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Kid Lantern	By : JessieMundaiFan Category: DC Verse Cartoons > Young Justice Views: 2074 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Disclaimer: This is a fan-made story I do not own Young Justice. If I did own Young Justice do you think I would be writing stories about?
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(Brief Recap)
The light slowly faded a dark gray aura covering the man, he seemed to be absorbing the aura into his body.
"D-Darren," Kid Flash stuttered lowly.
Suddenly, the man's eyes snapped open.
His great power released.
(End Recap)
Before he could prepare himself, Wally was blasted out of the cave.
Kid Flash cried out in shock as he soared several feet in the air. Slowly he started to fall downwards toward the spike like rocks below him.
Helplessly, the young speedster flailed around trying to find some way to change his trajectory but it was no use as he couldn't fly.
Thankfully, he was caught in the nick of time by a gigantic green catcher's mitt.
Shaking off his shock, Kid Flash looked down to see none other than Hal Jordan had come to his rescue.
"Thanks GL," Kid Flash expressed in gratitude.
"Where's Darren," Hal demanded gazing at the young speedster demandingly.
With a worried gaze, Kid Flash pointed inside of the cave he was just flung out of.
Both superheroes looked over at the cave just in time to see the top part of the mountain splitting in half, stopping at the entrance of the cave. Once split in two, the separated halves of the mountain were flung to parts unknown, almost as if someone had threw them.
All that was left was the same man surrounded in that gray aura who had blasted Kid Flash away.
Giving each other a cautious look, Hal and Kid Flash slowly flew down to the man, Hal had changed the catcher mitt into a flat board so Kid Flash could stand on it while he flew.
The two of them made it just in time to see the meet of team who a gathered up to meet this mysterious man as well.
The man in front of them had no facial expression, he just stared in front of himself blankly as if deep in thought.
All of the superheroes waited with baited breath, anxious to know what he, or rather its, next move was.
"Who or what are you?" Kid Flash demanded getting impatient all the waiting, "What have you done with Darren?"
As if someone hit a switch, the man's eyes lite up as and he turned his gaze to stare at the superheroes in front of him.
"Good going Kid Flash," Artemis smiled sarcastically preparing her bow and aiming it at the gray aura man.
"It…is…time," the man spoke even thought his lips didn't move at all.
"What are you talking about?" Hal narrowed his eyes at him reading his ring.
"Time…for…my moment!" the man replied going from a low whisper to a shout.
Slowly the man's gray aura slowly slid down his body revealing himself to be a grown, fully clothed, man.
The man was tall in stature, with a chiseled chin, shoulder length black hair, high cheek bones, and dark blue eyes.
He wore a uniform similar to what being of any of the Lantern Corps wear. Both his boots and gloves were gray. The arms and leg sections of the suit were black in color with a spiral design on top of it.
There was a design on the torso of the suit that looked to be a skull head. Directly in the center of the left eye of the skull was a green gem and on the right eye was a blue gem. The blue gem seemed to be glowing brightly while the green gems light was dim and almost not visible.
Finally above the man's eyebrows, directly in the center of his head, was the symbol of the Ring of Silence (he had no mask on his face).
"Harpo," the man said making everyone jump in shock as he suddenly said something.
"What?" Robin raised an eyebrow at him.
"I am Harpo the Gray Lantern," he repeated his lips not moving an inch, "and I am the one that will spread silence along the universe."
"How is he talking?" Megan whispered to Aqualad.
"It might be a form to telepathy," Aqualad answered.
In an instant, Kid Flash ran over and punched Harpo clear across the face. Surprisingly, the Harpo didn't move an inch or looked like he was affected by the hit in the slightest.
"Give Darren back," Kid Flash hissed continuing raining down a seemingly endless amount of attacks on the Gray Lantern.
"The universe will know be at peace with me here," Harpo announced still ignoring Kid Flash's assault, "I must go."
Without even lifting a finger, Harpo flung Kid Flash off of him only to have be caught be Superboy and Aqualad.
As Harpo started to float off of the ground, Hal and John went to intercept him.
"Not so fast tough guy," John grunted creating a rope with his ring in the hopes of holding him down.
