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"Talking!"
'Thinking!'
"Demon!"
Bright Morning
"It's a new day. After all that's happened, some are calling it the brightest. I'm not so sure about that." Boston Brand said out loud.
A bright and sunny day. The birds are chirping happily. Up in a tree is a nest full of baby birds. One falls out of the nest, hits it head and dies. What the baby bird hit on and died was a grave. But not just any grave; Boston Brand's grave. Boston is standing in front of his very own grave with him being back alive for the first time in decades.
He remembers when he was an aerialist known for working without a net until he was shot during a high wire act that was his greatest stunt. The bullet shattered his sternum and tore through his back, but left him alive. It was the fall that did him in. he doesn't know why, but for some strange reason his spirit was stuck around, burdened with an eternity of helping others. Boston couldn't of been seen or heard. Not unless he possessed someone else's body and took it for a spin. While he was doing that he gained the name Deadman.
Boston takes hold of a sledge hammer, raise it up over his head, and slams it down onto his grave, destroying it. Dropping the sledge hammer to take out his mask. With Boston Brand being alive Deadman is now dead.
Now Boston has no home, no job, a hunger that he hasn't felt in decades, an old ache in his left knee. He has no place to go and no place to turn. It was kind of funny that it took death for Boston to learn how to be caring for during his first life he didn't care about anyone.
He kneels down to the dead baby bird, "Damn," he picks up the dead baby bird.
"Live!"
On Boston's finger is a White Lantern Ring with it shining brightly. When the light died down the baby bird is chirping and breathing. The White Ring brought the dead bird back to life. Boston put the baby bird back up in its nest. Then the White Ring shines so bright that it covers his body causing him pain.
"Help me!"
A white dome of energy comes out of Boston's body and teleports away.
-Amnesty Bay-
Mera opens her eyes with the sun shinning through the open window. She and Arthur spent the whole night having sex, destroying the room. The redhead can say that the ache between her legs is the good kind of ache. It's been two years since she slept with her husband. Mera can say that she's very happy that Arthur's back, it still saddens her that her son didn't come back.
Sitting up and doesn't even both to bring the sheet up to cover her, "Arthur?" Mera looks around and can't see her husband around anywhere. She wanted another go at it because she wants another child. Mera will always love her son, she wants another child to love and see grow old.
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Outside down at the dock Arthur is standing with him staring out at the ocean. The calming waves makes him feel joy for he hears the water crashing against the rocks.
"Arthur?" said Mera with her standing down the dock wearing a green robe, "What are you doing?"
"I didn't want to wake you," said Arthur with him still staring out at the ocean.
"I would've liked it if you had," Mera wants to spend as much time with her husband to make up for lost time.
"I was going to go for a swim. I haven't been in the water since I…" but he couldn't bring himself to finish the sentence because it reminds him when he was a Black Lantern.
"Came back from the dead?"
Arthur close his eyes, "It's hard to even say. As hard as it is to imagine. But why me, Mera? Why did I come back when so many others didn't" Garth? Tula?"
What Arthur said was true. When the White Light from the White Ring shined and brought everyone back to life, not everyone stayed alive. Garth who was killed during the Blackest Night didn't come back.
Walking to her husband's side to take his arm in hers, "At least Garth and Tula are together,"
"I suppose…"
"I don't have an answer as to why, Arthur. And I'm not sure anyone will. But you're here now. With me. And it's a beautiful,"
Turning to his beautiful wife, "It is beautiful,"
Stepping forward with her robe falling down showing that she isn't wearing anything underneath, "So let's not waste it," she dives into the water with her resurfing, "Are you coming?"
"I don't know," Arthur doesn't look took sure of himself for his reflection in the water is the vision of himself as a Black Lantern, "I have this bad feeling, Mera."
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Standing at the base of the lighthouse is Boston Brand looking around for he never been to this lighthouse before.
"What am I?" looking over to the dock were Arthur is standing watching Mera swim around, "Is that Aquaman? Why am I here? Aquaman!" Boston couldn't say anything else for he was teleported away.
-Coney Island-
Talia and Hinata arrived Harley's apartment with their children. They both were shocked to learn that Kushina came back to life and wanted to meet her grandchildren. When Kushina met Boruto she could see so much of Naruto in her only grandson though he doesn't act so innocent, she can understand why for who his mother is. Himawari is so cute and innocent Kushina could just die again.
"Oh, you look just like your father!" Kushina gushes over her grandson.
"Old hag! I look nothing like him!" Bolt shouted at his grandmother which he just learned it was a very back idea.
The redhead puts her only grandson in a headlock and rubs his head very hard, "What was that?" Kushina's hair moves around like tails with a red aura surrounding the Amazon, "Weren't you taught not to call woman old hags? Huh?!" while she was doing this Kushina turned to Talia with a creepy smile on her face, "I'm going to talk to you about how Bolt needs to learn to speak to his elders!"
Talia takes a step back out of fear. Talia is the Demon's Head of the League of Assassins; one of the most feared women in the underworld that people know not to cross unless they want to die in a violent and painful deaths. Years ago her father, Ra's told her when she meets her future husband she'll have her most difficult challenge yet to face; her future mother-in-law. Now that the Demon's Head is standing in front of her lover's mother; now she understands what her father said.
Hinata knows and understands that she too will be under fire. Hinata learned earlier on from her father that when she gets married her mother-in-law will be a pain if the mother thinks her son cold do better.
"Himawari," said girl looks to her grandmother, "I want you to take your brother while Grandma talks to your mommy and aunt to join your little sisters and watch them?"
