As Charming Thunder and the others explored deeper into the temple, they then encountered a giant statue of the dark king himself. Charming Thunder was amazed to see the size of the statue even Starlight. "Venom toothed vipers, always slithering, slithering," a voice echoed in the room. Charming Thunder and Starlight activated their lightsabers as the group stood back to back. "Up the walls, along the floor." A spirit of an armored stallion appeared walking behind them. "Trespassers! Trespassers!!! You'll not have it. It's his. It's the piece of an ancient princess that was shattered by Sombra himself."
"What are you talking about?" Radiant asked.
"Don't pretend you don't know your own treachery. The poison still fresh in my body, you defile my master's temple. You and your friends both. The venom may have burned away my sight, but I know one of you. You are with the one who betrayed him." The spirit pointed to Radiant as she gasped. "You will die before I hand you the shard." Charming Thunder stood in front of Radiant to protect her. "And who is this? Sombra's heir?"
"You know of my father?" Charming Thunder asked.
"I am my master's guardian of this temple for thousands of years since he betrayed the Crystal Knights. If you stand against your own blood, then you must die." The spirit prepared a spell as Charming Thunder and the others took a few steps back. Time then stopped and Valkorion appeared once again.
"His insanity is pointless and destructive," Valkorion said. "I can save yourself and your friends without any bloodshed if you accept my gift of power to drive this spirit away." Charming Thunder nodded.
"Offer accepted," Charming Thunder said. "Just make sure that you don't hurt my friends and my father in the process."
"As you wish." Charming Thunder's hooves glowed purple as time resumed. He then pointed his left hoof towards the spirit, who began to get electrocuted by Charming Thunder's received power.
"What's happened?" the spirit said. "What did you do to me? This power you bear. How is this possible?"
"What does it look like I'm doing?" Charming Thunder asked as his eyes began to glow purple.
"Do you really think you can handle that kind of power? It doesn't matter. In the end you will be betrayed. Just like Radiant betrayed Sombra."
"If you won't leave, I will force you to." Charming Thunder then raised his other hoof and used his power on the spirit.
"You treacherous--" Charming Thunder interrupted the spirit with a powerful force push which forced the spirit to vanish. The purple glow around Charming Thunder vanished as he knelt to the ground. Radiant rushed to help him up.
"What was that?" Radiant asked. "I've never seen power like that before."
"I learned this from a book once," Charming Thunder lied. "Let's just continue onward into the temple before something worse happens."
"Agreed," Sombra said. The group then continued onward into the temple as Starlight walked next to Charming Thunder.
"Was that Valkorion's doing?" Starlight whispered.
"Yes. He offered his help just like he offered help during my fight with Midnight."
"Well be extra careful if he offers help again." Charming Thunder nodded as the group continued to journey deeper into the temple.
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The group continued into the temple without knowing that Midnight was behind them. He was about to charge at them, but was interrupted a spiritual voice asking, " Do you wish to see your future?" Midnight hid behind a pillar to avoid detection.
"What do you mean you can show us our future?" Charming Thunder asked before growling. "I have heard of this and most of the time, it is fake."
"But I can show you the darkness approaching." Unseen by everyone but Charming Thunder, Valkorion appears next to him.
"We should listen to him, I can sense great power from him," Valkorion said. "I wouldn't be surprise if he can see into the future."
"Don't try to even hide from me, Tenebrae. The others but Charming Thunder may not see you, but that doesn't mean you can hide from me, Tenebrae. Or do you go by Valkorion now?"
"Who are you?"
"I am not here for you, Tenebrae. But what Valkorion speak is true, Charming Thunder. I can show you the future. I can show you many things."
"Like what?" Charming Thunder asked.
"The Fallen One. He is the source of all evil. For many years, he was launched into the multiverse among the evil. However, he has found a host body here to anchor him here. If not stopped, he will return and shroud your world into darkness that you have never seen before."
"Then how do we stop him?" Sombra asked.
