[5] A Star Hawkins back-up feature began with issue #6, drawn by Timothy Green II and Joseph Silver.

[7] In the conclusion of Green Lantern: New Guardians Annual #1 (March 2013), Jediah Caul, previously a deep cover member of the Green Lantern Corps working for the Guardians of the Universe, is captured and forced into The Hunted, with his discharged power ring embedded into his chest.

Starr is revealed to be working with Colonel T'omas T'morra, head of the resistance, to create blind spots for Hunted competitions.

[9] The "Crimson Thrust" hunt club attempts to ambush Stealth and Starr; however, they evade capture while taking out some of members.

Blue Beetle, last seen being captured by Lady Styx's henchmen,[10] is also dropped into the competition, but without his scarab armed.

Star Hawkins and Ilda, a robot uploaded with the personality and memories of his deceased wife, arrive to cloak Caul and tell him the location of his Green Lantern power battery.

T'morra thinks that they could use reverse-propaganda, to turn the tables on the game, because Stealth is one of the longest living contestants in The Hunted.

[8] Hawkins informs Caul of his power battery's location—a pocket dimension inside Bleeding Adonis' palace.

Caul decides to abandon the others trapped in the city,[13] only to have a change of heart, revealing that he had uploaded Ilda's memory chip into Brainiac's ship.

Brainiac quickly takes back control of his body, ejecting both Caul and the bottled city out of his ship.

Their conversation is disrupted by news alerts about Caul, now utilizing his power ring, re-entering Tolerance airspace.

After seeing a crowd cheering for Caul's return, Stealth begins to realize that T'morra's reverse-propaganda tactic might work.

Upon entering the Tolerance's space sector, he is contacted by Adonis who patches him into a call with Lady Styx.

After a brawl between the two, T'morra offers Caul a lead role on a new show, Team Cauldron with the rest of his friends and Hunted competitors.

Upon returning, after realizing someone had played a joke on him, he finds he had been robbed of all of his belongings, including his Orange Lantern Power Battery.

After a discussion with Stargrave, the Star Rovers agree to help Larleeze find his belongings, free of charge.

[11] The Star Rovers take Larfleeze and Stargrave to a space diner, where they had set up a meeting with Branx Rancor, a treasure hunter.

[8] The situation calms down and an agreement is reached by all parties involved; it is later revealed that Sayd is the true mastermind, previously thought dead.

T'morra intervenes, destroying the pictures and hires him to find out the identity of "The Legend", the first and longest surviving The Hunted competitor, and to bring them in.