"Hai!" Himawari grabs and drags Boruto out of the room to leave the mothers behind to get a chewing from Kushina.
Now that Himawari and Boruto is gone Kushina slowly turned to face the women that Naruto slept with.
"I want to know why I shouldn't kill all of you," Kushina nicely asks which didn't match her face.
"Well…" Harley started out to say, "I met Whiskers just two years ago. Plus we're married!"
"We all knew Naruto for sometime before having sex with him," Talia was the one that decided to take charge since she was the one who took Naruto's virginity, "Naruto met the League of Assassins several years ago to learn how to resist being tortured,"
"WHAT!?" shouted Kushina as her baby being tortured, "WHOSE THE FUCKER THAT TORTURED MY BABY!?" an aura of death surrounds the Amazon mother.
"He's dead," Talia said hoping that it would calm the Amazon down which it did, "Naruto killed David Cain, who was the one that tortured him. But back to what I was saying; after seeing how Naruto wouldn't break from being torture my father made himself known and to reward Naruto let him train with Lady Shiva,"
"Lady Shiva?"
"That was another Master I learned under," Naruto said with him wonder what Sandra is, "I wanted to have you meet her,"
"She's here with the children. Sandra always make sure that the Boruto is protected. And when Himawari comes and visits or when Boruto visits his sister she always make sure that they're both protected," Talia explained because Sandra wants to make sure that Naruto's children are always protected and safe.
"Oh, that's good. I want her to met Mom," Naruto said because while Kushina is his mother Naruto sees Sandra as another mother.
"It was a few years later when my father was killed with Batman not saving him. During this time Naruto there was for me and one thing lead to another with Boruto being born nine months later," the Demon's Head turned to Naruto, "Darling, where is Quiet? I'd figured she would be here,"
"Quiet is coming. There was a board meeting today that she needed to be there," Naruto said for Quiet kept Naruto in the loop about what's going on his company, "She'll be here later today,"
"Whose Quiet? That's a strange name," Kushina said for she has a feeling that this is another woman that her baby had sex with. Which if that is the case then there is going to be another dead body.
"Quiet is my best friend. She's been with me ever since I found her all those years ago," Naruto told his mother a little about Quiet.
"She's also the only woman that you've slept with that hasn't had a child of yours," Talia said by throwing Quiet under the bus. From what she has seen how Kushina gushes over her grandchildren, then she'll have Queit who is the only woman who haven't a child with Naruto.
"WHAT!?" yelled out Kushina, "Why haven't she had a baby with you?!" she grabs her son, "Does she have a problem? If so, then I'll head to Themyscira and steal one of the potions that make the Amazons have babies!"
"They make those?" Harley ask with wide eyes. Thoughts of raiding Themyscira to steal those potions for she wants more babies. A dark thought looms in the crazy blonde's head as she will be the one who will have the most babies from her hubby.
"Oh, course they do!" Kushina says with a little too much confidence in her voice, "That's how the Amazons raided the ships and make sure that the men would get them pregnant. Now, who was the next one that got pregnant by Naruto?"
"That would be me," Hinata said with her stepping forward, "I met Naruto because my family is part of the Yakuza, the same with Naruto's grandmother, Tsunada-sama being the former head of the Senju Clan. During the meeting my bodyguard was making a scene. That was when Naruto came to save me,"
"Ah! That is so sweet!" Harley clap her hands together, "I think I'm going to get diabetes from that,"
"It was a few years later during a funeral when there was an attack. Naruto thought I was the target because some of the people attacking the funeral attacked me. We went Okinawa where we stayed for days and just like Talia said, one thing lead to another and Himawari was born nine months later."
Kushina takes in what Talia and Hinata said. She can tell that they both have become powerful woman in their own right. Naruto told his mother that Talia al Ghul became the Demon's Head of the League of Assassins. An order that has been around for centuries lead by her father, Ra's al Ghul, who used the Lazarus Pits; pools that give immortally with fits of madness when someone is revived. Hinata Hyuga is the Clan Head of the Hyuga Clan that has been around in Japan for several centuries. She became the Clan Head when Himawari was born because the Elders of her Clan wanted to put the baby in the orphanage. Hinata somehow gotten a hold of one of Naruto's swords and killed them all.
The redhead nods for she can see how Naruto would help them. She turned to Harley and Ivy for these two have yet to tell her how they came to Naruto's bed.
"What about you two?" Kushina asked, "I want to her your stories,"
"Naruto came here to live which I always found strange because he could live anywhere else with the type of money he has. When Whiskers came here he was always helping me, and made me feel happy that I haven't felt in years,"
"And I've been Harley's friend for years," Pamela said, "When I came here to visit was when I learned that Harley was going out with Naruto here. I wanted to make sure that she wasn't being taken advantage of. You see, Harley here was in a bad relationship for years,"
"That's putting it lightly," Talia chimed in, "Being with the Joker and calling it a bad relationship makes it sound like Hell,"
"It was at times," Harley rubs her arm as it still being bad memories of where time when she was with the Joker.
Naruto went over to Harley to hug her. Calming her down. He knows how sometime Harley wakes up at night screaming, yelling, clawing at anything and everything. Even with the Joker dead his memory will probably haunt the crazy blonde for the rest of her days.
While this was going on Kushina watched as a smile makes way onto her face. Her son had chosen a perfect wife. Making sure that she is taken care of. It makes her wonder if things would have been different if the Amazons of Themyscira didn't let their fear rule them. How the Amazons could of learn to be better women with Naruto being there for them.
