Hey guys, Andrew78591, here with a new fanfic for you all. This is something I've wanted to do for a while when I got into Green Lantern. Specifically though, I wanted to make a story with Souda Kazuichi and have him in the center spotlight here. The reason behind this is because Kazuichi is my favorite character from Super Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair. And I hated how he was treated as the butt monkey throughout the entire story. Especially with how they overdid it with his obsession with Sonia. Considering his backstory in the freetime events make him very interesting and relatable. So I want to fix up his character and give him development here.

With all that said, let's get this chapter started. Aaaaaaaannnnnnnd begin:


Chapter One: The Birth of an Emerald Knight


Hope's Peak Academy, Class 77B

It was the cold autumn of October at Hope's Peak Academy. The cold wind was blowing through the area as the leaves of every tree had turned into a rainbow of autumn colors. And inside a classroom, were a bunch of students as they were doing their normal day of school. The teacher, Miss Chisa Yukizome was currently teaching her students on many school subjects as well as helping them improve on their talents. As they had finished with their subjects, Yukizome looked up to the clock and saw that it was nearly time for class to be over. Knowing this, she decided to make an announcement.

"Attention everyone, before we end class, our Ultimate Princess, Sonia, would like to make a quick announcement," Chisa spoke out as she allowed her student to take charge.

"Thank you, Miss Yukizome," Sonia said as she took full center. "As everyone knows, today is my birthday and I planned on having it on a very special place to show my gratitude to being a normal student here."

"So after talking to my parents about it, they agreed to allow me to have my birthday party on one of Novoselic's best cruise ships!" she said with excitement as her eyes sparkled. This got everyone in the classroom extremely excited as this would be many of their first time being on an actual cruise.

"With that said, I want to inform all of you about something important when coming to the party. Everyone must have an invitation letter I gave all of you in order to enter the party. That should be simple enough, an I correct?" Sonia instructed as she held up a white, fancy looking invitation.

Everyone's response was a simple yes as they all raised there invitation to show Nevermind that they had one. "Well, if that's the case, then there should be no problem."

"It seems you're done with your announcement then," Yukisome said as Sonia nodded in response. "In that case, class dismissed."

With that, everyone began to pack up their things and a couple of them walking up toward the Ultimate Princess to talk about their excitement of this fantastic party. Many others were talking with each other on what they'll be doing at the party, what they will wear, what food will appear, all the kinds of questions that people would ask for a big event like this. There is such a big atmosphere of excitement and happiness as everyone was talking to their friends to express themselves. Everyone looked happy.

Well, expect for one.

Sitting in his desk as he was putting away his stuff in his backpack, was a teenage boy. He had hot pink dye hair, pink contact eyes, and shark teeth. He wore a blue jumpsuit with a baseball cap. This first year student is the Ultimate Mechanic, Kazuichi Souda. He had a very neutral face as he finished packing his things and stood up from his desk. One would think he would be just as excited as anyone about this big event, being able to go to a party on a cruise ship is something anyone would howl in joy about this.

That is if you were invited to the event in the first place. Yes, Souda was the only one in the entire classroom to not get an invitation to the birthday party. Whether Sonia forgot to give him an invitation or didn't want to, he didn't care. This was something he expected at this point. As everyone were happily chatting away, Kazuichi quietly left the classroom.

'I wonder what I should do today?' Souda thought to himself as he walked through the hallways of the school. 'I could probably fix those appliances some people sent me to fix. Or maybe-'

"Souda!"

Kazuichi was interrupted from his thoughts as he turned around to see who called him. It was a familiar red short bob haired girl with olive eyes, pale skin, and freckles across her cheeks. And like most students, she wore a brown school uniform. The girl is the Ultimate Photographer, Mahiru Koizumi. The red head was walking towards before she finally caught up to him.

"Oh hey, Koizumi. Is there something you need from me?" Souda asked.

"Yeah, I want to know if my camera is fixed yet? I'd like to have it now with the party that's happening tonight," Mahiru asked him.

"Oh right, you gave me your camera to fix it. Hold on, I think I brought it with me. Let me check," Kazuichi replied as he dug into his backpack. After a couple more seconds of looking, the mechanic pulled out Mahiru's camera and handed it to her.

Koizumi tested out the camera as she took a picture. She smiled in joy seeing that her camera was working again. "Oh, just to let you know. I had your camera completely waterproof so you don't have to worry about it being ruined by any water," Kazuichi added in.

"That's great to hear. Thanks," the photographer said as with a happy look.

Just then, someone bumped behind Koizumi, spooking her a bit. Souda and her look to see that someone was her best friend. A girl that had an appearance of a small child with blonde hair tied into a ponytail with a pink bow hair tie and orange eyes. She wore a yellow kimono with a pink rose-outline pattern and a purple obi sash, along with Japanese sandals. This child looking high school student is the Ultimate Traditional Dancer, Saionji Hiyoko.

"Hey Big Sis," she said happily, sounding like a little sister. "I was looking for you. I need your help on what I should wear for the birthday party."

"Oh right, I promise we do that. Alright, let's get going," Koizumi said as she and Hiyoko walked through the hallways towards their dorms, leaving Souda alone.

Kazuichi sighed by this as this was a common occurrence for him. As soon as someone talks to someone else, he's pretty much forgotten. He was always annoyed because of that, but at this point, Souda was used to it by now. Feeling a little down, Kazuichi thought he do something tonight to cheer himself up. And he knew just the thing.


