A.N: I loved writing this chapter, and in the end you'll see why. Btw way I have finals so I'm going to post this and go.

Gabby M: Flying isn't instinct all the time :). It won't go well at first… but someone will make it better.

I don't own TMNT

Starting Here… Oa's Ahead

Breaching through the atmosphere was easy, but when we got into space, it just felt real weird. "Wow, I can breathe in deep space? I'm an astronaut." I tried to move my feet around as if I were walking but I just ended up tumbling forward and losing my balance. When I held my hands out in front of me got back to flying normally again. Hal said to me, "You have a shield covering you." Hal said. He motioned to the glow around him and said, "This keeps you breathing in space and usually turns on its own."

I looked at my hands and finally noticed I was glowing too. "Oh." When I finally looked in front of me at the passing planets, I asked Hal, "You do this every day? It's normal? How can you not just stop by and visit Saturn or Neptune!"

"Well, I've visited, but's no fun when there is no one around."

"Is Oa filled with a bunch of people to make it fun?"

"Fun, and sometimes annoying, depending on who you're talking to."

"How long until we get there?"

"5 million light years away."

"What!" I yelled.

Hal chuckled and said, "I'm sorry, I just wanted to see your face. It's actually not that far as the Green Lantern flies."

"How far do we fly?"

"Wrong question."

I deeply rethought what he said and then figured it out. "Oh, how fast does the Green Lantern fly?"

"Very, fast." Hal reached over and grabbed my hand in a tight grip. "Hold on, because were about to take the highway." I held on tighter for extra measure. Suddenly, the stars in front of me turned into lines, and I felt a large tug around me as we suddenly speed through space. I was in awe at the colors that passed by me as we flew past countless stars and systems. When we finally slowed, I felt the tug feeling around me stop and the space around is looked normal. No bright flashes of light. I looked at Hal as he let go of me. I said to him, "We just flew at like top speed! Like a rocket!"

"Faster than a rocket, faster than anything really. Not even a ship can fly faster than us."

"You mean like spaceships? Alien ships?"

"Anything."

"Wow…" Growing bigger in the distance, a glowing green planet became visible to us. As we got closer, I noticed the glowing parts were of cities that made up the land of the planet. "Is that Oa?"

"Yep." Hal answered, "Be ever so humble, there is no place like Oa."

"Hmm." I nodded towards his comment. When we got to the planet, Hal and I zoomed by a bunch of towers, a lot of them tall, short, wide, or thin. Hal named off some the labels of them. "See that's the Med-tower, like a Hospital but a lot more advanced. There's the science facility which I try to avoid at all cost."

"I would too." I said, "For certain reasons."

"Pfft." Hal fumbled, "I have more personal reasons but I have a pretty good idea as to why you would say that." Hal lead me towards a building that stood taller than all the others on Oa. It was shaped into a spire and glowed green like most of the other buildings around. We landed on a wide platform outside a hanger entrance. When I looked up, the spire felt a lot taller than when we were flying. We got to the entrance and Hal stopped me just outside the hallway entrance. "You wait here, I'm going to request and audience with the Guardians first, then come back and get you if we get access today."

"Out here, alone?"

"Yeah, I won't be long." Hal walked down into the hall and left me standing outside the platform on my own. After a long minute of waiting, I sighed and began to tap my feet impatiently. "Why did he have me stay out here anyway?"

Suddenly, I felt a presence behind me and suddenly a large shadow loomed over where I stood. I gruff voice said, "What's this?"

I turned around to face the person, but what I saw made me stand frozen in fear. A huge, tall, pink skinned, pig faced creature stood tall and big in front of me. What did the job to scare me more was when the big guy leaned down in front of me and sniffed me. I gave a scream and ran. Ok, why did I do that I don't know. Hal prepared me for the types of people I would meet, but it's as if the old me threatened to come out when I saw something I would have been scared of before. Too late, the old me was coming back. I ran around the platform and stopped to take a breath. "Calm down Mary, it's nothing. He's just a Green Lantern."

"Hey Tiny!" I heard the big guy yell as he chased after me. I got scared again and on instinct I flew off. I was not ready for this!

I flew blindly through the city until I got another smaller building with a platform as well. I ran into a hallway and then hid along the shadows of a wall. As I took deep breaths, I tried to tell myself that everything was ok and that I shouldn't have ran off like that. I knew better than to be afraid. "Hey you?" I heard a serpent like voice say from down the hall. Out of the shadows of the hall, I gray face that looked like a shark with cat like eyes on the front popped out and said, "Are you knew around?"

And it happened again, I flew off. Since I was going really fast, I almost crashed into a few buildings as well as other flying lanterns. I almost rammed into a fish faced man and a dog headed ape. And every single time I would just fly faster, away from all the creatures. I was not ready for this!

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Once I got my appointment, Salaak told me to wait an hour for the Guardians to address me. "What am I supposed to do then?" I asked.

"I have no idea of any kind of activities you can find entertaining while you wait, but if it helps you should show the new lantern around Oa."

"Good idea. Thanks bro." Salaak stared at me and I just told him, "It's just an Earth term." And I left the building. As I got outside, I didn't find Mary but Killowag in her place. "Oh, hey buddy. What's up?"

