I do not own Kim Possible, or any other Disney or DC character. I'm just borrowing them for my own view of alternative tales.
KP: Green Lantern's Light
By LJ58
Part 5: Sinestro
"This is Korugar," she asked as they descended to the surface of a planet that was obviously very heavily populated, and covered with large, elegant cities of steel and glass that sprawled out so far that many connected one with another. "It's….beautiful," she said, staring as they landed in the heart of a massive, palatial construct with wide, sweeping courtyards.
And everywhere the Green Lantern flags flew like a warlord's banner.
"And you will find it orderly, and disciplined. Not like that world of savages you inhabit."
"We have our problems, but we make it all right," she sniffed, her chin rising slightly.
"Indeed."
"Besides, if you're doing such a great job, why does everyone look so…..scared," Kim frowned as she realized that everyone she spotted tended to duck out of sight, or cringe as if expecting a fist, rather than a smile.
"Fear has its uses, Human," Sinestro informed her as he eyed her thoughtfully. "Do you think these people would welcome someone that came to them with simply smiles and promises? They want…. They need a firm hand to guide them. And a firmer hand to keep them in line, and to enforce the reality of consequences if they defy that hand."
"That sounds a bit….tyrantish," she huffed.
The taller, crimson-hued Lantern merely sniffed. "Projecting your backworld idealism on the Universe already, young Lantern?"
"What? No. I'm just saying….."
"Listen, and listen carefully. The Lanterns are respected because they are feared. They are feared because malefactors know that we will find them. And we will punish them. You did an excellent job stopping Juggernaut and its followers. Your inexperience, however, let both the creature, and those parasites following it live. A wiser Lantern would have crushed that thing, and all its parasitic sychophants the moment it was in your fist."
"I guess that's where we differ," Kim told him. "Because I don't kill."
A single, thin brow rose. "Not even if someone came at you, intending to literally tear your head off."
"I've survived worse," she smiled back at him.
"Indeed," he growled as they kept walking the streets outside the huge palatial structure near where they landed. "Somehow, I doubt it."
"Look. I get that I don't know everything about the whole….universe deal out here. I get that you have a different way of doing things. But you don't know anything about me, either, and I can tell you….."
"You can tell me nothing. Just follow. Listen. And learn. Oh, and….don't talk. I rather doubt you've anything interesting to say anyway," the other Lantern drawled
Kim bit her lip. Literally. It was the only way to keep herself from blurting out just what he could do with that attitude. While she admitted she could be bossy at times, too, she had never treated Ron like this guy was treating her. Okay, not that badly. Still, even she was noticing that everyone around him seemed to shrink from them as they passed. She had been getting the idea that Green Lanterns were like…..galactic police. If so, they were police that no one wanted to see coming. Maybe keeping the ring was a bad idea if she had to follow this kind of example.
Then again, if this was what people thought a Green Lantern was all about, maybe she could show them another way. It was, after all, a large part of what she did back home. Even if it had not started that way, she had become an example for a lot of people, and she liked to think she made for a good role model these days.
First, she just had to get through the orientation and initiation with the Barkin of all Barkins. Or so he appeared in her mind just then.
"Okay, I'm listening," she told him, still following.
"And still talking," Sinestro grumbled with a sidelong glance aimed her way.
Kim bit her lip again.
***
"I'm telling you, Dr. D," Shego was saying as they fled the prison she had just broke him out of not long after Global Justice had put her into their latest inescapable cell. "That ring is like nothing you've ever seen. It can do anything!"
"So you've said," the blue-skinned scientist murmured. "It's a shame you couldn't have taken it from her before she could get away."
"Trust me, Drakken," Shego growled as the hovercraft flew rather unsteadily just then as their escape had been a narrow thing. "Princess took to that thing like a kid to ice cream. I don't think anyone is going to just pull it off her finger anytime soon."
Drew gave a thoughtful grimace as he considered that.
"Well, if we can't take it off her, we'll just have to make her give it to us."
"No. No mind control. It always backfires, and it always backfires in my face," Shego spat irritably. "Besides, she went back up into space. The real space. No one is going to be doing anything unless she comes back anytime soon."
Drakken murmured. "Then I shall just have to make my own ring!"
"Doy," she moaned, already seeing how this was going to go. And it wasn't good. Not at all. But then, it never was. "I don't suppose you would like to just lay low for a little while until….."
Cold blue eyes turned to stare at her as if she had just gone mad.
