Chapter eighteen is here folks and last time we saw Donna Troy is alive. She has joined the heroes to fight against Superman. Will things go well for them? And what other surprises will I have our young team reveal?
Check out the chapter to find out and thanks to my friend for his help on the chapter. Also thanks to all of you guys for the support as well. I appreciate it so much and glad many are enjoying the series. If you all like the chapter then please leave some reviews.
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Chapter XVIII
Gotham (Unknown year)
Regime soldiers are seen marching down the street attacking the people and firing at the buildings. Doomsday is seen attacking a building as he head-butts onto the side of it. Causing the building to tip over into the others. All while Sinestro marches down with his soldiers to attack Luthor's men who turned against the Regime to fight against them.
However, the Regime soldiers are attacked by several green energy blasts. Saving Luthor's soldiers and destroying the tanks as well. Sinestro looks up and sees Kilowog with Arisia and Aya as they floated down in front of him.
"Well, I was wondering when you three would show up. I would have thought you went back to Oa to get reinforcement," said Sinestro mocking the three Lanterns. "Oh wait, there aren't anymore are there?"
"Funny guy," said Kilowog as his ring began to glow. "Wait till I smash my fist into your face and see how funny that is."
"You'll have to get through me to do that," said Hal as he appeared with Sinestro. "You should have stayed locked up Kilowog."
"And continue being your mind-controlled flunky? Not gonna happen, Jordan," said Kilowog not calling Hal by his first name.
"Mind-control?" Hal asked as he turns to Sinestro.
"Just a little project Superman asked me to try out before trying it on Doomsday," Sinestro explained seeing no harm now that Hal is going this far to help them.
"We'll need to have a talk about that later," said Hal as he turns to Kilowog. "We gave you a chance to join us, but now we will take you down."
"Back then I held back, but this time I will break you in half!" Kilowog charges at Hal, but Sinestro blasted at him sending him flying.
Sinestro flies off after Kilowog as Hal attacks Arisia. Aya blocks it with a green energy wall. She then creates a turret and opened fire at him. Hal begins dodging the attack, while Arisia flies up to him and punched him in the face.
She continued with the punches and blasted him in the face knocking him towards the ground. She goes to attack him, but Hal stops her attack creating a wall that has spikes. That moment of hesitation allowed him to blast her in the chest.
Aya catches her and sets her down on the ground. Hal opened fire at her, but Aya blocks the attack and begins flying away to try luring him away from Arisia. Hal follows her as he tries blasting her. Even trying to capture her, but Aya uses her speed to keep her distance.
Hal uses his ring to create a giant wall to block Aya and force her to fight him. "You aren't a Green Lantern and yet you have the same powers as them. How is that possible?"
"I am not sure, but it doesn't matter," said Aya as she kept her guard up, while forming a plan.
"No, but perhaps I'll keep you alive to find out more about you and the universe your team is from," said Hal as he fires an attack at her.
However, Aya flipped backwards and fired two energy blasts hitting Hal in the chest. She pushes off the wall and charges at him. She tackles him towards several buildings and towards the ground. She gets off of Hal and sees he is unconscious.
She goes to grab the ring, but is blasted by Sinestro. She looks up and sees Sinestro with an unconscious Kilowog. He drops him to the ground and turns to Aya. "How strange. A machine that can use the Green Lantern power. Yet you don't have a ring. Interesting."
"Your friend said the same thing," said Aya as she got up on her feet. "And I will say the same thing to you that I told him. I don't know how I am able to do this, but it doesn't matter. I will use this power to fight against you and Hal Jordan. Free this world and my friends because I have hope."
Sinestro began to laugh at the idea of hope. "There is no such thing as hope. Hope is an illusion that fools like you cling to and believe that something good will happen if you believe enough. I am here to tell you that it is all a lie. Only through fear can one achieve power and defeat anyone who gets in your way."
"Says the one who betrayed his fellow Green Lanterns, murdered many of them, and became Superman's servant," said Aya arguing against Sinestro.
