Heeeelllooooo ladies and gentlemen! Today we finally get into some delicious canon goodness! As usual, your suggestions will always be taken into account… so get to the suggesting! Also, You should check out my friend NeoNazo's newest story, "Giant-Slayer" it's a RWBY fic, and it's got a bright future ahead.
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Blackest Night
Ajures 5:
Courtroom:
Today was a disheartening day for the people of the Ajures system… on the planet of Ajures 5, the people came together at the great tribunal. They had come together because of their sister planet Ajures 4. "What happened?" you might ask… if you looked to the sky, you would see an asteroid field of great size and diameter. An asteroid field would normally not be unusual, but it was where the field rested that made the people of the Ajures star system quake in unbridled rage… the asteroids were Ajures 4.
"Order! This courtroom will have Order!" one of the alien security men in a purple jumpsuit, yelled to the angry crowd. As the man was trying, and failing, to keep the peace… the large computer screen behind him activated. Three monolith like faces appeared, and they did not look happy.
"Silence!" the middle head roared, it's voice was that of a wise old man, who held great power over any situation… needless to say, everybody complied. With great skill, the alien that was the prosecutor of this particular case, maneuvered his hovering disk in front of the three judges of Ajures 5.
"Never before have so many from the Ajures system come together in the pursuit of the truth." the head on the right of the screen stated, it had the voice of a woman, and carried a large amount of thinly veiled emotions in it's wake. "And yet… never before has such a heinous crime been committed in our history. We are all gathered in the memory of our sister planet, Ajures 4." she finished, with a small, but very noticeable amount of sadness.
"Where is the accused?" the left head asked, it's voice was much younger than the other two, but held a vast amount of patience and authority. The prosecutor looked pained, as he noticed that the defendant's podium was completely vacant.
"Unfortunately, he is still at large your honors." he replied with barely controlled vitriol (cruel, and bitter criticism) in his voice. All three of the heads looked to each other, silently deciding on the next course of action. The first of them to speak was the middle head.
"Man-hunters! Step forward." he firmly commanded. A small squad of four red colored robots, broke away from the battalion of four-hundred strong. The "leader" was at the front, the only way you could differentiate it from the other three-hundred and ninety-nine… was due to a small dent in it's right temple. They were about seven feet tall and wielded small energy staves against their red chests like a soldier with a rifle.
"This mission will be dangerous, the person you are after is not an ordinary criminal… are you ready to face the peril of potential annihilation?" the left head asked to the automatons. The leader marched forward slightly, and stood at attention.
"No man escapes the Man-hunters!" it firmly stated for all to hear.
"No man escapes the Man-hunters!"
"No man escapes the Man-hunters!"
"No man escapes the Man-hunters!" his compatriots bellowed in the back of the courtroom.
"Show us a picture of the accused." the leader asked in it's unfeeling voice.
"He is a native to the planet Earth, the Green Lantern known as John Stewart." stated the prosecutor, as a hologram of the aforementioned super hero appeared in front of the red and blue robots.
Cue my awesome intro, which can be found in one of the previous chapters of my story.
Earth's orbit:
The Justice League "Watchtower":
Main computer floor:
Currently the heroes that were on the floating station, were watching the first of the only two "Senior-Class" members try to tell Wolf about the current system specifications… without getting his head ripped off.
"I know that you want to introduce more of the Yautja hardware and software, but the station is really taxed right now. We already started with a one-hundred percent human design, and then started jamming Kriptonian software into her computers… the worst part is that they only run at sixty percent of Kriptonian efficiency, and are only at a twenty percent increase of Human efficiency.
The Thanigarien designs that we have on hand, wouldn't even work with the power supply that we're using, also… we would have to be very lucky to find enough NTH metal to make a toilet seat, much less an entire propulsion system. The Thanigarien weapon designs would work for the most part… if we had the power of three nuclear reactors to run them with, thankfully we only have one. So, if we do go up in a nuclear fire… at least we would only explode like a Hiroshima atom bomb on steroids.
