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

Chojin Patriarch · Jan 9, 2022

Mr Zoat said:
16th September 2012
21:05 GMT -5

Pain!

"Con-tact."

Hellfire burns around my armour and scorches my body. And inside, I can feel it burn at my metaphysique, my constructs and environmental shield shimmering as it's attached directly. And I realise that Michael Holt is a lot more intelligent that any demon.

Yes, that's his true superpower. Third smartest man on Earth with at least 14 PH.Ds (Presumably Lex Luthor is above him.) Everything else? That's pure human achievement, including Olympic medalist-tier fitness, sheer toughness and raw determination that I'm amazed has never earned him a green ring.

"Fuel for Him."

Feed Me.

Just be glad Lex Luthor-Hell died in the first minutes of this whole thing. Can you imagine him all cultist-ed up and throwing his brand of crazy science at you?

Flames burning in the void shimmer orange as I try and ingest whatever he's using to power this.

"Do you-"

Careful, OL. You know demonic energies don't agree with you. Like the world's worst case of lactose intolerance. Only with more Greed.

The pain lessens and my body knits itself back together.

"-need help?"

If I understand his position, he's in orbit right now. Not sure any of the Nazis cloud help, while the Wonder Women and Kryptonians are needed to fight Demon-Superman.

"Not yet, thank-"

I lash our at the T-Spheres as they form a sphere around me, but they shimmer out of phase with reality before I can hit them. Terrific himself floats back slowly, none of the insane passion every other corrupted human has had visible on his mask-covered face.

The joy of being able to fight remotely, huh? All the danger to the enemy, at no risk to you. And it's probably messing with the compulsions of the control spell.

"-you. Engaging Mister Terrific."

Back on Earth 16, Michael Holt is still building his company and hasn't shown any interest in superheroing. I hope that the Sheeda invasion hasn't butterflied that.

Given two of the things that drove him into heroism were the deaths of his mentally handicapped brother (by suicide) and his wife and unborn child (in a car accident,) if either of them died in the invasion...

I form a railgun as Terrific continues to watch me impassively, not reacting as I fire mage slayer and phasic rounds at him. Not even a blur as they pass through the space his image occupies.

And another wave of fire! The T-Spheres-! A three dimensional pentagram! That's how it's hitting me despite my tattoos!

So he can basically throw anything he casts at the area inside the pattern, and know it'll hit, since he can see you.

I fly down, moving a hundred metres closer to the distant Earth. Terrific keeps pace without making any apparent movement, but the T-Spheres lag behind and lose formation as they accelerate after me. Alright, try phasic and mage slayer rounds at a few of those… Negative impact. Right, fine, but they're interacting with the physical universe somehow or they wouldn't be able to move. Not magnetism, not a self-generated force field otherwise I'd be able to detect the plasma surrounding them.

Amazing little things. Apparently their concept was so good, both the supervillain Roulette and Batman stole the design. Michael was okay with the latter, but a bit salty about the former.

So gravity. Which means that if I generate an impeller construct and twist-.

The T-Spheres jerk, shifting their acceleration from me and towards a central point in their formation. For a second, at which point they go ballistic-

Oooh, effective! Keep that up!

Shoot them again!

-with their gravity drives deactivated so that I can no longer interact with them by manipulating their motive system, but.. that doesn't mean that the magic keeping them out of normal space stops working. Can I..? Combine phasing and magic-draining into a single round? Not without a trip to Sephtian.

The joy of overspecialising your inventory.

"Interesting."

Nth metal would probably work, but I'm all out. I could in theory make more, but-.

Last time, you nearly created a singularity inside Mount Justice, and needed the full bonding of the ophidian... Let's not go fooling around with it again?

T-Spheres swirl, forming-move!

I dart aside as a portal opens between the T-Spheres, some sort of shimmering… Vapour? Gas? Drifts out. I spot the edge of the patch touch one of my gas traps and dissolve it, the gas being frozen by the cold field as the force field breaches before being so totally unmade that I can't even detect radiation that might be given off by a conventional disintegration effect.

Oh, that's nasty. Seriously, the super-genius heroes can be really scary when they go bad...

Need to get Terrific himself.

I try staring into his soul, but he's not actually here. There's nothing to see… But… I'm the focus of his thoughts and desires at the moment. I should be able to-.

Like trying to look a drone operator in the eye: Not all that effective.

Agh!

