Welcome back to the Dark Multiverse. Today, our counterpoint to the Green Lantern Duology. Now this one was rather tough for me to assign a character to, as most of Green Lantern's memorable villains have essentially the same power set but in a different color. I didn't want to do that. So I did some research and found someone. So, to counter the Nightbringer and the Torchbearer, and as correctly guessed by ShadowPhoenix10, I present a duology based on Doctor Polaris. So, how does DC's magnetic madman drive Cynder into darkness? Read on to find out…

Earth -63

Science is never a straight road to success. That much is true. And no scientist I've ever known realizes that more than my former colleague, Doctor Neal Emerson. Admittedly, his theories are completely crackpot, all this talk of magnetism and its potential use for immortality. Sorry, that's just nutty, Neal.

But then again, I've never been surer that Neal wasn't a bit nutty himself. Let me explain.

(Flashback about six months)

It all started when I was visiting Neal, to see if he was okay, seeing as his most recent project request had been denied due to little scientific evidence. But when I got there, I heard Neal talking to himself upstairs. So, knowing this has happened before, I went upstairs, hoping to find him. I did, but not like I had expected.

It turns out, Neal has a split personality. I'd seen the other side on the news but just never realized it, as it was the supervillain Doctor Polaris. Once I found out, I tried to get Polaris to let me talk to Neal, only to realize Neal was gone, Polaris had taken over. That last rejection had driven Neal permanently out of his mind, allowing Polaris to assume almost complete control.

As I pleaded with Polaris to let Neal back into control, Polaris snapped and started using his magnetic abilities to throw every magnetic item in the room at me. Somehow he managed to make each item stick to me, as if he magnetized my bones. Eventually, I had become encased in magnetic materials as a sort of prison, courtesy of Polaris.

Before I knew what was going on, Doctor Polaris had fled the scene, leaving me trapped in my magnetized prison.

While Polaris runs amok, I'm trapped in a magnetic cage, unable to move, unable to call for help, unable to do anything. Let's hope Neal comes back to his senses after all…

(Fast forward three months)

Neal isn't coming back. He's gone, Polaris is in control now. Entirely. I don't even know how I'm still alive, I've been stuck in this magnetic prison without food or water for three months, I should be dead!

But, I think I've figured it out. Somehow, I've evolved to survive purely off electromagnetic energy. Maybe Neal's research wasn't so crackpot after all! It's what's keeping me alive at this point!

(Fast forward two more months)

Okay, I'm pretty sure I've confirmed Neal's theories by this point, now to see if I can put it to the test. I put all my focus into controlling the electromagnetism coursing through my veins. It takes about three minutes, but eventually it starts working. I can feel my magnetic prison shifting around me. But I'm not going to just release it. Not on your life. I've got to take some revenge on Doctor Polaris for trying to kill me, and killing Neal. So I just shift my former prison into something that better suits what I need.

(Fast forward another month)

It took me a month, but I've finally tracked Polaris down. He retreated to the mountains to attempt and increase his own control over magnetism. Well, he won't like what's in store.

(Shift to a cavern within a nearby mountain range, where Doctor Polaris is training on the iron ore within the rocks when Cynder walks in.)

Cynder: Polaris!

Doctor Polaris: (Noticing Cynder) How did you escape!? Furthermore, how did you survive?! I left you in there for six months!

Cynder: Turns out Neal's theories were accurate after all. Electromagnetism can prolong life.

Doctor Polaris: Of course, the little geek was right. Why do you think I keep coming around?! I'm here to prove it!

Cynder: By killing him!?

Doctor Polaris: He'd had enough. His personality killed itself. I just took over from there.

Cynder: You and I both know that isn't true. Neal may have had a split personality, but he was never suicidal!

Doctor Polaris: What, you've never heard of a psychotic break?

Cynder: The only thing that's going to break is YOU!

My rage got the better of me, I will admit that, as I charged at Doctor Polaris. Knowing full well I was at a disadvantage with my metal armor, mind you. But I was determined. Polaris had to fall for what he did to Neal. While at first I was outmatched by Polaris' sheer experience with his magnetic abilities, I eventually adapted and overcame them. How so? Polaris failed to notice one thing. His suit may have a non-magnetic internal component, but the exterior is almost pure iron, and as such, very magnetic. So, I did to him what he did to me. I turned his suit into a prison, one much more restricting than mine was.

But I wanted the world to know Polaris was dead. So I ripped off his helmet, making sure I never saw Neal's face during it, so as not to start my crying, and put it on my head, forming it to better suit me with my own electromagnetism.

(Now we see what Cynder has become. Her scales covered by a hodge-podge of magnetic items ranging from screws and nails to what looks like several phones and a few household appliances all joined together with rebar from Polaris' own home. And now the violet helmet of Doctor Polaris sits atop her head.)

Now I will show the world who the real mistress of magnetism is. I am Cynder, the Galvanized, and now the world will feel my magnetic embrace, for better or worse…

And that ends that story. Now the world number from last time, was meant to be the opposite of the number before it. As in the first one was the year Aquaman's son died, the second number is based in the one where Aquaman's son first appeared, 1965. Now what about this one? You'll see in two weeks. Now, how does Doctor Polaris drive Spyro to darkness? Tune in in two weeks to figure that out. Same time… same channel… same horror. See you then…