The "World of Heroes" DC RPG Season VII

[Karem-Knight]

Larfleeze smiles. The Green Lanterns are going to help him find the rings, they are going to serve him.

Suddenly the voice whispers to him. The voice in the battery. The ring, the one that was stolen, is being used. Somewhere out there, the fiend that stole from Larfleeze is laughing, using Larfleeze's ring for his own gain. Snarling, Larfleeze listens intently as his battery whispers to him.

"The ring." Larfleeze snarls greedily, his Orange Lanterns joining in for a symphony of avarice. "Sector 666."

Sector 666!? The name of it reminds me of the massacure created by the Manhunters all those years ago, how can Jordan possibly be naiive enough to go there. It´s suicide, I have faith he´s not that...

"Sector 666? Got it, let´s head back to Oa Sodam!" He says and uses a portal bringing us back to the centre of the univerese in a flash I try and stop him only to see him creating another portal.

"Sorry kid, I´m ending our mentor-apperntice thing just yet, this is something I need to do on my own. You´ll understand when I get back."

"Wait, Jordan...."

LANTERN JORDAN OF SECTOR 2814 IS CURRENTLY IN SECTOR 666

"Dammit..." I nearly get my ring out to follow him when all of a sudden another crisis emits.

INCOMING: SITUATION 48, DESTROYED SPACE VESSIL HOLDING FUGITIVES HAS BEEN DESTROYED ABOVE THE PLANET FORLAND.

I sigh, 7200 other Lanterns in this Corps can help Jordan with his situation with the Orange Ring but I have this obligiation to this Sector as I open up the portal I am high above the space ship in my sector.

"Ring send me there."

Planter Forland, Sector 1760

Floating above I see the space ship in ruins and on fire with some bodies hanging out of it floating in the silence of space, flying towards the vessil trying to find any survivors but all I can see is a slew of blood that decorates the ship as I scan for the survivors I notice one alien coughing up blood cring with anger.

"Are you okay!?" I ask him scanning him, his vital organs are in great pain but he has an extreme amount of tensenes around his muscles. It´s like his veins want to explode. "Monsters....MONSTERS! They, they killed all of them.....my friends, my brothers...all for what? Some sick mind games!" I hover over him trying to relax him. "What happened here? Are you the only survivor here?" He seems to be grabbing the ground panting hard with the remaining oxygen in the air. "MONSTERS! I WANT TO KILL THEM ALL.....I WANT THEM ALL DEAD....I WANT THEM TO BURN.....I WANT TO TASTE THEIR....BLOOD!"

With the amount of rage going on, it´s hard to keep a sane eye on the being he seems to have blue skin but as I look at him a fast spec of blood comes out of no where but when I notice it, it´s too late. A red ring.

HAGGOR OF SPACE SECTOR 1760, YOU HAVE GREAT RAGE IN YOUR HEART. WELCOME TO THE RED LANTERN CORPS.

He stares at me, his eyes filled with hate and rage starring at me as the ring completley takes him over his eyes seem to be filled with the desire to kill me.

BURN!

 

[Karem-Knight]

Sector 666!? The name of it reminds me of the massacure created by the Manhunters all those years ago, how can Jordan possibly be naiive enough to go there. It´s suicide, I have faith he´s not that...

"Sector 666? Got it, let´s head back to Oa Sodam!" He says and uses a portal bringing us back to the centre of the univerese in a flash I try and stop him only to see him creating another portal.

"Sorry kid, I´m ending our mentor-apperntice thing just yet, this is something I need to do on my own. You´ll understand when I get back."

"Wait, Jordan...."

LANTERN JORDAN OF SECTOR 2814 IS CURRENTLY IN SECTOR 666

"Dammit..." I nearly get my ring out to follow him when all of a sudden another crisis emits.

INCOMING: SITUATION 48, DESTROYED SPACE VESSIL HOLDING FUGITIVES HAS BEEN DESTROYED ABOVE THE PLANET FORLAND.

I sigh, 7200 other Lanterns in this Corps can help Jordan with his situation with the Orange Ring but I have this obligiation to this Sector as I open up the portal I am high above the space ship in my sector.

"Ring send me there."

Planter Forland, Sector 1760

Floating above I see the space ship in ruins and on fire with some bodies hanging out of it floating in the silence of space, flying towards the vessil trying to find any survivors but all I can see is a slew of blood that decorates the ship as I scan for the survivors I notice one alien coughing up blood cring with anger.

"Are you okay!?" I ask him scanning him, his vital organs are in great pain but he has an extreme amount of tensenes around his muscles. It´s like his veins want to explode. "Monsters....MONSTERS! They, they killed all of them.....my friends, my brothers...all for what? Some sick mind games!" I hover over him trying to relax him. "What happened here? Are you the only survivor here?" He seems to be grabbing the ground panting hard with the remaining oxygen in the air. "MONSTERS! I WANT TO KILL THEM ALL.....I WANT THEM ALL DEAD....I WANT THEM TO BURN.....I WANT TO TASTE THEIR....BLOOD!"

With the amount of rage going on, it´s hard to keep a sane eye on the being he seems to have blue skin but as I look at him a fast spec of blood comes out of no where but when I notice it, it´s too late. A red ring.

HAGGOR OF SPACE SECTOR 1760, YOU HAVE GREAT RAGE IN YOUR HEART. WELCOME TO THE RED LANTERN CORPS.

He stares at me, his eyes filled with hate and rage starring at me as the ring completley takes him over his eyes seem to be filled with the desire to kill me.

BURN!

Red Lanterns? Looks like Saalek was right, a War of Light seems to be happening and right now I´m on the Green sides, and intend to keep it that way. Still I´m going to try and be as diplomatic as I can be.

"Are you feeling alright!? Take the ring off quickly!" I ask him, it´s like the ring was possesing him but instead he just lets out a scream of aboloute rage as blood comes out of his mouth. I put up a green sheild for defense but it´s more intense then I expected as I can feel the heat of the blood, why is it burning? I blast a huge amount of green energey at the apparant newest member of the Red Lantern Corps, sending him up at space, I fly up and use a construct to create a cage for him.

"Listen. I don´t know what is happening to you, I will grant you a benefit of the doubt due to the situation of this. But assualting a member of the Corps is an offense! I will send you back to Oa, where hopefully you can be set back to normal."

The Red Lantern starts to scream in anger sending more fire into my current construct as I try to hold enough willpower in keeping him in there. That´s when all of a sudden I hear more voices of power rings like his behind me.

BURN!
HATE!
KILL!
BLOOD

I then feel a huge fire coming from behind me, and nearly five more of these Lanterns are sabotaging me. They all start screaming, like madmen; as my ring translates their language it´s just mindless screams of blood and revenge. I turn around with towards the rest of them, and see the one that had just burnt me.

"You little..." I let out my own scream of rage as a huge canon blasts that stupid little cat back a few meters as the others just start to saboatge around me. I then create the construct of a sword of my own peering down at all of them.

"Alright, you want a fight...."

"....you´ve got one!" Creating a sword and sheild I cut down some of the Lanterns, wounding them as they sense the pain. Then discard the sheild and use another energey blast that causes a near sonic book as they all fly off away like insects. But still they want more, frustrated I speed a head sending blast after blast of green energey on that damn cat before creating the sword once more, so close to him all I have to do is swing it and that´s one down four more to.......just then the construct disappears.

