I am so so sorrry to all my readers! It's been like over a month since I last updated!! I've just been so busy lately I really hadn't anytime to come up with something and write it down, but here is the next part and I hope you like it. Oh and thank you to everyone who has reviewed especially ShayeraElektra for the tips and pointers, and I think your right about John's name. So to all my readers I am now changing JOHN STUART to JOHN STEWART. ok.

Shayera walked angrily towards the newly reconstructed Javelin on the opposite end of the hanger. She still held her wound as she walked but showed no signs of the pain that was really throbbing in her body. She was frustrated. No she was more than frustrated; she was mad, because John Stewart trailed close behind her. He and all the problems that she caused, that always came with him, were some of the very things she was trying to get away from.

"You're lucky I'm not in any shape to knock your head off right now." She called back to him with a bit of tension in her words as if she really meant it.

John kept back a small smirk from forming on his face. He knew he was the last person she would actually kill if it came to that.

Batman also came up behind them. Once the two had gotten to the Javelin's entrance, he let them step up halfway, but didn't follow.

"You're not coming with us?" Shayera asked, surprised that their intelligent friend didn't want to keep an eye on them.

"No. The League will need me here to help come up with a plan to hold them off until you come back and . . . A back-up plan as well." Batman stated and tried to keep his voice at it's regular uninteresting tone. He then handed them each an earpiece. "But I've come up with a completely knew communicator that will keep me connected to you at all times"

"You really don't think we're going to make it back, do you?" John asked, his expression now one of hardened determination as he took the earpiece. Batman looked them both in the eye.

"I'm not worried about either of you. In all these years you've both shown great potential, even if I didn't think you'd make a good teammate at first." He looked directly at Shayera for a moment and she smiled. She could still remember how closely he had kept an eye on her during their first year as teammates. He looked back at the both of them together as he said the next words. "And, I think, even through the quarrels, you two have shown me that you're the best partners in the entire League. You two work together better than anyone I know. So I think you'll do fine and be back as soon as you can." He gave a slight nod as a goodbye and John and Shayera returned it. Batman turned around and began to walk away, but after a couple steps he stopped. Then with a half turned head and a playful smirk said,

"Besides . . . I always have a back-up plan."

/JL\

"No, John we should take a left here. I know where I'm going!"

"But I thought you said you wanted to get past the Gordanians, not run head long into an entire legion of them!"

"We are not going to run into a bunch of Gordanians!"

"Yes, we are if we keep going this way!"

"No, we're not!"

"How do you know that?!"

"Because I KNOW WHAT I'M DOING! NOW CAN YOU PLEASE BE QUIET!" Shayera stopped the Javelin in mid-flight as she yelled at John. The room became quiet as the two glared at each other. It hadn't been more than ten minutes since they had pulled the Javelin out of the underground chambers and out flying over a deserted countryside, when they started arguing, again.

John sighed before speaking again. "Look Shayera, if we're ever going to finish this mission we need to get along. We've always argued, but this time, can we put it to an end?"

Shayera almost smiled at John's gesture of a truce, to her it almost felt like she had won the never ending arguments that spanned their lives. "I can't promise that." She said with a smirk. "But I'll try my best."

At that moment the Javelin jerked and rocked unexpectedly as something hit the side. Green Lantern could clearly see a horde of Gordanian scout ships just outside his right window. As Shayera turned quickly in the opposite direction away from the blasts, she sped up trying to reach the end of Earth's atmosphere as quick as possible.

"I told you we would run into Gordanians if we headed this way." Green Lantern mumbled as he began to illuminate with a glowing green.

Shayera, who was trying to concentrate on dodging the strong and well aimed hits from the Gordanians, clenched her teeth as she said, "John, if you were being serious about wanting to stop fighting . . . You're not helping!"

"Right, sorry." He shrugged. "How much farther till we escape the atmosphere?"

"Almost there."

Gordanian ships raced to pull up beside their Javelin just as it entered the vast never ending area of space.

"Oh great." Shayera stated and John gave a slow nod.

There in front of them was an entire army of Gordanian warships both large and small, each one with their missiles pointing at them.

"John, hold on." While his eyes went wide and he took a seat, she gripped the controls tightly within her fists.

She scanned the area around their ship with her thumb resting calmly on the boost button.

She knew exactly what she was looking for.

In front of her . . . 63 Full battle armored, Ex-zon18 Gordanian command ships.

Behind her . . . 36 Gordanian scout ships

To her right . . . 28 Ex-9v Gordanian warships

To her left . . . 28 Zexon2 Gordanian warships

All around her . . . 465 heated blasters ready to fire.

Just near her . . .

. . . One loop hole.

Shayera pressed her thumb down on the boost.

Their little Javelin shot forward in a blast of firepower. The League had done good work with these. It blasted through a small whole in the frontlines just near the top left corner. The speed and force of the vehicle caught the other drivers off guard, but not for long. Now that their enemy had passed their lines, the Gordanians were forced to change directions.

The only problem with large warships? Very, very slow movements.

The captains yelled and cursed all they wanted at their ships as they turned slowly around to face the small ship. Not to say that they didn't have a backup plan.

Though on the other side, Shayera continued to grip the controls tightly as she sped the Javelin farther and farther away from the enemy line. John could see the tenseness in her gestures and he wondered if he should be as well.

"Shayera, is there something wrong?" He asked from only a seat away.

"Maybe. I've learned not to underestimate them. You can always count on a Gordanian to play a trick at the last second . . . Besides we're not quite far enough from them yet." Shayera said as she continued to scan the area through the front window.

