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In fearful day in raging night, with strong hearts full our souls ignite
When all seems lost in the War of Light look to the stars,
For hope burns bright!
-Oath of the Blue Lantern Corps
Sector 2814. Planet Earth. Mt. Yamanuchi.
For generations, the Yamanuchi school had been teaching the path of the ninja warrior, as well as maintaining the legend of its founder, Toshimiru. The first Monkey Master was the stuff of legend for the students of Yamanuchi, as well as their teachers; none moreso than their Master Sensei. Sensei was a descendant of Toshimiru, and held his ancient ancestor in high regard. It was with a sad and heavy heart that he saw his forefather, now an undead monstrosity, destroying the school he had worked so hard to create.
The skeletal form of Toshimiru tore through the teachers and advanced students weilding a copy of the Lotus Blad created by the Black Lantern power ring on his finger. Blood was staining the black samurai armor he wore. "Is this the best you have?" the Black Lantern taunted. "Is this what my school has become; a training ground for the weak?"
"No, monster," Hirotaka said defiantly. "We honor the real Toshimiru's teachings and his memory. We will find and punish those who have dishonored his mortal remains!"
"How noble," the creature sneered as he saw Hirotaka's green emotional aura.
"Will," the black ring said.
"You are worthy enough to die!" Toshimiru struck, plunging his hand into Hirotaka's chest and ripping the young man's still beating heart form him before he could even move. As the young warrior fell dead, his heart was absorbed by the ring.
"Power levels 29.32%" the ring reported as the emotional energy was sent to the one behind the Black Lantern's existence.
"Who next will feed my master?" Toshimiru demanded.
Sensei calmly floated from his vantage point. "You have slain my friends and my charges," the old man calmly said, "and you have done so wearing the bones of my ancestor. This stops now!"
A lotus shaped aura exploded around Sensei, and he threw an orb of mystical energy at the Black Lantern. The monster cut through it with his Lotus Blade construct.
"So this is what has become of my bloodline," the Black Lantern sneered. "I trust you are not the Han? For if you were, then such a pitiful display would mean that Yono the Destroyer will conquer all."
"The Han is safely out of your reach," Sensei said, showing no emotion. "And the Yono has already been defeated. A new Monkey Master rose and defended the world against invaders from the stars. Though his power was stolen from him, he remains a great hero; one the real Toshimiru would regard as an honored friend and ally!"
The Black Lantern did not strike. He couldn't read Sensei's emotions, for the old man showed no aura. He was blank to the creature. "You are wise to hide your feelings from me, son of my sons. I doubt your students will be so clever. It is they who shall feed my master!"
With the quickness of thought, Sensei drew a dagger from his sleeve and struck at the Black Lantern, severing the hand bearing the power ring. "Release my ancestor!"
Tendrils of energy reached out from the ring, and bridged the gap bertween the hand and the wrist, reconnecting them and repairing the damage. "I fear, son of my sons, that my defeat will not be that easy."
Sector 2814. Planet Earth. Mt. Yamanuchi Japan.
Hovering above the carnage was a glowing yellow figure wearing a yellow and black gi bearing the symbol of the Sinestro Corps. His sneer was one of malice and amusement. I came for my revenge, he thought, but it seems another has, as the Americans would say, beaten me to the punch.
This man had once been a proud student at the secret ninja school, but had been thrown out when he allied himself with an enemy. He spent the years afterward terrorizing the villages surrounding the mountain. He feared he would spend the rest of his life as a petty thug until a gift from the heavens came to him in the form of a yellow ring.
"Tadao Fukushima, you have the ability to instill great fear. Welcome to the Sinestro Corps!" the yellow ring had said when it came to him.
And now one with a black ring is destroying those who would feel my vengeance! It is time to see which ring is stronger; yellow or black!
As Fukushima flew towards the ensuing battle, another glowing figure descended from the heavens. The tanned leather garments she wore made her look like something out of a jungle movie, and the staff she carried looked like it was carved from indigo stone. On her tunic and painted on her forehead was a symbol consisting of a circle with an arrow above it pointing up, and one below it pointing down. "Nek," she said with determination before following the disgraced ninja to the war below.
