EMERALD LEGACY: Two years ago, Kyle Rayner was walking out of a bar into an alley to get some fresh air. there he met the sole remaining member of the Guardians Of The Universe, Ganthet. with the words "You will do.", Ganthet gave Kyle an emerald ring. That was two years ago. Now Kyle is Green Lantern, using the ring to continue the Emerald Legacy
(This Story is a Complete work of Fan Fiction, and Takes Place, Two years after Kyle Received the Ring, and Way before Rebirth)
A BRIEF HISTORY
OA was not the first great power, but it was the first not to be consumed by it's own greed.
Colonized by offworlders from the planet Maltus, OA was a planet of science and technology that reached the pinnacle of civilization when most worlds were still mired in the first glimmer of self-awareness.
Oans explored not only the stars but their inner selves, developing telepathy and telekinesis to aid them in their quest. Nothing was beneath an Oans' intrest, and nothing could remain a mystery for long. Theirs was a planet of harmony, and it remained so for a million years, but the scientist Krona was not content to explore space. He delved into the one area of science forbidden to all Oans: the Origin of the Universe itself. Krona ignored the warning that chaos would ensue as he watched time peel away, and the hand of creation reach into the cosmos and pluck that fruit of life. And the instant he saw it...
...the Universe exploded.
What had been one universe became two. possitive matter, and the other composed of Anti-matter. And with the unleashing of the anti-matter universe came a wave of evil that spread throughout fifty million worlds, corrupting what had been a paradise. The Oans saw it as their responsibility to contain the evil that one of them had unleashed.
They created a corps of android soldiers called Manhunters, which they dispatched throught the universe to combat the evil. Utimately, the Manhunters rebelled and their legions were disbanded.
Somewhere around this time they began to look upon themselves as Guardians of The Universe. they assembled the bravest beings from each sector of space, living beings. Each of these soldiers being a person totally without fear, strong willed, and completely honest. The Green Lantern Corps would succeed where unliving soldiers had failed.
The Guardians equipped the soldiers of the Green Lantern Corps with rings of power that surpassed any science developed on Earth or the magicks of ancient Atlantis and spread them throughout the Universe, 3600 members in all, each given their own sector of space to patrol and protect.
Each Power Ring formed their will into emerald energy reality. Each ring was limited by only three things. The color Yellow, the bearer's own imagination, and a limited power supply. Every 24 hours the ring had to be recharged at a Lantern shaped battery of power, and the Green Lantern had to recite an oath to remind them of their duty. It was from this battery that they gained the name, GREEN LANTERN.
The first power ring was awarded to Rori Dag of Rojira. Dag was the model for all the ring wielders to come as the Green Lantern Corps was born
More powerful and successful than the manhunters due to the near limitless power of the sentient mind, the Green Lantern Corps thrived for millennia. Loyalty and graditude earned the Guardians this time of relative calm...freeing them to pursue more loftier concerns. Their Green Lantern Corps dealt with conflict for them.
Since the formation of the corps, Lanterns of space sector 2814 have traditionally stood as the reigning example of the fight for all that is good. Truely, an inspiration through all time. Abin-sur. Amongst the countless ranks of Green Lanterns mentioned in the Book Of OA, was clearly the Green Lantern with the purest record, and the strongest will.
Until the day of his death.
On that day his power ring, instructed to find a suitable replacement to protect sector 2814, found the greatest Green Lantern who would ever join the Corps.
Hal Jordan of Earth.
Even more renowned than Aubin-sur, Jordan lead the Corps through its finest years. Unfortunatly unlike Aubin-sur, he lived to see the Guardians for the cold superior manipulators they were. A truth that would have destroyed a lesser Lantern.
Such headstrong resistance to the goals set forth by the Guardians hinted at an obvious flaw in their perfection. Mistakes were beginning to be made. Some of them monumental.
