Little miss lantern
Pro-log
Stephanie brown was never one to lay down and die. So when she actually died, she had no intention of staying dead long. Only hours after black mask had tortured her to death, Steph was trying to claw her way back to life. After all, Steph was Steph. She was stubborn, irrational, but determined. She would not give up until she was kicking it in life again.
So floating slightly off the ground, in a pitch black realm, Steph stared into a glowing portal of life, observing her beaten and broken body, as her beloved, Tim Drake, stood crying over it. Now that right there, that pulled at Steph's heart strings. Tim may of been a brooding little emo prick, but she loved him, and she was determined to return to life.
There was an unknown rule in he the underworld, if you're soul left your body before your heart stopped beating, you were stuck in a permanent limbo. That's what happened to Steph. Her soul had ascended before her heart had stopped. So now she would never go to heaven or hell. Nooooooo. Now she'd spend her afterlife watching her friends and family succeed and fail. This did not play well with the blonde teen. No not at all. She was a more hands on type of girl, and sitting and watching was not on her agendum.
So with her gaze stuck intently on her lifeless body, Steph tried to reclaim what she had lost. Her life. That's what she wanted, and she was going to get it. Even if it, well, killed her.
Her eyes locked on her body she tried to restart her heart. She had met 3 people so far. The gobble triplets. 3 identical sisters of around the age of 11 or 12. They had all been killed by a priest a few hundred years ago, apparently they had been the spawn of Satan or something. Their souls had left to avoid the pain the body went through. So now, like Steph, they were trapped in the endless darkness. They had explained the rule about her soul being trapped here. They had also said, that with enough will power, she could affect the living world. So Steph figured she might be able to restart her own heart.
But so far it was to no avail. Steph was a strong, confident young woman, but still, she could not bring the dead back.
Sighing Steph fell to the ground in defeat. Her heart wouldn't start. She could not be given her life back.
Turning her gaze once again to the portal of life, she changed its own gave to her mother.
Miss Brown was not the best mother in the world when Steph had been growing up. But Steph love her. And she'd really pulled her life together. No longer the drug addicted woman she once was, Miss Brown was a loving and dedicated mother. And man, did Steph miss her.
Thinking of her mother must have restarted the burning fire for life once again. So staring up at the glowing portal of life, she returned her gave to her dead body.
"Life prepare to be my bitch" Steph muttered staring at her body, as she is once again risen into the air.
Her gave fixed on herself, she begins to feel a small part of her shifting. Almost trying to return to the world of the living. But yet this once again is to no avail. The heart will not beat.
"ARGH!" Steph raged in frustration. "Why you such a bitch death?!" Steph seethed. "I want my body ba-" something clicked in Steph's head. She wanted her life back, not her body. Maybe, maybe she had just found a loop whole.
Perhaps Stephanie Brown had been going about it wrong. She couldn't start her heart, but maybe she could make another one. Perhaps if she was strong enough, she could create a new body.
So turning her gave away from her own dead body to a field just outside of Gotham. Cause wouldn't it just be dandy if Steph came back a live, and landed on her own dead body? That would win her a few years in therapy if nothing else.
Her eyes had gained a slight glow to them as Steph stared at the field. She willed herself a new body. One almost identical to her original one. With slight differences in her body build, more muscles.
Her mind was so set on creating her body, that she didn't even notice the portals sight shift to a green planet.
Before she knew it a body had started to take shape. Although it shone like a green star, slowly the devils began to form. Slightly wide shoulders, hips that had bored a child and a face hardened over the experiences she had, had.
Stephanie was so overjoyed at the sight of her new body; she didn't even recognized where it had formed. What was more amazing was the Stephanie felt herself being drawn towards her new body. She felt the underworld begin to disappear around her.
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Stephanie Brown opened her eyes. Her own flesh eyes... Only to find herself in the middle of a Green Lantern meeting... Completely naked.
"Oh joy" Steph muttered, trying in vain to clover her exposed body.
Steph's eyes wondered around the crowd of on lookers. Sighting she tried to stand, only to find her legs weak and wobbly.
"Umm hi" Steph called, trying to be as nonchalant as she could. "I'm Steph. Nice to meet you... All of you I guess. I'm going to take a shot in the dark and say I'm in Oa. Right?" Steph called to her audience.
No one answered her, and slowly Steph began to fidget. She was beginning to become quiet unconfutable, when Hal Gordon, earths green lantern stepped forward.