"I walked in on them having sex," Pamela said for she wasn't expecting to see her friend with the face of pleasure that Naruto was giving her, "I was fixing to leave when Harley said I should join in. Naruto wasn't so sure, but I wanted to keep an eye on your son. Harley is my best friend and I wanted to make sure that she was safe. It was after we had sex that we finally talked heart to heart. That was when I started to see that Naruto has only good intentions for Harley,"
"When did you get pregnant?" Kushina wants to know. A mother really shouldn't be asking this from a woman that carried her son's baby.
"I…" Ivy sighs at this because she really doesn't want to talk about this. It was embarrassing enough that Harley kept having threesomes which in the end caused them both to get pregnant, "Harley kept having threesomes. That is all that I'm saying. End of story!"
Before Kushina could say anything else Hypsiple walks through the door carrying a baby girl that looks around at everyone in the room. Harley was going to punch Hypsiple, but when she saw the baby the crazy blonde just couldn't bring herself to do it. The baby is so cute.
"I came as quickly as I could when I received your message, Naruto," Hypsiple said as she look at all the woman in the room, "What's this I heard about your mother coming back from the dead?"
"As you may know the dead were causing problems a few days ago, and at the end of it a few people that were dead came back to life. One of them is my Mom," Naruto explains this to the Queen of Bana-Mighdall as she knows what Naruto is talking about because the surrounding villages were attacked by the dead.
Kushina quickly appeared over to Hypsiple, staring at her, "Why do you look like an Amazon?" the redhead narrow her eyes.
"That's because I am an Amazon. I come from Bana-Mighdall. Because Naruto helped me out I became queen for my people,"
"Bana-Mighdall?" Kushina heard of those Amazons, "Are you related to Phthia by any chance?"
"She was my Mother, but madness took hold of her and I had to ask Naruto to help me kill her. Afterwards I needed an heir with me taking the throne… I think you know the rest,"
"Now!" Kushina starts to pop her knuckles, "It's time for Mama Bear to get her licks in for having your way with my baby boy!" Naruto face palms at this.
While Naruto is slightly embarrassed by how his mother doing things because she wanted to be there in his life; he wouldn't change it for the world. But all the while in the back of his mind; he can't help that something is a play here. It first started during the Blackest Night when he became the White Lantern. The memories didn't make much since at first, but after a few days the memories start to line up. The blonde doesn't know if its memories of a past life, or something else. But what the blonde does know that people from his old lifetime are in this lifetime. His mother and father are the same. Boruto and Himawari are still his children, though he isn't married to Hinata but still in a relationship with her.
But the one thing that is bothering Naruto was that naked bald blue man. He acted surprised that someone was able to see him. It was like he was someone who was watching a television show. He has to wonder who was that man, and why was he there in the first place. It was like he was planning something.
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Outside on top of a building next to Harley's apartment building appears Boston Brand. He looks around for he hasn't been to Coney Island for sometime. He looks through the window to see a redhaired woman have chains come out of her back for them to wrap around several women.
"I have no idea what I'm seeing," he has to wonder why the White Ring brought him here, but then he remembers the redhead being brought back to life at the end of the Blackest Night, "Who is she?" and just like before Boston didn't get a chance to do anything else for the White Ring teleports him away.
-Iron Heights Penitentiary-
Boston Brand teleports right in the middle of the hallway for Iron Heights. A place in Centeral City for the criminals there. He looks around to see that he's right in front of Eobard Thawne's cell, otherwise known as Professor Zoom, or a more fitting name the Reverse Flash.
"I know this guy," says Boston, "Bad news. Why would the Light pick a twenty fifth century psycho to life again?" speeding passed Boston was a crimson streak, "Whoa!"
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The Flash stops in front of Captain Boomerang's cell. A man that uses a wide array of deadly trick boomerangs with uncanny accuracy.
Flash knocks on the cell door, "G,day… or is it night, mate? I can never tell from down here," he walks over to the window for cell's door.
"Day, Boomerang. Eight o'clock," said the Flash for it is a bright and early morning.
"In the morning? What the hell do you want?"
"I'm sorry about your son,"
"Welcome to the family business, eh?" Digger's son became the second Captain Boomerang when he died only to be killed during the Blackest Night with him being tricked by his dead father.
"Out of all the people that were buried six feet under, you got a second chance, Digger. You get to life again," the Flash explain all this to one of his oldest foes, "And I wish I could say I think you'll turn over a new leaf, but I know you. I know what you're going to do so I came here to tell you not to bother,"
"Bother doin' what, mate?"
Flash vibrates through Digger's cell door, "Trying to escape. To pull more jobs. To hurt more people. To make me run after you,"
"There was this film some years back. Won all sorts of awards. It was about this bloke, this banker, who was convicted of killing his wife. Twist is, he was innocent, but they never let him out. Bloody good flick. You see it?" Boomerang sits on his bed.
"I've missed a few movies," Flash doesn't get why Boomerang is explaining all of this.
"'Course you have," not believing the Flash for a second.
"And if you're trying to plead innocent-"
"No. It's not about that. It's about how a man with nothing to lose has two choices. You either get busy livin'… or you get busy dyin'. Why me and not my son or Cold's sister or your ridiculous friend the Elongated Man? Hellfiknow. But I'm not going to sit in here lettin' that rot my brain,"
"Is that a threat?"
Digger turned, "Naw, mate. It's a flash fact." the Flash was already gone.
-St. Roch, Louisiana-
Shayera was called to the Stonechat Museum because Carter Hall found something that she might want to see.
"What is it that you found, Carter?" Shayera asked with her leaning against a nearby wall.
