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Hi folks! Because I am apparently not busy enough, I have decided to start writing a Legion fanfic.
Continuity-wise, the series kicks off immediately after the events of Legion of Three Worlds...events transpired exactly as seen in the comics, the only exception being that XS and Gates decided to stay with their home team as the New Wanderers.
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In a typical 21st Century teenage girl’s bedroom, Drura Sehpt watched anxiously as pyrotechnics danced around the still form of the very atypical teenage girl before her. “Anything yet, Traci..?” she finally asked, fearing the answer.
Traci Thirteen raised her head slowly to meet Drura’s gaze. She quietly muttered the incantations necessary to dispel the scrying magicks safely, then released a long calm breath. “I’m sorry, Infectious Lass,” Traci frowned slightly. “I tried as hard as I could, but reaching into the timestream is about as difficult as you’d imagine. It looks like you’re stuck here with us for the forseeable future.”
Drura sighed in frustration and buried her face in her hands. She knew being the first Somahturian to leave her homeworld would not lead to an easy life, but she never could have imagined that it would bring her here, trapped a thousand years in Earth’s past. “Grife.” She toyed with her Legion flight ring, gleaming bright against her chalk-white skin. If the Legion had any way of finding her, they would have done it by now. She had to face facts. Traci was right.
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Great stuff in the first two installments. Love Drura being competant...but not overly so. Which is obvious in the second chapter...no easy outs in this one. Brilliant use of loose plotlines to fuel your story.
Looking forward to the next piece.
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Neat story, and involving characters that I've little familiarity with.
I like your writing style, it's filled with visceral detail that makes it easy to 'see' the scene, like the mud and the trash bags, etc. and Drura's reactions to are appropriately alien (feeling more comfortable around garbage and sewers, because of all the micro-organisms).
It's neat that Drura's a vegetarian as well. Funky little detail I wouldn't have thought of!
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The vegetarian thing I stole from reboot era LSH, I thought it was a cute idea that made sense....I remember a scene with the team that were trapped in the 21st century where Ayla was appalled at the idea people still eat real meat in this era.
...and I have been enjoying using Click Here For A Spoilerthe LSV Espionage Squad more than I thought I would. I only really chose them because there are not that many characters left to choose that could conceivably be on that team, but I am really enjoying them now.
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I am not sure if this episode reads a bit disjointed...I have had no real net access for about the last week, so I had to leave it halfway through and finish it off tonight.
As usual, thoughts/criticism/etc welcome!
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Featuring high-stakes battle! Heroic sacrifice! Quislet being awesome! This is the penultimate chapter, you have to read it so you can say you were there when it all went down!
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Final chapter of my first story arc is up for your reading pleasure. Three Legionnaires vs the Lord of Time vs Diamondeth vs the Legion of Supervillains! All this, plus a new recruit to the Legion of Superheroes!! EXCITEMENT!!!
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Latest installment below; I'm trying to make the individual installments a little more stand-alone while still being part of a larger story arc...
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LEGION BY NAME, LEGION BY NATURE...
Cosmic Boy stood before the assembled Legion of Superheroes in a massive conference room in their Metropolis headquarters.
The recent past had been hectic for all of them, with concurrent assaults from Earth-Man, Superboy Prime, the Time Trapper, Mordru and an expanded Legion of Supervillains..not to mention a makeshift Espionage Squad being sent back to the 21st Century to squire Mon-El and Superboy while Infectious Lass, Saturn Girl and Blok waged their own personal mission against the Legion of Supervillains' counterpart Espionage Squad and the Lord of Time. Things had finally settled down for the team though, and for the first time in a while the entire Legion could gather to discuss their future rather than just struggling to stay afloat in the present.
"I have some good news for a change," Cosmic Boy announced to the team which he had founded. "The Legion has always been limited by tax regulations which prohibit us from having more than 25 members--"
"We all know that," Wildfire interrupted rudely, Dawnstar hushing him. "We want more than 25 members, it's gonna cost us a ridiculous amount of credits. What's new?"
