Green Lantern: Emerald Knights (2011) Movie Script
KILOWOG: Ardakian Trawl,
do you realize you got patrol?
Oh, and I thought I was coming
500 million light-years...
...to give you a sponge bath, Kilowog.
Knock it off, you poozer.
How much longer?
I'm in your star system,
so quit flaring your nostrils.
My God.
[GRUNTS]
[ARDAKIAN GRUNTING]
[ARDAKIAN SCREAMING]
KILOWOG:
Ardakian, you there?
Ardakian? What happened?
Ardakian!
[PANTING]
Where is it?
[RING PULSES]
Hey.
[GRUNTING]
GANTHET: Needless to say,
we're all shocked and saddened...
...by the news of Ardakian Trawl.
She was a bold and gallant
Green Lantern...
...whose achievements
will long be remembered.
But for now, we must set aside
our mourning for the threat at hand.
[PANTING]
Glad you could make it.
Sorry.
We know from her ring that Ardakian's
murderers were Shadow Demons.
Soulless creatures
from the Antimatter Universe.
We haven't seen them
since the great crisis.
They came from a rift in our sun, a rift
that connected directly to their universe.
We take it this was no mere anomaly.
No. We were able to make
a detailed analysis through the ring.
There's no mistake.
The demons were sent by Krona.
[LANTERNS MURMURING]
GUARDIAN:
Most of you know Krona's story...
...how he defied authority...
...and created the Antimatter Universe
billions of years ago.
He nearly annihilated all of creation.
As punishment he was turned
into disembodied energy...
...and cast throughout the cosmos.
We thought him gone...
...but it seems he has reconstituted himself
in the Antimatter realm...
...bringing the Shadow Demons
under his control.
We sense this is just the beginning...
...that Krona means to use our sun,
the very center of the universe...
...as a portal to attack us.
We have sent a squadron of Lanterns
to the sun to begin monitoring.
They'll be setting up observation platforms
to conserve energy.
Meanwhile, all important documents
and artifacts will be moved from Oa...
...to the Broome-Kane star cluster
for safekeeping.
We'll need everyone to keep a close watch
on the sun while we evacuate.
LANTERN:
Evacuate?
[LANTERNS MURMURING]
We have already removed the Book of Oa,
our most sacred text.
Next will be the library.
KILOWOG:
You gotta be kidding.
Excuse me, Ganthet, but these precautions
do seem rather extraordinary.
Krona was a tyrant
with insatiable aggression, Sinestro.
He vowed to destroy Oa,
and we take that threat seriously.
We suggest you charge your rings
immediately...
...for the Central Battery
will be removed as well.
Let those who worship evil's might
Beware my power, Green Lantern's light
LANTERNS:
In brightest day, in blackest night
No evil shall escape my sight
[GRUNTS]
Let those who worship...
Sorry, kid.
Usually I like to mentor recruits...
...for more than a couple of hours
before they face Armageddon.
It is kind of overwhelming.
[GRUNTING]
- Are you all right?
- Yeah. Sure.
It's just that, well,
three days ago I was sitting in class...
...trying to figure out a physics problem
and then this.
Yeah, that's the way it is.
The thing is, why me? I'm just a student.
A nobody, really.
I'm sure Avra felt the same way.
- Who?
- The first Green Lantern.
It's one of the first stories you learn.
I guess we got a little sidetracked.
To quote scripture:
The first one given a ring
was not the first Lantern.
The first was Avra.
HAL:
The Book of Oa, first chapter, first verse.
Long ago, before our stars had ignited...
... long ago, when life was new
and the universe was in its infancy...
[SHIPS WHOOSHING]
... before order...
... there was chaos.
[EXPLOSIONS]
Chaos outbalanced creation...
... hate outbalanced fellowship...
... and all life suffered.
The Guardians saw it all.
The evil was too great
to be left unchecked.
And so they gathered the light.
They knew of its variety and strength...
... and the light with the most power.
But they sought their answer
in the light of will...
... to form from it a weapon unequaled...
... to turn armies to sand.
Will, given substance...
... forming.
The greatest warriors of the universe
were gathered.
Four would be chosen.
The first four.
An event to be recorded
and remembered.
And the Guardian said to the assembly:
GANTHET:
Stand tall, warriors.
If we are to be Guardians,
you are to be our strength.
If you are to be our strength,
these shall be your arms.
[PULSING]
HAL:
But then, the unexpected.
They called it an accident.
Accident is only the will of the universe
expressing itself.
And it was the universe's will
that the fourth Lantern be Avra...
... a mere scribe...
... chronicler to the Guardians.
And so it would be for all time,
the rings would choose their successors.
The Guardians had armed the first four,
and sought to train them.
Though no training could prepare them
for what would come...
... when training gave way to duty.
[EXPLOSIONS]
[GRUNTS]
A plague had savaged the universe.
The Guardians dispatched the first four
to stop its advance.
Ready or not.
[AVRA GRUNTS]
WACHET:
Your first battle?
Just do what I do. And try to stay alive.
Are these really enough
to stand against all that?
WACHET:
The Guardians say they'll protect us.
AVRA:
But they're just rings.
And before getting yours
you were just a scribe.
Use your imagination.
[GRUNTS]
[GRUNTS]
HAL:
Lt was too much for them.
For anyone.
[GRUNTING]
[GROANING]
WACHET:
These rings are useless.
We might as well be wearing trinkets.
What do we do?
We have only two options:
Retreat or death.
There is no victory here.
WACHET:
Retreat it is, then.
Go. I'll cover your escape.
HAL:
And the first Lantern saw...
... and would not run.
AVRA:
Wait.
The Guardians forged these rings
from will.
Will can do more than pave our retreat.
Will is the first cause behind any action.
We must will our survival.
You're commended for your faith
in the Guardians, Avra...
...but this is a failed endeavor.
You'll die.
So be it.
I choose to believe in the Guardians.
This is battle, Avra. It's real.
It's not one of your books
where you can invent the outcome.
He's dead.
[EXPLOSIONS]
[GRUNTING]
[GROANING]
AVRA:
The Guardians forged these rings from will.
We must will our survival.
[YELLS]
WACHET:
By the stars.
HAL:
He held his first construct.
No longer a scribe...
... now a warrior.
The first Lantern.
[GRUNTING]
[GROANS]
[GRUNTS]
HAL:
This was the beginning.
In time, the first of the rings
would be passed on...
... while a hundred more were forged...
... and then...
... thousands.
All would be taught
as the first Lantern had learned.
A new path to victory.
A use for the ring
that even the Guardians had not predicted.
In time, old Lanterns would fall...
... their rings given to the new,
to learn as they did.
Even Avra would fall...
... his ring given to one
who would be taught his lessons...
... and would one day teach them.
What was once a unique innovation
became the way for all.
The way of will.
Know then, when you shape the light
of your ring...
... you walk in the footsteps
of the first Lantern.
Believe me,
they each have quite a history.
HAL: In brightest day...
- Come on, missy. It ain't a wedding ring.
HAL: Let those who worship evil's might...
- Right, sorry.
Green Lantern's light
In brightest day, in blackest night
No evil shall escape my sight
- She the new one?
- Arisia...
...meet Kilowog,
our kindly drill instructor.
Hello.
- First combat?
- Yes.
Don't worry, rookie. This ain't gonna be
half as bad as boot camp.
In brightest day, in blackest night
No evil shall escape my sight
I've heard of Kilowog.
What horror stories did they tell you?
I heard someone got killed
training with him.
[HAL LAUGHS]
Don't believe everything.
Kilowog has some rough edges,
but he's a cakewalk compared to Deegan.
Deegan?
That's Sergeant Deegan to you, poozer!
You know what a poozer is,
don't you, poozer?
- No, sir.
