TRTSS11: Legacy of a Hero! – By DS Wynne
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Note: This is a multi-genre story.
Part 7: "Rainbow Lanterns and the Fiancées They Come With!" (III)
Meanwhile, on Ysmult…
Alpha Lantern Boodikka has always been proud of herself, first as a powerful warrior woman from her home planet of Bellatrix, then as a Green Lantern recruit, and now one of the elite Alpha Lanterns. As such, it was her duty to police the Green Lantern Corps itself, as well as threats that are too big for an individual Green Lantern to handle. Thus, Boodikka was someone that was not easily trifled with.
There were, of course exceptions.
WHAM!
Boodikka was slammed into the ground hard, as a giant, red mallet pounded her into the ground relentless.
"YOU people took my husband away," Red Lantern Akane Saotome said, as she fueled her power. "I-"
WHAM!
"AM-"
WHAM!
"SICK-"
WHAM!
"OF-"
WHAM!
"YOU!!!!"
WHAM!
Boodikka was hurting to the point that not even her Green Lantern Power Battery, which was built into her, could compensate.
"Great Maker!" said the lead Green Lantern. "How could one human have so much power?"
Akane then turns her burning gaze towards the Green Lanterns.
"Oh!" the Green Lanterns said, as they stepped back in fear.
"It seems that it would be wise to return to Oa, Green Lantern," Sailor Mars said, as she prepared to unleash the equivalent of a fiery holocaust…as evident by her fiery corona.
"Run!" said the lead Green Lantern, as they take off into the skies.
"And take this floozy with you!" Akane yelled before she punts Boodikka into the outer space.
BOOT!
"Bravo!" Atrocitus proclaimed, as he clapped his hands. "I have indeed made a good choice in picking the my own 'Red Lantern Prime' to destroy the Guardians! And then, together, we shall be the masters of the Universe!"
Sailor Mars and Red Lantern Akane both turn to look at each other, before turning their gaze to look at Atrocitus.
"What do you mean 'we', Atrocitus?" Sailor Mars said with a smirk.
"Wha-?"
Akane opens her mouth, and spews Red Lantern blood at Atrocitus.
BLOOSH!
There was so much blood that was being spewed that Atrocitus was covered in it.
DRIP! DRIP! DRIP…
"You will pay…for…that…?" Atrocitus said, as he realized that the blood was crystallizing all over his body. Within moments, Atrocitus could not move.
"You won't be able to move," Akane said with a smirk.
"What?" Atrocitus said. "How-?"
"How am I lucid? Simple. I have LONG since learned to master my anger, so that it can work FOR me. You're just angry but focus, while the other Red Lanterns have yet to master their own rage."
"And rage is something within my own domain, as the 'senshi' of WAR," Sailor Mars said.
"But…to do this…?" Atrocitus said.
"Oh, sorry, where are my manners?" Akane said. "I am Akane Saotome, a TIME LORD…though you can call me 'The Mistress'."
"What?" Atrocitus said. "There aren't any Time Lords around!"
"Mostly true," Akane said. "You see, most of the Time Lords DID perish in the last, great 'Temporal War', when we fought against the Daleks. Then again, they USED to say that the Kryptonians were killed off, too. THAT was a wrong assumption as well."
"I…cannot understand why I can't move!" Atrocitus said, as he struggled to free himself from the risen created by Akane's spewed blood.
"Funny about the Light Power," Akane said. "True, you need a key element to successfully harness that power, particularly if you gravitate towards one light source or another. And being fueled with rage IS the easiest Light Power to be caught up in, as you well know, when you seduced Hal Jordan…"
Pause.
"But there is one thing that you did not factor into the equation, Atrocitus."
"And that is…?"
"Rage, like any other emotion, is a tool to be harnessed. So, that, coupled with my mental capacity as a Time Lord, I've surpassed even YOU…as the Keeper of the Red Light."
"You…you won't get away with it!" Atrocitus rages. "I will add your blood to the Red Power Battery!"
"Perhaps, but NOT today. BLURGH!
Akane spews more blood on Atrocitus, which encases him completely in a crystallized resin.
