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Chapter 9 - Chapter 9: Hal Jordan

You gotta be kidding me barry exclaimed looking up at brianiac drone while they prepared to eliminate him

Few hours earlier

"no please no go way somebody help me" a female voice muttered in a dark room as she laid under the covers of her bed tossing and turning trying to fight off the nightmare she is having she is suddenly jerked away from her dream as a green light encompassed the room "damn not this again" she muttered looking at the emerald ring which possessed a lantern logo on the top "Jessica Cruz of earth you possess great will, you have been chosen to be a green lantern" "I have told you many times I don't want this" she wailed but the ring still repeated the same statement why me she groaned trying to remove the ring but it wouldn't budge sighing she laid back down staring at her celling "I don't have strong will or courage am just a failure" she thought deject fully remembering that night when she couldn't save her friends and when those men came back for her as payback as she cried going back to sleep unknown to her someone or rather something was watching her from the window floating in the air invisible to the naked eye due to cloaking it was a 6'10 metallic droid which had a skull face with red glowing menacing eyes with a body of silver and black "unknown energy source, detected scanning through archives green lantern ring found, host compatible yet emotion wise she is afraid and unwilling threat level low" the robot concluded flying back up to its prime it sent the information to the prime

In space two million light ways away from earth a skulled face metallic ship could be seen floating "there are no protectors on this planet and the so called protectors are of no threat to me interesting" a voice rang out in the darkness of the ship as a figure could be seen sitting upon a throne looking at three screens floating in front of him the krytontains may prove to be a high threat but no worries even he can stand up to my wrath he will still fall" turning his head to the robot besides him how long till repairs are finished" "due to our last fight with both the tamaraneans and green lanterns the power core has been damaged it would take about 240 hours but the drones have found some unknown disturbance ahead of us it seems the some of the planets within this sector are aware of us and seek to stop us on our quest so with this disturbance it would take some time for us to reach earth" he droid informed "what an annoyance what about the droid deployed to earth" "all droids are on standby for your command" "leave them on standby but find any other existing green lantern and eliminate them the girl is harmless but the moment she accepts the ring eliminate her" "the only green lantern within that sector is a sole lantern Hal Jordan" "good…eliminate him" very well" the droid responded "soon I shall possess the knowledge of earth and non shall stop me" he declared

Earth

Coast city

Barry could be seen sitting in café drinking coffee while using his phone as waits for his friend the cafe bell rings as the door opens announcing a customer "hello Barry" a voice calls out pulling him away from his phone "hey Sara what's up" he says getting up and hugging her "it seems your monastery journey had made you grow a beard" she laughs seeing his beard "what I think the beards look good on me" he defends "sure sure so what have you been up to" she questions as barry begins to explain how it was sans him being the flash stuffs and how he had rented an apartment "you can come and stay with me" she blurted out "uh I mean if you want to, am sure my sister won't mind" she corrected herself "I don't wanna impose on you" he stated "no I mean it won't be burden" sure thanks" he said "no problem Barry you're my friend and I like to help" "thank you" he said as they continued chatting as it got late they had then gone over to Barry's place and gotten his stuffs to take to her place

Sara and Jessica home

"This is a nice place you got here" barry complimented her home as it had a homey and comfortable feel from it thanks barry if only a certain person here to see it" she replied looking up at stairs "am sure your sister appreciates it" "yeah that's if she ever leaves her room" she sighed as she gave barry a tour of the house before she left him at his room saying good night as she had practice tomorrow so she needed to rest for after unpacking his things he laid down about to sleep hello mr allen I have a report to give concerning august heart Gideon's voice called out standing up he made his way to his laptop turning it on with Gideon's face showing "what happen Gideon he asked as she pulled up a video footage of august beating up team flash "what's his main goal he asked "he has killing and raiding blackhole" "why would he do all this" from what I got from CCPD records blackhole had killed his brother and not only that but they have committed various other crimes she says pulling up all the file of all the crimes they have committed "possession of illegal weapons murder kidnapping experimentation barry listed out "this couldn't get any worse" he muttered "unfortunately Mr allen it does" she says as barry face palms at the situation "I had hacked into their servers and was spying on them and it seems they have been hunting speedsters and extracting their speed which in turn kills them" she finished "what" barry growled "how don't people know about this" "blackhole have covered their tracks by either bribing or disposing of witnesses" "who's the leader of black hole his name is joseph craver he had taken over Evan mcculloch body through him using eva mcculloch mirror powers" she informed him "what a sick bastard" "what are his motive he seeks to destroy the speed force and all speedster for killing his wife" "seems I'll have to step in eventually…..yeah I was also wondering how are there even speedsters" he questioned "it was due to lightning storm you created due to the lack of a prisoner in the speedforce it had 15 people within the city but black hole had found out and began hunting them" "how many speedsters are left" "out of the 15 speedster only two are left but it seems that black hole has discovered who they are and plan to go after them a day from now" "who and where are they" he asked as she displayed the information for him "the first on is in new York her name is meena dhawan while the other is Avery ho a high schooler in china" "right so if I use my speed scouts I can save the two of them" "that won't be necessary because in the other timeline august was romantically involved with meena and by my calculation he would go to save her" "alright then I'll go for Avery but I'll still send a speed scout just in case but am curious how can they track speedsters" "they can only track those who haven't been bonded to the speedforce for long" "then how come they haven't found august" "it seems he is a prodigy when it comes to handling the speed force so he learned to mask his presence" she told him "thanks for the info Gideon keep on watching him" "very well barry allen I shall continue to monitor him goodnight mr allen" she finishes with the screen turning dark "seems I got my work cut out for me" he thought drifting off to sleep.

