Chapter 1: Equestria's ultimate protectors

Chapter 1:
The Undead Knights, ultimate protectors of Equestria

The cold slowly increased more and more. The Ice Kingdom Forces, commanded by King Charlatan himself marched towards the Crystal Empire capital. The ice-cold aura expanded at every step he made making the pony soldiers under command of alicorn general Shining Armor lose terrain. Only beings of extreme cold like Charlatan’s penguins and their domesticated yetis could survive in those surroundings.

“Come on my little ponies, go on and face me. The fight is with me, or have you just realized your little magic can’t touch me? I’m Charlatan, the incarnation of chill; and the little creatures who can’t stand me, HAVE TO DIE!”

He blew a powerful blizzard from his beak, forcing Shining to cast his shield even if he knew he won’t be able to keep it; it was too cold for him and sooner or later his soldiers would freeze to death. Charlatan was too strong, and this would mean the end of the pony race.
The Penguin King laughed, he knew all he had to do now was wait until Shining gets tired.

“Equestria is mine”

Shining kept his shield trying to buy his soldiers some time to escape, but Charlatan prevented this and covered the surroundings two tons of snow, now they were trapped and about to become penguin flesh.
The alicorn felt himself fainting.

“Cadance… my people… I’ve failed you…”

He closed his eyes waiting for the inevitable.
But just when he released the shield another more powerful shield replaced his at the time two gentle but cold hooves took him gently. Shining shivered, not because of the cold but because he knew the owner of those hooves.

“You…”

The black hooded pony smiled at him, her bright red eyes made the white sharply fangs stand out even more.

“You had your chance Shiny, but failed miserably. It’s time for the big girls to take care of this”

Five more black-hooded ponies appeared within the snow, all with red eyes, fangs and the sadistic smiles. The pony soldiers gulped and whined scared, but not from Charlatan’s army anymore but because of the monsters. They knew how this was going to end: a carnage.
And to make things worse, they spotted a dragon flying in circles above them.
Shining shook his head in fear, no, not them.

“The Undead Knights have arrived”

The pony who saved Shining, an alicorn and the Undeads’ leader just looked boringly to Charlatan and after leaving Shining safe on the ground, she slowly began to walk towards Charlatan. The Penguin King concentrated his blizzard on her but the alicorn shrugged indifferently and kept walking like nothing. Soon enough the pony got trapped in an ice block but it didn’t last and after five seconds she got free and kept walking.
Charlatan shivered, didn’t know what was going on but all his instincts were warning him this pony was dangerous, very dangerous.

“How is that you don’t feel my cold?”

“I’m a corpse, I cannot feel anything”

One by one the other hooded ponies joined their leader smiling to the penguins, who unwarily moved slightly backwards. As King Charlatan, they felt an incoming danger from this ponies… if they were really ponies.

“Trapped between life and death we spend our unlives protecting the Kingdom from idiots like you”

“We’re so glad you made this party for us, because I love partying, right girls? I used to live for parties, now I… die for them? Can’t really tell”

“We’ll figure out later darling, right now we have an army to exterminate”

“Gothic is right this speech is taking too long, it’s time to kill. We’re the Undead Knights, not the Chit-Chat Knights”

Charlatan shouted and took a spear from one of his soldiers and stabbed the nearest monster in the heart. She shrugged and ripped off her own head… to immediately grow a new one.

“Yeah, we’re kind of invincible. Sorry. Tell me King Charlatan, do you really have blue blood in your veins or red like the rest we’ve killed”

Charlatan gulped and tried to run away, but the unicorn of the group (Gothic) caught him with her magic. Charlatan tried to fight with his own magic but again the unicorn was too strong and as a corpse didn’t tire.
Then the alicorn made her horn glow as well and every dead pony and penguin in the battlefield stood and began to advance against Charlatan’s army, without mercy. The penguins screamed in fear, necromancy; the blackest of the forbidden arts. Who were this ponies? What they were?

Then another of the Undeads, a Pegasus just laughed crazily and stabbed Charlatan in the stomach, and opened it with a single blow. The giant penguin screamed in pain, and then the second Pegasus of the group stabbed another knife in the back, right on the spine with such precision that Charlatan let escape a tear when he notice he couldn’t feel his legs anymore.
Knowing he wasn’t a threat anymore, Gothic released him and he fell on the snow unable to defend himself.

“Soldiers… RUN!!!”

There was no need to repeat, his once disciplined and full of confidence army shrieked and began the massive escape.
The undead alicorn chuckled.

“As you wish. Night Terror”

The dragon above them stopped flying in circles and landed in front of the terrorized penguins, took a bunch in his gigantic claws and mercilessly began to eat them one by one. He smiled evilly to his victims with his teeth dripping blood.

“Delicious”

In the meantime, King Charlatan was dying. Between the two earth ponies from the group decided it would be ‘fun’ to chop out his wings with a blunt axe only to prolong his suffering but at the end he was just a mortal. The alicorn stared at what was left of Charlatan finally commanded:

“Finish him”

Gothic, the unicorn, nodded to her leader and cut his throat. It was the end so the leader shrugged and turned to the terrified ponies who they just saved.

“Okay, he’s dead. Let’s take our survivors back to the Crystal Empire”

“And what about their survivors?”

“Night Terror will eat them all except one. To tell the story to his friends in case this idiot had an heir stupid enough to try to invade our Kingdom as well”

Shining Armor was trembling, not because of the cold (it wore off right after Charlatan’s death) but in fear. This monsters scared him the most, and the worst part was that they were on their side.
Ten years after the disappearing of the Bearers of Harmony this monsters self-proclaimed their replacements but instead of solve conflicts by the Magic of Friendship, they just massacred anyone who dared to threat Equestria. Charlatan was lucky, old foes like Chrysalis… or Starlight Glimmer (the one who defeated the Bearers) were just captured and got tortured to death.

“Stay away from us!” Shouted Shining.

The undead alicorn just looked at him boringly.

“But you used too much magic and are too weak to walk. No, I think is better for you if Night Terror carries you back home. Nighty, my beloved, are you finished”

The giant purple dragon with black wings and red eyes landed before the alicorn and kissed her hoof with the passion of a lover.

“Yes I am done my lady. What can I do for you?”

“Be a sweetheart and carry Shine back home. I’ll reward you in the night, you can use both of my holes for your pleasure”

Night Terror smiled lustfully.

