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Here ya are, a story about Green Lantern (do not point out any misspells or anything like that, I am aware of my mistakes)
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Chapter One-
Ash looked around at the obsticle in front of him, a huge 30 foot wall he would never be able to climb. It had a bear face with no indications of any foot or hand holds.
"Drat!" He cursed, his first year of training and he couldn't even make it past a wall! C'mon, Ash, think; use the ring! He told himself; then suddenly he had it!
He had never tried it before, but he assumed it would work; he would use the Green Lantern ring to fly over the wall and onto the plateform above, he was ahead of everyone else now, and if this worked, he would win! He consentrated really hard on the ring power, on flight.
Just like that a green, shimmering glow formed around his and his feet left the ground as he shot 30 feet in the air and over the wall. Whew! It worked, Now forward. He concintrated hard on moving forward just as his body shifted in the direction. Perfect! I'm a natural flyer! The Captain will be proud!
He flew over and rang the bell to finish the one-person-race.
Captain Russle looked at each of them in the eyes, a stern, unhappy look; they set on Ash, making him feel unconfortable, "You, Ash, have endangered youself and everyone else by showing them this new trick!" He said, "I want to be sure that your immagitive mind does not go further then it already has!"
"Captain," Ash replied, "You should know me better then that, I dont follow ragulations, and ragulations dont have a tendincy to follow me."
The Captain glared at him, hatred in his eyes, "I hope you like the taste of soup trainee." He said scornfully.
Ash sneered, "I hope you like the taste of defeat."
"Such disrespect will not be tolarated! I will have you know that you can be locked away for that!"
"You wouldn't lock me up," Ash said gently, not portraying any emotion.
"Oh?"
"You need me Captain, lock me up and the coure will have your hide; look at me, am I a failier? Or am I a success?"
"I..." The Captain studdered, looking astonished and almost.... afraid at what the young 7 year old boy had just said, "Where did you get that information?"
"I'm not stupid, " Ash replied, "I know where to go, so do the rest of us."
"You are a fool, not stupid!"
"And your a big huge butt, not a trainer; by any means, you should have been fired years ago!"
Russle's eyes widened, "You should have never been chosen as a Green Lantern, I would dare say!"
"Well then dare say, Captain, you know as good as I do that we need all hands on deck."
"So, you mean to say that you are unassigning me?" His eyes and face straitened to look like the good ol' Captain Ash knew.
"No, of course not, but the coure is, right now in fact."
Just then Russle's ring beamed up a holograph version of another man, a short man named Greenhaulle, Micheal Greenhalle.
"Captain Russle, we just heard your nagging of the children earging them not to fly. I'm sorry to tell you but, that was the whole purpose of that excersize; we also heard your little chat with Ash," he glanced at him, then back at russle, "Though it was uncalled for, he is right, and we are unasigning you, your fill-in will be there shortly."
The hologram shut off and Captain Russle glared at Ash with surprise, "I suppose you not a total waiste, trainee Ash, but I will warn you, talk like that to the coure, and you wont be able to give up a tough fight."
"Understood," He replied.
Just an hour later, while they where in there dorms, Jared came up, intented on asking Ash one question, "What was that!?"
"What?" Ash was confussed, so much had happened that day that it was not odvious to him what Jared was talking about.
"Your little talk with Captain Russle! You nearly made him pee his pants!"
"It was notin'."
"It was great!" Jared suddenly boomed, "Someone had to put him in his place!"
Ash nodded, looking over to the rest of his fleet, there was Walker, Jared, Keven, those were the doys on his team, and that shared the dorm with him; the girls on his team, Ally, Diana, and Shiera slept across the hall on the other side. Ash was proud of all of them; but since he was in charge, he had to say, they all had flaws.
It was great being leader, but how much pressure could he take?
"No kidding!" Keven said, "If you hadn't done that we'd still be stuck with that loser!"
"He was a good GL Coure warrior, and he did try his best to make us the same thing, but he failed only because he didn't follow ragulations." Ash replied.
"Always the optimas!" Jared teased.
"If only! You should have seen him last night!"
"Dont you dare Walker!" He grinned and looked at the boy, only 7 years old, all of them, not even old enough to read and here they were learning more then the average kid. Except Jared, Jared was 8, a year older then all of them, and yet Ash was leader. But Ash knew why, Jared hadn't wanted to be leader, he said he "wasn't good at it." and thereroe would never be leader. So they passed leadership onto the next mest option, Ash.
