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With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)
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She cured them of the plague and declared herself their queen.
They couldn't refuse because the plague damaged their civilization to such an extent that resistance would have been pointless.
She later left and a group of Thanagarians overthrow her installed government and seized power.
No mind control was involved.
The leader of those Thanagarian mercenaries Paul hired to help Tamaran.
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8th September 2013
11:04 GMT
That… Clears that up.
Ring, can you still communicate?
There's a brief glow.
Confirmed.
Alert this Sector's Green Lanterns.
Compliance.
Around me, the Mosteelians are looking a little more confident. The two who were actually measurably injured are checked over by their colleagues, while the rest calmly evacuate the room. Scans show that a second security detail is heading in this direction. I don't think that they think they can actually hurt me -the Dhorians got Jordan's compliance by holding the entire population of the Earth hostage, not by threatening him while he was paralysed- but I suppose that leaving me here isn't really an option for them. Their boss might still be in a construct, but Kromm isn't vital to Mosteel in the way that Hyathis is to Alstair. They'll think it's a shame if they can't rescue him, but it's hardly catastrophic for them.
Assuming that Bleez's ship isn't shielded against gamma gongs -and there's no reason to assume that it would be- then Jade's paralysed and out of contact. But she should be safe, since the ship's in stable orbit and Mosteel is deliberately leaving its hangars closed.
But they had ships in the general area-.
Honden looks nice.
I appear on Bleez's ship, next to where Jade is frozen in place. And-.
I can move again. Not… Having a physical body appears to nullify the effect. Switch to light armour, plug the ring into the ship's systems and add construct shields just in case someone takes a shot. Plot… Course for the innermost planet and…
And I can't warp because that's being interdicted. Transitioning isn't all that fast over interplanetary distances…
Plot course further out of the system and transition.
"Sorry for the delay. We're heading out of the system now, and you should regain the ability to move in a few moments."
Jade, naturally, doesn't respond.
Next step… Ring, are there any parts of this ship you can't scan?
A three dimensional model appears in my head, with a few areas highlighted. Not too surprising; Nth metal can block ring scans in high concentrations. That one's probably whatever this ship uses for emergency power storage, that's clearly armour plating… But why does that part of the escape pod have an unscannable patch under that seat? I head over to it, open the door and pull back the seat…
Secure bleed fracture pulse communicator. No idea who's on the other side. Probably someone back on Thanagar. But they're as good a person to speak to as anyone.
Activate.
"This is the Illustres of the Orange Lantern Corps. The fleet in Antares has been lead into a trap. The crew are currently paralysed, and Antares is shortly going to turn into a red giant. Please communicate to them that should the paralysis effect wear off they need to get out of the system as fast as they can."
I wait for a moment, but no one says anything. Probably just a drop box that they check every couple of weeks. I-.
"Orange Lantern. Confirm your message."
"I confirm it? I'll try and prevent things getting that far-."
"I will forward your message to High Command. Please do your best to recover the fleet."
"Will do!" I close the seat back up and head back into the ship proper. Alright, we-.
"Eh." Jade winces as she regains mobility. "I'd forgotten what that was like."
"Y-? Oh, right, you were there for Kanjar Ro paralysing everyone on Earth. It was in the escape pod."
She nods and heads to the cockpit. "I'll monitor things from here. Stop-."
I sight the distinct desires of people trying to make a sun explode and
appear amongst them, clamping constructs onto everyone around me and hauling them away from anything that looks like it could be part of a sun-expanding machine.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I'm afraid that the apocalypse-"
That one is thanagarian-. And that's a symbol associated with the Seven Devil cults. The people who can make Nth metal using mass murder.
"-is cancelled."
I send a filament into the computer systems of the facility I'm in, and…
It's an engineering and monitoring station. It's not doing anything in Antares.