As for the Yautja tech… most of that would probably work all right, except for the laser system that you wanted, the plasma turrets power themselves… so we could use the multiple "calibers" that they come in, for each section of the ship. The heaviest ones would be on the outside, the medium ones would be placed in the non-essential rooms like the cafeteria, and the smaller ones could be put into the walls of the hallways, and in some of the rooms… as for the cameras and sensors, we could add them to some of the stationary cameras, but the rest are already coded to the main computer systems.
Taking them out would be like trying to pull open a "push" door with a string of floss, we would be spending weeks trying to do that. As for code translation… Superman gave me a "cheat sheet" to translate the Kriptonian codes, Thanigarien codes are pretty similar to ours… and your's is the most confusing language that I've ever seen... Just when I think that I have an understanding of a word, the rules change depending on the situation, it's like you took the English language's rules: and made them even more complicated for a cheap laugh." After that long triad about technology, the members that were present, reminded themselves that David was an expert in almost every form of energy and it's uses.
As Flash began to question Hawkgirl about being a detective, Wolf replied with: "Which is why I am assigning you to work under our newly titled "Chief Engineer" Spark." he said with that constantly calm tone that seemed to piss people off a lot.
"Oh… just great." David thought despairingly to himself. David didn't have any problem following a woman's orders, as he grew up in a family with strong women on both sides… he was simply terrible at talking to them if they aren't related to him. If it's about science… that's cool… he can, as the cool people say, "dig it". But when the conversation switches to something normal… he instantly becomes a nervous, stuttering, clumsy wreck.
In high-school, David was always the butt of every joke, not because he was ugly: he might have taken many blows to the face, but he was considered very handsome by most men and women. He wasn't stupid: his grades, and the fact that he was probably just as smart as all of his college professors proved that. It wasn't him being out of shape: he was probably the most fit person in his high-school, and then collage due to his routine of working out while studying. David was the butt of jokes because he simply didn't interact with people correctly, especially women. It really didn't help that his new boss liked to walk around in nothing but fishnets, a mini-skirt, and a midriff baring tank-top… and had a physique that could make the most abstinent monks drool like a flowing river.
*BBRRR!*
*BBRRR!*
*BBRRR!*
The station's orbital alarm system had gone off and the heroes scrambled to check what was speeding towards earth… and they saw four robots that looked like they belonged to the 1980's Power Ranger minion list.
"Well, looks like were going to deal with another space invasion huh guys?" enquired the Flash with his megawatt smile on full blast.
"J'onn, Flash, Hawkgirl, let's get going, we need to see why they're here!" Wolf commanded, and both J'onn and Shayera (Hawkgirl) felt like they were back under their officers command… only taller, and tiger stripped.
Earth:
Saturday Morning:
John Stewart's Home Town:
Downtown:
When Wolf's ship arrived at the streets, Flash quickly blocked the Man-hunter squad's path. When they said that they were ordered to find the Green Lantern, the heroes (except for Wolf, who was berating his teammates for starting a fight with unknown entities) responded with force… and were caught in a fairly even struggle, until the last son of Krypton arrived. The staves that the Man-hunters wielded were incredibly powerful personal weapons, but couldn't really keep him down… before the battle could escalate, John had appeared in his Green Lantern uniform.
"You are the human known as John Stewart yes?" the lead machine questioned.
"Yes… I am John Stewart."
"Your weapon." the robot stated as it held out it's hand, waiting for the ring, which was given with almost no hesitation. The other heroes were shocked that he would give up his ring so easily, after all… a Lantern was spiritually connected to their rings.
"John! What are ya' doing!?" The Flash asked his self-proclaimed "Best Buddy for all Time".
"Just stay out of this, alright? This doesn't concern you guys, and don't get involved." was the response they received, as a golden light surrounded the Lantern and his captors, and signified that they would be teleporting away.
