Chapitre 5 : pain of love
I was eating my breakfast this morning while my foster parents were watching the news, fun fact, someone caught me on camera and mistook me for an alien; The most recent theory was that 'it's a scout, he went to Metropolis to study us and prepare an invasion." or 'he wants to reproduce with our females'... no… just no.
These theories were really disturbing, I was also on TV
I wasn't worried that my foster family saw the video, considering that Clark can work in the same journal that sells articles about Superman without having anyone who made a link between the two personas, I had nothing to be worried about.
"Hey, it looks like Zack." Doris declared as I choked on my breakfast, how the heck is it possible, I changed my skin, clothes and the marks on my face made it impossible for me to recognize my own face?!
"He just looks like him, the world is so big that such a coincidence is rather common." Beatrice told her daughter while Francis was patting my back to help me.
After her declaration, they passed a reportage about the incident at 'Sweet justice'.
"Big news, the best sweet shop of Metropolis was destroyed last night at nine p.m during an attack of robots" The journalist declared before showing the empty shop, I admit that during my first team fight we just focused on destroying the robots and saving the clients without caring about the damages on the shop but it was still standing when we left, it should just take a month or two before it get back to normal.
"A violent fight ensued between the robots and Superman who was accompanied by eight sidekicks," they showed a picture of Superman flying away from Hal while me and the girls were posing for the people who were taking pictures of us,
Yeah I know it was stupid but come on, they were taking pictures of me with Supergirl, Batgirl and Wonder Woman, who wouldn't do the same?!.
But no matter what I was telling myself, I was really scared, I never thought these pictures would be taken to the news, it wasn't as big as the fight with Metallo after all, so why did the Daily planet publish them?
I awaited their reaction while everyone was watching the screen… What was I gonna do? They have every reasons to kick me out considering how the life of an hero is (and the fact that most people in DC take dumb decision like that weird story about Leslie Thompkins who faked the death of Robin, no one expected that, it was a bad descision from the writters but it happened) maybe if it happens I could run from Metropolis, I mean maybe it would be like dropping school but considering I was in the world of FREAKING DC COMICS I cared more about how to defeat a god than getting a doctora; Maybe I could go to Jump city and live with the teen titans… oh right, I fogot about Trigon, no teen titans then.
I watched them carefully, in fear of what would happen, the Zeuls were nice people and I was afraid to do something that could upset them.
"They let a child pilot a Mech?" Beatrice asked incuriosity as they showed the picture of Lena
wait, don't tell me...
"No, she stole it from her brother." Francis answered before Doris sneered
"What a moron" Doris made fun of Luthor before she ate her bearfast.
SERIOUSLY? their daughter could see a resemblance between me and that 'alien' from the junkyard but no one made the connection between me and the heroes who wore the same clothes I had yesterday with the same batman hoodie?!
I'm practically wearing it every days_the DC world and its mysteries._ A part of me was relieved that I didn't have to face my foster family about my action as a superhero but come on.
"By the way, did you know today was the day to sign for a club?" Francis asked me.
"No, I didn't." How could I've known when I just came to this world two days ago.
"You should try the newspaper club, you always complain about the news being borings." Baetrice told me
Me at the news… I was imagining articles about things like why Lex Luthor couldn't guard his warsuit better, why no one acted about the suicide slumb, where did Metallo come from, heck I even wanted to writte about the existence of aliens…. speaking of aliens, I started to wonder who was protecting the sector I was living in since Hal and Jess weren't fully accepted as green lanterns.
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"It was saturday, Hal and Jessica were trained by kilowog in earth's orbit using their rings, like usually Jessica was using her powers in a defensive way, the hispanic girl never believed in violence even in the green lantern corp, but she also remembered what her friends told her before.
she blocked Hal's attack when they came to using weapons construction, both of them chose staffs but when their staffs connected, her rings glowed before the ring turned into a salad and wrapped itself around Him, he was immobilised in seconds.