Cosmic Boy ignored his teammate's irritating banter and continued. "As Diamond Damsel is our most recent recruit and isn't completely familiar with Legion history yet, I thought it would be worth mentioning." Diamond Damsel nodded self-consciously, aware that the room full of heroes were now focused on her.
"The point is," Cos continued unfazed, "those regulations have been altered. Not just for us, but we may benefit from the change more than most organisations. As of 1145 hours local time yesterday, the threshold for groups such as ourselves has risen to an active roster of no less than 40 members before we're affected negatively by tax restrictions."
The room erupted into chatter, and Cosmic Boy let everyone talk amongst themselves for a few moments before taking control again. "While it may seem excessive at first thought, I can't help but realise how much easier a lot of our recent struggles would have been if we'd had a larger compliment of heroes on hand to deal with them. Some of those alternate reality Legionnaires died fighting our battle, and that may have been avoided if we'd all had a chance to work with those heroes first, to become as familiar with their strengths and capabilities as we are all with our own. If we'd had more heroes on our own team, we may not have had to put those other Legionnaires at risk in the first place."
"I don't need precognition to see that this isn't something that you're putting forward for debate," Dream Girl spoke up with casual sarcasm. "So where do you propose we find these new members, Cosmic Boy?" The heroine from Naltor stopped filing her nails and gave the Legion's leader a challenging stare.
Cosmic Boy tapped at a holoscreen with a few commands. "You'll all find the mission roster has been updated. I think the sooner we get going on this, the better." The assembled team looked down at the holoscreens before them with a range of reactions.
"Excuse me, Cosmic Boy?" Tellus asked with his typical politeness, "You are sending Brainiac 5, Dawnstar and myself to Vyrga? I thought that planet was devoid of sentient lifeforms?"
Brainiac 5 answered in Cosmic Boy's place. "I suggested this expedition, Tellus. You were in the past when we joined forces with our counterparts from two other realities recently, but one of those teams had a native from Vyrga with teleportation abilities. It is possible that United Planets scouting teams in our own reality have made the assumption that no humanoid life on Vyrga means no sentient life on Vyrga. Given the vast similarities between the three Legion teams otherwise it is certainly worth investigating further. Between your telepathy, Dawnstar's tracking ability and my own 12th level intellect, we should be able to make a more educated appraisal of the world's indigenous lifeforms."
"What about the Academy?" Wildfire asked defensively. "If anyone deserves a chance to join the major leagues, it's one of those kids."
"Scan the mission roster," Cosmic Boy replied with the barest hint of frustration, "I've already assigned Bouncing Boy and Duplicate Damsel to offer a place to whomever they judge as the most worthy candidate amongst the Legion Academy."
Across the room, an exaggerated groan of despair came from Timber Wolf as he held his head in his hands. "You gotta be kidding me," he moaned. "You're sending us to Lythyl?"
"Karate Kid's legacy is important to all of us," Cosmic Boy answered firmly. "I want to make sure the third person to bear that name is going to be given the best chance he can to do right by it."
"That kid wants nothing to do with us!" Timber Wolf objected loudly. "He's already rejected us, it's a waste of frakking time!" Lightning Lass placed a concerned hand on her lover's arm as his temper rose.
"He's rejected my long-range communications," Cosmic Boy continued calmly. "Maybe he just needs the personal approach." Something in Cosmic Boy's tone said that he wasn't going to brook any further argument about this, so Timber Wolf took to swearing under his breath as Lightning Lass tried to soothe him.
"What about the rest of us, Cosmic Boy?" Shadow Lass asked, taking the attention away from Timber Wolf's outburst. "Even assuming all three of the teams you're sending are successful in their mission, that's still going to leave us four or five people short of 40...assuming you want to expand our ranks that much so quickly?"
