Young Justice: Black Lantern

by deathbytaco1

The Earth is in for a big surprise when a Black Lantern arrives. Having been the only Black Lantern in existence for the past 10,000 years tends to make things boring after a while, hopefully Earth will prove more entertaining than most of the now dead planets he visited. What will he think of Earth and will he destroy or explore the new planet he has found.

6. Chapter 6

Chapter 6

Hello again everybody and welcome to my latest chapter of Young Justice Black Lantern. I will be responding to reviews in chapters now. Also thank you all for liking my story.

Before I continue, I noticed something while watching this and the next episode, the dates don't make sense. While the June 19th to June 22nd makes sense the August part is confusing. When Batman talks to the team about the mission it is August 4th, over a week since the mission, why wait so long? I figured that it was to let the team rest from the mission but on the next episode the date is August 3rd. So unless they invented time travel or a year has passed, someone messed up.

Last thing I swear, Nyx will not be staying in the story, sorry for anyone who wanted her to stay, I would like to point out Mark still acts like a child so he couldn't help raise her at all. If enough people actually want Nyx back in the story I'll bring her back or make an alternate thing with her, but she will no longer be in this story.

Guest: I'm glad you liked the bio. Also don't worry Nyx is only a temporary thing as you are about to see, but I put her in there to show that Mark not only has no idea about any Earth culture but that he also to show that he is changing, just a little bit. But mostly to show he can easily take down the team, also don't worry about Nyx, she won't be sticking around. Oh and yes Mark will be slapping the team around soon enough.

Chaos Sorcerer: I'm glad you like my story, to answer your questions. The box is going to be a big surprise in the future so be ready, yes Mark will eventually say he killed planets in front of everyone but as of right now only 5 people on earth know about it and that's Hal, John, Aya, Rose, and Carol, Mark will definitely keep on trumping the team. Glad you enjoy my story.

DoctorWhoXX: Yes, yes she is.

Daniel: Thanks.

Perseus12: Thanks.

Now, on with the story!

Carol pov

After a LONG conversation with my son I had finally convinced him that he couldn't just take a girl from the streets and keep her. It took hours to convince him till I finally got him to see reason. Nyx was going to be sent to a nice foster home and have her memory of yesterday's and other bad memories erased from her mind courtesy of Martian Manhunter. After taking care of her Mark (civilian outfit) and I returned to Mount Justice to see the team still passed out on the ground. I turn towards Mark.

I turn towards my son, "What exactly did you do to them?" I ask as I see him put his hands behind his head and walks towards his team. "I didn't do anything, I found them like this yesterday." I sigh as I follow him, "Lets move them to the kitchen for now and we can go from there." Mark then brings all of the team into the kitchen. Now all that was left was to come up with a believable story to convince them.

Mark pov

Today was horrible. First I got lectured by mom about how I can't just take in people from off the streets, I had to leave Nyx in something called a foster home and most likely never see her again, and now I have to carry everyone to the kitchen. After carrying everyone to the kitchen I had Rose wipe there memories so I wouldn't have to deal with them. Soon they would all start to wake up and mom, Rose, and I put our plan into action.

But first, I pull out a black marker and grin.

/LINE\\

So after mom explained that the team had been knocked out from a power surge in the control room knocking everyone out, everything went back to normal. Well, except for Wally who some how got multiple cat drawings all over his face and suit, in permenat marker no less. Enough to say everyone got a good laugh out of it.

As the team goes back to what they were doing, I stand in the center of the control room with mom, we wait for everyone to leave. Once everyone else is gone my mother looks at me and lets out a sigh. "Mark, please don't do that again. Ok?" She says with that look she gives me when I do something wrong but she isn't mad with a smile look of hers. I cross my arms "Fine." I say with annoyance.

"Good," She says "now behave, I have monitor duty so I won't be around for a while." She pats my head and walks through the Zeta tube.

I sigh and walk towards the kitchen, maybe something was happening there.

It took me forever to find the kitchen again, like 3 hours, I should really make a map of this place. When I arrive I'm greeted with the most heavenly sight, a tray of freshly made cookies. I look around to see if anyone else was around, upon seeing it's only me I make my way over to the tasty treats. I reach for the cookies but just as I'm about to grab one it moves slightly out of my reach. I reach for it again before once again it moves out of my reach, this was getting annoying, did these cookies not want to be eaten?

