Hi guys so wow! 50 chapters, who would have thought. Thank so to everyone who has supported this story so far. And I can't wait to show you more of what I've got.
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No one knew what Hal was talking about, but the look on his face said it all. Whoever Parralax was, he or she was very powerful. The only sound that could be heard was Sinestro's sinister laugh.
"That was your plan all along! Create enough fear amongst humans to release Parralax... Why would you do something like that." Hal bitterly said.
"I served those blasted guardians for years. And what did I get in return for my service? Having to watch that man walk free." Sinestro replied pointing at Vegeta. "When Parralax gets free he will fuse with the green lantern core battery. Depowering the guardians once and for..." Before he could finish though Vegeta knocked him out.
"Enough of you prattling." He shouted.
"Alright I may regret asking this, but who or what is Parralax?" Yamcha questioned the Green Lantern.
"When our universe was created seven entities were born from the emotional spectrum. Willpower, compassion, hope, rage, love, greed and fear. Parallax is the entity of fear. Since fear and willpower are opposite, it will stop at nothing to destroy our corp. The guardians locked Parallax away eons ago, until now."
"Well, we have to stop him!" Diana stated.
"Krillin's still out, and we all took a battering." Yamcha argued.
"I can help with that." Batman said, suddenly appearing from nowhere. "Don't worry Bulma is fine. She actually gave me these." In his hand a small bag of senzu beans appeared. Everyone instantly took one after the long and tiresome battle with Sinestro.
At that moment the others returned from their task. Robin and a now awakened Flash exited the Batwing. Meanwhile Gohan flew down carrying Kara over his shoulder.
"What happened to you guys?" Yamcha asked, concerned.
"Had a bit of a run in with Scarecrow's fear toxin... Don't worry about it." The young boy answered, still in shock. The rest of them listened as Hal explained the situation with Sinestro and Parallax.
"So let me get this straight. Your stopping a being, who's planning to wipe out an entire army of space cops. Count me in!" Kara excitedly said.
"No, your all staying here!" Batman exclaimed.
"What?" All three said in unison.
"We're all out of senzu beans. Your in no condition to fight." Pointing at Kara. "You've just had an hallucination of your worst nightmare." Pointing at Gohan. "And this is only your second mission." Pointing at Robin.
"Batman's right! There's nothing you can do in your current condition." Diana added. "Plus someone needs to stay behind so they can help Krillin, Bulma and the Namekians."
"But..." Robin stopped in his tracks as he saw that glare from the caped crusader. The three remained silent and just nodded their heads.
"Hang on, why should I go and protect the green lantern corp. In case you've forgotten, I'm wanted by them!" He growled.
"Help the corp... and i'll..." Hal stuttered, figuring out what to haggle with. "I'll convince the guardians to wipe your record clean." Vegeta though still looked unsure. Diana though knew how to get the prince's attention.
"Lantern, would you say that Parallax was a powerful enemy?" "Vegeta looked up, eager.
"Well it killed most of the guardians so... yeah."
"Count me in!" Vegeta suddenly yelled. Having to hold in his excitement. Everyone with the exception of Dick, Gohan and Kara. Found themselves surrounded by a green bubble. Including the unconscious Sinestro. Which shook as it took off into space. Yamacha turned green, as he almost puked.
"Attention ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We shall be arriving at Oa in roughly thirty minutes. Please keep your seatbelt's on for the remainder of our flight. And thank you for taking choosing Green Lantern airways as your choice of flight." Hal joked, making Barry, Yamcha and Diana laugh.
"You know your alright." The speedster said. "Name's Flash, by the way.
"Green Lantern, nice to meet ya." The two shook hands. As they headed into the unknown.
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Kilowog stood guard of the main battery along with a squirrel looking lantern called Chip. The two sat down bored out of their minds. While every lantern had to do guard duty. None of them actually wanted to do it. To them it was just a big waste of time. However if the guardians decreed something, they would all comply.
"I spy with my little eye, something beginning with... R." Chip said.
