As time passed and Larfleeze’s reliance on the orange light grew to untold, paranoid heights, Larfleeze’s mantra of everything being “Mine!” became something of a religion for him, and when the Controllers, an off-shoot of the Guardians of the Universe, showed up on his doorstep to attempt to take the orange lantern from him in order to make their own Corps, Larfleeze summarily slaughtered them using the orange constructs of fallen enemies (more on that later). After the scuffle with the pursuing Guardians and Manhunters, Larfleeze beat the remaining thief to death and laid claim to the power of greed. While there, they were able to obtain various artifacts of great importance including the box that contained Parallax and a map that eventually led them to the orange light of avarice deep in the far off Vega System. Joining up with the aforementioned guild of thieves, Larfleeze found himself on the Guardians of the Universe’s original homeworld of Maltus. And as even more time passed, the whispers grew worse until Larfleeze was able to escape his hellish internment and strike out into a universe that now labeled him a criminal. After a time, and with fatigue and hunger closing in on all sides, Larfleeze began hearing the “voices” of the material possessions that his overlords possessed beckoning for him to own them. Taken from his parents at a young age, Larfleeze was forced to work as a slave in a cruel and harsh environment that saw his captors starve and abuse him and his fellow slaves for no other reason than to weed out the ones unfit for the back-breaking work forced upon them. Based on the information dictated by Larfleeze himself (who has been known to exaggerate and manipulate more often than not), his early life was one of loss and hardship. Given the codename Agent Orange by the surviving Guardians, the thief who laid claim to the Orange Lantern Power Battery was at first known as Larfleeze, a member of a long-lived species of alien who’s back story is as muddled and scattered with lies as his trustworthiness is. The thieves agreed and handed over the box containing Parallax, and as the Guardians absconded with their prize, the spark of greed flickered in the eyes of one of the remaining thieves as he brutally murdered his comrade and took sole control over the power of the orange light, a power he would hoard over for years to come. Additionally, the Guardians promised that they would keep their policing forces out of the Vega System indefinitely, and no one would speak a word of this incident ever again. Only wanting the box that contained the Parallax entity, the Guardians struck up a deal with the remaining two thieves: give them Parallax and they could keep the Orange Lantern Power Battery and do with it as they saw fit. But when the Guardians and their robotic minions finally pushed into the temple itself and confronted the thieves, the orange light sapped the power of the Manhunters, and in the resulting chaos, several Guardians along with a member of the thieves guild were killed. Revealed to be an Orange Lantern Power Battery, the thieves began to fight over who would get to keep it, and started a violent struggle in the name of greed. Forced deeper into the forest and stumbling into a long-forgotten temple, the band of thieves came upon an orange light that called to them in their haste, mesmerizing them like a hypnotist out for revenge.
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