywhere, but that one is definitely Dominion.

What are they doing here?

The space around Mother of Mercy seems clear at least, so I

step out, homing in on the giant beacon of orange

before emerging at the base of the solar collector I was sitting under earlier.

"Lantern Mother of Mercy. Update."

"It appears that there was a Dominion spatial gate under the crust of Timaron. They have exposed it and brought forth a fleet.

"
Shouldn't you have detected it?"

"While inactive, it simply read as an area of dense matter. It did not stand out."

"
Why aren't they leaving?"

"They dispatched a larger fleet towards Xudar. I assume that they are intending to recover them before returning home."

"
They've got an interdiction field around the system and they're jamming power ring communications. Any idea what's happening on Xudar?"

"No."

"
Current location of their gate?"

"It is attached to the hull of their large ship."

"
Lantern Tomar-Re?"

"He is escorting observers and other civilians to safety. The Dominion fleet sent pursuers, but only in sufficient quantity to force him to remain."


Tomar-Re might be a veteran, but he isn't exactly a high-flier. Maintaining a shield around civilian ships against the sort of firepower which Dominion client state ships can throw out and dragging those ships to the edge of the interdiction field may well be the limit of his abilities.

"Keep chasing their fleet. I'll aid Lantern Tomar-Re."

"As you command."


Tomar-Re is also

rather obvious, his desires to protect his charges

visible despite the green. I take a look at his shield and energy pulses… The ships don't look too damaged and he himself is fighting fit.

"Illustres to Lantern Tomar-Re. Do we need prisoners?"

"It would be preferable. They are likely conscripts. The Dominion-."

"
Understood."

I brute force transition towards the closest ship and use a crumbler ram to batter a hole in its shields before flying inside the envelope. Stabilise my velocity relative to the hull. Then send out a swarm of giant wrench constructs and twist the manoeuvring thrusters off the hull.

I see the sudden burst of fear from the ship's bridge. Is that for me, or just a response to their ship being damaged? Doesn't matter. Crumbler ram through the hull, find an internal communications line…

"Orange Lantern to ship. Power down main thrust, shields and weapons, or I'll deactivate your power plant by tearing it out of your ship. You have-."

Main thrust shuts down almost immediately.

"Thank you."

I turn to the next closest ship, which… Has dropped off the stern chase and is trying to target me with its flak. Brute force transition, smack with the construct crumbler and smack again to make a large hole in the hull.

"Feeling lucky? Shut down or else."

I don't see the pulse of fear, but all aggressive systems power down a moment later.

The next ship… Is already turning away from the civilian vessels, as is the rest of the flotilla.

"Thank you."

"
I suspect this is happening because of me, so don't worry about it."

"I agreed to it. I will escort these ships to safety and then return to take the crew that surrendered to you into custody."

"
Do you want me to attack their fleet here, or fly on to Xudar?"

"Xudar. There are no further innocents at risk here, whereas-."

"
Understood."

I take a moment to watch the ships flying back in-system. There's not really anything to stop them turning around the moment I leave, so I should probably hurry them on their way. I generate a simple but effective faster than light projectile cannon construct, charge, warp spacetime and fire.

It doesn't pierce their shields, but it does hit with enough force to make them flare and knocks the ship slightly sideways. Thrusters flare as they recover, but they and a couple of the other ships accelerate just a little harder afterwards.

Good.

Now, I still don't want to risk appearing in a place that may be under fire. Not without a spare body on-hand. I mean, I've left records on what to do lodged with the League but I'm a little worried that they'll just hold a funeral or something unhelpful like that.

Is anyone..?

Ah, good, Kon and Arisia are outside of the system. I

step out, homing in on their desires before

returning to normal space.

"Hi-"

Arisia spins around and hefts a hammer construct for a moment before recognising me.

"-guys. What have I missed?"
 
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Can Green Lanterns read people's minds in this story? I know that in Green Lantern: Mosaic, Hal and John have demonstrated the ability to both read and go into people's minds, and they even waged a mental battle with each other where Hal used psychic powers to go into John's mind to see his psyche and memories. Could be useful against Lyla.
 
