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

[atippleoftransparency]

[With Lyle being gone so long, he'd almost forgotten how much fun it was to tease Brainy. Almost. Brainy's squeak in particular earns a wide, absolutely unrepentant grin.]

Uh huh. Yep. Definitely testing of behavioral cues to identify me. I don't know what else I could have thought it was.

[googledox]

[Brainy covers his face with his entire hand for a moment. Then he pulls it away.]

The most ridiculous part of all of this is that I've actually missed this.

The next time anyone criticizes me for being un-poetic by saying romance is simply the result of potent neurochemical imbalances, I'm going to point them at conversations like these. Where they're the only possible explanation.

[But he's just teasing, too.]

Look at you, with your smug ridiculous face and your ridiculous headband -- that you still have. Forget gravity, Lyle Norg's headband is the true universal constant.

[unrecovered]

...you know, this explains a lot.

[turntex]

its kinda cute
what if i sampled his squeaking for a new jam
do you think hed murder me and if so would it be just or heroic

[unrecovered]

It's sweet enough that America probably thinks it's illegal.

See, if it'd been private, that would've been justifiable homicide. Given that it's public, I'm pretty sure it's fair game.

...you know, if we can get Kubo to tell the Epic Love Ballad of Brainy and Lyle, we can use your new jam as the soundtrack.

[turntex]

thats the lamest and most unoriginal title possible
i expected better from you dude

[unrecovered]

It's a placeholder until Kubo works his magic. C'mon, I thought you were familiar with the creative process.

[turntex]

im so intimately familiar with the creative process im two timing karkat with it
and the secret is there is no process
this shit just flows forth and no force on earth can stop it
what about "nerd love under newtons first law"

[legionnpcs]

V-E+F=<3

[turntex]

wow nerd

[steelandtemper]

I'm gonna have to see your proof of love existing solely in Euclidean space.

[AIs trolling each other is kind of opaque.]

[unrecovered]

More like Newton's third law, but yeah, that sounds like a Coluan romance.

[atippleoftransparency]

If you do, send me a copy of the file so I can make it my message alert noise.

[pinball_wizard]

More importantly, when did this happen? Seriously, there's money riding on this.

Most importantly, though...Lyle, how's Luornu doing?

[googledox]

The betting pool is precisely why you'll never know.

[There's a reason Brainy had asked Lyle to keep it secret at first and it's because he wanted to avoid all the won bets and the jokes and the ribbing (no matter how gentle) while he was figuring out something so delicate.]

It was after we sent our version of Superboy home, and before the incident with Mon-starr. It'll get no more specific than that.

[atippleoftransparency]

Chuck, the Espionage Squad is not and has never run a betting pool on the romantic entanglements of the Legion and Jeka absolutely isn't in charge of the money therein.

...Actually, I have no idea if the new version of the Espionage Squad has a betting pool. Is there a betting pool?

And Luornu was fine when we left. Bored as hell, but fine. Purple asked me to pass along a message, but I don't think either of us would care for me to repeat it in public.

[pinball_wizard]

Yeah...it's probably for the best that you don't.

And I don't know if they have one. The new squad fairly recent and they're not as cohesive a group.

The staff betting pool, however, is still a thing.

[atippleoftransparency]

I'm pretty sure it would scandalize some of the newbies and give me a reputation-with-a-capital-R.

[ Lyle grins. ]

I can't help with that either. Like Brainy said, after Superboy, before Mon-starr and that's all I can say.

[pinball_wizard]

If they weren't scandalized by some of the things that come out of Justin Timevs mouth, I doubt they'd be by this, but I don't really want it spread around either way.

And this coming from the guy who won the pool about Lu and me.

[atippleoftransparency]

If it's impressive enough to rival Purple, I look forward to hearing these things.

Yes. Yes I did. But in my defense, you and Lu can't make me sleep on the metaphorical couch.

[pinball_wizard]

True. That won't stop the staff from replacing your bed with an actual couch, though.

[rokketmann]

It's certainly for the best that there wasn't a betting pool. I'm sure there were no bets in regards to several other teammates because that we don't gossip about our teammates like that and let them start their relationships in peace.

How does the betting get started?

[pinball_wizard]

Absolutely. I very definitely didn't make a shipload of credits calling when you and Kid Q decided to finally admit you had a thing for each other.

Mostly it's just a case of everyone agreeing that a relationship is going to happen but the people involved are taking too sprocking long to say anything.

[rokketmann]

[ Rokk just sighs. ]

We took the normal amount of time.

[pinball_wizard]

Not for the amount of flirting you two were doing leading up to it.

Seriously, you guys weren't even remotely subtle.