Stabbed! Smaller portals have opened beneath me, dull grey needles jutting out and penetrating my legs! But those-. Portals!

Meh, legs are unnecessary. But now you have some T-spheres who are in physical contact with you!

Mine.

The wavering area around the edge of the portals turns orange, the T-Spheres trying to back away but being… Stuck, by their own innate magics. The spines retract as I choke the flow of magic… Ow, ow, definitely demon magic but it's working for me.

Ooh, that's gonna be fun squeezing that out later. But now you have some Tang-Spheres.

The other T-Spheres float closer, one flying by its fellows to try and work out what's wrong with them. Move the portal and stab!

Dead T-Sphere!

Progress!

It fades fully into the material universe and I get a good look at its internals. Spell circuitry of a short that's… I recognise some things, but demon magic isn't studied much in Atlantis and I've never asked Mammon to share more but if I understand the general design correctly-.

Orange tendrils grab components and move them around, plugging certain demonic runes into others and dispensing with irrelevant parts-.

Good thing you have a little knowledge of what you're doing... Could be bad if you inadvertently create a demonic magical nuke...

Hah!

Assimilate that mess so I can sort-of control it, press there and railgun!

Ah, enemy-controlling skills. Always a bag of fun.

Two more T-Spheres are torn apart, and the rest I can see disappear in a puff of blue flame. The two on the portal appear to be stuck there, which I'll accept.

"Troublesome."

Gee, yah think, Mikey?

That's what happens when you try to play Xanatos Speed-chess with an expert.

I thrust the portal in his direction, and… Connect my bodged anti-T-Sphere to my metaphysique directly. Now extend my tendrils along the spines and

tell

them what I want from them.

Firewall? What firewall? Counter-intrusion software? Pales in the face of a Power Ring...

Mr. Terrific doesn't move as the approach, settling for watching the stolen portal. Why-? Countermeasures. He's probably given a good deal of though to the question of how to kill a Green Lantern, but he didn't know that there were other colours, much less the differences in their abilities. Green Lanterns can't do this.

The spines leap at his image, vanishing as they hit it. I make a point of folding my arms across my chest and repairing my armour. Mr. Terrific waves at something out of shot -probably preparing some sort of Super T-Sphere or something- then falls to the ground at the spines explode from his legs and arms.

And decisively out of the fight. ...Ow.

His image vanishes, and I shoot both of the remaining T-Spheres maintaining my stolen portal. Helpful as it might be I don't know enough about that demon or the portals to want to risk it.

"Mister Terrific has fallen back injured." I look back towards Metropolis. "Pleas up-?"

Now, back to the real boss fight...

There's giant Superman shaped blur in the centre of Metropolis smashing apart buildings as if they were of no consideration. Three other blurs dash around it, tiny red lines briefly connecting them to the larger blur. They're all staying close to the ground, which if I had to guess is because Demon Superman doesn't want to risk getting pushed to the outskirts of the thaumosphere.

"The Kryptonians have engaged. Baron-" Diana only hesitates for an instant. "-Gestapo has fallen back safely and Baroness Blitzkrieg is preparing for the next stage. Are you injured?"

If the next stage involves tying him up, I hope the Lasso can expand as much as it needs to...

"Fine fettle and raring to go. What do you need?"

"Stand by to evacuate our allies if they are injured. Crusader is almost ready-."

If there's one thing he's good at, it's moving fast.

Just ask Jade... No, wait, bad example.

There's a blast wave as Demon Superman backhands Overman, sending him flying through half the city and then heat visioning-.

Transition!

Whatever he's frying, it's evidently not something OL wants fried...

I have the feeling this fight could turn bad any second. Or, if their plan works, it'll be over in minutes. Either way, things will soon be done and over with. Hopefully by super-punching Rakkar right out of Demon-Superman... And then comes the next problem: How to get everyone back to their respective worlds of origin. The Nazi's method was sloppy at best, you can't rely on random portals, and OL never did find out how Truggs was crossing the dimensional barriers, did he?

...my constructs and environmental shield shimmering as it's attached directly.

Given the context, perhaps 'attacked'?

I lash our at the T-Spheres...

I lash out at the T-Spheres...

He's probably given a good deal of though to the question...

He's probably given a good deal of thought to the question...

There's giant Superman shaped blur...

There's a giant Superman shaped blur...

Mr Zoat · Jan 9, 2022

Chojin Patriarch said:
Given the context, perhaps 'attacked'?
I lash out at the T-Spheres...
He's probably given a good deal of thought to the question...
There's a giant Superman shaped blur...

