Beware My Power, Green Lantern's Light

by Andrew78591

For all his life, Kazuichi Souda has suffered. From the cruelty of life to having no real friends, nothing went his way. He just wished for a change. A change in his life that would give him worth and positivity for once. And that change would come when he is given a power ring and becomes a Green Lantern.

2. Chapter 2

Hey guy, Andrew78591, here with a new chapter for Beware My Power Green Lantern's Light. Glad to see that this one got some small yet good feedback and I hope you all enjoy what's to come with this fic.

First, questions and suggestions.

Saw and Danganronpa crossover

I do see potential in this but I don't feel like doing this one. Sorry.

Also, a few if you were disappointed that Makoto wasn't the main character. I can understand why but Makoto has enough fanfics that center around him as is. I tend to like using a different protagonist whenever I do a story based fanfic and I always wanted to write one that centered around Souda. So sorry about that. Although there is a fanfic by Fire Slash, Ring of Hope, that has Makoto as the main star and he's a blue lantern. Check it out if you're interested.

Well, with all that out of the way, let's get this story started.

Aaaaaaaannnnnnnd begin

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Chapter 2: Robot Attack - Kazuichi Souda vs The Manhunter

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Hope's Peak Academy, Dormhouse

Inside his room, which had a bunch of tools and machinery laying around the floor, is Souda. Sleeping away after the events that happened yesterday night. Everything was very much peaceful until...

BEEP BEEP BEEP

The sound of his phone's alarm went off and rang loudly throughout the room. Taking action, the mechanic grabs his phone and immediately turns it off, groaning in annoyance, as he wanted to sleep some more, but the alarm had fully awakened by now. Begrudgingly, he got up to a sitting position and began stretching his arms and shoulders.

"Man, what a dream. To think I actually became a superhero in it," he said to himself, still stretching. "Pretty cool experience I have to say."

Once he finished his stretches, Souda noticed on his right hand, the green ring was still there on his index finger. Seeing it, Souda truly remembered the events that took place last night.

"Oh… right. It wasn't a dream. It actually happened," He said, still surprised by all this. He was just a regular high school student. For the most part as he had an Ultimate Talent. But even with a talent, he never really considered himself special. Seeing as he was pretty much an outcast for most of his life. To think that a nobody like him was chosen to become a Green Lantern. Even more shocking was that he, considering his anxious personality, was able to defeat a terrorist group and save a ship full of people. Granted, he couldn't save everyone, but he still saved lives nonetheless.

"Oh man, even after getting a good night's sleep, I still can't get over the fact that I was given this ring," Souda said as he looked at the green ring, remembering what the red alien told him. "I know that I'm supposed to be a guardian, but I still don't know anything about the Green Lanterns."

He wanted to know more about the Green Lanterns so he could get a better understanding of what he's going to do before being picked up by whoever that was coming for him. It's not like he can just ask his ring for those kinds of answers.

Oh wait…

"Ring, you can answer me any question about the Green Lanterns, right?" Souda asked from his ring.

"As long as it's within my knowledge, then yes."

"Good enough for me," uttered Kazuichi before he asked his question. "Ring, what are the Green Lanterns?"

With that, the ring began to create a hologram that showed him all kinds of different aliens that wore the same outfit and ring like Abin Sur. There were all kinds of crazy aliens there. From humanoids, jellyfish looking ones, a few resembling animals. And one he swore he saw was one with a volcano for a head. They were all flying as they used their rings to create energy constructs.

"Founded by the Guardians of the Universe three million years ago, The Green Lantern Corp is an intergalactic police force that is responsible for the protection and safety of the entire universe. With one or two Green Lanterns assigned to one sector out of the 3600, they are in charge of keeping peace and order within it."

"A police force? Damn," Souda uttered in awe by the amount of information he was given.

"To become a Green Lantern, the Guardians created the most powerful weapon in the universe, the Power Ring."

The Power Ring? At least Souda now knew the name of his ring.

"The ring can only be used by someone with great will and the ability to overcome great fear. So the ring will search for a worthy successor with those traits. Whether be by the Guardians or when a Green Lantern falls in the line of duty, should the previous user allow it."

The ring stopped with the hologram as everything returned back to normal.

"Because you met these requirements, you were deemed worthy to replace Abin Sur and become the newest Green Lantern."

Kazuichi sat there in silence, processing everything the ring had told him. It was extraordinary to hear that someone like himself was chosen to be a part of a massive police force. To be worthy of being given one of the most powerful weapons in the universe. It felt too much for him. He felt so much confidence in himself because the ring saw something within him that decided that he was worthy.

At least, that's what he wanted to feel.

In reality, even if the ring said so, he didn't feel worthy. Souda didn't do anything that he would recall that made him hero material. He never did anything that truly made him stand out other than his talent. He was just a lonely mechanic with past issues.

While he was grateful that he was chosen to be a Green Lantern, a part of him still felt that the ring made a mistake.

But he didn't dwell on that for too long when he checked the time and showed that it was 7:30 am.

"Aw crap, I gotta get ready or I'll miss class!" Souda immediately got up from his bed and changed into his usual jumpsuit for the day.

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Hope's Peak Academy, Main Building

Running through the halls, Souda was hurrying to get to class and to not be late. He eventually made it to classroom 77B and opened the door to enter. To his surprise, the classroom was empty. Which was odd since it was about to be eight and class would begin.

"Where is everyone?" Kazuichi wondered as he entered the classroom. Did something happen to them or class was moved somewhere else?

"Souda?"

Kazuichi was startled as he turned around to see where the voice came from. At the front entrance to the class was Mahiru. The two stared at each other for a few seconds before Souda said anything. "Koizumi. Glad to see someone else made it to class."

"Souda, what are you doing here?" Mahiru asked

"Ah… to attend today's class," Souda answered bluntly.

"Souda, did you not get the email we were sent this morning?" The photographer questioned the mechanic.

Kazuichi was shocked to hear this as he grabbed his phone. "Email? We were given an email?" he said, searching through his email account.

Koizumi groaned as she expected this. "Geez, typical of a boy. Yes, we were given an email by Ms Yukizome."

She was right. Souda found the email and opened it as it read:

Dear Students of Class 77B

Due to the horrific event that had conquered last night, class will be canceled for today. I wish you to be able to recover and calm yourselves when we meet again.

Sincerely, your teacher,

Ms. Chisa Yukizome

"Oh wow, your right. Can't believe I missed that," Souda admitted.

"Honestly, this is something I would have expected from you," Mahiru huffed.

Souda scratched the back of his head, wincing from Koizumi's words. "Okay, I get it. It was stupid of me to not check something important like that. Though why are you here anyway, knowing class is cancelled?"

"I forgot that I left my chopsticks inside my desk so I came here to get them," Koizumi answered as she headed towards her desk to get her chopsticks.

"I assume that you're going to eat something," Souda said.

"Souda, that's really none of your business. I'll be leaving now," she huffed as the photographer made her way towards the classroom door.

"Wait!"

Mahiru stopped as she turned back to Kazuichi, taken back by his shout. As his spooked she was, Souda sighed as he rubbed his neck. "Sorry about that. I didn't mean to shout. I wanted to ask you something."

"Geez Souda, learn to control your voice next time," Koizumi scolded the mechanic, her hands on her hips.

"Right. Again, sorry," Kazuichi replied back, feeling guilty.

Hearing that, the photographer let out a groan before calming herself. "Okay, what is it that you wanted to talk about?"

"I just wanted to know if you're doing alright? Especially hearing about what happened to you and our classmates at the cruise," Souda asked.

"Oh, so you've heard," Koizumi said, feeling gloomy from remembering those events.

"Yeah, I found out this morning when looking through my phone," Souda answered with sympathy. "I wanted to know how everyone was doing after all that. But I guess that's not happening."

"Well you can't blame them. We were put into a situation where any of us could have died. Right now, we're just trying to calm ourselves down. Do something to get our minds off the whole thing. I'm actually going to hang out with my friend at the Reserve Course," Mahiru explained.

"That's great to hear. It's good to be with a friend to talk to about it," the mechanic said before deciding to ask her a question as something else came to mind. "By the way, not to sound nosy, but how did you guys manage to get out of that mess?"

Mahiru began to smile as she said, "We were saved by a superhero."

"Superhero? As in the ones you see in comics?" Souda asked, being skeptical about this. Well, more like acting skeptical as he knew Koizumi was referring to him when he was disguised as Green Lantern.

"Mhm, it was crazy though. I never thought we would be saved by a superhero," Mahiru said as he reminded the emerald man, smiling warmly by his green light. "Green Lantern, he called himself. Not a bad name."

Souda nodded in response, secretly glad that the name stuck so well. "Not a bad name. Wish I could have seen him in action."

"Yeah you wo-" Koizumi stopped talking when she realized something. "Wait a minute, what do you mean by that? Weren't you on the ship?"

