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legionmissions2017-05-04 08:02 pm
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Gods Among Us - Saving the Past [modplot]
Who| Everyone who signed up
What| "Gods Among Us"
Where| The Past
When| After the timeline falls apart
Warnings/Notes|
The shifting timeline finally settles into something...horrible. Legion World is no more. As they make it to the lab, the team finds themselves on Brainiac 3's asteroid base instead, and through the windows, something monstrous can be seen.
It was once Earth. The time travelers that altered the past sold out the planet to extradimensional entities long ago -- and all of history has suffered for it. Hence: Brainiac 3's base existing in place of Legion World. Except it doesn't belong to Brainiac 3 anymore. It was Brainiac 5's inheritance.
Brainiac 5 stares at them all from his throne. Strange cords are affixed to the apparatus on his head as if they're downloading information directly into his brain. Hanging in the room around him are different cities, shrunken and trapped in forcefield bottles. Other oddities float in containment units through his throne room. Without Earth and the influence of its heroes, galactic history has shifted. The Legion never existed, and neither did the UP. That means, without the tempering influence of the UP law, that Colu's mistreatment of the Brainiac line was far more openly brutal. This version of Brainiac 5 never became a hero.
In the windows outside, a battle is ongoing. Tentacled robots attack the strange construct that once was planet Earth. Brainiac doesn't seem to be the only one attacking the devastated planet -- other ships and constructs can be seen. Apparently, this is the last stand for many of the major powers of the altered 31st century.
Brainiac 5 looks at them like they're insects. He stands up and walks towards them, the cords attached to his head apparatus detaching one by one. A pedestal rises and a chamber opens within it, revealing a small metallic orb. He takes it in his hand and presses a button. The orb floats in the air and then suddenly expands into a bubble large enough to hold them all.
When he talks it's with a distant voice, one that sounds utterly soul-less.
"When I received the message from my alternate self, I considered simply keeping you for study."
He walks over to the window, watching the chaos unfold outside, his expression flat.
"How fortunate you are," he says in a voice utterly devoid of anything resembling emotion, "that I'm so very bored."
He waves a hand vaguely at them, over his shoulder.
"The time sphere will take you where and when you need to go. There's a data file on board that explains the alterations to the timestream." A massive ship explodes outside the window. "Do try to make the timeline at least slightly less dull."
After they pile into the time sphere, travel through the time stream is...strange. The timestream is small and massive all at once. There’s no sense of space or scale to it. It’s brilliantly colored, like layers of vibrant paints pushing through one another and dribbling past, streams of reds and greens and yellows streaking by in an instant eternity. It feels as if someone could just open the door of the time bubble and touch a solid barrier, but if they lean in they get the feeling it stretches to a near eternity.
However, if they focused in the reverse of the direction they’re moving, there’s a small dark spot in the farthest distance, where the color all cuts off. Like everything’s ended. It’s best not to focus there.
For such a massive space, it's also exceptionally crowded. They catch glimpses of multiple time travelers as they travel to the past. First, the time bubble almost rear-ends The Flash, and his then-teenage sidekick Kid Flash, as the two speedsters run on Barry's cosmic treadmill. Then it passes by another time bubble; from inside it, the hero Booster Gold and several different incarnations of the Blue Beetle stare out at them quizzically.
They even pass by a past version of the Legion itself. They're all teenagers here, and arguing with each other too fervently to notice the present-day Legionnaires whizzing by. Brainy, sans his white facial inhibitors, floats there bickering with Invisible Kid, gesturing wildly at some kind of metal platform.
Then the bubble gets them where they need to go. The files left for them by Brainiac 5 explain what was changed and what must be fixed. If they're a little barebones clinical, it can perhaps be forgiven, given that the final version of him that sent them back wasn't even a superhero.
What| "Gods Among Us"
Where| The Past
When| After the timeline falls apart
Warnings/Notes|
The shifting timeline finally settles into something...horrible. Legion World is no more. As they make it to the lab, the team finds themselves on Brainiac 3's asteroid base instead, and through the windows, something monstrous can be seen.
It was once Earth. The time travelers that altered the past sold out the planet to extradimensional entities long ago -- and all of history has suffered for it. Hence: Brainiac 3's base existing in place of Legion World. Except it doesn't belong to Brainiac 3 anymore. It was Brainiac 5's inheritance.
Brainiac 5 stares at them all from his throne. Strange cords are affixed to the apparatus on his head as if they're downloading information directly into his brain. Hanging in the room around him are different cities, shrunken and trapped in forcefield bottles. Other oddities float in containment units through his throne room. Without Earth and the influence of its heroes, galactic history has shifted. The Legion never existed, and neither did the UP. That means, without the tempering influence of the UP law, that Colu's mistreatment of the Brainiac line was far more openly brutal. This version of Brainiac 5 never became a hero.
In the windows outside, a battle is ongoing. Tentacled robots attack the strange construct that once was planet Earth. Brainiac doesn't seem to be the only one attacking the devastated planet -- other ships and constructs can be seen. Apparently, this is the last stand for many of the major powers of the altered 31st century.
