-1Hal reached into the lantern and took the ring out. It glowed bright green. Clark took a step back the ring looked a lot like Kryptonite. Chloe looked on intently; she wanted to know want the ring could do.
"I have put it on a couple of times, and it does some odd things but I've never tried to do anything else." Hal explained.
"Where did you say you got this?" Chloe asked.
"When I was on the test flight.. I saw something fly by me and crash. I didn't say anything to anyone when I got back. Later when I was by myself I drove out there and I found an alien spaceship." Hal said.
Chloe and Clark exchanged uneasy glances. Hal continued his story.
"When I got there I saw an alien get out of the ship he was wearing a black and green suit with a symbol on his chest that looked a lot like the lantern. The alien spoke to me. He was talking in his language, but what I heard was in English." Hal stated.
"What did he say?" Clark asked.
"He said the he was part a police force of the universe and he was dying because of our atmostshepe. He told me that the ring has chosen me to be his replacement." Hal said.
"Then what happened?" Chloe asked wanting to know the rest of the story.
"He died and I took the ring and the lantern and reported back to the General." Hal said.
"What happened when the Air Force went out there? Chloe asked.
"They found nothing." Hal said.
"But how?" Clark asked.
"I destroyed it." Hal said
"You used the ring." Chloe said.
"Yes. That's why I have to take this ring and lantern to Washington and tell them that this could be a trick by some aliens to invade us." Hal said.
"So you think that this could be the start of a alien invasion?" Chloe asked.
"Yes I do. So if I could get a ride I really need to get moving." Hal said.
"Sure." Clark said. Clark and Chloe turned and walked out of the barn.
"This is not good." Chloe said as they walked to the house.
"Yeah if Hal takes that lantern to the government and they start trying to experiment on it. It could lead to a lot of trouble."
"So what are you going to do?" Chloe asked.
"Some how I have to get that lantern away from him." Clark said.
"What are you going to do with it when you get it?" Chloe asked.
"Take it to the fortress." Clark said.
"That sounds like a plan." Chloe said.
Back in the barn Hal was looking out the window. He was worried, he felt that he made a mistake tell Clark and Chloe about the alien and the lantern. When the Pentagon asks him if he told anyone about the lantern he would tell them and that would lead them back to here.
"Why do you keep running from your new assignment?" a voice from behind him said.
Hal spun around to find a short blue skinned alien about two feet tall floating about a foot of the ground. The aliens head was large, it had whit hair and blue eyes. His face a that of grandfatherly elf.
"Who are you?" Hal asked.
"I'm a Guardian and I have come to give you the oath." the Alien said.
"What oath?" Hal asked
"The oath of the Green Lantern Corp." the alien said.
"Why me?" Hal asked.
"You were chosen by Abin Sur to take his place in sector 2814 because you are utterly honest and born with out fear." The alien said.
"I don't want to do this." Hal said.
"You no choice. The other Lantern here has turned his powers for good to evil and has vowed to destroy this planet. You are the only one who can stop him." the alien said. The alien looked around the room. "Not even your Kryptonian friend can stop him." he add.
"What is a Kryptonia.?" Hal asked.
"Your friend. I will leave you now. But I will tell you this when the time is right you will know what to do. The alien said and then disappeared just as Clark and Chloe came back in.
"Ready to go?" Chloe asked.
"Yea, let's go." Hal said.
He looked down over the town of Granville and wondered why the Corps chose to protect this ball of dirt and water. But all that didn't matter now. He had time to do what he wanted to do. It would take some time before the Green Lantern Corp could sent someone to replace him and Abin Sur and by the time that happened this planet would no longer exist. He flew down and landed on main street. He looked around and noticed the stares from the people.
"I'm Sinestro and I'm looking for the settlement of Smallville." Sinestro said.
It's about forty miles that away." said a young woman wear a green dress.
"Thank you now allow me to repay you." Sinestro said.
He then raised his hand. On his index finger was the ring of a Green Lantern. He aimed at a gas truck. The ring flashed bright lightly for a moment then a powerful blast of energy leap from it and hit the truck. The truck exploded on impact of the beam.
By the time the young women in the green dressed look up. Sinietro was gone.
Lionel Luthor was seated in the back of his helicopter going back to Metropolis. He had made a visit to his son. As always his son was trying to dispel any ideas that his next lover Lana Lang was with him until Lex's friend Clark Kent wanted Lang for himself. But that not the main reason had come to Smallville to see his son. No the reason was more noble it was a word that Lionel was not use to using but it was true.
Over the past two months Lionel had learned some things about his son's best friend. It had all started when his son was kidnapped with the Queen of Themyscria. Lionel learned some amazing things about Clark and the Queens daughter. Both of them had powers beyond those of motal men. They were able to rescue the Queen and Lex. It was later on that Lionel learned the truth about. Clark Kent, it happen when a young man named John Jones was taken by criminal who was trying to escape. Lionel discovered the Jones was in fact an alien and that his rescuer Clark Kent was also an alien. It just after that the visions had come.
It was a place Lionel had never seen before. It was a place somewhere in the north a large crystal like palace, very alien looking. It was all new to Lionel; at first he cast it aside from his recent stay in a mental hospital. But then one night his heard the name. Jor-el. It was one of the most regal sounding names that he had ever heard. It was then that he got the vision. It was one so horrible he wanted to tell someone but he couldn't after all he was Lionel Luthor. He needed to go back to Metropolis and think about was he was going to do. All he knew was that Clark Kent was the key.
Clark parked the truck in front of the hotel. Chloe, Hal and Clark all went in to Hal's room. It was decided in the truck that Hal would leave for Washington right away. Clark and Chloe would drive him to Metropolis where he cold catches a plane.
"Have seat I'll be out in a few minutes." Hal said as he grabbed his clothes to shower.
"Sure thing." Clark said. Hal disappeared into the bathroom and few moment later the water was on.
"How are you going to get that thing away from him?" Chloe asked.
"I'm going to go to Washington. Once we take Hal, I'll run to Washington and wait for him there when he gets to the Pentagon and grab it and be back here before supper." Clark said.
"Are you sure that plan is going to work?' Chloe asked.
"It better." Clark said.
"No one is going anywhere with me." Hal said as he came out of the bathroom. In his hand was a gun. "I don't want to do this but knew two gave me no choice." Hal said.
"Hal what are you doing?" Chloe asked.
"I'm taking Clark's truck and going to Washington. I don't know why you want his thing but you can't have it." Hal said.
"Hal there is no alien invasion coming." Chloe said.
"Sure thing that what I thought too." Hal said.
"She's right Hal, because if it did I would have started it." Clark said. Hal looked at he puzzled it was all Clark needed. He was by Hal's side in a flash and the gun was in his hand. Hal was stunned; he was even more stunned when Clark crushed the gun in his hand.
"What are you?' Hal asked. Hal never got his answer. A moment later a blast of green energy ripped through the room.
TBC………