Thank you, corrected.

Sordid Snake · Jan 9, 2022

Chojin Patriarch said:
I'm amazed has never earned him a green ring[/spoiler]

The Smurfs probably has him on the "Do Not Recruit" list: The T-spheres are kind of like a first attempt at a semi-autonomous all-purpose tool/weapon, so they wouldn't like him getting a good look at the most advanced all-purpose tool/weapon in the universe.

Doccer · Jan 9, 2022

Mr Zoat said:
Back on Earth 16, Michael Holt is still building his company and hasn't shown any interest in superheroing. I hope that the Sheeda invasion hasn't butterflied that.

Even if it has you could always bring home some of those T-Spheres to gift him. Get him the chance to bring about the same level of technological wonder for 16?

Mr Zoat said:
. It passes them in a f-. Second, and few of them bother to react.

Oh come now! You know perfectly well the only reason he's called Flash is to make flash puns!

nick012000 · Jan 9, 2022

Doccer said:
Even if it has you could always bring home some of those T-Spheres to gift him. Get him the chance to bring about the same level of technological wonder for 16?

It looks like these T-Spheres are using demonic magitech, so giving them to people to reverse-engineer seems like a rather poor idea. That's how you wind up with demons possessing computers and running amok on the Internet or something.

Doccer · Jan 9, 2022

nick012000 said:
It looks like these T-Spheres are using demonic magitech, so giving them to people to reverse-engineer seems like a rather poor idea. That's how you wind up with demons possessing computers and running amok on the Internet or something.

Eh, remove the demonic parts and tell him the conditions you grabbed them in. They gotta be like 80 percent non magic yeh?

Stsword · Jan 9, 2022

nick012000 said:
It looks like these T-Spheres are using demonic magitech, so giving them to people to reverse-engineer seems like a rather poor idea. That's how you wind up with demons possessing computers and running amok on the Internet or something.

I think someone who wrote Fate was a Buffy fan, because one of Fate's enemies was a demon created when an occult collector uploaded his collection of curses, rituals, and spells into his computer.

So a killer demon that was probably a PDF or Word document.

Michael Vonica · Jan 9, 2022

Stsword said:
So a killer demon that was probably a PDF or Word document.

Must we be careful when putting our drinks on their coasters, lest their condensation form a pentagram, and turn the coaster into some form of demonic coaster?

Bramble Thorn · Jan 10, 2022

Mr Zoat said:
...

Anyone know why the permalink tool doesn't just show that? That's not even complicated.

It's all Biigoh's fault. When in doubt, blame tanuki.
Also, see is a Moderator and can point you in the direction of which of the three administrators is responsible for not updating the bad coding that breaks links if a post changes pages.

nick012000 · Jan 10, 2022

Bramble Thorn said:
It's all Biigoh's fault. When in doubt, blame tanuki.
Also, see is a Moderator and can point you in the direction of which of the three administrators is responsible for not updating the bad coding that breaks links if a post changes pages.

IIRC, we're using XenForo, aren't we? It'd probably be more productive to go complain over at the XenForo forums.

Bramble Thorn · Jan 10, 2022

nick012000 said:
IIRC, we're using XenForo, aren't we? It'd probably be more productive to go complain over at the XenForo forums.

I think SB, SV, and SV all use XenForo.
But only here has the problem.
Seems to be a end user issue, not a XenForo exclusive problem.

Mr Zoat · Jan 10, 2022

16th September 2012
21:07 GMT -5

Demon Superman turns his head towards-.

Shield.

THIS ONE IS OURS!

The buildings on either side of me sag as the heat of Demon Superman's gaze melts the metal of their superstructure and causes glass to spray in all directions, propelled by the vaporisation of the material closer to the heat course. Concrete explodes, anything or anyone still inside the buildings catches fire and my shield is already cracking!

Through the wavering shield construct I see Angelika hit him hard in the back of the neck, buying me a fraction of a second as the red-hot pit around us gets a moment to cool off. My shield expands, and I add cold guns that I know he can just avoid but which might stop-.

Another blast of overwhelming heat, cold gun constructs really not cutting it. I think he's actually making an effort now. Position clearly untenable, Overman… Still down. I take a purple healing ray out of subspace and use the otherwise ineffectual cold gun constructs to prevent it melting, then turn it on Overman.

