Chapter 11: Forshadowing
Later on, Garfield and the female Lanterns have arrived at the Tower as they hang out around the tower. Gar then talks about Tomar's death and the new recruits Guy Gardner and John Stewart.
"John Stewart? You mean the fake news guy?" Cyborg asked as he ate his smoked ribs.
"No, John the Marine. He's on the same level as Hal." Garfield replied as he ate some chips "Guy on the other hand, I give him a week."
"This Guy Gardner sounds like a total klorbag." Starfire states as the Lantern girls nodded in agreement.
"I'll say, I don't know what in Oa were the Guardians or the ring were thinking of giving him the power of the Lanterns." Garfield replied "Also, I've heard the news about Val-Yor. The Tribunal have sentence him to the frozen planet Cryno-18, where he will be frozen in suspended animation for 5000 cycles."
"For blowing up a planet?" Beetle questions.
"That's cold." Raven states as Gar laughed at the joke.
"Man, that's funny, Rae. You must've been the jokester of the group." Gar comments "Ever thought of stand up? I know a comedy club at G'nort's planet."
"That wasn't a joke." Raven deadpanned which made the Lantern weakly chuckle. "I don't think that such a punishment is fitting for blowing up a planet."
"No, you're right." Garfield agreed, which made everybody look at him. "He should be sentenced to death for his crimes, and I would be more than happy to give it to him." He growled as he clenched his fists at the thought of Val-Vor. "I'm surprised the Tamaranean Emperor and Empress hasn't demanded his head on a silver platter." He stated which got the attention of the Tamaranean Princess.
"Why is that, Friend Garfield?" Starfire aked her oldest friend.
"It's what I want from him for putting your life in danger." Garfield answered which made the Tamaranean blush and her heart flutter. "How about we go looking for a bad guy to stop and get our pictures taken?" He asked the girls.
"There aren't any crimes happening recently." Robin states as the klaxon alarm went up as he sighs "Never mind."
"Hmm, these guys are new." Cyborg states as he opens up a video from the city cameras that shows a woman in red, a gorilla with a brain, and an old man on top of a tank with dozens of robot "They're attacking the city!"
Garfield's eyes widened "I remember Superman told me about these guys. They're called the Brotherhood of Evil."
"Have you faced these guys before?" Raven inquired.
"Not really, but from what I've heard, they managed to kill a group of underrated superhero adventurers called the Doom Patrol." Gar respond, "They're terrorists."
"They must be stopped!" Starfire stated.
"And they will." Garfield replied. "Titans, Lanterns, this is going to be a fun day. Wel not for them, but totally for us."
"Titans, go!" Robin ordered as they all left, but the Lanterns.
"Lantern, go!" Garfield mock ordered which the girls followed as they giggled.
"Do. You. Have. The. Money. Madame. Rouge?" The Brain asked as his loyal bodyguard and servent stood guard.
"Qui, Brain." Madame Rouge informed as she and three henchmen left the vault with sacks of bags. "We got ze money."
"I suggest that you drop the money." Beastly Lantern suggested as the Titans and Lantens appeared out of nowhere. "We out number you."
"Never." Monsieur Mallah growled.
"General. Immortals. Attack!" Brain ordered.
"Yes, master." General Immortals complied as a whole army appeared behind him. "Attack!"
"Titans, go!" Robin ordered.
"Robin, we got the army you guys take care of the monkey and those guys." Beastly Lantern suggested as he charged the ranks of soldiers with his ring ready.
'I don't need to be ordered around.' Robin thought as he swings his bo-staff and charge towards Madame Rouge, but only to dodge his attacks since she's made of rubber.
Beastly Lantern uses his craftsmanship to form the power of the ring to knock out the henchmen in front of him. One of them was about to shoot him, but Iolande shield's Beastly as she charges in and throws the punch at him.
"Where do these Lanterns come from!?" Mallah questions as he is blasted by Raven's dark magic.
"There. Is. Only. Two. In. Coast. City." The Brain states "This. Alien. Seems. To. Be. The. Leading. Man. Of. These. Female. Lanterns."
"Aim for the Lantern boy." Immortus states as the henchmen follows while Starfire went through his tank and grabs it's engine "My tank!"