A few hours later…
Ajures 5:
Docking Station:
As the ship carrying John landed, many of the crowd began to hold up signs that depicted the green lantern symbol with a red circle going around and through it, some had cartoon-ish drawings of John's head on a pike, and others had some very mean words in their own dialects.
"Welcome to Ajures 5 John Stewart, do not expect your stay to be a pleasant one." drolly stated the lead Man-hunter.
When John disembarked, the crowd went absolutely bananas and began to throw garbage and rotten food at him, and some even scored solid hits upon his uniform. Little did anyone know that the creators of the Green Lantern Corps. were watching the entire event unfold, and were being a bunch of indecisive pussies about it.
When John had been delivered to the holding area, one of the five Green Lanterns (that looked like someone slapped a face and legs onto a beach ball) there decided to say something about the situation.
"He was the best of us, but now…" and he let the sentence hang.
John had not heard him, and had quickly greeted them. "Gallius, Arckes, Killowog, good to see you."
"I wish I could say the same Stewart." Arckes replied, and then crossed his arms while looking away.
"You're a disgrace to the Corp." Gallius firmly stated while floating up to look John in the eyes.
John had quickly realized that his friends were complete douche-bags, and looked to his captors and said "Get me out of here." with bitterness in his voice.
When one of the Man-hunters passed by, it shoved Arckes into his fellow Lanterns. Which led to him grumbling out "Hey! Watch it… stupid robot!" None of the GL's noticed the same Man-hunter stop, turn around, and looked like it was about to brain the man with it's staff. Before it could be noticed however one of the other Man-hunters grabbed it by the forearm.
"No! Not yet." it stated to it's compatriot, in a very conspiring tone.
Holding Cells:
The lead Man-hunter had already removed the shackles and placed John into a hard-light prison cell, and the hero put up no resistance.
"What's next?" he asked the robotic organism.
"Your Trial will begin soon, If I had been programmed with emotions… I would almost feel sorry for you." it replied with no emotion what-so-ever. As it left, John Stewart couldn't help but look to the place where Ajures 4 had once rested, now it was just a bunch of dead rocks… and it was all his fault.
Ajures 5's orbit:
After our heroes had located their friend, they had decided that only Wolf, Flash, J'onn, Shayera, Clark, and Toppaz should go, so that Earth would have some sort of defense while they rescued John.
When they entered orbit in Wolf's ship, they were already being fired upon, and he had the flying heroes take out the fighters… gently of course. J'onn had read one of the pilots, and they immediately set off towards the courthouse, intent on saving their friend. The prosecutor was already throwing off the proverbial "kid gloves", and John was simply standing there… letting it happen.
Imagine everyone's surprise when Superman began to use his heat vision to cut out a opening for them to enter through.
"Oh no!" John bemoaned when they had touched down to the floor.
"Wait! Is this some kind of trial!?" Flash enquired to the man of steel.
"Apparently it is." he responded, while throwing two guards that had tried to tackle him. A small squad of Man-hunters were about to jump into the fight when Wolf decided to settle this whole situation in a civil manner.
"Wait! We have not come to cause violence, or to disrupt these proceedings. We are here to help represent our friend John Stewart." Wolf stated loudly for everyone to hear, while glaring at his teammates for almost starting another fight.
The Judges were quite amicable. "This is a public trial." the right head stated to the other two heads.
"Very well, but please restrain your associates from… expressing themselves physically." the left said to one half of the Justice League.
The prosecutor had brought out the first witness, a insectoid pirate by the name of Kan'jar'roe. The story had begun with the pirate heading towards Ajures 4, to sell some stolen blasters to a group of rebels… during that part of the explanation, Wolf had decided to invest some focus onto the weapons and their types that he was smuggling. The Pirate was brought down to the nearby moon thanks to John Stewart, and had his friends attack him openly.
Apparently, one of the ships had a deflector shield that was strong enough to not only shrug off a blast from a Power Ring, especially a blast that was fired from John Stewart, (who was considered very powerful, amongst all Lantern corps.) but also reflect it to a volcanic fault line, that caused the planet to explode… Needless to say… Wolf was suspicious.