“Not only my pleasure and you know it my dear Midnight”

The alicorn blushed a little but dedicated to her undead lover a playful smile.
So much for Shining Armor’s protest Night Terror took him and began to walk to the Crystal Empire leaded by his lover the alicorn Midnight and followed by the rest of the Undead Knights. Everypony but the unicorn Gothic who was too busy cutting and embalming King Charlatan’s head. She even replaced the eyes with jewels to make it look prettier.

“So wonderful, oh Gothic you’re such an artist”

And she joined her friends in their march of victory back to the Empire.

In the borders of the Crystal Empire, Luna, Cadance and Celestia were busy maintaining a magical shield to keep their little ponies warm and safe while Shining took care of Charlatan’s army, but they were afraid of the result knowing Charlatan’s powers were too strong.
Cadence shook her head in fear.

“If only we still had the Elements of Harmony”

Luna closed her eyes in sadness.

“You know the Elements disappeared along with the Bearers over six thousand years ago”

Celestia sighed sadly, she really missed her student.
Everything went from bad to worse since her defeat at the hooves of Starlight Glimmer, who not only took her Cutie Mark but also destroyed it leaving the purple alicorn and her friends unable to recover their true potential again.
And then the Undead Knights appeared out of nowhere and the Kingdom was safe once again, but at the cost of its history getting more violent each decade. Luckily they sealed the monsters like fifty years ago…
But in the meantime that was the darkest era of Equestria. With their violent and sadistic methods they kept all the ponies safe by keeping terrified the other Kingdoms. Cadence, Shining, Luna and Celestia faced them over and over sealing the monsters with the most powerful spells they could cast because they knew there was no way to destroy an Undead since they were dead already. But nothing, and they also knew that sooner or later the Undead Knights would free from the last Seal they locked. After all, the seven monsters were called the invincible beasts for a reason.
And they knew that the day had come when one of the sentinels announced:

“Your majesties, the soldiers are back! They seem to be safe but…”

“But what?”

“General Armor is getting carried by… Night Terror”

Everypony shivered in horror, so they were back. The last seal only bought them fifty years of peace. A whole new record but still they need to recast the sealing spells on the monsters again, but in the meantime they had to stand decades of pointless massacres.

Soon the group arrived and the soldiers ran to hide while the monsters bowed to their monarchs.
Midnight took a step closer and smiled confidently to Princess Celestia.

“Once again we’ve saved the day. The brave ponies who died in this battle will be remembered forever for their sacrifice, but we assure you your Majesties that they died before we arrived”

Then Gothic approached presenting Charlatan’s head to the Princesses.

“Here, I present you as a tribute to you, your Majesties, as a symbol that even if you don’t want us, we’ll protect our beloved Kingdom no matter what”

Finally Night Terror smiled to them too agitating his wings in excitement.

“And as always, we allowed one survivor to escape and tell the story back in his country. No penguin will dare to attack Equestria in a while. Only one, we can assure. After all we undeads are sensitive to life”

Again the seven monsters bowed waiting for a word from the Monarchs they served even if those Monarchs didn’t want to be served by them.
Celestia puked in repulsion looking at the head and shouted with her Canterlot voice she shouted:

“GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE!!”

“The Undead Knights bow to you” said the seven monsters at the unison.

Said that, the monsters climbed on Night Terror’s back and the dragon flew away back to their refuge of darkness. The Princesses were staring at them leaving when a guard approached taking the head.

“What we do with the tribute, you Majesties?”

“Take it away from us of course”

Then Celestia began to walk thoughtful, this was too much for her to stand. She had to do something and do it no. Luna approached carefully and touched her sister’s shoulder with concern.

“Sister?”

“I can’t take it anymore Luna. I need to confront them, I need my faithful student back but instead I have Midnight and those things she commands. I… like I said I’ll confront them, let them know I know who they were”

“Then I’m going with you, like you I can’t take it anymore”

…

None of the Undeads said anything during their trip back to their only refuge in the world: the Princesses old Castle in the middle of the now desert Everfree Forest (no creature would dare to be close of the seven monsters).
It was always the same, once they massacred an enemy they just went to lay down and read something, Night Terror and Midnight had some rough sex waiting for the next victim. As the monsters they were the only thing that satisfied them was torture and murder. And still no matter how they fight for Equestria, no matter how many blood they spread, the Undead Knights were not satisfied. They needed to kill, kill, kill and keep killing… but their moral code only allowed them to kill menaces as a tribute for who they were in life.
They stayed silent for a moment (without counting Midnight’s and Night Terror’s moans) when one of the earth ponies, Jack the Reaper, simply said:

“You know? A’ love ya’ girls and it’s great to kill at yer’ side but sometimes A’ wish that this never happened to us. That we never lost to Glimmer and never did the dark ritual that turned us into this”

One of the Pegasus, Fleshy Smile nodded.

“I know how you feel. I also wish to get back to the days we were happy”

Midnight separated from Night Terror and levitated a book to her.

“Sadly enough there’s a spell that could help us but it’s Magic of Light and that’s out of the question for us, only a living being can do it and we’re not alive. The thing is it can make us go back to the past, wherever we want, and avoid this to happen”

The other Pegasus, Undash, raised an eyebrow.

“How?”

The second earth pony, Pin-Kill-Die, face-hoofed.

“Are you an idiot or what? We go back in time, kill Glimmer before she destroys our Cutie Marks and history will change. Hopefully we will disappear as we never existed”

They all shrugged and got back to their reading and sex, but suddenly they felt a presence, but it was no enemy; only the Princesses they swore to serve.

“It seems like we have visitors. Night Terror, go grab some wine to offer our Monarchs. I think we have some in the cellar. Do you think they’ll like a five thousand year old wine?”

Night Terror shrugged and one by one the Undead Knights stood waiting for their Princesses. Did they wanted to kill somepony? Delighted!
Finally Luna and Celestia arrived and again they all bowed waiting for their orders. Maybe they would try to seal them again but they didn’t really cared, it was something to change the routine.

“Welcome to your former home and current headquarters my dear Princesses. What can we do for you? Need us to kill somepony?”

Celestia grinded her teeth.

“Stop it already you six! This ends tonight! Who do you think you’re fooling? I’ve known from a while, even if I never wanted to admit it; but I can’t take it anymore. This haves to stop right now. And WHAT WOULD YOUR FAMILIES SAY IF THEY SEE YOU THIS WAY, KILLING MERCILESSLY OVER AND OVER?”

Midnight raised an eyebrow.

“So you came here to make us stop, again. Go ahead and seal us like you use to, is not like we can’t get free anytime, you know?”