"Come here you, I just want to devour you and your friends." I say to the cookies as I dive for them but they float above me and I crash over the counter. I stand up but I can't see anything, my vision is blocked by a silver metal, I grab the metal and rip it in half while looking for the cookies. I spot them floating down the hallway that leads to the bio ship. I towards the cookies again, but once again, IT FLIES OUT OF MY REACH!

"THAT'S IT!" I shout and ignite my ring getting into uniform. "I'M GOING TO EXTINGUISH YOUR EXISTENCE!" I shoot after the sugary sweets from above.

/LINE\\

With the team at the bio ship

Everyone was waiting for Rose to get Mark to show up, everyone was starting to get impatient but Rose quickly got everyone into the bio ship and had Miss M. get ready for take off.

"What about Mark." Asked Megan as she was about to enter the ship."Don't worry" Rose said telepathically to Miss M. "Just be ready" Megan looks at Rose who's horns were glowing red, before she could ask what she meant a tray of cookies floats into the bio ship confusing everyone till an in uniform Mark crashes into the ship and starts to devour the cookies and the tray. "We can go now" The ship then takes off towards Santa Prisca.

Mark pov

I finally got the cookies and I had just finished eating the tray which had some flavor still on it. I look up and notice I'm inside the bio ship, how did I get here? I look over and see the team starring at me. "What?" I ask wondering what they were looking at, do I have something on my face, OH MY GOD THERE"S SOMETHING ON MY, oh wait that's my mask, never mind.

Another brief moment of silence before KF decided to speak. "Dude you just ate a metal tray." I stare at him for a moment, "Your point being?" KF looks like he's about to say something but sighs, "Never mind." "Ok." I say as Rose hops up on my shoulder. "So where are we going?"

"Santa Prisca." Says Aya who smiles at me. I look at her with a blank stare ". . . . You say that like it's supposed to mean or explain anything."

"Right, let me explain then."

One explanation later

"And that's why we're going there." Finishes Aya who is pointing at a chart made of green light, which is surrounded by multiple other floating charts. I stroke my nonexistent beard, "So there are going to be people to fight?" I ask with joy.

She sighs, "No this is a stealth mission, we will most likely not be fighting anybody." She said in a relived tone. I stare at Aya in confusion, if we aren't killing anyone then why am I here? "Well you have fun with that." I walk over and sit in a chair that grows from the ship. "Aren't you going to help?" I hear Megan ask as I look out the window. "Maybe, wake me when we get there." I say and close my eyes.

"Don't worry," KF says to Megan "I'll always be there for you." I open one eye and make a small spider construct and place it on Kid Flashes neck, he shrieks and starts to frantically try and remove the spider as I make it move around on him. I smirk and close my eye again.

/LINE\\

I wake up to Rose telling me to get ready. I stand up and see Aya looking at me with her hand out. "If you wouldn't mind?" She says happily. I wave my hand over her ring and her outfit changes from white and green to black and dark grey (only the outfit changed). "Thank you."

"No prob, Rose you stay here for now." She hops from my shoulder as Aya and I get ready to drop with Aqualad.

"Drop zone A in 30." Says Megan as Aya and I stand next to Aqualad who stands up and his chair melt into the ship, he then presses a button on his belt causing his red shirt thing to change black.

"Ready." He says in a serious tone.

"Putting bio ship in camouflage mode"

As we approach the island a hole opens in the floor of the ship and the three of us jump into the water, the lantern energy glowed around Aya and I allowing us to breath underwater. We glided through the water till we came across a large net which Aqualad sliced through with his swords. We swam towards the surface and onto the beach with it raining towards a missile launcher. Aqualad runs over to a black box while Aya and I float behind him, he kneels down and puts a cylinder like device on the box which causes a blinking light to stay on.

"Heat and motion sensors are patched." He said over the coms. "Data is now on a continuous loop. Move in."

We enter the forest and and run towards a cliff. On are way there I remember something I wanted to ask Aqualad. "So Aqualad, your from Atlantis right?" I say as we head towards a cliff. "Yes,why do you ask?"

