Awakening of a New Hero

Calvin began his training, and his progress was outstanding to the team. He was able to learn and memorize every form of combat, from beginners to advanced level, on the on-board combat simulator at a surprisingly fast rate (Much to General Pepper's amazement). Despite his youthful stature (He's not short mind you), his body build and strength can lift up weights that were so difficult to work with, as they were little rocks. Calvin had to be practiced by his mentor Jim, in the ways of using a gun, despite Calvin's inner feeling of discomfort from ever using such a weapon, in time he grew up to deal with the pressure and quickly advanced his way to being so skilled with any firearm they have in possession, in fact, his accuracy was so precise, that every target they threw at him he could shoot a bullseye through them, not one time did he miss, (Falco became furious that such a human could be so talented). After Jim took a look at his test scores, he thought that this kid was becoming more than human while being impressed and shocked at the same time, seeing is how his scores were much bigger and rose faster than Fox's or Jim's combined.

Calvin's superhuman powers were a huge help when he got instructed in a simulator on how to control and drive a Landmaster, he observed the inside and outside of the tank and its weapons and technologic controls, he accumulated all of the general knowledge in his head and controlled the tank to such deadly effect, it was shown to his teammates that Calvin is a strategist and tends to think things out before attacking head-on, which Slippy thought was something to respect greatly. At first, Calvin thought the team were planning to test him on the flight simulator and see if he could fly an Arwing as good as he can drive a Landmaster, he then willingly accepted their generous offer and got it in that cockpit and before you know it, it was nothing but high speeds and beautiful blue sky in his field of vision. To him, it felt like flying in the sky made him feel like he could do so much more with his life. Fox reminisced on that sentence and responded to him that he too felt the same way when he rode on his Arwing the first time. Although Calvin demonstrated his outstanding feat of flying an Arwing so easily and so fast, his age requirements for being 18 years old or over in order to have a flight license beat him to it, until Calvin is 18, he will not be permitted to fly an Arwing during a mission or outside the field.

Of course, Calvin got assigned in the medical fields, he thought that this was an offer that he just can't afford to refuse. He used his intuitive mind and analytical thinking skills to create in his brain a well-versed library of everything he had to know about the anthropomorphic body, as well as the human body, its body parts, skeleton, illnesses, medicines, ways of healing their wounds, to everyone it felt like years before this was a walk in the park, but for Calvin, it was like a couple of hours.

In fact, one of the hot nurses in the clinic, a sandy colored feline, she was around Calvin's age and dressed in a nurse's outfit which showed a bit of cleavage and had brown hair, perked a seductive smile and suggested that if a mercenary life wasn't for him, he can always have a successful future as a doctor, and she can be the assistant. She gave him a kiss on the cheek as something to be noted, Calvin blushed at the offer but he remembered that there was a vixen who caught his eye so he would take his chances with her than this nurse, so he declined the cat's gift but thanked her for it. The cat graciously accepted his decision and gave him a note which she wrote in red ink that if there any wounds that need healing, then she can would be happy to offer him some "special treatment".

After 3 months of hardcore training, Calvin finally rose up in his ranks to the position of Lieutenant. Needless to say, it was pretty impressive how one human can learn so much and do it so fast, it was almost scary. After the afternoon celebration of his success, Calvin walked back to the steel door that blocked the way to his door. The door automatically slid to the right and he walked up to the bed and fell down with a soft landing.

Calvin looked out his window and observed the beautiful sight of the city of Corneria, its never-ending rows of bright lights and tall buildings sent him a reminder in his memories of what New York always looked like.

'And yet, I can't but feel something is missing in this picture.' Calvin thought to himself.

Calvin used his ring to construct two familiar faces that was on his mind at the moment. The blue energy shaped into a man and a woman who look very happy together. His mom and dad, whom Calvin loves very much.

'I...I wonder if they even know that I'm gone.' Calvin thought as he unwillingly makes a few tears in his eyes.

'Calvin...Are you crying? What's the matter?' Adara asked, with compassion in her voice.

"I...I miss my parents, Adara. I mean...how can I just leave them like that? How am I supposed to deal with this?"

