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HM #1:
Tanakata Z

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It's TANAKATA ZZZZZZZZ

His name is one of my favorite things to say, it's like I'm watching an episode of Dragon Ball or something.

Anyways, this character showed up in one of our more recent missions and left a pretty good impression on me!

We were heading out into space, minding our own business, checkin up on this big brained dude that was up to no good... and when we got there, it was kind of just a big ol mess. Tanakata Z, along with a bunch of other Green Lanterns were being mind controlled and almost immediately we were thrust into a fight to beat up the mind controlly guy.

Battle was pretty fun! Had a lot of shenanigans... but overall wasn't too difficult... or take too long...

And this was at the start of the session... so once that was taken care of... we quickly found that ONE of the Green Lanterns had been MURDERED. It was an elephant Lantern.

I don't like elephants, but I still felt bad.

We couldn't exactly figure out why or how this Lantern had been murdered though, and we were about to set off, but a few of the PCs wanted to chat with the Lanterns first, maybe go over what had gone down here.

Data 7 went and had a talk with Tanakata Z before they were to return back to Oa... and they discussed getting revenge on who had done this terrible deed. Data 7 promised that he'd help him out to find the killer and get JUSTICE.

Tanakata Z was good friends with the elephant after all.

Then.

Just as we were about to head back. KABLAMO! One of our new Lantern friends was BLASTED through the head with a BEAM!

He was talking a lot so maybe that's why they targeted him first. But before we knew it, we were set upon by RED LANTERNS.

I like Red Lanterns... but they were kind of being huge bullies, y'know, killing our Green Lanterns friends and everything.

And they didn't stop with one, they killed a bunch of others as they started popping up.

Tanakata Z was about to give his last stand and defend against them while we were going to escape.

But I'm (And Data 7) are stubborn. Data 7 wasn't about let Tanakata Z get killed.

Tanakata Z had his arm blasted/melted off by red goopies, but Data 7 was able to grab and hull the rest of his unconscious form away, saving his life.

What then happened was a BUNCH of stuff where we are escaping from the Red Lanterns... finding ourselves almost dying multiple times... but never once did Data 7 let go of Tanakata Z. He wasn't about to let his new buddy just die like that!

Eventually we were able to convince one of the rings from one of the deceased Green Lanterns to give the unconscious form of Tanakata Z a lift back to Oa while we tried to deal with the rest of the Red Lanterns that had shown up... but perhaps that is a tale for another day.

Tanakata Z is currently held up in Oa's medical bay where Spirit awaits his awakening. What all went down with the Red Lanterns is sorta supposed to be hush hush so Spirit might have to get him to shut his face for awhile, but I can't imagine Tanakata Z wanting to stay in one place after knowing what happened to his friends.

He'll want revenge... and maybe he'll be happy Data 7 saved his big ol booty. At least I hope so!