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

[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

[legionnpcs]

Don't blame me when you can't calculate the topological invariant of their romance.

[steelandtemper]

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

[AIs trolling each other is kind of opaque.]

[legionnpcs]

I'll write you an essay on using Euclidean distance calculations on the beating of their hearts.

[steelandtemper]

[Oh god please don't she's read your fic.]

E-space? Wouldn't that make the love story kind of [wait for it] flat?

[legionnpcs]

You're going down a path I cannot follow, Cortana.

[rokketmann]

All paths come to an end.

[ Mercifully. ]

[unrecovered]

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

[turntex]

what how do you figure
i am not the science guy but the first law is the object in motion stays in motion one right
so its a legitimate metaphor for the nerdlord romance that carries right on despite pocket universe bullshit
im not just pulling this stuff out of my ass wash there is logic here

[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

[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.

[whyarewehere]

I thought the first law was that you don't talk about Fight Club, personally.

[turntex]

nah thats the law we use for whatever kid qs got going on
we dont talk about debriefings
second rule also applies
not sure about third and fourth though since we dont talk about this shit so idk how good the metaphor is overall

[whyarewehere]

[ Grif snorts. ]

Debriefings.

[ He is a good influence and an adult. ]

[turntex]

[Never change, Grif.]

the implied jokes about safewords and threesomes flew right over your head huh

[rokketmann]

[ Rokk looks blandly interested, as if he's reading one of Braini's monitor duty reports. He's not one for gossip, but he's unsure if this will be gossip. He's tried reading Dave's comments with and without the aid of a telepathic earplug, and he can't quite make sense of them. ]

What don't we talk about Kid Quantum being up to?