OA
After Superman dismissed everyone from the meeting, Green lantern embarked on a journey to OA, the planet at the center of the universe.
It took some days to arrive having had stopped a couple of times along the way to help out against crimes. OA was headquarters of the Green Lantern Corps and home to the Guardians of the Universe, possibly the oldest sentient species in the universe.
Hal flew down to the great room where the guardians were located.
"You requested an audience with us." One guardian spoke up. "You have our attention. You may speak." Another continued.
"I tried scanning a device with my ring and it didn't have any information about it." He told them summarizing what happened.
"Impossible.." "Huh!?" "What!?" were among the whispers heard among the guardians.
"Is it Apokoliptic?" One guardian asked, clearly the only one who wasn't as surprised as his comrades. Darkseid had developed certain counter measures in his technology that blocked the rings sensors thus not knowing when dealing with his tech.
"No it is not from Apokolips. It is basically a high tech watch that belongs to some guy in earth." Hal mentioned keeping Ben's identity a secret for now incase the guardians wanted to contain the Omnitrix.
"Green lantern technology is light years ahead of Earth. No technology can trump it." One guardian calmly said while stretching out his hands towards Hal. The green lantern ring he wore flew off his finger to the guardians hand leaving him in his regular Air Force uniform with his name tag.
The guardian placed It infront of him then connected it with the rooms technology which then projected the rings image and information high up in the air for all of them to see, quickly scrolling all the things the ring has done and scanned at an incredible rate.
The Images came to a stand still at the image of the Omnitrix in Ben's hand when green lantern had scanned the watch.
"Impossible" "It cannot be" could be heard again amongst the guardians.
"What?" Hal asked noticing their reactions. "Is it that bad? Of course it's that bad. I knew it but do they listen to me? Noooo-" Hal continued murmuring to himself.
"We do not know of this technology but it is probably on the same level if not more advanced than the green lanterns ring and Apokoliptic tech. I however doubt if it's more advanced than Amazo who has amassed vast knowledge and sentient powers all over the universe which made him evolve into a specie of his own with a conscious, basically a living being."
One guardian explained to a confused Hal Jordan of what was discovered among them.
The guardian with the ring dragged a few icons around and the earlier error message of the ring transformed into a more detailed version of the failed scan.
"It seems it contains a powerful energy source. Very powerful indeed.." The guardian said continuing to discuss with his brothers.
"You should know that it contains a quantum computer." Hal decided to mention it. He intended to ease into the functions of the watch making sure the guardians do not overreact negatively…at least a few of them to be positive about it incase a vote was needed.
The guardians looked at Hal seemingly discussing something mentally.
"What level is it?" One guardian asked.
"He didn't say but it must be among the higher level ones since it can facilitate him to change from one alien to another." He laid it out bare for them. The last statement got the guardians attention.
"What do you mean by that? Please explain yourself." "Explain" "Explain" one guardian asked while the others whispered out.
Hal told them what he could. "That watch is called the Omnitrix and it is a storage hub for alien DNA. There are over a million DNA samples currently in the watch and the wielder can change into any of the alien forms thereby using the abilities of the form he changed into." Hal informed them.
"Oh! I almost forgot this part…When the watch comes in close proximity of any alien DNA not stored by it, it can scan the alien and acquire its DNA and can later turn the wielder into the aliens form of the watch." Hall finished noting how the guardians were slightly shocked by the revelation.
"I believe now we know the reason for the power source and quantum computer." Commented one guardian.
"Have you witnessed these acts you speak of?" The one with the ring asked having perused through Hal's ring and finding nothing related to it.
"Yes I have, for one he scanned Superman and turned into him a few hours later." He mentioned.
"When and where did this happen?"another guardian asked.
"In the watchtower." Hal mentioned then an image of the watchtower was projected beside the ring then several lines of code started scrolling through while the picture of the watchtower probably being streamed live was in the background.
Hal knew they were hacking it to get footages of Ben and the said watch.
Back at the Watchtower
Ben was resting on his bed in the Avengers wing of the tower having just sent the five million dollars to the appropriate organization.
After the fundraiser he and Clark had escorted the ladies to Lois Lanes apartment where they were to continue their girls night out.
"Why do you keep popping up" He murmured playing the video footage of his pretend kiss from the fundraiser ball.
Immediately after the attention had dissipated from the two of them, Trixx had accessed the CCTV footage of the host hotel, retrieved the video containing him and Supergirl kissing and deleted that part from their servers as well as any camera within the vicinity that managed to capture the moment between them.
He was lucky most reporters were afraid to do a story on the two of them from their past experiences dealing with Lex Luthor and Lois Lane was on his side and he knew she would never run the story for the sake of her friend Kara.
External intrusion detected flashed over the video playing.