"I am slave to no one," said Sinestro as his eyes began to glow yellow. "I joined Superman to help suppress and spread fear to fools who try to overthrow him. Just like I'll do to you and your friends."
Sinestro opened fire at Aya who fired back with her energy blast as both yellow and green collided. Both attacks seem even as Aya struggles to push Sinestro back. However, Hal soon recovered and joined in the fight. Firing his own blast at Aya pushing her back.
The blasts pushed her attack more and more until she hit a wall. She fell on one knee as she tries to keep fighting. She didn't have enough energy to beat them both. And yet she is still trying.
"Give it up! You have lost!" Sinestro shouted as both men use more energy against her. "All hope is lost. You are finished!"
Despite how hopeless things look Aya refused to give up. She kept on fighting. Refusing to give up on hope and will not let this stop her. Not because she is a Green Lantern or any form of Lantern.
But because of her friends. Her friends who are right now fighting for the people of this world. Not giving up despite how the odds are against them. They will never give up hope and neither will she.
"I will not give up! I don't know what my creator created me for, but I know now what my purpose is!" said Aya as she began getting up as the blast was close to hitting her. "I believe! I will keep on fighting no matter what happens. I will fight on because I have hope! All will be well."
Suddenly Aya's eyes began to glow brightly as new memories began to flow through her. As if something she said or did triggered them as she soon remembered everything. She sees a light blue skin figure with green eyes, wearing a red outfit with a Green Lantern symbol, and floats towards her.
Aya appeared in some sort of room. It was a large room with monitors around her and she appeared to be floating off the ground.
"Quarry. Is anyone there?" she asked, but it was more of her past-self speaking.
"I'm here. Welcome to existence," said the small blue alien. "I am a Guardian. I created you."
"I was created?" Aya asked as if the word was new to her, which wouldn't be a surprise. "For what purpose? What was I created to do?"
"To help better understand and empathize with emotional beings. Beings even we the Guardians cannot understand," said the Guardian. "However, I have another reason for your creation. To help bring hope to the universe."
"Hope? What is hope?" Aya asked.
"Hope is a feeling that lifeforms have to protect the ones they care about. Hope is a feeling that lifeforms have to never give up because of what they believe in. Hope is a feeling that lifeforms have to fight on when the odds are stacked against them. Hope is a feeling that lifeforms have to believe that in the end good will be victorious over evil," the Guardian explained as he floats over to a nearby table and pulls something out.
"But I am only a machine. I am not a lifeform or a living being," said Aya who saw the flaw in this logic.
"You are wrong," the Guardian placed a blue colored canister inside a machine that begins mixing with the green colored energy that was already inside. "You are not a machine. You are alive. You are unique. You are both the living symbol of Will and Hope that will protect the universe and save it."
He presses a button that caused the two energy to fill Aya as she began to transform. All while he stood by watching and began to smile.
"You are destined for great things. I know it," he said as a bright light engulfed Aya.
Aya snapped out of her memories as her eyes continued to glow. She now remembers what she was created for and what she was made to be. She got up as her eyes glowed brightly before she began recalling the oath she was taught to use. The oath to help activate her secondary powers and use them.
"In fearful day in raging night. With strong hearts fall our souls ignite…" Aya's body began to glow brightly as Sinestro and Hal noticed this trying to stop her from whatever she is doing. "When all seems lost in the war of light look to the starts for hope burns bright!"
The bright light helped push back Sinestro and Hal's attacks as they dodged it from hitting them. They turn towards Aya and are shocked with what they see. Aya's skin is now blue with her armor turning green, the symbol on her chest is the same, but it is a mixed with the color of green and blue. This was nothing they have ever seen before and weren't sure what to make of it.
"I don't know what just happened, but it's time we end this," said Sinestro as he and Hal fired an attack at Aya.
She raised her hands up and took the attacks. But much to the surprise of Sinestro and Hal she is still standing. In fact she is unharmed. This surprised both Lanterns who couldn't believe they aren't hurting her.
