thelegion | AN EYE FOR AN EYE

I'm also getting word that the Spectre has decided to grace the UP with his presence again -- with the worst timing ever.

Takron-Galtos is under attack, and he's killing many of the inmates inside. Due to the attack and the tech failures, the prison's security team is also failing at securing the inmate population, and need help preventing the uprising that's fomenting.

I'm sending a team to defend the lives of the inmate population and use the Spear of Destiny and trap the Spectre once and for all. You'll also be responsible for securing the prison to make sure none of the prisoners take advantage of the chaos being caused by the Spectre and the Brainiac to escape.

You'll be operating with very little chance of backup. With the mechanoforms, we're already outnumbered several hundred thousand to one on Colu. This team is going to have work independently, with little outside assistance, and may have to contend with emergency t-gate failures causing extraction to be impossible until the Brainiac crisis is over.

Due to the...theological implications and the Spectre's MO being affected by personal history, this mission is going to rely on volunteers.

For those that haven't faced the Spectre before, I'll be sending you a case file on our past encounters and how he operates.

[She draws in a deep breath.]

Releasing him to defeat Galactus was one of our only options, but this is still our mess. It's time to clean it up once and for all.

[ooc: Locked to characters participating in "An Eye For an Eye." All others can be assumed as being on missions. This can be used for IC planning against the Spectre itself and the characters deciding who should wield the spear.]

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Yeah, I know what you mean. Just as a gauge of how bad this thing is, Superman back home can't even hold it for very long. And he's one of the best people I know of in my world.

I mean. It's possessed by the spirit of Adolf Hitler. It's probably not a good idea for anybody to have hold of it for very long.

[Her face stays blank slightly too long at "Adolf Hitler," at least by the standards of Dick's time. They measure things against newer atrocities when Shepard's from, and the connection's not as reflexive for her as for someone from the early 21st century.]

Can't someone equally powerful just...kick him out?

[Everything she knows about ghosts comes from bad movies other guys in the barracks watched.]

[Dick waggles his hand back and forth.]

Probably not impossible, but not something we can do with our current timeline. Probably should have thought of it earlier, honestly.

Stick a pin in that for when we're done with it.

[She's pretty much conceptualizing it as getting hostiles out of an entrenched position, and that's what explosives are for.

Shepard would either make an amazing or horrible sorcerer.]

Okay, sure, we stuff one evil ghost back in his box, then deal with getting rid of the other evil ghost.

[Garrus can't help but shake his head.]

Nothing here can ever just be straightforward, can it?

It's not like anything back home was straightforward, either.

[Seriously, Garrus.]

Maybe not. [Garrus concedes] But somehow I feel like using a spear possessed by the spirit of a genocidal maniac to defeat the embodiment of God's wrath is just a little bit more out there than the Collectors.

[Because that's horrifying, but he has at least some idea of how to respond to that.]

Turians don't even believe in gods.

[Neither does Shepard.]

We don't. But when one is literally standing front of you, your religious preferences don't really matter all that much, do they?

Just 'cause it's calling itself a god doesn't mean it is one.

I know. All I'm saying is that this is a lot to wrap your head around even by our standards. God or not, there doesn't exactly seem to be an upper limit on what it can do if it puts it's mind to it.

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Or if someone else is calling it a god.

[ OH HOW HE KNOWS. ]

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That's...pretty much the plan that got us into this in the first place.

Except instead of evil ghost it was a dude who eats planets, but you know. Close enough.

Granted, I only have the mission report, but it seems like the plan started with "let the evil ghost out of its box."

One big bad thing out on the loose, get out another big bad thing to deal with it. Is how I mean.

So then if we use the spear that has Hitler's ghost to get rid of that one, we have another one, and then what are we gonna have to let out to deal with Hitler's ghost?

Does it ever end?

Eh, he got into the thing. Someone out there must know how to pry him out.

[Shepard is very pragmatic, and not inclined to regard Hitler as The Most Evil Thing Ever.]

That must've been like ages ago though, right?

A thousand years isn't as long as I used to think it was.

[Everything that should be dead and buried comes back to try to kill you, Sam. Everything.]

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At least the Legion can look forward to steady employment.

...I didn't know you told jokes.

Not officially.

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Don't worry. Nobody is letting the spirit of Hitler out of the Spear at any point. Uncursing it would just allow the spirit to move on to its just reward. Or possibly be destroyed outright. I'm not good at magic, honestly.

We should just be glad that none of the rituals that the Nazis used are active on the Spear any more. That's at least one headache we can cross off the list.

So, like...hell?

...why hasn't anybody let Hitler out of the Spear?

In my time, we just didn't have enough people who were powerful enough to do it, I think. There was one, maybe two that could have managed it, but they generally had other things going on and you don't want to be the one who fucked up the one thing that could deal with the Spectre if necessary.

What I'm understanding is that there's at least an entire planet in this century that is made up of magic users. They probably have a better shot at sorting it out now than we did in my time.

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