WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD - Mod Plot [Mission Log Post]

[letsgolegion]

Who| Everyone!
What| Fighting all the threats that Galactus' presence has caused
Where| Mostly on and around Braal, except for Spectre team who will be on Earth
When| After Galactus' appearance and after Nova was put in Medbay
Warnings/Notes| N/A for now

There were a lot of fires for the Legion to put out all at once. While the Legionnaires native to the universe constructed the sun cannon near Braal's sun and prepared to fend off an attack from Galactus, the other teams had to get into place in the many places they were needed.

So far Galactus' siphons hadn't been sunk into the planet yet but it was only a matter of time.

Comments

cw: limb-breaky creepy J-horror stuff

[legionnpcs]

Parker's climbing went successfully unnoticed because of the distraction Jason and Videl were causing Harrow.

"I am the stain that death leaves! I am --"

Getting drop-kicked in the face, apparently. Jason successfully got his kick in, and before Harrow could recover, Videl managed to clock him in the head with the candlestick. The attacks left him briefly stunned, but he scrambled back on his hands and in a creepy crabwalk, to try to get away, twisting and breaking the limbs of his host to do it.

[leverageintceo]

That was even creepier. Parker was used to people shying away from pain; while she didn't generally fill the Hitter role in the roster back home, she knew a few things. Things like "people don't usually break their own bones unless they have no other choice". There'd been other choices here.

She hoped that there'd be some way to get this poor person's body back from this Harrow thing.

In the meantime though, she dropped down behind the crawling body, hand sweeping out in an arc intended to connect with a slap before moving her hand out of immediate slashing range again.

[kingtyrantranger]

Well. That was a sound that would stick with him for a while. Jason made a horking noise, barely managing to fight back another wave of bile. Was a new nightmare going to be a part of every time he slapped on the tights and went to save a world?

He shook it off. It'd look bad to be that creeped out in front of everyone else. No, he had it. He was cool. He took a breath, then darted after Harrow. "Keep up the heat, Videl!"

Hopefully she saw what Parker was up to. On his old team, he wouldn't have worried, but this crew was still largely unpredictable.

[notwithoutafight]

The sickening crack of bones and the inhuman contortion Harrow forced its subject's body to take made Videl retch again, but she forced down her stomach with grim determination.

"I've got a candlestick for every bone you break in that body, Harrow!" Videl shouted, seizing another piece of metal religious iconography and pitching it at the fleeing form. Her heavy projectiles would probably be responsible for breaking as many bones as Harrow, but she wasn't about to let the beast escape, especially to a new host.

Videl pointedly kept her attention away from Parker, lest her gaze tip off Harrow. She had no idea what Parker was doing back there, but she trusted that her teammate had some sort of tactic to use against Harrow. Videl's role was distraction, and she had she had an array of worship relics and three years of pitching practice from gym class to work with.

With gritted teeth, she threw a couple more metal objects at the possessed Braalian's head, hoping that she could knock them unconscious and thereby cripple Harrow.

[legionnpcs]

It was enough. Well, mostly enough. Jason chasing after Harrow made Harrow flip over and reset the bones in his stolen body, making them go solid and whole again, so that he'd be in a better position to defend and attack.

Between that movement and the creature trying to evade Videl's bone-breaking attacks, Harrow wound up being in just the right place at just the right time for Parker to touch him.

Harrow stiffened and screeched as most of his psionic powers were leeched away by her power. However, Parker's power wasn't up to snuff for depleting them all. His consciousness was psionic energy in and of itself, making it so that he still could keep his presence in his stolen body. But now he would have a much harder time reshaping that body according to his will or using powers like super strength.

Now he was simply a spirit in a stolen form, projected down from his body on Galactus' ship, with claws and not much else to fight back with.

"This will not stop me! I enter without permission!" he cried out, reaching a hand towards Jason. "I will -- no!"

Harrow tried to invade Videl's mind next, and then Parker's -- and all three of them would've felt it, an uncomfortable, oily presence trying to force its way in. But the psionic blockers held.

"Warded minds. No matter! I will find a new body to snuggle into!"

To do that, Harrow needed to leave the church and actually find someone else, though. No one was left in the church except for himself and the Legionnaires.

[leverageintceo]

Parker recoiled when Harrow tried to invade her mind, her victorious smirk vanishing into something between 'neutral' and 'dead' like a stone dropped into a deep pool of water. She'd already retreated upwards, out of the reach of the body's reach, but that meant there was nothing around her to grab to use as a weapon. She dropped from the air again, this time swinging a kick at the back of Harrow's stolen head.

Apparently, "things trying to touch my brain" was something Parker didn't handle well.

[kingtyrantranger]

Now, evil things messing with his head. That was something Jason had some experience with. Thankfully, he had the psi-blockers, he didn't want to get the full Green Ranger experience. Having Tommy's powers was bad enough. As fond as he was of his pal, that was an experience he wasn't in a hurry to share.

Parker took high. Jason took the middle, planting his foot firmly and popping off a side kick at Harrow's middle.

"Guys! Get ready!" He put a hand on his utility belt. Not enough time and in a bad position to pull out his spare psi-blockers, maybe Videl could close the gap fast enough to pop them on. Or Parker, she was faster than he'd expected. A good thing, he wanted to be the one catching most of Harrow's attention.

He just hoped that Harrow's mind powers ended at possession, and not actually reading minds.

[notwithoutafight]

Videl staggered back a step as the vile touch tried to accost her mind. She threw off her helmet and scrabbled her hands through her hair viciously, as if trying to scratch an itch beneath her skull. Thankfully, she didn't disrupt the psi-blockers on her forehead.

Jason's voice snapped Videl's attention back to the fight, where Harrow was trying to make its escape. It was weakened, she could tell; whatever Parker had done, it had done more damage to Harrow than a metal candlestick ever could. This was it, their chance to go on the offensive. Harrow was fast, but thanks to the fancy powers this universe had granted her, so was Videl.

She fished the spare pair of psi-blockers from her pocket and took off at a sprint toward Harrow. If she could just get close enough, if they could keep Harrow still for just the briefest second, she could slap these psi-blockers onto the Braalian's temples.

[legionnpcs]

Harrow didn't stand a chance. Parker's kick from on high caught him in the head. Jason's kick down low caught him in the side. And after he slammed into a broken pew, Videl managed to get the psi-blockers on the temples of his stolen body.

Now they just had to restrain him with normal restraints and he would be trapped in his stolen form, unable to escape to a new body, unable to escape to even his own body on Galactus' ship.

And that would be easy enough. The psi-blockers made his stolen body crumple. It was difficult for him to make the body move now.

"Nooo! You cannot stop me. I am the shadow that life casts --" He struggled to move and failed. "I stalk the end of days and haunt the fall of worlds--"

Or at least he had. Now he wouldn't be able to do it anymore.

[leverageintceo]

"Shhhhh," Parker said, wadding up her hat and stuffing it into his mouth. "Nobody cares."

She looked back over her shoulder at the others and bared her teeth in something like a smile.

"That was emotionally satisfying. Do either of you want to do the honors and cuff him until we can steal the body back?"