LETAHL FORCE FORBIDEN

And like that more sheilds are created so that I can survive this crap as the kitten smiles pouring more blood around me. Good thing I may just have a back up plan, flying up high above the sky I stop using the constructs of my power ring and prepare to see what happened on Okaara wasn´t a flue.

I sigh. "Here goes nothing..." I shut down my power ring and fly down solo at great speeds towards another Red Lantern, this one appears more aracnaic like I punch him the face as the intensity of the blood like fire disappears and I manage to knock him out, nearly permantly. I give small smirk.

Then the others are after me once more, and something feels...strange in my eyes, when I all of a sudden let them go some heat comes from them flashing towards them and aim for their eyes. When I manage to blind the female Lantern all of a sudden, the power disappears.

"Ring!? What happened to my powers?"

YELLOW SUNLIGHT CELLS HAVE EXPIRED. CONTACT WITH RED STAR NETURALISED THEM.

"Red Sunlight, what does sunlight have to do..ARGH!" An intense part of the red vomit-blood burns my face as it comes into contact with me as the Red Lanterns fly towards me again and I can hear their apparant squad leader talking to me. "Ful-...fullfilllll.....the propecy!.....Propecy" Great, more jibberish as I try desperatly to fend them off. It´s like I´m the one Green Lantern they want dead; why me? Why not Jordan? Sorranik? Kilowog? Kyle Rayner? Guy Garden!? No they have to pick me, a rookie. A damn good rookie though.

"EAT THIS!" And those thoughts come to life as a bombardment of miniuature Green Lanterns come out of this ring, half willpower the other half rage. They seem to be blocked back by 50% of the constructs, but the other half they ignore and start to fly towards me with more blood spewling out their mouts and that´s when I hear one of their rings.

RINGS AT 100% CHARGE

"Ring?"

RING AT 63.78% CHARGE

Brilliant! The angier I get, the stronger they get and the fact I can´t even kill one of them just makes this so much harder. Dammit, I´m not giving up now it´s where I notice the amount of scars around me as all seem to team up in a great surge of blood pouring down. I try desperatly to block it out using all the willpower that my ring can take up to block this insane ralley of abousloute hate. I let out a scream as sweat pours down my face, it get´s difficult too difficult. But I´m not afraid. And that´s what counts. I don´t fear death.

WARNING! WARNING! WILLPOWER LIMITS EXCEEDED, RING AT NEAR 00.4% CHARGE DUE TO AMOUNT OF WILLPOWER BEING USED

"Ring.....send....send an emergancy signal to Oa! Tell....tell...them about that Red....red....Lanterns! Are attacking.....ugh..." And like that my knees and body tremble to the float of space as the Red Lanterns come closer and I hear their endless torments of threats and hatred, as the world around me turns to darkness.

BURN!
HATE!
BLOOD!
KILL!

HEAL!

 

[Watchman]

Gotham,

He remembers a long time ago he was barely C-List. Beaten by the Batman, how much he hated/loved him. There was a time that this was nothing more than a basement lab nothing more fancy than your common meth lab. What an insult to him. He was finally recieving the attention he desevered. They freed him from Arkham and took him here. He was now one of the powers of Gotham. They turned his basement lab into a grand palace of evil.

He stood on the balcony overlooking all of Gotham. He flicked a cigerette over the edge hoping that it landed on a kid that walked by. He went back inside to his penthouse suite and went to the elevator. The elevator went down floor and floor fulled with rooms of the wealthy and powerful from all over the world humilated themselves, hating themselves. His job was to have one on one conversations bringing out their insecurites and their fears. He was having the time of his life.

The elevator beeped and the doors opened. People, the rich and criminals alike, all wearing domino masks gathered around a cage where two monster men were fighting each other. Shouts and cheers came from the crowd as one of them broke the other's neck. He checked his cellphone, his eleven o'clock. Overlooking the fighting was an office that was forrbidden to ever go there.

He remembers the day they first show up to his door. The greasy old man who sent chills down his spine everytime he looked at him. He was wearing a purple suit. After he talked to him he left the room and threw up for a straight hour. Then the old man. He only saw a glimpse of him. He was a very old man who's skin looked rocky. He looked barely alive. He was being pushed in a wheelchair to the office and was told never to go in there. He had nightmares that very night of something trying to crawl into his mind. They haven't stopped since.

He opened the front doors to the tower which were always locked. A couple were waiting outside, who knows what kind of shame they were into.

"My name is Hugo Strange," he smiled, "Welcome to the Dark Side Club."
*******
The Batman walked along the catwalk above his slaves at the new Nightmare Factory. Everyday shipments of what they were creating were being sent to Gotham, Central City, Coast, all over the world. There was a problem though, the cops were different here than Gotham. They are prepared to face Superman's enemeies. Tonight, they will make their final push. He surveyed his group of former Blackgate prisoners. All weilding automatic rifles and shotguns, all wearing Mxy masks.

"Tonight, we take Metropolis, once and for all. Now we march and we'll burn down the police station. We will burn down all that does not stand with our master. Let ignorance prevail." The men threw their guns into the air cheering. The Batman took to the roofs overseeing his men march through Metropolis.

 

[Byrd Man]

Space Sector 825

Alarms and sirens sound out through the alien vessel as it slowly inches backwards into a blackhole.

Inside the cockpit, the captain and first mate do everything they can to push out of the collapsed star's gravitational pull.

Every passenger and crewmember close their eyes and whisper silent prayers for a savior.

Thank God I'm here.

Moving through space, I shoot out a beam from my ring and wrap it around the ship's hull.

"Looks like you're in need of a tow." I say as I look in at the crew from the cockpit window.

With my ring still wrapped around the ship, I push and pull as hard as I can, playing a game of tug of war with the blackhole.

"Ring, devert power from shield to propulsion."

Power diverted. Warning, Lantern Gardner, ring power levels are below 15%

"Well, isn't that wonderful?"

I grit my teeth and give one last jerk, the ship flies out of the backhole's grasp and speeds towards safety.

"Alright, now. Drive safely."

I smile to myself as I watch the ship disappear into space.

All in a day's work.

Incoming message from Lantern Salaak

"Honor Lantern Gardner."The emerald hologram of the Lantern says with a bit of snarkiness that I'm used to hearing from him.

"Your presence is required on Oa."

"Is it time for the annual Lantern picnic? I don't want it to be like last year, Kilowog in a bikini ain't my idea of a good time."

"Now, Earthman." He says as his hologram disappears.

I just shake my head as I thrust my ring forward.

"Ring, plot a course for Oa, trans-luminal speed."

Course is ready

"Let's do it." I say as the ring pulls me forward and I disappear into a flash of white light.

 

[Red_Robin77]

Sector 0

I float. Just float. I turn my head slightly, staring back at my my current home. The green glow beams right into my eyes as I admire it. Sure, I miss Earth, but it's not to say Oa hasn't got it's glamour. It's good to get some peace just to myself, to think. With all these different rings appearing out of nowhere, getting a chance to just rest becomes more and more rare.

RING: INCOMING MESSAGE

"Oh come on, how is that fair? Give it to me," I sigh as I lift my ring up to my face.

Suddenly an image of Ganthet appears, beaming out of my ring. His face is stern, filled with concern. This'll be bad.

"Honour Lantern Rayner, you are to report to the Guardians on Oa immediately."

