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Lyle Norg ([personal profile] atippleoftransparency) wrote in [community profile] thelegion2017-08-10 08:00 pm

[video] The Reject Pile [closed to those that have signed up for this part of plot]

cw: for child death/harm

[When Invisible Kid shows up on screen there's something wrong. He's got a grin so big it looks like it could split his face, and there's something wrong with his eyes. They're glowing with a yellow glow and he has strange, oblong, almost cat-like pupils.]

[When he speaks, there's something wrong with his voice, too. It doesn't sound like Lyle, the cadence and tone are off. If anything, it somehow sounds the same as the villain who'd bragged about wearing a meatsuit that'd tried to blow everyone up during the fight with the Legion of Supervillains.]

Well well well, you Legionnaires sure seem to be rallying in the face of disaster. Guess I'll have to ruin it for you! Lucky for me the Brainiacs finally decided to make a mess of things! I've been looking over Brainiac 8's shoulder for a while now, waiting for her to do part of my work for me.

It wasn't easy being patient. After that big metal idiot prevented me from blowing you all up during the fight with the Legion of Supervillains, I've been dying for a chance to kill you all again!

[The grin somehow widens, even though it shouldn't be possible.]

You're probably wondering who I am. The accursed, fetid, incomprehensible monster from outside of time and space that's forced me to work for him as his Herald calls me The Devil, but his obsession with archetypes and the Tarot is stupid anyway.

The name's Bill Cipher.

A few of you have probably heard of me because of Pine Tree. He even wrote everything about me in this little book of his, figuring you might need it to fight me!

[He holds up a red notebook filled with notes and pictures of aliens and creatures.]

But don't expect him to help you. [The book starts to burn in his hand. Then he picks up...a utility belt.]

To make sure he wouldn't interfere, I put a power inhibitor on him, took all his gear, and shoved him out an airlock!

[To prove he's not lying, he tosses the utility belt away and picks up...a very familiar hat, placing it on his -- on Lyle's -- head.]

Don't worry about how hard it'll be to find his asphyxiated, lifeless body in the unforgiving void, though -- you're all going to join him soon! This invisible moron has access to Brainiac 5's rejected experiment vault. It's filled to the brim with unholy horrors and failed experiments capable of bending space and time itself.

Two years ago, I used this meatsuit to sabotage Brainiac's device, but Norg here fixed it in time to send the Legionnaires to a pocket dimension instead of vaporizing them -- but not this time. Thanks to Brainiac 5, this time I'll turn you Legionnaires inside out, strip away the information that makes you exist as matter, and pluck out your hydrogen molecules. That's if the Unmolded Ones don't erase you out of existence first!

[With that, he laughs, and behind him, a vault door opens, releasing...things. Terrible things. Machines that hover and emit shrieking sounds that cause the metal around them to oxidize. Floating vortexes that invert the structure of anything they touch. Rotating devices, meant to repair structures with a special adhesive, that spread their spider web like material over anything they perceive as broken, to fix it -- that unfortunately think organic life is so broken that it needs to be knitted together with other organic material.]

[This is all the stuff that was so dangerous Brainy didn't even try to keep making it work. It's the stuff that made him go "Oh, sprock!" and hit a panic button of some kind. Since not all of them could be safely deconstructed easily -- or needed some time for their dimensional half-life to pass before they faced decohesion -- the vault is where they're consigned until they can safely be taken apart or fade away on their own.]

[The rejected machines, anomalies, and ideological biohazards -- pour out around Bill and he fades away from view, using Lyle's invisibility. Even though he fades, a laugh remains.]

AHAHAHAHAHA!