When a recess was declared, the heroes had decided to talk to their friend… that ended with Wolf slapping John for "being such an idiot". He proceeded to explain how he had killed several Red and Yellow Lanterns in his years, and told his friends of their "effective range" with simple energy blasts… there was no possible explanation for that one beam to reach all the way to a planet.
Wolf had quickly deduced that Kan'jar'roe lied about what, or who, destroyed Ajures 4. He told Superman and J'onn to go investigate the asteroid field for anything strange… he then told Flash to go check Kan'jar'roe's ship for anything that even looked like a weapon and to bring it back to the courtroom, and told Hawkgirl to question the other Green Lanterns about their motives and John's track "record". He had Topaz begin to contact some small, blue-ish green people that had made the ring John used, as their input would be needed.
As Superman and J'onn were leaving, they failed to notice the (literally) bug eyed pirate, Kan'jar'roe speaking into a small communicator to someone unknown.
Flash had managed to find the ship easily enough and brought back a medium sized armory of deadly weapons.
Topaz was still trying to contact the Guardians, and Hawkgirl was having some trouble finding the Green Lanterns.
When the Judge asked if John wanted to say anything, Wolf had quickly stated that he would be John's lawyer during the rest of the trial.
"Very well, you may act as Stewart's lawyer… but if you lose, you will share the same fate as him." stated the middle head to the shock of the Green Lantern.
His shock was further compounded when Flash of all people,and Wolf had agreed without hesitation. Wolf was quick to present the facts that he had gathered and compared with the many trials that he was the cause of, and a witness to.
"Your honors, my name is Wolf, and I have been a patrolling officer of the law for almost two-hundred years, in that time, I have seen many trials like this one, where the defendant is falsely accused."
"Are you suggesting that we falsified information?" the right head asked irritably.
"Of course not your honors… I'm simply remarking upon how you were not presented with all of the information." he responded, calm as always.
*Snap!* "Flash, if you would?" he asked while snapping his fingers.
Flash had quickly maneuvered the levitating dolly in front of the judges and the crowed for all to see.
"What is the purpose of that weapons pile mister Wolf?" asked the right head, with more interest then before, most of the weapons that she could see in that pile were very illegal in almost any system.
"The weapons that are being spread out on the floor by my associate, are the very same weapons that were in the possession of Kan'jar'roe, and were found on his ship… the reason that I show this to you, is because most of these weapons are not even "in-production" anymore, due to their destructive power. The fact that mister Roe is delivering these weapons to anyone is beyond disturbing, the fact that he has a stockpile, more so, the fact that multiple pirates had been making regular deliveries is a crime worth capital punishment." he said, but was not yet finished
"I don't mean to insult mister Roe's "expertise" when it comes to weapons-" at this point where he looks at the bug man, and the sarcasm is practically dripping from his words "- but when we are talking about an entire armies worth of weapons, next to a volcanic fault line, and all of the weapons are being handled by inexperienced rebels… I see a very likely scenario, and a incredible explosion… just waiting to happen." The people present, were shocked, so much so, that they couldn't even whisper to each other if they wanted to.
"Are you suggesting that Ajures 4 was destroyed, by it's own self!" the left head questioned, shock in his voice on palpable levels.
"No your honors-" everyone was confused by that remark, "- I am simply stating that this is a disastrous situation, and that every facet of the situation must be explored." Wolf said, just as calm as when he started.
"We must also consider the geological conditions of the planet during these events, bea-"
Hawkgirl could no longer hear what Wolf was saying after that, "Why?" you might ask, well…
During the trial, Hawkgirl noticed the backs of the Green Lanterns already outside of hearing range, and they were headed to the cafeteria, she decided to head after them, and hopefully get some answers.