“Don’t make us do it, please. We know who you really are… at least who you were. Don’t force us to lock you away again”

Pin-Kill-Die rolled her eyes.

“You see: uncontrollable blood thirst is part of the nature of the Undead. We mix who we were with our new nature killing only to protect Equestria, isn’t that a good deal.

Celestia sobbed.

“Stop it, please! Twili…”

Midnight put a hoof on her mouth.

“Don’t dare you to call me that name, this form corrupted by darkness is not worthy of it. I answer now to the name of Midnight, understood? Me and my friends are not who we were, we’re something much more powerful and sinister. Accept it already”

Luna let escape a tear.

“Please stop this”

Undash shook her head.

“We can’t, we have to pay for our stupidity to make that ritual three thousand years ago”

“You mean the ritual that did this to you?”

“We did it to ourselves”

Celestia cleaned her tears.

“If only we were there to help you…”

Again Undash shook her head.

“There’s nothing you could do, it was fate. We lowered our guard to Glimmer, lost our Cutie Marks forever, and turned into this… that was it. What happened was only our fault, and Glimmer’s but that’s other story. The thing is what’s done it’s done”

Celestia sighed.

“I know, that’s why I need to seal you again. I know you’ll escape but still is the only solution I can think of”

Midnight took the book and presented the spell to Celestia.

“I don’t know if it was a coincidence or fate, but maybe you won’t have to do it. If there was a chance that none of this ever happened, would you take it?”

Celestia observed the book.

“You want to change history”

“Exactly, we save our past selves from this fate, and hopefully disappear forever. I would do it myself but only a living being can cast it”

Luna looked at Celestia, who was staring to the ponies she cared about thousands of years ago and missed with all her heart. Every time she heard about a new massacre of the Undeads, she missed them more. And now right before her was a way to avoid this to happen, to rewrite history.

“If I accomplish your wish, what will you do?”

Midnight grinned.

“Avoid our past selves to become us by killing Glimmer before she destroys our Cutie Marks, of course”

Celestia nodded.

“Alright”

Luna couldn’t believe her ears.

“Sister, please try to think about it!”

“Sorry Luna, but if I can save my faithful student I’ll do it. History need to be changed, we need to prevent the existence of the Undead Knights”

And with all her power she created the Time Gate, the spell that would send the Undead Knights back to the happier days of their lives. They began to vanish in the air, transporting to another time holding to the chance to never becoming this.

“Good luck, Midnight”

Finally they were gone, the Undeads left to change history forever.

…

When the monsters opened their eyes, they were in the exact same spot, but in the past. The Castle seemed newer and everything around them was so colorful and full of life.

“So what’s the plan, my lady?” Asked Night Terror.

The Undead leader shrugged.

“Don’t you heard me? We go to Ponyville, kill Glimmer before she takes our Cutie Marks and change history. As easy as it sounds.

The other six nodded but Pin-Kill-Die had her doubts.

“What about our past selves? They’ll scare to death if they see us”

Midnight sighed.

“I’ll cast a permanent-presence charm in our hoods. But yeah, they’ll might fight us… or try to and then fail as miserably as Shining Armor did. So, we take care of them first and then we kill Glimmer”

So they began their march to Ponyville. If there was a chance for them to never existed, they would take it no matter what. Even if they were protectors of Equestria, they hated themselves with all heart.

The Undead Knights, Equestria’s ultimate protectors.

Chapter 2: welcome back

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Chapter 2:
Welcome back to Ponyville

Ponyville, as beautiful and colorful as they remembered it, maybe more; it was just so gorgeous and full of life as it was before Starlight Glimmer turned into the capital of her ‘Equality Utopia’ so long ago. Of course, once they killed her for the first time tried to restore the town’s former glory but Ponyville would never get back to normal. What Glimmer did during those ten years left a scar that time wouldn’t erase.
They were marching on Night Terror’s back for a while when Midnight turned to he dragon:

“Night Terror, you better keep hidden until the right time comes, I have the hideous feeling that we shouldn’t show them our full strength yet”

Night Terror didn’t seem happy about it but he never questioned his beloved mare.

“As you wish, there’s a place where I can hide?”

Fleshy-Smile aimed to a near mountain with her hoof.

“There, climb that mountain and stay there until we call you. A dragon lived there once… oh, wait we got back in time… a dragon LIVES in there but I don’t think he’ll cause you too much trouble. Anyway if he does, send me a message, I’ll love to face him again in my new form. If I could intimidate him in life it would be funnier now that I’m undead”

Night Terror glared at the Pegasus.

“Fuck you, I’ll be away from the fun, if he causes trouble I’ll destroy him”

Midnight rolled her dead eyes.

“Enough already, you do as you please in that mountain Night Terror. The rest of us, to Ponyville!!”

Night Terror extended his wings and flew to the mountain with a creepy smile on his lips while the rest of the monsters kept walking to their hometown, barely waiting for their second match with Starlight Glimmer.

“And what shall we do once we arrive?” Asked Undash.

Midnight relished her fangs imagining the pleasure.

“Obviously terrify the population until Glimmer arrives, but be careful with your past selves. Remember they’re not as tough as we are; I know our bloodthirst is under control but still be careful, alright? Now, according to my calculations Celestia sent us two days before that idiot came back looking for revenge so we need to restrain ourselves until the right time comes”
They kept walking, with the deliberately slow march of the invincibles. Their black hoods moved with the wind; giving them at even more creepy and dark look. And like anticipating the incoming massacre the weather got colder at their step.
Finally they arrived to Ponyville where everything started and ended as well. Midnight smiled.

“Gothic, would you mind?”

“My pleasure darling”

The undead unicorn concentrated her dark power levitating enormous rocks forming a strong but still beautiful goth-style wall; every five meters she added horrible gargoyles who smiled menacingly to the terrified ponies of the town, who couldn’t believe what they were seeing.
A wall that was growing and growing isolating the town. Gothic even took her time to design a stylish wooden door carved to look like demons from the underworld.

“As always a masterpiece!” Smiled Gothic very proud of herself.

“You made a wonderful work” congratulated Pin-Kill-Die.

“Well thank you dear, but I haven’t finished. Still needs something”

With her powers she levitated several jewels from the ground to place them as the gargoyles’ eyes, giving them a scarier look. That was too much for the villagers who screamed in fear and ran to hide in their homes.
In the meantime Midnight knew it was her turn and with her magic excavated a deep pit around the wall and filled with magical flames that didn’t need coal nor firewood or anything. Eternal and very powerful that kept the ponies from escaping.
Jack the Reaper clapped her friends’ efforts but she was growing impatient.

