Questions to Your Answers [Closed]

[foreseen-future.livejournal.com]

Nura has done all she can to prep the meeting - she's had Stacy shape the sensorium to be spherical, with light blue walls and gray tiling, and the walls stretching high for the screen display. On the first screen, there is this image, framed by chrome for a nice, silver-polish finish. The third screen displays a similar image, only there are obvious differences by number and form. And the second image is a large collage of an assortment of numbers from both images and then some.

There are steps to a slightly raised dais which is located before the three screens, with two hover-seats for the viewing part. It seems like one of those tri-screens in the museums to commemorate the 'what was' and the 'what is' statements about society - but it is not. Nura has done all this with a purpose. She has the information to give, and she is confident that it needs to be given.

She's adorned the room with bean-bags placed haphazardly, and a few statues of deceased Legionnaires from various Legions as tribute. And to help ease the foreboding air in the room, she has had Stacy bring back Holo-Querl, with added Holo-Lyle of her Earth. Holo-Lyle has crashed on a beanbag and is reading a comic from a comic stack that was quickly created out of thin air. Holo-Querl is by Nura's side, where she sits on the top step of the dais, thinking.

[this is closed to Lyle Norg]

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[smartnass.livejournal.com]

Lyle's face is blank as he enters the room. He's not sure what to expect. His eyes are first drawn to the people inside--or holograms thereof. He glances at the fake Legionnaires for just a moment before dismissing them. As he walks up to Nura he takes in the images of the different Legions, lingering on his own. He frowns deeply at it before turning to Nura.

"What did you want to tell me?"

[foreseen-future.livejournal.com]

Nura is already up and moving down the dais.

Brainy and Lyle are the bodies before her. They have their hands on a machine and an unreadable expression upon their faces. She can't make it out - but there's commotion around them.

"You and Brainy are building a viewer. One that you will attempt to find your home with." It's a statement. She leaves the bottom step. "And you will encounter something..."

[smartnass.livejournal.com]

Lyle waits. He's not sure whether someone told her that or not, but he's not going to interrupt her if she's in the middle of a trance.

[foreseen-future.livejournal.com]

Nura stops, lifting a hand to her head. "...it stops there. Always." She looks up concerned. "And it will play a big part soon. I'm sorry to do this to you Lyle, but I have to ask you to not tell Brainy what I'm about to tell you."

She lowers her hand, apologetic. "For his sake, he can't find out, yet."

[smartnass.livejournal.com]

Lyle nods. "All right." He's not someone to turn down information. He's not sure why it had to be him, but presumably she'll get to that.

[crysteel-future.livejournal.com]

"Once upon a time, there was an awful explosion that tore open the multiverse. From the hole, came three Legions of parallel Earths. Different Earths, and different times. They had noticeable differences and noticeable similarities."

The lights dimmed.

"The Three Legions battled the enemy, saved the multiverse, but were met with an unfortunate quandary: they were stranded on an unknown parallel Earth with no way back."

Red circles went around each Brainiac 5 upon the center screen's image. "Of course, the Brainiacs didn't think so. Starman volunteered to be their project - they redesigned Starman's uniform to be a map to the multiverse. Using his gravity amplifying abilities, he opened up black holes that abled the Legions to return to their respective homes."

There's a pause.

[smartnass.livejournal.com]

Lyle waits patiently. Nura must have some point in telling him this.

[crysteel-future.livejournal.com]

"Later, there was another convening of the Legion of Three Worlds - as the Brainiacs called it - when Superboy Prime of my Legion's Earth was unleashed upon the elder Legion's Earth, by the Time Warrior, or, as the Legions who have been terrorized by his meddling call him: The Time Trapper."

She lifts her hand to the first screen. "I believe your Legion has encountered him before."

[smartnass.livejournal.com]

Lyle nods. "We're familiar with him."

Lyle's just going to assume she won't tell him why she knows this. Just getting this much information out of her is something.

[crysteel-future.livejournal.com]

"Legionnaires were lost in the battle. Many friends were brought back. Nothing gained. Nothing lost. My Legion lost two teammates to Superboy Prime. But while there are grievances..." Holo-Jan and Holo-Dirk appear, laughing over something unknown to Lyle. They walk down the dais and head over to where Holo-Lyle is waving. "...Nothing was more surprising than when the Time Trapper finally removed his hood..."

