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

[Vaermina]

Well they both have shared interest in powers and genetic improvements to help. Failing that could just jettison him off planet. Preferably to a young white hot star. Though given the universe I'd be somewhat worried about him subsuming it.

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I'm not sure how Paul would be able to do that given Sinister 97's various powers.

 

[Doccer]

But is that not what they are? There's white people, there's black people, there's blonde, ginger or brunette and then there's mutant people, no? What would you call them?

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Human. People. The only good thing about calling a subset of people 'mutants' is that they aren't being called Inhumans. Jesus I know they are called that for comic book reasons but realistically like how October Day created a story based on her belief of how bad these people could use a decent lawyer I think some folks could use a PR professional. New-Types, Enhanced, Parahumans, Metahumans, X-geners, Empowered, Nex-Gen, The NEXT, X-ers, something that was made with some thought beyond calling them something with the connotations that the X-Men and King Black Bolts people are a thing that should be chained up in the garage where visitors are charged 5 Bucks to get a look at them!
Those people that live in the sewers in that one X-Men episode because they are unfortunate to have mutations that are too ugly and grotesque to peacefully live above ground? THAT'S WHAT I IMAGINED when I heard a story about mutants.
The word mutant and Inhuman unpeoples them.

I'm not sure how Paul would be able to do that given Sinister 97's various powers.

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I really need to get around to that show. Don't tell me of you mean the Assimilation or the sun.

 

[Darko]

That's a big if though given it took the Phoenix to take Sinister down, and even it had to work at it.

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Paul has a power ring.

I know you don't know what that means, but unless Sinister has access to reality warping powers then he's screwed.

We've seen power rings assimilate and brand gods, demons, powerful spirits and immortals.

 

[Mr Zoat]

30th Septermber 1995
17:43 GMT -5

Parker luck…

The sentinel swivels its head a hundred and seventy degrees and warms up its eye-mounted plasma weapons, easily burning off Mr. Parker's somewhat hopeful web coating. Anne-Marie should be in the control room running through the deactivation process-

"What is this?!"

-but Mr. Parker's already taken a couple of nasty knocks and this really isn't doing anything to encourage cordial relations going forwards.

"Training!"

I throw up a shield to block the sentinel's shot, then stick a friction-free sheet under its feet before grabbing its right calf with a construct gauntlet and pulling. First time I tried this I embarrassed myself because I couldn't generate enough force, but with the friction gone-. Yes, over it goes, and that's one that Henry or Forge won't have to rebuild later because its internal mechanisms can easily survive something like that.

"I think you guys take the 'no soliciting' thing a bit too seriously!"

Yes, its control system has realised that it can't get up quickly so it just raised its hands and fired from there, red beams slamming into my shield and being blocked, though the shield is looking a bit ropey.

"When I joined? I phoned ahead!"

"Well excuse me, Princess! I wasn't expecting giant robots at a school!"

He looks up, eyes… I'm assuming they're getting wider, but the mask makes it look like they're wide all the time, as two more sentinels trudge our way. Scott blasts one in the next from the entrance, sending the head flying into the side wall. The other extends an arm in both directions, a volley from each palm forcing Scott into cover and wrecking my shield.

I dart aside as Mr. Parker leaps, plasma bolts raining down where we were an instant before.

"Your tax dollars at work. Maybe you remember the Mutant Registration Act?"

"I want a rebate!"

Pshhhhhhuuuuuu!

I relax slightly as the robots lose power. Not completely relaxed, because these things can be worryingly clever at times.

"Is that it?" Mr. Parker has attached himself to the side wall and it twitching with adrenaline. "My work-out routine usually involves less lasers, but I guess I'm not to old to learn new tricks."

Scott steps back into the open, right hand hovering near the activation switch for his visor. "We fought things like this for real before. We don't intend to forget how to beat them."

Mr. Parker pushes off the wall into a front flip, landing in a crouch just in front of Scott. "And who are you supposed to be, Cyclops?"

Scott nods. "Yes."

I fly over as Anne-Marie makes her way down from the control room and Mr. Parker takes a moment to get his head around how on the nose Scott's codename is.

"Oh. Okay, I guess that makes sense. I'm looking for a guy named Professor Charles Xavier? He's supposed to be an expert in genetic mutation."

I wince. "I'm sorry, but he and his girlfriend are taking a short break out of the country. They'll be back in a few days…" I shrug awkwardly. "If you'd phoned ahead we could have told you that."

Mr. Parker punches the floor plating. And.. leaves a dent. "Damn it!"

Yeah, I… Forget how much stronger than a normal man he is sometimes. Anne-Marie and Jean walk in as he gets himself back under control.

"Ah, Doctor McCoy should be back later this evening if you've got a scientific enquiry? If you're looking for physical backup, we can-."

"No, that's not-. I'm looking for someone who knows how to stop me mutating before things get even worse!"

…

My x-gene bearing colleagues go very still for a moment.

I raise my hands. "Why don't I handle this?"

Scott breathes out. "Yeah. I think that's probably a good idea. Spiderman, Orange Lantern will handle… Whatever you're looking for."

He turns and leads Anne-Marie and Jean out, the Danger Room door slamming closed behind them.

"What did I say?"