"Overman?"

"Ah-. Overman Awake."

He pulls himself upright, hands sticking to the semi-molten detritus around us as he gets his bearings. A slight wince as he ducks his head into the purple ray, then a circle of displaced semi-molten detritus as he launches back into the-

Transition.

-fight.

"Overman recovered, resuming overwatch."

"Understood."

Diana's probably itching to get stuck in, but until he's been weakened there isn't any point. He's far stronger than her like this, and the demon magic means that he lacks magic as a point of vulnerability. I know that she won't break discipline, but the Nazis… Quick check…

Baron Gestapo is advancing. Er… Ah, no, there's a reason. More cultists are pouring in to the area of the fight. I can see where collisions and near-misses have already taken a toll on them. He actually needs to stun more of them to keep them alive. White Dragon is being babysat by The Bat, and they're acting as mobile blockers. Right now they're fighting… Ah… Scorch, I think? And Sandy Hawkins, who is currently a barely-mobile lump of fused glass. Scorch is trying to teleport to keep up with the owlwing but it just isn't happening. They seem-.

"Orange Lantern to The Bat. Carapax approaching from the north."

"Should I be-" The owlwing twists in the air, using its gravity drive to air brake and throwing off Scorch's expectations of where it would be when she reappeared. One air taser shot later and she's falling to the ground. "-worried?"

"He's an upload with a robot body. I don't know what technology he's using, but Mister Terrific is a technological genius."

"Does he have a soul?"

"I haven't checked. His computer core is in the chest, so you should be able to blow off the extremities without any problem."

"How refreshing. Ah, I see him. The Bat out."

Shadow of War is getting into position, drifting through the partially-collapsed Metropolis storm drains. She is ethereal, so damage from the results of having four Kryptonians smashing the place apart isn't a huge problem, but Demon Superman's possession means that he could probably hurt her if he paid her any serious attention.

Not her time yet.

Miles away from the main fight, Reichsmark takes a moment away from knocking the Underworlders around to watch the mushroom cloud of debris thrown up by Demon Superman being kicked into the ground. Count Berlin uses the distraction to transform back from mist into his vampire form behind Kathana and bite down on his neck in an unhelpfully stereotypical way.

Doesn't look like being under the control of a demon who doesn't care whether you live or die is much healthier for the superpeople than it is for the proles. A normal tyrant would keep an elite bodyguard on hand, but whatever's controlling the local Superman doesn't appear to have bothered. As far as I can tell, the people responding are just the people who happened to be in the area.

Which means that it was definitely worth going after Wolf first, if nothing else.

"Raaaaagh!"

Demon Superman flies upward, but our kryptonians dodge him easily enough. His initial charge having missed, Demon Superman actually stops and looks around at a speed low enough that I can see it unaided. Looks like our team were focusing their own heat vision on his eyes, because I can see the damage they've done.

"Diana to Baroness Blitzkrieg. Superman reports that they're nearly ready."

"Crusader doesn't know if the streets will still work if they're molten."

Fair point.

"Five-"

I form a new cold gun construct.

"-seconds."

Cold beams lance downwards as our kryptonians take turns in flying at Demon Superman's head at maximum speed. Superman could deal with that by listening carefully, something Luminus learned the hard way. I don't know if the Demon hasn't bothered with his other abilities or if it's just concussed, but that idea doesn't seem to be occurring.

"Overman to Shadow of War. Now."

Demon Superman opens his mouth and the Metropolitan air freezes, water droplets turning to ice and coating everything. That shouldn't threaten the lives of our side, but it's an area effect attack that will slow them down a little which is probably what he was going for. But he's not watching the ground beneath him, allowing Shadow of War to rise upward. We're not entirely sure what her empathic abilities will do to a demon, but we're hoping that she can either reach Kal-El in there or give the demon visions that it doesn't like.

Demons only like war when other people bleed.

Apparently realising that arctic breath isn't going to do anything, Demon Superman inhales-.

And Shadow of War latches onto his head.

"Diana!"

"-off! Me!"

Diana and Artemis fly in at speed, Lasso of Truth suspended between them. Atom Man's approach is slower, taking his time to overcharge his kryptonite lasers and target Demon Superman's exposed skin. I've… Yes, finished solidifying the roads we need. I turn my cold gun into a teleportation gun, load mage slayers and fire.

There's a momentary delay and then something shimmers over Demon Superman's skin.

"Atom M-."