"Concerning?"

"Please arrive promptly."

The hologram cuts out and I drop my head back in annoyance. Never a straight answer from the little blue men. I turn completely to face Oa and begin to glide down towards it, swooping down onto the Emerald Planet. I dodge through the various species in their Lantern uniforms as I grow closer to the Guardians. I ignore everything, focusing on my destination. More rings? As I land outside the doors I take a deep breath and enter. I move off and stand in the middle of the room, as the doors close behind me.

"Honour Lantern Rayner, we have summoned you due to disturbances detected in Sector 2814. We have managed to trace the activity to the planet Ysmault. Reports are coming in of red energy similar to our rings."

"Red rings?"

"Precisely."

 

[Byrd Man]

Oa

I come out of trans-luminal speed and fly down to the surface of Oa.

"Okay, Poozers!" I hear a familiar voice bark out as I fly by the Central Battery.

"Yer fellow Lantern is in trouble, and we don't leave a man behind." Kilowog says to the two dozen rookies he has in front of him.

"What the hell is going on here?" I ask as I land next to Kilowog.

"Gardner. Damn, I wish you could tag along. I need a few scrappers in this thing."

"Where are you going?"

"Sector 1760. Know that red ring Jordan found on Earth, apparently that rookie Sodam Yat ran into a few folks wearing some red rings. He sent out a distress signal."

"What the hell are we waiting on?!"

"We're about to go. You're grounded, Salaak says the blue men need you for something."

"Since when do I listen to them? Besides, what's the worse that could happen?"

"Does the name Sinesto ring a bell?"

"Well, I'd go to Qward gladly if it means getting in on this action."

"Alright, Poozer. Let's recharge and run!"

We all turn our rings towards the Central Battery.

In Brightest Day, In Blackest Night!

No Evil Shall Escape Our Sight!

Let Those That Worship Evil's Might,

Beware Our Power, Green Lantern's Light!

Emerald energy crackles through the small crowd, as our rings buzz with power.

The dozen rookies follow behind Kilowog and I as we take flight, heading out of Oa's atmosphere.

"Okay, Lanterns. Set a course for Sector 1760. Trans-Luminal speed."

I turn to Kilowog with my ring and smile.

"Let's go kick some ass!"

In a flash of light, we disappear, heading towards Sector 1760 at unimaginable speeds.

 

[trustyside-kick]

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Orin awakes in the infirmary of the Royal Palace. He's surrounded by Garth, Vulko, Dolphin, and Cerdian. He doesn't hear any shouts of panic, or chaos running throughout Poseidonis. It's...calm.

So very calm. Could it have been a dream? A nightmare? Just moments ago Orin could've sworn that the city was under attack, and that the citizens of Poseidonis could no longer seem to take in the oxygen in the water to keep breathing. It must've been a dream. Yes...it must've been a dream.

Everyone...seems...to be...

"Vulko, what's wrong?"

Nuidis Vulko has trouble looking at the Marine Marvel; his former King.

"The people..."

Vulko stops himself. The Marine Marvel looks to his friends. The looks on their face confirm it. Quickly Orin jolts up from the infirmary bed, taking out the needles and stopping the flow of liquids that had been injected into his body. It wasn't a nightmare, Black Manta had truly returned.

"The people...? What? What is it Vulko?"

"The people are safe, Orin. You see, Black Manta's little plot to suck the oxygen out of the citie's water wasn't really all that fool-proof given we no longer have a dome. The natural current and tide of the ocean eventually flowed into the city, dispersing the chemical agent he used to kill the oxygen molecules."

"Or so we thought."

Dolphin blurts in, unable to control the strength of her voice as it seemed to die and crack as she finished. There is a great look of concern on her face as she cradles Cerdian. She cradles the young boy as though she fears of losing him. But that's not why she cradles her son.

She cradles him because she is greatful she did not lose him during the attack. Aquaman will find out he is not as lucky.

"Where's my wife and child?"

"Gone...Orin. Mera and Kym are gone. There was so much panic and havoc within the city...we eventually got separated. We soon found Garth floating unconscious outside the city perimeter where Manta's seacraft had come in from when we found him."

"I've already sent out troops to scout and look for anymore of Manta's seacraft. Rodunn hasn't reported back yet with anything."

Orin walks over to the window, staring into the depths of the ocean just beyond the city.

"Manta confronted me just as I was passing out. He said..."

Orin turns around, finding such trouble to say his words as though he was being choked. Like someone was sucking the life out of him he struggles so much to continue his words.

"...that if I want to find what he's taken from me, I should meet him at the place I should've died years ago."

"But...you and Manta have been duking it out for years! What could he possibly mean by that? Where you should've died? There are near endless places within the oceanscape that you two have fought in your feud."

"It's Mercy Reef. For longer than he can remember, Black Manta blames me for everything that's ever happened in his life. When I healed him of his autism, I saw into his mind. I saw the boy that would become Black Manta, struggling on a hospital bed at Arkham while the doctor's didn't know what to do, and having a bizarre fascinaton with the me and sea. I saw the young teenager that would become Black Manta, crying his heart out for me to save him as I swam by a ship where he had been taken captive by modern day sea scoundrels. If I had died on Mercy's Reef all those years ago as a baby...he thinks that his life would've turned out better. I know how demented and twisted it sounds...but that's how Black Manta would justify it all. And that's where I will find him."

Instantly the Aquatic Ace starts to head out of the infirmary. The others follow him throughout the palace as he heads for he Atlantean Armory. Garth, Vulko, and Dolphin wait at the doorway as Orin seems to wander the room.

"You know it's a trap, Orin. This is exactly what Manta wants you to do. He wants you to go after him, with all your anger and pain and rage, so that you will slip. Just like when he took Arthur Jr."

"And that's when you will truly fall, Orin. There must be another way."

Emerging from the shadows of the Armory, the Marine Marvel walks up clad in a green Atlantean containment suit. Motioning to Garth, his former side-kick tosses him Poseidon's trident. Aquaman hasn't held this magical artifact in almost a year since he handed the Kingdom to Garth. Slipping his helmet on, Orin readies himself for the battle ahead.

"I'm not going to fall prey to Manta's trap. This time, I'm going to be ready. He thinks he can just take my wife and child under my nose, and tug me along like a dog? Not this time. This time...I'm going to be ready for all of his tricks."

"History will not repeat itself."

 

[Karem-Knight]

Red Lanterns? Looks like Saalek was right, a War of Light seems to be happening and right now I´m on the Green sides, and intend to keep it that way. Still I´m going to try and be as diplomatic as I can be.

"Are you feeling alright!? Take the ring off quickly!" I ask him, it´s like the ring was possesing him but instead he just lets out a scream of aboloute rage as blood comes out of his mouth. I put up a green sheild for defense but it´s more intense then I expected as I can feel the heat of the blood, why is it burning? I blast a huge amount of green energey at the apparant newest member of the Red Lantern Corps, sending him up at space, I fly up and use a construct to create a cage for him.

"Listen. I don´t know what is happening to you, I will grant you a benefit of the doubt due to the situation of this. But assualting a member of the Corps is an offense! I will send you back to Oa, where hopefully you can be set back to normal."

The Red Lantern starts to scream in anger sending more fire into my current construct as I try to hold enough willpower in keeping him in there. That´s when all of a sudden I hear more voices of power rings like his behind me.

