Green Lantern: Rebirth
Chapter 12
Schooled
I don't own Evangelion or Young Justice.
Shinji took the zeta tube to Mt. Justice slightly afraid of how the others would react to the way he had left. However, he had learned from hard experience that running away never solved anything so he would face whatever anger or dislike they took out on him for leaving like he did and hope they would still want him on the team. He entered the main area to see everyone there except superboy and in costume.
"Hello everyone" He said trying to sound cheery.
"Dude!" Wally said running up, his hand raised. Taking the invitation Shinji high fived him.
"It's so good to see you" Megan said.
"Why'd you run off last time?" Robin asked.
"Dude!" Wally said.
"I didn't think I had a place here with you, but I decided that I want to try to make one" Shinji said embarrassed.
"You will always have a place here" Aqualad said.
"Yeah, I mean you already missed this awesome recon mission" Kid Flash said.
"I don't think having someone who glows in the dark would have been a good fit" Robin joked.
"Not that it wouldn't have been nice having you along" Megan said.
"So, we're just waiting for superboy" She added. Shinji switched into his uniform and watched as Aqualad and Kid Flash played a holographic version of air hockey.
"We didn't even have this back in Tokyo 3" Shinji thought impressed. Wally scored on Kaldur as the zeta tube announced Superboys arrival.
"Hi Superboy. How was Metropolis?" Megan asked as he walked through the hologram making it vanish. A voice clearing got their attention.
"Ready for training everyone?" A woman asked and Shinji turned to see a beautiful blonde woman in skintight black weather walking in with a green skinned man.
"Black Canary, Uncle J'onn" Megan said and ran to hug the green man who Shinji realized was a green martian.
"Megan, I was in the neighborhood, so I thought I'd see how you were adjusting." He told her.
"A few bumps but I'm learning" She replied.
"that's all I can ask" J'onn replied, and Shinji noticed Superboy turn away, and also how angry he seemed. Living with Asuka had made him a little perceptive about people's moods.
"Stick around, class is in session" Black Canary said. She walked to the middle of the room and a round space on the floor lit up.
"I consider it an honor to by your teacher. I'll throw a lot at you, everything I've learned from my own mentors…uh…and my own bruises" she told them grunting as she took off her black leather jacket revealing her bandaged arm.
"What happened?" Megan asked.
"The job." Black Canary replied.
"Now, combat is about controlling conflict, putting the battle on your terms. You should always be acting, never reacting." She said.
"I'll need a sparring partner" She said.
"Right here. Yeah!" Wally said stepping forward.
"After this..swish." Wally said throwing his banana peel into the garbage. "I'll show you my moves" Wally flirted.
"And I thought Touji was bad with Misato" Shinji cringed and saw Black Canary give a smirk before throwing a punch that wally blocked then she swept his legs out from under him.
"ohh. Hurts so good." Wally said lying on the floor as a picture with the word fail appeared.
"Good block. But did anyone see what he did wrong?" She asked.
"Ooh, ooh. He hit on teacher and got served?" Robin asked.
"Dude!" Wally said.
"He allowed me to dictate the terms of the battle" She said
"Oh please." Connor cut her off.
"With my powers, the battle's always on my terms. I'm a living weapon and this is a waste of my time" He said.
"Prove it" Black Canary said.
"Um…Miss Canary?" Shinji asked.
"Just call me Black Canary" She said turning to Shinji and smiling.
"Could I try. With Superboy I mean?" Shinji asked.
"You want to spar with me?" Superboy scoffed.
"Shinji?" Megan asked.
"I received training in the green lantern corps where I sparred with guys about as strong as he is, maybe stronger" Shinji said. He didn't know what he was doing. Maybe it was that Superboys attitude reminded him too much of Asuka, maybe it was the talk about living weapons reminding him of the Evas, but he wanted to prove superboy wrong about his abilities.
"Alright, but if things get too rough, I'm stopping it" Black Canary said. Shinji nodded and walking forward took off his ring while keeping his uniform on and handed it to her. She raised an eyebrow but didn't say anything as Shinji stood in front of Connor.
"This is pointless" Connor said arms crossed until Shinji swept his feet out from under him just like Black Canary had done to Wally sending him crashing to the ground. Shinji heard Robin laugh but kept his focus on Superboy as he got to his feet and with a roar charged Shinji who ducked under him and using the larger boy's momentum grabbed his arm and threw him five feet to land hard on the floor again.
"Can anyone tell me what Superboy did wrong?" Black Canary asked.
"He underestimated Kid Lantern due to his size and the fact he did not have his ring" Aqualad said.
"Which allowed Kid Lantern to dictate the terms of the fight" She said.
"Excellent" She said to Shinji as he walked over to Superboy.
"Are you ok?" He asked offering his hand which the other boy batted away.
"That's it. I'm done" He growled.
