Basic fancast for the episode.
Henry Cavill - Carter Hall (Hawkman,Khufu)
Patrick Wilson - Kent Nelson (Doctor Fate)
Tom Hardy - Ted Grant (Wildcat)
Bradley Cooper - Alan Scott (Green Lantern of the Starheart)
Michael Fasssbender - Wesley Dodds (Sandman)
Prologue
In the opening credits we are taken to ancient Egypt, we see mountains of pyramids and views of vast temple cities sprawled along the sandy plains. (The opening soundtrack I can see being a very light and sharp egyption theme similar to the Mummy movie).
We then focus on a huge city off in the distance, clearly bigger in both size and wealth, during this process there is a voiceover.
Nabu: ‘In the golden days of old, when peace was not achieved by war but through leadership, when soldiers fought to build not destroy and when a man’s respect was earned what they achieved reigned Prince Khufu, soon to be King and whose reign had already brought his people further than any leader before him…. And though his reign as Prince was great, his reign as King would be short, for one night his future shall be tested and his fate will be forever sealed.
Chapter 1
The credits end in the open courtyard within the great city and the focus is on two men walking through the district, one is fairly young and dressed up in gold and fancy clothing, clearly someone of great importance while the other is much older, very frail and though wears some gold is more covered in simpler robes. These two were the most important and without doubt most powerful men in Egypt, Prince Khufu himself and his royal advisor and trusted friend Seer Nabu.
Khufu: ‘It’s calm tonight’.
Nabu: ‘You seem troubled by calm my Prince’?
Khufu: ‘What is it they say old friend, its only calm before the storm’.
Now at this point the pair look up towards one of the stretched balconies and standing there are three beautiful woman above them but the one in the middle, slightly more beautiful than the other two looks down towards Khufu and their eyes meets sharing an equal smile.
Nabu just looks towards the Prince.
Nabu: ‘Would it not be so dangerous to open your heart Khufu, there can be no King without a Queen and the only thing missing in your life is what is of greatest importance for any man’?
Khufu’s eyes leaves the woman’s.
Khufu: ‘I cannot just force my mind to love Nabu, when I find the right woman I have no doubt a wedding would be in order but I shall not give my heart to someone just because Egypt needs a Queen, she will find me my friend’.
Nabu’s eyes look up at the night sky and whispers to himself.
Nabu: ‘No my prince, you are about to find her’.
Chapter 2
The scene immediately switches to earth’s atmosphere and storming towards it a burning spaceship.
The camera then goes back to the pair in the temple and as they look up in the night sky can see the burning light plummeting towards them.
Nabu remained perfectly still however the Prince sensing dangers calls out to his guards, calls for his army and instructs the woman and children to run to the temple in safety.
As the ship quickly approaches there is much panic spreading around the city but under Khufu’s charge the defence was readied and within seconds he had an entire army rallied to him prepared to take on whatever there gods had cast upon them.
They gazed as the ship flies over them and crashes in the sandy plains of the desert, with that the Prince calls for his horse and with Nabu mounting beside him leads the charge out of the cities gates towards the crash site.
When they get there the entire Egyptian army surrounds the large mysterious object and both Khufu and Nabu approach what looked like to them the gate of the ship, suddenly a bright light emerges from the wreckage and a figure could be seen from a revolving door, it looked humanoid but also something else, as the Egyptians looked upon the figure it walked out of the light and into the clearing. It was a woman but nothing like any of them had seen before she wore strange armour and possessed wings resembling a bird.
The army armed themselves in confusion, Nabu remained silent and completely unfazed by anything that had transpired that night but Khufu lowered his defences completely in awe by what he was seeing, he thought she looked beautiful.
Suddenly the woman turns towards Khufu.
Woman: ‘You there, who is the general of this army’.
Khufu stepped forward half acknowledging what she said and half to get a better look at her.
Khufu: ‘These men are under my command and by order of my ruling of this land demand to know your name'.
As Khufu spoke the woman suddenly clutched her side and fell to her knees as Khufu rushed towards her he could see she was bleeding a lot and calls for his army to take her to his palace immediately to be cared for, then he feels the woman grab his arm.
Woman: ‘Who are you'.
Khufu: ‘Just a King’ he jokes…. ‘Khufu’.
The woman nods ‘I’m Shayera. She then collapses in the princes arms.
Chapter 3
Once again we skip ahead a few weeks and another voiceover from Nabu emits from the background.
Nabu: ‘From that moment Egypt experienced a peace it had never known, Prince Khufu and the Lady Shayera fell in love from that night and soon after a wedding was commissioned giving the Prince a wife…. and Egypt a King’.
The Queen Shayera soon shared with the King and his people some of her peoples secrets about her technology and salvaged contents from her ship which she called Nth metal, with this knowledge and resources the Egyptians became near invincible compared to any of its enemies with weapons defences and strategies overwhelming any resistance, but the greatest secret of the Nth metal she only shared with her King, and through otherworldly construction she made him an armour of fine craft and two giant wings much like her own attached to the back, with the ability of the Nth metal he could defy gravity and thus giving the king the power to fly alongside her.
Nabu: ‘Egypt became a paradise, but like all paradises it was soon to suffer a terrible fate, for my eyes were unfocused and though I have hidden my true identity from these mortals even the King himself , I was unaware of the danger that lurked within the cities walls and through all my power was not prepared for what fate was to deal me’.
We see the old man Nabu alone in his chamber deep in thought, suddenly the flames on the candles spread around the room blow out as a strange wind carries itself across the room, the old man sensing danger turns around and glares at his dark chamber, something was there and Nabu readied himself, too long had he hid in this old mortal form and whatever was in the room with him, he would need all his power to protect him for he was no mere priest nor was he a mere man, he was the true Lord of Order Nabu and there were few things in the universe that gave him cause to be wary, but on this occasion he was.
