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thelegion2017-01-20 12:07 am
relativityspeaking) wrote in thelegion2017-01-20 12:07 am
Briefing [post-plot] [set a half hour after they all return] [video]
[Kid Quantum has hit the sonic shower and changed into a fresh uniform, but she hasn’t hit the Med Bay to take care of the cut on her cheek. The medtechs are too busy with people who actually need their care, a scabbed-over cut is can be taken care of at any time. She looks tired: she hasn’t had a chance to rest since the remainder of the Legion was called to Cargg.]
Just to save everyone the need to explain things, this is a briefing to let both mission teams know what happened to the other. This message is secured even away from Legion staffers, so everyone can feel secure in sharing mission data. Everyone settle in and get comfy: it’s going to be a long one.
The team that boarded the Silent Horizon to find the Robotican crew members found themselves facing an otherdimensional monster that morphed part of the ship into its own pocket universe. By all accounts, it was a nightmare. Literally. The landscape inside apparently changed around them to create a living nightmare. While we had no casualties, apparently some of the team had their minds and bodies altered by the being, before they were saved and turned back.
Before the being, the Faceless, was destroyed, he showed them a vision of his original world being destroyed by Chronoblivion. They were at least able to successfully rescue the 55 Robotican crew members that were missing by saving the Robotican whose datacore they’d downloaded themselves into when their original bodies were destroyed.
While they were on the mission, the rest of us got dispatched to Cargg to respond to a catastrophe there. One of Chronoblivion’s Heralds finally revealed himself to the world. He was a an alternate universe version of an ancient Earth supervillain known as the Joker, one of the archenemies of the Batman. The citizens of Cargg were attacked by his minions, killed and injured with bombs, and infected with chemical weapons that altered their minds and caused them to attack each other. Various teams were able to disarm the bombs, capture his allies, and Brainy created a cure to the chemical weapon to revert the altered Carggites back to their original mental state.
Justin Time, Freelancer, and the Flash were able to capture the Joker himself.
There were significant Carggite casualities, but most of them occurred before we arrived. Thanks to the Legion’s actions, thousands of innocent lives were saved.
[She closes her eyes for a moment to center herself. Her eyes are wet and sad when she opens them.]
Unfortunately, one of our number was among the casualties. Blue Rose was injured during combat with the Joker minion known as Firefly. She sealed the wound and continued fighting, but it was ultimately a fatal one. We’ll be holding a service for her the day after tomorrow.
Mr. Ice Guy spoke with several Carggite civilians that witnessed her death and they claim that a man in a green cloak watched her die and then killed Firefly. When Yuuri and the Science Police found Firefly, apparently he’d been killed in a very unnatural way through a means that could only have been done by magic. Those of you that have been with the team since our fight with Galactus already knows what this means, but I’ll explain for those of you that don’t.
One of the early missions we faced after you displacee Legionnaires arrived was against the rift threat of a nearly indestructible cosmic being named Galactus, native to the world Nova Prime and several others on the team came from. Galactus set his sights on devouring Braal, and in an effort to stop him, the team released a powerful cosmic being native to our universe, the Spectre, to defeat him.
The Spectre is rumored to be a spirit of vengeance of Earth's Judeo-Christian God, and historical records indicate that he kills criminals who have murdered and gone unpunished. The Spectre pushed Galactus back out of our universe but we’ve been searching for signs of him ever since. This is the first confirmed sighting since we released him.
Given the traumatic nature of the mission, everyone who boarded the Silent Horizon is to attend a mandatory session with Dr. Ryk’rr. However, if any of the rest of you would like to make an appointment with her for psychological debriefing or grief or trauma counseling, please do so as well.
[Her expression is a mix of serious and gentle. She wants people to know that the staff is there to help, but that she isn’t going to budge on some of them getting mandatory sessions.]
A news drone caught the Joker announcing the existence of Chronoblivion to the entire UP. I’ve already spoken to President Wazzo and she’s already announced in a press conference to the public that the UP government is responsible for keeping Its existence a secret to prevent a mass panic. I’m sure we’ll have our detractors, but fortunately, this is one bit of blaster fire we won’t have to take all on our own. President Wazzo has taken primary responsibility for keeping it from the public.
[Her eyes harden and she sets her jaw.]
Given the shady nass going down with the U.P. Council, we don’t exactly trust them to keep the Joker contained on Takron Galtos, and we don’t exactly want to give him unfettered access to some of the galaxy’s worst criminals. For the time being, we’re keeping him on Legion World.
