A.N: finally, after years of searching, I have FINALLY OBTAINED A GREEN LANTERN RING! Success.

Beawolf's Pen: Yes that scene. No, you do not have a problem, Tomar'Re is Bae, and it rhymes.

Gabby M: Ah, the social issues follow anyone anywhere, even to different planets, but it's a learning experience for Mary. Oh yes, very interesting indeed.

I don't own GLTAS

Italics are Thoughts

Starting Here... They Accuse

After the excitement of everything that day, I just wanted to go somewhere where I couldn't be noticed. I prayed that I wouldn't stick out so much in the Science center, being that I would just be another Green Lantern learning new facts or something. But that didn't seem to happen.

When we first got in, the place felt a little cold. It was thankfully still a welcoming atmosphere thanks to the people who waved hello and greeted us as we walked by. One humanoid man with dark purple skin and dark shaved hair. stopped by. He said to us, "So, this must be the new recruit. Hal Jordan's… new ward."

Killowag looked down to me and said, "This is Thaal Sinestro. One of many of Hal's beginner instructors around here."

"Let me guess, you're here because she's assigned to me too." Thaal practically stated.

"Sinestro, not everything falls to you." Something tells me Sinestro likes to take a lot of credit around here.

"As you say my friend." Then he left us as he walked away, down a different hall. As we continued down the one we were on, Killowag grumbled to me, "Remind me to tell you the do's and don't's about learning things from Sinestro, Ok?"

"Ok." I nodded. If not the credit, he likes to probably show off

Once we reached the end of the hallway, it showed to open up into a huge room with several other halls connected. There were tables everywhere with a bunch of instruments for research and experiment. Kilowatt took us down a hallway that led into a a darker room which he said was the best. It was smaller then the main one we went to, but the thing that stuck out the most was the small glass encase room inside the one we were on. There was a something like a bed that was set up at and angle in the room. Different tools were set around the counter inside the room. Besides the the door on the other side, the only other sign that there was a way in is if something small climbed through a tube that connected to the wall on our side, and then went up through the ceiling and then appeared again inside the glass room.

"Experiments are done here all the time where they test bio engineering thesis's or whatever they call them."

"Why is it incased in glass."

"Potentiality of something wrong happening."

"Oh. What will I do here?"

"Whatever you want. Test whatever question you have in your head. Just don't use the the salts they got in the tubes."

"Why not?"

"One word: Boom."

"Ooooo." The things I could do.

"Don't get any ideas." Killowag ensured my thinking was cut by entertainment with something new. "Let's go to the port. They've got better things to see there." We took a turn to another room so that Killowag could take us out by a short cut when we landed in another room like the one we were just in, but busy. There was a Guardian there, the one that was like Appa yesterday; mean looking. Her most prominent feature was her shaved head.

"What is the meaning of you coming in while i'm busy?" She began. I wondered how busy she was considering there were Green Lanterns in the room and the glass room going in and out, carrying something or working at whatever creation they had on the table. She on the other hand wasn't doing much but staring at me and saying, "I hope she's not here to help."

"Sorry ma'm, we're just taking a short cut to the back exit. Mary here was taking a look around is all. But with enough practice she'll be ready to help in whatever you got cooking here." I knew Killowag was trying to assure the Guardian I wasn't going to fool around and be useful, but that didn't seem to cut it for the Guardian.

"Practice is not the thing i'm worried about." She said with a scowl still trained on me.

As I was trying to decode what she meant by just looking at her, a random Green Lantern that looked like a humanoid St. Bernard called out to the big guy, "Killowag, my friend."

"Voz, how are you? Don't drop those test tubes."

A laugh and a comment later, Killowag and Voz got into a conversation, which was an enough distraction for the Guardian to float down to my level and say, "It still seems impossible for someone of your caliber to have the ring."

Oh no, here we go again. "I've got the ring for a reason. That's that." Is all I said. I didn't want to start an argument.

"How you got it we already know, and it's not what you think. Why you still have it is my question."

"Because I deserve it."

"Hardly."

"Hey, what now?" Killowag cut in.

He apparently only heard the last bit of the conversation because she said, "I'm just telling young Cabon here is that she's hardly around. She should come by."

"What do you think Mary?"

Killowag didn't understand it at first, but the second he figured what the stare down between me and the Guardian was about, the bug guy began to pull me gently away and say, "We'll see you later directer." The Guardian nodded but as we walked out, I heard her mumble the word 'Mistake' under her breath.

As Killowag ushered me out, I repeated, "Director?"

"She's the science director of the facility."

"Why did they give her that position?"

"She's pretty good about it."

"I don't think she deserves it."