Suddenly a dark mist sprawled around the floor and took a humanoid shape directly opposite Nabu, shrouded in darkness apart from a pair of glowing red eyes and a deep creepy laugh echoing from the mist.
Voice: ‘You still remain here deity among these savages, these rodents you actually pretend to be one of them thinking you can help them to their salvation, but I can see in their hearts and it still holds much darkness…. My darkness, make no mistake Nabu humanity are my play things not yours’.
Nabu: ‘I know who you are and as always you are wrong, no longer are these people savages they are civilised, they no longer hide in the dark they walk in the light and you demon will never claim them’.
In that second the image of the old man is surrounded by a blinding light that blazes the darkened room and reveals the being in the chamber much more clearly.
Then through the light a different being has replaced the spot where the old man was, and unlike his old frail disguise he had before he know reveals his true form…. Doctor Fate.
The dark being just laughs once again.
Voice: ‘You dare call me a demon, you fool know now that I am nothing but a God’.
And with that the beings red eyes begin to glow and shoot out to blood red rays out of his eyes directly at the Lord of Order.
Doctor Fate: ‘No you are nothing but evil, and you shall not interfere with my work here agent’.
As the omega beams hits Nabu he utters a chant and is able to absorb the beams to go directly through him, although it is obvious that he is slightly fazed by the attack, in seconds the two are locked in a battle of magic and might blasting the both of them out of the chamber and through the walls of the palace.
(It is important however that throughout the fight the being obviously being Darkseid should never be completely revealed but instead is constantly covered in shadows or conjured dark mists only his face should be somewhat revealed.)
As the fight continues the pair exchange words.
Darkseid: ‘You cannot kill me, I am everlasting and eternal’.
Fate: ‘It is not death that awaits you demon but whatever your purpose here, you will not succeed and no harm shall be brought to my king by your hand’.
Darkseid laughs once again.
Darkseid: ‘By my hand you fool, that matter has already been taken care of my only purpose here was to distract you’.
At that moment Nabu realises that Darkseid is just distracting him but during this pause the dark God unleashes his full power against him and though causes Nabu to fade and disperse the sorcerer manages to suck his opponent into the energy blast resulting in them both disappearing.
The next scene is in the Royal Palace chamber with both King Khufu and Queen Shayera in their Nth metal armour and weapons spread across the stone units throughout the room.
Khufu: ‘What is it my love’.
Shayera: ‘My people would be wondering were I am, at some point they will come to find me, I just don’t think when they realise what I’ve done and what I’ve given you and your people they would understand’.
Khufu: ‘I’m sure they will, what you’ve done is helped us, made us better than what we were, I’m sure wherever it is you are from, your people will see that'.
Shayera: ‘Not just that, I’ve done something with humanity that goes against the laws of my people’.
Khufu: ‘What’?
Shayera looks towards her husband, ‘I fell in love with you’.
As the two embrace a robed servant bursts through the chamber doors.
Servant: ‘My King, we are under attack advisor Nabu calls for your help’.
Khufu’s face turns to horror, grabs his Nth metal battle mace and rushes out the door leaving Shayera alone with the servant.
Shayera: ‘I must go too’.
But at that moment the robed servant gave a menacing smile and blocked the Queens path.
Shayera: ‘What are you doing, let me through…. Now’.
Servant: ‘Apologies my Queen but your interference with my lord’s plan has gone on long enough and cannot continue’.
From this point Shayera gets concerned and flies out of the servant’s way to the other side of the room and grabs her mace but in doing so leaves herself open to an attack and a great beam shoots out of the servants hands and hits Shayera.
Although most of the dark magic gets absorbed through her mace it’s clear she too feels a part of the pain and drops her weapon and kneels in defeat.
Shayera: ‘What are you’ she gasps.
Servant: ‘Me… merely a servant to a power even your race couldn’t possibly imagine, Lord Darkseid’.
As the dark sorcerer gloated Shayera took a deep breath and screamed for the king hoping he could hear her.
The scene then moves to King Khufu flying through the temples halls but upon hearing Shayera’s scream turns back and quickly flies to her realising he had been deceived.
Servant: ‘Your screams won’t save you, together I could not have possibly matched your strength but separated, confused and lost in mind, I can take you down without breaking a sweat’.
He once again unleashes more dark energy from his fingertips and through the screams King Khufu could hear as he approached his chamber he knew it meant only one thing, as he swooped inside he saw Shayera laying nearly lifeless on the floor and held her once again in his arms just like when they first met only this time he knew she wouldn’t recover.
Khufu: ‘Shayera…. Shayera please speak to me’.
Shayera's eyes opened slightly and whimpered ‘behind you’.
With the kings defences down the servants appears and attacks him from behind hitting him with the same amount of power as he did Shayera, but Khufu proved stronger willed and did not accept defeat so easy and whilst been struck by the sorcerers magic again and again he slowly rose to his feet picked up his battle mace and closed in towards the warlock.
As the King got close enough he lifted his mace and just before succumbing to excruciating pain he screams and swings his mighty weapon crashing it at the sorcerers head causing him to explode into a black mist.
Khufu collapses in his victory but as he looked upon his wife his victory became short lived, no longer did she breathe, no longer did she move in pain…. His beloved was dead.
As he picks up his wife’s lifeless body he cries in disbelief and calls for his advisor Nabu to help him but as the guards rush in not one of them were his priest.