[She wrinkles her nose.]
I’m aware that it’s not an ideal situation, but this isn’t the first time we’ve kept a twenty-first century villain on board and we’re well-prepared for this situation. Brainy’s set up a ridiculous number of security measures to keep him from getting loose. You’re free to speak with him about them if you’d like the details.
Freelancer, Justin Time, and Flash, I’d appreciate you reporting in on what else the Joker said during your fight with him. The news drone only caught the part where he was talking about Chronoblivion; I’ll need to know what else he said, even if it seemed like nonsensical gibberish.
All of you who boarded the Silent Horizon did an amazing job. Lenny and the other fifty-four Roboticans are being downloaded into new mechforms as I speak. They are immensely grateful for what you’ve done. The could have been trapped there for thousands of years before their hardware degraded to the point where they would have died.
I know this mission was devastating to some of you. We did all we could to gain pre-mission intel but the bio-scans were limited. All unmanned drones that we sent in malfunctioned and died. All attempted telepathic scans were blocked and attempts by Dreamer to have a forced vision of whatever the future held on board -- to possibly use it to extrapolate what had happened in the past -- were unsuccessful. We knew that something bad had probably happened, which was why I sent such a large team, but we had no way of knowing the true nature of what was on board until you boarded.
You undertook a tremendous risk in doing so, and carried yourselves admirably. The Legion isn’t a stranger to missions gone bad or ones that turn into a living nightmare, and it’s not even the first time team members have been controlled by a malevolent force -- but this was the first time that many of you faced something like this. I know it’s easy to feel like undertaking that kind of hardship is meaningless, but you should be proud of what you accomplished. You not only saved the Roboticans, but those of you that stayed uninfected made sure that your fellow teammates made it out safely.
[Her gentle tone changes to one that’s more determined.]
Still, it’s time for there to be a few changes around here. Ever since we lost our missing teammates, over a year before you all showed up, the team has been reactive instead of proactive. Before all of got here, it was necessity. We’d been reduced from a team of over 30 sentients to a team of 10. We were barely surviving our missions; all we could do was respond to threats and pray that we’d keep our heads above water.
That’s all changed, thanks to all of you. Ever since you got pulled into our world by the Time Trapper, you’ve all stepped up and helped rebuild what was broken. So now it’s time to start playing offense. Because some UP Council members were involved in multiple decisions that adversely affected the team, we finally have some leads to investigate. The team will be reforming its Espionage division to proactively search for the identity of the traitors responsible, and we’ll be tapping some of you to go on missions to gather intel that can bring those individuals to justice.
The attack on Cargg is a good place to start looking -- there were changes made to the Science Police and Relegg’s security network that indicate someone high up on the ladder may have interceded in ways that left the city more vulnerable. Just like capturing the Joker gives us an edge, if we can narrow down who’s responsible, we might be able to interrogate them for information that can help us stop the other Heralds and Chronoblivion.
We’ll also be speaking with some of our allies on Sorcerer's World to see if we can get some leads on the Spectre, so we can hunt him down and imprison him once more -- he may be only targeting murders, but that is not how criminals are handled in the 31st century.
[She straightens her shoulders and raises her chin.]
I know that this has been hard on all of you. You’ve been ripped from your homes and thrust into a strange, maybe nigh-incomprehensible world with new or altered powers. You’ve taken on the burden of protecting a universe that isn’t yours, even if protecting it also protects your universes. You’ve suffered hardships and losses and betrayals, but you’re still standing.
The only thing I can tell you is that myself and the other Legionnaires from this universe are still standing with you. And we’re proud of you. You’ve saved the people you set out to save, and now we’re one step closer to stopping Chronoblivion. Now we actually have a chance.
[Her expression sharpens into one of grim determination.]
Blue Rose died trying to save the people of Cargg. The best way to honor her memory is to stop all this nass by bringing Its collaborators to justice and taking the fight to It. So that's what we're going to do.
Just to save everyone the need to explain things, this is a briefing to let both mission teams know what happened to the other. This message is secured even away from Legion staffers, so everyone can feel secure in sharing mission data. Everyone settle in and get comfy: it’s going to be a long one.