"Oh… well, um…" Souda uttered out, trying to explain himself.

Mahiru beat him as she began to speak. "Now that I think about it, I never saw you once at the party. Did you even go?"

Souda looked a little nervous due to the photographer's questioning. But he decided to answer her question. "Well… not really. No."

"Really? How come? It was Sonia's birthday. You should have been there like the rest of us," Koizumi said, demanding an answer.

Souda was silent at that moment as he felt trapped into a corner. He didn't want to tell her that he wasn't invited to the party. He felt that would cause more drama into the situation. And Koizumi was dealing with enough after yesterday. So with some quick thinking, Kazuichi thought up a believable excuse.

"Well, I was really busy with something. Someone needed me to fix something of theirs and they were urgent about it. And when I finished, I lost track of time and didn't realize that it was night time. So I didn't get the chance to go to the party."

"Really? That does sound like you. But seriously, you could have finished the job faster or rescheduled? I know it's your side job but still," the photographer argued.

"I know, I know. Rescheduling never came to mind. Also, I may be the Ultimate Mechanic, but it still takes me time to fix stuff," the mechanic retorted.

Mahiru sighed at his response. "I guess that's understandable. But you need to be more considerate next time. After all, we're all classmates and we should be together in events like these."

"I-I'll keep that in mind next time," Souda replied with a small chuckle as he rubbed the back of his neck. While he seemed good about it, inside, he felt self-conscious about the words Mahiru told him. 'She says I should be more considerate. Yet I doubt the others would care… they barely know I exist.'

"Anyway, I hope you're feeling a little better after going through all that," Souda said, being sympathetic.

"Thanks. Well, I better get going then. Can't have my friend waiting." Like that, Mahiru began to make her way towards the doors and exit the classroom.

"Wait!"

In a sudden move, Koizumi stopped in her tracks, a little shocked by Souda's sudden shout. Even the mechanic was taken back by this. He didn't know why he did what he did, but a part of him felt like he needed to. Once Mahiru turned back towards him, Kazuichi was quick to speak out his words.

"Listen, if you ever want to talk to someone about all this or to relieve yourself, you can talk to me."

Mahiru was taken back from hearing this as she looked at Kazuichi with shock in her eyes. Souda's eyes widened in surprise as he just released what he had said. When a part of him wanted the mechanic to say something towards the photographer, he did not expect those words to come out of his mouth.

"Souda… are you telling me that you want to hang out with me?" Koizumi spoke out.

Kazuichi was stunned for a moment, starting to sweat a little, before he quickly responded. "Oh, um, yeah. You seem very interested in this Green Lantern so I thought it would be interesting to know about him from you. But if you don't want to, that's fine too."

Koizumi was about to speak up about his proposal, but by some kind of instinct, Kazuichi spoke once more. "Well, I better get going. I just realized I haven't had breakfast yet and I need to buy some stuff for my workshop. So I better get going. See ya!"

Like that, Souda immediately stormed out from the classroom, leaving the stunned Mahiru alone. He kept moving in a fast and panic state until he found himself outside the school building. Once alone, Souda leaned against a nearby wall, taking a breather and calming down his nerves.

'Holy shit, what did I just say?' Souda thought to himself, still trying to process what he had said earlier. 'Why did I say that?'

Kazuichi simply groaned as he began to make his way towards the school gates. 'Maybe a trip to town could calm my nerves. I just hope nothing too crazy happens today.'

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Tokyo

In a busy street, in the middle of the city, people were minding their business. People were driving their cars through the roads, others were in stores or shops to buy what they needed, and the rest were walking down the sidewalk to get to their destination. All and all, everything felt very normal.

One man was currently driving in his car, heading to his destination. Everything seemed okay… until something fell from the sky and landed in front of his car. The man barely had any time to process this before hitting the brakes. He was barely able to stop the car in time from hitting whatever it was in front of him.

"What the fuck?!" the man shouted in shock. He went out of his spooked state to see what just happened. His eyes widened by the bombshell he was seeing. Standing tall, the red and blue machine stood in front of the vehicle, showing signs of hostility. The people around the area looked at the machine with awe and fear. They wondered what it was and why it was here.

All the while, the robot was currently scanning the city to find its target. Eventually, the machine found something in its radar. Green energy of willpower. It was a small signal but it was noticeable enough for the android to know where it is.

"Will detected."

The machine grabbed the car in front of it and threw it aside, sending the car a good couple feet up as it crashed into a building. The man could only scream in fright as he was engulfed by the explosion, killing him.

Seeing this, everyone in the area began to run for their lives, away from the mechanical murder. Others were getting out of their cars as the machine pushed the vehicles aside as it continued to walk towards its destination.

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After getting some screws and parts for his next project, Souda made his way to a nearby fast food joint called the Ronald King to get something to eat.

"Man, this place really knows how to make a good hamburger and fries," Souda said, sitting as a table and enjoying the taste of his food. As he continued to eat, the mechanic's mind suddenly remembered the conversation he had with Koizumi. Specifically the part where he unknowingly asked if she wanted to hang out with him.

Kazuichi groaned in embarrassment from that. "Why did I ask her that? We barely know each other and rarely talk. So why would she want to even be around someone like," he uttered it himself, groaning. "Besides, she pretty much has a bad opinion on men."

Souda then looked at the glass window of the restaurant next to him, seeing his reflection. Just seeing his own reflection reminded the mechanic of what he did during his first semester of school. Specifically, the things he did to get the princess's attention. "I bet I'm considered one of the worst in her eyes," he said, feeling gloomy.

Kazuichi looked back at his food as he picked up a french fry and ate it. "Why do I still keep hoping that I'll find someone I can actually trust? I should know by now that's never going to happen."

As he was about to continue eating his lunch, the door to the restaurant opened to reveal a man. The man looked scared and paranoid as he ran towards the counter, to the cashier. "Billy, turn the channel to the news!" he shouted.

"What, why would I-"

"Just do it!"

Seeing how serious his friend was, the cashier took out the remote and changed the TV channel to the News. As well as putting up the volume at its highest.

"This is channel 6 News bringing in horrible news!" the news reporter said in horror. "At around 8 a.m, massive destruction had occurred in downtown Tokyo and is now spreading into a nearby neighborhood area. Witnesses report that the cause of all this is some kind of extraterrestrial being."

"We go to our reporter, Yuki Watanabe, for a report of the disaster at hand."

The scene changed into a split scene with the male reporter on the left scene and a woman reporter on the right scene as multiple soldiers were behind her, setting up for battle. "Thank you Lee. As you can see, the situation has gotten extreme. To the point that now the military has been called in to deal with this new threat."

"Is there anything else to report about this extraterrestrial being that has appeared?" the male reporter asked.

"From what the people said that witnessed the being, they describe it as some kind of mechanical robot," the woman reporter answered.

'A robot? How could a robot become a massive threat?' Souda thought as he felt this was impossible. Especially seeing as how robotics haven't reached that level of machinery yet.

"While we do not know what this robotic menace wants, we just hope that our soldiers are enough to take it down," Yuki commented. "This thing must not-"

"Captain, I see it! It's coming this way!"

Hearing that, the camera was positioned towards the end of the street. And at full view, everyone in the restaurant saw the robot, walking and throwing away anything in its way. When Souda saw the machine, he felt his spine shiver in fear. The way the robot looked made it menacing. It was like something that came out from a horrifying nightmare. He's seen his fair share of all kinds of robots when he studied robotics. But this machine was way too advanced from anything he's ever seen. It looked extremely dangerous. It almost looked unstoppable.

"Men! Open fire!"

With that, the soldiers fired their assault rifles and launchers while the tanks fired their destructive shells at the robot that created a massive explosion. Engulfing it completely. As the huge fire appeared, the soldiers and news crew looked at the sight in silence.

Like them, everyone and Souda looked at the TV screen, waiting in anticipation. Wondering how much damage was done towards the robot. Or if it was even destroyed.

"D-Did we destroy it?" one of the soldiers uttered out.

"I-I think we did," another said, smiling in relief.

But then, out of the flames, a green beam of light appeared as it hit one of the tanks, destroying it and killing any soldiers in or near the vehicle of war.

"What the?!" one of the soldiers shouted in horror and disbelief.

Looking back at the flaming inferno, the robot slowly walked out, showing no signs of damage done to it. Not even a scratch could be seen anywhere on its metal frame. With its arm up, the android fired out more green lasers from its hand, destroying the remaining tanks and killing a few more soldiers in the process.

"Open fire!!!"

With that simple command, the remaining soldiers fired their weapons at the android once more. With a few launching more rockets or throwing grenades at it. However, it was all in vain as the bullets and explosions did nothing to make a single dent on the robot. Deciding to retaliate, the machine opened up its compartment in its shoulders and fired multiple rockets at the soldiers. Engulfing them in a massive explosion, leaving no survivors.