Khufu: ‘WHERE IS NABU’ he screamed at one of the guards.
Guard: ‘Disappeared my king, no one has seen him once all night, he’s just gone’.
Khufu: ‘THEN JUST LEAVE ME’ he roars.
As his guards leave him to mourn a laugh can be heard and a spiritual form of the dark sorcerer appears behind him. Everything had happened exactly as both he and his master wanted it too and with no Nabu to give him help and no Shayera to give him hope the King was a broken man.
At this point the dark plans are realised and after this moment Khufu’s reign was about to end and Egypt and all its glory were about to fall.
After that the spirit lets out a shrieking wail and disappears for good, but drops a small dagger from where he once stood.
As the king gazed at the small weapon he knew what the spirit wanted him to do, he knew that his people still needed him but he didn’t care, his pain gave him anger, his grief made him selfish and without the wisdom of his advisor and friend he was lost.
He picks up the dagger and whilst looking once more at his wife he thrusts the blade into his chest and falls next to his wife taking in his last breath and dies in his chamber.
But all was not lost suddenly the symbol of Nabu glows just above the fallen King and Queen and a voiceover can once again be heard by Doctor Fate.
‘Love remains until undone
Death will strike only one
The one alive shall feel their pain
Until they too would be slain
Then reborn and found your past
Your love will kindle at long last
But this curse must know no end
And in time your hearts shall break again’.
The scene goes black.
Chapter 4
Doctor Fate voiceover: ‘On that day I failed humanity, I failed my mission but also I failed my friend. It has taken many years for my life force to recover and return to this world but now I am finally ready to fix my mistakes, for the armies of this day have changed and no longer can they withstand what awaits them, and so once again I shall create my own army…. I only hope I’m not too late’.
The scene goes to a boxing match at Caesars Palace and though there are two fighters in the ring the camera focuses only on one, that one being a heated up Ted Grant standing over a smashed up opponent.
Doctor Fate voiceover: ‘A warrior’.
Now were at a business district and a smart businessman walks out of his limo, its CEO Alan Scott and the camera zooms in on the green lantern ring worn on his finger.
Doctor Fate voiceover: ‘A shining guardian’.
Now were at a crime scene in an old building and even though there are police running everywhere there’s a figure in a long waistcoat running the opposite way wearing a gas mask, he then leaps into a dark alley and cowering in fear is the criminal begging for mercy.
Doctor Fate voiceover: ‘A monster’.
Were then taken to a museum and from there we see an unlikely familiar face, King Khufu but reincarnated as a young explorer named Carter Hall, Carter has no memory of his past life and was there only to experience the museums grand opening.
He always had a passion to learn about history, Egypt especially but had no idea what it was that fuelled that passion.
Doctor Fate voiceover: ‘And finally…. A Leader’.
‘And for this army to come together they will need a champion, and a champion of my choosing to host my power, a pure soul’.
We now see another man off in the distance of the museum staring at Carter Hall, its Kent Nelson and with him in view finishes of all the main members in Fates army.
At this point Kent Nelson starts walking towards Carter who is looking up at an ancient stone tablet from Egypt.
Kent: ‘Its quite something isn’t it’.
Carter looked at Kent with a smile.
Carter: ‘It really is, it looked even better back in the tomb where I found it in Cuba…. But it looks just as good here. (there’s a pause) Whoever carved this stone was trying to tell a story, we can see it right in front of us but we have no idea what it means, it’s completely fascinating’.
Kent: ‘So you can’t read the stone I’m guessing’.
Carter: ‘No-one can, they’ve called in specialists and everything from what I can tell and nothing much, all they can be certain of is the death of a king but how, when or why we cant translate’.
Kent glares at the tablet then back to Carter Hall.
Kent ‘I can translate it’.
Carter turns to Kent Nelson.
Carter: ‘Sorry, do you work here?’
Kent Nelson looks back at him and laughs.
Kent: ‘No, just an admirer of sorts’ (there’s a pause and Kent’s face straightens).
‘And I can help you answer your question Carter Hall’.
Carter looks at Kent a bit confused as to how this stranger knew his name.
Carter: ‘Do I know you’.
Kent: ‘Me! No but you once knew an accomplice of mine, a long time ago…. And he sent me here asking if you would meet him’.
Carter: ‘Listen whoever you are, I don’t know what you want but you have me confused with someone else, now if you’ll excuse me I have another flight to catch’.
Carter goes to brush past the deluded man but just as he does Kent grabs him by the arm and stops him in his tracks.
Kent: ‘He needs you Carter…. And you need him’.
Carter shrugs off the tight grip on his arm and storms past him once again, but as he is then about to leave the room Kent Nelson tries one more time to convince him to hear him out.
Kent: ‘How long do you dream about her now Carter, once a night, twice’.
As Carter processed what Kent had said he stopped in his tracks and turned back around to face him.
Carter: ‘How do you know about her’?
He spoke in complete disbelief, for as long as he could remember he had a recurring dream of a dark red haired woman surrounded by sand, he has never known what it had meant but he has dreamed about her for years and has many times wondered if she was real.
Kent Nelson grinned. ‘I know more about you Mr Hall than you could believe, haven’t you lived day by day feeling something missing…. Something lost, I can help just meet my friend and we will help fill that missing piece in your life that has been lost to you for far too long, your questions will be answered and I promise no harm will come to you'.
Carter looked upon Kent in conflict, the man sounded crazy and yet what he was saying was too intriguing for him now that he could just leave.
Carter: ‘Where is this friend’?
Kent: (whilst smiling holds up the rucksack in his hands)‘Believe me when he’s here you’ll know’.
