Trillions of bits spent, with a massive research team from Canterlot, Storm and Horror stood in the test chamber, white lab coats on, goggles protecting their eyes, nostrils and mouths. "You ready?" Storm asked Horror, who nodded and slammed the button in front of him with a single hoof. the button was on a pedastal, which had wires going from it to a mechanism, much like a reactor.
They were performing an experiment to gauge the energy potential of the God Particle, commonly known as Celestia's Particle.
The machine utterly destroyed the white orb in the chamber, they had collected thousands and bunched them together, and within a few seconds Celestia's Particle orb was now gone.
But the resulting particle destruction caused a massive shockwave to ripple out of the machine, knocking everypony over, including the research team that was behind "unbreakable" glass, the shockwave then acted with malicious force and broke the glass utterly, reducing it to fine sand. The research team were all knocked out, and had received major bruising that day.
But it was not over... Far from it.
The machine was suddenly enveloped in a gravity field that sucked it up into oblivion and spewed forth a large orb of purple smoke. "Finally... I Have Awoken!" A voice similar to Horror's spoke, but it spoke of infinitely more hate and evil, it made Storm shiver slightly.
A massive tentacle stretched from the smoke orb and grabbed Horror as he started to glow with darkness, he grabbed it, and gave a yank and threw a large being out from the smoke orb and it hit the wall with a loud thud.
The being got up slowly and brushed himself off, a male Alicorn swarming with tentacles, it spoke with the same voice as the smoke orb faded away "Thank you... For your assistance, you receive your reward." he spoke calmly as a tentacle grabbed Horror, binding his arms to his body, and yet another reached down his throat, and reached for something. With it firmly in it's grasp, it tore it out of Horror, causing him to scream in sheer agony, blood heavily trailing the tentacle which held a small orb of light which ha swirling, shifting red and green inside as it left his body.
The tentacle holding horror's arms let him go and he slumped to the cold floor with a sickening thud, his body completely still.
The gray Alicorn without eyes and blood trailing from them down his cheeks looked at Storm and spoke simply "Finished" AS he ate the orb and a tentacle shot at Storm, before it could make contact, it was blocked by a green forcefield which it bounced off of, the air crackling with energy.
"Don't You Dare Touch Him!!" A familiar mare shouted in anger from a doorway, it was Firefly and the green, translucent mare charged at him quickly, he heard more than one set of hooves, as each of the Elements of Harmony ran out behind her.
There was no time for words however, as the Weilders all charged up their magic, and created the tradmark twirling rainbow, which struck the Alicorn physically, instead of surrounding him like with Nightmare Moon.
The Alicorn litterally didn't react, darkness flowed off him like sweat from a workhorse, and absorbed the rainbow as it hit him. He looked agitated it anything, and ran at Firefly.
What happened, broke a fraction of Storm's heart... the mare was utterly destroyed as the Alicorn grabbed Firefly's head and crushed it between both hooves, causing her whole body to explode in a cloud of white smoke. Storm shouted" No! Firefly!"
All was not lost however as he heard her voice in his mind "Don't worry, he can't kill me permanently, in a few days, meet me at Canterlot with the Princesses..."
Horror stood up, his eyes were unchanged, and he released a primal howl which broke his goggles and knocked the Alicorn back. He then shouted "Just... Ju... Just who the hell are you?!"
The Alicorn looked at him with a smug expression "I am Zalgo, pathetic little pony, i am the bringer of death, destruction and soon nothing will exist" he said it as if he were un-phased by anything. the Alicorn noticed the fact that Horror's physical appearance was unchanged, and raised an eyebrow, thinking 'Hmmm... he's immune to my easiest method... i think i'm going to keep him once i rule over everything, but first... a true test"
The Alicorn was instantly in front of Horror and grabbed his with all his tentacles, all six of them, wrapping his body completely, save for his head. They felt wrong but that sort of thing soothed Horror's rage by only a bit. Darkness started to seep out of Horror's body, much less than like the Alicorn's but it burned the tentacles like a dull acid, it only annoyed him as he squeezed him with the tentacles, causing Horror to groan in slight pain.
