Misfitverse: The Korvac Saga
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Chapter 18: Girls' Day Out, Part 2!
Rancor's Castle, Haven
"You take that back, you bloody pillock!" A white-haired man roared, his voice spiced by a British accent. His white hair was somewhat longish, and he was dressed in an orange-and-black costume with yellow bat-like underarm webbing that also extended to the sides of his legs. He was Andrew Rickman, but to the citizens of Haven, he was Batwing, one of the Royal Guard, the defenders of Haven. A mutant, he could fly and fire blasts of bioenergy. He also had the ability to manipulate sonics, mostly as a sonic scream and echolocation. His costume enhanced his flight powers.
"Why don't you make me, you arrogant slaphead?!" A brown-haired man roared back. He was dressed in a costume that was in two shades of green, with a blue cape, and a green visor. His voice had a slight South American lit to it. He was born Jack Mendez-Wilson, a half-Argentinian mutant. In the Royal Guard, he was codenamed Blaster. He had the powers of flight and the power to shoot force beams from his fists. He and Batwing didn't get along too well.
The two mutants were, as usual, in each other's faces about something.
"I got no problem causing you to lose a few of those teeth of yours!" Batwing snapped.
"What're you gonna do, scream 'em out?" Blaster mocked.
"I'm gonna PUNCH 'em out, you little-!" Batwing raised his fist and got ready to punch Blaster out.
"Knock it off! Come on!" A white-haired woman, dressed in a yellow-and-black costume, exclaimed as she tried to separate them. Born Alexandra Rickman, she was Batwing's twin sister. Her power to create teleportation portals allowed her to bring the Royal Guard anywhere they were needed. It earned her the codename Side-Step. She would often joke that her job in the Guard was to keep Batwing and Blaster from beating each other senseless. (1)
"Hey, it's Stepper to the rescue!" Blaster smirked. "Man, you are pathetic. You gotta hide behind your sister, man?"
"I don't need to hide behind my sister to beat your arse!" Batwing snapped.
"Oh, right." Blaster smirked. "You need your boyfriend to do it." Batwing lost it.
"Let me go, Alex!" Batwing demanded, struggling against his teleporting sister, who was trying to hold him back. "I don't need Rhodney to take this clown to the medilab!"
"Ahem." A feminine voice coughed. Batwing and Blaster immediately stopped fighting at the sound, and turned to the source. It was a figure shrouded by a dark brown cloak and hood.
"Hey, how'd you get in here?" Blaster blinked.
"I have my ways." The cloaked figure answered. "I've been around for a very long time."
"I...see..." Blaster blinked. "Do we know you?"
"You've heard of me." The figure responded.
"We have?" Side-Step blinked.
"She sounds familiar..." Batwing frowned. "But from where?"
"I wish to see Queen Rancor." The cloaked figure said. "I am an old friend of the family. I want to know why she didn't tell me."
"Tell you what?" Side-Step blinked. "Who are you?" The figure pulled back its hood, revealing itself to be a green-skinned dark-haired woman who looked somewhat zombie-like. The three Royal Guardsmen gasped.
"Ember McClain..." Blaster whispered. "The legend..."
"I want to know why Rancor didn't tell me the Lost Mutants returned." Ember McClain, once known as Dead Girl, demanded. "She knew I was there the day they died. I knew they would return one day. I want to know what the cosmic evil they are supposed to face is." (2)
The New York Mega Mall
"With blood and rage of crimson red, ripped from a corpse so freshly dead..." The Red Lantern snarled at the Gammazon and the female Lost Mutants. "Together with our hellish hate..." He pointed the red ring at them. "We'll burn you all, THAT IS YOUR FATE!" The Red Lantern roared as his ring fired a red beam of energy. The eruption of energy made a noise like a gunshot.
"Scatter!" Jhen screamed. She and the female Lost Mutants dodged the beam. It slammed into a kiosk, making it explode.
"Eep..." Jennifer whimpered as she caught sight of the small fire the kiosk left behind. Jennifer, don't freak out! Don't freak out, for the love of God...
"What the hell is a Red Lantern?!" Dani exclaimed.
"They're like Green Lanterns, only instead of willpower, they draw their power from anger and hatred." Jhen explained. "They are extremely dangerous."
"Listen to me..." The Red Lantern snarled. "None of you would listen to me! LISTEN TO ME!" He roared as he fired another red beam of energy at the heroines. However, they were saved by a barrier of green-colored energy.
