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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.]
iamresponding: (bucketless - frowny face)

[personal profile] iamresponding 2016-05-15 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
It's my job.

[Not their job. Most of them haven't chosen to do this hero thing and are just trying to help as best as they can. But it's a life he willingly chose.]

Before we get into any complicated plans, or consider taking down Stardust, I need to try at least the once. What if we try something else and someone dies, and all along I could've just asked?
fourstars: (i'm going to die aren't i)

[personal profile] fourstars 2016-05-15 05:39 am (UTC)(link)
[ ... Gohan's not really sure how to take that. On the one hand, it was never his choice to be involved in his weirdness, and he doesn't like the idea that there are other kids that go through weird stuff like him. On the other hand... it's nice knowing he's not alone in this. ]

It's uh... not something I really had control over.
kingtyrantranger: (Vague scowl)

[personal profile] kingtyrantranger 2016-05-15 01:19 pm (UTC)(link)
I say go for it. If we can find a non-violent solution to all of this, then we've got an obligation to use it.

I'd offer to come with you, but I think you can move a bit faster alone if things don't go right. Just, you know. Be careful. Those guys didn't seem too interested in talking.
whyarewehere: (D)

[personal profile] whyarewehere 2016-05-15 05:05 pm (UTC)(link)
And if you die, where does that leave the rest of us?!
deafleppard: (61)

[personal profile] deafleppard 2016-05-16 05:40 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I can see that. I mean, he's out there in space and we can still hear him pretty clearly.

That's talent, for you.
deafleppard: (45)

[personal profile] deafleppard 2016-05-16 05:46 am (UTC)(link)
Quick question, here.

How exactly did he... get that way? I mean, it's not normal for anyone to suddenly get up from bed and decide they're going to eat planets for the rest of eternity.
deafleppard: (47)

[personal profile] deafleppard 2016-05-16 05:53 am (UTC)(link)
If you're talking entire species>. Uh...

Look, it was worth a shot okay?
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[personal profile] deafleppard 2016-05-16 06:03 am (UTC)(link)
[Yes, good. This all sounds like it could maybe, someday, actually turn into a real plan.]

I'm guessing that our chances of taking out Spectre by ourselves are about as good as with big, loud, and hungry over there?
deafleppard: (1)

[personal profile] deafleppard 2016-05-16 06:04 am (UTC)(link)
Are you.

Are you really.
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[personal profile] deafleppard 2016-05-16 06:08 am (UTC)(link)
So can we like... get in good with the surfer guy? He doesn't sound crazy at all from what I'm hearing.
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[personal profile] deafleppard 2016-05-16 06:09 am (UTC)(link)
What if we take out Stardust?

[If she complicates it, then what if they tried to un-complicate it...]
ringslinging: that whoever could pull me out would become the king of england (i would hit that so hard)

[personal profile] ringslinging 2016-05-16 06:17 am (UTC)(link)
By ourselves, yeah, not likely. But even if it takes some work on our part, at least we know the Spectre can be contained. There are things even it's afraid of.
deafleppard: (45)

[personal profile] deafleppard 2016-05-16 07:10 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I'm kind of sold on the idea. Using the lunatic strong enough to take down Galactus sounds like a solid plan to me.
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[personal profile] notwithoutafight 2016-05-16 02:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She snorts, something like a bitter laugh and most unbecoming. ] That's almost impressively unhelpful. You'd think they'd try to prepare you with all the stuff they'd learned about him when they fought him.
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[personal profile] notwithoutafight 2016-05-16 02:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[ That's a well thought out idea, it really is, but Videl doesn't quite appreciate it enough. ]

That's all well and good for the short term, but what about next time? [ She ponders it a little more. ] Would doing that give us enough time to implement something permanent?
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[personal profile] notwithoutafight 2016-05-16 04:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Well, the small amount of bitter levity Videl felt about this situation has turned into a rock at the pit of her stomach. She hadn't thought much of it at first glance, but Gohan looks really shaken up. She's seen him scared before, but never truly scared. ]

[ Her eyes narrow. ]
No, I think you're going to get back to me now. Where are you?
iamresponding: (bucketless - frowny face)

[personal profile] iamresponding 2016-05-16 06:38 pm (UTC)(link)
That would help. It won't kill her, but it'd take her time to reform and we could even potentially use that opportunity to trap her somehow.

Without her, Surfer would be far more likely to redirect Galactus in ways to avoid loss of life. We'd have to take her down before he gets his ship's siphons into Braal, though, because as soon as he sinks them in, the planet's core will permanently destabilize.
iamresponding: (bucketless - frowny face)

[personal profile] iamresponding 2016-05-16 06:39 pm (UTC)(link)
It won't help forever, but yeah, it might give us enough time to figure out something better.
iamresponding: (bucketless - whoops)

[personal profile] iamresponding 2016-05-16 06:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, it's possible.

The last time I ran into Galactus on Orbucen, the Surfer used the power cosmic to shield the engines of the ships trying to evac so the people on the planet successfully got away.

I might have even been able to convince Surfer to turn Galactus aside, but Galactus had already sunk his siphons into the planet and the core had destabilized. There was no coming back from that.

But if we can appeal to the Surfer without Stardust in the way before Braal gets destabilized...
iamresponding: (bucketless - eyebrows)

[personal profile] iamresponding 2016-05-16 06:44 pm (UTC)(link)
You're right, that might be part of it.

It also might be because the power cosmic is so reality-altering in a way all of our original powers weren't.

Or a combo of both.
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[personal profile] iamresponding 2016-05-16 06:46 pm (UTC)(link)
I think I should go alone. There's no reason anyone else should put themselves at risk.

Whatever Kwai navigator that takes me -- it should be one that understands the risk and has instructions to leave if it goes wrong.
iamresponding: (bucketless - frowny face)

[personal profile] iamresponding 2016-05-16 06:48 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm gonna make sure you have all the information I have before I try it.

[He thinks that's what Grif means. That he's worried about Rich dying before giving them all the info he knows.]
iamresponding: (bucketless - sympathy)

[personal profile] iamresponding 2016-05-16 06:51 pm (UTC)(link)
What I've heard at least is he's from before the universe.

That he's from a possible universe that existence before mine and the process of surviving that one's collapse and the Big Bang creating a new one changed him somehow.
Edited 2016-05-16 18:51 (UTC)
whyarewehere: (F)

[personal profile] whyarewehere 2016-05-16 07:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[Grif could just about reach through the omnicomm and strangle him. He's trying to give good advice here. For once in his stupid life he's trying to help.]

You actually know what you're doing though! You've done all this shit before. Most of us haven't, and then you're just going to go get yourself killed!

[Most of them haven't, Grif included. Especially Grif. Grif is not made for this.]

What is with people like you and thinking you have to go die for everybody?

[It's weird and stupid and nobody is listening to him!]
Edited (i am not good at making sense sometimes) 2016-05-16 19:09 (UTC)
iamresponding: (bucketless - frowny face)

[personal profile] iamresponding 2016-05-16 07:11 pm (UTC)(link)
The Legionnaires have plenty of superheroing experience. If anything happens to me, you'll always have them.

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