So…no, I Haven't been busy. I've just been…distracted.
You know, my brothers had a Christmas Concert and I went there, then I was busy assembling my youngest brother's Lego Halo.
Let me tell you, that was hell to put together, because, for the life of me, I couldn't figure out what I was doing wrong but it's together now. And then I was writing this, when I got obsessed with video games again, and then I was actually just being lazy after that and reading. But then I was thinking about the reviewers who are against my original plot, so I was away and rethinking everything.
What can I say, I'm a people pleaser! But other then that…
Wolf has ADD when it comes to things.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything…
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Johnny heard Vic curse, anger and confusion coursing through her as they ran away from the psycho trying to kill them.
"Who is that guy again?" Vic's breathless voice asked, a dazed and 'this can't be happening' tone added in, making Johnny groan when she almost tripped at hearing him. "Crazy guy, said Green Lanterns, must die, can't live…and something about rings," she wheezed, a scream being ripped from her throat not long after as they threw themselves to the side as an explosion of earth and yellow met, caking them in even more dirt.
"Piece of bloomy roses! What is wrong with you?" Johnny screamed up at the strange man before running towards him and ducking his round house kick in the air. "What is the Green Lanterns? Who is John Stewart and Hal Jordon? I don't know what you're talking about!"
She squealed as he grabbed at her arm, jerking her up into the air and holding her up so that they could be face-to-face.
"Johnny! You psycho, what is wrong with you?" she heard Vic yell before shrieking when he gave a suddenly jerk on her arm, felt her wrist breaking from his brutal grip.
She faintly saw the malicious, masochistic smirk on his face as tears flowed form her eyes.
"Let Johnny go, you fucker!" Vic growled, feeling fear, anger and the willpower to help Johnny swell inside him, forcing him into action as he hurled a decent sized rock in his direction. He watched in slight satisfaction as it hit the stranger's arm with a loud thump! and watched as he gave a sudden shout of surprise and pain and let go of Johnny's arm.
"Thanks for catching me, bro!" Vic heard Johnny's snarl before they noticed the spandex-covered villain turn to them with a dark look on his face before his eyes weren't on them, but something behind them.
"Johnny."
Johnny jerked, eyes snapping towards the zooming green blurs coming towards them, shock flowing through her when she realized she recognized the voice.
Grimacing even as she felt the hope well up, she reached out towards the closing-in green blurs, only to gasp in shock and pain as she felt something hit her in the back, sending her crashing forwards in front of Vic and into a tree.
"Sweet Mother Mary!" she whimpered, eyes squeezed shut as she cradled her broken wrist to her chest. "Oh, Coca-Cola, what is wrong with this world?" she hissed, jerking back when she realized something was in her hand.
Opening her palm and briefly hearing the stranger give out a strangled shout, she gazed down at the ring in her palm.
"Put me on, Johnny. Accept me…"
Her eyes snapped up when she suddenly heard Vic give out a cry, seeing as the man in the yellow spandex had morphed a giant yellow hammer and smacked Vic, hurling him into the trees.
"I can help you,"
She clenched the ring in her palm, running towards Vic as he moaned in pain. "Vic," she whispered, reaching out to grab onto his hand when she felt the weight of the ring in her hand, saw the glow.
She watched as the second green glow flew to them, heading straight for Vic and then falling on his chest. She watched Vic as he let out a gasp, hand automatically coming up to grasp onto the ring.
"We can help you, our Twins…"
Johnny watched Vic wince as the voices melded, the male and female voices mixing together to talk to them.
"Accept us,"
They heard, eyes locking in as the voices faded away.
"We have to," Johnny whispered, eyes glancing behind her as they both heard the red skinned man roaring and shouting, looking for them both.
"No, we don't have to. We can wait for the actual superheroes to take care of him!" Vic hissed back, staggering to his feet, hand still holding the ring. Johnny glared at him, looking down at this hand, seeing the unwillingness to let that ring go even as they words left his mouth.
"And what if they don't get here in time? What if he kills us because they're to late?" she narrowed her eyes as they moved, trying to be as silent as possible. "And what if these rings are working for him?" Vic growled back, wrapping his arm around Johnny and helping her over a fallen tree, care of her arm.
She muffled a sob in Vic arm as the reopened wound on her arm ripped even move. Whimpering as Vic kept her on her feet as they heard the villain get closer to them by the second.
