Chapter 21: Yellow vs Green
Sinestro floated near the asteroid field between Jupiter and Mars.
In front of him were dozens of his soldiers in formation.
"Today we instill fear into the lives of seven billion people who are living without it. The fools believe that these guardians who have emerged will protect them, they no longer hold true fear. We must correct that." Sinestro said as his forces threw up their arms in unison.
Sinestro grinned before all of his men looked up behind him.
Sinestro turned to see Hal floating with dozens of green lanterns beside him.
"Sorry to crash you're party Sinestro, but I can't let you near Earth." Hal said.
"Hal Jordan, I had hoped to end your miserable life when I came to backwater planet. But now I get to do it sooner than I thought, and you've brought more Lanterns for me to kill."
"Yellow's the color for cowards like you Sinestro. When this is over, I'm gonna rip off that shitty ring of yours and bring you to the guardians ."
Sinestro grinned again.
"Let's begin." Sinestro said as he projected a massive space storm at the green lanterns.
Hal and two other lanterns formed a massive wall in front of them that blocked the storm before the wall shattered.
"Lanterns go!" Hal shouted as the Green lanterns and Yellow lanterns flew into each other, clashing.
Hal hurled a yellow lantern back with a projected submarine when he was hit by a small asteroid and knocked back.
Hal regained himself and saw two yellow lanterns using their rings to hurl asteroids at various Green Lanterns.
Hal projected a large octopus that grabbed each of the asteroids and hurled them back into the yellow lanterns.
Hal flew further into the field as he saw several Green Lanterns battling sever Yellow lanterns that had them outnumbered.
Hal projected several rockets and hurled them into several of the yellow lanterns.
He then projected a spacecraft around himself, flying into a few more of the yellow lanterns.
With those Green Lanterns now having the edge, Hal clashed with two more yellow lanterns.
The two projected metal tentacles at him, only for Hal to project two dragon heads that snapped their jaws around the tentacles before Hal projected two more F-22's that crashed into them both.
As the two yellow lanterns recalled , Hal projected two large swords that he impaled the yellow lanterns.
As Hal did this he saw Sinestro impale one of his Green Lanterns.
Hal grit his teeth before flying towards Sinestro.
As he did, five yellow lanterns got between him and Sinestro.
The yellow lanterns projected together and formed a massive monster.
Arx and Kho flew up beside him as they began projecting light around Hal as he assisted them as he unleashed more projection.
Eventually they projected a large robotic jet of armor over Hal.
Hal looked at the suit.
"How could two aliens make this look exactly like Daizyuzin?" Hal asked before he saw the projected monster move towards him.
Inside the projected robot, Hal used the forearms to block each of the monster's claw strikes before punching back.
The creature leapt up and tried to tackle, Hal's suit only for him to grab the creature and hurl it into an asteroid.
As the creature came back, Hal increased the projection as a massive sword formed into the suit's hand.
Hal slashed across the creature, shattering the projection before he continued, slicing apart the five Yellow Lanterns who projected the monster.
Sinestro saw this and grinned as he projected as a large warhead around himself
Sinestro launched himself into the suit projection and tore through it before it blew the suit apart.
Hal was launched out into an asteroid as Sinestro flew at him.
Sinestro projected several spiked tentacles from his ring and wrapped them around Hal before hurling him into another asteroid.
Hal projected a mace that smashed them apart, but Sinestro projected two demonic creatures that flew into Hal and began attacking him.
Hal projected a mini-gun and blasted the two apart but, Sinestro projected more tentacles and wrapped them around Hal before he was hurled into another asteroid.
Hal projected a spaceship around himself before flying at Sinestro.
Sinestro grinned as he projected a meteor that smashed Hal's ship apart.
As Hal tried to regain himself Sinestro projected a large blade around each of his arms and flew at Hal, who projected a sword over his arm and did his best to fight off Sinestro's blades.
"Do you really believe you can best me human?"
"I've beaten you before."
"I was only a Green Lantern then. I have discovered the power of fear. Fear which you will soon know well enough." Sinestro said as he shattered Hal's sword and tried to stab him, only for Hal to project a shield and hold back Sinestro's swords.
"Hm hm hm, now it ends human. You will never understand the power of the ring like I do."
That was when Hal had an idea. He smiled as he began to push back.