Junkyard

It was around seven at night at this massive junkyard near the sea. There were mountains upon mountains of metal scraps, destroyed machines, and lines of nonfunctional cars. Despite the mess of mostly garbage, this was a great place to find some goods. "One man's trash is another man's treasure," Souda would say to himself as he was climbing on a mountain scrap, looking for anything to take. With some gloves on, the mechanic dug through the metal and other worthless junk to find something of worth. After about a minute of digging, Kazuichi cheered to himself as he found himself a small kitchen oven. Though it was broken, there were many parts in it that was very much still functional. Placing it in his duffle bag, Kazuichi continued to look for whatever junk he can use.


After about an hour in, Souda snuck himself through junkyard, passing any guards and dogs, and made his way to the car section. Walking through the isle of broken down cars, Kazuichi walked towards the very end to find his favorite vehicle in this entire place. A massive, flame decorated, van. Though, like the rest of the vehicles here, it had lost its engine and wheels so it could no longer be driven. However, the surface of the van still looked good with no massive bump on it.

Souda walked behind the van as he opened the door and entered inside. Turning on his electric lamp, we see that there were some tools, litter was all over the floor, cardboard covering all the windows, and a blanket and pillows for comfort. It was pretty obvious that this van was Souda's hangout place whenever he snuck into the junkyard and find himself good parts.

Setting his duffle bag down, Kazuichi sat down as he dug through and took out the goodies he found today. From broken appliances, to good mechanical parts, and, surprisingly, an RC toy car that was fixable, Souda hit the junk pot today.

"Aw yeah, so much great stuff I got today. I don't even know where to start," he said to himself in excitement, feeling like a kid in a candy store.

"Maybe I'll start with this one." Souda picks up the toy car as he grabbed a screwdriver near him.

But before he could do anything, his phone began to buzz. Kazuichi pulled out his device and looked at it to see what it is. It was a notification for his social media account, MonoBook, telling him that there was something new. Souda decided to check it out as he unlocked his phone. As soon as he saw what the notification wanted to show him, all of Kazuichi's happiness disappeared. Turning into a sadness as he frowned in bitterness.

What he saw was a picture of his classmates smiling at the camera, with the ocean and the main deck in the background, posted on the Class 77B page for everyone to see. In the description of it saying, "Sonia here, having a wonderful time with all my classmates!!!"

"All my classmates?" Souda said to himself as he laughed at this like a sad joke. After all, he was the only one not at the party. But he knew that they wouldn't notice something like that since he was pretty much forgotten. It was always like this since last semester. No, his entire life.

All throughout his life, Kazuichi had no friends. Remembering back in elementary, he was basically a nerd, with black hair and glasses, that studied a lot and tinkered with machines with a look that made him blend with the crowd. He was bullied and taken advantage of because of that. In middle school, the mechanic decided he had enough and changed his appearance to a punk-ish look to make himself look intimidating and cool looking. The result was the people started to leave him alone and the bullying stopped. In fact, people stopped paying attention to him all together. That was when his loneliness really began. Souda thought that maybe being accepted into Hope's Peak Academy and becoming the Ultimate Mechanic would help him finally find some friends. However, that wasn't the case.

All because of his stupid obsession with Sonia Nevermind. As a child that suffered bullying and had family problems back home, Souda dreamt of a beautiful, blonde girlfriend that would be his side and make him feel better, be an escape from the cruel reality that was life. However, this led to becoming an oblivious stalker to the Ultimate Princess. This not only brought a bad imagine towards Sonia, but made him the butt monkey of the class. It was by far one of his biggest regrets in his life which Kazuichi was glad that he finally realized how pointless it was and got over Sonia in four months. After apologizing to her, Souda, at that point, decided to move on.

However, that wasn't easy. Apparently his obsession with Sonia and acting like an idiot was the only thing that made him stand out. Because after that, everyone pretty much stopped talking to him. While everyone was busy being chums with each other, Souda was all alone, doing his own thing. He was only ever called when one of them wanted him to fix something of theirs or make sure everything held on correctly for any event. Events he was never invited or included in to the point he stopped hoping they would. This MonoBook picture only seemed to rub the fact that he was still an unlikable, lonely, loser.

Feeling some tears appearing, Kazuichi began to wipe them off his eyes and exited out of MonoBook. "Whatever, I already accepted the fact that they'll never like me. So, I don't need them," Souda said himself, upset.

Wanting to either forget the picture or get over this negative feeling, Souda put on some earphones, put up his music, and began fixing the RC toy car. He should know by now that no matter what he does or what change he does himself, inside or appearance, nothing about his miserable life would change.

At least, that's what he thought.


In the depths of space, where the planet Earth and Moon are in full view. Everything seemed normal as expected of this vast unknown. That is until something came into view. A strange, alien looking spaceship is traveling through the void at incredible speeds as it entered into the planet's atmosphere. As heat build up around the ship, turning it into a flaming comet, inside the transportation is an alien. A human looking one with red skin and a strange suit that consisted of black and green with white gloves. And on the fingers of his right hand was a strange looking emerald ring. The red-skinned man was in terrible condition as purple blood oozed out of his abdomen. It was clear that he didn't have long to live. But he had to keep fighting death. As there was one thing he absolutely needed to do before he decease.

Eventually, the spaceship crash lands on a remote island, specifically on the beach. After the large sound of the explosion, the environment became silent as only the sounds of fire appeared. The ship was now a wreck as many pieces scattered around the area either buried in the sand or lost in the wilderness. And fire had appeared all over the place due to the explosion. It seemed that no one could survive a crash like that.

However, the mysterious alien was able to survive thanks to a green energy surrounding him as he laid in the rough sand. When the green light disappeared, the alien lifted his hand and activated his ring.

"Find...him, quickly," he uttered.


Back with Souda, the mechanic was still doing his tinkering with the toy until he was finally done. Smiling in satisfaction, Kazuichi lifted the newly fixed RC toy car. "Aw man, this toy looks perfect. Even looks like something you see in a fancy toy store," he said happily as he puts the toy car into his duffle bag. "Maybe I'll donate this somewhere. I bet any kid would love it."

