Post by Spider-Man Beyond on Dec 1, 2006 11:17:16 GMT -5
Legends of the Green Lantern Corps Special: Vidar #3
Rampage!
Rampage!
Written by Scott D. L. Kruger
Edited by Daniel Dyer
The one thing I loved more than anything else in the universe was gone. Yes, I have a son… but it was her. Marisa. I lived for her… Everything I am, I did for her… she made me want to be a better man. She was my inspiration. And now I sit here on the floor of my burned out apartment in downtown Metropolis, surrounded by neighbors & a fire crew, crying and holding onto her body for dear life.
"Sir?" the fire chief looks to me again.
My ring suddenly activates, throwing a protective aura around me. It doesn’t stop a searing, burning flame from penetrating my chest.
I gasp for breath and fall over on the body of my beloved. In a hail of yellow laser fire everyone in the apartment is dead… but again, me. The intended target, bastard can hit everyone but me.
Frakker would have had me, too, if he realized my heart was not in the same spot as a human’s. I play dead for him, because I’m sure he needs proof of my death to take back to his Dominion masters on Elia. He’ll probably go for the ring. They always do.
God, Marisa…
I lay there on her when I hear footsteps crunching on broken glass. I lay there still, willing my ring to slow down my heartbeat & breathing. If I look dead, I’ll have the Frakker.
He kicks me hard and I go flying off of her. I hit a wall and slump to the ground. He walks over to me and rolls me onto my back. He reaches for my ring.
"DIE YOU SONOVABITCH!" I scream at him firing a blast from my ring. But the beam passes right through him. His body wrapped around it. His left arm rears up and his hand melts away, changing into a solid weapon.
Durlan.
He hits me so hard I fly through a wall into a neighbor’s apartment.
I recover quick and surround him in a transparent green bubble. The only way I know of to contain a shape changer. I bite through the tears stinging my eyes and start shrinking the bubble. I want to crush the life from him.
Would have worked too, if I’d have disarmed him first.
He starts shooting at me with his rifle, the yellow beams shattering the bubble. I can’t contain him. I can’t survive against that weapon. Not in these cramped quarters.
I fly for the window as fast as I can muster.
Goodbye, Marisa.
I turn and fire another of my emerald bombs in my apartment. It detonates upon impact. Destroying not only my apartment, but the entire floor. The building begins to collapse in on itself. I start willing my ring to brace the building, when I see him. He flies from the smoldering wreckage with wings of his own.
I charge him, ramming him back into the building. We fly through wall upon wall. Debris & bodies flying and falling all around me. But all I think of is my wife. She was the kindest person I knew… she would never hurt anyone, and this…
"NNNYYYAAARRRHHH!!!" I scream with rage as I drive him through the bottom floor of the building into the permacrete street below.
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