thelegion | IN BRIGHTEST DAY - Mod Plot [Network Post

Listen up, Legion. Unfortunately, our little vacation from catastrophe is apparently over. (Surprise surprise.)

The Legion outpost around Phelolu just registered a new incursion through the rift, made up of several groups of people, all of them apparently armed with different colored power rings, not unlike the one that used to be wielded by your fellow Legionnaire, Hal Jordan, and not unlike the ones wielded by the various Lanterns of ancient galactic history.

The outpost was attacked by yellow and red ringwielders, but was successfully defended by ringwielders with pink, purple, blue, and green rings.

The outpost staff sent us the footage they captured.

[Footage briefly plays, showing the view outside the outpost of several groups of Lanterns fighting each other, glowing in various colors. The ones bearing yellow and red rings look terrible and sinister. Some of them look like they're mostly made up of claws and fangs, and the reds spew flaming blood at their enemies, burning some of them alive.]

[The violets are beautiful as they fly around with their crystalline powers -- and er, slightly scantily clad. The indigo tribesman are few but an impressive force on the battlefield, redirecting ring energy with their staffs. The greens and blues seem to work together very well -- green constructs bolstered by blue energy -- as if the blues were made to support the greens. After a successful defense is mounted for the Legion outpost and the red and yellow lanterns are dealt considerable damage, with many of them successfully captured, first the yellows retreat with stargates and then the reds.]

After the yellow and red Lanterns retreated to locations unknown, the contingents of pink, purple, blue, and green Lanterns contacted the outpost and were diverted to Legion World, where their situation was explained to them. Between Brainy's scans and their own words, we've determined that they're from the 21st century, in a slightly alternate universe, rather than our universe's own past. (And also an alternate to your universe, Jordan).

There are rumors that the Lanterns all retreated to the edge of the universe back in ancient times, and we believe that the reds and yellows may have left to seek out any of their counterparts that exist in this universe in the 31st century. If they find them -- and the location of the power batteries that would let them link up and recharge their rings -- we could be looking at a renewal of the ancient war they all used to fight.

The other contingents of Lanterns are allied together and asking for the Legion's help in stopping the reds and yellows. The greens think they already have a lead on where the ancient Green Lanterns settled in our universe. They think it might be on the remains of a once living planet called Mogo, who was a Green Lantern, and think they know where to find him. The pinks can apparently detect something similar and think they can find the power source that the pinks of this universe used to use in ancient times.

I'm going to be leading a team to go with them, as an escort and to help mount an offense against the reds and yellows before they return to wreak havoc in civilized space. The Lanterns we'll be working with aren't familiar with this century or any of its politics, and they're also even unfamiliar with some of its species since they didn't exist until certain worlds were colonized.

The team I bring has to be prepared to wield any rings we might be able to get our hands on. After seeing the power profiles they were able to give us, we're going to need all the firepower we can get. Our own powers might not cut it.

Questions, concerns, protests, or letters of resignation because an ancient space war is restarting and who needs that nass -- go.

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We have some cute ones back home.

[ One of which said she hated him but supposedly in teenage(alien)girlspeak that means she has a crush on him? HE'S HOPING! ]

You and Rich both, huh? Must be a Nova thing.

We see a lot more of them than most people, I guess.

You should stick to Earth girls. You are way too young for space ladies.

I am totally old enough for space girls.

I mean, just the ones who are mostly human looking and don't eat boys after they kiss them isn't that bad, right?

When one of those mostly-human-looking ones that seems safe unhinges her jaws to try to eat your head, you'll be wishing you took my advice.

You shouldn't try navigating the "does she want to date me, kill me, and/or eat me" alien babe minefield until you're a lot older and wiser.

She told me she hated me! That totally would've been the optimal time for her to unhinge her jaws and try to eat me. But she didn't.

Nah, that could've just been to lull you into a false sense of security. You have to be ready for maiming or death at any time.

If she were that good at maiming I wouldn't have had to rescue her in the first place!

Again, false sense of security. I've rescued a space babe or two in my time and had it all turn out to be a trap.

Nah, she just got mad that I didn't get her a cut of the bounty on the slaver I saved her from...

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Rich do you want people to keep calling you his dad? Cause this is how you get people to keep calling you his dad.

This is big brother advice! Big brothers are the ones that give the good advice on girls, not dads. Dads are horrible at it.

Is that actually an improvement over what I just said, though?

Yeah, 'cause thinking I'm his dad is all presumptive and disrespectful to his real dad. But anyone thinking I'm his big brother is fine 'cause that's just like a mentor thing and he don't even have a big brother that'd get pissed over it.

Seeing as he don't have a big bro and seeing as he's my mini-me, that means I got big bro first dibs before anyone else does.

Whatever makes you happy then, dude.

But as the king of dibs, I'm pretty sure you're not supposed to call it on people.

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No, it's cool, guys. Keep talking about me like I'm not here, I don't mind.

I'm just trying to clear up the PR consequences of this situation to Rich here.

Your end's your problem.

Didn't we agree on ixnaying on the mini-me?

[ Not exactly, Sam, you just complained about it a lot and assumed that meant it was an agreement. ]

I don't remember agreeing to that.

Dick. C'mon.

If this is actually a thing, I call big bro first dibs on Dipper.

You can't just go around dibsing people. We're not cupcakes.

I'm actually starting to be weirded out by this and I agree.

But just so you guys know, I'm calling preemptive dibs on any and all cupcakes ever.

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I don't know what a cupcake is, so for all I know you could be.

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