"How about I show you?" The mist around the group began to move. The mist surrounded them and it changed the environment. They found themselves in the middle of a rock terrain. Around them, they see fallen soldiers of Equestria and they see Skytroopers remains. Up ahead, they see a battle going on. The vision of Charming Thunder, alongside his friends and family, were battling against Skytroopers being led by Rainbow Dash. As the battling kept going, the four seers including Midnight who was still hiding began to notice the clouds darkening before noticing a swirl above the middle of the entire valley. That is when a green and purple pillar of light hit the middle of the swirl, causing all the fighting to stop. Then the seers see a blue light shot out of the hole in the middle of the valley and it hit Charming Thunder in the vision. At it continue to hit him, the vision of Charming began to change. He looked like a more powerful version of Optimus Prime, but with a jetpack and a minigun on his back. The vision Charming Thunder opened his eyes as the light ended, studying his new appearance.
"CHARMING THUNDER!!" a voice roared. The seers looked up and see a metal with rust-looking jet charging at them. Then, it changed its' appearance and it showed Megatron.
"I'm not sure if I've made your acquaintance?" Vision Charming Thunder asked to the other transformer.
"I am surprised you could have forgotten me so easily after you had killed me near the Dark Forge in order to weaken Mephiles." There was when a flash of light and standing where the Transformer were was none other than Danny Eclipse, he had no cybernetic on his person but he had bat-like wings and his ears were batpony-like. His eyes had slits and they were glowing purple. Behind him, purple fire came from the ground as the Decepticon Medallion was glowing brightly.
"It IS you."
"You may have forgotten me but I will never forget you," Vision Danny said as the ground cracked and they radiated with a purple glow. "You can't imagine the depths I would go to find a way back to the world, fueled by my desire to get my revenge on both you and him."
"Who? Who is him?"
"The Fallen One." The vision changed into another one where the group sees another vision of Danny and Charming Thunder with their medallions glowing and with them was several figures but they could see cybertronian medallions. There was the ancient cybertronian Predacon symbol, the Star Seeker symbol, the Maximal symbol, and the Dinobot symbol. In front of them was a shadowy mass with a pair of blood red eyes glowing in the dark. The environment changed as the mist cleared. In front of them was a hallway full of wall paintings. The paintings show a history of how Equestria was made all the way to the present. A strange looking creature was on one of the paintings. It stated that they were the creators of Equss and the alicorns and the draconequus were the first species of Equestria. The group looked around the room as Charming Thunder looked at the three with guilt.
"Who is this 'Valkorion' the voice spoke of, son?" Sombra asked. Charming Thunder looked down in shame while Midnight peeped his head out from hiding.
"The once Immortal Emperor of the Sith," Charming Thunder confessed. "He has been haunting me ever since Danny betrayed us during the Zero conflict. He came to me and told me about Amore and that's why we are here." The group except Starlight gasped.
"You kept this a secret from us?" Radiant asked. Charming Thunder only nodded as a response. "Then that power... was coming from Valkorion himself?"
"Yes. I need you to keep a close eye on me whenever anything goes wrong." The group nodded as Charming Thunder walked past them then followed him along as they arrived in a room where a small chest is. Midnight came out of hiding and followed them. Charming Thunder drew his blaster and turned to point it at Midnight. He stopped as he growled like a dragon. "So you decided to follow us in to kill me?"
"Not this time," Midnight said. "Ever since I saw that vision, I realize where my loyalty truly lies." Charming Thunder holsters his blaster.
"And what makes you think we trust you?" Starlight asked.
"Well I was born yesterday." Charming Thunder smiled as Midnight and him shook hooves.
"Welcome to the circle of trust then," Charming Thunder said. Midnight smiled as the group then turned to see the small chest. They walked up to it as Charming Thunder wiped the dust off of it.
"This is it," Radiant said. "The final piece of the statue. Care to do the honors, Charming?"
"With pleasure." Charming Thunder used his magic to open the chest. Inside the chest was the red shard as Radiant said would be. He then used his magic to levitate it out of the chest as Radiant took out her saddle bag with the other pieces in it. Charming Thunder placed the shard inside with the others.
"Let's head back to the Crystal Empire," Starlight said. "Cadence may want to hear the news."
"Agreed. Let's get out of here."