The news crew saw in horror by the complete and utter massacre this machine had displayed with ease. Never did they believe that this robot would be this powerful, this dangerous.

"Oh god…" the new reporter woman uttered in shock before changing into a state of panic. "We have to get out of here now! This is not worth it!"

But before they could do anything, the android paid its attention at the news crew as it aimed its hand at them.

"Your military means nothing to the Manhunters."

With that, the machine fired a massive laser beam at the news crew. All they could do was scream and they were engulfed by the burning, green energy. Like that, the screen went static.

Everyone who has witnessed this massacre we're left speechless. The news reporter in the station was silent as his composure was starting to slip, showing fright. The people in the restaurant weren't any better. Men were sweating, trying to hide their fear. Women were weeping from the horror they had seen, hoping that all of this was some kind of sick joke. And the children were in shock as they were trying to comprehend all this. After all, this was their first time seeing an actual genocide. The parents hugged their children to provide comfort to not only them, but for themselves.

Souda, like the rest of them, was absolutely terrified by what he had seen. It was like what had happened at the cruise ship with the terrorists and how they had killed a few innocent people. But this was on a whole different level. With the terrorists, they were still human beings that didn't pose too much of a threat to him and could be easily dealt with. But this robot was much more menacing as it had displayed its power by destroying the military fleet with ease. With no hesitation. No remorse. No mercy. He felt his anxiety build up as small tears appeared in his eyes.

It took the news reporter Lee a couple of seconds before he regained his composure and continued on with his podcast. "W-We apologize for this. We, at the studio, had no intention of showing our viewers such a horrific sight. But with this in mind, we will announce the following warning."

"Stay in doors. Do not go outside under any circumstances. And if you see this robot, stay away from it. Just hide and wait until this whole situation is dealt with."

Just as he finished, the news reporter seemed to have gotten a call from his ear piece. Once that happened, he turned back to the screen and said, "This just in. One of our coppers is currently in the skies, watching the event. We now go live to our helicopter for any updates."

The scene changes to a man sitting on a seat in the helicopter. "Thank you Lee. As of right now, things aren't looking," he shouted as the camera switched into the helicopter's, shooting the destruction the robot was causing to the neighborhood and arriving military. "This machine is destroying more of our military the moment they try to attack it. Nothing they do seems to be slowing the damn thing down."

"Can you tell us the robot's current location is and where it seems to be going?" Reporter Lee asked.

"From the looks of it, the robot's leaving the neighborhood and seems to now be entering Nozomu Forest," the helicopter reporter answered.

'Nozomu Forest? Why would that robot go there,' Souda thought to himself. It was just an ordinary forest like another. Nothing but trees and other wildlife for miles. The only thing there of any relevance is-

The moment of realization hit him like a truck as his eyes widened in shock and fear. Inside that very forest is his school, Hope's Peak Academy. He didn't know why the robot was heading there. But he didn't care. Kazuichi immediately got up from his table, grabbing his pack, and ran out of the restaurant. Despite a few people warning him not to leave, Souda ignored them as he continued to run towards Hope's Peak. But he stopped himself as another realization came in him.

'Shit, I'm pretty sure I can't enter the school at this point. Seeing as there's a giant killing robot and military blocking my path,' Souda thought to himself, groaning in frustration.

As he put his hands in his pocket, Souda's right hand felt something. Pulling it out, he sees the green power ring. Seeing this, Kazuichi immediately knew what to do.

"Maybe I can't enter the school… but Green Lantern can."

Looking around, Souda finds a nearby alley and enters inside. Placing the ring onto his finger, Kazuichi began to transform into his hero persona as he was engulfed by green energy.

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Hope's Peak Academy

Back at the school, in the Reserve Course area, we see Mahiru sitting on a bench, near the fountain, as she was eating her breakfast. Next to her and eating was her best friend, Sato. A girl from the Reserve Course that had violet eyes and long, dark-green, wavy hair along with having a school uniform provides Reserve Course students.

While everything seemed fine, Sato noticed that Mahiru was eating much slower than unusual. Seeing this, the green haired girl decided to speak up.

"Hey Mahiru, are you alright?"

Sato's voice was able to get Koizumi out of her train of thoughts as the photographer looked at her friend.

"Yeah, I'm fine Sato. I was just thinking about what happened yesterday," she admitted.

"You mean the terrorist attack?" Sato asked.

"No, not that. I'm thinking about the Green Lantern," the photographer answered before she continued. "I've seen a lot of crazy things when I came to this school. From the crazy skills everyone has with their talents to their personalities. But I never expected to see a real life superhero. It was crazy yet exciting to see someone like that."

"Really? I don't see what's so great about that. I mean, sure he has powers and saved people, but I feel like this guy would be nothing but trouble in the future," Sato expressed, eating some rice.

"He didn't seem that way to me. He felt like a good person."

"Seriously?"

"I am. When I met him, after defeating the Black Hawks and saving my friend, Sonia, I was in awe. He looked so heroic. Like someone you know will do good for the world. Trust me, you'd get that feeling when you meet him."

Sato sighed from hearing this. She didn't think that Mahiru would admire someone this fast. She met this Green Lantern once and her friend saw him as an amazing hero. Sato didn't really like that, but if this is what Koizumi believed then she'll be fine with it.

"If you say so, but I won't keep my hopes up," Sato said.

"Fair enough," Koizumi replied as she was about to eat her breakfast.

"Hey hey hey, if it isn't the camera bitch and her trash fire friend!~"

Was about to until Mahiru and Sato heard that. Koizumi became squeamish as her anxiety was building up. While Sato groaned in frustration, becoming defensive for her friend as she recognized that voice. Walking towards the two was a blonde girl with her cheeks having a subtle natural blush on them. This was another Reverse Course student and member of the Kuzuryu Yazuka family, Natsumi Kuzuryu, who was looking at them with her smug smile.

"Natsumi...what the hell do you want?" Sato growled, clearly wanting her to leave.

"What? I'm not allowed to be here? This area is allowed to everyone," Natsumi said smugly.

"Get to the point," Sato growled, not wanting to play games with her.

"Geez, you can never control your anger can you?" Kuzuryu scoffed in annoyance before she continued. "I just wanted to see how the red head was doing after that event last night."

Mahiru twitched a bit from Natsumi mentioning her. Knowing that this wouldn't end well.

"And why do you want to know?" Sato questioned, still emitting anger out from her voice.

"What? I just wanted to know her experience. Her being held at gunpoint by terrorists. It intrigues me," Natsumi explained in her smug curiosity.

Mahiru's anxiety began to spike up from this. Beginning to remember the awful events she and her classmates had to go through. The masked man forced them into areas as their hostages, even injuring others to do so. And killing those who wouldn't comply. The laughter they emitted from the terror they committed. And the child they murdered. It was making her feel scared, becoming uncomfortable from all this as her eyes widened and her forehead turned blue.

Seeing this enraged Sato as she stood up and faced the yakuza."You bitch! Koizumi's suffering as is and now you're making it worse! Do you even have a soul?!"

"Don't you get all pissy with me! I'm just curious that's all!" Natsumi argued.

"Natsumi, there you are!"

The new voice caught all the girls' attention as they turned to see who it was. Running towards them was a tall teen boy who had a suit, signifying that he was part of the Reserve Course. He had short, spiky-ish brown hair with an ahoge and green eyes. This was the ordinary boy, Hajime Hinata. Someone that all three of the girls were familiar with. Mostly with Natsumi as he was technically her only actual friend in the school.

"Natsumi, why are you always causing trouble when you talk to them?" Hajime said, immediately realizing what was going on.

"What? I'm just curious that's all," Natsumi said, defending herself.

"Well, your curiosity just caused Mahiru to have to go through bad memories!" Sato argued as she pointed at Koizumi, who was currently trying to calm herself.

Hearing that and seeing Mahiru's state made Hinata understandably angry as he turned to the young yakuza. "Natsumi, you shouldn't have done this. I keep telling you to think about what you say. But you didn't do that. Now, because of you, Koizumi is suffering again."

While Natsumi was taken back by Hajime's words, even looking a little guilty, she stubbornly stood her ground. "Well so what?! It's not like she died or got majorly injured!"

"Still, that's no excuse. What do you think would have happened if she really died there?" Hajime argued.

Natsumi was beginning to feel extremely irritated by this as she turned her face away from Hinata and said, "If she did, then I might have a chance to enter the main course."

Hajime was stunned by what Natsumi had just said. He knew the yakuza would say horrible things due to her own problems. But this was crossing the line. Just as he was about to scold her, Sato, out of nowhere, slapped Natsumi. Nearly causing the girl to fall down.

The green haired girl was about to pounce at the young yakuza, but was immediately stopped by Hinata as he restrained Sato. Even when Sato struggled to break free, Hajime was able to hold her back.

