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thelegion2017-09-08 09:41 pm
relativityspeaking) wrote in thelegion2017-09-08 09:41 pm
Post-Mission Debriefs [video] [right after the missions]
[When Kid Q shows on screen, her costume is singed, she's got a few bandaged burns, and she's got a very rakish eyepatch (which will fortunately be temporary). Beyond looking about as dinged up as they all are, she's beaming. And yet exhausted.]
[That doesn't mean she's got a whole motivational speech prepared like usual.]
I'm gonna try to make this as motivational as usual, but seeing as I only slept 3 hours over the past three days, I make no promises. [She gestures "no" dramatically with her arm.]
To start with, the nanovirus cure has successfully spread over Colu and caused all the converted Coluans to turn back. There was still unfortunately a death toll - currently the count's 435. Unforunately, while the disease wasn't fatal, and most of the mechanoforms aimed for conversion over killing, in the panic there were accidents and some Coluans were violent towards each other.
It's not ideal, but given the number of converted we were facing, all things considered, it could be a lot worse.
That shaking you all felt was Brainy using the Brainaics' technology to shift Robotica, Earth, and Colu back to their proper places in the galaxy. Apparently, the Lunar Debris Field got scattered in the process, but that's actually a good thing. RJ Brande is already overseeing the construction of a lunar construct that can replace it to make sure the tides and other influences the moon had on Earth remain intact.
Without the debris field there, Legion World no longer has to stay in orbit around Earth anymore to counterbalance it so it doesn't fall into Earth. That means Legion World is mobile again, which will make some of our operations a lot easier.
Brainiac 5 is fine and recovering in Medbay. I'm told the cure wasn't 100% successful due to his infection being caused by a different strain from the main nanovirus, but the worst of the effects seem to just be some limited cybernetics.
Brainiac 8 was...neutralized. On my order. [She says it firmly.] I sent a Legionnaire in as backup if the main team couldn't safely detain her and unfortunately, that proved to be a necessary on the mission. I'm told that after she was killed, she ceased to exist, because what the sprock is time travel anyway? The Legionnaire that was ordered to do it did so in a way that's acceptable to both Legion leadership and the Science Police.
[And no she's not throwing Widowmaker under the bus by calling attention to it being her. It'll be in the Legion-only confidential mission case file, but only the team can read those and not everyone bothers.]
Brainiac 6 was incapacitated by the removal of his emotional inhibitor and he's currently with Brainy, getting checked out in Medbay. We'll be getting him into some heavy-duty counseling with Dr. Ryk'err. Brainy's already petitioned the courts and been granted emergency custody. Where it goes from here is going to be depend on a lot of things.
[Like, y'know, if they can get him to stop trying to take over the galaxy.]
The entire Coluan Council has been taken into custody and charged with child abuse, among other crimes. Some former Coluan Councilmembers have also been arrested on...older child abuse charges. [She's hesistant to get much more into that. That's Brainy's business.]
I've already spoken with the president, and she's sending a team to create a provisional government to take over until a new Coluan council can be put in place. She's urging UPgov to institute a full censure of Colu. UPgov special investigators have already been dispatched to start digging into basically all of their biz - especially some of those Colugov bioweapons labs and weapons caches that we came across during the conflict.
The Roboticans have already withdrawn from Colu, at the urging of the Coluans. Despite the Roboticans sticking their necks out for them, things are still...tense. And they're possibly going to get even tenser now that Cortana freed Computo from B8 and B6's grasp. For those that are unaware, he's the AI that gave the Roboticans their sentience, after Brainy created him. Only the Roboticans came after he went down a long road of organic genocide - one that destroyed my home planet. [This is where she chews on her lip a little.] After Brainy helped him evolve to a higher state of consciousness, he ceased being the same sentient he was before - but much of the rest of the galaxy doesn't see it that way. Especially my people.
So that's a time bomb waiting to go off that we may have to defuse.
Also on the home front - another Herald revealed himself. Bill Cipher, aka the Devil, possessed Invisible Kid and made it clear that he was the one responsible for sabotaging the device that dimensionally displaced most of our team before any of you displacees ever got here - using Lyle's body to do it. That's why Brainy could never find a flaw in his designs and why our footage from the incident didn't reveal the presence of a saboteur. What we we thought was Lyle checking Brainy's work like he asked was really Bill using him as a puppet while he sabotaged the device. It was Lyle's quick thinking the second he came to that kept the sabotage from being fatal, because he managed to fix the device so it displaced instead of vaporized everyone.
Lyle was seeing Dr. Gym'll to try to figure out what had caused the blackout, but Bill didn't leave any traces in medscans. He wasn't detectable until he hitched a ride again.
The team that faced Bill managed to destroy him, and it looks like it was for good. And Captain Mystery, who got launched out an airlock, is fine, like some of you have already seen. He was back on his feet and mission-ready in a few hours.
I already sent a team to Earth to investigate what happened to the real Babbage, and thank the gods, he's still alive. He was the only survivor of Brainiac 8's rampage against the archaeological team that found her, unfortunately, and his mechform was heavily damaged and buried under debris, but his memory was still intact. The Roboticans are downloading him to a new mechform. I don't know if he'll want to rejoin the team - that was all Brainiac 8 from the start. Every single interaction we had from the moment "Babbage" returned to the team was really Brainiac 8. All of you are strangers to the real Babbage.
