Oa, home of the guardians

Guy Gardner entered the storge building in the Green lantern headquarters and approached a large counter wrapped around by a transparent forcefield with a large slot it in it allowing for transfer of equipment of to a user. At the other end of the counter was a blue insectoid with 6 arms and looked like he was very old. Guy smiled and said "hey Uritgum how retirement treating you?" the old man looked up from his data pad and said, "Ok more or less guy, I keep myself busy" Guy said, "did you get the message?" The old man nodded and said "yeah Denapp said you are clear for level 3 archive retrieval" He then pushed a button and a buzzer activated opening a gap in the forcefield creating a door next to the counter to which Guy entered and the field closed behind him" Uritgum then said, "so what are you look for?" Guy said "personal effects of a fallen lantern named Kazdan Preston" Uritgum nodded "ah yes Kazden, fallen guardian of sector 04" They walked down a long hallway were Guy's curiosity got the better of him and said, "So what's important about this Kazden guy?" Uritugm replied "yes that was a bit before your time" "20 years ago Sinestro was looking for more members to join his corps when he came across Latzet Ker, Ker was a Zarden general and had led a coup against the united Zarden government" eventually his coup failed when he was stopped by Zarden Defense Force a group of superheroes lead by Kazden himself, but not before creating a large have of death destruction and fear through Zardus. After he was captured Sinestro recruited him into his corps and he broke out of prison. Soon enough though Sinestro died and in the power vacuum the blood thirsty Latzet took over leadership and his first act was a full scale invasion of Zardus but he didn't want to conquer he wanted to destroy Zardus" " A long fight with the ZDF, the Green lantern corps and the passing by JSA , by the time it was almost over Latzet was winning and at the cusp of destroying Zardus" Guy then let out a hmmm of curiosity and Uritgum said "and a last gambit Kazdan focused all of his will power to one last move as he grabbed a hold of Latzet and blasted them both into the corona of Zardus's blue sun Zakru, killing them both but winning the day"

As Guy though this over they made there was to the section where the level 3 personal effects were and said "here we go Kazdan Preston, hmmm we don't seem to have him here" After a frusating few seconds Uritgum said "ah yes it's probably under his unmarried name Kazdan Mazar" Guy raised an eyebrow and said "unmarried name?" Uritgum smiled as he searched the wall of safes again and said "when Zarden's get married the Zakus takes the last name of the Trizua as a sign f respect" Guy replied Zakrus and Trizua? Like male and female?" Uritgum found what he was looking for and said, "kind off it's a little more complicated than that" He went to the safe and placed his hand on the scanner and it opened the hatch revealing a large metal box. Guy took the box under his arm to a nearby table and opened it with Uritgum alongside him. The box contained a green lantern power battery, a small data disk and a nonfunctioning power ring. Uritgum looked at the ring and said, "this ring has been sitting dormant waiting for its new wielder for almost 20 years, has once been found?" Guy nodded and said, "according to Mogo it has" He then too ahold of the data disk and read the faded writing on it "To my son Zarek"

The next few hours went by what seemed like minutes with Sam and Trevor saying their goodbyes to Marcy who was picked up by her father, the local sheriff who impressed by the appearance of the lanterns Talked to Trevor's dad who without hesitation, was ready to be rid of his son. Sam and his mom worked hard packing up what they needed of their belongings to take to Zardus they would be staying awhile, and little did Sam know it would be a long time before he would see earth again. The next morning Sam woke up in his old bed for the last time as he felt the warm embrace of Trevor who smiled as he heard his boyfriend wake up and said, "Time to blow this place honey like we always planned" Sam smiled and said "I guess even if this is not how we planned it" He then got up and checked out his face in the mirror. The dead skin on his face had fallen off more relieving more of his new magenta skin of his face. He looked like some kind of monster at the moment with now half of his his face now magenta and half dead red skin. Zartho advised him not to pick at it and let it fall of naturally. He also noticed that his eyes were different, they were still blue, but it was like they were glowing blue and had small pupils like Zartho's. Sam smiled his toothy grin and thought Trevor was right he was emerging from his fleshy cocoon into something greater.

It was then that Sam heard his mother say "boys it's time for breakfast" Trevor smiled and said "your mom probably made pancakes, she makes good pancakes" they both walked to the kitchen and to their surprise his mom was not at the stove cooking but Zartho was at the stove putting some pans into the sink. He turned around and pointed to a plate on the table and said, "ok boys breakfast is served" Both boys looked at the plate, on the plate were cirualar cakes made out of meat all different kinds in fact all thrown together. Sam said "what is this?" Zartho smiled and said "this is a meat cake, a popular and easy to throw together Zarden dish" Sam gulped and both boys took one and Sam used his fork to chop off a piece of it and to his amazement he found the substance delightful while Trevor was less then impressed. Zartho smiled and said, "Glad you like it, meat the main staple of Zarden diet" Sam moved his eyebrows as he ate and said, "wait am I turning into a carnivour or something?" Zartho replied "no not really but the Zarden digestive system digests meat a lot better than vegetables or grains" Kendell smiled "also since we won't be coming back anytime soon we might as well get rid of all our meat that will spoil Zartho smiled again, he had to admit he was getting more attached to these people then he thought he would be. Zartho said "you better be all ready to we leave in 2 hours" Sam turned to Trevor and said "I'm ready for anything if you are" Trevor replied "were ever you go I will too"