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I forgot to ask, but when would Paul have met Victor Stone's father? Also, I'd like to see the two Robins talk and share notes. One would wonder where he gets his hairgel, the other is shocked that Batman 16 went through with marrying a (former) supervillainess.I've met Cyborg's father a few times, though I've never met him. Our Robin is on my team, usually serving as a squad leader.
Love finds a way.Again, confused. How does this recording help? Assuming the manhunter gynoids don't have some crazy interdimensional locator sensors that was just a recording, how does that help locate anyone?
Why is she talking like that? Tamaraneans absorb language knowledge through physical contact, she should be grammatically correct. Shouldn't she?
Change "slight" to "insight"."I gained some slight into Krona's mindset while he was pulling me apart to find out how I work.
"I gained some slight into Krona's mindset while he was pulling me apart to find out how I work. If he could get an even mixture of each then he would."
"What do you think the chance is that this isn't a piece of fiction we're familiar with?"
So the issue of Time Trapper arriving at the wrong moment is because Jade gave him bad temporal directions? Sure blame it on the asian woman.Red Queen, have you located a version of him with a white ring?"
That's nice. Paul finally has someone to talk with about his true origins and meta-knowledge.He smiles. "What do you think the chance is that this isn't a piece of fiction we're familiar with?"
It's more reflex than anything.
Quite a stockpile. I bet there's enough for all three Pauls present to recreate that Green Lantern cover each... Not that they'd be able to use all those rings...2nd April 2012
Or… Not, I suppose
Time Trapper watches the recording through for the ninth time, pausing it at the pile of power rings.
Which suggest it's something innate to Paul themself. His connection to Earth Prime?"You see here?"
"Every one of us has been disarmed. So they don't need to be using their rings for whatever Krona's doing."
For a start, it means most of them are variants of OL proper. So those would likely be replications of Hinon's test-type ring..."Yes, but I was referring to the colours. Mostly orange. No white and no black."
Red's eyes narrow slightly. "Is that important?"
For a start, he doesn't care about the rings. Or at the least they're irrelevant to his current experiment..."I gained some slight into Krona's mindset while he was pulling me apart to find out how I work. If he could get an even mixture of each then he would."
"So what does that mean for us?"
No restaurant? I hear Milliways' has the best view of it.Komand'r floats down a little. "And where is that, anyway?"
"Vanishing Point. A facility at the end of time, after the physical laws of the universe have broken down but before it collapses into the Bleed. Our.. orange friend was taken there by the Legion of Super-Heroes after he was involved in a temporal event."
...Which doesn't mean good things for Brainiac Five. Hopefully he was simply shunted back into his defunct timeline."What's so special about it?"
"It's after.. conventional time. When you're there, you can alter time as much as you like without risk to yourself. Among other things. If you can get there quickly enough. I tolerated Dox there because he could help me with my work. Krona simply invaded the place."
Ugh, another forced stealth section. You can tell this questline was rushed through development."So are we trying to get there or trying to not get there?"
"First the latter, then the former. An army of Manhunters is a little more than we're prepared for, particularly given that he can reach into just about any parallel universe or timeline without issue."
Oh, come the fuck on. Infinitely respawning mobs? That's prime developer shorthand for fake difficulty."So he has infinite soldiers."
"Hmm. No, that would risk destabilising Vanishing Point itself. It would be more true to say that he has a large number of soldiers with infinite reinforcements."
I know, right? It's worst when they drop a puzzle section on you, but keep throwing mobs in to distract you. Perfect example, Lego Star Wars Complete Saga, the Death Star Escape level. One room, one object to build, twenty-plus stormtroopers with constant respawns..."Uugh." / "Uugh."
Red and I make momentary eye contact and quietly chuckle. Something we both hate, apparently: infinite respawns.
Because there's no way the quest plot will go straight to the boss fight. Padding for the vexation!Angelika looks at me curiously for a moment, then returns her attention to Time Trapper.
"Where are we going next?"
Great minds think alike. Even when mainlining different emotional lights."I need to know why there isn't a larger variation in the rings you received. That might be critical to understanding your origin."
Red and I look at one another again.
"Prime." / "Prime."
Hopefully, no Paul arrived without one. That'd be a morbid thought.Time Trapper inclined his cowl slightly. "Yes. And that should not be possible. It's.. curious, to think that you may have been some sort of planar event before any of this happened."