Kazuichi then grabbed onto the RC's remote control. "Now to fix this and the toy car can be used again."

Then suddenly, the van rapidly shook for a few seconds before stopping, scaring the daylights out of Souda. "What the hell?!" Kazuichi said, breathing heavily as he made his way towards the backdoor of the van. "What was that all of a su-"

As soon as the mechanic opened the door, his face changed to absolutely shock, becoming silent. Kazuichi saw that not only was the van covered in a bright green light, but the vehicle is over a thousand feet in the air. All Souda did was back away, closing the door in the process, as he sat back down. Then, on instinct, Kazuichi gave himself a quick jab to his gut, causing him some pain.

"Okay...this is not a dream," he groaned in pain. "Then what is hell is going on?"

The van continued to fly through the air until it reached the remote island. The vehicle descended towards the beach as it safely landed onto the sand. Once this happened, Souda slowly opened the backdoor and exited the van. He was surprised to see that he was transported to a random beach of all things.

"Okay, this is not what I expect to be taken to," Souda said, still shocked by all this. "But why am I here?"

As the mechanic looked began to look around the area, Souda's head stopped moving as his eyes spotted the crashed spaceship. "Holy crap, what happened?"

As he continued to see the flaming, destroyed vessel, a groan was made which got Kazuichi's attention. Seeing where the noise was coming from, his eyes widen in horror and disbelief. Souda was paralyzed for a moment when he saw the red-skinned man laying in the sand, soaked in his own blood. "Oh my god," the mechanic uttered as he then ran towards the stranger.

Kazuichi kneeled down to the man as he checked on his wound. "Oh man, oh man, what do I do?! Maybe if I move him to the van, I can do something!" he said to himself as Souda began to pick up the stranger.

"No...it's alright," the stranger said, waving his hand as Kazuichi laid him back down. "It's too late for me…"

"Come on man. That can't be true. I'm sure if I do something I can-" Souda was interrupted as the red-skinned man grabbed onto his jumpsuit and pulled him closer towards him. "It's okay. I knew this day would come...eventually. So...we must've waste time," the stranger said, his voice growing weaker by the second. "What...is your name?"

Souda was silent for a moment as he was trying to comprehend all this, but eventually answered. "Souda. Kazuichi Souda."

"Souda. My name...is Abin Sur. I have…brought you here...because you were chosen."

"Chosen? Chosen by what?"

"By this." Abin Sur lifts his hand to show Kazuichi a green ring with a unique symbol of a circle with two tangent bars. "You have been chosen...to be its next wielder."

"What? I-I feel like it made a mistake. There's no way-"

"The ring...does not make a mistake...when choosing it's wielder," Abin Sur spoke, interrupting the mechanic. "Take the ring...and put it on...your finger. Please."

Despite the fear and doubt he was experiencing right now, Souda decided to do what the dying man said and slowly took the ring and put it on his right index finger. "Okay, now what?" he asked.

"Point the ring...inside the battery," Abin Sur said, pointing at a green object near them. Souda quickly went towards the object and picked it up. The mechanic was surprised to see that the object is an old-fashioned oil lantern. But the strange thing about it was that instead of a fire, there was a bright green emerald glow. Something about the light felt powerful yet beautiful to see at the same time. Remembering what he had to do, Kazuichi pointed the ring towards the green light, waiting for the alien's instructions.

"Now...repeat these words...In brightest...day."

"In brightest day."

"In blackest.. night."

"In blackest night."

"No evil shall...escape my sight."

"No evil shall escape my sight."

"Let those who worship...evil's might."

"Let those who worship evil's might."

"Beware...my power...Green Lantern's light."

"Beware my power...Green Lantern's light?"

Souda's confused thoughts were interrupted as the glow with the lantern emitted a beam of light that went towards the ring. The ring glowed bright with an emerald light. Then, a green flame appeared and began to engulf the stunned mechanic. Despite being on fire, the flames didn't harm him. Souda felt so much power flow through his body, that he felt he could do whatever came to his imagination. The mythical flames began to slowly disappear to reveal Kazuichi Souda, but this time, he was now wearing the same green and black uniform like the one Abin Sur had. Though he no longer has his cap on as his whole hair is out.

Once the transformation was done, Souda looked at himself with complete awe. The change of clothes and power flowing through him made the mechanic feel like a completely different person from before.

"You are now a...Green Lantern. One of the protectors...of the universe," uttered Abin Sur, getting Souda's attention once more. "The Guardians...will sent for someone...to get you."

"Protect the ring...use it...wisely…"

Like that, Abin Sur took his last breath and succumb to his injury.

"Wait, Abin Sur! Who's coming to get me?! Who are the Guardians? What's this all about?" Souda shouted, more confused by all this as he shook the stranger to wake up. But it was all futile, the Green Lantern known as Abin Sur is dead.

Knowing this, Kazuichi just stood there, completely confused by all this. What is a Green Lantern? Who are the guardians? And why was he chosen? He was left with more questions than answers. Despite that, looking at the deceased man, Souda felt that it was appropriate to give him a proper burial.

"Damn, how the hell do I bury him? I'm going to need a shovel or something to start digging," he said to himself, thinking.

Just then, the ring glowed and emitted a green energy which formed into a shovel. Kazuichi was taken aback by this as he didn't expect this. When he went and touched it, the mechanic was surprised to see what he could grab it, like it was an actual object with mass.

"Holy crap, I just imagine a shovel and this ring made it," Souda said in awe as he looked at the ring. "I wonder..."

