Our Darkest Hour
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Chapter 10: Rings of Light Part 2
Deadpool tilted his head,
"Hey, he changed back! That's not fair!"
Satana said in that haunting voice,
"Then, we'll just have to change him back!"
Crisis was about to get in front of Persiana, but the newest Star Sapphire member said,
"Wait."
The red-eyed soldier looked at his girlfriend, who, moments ago had a near broken shoulder. The ring had healed her and she said,
"Let me."
She channeled the violet energy from her ring to that of a blast her gaze locked right onto Satana. The furry heroine snarled,
"Get away from my man."
A large blast was launched, and, in seconds, flattened the undead succubus into walls for several blocks.
Right above them, Superman looked down and saw the violet energy blast. He looked at Wonder Woman,
"What the…what's that?"
Hawkgirl then suddenly screamed and, as the Man of Steel turned, he saw his teammate, dressed like a Red Lantern and clutching her mace tightly, roar with fury and slam it into Martian Manhunter. Ice shook her head,
"Hawkgirl, please. J'onn is still our friend."
A look of malevolent intent was cast at the ice-making Indigo Tribe member, and Hawkgirl would have gone after her, if she were not ambushed by Grim Reaper himself,
"Join us now!"
Sinestro shook his head,
"My ring is detecting more and more rings from different Corps activating."
His ring then intoned,
"Two Sinestro Corps rings have activated. Both are destined for Earth."
The leader of the Corps was surprised,
"What? I did not authorize this-."
It was then a beam of yellow light came from below them and, Crisis, now clad in the Sinestro Corps colors, was hovering alongside his girlfriend.
Barry Allen, the Flash, looked a little surprised,
"The rings must be finding people that can interact with them."
Crisis looked at Sinestro,
"Just because I'm wearing this doesn't mean I'm joining you."
Sinestro narrowed his eyes,
"I will deal with your insolence later Earthling. Right now-."
A voice then roared across the skies,
"DOOOOMMMMM!"
Farrah swallowed,
"That can't be good."
A streak of orange light pierced its way through numerous members of the Black Lantern Corps, many of them being reduced to ashes in seconds. Doctor Doom, the masked ruler of Latveria, was now the sole heir to the legacy of the Orange Lantern of avarice, and it looked like nothing was going to get in his way,
"Give to Doom what is mine!"
He unleashed orange energy in the form of many of the victims slain by users of the Orange Lantern. One of those constructs was Mongul, and he began pounding Black Lanterns left and right. The white-haired lioness blinked,
"OK, this is gonna sound like a dumb question, but is Doom supposed to have that power?"
Crisis shook his head,
"I don't know."
Sinestro added,
"It matters little, anyway. The point is, now that the Orange Lantern has a user, we can combine our energies and have a chance at fighting back the invading Black Lantern Corps."
He charged up a blast of yellow energy and cleared away some of the Black Lantern members.
War Machine, still infused with the Black Lantern's power, began spraying the area with black energy, hoping to convert others to rally. Guy Gardner, creating a red construct of a chain saw, barreled in, the napalm-like fluid escaping his mouth. War Machine blocked the chain saw and fired his shoulder-mounted missiles, commenting,
"It is useless to resist."
A blast of violet energy from Persiana drew his attention. The violet ring user shook her head,
"I know, but we gotta try."
Superman then saw more streaks across the sky and, in moments, heard a maniacal laughter. One of the yellow lantern rings had made its way to Arkham, where the Riddler, as well as some of the henchmen that were with him, had been terrorizing the institution. It was there that Jonathan Crane, the fear inducing villain Scarecrow, joined the Sinestro Corps and began blasting the place with yellow energy. He had created a yellow pitchfork and a flock of crows to do his bidding as he not only escaped, but seemed to go mad with glee as he discovered the true essence of fear.
Then, another streak, this one in red, appeared near Looker, a vampire that played host to a TV show. She saw the man she loved, J'onn J'onzz, as a Black Lantern, and became enraged. She wanted to kill that thing in the hopes that the real J'onn would come back.
All of this was happening with the full view of the Grim Reaper and Scar, who had teleported the newly appointed Black Lantern leader away from the battle in Africa. Captain America was leading his team valiantly against the undead gorillas that were once the inhabitants of Gorilla City. The former member of the Maggia shook his head,
"The rings have gathered. It will not be long before we are finished."
Scar nodded,
"I sense more rings are activating. The being called Wonder Woman has also received her ring of violet light, Troia the Indigo Tribe staff, and even the Flash has received the blue ring."
She then sensed a telepathic message from the Void,
"Sacrifice yourself and Reaper to me, so that I may take control of both of you and win this fight, for death will remain eternal."
The undead Guardian seemed to reflect on this dangerous notion…
Meanwhile…
In a distant corner of the galaxy, through the darkness of the vastness of space, a small, white light seemed incapable of being enveloped in the folds of blackness. Then, the light grew brighter and headed for Earth…
Next Chapter:
Scar attempts a dangerous, unholy ritual in the hopes of victory for the Black Lantern Corps! Stay tuned, fellow readers!