"You bitch! How dare you say that!" Sato shouted in a rage as she tried to get out of Hajime's hold. "This time for sure. I'm going to end, once and for all!"

As Natsumi managed to compose herself, she looked at Sato with anger and was ready to attack. But before she could, Mahiru came out of nowhere and got between Sato and Natsumi so they wouldn't get close to each other.

"Both of you, stop! This is only going to make things worse!" Koizumi pleaded, struggling just as much as Hajime.

"She's right. This is getting out of hand!" Hajime added in. But the two girls didn't listen and they were mainly focused on each other. Wanting to tear each other apart.

"You really want to do this?! Cause if you do, I'll make sure you'll regret it," Natsumi growled.

"Why you little-"

"AAAAAAAH!"

Like that, Sato and Natsumi stopped arguing and Hajime and Mahiru let go of the two girls as they were taken back by the sudden scream of terror. But it wasn't just that. The four students saw multiple Reserve Course students running, heading towards Hope's Peak's school grounds.

"What the? Why are they running?" Sato spoke out, wondering what's happening.

Before anyone could respond to her question, the sound of gunfire was heard. They all turned to see one of the school's security guards as he was firing an assault rifle at something. As his gun ran out of bullets, the security guard began to reload his gun as quickly as possible. But stopped as he noticed the four students looking at him.

"What the hell are you four doing here?! Get into Hope's Peak now!" he demanded loudly.

"Why? What's going on?!" Hajime questioned the guard.

"There's no time for that! Just-"

Out of nowhere, a massive green laser hit the guard, engulfing him in the burning beam of energy. Once the beam disappeared, all that remained of the security guard was a burning skeleton. All the flesh and muscles burned off with only the tendons remaining. The skeletal corpse then fell to the ground, shattering into pieces.

The four students had a look of horror and disgust by what had just witnessed. As Hajime and Sato stood there in shock, feeling their spines shiver in fear, Mahiru covered her mouth in horror as her forehead turned blue. Even Natsumi looked down right terrified as her smug nature completely disappeared.

"H-Holy shit…" Natsumi uttered, breaking the silence.

"H-How? Why did this happen?" Mahiru questioned. "W-W-Who's responsible for this?"

Her question was answered as the four heard massive stomps being made. They all turned to the source to see something truly bizarre yet terrifying. Walking towards them their way, creating small tremors with each step, is a tall, red and blue robot with a metal staff on hand. Not only was the machine gigantic, but the way it looked showed that the robot was extremely dangerous and not to be messed with.

"Okay, I'm starting to get fucking scared, right now. What the fuck is this thing?" Natsumi uttered loudly.

"I don't know but we're not finding out. We need to get out here now," Hajime stated as he began to run towards Hope's Peak Academy as Natsumi followed suit.

Seeing this, Sato was about to run as well but stopped when she looked at Koizumi. The photographer looked completely terrified. So much so that she just stood there, not moving an inch as she was too scared to do so.

"Came on, Koizumi. We have to move now!" Sato shouted, shaking her friend to snap out of her frozen state. After a couple more shakes, the green haired girl managed to get Mahiru back to her senses.

"Sato?" the photographer uttered.

"Good, you're back. Now let's go!" Wasting no time, Sato grabbed Koizumi's wrist and the two ran towards Hope's Peak Academy.

As they ran, the robot spotted the four students as they hurried to Hope's Peak's school grounds. Using its sensors, the machine scanned Hajime and Natsumi. But found nothing on them. The robot then moved its focus on Sato and Mahiru. While there was nothing on the green haired girl, its systems picked up something on Koizumi. It was a small trace of green energy on her. Though small, it was still noticeable. With that, the machine knew what to do.

Back with the students, the four of them continued to run towards Hope's Peak Academy to get to safety and away from the threat. Hajime decided to look back to see if the robot was going after them. But to his shock, the robot was nowhere to be seen. It was like it disappeared.

"Huh guys, is it just me or did the robot disappear?" Hajime pointed out. The other three looked back and became just as shocked as he was.

"Holy shit, you're right," Natsumi said in shock. "Where the hell is-"

The young yakuza was interrupted as something landed in front of them, causing a shockwave that forced them to the ground. The four students groaned in pain as they tried to get up. Mahiru tried to pick herself up from the concrete ground until something stopped her. Standing in front of her was the robot. The machine looked down at the photographer with its green, lifeless eyes at her, not moving a single inch.

Mahiru looked up in horror as she felt her anxiety increase, her heart beating so fast that she felt like it would burst out from her chest. She felt this feeling before with the terrorist group, the Black Hawks. The feeling of helplessness and despair. Knowing that she could do nothing to escape this situation. Only this time, that feeling was increased by tenfold as this time around, it was a robot that would likely kill her, here and now. The redhead wanted to do something, anything, to get out of this predicament. But nothing came in-

"Where is the Green Lantern?"

That immediately got Mahiru out of her train of thoughts. She did not expect the robot to speak to her, let alone ask her a question.

"What?" Koizumi uttered, unclear about the question she was told.

The robot responded by stabbing its mechanical staff to the ground, a few inches near her face. Mahiru let out an "eep" as she felt even more frightened and her forehead turning purple. She even felt tears appearing in her eyes.

"My tracking system has scanned traces of green energy of will on you. Which indicates that you have encountered the Green Lantern of this sector," the machine stated, scaring Koizumi more with its emotional voice. "Provide the location of the Lantern."

The robot pulled its staff out from the concrete walkway as it aimed it as the photographer. Charging it up and ready to fire a killing blow through the girl's head.

"You have twenty seconds to comply."

"Get away from her!!!"

Coming from the left, Sato rushed towards the robot as she had a large piece of wood and smashed it onto the machine. But her attack, as expected, did nothing to scratch the android. All it did was get the robot's attention by aiming its hand at the shocked Sato, ready to kill her in one blast. Luckily and shockingly for her, Natsumi pushed her out of the way, allowing both the girls to avoid being hit by the green laser.

"Natsumi? The hell?" Sato questioned in shock, never expecting the yakuza to save her. Sato pushed the blonde girl off her as she said, "Are you trying to pull?"

"You're welcome for saving you, bitch," Natsumi replied angrily. "What were you thinking trying to fight that thing with fucking wood?!"

"I'm trying to save my best friend, that's what!" Sato shouted as she got up and was about to run towards the machine.

"I wouldn't do that!"

Sato stopped in her tracks as she turned to see Hajime, grabbing her wrist.

"And why the hell not?!" Sato yelled, yanking her arm out of Hinata's grip.

"Because it's obvious that you'll die if you fight that thing," Hajime said, reasoning with the green haired girl. "I understand what you're going through, but if you try to fight it again, you'll just die for nothing.

"So what am I supposed to do?! Just stand here and let that machine kill Mahiru?!"

Like that, Hajime stood there silent. He didn't know what to do here. He wanted to save Koizumi as much as Sato. But there was no real option they could take to get the redhead away from the robot. All he, Natsumi, and Sato could do was just stand there and watch. Waiting until the android ended the photographer's life.

Back with Koizumi, she was very much glad that Sato was saved from becoming another kill for the robot. Though she was surprised to see Natsumi, of all people, actually save her like that.

"Ten seconds. Where is the Green Lantern?"

Mahiru was brought back into reality as she remembered that the robot was still in front of her. Expected her to answer its question or die. Seeing as she had no choice in the matter, Koizumi decided to answer.

"Look… I don't know where he is. I just met him last night… after saving me and my classmates… then he left. I don't know where he is," she answered as honestly as possible. Hoping that will work.

"Your answer is not sufficient. You will tell me where the Green Lantern is."

"What?! But I'm being, honest to god, truthful with you!" Mahiru shouted, pleading for her life.

"Five… Four…"

It was at that moment that Mahiru knew… she wasn't going to escape this alive. No matter how much she would explain, the robot wouldn't listen to her. All Koizumi could do now was close her eyes and wait for the inevitable.

"Three… Two…"

Honk! Honk!

The sudden sound was enough to stop the machine from counting. The robot didn't have any time to react as it was hit by a massive green truck. Ramming the android into the woods.

Mahiru opened her eyes and looked around her in shock and confusion, wondering what just happened. Her answer came when a familiar face appeared in front of her. She smiled in relief as the superhero from last night, Green Lantern, had come to her rescue.

"Green Lantern… you're here…" Koizumi uttered.

"Of course, I'm here to help out," he said as the masked hero picked the photographer up on her feet. "Glad to see you again. And grateful that I got here on time."

"I can say the same thing," she replied with a smile. "You saved me yet again."

"Hey, it's what I do."

As the Lantern finished, he and Mahiru were approached by Hajime, Natsumi, and Sato. The three looked at Souda in complete shock and awe. In front of them was a man in a weird costume as he had a green light emitting from his body. The same light they felt had an incredible power within. The costume man was the definition of a superhero from a comic book.

