Celestia walked out of the throne room in the Crystal Empire accompanied by Princess Cadence and Shining Armour. The white alicorn turned to her niece. She stood beside her husband with a worried look on her face.
"How can he be both here, and at Canterlot?" the princess of love asked. The princess of the sun shook her head.
"I'm not sure. But if it's true then we must defeat him here and at Canterlot." Celestia said."I want you and Shining Armour to stay with Flurry Heart. I will not let your daughter lose her parents, when I could have helped them survive. Take her to Cloudsdale, you should be safe there." the solar princess said. The pink alicorn looked at her aunt.
"I will not abandon Equestria in it's time of need." the pink alicorn said sternly."My daughter can be taken to Cloudsdale by the royal guard. When she grows up, she will know that her mother and father gave their lives so that she may have a future." Cadence said. The two alicorns stared at one another intensely. Shining came between them.
"Incase you've forgotten, we have an extremely powerful and dangerous enemy at our doorstep." the stallion said."We need a plan of action now, if we want to have any hope of defeating him." the unicorn said. The two alicorns looked at the white unicorn, remebering the situation they were in.
"You're right Shining Armour. We need to think of a plan." Celestia said.
"We should throw everything we've got at him, try and overpower him." Cadence suggested. The other two ponies thought about it for a moment.
"It's the only real plan we've got." Shining Armour said. Celestia nodded.
"Very well, we shall send out all soldiers to engage him. Once he is worn down, the three of us will engage him together. He won't be able to take on all three of us at once. With any luck we'll be able to put an end to him." the princess of the sun said. The three ponies left the throne room.
***
Princess Luna and Princess Twilight headed for the city walls. They had both agreed that they would fight on the front line alongside the soliders, who were willing to lay down their lives for them. The wall was lined with guards. There was also a large battalion gather outside the city's wall as a first line of defence. The ponies waited for their foe to come to them. In the distance one of the guards spotted a cloaked figure. He shouted out to his comrades. The soldiers took up a defencive stance, spears pointed in the direction of the oncoming figure. The cloaked figure stopped a bit away from the battalion. Luna and Twilight flew down to the battalion. They waited for their opponent to move. He stood there, not moving an inch.
"Surrender yourself now, or face the consequences." princess Luna shouted. The figure stood there. He raised a hand and lowered his hood. The ponies eyes widened. They had never seen such a creature in their life. The figure spoke.
"Please lower your weapons. I only require to speak with the princess who controls the sun." he said. Luna and Twilight stared at him.
"Why do you wish to speak to my sister?" Luna asked. The creature smiled.
"I simply wish to ask for compensation for my wrongful imprisonment" the creature said.
"Wrongful." Luna shouted."Your imprisonment was not wrongful, it was merciful. You should have been executed for the amount of lives you took." the princess of the night shouted. The smile vanished from the creature's face.
"I haven't killed anyone." he said.
"That's a lie." Twilight shouted."You murdered hundreds of ponies over five hundred years ago." the princess of friendship shouted."Now it's time you pay properly for those lives you took then, and the ones you took at Vanhoover." Twilight shouted at the creature.
"I am telling you, I have never killed a single creature while in this land." the creature said."The only aggression I ever showed was when your princess attacked me. I defended myself, but was overpowered. Then I was thrown in prison for something I didn't do." the creature said.
"Enough!" princess Luna shouted."You have the gall to stand here and tell us you didn't kill anypony when you are here attacking the city aswell as the Crystal Empire." the dark blue alicorn said. The creature had a confused look on it's face."I don't want to hear anymore of your lies.". The princess's horn lit up.
"Wait!" the creature shouted. Luna's horn stopped glowing."What do you mean attacking this city. I haven't made a single offensive move against you." the creature said."And what do you mean I'm also attacking the Crystal Empire?".
"My sister told me that a cloaked figure matching your description is currently outside the Crystal Empire attacking the city." Luna said. A look of realisation came upon the creatures face.
"That must be the perpetrator." the creature said."The thing you say is attacking the Crystal Empire must be the one responsible for all those years ago and for Vanhoover." the creature said."We need to go there right now and stop it.".
"How doo we know we can trust you?" Twilight asked. The creature fell to it's knees.
"Take me as your prisoner until we get there. I don't care what I have to do, just get me to the Crystal Empire." the creature pleaded. Luna looked at Twilight.
"Very well. Guards chain him up and throw him on a cart. We move for the Crystal Empire." Luna ordered.
***
The Crystal Empire was shattering. Cracks were running through almost every building except the royal palace. The soldiers had engaged the figure but were no match for it's sheer strength. The two alicorns and SHining Armour had become occupied trying to stop the city from collapsing. Their efforts would of been futile anyway. There seemed no end to the creature magic powers. Shining Armour ran over to the two alicorns.
"We can't keep using our magic to repair the city, we need to save it to fight it." Shining said to the two alicorns.
"He's right." Cadence said."We won't have any strength left if we keep this up.". Celestia nodded. The two alicorns stopped casting the repairing spells. Two buildings shattered almost immediatly.
"We need to take the fight to him." Celestia said.
