JimBob expands his neck like a balloon to use it as a makeshift lung, then shapes his esophagus into a cone to maximize his volume as he shouts "FLASH, STOP!!" and gestures wildly with the hand he left behind, beckoning Ian and Quinn to enter the fray.
JimBob expands his neck like a balloon to use it as a makeshift lung, then shapes his esophagus into a cone to maximize his volume as he shouts "FLASH, STOP!!" and gestures wildly with the hand he left behind, beckoning Ian and Quinn to enter the fray.
Ian:
Fire. Of course the villain uses fire. Well, since this is a garage, there's a decent chance that there's a fire extinguisher present. Ian will turn himself invisible and look for one.
Flash does, indeed, stop suddenly. This foils Atrocitus' Wile E. Coyote plan of having the Flash run into his buzzsaw of fire.
Then the Martian Manhunter puts the fire out ... scratch that, firefighting foam just COMES OUT OF NOWHERE and douses the fire.
Atrocitus jumps up, enraged.
"Douse MY wrath-flame? No you didn't! I will kill everything with a heartbeat until I find the sneaky vermin who ..."
At which moment Sinestro hits him with a yellow hammer and Pig Lantern hits him with a green boxing glove.
Atrocitus collapses, clobbered.
Sinestro, his ring glowing, looks around at the gathered heroes.
"I see you, Martian," he states flatly. "I see your fear ..."
His yellow ring glows brighter.
"You, I think, were not present when Libra stripped us of half our powers. But Lady Hawk, Swine Lantern, and I were all thus afflicted. I must have my power back, but you might cause me some trifling temporary annoyance. Therefore ..."
He fires a cone of yellow energy at Pig Lantern. Pig Lantern puts up a forcefield, but the yellow energy stabs right through it.
A pair of counter-rotating spirals form and split into smaller and smaller spirals, sinking into every single strand of pig DNA. A shuddering convulsion later, and Roy stands on his own two feet, human once more.
A slightly shorter convulsion, and he's wearing a Green Lantern uniform.
"That," says Sinestro, "should buy me sufficient goodwill to part company with this so-called Justice League. If your powers return, hero and heroine, you may thank me. But until then ..."
He stabs his fist into the air and leaves the ground, clearly preparing to fly away.
(All the other villains are out cold, and most of them are mind-cuffed. And Libra's machine is smashed quite completely. So there are no more threats in the immediate area. Flash, Martian Manhunter, Lady Hawk, and Green Lantern are inside the garage, while Peltast and Chin-Su are just outside.)
Vina gives a half-smile and adjusts her Thanagarian space scanner to register/track yellow energy as he prepares to fly away. Do Thanagarians ever act as parole officers? she muses.
ReplyDelete"So hey," Quinn turns to Chin-Su, "I don't suppose you've seen a jackass dressed like Joker flying around anywhere?"
ReplyDelete"All's well that ends well, I guess," Ian says, materializing with extinguisher in hand.
ReplyDelete"Still, didn't we put that guy in the Ghost Zone? I guess we're going to have to find out if the Watchtower does have holding cells. Also, some place to hold this," he says, brandishing the Aquaman icon.