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

'highlights'

'meetings'

'many gatherings'

'America'

'great deal'

Ohh, this is just wonderful.

Also the cults may not have been too eager to share their secrets beyond just saying their gods did it.

'I am pleased'

And you didn't need to prompt them to do it.

 

That should say 'America'.

It's kinda sad that the League doesn't seem to want to adapt compared to the way a newer, less powerful organization of superheroes is doing. Can we ever see them improve how they operate in the future thanks to advice from Paul? Also, that should say 'I'.

A teleportation network can be a big step in making the Alliance of the Just a true global force. Is there any chance they can be seen as the number 2 premier superhero group? Also, the 'A' should be removed, making that only 'While'.

If she's in Dakota City, my best guess is that she's after members and affiliates of the Shadow Cabinet. Are Icon and Rocket being targeted?

 

It's called Bended.

 

I don't think they're members in this universe.

 

They could still be affiliated with them without being actual members.

 

I get the feeling neither man would have liked the other. But still, organisations as ad-hoc as this began tend to have to take what they can get. Which is probably why they were willing to overlook some suspicious background incidents...

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Now, who were the other two, hmm? Part of the administrative arm of the Alliance, or... Well, I suppose we'll find out if it's important.

Given that he has a spaceship, it's probably not hard to get from here to there in time. Not quite FTL Transitions or Greediporting, but still...

China being its usual 'unconcerned with the outside world' self, of course. But they hardly need the sort of unofficial arrangements other countries involve themselves in.

To be fair, when the Accala are no doubt spreading the Danner Formula to the next generation within their borders, crime is less likely to be a problem there once they mature. Muggings? How do you threaten people who can withstand bullets? Theft? Not much to stop the injured party from tracking you down and taking their things back...

Ech. Not the best method, but given how unique some forms of magic can be, hardly surprising.

A living demonstration of 'There is more to Heaven and Earth than is dreamt of in your philosophy, Horatio...' After all, I'm sure he had strong beliefs of how the world worked when he earned his place amongst his sponsors...

You couldn't really expect Rome to still rule everything after this long... They had enough trouble managing what they held then.

No Justice League International anytime soon, I suppose... It's still very much the American boy's club it started as at this point...

...Poorly.

...Foolish? Yes, you're not the only one to see that.

On the recruiting angle, I hope they at least reduced it to a minimum quorum of sitting members. Like, majority vote out of a 9-person meeting, or something.

Danger Rooms-a-go-go.

Given the last one nearly kicked the league's collective arse until they pulled their heads out of it, that could be a big ask. Some of them are probably still offering up thanks that OL is law-abiding, because he could be damn scary as a villain.

Planning on giving the League a bit of competition, eh? Hopefully the rivalry doesn't get too out of hand.

But they have some useful advantages, though.

Well! Let's hope it's not too risky for the transportees. I suspect the Alliance has to deal with a lot more red tape than the League does, and one accident could bring down all manner of lawsuits...

And yet their interstellar flight still had to deal with relativistic effects... Such is the uneven nature of technological development.

God just imagine the idiots protesting that, given the typical display against normal mobile cell towers...

Ah, human nature. Getting in the way of progress because of profits, or fear, or arrogance...

Which may be an issue if a part of the organisation turns rogue.

And that's one heck of a profile he's seeing, I bet. Alan is a handsome man, after all.

Dakota, huh? Wonder which members of the Shadow Cabinet she's after, other than 'All of them'.

Hopefully Crimson Avenger hasn't had any luck with her target or targets yet. The real problem, though, is whether she's even trying to be accurate, or if she's just unloading like mad. At any rate, with two Lanterns on her case, there's a good chance they can bring her down safely. Especially if Zatara can arrive in time. Set magic to fight magic, and so on...

 

They're slightly better at trying to come up with objective criteria now.

Thank you, corrected.

Bended.

 

I just realized. They're all using the same serum to make themselves super strong and super tough. Is it possible for someone talented, skilled, and ruthless enough to utilize that commonality to take control of all of the Danner enhanciles in Accalacan?

 

Thank you, corrected.

Not easily. Plus, they have magic users.

 

Vigilante would have probably considered White Dragon to be little better than a criminal and probably do something like his TV show counterpart did when he met his White Dragon.

Let's just hope they can control them so that no mobsters or Nazis manage to take control.

Like we saw with Tangseid.

I doubt it would get out of hand.

 

They also have a nymph they worship as a god who protected them from the Sheeda almost single-handedly

 

Oh boy.

Hope Static is not dead.

 

It's unlikely that Virgil is dead. Static doesn't exist.

 

Even if Static did exist, it doesn't really seem likely he'd fit the criteria here.

I'm pretty sure that Shadow Cabinet heroes like Donner and Blitzen probably have blood on their hands, they are a Black Ops Wetworks kind of organization.

Or if any Blood Syndicate folks are around despite Earth-16 never having a Big Bang.

 

And even if the Shadow Cabinet didn't exist, the likes of Donner were former Nazis, so she may have committed some murder against innocents.

 

I would make the argument that if everyone has the same super powers, then no one really has super powers. But in super strength fights, defensive boosts from powers often outweigh strength boosts. So while in a fight between two regular humans, a single punch can end a life, in super fights, one often needs much more than a single punch, and even if walls or the ground were used as leverage, they may break before the person being beaten into them breaks.

 

Mr Zoat, I don't remember if you already answered this, but how is Orange Lantern of Eternia charging his ring? Is he absorbing ambient magic like Paol?

 

He got his hands on a magic love crystal and changed it to a magic avarice crystal.

 

Rereading the Overgirl stuff and I stumbled on this:

Did you retcon the part where Earth 10 Germania had their own magicians in the Earth 666 arc? Or how does this work?

 

Overman asked a negro.

 

I suppose they don't really have a choice when the poster boy for Nazi rule asks for help.

 

Generally speaking you'd have an easier time working on their shared bloodlines or cultural connections. Hooking another major magical effect into an already complex and potent alchemical recipe that wasn't made with such uses in mind is really layering complexity.

 

When you put it that way, it makes me think of Constantine doing it for some technically benevolent but simultaneously messed up reason.

 

Paul uses necromancy.
It's Super Effective.

Paul: "Yeah, you're not getting out that easily. Now let's fix your problem."

 

Well that depends.

Considering Zoat made the Danner formula alchemical, I can't help but wonder if their enhancement is powered by their souls drawing in ambient energies ala Paul's tattoos.

And we've seen how Paul's tattoos left him vulnerable to being influenced by the energies his soul absorbs.

So it might be as simple as a wizard to send out a field of, to paraphrase the movie Simply Irresistible, "the women love me and the men want to give me all their money."

 

That should say 'too'.

It's nice to see Alan improving both in tactics and in capabilities thanks to interacting with Paul. Hopefully they'll realize that she comes back after self-terminating so that they (or more likely just Alan) don't feel too bad about it.

 

When your response to hope is suicide, something’s up.

 

Remove 'they'.

'go that way'

You can't expect terrified, stressed put people to do logical things.

 

Well I'm sure Kalmin would approve.

What, did she feel hope that she would be free of the weapons driving her to kill people in a way she previous had barely been able to rationalize to herself because she couldn't think of a way out?

Or is this a hard-core escape tactic where the guns rezz her somewhere there isn't a Lantern boxing her in.