Due to Brainiac 8's deception I've sent a security team to sweep through Legion World to unearth any other possible traps and dispose of any hazardous materials B8 might have left behind. The "gifts" she gave some of you have already been confiscated. We found out that one that she gave to Cub had kryptonite inside, which is radioactive and dangerous over long periods of time, but fortunately, Dr. Gym'll said we caught it early enough that he'll be fine.
[That was...a lot of information. She practically falls into her desk chair.]
Oh, and no less important than everything on Colu or on Legion World - some great news: the team dispatched to Takron-Galtos successfully contained the Spectre and they prevented a prison uprising while the security systems were down due to the Brainiacs' digital rampage. So that's one chapter we can finally close.
[She pushes a hand through her hair.]
So, all told, everything was a mess, but we also knocked the Brainiacs right back down the second they stuck their heads up, got a child out of the hands of his abusers, and swept both the Spectre and a Herald off the board.
Also, we're not dead. Always a plus.
[She finally breathes out and slumps slightly.]
That's all I got.
[That doesn't mean she's got a whole motivational speech prepared like usual.]
I'm gonna try to make this as motivational as usual, but seeing as I only slept 3 hours over the past three days, I make no promises. [She gestures "no" dramatically with her arm.]
To start with, the nanovirus cure has successfully spread over Colu and caused all the converted Coluans to turn back. There was still unfortunately a death toll - currently the count's 435. Unforunately, while the disease wasn't fatal, and most of the mechanoforms aimed for conversion over killing, in the panic there were accidents and some Coluans were violent towards each other.
It's not ideal, but given the number of converted we were facing, all things considered, it could be a lot worse.
That shaking you all felt was Brainy using the Brainaics' technology to shift Robotica, Earth, and Colu back to their proper places in the galaxy. Apparently, the Lunar Debris Field got scattered in the process, but that's actually a good thing. RJ Brande is already overseeing the construction of a lunar construct that can replace it to make sure the tides and other influences the moon had on Earth remain intact.
Without the debris field there, Legion World no longer has to stay in orbit around Earth anymore to counterbalance it so it doesn't fall into Earth. That means Legion World is mobile again, which will make some of our operations a lot easier.
Brainiac 5 is fine and recovering in Medbay. I'm told the cure wasn't 100% successful due to his infection being caused by a different strain from the main nanovirus, but the worst of the effects seem to just be some limited cybernetics.
Brainiac 8 was...neutralized. On my order. [She says it firmly.] I sent a Legionnaire in as backup if the main team couldn't safely detain her and unfortunately, that proved to be a necessary on the mission. I'm told that after she was killed, she ceased to exist, because what the sprock is time travel anyway? The Legionnaire that was ordered to do it did so in a way that's acceptable to both Legion leadership and the Science Police.
[And no she's not throwing Widowmaker under the bus by calling attention to it being her. It'll be in the Legion-only confidential mission case file, but only the team can read those and not everyone bothers.]
Brainiac 6 was incapacitated by the removal of his emotional inhibitor and he's currently with Brainy, getting checked out in Medbay. We'll be getting him into some heavy-duty counseling with Dr. Ryk'err. Brainy's already petitioned the courts and been granted emergency custody. Where it goes from here is going to be depend on a lot of things.
[Like, y'know, if they can get him to stop trying to take over the galaxy.]
The entire Coluan Council has been taken into custody and charged with child abuse, among other crimes. Some former Coluan Councilmembers have also been arrested on...older child abuse charges. [She's hesistant to get much more into that. That's Brainy's business.]
I've already spoken with the president, and she's sending a team to create a provisional government to take over until a new Coluan council can be put in place. She's urging UPgov to institute a full censure of Colu. UPgov special investigators have already been dispatched to start digging into basically all of their biz - especially some of those Colugov bioweapons labs and weapons caches that we came across during the conflict.
The Roboticans have already withdrawn from Colu, at the urging of the Coluans. Despite the Roboticans sticking their necks out for them, things are still...tense. And they're possibly going to get even tenser now that Cortana freed Computo from B8 and B6's grasp. For those that are unaware, he's the AI that gave the Roboticans their sentience, after Brainy created him. Only the Roboticans came after he went down a long road of organic genocide - one that destroyed my home planet. [This is where she chews on her lip a little.] After Brainy helped him evolve to a higher state of consciousness, he ceased being the same sentient he was before - but much of the rest of the galaxy doesn't see it that way. Especially my people.
So that's a time bomb waiting to go off that we may have to defuse.
Also on the home front - another Herald revealed himself. Bill Cipher, aka the Devil, possessed Invisible Kid and made it clear that he was the one responsible for sabotaging the device that dimensionally displaced most of our team before any of you displacees ever got here - using Lyle's body to do it. That's why Brainy could never find a flaw in his designs and why our footage from the incident didn't reveal the presence of a saboteur. What we we thought was Lyle checking Brainy's work like he asked was really Bill using him as a puppet while he sabotaged the device. It was Lyle's quick thinking the second he came to that kept the sabotage from being fatal, because he managed to fix the device so it displaced instead of vaporized everyone.
