Cartoon Lanterns Unite!
Chapter 10
This chapter was assisted by Bone Master. The top part at least along with his oc Greed.
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(Ponyville)
Spike narrowed his eyes as the blue cat looked at him with anger.
"I try to be nice and THIS is what I get? Now we do things the HARD WAY!" yelled Nicole.
"Nicole! You need to calm down. You can only use compassion!" called Xero.
A purplish mist covered the area, with no knowledge of where it came from. It quickly forced it's way into Spike's lungs as the large dragon gagged.
"Just calm down. Take deep breaths." spoke Katrina with her staff glowing at the tip.
The mist went all the way into his body as he exploded in black light. When the light faded, Spike had changed. For one thing, he wasn't giant, but he was taller than normal and quite a bit thinner. His scales had turned pitch black and his spines blue. He was in the normal Yellow Lantern Attire and his now red eyes looked at the Indigo Tribe members and the Star Sapphires with boredom. He cracked his neck and started stretching a bit.
"W-What happened?" asked Fluttershy who felt fear at Spike's new form.
He chuckled, his voice having changed. It sounded darker, almost seductive in a way.
"That's just creepy." spoke Laney.
"You want to know who I am? Very well. You may call me Greed. As for why I am controlling the dragon, it is somewhat complicated. You see, I was born from the greed in peoples hearts, but I lacked a true body and since this one fit both qualifications for my host, the first being filled with greed and the second is to have a weakened will, I quickly took him as my host, though if you are wondering, his soul and mind are asleep at the moment." Greed said with a smirk. He then looked at the Orange ring on his finger. "While I was not expecting this, it is a welcomed surprise."
"Let go of Spike!" screamed Chrysalis as her horn glowed with the violet light.
"Unfortunately at the moment, I can't do that, as he is the first host I have gained. The only thing I can promise you is that his own soul will remain unharmed, and my own power will heal any injury." He said, not afraid of Chrysalis at all.
"This is getting weird." whispered Tyr'ahnee to Fifi.
"You do realize that I can hear you. My current host could have even heard you." He said, glaring at Tyr'ahnee.
Chrysalis glared at Greed, sending out a blast of violet light that hit him spot on. He managed to stand his ground before the orange ring glowed and he created a shield that withstood the blast.
Greed and Chrysalis glared at each other, before Greed donned a grin. "It seems that your heart is filled with wrath at the moment, why is it that women are always such violent creatures? Is it because of hormones or is it because of the whole bleeding from a certain part?" Greed mocked the woman present, causing more than a few of them to get enraged.
"Run that by me again. I dare ya." growled Laney.
"I think your reactions more than prove my point. While I would like to continue this conversation, I have big plans." Greed said giving a bow before using his ring to fly away.
"Get back here!" yelled the queen of mars, but their attention was diverted as they saw a red ring fly past them.
Greed saw it out of the corner of his eye. Honestly curious, he followed the red ring .'I'm aware of your sentience ring and I want to ask a question. Has there ever been rouge members of a corp able to keep their rings and is it possible to keep someone from being brought to their corps?' thought/asked the Orange Lantern ring.
'I cannot disclose that info. I must recruit a new Red Lantern.' was its reply as Greed saw Nicole start to glare at him with fury.
"How about I make you a deal? If you and your bearer side with me, then I can give you plenty to destroy should you feel the need to let your rage out, and even give you plenty of foe to crush, the only price is that you two must work alongside me and work with other rouge corp members." Greed said with a grin, seeing the other lantern's glares, even Fluttershy was glaring and that unnerved him, but he didn't show it.
'Possible.' responded the ring as it flew onto Nicole's paw.
Greed saw this and realized that his plan was very unlikely as Nicole coughed out blood, growling.
The Indigo ring flew of her finger as her clothing changed from Indigo to Blood red. She roared and flew at Greed with her claws extended out.
Greed formed a replica of himself with his ring for her to attack. She crashed into the duplicate and held nothing back as her claws ripped into its flesh.
Greed watched. "As much as you may hate me, remember that as greedy as I am, I know enough to take care of my allies or those who could be allies."
"Take this!" came Katrina's voice as several indigo chains wrapped around his form as the Star Sapphires held them down with violet spikes.
Greed looked at them with a bored expression. "Is that the best you can think up?" He asked as the Greed duplicate was somehow not shattering apart.
"You could leave Spike's body quietly, or not." warned Fluttershy who was using one of the rare looks that showed she meant business.
