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The Blackest Night falls from the skies, the darkness grows as all light dies

We crave your hearts and your demise! By my Black Hand

The dead shall rise!

-Oath of the Black Lantern Corps

"Target acquired."

I met Kim Possible in pre-k. Our first day, in fact. And we were best buds ever since. Sure things got kinda weird later on, especially after KP became a butt kicking world saving cheerleader and we started freak fighting. I mean I got exposed to Mystical Monkey Powers, got mutated into a beaver man, and even turned into a hulking food scarfing monster! But the best thing I became was Kim's boyfriend. Me! Ron Stoppable! I got the girl! Well, for a while anyway.

Right after I saved the world from alien invaders (let's here it for the Ron-man; Ultimate Monkey Master!), we were attacked by Sinestro Corps dudes, and I lost my powers. Then Kim gets a Green Lantern ring and goes on to kick major amounts of alien biscuit. After that she leaves for Oa, and I get a Blue Lantern ring. How cool is that? I'll tell you how cool; it was way beyond bondigetty until the dead started rising. Including the first Monkey Master, Toshimiru. What could I do? He was gonna kill Kim. I couldn't let that happen, so I stopped him. And he killed me instead. But I saved KP. That's what matters!

"Memory download complete. Ron Stoppable of Earth. Rise."

Kim Possible was numb. She had just seen the only man she'd ever loved die in front of her, and then she had to fight off a squadron of black rings that were trying to turn him into an undead abomination. She had nearly succeeded when Gil Moss, former mutant and current Red Lantern, decided to get in the way. Now Ron was back, but not the Ron she knew. This Ron was different. This Ron was a monster.

Before her stood a man with mottled grey skin that made him look as if he'd been dead for months instead of minutes. He wore an all black variant of his classic mission clothes with a Black Lantern symbol on the shirt. His ring sparked and released a cloud of black light that drifted to his shoulder and took the shape of a black naked mole rat. But the worst part was when he opened his eyes. Ron's once vibrant brown eyes were now dull and lifeless. The thing that was once Ron Stoppable's face split into a mockery of his lopsided grin. "Can I get a booyah?"

"Yes!" Gil cheered. "You're mine to destroy again and again! Come on, Sqweeb; let's party!"

"Gil, Gil, Gil, have we learned nothing?" Ron calmly approached his foe. "I know I sure have. Y'see, I know I can't take your ticker since it's not ticking anymore. That ring's doing the job."

"So what, are you gonna take my ring from me? Of boo hoo! The dead loser's gonna take my ring."

"Nah, I'm just gonna do to you what I did to the zombie ninja. Boot to the head!"

Kim gasped in horror when she saw Ron's leg shoot out, heard the smack of Ron's foot against Gil's skull, and saw the Red Lantern fly backwards and hit the ground hard. "Ron, no! Ring! Status of the Red Lantern!"

"Red Lantern 2814 unconscious. All life signs are stable."

"Get off your high horse, KP, he would've done worse to me!" Ron smirked. "Besides, he'll die soon enough. Probably when the rest of the universe goes the way of the dinosaur!" He looked at Kim, Yori, and Monique. Monique's emotional aura was yellow, while Kim and Yori's were both violet.

"Fear. Love."

"Do I scare you, Mon?" Ron taunted. "Coolio! I've never been frightening before. And Yori, did you know that Kim had to tell me that you liked me liked me? And here I have to die to find out you loved the Ron-man. Can't say I blame you; I was pretty lovable. But you, Kim; you I am surprised about."

"You know I love you," Kim said, trying to hold her tears back. "I told you every chance I got. I showed you whenever we got time alone."

"Yeah, but how long was it gonna last? I mean, your track record really does suck in that area." Ron grinned his terrible grin. "Let's see, there was the time you locked me in a closet when Mankey showed up, there was the time you ignored me when that syntho-drone phoney came knocking. He had you eating out of the palm of his hand."

Kim couldn't believe her ears. "Please don't do this, Ron."

"Do what? Tell the truth. This happened, Kim!"

"Ron..." Anne Possible whispered, getting the Black Lantern's attention.

"Love."