They all laughed, including Ash, for serveral minutes before Ash, still a little cracked up, said, "Ok, guys, hit the hay, new trainer tomarrow; so I dont think he'll be going easy!"
Chapter Two-
"Wierd, you think they planned for this?" Jared said as they flew through the air above the conapy, they could see nothing but the watch tower for miles, the huge stone walls reached high above the line of the trees. The others flew behind them, in waving formations, looking around.
Ash looked over at Jared, "I dont know, it seems they would be somewhere."
"'Reach your goal,'" Shyera quoted as she came up, "Thats what the Coure Leader said."
"Yeah, but it is a little awkward they would have no obsticles?" Jared's voice sounded dry, and fearful. Ash understood the feeling, something wasn't right, he didn't know what it was, but he could have sworn there had always been something in there path.
"Somethings wrong," He said to the others. He sped up to the tower and looked inside, no one was there!
"Ok," Keven came up on his left, "spooky."
"Search the area," Ash commanded.
They spread out, searching for GL Fleet Trainers or signs of there dissapearance, but Ash stayed where he was. He floated inside to the tower, there he found stone walls, observationseating and.... oh no! Blood!
Ash's mind started to race, thinking of who had been in this watch tower last, but the only one he could come up with was.... Coure Leader Landen Helling! No, it coudn't be, why Helling? And who?
This was no average raid on the site, this was murder! He could sence it, he knew, and he trusted his sences. There was only one person besides the Raiders of White Fire who would want to murder Landen Helling. Captian Russule, but he was gone, at least 1,000 miles away, on a differant mission.
You jumping ahead of yourself Ash, said a voice inside his head. He hadn't just thought that, had he?
He turned around rapidly, no one, he flipped around the other way, nothing.
Wha? Who are you?
Dont you know? I am you, your inside, every part of you. I'm here to help, not to bother. It replied. Hmm, it responded to his thoughts.
Here to help? So what happened to Coure Leader Helling?
The voice was silent for a moment, but then replied steadily, See for yourself. Walk forward.
Ash did as it instructed.
Turn left! Ash wipped around the bend and saw Helling's body there, untouched and unmoved, his face, or rather what was left of it, was charred a deathly black, and you could see his blackly charred ribbs inside his hanging down burnt skin.
Yuck! Who did this? He asked it.
The Raiders, who else could? It replied smirkingly.
"Gather, now!" Ash yelled over the intercom channel to his team, "in the tower!"
Moments later Jared showed up, then slowly Keven, Walker, Ally, Diana, then Shiera. They walked in slowly, examining the blood spladdered on the walls. They reached him finally and saw Coure Leader there, dead as a rock.
"What the- what happened?" Shiera blurted as soon as she saw him.
"Gee, I have no freaking clue!" Ash replied sarcasticlly, "Waht do you think happened!"
"Gosh, it was just a question!"
"Would you two stop bikering like a married couple!" Diana's voice was loud and clear over the noice of there laughing, "Did you call to talk or argue?"
"Depends," Ash replied, "besides, who died and made you leader? Not me!"
Diana glared at him, but made no snide remark. "Ok, first things first," He told them all in his leaderly way, "we need to call and inform the Coure of Leader Helling; after that, I'll take the guys, and Shiera, take the girls; call me if you see any Raiders."
Then Ash pointed the ring up and the hologram switched on, "This is Trainee Ash calling HQ GLC," He said.
The intercom switched on but no hologram formed, "This is HQ GLC, whats your stadis? over."
"Raid on Train Ground 013, blieve to be hostile Raiders, need to report death of Coure Leader Landen Holling. Over."
"Understood, do you need any assistance?"
"Unknown, we are still scouting the area, prepare some back-up and I'll call you if there is any anomily."
"Roger!"
"Ash out."
"What now Ash?" Keven looked at him with concern, his blue eyes looked like orbs of greenish blue with the glow of the ring on the middle finger of his left hand.
Ash made eye contract with everyone in his group, the last 7 years had been brutal, but they were brave, they were fighters! "We are gonna scower this area so far into the north! We are gonna find those Raiders and kill off everyone of them that get in our way! We will be feared among thier people! Is that understood!?"