(Scene Ends)
Chapter 5
The next scene takes us to one of the basement chambers under the museum and Kent Nelson is leading Carter down a hall and into a darkened room.
Carter: ‘Where are you taking me Kent and where is this friend of yours, if this is some joke’.
Kent: ‘It is no joke and if you just wait a moment his appearance will soon be made clear’.
In that instance Kent puts down his rucksack and with his back turned towards Carter pulls out a shining gold object. Carter tried looking over Kent’s shoulder for a better look but in that instance he lifts the object in the air and lowers it down over his head.
As soon as the helmet is on a great golden light explodes from where Kent Nelson once stood and as Carter glared at the light a figure could be seen taking his place, but something told Carter he wasn’t Kent Nelson.
Doctor Fate: ‘It has been too long my King’.
Carter’s eyes just widened in disbelief and shock.
Carter: ‘Who are you’. He shouts.
Doctor Fate: ‘Let me show you my friend’.
And with that the golden light fills the entire room and in a second both Fate and Carter disappeared.
(Now at this point it would be fair to say that both Hawkman and Doctor Fate have covered most of the story up until now so now we are taken to scenes that go into more detail about the other soon to be future society members and let the audience/reader to understand their importance to the story).
Chapter 6
We go back to a business district at the early evening and once again we see Alan Scott in his suit walking out of his companies high class building and through one of the streets towards his sports car however as he walks through the ally a group of rough looking men turn a corner and seen to be following him.
As soon as the ally is clear the thugs run up to Alan and hit him from behind causing the CEO to hit the ground hard, then one jumps on top of him and hits him several times hard in the face and whilst his in a daze goes through his pockets whilst the rest of his men reveal guns out of their jackets and point’s them at Alan, as he began coming back to his sense the leader jumped of his back stood Alan on his feet and threw another punch hitting him hard in the stomach knocking the wind right out of him.
Thug Leader: ‘Where’s the rest of your cash rich boy, wearing a tidy suit like that you must have more than just a few hundred on ya, and if you like the use of both your legs it’ll be a smart move to tell me everything you can…. Real quick’.
Alan looks up at his attackers.
Alan: ‘Alright, my car just past the ally.
He looks towards his sports car off in the distance past the ally.
Thug Leader: ‘You think were stupid, a car like that we’ll have cops on us in minutes (he loads his gun) better come up with something else’.
Alan: ‘Just let me explain I’m not saying take the car, inside theirs a green safe get it and bring it to me I’ll unlock it and you’ll all live like kings from what’s inside just bring me the safe take what’s inside and let me go’.
The muggers looked at one another in distrust until the leader points for one of his men to run through the alley and break into the sports car.
As the thug searches inside he couldn’t see anything that looked like a safe but in the back seat he saw a large object green in colour, as this could only of been the thing that Alan Scott was talking about he grabs it and runs back through the ally to join his group throws the safe towards Alan however as soon as it was in Alan’s reach a wide grin spread across his face.
Thug Leader: ‘So then Mr Scott open the safe’.
Alan: ‘Sure’…. And in that second Alan extends his arm bearing the small green ring on his finger causing the green object to glow.
As the muggers looked on in confusion Alan began shouting ‘ And I shall shed my light over dark evil, for the dark things cannot stand the light, the light of THE GREEN LANTERN’!!!
Now the tables have turned and the whole group of attackers turned from being aggressive and cocky to scared and in a panic. Weary of the power standing before them, gone was the man in the fancy suit and in his place there stood a green caped being igniting a green energy from an unnoticed at first green ring.
With the gang in a panic Alan just looks at them and winks, ‘I’m not gonna lie to you guys…. This is gonna hurt’.
However before the green lantern can strike back a different power source appears out of nowhere and Alan’s green light from his ring is quickly replaced by a golden light and the symbol of Nabu appears causing a startled Alan Scott to disappear in the light and leave the muggers alone, frightened and running away.
Chapter 7
We then switch to Ted Grant recovering from his boxing fight in the locker room when in walks his trainer, they have a brief exchange of words with his trainer telling him that he is winning fights to quickly and that he needs to go for the knockouts in the 6th or 7th round instead of just the 1st to make the fight more credIble.
Ted: 'Im better than this, I know I am, champion isn’t enough anymore I need more'.
Trainer: 'Your a fighter Teddy, if your not boxing what the hell else are you going to do, work in a office, join the army.... no Ted your a champion this is what your meant to do'.
Ted: 'I hope not'.
As the trainer goes to leave to talk to the media another burst of light fills the room much similar to the one that took Alan Scott and in moments Ted Grant too disappears.
Chapter 8
We then move to a old fashioned mansion where a group of mafia looking men seem to be having a meeting about their affairs until they are interrupted by a knock on the door and charging through a man in a long waistcoat and a gas mask paces towards them.
As the mafia bosses look at him they jump out of their seats, pull out their weapons and demand to know who he is and what he wants before popping him, but instead of feeling threatened the masked man just gave out a slow, menacing laugh.
Sandman: ‘The Sandman, hark I hear him.
He’s coming up the stair.
And everybody near him.
Is nodding I declare.
He’s peeping in the door now.
And first of all he spies.
As he has done before now.
The little children’s eyes.
Then quickly does he throw it.
His golden sleepy sand.
And all before they know it.
Are off for sleepy land’.
As the mob bosses looked at one another confused but concerned they give each other a certain nod and all in one go are about to shoot the intruder, but in that last second the figure spoke again.
Sandman: ‘But it is not sleepy land that you gentleman shall be sent…. Nooo but you shall be in what one would call eternal rest, that I do promise’.