"Holy shit… an actual superhero," Natsumi uttered out. "I thought redhead was making him up."

"I thought the same thing," Sato agreed with the yakuza. She shuttered at the fact that both her and Natsumi agreed on something for once.

"This is unreal," Hajime muttered.

Kazuichi looked at the three and saw that they were fine. So he decided to do his heroic duty. "It looks like you guys are alright. Is this all of you or is there anyone else?"

"It's just us," Hajime spoke out. "I'm pretty sure that the school is going to be evacuated because of this."

"Alright then, all of you go to Hope's Peak and join in the evacuation," Green Lantern said as he floated in the air.

"What are you going to do?" Natsumi asked.

"I'm going to deal with that robot," Souda replied as he was about to fly.

"Hold it!"

But he was stopped when he heard someone call out to him. He turned to see Sato, staring at him in anger. "Why should we trust you with dealing with that thing?"

Souda looked at her in confusion as he raised one of his eyebrows. "What are you talking about?"

"Yeah, he seems like he wants to help," Hajime told Sato, trying to get her to drop this.

"I don't buy it!" Sato shouted at Hinata before she looked back at Green Lantern. "That damn machine mentioned you when it was about to kill Mahiru! Saying that it wants you! So what's that all about?! Were you trying to lure it here?!"

Kazuichi was understandably shocked to hear this from Sato. When he saw this machine in the news, killing anyone in it's way, he knew that the robot was nothing but trouble. But to hear that it tried to kill Koizumi and was looking for him specifically brought him more worry. He didn't fully know what the machine is, but now knows that it's a lot more dangerous than he thought.

"Sato, you can't accuse him of something like that! He saved my life!" Mahiru told her friend.

"We don't know anything about this guy! For all we know, he could be doing all this for attention!" Sato argued.

"All of you, join the evacuation, now. I'm not saying it again," Kazuichi told them in a more serious tone.

"Hey, you never answered my question! Why is that robot after you?!" Sato yelled out.

"That's what I want to know."

With that simple response, Souda flew away from the group as he made his way towards the machine. He looked back to see that Koizumi was able to get her friend to get moving and run into the Main Course's school grounds. Sighing in relief that they did what he told him, Souda won't have to worry about them getting in the way. All he had to do was stop this robot and prevent it from getting near the students.

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At the crash site, we see the robot lay on the ground as rooted trees and dirt covered it after being hit by a truck. However, the machine looked fine as it tossed the trees off it and let the dirt fall off as it stood up. Once fully up, the machine's sensors picked up an energy source that was heading it's way. The robot looked up to see Green Lantern Souda fly down and landed near it. Once Kazuichi was in front of the machine, he took a good look at it as the machine did the same.

Despite it not being a living creature, Souda could feel the amount of power it had. Being up close to the machine, he can definitely see the amount of fear it displayed. He was starting to feel a bit of anxiety. Can anyone blame him, this thing was responsible for killing so many people and causing massive damage to his city and school the moment it showed up. He knew that the machine was nothing but trouble and had to take care of it, immediately. Even if a part of him wasn't sure that he could do this, the mechanic had to try. So with that in mind, Souda decided to speak.

"Okay, what the hell are you and why are you here?"

"Green Lantern of sector 2814, identified. Target in sight."

"Answer my question, asshole! Who are you?!" he shouted as he had his ring aimed at him.

"I am a Manhunter. And I am here to complete my given objective."

"And what objective is that?"

"To kill you."

That answer was enough to tense up Souda. He now knew that this would be a fight for his life. He was starting to become afraid, considering the mechanic is still a rookie when using the ring. He was beyond nervous since he barely even knew how to fight. He was extremely grateful that his helmet and mask hid that emotion well. But despite all, he knew that he had to take care of this Manhunter. Cause he was the only one who could. So he forced down his fear and anxiety and prepared for battle.

"If that's the case, I'm going to have to take you down."

The Manhunter responded as it wielded its staff and activated it, sending out sparks of electricity from it.

"You are incorrect. Your power is nothing against the Manhunters."

"We'll see about that."

The two fighters, the Green Lantern and Manhunter, stood there. Not moving an inch. Staring at each other as they waited for who would make the first move. While it had been a couple seconds of waiting, Souda felt that he was waiting for minutes. Waiting for either him or the machine would make the first move. After a long wait, one of them finally made a move.

Souda charged up his ring and fired a massive beam at the Manhunter. Hitting hotter than the surface of the sun, Kazuichi kept this up until he was certain that the machine was destroyed. However, he was met with a surprise as the Manhunter came out from the laser beam and punched Souda in the stomach, sending him flying into the air. The Green Lantern barely had any time to process what just happened as the Manhunter appeared at his side and struck him with its staff to the right. Then the machine appeared above Souda and slammed both its fists at him, launching him to the ground below and creating a crater.

Kazuichi groaned in pain as he tried to get himself back up. But the Manhunter appeared and grabbed his leg. The robot slowly dragged him then smashed the mechanic multiple trees nearby. Despite the pain, Souda was able to retaliate by shooting a beam at the Manhunter's head. Now free, Souda attacks by creating a sleight hammer contract and swings it at the machine. Though he got a hit, the Manhunter was quick to retaliate and fired a laser beam from its hand and blasted the Green Lantern a feet away from it. The machine jumped towards the mechanics ready to stab him with its staff. Though Souda was quick enough to fly and evade the attack, causing the Manhuhter to stab the ground instead.

This left the Manhunter wide open for an attack as Kazuichi fired missile constructs at it. The mechanic continued his barrage of missiles at it, not letting for a second. But then the Manhunter flew to Souda, tanking the missile with ease, and headbutting him with its metal head. Kazuichi winced in pain as the machine grabbed him and threw him hard in the air. The Manhunter used its staff to fire off bolts of electricity at the Lantern. Though Souda was quick to recover and evaded the lighting with his flight. Seeing this, the robot flew after him as it fired more lighting bolts at the Lantern. It became a dog fight in the skies as Souda fires green lasers while the Manhunter fires lightning blasts. As well as evade each other's attacks to the best of their abilities. However, the android managed to close the distance with the green lantern and smacked him with his metal staff twice, sending the teen crashing to the ground below.

Bouncing off the ground, Kazuichi fell back to the dirt, laying face down, gasping in pain. The mechanic laid there, feeling tired and sore from the robot's attacks. As the teen pushed him to get back up, the Manhunter had landed near him and began to move towards the Lantern. Seeing this, Souda aims his ring at the machine to attack. But the Manhunter was quick to grab onto his ring hand. Kazuichi shouted and groaned in pain as the metal hand was crushing his hand. He tried to escape but it was all in vain. The android lifted up the Green Lantern and raised him to meet it eye to eye.

"It's over."

The Manhunter proceeded to knee kick in the stomach, causing Souda to cough and gasp in pain. Then the machine aimed his metal staff at his chest and blasted the lantern with a beam of electricity. Pushing the poor teen through multiple trees and creating an explosion that engulfed Kazuichi.

The Manhunter looked at the smoky site, analyzing it with its systems, finding any signs of the Green Lantern. It found nothing and determined that the Lantern was dead.

"Green Lantern of Sector 2814 has been exterminated. Initiating the next objective."

The Manhunter began to use its sensors to scan the entire planet. Scanning every living creature, every mineral, every element, pretty everything about this blue planet. Once it was finished with its scanning, the android gave out its report.

"This planet, while small, has large amounts of necessary resources. Along with a large population of the dominated species. All beneficial for the cult. New objective: enslave this planet for the cult."

With its new goal in mind, the Manhunter was about to do just that. But then suddenly, the machine was hit, in the back of the head, by a green missile. While it didn't damage the machine, the attack managed to stagger it a bit.

"Like I'm letting you do that."

Recomposing itself, the Manhunter turned around to see Kazuichi Souda. While he looked injured, the teen stood before the machine, ready to continue their fight.

"The only thing that's going to happen is me reducing you into scrap metal," he said in a threatening tone.

"It seems that I have miscalculated your durability and usage over your ring." Manhunter set its metal staff at its maximum level so the electricity is at its most lethal. "I will not repeat this mistake."

(21. Kakarot vs Broly DBS: Broly Original Soundtrack)

Despite his fear and pain he was feeling, Souda was all the more determined to take down this machine. So when the android flew at the Lantern, ready to attack him with its staff, Kazuichi flew into the skies to evade the attack. He continued to fly higher and higher as the Manhunter chased after him. Though interestingly, Souda made sure that the ring was aimed at the machine.

'Come on, come on. Hurry up,' the mechanic thought to himself.

At that moment, the ring blinked a few times to indicate that it was done.

"Scanning complete. Full schematics of the Manhunter have been downloaded."