Ever one of them replied with an enthusiastic "HooRah!" and some of them punched the air. Ash floated up into the air and told them, "Lets blow this joint!"
John looked around at the other members of the Justice League as Shyera Hall, often called Hawk Girl, came up to him, "Is something bothering you? You seem a little put out."
"I dont know," He replied, "That last mission, when I saw Kat, the only thing I could think of was when we were together."
Shyers looked at him, concern in her eyes, "Dont look so down cast, every one of us are here for you."
Just then John's Green Lantern ring beamed up an image of Greenhalle apeared onscreen, "John, there has been an unfortunate event recently. Coure Leader Landen Halling was repoted died by GL Fleet Trainee Ash, he was killed by who we have come to call the Raiders of White Fire, a civilation intent on taking hold of Greenlane and wipig it of the universe map!"
"Anything I can do?" John was surprised to hear of this turn of events, he looked at the screen ready to go if they told him too.
"Just stay where you are, you and the Justice League need to protect earth in case they decide they're getting in the way."
"Yes, sir!"
The screen shut off, and John looked around to see all seven members of the origanal JL standing close by, The Batman or Bruce, Clark Kent, also known as Superman, Wonder Woman, the greek god princess called Diana, Shyera, and Jhone Jones, or the Martian Man-Hunter, and Flash. They all looked at him, as if they were expecting him to tell them what to do.
"Just carry on," He told them.
"We cant just sit here," Diana inquired.
"We have to help somehow!" Shyera added.
"There is nothing we can do," He told them, "excapt stay here and protect earth; that is my orders."
"John," Flash looked concerned, "since when do you follow orders?"
"If I dont follow orders Wally, then I'll have the ring taken and you would never see me again!" John snapped, "We are staying here, and thats final!"
No one questioned him further....
Ash was below the canopy now, searching for the Raiders, hoping, in fact, that they would be stupid enough to attack. His eyes set on a particularly large burnt area, he scanned it with the ring to conferm that it was White Fire; surely enough, it was. He looked back up to his eam mates and nodded twice, the signal that enemy was here recently, and they had fired... literally! They nodded back and spread out in a 10 meter diamitar.
Ash floated a foot off the ground when he remembered, he turned on the intercom, "Watch for booby traps, Helling most likely planted some." His ring blinked 5 times to show that everyone had heard and understood. Ash had never quite understood how you could have the glow of the ring around your body, could talk in it, and no one heard but the intercom, unless you wanted to be heard. He had known that they had designed the ring back when someone had the Green Lantern power, they had put the power in a lantern and made a ring to unlock it. They had not known what power the ring held, but it did, and it was technology that was most powerful! The origanal lantern and ring were help at HQ and heavily guarded now with rings charged by that lantern, to make sure no one, not even thier own kind, could get past it.
Suddenly Ash heard a noise, it sounded like the russtle of a bush and made his ring blink once, the asking signal for "Was that any of you?"
The ring blinked 5 times again, all no. He immediately made the ring blink 3 times, "Hositle in sight and ready to attack," was that signal.
A horde of about 5 Raiders suddenly jumped out of the bushes, there hands held in fighting position, "Beta manuvour, move in fast!" Ash shouted over intercom.
"Commin' up behind you!" Jared replied almost immediatly after. Ash circled the surrounding Raiders, their strange anfibious looking faces had stern looks that where chocked with adreniline; he felt his own blood pumping with the same fighting force.
A green beam shot past him like a flash of lightning and hit one of the Raiders in the gut, making him fly back. He didn't get up again. Moments later the team shot in and plunged themselves into battle, fist and ring and hard kicking was applied.
Ash suddenly felt a wieght on his back and a white glow from the corner of his eye, he flung himself back into a tree, knocking the breath out of the Raider that was on him. He fell to the ground and recovered a moment later, and hopped into the air, fist ablaze, bfore Ash shot him with a blast from his ring. The Raider fell back about 5 fee and hit the tree at 20 mph, killing him instantly.
"We'll never beat them with these tarining rings, we need power, more then this!" Keven said.
"Keep fighting!" Ash told him as another flung himself at him from the front, fists ablaze; Ash shot him back, but he stopped in midair and flew back down to him.