"No, of course not," she grumbled, and aimed the rough handling hovercraft damaged in their escape toward the nearest lair that she hoped was still secret. These days, it seemed everyone and their cousin knew their address.
At least Possible was out in space, though. That limited the likelihood she was going to come dropping in out of an air vent anytime soon. Which didn't actually bother her just then. She wasn't exactly sure she could have taken her with that space ring she was sporting now. Still, she wondered what were the odds against trying to get it off her if, or when she did show up again.
No, when. Definitely when. If she had learned anything over the years, it was never to count that annoyingly irritating redhead out. Even when you thought she was down for the count.
***
"Five years labor in the local mines," Sinestro barked as he judged the next case before him. "And you get two years for turning him in," he added as he looked over at the man that had turned in his neighbor.
"But…..!"
"Two wrongs do not make a right," Sinestro smiled coldly. "Take them both," he barked at the sentries that guarded the virtual palace that Sinestro called home.
No, it was a palace, Kim decided. Complete with a genuine throne. This guy was on an ego trip worse than any of Ron's when he…..flaked. Only unlike like BBFF and fiancé, this guy had the power and attitude to spare to back up his demands. Even Ron with his mystical monkey powers had never gotten this bad.
Not unless you counted the Naco thing while he was under the influence of that Attitudinator that one time.
Yet surely those Guardians didn't condone this kind of thing? She got the impression they were all about law and order. Not tyranny and dictators. So why hadn't they done something with this guy? Or were they just giving him enough rope here? If they were, when did they intend to jerk it up, because even she could see this was way past wrong.
Sick and wrong, Ron would say.
"Death," the red-hued Lantern growled, shocking her out of her thoughts as he looked down on a trembling man half his size who looked ready to literally die of fright anyway.
"What," she blurted out as she looked down at the pale, thin man that didn't look as if he were benefiting from the so-called Utopia around them just then. "You can't just kill him…..!"
"I believe I told you to be silent, and learn….."
"So far all I've learned is you're more of a cosmic bully than a force for justice," she shot back, moving from behind his throne to step between him and the frightened man.
"He broke the law."
"Seems to me everyone that walks in here is guilty before you even see them. What happened to law, and rights, and a proper defense?"
"Listen, primate," Sinestro growled as he rose from his throne. "I do not care how your backward species pamper your criminals, but on my planet, we do things my way. Now stand aside. Or better yet, you carry out the sentence."
Kim stared at him.
"Go ahead, Lantern," he jeered. "Show me your resolve. Execute this enemy of the peace."
She looked down at the pale, terrified man, and back at Sinestro. "No."
"You….refuse to obey me."
"Refuse? Absolutely. I thought I was here to be trained, but so far all you've done is stomp around like a schoolyard bully, and trample on people that couldn't hope to match your strength. Where I come from, that's not justice. That's just petty."
"Female," he growled. "You are dangerously close to crossing the line."
Kim's green eyes narrowed as she clenched her fists. "Consider it crossed."
Two full minutes later, she sat up, shaking herself off as she thanked God for the ring's autonomous defense mode as she eyed the rubble in the wake of her passage after that jerk sucker punched her with enough force to level half of Middleton.
"Going to play it that way, are you," she grumbled as she rose to her feet, rolling her shoulders as the Green Lantern flew after her, headed right for her even as she stood on the ground, and waited for him.
"You would have been wiser to flee," the bigger man smiled coldly as the people around them took one look at their sovereign, and fled.
"I've never been big on running away," she told him.
"Which proves how foolish you are," he sneered, and tried to land another sucker punch.
This time, she blocked it completely, somersaulted forward, and came up under him to smash a ring-assisted fist up under his jaw.
"Niiiiice," she smiled, flying after the man who went flying himself as he smashed into the side of a nearby building that already had a Kim-sized hole in the side where she had been flung through it.
"I don't suppose you want to talk about this like rational, intelligent people do," she asked as she slowed even as he rose back into the air faster than he had fallen, his dark eyes glittering with malice.
"Human, you are going to die," he growled. "The only question is how fast, and how painfully."
"Like I haven't heard that one before," she huffed, but barely ducked a barrage of green spears he aimed at her, followed by another sucker punch that he seemed to favor while she was pressed back on the defensive.
Even as she evaded his frontal attack, he slammed a hard, green fist into her from behind, and drove her to the ground.
"Still think you can best the greatest Lantern ever to wear the mantle," he crowed as she picked herself up again, conscious of the crater around her.