"Right!" Cadence and Shining Armour said in unison. The three ponies ran out of the city in the direction of the battle. There was soldiers littering the ground left, right and centre. The creature was swatting them away like flies. He noticed the three oncoming ponies and advanced towards them. He could sense the strength of the two alicorns. This battle would be amsuing to him. He looked at the unicorn. His strength paled in comparison the the alicorns. He raised his hand and pointed it at the white unicorn. Shining Armour collapsed as they were running. Cadence immediatly rushed to his aid.
"What's wrong Shining?" she asked her husband.
"My leg, it's been broken." he said in pain. He lay on the ground holding his hoof."You need to go on without me. Try and take him down." the unicorn said to his wife. She nodded and kissed him. The two alicorns turned to face their foe.
"This ends now Ignatius!" Celestia shouted at the figure. The creature could be seen smiling beneath it's hood. The creature raised it's hands at the two alicorns. A large explosion occured behind them, causing the two to jump away from one another."Give it everything you've got Cadence." Celestia shouted, her horn lighting up. The two alicorns started to fire spells at the creature. Unlike the guards, the alicorns were actually making an impact against the creature. He was pushed back a few paces. His smile had turned to a growl at this point.
"Enough!" the creature shouted. A large burst of energy errupted from him knocking the two alicorns to the ground."Equestria belongs to me now." it shouted. The creature raised it's hands and pointed them at the two alicorns, who were laying there defenceless. Before anything happened the creature exploded in a cloud a black smoke. The two alicorns turned to see another creature, accompanied by Princess Luna and Princess Twilight. The battalion had also arrived. Luna and Twilight ran over to the three ponies. Twilight hugged her brother and sister in law.
"Are you alright?" Luna asked her sister.
"I'm fine, who is that creature?" the white alicorn asked.
"That is Ignatius. He wasn't the one who commited the crimes sister. It was this creature here." Luna said. Celestia looked over at Ignatius.
"Why would you help us, after what we did to you?" Celestia asked Ignatius.
"You did nothing wrong. You followed your peoples laws. I have no quarrel with you. This human is who I have a quarrel with." Ignatius said. The alicorns stared at one another. The other human emerged from the cloud of smoke.
"I was wondering where you had gotten off to." the human said.
"You murdered hundreds of ponies, destroyed entire cities and had me wrongfully imprisoned. You will pay for what you've done." Ignatius shouted at the other human. The other human only laughed.
"You really think you can stop me. My power is unmatched." he bellowed. He raised his hands at Ignatius. Ignatius didn't move an inch."Let's see you survive after this." the human said. There was a quick flash followed by a loud explosion. The area where Ignatius was standing was covered in smoke. The alicorns had retreat to a safe distance to let the two humans battle it out. The smoke suddnely vanished, revealing Ignatius standing in the exact same spot. The other human's eyes widened."That's impossible, that should have killed you." the human shouted.
"You have not yet learned to fully master your powers." Ignatius said."You only came here at the time when I was wrongly imprisoned. Your attacks on the ponies wasn't your fault. You had no control over your powers." Ignatius said. The human stared at him in shock."Everything you did was an accident." Ignatius said. A tear rolled down the human's cheek.
"I never meant to kill anyone or destroy cities. I couldn't control it. The power was just too much for me to handle." the human said, streams of tears now rolling down his face.
"You were only a child when you came here." Ignatius said. The human nodded."I'm sorry this happened to you, but it doesn't excuse you for what you have done since." Ignatius said."I have been here for millenia, watching over the life forms on the planet. I have almost been a sort of god to this world, shaping certain events" Ignatius said. He raised his hand and pointed it at the human. The human raised his hands in defence.
"Please don't kill me." the human sobbed. Ignatius shook his head.
"I have always had one rule while in this world. I will never take a life. I am going to send you back to our world." Ignatius said. The human looked at him, joy glistening in his eyes.
"You mean, you can send me home?" he asked.
"Yes. I do not know to what time you will return, but you will return none the less." Ignatius said. The human nodded his thanks. Ignatius raised his hand once more. A small ball formed around the human. It burned bright yellow. The ball began to shrink and when it was gone so was the human. Celestia walked over to Ignatius.
"Thank you for saving us. I am sorry that I wrongfully imprisoned you all those years ago." she said.
"You are forgiven." Ignatius said.
"What will you do now?" Celestia asked.
"The one who caused these problems was a human. As I am a human myself, I will take responsability for the humans actions. I will return back to the cell I was imprisoned in and wait until I feel that I have served enough time." Ignatius said.
"What if another human comes to Equestria?" Celestia asked. Ignatius smiled.
"You know where to find me." he said walking away from the princess. Princess Luna trotted over to her sister.
"This is going to take a long time to repair." she said.
"Indeed, but at least Equestria is safe." Celestia said, watching Ignatius as he faded into the distance.
***
Ignatius stood on the beach of the island he had spent five hundred years on. He walked up the the main gate and walked across the wooden bridge. He enetered the prison. He walked down the stairs to his cell. He closed the cell behind him and cast a spell on the door. he sat on the floor and crossed his legs. He thought of something in his head.
Back in the Crystal Empire the buildings began to repair themselves. The injured soldier were cured of their injuries.
A smile grew on Ignatius's face. He sat alone in his cell, deeper than Tartarus.