"You always were a better mother to me than the lady who gave birth to me, Mrs. Dr. P. That's why I'm not gonna make you suffer. I'll return you to the darkness all nice and quick like." He snapped his fingers. "Just a quick twist of the neck and that'll be all she wrote."

"Crack," the ring generated Rufus agreed.

The Black Lantern looked at a horrified Kim. "KP, don't you see this is for the best?"

"H-how is this for the best?"

Ron just chuckled. "Instead of you ripping my heart out by dumping me for some super hero hottie, someone else did the job for you. Literally."

The dam broke and Kim's heart filled with a white hot anger. "That's it!"

"Rage."

Kim charged up and flew at Ron like a missile. "You're not my Ron! Stop pretending to be him!"

The Black Lantern didn't move. Instead he assumed a relaxed posture and waited. At the last minute, Kim veered off. "I knew you couldn't do it." He looked over at the still shocked Monique and Yori. "None of you can do it, can you?"

"I can," another voice hissed. Ron looked over and saw Shego all charged up and ready to pounce. "Come on, you reject from a George A. Romero movie; let's do this!" Shego roared like a lioness and attacked, hurling green fireballs at the Black Lantern; blasting pieces of him off; the damage regenerated almost immediately. "Come on! You think you're all that! You think just because you're dead I can't kill you? COME ON!"

"Sheila Gordon of space sector 2814, you have great rage in your heart."

Shego looked up and saw another red ring shooting through the sky; the ring of a Red Lantern killed in battle high above the Earth. "What do you know, there's another one. That's it, you little trinket from hell," Shego panted. "I'm ready to blow my stack! Come and get me!"

"Shego don't!" Kim shrieked, finally realizing what the former villain was doing. "You can't control that kind of rage! Ring: recall power sphere. Bring it back here at the fastest possible speed! Hyperspace bypass, Honor Lantern access code Possible delta one!"

"Hyperspace bypass achieved. Power sphere en route."

Kim had her calm back and she was again in mission mode. Kim created a grapple gun with her ring and aimed at the incoming Red Lantern ring. "One Red Lantern helped cause this! There is no way I'm letting you become another one!" Kim fired her grapple line, which deployed a net that then formed a cage around the ring. "Prepare to transport to Oa!" The cage became a sphere that took off into the night sky.

"What are you doing?" Shego demanded. "We needed that thing's power!"

"That thing's power would've taken you over," Kim countered. "I've seen your temper! You're bad enough as it is! We don't need one of those things making it worse!"

"I don't believe you!" Shego howled. "You're so hung up on saving your dead boyfriend that you just ruined our chances!"

"No I didn't," Kim growled. "You saw what Gil did! You're temper's a lot worse than his. You might help Ron kill all of us! Right now I need you to help me buy some time. Ring, how long?"

"Power sphere has reentered inner solar system. At increased speed, sphere will arrive in ten minutes."

"Ten minutes, Shego; trust me for ten minutes!"

"Don't trust her, Shego," Ron taunted. "She says the same thing to me whenever she's shoe shopping. 'Ten minutes' is Kim speak for two and a half hours."

"Why should I trust you?" Shego demanded. "The red guy's out cold, and the rest of the color guard over there are too scared to move. We needed that red ring's power!"

"And I'm getting something that's easier to control!" Kim countered. "Although I think you're gonna look terrible in yellow. Now come on! We need to keep Ron busy."

"You really think you can take the sidekick out?"

Kim closed her eyes. "I don't have a choice."

Ron surveyed the scene before him. He was surrounded by friends and surrogate family, as well as a former enemy. "I should have just let the Lorwardians win, you know? That way I could have spared you from the Blackest Night. But stupid me, I had to be try to be a hero."

"You are a hero, Ron-kun!" Yori protested. "You are the Monkey Master and the champion of Yamanuchi! If any part of you still lives within that abomination, fight it!"

"I don't think he's still in there," Monique said uneasily. "Ron was so full of love it was almost overpowering. But now, I can't feel anything from him!"

"Emotion is like life, Mon," Ron snarled. "A mistake. All the pain and grief I was put through should have taught me that. It took dying for me to see how pointless it all is."

"Now I know you're not Ron," Anne spat. "The real Ron Stoppable lived life to the fullest! He loved his life, even when it seemed like the world was out to get him!"

