Hey everybody it's a new year, so that means a new chapter. Let this chapter be the start of the end of Black Star Rising, I have enjoyed writing this story, and I'm sure you all have enjoyed reading it. I seriously couldn't have done this or gotten this far without you guys.

I DO NOT OWN THE CHARCTERS INVOLVED IN THIS FANFIC. THEY BELONG TO THEIR RESPECTIVE OWNERS.

Ch. 27 Ties of Friendship

"Who are you?" Ron asked the girl that stood before him.

"My name is Ai." The girl spoke.

"OOOk, next question. How and why are you here?" Ron asked her.

Ai just stared at him as she thought back to when she was deployed by Morrigan for her special mission.

Flashback

"You heard her! Ryoko you keep manning the ship, Azula I want you and the witches down there on the front lines, Viper you're with me, we're going to stop any heroes from showing up. As for you." Morrigan said pointing to Ai. "I have a special mission for you."

Morrigan walked up to Ai, whose only response was the void look in her eyes. "Now I know full well what you're capabilities are. What you can do, pretty much makes you the strongest one here." Morrigan told her. "Earlier one of your minions stated that you will send neither Kim nor Shego to hell because Blackfire lacks the hatred needed to do so. I found someone in their group that would be willing to send Shego to hell. His name is Ron Stoppable, go to him, get him to send her away, and while you're doing that I'll try to get her blood sample." Morrigan said. "Now we don't have much time."

Flashback End

Ai recalled the orders given to her by the succubus; she could tell that Morrigan hoped she would have Shego banished to hell, before her blood sample could be retrieved. Now Ai stood before Ron, if Morrigan was correct she would be sending Shego to hell this night. She handed him a black straw doll with a red string around its neck.

Ron grabbed it and examined it. "What is this thing?" He asked as Rufus climbed up his arm to get a closer look. "It's a Voodoo Doll isn't it!" He said and threw the doll.

It didn't get far as Ai brought it back to her with a wave of her hand. "If you truly wish to eliminate your antagonist, you must untie the red string. If you remove the red string, you shall officially enter into a contract with me." Ai told him.

"A contract? Antagonist? I don't know anyone who I would call an antagonist." Ron said as he scratched his head.

Suddenly the room around them vanished and was replaced by a sunny neighborhood. Ron looked around stupefied as he quickly recognized it as Middleton. Ron turned around when he heard a familiar voice call out to him.

"Ron-Kun!"

Ron looked on with wide eyes as he saw Yori walking up to him. "Y-Yori is that, is that really you?"

She waved over to him, and he quickly made his way to her. He opened his arms as he prepared to embrace her, only for Yori to go right through him.

"Wha-what just happened?" Ron asked as he watched Yori walk past him. "Wait a minute, is that…me?" Ron asked. "Double." Rufus commented as he rubbed his eyes.

Ron turned to Ai Enma. "Why are you showing me this? What does Yori have to do with that doll?" He asked her.

Ai waved her hand and the next thing Ron knew he was in the jungle, but more importantly standing outside of an entrance to a pyramid. Ron looked to his left and saw a familiar form, something he hoped to never see again. He watched as the hunters dragged the unconscious bodies of Yori, Drakken and himself inside, to a fate he remembers all too well.

"Stop it. Stop it right now!" Ron told her.

Ai didn't respond she just stared at the blonde, with her blood red eyes. "I said stop.." Ron was cut off by Yori screaming. His eyes went wide, he never heard her cry out in such pain before. He hesitated to turn around, but he just couldn't ignore Yori's scream.

He slowly turned to see Yori clutching her chest as she doubled over in pain. She threw her head back as she released another pain filled scream. He watched as her screams finally stopped and she leaned up against the wall of the pyramid, panting heavily and still clutching her chest. After about fifteen seconds she reached in her pouch and pulled out her kunai, her hands trembling, Ron watched as she stabbed herself in the heart with the kunai.

XX

Meanwhile above Go City Deadpool had his sights set on Ryoko who was about to snap Mystique in two. He fired his guns, but Ryoko was able to vanish in an instant leaving Mystique to take the damage for her. Mystique cried out as she felt the bullets rip through her, piercing her back and emerging through her gut. She dropped down to her knees, clutching her wounds, as blood began to leak from her mouth.

"Goddamnit Wade!" She said with a pain filled voice.

"heheh, oops." Deadpool said. "You ok Red?" He asked.

Mystique let out what must have been a whimper and a growl as she coughed up more blood. She looked over to see Blackfire walking towards her. She tried to stand, but the damage was done, she needed to morph into Wolverine if she wanted to heal from this quickly, however she was finding that rather difficult to do at the moment.

Blackfire stood above her and smiled, even though she was feeling almost as bad as Mystique was since she had deadly poison going through her body at the moment. "Awww are you ok Raven? That look like it hurt." Blackfire said in a mocking tone.

"I should be asking you that…..After all you're the one with poison in your system." She responded.

"Don't worry I got this one for sure this time." Deadpool said as he took careful aim.

Ryoko appeared behind him, and slammed her right fist into his face, knocking him into the wall. "I think you've done more than enough." Ryoko said as she turned her attention back to the two women.

XX

Below them while Kim and the others continued their fight with Foom, Black Star continued their fight with the heroes. Morrigan dropped to the ground as Emma Frost attacked her mind. She clutched her head as if it was going to explode at any moment. Suddenly a swarm of bats appeared and surrounded Emma. She swatted them away and saw that the remaining bats formed into demonic wings on her back and began launching missiles. Encasing her body in diamond she braced herself for impact as the missiles slammed into her, and the pavement around her.

