Hal and Roxana where talking as she told him about having to tell her parents. Hal then said "I don't know. Isn't there another way?" Roxana then said "What am I supposed to say, I was in Paris?" Hal then said "Maybe."
"Without a passport or anything to get me back?" She crossed her arms and Hal sighed as he said "Good point. Though your parents' won't want the press bugging you so they won't say anything."
She nodded and yawned as she said "Well goodnight. God bless you." "Sweet dream." He replied and they headed off to bed. Aya had told them it would take some time to get to Mogo.
Later that night when Aya was in recharge mode. In his cell, Bartoo went into a pocket that was part of his body in his shoulder and said as he looked at a glowing yellow crystal "I could just escape now. But it would be too much fun to see them squirm." he smiled a toothy grin and then crushed the rock it in his hand. Some of the dust traveled in the air vents and to each of the rooms as he put it away so Aya couldn't detect it.
Roxana was dreaming. She was in school, but she was much younger. She walked by a group of girls, they glared at her. She was different from them and they didn't like that. She took a turn, but they came and drove her up against a wall.
She said "I don't want to fight." They didn't listen and the biggest girl pushed her to the wall again. She glared at them and yelled "You touched me!" Her mother had told her to let no one touch her.
She brought her fist up and punched the girl, then they left, glaring at her as if saying they would come back. She woke up. She wasn't a little girl anymore, she was grown and she wasn't in school with the bullies anymore. She was in outer space, having an adventure of a life time.
She was not the only one who had a bad dream. Hal and Kilowog had dreams of their girlfriends and the whole Star Sapphire fiasco. But they had been around the yellow stuff before and where able to go back to sleep immediately.
Razor slept next door to Roxana, he awoke from a dream about his wife yelling "Ilana!" Aya then said "Razor your vitals along with the others have gone up. What has happened?"
He replied with "Just a bad dream Aya. The others must have had one too." Suddenly he heard a knock at his door and he said "Enter." Roxana stood there. He asked "What do you want?"
She said "I heard you scream, wanted to make sure you were okay. But if you're going to be like that I'll leave." She was about to go when he said "You had a dream too."
She stiffened and said "How'd you know?" "Aya informed me that the others were also having the same problem." Roxana then said to Aya "Are they awake?" She replied with "No and their vitals have returned to normal. I detect something in my air vents. I will check if this is the source of your troubled sleep."
Aya's eye like ball disappeared. Roxana looked at Razor and said "So who's Ilana ?" Razor then growled "Where did you hear that name?" He was angry and bared his teeth. She said "Chill. I heard you yell it. I live next door. It's hard not to hear you scream." He calmed himself and said "I do not wish to talk about it." She nodded and said "Alright. Goodnight." She was still curios though, but too tired to continue asking questions. She went back to sleep quit quickly.
Razor on the other hand stood up thinking for a while. Maybe he shouldn't have talked that why to her. He was pretty loud when he awoke. Aya knew of his past, she wouldn't tell anyone, and he didn't feel like telling anyone ells. At least not right now or maybe not ever.
Roxana woke up and got ready for the day. The rest of the team was already up and in the control room. She came into the control room and her eyes widened at what she saw.
"Wo." She said as she saw a planet with a large green ring around it. Hal smiled and said "Meat Mogo." She replied with "This is going to be interesting." Unknown to them that Bartoo was smiling like a maniac.
They landed on the planet and Mogo said "Welcome my friends. What brings you here?" "It really talks?" said Roxana in shock. Mogo laughed and they could feel the vibrations. He replied with "I see you have a new comrade."
Hal chuckled and said "Mogo meet Roxana. She's the new girl on our team. Still getting use to the whole outer-space and aliens thing." Mogo then said "It is good to meet you."
She replied with "Um same. But how is it your alive? Well I know that planets are alive if they have life on it, but how can you be so diverse in your speech and movements?" He replied with "I am unsure." She shrugged and said "Only God knows. Probably for the best."
Hal then said "Well now to answer your first question big guys we got a prisoner that a normal jail won't hold. Mind keeping him here?" He replied with "I have some caverns he can stay in. That is where the rest of the criminals are so you don't have to worry about them attacking you."
Kilowog then said "Thanks, that makes this visit easier for us. I'll bring in the poozer." He went into the ship and then came back out with Bartoo's hands in green chains, what they didn't know was that he had something in his hands.
