Post-Mission Briefing [video]

[relativityspeaking]

[When Kid Q goes on the comms for the post-mission debrief, she is smiling. Smiling smiling smiling.]

I'm happy to report that both of the recent missions were a complete success. After we weakened Tsarista by breaking out of all her story scenarios, we managed to re-capture her in an omnicom. Some of our allies from Sorcerer's World have given us some assistance in providing better magical protections around her prison.

[Her smile widens slightly and goes mischievous.]

If anyone wants to see the pictures we got of Brainy turned into an adorable forest creature, Timber Wolf is making the rounds.

As for the mission against the Herald and the Council, War and the Council-members are currently in Science Police custody. After she's fast-tracked for trial, we've made arrangements for her detainment to be on Legion World, like the Joker, to prevent any possible corruption at Takron-Galtos from allowing her to escape. The recording equipment Brainy sent you into the mission with successfully captured video of War despite the surveillance-disrupting nature of her powers. We've provided all the evidence to the Science Police, and they've obtained warrants to pry into the Council-members' affairs. They're currently making dozens of arrests all over the UP, of various corrupt government officials, dirty cops, and other individuals responsible for colluding with Chronoblivion.

[She's beaming.]

Not only did you stop the Council-members themselves, you've made it so the Science Police have been able to uncover an entire web of individuals that they've been working with, significantly weakening Chronoblivion's ability to interfere in the UP government and Legion affairs.

We still have to worry about the Herald spying on Legion World, but we have some leads on ways to stop him and one of our next missions should give us the tools to do it.

Things are going to be different from now on. Now that we've gone on the offensive, we're not going to stop until we take Chronoblivion down.

In other news, the two hostages you rescued? They were two of our missing Legionnaires, Rokk Krinn, aka Cosmic Boy, and Lyle Norg, aka Invisible Kid. Brainy's scanned them thoroughly to verify their identities and they're the real deal. They've verified that the missing Legionnaires are alive, currently trapped in a pocket dimension with strange preservative properties that've made it so they haven't aged or needed things like food and water. This crystal dimension actually allowed them to view our universe -- so they've apparently been keeping an eye on the team, watching our fights. (They promised that they've only watched things we've done in public.)

Recently, they were able to work together to free Rokk and Lyle, and they've spent six months relative time wandering through the multiverse, through dimensions where time ran differently, trying to get back home. When they arrived back in this universe, they were unfortunately picked up by corrupt Science Police officers, and taken to the Council-members. Fortunately, they were able to resist telepathic interrogation.

If the Council-members had successfully made the hand-off, they probably would've been tortured and killed, and the information they knew about the missing Legionnaires could've potentially been used by Chronoblivion's forced to find and kill our missing friends.

Not only did you make it so two of our own came home safely, you may have saved the entire team that we lost. And now that they're here, Brainy has enough information to start working on bringing our missing friends home. It's going to take time -- weeks, months, maybe even a year -- but now we know for sure they're alive, rather than taking Joker's word for it, and we can start working on it. If we can get them home in time, we might be able to enlist their help before our final fight against Chronoblivion.

You all did something incredible today, and undertook actions that restored balance back to the UP government, protected the team from future sabotage and interference, saved two Legionnaires just trying to get home, and protected close to 20 missing team members.

I'm proud of you, Legionnaires.

Comments

[unrecovered]

Yeah, and the third law is "every action has an equal and opposite reaction." From what I've seen, that sounds like a pretty good summary of this relationship.

[turntex]

didnt realize you were the love guru now
analyzing relationships based on less than a minute of dialogue
im impressed
shit man do someone else
tell me about the romantic potential of reaper and dad 76

[unrecovered]

Hey pot, kettle called! He says you're looking a little black today.

[He's tempted to take the easy way out and tell Dave to go hit the anon meme for this, especially since his relationship with 76 is tenuous at best and his relationship with Reaper is downright terrible in a publicly hilarious sort of fashion.]

[But that would be the responsible way out, and this is just too good to pass up.]

Well, if we're going to go full anon meme on this...we know they have bad blood, so I figure one of three ways: one, a relationship based on sheer hatred; two, a long, slow redemptive arc for one or both of them, with plenty of kisses and soft cuddles; or three, a tragedy where one of them realizes they can't life without the other only after horribly murdering the other.

Your turn.

[turntex]

hey i based my rapid associations with laws of physics just on the fact that they were and still are presumably dating thats it
but anyway yeah i will play this game with you
i spent three years in close quarters with karkat okay
i have become the romance master through pure osmosis
im sure hed want me to babble about the potential kismessitude or whatever but you already covered the hatesex thing and im not into quadrants anyway so instead lets make this a domestic found family thing
since they both got the weird fatherly vibes going on
reaper more in the gruff tsundere way but its still there
they might both informally adopt the same kid and be brought together by their mutual affection and the inevitable parental arguments
i dont care if dad said you could have ice cream its late and the sugar will keep you up all night
honestly reapy what were you thinking

[unrecovered]

Okay, one, when did you ever get weird fatherly vibes from knockoff Ghostface; two, if you took this to the anon meme, I'm pretty sure someone would write it for you; and three: Reapy?

