Laser Ape jumped out of the warp and landed on the back of one of the two muscle bound men wearing orange and beige jump suits who were dragging their fellow Amazer trainee, Nemesis Girl towards the other villains. As they fell forward N’Gok turned towards the other, eyes meeting. Twin bursts of laser beams struck the surprised villain, immediately blinding him. He let go of the badly beaten Amazer trainee and covered his eyes. Even as N’Gok crashed onto the ground, pushing the falling villains head firmly into the tundra below as they landed Gates had reached for Psyche and the alien known as Ambassador Contact and teleported them away.
N’Gok turned and jumped at the blinded thug, slamming her considerable bulk into his upper torso shoving him backwards. She looked down at his feet as they struggled and once again blasted with her laser vision, his boots bursting into flames. The brutish villain let out a howl of pain and tried to pull his feet away from the fire, tripping himself up in the process. N’Gok let fly a mighty blow punching the villain so hard in the face that his nose burst spectacularly and teeth flew from his mouth. He was unconscious half a second later as he crashed unceremoniously to the ground.
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I think Laser Ape is now one of my favorite characters EVER.
Great characterization for ALL your characters in just one post - Shadow Lass' regal fierceness, Saturn Girl's cool reassurance of Laughing Boy, Dream Boy's concern for his teammates, and Monstress' compassionate nature. Two thumbs up!
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Yay, I have just caught up! This is great, Harbinger...you have a gift for being really succinct without the plot or characterisations suffering at all.
Also, I kind of love Red Tyger a lot...am I right in thinking she is based on that chick that was at the Legion tryout when Polar Boy, Quislet et al joined?
And more Laser Ape is always an awesome thing
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Outside of the mining complex the Persuader had heard Shadow Lass. Signalling his comrades to be quiet he turned towards the large doorway and prepared to swing his Atomic Axe at anyone who came out.
Esper Lass concentrated but could only sense a gap, a blindspot that signaled to anyone with sufficient psychic ability that there was a telepathic screen in place. Although she was unaware that it was Saturn Girl who was within she knew that there was a telepath of some skill inside. She telepathically told her comrades of this and concentrated her own considerable mental skills readying herself for what was to come. Lady Memory walked up towards the Persuader, an eager grin on her face. She knew that a battle was coming so she drew the sacrificial blades from her belt and tensed herself.
None of the villains present were ready for Shadow Lasses darkfield. The Persuaders Axe cut through the air with a screech but didn’t strike anything until he hit, and cleaved into the ground beneath his feet. The streak of light it allowed in filled up with an uneasy liquid blackness within a second of his attempt to strike at his opponents.
Esper Lass threw a potent psionic bolt towards the door blindly. It struck Saturn Girl’s screen and dissipated as the Titanian Legionnaire flew out the door towards her. At that point the villains all heard the commotion behind them as Gates and Laser Ape appeared and fought the Bedlam Brothers to rescue their injured comrades. The Persuader stood his ground with his Axe pointed towards the doorway. Although he could not see anything before him he was experienced enough not to feel totally disorientated.
Lady Memory shouted out behind him: “Mallor! You can try your cowardly sight stealing tricks on my companions but you will never be a match for the Memory Clan.”
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Saturn Girl had linked their minds so everyone could see what Shadow Lass saw.
The Monstress was amazed at the subtle hues and tones that she experienced within the otherwise impenetrable blackness. As she charged towards the Persuader he must have somehow sensed her and moved his Atomic Axe before him. Had she not had the advantage of being able to see him move and stop just in time she had no doubts that it would have sliced her in half. In that fateful second Laughing boy darted silently past her and ducked under the Persuader’s solid frame. He extended his tail until the pheromone releasing end was inches from the armed thug’s helmet and waited. The Monstress flew up behind him preparing herself to punch the villain in the face. The darkness and muffled sounds of the fights happening around them made this frozen tableau surreal in their minds. The Persuader’s hands started to twitch then he started to giggle, then laugh and within seconds was doubled over sobbing and cackling with an alarming glee. Within ten seconds it sounded as if the Persuader had started to vomit and choke inside his mask. At this point he tore off his helmet and between gasps bellowed out in a futile mixture of rage and pheromone induced hysteria. His body was convulsing spasmodically as if in the grip of a seizure as he started to stand up and blindly swing his axe in desperation. At this point the Monstress let loose her blow and he literally flew 30 feet into the air before crash landing in the tundra.
