Razer is interested in seeing Specs try being Blue and Green at the same time.
“Razer, my love, we have discussed this.”
“I know, Aya, but imagine that power!”
“I don’t have to, Razer.”
Aya gives him a stern look.
She has been superpowered. It killed her. Razer was there.
“You’re right…”
He turns to Specs.
“I’m sorry…”
More quickly, he turns to Aya, takes her cheek in his hand, and kisses her gently.
The creature that came through the malformed opening with Halo was Syndrome: Static, the audio sensation of confusion and self-doubt. His form is difficult to define—overlapping parts, an amalgam of random bits and specks of other things, false in itself.
Static can haunt someone, make them think they hear things. Syndrome makes them doubt themselves and strives to take them down. His twin, Vertigo, takes them down in a different way. Vertigo goes by the sound they chime and looks as though they stepped off a nineties romance novel.
Specs seeks out Rot Lop Fan for insight into Sound and its connections. Rot Lop Fan wields the Sound of Will.
Green and Rot Lop Fan face Syndrome. Vertigo joins the fight.
Green forgoes his Ring construct and changes to a bell.
The two bells ring in unison.
It is as though the line is open. Both bells and their wielders begin to feel—and hear—their bodies hum.
Again they ring their bells. Again they ring out, like two Green Lanterns charged by a hundred Blue Lanterns of Hope.
It is not enough.
“I got this shit!!!!!”
Green lifts his arm upward with a loud cry.
A bell appears. Not just any bell: a giant, huge, Green Liberty Bell.
“Hey, Bell-Boy! Bang your bell on this!!!”
Rot Lop Fan flies at the powered-up speed of Sound. He takes his pose and bangs his instrument against the great Liberty Bell construct.
The sound reverberates loudly through space, striking the twins.
They crack like mirrors.
Then they shatter. Small particles of Sound given form scatter far.
When Rot Lop Fan strikes the Liberty Bell, he truly becomes Rot Lop Fan, the Sound of Will.
It took two to open the connection. With fewer people tapping it, the tap is stronger. Green could pursue that path and become far more powerful than most Green Lanterns, but doing so would take from what he helped Rot Lop Fan unlock.
Specs proudly leaves it to him. Rot Lop Fan now represents the Sound of Will and is its sole user. He may need all he can get.
They both somehow know the scattered twins will pull themselves back together.
“I have a feeling that will find itself back together… and I have a feeling I don’t want to know what it looks like.”
Specs tries to explain a high five.
When they manage it, there is a flash.
Gold.
For once, they have learned something solid: Green and Will touch Sound, too.
Specs heads back to Oa. Using Green with the Sound of Will has been an interesting experience, but he leaves that path with his sound buddy.
Razer is in town. He is not an average Red or an average Blue; he is the only Blue/Red there is. Specs wants to train with him and learn from his point of view.
A bell and a mushroom — placement unresolved
Specs goes Green, makes a bell, and rings it.
The Green responds.
A mushroom grows.
