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

Sounds like your ad blocker is overzealous.
I changed internet providers a couple of months ago, and all of a sudden, I couldn't get some sites any more. Unless I use Tor, that is.

It's weird, too, what's blocked. Bitchute's a video hosting site, nothing wrong with it, but 4chan is 4chan. And, all the torrent sites, but that's probly the Australian Gov.


Random blocks are random.
 
Sounds like your ad blocker is overzealous.

Unfortunately I was having this issue before I installed this one. I'm using uBlock Origin, but I've been using that extension for years without this being an issue and I've used the same extension in other places without it being an issue. It seems to be local to this building somehow, but I have to find a place to live by the end of September anyways so it won't be a problem soon either way. I'll either be in another place or be homeless, it'll cease to be a problem either way.
 
To see OL of all people dropping that line....

What a time to be alive!
If you're talking about the Nabu thing, he did talk... to the people he believed that he absolutely needed to. He couldn't risk Nabu finding out early, and the Justice League dropped the ball badly enough that he stopped trusting them. He's made many mistakes in this story, but that was either not one of them, or a very, very understandable one.
 
Recently on Earth 12
Earth 12
6th February 2005
09:01 GMT


Six of the world's most powerful people sit around a table, carefully avoiding making eye contact with one another.

Martian Manhunter is martian, so the lack of eye contact doesn't have quite the same significance for him that it does for his human colleagues. Superman is kryptonian, but as he grew up around humans he's internalised their body language and his says that he's 'uncertain' and 'ashamed'. Flash-.

"Soooo…" He looks up and then sweeps his eyes in a circle around his friends. "Are we gonna talk about what happened, or just sit here 'til-"

Diana's jaw tightens, and she slams her right fist into the surface of the meeting room table. Hard enough to dent it, but not break it. Flash notes this and feels oddly pleased. A couple of years ago, that wouldn't have been the case.

"-Bats shows up."

"Alright." Green Lantern nods. "I'll go first, since that guy was obviously a Lantern."

Martian Manhunter's brow moves in a gesture that might be an approximation of a frown. "I was unaware that power rings could be made in colors other than green and yellow."

Flash nods. "Yeah, what's up with that?"

"When the Guardians threw Sinestro out of the Green Lantern Corps, he went to a planet called Qward. Gave them everything he knew about the Corps. In return, they made him a knock-off power ring out of a material called 'qwardamite'."

Flash snorts. "Really? That's what they called it?"

"It works well enough. I suppose there could be an orange material that works in the same way, but if there is then I've never heard of it."

Manhunter bows his head slightly. "For our purposes, it is enough that it exists. It would be more productive to examine how he defeated us."

Hawkgirl exhales sharply. "You wanna go first?"

"In my case, he forced me back into phase by using the matter disrupting effects of your Nth metal mace. I believe that I noticed a power ring construct of some kind attached to it."

She nods. "Nth metal doesn't usually do much to phased targets. If you add a big enough generator it'll damage just about anything, but the kind of power you'd need to-." Her face twists into a rictus of rage. "He nearly blew up my mace!"

Flash winces. "How bad would that be?"

"I don't think that Thanagar will give me another one!"

Green Lantern shakes his head. "How big would the blast be?"

"We would have been vaporised." Her eyes flick to Wonder Woman. "Most of us. Wonder Woman might have survived."

"What about-?" Flash caught himself and looked at his despondent kryptonian colleague. "Ah, you feeling okay, big guy?"

"Completely fine." He nods at Manhunter. "J'onn, you were saying?"

"Once my phasing ability was disrupted, he bound me with a chain that was designed to prevent me from phasing through it and placed a device which suppressed both my telepathy and my telekinesis on my head. I tested the strength of the chains and found that I could not break free."

Manhunter turns his head slightly to indicate Wonder Woman, whose right hand is still clenched into a fist.

"He put up a force field I couldn't even damage. Then there was… Some sort of energy discharge, then I could barely stand."

Green Lantern nods. "I recognised the force field he used. It's called an 'inertia shield'. It's used by the terminans for crash-protection during space ship crashes. It'll soak up any kinetic energy you throw at it."

"How do you break it?"

"You don't. Lantern Corps records are pretty clear. You could use an energy weapon or a gas to bypass it, but kinetic energy won't work."