Sinestro, the most infamous of the renegade Green Lanterns, had caused trouble and worry for the Guardians--and Hal Jordan in particular. Eventually bringing their ultimate conflict back to OA where the Guardians had enlisted Sinestro's aid to defend them from a coming threat.
For who really needed a power ring? when the source of power lie in the Central Power Battery on OA. The link to every Green Lantern that had ever been. The place the Corps had to attempt to stop Hal Jordan from getting to. The place the Corps would die trying to protect. Ordered to do so by their aloof masters, the Guardians.
The Corps was all that Hal Jordan had. Coast City, his birtplace was gone. Guidelines the guardians had set forth, his own beliefs, were gone. And now his comrads in arms were gone as well.
Hal Jordan had always been there for the Guardians and the Corps. But the one time he needed them, Hal Jordan found out the hard way...
...he was on his own.
He descended upon them like a demon. Fell upon the Guardians and their Corps. And they were for the first time Green Lanterns knew fear, because the demon held the form of their Greatest Emerald Warrior,
Hal Jordan of Earth.
Hal had lost everything he had ever cared for, ever dreamed of, in the destruction of Coast City. The Guardians would not allow him to use his power to bring the city back. Hal's mind snapped and in one day he destroyed the Corps, Sinestro, and the Guardians. He thought...
Two years ago Kyle Rayner recieved a visit from a Guardian named Ganthet. The LAST Guardian. This Guardian granted Kyle the Legacy of the Green Lantern Corps. At the same time he passed on the legacy of Hal Jordan, Greatest of the Corps. Ganthet gave Kyle Hal's ring. No longer did it have a vulnerability to yellow. No longer did it have a set period of recharge. Now it was the most powerful weapon in the universe. A weapon so powerful that Kyle used it to destroy OA in order to keep a crazed Hal from gaining the power stored there.
EMERALD LEGACY PART-1
SPACE TWO WEEKS AGO
What events lead to the destruction of an entire planet? Would it have been massive tectonic shifts? Would it have been a collision with a large outside body such as an asteroid? Perhaps the Sun that was supporting it going nova. Then there are unnatural events. Tampering with their ecology caused the destruction of Krypton. Rann was almost destroyed by the monster Gravyn. What about the planet called OA?
What happens when the planet that had been the source of hope for the cosmos explodes? A planet that had contained the energy for a legion of Space cops. For millennia the planet had held the energy inside. Regulating it to the members of this Corps through a Central Power Battery built by an ageless race not even from OA. What happens to the energy? Science states that energy, like matter, can neither be created nor destroyed. So what happens when just one man with a ring releases a planet sized energy in one massive explosion of willpower.
Perhaps that energy would begin to coalesce into a solid form. Maybe that form would begin to take on a shape. Might that shape take the form of the races it had most interacted with? Humanoid, perhaps? As the energy grasped into the depths of space to remain in existence, it would become "alive". And maybe, just maybe after gaining life the form would choose a sexual orientation? Maybe taking on a female shape. It makes sense females are the mothers of each of the respective races.
And then this "lady" would search to identify herself. While simply an energy source, she had been in contact with several races, which bore several names. But never had any race affected her as the Maltasians had. Perhaps the name they used. Yes she was Guardian.
EARTH TWO WEEKS AGO
Kyle Rayner had a problem. Make it two problems, one complicated the other. The package he had been holding before the impact contained several sheets of work he had just finished hours before. And now in order to deliver it he had to catch it before it toppled into the ocean. And to catch it he had to go through the man standing in the air before him.
But things were not as complicated for Kyle as they seemed. A beam of emerald energy lanced out from the jewel on his right hand grasping the package falling far below, as he looked the attacker, he knew too well, in the eye.
"Dr. Light I presume?"
The figure clad in black and white answered by lancing a blast of energy towards Kyle. The ring responded by instinct and surrounded Kyle in an emerald force field, yet never releasing his package. Some of the energy was redirected, the rest absorbed, converted and stored for future use in the ring. The ring Kyle wore as Green Lantern.