The henchmen aims their guns towards Beastly but Blue Beetle shields him from the blasts "Thanks BB." Beastly comments as Blue Beetle smiles in excitement of being complimented.
"No problemo, ese!" Beetle replied as his arms change into stingers as he shots stun blasts towards the henchmen.
"No wonder the Reach were able to conquer so much of the galaxy." Beastly Lantern commented as he shielded the Beetle from an attack.
"Why's that?" Blue Beetle asked his friend.
"With weapons like that, but for a whole army, you'd be unstoppable." Beastly Lantern informed as he realized a problem. "Lanterns, keep up th good work! I'll take out the tanks!" He stated as he used his ring to create armor around him as he change into a Thanagarian jungle cat and start to destory the tanks, that were causing so much problem.
"Friend Blue Beetle, you must use your cannon with the pulse waves!" Starfire told her friend and teammate as she got slapped by the rubber villain.
"You got it, Star." Blue Beetle complied as he fired his pulse cannon at the Madame Rouge and she withered in pain at the constant attack.
"Do it until she passes out!" Starfire ordered as she flew off to help the Lanterns.
"You insolent bug!" Madame Rouge shouts as she tries to strike, but instead she gets blasted but the pulse waves from Beetle's cannon. Beetle keeps blasting her again and again until she gets hit in the head, causing her to get knocked out.
"They took down Rouge!" Immortus states as he is being bounded and levitated by Raven.
"No shit, old man." Raven replied as she saw Cyborg blasting Mallah down to the ground.
"Booyah!" Cyborg said as he sees all of the Brotherhood's henchmen defeated as Arisia and Laira drops the knocked-out ones.
"Well, that wraps things up." Soronik states as she punches more "Right, Kat?"
"Agreed, Soro." Katma replied as she knocks the last one out.
"Looks like it's just the Brain now." Beastly states as he gives a smirk "Now, any words when you're in jail, Brainy?"
"You. Will. All. Die." Brain replied as a blinking red light in Mallah's chest started to go off. "Five. Minutes."
"It's a bomb!" Beastly Lantern yells in shock. "What kind of a twisted prick are you!? You stay here and I'll dispose of the monkey in space." He ordered as he picked up the body that's encased in energy and flew into space.
"Be careful!" The Lantern girls and Starfire yelled while Raven just said a silent Azarathian prayer.
"What is he doing!?" Robin demanded. "We could have defused the bomb!"
"Or the bomb could have killed us all!" Arisia argued with fire in her eyes.
"Who puts a bomb inside a monkey!?" Beastly rants as he flew into space while carrying Mallah.
"All for my love...of Master." Mallah respond as his whole body turns red.
"Gotta throw this damn dirty ape to the sun!" Beastly states as he threw the energy encased Mallah to the sun as he ran. Once Mallah's time is up, he blew up into a big, huge explosion, causing Garfield to be pushed onto impact, knocking him out.
The Titans and the Lanterns saw the explosion as they hoped that Beastly's alright. They then saw something falling from the Earth's atmosphere and is heading towards the ocean.
"It's him! He's going for a crash landing!" Blue Beetle states as he saw Starfire flew towards Beastly.
"Hang on Friend Garfield, I won't let you die!" Starfire said as she charges in towards Beastly with such fast speed as she grabs the male Lantern on the mark.
"Friend Beastly!?" She yelled as she slapped his cheek in hopes of waking him up as tears freely flowed down her own cheeks. " Please wake up, Friend Beastly! Friend Raven, please you must heal, Friend Beastly!" She pleaded as the Lantern's girlfriends all look scared for their boyfriend.
"Let me see him, Starfire." Raven ordered as she kneeled and placed the boy's head in her lap. "I can save him." She muttered as she placed her hands on his head. "Azarath Metrion Zenthos." The empath chanted as she began to heal the changeling.
After a few minutes of the healing the young Lantern opened his eyes to see the face of the resident healer. "Thanks, beautiful." Garfield commented as he had the perfect view to see the blush on the girl's cheek before he was thrown off of her by her magic and landed on the ground.
"Ouch, I'm still sore." Beastly told her as he is being embraced by Starfire, as well as Arisia and Soronik "Okay ladies, let a guy breath! After-burn on my back." he winced as they let go of him.