The team that boarded the Silent Horizon to find the Robotican crew members found themselves facing an otherdimensional monster that morphed part of the ship into its own pocket universe. By all accounts, it was a nightmare. Literally. The landscape inside apparently changed around them to create a living nightmare. While we had no casualties, apparently some of the team had their minds and bodies altered by the being, before they were saved and turned back.
Before the being, the Faceless, was destroyed, he showed them a vision of his original world being destroyed by Chronoblivion. They were at least able to successfully rescue the 55 Robotican crew members that were missing by saving the Robotican whose datacore they’d downloaded themselves into when their original bodies were destroyed.
While they were on the mission, the rest of us got dispatched to Cargg to respond to a catastrophe there. One of Chronoblivion’s Heralds finally revealed himself to the world. He was a an alternate universe version of an ancient Earth supervillain known as the Joker, one of the archenemies of the Batman. The citizens of Cargg were attacked by his minions, killed and injured with bombs, and infected with chemical weapons that altered their minds and caused them to attack each other. Various teams were able to disarm the bombs, capture his allies, and Brainy created a cure to the chemical weapon to revert the altered Carggites back to their original mental state.
Justin Time, Freelancer, and the Flash were able to capture the Joker himself.
There were significant Carggite casualities, but most of them occurred before we arrived. Thanks to the Legion’s actions, thousands of innocent lives were saved.
[She closes her eyes for a moment to center herself. Her eyes are wet and sad when she opens them.]
Unfortunately, one of our number was among the casualties. Blue Rose was injured during combat with the Joker minion known as Firefly. She sealed the wound and continued fighting, but it was ultimately a fatal one. We’ll be holding a service for her the day after tomorrow.
Mr. Ice Guy spoke with several Carggite civilians that witnessed her death and they claim that a man in a green cloak watched her die and then killed Firefly. When Yuuri and the Science Police found Firefly, apparently he’d been killed in a very unnatural way through a means that could only have been done by magic. Those of you that have been with the team since our fight with Galactus already knows what this means, but I’ll explain for those of you that don’t.
One of the early missions we faced after you displacee Legionnaires arrived was against the rift threat of a nearly indestructible cosmic being named Galactus, native to the world Nova Prime and several others on the team came from. Galactus set his sights on devouring Braal, and in an effort to stop him, the team released a powerful cosmic being native to our universe, the Spectre, to defeat him.
The Spectre is rumored to be a spirit of vengeance of Earth's Judeo-Christian God, and historical records indicate that he kills criminals who have murdered and gone unpunished. The Spectre pushed Galactus back out of our universe but we’ve been searching for signs of him ever since. This is the first confirmed sighting since we released him.
Given the traumatic nature of the mission, everyone who boarded the Silent Horizon is to attend a mandatory session with Dr. Ryk’rr. However, if any of the rest of you would like to make an appointment with her for psychological debriefing or grief or trauma counseling, please do so as well.
[Her expression is a mix of serious and gentle. She wants people to know that the staff is there to help, but that she isn’t going to budge on some of them getting mandatory sessions.]
A news drone caught the Joker announcing the existence of Chronoblivion to the entire UP. I’ve already spoken to President Wazzo and she’s already announced in a press conference to the public that the UP government is responsible for keeping Its existence a secret to prevent a mass panic. I’m sure we’ll have our detractors, but fortunately, this is one bit of blaster fire we won’t have to take all on our own. President Wazzo has taken primary responsibility for keeping it from the public.
[Her eyes harden and she sets her jaw.]
Given the shady nass going down with the U.P. Council, we don’t exactly trust them to keep the Joker contained on Takron Galtos, and we don’t exactly want to give him unfettered access to some of the galaxy’s worst criminals. For the time being, we’re keeping him on Legion World.
[She wrinkles her nose.]
I’m aware that it’s not an ideal situation, but this isn’t the first time we’ve kept a twenty-first century villain on board and we’re well-prepared for this situation. Brainy’s set up a ridiculous number of security measures to keep him from getting loose. You’re free to speak with him about them if you’d like the details.
Freelancer, Justin Time, and Flash, I’d appreciate you reporting in on what else the Joker said during your fight with him. The news drone only caught the part where he was talking about Chronoblivion; I’ll need to know what else he said, even if it seemed like nonsensical gibberish.
All of you who boarded the Silent Horizon did an amazing job. Lenny and the other fifty-four Roboticans are being downloaded into new mechforms as I speak. They are immensely grateful for what you’ve done. The could have been trapped there for thousands of years before their hardware degraded to the point where they would have died.