With a look of disgust on his face Kyle mumbled "Next time Wally delivers my stuff for me." A technically ornate gun formed in his right hand, which he used to point at Dr. Light.
"Fool!" Light bellowed. "I am pure light, no energy weapon you can form will hurt me."
Kyle smiled. The ring could do anything he willed it to, and now what he willed it to do surprised even Doctor Light, and impressed Kyle. He pulled the trigger and instead of the emerald energy beam Light expected to see, a solid crystal object shot towards him. It impacted in his chest and he felt himself begin to disperse as shards of his precious light began shooting out into the air in several directions.
Kyle watched as Dr. Light became a blinding rainbow light show before his eyes, as the crystal which had hit light started to fall, Kyle flew up and caught it in his hand. Looking at it as it sparkled in the setting sunlight he talked aloud to no one. "Should take Light a while to pull himself back together." Throwing the crystal over his shoulder so it would fall down into the Atlantic, he noticed he was directly over the sunken city of Atlantis. Laughing to himself he continued his flight from New York to Japan. " I wonder if Authur likes prisms?"
SPACE ONE WEEK AGO
Guardian had completely become a "living being". Her first order of business was to test her limits. After some time she discovered that while her physical form was limited to what had been the geographic confines of OA, she could send an energy duplicate of herself out to explore. This duplicate had some of her abilities, but weakened the longer it was away from her.
She had complete control over the energy that made up her body. She and found that even after she had completed her form, there was still some residual energy left over. Energy that was floating around what had been OA.
The moon had been mostly undamaged, so she mined it for material. She also used remaining debris of OA to form for herself a structure in which to live. This structure took on a shape not much unlike the original citadel on OA the Maltasians had built.
She then began to set about her next duty. Using minerals from the dead moon, she began to forge the first of what she planned to be a long line of artifacts. Her mind formed its shape, and when she was done she stored some of the residual energy in it. Then she constructed the second artifact. This would channel the energy from the first one into whatever it's bearer wished. Her first power ring and power battery were complete.
EARTH ONE WEEK AGO
"Damn!" Kyle blurted out, crumpling the sheet of paper before him. In a fit of near rage he tossed it across the room, and followed it with a blast of energy from his ring rendering it into atoms.
His outburst had scared Jennie half out of her chair. Had she still had her powers she would have been in full costume, and have erected a shield around herself by now. Looking at Kyle as he began to set his drafting table back up she asked. "Is everything alright?"
Kyle looked up to see a mixed look of concern and fear on the face of his roommate. Slowly he began to calm down. "Sorry Jen." He started. "This Tempest Enterprises account has me on the ropes." He gestured towards his desk. "Every time I think I nail down a design, I take a second look and hate it."
Jennie began to massage his shoulders. The two had become closer since their fight with the Starheart. She smiled as she felt his muscles relax under her hands. While she still slept on his couch, there was defiantly something growing between them. After a few minutes she whispered in his ear. "Tell you what Ring Boy." She used her nickname for him. "You take a break from that, and lets go get you some of Radu's special mix."
Kyle smiled and stood up, stretching as he did. "You always say the kindest things Jen." He went towards the alcove where he stored his battery. Jennie grabbed his arm.
"Oh no, no art, no 'Lantern, today you are Kyle Rayner, out on the town with the luckiest green skinned woman on Earth." She continued to drag him to the door. Together they went downstairs to Radu's.
STRIKERS ISLAND
The guards had made their last mistake. The regulations on Prisoner 134-765 were strict. The seal around his cell was to be checked every hour. Due to an overly high-staked game of poker, they had missed two of those checks.
That is how the sounds from their radio had filtered through a small crack in the seal. That is how prisoner 134-765 turned that sound into a beam of pure sonic force to blow his cell apart. It was the reason that the screams of their deaths only made him stronger. And now prisoner 134-765, alias Sonar, was ready to claim his kingdom of New York. And no damned green ringed freak or red suited speedsters were going to stop him.
