The Musical Number
“What do you mean ‘already used?’”
Twilight sighed. “Someone already sang that song…”
Sombra was dumbfounded. “Someone else-wuh...Whom, and how do you know?”
“Because Chrysalis already sang that verse.” Pinkie said, causing glares to come her way again. “What? She did.”
“Why that evil little…” Sombra groaned and set the mic down. “What am I supposed to sing now!”
Twilight looked around, this was starting to be very awkward. “Sombra, you don’t have to-”
“Yes I do! This is the perfect opportunity, for these ponies will cheer for me and call me king when this is over.”
Twilight rolled her eyes. “I doubt that, Sombra.
Sombra glared at her. “What do you mean?”
“What I mean is that they fear you, so I don’t think they’ll uh...chear for someone who-”
“Not if I force them to!” Sombra grinded his teeth, but then stepped back once he realized what he said. “Force them to….wait…” Sombra turned to the crowd. “Now I know what to sing…” The crowd stood motionless, not knowing what this evil pony would do next, but all he did was make his way into the crowd.
“Now, I never thought I’d rely on these ponies,” Sombra sang, now closing his eyes. "They are useless and unspeakably plain,”
He opened his eyes, which were now full green with no red iris. The crowd of crystal ponies were starting to be drawn to his eyes, not looking away.
“but maybe they have a sliver of potential,
When I take control of their BRAINS!”
Sombra blinked and revealed a red slit in his eyes. Almost every pony that was watching him now had the same colored eyes.
Twilight and her friends gasped. “Y-you brainwashed them!”
Sombra turned around, his eyes now back to normal. “Oh, you’ll soon find out why…” He walked deeper into the crowd, with everyone now looking at him in a daze. He made his way to another pony, waving a hoof in her eyes.
“Now it’s clear by your vacant expressions
That the flames aren't all lit upstairs,”
He grabbed her by the throat, with her eyes still boggled out.
“but listen when I speak about ruling!
Even you can’t be caught unawares.”
He let go of her and stomped his hoof, protruding a crystal podium for him to stand on.
“So prepare for the chance of a lifetime!
Be prepared for a new age of rule
for a brand new era, is trotting quite nearer.”
Twilight sighed. “Why must he sing…”
“HEY!” Sombra glared at her and stomped his hoof, causing a crash in the crystal Twilight is trapped in. “listen to the king!” Sombra ran back to his podium while Twilight noticed the crack, and the crystal nearby.
“I know it sounds stupid
and so convoluted
when I explain all of it to you!
Just listen and don’t rebel
but be EVIL!”
The crystal ponies, now fully taken control of, cheered and clapped for their king. Sombra was almost too surprised to see that it worked. “Yeah,” a pony yelled, “Be evil! Yeah!...Uh...How do we do that?”
Sombra sighed. “It’s quite easy, you will all help me in taking good care of Celestia!”
Twilight broke her front hoof out of the casing. Her friends all turned to her and smiled, knowing they still had a chance. “Who?” One pony questioned.
“The princess!” Sombra yelled. “The very princess who banished me for a thousand years, and now I will have my revenge.”
“What are we gonna do to her?”
“We will DESTROY HER! And her sister too.”
“So...with no princess…” The pony tapped her chin. “Does that mean we can be free without listening to a ruler?”
“NO, you fool, I will be the new ruler! The KING!”
“Oh…” The pony frowned.
“And soon, all will remember the name KING SOMBRA!”
The crowed ignored the thoughts of fear and sadness and cheered for their king. As for Twilight, she smashed the casing around her other front hoof, hoping that Sombra wouldn’t notice.
“It’s great to forever worship" The crowed sang. "to a king who’ll forever be adored”
Sombra smiled. Now realizing this was his plan, to take control of every pony in this kingdom, then the next one, then the next, then the world, and then he would...Sombra didn’t care about that last part and started singing again.
“Of course, after all this happens,
you’re all expected to take other duties on board.”
Sombra stepped off his podium and crawled through the crowd, Just as Twilight finally broke free from her crystal trap, no one, except her friends noticed her crawling to the crystal heart.
“For this world is littered with crystal~ really need to stop doing that...
All of which, will soon fill me with glee.
To dumb it down to all of you so simple...minded…” He grabbed the nearest pony by the throat and yelled,
"YOU WON’T SURVIVE WITHOUT ME!...that verse was horrible..."
