Author's Notes: Here is the next snippet. Thanks to scrivener to editing help.
Altin Ad'Ms and his partner Gorius Karkum are not my OC's, they are actual canon Green Lanterns that appeared in Tony Bedard's R.E.B.E.L.S run.
''EXTERMINATE!'' the Red Dalek roared as he blasted apart another Branx mercenary.
Science Lab Arc-6 was a station around sixty kilometers long. It had been established as one of the Psion outposts in the Vega system centuries ago. Since then it had served as one of their principal research centers into genetics.
The Dalek had come attempting to gain access. For this, he was fired upon. The Red Dalek had to guess it was because of his symbol and the Psions own distrust regarding the various Lantern Corps. He doubted they wanted a Red Lantern anywhere near their precious experiments. The Dalek had guided Dex-Starr through the defenses and had pinpointed the weapons batteries before taking them out. Then the Dalek had drilled through the outer habitant plates before he moved right into the heart of the Psion complex.
Branx mercenaries and Psion gene-engineered drones opposed him, armed with all sorts of deadly weaponry. The Dalek knew about the Branx from his ring's databases, they were a fierce and tenacious warrior race.
They were chaff before the Dalek. The Red Lantern's gunstick tracked a column of Branx warriors before letting loose a massive crimson blast from said gunstick, reducing most of the Branx warriors to ashes. A pair of multi-barreled red gunstick constructs were formed above the Dalek as the Red Lantern promptly let loose with a set of rapid fire blasts, chewing apart the alien warriors in the darkly lit and oppressive hallways.
Dex-Starr himself was tearing into the throat of another Branx warrior before vomiting a load of crimson fire into a Psion guard. The guard had only time to scream for a moment before the fire consumed his entire body.
The Dalek's sensors detected fire spearing across every level. He should have guessed that the crimson flames of the Red Lanterns would cause damage to their surroundings, but science lab Arc-6 was big enough that the damage would take time to spread.
The Dalek paused before checking the internal maps that the L.E.G.I.O.N ship had so kindly provided. He was nearing the central data-junction where the cloning data was stored. Pleased at that information the Dalek swirled around. His casing's battle computers promptly locked on and calculated a firing solution before the Dalek blasted apart several more Branx mercenaries with pinpoint accuracy. With that the Dalek promptly cleared the corridor of anymore Branx guards.
''FOLLOW DEX-STARR! FOLLOW!'' the Dalek indicated before promptly heading down one of the metallic Psion corridors, casually blasting away any Psion corpses that got in the way. Dex-Star followed the Dalek eagerly.
Eventually the Dalek came before a set of blast shielded doors protected by high-grade force field. The Dalek then scanned the defenses. This was not going to be an easy nut to crack for any normal Lantern, but the Dalek was no normal Lantern.
The Dalek carefully formed a set of cutting and drilling constructs in the air, sculpting them out of pure rage before starting to tear away at the force fields. After a few moments the Dalek modulated the correct frequencies before tearing them down. Then the Dalek began the work of cutting through the door.
After several moments the Dalek succeeded in cutting through the door locks before knocking down the door with a plunger construct. The metal blast shielding hit the ground with a loud thud before the Dalek entered the central data-hub, Dex-Starr perched on his casing. The data-hub was massive, filled with towering emerald data-stacks that contained the sum knowledge of the Psion research that had been conducted on Science Lab Arc-6. The Dalek spotted several Psions at the center of the room.
Before him, Science Marshal Hallor looked in disbelief at the strange Red Lantern that had entered Psion space. He had thought that a couple of marauding Red Lanterns had simply gotten too close and that some weapons fire would drive them off. He was wrong.
''Kill them!'' Hallor screamed as the guards surrounding him leveled their weapons.
What followed was short, brutal and messy.
After the Psions had been reduced to paste, the Dalek turned to the sole surviving Psion, Science-General Hallor. The cringing Psion was now bent on the ground, eyes wide with fear as the pepperpot-shaped Red Lantern looked at him. Allegedly Psions had no emotion, conducting everything with cold scientific curiosity, but now Hallor was feeling something very akin to fear.
''WHERE IS THE CLONING DATA?'' the Dalek screeched at him.
''In-in data stack 113….what are you! What do you want!'' Hallor asked him.