"Well I noticed that your weapons are able to make things like our rings can and I was wondering if, maybe, I could visit next time you go, and possibly learn about it?" I say smiling with hope. "You wish to learn Atlantian sorcery?" He says a bit surprised.

"Yes, but I also want to know more about your magic, we can discus this later if you wish."

"Yes, for now we need to focus on the mission at hand."

We arrive at the base of the cliff, I make a rectangular platform to carry Aqualad. Aya and I start to fly up and bring Aqualad up with me.

Aqualad starts to talk to the ear piece, which I learned wasn't candy after eating it, "Head for the factory. I'll track you GPS and we'll rondezview ASAP."

I put Aqualad down and we start to head towards the rest of the team. "Superboy, Kid, switch to infrared. See if you're being tracked." He says over his com we make our way through the forest I stop for a moment spotting something nearby. "You guy's go on ahead I think I see something."

"Stay hidden." Aya says as she flies after Aqualad.

I float over to a large tree with a guy in a red and black outfit dangling upside down by a rope around his ankle. "You!" Th mane say's with anger. "Release me at once, the sublime master claimed your factory in combat, therefor you are no longer welcome here." I walk around the cloaked man looking over them looking for what I want. "You will release me this instant or I will kill you and bring your head to to the sublime master as a trophy, and I will be rewarded for having killed one of the pests of this island you-"

"Be silent" I plunge my hand into his chest and cover his mouth with my other hand to muffle the screams so I don't alarm anyone. I use my ring to keep him alive as I replace the damaged areas with artificial veins and other necessities. I then start to slowly pull out his heart. "Be honored." I say in a calm tone "Your death will be held out longer than any other mortal creature I have killed." The cultist tries to scream but it is muffled by my hand. Vein after vein starts to snap, making it easier to pull his heart out, he tries to scream louder but it is only muffled by my hand, not even Superboy would be able to hear him. Finally I rip the rest of his heart from his chest and hold the still beating heart in front of him. I take a large bite from the heart as the man tries to free himself but to no avail. Once I finish I can't help but grin. Human hearts were so tasty. I look at the cultist as he tries to remove my hand, but freezes up as I remove the constructs from his body that I used to prolong his life, he falls limp as the blood starts to flow out of his body. I release him and the body hangs upside down in the tree. I walk back towards the teams location. I stop and look down realizing I'm covered in blood, I clench my fist and all the blood floats into my mouth. "God I love a midnight snack."

/LINE\\

I arrive to see the team finish tying up more cultists and some others. I stand next to Aya. I look over at the team. "I recognize those uniforms. They belong to the cult of the Kobra." Said Robin as I try to think of a better name for the group, I mean come on, Kobra? The hell kinda name is that? Why not Viper Clan? That sounds better to me but what does the immortal 10,013 year old know? "I am certain Batman would have mentioned it If he knew a dangerous extremist Was running Santa Prisca's Venom operation."

"Agreed. And since there's clearly no love lost Between the cultists and those goons, I'm betting Kobra came in and tossed them out. That's why normal supply lines have been cut off."

"We get it. Kobra wanted super cultists. Mystery solved. Radio Bats, and we'll be home in time-" "These cultists aren't on Venom. Kobra's hoarding the stuff. We don't leave. Not until I know why." Said Robin cutting off KF

"Until you know why?" He says with annoyance. Robin responds equally annoyed "This team needs a leader."

"And it's you? Dude, you're a 13-year-old Kid Who ducked out on us without a word."

"Ha ha! And you're a mature 15? You blew our cover first chance you got."

Miss M turns toward Superboy "Don't you want to lead?" Superboy scoffs then looks at Megan "You?" "After the mister Twister fiasco?" She says in a seemingly sarcastic tone. "You did all right." He says causing Megan to turn her head and blush, she then looks up at me and Aya. "What about you two?" Aya raises her hands, "I'm only a part time member so that wouldn't work out." She then rubs the back of her head. I look at Megan, "I don't really see the point in leading. Also I don't think anyone on this team would agree my choices." I say as I sit and wait for KF and Robin to finish arguing.

"Yeah? You don't even have super powers!"

