Vina flies in. She doesn't have much hope of breaking the magic lasso, but she can try to break its momentum so the end of the flail doesn't hit its mark. If there's a knot at the end of the lasso she might be able to untie, she'll do that secondarily.
Hey! Quinn's got a lasso too! He'll power-leap to ol' Ted's head, and try to lasso Sinestro with is own lasso which he has no idea what it does. But assuming he succeeds in roping the Bad Guy Wrecking Ball, he'll try to prevent him from being swung into Bull Moose.
Vina manages to grab the Sinestro end of the lasso, breaking its momentum with a whoosh! She's momentarily breathless from the effort.
Sinestro strains his eyebrows and the knot starts untying, a bit, but it's not really making much progress.
"If my will were at its former peak, I could unravel this bit of fluff like the insignificant impediment it should be! But curses to Libra, I have not the mental muscularity to decoil its suffocating rolls ..."
Vina undoes the knot at superspeed.
"... there, that's much better!" Sinestro concludes. "Kudos, Lady Hawk. Sinestro is in your debt. Now to ... what manner of bedevilment now assails me!"
Because Quinn's lasso has just grabbed him, holding him in place.
"Have a care, Wonder Man," he says, assuming that Quinn is a male version of Wonder Woman. "Because even with the lasso dulling my edge, I am still quite empowered enough to test that shield you bear ... to its LIMITS!"
And he forms a massive spiky mace out of yellow ring-energy.
"I dare not settle matters with this robotic quilt of powers, not yet ... but YOU I do not require to be in speaking condition, or even alive, to regain what I have lost!"
He hefts the forty-foot mace, as long as a telephone pole with a spiked head like a minivan from Hell, menacingly. Which is really the easiest way to heft the implement in question.
The red-capped guy laughs, a curiously repetitive laugh.
"So we see my advantage!" he crows. "You fight among yourselves, whereas I, Amazo, the One-Man Justice League, have all of your powers under perfect coordination! My lasso is strengthened by the power of the Green Lantern, and my flight enhanced by the powers of both Superman and Hawkman!"
He makes a fist with his left hand, and a silver shield materializes around it.
"Oho!" says Amazo. "You new Leaguers have some additional powers to add to my arsenal! I wonder why you did not use your shield to stop Sinestro's swing? But then, perhaps you do not fully understand these powers, whereas I see them as plainly as I see Professor Ivo, my maker, languishing in prison! Once I release him, he will be free to give me further commands, allowing me to use all your powers in perfect harmony in furtherance of those commands!"
"Invisibility will be very useful! And telepathy, yes .. perhaps even more so. I wonder, can I see your intention before you act? Linked to the super-speed of Superman and the Flash, this could make defeating the entire League a matter of mere moments."
"And with all that, I also feel slightly rubbery. Could there be a stretching person among you?"
JimBob has a very, very bad idea.
He's going to attempt to position himself behind the Green Lantern. Once there, he will stretch a hand over to the Lantern's oversized, ring-wearing hand. JimBob will then stretch/flatten his own hand until it is less than paper-thin, and attempt to slide one finger UNDER the Lantern's ring, but over the Lantern's finger, so that it is actually JimBob wearing the ring, and not the skullcapped figure.
Either that, or he will be broken in half. I figure it's probably about 50/50.
(Your narrator hopes that JimBob, himself, doesn't become 50/50!)
JimBob successfully gets behind Amazo (360-vision not being one of his duplicated powers) and infiltrates his papery fingers under Amazo's power ring. Because Amazo's skin is flesh-toned, he does not detect the infiltration until it is too late!
JimBob sees the world with a heavy green overlay. Everything has a mass, a velocity, a temperature and an atomic composition, and all can be altered as easily as picking off and replacing a few Legos. What would he like to change first? There are some uranium ores in the mountain which could be rearraged to make a really spectacular explosion ...
"Hey!" Quinn says, "you need to 'yellow' out, buddy!" He'll try to swing the lasso around over his head and attempt to smash The Guy Who Won't Shut Up with Sinestro. He figures Sinestro will miss any attempt to hit him since he'll be whirling around at mach speeds, but just in case he's got his shield ready too.
ReplyDeleteJimBob will push forward with his infiltrating hand to rip the ring off Amazo's finger, using the Green Lantern Power to force his hand open, if necessary. Then he'll wrap the Lantern-strengthened lasso around its weilder to buy himself a moment.
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