CyberTech Worlds Clash

Chapter XLVII

Emerald Light from Another World

Moping!

Moping!

Moping!

She didn't feel like not moping. It was somewhat understandable. She was feeling like a braindead moron, and all she could do was curl up on the soaked ground sobbing her eyes out because of a stupid boy: a boy she hadn't loved. She had realised quite early on that it was just infatuation. He was different, unique, and too beautiful for any boy to be.

That femininity drew her to him. It captivated her. It never was about what he was. She supposed she could have tried fixating on one of the girls. His sisters? Maybe? Though, how could she when they had partners. So, she got herself obsessed with this boy.

It was never like her. She had never been a big scene-buster with boys or whatever. She had always called it a waste of her time. She was young. She should have been thinking about schoolwork and her future. He wasn't anything special, not really. He treat her like glass. Maybe to him she was that fragile, but to the world around her?

She wasn't, was she?

He could be so infuriating. Condescending. He wouldn't even kiss her properly, just a pathetic peck here and there just to shut her up. Then he told her he was dangerous, and that her blood called so strongly. If he really loved her that much, he would have never been able to hurt her. He would have shrugged the call off without a thought about it.

That didn't stop her caring, or loving his family. They had been like family to her – well everyone apart from Jasper and Roselle. Japer mainly because he wasn't very good at not eating people, but he did try. Roselle because she was either a bitch or jealous of Bella's continued humanity – that was sad for both of them as they both wanted what the other had – the 'life' the other had.

She liked to think the latter; it was kind of pathetic, but she could live with pathetic, maybe. Though, maybe that made things worse, as that meant even the bitch loved her more than her boyfriend. Life sucked so much sometimes she just felt like screaming at the world about how pathetic it was to her, and she wasn't sure it was that pathetic.

Discovering what they were was a highlight: a revelation. It showed her the amazing world of possibility. She had seen many amazing people in books and TV shows, and though those people weren't real, these were, and she could be like that couldn't she? Though, maybe that was just a silly wish.

How could a vampire become more than a monster? She supposed from within the shadows, hidden from the world. It could have been amazing, and she could have maybe done some good in the world, but then what about these vampire mafia jerks she had been told about? They would likely come for her, to keep their secrets from the human world.

Edward. She cringed just thinking of him. He had been so surprised that she didn't think that vampires existed was weird. How could she be so accepting. She wanted to believe there was more to the world, and when she found out there was, she wanted to be a part of that.

Though, the whole sparkling in the sun thing had to have been the single most-gayest thing she had ever seen. Not that she had anything against gay people, but that was the only way she could describe it. It didn't even serve a purpose except to alert people to their differences. In this day and age, she reckoned the humans wouldn't be so helpless against them. She could chuckle if she wasn't moping at the thought of shoving a grenade down his throat.

Her chest felt tight thinking of everything taken from her. She knew Edward did this because he was a douche who didn't have a clue about real feelings. He was doing it to 'protect' her. The rest of his family were going along with it, maybe because they have forgotten that it wasn't just about the boy and girl, but the other's too.

His family had become a nice part of her life. They didn't seem to understand that, or maybe, maybe they did. Maybe they were too scared to go to her and say goodbye in person. Maybe he even threatened them with something, or at least those he knew would come anyway.

She had never felt like she was normal as a human, and her fast-track to her future was denied by a century old virgin with control and mummy issues. He likely hadn't gotten over his Victorian style values and still believed that woman should be treated a certain way.

Yes. It was nice for a man or anyone to be helpful, open doors and whatnot. However, when HE starts trying to walk for you or carry you, and drive you everywhere. It was then time to run away because it became creepy. She had already overlooked the stalking and, she shuddered now thinking of him watching her while she slept, clueless.

It made her feel uneasy considering all things he still had the body of a seventeen-year-old boy. She felt queasy. Wondering whether he touched her, or just as bad, himself while watching her.

She wondered why she was even crying! Maybe it was for Alice. She had never had a friend like her before. She had never had a best friend before. She just wasn't quite good enough to make friends back in Phoenix. Even with the out-crowd, geeks, or nerds.

Her 'crowd' tended to be the outcasts. The throwaways, which was why she found this small town so odd as she sat with the popular out-crowd. The school still had its jock, cheerleaders, and geeks, but her crowd here was a mix and match of whoever the hell, probably because they grew up together so cliques were much more flexible.