DEEGAN: I can't hear you!
No, sir!
Poozers are what I call useless,
stupid, stinking rookies...
...like Brilowog over here.
- Kilowog, sir.
Did you just say something, Brilobutt?
No, sir. Sorry, sir.
You're whoever I say you are!
- Understood?
- Yes, sir.
I can't hear you!
Yes, sir!
DEEGAN: What was that ring call
I caught you making?
- You crying home to mommy and daddy?
- No, sir!
The call was to my wife, sir!
She's pregnant and l...
Did I ask for a medical report?
You got only one family right now, poozer,
and they're all wearing green rings.
Whose power, poozers?
ALL:
Our power, Sergeant Deegan!
Whose light, poozers?
Our light, Sergeant Deegan!
You're damn right!
DEEGAN:
Welcome to hell, boys and girls.
Here's where I weed out
those who belong in my corps...
...and those who don't.
First thing, I'll be taking your rings.
Sir, this volcano's active.
DEEGAN: That's why we're here, bird-boy.
I wanna see what you're made of...
...without that hunk of shiny green
on your hand.
[ALL GRUNTING]
[GROANING]
[GRUNTS THEN SCREAMS]
Get yourselves in a straight line.
I'll be the base.
- We'll make our way up together.
- Think so, poozer?
RING VOICE:
Temperature spiking in magma chamber.
Eruption imminent.
[ALL YELLING]
Gonna let people step all over you,
Brilolog?
Just shrug them off and save yourself.
Not shrugging anyone.
[GRUNTING]
Maybe you poozers would like
to go someplace a little cooler.
Someplace with a breeze.
[SIZZLING]
[WIND HOWLING]
[ALL GRUNTING]
Can't hold on.
We won't let you go, Tomar.
TOMAR-RE: Aah!
KILOWOG: Tomar!
Guess you shouldn't make promises
you can't keep, poozer.
[GASPS]
Congratulations, rookies, now you got two
dead poozers eating sand instead of one.
[KILOWOG GRUNTING]
[TOMAR-RE GASPING AND COUGHING]
[GRUNTING]
[FIRE CRACKLING]
DEEGAN:
Get some rest.
You're gonna need your wits about you
when we hit the ice canyons tomorrow.
Why?
Why what?
Do you enjoy seeing us in pain?
Seeing us doubt ourselves?
It's like you want us to quit, sir.
I got nothing to explain to you.
We're all here because we wanna serve.
If one of us gets killed,
you're nothing more than a murderer, sir.
Say that again.
You're a mean, sadistic son of a... Unh!
[GROWLING]
[BOTH GRUNTING]
[GROANING]
You don't like the way I do my job? I don't
give a damn what you like, any of you.
If you're still alive and ring slinging
a few years down the road...
...and lucky enough to watch
your family grow as you honor your oath...
...then you'll understand.
But getting old in my corps is a privilege.
We die so innocents don't.
It's that simple.
Once you put on the ring,
the life you lived stops being your own.
[BEEPING]
SALAAK: Deegan, this is Salaak.
- Yes, sir.
We have a priority one emergency.
The Khundians have attacked
Chiraka's capitol.
You and your recruits
are the closest Lanterns at hand.
Got it. We're on our way.
You heard him.
This is not a drill, poozers.
Let's go.
[ALIENS YELLING]
[GRUNTS]
I got this.
You poozers take care of the civilians.
TOMAR-RE:
Yes, sir.
[GRUNTING]
DEEGAN:
In brightest day, in blackest night
No evil shall escape my sight
You frigging bastards!
Crap.
[YELLING]
[LASERS FIRING]
- Where's Deegan?
TOMAR-RE: Out there.
He told us to protect the civilians.
[SCREAMING]
[GROWLING]
[GRUNTS]
[GROANS]
[WHEEZING]
This one will look good on my wall.
[GRUNTS]
DEEGAN:
What are you doing here?
Never said goodbye, sir.
[SCREAMS]
You're gonna get yourself killed.
Haven't you heard?
It's not my life anymore.
Lanterns, shield the civilians.
I'm doing a taser sweep.
[YELLING]
[PANTING]
[ALIENS CHEERING]
[WHEEZING]
Nice trick.
Hold on, sir. I'll get help.
Forget it.
You know, I would've never let
any of you get killed back there.
- On that planet.
- I know, sir.
It's just that in this job,
sometimes you got to go to the limit.
Not many can, but you're not like them.
Lantern Kilowog.
- What are you doing here?
- The Khundians, they're retreating.
It's over.
Yeah? What about the ones
who are still down?
I got a hunch when they wake up,
they might be a little cranky.
We better collect them.
No kidding.
Come on, guys. Get a move on.
Yes, sir.
Poozers.
So he's not a scary as he looks?
No, you'll survive Kilowog.
It only took me about three or four fights.
Just watch out for his left.
Any news?
There've been a couple more rifts,
five Demons.
Nothing major. We have all our sensors
skimming the surface.
Any sign of antimatter, they'll pick it up.
So we still don't know
when he's coming?
LAIRA: To serve as a Green Lantern
means facing the unknown.
Although, sometimes facing the familiar
can prove to be even more harrowing.
Do you sense anything, Laira?
Only that the evil still churns and builds.
It will not be swayed.
It will not bend to reason
or pity or suffering.
Only to force, as always.
That was strange.
Laira's unusual.
She hasn't been around long...
...but next to Sinestro, I don't know
another Lantern I'd rather have at my side.
- She's that good?
- She's had to be.
About a year ago,
the Guardians sent her to the planet Jayd.
It was her first solo mission.
But more than that,
it was her homecoming.
REE'YU:
The prodigal daughter returns.
I come as a Green Lantern, Ree'yu,
by order of the Guardians.
REE'YU:
The Golden Dragon is the law here.
And what law condones massacres?
They were Khundians, Laira. Savages.
Your father's sworn enemies.
You dare go against your family?
Then you have no honor, Green Lantern.
LAIRA: You speak as if you knew
what honor meant, Ree'yu.
I'm just amazed you could tear yourself
from my father's bed.
Ha. You're jealous
because I deserve your father's love...
...while you do not.
You are your mother's child,
Laira Omoto.
[LAIRA GRUNTING]
Weak, submissive, so easily crushed.
I may have my mother's humility...
...but I am my father's daughter.
[GRUNTING]
[BOTH GRUNTING]
[REE'YU WHIMPERS]
Commander Antomokei.
I come as an emissary, Antomokei.
I'm not here to fight.
It's your call.
RUBYN: Remember when we used to
come here and hide, little sister?
[RUBYN CHUCKLING]
You were never very good at it.
[BOTH GRUNT]
But I was.
Ooh, I could surprise you, couldn't I?
Then I'd have to lock you up
until you calmed down.
I'm no longer that little girl, Rubyn.
RUBYN: No, now you have a new clan
and that flashy ring.
[GASPS]
Why shine it here?
Jayd has been declared a hostile world.
I can't help but wonder
who's responsible.
RUBYN:
I'm just a faithful son.
I honor my family,
I follow the Golden Dragon...
[LAIRA GRUNTING]
...while you have other loyalties.
Not loyalties.
Duty.
No more games.
No. No more.
[GROWLS]
[BOTH GRUNTING]
[GROANING]
[BOTH LAUGHING]
KENTOR:
Happier times.
Father.
KENTOR: As you can see,
I kept the room as you left it.
I even found this.
Sometimes after suffering one
of your brother's antics...
...I'd give you this.
It would stop your crying.
Never did get to fix the arm.
We started concentrating
on making a warrior out of you instead.
Instilling discipline.
Making you face your fears.
What has happened to Jayd, Father?
KENTOR:
Jayd is safe.
At what expense?
Only the blood of our enemies.
But you attack without provocation.
