And we are back with another episode! I want to thank Stormymegumi and superfan for reviewing. As you should know in a lot of episodes not every member is shown in each episode and the same will happen here with Storm she won't be on every mission just a good amount of them. Sometimes there might be chapters where she is only there for a little while or not even at all. That being said no episode will be skipped from the first two seasons because you can't really just skip one without having to skip the next one and most of the plotlines lead to the climates at the end of season two….
Did I mention I still own nothing but the plot! How messed up is that!
Normal pov
On planet Ajuris 5
A large group of varying aliens were sitting around a stadium sized court room trying to all speak at the same time. "Order. ORDER! We will have order!" But the crowd still continues to speak out.
"Silence!" said the first judge on a monitor finally causing everyone to stop speaking. "This high tribunal is now convened. Never before have so many put aside their differences and come together in pursuant of a single goal."
"But never before has there ever been a crime so heinous so vast that it had the power to unite in grief and revulsion." A second judge says also in the monitor.
"We are gather here today to seek justice." Said a third judge and the prosecutor brings himself up before the judges.
"Where is the accused?" The first judge asked.
"Unfortunately he's still at large." The prosecutor states.
The three judges talk amongst themselves for a while and then turn to face the crowd. "Manhunters step forward." A group of red robotic Manhunters stepped together before the judges. "This is no ordinary criminal. Finding him and bringing him back will almost certainly involve great peril. Are you prepared for that?"
"No man escapes the Manhunters." One of them states.
"No man escapes the Manhunters." The rest say together.
"Show us an image of the accused." The leader says.
"He is a native of the planet earth." The prosecutor explains then pulls up an image of the accused. "The Green Lantern known as John Stewart."
Cut to John
Who is walking down the street of his old neighborhood, as he's walking he pauses looking through the window of a local diner where people are watching basketball game and cheering for their team. John continues to walk he was about to pass a local market until he noticed that the local store owner was being robbed at gunpoint. John quickly hid himself from being seen and waits for the young thief to run out of the store. The thief gets into his getaway car hoping to escape as fast as possible but John calmly walks onto the middle of the street and uses his ring to stop the car much to the thief's surprise. John using the ring lifts the car up into the air and then smashes it down into the ground a few times causing the thief to fall out of the car. John then uses the ring to hang the thief upside down causing the money he stole to fall out of his pocket and into the owner's possession once more.
After this was done John let the thief go and continued on his way, as he continued to walk he paused to pick up a basketball that had bounced near him.
"Yo! A little help?" a small boy yells on the basketball court. "Over here!"
John tries to make a basket with the ball but misses. "Time was that you could have made that shot with your eyes closed."
"Mr. McGee?!" John says in surprise.
"You're not in my history class anymore John. Call me Al." Al tells his former student.
"Guess my game's a little rusty." John says.
"Well Chris here can give you some pointers he's my grandson." Al states introducing the younger boy.
"Grandson?" John questions in surprise.
"You've been away a long time John." Al tells him as they walk away from the court.
"Maybe too long." John proclaims as they walked away from the basketball court.
Cut to Watchtower
"Back on Thanagar you were a cop huh?" Flash asked Hawkgirl whom was at the moment grabbing a snack.
"Detective." Hawkgirl corrects turning to face him.
"What's it like there?" Flash asked.
"The same as anywhere I suppose." Hawkgirl answers. "There are criminals and we catch them."
"And what about when you're not catching criminals?" Flash asked leaning in closer. "When you're not at work?"
"What about it?" Hawkgirl asked back.
"Well is there a Hawkboy?" Flash asked in a flirtatious way just as J'onn entered the room.
Hawkgirl smiles but doesn't say anything just flies up to where J'onn was. "I'll be doing maintenance." Hawkgirl says then leaves the room while J'onn and Flash watch her leave.
"What?" Flash asked seeing the look on J'onn's face. "Don't you ever get lonely?"
"More than you can image." J'onn answers evenly, causing Flash to feel guilty.
"Sorry I didn't mean to-" Flash begins to apologize when an alarm goes off.
"It's an incursion." J'onn states walking towards a window to see what was going on, only to see red robots flying towards earth.
"More like an invasion." Flash says watching from the window as well.
"I'll notify the others." J'onn says.
Not long after the detection Flash, Hawkgirl, and J'onn board a jet planning to go after the robots.
"So who's going to meet us?" Flash asked as they got ready to go.
"Wonder Woman is on another case, Superman is dealing with an earthquake, Storm is dealing with a flood in the Sahara and Batman would only say that he is busy." J'onn explained as the team of three got ready to go.