“That’s enough showoffs, it’s time”

They entered to Ponyville where everypony but a group of six friends were waiting for them. Like them they were an alicorn, a unicorn, two pegasi and two earth ponies; and they were ready for battle.
Midnight greeted them with a small nod and just spoke uninterested:

“Hi, I don’t like long speeches so straight to the point: this town is under new administration, ours. Do not resist and only one pony will get hurt”

The leader of the ponies who confronted the Undead Knights, Twilight Sparkle, just glared at Midnight.

“This town is under our protection, you should be the ones who surrender”

Undash laughed happily.

“Under your protection? We knew already your Majesty, and you don’t represent any threat for us. You’re literally centuries beneath us!”

Midnight sent an advertency glare to the Pegasus, who sighed but nodded to her leader.

“However, there’s an opponent for each. Tell me Elements of Harmony, have you ever face an Undead? No, right? Undeads: you know what to do”

Applejack gulped.

“Twilight…”

“Don’t worry girls, we have the magic of Friendship at our side”

And they attacked.
Suddenly Twilight saw how she underestimated the strangers when the leader extended her own wings (an alicorn!) and shot a magic beam that Twiligth barely eluded. With a sadistic smile Midnight made levitate several rocks and began to threw them to Twilight with all her power.
Twilight created a magic shield to stop the rock and sent a magic beam to the Midnight as well. An attack that strangely enough Midnight received fully. The undead alicorn just shrugged.

“Pathetic”

Then the monster caught Twilight with her magic. Of course Twilight tried to escape but Midnight not only was stronger, she also seemed like after the damage received and the power she used to fight Twilight she still had her full strength.

“Who are you?!” Cried Twilidght.

Midnight ignored her with another shrug.

“You know? I’ve always lamented your overconfidence whenever you fight other ponies. Discord, Tirek and Nightmare Moon had your full attention, you tried to study your enemies before you attacked and succeeded. But with Sombra you lowered your guard and Spike had to save you; not to say Glimmer. She took your Cutie Mark because she was stronger that you thought. How can you be so naïve?”

“I’ll never hurt another pony and…”

“That’s why you are so easy to defeat. Even Luna and Celestia had to fight against their own people from time to time. Look at this situation, since you thought I was just another unicorn, you underestimated me and now you’re under my power. But ey, I’m not even a living being; I’m an Undead! You could do whatever you wanted, but no. Even that beam you shot me was only at ten percent of your true potential”

Twilight glared at Midnight defiantly.

“Do you really think you can scare me pretending you’re one of the scariest monsters of this world? I’ve seen the Undead, they’re nothing but empty shells who just wander through the world killing, killing and killing. Celestia showed me one of them and you may look like one but you’re still able to think, so invent something else”

The dark pony revealed her fangs.

“Believe what you want, is not my problem; but I assure you: I am no pony, I was one but not anymore”

Then the stranger smashed Twilight to the ground making the poor alicorn get dizzy, but she wasn’t defeated yet. Before Midnight could react Twilight shot her again, this time with her full power. Still Midnight received the attack fully and nothing happened.

“That’s what I’m talking about”

Twilight couldn’t believe it, why this thing was still standing like nothing.

“Why aren’t you hurt, it has something to be with that hood?”

As a response Midnight only revealed her flank to Twilight, showing her a Cutie Mark that looked like hers but this one was entirely black. Even the fur was like hers but… grayish and lifeless.

Twilight gulped, something was telling her that this wasn’t a normal opponent. Midnight simply chuckled.

“Like you see, this hood is only to hide my identity. No, the problem is that you’re not strong enough”

“Who are you?”

“Midnight, leader of the monsters who protect Equestria no matter what. The Undead Knights”

Twilight stood, she was beaten and weak after the attack but still she had to do something.

“You can’t fool me, I told you I’ve seen a true Undead and they cannot think”

“I don’t care if you believe me or not, now I’m in a hurry so I’ll finish you now”

Then Twilight felt another attack coming from Midnight, but this time she couldn’t do anything about it. Several black crystals grew in her horn preventing her to do magic.

“A little spell I made Sombra teach me… right before I made him eat his own eyes and horn. It was kind of fun”

Finally she punched Twilight on the jaw defeating her for good. Damn, the alicorn was not only powerful but also very strong. Now Twilight’s only hope were her friends but they had their own problems with the visitors.
Fluttershy and Rarity weren’t rivals for their oponents who simply knocked them with a branch, the two mares were not used to violence so it was too easy. Even Fluttershy’s rival (Fleshy-Smile) decided to re-finish her by smashing a rock against her head even if the poor yellow pegasus was unconscious already. Rarity tried to fight more by using a jewel-collector spell to send the sharply projectiles to Gothic, but like Midnight she received them fully as she felt no pain and then kicked Rarity on the gut making her fall totally defeated.

Even Dash was having troubles fighting the other Pegasus, who was even faster than her and even more reckless. Moving at those speeds in the air could be very dangerous. A little mistake could cause serious injury but the monster crashed several times and still got back to the air without a scratch. What was her? Finally Undash got tired and stopped the nonsense.

“You’re good but talent is not enough. Like I said you’re centuries beneath me”

Then she tackled Rainbow to the ground smashing the cyan Pegasus so hard that she fainted instantly.

Everywhere around Ponyville the residents gasped when they saw their heroes being beaten up that easily. Scootaloo was especially shocked by the sight of Rainbow lying on the ground with a small trace of blood coming from her mouth.
Another thing that wasn’t nice was to see Pinkie suddenly stripped from her party canon and then her head forced into it right before Pin-Kill-Die shot. It wasn’t lethal but it hurt as hell, Pinkie was still dizzy when Pin-Kill-Die began to choke her until she fainted.

“Too easy”

Applejack just faced Jack the Reaper and tried to tie her with a her rope but the other mare simply jumped like guessing which maneuver her opponent was going to use and then tackled Applejack to take the rope and tie her instead. Once immobilized, the Reaper smashed Applejack’s head to a wall and made her faint as well.

“It’s over”

At the end Twilight looked to the dark alicorn, who shrugged again.

“As you see we’re stronger than you, by a mile. Now that you’ve lost Princess, this time is under our administration, alright?”

And with her magic she casted a new flag over the town hall: their own flag, the symbol that represented them as the dark saviors of Equestria.

“And what shall we do with them?” Asked Jack the Reaper looking at the beaten Mane 6.

