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The Legion [Mods] ([personal profile] letsgolegion) wrote in [community profile] thelegion2016-05-13 02:15 pm

WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD - Mod Plot [Network Post | 1]

[They get a transmission from the outpost orbiting the planet where new displacees appear, the battered remains of the planet Phelolu. It's a priority distress call, so the message is received by every Legionnaire and all major posts on Legion World.]

[The commanding officer of the response team is a Carggite, Dr. Trez. All three of her grey-haired selves look shaken. Behind her, the main viewscreen of the outpost is cracked and consoles are sparking. The outpost has clearly come under heavy attack.]

Mayday mayday, this is Legion Outpost Phelolu, we are under attack by a 10X10 threat! I repeat, it is a 10X10 threat. Do not send a response team. I repeat: do not send a response team! We'll leave monitoring equipment on for surveillance but all personnel is evacuating the outpost.

Over!

[And that is the only message they get. She quickly reforms into one self, and leaves the console, helping a crew member that's fallen. The entire command deck shakes once. Then again. Fortunately, all members of the team escape the command deck and the hatch to the threshold room closes.]

[By the time the hull rips open, it's plenty of time for them to have escaped through a threshold gate. It's hard to see what causes the breach. There is only a flash of silver and all of a sudden a chunk of it is gone. More of it gets ripped away, and there's a brief flash of something blue and sparkling. With another flash of silver, the whole deck explodes and the camera view is lost. The monitoring system shifts to an external camera as a default so that they can see the field of wreckage outside. There is only a small, barely functioning hunk of the outpost left. The rest is a debris field that's obscuring the view of the planet. Ice dust from the vaporization systems creates a huge cloud that the barely functioning lights reflect off in the void.]

[That's when they see it looming out through the debris field. It's an incomprehensible being, a force of nature, and each sentient's mind must try to make what sense of it that it can by assigning it some kind of image. To many humanoids, what they see is the face of an impossibly huge man.]







[Despite the fact that it should be impossible for any sound to vibrate through the void, they can hear him speak, his voice thundering impossibly loud. Everyone who hears it hears it in their native language, two simple words that spell out the doom of civilizations:]

"GALACTUS HUNGERS!"

[Silver and sparkling blue streak by again and they see now what the cause of the streaks are. One is a man that looks like he's made of liquid silver, riding a silver surfboard. The other is a ethereal and graceful-looking alien with a staff, who looks like she's made out of stardust. As they attack the last of the outpost with a wave of cosmic power, the feed cuts out.]
wherenoonegoes: (Hiccup thinking)

[personal profile] wherenoonegoes 2016-05-13 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Once or twice is better than not being able to do it at all.
kingtyrantranger: (More scowly)

[personal profile] kingtyrantranger 2016-05-13 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)
He's big and scary. But big. Can we just, I don't know. Fight him with a giant robot or something?
googledox: (169)

[personal profile] googledox 2016-05-13 07:53 pm (UTC)(link)
The Spectre? One moment please --

[He leaves the console screen he's at and stars rummaging around in his lab, pulling out a metal case, putting in a combination and pressing his finger against a biometric scanner, and looking through a pile of things in it that look decidedly not technological.]

[He picks up an ancient-looking tome and brings it back over to the console screen, flipping through it.]

I...may have caved and started exploring potentially magical options to find the Lost Legionnaires.

[His face flushes bright green. Ugh, so embarrassing. He stops on a page.]

The Spectre's location is currently unknown and has been for at least five hundred years, possibly more. There are no extent records of any appearance post-Cataclysm.

[Brainy shakes his head.]

However, there are some...leads. With the help of some of our allies on Sorceror's World, tracking the entity down is a possibility. A very slim possibility but a possibility nevertheless.

I have to question whether or not it'd be moral to do so. I'll admit that the records are sparse but what little I've read about the Spectre indicates it's almost as terrible a threat as Galactus. The whole "Spirit of God's vengeance" nonsense is obviously false, but it was still a being of immense power that, according to all verifiable records, was a lunatic that killed people it deemed murderers without due process.
iamresponding: (bucketless - wry grin)

[personal profile] iamresponding 2016-05-13 07:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[Rich's mouth twitches up into a small smile at Hiccup's daring.]

True enough. It's at least worth a shot.
iamresponding: (bucketless - whoops)

[personal profile] iamresponding 2016-05-13 08:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[Rich frantically shakes his head.]

Kid, it's not just his size that's the problem. It's the power cosmic. He's basically like a god.

If we went in for a straight fight, giant robot or not, Galactus would destroy us with a glance.

The only reason I survived meeting him the three times was mostly luck and because I guess he thought my continued existence was possibly useful. But that was only because I was a major player in space back home and one that did a few things to fight against common enemies that had gotten under his skin.

There were a lot of other people that weren't so lucky. Good people. They didn't survive him taking out star systems, or taking a whole planet out from under us all.
thethinzooline: (018)

[personal profile] thethinzooline 2016-05-13 08:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Specifically to punish us for thinking this superhero thing was a good idea.

[Since when do things happen all easy for the two of them? Never. So of course their first big superhero thing has to be against some kind of terrifying cosmic space shark.]
ringslinging: (i wish my penis had an off switch)

[personal profile] ringslinging 2016-05-13 08:05 pm (UTC)(link)
I know what it's capable of, trust me. We have...history.

[ What a great track record with being the host for absurdly powerful forces you have, Hal. ]

But the other possibilities that come to mind aren't much better.
iamresponding: (bucketless - beseeching)

[personal profile] iamresponding 2016-05-13 08:07 pm (UTC)(link)
You might as well ask me what the sound of one hand clapping is.