When she arrived, she easily found them, and decided to confront them, when they responded, all she heard was: "Blah blah blah, I'm a wimpy little bitch!" and decided to swing at the Lantern known as Arckes with her mace… lucky for him that he blocked it with a personal shield from his ring, but was knocked into Gallius.
"No weapons! Please! No weapons!" the short slug-man who owned the restaurant cried out to the combatants.
"You think I need this mace to beat your asses like drums?" she questioned, almost ignoring the shop owner entirely… *Whoosh!* *Slam!* that was the sound of her mace being embedded into a pillar.
*Bam!*
"Uhhh!"
*Smack!*
"Arghhh!"
*Pow!*
*Thud!*
Those were the sounds of Arckes getting his ass beat like a drum… or more accurately, his face. He flew back into the table with a pained groan that only a
punching bag for Hawkgirl could produce. The Lanterns came at her in a line, one by one, and she flipped or threw all of them away.
Gallius tried to "tackle" her from behind… (really, it would just be a head-but, even a "body slam" would be a head-but for him!) he missed and forced Killowog to put down his drink to catch him, as he had yet to leave his seat. Arckes had nearly gotten his head knocked off… and after smiling over his own reflexes… walked right into Hawkgirl's first like a retard. Arckes had been launched through the restaurant's main window, and was now face-down in the middle of the street. After beating the other Lanterns around for a few seconds, Arckes meant to try tackling her… again… but was stopped by a green wall construct.
"Enough! Hawkgirl's right!" the voice of Kilowog had stopped the fight immediately, "John Stewart's our friend, and I'm gonna' help him!" he said with determination written all over his face, while heading towards the courthouse. As Hawkgirl was making her exit, she noticed that Kan'jar'Roe was speaking animatedly with a Man-hunter, but decided to just head to the courthouse with Killowog.
Ajures 5:
Courthouse:
"All that I am suggesting, is that we - ah yes, he's here now." Wolf stated with as much relief as he would allow in public, much less in a courtroom.
"Who might this be mister Wolf?" inquired the middle head, with restrained curiosity at what this strange, but very knowledgeable alien had planned.
"This would be the Green Lantern known as Killowog… he is my surprise witness."
"Witness? He was nowhere near the crime scene, what kind of witness could he be!?" the prosecutor questioned, unaware that Wolf had already been a fully licensed lawyer since before the prosecutor was born.
"Mister Killowog is not only our Character Witness, but is also our nearest expert on Power Rings except for Mr. Stewart himself." Wolf replied, feeling just a little bit smug about this whole trial being "in his back pocket", since he spoke his first words to the judges.
Ajures 4's moon:
Moon's surface:
Under the suggestion/order of Wolf, the two aliens had been delivered to the moon by Topaz, who was the only other person with the skill to drive Wolf's ship… when they arrived, Superman quickly took notice of a… strangeness with the moon.
"See anything… wrong here?" he inquired to J'onn.
"Where do I start? The loss of life? The echoes of both our pasts?" he rhetorically responded.
"No, not up there, down here." he stated, while gesturing to the moon itself.
"What!? It can't be!" J'onn exclaimed, eyes wide.
"But it is, this moon is still orbiting a planet that doesn't exist anymore." Superman finished grimly.
"But it should have flown into space the moment the planet was destroyed… shouldn't it?" The last Martian asked.
"…Yep." was Superman's response, both began to search for any noticeable evidence… not knowing about the hidden threat.
Ajures 5:
Courthouse:
After a short recess:
"Mister Killowog, would you say that John Stewart is… dangerous, unbalanced, or of a cloudy mind?" Wolf questioned the Lantern.
"No actually, he's probably the most capable, and level-headed of any Green Lantern." Killowog answered truthfully.
"Mister Killowog, does the standard-level Lantern, of any corps… have the ability to destroy a planet using a single beam, with the help of a volcanic fault line?" Wolf asked, just as calm as before… that kind of calm scared Killowog a little, it was the same calm that the Guardians talked in, when they wanted to see if you would slip up.
"Well, if it's a Red Lantern… then they have more raw power to use… but yeah, anybody could do it." he responded.