"Neither does Batman!"

"Duh, you're not Batman."

"Duh, closest thing we've got."

Before more can be said, laughter fills the area "Such clever ninos." says a man with a black and white mask over his face. "But you only know half the story. Let me show you the rest. Get you into the factory via my secret entrance." "There is a secret entrance." Says Megan as she kneels in front of the man. "But he's also hiding something." Her eyes start to glow white.

"Ah, ah, ah, chica." He say's smiling "Bane is not that easy." So his name is Bane, what the hell kind of a name is that? Miss M. groans in annoyance. "He's mentally reciting futbol scores en espanol. This could take a while."

"It's not complicated. The enemy of my enemy is my friend."

I look towards Aqualad and he nods, I make a blade construct and slice the ropes off, purposely almost hitting him. After being freed we follow Bane, he leads us towards a cliff. We all walk towards the edge and Robin pulls out binoculars to see the factory down below."Look at all that product." Says Robin, "A buy is going down. But if Kobra's not selling to the usual suspects, then-""We need to identify that buyer." Aqualad cuts him off.

"Just what I was thinking." Said KF trying to look all smug like.

I chuckle a bit at this, Aya looks at me confused, I lean in and whisper "Kid Flash, thinking." Aya started to chuckle with me.

"Yeah, you're the thinker." Says Robin in a mocking tone, "Sarcasm? Dude. A real leader would focus on getting answers."

*Whispers to Aya* "If I decide to kill anyone on the team, he's first."

Bane grunts and we all look at him move a large boulder out from in front of a concealed cave. "Answers are this way." He motions us forward and starts to walk down the cave. "So, now el luchador is our leader?" Asks KF in an annoyed tone. Robin walks forward and punches his shoulder as we all follow Bane down the cave. We reach a large metal door, Bane walks up to it and presses his finger on a scanner. After a few seconds the light turns from red to green and it unlocks. Robin and Bane look through.

"All clear." Says Robin and he runs inside. Before I could enter Aya grabs my shoulder holding me back, she pulls me away from everyone else. I raise and eyebrow, "Mark, I think you should stay and watch the exit." She said sounding nervous. "Why?" "Um, well, you might be able to fight someone if you stay."

"Yah fighting weak guards really sounds like-" "You can kill as many of them as you want." "The best idea ever!" The moment she said those beautiful words my ring started to pulse and the energy pulsed in anticipation. Aya followed after the team and I turned towards where we came from. Not long later I hear voices start to come closer, I smile as black energy spreads throughout the cave. Time for some fun.

/LINE\\

Three Kobra followers walked down the cave with their gun pointed forward with the lights on. Unknown to them the entrance the cave started to close up with shadows. "How did we miss this cave before?" Said one of the followers. "I know right? Frank what do you think?" No response came from Frank, both the other followers turn towards their friend who was standing there with a shocked expression. "Frank, you alright?" Before anything else could happen a large scaly hand ripped through Franks chest with his heart in hand, blood splattered allover the caves wall. The hand then pulled it self out of the chest and the two followers where shocked to see a large snake dragon hybrid that had 4 arms and seemed to be made of black light (dragon from last chapter). Two of its arms pin the followers to the wall and I walk towards the nearest one, a black scythe in my hand. I slowly drag the blade across the mans chest, he writhes in pain as I cover his mouth with a construct. Blood starts to flow out of his wound like, oh what's it called again? A river? Yah, let's go with that.

I slice through the man with precision, cutting through everything except for the heart. My pet grabbed the heart and held it with the other one, I turn towards the last follower and my pet growls at the struggling man. I look at my pet and I nod. Each of its arms grab a limb and start to pull it tears off his arms and then his legs, his body falls towards the ground but I slice it open and grab the heart, the other two are put in front of me as my pet disappears. I grin and start to munch on the hearts. I lick my lips as the blood flows from the still beating heart drips from my mouth as I bit piece by piece. I look at all the blood around the room, I raise my ring and all the blood flies towards me and then forms into a ball which I then proceed to drink it in one go. "I wonder what the others are up to." I turn back towards the way I came and start to walk.

