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Total Eclipso The Heart [modplot/network]
[cw: Suicide. The Catastrophists are very self-destructive.]
[Moving Apokolips isn't easy but one thing's for sure - it must be done. Its current location is heavily guarded, yes, but known to the Catastrophists. The only way to guarantee they won't try to reignite it again is to make it so it can no longer be found, but that entails moving an entire planet. Even more difficult: moving one that's massive compared to other worlds. Apokolips is enormous, and the New Gods had been the size of giants, only rendered as small as normal humanoids by their boom tubes when visiting the rest of the galaxy. For the UP and Legion to work on Apokolips, Brainy had to modify the threshold gates to work with boom tube technology so anyone passing through is adjusted to the right size.]
[Fortunately, he's no longer the only Brainiac working on problems like these. Computo left him with some useful information about mother box technology before wandering off to travel through the galaxy in an attempt to find leads on ways the Legion can fight Chronoblivion. And Brainiac 6's naturally intuitive understanding of dimensional harmonics has helped Brainy figure out how to make a threshold gate system large enough to not only move the planet somewhere more hidden but also to permanently render it a size more fitting for the humanoids guarding it.]
[So everything seems to be going okay. The team has been told to be ready to be deployed, in case anything goes wrong, but so far - for once - something seems to be happening without it exploding into a crisis.]
[When Brainy shows up on the comms to report in on their progress, he's on the planet and engineering teams behind him can be seen working on components that will be T-gated into orbit and fitted together into a very large, specialized threshold gate in space. Even without Apokolips being active, the backdrop he's reporting from is eerie. The place looks the way one might imagine hell if all its fires were extinguished.]
Progress on the relocation of Apokolips is proceeding apace. The different engineering teams each only have the information they need to perform their specific task in the construction, so knowledge of where the planet is being relocated to is still secure. The joint Legion and Science Police garrison on the planet is also reporting no suspicious activity. Provided that there are no unexpected...impediments, construction should be finished within the hour, and the relocation process itself should only take a half hour.
[ooc: Everything in the first thread is visible to the team, but only comment under the briefing post. Only those in the plot can comment.]
[Moving Apokolips isn't easy but one thing's for sure - it must be done. Its current location is heavily guarded, yes, but known to the Catastrophists. The only way to guarantee they won't try to reignite it again is to make it so it can no longer be found, but that entails moving an entire planet. Even more difficult: moving one that's massive compared to other worlds. Apokolips is enormous, and the New Gods had been the size of giants, only rendered as small as normal humanoids by their boom tubes when visiting the rest of the galaxy. For the UP and Legion to work on Apokolips, Brainy had to modify the threshold gates to work with boom tube technology so anyone passing through is adjusted to the right size.]
[Fortunately, he's no longer the only Brainiac working on problems like these. Computo left him with some useful information about mother box technology before wandering off to travel through the galaxy in an attempt to find leads on ways the Legion can fight Chronoblivion. And Brainiac 6's naturally intuitive understanding of dimensional harmonics has helped Brainy figure out how to make a threshold gate system large enough to not only move the planet somewhere more hidden but also to permanently render it a size more fitting for the humanoids guarding it.]
[So everything seems to be going okay. The team has been told to be ready to be deployed, in case anything goes wrong, but so far - for once - something seems to be happening without it exploding into a crisis.]
[When Brainy shows up on the comms to report in on their progress, he's on the planet and engineering teams behind him can be seen working on components that will be T-gated into orbit and fitted together into a very large, specialized threshold gate in space. Even without Apokolips being active, the backdrop he's reporting from is eerie. The place looks the way one might imagine hell if all its fires were extinguished.]
Progress on the relocation of Apokolips is proceeding apace. The different engineering teams each only have the information they need to perform their specific task in the construction, so knowledge of where the planet is being relocated to is still secure. The joint Legion and Science Police garrison on the planet is also reporting no suspicious activity. Provided that there are no unexpected...impediments, construction should be finished within the hour, and the relocation process itself should only take a half hour.
[ooc: Everything in the first thread is visible to the team, but only comment under the briefing post. Only those in the plot can comment.]
[this thread is read-only]
Keep up the good work, Brainy. Let us know if there's anything we can do for you from here.
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I'll be sure to -
[He looks off into the distance at something that makes his eyebrows furrow and there is a sound that causes him to visibly shudder, a sound he recognizes as reality ripping apart, due to hearing it more time that he'd like in his life - more times than any person really ought to hear such a sound.]
