Finally here's the next chapter! I think this one's a lot longer than the others and a lot better than the last one. Hope you enjoy.

Green Lantern hovered above Midway City looking out over the city. The tremors had gotten larger by the hour, the last one had caused some damage in the park and around it. The thing that was now bothering John, was that not a tremor had occurred in the past three hours. There should have been three already, and neither him nor Batman and the others couldn't figure it out. As he watched the other Leaguers that he was put in charge of for this particular assignment his mind drifted off. He was thinking about Shayera…again. Things had been so different between them since the Thanagarian invasion, and things were only getting worse since he told her about their son and that he was staying with Vixen. He sometimes even thought, he had made a mistake in staying with Mari. John sighed and looked toward the East where Shayera was checking out the other tremor sites. What she had said only three nights ago still rang in his head.

"Why do you want me safe John!? Because you love me or because you know that if you don't keep me safe you'll never see that son of yours!"
"John, you know, I really thought you still had feelings for me, but face it, if you did love me…we wouldn't be having this conversation, would we?"

Of course he loved her! Didn't he? These thoughts and similar ones ran through his head as he considered what she could have meant. So deep in his thoughts, he didn't even notice Batman trying to reach him. He quickly snapped out of his thoughts, but it was to late to hear the warning.

The dogs began to howl.

The ground rumbled pulling everyone to the floor. Citizens right and left fell to the ground both in fear and the fact that their whole world was shaking and crashing down. As the rode and concrete split, cars swerved crashing into each other. Buildings began to shake and tumble. A ripple of destruction spread out from the center of the Midway City Park. As the disaster of an unpredictable dangerous earthquake began the Justice League went into action. There was no time for John to worry of his relationships now, but one last thought crossed his mind. He hoped Shayera was safe.

/JL\
(30 min. earlier)

"What exactly am I doin' here again, Hawk-, Shayera?" Vigilante stood next to Shayera Hol near the middle of a crater in the Gobi Desert…holding a rope.

"I need your help. Your going to hold that rope which will be tied to my waist. Then I'm going to," She grunted as she pulled on a golden Nth metal boot that she had found in the tunnels of Egypt. "walk out onto the Glythophorbic-othem using these, to find the dirt pockets. If the acid-like dirt burns through the boot or anything other than the metal touches it, and it goes off in an explosion, I'll need you to pull me out before I get fried." He opened his mouth to ask something but she answered it before he could say anything. "And no I couldn't fly out, I wouldn't be fast enough." He crossed his arms.

"Then why me?" He asked skeptically with his eyes glaring at her for answers.

"Because anyone on the original team would say it was too dangerous, and you wouldn't care if I died, you wouldn't be blamed for it anyway. Now let's do this."

"Now hold on a minute." He lifted his hand to say stop and dropped the rope. "I ain't gonna let you, go on doin' some kind of suicide feat, either."

"Look, I need to do this to figure out what's under there." She lowered her voice. "Besides, my life isn't worth anything anymore anyway, what's to loose?"

"Didn't we go through this already back there on that moon! I Ain't gonna let you do it!"

"Vigilante this isn't about that!" She sighed. "I need to do this, I can't sit around and do nothing when the people who I hate the most are coming to attack! They've already taken Thangar, you know that, you were there when we heard it. I'm not going to let them take earth either. I've risked my life before…now I'm going to do it with or without your help." She lifted her armored foot over the circle, but before she was able to put her foot down, he interrupted.

"Now hold on…Fine, I'll do it, but even the slightest chance of it goin' off I'm pullin' ya' back." He picked up the rope holding it tightly, then quietly, mostly to himself he spoke again. "Dang it, that hard-headed hawk, this is crazier than chasin' a mad starvin' bull through a patch'a dynomite!" She smiled, he was a good guy.

"You ready?" She shouted to him.

"Yep, go on…let's get this thing a'goin'!" She nodded and put her foot down.

With the first step she felt heat immediately and she picked up her foot and moved it a couple more times till she found a safe spot. She did the same with the other and continued on, slowly and cautiously. She was inching her way to the middle of the large circle. After about 20 minutes, she had gotten quite far. Vigilante was still a little bit from the edge of the circle holding the rope tight in his hands ready to pull her back at any moment. Her boots were slowly deteriorating, from having been burned through by the Gordanian element. A few more minutes went by and she was almost to the middle, when things went horribly wrong.

"Shayera!" Batman's voice came through the comm. link in her ear, taking her by surprise, making her loose her balance and nearly fall of the small square of plain dirt she was standing on. Once she had composed herself she answered.

"What?!" She was a little frustrated with his interruption.

"You need to get out of there now!"

"What? Why-" She was caught off by a rumble, and her eyes went wide. "Vigilante!" She turned her head and yelled toward the hero.

Vigilante immediately, without the slightest hesitation, yanked the rope, pulling with all the strength he could muster to get her as close to his position as possible. Shayera was jerked to where he was standing, getting the wind knocked out of her. They both fell over as the rumbling got larger and the ground rippled with the power of an earthquake. She took in a deep breath and started to get up. The ground began to split causing the sides of the crater to move in an avalanche of sand, but this wasn't the only thing that the two noticed. Coming from the center of the death circle, a dark misty cloud flowed out of the sand.