However, when they try to stop blasting her they found something is wrong. "H-hey! I can't stop firing. I can't control my ring."
"Me neither," said Sinestro as he sees the energy from the rings are continuing firing at Aya. "What are you doing?!"
"I am draining the power from your rings. It seems the blue energy I am using is capable of doing this," said Aya as she continued absorbing the power of the rings as both Hal and Sinestro are unable to stop. "I have finally remembered my purpose. I was created to become the first ever Green and Blue Lantern. The embodiment of Will and Hope to fight against the forces of evil. That includes fear, like from the power of the Yellow Lanterns."
Sinestro and Hal soon lost their powers as their rings have become drained. Returning them both to their normal forms. Sinestro goes to grab a gun, Kilowog steps his foot on it. He greets Sinestro with a punch to the face and knocks him out.
Arisia soon joins him as she aims her ring at Hal who remains standing. Aya floats over to them as she turns to Hal Jordan.
"Here's your chance to do what's right. I would take it, Hal Jordan," said Aya giving Hal a chance to surrender.
Hal hesitates for a moment before he realized that he has lost. He took off the ring and threw it to the ground. Aya destroyed it and Sinestro's ring.
Kilowog grabs some cuffs from one of the unconscious Regime soldiers and placed it on Hal and Sinestro. Arisia walks over to Aya who continued to glow brightly.
"How did you do this?" she asked.
Before Aya can explain Doomsday can be heard roaring loudly as he charges at them. Aya using the energy she absorbed and her own power fires at Doomsday sending him flying into the sky and into orbit.
"It's a long story. For now though we must continue assisting in stopping the Regime," said Aya as she turns to the others.
"Not going to be easy after the beating we were given," said Kilowog before he and Arisia felt a sudden power boost as their bodies began to glow. "Whoa, what just happened? I feel stronger all of a sudden?"
"I believe it is the power of the Blue energy within me. I will explain more later, but for now let's go help save some lives," said Aya as she began flying into the sky to join the rest of the fighting.
Meanwhile (Uptown)
A loud explosion is heard as the Regime soldiers are seen retreating as the two Groots used their vines to push back the armed forces. Harleen and her Joker clan are also seen tossing some explosives to send them running as well. Some tanks tried to fire at them, but Flash placed some blockage to keep the tanks from firing. The blockage caused the tanks to get destroyed, but Megan grabs the soldiers getting them all out before they got killed.
Arthur stood on top of the building as he uses his binoculars to watch the fighting going on. Laura and Drax are seen attacking the soldiers who tried to stand their ground. However, he sees Regime members heading their way.
"Flash, I see the soldiers are getting backup. Get the others ready," Arthur ordered.
"Roger that," said Flash as he passes the information on and runs towards Killer Frost to take her out.
The two Groots charge at Bane and Solomon Grundy as they begin fighting using brute strength against one another. Rocket is seen onboard one of the M-ships and begins attacking Hawkgirl to lure her away. She flies off after him to attack him. Laura, Harleen, and Drax charge at the remaining Regime members Damian, Catwoman, and Cyborg.
"Seems like everyone is here except…" Arthur is blasted from behind and is send flying towards a nearby building. He began coughing loudly as he got up and sees who attacked him. "Just like a coward to attack someone from behind. Seems like that's the M.O. of you Regime guys huh?"
Black Adam floats down from the ground with his arms crossed. "Such disrespect from a disobedient child. Your parents must be disappointed."
Arthur began laughing softly as he pulls his sword out. "First of all my mother did more of the raising than my father who was never around. Secondly, I should learn how to respect someone from a guy who is nothing more than Superman's bitch?"
Adam fires another attack at Arthur who blocks it with his sword. He tries redirecting the attack back, but Adam was ready this time for it. He flies up to him and grabs him by the neck. He drives his knees into his gut and tosses him through the wall while dropping his sword.