"A ring." Kilowog responded sarcastically. "Yay, it's not like we haven't done that one a million times."
"Come on Kilowog, I'm just trying to pass the time a little."
"Really? The universe is currently in a giant power struggle over Frieza's demise. And we're here on guard duty. This is pointless! It's not like Parallax is going anywhere, anytime soon." Suddenly the entire planet felt an enormous tremor. Both lanterns on guard looked up in horror to see a crack in the main battery. "Sound the alarms now! Tell the guardians Parallax is escaping!" His voice turned to panic, as he created pieces of debris to fill in the holes. Chip created a bell and rang it three times. In almost an instant the guardians and fellow green lanterns arrived at the scene.
"What happened?" A lantern by the name of Arisia questioned the two.
"We don't know! The ground started to shake... then that crack just appeared." Chip replied. The three guardians were left almost speechless when they saw their battery cracked. At that point hundreds of little bugs started to leak from the battery.
"Lanterns! Engage those monsters!" Rami shouted. The entire army charged at Parallax's monsters. Thousands of green lights burst out towards the shining yellow bugs. Causing a huge explosion of green and yellow energy.
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Hal and the others approached Oa in blistering speed. However when they got there, the scenes were gruesome. At least a quarter of the lanterns had been wiped out. The streets were filled with blood and fire. Then they spotted it, the main battery's condition was not good.
"The core has almost been penetrated!" Hal shouted, causing Barry and Yamcha to snicker behind him. "I'm going to drop us of right in the middle of this fight. So just be prepared for a rough landing, alright?" As they all got closer the bubble started to come under heavy fire. The yellow blasts from the small bug creatures, were difficult to fight against. The sheer amount of force was challenging. For even the most experienced green lanterns sturuggled. Hal dropped the heroes from Earth off, next to Ganthet, Killowog, Chip and Arisia. "Kilowog what's the situation?"
"Nice of you to join us Jordan." The alien joked. "It's bad... The guardians are trying to reconstruct Parallax's prison. Meanwhile we're all dealing with these yellow monstrosities. Who are th..." Kilowog suddenly stopped, when he noticed Vegeta.
"Hal do you know who that man is?" Arisia quizzed the pilot.
"Yeah I know who Vegeta is. Listen, he's here to help." Hal responded.
"And why would the Saiyan prince... a fugitive by the way. Want to help us?" Hal rubbed the back of his head in guilt. Something that his fellow lanterns picked up on.
"I... may have offered him a pardon?"
"You did what?" Kilowog shouted at the top of his lungs.
"Enough!" Ganthet yelled. "It has already been done. We should focus all of our attention to the core."
"What's the plan?"
"If one of you can take me there, I can stop this once and for all." The others looked at him puzzled. Hal though knew what that meant.
"Your going to sacrifice yourself." Hal stated shocking the others.
"It's the only way." Everyone looked on in sadness. Unsurprisingly it was the human lantern who stepped up.
"Alright you guys keep fighting, I'll take Ganthet to the core." The plan was set as Hal and Ganthet made their way to their destination. Both men scared at what was to come.
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On the Battlefield, both Vegeta and Diana were enjoying themselves very much. They were gaining a higher kill count than anyone else. While the Saiyan ducked and dived below attacks. The amazon was deflecting them with her bracelets. Vegeta smiled as he blasted one of the bugs to pieces."
"Amazon! That's two already!" He yelled.
"I'm on seventeen." She responded.
"What? I'm not letting some earthling beat me." Vegeta made short work of another two bugs. Determined not to lose. Meanwhile Batman, Flash and Yamcha were fighting with Kilowog, Chip and Arisia.
"Let's push them back!" Chip commanded, making Flash jump.
"A talking, flying squirrel... You'd think I'd be surprised." He joked. During this time he stood still. This meant that a big almost got him. If not for Batman , who threw a beatarang at the last second. Flash turned as he heard a loud crunch.
"Mind your surroundings!" The dark knight instructed.
"Yes Joe!" Barry muttered under his breath. The battle raged on with Yamcha releasing a Ki attack that took out a number of foes. However it was clear the corp started losing ground.