"As you know I've been doing research about aliens that came to Earth when humans were just barely walking,"
"Yes, J'onn said that Mars was watching Earth and waiting for them to evolve enough to forge a friendship between the two worlds,"
"Well, it wasn't just the Martians that visited Earth," Carter walks over to his notes to go over them to make sure he has everything right, "Two people from Thanagar came to Earth and landed in Egypt," Carter showed Shayera his notes, "Princess Chay-Ara and Prince Khufu. Do any of those names sound familiar?"
Shayera thinks long and hard. History wasn't her strongest strong suit, but she does remember those names, "I do. Those two are from the royal family that disappeared several millennia ago. They married and while they went on their honeymoon their ship went down. No one knows happened to them," Hawkwoman stopped what she was saying for Carter just said the two names that was from her planet's history, "Are you saying they crash landed on Earth?"
"Yes, they were thought to be gods that came down from the heavens. They used their knowledge to help the Egyptians to a golden age,"
"I'm hearing a but coming,"
"And you're right. You see they made a man named Hath-Set as their high priest. Hath-Set fell in love with Chay-Ara, but she wouldn't return his feeling. So he made a knife made from Nth Metal and cursed it. He killed Prince Khufu with Chay-Ara rushing him and in turned killed her as well. Hath-Set turned the blade to himself afterwards. The magic that was on the knife cursed all three of them to be reincarnated through the centuries," Carter explain all what he found and then some.
"You said that when we first met," Hawkwoman remembers this.
"I know I did. I know that you aren't the reincarnated Princess Chay-Ara, but I am the reincarnated Prince Khufu," Shayera looks at Carter for she doesn't believe him, "I know it sounds made up, but I've been having these strange dreams even since the Blackest Night ended. At first I thought it was because I was dead and my mind was trying to put it at ease, but then it started to make since,"
"How so?" if what Carter says is true, then there is a woman out there that is the reincarnated Princess Chay-Ara; a Thanagarian royal noble of all things, "How are we going to find her?"
"I've been looking around and doing some research to see if anyone has been showing signs like I've been showing,"
"And how are you doing this?" this doesn't sound very legal to Shayera, "I hope you aren't breaking the law by doing this, Carter,"
"I haven't," Carter knows what lines to cross and what lines not to cross, "Mostly my information has been coming from news papers and a few websites. There's a woman that contacted me saying that she's been having strange dreams that match up with mine. I even have a meeting set up to see if what she is saying is true, or if she is lying. I want you to come with me to see if she is lying,"
"So I'm there to make sure that this is the right woman?" Hawkwoman raised an eyebrow at this, "What if I can't get a good reading on her?"
"You were a cop back on Thanagar, weren't you?"
Sighing knowing that Carter was right about that. That is one thing that she hate that Carter knew so much about her. It just shows you how much a stalker can dig up if they look hard enough, and have a drive to find all that they want.
"Very well, I'll come with you to make sure that this is the right woman. Though I wouldn't mind meeting her if she does turn out to be Princess Chay-Ara." said Shayera.
What these two don't know is that Bostron Brand teleported right into the room with them. He looks around as just like the other places that he was been visiting; this is a first time for him being here.
"Where am I this time?" he asked out loud, "Is that Hawkman and Hawkwoman?"
-South America, Peruvian Andes Mountains-
A hook flies over the ledge soon after a man pulls himself up. Wearing clothing perfect for the cold weather up high on the mountain. Several other people join him. They scan the mountain as though they are looking for something.
One of the men start to dig through the snow, and it didn't take him long before finding something. Underneath the snow is two skeletons.
"Khufu," the skeleton to the left, "Chay-Ara," the skeleton to the right, "Inform the client that we've located the bones of Hawkman and Hawkgirl's first bodies. They belong to us now."
-New York City, Abandoned Justice League International Embassy-
Maxwell Lord broke into the abandon Justice League in New York City because no one would look for him there. When the Just ice League first made an embassy they built it in New York City, but after an alien attack they moved to Washington D.C. for it was easier to teleport from the Watch Tower; plus there were too many people in New York City as everything is cluster there, while everything is more spread out in Washington D.C.
Maxwell looks at the news to see what he missed in the last few years. While he made Woman Woman, that would be Diana, kill him and had Brother Eye broadcast the footage all over the world, which destroyed her reputation; it was nothing like what Deathstroke did and showed.
"I have to say, not even I would do something like that. And I killed Ted Kord point blank," Lord holds up a melting ice cube in his hands, "It's been easy," he sticks a needle in his arm, "Easy to get the plasma," he turns on a blood transfusion, "Easy to get the transfusion devices. All it cost me was a few nosebleeds to get ready for my biggest push yet," continuing to stares at the news feed, "As they say, this is for all the marbles. If this push isn't successful I see only two endings. I'll either be thrown into some dark hole forever and become a guinea pig for the military. Or executed for my alleged crimes against the world, a world I've always wanted to protect, not endanger," holding up two defibrillators in his hands, "I've taken all precautions to avert bleeding out. I've got to do this just right."
Lord activate the defibrillators causing him intense pain. Blood begins to run out of nose. A lot of blood runs out of his nose. Blood runs not just out of his nose, but his eyes, ears, and mouth. The pain was so much he couldn't keep standing and falls backwards into a pool of ice and water.
Boston Brand teleports into the room with him catching sight of Maxwell Lord falling into the pool of ice and water.