Adam floats over towards him as Arthur throws a punch at him, but Adam fires an electric attack at him. It didn't do a lot of damage, but he used that moment to deliver more punches to the young man and kicks him towards a vehicle. Adam flies towards him, but Arthur tears up the door of the car and slams it into Adam's face. Adam bounced off the ground as Arthur tears up another door and jumps towards him.
Adam gets up and hits Adam in the face again. Hitting him more and more against with the doors leaving large dents at them. He then brings both doors together squishing Adam with them. Adam though began pushing them back with his arms and kicks Arthur in the chest sending him across the ground.
He picks up a fuel tank and tosses it at him. Megan got in the way and stops the attack using her telekinesis. She tosses it at him and used her powers to cause the tank to explode creating an explosion knocking him away. Megan checks on Arthur to find he is hurt, but he will be all right.
She flies over to Adam, who grabs a lamp post and swings it hitting Megan. She is knocked towards a nearby building. She got up slowly and sees Arthur's sword on the ground. Adam flies in and fires an electric attack at her, but she grabs the sword and blocks the attack.
This surprised Adam, but he continued to fire his attack. Arthur came in and crushed Adam with a military hummer.
"Megan, you ok…" Arthur stops when he sees Megan holding his sword like it was nothing.
"What?" Megan asked looking confused.
"Um h-how did you? When did this? What?" Arthur couldn't believe Megan is actually lifting the sword, which was supposed to only be used by those it considers worthy.
However, before he could get an answer Adam used his power to destroy the hummer and send both fighters out of the building. Adam flies up and brings his knees into Arthur's gut knocking the air out of him. Even causing him to scream loudly.
Adam grabs his neck and prepares to kill him, when Megan swings her sword. Adam catches the blade and blasts her in the chest with an electric attack. She is send flying with the sword before hitting the wall. She falls down and passes out.
Adam gets off the boy and placed a damaged vehicle over him to keep him from leaving. "I want you to watch as I kill your friend and then you."
Arthur struggled to push the vehicle off of him, but was too weakened to remove it. He watches as Adam approached Megan getting ready to kill her. Arthur continued trying his best to remove the vehicle, but it was no use. He tried to call out his sword, but Adam blasted it away before it can go to him. Arthurs's arm fell to the ground as he sees Adam now standing over Megan to finish her off.
Arthur began closing his eyes and do something he never thought he would do. "Father, if you can hear me…please help me. I know I've been a terrible son and I never showed much love for you, but only because I was afraid. Afraid if I did you would disappear again and I would never see you again."
Arthur looks up into the sky as a small tear falls down his eyes. "Father, I'm sorry. Please help me. Help give me the strength to fight, give me the strength to protect my friends, and please give me the strength to save the ones I love."
Suddenly a dark cloud began forming over the city as lightning and thunder began erupting. Adam noticed this and wonders what is going on. A large booming sound can be heard echoing across the clouds followed by a bright colorful light. Soon something is seen flying out of the clouds and lands in Arthur's hand causing the vehicle on top of him to be destroyed.
Adam turns around and a bright light and lightning engulfing the boy. He tries to attack him, until a hammer is seen thrown towards him hitting Adam as he goes through the wall.
Megan began waking up and sees Adam being attacked by what looked like a hammer. She looks over to see Arthur appeared from the bright light, but looked different. He has on what appeared to be a silver colored armor on his chest, arms, and legs. Along with a red cape that appeared on him as the hammer came rushing past her and is caught by Arthur's hand.
"Arthur?" Megan asked wondering if he is the same boy.
Arthur nods as Adam appeared in the sky and charges at him. Arthur flies up into the sky and begins twirling his hammer as he creates a cyclone made of wind. The strength of the air began lifting up some of the vehicles as they hit Adam who tries blasting them away. He then begins charging up his attack as Arthur moves his hammer up to absorb the electricity from the sky.
Adam fires an electric attack at him, but Arthur blocked the attack with ease and hits him right in the face with the hammer. Adam is send flying to the ground hard creating a crater and passes out.