"Kyaah" Jessica screamed while pointing at barry as she tried cover her modesty with her towel "w-w-who are you" she stuttered looking at him while he tried to keep eye contact key word being tried as every now and then his eyes would roam all over her body "damn she's hot" he thought admiring her beauty noticing the way her wet hair stuck to her skin as the remain water cascaded down her brown body with the towel clinging to her body as it pushed up her 36dd boobs as her brown eyes stared straight into his and for a moment he was lost within those eyes "ah am barry your uhm new roommate" he stuttered out "new roommate?" "Yeah your sister said that you guys had a spare room I could use" he explained "she didn't tell me anything about it" she mumbled cutely "he's kinda cute" "well that because you never come out from your room" Sara chimed in descending from the stairs with a duffle bags which contained her sport gear "that doesn't matter you can't just let a stranger in" Jessica replied well I would told you but you said you were busy she said shrugging glaring at barry she just turned and left "she doesn't like like me does she" he asked "na am pretty sure she likes you after all you two were checking each other out" "huh she was…..no I mean I wasn't look-" he tried defend but sara deadpan look stopped him "barry I know my sister very well and it looks like she was smitten by you after all your quite handsome" she admitted with a smirk thanks you're not so bad yourself" "aw thanks barry she said as they chatted for some time before she went for her practice session while barry made some pancakes syrup and bacon and went to give it her dropping it at her room door floor and apologising for the incident he had caused but she said he should just leave her alone shrugging barry left to his room and opening the secret panel of his box he removed a red armoured suit with black and gold accents (Ezra miller flash suit) though some parts on the chest where exposed showing it's inner wiring. This suit was different from cisco own as it was more amour plated than his others as it was composed of silicon based quartz sand fabric force resistant and heat resistant, it was also quite hard to make into a full body suit but he did it. It also had a hud system and some safety features such as if the suit is hacked all tech within the suit would shut down or if someone else where to wear it the suits joints would lock trapping the person inside on the side was an incomplete cowl and gold colour boots barry had thought of this design when Gideon had told him about his original timeline self who had created but never wore it due to him being erased from the timeline by thawne and decide to take inspiration from there and create the suit.