"And what gave you that idea?" Johnny hissed, opening her palm and showing him the green and black green with a lantern as a crest. "From what I saw, his colours were yellow and black, the crest is even different!"
She saw the doubt flash across his face as he gazed at his own ring, a frown tugging at his lips.
"You can sit here and wait for the heroes! I'm not going to just give up, I have more will power then this," she hissed, stumbling to her feet before turning to look back at Vic. "And I know you do too." she said, taking the blood stained ring and jogging towards the villain, ignoring Vic as he tried convincing her to stay.
She took a deep breath, coming to a stop as indecision hit her, the need to go back and stay with her little brother, reassure him that everything would be alright even if she didn't think so, filling her- warring with the will to protect him and stop this guy from killing him.
"Help me protect him." Johnny whispered, slipping on the ring, tears filling her eyes at the reminder of her broken wrist and bleeding arm.
She took a deep breath, suddenly feeling filled with energy and such a strong sense of will to defeat this guy, she felt it as the ring fitted itself to her finger, she could feel alien power coursing through her veins and a new sense of purpose and will filling her as her clothes changed, a black mask fitting itself on the upper part of her face.
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Miss Martian let out a gasp, the force behind the blow sending her careening towards the ground. Superboy and Kid Flash let out shouts, she felt something catch her before she could meet the earth, listened to Kid Flash chuckle, knew some line was coming.
"You're lucky I'm the fastest, gorgeous, or else you'd be kissing the dirt!"
"Move!" Kid Flash's head jerked up, seeing the giant fist coming towards them and zipping away, seeing a green fist come out from behind Sinestro and making him feel giddy when he realized that it was a Green lantern and-
He felt awe and shock fill him when he realized it wasn't G.L-1 or G.L-2 that was there but a different, very feminine looking Green Lantern.
Miss Martian slipped out of Kid Flash's arms, waving away concerned shouts. "I'm fine!"
They watched as Sinestro cursed, turning furious eyes towards the new Green Lantern. "Accursed girl! Why can't you be like your weak brother?" he growled, creating a shield as arrows continued to fly at him, intend on striking him.
"Why does everyone assume I'm weak?" Kid Flash heard the grumble com from the tree lines behind the female Green Lantern as Sinestro growled again, frustration and anger on his face.
Kid Flash zoomed over to the duo as Sinestro kept up a shield, all attacks being repelled no matter how much force or how many attacks there were. "Who are you two?" he asked, glancing at Sinestro now and again as the rest of the league tried to bring him down.
"Honestly? I have no clue, but I'm guessing a Green Lantern." the girl shrugged, wincing and holding one of her arms to her chest protectively. "Better question, what happened to you?" he stared wide eyed, listened to the girl give directions to the guy, telling him on how to actually use the ring.
"Honestly, you'd think he didn't already tell you this!" she made a frustrated sound, looking back to Kid Flash. "That guy up there broke my wrist," she said, answering his question. "Can you use the rings?" doubt was starting to fill Kid Flash at their ability.
"I'd be able to do a lot more if this arm-" she gestured to her arm that he just noticed was bleeding-the sleeve darker then the rest of her outfit- the one he remembered her saying was broken. "wasn't broken, but it is so…yeah, we'll have to make do with what I have." she shrugged.
"Pussycat over here would be able to help you more then I can though, so you can take him." she added, head gesturing to the guy standing beside her, ignoring the glare sent her way from him. "Yeah, and we should probably move to,"
Kid Flash watched as they broke off, going in different directions before looking behind him and following after the guy when Sinestro made swords in the air and sent them after them.
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Hal was still in shock, Flash's words still ringing in his ears.
I think you might have kids…they live in Central.
He pushed aside the shock when he noticed yellow and green clashing together, an angry female voice shouting and then the sounds of the Team as they tried fighting off Sinestro.
"Long time, hey Sinestro?" Hal grinned, watching as rage and reluctance flash across his face when he and John came into view. Hal's eyes narrowed as Sinestro cursed, turning away from him to glare at the two newest Green Lanterns, "I'll come back, weaklings." he hissed, flying away before anyone could stop him.
He turned towards the newest Green Lanterns, about to greet them when he noticed John was over by them already, the male cradling the female as John talked to them, obviously checking the girl over.
And that was when he noticed the blood, splashes of darkened black and green here and there, noticed that the girl had fainted. From blood loss or trauma, he wasn't quite sure.