"Typical." Hawkgirl states while getting the jet ready to go.
"What about GL?" Flash asked from his seat.
"I couldn't reach him." J'onn explains as the jet took off.
Cut to a barbershop
John, Al and Chris had now moved their conversation to a local barbershop so that Chris could get a much needed haircut.
"And real short practical shaved but more on top like he's." Chris tells the barber pointing to John as the example.
"The usual." Al tells the barber much to his grandson's disappointment.
"Looks like you got your hands full." John says with a smile turning to look at his old teacher.
"He's smart, impatient, headstrong sort of reminds me of you." Al says to his former student.
"I hope not." John says in a dark tone, appearing to now be lost in thought.
"John you still have friends here man. Real friends." Al says noticing the shift in his mood. "What's bothering you?"
Cut to the Manhunters
The group of Manhunters were frighteningly walking down the street in search of John Stewart much to the confusion and worry of the local citizens whom ran away from them.
"Stop!" J'onn yells while flying down from the jet. "What do you want here?" He asked after him, Hawkgirl and Flash had landed in front of the red robots.
"John Stewart. The Green Lantern." The Leader states.
"What for?" Flash asked.
"That's not you concern." The Leader states he intended to be on his way but Hawkgirl got in front of him.
"Wanna bet?" Hawkgirl asked in a challenging tone squaring off with the leader. She swings her mace at him but he grabs a hold of it and flings her over his shoulder. Luckily Flash using super speed catches Hawkgirl before she could hit the ground.
"Aren't you gonna thank me?" Flash asked in a flirty tone as he looked down at Hawkgirl.
"Down boy." Hawkgirl said, then flies back towards the Manhunters.
J'onn flies up to attack but the leader sticks out an electric rod up to J'onn stomach that causes him to fall down in pain. J'onn gets back up looking at the leader in anger as the robot extends the electric rod and ups the voltage, he tries to attack again only to be stroke so hard that this time he went flying into someone's home much to the surprise of the child that was sitting on the couch.
The Manhunters were about to continue on their way until Hawkgirl hits one of them on the head behind their backs. The one that she has hit gets back up and begins to fight her for a bit only to then use the electric rod that also caused her to go flying through a diner. Flash then tries to go after them as well using his super speed but the Leader calculated his movements and was able to knock him out as well and continue on their way.
"Why do I feel like a hockey puck?" Flash groans as he rubs his head just as Hawkgirl came back on the scene.
Hawkgirl doesn't answer she just flies off after the Manhunters. She tries to attack one of them again only for the robot to use the rod to electrocute her which makes lose her balance and crash into a car.
"Back off!" Superman yells flying into the robot and crashing it into a building just as he was about to finish Hawkgirl off. Just as he was he was about to punch the red robot another Manhunter hits him with the rod while his back was turned causing him to bend down in pain.
Just as the Manhunter was about use the rod on Superman again Storm intercepts the electric attack using her powers to hold the electrical attack in place. (Never said she wasn't going to make it in today ;) The Manhunter ups the voltage intending to overpower Storm but she stands her ground against it. Just as the Manhunter was about to increase the power again Superman had used the time spent on Storm to damage the rod. He then takes it from the robot's hands he breaks it and throws the robot into the previous one he was fighting.
Storm seeing that Hawkgirl was groaning in pain flies over to check on her. "Are you alright?"
"I've been better." Hawkgirl says evenly as Storm helped her get back up.
"We thought you were busy with an earthquake?" Flash asked Superman as he makes it onto the scene.
"It was just a 4.0." Superman says. "You mind telling me what's going on here?"
"Look out!" Storm yells just as Flash was about to explain but the third Manhunter had already hit the two with a voltage from the rod.
J'onn though flies in and jumps on top of the Manhunter smashing it into the car that it was standing on which then exploded. Too bad though the Manhunter got back up and was about to throw the car at J'onn but Flash got him out of the way just in time. Superman then flies over to stop the car just as it exploded even louder then before.
From the barbershop John and the rest of the people inside the shop hears the explosion and feels the earth shaking.
"What was that?" Al asked.
"Stay here." John warns then uses his ring to change into his Green Lantern uniform and flies towards the scene."
"Awesome! Could he do that in High School?" Chris asked his still shocked grandfather.
"Stop." John makes it there just in time to stop the five heroes from fighting the Manhunters putting a barrier between them just as both sides were about to attack.
"Better late than never." Flash said to John happy to see him there only to look as surprised as the group to see John walk over to the Manhunters.
"You are the Green Lantern known as John Stewart." The Leader asked.
"I am." John answered evenly.
