Flying over central Eurasia

[jla_extras]

...his scanners detect an anomaly headed for Moscow.

Headed extremely fast towards Moscow.

A second later and he knows who is headed for Moscow.

This is Red Tornado, altering course. I have detected the Ray making a beeline for Moscow.

Pause.

Multiple energy signatures enroute following him in formation.

A second later, as his ground-based

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[jla_extras]

Dmitri is already in the air, his armor once again upgraded beyond what any other Rocket Red can claim - the other members of the Brigade flying behind him.

Dosvidanya, Tornado! The Rocket Red Brigade is preparing to engage.

Some muttering behind him, and he looks back briefly.

No, of course we aren't all going to get killed. Honestly!

[ex_kingofat]

He 'ports in via a request to the Watchtower.

Whatever else has happened - you don't ignore a general emergency.

[jla_extras]

He soars overhead cheerfully.

Hey, Aquaman! Ready to kick some mind-controlled tail?

[jla_extras]

She snorts as she flies past.

"Ronnie, world crisis, hello?"

[fleet_feet]

Flash is doing his best to stem the tide - there are a lot of these guys. Mentally going through his rolodex of potential mind-controllers... not Starro obviously, not Abra Kadabra...

[jla_villains]

A bomb is tossed, and an apartment building shudders, ready to collapse -

[plazmania]

Plastic Man chucks Frosty into a wall to knock her cold, and immediately springs over to try and support the structure and smother the fire.

"Heads up, we got collateral damage punks here, too!"

[fleet_feet]

Flash wastes no time evacuating everyone in the building...

[jla_villains]

She's shielding her eyes from Rocket Red blasts as they swoop around her, firing repeatedly - and occasionally she reaches down, grabs a piece of building and throws it at anything not on her side.

[jla_guardians]

The Olympian charges right through one of the building pieces, powdering it without slowing his momentum, rushing right at the giant woman.
"You! You look like a worthy foe1"

[jla_guardians]

Another individual moves in behind the Rocket Reds, intercepting some of the debris with solar blasts.
"Aquaman, the Global Guardians have deployed us to assist until more of us can get here. Anything we should know about? Most of these villains appear to be Americans."

[ex_kingofat]

Their nationality is irrelevant right now, Rising Sun. All available data is that they're being mind-controlled, along with the Ray, by an external factor not yet identified.

Still, privately - the Global Guardians, the League, the Titans, the Society, everybody's sent people here. There are a lot of heroes here, a lot, and if something...

...goes wrong...

He grabs his comm and privately buzzes Oracle.

[jla_villains]

As Olympian charges Giganta, he gets intercepted by a man of jagged metal.

[jla_guardians]

No hesitation. The man of myth just carries in his charge, moving the should block the new target with all the force of his momentum and the strength of Herakles.

[jla_extras]

As the two battle overhead, the Ray rises up again, firing solid white light bursts at Rising Sun.

[jla_guardians]

Rising Sun feels the light and heat coming at him, and bends the light, turning the Ray's bursts at Weather Wizard instead to try and give the Flash some time and room.

[plazmania]

Plastic Man picks up the slack Olympian leaves behind, and starts a rapid-fire catapult of the fallen building's rubble into the air, right toward her head.

"THIS IS FOR WEARING GIANT BLOOMERS!"

[jla_villains]

She goes down thunderously, with a huge impact tremor as she lands on her back, hard - but starts struggling back to her feet.

[plazmania]

"Noooooooo, we won't have any of that!" Plaz barks, quickly shifting into giant bindings to wrap up her ankles and wrists - flexing the amount of strength he can leverage with his body...

[midnite_md]

While Dr. Mid-Nite moves in to gas her, and hopefully keep her down and out...