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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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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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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.
 

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