"Training is mandatory" She said as an alert beeped, and an image of batman appeared on the cave wall.
"Batman to the cave" The stern hero announced and explained about the android the league had encountered that could replicate the powers of any superheroes it encountered. He then gave them the mission of escorting the remains of the defeated android to star labs. Batman explained how the team would split up and escort two dummy trucks along with the real truck. To do this they dressed in biker cloths and would be riding motorcycles.
"But I can't ride a motorcycle" Shinji said.
"Neither can Wally" Robin said as they flew to the meeting point in the bioship.
"Dude" Wally said.
"Don't worry, the bike's we'll be riding practically drive themselves" Robin assured him with his ever present grin. They arrived at the rendezvous and unloaded the bikes, Shinji mounted his warily and pressed the button that was the ignition, feeling the bike rumbled to life. He pushed the throttle and felt it move forward slightly without a wobble.
"Cool" He thought as he got the hang of the bike as batman finalized the preparations. The trucks pulled away in three different directions with Shinji following Robin and Superboy who were arguing about training.
"Who does black canary think she is giving lessons to someone with super strength?" Superboy growled through the comms.
"Taking down stronger guys as part of the gig. It's the same for Bataman, Canary, even me." Robin said. the other boy just growled and pulled away.
"And I thought Asuka had a bad temper" Shinji thought as something on the truck caught his eye.
"Um Guys?" Shinji said.
"What?!" Superboy growled.
"I..I think there's something on the truck" Shinji said.
"What...Oh man" Robin said as the truck started being pulled apart by robot monkeys.
"Switch to battle mode!" Robin said as Superboy leapt off his bike which sent it crashing into Robin's who shot a grappler out to latch onto the truck. Shinji ditched his all together as all three bikes smashed together.
"are you alright?" Shinji asked as Robin clung to the side of the truck.
"Peachy, help superboy" Robin ordered. Shinji flew up above the truck and saw Superboy struggling with the pile of monkeys clinging to him and pull him off the truck. Shinji fires his ring at the robots still attached to the truck, trying to zap them off without damaging the truck, until they blew one of the tires causing the truck to veer out of control. Reacting instantly Shinji created a huge Eva hand that caught the truck, stopping it in it's tracks.
"Nice catch" Robin says as he dumps the rescued driver on the pavement as they see superboy leap over them, and Shinji flew after him.
"Lantern, superboy dropped his comm" Robin said in his ear.
"Don't worry, I won't lose him" Shinji replied catching up to the leaping boy who was following the monkeys.
"Don't try and stop him, when the two of you get to wherever the monkeys are going, report in. The rest of us will try to catch up" Aqualad's voice came over the comms.
"Right" Shinji said as he caught up to superboy.
"What are you doing here? I don't need help" He growled. Shinji did what he did with Asuka when she was in a mood, just ignored him as they followed the robots as they flew into a train and Superboy followed them while Shinji flew above.
"Kid Lantern to team, we've followed the monkeys to a train. Superboy is inside the train and I don't know what to..." Shinji didn't get to finish the sentence as superboy came flying out of the train car and flew past him into the distance. Shinji immediately followed after the boy not noticing the robot following after them and landed in the hole of the building superboy had crashed into as he picked himself up.
"Are you alright?" Shinji asked worried.
"I'm fine, Look out!" Superboy shouted and Shinji turned just as a large metal fist crashed into him knocking him past superboy into and through a wall. Even though his energy field acted as armor stronger then almost anything, even protecting him from the vacuum of space, being knocked through a wall still hurt, leaving him lying in a stunned heap. Slowly he pulled himself together and raising himself off the floor flew back through the hole he had made to see superboy fighting the robot. Shinji shot a beam at the Robot which bounced off it like it was nothing.
"Access Green Lantern" The robot said turning to the boy and a port on it's hand opened and a green beam shot out toward Shinji who was pushed back even through his shield. With a roar Conner hit the monster, not even denting it as it smashed him through another wall and followed. Shinji followed them both to see Conner lying on the floor of a basketball quart as the robot walked toward him. Shinji shot the monster in the back knocking it forward as Conner got to his feet, rushing it.
"Accessing Superman" it said as they traded punches with Conner being beaten into the floor. Before Shinji could react Kid Flash raced in and saved Conner before the robot could finish him, racing over to robin who threw a disk at him.
"Martian Manhunter" The thing said as the weapon passed through it.
"Access Red tornado" It said as it was encased in red wind that blew the three boys away.
"Access, captain atom" It said as it fired a beam at Kid Flash.
"Access, Black Canary" It said using the woman's sonic scream as Wally raced at it, knocking him back.
"Superman" It said and caught Conner's fist and punched him away.
"Martian, man hunter" It said and extended it's limbs to bat away Robins weapons and attack him.
"Superman" It said as Kid Flash raced into a bear hug and it tried to crush him. Through it all, Shinji stood there trying to get a clean shot or think of something he could throw at the thing that was cycling through the leagues powers.