She wondered if this was how Ron felt when his monkey mojo kept him from getting smashed by more powerful foes.
"I'll let you know when he, or she shows up," she quipped as she stared up at him.
Almost predictably, the big tyrant swore, and launched another attack.
She blocked it with her own ring, and used one of his own tricks, a splinter attack from the flanks with two sizeable pieces of rubble she smashed into him like a vise.
Unfortunately, he saw it coming, and sent the chunks of debris flying back at her. She managed to block them, but then she realized something else.
"You don't care you're tearing up people's homes and businesses here?"
"They'll appreciate me all the more when I allow them to rebuild after I've crushed you," he derided.
"Wow, you're a real hearts and flowers kind of despot, aren't you."
"You have no idea what I am truly capable of, little primate," he mocked her.
"Back at you, loser," she drawled, and lowered her hand.
Sinestro's eyes rounded as he only then saw the shadow moving over him, and half a collapsed wall encased in a green glow slammed into him with enough force to shatter the seemingly solid material in rubble drove him to the ground.
"Ready to talk yet," Kim asked, staring down at him as he looked up from the mound of rubble he climbed out of a moment later.
"Actually, in a few more minutes, I'll be giving your very short epithet after I bury you," he declared imperiously as he lifted his right hand to eye a small device she had not noticed until then. A device that glowed more brightly as her ring flickered ominously.
"That's right, primate. In a very few moments, I will have drained the last of your ring's energy, and put an end to your nonsensical idealism."
"Why would you even have such a device," she asked as she dropped the last few feet to land on the ground before she ended up falling.
By then, her ring was barely a green shimmer on her hand while his strange bracelet was glowing a bright yellow.
He smirked as he finished dusting himself off.
"Isn't it obvious, human? To test the efficacy of my newest weapon I will use to render the Lanterns impotent before I remake them in my image."
"Yours?"
"Of course. The Guardians are fast becoming passé. Their antiquated notions are tiresome and impractical. A more daring and direct show of force is required if this cosmos is to be put into true order."
"Let me guess," she said, keeping him talking as she considered all her options. "You just happen to be the guy that can put on that show," she asked, knowing well enough how bad guys liked to rant, and this guy was fast proving himself to be one of the real baddies.
"Of course! I have played the toadying sycophant long enough to realize the Guardians' example will eventually lead us all into ruin. They are content to allow rampant individualism to sway the various sectors when a strong, central core of power and instruction should be exhibited and maintained. A unified, absolute rule that demands obedience and acquiesce."
"You know, you sound more like the guys I usually stop, than a real Green Lantern."
"Foolish female," he laughed as she lifted her left hand, studying a band just above her own gloved hand. "My device also keeps you from accessing your power battery. A very successful test that proves I will not only be able to defeat the most powerful and experienced Lantern. The Weaponers of Qward do make very fine technology. Not that you were any real threat," he laughed as his own ring flared even as a flash of silver flowed over her the very moment her Lantern uniform began to fade.
"You should be honored, woman," he sneered as he ignored the nannite-driven body armor forming around her. "You are the first Lantern to learn of my plans, and the first to feel my personal touch. But here ends your lessons," he smiled coldly as his ring began to glow ominously as he pointed it at her.
Even as he fired a point-blank burst of green energy, she was dodging him, not sure how her force field would stand up to a power ring just yet. Just to be safe, she jumped up and backwards, easily dodging the blast as gracefully as she ever evaded one of Shego's plasma balls.
"You're a bit slow for one of the best," Kim told her.
"Insolent primate," he hissed, and sent a hail of green spears at her obviously meant to seriously injure, or kill as she raised her force shield just in case as she ducked, tumbled, and rolled to avoid most of the emerald darts sent her way.
Only one got close, and it ricocheted off her force shield with a indigo spark as she cartwheeled away even as the energy burst exploded behind her. Then bounded forward in the same instant before her attacker could react, and in spite of his own force field she planted both feet in his chest, slamming him back into the ground for the third time, obviously damaging his ego more than his body the way he jumped up virtually shrieking at her.
"Blasted pest," the tall, lean Lantern howled as he picked himself off the ground. "Stay still!"
"Yeah, right. Because I'm going to just do what you say? Delusional much," she sniggered as she gave him a crooked smirk as she landed nearby in a cocky stance anyone at home would have recognized at once.
He fired his ring again, and this time she openly deflected his emerald lance with a glowing backhand.
