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Chapter 43 - Escape from Oa

The Man:

"Why couldn't you have just built a normal spaceship," Flash complains as I throw him onto a railing with Cheetah. "Normal spaceships have roofs. They have ceilings. Pirate ships don't."

Jumping and landing on the railing with the two of them, I look at Flash.

"Shut up you," I say. Turning back, I run along the railing until I'm back at the bridge. Looking up, I see the Rusted's wheel. "Hope this works."

Taking a giant leap, I jump from the railing and toward the wheel. Grabbing the wheel and landing on the post it's attached to, I start to make as many adjustments as possible.

"I have to reset the Rusted's stabilizers," I start, adjusting the wheel while flipping over some levers. I look toward the main mast as it starts to blink between green and red. "I then have to fix the artificial gravity and restart the thrusters."

Carefully climbing so I don't fall, I check the gauges.

"The shield also needs to be restarted, and the atmosphere generator is losing power. I should be able to fix everything from here. At least, long enough for us to escape."

I grab and turn over a few more levers. Once the levers are flipped, I move to push some buttons. After pushing the final button, I turn a dial and look back at the main mast. The main mast stop blinking and stay green.

"Not exactly my favorite color at the moment."

"Hey," someone screams, "Hello! Can you hear me?"

"Now is a bad time, Doc," I say after grabbing the radio. "What is it?"

"What is going on up there," the Doc yells, "I'm standing on a wall."

"I suggest getting your feet back on the floor in a few seconds."

Ending the call and putting the radio back, I look at all the gauges as they turn green and show stable readings. With one pull of the wheel, the Rusted turns right side up. I can hear the sighs of everyone as they stay flat on the floor.

"Is everyone alright," I yell. Everyone looks at me and I shake my head. "Yeah, yeah, minus almost falling off the Rusted, is everyone alright?"

"We're fine," Oliver yells, bringing up a shaking thumb-up.

"Speak for yourself," Reverse-Flash whines, "I think I threw up in my mouth."

"As long as it's not on my ship," I say, walking over to the railing. "It's fine."

I look over and see Kara and Laria in a fight against Lobo and Garnder. As I watch, I feel the red ring shakes.

"My bull," I say, no longer sensing its presence. I lower my head and close my eyes. "Thanks for the help."

A moment of silence passed and I open my eyes. Looking past Kara and Laria, I try to find Harleen and Arisia but I don't see them anywhere.

"We can't leave Oa," I think, "Kara and Laria can survive space but not Harleen and a ringless Arisia. Come on. Come on. Where are you two idiots?"

Harleen:

Screaming as Fish-Face conjures something like a fly swatter and uses it to hit us, I wrap my arms around Arisia and shield her. The fly swatter sends me flying away but I manage to steady myself. Shooting out my hand, I conjure my own weapon.

"Hey Fish-Face," I yell, "Want to see how I fish?"

I squeeze the trigger and shoot bullets at Fish-Face. However, Fish-Face swings his hand and summons a bubble. The bubble protects Fish-Face as my bullets bounce off.

"Okay," I say after hearing nothing but a clicking sound. "I need a new weapon. First parademons and now Fish-Face. This is getting ridiculous."

"None of your weapons can hurt me," Fish-Face says as he hovers toward us. "Give me Arisia and Laria and I will-."

Shooting out my hand again, my pistol switches to a giant hammer. I slam the giant hammer against Fish-Face's bubble and it knocks him back. As he shakes and recovers from my swing, I change weapon again.

"Sorry about interrupting you," I say, my hammer changing to a pie. "But we have a ship to catch."

There, on the top of the pie, is a cherry. I grip the cherry's stem with my teeth and pull. A fuse sparking, I throw the pie at Fish-Face and fly up. Despite not seeing it, I can clearly hear an explosion and then Fish-Face screaming.

"I loved cherry pies," I say, smiling as I see the ship. "Hold on. We're almost there."

Looking back at Arisia, I see her sniffling as she places her head against my chest.

"Hold on," I say again, "We're almost there."

The Man:

"I see them," Oliver says, jumping up and down like a kid as he points over the side of the Rusted. Looking at where he's pointing, I see Harleen holding Arisia as she flies through the sky. Oliver pulls out an arrow and shoots it at the pair. The arrow bursts into a net that capture the two. The second they're captured, Flash, Oliver, and I pull them in.

"We could've done without the net," Harleen screams as she tries to pull it off.

"Complain later," I say, grabbing and pulling the net off. "Brace now. We're leaving Oa."

"Finally," Dinah says.

"Wait, what," Oliver asks. "We're leaving?"

"We're leaving," Hal repeats. "No. We can't leave."

"We're leaving only temporarily," I say, running to the wheel. Grabbing it and activating the thrusters, I use the red ring to summon a megaphone.

"Kara," I yell, "Laria! Get back here now!"

The megaphone turns to red dust, I stop everything when I see a bright-green glow high in the sky.

Supergirl:

Screaming as I punch Garnder across the face, I then use my super breath to blow him away. While he rolls away through the air, I see Laria using a rope to tied Lobo before blasting him away.

"Come on," I say, Laria and I flying back up. After hearing the man and seeing the thrusters come on, we race back onto the Rusted.

"Hold on," The Man says as soon as Laria and I land on the bridge. The second we do, the thrusters shoot, and the Rusted flies through the sky. Everything turns into a blur as the Rusted flies, and in only a matter of seconds, we're in space.

"Big trouble," Selina says as we enter space. "Really, really big trouble!"

Selina points toward Mogo as he starts to power up. There is green energy gathering in front of him, and any second now, he would fire.

"Get us out of here," Harleen screams. "Before Mogo shoots!"

"No time," The Man shouts, jumping off the bridge. Landing in the center, surrounded by everyone, he pushes his way through until he reaches the stairs.

"Beetle," he yells at the stars. "Firestorm. Where are you two?"

"We're here," Blue Beetle says as he and Firestorm run up.

"Do you have it," The Man asks. "Did you get it?"

"Yeah," Beetle says, "But why did you ask for his ring?"

Beetle pulls out the blue lantern's blue ring. Holding it out, The Man grabs it.

"Because I'm going to need more than one ring to shield us," The Man answers.

Once more, he pushes his way through the crowd and makes it to the front of the ship. There, he stands facing Mogo, with the blue ring in his hand.

"Wait," Laria says, stepping up. "Is he going to do what I think he's going to do? No. There's no way."

"But I think he is," Hal says, also stepping forward. "I think he really is going to do it."

We all watch as The Man puts on the blue lantern ring while still wearing his red lantern ring. As he puts the ring on, blue energy erupts and sends all of us back.

"Sorry about that," The Man says, turning back to us.

"What the hell," Laria says, looking at The Man as he wears both blue and red rings. The Man is wearing the stone armor of the red lantern, but the stone armor is covered by blue armor.

"I would slap you for swearing," The Man says, "But I'm busy at the moment. Everyone, hold on!"

Just as Mogo fires a beam of green will, The Man unleashes a blast of red and blue energy.