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The Legion [Mods] ([personal profile] letsgolegion) wrote in [community profile] legionmissions2017-01-03 06:11 am

NO SANITY CLAUSE [modplot]

Who| Open to everyone not in "Silent Horizon"
What| An alternate version of The Joker, Herald of Chronoblivion, wreaks havoc on Cargg
Where| Relegg, capitol city of Cargg
When| Shortly after the other half of the team is deployed to the Silent Horizon
Warnings/Notes| Bombs, madpeople, forced drugging/torture of civilians, creepiness, and chaos



It starts with a bang, of course. Bombs going off, Joker gas making innocent Carggites go completely mad. Joker gang members, paid mercenaries and criminals, pour out into the streets, damaging property and attacking whoever they come in contact with. It's all one big nightmarish surprise -- but one that clearly took a lot of planning. All these bombs, and gas deployment systems, and tech suppression devices, and all these minions... it's random and yet not, calculated and improvised all at once.

This universe hasn't seen a villain like this in 1000 years, and last time it saw it, it was the same one, albeit a version native to this dimension. This one's from another similar dimension, but he dances around in the middle of it all the same way, laughing. Floating cameras broadcast his face to every viewscreen in the UP; he's taken over all the channels.

His body is strange, the colors of his skin and clothes and anything he touches black and white and inverted, like the negative of a photo, but that wide Cheshire grin is just as sinister as it's always been -- in the past or present, in this universe or any other.

"Hellooooo United Planets! Are you sick of having most social ills abolished? Tired of languishing under the heavy burden of an actually functional justice system? Are you bored with never wanting or needing for anything?" He waves both arms with a flourish and does a little soft shoe. "Then it's your lucky day! For a paltry sum of absolutely nothing, you can have your very own Joker! I slice 'em, I dice 'em, I make julienne surprise! Which you need desperately; just admit it, living in a perfect universe is a drag! Humdrum! Tedious!"

He blows a raspberry and waves a hand like it's the worst thing he's ever heard.

"It's a bunch of hooey, I tell ya'. Fortunately, for you, I'm here to blow the galaxy wide open!" Explosions go off behind him and there's a chorus of screams. "Literally!"

He lets out a chilling laugh, like someone's just told him the funniest joke he's ever heard.

"I even recruited a motley crew of madmen to help me with this momentous occasion -- including some UP citizens I tortured to insanity in my Ha Ha Hacienda, my own little homemade Arkham just outside the city. I missed some old friends, don'cha know, from the golden days when psychotics could roll through the revolving doors of the nuthut and freely wander the streets. I couldn't get any of them crazy enough to put on a bat costume -- that was a little too nutty even for them, hoo hoo! -- but I managed to get some familiar faces grinning back at me again, with only a turn or two of the thumbscrews."

His smile widens, even though that should be impossible for it to get any wider.

"This is just the start! Because your precious heroes, those brave souls in the Legion of Superheroes -- they've kept a little secret from the fair citizens of the UP." He leans in close to one of the cameras. "And it's that I'm just the opening act! The warm up! The main event is still to come. Y'see, I'm good pals with Chronoblivion, a monster from outside of space and time that's almost as maniacal as me, and after I've set the galaxy on fire -- and made sure it's well done -- he's ready to settle in for the main course, i.e. you. Your whole universe is going right down the hatch!"

He sweeps both arms out.

"Until then, sit back and enjoy the show, kids! I promise it'll be a gas!"

Another bomb explodes, filling the area around him with Joker gas. Screams in the area around him start turning to hysterical laughter that matches his own laugh, which bursts out of him like a living thing.

"HA HA HA HA! AHA HAHA HAHA HAHA HAHAHAHAHA!"
gothamvillains: (Clayface)

Hal Jordan, Jason Grace, and Gaige | Clayface

[personal profile] gothamvillains 2017-01-03 11:14 am (UTC)(link)
The poor man that "Clayface" used to be was a well known actor from Durla, who used his shapeshifting talents to be various stars on the silver screen. But after being mutated into a mudbeing and tortured to insanity, he can barely even talk.

Now he's the very definition of "I have no mouth and I must scream". Unfortunately, in his rage and pain, this new Clayface is attacking everything and everyone in his reach, as if trying to express the pain he's in while no longer having the words to do it.

They either have to take him down by force -- or try to reach the tortured soul within.

Powers: A body of living protoplasmic mud that can shapeshift into crude shapes. Superhuman strength.
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[personal profile] fuckaccuracy 2017-01-05 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
Okay, you know what? Screw it, Gaige is gonna shoot this guy down until he can't move anymore. And while she had the gun for it, the bullets didn't really seem to be doing much. All it really did was make the big guy even more upset.

So much for shoot first and ask questions later.

Gaige just ducked out of the way as big, stupid and ugly charged at her.

"So uh, anybody else got ideas on how to take him down? Or am I gonna have to shoot some more?"
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[personal profile] notthatjason 2017-01-07 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
Fighting Earthborn was one thing. You knew they were monsters and that they'd just return to the clay they came from -- just like all monsters they would or could come back eventually. This was different, but at the same time that was the only comparison Jason could make -- creatures made of clay. But this wasn't a creature, right? This was a person or alien -- a citizen. He recalls the broadcast they'd seen all too well: "some UP citizens I tortured to insanity."

This wasn't just some person being paid to kill them, this wasn't your normal bad guy. But they still had to take them down, at least he knew they couldn't kill him with bullets.

"I could try stunning him. Not sure how effective that will be on someone who is made of clay though," Jason mused, glancing from behind the cover he'd taken when Gaige had started shooting. Electricity wasn't always that effective against earth -- not unless he made it explosive and concentrated -- but it was just as likely for him to reform around it like he had with the bullets.
ringslinging: what is the maximum amount of trouble we can get into without going to jail? (we have to calibrate.)

[personal profile] ringslinging 2017-01-09 05:32 am (UTC)(link)
"Holding a shapeshifter's not gonna be easy."

Hal was speaking from experience - and Clayface was proving the point even as he said it; he'd been trying a few different constructs to contain the man while they were talking, and he'd easily changed shapes to slide right out of all of them.