Midnight glared at Twilight’s castle, oh the nostalgia…

“Domiciliary arrest in their Palace of course. Now Princess: leave us alone and we’ll leave you alone. Understood? Don’t try anything funny or we’ll show you what are we really capable of. Now you already know your tasks Undeads, let’s move”

The Undead Knights nodded and moved around the town just pretending to be the new tyrants even if they were only waiting for Glimmer to come.

“You won’t get away with this fake undeads” said Twilight to the Reaper when she was forced into her Castle.

“We will. And we don’t care if you believe us or not”

Said that she slammed the door on Twilight’s face.
Twilight patiently waited to her friends to wake up while Spike sent an urgent letter to Princess Celestia. This hasn’t over. Not yet, this couldn’t end like this.

…

Night Terror was sitting on a rock in the mountain when he felt something agitating in his stomach. Took a while to remember it was his messenger breath, so long since he last used. With a grin he intercepted a letter from his young self and read it.

“So they think they can stop with this. Sure, how many times we hadn’t had to fight Celestia and Luna. Nice try”

He just rested on a rock humming boringly when a red dragon came behind him.

“Can I help you?”

“This is my territory and there’s only space for one dragon”

Night Terror glanced at his enemy, a red dragon as big as him with black horns and orange eyes. Then he smiled, making the other dragon shiver, again his instincts were warning him this was no normal dragon but something very dangerous instead.

“I’m just passing by, I think you can tolerate me a couple of nights, right?”

And something in his eyes made the red dragon just nod and put a bunch of rubies in front of Night Terror.

“Here, isn’t common to see other dragons migrating around this area”

“I’m not like the others as you can see”

The red dragon shivered again at the sight of this creature and better ran back to his cave hoping that as long as he didn’t disturb the creature he would leave him alone as well.

In the meantime in Twilight’s palace, the girls have recovered with some help from Spike and looked to Twilight hoping for ideas, but she seemed as worried as them.

“Come on Twi, there must be something you can think of!”

“Girls I swear I’m trying but I just can’t. As you I got beaten badly… but what bothers me the most is that thing about the Undeads they kept insisting”

Applejack face-hoofed.

“Seriously? They come to town, lock us inside and then defeat us saying that they’re undeads and you’re worried only about the last part”

Twilight shook her head.

“You don’t understand, the Undead are a very dark race very dangerous. So much hideous and monstrous that the Princesses kept their existence as a secret to not worry the other ponies. In fact, I didn’t knew nothing of them until I became a Princess and Celestia showed me one. And it’s something I would never forget”

Spike nodded.

“Okay, why are them so dangerous and most important, why you’re saying our enemies can’t be undeads too?”

Twilight took a book Celestia gave her right after that lesson.

“As I say, this is kept as a secret to everypony so please don’t tell anyone. An Undead is created by a pact with the Devil, the darkest magic of all. When a pony is drove by desperation to the point of suicide, he can choose instead of just dying call the Devil himself by a dark ritual where you kill yourself but right at your last moments you can speak with Him to transform you into an Undead”

Fluttershy trembled.

“Sounds… terrifying”

“I know, but is not as terrifying as the result. When you do the ritual your soul descends directly to hell but your body stays as something else: a hideous and mindless monster who only exist to exterminate life. Undeads are sensitive to life and they cannot stop until they exterminate it all. You can’t destroy an undead. Cut their head off? Burn them to ashes? Stab them in the heart? No matter what you do they’ll regenerate and keep their carnage. The only way to stop them is to lock them under powerful seal spells”

“But if they have no mind how they feel life?”

“Is like a sixth sense. But we’re missing the point here. Somehow those ponies know about the Undeads, how much I don’t know but I’m scared. Spike, have you received an answer yet?”

“Sorry Twi… but not yet. I have a bad feeling about this”

In the meantime the Undeads got separated in groups and were patrolling the town waiting for glimmer. They scared the hell out of the villagers but as long as they do not disturb the monsters nothing would happen to them.
There were no incidents yet, until the two pegasi of the group run into a group of three fillies.

“You! YOU’LL PAY FOR WHAT YOU DID TO RAINBOW DASH!!”

And Scootaloo charged against them tackling the creatures at once. The orange filly was too furious to think clearly… but as soon as she tackled the creatures the hoods wore off revealing their true faces and that scared Scoots even more.

“Wait… Ra, Ra… Rainbow Dash? F-f-f-Luttershy? What’s going on here?”

Fleshy Smile quickly took her by the throat and began to choke her with cruelty.

“Don’t dare you to call us by that names. Our forms corrupt by darkness cannot use them anymore. My name is Fleshy Smile, understood? Fleshy Smile”

“And you can call me Undash”

Scootaloo tried to fight the powerful hoof that held her but the monster who once were Fluttershy was too strong. So finally a string of pee came out of the filly and Fleshy Smile finally released her.

“See? The pony you thought I was would never do something like this to a filly”

Said that she put the hood again and along with Undash they left the scene.

“Midnight will kill you for lowering your guard, you know?”

“She can’t, we’re undeads”

…

Twilight was still walking in circles.

“Still no answer Spike?”

“Sorry Twi, is like they haven’t got my message”

Twilight moaned in desperation, this couldn’t be worse. But then she had an epiphany, of course it was so obvious now.

“How fool from us! Girls let’s use the Rainbow Power, if we summon it now we can end this for once, free the town from the strangers!”

“Now we’re talking!” Shouted Rainbow Dash excited.

They all closed their eyes feeling the wave of pure power that also freed Twilight’s horn and transformed ready to face their enemies.
The sudden change in the environment took Midnight by surprise but couldn’t help but smile when she felt the Rainbow Power approaching to her.

“Why didn’t I prevented this to happen? Oh right, I don’t have that power anymore, I forgot about its existence. Ha-ha”

The Wave of Harmony freed Ponyville, the strangers were defeated.
From his mountain Night Terror witnessed that but preferred not to say anything and wait for the result. His flame channel agitated again but he didn’t care this time. Perhaps Princess Celestia needed to see what was about to happen. Then a few minutes later Night Terror saw the Royal carriage that landed on Ponyville.

“It’s done, now I’ll wait for your instructions, Midnight my beloved”

In Ponyville, Princess Celestia stared at the six sleeping black-hooded ponies along with Shining Armor.
Twilight just approached gently:

“Princess Celestia, is not that I don’t appreciate to see my brother, but why did you brought him?”

“When I read about the Undeads in your letter I knew we’ll need somepony to cast the sealing spell and that’s your brother’s specialty”

Twilight shook her head.

“But they’re not Undeads, they can think and…”

Celestia looked at them and shivered.

