The Madness That Is Quinn!

1. Vina pockets the CPU (maybe the Hawks have a personal safe in with their equipment?).
   "He might be referring to something in the Korugaran religions or even their understanding of psychology. I wouldn't worry about it too much.... Hey, I wonder if any bystanders got hurt when this went down?"
   She flies to investigate.
   One thing she is not doing is giving the CPU to President Luthor. Maybe it's her hippie upbringing, but something about his suited self strikes a false note with her.
   And, darn. She realizes she never got the dark wig and is still her natural platinum blonde self.
2. JimBob stretches a hand behind Quinn and holds it up, making it appear as though he has his hand up.

"Right. I should have figured YOU could handle the red rage of Atrocitus," says Roy equably, and passes the red energy right over to Quinn.

"If you're going to flip out and become evil, give us a little monologuing as a heads-up!" Roy suggests. "Okay, my ring says there are no other threats in the immediate area. There's a gorilla robbing the Metropolis Zoo -- never mind, Flash got him. And I see Mirror Master's made a duplicate of Detroit -- well, no, Flash took care of that, too. And there was a traffic jam on I-70. Does anyone want to guess who fixed that problem? Gosh, maybe this justice stuff isn't going to be that hard."

Chin-Su vs. Sinestro?

1. 1. "Thank you," Vina says as she absorbs her power.
   2. 
      "I'll take his CPU..."
   3. Sinestro tosses her a gold-and-red sphere, taken from Amazo's head.

   JimBob frowns. "So... The plan is to take scads of power from the AMORAL dude, and give it to the EVIL dude? No offense, of course, Sinestro..."
2. "No offense? NO OFFENSE, you say, you puling worm? I will SHOW you what happens when you OFFEND the DIGNITY of the MIGHTY SINESTRO --"

And he breathes red fire! Actual red fire!

WHich just sort of hangs there, floating in the air, with evil red eyes glaring out of it. Like a neon sign advertising a demon-themed Chinese restaurant.

"Not that I can be offended by the chance judgment of a flexible man in a sailor costume," Sinestro says in a much calmer tone. "The Red Lantern energy carries with it a certain ... irascibility ... which does not comport with my future plans. I suspect it will not adhere to anyone not already riven with rage, so I leave it here, to dissipate. Unless one of you would like to sample the flames of wrath?"

"No, I did not think so."

"Now I depart, to continue my program of subversion. No doubt our paths will cross again. And when they do, the nightmare monster coiled at the base of your dreams will find out what happens when he threatens Sinestro of Korugar!"

Roy says, "Uh, where did THAT come from? Any of you guys have a nightmare monster at the base of your dreams? C'mon, show of hands ..."

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See! SEE the Bounties of the Glorious Kryptonite!

1. Quinn, who's fallen to the ground with Amazo, will free his shield and *WHAAAANG!* Amazo with it on the head. So, so hard.
2. From where she's wobbily perched, Vina will shoot Amazo with an arrow. The kind that goes boom.
3. "Interesting idea JimBob had", Roy says to himself. "I wonder if it'll have any side affects? Oh well!" Then he goes back to the task at hand, which is weakening Amazo until someone with A Plan finishes him off.
4. So the question of the hour is: can an exploding arrow, an Olympian shield, Sinestro's Power Ring, and Roy's Power Ring overpower the combined toughness of Wonder Woman and all them other guys, although weakened by Kryptonite?
5. (Since there aren't any other assets to hand, the answer better be YES ...)

Yes, they can! Amazo flops over and lies, inert.

Now Sinestro power-beams him with a yellow microscope, locating and extracting pulsating globules of pure super-power.

"My ring is whole again!" he exults, firing an erupting beam of pure triumph skyward. If this is what his full power looks like ... wow, we were lucky to defeat him the first time. It's brighter than the sun!

"And this for you," he says, separating out some green nodules and sending them sliding towards Roy, whose Power Ring absorbs them. Roy suddenly wakes up.

"Who, what, where?" he expostulates, noting that his hand has two arms leading to it.

The ring locks onto the correct Roy, and JimBob remembers that he's JimBob.

"These, I think, are yours," he says, sending a winged lightning bolt and a series of blue and red micro-stars orbiting each other like a yin-yang wheel to Vina. She finds the illness much reduced, and can stand up again.

"The Flash is not here, so this red energy can be allowed to dissipate harmlessly ..." says Sinestro. "Or contained in a vessel capable of storing and extracting the pure essence of Speed! If I can imagine it, my ring must do it!"