I have a life's worth of provocation.
You forget the dishonor
they brought upon us, daughter.
You forget the day of carnage.
How many of our brethren perished
in the Khundian invasion?
How many warriors butchered?
[GROANING]
[YELLS]
[KHUNDIANS GRUNTING]
[KHUNDIANS GRUNTING]
[PANTING]
[GRUNTS]
[GRUNTING]
[GROANING]
[GROANING]
[LANTERN GRUNTING]
KENTOR: Not even the Green Lantern
of our sector could withstand the onslaught.
I had one chance to turn the tables.
[GROANS]
[KHUNDIANS GRUNTING]
KENTOR:
You instinctively called for help...
... but not from your father this time.
The Golden Dragon had fallen that day.
I was found wanting. Weak.
I needed to restore my honor
and be the warrior my homeworld deserved.
You've turned Jayd into something worse
than what the Khundians ever intended.
You've made it an outlaw world.
All I want is peace...
...and it can only be achieved
when there is no one left to oppose us.
- But the Guardians...
- The Guardians know this.
But their collective minds lack
the singularity to do what must be done.
You can help me, Laira.
With the power in your grasp,
no one will be able to stand in our way.
Not even your Oan masters.
No.
It's not what this ring stands for.
It's not what the Golden Dragon
should stand for.
We should work to a higher calling.
Protecting our people
is the highest calling.
Give me the ring.
Be your father's daughter again.
You defy me?
So be it.
[KENTOR YELLS]
[BOTH GRUNTING]
[LAIRA YELLS]
[LAIRA YELLS]
The Guardians have made you soft.
You will always be the child
who runs to her father.
[GROANING]
[SHOUTS]
[YELLS]
[LAIRA GRUNTING]
KENTOR:
Enough.
Now things are
as they were meant to be.
I came here hoping that Ree'yu and Rubyn
were responsible for Jayd's atrocities...
...hoping you were still the man
who once tucked his daughter in at night...
...but you are no longer that man...
[GASPS THEN YELLS]
...and I am a Green Lantern.
You are not even worthy of that armor.
[YELLS]
[YELLS]
[BOTH GRUNTING]
[GROANING]
KENTOR:
I was wrong about you.
You have grown up.
You are more than a worthy warrior...
...and l...
I may never have regained my honor
until now.
Father!
[YELLS THEN GROANS]
I am glad...
...I can be that for you
in my last moments.
I see now...
...the true protector of Jayd
is not the Golden Dragon...
...but Laira Omoto.
Green Lantern.
[SIGHS]
No.
[CRYING]
I've heard of family fights,
but my God...
You've got a bigger fight
than that coming, rookie.
Guardians are talking about this
like it's doomsday.
Has Oa been cleared out?
Not a Lantern left on it.
It's just a husk now. What about here?
Quiet so far.
I'm thinking of taking a closer look.
Might as well.
It's gonna get crowded in here.
All the platforms are filling up.
The Guardians are calling in everyone
short of Mogo.
Mogo? Is he a Green Lantern?
Yeah, but you won't be seeing him
around.
Why not?
Mogo doesn't socialize.
[ALL LAUGHING]
What are they talking about?
Been having story time all day
and you haven't told her about Mogo?
That's the first story I heard as a rookie.
Mogo and Bolphunga.
You gotta tell her about Bolphunga.
Outside.
PALAQUA:
Doesn't socialize.
[LAUGHING]
Well?
There's a story that gets passed
around the barracks...
... about a creature known
as Bolphunga the Unrelenting...
... who had a thirst for combat
as insatiable as his appetite.
[SHIP BEEPING]
SHIP VOICE: Approaching
Vud's homeworld, oh, great one.
HAL:
After hundreds of victories...
... there was only one warrior left
willing to face him:
Kloba Vud, the Titan of the Vlidomals.
Bolphunga.
I was wondering if you'd show up.
You just had to wait your turn, Vud.
[BOTH GRUNTING]
[VUD YELLS]
HAL: Like everyone before him, Vud was
no match for Bolphunga's brutality.
[GROANING AND GRUNTING]
[GASPS]
Poor Kloba Vud.
You seem to be completely,
heh, disarmed.
[GROANING]
And once I have your head, I, Bolphunga,
shall be proclaimed...
...the greatest warrior in the galaxy!
Except for Mogo.
What?
What did you say?
Except for Mogo.
Not only is he mightier than you,
he is also a...
A Green Lantern.
Ha. I fear no Lantern.
You'd fear this one.
He's the most powerful Lantern
of them all.
Never defeated.
A cosmic legend.
Never heard of him.
[GROANS]
Mogo.
Yes.
All right, where can I find him?
BOLPHUNGA:
You have nothing on him?
SHIP VOICE:
The Lanterns are excluded from databases...
... under Guardian security decree
82669...
It matters not.
This Lantern is meat.
Approaching coordinates now,
oh, great one.
Mogo, you skulking coward.
I know not where upon
this overgrown planet you are...
...but hear this!
I am Bolphunga the Unrelenting!
Bolphunga, at whose name the deserts
tremble and the mountains quake.
Bolphunga, who will cleave you
from your soul.
Come meet your fate, you craven cur.
Release the energy probes.
PROBE:
Alert. Alert.
Lantern energy detected.
Alert. Alert.
Hah!
Prepare yourself, dog.
Prepare for the coming of Bolphunga.
Where are you hiding?
Coward. I know you're near.
PROBE:
Alert. Alert.
Lantern energy detected.
Alert. Alert.
Lantern energy detected.
- Alert. Alert.
HAL: And so it went. For days.
BOLPHUNGA:
Hah!
Unh. Unh. Ohh!
PROBE:
Alert. Alert.
[GASPS]
Alert. Alert.
[BOLPHUNGA YELLING]
HAL:
And days.
PROBE:
Alert. Alert.
HAL:
And days.
PROBE:
Alert. Alert.
[BOLPHUNGA GRUNTING AND YELLING]
HAL: Until days turned to weeks
and weeks to months.
[MACHINES BEEPING]
[GROANS]
PROBE:
Alert. Alert.
[GROWLING]
[PROBES BUZZ]
[YELLING AND GRUNTING]
HAL: But they didn't call him Unrelenting
for nothing.
Ship, release new probes.
I want them to map every square klick
of this mud ball...
...and set charges
to force that son of a cur into the open.
If Bolphunga couldn't find Mogo directly,
then he'd find him indirectly:
A house, a training site,
maybe even a power battery.
PROBE:
Planet map 0.5 percent complete.
And so he waited.
He could almost taste Mogo's blood.
PROBE:
One-point-eight percent complete.
Three-point-five percent complete.
[SNORING]
Whoa...!
[YELLS THEN GASPS]
[COMPUTER BEEPING]
Ho-ho-ho. Now I have you.
PROBE:
Planet map 100 percent complete.
Show me the whole planet.
Huh?
[RUMBLING]
HAL: lt was then that
Bolphunga the Unrelenting finally relented.
- Get me out of here.
SHIP VOICE: Yes, oh, mighty...
Now!
[GRUNTS]
HAL:
His fight was over before it began.
[YELLS]
[SCREAMING]
He had found his enemy,
who was hidden in plain sight.
The Green Lantern known as Mogo.
And that, Arisia,
is why Mogo doesn't socialize.
A living world.
When this battle's over, I'll tell you about
some of the really big Lanterns.
You're joking, Hal.
You are, right?
[DEMON GROWLING]
[BOTH GRUNT]
[DEMONS SHRIEKING]
Thicken your shield.
Don't let them touch you.
Above you.
SINESTRO:
Stay alert.
[GRUNTING]
SINESTRO:
Watch out!
[YELLS]
[GRUNTS]
[GROANING]
SINESTRO:
You've been out for a while.
