And now it's time for the second part. Thank you superfan for reviewing. Exciting news for me this story is now has 1000 views which is really good considering that this story has been up for least then two months and only has five chapters!
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Normal pov
The league could only stand around in shock still taking in Green Lantern's confession.
"Three billion gone." Flash begins to say in disbelief. "I can't believe it."
"Neither can I." Superman states after thinking about it for a moment. "I want to take a closer look at what happened."
"Why?" Hawkgirl asked in surprise. "John admits he's guilty. No one is disputing the facts."
"Maybe I am." Superman says determined to investigate.
"And I'm not so convinced of this story being the truth as well." Storm adds in she'd been going the story over in her head as well, something was most certainly off about it.
"But John-" Hawkgirl begins to say.
"Says he's guilty because he believes that he is doesn't make it the truth." Storm interrupts shaking her head. "Honestly the story only raised more questions for me then answers."
"So then it's decided." Superman said glad that at least another teammate agreed with him. "J'onn I need you to come with me. Storm, Flash and Hawkgirl can you buy us some time in court?"
"You're asking the world's fastest man to slow things down?" Flash questions in disbelief. "It won't be easy."
J'onn and Superman fly back to the Leagues ship, not at all noticing that the space pirate had followed after them.
"So what do you expect to find on this mission." J'onn asked as they walked towards the ship.
"I don't know." Superman answered honestly. "There's just something bothering me. Just call it-"
"An intuition." J'onn suggests.
"Exactly." Superman says in agreement.
The two heroes continue on still not noticing the space pirate as he ran back into the building as they head towards the scene of the crime in the ship.
Cut back to trial
"John Stewart you may now question your accuser." The first judge states once everyone had come back from recess.
"No questions." John says much to the shock of everyone in the court room.
"None?" The second judge states. "Don't you attend to defend yourself?"
"No. I don't." John says evenly surprising the court room even further.
"I object!" Flash interrupts standing up from his seat to glare at the judges. "You call this a trial? I say it's a joke."
"Are you out of your mind?" Hawkgirl asked pulling him back down to his seat. "What do you think you're doing?"
"Flash stop for a second and think!" Storm tries to reason with the speed hero as well.
"Prepare to be dazzled." Flash says confidently to the two women.
"Remove him!" A judge yells and a group of guards intending on doing just that but Flash quickly used his super speed to get out of the way.
Flash keeps running until he's in front of the three judges. "Listen to me with something this important you got to hear both sides."
"Flash I told you not to get involved!" John scolds glaring at his friend.
"They're railroading you pal." Flash states just as one of the guards sneaks up behind him and wraps his arm around Flash's neck. "Hey!"
Wait!" The third judge yells just as the guards were about to take Flash out of the court room. "This being may have a point. We don't want any doubt about our final judgement, do we?"
"Of course not. But who will speak for John Stewart?" Second judge asked.
"Don't you have any lawyers here?" Flash asked once he was released from the guard's hold.
"We solved our lawyer problem a long time ago." The first judge states.
"However, you could speak for him if you wish." Third judge states.
"But be aware: if you lose, you will share the same penalty as the accused." The second judge informs Flash much to the shock of the rest of the league.
"The same penalty?" Flash asked in surprise. "You mean…that's crazy!"
"No, that's how we solved our lawyer problem." The first judge states. "What's your answer?"
"Don't do it." John forcefully says to Flash.
"What you think I'm going to sit back and watch while you play marauder?" Flash whispers to John. "I'll defend him!"
"Of course he would get himself into a mess like this." Storm whispers to Hawkgirl whom nods in agreement.
"Very well procced." First judge says to Flash.
Flash coughs nervously. "Right. Sure." Flash steps up to a podium that brings him closer to the judges. "But first I'd like to say a few words about…about habeus corpus? Yeah, habeus corpus! And ipso... facto! Phi Beta Kappa!"
"I wonder if Kal has any back up members in place." Storm whispers mostly to herself as she watches Flash 'defend' John.
Hawkgirl could only shake her head at Flash she looks down and notices that the other Green Lanterns were no longer there. "Hey look." Hawkgirl says to Storm pointing at the empty spot.