"How? How can you have such power if your ring is expired?"
"If you had listened," she told him, tumbling forward, and smashing a hard right fist into his face to punctuate her statement. "And if you had bothered to be interested," she added with a hard kick to this knee and side in tandem before he could react. "You might have learned I had been doing this for years. And all without your precious ring," she told him, driving a combination punch to his jaw that sent him falling back dazed, and nearly unconscious in spite his protective force field.
"But, nooooooo. The backward female couldn't possibly be a threat to the big, bad, alien Green Lantern with his special toys," Kim huffed, and dropped a hard knee to his chest even as she snatched the device he had crowed was sucking up all her ring's power, and keeping her from accessing the power battery for more.
She didn't even bother fumbling with it, and chose to simply crush it in a gloved fist, then glanced at his own hand, and reached down and slid his ring off his gloved fist while he lay still dazed at her feet. His own uniform faded at once, leaving him in only a pair of thin, gray pants not unlike pajamas to her eyes. He stared up at her with a look akin to disbelief mingled with contempt even as the man gave a weak groan, and went completely limp.
"Thus ends the lesson," she growled, and conjured a very small, green cage after recharging her own ring, and palming his ring thoughtfully.
She reformed her own uniform even as a young woman dared step out of the shadows beyond one of the nearby buildings, having been watching her all along. "What will you do now, human," she asked her.
Kim smiled. "Don't worry. I'm not like him. I'll take him to the Guardians for judgment, but I'm sure they'll want someone better suited to take this….."
"No," the young woman hissed, eyeing the ring as if looking upon the source of all evil. "If you are earnest, take that devil, and his symbol away from our world. Too long has it held sway over our people. It is an evil sign, and not welcome here any longer."
"Listen……"
"I am Natu. Soranik Natu. You are not welcome here, Green Lantern."
"Not that I blame you, but it isn't the Lanterns, but a single bad man that is at fault here," she replied as she encased the green cage in a bubble and started to rise into the air. "But if you don't want it, I'll guess I'll leave it to the Guardians to find another bearer for this ring," she said, still holding Sinestro's ring.
"So long as they do not look to blight our world with their accursed power again," the magenta-hued woman said as Kim rose into the skies feeling less than appreciated just then as the people of Korugar watched her leaving not with smiles, but fearful scowls.
She glanced over at the unconscious man, and shook her head as she left the planet behind. "And Monique wondered why I never gave up when Drakken kept coming back. You're like a bad preview, mister," she told him, and aimed her ring for Oa as the big guy had shown her.
***
"Ready to pay up," Arisia grinned as Kim walked into the Guardians' hall literally dragging Sinestro behind her in glowing, green cuffs.
"Is that….?"
Tomar-Tu gaped as he followed after Arisia as a deeply scowling Kim dragged her prisoner to the great room where she had first met the Guardians.
"Hey, guys," she greeted them casually as she realized the Guardians already occupied the overhead gallery as if anticipating her. "We need to talk."
"Indeed, Green Lantern of Earth. We send you to train with our champion, and in less than two cycles you return with him stripped of his ring, and in chains. Perhaps you would explain yourself?"
"Oh, absolutely," Kim spat. "This….guy was using his power ring like a hammer to keep his own people under his boot, and let me tell you, he had plans for you, too," he said, and didn't even blink even though she was a little surprised when Sinestro's ring shot up out of her belt to hover before one of the Guardians who held out his hand to pluck it from the air.
"We shall assess this tale ourselves," the man told her blandly as he looked into the ring.
"Well, you might be interested in knowing he was getting ring-draining thingys from someone he called weaponers. From Qwarr, or something, I think he said."
"Qward," Arisia hissed from behind her, her expression bleak. "If he is trafficking with those monsters…..!"
"Enough," the Guardian staring into the ring snapped, and then looked into a green haze encircling the ring he held. "The ring itself shall bear witness to what has transpired. We shall see….."
"This," another Guardian murmured somberly. "Is troubling."
"Sinestro," another Guardian looked down at the man only then regaining consciousness to stare around him not in surprise, but scorn. "Green Lantern of Sector 1417, you are hereby stripped of your office, and your ring. You have gravely disappointed us," he went on.
"You cannot know how that doesn't distress me," Sinestro spat, pushing to his feet as he eyed the green chains binding him as he glared over at Kim. "But just because this…..female has temporarily interfered does not mean my plans are…."