"I definitely want to," Cosmic Boy said. "That's why I'm asking for several volunteers to commit to a full day at headquarters in a week's time from now."
"Oh, I see where this is going," Matter-Eater Lad piped up, rubbing his hands together gleefully. "Welcome back, Legion try-outs! I can't wait to see who ends up covered in protoslime this time around!" Sun Boy shot him a silent but vindictive glare.
"I'm sending the announcement out on public networks as soon as this meeting is over," Cosmic Boy finished, before noting a look on Night Girl's face and adding, "I've already taken the liberty of inviting the Subs to try out. I think the number of people in this room who have earned their stripes in the Substitute Heroes should leave no doubt as to their abilities. Is there anything else?"
The meeting wrapped up not long after that...while there was hesitation in some corners about Cosmic Boy's decision to add so many new members without any real consultation, everybody gathered could also see the merit in that decision even if they didn't personally agree that it was the wisest move. More importantly though it achieved what Rokk had really wanted; after such an extended period of bitter conflict, the Legion was focusing on something positive. This membership drive would restore the team's optimism, Cos was sure of it.
As his team filed out of the room, he wondered idly who else would be among their ranks by the next team meeting. Flying out of the room for a scheduled meeting with Gigi Cusimano, he couldn't help but smile to himself.
The Legion was back.
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An adventure starring Bouncing Boy, Duplicate Damsel and some of the Legion Academy students!
Shooting Star As the drab prisoner transport vessel left Takron-Galtos, its unusual occupants gathered around their equally notable charge.
"Parse me to the C-Span, Bouncy...we've gone way over the event horizon on this one!" Comet Queen rolled her eyes, leaning back against the ship with her arms folded across her chest. As cryptic as her distinctive slang might be, the lithe young heroine's body language left no doubt as to how completely and mind-numbingly bored she was.
Bouncing Boy tensed involuntarily; he hated the nickname Comet Queen had given him, but it seemed to have stuck. Beside him, his wife and fellow Legionnaire Duplicate Damsel suppressed a chuckle. Comet Queen's crush on her husband was obvious to everyone around her, and kind of cute really. The veteran Legionnaire turned to her husband with a cheeky smile. "Why don't you put the kids out of their misery and tell them why we've brought them here today...Bouncy?"
"Et tu, Luornu? Et tu?" Bouncing Boy threw his hands up in mock protest then looked over the three students that had come on board this vessel at their teachers' request. Comet Queen was picking at the hem of her shiny garment, seemingly oblivious to anything else going on around her. Next to her, Nightwind contrasted starkly. Standing demurely in her voluminous grey cloak, her pale yellow face watched Bouncing Boy and Duplicate Damsel in respectful silence. Rounding out the trio, the muscular purple-skinned Power Boy towered over the others, his hair almost brushing against the ceiling. Of the three students he was the only one paying attention to their prisoner, looking down upon him with what he hoped was an intimidating glare.
The prisoner was a man in a plain green jumpsuit with tight curls of ginger hair. He would have seemed out of place in such an exotic group were it not for the fact that he were only seven inches tall. Enclosed in a glowing force bubble, he returned Power Boy's stare with one of pure malice. He snarled something hateful, but the soundproofed bubble meant Power Boy could only guess what it was.
"Students, this is Lalo Muldroon, the villain slightly better known as Micro Lad." Bouncing Boy gestured toward the villain. "He was part of Superboy Prime's recent attack on the Legion of Superheroes, and like the rest of the villains that we captured that day he was sent to the prison planet Takron-Galtos. His homeworld Imsk has asked for him to be transferred to local incarceration and the Science Police requested a Legion escort for the prisoner transport. We saw it as a perfect opportunity for some of our students to come along and see that being a Legionnaire isn't always high adventure. Sometimes Legion missions can be downright tedious, but that doesn't make them any less important."