That left her even more confused about where she'd fit in. She had liked it back home in Phoenix. It was so much easier to understand as she grew up in the city. Here in Forks, it was more complicated because of such a low population mismatched kids played with each other while young and made odd ties, and it felt weirder than weird.

She supposed she did have one top friend back in Phoenix. She was like Alice, except when it came to personality and clothing choices, so maybe not quite like Alice. She was 'tough' and Goth. Thinking about it, she realised the Goth look worked well for her, but the only reason they had been friend (not super close or best friends) was because they were next door neighbours; though, not anymore, she reasoned as they both moved away.

They had had their first kiss together. Their first and only touch, just bum groping as they kissed. It was a dare thing, and kind of amusing. She felt embarrassed now, but at the time, it was her first bit of rebellion from the norm. They were at her Goths house, drinking underage, and well; that was it really, just a minute of two of kissing.

Neither of them had spoken about it in the morning, but it was always a quiet whisper asking her why she was dating a boy when she liked girls. Maybe she liked both. She had looked to both, but always with the men or boys, she tended to look at the more metrosexual. The pretty boys. It confused her already baffled mind, but maybe that was just her type.

She felt like she might be going nuts, but shook away those thoughts as her sobbing had subsided as she concluded that she might have been crying for Alice leaving her, for lost opportunity with her friend back in Phoenix, going further? She was sure Alice would know how to help her. She had all of the answers to everything – anything.

Well, Alice was clairvoyant.

Bella Swan: The Messed up and Confused Girl. That should be her title from now on. Though, she thought that might baffle anyone to hear about it. She was a teenager after all. Teenagers were supposed to be a little messed up and confused, and with the exception of a few, not having to deal with things like loving a vampire too much.

It certainly didn't help that that vampire was both female and married to a man, as she came to the realisation that she probably did enjoy Alice's company more, possibly sexually, maybe just as a friend; she didn't know herself well enough. Life could be so harsh when you finally saw the truth within yourself, but harder when you had to keep looking. She had enjoyed Alice's company over Edward's. Sometimes she would even feel relief when it was Alice sneaking up on her over him.

Alice didn't treat her like she was brittle. They did things together. Alice may have whinged and begged Bella to go shopping with her sometimes, but she never forced her to do anything. It was nice, comfortable, and peaceful. Bella would even let Alice win just to see the bright smile and receive the firm comfortable hug; a hug Edward was too afraid to give.

Alice's sweet vampire smell was even more appealing to be around: not too sweet. Bella guessed she should have realised her feelings weren't for who she expected, or whatever it was she was feeling.

She paused that thought and felt a spike of anger. Maybe, Alice had a vision and chose to run away. Edward would have read her mind, and the clairvoyant wouldn't have been able to stop him for long.

Bella might have confessed eventually.

However, she knew Edward would want to run away from a painful realisation, but would Alice do that to her? No. She couldn't believe she would. Alice was always an upfront girl. She would have confronted Bella about it. She would have let Bella down gently and still been a great friend, but. No. She couldn't think of a different scenario.

It was too painful to wonder what if. What if hurt too much. What is? That was all that mattered right now. She knew she was young enough to get over this and move on, to discover herself. To find out what she wanted in this confused and painful world, to find her place – maybe magic was real if vampires were?

In away when Edward had brought her into the woods to dump her. She felt relieved. However, when he told her he was taking his family with him, she broke down, unable to think straight.

Alice was gone too…!

Bella wanted to screams at him. Tell him where to screw himself, and that Alice was staying, but she was already in shock. Too afraid of her own truths. However, now everything was clear to her.

She needed to find Alice. Not so they could get together and live happily ever after, but to ask her. Why? To ask her whether she returned any feelings, but most of all, what did Edward threaten her with?

Bella had always prided herself on being a good person. A very kind person even. That had just gotten her dumped, and left in the woods somewhere around Forks. She knew that if she found her way home some time tonight it would be a complete fluke.

Edward knew that Bella could manage to get lost at a mall while standing next to the map screen things. So, he left her in the woods. Good idea idiot! He didn't want her so he left her to get eaten by a grisly bear, or a dinosaur or werewolf something. She wouldn't be surprised to see a T-Rex waging battle with a werewolf at any moment.

She sat up sharply then, thinking, and almost laughing at the image in her head before sighing sadly.

