Chapter 4: Coast City and Watchtower.
3 years later.
flying through space, Garfield Logan, now age 13 has been flying by as he is currently in a race.
"I can out race you, Arisia!" Garfield told as he pass by a meteor.
"Not if I beat you and Ch'p!" Arisia respond as she flew pass a star.
"No way I'm getting beaten by a bunch of kids!" Ch'p retorts as he flies faster.
At the finish line, Katma stood at the finish line with Kilowag as she prepares to declare the winner.
"This is perfect training exercise for Garfield and Arisia." she comments as she looks around "Where's Soranik?"
As the three were close to the finish line, a blur went pass them causing them to lose their balance as the blur pass through the finish line.
"Perfect timing, Soranik." Kilowag comments.
"Thanks, uncle Kilowag." Soronik replied. Soranik is the daughter of Sinestro, who mysteriously disappeared at his space sector a year ago. She is a 15-year-old girl wearing a black suit with a green triangular part of her uniform with the Corps symbol under her V-shape neckline.
"Man, can't believe you beat us again, Sora." Garfield comments as he, Arisia, and Ch'p made it as they catch their breaths.
"What can I say Gar, I'm just too fast you ya." Soranik replied with a cheeky wink. "Maybe next time we should make a bet."
"What kind of bet?" Garfield inquires.
"Oh, I'll think of something." Soranik answered with a smirk.
"Alright, lets recharge our rings and head back to Oa, okay?" Katma orders as the group nodded in agreement as they bring out their lanters and held their rings at them as they spoke the Green Lantern Oath.
"In brightest day, in blackest night, No evil shall escape my sight. Let those who worship evil's might, Beware my power, Green Lantern's light!" they all said as their rings instantly recharge as they fly back to Oa.
Garfield flew all over Oa as he spots Hal Jordan "Hey Hal, how's it going?" Garfield asked his fellow human Lantern.
"Not much, Gar. I'm actually heading home." Hal answered his fellow Earthling.
"Home? As in Earth?" Garfield inquired.
"Yeah." Hal replied before he saw the look in the boy's eyes. "Say Gar, you wouldn't actually want to come with me. Would you?"
"Really!?" Garfield yelled in excitment. "You'd let me come with you!?"
"Sure, Gar. In public you can be my 'alien' sidekick, but in private you are a meta human Lantern." Hal replied.
"Sweet! I can dig being your alien sidekick!" Garfield exclaims in joy as he can't wait to be at Earth.
"Alright Kid, we're going to Coast City my home town. But I must warn you, there are some bad guys in my city." Hal told him.
"Bad guys? Like who?" Garfield inquires.
Well there's Dr. Polaris, Shade, Icicle, just some C-listers, no biggie." Hal told him.
"Sounds awesome, Hal." Garfield commented like a child all over again. "Let's go! I just need to tell G'nort, Ch'p, Arisia, Soranik, Katama, and Kilowog goodbye." He told the older Lantern before he took off.
Hal waited forty minutes before the green teenager came back with a big smile on his face and a lip stick mark on his cheek.
"Looks like Gar got some kissy action." Hal commented with a snicker.
"Shut up." Garfield yelled in embarassment. "It won't come off!"
"When Lantern girls stake their claims they really stake their claims." Hal joked as the boy blushed bright red, but it was more like brown.
"Let's go already." Garfield said as he and Hal Jordon flies towards Earth.
Coast City's one of the most well known cities known to have the hero Green Lantern to reside. The city's also famous for it's aircraft history and space station and the home of Ferris Aircrafts. Also known as "the City without Fear."
Hal Jordan and Garfield Logan made it into Hal's apartment as they both take their rings off revealing their civilian identities. Hal is wearing his flight suit as Garfield wears a blue t-shirt and jeans.
"Wow, Coast City's a really cool place." Garfield states as he looks out at the window to look at the tall buildings.
"Yes it is. My favorite part is Carol Ferris." Hal stated as he joined the boy at the window. "Just remember that nobody can see you in my apartment or they will make the connection between my civilian life and my hero life."
"What?" Garfield asked in confusion.
"It's called a secret identity, Gar. It's to protect the life of people that I care about." Hal informed.
"I wish I had a secret identity. People probably think that Garfield Mark Logan died five years ago." Garfield replied with sadness.