It does. Seems a Speed Bottle is oblong, with a long neck bent over on itself that disappears through the bottom of the bottle.

Who knew?

"And this flrey red energy belongs to Atrocitus, head of the Red Lantern Corps. He will live a long and painful life before he sees any of THIS again!" And Sinestro absorbs the red energy into himself. His ring takes on a red tinge, like a flaming red vein running through the gold. It's kind of icky.

"Now that Amazo has served his purpose, I shall disassemble him, so as to prevent any further interference in my plans," says Sinestro. "Unless you replacement heroes have an objection, remembering that Amazo is but a machine, with no more right to survival than a levitation-raft or a seven-tined interocitor?"

Kryptonite Solves Everything

Vina, from a distance, summons whatever birds she can find to smack into Amazo. Hopefully while he is trying to brush them away, she can grab Roy.

"The endurance of Superman..." JimBob looks down at the green, lifeless ring still on his finger. "All of our weaknesses..."

JimBob will, discretely as possible, stretch a hand over to Roy's, and slip his finger into Roy's power ring, attempting to recreate the "bright, searing, sizzling, acid-tinged green WRONGNESS" that Roy attempted on Zipperneck.

Birds attack Amazo from all sides!

"Birds," Amazo correctly states. "Hawkman's power of bird control is a complete solution."

He starts whistling -- wheet! wheet! -- the way Hawkman does. The birds disperse.

During this time, Vina has taken Roy's weight and is lowering him to safety on top of the Roosevelt statue, while JimBob has infiltrated Roy's ring.

And ZZZZZZZ ... the green boiling biting glowing throbbing EVIL that is Kryptonite blossoms forth from the ring!

JimBob feels his shape altering into an exact copy of Roy's. Apparently the ring doesn't want to serve anyone but Roy, so it's updating him to fit better.

When he starts to remember Roy's likes, dislikes, and childhood pets, JimBob thinks it might be going a little too far. But then, Roy would be fine with being turned into Roy, wouldn't he? So JimBob's not all that against it. Soon he'll be Roy, and then he won't mind at all.

Amazo feels faint.

"I feel faint," he says. "What new power shall I -- green Kryptonite radiation! While Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, the Flash, Batman, the Atom, Hawkman, Green Arrow, Zatanna, the Red Tornado, Aquaman, the Elongated Man, and even the Phantom Stranger are invulnerable to its effects, Superman is not -- and none of their powers will stop the death which Kryptonite brings! Although Hawkman does reincarnate over the ages ... a partial solution."

Amazo falls limply as his flying powers ebb. He hits the ground hard, reeling around and holding his head.

"Pain," he describes. "Weakness. Approaching death."

Vina, at the same time, feels a nausea so intense as to cause actual pain, combined with a tingling which begins on her skin and sinks in as a deeper, burning ache. Her vision blurs, and her limbs grow weak, but her Hawk wings keep her airborne, and keep Roy light enough to carry. She is able to make it to the mountaintop, but is in danger of passing out.

Sinestro says, "Now! Strike, for your power, and your glory!" and slams Amazo with a big yellow mallet.

Amazo is driven to his knees, but he's not out yet. He strains against the mallet, resisting Sinestro's power.

A Solution -- And A Dilemma!

Vina flies around Amazo at superspeed (assuming her wings/Supes ability can handle that) putting out the fire and then flies superfast to a perch out of his eyeshot. Then she makes the calls.

JimBob has no choice but to let go, lest he be turned into something resembling the mozzarella topping a pizza fresh out of the oven. He maintains the wherewithal to shout "I RELEASE THE SPELL" as he does, in case he needs to play the "magic" card again later.

Quinn, who is still holding tightly to the shield and now swinging wildly in open space, will try to use his momentum to pull the shield to an angle where it will, perhaps, reflect Amazo's beams back at himself.

Amazo, the One-Man Justice League

While he's doing this he will shout, "whooaaaoooaaa!" and flail about, hoping that Amazo will decide the shield is more trouble than it's worth and drop it.

He does, indeed, tilt the shield just right!

ZZZAP! Amazo's heat beams bathe Amazo himself in fire.

Amazo cuts off the heat beam. Simultaneously, Sinstro and Roy hit Amazo with bolts of yellow and green energy.

"On my mark, Lantern!" Sinestro shouts. "Combine our strength to overcome Amazo's resistance --"

"Impossible!" Amazo declares. "It is for this exact circumstance I was created -- to battle the entire Justice League at once! And as I have all your powers, past and present, it is impossible for you to overpower me, as A cannot be greater than A!"

