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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 -- total shock)

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[personal profile] iamresponding 2016-05-13 06:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[Rich's eyes go wide and he feels a familiar chill -- the one he's mercifully only had to feel three times during his life so far. All the other times people faced Galactus, it was usually other heroes taking point, but there were three times he'd had to face Galactus personally.]

[Rich rarely ever curses. Hence all the "blue blazes" and other weird little saying like that. No, he reserves it for times when it's right.]

[Now is one of those times.]

Oh, fuck me.
relativityspeaking: (Disturbed)

[personal profile] relativityspeaking 2016-05-13 06:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[Jazmin has seen a lot of crazy things as a Legionnaire. She's fallen through a hole in the universe and been to another galaxy and back. She's seen whole worlds strung together in a technological wonder. She fought against a being that may as well have been a god.]

[This...this is new. Even for the Legion.]

[Her mouth hangs open for a moment and then she taps some buttons on her comm.]

Brainy!

[She doesn't even say 'report!' He knows he's got to report. No way he doesn't know he has to report in on something like this.]
googledox: (139)

[personal profile] googledox 2016-05-13 06:43 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm still...

Collating.
iamresponding: (bucketless - whoops)

[personal profile] iamresponding 2016-05-13 06:45 pm (UTC)(link)
He's from my universe. His name is Galactus. He eats entire planets. Those two beings you saw are his heralds. The Silver Surfer and Stardust. They help him find worlds to consume.

They both only have a fraction of his power and I didn't stand a chance against either of 'em even back when I was at full strength. When his former heralds teamed up with us against the bugs in the Annihilation War they could singlehandedly fight whole armadas to a standstill.
relativityspeaking: (Thoughtful)

[personal profile] relativityspeaking 2016-05-13 06:46 pm (UTC)(link)
He has to have weaknesses. Something. Anything.
iamresponding: (bucketless - beseeching)

[personal profile] iamresponding 2016-05-13 06:51 pm (UTC)(link)
You don't understand. I dealt with Galactus up close three times. The first time, he killed the planet I was standing on. The second time, he killed every planet in the surrounding five star systems just to let us know he was pissed.

The last time I talked the Silver Surfer into asking him to wait a few hours until everyone evacuated before he ate a planet.

That was all I could do to save it, ask him nicely.

There is no stopping Galactus. All you can do is delay him or redirect him.

Maybe if Reed Richards were here, we'd have more options because he's figured out techie ways to turn him away in the past, but I haven't got a clue what he did. It was way over my head and I don't have my supercomputer with me -- she was the one that downloaded his records the last time I had access to the Avengers database.

I haven't got a clue how to stop him.
relativityspeaking: (Thoughtful)

[personal profile] relativityspeaking 2016-05-13 06:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Brainy.
googledox: (164)

[personal profile] googledox 2016-05-13 06:53 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm still collating.
relativityspeaking: (Thoughtful)

[personal profile] relativityspeaking 2016-05-13 06:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Rich, there has to be something more you can tell us.
iamresponding: (bucketless - unsure)

[personal profile] iamresponding 2016-05-13 06:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe we'd have a chance to redirect him from inhabitated worlds if it was just Silver Surfer -- he's an unwilling herald and has a lot of respect for life. We even have a history, him and me.

But not while Stardust is around. She thinks being devoured by her master is an honor. She'll kill anyone that tries to stop him and anyone that tries to evacuate worlds he feeds on. She even picks inhabited ones on purpose.

I'm sorry, I wish I could tell you I had some magical solution, but I don't. Even at my most powerful I didn't have a chance of stopping him.
relativityspeaking: (Focused)

Brainstorming Time (Feel free to threadhop, it's time for them all to get creative!)

[personal profile] relativityspeaking 2016-05-13 07:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Alright, Legion, we're officially in crisis mode. The only good news is the outpost team successfully evacuated.

The bad news is Galactus and his heralds are already heading towards civilized worlds. Long-range sensors are showing that Galactus is moving straight towards the planet Braal, which, aside from the native Braalians, is packed with Xanthan refugees.

[Her expression pinches up a little when she says that, but, well. She is Xanthan.]