"They're gone?" Storm states with a raised eyebrow. "The trial isn't even over yet."
"Let's go find them." Hawkgirl says in an aggressive tone tightening a grip on her mace. "I'd like to know why they haven't tried to defend John."
After taking a short walk around the city the two heroines were able to locate the other Green Lanterns in a local bar.
"Waiter another round." Graz calls to the waiter, the waiter brings them a plate of food just as Storm and Hawkgirl make their way over to the group.
"Why aren't you at the trial?" Hawkgirl asked getting straight to the point.
"Huh, we couldn't stand it anymore." Graz states dismissively.
"John Stewart made us all look bad." Arkkis adds in.
"So much for the vaunt and loyalty of the Lantern core." Hawkgirl states much to the displeasure of the other Green Lanterns.
"I guess that 'In Blackest Night' is just something said for rhyming alone." Storm said equally as unimpressed with the group as Hawkgirl.
"Don't get so high and mighty ladies if you're smart you two will stay away from him too." Graz proclaims.
"Otherwise you'll end up reeking of his stench yourselves." Arkkis states evenly.
"Cowards!" Hawkgirl exclaims in displeasure slamming her mace onto their table, she moves to attack Arkkis but Storm grabs a hold of her hand stopping her. "Hey?!"
"They're not worth it Hawkgirl." Storm proclaims pulling her away from the Lanterns.
"Listen to her advice bird girl." Graz taunts as they were about to walk away. "It's not like you two lesser heroes could take on a Green Lantern anyway."
"Excuse me?" Storm says in a low dangerous tone she and Hawkgirl stop turning back to face the Lanterns.
"What are you hard of hearing too?!" Arkkis taunts as well, that jab was enough for Hawkgirl who attacks him with her mace knocking him and Graz out of their seats.
The manager sees this and runs over to the hostile group. "My friends please no weapons!" The manager pleas. "No weapons!"
"You think I need this mace to take you down." Hawkgirl exclaims throwing the mace into a wall were it stayed in place.
"I don't have any weapons." Storm adds in coolly glaring at the Lanterns. "Which is too bad it would have been a lot less painless for you." The managers hurries to get out of the way seeing as the fight was going to happen.
With that being said the two heroines gestured to the Lanterns to start the fight, Arkkis moved first throwing a punch at Hawkgirl which she dodges and upper cuts him she punches him three times the third causing him to go flying towards the table. All of the other Lanterns move to attack except for Kilowog whom continues to keep drinking.
Graz angrily jumps towards Storm but she punches him mid-air which forced him to go flying across the room. Tomar tries to attack her as well but Storm ducks then lifts him up into the air and tosses him into the bar's sign. Larvox runs into the fight but Hawkgirl picks him up and throws him over the counter. Graz tries to fly towards the two heroines again but they both duck causing him to miss he kept flying through the air towards the table lucky for him he is caught by Kilowog whom still hadn't moved from his seat. Arkkis ran towards the two heroines again but this time Hawkgirl punched him so hard that he broke through a wall in the bar.
Tomar jumps over the counter to try and attack Storm but she punches him mid-air, Larvox tries to do the same but Storm just tosses him over her shoulder. Graz again tries to fly towards the two but Hawkgirl catches him mid-air flies them both up into the air and throws him against a wall making him bounce around like a pinball. Arkkis was about to try and attack Storm but Kilowog used his ring to block the two from attacking each other.
"No more." Kilowog finally speaks up keeping the barrier up. "Hawkgirl and Storm are right, John Stewart is one of us and I'm gonna help him." Kilowog finishes saying with determination while walking away from the group.
Hawkgirl gets her mace back and she and Storm followed after him not saying a word to the rest of the Lanterns.
"You were really good back there. I wasn't expecting that." Hawkgirl says impressed with Storm. "I thought you were too calm and proper to get into a bar fight."
"Trust me that wasn't my first bar fight." Storm says with a smirk getting lost a bit in long ago memories. "And it won't be my last either."