As I walk I can't help but wonder why these guys went down a strange cave for no reason, is something burning? Before I can think on this further a warm feeling behind me draws my attention. As I turn I'm suddenly covered in fire and my blood starts to boil, my skin turns black as it burns.

No pov

The Kobra follower smirked as he put down the flame thrower, he had expected more of a challenge from the Black Lantern. He starts to head towards the entrance of the cave.

"With blood and rage of crimson red,

The goon turns around looking at where the voice had come from, the only other person here was burning in a pile on the floor so he looked around more, not noticing the fire spread across the cave floor.

Ripped from a corpse so freshly dead,

The goon turned towards the fire as it started to turn from a bright orange, to a dark blood red. the body of the Black Lantern started to rise, still covered in fire it stumbled a bit but managed to balance itself. Its eyes open and are pure red and a demonic grin spreads across its face.

Together with our hellish hate,

The goon launches more fire in an attempt to kill this thing, seeing the fire only burn brighter, he pulls out his gun and starts to shoot at what seemed to be a demon. It moved towards the goon as the fire started to condense onto the demon, making a black and red outfit start to appear.

We'll burn you all,

The fire dies down and reveals the Black Lantern fully healed, only his outfit had changed, it was the same only the color had changed. The arms and shoulder area were still black as well as bellow the knees, but the rest of it was blood red with a black line going down the center. One other key difference was a new symbol below the first one, it was a circle with a smaller circle inside it that was between to lines that go up two thirds of the circle then go at an angle and then up again. Almost like bull horns. His eyes open and his grin still present.

That is your fate!"

The Black and Red Lantern walks forward as fire burns from his eyes. "I really must say, it's been a long time since I've used more than one ring." He says as the red and black rings on his right hand start to glow. "So, I'm going to be fair, and give 5 seconds to make piece with what ever you believe in." "Y-y-you really think I'm afraid of-" Before he can finish a large war hammer smashes into his head and causing him to crash into the side of the wall. He grabs the goon by the neck and lifts him off the ground slightly choking him as blood pored down the side of his head. "I wasn't asking if you were afraid of me." A blade seemingly made of fire pierces through his heart and goes into the wall. "I wanted to be nice but now I see none of you will ever try and repent, so." He removes the blade and it disappears, the body falling to the ground, dead. "I'm gonna go see what the rest of you can offer for a fight." His body burst into flames as Mark walks back to where he was asked to stay.

Mark pov

Once I arrived I opened the door and saw the team running towards me from goons and a VERY buff dude who seemed to buff for his own good. I change the red to a black on my outfit, I launch myself at the guy and punch him away from the Suberboy who was keeping the behemoth at bay, I crash into him and launch him through a wall. I quickly grab Superboy and him into the cave and close the door behind me. "So, how did it go?" Everyone starts to run down the cave as Megan, Aya, and I fly behind them. Before they can answer there is a loud crash from behind us and bullets start to come from behind us as well.

"Superboy, the support beams!" Yells Aqualad. Superboy them punches the support beams causing the tunnel to cave in on itself. We keep running till it stops and it's pitch black till Aqualad cracks a red glow stick allowing us to see one another. Everyone is standing except for Robin who was sitting in front of the collapsed portion of the cave. "How could my first mission as leader go so wrong?" He said in a defeated kind of tone. "You do have the most experience." Said Aqualad, "Perhaps that is exactly what has left you unprepared. Fighting alongside Batman, your roles are defined. You two do not need to talk. But this team is new, and a leader must be clear, explicit. He cannot vanish and expect others To play parts in an unknown plan."

"Oh, so I'm supposed to hold everyone's hands!" Says Robin in annoyance before looking down. He than responds in a seemingly defeated tone. "Who am I kidding? You should lead us, Kaldur. You're the only one who can." "Please!" Says KF. "I can run circles-" "- wally, come on. You know he's the one. We all do."

"Hello, Megan!" She exclaims as if just realizing it. "It's so obvious."

"Could have told you." Replied Suberboy in a calm tone.

Aya nodded, "It was obvious from the start."

"Wait, was he not already the leader?" I ask with slight confusion.

Everybody turns to look at KF who then shrugged and put his hands on his hips. "Ok." He said with a smile.