The cloud was like the smoke of a fog machine, but much more black and thick, like a storm cloud on the ground. It rippled, with the rumbles of the earthquake, across the dirt towards them.

Shayera got up quickly and, while struggling to stay balanced, was able to grab Vigilante's shoulders as she took off with a great thrust of her wings. She looked straight up into what seemed like storm clouds forming and continued to pull herself farther and farther up. Finally she stopped and looked down. Just as she did she saw the crater come together in a clash of sand…and darkness. Dirt clouds scattered the sky as she flew her and Vigilante to the West farther from the disaster.

"Woo wee! That was a close one, weren't it!" She looked down to see Vigilante staring at the ground. She knew if she could see his face he'd have a big grin and wide eyes filled with excitement. She had needed some as well, but now things began to trouble her more.

"We should head back to the watchtower and see what's going on." He nodded in agreement and lifted his finger to his ear to operate his comm. link.

"J'onn, were gonna need a pick up."

/JL\

Shayera and Vigilante appeared on the watchtower transporter panel covered in dirt and sand. Green Lantern and Flash stood waiting for them off of the platform. They made eye contact and the two stepped down in their direction.

"What happened to you guys?" Flash asked as he looked at their dirty apparel.

"We had a little trouble in the dessert." Shayera replied looking at the dirt covering her body.

"Yea, I can see that!" Flash said in a matter-of-fact to tone.

"The earthquake?" John asked with an eyebrow raised in apprehension. Both of them nodded.

"Weren't you suppose to be in control of the Midway disasters?" She asked with concern. He nodded.

"Vixen's got it covered." Shayera nodded and turned to Flash for his answer for why he left his post in Egypt.

"Green Arrow's got my spot, we were needed up here for something, so me and John beamed up real quick. When you didn't show up John suggested we wait to see if you were okay," John gave him a sideways glare showing that Wally had again said to much. He swallowed. "BUT now you're here…So, I'm just gonna zoom up to the observatory deck now. See ya there!" He ran out of the room at super speed to get away from John and left the three standing there.

"You should go clean up Vigilante." He nodded and looked at his shirt.

"Yea, I am a mess aren't I! Ha! At least it ain't mud!" He looked up and turned around to walk towards his quarters.

"One more thing!" She shouted to him, he turned around. She smiled. "Nice tug with that rope." The corner of his bandana lifted to show that there was a smile hidden underneath.

"Thank you. You weren't so bad yourself with those boots…but I still prefer the leather ones."

"See ya." Shayera said and he dipped his hat towards her and left. She turned around to see John looking at her for some answers.

"Boots?" He looked down at her feet to see two golden Nth metal boots. He immediately snapped his head up and looked at her straight in the eyes. "You didn't try to find those dirt pockets, did you?" She was quiet. "Shayera!"

"Now's not the time, John. We need to get up to the observatory deck. I want to know what's going on." He inwardly sighed and nodded. They both flew upward toward the deck. While they were flying John spoke.

"Are you ok?" She turned to look at him. The look in his eyes told her that he was really worried. She gave him a reassuring smile.

"I'm fine John." She sighed. "Let's just get to the others." He nodded.

A couple minutes later they landed on the Observatory Deck. This deck was mainly used for the Leaguers to keep track of what was happening on earth. This was were they had their monitor duties, watching the earth's disasters. At the moment the room seemed empty, since most of the Leaguers were working on preparations. The only people in here at the moment were the Martian Manhunter, Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash, and now Green Lantern and Shayera. The six that had been up here were all staring at a large monitor showing a view of the earth, flat and as a sphere. The two that had just arrived join them, and what they saw made Shayera gasp.

The entire Earth was black. The clouds, if they were clouds, were so thick that the Earth was one giant black ball.

"It doesn't look this bad yet, but if Diana and I are right, in a couple hours this will be a reality. The center of the earthquakes are emitting clouds containing black particles of a goop-like substance. Once the clouds rise, they will burst to release this 'black rain' into the air." Batman said as they all stared at the screen.

"So, it's like the thing those spit people that attacked Mars tried to do to us before?" Flash said looking up from the screen to Batman, but J'onn answered for him.

"No. Unfortunately there is no way to get to the devices that are causing it much like we were able to do then." He said with a worried expression on his face. Wally's shoulders slumped and he turned back to the screen.

"It looks like a giant black marble…" He stated as he looked sadly at the screen.

"No." Shayera said and they all turned to see her saddened face. "It looks like Gordan."

"Then it's for sure the Gordanians?" Diana asked her.

"It has to be. Gordanians are reptilian creatures, and most of the time nocturnal. They like the darkness. The light won't hurt them, but they prefer the dark." She said sternly as she remembered the first time she saw their dark world from a distance.

"This means we can't prevent them from coming." Diana said a little despairingly.

"No, but we can be ready for them. They're going to wish they never crossed paths with us." Superman stood up straight as he spoke encouragement to the group.

"We can't let them take this planet." Shayera said with determination and the others stood straighter and nodded.

John looked around at the others and saw that the determination in their eyes matched his own. "Then let the invasion begin…"

I hope you liked it please peview and tell me how it went! I'm trying to write these chapters as fast as I can, so I hope it won't be to long before the next one, keep reading!