Suddenly he lifted his hands and threw the yellow dust on them. Aya started to fritz a bit as the others coughed and then they fell on the ground unconscious. Aya then said with static "Thi-s su-bstance wa-s I-n m-y ai-r ve-nts la-st ni-ght."
Aya could not move for the yellow powder on her was messing with her ability to move or do anything. Bartoo laughed and then destroyed the cuffs on his hands to free them, in his claws was some sort of strange clamp that was probably used to break the locks on the cuffs. He was going up to the lanterns when Mogo trapped his feet in the dirt, only for him to break it and say as he continued towards them "Relax. I won't hurt them, I just wanted to have a little fun, and then I'll go."
Aya then shut the door on the ship and put on alerts and said "No-w yo-u will not b-e able to g-o anywhere." He shrugged and said "As long as I get my revenge I'm fine." He came up to Roxana and then painted two lines on each side of her face going down from her eyes to the bottom of her face from a marker he had in one of his pockets in his body. Mogo wanted to stop him but there was still too much of the yellow substance round them for him to do much to help them.
Aya then asked "Wha-t ar-e yo-u doing?" He replied with "I've looked at some of the files the spiders kept and saw the Red guy's memories. I believe he's going to go a bit nuts when he sees her looking like his old love. They'll all be at each other's throats once they wake up. Especially with the super concentrated yellow rock I had stored away."
Mogo suddenly shook, the air finely clearing of the substance enough for his ring to work, and used it to put all the lanterns and girl on different parts of his planet. Bartoo just laughed and said "They'll just find each other eventually." Aya then said "N-ot if I- ta-ke the chem-ical off of them. You m-ust know ho-w. Now tell u-s?"
He laughed and said "Nope." Mogo then shook and swallowed him up. Aya was confused but he said "I just put him with the rest of the inmates." Aya then said "I wi-ll ha-ve to ma-ke my own cu-re by tes-ting it on myself and wi-th the sa-mple on the shi-p." And so the two started coming up with ideas to cure herself and the others.
Roxana awoke to find herself in a clearing in a strange blue forest. She said "Where am I, and where's the ship?" She got up and walked around the forest, looking everywhere to make sure nothing came at her, she jumped a bit at the noises. Though she did not know why.
Razor awoke near the forest, but on some rocks sort of like a recliner, a pointy one "Wonderful." he said sarcastically as he got up and popped his back from the pain. He looked around confused, he just shrugged and walked around to try and find the ship, but then he heard something walking in the woods.
I never felt nothing in the world like this before
He brought his ring up, but he was confused because he was not just angry, he was 'afraid?' No he couldn't be. Then what was this feeling of dread he felt. He didn't notice but the mix of the fear and rage had mixed with his rings abilities as Roxana had theorized and he was glowing a dangerously bright red. Suddenly the person came out of the shrub. His eyes enlarged as he looked at the girl, with the marks on her face that resembled "Ilana?" He said shocked and confused.
Now I'm missing you & I'm wishing that you would come back through my door
Roxana looked at the voice in shock. She did not recognize Razor, all she saw was a monster and ran, though she did not know why she ran if she knew it was better to stand still. "Ilana wait!" Yelled Razor and he went after her, he was afraid of losing her again.
Kilowog awoke in confusion in a deeper part of the forest. He felt a headache, and 'fear' no he couldn't, lanterns were fearless. They had to be to do their job. He got up. He was a bit wobbly as he walked, he didn't see where he was going as he tripped over a log. He growled and looked at the log as he said "You want some of this poozer." He then began to attack the fallen tree.
Why did you have to go? You could have let me know
Razor was confused, why was she running form him? Maybe the red lantern suit scared her. So now I'm all alone. He didn't want to lose her again, he had to find her. Girl you could have stayed but you wouldn't give me a chance. What was wrong, was the suite really scaring her off? Maybe she knew it meant danger, but couldn't she see it was him, couldn't she give him a chance to explain?
With you not around it's a little bit more then I can stand. He couldn't stand not being near her when he knew she was so close, he had to find her. He ran faster, trying to find her, he was so reckless he didn't even think of using his ring to fly.
