- ║█⋮LOCATION Star City, Stadium ║█⋮THOUGHTS If you wanna be a hero... be the last man standing! ║█⋮COMPANY Xeno, Green Lantern, Abysslind, Some really mad blue woman?, Silver
"What the he-" Before Howard could even react to the sudden arrival of the young hero things just seemed to happen in slow motion. Silver, as was par for the course, slammed into the ground as the motorcycle continued its advance towards the strange blue woman and the beam went off. As quick as the seventy year old could he had thrown himself over the border separating the field from the stands. Thankfully he was low enough that the drop was manageable, even if it was probably going to hurt a little bit. Howard would never be fast enough as the beam ripped through the air and met with Silver. He looked away as the blast hit Silver, the smell was terrible. It didn't matter that he had first hand experience with the smell of burning flesh, if anything it only made the whole burning hair and skin worse. A few moments passed and Silver was laying on the ground, and Howard was looking up at the blue woman. He grit his teeth, it didn't take a great deal to rile up the old man, and hurting the others, even if the others could look after themselves perfectly fine, was one of the ways to get him annoyed. "More like thinking I would rather torment the Green Lantern child down there, but it seems the lot of you like to get in the way of that entertainment." The blue woman spoke up as the dust cleared, and all it did was annoy him more. "Heh, you ain't the first to tell me I spoiled the party an' you certainly ain't the first to throw a beam at somebody I knew either." Lanterns were old hands to the 'Last Living Legend' as he had been dubbed by a good number of those hero watcher type groups. Sometimes they called him "That old b*****d that I thought was dead?" but they really didn't have that much to say.
Of course the tension was broken by the phone ringing. It had to be the phone didn't it? God damn kids and those ******** things. Nobody would be caught dead with a mobile phone back when he operated. Of course phones back then may as well have been literal bricks and pagers were starting to [i[finally die at that point. Just as Howard was going to yell "Just answer it!" the blue woman decided to do just that: check the phone. He caught the look, the pursed lips. Not the look of something somebody wanted to see unless this alien had some weird aversion to good news, clearly had enough problems to get that yellow ring. Blue then announced her departure and took off but not before Howard managed to yell "That's 'rain check'!"" Man first they came to his planet and then couldn't even be bothered to learn the lingo. At least when Kaliandr did it it was endearing and had a sort of youthful cuteness to it. This just seemed irritating and annoying. She didn't show her back until she was well clear of them, a good strategy even if none of them seemed to be in the position to go after her. Only Dora was in any shape to pursue the lantern but now there were bigger fish to fry. Well the fish was already partly fried but.. "Just what the hell did you think you were doing?!" The target was obvious: Lee. What he did was thoughtless, reckless, stupid, and exactly the kind of thing Howard himself would have done if he was a lot younger and still had that blessing of youth. That feeling of immortality and that the world was supposed to get up and move out of your way whenever you came through. Too bad reality had a way of slapping that notion away the older you got.
The other thing that was clear was that the anger wasn't because of what Lee had done. No the anger was a disguised form of worry, that the oldest among them grew so irritable was testament to the fact that he cared about the younger ones. If he didn't care then he wouldn't have exploded like he did, he would be adjusting his hat downwards to hide his gaze. No doubt they'd also figure out that the anger was also in part semi-self directed. He had done MUCH worse when he was younger and to see those around him doing the same stunts that he had so readily done when he was younger just got him. They should have known better, they had come after his generation, they had to be the ones to make the mistakes and do the big dumb hero things that any sane person would call into question before they had done it. Maybe that was what made heroes different from normal people. They were all clearly insane that was it. You had to be a bit insane if you wanted to do this, what did it say that Howard had been doing this all of his adult life? He grit his teeth as he made his way over to the trio that was Lee, Dora and Xeno. "Aw forget it. I'll get mad at you later!" Howard rubbed the back of his neck, at least they had gotten out of the fire but the problem was they were still smack dab in the kitchen. And he couldn't feel the heat dropping.
Howard always had a knack for getting into and staying in bad situations. So why with the four of them there did he not feel that feeling abating? Was it because Silver was hurt? Was it because they had just seen a Yellow Lantern, whether independent or not, just casually going away and just showing up from nowhere? That was not good, even if they did have a couple of Lanterns of their own. Well just standing around wasn't going to help things at all, that much was certain. "For now though... let's get out of here."
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