Lyle was seeing Dr. Gym'll to try to figure out what had caused the blackout, but Bill didn't leave any traces in medscans. He wasn't detectable until he hitched a ride again.
The team that faced Bill managed to destroy him, and it looks like it was for good. And Captain Mystery, who got launched out an airlock, is fine, like some of you have already seen. He was back on his feet and mission-ready in a few hours.
I already sent a team to Earth to investigate what happened to the real Babbage, and thank the gods, he's still alive. He was the only survivor of Brainiac 8's rampage against the archaeological team that found her, unfortunately, and his mechform was heavily damaged and buried under debris, but his memory was still intact. The Roboticans are downloading him to a new mechform. I don't know if he'll want to rejoin the team - that was all Brainiac 8 from the start. Every single interaction we had from the moment "Babbage" returned to the team was really Brainiac 8. All of you are strangers to the real Babbage.
Due to Brainiac 8's deception I've sent a security team to sweep through Legion World to unearth any other possible traps and dispose of any hazardous materials B8 might have left behind. The "gifts" she gave some of you have already been confiscated. We found out that one that she gave to Cub had kryptonite inside, which is radioactive and dangerous over long periods of time, but fortunately, Dr. Gym'll said we caught it early enough that he'll be fine.
[That was...a lot of information. She practically falls into her desk chair.]
Oh, and no less important than everything on Colu or on Legion World - some great news: the team dispatched to Takron-Galtos successfully contained the Spectre and they prevented a prison uprising while the security systems were down due to the Brainiacs' digital rampage. So that's one chapter we can finally close.
[She pushes a hand through her hair.]
So, all told, everything was a mess, but we also knocked the Brainiacs right back down the second they stuck their heads up, got a child out of the hands of his abusers, and swept both the Spectre and a Herald off the board.
Also, we're not dead. Always a plus.
[She finally breathes out and slumps slightly.]
That's all I got.
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Please, you could never be that brief. In physical form, that book's gonna be a meter high cube. You could build a dam with it.
[ Robbie's laughing at the thought, because he's pretty sure he's not entirely wrong. Brainy just hasn't thought about the sociological experiments needed yet. ]
I think it is. [ He glances to the side, awkwardly aware of how uncertain he sounds right now. ] I don't know how much difference it makes, but I know I blew up tin foil in a microwave once 'cause I wanted my parents to stay home. And I'm not even a supergenius.
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Just...look.
[He actually lets go of Six and...Six doesn't slip down in his lap any farther because he's got his father's hospital scrub top in that much of a death grip, even in sleep.]
[Brainy's arms wrap tightly around him again and his voice is a little shaky as he continues.]
It was never really about Colu itself. Just like how, when I was younger, purposefully flaunting safety protocols on all my experiments wasn't really about the science. Passive-aggression may not be the healthiest of outlets but it still is one. Direct aggression isn't any different.
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[ Robbie softens a lot at the toddler's chubby-fisted grip holding him in place. ]
He's a lot cuter when he's asleep. And quiet.
[ But after a few more seconds of considering it, Robbie shakes his head. ]
I don't think it's fair to say Colu was his microwave. What we did - that was kids who didn't know how to get validation trying to get validation from inattentive people who'd never raised a kid before. They had all that research to go on, and they still decided the way to go was creating him and sticking him in something even more regulated? He's the microwave. He just did what everyone set him up to do.
I mean, let's convince him a waffle-maker instead. Everybody loves waffles and non-carcinogens. But his direct aggressive cry for attention was caused by their stupid passive aggressive cry for attention and hubris.
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[He doesn't look up at the screen as he talks about it, he just looks at Six.]
That's why they called us Brainiacs. It was...a classification, using the name of our villainous ancestor. Like the ones used for natural disasters before climate regulation became a technological possibility.
The problem always was that we weren't forces of nature. This is what happens when you treat sentients as if they're as unfeeling and destructive as a storm or an earthquake. You risk pushing them into actually becoming that way, due to repression and emotional trauma.
[He presses a kiss to his son's forehead.]
Fortunately, quite a few things in life can apparently be fixed with hugs and ice cream.
[He looks up at Robbie again and looks sheepish.]
That's how I got him to stop having a tantrum after his inhibitor was removed. I promised him that if he stopped trying commit galactic genocide I'd take him for an ice cream.
He liked plooberry, the chocolate was apparently a hard 'meh.'
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[ But he hums in thought about the treating sentients as unfeeling weapons - or maybe computers. It feels too private to share, though, and then Querl gets even mushier with the kiss. It's adorable, and Robbie doesn't want to tread on such a nice moment. Not that much, anyway. ]
... so if I throw a tantrum, do I get ice cream too? I have way better taste than Merl. I know chocolate is the greatest thing ever invented.
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Please don't. I have a feeling that the lab's going to regularly shake with the thundering force of tantrums as is.
I need an adult, too.
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Do you need an adult now or just in general? ... also who spread these lies that I'm an adult?