"Then I accept the burden, " Says Aqualad as he walks toward Robin and puts a hand on his shoulder. "Until you are ready to lift it from my shoulders. You were born to lead this team. Maybe not now, but soon." Robin nods with a smile. Alright good to know my present will still be delivered to the right person, I think.

"All right." Says Aqualad "Our first priority is Preventing that shipment from leaving this island." "Funny." Says Robin with a smirk. "I had the same thought." We all started to move down the cave towards the exit, I turn towards the team. "So what did you guys find out anyway?" Aya looks up at me "We discovered that the villain Sportsmaster supplied Kobra with a combination of Venom and another formula called blockbuster. This formula makes whoever takes it superstrong, 3 times stronger than just Venom by itself."

Robin decided to pitch in. "So Sportsmaster is the supplier/buyer. But it still doesn't track. He doesn't have the juice to acquire the blockbuster formula Or to get Kobra to do his dirty work." KF also decided to add on "And neither of them have the chops to bond blockbuster with Venom. That took some major nerdage."

"I believe the expression is tip of the iceberg."Said Aqualad as we come to a stop. Bane walks in front of the cave entrance dropping a venom injector to the ground, one of many. "Halt, ninos." He said smirking. "I'm feeling explosive." A loud beeping from above us catches the groups attention, we all look up and see the roof of the cave covered in explosives. "You betrayed us. Why?" Questioned Aqualad. "Duh." I respond. "Cause he's the bad guy. Did any of you actually expect this not to happen?" Everyone decided that the cave walls were very interesting all of a sudden while looking embarrassed. "Just forget I said anything."

"If your done, it's because I want my factory back." Replied Bane in a smug tone. "So I forced you into a situation Where you would either take down my enemies or die trying." I tried to hold in my laughs at this, him, killing me? It took everything I had not to burst out laughing. "If the latter, the Justice League would certainly have come To avenge their sidekicks. And when the smoke cleared, Santa prisca would be mine once more. Blowing the tunnel with you inside," He raise the detonator up, a blur zooms by me towards Bane. "should have the same effect." He brings his thumb down on air as KF stand behind him with the detonator in hand. "With what? This trigger thingy?"

Bane goes to punch KF but a a black chain wraps around Bane and holds him suspended in the air. Bane looks around confused before spotting me with the chain in hand, Aya quickly flies over with a war hammer and hits bane high into the air. "Hey Superboy, you're up." Superboy grins and stands bellow where Bane will land. Once the falling villain gets close enough, Superboy knocks him out cold with a single punch. We then secure him and start to plan what are next move will be. I clench the area over my heart in slight pain, it soon fades, but we need to wrap this up soon.

/LINE\\

As soon as we arrived back at the factory the plan went into action, the others went to do there part while Aya and I take out the Kobra followers moving the Kobra Venom. As the the followers are about to move the last crate a green blade slices through it, causing the injectors to fly all over the place. "So can I ask you a question?" Asks Aya as she pushes the followers together with a construct.

"You just did." I state while destroying the Kobra Venom.

"No I mean can I ask you 2 questions?."

"That's your second question."

"Can I ask you a question after another question." She starts to say with annoyance.

"Why do you keep answering your own questions?"

"JUST LET ME ASK YOU A QUESTION!" She yells in anger.

"Ok fine what?" I turn towards her.

What's with the new symbol on your outfit?" She asks looking away from the followers. Unknown to us the soldiers were pushed together with multiple injectors of Kobra Venom beneath them. As I tried to explain that the symbol was just a thing I was trying, one of the followers silently got the other followers to notice the Kobra Venom. Each of them picked one up and nodded. The 9 followers each inject themselves with the chemical enhancer, Each one growing triple in size and parts of their skin ripping to reveal muscle. Aya and I look over as her construct shatters, the 9 new overly ripped followers charged at us.