"What if that beam was not fully powered? What are the odds then?"
"50/50." Killowog was starting to see what he was doing, and played along.
"What if that beam had been deflected to the planet?" Wolf asked, hoping that the Lantern could act.
"With another power ring?" Killowog asked, pretending to be confused.
"No mister Killowog, with an average level deflector shield, in an area with no sloped armor."
"Oh… I don't know if anything but the best deflector shields that can actually do something like that." the Lantern stated, still acting as if he was confused by the answer. "And even then, the beam would dissipate before it reached the atmosphere of the planet… or even disappear all-together if John willed it so."
"Objection! Mister Killowog, who told you that you could use those deadly weapons to enforce laws!? Who gave you the right!?" questioned the prosecutor.
"We Did!" was the response from entrance of the courtroom. Standing there, was five of the "Guardians of Oa", and everyone at least knew of them. The reason that they were here, was not only because they had been spammed with over 600,000 messages in the past hour and forty minutes to "get to the trial!", but were also called in by Killowog himself.
Ajures 4's moon:
Superman was currently flying along the light-side of the moon and was keeping an eye out for anything suspicious, "J'onn, any luck? All I've found so far is a couple craters." he asked.
"I've found something… but I'm not sure what exactly." he responded while staring at a large machine that was embedded into the wall of a crevice.
After Superman arrived, he asked the obvious question: "Any idea what this thing does?"… the really obvious questions.
"When I was a young child, we had small toys called "Illusi-trons", they could project crude images over objects, and even empty space." J'onn explained.
"And you think that this is a larger version of those." Superman clarified.
"The mechanical principles appear to be the same." J'onn responded
"So… it's all an illusion." Clark lamely stated.
"It would explain why this moon has maintained it's orbit."
"Yeah, but who-"
*Zzzatt!*
"Argggh!"
"Aahhh!"
Superman and J'onn cried out, as they were hit with lasers from a ship… that was piloted by Kan'jar'roe. He quickly tried to bury them under falling rocks… not knowing about their thick skins. As he tried to escape, he was attacked by a fighter "commandeered" (stolen) by Hawkgirl, and she was a much better flyer than him. After Superman harpooned himself through the ship, grabbing Roa on the way, and asked Hawkgirl if he was behind all of it, she responded with: "Not… exactly."
Ajures 5:
Hidden room:
"It is time my brothers! Time to avenge 1,000 years of grievances. Time to regain our power and dignity!" after the lead Man-hunter finished, the others began to cheer. It held up it's hand, and silence quickly flowed. "Our plan has worked flawlessly… we've sown dissension into the Lantern Corp's ranks, and stained their reputation forever. But beyond that… we have succeeded in luring our most hated enemy away from their home planet of Oa. They are here, the Guardians!" He spat out the title like it was warm moose piss.
"Destroy them!" the crowd of Man-hunters started to bellow
"No my brothers! Not here! Not now! But rest assured… the guardians will burn! For we are the Man-hunters!" he roared.
"No man escapes the man hunters!"
"No man escapes the man hunters!"
"No man escapes the man hunters!"
Ajures 5:
Courthouse:
In session:
"So tell me... if a Lantern kills using the Power Ring, how do we know if it happened?" Wolf asked the Guardian.
"Actually, several years ago, we had discovered that one of our best Lanterns (Sinestro) was killing off criminals, afterwards, we had made a mandatory update to all rings, to monitor if they kill someone, and we would be alerted." he responded
"What if it was an accident?" Wolf inquired.
"We would still be alerted, and it would also tell if the intent was to kill or not."
"And did you receive an alert?"
"N-… no, we did not receive an alert from John Stewart's ring."
"Your honors… I rest my case." Wolf stated, with some of his relief at this trial being finally over, showing in his voice.
"The facts have been presented, we will now decide the verdict." stated the middle head as the screen turned off.