Could this be Edward's way to get back at her? She looked to the darkening sky as rain started pouring down slushing all over her. Her dark brown hair soaked in seconds. She didn't move, slipping into the soggy muddy ground.

"I…" she mumbled to herself, wide eyed. "I had thought about dumping him!" she said loudly over the noise of the rain, soaked to the bone in her blue jeans and red and grey chequered shirt clinging to her body and water was getting through her brown walking boots.

"He had seen it through Alice's visions even if I wasn't going too… I don't know what I was going to do. Then Jasper. The empath might have felt what I felt for him, or Alice, and Edward would see again!"

Bella jumped as thunder boomed in the sky. Lightning streaked across lighting the darkness as thick clouds rolled in. She knew she was going to catch a serious cold if she didn't find shelter, preferably her house. She rubbed her puffy bloodshot eyes as she let out a little sob and began having some deep shallow breaths to calm her down. She was caked in dirt by now as she tried to calm and think clearly about getting out of the woods and home.

A nice hot bath was calling her.

Edward had dumped Bella to beat her to it! She had convinced herself. She was certain now. Then to further punish her he left her alone in the woods when he knew a storm was coming. She sighed tiredly as she shivered; pulling herself up to her feet, she almost slipped in the sloshy mud.

However, before Bella could take a step, she screeched as the world beneath her feet shook and she almost fell before it stopped. Then her eyes widened in horror as a green streak blast past her through several trees, marking a trail of dirt. The trees crashed down either side of her in a boom through the rain with thunder and lightning.

Bella span round fast to see the glowing emerald light bounce twice, pushing up plomb's of dirt before it came to a stop. The dirt created a wall to act as a backrest for the black skinned man. His hair was cut short, and he had a goatee bared around his lips.

The dirt and dust settled. Bella made a couple steps towards him. She couldn't believe what she was seeing. He was caked in mud and blood all over. The red life fluid was pouring from his lips and his right eye was swollen shut.

His form hugging green and black leather like uniform was in tatters, hanging off him. His green glow was out and he looked barely conscious. He held a small green coloured material pouch, clutched desperately in his right hand.

Bella ran to him unable to comprehend what was going on, she just knew it was an injured person who fell from the sky, maybe that shaking had been a plane crash or something, maybe? She dropped to her knees at his side, worried when she startled as the green ring on his left hand came up. His fist clenched, and the ring was glowing, and she was almost positive it was perhaps a weapon of some kind, but when he got a good look at her, he relaxed. His arm flopped down while he was breathing harshly.

The man's eyes were droopy as he looked at her. His vision must be on the fritz or something as his eyes kept crossing and uncrossing and his green pupils kept dilating every time, he seemed to lose concentration.

"P-please!" she muttered out terrified. "Sir, Mr. whoever or whatever you are?!" she said in worry. "I-I don't know what to do," she said before an idea struck. "I-I don't have my phone… do you have something, l-like a secret military phone or something?" she said hopefully and feeling foolish asking that as he didn't look like he had any pockets.

He just gave her a baleful look. "C-comm. is d-down!" he said in a pained voice. "M-my signal i-is be-being blocked!" he struggled out. "Y-you have to-to. Take the r-rings and run. Please. They-they can't return. They're b-being blocked somehow.

"H-he wants power. You can't let him, h-have…!" he lifted the green pouch and passed it to her, his hand going limp. "Run!" was the last word to drift from his lips as he passed out.

"Too late for that Stewart!"

Bella spun and looked up to see a man – well – she wasn't a more interesting life – but that was with the supernatural, not whatever this would be. This thing was grey skinned with near glowing orange hair. He kind of reminded her of that blue alien from the movie Avatar, as this guy also has weird markings, and was large. At least eight feet tall. Though, these markings were glowing green and he wore a green and black uniform, minus the strange symbol the black man had on his chest.

She could see clearly on the thing's hands, six thick fingers, each containing a green ring like the black mans – Stewart, did this thing call him? This alien things sharp lips turned up into a sinister, sharp-toothed smile, as he looked Bella up and down, and his glowing eyes of green were creeping her out more than anything.

The rain was still splashing down on them and she worried more for the defenceless 'Stewart' as she stood to protect him. She could see a necklace on this alien guy full of several green rings. She felt sick, as it was obvious, this thing had probably stolen them all and by his greedy look wanted more.