Kazuichi began to use his imagination to think of something to summon. Then the ring create another energy object as it took the form of wrench. Then, in quick session, Souda turned the wrench into a sledgehammer, then to a sword, then a toy airplane, and finally into a massive minigun.

"Holy crap," he said as he wield the minigun. He face of awe changed into amazement and happiness. "This is so cool! I never knew I could do something like this! Oh man, the things I can make with this ring."

While he was excited by what else he could do with the ring, Souda was reminded of what he had to do. He still had to give Abin Sur a proper burial. So with the knowledge he gained, Souda used the ring to create a light construct, taking the form of a drill. The mechanic uses the drill to create a hole big and deep enough to bury the red-skinned man. Once it was done, Kazuichi used the ring to pick up the former green lantern and placed him in the hole, which he buried up. With all that done, Kazuichi did a prayer for the stranger.

"Abin Sur, I may not have known you since we only talked for about a minute before you died. I don't even know what kind of person you were or what you did. But like anyone else, you deserve a proper burial. I'm sorry I couldn't save you, but I hope you're able to rest in peace," Souda chanted as he put his hands in a prayer position. He stood there for a minute or two before he left and went back to the van.

"Man, this day just got crazy. Never in my life did I think something like this would happen to me," Kazuichi said to himself, processing everything that just happened. "While it is cool that I got something out of this, I'm questioning how the hell do I get off this place."

Souda began to brainstorm on what to do until he looked at green ring. "Maybe…"

The mechanic raised his arm to the sky as he got into a flying position. "Okay, here goes nothing."

"To infinity and beyond!"

And by some crazy coincidence, the ring powered up and launched Kazuichi high into the sky, going above the clouds. At first, this scared the mechanic due to how high he was and surprise that his idea actually worked. Though eventually, that fear turned into flat out excitement and laughter. It was surprisingly easy for him to get the hang of this and fly natural. It was an incredible experience as his heart beat went faster than it has ever been before. The feeling of the air hitting his face, being able to reach heights that even no bird alive could reach, and being able to go at speeds faster than any known jet plane in the world with ease, this is a wonderful feeling Souda was going through.

"This is awesome! Waaaaaahooooooo!!"

The mechanic could just fly like this without a care in the world. Flying fast, doing tricks, just having the feeling of freedom would have been enough.

However, Souda remembered that he was flying so that he could fly back home to his dorm at Hope's Peak. So Kazuichi didn't waste any time and flew to the direction to where he believed Japan was. Because, if the mechanic was being honest, he had no idea which direction to take to get back home. It would of taken Souda a while to find land. But thankfully, the ring allowed him to more at incredible speeds to make things easier. It only took Kazuichi a couple seconds to finally spot the coast of Japan's beach in the horizon.

"Finally, now I can get back to my room and sleep this off," the mechanic said to himself, really wanting to go to sleep after this crazy day.

However, Souda stopped himself as he spotted something in the distance. It was some kind of giant boat with very bright lights. Despite the distance, Kazuichi recognize the vessel.

"Wait a minute? Is that what I think it is?" Souda said as he used his power ring to form binoculars to get a closer look. He was surprised how far the construct allowed him to see but was thankful nonetheless.

It seems that his suspicion was correct as the boat is indeed the cruise ship known as the S.S. Novoselic. Apparently one of the country's ships that Sonia is using to celebrate her birthday party. The things people can get as royalty is incredible.

Though that awe slowly changed into jealous as Souda put down the binoculars. He felt angry and jealous by the fact his classmates were having the time of their lives at a possible one of a lifetime cruise ship party. While he was elsewhere, not giving a damn about him. Even when Kazuichi gained something incredible today, it's not like he can shared this with anyone. However, Souda shook that thought away.

"Whatever, they can have fun with their party for all I care," Kazuichi scoffed as he was about to fly away.

That he until he heard a sound. A sound that sent a chill down his spine. As sound he was familiar with. A sound of gunshots. And it came directly at the cruise ship.

Souda immediately created binoculars once more and looked at the cruise ship again. Only this time, zoomed in enough to see the people on the vessel. What he saw was truly a horrible sight for anyone.

The mechanic saw all of the people on the boat being pushed by intimidating men with assault rifles. All of them were being forced to into the main deck of the cruise, with many more men aiming their weapons at them to make sure they didn't escape. He even saw a few dead bodies on the floor, showing that they were the ones that tried to fight back and paid the price. One that really got his sight was his entire classroom as they were all grouped together, a few of them that knew how to fight were knocked out. With Sonia Nevermind at full center of it all as she was face to face with a bearded man with an eyepatch, which he assumed was the leader. So far, things were not looking good in the slightest.

"Oh crap," Souda uttered, scared and shocked by all this. "What do I do? What do I do? What do I do?"

"I need to get the police involved, get help. Maybe there's police nearby to-"

Kazuichi stopped his muttering when he looked at the ring on his finger. This helped him remember that he had powers now. He could go and save them from this threat. But he was hesitating himself as Souda didn't know if he would be of any help considering he just got this ring. What could he do against trained and experienced terrorists? Even if he had an incredible power.

But his thoughts were interrupted when Souda heard another gunshot. Looking back at the ship, the mechanic's face changed to complete horror as he saw one of the men with a smoking gun. And in front of him was a dead child, no older than eight. Even worse, the man was smiling at this like it was an accomplishment while other people were crying from this.

The sight was so unbelievable and horrible for Kazuichi that it make him paralyzed with fear as tears appeared. But then that emotion changed into something else. It changed into anger. His hands tighten into fists and his face changed to reflect his current emotion. Seeing this was more than enough to tell Souda what needed to be done. He wasn't going to let any hesitation prevent him from stopping this horrific tragedy. It seemed that the ring responded to that emotion as Kazuichi was now flying towards the cruise ship in order to put an end to this.