"Your ring." The Leader states holding his hand up. John then removes his ring and hands it to the leader much to the Leagues surprise.
"John?" Superman says in confusion.
"What are you doing?" Flash questions.
"Stay out of this." John says to the group.
"You will come with us." The Leader says as the other two handcuff John and take him away as the heroes could only look on in confusion.
Cut back to Ajuris 5
A large group of alien protesters were waiting as the Manhunters bring John Stewart to them.
"Welcome to Ajuris 5 John Stewart." The Leader states as John looks up seeing all the angry aliens. "Don't expect your stay to be a pleasant one."
Cut to Guardians on Oa
"What now?" one guardian asked as they watched the events unfold.
"With any luck this matter won't require our attention." The other guardian said.
"And if it does?" the first guardian asked.
"I don't need to tell you how much we've gained because of the core's diversity." The first guardian begins to say. "But sometimes it forces us to make sacrifices."
Cut back to Ajuris 5
John was being transported to trial on a flying pod while the large crowds of aliens continued to protest in anger and throw garbage at him. On the other side of the path were other Green Lanterns watching as this went on.
"He was the best of us. That's for sure but now..." Graz the round Green Lantern states to the others.
"Graz, Arkkis, Kilowog." John says acknowledging the other Lanterns. "Good to see you."
"I wish I could say the same Stewart." Arkkis says evenly.
"You are a disgrace to the Core." Graz says much to John's surprise.
"Get me out of here." John said and the Manhunters walked him away from the other Lanterns one of them bumping into Arkkis.
"Hey!" Arkkis shouted. "Stupid robot."
Said robot turned around about to attack the Lantern that said that but was stopped by the other. "No. Not yet." The other Manhunter says and the two walk away.
John was brought to a room people were being held until their trial. "What's next?" John asked after the Manhunter put up a barrier that would keep him from escaping.
"Your trial will begin soon." The Manhunter explained. "If I'd been programed with emotions I'd almost feel sorry for you."
Only when the Manhunter had left did John bow his head in shame.
Cut to Watchtower
J'onn was trying to make a telepathic link to John's mind as the rest of the League waited but couldn't get a strong enough connection. "I sense turmoil, a heavy heart."
"I could have told you that." Flash says getting a glare from the rest of the team.
"He's looking at stars." J'onn adds.
"But which stars?" Superman asked flying over to the Watchtowers computer, he pulls up an image of the galaxy.
"There." J'onn states pointing to the group of stars that John was looking at the screen then shown that the planet John was on was Ajuris 5. "That's where he is."
The League now knowing where John was located got on a space ship to follow after him.
"Why would he give them his ring?" Hawkgirl pondered out loud as they flew to the planet. "It still doesn't make any sense."
"John's a strange one that's for sure." Superman said.
"I'm beginning to think all you humans are." Hawkgirl says honestly.
"You do know he's kryptonian right?" Storm says with a raised eyebrow.
"Sorry." Hawkgirl says realizing how out of place that statement was in regards to Superman.
"It's alright I take it as a compliment." Superman states shrugging it off. "Initiate landing procedure." He say intending to land the ship when it was instead hit by three other space ships.
"They're not responding to our signal." Flash states after he tries to communicate with the attacking ships.
"It's clear what they want I say we give it to them." Hawkgirl states about to use their ship to attack the other ones.
"No weren't here to start a war." Superman proclaims stopping Hawkgirl, he then gets out of his chair followed by J'onn and Hawkgirl. "Flash, Storm take the controls."
Flash surprised quickly runs towards the controls with Storm taking the other seat as the three other heroes go after the ships attacking them. Superman, J'onn and Hawkgirl got out of the ship and flew after one attacking ship each.
Superman uses his heat vision to destroy the ship's blasters and then damaging the back so that it would be forced to land. J'onn makes himself both intangible letting the ship phase through him and the damaging the ship so that it would also land. Hawkgirl uses her mace to damage the ship more critically then she needed to.
"Hawkgirl!" Superman yelled in dismay.
"What?" Hawkgirl asked confused, instead of answering Superman flies off to prevent the ship from crashing. "Oh, that."
Luckily Superman was able to stop the ship from crashing and blow out the fire that was behind it.
"That looks like a good place to land." Storm says to Flash from inside the ship pointing to an empty space.
"Yeah okay." Flash says nodding his head in agreement. "It's a good thing you're here Storm because I don't know how to fly the ship at all."
"Yes I suppose it is then." Storm states as they land the ship. And Bruce wouldn't have been happy if the ship had crashed.