Sector 2814. Planet Earth. Middleton USA.
Honor Guard Green Lantern Kim Possible dove for cover as another glob of napalm like plasma was hurled at her. Had it not been for the sixteen forms of Kung Fu she knew, Kim might have been burned to a cinder at the hands of the mutant Gill, who now wore the ring of a Red lantern.
"Power ring corrupted," Kim's ring reported. "Power levels at 63% and falling."
"So not good," Kim muttered to herself. The red light of Gill's ring had done something to hers, draining its power. She was having to rely on her own fighting skills and not her ring. Which is usually fine by me, but not when I'm about to get burned to a crisp!
"Cheerleader. Burn," Gill's ring said again. Gill was now driven by the rage that was feeding his ring. The good news was that Gill's ring was unable to create constructs like a Green lantern or Sinestro ring could. The bad news was that both it and Gill himself were spewing incendiary goop. The worse news was that Kim was tiring out very quickly.
"Power levels below 50%," Kim's ring reported.
"Would a full ring recharge purge the corruption?" Kim asked in desperation.
"Negative. Power ring corruption interfering with pocket dimension access. Unable to retrieve power battery."
"Do you have any good news for me?" Kim asked, half expecting the ring to tell a car insurance joke.
"Negative."
Kim dodged another plasma ball from Gill. This time it set a nearby tree on fire. Kim formed a fire extinguisher with her ring to douse the flames. This gives me an idea.
"Burn!" Gill yelled.
"Yeah yeah, I've heard it before!" Kim let loose a torrent of ring construct liquid, blasting Gill in the mouth with it. "Choke on this, Old Faithful!"
"Warning: ring power levels at 25.1% and falling."
"I so hope that worked," Kim muttered to herself, knowning full well that it was only a matter of time before the Red Lantern got back up and continued his attack.
Sector 1416. Planet Zamaron.
The central power battery glistened like an enormous jewel in the Zamaron sun, shining its violet radiance on the carnage that was unfolding around it. A red skinned man with a pencil thin mustache and a high forehead flew down towards the oncoming warrior women, his yellow ring clearing a path before him. This was Thaal Sinestro; former Green Lantern of Sector 1417, and leader of the Sinestro Corps.
"This is your only chance!" Sinestro yelled. "Release my soldiers or face my wrath!"
Following the war between the Green Lanterns and the Sinestro Corps, many of the female memebers of Sinestro's group were captured by the Zamarons and placed in conversion crystals. One of them, Fatality of Sector 1313, had already been turned into a Star Sapphire. Sinestro was there to make sure she was the only warrior he lost to conversion.
On the ground stood Carol Ferris. She had been called Star Sapphire many times over the years when the Zamarons, an all female offshoot of the Guardians ofhe Universe, sent a parasitic violet gem to posess her.
As Star Sapphire, Carol came into conflict time and again with her on again/off again boyfriend Hal Jordan, the Green Lantern of Earth. It seemed their romance was off again permanently following his descent into madness after being taken over by the fear entity Parallax, and then when he gave his life to reignite Earth's sun.
After that, Carol married and tried to get on with her life. Then Hal came back to life. And here I am again, Carol thought. I'm divorced, dressed in something my father would never let me out of the house in if he saw me wearing it, and involved in a War of Light. All because of a man. I really hope you're worth this, Hal.
"What am I supposed to do here?" a scared voice from beside Carol said. She looked over at the frightened young African American woman. Monique Davies had just arrived on Zamaron when the battle erupted. "I have no idea what to do!"
"You're a lot smarter than I am," Carol said. "I mean, you changed your uniform." Whereas Carol was wearing what looked lika long sleeved violet swimsuit with a neckline that plunged to below her navel, along with thigh high boots and a tiara, Monique had modified hers so that she was wearing long pants and a long sleeved crop top. Of course, she still had the tiara. That was standard Star Sapphire issue.