"Green energy?" Marie blinked. "Green Lantern's still around?"
"Oh yeah." Jhen nodded. "They deal with these guys."
"Thank the spirits..." Dani sighed as she stared at the green barrier.
"Hold it right there, Argos!" A pair of voices snapped.
"Grrrrr..." The Red Lantern snarled as he turned around and saw two Green Lanterns. One was Rond Vidar in his mainly white GL uniform. The other was a young woman with short black hair, clad in the classic green-and-black GL uniform. Their shining rings were pointed at the furious Red Lantern. "Not again..." He snarled, red glowing foam dripping from his mouth. "Always more heroes to persecute me! YOU NEVER LISTEN TO ME! YOU NEVER HEAR ME OUT!" With a roar of rage, the Red Lantern, Argos, fired a red energy beam at the two Green Lanterns.
"Look out, Cary!" Rond commanded as he and the female GL dodged the beam.
"Incredible..." Amara gasped.
"I agree." Marie nodded.
"Don't worry about me, Rond." Cary Wren, the female GL, reassured with a smirk as she dodged the beam. "I got 'im."
"About time you two showed up!" Jhen snapped.
"Sorry, we got a big sector to patrol." Rond explained.
"We came as soon as we got the alert." Cary added.
"LISTEN TO ME! IT WASN'T MY FAULT!" Argos yelled as his ring formed a construct of red armor around his body. "YOU NEVER HEAR ME OUT!" His armored suit sprouted a pair of cannons. "RAHHHH!" He started firing energy beams from his cannons.
"Hang on, kids!" Rond covered the group of heroines with a green energy dome. "New bunch in town, huh?" Argos screamed and clutched his head.
"You could say that." Dani nodded. "Evidently, we're the object of some prophecy."
"If that's the case, then we'd better make sure you guys don't get nuked by this here Red Lantern, right Cary?" Rond chuckled. Cary sighed.
"Vidar, you really need to grow up." Cary sighed. She eyed Danielle. "Funny, she kinda reminds me of Dawnstar."
"Who are these people?" Dani blinked at Jhen. "And who is Dawnstar?"
"Yeah, Dani's been called that a few times here." Amara remembered.
"Dawnstar is a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes." Jhen explained. "A large group of young adventurers around your age." The She-Hulk clone pulled out a black device resembling a cell phone from her pocket. The Device showed a holographic image of a Native American girl, with beautiful white wings and dark hair. Around her head was a yellow headband with an ornament of a yellow eight-pointed star on the front of it. She was clad in a yellow long-sleeved leotard with patches of black on the sides and shoulders, long yellow fringe on the sleeves, and the v-neckline was cut low. Her costume was completed by yellow-and-black boots with yellow fringe "She's from Starhaven, a colony of ancient American Indians located near Venus." Dani blinked.
"My people..." She whispered. "They left Earth, too?" Jhen nodded.
"Wanted a place that wouldn't be taken from them."
"Perhaps that's why the mutants left Earth." Marie blinked. "So they'd have a place of their own."
"Hunnhhh..." Jennifer whimpered as she saw the flames of the burning kiosk. Marie noticed.
"Oh, dear..." The redheaded Frenchwoman sighed. "Could you please put out this fire? Jennifer is pyrophobic."
"Nuuuuhhhhhh..." Jennifer whimpered at the sight of the flames.
"It's alright, Roulette." Dani pulled the blonde close to her and covered her eyes. "One of those Lanterns will take care of it." Amara frowned.
"You've lost your mind, Danielle." The Nova Roman shook her head.
"Roulette's part of this prophecy too, Amara." The Cheyenne reminded sharply. She then whispered to her Roma Novan teammate, keeping the harsh tone. "I'm not comfortable working with the Hellions either, but if we gotta work with 'em to save the universe, then that's the way it is." Amara sighed.
"Uhm, excuse me..." Marie waved, calling a little louder. "The fire..."
"No problem, kids." Rond nodded. Using his ring, he conjured up a large green object that somehow reminded the female Lost Mutants of a fire extinguisher. The construct fired green foam at the fire, putting it out. "There we go."
"It's alright, Jennifer." Marie patted the blonde luck manipuator's shoulder. "The fire is gone now."
"Rond!" Cary warned. "The Red Lantern!"
