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Arlington, Texas is the home city for two of America's biggest aeronautics and space travel research companies, Ferris Aircraft and HammondTec LLC. Through a joint venture between these two giants, the first manned mission to Mars was accomplished in 2007, and both became extremely valued in the eyes of the government. HammondTec's founder and president, Hector Hammond, had been coasting on this breakthrough for years, while Ferris Aircraft's founder and president, Carol Ferris, had not found it in herself to just rest. She had begun to take an interest in the technology behind Arlington's resident hero, the Green Lantern, the superhero/space-cop identity of photojournalist Alexandra DeWitt. Green Lantern rebuffed Ferris' offer to study her Lantern's nanotechnology, as this is supposed to be a long-guarded secret of the Guardians, the leaders of the intergalactic Spectrum Lantern Alliance. After witnessing this refusal, soon followed by Green Lantern saving the life of pilot Hal Jordan, who is also Carol's love, Hector decided that the technology she wielded to be a great boon in the hands of mankind (not to mention the fame and money that would come with giving humanity this gift).
Mr. Hammond began his research by hiring private investigator Mark Richards to locate Green Lantern on one of her patrols and record everything he could about her powers. Hal, the pilot from earlier, approached Hector because, before his life was saved by Green Lantern that day, he heard Carol being refused by the heroine. After hearing on the grapevine that Richards was tailing Green Lantern for Hammond, he had to talk to Hector. In the middle of that flight, Hal began experiencing extremely intruding hallucinations, and he could somehow make out a first-person view of Green Lantern using her powers in some heated space battle against alien foes. He had no idea what it meant, and thought Hector could help somehow. Dr. Johnathan Bemis, Hammond's personal psychologist, analyzed Hal's psyche and ordered a full-spectrum analysis of his biology. This is how Hammond discovered that Hal was infected with the Lanterns' nanotechnology, which is normally undetectable by conventional medical analysis. They kept this info from Hal and extracted some of the technology in his blood. Dr. Bemis became concerned that Hector had become obsessed with the technology and was planning to do something about it, so Hammond had Richards strong-arm Bemis into silence. Even after an accident in his top-secret research facility injured Hammond, it would not stop him from harnessing the Green Lantern's technology.
One night, Alex returned from her newspaper job to find her apartment in disarray; she followed the mess into the kitchen and found, to her horror, that her boyfriend Kyle was crucially injured and shoved into the fridge! Green Lantern flew Kyle to the hospital and surgeons raced to save his life; when Alex arrived at the ER in her civilian form, a man walked up to her and handed her a note, which said:
“I know who you are. -Hammond”
Richards had discovered Alex's secret identity and reported it to Hammond. Green Lantern raced to HammondTec to face Hector, whose cranium began deforming and expanding due to the prototype nanotechnology. She tried to use her powers, but he activated a resonance array that canceled her powers and trapped her. With Jordan and Dr. Bemis as a captive audience, Hammond had Richards chop off Alex's hand to seize her lantern. Seizing the lantern and injecting himself with Jordan's blood, so much of which was taken that he was a desiccated husk, Hammond gained the powers of the lantern and his mad influence began slowly reaching into the city. Alex broke free and summoned back her lantern, using her powers to reattach her hand, but Hammond was able to control his nanobots without any need for a lantern. Green Lantern and Hector Hammond did battle, ending in Alex overloading Hammond's powers and breaking his mind! Agents of CADMUS arrived soon after to cover up the incident, and haul off Hammond, who was comatose and gained a cranium so large he couldn't move otherwise. Dr. Bemis and Richards were collected too, as they were also exposed to the flux of lantern nanotech, along with Jordan.
Alex returned to the hospital to find that Kyle had survived and was going to make a full recovery.

Meanwhile, the dead body of a high-ranking US military official had been found. The message found said:
"Sec-Rets-Must-Be-Re-Vealed"

Notes:
* Hal Jordan lived in New Orleans (standing in for Coast City), but traveled to Texas as part of his job as test pilot for Ferris Aircraft.
* I don't know where Alex DeWitt lived in the original comics, so I decided it would be Arlington.
* Mark Richards, in the main comics, is the second Tattooed Man. The first was a villain of Green Lantern's.
* John Bemis is an amalgamation of two men who took the villain persona Dr. Destiny, one of them a Lantern villain.
* The accident that resulted in Hammond's initial mutation was derived from an attempt to create their version of Lantern nanotechnology.
* I came up with a reversal of that infamous comics moment where Green Lantern Kyle lost his girlfriend to a villain and found her corpse in a fridge. I know that an alternate universe had Kyle die and refrigerated, so I had AbDC Kyle survive in the end.
* Alex managed to save Hal's life after defeating Hector by re-securing his blood from Hector's body and injecting it back into him harmlessly.
** Recovering in a CADMUS facility, Hal Jordan will remember that he was a Green Lantern once, and that the Guardians erased his memories when he disobeyed their orders to save his home city from a storm. And this will make him mad...

