Everyone is watching the skies and the ground and the distance and the crumbling city - including Ultra Boy, who has "ultra" senses.
So it comes as a complete shock to all when a blast of energy arcs in from from absolutely nowhere and passes right through Brainy's shield, hitting one of the devices. Everything in a area 100 feet in diameter freezes in place - black hole, rotating orb, Legionnaires that are in close, Legionnaires that were hanging back and keeping watch. They're all completely frozen in place, due to the time dilation of the black hole falling out of their control.
Except they're not. They're still moving, realizing they've been attacked in ultra slow motion, slowly reacting. Star Boy struggles with his powers, Brainy moves his hand to repair the device, but what would usually take seconds will take minutes, and what will take minutes could take a half hour.
The only ones that are free of the freezing effect are Wash, Locus, and Danny, who were just outside its perimeter, and were stealthy enough to not initially have been seen.
Them and Kid Q, apparently. She suddenly glows orange inside the time dilation field and flies out of it, stumbling as she reaches the area outside, her quantum powers instinctually re-syncing her with the rest of the universe. She's the only one that had the power to break free.
She wisely doesn't call out to three hidden Legionnaires - yet - and that hesitation pays off. She sees a glint of white and black in the air above and blasts at it, her powers increasing its gravity so it falls and then explosively launching it into the city ruins where Danny, Wash, and Locus are hidden, away from the group of Legionnaires locked in slow motion. Now Kid Q stands between the attacker and the others, and the attacker is right in the sights of Legionnaires the attacker can't see.
She knows what that flash of black and white means, of course - a Herald - but as she steps forward and sees the Herald claw itself out of the rubble, standing to face her, her jaw drops.
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So it comes as a complete shock to all when a blast of energy arcs in from from absolutely nowhere and passes right through Brainy's shield, hitting one of the devices. Everything in a area 100 feet in diameter freezes in place - black hole, rotating orb, Legionnaires that are in close, Legionnaires that were hanging back and keeping watch. They're all completely frozen in place, due to the time dilation of the black hole falling out of their control.
Except they're not. They're still moving, realizing they've been attacked in ultra slow motion, slowly reacting. Star Boy struggles with his powers, Brainy moves his hand to repair the device, but what would usually take seconds will take minutes, and what will take minutes could take a half hour.
The only ones that are free of the freezing effect are Wash, Locus, and Danny, who were just outside its perimeter, and were stealthy enough to not initially have been seen.
Them and Kid Q, apparently. She suddenly glows orange inside the time dilation field and flies out of it, stumbling as she reaches the area outside, her quantum powers instinctually re-syncing her with the rest of the universe. She's the only one that had the power to break free.
She wisely doesn't call out to three hidden Legionnaires - yet - and that hesitation pays off. She sees a glint of white and black in the air above and blasts at it, her powers increasing its gravity so it falls and then explosively launching it into the city ruins where Danny, Wash, and Locus are hidden, away from the group of Legionnaires locked in slow motion. Now Kid Q stands between the attacker and the others, and the attacker is right in the sights of Legionnaires the attacker can't see.
She knows what that flash of black and white means, of course - a Herald - but as she steps forward and sees the Herald claw itself out of the rubble, standing to face her, her jaw drops.
"What... what..." she breathes out.