Nightwind raised her hand curiously. "Bouncing Boy? Isn't it Legion protocol normally that homeworld missions be led by whomever is native to that world? Why isn't Shrinking Violet here with us?"
Bouncing Boy and his wife exchanged a glance before Luornu fielded the question herself. "That is generally mission protocol, Nightwind. In this case though, Shrinking Violet was happy to allow us to use this as a training exercise of sorts." Duplicate Damsel tactfully omitted any mention of Shrinking Violet's history with Micro Lad, or the Imskian heroine's mixed feelings about her homeworld where she had spent almost a year in sensory deprivation at Micro Lad's hands.
"Waait a minute," Power Boy said slowly, stroking his chin. "If you're doing this to show us a typical day in the life of a Legionnaire, does that mean..?"
Duplicate Damsel gave him a wide smile. "That's right, Jeb. The Legion is expanding its ranks, and we've been asked to choose a new recruit from the Academy. You three are our best students and we didn't want to--"
The rest of her statement was cut off by a high-pitched shriek of excitement from Comet Queen, who hugged Nightwind and Power Boy together. "One of us is gonna be a Legionnaire!" she screamed. "One of us is gonna be a Legionnaire!! Nova burn to the MAX!!"
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By the time they finally entered Imsk's solar system, Comet Queen felt like she was about to explode from the monotony of it all. She didn't know how the others could just....sit here for hours chatting idly and watching a little man in a bubble doing absolutely nothing at all. She almost squealed with glee when she finally heard their Sci-Pol pilot announce that they were about to enter planetary orbit. Suddenly, the shuttle shuddered. The students and Legionnaires all were knocked about, and even Micro Lad tumbled head over heels into the perimeter of his cell.
"What was that?" Bouncing Boy shouted. "Are we under attack?"
"You Legionnaires had better come up front and see this!" the shuttle's pilot called back over the internal comms with a note of panic in his voice. "It's -- uff!" The ship rocked violently again.
"I'll take Power Boy and Comet Queen and see what he's talking about," Luornu said as she split into two identical women. The second Duplicate Damsel continued without missing a beat. "Chuck, Nightwind and I will stay to keep an eye on Micro Lad." As the departing trio left the cell area, Luornu noticed that Comet Queen had risen a couple of inches above the ground. "Good idea, Comet Queen. Use your flight ring, Power Boy - we won't get knocked around as much by whatever's impacting the ship." The three of them levitated the rest of the way to the cockpit, the ship rocking twice more on the way.
As the door to the cockpit slid open, their eyes widened in shock. "Flashing pulsar flares!!" Comet Queen exclaimed. "What is that thing?" Before them, Science Police Officer Harmon Del Rio grimaced as he tried desperately to evade the source of their current troubles. They could see through the shuttle's wide foreview that a massive metallic red dragon was attacking their vessel again and again. The space dragon dwarfed their small ship, and its size belied its great speed.
"It just came out of nowhere!" Officer Del Rio shouted. "By the time sensors picked up its charge, it was on us! It's already disabled the repulsors and we don't have anything more powerful on a ship this small!"
"It must be defending its territory," Duplicate Damsel said thoughtfully. As way of explanation to the students, she explained further. "Space dragons are kept in the planetary area by Imskian-designed beacons, and the beacons are meant to keep them from attacking ships. Maybe this fellow got lost, or maybe he thinks we're intruding on his area. I don't know, but judging from that alarm that just started going off, I'd imagine we can't take much more of this battering!"
"I'll take care of it!" Power Boy leaped at the opportunity for action finally. "One bop to the snout and I should have him running with his tail between his legs!"
"Wait a blip, Bep!" Comet Queen interrupted him. "That thing's just a poor dumb animal, kind of reminds me of you," she teased. "I think I can lead him away from the ship without having to hurt him at all!"
"Be careful, Comet Queen," Duplicate Damsel placed a hand on her student's forearm. "The space dragons may be big, but they're fast too. And they're dangerously radioactive."