Brainiac 5 looks at them like they're insects. He stands up and walks towards them, the cords attached to his head apparatus detaching one by one. A pedestal rises and a chamber opens within it, revealing a small metallic orb. He takes it in his hand and presses a button. The orb floats in the air and then suddenly expands into a bubble large enough to hold them all.
When he talks it's with a distant voice, one that sounds utterly soul-less.
"When I received the message from my alternate self, I considered simply keeping you for study."
He walks over to the window, watching the chaos unfold outside, his expression flat.
"How fortunate you are," he says in a voice utterly devoid of anything resembling emotion, "that I'm so very bored."
He waves a hand vaguely at them, over his shoulder.
"The time sphere will take you where and when you need to go. There's a data file on board that explains the alterations to the timestream." A massive ship explodes outside the window. "Do try to make the timeline at least slightly less dull."
After they pile into the time sphere, travel through the time stream is...strange. The timestream is small and massive all at once. There’s no sense of space or scale to it. It’s brilliantly colored, like layers of vibrant paints pushing through one another and dribbling past, streams of reds and greens and yellows streaking by in an instant eternity. It feels as if someone could just open the door of the time bubble and touch a solid barrier, but if they lean in they get the feeling it stretches to a near eternity.
However, if they focused in the reverse of the direction they’re moving, there’s a small dark spot in the farthest distance, where the color all cuts off. Like everything’s ended. It’s best not to focus there.
For such a massive space, it's also exceptionally crowded. They catch glimpses of multiple time travelers as they travel to the past. First, the time bubble almost rear-ends The Flash, and his then-teenage sidekick Kid Flash, as the two speedsters run on Barry's cosmic treadmill. Then it passes by another time bubble; from inside it, the hero Booster Gold and several different incarnations of the Blue Beetle stare out at them quizzically.
They even pass by a past version of the Legion itself. They're all teenagers here, and arguing with each other too fervently to notice the present-day Legionnaires whizzing by. Brainy, sans his white facial inhibitors, floats there bickering with Invisible Kid, gesturing wildly at some kind of metal platform.
Then the bubble gets them where they need to go. The files left for them by Brainiac 5 explain what was changed and what must be fixed. If they're a little barebones clinical, it can perhaps be forgiven, given that the final version of him that sent them back wasn't even a superhero.
GREEN LANTERN - Goku, Kyle Rayner, Joey
Fortunately, all they have to do to prevent this moment from being disrupted is get between Jacob and his prey. Unfortunately, Jacob is strongest and most durable of the four evil time travelers they're facing. Even just holding him back won't be easy.
Fortunately, the desert is remote. They don't have to worry about innocent bystanders or collateral damage. All they have to do is keep a supervillain from getting from point A to point B and killing his target.
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It's not long before they spot Jacob; the yellow paint really stands out against the natural backdrop, at least from their angle. "You think that's the guy?" Sure, yellow rock monsters aren't exactly common, but he doesn't want to attack the wrong person by mistake.
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For Kyle, too, this situation feels a lot more comfy than most. Maybe it's because he's a Lantern, or because he's already weirdly familiar with how this is supposed to end up, or maybe because it's such a straightforward mission... Whatever it is, he actually feels pretty well-equipped to handle this, for once.
"He doesn't look like much, but for a Green Lantern, yellow can mean trouble. Good thing that doesn't apply to the rest of us." He says so confidently, pauses briefly, and then adds: "...right?"
No one else here has a weird, secret weakness to the color yellow... right...
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He's in no hurry. Why should he be? Hal Jordan will be there for at least another twenty minutes, learning to fly, burying Abin Sur... And if he misses the man here, there's always the few hours he'll spend unconscious after knocking himself out on a billboard a few miles from here.
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"Hey, rock guy!" ...Stealth is not a concept that Goku grasps easily. (plus, he finds it unfair if he just punches someone before they're aware that they're in a fight) Since he can't use ki blasts, he'll just go with a good old-fashioned punch to the face. He's not sure how much this guy can take, so he'll start with small boosts and work his way up - no point in exhausting himself if it turns out that there's more to this.
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"Sorry to interrupt," he says, throwing down a quick construct behind Jacob, a translucent green brick wall, either to prevent him from moving too far away or to add a little extra hurt should Goku hit him hard enough. "But we can't let you go."
Definitely not looking like that, anyway.
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He is, however, massively strong. Goku's punch connects and he slams back into the wall Kyle made, but it barely seems to phase him. As soon as he collects himself, he reaches out and grabs a convenient rock formation, breaks it off like it isn't heavier than a semi, and hurls it at them both.
"Out. Of. My. Way."
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Instantly, he reappears above Jacob, swinging both hands downward in an attempt to knock him to the ground. Whether it accomplishes much doesn't matter to Goku; he hasn't had the chance to test his limits against something that isn't a simulation for a while now, and he relishes the opportunity.
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...maybe not strong enough to deflect it. But anything's better than a direct hit, right?
He's just gonna need a sec.