"We'll take care of this," Hal nodded to the rest of group.
Mimicking his partners act, Hal created a laser cage to restrain the bearer of the Ring of Silence even more.
However, much to the shock and horror of the group, their rings didn't work. Their power seemed to dissolved just as it met Harpo.
"What the hell?" Hal said under his breath inspecting his ring as if something was wrong with it.
With narrowed eyes the Green Lanterns began attacking Harpo, there rings surging in anticipation.
"Your attempts are futile," Harpo told them quietly.
Creating a giant set of boxing gloves, Hal flew forward and thrust the gloves at the villain rapidly moving them to strike every part of his body.
John, who had just flown up little higher, created a gigantic hammer from his ring. With a mighty yell he thrust it down with great force at the Gray Lantern.
However, once again there attacks did nothing. Just as if they were hitting an invisible wall, the attacks stopped just before they struck Harpo and faded away into nothing.
"Damn you," Hal growled his fist clenching.
Feeling all of his anger and frustration building up, Hal channeled all the power his ring at one point and unleashed it in a powerful energy blast.
To the satisfaction to everyone else, this attack did seem to have an effect on Harpo. His entire body was pushed back due to the enormous amount of power thrown at him.
His hands were thrown up as if to hold the attack back. Harpo seemed to be slowly sinking into the ground as he tried to fight off the attack as it pushed him down.
Hal cried out passionately his power increasing due to how much will and courage he was showing.
In his effort to fight off Hal's attack, Harpo's expression finally changed to an enraged look. Activating the power of his ring Harpo started to glow dark gray which apparently gave him the ability to punch away Hal's attack.
Other than a couple specks of dirt and rock on him, Harpo didn't seem affected by the aftermath of fighting off that attack.
Silently, Hal flew down to the ground falling down on one knee trying to collect his breath.
"You alright," Flash asked as he ran over to the Green Lantern.
"That's impossible," Hal said through his heavy breaths, "how could he come out of that attack unscathed."
"The powers of Emotional Spectrum will not work against me," Harpo answered as if it was obvious.
"What is he talking about?" Hal seethed to himself.
Hal's eyes widened as a something came back to him.
(Flashback)
"Created to be a balancing system for the power rings, it is the exact opposite of the Emotional Spectrum due to it not relying on any emotion to reach its fully potential but instead it is powered by no emotion at all," Hal read aloud.
(End Flashback)
"Balancing system," Hal whispered to himself thinking over the phrase.
Seeing as Hal was busy in his own thoughts, and Flash was busy checking up on John who looked more fatigued than his partner at the moment, none of them paid any attention to the actions of the Young Justice team who all looked a little anxious at the moment.
"I had enough of this waiting, it's time for action," Superboy snapped suddenly charging at the Gray Lantern.
With a round of nods from the rest of the Young Justice team they all charged head first into battle.
Flash, hearing the teams collective footsteps, turned to see all of them running toward Harpo, who had stopped floating up from the ground due to Hal's attack.
"Wait a minute kid's," Flash implored of them but he was surprisingly, at least for the Flash, to slow to stop them.
On the direct offensive team, Kid Flash, Superboy, and Aqualad got close and personal with Harpo and started striking him in the chest simultaneously.
One the distant offensive team, Artemis and Robin were attacking Harpo from his sides and back, both using their respective projectiles.
And finally on the support team, was Miss. Martian increasing the gravity on Harpo's body exponentially with her psychic powers so he couldn't fight them back.
Sixty times the gravity this planets gravity, Miss. Martian thought herself gleefully as she utilized her powers to do exactly what she just thought.
As emotionless as ever, Harpo took every hit he received without a single grunt or moan coming from him.
"All together," Aqualad ordered signally for everyone to being their big assault.
Jumping back slightly, Kid Flash spun himself rapidly creating a tornado due to the force of his speed.
Stomping his foot down with extreme force, Superboy created a massive crack in the ground. Using his tremendous strength, Superboy leaned down and lifted up a colossal boulder from the earth beneath him from the crack he made and held it above his head.