And before the mob can fire, Sandman lifts his jacket exposing a huge and intricate gun and blasts away the unsuspecting bosses through the walls in with some kind of magnetic pulse, then quickly thows around the room green gas grenades and in seconds the room was filled with fog.
More gunshots are heard in the thick mist until everything goes quiet and when the smoke descends only the Sandman is left standing with all the mob bosses lifeless on the floor, at this point his gas mask has been removed and we get the first shot of the Sandman’s identity…. Wesley Dodds.
However once again a golden lights bursts in front of him with the symbol of Nabu in the centre and like all the others the lights causes Wesley Dodds to disappear leaving the room empty.
Both Wesley Dodds and Ted Grant then wake up in a strange mystical room, full of ancient carvings and strange looking artefacts decorating the surroundings, the two men look at each other both of them are as bewildered as the other, as they look around they see another man slumped on the floor.
They turn him over and his face is revealed showing its Alan Scott.
Alan: ‘Who are you’. He whimpers.
Ted: ‘Me, who the hell are you’.
As both Ted and Alan exchange words Wesleys walks around trying to get a better look at where exactly they are but as he looks out of a small window, he stands still in amazement and shouts at both Ted and Alan to stop arguing and to come over to him, as all three look out of the small window they soon realise just how much trouble they could be in.
The scene ends with Alan Scott muttering ‘where are we’?
This scene starts inside a giant Egyptian temple, the same temple from the beginning of the movie only now in the present time and is much like the rest of Egypt old, forgotten and in ruin.
Carter: ‘Where are we’.
Fate: ‘You do not recognize your own home my king’.
Carter: ‘My home…. My home is a small apartment on the 7th floor on Braine street’.
Fate: ‘That is the home of the disguise you’ve become, not this place is your realm and its history is shared by yours’.
Carter: ‘History’?
The pair stop walking and both stare at a large monument with glyphs and carvings everywhere.
Carter: ‘So when are you going to tell me about this other guy I was’.
Fate: ‘I’m not going to tell you’.
Suddenly all the carvings and glyphs begin to glow.
Fate grabs Carters hand and forces him to touch the shining wall.
Fate: ‘I’m going to show you’.
In that moment flashes of images blasted into Carters head, he saw himself as a king, he saw his kingdom, the wars he fought in, years of wisdom refreshed his mind and finally he saw who he was near the end of his reign…. Hawkman.
Fate: ‘And her Carter, remember her’.
Suddenly Carters dreams flashed before him the woman of the sand, again and again he saw her face but every time he did more and more he knew and remembered her.
Carter finally shouts ‘SHAYERA’! and with that the light from the wall dimmed and the images assaulting his mind stopped. He falls to his knees weakened by the whole ideal and Doctor Fate just stood still by his side.
Fate: ‘And now you see don’t you, your destiny isn’t to be some museums errand boy, this world needs you as do I’.
Carter looks up at Nabu and snarls.
Carter: ‘Where is she’!
Fate: ‘First things first my friend, not all what was taken from you has been reclaimed’.
Then behind them a sliding stone wall opens and inside can be see a room of gold and artifacts, but in the epicentre stood something more precious than either, a stand of shining armour strapped to a harness which bore to giant hawk wings and right next to it stood a large otherworldly mace weapon.
Carters eyes widened with satisfaction and walks into the room and dons the suit accepting that who he was would be who he’d again become ‘Well that’s a start’.
Fate: ‘We haven’t started yet, you’re a king and every king needs his army’.
Carter: ‘For what’.
But as Carter spoke Nabu cast another spell and the pair were once again transported out of the temple.
Now were back with Alan Scott, Ted Grant and Wesley Dodds still stuck in the strange mystical tower and still arguing as too who one another was and where they were.
Ted begins crashing though the room in anger trying to find an exit door but there wasn’t any.
Alan: ‘Theres no point in escaping mate, wherever we are and whoever brought us here wasn’t your average kidnapper, they even overpowered my ring that in itself is pretty impressive’.
Ted: ‘Don’t joke around with me rich boy, you don’t wanna help great but shut that mouth of yours real quick’.
The two square up.
Alan: ‘Seriously I am not the person you want to give the hard man act to, I just met a few guys who tried the same thing and I soon had them running’.
Wesley: ‘Enough you two, the last thing we need is us fighting each other, the truth is we don’t have any answers and were not going to get any until whoever took us comes to say hello so for now let’s just keep cool, when we get our chance to escape we’ll need all the energy we can’.
As Wesley finished his speech a golden light once again comes into view and two figures can be made suddenly appearing in front of Ted, Alan and Wesley, as the light fades we see its both Carter in his Hawk armour and Doctor Fate.
Fate: ‘A noble speech Wesley Dodds, but there is no escape from my tower for you are not trapped here'.
Alan: ‘What do you want with us’.
Fate: ‘There is nothing I want with you Alan Scott, but I do need your true self’.
Alan: ‘I don’t know what your talking about’.
Fate: ‘Of course not Green Lantern’.
He then turns his head towards Grant.
Fate: ‘And you, a man so conflicted with himself he no longer knows what it is he wants from life, the passion to be the best is lost when you become the best does it not Edward Grant’.
Fates head finally ends turned to Dodds.
Fate: ‘And at last the monster, a man who sides with the angels but is in no way one of them, a man who desires nothing but to bring pain to the dark hearts of men but accepts that his heart is just as black.
Wesley: ‘It seems you know more about us then we do of you’.
Ted: ‘And we want answers’.
As Ted rushes aggressively towards Nabu, Carter steps in his path and meets Ted face to face.
Ted: ‘And who are you, his lapdog’.
