Earth 1993: Green Lantern

Prologue

    Coast City, a buzzing metropolis filled to the brim with different aspects of life. For as long as people remember, Coast City was one of the few places where heroes were born or made: at least it was. What was in the location of Coast City was a crater filled with rubble, along with the corpses of billions of people, and in the center of the crater is the greatest of all the Green Lanterns. Hal Jordan, the second human to become a Green Lantern and arguably the greatest among the corps after Sinestro. Hal formed a construct sling around his left arm, looking at what was his home ever since he was a child.

    Multiple feelings were overtaking him as he just sat there in the crater: anger, sadness, grief, and the dangerous of all emotions for a lantern, pure fear. Tears fell from the eyes of Hal before he looked at his power ring, Abin Sur gave him the greatest weapon in the universe that could construct anything he could in existence with willpower. Hal just lifted his right hand into the air and a green beam of light went into air before a dome was created around the crater as he stood up. Within the dome a figure appeared, he was around the same age as Hal, who was in his early 50s, and with a flight suit on. "Hal," the figure spoke.

    "Hey Dad," Hal greeted the figure who was the construct of Martin Jordan.

    "Got some white in the hair," the construct pointed out with a small chuckle from the both of them. Martin looked at Hal's left arm and asked, "Got a busted wing there, son?"

    Hal looked at his left arm and the construct went away, "Oh yeah. Nothing serious. it's healed. Really," he stated as his left arm went down at his side. "But thanks for asking," he said sincerely.

    "Sure," Martin stated with a nod. There was a silence that went in between them before the construct asked, "Did you want something?"

    Hal sighed as he ran his right hand across his face, "Well... yeah," he stated honestly, "I wanted to talk. About me. About me and you."

    "So... talk," the construct ordered as he raised an eyebrow at the Green Lantern.

    Hal looked at the ruins with pain on his face, "It's just... being here, you know. It gets me thinking," he stated before looking at the construct. "Brings me back a lot of memories from my childhood. What I remember most is you..." he stopped to take a breath, "How I looked up to you. I worshipped the ground you walked on, flew over. Which probably has a lot to do with who I am now. Growing up, though," he saw the construct turn away from him. He balled both fists up as he continued to explain, "I never felt like you, I don't know, thought that much of me."

    Martin turned back to look at Hal with a look that said it all, that the construct of Hal's father didn't think that much of him. Hal just looked at his right hand as he was trying to relax, "I wanted you to be proud of me. I wanted that so much, just to hear you say it once," he finished holding up a one with his right hand.

    "Good lord," Martin stated with annoyance in his voice, "Hal, that is a long time."

    Hal gritted his teeth as he grabbed the construct's arm with his right hand causing the helmet of his deceased father to fall. "JUST ONCE!" he exploded in anger, "But you knew I was hardly alive. You were always patting Jack or Jim on the back, telling them how great they were," he continued to vent out of anger and jealousy. He then snapped out of his anger as he then let go of the construct's arm and in a small voice, he said, "Sorry."

    Martin went down to pick up his helmet, "Your brothers. They'd done things, had real accomplishments. You always had your head in the clouds," he stated before he stood back up to look at Hal, "You were..."

    "A space case?" Hal asked as he crossed his arms and stared at Martin, "Is that what you thought of me? Well, why don't you take a look at what that 'space case' turned into. You didn't give me one damn bit of encouragement. Now I am a hero, no thanks to you," he said with some hate in his voice. "Do you have any idea the things I've done?"