BURN!
HATE!
KILL!
BLOOD

I then feel a huge fire coming from behind me, and nearly five more of these Lanterns are sabotaging me. They all start screaming, like madmen; as my ring translates their language it´s just mindless screams of blood and revenge. I turn around with towards the rest of them, and see the one that had just burnt me.

"You little..." I let out my own scream of rage as a huge canon blasts that stupid little cat back a few meters as the others just start to saboatge around me. I then create the construct of a sword of my own peering down at all of them.

"Alright, you want a fight...."

"....you´ve got one!" Creating a sword and sheild I cut down some of the Lanterns, wounding them as they sense the pain. Then discard the sheild and use another energey blast that causes a near sonic book as they all fly off away like insects. But still they want more, frustrated I speed a head sending blast after blast of green energey on that damn cat before creating the sword once more, so close to him all I have to do is swing it and that´s one down four more to.......just then the construct disappears.

LETAHL FORCE FORBIDEN

And like that more sheilds are created so that I can survive this crap as the kitten smiles pouring more blood around me. Good thing I may just have a back up plan, flying up high above the sky I stop using the constructs of my power ring and prepare to see what happened on Okaara wasn´t a flue.

I sigh. "Here goes nothing..." I shut down my power ring and fly down solo at great speeds towards another Red Lantern, this one appears more aracnaic like I punch him the face as the intensity of the blood like fire disappears and I manage to knock him out, nearly permantly. I give small smirk.

Then the others are after me once more, and something feels...strange in my eyes, when I all of a sudden let them go some heat comes from them flashing towards them and aim for their eyes. When I manage to blind the female Lantern all of a sudden, the power disappears.

"Ring!? What happened to my powers?"

YELLOW SUNLIGHT CELLS HAVE EXPIRED. CONTACT WITH RED STAR NETURALISED THEM.

"Red Sunlight, what does sunlight have to do..ARGH!" An intense part of the red vomit-blood burns my face as it comes into contact with me as the Red Lanterns fly towards me again and I can hear their apparant squad leader talking to me. "Ful-...fullfilllll.....the propecy!.....Propecy"Great, more jibberish as I try desperatly to fend them off. It´s like I´m the one Green Lantern they want dead; why me? Why not Jordan? Sorranik? Kilowog? Kyle Rayner? Guy Garden!? No they have to pick me, a rookie. A damn good rookie though.

"EAT THIS!" And those thoughts come to life as a bombardment of miniuature Green Lanterns come out of this ring, half willpower the other half rage. They seem to be blocked back by 50% of the constructs, but the other half they ignore and start to fly towards me with more blood spewling out their mouts and that´s when I hear one of their rings.

RINGS AT 100% CHARGE

"Ring?"

RING AT 63.78% CHARGE

Brilliant! The angier I get, the stronger they get and the fact I can´t even kill one of them just makes this so much harder. Dammit, I´m not giving up now it´s where I notice the amount of scars around me as all seem to team up in a great surge of blood pouring down. I try desperatly to block it out using all the willpower that my ring can take up to block this insane ralley of abousloute hate. I let out a scream as sweat pours down my face, it get´s difficult too difficult. But I´m not afraid. And that´s what counts. I don´t fear death.

WARNING! WARNING! WILLPOWER LIMITS EXCEEDED, RING AT NEAR 00.4% CHARGE DUE TO AMOUNT OF WILLPOWER BEING USED

"Ring.....send....send an emergancy signal to Oa! Tell....tell...them about that Red....red....Lanterns! Are attacking.....ugh..." And like that my knees and body tremble to the float of space as the Red Lanterns come closer and I hear their endless torments of threats and hatred, as the world around me turns to darkness.

BURN!
HATE!
BLOOD!
KILL!

HEAL!

My head rings as my eyes slowly draw near above the darkness that fell upon me, a sudden drift from when I look up. I can tell I´m no longer in space but instead I seem to be a very natrual planet with a...purple like sky. Placing my hand on my face I give out a small grunt, turning from side to side to see my surrondings this planet is of such...beaty and humblessness something I have never seen before, I finally manage to get my self up and notice my scars have been nearly healed, as well as my uniform that was in near tatters. Looking at my ring I notice it´s starting to glow talking into it I ask to know something, assuming it´s working.

"Ring? Current status?"

POWER LEVELS AT 99.98 %

Starring down at this planet I then notice how unfamillar it is as asking the ring once more about it´s knowledge of the current situation.

"Current location?"

LOCATION UNKNOWN

What? How could the ring not know where we are, the Corps has knowledge of all planets in the 3600 Sectors and even more beyond it´s perimeteres. It even has knowledge of locations of Qward, why can´t it decpipher this location? Using my ring to fly up this planet does seem to be one completley solem and crafted as one made for life, and nothing else. Turning around I´m then struck in awe of what I see.

"OKT BA NAOU GBRI, NAH?" I hear one of them at the front, the woman who appears to be the leader of this "Corps" putting my ring up front; I ask them their identities and alliance.

"Halt! I am a member of the Green Lantern Corps. Identify yourself. Ring translate.."

UNABLE TO TRANSLATE, RACE UNKNOWN

Brilliant. Looks like I´m never going to be able to contact with these aliens, this is diffrent to talking to other people of other states from Daxam; at least sign language would help. Here however, that is not even an option.

"AOOK, TARNAOK GAAR ZOOK..."

TRANSLATING TO LANGUAGE 136 OF SECTOR 1760

"...please, lay down your ring. I am Indigo, and these are my companions; the Indigo Tribe. We wield the staffs of compassion."

Compassion? Looks like these want to help me and other people, in the very least and I lowed down my ring asking the some minor questions.

"I´m sorry, I´m under a lot of disoreintation right now. As I´m sure you know some members of this Red Lantern Corps attacked me and were about to kill me, and I ended up here. So excuse me if I seem....hasty but would you mind telling me what has happened here?"

I ask Indigo and she just simply nods in agreement. "We of the Indigo Tribe offer nothing but the compassion of our fellow beings in this univerese, weather they are high ranking officals or lowly insects we strive to keep all of them alive and well. As a member of the Green Lantern Corps, you are all vital to the protection to it as well, you keep order in your sectors.

However the Lanterns that attacked you, the Red Lantern Corps are simply barbarians; men and women who have been corrupted by the blood of their red rings....we still feel compassion even for those who have been corrupted by such evil forces. We have been working for centuries in our own way, simply for the compassion of life. We did not wish to let ourselves be seen, but with the current rise of other Corps we had no choice but to intervene. That is why you are here, it appears that we caught you at the right time, Sodam Yat."

I respond very quickly with my exact thougts. "How do you know my name?"

"Our power, like yours, is made of an emotion. Compassion, throughout the univerese their exists compassion in our central power battery we have managed to use our staffs to intpret diffrent, languages, cultures and history of diffrent planets. But we simply only want this knowledge, to help people. We have managed to keep ourselves being seen or heard from for quite some time, that is why you´re ring has no knowledge of our language or planet. For, we do not seek or want a reward for our actions."

As I hear her words, I can´t help but feel gratitude but somehow- resentment. She then puts her hand on my shoulder and rests it.

"I sense great loss in your heart. You once had the willingness to help someone, but now you have....nothing. Nothing but willpower in your heart, tell me Sodam? What drives you through all this will?"

"Listen. I appericate the help you have given me, but I need to know what happened to the Red Lanterns you saved me from. Are they here?"