Aya was about to fight but looks up slightly before saying the team needs her and flies away. Did she just leave me to fight 9 supercharged henchmen? I sigh, of course she did. I turn towards the group. "Alright so who's up for a round of-" *WHAM* One of the brutes, I'm calling them brutes now, punches me through a wall of the factory and crashing into a large metal machine. "Well, that hurt." I wheeze as my lung heals itself. I try to stand but another one of the brutes punches me through the machine. "Ok, you guys are really starting to get on my-" *WHAM* "If you would just-" *WHAM* "Ok now I'm starting to-" *WHAM* And there go my vocal chords. As they keep hitting me I close my eyes as I feel the familiar presence of him, The Butcher. Everything around me turns black, I look up and see the demonic red bull standing in front of me, the area behind it turning red. "If you wanted to talk all you had to do was ask." I say as I look around my mind start to turn from black to red.

The Butcher snorts a response. "Yah I guess I have gotten sloppy over time." *Snort* "Now there is no need for that." *SNORT* My eyes narrow at the demonic bull, "You want proof? I'll give you proof." I can almost see a smile on the bulls face as he charges at me, I open my arms as he turns into a beam of red light. My mindscape turning all red except for a small black portion.

No pov

Marks eyes shoot open and a wave of red fire that causes the brutes to fly away from him. he pulls himself from the crater and his outfit turns red again. Red glowing armor appears around him and he now had glowing demonic bull horns on his head similar to the Red Lantern symbol. A fist of a brute hits him across the face and a shock wave pushes back most of the machines around them. The brutes eyes widen as he sees Mark hadn't moved. Marks head slowly turns towards the brute, his eyes burning with literal fire and a sadistic grin on his face.

The brute tries to punch Mark again but to all the brutes surprise, Mark caught it with ease. He twists the arm and a sickening crack causes the others to flinch and step back in fear. Before he even has time to scream in pain, Mark rips the heart from the brutes chest and the body bursts into flames, and then turns to ashes. He cracks his knuckles before looking back at the others, then asked in the most horrifying demonic voice that shook the brutes to their core, "Who's next?"

5 minutes of ungodly bloodshed later

"By the scythe, these hearts tasted horrible." Mark set the hearts of the brutes on fire, all the chemicals made them taste horrible to him. "Now, here comes the worst part." Mark grabs the Red Lantern ring and sigh. "I hate this." He pull the ring off falls to the ground as his blood and heart are now missing, the Black ring regenerating them as fast as it can. The red ring floats from Marks hands and disappears in a black light back to Marks pocket dimension. Mark keeps himself from screaming as not to alarm the team. "I doubt the cuts and bruises will heal in time." "Ring power at 0.9% Switching to power save mode." Says the female voice of the ring. "Ugh." He groans as his heart grows back fully, "The lack of all my blood will be a problem." His Lantern outfit disappears and is replaced with his civilian outfit.

He stands up a bit wobbly, and walks out of the burring factory towards the team, when he arrived Mark spots Robin talking to Aqualad. "We picked the right guy to lead." Says Robin in a seemingly happy tone "Automatically making you the right guy to explain this mess to Batman." He laughs before noticing Mark limping and clutching his left arm and mostly covered in blood. Robin stares in shock, the others soon noticing Mark as well. "Hey guys, and galls. mind giving my a hand?" Asks Mark with a smile before he coughs and blood flows from his mouth before he falls to the ground and passes out, the team rushes towards him.

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Mount Justice

"A simple recon mission, observe and report." States Batman in a very angry tone to the team who were lined up in a line as Batman was chewing them out, minus Mark who was still recovering from last nights events. "You'll each receive a written evaluation detailing your many mistakes. Until then, Good job for the most part." He said in a slightly approving tone. Shocking the team. "No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy. How you adjust to the unforeseen is what determines success. And how you choose who leads determines character." The team smiles and look at each other. "However, you should all aware of one mistake that I will not tolerate again." He said getting even more serious. "You are a team, that means you work together, you don't just leave someone to go at it alone.

Medical wing/room

Mark lay in a medical bed wrapped in bandages and slowly recovering, Rose had curled up on his chest and was sleeping. Carol had spent most of her time watching Mark, she had just finished rigging the heart monitor to read a regular heart beat, she pat Mark on the head and gave a sad smile before leaving the room. Unknown to all, Marks Black ring was blinking. "Warning," A female voice said from the ring. "Ring power level has now reached 0.5%. Emergency Protocol 01 activated, please standby, please standby, please standby, please- response detected arrival in 19 hours 37 minutes and 23 seconds."