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| - John constructs full Marine combat gear and fires his Green Lantern Construct Rife straight at Driq's old battery, detonating it. Driq informs John that it didn't work and pleads with him to try something else, stating that with each passing second a thousand more Black Lanterns rise across the planet, and they're all looking for him. While Driq is warning him, John has switched tactics and started detonating Construct grenades. An unidentified person responds to Driq's warning by saying that John doesn't belong to those coming for him. A Black Lantern flies in and tackles John to the ground while voicing how much she missed him, then recounts their first night together. John immediately recognizes the Black Lantern as Katma Tui, his late wife, while the other Black Lanterns begin to hold
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| - John constructs full Marine combat gear and fires his Green Lantern Construct Rife straight at Driq's old battery, detonating it. Driq informs John that it didn't work and pleads with him to try something else, stating that with each passing second a thousand more Black Lanterns rise across the planet, and they're all looking for him. While Driq is warning him, John has switched tactics and started detonating Construct grenades. An unidentified person responds to Driq's warning by saying that John doesn't belong to those coming for him. A Black Lantern flies in and tackles John to the ground while voicing how much she missed him, then recounts their first night together. John immediately recognizes the Black Lantern as Katma Tui, his late wife, while the other Black Lanterns begin to hold him down. Katma continues, saying how afterwards they did what no Green Lanterns did, tell each other their fears. Katma goes on to retell the tale of when John was still in the Marine Corps and his friend's helicopter collided with another. John went in after him alone but wasn't able to reach him in time. His body was stripped of weapons, clothes, and dignity and paraded across the streets. John still went after him. Katma tells him he would have shot everyone in the crowd that killed him, if he wasn't. She then asks him how many people he killed that day and, if they hadn't run, if he would have killed them all. Katma tells John that he didn't feel anything when he shot the enemies, and that even though he knew it was wrong, killing wasn't what he was afraid of, he was afraid of dying on a foreign land surrounded by unfriendly faces and his body left to rot. Katma asks John if he thinks the Corps would come for his body and if he was frightened. John responds with "I'm not afraid of a damn thing". Katma reminds John of how he's tried to recreate Xanshi with his ring. The Black Lanterns' Aura Recognition reveals that John's Aura is primed with Willpower. Katma tells John that a black ring did what he couldn't, resurrect the planed he killed. John then realizes that Katma is just throwing his own words against him, but that he's wrong, saying he didn't kill Xanshi, he just failed to save them. As Green Energy sparks and crackles around him, John says that after the things he's seen and done in the name of war on Earth, he should know that he can't save everyone and it's time he accepted that. Exploding out in Willpower, John says it's time to move on and creating a unit of Construct Marines says it's time to move out. While the Construct Marines fight alongside John against the Black Lanterns, John thinks about how he was told that the Corps doesn't build character, it reveals it. John claims that he's a soldier with a chip on his shoulder and will be until the day he dies while continuously firing at Black Lanterns with a pair of Construct automatic rifles. Katma says he has to care just as John shoots her in the mouth and responds that he does care, and that's why he sill fights and will fight a whole planet of Black Lanterns if he has to. A Black Lantern of a young boy comes out and tells John he can't find his mother. This makes John realize that the battle is just a waste of time and that the Black Lanterns aren't out to kill him yet. They want him to feel something and it's just a distraction. Katma tells John that he can't win a war by himself, personal or otherwise. John flies away from Xanshi saying Katma is right, but he need a real corps to do that and Oa is right around the corner before realizing that instead of being near Oa, Xanshi is currently located very close to Earth. John then broadcast to Earth that if anyone can hear him, they've got incoming.
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