“Thanks Laughing Boy, you managed to disable him magnificently there. What an asset that tail of yours is!”
Laughing Boy, although smiling was obviously not as happy as the Monstress expected. She realised that the elven Amazer Trainee had wanted to deal with the Persuader by himself, his need to prove himself amongst his peers writ large across his face. Even as she smiled at the trainee the Monstress knew she would have to let James and Rol, as his squad mentors, know about this.
Without another word to the trainee the Monstress flew over to the villain, who despite everything that had just happened was still not unconscious and slapped on anaesthicuffs. She noticed that even soundly under the influence of the ‘cuffs chemically induced coma his hand never let go of the Atomic Axe.
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Saturn Girl knew that she would have to deal with Esper Lass quickly. The Titanian Legionnaire’s mental shields were buckling under the repeated psychic assaults her opponent was projecting. The strain of keeping up the telepathic network between all the Amazers and Legionnaires present so they could benefit from Shadow Lasses night vision and provide them with protection from psychic attacks was tremendous. Taking a second to draw in a deep breath Saturn Girl launched herself at her telepathic foe and as it appeared that she was away to fly right past her she folded her hand in towards her shoulder and landed a crashing elbow strike on the bridge of Esper Lasses nose. Esper Lass folded onto the ground without a sound.
In the darkness no-one saw the look of relief come over Saturn Girl as she wiped her brow and dropped her formidable yet battered psychic defenses.
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While Dream Boy and Reflecto made their way around Shadow Lasses sphere of darkness towards their mysterious silver cloak wearing opponent Shadow Lass decided it was time, once and for all, to deal with Lady Memory.
Lady Memory, while not exactly telepathic had awareness of sapient beings perceptions around her. It allowed her to sense the approach of her hereditary foe and prepare herself for the fight. Her two knives hummed with energy as she crouched low readying herself. In her mind she ran through the ancestral memory of her clan: ever meeting between the two, the fighting techniques used, the surprise attacks, the drawn out duels, all of them flashed across her thoughts as she waited.
When the attack came Shadow Lass was surprised and excited by the savagery her opponent showed as they both struck out against the other. Ultimately, despite being able to perceive her opponents memories the Talokian villain was too focused with keeping herself from being pummeled into the tundra to manipulate Shadow Lasses mind. Despite the centuries worth of memories of Clan fighting techniques and a feral will to survive Tasmia Mallor finally managed to land the knock out blow, a right hand punch under Lady Memory’s jaw. As her opponent fell to the ground Shadow Lass dropped the darkness that had enveloped the majority of the battle.
She hadn’t even noticed the two cuts she had received to her torso until she felt the seeping blood on her side. By then both Saturn Girl and Laughing Boy were at her side offering assistance. Shadow Lass had no memory of collapsing in their arms.
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Thanks for your very kind words guys, they are greatly appreciated!
Laser Ape is definitely cool, though I am kind of standing on the shoulders of giants there as Reboot originally came up with the idea of a gorilla with laser vision and Set gave her an identity. She's great fun to write though so glad you liked her earlier appearance.
Raz, Red Tyger is indeed that girl from the try out issue - that is perhaps my favourite single issue of the Legion so it's nice to include her.
More coming soon, we're nearly at the end now so hold on
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Drura stepped through the door into the docking bay of level 38. While on the Grav-lift she had asked the Spire AI to run a full scan of the bay. Damn Dox for being right, but once again he was. There was something in there of mainly organic composition that scattered the scans in such a way that the AI was unable to provide much more information. Drura had thought about it for the thirty or so seconds it took to reach the docking bay and asked one more favour of the AI before she stepped through.