"Wow, you're scary," Sailor Mars said, as she examined the red crystal. She then turns her attention back towards Akane. "Did you…?"
"No," Akane said. "The blood is merely 'distilled' light, which have similar properties of the energy that the Green Lantern power rings can shape. I simply directed the liquid into something that can contain Atrocitus. For how long, I do not know-"
"Rage," said the other Red Lanterns, as they wondered what to do next, since Atrocitus contained.
"It appears that we have a job to do," Akane said.
"Yeah, we can't simply let Atrocitus use these people as mere pawns for his mad schemes," Sailor Mars said. "Perhaps, we can teach them to use their anger constructively?"
"It will be a challenge, that's for sure," Akane said. "But as soon as possible, I'll have to have words with that husband of mine."
"You're not going to kill him, are you?"
"Nah," Akane said. "I'm beyond that. Huh. To think I am finally secured with myself enough to NOT simply go off the handle like that-"
"RAGE!" said a Red Lantern, as he pushes Akane down. He was obviously trying to challenge her as the Alpha of the corps.
"Then again, anger can be something to embrace," Akane said, as she gets up. She then faces the offender, and imagines him as her husband, after making some off-hand remark…
"RANMA, YOU JERK!"
WHAM!
"Huh," Sailor Mars said, as the offending Red Lantern sailed high into the stratosphere. "Good form."
"Thank you."
Meanwhile, on Oa…
"Sister, you have to calm down!" Green Lantern Corpsman Tatewaki Kuno said, as he and Sailor Jupiter dodged the attack by Sinestro Corps Agent Kodachi Kuno.
FWOOSH!
"Gah!" Sailor Jupiter said, as Kodachi produces a hailstorm of yellow roses, roses that had sharp thorns.
"Yowtch!" Kuno said, as he used an apparition of a samurai warrior to deflect the attack. "Enough of this! Watermelon Whirlwind!"
Using a technique he once used against his rival Ranma Saotome, Kuno, through his avatar, creates a powerful whirlwind that not only deflects Kodachi's attack, but also sends the attack back towards her fellow Sinestro Corps Agents.
"Ah-!" one of them yelled, as a rose of Kodachi's making impales him.
"Nice, dear brother, but you will have to do better than that," Kodachi said. "There is very little that can overcome the fear that I am able to generate."
"Which is why I'm here to help," Sailor Jupiter said. She turns towards Kuno.
"You ready?"
"As always."
"Now," Sailor Jupiter said, as she linked her power to Kuno.
"Green Jupiter Thunder STRIKE!" Sailor Jupiter said, as Kuno brought down his avatar to strike Kodachi at the same time.
BA-THOOM!
Kodachi tried to create a barrier at the last minute, but was cut down by both the physical attack and the lightning.
KRRRIIISSSSSH!
"Noooooooooo-!" Kodachi yelled, as she fell down to the Earth.
"I have you," said Green Lantern Kyle Rayner, as he scoops up the now unconscious girl. Thanks to Kodachi's defeat, the remaining Sinestro Corpsmen were fleeing Oa, or were getting captured during the mop-up operations.
"Pretty good, you two," said Green Lantern Guy Gardener, as he flew up to the pair. "You might make the cut after all."
"There shouldn't be any doubt that I, the Emerald Warrior of Sector 2814, am worthy of the mantle of the title of 'Green Lantern'," Kuno said proudly. "The Guardians of the Universe were wise to choose me as their servant."
"And I thought I had an ego problem," Guy said.
Sailor Jupiter could only shake her head in amusement.
Meanwhile, on Zamara…
"So, Saotome," Sinestro said evenly, as he rose to his feet. "You're still acting like the lap dog of the Guardians, even so far as using the authority of the Nova Corps, with its agreement of cooperation with the Green Lantern Corps, to do their bidding."
"My reasons for helping the Green Lantern Corps goes beyond my helping the Green Lantern Corps, Sinestro," Nova Centurion Ranma Saotome said. "You're actions will do nothing more than create a chaos that will doom us all."