"And that shows you why I was a real loser, Mrs. Dr. P." The construct Rufus bared its teeth. "You're right, buddy. It's time to bring on the darkness!" A blast of green plasma blasted a hole in Ron and knocked him back. He got up and started regenerating. "You're still here, Shego? I thought maybe you went off to hide with Drakken." Ron laughed when he saw Shego's red aura turn violet. "Looks like KP was right, you do have it bad for blue boy. Maybe I'll cap him next."

"No you won't!" Shego's rage took over and she attacked. Kicks and plasma powered punches flew and flashed in the night. The Black Lantern didn't bother fighting back. He felt no pain. He felt nothing at all. Shego, on the other hand, was feeling fatigue. The punches became slower and weaker, and Shego's breathing became heavier.

"And that is the problem with being alive. You need to rest." Ron grabbed Shego by the throat and lifted her off the ground. "Any last words?"

"I'll see you in hell," the green woman growled.

"Not if I see you first!" Ron was about to strike when a flash of green caught his eye. "Oh, is Kimmie actually gonna fight me now?"

"Not without backup," Kim said. "Ring, now!" A green sphere came tearing out of the sky. It dissolved, releasing its prisoner; a yellow power ring. "I just hope Shego's scary enough to attract this thing."

"Sheila Gordon of Earth, you have the ability to instill great fear." The ring shot down and severed Ron's hands, releasing Shego. It came to rest on the green woman's finger. "Welcome to the Sinestro Corps!"

In a flash of yellow light Shego was clad in a black and yellow variant of her trademark costume, complete with a Sinestro Corps symbol on the chest. She could feel the power coursing through her. "I hate the color, but I like the rest of it!" Shego let the ring's power mingle with her own as she charged up her now yellow plasma. "I just might get to like yellow, though."

"So you got a full bunch again except for sleeping beauty over there," Ron said. "So what? It's not like you can actually do anything, Kim. It's not like you can kill me. And it has to be you who does it."

"I can do it also," Yori said. "I can tap into the green light. I can tap into all of the lights."

"Big whoop," Ron snorted. "It's over. Nekron has risen, and he'll destroy the Entity. And after he does that, you'll all join me in oblivion!" As if on cue, Kim, Shego, and everyone else in the universe had a massive, painful convulsion that brought them to their knees. "Looks like the master found the intruder."

Sector 2814. Planet Earth. Coast City USA

At that exact same moment, the creature called Nekron had torn open a hole in the fabric of the Earth itself and revealed a winged being of pure light, and he attacked it. Everyone in the universe felt it. After he recovered, Hal Jordan, one of the Green Lanterns of Earth, looked on in astonishment after he recovered. "Is that..."

"Yes, Hal Jordan," a blue skinned alien with a Green Lantern symbol on his white robe said. Ganthet had once been a Guardian of the Universe before he was banished, and then he helped found the Blue Lantern Corps. Now he wore the ring of a temporary deputy Green Lantern. Like everyone else, Ganthet was fighting for his life. "That is the Entity. That is life itself. The planet Earth formed around the Entity after life in the universe sprang into being. Where Earth formed is where the Entity first entered this universe!"

"But why isn't it fighting back?" Carol Ferris, Star Sapphire and Hal's former girlfriend asked.

"Because it's like Parallax and Ion," Hal said, preparing to take flight. "It needs a pilot!" Hal took off, only to be intercepted by Sinestro.

"No, Jordan!" the leader of his self named corps sneered. "You took Parallax, so I will take the Entity!" The renegade Green Lantern from Korugar merged with the white light, and emerged in a pure white uniform. On his chest was a symbol similar to that of the Black Lanterns; in this cace it was a circle encompassing an upside down triangle with seven lines coming from the top, with a curved line arcing through them. "I am the true Guardian of the Universe!"

Sector 2814. Planet Earth. Middleton USA.

"I hate to fight and run, but I must be going." The Black Lantern that was once Ron Stoppable took to the skies. "It looks like the Entity has some help, so my Black Lantern peeps need some backup. Later!"

"After him!" Shego yelled, taking flight for the first time. "What are you waiting for, Princess? Get your butt in gear!"

"I... I can't. If we defeat Nekron then Ron will..."

