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Those wanting to follow the story from the start should read Legion 35C, Glorion Grundy and the Mindbender, Endings and Beginnings, and for a more complete character analysis there is the Bios and Pictures - Legion 35C thread.
Please note that after page 5 this splits into two seperate threds - Stories from the 'Stroid being set on the Legion 'Stroid Base and this continues as the place to read about ongoing missions.
Previously/ Role Call
Kord Das, the Harbinger of the New Light. A Naltori Seer trained in Coluan Information processing techniques. Faked a major vision at a high profile ceremony, gaining wide media coverage and attention from the fragmented worlds of the NuUP. This attention was manipulated into creating a new Legion for the Milky Way.
Widdid Spood, the Durlan Green Lantern. He joined the nascent Legion after his predecessor, Penga La died on a mission. He was recently injured while trying to protect Moh Johh from his own crew. Current mission leader in the Barcelona Try outs.
Gimallon, Enri Longtan of the Imskian Leviathons. Size manipulation and sarcasm.
Sparkzzz from Winath. The electrical weilding Sol Defence League representative, Has recently started a relationship with Moh Johh. And she intends on telling everyone.
Commander Moh Johh of the Daxam Northern Arm Fleet. After losing control of his own crew Kord Das personally invited him to be a member of the Legion’s Strike Team. He has recently begun a relationship with the chatty SDL’s Sparkzzz. He is beginning to have doubts about it.
Avatar of the Kenroshi Starsailors. The ambassador to Sol Space from one of the galaxy’s most reclusive races. The Kenroshi have cosmic level awareness and energy manipulating abilities. Their home system was irreparably damaged when Dak Sacchev detonated the heart of a jovian class planet to destroy an attacking fleet of the Grand Invaders.
Amber – Wee Eavey Hakkawolla of the Firstfooters. The personification of the power of the cosmic being the Amber Man. She can access a cosmic force called the Song of All Creation that allows her to alter reality around her, including being unseen by Kord Das’s precognition. She is new to interplanetary politics after spending much of her life hiding in the buffer dimensions between ours and the Valenian realities.
Hol El, last descendant of the Last Son of Krypton. She has inherited her ancestor’s invulnerability. She uses a system called Gene Banging to artificially induce meta abilities for short periods of time. She has been sent to join the Legion by Amber for reasons that are not known yet.
Nar Nase and Byt Fees. Members of the Daxam Space Fleet involved in a homosexual relationship. Daxam laws prohibit any form of sexual relationship within their ranks. Kid Mental and Triple Cubed found out about their relationship on their last mission.
Helen of Thermyscira. Sister Paragon of the SLD. She has returned to the Paradise Island Realm to ask forgiveness after being publicly humiliated while under the effects of a hallucinogenic at a funeral for a fallen Legionnaire.
Clear Skies Coming of the Starhaven Freetraders. As the headstrong next Shaman of his people he should be studying the Lore of the Source. Instead he’s daydreaming about Helen of Thermyscira and their recent encounter in the Rimbor Oort cloud.
Jo Nah, the Ultra Warrior. A member of the 30th century’s Legion he has been invited to join by Kord Das but appears to be having doubts. He and partner Zoe Saugin, Kinetix, are hesitant to commit fully behind Kord Das.
Glorion Grundy and the NowYouSeeMeNowYouDon't Beetle. Glorion is a decendant of the Gorilla City Suirvivors. He has been brought up on Tharn and as such he is a fairly skillful information mage. The 'Beetle lives inside his stomach and has it's own agenda.
Lobo - yup, the Main Man in all his swaggering ego fueled tight trouser wearing cursing bitching mean and self serving wonderfulness!
Rocket Joe and Lady Reptilla - previously co-leaders of the Sol Defence League they have made it known that apparently they are not happy to see their organisation being swamped under Kord Das's umbrella Legion organisation. They'll toe the party line until it suits them to otherwise. That's what everyone thinks anyway. ..........................
Hol El stands in line with the other 649 applicants.
She is bored, irritated by the swarms of eyespys and the attention seeking nature of most of the other hopefuls, and in need of a Stim. Or three. Why, she asks herself for the twentieth time in as many minutes, did she allow the Scots Mauri girl with the amber eyes to talk her into this?
