Green Lantern: Emerald Knights Page #4

[PROBES BUZZ]

[YELLING AND GRUNTING]

HAL:
But they didn't call him Unrelenting

for nothing.

Ship, release new probes.

I want them to map every square klick

of this mud ball...

...and set charges

to force that son of a cur into the open.

If Bolphunga couldn't find Mogo directly,

then he'd find him indirectly:

A house, a training site,

maybe even a power battery.

PROBE:

Planet map 0.5 percent complete.

And so he waited.

He could almost taste Mogo's blood.

PROBE:

One-point-eight percent complete.

Three-point-five percent complete.

[SNORING]

Whoa...!

[YELLS THEN GASPS]

[COMPUTER BEEPING]

Ho-ho-ho. Now I have you.

PROBE:

Planet map 100 percent complete.

Show me the whole planet.

Huh?

[RUMBLING]

HAL:
lt was then that

Bolphunga the Unrelenting finally relented.

- Get me out of here.

SHIP VOICE:
Yes, oh, mighty...

Now!

[GRUNTS]

HAL:

His fight was over before it began.

[YELLS]

[SCREAMING]

He had found his enemy,

who was hidden in plain sight.

The Green Lantern known as Mogo.

And that, Arisia,

is why Mogo doesn't socialize.

A living world.

When this battle's over, I'll tell you about

some of the really big Lanterns.

You're joking, Hal.

You are, right?

[DEMON GROWLING]

[BOTH GRUNT]

[DEMONS SHRIEKING]

Thicken your shield.

Don't let them touch you.

Above you.

SINESTRO:

Stay alert.

[GRUNTING]

SINESTRO:

Watch out!

[YELLS]

[GRUNTS]

[GROANING]

SINESTRO:

You've been out for a while.

[WINCING]

Careful. You took quite a hit.

Where is everyone?

Patrolling the sun.

Things are starting to get hot out there.

The sensors are picking up a pressure zone

under the surface.

Won't be long now.

So the Guardians are right.

Krona is coming.

SINESTRO:

It seems.

My old friend, Abin Sur, would surely be

quoting scripture if he were here.

And so it is written, the enemy long buried

will return from a fire...

...and Oa shall be consumed

in its flames.

Almost makes you wanna hide

under the nearest rock.

Do you think that somehow

this is preordained?

No, my dear.

Destiny is a tricky item.

Even Abin Sur found that out.

[ABIN SUR GRUNTS]

ATROCITUS:

A sign of things to come, Abin Sur.

Darkness.

Who are you, creature?

I am an enemy to all...

...who serve the self-appointed

Guardians of the Universe.

Then you are an enemy to me.

[BOTH GRUNTING]

RING VOICE:

Warning. Power level, 1.7 percent.

Warning. Power level, 1.1 percent.

[GROWLING]

I have seen your future, Abin Sur.

And it is death.

We all die.

And I do not fear death.

There are things worse than death,

Green Lantern.

If I had a power ring for every time

I heard that, I'd have my own corps.

[GRUNTS]

ABIN SUR:
Sinestro.

- Abin. I've seen you look better, my friend.

And I've seen you look worse.

Warning.

Power level approaching 0 percent.

Still waiting to recharge

until you're almost on empty?

What can I say?

I get caught up in my work.

Don't we all?

[GROANING]

- What's he doing?

- He's trying to break it.

[GRUNTING]

Abin, if that explodes,

it could take out the city.

If not the entire planet.

Abin!

In brightest day, in blackest night

No evil shall escape my sight

Let those who worship evil's might

Beware my power, Green Lantern's light

No.

[PANTING]

ABIN SUR:

You want my power battery, Atrocitus?

You're welcome to it.

Atrocitus shouldn't give us

any more trouble.

I would think not, but who is he?

SINESTRO:
Atrocitus is part of

a terrorist cell called the Five Inversions.

ABIN SUR:

I've never heard of him.

SINESTRO:
Because he's been imprisoned

on the planet Ysmault for over 700 years.

Last week, a ship crashed there.

Atrocitus killed its survivors,

repaired the ship and fled.

He's been hunting

and killing Green Lanterns since.

- How many?

- Three.

How did he find any of the Green Lanterns?

Or me?

According to the Book of Oa...

...Atrocitus claims

he is able to talk to destiny.

- There is no such thing as destiny, Abin.

- Then how...?

He locked onto your power ring's energy

somehow, as he no doubt did the others.

- You don't believe in destiny?

- No.

We wear destiny on our fingers, Sinestro.

[BOOMING]

The power ring seeks out those destined

to be Green Lanterns.

The power ring seeks out those who have

shown the ability to overcome great fear.

It is a highly advanced computer program

based on morality...

...but it is a program nonetheless.

ABIN SUR:

Do you remember the first day we met?

SINESTRO:

Of course.

ABIN SUR:

We were both summoned to Oa for training.

You mistook me for someone

from your world.

- From Korugar.

- Yes.

ABIN SUR:
But despite your mistake,

we became friends.

Together,

we saved your world from civil war...

...and today, mine from Atrocitus.

Our meeting was destiny.

No, Abin. It was luck.

As it was for this damaged ship

that we came across.

ABIN SUR:

No. I believe in destiny.

All of this, everything we do,

is a part of that destiny.

We will agree to disagree.

Are you certain you don't want my help

delivering the prisoner back to Ysmault?

No. You have your sector to attend to,

I have mine.

Then until we see one another again,

my friend.

- Keep the light burning.

- Always.

[THUNDER CRASHING]

Set us free and we will serve you

as you serve your blue-skinned owners.

DEMONIC FACE:

Paradise is right here.

This is anything but.

[PRISONERS MOANING AND WAILING]

I told you

there are things worse than death.

This prison is of your doing, Atrocitus.

I speak not of Ysmault, Green Lantern...

...or of my own fate.

I speak of yours.

Your death.

I told you, I do not fear death.

But it will come to you sooner

than you realize.

All because your ring fails you

in your most desperate hour.

Then I will remember

to charge my ring often.

But it is not your death

that is the tragedy.

It is beyond it.

I have seen the future

of the Green Lantern Corps.

I have seen its destiny...

...should you care to hear it.

Continue.

Let me go further in time then.

To a future when the most vile murderers

and deviants in the universe...

...will become united under one leader.

There will be a war of light

that will burn the surface of Oa black.

It will leave scores of Lanterns dead.

Even the greatest of them will fall.

The green light will be extinguished

and there will be left a new corps.

A corps of fear.

Sinestro.

His corps will terrorize the universe.

The Guardians will find themselves

without their soldiers.

They will be overpowered and captured.

They will be skinned alive

and eaten by Sinestro's followers.

Their skulls will form the base

of Sinestro's throne on Oa.

His reign will cover the universe

like a shroud.

Wait, where are you going?

You almost had me, demon...

...but you took a Green Lantern

down a path...

...his willpower would never let him go.

Sinestro may not believe in destiny,

but I do.

And I know my dear friend

is destined for great things.

You, however, are not.

SINESTRO:
But Abin Sur knew

a false prophet when he heard one.

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