Board Thread:Off-Topic Activities/@comment-26336673-20190526161521/@comment-29191679-20190704205552

One Red Lantern continues to fight alongside its fellow Red Lanterns, fully focused on its goal of fighting (and possibly defeating) the heroes.

'''Though, that doesn't prevent it from noticing a light in the distance, one that has been growing for several seconds now. It turns to face this light, and then attempts to get out of the way. Moments later, a powerful laser beam strikes the Red Lantern with near-perfect accuracy, and persists for long enough to tear through any armor that might be protecting it. Seconds after the initial impact, this Red Lantern falls to the floor, dead.'''

 Nice try, but that didn't help you.

'''Omega lowers his R-4 Laserbolt Rifle and watches as a few of the other Red Lanterns turn their attention away from the other heroes and towards him. He knows that he won't have enough time to charge another laser beam; in only a few moments, the Red Lanterns will be fighting him.'''

'''That's fine with him. He prefers conventional combat over what is essentially sniping people one by one. To him, the one he killed was just a minor convenience; just one less Red Lantern that he has to fight now.'''

Since Omega wasn't in the post where everyone was captured by Reaper, I have to write this here to avoid a plot hole.



'''Shortly after tossing V away from the battlefield, Reaper noticed a tank in the distance. Followed closely by four more. With them, a large number of XVII units. In the air, every starfighter was turning to face it.'''

It seemed that every gun the RSIF had brought was now pointed at Reaper.

'''Not that it mattered to it, of course. It knew that it could take down every single one of them. Though, all that mattered was that it completed his objective: Bring the heroes to Ares. And right now, there was one left who mattered to it.'''

'''The booming of projectiles leaving their respective cannons began, and Reaper countered with a wall of the void substance from before. The wall went down a few seconds later, just as Reaper fires a rocket at the tanks. Reaper then prepared its plasma rifle, and in moments, they were consumed by the same electric explosion that tore through V's clone army.'''

'''Most of the tanks barely managed to hold up to the force of the blast, and were extremely heavily damaged. Only a few of the XVII units were able to get out of the way fast enough; the rest were incinerated by the explosion. Of course, the starfighters were still in the air.'''

'''Reaper now walked up to the devastated army, as if to mock the RSIF's task force (of course, that wasn't its intention; it has no mind of its own). Having been unable to find its target anywhere else, it had to be in one of the tanks, and it was most likely that lead tank.'''

'Yes, the task force leader was'' inside that tank. The thing is, it was another XVII unit.'''

'''Omega wasn't actually the leader of this task force; in fact, he had previously stepped down from his position as leader of the RSIF. And on the battlefield, in one of the nearly-destroyed tanks, the thought of how Reaper was probably confused about all this made him chuckle a little bit.'''

'''Of course, Reaper didn't have a mind of its own, so it wasn't actually confused. It immediately turned its attention to locating Omega. It knew that he wasn't one of the normal ground units, and could see that he wasn't piloting a starfighter. That, of course, left the other four tanks. Reaper jumped off of the lead tank, Infinity Blade drawn, prepared to search the other four tanks. As soon as it did, the XVII unit from before was teleported away; in recognition of Reaper's extreme power, the RSIF was ordering a retreat, hoping to return with greater force. Reaper didn't seem to care, almost as if it knew that the tank it was walking towards was Omega's.'''

'And Omega knew that they couldn't risk accidentally teleporting Reaper up as well, lest that led to it learning about their home galaxy... or to them'' learning about their home galaxy. So he would have to fight back, with the goal of staying out of Reaper's reach for long enough to be safely teleported back. And if he failed... Well, at least the RSIF had massive precautions in place to protect AI cores from any form of damage.'''

'''As such, before Reaper could pierce through the tank's damaged armor, Omega had already grabbed an R-4 Laserbolt Rifle and was prepared to fight back. Not just with weapons, but with knowledge; they already knew that Reaper had an insane ability to know what its opponents were about to do. So once Omega got out of the tank, he knew to turn around and strike Reaper's tactical rifle away with the Plasma Blade, barely avoiding a shot from it (which could've induced the corruption that took over Astra, THUNDER, and M5).'''

'''The starfighters came around and fired another volley of shells to help with the battle. This was all to give an advantage to Omega, as the exact paths of every shell were transmitted to him by the pilots, and so he could react accordingly. While this hindered Reaper, it still wasn't enough to stop it.'''

'''And after some time, Reaper pulled out its shotgun. Realizing what was about to happen, Omega quickly blocked the energized blast with a shield, dissipated it immediately afterwards to avoid the corruption, and then used the Plasma Blade to push the shotgun away from him, while Reaper pushed back.'''

'''Eventually, Reaper switched back to the Infinity Blade and struck Omega's sword with it, throwing it out of his hands. In response, Omega switched to the Mirror Blade, made it look like he was going to attack, and then dropped the sword and stole Reaper's shotgun. He quickly turned around and immediately tried to use one of Reaper's corruption-based attacks against it...'''

But of course, Reaper beat him to the punch with his tactical rifle.

'''The corruption could travel through Omega's body quickly... but the failsafes were quicker. The moment the corruption was identified, the AI core containing Omega was disconnected from the rest of his body and surrounded by an extremely strong shield, preventing the corruption from reaching it.'''

'''Still, for Reaper's purposes, this did what it wanted to do. Seconds later, Reaper was gone, and so was Omega.'''

'''The RSIF moved to full combat readiness almost immediately after the incident. All ships were diverted from any other non-vital missions and prepared for battle. A full-scale search-and-rescue operation was launched.'''

War had begun.