Red eyes glowed eerily in the darkness of space as a group of the notorious androids of the Guardians, the Manhunters, flew towards an unknown location. Behind them was a planet left devastated and barren, life eradicated by the Manhunters' hateful resolve and weaponry.

"NO MAN ESCAPES THE MANHUNTERS! NO MAN ESCAPES THE MANHUNTERS!!!"

They shouted at once, celebrating what was but the first step in completing their long thwarted goal... the destruction of all organic life in the universe so that true order could finally be brought about. They had been stopped twice, but three times a charm, this time they wouldn't fall so easily. They had been rebuilding and improving their ranks over the years since their last defeat, and now the androids returned with a vengeance. Even the Lanterns would not be able to withstand them. They would attack slowly but surely so as to not give themselves away, and once their greatest enemies had been reduced to nothing but lifeless corpses left to float in the vacuum of space, they would unleash their full assault on the universe....

The Lanterns of the Spectrum of Light must now gather to combat this threatening force yet again....

"NO MAN ESCAPES THE MANHUNTERS"
A chill went down Shrapnel's spine, or whatever was equivalent to his spine in that flurry of metal that he constituted. As he had been floating through space, his ring began to glow, and chanted that one chilling sentence. He knew exactly what that meant, and what that meant was not good. The shards of steel snapped into position, forming a humanoid figure, sheathed in a yellow glow.
The yellow lantern ring, lodged in a piece of shrapnel that was about as good as his head, let out a flash of pure energy, lighting up the dark of space. Then, he was gone. Like a comet, Shrapnel rocketed towards the origin of the chilling message, boosted by fear- his own fear.
It was a long while before he reached the charred planet, far too late to catch a glimpse of what did this. He had hoped his fears could be put to rest, that he would catch some two-bit impersonator red handed. But no, this destruction... it was too widespread... to pure. It had to be. A sharp, almost ghostly voice rang out, emanating from inside of the metallic body of Shrapnel. "They're back."

Skorn heard them, even felt them. Thousands of angry cries from unknown individuals as they and their families were slaughtered by a malevolent force. He growled, red steam curling from his razor lined mouth as he crushed the neck of a bandit chief responsible for the razing of several villages. Tossing him aside, Skorn flapped his wings as he prepared to take off from the bloody carnage around him, only to be stopped by the voice of one of his fellow Lanterns.

"Hey! Don't tell me you're just going to take off and run!!"

Skorn hissed and looked down below at his caller, eyes burning with warning as he continued to rise to the sky.

"My work here is done, Zillius Zox. I trust you can finish off a few petty criminals in my place, hm? I'll make it up to you later!"

With those words, Skorn flapped his wings harder to take off towards the vacuum of space at astonishing speeds, not slowing for a moment even after he made it outside the atmosphere of the small planet he and his ally were bringing vengeance to. Skorn allowed his ring to guide him to the location where the voices had cried out, occasional bursts of bloody napalm coming from his mouth as he thought on the atrocities of the past.

Arriving in the sector, Skorn came upon a ruined and now vacant planet. His eyes burned with intense fury. What could have done this? A fleet of conquering aliens? A destructive creature that devoured worlds?

*SINESTRO CORP MEMBER DETECTED*

The Red Lantern turned in the direction of the wielder of the yellow power ring. He doubted that one such being could have done this all by itself, but perhaps it had had a part to play in the destruction of this planet.

