Parallax towered over the battlefield—smoke swirling, his colossal face spanning dozens of meters. Even though the future Supergirl might one day possess the courage to face any enemy, the Kara Danvers standing here now—who'd merely rushed over on a whim—couldn't help feeling nervous. She peeked around anxiously at the gigantic monster, her heart sinking.
Were these Earth defenders seriously overestimating her? Her very first real fight, and they threw this at her?
Thea Queen naturally saw the girl's hesitance. Kara's fists were clenched, her stance eager to charge in—but the nervousness overshadowed everything. She thought it was her own anxiety, but in truth she was already being affected by Parallax's fear aura.
While still fending off the combined assault from two resurrected Green Lantern warriors, Thea had to simultaneously brief Kara on the battlefield situation. "Exhausting" didn't begin to cover it.
"Hey, kid—can you hear me?" Thea kept her voice low, wary of Batman and various government agencies listening in. Even across this distance, Kryptonian hearing would catch her words—so she switched her ring to its language function and spoke in pure Kryptonian.
The sudden sound of her "mother tongue" stunned Kara. She had left Krypton at age twelve, spent years frozen in the Phantom Zone, and had been on Earth for only four years. She looked far younger than the world-weary Clark, but she was his biological cousin.
"H-How does she…?" Kara's face changed drastically. She turned to Clark for answers.
Clark, still weakened from taking a full-force strike from a green energy blade mimicking kryptonite radiation, murmured weakly, "I've only met her twice. Her powers are… weird. She's not Kryptonian."
"You two can hear me, right? If yes—nod."
Thea's yellow-lit eyes never left her opponents, yet she saw everything. The transformed Horus Eye had merged with the yellow ring, granting it a new layer of perception. When her gaze swept past Kara, the girl felt as though some ancient desert beast was staring straight into her soul—instinctively shrinking her neck.
Kara quickly nodded. Can she really see from that far away!?
Oh, she absolutely could.
"I'll keep it short. These green guys? They counter Kryptonians. You saw what they did to the big guy. I need you to pin down the smoke monster. He's currently hammering that green-suited idiot—he's on our side. The other five? They're enemies. Do not engage them directly. Just distract the monster. Got it?"
"…Okay…" Kara swallowed hard, but after a glance at the recovering Superman, she shot upward to meet Parallax head-on.
Her first real battle—still affected by fear yet simultaneously empowered by Thea's Eternal Night spell—pushed her just a bit stronger than usual.
Her interference freed Hal Jordan, who had been barely standing. Even from a distance, Parallax's aura hit him hard, and Thea's discrimination barrier reduced his output by nearly a third. If Kara hadn't arrived, Hal would've been the first body on the ground.
Thea had originally planned to send him to support Batman, but judging by how the man looked seconds from collapsing, she instantly abandoned the idea.
Good thing Diana was on the field.
Empowered by joy, courage, and divine might, Diana's Lasso of Truth snared one resurrected Lantern. With a single shield blow, she shattered his head like clay. The second fell moments later beneath a blast of divine energy from her silver bracelets. The so-called "greatest warriors" of their eras—their bodies already drained long ago—turned to dust along with their rings, dissolving into nothingness on this distant world.
Her tactical instincts sharp, Diana immediately recognized Batman's dire state—despite Nightwing's risky support. She left Thea and flew to the Dark Knight.
Batman had truly reached his limit—drenched in sweat, mind stretched razor-thin. Nightwing had taken a green energy blast through the abdomen, and Batman had urgently sent him away in a Batplane for medical treatment.
With Superman, Hal, and Batman all forced to retreat, the battlefield shifted dramatically.
Diana—the strongest—dominated her opponent.
Thea held her own two-on-one.
And inexperienced, nervous Kara—who couldn't even use heat vision yet—was being blasted around by Parallax's sweeping yellow beams.
Still, her instincts were sharp. She didn't try to overpower the monster. Instead, she constantly disrupted its line of attack, weaving through the air to scatter its aim and buy time.
The resurrected Lanterns, equally experienced, stopped trying to break through and instead focused entirely on delaying Thea and Diana.
A tense stalemate settled over the battlefield.
"Catch!" Hal Jordan, barely conscious and running on fumes, canceled his transformation and hurled his Green Lantern ring straight at Thea. He had no idea how rings actually worked—he simply thought Thea had used one before, so adding a second should strengthen her and help end the fight.
Thea caught the ring mid-air—and froze.
You don't just… put on any Lantern ring. That's how you get possessed, controlled, corrupted, or worse.
In the future, plenty of monsters would wield multiple rings, even all seven. But today, at this moment, wearing two rings was something unprecedented—something dangerous.
Should she risk it?
While blocking attacks from two Lantern elites, Thea weighed her options intensely.
If others can do it…
Then so can I.
Something deep inside told her she should take it.
She made her decision.
She slipped the Green Lantern ring onto her left middle finger.
At that exact moment—BOOM—
A vision exploded in her mind.
The universe peeled itself open before her. Colossal, endless wall-like structures—ancient, rugged, immeasurably vast—filled her sight.
Most Lanterns wouldn't recognize it.
But Thea knew instantly:
The Wall of Origin — the boundary of this universe.
And clinging to it—
Cosmic dust.
Broken planets.
And…the bodies of titans who had challenged creation itself.
There lay Yuga Khan—the tyrant whose eyelids could erase moons, the monster who once terrified Darkseid into trembling.
The ring merely brushed the surface of revelation… then withdrew, showing her nothing more.
But Thea knew one thing:
She had stepped into a power no one on Earth had ever touched before.