The City's New Guardian (Open)

[Kyle Rayner - Green Lantern]

Kyle was walking down the street in his hometown, good 'ol Coast City. At the moment it was a bright, sunny beautiful day, and Kyle was planning on enjoying it to the fullest. At the moment, he was lacking a shirt, but had on shorts and flip-flops, and his ever-present bag slung over one shoulder. He was going to meet J.R. at a cafe on the boardwalk so they could discuss their new comic series, the one they were doing for Hunter. He was also whistling "Pocketful of Sunshine" by Natasha Bedingfield, partially because it had been playing on the radio when he drove to boardwalk parking.
"And there he is! Everyone's favorite intergalactic policeman!" J.R. yelled as he waved at him from a table on the patio of the cafe, a small bar and grill called "Tubular". The chicken sandwiches were really good, and there was surfing memorabilia all over the walls and ceiling.
"You realize there's a reason the costume has a mask, right?" Kyle said as he sat down, setting his bag on the ground next to him.
"You realize I'm just messing with you, right?" J.R. replied, clapping Kyle on the shoulder from across the table. The waitress walked up, with a glass of beer in one hand.
"Oh, would you like anything to drink?" The waitress asked Kyle upon noticing his presence.
"Yes, I would like a glass of Heineken." Kyle said, already getting out his wallet to show her his ID. Upon presenting it, she nodded, gave it back, and left, presumably to get his drink.
"Dude, they always card us here." J.R. said after she left.
"It's no biggie, dude. So, you said you had an idea?" Kyle said, referring to the text message that had brought him to Tubular for this very meeting.
J.R. simply gestured at Kyle in response.
"You have to be kidding." Kyle said.
"Dude, I'm not referring specifically to you. I'm referring to the ring." J.R. said.
"...My God, that's genius!" Kyle said after a moment's thought.
"Exactly! Dude, you're a walking comic series!" J.R. said, pausing as the waitress set down Kyle's drink.
Kyle took a sip, and replied, "Our jobs are well-earned. Of course, we can't just take my life and put it in comic format. We'll need to come up with everything except the hero's powers."
"I know." J.R. replied as he reached into his own bag and pulled out a spiral notebook, handing it to Kyle.
Kyle looked through it for a minute, taking a few drink breaks, then said, "Do you have a first edition storyline?"
"I'm buffing the edges at the moment, but the general idea is that the hero, Hal Jordan, is getting his powers as the Emeralder of Section 26-17," 'Emeralder' having been the name that J.R. had come up with for the comics version of the Green Lantern, "and having him fight a powerful demon named Mallax as his first fight." J.R. said.
"Does Mallax have a skill set and powers?" Kyle asked.
"I said I'm buffing the edges. Chill, man."
"We gotta get the rough draft of edition 1 to Mr. Johnson by the end of the month, dude. It'll probably take me about a week and a half to draw this, provided nothing comes up." Kyle said, trying to emphasize the hurry.
"Chill, dude. I got it handled." J.R. said.
"You don't exactly look like it." Kyle replied, when he heard the shot. Right before it happened, there was one of those moments where everyone seems to go silent at the same time, resulting in a clear, loud bang echoing from the city.
"That sounds like your cue." J.R. said.
"When did you become the Green Lantern's sidekick?" Kyle said as he rose.
"Right around the time you showed me the cool new toy you'd gotten about a year ago." J.R. replied, smiling. Kyle ran off, muttering something. He ducked into an alleyway and let the ring do it's work, changing into the costume of the Green Lantern and flying off in the general direction of Coast City, toward what he would soon learn was a bank robbery in progress.

[Kyle Rayner - Green Lantern]

~~~ACROSS TOWN~~~
In Coast City Central Bank and Deposit, there was a group of masked gunman with automatic rifles holding the people inside hostage. There were around 12 hostages, and each looked like they had something duct-taped to their torsos, in addition to having their hands tied with duct tape and mouths taped shut. The CCPD had the building surrounded.
"Come out with your hands up, and no one gets hurt!" One of the cops yelled through a bullhorn into the bank. The robbers ignored them and continued rifling through the vault, which they had blasted open earlier, resulting in the bang that was about to result in their plan immediately and spectacularly failing. And it began with a green streak of light flying and landing in front of the bank, in the No Man's Land between the cops and the bank itself. The light dispersed to reveal the Green Lantern.
"Stand down, gentlemen. I got this." Kyle said over his shoulder at the cops, before walking into the building. The cops immediately began whispering amongst themselves.
"You take one more step, buddy, and this whole place goes up!" One of the robbers yelled at the advancing intergalactic peacekeeper.
"And how exactly will that happen?" Kyle asked.
"This here dead man's switch is linked to C4. Each of the hostages there has about 2 pounds of the good stuff each duct-taped to their bodies. If my finger comes off this switch for even a second, BOOM!" The robber explained after pulling out and pushing the button on the dead man's switch in question.
"Is that so?" Kyle asked. "So if the hostages were to be removed from the building and the C4 defused, that would render the switch useless, correct?"
"I dunno. I think so." The robber said.
"Great!" Kyle said, as his ring began to glow. Suddenly, a green translucent box appeared around the hostages. It lifted into the air and slowly began moving toward the door.
"H-hey! The hostages are escaping!" One of the robbers yelled.
"You guys got bomb squad back there?" Kyle yelled at the assembled cops. A few came forward, and Kyle could see the label on their vests.
"Yessir, we do." the one who appeared to be leading them replied.
"Awesome. I've got about 24 pounds of C4 that needs defusing coming your way right around now." Kyle said as the box made it's way out of the doors, with a few robbers in pursuit. They soon ran into walls of green brick which had spontaneously appeared in front of them. "If you boys could be a little snappy about it, that would be just dandy."
The cops hastily nodded as the box set down in front of them, and the side closest to them vanished, allowing the cops access. They got to work immediately.
"Now, as for you people..." Kyle said, deliberately trailing off as he turned back towards the bank. One began firing at him, but a green shield deflected the bullets. Kyle smiled evilly and conjured up a rather interesting apparatus: a belt with a minigun mounted on each hip. He walked into the bank, blocking the door and yelled, "Who's first?.