The two heroes opened up the ships door to get out only to see alien soldiers had surrounded the ship and they were getting ready to shot.
"Get back to the controls Flash." Storm yelled just when the group started attacking them. Storm quickly hurls winds at them to knock some out off balance.
"Come on starter? Starter? Which one's the starter?" Flash says out loud as he tries to get the ship to start.
Storm continues to fight outside the ship as more alien soldiers not wanting to seriously hurt them she keeps hurling winds at them to knock them off balance when Superman, Hawkgirl, and J'onn showed up to help her. With their help the alien soldiers were quickly defeated, Flash seeing that everything was taken care of gets out of the ship once more.
"We had everything under control honest." Flash tries to reason with the group but they weren't listening.
"Green Lantern is close by." J'onn states after reading the mind of a soldier that he defeated. "That way." He says facing the large building where he was being held.
Cut to trial
"There is no excuse for this horror and there can be no escape from punishment." The prosecutor states. "An example must be made!"
Just after that was said Superman used his heat vision to make a whole big enough so that he and the League could get through, much to the courtroom's surprise.
"Oh, no." John whispers when he sees the group.
"Order! We will have order!" The judges yelled.
"What is this some kind of trial?" Flash asked looking around the room.
"It appears so." Storm answered also looking around.
"Remove the intruders immediately!" A judges yells.
Two guards fly over to the group to kick them out but are stopped by Superman whom pushes them aside. The Manhunters were then about to attack the League but Superman spoke out before they could. "Wait! We apologize for disrupting these proceedings but John Stewart is our friend."
"This is a public trial." The Second judge states.
"Very well. You may take seats in the gallery." The first judge tells them.
"But this tribunal will not tolerate any further outbursts." The third judge states.
"Thank you, your honor." Superman says and the group leaves to seat in the gallery.
Once the League was seated the trial resumed. "Are you ready to call your first witness?"
"I am my lord." The prosecutor says. "I call Kanjar-Ro." He says and Kanjar-Ro comes forth to the stand.
"Kanjar-Ro you agree to let us probe and display any and all memories you have?" The bailiff asked.
"I've got nothing to hide." Kanjar-Ro states walking to take the stand.
"State your name and profession." The prosecutor says.
"Kanjar-Ro I'm…a pirate." Kanjar-Ro answers.
"A criminal? Yet you come here to bare witness to a crime? Why?" The prosecutor asked.
"I may steal things but it's nothing compared to what he did." Kanjar-Ro spats pointing at John much to the Leagues surprise.
The prosecutor then shines a light on Kanjar-Ro. "Tell us about your encounter with John Stewart."
"It all started with these blasters I…found I was on my way to sell them to some rebels on Ajuris 4. That's when he showed up." Kanjar-Ro begins to explain.
Flashback
Kanjar-Ro was flying his ship when he looked to the side and saw the Green Lantern had showed up next to the ship. "I figured he was gonna try to stop me… so I shot first." Kanjar-Ro uses his ships defenses to attack John but he was able to get out under the ship and tore out the engine with his ring causing the ship to crash land on a moon. "His ring tore out my engine but he still wasn't done with me." Kanjar-Ro continues to explain remembering how John followed after his ship and used his ring to keep him in place. "He wanted to know if I was working with anyone. I told him to turn around and see for himself." John turns around and is surprised to see a group of ships behind him, which then begins to attack him. "He tried to shot my friends." John uses his ring to attack the ship that was attacking him. "But his beam bounce off their deflective fields and shot towards Ajuris 4 there it hit a volcanic volt line starting a devastating chain reaction." The devastating reaction caused the planet to blow up.
End Flashback
"Three billion that's how many were on that planet." Kanjar-Ro states as the people in the courtroom gasped and started speaking at once.
"I have no more questions." The prosecutor said.
"This account is disturbing we will recess. Twenty pentacycles." The first judge states.
Everyone gets out of their seats for the recess including the League whom walk over to John.
"Now I get it you wanted to clear your name." Flash says being the first of them to reach John. "That's why you didn't put up a fight back on earth."
"I told you to stay out of this." John stressed.
"That's scums an obvious liar." Hawkgirl says in disgust. "Give me five minutes with him alone with him I get the truth." She says waving her mace.
"Hawkgirl, Flash all of you!" John exclaimed. "Listen to me no body's lying. Do you see that?" John asked pointing to the rubble outside. "I did it. I'm guilty."
To be continued
And there you have it people another episode completed. I've also made a wiki for this storyline if anyone wants to see it. Its still a work in progress though but this is the site wiki/Incoming_SuperStorm_Wiki and as always Please read and review.