5/23/13: GREEN LANTERN SAVES THE WORLD

PARTICIPANTS: GREEN LANTERN

Green Lantern decided to save the world from the impending meteor strike. He traveled to the White House to offer his services. He was picked up by some military types in a blue SWAT like van and taken to a government facility where the meteor was being monitored. A General Crabass introduced himself as being the Supers Liaison for the Military, and briefed Green Lantern on plans to fire missiles with nuclear weapons at the meteor.

Green Lantern volunteered to carry the nukes to the meteor and place them precisely himself. Crabass took him up on the offer, and before GL knew it, he was standing in a nameless military airfield being suited up with a NASA space suit and handed two cylindrical, clock-activated nuclear weapons.

He used his hyperflight, together with a small handheld computer/monitor supplied by NASA and the military, and some direction from Crabass and his men at ground control, and eventually found his way the 4 million miles across empty space to where the meteor was hurtling towards Earth.

Using his green lantern ring as a giant drill bit, he tunnelled down a mile into the meteor's surface, then flew down the hole, placed one of the nukes, and set the timer for 15 minutes.

15 minutes later, from a safe vantage point in space some 2000 miles away, Green Lantern watched a brilliant flash of light appear, then disappear, as the meteor, and the threat to earth, shattered into billions of much smaller pieces.

Green Lantern returned to Earth, returned the remaining nuke and his other equipment, accepted the curt thanks of Crabass and his team, and flew away, content in the knowledge that he is now among those superheroes who have saved the Earth from impending doom.

Award: 4hp