"Crap!" Ally said surprisingly, she never talked! "Keven's right, we need to get better rings."
Ash blocked a fist blow from his attacker and kneed him in the gutt, then punched him in the face, hearing a crack from his jaw. He stummbled back and he shot the Raider with a sword shaped beam; it barely even cut throught! The blade was dull! But it made it throught with unnecasarry extra energy.
"Alright, fall back!" Ash said, then flipped on his com channel to HQ, "HQ GLC, we could use that help now, these rings will never do; could we get some fully charged and fully active GL rings in stead of the Trainee GL rings?"
"That is against ragulations Trainee Ash," Came the reply, "But help we can surely give!"
"We need those rings sir! We're getting creamed out here!"
"I'll se what I can do; help is on the way!"
"Thank-you sir!" Ash ended the com channel and flew back to the tower; once there they rested there heads and waited for back-up. And Ash finally had time to think, why was it agaist ragulations to let them have a full powered GLC ring? Because they where training? This is no training excercize!
You know, said the voice, there is more then power to those rings; also, i dont really like the name Voice!
Really, what other power? Ash was astonished to learn this.
Commitment, it replied.
I dont understand.
Once you slip on that ring you commit to being a GLC fighter to the death, if you refuse to die, then you wont get it. It is a change within you, to use the ring for the honor of good, not evil, to be a GL and fight till the end. Now, about that name!
Ash thought, Wait a minute! We dont need to have rings brought to us, we find the dead and take theres!
What a shame, stealing from the dead! The voice sighed.
It wouldn't be stealing! It would be putting to use the warrior's last fight!
Since I'm inside your head I know what you mean, but if I wasn't I'd say: HUH?
We would put on the ring for it's last fight!
Oh, the voice sounded a little put out, I want a name!
Ok, ok! Ash thought, How about Joe?
No!
How about Sam, or Fred, or Ezar, or Jericho-
Jaricho! I like it! He said enthusiastically
What are you? A.I.? Super smart computer generated chip in my head? Deos everyone have a voice in there head like you?
No, no, and no.
Then what? Ash was so confused.
I told you already, I'm you!
Wha-?
You dont understand do you?
Ash shook his head, forgetting that he wasn't talking out loud to someone.
Well, I was generated into the ring on your finger; I was sick of that small space too, so I moved in and became a part of you. Jericho sounded truthful, but was he really?
So you are an A.I.!
In a matter of speaking I suppose. But I'm not nearly as smart, I know alot; but now tht I'm a part of you I have much more emotion and understanding of human speach. I actually make sence when I talk!
OH, Ash finally understood, "Now I get it!" He said aloud.
"Get what?" Jared asked.
"Um, heres a thought.... we take the rings off the dead-"
BOOM!
A huge explotion inturrupted him, He froze like ice and looked over at the rest of the group, they looked just as stunned. Of cource there would be a huge explotion and no one would know what it was, even Jericho was silent! He looked at the team, makeing eye contact with every one of them, inforcing thier confidence. How much of this could they take before thier hearts where battle hardened?
Ash stood and walked over to the dead body of Leader Helling, he bent down and carefully slide off the ring. He took off his own ring and glared at it, put it in his pocket, and slipped on the other one. He felt a sudden, almost overwheling feeling of power rush through him for about two seconds, filling his mind with memories of Leader Landen Helling, and giving him knowledge of his every move; he learned of a secret organazation called The Black Lanterns, and another called The Red Lanterns. Who where these people? What did they want? And what would this sudden knowledge mean for Ash? Would he be killed for it? Would he be promoted? Would he know what to do?
Then another blast and a sudden burst of light interupted his train of thought, that was no enemy fire, that was GL bursts! The calvory has arrived!
Ash's heart lifted and it felt like an anvil had just been lifted off his chest; he floated up off the ground and over to the window, then turned to the others, "I'll be back with more rings." He said.
His first stop was thier dorms, there he grabbed a few extra items like water and food and took off again into the sky. He was only about a foot below the canopy now, looking ever so dilagently for anything that could hold a ring. Soon he came across like three other bodies with rings on them, he took them off and put them in a pouch he had picked up back at the dorm.
He needed two other people with him, not for convinance, but just because they were closer to him then the others, he needed Jared, he needed Shiera, and he needed Diana. They where like family, his family, and these three rings would help him get them out here. But if he could he would find three more, for Ally, Keven, and Walker.
