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

Afternoon
Equestria


"Grayven!"

I grin as Lightning Dust enthusiastically demonstrates the deployment of a tactical gale on the Canterlot guard contingent and Sunset struggles towards me with a flickering cyan bubble shield protecting her from the worst of it.
Ah, back to the Pony planet. Bring on the laughs!

"Yes?"

"What…" She looks at me, then the guard, then the billowing clouds, then back at m-.

I step back as a earth pony guard sails past and slams into a wall. Quick check… No, just some bruises.
Ooof. Looks like there's a lot of training in their future.

Sunset stares at his slumped and groaning form, then stares at me.

"What?"
Yeah, sometimes "What?" is the only question possible.

"Okay, so Luna and I dealt with my Anti-Life problem, and-."

"You did? The-." She frowns. "Did Twilight-?"
Pfft, who needs that poser? A complete rookie with Harmony.

"No. Luna broke into my dream, accidentally released the Anti-Life fragment, we found the harmony within ourselves-" Hah! "-as well as connections to the emotional spectrum... And we blasted the thing with giant beams of light and no more Anti-Life."

She's looking at me as if she's not sure if I'm taking the Mickey. Or possibly about to explode.
No twitching eyebrow yet? Just wait, see if you can manage it.:V

"I did a song and everything. Rhyming couplets verses and a rhyming quintuplet chorus."

She rolls her eyes. "Well if you did a song then clearly there's no more problem."
Geez, you could bottle that sarcasm, it was so thick.

"Right, exactly. Oh, I meant to ask: can you move the sun?"

She glances up at as much of it as can be seen through the clouds. "Not.. yet."
Well, that is a future possibility...

"No, I mean… As part of a group effort or what have you. I heard the hearthwarming story, about how unicorns used to-" She's shaking her head. "-control the sun and moon without alicorn aid. I thought that you might know the theory."

"I never found anything that said that story was more than a myth. In.. theory? A group of normal ponies could do it. Alicorns are more powerful than regular ponies, but only by about two orders of magnitude. If they knew how and they could all work together perfectly… But I don't know how to do it, it would take a while to work it out if Celestia is as helpful as she usually is and… Frankly, I'd rather turn this system into a nice simple heliocentric system rather than get up before dawn every day."
Wilson probably was, until Discord came along...

I smile affectionately as a pegasus guard moonwalks past us.

"That's my girl. Looking for permanent solutions to problems everyone else treats as intractable."
Ah, the proud mentor. The second-best side of Grayven. One guess what the best is.

"Agk." She closes her eyes for a moment and holds up her right forehoof and points it at me. "This. All of this, with the guards. Why is it happening?"

"I offered Luna my help in becoming Celestia's equal in fact as well as theory. I thought that helping the guard become relevant would be a good way to achieve that."
Just have to show them how weak they are, first. Though some of them already know that...

"And… How is them fighting a mock battle with the Canterlot Weather Service supposed to achieve that?"

"Oh, this isn't the Canterlot Weather Service. This is one pony." I generate a construct megaphone. "Okay, Lightning Dust! Give them all a break!"
"One pony? What?"

The winds keep blowing for a moment, then the clouds start evaporating. It takes a good deal longer then ten seconds, but gradually the blustering dies down.
Ranbow Dash, she ain't.

Moonwalking pony collapses, panting, as Lightning Dust drops out of the sky to stand smugly next to me.

"These guys are supposed to be the Royal Guard?"
Yes, embarrassing, isn't it? The cream of the crop of Equestria's largely non-existent military...

I nod. "I know, right?"

"I mean, I wasn't expecting the Wonderbolts or anything-."

"The Wonderbolts are a display team who are currently zero for two against the major fights they actually turned up for. I hope to do a little better."
I really doubt they're much for actual fighting. Courageous, but not outstanding.

She cocks her head to the left. "Zero for two?"

"They fought an infant dragon who had a magical growth spurt and he trapped them in a water tower, and they-"
Admittedly, he was fifty meters tall or so at that point.

"Hah hah!"

"-charged Tirek head on and got drained just like everyone else who tried that." I look at her as she snorts in amusement at her former idols' failings. "How is it that you know so much about weather? I wouldn't have thought the subject had much to do with aerobatics."
I just assumed all pegasi had some training in weather manipulation... Then again, that guard didn't have a clue...