[He throws his hands in the air. Even the one holding the omnicom. When the view's back on his face, he's looking exasperated. He's not really mad at all the questions, though, he's mad at how little he really knows. He's no better equipped here to take on Galactus than he was back home. Hell, without Worldmind and at just a fraction of his former power levels, he's less equipped here.]

Yes? No? Maybe?

He's some kind of cosmic...thingy from before the universe. I have no idea what that even means.

Worldmind was the one with all the answers and she's not in my head anymore and I don't even know if she would've known the answer to that.
Edited 2016-05-13 20:08 (UTC)
ringslinging: what is the maximum amount of trouble we can get into without going to jail? (we have to calibrate.)

[personal profile] ringslinging 2016-05-13 08:13 pm (UTC)(link)
"I don't know" is actually a better answer here than "definitely not," so I'll take it.
fourstars: (oh my god no that is a penis)

video, enjoy gohan being unable to comprehend this

[personal profile] fourstars 2016-05-13 08:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Gohan was actually... having a hard time processing this. Not because he's not used to intergalactic threats, but because he's never seen one to this scale. He'd been thoroughly convinced that nothing could really surprise him anymore, that he'd seen enough weirdness in his life for him to be able to cope with anything. After all, given everything that had happened in his life, what could really surprise him at this point?

Well... this. The answer was this. ]


I-I... that's... a pretty big problem...

[ He honestly had nothing. He was completely blanking out. This was... how were they supposed to fight that?! Even at his full power... could he handle something like that? ]
relativityspeaking: (Aside)

[personal profile] relativityspeaking 2016-05-13 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
It's an option but if it means unleashing another uncontrollable cosmic entity on the universe, let's make sure it's our only one first.
captainbuzzkill: (040)

Re: video, enjoy gohan being unable to comprehend this

[personal profile] captainbuzzkill 2016-05-13 08:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Understatement. That was an understatement.

[He'll just be Understatement Alert Lad here.]

[It takes a moment for Dipper's brain to process. But then he...shrugs. He actually shrugs.]

[There was a part of his brain that would've gibbered incoherently in terror at something like this once. But things like Bill and the Time Baby broke it. Irreparably. In some ways, that's a bad thing. It means that he's almost come to expect the universe to be able to produce horrors. But in other ways it's a good thing, because it makes a lot easier to fight fear.]

But hey, we have a superteam full of people with superpowers and a couple of geniuses. I've seen something almost as powerful as this taken down by people in a world where that wasn't the case.

[All it means is it's time to get to work.]
iamresponding: (bucketless - whoops)

[personal profile] iamresponding 2016-05-13 08:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Wait, so you see him as a giant shark?
ringslinging: in the george foreman (im trying to make cookies)

[personal profile] ringslinging 2016-05-13 08:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Obviously. I'm not saying it's a good one. We had to let another cosmic entity out of the can to get the Spectre back to normal during the Blackest Night.

[ And normal for the Spectre still isn't great - it's just better than "Spectre is also a Black Lantern now." ]

But I can safely say that if it gets out, it will go straight for Galactus and it won't be satisfied with anything but getting it the hell out of here.
iamresponding: (bucketless - eyebrows)

[personal profile] iamresponding 2016-05-13 08:43 pm (UTC)(link)
What are you thinking?
ringslinging: what is the maximum amount of trouble we can get into without going to jail? (we have to calibrate.)

[personal profile] ringslinging 2016-05-13 08:48 pm (UTC)(link)
God's literal vengeance.

Didn't do so hot against Nekron, because I guess if something's completely dead there's nothing to pass judgment on, but the Spectre is one of the things that gets the fuck me reaction from us. It might be a match.
fourstars: (lorena bobbitt strikes again)

video

[personal profile] fourstars 2016-05-13 08:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Y-Yeah... yeah, you're right...

[ And yet, he didn't really sound convinced. Nope, he was still glued to the visage of Galactus, and trying to get his brain to actually think of possible ways to take it down. But nothing was coming to him, because he couldn't even fathom how to take it down. Where could they even start? How could they even attack it? What were punches and energy blasts going to do against that? ]

... I'm open to suggestions.
deafleppard: (9)

video

[personal profile] deafleppard 2016-05-13 08:51 pm (UTC)(link)
So much for that everything I was looking to get done today.
iamresponding: (bucketless - skepticals)

[personal profile] iamresponding 2016-05-13 08:52 pm (UTC)(link)
God's vengeance.

God's vengeance is your plan.

You have God's vengeance in this universe? That's actually a thing?
iamresponding: (bucketless - shrewd)

[personal profile] iamresponding 2016-05-13 08:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, he, uh, has a way of clearing your calendar.
captainbuzzkill: (019)

Re: video

[personal profile] captainbuzzkill 2016-05-13 08:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I have no idea what we should do!

[He really doesn't.]

Buuut we should probably get up there and try to help everyone think of things.
ringslinging: with a broke toe. they know how to fucking party on lake lanier. (i woke up smelling like chlorine)

[personal profile] ringslinging 2016-05-13 08:56 pm (UTC)(link)
I was God's Vengeance for a while. Until I came back to life and he had to find another dead guy to bond to.

It is absolutely a thing.
iamresponding: (bucketless - beseeching)

[personal profile] iamresponding 2016-05-13 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)
You were Gods vengeance. God's vengeance is a thing and you were it for a while.

[He just sort of freezes for a moment, processing.]

The hell, Jordan?

What haven't you done?

[personal profile] leverageintceo 2016-05-13 09:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmm.

Does Galactus have skin?

Ferro, I need to borrow you for a second, where are you?

And do we know anyone else made of energy?

[personal profile] leverageintceo 2016-05-13 09:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you have a giant robot? Because that would be cool.

I think this is going to call for something a little more sneaky, though.

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