THE GONE-AWAY WORLD [modplot]

[letsgolegion]

Who| Those who signed up
What| The "Gone-Away World" plot
Where| The planet Tezeram
When| The same time as "The Ninth Gate" and "Total Eclipso"
Warnings/Notes| child endangerment

The Legion cruiser breaks apart upon entry to atmo. It just can't fight its way through the warped reality of the planet, through the willpower of the many criminals on Tezeram willing its destruction. But the Legionnaires own willpower and thoughts factor in, from the moment they're close enough to the planet to start influencing the "stuff" that makes up everything on Tezeram's surface.

So even though the ship rips apart, they don't die. Instead they find themselves down on the planet, separated into pairs that have to find their way towards the criminals behind all this, and find their way to each other. If they try to will the Legion cruiser back into being, they'll find it's impossible. They must defeat the criminals responsible for all this, and join together to will the cruiser back into being at the same time.

Comments

[agnominal]

The path to the children simplifies, and Locus doesn't believe enough in good luck to feel any kind of optimism in the change. Rescue missions have never been his forte. Saving people. But he's not here to do only the things he is comfortable with, the things that have been in his wheelhouse for years.

Instead, he looks to Barry. Hard to tell what the former mercenary's expression is under that grim helmet, but it's clear enough that he expects the speedster to have some idea of how this is meant to go.

"We'll likely face them in force on the other side. Is taking them head-on the wisest choice?"

[rushing_by]

"Not really. Good thing I don't need to use the door. I'll handle keeping the crooks busy, you try to make sure the kids are safe." Barry says, and calls a phaser set to stun into his hand.

"Wait ten seconds, and then go in."

Instead of the door, he runs through the wall to side of it, blasting stun bolts at any crooks he can see.

[agnominal]

Ten seconds.

It's enough time to reflect on the madness of this place, but he can't. Not now, when the contents of his mind can still shape his surroundings. He made that mistake once on Chorus and let his ghosts catch up to him.

Find the children. He can keep his focus on that, sharp as a razor's edge. Five seconds.

Fortunately he's gone on missions with Barry before. He knows that, for all his enthusiasm, he can be trusted to do the job right. All he needed to do was think of a way to the children. Straight shot. Simple.

Not easy, perhaps, bu simple in execution.

Two. One.

Keeping his gun raised Locus shoulders open the door, and his form melts away and vanishes from sight a moment later.