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12th August 2013
22:38 GMT


Looks fine from the border. Though I suspect that something big enough to blot out an entire Space Sector would probably warrant immediate Green Lantern Corps action. Mundane sensors show nothing of note, though neither of the places I want to look at are close enough for the light to have reached where I am yet. But do I go to Timaron or Xudar first? If something's gone wrong then Xudar is more likely to need me… But I'd be going in blind if I emerged from the Honden, and Timaron is a lot closer for regular faster than light travel. And Mother of Mercy is there, and she's on her own and might be able to give me an update.
I wouldn't be surprised if Oa wasn't getting spoofed 'Situation all fine, how are you' responses from the Dominator jamming in-sector. And with three and a half thousand sectors to watch over, I doubt any automated monitoring will notice anything unusual.

And the others should be able to handle most things.

I plot course and accelerate, space bending and stars blurring. I've gotten a little out of practice in using this sort of faster than light travel, but it should only take a few-.
You hope the others will be able to handle things, anyway. With multiple Lanterns, kryptonians and Marvel Family members on-site, you'd expect so.

Geh!

A few seconds unless someone puts an interdiction field up in a system that didn't have one half an hour ago. It didn't kill me, but that's mostly because my environmental shield is rather good at holding my body together. Peering in-system shows me… Mother of Mercy is… Moving around Timaron, and… There are ships on the far side of the planet. Looks like they're trying to keep it between her and them. Most of the ships look like they could have come from anywhere, but that one is definitely Dominion.
I expect she could casually disable any ships she gets line-of-sight to, but she's not used to working beyond-the-horizon. Hence why they aren't crippled hulks already.

What are they doing here?

The space around Mother of Mercy seems clear at least, so I
And there's more than enough space on her surface for a space greediport. Even if they were bombarding her, she's still a planet. There's not enough ships anywhere to burn every part simultaneously.

step out, homing in on the giant beacon of orange

before emerging at the base of the solar collector I was sitting under earlier.
Since you know she can communicate there without expending Ring charge (And it would save the animators making a new background.) 😏

"Lantern Mother of Mercy. Update."

"It appears that there was a Dominion spatial gate under the crust of Timaron. They have exposed it and brought forth a fleet.
Huh. Under the crust? That must have been sitting there for a long time. Like, say, the aftermath of the Burning when the planetary plates would still have been settling.

"Shouldn't you have detected it?"

"While inactive, it simply read as an area of dense matter. It did not stand out."
Ah, there's their cold gate. And no doubt it made quite the mess when it reactivated, blowing any material above it skywards...

"Why aren't they leaving?"

"They dispatched a larger fleet towards Xudar. I assume that they are intending to recover them before returning home."
A quick smash-and-grab run, then. This fleet to hold their escape route. Too bad they look to have bit off more than they could chew.

"They've got an interdiction field around the system and they're jamming power ring communications. Any idea what's happening on Xudar?"

"No."
Damn. So OL's going to have to risk greediporting over there. Unless he wants to try to find an uninterdicted FTL method or waste time flying out of system.

"Current location of their gate?"

"It is attached to the hull of their large ship."
Presumably for safekeeping. With the ship hauling it willing to make a suicide play to protect the rest of the fleet's exit.

"Lantern Tomar-Re?"

"He is escorting observers and other civilians to safety. The Dominion fleet sent pursuers, but only in sufficient quantity to force him to remain."
Not about to risk word getting out, I see. Not until after the work is done.

Tomar-Re might be a veteran, but he isn't exactly a high-flier. Maintaining a shield around civilian ships against the sort of firepower which Dominion client state ships can throw out and dragging those ships to the edge of the interdiction field may well be the limit of his abilities.
To be fair, three-eight-one-three isn't exactly a hotbed of challenges for him to grind his skills on.

"Keep chasing their fleet. I'll aid Lantern Tomar-Re."

"As you command."
Round and round the burnt cinder they fly...

Tomar-Re is also

rather obvious, his desires to protect his charges

visible despite the green. I take a look at his shield and energy pulses… The ships don't look too damaged and he himself is fighting fit.
Playing conservatively, I see. He knows his limits and is staying within them.

"Illustres to Lantern Tomar-Re. Do we need prisoners?"

