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

[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?

[turntex]

[Helpfully, Dave just includes the link to the infamous fic on the anon meme.]

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[rokketmann]

[ Rokk doesn't turn his feed off as he reads, eyes flicking back and forth in his silence. They widen sharply, narrow for a bit, and then he shakes his head tightly. After another few seconds of reading, his cheeks color a faint pink. Aside from that, he looks relaxed as he sits back in his chair. ]

Um...

I think you should all go on not talking about that.

[legionnpcs]

[Fanfic

updated.]

[relativityspeaking]

[ If you listen closely, you can hear the sound of Kid Q laughing while Rokk is reading. It seems the two of them are in the same room at the moment. ]

[legionnpcs]

[Timber Wolf laughs. A lot.]

Hey, ain't no reason you and Freelancer and Kid Q can't work something out, Cosmic Boy. There are certain alternate relationship paths that I personally highly recommend.

[He has to tease. Legion fandom has completely exploded since the rookies joined on, in hilarious ways, and Timber Wolf and the others have been waiting ages to show their lost friends how ridiculous it's gotten, to have a laugh over it.]

[rokketmann]

[ It's a bad time to tease him about Jazmin. He's just gotten back, and Cos is feeling vulnerable enough as it is. He hasn't seen her in months, and all of these new members have joined a team he still thinks of as his. It's uncomfortable, to be the new guy and to be confronted with a story about his girlfriend Kid Q.

He's not laughing - but he's also ignoring everything Timber Wolf said in favor of something more important and less embarrassing. ]

Speaking of relationships, did you want to talk?

[legionnpcs]

[The smile fades and Timber Wolf chews slightly on his lip.]

They're both alive and okay, right? Just waiting for the rest of us to get 'em out?

That's all I need.

[rokketmann]

[ He meant in private, not wanting to make it so personal publicly. If that's all Brin needs, Rokk won't go further and make this worse. ]

They're alive and well, and they know we're going to get them out.

[legionnpcs]

And they can watch us, right? Good.

Then Jo and Tinya can watch me telling Cub they're eventually coming home, after he's up from his nap.

[rokketmann]

Oh, they do.

[ Cos was under the impression that, whenever the crystalline walls showed someone that a teammate cared for, it rarely went unnoticed. ]

I think they want to know that you and Cub know they're okay. It'd be ... a comfort to see her less stressed. I mean, see you less stressed. It's hard to watch people work through your absence.

[ It makes you want to scream that you're alive. He knows it way too well. ]

[unrecovered]

C'mon, Timber Wolf, you know I don't share.

[It's complete and utter bullshit on Wash's part. It's also worth continuing the joke.]

[legionnpcs]

[Brin snorts.]

You say that but according to the fanfic, a guide to all your romantic relationships would have to be color-coded for anyone to keep it straight.

[unrecovered]

You say that like I'm not used to being color-coded.