thelegion | [video] mastering the pronunciation of 'Bgztl'

[ Videl has just returned from a patrol on Bgztl, a lovely and peaceful place that bored her just about to death. She's been back on the Legion World for no more than two hours filing post-patrol paperwork, debriefing, and impatiently waiting for a chance to access the omnicomm network and get up to speed about what she's missed. ]

[ And that's how she greets the Legion network. No hello, no pleasantries, just a sudden video feed of herself looking rather anxious and not trying to hide it. ]

What's the status of the mission with the alternate dimension Lanterns? Have those teams returned yet? I need to know what happened.

[ Her eyes are flicking quickly back and forth from left to right, showing that she's reading something on her screen while she broadcasts. Videl's eyebrows, ever expressive, rise as she skims the Legionnaire roster. ]

Geez, that Time Trapper jerk was busy while I was gone. Six... no, seven new recruits? Is that right? [ She asks wonderingly, her agitation briefly giving way to surprise. ] I thought I was only on Bgztl for a few days. Unless there's some weird time discrepancy between Bgztl and Legion World. [ What even counts as a 'day' in this weird universe? ]

On yeah, and speaking of Bgztl... [ Videl's tone shifts to annoyance. ] If you ever have to go anywhere on that planet, make sure you ask about doors before you get to your destination. Native Bgztlians can just phase through stuff whenever they want, so a lot of short sighted architects forget to add doors to their stupid buildings.

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It got messy.

On the other hand, it could've been a lot messier.

[ Despite the construct razing Winath looking an awful lot like them, as far as Hal could tell none of the emotional entities had actually come along. The black ring had been a complication out of left field, but it had only been one.

He's definitely seen worse. ]

[ In light of what she's been hearing from Jason, Hal is both the first and last person she really wants to talk to right now. It takes a lot of self control not to launch straight into accusations; Hal was a Lantern, this fight was with Lanterns. Surely he knew something. Surely he was responsible for something. Surely he could have prevented their teammates from getting kidnapped and tortured. ]

[ But throwing all the blame on Hal just because this was all to do with Lanterns wasn't fair. Correlation was not always causation; a good cop had to know that. So Videl forced her anger to the back burner of her mind. ]

Seriously? How much messier could it have been?

They didn't bring Parallax or the Butcher along for the ride. To compare: Parallax is the thing we let out of the can back in my time when we needed to take out the Spectre.

[ Dealing with other corps as a threat doesn't feel half as bad as it could, when he got here fresh off of dealing with threats so dire the entire spectrum had to work together.

Which isn't to say he'd say any of that went well, and he's definitely going to have to punch Sinestro in the jaw a few extra times next time he sees him. ]

[ A being with the ferocity to match the Spectre was more than a little difficult for Videl to comprehend. “The Butcher,” on the other hand, leaves little to the imagination. She involuntarily shudders. ]

But an enemy we can be united against is better than an enemy that divides us. [ Videl’s conviction in this fact has been shaken since she joined the Legion, but she holds to it. ]

I don't disagree. But if they brought Parallax to play, it would've tried to possess someone. 99% likely.

[ And then they would've been divided against an enemy with that much more power to throw around. Which would've sucked even worse. ]

[ The mention of possession strikes an unexpected fear in Videl and conjures an image of her fight fight with Harrow on Braal, one long banished to the back of her mind. That sickening, slimy feeling of Harrow grabbing her and trying to force its way into her mind… The visceral memory makes her gag involuntarily and she claps a hand quickly over her mouth. ]

Did they know? [ Her words are muffled by her hand. She swallows hard in an effort to calm her stomach. ] Did anyone know there’d be the risk of kidnapping and torture on this mission?

I doubt they did.

[ He couldn't say for a hundred percent certainty what anyone else knew, of course, but - ]

The Green Lanterns have been around for a long time, but most of the others are either new, or they've been around but they're new to us - the Guardians were suppressing a lot of information. Even the existence of the full emotional spectrum was news to us until the Blackest Night was knocking on our door.

[ And that had been only a few weeks prior to his arrival in this time period. ]

If the others were from a similar point in the timeline to me - and I'm guessing they were - there's a lot we're still finding out as we go.

[ Yellow Lanterns being total shitlords wasn't exactly news, but the specifics of their recruitment process? Definitely falls under things he was happier not knowing about. ]

[ Hal's explanation diverted the righteous fury inside Videl; unfortunately, with it directionless, she wasn't really sure what to do about it. ]

So things just... went bad. It was all just a crappy situation to begin with. [ The statement was as much to herself as him. She sighed. ] That's not a very satisfying answer.

It's been a long time since I've gotten a satisfying answer about any of it, believe me. I've got a lot of things to bring up with the bosses when I get back.

[ Or more likely, he'll continue running around and making alliances with the rest of the spectrum to try and fix everything behind their back, because the Guardians have been ridiculously unhelpful and there's still a universe in danger out there. ]

But Kilowog was leading the greens here, and I'd trust him with my life - I have more times than I can count. He's been training new Lanterns for over a decade. If he knew it was going to be this bad, he would've said something.

[video] mastering the pronunciation of 'Bgztl'

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