"Like them?" he asked with a soft chuckle as he floated a little further down, close but not too close as she held the cloth bag in her hands to her chest, as she realised what was in the bag, and he already had so many of them. It felt comforting to hold them somehow. "These rings are awfully pretty aren't they," he continued and gestured the rings hanging around his neck with pride. "But they don't belong in the possession of naïve, primitive little monkey like you or John Stewart. So, hand them over, girl!"

Suddenly a green beam shot over her shoulder and smacked into the alien, but he put up a green barrier holding it at bay with ease. "RUN!" the man, Bella now knew was called John Stewart ordered while sounding barely awake. Bella looked to him in worry but she did not need telling twice. She turned and moved faster than she had ever in her life running through the trees.

"YOU CAN RUN!" the evil alien guy screamed after her. "BUT I SHALL BE THE ONLY GREEN LANTER IN THE UNIVERSE! YOU CANNOT HIDE FROM ME LITTLE HUMAN GIRL!" the evil Green Lantern, she figured, roared out and she could hear him coming. "You have no power to even defend yourself! It is pathetic!" he continued, causing her to quiver, as he sounded so close.

The ground pulled up and exploded beneath Bella's feet, lifting her up and throwing her forward with the force. She cried out in pain as she skidded across the ground, losing her grip on the cloth bag. It dropped and she cried as she flew into a tree.

Bella's heart was pounding and she had never felt so scared in all of her life. Her breathing was hard and she was coughing up blood, whimpering. She didn't know what she could do, but she had to get the rings back. She couldn't let him win. It could mean a lot of destruction and innocent people killed until – she didn't know what, but maybe some-more-good glowing green – Green Lantern guys turned up to save her?

She frantically looked around for the bag. Her heart was pounding in her ears and she felt cold dread run through her blood as she saw him. He picked it up with a giant sneer on his lips.

The alien thing laughed at her look of horror. "Now. What to do with you? You are just a normal weak human so. I think I'll destroy you anyway, just to amuse myself."

"T-this planet is littered with people with power far greater than a Green Lantern!" she quickly said, bluffing quickly as she hoped she said the right thing, but she was pretty sure he was going to laugh at her and blow her up anyway. Though, she hoped if nothing else, maybe she could stall, and that Green Lantern John Stewart would get better somehow, save her, and save the day, and explain what-the-heck was going on. Then she held in a start as she shimmied back slightly when her right palm landed on something hard and warm while the cold rain poured on them.

"I'll be long gone by then!" he replied with a sadistic grin, which surprised her, but she shook it off; he probably didn't know the truth that her little world was defenceless from magical alien ring wilding aliens.

"T-they'll hunt you!" she replied as it was the only thing she could think of, and she did the only thing she could, slowly moving, she slid her right middle finger through the dirt, the warmth buzzed with a strength she never knew before. "The Green Lantern Corps," she muttered as it was like she suddenly had information she was sure she shouldn't, not much, and not very important, but more than she had before, and she realised her threat of them was not as empty as she thought. "You'll never be left alone," she added as she tried to steady her confidence. "More will come. You'll never win in the end!"

"You bore me little girl!" he retorted as he fired a green beam of light at her. She cried out and crossed her arms as it exploded into her.

Bella had closed her eyes but opened them a moment later to see smoke rising off her and the grey alien was groaning in pain outside of the crater she was now sitting in.

The rings couldn't return was in Bella's mind. However, looking to the glowing green ring on her middle right finger. It looked like they could still choose a new master – a new champion. The Dark Lantern pulled himself up, looking to her in rage.

"Doesn't the Green Lantern Corps ever know when to give up!?" he demanded, enraged with her.

Bella's eyes widened as he charged. She watched, unable to think much about a defence, but an escape. It was with that desperate thought that a green glow blazed from her skin and she screamed as she shot into the air, and he just shot by underneath and crashed into a few trees.

Spraying mud.

Bella hovered for a moment while panting for breath and looking and feeling terrified. Her breathing was heavy as she tried to calm down before she turned to see the evil Green Lantern alien guy (yes, the ring told her he wasn't from Earth, and she had thought he could have possibly been a demon since vampires existed); he looked like he was dazed and disorientated as he lay while trying to shake himself off.

However, Bella ignored the alien to find John Stewart. He was still lying where she left him. She didn't know how but she managed to fly over to him and land back where she started.