"It doesn't, but I had to make a living somehow." She looks around to where the guardsponies are picking themselves up from wherever they ended up. "Think they're ready to go again yet?"

"This was more of a demonstration session. We'll have to work out a lesson plan before you go again."

She looks dubious. "I'm… Not really big on paperwork."
Ah, guess what you'd be doing plenty of in the Wonderbolts...

"Are you big on unemployment? Because after the stunts you pulled in Wonderbolt training you're unlikely to be invited back. And a conviction for a weather-related offence makes you returning to your former employment in brushland firefighting… Improbable."

Her eyes narrow. "Are you threatening me?"
"No, merely stating facts. If I were threatening you, you'd know it."

"Gosh, no. You've upheld your end of the agreement; go with my blessing. If someone hires you or if you start your own enterprise, great! Maybe it'll keep you out of trouble. But if you want a job here then there's going to be paperwork. The aim is to force these ponies to improve, not merely to laugh at their ineptitude."

A degree of the fight appears to leave her. She looks away. "Yeah."
Hmm... Wonder if she will stick around...

Tempest gets the rest of the guard organised and they start clearing away some of the debris around the training field.

Hm…

"Sunset, how's your setting up going?"
Presumably well, or she wouldn't be here. I doubt she'd take a break until she fell asleep...

"All ready. I've gotten a few things I was planning on showing the guard." She looks around. "Maybe after they've recovered a little."

"When's Celestia getting back?"

"Late evening. I've got time to deliver a lecture before she gets here. What else are you up to?"
Oh, this could be fun... A pity it'll happen off-screen, but I'm sure Mr Zoat doesn't want to try and write a lecture on Equestrian Thaumatology.

"Lightning Dust's presence is proving rather instructive as to the destructive potential of the pegasus ponies. I've got Tempest over there to handle unicorns. That leaves earth ponies."

Sunset shakes her head. "I told you: there aren't any earth ponies in Equestria who know how to use earth pony magic."
Not outside of their natural strength, anyway.

Hm. "How true is the hearthwarming myth?"

"Which part?"

"The migration. Luna implied that it was at least partially true, but…"
I wonder if she was personally there or it was recent history for her...

"Ah… Maybe? History wasn't really my subject, but as far as I remember there's a definite pattern of settlement from the north heading south. And there's no fossil record of cave ponies or anything like that, so unless we were created by some ancient wizard our ancestors probably came over the pole at some point."
...Jut how likely is that possibility?

I nod.

"So there could be other ponies on the other side of the planet?"
Oooh, Trans-continental road-trip!

Lightning Dust frowns. "Wouldn't the windigos have just frozen them all?"

Sunset shakes her head. "There's never been a confirmed sighting of a windigo. And even if the Hearth's Warming story is true, the windigos followed our ancestors to Equestria. If there was anyone left behind and they survived the cold until the windigos were destroyed, they would probably have managed just fine." She looks at me. "You think there might be ponies over there who know earth pony magic."
Assuming there is any learnable kind of Earth Pony Magic...

"Yep. And it certainly can't hurt to check."

Boom!

"Wanna come with me?"
Once again, leaping into the unknown without any forethought. Third-best Grayven.

:sneaky:So, folks, on a scale of 'just fine' to 'oh god the sky is on fire!': How badly do you think this will go?:p
 
I don't think he'd change it, he's already established, and we don't know what Darkseid's reaction to losing the Anti-Life is going to be. He could take on a second name, or a surname? Not Lynne's though, "Grayven Weyland" sounds terrible. Maybe an Epithet like the Greek and Roman gods had in order to distinguish himself from Apokolips Grayven? For example, you have Zeus as the main god, but then you have his manifestations: for example Zeus Agoraeus, who's a protector of trade, Zeus Horkios, who guarantees oaths, or Zeus Olympios, who rules over the other gods.
Please, it's Grayven. If he goes for a family name, it'll be Idle.
 
I had a silly thought that on the other side of Equestria is Westeros. The planet in Game of Thones hasn't been circumnavigated, and no one has gone past the Land of Always Winter at the north pole. Plus magical ponies fucking around with the weather and the sun and moon would explain why the seasons are all fucked in Game of Thrones.
 