Flash smiles. "Hey, looks like there are problems you can't solve by punching them."

"Or by-." Wonder Woman visibly bites down her reply, and Flash decides that maybe he should be a little less flippant about this. "How did he beat you?"

"I.. don't know." And he really didn't. Sure, he fought people who could keep up with him or slow him down before, but that was like… "Every time I started to move, I just… Stopped. I kept trying, and it.. kept happening."

Hawkgirl frowns. "Where did the ice come from?"

He had started getting cold. But he'd been frozen in a giant block of ice when he raced Superman around the world. Vibrating out of that had been really easy. So, what..?

"Vibrations." He sits up a little straighter as he realises. "Heat-. Heat makes molecules vibrate. Did anyone see if he was pointing some sort of gun at me?"

Green Lantern and Superman nod, and Green Lantern generates a small, weird-looking gun construct. "Like this."

Flash's eyes narrow. "It looks.. kinda like a cold gun, like Captain Cold uses." His eyes widen. "That's what he was doing! He was using it to reduce my kinetic energy to zero, or.. close. I mean, I don't know how he was shooting fast enough to keep hitting me when I started moving again-."

"It's possible for someone to speed up their brain with a power ring." Green Lantern shakes his head. "Mental impulses travel faster by ring than they can along nerves. I can't do it, but I know a few Lanterns who could. If you weren't moving at full speed, that might have been enough."

"Well, that's one mystery solved." Flash looks puzzled. "I wonder why the ice guys I fight haven't ever tried that?"

"I'm glad the people I fight haven't tried using gold kryptonite." Superman shakes his head. "Green kryptonite hurts, but I can usually avoid it. I can't help wondering if his Justice League knows that he knows exactly how to take them all down."

Green Lantern looks at his belt. "Does the radiation shield he made for you work like he said it does?"

Superman nods. "According to STAR Labs, it works just fine. And he was right: this would have been really useful to have a few years ago. It's a lot easier to wear than a lead suit, that's for sure."

Green Lantern nods. "I know what he did to beat me. I just don't know how. Every time he shot my shield I couldn't hold it together, and I couldn't call back my ring before he grabbed it."

Wonder Woman nods. "I still want to know why I was so dizzy."

"A sonic weapon." They all look around as the door closes behind Batman. "Something designed to affect your sense of balance. Since you can hear normal volume sound, your inner ear can't be as tough as the rest of you. He noticed, and took advantage."

Hawkgirl moues. "Just what we needed: Batman with a power ring."

Flash leans forward as Batman takes his seat. "Not like you to be late for a meeting, Bats. What was the hold up?"

"I went to meet our version of the Orange Lantern."

A few eyes widen as he puts a profile up on the monitor.

"Peter Wynne, thirty eight, a British national. He hires supervillains and helps them find legal uses for their skills."

"Oh, hey, I've heard of him." Flash points at the screen. "He got Lenny and James jobs!"

"Yes. He also has an orange power ring."

Green Lantern frowns. "I don't remember seeing anyone like that flying around."

"It's almost completely out of power and he doesn't have any way to recharge it." Batman reaches into his utility belt and pulls it out. "He also didn't notice when I switched it with a fake. Green Lantern, we need the Guardians to analyse this as soon as possible."

Green Lantern picks it up with a construct hand and brings it over to him. "Sure, but what happens if he tries to use it in the mean time?"

"We'll return it when they're finished, but we can't take the risk of being so unprepared again."

Superman frowns. "You think we'll have to fight him again?"

"It doesn't matter. We have an enemy whose abilities we don't understand. Every vulnerability he exploited was one any of the League's other enemies could have used. We were lucky that he didn't want to kill you, and we can't afford to rely on luck."

Hawkgirl nods. "So what do you suggest?"

"I plan on asking Mister Wynne to join the League as a consultant, in order to examine League operations for weaknesses which we haven't noticed. Everyone has vulnerabilities, but when the world is depending on us we can't afford for our enemies to know ours better than we do."
 
