Seeing Red
BaBum.
Atrocitus's body hangs naked in the pool, the little light reaching him cast red by the blood around him.
BaBum.
His eyes snap open, burning yellow embers surrounded by crimson blood.
BaBum.
His anger pours from his soul, forming arcing lines of energy in the pool, taking the shape of the frame that held his body for so many years.
BaBum.
His anger crystallizes the blood of the Inversions.
BaBu...
As the ring slides onto his finger, his heart stops... and the ring takes over.
RAGE.
He emerges to the surface of the bloody lake, screaming his rage in the shadow of the massive red battery.
His heart has become useless, so his ring has replaced it. His blood soiled, so his ring expels it. It sprays from his mouth like vomiting fire.
BaBum.
He feels his veins stretch as the blood of hate fills his body.
BaBumBaBumBaBum.
A red lantern battery boils to the surface. Atrocitus remembers the multitude of sins he has suffered as he takes the handle.
The Guardians were responsible for the massacre of his sector and never faced judgment for it. His kind was annihilated by the Manhunters. He was imprisoned on Ysmault my their "greatest" Green Lantern... Sinestro.
HATRED.
The rituals of the Inversions reveal secrets of the universe. They warned Atrocitus that red light is violent action with no consideration of consequence. It is uncontrollable.
So Atrocitus will not control it... he will unleash it.
He presses his ring to the lantern.
"With blood and rage of crimson red,
Ripped from a corpse so freshly dead...
...Together with our hellish hate...
...We'll burn you all --
THAT IS YOUR FATE!"
The blood he spits forms into a shell around him, crystallizing into a black and red uniform, the shape of the frame that once held his body becoming the symbol on his chest.
Atrocitus has become a Red Lantern.
Atrocitus's body hangs naked in the pool, the little light reaching him cast red by the blood around him.
BaBum.
His eyes snap open, burning yellow embers surrounded by crimson blood.
BaBum.
His anger pours from his soul, forming arcing lines of energy in the pool, taking the shape of the frame that held his body for so many years.
BaBum.
His anger crystallizes the blood of the Inversions.
BaBu...
As the ring slides onto his finger, his heart stops... and the ring takes over.
RAGE.
He emerges to the surface of the bloody lake, screaming his rage in the shadow of the massive red battery.
His heart has become useless, so his ring has replaced it. His blood soiled, so his ring expels it. It sprays from his mouth like vomiting fire.
BaBum.
He feels his veins stretch as the blood of hate fills his body.
BaBumBaBumBaBum.
A red lantern battery boils to the surface. Atrocitus remembers the multitude of sins he has suffered as he takes the handle.
The Guardians were responsible for the massacre of his sector and never faced judgment for it. His kind was annihilated by the Manhunters. He was imprisoned on Ysmault my their "greatest" Green Lantern... Sinestro.
HATRED.
The rituals of the Inversions reveal secrets of the universe. They warned Atrocitus that red light is violent action with no consideration of consequence. It is uncontrollable.
So Atrocitus will not control it... he will unleash it.
He presses his ring to the lantern.
"With blood and rage of crimson red,
Ripped from a corpse so freshly dead...
...Together with our hellish hate...
...We'll burn you all --
THAT IS YOUR FATE!"
The blood he spits forms into a shell around him, crystallizing into a black and red uniform, the shape of the frame that once held his body becoming the symbol on his chest.
Atrocitus has become a Red Lantern.