She smiled at Kilowog but he did not look satisfied, the tall pig-like alien looked at her.
"Okay, Cruz, First of all it's good that you actually used your ring to capture someone but why did it take you so long !?" the bolovaxian shouted, "You could have attacked him, blinded him and captured him five minutes ago but you wasted your time." The ring was a powerful device that could create anything the wearer imagine but even a second could be enough to ,ill a green lantern
"But I got him, and without using violence." Jessica defended herself.
But Kilowog did not change his mind, she won but she could have done better, a lot of good guys died because they chose the easy way instead of the right.
"Spar with me". Kilowog ordered her before he created a Hammer, Jess barely had time to create a shield to protect herself from his attack and was struggling to keep her position, she already sparred with him before but he seemed much stronger than before.
""Your construction comes from your imagination so it is easier to create things that seem natural to you" just after that the Hammer turned into a bazooka who shot right into the shield and sent Jessica to the moon with her shield cracked. "The only limit to the rings is your willpower and fear is its worst enemy" then he was in front of her "Are you afraid ?"" he asked her.
"I'm not afraid ! '' Jessica exclaimed before creating an octopus and threw it to kilowog's face, only for him to create a helmet based on his face to protect himself and almost headbutted her while she was defenceless, he stopped at one millimeter near her face as the girl was out of breath.
"If it was a real fight both of you would be dead, try to be faster, improve your creation and train harder when I'm not here." Kilowog advised her before she got up.
The older green lantern could only come time to time in order to train them, Hal and Jessica wouldn't see him again before a month, then she remembered something important before he left, Jessica stopped him "Wait, I have Something important to tell you ?"
The alien sighed, "what is it ?"
"is it possible to resign from the corps ?"Jessica asked him, the instructor frowned atq her question.
"It's possible under special conditions, first you must be in contradiction with one rule of the book of Oa without committing a crime deserving prison and that's impossible; the second way is during wartime, and trust me, you don't want to know what a cosmic war is like." He frowned at the end, like he was taking from experience. "Why do you ask me this now ?" He raised an eyebrow as she had plenty of time to ask him that before so why now?
"A friend on earth told me it was possible to resign so I wanted to know." Jessica was embarrassed to admit the idea came from someone else than her.
"Show me your ring." Kilowog was really serious about that, it was an order, so the hispanic girl presented him her ring as a hologram of Zack manifested from it
"Normally you can resign from the green from the green lanterns." repeated hologram of Zack, it seemed to have some problems but you could perfectly see his face and understand the topic.
The Green lantern senior frowned at the picture, he put his ring against hers as a green flash out, when the flash vanished, the alien was going away, "class is over."
Jessica never saw him like that before, he has never looked so determined before.
000
I was heading to the school in order to join the newspaper club. maybe I could meet jimmy or Lois... Nan, that would be an incredibles coincidence. Then I noticed Jess and Hal as I walked through the football field.
"Hey Jess, are you okay ?" She looked like her kitten died.
"She is upset because the only way for her to leave the green lantern corps is if there is a space war but no one wants a space war, especially her." Hal responded me
Damn, I knew I forgot something, Green lantern did fight in galactic wars, WARS as in too much, I forgot until today to thinks about that and it was stupid, i'm a morron, I remembered when My cousin showed 'sinestro corps war' and 'blackest night' I decided to stop searching green lantern's comics in the librairy after that… althought it was possible that only sinestro was in this world, I means the brave and the bold didn't have another lantern's corps while in the dcau there was only sinestro and star sapphire so maybe it will be only them right ?!
"Are you okay ?, it looks like you saw a ghost." Hal asked me as it pulled me out of my thoughts.
"Sorry, I was thinking about the space war but did you try to use your powers like suggested ?" I asked Jessica.
"Yeah, it was weird to use a salad but it's true that making a creation is easier when it's something you know well." Jessica told me.