"Martian Manhunter" it said phasing out as an arrow went through it dropping wally.
"Access, black canary" It said as Conner rushed at it and judo threw him all the way to the top of the bleachers on the other side of the court.
"Think, think," He told himself when he saw the robots creator lounging in the bleachers looking on.
"Put the fight on our terms" He thought.
"Uh, Yawn. Normally, Amazo would study and mimic your abilities during the battle, but what's the point, your all just poor copies of the originals" He said.
"So everyone keeps saying, it makes me angry!" He shouted as he launched himself at Ivo, crashing into the bleachers, the small man barely moving out of the way.
"Want to seem me channel that anger?" He shouted. Smiling Shinji shot a beam at the man, not meaning to hit him but scaring him into running.
"Amazo, protect your master, priority alpha" Iva said leaping away only to be caught in a green energy bubble.
"Captain Atom" Amazo said firing a blast at Conner as the monkies scrabbled at the energy shield.
"Green Lantern" Amazon said firing a blast at Shinji who threw the sphere in front of the beam which blasted it away and shredded it causing Ivo to roll on the ground.
"Anyone want to play keep away?" Robin shouted kicking the man as he got up.
"Me, me," Kid flash said racing toward Ivo only to be throw away by a shockwave from Amazo stomping.
"Martin Manhunter" He said as Robin threw disks at him, phasing out, but before he could phase back in, Conner put his fist in the robots face, causing him to explode when he phased back in around Superboys fist.
"Help me disassemble him!" Robin shouted racing toward it.
"Dude, the guy has no head" Kid Flash said.
"Don't take any chances" Aqualad said as he and Miss Martian came in.
"SuperBoy are you alright?" She asked.
"Fine, feeling the aster" Conner said.
"Hey, where's Ivo?" Kid Flash asked. Shinji willed his ring to scan for the mans signature only to find he was gone. Turning he looked at the dead robot, his anger rising from memories of the eva's and the horror they caused, and reacting on instinct nine monstrous looking evas with long smooth heads and wicked smiles and folded wings appeared, their color being a corpse white if they had been real and not constructs, and each carrying a wicked looking spear.
"Um, KL?" Robin asked as they went to work, and like a scene out of Dante's inferno the nine green constructs descended upon Amazo and using their spears pried the monster apart into as many pieces as they could before Shinji was satisfied and dismissed them.
"Okay, that was completely terrifying" Kid flash said as Shinji made a container to put the parts of Amazo into.
"You wanted him disassembled" He said quietly and his teammates shared a look. Shinji hung back as Aqualad gave his report back at mount justice, feeling a swell of pride at the praise batman gave them.
"Of course there's no shame in asking for help. That's why the league exists, because there are some problems even we can't handle individually" Batman said.
"Please, if we needed help we'd never get the chance to ask. Look familiar?" Robin asked pulling out the arrow.
"You were following us, babysitting, you still don't trust us" Robin said as batman handed the arrow to Green Arrow.
"We didn't follow you" Batman said as Green Arrow pulled out one of his own, his arrowhead different from the other.
"And that's not your arrow" Robin said.
"But that means" Robin said.
"Speedy" Kid Flash answered.
"He has our backs" Aqualad said.
"Souvenir" Kid Flash said taking the arrow, though Shinji noticed the look Batman and Green Arrow gave each other.
"Just like adults, always keeping secrets" He thought as he turned to walk away to go home.
"Shinji?" Megan asked stopping him.
"Yes?" He answered back.
"Are you, okay?" She asked shyly.
"Of course, thank you" Shinji said, a strange warmth filling him at her concern. It wasn't until he got home to the apartment that Shinji really thought about what he had done, the constructs he had created. It had been effortless, the nine Mass Production Evangelions that had ripped Asuka apart, when he had struggled to create anything but basic shapes and tools, the occasional hand and the beam rifle and the Asuka's he had summoned to help with his housework.
"So I can only create living moving constructs from my past?" He asked himself as he focused and an exact copy of unit 01 about the size of Hal stood in front of him. He dispersed it and tried to create a generic robot but found it would barely materialize. He tried Red Tornado and couldn't, but the instant he thought of Unit 02 it was standing in front of him, and focusing he formed Units 01 and 00 beside it, easier to hold than anything he had made up until that point.
"Cool" A voice said behind him and he dispersed them out of reflex.
"Sorry, didn't mean to interrupt your practice" Hal said.
"Don't worry about it" Shinji said and began dinner.
"So where did those come from?" He asked leaning into the counter.
"Memory" Shinji answered quietly, and Hal just stared at him.
"When your ready to talk, I'm here" He said quietly.
"I know" Shinji replied.
Okay after a year hiatus, here are three new chapters with more to come. If any of you are still out there and reading this, thanks for hanging with me.