"Hmm." Hal ponders as he snaps his fingers "I know, you can change into any animals, can you?"
"Well yeah." Garfield replied as he thinks what's Hal's getting at "Of course, I can just pretend to be your pet lizard!"
"No, no, I'm thinking that what if you can change your skin color, like a chameleon." Hal suggested it "Just change your skin color and people will think you're a cool dude with green hair."
"I don't know if I can do that. All of my animal shapes are green." Garfield replied.
"I have a friend who might be able to help you, Garfield. He's a Martian." Hal told the boy.
"Martian!? But Ch'p said that the Martians were extinct!" Garfield screamed in shock.
"This guy is the last one, and will you please keep your voice down." Hal replied in a commanding tone. "I can take you to him tomorrow if you'd like."
"I'd love it." Garfield replied in glee.
Anthony Donaldson was just a young 15-years-old mechanic who came to the junkyard with a black eye and ripped shirt. Apparently he was in a fight by some jocks and he lost. Humiliatingly.
"Those jerks thinks they're tough, I'll show them!" he declares as he picks up he head for his shed so he can work on his secret project "With all these car parts, I can show all of them who's truly the tough man!" he said as he picks up his blue prints as he reads over his car suit "This is going to be good. No one will stand against an Adonis."
The next day, Garfield and Hal wakes up as they eat breakfast, until they hear a knock on the door.
"Hal, you'd better come out of there!" shout Carol Ferris who's knocking on the door.
"Coming Carol!" Hal replied as he turn to Garfield in whisper "You, are going to be my "cousin" from Star City, okay?"
"I'm still green." Garfield told the man.
"Turn into a lizard then!" Hal ordered before he ran for the door. "Hey, Carol." He greeted the beautiful dark hair woman with blue eyes, pink lips, and wears a purple button shirt and black skirt.
'So this is Carol? She is totally hot.' Garfield thought to himself. 'Wait, hot? What does that even mean?'
"Hal where have you been?" Carol demanded from her employee. "You haven't picked up your phone last night."
"Sorry, Carol." Hal replied as he rubbed the back of his neck. "I was out of the city. I just got back yesterday."
Carol then notice the green iguana on the table "Since when did you have an iguana?" she asked him as she bends down to see it closely.
"Uh well, you see the iguana belongs to...my cousin, from Star City!" Hal told her to see if she bought it.
"He's a cute looking lizard I have to admit." Carol comments as she didn't notice the blush coming from the iguana.
'She thinks I'm cute? What does that mean?' Garfield thought as he got a glimpse of Carol's cleavage 'Whoa.'
"So, what brings you here, Carol?" Hal asked as Carol turns to glare at him.
"Oh you know why I'm here?" Carol states as she puts her hands on her hips "Movie night at my house that was suppose to be last night!?" she growls at the man.
Hal looks pal as his knees shivers "Oh man, I'm sorry Carol. I'll make it up to you somehow." he told her trying to ease the glare from Carol.
'You're in hot water now, Hal.' Garfield states mentally in his iguana form.
Carol smirked which caused the fearless man to feel mix of dread and calmness. "Then you can take me to that new Italian reastruant tonight." She told the man, but he looked like he was about to argue. "No buts, no other options. Pick me up at eight tonight...oh and Hal, be dressed nice."
"You got it, Carol." Hal replied with a charming smile. "I'll be there at seven thirty."
"Then you'd be waiting for half an hour." Carol commentd before she walked out of the apartment.
"Wow. You got a total babe for a girlfriend." Garfeld commented in awe at the man. "I hope my future girlfriend is that hot."
"I'm sure she will be, Gar." Hal replied with a smirk. "Now come on. We need to go."
Garfield and Hal picks up their rings as they walk out of the apartment and head towards somewhere from public eye. They then transform into Green Lanterns as they fly up in the air "So, where do we go?" Garfield asked.
"The Watchtower." Hal told him. Before he could explain, they here crashes and notice something rampaging the streets "Oh great, a villain of the week. Who's it now this time?"
"Let's go and find out." Garfield suggests as they flew towards to the crime scene.
Rampaging near Coast City High School, a hug 10-feet bulking figure made up of car parts as Anthony Donaldson reside inside the armor. He is seen wrecking cars from the student parking lot.
