"It's over Jordan."
I dodge a blast of yellow energy and unleash some of my own.
Yes, that's me in the green-and-black tights. My name is Hal Jordan, Green Lantern of Sector 2814, and I'm currently in battle with my greatest nemesis.
That's him with the yellow ring and the Dick Dastardly moustache.
"Not by a long shot Sin. Not by a long shot." I let loose with as much force I can muster. It hits him square in the chest, and he still comes back for more.
"You think you know pain Jordan?" He quips as he lets loose with his own ring. "Pain is being disembodied in the Central Battery. Pain is being swept aside by a second-rate, undisciplined human!"
I tune out his words, focusing instead on the task at hand: I must stop Sinestro from reaching the Source Wall. No telling what kind of damage he might do there. His next words catch me off guard, just like that left hook that caught my jaw.
"But you know all about pain don't you Jordan? After all, you were unable to protect your own city!" Sinestro
laughs, and I try harder to tune him out. "It must have felt nice to usurp the Power Battery didn't it Jordan?
And what about how it felt to rewrite time and space itself!" He laughs as he lets loose with his own ring. At this
point, all I can do is endure it. Wait for an opening. "But evenafter all that you did, they will not remember
you as anything else but a monster. Isn't that right..."
An opening. I fire up my ring.
"...Parallax?"
I snap. My ring wells with more power than I knew I had. I scream as I raise my ring. "I. Am. Not. PARALLAX!!"
My scream would have been heard on all corners of Earth, if not for soundless space. The resulting burst from my power ring sends Sinestro flying. I give chase, letting loose with another burst. I swore I'd never let myself get lost with rage and pain and fear ever again, and right now, I'm breaking every single one of those promises."
The last burst sent Sinestro flying off somewhere. Damn, I can't even see him anymore.
"Damn." I lost him. "Ring, locate and lock on Sinestro."
"Sinestro is currently out of scan range. Locate further?"
No point looking for him now. By the time I find him, he'd probably have escaped to the Anti-Matter Universe. A bright light flashes behind me. Space heats up, expands and suddenly contracts again.. I feel everything around me crumple like tin foil.
I turn around and see a giant flash of white light. Uh-oh. Doesn't look good.
"Ring, scan and identify."
My ring scans the light. Only moments now, and I'll know.
"Object matches boomtube frequency on a temporal level. Anything wthin a 10-mile radius has become temporally displaced."
DEFINITELY not good.
"Warning: Time Displacement has occured. Green Lantern 2814.1 has been temporally displaced."
Damn. "Ring, course of action?"
"Repair break in Time/Space Continuum."
Looks like something I have to fix. I fly in, and heaven knows where I'll come out.
-END PROLOGUE-
Writer's Note:
Thats it. End of the prologue of my first (and hopefully not last) fic. I'll hopefully finish the next chapter by
next week, so look out for that!
- Leon