I may not know MLP well...but the Muffin Powered Destroyer is something even Gravyen may learn to Fear


To true! In the fic Friendship is Adventuring (A crossover with that one D&D setting where the gods are called Immortals) a Spell Jammer race reveals that in she has much higher bounty than Doctor Whooves and he is considered HER companion.
Edit here is the link https://www.fimfiction.net/story/2857/mystaras-little-ponies-friendship-is-adventuring
 
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I'm catching up on several days here, so please pardon me.



Apparently not in most superhero comics. Either that or it's a crime like oral sex in hotel rooms is a crime* in some places and isn't actually enforced very often. Or is only enforced when it's dramatically inconvenient for the protaganist.

* Yes, really. I once got bored and read that notice on the inside of the door in a hotel room. "It is unlawful to engage in oral sex in this room" was right above "It is unlawful to remove any articles from this room". It amuses me to think that they were more concerned about blowjobs than people stealing stuff from the room.




Nope ropes. (It's possible I don't like snakes.)



That's.....one way of looking at an oppressive police state held together by near-universal brainwashing of their citizens to follow what the leaders consider the greater good. Though, to be fair, they are by far the least evil faction in 40k. In that setting though "least evil" is a long stretch from "good".



I think you mean a WAAAGH! of a time.



Fun fact. Modern nukes have so many safeties built in that if you started beating one with a hammer you probably would disable it before it went off. Provided it wasn't armed, of course. And, also, attempting it is of course very much not recommended. Even if it doesn't explode you're in for a bad time if you manage to expose the core.



Yes, but when they die they have thousands of children (for a given value of "children"), so it all evens out.



Well. This Paul isn't ambitious at all, is he?

Question: I know that at some point in the cannon WHF and WH40k were in the same universe, just with WHF being cut off from the rest of the galaxy by a massive impassible warp storm. Is that the case here or are they separate universes?



Ghazhgul is insane due to having lost half his brain to a bolter shot at one point. Orks are just crazy enough to begin with that the insane ones look like visionaries.
oh, as someone who's watched Ramsay's Hotel Hell, i KNOW why thats illegal.

*shudders- legitimately shuddered at his keyboard just now* s..splotches...in UV..e..everywhere....
the c..carpet, t..the w..walls, the sheets, p..pillows- the c..ceiling....
 
oh, as someone who's watched Ramsay's Hotel Hell, i KNOW why thats illegal.

*shudders- legitimately shuddered at his keyboard just now* s..splotches...in UV..e..everywhere....
the c..carpet, t..the w..walls, the sheets, p..pillows- the c..ceiling....
The ceiling is a bit odd. Though there are some laws that are literally never enforced. Such as that it's illegal to eat oranges in the bathtub in California for some reason.
 
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The ceiling is a bit odd. Though there are some laws that are literally never enforced. Such as that it's illegal to eat oranges in the bathtub in California for some reason.
Yeah-there used to be a state in the US where you legally had to have windshield wipers on a car for it to be road legal- even though you didnt need a windscreen >.<

The fact you're saying that is evidence that you don't know that 40k's canon policy is that everything is canon, but not everything is fully accurate.

Squats are canon. Their homeworld got eaten by Tyrannids, but some of them managed to survive; there was a bit in the 7e corebook stating that. Additionally, there's a squat model for Necromunda 2e.

I have read the relevant books - the AdMech is one of my favorite armies. Warp-tech is generally considered either archaeotech or tech heresy. There's stuff like force weapons, psyberfamiliars, psychic hoods, the Emperor's Tarot and the like that augment or interact with a user's own psychic powers, but that's not tech that interacts with the Warp directly - and they're really rare, which is why they're typically used by elite forces like Inquisitors or Space Marine Librarians.
even the Book of the Astronomicon? o_O


i..w..wait
d..does....that..i..include... Jaq Draco's horrifying quest to fuck a Callidus Assassin whilst she was in t..the f..form of a Genestealer!?!?!?
 
Frankly, I'd rather turn this system into a nice simple heliocentric system rather than get up before dawn every day.
This assumes their sun is a standard yellow star one AU distance from the planet (or close enough) rather than a moon-sized fireball in high orbit.
Always consider why a system is setup as it is before deciding you should mess with it.