But Horror was not done, far from it as he smiled with dark and twisted intent, darkenss suddenly causing his face to darken for added effect.
Horror stretched his arm and broke the tentacles away, cutting them twice each in the process, and using his wings shot a powerful gust of air that threw Zalgo to the wall, and afterwards, Zalgo only saw a streak of red and blue as Horror threw himself into Zalgo with a force powerful enough to break the steel-reinforced wall, and sent them both flying through it.
"Idiot... Even if you are The Zalgo... Noone reaches into my throat... and grabs a part of me... only to eat it... and... WITHOUT MY PERMISSION!!!" The Mane 6 and Storm could only watch from the gigantic hole in the wall as Horror's rage fed his darkness, amplyfying it.
But Zalgo had had enough of this distraction, and smacked Horror in the head, knocking him out cold. He took the unconscious pony and many smal tentacles shot out of his mouth and reached into the young pony's stomach.
Closing his eyes as if he were kissing the colt, the tentacles seemed to fill into him, tears of blood seeped from Horror's now, wide and conscious eyes and muffled cries escaped his nostils. the ordeal lasted for several minutes, but afterwards, Zalgo dropped him, suddenly forgetting the pony and turning his attention to the place the Main six and Storm used to be.
Zalgo proceeded to turn all of Equestria into a paradise of nothing, death and destruction, transforming and killing many ponies.
And even though technology had greatly improved in the last thousand years, it was no match for Zalgo, obviously.
The Era known as the Desolate Times had begun...
In the over-vegetated ruins of Ponyville, Horror woke up, covered in vines and grass, he broke them easily.
His vision was changed, instead of seeing things in a slight reddish tint, he saw it all in a heavy red and black tint.
"Glad you've Awoken... My Son" Zalgo's voice rained down from the cloudless heavens. Horror was taken aback by this "S... Son? DAFUQ?"
Zalgo appeared behind him out of nowhere, and Horror jumped forward, spun around and went into a defensive position. Zalgo nodded "Right... you don't believe me, know it to be true, i have many of your powers and can do many of the same things, i can release my powers which creates a dark aura around me, it swirls around myself as it will do with you, i can become even stronger, even my tentacles have come back, and you will get them as well... You. Are. My. Son."
Zalgo made the last words solid and emphasized them, each word he stepped forward.
Horror didn't want to admit it, but something in him, actually liked Zalgo... he felt like the Alicorn was right, he couldn't help but to utter "F... F... Father?" He said it slowly, but for some reason tears welled in his eyes, e was annoyed and wiped them away, showing his annoyance.
Zalgo stared at his son for what seemed like an entire day, he didn't get it, Horror's eyes were the same, the white of his eyes were only a very dark colored grey, and he saw they were slowly fading to white again.
Their family reunion was interrupted as a bolt of pure light struck Zalgo and knocked him out, it sent him to the ground, seemingly dead.
Horror looked at the origin with rage and anger, and felt the need to avenge his somehow dead father. He saw three ponies. They all looked different than from the last he saw them, save for the one he shared his body with at a time. Storm Chaser.
Celestia and Firefly stood proud, magical energies flowing off of both of them, the sun was extremely bright behind Celestia, so bright it would have scorched his eyes out, but Horror's transformation doe by his Father shielded him from such cheap tricks.
Behind Firefly, miles of jungle, forest, and all kinds of vegetation stood, tinting his vision with an extremely obnoxious green, as his vision amplified all that he hated.
With the stage set, his father's body now gone, vanishing with a voice "Finish what i started, my son... Convert them and use their powers... my power now passes to you... Good luck" Horror clenched his teeth in unstoppable rage and bitter hate, staring at the three as if trying to blow them up with his mind.
The End of the world was here, Horror, being in such a massive rage was going to tear the life from it with his own hooves, and finish his father's work. But first...
The Three he hated most... he ran at them, thinking of all the things he would do after his victory, and yelling loudly, with Celestia and Firefly returning the favor, running with many sharp weapons floating beside them.
The Final Battle Had Begun.