The screens all change, to show one picture. "...and revealed himself (http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5VgL6ZXwkaw/Sfn9sBBcd_I/AAAAAAAANq4/HroKnr_We7w/s1600-h/Final+Crisis+Legion+of+Three+Worlds+4-10.jpg)."

[smartnass.livejournal.com]

"Your Superboy Prime?"

He's still wondering what this has to do with them.

[foreseen-future.livejournal.com]

"Yes. In the end, things were resolved when Superboy Prime foolishly defeated his elder double." She bows her head. "...there were so many deaths, Lyle, and..." she sucks in a breath and lifts her head slowly. She needs to remain calm.

"All because one one mistake. One move that was not calculated properly. One sudden burst." She's serious, demeanor of cold-hard calculation that is familiar upon Brainy's, and to Nura and her Legion, Querl's face when the the cruk hit the fan.

[smartnass.livejournal.com]

"I'm sorry." And he is, although he knows she's not telling him this for sympathy.

[foreseen-future.livejournal.com]

"You and Brainy are embarking the same path - and though you have your calculations, your plans and your determination, you are missing a key piece to the puzzle."

[smartnass.livejournal.com]

"What are you saying, Nura?"

Less prophecy, more exposition, please.

[smartnass.livejournal.com]

He accepts and examines it. He quickly transfers the relevant data to his omnicom and offers it back.

"Why keep this from Brainy?"

[smartnass.livejournal.com]

Insulting Brainy is not the best way to make friends with Lyle, even if you've married his counterpart. His counterpart isn't him, after all.

"You're a mind-reader as well as a pre-cog? That should be useful."

Lyle nods formally, then turns to leave. "Was there anything else you wanted to say?"

[foreseen-future.livejournal.com]

"Yes, actually." Nura pulls out a black piece of fabric. Unlike most things in the sensorium, it's real. You should recognize it Lyle. "You and Brainy go out there and you do your sprocking hardest to prove me wrong."

She then tosses it to him, smiles, and turns to the screens. They go dark and then slowly dissappear. As does everything else around them. Things shift and shift and shift...until Lyle and Nura are in Nura's zone of comfort - her Legion's lab complex. Holo-Querl is already at research monitor.

Holo-Lyle arches a brow at Lyle. "Hey, Brainy. If we are from parallel Earths, and have different details, does that mean on his Earth, I'm called 'Headband Lad?'."

Holo-Querl sighs. "He can hear you, Lyle."

[smartnass.livejournal.com]

Lyle just raises his eyes at the scrap of fabric. It's a good symbol of just how little Nura understands. She thinks she approach some level of meaning by presenting him with this, yet at the same time she mocks it--using his counterpart's face to do so.

He doesn't bother to comment, though. It would likely be unprofessional in any case. He simply continues on his way out the door and, since he's not facing her, Nura can't see him roll his eyes as he leaves.

[foreseen-future.livejournal.com]

Nura is still smiling when the doors close. Holo-Lyle is looking bemused, while Holo-Querl has his arms folded and is shaking his head. "That went well."

Nura laughs. "He's not supposed to like me." She predicted that eye roll. "I wouldn't be doing my job if he did." She then walks over to the examination table, hops up, and begins a back-story to when she and Querl were researching fluxuations in the weather on Triton.

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[foreseen-future.livejournal.com]

Nura takes the ring and places it back on the appropriate finger.

"Because while I feel an overwhelming amount of endearment for him - he is, after all, the counterpart of my husband - there are parts of him that are...unstable." It is awful when you have to admit that your husband's counterpart is a few loose screws away from chaos.

"Of all the minds, Lyle, his and the elder Brainy's minds are the most tumultous. And he would try to go far beyond what needs to be done with the information. You have seen this happen. Brainiacs don’t like coming up against a wall made by forces that not even their vaunted intelligence can explain or decipher."

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[foreseen-future.livejournal.com]

Nura removes her flight ring and looks at it grimly. "I have that piece. The coordinates you need are in this ring."

She steps forward and holds the ring out. Inside, the engraved DG is there. Briefly worn by Supergirl - Nura's forever. "And I am entrusting it to you."