And Injustice For All 3
Chapter 10: Sea of Troubles
Atlantis
"Batman wants my Marines to fight his battle?" Asked Aquaman. "Like the time Superman ordered me to invade Metropolis?"
"We were all on the wrong side side of that war," Green Lantern replied.
"The next time my people's blood is spilled, it will be for Atlantis, not the surface world."
"You're one of us too, Arthur. Your father..."
"My father was human. My duty is to Atlantis. I don't trust you, Jordan, you or any surface dweller. Now leave and remind Batman: Stay out of my seas."
"And when that's on your doorstep?"
Jordan pointed at Brainiac's ship through a holograph.
"Atlantis will defend itself."
The holograph disappeared.
"Maybe sooner than you think. We need to help each other."
"Go. I don't need your distraction."
Suddenly, Jordan's eyes turned red. He screamed and said...
"No, I am not leaving."
"Need I remind you of who's kingdom this is?"
As they battle, Jordan tried to clear his mind over what just happened to him. Aquaman's refusal of joining Batman to stop Brainiac may be the cause of it, or maybe it was something totally different. Regardless, Green Lantern won...
"Listen to reason, Arthur." His eyes glowed red again, but he shook it off. "I'm sorry. I didn't come here to fight you. This is exactly what happened up there. First, they take out communications, then..."
There was a tremor...
"...they invade."
Brainiac's manhunters are now invading Atlantis.
"They're your oceans, but this also my sector. Let me help you."
Aquaman knew he could not deny Jordan's help. Fighting the manhunters alone would be a futile effort. Seeing no other option...
"Cover me."
Jordan stood where the manhunters were approaching from the entrance. He created a wall to block them, but their energy rays penetrate the wall easily. Jordan recovered after being flown off. He threw a dump truck construct which flattened them. Impressed with his work, he was unexpectedly ambushed by Cheetah. He looked up and saw her up.
"Mmm. I thought the only Regimer down here to torture was Aquaman."
"Cheetah..."
"Let's not beat around the bush. Wonder Woman is in hiding. Maybe down here. Tell me, where's your Amazon friend?"
"Didn't you hear? I unfriended her. So did Atlantis."
"Liar!" Cheetah jumped down.
"I don't need a golden lasso to make you tell me the truth."
They battle. Cheetah fights kind of similar to Mileena of MKX, but a more animalistic style of combat. Like Mileena, Cheetah is just as fast, vicious and flexible, but unlike Mileena, Cheetah relies on her claws in a attempt to "please the Goddess" whoever that may be. Even so, Jordan managed to tame her.
"Bad Kitty..."
Explosions were heard from outside. Jordan rushes to see Arthur trying to take as many manhunters down, but is having trouble doing so. Jordan created a minigun construct to finish them off.
"My people are getting flanked. Hold this line. Be our rear guard."
"Got it. And you?"
"I'm the vanguard."
Aquaman ran as the door on Jordan's left side opened. It was Bane, holding a Marine by the head.
"Hal Jordan! You have returned."
"S'good to be back where I belong, kinda like you and a prison cell."
"Even as a Yellow Lantern, you never showed me the proper respect. But I will show you how easily your will is broken."
Jordan combats Bane. This proved to be quite a challenge because of Bane's Venom, but Lantern proved that his will is iron as he floors Bane.
"Break this."
Once again, his eyes glew red. He screamed and blasted Bane with a sledgehammer construct, similar to Shao Kahn's wrath hammer.
"We're locking down the gates," Aquaman said as he approaches. "But the fight's not over. Hal?"
"Sorry I was somewhere else. Where's this leave us?"
"You put yourself at risk for Atlantis. Maybe you can be trusted."
"So you're in?"
"I can't. I belong here, defending my people."
Suddenly a red blood portal opened and there can be one individual who can create that portal...Enter Atrocitus of the Red Lanterns. Agents of vengeance, powered by rage.
"Hal Jordan!"
"Red Lanterns?"
"Atrocitus and his cat, Dex-Starr. Don't worry," Jordan said. I'll handle these two ring to ring."
The Red and Green Lantern circle around each other.
"You've been messing with my head, Atrocitus?"
Atrocitus created a Sinestro construct. "Sinestro's Yellow Lanterns slaughtered millions, and their victims demand vengeance. You may have cast off their ring, but you are not absolved."
"You're not the first person to tell me that."
"Dex-Starr would tear your heart out and lap your blood, but I sense you have a higher calling... A spark glowing within you, a spark... of rage!"
Dex-Starr acted like a normal cat would before Atrocitus vomited blood napalm on Jordan's chest. Dex-Starr climbed up to his head and vomited more on him. Then he let go.
"What are you doing? What is this... this anger?!"
"You may have overcome your fears, but you still betrayed the Green Lanterns. Hurt your allies. How could you ever forgive yourself?"
Atrocitus offers a red ring.
"I...I can't..."
"Then burn!"
Hal writhed in pain as the red fire burned him. The red ring came closer.
"In brightest day, in blackest night... No evil shall escape my sight, let those who worship evil's might..."
The blood that was on him was washed away by the Green magic from his ring, blasting Atrocitus away, and shattered the red ring.
"BEWARE MY POWER-GREEN LANTERN'S LIGHT! You're right. I do hate myself for what I've done. But my will is stronger than my hate!"
The battle between the Red and Green Lanterns had begun. The Red power ring Atrocitus wears operates by expelling the blood, replacing it with red light. If the ring is removed, the wearer dies due to cadiac arrest, similar to Atrocitus' heart where it died on his homeworld of Ryut. The Red power ring can only be worn by being overtaken by the red light, reducing it's wearer to be driven by instinct, to kill and destroy with little reason. Atrocitus is a agent of vengeance and rage. His family was murdered by the manhunters created by the Guardians of the universe. He knew of Hal's affiliation with the Yellow Lanterns and the crimes he committed during Superman's Regime. Hal managed to defeat Atrocitus in a hard fought battle.
"Your world is burning, and when it is ashes, you will beg for vengeance!"
Atrocitus created the blood portal and he and Dex-Starr left.
"The Guardians don't need to know about this one," said Hal.