Confirm location? Yes, innermost planet, underground and shielded. Who's in charge..? One thanagarian in this room, and that Mosteelian has a slightly fancier uniform. Tear off the Nth metal armour and brand them both.
You want to be helpful.
"What can I do for you?" / "How may this humble vassal serve?"
"How are you killing Antares, and how do I stop it?"
The thanagarian shakes his head. "You don't. The energy drainer is already well into the radiative zone, and all we can do from here is monitor it."
The Mosteelian nods. "We can't even reverse the effect of the gamma gong from here. I'm sorry, but we knew that you might get involved so we tried to make sure that you couldn't stop it."
"The energy drainer. How do I find it, and how to I safely destroy it?"
The Mosteelian puts his hands on his head, their equivalent of a shrug of ignorance. "I just handled the calculations and the stealth launch system."
The thanagarian curls his wings slightly around his body. "It uses one of the mysteries of Onimar Synn-"
Oh dear.
"-to feed the energy to him directly. In truth, he has little interest in heat energy, but when the sun expands and consumes this system, he will feed well on the souls of all who live here.
The Mosteelian tenses. "What?"
"We didn't tell you that part. I thought it would put you off."
"It would."
"How do I track it?"
The thanagarian thinks for a moment. "In theory, you could track the change in heat gradient, but to be honest, at this point the internal convection currents of the star would make that difficult even if it wasn't largely made of Nth metal. I honestly think we're all going to die."
"How many interdiction field generators are there? If I can deactivate-."
"Hundreds of thousands. And they can't be deactivated in one go. Hyathis doesn't really understand computers."
Alright, sun-diving then. I can-.
No, wait.
That should work.
11:04 GMT
That… Clears that up.
Ring, can you still communicate?
There's a brief glow.
Confirmed.
Alert this Sector's Green Lanterns.
Compliance.
Around me, the Mosteelians are looking a little more confident. The two who were actually measurably injured are checked over by their colleagues, while the rest calmly evacuate the room. Scans show that a second security detail is heading in this direction. I don't think that they think they can actually hurt me -the Dhorians got Jordan's compliance by holding the entire population of the Earth hostage, not by threatening him while he was paralysed- but I suppose that leaving me here isn't really an option for them. Their boss might still be in a construct, but Kromm isn't vital to Mosteel in the way that Hyathis is to Alstair. They'll think it's a shame if they can't rescue him, but it's hardly catastrophic for them.
Assuming that Bleez's ship isn't shielded against gamma gongs -and there's no reason to assume that it would be- then Jade's paralysed and out of contact. But she should be safe, since the ship's in stable orbit and Mosteel is deliberately leaving its hangars closed.
But they had ships in the general area-.
Honden looks nice.
I appear on Bleez's ship, next to where Jade is frozen in place. And-.
I can move again. Not… Having a physical body appears to nullify the effect. Switch to light armour, plug the ring into the ship's systems and add construct shields just in case someone takes a shot. Plot… Course for the innermost planet and…
And I can't warp because that's being interdicted. Transitioning isn't all that fast over interplanetary distances…
Plot course further out of the system and transition.
"Sorry for the delay. We're heading out of the system now, and you should regain the ability to move in a few moments."
Jade, naturally, doesn't respond.
Next step… Ring, are there any parts of this ship you can't scan?
A three dimensional model appears in my head, with a few areas highlighted. Not too surprising; Nth metal can block ring scans in high concentrations. That one's probably whatever this ship uses for emergency power storage, that's clearly armour plating… But why does that part of the escape pod have an unscannable patch under that seat? I head over to it, open the door and pull back the seat…
Secure bleed fracture pulse communicator. No idea who's on the other side. Probably someone back on Thanagar. But they're as good a person to speak to as anyone.
Activate.
"This is the Illustres of the Orange Lantern Corps. The fleet in Antares has been lead into a trap. The crew are currently paralysed, and Antares is shortly going to turn into a red giant. Please communicate to them that should the paralysis effect wear off they need to get out of the system as fast as they can."