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"I ask because I picked this-" I take a cold gun out of subspace. "-up in Central City yesterday." I hold it up. "It's called a 'Cold Gun'. It works by arresting molecular vibration in the target area. The beam moves at light speed and at maximum intensity stops molecular vibration completely. By my estimation a strike anywhere on an airborne F Thirty Five would kill it. It was designed by a Human with no higher education.. while he was in prison." I return it to subspace before taking out a purple death ray. "The forerunner of this gun was built in the nineteen forties. It nullifies life. A normal Human can only take the beam for a second or two before their body completely ceases functioning. Again, a light speed weapon." I make eye contact with each committee member in turn. "Ladies and Gentlemen, I uses these guns. They are superior to their nearest Apokoliptian equivalents. Why aren't you using them?"
Thank you, corrected.
Works for me.
Oh. That seems to have been me being a dipshit, because I had a brainfart and didn't realize it was the end of an interjection in the middle of the sentence, sorry about that. My internet absolutely hates certain sites - for instance, I can't load the DC wiki, BBC or most of the booru's at all, or pintrest for that matter - so if I post a link and it's not broken feel free to just call me a numpty and ignore those parts. Sometimes a link appears broken to me when it isn't.
Do you live in Best Korea?
 
"It doesn't matter. We have an enemy whose abilities we don't understand. Every vulnerability he exploited was one any of the League's other enemies could have used. We were lucky that he didn't want to kill you, and we can't afford to rely on luck."
Illustres Paul is unambiguously outside Earth 12 Justice League jurisdiction, and as I understood it both were butting out of the Syndicate's continuity. Why would they still be enemies?
 
Nice to see that OL managed to convince a different League to step up their game, and all with just a little righteous face punching. Maybe Wynne might even get a recharged ring out of it.
 
I'm surprised they plan to return the ring to him.
Wynne still technically has a army of supervillains at his disposal, and his alternate-universe alter-ego figured out how to curbstomp all of them at the same time.

And he's also not currently hostile nor malicious. But they don't know whether or not he'll stay that way if they steal a immensely powerful artifact from him. Returning it before he notices is prudent.


I fucking hate Batman.

I fucking HATE BATMAN.

I FUCKING HATE BATMAN.

There is just no escaping his stupid bat-god bullshit.
That's kind of interesting since he noticed Batman touching it from a distance.
Yeah, that's pretty weird. He clearly should've noticed that Batman switched it with a fake.
 
Earth 12
6th February 2005
09:01 GMT
Oh-ho, a followup!

"Soooo…" He look up and then sweeps his eyes in a circle around his friends. "Are we gonna talk about what happened, or just sit here 'til-"
Same old Wally.

Diana's jaw tightens, and she slams her right fist into the surface of the meeting room table. Hard enough to dent it, but not break it. Flash notes this and feels oddly pleased. A couple of years ago, that wouldn't have been the case.
She's gotten weaker, or the table's stronger?

Martian Manhunter's brow moves in a gesture that might be an approximation of a frown. "I was unaware that power rings could be made in colors other than green and yellow."
Oh, you have no idea, Johnny-boy.

"When the Guardians threw Sinestro out of the Green Lantern Corps, he went to a planet called Qward. Gave them everything he knew about the Corps. In return, they made him a knock-off power ring out of a material called 'qwadarmite'."
Really? That's...

Flash snorts. "Really? That's what they called it?"
I know, right?

She nods. "Nth metal doesn't usually do much to phased targets. If you add a big enough generator it'll damage just about anything, but the kind of power you'd need to-." Her face twists into rictus of rage. "He nearly blew up my mace!"
Heh, no fear of that, OL knew what he was doing.

"We would have been vaporised." Her eyes flick to Wonder Woman. "Most of us. Wonder Woman might have survived."
...Ouch.

...who's right hand was still clenched into a fist.
...whose right hand was still clenched into a fist.

Green Lanterns nods. "I recognised the force field he used. It's called an 'inertia shield'. It's used by the terminans for crash-protection during space ship crashes. It'll soak up any kinetic energy you throw at it."
I hear a girl in some midwest city uses one. (Static Shock is DCAU canon, isn't it?)

"Or by-." Wonder Woman visibly bites down her reply, and Flash decides that maybe he should be a little less flippant about this. "How did he beat you?"
Good choice, Wally.

"Vibrations." He sits up a little straighter as he realises. "Heat-. Heat makes molecules vibrate. Did anyone see if he was pointing some sort of gun at me?"
Heh, that brief time Captain Cold was a criminal.