We need to start thinking up possible ways to stop him and we need them now.
Edited 2016-05-13 19:11 (UTC)
ringslinging: in the george foreman (im trying to make cookies)

[personal profile] ringslinging 2016-05-13 07:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay, so we don't have the level of power to trip up something like that, I guess it's been established.

But that doesn't mean nothing in this universe does.
headinjuries: to someone. can i call you? (i need to cry about outer space)

[personal profile] headinjuries 2016-05-13 07:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Unlike Rich, Sam hasn't had the dubious pleasure of a Galactus encounter yet, but oh, you better believe he's heard things. ]

No way.

[ we're so dickeddddddddd ]

[personal profile] leverageintceo 2016-05-13 07:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Do they all have skin?

[Parker's eyes are narrowed, like she's concentrating on solving a puzzle.]

And is there a way to get me in close enough to touch it?
thethinzooline: (15)

[personal profile] thethinzooline 2016-05-13 07:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[To Nick, Galactus doesn't look like a giant human. That'd be a touch too terrifying and his brain is trying to make sense of the thing. It still picks something terrifying, anyway. He looks like some giant purple shark...man...creature...thing.]

...Mm.

Nope.

[Just...nope.]
the_fuzz: (Gasp)

Re: Brainstorming Time (Feel free to threadhop, it's time for them all to get creative!)

[personal profile] the_fuzz 2016-05-13 07:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Sweet cheese and crackers...

Maybe find something else for him to eat?
ringslinging: she stopped and said 'wait i know this dick'. (halfway through the blowjob)

[personal profile] ringslinging 2016-05-13 07:28 pm (UTC)(link)
The one I'm thinking of...depends what he's been up to in the last thousand years, probably.
Edited (clarity.) 2016-05-13 19:35 (UTC)
ringslinging: at least i already paid for my adele tickets. (i got fired yesterday.)

[personal profile] ringslinging 2016-05-13 07:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Rich. One question here, could be important:

Is Galactus technically alive?
iamresponding: (bucketless - whoops)

[personal profile] iamresponding 2016-05-13 07:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Surfer's...silver. Like his skin feels like metal when you punch it. I don't know if it's technically skin or not.

Stardust is an Ethereal. She's made of energy. I mean even calling her a "she" is on the iffy side. I'm pretty sure she's not even made of solid matter.
wherenoonegoes: (Hiccup Shock)

[personal profile] wherenoonegoes 2016-05-13 07:33 pm (UTC)(link)
This probably sounds crazy, but...is it actually metal?
the_fuzz: (Gasp)

[personal profile] the_fuzz 2016-05-13 07:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[Judy's nose is twitching up a storm.]

...why did it have to be a shark?
googledox: (147)

[personal profile] googledox 2016-05-13 07:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Unfortunately, the Legion doesn't have a positive relationship with any cosmic-level powers, seeing as we have to stop them from destroying all of existence so often.

The Time Trapper is only force we could potentially appeal to, given its nature of aiding us almost as often as menacing us, but if it wanted to be in contact with us over this disaster, it would've already showed its hand.

Truth be told, the last benevolent force the Legion encountered that had the capacity to destroy an apocalyptic threat was you, Jordan. During the Final Night. But you're no longer at that power level.

Did you have a particular one in mind?
googledox: (002)

[personal profile] googledox 2016-05-13 07:40 pm (UTC)(link)
If what Rider is saying is true, his one herald specifically targeting inhabited worlds presents a huge hurdle in that possible solution.

But if we can somehow overcome that and redirect him, we do have several options. There are worlds heavily inhabited with non-sentient life that he might find equally appealing.

It's certainly an avenue to explore.
Edited 2016-05-13 20:28 (UTC)
ringslinging: we will both recap our regrets on sunday (i'm horny too so maybe)

[personal profile] ringslinging 2016-05-13 07:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Do we know what the Spectre's up to these days?
iamresponding: (bucketless - eyebrows)

[personal profile] iamresponding 2016-05-13 07:43 pm (UTC)(link)
I think so.

But with him being armed with the power cosmic, the chances of being able to stop him are slim to none. He's infinitely strong and last I heard he was pure energy inside the shell so it's not like a physical body under there.

You could manage manage to throw him once or twice with your powers if we caught them by surprise but I'm not sure how much else.

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