"Hear me, for I am Adonis! Come to prove who's the true big man on campus!" Adonis declares as he spots some cheerleaders "Hey babes, why don't you hang out with a stud like me?" he flirts with them.
"Eeew as if." The cheer captain commented in disgust. "I'd rather kiss a frog!"
"Hey look it's the Green Lantern!" Another cheerleader yelled in joy.
"Hey who's the cute Green kid with him?" Another questioned which Garfield heard.
"Cute? He's a green freak!" Adonis sneered in disgust.
"And you're green with envy." G. Green Lantern commented before he used his ring to create a giant green panther and attacked the mechanical villain.
"Oomph!" Adonis grunts as he backs away as he looks at the chest of his armor "You dented my armor you freak!"
"I know this kid's type." H. Green Lantern comments as his ring forms a baseball bat "He's one of those wannabee guys who try to impress the ladies. Remember this kid, never act like a blowhard like this guy."
"Got it, GL." G. Green Lantern replied as his ring then forms crab claws "Let's take him apart!"
"Grr, you two think you can take on Adonis!" Adonis shouts as his engines blew steam out as he glares at the two "I'm not going to be outclass by some wimps!" he declared as he charge towards them, only for Lantern Jordan to swing his green bat towards the brute's face.
"Home run." Jordan states as he calls out "Your turn, kid!"
"Batter up, GL!" G. Green Lantern shouted as the figure soared up to him. "Beware my power! Green Lantern light!" He yelled before he hit the villain with his own green bat and sent the skinny man towards the empty football field. "Twenty yard line!"
And he was right. The mechanical villain crashed deep into the twenty yard line and he went deep down into the ground.
"Good job, GL!" H. Green Lantern congratulated his young companion, but he found the boy on the ground with a awe struck expression while he stares at the cheerleaders who were giggling and waving at him. "Kid works fast. Must be the ears." He muttered to himself before he flew over to the green boy.
"Thanks for saving us, cutie." The cheer captain thanked the young Lantern.
"Yeah we owe you one." A cheerleader added before she kissed his cheek which caused him to blush deeply.
"Hey, I'm just GL's partner." G. Green Lantern respond as he rubs his neck.
"Well what do we call you, cutie? We can't just call you Green Lantern Jr." one of the cheerleaders respond as Garfield tries to think up of a name.
"Well, I guess you can call me...the Beastly Lantern." The Beastly Lantern respond "On um, my planet, we Beastonians can change into any creature we can think of." he then demonstrates by changing into a golem alien, to a cute plant-like alien that resembles a certain cartoon duck.
"Aww, how cute!" the cheerleader captain replied as H. Green Lantern flew back with the contained Adonis in his hand.
"Come on partner, let's turn this guy in and say goodbye to the cheerleaders." H. Green Lantern told him in a hurry up tone.
"Aww man." Beastly Lantern whined which caused the girls to giggle. "I gotta go girls. Have fun with your...what ever you are doing." He commented before he flew after his co-Lantern of their sector.
"Did you have a fun time flirting with the cheerleader?" Hal asked the young boy.
"Yeah. What does flirting mean?" Garfield replied with a confused expression.
"Kid we will talk about that later." Hal told the boy. "Let's just get this guy to jail and then to the Watchtower."
'The Watchtower?' Garfield thought as he follow Hal to send Adonis to jail.
Garfield and Hal flew into space as Garfield stared in awe as he saw the huge satellite above the Earth. The two have encountered the Justice League Watchtower.
"Awesome." Garfield whispered.
"Wait until you meet the gang." Hal told him as they flew in towards the hatchet "J'onn, this is Hal, coming over with a guest over." he said through the com-link.
"Hal Jordan, you know Batman won't appreciate it if you bought one of your friends over." replied the deep voice over the com-link.
"It's not like that. He's another Green Lantern, and he's human, and he could use your help with something." Hal responded to the Martian on the other line. "Just open the door, J'onn."
"So be it." The Martian Manhunter replied before he opened the hanger door and the two quickly flew inside and heard the door close again. "Meet me in the Monitor Room."
"Sup, J'onn. This is the Green Lantern that I told you about." Hal stated while gesturing to the green boy.
"I wasn't aware that humans came in green." Martian Manhunter commented.