"It's tiring to use a construction because of how much concentration it asks but if it's something like what you eat every day then it will be asking for less concentration." I thought of this possibility after my cousin showed me a comic where Green Arrow used Hal's ring, he was exhausted after using it just one time.
"But do you really think I should Watch Dragon ball Z to improve my performances ?" Jessica was a pacifist so I knew it was not the kind of anime she would Watch, in fact I doubted she watched anime at all.
"Just use your phone to Watch every air combat, you can fly with your ring and throw Energy so I really think you should take note of that." I answered her.
"I thought you were a fan of one piece ?" Hal told me.
"Yeah, Dragon ball is number one on the list of my favorites mangas and one piece is number two but it's really close to dragon ball." I told him, I loved dragon ball since it was the first manga I watched as a kid and after I grew up, one piece was going on and I loved everything about it, too bad I had to wait two years until the version of this world begins Wano Kuni.
"So you started to work out because of dragon ball ?" He asked as he pointed my muscled arms, yes I had arms like that and it was a good discovery when I noticed them "Because most most of the guys in my team did it for … " He did not finish his sentence, he looked surprised before jumping behind a trashcan next to me, I stared where he looked, it was a bus with students from west coast city.
"Hold on, is 'superman best friend' afraid of the other team ?" The hispanic girl laughed at his reaction while I was a bit worried, I mean if he was like this there must be a reason for that and considering the world I'm in, it must be much worse than an angry boyfriend nor a jealous ex-girlfriend.
"It's not the team I'm afraid of." He was scared and it became worse when the cheerleaders came out of the bus.
Then I realized what was the problem. "Don't tell me you dated all the cheerleaders." I knew Green lantern was a ladies man but at such a young age ?
The two green lanterns looked at me like if I grew a second head, shocked of what I insinued.
"I'm flattered but I didn't do that …" Hal smiled before his face became terrified and then he went back behind the trash can "I think she saw me"
He was right, a girl with long black hair noticed him, she was frowning at us and walked behind a batiment like if she wanted to hide from the world … wait ?
"Is she a supervillain ?" I asked Hal, his expression told me everything while Jess was stunned, Damn, I just recovered from the worst beating of my life yesterday and now this,
A big pink glow came behind the bleachers just after that, yes he dated a supervillain but to be fair I could not blame him, villainess are hot after all… oh come on, I'm not the only one who thought that.
A big heart made of pink fire was in the sky while there was a girl dressed as a Disney princess inside of it, I knew it was Star Sapphire because of the color and Hal's exe but I thought her suit showed more skin … please remember that right now I'm fifteen and before that I was seventeen before my death so even if she is in high school there is no problems.
Her lips were moving but between the panicked students and the sound of her flames, I could not hear her; She threw a giant heart at us, we barely jumped in time when it collided on the ground, making an explosion that hurt my ears.
Quest alert : love is a pain
Star Sapphire is making a tantrum, Stop her before she causes damages. :
completion award : exp points.
ameliorated relationship with your teammates
completion failure : - Destruction of the school.
you will receive a severe beating.
I did not need motivation to help people, the green lanterns and I ran to hide behind the training Equipment to suit up in order to confront her, I just took off my jacket, put on a helmet that was on the floor but when I finished to disguise myself, only Jessica was in her suit.
"Hal, are you scared." Jessica smiled at him while Hal was embarrassed.
"She really freaks me out." He defended himself, just after that our hiding was destroyed by a blast from this crazy ex, the three of us barely jumped on time.
I wanted to join the newspaper club but now I had to save Hal from an ex-girlfriend with a power ring, ready to blast him up because they broke up with… how did my life became so crazy.
"Run to the locker room." Jessica told Hal, I realised that we were only four on the football field and I felt dumb to bother with a helmet on my head but Jessica was right, I knew how much a yandere is dangerous and Carol seemed to be one, I could not teleport Hal because I was going to need the most wakfu possible so we ran across the field while Carol shooting us with hearts but our female green lantern destroyed them with arrows before creating a giant ball to protect us.