A warning flashed out from Shrapnel's ring.
Shrapnel's steely voice hissed out through the void. "BLOODY RED LANTERN. SHOW YOURSELF, FIEND, OR FACE THE WRATH OF PURE FEAR." A burst of yellow light flooded the area around shrapnel, as he whirled, trying to locate anything, even a speck of red in the distance. As he turned, his humanoid form was slowly diminishing, becoming more of a flurry of steel than man. More metal began adding to the whirlwind, each a construct of yellow energy. It took a moment for the energy to dissipate, and the humanoid figure to resurface, but Shrapnel gained control.
"ANSWER ME TRUTHFULLY, MEWLING QUIM. WAS THIS THE WORK OF YOUR KIND?" He was still unable to locate the voice, so was still perpetually spinning, each shard of his body individually quivering. He knew that whatever answer he got. If it was the Red Lanterns work, then Shrapnel wouldn't be alive much longer. If it wasn't the Red Lanterns, and Shrapnel's suspicions were confirmed, then no one would be alive much longer.

The eyes of the dragon heads on Skorn's shoulders began to glow a brighter red as the Yellow Lantern showed off his power ring's energy. Pitiful. If this being knew of the true power of rage, it would be trembling in the fear it claimed to control. Crimson energy flared about his being as Skorn approached the yellow lantern.

"You're mistaken, fear monger," Skorn spoke. "I was drawn here by thousands of angered cries as lives were extinguished without reason."

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“Again? Seriously don't you guys know when to give up. No man escapes the Manhunters. Ya we've heard it all before and we've kick your ass several times.” said Ditha as she dodge the Manhunter attack and created several gladiatorial weapons around the Manhunter before thrusting them all at once. The Manhunter dodge several attacks but several did hit him, doing some significant damage. The Manhunter responded by firing an inbuilt weapon. Ditha created an energy barrier around her to absorb the attack. The Manhunter continued to keep the pressure up by firing a continuous beam. “A bone for a bone.” said Ditha as she lowered the barrier and fired her own beam. By lowering the barrier the Manhunter attack hit Ditha but this allowed her Beam to hit the Manhunter and destroy it. Ditha began to enter a coma, appearing dead to all.

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cassidy sat alone on a lone astoroid in space near where the conflict has started. her mind in deep thought, of that long ago she was just a normal canadian girl living her life, now after she lost the person she loved she was a star sapphirre, she could hear the Cry's of pain from the hearts of those like her, she looked over to one sector where all of a sudden the Cry's got louder then stopped "what in the...." She was unsure what just happened.

She looked to her ring knowing the others would have felt it to but her sing only warned her that there both rage and fear was dected "is this their doing, snuffing out the lives of those who loved" with a burst of speed she flew off the rock she was on and made her way where her ring detected the red rage and yellow fear.

She was ready to send a transmission but seen the choas that they must have caused her eyes looked around seeing what looked to be a couple in each others arms as they were killed that sent her over the edge and she made her presence known casting violet light onto the sinestro corp and red lantern "your crimes no one end monsters..." She flew above them both her ring glowing "rage and fear have no place in this universe, love couqers all, I will give you both a moment to atone for your crimes on those who loved here before I show you the power of love"

(The site is being a bit buggy, ain't it?)

Blood napalm dripped from Skorn's fangs as he detected and saw the light of a Star Sapphires. Pathetic little beings, always blabbing on about the power of love when their minds are too frail to realize its uselessness. Skorn had experienced first hand the death and failure of love from those who were supposed to love him and each other to no end. His father and brother had killed his mother and then imprisoned him for centuries in the dungeons meant for the worst of criminals.

"Stand down, weakling girl," Skorn spat as he extended the red light around his tail to swat her away from the Sinestro Corps member.

"You have no business here where the blood of the slaughtered cries out for vengeance. Go back to your puny Care Bears styled planet."

"If what you saqy is true, then you shall soon enough succumb to fear. I've heard something terrible." Shrapnel said, extending his ring. It flashed, before playing back the small message.

"NO MAN ESCAPES THE MANHUNTERS"

Shrapnel trembled again, just hearing it. His ring retracted back into his 'skull', and his body slowly settled.

"Meeting you under any other circumstance, I would consider it war. But I'm afraid we have not the luxury of our trivial feud, our problems are more severe. Shall we consider a temporary truce, until this... has been resolved." Shrapnel said, struggling to actually suggest it. His entire body shook with discontent, the neatly stacked shards of his body sagging.