The darkness inside was total, apart from the small slice of light that came through the door as Drura entered. Well, she reasoned, if she couldn’t see the creature here then it wouldn’t be able to see her. Not that optical senses were her only way of identifying life. Her race has a singularly unique ability to manipulate bacterium and viruses and a part of this was being able to sense exactly where these minute creatures were. And inside a sterile building like the Spire the largest concentration were inside the bodies of the large sapient beings that dwelt here. She was a little afraid though knew her body language wouldn’t give her away, she was an ambassadors daughter and as such would not bring shame to her family.
“I can sense you there...”, a blast of energy shot out towards her, causing the lithe Trainee to dart for cover beside a saucer shaped personal carrier. Right, she thought, I’ve tried to give them the option to parley but if they don’t want to act in a civilized manner, well, they’ll learn.
She concentrated on the surrounding carriers, walls and air. Despite the so-called sterile state of the Spire the inhabitants were not regularly disinfected like the building, so carried their various germs with them as they moved around, depositing them as they went. A larger amount than they probably ever realized.
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Before she had chosen to accept the invitation to become an Amazer’s Trainee her parents had treated her to a four standard month tour of the major world’s in the United Planets, not purely for sight seeing and to culturally educate her but also to arm her with a wide range of germs to use in her upcoming role on the team. Her favourite place had been Medicus Prime, a satellite of Weber’s World. She had spent over three weeks there. The head Consultant of the surprisingly large Genito- Urinary Meards was particularly keen to spend time with her.
Her opponent was in for a shock.
She could sense the writing mass of minutiae that inhabited her opponent move around the saucer. There were occasional noises that also gave away the intruders position if Drura needed it, but as she slowly moved away from the invisible villain she smiled to herself. As they moved she had instructed all bacterium and viruses nearby to attack the invisible intruders system. It wouldn’t be enough, she knew, to disable an opponent enough for her to avoid dealing with them directly but still she enjoyed knowing that whatever the outcome her opponent would have a bad dose of Venusian Shingles, Venturian Mouth Clap and a few variations upon Xanthuan common colds to fight off in the coming weeks as a reminder of their stupidity to try to breach the Amazer’s Spire.
Angtuian Rectal Syphilis was known galaxy wide as one of the most disgusting and painful diseases that a being could catch. Although normally the symptoms would take up to ten years to surface Drura knew she could give the little bacterium she had carried with her to mature far faster and reach it’s ultimate goal within, say, 30 seconds. She knew she would have to be careful not to murder her opponent but that was something to consider after they had been infected.
Normally the first symptom wouldn’t show itself for several months after infection but with a little push the bacterium she had been leaving floating in the air behind her attacked her opponent and within seconds they developed a cranche, a small sore, on her opponents face. This was followed seconds later by a rash that spread all over their body and the beginnings of a headache. Several seconds later Drura heard a crash as the invisible intruder crashed onto the ground – muscle spasms had started to set in. She knew it wouldn’t be long until they were blinded and delirious, ten seconds maximum. All the while they would feel as if their skin was infested by small burrowing insects as the disease damaged epidermis nerve endings, and the poor opponents bowels and bladder would void in painful spasms as they lost muscle control.
“AI, can we have some light please.” Her gentle request brought the docking bay lights back on allowing Drura to peer under the saucer she had been creeping around to see if her opponent was incapacitated enough for her to approach.
On the ground not twenty feet around the edge of the saucer carrier lay a Khund warrior, with artificial legs and a cybernetic arm extension that was obviously a blaster, curled in a ball slowly rocking in agony. The rash had spread over all his organic body, looking purple and angry.
Drura reached down to him and slipped her anaesthicuffs onto one of his wrists and began to recall the bacterium that had defeated him. The rash faded and he began to gently snore as he fell into the ‘cuffs chemically induced sleep.
“Dox, sir, I have a Khund here who may need a little medical attention. We will need a cleaner droid too.”