Cruise Ship

This was supposed to be a fun night. A party where everyone of her classmates and others could have the time of their lives. Where the only sounds that were made were of shouts of joy and laughter. That was what Sonia was telling herself during all this. But things really took a complete 180 turn here. From gunshots and the murder of a couple of the ship's staff and security, she, her entire class, and everyone else on the cruise ship were now held at gunpoint by a dangerous mercenary group.

Nevermind looked at her classmates to see how they were doing. Many of their emotions varied from being serious about this while being quiet with the others scared with a couple of them crying. Many of her other classmates, Pekoyama, Nekomaru, and Owari, were knocked out and tied up. Sonia tried to stay strong through all this but she was just as scared as everyone else. Just then, a man walked up towards the princess. While he wore the same mercenary-like outfit like the others, his biggest feature on him was the black beard and an eyepatch on his right eye.

"Well princess, I must say that this party of yours is absolutely incredible. Good food, nice music, and all of it on a cruise. You really went the extra mile here," the man said with a grin on his face.

"Who are you and what do you want?" Sonia said, demanding to know.

"Oh that's right, none of us actually introduced ourselves," he said, jokingly. "Where are my manners? While I can't tell you our names, I'll tell you that we're a bunch of mercenaries for hire. I believe this should be enough to tell you who we are." He showed the princess their logo which was a black hawk with its wings stretched out. Sonia silently gasped as she realized who they were.

"You're...you're the Black Hawks," she uttered.

"Black Hawks?" Mahiru questioned.

"They're a mercenary group well known in my country for doing misdeeds someone hires them to do as long as they had the money. They've been an enemy to my family for years," Sonia explained in fright.

"Exactly. Your royal family have usually been a pain in our ass when it came to our jobs. Luckily for us, when we found out that you were out of your country and home, out here in the ocean, we found the perfect opportunity to get some needed revenge," he said as he chucked. "As for what we're going to do with you, we're just going to use you for ransom since my group are running low on money. You know how it is."

"Is it the same with the rest of us?" Sonia asked.

"That too, although they aren't that value compared to you. So it won't matter to the world if we killed a few," he said with a shit eating grin that made Soina grit with anger.

"You heartless bastard," he growled.

"Hey relax, as long as they do we say and don't cause any trouble, then we have nothing to worry about."

Just then, a scream was made and many turned to see what was happening. They see one of the grunts fighting a woman as it looked like he was taking something from her. "Give me the fucking necklace, you bitch!"

"Please, let go of me!"

The struggle continued until a small child came in bit on the mercenary's arm, which caused the man to let go of the woman. In retaliation, the man shoved the boy to the ground and pulled out a pistol. "Little brat," he growled as he aimed his weapon at the boy.

"Don't do it!" Sonia yelled.

But it was too late, the mercenary pulled the trigger and shot the boy, killing him instantly. "Johnny!" The woman, who's the mother, screamed in agony as she held the dead boy.

"Jesus man, the hell are you doing?" the leader said annoyed.

"Boss, I just wanted the damn necklace from the woman since we'd get a lot of money out of it. But she had to fight back along with that little shit. I was just doing what was necessary," the grunt said, casually.

"Just make sure you don't kill too many. I don't want a fucking mess around here."

"Sure thing boss. Now…" The grunt faced the crying woman again as he aimed his pistol at her head. "Where were we?"

However, just then, a green light came out of nowhere and launched the mercenary away, making him hit the railing of the boat and knocking him unconscious. Everyone was shocked by this sudden action as the mercenaries prepared themselves for this.

"What the hell?" the leader said, weapon ready.

As the mercenaries looked around to find the threat, the green light appeared again and rammed two more of them, knocking them out. And like that, each and every mercenary, one by one, were being rammed by a mysterious green light and brought into unconsciousness. Seeing this, the mercenary leader grabbed Sonia by the neck and aimed his gun on her head.

"You're coming with me and if any of you follow me, I'll put a bullet in her head," the leader said as he quickly made his way into the ship's corridors.


Back with Souda, floating over the ship, he was generally surprised to see that he had managed to knock out all the mercenaries on the ship's deck. He felt some kind of accomplishment that he was able to do all this. However, this was far from over as Kazuichi felt there was more of them and had to be ready.

Just as he was about to fly down to the cruise ship to check on the people, the mechanic stopped himself as he realized something. Using his ring to make a mirror, Souda look to see that his face was very much visible and recognizable. "Damn it, I can't go in there like this. Everyone and my classmates will know who I am and things could get complicated," he said to himself. "I need to disguise myself so they won't know it's me."

Using the ring, Kazuichi created accessories that helped hide his identity. A mouth mask to cover his shark teeth, a helmet for his pink hair, and another mask to hide his eyes. Examining his face again, Souda grin to himself as this disguise was perfect. With that, Souda flew towards the ship and made his landing.

Once he was at full view to everyone on the cruise ship, they all looked at Souda with awe and shock. He even saw a few of them become tense as they prepared for the worst. Kazuichi couldn't blame them since he's basically a mysterious person that came out of nowhere and has superpowers. But he didn't pay attention to that as he walked towards class 77B, specifically his teacher Yukizome.

"Miss, are you okay?" he asked Chisa as he helped her up.

"I'm...okay. But who are you?" she questioned, is awe by looking at him.

"I'm just someone who was passing by and saw you guys needed help," he said, assuring them that he isn't a threat. "Is everyone where safe?"

"Yes, of course. Other than a few casualties, everyone should be fine," she answered.

"That's good to hear," he said, happily. Though he still felt bittersweet because there were casualties involved. But he'll have to deal with that later.

Souda then looks at the unconscious Peko, Nidai, and Akane with worry. "What happen to them?"