I wait for a moment, but no one says anything. Probably just a drop box that they check every couple of weeks. I-.
"Orange Lantern. Confirm your message."
"I confirm it? I'll try and prevent things getting that far-."
"I will forward your message to High Command. Please do your best to recover the fleet."
"Will do!" I close the seat back up and head back into the ship proper. Alright, we-.
"Eh." Jade winces as she regains mobility. "I'd forgotten what that was like."
"Y-? Oh, right, you were there for Kanjar Ro paralysing everyone on Earth. It was in the escape pod."
She nods and heads to the cockpit. "I'll monitor things from here. Stop-."
I sight the distinct desires of people trying to make a sun explode and
appear amongst them, clamping constructs onto everyone around me and hauling them away from anything that looks like it could be part of a sun-expanding machine.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I'm afraid that the apocalypse-"
That one is thanagarian-. And that's a symbol associated with the Seven Devil cults. The people who can make Nth metal using mass murder.
"-is cancelled."
I send a filament into the computer systems of the facility I'm in, and…
It's an engineering and monitoring station. It's not doing anything in Antares.
Confirm location? Yes, innermost planet, underground and shielded. Who's in charge..? One thanagarian in this room, and that Mosteelian has a slightly fancier uniform. Tear off the Nth metal armour and brand them both.
You want to be helpful.
"What can I do for you?" / "How may this humble vassal serve?"
"How are you killing Antares, and how do I stop it?"
The thanagarian shakes his head. "You don't. The energy drainer is already well into the radiative zone, and all we can do from here is monitor it."
The Mosteelian nods. "We can't even reverse the effect of the gamma gong from here. I'm sorry, but we knew that you might get involved so we tried to make sure that you couldn't stop it."
"The energy drainer. How do I find it, and how to I safely destroy it?"
The Mosteelian puts his hands on his head, their equivalent of a shrug of ignorance. "I just handled the calculations and the stealth launch system."
The thanagarian curls his wings slightly around his body. "It uses one of the mysteries of Onimar Synn-"
Oh dear.
"-to feed the energy to him directly. In truth, he has little interest in heat energy, but when the sun expands and consumes this system, he will feed well on the souls of all who live here.
The Mosteelian tenses. "What?"
"We didn't tell you that part. I thought it would put you off."
"It would."
"How do I track it?"
The thanagarian thinks for a moment. "In theory, you could track the change in heat gradient, but to be honest, at this point the internal convection currents of the star would make that difficult even if it wasn't largely made of Nth metal. I honestly think we're all going to die."
"How many interdiction field generators are there? If I can deactivate-."
"Hundreds of thousands. And they can't be deactivated in one go. Hyathis doesn't really understand computers."
Alright, sun-diving then. I can-.
No, wait.
That should work.
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Too bad the atlantean spellcasters were necessary for Vril Dox's "teleport everyone into Reach space" plan. It would be nice if OL could grab a ship, bring it to Earth, use the ship to teleport Kon to this sun, and then let him have a go at this with his star-resistance blessing.
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Dumb question:
In the event that Paul were to fail to avert the apocalypse here, why is he trying to save the Thanagarian fleet?
In the event that Paul were to fail to avert the apocalypse here, why is he trying to save the Thanagarian fleet?
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The great thing about this story is that you rarely have to wait more than a day to see how a cliffhanger resolves.
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'Alstair', I think this should be.
(1) Because for all that they are a totalitarian state, the Thanagarians are a lot more reasonable than most of DC's spacefaring nations, which really says a lot about those other nations.
(2) Paul despises waste.
And now he can add
(3) Denying resources to the Seven Devils in general and Onimar Synn in particular.
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Very good answer, thank you.
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Time for Zoat to queue up 2 weeks of Fallout chapters.
He also has Thanagarian allies, and just allies in general, who wouldn't be impressed if he didn't try to save as many people as possible.