“Sorry to disappoint you Twilight, but they are Undeads. I would recognize that dark aura anywhere. I have no idea why this six are still capable to think… but I’m afraid that their story is true, they’re Undeads”

“WHAT?”

Fluttershy was also very frightened and hide behind Rainbow.

“But why are they here? What they want from us? What should we do?”

Shining Armor grinded his teeth.

“I have no idea, but for now the best we can do is to lock them somewhere we can interrogate them. Twilight, do you have dungeons in your Palace?”

“Yes. I don’t like to use them but…”

“We’ll seal them there… for now. Like you this is the first time I see one of those things who can still think. What’s the meaning of all this?”

And in CVhathe shadows, their old enemy Starlight Glimmer was waiting, it was now or never. She had planned her revenge for too long now, it didn’t matter if the other Princess and the Crystal General were in there, and she would take the Mane 6’s Cutie Marks again and destroy them forever.

“You just wait Twilight Sparkle”

The end and a new beginning

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Chapter 3:
The end and a new beginning

The Undeads opened their eyes one by one only to see they were ‘sealed’ at Twilight’s dungeons. Weird, Midnight herself never seen nor used those when she was still alive and it was new for her. And then they looked through the bars seeing the six Bearers of Harmony along with Princess Celestia and Shining Armor.
But instead of getting mad, Midnight just chuckled.

“So did we just slept?”

“Seems so” said Fleshy Smile surprised but strangely pleased.

Pin-Kill-Die laughed hysterically.

“It felt sooooo good. We haven’t slept since we were alive, ahahahaha!”

From the other side of the cell Celestia walked towards the monsters with a stern look in her eyes, but it was also mixed with… doubt. Yeah, this was the first time she faced a group of rational undeads and it really intrigued and unnerved her.
Midnight grinned to her.

“Oh interrogation time, alright, nothing we’re not used too. However that was an interesting experience, did you defeated us with the Power of Harmony? I never felt it from the other side before and I must say it was unbelievably pleasant. Like my friend said we haven’t slept since we were alive, well; I may cuddled with Night Terror but it wasn’t as good as this”

Gothic nodded with a smile.

“I know, I hadn’t realized how much I needed some rest. Oh, is the price you pay when you turn into this”

Jack the Reaper relished her teeth.

“Ey, can you use the Elements again? As ya’ see, we kinda’ liked it”

Twilight was definitely not in the mood. Like Celestia this creatures fascinated and scared her; mostly scared her. If it wasn’t for the Power of Harmony who knows what could happen to her.

“So was it true that you’re undeads” said Twilight.

Midnight dedicated a huge smile to the poor alicorn, who instinctively moved backwards, this creature was really scary.

“As I said before I don’t care if you believe me or not. How did you change your mind Your Highness?”

Celestia glared at the dark alicorn.

“My faithful student’s lack of experience played against her this time, but I can recognize your cursed kind from miles. Repulsive, monstrous…”

“Abominations, crime against nature, walking nightmares… yeah we’ve heard them all”

“But we call ourselves Undead Knights. Nice to meet you” laughed Undash.

Shining frowned and confronted the creatures.

“Knights? And which Kingdom would be so desperate to accept the services of monsters like you?”

Gothic shook her head sadly.

“We never said that the Kingdom we protect wants our help. In fact every time we’re seen we’re chased and locked away for a while. It’s sad but we don’t care. We cannot fight against what we are but we can canalize it by chasing and killing only the ones who threaten the Kingdom. Once we get our victim we are as cruel as we want to but until then we don’t touch anyone”

Twilight tilted her head, she didn’t understood this monsters.

“Okay, which Kingdom you claim to protect and why did you took Ponyville? And why your Cutie Mark looks like mine? Who are you guys?”

Midnight laughed.

“We can’t tell you idiot. You see: we don’t have any money to pay you the psychiatrist if we show you. And believe me, you’re going to need it. The answer of who we are is under our hoods”

Celestia frowned knowing there was no use to reason with undeads but still tried to question them, she only needed a little piece of information to understand the secret of this ponies so she just asked:

“What are your names?”

The alicorn leader shrugged.

“Long ago we had the most beautiful names, but when became this we knew we weren’t worthy of them anymore”

“So we answer now to the collective name of Undead Knights” said the pegasi at the unison.

“But if you insist in giving us names you can refer to us by our nicknames. You can call me Gothic and our leader is Midnight. Nice to meet you”

One of the Pegasus made a small bow.

“For me, I’m known as Fleshy. Is wonderful to meet you”

“Ma’ friends refer to me as Reaper. Howdy ya’ll”

“Kill-Die”

The only one who didn’t introduced herself was the other Pegasus:

“My undead name is none of your business”

Said that the six monsters sat silently. And knowing this was getting nowhere, Shining Armor reinforced the shield and the living ponies left the room.
Once they closed the door the general just looked at the group.

“What shall we do now? My shield is very powerful but I don’t think I can restrain the alicorn for too long. And to be honest, they’re frigging terrifying”

Celestia nodded.

“I can’t blame you for being scared, the Undead Race is very powerful but we have the advantage that they’re stupid and only move when they feel life. But those six do not share that weakness and they look like they’re waiting for something or somepony. Damn, this is the first time for me to see one of those things thinking, not to say working together. Something very bad is about to happen”

“And what shall we do?”

“Right now have an eye on them until we find more. But I have a feeling this won’t end good. But don’t worry, I’ll stay with you until we think in something, but be aware that the shield Shining casted won’t last forever”

They all shivered. Now undead monsters, next what?

In the meantime in the dungeons, Midnight looked at a lost point in the wall and began:

“Night Terror, my beloved Night Terror. Are you there my one true love?”

The love the monsters felt for each other was too deep, too powerful that they were able to talk normally even if they were at kilometers of distance. And of course Night Terror heard her from the very beginning.

“You worried me when I felt the Power of Harmony hitting you. Are you okay, Midnight my lady?”

“We went to sleep but are awake now. Anyway, we’re at the Castle’s dungeons and can’t patrol the town from here. Any signs of Glimmer yet?”

“I can approach to the town if you want”

“Please, but remain hidden my love and do not show yourself unless I command you to. Luckily Glimmer would call so much attention that you would be able to sneak to the Castle without being noticed”

The purple dragon with black wings nodded and flew to the town much for the other dragon’s relief. Did not know what kind of weirdo Night Terror was but again he was very scary.
And for Glimmer, she’ll arrive any minute now.