And all my tears they keep running down my face. Razor kept the tears at bay. He didn't want to show weakness in front of her. He had to be strong. Why did you turn away? Why didn't she come to him? He did not noticed that the red energy he had was vaporizing the foliage he ran by or in his way.
So why does your pride make you run and hide? Roxana saw this and it only compelled her to run even faster not wanting to meet the same fate. Roxana ran as fast as possible and she ran so fast, she didn't have time to see the rock that was coming up and she tripped and fell to the dirt.
She tried to get up slowly thinking she lost the creature. Suddenly Razor appeared. She gasped and said "Get away from me you monster!" Are you that afraid of me? Razor was shocked, did Ilana see him as a monster because of his suite, or because of what he had done, worse what he had become?
But I know it's a lie what you keep inside. This is not how you want it to be. No he knew she still loved him, he just had to remind her who he was. He came up to her and said "Ilana it's me." He held her by her shoulders. She screamed and said "Let me go!" strangely she was not vaporized and the red energy did not hurt her in fact it dispersed from her for he held no rage towards how he thought she was his beloved. So baby I will wait for you. Cause I don't know what else I can do. Don't tell me I ran out of time
If it takes the rest of my life. Razor then said "Ilana calm down it's me. Razer." She stopped squirming when she heard his name and found that she was not hurt or vaporized and looked at him. Roxana then said "Razer?" Baby I will wait for you. "You do remember me. Please don't be afraid. I'm not going to hurt you." If you think I'm fine it just ain't true. She asked confused "Razor are you okay? I thought you were a monster. But why are you calling me Ilana?" wasn't that the name he yelled in his dreams last night.
I really need you in my life. He held her tight and said "Oh Ilana I've missed you so much. You have no idea how much. But I'll only be okay if you're with me. I can't live like this. I feel so torn up inside."
No matter what I have to do I'll wait for you. He then said "But what do you mean who's Ilana? You're Ilana. I don't care. I'll wait until you get better, when you stop seeing me as a monster. I should have listened to you."
Roxana was confused and started to struggle again to try and find out what was wrong with him. She didn't like being this close to him, even though he was being strangely gentle with her.
In the dessert where some of the flowers grew Hal awoke. "Ow my head." he said as he held it. He got up and started to walk around. Suddenly he felt something stuck on his leg, he looked down to see what his leg was stuck on.
It was some type of plant, then he remembered when he was on the planet were all of the harmless food was dangerous. He thought he was back on that planet and started to run off while screaming his head off "Evil food!"
It's been a long time since you called me. Razor was still holding on to Roxana as she struggled saying "Razor it's me Roxana let me go!" He then growled and said "No you're not, your Ilana. How could you be alive all this time and not try to find me. (How could you forget about me) Did you forget me so easily? You got me feeling crazy (crazy) I went mad without you."
How can you walk away? Roxana punched him in the side and then walked away from him saying "Your sick Razor. I don't know who this Ilana is but I know you must care about her. So please stop. She probably wouldn't want you to be like this."
Everything stays the same. Razor looked closer at her, she did look different. I just can't do it baby. No he couldn't let her go, not again. He tried to go after her again saying "Ilana I can't fight it, please come back to me?" But she ran and she didn't look back. He ran after her.
As this was going on Aya had an idea and said "We could use the water on your planet to wipe away the yellow dust." She still sounded like static but she was getting better and her movement was back. Mogo then said "I will try, but I will need your help. I shall tell you where my water is and the others. You must hurry they are starting to get aggressive."
Hal ran into Kilowog and he said "Kilowog I'm so glad to see you!" Kilowog stopped attacking the tree and said "Jordan, what's going on?" He was feeling a little more tired now.
Hal then hid behind him and said "I don't know but we have to get out of here. There's evil food is all over this place." "AAAHHH!" They both heard someone scream. Kilowog then said "That's Roxana." Hal then said "The food must have gotten her!" So they ran off in the direction of the scream.
What will it take to make you come back. Razor ran after her, trying to figure out why she was running from him. He yelled "Ilana wait why are you running form me!" Girl I told you what it is & it just ain't like that. "I'm not evil Ilana, I joined a good cause, just let me explain."
He finely used his ring to make a wall to stop her. She stopped right on time. Why can't you look at me, your still in love with me? He then grabbed her and said "Pleas look at me." Roxana wouldn't look at him as she struggled to get away from him.