She let´s out a sigh as she looks down on the ground she was walking on.

"They´re souls.......they´re souls are now long gone. Nothing in their hearts except for hate and the desire to kill others. There was nothing we could do to save them."

I close my eyes and let out a sigh, wondering what she means by her words. Either way, I´m safe from the Red Lanterns for now...but I still have obligation to the Corps. And I am certianly not one for compassion, especially for my fellow Daxamites, I don´t even have it for my own parents. Looking at Indigo I´m about to say something when...

LANTERN YAT, THE GUARDIANS REQUEST YOUR PRESENCE

"Thank you for your help, I am grateful. Trufly, but I have to go now."

I create a worm hole back to Oa for more "words" with the Guardians and step inside.

"I assume we haven´t seen the last of you."

I then walk inside and am blasted back to the Center of the Univerese once more.

-------------------
Meanwhile, Indigo stares at the area Sodam Yat had just left and turns over to the other members of the Indigo Tribe.

"<For the benefit of the univerese, for everyone. We need to make sure that he survives.>"

 

[Karem-Knight]

[
Sector 1760, three hours earlier

Sodam Yat´s unconcious body lat in space for two miniutes as his body gave up from the sheer willpower he had used up against the viscious Red Lanterns who had tried, and were about to, to kill him. His importance to the Green Lantern Corps is not known but it has been said that he holds the key to what could destroy the very foundations of the univerese he and others recide in. As he lay there and his shields now taken down it would be a meer few moments before he would run out of air, but the Red Lanterns would not want to do that.

"NOWW....." One of the Red Lanterns growled with their hate still growing strong, they hadn´t lost any of their charge as they had plenty of venom left to obliterate the Daxamite. When all of a sudden a purple light shun above them.

"<STOP!>" Indigo said to the Red Lanterns as another member of the Indigo Tribe created a shield for Sodam Yat to breath in.

RING CHARGE AT 100% Sodam´s ring said but he was unable to hear it, as the ring was powered up by the compassonate Indigo member. There were only four of them, but they had come to save Sodam Yat. But these Red Lanterns were beasts, wild animals and had to be stopped. Indigo let out a scream as she tried to take the hate out of one of the Red Lanterns.

<UNABLE TO NEURALISE HATE AND RED POWER SOURCE>

As the Indigo tribe created a powerful sheild one of Indigo´s other members asked her. "<What do we do now? Do we leave them>?" A tear wept from her eye as she answered back. "<No, we can´t....we just simply cannot. If we leave them too many will be killed because of the hate inside their hearts. I´m sorry. But we have to do this.>" She said shaking her head and taking a calm look at her new adverseries she and her fellow serged up a powerful force to combat the Red Lanterns.

BURN!
BLOOD!
HATE!
KILL!

"<NO MORE!>" She let out with a mighty cry and a huge surge of indigo coloured energey shot out from their staffs, engulfing the members of the Red Lanterns. One of her companions created a loose around the Red Lantern and broke their neck quickly.

RING STATUS. LANTERN OF SECTOR 478 DECEASED. SPACE SECTOR 478 SCANNED FOR REPLACEMENT

The other two members created a huge sheild for three Red Lanterns spewilling out their blood in their cage before they nodded and their staffs incenriated all three of them.

RING STATUS. LANTERN OF SECTOR 5 DECEASED. SPACE SECTOR 5 BEING SCANNED FOR REPLACEMENT

RING STATUS. LANTERN OF SECTOR 78 DECEASED. SPACE SECTOR 78 BEING SCANNED FOR REPLACEMENT

RING STATUS. LANTERN OF SECTOR 2449 DECEASED. SPACE SECTOR 2449 BEING SCANNED FOR REPLACEMENT

Indigio trabbed one of the Lanterns in purple chains as they struggled greatly with a tear in her eye she slowly made the construct of a small shaped bullet as she whispered to the alien she had in her chains.

"<I´m so sorry...>" And she then shot out the small bullet as it flew down to the Red Lantern´s face, killing it instantly- she closed her eyes in contempt as she heard the words from their ring.

RING STATUS. LANTERN OF SECTOR 1760 DECEASED. SPACE SECTOR 1760 BEING SCANNED FOR REPLACEMENT

She turned to her teammates as her heart was filled with regret as they flew back towards their home planet to heal the fallen Green Lantern they had come to save.

 

[Keyser Soze]

Sector 666

Something terrible happened here. The Manhunters - the Guardians' great experiment before they came up with the Green Lantern Corps - wiped out all life on this sector. Flying through it now, it's like I can feel the presence of death all around me, still, after all this time. Like a ghost town, on a cosmic level.

<TRACKING POWER RING ENERGY SIGNATURE>

My ring is picking up on a power source nearby. Hammond is here. I'm going to find him, and bring him down. He thinks he can hide out here like a coward, taunting me and threatening my family from afar? No, it doesn't work like that...

<ENERGY SOURCE LOCATED>

I look ahead, and what I see.... is not Hector Hammond. It is a glowing orange construct, like one of Larfleeze's Orange Lanterns, only this is in the form of one of the guards at Belle Reve. But when the construct speaks, it's in Hammond's voice.

[BLACKOUT]"Hello Hal."[/BLACKOUT]

"Hammond. Where are you hiding?"

[BLACKOUT]"I'm not hiding anymore, Hal. Now that I've got you out here in the wilderness, I've decided to come home. To your home, to be precise."[/BLACKOUT]

No, please God no....

"You bastard! You stay away from my family..."

[BLACKOUT]"Sorry, Hal, I have to love you and leave you. I'm visiting an old friend. I'll be sure to give Carol and Martin your love."[/BLACKOUT]

Just as I'm about to race for Sector 2814, the orange construct lunges onto me, gripping its arms around me.

MINEMINEMINEMINEMINEMINEMINEMINEMINE

It's like a weight holding me down, I can't speed away.

<RING DRAINING. POWER AT 53%>

No! My wife, my son....

I need to save them.

 

[Watchman]

How long has he been here?

Days?

Weeks?

Months?

The last thing he remembers was back in Gotham. Gotham what happened there? His memory was a blur and it came back in flashes. Gotham, a clown, a man with no face, something else. Something dark and something....wonderful? He remembers losing....losing an arm. Somehow that shocks him out of his trance. He looks over the to stump that was once his arm and screams.

"Gruff."

"I can hear that, Mr. Simyan. He's screaming again." There was two people, or what he thought were people standing over his head. His...his brain was opening and they were poking around in there. He lets out another scream.

"W...w...what do you want with me?" Another person had come in. He was clad in black from the neck down and wore a red arm band. On it was a Omega Symbol. An Omega symbol was drawn along his eye He had red hair.

"Ah music to my ears," he said waving his hand through the air, "how goes your little science project."

"Huruff."

"All is well, Godfrey, the Great Dark One would be most please with us."

"Hah! Every note, word, everytime I open my mouth is a thousand tributes to our lord and master. He will be most pleased with me."

"L...let me go...please. Why are you keeping me here?"

"Why? What a stupid question. Mr. Hand, this is what bad people do on the weekends." The three of them laughed. "Really, Mr. Hand, you are the carrier. Patient Zero."

"What are you talking about?"