I detect an external intrusion originating from somewhere deep in space. The trace places it in a planet called OA, home to the Guardians of the Galaxy according to the Justice league files on the location. Two Justice league firewalls have already been breached and the third is soon being bypassed Trixx told Ben mentally while displaying the information about the ongoing hack.
"What are they after?" Ben asked Trixx outloud.
"I believe they are after the Justice league database storage" Trixx replied via the Omnitrix audio system.
"Does cyborg or batman know they are being hacked?" He asked viewing how the firewalls were being bypassed in seconds except for the occasional one that was set up by Trixx to alert her if a breach is in progress which took them longer to break.
"It appears they are unaware of it." Trixx replied showing him footages of cyborg in the training room and batman fighting some woman who new how to handle herself in Gotham.
"What do you mean hacked?" Iron man asked from outside the room clearly overhearing everything.
Ben cursed at his decision to converse out loud with Trixx having forgotten he wasn't alone anymore.
"Some guys from a planet called OA are hacking the Watchtower." Ben said while opening his door.
"And why aren't the Justice League aware of this? Jarvis, confirm if it's true." Iron man ordered. When he had earlier accessed the monitor before the meeting in the conference room, he had planted a bug in the system which allowed him access for short durations of time to avoid being detected by the system.
"Everything is in order Sir. There are no intrusions detected in the firewall." Jarvis stated making Iron man fold his arms in front of his chest knowing Ben was lying to him.
Sighing, "Jarvis, Trixx has sent you a link. Tap into it." Ben said knowing either Jarvis or Iron man would do it.
"A breach has been detected Sir." Jarvis confirmed after some seconds of analyzing all the codes sent to him by Trixx. Iron man having gotten used to be proved wrong, only grumbled and looked to Ben.
"Cyborg needs to know." Iron man said before starting heading to the training room.
"They won't get through." Ben called out causing Iron man to stop then turn around.
"What are you planning?" Iron man asked.
"After getting through the watchtowers firewall they will encounter the one set up by Trixx and when they will be hacking us, I'll return the favour. These Guardians of the Galaxy are like the jackpot of information in this universe." Ben explained to Iron man.
"What if it doesn't work? If they are as powerful as you portray them to be then they surely know what they are doing." Iron man pointed out.
"There's no hurt in trying" Ben smirked before Trixx started hacking them.
OA
"Who manages the watchtowers firewall?" asked the guardian with the ring. The program was taking too long to hack into the watchtowers system, something previously done in some minutes with cyborgs slightly enhanced coding taking longer than usual to break.
"Cyborg and Batman." Hal replied. "Why? What's wrong?" Hal asked worriedly thinking maybe the Avengers attacked again.
No one responded, they were too busy typing in their various screens while millions of lines of code was still visible projected on top of the live view of the watchtower.
Suddenly New lines of codes appeared overlapping the guardians previous one which showed their process of hacking the watchtower which was now down to two firewalls from having a large amount. As soon as the lines of codes appeared the previous green background of the room turned red and warning signs started appearing on the digitized surfaces of the room.
"Cut off the connection." One guardian said furiously meditating interfacing with the system, their minds being powerful enough to do that.
One by one they stopped typing and doing gestures with their hands commanding their quantum computer. They started meditating, each interfacing with the system. They had a vast knowledge in machines and codes thus they were farmiliar with most if not all programming languages and technology in the universe. This made it easy for them to build sophisticated machines like the Manhunters.
Hal could only look on as the guardians remained motionless meditating.
The red light was soon replaced by a green light indicating everything was back to normal then the ring floated back to Hal while the guardians opened their eyes once again.
"What happened?" Hal asked feeling warm as the familiar green aura surrounded him once again. No one answered his question instead they asked theirs.
"Who is this being that created and wields this Omnitrix?" One guardian asked Hal.
"I'm not so sure about creating but the wielder is a guy named Ben." Hal answered truthfully knowing when the guardians meant business.
"Is he a threat?" Asked another.
"No he is not. He joined the Justice league." He pointed out to the guardians who looked deep in thought.
"Good. We would like to meet him." The one who had held his ring ordered him.
"Under special conditions of course. We can't have him scanning our DNA." He continued. They also stayed away from Amazo who could gain incredible knowledge and power if he were to scan any of them thus granting him full access to the green lanterns main source wall and the central main power generator used to power up the green lantern corps batteries which in turn charged their rings.
"What if he doesn't want to meet you?" Asked Hal knowing he could never force Ben to do anything even if f he wanted to.
"Hal Jordan. If you will it, so shall it be." Were the last words said to him before being dismissed and the guardians sealing themselves up in the room. Hal went to visit a few of his buddies currently stationed in OA before returning to his assigned space sector.
"What does this mean?" One guardian asked afraid to voice out his actual thoughts.
"It has began." Said the another one.
"Let's hope the green lanterns can succeed where the Manhunters did not."