When Hal brought Richard to meet the Guardians, Richard couldn't help but utter a small "Yikes." under his breath upon seeing their appearance. The Nova Prime was used to seeing aliens of different races, but yeesh, these guys were literally Smurfs.

Hal flies over with him on the platform. The platform was surrounded by tall stands that the Guardians inhabit. They almost seem to be leering down at them.

"This is Hal Jordan requesting audience. As you probably know, this is Richard Rider of the Nova Corps." when Hal said the name of Richard's alignments it was almost as if he were questioning the Guardians of its existence.

"Proceed." says Ganthet, who is arguably the nicest of the blue people. Perhaps he could even compete with Sayd.

Hal exchanges a glance with Richard, his eyes seemingly to plea: well you can explain this a helluva lot better than I can so be my guest.

Richard dips his head in understanding and takes off his Nova helmet. "Well uh… your honor? We'll go with that." he starts with, practically stumbling over his words like a baffling buffoon in front of these all-knowing beings. He lifts his sunken eyes to the Guardians and takes a deep breath.

"I have notions to believe that the state of the universe is now has been of two compositions. One where I come from, and one where you all belong." Richard explains, trying so hard not to make a reference to The Matrix right now.

"You see… things are overlapping, being replaced, being twisted, and there's one thing I know for sure… it isn't right. Luckily I was spared. How? I don't know. It must have something to do with my helmet… and the Worldmind."

Richard pauses to see if they are still following.

The Guardians don't rip their eyes off of him, looking at him, judging him. Suddenly Richard feels very small, but he was a Nova dammit! He wasn't going to let that bother him!

The one named Sayd taps her chin. "We have been keeping track of odd anomalies."

"Yes." Ganthet chimes in. "Such as strange surges of new power among the other Corps."

It was Hal's turn to add in his two cents. "What? When were you planning on telling us that?"

"We didn't have enough information to bestow." Ganthet explains.

Hal shuts up, but he wasn't pleased with this answer.

Richard cocks his head. "What kind of things may I ask?"

"We have reason to believe that the Red Lanterns, Agent Orange, the Sinestro Corps, the Blue Lanterns, and the Indigo Tribe each have gotten a boost to their rings from some kind of power stones." Sayd elaborates.

Power stones? Richard blinks, gulping the fast forming lump in his throat. "Infinity gems?"

Hal looks at Richard with the slightest bit of awe. "You know what these are?"

"Yes. I am all too familiar with them." Richard remarks. Hal could've sworn he saw the flicker of rolling eyes.

"You see there's six: mind, reality, power, space, time, and soul." Richard recalls the Infinity Stones on his hand. "But uh, I could've sworn you named only five groups?"

"That is correct." Sayd reassures. "Though, we have no idea which one has what."

"So much for all knowing." Hal mutters under his breath just loud enough for Richard to hear. Richard liked Hal's attitude, that right there was a man he could vibe with.

"Although," Ganthet adds, drawing up attention of the two men, "we believe to have acquired one of our own. We tried to contain it but it keeps warping out into open space."

"Space you say?" Richard taps his chin inquisitively. "Well I'd say that would be the space stone."

Hey, wait a minute. Richard hatched an idea in the nest of his brain. "I know that if you bring these stones all together, one can achieve great power."

"Are you suggesting that we use them to separate the multiverse?" Ganthet asks.

"Yessir! We just need to get them from these other Corps you talked about."

Hal crinkles his nose in distaste. "Won't be easy."

"Well how about this, we get the space stone and use it to track down the others, after we find Sam's helmet. Then we use the space stone to find the power stone and use that to, y'know, power the Nova helmets." Richard offers.

"You've got it all figured out spaceman." Hal remarks, quite impressed with Richard's intuition.

"Heh." Richard pretends to buffer out his chest plate, "It comes with the experience."

Hal looks to the Guardians, asking for their permission. "What do you think of this?"