While Aqualad and Miss. Martian focused their energies on their powers, Artemis and Robin got out their most destructive weapons (Robin having a subzero freeze boomerang and Artemis having an arrow lined with small but powerful explosives).
"Now!" Aqualad shouted unleashing his blast of water Miss. Martian following his lead with her psychic powers.
Immediately, the team attacked with they had. Artemis and Robin fired their weapons while Kid Flash and Superboy charged Harpo, who didn't make a move to stop them.
Spinning so fast to the point his body was no longer visible to the naked eye, Kid Flash charged Harpo allowing everyone else's attacks to go into his funnel and strike the bearer of the Ring of Silence head on.
For the finishing blow, Superboy jumped a few feet from the ground and hurled his boulder at Harpo. The boulder successful collided with him seemingly crushing him underneath it, Kid Flash narrowly stepping away in time.
The earth crumbled from the force of the attack causing it to shake violently and fall into itself helplessly, with Harpo in tow.
For a moment all was silent, not a single movement was made after the attack. No one made a move toward the crater for fear of the impossible
Robin's eyes searched critically for any signs of life from Harpo. Finally, getting impatient, the boy wonder opened up his wrist computer to scan for the villain.
"What does it say?" Artemis asked running beside Robin to look over his shoulder at the scans results.
"No," Robin's eyes widened incredulously.
"We have to get out of here now!" Robin shouted to the group.
Unfortunately the boy wonder was about a second to late, the ground beneath them slowly started to rumble until it finally collapsed underneath them. The entire mountain was breaking apart. Those that could not fly fell with the ground while the flyers (Miss. Martian and the Green Lanterns) saved the rest from falling to their deaths.
While the superheroes were busy, Harpo calmly flew up from the rock and ruble, completely unscathed. Harpo looked down at the distracted superheroes as if they were rats in a lab test.
"Fighting is useless," was all Harpo said before he sped off and away from the planet.
"Dammit we didn't make a dent in him," Kid Flash shouted punching the mattress Hal created save him and Artemis and Superboy (Miss. Martian and John save the rest of the team).
"That guy has a lot of power," Miss. Martian pointed out softly.
"And I have a feeling he didn't show how much power he had," Aqualad theorized rubbing his chin in thought.
"We have to go after him," Kid Flash snarled glaring up in the direction in the sky Harpo flew off.
John, Hal, and Flash gave each other a look before coming to a consensus.
"Let's go see what his next move is," John announced to the team, "and then we'll go from there."
Kid Flash narrowed his eyes at the elder superheroes, not seeing too much determination in their statures.
In order to save them some time, Miss. Martian and the Green Lanterns opted to fly everyone to the ship. Piling inside the space craft, the group ignited the engines and rocketed in space, going the direction Harpo went.
They traveled a couple hundred miles until they finally stumbled upon the Gray Lantern floating directing in front of Oa.
"Look," Miss. Martian pointed in front of them excitedly.
Coming from Oa you could see several green lights emerging from the planet. Upon closer inspections you would see an army of Green Lanterns charging bravely toward Harpo.
"But how did they…" John trailed off not knowing how the Corps found out about Harpo so quickly.
"It was probably the Guardians," Hal answered with a shrug, "you know how they're practically psychic."
Those Green Lanterns eager for a fight immediately moved the closest to Harpo as they were ordered to go by the Guardians. Of course who would be in the front of the line except Guy and Kyle.
"Finally I get some action," Guy smirked in anticipation eyeing Harpo greedily, "it's been forever since I've had a good battle."
"Keep your vest on big guy," Kyle waved off his eagerness, "we still don't know what we're up against yet."
"Who cares," Guy snorted, "let's just attack!"
With a sigh, Kyle agreed along with the other Green Lanterns.
The group of superheroes watched as the entirety of the Green Lantern Corps unleashed a full frontal assault on the Gray Lantern. Each member of the Corps unleashed a blast of Green Lantern energy at Harpo.
The blasts of energy hurled through the sky like fireworks, each light just as bright as the last one.
"That isn't going to work," Hal sighed sadden by the fact that there was way he could contact the Corps and make them stop at this point.
"How do you know?" Kid Flash demanded, "it could work if they a little more effort into their attack."