[WINCING]
Careful. You took quite a hit.
Where is everyone?
Patrolling the sun.
Things are starting to get hot out there.
The sensors are picking up a pressure zone
under the surface.
Won't be long now.
So the Guardians are right.
Krona is coming.
SINESTRO:
It seems.
My old friend, Abin Sur, would surely be
quoting scripture if he were here.
And so it is written, the enemy long buried
will return from a fire...
...and Oa shall be consumed
in its flames.
Almost makes you wanna hide
under the nearest rock.
Do you think that somehow
this is preordained?
No, my dear.
Destiny is a tricky item.
Even Abin Sur found that out.
[ABIN SUR GRUNTS]
ATROCITUS:
A sign of things to come, Abin Sur.
Darkness.
Who are you, creature?
I am an enemy to all...
...who serve the self-appointed
Guardians of the Universe.
Then you are an enemy to me.
[BOTH GRUNTING]
RING VOICE:
Warning. Power level, 1.7 percent.
Warning. Power level, 1.1 percent.
[GROWLING]
I have seen your future, Abin Sur.
And it is death.
We all die.
And I do not fear death.
There are things worse than death,
Green Lantern.
If I had a power ring for every time
I heard that, I'd have my own corps.
[GRUNTS]
ABIN SUR: Sinestro.
- Abin. I've seen you look better, my friend.
And I've seen you look worse.
Warning.
Power level approaching 0 percent.
Still waiting to recharge
until you're almost on empty?
What can I say?
I get caught up in my work.
Don't we all?
[GROANING]
- What's he doing?
- He's trying to break it.
[GRUNTING]
Abin, if that explodes,
it could take out the city.
If not the entire planet.
Abin!
In brightest day, in blackest night
No evil shall escape my sight
Let those who worship evil's might
Beware my power, Green Lantern's light
No.
[PANTING]
ABIN SUR:
You want my power battery, Atrocitus?
You're welcome to it.
Atrocitus shouldn't give us
any more trouble.
I would think not, but who is he?
SINESTRO: Atrocitus is part of
a terrorist cell called the Five Inversions.
ABIN SUR:
I've never heard of him.
SINESTRO: Because he's been imprisoned
on the planet Ysmault for over 700 years.
Last week, a ship crashed there.
Atrocitus killed its survivors,
repaired the ship and fled.
He's been hunting
and killing Green Lanterns since.
- How many?
- Three.
How did he find any of the Green Lanterns?
Or me?
According to the Book of Oa...
...Atrocitus claims
he is able to talk to destiny.
- There is no such thing as destiny, Abin.
- Then how...?
He locked onto your power ring's energy
somehow, as he no doubt did the others.
- You don't believe in destiny?
- No.
We wear destiny on our fingers, Sinestro.
[BOOMING]
The power ring seeks out those destined
to be Green Lanterns.
The power ring seeks out those who have
shown the ability to overcome great fear.
It is a highly advanced computer program
based on morality...
...but it is a program nonetheless.
ABIN SUR:
Do you remember the first day we met?
SINESTRO:
Of course.
ABIN SUR:
We were both summoned to Oa for training.
You mistook me for someone
from your world.
- From Korugar.
- Yes.
ABIN SUR: But despite your mistake,
we became friends.
Together,
we saved your world from civil war...
...and today, mine from Atrocitus.
Our meeting was destiny.
No, Abin. It was luck.
As it was for this damaged ship
that we came across.
ABIN SUR:
No. I believe in destiny.
All of this, everything we do,
is a part of that destiny.
We will agree to disagree.
Are you certain you don't want my help
delivering the prisoner back to Ysmault?
No. You have your sector to attend to,
I have mine.
Then until we see one another again,
my friend.
- Keep the light burning.
- Always.
[THUNDER CRASHING]
Set us free and we will serve you
as you serve your blue-skinned owners.
DEMONIC FACE:
Paradise is right here.
This is anything but.
[PRISONERS MOANING AND WAILING]
I told you
there are things worse than death.
This prison is of your doing, Atrocitus.
I speak not of Ysmault, Green Lantern...
...or of my own fate.
I speak of yours.
Your death.
I told you, I do not fear death.
But it will come to you sooner
than you realize.
All because your ring fails you
in your most desperate hour.
Then I will remember
to charge my ring often.
But it is not your death
that is the tragedy.
It is beyond it.
I have seen the future
of the Green Lantern Corps.
I have seen its destiny...
...should you care to hear it.
Continue.
Let me go further in time then.
To a future when the most vile murderers
and deviants in the universe...
...will become united under one leader.
There will be a war of light
that will burn the surface of Oa black.
It will leave scores of Lanterns dead.
Even the greatest of them will fall.
The green light will be extinguished
and there will be left a new corps.
A corps of fear.
Sinestro.
His corps will terrorize the universe.
The Guardians will find themselves
without their soldiers.
They will be overpowered and captured.
They will be skinned alive
and eaten by Sinestro's followers.
Their skulls will form the base
of Sinestro's throne on Oa.
His reign will cover the universe
like a shroud.
Wait, where are you going?
You almost had me, demon...
...but you took a Green Lantern
down a path...
...his willpower would never let him go.
Sinestro may not believe in destiny,
but I do.
And I know my dear friend
is destined for great things.
You, however, are not.
SINESTRO: But Abin Sur knew
a false prophet when he heard one.
Atrocitus was just another
who would try to rip the corps apart.
But we're too galvanized a team...
...and too bound in trust.
Never forget that.
But Atrocitus was right about Abin Sur.
He did die.
Everyone dies, Arisia.
- Everyone gets replaced.
HAL: Sinestro.
The sensors picked up a tremendous spike
in the readings.
A massive swelling
in the dead center of the sun.
TOMAR-RE:
We have visible confirmation.
It's enormous.
HAL:
Krona.
I guess this is the blackest night
everyone talks about.
No, my dear. Only dusk.
[GROWLING]
Stay sharp.
He's as big as a moon.
If he gets past us,
he can annihilate any world, anywhere.
Let's move.
[DEMONS SHRIEKING]
[GRUNTS THEN YELLS]
[GRUNTING]
[GRUNTS]
They're shielding him.
Can't break through.
PALAQUA:
We got a clear shot.
[GASPS]
Everyone fall back. Regroup.
We need to keep fighting.
LAIRA:
We need a strategy.
[ROARING]
Wait. He's antimatter, right?
The only way to destroy antimatter
is with matter.
All we have to do is hit him
with something of equal or greater mass.
What are you gonna do, chuck a planet?
Why not? If he wants Oa so bad,
maybe we should give it to him.
Kid, you just earned your stripes.
[ROARING]
Everyone back to Oa now.
We've got one chance
and one chance only.
Now, push with everything you have!
[GRUNTING]
[LANTERNS GRUNTING]
[DEMONS SHRIEKING]
Gonna need more juice than this.
Oh, my God.
Huh?
[ROARING]
ARISIA: He might not socialize, but he
sure knows how to make an entrance.
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
GANTHET:
Until a new Oa can be constructed...
...Mogo has been kind enough
to serve as our temporary base.
Once again, the diversity of the corps
has proven to be its greatest asset...
...whether it be represented
by a planet...
...or a young woman with the ingenuity
to turn one into a weapon.
[BOOK PULSING]
Looks like you have your own story now.
And while we mourn the loss
of our fallen comrades...
...we welcome a new generation
in hopes for a brighter day.
Hear, hear!
[LANTERNS CHEERING]
It appears you've fulfilled the prophecy
of Oa's destruction.
Not only a hero,
but some might say an agent of destiny.
You did good out there, rookie.
Does this mean I get to skip boot camp?
Not a chance, poozer.
Where's everyone going?
We got a new home to build.
Come on.
I'll tell you about the time
I took on an army of Manhunters...
