Hal Jordan isn't the biggest fan of authority. As a high-ranking peacekeeper in the Green Lantern Corps, he's willing to defy any and all orders if it means getting the job done. So what happens when he becomes the authority? When the Corps gains a...
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Hal barrelled through the atmosphere of the uninhabited planet of Gorn as golden blasts of parallax energy zipped past, detonating the mountains behind him into clouds of shrapnel. Jordan thrusted his ring hand forward, pegging a steady volley of his own at his two foes.
A handful of the bursts went wide and collided with the surface of the picturesque world. The resounding explosions almost drowned out the sound of his voice as he snapped "Dammit! Stay on 'em!"
Vell was at his side, in pursuit of the two Sinestro Corps recruits. They had discovered them whilst investigating leads on the movements of Arkillo. Sinestro's fresh plans to create a Lantern Corps of his own were finally coming to fruition, and his latest move involved sending Arkillo to bestow the first two standard yellow power rings upon subjects of his choosing. According to how these guys fired bolts of parallax power, flew through the air, survived a deep space pursuit, and forged hard-light constructs, they definitely fit the descriptions of Yellow Lantern Corpsmen.
Suddenly, the pair of Yellows darted in opposite directions. "I'll take the one on the right!" Vell shouted, spearing after her quarry.
Hal gritted his teeth and kicked up the thrust, banking around another mountain. This Yellow was still a newbie, and Hal's had a lot of millage up his sleeve. He wasn't about to be outflown by a greenhorn, pardon the expression. Two trans-light engine cores manifested on Hal's back, fastened to his suit by a series of structural reinforcements.
Within the blink of an eye, the human shot forward like the fastest man alive, colliding with the Yellow Lantern. Hal's constructs dissipated as he wrapped his arms around the Yellow Lantern and fell out of the sky. The pair impacted onto the green grass plains of a Gornian wild, skidding along the earth and burning it up as they went.
Hal finally got a good look at his opponent. It snarled at him with the face of a panther, fur black with a cobalt sheen. Its eyes glowed crimson. The alien wrestled with Hal as their momentum slowed. "Give up, pal! I want Sinestro, not you!"
"Mortess bows to no one! Least of all, a pink-skinned buffoon like you!" The Yellow Lantern charged up his ring and it discharged one gigantic burst of energy...or so Hal thought.
Everything was consumed by white light, and Hal thought this Mortess guy detonated his ring and took Hal with him. However, the light slowly dulled and he found himself alone on that same green hill they crashed on. Brow furrowed, Hal eventually got up as he muttered to himself "Okay...?"
Before long, Vell arrived and set down by his side. "Where are they? The one I was following basically vanished."
"Same here. This is getting weird..."
Suddenly appearing before the two GLs was a mote of light, bobbing up and down like a sprite. "Warbringer. Destroyer of worlds! You bring destruction to this place!"
Hal's ring detected no life signs before him...it only picked up a ball of gaseous energy. Was it possible that he and Vell had just discovered a new energy-based lifeform with no real physical body? The other strange thing was that since it was an undocumented species, the ring's translator was useless...but somehow Hal heard it talking in English.
