Green Lantern: New Genesis
In Darkest Night
Hello again. This is Chapter 4 of Green Lantern rebirth. These first few chapters are a prequel of sorts, of Shinji's introduction to the corps and his first mission that will send him to earth and unite him with the team for the first time.
It took about an hour's flight to reach the war ship. Before they left, Kilowog made sure they charged their rings. The first time Shinji had charged his ring a few days after basic training started was an interesting experience. It didn't hurt, just felt like a warm energy pouring into him, and he felt his ring go from half full to brimming. It was also the first time he heard the lanterns oath, an oath that filled him with a small amount of pride.
"In brightest, day, in blackest night, no evil shall escape my sight. Let those who worship evils might, beware my power, green lanterns light" He recited in his mind again. The oath made him less anxious about being here, about being a lantern and about failing. Once they had the warship in sight, he buried his fears and worries and focused on the mission the way he did before fighting an angel.
"So what's the plan sir?" Fraggle asked.
"Fraggle, you're with me. Arisia, Soranik, and Shinji you're squad two. While the two of us distract them and draw their fire, you three sneak in, find the bridge, and take it out." Kilowog explained.
"Are you serious?" Soranik asked.
"It could work. The three of us are small enough to sneak aboard and stay hidden as long as they're occupied" Shinji explained.
"You've got it kid" Kilowog said.
"Don't tell me you're going along with this?" Soranik asked.
"He's our commanding officer. Besides, I've done crazier things that have worked" Shinji said rubbing the back of his head.
"Would you rather wait here trainee Sinestro? What would your old man think?" Kilowog asked and Soranik blushed.
"Fine" Soranik agreed.
"Wait here. Come on stone skin" Kilowog said and flew off.
"You better make sure nothing happens to Soranik fleshling" Fraggle growled before following.
"What was that about?" Shinji asked Soranik.
"Nothing" She said blushing again.
"Oh, what was that about your dad?" Shinji asked.
"Do you ever stop asking questions?" Soranik snapped, causing Shinji to flinch.
"I'm sorry" He said looking away. At that moment explosions started around the warship.
"That's our quo" Arisia said and flew toward the warship. Shinji and Soranik followed her and they flew slowly and quietly under the ship where Arisia cut a hole in the underside of the hull with her ring. Once they were inside they made their way up the ship to where they thought the bridge was, until they heard shouting. Hiding around the corner they waited as the shouting grew louder.
"Release me!" The female voice shouted.
"Quiet slave. It is because of you that we have drifted this far off course" Another voice growled.
Shinji peeked around the corner to find two reptile like aliens dragging a third figure in chains, a figure that made Shinji blush despite the circumstances. She was a slender yet muscular girl with Orange skin about a shade darker than Arisia's, long red hair that would make Asuka explode in a jealous rage, and a figure that went beyond anything he had ever seen, even on Misato. She was wearing what looked like rags wrapped around her hips and breasts and her hands were incased in manacles that covered her own hands.
"What do we do?" He hissed.
"We rescue her of course" Arisia hissed back.
"We keep to the mission and free her once the hostiles have been dealt with" Soranik Argued. Unfortunately their argument was solved for them when the girl slammed one of her captors into the wall and swinging around cracked the other over the head with her manacles. The first guard regained his senses and aimed a crackling spear at her. On instinct Shinji stepped out from around the corner and blasted the guard with a laser, blowing him backward. He didn't get up again.
"Freeze!" The one who had been cracked over the head shouted, having recovered quickly. Arisia and Soranik hit him with two lasers of their own knocking him out.
"Who are you?" The girl asked suspiciously
"We're Green lanterns, we're here to help" Arisia said holding up her hands in peace.
"We must hurry and find the bridge before someone else comes" Soranik warned.
"I can lead you to the bridge of the ship if you free me" The girl said holding up her manacled hands.
"Ok, I'll have you cut out in a jiffy" Arisia said.
"There is no time to waste on that" Soranik said walking forward.
"We're not just leaving her" Arisia argued. Soranik ignored her and looking at the handcuffs concentrated. A small key formed and inserted itself into the manacles, and with a click they fell away.
"My father say's that you should observe a situation and figure out the most expedient way to solve it. It's not always about blasting things" Soranik said. Arisia just glared at her.
"Okay, lead us to the bridge please" Shinji asked the girl trying to diffuse the situation. The girl nodded and raising off the ground flew down the corridor. The three lanterns looked at each other and followed. They met two more guard patrols on the way to the bridge, but before Shinji and the others could raise their rings the strange girl blasted them with orange colored beams of energy from her hands. Even when the second squadron sounded the alarm and more aliens came rushing at them the girl just plowed through them.
"This is exactly what we were trying to avoid" Soranik said blasting two aliens that jumped at them.
"Just shut up and keep blasting" Shinji snapped at her as he swept two more aside with a sweep of green energy.
"We are here" The girl said when the last enemy was down. Her hands glowed and before they could stop her she blasted the doors open.
"What is the meaning of this?" A deep voice growled as the four figures stepped through the door. They found a crew of the ship gathered around the bridge controls. Sitting in the captain's chair was a giant wearing black armor. The girl roared in rage and launched herself at the captain who stood and let her slam into him. With inhuman speed he grabbed her by the throat and slammed her into the floor. Shinji fired a blast at the giant but it barely fazed him as he raised his arm. It shifted into a blaster and fired a blue beam. Shinji threw up his shield, but the beam destroyed it, sending him flying across the room.
