The three star lost heroes find out where they are and discover they've just jumped from the frying pan into the fire. The Guardians of the Universe send the cavalry and Lena allows her inner Luthor to come out and play when she goes all badass on some poor, dumb schmuck before she, Supergirl and Hancock fly off to the rescue.

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Unknown Planet

Local Time Unknown

"Well…I would say the feces has officially struck the oscillating air machine and we're presently knee deep in it."

Arisia Rrab smirked at her friend, Jesse Chambers. "Oh, please! We are not in that much trouble. The ring will soon figure out where we are based on the position of the stars up in the sky. So, no worries. Besides, things could be so much worse."

The speedster glared at her then rolled her eyes. "Oh, man! Now you've really gone and done it!"

"What did I do?"

Then Diana's dark chuckle caused both women to turn toward the Amazon Princess. "I believe what Jesse means to say is that anytime someone says 'things could be so much worse,' the situation inevitably takes a turn for the worse." When Arisia and Jesse continued to glare at the princess, Diana met their gazes with a challenging one of her own. "You see? I am versed in your popular culture, Jesse Quick!" Then her gaze turned toward the horizon. "Silence!" Diana whispered harshly. "I hear something on the winds." Then she gave them a grim look. "Whatever it is, it is coming toward us."

Shaking her head, Jesse sighed resignedly. "I just want to remind you both before it's too late that I'd told you so back when we were in the chamber under that freaking pyramid!"

Arisia regarded her companions with a determined expression on her face. "I've just activated my ring's emergency distress beacon which will alert the Guardians to our position. If trouble is heading our way, we just have to hold out long enough for them to send Lena and any Corpsmen who may be on Oa to help us."

"From your lips to Zeus' ear, Arisia," Diana said with a supportive smile. "Has your ring determined what planet this is yet?"

Before she could answer the princess, the tall blonde speedster grumbled, "Dammit…I've seen all those sci-fi movies about aliens. You know how they are. I'll just bet they're coming to hug our faces or suck our brains out!"

Arisia shot a droll look at her human friend. "I think I'm deeply offended."

The scarlet and gold garbed woman smirked at her. "You know I wasn't talking about you, especially in regards to face hugging, right? We'll just leave that stuff to Kara and Lena, if you know what I mean," she added with a suggestive lifting of both eyebrows.

While the Green Lantern shook her head at the latest example of her friend's quirky sense of humor, Diana observed, "Actually, to the denizens of this world, WE are the aliens."

Arisia floated off the ground, hovered several feet overhead and erected a protective shield around them, while the speedster snapped, "Really not the time to appreciate the irony, Princess!"

Moments later, twelve forms roared down from the sky toward them with what appeared to be rocket packs on their backs. They were humanoids, Arisia could readily tell from their appearance. They were garbed in skintight EVA suits of a variety of primary colors. Most of the figures who appeared to be males were holding what looked to her to be handguns of an advanced design while a few held weapons that reminded her of rifles. All of the men now viewed them through tinted visors.

Arisia prepared to speak to the men when one of them, a man who looked to be fairly tall and fit with a clean shaven face and dressed in a red suit trimmed with white asked, "Miss...um...the one with the golden hair wearing the white and green outfit; are you a Green Lantern?"

She shot a puzzled look at the man because she understood him without having the ring translate what he'd said. "Yes, I'm a representative of the Guardians of the Universe."

"Thank God!" he exclaimed. "Your Guardians certainly work fast! We only sent out the distress call a little while ago."

"Adam? Adam Strange?" Diana called out to the man who'd spoken to Arisia.

He appeared to study the Amazon for a few moments before he gasped. "Diana! Diana Prince! Is it really you?"

The princess' smile was almost bright enough to slice a swath through the approaching twilight. "Indeed it is, Adam! I am so happy to find you here in good health!"