Funny isnt it? Jericho commented, I thought they would have scouted out this whole area by now?
Thier not as dilagent as we are Jer. Ash replied. He switched on the intercom to Jared, "I found three other rings, get out here I'll need your help to find three more."
"On my way, stay there, I cant read your signal very well moving."
That was the other thing the new ring did, he could track down anything, moving or not. He stopped and landed lightly on a branch, out of sight from the enemy.
Creep! I thought they where gentle! Jericho said.
Ah, what?
Look down...
Ash looked to the forest floor and gasped, there, about 20 meters below the ground was scorched and 3 green lantern bodies lay there, dead as dead could be. And there, on thier fingers weregreen lantern rings! Ash flew down and grabbed them, put them in the pouch.
Ash switched on Teamcom, "I found all the rings, Jared stop where you are, the rest of you follow him to get to me; avoid trouble, I found the last rings on recently burned bodies."
"Rogor that," Keven said, "we are packed and ready to go, Jared didnt make it very far though and is here now."
"Ok good, get here asap! Ash out."
He looked back down at the ground, how where they killed? The rings on thier fingers said they where fully charged? And worse then that, all of the rings Ash had reseived where. That leaves two choices, the GLC was letting them win, or, they were ambushed both times. But how? The RWF (Raiders of White Fire) had never been good at sneek attack, they had the suppressingly huge armor that kept them from being very quit, besides that the sound of the rouring fire gave them away almost instantly. So had they developed a new armor? Armor to allow them to ambush? Chances where slim, but then that would raise a bigger question: Why was GLC letting these creeps win?
Ash switched on the GLCcom, "We have the rings and are ready to engage." he said.
"Negative Trainee Ash, we cant budge them, they are stronger then we antisipated!"
Where they? Ash thought. "Understood, we'll hang low till you send back-up."
"Back-up is there, but they are havin' a tough time shakin' um."
So it seems. "Are you going to send in EDO?" (Emergancy Dust-off)
"No, we are having problems of our own, call Fleet and see what they can do. GLC out."
Ash switched the intercom off just as Jared's slender form appeared comming through the trees, 5 other figures behind him. He switched to FleetCom, "Fleet C this is Trainee Ash, come in Fleet C!"
Static.
"Fleet C this is Trainee Ash, do you read me?"
Aagain, static.
He switched it off and cursed under his breath.
"Everything OK?" Jared asked when he was close enough to be seen and heard.
Ash got a the rings out of his pouch and handed them to Jared, "Yeah I'm fine." he said, "Hand those out will ya?"
"Sure thing."
"I dont think Fleet C or GLC is ok though, and something fishy is goin' on 'round here."
Jared turned as he got to Keven to hand him a ring, "What do you mean?"
"Notice how all those rings are fully charged."
Jared examined the ring and the others did the same, he handed one to Ally, the last person and said, "But they were dead, right?"
"Exactly my point," Ash ran his fingers through his brown hair, "not only that, but they wernt even used since the last time they were charged."
"Ambush!" Keven exclaimed.
"Or they arnt even trying, they are letting RWF win and loosing men at the expence of it."
"How do you figure?" Diana's voice was a little shaky, but firm.
"Remeber when they tried to ambush me? They were loud, I heard them before and knew what to do. Thier armor is way to heavy, they would never be able to sneek up on a whole GL team!"
"Your right," Walker added, "And just moments ago they tried to sneek up on us, but we heard them and got away before they could shoot one bolt."
Ally looked around then into Ash's eyes, as if to ask "why?"
"I dont know Al, but they are; they are letting these jerks win!"
Ash switched on FleetCom again, "Fleet C this is Trainee Ash, do you read me?"
"Say again? Your a little staticy."
He had a responce! They had responded, "Fleet C this is Trainee Ash, do you read me?"
"Barely, but your audible-" He was cute off by a loud boom, then a loud shattering sound, "Is there anything you need us to do Trainee Ash?"
"Yes," Ash said, "We need emergancy pick-up if you can spare it."
"Main power is offline, we are running on back-up now!" He overheard on the intercom.
"Fleet C, where are you?"
"Twenty degrees north of the Harbor, we were on our way to help GLC when our Fleet was over run by RWF."