"Why is she so angry at you ?" Jessica was angry toward Hal and it was understandable considering that a yandere was trying to murder us.
"She is just mad because I broke up with her." He explained.
"Worst text ever." Carol yelled… oh fuck, he did it.
"You broke up with her over text ?" It seemed that Jess' female solidarity kicked in because she stopped her Bubble and was outraged even Star Sapphire stopped to attack us.
"I put a smiley face in it. I'm not the Joker." Hal replied
"YOU FU##ED UP, YOU REALLY REALLY FU##D UP!" I screamed, seriously, he could had the decency to phone her ; okay using a phone was also low but it was still a conversation instead of a text
Don't take it wrong, after what just Happened with Carol I knew that breaking up with her in person while she was wearing the ring on her was a bad idea because she could kill him or every girl he meets … I should slow down on tvtrope yanderes but the idea is that Carol could have beat him to a pulp if he did it in person but still deserved a conversation.
"Nothing else hurt more than a heartache !" Carol created a big heart with a giant sad face on it, I directly created a portal and jumped in it so I could appear behind her; My plan was to take her by surprise before stealing her ring of power but turns out I should have been more careful because when I came out of the portal because I was soon confronted to two problems :
Number one, I didn't decide precisely where to teleport. I was falling a bit too fast for my liking.
Number two The thing is that I have always been dizzy so I instinctively grabbed the first thing I could find … It was round and soft… .
No one talked, heck even Star Sapphire stopped firing, I decided to compare our eight and considering we were the same eight but my head was above hers …. I really should have been more careful before jumping into that portal, it would have prevented this embarrassing moment.
"Get off me you pervert !" Carol yelled before blasting me right to the school, I had no time to create a portal before I made contact with a glass, It fucking hurted like hell!
"You … I will KILL YOU !" Star Sapphire screamed as her aura intensified while she litterally got fangs
Good news she was not after Hal anymore, bad news she wanted to kill me and I was really hurt, there was blood around me, MY BLOOD!
[Bleeding, -10 hp every tens seconds and increased loss of Wakfu until the bleeding stop]
Warning : moving and using your power will just increase the loss of Hp and your reserve of wakfu will be affected
That's bad, really bad, the statue barely left before a giant heart ran toward me, I made a portal under me to disappear and ended up … right on the same field where a crazy Pink Lantern was looking at me with murderous rage.
It did not seem good for me and I did not know how to fight a lantern with my powers, so I just prepared myself to face her furry in hope that Hal and Jesse would help me; in order to survive I was thinking 'what Spider-Man would do in this situation', and it came to my mind talk to the villain
"Caro, I know you are angry but I thought you were possessed by the ring." I was always a bit awkward with girls before so what happened was really embarrassing, too much to really talk about it.
"No excuse for touching a woman like that."Carol threw a giant apple to me and it almost crushed me but thanks to my increased speed I managed to dodge in time.
HP: 1350/1400
WAKFU: 3500/3365
"Maybe it isn't but causing a rampage because your ex dumped you is not better, I mean that if you loved him you would accept to let him go." I tried to give her love advice but I never fell in love so it was not easy to talk her out of this mess.
"You don't know true love, he's mine" then she created bazooka, I used a portal to throw her blast back at her but she used a heart shield and tried again to crush me; instead of dodging, I created a laser beam, or wakmeha like I call it, to her creation in hope to push her out, she flew back when the heart hit her but the construction quickly disappeared before it hurted her.
HP: 1300/1400
Wakfu : 3400/3365
I was panting after these efforts, I was never an athlete before and even with a new body I was not used to fighting, so I couldn't fight long with a supervillain while bleeding and the two lanterns away, seriously why was I alone against her?
I had barely time to think as she started to blast me again, I just teleported away, again and again; I started to grow worried, I was already injured, I was going to run out of wakfu and this girl was ready to kill me …. dying …. the void…; no, NEVER!
