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Fly me to the moon

Jun 22, 2010 12:44

Conrad Laughlin was a man on a mission. More than anyone besides his specialists knew of. The Justice League's Watchtower satellite required minute-by-minute updates and maintenance. This is not something normally handled by its members, so tech support is always moving through.

The background check is well and truly exhausting. One day's ( Read more... )

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Meanwhile, in the Watchtower... _kip_ June 22 2010, 23:41:02 UTC

Kip Blackwell, the satellite's resident IT guru and Oracle's on-site aide, is manning the command center alone, for all intents and purposes, thanks to the crisis in Chicago. With his Braille system set up to one side and most of the other systems voice-activated and capable of spewing all sorts of information via audio, he is able to monitor the activities planet-side without much effort. It's a job he's done in the past and no doubt will have to do again.

The fact that his beloved jazz is not playing would be a strong indication of the seriousness of the issues the Justice League faces. But that doesn't prevent him from whistling a bit of Duke Ellington while he waits. At his side in another chair sits a large orange tabby, as if helping monitor the crisis.

jla_blackgate June 28 2010, 15:43:33 UTC

Sniffing the air, Brutale turns to Queen Bee. "Some culo's released a gas into the Watchtower! Damn it to hell!!" He quickly types the keys on the control pad, and then pulls his lizard mask over his face as he yanks Queen Bee out from the cells, and towards somewhere with hopefully more oxygen.

"The artificial airlock Clock King inflated! There will be oxygen there! And then we can plan our next move." He proceeds to run down the winding corridors towards the airlock, desperately holding his breath.

keystonesfinest June 28 2010, 16:03:19 UTC

As his cell powers down, Grodd doesn't bother waiting for the door to open. Instead, he just punches the thick metal, and the door flies off of its hinge and into the cell hallway.

Lumbering out, he snarls at Dr. Light as he leaves the opposite cell. "Do as you like, Light. I can breathe this gas with ease. I'm heading for the teleporters."

monstersociety June 28 2010, 16:05:37 UTC

"Hm. Aren't you interested in taking our recent incarceration out on any League members up here?" He raises his cape to his face to try and slow his intake of the knockout gas, and subsequently looks like a bad actor trying to play Dracula.

keystonesfinest June 28 2010, 16:07:58 UTC

"No." Grodd stands up straight and beats his chest, instinctively. "Revenge is a dish best served cold, and here, they are at an advantage." He taps his head with a thick finger. "I know when to choose my battles."

Grodd exhales at Dr. Light, and lopes off down the hallway, trying to find the JLA teleporters.

jla_villains June 28 2010, 23:08:09 UTC

Queen Bee stumbles along behind Brutale, holding her breath, fuming. Will she make it to the airlock without passing out?

Doubtful.

jla_blackgate July 1 2010, 20:16:12 UTC

As the gravity changes, Brutale only has a split-second to think as he pushes Queen Bee towards the airlock and then flies into the air before crashing against the ground, having several hundred volts go through him. If the amps were higher, he'd be unconscious. As it is, he's groaning very loudly.

"Get out, my Queen. While you can! I will... catch up." Brutale tries to jam a dagger into a nearby circuit breaker, but just gets another shock.

jla_villains July 2 2010, 16:20:23 UTC

Ah, good and loyal servant. She will make his loyalty worthwhile for him.

If he should survive.

Queen Bee lands in the airlock with an oof...but safe.

The JLA Watchtower Trophy Room jla_alcatraz June 27 2010, 10:29:46 UTC

Anton displaces himself in space and time so as to avoid any unnecessarily hazardous security systems, merely observing the corridors, rooms and such, until he finds what he's looking for.

The trophy room.

Villains who had been to the Watchtower before had told the Fadeaway Man about some of the rare artefacts on display, in their secure casings. Some of them had even had their weapons removed, and placed there. Wriggling his fingers like Homer Simpson eyeing up a particularly appealing doughnut, Anton caresses the Cosmic Treadmill, before another choice item catches his eye.

Is that a yellow power ring?

Re: The JLA Watchtower Trophy Room jla_blackgate June 27 2010, 13:16:37 UTC

"Oh wow." Killer Wasp buzzes into the trophy room, and grins as he surveys Fadeaway Man looking hungrily at the power ring in its emerald casing.