Carter: ‘Let him explain, now step back or ill make you work for that tough guy image’.
Ted Laughs.
Ted: ‘Will you now’.
And with that Ted swings at Carter with a right hook and cracks him hard on the chin, Carter lunges at him to return the blow but he was up against a world champion and even though his memory was restored his mind and body were still that of a young explorer and was no match for him.
Ted easily dodged Carters attack and counters throwing him across a room and sends punch after punch causing Carter to fall to his knees in pain.
Ted: ‘You get up or give me attitude again, I’ll send you back down to the ground you got it’.
But as Ted started walking once again to where Nabu was standing he turned around to see Carter rising back up to his feet.
Ted: ‘You can’t say that I didn’t warn you’.
And once again Ted delivers a few more crippling punches one again slamming Carter to the ground in pain.
This time Ted didn’t just walk away from him but stood his ground, there was no way he thought this fool is getting up again but surely once again Carter stood up refusing his defeat.
Ted grabs Carter and holds him in a tight lock slamming him against the wall and screams ‘just give in’.
Fate: ‘Carter remember how you fought remember how you were trained you were better than this and you still can be, you just have to unleash it’.
Suddenly Carters face got more angry and savage, he was no longer just lifeless in Ted Grants tight hold but started grabbing his fists and the two began testing each other’s strength and determination to see who would give up, this wasn’t a fight between a world champion and a nobody, now Ted was the underdog as now he was grappling with someone a lot more savage and wiser than him and in a split second throws Ted back up against the opposing wall, Ted now heated with rage but smiling to the fact he finally had a challenge ran towards Carter again but this time he was ready and throws a huge punch crunching Ted in the stomach and slowly knocks him to the floor.
Suddenly a voice booms from Nabu.
Fate: ‘ENOUGH, I didn’t bring you here to fight one another I brought you here to save one another'.
Wesley: ‘I can’t speak for everyone here but I don’t need saving now you said were not trapped here, does that mean we can leave whenever we want’.
Fate: ‘Yes it is your decision, but if you leave then the pieces to your salvation will not fall into place and so the puzzle will remained incomplete’.
Wesley: ‘What the hell does that even mean’.
Ted Grant then interrupts ‘enough questions if we can go then we go’.
Nabu let out a very slight sigh and looked down in disappointment ‘very well just desire it in your heart to leave this place…. And you shall return from where I took you’.
Suddenly both Dodds and Grant disappeared without hearing further what Nabu had to say, they had no interest they were confused, unsatisfied and just believed that there was no point in either of them being there for whatever reason…. They were both wrong.
Next Alan Scott approached Carter and Nabu.
Alan: ‘Again, no disrespect but I’m doing fine with what I’m already doing, with the ring and the star heart I can pretty much take on anything this planet throws at me’.
Fate: ‘What will be thrown at you Lantern shall be not of this world and if you let your ego overcome your ability to listen to my warning, the repercussions will be’….
But before Nabu could finish speaking Alan already wished to leave and was gone leaving just him and Carter Hall.
Carter: ‘I am sorry Nabu’.
Fate: ‘My king I fear in time we shall all be sorry’.
Scene ends (The point to this meeting and how it ended is that all the members have there own issues or egos and are instantly threatened by one another resulting in Ted Grant having a short fuse and fighting Carter Hall, Wesley Dodds uninterested in anything Nabu had to say and stating he didn’t want to be in a team and Alan Scott thinking just because he had a Lantern ring he didn’t need anyone’s help.)
(It also shows Carters lack of leadership when it was needed, he has regained all his memories, his training and finally every bit the savage warrior he once was proved by beating Ted Grant, but his greatest asset as a King is still dormant and so shows Carter still needs to accept fully who he was as King Khufu.)
Were now taken to what all the members are doing now, we start with Ted Grant training at his gym he is still unhappy and training for another fight he was bound to win.
Were then taken to Wesley Dodds drinking in a bar drowning his sorrows.
And finally Alan Scott back in his business suit and back in his company building, he is talking to a few people and is clear he is waiting for an arrival of a very important guest, a CEO from another company where Alan is hoping to do a big business deal and instructs all his staff that when his guest arrives on what to do where the business meeting will take place etc, he then leaves the office building and across the roads pulls up a black limo.
Out walks a strong built man and much like Alan was wearing a very smart suit, as the man goes to greet Alan they shake hands.
Alan: ‘Mr Wayne it’s an honour to meet you’.
Thomas: ‘Please call me Tom, (gestures to the company estate) shall we’.
As the pair walk through the building they continue to be formal to one another.
Alan: ‘I hope you had a safe flight from Gotham’.
Thomas: ‘Yes it was fine thank you, it was a little uneasy leaving my wife in her condition but I do realise the potential that your company is worth investing in’.
Alan: ‘Her condition of course congratulations on the pregnancy’.
Thomas: (laughs) ‘Thank you the only thing me and Martha are stuck on is a name but we have a few weeks until we have to make any decision’.
The pair head up an elevator and up to one of the top offices of the skyscraper and enter a small but very expensive looking office.
Tom: ‘So what can Wayne Enterprises hope to gain by merging with yours’.
Alan: ‘Straight to the point very nice, well first off as strong as your company is, like everything it does have its weak spots, places that my offices can strengthen and with our contacts we can help you globalise projects far easier and smoother here instead of Gotham’.
Tom: (smiles) ‘Alan all of this is just routine, I’ve already expressed my interests and I realise the benefits all what matters to me now is the level of trust that we can both place in one another’.
However at that moment a large explosion is heard out in the city below and as the two men jump out their seats and look out the window they see in horror the streets in a great panic cars bursting in flames and as they both looked up their fear increased as several large spaceships appeared from the sky.