"Kimmie," Anne said, placing a hand on her daughter's shoulder. "That's not Ron. He's gone, honey, and he's not coming back." Anne wiped the tears from her eyes again. "He's not coming back..."

"Your mother is correct, Kim-san," Yori said in a sad voice. "His spirit has already departed. All we can do for him is return his body to rest."

"Come on, Kim," Monique said. "We need to do this."

Kim nodded and took to the sky. "Okay, ring, where's Ron flying to?"

"Black Lantern energy signature is heading for Coast City. Green Lantern 2814.1's energy signature detected in same area."

Kim slightly grinned. "Figures that Hal's in the middle of it."

"What about him?" Anne asked, pointing at Gil.

Kim encased the Red Lantern in a power sphere and sent him off to Oa. "There's a sciencell waiting for him. It's better than he deserves."

Sector 2814. Planet Earth. Coast City USA

The sight that greeted Kim and the others when they arrived at Coast City was one of carnage. Black Lanterns were swarming like flies, and there were small sparks of the other lights shining through the darkness.

"My God," Shego gasped. "What's happening down there?"

"The end of the world, Shego-san," Yori calmly said. "And it is our duty to ensure that it does not happen."

Kim saw a white light burning amid the darkness. "What is that?" Kim continued scanning, and saw a welcome sight; Hal Jordan. "Hal!" Kim shot towards Hal and his allies from the other Corps, including the Flash wearing a blue uniform and wielding a Blue Lantern ring.

"Well lookie here," Guy Gardner said as he blasted a Black Lantern. "Honor Lantern Possible finally showed up. Where've you been?"

"In my hometown fighting Black Lanterns. What's the sitch? What did I miss?"

"Well, let's see," Guy said in a mock thoughtful tone. "Our fallen dead tried to kill us, Black Lanterns tried to eat the central power battery, and I got turned into a Red Lantern after Kyle here let himself get blown up." He saw Kim give Kyle Rayner, who was alive and well, a strange look. "He got better." Kim's face fell.

"Kim, what happened?" Kyle asked.

"Ron," Kim whispered. "He was a Blue Lantern. But then he was killed and... he's out there. He's a Black Lantern now."

"I'm sorry, Kim," Hal said. "We'll get the monster who did this."

Kim looked over and saw a creature with a scythe. "Is that Nekron? Then he's mine!" The enraged Honor Lantern flew off at breakneck speeds, shooting at the embodiment of death. "You're going down," Kim growled.

Nekron didn't move; he was still gloating over Sinestro, and the white Entity he had just torn from the master of fear. "Now, intruder, I will return this universe to darkness; to peace!"

"I'll give you peace!" Kim shouted, blasting Nakron's unbeating heart with an intense beam of will, disintegrating it and Nekron. "You destroyed my heart, so I just destroyed yours." Kim landed beside Sinestro.

"Too bad it's not a permanent solution," a disembodied voice said.

A random Black Lantern picked up the scythe and shifted into the creature Kim had just destroyed.

"Nekron. Rise."

Kim's eyes grew wide. "How?"

"You cannot kill death itself, girl," Nekron snarled.

"Kim! Move!" A blue blur came out of nowhere and swept Kim away. In the blink of an eye she was back with the other Lanterns, being put down by the Flash. "Sinestro tried that already. All it did for him was get the Entity yanked out of him."

"So now what?" Kim demanded. "What are we supposed to do!"

"Kim Possible," a white skinned Blue Lantern with a tail like appendage coming off the back of his head said softly. "My heart grieves with yours. Brother Stoppable was great man and an amazing friend. Dying now will not honor his noble sacrifice."

"What do you know?" Kim snarled. "And who are you?"

"I am Bro'Dee Walker of Sector 1," the alien answered. "On my homeworld I was granted the title of Saint. I know of loss, Kim Possible. I lost my wife and children, but I did not lose hope, or my faith that all will be well. We can still save the universe."

"Sorry, Walker, but my hope died with Ron."

