TOTAL ECLIPSO THE HEART [modplot/log]

[letsgolegion]

Who| Everyone who signed up
What| "Total Eclipso The Heart"
Where| Apokolips
When| The same time as "The Ninth Gate" and "The Gone-Away World"
Warnings/Notes| cw: suicide, due to the Catastrophists MO


Apokolips was intimidating enough when it was bleak and dead but now it's even more of a living nightmare. As Eclipso, Catastrophists, and monsters menace the defense garrison, screams cut through the air the way they used to back when Apokolips' old ruler was alive.

Catastrophists toss themselves into the firepits in droves and smoke starts to rise from them. Somehow their sacrificial bloodshed seems to be doing something to the core of the planet. It groans and strains and the ground shakes as machinery under the surface starts to slowly get stoked back to life.

Some of the Catastrophists even rise into the air while wearing winged uniforms and clash with garrison members capable of flight - Apokolips' old parademon troops, reborn in a new form.

This world is a death engine, and if they don't manage to stop it it from restarting, Chronoblivion's forces will have an entire world to make war from.

Comments

[iamresponding]

She turns towards Wash, her eye starting to crackle with black energy, but before she can blast at him with her power, there's a flash of yellow energy, a loud kzack, and she shrieks, her head rocking back.

When she looks up again, there's a smoking hole where that eye used to be. It starts healing before their eyes, but it's still jacked up for now.

Compressed grav pulses had a very narrow spread, but they were handy for putting a dent into something durable if you could actually manage to hit your target.

After she starts looking for where the shot came from, Rich follows up by slamming her into a pylon with a high yield gravimetric field.

"Yeah, I think this is, uh, a little more of that empirical evidence Ray was talking about."

[legionnpcs]

Wash dodging infuriates her, and between the boson darts - which clearly pain her - getting shot in the face, and getting slammed into a pylon, she's starting to look worse for wear.

She's also starting to look incandescent with rage.

Luckily, they're not far from the T-gate. Unluckily, she's angry enough to start basically hulking out.

"I'll melt your flesh and grind your bones to ash," she cries out, and then she lets out an earth-shattering scream in the angelic tongue, that causes the air to vibrate. The soulless Apokoliptian constructs and buildings around them start to shatter and fall.

[gonebyebye]

"...and that's how you annoy an ancient, ineffable being into doing something really stupid," Ray says with small smirk, holstering his rifle and phasing his way through rubble.

"Now let's haul ass! Phase 2 starts right...about...now!" he shouts, right before diving though the T-Gate.

[unrecovered]

"Must be Tuesday, right?" If it worked on the Joker, why the hell wouldn't it work on Eclipso?

Wash pauses for a moment in front of the T-Gate - long enough to face the pursuing spirit of God's wrath and all that bullshit and hold his arms out to his sides, come at me, bitch written loud and clear in his body language.

Then he turns and dives through the T-Gate, because that unearthly scream is going to break his armor apart if he stays there for too long and he is not waiting around for that to happen.

[iamresponding]

Rich is the last one through. The scream is already rattling his helmet, making it vibrate like its going to shatter. It's feels a bit like one of those cartoons where a cartoon character has a bell rung while their head is inside it.

"Of course she's gotta start screaming in tongues or whatever it is," he grumps as he dives through, sparing one last glance to make sure she's still enraged enough to follow.

She is. She flies after him, still screaming, so he dives in, and the second he's through the gate, he dives off to the side of it.

[legionnpcs]

She dives after him through the boom tube gate and finds herself on...

Shanghalla? The massive statues of dead Legionnaires greet her. There are also memorials for fallen Science Police officers and the graves of heroes from a thousand worlds.

She stops when she reaches the other side, confused. She clearly thought they were escaping to Legion World or another world but this strikes her as strange... but by the time she turns around the gate has closed.

"What? What is this?"

[gonebyebye]

"It's a trap," Ray smirks, before pulling open the Book of Magic to the page he'd marked. He couldn't help but feel a little giddy at the prospect. After all, it wasn't every day you got to use an ancient book of spells to send an evil angel into the broken walnut shells of damnation.

"reaH em!" he shouts, light spilling forth from the book, "I tsac siht lleps no dewollah dnuorg, ni eht ecneserp fo nellaf seoreh. I, dnomyaR ztnatS, retaefed fo rezoG, rosivda to ruhtrA, gniK fo eht snotirB, od ybereh tsac eeht ospilcE morf siht mlaer won dna eromreverof. I tsac eeht otni lanrete tnemrot inhtiw ehT mooR htiW a esooM! suhT yas I, dna suht llahs ti eb!"

[iamresponding]

"As far as traps go, it's a pretty good one, too," says Rich, as the spell starts to work.

He's wearing a glove on his flesh and blood hand and the other arm is just an energy tentacle at the moment, but that doesn't stop him from pretending to buff his nails against his uniform.

Magical energy starts wrapping around Eclipso, turning into glowing chains and humming as it builds up energy and momentum.

He gestures around at the massive monuments everywhere. Several of the ones closest to them are of dead Legionnaires.

"The ground here's about as consecrated as you can get, by several thousand religions, there are holy relics buried everywhere due to so many heroes and even some religious leaders being buried here." He points to the spot where magic is trapping Eclipso. The soil under her is slightly disturbed. "Oh, also, before we fought you, we came here and bled on the ground a lil' bit. You know, 'anointed it with the blood of heroes'? That kind of thing."

He grins.

"They're going to be able to see this from space," he says, not knowing he's echoing the words another hero said 1000 years before.