[23rd October 2010]
[Mount Justice, Happy Harbour, Rhode Island]
The attack came almost as soon as I'd brought my defences into place and hovered myself into position between myself and the others as they sprung into life. Delaying had been the plan, but the widening of eyes, then scowls of hostility, from the mystically empowered beings in the car had given me warning that talking wasn't going to be the path as the big red hair one bellowed something at me and leaped out of the car to attack. With the space offered I dodged, albeit clumsily, as his fist swinging form flew to the side of me...the addition of a kick to the head helping gravity do its work as I brought my staff down and point at the flying vehicle...
"Lightning Bolt!" and power crackled instantaneously from the still rather crudely made magical stave to slam into the silver coloured flying car. First goal was to eliminate enemy air superiority, or at least ensure whatever weapons within the vehicle couldn't be brought to bear on me or the others. Unfortunately the effect was less than I'd hoped as the bolt of power smashed into 'engine' of the vehicle and caused only a small explosion and some shuddering despite my hopes. Fortunately though it seemed those inside it weren't fond of seatbelts and as the vehicle shuddered and staggered away from the blow promptly tumbled out of it, and towards the ground below, with exaggerated shouts and screams...
"...Wha da..." I snapped out startled as an invisible force yanked me downwards from various points on my body. Mental incantations rolled with the spell of thought through my mind as I was flung downwards against the effects of my flight spell...
"Stoneskin" my mind commanded as I fought the force and turned myself so that my impact was at least somewhat braced as my now hardened legs and arms slammed into the sand below...oh right sand, bit overkill there I noted as the pressure had ended with the slamming of the green clad one into the cliff face thanks to M'gann flinging him with her psionics. So he was either a psionist or a wannabe Magneto eh?
Well fuck that...
"HORROR!" I ground out through the mask and gesturing at our attackers as I pushed myself up, triggering all the fear wards in my suit and igniting the spell at them. Breaking their cohesion was vital now considering how they felt and the fact big burly red head was duking it out with a swimming trunks clad Superboy before...being punched in the nuts by Kid Flash it seemed as the big 'man' went down with a soundless scream and hands flying down to grip there...
Pain exploded from my shoulder as energy ploughed through it and I forced myself to roll to the side. Wild eyed one of the enemy, dressed like a cow...boy? girl? for some reason, was wielding what looked like old west six-shooters. Disguised direct energy weapons my mind screamed, as I brought my hand up in his direction for my rather desperate counter-attack with just a basic ball of condensed arcane force that slammed the 'cow-person' backwards and weapons out of their hands. It was a wasteful and inefficient use of arcane and divine might, but it bought me a few seconds, previous seconds in a fight, to bring the hand of my uninjured arm up the wound and ignite the healing spell upon it.
Glance left, glance right but keep moving...
...Big Red-head dude down, Cow-person trying to get back up and grabbing around for guns, green clad dude being slammed into other green clad dude by a glowing eyed M'gann...and the pink clad woman was on her knees staring at me in horror evidently having being taken down by the fear spell...
"Never will the Enemy defeat us!" other green clad dude, the pale skinned one, shouted managing to roll away from M'gann's psionic force and waving hands about. I could feel the energy build up, the almost familiar gesture with associated power in the direction of my teammate. My body moved instinctively as my dodging run had driven me back towards Connor, Wallace, and M'gann...slamming into the distracted green-skinned girl and pushing her down and away from the lightning bolt that flew over our backs as we thumped into sand of the beach. There was no time to dwell on it as I pushed myself...
"YOU WILL CEASE YOUR ATTACKS UPON MY WARDS AND SURRENDER YOURSELVES IMMEDIATELY" the cold emotionless metallic tones of Red Tornado filled the air along with a swirling tornado of wind and sand that smashed white green clad guy into the cliff wall behind him with a muffled thud. Other green clad dude was still down, but a warning was in order despite my position struggling to get back up. I turned my head back towards the hovering Red Tornado and shouted out the warning.
"The other one in green is either using telekinesis or magnetism!" because metal robot-man versus young black Magneto would likely work as well as adamantium bone covered Wolverine would have. Something that the Justice League member seemed to agree with in his own way as this whirlwind sand attack was separated into two rotating streams of air and sand by the mere act of parting his red metal arms. By the time myself and the still swimsuit-clad Martian managed to get back standing again the Magneto wannabe was pressed against the stone cliff-face with his friend.
"Surrender! We surrender! Please do not hurt them!" the pinky clad one of them shouted at us gesticulating wildly as if she was a bird somehow trying to take flight. Warbling, loud warbling came to my ears as the giant alien Sphere came over to me and the others and began burbling excitedly, rolling back and forth and...maybe?...motioning towards the group of idiots who'd just attacked us. Those were almost words it was trying to say, though it seemed it didn't want to us fight anymore maybe?
Bit late for that since these idiots had attacked us first...
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[23rd October 2010]
[Mount Justice, Happy Harbour, Rhode Island]
Batman scowled as he listened to report of what had occurred, and then at the prisoners that had been captured by Red Tornado and the children only a short while ago. The Alien prisoners that had been captured after attacking the children while claiming they had stolen the Alien Sphere that the League had captured in the Biaylian Desert. Something that was evidently fully sentient as well and capable of speaking with these alien intruders through this 'Mother Box' device of theirs.
Of course part of the scowl was for aiding in the intimation factor towards the prisoner held before them, the alien calling herself Dreamer, for the same reason he had requested the skull masked Fortune to remain dressed as he was. Fear could be a useful tool for interrogations and this one was clearly intimated by the boy's attire, and perhaps of Batman's own preferred appearance. Criminals, even alien criminals it seemed, were a superstitious bunch he'd found even without this 'Truth Circle' that the boy and Giovanni had now escorted the shackled woman into. Assuming it worked of course, magic was sadly less reliable than desired in his opinion.