The Dalek ignored him and glided over to the relevant data-stack before pressing a plunger to it.
''DOWNLOADING DATA!'' the Dalek said as its ring and casing decoded the relevant information. After a moment it disengaged its plunger and turned around. Its eyestalk swilled to see Hallor, who was trying to flee.
''EXTERMINATE!'' the Dalek leveled a gunstick at the Psion and vaporized him. He could have no witnesses here. The Dalek had already taken the opportunity to erase the current sensor and data-logs of the attack.
Outside the Dalek began to take off before he stopped. Sensors had detected a life sign heading towards him at incredible speeds. The Dalek's eyestalk swiveled around to track a single figure coming through space.
''YOU!'' the Dalek shrieked.
''Yeah, it's me!'' Lobo leapt up off his bike to tackle the Dalek, his hook in one hand and a massive gun in the other. Both the Dalek and Lobo fell to the nearest outlying habitat plate rapidly, the bounty hunter trying to smash open the Dalek's casing as best he can.
''I'm lookin for a rematch 'cause the last time-'' Lobo began before the Dalek formed a gunstick construct and blasted Lobo off him. The Red Dalek promptly hovered and created another set of blaster constructs.
''YOU! YOU ARE MORE ANNOYING THAN THE DOCTOR!'' the Dalek blasted Lobo through a nearby Psion tower, crimson flames licking at the metals.
''I dunno who yer talkin about. But I've got firepower now!'' Lobo leveled his rifle at the Dalek and let loose a massive plasma blast. The Dalek's shields registered danger as the blast came closing to penetrating his armor.
''Reach tech. Howdya like that tincan?'' Lobo grinned as he leapt forward, charging the gun again. A brief scan of the gun revealed it indeed was Reach technology. Was Lobo cooperating with the Reach? The Dalek dismissed that line of thought. He had more pressing matters at the moment.
A set of red construct shields was able to block the next plasma blast. Blue-white fire rippled across those crimson shields as the Dalek flew up, Dex-Starr behind him as the Red Lantern leveled his gunstick at Lobo, firing off another massive blasts while his red constructs fired more blasts at him.
''SILENCE! THE ONLY THING YOU ARE GOOD AT IS DYING!'' the Dalek shrieked as he blasted Lobo again and again with his gunstick.
Above the Psion science lab, Altin Ad'Ms and his partner Gorius Karkum flew to respond to the latest intrusion into Vega space. The two Green Lantern Corpsmen were the first of their organization to officially operate in the Vega system for countless millennia. For most of Vega's recorded history the Green Lanterns could not operate within the system limits and any Lantern recruited from there had to operate outside his own sector. But recently that had changed with the Guardians repealing their treaty with Larfleeze.
Now the Vega system was open once more to Green Lantern jurisdiction, although the situation was far more complex. The Green Lanterns corps did not command the same respect in the Vega system as they did in the rest of the universe, as the Veganites had gone for so long without Lantern supervision.
''Czarnian life signs detected.'' Gorius's ring reported. Her Okaaran partner cursed.
''So it is true, Lobo is here.'' Altin had not forgotten his last fight with the bounty hunter. True, the Okaarans did not fear death, but Lobo still intimidated them. Quickly the Okaaran and his partner flew down into the space station.
Altin and Gorius took the s sight of various debris somehow burning in space as they ducked and weaved through the floating wreckage. Gorius paused to run a scan with her ring. After a few moments her ring promptly confirmed the analysis. Gorius performed the Psion equivalent of a frown. This was not good.
Before the two Green Lanterns, they saw Lobo chuck a tower-sized building at a single crimson pepperpot-like figure. The building hit the figure with a massive impact before a crimson cutting laser burst through it and the figure rose.
''Is that Red Lantern using constructs?'' Gorius asked. Indeed, they could see a group of crimson pepperpot constructs be formed to fire upon Lobo who answered back with the strange handheld blaster he had.
''It is. I heard stories about a strange Red Lantern that could do that.'' Altin remarked as he commanded his ring to scan Lobo.
''Reach technology identified.'' His ring reported.
''So the Reach are involved.'' Gorius muttered.