He frowned in concern, seeing Flash and Kid Flash running back and forth, vocally freaking out as they circled them. "I shouldn't have left you! I could have stayed! Oh, God, Johnny could be dying!" Kid Flash yelled, Hal's concern skyrocketing.
"Johnny?"
As he got closer to them, he noticed they had deactivated their costumes, either by will or accident, he wasn't sure. But when he looked into the boy's face, he couldn't help it when he froze up, staring into the face that almost looked exactly like him when he was younger, his eyes automatically went to the girl he was cradling, seeing the resemblance.
And now that he was closer, he realized he was mistaken when he thought she had fainted, she was merely limp in her brothers hold, muttering "Kill me," over and over again like a mantra as John gingerly grabbed her arm, inspecting it.
"You have a broken wrist," John frowned, noticing out of the corner of his eye as Hal fainted, the shock of seeing these two that resembled him too much for him.
"Obviously!" the girl growled, glaring at him now before turning her glare on the speedsters. "Can you tell those two to stop before I make them stop?" she asked, gesturing to the blurs and flexing her other hand, the ring glinting.
"Flash, you two need to stop pacing." he barked, eyes on her broken wrist and the slightly odd angle it was at. "You tried putting it back into place?" he asked, eyes looking into hers. "Tried being the key word there." was all he got in response as Flash and Kid Flash stopped, Kid Flash stopping behind Vic and peering around him as John positioned his hand over her wrist, "On three…"
He snapped it back into place, grimacing when she shrieked. "Three."
"Sweet Mother of Cola-ing Coke!" she hissed, ignoring Vic as she pushed him away, cradling her arm to her chest again. "Here I was thinking you'd curse G.L-2 to the depths of hell." Johnny heard a familiar voice, glancing over her shoulder at Kid Flash.
"I kinda knew she wouldn't," Flash shrugged.
Vic was staring blankly at them both, Johnny going back to ignoring them to look at the dark skinned man in front of her. "So what's a girl gotta do to get better medical attention here?" she inquired, smile tugging at her lips tiredly as she heard skin hitting skin behind her, signalling her that Vic had face-palmed.
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Johnny sat on the League's hospital bed, ignoring Wally as he hugged her from behind, his face buried in his hair and gibberish reaching her now and again as she listened to the doctor list off what kind of wounds she had.
"…a concussion, broken wrist and stitches is the most serious wounds you have." he said, glasses on the edge of his nose before he pushed them up.
"Johnny!" she winced, felt Wally tighten his arms around her waist briefly as they heard Johanna's disappointed and relieved voice. "We were heading home!" she said, interrupting her mother before she could start ranting. "That's all we were doing. Walking home and then that guy came out of no where! Literally!" she added, the need to flail making her twitchy.
"I swear, we would have told you if we had these things before!" she said, looking into her mothers doubting look as she held up her hand, holding the ring between her index finger and thumb.
"Holy writings, woman. You're scarier then Batman!" Johnny added, hearing Wally's muffled laugh as he glanced at the brooding bat in the corner of the room. "Do you know how scary you have to be to be scarier then Batman? He's Batman, for the love of Coke!" she flailed her one good arm.
Johanna closed her eyes, a hand coming up to try muffle her giggles at how silly Johnny looked with Wally attached to her.
"What am I going to do with you?" she chuckled, shaking her head.
"Love me, feed me and buy me whatever I want." Johnny said. "Speaking of what I want," she frowned, hand curling around Wally's and trying to pry one of his arms off of her. "Can someone help me get this leech off? He's getting a little annoying."
"Noooooo," he moaned, arms tightening around her even as Vic came over to try get his arms unwrapped from her waist.
"This is your twins?" they paused, Johnny stopped tugging on one of his hands and Vic stopped trying to pry Wally away from Johnny. "His twins?" they both echoed, Vic giving Wally a curious look as Johnny gazed at the younger boy in front of them.
"Robin, right? Batman's little Boy Wonder." she said, eyebrow quirking up as he grinned. "Johnny Mulwain, right? Wally's best girlfriend." he grinned.
"Oh, finally! Someone with a brain!" Johnny laughed, hearing Vic mumble to himself and Wally huff as she shrugged her shoulder, feeling his head loll to the side. "I suppose you're this idiots hero friend?" she tilted her head.
"What's the difference between a girlfriend and a girlfriend?" Johnny heard as Wally detached from her, turning to look at Vic in confusion, she guessed.