...and my only backup was this squirrel.
do you realize you got patrol?
Oh, and I thought I was coming
500 million light-years...
...to give you a sponge bath, Kilowog.
Knock it off, you poozer.
How much longer?
I'm in your star system,
so quit flaring your nostrils.
My God.
[GRUNTS]
[ARDAKIAN GRUNTING]
[ARDAKIAN SCREAMING]
KILOWOG:
Ardakian, you there?
Ardakian? What happened?
Ardakian!
[PANTING]
Where is it?
[RING PULSES]
Hey.
[GRUNTING]
GANTHET: Needless to say,
we're all shocked and saddened...
...by the news of Ardakian Trawl.
She was a bold and gallant
Green Lantern...
...whose achievements
will long be remembered.
But for now, we must set aside
our mourning for the threat at hand.
[PANTING]
Glad you could make it.
Sorry.
We know from her ring that Ardakian's
murderers were Shadow Demons.
Soulless creatures
from the Antimatter Universe.
We haven't seen them
since the great crisis.
They came from a rift in our sun, a rift
that connected directly to their universe.
We take it this was no mere anomaly.
No. We were able to make
a detailed analysis through the ring.
There's no mistake.
The demons were sent by Krona.
[LANTERNS MURMURING]
GUARDIAN:
Most of you know Krona's story...
...how he defied authority...
...and created the Antimatter Universe
billions of years ago.
He nearly annihilated all of creation.
As punishment he was turned
into disembodied energy...
...and cast throughout the cosmos.
We thought him gone...
...but it seems he has reconstituted himself
in the Antimatter realm...
...bringing the Shadow Demons
under his control.
We sense this is just the beginning...
...that Krona means to use our sun,
the very center of the universe...
...as a portal to attack us.
We have sent a squadron of Lanterns
to the sun to begin monitoring.
They'll be setting up observation platforms
to conserve energy.
Meanwhile, all important documents
and artifacts will be moved from Oa...
...to the Broome-Kane star cluster
for safekeeping.
We'll need everyone to keep a close watch
on the sun while we evacuate.
LANTERN:
Evacuate?
[LANTERNS MURMURING]
We have already removed the Book of Oa,
our most sacred text.
Next will be the library.
KILOWOG:
You gotta be kidding.
Excuse me, Ganthet, but these precautions
do seem rather extraordinary.
Krona was a tyrant
with insatiable aggression, Sinestro.
He vowed to destroy Oa,
and we take that threat seriously.
We suggest you charge your rings
immediately...
...for the Central Battery
will be removed as well.
Let those who worship evil's might
Beware my power, Green Lantern's light
LANTERNS:
In brightest day, in blackest night
No evil shall escape my sight
[GRUNTS]
Let those who worship...
Sorry, kid.
Usually I like to mentor recruits...
...for more than a couple of hours
before they face Armageddon.
It is kind of overwhelming.
[GRUNTING]
- Are you all right?
- Yeah. Sure.
It's just that, well,
three days ago I was sitting in class...
...trying to figure out a physics problem
and then this.
Yeah, that's the way it is.
The thing is, why me? I'm just a student.
A nobody, really.
I'm sure Avra felt the same way.
- Who?
- The first Green Lantern.
It's one of the first stories you learn.
I guess we got a little sidetracked.
To quote scripture:
The first one given a ring
was not the first Lantern.
The first was Avra.
HAL:
The Book of Oa, first chapter, first verse.
Long ago, before our stars had ignited...
... long ago, when life was new
and the universe was in its infancy...
[SHIPS WHOOSHING]
... before order...
... there was chaos.
[EXPLOSIONS]
Chaos outbalanced creation...
... hate outbalanced fellowship...
... and all life suffered.
The Guardians saw it all.
The evil was too great
to be left unchecked.
And so they gathered the light.
They knew of its variety and strength...
... and the light with the most power.
But they sought their answer
in the light of will...
... to form from it a weapon unequaled...
... to turn armies to sand.
Will, given substance...
... forming.
The greatest warriors of the universe
were gathered.
Four would be chosen.
The first four.
An event to be recorded
and remembered.
And the Guardian said to the assembly:
GANTHET:
Stand tall, warriors.
If we are to be Guardians,
you are to be our strength.
If you are to be our strength,
these shall be your arms.
[PULSING]
HAL:
But then, the unexpected.
They called it an accident.
Accident is only the will of the universe
expressing itself.
And it was the universe's will
that the fourth Lantern be Avra...
... a mere scribe...
... chronicler to the Guardians.
And so it would be for all time,
the rings would choose their successors.
The Guardians had armed the first four,
and sought to train them.
Though no training could prepare them
for what would come...
... when training gave way to duty.
[EXPLOSIONS]
[GRUNTS]
A plague had savaged the universe.
The Guardians dispatched the first four
to stop its advance.
Ready or not.
[AVRA GRUNTS]
WACHET:
Your first battle?
Just do what I do. And try to stay alive.
Are these really enough
to stand against all that?
WACHET:
The Guardians say they'll protect us.
AVRA:
But they're just rings.
And before getting yours
you were just a scribe.
Use your imagination.
[GRUNTS]
[GRUNTS]
HAL:
Lt was too much for them.
For anyone.
[GRUNTING]
[GROANING]
WACHET:
These rings are useless.
We might as well be wearing trinkets.
What do we do?
We have only two options:
Retreat or death.
There is no victory here.
WACHET:
Retreat it is, then.
Go. I'll cover your escape.
HAL:
And the first Lantern saw...
... and would not run.
AVRA:
Wait.
The Guardians forged these rings
from will.
Will can do more than pave our retreat.
Will is the first cause behind any action.
We must will our survival.
You're commended for your faith
in the Guardians, Avra...
...but this is a failed endeavor.
You'll die.
So be it.
I choose to believe in the Guardians.
This is battle, Avra. It's real.
It's not one of your books
where you can invent the outcome.
He's dead.
[EXPLOSIONS]
[GRUNTING]
[GROANING]
AVRA:
The Guardians forged these rings from will.
We must will our survival.
[YELLS]
WACHET:
By the stars.
HAL:
He held his first construct.
No longer a scribe...
... now a warrior.
The first Lantern.
[GRUNTING]
[GROANS]
[GRUNTS]
HAL:
This was the beginning.
In time, the first of the rings
would be passed on...
... while a hundred more were forged...
... and then...
... thousands.
All would be taught
as the first Lantern had learned.
A new path to victory.
A use for the ring
that even the Guardians had not predicted.
In time, old Lanterns would fall...
... their rings given to the new,
to learn as they did.
Even Avra would fall...
... his ring given to one
who would be taught his lessons...
... and would one day teach them.
What was once a unique innovation
became the way for all.
The way of will.
Know then, when you shape the light
of your ring...
... you walk in the footsteps
of the first Lantern.
Believe me,
they each have quite a history.
HAL: In brightest day...
- Come on, missy. It ain't a wedding ring.
HAL: Let those who worship evil's might...
- Right, sorry.
Green Lantern's light
In brightest day, in blackest night
No evil shall escape my sight
- She the new one?
- Arisia...
...meet Kilowog,
our kindly drill instructor.
Hello.
- First combat?
- Yes.
Don't worry, rookie. This ain't gonna be
half as bad as boot camp.
In brightest day, in blackest night
No evil shall escape my sight
I've heard of Kilowog.
What horror stories did they tell you?
I heard someone got killed
training with him.
[HAL LAUGHS]
Don't believe everything.
Kilowog has some rough edges,
but he's a cakewalk compared to Deegan.
Deegan?
That's Sergeant Deegan to you, poozer!
You know what a poozer is,
don't you, poozer?
- No, sir.
DEEGAN: I can't hear you!
No, sir!