Sometime later barry could be seen walking down the street exploring coast city he was taking a break after making some modifications he had told Gideon to find any top secret decommissioned star labs facility that well had so he could use as an HQ and he could stop hiding his equipment she had found one in keystone city racing there he began to fix the place up. Later returned back to exploring coast city seeing different sites he had eventually lost a sense of time as it seemed to be 8:30 pm. He decided to get a drink though he knew he couldn't get drunk as he approached a bar a person flew out of the door "motherfucker" the person exclaimed on the ground "cant a guy talk to a woman without getting harassed" "you okay" barry asked stretching his hand to help the stranger up "yeah am fine and you are?" "barry allen" well thanks barry am Hal Jordan "uh what was that about" "oh nothing big was just having a conversation kinda went the wrong way but its over now" "you sure about that" barry replied looking behind Hal as 5 heavily built men with tattoos seems they belonged to a biker gang you got a lot balls to disturb my girl" "disturb…if anything you were disturbing her besides she anit your girl" oh and how would you know that she told me and from what I saw you were harassing her you shit bag oh seems you got some mouth huh he said "you know I don't even know this guy so i,ll be leaving" barry said nervously while moving back to leave but his friends had circled them blocking off any escape routes "oh no you and your friend are going to learn not to mess with us" he replied while he put on a knuckle duster and his friends had pulled out knives "boys there's no need to get hasty" Hal replied with calmness "yeah I mean you wouldn't want to hurt two innocent guys right" barry chimed in trying to deescalate the situation but they ignored him advancing towards them ready to fight hope you can hold your own yeah I can oh and you owe me he replied "yeah" throwing a punch hal moved back redirecting the punch to the 2 brute whilst the third and fourth brute dashed towards barry with their blades he grabbed the third brute and shoulder threw him to fourth as he advanced to the fifth dodging the knife swipes he caught his hand twisting it disarming him he used the knife and stabbed it straight into his shoulder bone he kicked him away right in time to block the punch aimed for his head punching his neck and kneeing him in the balls barry blocked the blade aimed for his face he punched the fifth in his gut and kneed him straight to face throwing a right hook knocking him down "YOU BASTARDS""\ their boss yelled seeing his men down "yeah have been called worse now you and your guys should leave unless you want another beat down" hal stated but he pulled out a gun on them "not laughing now are you" he said standing up with his men coming to stand beside him "you don't want to do this" barry stated thinking of how to disarm them without exposing himself as the flash "yeah because it would end up badly for you" hal added "the only person it's going to end bad__" he was suddenly cut off by hals ring glowing brightly "what the hell" everyone thought before four tentacles shot out nowhere grabbing the men and dragging then into the darkness what was that" barry exclaimed "I don't know barry but your about see something out this world" but barry just gave him a puzzled look ''what" hal Jordan of earth a robotic voice called from the shadows "who's asking" he replied his body tense ready for a fight emerging from the shadows brainaic droid stood in front of them but this one was different it was bulker and more combat ready "you are a threat to us and as such you are to be exterminated" it said shooting out its tendrils towards him "shit"" barry thought seeing it approaching them he was about to grab hal and run when a green shield erected itself in front of them protecting them "what!!!" He exclaimed looking at hal who was now glowing green he was in some black and green amour with a green lantern symbol on his chest barry you may want to move hall said dashing forward to engage with it in combat he flew blocking each tendrils attack he formed a fist punching it then formed a canon blasting it through a wall without a moment gone he dashed towards the hole with a sword in his hand but was sent back as a bunch of missiles had hit him he stood up trying to get his bearings when a metal hand grabbed onto his head slamming him into the ground it then blasts forwards dragging him through the ground before spinning him around and throwing him into a bill board ugh that hurt hal groaned out coughing some blood he leaps forward in the air he forms a blade and clashes with the droid as he cuts of each tendril and kicks it away with his robot leg construct and then launches missiles at it using the distraction he moves instantly behind it with a green construct mallet he hits the droid as it flies through the air hitting the ground wasting no time hal lands on top of it using two hand constructs to hold it down not so pretty tough not are you now he mocks looking at his defeated opponent hal Jordan you are to be exterm__" "yeah yeah am to be exterminated you've already said that but I have a question of my own who are you" "my name is of no concern to you but I am brainiac and you are to be eliminated" well I don't know ho you but yo_ he was cut off as a jolt of electric went through him immobilising him as he fell to the ground standing up the droid placed its feet above his chest with as a blade formed from one of his tendrils "what is it you humans say I am at the top now" it mock ready to plunge it blade through him when a hand shot through him destroying it power core as its body began to turn to ash "you okay" barry asked stretching his hand to grab him what was that he questioned "uh why don't we leave first before the cops get here" he said hearing the sirens "yeah your right" he said "I know just the place" he said grabbing him "hope you don't get motion sickness" "whattttt" hals screamed as they were gone in an instant.

"so u mean to tell me that you're the flash and you left central city due to your friends stupidity….that rough buddy" hal said while munching on his big belly burger "yeah thanks so what's your story" barry inquired "am combat pilot who works for Ferris Aircraft as a test pilot but one day during a test my plane controls went haywire and crashed but I was teleported to a desert where I met a dying alien named abin sur a member of the green lantern corps an intergalactic space police organization which was formed by the guardians of OA. We are charged with the protection of different sectors of the galaxy he said I was chosen by the ring because I possessed great will and well from that day I was hal Jordan combat test pilot and earth's guardian" wow that's awesome but like if you're a space cop why weren't you here doing the dominators invasion "oh well you see I didn't become a lantern until after a while later" "oh that's understandable, but these your guardians do they know anything about that robot" he asked "let me ask ring do you know that robot that attacked us" yes but I cannot disclose such information" "why" "the files are restricted by the guardian" "it seems I'll have to go 2 OA to find out what's going on" he said as they kept on talking till it was late as they left they had exchanged numbers hal said he would be unavailable for some time but that he would come straight to barry when he gets back as he blasts off to space heading for OA arriving home "its 10:15 seems we lost track of time" he said moving to the kitchen to get a drink but stopped when he saw Jessica bent down looking for something in the fridge he was looking at her round and curvy ass swaying left to right giggling as it was barely hidden behind her tight bum shorts damn barry thought looking at it I have to get a grip he said "Jessica" he called out but she didn't hear him standing up with her back still faced away from him there where headphones on her head she kept on dancing her ass swaying as her luscious figure was visible she wore a pink crop top which did nothing to hide her toned back "ughh" barry groaned moving forward to her he tapped her shoulder but instead of jumping from shock she threw a kick at him acting on reflex he caught her leg with his right arm "oh barry am sorry" she cried out with shock and embarrassment "uh its ok" he replied releasing his hold on her leg "nice reflexes by the way" "ohh yeah thanks I had trained in judo when I was younger after a situation" she told him as there was awkward between them so uh about this morning am sorry oh no it was my fault she fidgeting with embarrassed look on her face "no if I were more careful then it would have happened" she continued "It's both our faults your sister didn't tell us and we didn't care to know" "yeah so um am going to bed seeya" she said walking to the stairs she turned thanking him for the food in the morning with a blush on her face before leaving smiling barry went to his room with his last thoughts being on how cute Jessica is as he drifted to sleep.