He let go, with the pony being completely unfazed and still smiling and cheering for the king. Sombra then ran back to his podium and sung again, just as the Twilight took the crystal and hid behind her brother and sister-in-law.
“So prepare, for a new era approaching
be prepared for a new way to rule
silently planning;
crystals expanding;
years of imprisonment
shall soon be irrelevant.
To be a king so evil
respected and medieval
and seen for the villain I am!”
Twilight, with a look of determination, ran back and put the crystal back where it belonged, she looked to her friends, who all nodded, knowing full well what to do.
"So get ready to upheaval
and be EVIL!”
The crystal started to glow, and Twilight made her way to the soon-to-be-destroyed king. She looked at all of her friends, silently cheering for her as well.
“YES! Get ready to bring upheaval
AND BE EVIL!”
Sombra cackled. Now truly feeling it, the great power, the plan, the one thing he wanted to do, and now that he has every pony under his control, all that’s left is for him to get rid of the prince and princess.
Sombra smiled. “Well, now that that’s out of the way.” He closed his eyes and turned around. “I think now would be the appropriate time for you to-” Sombra then opened his eyes and wiped the smile off his face once he saw a huge white light come his way.
Out of the corner of his eye, he could see Twilight smiling, and even though it was a surprise for him, he knew something like this would happen, that even after everything went according to plan, there was always something that stopped it, so, he closed his eyes again and prepared for the worst.
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I have an feeling that crystal heart won't hear her command or her magic is drained too much.
5020955 ...He technically can say that he has a permit,and hence has a permit....being a tyrant is like that.
Sombra should have... been prepared.
On what tune is he singing?
Well, thank you for making me imagine the song being sung in Jeremy Irons' voice
Though it was great and you should not feel ashamed at all!
5020962 Or because crystal heart is powered by love of crystal ponies and all of them right now love Sombra (via brainwashing), it will make him only more powerful...
5021020 "Be Prepared" from Lion King?
5021031 that better not happen, cause brainwashing does not = love. it equals control over their normal tendencies.
5021031 seriously that would kill this story for me.
5021062 and thus the story plummets into raw retardation because they do not love him. they are brainwashed, simple as that. brainwashing does not equal actual affection. even chrysalis was making shining not notice her flaws over her forcing him to love chrysalis.
seriously if that happens..... oh lord will it be stupid. completely and utterly stupid. entirely and totally stupid. humor only works till it goes the route of complete stupidity.
what happened to this story? it started out funny now it is jsut annoying me and violently so. all went down hill with that stupid curbstomp thing with the mane six and tiwlight giving up on friendship like that.......... why is this story shitting on the show all of the sudden?
it simply cannot end with sombra still intact or that brainwash equal love stupidity actually being a thing. else it will end up circling down the drain. and it would be funny again if he became so obsessed with figuring out what to do it would be his downfall.
Yeah for the very beggining of the song I knew it was Be prepared from The Lion King, I also got Scar voice while reading it tho.
I was not prepared for this musical number. And I actually imagined Sombra singing it.
"It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both."
-Niccolo Machiavelli
I thought Sombra won... i'm pretty sure the mane 6 are about to be blown away for some weird reason though!
5021232 all i can say is, please freaking no. he is kinda trying to murder ponies here so.......... yeah, no.
5021243 I really hope he does murder Ponies, or atleast brain control them all.
5021251 except it woudl be stupid. and not funny stupid. just.. stupid. especialyl considering he had that damn heart a thousand years ago and sitll got his ass handed to him.
and celestia could just fly in with the elements of harmony.
think it is especially impacting me cause before this there was a story that was both smart AND extremely funny. stupid does not mean funny, especially when the stupid guy is winning for no reason at all.
*Alondro trots out of a random portal and stabs Sombra in both eyes with icepicks, then trots back to the portal, pausing only to glance back over his shoulder and declare smugly, "Renegade for life." before entering the portal which snaps shut behind him.*
And that's how you deal with singing villains!
5021271 Yes... but that's not what this story is about... this story is about Sombra actually winning!
5021228 I would love to hear the convoluted rationale behind that. People who are universally feared are also ceaselessly forced to look behind them for the knife in the darkness.