[ooc: This is locked to anyone that signed up for "The Reject Pile." (You can jump in right after you sign up, as long as sign ups are still open.) Other characters can be handwaved as off on missions.]
unrecovered: (Let me think about that one)

[personal profile] unrecovered 2017-08-11 10:45 pm (UTC)(link)
We don't have a long run! We don't even have a few days! We need a cure for the fucking zombie apocalypse, Lyle is our best bet with Brainy out of commission, and if we break him we - and the the entire goddamn universe - are fucked! Get your priorities in order!
thedreamisdead: (Beeny Justice Department)

[personal profile] thedreamisdead 2017-08-11 10:57 pm (UTC)(link)
I understand you're stressed because you're not used to these situations. I am. So if you want to throw a tantrum and go the opposite way because you disagree with my politics, that's on you. But if you want to listen to someone who's lived through things just like this, then shut the drokk up and listen to me.

We don't know if the Stantz's miracle slime will do a damn thing. If it does, that's fine. If it doesn't, then we need to break Norg. Then we'll dope him with enough painkillers to take the worst of the pain off, and set him to work.
agnominal: (Tʜᴇ ɪʟʟᴜsɪᴏɴ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ʏᴏᴜ ғᴇᴇʟ ɪs ʀᴇᴀʟ)

[personal profile] agnominal 2017-08-11 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
That was uncalled for.
thedreamisdead: (Beeny Frowning)

[personal profile] thedreamisdead 2017-08-11 11:09 pm (UTC)(link)
And?

If he can't handle someone who's lived this exact situation telling him how things can be handled, then he doesn't need to be on this mission.
agnominal: (ᴀɴᴅ ᴛᴀᴋᴇ ᴍᴇ ʜᴏᴍᴇ)

[personal profile] agnominal 2017-08-11 11:21 pm (UTC)(link)
And if you cannot accept someone disagreeing with you with a modicum of dignity, and focus on a joint solution with the support of the entire team, we will lose the objective. This...display only weakens us.

I expected better of you, of all people.
thedreamisdead: (Beeny More frowny)

[personal profile] thedreamisdead 2017-08-11 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Disagreeing with me is one thing. Talking down to me like he's in a position of authority, is another. Especially when all I'm doing is saying that we have another option beyond 'sliming' Norg and hoping for the best.

I can work with someone I disagree with. You, of all people, know that. I cannot work with people who don't respect me and refuse to acknowledge my qualifications and previous experiences.
agnominal: (Aɪɴ'ᴛ ɴᴏ ᴄᴏɴғᴜsɪᴏɴ ʜᴇʀᴇ)

[personal profile] agnominal 2017-08-11 11:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Do not ask more of your team than you are willing to give yourself.
thedreamisdead: (Beeny More frowny)

[personal profile] thedreamisdead 2017-08-11 11:46 pm (UTC)(link)
I've tried respectful deference. Apparently it just leads to a situation where people think that they can order me not to offer solutions.

Respect goes both ways. When all I get is people telling me that my methods repulse them and that my entire life is 'wrong', where does that leave me?
agnominal: (I ᴡᴀɴᴛ Gᴏᴅ ᴛᴏ ᴄᴏᴍᴇ)

[personal profile] agnominal 2017-08-11 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
I would be happy to tell you exactly where that leaves you. Another day.

Concern yourself less with your pride and more with accomplishing the mission. If this succeeds, you will have time to answer those questions. If you do not?

You will never understand how satisfying it is to prove him wrong.
thedreamisdead: (Beeny Dredd impression)

[personal profile] thedreamisdead 2017-08-12 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
I've got nothing to prove to anyone. I'm an expert. He's compromised by his closeness to the people involved.

I wash my hands of this entire situation. If it turns out the slime works, great. If it turns out you people need to use my tactics to win, fine. I'm going to be on Colu saving lives rather than having to deal with Washington's lack of professionalism.
agnominal: (Wʜᴇʀᴇ's ᴛʜɪs ɢᴏɪɴɢ ᴛᴏ?)

[personal profile] agnominal 2017-08-12 12:13 am (UTC)(link)
[ Hypocrisy looks good on no one, America. It's not like he doesn't agree with you, here. ]

We will see this done. No matter what it comes to. It is all that matters, now.