When the smoke cleared Morrigan was nowhere to be seen. She removed her diamond form as she searched around for the succubus, carefully scanning the area. She placed her fingertips on her temples as she looked up and sent waves of psychic blasts into Morrigan making her fall from above her.

"Oh…you're good." Morrigan said as she tried to get up.

"That's as far as you go." Emma told her as she kept blasting her, until Morrigan disappeared in a flash of light. "A clone." Emma said as she turned to see the real Morrigan standing behind her.

Morrigan rushed her, connecting her right hook, with Frost's face. Instantly another clone of her appeared and they began to barrage Emma with kicks and punches, before ending it with one powerful kick to the head from both sides.

"How does that feel?" Morrigan asked the unconscious psychic as her clone vanished. She looked up and over to Foom and could see Kim and the others working together to try and topple the mighty dragon. "The night is still young. I think I need to go out and have some more fun." She said as she flew into the sky to fight Kim and the others.

XX

Back in Ron's nightmare

Ron couldn't believe what he had just witnessed. Yori had just stabbed herself with her own Kunai. He felt powerless as he watched the love of his life suffer alone in the dark. Overcome with emotion he ran over to her, calling out to her hoping that somehow she would hear his pleas. He stopped running when he heard her cries of pain return. He watched as the kunai slowly pushed its way out of the dying woman's chest and clattered against the ground as it collided with it.

"Yori!" He called out to her as a Chestburster exploded from her chest roaring to life.

Slowly the image of Yori's limp body along with the Chestburster were replaced with images of XeYori the Xenomorph with Yori's memories and capabilities. Ron dropped down to his knees as tears flooded his cheeks.

"The one you seek revenge upon shall be taken immediately to Hell." Ai said.

"I don't know what you're talking about. Revenge against who?" Ron asked his head still drooped down.

He looked up as a light caught his eye. He looked up to see Yori's dead body surrounded by fire and standing above her was XeYori, with an image of Shego in the background. The woman responsible for killing Yori, for creating XeYori, for starting it all.

"Shego." He said.

"Take revenge for the loss of your loved one. Pull the string and I will banish your antagonist to hell." Ai said as she handed the black straw doll to Ron.

He stared at her, or more importantly at the doll in her hand, and before he knew it, he was holding the doll again. He could feel his old anger resurfacing, the anger and rage he felt towards Shego for what she did to Yori. He wanted her to suffer for killing Yori, wanted her to feel the pain she felt when she died. His pupils flashed red with rage at thought of how unfair life was being by letting Shego live, and letting Yori die.

He grabbed the red string and was about to pull it without giving it a second thought, when Ai spoke up again. "However, if I deliver your revenge. I must have you make restitution to me. When one person is cursed, two graves are dug. If you accept the contract, your soul shall also belong to Hell. You will never know the joys of Heaven. Your spirit shall wander forever knowing pain and suffering. But that's only after you die. The rest is for you to decide." She said.

Ron then had to think, would he benefit from sending Shego to Hell, if he had to go there himself after he dies? There was some part of him that felt that it was justified, that he was in the right, that Shego deserved to burn in Hell for what she had done.

His hand began to tremble as he held on tightly to the string. "Do you want to deliver your vengeance?" She asked him.

Ron shook his head. "No, this isn't right. Y-Yori's death was not Shego's fault. Neither of us had no clue what we were getting ourselves into. If we had been more prepared then, Yori would still be.." He said his voice trailing off.

"Even though she is directly to blame for the loss of your loved one? No one could blame you for your decision." Ai said.

"I could. I could, because I would be hurting Kim. I can't do that to my best friend, I can't let her know what it feels like to lose the person you'd give your all for. That's not what best friends do. Shego has….She's suffered enough, she feel's just as bad, if not worse about the whole thing. She knows what I'm feeling, she has lost Kim once, and on top of that her parents have died because it as well." Ron said as images of their confrontation with XeYori flashed through his mind.

He chucked the doll away, Ai not bothering to bring it back as it just vanished into thin air. "Besides there is no way, I could live with myself for betraying my friends when they need me the most. You're Black Star aren't you? I bet this is what you did to Jacob. Well it won't work on me." Ron said as he charged her out of nowhere, and tried to punch her. Ai teleported out of the way as Ron stumbled to stay on his feet.

"I see, you value much more than your own personal gain. I cannot deliver vengeance upon one who does not deem it so." She said as she quickly vanished.

The room returned to normal and Ron looked around, but saw no sign of the young girl. He was taken from his thoughts as the Kimmunicator went off. He looked at it to see Wade's face had appeared on the screen.

"Ron, good I thought you had gone off to fight in Go City." Wade said.

"The thought had crossed my mind." Ron said. "Anything I can do to help Wade?"

"Actually Yes. We've just got the gate to start working and will be sending warriors through it. We'll need you to lead them to Kim and Shego." Wade informed the blonde.

Ron smiled, at last he would be able to help not just Kim and Tiara, but Shego too. He would be able to help his friends. "Sure Wade, I'll be there in five." He said.

And we can officially say this chapter is done. I wanted to give Ron his own little chapter if you will, to show that he has moved beyond his situation regarding Shego and Yori, think of it as a filler, but a filler with meaning. Now that we've gotten that out of the way we can begin the next chapter. The Fall of Fin fang Foom.