"Sorry Friend Beastly, but I'm just so happy that you're alive." Starfire told him as tears were in her eyes as she gazed at Beastly's eyes as the voice in her head tells her 'Kiss him, love' as she did as she thought as she press her lips onto his, giving him a passionate kiss.
Robin apprehends the Brain by grabbing his jar as he's going to show his team, but then stood in shocked as he sees Star kissing Beastly, passionately, causing him to accidentally drop the Brain as the jar containing it breaks, snapping out of the shock he looks down "OH MY GOD!"
Everybody turned to see the distressed leader as he attempted to fix his mistake. "I need help here!" Robin yelled in a panic.
"Got it." Arisia commented as she used her ring to lift the liquid and brain into a energy bubble until they get a new container for the brain. "Tell the police this...um brain needs a new constainer." She told the shocked human.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay." Robin replied as he controlled his breathing. "Thank you, Lantern Arisia."
"Welcome, Robin." Arisia responded as she flew with the brain to her boyfriend who still in the Tamaranean's arms. "See, I told you that Starfire would become one of your mates."
"Arisia, I don't think they should know that." Beastly told her as Star still hugs him "I-um, think it's about time I get back to Oa. Gonna treat myself and recharge my ring battery. I'll see you later, Star."
"Yes. I won't keep you waiting, Friend Garfield." Starfire replied as she felt a little disappointed but, is glad that she's wanting to meet him next time 'Don't be sad, Koriand'r, he will once return and you will reward your love to him.'
'What are you, the voices inside my head?' Starfire asked mentally.
'I'll tell you soon, Koriand'r.' The voice told her as she saw Beastly being carried off by Katma and Boodikka as they flew off and wave at the Titans.
Carol Ferris and Hal Jordan were sitting on a bench in the park as they share a quick lunch, and kiss a few times before the test pilot is called away.
'Why does Hal always seem to leave?' Carol asked herself as she sighed.
'Soon you will know, Carol. Soon you will understand.' A voice gently told the woman who somehow didn't jump ten feet into the air and look like an idiot.
'Who are you?' Carol demanded.
'You will know soon.' The voice replied.
"Garfield, what happened to you?" Sinestro asked the boy when he saw him being carried and has what appeared to be lip marks on his cheek.
"Oh, you know..." Garfield replied as he starts "Fighting some criminals on Earth, threw a giant talking ape who has a bomb inside of him into the sun, got after burns, another day on Earth."
"Don't forget the part where Starfire gave you a kiss." Soronik adds as she giggled "She was so all over you."
"The princess of Tamaran kissed you?" Sinestro questions as John and Guy overheard the conversation.
"Damn, he gets kissed by alien princesses? Casanova." Guy states.
"How long is this kid a Lantern again?" John questions as he raise an eyebrow.
"What can I say? I was raised here all of my life. Oa's my second home." Garfield states as Soronik and Arisia brings him to his quarters along with the Lantern girls just as Soronik waves goodbye to her father.
"So, what do you two think of Garfield?" Sinestro asked John and Guy for their opinions on his surrogate son.
"Kind of a pain, but he's alright." Guy honestly answered.
"Hal spoke very highly of him, and now that I saw him...I just don't know what to think about him." John replied. "He kisses an alien princess of an empire who's space we are not allowed in, he appears to be too lazy to walk on his own, and he has multiple girlfriends. I will have to see him in action."
"That can be arranged." Sinestro told the human before flying off.
"Does he want me to fight Garfield?" John questioned his fellow new Lantern.
"I think so." Guy shrugged. "That guy gives me the creeps."
As Sinestro sees them off, he has put his mind into thought 'Maybe I can include Garfield and Soronik to my plans. Though he should be careful of being inflatuated with the Tamaranean princess of the Empire.' he thought as he flew into his headquarters to be prepared for his plans.
"Princess Koriand'r and Carol Ferris." said the Zamaronian queen with blue skin, dark eyes with blue pupils, long black hair with a pink-purple tiara, and wears a pink brass bikini with a matching loincloth that shows her hourglass figure and slender legs with high heel boots "They have shown great amounts of love for the two Green Lanterns. Soon you two will be one of us, and shall spread love throughout the cosmos."
The End