5021286 no it is about an idiot somehow winning and not knowing what to do yet makes him still evil and is not giving godo reasons for his continued existence.
idiots get punished for theri idiocy if things go right.
5021287 Read "The Prince" by Machiavelli and you'll see why he believes that. He actually makes good arguments for it. Also:
5021298 not really a good argument i think. it is fact that men try to remove what they fear if the chance is given, for fear breeds hatred. a loved king can walk the streets without fear. a feared king must remain in his csatle at all times for his own people iwll tear him apart if ever given the chance.
5021291 Not much of any idiot since he got this far.
5021339 .......... okay what story have you been reading?
5021344 Uhm... the same one that you're reading? Seriously, how do you think Sombra became King in the first place? How do you think he obtained dark magic? How do you think he has the ability to turn into a giant cloud of darkness?
I'm gonna go ahead and call it,
she misses.
also that song reminded me of this:
Not sure why .-.
5021355 and he doesn't kjnow what to do the moment he wins........... you are not reading the right story here dude. not at all.
5021368 You shouldn't be taking this so seriously. Just give Sombra some time!
5021358 and he wins cause the good guys are inexplicably incompetent........... when did this story turn itn oa trollfic on me?
5021338 Love is fickle however, and one can inspire fear without inspiring hatred. It is difficult, but it can be done. A loved king can be perceived as weak, while a feared king is secure in his own power. Ultimately, it is best to balance between fear and love.
5021025 Jeremy Irons for most of the song; Jim Cummings did the last part.
This was a hilarious chapter
Only instead of killing him it makes him good... or something
Something tells me Twilights efforts will be for naught. I hope it wont I dont want this story to end!
5021298 I could easily argue against it based on real-world events.
People who are feared tend to end up highly paranoid and self-destructive.
It's the simple fact of tyrannical minds that they are always in fear of the one who will either rise up against them or stab them in the back.
There is no one they can trust, they can never lower their guard. Invariably, they are insane with terror and hate and often destroy themselves if they are not taken down by others.
5021298 What most people don't realize is that 'The Prince' was a work of satire. It's made quite apparent by reading literally any of his other works.
5021522 It's all about balance my friend. Make them fear you just enough to keep order and keep the people in line, but don't terrorize them and make them hate you. Machiavelli argues that all actions that produce fear are justified and aimed at the right people. Being feared doesn't make you a tyrant.
5021536 I don't know where you heard that, but I'm fairly positive that The Prince was a political treatise, a work of political philosophy and how to succeed as a ruler.
5021536 Correction: I just did some research and found that there are those that consider this satire. While I don't agree with this, I now see where one can argue that.
Won't the crystal heart do what the crystal ponies want so if they are just amused with Sombra and want no ruler in genral won't both he and Cadence just be temporayly drained of all power.
5021087 You're really the only one voicing complaints. Nobody else is going to see your criticisms as valid and there is nothing you can do about that, because it's all played for laughs, and because you aren't getting those laughs you're picking it apart.
The rest of us are getting those laughs, so we don't care, and frankly you can't make us or anyone else care.
You made a parody of the song 'Be Prepared' from Lion King...
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5021641
Oh shit.
5021631 yeah good luck convincing me stop pointing out flaws. not gonna happen. this is not nearly surreal enough for it to go that way and he is still too evil not to be utterly murdelized by the purity thingy.
since it is not surreal or breaking the fourth wall it should sitll bear certain limits, limits it seems keen on breaking.
besides far worse stories than this have become popular and have no criticisms, so just because no one is giving complaints far from means it is a good story.
5021646 Why keep pointing out flaws? Guess what? Nobody cares. You will accomplish nothing beyond stroking your own ego.
And yet... look how many people don't give a shit. It seems the limits it should bear are entirely within your mind.
In other words, stop trying to force your taste in literature down other people's throats!
5021643
ITS ALL A CONSPIRACY I TELLS YA!
Aww... Was I the only one rooting for Sombra?
5021653 ........ and that os how gorefic and clopfics where everyone has dicks for no reason get popular.
seriously, it is far to oeasy to go the direction it is going. it is more challenging to not shit on the show and not take logical leaps like that. war games ponies plays is a prime example of it being hilarious but still in tone to the show. it is about the guards so focused on following the code of conduct that they are blinding themselves to obvious clues and taking things way too far. it is freaking awesome.
5021670 why were you cheering the guy trying to murder people here?