Poozers are what I call useless,
stupid, stinking rookies...
...like Brilowog over here.
- Kilowog, sir.
Did you just say something, Brilobutt?
No, sir. Sorry, sir.
You're whoever I say you are!
- Understood?
- Yes, sir.
I can't hear you!
Yes, sir!
DEEGAN: What was that ring call
I caught you making?
- You crying home to mommy and daddy?
- No, sir!
The call was to my wife, sir!
She's pregnant and l...
Did I ask for a medical report?
You got only one family right now, poozer,
and they're all wearing green rings.
Whose power, poozers?
ALL:
Our power, Sergeant Deegan!
Whose light, poozers?
Our light, Sergeant Deegan!
You're damn right!
DEEGAN:
Welcome to hell, boys and girls.
Here's where I weed out
those who belong in my corps...
...and those who don't.
First thing, I'll be taking your rings.
Sir, this volcano's active.
DEEGAN: That's why we're here, bird-boy.
I wanna see what you're made of...
...without that hunk of shiny green
on your hand.
[ALL GRUNTING]
[GROANING]
[GRUNTS THEN SCREAMS]
Get yourselves in a straight line.
I'll be the base.
- We'll make our way up together.
- Think so, poozer?
RING VOICE:
Temperature spiking in magma chamber.
Eruption imminent.
[ALL YELLING]
Gonna let people step all over you,
Brilolog?
Just shrug them off and save yourself.
Not shrugging anyone.
[GRUNTING]
Maybe you poozers would like
to go someplace a little cooler.
Someplace with a breeze.
[SIZZLING]
[WIND HOWLING]
[ALL GRUNTING]
Can't hold on.
We won't let you go, Tomar.
TOMAR-RE: Aah!
KILOWOG: Tomar!
Guess you shouldn't make promises
you can't keep, poozer.
[GASPS]
Congratulations, rookies, now you got two
dead poozers eating sand instead of one.
[KILOWOG GRUNTING]
[TOMAR-RE GASPING AND COUGHING]
[GRUNTING]
[FIRE CRACKLING]
DEEGAN:
Get some rest.
You're gonna need your wits about you
when we hit the ice canyons tomorrow.
Why?
Why what?
Do you enjoy seeing us in pain?
Seeing us doubt ourselves?
It's like you want us to quit, sir.
I got nothing to explain to you.
We're all here because we wanna serve.
If one of us gets killed,
you're nothing more than a murderer, sir.
Say that again.
You're a mean, sadistic son of a... Unh!
[GROWLING]
[BOTH GRUNTING]
[GROANING]
You don't like the way I do my job? I don't
give a damn what you like, any of you.
If you're still alive and ring slinging
a few years down the road...
...and lucky enough to watch
your family grow as you honor your oath...
...then you'll understand.
But getting old in my corps is a privilege.
We die so innocents don't.
It's that simple.
Once you put on the ring,
the life you lived stops being your own.
[BEEPING]
SALAAK: Deegan, this is Salaak.
- Yes, sir.
We have a priority one emergency.
The Khundians have attacked
Chiraka's capitol.
You and your recruits
are the closest Lanterns at hand.
Got it. We're on our way.
You heard him.
This is not a drill, poozers.
Let's go.
[ALIENS YELLING]
[GRUNTS]
I got this.
You poozers take care of the civilians.
TOMAR-RE:
Yes, sir.
[GRUNTING]
DEEGAN:
In brightest day, in blackest night
No evil shall escape my sight
You frigging bastards!
Crap.
[YELLING]
[LASERS FIRING]
- Where's Deegan?
TOMAR-RE: Out there.
He told us to protect the civilians.
[SCREAMING]
[GROWLING]
[GRUNTS]
[GROANS]
[WHEEZING]
This one will look good on my wall.
[GRUNTS]
DEEGAN:
What are you doing here?
Never said goodbye, sir.
[SCREAMS]
You're gonna get yourself killed.
Haven't you heard?
It's not my life anymore.
Lanterns, shield the civilians.
I'm doing a taser sweep.
[YELLING]
[PANTING]
[ALIENS CHEERING]
[WHEEZING]
Nice trick.
Hold on, sir. I'll get help.
Forget it.
You know, I would've never let
any of you get killed back there.
- On that planet.
- I know, sir.
It's just that in this job,
sometimes you got to go to the limit.
Not many can, but you're not like them.
Lantern Kilowog.
- What are you doing here?
- The Khundians, they're retreating.
It's over.
Yeah? What about the ones
who are still down?
I got a hunch when they wake up,
they might be a little cranky.
We better collect them.
No kidding.
Come on, guys. Get a move on.
Yes, sir.
Poozers.
So he's not a scary as he looks?
No, you'll survive Kilowog.
It only took me about three or four fights.
Just watch out for his left.
Any news?
There've been a couple more rifts,
five Demons.
Nothing major. We have all our sensors
skimming the surface.
Any sign of antimatter, they'll pick it up.
So we still don't know
when he's coming?
LAIRA: To serve as a Green Lantern
means facing the unknown.
Although, sometimes facing the familiar
can prove to be even more harrowing.
Do you sense anything, Laira?
Only that the evil still churns and builds.
It will not be swayed.
It will not bend to reason
or pity or suffering.
Only to force, as always.
That was strange.
Laira's unusual.
She hasn't been around long...
...but next to Sinestro, I don't know
another Lantern I'd rather have at my side.
- She's that good?
- She's had to be.
About a year ago,
the Guardians sent her to the planet Jayd.
It was her first solo mission.
But more than that,
it was her homecoming.
REE'YU:
The prodigal daughter returns.
I come as a Green Lantern, Ree'yu,
by order of the Guardians.
REE'YU:
The Golden Dragon is the law here.
And what law condones massacres?
They were Khundians, Laira. Savages.
Your father's sworn enemies.
You dare go against your family?
Then you have no honor, Green Lantern.
LAIRA: You speak as if you knew
what honor meant, Ree'yu.
I'm just amazed you could tear yourself
from my father's bed.
Ha. You're jealous
because I deserve your father's love...
...while you do not.
You are your mother's child,
Laira Omoto.
[LAIRA GRUNTING]
Weak, submissive, so easily crushed.
I may have my mother's humility...
...but I am my father's daughter.
[GRUNTING]
[BOTH GRUNTING]
[REE'YU WHIMPERS]
Commander Antomokei.
I come as an emissary, Antomokei.
I'm not here to fight.
It's your call.
RUBYN: Remember when we used to
come here and hide, little sister?
[RUBYN CHUCKLING]
You were never very good at it.
[BOTH GRUNT]
But I was.
Ooh, I could surprise you, couldn't I?
Then I'd have to lock you up
until you calmed down.
I'm no longer that little girl, Rubyn.
RUBYN: No, now you have a new clan
and that flashy ring.
[GASPS]
Why shine it here?
Jayd has been declared a hostile world.
I can't help but wonder
who's responsible.
RUBYN:
I'm just a faithful son.
I honor my family,
I follow the Golden Dragon...
[LAIRA GRUNTING]
...while you have other loyalties.
Not loyalties.
Duty.
No more games.
No. No more.
[GROWLS]
[BOTH GRUNTING]
[GROANING]
[BOTH LAUGHING]
KENTOR:
Happier times.
Father.
KENTOR: As you can see,
I kept the room as you left it.
I even found this.
Sometimes after suffering one
of your brother's antics...
...I'd give you this.
It would stop your crying.
Never did get to fix the arm.
We started concentrating
on making a warrior out of you instead.
Instilling discipline.
Making you face your fears.
What has happened to Jayd, Father?
KENTOR:
Jayd is safe.
At what expense?
Only the blood of our enemies.
But you attack without provocation.
I have a life's worth of provocation.
You forget the dishonor
they brought upon us, daughter.