"I see his leg twitch, and the last thing he probably feels is a sharp chill up his back. Problem is, I'm feeling a chill right up my back too. This guy once controlled Superman's mind and was ready to have him tear through everyone and everything until Wonder Woman stepped in and snapped his neck. Rama help us all now that he's sucking air again. 'Cause if there's one thing Max Lord's always been known to have, it's a plan."
-Mars-
The next thing Boston Brand knows is him flying through space. He is heading towards the Red Planet, Mars. Deadman can say this is a first time for him being in space. Being a spirit bound him to Earth, so he couldn't leave the planet. There were times he heard how the other heroes and villains leaving the planet, and going to do something that no one would believe.
"Guess this White Ring's got a lot of surprises," getting closer to the Red Planet, "Like making sure I can breathe and exist without my Buzz Lightyear spacesuit on the cold surface of Mars," he lands on the surface, "The home of J'onn J'onzz. The last surviving Martian. And it looks like he's got visitors."
Boston can see a pyramid on in the distance. He doesn't know if that is an old pyramid, or that J'onn has been busy and building new buildings on the surface of the planet. While he was watching the pyramid two green lights fly towards the pyramid.
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Hal Jordan and Guy Gardner land in front of the pyramid with Guy holding a bag surrounded in a glowing green construct.
"J'onn, you around?" Hal called out.
"Hey, Green Jeans, where are ya!?" Guy yelled out to see if J'onn is even nearby.
"Hal, Guy. Greetins," J'onn made himself be known by walking out from a nearby room.
"Hope we didn't interrupt anything," said Hal
"Figured we'd drop in uninvited and bust your chops for leaving Earth so quick,"
J'onn walks over to the Green Lanterns and pats both of them on the shoulder, "It is a pleasure to see familiar faces,"
"Brought ya something," Guy swings the bag around.
"Always beware of Lanterns bearing gifts," joked the Last Martian
"Ta-da! It's snak time, Guy Style," revealing a large box full of cookies.
"Very thoughtful," J'onn put on his cape, "I hope you brought some cold milk to wash them down,"
The Green Lantern does hold up a jar of milk, "Damn straight I brought milk; Mam Gardner didn't raise no fool,"
"Thank you, Guy," J'onn said for the kind jester
Hal looks around the place with the countless books, the art, and how the Martian lived when they were still around, "Nice place you have here,"
"Let me show you the rest of it."
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J'onn leads the two Green Lanterns outside with them taking the skies. With them flying around seeing the Red Planet geysers of dirt and dust explode out of the ground.
"Years ago, when I walked these plains in desperation after my people were wiped away, these sand geysers' loud reminded me of my desolation; now they are music to my ears. It is like listening to my planet breathe again,"
"I don't want to be a killjoy here, J'onn, but how are you expecting to get Mars up and running again?" Guy asked since he knows what it takes to get a planet to have life on it once more. Sometimes the Green Lanterns Corps will try to bring a planet that was wrack by war to have life on it once more by using terraformers.
"With water," J'onn said it like it was a common thing in the whole universe.
"Ya got one problem, Buddy; there ain't any," Guy looks around for they may be water on the Red Planet, but not enough to bring life back to like it once was.
"I am happy to say for some reason there now is, Guy. Io have discovered a deep Martian Aquifer. And I will nurture it. Mars will live again just as it did when my ancestors walked beside river valleys and 13,000 foot waterfalls,"
"Got some grand vision there, J'onny Appleseed," Guy decides to fly on his back.
"Please don't take this the wrong way, J'onn, but I've never heard sure pure hope is your voice before. It always seemd tempered with a certain amount of…"
"Fatalism?"
"Yeah,"
The Martian Manhunter closed his eyes, "That fatalism is now forever in the past, Hal, but I do have to admit, I had bouts of intense anger; anger that my wife and daughter did not return in the White Light," he turned to face Guy, "But with profound meditation I've pushed away that destructive anger; especially knowing that souls like Barry's and Arthur's were the living on the…"
"Brightest Day,"
"Yes, Brightest Day seems an apt choice of words to describe it, Guy. Hearing Barry and Arthur's thoughts in the crowd filled me with an inner peace that I carried back here to Mars,"
"That new hunk of red rock on your chest mean something?" Guy flies over and taps the piece of rock that J'onn added to his clothing, "You planning on staying up here for good?"
"No, Guy, I am a son of two worlds; Mars and Earth. Both will forever be the objects of my supreme affection and dedication,"
"You left a big hole, J'onn, and we can't begin to tell you how happy we are that you're back to fill it," Hal said for what he said is true. When it became known that J'onn was alive once more people on the Watch Tower were overcome with joy. J'onn spent a large amount of him time up on the Watch Tower with him overlooking what everyone did.
"Ditto what he said, J'onny. We're damn glad to have our favorite Martian back,"
"I am your only Martian. For now."
-Oa-
"I want to stop!" Jade yelled out as she is surrounded by several green energy constructs.
Floating behind Jade is once again Boston Brand, "You don't get to see this kinda sunset growing up in Gotham," he looks over to see Jade continuing fighting off the green energy constructs, "If none of these GL's can see me, I guess the invisible man act's still in progress. And by the look on Jade's face, I'm sure she'd like to be invisible too,"
Blasting another green energy construct away, "I said I'd like to stop NOW!"
"It's important that we finish this battery of tests," said Soranik Natu, she is the daughter of Sinestro.
"Why?"
"Because,"
"Because why?"
"Because the strength level of your power also indicates how well your body is recuperating,"
Jade looks over to Soranik to blast another green energy construct that is near her, "We've been doing this for days, Natu; I'm sure you've got all the indications you need!"