Green Lantern scowled. She wasn't the only one who had learned that lesson. He almost lost his life and the love of his life in one day because of it. He wasn't about to underestimate these freaks again.

---------------/JL\

Commander Roelc slammed his large fist on the table knocking over the dark glasses that sat on it.

"Captain!" He shouted angrily in his own language. A shorter, but just as thick, Gordanian came quickly and stepped to his side.

"Yes, sir." He replied, continuing the conversation in Gordanian.

"One of the League's ships have gotten through our front line, BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T DOUBLE CHECK FOR ANYWAY OUT!" Roelc got up and slapped the captain across the face all in one quick movement.

"Yes, sir." The captain took the blow but did not change his expression to reveal any sign of disgust towards his leader, but that certanly didn't mean he didn't have any.

"Now I want you to follow my commands. The only way we're going to stop them is with speed. . . . Tell 8 cloaked Dex-8ni Fighters to fly in a loop towards their ship and fire all shots at 65% power."

"Yes, sir."

--------------/JL\

There was silence once again. Until someone's voice rang in their ear.

"Shayera, Green Lantern -come in." Batman's monotonous voice came through on their new earpieces.

"Green Lantern here. We can hear you fine. What's wrong?"

"I've gotten some information from the device that Shayera placed on Roelc's commandship." John glanced at Shayera and she shrugged.

"Did you really think that freeing prisoners was going to be the only thing I would do on that ship?" She smiled and he replied with a playful smirk.

"Go on, Batman." Green Lantern responded.

"He's taking over the controls. You'll need to listen to me for all the next moves until you can get out of there."

"Ok."

"To start, there are 8 cloaked fighters beginning to circle you. They're heading to the left at a 50 degree angle."

"Got it. I can handle these,Shayera. With your wound you need to stay here." GL replied quickly as he headed toward the bottom hatch on the Javelin.

"Wait!" He stopped and turned around at Shayera's shout. "Batman, what kind of fighters are they?"

"Dex8-ni"

"Good then it shouldn't be too hard to destroy them but watch for the electrically charged protecting panels. They'll probably be near the engine and cockpit." She shouted back to John and he nodded while showing her his ring to indicate that he would only be using that. Only a moment later he had exited the Javelin.

"John, head to an exact 90 degree angle and sweep the energy from your ring through the ships going from right to left in a direct circle."

Green Lantern did exactly what was instructed of him and once high enough at the right angle began to shoot a direct powerful beam. He moved his arm in a forceful motion to make a perfect arch. Once he had done this he stopped and waited.

It was quiet, but only for a moment.

A barrage of fire power began to rock the Javelin coming from an invisible force. GL, a very quick thinker, created a quick bubble around the ship and a beam that began the same motion as before. It wasn't going to be that easy.

As Shayera and the Javelin slowly inched forward, so did Green Lantern and the invisible enemy line.

"John there are blasters just below you to the right." He shot below to the right, and an explosion soon followed.

------------------/JL\

"Move fighter 2 towards the front of the Green Lantern and fire at will." Roelc commanded.

-------------------/JL\

"In front of you now." John shot below to the front, and another explosion sounded.

--------------------/JL\

Roelc pounded his fist once again. "Move him to eye level to the left and fire, NOW!"

--------------------/JL\

"Left but not down." He shot left, this time there wasn't just an explosion. It seemed that the ships that he head been firing at happened to be one ship . . . Ship number 2 to be exact. The whole ship was now veiwable and smoke puffed from it's center.

"The faster you react to my commands the faster we get through this, now fire three consecutive shots at an angle moving from left to right."

Lantern shot and they hit their mark, but not quite getting rid of the two ships he had hit.

----------------/JL\

"Send number 8 and 5 to surround the Lantern, but keep the wounded 3 and 7 still firing at their ship"

-----------------/JL\

"Can you fire at three places at once?"

"I've got the Javelin in a bubble, I wouldn't bet on it."

"Fine. Fire to the left at the same time."

After the shots had been sounded, a loud sparking came from his right. He turned to see sparks that seemed to be in mid air.

"I've got clear sight on the one to my right."

"Don't forget the one to your left."

"I won't." GL said with a smirk as he created a second bubble around the fighter to his right.

He lifted the bubble and machine and with almost all his strength tossed it to his left where it collided with number 5 making a cloud of smoke.

-------------------/JL\

"That's it! Send numbers 1,3,4,6, and 7 to completely block off the Lantern and fire on target when I give the signal!" Roelc roared.

--------------------/JL\

"They're coming up all around you now."

"Which way should I fire?"

---------------------/JL\

"3 . . ." Roelc began the count down with a smirk on his face.

----------------------/JL\

"How much power can you use right now?"

"I'm running out of energy -I'm really not sure."

-----------------------/JL\

"2 . . ."

-----------------------/JL\

"We don't have time, just fire all around you he's about to attack!" Batman shouted.

Green Lantern, still holding the Javelin in a safety bubble, began to fire in all directions. He felt like a blind bat.

He managed to hit a couple before . . .

------------------------/JL\

"1 . . . FIRE!"

------------------------/JL\

The remaining fighters , since number 3 and number 7 had now been destroyed, put all their fire power on the Green Lantern. The smoke around them was lit with red light as the blasts rained down.

He was struck.

As the pain gripped him and he began to fade into unconsciousness once again . . . The bubble around the Javelin collapsed.

So there it is -Ch.14! I'll try my hardest to get the next chaptr done soon but I really don't knwo when that will be. Keep reviewing and we'll see!