While they were flying back to the courthouse Hawkgirl notices that Kanjar-Ro was speaking with one of the Manhunters. Hawkgirl pauses mid-flight grapping a hold of Storm's arm she points down at the space pirate who was speaking with a Manhunter, Storm just narrows her eyes as she looks down at the two.
Back in the court room Flash was still 'defending' John much to his dismay. "Have you asked yourselves, "why this rush to judgment?" If the ring wasn't lit, you must acquit, and furthermore-"
"Enough!" The first judge yells stopping Flash mid-sentence. "You're just wasting time."
"Who me?" Flash asked just as Kilowog pushes his way passed a guard to get to Flash.
"What now?!" First judge says in frustration.
"Uh, looks like we've got a surprise witness." Flash states equally as surprised as everyone else.
"Surprise witness? He was nowhere near the crime. What kind of witness could he be?" The prosecutor asked.
"A big scary one!" Flash states with a smile.
Cut to Ajuris 4's moon
"See anything wrong with this picture?" Superman asked as he and J'onn stood on the alien planet's moon now wearing space suits.
"Where do I start, the loss of life? The echoes of our own past." J'onn said in a melancholy tone.
"No not up there. Down here." Superman states pointing at the moon itself.
"It can't be." J'onn says in shock realization.
"But it is." Superman says. "This moon is still orbiting a planet which doesn't exist."
"It should have gone off into space the moment the planet was destroyed." J'onn proclaimed.
"But it didn't did it." Superman states dryly.
Cut back to courtroom
The Manhunter that had been speaking with Kanjar-Ro ran back into the courtroom just as Kilowog was giving his testimony.
"And the thorans would have gotten me for sure. If it hadn't been for John Stewart he saved my life." Kilowog states passionately testifying. "And risked his own to do it. That's the kind of guy he is."
"Thank you Kilowog. John couldn't have asked for a better character witness." Flash said once the other Lantern was done speaking. "Your turn." Flash says to the prosecutor.
"Kilowog, can you tell us what exactly a Green Lantern does?" The prosecutor asked.
"Well that's easy we catch bad guys." Kilowog answers.
"Commendable. But how do you know who the bad guys are?" The prosecutor asked.
"How?" Kilowog repeats in confusion. "I-I just know."
"Oh so you're saying you use your obviously superior intellect to routinely sort out matters of life and death." The prosecutor proclaims.
"I didn't say…I mean...well yeah kind of." Kilowog tries to explain carefully.
"And then you and the other Green Lantern's inforce these decisions with those incredibly deadly rings." The prosecutor proclaims.
"I guess you could put it that way." Kilowog says much to Flash's dismay.
"Who said you could do this? Who gave you the right?!" The prosecutor asked forcefully.
"We did." A voice says, everyone turns to look and see the Guardians of Oa had now entered the courtroom.
Cut back to Ajuris 4 moon
Superman and J'onn were flying around the moon trying to figure out what was going on. "J'onn I hope that you're doing better than I am. All I see are craters." Superman states as he continues to look around.
"Well I have found something but I'm not sure what." J'onn answers on the radio, in front of him is an enormous machine that had been hidden inside of a cave.
After hearing this Superman quickly flies over to where J'onn had located the machine. "Any idea of what this thing does?" Superman asked while the two were standing in front of the machine.
"When I was a child on Mars, we had small toys called 'Aloosatrons' they could project crude images over objects and even empty space."
"And you think that this is a larger version?" Superman asked.
"The engineering principles appear to be the same." J'onn explained.
"So it's an illusion." Superman states as he looks up at the supposing destroyed planet.
"It would explain why this moon's orbit remained intact." J'onn finishes explaining.
"But who-" Superman's sentence was cutoff when himself and J'onn were suddenly attacked from behind by Kanjar-Ro.
Kanjar-Ro while in a space ship uses the ships weapons to bury the two heroes inside of the cave. "The secret will stay buried with them." He says as he tries to fly away only to be attacked by Hawkgirl and Storm whom had followed him using one of the defense force's ship.
While the two heroines where going after Kanjar- Ro, Superman and J'onn had gotten themselves unburied.