"I'm the doctor, so don't presume to tell me what I need and don't,"
Jade flies around Natu with her hands on her waist, "Do you really think that making me jump through all these hoops is keeping me from spending time with Kyle?"
"That's not why I'm-"
"Come on, I've been at a hundred percent since the day that White Ring hit my hand and I crawled out from under Mogo's grass, haven't I?" Jade can see that Soranik has been trying to make her stay away from Kyle, but she doesn't know why.
Soranik sighs and rubs her forehead, "Yes. Yes, you have,"
"Look, if I wanted to be with Kyle, I would be with Kyle,"
Soranik sucks in her green construct, "What's stopping you?"
"His eyes," Jade cross her arms and looks away.
"What are you talking about?" that kinda doesn't make since to Soranik.
The way he looks at me… it's not the same anymore. But the way he looks at you; Kyle can be an open book when he lets his guard down. You both have something special, and I'm not getting in the way of that. Kyle and I had our time… Our chance… It just wasn't meant to be and that's okay but…" Jade fully turns around and spread her arms out, "I don't know how I'm going to fit into everyone's lives anymore; I've been gone too long,"
"No, you haven't, Jen," Kyle floats next to Jade and place a hand on her shoulder, "You've always been in our hearts, which means you never left. All you've got to do is open some doors, Jen, because behind them's a helluva lot of people who've let themselves back into your life again," Kyle shows an image of Alan Scott holding her body, "Especially your father. Alan's been grieving since the day he lost you in battle. No parent wants to outlive their child,"
"But why am I still alive, Kyle?" she turns around with her arms wrap around her body, "Why did the White Ring pick me; why am I so special? When I was a Black Lantern, I killed Green Lanterns; I murdered them, blasted them apart with that Black Ring," the bitterness of knowing that she killed those who served with her while she was in the Green Lantern Corps when she was alive doesn't sit well with her.
"You didn't murder anybody, Jen," Kyle tries to cheer up his ex because what he said is true. When someone was brought back by the Black Rings they didn't have any choice as they killed anyone that was alive.
"I tried to kill you, Kyle; I tried to kill Natu,"
Kyle takes Jade's hand into his, "Look, you need to get your head around this. You were used by Nekron like all the other poor souls. Not as a weapon or rage of fear, but as a weapon of love, Jen. Because of who you were and what you meant to people," he and Natu fky down to Oa, "Now you're back, and it's all about forgetting the past and embracing the present,"
Jade was following them, but then the symbol of the Black Lantern Corps appears in front of her. Jumping back in fear, "Wh- What was that?"
-New York City-
Jason sits on a couch as friends and family eat and talk. Early that day the funeral for Gehenna Hewitt took place. Jason just sits there for it took Gehenna's death to make him realize just how much he loved her.
"Where's Ronnie, Professor Stein?" Ray Palmer asked the Professor
"I left him another message on the way here, Ray," replied Professor Stein
"He missed the funeral,"
"I know he did,"
"Jason's a wreck,"
Fixing his glasses, "So is Ronnie. He's barely said a word to me. He doesn't remember anything between dying at the hands of the Shadow Thief and coming back in Coast City along with everyone else. He's adjusting to the fact that Jason has control over the Firstorm Matrix and, worse, that his body was used by one of those Black Rings to murder Jason's girlfriend," Stein explains all this to the Atom.
"He missed his appointment with the League yesterday to figure out his paperwork and get him officially back to the land of the living,"
"It's you, isn't it? Professor Palmer?" Ronnie came walking through the door with him wearing his university jersey.
"Ronnie? You made it," said Ray
"Yeah, I'm sorry I wasn't at the funeral but… late night. I was y'know, trying to… reconnect with friends and family," and by reconnecting with friends and family is party all night long with lots and lots of beer.
"Talk to Jason, Ronald," Professor Stein told the first half of Firestorm.
"I don't even know him, Professor. What am I supposed to say?" he really doesn't know Jason for he came in after dying.
"Whatever's on your mind,"
Walking over to the grieving Jason, "Uh… Jason?"
"What are you doing here?" the last person that Jason wanted to see was Ronnie.
"I thought I should… I guess… I don't know, man," Ronnie really doesn't know what to say, "I'm sorry she died,"
"You're sorry she died? My girlfriend didn't just die. She was tortured. And we did that together!" the image of Gehenna's death will forever be burned into Jason's memory, "You picked through my brain and we transmuted her into table salt from the outside in. You made me an accomplice in her murder!"
"Hey, I'm not the bad guy, Jace," Ronnie didn't like where this was heading to.
Jumping up with snarl, "Don't call me Jace! It's Jason!"
"That Black Lantern Firestorm was the thing that really killed your girl, Jason!"
"You don't even remember her name, do you?" Ronnie rubs the back of his neck, "Say it! Tell me her name!" Jason throws a punch with the Firestorm Matrix activating, "Tell me her name!"
In a flash Firestorm is standing there destroying the couch, coffee table, and any furniture, "What the hell did you do?" Jason yelled out in the mind of Firestorm.
"I didn't do anything!" shouted back Firestorm
"Ronnie? Jason?" Stein asks with them both turning in Firestorm as the Atom chanced into his custom and shrinking down.
Boston Brand teleports into the room to get to see Firestorm argue with himself. Boston will be honest and say that is one of the strangest things that he's seen the whole day.
"Hey, you hit me! No, I'm not trying to steal anything! You let go!" it was strange and confusing to only see one side of any argument.
"So this is Firestorm now? At least until they kill each other," said Boston for he didn't get to know the current Firestorm, "All of us that came back… Some are wrenches thrown into other people's lives," the White Ring acts up against, "Some are murders and thieves." he teleports away.