"Stop!" Superman bellowed, as he came crashing through the same spot they had entered through previously… and smashing a brand new pane of glass… the man who had just fixed it threw down his tools and stomped away. "John Stewart is innocent -" he then mumbled: "that's your cue Hawkgirl… hope you can hear me." To which she threw her mace at the cloaking field and caused an incredible Michael Bay-esq explosion. The explosion led to the dramatic reveal of… Ajures 4!
"Ajures 4 is where it always was! It was all an illusion… a "frame-up", as they say on my planet." stated Superman, not knowing that Wolf had pretty much ensured John's freedom already.
John quickly looked around, and noticed Kan'jar'roe standing next to J'onn. "You!" Stewart exclaimed, whilst performing a flying "stone-cold-stunner" on his bug man ass. "Why did you do this to me!? Why!?" he questioned as he shook the man.
"For… for money." he answered fearfully.
"Who's money!?"
"The Man-hunters" he exclaimed, urinating himself a little.
At this point, our heroes notice the Guardians heading away from the courtroom, and decide to follow them.
Man-hunter Storage room:
"We're too late!" one of the Guardians exclaimed to his brethren.
"Then we must return to Oa, quickly!" said the leader. As they were lining up, they had almost made it to the hallway… when Wolf de-cloaked in front of the blue midgets. The Guardians knew what his race was… they were as old as themselves after all. After giving them a masked glare, and threatening them with disembowelment, they revealed that they had actually created the Man-hunters!
Oa:
Man-hunter invasion:
Night:
The man hunters were attacking Oa with everything they had… if one of them fell: they used the body as a "meat" shield, if one was damaged… let's just say that the Man-hunters could give one hell of a"piggy-back" ride.
Unfortunately for the Green Lanterns, the number of Man-hunters was far more than four-hundred… in fact, they numbered into almost 2,000 units per sector! Usually, the planet of Oa had at least 30 low-to-medium level, and three medium-to-high level Lanterns… that would not be nearly enough to defeat an invasion force, because their whole purpose was to defend the key objectives and stall for reinforcements. The problem for our Green heroes, is that they were facing very dangerous machines, in very large numbers, that were the "anti-thesis" of all Lantern Corps.
The Green Lanterns knew that their main, and only advantage, was their orbital guns, and their ground-to-air defense platforms, so they had assigned one Lantern to defend the platforms, then retreat to the Guardians' position… they just didn't count on the Man-hunters being able to hack their systems so easily. As the machines began to advance to the Guardians' defensive position of the Power Core/Power Battery, they were quite surprised when energy blasts, laser beams, and several types of plasma ordinance began to pepper their advancing troops with deadly accuracy.
Topaz was piloting Wolf's ship, and dropped off the Justice League directly behind the enemy's main battalion… and they immediately turned around the defense guns towards their position.
Superman was the unstoppable tank that gave Hawkgirl and Wolf the openings to destroy some robots, and some of the smaller gun towers.
Flash used his hit-and-run tactics in combination with Green Lantern's ability to make solid cover anywhere on the battlefield… but they were quickly cornered halfway up one of the larger gun towers, John's shield was having holes blown into it by the focused fire of the energy weapons… they were in a bad spot…
*Vvvreszzzts!*
*Bang!*
*Boom!*
A blazing lance of green energy sliced off the top of the tower… and most of the Man-hunters upper bodies. Hawkgirl and the green lantern squad from Ajures 5 were strafing the main four towers as Gallius commanded: "You three take the Northern towers, Killowog and I will take care of the south!" as they began to eliminate the heaviest resistance in, and around them.
As the energy shield that the Guardians created began to weaken, the lead Man-Hunter had blasted down the security doors… doors that leads to the main source of all Green Lantern powers across the universe. The heroes noticed this, but were pre-occupied with the hundreds of baton twirling, killer robots.
"John go after him! We'll handle these pests!" Wolf commanded, while throwing several explosives into a large squad of the enemy. Had anyone else told him that, John Stewart probably would've disobeyed that order, but with Wolf… the man had more than earned his trust today.