RADU'S COFFEE SHOP
Kyle and Jennie sat at their usual table near the bar where they could still talk to Radu if he was interested. Sipping their respective drinks, both of them were surprised to catch themselves saying nothing.
Before either one of them could comment on it, Radu chimed in with his infinite wisdom. "So what are you two young ones going to do today?" He asked his accent as strong as ever.
Jennie answered first. "Kyle's taking a breather today. I'm going to force him to have fun."
Radu laughed just a little. "Yes Kyle, you are my favorite tenant I would be grieved if you died of boredom."
Kyle half glanced at his right hand and the ring that sat on his middle finger. "Somehow I doubt that will ever happen Radu."
SPACE NEW OA THREE DAYS AGO
She had detected it just before it began to move. A power ring she had not made, for she had only made one. This was one that the Maltasians had made. As she sent her energy form towards it, the ring did something rather odd.
It moved.
Not only did it move, but it expelled a beam of energy in its defense. Capturing a piece of the emerald rock floating near it, the ring and the rock jumped into hyperwarp before she could reach it.
"Yes that was very odd". Guardian thought.
STRIKERS ISLAND THREE DAYS AGO
"I don't know how to explain it GL." Warden Withers said to Kyle as they walked to where Sonar's cell had been. "The guards I had were top notch."
As they entered the foyer to Sonar's high security cell, Kyle, Green Lantern looked around. He spotted something out of the corner of his eye he asking sarcastically. "Really Warden," A thin beam of light floated to a corner solidified into a pair of tweezers and pulled out a king of hearts. "Top notch you say?"
The warden began to stammer but before he could complete a single sentence Kyle's ego took over.
"Don't worry." Kyle said adjusting the ring on his finger. "I brought him in once, I can do it again." With that Green Lantern phased through the roof and flew out into the New York skyline.
SPACE, KORUGAR ONE DAY AGO
The emerald ring dropped out of hyperwarp, slowly approaching the familiar planet. Thoughts of a man believed dead whirling inside the ring amidst a nimbus of energy. "Pathetic Fools." Ran the thoughts. "If I could possess their precious battery, they should have known it would be child's play to possess their ring." As the ring descended through the atmosphere of the planet, it began to search the planet, crisscrossing it several times at the speed of light, until it/he found the object of its/his search.
All the inhabitants of Korugar knew of the Green Lantern Corps. Two of the most noted Lanterns had come from here. One Famous, one Infamous. Now the farmer known as H'larn was shocked to see an emerald ring floating before him.
"You have been chosen." It spoke to him. A ring spoke!
"Chosen for what?" The man asked timidly.
Floating before him the ring spoke again, it's words appealing to H'larn's nature. "To continue the greatest legacy this planet ever had." The ring floated closer. "All you have to do is accept."
H'larn reached out slowly and grasped the ring. Slipping it on the third finger of his left hand, the last thing H'larn heard was the laughter of a devil.
As the ring settled into place, H'larn was enveloped in a nimbus of energy, the chunk of rock that the ring had been towing behind it dropping to the ground. Both began to undergo a transformation. H'larn fell to his knees in pain as his genetic code was rewritten from within. The rock also began to morph into a new shape, a wicked sharp pointed battery of power.
H'larn's mind was cast out into the void, and captured by the ring. As his body rose, the features of his face had been twisted as well. His lips snarled into an almost demonic wicked smile. His face now graced with a black "Fu man Cho" mustache. His hairline had receded just slightly. He reached for the handle of the battery. Drawing in breath as if it were a precious commodity, the new man spoke. Gone was the humble farmer, replaced by the almost shrill high-toned voice of confident evil
"They were fools to think that death would stop me!"
?
He had selected H'larn because his height and weight had been an exact match for his own. And now the most dangerous being in the galaxy roamed free once more. Now he was a match for anyone in his way.
"Now," Sinestro said. "There are no Guardians, nor a Hal Jordan to stop me!"
Laughter not heard for years, echoed off the surrounding mountains.
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