I know this mission was devastating to some of you. We did all we could to gain pre-mission intel but the bio-scans were limited. All unmanned drones that we sent in malfunctioned and died. All attempted telepathic scans were blocked and attempts by Dreamer to have a forced vision of whatever the future held on board -- to possibly use it to extrapolate what had happened in the past -- were unsuccessful. We knew that something bad had probably happened, which was why I sent such a large team, but we had no way of knowing the true nature of what was on board until you boarded.
You undertook a tremendous risk in doing so, and carried yourselves admirably. The Legion isn’t a stranger to missions gone bad or ones that turn into a living nightmare, and it’s not even the first time team members have been controlled by a malevolent force -- but this was the first time that many of you faced something like this. I know it’s easy to feel like undertaking that kind of hardship is meaningless, but you should be proud of what you accomplished. You not only saved the Roboticans, but those of you that stayed uninfected made sure that your fellow teammates made it out safely.
[Her gentle tone changes to one that’s more determined.]
Still, it’s time for there to be a few changes around here. Ever since we lost our missing teammates, over a year before you all showed up, the team has been reactive instead of proactive. Before all of got here, it was necessity. We’d been reduced from a team of over 30 sentients to a team of 10. We were barely surviving our missions; all we could do was respond to threats and pray that we’d keep our heads above water.
That’s all changed, thanks to all of you. Ever since you got pulled into our world by the Time Trapper, you’ve all stepped up and helped rebuild what was broken. So now it’s time to start playing offense. Because some UP Council members were involved in multiple decisions that adversely affected the team, we finally have some leads to investigate. The team will be reforming its Espionage division to proactively search for the identity of the traitors responsible, and we’ll be tapping some of you to go on missions to gather intel that can bring those individuals to justice.
The attack on Cargg is a good place to start looking -- there were changes made to the Science Police and Relegg’s security network that indicate someone high up on the ladder may have interceded in ways that left the city more vulnerable. Just like capturing the Joker gives us an edge, if we can narrow down who’s responsible, we might be able to interrogate them for information that can help us stop the other Heralds and Chronoblivion.
We’ll also be speaking with some of our allies on Sorcerer's World to see if we can get some leads on the Spectre, so we can hunt him down and imprison him once more -- he may be only targeting murders, but that is not how criminals are handled in the 31st century.
[She straightens her shoulders and raises her chin.]
I know that this has been hard on all of you. You’ve been ripped from your homes and thrust into a strange, maybe nigh-incomprehensible world with new or altered powers. You’ve taken on the burden of protecting a universe that isn’t yours, even if protecting it also protects your universes. You’ve suffered hardships and losses and betrayals, but you’re still standing.
The only thing I can tell you is that myself and the other Legionnaires from this universe are still standing with you. And we’re proud of you. You’ve saved the people you set out to save, and now we’re one step closer to stopping Chronoblivion. Now we actually have a chance.
[Her expression sharpens into one of grim determination.]
Blue Rose died trying to save the people of Cargg. The best way to honor her memory is to stop all this nass by bringing Its collaborators to justice and taking the fight to It. So that's what we're going to do.
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The news washes over him. Horrible things happening, teammates trapped in illusions, they saved the day, more monster stuff going on, mostly par for the course for the Legion.
Still, the news that they had a casualty was... Well, it threw him. He'd known it was a possibility, yeah. Even back home, there was always the risk, a risk that he'd gambled against more than once. Still, to be faced with it being a reality wasn't something he was quite prepared for.
He didn't really know Blue Rose at all. They just hadn't met outside the gym more than once or twice. So there's that level of distance between them and the news. It's sad, a tragedy to be sure, but Jason isn't quite as broken up about it as he feels he probably should be. Something to think about later.]
So, uh. This might not be the best place or anything but, y'know. She wasn't that much older than most of us and that whole Legionnaire Legacy thing kind of...
...How're we gonna tell her parents?
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I hate to be that guy, but... y'know. The answer's probably not at all.
[ Good. Sarcastic delivery. Don't think too hard about it, it's the best defense. ]
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Are we gonna find a way to magically send a message in a bottle to another dimension?
'Dear Blue Rose's Mom and Dad, some bad shit happened that sounds completely fake and also it's not going to make you feel any better. Sorry. Love, the Legion'?
[ It comes out harsh. ]
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[It's sharp - his Commanding Officer voice. You've crossed the line.]
