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.

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[iamresponding]

Welcome home.

Hopefully, we can get the rest of your lost teammates home safe soon, too.

[rokketmann]

I think I'd like that more than being home. [ And he likes being home so much it feels selfish, when he remembers the others (so, all the time). ] They're your lost teammates too. Watching you Legionnaires work was better than any holovid. We knew it was only a matter of time.

[iamresponding]

[He chuckles.]

I'm sure it was real entertaining during the flailing-around-like-a-newborn-giraffe stage.

[rokketmann]

You weren't flailing.

[ There's a slight emphasis on you, enough to make it personal and extendable to the rest of the team as well. ]

I was here when there were only three of us. We took care of the baby giraffe stage.

[iamresponding]

Forming the team didn't, by any chance, involve tossing a prospective member off the top of a building, did it? Because then your baby giraffe stage was probably a little more graceful than the New Warriors' was.

[rokketmann]

No, we were too busy misunderstanding each other and meeting Mr. Brande to toss anyone off a building.

[ Meeting R.J. could make anyone feel like they were caught up in a whirlwind, so he doesn't tack on that they stopped an assassination in between. Besides… everyone knows what happened, in his mind. There's a pause. ]

Why did you throw someone off a building?

[ Cos is sure there's a reason, or it wouldn't be brought up. ]

[iamresponding]

Oh no no no, I was the tossee in that situation.

[He laughs, because...Dwayne. He can't not laugh at it now. It's a ridiculous thing to get nostalgic over, and it sounds terrible out loud, but it is what it is. Now it's just a story about Thrash being his Thrash-est. He's pretty sure Dwayne would want it this way, anyway -- instead of a sore spot between them? A funny, fond story. Now and forever.]

It's a long story that involves me losing my powers and our team leader, uh... having a very confrontational leadership style in the beginning.

But we figured it out. Still... little flaily in the beginning, though. I was just curious if it was the same for all of you at the start. You know. Anything blown up or thrown off something.

[rokketmann]

That's… an interesting way to lead a team. [ NO, but Rich is laughing, so it must have ended well enough. ] You should use the longer story when you tell it. I'd know what was safe to say if I knew what happened before and after the, uh, tossing.

[ This is why Rokk is being hesitant about sharing any early stories. The earliest might paint people in a bad light, and he doesn't want to get fond over working through the beginning of the Legion when so much went wrong, although more went right. He's the only one here of the original three… five… and a large chunk of the first thirteen are still missing.

He won't tell them anything that makes anyone look bad, not even Winema Wazzo. ]

Imra got me to fire my magno-ball manager. I don't know if that counts, but it did blow up my career. [ He can laugh now, with a few years space between him and finding out about the embezzling that went on while his parents lived in poverty. ] I like this one better.

[iamresponding]

I think the closest thing I can think of in my world to a professional sports player just tossing it all out the window for the sake of being a do-gooder was...uh...NFL Superpro and we -- we don't talk about him.

[rokketmann]

[ He knows it's meant as a compliment, but it has always felt uncomfortable to defend or accept praise for what Rokk sees as a blatantly easy choice. You can be a superhero or you can be something else. ]

Why don't you talk about him? I'm curious now. The NFL... oh, I know this. The Gotham Knights, the Metropolis Metros.

[unrecovered]

You say that like we're not still in that stage.

[There's a fine line between self-deprecating humor and what Wash actually believes - at least about himself - and while this is presented as humor, it's absolutely flirting with that line.]

[rokketmann]

[ Rokk quirks an eyebrow at this. ]

Were you listening to Kid Q, Wash?

[unrecovered]

I usually do.

I was also joking.

[whyarewehere]

He does.

I mean, fanfiction never lies, right?

[ Grif has your back, Wash. ]

[unrecovered]

If that's the case, then you and Rich have a few things to discuss.

[STOP HELPING HIM]

[whyarewehere]

Obviously you don't read enough.

How's your harem doing?

[ NEVER ]

[unrecovered]

Oh right, the threesome with Nita, because some people can't let go.

Pretty well. I water them every day.

[He's added a twist of shitpost to his sarcasm, thanks to Dave.]

[rokketmann]

[ Absolutely stonefaced. ]

So I should read fanfiction to find out about you?

[whyarewehere]

[ Grif's resolve falters. ]

Nah. I'll save you the trouble.

I'm Grif. Or Doubletime, because I'm a speedster, but you know. The one-syllable thing. [ He shrugs one shoulder, indicating he's been paying attention. ]

And for the record, I think this teamwork thing's been going pretty good. I haven't been run over by a tank even once.

[ He is never, ever, ever getting over that. ]

[rokketmann]

[ Rokk replays that twice to make sure he's hearing that name correctly. When he turns the feed back on, he looks a lot less uptight, like he just got done laughing. ]

Well, Grif, I'm glad our decision to not use outdated siege vehicles has finally paid off.

[ It's not exactly emphasis on his name, but Rokk takes extreme care to say Grif and not grife. He wants to ask if that's a common problem, but can't bring himself to say that Grif's name almost sounds, basically, like shit. ]

[unrecovered]

If you value your sanity, you probably shouldn't read fanfiction at all, regardless of what Dave sends you.

[iamresponding]

We're past that stage. As someone who's done the superhero team thing plenty, trust me on that.

There's been a distinct lack of utterly failing missions that comes with not actually having it together.

[unrecovered]

...you know I was joking, right?

[His tone says yes, he was absolutely joking. Never mind that the joke is way too close to what he considers to be the truth.]

[iamresponding]

I'm just sayin'.

It'd be easy to not see it, but we're doing pretty good.

[unrecovered]

[Wash just shrugs.]

Nobody came back from these last two traumatized or maimed. I'd call that a success.