Vic gave Wally an amused look as Robin and Johnny talked to each other, the rest of the people in the background either looking surprised, shocked, bored or in Batman's case, just plain brooding. But in the fainted Green Lantern's case…
Vic gave him a single glance, he still appeared to be in shock.
"I asked a question, Roni…" Vic turned to give Wally an exasperated look. "You've known us for a while, shouldn't you have gotten the difference between a girlfriend and a girlfriend?" he asked, only to see Wally still had a blank look on his face.
"Wow, Flashboy. Here I thought you actually couldn't sink any lower in the brain department." Vic turned to the blonde haired girl that spoke, frowning at the sarcasm in her tone.
Seeing Wally open his mouth, an angered look on his face, Vic waved his hand, cutting Wally off. "Ignoring the apparent bitch-girl, the difference between the two is that a girlfriend is someone you're romantically involved with, while the girlfriend is a girl you're only friends with, no romantic feelings involved." he said, giving the surprised blonde a slight glare over Wally's head.
"Hey!" Vic turned amused eyes when he heard Johnny's sudden, angry, outburst she reached over and tugged on Johanna's wrist in an attempt to get her attention, a pout on her face. "If this place is such a damn secret, then this means you were keeping secrets from us." Johnny scowled, making Johanna look sheepish and Batman watched in interest as she appeared to prepare herself for something.
"I was trying to protect you for the time being, I was only hired a few days ago. I had been planning on telling you tonight." Johanna said, staring down at her scowling child, eyes flickering to Vic and Wally as they inched away from Johnny.
"Protect us? Protect us?" Johanna winced at how loud Johnny got, said child's eyes wide as she stared in disbelief and incredibility. "Have you not seen me?" she snarled, a furious glare on her face.
A deadpan look crossed Johanna's face as she raised an eyebrow at Johnny, ignoring everyone else in the room as she had a stare down with her daughter, making a hushing motion to shut Wally and Vic up.
"Are you really going to blame the Sinestro incidents on me?" she questioned, watching as Johnny rolled her eyes in exasperation. "Course that, I know for a fact that you'd rather die for us instead of leaving us to the cruel, cruel world." Johnny said, a tone that clearly said 'Are you oblivious?' in her tone.
"No, I'm blaming what yellow guy did on them," she waved her hand towards the two stunned Green Lantern across from her.
"Excuse me, Miss Mulwain, but we need to talk to you-"
"Johanna,"
"Johnny."
Already knowing that Hal and John had waited enough and wanted to talk to them about the rings, Batman and Black Canary ushered the Team out of the room against their will.
Giving an exasperated look to Wally when he vocalized his complaints loudly, Black Canary was about to reprehend him when Johnny spoke up, interrupting Johanna when she was about to speak.
"Wals, I seriously doubt you want to sit here, be patient and obedient while these Lanterns want to talk, right?"
"But I-"
"Go."
Wally's eyes pleaded with Johnny's obvious dismissal. Only feeling slightly better when Vic offered to tell him what would happen to them later, in a shorter version then they were going to get, of course.
Johanna turned slightly annoyed eyes down to Johnny, only to see Johnny paying attention to John.
Letting out a sigh, she gave an apologetic look to John as Vic moved to settle down comfortably next to Johnny. "Johnny baby, I think John was talking to me." she said, watching as Johnny gave a sigh much like Jonathan's before turning eyes up to her. "Yes, I realize you think that. But the truth of the matter was that he was talking to me." she said simply, thinking that was all she needed to say before thinking better of it at seeing the look on her mother's face.
"Didn't you see him?" she asked, a curious tone to her voice.
All she got in response was a sigh from Vic, the mumble of "And here we go again…", and a blank look from Johanna.
"He was speaking to me, when he said 'Miss Mulwain' his eyes flickered briefly, might I add, to you and he gave you a polite nod when he saw you looking at him in a questioning manner. Then he turned his gaze back to me," she said thoughtfully, ignoring Johanna's "You're just like Jon," comment before turning back to the two Green Lanterns.
"Hi," she waved half heartedly, seeing out of the corner of her eye as her mother shifted a little, her eyes reflecting discomfort.
Johnny frowned thoughtfully, turning to give Vic a look, silently asking him if he saw what she just saw.
When she got the slightest nod in response from her twin, her frown grew as concern spiked for their mother before she roughly pushed it away when John cleared his throat and started to talk to them.