For a brief moment they discuss the matter amongst each other before Sayd speaks for all of them. "We recognize this as an important task to set things right and we authorize this mission."

"Good," says Hal, "because if you said no we'll do it anyway."

"Right on!" Richard agrees.

Ignoring their rather… intuitive human behavior, Ganthet floats down to them to show them the space stone's location. Once again, Hal constructs a tether around Richard for him to be able to follow in flight.

"Wait a second." Hal interjects before they go into the hub once more that day. "Have to find my son before he gets lost."

Ganthet turns to the Green Lantern half disappointed and half bemused. "Good graces Lantern Jordan, you brought a child here?"

"Yeah well, long story short, Sam is apart of this conundrum too." Hal replies in a voice that feigns restlessness.

"Do you think he's by where the blonde elf looking chick is acting all annoyed?" Richard offers, pointing at his observation. He didn't see Sam, but assumed he caused this.

"Who Arisia-" Hal looks over as they come into view and indeed, there is Sam apologizing for running right into Arisia (or the blonde elf looking chick as Richard described her.) Hal sighs, "Yeah that's him alright."

"Look I said I was sorry?" Sam pleas.

"And I said that it's okay! What more do you want from me?" Arisia protests, throwing her hands up in defeat.

"I know when I girl says that, things are definitely not okay!"

Arisia face palms. She wasn't getting through to this kid. When Hal approached with Richard and Ganthet she lit up with relief. "Oh thank goodness Hal, your kid is a real sweetie, nice to meet him and all but I gotta go!"

Arisia grabs Sam by the shoulders and practically forks him over before dipping. Pretty soon she was a twinkle of green light in the distance.

"Well she was nice." Sam comments before looking over at Ganthet. "Who's this?"

"This is one of the Guardians." Hal explains, "Ganthet this is my son Sam."

Ganthet dips his large head in greeting.

"He's told us that there-"

"Wait before you continue," Sam intervenes, trying to fit in the information be gained from Kyle. "I found out that there-"

"-are stones from Richard's universe floating around somewhere and that the other Corps have them." Hal finished anyway, causing Sam to groan.

"Wait what, stones?"

It wasn't the exact thing Sam had found out about. "Kyle told me that the Blue Lanterns had the Eye of Agameme."

"Agamotto." Richard corrects. The Eye of Agamotto belonged to Doctor Strange. "They have the time stone."

Sam nods, "Yeah- that. Kyle also told me that he thought that some things were weird too. Specifically with things from Richard's universe. I mean he doesn't know about Richard of course, but he did feel that these things were otherworldly and didn't fit."

"Great." Richard smiles ruefully. "I'm not the only one."

Sam totters on his feet and swings his arms, trying to tenseness off the conversation. "To be honest, I've been feeling the same way sometimes…"

Hal frowns. Now he understood Sam's little episodes of dourness. He didn't like that one bit.

"That's all fine and good to know, but wouldn't you all like to see the space stone?" Ganthet remarks, reminding them of their task. They all nod as Richard fills Sam in on the Infinity Stones. He mentioned Thanos' name, sparking Sam's interest further and was about to get into it but there they were: in front of the Book of Oa.

The Book of Oa was ginormous, two average height Earthling males in height, and about five to six in length. The Book recorded everything in Green Lantern history, and sometimes even the future as well. But this was not what they came here for.

Floating around the Book was the space stone, standing out against the almost neon green sheen of everything. The space stone was a deep evergreen, circling around the Book like an electron would around a nucleus.

"Well well well." Richard remarks, placing his hands on his hips. "It's so good to see you beautiful. Come to daddy." His eyes follows the space stone's path.

"I got it." Hal creates a construct hand to grab the stone and bring it over. Multiple times it warped out of the construct hand's grip before Hal angrily shoves it into Richard's own hands. "There. Don't lose it."

Richard brings the space stone close to his face and grins. "There's no way this baby is getting out of my sight."