"Enough. You are sentenced to the galactic prison for no less than fifty years," one of the older Guardian declared.
Sinestro continued to sneer as he turned his back on the Guardians and looked down at Kim who stood just beside him. "You think you've won? I've only just begun," he spat at her. "And you will rue the day you dared to….."
He glared as his voice was muffled behind a green gag that suddenly materialized over his lower jaw. "Sorry, but I've got some experience with these guys. You let them get wound up, and they prove really long-winded," Kimberly smiled wanly as the Guardians simply stared at her.
One of the Guardians stepped forward, and looked down at her. "Tell me, Miss Possible," he addressed her by name, his voice sounding familiar enough that she knew of Sakar-Rui, the Guardian that had first spoken to her on Earth. "While you seem justified in removing Sinestro from his office, and bringing him back to us for judgment, why did you not leave the ring behind to find a new bearer in the sector you left without a current Lantern?"
"Well, the locals aren't real enthralled with the Lanterns," she told him honestly, "And they pretty much told us to butt out. They'd prefer if we didn't come back. Not that I blame them much after seeing what this guy did to them in the name of the Green Lantern Corps."
"I see," the Guardian murmured. "Very well. You will await our final judgment, and dispensation regarding your own person, Miss Possible," he told her.
"So, I'm not getting another teacher? Does that mean I'm going to need a ride home?"
"That remains to be seen," he said as he turned away. "You may go."
"Trust me," Arisia grinned as she led her toward a lounge not far away from the main gathering hall. "You did well. Not many people could have faced Sinestro one-on-one. He's pretty much the toughest we have. Had."
"No big," she shrugged, leaving the man behind without a second thought. "I mean, compared to the Lordwardians, he was pretty much a marshmallow without his ring."
The Graxonite stared at her. "You have faced Lorwardians?"
"Twice. Got my butt kicked both times," she grinned, "But my friends helped out, and we got rid of them in the end."
"You are fortunate. Most worlds targeted by those green tyrants are usually razed, and plundered of every last resource before they depart."
"Hey, we may be the backward species compared to some of you guys," Kim said, "But we're still pretty tough."
"Apparently," the amber-toned woman nodded thoughtfully. "And Tomar thought you wouldn't last a week with Sinestro," she chuckled.
"Well, technically I didn't last two days. Uh, or whatever they call days on his planet."
The woman chuckled. "The point is, you did not let him drum you out of the Corps when everyone was betting you would be crawling home with your tail between your legs. So to speak," the woman added after a glance to check if she actually had such an appendage.
"O-kaaaaay. So, how long do these guys take to make decisions. Because I'm not really a sit around on my….hands kind of girl," she said.
Arisia smiled. "Perhaps you would like to practice with me," she smiled. "I am very curious to see how you defeated Sinestro with such apparent ease."
"Well, I wouldn't say ease. But he's not much of a fighter without his ring. Either that, or he just underestimated how tough Earth girls can be," she grinned.
Arisia laughed. "Most males always underestimate us, Kimberly Possible."
"Call me KP. Everyone does. So, you have a gym?"
"This way," the woman smiled.
***
"Frankly, my boy, while you are quite the formidable opponent," Senor Senior, Sr. complained as the authorities dragged him away. "I find I quite miss the repartee we enjoyed with your more diverting companion."
"So do I, Senior," Ron said as he watched the GJ agents stuff Junior into the same van before it drove away.
"Ronald," Dr. Director walked over to nod at him as her people went in to clean out the latest lair of the multi-billionaire who viewed crime as a retirement hobby. "Impressive as always these days."
"He didn't even have henchmen this time," Ron shrugged. "I think he was just wanting attention to prove he was still in the game. His plan was more whack than usual. Unless it was Junior's again. I mean, threatening to destroy to the world's coffee crop, and force us all back to drinking tea?"
Betty Director, who admittedly seemed to live on coffee, was just as grateful the pair didn't succeed.
"I'm sure there are millions of people everywhere that appreciate you stopped them all the same."
"I'll say," a familiar voice drawled as a slender figure slipped up behind Ron. "I haven't had a decent cup of coffee in weeks!"
"Kim," Ron shouted, and spun around to hug her, swinging her around as he did. "When did you get back? We haven't even heard a word about new aliens around, and you…..?"
