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legionmissions2017-09-22 07:47 pm
letsgolegion) wrote in legionmissions2017-09-22 07:47 pm
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THE NINTH GATE - [modplot]
Who| Anyone who signed up
What| "The Ninth Gate" plot
Where| It starts on Rimbor, moves to Earth
When| The same time as "Gone-Away World" and "Total Eclipso the Heart"
Warnings/Notes| Lots of really fucked up suicide cult stuff.
It's not that difficult to get a lead on where the Catastrophists are recruiting, but so far the survival rate of undercover Scicops is...bad. As in, none of the undercover cops that have been sent in have come back. So with the rise in Catastrophist activity and losing several of their top undercover officers, the Science Police has actually asked for the Legion's help for once. A few tips from their contacts have made it clear that something big is coming, a terrorist attack of sometime, and time is running out. They need to get someone on the inside that actually survives, and they're hoping the Legion can do what they couldn't.
Fortunately, there's an easy in to at least start the undercover op.
The Science Police has long since determined that the Universal Brotherhood is just a front for the Catastrophists, largely due to the references to Apokolips and Darkseid they keep dropping. Science Police specialists and Legion intelligence officers handle the initial contacts, creating fake personas that they chat out as getting duped into embracing the Catastrophists' cause. They even donate enough credits to make it seem like the personas are emptying out their modest bank accounts to support the cause.
The next step is a very thorough briefing given to the Legionnaires going undercover on this mission, so they know every possible detail about their fake personas, and have access to all the chats they need to pretend to remember having.
Then, they're armed with very advanced technology to use to infiltrate the group. Super advanced subdermal hard-light hologram generators, sensor emulators that give off biosigns that fit their personas, advanced psi-blockers that even allow them to project surface thoughts that fit their cover. They have all the knowledge they need to infiltrate the group - now they just have to survive initiation.
They're sent in three pairs to sign up for recruitment in a shady bar on Rimbor, at separate times so them showing up together doesn't seem suspicious. Rimbor is an urban world that's just layers and layers of city on top of older cities. They're all led underground, to abandoned under-levels that used to be on the top levels of the cities only a few hundred years before, but are now that are deemed uninhabitable even by the lowest dregs of Rimborian society.
Once they're in, there are only two ways out: through surviving initiation or in body bags dropped in Rimbor's massive trash incinerators.
What| "The Ninth Gate" plot
Where| It starts on Rimbor, moves to Earth
When| The same time as "Gone-Away World" and "Total Eclipso the Heart"
Warnings/Notes| Lots of really fucked up suicide cult stuff.
It's not that difficult to get a lead on where the Catastrophists are recruiting, but so far the survival rate of undercover Scicops is...bad. As in, none of the undercover cops that have been sent in have come back. So with the rise in Catastrophist activity and losing several of their top undercover officers, the Science Police has actually asked for the Legion's help for once. A few tips from their contacts have made it clear that something big is coming, a terrorist attack of sometime, and time is running out. They need to get someone on the inside that actually survives, and they're hoping the Legion can do what they couldn't.
Fortunately, there's an easy in to at least start the undercover op.
The Science Police has long since determined that the Universal Brotherhood is just a front for the Catastrophists, largely due to the references to Apokolips and Darkseid they keep dropping. Science Police specialists and Legion intelligence officers handle the initial contacts, creating fake personas that they chat out as getting duped into embracing the Catastrophists' cause. They even donate enough credits to make it seem like the personas are emptying out their modest bank accounts to support the cause.
The next step is a very thorough briefing given to the Legionnaires going undercover on this mission, so they know every possible detail about their fake personas, and have access to all the chats they need to pretend to remember having.
Then, they're armed with very advanced technology to use to infiltrate the group. Super advanced subdermal hard-light hologram generators, sensor emulators that give off biosigns that fit their personas, advanced psi-blockers that even allow them to project surface thoughts that fit their cover. They have all the knowledge they need to infiltrate the group - now they just have to survive initiation.
They're sent in three pairs to sign up for recruitment in a shady bar on Rimbor, at separate times so them showing up together doesn't seem suspicious. Rimbor is an urban world that's just layers and layers of city on top of older cities. They're all led underground, to abandoned under-levels that used to be on the top levels of the cities only a few hundred years before, but are now that are deemed uninhabitable even by the lowest dregs of Rimborian society.