"They were hit on the back of the head, rendered unconscious. They were considered a threat," Chisa explained.

"D-don't wo-worry, the three haven't suffer any extreme injuries, so they'll be fine," Mikan pointed out as she checked in them.

"That's good to hear. But back to important matters, who are these people and why are they here?" Souda asked.

"They apparently called themselves the Black Hawks. Mercenaries for hire. From what they said they wanted to hold us for ransom," Yukizome explained.

"Yeah, it was awful," Mahiru added in, getting the mechanic's attention. "They came out of nowhere, shoot their guns and forces us here. We were just having fun until they threatened our lives. They were even gloating during all this before you came. Then their leader ran off with So-"

Koizumi's eyes widen in fear upon remembering. She then ran towards him and grabbing onto his shoulders, beginning to plead. "You have to save Sonia! Or they'll do something horrible to her!"

"Whoa! Whoa! Calm down!" Kazuichi said as he grabbed a hold of her and calmed her down. "What do you mean by save Sonia?"

"That's right, the leader took our friend, Sonia, inside the ship. He said he shoot her if we went after her," Nanami spoke out, just scared about her classmate's life.

Hearing that brought a lot of fright from hearing this news. But the feeling changed into anger and determination. While Souda may have gotten over her and rid his obsessive feelings towards her, Sonia was still his classmate and there were people that cared about her. So he knew he had to save her no matter what.

"In that case, I'm going after them and saving your friend," Kazuichi said with determination. "Do you guys might know where he might have taken Sonia?"

The only response he got was many of them shaking their heads and the others not responding.

"Sorry man, there's a lot of places where the bastard could of taken her," Fuyuhiko spoke out. "Besides, there could be more mercenaries still inside. So that could be a problem." Hearing that made Kazuichi groan in frustration.

"Damn it. Even worse since I don't know anything about this ship or how many more mercenaries there are so I'll be going in blind," Souda said annoyed as he looked at his ring. "I wish I could just scan this ship and know where they are and how many."

"Affirmative"

Kazuichi blinked for a moment before looking at the ring in shock by the fact that it talked. Just then, the ring sent out a green wave around the ship before it responded again.

"All remaining mercenaries are in the boiler room of the ship with only seven remaining as well as about fifteen hostages with them. With a hostage being held by their leader."

Souda was quiet for a moment as this was completely new to him. He did not think the ring would be able to talk back to him like that. But, he shook it off as there was still business he had to deal with.

"Okay, now I know how I should handle this. I want everyone here to move to a safer location and to tie up the other mercenaries good and tight. I have a feeling they'll try to attack again when they wake up," he instructed class 77B to do. "I'll take care of the rest." He then made way towards the inside of the ship.

"Wait."

Souda stop in his tracks as he turned around to see Koizumi walk up to him with worry on her face.

"Please, bring our friend back safe and sound," she said with desperation in her voice.

Hearing that, Kazuichi was now more determined to save Sonia and take down these Black Hawks. "I will," he replied as he flew into the ship's corridors.


Boiler Room

After a quick flight, Kazuichi finally made it to the boiler room of the ship. Hiding behind a crate, he took a look at the room filled with pipes, levels, dials, and other machinery. And in the center of it all was the hostages, presumably the boiler room staff, as they were surrounded by six mercenaries with their guns aimed at them. And in what seemed to be the office for the boiler room, there was the leader with Sonia beside him, very much afraid by all this.

Souda knew he had to take down all of these mercenaries at once along with the leader or else someone could get killed. So he began to brainstorm ideas on how to deal with this. So he began to think of different superpowers Souda's seen from the manga and comic books he's read before that maybe his ring could replicate. Then an idea came up.

"Hey ring, could you make me turn invisible?" he asked the ring quietly.

"Affirmative. It should be simple enough."

In an instant, the ring turned Souda invisible as he was completely out of sight and bend with the environment. "Okay, let's do this."


As that was going on, Sonia was sitting on a chair as the leader of the Black Hawks was pointing a gun at her, thinking of what to do right now. The fact that someone or something had come out of nowhere and put a massive dent to his plans was unexpected. Even worse, the green light could come after him.

"Damn it all. Years of planning and supplies use for this, down the fucking drain. This was not supposed to happen," the leader growled quietly. "What the hell am I supposed to do?!"

"I suggest that you surrender."

The leader was taken out of his thoughts when he looked at Sonia, who had spoken. "It's obvious at this point that this green threat is going to defeat you considering it had disposed of the rest of your men," she said to him. "Your only option at this point is to surrender to prevent any more casua-"

The Ultimate Princess was interrupted when the leader backhanded her in the face, forcing her to the floor. Sonia held her cheek in pain as it was bruised, tearing up.

"I don't remember asking for your opinion!" he shouted as he stomped on Sonia's back, yelping in pain. "My plans may have failed, but that doesn't mean I'm out!"

He then grabbed Nevermind by the hair as he pulled her face to face. "Besides, as long as I have you as a hostage, I'll be perfectly fine. After all, you're worth more than everyone on this ship combined."

As he said that, the window of the office was broken into pieces as something burst inside. The leader of the Black Hawks was caught off guard by this as he was suddenly punched in the face, crashing into the wall.

Sonia was surprised by this as she laid on the floor. She wondered who was responsible for this as the princess didn't see anyone else in the room. That is until a green light appeared then quickly disappeared to reveal a stranger in a green and black uniform, which was Kazuichi. While he was glad Sonia was alive, Souda was more focused on the leader, who was slowly getting back up, as he had a face of anger. As he took care of the remaining mercenaries and save the crew, the mechanic had witness this pathetic human being hurt Sonia. He wasn't going to let that stand.

