Justice League: The New Frontier Page #4

The only word I can find

to describe the scale of this is "biblical. "

It's a living island,

at least 25 miles across.

It has large ports which

discharge intense blasts of energy...

...but which can also draw things

into the creature.

Not two minutes ago, we watched it inhale

an entire aircraft carrier.

The loss of life out here

is incalculable and-

Wait. We're turning around.

We've been ordered back.

I have to tell you something.

I'm the F...

-I already know.

You what?

I'm a reporter, remember?

I always suspected, and I heard your voice

on the news the other night.

I was only trying to protect you.

They think I'm some kind of criminal.

But we know better, don't we?

So, what are you waiting for?

You know who's going to be there?

Superman, Wonder Woman, people like that.

I'm just a guy who runs

after jewelry thieves and talking gorillas.

You're more than that.

And you're going to prove it.

What are you doing?

Where have you been?

And what happened to the simulator?

Long story.

Have you seen the news?

Do you have any idea what's-

Oh, God.

You're going down there, aren't you?

Hal the pacifist is going down there

to get killed by that thing.

What would you have me do?

Or do you think I'm a coward too?

I looked up your war record.

You never fired

at those North Korean planes.

Maybe I just didn't believe that what

we were doing there was worth killing for.

But in that trench,

I found out what would make me kill.

Survival. I would kill to survive.

Aren't you going to at least say goodbye?

Don't you-?

Whoa. We're just here to help.

We don't need help.

Especially not from you.

You think you can hit me?

It's been tried before.

Don't push us, mister.

I see I have your attention.

We face a threat big enough

to wipe us off the Earth...

...and still we bicker about a mask

or a uniform.

My best friend is lying upstairs right now.

She would have given her life

for this country...

...and I could hardly look her in the eye.

America was founded on the notion...

...that a person should be free

to follow his or her destiny.

But we can't do that if we're living in fear

of our own government.

We need to reclaim this country

for free men and women everywhere.

What about your government friends?

-That's a fair question.

Superman's right.

The persecution and paranoia

have to stop.

From here on,

we work together as free Americans.

I'm gonna fly out now

and recon this thing.

When I get back,

we'Il work out a strategy.

Are you with me?

America's champion, Superman...

...went down in defeat severaI hours ago.

An exhaustive search

has found no sign of him.

Here at the Cape,

the greatest minds in the free world...

...are now working on a plan to stop

this monster...

...before it reaches the coast.

We cannot panic.

We cannot let our sense of loss-

If this book's right...

...it's a whole new life form

we've never even imagined.

Or it could be nothing more than

the ravings of some demented cartoonist.

It's not. I assure you.

And there's only one way

to stop this thing now.

I want you all to listen to this man.

Gentlemen, I'm Ray Palmer

from Ivy University.

I've heard of you, Palmer,

and your invention.

Matter reduction, right?

Right. I...

-It won't work.

Everything it shrinks becomes unstable.

Exactly.

We start with an all-out aeriaI assault.

We hit the thing from every direction

at once. That's a distraction.

While it's fighting the Air Corps,

we use this baby on it.

This gizmo uses light to shrink things.

Question...

-Wait.

Everything the ray shrinks

becomes unstable.

Meaning, it explodes.

Still have a question?

That thing out there is one

hell of a lot bigger than an orange.

How are you gonna?

-It is big.

And that's why we have to expose

its surface to the ray piece by piece.

All in the blink of an eye?

That's impossible without Superman.

No, it's not impossible, is it?

Piece of cake.

Any other questions?

Just one.

-Jordan.

About time.

-Attacking the surface won't be enough...

...to distract this thing.

You need someone

to go inside with bombs.

You volunteering?

-He'd better...

...because I'm not going in there alone.

Outstanding.

All of you, remember...

...today there are no Democrats,

no Republicans.

No hawks, no doves.

Just the naked simplicity of an absolute:

Mankind's survival.

Good luck to us all.

All right, men.

Our job is to protect Flash until Morgan

and Jordan light it up.

I want...

-Hey, look out!

Hawk! Ah!

Are you all right?

-It's attacking my mind.

All of you, fight on!

To the last breath, fight on!

All weapons systems hot.

Like they say, it ain't when you go,

it's how you go.

Uh, Hal?

What's wrong?

Whatever you see, ignore it.

Just keep going. Acknowledge.

Just keep going. No problem.

What now?

This stuff is no hallucination,

-I'll tell you that.

And whatever it is,

I think it's trying to get inside.

Drop the bombs,

then we'll burn our way out.

Roger that.

My rockets are dead.

Can't open bomb bay doors.

Hal?

-I'm here.

We've had our ride

and it's time to punch our ticket.

Initiate manual detonation.

Roger.

Hal Jordan, you are the key.

Your will drives the ring.

Clear your mind

and focus on what matters.

Hal? What-?

Later.

You're afraid.

It's all on me.

The whole thing.

We'll be there for you.

We all will.

Godspeed.

He did it. Son of a b*tch.

I was afraid...

...I'd be late for the victory party.

Spoke too soon.

That thing's gonna do a lot of damage.

Guess it's time to see what this ring can do.

Hey.

Sorry.

That guy with the ring,

he wasn't part of the plan.

Or wasn't I listening?

You won't be able to do it.

It is The Centre that holds, not you.

I can. I can.

You do not have the will.

No?

Watch.

Whoo-hoo!

Hey, Ace, what happened

to that buddy of yours?

Hal Jordan?

If I know him, he's up there somewhere

tear-assing around.

I am Arthur of Atlantis.

This one has been asking

for a woman named Lois.

The pioneers gave up their safety,

their comfort...

...and sometimes their lives

to build our new West.

They were determined

to make the new world strong and free...

...an example to the world.

Some would say that those struggles

are all over.

That all the horizons have been explored.

That all the battles have been won.

That there is no longer

an American frontier.

And we stand today on the edge

of a new frontier.

The frontier of unknown opportunities

and perils.

Beyond that frontier are uncharted areas

of science and space.

Unsolved problems of peace and war.

Unconquered pockets

of ignorance and prejudice.

I'm asking each of you...

...to be pioneers

towards that new frontier.

My call is to the young at heart,

regardless of age.

Can we carry through in an age...

...where we will witness not only new

breakthroughs in weapons of destruction...

...but also a race for mastery

of the sky and the rain...

...the ocean and the tides,

the far side of space...

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