Chapter 1

Razer: Where do you get these ideas?
Sugar: *taps skull* All up here...
Razer: *Sighs* We're doomed...

"My scanners relay that this planet's atmosphere is suitable for us to breath. It would be wise for us to make our repairs to the Interceptor here." Aya gazed around at the males curiously.

"Great, Aya!" Hal grinned and pumped his fist. "Perfect. We'll land and patch up the ship really quick and be back up in the air in no time."

"Yes. This is an agreeable plan, however I must bring to your attention that there was a substance I could not identify in the atmosphere. It will take me some time to identify it."

Kilowog sighed. "Aya. Just bring us down. We can't wait around identifying everything. As long as the air is breathable, that's good enough."

Aya silently regarded Kilowog then turned back to her instruments. "The Interceptor will land in roughly five minutes." Razer quietly noticed the irritation Aya had, but silently turned back to his station. Certainly it wasn't anything of major importance in the atmosphere.

The Interceptor smoothly touched down on the planet's surface and the boys exited the hatch. "Wow!" Hal gazed around amazed. The vegetation and soil were vivid hues of a wide assortment. "Incredible!"

There was every color of the rainbow in varying shades and it was so unlike Earth's colors. There were trees that were red and purple, blue soil, and pink grass. The sky was a sickening yellow with green clouds rolling through. "This looks like something out of a little kid's story book..." Hal turned in a slow circle to look at the jungle around them.

"Knartz...this is amazing..." Kilowog slowly tilted his head back, stunned.

"Indeed." Razer followed behind the green lanterns quietly, looking about.

As the boys studied the environment, Aya walked out of the Interceptor. They turned at her approach. "I have placed the Interceptor under a self-repairing program. After a few days, the Interceptor will be fully repaired."

"Great, Aya!" Hal grinned at Aya. "Well, if we're gonna be here for a while we should look around a bit right? Aya and Razer be one team. Kilowog and I will be the other. If you run into any trouble, call the others. Let's see if we can find any people that live here."

"Do you mean like the time we landed on Mogo's surface and were nearly killed, left stranded, and our ship stolen? Not to mention Aya being kidnapped?" Razer crossed his arms and regarded the green lantern.

"That was different. We're more wary this time and we're not looking for trouble. It'll be fine, Razer. Don't be such a downer." Hal waved him off, which made Razer roll his eyes. "C'mon, Kilowog." The two teams flew off in different directions. While it was true Razer was irritated at Hal's nonchalance, he was grateful for his choice in teams.

Aya landed to analyze some flowers she had seen. Razer studied her as she studied the flowers. He approached slowly. "Aya? May I ask what you're doing?"

"I am analyzing this variety of fauna. It is...quite beautiful..."

Razer's eyes widened in surprise at such an...organic response. He turned away, feeling embarrassed, although he didn't know why.

Aya observed the changes in his body and bent down plucking a bright pink flower. It had soft diamond shaped petals an long feathery tendrils coming from the center and random points. She turned, feeling shy. "Razer?" As he turned, a slight breeze blew past and scattered some of the feather pieces throughout the air, causing Razer to cup a hand to his mouth, squeeze his eyes shut, and sneeze. "Bless you, Razer." Aya replied automatically, having heard Hal give the same response in the same situation.

Suddenly, Aya's eyes narrowed. Something was wrong. Razer turned to her, a goofy grin plastered across his face. "Awwww...Aya, did you say 'bless you'? That is soooo sweet..." His lids were slightly drooped and his eyes seemed somewhat glazed for an instant.

"Razer. You are not acting according to your typical speech and body language patterns."

"Aya." Razer staggered over to her drunkenly and placed a hand on her shoulder. "You...you gotta loosen up a little..."

Aya was concerned. "Razer. Something is wrong with you. We should find the others."

"Sure!" Razer threw up his hands happily. "The more the merrier!" He took Aya's hand. "Let's go, Aya!" He grinned at her.

Aya looked down at their joined hands. The flower's affects weren't all bad, she thought as they flew off. Yet, this was not Razer at a healthy mindset, so she did not entirely enjoy it. All she knew for sure was that she had to find Hal and Kilowog before something else strange happened. Beside her, Razer was skimming his free hand through a cloud and mumbling about how pretty the view was, which Aya wasn't sure was referencing her or the flora and fauna. Something was definitely wrong, though. She boosted her thrusters, scanning for the green lanterns.

Hal and Kilowog were flying over forest after forest and meadow after meadow. "Hey, Kilowog? Notice anything strange?"

Kilowog nodded. "For a planet with a breathable atmosphere, it don't have a whole heck of a lotta villages does it?"

Hal scanned around and whistled. "Alottaaaaa forests and meadows, though. Hard to think the place isn't inhabited..." His brow furrowed as he scanned. There really were a lot of meadows...and most with the same strange, pink flower. It was...odd, to say the least.

He flew down and the sergeant followed close behind him. Hal plucked a flower as he faintly heard Kilowog's puzzling comments. He scanned it with his ring. "Unknown." The ring replied in its monotone voice. The flower was quite stunning. It was a beautiful shade of pink and the soft feather bits were appealing to the eye.

Kilowog leaned close and sniffed the flower. "C'mon, Jordan...these things give me the creeps..."

Hal was about to ask how a flower could give anyone the creeps, when his ring beeped with an incoming transmission. "Green lantern Hal."

Hal immediately looked at his ring in worry. Aya sounded upset. "Aya? What's wrong?"

"Razer is not acting as per his normal behavior. It is quite close to what one may consider to be the opposite of his regular behavior. I am concerned for I do not know the cause of this development nor how to reverse it."

Suddenly, Hal heard Razer's voice. "Hal?! Oh, hi, Hal! Are you having fun? I'm having fun. You having fun, Aya?" Hal could faintly hear Aya quieting Razer down.

"Alright, Aya. We'll start heading out to meet you." Hal sighed. Something was definitely wrong. Great. Couldn't they ever just land on a planet without being nearly killed or something going wrong? He turned to Kilowog. "C'mon big guy! We have to go meet Aya."

Kilowog looked over at Hal, his ears lowered. "Hal?" His voice seemed timid. "Why do you think Razer is acting like this? What could have happened?" He looked down and sighed. "I'm so worried, Hal..."

Hal stared in shock. The big guy was always fierce and confident. What was going on around here?

And that concludes chapter one! It's short, but I wanna see how people like the idea. I like coming up with what if ideas a lot of the time. This story will have some Razaya probably later, but for now I'm trying to get the plot going. Anywho read and review! Hope you like it!