"Is that it, what's given my crew so much trouble are three brats?" He said in a low rumbling voice. Shinji picked himself up as Soranik and Arisia finished taking down the bridge crew.
"Aggressor, in the name of the green lantern corps I place you under arrest. Disarm yourself and surrender" Soranik ordered holding up her ring.
"Is she serious?" Shinji asked himself as the monster chuckled.
"Alright, I surrender, not" He said and both his arms turned into blasters and he began firing plasma blasts from one and sound waves from the others. The three lanterns dodge and fired lasers at him but his arms shifted to a shield that blocked him. However, he forgot about the girl who stood up and blasted him from behind, causing him to cry out in pain.
"You back biting little" The man said but was interrupted by a barrage of lasers from the three lanterns along with the girls own blasts. The man went to his knees under the barrage, but then with a roar launched himself upward, crashing into Arisia and pinning her to the ceiling of the ship.
"You first" He said as his hand shifted into a knife. A green Eva claw wrapped around him and with all his will Shinji hurled him into the main control consul of the ship, causing an explosion and alarms to blare. The black armored warrior pushed free of the wreckage without a scratch.
"You're all dead, I don't care if the reach wants you, I'll bring you to them in pieces" He growled at the orange girl.
"We can't stop this guy" Shinji said, fear going through him.
"Hey, if you take that attitude, we're dead. Besides I fought a guy a lot bigger and more powerful than this" Arisia said as she continued to fire at the armored behemoth.
"If you are talking about the victory over Krona, you had the whole core behind you. We don't even have our instructor" Soranik said firing as well.
"Wait, how did you beat Krona?" Shinji asked firing himself trying to keep the monster pinned down.
"We threw a planet at him" Arisia said dodging as the monster tried to come at her again. He fired plasma blasts at them and tried to slice them with arm blades, and it was all they could do to keep out of the way. The orange girl blasted as well and fought him hand to hand, but the black behemoth seemed invincible.
"I've got an idea, but you need to keep him busy", he told them and landed on the deck. Taking his will he focused as hard as he could, remembering the battle with the fifth angel, and most importantly the positron cannon he had used to kill it. It was hard, like pushing a boulder up a mountain but he didn't give up and after what seemed an eternity the canon took shape, the size of the construct crumpling metal. A green hard light replica of the targeting computer appeared over his face, the sight quivering.
"Come on" he urged it frantically as the three others fighters were slowly overwhelmed by the beetle, but he was so engrossed with playing with them he didn't notice the gigantic canon of the lantern behind him.
Finally the sight locked into place on the black beetle warrior.
"Get clear!" Shinji shouted and the three girls flew clear as the black beetle turned to face him. Shinji pulled the trigger and he felt the cannon leap and the energy beam fire.
"Oh" The beetle said as the beam that had punched through the A.T. field of the defensively strongest angel hit him from less than ten feet.
Outside the ship Kilowog and Fraggle had noticed the lasers stop firing.
"What now sir?" The rock alien asked.
"Now we go in and help them" Kilowog said. They began to fly toward the ship when the front exploded outward
"Hurry stone skin" Kilowog said. They flew through the wreckage to see the three lanterns were mostly alright. Arisia and Soranik had nicks and cuts from the monsters blades, and Shinji was breathing hard, feeling like he had run a mile. The orange girl was in the best shape of them.
"What happened?" Kilowog asked. Soranik gave him a brief rundown of the beetle warrior and how Shinji had blasted him.
"You fired a positron canon inside a ship? What were thinking?" Kilowog bellowed.
"We couldn't beat him, so I didn't know what to do" Shinji said staring at his feet.
"Lantern Kilowog, Lantern Ikari is correct, it was the only thing that was able to beat that warrior" Arisia said. The trainer just snorted.
"Well, let's go find him" Kilowog said.
"Wait, what about her" Shinji asked gesturing to the Orange girl.
"Who are you?" Kilowog asked.
"My name is Princess K'oriander of Tameran" K'oriander stated.
"Well princess, looks like you got no problem breathing in space, so you'll stick with us until we find this invincible warrior" Kilowog said and flew out into space, the others following.
"You alright Soranik?" Fraggle asked.
"Yes" She said.
"How are you doing?" Shinji asked K'oriander
"I thank you for freeing me" She said reluctantly.
"Hold" Kilowog said and they came to a stop in front of the black beetle. He was floating unconscious, heavy scorch marks on his armor that were rapidly being repaired.
"Okay, good work" Kilowog said incasing the beetle in a green sphere.
"Now we'll just take him back to Oa" He said, but at that moment the warrior came back to consciousness.
"Sorry meat, but you're not catching, me, not today" He said and disappeared in a blue flash.
"Self destruct?" Soranik asked.
"Teleported" Kilowog said examining the energy signature with his ring.
"Alright princess, If you don't mind coming back to Oa and tellin your story, maybe we can get you home" Kilowog said.
"It seems I do not have a choice" K'oriander said and together they flew back toward Oa.
If you're wondering what the black beetle from young justice invasion was doing with the Citadel, they were helping transport Starfire to the reach for experimentation. Next chapter Shinji will meet Hal Jordan and John Stewart and will head to the earth of Young Justice. There will be a few chapters of him meeting with Robin Kid flash, Speedy and Aqualad individually, about a month before the meeting at the Hall of Justice at the beginning of the series. Till next time.