Atom Man fires into Demon Superman's face-

"Not blind."

-as the Wonder Women wind the Lasso around his legs and pull them out from underneath him!

Ngamer11 · Jan 10, 2022

Mr Zoat said:
Miles away from the main fight, Reichsmark takes a moment away from knocking the Underworlders around to watch the mushroom cloud of debris thrown up my Demon Superman being kicked into the ground. Count Berlin uses the distraction to transform back from mist into his vampire form being Kathana] and bite down in his neck in an unhelpfully stereotypical way.

The 'Demon' and bracket should be removed, while being should say 'behind' and in should be 'on'.

Mr Zoat said:
Looks like our team were focusing their own heat vision on his eyes, because I can see the damage they've done.

That should say 'was'.

Mr Zoat said:
"Diana to Baroness Blitzkrieg. Superman report that they're nearly ready."

That should say 'reports'.

Mr Zoat said:
Superman could deal with that my listening carefully, something Luminus learned the hard way.

That should say 'by'.

The fight seems to be going well enough. I wonder how Earth 666 is supposed to recover after this.

Handlewithcare · Jan 10, 2022

Yay!...go Team...Nazi...

This feels so wrong.

Bramble Thorn · Jan 10, 2022

Mr Zoat said:
Count Berlin uses the distraction to transform back from mist into his vampire form being Kathana] and bite down in his neck in an unhelpfully stereotypical way.

behind

Mr Zoat said:
Superman could deal with that my listening carefully,

by

Edit: Darn Ninjas...

moralrelativity · Jan 10, 2022

Mr Zoat said:
He's actually needs to stun more of them to keep them alive.

He's -> He

Mr Zoat said:
thrown up my Demon Superman

my -> by

Mr Zoat said:
charged having misses

misses -> missed

Mr Zoat said:
kryptonians take turns in flying at Demon Superman's head

don't need the "in"

Mr Zoat · Jan 10, 2022

Ngamer11 said:
The 'Demon' and bracket should be removed, while being should say 'behind' and in should be 'on'.
That should say 'reports'.
That should say 'by'.

Thank you, corrected.

That should say 'was'.

I think that's correct.

Mr Zoat · Jan 10, 2022

moralrelativity said:
He's -> He
misses -> missed

Thank you, corrected.

don't need the "in"

I think that's correct.

Ganurath · Jan 10, 2022

Handlewithcare said:
Yay!...go Team...Nazi...

This feels so wrong.

Go Team Exorcism, now with more Nazi Skeet?

Chojin Patriarch · Jan 10, 2022

Mr Zoat said:
16th September 2012
21:07 GMT -5

Demon Superman turns his head towards-.

Shield.

Definitely not going to be pleasant. I can't imagine the amount of thermal energy being discharged when he's that large. I suspect that even if they beat him, Earth is going to be in for a hot time for a few years as the heat bleeds off.

THIS ONE IS OURS!

The buildings on either side of me sag as the heat of Demon Superman's gaze melts the metal of their superstructure and causes glass to spray in all directions, propelled by the vaporisation of the material closer to the heat course. Concrete explodes, anything or anyone still inside the buildings catches fire and my shield is already cracking!

Oof. Like a directed nuclear thermal flash. Really nasty.

Through the wavering shield construct I see Angelika hit him hard in the back of the neck, buying me a fraction of a second as the red-hot pit around us gets a moment to cool off. My shield expands, and I add cold guns that I know he can just avoid but which might stop-.

Another blast of overwhelming heat, cold gun constructs really not cutting it. I think he's actually making an effort now. Position clearly untenable, Overman… Still down. I take a purple healing ray out of subspace and use the otherwise ineffectual cold gun constructs to prevent it melting, then turn it on Overman.

I'll bet his cape is getting a little singed by this. Assuming it's still in one piece after his little unplanned tour of Metropolis.

"Overman?"

"Ah-. Overman Awake."

If a little woozy. Because even Kryptonians can get punch-drunk if you hit them hard enough.

He pulls himself upright, hands sticking to the semi-molten detritus around us as he gets his bearings. A slight wince as he ducks his head into the purple ray, then a circle of displaced semi-molten detritus as he launches back into the-

Transition.

...I see the Purple Healing Ray works quick on concussions. Not surprising, as they're basically brain-bruises...

-fight.

"Overman recovered, resuming overwatch."

Things a little too hot in close, OL? I suppose it makes a nice break from the last few battles he's been in...

