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jla_galaxy September 28 2007, 06:39:06 UTC
The swiftness of it is the overwhelming part.

No... no. Every part of this is overwhelming.

Alien warrior hordes invading a world that's been fighting against piddly guerilla tactics for as long as anyone can remember, which isn't much before the entire world was devastated by the dark devil Onimar Syn...

It's just a slaughter.

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katavatar September 28 2007, 06:42:22 UTC
Katar Hol is trying to keep the aerial advantage, but too many people have been stampeded to death for him to allow it to happen to anyone else.

Every swoop down to grab someone out from under the massive jackboots is another clang of a club against his helmet.

Every person he rescues drives home the fact that there is nowhere safe to put them. The most he can do is delay their deaths.

So close to his dream, and plunged into a horrifying nightmare.

It doesn't help that he has to keep talking Zal down, either.

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gl_corps September 28 2007, 06:44:50 UTC
Koltor Zal is using his ring like a sledgehammer, pouring as much power as he can into it to catapult huge swaths of Gordanians into the nearby seas, which cover most of the planet.

The fact that he's genuinely afraid, though, is hampering his effectiveness.

"Hol! They're EVERYWHERE! How could this happen? How did I not see this coming? HOW DID I MISS THIS?!"

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katavatar September 28 2007, 06:46:53 UTC
Hol's brought out the heavy artillery when he can. It's been a long time since he's had the need to use munitions like this, but this is one time he'll condone creating flashzones.

"ZAL! Use your ring! We need INFORMATION, not self-pity!"

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gl_corps September 28 2007, 06:48:38 UTC
"I don't have TIME! We need to push them back! We were so close, Hol! We CAN'T let them kill it now!"

This time, a squadron of Citadelians go soaring through the skies.

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jl_aliens September 28 2007, 06:50:00 UTC
A familiar general swoops by the Green Lantern, looking battered and bruised.

"Not quite so high and mighty now, are you, meat? Your ring doesn't make you any better than the soldiers dying in record numbers for Thanagar!"

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gl_corps September 28 2007, 06:51:13 UTC
Zal doesn't have an answer, for as much as he argued with this man back during the Kanjar Ro debacle.

Zal doesn't have an answer for anything... and he's been unable to get a signal out to the Corps...

He doesn't have Kilowog to bail him out now...

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katavatar September 28 2007, 06:53:54 UTC
Katar Hol has the answer for him.

"Are you SERIOUSLY taking the time to mock one of your most powerful allies in the face of extinction?! FIGHT, you unimaginable twerl!"

Another scattershot into a Gordanian flank.

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jl_aliens September 28 2007, 06:55:02 UTC
"This fool is the only one of us likely to survive this day. He needs to know just how much he has failed his people!"

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katavatar September 28 2007, 06:57:58 UTC
The general's throat is grabbed.

"Shut UP, devil, and find Andar Pul before he retreats off-world and goes into hiding, or before these monsters assassinate him!"

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jl_aliens September 28 2007, 07:10:31 UTC
A gun knocks Hol's hand away.

"Get your hands OFF me, you pathetic traitor!"

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katavatar September 28 2007, 07:12:50 UTC
"To the END?! To the END, you are this STUBBORN IDIOT?! Is it IMPOSSIBLE for a Thanagarian to REASON?!"

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jl_aliens September 28 2007, 07:17:36 UTC
The general's gun is raised and the safety is off.

"You DARE question my loyalty to the High Mor and - "

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katavatar September 28 2007, 07:24:09 UTC
The katar blade is through the general's throat just before he can get the shot off. There is no time or place for this.

The head is severed clean, and in one quick swipe of his arm, the helmeted head is hurled with great velocity at a Gordanian, and the metal crests of the hawk helmet bore into the reptilian's face and knock him down.

The dead general's and gun are thrown to the Green Lantern.

"To keep fighting when your ring runs out of power.

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gl_corps September 28 2007, 07:25:22 UTC
Zal's eyes are wide in horror at that.

In horror at everything. But he catches the weaponry and stores it for the bitter end.

"We're going to die here, aren't we, Hol?"

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katavatar September 28 2007, 07:28:10 UTC
The screams of their brethren far outnumber the death cries of the invaders, and they carry farther over the sounds of battle.

"For Kalmoran."

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