"Umm young miss, how did you get here?" Hal asked awkwardly, trying to avoid the young lady's... Private parts.
Sighing, Steph's face broke into a grin. "Well ya see mister green lantern sir, I died." Hal looked to interview before Steph quieted him with her hands. " Yeah hard to believe. But I died. During the gang wars in Gotham. And I didn't want to be dead. So I tried to will myself alive. Now that didn't work, so I had this brilliant idea, if I say so myself. I thought 'hey Steph the rule says a beating heart and a soulless body is what you need. So if you can't make your own heart beat then why not make a new one?' so here I am. I made this body" Steph removed one of her hands and gestured to herself. "So here I am" Steph finished with a big smile on her face.
During her little speech she hadn't noticed the approach of the guardians. But now with one staring right at her, she started to fidget a little.
"Young lady, do you mean to tell me that you willed yourself alive?" he questioned her. Steph began to nod vigorously.
"I guess" Steph gave a small smile as she stared at one of the most powerful men in the world.
"Hmmm. Young lady come with me. Hal, you to" Hal Gordon seemed momentarily surprised as he followed the naked teen and his superior.
Every other Lantern had there gazes set on the young girl who had crashed there meeting. Shock, anger, surprise and aw followed her as she walked. The gathering of lanterns now totally silent, a rare occurrence.
The walk was even more silent then the Green lantern meeting. Steph wobbling behind the guardian as Hal tried to keep her walking without touching something he shouldn't. Before she knew it, Steph found herself at the highest point of Oa. The guardian went to take his seat on a large pillar like thing.
When he was finally seated he turned back to Steph.
"All right young lady. Please tell me your story."
Stephanie hesitated. "I don't think I can sir" she answered. "There is some stuff that I'm not allude to tell you sir" Steph's gaze turned to the ground as she tried to avoid the guardian's intense state.
"Young lady, I know some of the most powerful secrets in the world. I believe you can tell me this."
"Sir it's not that I don't believe you. It's just it involves a certain caped crusader."
"Batman?" Hal offered. Steph gave a small nod, and a smaller smile. "Young lady, I assure you anything you have to say about batman, you can say to me" Steph gave a somewhat disbelieving look as she shuttered her gave over the green lantern. Finally she gave her answer.
"Alright. I was robin, the girl wonder" Steph gave a pointed look as Hal once again tried to intervene. "I was robin for 72 days. The bat fired me. I didn't listen to orders. So I was fired" Steph gave a small sigh before returning her gave to the guardian. "I wanted to prove myself, so I stole some of the bats plans to eliminate organized crime in Gotham. It. Ack fired. I started a gang war, and died trying to fix it. It was stupid and irresponsible. I prayed for it with my life.
"Next thing I know I'm waking up in limbo, being told that my soul left before my body was dead. I would never move on. No heaven or hell. So I tried to fix it. I was told that with enough willpower I could influence the plan of the living. So I tried to restart my heart. Didn't work. So then I had this idea. What if I made a new body? So I tried and, well as you can see, I succeeded" Steph finished with a small smile.
"Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait!" Hal all but shouted. "Kid you mean to tell me, that you willed yourself alive?" Steph smiled and nodded. "Damn!" Hal whispered.
"Young lady, it is clear you have quite a large amount of willpower. So I offer you this. Stay here on Oa for 6 months. Train to be a lantern, and enter the corp. what do you say?"
"Me? I say hot damn I'm in!" Steph's smile reached from one ear to the other.
"What are you naming kid?" Hal asked.
"Stephanie. Stephanie Brown" Steph grinned.
(Yay. I spent the whole day writing this. On my phone. So if the grammer is wrong...sorry? Anyway, this is my steph story. Man i loved that chicka. I hope dc brings her back someday.
Any whooo. i don't read any green lantern titles. A friend of mine just told me to do this. so this is her b-day gist. I hope you like it Chicka. So if i make any mistakes with the GL world, for give me.
I'm also looking for someone to pre-read this stuff for me.
Umm yeah time for some shiz.
Issue 2:
A 6 month time skip has accrued since Steph arrived on Oa. And now she's heading home to the blue planet. What will happen when she arrives back on her own planet? How will the JL react to the newest green lantern and how in the name of green will people tell them apart when all 5 green lanterns fight together?. I mean really? there's Hal, Guy, john and kyle, now i'm going and adding Steph to the mix? i mean there going to have to start being called gl1 and gl2 so on so forth. really, it's crazy.