"Kim," another voice said. It was a soothing voice with great power behind it. Kim looked up and saw Wonder Woman, now wearing the ring and garb of a Star Sapphire. "I can feel your heartbreak as strongly as I would my own. I too know what it's like to lose one you love so dearly." Wonder Woman's thoughts turned to Bruce Wayne. "I wish we could save Ron, but we cannot. All we can do is carry on and fight in his name." Wonder Woman placed a hand on Kim's shoulder. "I will see to it that Ron is interred in Metropolis at the Valhalla Cemetary, and that he is honored as the hero he truly was. But for now, we must fight!"

"Can we knock off the mush?" Guy snapped. "Kim, I feel for you. I really do. My girlfriend's wearing one of those black rings, and she ain't dead yet!"

"How does that work?" Shego asked in disbelief.

"All of the heroes who have died and come back have been taken by a black ring," the Flash explained. "Apparently we all have some connection to Nekron. Hal and I were able to outrun ours, and Wonder Woman was set free by her violet ring, but Superman, Green Arrow, Superboy and the others are still Black Lanterns. They're still alive, but those rings are slowly killing them!"

"And now we're all up to speed," Guy said in an annoyed tone. "Now can we... can we..." the Honor Lantern trailed off.

"Guy?"

"Huh, I can't make this thing work," Guy said in an almost New England sounding accent.

"Guy?" Hal said. "What's wrong."

"Not Guy. Boston."

"Deadman," Hal said. Boston Brand had been a circus aerialist famous for working without a net. That all came to an end when an assassin's bullet struck him during his act, causing him to plummet to his death. Since then he'd been a disembodied spirit; a ghost who could only interract with the living by possessing them.

"Right on the nose! I think I figured out how to take Nekron down from all the Black Lanterns I've been possessing. That hasn't been fun, let me tell you! I even had to possess my own corpse when it started walking again. Blasting Nekron ain't gonna work. You need to take out his tether to the world of the living."

"And who would that be?" Shego said in an annoyed tone.

"Chill out, lady," Deadman replied. "Or I won't give you the message your brothers asked me to give you before they crossed over. Black Hand's what's keeping Nekron here. You take him out, you take Nekron out."

"I'll be more than happy to do that," Kim growled. "Come on, Shego; we have one more Black Lantern to annihilate!"

"That's not what I meant, kid. We need to get Hand's heart beating again."

Kim's eyes narrowed. "No. No! After all he's done; after everyone he's killed, why should he get to live? Why should he get to live when Ron doesn't? It's not fair! Black Hand doesn't deserve a second chance!"

"Kid, it's the way it's gotta be," Deadman said.

"But why? This isn't right!"

"We're not doing Black Hand any favors, Kim," Hal added. "He hated living and was in love with death! Making him live again is the worst punishment he could get."

"Listen, Possible," Deadman said, "your guy's still here. I can see him right next to you; blond guy with big ears, right? He won't let himself move on even though I can see that the other side opened the doors for him." Deadman looked over at Ron's spirit, floating protectively close to Kim.

"She's gotta do this," the ghost of Ron Stoppable said. "Tell KP that she's gotta do this! She has to do what she does best and save the world."

"He says you have to do what you do best and save the world," Deadman repeated.

"How do I know you're not lying to me?" Kim demanded.

"He keeps callin' you KP. Why does he use your initials?"

No one in the media ever paid enough attention to Ron to know he did that, even though it was a lyric to "The Naked Mole Rap." Kim closed her eyes again. "He always has," she whispered.

"Look, I gotta go," Deadman said. "I can't use this ring, and I think you're gonna need it! By the way, Shego, Hego said something about you needing to reclaim your heroic destiny, or something lame like that, and Mego said to chill out." With that, the spirit left Guy Garnder's body.

"Typical Herman and Mel," Shego said with a sad smile.

"I freakin' hate it when he does that," Guy grumbled. "Okay, now what? We gonna cave in Skeletor's melon, or what?"

"We need that Entity," Hal answered.

"Then we need to get Nekron away from it," Kim said grimly. "I'll do it."

"Kim wait!" Kyle called out as Kim shot off. "You'll get yourself killed!"

"I hate to say it, compadre, but I think that was the idea," Guy said.

"Kim!" Ron's ghost screamed. He looked over at the white skinned man in the red suit floating beside him. "What can we do?"

"Nothing we can do, Ronnie," Deadman answered. "We just sit here and watch."

"So not!" Ron flew off after Kim. "I'm gonna watch her back even if she can't see me!"

