Injustice 3: Rings War (Book 2)

Chapter 25: Up and Away

Arisia:

Flying to catch the man with the glasses, I freeze when I see him flying back up. His arms are crossed, and he is holding the ring in between his fingers.

"What," he laughs, tossing and catching the ring. "Did you forget about my non-green hoverboard? I used it in space when we first fought."

Catching the ring in his hand, the man with the glasses starts to crush it. He brings his closed hand to his face and Kilowog and I watch as a green glow starts to seep through his fingers. Without warning, the man then throws the ring.

The ring itself, glowing bright, flies past us before disappearing from sight.

"The ring is going back to Hal," the man says, the two of us turning around. "It should reach him in seconds."

I look down at my hands as my glow also disappears. I look at Kilowog and at all the other green lanterns. They seem to be returning to normal as well.

"This should be obvious, but in case it isn't, no ring, no power up."

Flash:

"There," Captain Cold says, freezing a crack in the ceiling. "It won't exactly pass a building inspection, but it will hold nonetheless."

"Thank you for your help," Laira says, using her ring to force a support beam back into its place. "Honestly, I wasn't sure how much longer the infirmary could stand with all those yellow lanterns. I am thankful for your help."

"No problem," I reply, running around the entire building to make sure nothing is shaking.

"I still don't get it though," Laira says, flying and landing in front of us. "How could your leader just pull off a ring and use it? That can't be possible."

"Okay, first," I start, "The Man is not our leader. He is not our leader. Second, well, there's apparently a lot about The Man we don't know. His name included."

"What I'm curious about is why The Man didn't just fly," Harleen asks, walking up to us. "He summoned a hoverboard for reason. Why a hoverboard? You could probably save yourself a little bit of juice if you fly, not call forth a hoverboard."

"That's what's on your mind," Dinah says. "Really?"

"At this point," Harleen starts, "The Man can tell me he can turn the whole universe into jelly and the only thing I would think about is why jelly? Why not chocolate pudding?"

Before any one of us could say anything, something small and green shoots past us.

"What was that," Laira screams, all of us turning. As it turns out, the something is a green lantern ring. Flying through the infirmary, it reaches Hal and climbs its way back onto his finger.

A green glow erupts from the ring as it climbs back onto Hal's finger, we all have to shield ourselves. Before we know it, Hal wakes up screaming.

Green Lantern:

"What the hell," I say, getting up and looking all around. "What? What? What happened? Where am I?"

Looking down at myself, I check my arms and see them wrapped in bandages.

"What happened," I ask again, trying to remember the last thing before I blacked out. I was in the middle of a fight, flying through the air, summoning anything and everything I can think of before something happened and the next thing I know, everything is black.

"Hal," a familiar voice yells. I look to see who it is and I see almost every Insurgency member. Barry is the first to reach me. Using his speed, he runs right up to me.