Description
Arlington, Texas is the home city for two of America's biggest aeronautics and space travel research companies, Ferris Aircraft and HammondTec LLC. Through a joint venture between these two giants, the first manned mission to Mars was accomplished in 2007, and both became extremely valued in the eyes of the government. HammondTec's founder and president, Hector Hammond, had been coasting on this breakthrough for years, while Ferris Aircraft's founder and president, Carol Ferris, had not found it in herself to just rest. She had begun to take an interest in the technology behind Arlington's resident hero, the Green Lantern, the superhero/space-cop identity of photojournalist Alexandra DeWitt. Green Lantern rebuffed Ferris' offer to study her Lantern's nanotechnology, as this is supposed to be a long-guarded secret of the Guardians, the leaders of the intergalactic Spectrum Lantern Alliance. After witnessing this refusal, soon followed by Green Lantern saving the life of pilot Hal Jordan, who is also Carol's love, Hector decided that the technology she wielded to be a great boon in the hands of mankind (not to mention the fame and money that would come with giving humanity this gift).
Mr. Hammond began his research by hiring private investigator Mark Richards to locate Green Lantern on one of her patrols and record everything he could about her powers. Hal, the pilot from earlier, approached Hector because, before his life was saved by Green Lantern that day, he heard Carol being refused by the heroine. After hearing on the grapevine that Richards was tailing Green Lantern for Hammond, he had to talk to Hector. In the middle of that flight, Hal began experiencing extremely intruding hallucinations, and he could somehow make out a first-person view of Green Lantern using her powers in some heated space battle against alien foes. He had no idea what it meant, and thought Hector could help somehow. Dr. Johnathan Bemis, Hammond's personal psychologist, analyzed Hal's psyche and ordered a full-spectrum analysis of his biology. This is how Hammond discovered that Hal was infected with the Lanterns' nanotechnology, which is normally undetectable by conventional medical analysis. They kept this info from Hal and extracted some of the technology in his blood. Dr. Bemis became concerned that Hector had become obsessed with the technology and was planning to do something about it, so Hammond had Richards strong-arm Bemis into silence. Even after an accident in his top-secret research facility injured Hammond, it would not stop him from harnessing the Green Lantern's technology.
One night, Alex returned from her newspaper job to find her apartment in disarray; she followed the mess into the kitchen and found, to her horror, that her boyfriend Kyle was crucially injured and shoved into the fridge! Green Lantern flew Kyle to the hospital and surgeons raced to save his life; when Alex arrived at the ER in her civilian form, a man walked up to her and handed her a note, which said:
“I know who you are. -Hammond”
Richards had discovered Alex's secret identity and reported it to Hammond. Green Lantern raced to HammondTec to face Hector, whose cranium began deforming and expanding due to the prototype nanotechnology. She tried to use her powers, but he activated a resonance array that canceled her powers and trapped her. With Jordan and Dr. Bemis as a captive audience, Hammond had Richards chop off Alex's hand to seize her lantern. Seizing the lantern and injecting himself with Jordan's blood, so much of which was taken that he was a desiccated husk, Hammond gained the powers of the lantern and his mad influence began slowly reaching into the city. Alex broke free and summoned back her lantern, using her powers to reattach her hand, but Hammond was able to control his nanobots without any need for a lantern. Green Lantern and Hector Hammond did battle, ending in Alex overloading Hammond's powers and breaking his mind! Agents of CADMUS arrived soon after to cover up the incident, and haul off Hammond, who was comatose and gained a cranium so large he couldn't move otherwise. Dr. Bemis and Richards were collected too, as they were also exposed to the flux of lantern nanotech, along with Jordan.
Alex returned to the hospital to find that Kyle had survived and was going to make a full recovery.

Meanwhile, the dead body of a high-ranking US military official had been found. The message found said:
"Sec-Rets-Must-Be-Re-Vealed"

Notes:
* Hal Jordan lived in New Orleans (standing in for Coast City), but traveled to Texas as part of his job as test pilot for Ferris Aircraft.
* I don't know where Alex DeWitt lived in the original comics, so I decided it would be Arlington.
* Mark Richards, in the main comics, is the second Tattooed Man. The first was a villain of Green Lantern's.
* John Bemis is an amalgamation of two men who took the villain persona Dr. Destiny, one of them a Lantern villain.
* The accident that resulted in Hammond's initial mutation was derived from an attempt to create their version of Lantern nanotechnology.
* I came up with a reversal of that infamous comics moment where Green Lantern Kyle lost his girlfriend to a villain and found her corpse in a fridge. I know that an alternate universe had Kyle die and refrigerated, so I had AbDC Kyle survive in the end.
* Alex managed to save Hal's life after defeating Hector by re-securing his blood from Hector's body and injecting it back into him harmlessly.
** Recovering in a CADMUS facility, Hal Jordan will remember that he was a Green Lantern once, and that the Guardians erased his memories when he disobeyed their orders to save his home city from a storm. And this will make him mad...