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thelegion2016-05-13 02:15 pm
letsgolegion) wrote in thelegion2016-05-13 02:15 pm
Entry tags:
- dexter grif,
- dipper pines,
- jason lee scott,
- nova prime/rich rider,
- nova/sam alexander,
- npc: brainiac 5,
- npc: ferro,
- npc: kid quantum,
- npc: timber wolf,
- plot: where angels fear to tread,
- venom/gwen stacy,
- ✘ alexander of astora,
- ✘ green lantern/hal jordan,
- ✘ hiccup,
- ✘ judy hopps,
- ✘ nick wilde,
- ✘ parker,
- ✘ son gohan,
- ✘ videl
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.]
[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:]
[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.]
Re: video, enjoy gohan being unable to comprehend this
[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.]
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[ 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.
Re: video
[He really doesn't.]
Buuut we should probably get up there and try to help everyone think of things.
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[ 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.
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[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.
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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.
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[Another shrug.]
But the upside is things like this don't scare me as much anymore.
They probably should. But they don't.
[It's not really a good thing they don't. But he doesn't realize that yet. For now, he's just happy it means he's not gibbering incoherently right now.]
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Right now, that's probably a good thing. If I was younger... I have no idea how I'd respond to something this massive.
[ Probably stand there, frozen in fear, helpless. And someone would have to save him, like always. ]
I'm used to more personal threats, I guess. Guys like you or me, with personal agendas and the powers to back them up. The largest thing I've ever had to deal with was... well, a large monster stomping around the city.
But the strongest thing I've ever had to deal with was about your size and looked like it was made out of bubblegum.
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That's new.
[He kind of likes the feeling. It's strange to have seen all the weirdness and know that not everyone is going to understand what it's like.]
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It's uh... not something I really had control over.