"I'll deal with that after I deal with Mongul and his sister," Sinestro said. He then glances at the Silver Sailor Moon.
"I have forgotten that you are also a herald of the World Devourer, Moon Princess," Sinestro said.
"Well, we all can't have perfect memories, you know," Usagi replied.
"But I do have to ask this: what business is it of Galactus to interfere in my operation?"
"Lord Galactus believes that your chaos-sewing actions will usher in the Blackest Night," said the Silver Sailor Moon. "If that happens, he will not be able to feed. Thus, he has given his permission for me to help my husband prevent your chaos from spreading."
"Of course," Sinestro said. "How self-serving. Very well…"
Suddenly, Sinestro moved to discharge his ring's power.
"PREPARE YOURSELF!"
Ranma responded by discharging a counter-blast that prevents Sinestro from doing damage.
Meanwhile, Sinestro Corps Agent "Slussh", a large, alien amoeba-like creature had attacked the Silver Sailor Moon by devouring her whole.
BLOOP!
"Not the first time I was inside of someone," the Silver Sailor Moon said jokingly, as she recalls many times she assumed a male guise while floating within a membrane. "But enough of this…"
The Silver Sailor Moon creates an energy field that causes the creature to spew Usagi out of its body.
BLOOSH!
"Huh, messy-"
WHAM!
Usagi was slammed by a light-generated boxing glove that sent her sailing a bit. She righted herself, and summoned her board.
"TWEET!" Usagi whistled.
As her Cosmic Surfboard came to her, her attacker makes another attempt at her life.
"Me am Yellow Lantern!" said the "Bizzaro" version of Hal Jordan, as he created a giant chicken to grab the herald of Galactus.
"Me WILL save you!"
"Cocka-doodle-do!" cawed the simulated, giant chicken, as it grabbed the Silver Sailor Moon with its left claw.
"Gah!" Usagi said.
Meanwhile, the Zamarons looked at the battle between Sinestro and his corps, and the defenders of the Main Star Sapphire Battery.
"It appears that this battle will not be resolved quickly," said Queen Aga-po said.
"Then what shall we do?" asked a fellow Zamaron.
Queen Aga-po reveals two floating crystals in her hand.
"A long time ago, the Moon Princess and the Sun Prince created a batch of crystals that were distilled from fragments of their very souls. They did so as a precaution, so that the Universe will always have defenders, even if the two left this mortal coil. We will need to awaken the power source of the Star Sapphire, if this day is to be saved.
"But doing so would cause a displacement of souls."
"No, it will create a merging."
With that, Aga-po flings the crystals into the air, where they would land into the orginal bodies of Prince Khufu and Princess Chay-Ara, the first incarnation of Hawkman and Hawkwoman…
SSSSSS-TING!
"Arrgh!" Ranma and Usagi screamed in unison, as the Main Star Sapphire Power glowed and quake.
Seeing this distraction, Sinestro grabs Ranma, and holds him down with light generated chain.
CLANG!
"It appears that the Great Saotome has been defeated," Sinestro said, as he prepares to decapitate Ranma. "Too bad. I really liked you as 'Ranko Tendo'."
Ranma looks up, and smiles.
"What?" Sinestro said.
"Then you will like me even less," Ranma said.
"Behind you," said a familiar voice.
Sinestro turns around just in time to see a war mace to the face.
WHAM!
As Ranma's chains evaporate, Ranma looks up to see a very familiar face.
"I forgot about those stupid crystals Usagi and I had made," said Hawkman, as he and Hawkwoman steps forth from the giant Main Star Sapphire Power Battery.
Nova Corps Centurion Ranma Saotome looks at his latest doppelganger.
"I like what I see," Ranma said with a smile.
"Me, too," Hawkman said.
Hawkwoman merely rolled her eyes, knowing how narcissistic her husband can be sometimes…
Tbc.
Author's Note: Next time, I'll explain the history of the Hawkman, in relations to what has happened in this continuity, as well as wrap up the "War of Light", so please be patient. Also, there will be a new "Hawkgirl" soon, though not in this story (in "Blackest Rain and the Darkest Night"). Until then, later!
