At the fortress of Lord Malvolio of the Green Flame:
Malvolio grimaces as he looks out on the battlefield from his command station. The war is not going well.
Here and there, a yellow light winks out as a Manhunter takes down its prey. The yellow ring seeks out a new wearer and vanishes from the battlefield. But it’s not enough. One by one, the Manhunters are being deactivated.
And what disturbs him most of all is that they are not being destroyed. Merely deactivated.
He is not beaten yet, of course. Malvolio is a survivor. He survived his birth, which claimed his mother - the human body was not built to deliver a half-human child such as he, after all. He survived his upbringing until he killed his father and took his Green Lantern ring. He survived the Green Lanterns coming after him… and even after being imprisoned for hundreds of years, he survived, building up power… building up an empire from within his oubliette. And he survived exchanging power rings with Hal Jordan, which allowed him to escape his prison. To build greater power by drawing the Manhunters to him.
To allow him to research new forms of energy.
He knows he will understand what this red energy is that he is drawn to. He suspected at first that it is the energy of mechanical life, which is how he managed to gain control of the Manhunters. But he knows his control over them is tenuous unless he can discover the true source of the red spectrum.
He has had enough of seeing this Sinestro Corps move in to steal his power away. He rubs the ring on his finger, which once belonged to Hal Jordan. It is time to end this battle. He will confront Sinestro, and Sinestro will understand why his name is Lord Malvolio of the Green Flame even as his bones crackle in the heat.
Here and there, a yellow light winks out as a Manhunter takes down its prey. The yellow ring seeks out a new wearer and vanishes from the battlefield. But it’s not enough. One by one, the Manhunters are being deactivated.
And what disturbs him most of all is that they are not being destroyed. Merely deactivated.
He is not beaten yet, of course. Malvolio is a survivor. He survived his birth, which claimed his mother - the human body was not built to deliver a half-human child such as he, after all. He survived his upbringing until he killed his father and took his Green Lantern ring. He survived the Green Lanterns coming after him… and even after being imprisoned for hundreds of years, he survived, building up power… building up an empire from within his oubliette. And he survived exchanging power rings with Hal Jordan, which allowed him to escape his prison. To build greater power by drawing the Manhunters to him.
To allow him to research new forms of energy.
He knows he will understand what this red energy is that he is drawn to. He suspected at first that it is the energy of mechanical life, which is how he managed to gain control of the Manhunters. But he knows his control over them is tenuous unless he can discover the true source of the red spectrum.
He has had enough of seeing this Sinestro Corps move in to steal his power away. He rubs the ring on his finger, which once belonged to Hal Jordan. It is time to end this battle. He will confront Sinestro, and Sinestro will understand why his name is Lord Malvolio of the Green Flame even as his bones crackle in the heat.