"Diana," he said as he landed gently on the ground in front of them while Arisia dropped her large protective shield and replaced it with personal ones that shimmered around Diana, Jesse and herself. "You are a sight for sore eyes! When I activated the transporter after I'd found it, I never thought I would ever see anyone from back home again! We detected the Zeta Beam's activation and given the current crisis, we had to come and investigate to see who'd used the transportation pad to arrive on Rann."

"This is the planet Rann in the Polaris system?" Arisia asked.

He smiled at her. "Yes, although, I'm from Earth. Of course, that's quite obvious seeing how Diana's been a good friend of mine for many years. But there's something I don't understand. We had no idea your Guardians had the ability to tap into Rann's Zeta Beam interstellar transportation system. How could they use it to send you all here so quickly?"

The Green Lantern shook her head then said, "They didn't send us, Adam Strange. We found the pad in the underground site on your homeworld."

"The same chamber I'd discovered in Bolivia?"

She nodded. "Somehow, we inadvertently triggered the device and wound up...well...here."

"That's incredible! I don't know how the transporter back home could have accidentally sent you here but your timing couldn't be better. Rann faces destruction at the hands of a cosmic force beyond even its advanced scientific capabilities."

"What's happening here?" Jesse asked.

"Starbreaker has come to Rann," Strange said ominously.

In response, Arisia Rrab, the normally happy-go-lucky Graxosian who'd inherited her Power Ring after the demise of her beloved uncle as a teenager twenty years ago, now regarded Adam Strange both with a dauntless and resolved expression on her lovely face.

"What's the situation?" she asked calmly.

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The Planet Oa, Sector 0

"What do you think the Guardians want us to do, Tomar?"

Tomar Re, the orange-skinned Xudarian who, from the neck down, possessed the body similar to a very muscular human male and a head that was a cross between a Terran bird of prey and a frilled marlin, flew toward the Guardian's sanctum sanctorum alongside his long-time friend, Sinestro of Korugar. The Corpsman of Sector 2813 simply shrugged and said, "I suppose we'll know after we see the exalted ones, my friend."

The red-skinned humanoid chuckled. "Where has your scientist's insatiable curiosity gone, Tomar?"

Tomar shot a wry glance at his companion. "It remains where it's always been, Sinestro. However, I see no reason to employ it when we will obtain our answers soon enough."

His friend grinned at his response and he smirked. It was kind of funny, he mused, how people so different had formed such an unshakable bond. Sinestro, Abin and he in a sane universe should never have gotten along. Sinestro had been a social scientist before the ring had chosen him. Abin Sur had been a history professor/philosopher, a natural born teacher. He'd been a physicist on Xudar before he'd don the Corpsman mask and uniform. While Sinestro was proud, almost bordering on arrogant and Abin had been attuned to the mystic yet humble, Tomar had always been grounded in the ways of science and order. He had never had any reason to question the Guardians, even after their decisions had appeared to lead to the only mission Tomar had ever failed during his more than a half century of service in the Corps. Although they had told him the Universe had obtained a favorable outcome from that debacle that even the exalted ones had failed to foresee, he still couldn't accept their absolution when he'd been responsible for the destruction of an entire planet and its people.

Soon, they phased through the titanic doors that opened into the Chamber of the Guardians of the Universe and alighted on the pristine floor. Seated behind the elevated U-shaped conference table were twenty-four of the white haired or bald elders of Oa, the legendary Guardians themselves. Now one of the red robed humanoids spoke to the Korugarian and him. "Tomar Re, Sinestro, you are both to proceed to the planet Rann in the system of Polaris immediately."

A grim Sinestro stared up at the spokes-being for the Guardians. "What's the situation?" he asked coolly.

"Starbreaker is assaulting the system as we speak. Normally, the creature strikes before we are able to bring a sufficient amount of force to bear. In the past, he has appeared to have gone out of his way to avoid a confrontation with the Corps. On this occasion, however, fortune appears to have favored us this once. Lantern Rrab is, for a reason beyond our ken at the present time, currently on the planet Rann. When you are on your way to Rann, we shall dispatch the other Lantern assigned to that sector, Lantern Luthor, to join you after she has completed her current battle."