[legionnpcs]

You'd prefer he use papi?

[unrecovered]

I don't care what weird nickname he uses - I just want him to show his work.

[turntex]

maybe youve gotta be a kid to get it
its not like good fatherly or competent fatherly or anything just
hmm
fuck idk how to explain it
he seems kinda nicer to kids or at least to me
like if he actually were a dad hed be the sort that constantly acts grumpy and uncaring but still ends up taking little jimmy or whatever out on a fishing trip

[He won't tell the whole network specifically about Reaper drawing in Chalk Town with him. It seems like that'd ruin whatever weird balance it is they have, where he can give Reaper shit constantly but not seem to really draw any real anger over it.]

[unrecovered]

Considering he put a gun to my head the first time we met, I'll take your word for it.

[turntex]

i mean my guardian came at me with a sword every day of my life til i was 13
so youre not exactly making a case against reapers fatherlyness for me here

[video]

[zippity]

[Lena's been trying to keep quiet regarding home-dealings since she got in trouble for trying to handle her business with Widowmaker, but watching people joke about Commander Reyes and Morrison is too much -- especially with context.

And judging by the awkward pause at the start of the video and the way her brow dips just so, she's trying to figure out a way to say this tactfully, without seeming too invested.

But she's really invested. Overwatch and her commanders had been everything to her.]

That's not funny, Dave. Or you, Washington.

[text]

[turntex]

why not
cmon dude i thought you were my bro in time travel and good humor here what the hell

[video]

[zippity]

I am.

[She finds a wall to lean on. He doesn't know better -- but he'll never know better if she doesn't correct him.]

But you don't know 'em like I do, love.

[turntex]

that should just make it funnier

[zippity]

Well, it doesn't. They were friends.

[turntex]

look if two of my friends had some falling out and were making things awkward for the rest of us you can bet your spandex clad ass id be giving them hell until they got their heads out of their asses
theyre big boys they can take it

[unrecovered]

[Wash, on the other hand, has a few more pieces than he's been letting on. 76 had said that he'd been a part of Overwatch and that they'd been sold out, likely by Talon; Widowmaker is part of Talon, which makes Azucar and Reaper part of it too; and Reinhardt had vehemently called Reaper a traitor. Given the bad blood between 76 and Reaper, Occam's Razor dictated that Reaper had probably been part of Overwatch's betrayal, and that it had probably been very personal for both him and 76.]

[None of which Wash cares too terribly much about in the moment, given that the two of them aren't at all subtle about their animosity, but if Tracer had been part of Overwatch too, then that bad blood is probably personal for her too.]

[He'll give Reaper shit until the vegan spacefuture cows come home, but not at the expense of someone else.]

Dave. Tone it down.

[Private to Dave]

Knockoff Ghostface and 76 can take it, but it's upsetting Tracer, and I care about her more than either of them. I'll keep going with you later if you want, but not in front of her.

[turntex]

sure thing dad

[Except that privte bit makes it feel like dadlike to him, but he's gotta maintain the joke. Besides, "sure thing bro" both doesn't have the same effect and kind of makes Dave a little sick thinking too much about it.]

[zippity]

[Unsure if she is put off by Wash's interference being necessary -- Dave is her friend, right?]

...thanks.

[She thinks. If nothing else, for not fighting her on it.]

[zippity]

[This time, her voice gets a little firmer.]

You don't know anything about either of 'em -- who they were to people, or who they were to each other. Or about what happened.

[Even she doesn't know what happened -- not really. Just that one day, the HQ fell victim to an attack, and the last two of her three superiors were dead.]

You wouldn't be making jokes about it if you did.

[turntex]

[Jesus, that just makes him wanna make even more jokes. But fine, he's stopping. Disappointing Wash is a sucky feeling to even consider.]

chill its cool
im done

[googledox]

[Brainy just drags a hand down his face.]

I went away to fix the threshold room repositor for what, a half hour? And you're already -- you're -- you're speculating. Things.

[His voice is filled with tones of scandal. Scandal.]

Based off of a single interaction.

[They're not really speculating incorrectly. They pretty much have their entire relationship pegged. But it's the principle of the thing.]

[unrecovered]

[Wash just tilts his head slightly. He's feeling sassy today, and he knows that Brainy has a sense of humor, so he's pushing.]

Tell me I'm wrong.

[googledox]

[Brainy spends a few seconds pointing at the screen, making a face, trying to figure out how to say no without lying.]

I won't say that it's necessarily wrong, but you don't see me making in-depth speculations on the rest of the team's various...entanglements.

[He goes on primly.]

The only entanglement I pay attention to is the quantum entanglement bonding you all to this universe.

[unrecovered]

[There's a comment in there somewhere about moral high ground, but Wash is just going to consider this one a win.]

I'll take that as a yes.

[His smirk is audible.]