"Haha, just watch." The one called Godfrey motion toward the man with a yellow face. He remembers him Mokkari. There was a flash and a moment that fealt like a lifetime of pain. Then William Hand had a new arm and his had was fixed. "Rise, Black Hand." William Hand was free and the first thing he did was push Godfrey out of the way.

"Hehehe, run little William, run as fast as you can!" He ran down a white hallway only to be stop by a guard. "Kill him!" Godfrey yelled. The guard took out his gun but William Hand grabbed him with his new hand. The guard's skin turned white. He face went blank as the guard just stood there doing nothing.

Charged-.1%

"A few kinks need to be worked out," Mokkari was right behind him.

"Now you see your purpose, don't you Black Hand."

"I still don't understand." The guard who looked dead whispered into his ear.

"No...."

"Fine the hard way but the fun way. Bring him to the Lump!" Mokkari stuck something in his neck and his passed out.
*****
When William Hand open his eyes. He was in his home town or something that looked liked his home town. He was a child again. He saw his friend one of his only friend running for a ball in the middle of the road. He picked it up and begun to wave and William. A semi truck suddenly plowed through his friend. Blood sprayed across a sign that read,

WELCOME TO HEAVENSIDE

 

[Byrd Man]

Sector 1760

All the Lanterns come out of hyperspeed like madmen, ready to fight.

"You *******s want a fight? I got one!" I say as a green mace forms in my hand.

"Hold up, Guy." The Big Man says as he surveys the battlefield.

"Looks like someone already took the fight to 'em."

Dead bodies float through the silence of space. Some of them are cut and broken, most are burned and charred.

"What the hell did this?"

I look up as a red object streaks through the stars.

RING STATUS. LANTERN OF SECTOR 5 DECEASED. SPACE SECTOR 5 BEING SCANNED FOR REPLACEMENT

"That sounds like our rings."

"So....there's a whole Red Lantern Corps?"

"Sounds like it."

"Well **** me. Okay, every Lantern spread out through the system. I want to find Lantern Yat so we can find out what the **** happened here. Ring, scan energy signatures."

<Three energy signatures discovered in 100 mile radius>

"Analyze."

<Signature 1. Identified as Green Lantern Power Ring. Signature 2. Identified as Power Ring belonging to 'Red Lantern'. Signature 3. Unknown Energy Source.>

"Show energy trails."

<Tracking.....>

My ring lets out a glow that illuminates the area, showing the emerald energy trail of Yat, the scarlett signatures of the Red Lanterns, and the third party.

The trail shows them entering the area from one location, fighting the lanterns, and disappearing.

The thing about the trails that catches my eye is the color.

Indigo.

Most importantly, Yat's trail shows him going with them.

"Dammit. Kilowog, send the others back. You and I are going after Yat and whoever the hell these Indigo bastards are."

 

[Karem-Knight]

Sector 1760

All the Lanterns come out of hyperspeed like madmen, ready to fight.

"You *******s want a fight? I got one!" I say as a green mace forms in my hand.

"Hold up, Guy." The Big Man says as he surveys the battlefield.

"Looks like someone already took the fight to 'em."

Dead bodies float through the silence of space. Some of them are cut and broken, most are burned and charred.

"What the hell did this?"

I look up as a red object streaks through the stars.

RING STATUS. LANTERN OF SECTOR 5 DECEASED. SPACE SECTOR 5 BEING SCANNED FOR REPLACEMENT

"That sounds like our rings."

"So....there's a whole Red Lantern Corps?"

"Sounds like it."

"Well **** me. Okay, every Lantern spread out through the system. I want to find Lantern Yat so we can find out what the **** happened here. Ring, scan energy signatures."

<Three energy signatures discovered in 100 mile radius>

"Analyze."

<Signature 1. Identified as Green Lantern Power Ring. Signature 2. Identified as Power Ring belonging to 'Red Lantern'. Signature 3. Unknown Energy Source.>

"Show energy trails."

<Tracking.....>

My ring lets out a glow that illuminates the area, showing the emerald energy trail of Yat, the scarlett signatures of the Red Lanterns, and the third party.

The trail shows them entering the area from one location, fighting the lanterns, and disappearing.

The thing about the trails that catches my eye is the color.

Indigo.

Most importantly, Yat's trail shows him going with them.

"Dammit. Kilowog, send the others back. You and I are going after Yat and whoever the hell these Indigo bastards are."

OOC: The picture I have posted had gotten the Sector of Sodam wrong.

Sector 1784

Travelling at the transluminal speeds at the speed of light, I´m only 24 sectors away before I reach my Sector as I intend to get to the bottom of this Indigo/Red Lantern fiasco that I was caught in the middle of. Flying quickly my ring all of a sudden picks something up from nearly out of the blue.

PICKING UP ENERGEY SIGNALS FROM TWO OTHER LANTERN MEMBERS APPROACHING.

I ignore it, another useless update from the power ring. Chances are these two Lanterns belong to the other near by Sectors and something that requires two other Lanterns to take care of it, I would happily join along but the Guardians would want to know about that distress signal I had sent out to Oa. All of a sudden though, the power ring repates it´s self informing me of more.

ENERGEY SIGNALS ARE FROM: HONOUR LANTERN 1, GARDNER GUY OF SECTOR 2814, EARTH AND CORPS SERGANT KILOWOG OF SECTOR 647, BOLOVAX VIG.

The sound of those two Lanterns prompts me to stop mid flight as I put up the signal announching my presence, this could be extremley serious as I stop. The two Lanterns also stop mid flight with a look of confusion and a sense of anger as they view my tattered cloths, I give them a smirk trying to hide the Indigo incident I had just dealt with.

"Lantern Sodam Yat of Daxam, Sector 1760 reporting for further duty."

 

[Byrd Man]

OOC: The picture I have posted had gotten the Sector of Sodam wrong.

Sector 1784

Travelling at the transluminal speeds at the speed of light, I´m only 24 sectors away before I reach my Sector as I intend to get to the bottom of this Indigo/Red Lantern fiasco that I was caught in the middle of. Flying quickly my ring all of a sudden picks something up from nearly out of the blue.

PICKING UP ENERGEY SIGNALS FROM TWO OTHER LANTERN MEMBERS APPROACHING.

I ignore it, another useless update from the power ring. Chances are these two Lanterns belong to the other near by Sectors and something that requires two other Lanterns to take care of it, I would happily join along but the Guardians would want to know about that distress signal I had sent out to Oa. All of a sudden though, the power ring repates it´s self informing me of more.

ENERGEY SIGNALS ARE FROM: HONOUR LANTERN 1, GARDNER GUY OF SECTOR 2814, EARTH AND CORPS SERGANT KILOWOG OF SECTOR 647, BOLOVAX VIG.

The sound of those two Lanterns prompts me to stop mid flight as I put up the signal announching my presence, this could be extremley serious as I stop. The two Lanterns also stop mid flight with a look of confusion and a sense of anger as they view my tattered cloths, I give them a smirk trying to hide the Indigo incident I had just dealt with.

"Lantern Sodam Yat of Daxam, Sector 1760 reporting for further duty."

"What the hell happened to you, Poozer?"

"What happened to them?" I say as I point back to the carnage.

"And what about those Violet energy signatures?"

 

[wiegeabo]

With the satellite destroyed, and Sivana's trap laid wasite by Marvel and Starman, we descend back towards the planet. Pahrump, Nevada. I have no idea where that is. But a quick interface with the global computer networks gives me an exact location.