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Paralysis isn't a big handicap for a skilled Lantern. Be it construct limbs or remotely-piloting his own body, OL has options around it. And with his deeper understanding of the Orange Light comes even stranger options...
Time to call for backup.
I doubt they can do much to stop the primary's expansion, but maybe they can rescue people.
So best to not hang around, especially while they think OL is paralysed.
Still, better to make sure she's out of the radius and able to act as home base.
I'm sure Jade's desire network makes a nice, recognisable landmark in there.
At least he shrugged off the Gong's effect, and can do so anytime he gets tagged .
Not very far or fast, but enough to make her safe, at least.
Though she's probably fuming inside. I expect she'll be swearing up a storm once her jaw works again.
Ah, very curious. But logical enough. Escape pod is an extra-durable section of the ship.
If nothing else, the High Command is probably panicking over the sudden lack of response from their fleet.
A simple update but that's going to raise a few worries. Not least the how.
Ah, good, they're not staying quiet. Given he's the only person in-system they can trust to respond...
Gee, if he said please, OL's gotta try, doesn't he?
Not like he wasn't about to.I bet it feels like pins and needles all over if it lasts long enough.
Time to ask some pointed questions.
Good move. Hopefully nothing needed constant attention.
Well, that's not good. Got to wonder how much Nth Metal would result from three planets' worth of death?
But their desire set linked them to the attack on the sun. Maybe they know something.
Going straight for the fanciest guys, of course. They gotta be important...
Let's hope the answer isn't 'You can't'.
That's not helpful, fellows. Looks like someone is going to have to go sift through the star to drag it out.
Ah, a nerd.
Oh, fuck them.
Oh, gee, they didn't tell their 'allies' that the mass murder of billions on the inner planets would feed their dark god? How surprising.
You think? Too late now, though. Unless they can tell OL how to stop this shit.
Ah... Perhaps the Nth Metal would show up as a scanning void?
Urgh. Even OL can't hack that many things at once...
Ah, it sounds like he has a Plan.
All right, time for OL to go save an entire system at once. Assuming he can do it safely and quickly, without having to call in help that might get paralysed the second they arrive. This is going to do wonders for his reputation if nothing else... One way or another.
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Don't forget that these idiots tried to kill him; it's good to make it clear that doing so just gets your plot ripped apart, where he might not have cared otherwise. Keeps the murder attempts down, though not completely.
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Because being a superhero often involves saving people who don't particularly deserve it.
Also, his suggestion was that they get out of the system as fast as possible, which is what he wants them to do anyway.
Antares, actually.
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Well, the report on this isn't going to make the Illustres any less terrifying, but it'll certainly add the the feeling of 'we owe him and also don't want him mad at us' that Thanagar has, while perhaps also making Hyathis rather more grateful to him.
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Interestingly enough doing that might increase the lifespan of a star significantly.
Though the star will become darker
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Nth metal and magic.
At this point I kind of wanted them to win, because there really shouldn't be anything Orange Lantern can do to stop this, and this would be a good lesson about why you shouldn't just stomp around doing whatever.
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I like the tidbit about her history, but didn't she get paralysed by gamma gongs in this very ship just a few chapters ago?
I guess these guys are fanatical suicide bombers. I doubt the facility is so shielded as to allow survival of stellar expansion. Probably make funny faces when they stop being branded and realise they just 'willingly' ruined their plan.
'do'
Also, at the start of the chapter he and the Mosteelians give off the impression that he's mostly harmless, but last time he was gamma gong'd he was able to use the ring fine, it was just that there was also a strong force field slightly above his skin so he had very limited range to move or make constructs. I guess this could just be the Mosteelians misunderstanding the effect of a gamma gong on a lantern, or their stellar gamma gong works a bit differently.
This whole red giant plan is pretty cool, this is a good episode.
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Yep, less than twelve hours ago, in-story (Replanting 12). Different ship, though.