AN: I'm soooooooooo sorry for the lateness! Had a family picnic and then the 4th of July (everyone wants to do everything then), but it's still no excuse! I beg your forgiveness! *bows* Other than that, there's not much to say except I'm sorry if it's not up to par. I've been having headaches recently and they just wouldn't let up, but they're gone now so everything's fine. Thanks to all who faved/followed/ and reviewed! Enjoy the new chappie!

Disclaimer: If I owned YJ, there would definitely be a lot more of Hal Jordan and Wonder Woman in there (if you can't tell that I love Wonder Woman by now, you are the anti-version of Batman), Alfred would be the Team's trainer and would bake cookies afterwards, and someone would've BEEN told Martha Kent (if she's alive, she totally would be in my story) about how Superman was treating her grandson (when in doubt, always tell on them to their mom). I no own song(s) either.

Summary: Faith Evans, a 16-year-old girl, was just trying to make sure that she and her little sister got by in the world. "She was prepared to die when she took that bullet. So can someone explain to her why a dead guy's ring just decided to hitch a ride on her finger?!"

Genre: Humor/Adventure/a little Angst/a little Drama(cause you always need just a bit of Angst/Drama in every story)/Romance(?)

Song(s) used: Headlock-Imogen Heap

Word Count: 2,435

"Communicating through something (ie: communicators, phones, rings, etc…)"

"Thinking"

Dreams/Flashbacks

"Talking"

Quotes/Lyrics

Chapter 4:Searching for the Light

Distant flickering, greener scenery,

This weather's bringing it all back again.

Great adventures, faces and condensation,

I'm going outside to take it all in.

Location: Watchtower

Time: 0900

Cafeteria

Hal Jordan, also known as the Green Lantern, had just sat down with his food after another session of debriefing to get him caught up on the going-ons of Earth. He had just got back from Oa a few days ago. The information the Guardians had told them wasn't something he, or any of the Lanterns for that matter, wanted to hear.

Apparently someone, or thing, was going around killing Lanterns and taking their rings leaving no trace. It was unsettling to say the least.

They had been told to keep up their guards and keep a look out for anything unusual happening in their sectors.

Since Earth was pretty far from the Guardian planet, all he wanted to do was relax for an entire month when he got home. However, he knew that was never going to happen.

As soon as he got back, he had only an hour to himself before he was ordered to the meeting room to be filled in on what was happening in his absence, villains never did take a break.

Hal had wanted to ignore the call, he had just got back from a long trip that brought only bad news; he wanted sleep dammit! But it was from Batman, and when the Bat calls, no matter how tired you are, you suck it up and leap into action.

As soon as he had gotten there, alarms went off for multiple cities where villains were attacking.

People were split into groups and sent off to deal with the threats. He, himself was teamed up with Barry Allen, the Flash, to take out Captain Cold who had been terrorizing a shopping center.

They had taken him out with relative ease and it seemed everyone else had taken down their villains as well, but it looked like all the villains, small and big-time, wanted to act up.

These random attacks had been happening non-stop for the past few days and it only just started to slow down. So here he was now, in the cafeteria, after finally getting his debriefing over with, and about to enjoy his meal of waffles, eggs, and orange juice in peace.

Just as he was about to put the first bite of his well-deserved waffle in his mouth, the man with a black hole for a stomach came speeding in.

"GL!" A red and yellow blur stopped at his table and plopped down a tray that was overflowing with every type of breakfast food imaginable.

Hal sighed. He loved the Flash like a brother, he was his best friend after all, but he was hoping for few moments of quiet, alone time after all of the running around he was doing.

He guessed it was just a little too much to hope for.

"Hey GL! Mind if I join you?"

"It's a bit too late to be asking…"

Flash had already sat down and began stuffing his face with pancakes and sausages. Lucky for Hal, he'd seen the Flash's eating habits so many times before that he was practically immune; it helped that Kilowag ate similarly, if not slower. So Hal continued eating his waffles.

"Sfo whftfs uf?"

Hal had to stop and close his eyes as bits of chewed food from Flash's mouth found their way onto his face and even on his own food.

Guess he didn't have an appetite after all…

"Flash…"

Said man stopped shoving food down his throat for a moment to pay attention. Hal opened his eyes and glared.

"I'm gonna kill you."

Before either man could react, Hal, to jump over the table and strangle him, and Flash, to run away as quickly as possible with the rest of his food, their communicators went off and J'onn's voice was heard.

"Green Lantern. Flash. Fire. You are needed. Star Sapphire and Posion Ivy are attacking Grand Park in Terra City. Respond Immediately."

"We're on our way." Hal answered for both of them seeing as how Flash was trying to stuff all his food in his mouth at the same time. He even saw him reach for his breakfast, not that Hal wanted it after Flash got his germs on it, but apparently wasting food was a bigger crime than trying to take over the world to him.

"You heard the man. Let's go." He grabbed Flash by the back of his red suit and dragged him, kicking and screaming, to the Zeta tubes*.