Arthur lands on the ground and walks passed the rubble as he picks up his sword. He walks over and placed it on Adam's chest to keep him from escaping. He looks down at the hammer and smiled as he looks up at the sky. Just as the clouds begin to disappear.
"Thank you, father," he said before noticing Megan approaching him. "You all right?"
Megan slowly nods in response and was still in disbelief. "How did you do that?"
Arthur looks up at the sky again and then smiled at Megan. "I didn't. It's a long story, but I'll tell you about it later."
Meanwhile (Downtown)
The fighting continued with the Regime against Guardians. The older and younger Groot are seen wrapping their vines on Solomon Grundy to put him down. Bane was defeated after the older Groot ripped off his tubes causing his Venom serum to spill out. Once he was taken care of both Groots worked to take down the zombie Grundy.
Flash dodged Killer Frost's attacks as she tried to freeze him. She then spotted some civilians nearby and tried to freeze them. Tricking Flash to save them by taking the blast himself. It worked as Flash got frozen by Frost who planned to smash him into bits.
However, members of Luthor's group opened fire at her keeping Frost from killing Flash. This gave the speedy hero a chance to break free as he vibrated his body. Heating it up and melting the ice away as he knocked out Killer Frost before she could attack the soldiers. He restrained her thanks to the soldiers and went to help the Groots take out Grundy.
However, as soon as he got to them he sees the young Groot and the older Groot on opposite sites thrusts their hands forward. Firing large vines through Grundy's chest. The two begin slamming him back and forth against the walls of the building. Both screaming loudly as they continued to slam the monster against the buildings before they lifted him up high in the air and then dropped him into the ground hard.
Flash runs over to see Grundy unconscious before he sees both Groots smiling at him. "Glad to be on your side."
Rocket meanwhile used the ship he is on to fight against Hawkgirl who gave chase after him. He managed to dodge her shots as he opened fire at her using the ship's guns. However, Hawkgirl dodged the attacks and got close to the ship to smash against one of the engines. She then attacked the other engine causing the ship to crash.
However, Rocket fired a claw from the ship to grab on to Hawkgirl causing her to go down with the ship. Rocket managed to get out just as the ship crashed into a nearby building. Going up in flames as Hawkgirl got caught in the explosion. He got up and pulls out several small red devices before tossing them on the ground.
He turns around and gets blasted by Hawkgirl's mace. She walks out of the wreckage injured, but alive. She walks over to him wanting to crush his head with her mace. She lifts the mace up, but didn't realize she is standing over the red devices.
Rocket saw this and pressed the button on his wrist gauntlet causing the devices to send volts of electricity through her body. Rocket grabbed his weapon just as she used her wings to knock the devices away. Rocket fired at her and knocks her into the wreckage of the ship.
Dropping her mace Rocket grabs it and uses it to hit her across the face knocking her out. "Ain't so tough now without your toy huh?" he said before noticing Flash running towards him. "Took care of your mess?"
Flash nods as he points behind him to see both Groots carrying the unconscious Bane, Grundy, and Frost. "Think the others are almost done?"
Cyborg is seen being tossed into a nearby vehicle by Drax who charges at him. Cyborg fires his sonic blast at him, but Drax dodged it and tossed his knife into the weapon damaging it. He tossed the other into his shoulder as Cyborg tried punching him with the other. Drax blocked it and punched him into the car.
He punched him to the ground and then picked him up. Cyborg tried to punch him, but Drax blocks it and pushes it away. He drives his knee into the gut and knocked him into the car again. He then drives both his fingers into Cyborg's robotic head.
"Fingertip to the throat means death," said Drax before pulling his fingers put taking a piece of the robotic head as Cyborg fell to the ground twitching. "Metaphor."
"Um, I don't think that's what it means and didn't Batman say no killing?" Flash asked towards Rocket.
Rocket rushes over and checks on Cyborg. "He'll be fine. Once I get that um piece back in and make sure he doesn't go into shock."