You forget the day of carnage.
How many of our brethren perished
in the Khundian invasion?
How many warriors butchered?
[GROANING]
[YELLS]
[KHUNDIANS GRUNTING]
[KHUNDIANS GRUNTING]
[PANTING]
[GRUNTS]
[GRUNTING]
[GROANING]
[GROANING]
[LANTERN GRUNTING]
KENTOR: Not even the Green Lantern
of our sector could withstand the onslaught.
I had one chance to turn the tables.
[GROANS]
[KHUNDIANS GRUNTING]
KENTOR:
You instinctively called for help...
... but not from your father this time.
The Golden Dragon had fallen that day.
I was found wanting. Weak.
I needed to restore my honor
and be the warrior my homeworld deserved.
You've turned Jayd into something worse
than what the Khundians ever intended.
You've made it an outlaw world.
All I want is peace...
...and it can only be achieved
when there is no one left to oppose us.
- But the Guardians...
- The Guardians know this.
But their collective minds lack
the singularity to do what must be done.
You can help me, Laira.
With the power in your grasp,
no one will be able to stand in our way.
Not even your Oan masters.
No.
It's not what this ring stands for.
It's not what the Golden Dragon
should stand for.
We should work to a higher calling.
Protecting our people
is the highest calling.
Give me the ring.
Be your father's daughter again.
You defy me?
So be it.
[KENTOR YELLS]
[BOTH GRUNTING]
[LAIRA YELLS]
[LAIRA YELLS]
The Guardians have made you soft.
You will always be the child
who runs to her father.
[GROANING]
[SHOUTS]
[YELLS]
[LAIRA GRUNTING]
KENTOR:
Enough.
Now things are
as they were meant to be.
I came here hoping that Ree'yu and Rubyn
were responsible for Jayd's atrocities...
...hoping you were still the man
who once tucked his daughter in at night...
...but you are no longer that man...
[GASPS THEN YELLS]
...and I am a Green Lantern.
You are not even worthy of that armor.
[YELLS]
[YELLS]
[BOTH GRUNTING]
[GROANING]
KENTOR:
I was wrong about you.
You have grown up.
You are more than a worthy warrior...
...and l...
I may never have regained my honor
until now.
Father!
[YELLS THEN GROANS]
I am glad...
...I can be that for you
in my last moments.
I see now...
...the true protector of Jayd
is not the Golden Dragon...
...but Laira Omoto.
Green Lantern.
[SIGHS]
No.
[CRYING]
I've heard of family fights,
but my God...
You've got a bigger fight
than that coming, rookie.
Guardians are talking about this
like it's doomsday.
Has Oa been cleared out?
Not a Lantern left on it.
It's just a husk now. What about here?
Quiet so far.
I'm thinking of taking a closer look.
Might as well.
It's gonna get crowded in here.
All the platforms are filling up.
The Guardians are calling in everyone
short of Mogo.
Mogo? Is he a Green Lantern?
Yeah, but you won't be seeing him
around.
Why not?
Mogo doesn't socialize.
[ALL LAUGHING]
What are they talking about?
Been having story time all day
and you haven't told her about Mogo?
That's the first story I heard as a rookie.
Mogo and Bolphunga.
You gotta tell her about Bolphunga.
Outside.
PALAQUA:
Doesn't socialize.
[LAUGHING]
Well?
There's a story that gets passed
around the barracks...
... about a creature known
as Bolphunga the Unrelenting...
... who had a thirst for combat
as insatiable as his appetite.
[SHIP BEEPING]
SHIP VOICE: Approaching
Vud's homeworld, oh, great one.
HAL:
After hundreds of victories...
... there was only one warrior left
willing to face him:
Kloba Vud, the Titan of the Vlidomals.
Bolphunga.
I was wondering if you'd show up.
You just had to wait your turn, Vud.
[BOTH GRUNTING]
[VUD YELLS]
HAL: Like everyone before him, Vud was
no match for Bolphunga's brutality.
[GROANING AND GRUNTING]
[GASPS]
Poor Kloba Vud.
You seem to be completely,
heh, disarmed.
[GROANING]
And once I have your head, I, Bolphunga,
shall be proclaimed...
...the greatest warrior in the galaxy!
Except for Mogo.
What?
What did you say?
Except for Mogo.
Not only is he mightier than you,
he is also a...
A Green Lantern.
Ha. I fear no Lantern.
You'd fear this one.
He's the most powerful Lantern
of them all.
Never defeated.
A cosmic legend.
Never heard of him.
[GROANS]
Mogo.
Yes.
All right, where can I find him?
BOLPHUNGA:
You have nothing on him?
SHIP VOICE:
The Lanterns are excluded from databases...
... under Guardian security decree
82669...
It matters not.
This Lantern is meat.
Approaching coordinates now,
oh, great one.
Mogo, you skulking coward.
I know not where upon
this overgrown planet you are...
...but hear this!
I am Bolphunga the Unrelenting!
Bolphunga, at whose name the deserts
tremble and the mountains quake.
Bolphunga, who will cleave you
from your soul.
Come meet your fate, you craven cur.
Release the energy probes.
PROBE:
Alert. Alert.
Lantern energy detected.
Alert. Alert.
Hah!
Prepare yourself, dog.
Prepare for the coming of Bolphunga.
Where are you hiding?
Coward. I know you're near.
PROBE:
Alert. Alert.
Lantern energy detected.
Alert. Alert.
Lantern energy detected.
- Alert. Alert.
HAL: And so it went. For days.
BOLPHUNGA:
Hah!
Unh. Unh. Ohh!
PROBE:
Alert. Alert.
[GASPS]
Alert. Alert.
[BOLPHUNGA YELLING]
HAL:
And days.
PROBE:
Alert. Alert.
HAL:
And days.
PROBE:
Alert. Alert.
[BOLPHUNGA GRUNTING AND YELLING]
HAL: Until days turned to weeks
and weeks to months.
[MACHINES BEEPING]
[GROANS]
PROBE:
Alert. Alert.
[GROWLING]
[PROBES BUZZ]
[YELLING AND GRUNTING]
HAL: But they didn't call him Unrelenting
for nothing.
Ship, release new probes.
I want them to map every square klick
of this mud ball...
...and set charges
to force that son of a cur into the open.
If Bolphunga couldn't find Mogo directly,
then he'd find him indirectly:
A house, a training site,
maybe even a power battery.
PROBE:
Planet map 0.5 percent complete.
And so he waited.
He could almost taste Mogo's blood.
PROBE:
One-point-eight percent complete.
Three-point-five percent complete.
[SNORING]
Whoa...!
[YELLS THEN GASPS]
[COMPUTER BEEPING]
Ho-ho-ho. Now I have you.
PROBE:
Planet map 100 percent complete.
Show me the whole planet.
Huh?
[RUMBLING]
HAL: lt was then that
Bolphunga the Unrelenting finally relented.
- Get me out of here.
SHIP VOICE: Yes, oh, mighty...
Now!
[GRUNTS]
HAL:
His fight was over before it began.
[YELLS]
[SCREAMING]
He had found his enemy,
who was hidden in plain sight.
The Green Lantern known as Mogo.
And that, Arisia,
is why Mogo doesn't socialize.
A living world.
When this battle's over, I'll tell you about
some of the really big Lanterns.
You're joking, Hal.
You are, right?
[DEMON GROWLING]
[BOTH GRUNT]
[DEMONS SHRIEKING]
Thicken your shield.
Don't let them touch you.
Above you.
SINESTRO:
Stay alert.
[GRUNTING]
SINESTRO:
Watch out!
[YELLS]
[GRUNTS]
[GROANING]
SINESTRO:
You've been out for a while.
[WINCING]
Careful. You took quite a hit.
Where is everyone?
