legionmissions | IN BRIGHTEST DAY - Mod Plot [LOG POST | 2

Who| Everyone involved in the plot
What| A space battle
Where| In the space sector around Cargg
When| If relevant, like if you want to note it's after an event.
Warnings/Notes| Things may get violent/gory!

Unfortunately, even the last Green Lanterns didn't know where the yellows or reds had hidden their central power batteries. Their long lost bases were still lost to the universe. That meant the only way to find them was to wait for them to attack.

In the space sector around the planet Cargg, reports of an asteroid mining freighter getting attacked clued the Legion and their allies into where the yellows were. By the time they got there, the red Lanterns had also joined in -- attacking all comers, including the yellows themselves. As the different groups of Lanterns collided in combat, the deaths started almost instantly. New rings started seeking owners, including those of the reds and yellows.

By now, they'd all received at least enough basic training with their rings to function in battle, and they all still had use of their normal powers.

A squad of Green Lanterns led by Kilowog gathered around the freighter, trying to shield it from attack.

"Listen up, poozers!" Kilowog called out to his greens, leading them into the fight and setting up a perimeter. "We need to give this ship time to evac. Hold the line! If it's yellow or red, it's not getting through!"

Kid Quantum, wielding a blue ring, called out to the Legionnaires, "We need to protect that freighter! Everyone move in to support the greens. Hit and run tactics! Hit 'em fast and hit 'em hard. Let's go, Legion!"

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The Blue Lantern will keep. This Indigo one is currently the more immediate problem -- he is loud and more likely to attract attention. Feena Sik needs to deal with him quickly, whether that means killing him or losing him in the debris field. Her preference was for the former: his blood would serve even if the Blue Lantern somehow got her head together.

Feena Sik bares her teeth and bends her mind to creativity.

Absorbing the yellow construct was one thing, but redirecting it was another entirely. Tadashi had never had the ability to cause great fear -- minor fear, sure, in kids he'd caught picking on his brother or in his aunt when she'd gotten a phone call about the two of them being arrested maybe, but great fear? The Indigo ring let him feel what that was like, and it was horrible. Who could live with themselves, feeling like that every day? Tadashi expelled the yellow power as quickly as he could, but before he could reach for an energy that didn't make him feel sick to use, he had to absorb another monster created by the alien woman in front of him.

"Stop!" he said, bringing his staff up again. "It doesn't have to be like this!"

Of course it had to be like this. Was this Indigo Tribesman stupid? Did he not understand what was going on here?

He was inconvenient enough to require her full attention, which was aggravating. Stupid people shouldn't require this much effort to dispose of, regardless of what powers they had. Were she more of a sadist, like some of her fellow Sinestro Corpsmen, she might take the time to punish him further for that. But Feena Sik merely wanted him gone, like all other inconveniences, so that she could focus on her art. Unnecessary cruelty, as satisfying as it might be, was inefficient.

This time, the monster she created had two heads: one to take his staff and the other to take him.

This time, the yellow creature belched fire, and Tadashi felt vastly ill-timed hysterical laughter bubbling up in his throat. It was a two-headed monster with teeth as long as his arm already, why did it need fire?

Tadashi cranked the dial on his power suppressor and lashed out with a gout of flame of his own. It punched through the center of the incoming blast, turning it inside-out and dissipating it instead of cooking him alive. This time, he managed to use the yellow energy he'd absorbed before as a shield against the mouth that tried to follow up with toothy crushing. Unfortunately, it wasn't enough to protect him from the second head, too. Tadashi barely evaded it in time to avoid having his arm ripped off at the very least.

He had to find a way to neutralize this thing before its master finished whatever she was doing next, or he was sunk.

A monster with two heads could watch it's own back -- or at least watch its front such that the Indigo Tribesman couldn't simply absorb the thing like he'd done her first two pieces of art. And he'd destroyed them, too, taking her genius work and smearing it into a wild blast and something more like half an egg than a shield. As the construct pursued him back through the debris, chasing him away from her, Feena Sik put began to put the finishing touches on her next monster.

Except...

...She'd turned her back on Parker. Parker, the accomplished pick-pocket and less-accomplished-but-still-passable-grifter.

Although Parker didn't usually bodyslam her mark to distract them from the fact she was taking their jewelry right off of their hand.

"No more monsters," Parker said severely, wrapping the alarmed artist up in a restraining aura of blue light so that she didn't suffocate in the vacuum of space without her ring. Or explode. Though that would be kind of cool.

[CONFLICTING EMOTIONAL RESONANCE.]

[CONFLICTING EMOTIONAL RESONANCE.]

Parker brought hope to a lot of people back home, it was true, but most people didn't know about Leverage. Those that did were mostly criminals, or those with criminal ties, and among criminals? Leverage had stolen a jury. Leverage had stolen from buildings protected by a Steranko security system, twice. Leverage had stolen the election of a small country.

Leverage was terrifying.

The Blue ring on her hand went loose and the Yellow ring replaced it.

[PARKER, OF EARTH. YOU HAVE THE ABILITY TO INSTILL GREAT FEAR. WELCOME TO THE SINESTRO CORPS.]

"...Whoops."

Tadashi had to move quickly to wrap up the (former?) Yellow Lantern in an aura of indigo light, so she wouldn't escape or (more probably) die. Fortunately, he managed to do that even with his Legionnaire teammate suddenly swapping colors on her uniform.

"Um."

He'd always thought Parker was a little weird, but he didn't think that she'd been scary.

"You okay there, Payback?"

"I don't think I'm brainwashed," Parker answered, flexing her fingers. She didn't feel that different. It took the same concentration to make lockpick constructs "...I wonder if I can steal more than one ring."

She bared her teeth in a grin.

"I'm going to go find out," she said, and swooped off toward the fight, leaving Sunfire with the prisoner.

This could be interesting.

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