"Understood," Ash replied, "Is there any chance of EDO?"
"Negative, we are taking heavy fire and all our ships have been sent off for emergancy reasons, we are getting ready to AS (Abandon Ship)!"
"Understood, we will try our best here..." The line went into a sirese of clicks and buzzes, then went out.
"So what is Fleet C gonna do?" Jared asked after several moments.
Ash let that hang in the air for a moment before answering with dreadful whisper, "Jar.....I dont think Fleet C exists any longer."
There was gasps from all but him, Diana cringed and tightened up into a ball, her pulled back blonde hair swung over her shoulder. "So what are we gonna do?" She asked.
"I.....I'm not entirely sure, but there is a plan!" He lied, "There is always a plan."
Chapter Three-
"So," Keven interupted the quiet briefly, "This is your great plan? Sneek up on a bunch of them and say 'BOO!'?"
Ash turned and put his finger over his lips, "SHHH!" He hissed, and his voice echoed slightly off the cliff wall that came in a sharp "V" that they were hiding behind.
In front of them, about 100 ft. away was the most terrible sight Ash had ever seen, there were about five or six of them, big too! Thier hulking armor and standing nearly 7 ft. tall, they looked like your average lizard/frog giant; but with aposible thumbs and less-then-pleasing white fire that came out of thier mouth, hands, and feet!
Suddenly there was a loud roar, blood-curtling scream, then a pop. Ash looked around the corner at one of the foul beast holding a GL in thier hand, head missing and cloths scorched. Frankly, Ash did not want to end up looking like that.
He turned back around and looked at his team, they looked at him suspectingly and he grinned. They could so tell that he was trying not to scream at the top of his lungs.
Man, these guys know me all too well! He thought.
Well, what did you expect! Jericho replied, what's the plan?
To kick some sirious bad-guy butt!
You sound like a..... well, we'll put it this way....you sound like a ex-murderer!
Ok, well, here we go...
"Ok we're goin' in!"
"What?" Jared exclaimed, "Are you crazy?"
"Just follow through before we have problems, we wern't trained to let them take over our station! We were trained to fight! You got me?"
"Yes, sir." Jared's reply was hollow and full of regret, but just the same Ash looked back at the others and motioned for them to move in.
Ash leaped up silently into the air, brought the ring up and shot a green bolt at the anphibious monsters. it hit one square in the chest and sent it flying in the air about 20 ft. before comming down with a blood curtling crack. He was dead with a brocken neck!
Ash turned to see three white-firey balls heading in his direction, he side-flew them and watched as the burned away the canopy above. Then he looked at his three attackers, readied his ring, and sent a green dolt in the shape of a spinning sword down, cutting the bodies in half and splattering guts and blood everywhere.
Well, as if killing three meant that they multiplied by 10 30 more guards came to attack him, he wirled and shot green bolt one after another, hitting and killing about 10 of them. He formed a green energy dome around the rest and watched the blast fire the the walls, fire needed oxygen, so soon they would run out and pass out. It all happened in about 30 seconds as he watched all 20 of them drop to the ground one by one. He formed the bottom half of the dome to make a sphere and threw them strait up into the air. They all came down with many brocken and shattered bones, killing every last one of them.
Ash looked around for his team members, Jared was sparring with three of them, Diana was shooting two, Ally was wrestling with one..... oh, no! Keven, Shiera, and Walker where missing!
"Regroup!" Ash shoyuted over teamcome, "Over by the cliff where we were at first!" He flew over and waited for the others, only Ally, Diana and Jared showed up. No sign of Keven, Shiera, or Walker!
"Code red! We have been aprehended by the ememy, I repeat, we have been captured by the ememy!" Keven's voice cracked over the teamcom. Good, they still had tier rings!
"What is your position? Over."
"Three- two- two- zero. Over."
"Hang tight guys, we're on our way!"
Diana's voice suddenly cracked over the teamcom and she said into it, "Ash, there is a slidding hidden door in the side of the cliff about 20 ft. from the regroup area, go in through there!"
"Understood, is everyone OK?"
"Walker is hurt pretty badly, we're trying to stop the bleeding, the rest of us are fine."
"Wait!" Ash started, "How mny of you is there?"
"About 20 or 25 GL soildiers, they need our help, many of them are ingured!" Keven replied.