-Hahndaq-
Boston Brand teleports into the desert. Even when the Deadman was still a ghost he really didn't like the desert that much. There was so much sand and sun it was unreal. He doesn't know how people can live here and make a life.
"Some are men who were better off dead," Boston looks around for this time he is in a crowd surrounded by people cheering as Osiris walks into the city as the people know who he is, "I am no Lawrence of Arabia, I forgot how much I hate the damn heat,"
"I am home at last, my fellow countrymen," Osiris stated to his people. Knowing how the desert is he is wearing a black cloak to keep the sun and sand off his body, "By the grace of Ra I am somehow able to walk out of the darkness once again. Uncorrupted by the sinister Power Ring that recently took possession of my body and soul here in our beloved city," the crowd parts way for Osiris to continue walking, "I can smell our desert flowers in blood. I can here you prayers of joy. And most important, I can see that it's time to put away all my youthful fear and misgivings and revel in all these simple things I have taken for granted," he finally made it to the other side where two stone statues are standing there, "I am Amon Tomaz. And you, my faithful ones, have been waiting for my family to return."
Teth-Adam otherwise known as Black Adam and Arianna Tomaz also know as Isis was turned into stone by Shazam. Osiris wants to return them to normal, to have his country return to normal.
"Black Adam!" a bolt of lightning strikes Osiris to give him his costume. The bolt of lightning doesn't just give him a set of new clothes, but give him all of Black Adam's powers.
Osiris walks over to his stoned sister to gently rub her cheek, "MY dear sister, Isis and her husband, my mentor, Teth-Adam. His land was supposed to be a place of beauty. Of new beginnings. Of hope," Osiris takes to the skies with him looks to his city, "Instead it's still a wasteland of desolation and anguish. But not for long. My fellow citizens, you wait for me to save you; restore you," he takes both his sister and Teth-Adam, "And this I will do. With the help of my family buried beneath this cold stone. I will be back! And with me a golden age of prosperity and power!"
-Arlington, Virginia-
A dark cold night as a heavy storm is washing over the city. Through the heavy rain is Hawk. Tonight he is on the hunt. A hunt from crime and criminals.
"We were supposed to be on this operation together," said Dove over their radio, "Where are you, Hawk?"
Crouching down and hiding behind a statue in the cold rain, "Where I'm supposed tobe, Dove. On the front lines,"
"You can't just rush in and start attacking them without…"
Hawk cuts her off since this is how Hawk works, "They're arms dealers," he over look a van that comes to a stop, "Selling weapons to enemy combatants who are gonna use those weapons to either attack our country or our troops; which to me is one and the same."
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Dove is flying through the cold rain and trying to get to Hawk as quickly as she can, "There's a rule of law, Hank, that we have to abide by-"
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Not letting her finish Hawk leaps off the statue, "There's good and there's bad, Dawn, and we know it when we see it. We either let it fester or we address it,"
"And just how are you planning on addressing it Hawk?"
"Since you're not here to slap my knuckles, I was figuring something simple like this," Hawk comes crashing down onto the parked van, "Hello, bad guys!"
"The world's not your personal little battleground, Hawk!" shouted Dove
"Actually, that's exactly what the world is, Dove! We're all fighting little wars of our own; me, you, everybody. Some people let the enemy come to them. Always on defense," Hawk quickly grabbed one of the men to use him as a meat shield, "Others bring it to the enemy; heavy on offense is the way I like to play!"
The van tips over with one of the men being kicked out the back doors. Boston Brand teleports into the rain with him catching to tail end of this fight.
"Looks like I arrived just in time for the fireworks. Hank Hall's going medieval in there."
Hawk slams one of the men's face into the metal roof, and picks up a rifle with him firing it in another man's leg.
"You've been gone a long time, Hank. The world's gotten smaller since you died; there's a different approach to confronting-"
And just like before Hawk cuts off Dove, "Peace in our time, Dove? Some old politician dude said that before another great war one to end all great wars got going again," Hawk walked out of the van throwing all the arms dealers out before setting the van on fire, "There's only three rules you should follow when it comes to war. Go in hard, go in fast, and go in to win," he explains this to Dove for that ends the fighting all the quicker.
"I'm assuming that explosion I heard means you just accomplished all three?" Dove really didn't have to ask because she knows its over.
"Yep. We do have history finals tomorrow morning, no time to waste," walking over to kick one of the arms dealers in the face, "You bastards trafficking this stuff in the shadow of this memorial makes me sick. You're lucky I didn't let you asses burn in the van with the weapons,"
Dove lands behind Hawk and walks over to him, "We were granted our powers by a mysterious voice so we could fight together, Hawk. But this White Light I'm now connected to-"
"We're exact opposites, Dove. I don't see the damn point pulling in different directions in the middle of a fight. Might makes right is the only thing these evil bastards understand. Consider this the first of my preemptive strikes."
-Star City-
Boston Brand is teleported to the center of Star City with the damage caused by Prometheus. Prometheus planned to teleport Star City; which he has targeted solely because it is the home city of a member of the Justice League to an alternate universe. As the plan fails, Star City's outskirts were left mostly intact but there is a vast, star shaped ruin in the center of the city, and a death toll of ninety thousand people dying.