"This moon is filled with surprises." J'onn states evenly.
Hawkgirl and Storm continue to go after the space pirate, Hawkgirl using the ship's defenses to attack Kanjar-Ro's ship and Storm controlling the ships navigation. Hawkgirl eventually managed to bring down the ememy ship, and Superman quickly flies into Kanjar-Ro's ship breaking through to take the space pirate just as it crashes. Superman flies them both back down to the moon just as Storm lands the ship next to him and J'onn. The two heroines fly out of the ship both wearing space suits and land in front of the other heroes.
"We followed him from Ajuris 5." Hawkgirl states. "We had to…borrow one of the defense force's fighters."
"And when you say borrow you really mean-" Superman begins to say in a lecturing tone.
"We borrowed it Kal." Storm states interrupting him. "We'll probably even give it back."
"So he's behind all this?" Superman asked changing the subject.
"Not exactly." Hawkgirl begins to explain.
Cut to the Manhunter's base
"It is time brothers." The leader begins his speech to the large group of Manhunters. "Time to avenge a thousand years of grievances, time to regain our power and dignity!" The leader finishes saying much to the group's happiness. "Our plan has worked flawlessly so far, we've sewn a tension among the Lantern Core and stained their reputation forever. But beyond that we've succeeded in luring the leaders of our hated enemy away from their home planet of Oa. Yes they're here! The Guardians."
"Destroy the Guardians!" The Manhunters yell together after hearing this information.
"No my brothers, not here not now." The leader tells them. "Our destiny lies elsewhere. But rest assured the Guardians will burn. For we are the Manhunters!"
"No man escapes the Manhunters!" The group shouts at once.
Cut back to courtroom
"It's true that we Guardians control the Lantern Core's power source. But the individual Lanterns have complete optometry." A guardian explains to the group.
"So if one of them acts like a dumbass it's not your fault?" The Prosecutor questions.
"You misunderstand." The guardian answers back. "We give them optometry because we trust their experience and-"
"No other questions!" The Prosecutor yells stopping the guardian's testimony. "How much more must we hear? We demand an immediate judgment!"
"I object!" Flash tries to argue.
"Overruled!" The judges said at once in an irritated tone.
"Having heard all the facts we will now consider." The first judge states. The three judges disappear from the screen to make their decision.
"I did everything I could." Flash tells John sadly.
"I wish you hadn't." John says back to him.
Soon the judges return back to the screen. "That was fast." Flash states turning to face the judges once again.
"The facts are clear. John Stewart is guilty." The First Judge says firmly.
"Do you wish to make a statement before we pass sentence?" The third judge asked.
"No." John says softly closing his eyes and accepting defeat, much to Flash's surprise.
"Very well the sentence is termination for you and your advocate." The second judge states.
The guard quickly push John and Flash to the execution chamber. "Whoa, time out! I want an appeal!" Flash tries to argue.
"Will you show some dignity for once in your life?" John lectures clearly embarrassed by Flash's behavior.
"This isn't right. We can't just sit here." Flash tries to argue with him.
"We have to. Think of the others like us. We all need to be held accountable. We have too much power not to be." John explains to him.
The two are forced to walk into the execution chamber with the door being shut behind them. It isn't long before the room is filled with deadly gas that was sure to kill them. They stood there coughing from the gas about to die when Superman, Storm and J'onn carrying Kanjar-Ro make it back to the courtroom.
"Stop!" Superman yells he fights off two guards that try to attack him and then punches a hole into the execution chamber and saves John and Flash before it was too late.
"How dare you!" The First judge yells outraged
"John's innocent." Superman states after freeing John's hands from the handcuffs. "That's your que Hawkgirl." He whispered into his communication device. "Hope you can hear me."
"Loud and clear." Hawkgirl states, the up towards the hologram generator using her mace she destroys the machine.
This makes the seemingly destroyed planet reappear, much to the surprise of everyone in the courtroom.
"Ajuris 4 was never destroyed it's right where it always was." Superman explains to the shocked courtroom. "It was all an illusion, a frame-up as they say on my planet."