Suddenly GLCCom switched on and Admeril Maque's voice cracked over the intercom, "Ash, we have a mission for you, get those soildiers, is that understood?"
"Sir, yes, sir!" Ash replied dryly, "We were about to anyway, sir!"
"Good, carry on, then get your butts off that place! Maque out."
Ash returned to teamcom, "Alright, we're commin' in! Ash out."
He switched it off then turned the corner to the aproximate location of the doors, everything looked like stone! How could he ever tell?
Use the ring! Jericho said.
Oh, yeah, duh..... Ash held up the ring to the cavern wall and scanned for any hollow spots, the ring detected it and started to flash and beep dramatically. He sent out a burst of green energy and the cavern doors blew away in a huge rumble.
They all went inside the dark hole and lite he place with a calm, placid green light from the rings. As they walked further inside they began to hear guards shouting at other guards, people screaming, and soon they came to a huge hole in the ground as they meticulously steadied themselves about 100 ft. up. Ash could see the guards scrambling about cells that held thier prisoners, everywhere was heavily guarded, the entrence from the main tunnel had about 70 raiders standing clumsely. And in the sky they could see about 20 guards flying around.
"They must have found out the real power of that white fire of thiers." Jared commented.
"Yeah, and they're gonna use it on us, at full force!" Ash replied.
What are you gonna do? Jericho asked.
"Dont know," He said aloud.
"What?" Diana said.
"Oh nothin', follow my lead..."
"Wait!" Ally said suddenly, surprising all of them, "What about the guards?"
"We'll figure it out, dont worry."
"Well, not worrying is like asking us not to fly," Diana commented, "But we'll try not to."
"All of you shut up and let me handle it!"
"Sheez, anger issues!"
Ash gave Diana a look, and she said no more.
"Ok, so here's the plan: We go in, capture a guard with a cloak, I'll destract them while you guys slip in and take the priserners back up to here. Then we run at top speed! Got it?"
"Got it," all three of them said at the same time.
Ash shot out a green bolt to one of the flying guards with a cloak, nocking him out. Ash then put him in a sphere and realled him in, took of the cloak, leaving a half-naked guard sitting there on the ground, with no s**t. Surprisingly, he sisnt have scails, unsurprising though, he did have a sirese of horns along his spin and on his shoulders.
Ash slipped on the cloak and flew down, he reached the ground and looked around. Man, He thought, Thats alot of guards!
Then he started shouting, "Code red, code red!" He goped they understood english, "Green Lanterns are outside and ready to blow open the gates!"
"What did you call the Green-rings?" One of them said, stepping forward, Ash assummbed he was the leader or something, What should I do?
Bow, that is thier costume. Jericho replied, and Ash did so, boing down on one knee.
"I called them Green-rings of cource, sir." He lied.
"You are a desgrace, but still.... ATTACK!" The lead Raider said.
Suddenly the guards started moving towared him, he saw out of the corner of his eye severale prisoner Green Lanterns flying away. Good. Mission acomplished.....almost.
Ash quickly stripped the cloak and shot upward at more the 200 mph, startling the RWF guards. "Dont just stand there you pathetic toads! Get them!" He heard as he sped away and back into the cave. He sped past Jared and Diana carrying Walker and shouted, "Faster!"
They lifted off the ground, flying alongside him, moments later they shot out of the tunnel and up about 20 ft. before turning to watch hundreds of GL soildiers shooting out of the double stone doors, they continued to fly up and out into the atmosphere. Keven and Shiera stopped with them, then they too sped away into the utmost top of the planet.
Chapter Four-
John's eyes fell on the deck below as he saw meny of the JLU members glying around working. He found it almost imposible to not wish he was at home, helping fight this new enemy, and that his friends could help him. Diana walked up to him and padded his shoulder.
"I know how you feel," She said, "Not being able to do anything."
Suddenly his ring buzzed and shot up a hologaph of a yound child, about 13 years of age possibly, wearing a GL siut, "This is Trainee Ash, we have commedeered our troops and ae heading to GLC Headquarters. Warning: These new enemys have learned that there power is strong enough to allow them to fly, they are growing stronger, we also believe that a few of thier 'sientists' are trying top condust expieraments on our GL troops; we need all hands on deck at this point guys, we aren't gonna win unless we do have that."