"Jordan, you wouldn't happen to have anything to do with the girl I just saw, right?" he asked as he pointed to a random direction."

I knew he was talking about Mary so I told him, "Yep, that's the new recruit Appa talked about. Why?"

"Because she took off."

"What?" I yelled. "Why? What happened?"

"She saw me and flew off."

"Oh no." I put hand to my face as I said, "I knew I should have prepared her more for this. I thought I did enough."

"Enough what?"

"Teaching her the kinds of people she will find out here. I thought she was ready, and she seemed ready to."

"Not to me. I think she would sooner hide in a hole then come and meet us—"

"Hey! She's new to all this so give her a chance. If you had lost your family and had to change your outlook on life wouldn't you be a little scared of anything new, anything out of the ordinary for you without someone there to help you out."

"Maybe I do…" Killowag mumbled.

"Yeah that's—wait what?"

"Nothing. We should go find the girl before anyone else can accidently scare her off Oa and to who knows where."

"We'll split up and find her. I'll take north, you take south."

"Wait! Hal!" Killowag yelled but I didn't listen and I was already off and away to finding Mary.

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After flying around Oa and avoiding getting spotted, I found a building with a main hallway and smaller hallways built along them. I took a turn into one and found it a dead end. I wondered why they would build a random hallway if it wasn't going to lead anywhere. Or maybe they're just weird. No I shouldn't think that, they're just people, they think normally. Then why do I keep judging them.

I sat down on the floor and lay against the wall. Feeling cold, I hugged my knees to my chest and put my head down. Wanting to understand everything that had been going on, I took a breath and went deep into my thoughts to collect myself. Why was I acting this way? I shouldn't be afraid. And If I am what am I afraid of? It can't be because they're different. Hal told me they were like regular people and I shouldn't be afraid of them or how they look or how they look at me….or think of me.

Suddenly, before I could come to a conclusion to my problem, I heard a gruff voice, "Found you."

I gasped and whipped my head around to face the entrance to the hallway. It was the large, pig headed man again. I noticed in his right hand, a green ring was glowing. It quickly diminished as he said to me, "You know Hal could have paid attention to me when I would have told him he could find you through the ring." I just stared at him in shock as he began to randomly talk to me. "The guy thinks way too fast, and his mouth runs dangerously faster." The comment about Hal made me smile and I snickered a little. The big man smirked and said, "So, she does have a sense of humor." I stopped laughing and became wide eyed at him addressing me. He waved a hand and said, "It's a good thing, especially since you're going to be living with Jordan."

It became quiet after that and for a minute he stayed just down the hall while I sat cuddled into the corner of the dead end. Then he began to march slowly towards me. I didn't make a move or anything, I just watched in a gawking stare as he stopped just a foot away from me. I felt my body tense and my breath go short as he leaned down and said, "Well you're not running again. Getting used to your surroundings now, huh?" I could feel my heart racing as I tried to come up with something to say. What should I say? Something snarky? Just tell him what I'm feeling? I didn't know how to act and I worried that he would judge me if I do anything dumb. That's when I figured out my problem. I was worried about what everyone around here would think of me.

The pig man held out a hand and on instinct I shied away. He said to me, "It's ok kid, you can trust me."

I took a breath, telling myself to give it all a shot. I slowly grabbed his hand and he pulled me too my feet. Since he didn't know how light I was, he accidently pulled me all the way off the ground so that he held me up by my hand a foot over. He said, "Whoops, didn't expect that." I laughed at how funny it was, and to my enjoyment, I decided to swing my legs back and forth so that I swung over the air. The big guy laughed and held me up higher so that I was eye level. "Having fun?"

"Yeah!" I said a bit enthusiastically. I covered my mouth with my free hand. Maybe it was a bit too enthusiastic.

The big pig man just laughed and said, "I'm starting to like you kid. What's our name again? Mary right?"

I blinked at the sound of my name and asked him, "How do you know my name?"

"It was in the information Hal got from the Guardians. A lot of us Green Lanterns were expecting you to come."

"Really?"

He chuckled as he put me down on the floor to stand. I dusted myself off while he said to me, "You sound surprised."

"I'm just one Green Lantern out of 3600 of them."

"You know your stuff already? Good. And just because your one out of many doesn't mean you're less important."

"Wow…." I said, surprised at that statement.

The pig man laughed again. "You're reactions make my day kid." The pig man began to march. He motioned for me to follow and said, "Come on, let's go meet with Jordan. He's probably having a panic attack right about now."

"Why do you call him by his last name Jordan?" I asked as I walked alongside the pig man.

"It's a nickname I give him. I give that to most of the recruits, especially the ones who don't make a good impression. You fine."

"Do you have a nickname?"

"I'm called Sergeant around here because I drill everyone to be the best Green Lantern."

"Ok then… Sergeant."

"Ha! You catch on quick, but when I'm not drilling you, call me Killowag."

"Killowag…." I repeated.

A.N: HOW CUTE! They fly to Oa and get there, but then it all goes bad when Mary gets scared of Killowag for the reason she doesn't know how to act. Hal desperately looks for her while Killowag does it better because he understands… and he just thinks better. Mary gets to know Killowag and Killowag gets to know Mary. Next, she gets to know more people. I'm KikaKatTIOI, peace out!