After a life out amongst the Small Worlds, non aligned neutral colonies within the reach of Khundian Space she has finally come to Earth, the home of her very famous ancestor. Standing in the ancient city of Barcelona within a stone’s throw of the towering beauty of the monumental Church of El Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Familia she feels very out of place. The majority of the applicants seem unaware of the sheer scale of the history around them, more intent on showing off to the Eyespys. She has a urge to climb the walls of abstract patterns made of Venetian glass mosaic and slide down tongue first. That would be preferable to watching the embarrassing desperation on display she thinks. The media attention that this open call to a Legion try-out has generated makes Hol El’s teeth ache. And that’s quite a stunt given her inherited ability of total physical invulnerability.
Whizzzzzz- kerbang!
The cybernetic Ectopus from the Bgtzl Confederated Realms is trying to get as much attention as it possibly can by generating a small fireworks display from it’s sleek mechanical attachments. “Whizz kerblatching- bang” Hol El mutters under her breath as she looks down the line at the three hundred odd applicants behind her. The Jammian Centaur behind her tries for the second time to engage Hol in conversation, his excitement is very evident. Again she blanks him and looks past him at the line of heroic hopefuls. A Braalian girl tries to woo the crowds to her side with a display of magnetic control over a large mass of iron ball bearings, spelling her name above her head. Behind her a Chloron Bushman shakes with mirth at the displays happening around it.
Whizzzzzzzz- Kerbanggg!
The crowd ‘ooohs’ appreciatively as the display of fireworks reaches an obvious climax in the air above the line. Hol El reaches into her arm pouches and takes out a vial marked “Thermal vision” and for several seconds she contemplates giving the Ectopus a blast. Thankfully the next fifty applicants are ushered into the huge square where they are displayed before the waiting Legionnaires. The queue moves forward with a rush and Hol El finds herself stood with 49 other hopefuls looking up at the half dozen Legionnaires sat in the viewing Box twenty metres above the ground, like Emperors of Ancient Rome awaiting sport from the gladiators below.
Why was she here again? The blatchin' girl with the strange glowing eyes and the rich voice had persuaded her, she remembered. Blatchin’ Wee Eavy Hakkawolla and her caritchin' Crusade against Kord Das!
"Oh well" Hol El thinks, "It's time to get the show on the road."
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Widdid Spood of the Green Lantern Corp was bored.
Apart from a brief exciting fight between a Lycanthrope from Mars and a bat winged Xanthui girl this ‘Try Out’ exercise that Kord Das had asked him to organise was a drag. Beside him in the viewing Box was Moh Johh of the Daxam Fleet with his new love, the chatty lightning weilder Sparkzzz of the Winath Co-operatives. The Kenroshi ambassador Avatar hung gracefully above them, her electric aurora wings fluttering with a rhythm unique to the Starsailors. Enri Longtan, Gimallon of the Imskian Leviathons, on his first public appearance after sustaining injuries in a battle with the Sunday Crowd sat at the far end of the Box watching the line of applicants in the distance with obvious boredom. Kord Das had sent an Image Chip that projected a perfect 3D replica and had a telepathway setting should the real Harbinger’s opinion be needed. Widdid Spood was a little relieved when Das told him prior to sending him on this PR stunt that Spood would be able to deal with any problem that was likely to occur.
Das had also given him a short list of applicants that he foresaw joining the Legion. At least, Widdid Spood acknowledged, Das had said that the list wasn’t final and if Spood saw any applicants with enough potential he should invite them to join. Spood was grateful for this as the list held only two names. Ash- yu Wool of Greater Braal and Hol El, descendent of the Last Son of Krypton. As there were 650 applicants Spood was glad he had the opportunity to alleviate some of his boredom by randomly picking applicants to go through to the next round. Currently he saw to it that every twenty third applicant was making the list if they had an even halfway decent ability, along with the odd few picked out by his fellow Legionnaires. The distraught, and sometimes relieved, failed candidates were given a Legion Telepathway Earplug with an hours charge. Of course it could only pick up official channels though!
Widdid Spood looked at the current batch of fifty to stand before him. This group contained Hol El. Well he’d pick her as asked, along with a Bismollian called Gannet and an illusion casting snake called Jectro. Numbers twenty three and forty six. His fellow Legionnaires had nothing to add so he thanked the remaining forty seven applicants and ushered in the next group.
He really wanted to explore the beautiful cathedral that loomed over the try out. “Later”, he promised himself for the fortieth time that afternoon, “later I’ll visit it, after this farce is over”.
