I sped off toward Canterlot, a warm fire in my chest fueling me. As the castle got closer I went into cloud mode and slunk in. Shooting from shadow to shadow, I let an invisible smile grace my cloudy muzzle. 'This feels awesome' I thought with glee as I soon got close to the throne room. As I got closer I overheard one of the guards saying that court was finished.
'Typical Celestia'
'Excuse me?'
Silence. I got no reply, I shrugged it off, 'probably nothing', and then turned my attention to the throne room. Strangely I heard voices, 'I thought court was closed' I wondered, then I sneaked in for a closer look. Inside was Celestia talking to-
'Luna?!' I nearly yelled before I clamped my hooves over my mouth, and I watched the two in disbelief.
"Sister, do you think-"
"Yes, Luna, tonight is Nightmare's return"
"Do you think she will be vengeful?"
Celestia let out a sigh, "I don't know Luna its been a thousand years, maybe..."
I nearly snorted at this. They locked me up in limbo for a thousand years, and they think I'll just come back all goody two-shoes.
I think I have had enough of this conversation. Screw it, I was locked up like a bad guy, then I'll be the bad guy. I decided and then I shot from the shadows like a bullet and tackled Celestia. As she quickly came to her senses, her magenta eyes shrunk as she looked into my snake eyes .
"Hello sister!" I said with a madman grin, and I could swear I felt her heart stop for a second. A laser beam then caught me in the shoulder. I hissed as it knocked me off Tia and then looked at Luna, whose horn was smoking. "Looks like I forgot one" I hissed and then dove for her.
She had readied another spell, but I quickly turned into my mist form, and fazed through the blast, then I appeared behind her. Before she could turn around, my metal bracer met the back of her head. With a Clang, she went down. 'Sorry Luna' I thought with a wince at the (now unconscious) alicorn. Then another blast got me in the back of the head.
As I sailed towards a wall, I quickly went back into cloud mode, and instead of going splat, it was more like a pomf.
No seriously, I swear I heard a pomf noise.
Anyway, back to the battle, as I turned toward Celestia I saw she was glaring at me with a charged horn and tears running down her face. "What has happened to you sister?" She choked out and I quickly did a room sweep to see if Luna was awake.
'Was she talking to me?'
Well since I was going to go villain until the elements of harmony blasted me, might as well give a badass line before I defeated her and shot off toward Ponyville.
I let out a wild cackle, and sent a murderous glare Tia's way "My dear sister, reality is what happened to me" I snarled, and then I shot forward and uppercutted her, to which the spell she was charging shot up and hit the ceiling. Before she could act again, I gave her a hefty right hook and 'Crack' she was out like a light. I quickly put my ear toward her mouth, I heard breathing. 'Good, I didn't kill her' I thought with relief, to be honest I had thought I might have killed her when I heard the crack, but luckily she was fine. I quickly checked Luna as well, both were breathing and probably would be better after I was "defeated".
As I dragged them (somehow) past the gaurds I put them in a guest bedroom, tucked them in, and got two washcloths, drenched and squeezed the extra cold water out, and applied them to both of their heads. Hey I might be acting evil right now, but I'm not heartless.
"Good bye sisters" I whispered gently and then I shot off toward Ponyville.
From there everything was a blur, Twilight saying who I was, the mane six banding together, trials through the Everfree, the whole shebang. As they finally made it to the old castle ruins, Twi saw the spark of friendship and right now a rainbow deathbeam was coming straight at me. I sat back and watched it, kind of like it was in slow motion as the seconds of my life ticked by. Maybe I would be healed and maybe I would be blasted to oblivion, 50/50 chance, so I let a small smile grace my lips as I felt the rainbow come down upon me.
I felt like my blood had turned to lava, I collapsed and screamed to the heavens. 'Oh Faust, I'm going to die!' I mind screamed. But slowly, oh, so, agonizingly slowly, the pain went away, the rainbow lightshow soon stopped and I blinked the spots out of my eyes. I quickly looked down at myself, I had no more scratches or scars on my skin, and my armor was back to its formal glory. As I looked down at the passed out mane six bellow me I saw I had kept my height, 'yes!' I mentally hoof-pumped.
Hey! I like being tall alright.
Alright, back to the present, the sun somehow decided to take this very moment to rise up in its bright, and annoying glory. "My eyes" I hissed and covered my eyes with my wing. I guess in any world the sun is still a dick. I heard the mares groan and my covered eyes widened in alarm, so I shot into the rafters. In my rush my helmet fell off my head (heck if I know) and landed to the floor with a clang. The mane six had just woken up though, so I couldn't retrieve it.
"Why looky ere Twi. Looks like we are the elements" Applejack said with a laugh.
The girls laughed, and had a group hug to celebrate my death. Wow, that's actually kind of morbid of you think about it. (Anyway) Tia and Lulu popped up and talked to them, Twi told them they defeated me and I think I saw a flash of horror cross Tia's face when they said I was dead. As Celestia kept her facade, Luna soon teleported them to Ponyville. The moment they were gone they broke down weeping. Ok, I had to admit I felt really bad for that and then Tia saw my helmet and quickly picked it up and cradled it in her hooves.
She was whispering something and Luna continued crying, and I couldn't take it anymore. Quick as a lynx, I hopped down and quietly approached behind them. As Luna and Tia's sobs turned to sniffles I wrapped my wings around both of them, and they both leaned into the wing hug.
Tia leaned her head back "Thanks Luna, I needed that" she said as she closed her eyes.
Luna perked up, "For what sister?"
"The hug. It reminds me of Nightmare" she replied with her eyes closed and nuzzling into her sister's soft wing.
"I thought you were hugging me"
Her eyes shot open and she saw Luna giving her an alarmed stare, they both slowly turned their heads and were met with two slitted teal eyes.
"Sup" I said with a grin, and then Celestia fainted.
I then turned to a very pale Luna, "Was it something I said?"