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[He just says it out loud from just across the room in medical, but he didn't turn the comm off so it's kind of like getting told to chill from two directions at once.]
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[Mister I Wear My Sunglasses At Night.]
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C'mon, everyone knows I'm a tactless piece of shit. Worst example you could have gone with.
[It's a very dry response. He feels a little shitty going so stoic, but it's a little easier right now while he's still processing Karina and the shitstorm that hit the other half of their team.]
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Someone has to be realistic about this here.
[ Because this is a helpful, thoughtful response to this situation, right? Wash's command doesn't faze him. Grif's used to being snapped at in that tone, and he's equally used to ignoring it.
He finds himself talking again, the words just spilling out like they belong here. It's easy, too easy.]
I'm honestly surprised this is the first time we've had to deal with somebody dying?
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the exact same time as wash
[It's one word and it's said a certain way that implies all kinds of things. There's 'you're picking on a teenager.' There's 'I'm disappointed in you for picking on a teenager.' There's 'I know you're traumatized as hell right now, you need to step back and take care of yourself.']
[Somehow the tone says all of that without it actually needing to be said aloud.]
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What?
[ It's supposed to be defiant, but it's weaker than he wants it to be. On some level, Grif does know he's wrong. He's scared and pissed off and it's all making a mess. ]
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[His voice then goes gentle.]
But even aside from that, go take a minute to catch your breath.
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[Nice to know they're on top of things, though.]
Look, man. This is the kind of thing we'll have to figure out. If one of my friends died like this, I know that their parents would just have it eat away at them unless someone told them what happened. If that means that the Legion's got to invent some new dimension traveling whatever, then yeah. That's the world we're living in now.
I didn't know her, but I'm pretty sure most of us would rather have our families know exactly what happened rather than wonder if we're out there somewhere.
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Nobody wants to deal with someone just...missing. Not knowing is worse than knowing, trust me.
[ Been there, doing that. It blows. ]
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If the Legion even can do that.
[ Talking about family just sets him off more, because now he's thinking about his own mortality and his mom and his sister and shit was he trying not to do that. ]
And who's gonna believe this anyway? It sounds crazy. It is crazy.
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[ Sam sure as hell wanted to believe there was a nice normal explanation when his dad first vanished. Even after a green lady and a talking raccoon showed up talking about finding him. ]
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[They already have instant teleportation or whatever it is the Threshold Gates do. And time travel.]
Like Sam said, it's easy to believe insane things when there's nothing else there. Easier still if you've got proof, like real people telling them about it.
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Locked to Grif
text, locked, several minutes after he ragequit the comm
[ Grif can't keep himself out of this. He may not be replying to the rest of the video conversations anymore, but he's still looking. ]
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We don't know how your presence here is going to be resolved yet. We probably won't know until Chronoblivion is defeated and the way the Time Trapper connected you to this universe is undone.
But if it's possible, Brainy will try to find a way for us to travel to her home universe and he and I will find her parents and bring the news of her death. If they want it, we'll also possibly have her body exhumed and brought home to be buried in her home universe. In that case, she'll still have a memorial in the Memorial Hall and on Shanghalla. They'll be left up permanently.
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[Worst case scenario, there's no point in considering. They'd all be dead. And everyone back home would be as well.]
Maybe I'd better write down some important information. Might be a good idea for everyone to do it, just in case.
[There's not a lot he can say that'd really be comforting. He's pretty sure he can't know how Kid Q feels at the moment. Best he can do is, well. Minimize the work she'd have to do in the future.]
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Of the missing Legionnaires, the only one that didn't have one set up was Invisible Kid, and that was because he set his up with a digital dead man's switch instead.
[A situation befitting the one that was both super dramatic and a former spy.]
That's how Timber Wolf got custody of Cub despite not being married to them yet -- Apparition and Ultra Boy had already made arrangements in case something happened to them both at the same time.
I wish it wasn't that way, but our line of work is dangerous, and even though it's rare, this isn't the first Legionnaire we've ever lost.
If you have concerns, any of the native Legionnaires can show you how to set one up.
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[Digital is just... Impersonal. Insecure. Incompatible with his home tech levels.]
This is just gonna be one of those things where I'd want a hard copy. Just in case.
[He's not even sure what to say about the rest of it. "It's good to know that you guys are prepared for that much, at least" has the ring of an insult, rather than a compliment.]