"Um okay then. Well, let's get him some help and Drax?" Flash started as he got Drax's attention. "No more um fingertip to the throat please."
Flash picks up Rocket and Cyborg before taking off to get some medical help. Meanwhile, Harleen continued her fight with Catwoman while Laura fought with Damian. Harleen used her baseball bat against Catwoman trying to hit her, but Catwoman dodged the attacks and tried slashing at her. Harleen dodged the attacks and swings her bat at Catwoman's leg hurting her.
Catwoman kicks her in the gut with the good leg and runs up to wrap her legs around her head. She flips her over to the ground as Harleen dropped her bat. Catwoman grabs it and goes to use it, but Harleen pulls out a dog whistle and uses it. But nothing happened and Catwoman rolled her eyes.
"It seems you forgot your pets died a year ago thanks to Superman, Harleen," said Catwoman as she lifts her bat up, until two Hyenas appeared tackling her down. They bit into her armored legs and arms as she tried to get freed.
Harleen grabs her bat as she whistles for her babies to move out of the way before she hits Catwoman in the face with the bat knocking her out. "Guess I forgot to tell you my babies had babies together," she said before she pets her hyenas.
Laura meanwhile dodged Damian's sword. He decided to use his old weapon to finish off this girl who has become a thorn on his side. Both weapons colliding with one another. Laura's blades clashing with the metal sword, which was a lot stronger than she thought it was. Damian pushed Laura back and delivers a kick to the chest knocking her into a lamppost breaking it in half as it came down on her.
Laura rolled out of the way as Damian tossed some explosive projectiles at her. The explosions knocked her onto the hood of a car leaving her dazed. Damian jumps up and drives his sword down at her, but Laura recovered in time to block it with both blades. Damian got on top of her as he pushed his weapon down.
Laura couldn't stab him with her feet in the position she is in, but had an idea. It was a dumb one, but it would allow her to get him. She pulled her hands away allowing the sword to go through her stomach. This caused her to scream in pain as Damian pushed the sword down.
"It looks like you wanted to die after huh, freak," said Damian as he pulls the blade out.
Laura though quickly slams her blades into his ribs causing him to scream in pain. She knocked him off of her as she pulls the sword out of her. She got up and brings her sword down just as Damian grabs his staff. The sword cuts his right arm off causing him to scream in pain.
Laura then stabs him in the back, right in the spine causing his scream to stop. "Puedo ser un monstruo, but at least I'm not a bastard like you," she pulls her blade back as he falls to the ground breathing heavily.
Harleen approached her and sees what she did. "You all right?"
Laura nods in response. "Aya told me he was raised to be an assassin and yet his father tried to put him on a better path. Yet he chose Superman to kill people instead of being a better man like his father."
Despite not being a shrink anymore she could still analyze people and with this girl she could read her like a book. "I take it you were a lot like him?"
Laura nods as she looks back at Damian. "Don't be what they made you. He had a chance to be different, but instead he chose to be just another killer," she said before walking away.
Harleen continued staring at the girl before she turns to her Joker clan members who came to her aid. She motions to take Damian in to get checked while she turns to Laura.
"Hope you stick around kid. I have a few more questions for you."
Laura is no pushover, son. Also, let's be honest Damian had that coming in the Injustice series. I bet Logan is happy how she turned out. Oh now that would be interesting if he met Batman and the two talked.
Also, yeah Arthur has the hammer and Aya is a mixed of both Blue and Green Lantern powers. How did this happen? Will this be explained more? And also did anyone tell Drax the whole throat thing?
Oh well, check out the next chapter to find out and thanks to my friend for his help on the chapter. Also thanks to all of you guys for the support as well. I appreciate it so much and glad many are enjoying the series. If you all like the chapter then please leave some reviews.
If you didn't like this then don't leave a flame review please. I'll see you guys next time and take care.
Also about the Blue Lantern Ring: It can neutralize the corruptive effects of red power rings, block the energy-stealing properties of orange rings (as well as nullify its side effects on the bearer of it), and drain the power of yellow power rings