'Ask yourself this question Calvin. If they knew about the problem your facing along with your Ultra friend, what would they want you to do?'

"They would want to me do what I think is right, and never give up...no matter what." Calvin answered, uneasily.

'Exactly, you must learn to be strong for your parents Calvin. I am sure they would be very proud of what you're doing.' Adara replied, reassuringly.

Calvin took comfort in Adara's words and began to relax after a couple of seconds. The energy construct of his parents dissipated into thin air, now that the thought of his parents began to descend from his thoughts.

Calvin lowered his eyes to his ring, he still couldn't believe that this whole thing was real. The Lantern Corps, the Multiverse, aliens, everything. He wondered how Hal Jordan managed to work out this kind of pressure every time he had to perform his duties of being a Green Lantern. Calvin can tell that sometimes the superheroes in the comics become victims in a situation when somethings tragic really happens such as the death of loved ones, homes, failure to save someone, etc. Will something like that ever happen to him?

Calvin shook his head in frustration and said "I really need to stop thinking things like that. I should be focused on the present. I mean, it's not like anything bad's going to happen right?"

For all intents and purposes, something bad IS happening right now. Calvin's ring began to glow a light in the middle of the symbol, he was puzzled at the ring's actions and didn't know what to think of it.

'Adara, what's the ring doing?' Calvin asked to his astral friend.

'Your ring glows like that whenever trouble is near by, and it seems like there's danger happening right now.'

" *Sigh* I just HAD to open my big dumb mouth." Calvin replied in frustration with his head down.

Suddenly a voice that sounded like an artificial intelligence said "Lantern Daring."

Calvin got shocked by the voice and it appeared to have come from the ring itself.

"Ring? Is there something you want to tell me?" Calvin asked.

"Affirmative. I detect multiple police radio messages within the vicinity. It is required that you use the ring to listen in on their conversation."

"Okay, eavesdropping sounds good."

The ring emits a few buzzing noises that sounds like a police radio and a voice that sounds like a man says "This is Officer Jones, I am witnessing a massive explosion that just occurred at the downtown plaza...whatever I saw in there, I don't think it's from our planet. I need back up! I repeat! I need back-AAAAHHH!"

Calvin took note of the officer's cry of pain and decided to take action. He needed to know where that explosion is.

"Ring, can you give me a direct route to the explosion in downtown Corneria?" Calvin asked in a direct approach.

"Request accepted." The ring replied.

Calvin's ring used its energy to construct a landscape of his current location and the city, and the ring drew a stray blue light that was started from his room and showed a path that would direct him to the local plaza.

"Excellent. Now let's go see what all the fuss is about." Calvin said, confidently.

His body was glowing with blue energy and flashed a huge light, after that Calvin was in his Blue Lantern uniform once again. He looked towards the window and constructed a pair of hands that pushed up the window with gentle force. Calvin looked out to the city, this was going to be the second time he was ever going to fly by his own means.

'Calvin, there's no need to fret. Remember, you ring feeds off of your emotions. As long as you believe in yourself, then your powers will work just fine.' Adara replied.

Calvin started to feel more confident about himself as he decided to fly out to Corneria. His blue aura grew brighter as his feet started to float from the ground, his body swerved its way out the window and Calvin pointed his fist out with his ring glowing brighter and flew out to the city while his flight increased his speed. He was in awe on how cool it was to fly above the city lights, it was way better than having to fly in a supersonic jet. Calvin flew through the city's buildings in direct route of the explosion the ring planned out for him.

Calvin's directions ended up at a plaza surrounded by crowds of people talking in panic or distress, yellow tape guarding the hazardous area, and stores and buildings being blocked by chunks of rock or just having horrible dents because of the incident. Calvin floated down to where this accident began and saw that it was a badly damaged subway entrance with smoke coming out of it. Before Calvin could make any note of it, something very hard and fast punched him at his side.

"Agh!" Calvin yelled, as he fell on his back near the video store. He looked up to his attacker and was shocked at what he saw. It was a huge white wolf that was wearing nothing but purple shorts, had a very puffy chest, its muscles were well built, and it's claws were elongated on hands and feet. The creature's eyes well... they were dark on the outside but the iris was very green.

"ROOOOOOAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRR!"