"So where were you yesterday?" Ben asked me later that morning at breakfast.

I jerked my head up from my cereal when I felt a hand on my knee. I looked to my right over at Johnny and he nodded towards Ben. "I'm sorry, I didn't hear you. Could you repeat it, please, Mr. Grimm?"

"Where were you yesterday?"

"I was riding a bus."

"A bus?" Everyone but Johnny stared at me in question.

"Yes. But that was after I visited my friend for about fifteen minutes." I nodded.

"So you rode the bus...all day?" Sue asked, still confused. Reed however, didn't seem to mind that much.

"Well not all day, I eventually got off. Then I went to Central Park and sat in North Meadow for a couple hours, and then I walked back here."

"What time did you get in?" Reed asked.

I shrugged. "About midnight."

"What were you doing?" Ben spoke up.

I shook my head at my simple answer. "Thinking."

"About what?" He continued.

"Girl stuff." That got him off the subject.

"Is there anything you wanna talk about?" Sue scared me. She was just like Frieda.

"Uh, no. I'm pretty sure I did enough thinking yesterday."

"Well if there's anything, anything at all, you can talk to me." She smiled and I returned it weakly.

"Okay." I nodded, and suddenly tensed at her forwardness.

Johnny lightly patted my knee, trying to calm me down. Thank Morgan Freeman he was sitting next to me.

"So Andi," Reed said after my awkward spell of fear. "I took a look at your bone marrow, and I discovered something quite tremendous."

"What?"

He had the largest of smiles on his face. "You have no specific blood type."

"Excuse me?" Is that even possible?

"You are the universal donor. You can give blood to absolutely anybody."

"So, I'm like...plus or minus O?"

"Exactly."

"Huh, well Reed I think you're wrong." I stood up from the table. "Because my father was A- and my mom B-. That doesn't make O."

"Where do you think you're going?" Ben rumbled as I started to walk away.

"A hospital!" I yelled back to them before I disappeared.


"This is a very nice thing that you're doing, young lady." The nurse said to me as she swabbed the inside of my elbow.

"Hm." It's too bad I'm doing this for the wrong reason. "Uh, if it isn't too much trouble, could you find out my blood type?"

She smiled as the needle struck me. "It's no problem at all, Sweetie." The nurse let my blood drain and she handed me a cup of apple juice. "Drink this slowly. I'll be right back."

I nodded and she left. "Please let Reed be wrong." I mumbled to myself as I watched the bag fill.


"What am I going to do?" I asked a I sat in a booth in the cafeteria at the Watch Tower.

"I don't know. I also don't know why you're talking to me." J'onn J'onzz stated as he sat across from me.

I shrugged. "You seem like a person I can talk to."

"Hm." J'onn nodded. "The only thing I can tell you, is to accept the outcome, no matter what."

"That's so cheesy."

He smiled. "Yes it is, but it's also advice you should take."

I pouted slightly. "I don't wanna."

He chuckled. "May I tell you something?"

"Of course." I nodded.

"The more I talk to you, the more I am reminded of my daughter."

I smiled. "Really?"

"Yes."

"What was her name?"

"J'orah Da'anes."

"What was she like?"

"A lot like you. Stubborn, short, intelligent, brave, everything that you are." I sat there, listening in awe at him. "I was absolutely crushed the day she died."

"Who wouldn't be?"

"My wife."

My mouth dropped. "Well why not?"

"She thought that J'orah was the annoying neighbor child." I was still really confused.

"But she was her daughter-" J'onn's sad smile shut me up.

"Let me tell you something," His voice had turned the slightest but raspy. "And this, keep in mind when you're forgiving someone: Everyone has a little Green Arrow in them."

"What do you mean? What did Ollie do?"

I never got my answer. "Andi, so this is where you've been. That's quite...convenient."

I turned around, "Hey John. And what can I do for you today?"

The larger man looked down on me with such sadness. Why was everyone here so sad? "My employers want to speak with you about a job."

"Why would the Guardians of Oa want to speak to me?"

John shook his head. "I'm not sure."

"Liar." I stared at him with hard eyes. "I know when people lie to me, John. But do you know when I'm lying to you?"

"I don't know what they want, I swear."

I crossed my arms over my chest. "What do they want, John."

"I honestly don't know. All I do know, is that Carol Ferris, Indigo-1, and the Saint Walker are coming."

"Who the bloody hell are they?"

"They are the leaders of different Corps that are allied with the Green Lanterns, if only for a little while."

And then it clicked. "This is about the Silver Lantern War, isn't it?"

"How-?"

"Oh, just take me to them!"


The moment I saw the group of six or seven adults and small people, I said, "I'll do it."

"Excuse me?"

"I'll take care of the Silver Lanterns if you equip me well enough."

The small blue man with hair said in response, "Well, we were going to make you a Lantern, and you would assist these four."

I shook my head. "No. I will not go to battle with these people. It's nothing personal, I just rather not see John die, he's a bright future ahead of him. Give me four rings, green, blue, violet, and indigo, and I will become the most powerful being those Silver fuckheads ever met. Because I will not die, I will not give up, I will not let anyone else be burdened with this. I will be...the perfect soldier, a Marine if you will."

They were all dumbstruck. "Here is the plan: When they land, I will meet them with my four rings and give them a choice. Either leave, or be extinguished. If they leave, everyone will be fine and there will be no blood shed. If not, I swear by my dying breath that I will kill every last one of them."

I stood there, staring at the white haired blue man, and everyone stared at me. Especially John, who had an extremely shocked look upon his face.

The purple woman stepped forward, using her staff as a walking sick, and she said, "That's exactly what we wanted to hear."