Flash's eyes narrow. "It looks.. kinda like a cold gun, like Captain Cold uses." His eyes widen. "That's what he was doing! He was using it to reduce my kinetic energy to zero, or.. close. I mean, I don't know how he was shooting fast enough to keep hitting me when I started moving again-."
Used, unless Snart went back to crime? Or did someone else pick up the Captain's mantle?

"I'm glad the people I fight haven't tried using gold kryptonite." Superman shakes his head. "Green kryptonite hurts, but I can usually avoid it. I can't help wondering if his Justice League knows that he knows exactly how to take them all down."
Oh, they do. He told them so himself, after all. (I think?)

Superman nods. "According to Star Labs, it works just fine. And he was right: this would have been really useful to have a few years ago. It's a lot easier to wear than a lead suit, that's for sure."
Less likely to rip, certainly.

Green Lantern nods. "I know what he did to beat me. I just don't know how. Every time he shot my shield I couldn't hold it together, and I couldn't call back my ring before he grabbed it."
Never faced the Turtle, did he?
(Edit: Oops. I meant the Crumbler aka Alexander Tuttle...)

Hawkgirl moues. "Just what we needed: Batman with a power ring."
What?

"Peter Wynne, thirty eight, a British national. He hires supervillains and helps them find legal uses for their skills."
You forgot "...of extradimensional origin." It's on his immigration paperwork and everything, isn't it?

"It's almost completely out of power and he doesn't have any way to recharge it." Batman reaches into his utility belt and pulls it out. "He also didn't notice when I switched it with a fake. Green Lantern, we need the Guardians to analyse this as soon as possible."
Welp, there it goes.

Green Lantern picks it up with a construct hand and brings it over to him. "Sure, but what happens if he tries to use it in the mean time?"
Did you not catch 'out of power', Stewart?

"We'll return it when they're finished, but we can't take the risk of being so unprepared again."
You assume they would return it? Or are the Guardians-12 more reasonable bros?

"It doesn't matter. We have an enemy whose abilities we don't understand. Every vulnerability he exploited was one any of the League's other enemies could have used. We were lucky that he didn't want to kill you, and we can't afford to rely on luck."
Not annoyed that his actions were similar to your own takedown plans, Bruce?

"I plan on asking Mister Wynne to join the League as a consultant, in order to examine League operations for weaknesses which we haven't noticed. Everyone has vulnerabilities, but when the world is depending on us we can't afford for our enemies to know ours better than we do."
Nice. That'll be a big boost for Peter's rep too.

Nice to actually see this little denouement. It's a rare day when you post something not from OL's perspective.
 
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Yeah, that's pretty weird. He clearly should've noticed that Batman switched it with a fake.
While I would love batman to have been faked out by a fake, I doubt that will happen. I'm also pretty damn certain that, once in their possession, the Guardians would never give it back.

I fucking hate batman.


To say nothing of his "I can do whatever I want to anyone, including my allies, with absolutely NO repercussions."
 
"It's almost completely out of power and he doesn't have any way to recharge it." Batman reaches into his utility belt and pulls it out. "He also didn't notice when I switched it with a fake. Green Lantern, we need the Guardians to analyse this as soon as possible."

Green Lantern picks it up with a construct hand and brings it over to him. "Sure, but what happens if he tries to use it in the mean time?"

He is never getting that back once the Guardians get it, and I really hope he reacts in a horribly proactive way. At this point I don't believe for a second he can't give himself galactic threat level powers.
 
I fucking hate Batman.

I fucking HATE BATMAN.

I FUCKING HATE BATMAN.

There is just no escaping his stupid bat-god bullshit.
Have you read Dark Knights: Metal? You'll hate that even more.

It's a very meta type of Crisis storyline, but each stable universe has pillars. Pillars that embody ideas and keeps the universe stable.

Batman's pillar is "Batman Always Wins."

It's why whenever evil Batmen show up, it has to be Batman that beats them. Because they'll eventually steamroll over anyone else.

It's uh... certainly a trip as far as Crisis type narratives go. Especially when the Batman infected with Joker venom shows up.
 
Have you read Dark Knights: Metal? You'll hate that even more.

It's a very meta type of Crisis storyline, but each stable universe has pillars. Pillars that embody ideas and keeps the universe stable.

