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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.]
fourstars: (but i thought poison was a girl)

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[personal profile] fourstars 2016-05-13 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
... Yeah, that... that's probably a good idea, actually.

[ And he means it, because he seriously needs to get his head in order. He's thinking too much about what could happen if they fail, and... it's kind of freezing him in place. He hasn't had this problem since he was a kid. ]

... You know, you're handling this a lot better than everyone else.
ringslinging: (i wish my penis had an off switch)

[personal profile] ringslinging 2016-05-13 09:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Come on, it's not that much weirder than everything else we take for granted.
the_fuzz: (Gasp)

[personal profile] the_fuzz 2016-05-13 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Giant, purple shark person, yes.
kingtyrantranger: (Clueless/huh?/got nothin')

[personal profile] kingtyrantranger 2016-05-13 09:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Why would I have a giant robot?

I was just thinking, you know. Giant guy. Giant robot.
deafleppard: (50)

[personal profile] deafleppard 2016-05-13 09:13 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm guessing he's not interested in fast food? Because if he is, then I know a really good place that serves up these amazing tacos.
kingtyrantranger: (Vague scowl)

[personal profile] kingtyrantranger 2016-05-13 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes it is.
captainbuzzkill: (034)

[personal profile] captainbuzzkill 2016-05-13 09:18 pm (UTC)(link)
I think somewhere between the three days of eyebats and blood rain, and pulling my great uncle out of a giant throne of nightmares made of petrified people, whatever it is that makes people afraid of things like this stopped working for me.

[He has no idea how terrible that sounds. He knows it's terrible but his capacity of judging how terrible it might sound to others is severely diminished.]

[So he just shrugs.]

The apocalypse will do that to you.

But this time I actually have superpowers! The last time I didn't.
fourstars: (but then how do you poop?)

[personal profile] fourstars 2016-05-13 09:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[ ... And Dipper says this like it's the most normal thing in the world. Like he didn't just describe something out of some nightmare. Geez, this was almost making his life seem normal. And that was...

Kind of liberating, actually. ]


... You know, for the longest time, I thought I had the strangest childhood in the world.

But I think you have me beat. And that says something, because my childhood involved a space tyrant on an exploding planet.
fourstars: (unsure forever)

[personal profile] fourstars 2016-05-13 09:24 pm (UTC)(link)
It's pretty weird, yeah.
deafleppard: (24)

[personal profile] deafleppard 2016-05-13 09:25 pm (UTC)(link)
I kind of like the idea of using him to stop this Galactus.

Not a fan of the whole "lunatic" part, but... We at least have something?
iamresponding: (bucketless - whoops)

[personal profile] iamresponding 2016-05-13 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Welp.

We're gonna need a bigger boat.
wherenoonegoes: (Hiccup silly me)

[personal profile] wherenoonegoes 2016-05-13 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Thirding that. It is very, very weird.
thethinzooline: (010)

[personal profile] thethinzooline 2016-05-13 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
We're gonna need a bigger -- aw, he beat me to it.

[He was watching Rich's message at the same time he was recording his. Dammit, should've recorded faster.]
deafleppard: (38)

[personal profile] deafleppard 2016-05-13 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
So what exactly happens once he finds something to eat? Does he, like, just nap for few millennia? And come back again?
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[personal profile] floraltranslator 2016-05-13 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Here she thought that Dune was intimidating beyond belief. She could only gape in disbelief at the video feed. It was way too much to comprehend. But one thing was for certain-- she was terrified. She was trying not to let it show but this time she was in way over her head.

Tsubomi opened her mouth to speak but all that comes from it is a small squeak sound before her mouth closes.
]
captainbuzzkill: (019)

[personal profile] captainbuzzkill 2016-05-13 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
It's really not that weird. Really.

[He has seen things. Things]

At least it's part of a pantheon comprehensible to mortal minds.
iamresponding: (bucketless - beseeching)

[personal profile] iamresponding 2016-05-13 09:31 pm (UTC)(link)
You're saying God, a) exists, and b) that there's some kind of spirit of His vengeance, and c) that you were, at some point, it.
captainbuzzkill: (005)

[personal profile] captainbuzzkill 2016-05-13 09:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Most of it was normal. Last summer wasn't.
fourstars: (i hate everything)

[personal profile] fourstars 2016-05-13 09:34 pm (UTC)(link)
I had the opposite problem. Mine started strange, and kind of evened out later.
iamresponding: (bucketless - beseeching)

[personal profile] iamresponding 2016-05-13 09:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Does Galactus have skin?

God, this was so not what I thought I was gonna be doing today.

Yes? No? Maybe?

Probably not.

I mean, a lot of people see him as a giant man, but apparently Nick and Judy see him as a giant space shark. And I have no idea what that hell that means.
fourstars: (i smell incoming exposition)

[personal profile] fourstars 2016-05-13 09:40 pm (UTC)(link)
I have a question.

Do we know if this is its full power?
googledox: (011)

[personal profile] googledox 2016-05-13 09:40 pm (UTC)(link)
What do you mean a lot of people see him as a giant man? That's not what the entity looks like to me.

It's a - a monstrous techno-organic mass. A construct made of impossible geometry. Too many angles. That many angles can't exist.
Edited 2016-05-13 21:43 (UTC)
iamresponding: (bucketless - beseeching)

[personal profile] iamresponding 2016-05-13 09:44 pm (UTC)(link)
...Okay, so you're seeing high octane, unfiltered Lovecraft.

See how hard this is? He's not really a man, that's just what some of our brains want him to be because that's all we can handle.

I guess Brainy's can handle something more complex so he's seeing some weird...dimensional thingy.
googledox: (011)

[personal profile] googledox 2016-05-13 09:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Far far too many angles. Too many.
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[personal profile] googledox 2016-05-13 09:48 pm (UTC)(link)
It does have a high probability of working -- if he can be found.

He does have the power levels and it's unlikely that a being that's murdered whole worlds would escape his attention.

But there are so many variables in play...for all we know, we might only make the situation worse by introducing two destructive cosmic forces together. If they fight on Braal, the force of the conflict might destroy the planet anyway.

We have to consider this very carefully.

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