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quote:Originally posted by Harbinger: Amber – Wee Eavey Hakkawolla of the Firstfooters. The personification of the power of the cosmic being the Amber Man. She can access a cosmic force called the Song of All Creation that allows her to alter reality around her, including being unseen by Kord Das’s precognition. She is new to interplanetary politics after spending much of her life hiding in the buffer dimensions between ours and the Valenian realities.
Tyroc II?
more more more please B...
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Zoe Saugin and Kord Das have never met before.
Although neither look directly at the other they are scrutinising each other’s every word. They are both facing an Infoskin in Legion ‘Stroids Comm Deck. The current mission that Zoe’s partner, Jo Nah the Ultra Warrior, is leading appears to have gotten off to a good start. While a heavy hitting team which includes several of the Kenroshi, a Daxamite Cruiser and Dak Sacchev drive the attacking force back to their home dimension Jo's team has been sent to infiltrate an attacking Grand Invader’s task force. With Jo are the Starhaven Freetrader Clear Skies Coming, a Bgtzlan called Murga Brazz and the time displaced Tamaran Princess.
Zoe twists the ring on her right index finger, betraying her nervousness. She sees from the corner of her eye that Das has seen this motion. “Well there’s no shame in caring is there?” she says, a tight smile on her face as she turns to look directly at him for the first time. It's her first words to the leader of this incarnation of the Legion.
“Of course, I am nervous too Zoe, I foresee that a team will return to our reality within four days, but I don’t know what will happen to then during that time.”
His honesty gives Zoe pause, here is a man legendary for his Naltori Seers skills and Coluan tenth level intellect admitting to doubts. She is wise enough to know that there is more to Das’s simple statement than immediately becomes apparent.
“Will they bring back the intelligence we need Kord?”
“The survivors will”
“Jo?” She has a sudden panic, followed by the shame at allowing Das to see this.
“I see that he and Clear Skies Coming will bring back information. The Princess will not return as soon and poor Brazz will never find his way back to our realities. I told them all of their fates before I asked them to go on this mission.” He smiles and turns to look her in the eye as he says this. “They are all well aware of what I have Seen for them Zoe, didn’t Jo tell you?” His lack of emphasis on this last question betrays his enjoyment in her lack of this knowledge.
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The forty nine who have made it through the first round are split into teams and in a crowd pleasing move they are draw against each other in a gladitorial ring. The last team of Metas standing win a place in the Legion Auxiliary.
With Hol El is the Chloron Bush man she had seen earlier, his name is a combination of scent marks and body language so he has simply assumed the name Chloro. To his side is one of the Elevated, a stripy house cat with a boosted capacity for logic and emotion, Cheshire the Cat also has the ability to turn invisible for short periods of time and a droll sarcasm that Hol El is growing tired of already. Cheshire seems unaware of the fight that about to start as she noisily licks the fur on her belly. The Bismollian, Gannet seems to busy chatting to the Rhooni with fire for hair while the squat pink skinned Being called Fredd talks to the strange Being called Blackout. Blackout is one of the Reaquindoodis, a race of bilateral lizards with strange mental abilities that Hol El has only heard of, they are few and far between since their world was destroyed four years ago by the Grand Invaders.
Opposite to them the team they have been drawn against includes a Braalian, a Thanagarian, two flying dwarves, a Hykraian telepath, a crystaline giant and one of the energy cubes of Ekkior IV. The teams have been given a few minutes to acquaint themselves with each other before the fighting starts.
Clapping her hands to gain their attention Hol El assumes the role of leader as she discusses their options and strategies. They are apparently physically outmatched but that doesn’t mean that they should feel it’s hopeless, quite the contrary she assures them, they have strengths that the other team can’t imagine, all they need to remember are a few simple tips. The first one is to look out for each other. Teamwork will win their fights and give them a good chance of progressing into the Legion proper.
While she is giving her little speech to the team Hol El notices that Cheshire has walked away from the group and is apparently scratching a little hole into the arenas floor and is planning on using it.
“Oh Great Ancestors, why did I agree to this?” The thought pops into her head for the fiftieth time that day.
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“The Daxamites will prove the most difficult to keep on side”
Zoe is fascinated by Kord Das. The man’s charisma is legendary within the High Media circles that claim him as the Techno Messiah and saviour for the beleaguered Milky Way. Zoe understands why so many people will follow this man, his voice is a musical instrument that plays a hypnotic tune. Much like a Venturian Siren Snake she thinks.