"If you think I'm going out in public looking like a stripper, you're nuts!" Monique said. "No offense, Miss Ferris."
"None taken," Carol smiled. "And it's Carol. Now come on, Monique, it looks like you're getting some on the job training!"
Carol and Monique were surorunded by violet auras and took to the sky. Monique caught movement out of the corner of her eye. "What is that?"
Carol looked and saw a swarm of dark objects massing at the central battery. "I don't know, but it doesn't look good!"
Sector 2814. Planet Earth. Middleton USA.
"Power levels at 9.7% and falling," Kim's power ring reported.
"Peachy!" Kim growled as she dodged another blast of corrosive blood from the mutant Red Lantern.
"Burn!" Gill hissed.
"So not happeneing!" Kim grunted as she threw up another shield to block the incendiary goo. The burning plasma ate right through it and scorched Kim's arm.
"Power levels at 3.1%," Kim's ring reported as the Honor Lantern screamed in pain.
"Cheerleader burn," Gill said as he approached Kim.
"If I'm going, I'm taking you with me," Kim grunted. She gathered all the will she could, and prepared to use the remaining power in her ring to generate a precision beam that would go through the Red Lantern's skull. "I'm sorry, Gill. I didn't want to do this." And I'm sorry I couldn't find you, Ron. I hope you're safe, wherever you are. If I don't make it out of this, I love you.
Sector 2814. Planet Earth. Go City USA.
Shego was having a surprisingly good time with her mother and twin brothers. No mention had been made of her future plans now that she'd been pardoned, or what was happening with Dr. Drakken; something Shego was very grateful for.
"It's getting late," Lucy Gordon, Shego's mother said. "I expected Herman and Mel back hours ago."
"Don't look a gift horse in the mouth, Mom," Shego grumbled.
"Look, Sheila, I admit that there are times I want to muzzle both of them, but they're still your brothers. So knock it off!"
"Yes, Mother," the green skinned woman said in a sarcastic voice, right before getting smacked upside the back of the head.
"And knock off the back talk," Lucy warned. "I don't care how old you are or what kind of powers you have, you're not too old for me to take over my knee!"
Warren and Wyatt, the twins known as Wego, both snickered. "Now we know where Sheila gets it from," Wyatt said.
Suddenly, the front door exploded inward as a glowing black fist burst through the wooden barrier.
"Daddy's home!" an ominous voice announced. Three black clad figures entered the house; one a man in a black suit, the other two wearing form fitting super hero uniforms. The latter two were Hego and Mego, turned to Black Lanterns when they were taken by black rings after the reanimated corpse of their father ripped their hearts out. "Hi, Lucy," the Black Lantern that was once Joe Gordon said. His mouth split into a feral sneer, revealing rotting teeth. "How about a kiss hello?"
Sector 1416. Planet Zamaron.
What had been a battle between the Star Sapphires and the Sinestro Corps had degenerated into a free for all slugfest between those two groups, as well as the Black Lantern Corps. Scores of the undead descended upon the battle between love and fear, and with them came a major blow against the Star Sapphires.
Two black rings shot towards the violet central battery of the Star Sapphires, and broke through the outer shell. In the heart of the battery were two crystallized bodies locked in an eternal embrace.
"Khufu of Earth. Chay-Ara or Earth. Rise." The newly reanimated corpses of a dead Egyptian prince and his bride sprouted wings, broke out of the battery, and flew off.
"That can't be good," Monique said as the gravity of the situation hit her. The central power battery of the Star Sapphires had just been destroyed.
"Khufu and Chay-Ara?" Carol Ferris said to herself. She had heard those names before. "It can't be!"
"Who are they?" Monique asked. "Or should I say, who were they?"
"They were Hawkman and Hawkgirl," Carol said. She had met Hawkman and Hawkgirl and had been told their sad story."They've been reborn countless times over the centuries. But Khufu and Chay-Ara were ther original incarnations of Hawkman and Hawkgirl!" Carol could see the confusion on her fellow Sapphire's face. "They were cursed back in ancient Egypt to die, be reborn, and meet and fall in love all over again. But every time they found each other, they would die horrible deaths to restart the whole cycle. No wonder the Zamarons used them in the battery. Their's really is an eternal love."