"Yes they say that all the time on Krypton." Storm whispers though Superman ignored the comment.
"You!" John yells pouncing on the space pirate before anyone could stop him. "Why'd you do this to me? Why?!"
"For…for money." Kanjar-Ro answers with a stutter.
"Whose money?!" John asked forcefully.
"The Manhunters!" Kanjar-Ro answers nervously, hearing this of course shocks the people inside of courtroom even more.
While John was questioning the space pirate, Superman notices the Guardians leaving the courtroom. "Come on." He says to Flash, Storm and J'onn intending to follow after them.
"GL!" Flash states running over to John.
John lets go of the space pirate calls his ring back towards him and follows after his teammates.
Cut back to the Manhunter's base
The guardians arrive at the Manhunter's base only to find that they had already left.
"We're too late." The leader said. "We have to go back immediately."
"Not so fast." Flash says with a smirk while blocking the Guardians though they just walk pass him.
"What's going on?" Superman questions landed in front of the Guardians.
"We don't have time for this." The leader states walking past Superman.
"Then make the time." Storm said sternly getting in front of the group.
"Where are the Manhunters?" John asked.
"Headed back to Oa." The leader answers.
"Back to Oa?" John says in a confused tone. "They've been there before?"
"Yes…we created them there." The leader explains.
"Say what?!" Flash said in shock.
"It was before the Lantern Core." The leader begins to explain. "We thought robots would make good peacekeepers but they were flawed. They couldn't understand the subtle gradations between good and evil."
"Why didn't you decommission them?" Superman asked.
"We reprogramed them to lessor duties. Tracking, hunting, guarding they didn't seem to object." The leader explained.
"Not out loud anyway." John proclaims evenly.
"Why would they? After all they only lost their reason for existence?" Storm says sarcastically. "Who would try to get revenge over that?"
Cut to Oa
The Manhunters were attacking Oa and were already very close to taking control of its outer defense system. The remaining guardians tried their best to keep the defenses up but are clearly becoming overwhelmed by the assault.
"Don't let up brothers! They're weakening." The lead Manhunter yells as they continue to attack, while the others were still attacking a Manhunter was able to enter the central battery of the Core and begins to absorb its power into himself.
"They can't hide in there forever." The lead Manhunter orders from the battlefield. "Ripe it open!" The Manhunters manage to get to the remaining guardians. "Ripe them to-" Whatever the lead Manhunter was about to say was cut off when he saw the Justice League flying in to save the day. "They can't stop us brothers. NO ONE CAN!"
The Manhunters began attacking the League, Superman flies into a group of them destroying each in a single punch, Storm attacks as many as she could with lightning, Flash tries to run pass a group of Manhunters but gets surrounded luckily for him John used his ring to get rid of the group.
"Got your back." John states with a smile from behind Flash.
Flash turns smile back at John when he notices a group of them heading towards John. "Look out!" John quickly flies out of the way and uses his ring to get rid of that group as well. Superman, Storm, J'onn and John continue to fight the Manhunters together really giving them a run for their money but they were still outnumbered.
"Use the gun! The gun!" The lead Manhunter yells, the gun gets pointed in the direction of the group and is fired luckily John uses his ring just in time to block the group from the attack.
The league continues to battle the Manhunters doing their best to take them out. J'onn flies towards the central battery of the Core he makes himself intangible phasing through the building until he reaches the Manhunter trying to heck in to the Core's system and takes that Manhunter out.
Flash uses his super speed to run across a building to get closer to the Manhunters but gets hit in the face. John jumps in front of him to block attacks but begins to feel overwhelmed with the attacks. Luckily Hawkgirl shows up with the other Green Lanterns.
"You three take the north tower, Kilowog and I will take the south." Graz states and the two teams spilt up.
Graz and Kilowog use their rings to bring down the north tower, while Hawkgirl uses her mace to take out the south tower. Even with both the League and Lantern's working together the attack from the Manhunters was still overwhelming it even knocks out two of the guardians because they couldn't keep the barrier up any longer. The lead Manhunter used this opportunity to break through the barrier, John sees this and goes after the Manhunter. John was now floating in front of the Lantern's power core looking on in amazement but while his back was turned the Manhunter attacks him knocking him down.