“There are two, Nar Nase and Byt Fees who are engaging in a sexual relationship. You know how incredibly stupid the Daxamites are about their Gene Pools being kept clean. They have never allowed any variance from their Lifeplans. Nar Nase and Byt Fees will be forced to go public about the nature of their relationship. Between this revelation and the recent troubles with White Triangle sympathisers trying to attack an innocent while on a Legion Mission there will be a schism in the Daxam World Council that shall have unpleasant side effects for our organisation.”
“Was this innocent the rogue telepath that everyone has heard about but no-one has met?” Damn you Das, you’re not the only one who can ask awkward questions, Zoe thinks.
“Ahh poor Abbi Ardeen,” his smile drops slightly before he continues, “She is undergoing radical gene therapy Zoe, the Braalian scientists bred her to be a weapon against her own people. I am merely making sure her formidable resources are not misused before she will be ready to join us properly.” There is a slight glint in his eye that she can’t fathom. Her innate magical skills allow Zoe Saugin to scry the truth from a statement. She is left in no doubts that while what Das is saying is true it is far from the whole story.
“Are you warning me that there will be another White Triangle uprising Das? We are barely holding our own against the Grand Invaders, the Nu UP won’t stand a chance…”
“No Zoe, I merely wish to share with you that we cannot rely on our Daxamite allies to supply our muscle for much longer.”
“What about the Green Lanterns and the Kenroshi? They are both supporting you aren’t they?”
“They will support us as long as we need them, as will all our other current allies.”
“Why are you sharing this with me Das?” She turns to stare directly at the slight man, her glorious golden eyes challenging him.
“I need you to do something for me Zoe, I need you to bring me the Dragons.”
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More coming later in the week IB, thank you for your request, I've missed you being around of late too
Hope these few posts will do for now.
Bxx
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They're enough, since they've given me something to salivate over. And you know that your inclusion of Zoe is already more than I can ever thank you for.
She cannot believe the astounding lack of talent, skill and intelligence on display. Thankfully it is their opposing team that is acting in such an appalling way. Her team, Team Three as they have been designated, have remembered her initial talk about looking out for each other. They have been partnered up for this round, each has another to look out for their back. The only 'free agent' is the Elevated Cat, Cheshire who would suffer from having someone close by betraying her position.
Gannet and Stellar have outmanouvered the Energy Cube of Ekkior IV, manipulating it to phase it’s thermal self into the Crystal King, the giant that was potentially their greatest foe. Between the damage that the Energy Cube has inflicted to his leg, the heat being generated between Stellar’s fiery tresses and the trapped Energy Cube are enough for him to cry “Uncle!” and effectively remove him from the contest. Cries of “Ya big jessie” echo around the stadium as he is carried out on a Levi-stretcher.
Gannet is enjoying whipping the crowd up into a frenzy of hurled abuse. He has momentarily forgotten his role as partner to Stellar for this fight when the Thangarian lifts him several hundred metres above the stadium and lets him go. The crowd are ecstatic at the potential for so much blood. Fredd leaps upwards to catch Gannet while his partner for the match, Blackout flies up to confront the Hawk Boy. The young winged man has obviously never heard of the mental abilities that Blackout’s race developed though he soon learns as his swooping attack against her leaves him unconscious and gives her access to his memories. She catches him as he falls, displaying a rare compassion.
Meanwhile the Hykraian finds his facemask is leaking the precious methane he needs, Cheshire becomes visible after her sabotage of his breathing apparatus and is telekinetically tossed into the air before the great ocean dweller succumbs to unconsciousness.
The flying dwarves are exhibiting incredible speed and dexterity but they choose badly when they decide to charge Hol El, perhaps hoping to push her to the ground. Both rebound off her invulnerable body and tumble to the ground ungraciously. She turns to her partner to see Chloro is slowly advancing on the now teammateless Braalian. The Bush Man's cloud of swirling spores, the size of a child’s thumb all spiked like a medieval mace, being spewed out of what at first glance looks like his mouth on what on a Human would be his head. The magnetic fields that the Braalian generate have little effect on the bark like skin of Chloro as he shambles towards his opponent. The spores fly at the young Braalian with surgical precision pinning his cape and loose trousers to the ground underneath him. He doesn’t stop trying to repel Chloro with his abilities until he is knocked out cold with a single blow.
“TEAM THREE ARE THE WINNERS, THEY GO THROUGH TO THE NEXT ROUND!”
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Thanks but I won't have time until the weekend now.
