Legionnaires 79
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Legion of the Damned Part Two: Damned if we do!
Chameleon relates the Blight's arrival at Earth to his four teammates, where their teleportation tendrils crashed through the attempts of the Legion, Science Police, Amazers and Workforce to prevent them touching down and "entwined" Earth in less than five hours; before the Blight themselves emerged when victory was already assured. Many were believed killed in the process, but soon reappeared as the Blight's slaves, known as the Blighted. The others are shocked, but confirm for Chameleon that, with the Stargates down, it took them a month to return from their mission to rescue a freighter. Chameleon then points out the Blights' interment camps - and their headquarters, the Stem.
In the Stem itself, those captured in the attack in part one are being processed after interrogation. XS, as the only metahuman among them, is sent deep for power-tapping as one of the humans is killed by a Blight member.
Apparition dreams of her and her three teammates' arrival back at Earth, her frustration at being seperated from Ultra Boy, and how, on discovering the Outpost abandoned in Earth orbit, they had only had time to find Chameleon's flight ring before realising they had triggered a booby-trap. As she remembers the explosion knocking their cruiser out of control, she wakes to find Chameleon hadn't slept, traumatised by the previous month.
XS, regaining full consciousness thanks to her accelerated metabolism, is carried down the Stem in a bubble of sap by three Blighted. As this happens though, she hears a small telepathic voice, who can't remember its' name, telling her to escape. She then sees several Legionnaires hung like slabs of meat, but, as it grows louder, she begins to recognise the telepathic "voice" moments before she sees the source - Saturn Girl. Immediately, she bursts out, grabs Saturn Girl from her prison, and sprints away at super-speed. The Blight look for them, but Jenni, forced to stop, vibrates them invisibly until they pass. Once they are gone, however, the exhausted and defeated Saturn Girl tells Jenni to go without her, and roughly implants what she had learned of the Blight into XS' brain before collapsing.
Meanwhile, Cos' team are approaching the Stem, when a group of Blighted fly out, looking for them.
Roll Call
In order of appearance:
Legionnaires
Villains
Other characters
Planets and Settings
Technology, gadgets, etc
Solicitation
LEGIONNAIRES #79
Written by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning; art and cover by Olivier Coipel and Lanning.
The battle against the menace of the Blight heats up in Part 2 of the 4-part "Legion of the Damned." After being stranded in space for a month, Cosmic Boy, Monstress, Apparition, and Brainiac 5.1 return to Earth and find the planet completely dominated by the alien race known as the Blight. Along with Chameleon, the remaining Legionnaires make a plan to storm the Blight headquarters, in the hopes of freeing their teammates -- and the rest of the planet -- from the Blight's control.
32 pages, $2.50, ships on Nov. 10.
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