Mighty Ian! Beating Up Green Lantern!

The darkness of deep space was pure, so dense even starlight could barely pierce it, like velvet soaked through with ink, swallowing every clamor and glimmer.

Only Ian's figure stood out clearly in that dead silence. He was barefoot, his soles touching nothing solid, yet he hovered steadily in the void, as though the darkness beneath his feet were firm ground. He wore a simple black shirt, its hem swaying faintly in some invisible cosmic current.

Yet it never picked up the slightest speck of dust.

The boy held a fist-sized blue egg tightly in his arms. Fine motes of fluorescent light flowed across its shell, as if an entire stretch of starry sky had been compressed inside it.

A warm halo seeped through the fabric, spreading a soft circle of light across his chest.

A palm-sized little Xenomorph lay sprawled on his shoulder. Its whole body was dark silver, its scales gleaming with a delicate sheen beneath the egg's glow. Its head drooped slightly, its tail lazily coiled around Ian's arm, and a faint, contented purr rumbled in its throat, as though it had not been affected by the explosion at all.

"I'll send you two into the God Kingdom first."

Ian sent the two pets away directly, freeing both his hands. And the Corps members, seeing that he was completely unharmed, now regarded him as an extremely terrifying threat.

"Bzz—bzz—"

The crackle of overloaded energy exploded wildly across the comms channel.

"Target confirmed. Energy readings—unreadable! Repeat, unreadable!"

"Forget the readings! Full power output! This is an Omega Level threat! We absolutely cannot let him leave!"

"For Oa! For the Guardians of the Universe!"

Over a hundred Green Lanterns clad in green armor hovered amid the stardust, the fear in their eyes even overwhelming the glow of willpower radiating