"It would be preferable. They are likely conscripts. The Dominion-."

"
Understood."
And he is a space-cop, so lethal force is his last preference, if at all. And being able to ask them 'what the fuck is going on' afterwards will help. Not that I expect them to know anything more than 'we was told to do this.'

I brute force transition towards the closest ship and use a crumbler ram to batter a hole in its shields before flying inside the envelope. Stabilise my velocity relative to the hull. Then send out a swarm of giant wrench constructs and twist the manoeuvring thrusters off the hull.
I bet that transition hurts under the interdiction. Which probably explains his aggressive disabling of their ship.

I see the sudden burst of fear from the ship's bridge. Is that for me, or just a response to their ship being damaged? Doesn't matter. Crumbler ram through the hull, find an internal communications line…

"Orange Lantern to ship. Power down main thrust, shields and weapons, or I'll deactivate your power plant by tearing it out of your ship. You have-."
Ah, OL. Always so good at making the enemy soil their spacesuits. I wonder if Sinestro would ever say 'You would make a fine Corpsman.'

Main thrust shuts down almost immediately.

"Thank you."
Well, that was satisfyingly reasonable.

I turn to the next closest ship, which… Has dropped off the stern chase and is trying to target me with its flack. Brute force transition, smack with the construct crumbler and smack again to make a large hole in the hull.

"Feeling lucky? Shut down or else."
I can see he's starting to get annoyed by their resistance.

I don't see the pulse of fear, but all aggressive systems power down a moment later.

The next ship… Is already turning away from the civilian vessels, as is the rest of the flotilla.
Wonder if they were ordered to break off if he showed up, or if this is a perfectly understandable 'oh shit' moment from them.

"Thank you."

"
I suspect this is happening because of me, so don't worry about it."
Maybe not you directly, but all this is happening because... I don't even remember why he started this whole questline, really. 🤔

"I agreed. I will escort these ships to safety and then return to take the crew that surrendered to you into custody."

"
Do you want me to attack their fleet here, or fly on to Xudar?"
Because the former probably won't take long. At best, chase them into range of Mother of Mercy's abilities and let her pull them down.

"Xudar. There are no further innocents at risk here, whereas-."

"
Understood."
And It's where he'd rather be anyway.

I take a moment to watch the ships flying back in-system. There's not really anything to stop them turning around the moment I leave, so I should probably hurry them on their way. I generate a simple but effective faster than light projectile cannon construct, charge, warp spacetime and fire.
Just a 'keep running, boys.' to keep them from getting any ideas about pressing their luck once he's gone.

It doesn't pierce their shields, but it does hit with enough force to make them flare and knocks the ship slightly sideways. Thrusters flare as they recover, but they and a couple of the other ships accelerate just a little harder afterwards.

Good.
😤 the satisfaction of a job well done. On to the next objective.

Now, I still don't want to risk appearing in a place that may be under fire. Not without a spare body on-hand. I mean, I've left records on what to do lodged with the League but I'm a little worried that they'll just hold a funeral or something unhelpful like that.

Is anyone..?
At this stage, he might well get killed and simply go 'I am not dying today, thank you' and instantly respawn in a fresh body, Rings and all.

Ah, good, Kon and Arisia are outside of the system. I

step out, homing in on their desires before

returning to normal space.
On their way back from the empireth homeworld, I see. Hopefully with useful information that can help disable Lyla quickly and safely.

"Hi-"

Arisia spins around and hefts a hammer construct for a moment before recognising me.

"-guys. What have I missed?"
To be fair, that's probably a fair reaction to him suddenly appearing, especially since she isn't as used to it as Kon is.

Well, the cavalry is on its way, let's just hope those in the field can hold out for them to arrive. Because between Lyla and Ursa, those on Xudar are definitely going to have trouble with that. And there's still the matter of the Dominator Fleet in-system, which may already be engaging the Doomsday as they speak...
 
LOL they remember Starlagg and how that worked out for them. With greenies, there's a certain level of envelope you can push because they're basically cops and function as cops.

Orange lanterns do not fuck around and will kill your ass or worse if you try that shit with them, as far as the Dominion is concerned.

Good. Good.
 

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