We're a different pair, do something out of step.

Throw a stranger an unexpected smile…

With big intention.

Still posted at your station.

Always on about the day it should have flied.

Beaming down to the center of the city, Hal, along with Flash and Fire, got into fighting positions straightaway.

The roads were torn up and there were large chunks of rock missing from buildings. Poison Ivy had taken position on the stone fountain in the middle of the park and was surrounded by her plants. Star Sapphire, "Carol" his mind provided with a hint of melancholy*, was still blasting pink energy beams at various buildings.

The civilians were trying to run away from the vines that were popping out of the ground. Some, mainly men, had been caught already and were currently being held captive in Venus Flytraps.

Poison Ivy was going on about how females were the superior race, all men would bow to her, and the world would be a beautiful place ruled by plants and females. So they were dealing with an extreme, environmentally-friendly, feminist…fantastic.

"Batman really needs to keep tabs on his Gotham psychos."

Hal must've zoned out at some point because Ivy had sent a vine towards Flash, yelling about him being a "sexist pig that would soon be fertilizer for her precious babies". Even Fire was somewhat glaring at him so he knew that Flash must've said something really stupid. Not that he didn't do that on a regular basis.

Taking this as his cue, he left Fire and Flash to deal with the livid Ivy and set his sights on Star Sapphire.

Flying towards each other, their energies met in a brilliant clash as he sent out a blast of green energy and her, pink.

"You won't win this time, love. You may as well give up. The power of love always prevails."

She sent out another blast. He dodged.

"Oh really? How many times have you said that? It's just not gonna happen!"

He sent a snake construct towards her. She flew out of reach and showered him with multiple energy beams.

Creating a shield, Hal blocked most of them while searching for an opening. It came when Ivy screamed and Star looked over to check on her.

Taking advantage of her momentary distraction, Hal constructed a large boxing glove and threw it at Star, hitting her directly in the torso and smashing into a building across the street, effectively knocking her out.

Then everything froze as they heard what sounded like a strangled scream. As if they all shared the same mind, they turned as one in the direction of the noise that wasn't from the battle.

It was a civilian teen girl who couldn't have been any older than 15 or 16. She was lightly tanned with black hair thrown up into a ponytail. Her clothes consisted of a white shirt, blue jacket, and skinny jeans. She stared up at them with a 'deer-caught-in-the-headlights' expression from where she was sitting. She looked as if she couldn't believe what she was seeing, like they weren't real, which was a ridiculous notion since they were known worldwide.

Hal was snapped out of his staring when he heard the ground start to rumble. Quickly looking back towards Ivy, he saw her smirking with her arms raised, ready to attack the civilian or add her to her growing collection.

Moving in the way of the attack, he created another shield, just in time, as the thorned vine slammed into it.

Fire immediately lit the vines with emerald flames while Flash sped for Ivy and started running circles around her, trying to suffocate her into unconsciousness.

Ivy was frantic in searching for a way out but eventually passed out from lack of oxygen. As soon as she was out, her plants fell away, freeing the civilians they had trapped.

Looking back in the direction of the girl, Hal was surprised to see that she was nowhere in sight. He gave a quick scan of the area and decided that she must have taken the chance to run home when they intercepted Ivy.

Focusing on the matter at hand, he saw Fire and Flash gathering Ivy and Star to wrap them up in scrap metal that Fire heated up to make it more flexible.

Hal put two fingers to his right ear that held the communicator.

"Okay J'onn. Ivy and Star are down for the count. A clean-up and detainment crew would be nice."

"Good. They are already on the way. In the meantime, you can make sure that the area is blocked off and the civilians are alright."

"Will do."

Sighing, Hal resigned himself to helping the civilians and blocking off most of the wreckage.

It was gonna be a long day.

Been walking, you've been hiding.

And you look half dead half the time.

Monitoring you, like machines do,

You've still got it I'm just keeping an eye.

I've been walking, you've been hiding.

And you look half dead half the time.

Monitoring you, like machines do,

You've still got it I'm just keeping an eye.

Hal entered his apartment barely able to keep his eyes open. These past few weeks were turning out to be pretty rough and today hadn't helped one bit.

As soon as they'd finished clean up and made sure that Poison Ivy and Star Sapphire were in prison, they'd gone to the Watchtower for yet another debriefing, he was getting sick of them quite frankly. Then Batman had to call a meeting with the original seven. He'd felt like complaining with Flash but then saw the Batglare and thought otherwise.

The meeting was to discuss what the villains could be up to that they'd attack so many times in the past two weeks, every day, without fail. Even Flash had found it odd and that was saying something.

So after an hour or two of throwing around ideas, they called it quits and decided that they'd wait until something drastic happened, no matter how much they didn't like it, that would deviate from the usual.

He deactivated his Green Lantern suit and cursed himself for not doing it sooner. He was suddenly thankful that everyone in the building had turned in for the night. If they had of seen him walk in, he'd never get any rest.