Kim flew at nearly top speed with Shego and Ron's ghost close behind. Shego's fists lit up with the combined might of her comet powers and her ring. She flung a mighty yellow orb at Kim, making it explode in front of the Green Lantern. "Will you kindly remove your head from your butt?"

"Shut up, Shego!"

"Look, you're steamed about Ron. I understand! How do you think I feel about my brothers, or my father? Do you really think I want to remember my dad as a bloodthirsty monster who tried to kill me?" Shego took a deep breath to calm herself. "Getting yourself killed won't help, and I doubt Ron would want you to."

"No way would I want you to!" Ron agreed. "You gotta live, Kim! You have to live for both of us!"

"I'm still giving Nekron a piece of my mind," Kim growled.

"So am I," Shego agreed, "but we're not going in half cocked and getting killed! We flank him, we blast him, and we let the rest of your Green Army Men get that Entity thing."

"I never thought I'd say this, KP, but Shego's right!" Ron said. He hung his head and closed his eyes. "I really wish you could hear me right now."

Kim took a deep breath and nodded. "You're right. Ron wouldn't want this. Okay. We do this your way. Let's zap some zombie!"

The two took off again and made a beeline for Nekron, before being intercepted by the Black Lantern that had been Ron's body. "Hey, pretty ladies, where do you thing you're going?"

"Okay, that is just wrong!" Ron's ghost said in disgust.

Shego grinned and lit up her ring feuled powers. "Tell me something, what kind of an urn do you want?"

"So Shego's a big bad Sinestro now?" the Black Lantern mockery said. "I am so gonna enjoy ripping your heart out!" The Rufus construct leapt from Black Lantern Ron's shoulder. It grew in size and its teeth became sharper. By the time it reached Shego, it looked like something out of a horror movie or a deranged fever dream.

"Back off!" A burst of yellow light disintegrated the Rufus monster, but not before it dug its teeth into Shego's shoulder.

Kim, meanwhile, was fighting with he rown emotions. "Please, Ron, don't do this!"

"But I have to, KP. I am what I is, and what I is is a Black Lantern."

"Not for long," Ron's ghost growled. He flew forward, right at the thing that had been his mortal shell. "I sure hope I can do this!"

Instead of flying through the corpse, soul met body for the first time since Ron's death. The Black Lantern stopped, and moved very stiffly, like it was fighting itself.

"K...P..."

."Blast it, Princess!" Shego shouted, trying to patch up her wound

"No!" Kim screamed. "I think it's really Ron!"

"Can't... hold this for... too long, Kim," Ron fought to say. "Possessed the zombie... so you can destroy it..."

"No, Ron," Kim said with tears running down her cheeks. "You're back now! Maybe there's some way to restore you!"

"Kim... the ring's too strong... I don't know how long I can hold on... you have to destroy it!"

Kim took the Black Lantern's face in her hands. "Don't make me kill you, Ron. I watched you die once; I can't do it again!"

"I'm already dead, KP... this is just a shell." Ron held Kim's hand one last time. "I love you, KP, and I'll wait for you. Just promise me you'll live a nice long life... for both of us... now please! Destroy this thing before it takes over again!"

Kim slowly floated away from the Black Lantern and closed her eyes. "Shego?"

"You did good, Stoppable," Shego said softly before unleashing a yellow beam from her ring. "I'm sorry."

Kim didn't open her eyes. She just pointed and fired, knowing her aim would be true. The tears fell harder when she heard the words "Connection severed."

"I don't know about you," Shego said, her voice shaking with anger and sadness. "But I could sure go for some payback."

"Sounds good to me." The two again took off, heading right for Nekron and the captive Entity. "Hey, death breath! Did you forget about us?"

"Foolish girl," the master of death sneered. "The white light could not erase me from existance, what makes you think your lights can?"

"I'm not here to erase you," Kim growled. "I'm here to take my frustrations out on you! The only man I ever loved is dead because of you, and I'm gonna make you pay for it!"

Kim and Shego opened fire, blasting chuncks off of Nekron and pushing him away from the Entity. "You cannot destroy me! If this form is destroyed I will manifest in a new one. You cannot destroy death!"

