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Chapter 153: Accidentally Started A Universal War II
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"Hm? Really? You see such a beauty and you decided to act like a bandit? So rude..." Ian murmured, seemingly talking to himself.
He was comfortably lying on his bed with both Selina and Ivy on both his sides, using him as a comfy pillow.
They were sleeping peacefully, seeming exhausted, so it's odd that Ian suddenly opened his eyes and spoke those words.
He gently lifted himself from their embrace, releasing a yawn before putting on a robe, "Very well, might as well take this opportunity to learn more about space."
He already knows a lot about the universe, and he even knows a lot of specifics from the information left behind in the Kryptonian ship, but it isn't much overall.
For example, he doesn't know where planet Oa is, and that is the reason he gave back the power battery in the first place.
He can sense it even now, He feels it moving extremely fast in a certain direction, being taken to Oa by Hal Jordan no doubt.
And now, before the Grey Rose were three ships. They aren't as big as the Grey Rose, but they weren't far off.
Ian's ship didn't need to be too big in the first place. His team is small, so making it overly massive is unnecessary, and perhaps even counterproductive.
He also regularly stopped the warp drive to enjoy the fabulous sceneries of space, and that's the only reason why they were detected by aliens.
Indeed, before Ian was Aliens. They were already about twenty light years away from earth, so he didn't find it too strange to meet them so fast.
"Hm, you seem familiar," Ian noted as he found himself on one of the ships. These certain aliens seemed familiar as if he had seen them before, but they didn't because they didn't react to him at all.
It was as if they were frozen in time as he walked up to the alien who seem to be in charge, looking a bit like a rocky blue titan with futuristic technology.
None of them were moving because everything Ian was doing was being done at the speed of lightning, incomprehensible to their processing speed.
Devouring Reverse Flash helped a lot. It pushed his speed force numerous times ahead, and now all he has to do is to find the other forces.
The other good thing about the Rose of speed is that the machine he's working on to find those forces is being created extremely quickly, a mind processing things at the speed of lightning is quite broken.
Ian waved his hand, casting a spell on their leader. Wisps of blue energy found their way into the Alien's mind, reading through his memory.
Quickly and surely, Ian found pretty much every information he wanted, most important of which was their language and other information about their ship.
"Citadels huh? A fascist interplanetary empire that dominates twenty-one of the twenty-two known worlds in the Vega star system."
Ian narrowed his eyes, remembering something, 'Isn't this the species that took over Starfire's home world?'
He contemplated things for a while before shrugging his shoulds, "Perhaps I'll pay them a visit on my way back."
And just when he wanted to evaporate each and everyone on them, an idea emerged in his mind, quickly branching out into a grand scheme, "Guinea pigs."
Suddenly, his bearing turned gentle as he eyed the Citadels with appreciation, "You know, I happen to need a few helpers for some of my studies, so excuse my rudeness."
What he wants to study most was the black Kryptonite. He always considered Kryptonites to be one of the most fascinating things to exist, especially the Platinium Kryptonite.
And studying them more thoroughly is certainly not something he'd miss, so he couldn't help but be thankful for the Citadels, "But worry not, I'll definitely pay you a visit later."
And as such, he knocked out every Citadel in all of the ships before sending him to an area created specifically for prisoners in the Black Rose. They can join the clown there.
Ian then used the knowledge he acquired from them to get access to the Citadels' network of information and started downloading every viable information using their tools.
"Hm? Interesting," Ian noted as his connection with their network was suddenly cut off. He retracted the hard disk, filled with information, and went back to his ship.
He didn't forget to send the interstellar ships of the Citadels to his dimension though.
"Aghh, space is lovely, but I really really should get it over with before things go awry," Ian made up his mind, deciding to leave sightseeing for another time, and instead heading directly to the Phantom Zone.
In an instant, with the sheer will of his mind, he activate the warp drive, leading the Grey Rose to bloom before vanishing from sight.
It wasn't long after that that Hal Jordan reached the planet of Oa, gaining an audience with the guardians of the universe.
Oa is a gorgeous planet that lies in the center of the universe. A colossal planet, the light of which can be seen across the entirety of the universe at any moment, disregarding the laws of light.
To anyone, it may seem like a dying planet, on the verge of exploding due to the obvious massive holes on it. The green light spurting from them doesn't help in denying that possibility.
But it's in fact a stable planet, one of the most stable and durable planets in the entirety of existence because it was formed by the Oans, an ancient race, and possibly the first intelligent lifeforms in the universe.
The Oans named themselves the Guardians of the universe as a result of several happenings and formed the Green Lantern Corps, and Hal Jordan is a part of them.
"It... It's odd." One of the Oans noted, looking down on Hal, specifically the power battery in his hand.
"The same, but different." Another Oan noted.
"Almost like a virus."
"A virus even we can not see."
They all looked similar with blue skin, short stature, and similar costume, but they all looked grand as they sat on their thrones high in the air.
Most important of all, they were very orderly, never interrupting one another. They were brief and straight to the point.
"So there is something wrong with it, as Batman predicted," Hal frowned, getting even more annoyed at Ian.
The guy not only stole his power battery, leaving him powerless for a month before another one was sent to him, but he also contaminated the thing somehow, "I know where he is."
The guardians shook their heads simultaneously, "He's better left alone. Not worth the trouble."
"Then what should be done?"
"It can be left in the Central power battery to be purified."
"Better destroyed."
"If impossible, better sent away."
This is where Ian's plans started to go awry because he expected them to know more about him. He thought they'd consider him a demon in human skin, thus they'll definitely be more cautious.
And they actually do which is why they had to study it. What can possibly contaminate their creation that they can not even sense?
They only realized that something is wrong because they felt their connection with it was absent.
So they had to know if there is a bug that can be exploited by anyone to harm them or the Green Lantern corps.
And so, they didn't destroy it nor did they send it away. Destroying it would mean Ian will sense that, and he can thus figure out Oa's exact location with confidence.
In contrast to just sensing where it stopped, that's much more accurate because Ian sensed it stopping many times, which of them was on the planet Oa, he'd have to visit each of those stopping points to find out.
So what did the Guardians of the universe do? Well, they studied it first, a very thorough study to no avail, and that's saying something because they're one of the most intelligent beings in all of existence.
When that didn't work, they sent it to the source. Where it all started. The Central power battery. In it lies a thing, and that thing is the entity of will, the representation of will, and the very source of the green spectrum.
It's called Ion, the sentient willpower that powers the Green lantern corps, an odd whale-like entity, and what can understand the problem better than it?
The Oans still observed it, interacting with it just to make sure nothing goes wrong. Things still went wrong.
It was as if someone turned the switch off as the green light of willpower vanished in an instant along with Ion.
The planet of Oa that once shone brightly with a green glowing light suddenly went dark, an opportunity for all those that hate the power of order.