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Jasmin Cullen and Captain Marvel were the last two Amazers on the Great Eye Observatory station. Some of the team were returning to Xanthu to give support to their colleagues, some needed medical attention and so were transmatted to a Medicus station. Wildfire and Andromeda had decided to fly into space around the station to look for anything they had overlooked. Jasmin knew that they both secretly hoped the Emerald Empress would reappear and they would have their chance to capture her. The Science Police had drafted in people from as far afield as the Winath system to deal with the current situation on Xanthu and they were doing a great job of helping and assuring the tourists and staff who until thirty minutes ago had been hostages here.
Jasmin knew heir commanding officer wanted to have a full debrief with her but she was focused on what happened to Typhoon. The AI info-grid had shown them a security cam’s view of Typhoon flying into a wall of green flame then vanishing. The implication was that the weather manipulating Amazer was dead. Jasmin refused to believe it. She hadn’t been partnered to Typhoon as trainers for long but she knew that he was intelligent and wouldn’t have dealt with this in such a suicidal way. She was missing something and she would not leave until she knew what it was.
Captain Marvel, as well as in Jasmin’s eyes being the most sensible and astute Amazer trainee, was also Typhoon’s friend. They were part of the group the hung around with James and Rol. Jasmin had meant to get to know them all better but with the pressures of late and her own need to continually strive to be better, Jasmin had not managed once to spend even one night with them. As she thought about this she realised that she had created a professional attitude to the Amazers that distanced her from an aspect of the group. She had forgotten that as well as being the premier meta-force this side of the Galaxy, they were friends and in some cases each others family.
She stood on the spot where the security feed had said their missing team mate had vanished. Damn it! Why couldn’t she just see what the florgg it was that had drawn Typhoon into that fire!
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Brainiac 5 heard Infectious Lass ask for medical attention for the Khund in the Spire’s docking level.
“Drura, wait, my readings show that only the organics are...” Even as he said it he knew that the Amazer Trainee was in deep trouble. Her life signs had suddenly taken a dip, and he extrapolated they would fade entirely if something wasn’t done immediately.
“Atmos, you must get back here and up to Level 38 now. Now man, get going!”
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Drura had heard a click and hum behind her and turned to see the unconscious Khund’s cybernetic arm raise itself and point towards her. Even as she dove for cover she knew she was too late. The blast of energy ripped through her hip sending the deep blue ichors that her race had as blood splattering across the wall behind her. As she landed roughly she couldn’t help but cry out in pain. Brainiac 5’s voice came across the aether, alerting her three seconds too late to the danger she still faced.
Even as she concentrated on her wound, manipulating specific bacterium within her to heal her there were small dark uncomfortable stars spinning before her eyes.
Drura Setph was an ambassador’s daughter. From an early age she knew that her family were special. Their role didn’t involve them digging in the great Grratan Fens for sustenance. They didn’t need to beg for the touch of a healing phlegm on the warren like tunnels under the three great cities. There was no likelihood of the Sentinel Phage altering their RNA. They had achieved what very few had managed and lived a life with some comforts and privileges. She would not die like a Zygotan dog in his docking bay. As the darkness on the edges of her vision started to close in she reacted with an instinctive rage releasing the Coluan bacterium she had absorbed from Brainiac 5 earlier.
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Atmos simply dissolved the door as he approached it, flying through straight into the zombie like Khund cyborg. While the cybernetics legs and arm had survived Drura’s attack the organics... the Khund himself, was another story. The flesh that remained was hanging from the remains of the interloper’s iron rich bones. One quick blast of nuclear energy and the cybernetic remains were rubble on the floor.
Atmos looked around and quickly found the young trainee. Even as he approached Atmos could see the savage would on her hip, blue ichor and pale pink flesh. As he approached he could see a strange off white liquid seep from her body into the wound. Atmos knew very little about Infectious Lasses people, they were only recently introduced to the United Planets. He hoped that what he was witnessing was her own body’s healing process.
Kneeling down over her the Amazer used the com-system to contact Brainiac 5.
“Dox, am I safe to move her?”
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