"It looks like we've got other problems, Carol," Monique warned. A bald Black Lantern in a uniform that resembled either a Green Lantern or a Sinestro Corps member was flying at them.
"More humans," the alien zombie sneered. "I do enjoy humans. Some of them have fun things to tear out of them."
"Who are you?" Carol demanded as her ring flared to life.
"Amon Sur, at your service."
Monique's eyes narrowed. "You're the one who attacked Kim and Ron!" The young Sapphire's ring encased her fists in crystal orbs as she flew at and started pummeling the Black Lantern.
Amon Sur grinned as he saw the red aura of rage coming from Monique. "Ah yes, the little redheaded Lantern and her would be mate. I had a great deal of fun with them. As I will with you."
Carol saw that the Black Lantern's hand started glowing an eerie black as he prepared to rip her heart out. "Oh no you don't!" Carol fired off a beam of violet energy that knocked the undead abomination back. "Careful, Monique, I think they're trying to get to us. Mentioning your friends was his way of getting an emotional response out of you."
"It's a good thing Kim's back on Earth," Monique said, "because he could get one major response out of her."
"My friend the little Lantern is on her home world?" Amon laughed. "Then that's where I'm going." The Black Lantern shot off into the sky and broke the light barrier on a direct path to Earth.
Monique took off after him. "I've gotta warn Kim!" She stopped when she saw that Carol wasn't going with her. "I'm gonna need your help, Carol!"
Carol smiled as she sensed the love coming from the girl. Love of friends is just as powerful as romantic love. That's the difference between her and me. She was chosen because her heart is full of love. I was chosen becasue of my history with the Star Sapphires, and because I have a hole in my heart. "You don't need me, Monique. You'll have your friend with you when you get to Earth. Go to her and show that walking worm buffet what happens when he messes with us!"
"Take care of yourself, Carol."
"I'll see you on Earth, Monique," Carol said to her sister in arms. "I'll buy you lunch next time I see you."
Sector 2814. Planet Earth. Middleton USA.
Kim readied herself to fire off the last of her ring's power, hoping to take Gill out before he took her out. "I'm sorry, Gill," she said again.
"Power levels at 20%," the ring said.
"What?" she said in disbelief. The ring's power had been just above 3% before.
"Power levels at 37.8%."
Kim smirked and narrowed her eyes. "Looks like I'm not using lethal force after all." Kim took every stray though in her mind and focused it through her ring, using every ounce of power in it to knock Gill as far back as she could, knowing that power would be more than replenished. In a brilliant flash of green light, the fish man was thrown back several miles. Kim leapt to her feet, and was happy to see that her ring was still pulsing with energy. "Ring, power check."
"Ring power levels at 54.7% and rising."
"Spankin.' Any idea why you're charging?"
"Detecting Blue Lantern energy signature on inbound trajectory. Estimated time of arrival, sixty seconds."
"A Blue Lantern," Kim said, remembering what Hal Jordan had said about blue rings being able to charge green rings. "Whoever it is, I'm glad they're here. Now where's Gill?"
"Red Lantern energy signature approaching at high speed. Estimated time of arrival, ten seconds."
"Power levels?"
"108.6%."
"All right, " Kim said as she assumed a fighting stance. "Let's do this."
Before Kim could pounce, a blue energy construct of Gill's human form flew down and intercepted the Red Lantern. Gill stopped in his tracks and fell to the ground. Gill's greatest hope, the return of his humanity, had been manifested.
"Can I get a booyah?" a voice from above said.
Kim looked up and saw the most welcome sight she had ever seen. There was Ron Stoppable floating in the air surrounded by a blue aura. He was wearing a form fitting blue uniform with black sleeves, blue gloves, and black boots. On his chest was the symbol of the Blue Lantern Corps. Almost as confirmation, Kim's ring said "Ring power level at 250%."
"Ron? Is that really you?"