Once they're in, there are only two ways out: through surviving initiation or in body bags dropped in Rimbor's massive trash incinerators.
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Pidge takes her place on the other side of the mat, unsure what to do. It would look strange if she didn't offer some kind of comfort, wouldn't it? They're supposed to be a couple, and they have to act like it.
...What would she want Dipper to do here?
Trying to make it look as natural as she can, she puts one of her hands over his. This should make it more convincing.
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Her powers allow her to make people experience their worst memories but also to feel their pain and life's regrets that came later, the pain of the past and present all rolled up into one.
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As Pidge lays her hand over his, he can't help flinching slightly, not enough to be seen, but likely enough to be felt. Touch was always something of a shock, but he was at least used to it enough by now to not instinctively recoil or react beyond that initial flinch. He was about to turn his hand over to play along with the act, when Sister Ellora plunges him in to the past and he instead grips the mat.
The crack about his eidetic memory and penchant for obsessing over the past had been exaggerated but wasn't too far from the truth. Slipping into thoughts of that past still happened often, but eidetic memories weren't as perfect as they were claimed to be. He might have been capable of keeping specific information strait better than most, but memories were still like old tapes, where the more you played them over, the more susceptible they become to twisting and warping. And this was nothing like simply remembering the past. It really was like reliving it with every emotion sharply amplified.
Once again he was back in the confines of Craydl, spending literal centuries studying his families history, training, comparing himself to his original and struggling to be better; now with the full knowledge that the entire mission, and most of the stories he had been told about his family, were false.
He was masquerading as his genetic original, watching as Max's health deteriorated and he grew closer to the death he'd helped draw him to the brink of. Every day become a little more painful as he grew closer to the man and continued to watch him struggle. There was a growing regret now that he didn't have the capacity to feel at the time, having been too focused on his plan and the unshakable self-assurance that he would be capable of saving him and reversing everything he'd done. That he would be able to prove that he was better than Bart, heal Max and keep this life all in one fell swoop.
And then it all fell apart, everything that happened in the speedforce replayed with excruciating detail. Max admitting he loved him like a son only to call him Bart, over and over and over until he finally snapped. He watched himself nearly kill him again, all because he felt slighted. Max stopped him, tried to talk him down, offered understanding, a chance to redeem himself and be a part of their family. And the old man's expression when he simply threw it back in his face stuck painfully in his mind.
Bart's words after he'd managed to storm in and almost save the day, stung as hard as they ever did. They were the one memory Sister Ellora didn't need to exaggerate. Those words had become a constant unpleasant companion, that he feared would follow him for the rest of his existence.
And finally, he was standing in front of his creator, the one who'd condemned him to this empty singleminded existence. After months of planning, of digging up the truth for himself, of lashing out and undermining him from the shadows, he finally stood in front of the man for the first time in his life. And with the exchange of only a few scathing sentences, he could feel himself already crumble under his words and presence. Feeling every bit the traitorous petulant child his progenitor accused him of being, even as a steady underlying anger still boiled over into his own responses.
Throughout this, while he said nothing aloud, Thad's projected thoughts become an incoherent jumble, an onslaught of ramblings and reactions spat out at superspeed as he got lost in the memories.
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Yeah.
It probably would have been a good idea to deactivate the coms. Really, just an extremely great idea. She probably could have even made it look like she was just...nervously fidgeting with her ear. Instead, now she has to ride it out, just listening to him scream in her brain.
She can't even make out most of it. It's like watching the last action movie before the late night marathon ends: just a lot of bad noise and jumbled scenes and she can't follow what he's thinking at all. Harsh emotions about people she has never heard of before bringing him to mistakes she can't really understand because it's going too fast and she has no context for any of this.
This probably just looks like worry over her lover to the cultists, but she can only hold on until he calms down.
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As Sister Ellora helps Thad up, Brother Rellick gestures to Pidge to take his place. The guide hands her a bite guard.
"You may want to put this in your mouth so you don't bite off your own tongue."