"Whoa," she laughed, letting him swing her around, then hug her, and swing her again, noting she was back in her own clothes, and now wearing her Green Lantern uniform just then. "I just got back a few minutes ago. When I didn't find you at home, I just asked my ring to find my favorite monkey master, and I just dropped in in time to see you drop the Seniors. Looks like you've been doing pretty good without me, BF," she said as he set her down, eyeing her happily, and just grinned at her.
"Are you kidding? It's been dull. Dreary. And utterly not fun. Let me tell you, even Drakken is slipping. He tried to use some kind of weird laser ring on me, but all it did was shine rainbows around everything, and blind everyone who looked directly at it. Even Shego."
"That bad, huh?"
"Let's say he had more to worry about from Shego after that than Global Justice, or me," he snorted.
"I take it things went well on the…..Guardian front," Betty asked her, not looking quite so happy as Ron.
"Well, I'm now officially the Green Lantern for our sector of space," she nodded as she continued to hug Ron. "So I could get called out at any time for another mission. Or if they Guardians need me for….something."
"We're going to need to discuss that," the head of Global Justice told her. "For one, General Henry Paxton still wants your head."
"Or various other portions of your anatomy," Ron added sagely.
"Oh. Yeah. I almost forgot about him."
"He hasn't forgotten about you. And the U.N. Council is very curious about your new abilities. Not to mention the American government."
"Great. And I was hoping I could keep a low profile on the ring stuff."
"Too many people know about Juggernaut. Someone spotted your battle on the Hubble, and it ended up televised, and on the net."
"And Hego has a big mouth," Ron added.
"Oh. Forgot about him, too," Kim sighed. "Look, Dr. Director. The Lantern Corps? They're….galactic in scale. We're not supposed to actually get involved in planetary politics unless it's like a….genocidal thing. Trust me, I saw how bad things can go if you let someone call the shots with this thing," she said as she held up her ringed fist. "And I will not let that happen here."
"I believe you. There are, however, some who won't."
"General Paxton?"
"He's still upset you took off in the first functional alien spacecraft in our possession in known history. I assume you sent it…..back?"
"It's history," Kim stated blandly, knowing she didn't like too well, and the fact was, that alien ship was literally toast.
"It's probably for the best. But you've already been exposed to alien contact and culture three or four times now? A lot of people are going to want to talk to you."
"I'll bet," Kim sighed. "Just let me ask you one question, Dr. Director. Do you trust me?"
"I've always trusted you, Kimberly," the one-eyed woman told her with a nod as an agent came up behind them, eyeing Kim more than curiously as he tried to determine if she was really what he had been hearing. "That is why I've got you a standing appointment with a special advisor to the president," she said, holding out a card she produced.
"Colonel Ian Black, SAD?"
"Special Affairs Department," she told her. "By now, I'm betting he already knows you're on the planet, and is expecting your call. If not you in his office."
"I just got back," she exclaimed.
"Trust me. These guys know what the CIA and FBI haven't gotten around to admitting. And that is all I'm going to say," Betty told her as she turned to her agent. "Problem, Sanderson?"
"Ma'am," the young man nodded. "We just got word that Paxton is now demanding that Ron Stoppable be brought in for questioning regarding his role in the theft of unspecified government property. Commander Du thought you might want to know," he told Ron as he nodded at him.
Ron rolled his eyes. "Man, that old man is really getting pushy."
"Where is this Colonel Black," Kim asked with a sigh.
"Betty lifted her arm to glance at her watch. "Right about now? Sitting in his office at the address on the card I just gave you."
"Looks like our catching up is going to have to wait, Ron. I've got the feeling I might as well take care of then now before it gets out of hand. Want to tag along," she asked.
"Absolutely," the young man grinned, dusting off his black top he was wearing with his traditional mission 'cargos.'
"Say, where's Rufus," she asked as Betty waved them off, and turned for her own VTOL even as Kim lifted her right hand, and a green haze began to cover her.
"He's been slowing down, KP," he admitted. "I'll admit it's not the same without him, but I'd rather leave him with Hana than risk….."
"Say no more. I actually missed that little guy, too," she said as she stood before him in her Green Lantern uniform again. "Ready?"
"Always," he grinned as he reached out to take her hand.
And howled gleefully as she rose high into the air, soaring toward the nation's capital faster than even a GJ hover-jet could manage after she formed a bubble to help support him at her side.
"This is so badical," he exclaimed as he looked down as she grinned back at him. "Who needs a ride now? Boo-yaaaaahhhh!"
Kim couldn't help but smile.
To Be Continued…….