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Post by Spider-Man Beyond on Sept 25, 2006 0:43:07 GMT -5
"Tomar!" Jar looks up, worry etched across his features. "The rain!" "Yes?" Tomar looks up, and creates a green umbrella to prevent them getting wet. "Is that ok?" "It’s not rain! It’s the snow! It’s-" What was supposed to come out as ‘melting’ came out as a scream, as water crashes down on the two, pushing the shield down on top of them, crushing them at the base of the mountain. The green dissipates and then… Silence. ---
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Post by Spider-Man Beyond on Sept 25, 2006 0:46:34 GMT -5
>> We… I should kill you! But… Oh wait.<< Agamemno vanishes. His presence is gone and The Captain is left alone. "Sir? Where’d you go?" The Captain spins around and is met with an almighty blow, his uniform ripping beneath the force of the blast. "Ow! That… Them be my ships! Why didn’t you warn me, stupid ring? Like you warned the last guy?" { Suck on it!} It’s quoting him now?The Captain shakes his head and tries to fly, but the ring won’t let him. He’s grounded, barrage upon barrage of concussive blasts beating down on him. { ’I… Um… Am Jar Kell?’ You say you are him so prove it.} The ring flickers power, spurts green energy and then once again silence, apart from the mocking gestures of the construct. { Fight.} "What? No! No! You can’t do this to me! You can’t let me be…" The barrage of canon fire stops all of a sudden, the green aura around him strengthens and then a light appears in front of him. Teleportation… A flicker of light and a flicker of yellow, as fifteen large men leap on him, covered from head to toe in crushed yellow kitchen mites. "De-" Dent lays into him, beating him with a mite covered pylon, "De-" The aura of the ring prevents the body getting damaged, but the pain is real. Every agonizing blow causing the Captain more and more hurt. "Get the ring off him! Then we’ve got him!" The four largest, Khunds by the name of Barry, dive on his ringed hand, wrench up his arm and pull so hard on it that the green aura does nothing to prevent the arm from breaking. "We’ve got his arm! We’ve- Whoa" The aura flickers off and then they realize they’ve just pulled off his entire arm. Barry and Barry wince, but then lay into him, beating him until, at last-Dead. Brains spilt across the wet snow, power dispersing into the atmosphere. ---
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Post by Spider-Man Beyond on Sept 25, 2006 0:48:20 GMT -5
Trapped. Trapped under ice… (That’s a song you know…) Jar stirs then cringes. "To-Tomar…" He flinches as he feels his every fiber being torn apart. "I… Oh Hells… Tomar, you feather brained frig! WAKE UP!" Tomar stirs, pointing his ring hand up and clearing the snow trapping the pair, then passes out again, only to jerk up and look around. "What did you call me?" "I… Argh… I had… Have to…" Jar collapses and feels his soul be wretched out of this foreign body, then he feels a gentle tug up, his ethereal being being pulled up toward the heavens. Not time… Not my time… Then another force grabs him, jerks him down, down to his own body. The fourteen men watch as the corpse knits its self back together, the arm being pulled out of Barry’s grasp and being knitted back onto the lifeless remains by some unseen hand. Below, next to Tomar, the opposite happens to the Captain. His head bursts suddenly, brain matter and blood spilling across the snow, his arm tears off with an almighty crunch and bruises and cuts appear all over him. Tomar looks around, senses the commotion elsewhere and flies up, flies to the top of the mountain, to witness the events unfolding there. Suddenly the body of Jar Kell explodes with green energy, the ring shoots back to his hand, and a beam of light shoots through the ghost like Jar. He feels himself be pulled into his body, his own, comfortable body. Then it is finished, over. No more light, no more fireworks, just Jar, in his torn uniform. Lying there, lifeless. "Kell?" Tomar shoots a beam of light at the pirates, trapping them in an emerald box. "Frig… FRIG! Wake up you idiot…" Kell coughs emerald blood and looks around. "Well. That’s a new experience." He looks down at his ring, and a construct shoots out of it, smiling, his tiny ringed fist giving him a thumb up. { Well done.} "Tomar… That’s me…" He points at the ragged, gaunt shape protruding out his ring. "It was… You know… My mentor before…" He shakes his head and rubs his blood-covered hair. "You left your body. The ring must’ve assumed that you weren’t coming back. Used your soul imprint. This is interesting though, like nothing I’ve seen before. Unique I must say." Tomar smiles and looks at the temporary prison he had formed. "Hells! They just walked through it! Covered in some kind of yellow…" Jar stands up, replaces his tattered uniform with something new and different, and then quietly says. "I’ll deal with this.” ---
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Post by Spider-Man Beyond on Sept 25, 2006 0:50:05 GMT -5
Epilogue 1:
Days Later. <“That didn’t work. It was a flawed plan. Never was going to succeed at it. But I know my boundaries now. The prison won’t hold me. The Guardians of the Universe… Presumptuous name. Pretend they’re all seeing but they can’t see what’s right in front of them.”> ---
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Post by Spider-Man Beyond on Sept 25, 2006 0:52:20 GMT -5
Epilogue 2: Jar Kell sits in the Central Battery chamber, his ring tingling and his foot tapping the floor. Ganthet has been discussing his situation for the past hour with the other Guardians, discussing what could’ve caused this entire fiasco. The Guardian’s chamber opens, and Ganthet floats out. "Jar. You’ve been through a lot this past week or so. First to loose your body like that…" Ganthet smiles. "And the tests we put you through… Just to check there was no residual personality left in that head of yours. Sorry about that." He nods his head, knowingly. "And we understand that you want to get back to your sector again. I understand that. But…" Jar shakes his head. "We’re pulling you from active duty. Your sector will be reassigned. And you will be stationed here." Jar looks up, curious. "What do you mean? I understand you pulling my assignment; I would understand if you sent me home even, but to be stationed here? What does that entail?" Ganthet nods his head. "Of course, you will have to head back to Karlavia Vex for compulsory leave. But when you return you will be only answerable to me. You are a great Lantern, and I think I can trust you. Can I trust you, Jar?" "Yes, Master Ganthet." "Good. Go home. Say hello to your sister for me." Ganthet nods and floats away, leaving Jar to stare at the floor. { Agamemno.} <“Ganthet! Ohh… I hate his impish self. He did this to me… Imprisoned me here… He will be the first to pay when I unleash my full power…”> { Agamemno is coming.} The end?
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