''Regardless this can't continue.'' Altin conjured up a massive green construct flare in the shape of the Green Lantern Corps symbol. He fired it between the two combatants. ''Attention! You are under arrest for-''
The favored son of Okaara never got the chance to finish his sentence as what appeared to be an Earth cat leapt out of nowhere to promptly maul him. Altin fell back, uttering several colorful curses as the cat attempted to vomit bright red energy on him.
''Hey, it's that Psion girl and her partner.'' Lobo looked up. ''I thought you two buggered off.''
In response to that Gorius paused to create a construct cage around Lobo. ''As I said, you're under arrest. Now that Dox had left you out of his service-'' she was interrupted as Lobo slammed his fists into the construct cage.
''Now lady, that ain't gonna hold me. Didn't you learn from last time-'' Lobo and promptly interrupted as a massive crimson blast engulfed him just as he almost finished breaking out of the cage, the massive crimson blast then flung Lobo ring into the lower levels of the habitat.
''You!'' Gorius turned to see the mechanical Red Lantern. ''Don't think you can just waltz into the Vega system and commit crimes.''
''I DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT.'' The Dalek told her.
''I have no great love for my people, but you've already destroyed a L.E.G.I.O.N ship and caused immense amounts of destruction.'' Gorius pointed out.
''SELF-DEFENSE.'' The Dalek told her.
''Self-defense?''
''THIS IS BETWEEN ME AND LOBO!''
Gorius hardly had time to say more as Lobo fired another blast from his rifle at them, the plasma round barely missing the Psion Green Lantern. The Dalek's eyestalk swiveled to look at the form of Lobo on the ground. Then the Red Lantern began to withdraw.
''Hah, yer running aren't ya?'' Lobo laughed. Then he stopped laughing as the Dalek promptly blasted his bike with his gunstick. The thing went up in flames.
''MY HOG! YOU-!'' Gorius winced as Lobo filled the air with a long list of very of vulgar curses. The Dalek remained impassive before it turned and created a six-hundred meter tall construct of a giant Dalek.
Gorius looked on in shock as the Dalek promptly hurled a six-hundred meter-wide chunk of pure rage right at Lobo. It hit with a massive shockwave, throwing up debris hundreds of feet into the air and into the lower orbit.
The Psion Lantern then was then covered by a red construct cage, the Dalek having used the distraction of the massive construct drop to cover her in a cage. Gorius quickly began to cut her way out of the cage, but the Dalek was already flying past her.
Meanwhile Altin had managed to triumphant over that hellish cat. He managed to finally knock away Dex-Starr with a construct spear after having covered himself with a set of overlapping green construct armor.
''Now. You will place yourself under my custody-'' Altin was promptly blinded as a massive red plunger construct slammed him into one of the suborbital plates of the space station. The Red Dalek promptly blazed off into the distance, with Dex-Starr following.
''COMMENCING TACTICAL WITHDRAWL!''
''Hyperspace portal detected.'' Gorius's ring reported as she rose out of the wreckage of a nearby bulkhead. Var away the Dalek made good it's escape and promptly left in a hyperspace shut to flee the Vega sector.
''He's escaped.'' Gorius opened up a channel to Altin through her ring.
''Then we must chase him!'' the Okaaran said.
''No, our jurisdiction is the Vega system, ring scan Lobo's status.'' Gorius commanded.
''Lobo is unconscious'' The ring reported.
''We may not be able to get that Red Lantern, but we can arrest Lobo at least!''
''Hyperspace journey completed.'' The Dalek's ring reported as he exited the portal into the remote system that he had taken as a base. The Dalek then swopped down into the bruised ruddy skies of the planet and flew through the atmosphere, Dex-Starr following him.
Security protocols around the Dalek's base recognized his IFF signals as the Red Lanterns promptly flew into a nearby access hatch and entered the base proper. Eventually he came into the central command room were Caan waited.
''WELL? HOW WAS IT?'' Caan asked, turned around to look at him.
''THE DETOUR WAS SUCESSFUL. THE PSION DATA HAS BEEN EXTRACTED. THE NEW DALEK RACE BEGINS NOW!'' the Red Lantern proclaimed.
Author's Note: After this you will be seeing a timeskip of about eight months, after the the Red Lantern Dalek begins to create the New Dalek Empire.