"Here we go with the objectivism," Roy grumbles. "Sinestro, how about it?"

"This mechanical conglomerate has not the wit for deception," Sinestro declares Shakespeareanly. "His boasting may well be based on fact. How did the League defeat Amazo before?"

This, at last, is something Roy knows!

"Right!" he chimes. "Besides the time Superman used time travel, Amazo's been beaten twice by the League .. once by deliberately losing the battle, and once by using ... hey! They used YOUR ring, Sinestro! Amazo has all of our powers, but therefore all of our weaknesses ..."

And SLAM! Amazo flies right up to Roy and punches him out!

"Martian telepathy allows me to see what you are thinking. And as it may lead to a method to destroy me, I cannot allow you to speak it aloud!"

Sinestro tries making yellow sword blades to slice Amazo up, but they don't do anything.

"You can indeed penetrate my green Power Ring aura," Amazo says, "but I still possess the endurance of Superman, who cannot be harmed by your ring."

Roy, hanging limply in Amazo's grasp, is out. He cannot say anything.

Zzap!

JimBob looks nervously from Amazo to Sinestro, frankly shocked that his plan worked. "Please tell me that'll hold him, Sinestro" he says uncertainly. "Because if it doesn't, my 'Magical Darkness' will be RIPPED IN HALF!"

As a precaution, he will untie his feet from their anchor below, and prepare for the flight of his life.

"Of course it will hold him," says Sinestro. "Due to a necessary impurity in its makeup, Amazo's Power Ring, like the real article, is powerless against the color yellow."

"And as for the combined flying power of Superman and Wonder Woman, I have restrained those selfsame adventurers many a time. I will do so again."

He sounds very sure.

"Psst!" Quinn whispers to Amazo (and thus to JimBob, who I'm assuming has "ears" in every part of his body if he wants to), "let me have this shield back and maybe we can help you rescue Dr. Ivo. Because frankly I'm not a big Sinestro fan myself."

Vina is looking for an access panel for the battery pack. She's also dialing up Arkham Asylum to get ready for an attack--and sends an APB over the Justice communication system--if that's a possibility.

Amazo perhaps intuits what Vina is attempting, and swings around to clonk her with the shield. But Sinestro's shackles hold back his ankle, so the swing doesn't quite come all the way around, stopping short.

So Amazo opens his eyes super-wide, emitting beams of heat so intense they're actually visible in the clear air! The burning is so intense that Vina feels she must let go, or possibly perish.

But, y'know, no flying away ... so no difficulty for JimBob. Except for that his hands are over Amazo's eyes, and are now on fire.

The Four-Man Justice League vs. the One-Man Justice League!

Very much like a hawk, Vina deploys her wings and falls like a thunderbolt and brains Amazo in the...brains...or what passes for them...with her Space Mace.

Amazo's red skullcap is indeed the covering for his brains, but although Vina is blessed with Superman-level strength, Amazo has that, plus the strength of Wonder Woman, and yadda yadda yadda ... so it perhaps not surprising that her strike rebounds harmlessly.

Following on Vina's attack, and assuming Amazo still has a head, JimBob will stretch both arms down to their adversary and wrap them around his face. JimBob keeps his head high above however and, hoping Amazo's sense of touch isn't particularly sensitive, he yells "I CAST MAGICAL DARKNESS UPON YOU!!"

Amazo jerks his head from side to side, trying to see. But his super-strength (as detailed above) is so substantial that he cannot even notice the slight tugging caused by his head swivels stretching JimBob's hands just a little further left and right.

"Magical darkness is a serious drawback, as I do not possess the powers of Zatanna, who is not a member of the Justice League," says Amazo out loud. He may not have absorbed the power of "internal monologue" during his travels.

"Therefore I cannot defeat the Justice League, and therefore I must abandon that mission as impossible, and revert to the next level of my priority scale, which is to rescue Professor Ivo from captivity. Fortunately, I know where the Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane is located, in the shadowed, witch-haunted byways and cobblestoned streets of Old Arkham, where the sullen Miskatonic River slumps grayly to the sea."

Amazo then gathers his fists into his waist, preparing to fly at great velocity to the East Coast. This will test JimBob's stretchiness to the ultimate limit!

"Hold him!" orders Sinestro. "Amazo has now absorbed all the super-power which Libra stole from us, and upon defeating him, and opening his power storage battery, we can reclaim our energies for our own glory!"

And he shoots forth a power-beam clamp, which fastens about Amazo's neck.

"That feels like a power-beam clamp," Amazo says. "Although enshrouded as I am in magical darkness, I cannot be sure."