jla_watchtower | Entries tagged with joto

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Ray Palmer's been freed, but the Justice League and their allies are now faced with both a dying and homicidal Enchantress, and a Chronos from somewhere further in the future that seems Hell bent on trapping everyone where they are in order to prevent some future event -- training his first sneak attack on the Cosmic Treadmill that helped bring them to this dimension between time.

"The Witch Queen will be destroyed before she rises ... Ray Palmer will never live to lead the Justice Battalion."

In a swift succession he trains his ray on Firestorm and Joto.

"The future begins here."

reducing-ray.livejournal.com

Sometimes, when he's in the midst of working, he understands why Ray Palmer developed the ability to change size. It wasn't to fight crime, it was to get down to a decent size to work on nanocircuits. Which is what he's doing.

It turned out to be quicker to salvage parts and rebuild the chronometric tracker than it was to repair it, so that's what he did. And most of the data's been restored ... enough to get a fix on Dr. Palmer's coordinates. At least he thinks so. No time to really experiment, although the diagnostics are all checking out.

Don't be the guy to strand half the JLA in another dimension, Choi," he says to himself as he rockets up to six inches again and takes one more look at the cosmic treadmills. He's got two of them here -- the only two extant -- and it only took him a moment to realize that the old Flash was just as much a genius as Ray Palmer. Because, wow.

The Dibnys and that Stranger dude will be back soon, and some of the JLA are going with them for support. Now if only the knot in his stomach would go away. He should be ecstatic, but instead, he's overwhelmed with the urge to not blow it.

reducing-ray.livejournal.com

There are some things anyone that's been in the JLA for five minutes figure out: One of those is stay the hell out of the way when the Atom's in the lab. Evidently, that comes with the costume, because from the moment Ryan Choi set foot in it, it was his.

Boy's driven ... and manic, bouncing around the facility deconstructing Chronos' tools, canibalizing a spectrometer that Steel had left behind, fiddling with spare parts from the cosmic treadmill that the Flash had left up there. Bits of Thanagarian, Rannian and even New Genesis equipment are examined and, if deemed useful, cobbled into his bizarre device.

"I need a machine that traces time as a particle," he says absently, to no one in particular. "That traces time as a partical and tracks it to an exact point of reference. There's no such thing."

He stops, and breathes.

"OK. You're the Atom. Make there be such a thing."

And then he's back to fidgeting ... calculating ... building.

reducing-ray.livejournal.com

Ray Palmer's death is hovering over the Watchtower ... inescapable, permeating the halls with a lingering chill.

Joto could almost feel it when he teleported up from Ivy Town. And it's not hard to understand why ... in one room, Brainiac 5 and Dr. Mid-Nite are performing an autopsy on Ray's body, while Ralph and Ryan watch on and discuss clues, while in another, Firestorm and the Martian Manhunter were interrogating Chronos, at least until Chronos had a nervous breakdown that cut things short.

Now it's time for them to talk, to piece the puzzle of the investigation together. To figure out how the man who helped make him who he is died.

Joto heads to the conference room and waits. He can't bring himself to sit at the JLA's roundtable, though. Instead, he finds himself standing, examing photos on the wall. Mementoes of old missions.

Ray Palmer's in a bunch of them, sitting on Hawkman or the Flash's shoulder. It seems like a long time ago.

lexcorp-media.livejournal.com

Shocking news tonight as sources at Ivy Town University confirm that renowned physicist Dr. Ray Palmer, best known as the size-changing superhero The Atom, died Friday night in his Ivy Town home. Police declined to comment on the matter, citing an ongoing investigation. As a member of the Justice League of America, Dr. Palmer had many enemies, most famously the villains Chronos, The Bug-Eyed Bandit, The Floronic Man and I.Q.

The scientist-turned-hero last made the news with the institutionalization of his ex-wife, Jean Loring, who was implicated in the alleged homicide of of Justice League member Susan Dibny. (Dibny was later revealed to be alive under undisclosed circumstances.) Loring reportedly has escaped from Arkham's Asylum for the Criminally Insane in Gotham City. Members of the Justice League were unavailable for comment.

In a statement, Ivy Town University's Dean Mayland said, "Dr. Palmer's loss is a tragedy for the scientific community. There were few minds of his caliber, anywhere on Earth. He was truly a giant. He'll be missed."

Dr. Palmer left no surviving family. A lawyer representing Dr. Palmer's estate said that a memorial service was in the process of being scheduled, and that announcements would be forthcoming. By the terms of his will, legal guardianship of all Dr. Palmer's patents, notes and scientific equipment has been explicitly granted to the Justice League. ...

reducing-ray.livejournal.com

I shouldn't be wearing the suit, thinks Ryan Choi as he prepares to be beamed up to the Watchtower. It's disrespectful.

The news came to him quick, and he nearly collapsed under the weight of it. Ray Palmer had been his hero since he was a child ... and had honored him greatly by choosing him as his successor. But now, it felt like he was wearing his dad's suit -- metaphorically speaking -- and it didn't fit right. It was too big on him. Even with the alterations the science staff at Ivy Town had made, it still felt like Ray was looking down at him, and finding him wanting. He's not The Atom. Not yet.

He looks to his right and left at the transfer station -- Isaiah Crockett, the former Teen Titan known as Joto, and Ronnie Raymond, the former Justice Leaguer known as Firestorm. Both former teammates of Ray's, now both his students at Ivy Town University. He feels like a fraud.

And as the teleporter activates, transporting them to the Watchtower, all Ryan can think is I can't believe Ray's gone, followed fleetingly by I can't believe I'm going to the moon.

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