"Follow me," I say to the others before taking off at full speed through the atmosphere, our bodies creating a blazing trail of ionized air behind us. I think about Mary and silently push myself faster. It's time to end Grodd's reign of terror once and for all.

***

WELCOME TO PAHRUMP, NEVADA
Population 37, 928

Wally and I stop at the sign and look out over the town.

"Doesn't seem to be much here. The perfect place for an evil secret lair. You head west, I'll take east, we'll meet up in the middle."

But before I start running, I notice Wally looking up at the sky. I follow his line of sight and see three dots in the distance. But the one in the center is markedly different. It's glowing yellow.

"I never thought I'd say this about him...but it looks like help's about to arrive."

 

[Karem-Knight]

"What the hell happened to you, Poozer?"

"What happened to them?" I say as I point back to the carnage.

"And what about those Violet energy signatures?"

I´m about to answer Gardner´s questions when all of a sudden I see a red liquid flowing through the Space sector and to my horror I now see why they were so eager to see me. A whole slew of Red Lantern corpses are found, and deep down in my gut I know there is only one answer.

"They......killed them.." Turning around they´re confusion is as large as mine though I´m mostly in shock. But I remind myself, these are the Indigo Tribe not the Green Lantern Corps by killing the Red Lanterns they have not only made the univerese a safer place, but also a better life for the ones whom the red ring consumed.

Turning round I explain the situation. "Listen, I know this looks bad...."

"Really? What gave you that idea!?" Kilowog says with anger, I then continue. "But when these Red Lanterns ambushed me, I was outnumbered and came close to killing one of them to save my life. However, the ring detected it and I was unable, I used all my willpower battaling their forces and was knocked out as my ring came to nothing power wise.

But those signals you picked up? They belonged to the Indigo Tribe, yes, they´re another Corps in this univerese. See, I would have been killed if they hadn´t intervened and saved my life. They´re emotion is that of compassion- much like ours is willpower, the Red Lanterns use rage and Orange is greed."

Gardner and Kilowog nod they´re heads. "I know they took the law in their own hands, and as members of the Green Lantern Corps, we can´t allow that. But just remember they saved my life, if it weren´t for them- I would be dead."

 

[Byrd Man]

Gardner and Kilowog nod their heads. "I know they took the law in their own hands, and as members of the Green Lantern Corps, we can´t allow that. But just remember they saved my life, if it weren´t for them- I would be dead."

I look from Yat back to Kilowog.

"Yat has a point."

"Two wrongs don't make a right. They still murdered those lanterns."

"Who were gunning for this defenless rookie. Sometimes death is a nessecary evil when dealing with a ruthless enemy. That's war, Poozer."

I silently nod to Kilowog. The big man has made up his mind, I can't say jack.

"Okay, Yat. Get yourself cleaned up and report to Oa for debriefing. I'm sure Salakk will want to hear about these Red and Indigo Lanterns."

I turn and fly off into space.

 

[Blacklight]

WELCOME TO PAHRUMP, NEVADA
Population 37, 928

Wally and I stop at the sign and look out over the town.

"Doesn't seem to be much here. The perfect place for an evil secret lair. You head west, I'll take east, we'll meet up in the middle."

But before I start running, I notice Wally looking up at the sky. I follow his line of sight and see three dots in the distance. But the one in the center is markedly different. It's glowing yellow.

"I never thought I'd say this about him...but it looks like help's about to arrive."

"...And not a moment too soon, either."

I folded my arms and smirked as Sinestro, Cap and the new Starman landed down beside us.

"Let's go show Grodd who exactly the dominant species is around here."

 

[Optikal]

Space Sector 2814

Ysmault


Atrocitus roared in frustration as he paced the blood pool. His fists clenched, long claws piercing the flesh of his palm. His Corps had grown exponentially in thew past month and had sent squads of Lanterns across sectors, destroying everything in their path, feeding their bloodlust, giving them battle experience before his strike.

His squad had almost taken their first Green Lantern in sector 1760. Atrocitus had felt the rage of his Lanterns radiating as he watched from afar. But then the Indigo Lanterns had appeared, wiping out his Lanterns like they were nothing.

The Lanterns would be replaced, he knew. Even now new recruits were streaking across the galaxy, making their way to Ysmault. Atrocitus looked over the legions assembled before him, and stepped forth, finally unclenching his fist.

"LANTERNS!" Atrocitus bellowed, "The universe has had its first taste of our glorious power! Today we tasted the blood of the innocent and it was good! We have swelled in number and now it is time for the Rage of the Red Lanterns to radiate across galaxies!

"The Guardians of the Universe and their pathetic Green Lanterns are a symbol of arrogance that need eliminating. Will will destroy the willpower of the spectrum first, leaving the rest easy pickings. Today is the day the Universe falls and our rage and hate consumes all.

"WE ARE THE FIRE AND FIRST OA, AND THEN THE UNIVERSE WILL BURN!"
A huge roar went up from his ravenous corps. Blood and fire spat into the air bathing the red planet in warm light. Atrocitus held up his lantern and his ring, the legions in front of him doing much the same.

"With blood and rage of crimson red...
...ripped from a corpse so freshly dead...
...together with our hellish hate....
....we'll burn you all....
......THAT IS YOUR FATE!"

Atrocitus lifted from the ground and headed for the darkness of space. His Corps streaming behind him.



​

 

[Watchman]

The funeral was small. It was William, his father, who didn't wanted to go but someone had to drive William, and the boy's mother who looked distant and disintrested. Even the priest didn't looked interested.

"loneliness + alienation Kzzzttt....self-worth ÷ mockery ÷....Kzzzttt...." There was something off about the priest. It sounded like a radio with a lot of static getting through. William felt a strange reassuring feeling that everything was alright.

"Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust."

"It's time to go, William." He felt his dad put his hand on his shoulder. He turned around but his dad wasn't there. No, it was some old man with a devil's grin on his face. He wore a purple robe. He jumped back from him and blinked. The man was gone and his father had returned.

"What's a matter with you? Come on let's go." He pulled him up and shove him. They both got into their car and started to drive off. What was off putting that none of the graves had names on them they were just blanks. Strange visions, fear, loathing, and paranoia filled the car ride home.
******
It was the man clad in black gifted with the tongue of the devil. He sat on his throne of nowhere.

"Suffer." There was another creature in the room. A giant immoblie creature that just sat there in a chair. The other man begun to to talk.

"The Lump! A Level Seven Apokolipian mind destroyer! Welcome to Sector 0, Williaam, where all your nightmares come true."
*******
"Wake up!" His father yelled, "we're almost home." They were still driving through the countryside. They passed all old barn that has been condemed for years. Local legend says that the devil himself is lurking in the shadows of the place. He looked at the clock. It just read .2%. He turned on the radio.

"condemnation ÷ misunderstanding....Kzzzt...."

"Dad?"

"What?"

"What's the story with the barn? Why can't anybody go there?" His father sighed.

"When I was a kid, a few teenagers broke into the barn and killed the owner. I think his name was Jeremiah Izaya. Whatever, its not important, they say they tried to raise the devil with his body. Hogwash." The car pulled up to their house. "Alright, its getting late, get to bed."
*****
Before he went to bed he was able to catch the news. The police say that caught the man who ran over his friend. He was a giant man and was fighting off the police. He was yelling that this wasn't real, that he didn't do anything. That this wasn't reality and they were all trapped.