"Thank god," Souda said in relief as he created a blueprint construct in his hands. He read through every single piece and details about the machine at a fast pace. After seeing its power and taking a beating from the robot, Kazuichi knew that he had to play smart here. So with his mechanic mind, the teen had his ring secretly scan the Manhunter on its structure, weaponry, programming, anything on the android. As he read through the schematics, the mechanic had to dodge every blast of electricity from the machine. He kept evading the attacks as the teen and robot flew out of the earth's atmosphere, entering space.

This went for a bit until the Manhunter managed to close the gap and punch the Green Lantern back into the earth's atmosphere. Although the mechanic was set on fire by reentry, Souda's focus never broke out from reading the blueprints. As he was heading closer to the earth below, the teen head finally finished reading.

"Okay, I got a good idea of what to do," Kazuichi said, discarding the blueprints and let them disappear. He quickly regained control and stopped falling. With that, the Green Lantern flew back to the skies and went straight towards the machine. While the Manhunter fired more electric blasts, Souda was able to evade them. As he was getting close to the robot, Kazuichi formed a mechanical gauntlet and reeled it back, forming a fist. The Manhunter did the same as it formed a fist. Once they were inches away, the Lantern's and android's punch collided, creating a massive green shockwave. Pushing back the clouds around them, clearing the sky.

The collision pushed back the Lantern and robot. Though Souda was quick to recover and immediately created a minigun construct and fired away at the machine. While some bullets hit the android, the Manhunter was able to evade them and fire more lightning bolts at the teen. It was once more an air board dog fight as a barrage of green bullets and lightning blasts filled the sky. Kazuichi even fired a couple missiles at the robot and one of them managed to hit it head on. While it did some noticeable damage, the Manhunter still flew at the mechanic and whacked him with its staff; launching him to the ground below and creating a large crater.

The robot flew downwards to the down Lantern, ready to stab him with its stab. But it did that, Manhunter noticed that the Green Lantern was gone. Elsewhere, Souda flew out from the ground, using a new ability he figured out, which was intangibility, and began using his ring. Creating a bullet train, Souda commanded to run at full speed, ramning the machine. The train continued pushing the robot through multiple trees until it picked up the train, along with its carts, and threw the vehicle away. It then flew at the Green Lantern. But Souda was ready for Manhunter as he had created multiple vehicles, racing cars, trucks, and a jet plane, and had them charge at the android. The android paid no heed to this as it flew through the vehicle constructs with ease. As the robot was about to punch Kazuichi, he used his intangibility to faze through the machine. He used this opportunity and fired more rockets behind the Manhunter.

Despite the surprise attack, the Manhunter was quick to react and knew what to do. The machine flew after Souda as he fired laser beams at it. As the robot was getting close to him, the mechanic was ready to faze through it with his intangibility. But when he did that, the android activated some kind of green energy around it that stopped Souda in his tracks, unable to faze through the machine. Shocked by this, Kazuichi was left wide open for the Manhunter to electrocute him with its staff. The mechanic screamed in pain as he was dealt with 50 million volts of electricity. Eventually, the lightning launches him many feet away.

As the Manhunter was about to give chase, a green box fell on top of its head and into it's free hand. Before the robot could do anything, the green box opened and a spring loaded boxing glove came out, socking the machine. This not only stunned the android, but the attack forced it to drop its staff. As the metal staff fell, Souda flew to it and grabbed the weapon. Once in his hands, the mechanic surrounded the weapon with a green shield and crushed it into pieces. Letting the pieces fall, Kazuichi flew back to Manhunter as he created green gauntlets with spikes on the knuckles.

"Not so tough without your metal stick!" he shouted as he punched the robot's face. Despite making a dent, the robot quickly retaliated by blasting him with a green energy beam, forcing him to crash to the ground below.

"Okay, I stand corrected," Souda uttered, groaning in pain.

When he looked up, Kazuichi saw the Manhunter flying towards him like a missile. The mechanic didn't waste anytime as he created a shield bubble around him and protected him from the full powered tackle. The tackle was strong enough to push him and the robot through the ground as they dug deeper and deeper into the earth's crust. Enough they enter inside an underground cave filled with lava.

Diving into the lake of molten rock, the Manhunter laid a barrage of punches to the green shield before shattering it and grabbing the Lantern by the neck. Thinking quickly, Kazuichi gathered a large amount of energy to create a massive spherical shockwave that pushed the machine off him, and as an added bonus, caused damage to one of the robot's hands, taking away its ability to fire its energy beams from it.

Quick to retaliate, Souda created another construct around him in the form of a drill. The Green Lantern rammed at the Manhunter at incredible speeds in both movement and spinning. The drill caused some good damage to the robot as they dug their way back up through the earthy terrain. They eventually made it back to surface as the two opponents separated from each other. Despite the amount of pain Souda was feeling throughout his body and the occasional twitches due to the electricity, the mechanic was glad to see that his efforts were rewarded as he saw that he caused damage to the Manhunter and slowly cripple it.

"Okay, I've done some actual damage to it," Souda said as he lit up his ring. "But I still have a long way to go."

Kazuichi created a sledgehammer construct before charging at the Manhunter as the android did the same. The hammer swing and mechanical fist collided as they created another shockwave.

(Music End)

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Back in Hope's Peak Academy, things were getting chaotic. Students were running out from the buildings, pushing each other to get out of the school. Although school security were doing their best to keep things in order, the large student horde made that difficult.

One of them was a tall, intimidating looking, muscular, tan man with short dark greenish-grey hair and pink eyes. His facial looks expressed intimation and anger. He also wore a blue security uniform like the rest of security. This man is Juzo Sakakura, once Ultimate Boxer, now Head of Security for Hope's Peak Academy.

The Ultimate Boxer was currently not liking the situation at hand. First he gets reports that some intruder breaks into the school and that a couple of his staff are dead. Even worse was that a few students from the Reserve Course were killed as well. So now he and his staff had to evacuate everyone out of the school. Only problem is that every student was in a state of chaos as they were desperately trying to escape. Even some of the teachers were in a state of panic. Because of this, Juzo was having a hard time here.

"I told you idiots! No pushing! We'll get you all out of here so stop panicking!" Juzo shouted, though the crowd didn't listen.

"God damn it, to think that something like this would happen. What's even attacking us?" the boxer uttered to himself.

"Sakakura!"

The Head of Security turned to see Yukizome, his college and friend, running towards him, with a worried look on her.

"Yukizome," Juzo greeted her.

"Juzo, I need your help," she said in a pleading matter.

"Can't exactly help you here. Considering I have to deal with this mess," Juzo said, pointing at the mass of panicking students.

"Please Juzo, it's one of my students. I can't find her, Chisa said.

"Chisa, if she's missing, she'll likely be within the crowd and evacuate from the school," Juzo told her.

"Juzo, like my class, my student was involved in a terrorist attack, so I don't want her to deal with any more stress like this," Chisa argued back.

Before the boxer could say anything else, someone called them out. They turned to see Mahiru, Hajime, Natsumi, and Sato running towards them.

"Miss Chisa!" Mahiru yelled, glad to her teacher.

"Koizumi!" Chisa said in relief, hugging her student. "Thank goodness you're alright."

"See, I told you she would be fine," Juzo pointed out.

Chisa ignored her friend as she paid her attention to her student. "Koizumi, where were you? I was worried sick."

"I'm sorry for making you worry. But now's not the time. We have to get out of the school," Mahiru told her teacher.

"We're kinda doing that already," Juzo said.

"Okay, but we have to get everyone out now or else we're all going to die," Mahiru warned them.

"What do you mean by that?" Chisa asked in concern.

"What she means is that we encountered the killer behind this," Sato added in.

"Wait, you all saw the intruders? If so, how many are there and what do they look like?" Juzo questioned.

"It's not a group of people. It's hard to believe but it's not a group of people," Hinata intervened. "But rather… it's a robot that's attacking the school."

Juzo and Chisa looked at the reserve course student with an understandable confused look.

"What kind of sick sense of humor is this? This is no time for fucking jokes!" Sakakura shouted at Hajime, obviously displeased by this.

"This isn't a damn joke! There's some giant, killing robot in the school. All of us saw it with our very own eyes!" Natsumi argued loudly.

"She's right. There's a robot wreaking havoc to the school," Sato spoke out, shuddering once more at agreeing with the yakuza girl.

"Okay, let's say that there's this killer robot on the loose in our school. Then why the hell isn't the robot here, wrecking havoc?" the Ultimate Boxer questioned them.

"Because there's someone stopping it and buying us time. And that someone is the Green Lantern," Koizumi answered.

"Green Lantern?" Juzo said, not understanding any of this nonsense.

"Wait, Green Lantern is here?" Chisa asked, sounding relieved by this.

Mahiru nodded as she said, "Uh huh, he saved our lives from that machine. So we need to leave so we don't get in his way."

"Oksy, this is sounding ridiculous! Chisa, you can't believe this crap!" Juzo shouted in anger and confusion.