As the mercenary leader was about to pull out his second pistol to retaliate, Souda had already closed the gap between them. "You fucking scum!" Kazuichi shouted as he punched the leader in the face, making him drop his weapon. At that point, it became a fist brawl. Despite the mercenary leader being leagues more skill in combat, that didn't matter to Souda as he overwhelmed him with his overpowered strength and speed. Even when the leader got a good hit on the green stranger, it didn't slow Kazuichi down as he continued his onslaught on the man. Souda just kept on attacking the man to the point that he was positive that he broke a bone or two. At that point, the leader was already close to unconsciousness as he could barely stand properly let alone fight back. Despite this, Souda still wasn't satisfied as he wanted to make the man suffer as he was about to punch him again.

'Souda…'

Hearing that, Kazuichi stopped himself from punching the man as his fist was mere inches towards his face. He just stood there quietly as the mechanic was wondering what the voice was and why of all time he was remembering it. Until he recognized it. The voice belonged to her.

'There's nothing wrong with feeling anger and wanting revenge. But, you should never act on them. Because you're like that. You're a kind boy.'

The voice and words were enough to get Souda's head straight and finally stop as he let the mercenary leader collapse to the ground, unconscious. Now with the threat taken care of, Kazuichi paid his attention at Sonia, who was looking at him with a neutral, hard to read look.

"Hey, um...are you okay? Need any help?" he asked.

The response Souda got was her immediately running up to him and tightly hugging him. While caught off guard, he could hear Sonia begin to cry heavily on his chest. "Thank you...thank you…" she muttered with a voice filled with gratitude. Hearing that, Kazuichi had a warm smile on him as he hugged her back to comfort her.

"Your welcome."


After about a couple minutes of her crying, Sonia had finally stopped crying and calmed herself. With that, the disguised Souda and Sonia left the office, with the mechanic carrying the unconscious leader in a green restraint. They walked back to the boiler room to meet with the freed crewmen, who had just finished tying up the other mercenaries and keeping an eye on them.

"Hey guys, looks like things are taken care of here," Souda asked the crewmen.

"Yup, other than a few bruises, we're fine. We also called the others on the deck to let them know we're alright. They also told us that all the mercenaries are locked up so they won't be attacking us anytime soon," the boss of the crewmen explained to Souda, who sighed in relief.

"That's great to hear," Souda replied.

"Yeah, all we have to do is get this ship moving and get back to land. So the police can deal with them," the boss said happily.

"Uh boss, that might be a problem!" one of the crewmen shouted, getting the boss's attention. "It looks like the mercenaries mess up and destroyed some of the controls here! It wouldn't be safe for us to drive this ship back to shore if we don't have access to the engines here!"

"What?! Can't we fixed it?!" the boss yelled, displeased by this.

"We can but it'll take hours! And even then, we don't have the necessary parts to make a full repair! So at this point, our option is to call for someone to pick us up and wait!"

"God damn it," the boss grunted in frustration. "That'll take too long. And I really don't want to wait with these bastards here considering they could come up with something to take back control."

"So what do we do?" another crewman asked. At that point, they all began to think of what to do next.

"Wait!" Sonia spoke up loudly getting everyone's attention. "It's possible that our green savior has an idea that could help us here. Maybe even fix the controls!"

With that said, everyone turned their attention the Souda, the green savior, who looked a bit taken aback by this sudden change. But, nevertheless, Kazuichi began to think of what to do. He could fix the controls with him being a mechanic and the ring would make this easier and faster to do. However, something else came in mind.

"Well, I'm pretty sure I can fix the controls," Souda said as he looked at his ring with a grin. "But, I think I have a better idea in mind.


Docks

Somewhere in the docks of Kanto, we see a small security post. Inside it is a security officer as he was currently reading a manga, Red Eyed Killer, out of boredom. "Hm, this has good ideas, but the execution of them and characters are terribly written," he said as he continued reading.

Just then, a tapping sound was made on the glass on his post, stopping the guard from reading. The security guard went outside to see who it was out there that was calling him. Stepping outside, he didn't see anyone out there, only boats and cargo as far as the eye could see.

"Excuse me, sir!"

The guard was taken aback by the sudden voice and turned to see where it was coming from. The man's eyes widen in shock by what he was seeing. He saw Souda floating in front of him and above him is the S.S. Novoselic as it was being carried by a bright green hand construct.

"Is there a free dock here where I can put this ship at?!" Souda asked loudly.

While the security guard was quiet by the utter ridiculousness of a ship in the air, he responded by shaky pointing to the left. Souda look to the left and saw a free spot to put the ship at. "Thank you!" Souda shouted with a smile as he and the ship floated to the open dock.

As the mechanic left, the security guard fell on his butt to the ground. Questioning what he saw was real or not. Though there was one thing he knew. He was not going to forget about this in a lifetime.


Back at the cruise ship, once it was placed in the docks, everyone was now sitting around as they waited for the police to come. The ship's crew, along with the awoken Peko, Nekomaru, and Akane, got all the mercenaries together as they tied them nice and tight. And Mikan was currently checking and nursing the injured. Souda flew back to the deck and was greeted by Sonia and Yukizome.

"Green savior, I can't thank you enough for coming to our rescue. I don't know what would've happened if you didn't come," the princess said, expressing her gratitude towards the hero.

"It's fine. All I did was do what anyone would do in a situation like that. I'm just glad I was able to stop them before they did anything worse," Kazuichi said casually.

"Maybe, but you really did do a lot of good here today. You are definitely what others would call a hero," Chisa commented, causing the masked hero to smile.

Just then, the rest of class 77B ran up and surrounded the green hero, acting like a bunch of fans meeting a famous celebrity.

"Oh my god! Never in Ibuki's life did she think she see an actual superhero!" Ibuki said cheerfully.