Batman's pillar is "Batman Always Wins."

It's why whenever evil Batmen show up, it has to be Batman that beats them. Because they'll eventually steamroll over anyone else.

It's uh... certainly a trip as far as Crisis type narratives go. Especially when the Batman infected with Joker venom shows up.
I typically avoid anything Bat-Related.

He's not only my most hated fictional character (and that's a hell of a list to top.), but unlike other characters that I hate. I don't even respect him as a character.

He has zero appeal, zero likability, and zero reason to care about a single thing that happens to him because...fuck it, he's Batman. I mean hell...Wolverine has suffered more legit defeats and setbacks.
 
Thank you, corrected.
This is from yesterdays chapter. I think Less needs an apostrophe in front of it.
I corrected that yesterday.
...who's right hand was still clenched into a fist.
...whose right hand was still clenched into a fist.
Thank you, corrected.
Green Lanterns nods. "I recognised the force field he used. It's called an 'inertia shield'. It's used by the terminans for crash-protection during space ship crashes. It'll soak up any kinetic energy you throw at it."
I hear a girl in some midwest city uses one. (Static Shock is DCAU canon, isn't it?)
Yes. Was Icon ever in that?
Flash's eyes narrow. "It looks.. kinda like a cold gun, like Captain Cold uses." His eyes widen. "That's what he was doing! He was using it to reduce my kinetic energy to zero, or.. close. I mean, I don't know how he was shooting fast enough to keep hitting me when I started moving again-."
Used, unless Snart went back to crime? Or did someone else pick up the Captain's mantle?
Snart still has the gun. He just doesn't commit crimes with it anymore.
Green Lantern nods. "I know what he did to beat me. I just don't know how. Every time he shot my shield I couldn't hold it together, and I couldn't call back my ring before he grabbed it."
Never faced the Turtle, did he?
No.
Hawkgirl moues. "Just what we needed: Batman with a power ring."
What?
The opposite of smiling.
 
You stole the man's ring, in a comic he'd need it an inopportune moment something tragic would happen and you have a new supervillian but in this case he'd come at such an obtuse angle you'd be fucked by the time you even realised something was wrong.

Jeez the man was reasonable you could have just asked you overconfident presumptuous high handed asshole.
 
So, somehow I don't think we saw the last of Earth-12. Either Batman was faked out by a fake ring, or guardians learn of orange light (these ones don't seem to know about it, or are completely hiding it) and make contact with Controllers-16 somehow (is Hinon multiversal at this point? Wouldn't put it past her), or league-12 comes visiting league-16. Or something along those lines.

Also, it would be hilarious if Paul-12 sued Batman-12 for theft of his property.
 
"We would have been vaporised." Her eyes flick to Wonder Woman. "Most of us. Wonder Woman might have survived."
So Paul, not knowing the local variant of Nth Metal, almost killed everyone.

Fun times.

"It doesn't matter. We have an enemy whose abilities we don't understand. Every vulnerability he exploited was one any of the League's other enemies could have used. We were lucky that he didn't want to kill you, and we can't afford to rely on luck."

Hawkgirl nods. "So what do you suggest?"

"I plan on asking Mister Wynne to join the League as a consultant, in order to examine League operations for weaknesses which we haven't noticed. Everyone has vulnerabilities, but when the world is depending on us we can't afford for our enemies to know ours better than we do."
This could end very badly for Paul if Zoat doesn't hit the League with the nerf bat when next they meet.


I fucking hate Batman.

I fucking HATE BATMAN.

I FUCKING HATE BATMAN.

There is just no escaping his stupid bat-god bullshit.
Animated series Batman has mystic ninja powers.

It would be utterly moronic if you could beat those with no more then a well locked safe.
 
Where did Batman even get a fake orange ring? Did he have one made just on the off chance he could switch it? Other than that, the only unreasonable thing about Batman switching it out is that Peter was able to sense him touching the ring. But the amount of practice he's had with an orange ring is less than a full charge, that sense can't be very sophisticated.
 
Also, it would be hilarious if Paul-12 sued Batman-12 for theft of his property.
Yeah, that would be one thing the League would probably have no idea how to handle; someone outing one of their secret identities in a way that they can't possibly fight their usual way without crossing the line into villainy themselves.
 

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