I never knew many 'heroes' in my life before the ring. I was just a lowly freelance artist with no direction, and little ambition to do a bit of good in this world. I would never have believed that I would one day receive the mantle of the most powerful hunk of metal in the whole entire universe by some blue dwarf like guy named Ganthet. That being the ring of the Green Lantern corps; a piece of jewelry which would create whatever its bearer willed in an instant. Anything. Cool, huh? It's like Christmas spread out over 365 days in the year.
Less than a month ago, however, I was forced to tap into the core of my ring's power. A lunatic- Nero, attempted to claim an incomprehensible amount of power left over from my predecessor, when he became the Parallax, the power which my ring had been tapping off ever since. Nero had inherited a yellow lantern ring, similar to my own, created by a race called the Qwardians- the guardians from an antimatter world. Their version of the ring feed off mine, and well… you can see how having an incredible amount of power floating up in space could be bad if this guy got his hands on it. The only way to stop him was to claim the power for myself- a power that the corps's best Green Lantern, Hal Jordan stole from all the other Green Lanterns. I ended up the victor of the battle with Nero, receiving an unbounded power over anything with energy. I had many consciousnesses; I could conjure up unthinkable creations. I was no longer just a Green Lantern- I was energy. I was Ion.
Before I sacrificed my power to recreate the Oan battery, I had a look for a few people in my past. I had been searching for years in the JLA data bases for my father- I even had Oracle chase a few leads, but I got nowhere until Ion, but I found him. That was nothing in comparison to the second person I was looking for though- Alex Daniels.
He and I were really close friends back when we were both in our early teens. Alex was undoubtedly the school jock- was into anything fast paced, especially ice skating. He was also incredibly intelligent for his age- at least I think he may've been. No one knew his real age. One year, he had the looks and mind of a 10 year old, and the next he was 13.
'Some crazy genetic condition.' He always said with this plastered grin on his face. He was the only person before becoming the Green Lantern that I would consider could become a hero. He was super fit, super fast, and had a never ending supply of will and determination. But as life goes, it all came with a price. Doctors everywhere all told him that he wouldn't see his 20th birthday at the rate he was growing. I'm not sure what really happen in his last years, but he ended up moving to a town named Ashlynn, and a few years later, disappeared off the face of the Earth. Dark creatures stalked the area- so I've since found out through the JLA files, and there were sightings of a teen guy with yellow eyes roaming about the township, but I was able to find nothing more.
As the Ion, however, I noticed that someone had deleted all recorded information on him. It was only then that I spotted a newbie floating around the ice hockey records- Alex Dragon, who had very similar DNA to him.
So, here I am- Kyle Rayner, once again on a man hunt to find a missing piece inside of me- but this time, without the power of the Ion. I don't need the Ion to find him now. I've told Terry that I may be a little late with my next comic strip for Feast, and Jen is going to look after New York for a little while, so watch out Ashlynn, here comes a GL on a mission…