"Still, why did Lantern Rrab go to Rann without Lantern Luthor? If the situation occurs in Lantern Luthor's sector is it not her responsibility?" Tomar asked. Although both Sinestro and Arisia had spoken highly of the Terran woman, he was concerned that she'd allowed his former trainee, Arisia, to stand alone against the infamous cosmic vampire who'd fed off of the destruction of inhabited worlds.

The Guardian shook his head. "After today, that shall be no longer the case, Lantern Re. For now, we want you both to understand that Lantern Luthor will be in command of this mission since Polaris is in her sector. Both of you and Lantern Rrab shall defer to her in all things. Once all four of you have returned from Rann with Starbreaker in your custody, we shall discuss our new edict with you at that time."

"Then with your permission, Guardians of the Universe, we shall be off," Tomar said.

"Go with our blessings, Sinestro of Korugar and Tomar Re of Xudar!"

The two Corpsmen nodded to the Guardians before they willed their personal shields into place, floated into the air and sped toward the nearest wall where they both phased through it. Then they accelerated up into the bright orange sky.

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National City, Planet Earth

Local Time 1236

"Green Lantern!"

The man who was enveloped in a yellow energy field similar to the green one that currently surrounded Lena Luthor shot an askew glance at Supergirl when he heard the Maid of Might's scream while he was focused on throttling the brunette woman's neck. "Sorry. She can't talk right now 'cause she's too busy dying."

So engrossed in his attempt to kill the Weaponers of Qward's target, he missed the blazing red glare in Kara's eyes.

"Not…gonna…happen," Supergirl growled right before she fired her heat vision at the man's face.

"Aggh!" Alexander Nero screamed when the beams struck him, causing him to release a coughing Lena's throat. Even through the powerful force field generated by the yellow Power Ring fashioned by the aliens that had chosen him, the former resident of a psych ward, to wield it, he could feel the skin on the left side of his face blister. Then he glared at the Kryptonian and snapped, "What kind of a superhero are you?! Superman would never do that to anyone!"

Kara glared at the idiot as if he was crazy. Although, she avoided going to the extremes whenever possible, she didn't have a hard and fast code against killing like her cousin had. Of course, working with a government agency like the DEO gave her more cover if she was forced to kill in order to protect the lives of National City's citizens. However, a few things that pushed her to the point she'd terminate an opponent with prejudice is if someone tried to kill either her sister or Lena. So when her super hearing had registered the impact of the man's energy beam against Lena's shield while John and she had been waiting for Lena to arrive for their lunch date, she mentally commanded her outfit to transform into her armor a second before she raced off of their balcony ahead of John to Lena's rescue.

Now she said to red headed man, "I'm not him. And if you touch her one more time—"

However, Kara didn't have the opportunity to finish her threat because Hancock had appeared on Nero's blindside and thrown a powerful punch that struck the shielded villain so hard the man's body cratered into the paved alleyway a hundred feet below.

"Hey, Supergirl!" the ancient hero called out with a grin. "Stop stealing my lines!"

She smiled at him then checked on her soulmate. "Lee," she whispered, "John and I heard that bastard ambush you with our super hearing and came as fast as we could. Are you okay?"

Kara almost pulled away from her girlfriend when, instead of finding Lena's normal jade green eyes, emerald fury blazed in their place.

"No, I'm not 'okay,'" Lena snapped. "I'm pissed!"

Then, almost faster than either Hancock's or Kara's eyes could follow, the Green Lantern streaked down to the pavement where an already recovered Nero stood up inside the crater and faced her.

"All right, àthán!" she spat her Gaelic curse at him. "I don't know why you attacked me when I was minding my own damn business but you have just succeeded in gaining my undivided attention. Now, if you know what's good for you, I'd recommend you surrender now and tell me who gave you that ring before I take it from you."