Patrolling the sun.
Things are starting to get hot out there.
The sensors are picking up a pressure zone
under the surface.
Won't be long now.
So the Guardians are right.
Krona is coming.
SINESTRO:
It seems.
My old friend, Abin Sur, would surely be
quoting scripture if he were here.
And so it is written, the enemy long buried
will return from a fire...
...and Oa shall be consumed
in its flames.
Almost makes you wanna hide
under the nearest rock.
Do you think that somehow
this is preordained?
No, my dear.
Destiny is a tricky item.
Even Abin Sur found that out.
[ABIN SUR GRUNTS]
ATROCITUS:
A sign of things to come, Abin Sur.
Darkness.
Who are you, creature?
I am an enemy to all...
...who serve the self-appointed
Guardians of the Universe.
Then you are an enemy to me.
[BOTH GRUNTING]
RING VOICE:
Warning. Power level, 1.7 percent.
Warning. Power level, 1.1 percent.
[GROWLING]
I have seen your future, Abin Sur.
And it is death.
We all die.
And I do not fear death.
There are things worse than death,
Green Lantern.
If I had a power ring for every time
I heard that, I'd have my own corps.
[GRUNTS]
ABIN SUR: Sinestro.
- Abin. I've seen you look better, my friend.
And I've seen you look worse.
Warning.
Power level approaching 0 percent.
Still waiting to recharge
until you're almost on empty?
What can I say?
I get caught up in my work.
Don't we all?
[GROANING]
- What's he doing?
- He's trying to break it.
[GRUNTING]
Abin, if that explodes,
it could take out the city.
If not the entire planet.
Abin!
In brightest day, in blackest night
No evil shall escape my sight
Let those who worship evil's might
Beware my power, Green Lantern's light
No.
[PANTING]
ABIN SUR:
You want my power battery, Atrocitus?
You're welcome to it.
Atrocitus shouldn't give us
any more trouble.
I would think not, but who is he?
SINESTRO: Atrocitus is part of
a terrorist cell called the Five Inversions.
ABIN SUR:
I've never heard of him.
SINESTRO: Because he's been imprisoned
on the planet Ysmault for over 700 years.
Last week, a ship crashed there.
Atrocitus killed its survivors,
repaired the ship and fled.
He's been hunting
and killing Green Lanterns since.
- How many?
- Three.
How did he find any of the Green Lanterns?
Or me?
According to the Book of Oa...
...Atrocitus claims
he is able to talk to destiny.
- There is no such thing as destiny, Abin.
- Then how...?
He locked onto your power ring's energy
somehow, as he no doubt did the others.
- You don't believe in destiny?
- No.
We wear destiny on our fingers, Sinestro.
[BOOMING]
The power ring seeks out those destined
to be Green Lanterns.
The power ring seeks out those who have
shown the ability to overcome great fear.
It is a highly advanced computer program
based on morality...
...but it is a program nonetheless.
ABIN SUR:
Do you remember the first day we met?
SINESTRO:
Of course.
ABIN SUR:
We were both summoned to Oa for training.
You mistook me for someone
from your world.
- From Korugar.
- Yes.
ABIN SUR: But despite your mistake,
we became friends.
Together,
we saved your world from civil war...
...and today, mine from Atrocitus.
Our meeting was destiny.
No, Abin. It was luck.
As it was for this damaged ship
that we came across.
ABIN SUR:
No. I believe in destiny.
All of this, everything we do,
is a part of that destiny.
We will agree to disagree.
Are you certain you don't want my help
delivering the prisoner back to Ysmault?
No. You have your sector to attend to,
I have mine.
Then until we see one another again,
my friend.
- Keep the light burning.
- Always.
[THUNDER CRASHING]
Set us free and we will serve you
as you serve your blue-skinned owners.
DEMONIC FACE:
Paradise is right here.
This is anything but.
[PRISONERS MOANING AND WAILING]
I told you
there are things worse than death.
This prison is of your doing, Atrocitus.
I speak not of Ysmault, Green Lantern...
...or of my own fate.
I speak of yours.
Your death.
I told you, I do not fear death.
But it will come to you sooner
than you realize.
All because your ring fails you
in your most desperate hour.
Then I will remember
to charge my ring often.
But it is not your death
that is the tragedy.
It is beyond it.
I have seen the future
of the Green Lantern Corps.
I have seen its destiny...
...should you care to hear it.
Continue.
Let me go further in time then.
To a future when the most vile murderers
and deviants in the universe...
...will become united under one leader.
There will be a war of light
that will burn the surface of Oa black.
It will leave scores of Lanterns dead.
Even the greatest of them will fall.
The green light will be extinguished
and there will be left a new corps.
A corps of fear.
Sinestro.
His corps will terrorize the universe.
The Guardians will find themselves
without their soldiers.
They will be overpowered and captured.
They will be skinned alive
and eaten by Sinestro's followers.
Their skulls will form the base
of Sinestro's throne on Oa.
His reign will cover the universe
like a shroud.
Wait, where are you going?
You almost had me, demon...
...but you took a Green Lantern
down a path...
...his willpower would never let him go.
Sinestro may not believe in destiny,
but I do.
And I know my dear friend
is destined for great things.
You, however, are not.
SINESTRO: But Abin Sur knew
a false prophet when he heard one.
Atrocitus was just another
who would try to rip the corps apart.
But we're too galvanized a team...
...and too bound in trust.
Never forget that.
But Atrocitus was right about Abin Sur.
He did die.
Everyone dies, Arisia.
- Everyone gets replaced.
HAL: Sinestro.
The sensors picked up a tremendous spike
in the readings.
A massive swelling
in the dead center of the sun.
TOMAR-RE:
We have visible confirmation.
It's enormous.
HAL:
Krona.
I guess this is the blackest night
everyone talks about.
No, my dear. Only dusk.
[GROWLING]
Stay sharp.
He's as big as a moon.
If he gets past us,
he can annihilate any world, anywhere.
Let's move.
[DEMONS SHRIEKING]
[GRUNTS THEN YELLS]
[GRUNTING]
[GRUNTS]
They're shielding him.
Can't break through.
PALAQUA:
We got a clear shot.
[GASPS]
Everyone fall back. Regroup.
We need to keep fighting.
LAIRA:
We need a strategy.
[ROARING]
Wait. He's antimatter, right?
The only way to destroy antimatter
is with matter.
All we have to do is hit him
with something of equal or greater mass.
What are you gonna do, chuck a planet?
Why not? If he wants Oa so bad,
maybe we should give it to him.
Kid, you just earned your stripes.
[ROARING]
Everyone back to Oa now.
We've got one chance
and one chance only.
Now, push with everything you have!
[GRUNTING]
[LANTERNS GRUNTING]
[DEMONS SHRIEKING]
Gonna need more juice than this.
Oh, my God.
Huh?
[ROARING]
ARISIA: He might not socialize, but he
sure knows how to make an entrance.
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
GANTHET:
Until a new Oa can be constructed...
...Mogo has been kind enough
to serve as our temporary base.
Once again, the diversity of the corps
has proven to be its greatest asset...
...whether it be represented
by a planet...
...or a young woman with the ingenuity
to turn one into a weapon.
[BOOK PULSING]
Looks like you have your own story now.
And while we mourn the loss
of our fallen comrades...
...we welcome a new generation
in hopes for a brighter day.
Hear, hear!
[LANTERNS CHEERING]
It appears you've fulfilled the prophecy
of Oa's destruction.
Not only a hero,
but some might say an agent of destiny.
You did good out there, rookie.
Does this mean I get to skip boot camp?
Not a chance, poozer.
Where's everyone going?
We got a new home to build.
Come on.
I'll tell you about the time
I took on an army of Manhunters...
...and my only backup was this squirrel.