Skorn clenched his claws into fists as he heard the yellow lantern replay the words through his ring. The Manhunters. All of the Red Lanterns had heard about these abominations of the Guardians. They were the very monsters responsible for the entire slaughter of Atrocitus' sector and family. If they were returning yet again... well, it couldn't be good for anyone. Skorn looked at the Sinestro corps member and flew closer to him until he was right up in his face. The heat from his body could be felt at this point, and perhaps even burn the flesh of a normal human being.

"Truce huh? Hmph, fine. As much as I hate to deal with scum like you and your allies, it must be as such...."

She heard it as well, and it sent I shiver down her spine, she bite her lower lip not wanting to lower the ring at the red lantern, "but...the manhunter are gone" she spoke to herself "they snuffed out this entire planet?....why they knew at least someone would come to assess what happened...unless...a trap.." She landed and she started looking all around less concerned now with the other two as before "all three of us are beacons of emotional engery they will know we are here"

Miles Esperance was returning from a planet he had been preaching on, he'd been doing this ever since he gained the Blue Lantern ring, he still thought the name sounded strange. "Why would aliens use a human object?". He was heading for the new planet he called home, it was a beautiful, peaceful jungle which he shared with a primitive tribal race who were the first he spread hope to.

Keyword 'Was' as when he arrived to this planet, to his shock it was no longer the blue and green planet he called home, it was now grey and burning. He quickly flew down towards it, hoping the tribe would be okay. They were not, there was so much fire that the sun was blocked out by the smoke, so many corpses. Through the smoke and heat he heard a single loud voice

"NO ONE...MANHUNTERS

As it came closer he could here the voice clearer

"NO ONE ESCAPES THE MANHUNTERS!"

He had no idea what this meant, he had never seen these beings on this planet before, so he concluded that they must be responsible for the brutality that transpired here. Before he could even blink, the being attacked him.

"The Manhunters have always been ones to return after defeat," Skorn explained as he brought his sharp tail up to his sight and began morphing the red energy around it into various forms. A serpent head, a morningstar, a regular blade...
"It comes as no surprise that these androids are stilo around, but the fact that they have been able to regrow their numbers so quickly is troublesome. Maybe they've had external help this time, but from who?"

Skorn suddenly detected combat going on in the planet below. Had something survived?

"There's something left down there..."

The being jumped at Miles and knocked him backwards he landed into the ruin of one of the tribe's huts destroying it even further, flying out of it he attempted to make a construct but heard his ring warn him of low charge, he ignored it and made a simple stick to smack the 'Manhunter' so he could escape.

He needed to get his Lantern battery which was somewhere on this planet before his ring's power ran out and he became paralyzed again.

If this happened it would be all over for him...

cassidy was uneasy about this, rage was at the opposite end of the spectrum and never got along with the violet light wielders but this was more pressing then that "there are not many i know of that could bring the manhunters back into fold with enough numbers to wipe out a planet...top of the list used to be a sinestro corp member" her look went to Shrapnel before she heard skorn speak of fighting she looked to her ring "energy reading.." the ring flash and with a clam voice spoke "87.3%" she looked to skorn and Shrapnel "i may have been to quick to point my finger and accuse,but it seems we are all here for about the same reason"

her ring flashed another warning at another battle and what seemed like a fading life signature "if this threat is happening here we need to stop it....before they get off planet, ive picked up a life sign not to far from here, with any luck its someone who can bring us up to speed on what is happening, you two go ahead to where the first battle you picked up, I will try to help this other life sign i found" and without giving them a chance to disagree or deny her she flew off in a flash of violet light and made her way towards life sign but as she landed she found nothing but death "ring where is the survivor?" she asked seeing a battle did take place here after a slaughter of innocents the ring spoke back " target acquired, at this location"