"You'd better hurry up Jordan." Kilowog told himself.
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Hal and Ganthet arrived at the main core. The pilot stood in awe as he could see Parallax, closer than ever before. The bright yellow glow from Parallax almost burned his eyes.
"So what do you have planned?" Green Lantern questioned.
"I'm going to absorb the entire core. Then when Parallax has been purged release the energy back." The guardian answered.
"But that amount of power would destroy you. Way before you could release all that energy."
"I know but we all must ensure Parallax doesn't win." As he said this the crack burst opened. When the smoke cleared Parallax roared up in the sky. Ganthet got ready, however a yellow beam hit him in the shoulder. Hal ran over towards the guardian, who coughed up blood. "No... All... is lost." Hal rested him against the wall.
"Not while I'm still standing!" The pilot walked towards the bug creature, who was now turning the green lantern core, yellow. "Sorry Carol, guess I won't be coming home." Hal's bones shivered as he lifted his arm. And started absorbing the entire lantern core.
"Jordan, what are you doing? Your going to die!"
"Yeah, but it's like you said. We have to ensure that Parallax doesn't win." Hal continued as he felt the strain of what he was doing, hit him hard. The atoms in his body jumped. His heart was working overtime. And the outside of his body glowed a light green. However Parallax wasn't giving up so easily. It started to telepathically speak to the human.
"You may be full of will, Hal Jordan of Earth. But just like every other living being I've encountered, you are afraid." Suddenly Hal's vision changed. He found himself in his home. And there, right in front of him, stood the love of his life. Hal tried to walk towards her but found himself behind a wall of glass. The pilot tried to break it, however nothing he couldn't get through. The harder he punched. The stronger that glass became. Just then the door flung open, and in stepped Sinestro. The yellow Lantern didn't say anything. He just slowly walked towards the female pilot.
"Help me!" Carol kept repeating over again. Hal desperately tried to break through, but nothing he did was working. Hal could only stare a Sinestro started to choke his girlfriend. Then he looked at his ring... And started to question what he was even doing? He'd been given that ring for a reason. And he wouldn't let something like this stop him. Hal clenched his fist and suddenly made his move.
"In brightest day. In blackest night." The pilot chanted as he kept punching the glass. Sinestro looked on in horror as Hal smashed through the glass. "No evil shall escape my sight." The human's vision suddenly changed back to the main battery core on Oa. Hal let go of all other distractions, and focused on the task at hand. Parallax roared as it too was being sucked into the ring. "Let those who worship evils might!" Hal felt the entire power of will flow through his body, it was almost intoxicating. Though he knew he had to let it go. "Beware my power! Green Lanterns light!" The pilot launched the green energy back into the core. Purging Parallax, and winning the battle.
So I hope you enjoyed this arc as much as I have enjoyed writing it. And because it's the 50th chapter I have an announcement. After the next couple of chapters, closing off the arc. There will be another mini arc (5 chapters max) which will focus on Goku and Supermans adventures during the time they are away.
Again thanks to everyone who has supported this story.
Reviews:
dark flacon:
1: Like a lot of my villains. I didnt want Parallax to be someone you could beat with brute force. Plus I just wanted to pay homage to that famous JL scene.
2: No.
3: Thanks
Victor0606: Glad you like it.
Jadastroke80:
1: Thanks
2: Still undecided
Dragondave45:
1: We'll Parallax has been imprisoned longer than Saiyans have even existed so no he hasn't.
2: No blue lanterns
Berrus- Sama: The only thing about that is the colours don't really match. For instance a galick gun is purple which signifies love. Probably the least Vegeta thing ever.
X3runner: let's just say it will play a big role later on.
Sailordragonball87: undecided!
Yo: I have a few ideas
Guest: Yeah the Injustice 2 story just blew me away.
Corondomontes: Thanks
Jalen Johnson: i wanna have atrocitous show up but I don't believe he will have his own arc.
Jexcel: At this point Superman is still new to all this he is nowhere near his full capabilities.