"He is in all..." He was met with a baton to the face. The cops looked familiar he seen them all before. One was the man at the graveyard, the other in the vision, and last the one at that...lab? The cops killed the man on television. The truck read Orion Shipping. His father turned off the television and pointed to the upstairs.
******
He woke up in the early hours of the morning. The clock read .3%. He could feel insect crawling around his bed and could see them crawling around his room. He heard his dad talking downstairs to someone. He got out of bed it was time to find out.

 

[Byrd Man]

Warrior's Bar
Oa

After the crap with Yat and the other colored Lanterns. I head back to the bar to open up shop for those GLs in need of a drink.

"Let me get a stiff one, Gardner." Vath Sarn says as he bellies up to the bar.

"What's going on, Sarn? Usually don't see you without your better half, Lizard Boy Kol."

"He's back on his home planet. Some kind of mating ritual they do every few years."

"Hehe. Sounds like pon farr." I chuckle as I slide the old soldier a brew.

"What was that?"

"Nothing. It's not important."

Off in the distance, I hear an explosion. Vath and I exchange looks as we feel the ground shake and rumble.

"That doesn't sound good. Let's see what the hell is going on out there.."

"I'm with you, Gardner." He says as he downs his drink and follows me out the door. I stop in my tracks as power rings fly by me.

Ring Report: Green Lantern 824 Deceased.
Space Sector Scan 824 Intitiated For Replacement

Ring Report: Green Lantern 1123 Deceased.
Space Sector Scan 1123 Intitiated For Replacement

Ring Report: Green Lantern 25 Deceased.
Space Sector Scan 25 Intitiated For Replacement

Ring Report: Green Lantern 531 Deceased.
Space Sector Scan 531 Intitiated For Replacement

"Vath! Call for help!" I say as I jet off towards whatever killed the lanterns.

"BURN!!!!" I hear a voice cry out as a red beam nearly takes my head off.

I turn to see a pack of red clad monsters charging for me with red rings.

The Red Lanterns.

Rings current charge depleting. 98%....96%

I grit my teeth conjur up two emerald broadswords firmly into my hands.

"Come on, then. Let's see what you got!"

 

[Optikal]

Atocitus lead the charge. Above the skies of OA the Green Lanterns hadn't known what had hit them.

Hate.

The Greens burned in the energies projected by his ring, their bodies becoming blood and ash. Atrocitus smiled wickedly as fresh Lanterns began pouring towards them.

Pain.

He felt the power of ring swell, fed by the blood of his fallen foes. It hungered for more, its wicked intent burning through to the pit of his soul.

Rage.

"Come Green Lanterns! Burn at the hands of Atroctius! Bleed for me!" Atrocitus roared, surging forward into the thick of battle.
​

 

[trustyside-kick]

Years ago, the former King of Atlantis felt this same fear: the fear for his child's wife. Years ago, Black Manta had taken Aquaman's 5 year old child, Arthur Jr. or also known as Aquababy, and suffocated the poor child to death. Orin's only way to save him? A gladiator battle to the death with his very own side-kick. A father's love is...a father's love. When Garth saw how vicious Orin had actually become to save his 5 year old son, it nearly shattered their friendship for years.

But this time, it's different. This time, Manta has not only taken Orin's few month old daughter with him, but Mera as well. The two most important people in his life, now at the mercy of Black Manta who no doubt has something up his sleeve. Would Manta make Orin and Mera fight over the life of Kym much like he did with Aquaman and Aqualad? What could possibly be awaiting the Aquatic Ace as he darts towards the direction of Mercy Reef?

That is what would normally be on the top of someone's mind when put into the situation the Marine Marvel has been put in. But strangely...it's not. He does not worry, in the sense that he has already declared himself victorious in the end.

No matter what...Manta will not win this time.

"By Poseidon...what is this madness?"

Orin halts in his voyage to Mercy Reef as he spots an underwater facility just before the edge of Mercy Reef. It is not particularily very large, but it reeks of Black Manta and has his name all over it. As Aquaman spots one of Black Manta's manta ships in the distance barely hidden by a bed of kelp it is confirmed.

This is it. This is what his arch-nemesis wanted. He laid out a trap, and the Marine Marvel has no other option than to play along. Sure, he could summon the creatures of the sea, or tare the facility apart piece by piece from the outside...but he does not fully understand the risk Mera and Kym are in. Once he is fully aware of the danger of the situation, then he can strategize and take command of it.

He starts to drift towards the facility, Poseidon's trident clasped in both hands, and his eyes being ever watchful.

 

[Watchman]

William slowly made his way downstairs. He didn't want to wake his mother or his brothers.
*****
"Idiot!" Godfrey screamed, "he realized something he shouldn't. Fix it!" Mokkari held a power drill in the air.

"Easy. I've built this personal hell just for him. I can manipulate as I see fit. Hmmm?"

"What?"

"That's odd, there is something in there with him. Something I can't control."
*******
Wait. What was he thinking? He didn't have a mother or brothers. His mother overdosed on pills, one brother died in the war, another ran off from home, and the last one what happened to the last one? It didn't matter, his father blamed him for all of it. He continue to creep downstairs sometimes noticing a shadow of a very tall figure. He reached the bottomof the stairs and saw his father talking to.

"...get the money...." The man looked like a ragdoll jus hanging there in the air. A giant insect looking like creature grasp the man by the head with its pinchers inside the man's head. Behind him was a fairly tall indiviual but he was covered in darkness. The two suddenly depart. His father sits in his chair with his face in his hands. William goes closer, the television is on but its only static with a faint voice coming through.

"shame x failure xkzzzt...judgment"

"Dad?"

"He said that he'll take everything away. He's going to take you away," he wasn't crying, he was laughing, "I hate you. Don't you understand yet, we are all him." William in terror fled upstairs and started to put his clothes on. He ran back to the stairs and saw his father in the doorway of his bedroom with a gun to his head.

"Its all for him, everything. There is no choice for he is beyond choice. DIE! DIE FOR D....!" His father pulled the trigger. He had ran out of the house.
*******
"I've lost him."

"What do you mean you've lost him?"

"The Lump has lost him and he's not reading on any of my charts. There is something much more powerful at work." Godfrey smiled.

"Don't you see my dear Mokkari? Our lord is at work. Bow before this pile of flesh he has chosen to enter!"

 

[Byrd Man]

All around me, rings whizz by.

Ring Report: Green Lantern 12 Deceased.
Space Sector Scan 12 Intitiated For Replacement

Ring Report: Green Lantern 1017 Deceased.
Space Sector Scan 1017 Intitiated For Replacement

Ring Report: Green Lantern 3555 Deceased.
Space Sector Scan 3555 Intitiated For Replacement

I can slowly feel my anger rising as I contiue to fight off these red monsters.

I use my ring to conjur up anything I can think of as I fight.

I'm not even sure if the warm blood on my face is mine, their's, or my fellow lantern's.

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"Come Green Lanterns! Burn at the hands of Atroctius! Bleed for me!"Atrocitus roared, surging forward into the thick of battle.​

"You son of a *****!"

My ring wraps a beam around a chunck of debris and I toss it at the one called Atroctius.

The rubble hits him full on, but the stands his ground.

"Come on, you bastard!" I say as a pack of emerald wolves fly out of my ring and attack the Red Lantern.

"I'll fight you!"