Episode fanfic title: Losing patience.

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(No one's POV):

As much as Kilowog wants to let Hal Jordan to take a break and mourn his niece, he couldn't do it because he needs him on the mission; But that wasn't the problem, the problem was how he was going to tell his brother that his eldest daughter got blasted by the Alien psychotic robot?

He wasn't ready for that.

And he sure as hell didn't want to lie either.

"We have a problem." Kilowog alarmed, "The bad guys have managed to speed up. They're gaining on us!" 

Watching the scene from the back with the screen that shows the Manhunters gaining up on them soon, "Aya, how many minutes for the Ultrawrap to be ready?" Hal asked her, to which she replied: "The Ultrawarp is almost ready in 2 minutes." She answered.

"We get caught by the tail in less than an hour." As Science Director Scar, also known as Guardian Scar, questions Hal's plan, and interjects. "What course of action do you propose?" "You said Krona banished the Anti-Monitor to another dimension. Can you do that?" Hal asked her.

Only for her to say: "Krona had access to powers and abilities we Guardians no longer possess." He shakes his head, "We've got to think of something. Is there any other way?" It took a long pause from Scar before she finally spoke.

"Stop the ship." She firmly ordered, making Zox and Kilowog raise an eyebrow at her with confused looks, "Is there more to this?" "She's lost it," Zox began, "Just eject her!" 

Aya slowly turned to Zox, her glare sharp. "Reflect on your actions, Zox. Your intrusion and disregard for violence is violating the peaceful protocols." Shocked silence fell upon the room that she continued, "Cease all unauthorized words immediately—This is your only warning." 

Her words silenced Zox. And for once, he stayed quiet. Ignoring him, she went back to continue getting the Ultra wrap ready. The Science Director, on the other hand, snapped out of her thoughts and turned to the Green Lantern: 

"Green Lantern Jordan, you will accompany me." She wasted no time to call him for help, "The rest of you, stay here." As soon as she left with Hal Jordan, Zox was the first to shudder in fear while Kilowog snorts.

Meanwhile, with Hal and Scar exiting the Interceptor, he uses his power ring to protect her from the air in space and takes notice of the large Manhunters heading in their direction, without any sign of stopping: 

"Anytime!" He tells her, "You can begin your wise and effective plan anytime now." Scar floats forward and raises her hands: "Stop!" She orders them, but the Manhunters reject her orders and respond. 

"=NEGATIVE. Your programming supersedes obedience to the Guardians.="

Scar gets angered but immediately uses her powers, "I am one of those who created you. The Manhunters will obey the Guardians." Her determined gaze locked onto the Manhunters, unleashing a wave of green energy. 

"What the nudge was that?!" Kilowog, equally stunned, could only stare in shock, as did Zox. Whereas Aya explained, "Those, Kilowog, are what the Guardian's power possessed." Back with Hal Jordan, who floats in front of his superior.

Asking her, "What happened to 'powers and abilities we Guardians no longer possess'?" 

"The Guardians once possessed incredible power." Scar elaborated, "But we locked it away after establishing the Core. It has taken time to re-tap these abilities so foolishly cast aside. Thousands of years. But slowly, I master them again. It would not matter if you had a thousand millennia."

Nodding in understanding, Hal was impressed, but was cut short when the Anti-Monitor slowly emerged from below and echoed its robotic voice to be heard:

"=The Manhunters serve me now. Time has passed your kind by, Guardian.=" 

"Your creator was Krona." Scar goes over to the Anti-Monitor, who had shown up to try and resist her powers, as she continues shooting him down, "He was a Guardian, as am I. Obey me! I was there when you were nothing. And I can turn you back into the nothingness from which you came!" 

Kia and Razer came just in time to see the whole thing in shock, "WOW, is that what Guardian's power looks like?!" She exclaimed in amazement, "Yes." Aya simply replied, as Razer stayed shocked.

But even when they believed that they were winning, the Anti-Monitor had other plans.

"=The Guardian race will be buried soon enough, but you die now.="

Scar screamed as her powers were drained, vanishing into nothingness. Hal Jordan gasped, witnessing another death at the Anti-Monitor's hand. And before he could attack it, he was then grabbed by force with gravitational holding powers as he struggles to break free.