"And you can't destroy life!" Hal Jordan declared. "I may have some sick connection to you, Nekron, but I have a stonger one to life. You say you brought me back from the dead. Well you may have opened the door, but I was the one who walked through it. We all did!"

Hal merged with the angelic form of the Entity. He uniform faded to pure white, and the symbol Sinestro had worn while he was one with the Entity formed on his chest. The light shot from Hal to the heroes who had died and come back.

"Connection overridden," the rings of Flash and Wonder Woman said as they shattered and were replaced by white rings.

"Connection severed." The black rings of Superman, Green Arrow, former Wonder Girl Donna Troy, Animal Man, Superboy, and Guy's girlfriend Ice were also replaced by white rings. Kid Flash, who had been freed from his black ring by the Flash, also received a white ring. The resurrected heroes, clad in their pristine white uniforms, assmbled alongside Hal.

"If anyone deserves to be a White Lantern Corps," Hal declared, "it's us!" They targeted Black Hand. "Returning to life was our choice, not Nekron's. And now we choose it for you!"

White light flowed from the rings, once again forming into the Entity. It looked at Black Hand and turned into light that washed over the first Black Lantern. "William Hand of Earth," a voice said. "Live."

Black Hand's skin and eyes returned returned to a healthy tone and Black Lantern ring was destoryed. Hand felt his heart begin to beat again, and a strange tickle in his throat and a pain in his stomach. He started to cough. That coughing increased until he spit up a white ring; a ring that flew through Nekron on its way to the central Black Lantern power battery. "Anti-Monitor of Qward. Live."

From within the battery emerged the monstrous Anti-Monitor, missing since the end of the Sinestro Corps War. "I will be your power source no more!"

"This is my universe," Nekron warned. "Return to your own!" A blast from the scythe sent the ruler of the antimatter universe back to where he came from.

Black Hand fell to his knees as his hacking became worse. He finally vomitted up thirteen white rings that flew right for Nekron. "Nekron. Let there be light!"

"No! Noooooooooo!" The rings surorunded Nekron and bathed him in their light, ripping him to shreds and again banishing him to the realm of the dead. Then the rings scattered, targeting specific Black Lanterns on the planet, in orbit, and even one in Sector Zero.

Kim, knealing by the dust that had been Ron Stoppable, saw one ring fly to the Black Lantern Martion Manhunter. "J'Onn J'Onzz of Mars," she heard it say. She then saw two more rings go to Firestorm and Aquaman. "Ronnie Raymond of Earth. Arthur Curry of Earth."

"Boston Brand of Earth," another ring declared as it flew though Deadman's unseen ghost on its way to Nanda Parbat, where his remains were being housed.

Kim closed her eyes and lowered her head. She only looked up when she felt warm white light shine on her. "Ron Stoppable of Earth," the ring floating before her said. "Live."

The entire scene was washed out in an explosion of light. When Kim's vision cleared, she saw that Ron's ashes were gone. Not ten feet away from her, Kim saw once dead heroes and villains emerge from a curtain of light. Aquaman, Firestorm, and the Martian Manhunter, as well as Hawkman and Hawkgirl who had been murdered by Black Lanterns at the beginnign of the Blackest Night, were welcomed by their peers. Killers like Captain Boomerang, Max Lord and the Reverse Flash were quickly pursued, with only Boomerang being captured.

Kim squinted, trying to look through the white fog. From behind a man in red who she could only assume was the now living Deadman, emerged a sight Kim had never thought to see again. Ron Stoppable, looking as he had before he became a Blue Lantern. "Thank God," Kim said as she ran to his arms. "You came back. You're alive! You're alive..."

Kim and Ron held each other and kissed. Monique and Saint Walker, both wearing huge smiles, quietly watched them. "As I said, Kim Possible of Earth, all will be well." Neither of them noticed that Yori and the rest of the Indigo Tribe had vanished along with Black Hand.

Sayd, one of the founders of the Blue Lantern Corps, floated up beside Walker with a freshly created blue ring in her hand. "When should I give Brother Stoppable his new ring?" the Guardian smiled.

"I think it can wait," Monique said, enjoying the feeling of warmth she got from Kim and Ron's love. "Let them enjoy the moment."

Next chapter: Ron returns to his life, and Team Possible decide their futures with their respective corps.