Phil LaMarr credited as playing...
Green Lantern • John Stewart
- [last lines]
- Hawkgirl: Are you okay?
- Green Lantern: It's stupid really. Why should I feel like this? I mean, they weren't even real.
- Hawkgirl: They gave their lives for us. That's real enough for me.
- Green Lantern: [opening a book at the Seaboard City library] Blank.
- Hawkgirl: What?
- Green Lantern: [opening two more] They're all useless!
- Hawkgirl: [he shoves the books off the shelf in frustration] Let's check the newspaper archives in the basement.
- Green Lantern: Right.
- [opening the door and finding a brick wall blocking the way]
- Green Lantern: Why am I not surprised?
- Hawkgirl: I've had enough.
- Green Lantern: [she smashes the wall with her mace] Ladies first.
- Hawkgirl: [turning the power on] A subway station?
- Green Lantern: Must have been an earthquake or something.
- Hawkgirl: [taking a closer look at a subway car] No. These are battle scars.
- Green Lantern: [stepping on a newspaper] You're right, and look at the date.
- Hawkgirl: 40 years ago.
- Green Lantern: The same day as the last Justice Guild comic.
- Green Lantern: Haven't you noticed that nothing here makes sense? Library books with blank pages. Ice cream trucks that never stop.
- Hawkgirl: Dangers that spring up whenever someone gets too close to the truth.
- Green Guardsman: What truth?
- Green Lantern: That your world is an illusion, a living memory of a civilization that was destroyed fifty years ago. When The Justice Guild gave their lives for this Earth,
- [Tosses the newspaper with the headline JGA Killed In Battle in front of them]
- Green Lantern: that's why they stopped publishing the comic in our world. No more Justice Guild.
- Hawkgirl: And anytime someone tries to figure things out...
- The Flash: ...nuns and dynamite.
- Tom Turbine: If what you say is true, who or what is creating this illusion?
- J'onn J'onzz: I suggest you ask Ray.
- The Streak: Ray?
- Ray Thompson: Why would I know anything?
- J'onn J'onzz: Because you are the source.
- [puts his hands on Ray's shoulders; his eyes glow followed by Ray's glowing as well. Ray suddenly cringes]
- Ray Thompson: NOOOOOOOOO!
- [He morphs into a mutated creature with torn clothes and different- length arms and a big head, everyone else gasps in shock]
- Ray Thompson: You ruined it! You ruined everything!
- [fires a beam from his forehead into J'onn's chest, knocking him back towards The Flash, Cat Man, and Black Siren who catch him as he falls unconscious, then a giant red mechanical monster tears the roof off]
- The Flash: That's it, I officially want to go home.
- Green Lantern: You're all real?
- Ice Cream Man: It's like waking up from a dream.
- Green Lantern: I'm sorry. We destroyed your world.
- Ice Cream Man: No. We did that.
- Green Lantern: But now all that's left is this nightmare.
- Ice Cream Man: Being stuck in an ice cream truck for 40 years, that's a nightmare. Compared to that, rebuilding our world will be a piece of cake.
- Sgt. O'Shaughnessey: Thank you for giving us back our future.
- The Flash: So what now? How are we supposed to get home?
- Green Lantern: I have an idea. Come on.
- [at the remains of the JGA headquarters]
- Green Lantern: Remember when Tom Turbine said he had been working on a transdimensional gateway? It's possible that...
- [spotting the device]
- Green Lantern: Yes! There it is.
- The Flash: [wiping off a layer of dirt] What good's that gonna do? He was never able to find a way to power it.
- Green Lantern: True, but maybe I can.
- [doing so with his power ring]
- Green Lantern: I don't know how long I can hold it. Go!
- Ray Thompson: [returning to the JGA after a mission] Then, at the last second, Green Guardsman flies in and...
- [he imitates an explosion]
- The Flash: [trying to prompt the stoic Green Lantern and Hawkgirl] Some friends. It's a good thing the Justice Guild was around to save me.
- Green Lantern: They're not the Justice Guild.
- The Flash: Say what?
- Green Lantern: You heard me. They are *not* the Justice Guild.
- Ray Thompson: How can you say that?
- The Streak: This is a serious accusation, young man. Explain yourself.
- Green Lantern: No. You explain this.
- The Streak: [seeing the newspaper headline] "Justice Guild killed in battle"?
- Ray Thompson: It's a hoax! Some kind of sick joke.
- Green Lantern: It's no joke. The real Streak, Green Guardsman, Tom Turbine... they're all dead. I've seen their graves.
- Black Siren: H-He can't be serious... can he?
- Hawkgirl: It's true. I saw the grave.
- Green Lantern: But it doesn't make any sense.
- Hawkgirl: Look, I don't know who that is, but the real Green Guardsman is gone, and so are the rest of them.
- Green Lantern: No. I don't believe it!
- J'onn J'onzz: [watching him fly away] He seemed to take this quite personally.
- Hawkgirl: I'll bring him back. Wait here for Flash.
- Ice Cream Man: What can I do you for, folks?
- Green Lantern: What can you tell us about those graves on the hill?
- Ice Cream Man: [suddenly nervous] Sorry, I've gotta finish my route. Can't keep my customers waiting.
- Green Lantern: What customers? I noticed you before. You never stopped.
- Ice Cream Man: Business has been kind of dead.
- Green Lantern: [grabbing him] When's the last time you actually sold any ice cream?
- Ice Cream Man: Please, no more questions. He might hear you!
- Green Lantern: Who?
- Ice Cream Man: I can't say any more.
- [driving away]
- Ice Cream Man: Have a nice day!
- Hawkgirl: Curiouser and curiouser.
- Hawkgirl: [finding John at the graves of the Justice Guild] John, I'm sorry.
- Green Lantern: You were right. They're gone. All of them.
- Hawkgirl: Then who are those people back at the mansion? Robots? Clones?
- Green Lantern: I don't know, but I intend to get some answers.