Deciding that he'd take a shower in the morning, he'd fall asleep standing up if he did it now, he made his way to the bedroom and stripped down to his boxers and t-shirt. Though he left his ring on, it'd been beaten in to him, literally, to never take it off.

He looked towards the lantern by his bedside and made a mental note to charge his ring in the morning as well. It was getting a little too low on power for his liking.

Just as he was about to fall onto his queen-sized bed, hey, a man needed his room, his ring glowed brightly.

Shocked, he could only watch as his ring forced his hand upwards as it started to project something.

A Guardian's head popped up and he was more than a little scared at the hugeness of it, though he would deny it later if asked. He was already embarrassed that he'd jumped…

"Hal Jordan" He immediately straightened up.

"It has come to our attention that a ring has activated in your sector or, more specifically, on Earth."

His eyes widened. That would mean…

Apparently his thoughts showed on his face.

"Yes, a tragic fate fell upon the Green Lanterns patrolling Sector V238. While most of their rings' lights have disappeared, it seems that one was able to escape and make its way to another chosen one."

Hal didn't know how to feel. On one hand, more comrades had died but on the other, a new Lantern had emerged, and that hadn't happened since the beginning of these mysterious disappearances.

"At least that's one more ring that didn't go missing…But what or who is causing all of this?"

"Hal Jordan, you are tasked with finding this new Lantern and bringing them to Oa for training immediately. Afterwards, they will also guard Earth along with you. Do not fail."

With that, the projection stopped.

Hal lowered his arm and stepped back to sit on his bed.

"A new Green Lantern huh? And a human at that." That would mean that he would have to help in the training, not that he minded.

"I'll have a protégé…" He couldn't say sidekick since Green Lanterns didn't have those. As soon as they finished training, they'd be seen as fully-fledged Lantern and they would be considered partners.

He had to admit, he was more than a little excited, and anxious, at the thought of being a mentor. The other Green Lanterns of Earth, John Stewart and Kyle Rayner*, had been trained while he was away on missions and the Guardians had already chosen trainers for them. Now he was going to be training one, with the help of Kilowag of course, he was the overall instructor of every new Lantern, and this would be the first one in a while.

Hal yawned.

"I'll search for them in the morning, when I'm not dead tired."

He laid back and as soon as his head hit the pillow, he was out. He had only one thought before dreamland took over.

"And I had just gotten back from Oa too. Damn…"

I'll make you start, got your heart in a headlock,

I don't believe any of it.

You say too late to start, with your heart in a headlock,

You know you're better than this.

Afraid to start, got your heart in a headlock,

I don't believe any of it.

You say too late to start, with your heart in headlock,

You know you're better than this.

Chapter 4 End

AN: So Hal now knows about the new GL but he doesn't know who it is yet. I wonder if he'll be surprised that it's the "civilian" girl that he saw during the battle, and if only he knew that in her world, they are DEFINITLY not real. No offense meant to Flash fans! I love the guy and making fun of him was just too tempting. I hope I portrayed everyone well, I kinda got used to writing in OC POV so the switch was a little hard but not too much. Once again, fight scenes are not my strong point. I can imagine them but writing what I imagine is a bit difficult (it happens ALL THE FREAKIN' TIME when I draw too so it's no surprise that writing's the same). Shorter chapter than usual but it's mainly just a filler because I had to establish Hal, who will have a BIG role in future chapters, hope I did ok. So review please! You knoooow you waaaant toooooo!

-SP13

Zeta tubes*: I know that the transporter thingy has the word "Zeta" in it but idk if it was Zeta tubes or something else. I'm pretty sure I got it right, but if not, corrections are much appreciated.

"Carol"/melancholy*: If you didn't know, Carol used to be Hal's girlfriend, and then she became a Star Sapphire that went evil, and Star Sapphires are all about the love (it's their source of power). I only made Hal a BIT effected cause he's been fighting her for a while now, so I don't think it would affect him as much, if at all, any more.

Kyle Rayner*: I know for a fact that he was a Green Lantern but idk if he was the 3rd GL in the YJ show. I had thought it was a girl but then I remembered that all the GLs from Earth were male…I think. So if he is the 3rd GL: YAAAAY! If not…well he is now! I love this guy! He's just too adorable.

Random Thought: For SOME odd reason, I had a dream that toads were taking over the world and the only thing that could kill them was fire. For some reason, everyone treated the toads like they were zombies, though they hadn't killed anybody yet and no one that got bit turned into toads (they just had really gross, slimy bite marks), and we couldn't grow any crops (idk WHERE that came from since we live in the suburbs, no farmlands). But the cool part of the dream was that I had a helicopter and me and my family were avoiding the swarms of toads by sticking to the roofs, and the helicopter had unlimited gas :D! It was a slightly scary but mostly weird dream (you watch as a swarm of toads that fill up the halls come towards you and not be scared).