"Another magic leap. Where am I now?" Boston asked himself for he's been telporting all day long, or he thinks all day, "Looks like a bomb went off… because one did. I recognize the wreckage from the pictures on TV. Thousands of people died here when one of the Justice League's enemies detonated a bomb smack in the center of Green Arrow's home town. It incinerated over four square miles, leaving an empty courtyard of death surrounded by the most corrupt city in America. Death. It didn't really seem so bad when I was one of the dearly departed. But breathing in the air again, coughing on the decay atomized in it; even after all these weeks the smell is inescapable," Boston drops to his knees as the realization of being alive just dawned onto the former Deadman, "Ashes to ashes dust to dust,"
"Boston Brand of Earth!"
"Help me!"
"Help them!"
Images of the people that were brought back by the White Light flashed in Boston Brand's mind. An image of a creature covered in black devouring something green with a face on it. Deathstorm turning the Atom into table salt. Mera chained Arthur and leads him to his death. Hawk and Dove kissing. Jade blasted her Ring into her Lantern. Captain Boomerang on the ground with Captain Cold and Mirror Master holding him down with him covered in wounds. Hawkman and Hawkwoman fighting each other. Osiris kneels down with the broken statues of Arianna and Teth-Adam. The Reverse Flash racing through time trying to outrun something chancing him.
The pain was so much that Boston falls to his side, but just as quickly as the pain came it ended. With him slowly sitting up the White Light that is coming from out of his body surges through the ground. The White Light made trees grow out of the ground; giving life to the once dead area. Creating a living, lushful forest to replace this place of death.
Standing to his feet, "What the hell?" he looks at the White Ring on his hand, "What are you? Who's talking to me? What do you want? Why us?"
Boston ask this because thirteen people were brought back to life by the White Light. While going on this little trip Boston looked at which one that was brought back, and out of the thirteen chosen; he was the only one wearing a White Ring.
Growing tired of the White Ring tries to take it off, "You don't want to spill, fine! Get off of me!" more white energy comes out of his body with him trying to take the White Ring off.
"Boston Brand of Earth!"
"What?" hearing the voice once more, "What were we brought back to do!?" demands the former Deadman.
"Help me live!"
-Silver City, New Mexico-
The police taped the area off so that people don't go down into the hole that is right in the middle of the road. Though it doesn't stop from people arriving to see what came crashing down.
"Where'd it come from?" asked one of the officers
"Hell if I know, Russel," said another officer said with the two of them sliding down into the crater.
"It came down from the sky!" it looked like an angel. It had wings and a halo!" said a woman who seen the White Lantern fall from the sky.
"Blasphemy! That ain't no angel!" said a old woman
"Are angels real, Grandma?" asked her grandchild.
Down below the White Lantern surges with white energy causing the two police officers to step back.
"What the heck!?"
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"Ah, there you are," said Sinestro as he is floating in the sky above them.
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Everyone doesn't notice Sinestro who is floating above them for they're all staring at the White Lantern.
"It's hot out here. It's the sun of this glowin' doohickey?" asked one of the police officer
"Hell if I know, Russell. Maybe both," said the second police officer. They both kneel down and place their hands on the White Lantern, "Now buck up, son, and let's try this again,"
"Hope I don't pull my back out,"
"One… Two… Three!"
Both of the police officers pull with all their might, but the White Lantern doesn't even move an inch.
"Darn thing won't budge, Jerry,"
"Little help, guys!" called out the police officer
"Think yer about to get it, Sheriff," said one of the people looking down the crater.
Hal Jordon, Star Sapphire, and Sinestro float down into the crater. The sheriff takes out his gun and aims it at Sinestro.
"Sinestro's back! Don't move!"
Sinestro makes a yellow energy construct of a police car and holds it over the two police officer's heads, "Your law officers continue to amuse me,"
Two green energy construct power pressure crushes the yellow energy construct.
"Sinestro stop it!" yelled out Hal
The Lanterns land in front of the White Lantern.
"I'm simply defending myself from your local police force, Green Lantern. As unthreatening as they are. If they paid attention, they would've noticed I helped save your world. Warts and all," Sinestro complains about how he was just defending himself.
"We may have called a temporary truce, but that doesn't mean you're welcome here, Sinestro," Star Sapphire said as what she said was true. While they are allowing the other Lantern Corps be on Earth for the time being, they still have to follow the laws of their planet.
"I would've left along with my Corps, Sapphire, but it's still on Earth,"
"What is that?" the only woman standing there asks.
"That is the Entity that was unearthed from the center of your world. The White Light that sparked the very creation of life throughout the universe," Sinestro explains this because he tried to become the first ever White Lantern, till he was beaten to the punch by Deathstroke.
"This is the White Light that resurrected Aquaman and the others?" Hal asked
"After it brought them back, it dissipated into the sky, but it coalesced back together,"
"And transformed into a Power Battery?" Star Sapphire raised an eyebrow to this.
"It's evolved into a White Lantern. It fell back to Earth," he can see the power pulsing from the Power Battery.
"You didn't bring me here because you wanted to, Sinestro. You couldn't lift the White Lantern," the Yellow Lantern's silence says it all.
"Can you?" asked Sinestro with him crossing his arms.
Hal kneels down and takes hold of the White Lantern. Pulls the White Lantern will all his might, but it doesn't move an inch. Hal releases a large amount of power from his Power Ring, but that doesn't work as well.
"No," said Hal for no matter what he did it didn't work.
"So it's the Sword in the Stone?" Star Sapphire can see how this would work into the old tale.
"What in the Guardians' unspoken names is the Sword in the Stone?" the Yellow Lantern raised an eyebrow for this sounds really strange.
Hal makes a green energy construct showing a man pulling a sword out of a large stone, "A sword that could only be lifted by the true king of the land. So if this White Lantern is the sword; where's King Arthur?"