Once we got to the short cut door Killowag talked about earlier, Killowag stopped me just outside and asked, "What went on between you and the Director. She said something didn't she."

I looked down at my feet and rolled on the balls of my feet. I mumbled, "Yeah." But loud enough for him to hear.

He told me, "You know, i'll be honest; everyone around have many opinions about you."

"I know, i've noticed." I'm not blind or anything.

Killowag was shocked but to keep from going off topic he quickly said, "My point is they haven't given the time to meet you to form a better opinion. What they say now, you change it by showing them what you got. And you got what it takes."

"You make it sound easy but it's going to take forever."

Killowag scratched his chin and pondered at what I said. Then he held out a hand for me and said, "Good things take time. Your day to shine will come before you know it."

I welcomed the gesture and grabbed Killowag's hand. Together we walked down a hall to a landing outside the back of the facility. From there Killowag lead me into the sky as we fly around again. A few minutes later of flying by a few sky scrapers, we fly over a small building that was half as tall as the others around it. When we got down to the building landing part, I looked up to see the details of the building. It was gray like most of the buildings around, but the dome on the tope was white, and there were large hinges where it should that it opened up to reveal what was inside. There was an entrance to go inside from the landing so we walked into a dark hall. As we walked around, there were post that lit up in green that looked like lanterns sitting on a pole. It talked, which made me stand behind Killowag as it said, "Authorization."

"Sergeant Killowag."

"Authorized to Wings V and W—"

"Yeah, yeah, I know." Killowag made a left walked past it, letting me follow behind and look back frightened at the talking post.

"Was it alive?"

"No, just tech security. It always has to remind you where you can go in this place for some dumb reason."

"So the one hall that was straight behind it, what's that one?"

"Off limits to even the highest rank. The Guardians are building something in there. They won't show the public until it could be fully operational, whatever it is."

"Oh." Curiouser and curiouser. We continued down the left hall until we got to a giant hanger. Two alien like ships sat in the room while another sat completely dismembered in the corner. One of the good ships was diamond shape while the other one was mix a mix of torpedo with wings. they were both set up on heavy metal stilts. As we got to go underneath one, we saw a random Green Lantern and a Guardian talking about something. I stopped in my tracks and let Killowag continue forward as I noticed the Guardian was none other then Appa Ali Apsa. My day can not get any worse. Killowag muttered, "No matter where, I can't seem to keep you away from the Guardians."

The angry Guardian dismissed the random Green Lantern and flouted on over to us, asking, "What is the meaning of you arrival, Sergeant."

"We didn't think it would be busy here, sorry. I was just showing Mary around. We''ll be going." Killowag was about to grab my hand and turn us around, but I didn't let him touch me. Instead, I maneuvered around so that I still staid under the ship and just a few feet of the Guardian and asked him, "What's the speed of this freighter?" I wanted to let Appa know that I knew my way around already. Thanks to most of Hal's talks to prepare me for Oa as well as going around with Killowag helped me for this moment. I'll show him, i'll show Appa what I know. "It seems like it can go faster with a hyperdrive then that tank hanging around."

"Speed in space is different then speed on your planet." Appa tried to correct me.

"I know that, that's why i'm asking." I was sort of right actually. They had a huge haul for a freighter, and if they need transport something quick, why not install a quicker system on the engines.

Appa was at a loss for words at that, as if he wasn't expecting to be wrong. For a second he clenched his teeth in anger feeling the loss hit him hard, and then he took a deep breath to collect himself and figure out something to say. When he turned to me with a neutral expression, he said something that I would never forget, "You think learning to be a Green Lantern can make you one, but there are still factors that you can't seem to understand that rule that out."

I stepped back, completely shocked at his retort. What was wrong with him? Why couldn't he see i was trying! What was wrong with me?

"No, hold on just a minute—" Killowag began, but I was already out of the room in the blink of an eye. I could here Killowag call back out to me and try and catch up as I made it out of the port facility and sped across the sky to the familiar skyline that showed the direction Earth would be. I told me ring, trying to hold back any sign of a sob as I said, "Take me back to Earth, quickly, I don't care how" I just let it all happen, not caring how I my ring was able to tell what I meant and shot me through a sky filled with stars that slowly turned to a tunnel with bright lights flashing by. I just wanted to go home.

A.N: Ok so the science part wasn't necessary but i needed a transition to meet Scar the Director. Future reference hint of Aya and the Interceptor Ok so she meets Sinestro, and starts to realize there are stuck ups. and then talks to the Guardians and realizes there are #% #$#. So, no matter how hard she tries she can't seem to get it right. Based off how i've been feeling with my parents lately. Things will heat up next. I'm KikaKatTIOI, peace out!