"Juzo, I know it sounds ridiculous but the Green Lantern is real. I saw him myself along with my class yesterday. If he's real, then the robot to an extent is real too. So they're not making this up," Yukizome told Sakakura, trying to convince him.

Juzo still didn't look convinced as expressed, "I'm sorry but there is no way I'm going to believe something like a Green Lantern fighting some killer robot."

As he finished, a green light appeared from the skies and crashed through one of the school's buildings near them then fell to the ground, creating a crater. Luckily, no one was around the crash area so there was no need to worry about any injuries. Though that didn't take away the shocked and spooked looks the group had as well as other bystanders.

"What was that?" Hajime wondered.

"I don't know, but I'm going to find out," Juzo stated as he turned to one of the guards. "I want you to continue the evacuation! I'll go check it out!"

Juzo ran off towards the crash site as Chisa ran after him. "Hold on, I'm coming too!" she yelled, running after him.

"Should we go after them?" Mahiru asked.

"Probably not. Besides, Green Lantern was adamant about us leaving the school with everyone else. Besides, we just get in the way," Hajime acknowledged.

"You're right. All we can do is get out of here and hope that Green Lantern can deal with the robot," Natsumi added in.

"Pfff, I still don't see why you guys are putting your fate in this guy. We barely know anything about him. For all we know, he's not strong enough to beat the robot. So why put so much faith in him?" Sato questioned, still not trusting of the Green Lantern.

"Sato, I know it seems weird for me to just trust him," Koizumi began to explain. "But when I saw him, I just felt like I knew that everything would be fine as long as he was there. Like I knew him. Besides, he saved my life before, I'm sure he can do it again."

Sato was very much taken back by what her friend said. The fact that Mahiru put Green Lantern on such a high regard like that was fascinating. Especially since she was known for her opinion on men. Despite that, Sato still couldn't bring herself to completely trust the green man.

"I don't know. What if he fails and loses to this thing?" Sato asked.

"I'm hoping he does. Since he seems like the only one that can actually be a match with that thing. If he loses, then we all lose," Hajime pointed out, putting his faith toward the Lantern.

"For now, let's get out of here. I nearly died from that thing. I'm not going through that again," Natsumi expressed.

With that, the group joined the other students to evacuate from the school. For all they can do now is wait and hope that the Green Lantern can stop this threat.

---

At the crash site, Souda slowly got back up on his feet as he groaned in pain. "God damn, why is this robot so hard to destroy?" he said in frustration.

As he was soothing his sore spots, Kazuichi heard someone call him out.

"Hey you!"

Souda turned to see Juzo as he looked at him with an angry look on him. "You better tell me who the hell you are?! Or else!" Juzo shouted, getting into a boxing stance.

'Oh god, not him of all people,' Souda thought to himself, cringing to see Juzo here. While he never had to deal with the guy, the mechanic was well aware of how angry the guy can get when things go wrong. So angry that most rationality is thrown out the window. He really didn't want to deal with the boxer. Especially since the Manhunter can come at any second.

Luckily, Chisa came onto the scene and managed to stop Sakakura from doing anything reckless.

"Juzo, stop! He's not a threat! He's the Green Lantern I told you about," Yukizome told her friend, trying to calm him down.

'Oh thank whoever that she's here,' Souda thought in relief.

"Wait, that's the Green Lantern?!" Juzo shouted in disbelief, looking at the green man before turning back to Yukizome. "Chisa, he looks like a cheap halloween costume little kids wear. You think I can take him seriously?"

"I'm standing right here, you know," Souda uttered quietly, annoyed.

"Juzo, he saved me and my classroom, I know we can trust him," Yukizome told her friend.

"Chisa, for all we know, he could be the reason this whole thing is happening," Sakakura argued.

Seeing as the two adults were arguing, Kazuichi decided he would try to break it up before things got out of hand. But then he heard something, the sound of something coming at them at mach speeds. Realizing the danger, Souda immediately created a shield around him, Chisa, and Juzo. Right on cue, the shield took on the full force of the charging of the Manhunter. The mechanic felt his body wince by the pressure his shield had to endure. Yukizome and Sakakura were in a state of shock by what had just happened. They barely had time to react before the Manhunter began to punch the shield multiple times to break through.

As Souda stood his ground, using all his concentration to keep the shield up, Chisa and Juzo looked in awe and shock by all of this. Especially the boxer as he saw the robot right in his very eyes.

"Holy shit, the robot's real," he uttered.

"I'll say," Chisa replied as she looked in panic, hoping that this machine won't get them.

As the Manhunter continued to pound away at the force field, Juzo decided to speak up. "Lantern, I hope you have a good idea on how to get us out of here."

"Kinda hard to do when I'm dealing with this," Souda retorted. As he said that, the three of them noticed small cracks appear around the shield, indicating that it was close to shattering.

"Okay, if any of you two got any ideas, I'm all up for it!" Souda shouted as he began to panic a little.

"M-Maybe you can create a weapon of some kind… like a gun or an RPG?" Chisa suggested, saying whatever came in mind.

"Are you serious? From the way I'm seeing this, it's going to take more than that to hurt the damn thing," Juzo pointed out. "You'll need a fucking cannon for this. A military one at that."

Hearing that gave Souda an idea as he remembered one weapon that can help them. So with that in mind, he turned to Juzo and said, "Hey, Juzo was it, are all the people from the Reserve Course building evacuated?"

Juzo was a little confused by this question but answered it anyway. "Well… of course. They were the first to be evacuated since the threat was closer to them. So the building's completely empty."

"Sounds good. Also, sorry for any damages I'm going to cause."

"Wait, what do you mean by that?"

Souda didn't answer his question as prepared to initiate his plan. As the shield was close to shattering, the mechanic waited for the right moment to act. As the Manhunter was about to punch the shield once more, the Lantern used his ring to cause the shield to burst, creating a massive energy shockwave that pushed the robot into the air. When the machine was about to retaliate, Kazuichi had already created an artillery gun and immediately fired it. Creating a large explosion and blasting was Manhunter away as it crashed into the Reserve Course building.

Souda winced a bit when he saw the damage he and the robot caused at the Reserve Course building. 'God, I hope I don't have to play for the damages.' he thought.

Souda then looked back to Juzo and Chisa as they were a bit shaken by what had just happened. "You two alright?" Kazuichi asked.

"Y-Yeah, I-I'm fine," Juzo answered in a stutter.

"S-Same here," Yukizome replied.

"Good to hear," Souda said in relief before he continued. "Now that you guys know the threat first hand, I trust that you two will focus on getting everyone evacuated as soon as possible?"

"After seeing that thing, I'm making sure none of my men go after it," Juzo admitted, feeling shakened from witnessing the robot's power.

"Good then spread the word that no one is to try to fight this thing no matter what. Got it?" Souda told them.

"You got it. But I expected you to deal with that robot and defeat it," Chisa said.

Souda nodded back at the teacher and replied, "I plan to."

Just then, the three heard multiple high pitch sounds. As if something was flying through the air at hypersonic speeds. They looked up to see multiple lights coming out from the Reserve Course building and into the sky.

"What the hell is that?" Juzo wondered, looking at the bright lights.

As they looked in curiosity by this, Souda took a closer look at them. Thanks to his enhanced eyesight from the ring, the mechanic was able to see what they were. And what he saw made him shake his core in fear. What he saw was multiple missiles flying up high through the air until they started to descend down, towards his location and the still evacuating students.

"Shit…" he uttered before turning to Chisa and Juzo. "Both of you! Get out of here now!"

"What, why?" Yukizome asked.

"Missiles!" he shouted as Kazuichi flew into the air to stop the assault.

Souda flew high in the air, heading straight towards the missiles. Once close enough, Kazuichi created a minigun and laid fire at the missiles. He was able to destroy most of them with only three missiles left. He was about to shoot them down, but was suddenly struck by a green energy beam. Souda was able to stop himself from falling and regain control to see what had happened. He was met with the Manhunter as it fired more laser beams at the lantern, forcing him into evasive action.

"God damn it! I don't have time for this!" he shouted, focusing his attention on both trying to shoot down the last remaining missiles while also dodging the machine's attacks.

"Your needs are invalid. All that awaits you is death."

As the Green Lantern continued to evade the laser beams, Souda was able to fire at two of the missiles, destroying them. Now all he needs is to get the last one before it's too late. As he tried to get to the missile, the Manhunter managed to get close and slam the Green Lantern to the ground. Kazuichi tried to get up but was stopped as the robot stomped on his back, pinning him down. The mechanic struggled to escape but the machine's strength and weight were too much to break free.

"Your struggle is inevitable. You will die here," the Manhunter said as it aimed it's hand at Souda, ready to blast him with a laser beam.

