Rabbit and Carrot

The Man:

"What," Harleen screams, her scream grabbing everyone's attention. Everyone turns to face her, Harleen ignores all of them and turns toward me.

"Please tell you heard that," she says.

"Yes I did," I reply, looking at Arisia. "Hal is almost gone."

"What," Flash yells, "What does that even mean? He is almost gone? Where is Hal?"

Trying to leave the circle of green lanterns, they aim their rings at Flash and stop him.

"Calm down," Arisia says, walking up to Flash.

"Calm down," he repeats.

"Yes. Calm down. After we take all of you to the Guardians, I'll take you to see him. The infirmary isn't too far from their meeting room."

Barry seems to calm down, he nudges his head.

"Come on then," he says, "Let's go meet these Guardians and then go see Hal."

Speedwalking now, we all practically chase after Barry as the green lanterns guide us to the Guardians' meeting chamber.

The Guardians of Oa meeting chamber is a large, pale-blue, half-circle-shaped building with four pillars attached to it. The main entrance is a giant arch in which the green lanterns motion for us to enter.

As we enter the meeting chamber, I see a large circular room with a single light pouring in through a hole in the ceiling. Near the light is a tall, giant, curve stone slab, and on top of the slab are the Guardians of Oa themselves.

Dressed in a red and white robe, the Guardians gaze at us as we enter. Standing in the light, the green lanterns surrounding us as we do, we all look at the Guardians.

"Arisia," one of the Guardians shouts, his voice echoing throughout the room. This particular guardian is bald and his eyes are twitching. "Why did you bring these people here?"

Arisia steps out from the crowd of green lanterns and joins the light with us.

"I brought these people here because I think they can help us," Arisia starts, "Many of us are wounded, and what few of us aren't are exhausted and tired. The yellow lanterns have been attacking us non-stop and we are at our breaking point."

"Yellow lanterns," Jason repeats, looking at us. "What? I didn't see any yellow lanterns."

"Neither did I," Oliver says. "Hmm, we must have caught the green lanterns at the right time."

"We had to ask green lanterns to withdraw from their sections," Arisia goes on, "Their sections are now vulnerable, and very soon, so will Oa."

Taking a breath, Arisia looks right at the Guardians.

"Just before Hal lost conscious, he gave me this."

She pulls from her belt the radio.

"He told me to call the Insurgency for help, and I did. And now, they're here to help us."

She then looks toward us.

"No pressure or anything," I say, crossing my arms and looking away. Harleen elbows me in the chest.

"Arisia," another guardian starts, this one with white hairs on the sides of his head and non-twitching eyes. "I know many of our green lanterns are indeed wounded, and we are lacking significant lanterns when compared to the yellow lanterns, but even I have to admit. This is a bit extreme. Bringing complete strangers here."

"Especially a Super," Salaak says.

"A Super," everyone in the room repeats. "What?"

Salaak points at Kara, and as he does, I see Kara clutching Snart's jacket in his hand.

"A Super," the bald guardian yells, slamming his fists through the air. "Arisia, you fool. How could you bring a Super here?"

"Yes, she a Super," Arisia says, "But she's not with-."

"Shut up," the bald guardian yells, opening his open hands at Arisia. Before she could do anything, the guardian blasts her with his telekinesis power. Screaming as she falls to the ground, the bald guardian then switches target.

"Guardians," he starts, "Green Lanterns. Focus fire on the Super."

Without a second of hesitation, all the other guardians and the green lanterns surrounding us aim their rings at us. All except one.

Thinking fast, I turn to one person in the whole room who wasn't aiming at us.

"Ganthet," I shout, Ganthet's eyes going wide at the mention of his own name. "Please think about this. If we really were enemies, if we really did come here to fight, then we would be fighting right now. Not just standing here. I know you. You're the rational one. Out of all the other Guardians, you are the rational one. Not Ranakar. Not Appa Ali Apsa. Think this over."

I can literally see the gears turn in Ganthet as he stares back at me. Everything is frozen for that few seconds before Ganthet turns to Ranakar.

"Stop Ranakar," Ganthet says before turning back to me. "This human, he knows our names."

Ranakar's eyes go wide at the realization.

"You're right," Ranakar says, his hands now switching to me. "How did you know our names? No one outside of the Green Lanterns Corps knows our names."

"Not many people outside the Green Lantern Corps know your names," I correct, "But I do. I know every single one of your names."

"How," Ranakar asks, "Who are you?"

"My name is," I say, looking back at Ranakar.

"Excuse me," Ranakar says. "What did you say?"

"I say my name is," I repeat, "Shave the hairs out of your ears, you blue leprechaun."

Ranakar's blue head turns steaming-red, and he fires his power.

"Get out of the way," I yell, pushing everyone back and crossing my arms. Feeling the sudden amount of intense pressure, I stay strong.

Supergirl:

"Man," I say, running to help him. The Guardian, Ranakar I think, is using some sort of power to push down on The Man. About to reach him, I stop when I notice The Man pushing back.

The Man:

My arms skinning each other as I uncross them, I reverse the blast and sent it hauling back toward Ranakar. Before he or anyone can do anything, he is hit with his own telekinesis blast. The blast sent him flying into a wall.

"Ranakar," Kilowog yells, turning from him to me. Rising his ring, he aims it at me but even before he can think of anything, I shoot out my hand.

A green beam heading for me didn't hit me. Instead, the beam turns and drops onto the floor. It changes a few seconds later, turning from a beam into a rabbit.

"What the-," Kilowog says, his eyes wide as he looks at his ring and the rabbit. "I didn't do that."

"No, you didn't," I say, bending down to pick up the rabbit. "I did."

To prove my point, I fire a second beam from Kilowog's ring. The beam reaches me, it turns into a carrot.

"You knows," I start, pointing at Kilowog with the green carrot. "People assume that rabbits eat a lot of carrots but that's not completely true."

Focusing, I change the carrot into some straws of hay.

"A rabbit's main diet should be hay," I go on, the rabbit nibbling on the hay. "They can eat carrots but it should only be in small amounts. After all, to a rabbit, a carrot is just sugar."

I notice all the eyes in the room. They're all wide and staring at me. Everyone had a question mark floating above their head.

"Like rabbits and carrots, you shouldn't assume anything about us. Thanks for the help little fellow."

The green rabbit looks up at me and nods its head. I nod back and a second later, he vanishes into green dust.

"How," Kilowog whispers, looking at his ring. "How did you do that? You weren't even wearing my ring. That, that should have been impossible."

The room is quiet. No one is making a sound. No one is even moving. It's like time had frozen and we're just waiting for Father Time to hit play. As we keep on waiting, I sense something incoming.

"Everyone," I yell, the first to make a move and snapping everyone out of their trance. "Incoming!"

On cue, the entire building shakes, with dust falling from the ceiling.

"What's going on," Kilowog screams.

Looking up through the hole in the ceiling, I see a bunch of yellow dots.