"That's right, KP!" Ron happily said. "The bondigetty Blue Lantern of Sector 2814 is in the house!"
In a flash, Kim was in Ron' arms and kissing him with all the passion she could muster. "I've missed you," she said, right before scowling at him. "What is the stinking sitch?" she demanded. "You vanish without a trace, scare me and your family to death, and then reappear like nothing's wrong?"
"Sorry, Kim, but I kinda didn't have a choice. This ring came out of nowhere and took me to a planet called Odym where a couple of blue aliens told me they wanted me to be a Blue Lantern. By the way, Ganthet and Sayd say hi."
Kim sighed. Being a Green Lantern, she could understand. "I'll let it go this once. Just don't scare me like that again."
"I won't," Ron said, taking Kim into his arms again. "I promise. But isn't this cool, Kim? The Possible/Stoppable team is back and better than ever. Green and Blue, baby!"
Kim giggled, and was about to kiss her guy again when a crimson ball of death flew at them. "Looks like we're still on the clock, Ron. That little trick of yours didn't hold him long."
"Wow, he must really be steamed," Ron said. "What's up with him, anyway? That construct should've given him an epic, unharshable mellow."
"First of all, 'unharshable' so isn't a word, Ron," Kim said. "Second, Gill's a Red Lantern now! He's like rage personified because of that ring." Kim fired a force beam at Gill that encased him in a reinforced cell. "A little help here, Mr. Blue Lantern of Sector 2814?"
"No can do, Kim," Ron said. "My ring can only make constructs based on the hopes of whoever I'm using it on." He pointed his ring at Gill again and, puring his hope into the ring, conjured another image of a human Gil Moss that entered the cell and the mutant. "He's fighting it! I don't know how long I can hold him! Why don't we just take his ring off?"
Kim shook her head. "That'll kill him. The ring stopped Gill's heart and took over for it. If that ring comes off, that's all she wrote."
"Maybe not," Ron grunted. "Can't your ring make one of those chest zapper thingies?"
"It can make what I know how to make," Kim explained. "But maybe we can get my mom to help. But that doesn't change the fact that his ring did nasty things to him."
Ron got his classic lopsided grin. "Badical. My ring can fix the nastiness once we get his ring off."
Kim was about to use her ring to call her mother when the Kimmunicator linked to her ring went off. The image Wade load appeared . "Kim! We have big trouble in Go City."
"We have big trouble here too, Wade," Kim said. "Red Lantern trouble."
"I think this might trump that," Wade countered. "I just got a distress call from Wego. They said they're with Shego and their mom, and they're being attacked by zombies."
"Zombies? Coolio!" Ron exclaimed. "It's like Zombie Mayhem for real! Man I wish Felix was here."
"Wait, was that Ron?"
"That was Ron," Kim smiled. "He's a Blue Lantern now. Long story, don't have time to tell it. Wade, if anyone else said zombies I wouldn't believe it!"
"Apparently it's the reanimated corpse of their father," Wade said. "Not only that, but it looks like Hego and Mego have been zombified, too! And get this, all three of them are wearing black power rings. From the chatter on the news, it sounds like there are a lot more of these things out there."
"Okay, we're on it," Kim said. The mention of black rings gave her a bad feeling.
"KP look out!" Ron shouted. Gill had broken through Kim's jail and launched himself at her. Ron flew at and tackled the Red Lantern.
"Stoppable! Burn!" the red ring hissed when Gill saw Ron.
"Uh oh," Ron gulped. "KP help!"
Sector 2814. Planet Earth. Mt. Yamanuchi Japan.
"Greetings, Monster," Fukushima said when he landed in front of Toshimiru. "I am the Sinestro Corps representative for this world, and this school has earned my vengeance. Leave now and I won't have to send you back to the grave."
The Black Lantern laughed an ominous, breathless laugh. "You think your pitiful fear fueled ring can stop me? You don't have the heart to defeat me, boy! Or you won't after I am finished with you."