Don't leave me crying. Tears started to go down her face from frustration. Razor's heart tore at seeing her cry because of him and almost did it himself.
Baby why can't we just start over again. Get it back to the way it was. Suddenly Hal and Kilowog came and saw what Razor was doing. Hal said "Razor stop it, you're hurting her!" But really he wasn't. He may of bean holding her tight but by no means did he hurt her not even bruising her hands.
If you give me a chance I can love you right. He looked at them and said "I'm not hurting her. And the both of you mind your own business, this is between me and her." But your telling me it won't be enough. Roxana then yelled "No it's not. Now let me go!"
So baby I will wait for you Hal and Kilowog brought their rings up but they wouldn't work. "What's going on?" Asked Kilowog. Cause I don't know what else I can do. Razor held up his ring and said "Both of you leave us alone this instant, I won't let you take her!" he became fired up by the extra rage the fear added. Don't tell me I ran out of time. If it takes the rest of my life. Baby I will wait for you.
If you think I'm fine it just ain't true. Razor was confused, who was this, she looked like Ilana too, but without her marks. He growled and said "Get out of here imposter." They all looked confused at him. I really need you in my life. Razor had his ring up saying "I won't let any of you hurt her, or take her away from me again." No matter what I have to do I'll wait for you.
So why does your pride make you run & hide? Roxana had had enough of this and kicked him in the leg, she stood in a fighting pose. Are you that afraid of me? Razor was confused and said "What are you doing?" But I know it's a lie what your keeping inside "Protecting myself and my friends." Razor was unsure of what was happening but grabbed her again, she was already feeling a bit woozy so she couldn't fight back.
That's not how you want it to be "Listen to me I'm trying to protect you!" One arm rapped around her and pulled her close in a protective hug as his other arm pointed out with his ring on fire.
Aya had had enough, and for some reason felt strange, why was Razor acting this way with her. They were all going to hurt each other if she didn't do something quick. Suddenly she put her arm over them and dumped a bunch of water on them.
They all sputtered water out of their mouths and Kilowog then said "Aya what was that?" Hal then said "I lnow I don't smell good but I don't think a bath was that necessary." They all turned to the red and the girl, and Razor said "What happened?" Roxana then said "Could you let go of me?"
Razor looked to see that he was holding Roxana closely. She no longer had the lines on her face, they were washed off. They both blushed and he let go of her and she stepped back. Hal and Kilowog chuckled at that and Hal said "I didn't know you had it in you Razor."
The red growled at him. They just laughed more. Aya then explained about the yellow crystal and Bartoo. They then remembered. As they walked back to the ship they said their thanks to Aya and Mogo for their help and then went in. Kilowog started teasing Jordan about the evil food thing.
Baby I will wait for you. Razor was in his room now that they were in space, thinking of what had happened. Baby I will wait for you. Aya came in and said "Are you not feeling better from the crystal wash off?"
He got up and said as he glared at her "Isn't it enough that you have her form, but now I have to see her in another as well? And now I know how she would of acted if she saw me like this?" he pointed to his red attired and continued "Because she would of said the same things. She would of bean ashamed of me." He turned back in his chair and looking back down at his desk. Aya just left. Not seeing what she could do.
If it's the last thing I do. He heard the door open again and said "I said to leave me alone!" He turned around and saw Roxana standing there as she glared and said "You don't have to be like that."
Baby I will wait for you. Razor froze, he didn't know what to say to her anymore. Especially after what happened.
Cause I don't know what else I can do. "I'm sorry. I thought it was Aya. Pleas. I just want to be alone." Don't tell me I ran out of time. She then said "First I want to ask you something."
If it takes the rest of my life He looked at her and asked "What is it?" Baby I will wait for you. "Who is Ilana?" If you think I'm fine it just ain't true. He didn't want to tell her, but after what just happened she deserved to know. I really need you in my life. He motioned for her to take a see, and she did.
No matter what I have to do I'll wait for you He then began to explain to her about Ilana. When he was done, she felt horrible for what happened to him. Razor felt her hand on his shoulder and he looked at her as she said "I'm sorry." She didn't know why she did the next thing she did, but she felt that he needed some comfort. She hugged him, and then she walked out silently.
I'll Be Waiting.
Razor just saw her go and sighed as he hung his head low with his eyes closed.