Garrison T4B, report. What was the source of that noise and that bright light?
[There is no response, just screams over his comm.]
[Brainy looks skyward, as if he's pissed off at the gods of irony for making this happen right after he reported that everything is going well. Between this and the whole Brainiac debacle, it hasn't been a great few months.]
Kid Q, muster the team, I'll investigate so everyone's not coming in blind.
[Everything goes to hell. It all happens very, very fast. Reality rips apart around him and creatures pour out. They're not traveling through T-gates or boom tubes, this is something else, some other alien way of travel.]
[They don't look like animals or like any living thing. It's like some bored god made them as living things and gave up halfway through, when they were still barely more than ideas.]
Unknown lifeforms. They're using some means of travel that I've never seen before.
[Brainy shields up, tucks his omnicom away and sets it to hands off mode so that his ring keeps capturing video to transmit through his omnicom, and slams his forcefields into the creature hard enough to launch them away. Then he turns and sees Catastrophists pouring in through similar portals. They immediately start casting themselves into the cold pits that were once the great firepits of Apokolips.]
Catastrophists! They're throwing themselves into the firepits like last time.
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If you can find any of the engineers, try to get them out of there! We'll be there soon!
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[The woman holds her hands near the head of one of the Daxamite Science Police officers and he transforms into a cackling monster and lances through several nearby Scipo officers with heatvision.]
[Brainy has to duck and take cover to avoid the heatvision as it razes over the space where his head was - his shield can normally block heatvision but who knows how powerful this amped up Daxamite's powers are.]
Someone start searching the databases for an "Eclipso." Cross reference with -
[And that's when he hears the music, hauntingly beautiful, but alien.]
[He turns and sees another woman walking towards him.]
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[Plip plop. A constant spatter of blood that seeps from nowhere and from everywhere at once. It's more like an idea of blood, just like the creatures that have appeared on Apokolips are more ideas than living things, and as long as they kill the stain never stops seeping.]
[She walks through the battlefield with perfect serenity because it's all hers, down to the literal angel of wrath that's attacking, and that means she has nothing to fear from it. The strange music isn't music at all, it's the strained subharmonics that result from reality bending until it cries uncle.]
[She whispers and her voice somehow booms from all directions and yet still stays nothing more than a whisper.]
||Accept the Word. Embrace negation.||
[Cultists that she passes act as if they're afflicted with ecstatic convulsions. "Penitant, for you. This is for you!" one of them calls out before throwing himself into a pit.]
|| Repent and go the way of flesh.||
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[There's information-gathering and then there's facing down a Herald alone. Kid Quantum doesn't know who this 'Penitant' woman is but she sounds like a zealot and 'negation' sounds worse than 'destruction'.
Brainy needs to be hauling ass three minutes ago.]
NOW NOW NOW NOW!
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[Although it's not all fear, it's probably partly all the improbability. There are the portals and the unliving creatures and whatever the hell Eclipso is, and then here she is, this "Penitant," walking through a battlefield that's erupting around her, perfectly calm, rending reality as she walks, her clothes improbably bleeding, and talking without sound.]
[Even for someone with a multi-track consciousness - perhaps especially for someone with a multi-track consciousness that automatically starts working on multiple iterations of "what the shit is this??" - it's too much to figure out all at once.]
[They can pretty much see the moment his brain makes a self-preservation throw, dumps every single thing it was doing, and reboots. Partly because the way his expression changes makes it visible, partly because he looks at the entire situation and says:]
Nope.
[He bolts, flying for the nearest T-gate portal, blocking and dodging fire from Catastrophists and evilized garrison defense forces. Behind him, the firepits of Apokolips start reigniting. He manages to use his forcefields to shovel the whole engineering team through the T-gate and safely gets through into the threshold room, where forefields have already been set up so that only staffers and Legionnaires can get through the gates from Apokolips.]
[On the other side, he has to take a knee to catch his break.]
Jazmin, we can't let them take the planet.
[Evacuating a defenseless engineering team is one thing, but he's not running.]
Whoever that Eclipso person is, she seems to be converting individuals into weapons to use for her own ends. And if the Catastrophists and Chronoblivion's forces successfully take possession of Apokolips, it has enough resources to wage war against the UP for an interminable amount of time. Darkseid's reign ran unchecked for eons until his eventual defeat at the hands of the heroes of ancient Earth.
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[That one smack is all she allows herself.]
Understood.