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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!"
onei: with lube and glitter. (they filled a kiddie pool)

[personal profile] onei 2017-01-09 05:37 am (UTC)(link)
Ina's not one to talk when action is required, and she doesn't waste time on it now. The word has barely left Killer Croc's mouth when she's already loosed a few arrows that hit him squarely in the chest.

They don't do much, is the problem. Two of the arrows don't penetrate his skin, bouncing off and falling to the ground. The third strikes home, but he heals around is so quickly that it might as well have failed like the others.

"Ah..." That's...not good.
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[personal profile] jonesiseverywhere 2017-01-11 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
"Aw man..."

Casey watches the skin heal over and figures my turn, but the three explosive charges he slapshots at Killer Croc are about as effective as Ina's arrows. They drop harmlessly to the street and the impacts barely ruffle the few clothes it's got on.

"Now what?" He really hopes that Ina has a clue, because right now he's coming up short.
onei: we were hammered. we had roman candles. it only made sense to shoot them at him. (he was streaking.)

[personal profile] onei 2017-01-16 05:29 am (UTC)(link)
She's not fond of fighting dirty. Ina's father was one of the most straightforward men in the Eastern Army, and he'd imparted plenty of ideas about honor to her - but Tadakatsu was also still a concerned father who wanted his little girl to be safe, and he'd taught her the techniques they both hoped she wouldn't need to resort to.

The moment of hesitation passes quickly, and her bow snaps up again, arrow nocked and ready. "I don't think we can count on knocking him out. We need to slow him up enough to contain him, somehow."

Containing him might mean knocking a building onto him, or worse, but even the superstrong have their limits, she figures.
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[personal profile] jonesiseverywhere 2017-01-18 04:59 am (UTC)(link)
Hockey is basically fighting dirty with rules, if you looked at it in a certain way. And fighting a giant mutant monster is basically just his regular Friday night thing. This should be easy.

"I totally thought that arrow was gonna do it." He mutters, rolling his shoulders. "Think we can get his feet out from under him?"
onei: since i slept with him and never went home (6 more days and it'll be a year)

[personal profile] onei 2017-01-20 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
"If you can knock him over, I've got something that might hold him." Because silly net trap arrows had been first on the list of ridiculous things to get from the nerd herd, of course. Whether the material the nets were made of was that strong, she wasn't sure, but if the only way to find out is firsthand, then they'd best get right on it, she figures.

That's not the arrow she's aiming now, though. The one that's now singing through the air? That's just a normal one.

Only this time, she's aimed for Croc's eyes.
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[personal profile] jonesiseverywhere 2017-01-23 03:44 am (UTC)(link)
"Relax, checking is my specialty. I just need to get some leverage..."

With that, he takes off, picking up as much speed as he can with his skates. He preps his hockey stick and charges directly at Croc, who roars his threat down the city streets.

The arrow jams straight into it's eye. And Casey jumps over him and hooks his stick in his mouth, dragging him backwards onto the ground.

Croc bites his stick off, but he does it from a vulnerable position on the ground. "It's all you!" he calls to her.
onei: we were hammered. we had roman candles. it only made sense to shoot them at him. (he was streaking.)

[personal profile] onei 2017-01-30 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
She's quick, thankfully. Quicker still with superpowers factored in, and so the words are barely out of Casey's mouth when she snaps off another shot - this one just clipping Croc from above, at whatever part of him is sticking up the most, and immediately exploding in a flash of white goop that splatters across him and immediately hardens into a strong, but still flexible, web.