Flash Fic: Club, Fall and Green
Title: Lantern Light
Rating: PG
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Kyle Rayner, Guy Gardner, Soranik
Warnings: Character Death, spoilers for Blackest Night
Summary: Desperate times breed desperate measures.
A/N: Another round of improperly named Flash Fic.
The Central Battery is falling.
The battery is falling and the Black Lanterns are swarming, blocking the light like starlings at sunset. They’re too used to dæmonless species to find the Black Lanterns horrifyingly alone, but Guy still tugs Jack closer to him to fend the fear off before he sends the hound out of the way of dead hands intent on ripping him to pieces.
Vice wreaks havoc amongst Black and Green alike, thankfully oblivious to dæmons, but even he can’t even stem the tide, let alone push them back. Chaselon carves through him like only an Alpha Lantern with no concept of desperation could, and falls to the Black Lanterns that fill the void left without a Red’s bile to fill it.
“...danger of rupturing the alpha battery...”
Kyle knows his duty, and does it without question, like the unthinking, brilliant moron he is. He does it alone, because he’s as suicidally noble as Hal likes to pretend to be. There’s a reason he was the lone Lantern, when Hal obliterated them the first time.
Alpha Lantern Battery detonation imminent.
Guy can see Cushla through the breaking wave of Black Lanterns, the long line of her wings lit up green above the Central Battery. He loses track of her in the rush, clubbed aside which lands him back to back with Soranik, enough of a breather to bring his ring to bear again.
“I love you, Soranik.” Kyle’s voice emanates from her ring, Cushla’s soft voice echoing his words.
They both freeze, regardless of the danger. Soranik stares at her ring like it’s betrayed her.
“What? Kyle, where are-”
“And you too, Guy,” Kyle interrupts, rushed and yet somehow still calm.
“Love you,” Cushla repeats, as if she were no better than a parrot.
“You’ve been like a brother to-”
The world vanishes in an explosion of green light.
Guy doesn’t see him fall, but beyond the power searing through him, he swears he sees a flash of gold above them all, like the first touch of dawn, and it isn’t the light that makes his eyes burn.
“Ring status report. Green Lantern 2814 deceased.”
Rating: PG
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Kyle Rayner, Guy Gardner, Soranik
Warnings: Character Death, spoilers for Blackest Night
Summary: Desperate times breed desperate measures.
A/N: Another round of improperly named Flash Fic.
The Central Battery is falling.
The battery is falling and the Black Lanterns are swarming, blocking the light like starlings at sunset. They’re too used to dæmonless species to find the Black Lanterns horrifyingly alone, but Guy still tugs Jack closer to him to fend the fear off before he sends the hound out of the way of dead hands intent on ripping him to pieces.
Vice wreaks havoc amongst Black and Green alike, thankfully oblivious to dæmons, but even he can’t even stem the tide, let alone push them back. Chaselon carves through him like only an Alpha Lantern with no concept of desperation could, and falls to the Black Lanterns that fill the void left without a Red’s bile to fill it.
“...danger of rupturing the alpha battery...”
Kyle knows his duty, and does it without question, like the unthinking, brilliant moron he is. He does it alone, because he’s as suicidally noble as Hal likes to pretend to be. There’s a reason he was the lone Lantern, when Hal obliterated them the first time.
Alpha Lantern Battery detonation imminent.
Guy can see Cushla through the breaking wave of Black Lanterns, the long line of her wings lit up green above the Central Battery. He loses track of her in the rush, clubbed aside which lands him back to back with Soranik, enough of a breather to bring his ring to bear again.
“I love you, Soranik.” Kyle’s voice emanates from her ring, Cushla’s soft voice echoing his words.
They both freeze, regardless of the danger. Soranik stares at her ring like it’s betrayed her.
“What? Kyle, where are-”
“And you too, Guy,” Kyle interrupts, rushed and yet somehow still calm.
“Love you,” Cushla repeats, as if she were no better than a parrot.
“You’ve been like a brother to-”
The world vanishes in an explosion of green light.
Guy doesn’t see him fall, but beyond the power searing through him, he swears he sees a flash of gold above them all, like the first touch of dawn, and it isn’t the light that makes his eyes burn.
“Ring status report. Green Lantern 2814 deceased.”