As John entered the Battery room, he searched for his target…
*Zzzatt!*
"Aaaahhh!"
The Man-hunter had attacked John from the shadows, and began to move towards the Battery. John attempted to capture him in an energy bubble, and held him there.
"Man-hunter! Stop!" the former marine ordered.
"Not until we've regained what is rightfully ours!" the machine replied angrily.
"Yours?" the human Lantern questioned.
"The power that the Guardians stole from us!" it explained, while smashing open John's bubble.
John had quickly preformed a barrel roll to avoid being filled with holes, and they immediately started clashing energies together, battling for supremacy.
"It was never yours! It was always the Guardians'!'' John denied vehemently.
"And they betrayed us! Just as they betrayed you!" it shot back, both verbally and physically. The Man-hunter tossed John aside, and into the ground, while screaming: "This power is our destiny!" After it had dealt with him, the machine slowly entered the Battery itself.
"No!" John exclaimed, the horror on his face clearly visible.
The robot's form began to glow a shocking green color, and it began to let out noises similar to a fax machine taking a massive dump. Arcs of green lightning began to fly every ware, and some managed to strike John and a few of the lower ranking Lanterns that had just arrived, at least ten Guardians were in tow. The outer casing on the automaton exploded off, and it began to grow in size, bellowing out:
"Now, I am the power!"… as it steadily grew, the power in John's and the other Lantern rings was sucked right out, the Guardians began to fall to the ground. Their faces were pale, they were sweating, and they breathed like they had just been kicked in the genitals. John ran to the side of one of the female Guardians and shook her a little to see if she was still alive.
"All is lost!" she croaked out, and then fell unconscious.
"Not while I'm still standing!" he said.
John's face was a grim mask of determination as he stood as close to the now gigantic Man-hunter as he could get. John cleared his mind and began to focus on his will… he wouldn't let down the League, but most especially, he would never let down Wolf or Flash, because they put their lives on the line for him… even when they didn't have to. He remembered the oath that he took, it was the words that his soul would constantly speak if it had a mouth.
IN BRIGHTEST DAY!
IN BLACKEST NIGHT!
NO EVIL SHALL ESCAPE MY SIGHT!
LET THOSE WHO WORSHIP EVILS MIGHT…
BEWARE MY POWER…
GREEN LANTERN'S LIGHT!
As John bellowed out those magic words, the energy monster began to shrink, twist, and pull back down into the Battery. The energy began to build up, and then exploded outwards… for some reason there was also fireworks going off in the sky… but it must have just been a few small groups of exploding robots.
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After the attack:
John had walked out of the building and saw almost every Green Lantern that could show up had been taking down rouge squads of Man-hunters. The squad from Ajures 5 had walked up to him and apologized, but he didn't really care at this point. John walked over to the rest of the League, and couldn't help but say: "You all believed in me… even when I didn't believe in myself… thank you." he said sincerely.
Flash zipped over to his side, putting his elbow onto his shoulder and said: "GL, you're my friend, my amigo, my bro… were all just doing what friends are for!"
"You're idiotic, impulsive, self-centered, too strict… incidentally, you are one of the bravest, and virtuous humans I have ever met. You are one of my few friends John Stewart… if you ever require anything, I will let nothing stop us from achieving it." Wolf's somber, and somewhat shocking statement was a reminder to the rest of the League members, that Wolf did have very little friends… that weren't related to him. Wolf only lied to criminals, and they knew he meant every word.
John couldn't help but smile at the way things turned out today. He began to walk towards Wolf's ship, looked over his shoulder and said: "C'mon guys, lets go home." they were just about to leave with their heads held high… when Flash inquired:
"Uhh… guys? Not to be a downer or anything, but could we stop for a couple hundred alien ice-cream cones on the way back?" the heroes all began to groan, and they all knew that Wolf would be paying for the "living food-vacuums" that were Flash and Rad-Roach.
The End…. Until next episode!
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