"Yeah, I know." Rond nodded. He fired a green beam from his ring. The beam formed a sphere around Argos, holder of the Red Lantern Ring.
"RAHHHHHH!" Argos screamed, firing beams of red energy at the sphere. "AAAARRRRGH! KILL YOU!" Argos furiously pounded at the sphere's wall with red glowing gauntlet-covered fists. "KILL YOU! KILL YOU ALL! LEAVE ME ALONE!"
"Damn!" Rond cursed. "This guy puts up a fight."
"You're surprised?" Cary frowned. "Red Lanterns are driven by pure rage. Their rage causes their bodies to increase the production of adrenaline."
"You know, instead of lecturing me, you can gimme a hand here." Rond complained.
"Maybe we can help." Dani offered. "We got powers."
"Yes. Perhaps we may be able to help you capture this Red Lantern before he does any more damage." Marie agreed.
"Might as well." Jennifer shrugged.
"You actually want to help out?" Amara blinked.
"Hey, that prophecy thing says I'm supposed to be some kinda hero." Jennifer answered with a grin. "Maybe this is it."
"A raging lunatic with a red Green Lantern ring? I doubt it." Dani sighed.
"I don't know..." Cary frowned. "The only one of you I am familiar with is the Gammazon here."
"Hey, I need help here!" Rond snapped. "This psycho's giving my willpower a headache! Why couldn't we have encountered an Indigo? Those guys are always so pleasant..."
"Indigo?" The female Lost Mutants blinked.
"Ix-nay with the digo-inay, Vidar!" The Gammazon hissed.
"You ladies wanna help?! You got my vote!" Rond Vidar winced as Argos pounded on his construct. Cary Wren sighed.
"I wonder if my ancestor had to deal with this stuff in his GL days..." The dark-haired woman grunted to herself as she removed the protective dome. (3)
"What do you need us to do?" Jhen asked.
"Help us stop this crazy Lantern!" Rond yelled. "AGH!" Argos shattered the constuct.
"Grrrrrrr..."Argos snarled. "You all never give a DAMN what I have to say! You never listen to me! WELL, YOU'LL LISTEN NOW!" He fired more energy missiles.
"Look out!" Jhen exclaimed. The heroes ducked, dodged, and flew out of the way as the missiles hit the ground and various stores. Dani noticed a bow and several arrows landing near her, blown out of an exploding sports equipment store. The young Cheyenne grabbed the bow and nocked one of the arrows. She then aimed.
"Hey Argos!" She called out.
"Grr?" Argos turned towards Dani.
"Eat arrow, you GL ripoff!" She shot the arrow. The wooden pointed projectile raced through the air and it slammed into a shoulder pad of Argos's armor.
"Great idea, Moonstar." Jennifer rolled her eyes.
"Never got to use my archery skills much in the X-Men..." Dani smirked. (4)
"Just like the legendary Hawkeye." Jhen grinned.
"What was that for, anyway?" A confused Marie blinked.
"Just to attract his attention." Dani explained. "Let 'im now he's got a lot more to worry about than two Green Lanterns."
"You punks are like all the rest." Argos snarled, pulling the arrow out of his construct. "Never hear me out! Make your judgments! Never listen to me! You only made me madder, punks! And rage FEEDS the Red!" His eyes glowed a rage-filled crimson. "I'm gonna kill you and use your blood to paint the walls and your skins as tuxedos!"
Well, well, well! Looks like things have just kicked up a notch! What insanity will happen next? Will Batwing and Blaster ever get along? How did Dead Girl end up on Haven? Can our heroes defeat the Red Lantern? Find out in the next chapter! Suggestions needed badly!
(1) – In the original Guardians of the Galaxy comics, the Royal Guard were known as the Nine, a group of ruthless psychopathic mutants who ruled over Haven with an iron fist. The Nine got their name because they were the last nine mutants in existence. In this universe, the Royal Guard are not the last of the mutants, and they are MUCH more heroic in nature. I also made up and changed some stuff.
(2) – In NebulaBelt's Misfitverse, the Danny Phantom villain Ember McClain and the X-Man Dead Girl are one and the same. Dead Girl's the body and Ember is the spirit.
(3) – Cary Wren is the descendant of Kyle Rayner. Ringslinging is in her blood.
(4) – In the comics, Danielle Moonstar is a skilled archer.