"Understood."

Diana's probably itching to get stuck in, but until he's been weakened there isn't any point. He's far stronger than her like this, and the demon magic means that he lacks magic as a point of vulnerability. I know that she won't break discipline, but the Nazis… Quick check…

Yeah, some of them seem a little... Lacking.

Baron Gestapo is advancing. Er… Ah, no, there's a reason. More cultists are pouring in to the area of the fight. I can see where collisions and near-misses have already taken a toll on them. He's actually needs to stun more of them to keep them alive. White Dragon is being babysat by The Bat, and they're acting as mobile blockers. Right now they're fighting… Ah… Scorch, I think? And Sandy Hawkins, who is currently a barely-mobile lump of fused glass. Scorch is trying to teleport to keep up with the owlwing but it just isn't happening. They seem-.

"Orange Lantern to The Bat. Carapax approaching from the north."

Heh. Wrong fight for Sandy to be in, all that heat flying about... Although I see some of the stranger creations of the post-crisis era are getting dragged out.

"Should I be-" The owlwing twists in the air, using its gravity drive to air break and throwing off Scorch's expectations of where it would be when she reappeared. One air taser shot later and she's falling to the ground. "-worried?"

"He's an upload with a robot body. I don't know what technology he's using, but Mister Terrific is a technological genius."

I assume there's enough humanity in there to be corruptible. Not the first technological demon we've seen, after all.

"Does he have a soul?"

"I haven't checked. His computer core is in the chest, so you should be able to blow off the extremities without any problem."

"How refreshing. Ah, I see him. The Bat out."

Heh, bit of a 'finally, something I can shoot!' feeling there from Herr Fledermaus...

Shadow of War is getting into position, drifting through the partially-collapsed Metropolis storm drains. She is ethereal, so damage from the results of having four Kryptonians smashing the place apart isn't a huge problem,, but Demon Superman's possession means that he could probably hurt her if he paid her any serious attention.

Not her time yet.

They need him pinned down first, I'm guessing. Not easy when he's at least ten feet tall.

Miles away from the main fight, Reichsmark takes a moment away from knocking the Underworlders around to watch the mushroom cloud of debris thrown up my Demon Superman being kicked into the ground. Count Berlin uses the distraction to transform back from mist into his vampire form being Kathana] and bite down in his neck in an unhelpfully stereotypical way.

Doesn't look like being under the control of a demon who doesn't care whether you like or die isn't much healthier for the superpeople than it is for the proles. A normal tyrant would keep an elite bodyguard on hand, but whatever's controlling the local Superman doesn't appear to have bothered. As far as I can tell, the people responding are just the people who happened to be in the area.

Good thing none of the A-listers were in town. Just a few C-listers (and below) to play fodder. As for a bodyguard, who needs one when you're Kryptonian, with none of their weaknesses?

Which means that it was definitely worth going after Wolf first, if nothing else.

"Raaaaagh!"

To be fair, their main priority was stopping the invasion. Taking down Wolf managed that. But until Demon Superman is taken down, he can just find more magicians...

Demon Superman flies upward, but our kryptonians dodge him easily enough. His initial charged having misses, Demon Superman actually stops and looks around at a speed low enough that I can see it unaided. Looks like our team were focusing their own heat vision on his eyes, because I can see the damage they've done.

"Diana to Baroness Blitzkrieg. Superman report that they're nearly ready."

Well, they're pretty big targets at that size. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean he's blind. Super-hearing is still a thing, after all.

"Crusader doesn't know if the streets will still work if they're molten."

Fair point.

Interesting. Planning to use local streets as some manner of runic circle?

"Five-"

I form a new cold gun construct.

"-seconds."

Ah, still not able to break the laws of physics yet. No matter how much cold he puts on them, the asphalt can only cool down so fast... But being adjacent to near-absolute zero ice should make it faster.

Cold beams lance downwards as our kryptonians take turns in flying at Demon Superman's head and maximum speed. Superman could deal with that my listening carefully, something Luminus learned the hard way. I don't know if the Demon hasn't bothered with his other abilities or if it's just concussed, but that idea doesn't seem to be occurring.

"Overman to Shadow of War. Now."

After all, I suspect Kryptonian hearts sound like pile-drivers to his senses...