"I can't...Move!" He grunted. 

"=Witness as I cast out your friends.="

Everyone struggles to hold on while groaning in pain inside the Interceptor, due to the blaster ray coming out from the Anti-Monitor, making Hal widen his eyes and scream: "No!" But before anyone could disappear into thin air, it was then attacked by unexpected attackers.

Red blasters began shooting down at it, giving him the chance to escape its grasp and head back to the Interceptor. "We're loose. But how?" Kilowog turns to the beachball red lantern alien, who answers: "The reinforcements that I demanded have finally arrived." 

Zox smirked, making Kia's eyebrow twitch in annoyance, "I should be kicking your sorry ass right now for hiding this. But since you saved Mr. Jordan, I'll let it slide once." She crossed her arms when she was given a small comforting gesture from Aya, to which she weakly smiled at her.

"=Your pitiful efforts and threats are nothing to me. Behold the definition of true power.=" 

The Anti-Monitor destroyed all the missiles Zox launched and shattered Shard's shield barrier, causing it to slowly destroy itself. Hal Jordan intervened, entering the Interceptor and main hangar, and he attempted to reason with him. "Zox, order your men to evacuate!" 

"And abandon Shard? Never!" Zox scoffs in anger, but it was evident that he was already feeling the guilt, and that doesn't stop there as he was then grabbed by the head by Kia, who immediately tries squeezing his brain with her power ring having to construct a large hand. 

"In minutes, there won't be a Shard!" Kia declared, releasing Zox. He gasped, now fearing her wrath. "Order the evacuation now, or I swear, code be damned, I'll kill you." Her words were like venom, seemed to break through, prompting the Prime Magistrate to immediately contact Shard.

(BLURGH!!!!!🤮🤢 calling Zox like that sounds disgusting! Comment if you agree!)

"All Red Lanterns, to escape vehicles! Repeat all Red Lanterns, run away!" Zox quickly orders them to leave, as the team watches them all escape the place before anyone can die.

Once out of the Anti-Monitor's sight, Hal had already motioned for Aya to get them out of there, whereas Zox began complaining about how humiliated he was as the A.I. was secretly crying, wiping the tears in the corner of her eyes before she continued doing the order.

Kilowog decided to help her out.

"And you—You need to contact Ysmault, Prime Magistrate." Hal tells Zox, "Tell them to warm up everything they got, because once the Anti-Monitor is done with Shard, it's coming for them. He paused to take a breath and continue, "Your people are counting on you, Zox, and there is not a lot of time."

Having already entered the main hangar a few minutes ago, Razer and Kia immediately took their seats, where they were both more focused on grief that Hal couldn't help but glance at them in concern, as he walked over to them to hear Razer say: 

"Do you share my opinion that the sweet embrace of death would be welcome today?" He sarcastically asked, chin resting on his crossed arms as he slouched on top of the console, mirroring Kia, who had her arms crossed over her chest.

She also decided to join in, and glared at Hal, "Or did you want to say that we should have done something too, Mr. Hal Jordan?" "No, I do not." He looks down, also crossing his arms, knowing full well how much his niece had meant to them.

"After Ilana was killed, I had nothing left." The Red Lantern starts slowly, causing Kia to glance and listen to him, "I lost the will to go on." "But you survived." Hal tries to lighten up but then the dark haired girl makes her neon glasses dissapear and turns to meet his eyes.

Showing the pain and grief she's going through, and stayed silent. "I knew if I just gave up, Ilana would disapprove." "Well... Cassandra wouldn't approve, either. Or she'd at least tell you why you shouldn't grieve for too long. In fact,--" 

All of a sudden, something started banging from underneath the Interceptor, and everyone froze.

"What in the name of Framad's turquoise exit vent was that?" Zox exclaims, Hal ignores him and turns to Aya, "It's heading for the lower ramp, Aya, investigate." Aya departed, but her silence stretched into an unnerving absence. 

Tension seized the room, and everyone rose, power rings charged. Then, as soon as they got to the ramp where the exit was, Aya reappeared, cradling a body. Razer gasped, his eyes widening in shock, his heart pounding, knowing full well who this was.

"Cassandra...?"