John Stewart had woken tiredly, looked up at Bella, and winced, as her eyes were a pale green boring into his bright green. "Have you even looked at yourself?" he asked humourlessly as she worried about his wounds.

Bella paused in surprise as she realised that she was wearing skin-tight black gloves and stood in shock, as she looked herself over. She wore a top that started down from green into black form hugging armour curving perfectly around her breasts but ending just below showing off her smooth stomach.

The lantern symbol was emblazoned on her chest, glowing green, and her legs were contained in some skin-tight black leather/plastic/rubber 'stuff', she was not sure what the material really was. However, tied around her waist was a black belt with the lantern in green in the centre with a green material cloth (though looked similar to the rest) skirts, hanging both sides from the belt, hanging to just above her ankles and waving in the breeze. She was now wearing emerald green boots, and moving her gloved hands to her hair, she felt some kind of ribbon tying it back with a few ringlets hanging either side as her fringe. She just knew the ribbon was green too, and her hands continued to her eyes. She felt the green mask fastened to her skin around her eyes.

Bella dropped back to her knees and looked at the ring on her now gloved right middle finger before back to the Green Lantern. "W-what… I don't understand?" she asked, confused and frightened as she turned to see the alien was up again.

"You little bitch!" he roared out with some blue blood on the corner of his lips. "Twice… twice you fucking get me. Never again," he growled angrily.

"The green power of your ring," the John Stewart suddenly interrupted hurriedly. "It's all about your will. There is nothing you can't do if you have the will to pull it off."

Bella gulped as she shakily stood up, she didn't understand, but she didn't know whether anyone would ever be coming to save them. The alien charged at her and she shot into the sky creating a shock wave as she left with him hot on her heels. He fired a few times but it was as if she could sense the attack and dodged left, right, back. She fell back, flying under him as she thought. Anything? But all that alien guy was doing was shooting lasers.

However, Bella had to do something, so she pointed her ring forward as he slowed and turned. It shone out and moulded faster than she expected and before the alien knew it, he had a huge green glowing rusty looking pickup truck smash into his head, knocking him out of the sky and landing on top of him before exploding and blowing out a lot of the road below.

However, as Bella looked down, she grimaced as two police cruisers had barely stopped before they were engulfed. She groaned. This was not happening. She watched through the downpour as her father got out of his cruiser, drawing his gun just as the smoke cleared to show the alien.

The murdering alien smirked viciously as green energy formed some kind of weapon that began to fire. However, Bella moved quickly thinking of a shield! Any protection! It formed from her ring between the cops and the few other vehicles behind as she floated down landing but keeping the wall up.

Bella looked behind her at her stunned father. She felt thankful that he didn't recognise her thanks to the storm and her mask and uniform. His eyes looking past her to the monster causing all this trouble. It was probably like some of his Sci-Fi movies all came to life.

The alien let up his attack and Bella lowered her shield as she watched him wearily. The bricks of green falling away into her ring. "Who are you?" she demanded. "W-what do you want!? Why are you doing this!?" she found her voice more demanding than she would have expected.

"My name is Sageriro!" he answered sneeringly. "And I want your ring before I take your wounded friends. The Guardians are such fools giving all of this power to such primitive wastes like all of those who might have worn your ring before you.

"Just hand it over! You're not a soldier!" he demanded. "Just a stupid little monkey playing at being hero! If you do! I'll leave this planet alone and I might if I'm feeling generous let John live."

Bella grit her teeth in worry, unsure. Could she actually trust this thing to keep his word? If she did hand over her ring. Then what? He leaves and starts attacking other Green Lanterns? Murdering innocent people in the process? Just because he could?

His eyes suddenly narrow in a sneer as her fists clenched. "I see. You've made your resolve to fight," he commented chuckling. "How unusual you are. I can see your fear, but yet... you're ready to fight anyway. Is it for those that might die when I leave, or perhaps your ring has let you know? I murdered the bitch who wore it before I destroyed half of her world," he laughed as Bella's eyes widened impossibly in fear.

Bella took half a step back, clenching her right fist tighter. Her ring started glowing green as she prepared to fight. She had no doubt that she was going to die, but she could hope to stall him until help arrived, of course if help was on its way.

Sageriro went to attack when huge glowing green pincers grabbed him from behind, and picked him up from the ground and threw him into the air. Bella didn't wait to see what happened as she knew she had to do something.