"Hehehe...HAHAHA!" Greed burst out in laughter. "And what makes you think I will leave? Not only that, but I've left his soul intact when I can easily consume it to make myself stronger, if anything letting him sleep is only keeping him from going on another rampage and possibly killing any of you."
"We'll take that as a no." spoke Queen Tyr'ahnee as she and the Star Sapphires began to form a sealed box around him.
"Each ring has only so much power. I can wait a long time if I have to for each of your rings to run out. Once I'm free, I will rip the entire universe a new one ya here me?" Greed said with a sinister grin.
Each of the Star Sapphires and Indigo Tribe members shared a look with each other as Greed was right.
"Go ahead, seal me away, but no matter how or where you seal me, I will always come back because their will always be greed with in peoples hearts. While I can last any seal you place me in the same cannot be said about Spike."
"We won't seal you away. We're just gonna keep you in there until Spike is free." spoke Fluttershy.
"I have every intention of staying until my host is on his deathbed, so I'd get comfy. After all I have plenty of time." He said with a grin.
All of them glared at him as Xero had taken to wrapping Nicole up in chains to keep her under control.
"A Red lantern is not so easily locked up. I'd say your chains will last...25 minutes at most." Greed estimated as Nicole struggled.
"We'll need to get more lanterns to help us." muttered Queen Tyr'ahnee.
"Since I'm a somewhat fair sport and because I enjoy a challenge I'll tell you this, seek out the Green and Blue lanterns. If anything having four corps to face will make any victory much sweeter." Greed said.
"I'll go and try to find them." spoke Xero to the girls before she flew straight into the air and into space.
Greed watched, multiple plans forming in his head as he just gave a grin.
(Green/Yellow Lanterns)
"YIPE!" screamed Dodgers as he ducked the flaming sword of a yellow construct of the Piggy Slayer as Gaz watched with her usual expression. "Can't we talk this out?!" screamed the captain running from the construct.
"No." replied Gaz with her eyes slightly open as her construct continued to chase the duck.
"Impressive, for a peasant." remarked Azula as she continued to class against June.
"You're not bad yourself, for a girl who already has wrinkles." remarked June back as Azula gritted her teeth and tried to shoot Yellow flames at her at point blank range, but Juniper used that opening and hit her stomach with an open palm thrust that sent her back a foot or two.
"Hah! You can't handle all this!" spoke Jake as he flew circles around the skeleton.
"Let's see if you CAN handle this." Mandy held her ring up as several Yellow constructs of bats began to appear before it grew into a swarm that flew at the dragon.
Jake flew away from the swarm, but saw it get frozen thanks to Danny interfering.
"Thanks dude." smiled Jake before he saw Shego try to sneak up on the ghost boy and flew straight at her, tackling her in the stomach.
Danny smiled in thanks, but quickly manifested a shield to block against the scythe the skeleton was wielding and saw Mandy float up beside it.
"If a dragon skin pelt won't do, I'll just take a ghost's head." spoke Mandy.
"This is getting us nowhere!" screamed El Tigre as he was wrestling a green construct of a large tiger against Heloise's construct of a gargoyle.
"Than give up!" cackled Heloise as her gargoyle was winning and bit down on the tiger's neck.
"Not an option!" called El Tigre as his ring glowed brighter and he got an idea. He held his arm back before he shot it out with the chain at Heloise.
Said girl thought it was a last desperate move, but saw it was his hand with the ring on that was glowing brighter than before. She tried to bring up a shield, but the claw was faster and she was sent hurtling away from the fight.
"Stupid thing." she growled, but saw a green glow before her whole form was sent flying through space thanks to a point blank blast from El Tigre's ring.
She gasped as she saw that she was heading straight for the planet Qward and surrounded herself in a bubble before crashing down onto the planet. Her crash landed her deep into the crust as she found herself in what appeared to be an old holding area.
"Place looks like nothing but junk." remarked the girl who used her ring to light up the room, but noticed something near the back of the area. She shined the light on the spot, and was greeted by the deactivated head of a read and white robot with blue hands and feet.
She walked over and spotted a small label near its feet.
"Manhunter." spoke Heloise who looked up and noticed an armored door behind the robot. She constructed copies of what the keys were and watched as it unlatched and opened up.
She gasped as inside was rows upon rows of the same robot, all looking brand new.
"Ooooh, new toys." grinned Heloise who began to chuckle before it turned into full blown laughter.