Another holograghic figure apeared, "Trainee Ash, we have understood your message, John, we need you and all the troops you can spare here now!"
"Understood," He replied, and the hologram shut off. He turned to Diana and she said, "I'm in."
"Me too," Said Jhone Jones.
"Me three!" Wally shouted as he sped up to John's side.
"If thier in, so am I." Said Shyera.
"Well," Superman said, "I dont want to get left behind."
John turned to Batman, he looked up at him too, his masked face looking just as sirious and unenthusiastic as ever, "Well," He said, "Why not."
John smiled at them and said, "We're gonna need a few more," He turned, "Ironman, Captain Adam, and Vigalanty, we'll take you, and Green Arrow, Black Canary, Fire, and Question. Thats all, let go!"
Ash's heart pounded as he waited on deck of the Green Lantern Fighter called Hopeful, they had recently learned that the fighter Harbor and the carrier Falcon had been destroyed, the only ship left in the fleet had been this one, and it was badly damaged.
"They just came on us with firey fury! Not even any warnin', there was not ship, it was just...them." The Commander was saying over the intercom.
"Well, thats tough news, head back to GLCHQ and we'll fix up your ship."
"Yes, sir."
Ash looked over at Jared, he was looking out the window at thier planet, called Grenal. He turned to Ash and said, "Ash, do you ever wonder what our parents looked like?"
The question struck him, he knew they were brothers, but he never acknowledged it, "Sometimes," He replied, "When there is nothing better to do."
"You kids had better strap up, we're commin' into port in 30 minutes." Said the commander.
"Yes, sir." Ash looked back at the rest of his gang, "You heard the man, strap up! Diana, help Walker please."
"Eye, sir!"
"I take it you're in charge of this little clan?" The commander ask Ash.
"Thats me."
"Well, be careful at this ceromony, that new ring you got down there really disterbed alot a people."
"I know, sir, but it was the only way." Ash said innocently.
"I know you meant only good, you dont have ta convince me, son."
"Son?" Jared ask hoarsely.
"Figure of speach, yer not really my kids, ya dont have to be a worryin'!"
"We wern't worried, in fact, it would be great!" Ash said enthusiastically.
The commander laughed, not teasingly or mockingly, but with delight, "Well," He said, "In that case, call me whatever you want, pa, grandpa, heck, you can even call me Billy," He leaned over the passenger seat and whispered in Ash's ear, "Thats my real name."
Ash smiled, and thought, This ol' country dude is kindda creepy!
Thats what you get for commin' on this deck Ash. Jericho replied.
Hehe, thanks alot! "We'll just call you Commander, if you dont mind."
"Why, of course not, but I havein' to step back in a few months. Cant be in service ferever ya know!"
Jared glanced at Ash as if to say, "What a loon!" then turned back to the others, Ash spoke first, "I'm scared," He whispered into Jared's ear. He was the only one that Ash would ever admit that to!
Jared turned and leaned over to whisper back, "'Bout what?"
"I dont want to stop training and turn to the real combat, I like it training, not up in the sky fighting those freaky lizaeds!"
Jared spoke up and said to the commander, "Permition to leave the deck."
"So long as yer strapped in somewhere 10 minutes before landin' I dont care where ya go!"
Jared elbowed Ash up to his feet and made a swift "follow me" signal with his hand. Ash gladly did so and followed Jared out to the 2nd floor and sat on the bench there. Ash sat down next to him.
"There are alot of things I almost cant bear to see you do." Jared said, "When I saw you up there fighting those guys it struck me that they could kill you. I got scared, and angtious, but you are an amazing fighter, and I trusted your judgement. I let you fight because I trusted you, because I knew that no matter what happened you were gonna prevail!"
"Wait, slow down! You actually think of me as your bro?"
"Yes, of course I do, we all think of you that way, but we really are siblings." Jared's eyes looked sympathetic, "I dont know how it is to be leader, but ever time I look at you I know that you are the one to be leader."
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"Tell my mother, tell my father
I've done the best I can.
To make them realize
this is my life
I hope they understand
I'm not angry, I'm just saying
sometimes good-bye is a second chance."
~Shinedown
 MaxWolf777 · Thu Aug 21, 2008 @ 10:18pm · 0 Comments |
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