"Fast?" Comet Queen scoffed. "I'll give him fast!" She turned and flew directly for the airlock, then within seconds was flying free in the vaccuum of space. Unable to suppress her joy at finally being out of that dreary vessel, she did multiple loops around the ship. With the tail of gases which poured out from behind her scalp, she took on the appearance of her namesake to the ship's passengers and she caught the space dragon's attention. The magnificent creature eyed her suspiciously, but kept clawing at the shuttle.
Looking back at the ship, Comet Queen realised something....it wasn't the transport vessel the dragon was trying to destroy, it was a chunky piece of equipment magnetised to its hull! The gadget bore a bright blue pulsing light, and Comet Queen recalled what Duplicate Damsel had said about the Imskian homing beacons. The golden-skinned Quaalian screwed her face up and dashed with unearthly speed and agility directly between the space dragon's swiping talons. Before it could grope at her, she grabbed the makeshift beacon with both hands and wrenched it free of the ship's hull. She fled as far from the ship as she could, glancing over her shoulder to make sure her ploy had worked. Sure enough, the space dragon was coming straight for her...and gaining quickly. Comet Queen supposed fear would be sensible, she was not remotely a match for this beast if it actually caught up with her. But being chased through the void of space by a giant radioactive dragon?
This was the kind of thrill she lived for.
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On the transport shuttle, Power Boy headed back to the others on his own while Luornu stayed in the cockpit to monitor Comet Queen. He was explaining to the others that Grava had left the ship to lure the space dragon away when the air was perforated by the distinctive peal of laser fire. Even as Bouncing Boy shouted at the students to cover themselves, everyone but Power Boy himself had hit the floor. Jeb knew that very little could hurt his superdense form, so he tried his best to shield the others.
"Where are they coming from?" this room's Duplicate Damsel shouted over the multiple blasts.
"Over there!" Jeb pointed as the beams ricocheted off his tough hide. Once he had isolated the gunmen's position, the others saw as well. Just inside the entry portal, held aloft by tiny jetpacks, was a squad of five Imskians. They couldn't have been more than two inches tall, and when they realised they couldn't get past Power Boy directly they separated.
Noticing Micro Lad's calm smile, Bouncing Boy realised what had happened. "They're Micro Lad's terrorist goons!" he bellowed. "They must have coerced that space dragon to attack the ship so they could break him free during the confusion!"
"They couldn't have been aboard all along," Luornu added. "The ship's security sensors would have picked them up. They must have taken advantage of Comet Queen's exit!" Luornu yelped in pain as one of the Imskians managed to get past Power Boy and land a direct hit on her shoulder. Normally the laser would have seared a hole clear through her arm, but at its reduced size it only tore her costume and left her with a nasty burn. Still, she didn't want to have to take too much more of that punishment.
"There's not enough room in here for me to bounce around," Chuck remarked, trying to shield his wife with more of his own ample mass. "And as small as they are, it'd be like trying to hit a wasp with a beach ball -- oww!!" Another laser burst struck Bouncing Boy this time, leaving an angry red welt across his cheek.
"That's enough of that," Nightwind announced. Spreading her arms out before her, the air in the room suddenly picked up. "There may not be enough space in here for me to really cut loose, but I'm sure I can whip up enough of a breeze to take you psychotic insects out of commission!" True to her words, the heroes saw two of the diminutive assailants hurled directly against the door they had entered and slump to the ground unconsious, their jetpacks damaged beyond repair.
"Good work, Nightwind!" Chuck encouraged his student. "Power Boy, you have to--"
"Way ahead of you, Bouncing Boy!" Jeb cut him off. "I'll make sure they don't get Micro Lad out!" He huddled over the forcefield, using his massive bulk to effectively add an extra layer of defence to the cell.