"It doesn't, but I had to make a living somehow."
Actually a fair few of the Wonderbolt stunts involve creating, arranging or destroying weather patterns. Their training certainly has a lot of it.
Also canonically LD was employed as a courier. AKA a high-speed mail delivery pony. Dash is the one who works weather for a living.

And it certainly can't hurt to check.
Like it couldn't hurt to check on the anti-life containment? This is The Magical Land Of Equestria. The place is lousy with sealed, dormant and spontaneously generating magical terrors just waiting for something to stumble over them.
 
It looks more like a skinny transsexual beastman than a succubus.
That's fairly offensive, since I doubt you meant something like Andreja Pejic with hooves.

His teeth click against on another. "Your majesty, it is free of all Chaotic influence. What it is, I cannot say."
Seems... Iffy. I mean, it's not entirely clear to me how emotions and Warp are bound, but basically you can't not have some type of chaos gods. Also, I've heard some claims that the world of WFP is located somewhere in the WH40k universe, but I don't know about that.
 
Ah, wonderful, someone decided to mention that disgusting abomination of a book.

Truly Games Workshop has created a disgusting and deplorable universe.
Damn you to hell Ian Watson.
 
Ah yes. Ophelia from Dragon Commander. Truly a lovely and sweet natured girl. It's terribly difficult to avoid the Dwarf Princess, as I love me a busty red-head that wears glasses . . . But Ophelia is a fine waifu.

Especially once you find a way to restore her to flesh.
Lipstick without lips is a thing that should not happen.

write a lecture on Equestrian Thaumatology.
I've done that before! Was a NaNoWriMo attempt back in college. (Well, it wasn't Equestrian thaumatology. MLP wasn't a noteworthy thing in 2002.)

Oooh, Trans-continental road-trip!
Does it count as a road trip if you're using a boom tube?

If so, I hope he fixes Derpy's eyes.
If she's functioning fine and isn't distressed by it, don't mess with her. :x (If she doesn't like it, that's a different matter.)

Such as that it's illegal to eat oranges in the bathtub in California for some reason.
This appears to be a fabrication, as I can find no attestation that it was ever on the books. (Turns out a lot of the "crazy"-sounding laws are either outright fabrications or creative extrapolations instead of an accurate description of the text and intent of a real law.)

Yeah-there used to be a state in the US where you legally had to have windshield wipers on a car for it to be road legal- even though you didnt need a windscreen >.<
Not even "used to be" -- this is current law in (at least) both Texas and Washington. However, this apparent absurdity is the result of taking excerpts of the law out of context. In both states, the wiper statute says that on vehicles equipped with a windscreen the wipers must be maintained in good working order.
 
[Non Canon Nonsense]

"Well this wasn't what I was expecting."

Yeah it's kind of like the Spanish inquisition that way.

"A human?"

In Equestria, yeah the Hasbro portal keeps that from happening, it's how that girl got here ages ago.

"I feel like I'm missing some key facts."

Well I'm what popular media calls a Planeswalker, I ended up here had a laugh and then you showed up.
That portal over there goes to the Hasbroverse, it's a crazy place full of Cybertronians, and crazy special forces teams.
Still it beats recent events.

"What happened?"

Some Yutz set an antilife fragment loose and it landed in the general area.
Damn thing just set off a dormant pocket of Smooze.

"Ah."
 
Yeah-there used to be a state in the US where you legally had to have windshield wipers on a car for it to be road legal- even though you didnt need a windscreen >.<


even the Book of the Astronomicon? o_O


i..w..wait
d..does....that..i..include... Jaq Draco's horrifying quest to fuck a Callidus Assassin whilst she was in t..the f..form of a Genestealer!?!?!?

I mean... there's a really obvious explanation for that book. It's some bored librarian's in-universe AU fanfiction that got mixed in to the real archives by mistake / a prank. So he writes about things he's heard of and things that sound hot to him, a boring nerd working in a library who's never been in action and never met a genestealer. So some of it is historically accurate, but Draco is an SI character, and most of it is made up by a very reliable narrator.

Also, even better, she can only disguise herself as a genestealer (according at least to the Emperor's voxcast runthrough of that first book.)
 
Mquz makes an interesting idea.

This certainly wouldn't be the first book whose main character was basically an SI
The Divine Comedy is the first one that comes to mind and is possibly one of the oldest pieces of SI fanfiction out there.
 

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