"Let me find a piece of scrap." He goes and finds a chunk of wood. "I'm going to make it really small, and it shouldn't punch through, but don't stick anything you like anywhere near it, okay?"

"I will not put any matter anywhere nearby, don't worry."

"...or any, uh, non-matter, that you like, probably."

He considers trying to explain but settles for. "Sure. Don't worry about it."

The guy nods and sets the chunk of wood down and chants over it INCREDIBLY OMINOUSLY.

When Theo gets into a fight, if the opponent can throw enough power around to actually hurt him, his glowing aura turns into burning holographic blood, which also fills up his wounds to keep him patched up and fighting. Also, if he can't beat someone (overlapping but not the same problem), he first sprouts massive glowing horns, and if that doesn't help enough he is surrounded by a giant furious red bull several stories tall.

He is not going to be the one to judge anyone for being ominous.

And then there is one of those horrible-to-look-upon spots in the chunk of wood, very small, not deep enough to see through.

"Right. Let's see what this does in the void of space." This thing is ugly and annoying and destructive and he is going to get fucking rid of it, and he extends a bubble from his shield and catches the wood, floating it alongside him.

"Might as well go find someone who needs their disease killed now, the radio isn't heavy. I'll tell you when I'm ready for you."

And then he'll give a little salute and go back to space.

"I'll go looking." He jogs out of the building.

Well, he left the bubble tight around the wood but loose around the disappearance point itself until he got out into space. And outside the planet's orbit, clearing a little ways beyond where the moon could hit, holding the point perpendicular to the plane of the ecliptic in case he wants to suddenly shove it at a few thousand miles an hour when something goes wrong.

The first thing he does is to cut away everything except a cone in the point's path with razors made of red light, then slicing closer and closer until he's made it nearly a slightly-rounded disc.

...okay. Safe part over.

What happens when he cuts even closer, hard-light construct cutting right up to the boundary of the disappearance point? It's not matter, but it can be disrupted, and that seems very plausible.

Yeah, it fizzles away when it hits disappearance.

Okay. He half-expected that. But it didn't fizzle away before that. He can cut a disappearance point out of its surroundings and throw it. That doesn't solve the problem, but it can prevent it getting worse.

Assuming, of course, that this next thing doesn't blow up in his face.

Ring, I don't want to go back down for this, contact the radio.

"Red Lantern to - fuck, I forgot to ask your name. Tell me when you're ready and I'll give you the cue. Don't go before I tell you."

Fortunately on this scale he can ignore lightspeed delay easily. Lantern rings are bullshit.

"It's Panj. Uh - if the blood paint dries the spell won't work, when I'm ready will you be ready within, like, a minute?"

"That'll be fine, Panj. I'll need - ten seconds, probably less."

"Okay, getting underway, give me ten."

He has, actually, deliberately cultivated impatience to a degree. But ten-twenty seconds is fine.

"How long's the incantation take, about the same as the other one?"

Ten minutes, actually. "The incantation is shorter but that doesn't need a design and this does."

Okay, then he'll be getting a little annoyed. He's okay, he can try to orient himself to the galaxy he's in or whatever.

"Sounds good," is all he says

Then: "Ready."

"Start in five... four... three..." He starts accelerating nearly perpendicular to the plane of the ecliptic, having already checked (because it was easy) that he isn't aiming anywhere near a star. "Two... one... go."

If this goes wrong, it will be heading way out of the solar system, but for the next minute or five he'll be keeping pace with it. There might be a lightspeed lag but it'll be ten seconds at most.

The chant begins. The disappearance point spears through the wood.

And when there's no more wood?

It balloons through the available space, consuming interstellar debris until it's eaten a fair chunk of space and is satisfied with that.

FUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCK!*

Theo was not right next to the point in absolute terms. But if you make a radius based on how much distance you'd need to cover to include the mass of the block before he started to shave it down? Then you are in astronomical terms, and he was very close in astronomical terms.

He is no longer keeping pace with it. He is miles away within a second...

*Note: Lanterns who are currently feeling an intense concentration of an emotion other than their fuel, such as fear for anything but a Yellow Lantern, either completely lose their active effects or, if they're as skilled as an Illustres, lose control of most things and have drastically reduced strength for everything else.