Originally posted by Reboot:
Thing about that though is, done right, the Legion could never have more than a phyrric victory, because such a group of assassins should get their target [with the advantage of surprise, most of the Legionnaires would be entirely vulnerable to a headshot, or a dagger in the heart - and assassins should never engage a target unless they have a killshot available. Remember that "Legion Disassembled" thing I PMed you once? That was predicated on that idea...]
Ah, but, in Silver Age fashion, the Super-Assassins could be shone on the cover, standing over the dead Legionnaires, and inside the story we get to see their coldly efficient killings of our beloved characters, only to find out at stories end that the Legion had gotten advance warning and set up decoys (robots, who appear human to even advanced scans, thanks to Brainiac being all smart and stuff). The Assassins celebrate their victory only to get nabbed by the very much alive Legionnaires!
Or it could be the ironic twist, the actual Legion has been taken over by evil dopplegangers, and the Assassins end up killing the fakes, and inadvertantly freeing the *real* Legionnaires! They could even discover, at the last moment, that the 'Dark Man' who hired them was Brainiac Five, who was the lone escapee from the evil Dopplegangers, and recruited the Assassins to get rid of the invading extra-dimensional entities (who can't really 'die,' only be dispersed back to their home-dimension with the 'death' of the fake bodies they've created!).
In either case, the Assassins get to appear as scarily effective at the whole killing-people-thing, but simply having been manipulated into killing the 'wrong Legion.'
Plus Blok can stay an Assassin and Lazon can be the one to make the jump, 'cause he's vastly cooler.