The Manhunter then tries to fly into the Core's battery but John recovered enough to stop him with his ring. "Manhunter Stop!" John yells using the ring to incase the Manhunter.
"Not until we've regained what is rightfully ours!" The lead Manhunter proclaims.
"Yours?" John says in confusion.
"The power that the Guardians stole from us." The lead Manhunter states, breaking himself out of John's barrier with his rod and trying to hit John with electrical blasts, which ended up missing the Green Lantern.
"It was never yours!" John exclaims while the energy from his ring clashed with the Manhunter's electrical staff. "It was always the Guardians."
"And they betrayed us." The lead Manhunter states. "Just as they betrayed you!" The lead Manhunter's electrical staff is able to break through and land a hit on John weakening him. "This power is our destiny!" The lead Manhunter proclaims tossing John to the side, he then flies into the Lantern Corps battery and begins to absorb the power into his body. "Now I am the power!" The lead Manhunter shouts.
The Manhunter's absorption of the Lantern's power core causes the power of the Green Lantern to be stripped away from the Green Lantern's and the Guardians. "All is lost." A Guardian manages to say before he passes out.
"Not while I'm standing." John said with determination, he then walks over to the power core and holds up his ring. "In brightest day, in blackest night, No evil shall escape my sight," John begins to say the Green Lantern oath much to everyone else's surprise the Manhunter's begins to get absorbed into John's ring. "Let those who worship evil's might, Beware my power… Green Lantern's light!" John finishes expelling the Manhunter from his ring this returns the Lantern's battery giving all Lantern's and the Guardians back their power.
"We choose wisely when we offered you the ring." A guardian proclaims to John bowing his head. "Thank you John Stewart."
With the lead Manhunter destroyed the rest of the Manhunters are repelled leaving the League and Lantern's surrounded by their broken bodies.
"You're some fighters' ladies." Graz complaints to Hawkgirl and Storm.
"But we already knew that." Arkkis adds in and the group of Lantern's laugh.
"Wait? How would they know that you're some fighters?" Superman asked confused.
"Well Kal sometimes you can talk some sense into people." Storm begins to say trailing off.
"But most of the time you've got to knock some sense into them." Hawkgirl finishes sharing a wink with Storm. "Of course I prefer to knock sense into people."
The Green Lantern's laugh again clearly remembering the bar fight they had against the two heroines. "Seriously though we apologize for our behavior." Graz said sincerely.
"Yes we acted foolish." Arkkis added in he turns and focuses his attention on Storm. "If I could make it up to you Storm, Ajuris 4 has a lot of great restaurants?"
"That will not be necessary Arkkis." Superman states quickly moving next to Storm and putting a hand on her shoulder. "Your apology is enough."
"But?" Arkkis was about to argue until he saw the hard glare on Superman's face.
"Your apology is enough." Superman repeats more forcefully this time.
"Dude just walk away trust me." Flash whispers into Arkkis's ear, Arkkis decides to take Flash's advice quickly goes back to the other Lantern's.
"Wow Kal-El," Storm sighs in an annoyed tone. "I hope the couch is comfortable."
"But I-" Superman tries to argue but the glare on Storm's face stopped him in his tracks.
The Lantern group soon notices John coming towards them, they rush over to his side when he lands near them and the League.
"John. Good work." Kilowog states sincerely.
"I guess we were wrong about you John." Graz says in a shamefully tone. "We should have known better."
"Yeah. You should have." John states coolly walking away from the other Lantern's to join the League.
"Are you alright John?" J'onn asked seeing the look on the Lantern's face.
"You believed in me even when I didn't believe in myself." John says in disbelief.
"Hey what are friends for?" Flash said with a smile.
"Let's go home." John states using his ring to surround the group he flies them away from Oa.
A/N and that's the end of this chapter, Here's a bit of trivia the alien prosecutor in the two episode is voice acted by the guy who played Red Forman on That 70's Show because of that I changed one of the original lines! S Any way see you next time and remember to Please read and Review!