"No!!" Chuck shouted. "Nightwind! You have to protect Nightwind!" His warning came too late though. Realising now that the pale woman with the strange facial markings was their only real threat, the remaining Imskians grew a few inches so that they were the same size as Micro Lad himself. They were still small enough that the room was cavernous from their perspective, but even this small change in scale made their weapons more dangerous. Before she could adjust the strength of her wind to deal with her larger foes, all three remaining gunmen fired on Nightwind. She screamed and crumpled instantly, the sick smell of her burning flesh filling the air.
"Damn it Jeb, she was our best hope to end this quickly!" Chuck yelled. "You should have been covering her, forget the prisoner!!" Bouncing Boy himself succumbed to the tiny villains' lasers, and Luornu cradled him on the floor as she formed another two duplicates to stand over him.
The three Imskians took to separate areas of the room, one of them targetting Nightwind, and the other two aiming their weapons at Chuck and Luornu. One of them narrowed his gaze and addressed Power Boy directly. "Release Lalo Muldroon to our custody and we will depart peacefully, offworlder. Refuse and we'll kill everyone in this room and take him ourselves. You may very well be able to stop one of us, you may even be able to stop all of us. I guarantee you though that at least one of you will die in the process. Are you willing to take that risk?"
"Wh-what do I do, Duplicate Damsel?" Power Boy stammered. "What do I do?"
Luornu sighed in resignation. She knew they were right. She could create an army of duplicates if she had to, but she couldn't chance them killing her husband or her student...and if they had to, they could shrink to microscopic size and just bide their time until they could make their escape anyway. She opened her mouth to speak when the door suddenly opened again.
"Eat my exhaust, space microbes!" Comet Queen flew into the small room and spun around at dizzying speeds, filling the room with thick black plumes of smoke from her gaseous trail before anyone could react. Luornu and Jeb hacked and coughed; within seconds visibility was reduced to zero. A few moments later, the ship's ventilation system cleansed the air and Comet Queen faced the heroes with a victorious grin. In her outstretched palm she held the two Imskians that Nightwind had earlier knocked out, and Jeb and Luornu saw the other three hovering in the air, their jetpacks keeping them aloft even unconscious.
The prime Duplicate Damsel followed Comet Queen into the room bearing med-kits for the injured heroes. "We watched the whole fight from security holos in the cockpit," she explained as she split into separate women and tended to Nightwind and Bouncing Boy's wounds. The other duplicates in the room vanished, sent back to wherever they were when they weren't here. "We were going to seal the room off with a forcefield and flood it with stun beams anyway, but the controls were damaged from the space dragon's attack....that's when Comet Queen reminded us she can alter the chemical composition of her gas tail. And tiny lungs don't need so much of a dose that it would cause any real damage to normal size people. Fantastic work, Grava!"
"I'm just like totally hyperbeamed that I came back here in time after I got rid of that fake beacon those asteroid-worms planted on us! I would totally hate to think about what woulda happened to Bouncy and Nightwind if I was a blip later!"
Bouncing Boy opened his eyes to see his wife leaning over him and gave her a weak smile. "...Hey gorgeous," he mumbled, stroking her cheek. "You save the day again, my Legion lady?"
"Not me," Luornu smiled back. "Though you may not be wrong in saying it was a Legion lady who did save the day." She looked up at Comet Queen. "I'll have to discuss it with Bouncing Boy after he and Nightwind are fully recovered and we've dropped Micro Lad off, but after today's performance....I think we've found our next Legionnaire!"
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Poor Jed, always a bridesmaid!
Good showing from Grava, 'though, and fun story!
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Thanks dude...I was wondering if people are actually reading these, so it's nice to have the feedback!
I know Comet Queen's valley girl schtick gets on people's nerves, but for a gimmick character I think she's got a lot of spirit and she has an interesting powerset and visual; it's a shame she never made it onto the Legion (though I think she might have been one of the Academy recruits in the DnA Legion just before it all ended...)
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