Demon Superman opens his mouth and the Metropolitan air freezes, water droplets turning to ice and coating everything. That shouldn't threaten the lives of our side, but it's an area effect attack that will slow them down a little which is probably what he was going for. But he's not watching the ground beneath him, allowing Shadow of War to rise upward. We're not entirely sure what her empathic abilities will do to a demon, but we're hoping that she can either reach Kal-El in there or give the demon visions that it doesn't like.

Oh, right. Freeze breath. Should be interesting: snow in September.

Demons only like war when other people bleed.

Apparently realising that arctic breath isn't going to do anything, Demon Superman inhales-.

Going to try tornado-force breath next, then. Would probably be a bit more effective.

And Shadow of War latches onto his head.

"Diana!"

Well, time to see if their plan works. Whatever it is, since we haven't seen it laid out.

"-off! Me!"

Diana and Artemis fly in a speed, Lasso of Truth suspended between them. Atom Man's approach is slower, taking his time to overcharge his kryptonite lasers and target Demon Superman's exposed skin. I've… Yes, finished solidifying the roads we need. I turn my cold gun into a teleportation gun, load mage slayers and fire.

After all, you can put him back together afterwards...

There's a momentary delay and then something shimmers over Demon Superman's skin.

"Atom M-."

Protective magic, I'm guessing.

Atom Man fires into Demon Superman's face-

"Not blind."

-as the Wonder Women wind the Lasso around his legs and pull them out from underneath him!

Let's hope he's distracted enough to forget he can fly.

And, hopefully, the giant falls. Let's hope they can keep him pinned down while the mages get to work on whatever's in his head. I'm guessing they're going to use a combination of the Lasso and Shadow of War's powers to drive out Rakkar, while Crusader tries to purify Earth. Let's hope they've got the metaphysical muscle to wrestle that demon down.

...smashing the place apart isn't a huge problem,, but...

Extraneous comma.

His initial charged having missed...

His initial charge having missed...

Diana and Artemis fly in a speed...

Diana and Artemis fly in at speed...

Sockmonkey · Jan 10, 2022

Mr Zoat said:
Doesn't look like being under the control of a demon who doesn't care whether you like or die isn't much healthier for the superpeople than it is for the proles.

Should say "live".

Vaermina · Jan 10, 2022

Mr Zoat said:
-as the Wonder Women wind the Lasso around his legs and pull them out from underneath him!

I really hope this is when things go pear shaped.

Because otherwise this will be just another standard curbstomp.

w34v3r · Jan 10, 2022

Maybe it doesn't carry over as well in text for other people as it does for me, but this was a fairly epic fight scene, just because the plan works doesn't mean the fight's bad.

Darko · Jan 10, 2022

Mr Zoat said:
Kryptonians smashing the place apart isn't a huge problem,, but Demon Superman's

Remove one ,

Mr Zoat said:
doesn't care whether you like or die isn't much he

'you live or die'

Mr Zoat said:
Demon Superman flies upward, but

Maybe 'upwards'

Mr Zoat said:
turns in flying at Demon Superman's head and maximum speed

'head at'

Mr Zoat said:
Diana and Artemis fly in a speed, Lasso

'in at speed'

Mr Zoat · Jan 10, 2022

Chojin Patriarch said:
Extraneous comma.
His initial charge having missed...
Diana and Artemis fly in at speed...

Sockmonkey said:
Should say "live".

Thank you, corrected.

FreeGod · Jan 10, 2022

Handlewithcare said:
Yay!...go Team...Nazi...

This feels so wrong.

"If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons." ― Winston S. Churchill

Of course in this case it is the other way round.

DAT_NOOB · Jan 10, 2022

FreeGod said:
"If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons." ― Winston S. Churchill

Of course in this case it is the other way round.

Let's be honest, we're routing for paul and overman.

Bud-E · Jan 10, 2022

Mr Zoat said:
THIS ONE IS OURS!

"Raaaaagh!"

"-off! Me!"

I know the scream and the line "off me" is Demon Superman but is the orange line Paul/Odphian?

Mr Zoat · Jan 10, 2022

Bud-E said:
I know the scream and the line "off me" is Demon Superman but is the orange line Paul/Odphian?

Yes.

ForeverShogo · Jan 10, 2022

Most of them seem pretty fun. Except for White Dragon. That guy seems to be enough of an asshole that even the Nazis are like, "This fucking guy."

If nothing else, the moments with Atom Man were pretty funny.

And this is them being better adjusted socially because in their world they get to be superheroes that do superhero things.

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