"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!"

Upon latching onto a corpse, the Black Lantern ring will reanimate the body. The ring animating the person within downloads all the memories and superhuman abilities (if they had any) of their previous life, but not their souls. Instead, they are malevolent beings who seek to murder even those they considered friends. The Black Lantern rings are capable of taking hold of a person who had been killed and resurrected, putting them under their control, effectively killing them again. This was shown when a group of resurrected heroes, including Superman, Superboy, Ice and Wally West, were possessed by the rings when they latched on and were commanded to die. As expressions of darkness, the Black Lantern rings are vulnerable to the white light that represents life. Eons ago, the darkness splintered the white light into the seven lights of the Emotional Electromagnetic Spectrum. Individually, the seven lights are unable to harm the Black Lanterns, but the green light of willpower, representing all sentient life, working with one or more of the other six, can render the Black Lantern rings inert and leave the Black Lanterns vulnerable to conventional attacks. The black rings can also have their connections severed by the white power contained within Dawn Granger. Black Lantern Holly Granger was visibly hurt when she attempted to rip out her heart, and the ensuing blast of light severed the connections of an attacking group of Black Lanterns. As beings whose entire power is concentrated around the idea of lacking all emotions, they are extremely vulnerable to potent artifacts intended to force emotions upon the victim, such as the Medusa Mask. Oddly, Black Lantern Rings, though shown to possess enough speed to follow even the Flash, cannot follow anyone fast enough to travel through time, as Barry Allen demonstrated, shifting himself and Hal Jordan a few seconds ahead into the future and causing the ring to lose them.

A massive army of zombie ponies, including several familiar faces, surrounded the Rainbow Lanterns. "You dare intrude my home? After today, no one will be safe! Now... DIE!!!", Nekron growled as the Black Lantern Corps charged towards the Rainbow Lanterns. A massive battle began, with multiple zombies quickly dying right off the bat. However, they just kept coming. "My army is infinite. The amount of creatures in Equestria will be enough to destroy your puny little union. While you were distracted with that human, I turned every creature in Equestria into my soldiers!" However, this meant that while his army was massive, it wasn't infinite.

"Everyone, spread out!", Twilight commanded. Spike was able to annihilate multiple zombie dragons in the air, and Rainbow Dash joined the onslaught and devoured multiple zombie griffons.

"Ah... how delicious...", Rainbow Dash said as Twilight blasted zombie changelings left and right in the air. Fluttershy attempted to fly away, but zombie hippogriffs kept on blocking her paths. However, her Power Bracelet was glowing brightly, so she blasted the flying creatures. On the ground, multiple zombie yaks were stampeding towards Pinkie Pie, but the Blue Lantern simply constructed a massive Pac-Man which devoured every single zombie yak as Applejack and Rarity fought multiple zombie ponies back-to-back. Meanwhile, Twilight constructed a MASSIVE energy twin.

"PLEASE DON'T STICK ME IN YOUR GIANT VAGINA!!!", one of the zombie ponies shouted.

"DUDE, WHAT THE FUCK?!", another zombie pony asked. Suddenly, Nekron blasted Twilight, and while it didn't do much damage to the Princess of Friendship, it did cause the energy twin to fade.

"Oh, thank Celestia! I thought she was going to crush me... with her giant vagina!", the terrified zombie pony said, which was revealed to be zombie Big Mac.

"Okay, what does your Internet history look like?!", the other zombie pony said, which was revealed to be zombie Derpy Hooves. Eventually, Nekron's entire army was annihilated thanks to teamwork... and the fact that the Rainbow Lanterns weren't mindless zombies.

"Fine. I'll slaughter you all myself!", Nekron growled. "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!" He flew towards the airborne heroes and slashed them with his scythe, dealing some damage to them and causing them to fall to the ground. He then blasted Applejack, Pinkie Pie, and Rarity with his Black Lantern Power Ring. The Rainbow Lanterns, however, stood together and didn't back down. They charged towards the Lord of the Unliving and fought him in midair. However, Nekron ultimately overpowered the heroes and revealed five Black Lantern Power Bracelets and two Black Lantern Power Rings. They floated towards the Rainbow Lanterns. "Now... DIE!!!" They automatically attached themselves to the Rainbow Lanterns, causing their original Power Bracelets and Power Rings to shatter. The seven heroes screamed in pain as their skin seemingly began to decay while Nekron laughed maniacally. Suddenly, a white light enveloped the seven heroes as a white force field formed around them. "What?! Impossible!" It turned out that the Black Lantern Power Bracelets and Black Lantern Power Rings that attached themselves to the heroes weren't black at all. They were simply covered in ink. In reality, they were White Lantern Power Bracelets and White Lantern Power Rings. White bodysuits formed around their bodies as the zombie creatures all came back to life. A massive blood portal opened beneath them and they fell through, landing in Equestria as the blood portal closed. "No... NOOO!"

"In brightest day, in brightest night, let our rings shine the brightest light. When evil comes, we will join the fight. The power of the White Lanterns is the strongest might!", the seven White Lanterns shouted in unison as they landed before their foe.

"Nekron, your apocalyptic reign of terror ends right now!", Twilight shouted as she and her friends charged towards the Lord of the Unliving to take him on one final time.

Author's Note

Horror references in this chapter:

Meanwhile, Twilight constructed a MASSIVE energy twin.

"PLEASE DON'T STICK ME IN YOUR GIANT VAGINA!!!", one of the zombie ponies shouted.

"DUDE, WHAT THE FUCK?!", another zombie pony asked. Suddenly, Nekron blasted Twilight, and while it didn't do much damage to the Princess of Friendship, it did cause the energy twin to fade.

"Oh, thank Celestia! I thought she was going to crush me... with her giant vagina!", the terrified zombie pony said, which was revealed to be zombie Big Mac.

"Okay, what does your Internet history look like?!", the other zombie pony said, which was revealed to be zombie Derpy Hooves.

Hellsing Ultimate Abridged reference once again.

It turned out that the Black Lantern Power Bracelets and Black Lantern Power Rings that attached themselves to the heroes weren't black at all. They were simply covered in ink.

The Bendy franchise.