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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.
WONDER WOMAN - Locus, Barry Allen, Jason
Other than Dowling, Suskind is possibly the most dangerous of the Four. Invisible. Almost undetectable. Capable of projecting force fields and shaping them into weapons and implements of torture. And, to top it all off, she's capable of flipping a car with her bare hands, or tearing steel doors off their hinges. She can't be detected, not with normal senses. However, the omnicoms are far beyond normal tools, and as invisible as she is, she still stands out to ultrasound. Thermographic scans aren't as reliable, thanks to her sneaking suit, but the omnicoms can send out ultrasonic waves, detect the subtle disturbances in the air as she breathes and moves, or even detect her Kirlian aura.
However they find her, they'll have to move fast. She's on the roof of a nearby building, invisible, one that gives her a view of the library Diana will appear in. Slowly, she chambers the round on her sniper rifle, a slug cast from the shattered remnants of a thunder god's hammer. The machine spirits inside chisel prayers to the anti-gods into the bullet, to annihilate the gods-given gifts that animate Wonder Woman. Even a glancing shot will prove fatal, and without Wonder Woman's interference, Ares' plan to destroy humanity will go unchecked.
Move swiftly.
Re: WONDER WOMAN - Locus, Barry Allen, Jason
They're outside the building Wonder Woman was supposed to die in, in an alleyway. Across the street, there's a row of buildings. Skyscrapers loom in the distance, almost a mile away. And traffic's moving by pretty fast, though there's not that many people on the sidewalk just at the moment.
Still, Barry would be the best at spotting if there's someone with a gun, inside or out without, being seen. Given the time period they're in, someone with a gun would probably stick out like a sore thumb. Without pausing to see if Barry's taken his request, Jason turns to Locus. "You were military. If whoever our shooter is isn't inside, where would be the best spot for them to get into position?"
Jason hadn't grabbed any extra equipment. Only his normal mission gear, including his minicomm and the blaster they'd allowed him to carry. While it could work as a cutting torch, it was really only good for stunning people when it came to a fight.
Re: WONDER WOMAN - Locus, Barry Allen, Jason
"There's no sign of them," he says as he runs back into the alley.
"Either they're not here yet, which I doubt, or they've made themselves invisible somehow."
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He turns to regard his fellow Legionnaires. Whatever expression he's wearing under that helmet? They're not privy to.
"If they are stealthed, a reasonable assumption at this point, we'll need to draw them out, or draw their fire. A shot trajectory could be pinpointed."
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He frowns, crossing his arms. Considering how fast time is ticking by. How much time did they have before their mission failed? "There's gotta be a better way than one of us getting shot at. If it comes to that, though..." Flash could probably track a bullet. Locus could probably spot a muzzle flash or something and figure those things out. Jason's feeling a little useless here, but that'll only last until he figures out who to punch.
"Right, so. Locus. If I'm remembering the mission files right, you do invisibility, right? Can you go invisible, then zip up and watch for a muzzle flash, whether it's at us or at the window?" He turns to the Flash, scowling as he thought. "Can you, I dunno. Do science to it? What do we have that would help us find someone who might be invisible?" He wishes Billy were here. He'd have a handy solution. "I can see if I can't catch her attention."
The hard part would be doing it in a way that didn't catch anyone else's and screw up Wonder Woman's first contact. That was, if the adults let him get away with that part of the plan.
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"The good news is, I've been reading up on 31st century techniques. I can set the comms to produce a signal that should make the sniper's Kirlian aura visible if we triangulate around their position."
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Not necessarily 'good' news, since the shooter's location would be discovered far too late to make a difference. Locus considers this for a moment, then cocks his head, glancing between the two.
"If I position myself closer to our objective, I could deflect the shot. Provided we can isolate the most likely positions for the shot to come from."
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He pauses, then glances at Locus. "You can really shoot a bullet out of mid-air? Dude."
Back on track. "Flash, do your science to the omnicomms and set up that whatever aura of yours. I'll take to the sky and try to spot her aura, if I can, before she fires off a shot. If not, it's down to you two to intercept the bullet and track it back. Sound good?" Hopefully he didn't sound ridiculous, a seventeen year old kid snapping off orders to guys ten years his senior. His tone betrays no lack of confidence, however.
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"I spotted a library about three blocks away while I was running. Tall shelves, large windows...good place for a professor fall off a ladder, and it'd be easy to hit Wonder Woman there. The sniper picked this time and place for a reason. I'm willing to bet that's where they're targeting."
A few more keytaps on the comm, and he's done. "Alright, I'm sending the updated signal frequency to your comms. It should activate right...about...now."
The comms begin to emit the necessary signal, but there's the slightest bit of backwash, revealing their own auras, subdued due to them not being directly in front of the signal. Barry, is, perhaps unsurprisingly, producing sparks of yellow lightning as part of his.
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Not far off, there's a church and up in the clocktower, the aura of someone who's laying on their stomach, arms raised as if they're holding a weapon. It's a fantastic place to make a shot, one that has a clear view of the windows of the library.
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"Moving into position," he replies gruffly, before turning and vanishing from sight, that bulky titanium suit suddenly just...not there. At all. A trajectory could be determined, but honestly all he needs is to be closer to their objective than the target.
Might be the most difficult shot he's made to date, but he doesn't balk at the challenge.