Diana was agitated by the aliens description of themselves as Gods, or 'New Gods' as they described themselves; something that both Giovanni and Fortune seemed to have shared from their reactions to the descriptions. That was a dangerous attitude for these aliens to possess when matched with their actions after arriving on the planet. Perhaps property of theirs had been stolen...but to go around calling ones selves Gods and assaulting people seemingly at random was far from acceptable.
Assuming they were telling the truth of course - and were not the vanguards or scouts of yet another alien invasion. There was no reason to assume that these aliens' overlords had actually had to send scouts who were competent at their jobs after all. For now he remained quiet and allowed Diana to ask the questions, best to wait in the wings and glare down silently at the so-called 'Goddess' before them. Of the group of them she had been the least battered in the brief fight, and also the more talkative currently of them all.
That and her powers seemed to revolve around illusion, and perhaps mind-altering abilities concerningly, so it was best to interrogate this one first before she might be able to get to the others. A rather eclectic and problematic set of powers they appeared to have as well, so keeping them separate till they could decide what to do with them was also a matter of practicality as well. Clark and Lantern Stewart could not guard them forever along with the children, and it was clear the skull-masked boy would be informing his government, and others, of this incursion. Having a brief ready then within the next few hours was as such rather vital for the League.
"...Gods of Life of the world of New Genesis, the New GenoSphere is of our world and belongs to our people. High Father will be..."
Concerning, very concerning indeed; Bialya had somehow acquired access to extra-terrestrial weaponry and equipment via some means. Or even worse if what the alien was saying was true and their technology was 'spread' somehow across the Earth. Perhaps as incompetence, or perhaps more likely as a precursor to an all out invasion by these ones overlords. Sending in those unsuited to the task in hopes that it would lure the Justice League to underestimating their true threat level if they came in force. Or they brought their apparent war with these other self-declared 'Gods' to Earth, concerningly ones focused on 'Anti-Life' as she put it, though it was possible that was an attempt to bad mouth their foe.
Both magician's, and J'onn, were arguing that this one before than was being truthfully but he'd need to prepare a contingency based that scenario just in case. Especially since the younger wizard was clearly agitated about something he was hearing despite putting some effort into attempting to hide such.Also mildly concerning as the boy showed a healthy case of paranoia towards such things, yet was unfortunately distrustful of the League right now and possibly unwilling to detail such concerns. Especially after recent events to further discourage such openness...
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[23rd October 2010]
[Mount Justice, Happy Harbour, Rhode Island]
OhshitOhshitOhshitOhshitOhshitOhshit
Appear calm, wearing mask so keep body language nice and calm and neutral...
OhshitOhshitOhshitOhshitOhshitOhshit
This world is so not ready to be dealing with the likes of Darkseid and Apokolips. Because of the Forever Idjits were here and looking around for 'stolen' stuff that meant either Orion had popped in planning something against Daddy. Or the demented lunatic over on his shitty-hellhole-planet was already at 'gonna get that Kryptonian' and was working towards invading us all. And it looked like that crazy bitch over in Bialya was making use of the tech of New Genesis was Red Rag to Apokolips Bull levels of problems...
Okay. Okay. Calm down...
'Calm down? This is a problem. Our current *plans* can be summed by; A) Step 1: Get to Apokolips (somehow) Step 2: Something Something Sneaking, Step 3: No idea, Step 4: Don't Get caught or Die, Step 5: Somehow get access to Hellspore Armoury ,and finally, Step 6: Somehow get code and set them for Apokolips shattering Kaboom – that is not a plan. Or with B: Hope a bunch of us can kill enough of his dudes to go make'em go home and hope he don't get said Equation. That is wishful thinking sonny-jim not a plan of action' my brain informed in a rather unhappy tone. Because there were too many issues with not knowing how powerful that Crazy God of Tyranny was, how powerful his Evil Alien Space God Armies were in this dimension, and how Justice League: Not Really Competent Edition could deal with him.
Darkseid invading and winning was a scenario that put ever fear the Team had during their collective nightmare to shame. And we were years at the best away from having any resort other than 'chuck Superman and the Lanterns at it till it goes away' if it was just invasion via Boom Tube rather than the nightmare if they got Orbital control. Plus it seemed the New Gods...well Forever People...were looking just as useful as I would have expected them...
So even right now the decision of 'help alien idiots who attacked us' find their so-called stolen technology without starting an international war with Bialya was a start. Worryingly the 'stolen tech' seemed to be in Metropolis which spoke of justifiable fears right here and now as I gazed up at the map screen here in the mountain. On the bright side the League, well Batman, had actually suggested before me on making the United States government and military aware of what had occurred and to support whatever Superman was going to do in 'his city' as its quasi-feudal overlord.
'Has to be bleedin Army because the Metropolis Police Department and nearest National Guard units had been slashed to barebones over the past few years and Superman is an essential requirement even to do this' I reminded myself darkly. If it was the verge of an invasion, and they managed to turn Superman...they'd blitz through the nearby area with little effort. And what was worse I couldn't say anything till I had more information to speculate on. Cassandra Truths that weren't believed were next to useless after all.
So I watched the screen, and the hostage...sorry guest along with the rest of my teammates as Superman, the Hawks, John Stewart and hopefully some US Special Forces and police helicopters once they reached the pulsing location on the map. Once it was done successfully then the Forever Idiots who'd gone with them could come back and get the two of them currently here as guests with the New GenoSphere and go off on their merry way. And hope Earth wasn't noticed by any great alien empire...
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