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He still keeps eye contact, his slight smile never wavering. Zoe turns away from the man and looks at the Infoskin in front of them. The Real Time display shows them the current state of the campaign to drive the Grand Invaders out of the Hajor System. To Zoe it looks as if Dak Sacchev is playing as he almost casually smashes wave after wave of the Invaders dart ships with slow motion gestures. She is reminded of the Tai Chi her grandmother taught her as a young girl, every morning as the sun rose the elegant elderly woman would take Zoe and her mother to the glorious Park Strip for an hour of meditation and exercise. The memory makes her blink and lifts the corners of her mouth.
Nodding at the screen she says “They don’t suspect that we’re driving them back do they? We’ve always just smashed their ships before and not allowed them the opportunity to regroup and flee like this.”
“I have Seen the…”
“Das! Do they suspect?” She turns to him, her glorious eyes are blazing.
“No Saugin, they do not. Jo will be back within a few days. Weary but healthy, with information about the Grand Invaders that will greatly aid our campaign.”
More softly now she says “Are the Dragons necessary Das?”
Das smiles at her and nods, his eyes look sad.
“Glorion Grundy is carrying a message for me to the Higher Voices of Tharn but as you know they can only charm the great beasts, you and Jo are the only living Beings who have a Link to them. We need their help Zoe as it won’t be long until the Grand Invaders strike with their full might against us.”
“So why are we wasting resources sending bloody terraforming missions out to virtually uninhabitted worlds like McCuiloloa Major? Why aren’t we amassing a blatchin’ army of our own Das?”
“We are Zoe,quietly. Can you imagine the panic that would follow if I told the AllWorld Web News that within a year half of our Legion will be dead defending the NuUP’s existence in one of the final battles against the Invaders?” He has spoken quietly but his words chill Zoe Saugin. “And we need the Firstfooters Zoe, not just for the warming media stories their return generated as wonderful as they are, but also as they can innately function within the Valenian realms for long periods. They have a knowledge that we can use as well.”
“Damn you Kord Das, how am I supposed to decide now?”
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Enri Longtan, the Imskian Leviathon also known as Gimallon tries to look interested.
He doesn’t even find any of the two teams battling below even mildly physically attractive! There was a lass earlier, an invulnerable girl from the Small Worlds who seemed to take charge of the losers she had been drawn alongside, who had caught his eye. Now he could watch her wrestling all day long! He had lost sight of her once her fight was over. At least she had been on a winning side he thinks, he's guaranteed to see her again in a later round. Now that was something to look forward to.
He sends a personal bandwidth message along the telepathways to Moh Johh “Do try to stay awake there Moh, we have at least another six hours of this before you can spend quality time with your Winathian pickings.”
“There is that to look forward to I guess” Moh Johh’s reply is quick coming.
Enri looks along the box and sees that Sparkzzz, Moh Johh’s partner of three weeks is talking to him. He doesn’t look like he is listening at all. Sparkzzz appears to be discussing the merits of each contestant, the battles they are fighting, their fashion sense and just about every detail that one could imagine.
“Enri, is it too late to convert us to Maluikk Catholicism, they take vows of silence don’t they?”
Enri Longtan smiles to himself and silently agrees with his Daxamite friend. Sparkzzz is possibly the most attractive woman he has met since being posted on Legion ‘Stroid and she is definitely the most talkative. Not that she is in any way malicious or ignorant, on the contrary she is funny, generous and genuinely gregarious. Unfortunately she can be a trifle indiscreet as he found out when she told him and several of their comrades, in a normal conversational tone, about Moh Johh’s sexual prowess over breakfast a couple of mornings ago. Enri had heard that that little incident had led to a blazing row. The Daxamite was heard to quote the Tenets of Marriage to the startled girl. Coming from a race with rigid guidelines to relationships Moh Johh was beginning to question their future together and shared his worries, in rather a stern manner, with Sparkzzz. It was to her credit, Enri thought that she didn’t walk away from him then. But then her world had a very different approach to acceptable behaviour. On her home world it was expected that one would discuss details of an intimate nature. Privacy was not a concept many Winathians could understand quickly.
Enri sends “one of the joys of an inter-cultural relationship is learning to appreciate the differences, no?” before pretending to be interested in the contestants below by clapping a fallen Orandian image caster as the unconscious snake is Levi-stretchered out of the arena.
Enri Longtan scans the crowd from the observation box. Although he is not looking for anything in particular he is happy when he catches sight of the invulnerable girl with the pigtails. Now, he thinks, there’s something I can watch all day.
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