"Hell, you can have the power ring Anton. Have a look at these!" Wasp touches down on the floor, and puts his hands into 'Mongul's Gauntlets of Domination', one of the weapons the alien warlord had used to take on the Green Lantern during his destruction of Coast City.

Wasp slips the gauntlets on, but his arms suddenly drop as the weight on his fists makes him fall to the floor with an incredibly loud clang. "Ah damn. A bit too heavy for me, eh Anton? Still, we don't have to let the Justice League keep them." Wasp takes his hands out of the metal gloves, and turns around, spraying them with a potent acid from his stinger.

Re: The JLA Watchtower Trophy Room jla_alcatraz June 28 2010, 08:31:44 UTC

The Fadeaway Man chuckles as he watches the Killer Wasp begin to dissolve Mongul's gauntlets, but it's only a temporary distraction. He's soon back to concentrating on the power ring in its container. "I want the ability to instil great fear..."

He strides across the room and picks up an ancient alien warhammer, which with an effort he swings over his shoulder and onto the green casing. The hammer bounces off however, jarring Anton. "Damn! Bugger! Blast!" Dropping the warhammer, he catches his breath as he notices Killer Wasp pass out from the knockout gas. "Wasp?" He's about to check on his colleague when his radio buzzes, and the Eel's message comes through. Hastily, Anton starts to look around for something that may help him.

"Aha!" Smashing a more plain container, Anton grabs Dr. Poison's gas mask, and begins to breathe in stale, but clean air. "Better." He's about to turn back to the power ring, but he instead catches sight of something odd, and yet strangely familiar. Identified by the casing as Unknown Qwardian DevicesAnton ( ... )

jla_alcatraz June 28 2010, 08:34:29 UTC

One of the many villains to use the name Hyena walks into the Trophy Room at this moment, wearing oxygen-breathing apparatus, and spots Anton laughing hysterically as everything in the room starts being drawn into the miniature black hole at the centre.

"Hey, Fadeaway! What's that you've got theEEEEYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!???" The Hyena is suddenly picked up from his spot and disappears into the widening black singularity.

jla_alcatraz June 28 2010, 08:36:57 UTC

"HahahahaHAHAHheeeheeheeeHAHEHEHEHOHOhooo!!!" Anton does a little dance on the spot as the Hyena disappears into the black hole, and then locks his magnetic boots in place, sticking himself to the floor.

He then begins to look around as the black hole starts taking in more and more. "No no. This won't do..." The Fadeaway Man flicks a switch on the side of his antimatter gun, and the black hole suddenly caves in on itself, disappearing.

"Yes!"

jla_blackgate July 1 2010, 20:18:34 UTC

"Yaaaarr!! Ave ye seen Hyena, Fadeaway Man?" Captain Stingaree appears in the doorway of the trophy room, and then rubs his good eye at the sight of the rich, albeit mostly damaged, treasures surrounding the room.

"Forget that fool, there be booty to be 'ad!! YAAARR!!!" As Stingaree dances across the room in front of Anton, the gravity is suddenly changed. The pirate knocks his head against a beam above him, and then starts thrashing on the electrified floor.

jla_alcatraz July 1 2010, 20:23:51 UTC

Fadeaway is still magnetised to the floor, so the change in gravity doesn't affect him to the same extent that it does Stingaree or the other criminals in the Watchtower. He smirks as the pirate crashes to the floor, and begins to jerk around.

Anton's boots may be magnetic, but the insides have a rubber lining. They make his feet stink, but he's not here to win any contests for smelling great.

"You're a bloody fool." Fadeaway sighs, as he *ker-chunks* his way across the floor, his boots still operating on half-magnetism. He plucks a few choice items from the ground, slipping them into his Cloak of Cagliostro. As he turns to leave the trophy room, he fires a miniature ball of antimatter into the ceiling and walks away. The room starts caving in behind him as he laughs his way down the corridor.

The JLA Watchtower Control Room jla_villains June 27 2010, 10:33:42 UTC

Loping through the magnificent spectacle that is the JLA Watchtower, pausing every now and then to look at the stars, Clayface, in the form of Black Lightning, finds himself on the control deck, hearing the sounds of the battle in Chicago.

And there's a man sat there.

"Hey there." Clayface / Black Lightning holds up a hand in greeting to Kip.

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