"As I was saying, we need to talk about the rings and what comes along with accepting them. But we cannot stay for to long, the Guardians are more then likely expecting us, as they can sense when new Green Lanterns are born." he said, bowing his head slightly at Johanna's distressed look.
"What about these Guardians?" Johnny said, pretending not to notice Vic's gentle nudge. "They're the people that run the Green Lantern Corps. Kind of like the bosses, and nothing happens without their knowledge, but the two rings you two possess weren't sent by them. So they are waiting for us, and are probably getting impatient." John said, Hal unnaturally quiet.
"But the rings chose you two for a reason that we do not know yet, and obviously seem reluctant to leave after finally uniting with you. And now that they are in your hands…" Johnny watched as John turned towards Johanna.
"Now that they are in your children's hands, this means that they accept the mantle of Green Lantern and everything that comes with it, because they called out to the ring, as much as the rings called to them."
Vic's eyes had gotten wide at John's words. "Wait, you mean by putting on the ring, we accepted being…whatever, you are?" he asked in astonishment.
Hal frowned, furrowing his brows at Vic. "Whether or not you realize this, you unconsciously called out to the ring when you were in trouble and it came."
"Which means you accept everything that comes with the rings," John added.
Johnny stared down at the ring in her grasp, barely listening to them talk as she gazed at the thing that had helped save her and Vic's life.
"Thank you…" she thought, directing it to the ring as though it were alive. "You are welcome, Johnny." a fond voice answered her, the tone sounding motherly and causing her to smile faintly. "Can the other Green Lanterns talk to their rings?" she questioned, not realizing the ring had heard her.
"I do not believe so, but then again, I may be underestimating our brethren."
Johnny's eyes flickered to Hal and John thoughtfully at the female's words. "Do you have a name? I'm getting a little tired calling you different versions of she."
"No, I do not…I am used to be referred to as Ring."
Johnny frowned, unresponsive to everyone's eyes on her as she looked down at her ring. "That has to be remedied…"
She was snapped out of her conversation by Hal calling her name, eyes coming up to meet his. "Sorry, lost in my thoughts…" she shrugged sheepishly.
Johanna and Vic both let out a sigh at her answer.
"I said we need to leave for Oa before the Guardians start getting too impatient." Hal's lips twitched in humour.
"Right…I knew there was a reason why Mama suddenly looked so distraught," Johnny said dryly, smiling when Hal chuckled. "And I'm going to take a guess and say Oa is the planet for the Green Lantern Corps, yes?" she asked, head tilting to the side as the knowledge that she had a broken wrist and a concussion hit her.
"That is correct," John said.
"And we have to leave Earth," Vic sighed, gazing down at his ring before Johnny had her open palm in his vision, her ring lying innocently in the center. "What?" he asked, a brow raised in question. "Well, seeing as my other hand is immobile, I thought you'd put it on me." she said simply, a bored look in her eyes.
Vic gave Johnny an amused smile in response, taking her ring and sliding it on the finger that it fit.
They watched as a smooth transformation started once the ring was on Johnny, the default uniform taking shape in place of her other clothes.
Vic muttered to himself, mentally rolling his eyes at Johnny before he focused, willing the uniform to replace his own clothes. "That's a relief, already gotten used to your rings." Hal grinned brightly, feeling his uneasiness fade away for the time being.
"We must leave soon, if not now. The Guardians will be angry if we linger any longer." John said, a frown on his face.
"Right…the Guardians sound like such nice guys," Johnny said dryly, Hal giving her grin.
"You know…you're going to have to tell Wally what he wants to know after we leave," Vic said slowly. Making Johnny and Johanna wince.
"He's not going to be happy to know you left so soon…"
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4205 words, not counting the Author's Notes.
But as I was saying up there about rethinking the plot…
After the reviews I was getting at the hints for possible Wally/Vic and the people against it, it got me thinking about what I was doing and the original plot I had.
And then I got inspiration from other Young Justice stories, and I started rethinking the plot, so instead of using the original plot for this story, I've decided to use a more realistic, not-as-happy-go-lucky vibe for this story. So for future reference, if you want to leave after you see what I'm doing in the future chapters I post, then I won't judge.
The reviewers that were against gay pairings opened my eyes, so to speak, and now there's going to be actual action-psychical, mental and emotional- instead of the care-free thing the first chapters have going on. And the plot has been rewritten, which is why it took me so long.
Before I forget…
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