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Tales of the Green Lantern Corps
Ch'p
Monk on a Mission
Book One
Part 1
Ch'p and Doctor Ub'x were chatting about old times at the Green Lantern Corps Headquarters. Very recently, Ub'x returned to destroy the Green Lantern Ch'p, his arch-enemy, whose own planet H'lven no longer remembered him. However, knowing that if he had done that he would be "alone" on a world of "biggies," he spared him. The "last wave" of the Crisis hit soon after, and almost blinked him out of existence, when Ch'p saved him using his power ring. They were now fast friends, two "funny animals" on a world of towering humans.
"I really miss her, Ub'x," Ch'p moaned over a short glass of cider. "M'nn'e was one of a kind."
"You know," Doctor Ub'x replied, still sober, "you could always go back there and win her back. She may not remember you, but there's no reason why you can't befriend her now."
"No, she's remarried, to my old friend, D'll. And neither of them remember me at all." Ch'p's head hung low. "I don't know if I'll ever find another one like her."
"Well, you won't find another one like her on this planet, that's for sure..." Doctor Ub'x's intense, large eyes stared off into the distance.
The next day, Ch'p awoke under the tree just outside the GLC Headquarters, where he had fallen asleep the night before. Doctor Ub'x was already gone.
"Where did that rascal go?" he wondered.
Inside, he went into the room designated as Dr. Ub'x's laboratory. Now reformed, he put his genius to work for the GLC. There he saw Dr. Ub'x, goggles over his eyes, staring into a bright blue vortex he'd created before him.
"Wow, I'm impressed, Doc. What is that thing?"
Dr. Ub'x apparently hadn't heard him, and in a moment, he jumped through the vortex.
"Doc!" Ch'p saw his friend disappear into a vortex. Without thinking, he followed after him. After what they'd been through together, he wasn't about to lose him now.