I exhale. "You basically did the equivalent of walking into a National Association for the Advancement of Colored People annual general meeting and announcing that you didn't want to be no no-account nigger no more. Now, I don't think you meant it-"

He recoils. "No!"

"-like that, but that's what it sounded like to people who've been attacked in the streets by the Friends of Humanity for years, and they're a lot more physical in their attacks than Mister Jameson is. So: breathe in. Count to five."

I wait for a mental 'five' count.

"Breathe out." He does. "Now. You've been active as a superhero for years, with the same powers. You've maintained a secret identity, so if you want to quit then you can. What's the problem? With a little more detail, this time."

"I got my powers in-. I got them a few weeks before I started out as Spider-Man. But lately they've been randomly cutting out in the middle of fights. I went to see Doc Conn-. Doctor Curt Connors, he-."

"I'm-" I nod. "-familiar with his work. Attempting to grants humans the regenerative abilities of reptiles?"

"Yeah. I thought I might just have the flu or something, but I watched my D.N.A. literally fall apart under the microscope."

"Oh. Sugar." Scan. "Um, do you have a preserved sample of blood or tissue from before that started happening?"

"Ah, yeah. Why?"

"It's a bit invasive, but I should be able to reset you back to that state myself. Ah, obviously you'd.. eventually progress to the point you're at now again-."

"Hey, if it gives me more time to work on this then I'm all for it. But I was kinda hoping that Professor Xavier had some way to fix this. I'd like to keep my powers, but I'd kinda like to avoid falling apart genetically even more."

"Heh. Ah. See, if you'd started with 'I'm losing my powers and I want to keep them', then it would have gone over a lot better. For people with the x-gene, suggesting that it's a disease or something that needs to be 'cured' is really insensitive. But in your case… Yeah, if it's actually killing you then you do need to do something."

He nods. "You seem to be taking it a lot better than the others."

"Oh." I raise my left hand. "I'm the token baseline human on the team. The orange force fields come from this ring, not from anything innate to me."

"Oh. Guess you don't need to worry about your D.N.A. decaying."

"No. Going crazy because it messes with my emotions, yes. D.N.A. breakdown, no. So, ah, why don't I fly us back to Doctor Connor's laboratory and we can go from there."

He turns towards the door, then hesitates. "I… Guess I should probably apologise to your friends, first."

I nod. "I think that's probably a good idea."

 

[Darko]

wall and it twitching

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'and is'

Mr. Parker punches the floor plating. And.. leaves a dent

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Yeah, he's very, very strong.

Attempting to grants

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"grant"

 

[PepeTheFrog]

I exhale. "You basically did the equivalent of walking into a National Association for the Advancement of Colored People annual general meeting and announcing that you didn't want to be no no-account nigger no more. Now, I don't think you meant it-"

He recoils. "No!"

"-like that, but that's what it sounded like to people who've been attacked in the streets by the Friends of Humanity for years, and they're a lot more physical in their attacks than Mister Jameson is. So: breathe in. Count to five."

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James Jonah Jameson in the average Spider-Man comic Versus James Jonah Jameson in the average X-Men comic.

Triple J is committed to fighting the good fight when it comes to integrity in journalism... Except when that no good wall-crawling menace Spider-Man is around!

 

[GhostKing 666]

I relax slightly as the robots lose power. Not completely relaxed, because these things can be worryingly clever at times.

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Well, it really helps that in the episode, the Sentinels were actually just holodeck holograms and disappeared with the scenery as soon as the Danger Room was powered down. Which I'm like 75% sure is thanks to whatever alien tech they've upgraded the Danger Room with, but considering how crazy the Marvel Animated Universe can get, could also be Earth-genius tech.

Yeah, he's very, very strong.

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In the episode, Peter straight up breaks out of the all metal straight jacket the security system wrapped him in and was busting through locked scifi metal doors when running from the X-Men. Only one stronger in that room was Rogue.

 

[iamnuff]

Eh, Pete didn't do anything wrong. He didn't say "make me not a mutant" he said "I want to stop mutating"
None of the x-men are actively mutating. Their x-genes turned on and then stayed on.
If any one of them were fucking unravelling on a genetic level, they'd want to undo it too.

To say nothing of the constant critique that the x-men are the 'pretty mutants' and all the unlucky ones live in the sewers are Morloks.
This version of Paul could do some good by going around 'fixing' mutants who got really shitty powers like 'one eye' or 'vestigle arm growing out of centre of chest' or 'transparent flesh but not bones of veins' or 'hydrochloric acid sweat'

"Oh it's racially insensitive"
Fuck off. These people are fucking sick, and they need help. Not like you, miss perfect weather-controller.

 

[Bigking321]

Yeah, I feel like Peter didn't actually say anything offensive and the X men are overreacting. Not really a big deal in the grand scheme of things.

Also, I seem to remember that Beast had a mutation that actually did progress and change him over time. Like he wasn't always so animal like and had blue fur. Part of his story was trying to stop his mutation from progressing and doing research on it, right?

"No, that's not-. I'm looking for someone who knows how to stop me mutating before things get even worse!"

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This is like a exact match to early Beasts storyline.

You would think they would understand someone being concerned with their power or mutation doing something to them.