"Actually, I'm a meta-human." Garfield respond as Martian Manhunter didn't look shocked "Anyway, I want to learn how to change my skin color other than green."
"You are a shape-shifter, correct?" the Martian inquires as Garfield change into a bird as he change back "Interesting, I'll see what I can do for you."
"Sweet, that means I can go out in public again." Garfield states excitedly as the intercom calls up.
"That must be the whole gang back from Washington." Hal states as they can hear footsteps of the corridors "Garfield, be ready to meet the Justice League." he said as the door shifts open as 5 people marches on. Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash, and Zatanna.
"Hey Hal, glad to see you." Superman speaks as he notice Garfield "Hey, I remember this kid, you're the young Green Lantern aren't ya?"
"Clark?" Garfield asked in shock. "You're a superher-" His words died off when he looked past the man and saw two women that shut off his lower brain functions. "Aaaaaaaaaaaaa."
"Great. Kid's going into puberty" Hal commented which causes Wonder Woman and Zatanna to follow his starring to their bodies.
"This child will suffer." Wonder Woman commented in irritation, but her friend stopped her.
"Calm down, Diana. The little guy is just going through puberty. Everybody does it." Zatanna replied to the Amazon as she quite enjoyed the attention from the boy. "Nice to know I still got the stuff." She added with pride.
"Kind of reminds me of your kid, huh Bats?" Flash comments as Batman just went silent as he narrows at the green boy.
"He's a metahuman, isn't he?" Batman states as he already can tell that Garfield isn't an alien.
"Yep. Garfield Mark Logan, been a Green Lantern since he was 8 years old." Hal comments as he pats Garfield on the back which snaps his trance.
"Logan? As in the missing son of Mark and Marie Logan, who disappeared in Africa 5 years ago?" Batman states in his usual detective tone.
"I didn't disappear! I simply went on a space exploration! To bravely go where no human had gone before!" Garfield replied in an heroic tone while puffing out his chest. "But yeah that's me. Garfield Mark Logan. Son to Mark and Marie Logan, world famous scientists."
"So you simply became a Green Lantern, when your parent died?" Batman asked to get the information for his files correct.
"Yes, that's me." Garfield informed with great pride. "The Martian guy is going to help me to see if I can change my skin back to normal."
"The only advice I can give you is to try to concentrate on thinking of what your skin used to be before you turned green." Martian Manhunter advised.
"Concentration." Garfield repeated "Yeah, I can do that." he tries to think up a tan skin color for him, as he close his eyes as his skin turns into blue "How do I look?"
"Well, you're not green." Zatanna states as she giggled.
"I think Green Lanterns are not suppose to be blue, I think." Flash states as Garfield looks at his reflection as he has blue skin.
"AAAAH! That's what color my eyes should be!" Garfield exclaimed before he tried and tried to concentrate as hard as he could and when he opend his eyes again he saw what he wanted to see, he saw his old tanned skin. "Now that's more like it."
"I think you look cuter with your green skin." Zatanna commented as she examined the boy again. "But hey it's your life."
"Now I can introduce you to Carol as my cousin, and we need to buy a lizard." Hal told the boy with a smirk.
"Yeah, we should get a lizard." Garfield replied "But I gotta ask, can I get a tour around here?"
"Sure thing cutie." Zatanna replied "Me and Wonder Woman can show you the tour around if you like." she adds as she looks at Garfield's love struck expression and the Amazon's disbelief look.
"Zee, I do not think-" she was then cut off as Zatanna grabs Garfield's hand.
"C'mon Princess, we can show him around a little." Zatanna replied "Maybe he can meet your sister."
"I most certainly won't allow it." Wonder Woman retorts "But if you're going to insist, maybe one tour with him wouldn't hurt." she states as she and Zatanna takes Garfield to show him around the Watchtower.
"Kid's growing up so fast." Hal states as Flash place his hand on his shoulder.
"Yeah, I remember Wally was like that too." Flash replied as Batman turn to Hal.
"Now that he can change his appearance, don't you think he should let the world know that he's still alive?" Batman advised the Green Lantern "He is the son of the Logan Family Biotech Enterprise."
"Oh so what, why not just buy the company for the kid?" Hal states as the Dark Knight narrows his eyes towards the pilot.
"I've already did it the moment the company was at risk of bankruptcy." Batman told him.