"The Ring of Silence blocks Lantern Corps attacks," Hal replied, "there is no way this can work."
Kid Flash growled to himself but didn't say anything further.
Stiffly, Harpo raised the hand that had the Ring of Silenced toward the other Lanterns. Activating his ring, he created a layered shield around himself. Slowly, the shield started to expand around him, the layers building on themselves.
Without a hint of resistance Harpo's shield met each blast from the Green Lanterns. While every couple of blasts dissolved a layer of the shield, along with the blast itself, there was always another layer ready to take its place leaving all of the efforts of the Green Lantern Corps to go to waste.
"Impossible," Kyle's eyes widened in shock as he had never seen his powers blocked that way before, "how did he do that?"
Guy growled and charged at Harpo constructing a Gatling gun on his arm.
"Guy wait," Kyle shouted in panic still feeling wary of this new villain.
Using energy construction, Harpo changed his shield into an energy wave which he pushed forward forcibly.
"What is he doing?" Robin asked eyeing Harpo's energy wave with contempt, "I thought the Lanterns powers cancel each other out."
"It might not be the Corps he's aiming for," John replied quietly.
Guy, seeing the energy wave coming his way, shielded himself by crossing his hands in front of his face. Much to his surprise the attack did nothing but pass right through him. Following the wave with his eyes he noticed that it was passing through the other Green Lanterns as well.
"What the hell?" Guy mumbled under his breath.
All the Green Lanterns could do nothing but watch as the wave collided with Oa.
"So he's after Oa," Aqualad guessed.
Hal shook his head at the young Atlantean in disagreement. Oa was filled with Green Lantern energy, the planet pretty much is a Green Lantern ring itself, so if the power of Emotional Spectrum cancels out the Gray ring then this attack is useless against a planet that is home to the Green Lantern ring.
The wave seemed to flux when coming in contact with Oa. With what looked like an energy surge, the wave was broken into several slightly smaller waves and bounced off of Oa. All of them flew to different parts of space.
"I don't get it," Kid Flash scratched his head in confusion, "what was the point of that?"
"That," Superboy said bluntly pointing to a planet near Oa.
"That's Geasis," John told the group as he analyzed the planet with the ships computer, "it is populated with over thirty million life forms."
Everyone looked on as the wave flew down to the planet. It seemed to be a bright, beautiful, planet filled with lots of green land and several bodies of water.
However, seconds after the wave hit it, the planet soon started to fade gray. It looked as something was taking over the planet. All of the colors vanished in the mass of grayness taking over the planet.
"The life forms," John inhaled.
"What? What happened to them?" Hal demanded.
"They've all disappeared," John responded slowly in disbelief, "it's as if they all were killed at the same time."
Flash looked over the planet as it was completely engulfed in grayness.
"That could be the case," Flash replied seriously.
"Hey, where did Harpo go?" Artemis suddenly demanded.
During the moment that everyone was in awe by the power that one wave on energy had, Harpo had apparently flew off again.
"We have to find him again," Kid Flash commanded, "who know what's he's doing."
"Wally…"
"No," Kid Flash snapped, "we have to stop him. You saw all those waves he made. They are going to do the same thing that other wave did to Geasis and he's probably making more of them as we speak. We have to stop him."
The Young Justice team nodded in agreement.
The elder members of the group looked to each cautiously.
"What?" Kid Flash asked with narrowed eyes.
Flash sighed and moved toward a cabinet in the front of the ship. Opening it up, the speedster pulled out a small circular orb.
"We will kid," Flash had a look of regret on his face, "just without you."
Before Kid Flash could reply, his uncle hurled the orb at the Young Justice team as it opened to spew out some sort of gas.
"Knock out gas," Robin slurred before he dropped to his knees feeling faint.
"Uncle Barry?" Kid Flash gasped trying to keep conscious.
"Sorry kid," Flash apologized sincerely, "but this is too dangerous of a mission for you and knowing you, you wouldn't go back home on your own so…"
"Home? No I can't," Kid Flash pleaded as his eyes got heavy.
"Darren."
Then the young speedster, along with his team, fell to the floor of the ship unconscious.
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