Anxiety and fear started to grow inside of my body and gave me more energy, I wanted to run, to spend all this negativity in my body, releasing it, I made portals faster and faster than before, everything was blue around me, I think I just used the 'railroad of wakfu'
The railroad was a chain of portal that Yugo used to go faster to the point of having something like superspeed, and when he hit his enemies he hit hard; I dodged another blast coming right to me from the pink ring a=but this time I wasn't going away, no I wanted to end this fight; it was complicated to move precisely while making a constant creation of portals but I did my best
The speed was getting out of my control but I managed to reach Star Sapphire and headbutted her, Yes it wasn't a glorious way of fighting but she could kill and power rings are too op no matter what you says about them so I knew she would be fine; Too bad I wasn't.
We both landed on the grass while all around me was numb because of the shock and worst I starting to black out…
HP: 800/1400
Wakfu : 400/3365
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"No, no, no,no" Jessica repeated while she used her power ring to come quickly where the lights came from, it was pinks and blue lights; she came as soon as she could, passing in front of the devastated school, the scorched grass to finally the big crater right in the field, with Hal's ex and her friend Zack, both unconscious.
"Zack." She couldn't believe it, She left him with Star Sapphire to put Hal in safety and find a plan in order to defeat her, but just when the cadets found one they heard explosions, too much explosion.
She rushed to their source and saw her friend with cuts on him and his clothes tainted in blood, 'It's my fault…' was repeating through her head, she let him alone five minutes with a lantern because she wanted to put Hal in safety instead of letting helping him fighting this girls; He encouraged her pacifism and Jessica thought he would be fine if she was just rescuing people and coming with idea, staying pacifist like always.
And now he was injured because he faced a power ring wielder alone, she was against violence because she was against hurting people but he got hurt, ZACK GOT HURT.
"Jess, what happened… WHAT THE HELL." Hal gasped at not only the view of the blood but also at Zack's skin when he got closer, it was red like if he got a massive sunburn but they knew better, he got blasted by a power ring. "What do we do."
"Stop the bleeding, find something to apply a pressure and it has to be clean." Jess quickly said, she was used to taking care of animals but never of another human being.
"I can help." Someone declared.
The green lanterns turned to who said that, it was Garth, a boy with black hair and small, even for a fourteen one, he was currently just wearing a towel because she had the idea to dress Hal in his clothes in order to make him look less attractive to Star Sapphire but it wasn't needed anymore.
The boy just moved near Zack unconscious body, he seemed extremely focused, Jess didn't know what was he doing but then she saw the blood changing, it was coagulated.
"How." She asked in wonder, how it was possible.
"I'm aqualad." Gath declared before he also lose consciousness, probably from the effort.
Jess didn't have time to ponder about this 'aqualad'; she had three people to take to the hospital, right now.
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My head hurted me when I regained conscious, I just remembered that I was fighting Star Sapphire but then it was all black.
"HE GOT UP." My head hurt from the screaming, I opened my eyes and saw my foster family, the two green lanterns who are my friends and we were all six in a hospital room.
"What happened?" I asked, it wasn't just because of a cover that I was asking this, I genuinely didn't know how I ended up there.
"You were hit by a supervillain at school, it's been four hours since you got there, Baetrice told me, wow that was a bit long, then it appeared without warnings.
Quest failed.
I failed, I failed for the first time, then I looked at my foster family and saw they looked worried sick at me, I felt worse for that, I'm not even the Zack they knew and I caused them worries, I talked a bit with the two scientist who took me in and soon they decided to let me alone with my friends.
"Zack, I'm sorry." Jess declared.
"For what?" Why is he sorry? she didn't do anything to me.
"I let you alone fighting Star Sapphire." She looked away from me as Hal did… oh, that was the problem.
"Don't be sorry, You're a pacifist; It's your life choice… I mean, it's a bit because of Hal but I'm not angry toward him." I tried to comfort her but it didn't work.
