Sentinel: The Dawn's Early Light
Prologue:
July 1950.
New York City.
World War II was just won. Good had triumphed over evil. The city entire was celebrating the victorious return of The Society. So, it wasn't surprising that no-one noticed a flash of light and a hole in space/time down an abandoned alley. A black-haired man, looking to be about twenty-to-twenty-five, wearing a trench coat, stepped out of it.
The man sniffs, trying to catch a certain scent. "Seems alright." He says, to no one in particular. "At least there aren't any zombies here."
Joining the cheering crowd in celebration, he watches the motorcade. A large, custom-made, white limousine convertible pulls over. This is the vehicle which is occupied by the triumphant heroes. Then, He noticed something odd, something different, and something out of place.
"What's wrong with this picture?" he says, thinking aloud. He goes over each hero, saying their government-issued code-names aloud. "The Thunder, The Amazon, The Hawk, The Wild-Cat, The Hour, The Doctor, The Silicone, The Midnight, The Flash, The Star, The Atomic, oh, right-no Lantern."
Suddenly, a green light burst through the clouds. From there, a squadron of black, white, and green-uniformed alien soldiers, each with a glowing green ring with matching lamp, swooped from the skies. On any other world, the sight would have brought even more cheering, and shouting in acclaim.
But there was one difference. Each had a crimson armband with a circle and an image of an emerald lamp within. One of them, a grey-skinned giant with large fangs, claws and small eyes, made an object from green energy which resembled a megaphone.
"PEOPLE OF EARTH! I AM ARKILLO OF VORN! YOU ARE NOW UNDER THE JURISDICTION OF THE GREEN LANTERN BATTALION! MARTIAL LAW IS IMPOSED! IF YOU ARE SO STUPID AS TO RESIST, THERE WILL BE CONSEQUENCES!"
"Great, we just kicked the butts a' the Nazis, and now we gotta' fight space Nazis!" The Wild-Cat grumbled. Without hesitation, The Society flew to the skies, with The Star ferrying the others who are incapable of flight. A blast of green light later, they were annihilated.
Amidst the stampeding crowds, the trench-coated man keeps staring at the skies, dumbfounded, at last says: "Why, oh-why, oh-why, did I get out of bed this morning? I just know I'm going to get a migraine." In twelve hours, the entire world was in the clutches of a hand of green.
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Twenty-four hours later, the enigmatic man found yet another jade-colored lantern. This lantern, however, was… different. The shape was that of a railway lamp. One could feel the ethereal emerald mists permeate through one's very self. Raising a wooden mallet, he shatters the beautiful source of light. Picking up a piece, he then holds it in his hand, mentally reshaping it into a ring. Slipping the ring on his finger, he gleams with flames of green. Gathering the shards, he flies off, a smile on his face.
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Notes: 'Sentinel' was one of Alan Scott's (golden age Green Lantern) old aliases. And plus, it has three syllables and starts with 'S', like Sinestro.
'Dawn's early light' is from the American anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner". For the life of me, I can't remember why that's there.
Other working titles include; The Green Lantern Battalion, And Sinestro Justified.
I don't like zombies. They're both over-rated and over-done.
The Society is the altered Justice Society of America, made to resemble the agents in JSA: The Liberty File and JSA: The Unholy Three.
They are, respectively; Johnny Thunder, Wonder Woman, Hawkman, Wildcat, Hourman, Doctor Fate, Sandman, Dr. Mid-nite, Flash, Starman, The Atom, and the absent Green Lantern.
Arkillo of Vorn, from the Sinestro Corps, the anti-thesis of Kilowog.