She shot after him like a dart and punched her right fist forward as she saw Sageriro rightening himself in the air. Three huge buzzsaw blades blast out of her ring.

The aliens' eyes widened but he managed to avoid two while the third cut along his chest creating a thin blue-blooded cut as the first two blades smashed into the forest and the third dissolving in the air. He glared at her, but his attention was diverted seconds later as a brown-haired Green Lantern (a human) shot passed her and punched with a giant glowing green fist that hit the alien, blasting him into the forest and out of sight as they hung in the air catching their breaths.

He turned to look at her with a smirk. His pale blue eyes behind his mask looking her up and down and her glare not fazing him.

"The names Hal. Hal Jordan. Green Lantern… and you might be?"

"Err, Isabella Swan," she answered nervously. "B-but I prefer to be called Bella. I-I'm kind of new at this, weird alien… green glowing thing – urm, what are you and..."

"New, huh?" he answered jokingly. "Well, nice to meet you. We're from an alternate universe, your universe is… apparently joining the other three merging into one… and unfortunately, right now, you and I are all this world seems to have by that look of it," he said with a cocky grin while Bella looked more confused than ever.

Hal turned to the trees with narrowed eyes as he created two huge green Gatling guns either side of himself smirking as the alien began floating up.

"Watch and learn from the master baby!" he said smugly before his gun barrel's started spinning with a whirl and then they fired. It was incredible how realistic it looked. It was a shame that the alien had blocked everything with a green wall though.

"Get off my planet!" Bella suddenly screamed out as she kind of got half the gist of what Hal told her and they needed to defeat this guy, and Hal actually grimaced as a huge green double decker bus flew down, and exploded when it hit the ground with alien crushed beneath, smashing the monster into the dirt. She couldn't help but smirk at the man. "Mine did better than yours," she said before letting out a small breath.

Hal rolled his eyes and actually pouted. "Yeah, but he wouldn't fall for that again."

"I dropped a truck on him earlier," she retorted feeling braver now she was not alone, and maybe other glowing ring people would follow to arrest this alien guy.

"Yeah, but both times he was foolish to not consider you a threat," Hal retorted. "He obviously didn't think you would capitalise, and neither did I actually, especially with the news bomb I dropped. Good job."

"Um, thanks," she muttered, embarrassed and feeling proud of herself for once as she may have missed out on being a vampire, but she looked over her ring. Maybe being a what – Intergalactic Cop according to her ring, would be something she could do instead?

Hal shrugged. "Yeah, well let's scrape the bastard up off the ground and get the rings back," he said as they slowly drifted down. "Oh, by the way, you haven't seen John around, have you? About six fool tall, black, kind of a grump sometimes, probably a bit too serious, human wearing a uniform like mine?"

"Yeah, it's where I got this," Bella answered gesturing her ring. "He had a bunch, but this evil alien guy has got them all now except this one, yours, and his."

"Good, and that's all he gets," Hal replied with a relieved sigh. "This asshole has a lot to answer too."

They were only several feet from the ground when it suddenly exploded in green energy. Hal moved quickly, creating an energy sphere around Bella and himself, and flying up out of the blast higher into the sky where Bella was surprised to see the other Lantern, John Stewart barely managing to fly as he looked to be in so much pain just floating. Bella felt bad for him, but he was certainly a real solider to pull himself back into the fight.

The three of them looked down as more and more energy poured out in an explosion, while in the centre it looked like it was being sucked back in, like a plump stretched doughnut

"W-what's happening?" Bella asked worriedly as she subconsciously pushed Hal further from her as he was up in her space and slapped his hand away. "And stop that!"

John glared at Hal before returning his attention to the energy. "I think he's cracked open a few lanterns. Now he's trying to absorb them. Shit Hal. If that bastard manages to absorb all of that power, he'll be unstoppable."

"I. I don't think that's the problem," Bella suddenly said.

The two men looked at her in confusion, but she just pointed a little way off where the alien lay with blue blood all over with his body in tatters of blood and flesh.

"Well not unless dead guys can become powerful," she said looking green in the cheeks and not from her powers. Trying not to think of the vampire's when she said that.

"Shit," Hal whispered in horror. "That ass didn't have a clue. I wondered why he kept getting clobbered by Bella. The idiot didn't have a clue how to use the power right. I bet it took him a lot longer to actually gain any control, so he kept thinking she was fluking it, which is why he didn't take her seriously… and probably why he got desperate and did this."