"That was incredible. It was like seeing a video game come to life," Chiaki commented.

"You are definitely hero material. Especially with that nice body of yours," Teruteru commented in his typical sexual tone.

"The costume, the mask, and the powers I saw. You've given me so much inspiration on what characters I can make for my anime," Ryota said.

"Oh yeah! You certainly showed your fighting spirit out there!" Nekomaru shouted with so much enthusiasm.

Hearing all these comments, Souda couldn't help but smile happily from this. After all, this was a really long time since he's ever been praised. Even more surprising that level of positivity from the comments was this high. The mechanic truly felt special because of this.

As this happened, Mikan came up to the class, nervous as usual as she had news for them. "G-good news everyone, it seems like no one was seriously injured so we should be good."

"That's great to hear Tsumiki," Yukizome said.

"Although, we lost people today. It's only ten people, but still, it's a tragedy," Mikan said in a sad tone.

The atmosphere became gloomy as they were reminded of the people that lost their lives tonight. Kazuichi was even looking at the rows of the deceased as they were laying the floor with white sheets over them. Specifically, he was looking at the crying woman as she was grieving over her child's deceased body. It was such a heartbreaking sight to see. It made him hate himself for not being able to prevent this.

"If only I'd gotten here sooner…" he uttered angrily, gritting his teeth and gripping his hand into a fist. He thought of the many ways he could have stopped this from happening. Calling himself pathetic for not taking that option in the first place.

Then suddenly, Souda felt someone held onto his wrist, snapping him out of his thoughts. He looked to see Mahiru, who was giving him her famous scolding glare that meant she was going to set him straight.

"I know what you're thinking about so you better stop now!" Koizumi scolded him as she continued. "Don't think for a second that you're responsible for that kid's death. You weren't the one that led to his death. He died because that mercenary bastard shot him. And he and his friends would have killed more of us if you didn't come in and take them out. So stop thinking you were responsible because you weren't!"

While Kazuichi was taken aback by her words, though he expected Mahiru to act like this from past experience, he was surprised to see her face changes into a saddened and understanding look. "You did what you could. Even if we lost people today, you saved us from an event that would have been the death of us all," she said with a sense of relief and gratitude.

Souda was generally surprised to hear Koizumi say something like that to him. But he was glad she did as the mechanic felt like he really needed it.

"She's right," Pekoyama spike out, getting the green savior's attention. "From experience, in these kinds of situations, it's expected that someone could die at any moment. That's the harsh truth. What matters is that you were able to save everyone on this cruise from the same fate."

"Exactly, it sucks that we lost people, but let's just be happy that every else made it out safe and alive," Fuyuhiko added in, smiling.

Kazuichi stood there quietly as he processed everything his classmates told him. Eventually, he was able to grin to himself. It's sad that people died today. But at least he saved everyone from sharing their fate as they can continue to live on with their lives. "Thank you guys. I really needed that," he said happily with the class smiling back.

"Anyway, have you called the police to come?" the mechanic asked the princess.

"Affirmative, the police along with the Special Assault Team will come in about a minute or two to apprehend the Black Hawks. We won't have to worry about them anymore," Sonia explained, happy about this.

"If that's the case, then my work here is done," Souda said as he began to walk towards the edge of the ship.

"You're not going to stay?" Imposter spoke out.

"Nah, not really a fan of being interrogated by the police. You know, superhero stuff. Secret identity and whatnot," Kazuichi explained as he began to float. Just as he was about to fly off, Mahiru grabbed onto his wrist, getting the green savior's attention.

"Wait, can you at least us who you are or a title of some kind?" the photographer asked him with many of his classmates waiting in anticipation.

Souda was silent as he was somewhat panicking in his head as he didn't have a name for himself. There's no way he was going to tell them his real identity. And he couldn't come up with a good hero name. The only hero name he got from was from Sonia, but that's it. But then, he remembered a title that the alien, Abin Sur, gave him. A title that he got when the ring chose him as it's next wielder. Remembering that, Souda looks back at his class with confidence in his eyes.

"For obvious reasons, I can't tell you my real name. But as for my title. Call me...Green Lantern."

With that, Green Lantern flew off the ship and into the night sky, leaving a bright green trail behind and making class 77B speechless in awe.

Souda flew through the skies as he was finally heading back to his dorm room. While it was such an amazing experience for him today from saving people, to being given a powerful ring, Kazuichi was relief that he could finally go home and get some sleep.

"Man, today was an experience. Never in my life would I imagine myself doing all that," he said to himself as he looked at the emerald ring. "While I still have questions about all this, I'll ask them tomorrow. Right now, I'm going to lie on my bed and sleep this off like it was a bad hangover."

While Kazuichi Souda didn't know what challenges or events that would happen to him now that he has this green ring, he would have to prepare himself for those to come. So, for now, Souda will have to wait until whoever will come to pick him up and start his journey as a Green Lantern.


Space, Unknown Planet

In deep space, we see a deserted planet that's near our solar system. This yellow planet was a completely rocky terrain with no signs of organic life. The planet was completely empty. It was until we see something lying on the ground. It was some man looking machine of red and blue. It was completely motionless as it didn't look like there wasn't any power in it. That is until

"...Reboot Sequence Complete"

Like that, the eyes of the android brighten up green and began to stand up. Picking up a mechanical staff, the android checked on its systems to see if everyone is functional. With everyone looking fine, the machine used some kind of tracking system and looked around the depths of space. It kept looking until the system picked up something. An energy source. Fueled by willpower.

"Will detected."

Uttering those two words, the android activated its rockets on its feet and began to fly through the black endless sea of stars and planets. To go to its main target. To kill the Green Lantern.


Aaaaaaaannnnnnnd that's a wrap. I hope you guys this one as I had fun doing this.

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