We then skip to scenes with Ted Grant at his gym and seeing the spaceships descend also followed by Wesley Dodds running out the bar to witness what was happening, it was an invasion.
Suddenly small shadows came flying out the ships by the dozen, winged humanoids started attacking the city, surrounding buildings and trapping fleeing men and woman.
Now the action begins and we see a group of Thanagarian soldiers encircle a small crowd and gesture to restrain the humans, but as the faces of the prisoners dropped in horror a golden light hits of the soldiers and sends him crashing down the street, as the Thanagarian platoon look up towards where it came from there is Doctor Fate.
As the Thanagarians prepare to strike back a loud cry can be heard behind them as they looked up they saw a warrior much like their own but yet different…. Its Hawkman.
Both Nabu and Hawkman strike at the platoon beating them one by one however as they look up they see that there are plenty more around them and have now caught there attention and they ready themselves to fight once again.
We then go back to Alan Scott and Thomas Wayne underneath the rubble in the crumbling building and unconscious through the explosion, after a few seconds Alan wakes up, and starts screaming at a lifeless Thomas fearing him dead.
In time Tom comes too and Alan crawls his way over.
Tom: ‘What happened’.
Alan: ‘I don’t know a bomb? Come on we have to get out of here’.
As the pair rise to their feet they can hear voices through the ruins of the fallen hallways.
Tom: ‘Whos there’.
Alan: ‘Quiet’!
As Alan peeks around the corner he see’s a group of Thanagarians patrolling the rubble (of course Alan at this point doesn’t know who they are but he guesses there a danger).
Gesturing for Tom Wayne to follow him quietly they sneak past the soldiers and creep into the elevator to go down however as soon as the doors close one of the thanagarians spots them and as the lift descends they start blasting their way through the solid steel doors.
Tom: ‘What were those things’.
Alan: ‘I don’t know’.
Tom: ‘Can they get through’.
Alan ‘I had this lift to the highest standard in security, they wont get through by the time we get to the ground’.
At that moment however sparks of electricity surrounds the elevator and the power cuts making the lift stop and pitch black with the two men inside.
Tom: ‘What happened’.
Alan: ‘I guess they gave up, but stuck us in here were not getting out’.
Tom: ‘No we have to go I’m going to be a father, Martha needs me in Gotham we can’t die in here’. (He is now panicking with the shock).
Alan: ‘We won’t die in here’.
Tom: ‘How do you know that’.
Alan: ‘I have hope’.
Tom: (now no longer in panic but in a frantic and laughing state of shock) ‘Hope ha-ha what good will that do us’.
Alan looks at Tom in the near darkness and begins to reminisce.
Alan: ‘A few years ago, I was a young railway engineer and I used to work with this one guy, much older had been doing the job for years’.
Tom listens to Alan intently.
Alan: ‘Anyway one night we were working in this giant tunnel it must have been five miles in length at least, we were working all alone and suddenly the walls above collapsed on us and we were crushed underneath the rubble, when I came to my arm was broken and I had this huge reinforcing on my chest crushing me…. I thought I was going to die’.
Tom: ‘How did you get out’.
Alan: (looks at Tom and smiles) ‘My partner, he was under even more of the rocks then I was and was going to share my same fate, but I remember he just looked at me and told me to have hope’.
Alan begins to laugh hysterically ‘I thought he was crazy, desperate or both no one was going to find us for hours and I already felt myself slipping away but he never gave up he just kept telling me that we were going to get out and because of him I stayed awake the entire night’.
Tom: ‘You were rescued’?
Alan: ‘Yeah a whole team worked on getting us out and managed to free me and took me straight to hospital’.
Tom: ‘And what about your partner’.
Alan’s face went from calm to sad.
Alan: ‘He died they managed to get me to safety but they got to him too late, but ill never forget the courage he showed me, nor the strength in his character and finally the fact he saved my life…. Ever since that day no matter how things have gotten for me I always remember him telling me to have hope and again now’.
As soon as Alan finishes his story the backup generators start up the the lift once again descends to the ground level and the pair rush out laughing at their fortune.
As they run to the street and see the chaos from the attack Tom yells for Alan to run with him to a USA army blockade off in the distance but Alan refuses telling him to go without him and that he had to stay.
As the army trucks pull up to pick up Tom Wayne he stares at Alan and yells out ‘THAT MAN FROM THE RAILWAY TUNNEL…. WHAT WAS HIS NAME’!
Alan calls back ‘BRUCE…. HIS NAME WAS BRUCE’.
As Tom boards the truck he quietly whispers to himself…. ‘Bruce…. Good name’.
With Thomas Wayne gone Alan searches the rubble on the ground from his building and wishfully enough there laid in the distance he saw his lantern the Star Heart and runs over to it. (Scene ends)
As the attack on the city rages on Hawkman and Doctor Fate continue to try and push back the first wave on thanagarians, but between the two of them they were both outmatched and outnumbered as ships kept appearing out of the sky and more waves of the aliens joined the attack.
In moments Hawkman is taken down by several elite soldiers and Nabu is surrounded by a dozen armed guards ready to open fire, as the pair of them readied themselves to accept defeat a huge blast of green energy hit both groups of the thanagarians, as Carter and Nabu looked up they see the Green Lantern flying above joining the fight and defence for the city.
Alan: ‘I’m guessing you could do with some help’.
Doctor Fate: ‘Your words speak truth Lantern, but the help we need is much greater than you alone can provide’.