"Yeah," John agreed. "I was already hurt when he attacked me and we fell through a convergence just above the Earth. That means the losers left us with a bomb that may take out half of the State."

"Wait, what?" Bella asked in worry. "Half of Washington? People live here. Couldn't we gain control and absorb it or shoot it into space or something?" Bella asked desperately.

"Even if all three of us tried we would die just like him," Hal said. "We could probably take a half a lantern each, maybe more. But that much! We would go boom too, and cause more damage!" he continued gesturing himself and John. "You, perhaps half of that if you're lucky since you're so new and inexperienced, and from what I see I think there maybe thirty rings down there. That means he may have opened thirty lanterns. Who knows how many that idiot actually cracked open!?"

John nodded. "I think we should leave and try to protect as many people as we can."

Hal nodded in agreement. "Yeah, Bell, you might want to rescue your family while you still have time," he said as the sphere disappeared and he started drifting. "See you later Bella!" he called over the increasing roar of power below as he and John shot off.

However, they stopped moments later with wide eyes as they turned to see Bella had gone lower and was pointing her ring at the power. The ring seemed to whisper what to do. The ring didn't encourage her reckless action, but it didn't try to dissuade her either.

Bella ignored Jon and Hal's shouts. She was too far-gone. She would not sacrifice the state – especially not all those people. It was partially her fault too. She would not let so many people die since she now had the power to do something, anything, even if it only lessened the explosion. To save one extra person she must try to do everything within her power.

The words just flowed, and came to mind. The ring guided her along with all of its bearer's past. She could almost picture them, fighting to save people. She could picture their voices praising her bravery, and felt tears leaking from her eyes as she pushed back all regret.

"In brightest day…" she said shakily, "in blackest night… no evil shall escape my sight… let those who worship evils might, beware my power… Green Lanterns light!"

Bella roared out the words fearlessly, and John and Hal watched in awe as her ring shone brightly as it starting sucking in the energy wrapping it around her pulling it in, and after only a few moments she started screaming in agony, but still she didn't stop, even when she was a blaze with green flames, and felt like she was on fire with acid, which didn't seem possible, but it apparently was.

John and Hal could do nothing as they floated. Transfixed. Her screams ringing through their ears would be forever imprinted in their memories, and their nightmares.

Then it was over, and all that remained was Bella engulfed in power, screaming such agony. They could just make out her shape withering in a nightmarish pain, as she held her head as if it was about to explode. She had done what should be impossible for any human body, but her will was stronger than the green light of will itself.

They blinked and she was shooting up into the sky like a rocket with boom after boom shaking the world, and both men felt tears rolling down their cheeks, as they had both been too scared to try. Too scared to die, even though it was a part of their jobs, and she was just an innocent girl in the wrong place at the wrong time, but if there was anybody human or otherwise that deserved the title of Green Lantern.

It was her.

The pain had lessened in the cold void of space and Bella was able to pull the power in for a moment so it didn't obscure her view as she floated a few hundred miles above the Earth. Tears in her eyes drifted off, forming ice. She just wished she could have gotten that last goodbye.

That last hug.

That first loving kiss.

Her best friend.

Alice.

"The Earth… it's so beautiful, just like her," she spoke softly for just herself as she closed her eyes.

It was too bright.

However, unbeknownst to Bella, she was being watched from a giant satellite space station orbiting the Earth – a station she never knew existed, because it didn't. not in her universe. Some of Earth's superheroes watched with the AI Watcher, after having detected the tremendous power appearing out of nowhere and leaving the planet. They were surprised to have seen a Green Lantern. However, not just a Green Lantern, a human female Green Lantern.

As she tried to watch the Earth, they could see the power getting pulled further into her, but the energy was unstable. They knew what was going to happen, and some of the younger heroes watched in transfixed horror as they questioned whether they would ever do this.

To die for nameless, faceless people so selflessly?

The screen flashed white and the instruments went haywire before they felt a small shockwave, and moments later, it was over as the systems reset themselves. The only piece of technology not affected was Watcher as tears were falling from her eyes and she reached up to her face, surprised.

Bella Swan was gone.

to be continued…

Next Chapter: Chapter XLVIII (48) – we return to Harry and Static with The City of Excalibur on new-Earth.

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