"Here's the thing Sinestro, even without the ring, I'm a kick ass pilot, mixed martial arts master, and Air Force Captain."
Hal smashed apart Sinestro's swords before he began punching and fighting Sinestro man to man.
"Without the ring, what are you?" Hal asked as he kept up the pressure.
Sinestro wasn't able to make any projections and tried to fly away, only to have Hal project a dragon around Sinestro that snatched Sinestro in its mouth before hurling him away into an Astroid.
Sinestro opened his eyes just in time to See Hal fly into him with a steam train projected over him.
Sinestro tried to project a shield, but it was shattered by the train as Sinestro was smashed through the asteroid and came out the other side.
He crashed into another asteroid before he tried to get up.
Hal landed in front of him and grabbed Sinestro's arm as Sinestro struggled.
Hal slowly reached down and grabbed Sinestro's ring.
"No!" Sinestro said as Hal removed the ring from Sinestro's hand and Sinestro's suit vanished.
Hal smiled as he looked around and saw the Green Lantern's had won.
Hal projected chains around Sinestro before flying in the center of his lanterns.
"Green Lantern's we've won!" He shouted as the other Green Lanterns began chanting in victory.
Sinestro gave a defeated look as he lowered his head.
On a distant world, a portal opened up as Hal stepped through it with Sinestro beside him.
Four Green Lanterns came forward and took Sinestro from Hal as Sinestro looked up to see the Guardians standing over him.
His eyes widened in fear as Hal handed the other lanterns Sinestro's ring.
"What's wrong Sinestro, you look afraid." Hal said before he stepped back through the portal.
Hal arrived back on Earth, and landed in Central city on a rooftop.
He looked out at the city before him.
"Hey you're back!"
"Barry."
The Flash ran up beside him.
"So I take it you won."
"Yeah we beat Sinestro."
"Awesome, I wish I could have helped, but uh, can't run in space."
"Barry, do you ever feel sometimes like you carry the weight of the world on your shoulders?"
"Well uh, the weight of Central city at least."
Hal laughed a little.
"You're not half bad kid. You might have even made a decent Lantern."
"Really, cause my powers with one of those rings."
"No, we're not going there." Hal said.
"You know Hal, I know you're part of this huge intergalactic army but, you're there are others here on Earth like us. People who could use someone of your skills when the world is threatened."
Hal turned to Barry with interest.
"You mean like some kind of team of heros."
"Yeah , Superman came up with a really cool name for us."
"I'll consider it."
"Awesome! Think it over." Barry said before he sped off.
Hal took a deep breath as he realized he would have to clear things up fully with Carol.
He returned to the hotel where he found Carol in her room talking on the phone.
"Great thank's." She said before she saw Hal come in and shut the door.
"Oh Hal, you're back. Not dead I see."
"Carol, we need to talk."
"About you're little ring. You don't need to tell me Jordan, I'm not going to spill your little secret."
"Carol, this is very important. I don't just protect Earth, I protect this entire space sector."
"You know fancy words don't inherently impress me Hal."
"Carol I, 'sigh' I've just been dodging this, but we need to get back to the 'us' situation. I'm still not leaving the Air Force, which means I'm not working at Ferris Aircraft."
Carol gave a devious smiled.
"Oh I'm afraid you are."
"What?!"
"You see , Ferris Aircraft contracts out to the Air Force with out experimental aircraft. Because of this, Air Force pilots have to be the one's to test our aircraft.
Hal's eyes widened as he took out his phone and saw he had an email from Major Horton with the subject saying , "reassignment".
"Why you sneaky little!" Hal started as Carol laughed before Hal grabbed her.
Carol responded by putting her own arms around Hal and passionately kissing him.
When she withdrew Hal's expression changed.
"Looks like we'll be seeing each other daily Jordan." Carol said before Hal kissed her back.
Elsewhere on another world, a large humanoid creature wearing large armor knelt in front of a far larger being, who sat on a throne.
"My Emperor, we have located another world for harvest. Seven billion sentient life forms on the planet. Each is compatible with our metamorphosis chambers. Seven billion added to our army, our reach will know no limits.
The creature made no sign of movement or emotion.
"There is a catch though. Our reports show that this world has several enhanced creatures acting as guardians, including a Green Lantern. Though they shouldn't be a problem for us though, if we act quickly."
"Begin the invasion . Deploy the motherboxes, see to my arrival personally, uncle."