Just as the undead monstrosity was about to strike, an indigo beam of light hit him, knocking him back. The source of that beam, the staff weilding woman, landed in front of where Toshimiru fell, and brandished her staff like a bo. "Fan lorrek nek!"
Fukushima didn't recognize the language, but did recognize the woman. "How dare you interfere, Yori! This thing is mine to destroy!"
"Overconfident as usual," Yori replied, speaking her native Japanese instead of the language she spoke as a member of the Indigo Tribe. "Your light will not destroy this abomination!"
"And I suppose yours will?"
"No," Yori said calmly. "The indigo light of compassion, like the yellow light of fear you wield, can only temporarily weaken a Black Lantern. We need one who shines the center light of the emotional spectrum. We need a Green Lantern! Only willpower can return the risen dead to their slumber."
"Yori!" the voice of Sensei called out. "Welcome home, my child. I doubt your return is coincidence."
"No, Grandfather," Yori replied, addressing Sensei by his relation to her. "My tribe's leader, Indigo-1, sent me here to aid in the fight against the Blackest Night. But I will require a Green Lantern. I need Kim Possible's help!"
"You won't get it, daughter of my sons," Toshimiru spat.
Yori again went into a fighting stance. "I am a trained ninja, as well a a member of the Indigo Tribe. Moreover, I do not fear death."
"Nor do I!" Fukushima added, making his ring create a katana.
"Oh but you do," Toshimiru retorted, noticing the yellow aura of fear around the Sinestro Corpsman. "And I will make you feel it even more!"
"No you won't," Yori said with determination. She closed her eyes and concentrated. An indigo aura emanating from her ring enveloped her, Fukushima and Toshimiru. In a flash of light, all three of them were gone, leaving Sensei and the Yamanuchi survivors alone.
Sector 2814. Earth orbit.
Monique exited hyperspace just above the Earth's atmosphere. "Where did he go? Ring, where's that zombie thing?"
"Multiple Black Lantern energy signatures detected," the ring replied. "Nearest Black Lantern is on a flight path for Middleton, Colorado."
"If he's going after Kim, then I'm going after him!"
Sector 2814. Planet Earth. Go City USA.
Shego hurled several more plasma blasts at the creatures that had once been her father and brothers. "That won't stop us, sister," the Black Lantern Hego said.
"We just keep coming back!" Mego added as his left leg reformed. It had been blown off in Shego's last counterattack.
Shego and her family had escaped into the back yard and threw the Black Lanterns off their trail when Shego threw a plasma ball at the propane tank on the gas grill. Unfortunately they were cut off from the car, and only got a few blocks on foot before the undead caught up with them.
"You can't stop this, Sheila," the Black Lantern that had been Joe Gordon said. "Just like you couldn't do anything to stop me from dying when I got sick, you can't stop this. You, the twins and your mother will join us. And then we'll all return to oblivion together."
"You're not my husband!" Shego's mother screamed. "My Joe loved life!"
"But death taught me something, Lucy," Joe said. "Life is a mistake. None of us should be here."
Warren and Wyatt, also known as Wego, duplicated themselves and surrounded their mother while Shego continued to throw green fireballs at their undead relatives.
"Not happening, death breath," Shego snapped, trying to keep the fear out of her voice.
"No use hiding it, Shego," Mego taunted as he grew to ten feet tall. "We can see your fear as clear as day."
"And your rage," Joe added, seeing red swirling with yellow in his daughter's aura. "You were never this angry when I was alive. I guess my death hit you harder than I thought.
"You're not my father," Shego spat. "And there's no way you're taking us down!" Come on, Kimmie; hurry up and get here, already!
Sector 2814. Planet Earth. Middleton USA.
A silent figure garbed in all black approached a large house in the Middleton suburbs. "You've done well for yourself, Jimmy," he hissed. The creature sniffed at the air like predator on the prowl. "All that familial love is making my mouth water." Light from the streetlamps glinted off of his dead, milky white eyes and off the Black Lantern symbol on his belt buckle. "It's high time for a family reunion..."
Next Chapter: The Blackest Night falls over Middleton.
