Book 3, Chp 11: The Invasion Key

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After saving planet Betrassus from the traitor, the green lanterns continue their mission where we see Hal Jordan is trying to look for his lantern.

Hal: Are you sure none of you have seen it? It's a Lantern battery for crying out loud. It's not like it grew legs and ran off.

Kilowog: I can't believe you, Jordan. First you forget to charge your ring, and now you lose your battery like some rookie.

YN: You sure you haven't left it in a hidden pocket dimension?

(Yes, green lanterns have pocket dimensions to keep their lanterns from being stolen.)

Hal: I'm positive.

Aya: I am receiving an incoming transmission from Oa. Guardian Appa Ali Apsa.

Hal: After what he did to Ganthet, let it go to voicemail or something. I don't feel like talking to that backstabbing blue munchkin pain in the- Ow!

YN smack Hals head to shut him up before Hal realize Apa is hearing him.

Apa: [Yes, communication with you, 2814, is equally unpleasant. However, the Guardians have need of you. We have deciphered more of the red lantern plans you obtained from shard. The invasion will begin sooner than expected. Atrocitus plans to enter Guardian space using the Lighthouse.]

Hal: That what now?

YN: The Lighthouse.

Apa: [Yes

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Apa: [Yes. The Lighthouse was created millions of years ago by a lost civilization as a way to travel through the Maelstrom, The asteroid barrier separating the forgotten zone from Guardian space. When those ancients vanished, the secret of the Lighthouse was lost, sealing for countless millennia. Some years ago a Green Lantern archeologist named Tauverus made the long trek to the frontier in hopes of finding the secret code that would activate the long dormant Lighthouse. Unfortunately, he disappeared without a trace.]

Hal: And you're telling us this why?

Apa: [The Red Lantern armada is headed full speed for the gate. We believe Atrocitus may already have the code. If his armada crosses the Maelstrom into Oan space, they will destroy everything in their power.]

YN: In other words, billion lives will be lost during the way.

Apa: [Your job, Green Lanterns, is to get to the Lighthouse first and destroy it by any means necessary.]

Hal: It's too bad we can't just ask this Tauverus what the code is so we can destroy the Lighthouse from the inside out.

Aya: We can do precisely that. While interfaced with the security system on the prison asteroid, I downloaded their records. An inmate named Tauverus is in fact being held captive there.

YN: Prison asteroid. Of all the places it could be. It had to be there.

Hal: Its not like we have a choice. Not some good ones at least. Set course to the asteroid prison.

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