WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD - Mod Plot [Network post | 3 ] [video]

[letsgolegion]

[The fight between the Spectre and Galactus is the kind of fight that can devastate worlds. That's why the Legion successfully managing to get the Surfer to lead Galactus away from Braal was so important.]

[But the end result is something...unexpected. The exposure of a particular cosmic being watching everything.]

[After he's caught, what he has to say changes everything.]

[The broadcast catches it all. Though the news drones were downed, the Legion's observation drones are working, and that means it puts all the video on the network in real-time.]

[So they see it: the reason they've been brought here. The being responsible. The change in what they're fighting for. They see it all.]

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[whyarewehere]

[ It takes a second for Grif to regain his composure, but then, ]

I think I speak for everyone when I say hooooly fuck.

[wherenoonegoes]

No kidding. And I thought Galactus was terrifying.

[kingtyrantranger]

[Jason's going to need a bigger robot.

But first, he's just going to shut off the video feed and sleep for a week. Back home, he'd probably give a speech about how they've faced bad odds before, how this is just upping the scales, how they can do it if they could all just pull together, but... He just had to fight in a church full of dead people. And that guy ate planets. And now there's a guy who eats universes. And he's not with his friends, he's with a bunch of people he still barely knows. Worse, it's probably better that his friends aren't there.

He's gonna need some time to himself before he's up to any decent conversation after all this.]

[googledox]

[Welp. That happened.]

I think I can safely speak for everyone when I say that this new...wrinkle, is something we should tackle more in depth in the morning. After Medbay visits, sleep, psych debriefs, and a chance to try to verify that what the Time Trapper said is even true.

[headinjuries]

Okay, so if we only managed to take on Galactus by siccing some other big power on him, are we supposed to find something even worse to unleash on this thing?

Does anything that bad even exist?

[captainbuzzkill]

It probably does and we probably don't want to mess with it.

The Spectre was only reasonable because we have an actual way to shove him back inside his box. Eventually.

But the more powerful these beings get, the less likely that'll be true. We need to find some other way of stopping It.

[headinjuries]

We need like a fifty episode training montage.

[the_civilian]

Can you verify it? How would you even go about that?

[Tadashi scrubs his hand over his face, but it doesn't clear the thoughtful scrunching of his face.]

Do you know anything about the Hero Dial that Time Trapper said he -- she? them? -- used on us?

[whyarewehere]

I feel like this is a prime opportunity to make some kind of joke about ex-girlfriends or something but I'm really just not feeling it right now.

Rain check.

[captainbuzzkill]

Playlists! We need playlists. I'll make the montage song playlists.

I've already done a training montage before. I think I have an idea of what kind of 80's power ballad music would work best.

[He says this with great solemnity, making it clear he's prepared to share his training montage music wisdom with everyone.]

I really wish I'd had a good playlist going in the background the last time I did a training montage. It would've made things less intimidating if I'd had some music to cover up the screaming when I stuck my arm in the pain hole.

[headinjuries]

Pain hole? Whoa, whoa, I was just picturing a lot of stairs. You know, like in Rocky.

[ringslinging]

My girlfriends used to regularly get possessed by a psychic space rock that made them try to kill me.

So, you know, it can always get worse.

[whyarewehere]

Sleep. I'm gonna do that. Everyone do that. Sleep is always good.

[ringslinging]

How's his track record with lying about this kind of thing?

[whyarewehere]

Exactly.

[googledox]

Something with that much mass attaching itself to our universe would likely affect something. Our technology is advanced enough that we've noticed a shift in the quantifiable mass of reality before. It's regularly assayed by various survey scans.

We just have to look for something anomalous.

As for the hero dial, we are familiar with it. It's an ancient Earth artifact of unknown, possibly-magical origin. A young ward of our team, Lori Morning, used to have it in her possession. Its old functionality was such that it granted an individual a set of metapowers for a short amount of time, before the individual reverted to their natural form. The powers would be different every time it was used.

It burned out when I used it to save Lori and myself during the rift disaster that displaced myself and several others in the Second Galaxy for the first time. After my tampering caused it to burn out, it was lost during the chaos of the disaster and we never found it again.

It seems the Time Trapper has perhaps accessed deeper functions than we thought it capable of, and is using them in tandem with his chronal powers to give you displacees your powers -- or alter your existing powers.

[googledox]

Alarmingly infrequent.

The Time Trapper has been our enemy in the past, but when it comes to threats to time and space, it cares about its continued existence just as much as any other sentient.

You see, the Time Trapper thrives on the entropic decay of the universe. Entropy would be circumvented by all of existence suddenly ceasing.

It is highly likely that he was telling the truth. I still want to independently verify, but may indeed be facing the threat of a multiversal apocalypse.

[ringslinging]

Ah.

Must be Tuesday.

[captainbuzzkill]

Oh yeah, me too.

I really don't want to do all that again. I'm just saying that if I'd had good montage music at the time, that would've probably been less intimidating.

[wherenoonegoes]

...how many times has something like this happened that you're going with that as a response?

[headinjuries]

Mine was mostly getting shot at by a raccoon.

[ringslinging]

It's in the job description.

[thethinzooline]

[Nick spends almost a solid minute staring at the screen. Just...staring, looking like he's trying to work out what to say.]

[Finally, he figures it out.]

For anyone who can't sleep quite yet because apparently the universe ending is a thing now, I'll be in the kitchen, making something or somethings that are heavily fried, and appropriating a gallon or two of soy ice cream.

If anyone wants to join me in eating our feelings, the more the merrier.

[whyarewehere]

Someone please translate this for tired people who don't even want to begin to try to spell those words?

[whyarewehere]

...You know I was gonna sleep, but I guess I can pencil you in.