But our story must first now go not to James Anderson, but to Oa, homeworld of the Guardians and base of the Green Lanterns. It is here the Guardians are discussing a threat not heard from for billions of years.
Yes, Kaos was returning. After several billion years, he had escaped the dimension he'd been imprisoned in.
And the Guardians were arguing about how best to handle it.
More accurately, a newcomer called Argos, who wished for a full assault on Kaos, was arguing against Ganthet, who was able to recognise the stupidity of that notion.
"The full force of the Green Lanterns must be deployed immediatly to combat this threat."
"That would be suicide. Not even ten thousand of our soldiers would be able to stop Kaos."
"Then what do you propose, Ganthet? Sending your beloved Hal Jordan to kill it?"
"I sense an air of disgust and sarcasm in your tone, Argos, and I would advise you not to use such a tone again."
"Hal Jordan is not going to help us, Ganthet, you know that. He's preoccupied with matters on his precious Earth, helping the Kryptonian and the Manhunter from Mars. Jonh Stewart is workingon a seperate matter concerning the Justice League. Kilowog and Guy Gardner are a hundred and four thousand lightyears away on a seperate assignment and Kyle Rayner is half-dead after dealing with Parallax. The heroes you believe we need are scattered, and we're defenseless if we contine to rely on them. So I'll ask you again, Ganthet. What do you propose we do?"
"Start making friends out of enemies."
"What?"
"Willpower alone cannot defeat Kaos, we all know that. Not even an alliance between two lantern corps would be enough. We need all seven corps to ally with us, or the universe will die, wth them and us along with it."
"That's a foolish idea and you know it, Ganthet. The Red Lanterns, working with us? Or even the Sinestro Corps? How to you hope to convince Larfleez to help?"
Ganthet had no answer for this. He knew that an alliance with seven, let alone all nine corps was near impossible.
But an alliance was unneeded. Because at that moment, a Red Lantern named Maul was stabbed through the back by a defender while Maul was rampaging through a village on a distant planet.
And the Orange Lantern named Larfleez suddenly fell to his death when an earthquake tore apart the earth beneath him.
And a Sinestro Corps soldier named Thrawl was killed when his ship crashed on a planet only a few lightyears from Earth.
And a Blue Lantern named Soverin and a Star Sapphire corps member name Elli were both killed when they were both caught in the blast of the explosion that occured when Elli used her ring to tear apart the ship they were battling in.
And an Indigo tribe member called Jaro Kor-Va was murdered by a Black Lantern, the reanimted form of an unknown alien soldier. That Black Lantern was subsequently killed by a White lantern ring that flew through the Black Lantern's skull at twenty thousand miles an hour.
And all nine of these rings came to Earth, and found James Anderson.