"And you got hurt, you were bleeding so much, YOU NEEDED A TRANSFUSION BECAUSE I WASN'T THERE." She started to calm after that. "I let you down."
"Jess, it's your life and you doubt you even know how to fight with a power ring; I knew I could got hurt so don't blame yourself.
She didn't answer, I knew Jess for only two days but she was so energetic yesterday, and now she looked down…
Am I going to be the new reason for Jessica PTSD… I means, my cousin told me she was famous for that and her time travel and I was in what seemed to be a new start of the DC Verse since Diana just left her island and Hals isn't a green lantern.
Then someone brutally opened the door, taking us by surprise, It was Babs with Kara, Karen and Diana, the whole crew came.
"Hey babs." I was soon caught in a bear hug and it really hurted me.
"AREYOUOKAY?IWASWORKINGATTHEBURRITOBUCKETTHENIGOTAPHONECALLFROMJESSICAYOUWEREINJURIED" I barely understood her as she was speaking way to fast for me but I had a vague Idea of what she was saying.
I was glad to have friends who came to visit me but I just realised that I could have done better against Star Sapphire.
"What about the violet lantern?" I asked Hal.
"She is in another room, she got hit really hard and lost conscious but we throw her ring away so no more Star Sapphire." He answered.
"What if she got another one?" I asked him and he lose colors at the very idea she come back one day.
I needed to be stronger, to reach my full potential, "Hey Diana."
"Yes Zack?"
"Can you make a warrior out of me?"
Yes, Zack lose because he lacked experience and a mojority of the school got destroyed so it doesn't count as a victory, And what happened with Jess is that Zack bleeding was way worst than a normal one because of his gamer powers, thet can be as much as a pain as helpful; I just wanted Jess o be confronted to e reality about her pacifism : what will she do if her friends are endangered and she didn't acted fast enought to help them because she didn't wante to fight? that's my idea of how Zack presence will affect the plot.
Also, for his powers, he understand a bit of eliatropes powers and here what he can do
current powers list :
Slowed perception of time : Zack can see the world as slower when he is stressed thanks to his stat 'intelligence' but this alteration is not as strong as Deathstroke and consumes more energy.
portal : primal eliatrope's power, the eliatrope can create a portal to teleport himself, (But if Zack goes through one portal when there isn't another one he won't be able to precisely choose his location), cost a small amount of wakfu.
problem : if someone else than an eliatrope/dragon go through a portal, the eliatrope who made it will suffer a great loose of wakfu)
railroad : chain portals can make the eliatrope move at an incredible speed while getting a great amount of kinetic energy, the longer he does it, the stronger it gets.
problem : Zack isn't indestructible, he can only stay uninjured if his defence is strong enough or else he will be injured.
Portal laser : a powerful laser created by supperposing portals, the only cost of wakfu comes from the creation of the portal and the time to maintain them.
problems : creating a third portal is too complexe for a beginner while the Dc world has metals able to bear with little difficulty the strength of the laser.
minor wakfu manipulation : Zack knows he can manipulate Wakfu but not how, he just knows how to release a quantity of wakfu to blind his adversary, he is far from Qilby and Yugo's level who can create weapons of Wakfu.
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The Wakfu can give a great amount of possibilities when you think about it but you have to know how to use it, even if Zack is an hardcore fan of Wakfu, he never had theses powers before so it's still hard for him to reach his full potential but manipulating wakfu is like beeing a lantern but better (Qilby was able to manipulate his artificial arm like if it was a power ring while he had the ability to steal the wakfu of Adamaï like if he was cutting his soul) and when the wakfu is stagnating it become "stasis" an energy of DESTRUCTION (I know it possible because Yugo had it in the trailer of season 4), The point is that Zack has the potential to reach the power of a 'new god' but he is limited to his level and the use of his powers so he can put a good fight against recent lantern