The next scene were taken to a bar in Gotham with Ted Grant sitting at a diner by himself watching the small TV screen just like everyone else in the bar where they are addressing the attack in New York. Ted felt helpless as the news report showed three strange figures appearing to be fighting the winged alien invaders whom he recognized as Carter, Alan and Nabu, he started to wonder if he made the right decision leaving the tower of Nabu and refusing Doctor Fates plea to join him, but then he remembered he wouldn’t have been able to do anything anyway…. He was a fighter, a good one but that’s it, he had no powers, no abilities, even though he wanted to help he reassured himself that if he had joined the team he would have simply of been in the way. In that moment someone enters the diner and sits himself down at Teds table.
Wesley: ‘Its not easy just sitting here is it, here and helpless’.
Ted: ‘What the hell are you doing here’.
Wesley: ‘I was this bar not five miles away until I saw just what you did of the invasion, although the others were distant I felt your presence close by, I needed to see you’.
Ted: ‘You felt my presence, what are you some kind of psychic’.
Wesley: ‘Not exactly but I do have what you could call prophetic dreams, usually I can see through the eyes of murderers and thieves but through great concentration I can focus on an individual I have recently met such as yourself’.
Ted: ‘Great so what did you want to talk about’.
Wesley: ‘You know what, ever since you left that tower you have felt how I have, we had a calling you and I and we abandoned it. I have spent the last three years ridding city after city from the corrupt and guilty, earlier today I was asked to join something bigger and now we are missing out on a threat we both should be part of’.
Ted: ‘You maybe but you can’t be serious about me, look at that TV screen look at those winged things there’s no way I can be any help if I was there’.
Wesley: ‘Perhaps the question you should ask yourself is not how can you make a difference but instead, why should you…. Think about it Ted you call yourself a fighter, then fight’.
With the alien attack on New York beginning to take its toll on the city and the us army failing against their more advanced invaders it was clear that the only reason the city had not fallen already was down to the efforts of three powered beings taking arms in defense against the thanagarians but after an hour of fighting, Hawkmans strength was weakening, Alan Scotts ring was running out of energy and although Doctor Fate’s power was great his mortal host Kent Nelson was soon feeling the strain of so much power coursing through him.
Although they refused to give up the hordes of thanagarians that continued to descend meant it was only a matter of time before the city was theirs.
Using what strength he has left Carter swings his mace dealing another blow to a nearby thanagarian soldier, quickly something in the sky gets his attention, a small yet more elegant ship floated above the city and in midflight the ships doors opened revealing yet another winged alien, yet he seemed very different, he looked taller than the others, his armor more impressive and he held a stature of authority.
Carter assumed that he must be the general leading this army merely just overseeing the attack and readied himself to take to the sky to fight him but before doing so he saw another figure standing next to him, and a rush of shock ran through his body as he saw clearly who it was.
Carter: (whispers to himself) ‘Shayera’.
We then see Green Lantern and Doctor Fate continuing to fight the ground troops until suddenly Nabu stops and turns to Alan.
Nabu: ‘I am sorry my friend, my power wanes’.
And suddenly the helmet of Nabu lifts from Kent Nelsons head and the image of Doctor Fate is returned to the normal man that is Kent Nelson, before the helmet gently floats to the ground next to him, seeing this one of the thanagarian guards swoops down and snatches Nabu's helmet and takes off
.
Kent: ‘It’s over Nabu’s power is lost’.
Alan: Not to bring more bad news but my ring has run out of juice too’.
With no power left to fight the pair kneel before their captives and when Carter see’s the pair surrendering, has no choice but to use the little strength he had left to swoop in and rescue them and carrying them far away to safety in the sky rather than fight the overhead general and approach his long lost love.
With their retreat the battle was lost and with the U.S army fell to mercy of the hawk like aliens.
Ending
Carter Hall, Kent Nelson and Alan Scott are seen in an old run down building and are joined by Ted Grant and Wesley Dodds who have been able to to meet up in hiding finally willing to join the cause.
Carter: ‘Look I know not one of you know me, over the past couple of days I'm not even sure I know me.... but Nabu chose me to lead this team, my memories may only be returning but I once was a king, for those of you who would give me your trust I swear I will lead us to victory, we can get Nabu's helmet back and strike back at these things for whatever reason they are here but I need you with me, all of you’.
Ted: ‘Well I’ll talk first, you got mine I don’t know how much good I’m going to be to you Carter, but I will do what I can’.
Kent: ‘Without the helmet of Nabu I can only offer what knowledge I have, if that’s enough than you’ve got it too Carter’.
Wesley: ‘Back in the tower Nabu wanted us as an army, we need him back, we have all seen the alien’s army…. Now its time for them to see ours’.
Alan: ‘Yeah I’m in too especially with my ring fully charged again but is anyone else seeing a problem, how can we call ourselves an army, I mean even if we had the lord of order with us, there’s only five of us in the team.
As they all looked concerned at this sudden revelation Kent Nelson spoke out revealing a little of what Nabu had planned whilst he was Doctor Fate.
Kent: ‘Well actually, we aren’t the only ones Nabu wanted to recruit…. (he smiles)There were others’.
Coming soon in episode 2.
In a lab somewhere to figures are moving around, one of them being clearly a scientist whilst the other we just get a close up of his face.
Scientist: Hey Garrick, you’re the one who wanted to come down here so mind giving me a hand.
Jay Garrick: ‘Sure, I’ll be there in a Flash’.
Were now taking to a dark street ally where a rough looking thug is pinned to the wall somehow by a man using some kind or psychic or magic force.
Thug: ‘Hhhhow can you be here (gasp) I killed you’.
Jim Corrigan: ‘You did now…let me return the favor’.