Souda began to panic as he didn't know what to do. He was pinned down and he had no idea what construct to use to get him out of this. Kazuichi looked around to see what he could to escape his predictable but found nothing. That is until he looked at the ground. That instantly gave him an idea.

Acting fast, Souda aimed his ring at the ground and blasted it at full power. This not only blasted him and the Manhunter high into the air, but allowed Kazuichi the chance to escape. Using this, Souda towards the last missile. As the missile was getting close to hitting a crowd of students, all screaming in terror at the sight, the Green Lantern was quick enough to create a bubble around the missile. Allowing it to explode within the bubble thus preventing any casualties.

Sighing in relief, Souda paid his attention back to the Manhunter it was currently flying towards the mechanic. Seeing this, Kazuichi flew up high into the sky and the robot followed. He was glad for this as Souda needed to get this machine away from the students and teachers. As the two flew up high, out of the planet's atmosphere and into outer space, the Manhunter began to fire more missiles at the Green Lantern. This time, the missiles were following them specifically.

"Of course it has heat seeking missiles!" Souda groaned in frustration.

Kazuichi soared through the air as he evaded the missiles that nearly hit him. All the while he had to with the Manhunter still on his tail as it fired more green lasers at him. While this was a stressful situation, Souda was able to use some clever thinking to use robot's lasers to destroy a few missiles as he shot down some as well. Though there were still a few missiles left.

"Come on think. I need a way to disarm this machine or I'm doom," Souda said to himself. He brainstormed for an idea that could help him here. Despite the sound of the missiles chasing him at high speeds and the Manhunter shooting its laser at him, an idea finally popped into the mechanic's head.

Souda pointed his ring close to his face as he said, "Ring, at my command, I'm going to need you to use a large amount of power into defense. Is that clear?"

"Affirmative. But be warned. Current power level is at 45%."

"Great to hea-" Kazuichi stopped talking when he heard that. Confused by this, he confronted the ring for his question. "45%? What the hell do you mean by that? And when does jewelry act like a phone?

"The power ring, while powerful, carries a finite charge. So it is important for a Green Lantern to frequently charge their rings on a daily basis from their power batteries."

"And you're telling me this now because?!" Souda shouted, demanding an answer.

"You never asked."

"Frickin' smartass," the mechanic muttered in frustration.

Despite this unforeseen issue, this wouldn't stop Souda from going through with his plan. So the Green Lantern flew around the sky some more before he was able to fly straight towards the Manhunter with the missiles still chasing him. As he was getting close, Kazuichi fired his own laser beam at the robot, creating a smokescreen around it. With his plan working, he flies above the machine to let it get attacked by the missiles. But as he was above the smoke screen, something grabbed onto his leg, stopping him from moving. Looking down, Souda saw the Manhunter as it now had a strong grip on him. Without saying a word, the robot chuck the Green Lantern at the missiles. Kazuichi screamed as he was bombarded by the remaining missiles, engulfing him in a massive explosion.

The Manhunter looked at the explosion with its expressionless eyes, scanning it for any readings of life. Although it found nothing, the machine recalled how this Green Lantern was much more durable than it had calculated. So not wanting to take any chances, the Manhunter opened its shoulder compartments and was ready to fire more missiles in the area. But just then, the Green Lantern flew out from the explosion and headed towards the robot.

"Got you!" Souda shouted as he proceeded with his plan.

Kazuichi created two bubble constructs around the shoulders of the Manhunter. As he did that, the android had fired off its missiles. But because of the bubble constructs, the missiles explode on contact as well as the Manhunter from the inside. This created a massive explosion that was stronger than any nuclear weapon on the planet, combined. It almost resembled a miniature sun in a way.

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Back with Juzo and Chisa, the two were currently running out of the school as they passed through the gate. As they did, they were spooked as the entire area began to light up brightly. The two looked up and were greeted with a shining explosion in the sky that almost looked like the sun. It was so bright that they had to cover their eyes.

"What the hell is going on up there?" Juzo questioned.

"Not sure, but I hope that Green Lantern is winning," Chisa replied.

"Hope you're right cause I doubt anyone of us here can take it on," Juzo admitted as he and Yukizome continued to run and check up with the others.

Back to the action, the explosion lasted for a couple seconds until it eventually disappeared. Though a massive smoke cloud remained. Out of the smoke cloud was Souda as he was blasted back by the shockwaves of the explosion. Despite the strong shockwaves that were pushing him towards the ground, Kazuichi was able to gain control and stop himself from falling. With all that done, the mechanic landed on the ground and then sat on the ground. He breathed heavily as he was beyond exhausted. He was also very much sore and had scratches all over him due to the fight.

Souda looked up at the massive smoke cloud as he sighed in relief. "Thank god… it's over. Now… I can rest," he said, still gasping for air.

As his breathing was starting to get back to normal, Souda noticed something. Within the smoke cloud, he could have sworn he saw something come out from it. Out of curiosity, Kazuichi took a closer look at the sight in greater detail. What he saw made his eyes widen in shock.

Coming out from the smoke cloud was the Manhunter. And looked completely different from before. Many parts of its armor were gone, especially with its shoulder compartments. But the rest of the armor had melted. Infusing with it's now, mostly exposed exoskeleton. There were even some parts of it that showed sparks and free wiring. One feature on the robot was that half its face was broken off, exposing a single, circular green light. Now looking like a robotic zombie of some kind, the Manhunter flew downwards at Souda. In the intent to kill him.

"Oh you have got to be kidding me," Souda groaned in frustration as he forced himself back up. The mechanic held his ring close to him as he asked, "Ring, how much power do we have?"

"Power level is at 36%"

"Fine by me. Let's get this over with."

Forcing himself back up, Kazuichi used the ring once more and took flight. Forming green mechanical gauntlets in the process. Once the two got close, the Manhunter began to unleash a flurry of punches, even throwing a couple kicks as well, at the Green Lantern. Though Kazuichi was fast to evade them then delivered his own punch when the opportunity presented itself. As the fight continued, the mechanic noticed that the machine wasn't firing its laser beams anymore. All it was doing was trying to get close to him to attack. With that, Souda realized that the robot no longer had any of its weapons. It was completely defenseless, though still dangerous to fight. Knowing this, the Green Lantern knew what he had to do.

Souda now focused on evading the Manhunter's attacks, allowing it to get close. As this went, Kazuichi would find an opening he was looking for and commence his plan. Flying below the android, he created a green construct that wrapped around the machine's feet and legs. With that, Souda used all his strength to crush them with enough force to completely shut down its rockets. Disabling its ability to fly.

"Time to bring you back to earth!" Souda shouted as he pulled the Manhunter, with his construct, and threw the robot to the ground. Allowing the machine to crash land and create a crater in the process. As Kazuichi looked down at the sight, he began to rethink what had just said and cringed a little.

"God, I got to work on my quips," he told himself as the mechanic flew after the robot.

As Souda landed near the crater, the Manhunter jumped out from it and charged at the Green Lantern. With the android completely wide open, Souda created a green cage around the machine. The robot began to punch the cage in order to break it and escape. But Kazuichi used all his concentration and will to make sure that the cage can withstand its attacks. He then shrank the cage to not only restrain the machine's movement, but begin to slowly crush the Manhunter.

Seeing the situation, the mechanic began to let out a chuckle. "I got to admit, I thought that I was going to lose this fight. But it seems luck favored me today," Souda said happily. "Now that you're completely defenseless, it's time to end this once and for all."

Souda wasted no time and had the cage shrink and it began crushing the Manhunter. Though this was a slow process as his ring was running low on power and that robot is extremely durable. So it would take some time before the deed was done. As the cage slowly got smaller, the Manhunter spoke.

"It seems that I have miscalculated. Despite being categorized as a rookie, you show potential to become a powerful Green Lantern."

Souda let out a small, awkward laugh by being called a rookie. "It was that obvious?"

"However, that power alone will not defeat me. I will escape this and I will kill you like the other Green Lanterns that tried to stop me."

Kazuichi felt some anger rise in him from hearing that. "You bastard. Too bad that I'm making sure you'll never kill anyone again," he growled, applying more pressure to the cage. He even heard a few cracks be made on the machine.

"I will kill you... like I did to this sector's previous protector."

"The hell you on abo-"

"Like I did to Abin Sur."

Like that, all his anger completely went away. Souda looked at the Manhunter with complete utter shock by what he had just heard. For this machine to utter out that name, it was surprising to say the least.

"W-What?"

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Aaaaaaaannnnnnnd that's a wrap. Sorry for the cliffhanger but this chapter was starting to get too long as is.

Also, I wanted to point something out with this story in case people ask any questions about it. For this story, for the DC part, I will only be focusing on the Green Lantern mythos and the DC Multiverse. So other characters like Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman, etc. will not be featured in this. I know this might disappoint a couple of you but I want to mainly focus on the Green Lantern mythos since the others of DC comics have their huge lore as is. Hope this doesn't upset anyone.

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