I shake my head. "Controller Hinon made my ring. It didn't shatter from a… From an original white ring, or anything like that. And if I hadn't had it when I arrived then I would have died from vacuum exposure."
Oh-ho, a visit to Buffy-verse? Onwards!"Unprotected humans can't survive the Bleed. But it isn't possible to access earth prime. Believe-" He glances at Red Queen, who is staring deeply into the crystal spire. "-me, we've tried. Red Queen, have you located a version of him with a white ring?"
"No." She turns away from the spire and looks at him. "And only one with a black ring. Do you want to open a portal there?"
One? Why not twenty-one? Thirty-one or forty-one? No comment on where that odd one out would go."Or we could go somewhere where Nekron isn't about to emerge into the material universe. How about somewhere where I have a spare orange ring?"
"We're trying to keep the number of trips down to the smallest number we have to make. If it comes to it, you saw the number of orange rings he's already collected. When we're finally ready to confront him, just summon one of those."
I wonder if they'll recognise the setting? Especially if Zaul (Zombie Paul, duh) is working with the Scoobies."I'm not especially eager to fight a Guardian without an orange ring."
"Hopefully it won't ever become an issue. If I can shut Krona down without needing to brawl with him then I definitely prefer that option." He nods to Red Queen. "Open the portal to the Black Lantern."
Must resist... Making Star Wars quote...Red half-raises his right hand. "Question. Does he need to be alive, undead, or can he be dead?"
"Any are fine. Essentially, what matters is not his characteristic in themselves but the degree to which he's similar to the rest of you. Animate is probably slightly better but him being a vector for Nekron is far worse. Just don't disintegrate him. Red Queen, does that alternity have a Jade?"
Because bright orange skin is going to be kind of masquerade-breaking. Unless people assumed she was a demon."No."
"Okay." Blackfire cracks her knuckles. "Let's get-."
Red Queen shakes her head. "No, not you."
I bet Blackfire liked hearing that insistent correction. Princess has a possessive streak..."Excuse me?"
"We're trying to disguise our location. I can disguise your boyfriend-"
Red perks up slightly. "Fiancé."
Well, that's not concerning. Not concerning at all. At a guess, she has an analogue on-world..."-using the fact that there's another version of him already there. You're a red flag."
Angelika nods-.
"No, I can send you. Just try to avoid Germany."
Eager, isn't he? Who knows what things are like out there?I glance at Jade 38, but she just shrugs and tosses her coin pouch. Fair enough. Willingness is paid for but enthusiasm is expecting too much.
Red Queen gestures, and a red crystal arch grows out of the ground, the night sky beyond flickering into view the moment it's whole. I rise-.
Red's gone, flying out at full speed. I follow at a more sedate pace, passing through the portal-.
Passive wide-area effect, then. Not powerful, either. That would be the Hellmouth's SEP aura.Your spell eater is heating up a bit.
Huh. Yes. Just a little, but I can't see anything that could be targeting me visually, and my wards are still working.
Not that the heat would bother her beyond "Oh, that's noteworthy."
Good to see Ring Communication protocols are compatible across the multiverse. They probably exchanged codecs off-screen. Or Maltusian tech is that predictable.
Hopefully the local energies don't stick to OL too strongly. Last thing he needs is another Hell-spawn incident.His face appears just in front of me.
"There is at least one wide-area spell at work. Are you warded?"
I'm guessing Raul's wards are part of the Ring's standard environmental field... Because Atrocitus.
"Given form so far? So low as to be negligible. Wonder what it'll be?""Do you have a spare?"
"Left it in my other ring."
"Okay, I'll just do reconnaissance." He smiles. "What do you think the chance is that this isn't a piece of fiction we're familiar with?"
As is throwing the gun at him after emptying it. Amusing when the actor ducks the gun too, suggesting Superman cares naught for bullets, but is afraid of a pound or two of steel flying at his head.
Thank you, corrected.
No, but she has heard that the daughter of a friend of a friend has super powers.Zoat does renegade Diana know about Cassie being the daughter of Zeus?
No.Can Captain Comet fly faster than light using his own powers without any assistance from his ship in your story?
He hasn't looked into it.So the renegade hasn't told her or doesn't know about Cassie himself.
Is that a statement or a question?So Blake needs his ship to fly at FTL speeds, like how Maxima's people do and unlike Effigy and the Star Conquerors who use their own power without technological assistance, but can still survive the vacuum of space and probably fly extremely fast even without it.