From the shadows the unicorn was watching, the presence of the Crystal Prince and Celestia was something she did not counted with and couldn’t face them… yet. No, but at least she could wait until they leave or at least they separate from her enemies. All she needed was a chance.
And got that chance when the two visitors decided to go patrol around the town for some reason. In fact they were looking for more Undeads using a powerful detection spell that Night Terror barely could avoid by hiding undergrown until Midnight call him. But even if she didn’t felt anything Celestia kept her guard on, the Undead she knew were violent and whenever they got caught the first thing they tried to do was escape. Not these six who kept waiting, but waiting for what?

Finally the night came and Celestia and Shining stopped their search but agreed to restart at the next day at first hour while Twilight and the others protect the villagers and prepared an evacuation plan in case the Undeads escape or they find another of those things.
In the prison cell, the Undead Knights grinded their fangs remembering the day everything changed, the day when Starlight Glimmer defeated them. Waiting, waiting… until they felt her.
Midnight cracked her own neck and commanded:

“NOW!”

Suddenly the dungeon’s floor was destroyed by a gigantic claw coming from beneath it and the Undedads simply jumped to the pit and disappeared. It was time.

…

Starlight suddenly appeared in the middle of the plaza much for everypony’s surprise, and the first thing she did was to shot a powerful beam to call Twilight’s attention.

“Starlight Glimmer!” Shouted the purple alicorn facing the creature.

The other unicorn grinned.

“Princess it’s been a while. Remember me? Remember how you destroyed I built in just two days?”

“What I did? You did it to yourself Starlight Glimmer. If it wasn’t that you tried to force us to your ideology nothing would happened”

“Nopony understands the beauty of Equality until you experiment it by your own, that’s the ideal I always defended. It doesn’t matter Twilight, I’ll show you now how it’s supposed to be”

Twilight was definitely not prepared for what happened: her friends ran to the rescue but they activated a hidden spell the lunatic have prepared and they got frozen unable to do anything to help Twilight. Now unicorn and alicorn were facing each other and it seemed like Starlight had planned something horrible to avenge her defeat.
At this point Princess Celestia and Shining Armor felt the explosion of dark magic and ran to help the girls thinking it was the Undead Knights.

And still hiding underground, the Undeads just looked at what was going on. It was exactly as it happened in their own timeline except for Shining’s and Celestia’s presence. Only a few more moments to change history…

The battle between Twilight and Starlight was halfway through and things didn’t seem well for the purple alicorn; like the last time she underestimated what Starlight was capable of realizing too la that she may be most powerful that she thought. Also Starlight was physically in better shape than Twilight and moved faster and better.
At the end Twilight got caught by a paralyzing attack that left her in the middle of the air unable to defend herself. Horrified Twilight saw how her Cutie Mark was replaced by the Cutie Mark of Equality once more. And like the last time Glimmer trapped the mark in a small jar that she placed in front of her.

“STARLIGHT WHAT YOU THINK YOU’RE DOING?” Shouted Twilight.

Starlight charged her power. One beam was all she needed.

“What I must did on the first place. With your permission I’ll destroy your Cutie Mark now”

“No… no… PLEASE DON’T!”

“Say farewell to your talent Princess”

Those moments were horrible for Twilight, everything seemed like moving in slow-motion: her friends trying to free from Starlight’s spell to save her, the villagers wining and hiding on their homes… even Princess Celestia and Shining running to save her but won’t make it on time.

“My faithful student, NOOOOOOO!”

“TWILYYYYY!”

It was like a nightmare but real. Twilight was going to see how her beloved talent were about to be destroyed forever and there was nothing she could do.
And suddenly the beam impacted blinding everypony for a moment, but when they were able to see again they saw a black-hooded figure protecting the Cutie Mark with her body. Twilight couldn’t believe her eyes neither anypony else.

“Wait, what?”

The figure then opened the jar and the Cutie Mark flew back to its legitimate owner’s flank.

“Midnight?” Asked Twilight.

The leader of the Undead Knights nodded and faced Starlight, who freed Twilight because of the surprise.

“You did well Twilight Sparkle, but we’ll take care of this from now. Starlight Glimmer: your fight is now with us”

“What?” Asked Glimmer looking around.

Emerging from the ground as the monsters they were, the other five undeads surrounded Glimmer showing their sadistic smiles.
Then the dark alicorn walked towards Glimmer who charged her horn but somehow her instincts were telling her that this was no normal pony. The dark alicorn stopped half meter from her rival and made a small bow.

“Greetings Starlight Glimmer, we’ve been waiting you impatiently. You see: we took over this town because we knew you were coming. We wanted to prepare you a better welcome committee but as you can see we had issues to take care off like being ‘sealed’ and things like that. Now that you’re here we can start the killing party”

One of the monsters approached from behind and whispered to Glimmer’s ear:

“And you’re the guest of honor”

Starlight pushed the monster with her magic and faced the Undeads who laughed at this poor attempt to stop them.
Then Princess Celestia attacked as well destroying half of Midnight’s body but she regenerated it as nothing and turned to Celestia like asking why she did it. Celestia just stared at them.

“I won’t allow this. Starlight Glimmer will be arrested and processed for her crimes but no murder will be done under my watch!”

Gothic looked at Midnight.

“Any ideas to distract them?”

“Necromancy?”

“Necromancy seems divine”

And the both monsters used their dark magic. The ground trembled one more time followed by the sound of several steps advancing towards them coming from the cemetery. Generations and generations of citizens of Ponyville came back to ‘life’ and began to advance to the group giving Shining and Celestia no choice but to face them while the rest of the Undeads prepared their knives ready to massacre Starlight Glimmer.

“No please! What I’ve done to you?” She shouted, she didn’t know why but everything about this ponies was completely frightening and her instincts were telling her that everything was lost.

And much for her surprise, Twilight jumped over her extending her wings. Nopony will harm Glimmer under her watch as well.

“Step back!” Commanded Twilight.

The Reaper menaced with her fangs.

“You don’t know what we’ve been through because of her. Move your Highness!”

But Midnight stopped her friend.

“Wait, they need to know Reaper. They should understand why we’re doing this to Glimmer”

The other earth pony of the nightmarish group agreed.

“She’s right!”

They were distracted so Starlight took advantage of it and took away Midnight’s Cutie Mark. She succeeded but immediately the undead monster regenerated a new Mark.
The dark alicorn shrugged.

“That doesn’t work with the Undead, sorry. Anyway, why are we doing this? You see: before become this creatures we saved Equestria several times, always facing new dangers but always succeeding. Until we met certain unicorn who we defeated at first… but then she returned and took away our Cutie Marks forever”

“So you’re from that town?” Asked Pinkie Pie scared.