"I don't need to tell a soon-to-be dead woman anything, Lantern!" he screamed then fired a beam fashioned to penetrate both her shield followed closely by her body.

"Suit yourself," she replied and met his beam with one of her own.

As their energies clashed against each other, he gritted his teeth and poured more of his willpower into his attack. She, though, showed no outward signs of stress as she steadily approached him, continuing her onslaught without any doubt or hesitation.

Moments later, he raised his left hand and grasped his right forearm while he struggled to increase his concentration. Perspiration now beaded his forehead and threatened to trickle down into his eyes. Meanwhile, his masked nemesis merely narrowed her blazing virescent eyes while she strode forward.

His desire to kill her was now replaced by desperation and the faint hope he might survive this forlorn battle.

Now, she was only a few feet away and still relentlessly advancing upon him. Then, when she began to lecture him, his mental defenses crumbled.

"Your constructs tell me you're both an artist and a madman. You have plenty of imagination but you're comprehension is painfully lacking. Compared to me, you're an amateur. Think on this. I soar effortlessly through the cosmos. I contemplate quarks and muons in my sleep. Journeys through black holes are child's play for me and I create wormholes and traverse through them on a mere whim. Nero, attacking me was a mistake of epic proportions for you. I hope you've learned your lesson."

Then her shielded right hand closed around his ring hand and she squeezed, breaking fourteen of the twenty-seven bones in that appendage.

"Class...dismissed," Lena said coldly to her crushed foe.

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When both Kara and Hancock heard the cracking of the man's phalanges with their super-hearing, followed shortly by Nero's scream, all the blood drained from Kara's face while a wide-eyed Hancock whispered lowly, "Daammnn…"

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Minutes later, the three heroes had dropped Nero off at the DEO. Shortly before they'd arrived at the building, Lena had stored the man's yellow ring in a fractal inside hers.

Now she shyly regarded both her friend and her lover. "Kara, John, thank you for bailing me out with Nero and I'm really sorry that man made me miss our lunch date. I truly was looking forward to it."

For some reason, her girlfriend and Hancock seemed a bit…on edge.

"Um…no problem, baby. I put it in the fridge for you. You can have it anytime you want."

Just as she was going to suggest they go and dine now, her ring projected a holographic image of a large headed blue humanoid. "Lantern Luthor, we watched your battle with the human who wielded the yellow ring and we were…impressed with your performance. We believe it was constructed by our counterparts in the antimatter universe, the Weaponers of Qward. We want you to bring it to us so we may study it once you have completed your mission on Rann in the Polaris system."

She nodded and asked what Arisia had taught her was always the first thing a Corpsman says to reassure anyone that he/she/it would deal with the problem.

"What's the situation?"

"Your partner, Lantern Rrab, along with your friend Chambers and the Amazon princess, were somehow transported to that world. At present, Rann is under siege by a cosmic entity known as Starbreaker. We will provide you all the information we have on the creature during your transit to Rann. When you arrive there, you are to take command of the mission. After you defeat him, you are to escort the villain to Oa in the company of Lanterns Tomar Re, Sinestro, and Rrab."

"I'm going with you, Lena," Supergirl announced then.

"And you both ain't leaving here without me if Jesse's up the creek without a paddle," Hancock added.

"Kara, John—"

"Lee…they're our friends, too. It looks like you're stuck with us, Green Lantern."

The Luthor smiled at her companions then nodded solemnly. Now she turned back to the Guardian's image and said, "We're on it."

Moments later, the image faded away and she formed an energy construct bubble around the three of them. Soon the bubble rose high into the blue sky as a gleam of sunlight struck the perfect sphere and projected an image of a brilliant four-pointed star that was seen by everyone who happened to be looking skyward.

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Notes:

àthán is the Gaelic word for "asshole."

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