One of the undead earth ponies shook her head.

“No. Anyway, once she destroyed our Cutie Marks we left ashamed of ourselves. Talentless and humiliated we wandered the land for ten years until our desire of justice turned a desire of revenge. And when we learnt that Glimmer’s spell had no way back, we finally broke. Found a ritual that allowed us to at least have some revenge before we go so we did it”

Then one of the pegasi intervened as well:

“But something happened. Because of our bond with the Elements of Harmony our souls didn’t descended straight to hell. Instead we got stuck in our new bodies, and had no choice but mix our new monstrous and merciless nature with our past selves becoming us: the Undead Knights. For centuries we protected Equestria with our new undead powers… until we find a way to change history. A gate to the past, precisely at the point when we lost everything, when we got defeated by Glimmer”

Everypony’s jaw dropped when they put the pieces together.

“No… NOOOOO!” Shouted Twilight.

Midnight nodded.

“Yes, yes. Undeads, reveal yourselves, let’s introduce properly”

And one by one they removed their hoods much for the Mane 6’s horror.

“Midnight”

“Undash”

“Gothic”

“Fleshy Smile”

“Jack the Reaper”

“Pin-Kill-Die”

Then Midnight faced Twilight.

“Look at me. This is your future. Unless we kill her now. Move Princess”

“No, no, I won’t. I don’t believe this, this must be a sick joke!”

Midnight shrugged and pushed Twilight away with her enormous strength. She wasn’t very strong in life but the rigor mortis did wonders to her muscles, so Midnight walked towards the terrified Starlight.

“I recommend you to run”

No need to repeat, Starlight screamed in fear and escaped from the monstrous alicorn.
Suddenly Celestia reacted and caught Midnight with her magic.

“Stop this right now! If it’s true you were Twilight Sparkle you know this isn’t the way!”

Midnight rolled her eyes.

“Whatever you say. Night Terror, Glimmer is escaping”

Starlight was running and was about to leave the town when a monstrous dragon came out from the ground and smiled to her. Glimmer shrieked and began to move to the opposite direction but the dragon cut her escape with a tower of fire.

“There’s nowhere to run. On this night you’ll die this way”

It was when Night Terror got her with in his claws and stripped her back legs with a bite. Starlight cried in fear and pain. Everypony shrieked at this, but the one who got Night Terror’s attention was the small purple and green dragon who was hiding behind Rainbow and Applejack.

“Don’t look at me like that kiddo. Except for the red eyes, this is how you’ll look when you grow older”

Said that, the dragon released the victim who helplessly dragged until Fleshy Smile stopped her and passed Night Terror an iron bar.

“And this is only the beginning. Night Terror, if you please”

Night Terror took the iron bar and heated it with his fire breath until it turned red. Then passed it back to Fleshy who simply put it on the fleshy stumps that once were Glimmer’s back legs. Of course she screamed in pain but the monsters’ laughs hid the screams completely.
The corpse who was Fluttershy nodded pleased.

“Wound cauterized. Night Terror, heat the bar again”

The dragon obeyed with an ironic smile and passed the iron bar back to the yellow Pegasus. Fleshy Smile made a sign to Gothic and Undash who quickly ran to held Starlight while she slowly directed the HOT iron bar to her eyes.
Once she understood what was about to happen, Starlight tried to freed but they were too strong.

“NOOO! PLEASE DON’T! I’LL DO ANYTHING, ANYTHING PLEASE! DON’T DO THIS TO ME!!!”

Pin-Kill-Die nodded.

“She’s right, we can’t do this just like that”

So the pink earth pony stripped off the eyelids with great ability.

“Now she’s all yours”

“NOOOOOO!!!!!”

Too late, the iron bar touched the eyes and once more Starlight’s screams got hidden by the Undeads’ laughs.
Blind and pathetic Starlight dragged again to the first pony she felt, Shining Armor (too scared to move).

“Help me, I don’t wanna die! I DON’T WANNA DIE!”

Too late.
Gothic stabbed her to the ground with the iron bar and forced two diamonds right where her eyes were.

This was too much. Twilight, Spike, Celestia… even Applejack and Rainbow threw up seeing the suffering of Starlight.
And finally Midnight freed from Celestia’s held with a single attack, it was too easy for an alicorn who couldn’t get tired and finally took Starlight by the throat.

“You were lucky. In our timeline we kept you alive for two weeks and there was no day were you didn’t begged us to kill you. Anyway, you claim to fight for Equality but you know nothing of it. In our own timeline you didn’t succeed during the ten years we spent looking for a cure for what you did to us. Why? Because the Knights of Silence, the true preachers of Equality. However you won’t live enough to know them. Good bye”

Finally the dark alicorn made appear an axe and cut Starlight’s head off. That was it, she was dead.

The Mane 6 and Spike cried, what just happened? Were this monsters really their future selves? No, it couldn’t be!
It was too much, especially for Spike when Night Terror swallowed Starlight’s body with sadistic pleasure and joined the undead mares in a demented laugh.

But the monsters suddenly muttered when Jack the Reaper, formerly Applejack, asked something.

“Wait a second. Aren’t we supposed to disappear? We changed history and never existed, right?

The monsters looked at her leader who sighed.

“It was only a childish hope and you knew it idiots. No, apparently we suppose to keep paying for what we did. Sorry”

The monsters sighed, just like that. Resigned to their fate they slowly walked to Twilight and bowed. Midnight smiled to her past self.

“Okay, we’re the Crown’s most faithful servants, and since now we have no choice but coexist, please call us whenever you need. We serve Celestia, we serve Luna, we serve Shining, we serve Cadance, and now we serve you. Princess Twilight from now on you’ll stop fighting, we’ll take care of every menace to your Kingdom and make them beg for mercy as we’ve done for centuries in our timeline. The Undead Knights bow to you”

“The Undead Knights bow to you”

And before anypony could react, they jumped to Night Terror’s back and flew away leaving them with more questions than answers. They didn’t know what was going on or what just happened. They only know they now coexisted with a much more powerful and hideous versions of themselves.

“Princess Celestia…” mumbled Twilight.

“Yes my Faithful Student?” Asked Celestia coming back to reality.

“I swear to you: no matter what we would never become like them! Those horrid creatures… I’LL NEVER BE LIKE HER!”

And they stayed like that, looking where the monsters left.
They would never forget what happened… they would never forget those faces and their names… they would never forget, period.