//------------------------------// // Chapter 11: The Princesses of the Sun and Moon // Story: The Adventure of the Apex Legion (Old Version) // by DeffBwade //------------------------------// "Wow. You're a fucking cheater. If you're unable to catch me then you've got to be bad." "Bro, I can catch you! It's just that Sledge's breaching hammer is too slow! It also slows my movement! It's fucking bullshit!" "Excuses, excuses. You just don't want to admit that you suck." "Then you do it. I wanna see you try this out." "Nah I'm good. You've already proven that you suck. I don't wanna humiliate you even further." "Fuck you!" "Fuck you, you Asian. Go back to China and eat some dogs with your people." I opened my eyes with a gasp. That...that was a memory of...of...no...I'm not gonna think about that anymore. I don't want to think about that anymore. I looked around to see I was in some sort of starry void. I wasn't even standing on any solid surface. Where am I? What...what happened to me? I...I remember flying to school. There was screaming. I saw a shadow monster attacking my professors. I stopped it from attacking...no...killing a filly that stood up to it. There was a fight. The shadow monster lost. I was bleeding profusely, and then I...collapsed. "Am I...dead? Like for real this time?" I asked myself. "Fear not young colt. You are not dead, but rather unconscious." I turned toward the voice and saw a pony floating down to me. It was another alicorn. Another princess, I had to assume. She was dark blue in color, had blue eyes, a mane and tail that looked like they were made of stars, and a cutie mark of a dark blotch with a crescent moon. Her mane and tail were infinitely blowing in a breeze and she was wearing royal regalia, just like Princess Celestia. "Your majesty," I said as I bowed to her. Fuck. I don't know her name. "Rise thy loyal subject. There is no need to bow," she said. "O-oh sorry. I'm just trying to show respect," I chuckled a bit, "It's kinda funny. Headmare Twilight said the exact same thing." "I see you met Twilight Sparkle. My sister Celestia sent me a letter about you, and asked me to check if you're doing alright. I hope I'm not disturbing anything," she said. "Not at all. In fact, I'm glad that your here. I thought I died for a second there, but...where exactly am I?" I asked her. "We are in your mind young one," she told me. "My...mind? But if this my mind, then how are you here...unless I'm just imagining you," I said to which she gave me a look of confusion. "I'm afraid I do not understand. Do you not remember that me, Princess Luna, is able to go into pony's dreams?" she said. I was so relieved when she said her in the middle of that sentence. "O-oh. My apologies princess. I guess that fight really did a number on me," I lied. "Ah yes. My sister mentioned in her letter the shadow monster," Princess Luna said. "But what was that thing exactly? And why did it attack the School of Friendship?" I asked to which she pondered on. "I have my suspicions, but Celestia is probably the only one who can confirm it, seeing how she was there when the beast attacked." I was about to speak when suddenly the stars started to warp around us. "Thou must be waking up. Take care young one, for our paths may cross again." My vision started to slowly come back to me as I was slipping out of being unconscious, and I'll let you take a guess to the first thing I see. Seriously. Take a fucking guess. "You saw another bright light?" Yes. Another. Fucking. Bright light. Jesus Christ. After I adjusted to the light, I looked at my surroundings. As you may have guessed, I was back in the hospital. In fact, this was probably the same exact room. Heart monitor to my left, window to my right, and a door next to it. Just to add more to the deja vu, I was wearing a hospital gown. This time, however, my clothes and mask were on a nearby table. I heard the sound of hoofsteps before the door opened, revealing a familiar white earth pony with a pink bun and nurse's cap. Once again she was staring at a clipboard. "Hello Nurse Redheart," I said. She looked up and put on a smile. "Hello Legion. It's good to see you again. Just a week after you get better and you go hurting yourself again," she joked to which I chuckled a bit. "I had no choice. If I didn't do anything, that filly would've gotten hurt, as well as Professor Da-" I paused for a sec before going into panic mode, "PROFESSOR DASH! Is she okay?! How is she doing?!" "Ms. Dash is doing just fine. She's currently in another room resting. It's a good thing Princess Celestia was able to heal her wounds, as well as yours," she explained. "Wait, what?," I asked before looking at my hoof. I didn't notice it before, but it was...better. Not like it was stitched up and covered in bandages, but rather it looked fine. Like I was never clawed in the first place. There wasn't even any scars. Not only that, but my ribs didn't feel broken at all. "Let me guess, magic? Magic. "Huh, how come I didn't notice that before?" I asked myself. "I see you're doing well, young one," announced a familiar voice. I looked up to the door and saw Princess Celestia walking in. Nurse Redheart let out a small gasp and bowed to her, with me bowing my head. "Rise my little ponies," Princess Celestia said to which we did before turning to me, "I take it my sister listened to my letter and visited you in your dreams?" "Yes. She has," I said. "Aw. Good," she said. "U-um Princess? Nurse Redheart told me that you healed my wounds, as well as Professor Dash's. I-I just wanna thank you for that. Heh. This same exact scenario happened with Twilight Sparkle," I chuckled. "There is no need to thank me. I do whatever I can help my subjects," she said, "And I believe this belongs to you?" She used her to float over Zer0, in the scabbard. She placed my sword on the table with my other stuff before turning back to me. "Now then, what is your name?" she asked. "My name is Legion your highness," I responded. "Well Legion, that was some quite impressive swordplay you did. I've never seen a sword such as that," she said pointing to my sword, "If I may ask, what kind of sword is it?" "You see, it's called a katana. It's forged out of a light metal, but made to be quite sharp. In fact, I made it myself. I've been learning on how to use it properly for almost two years now," I explained to which she nodded, "Um Princess? If I may change the subject, Princess Luna said that you may have the answers to what was that shadow monster exactly." Princess Celestia put on a serious face at this before explaining, "I do, and I'm afraid there's more to this than we thought. After we brought you and Rainbow Dash here, Twilight Sparkle and I investigated the buckball field at the school. We found small traces of...dark magic. And there's only one pony known to Equestrian history that's capable of dark magic." "And that would be?" I asked. "King Sombra," Princess Celestia said. Third person POV Deep underground in the vast, frozen waste lands stood a unicorn with grey fur, black mane and tail, blood-red eyes, a red cape, and silver regalia. He was staring at a orb, watching his creation cause chaos. He watched as it attacked the four of the Elements of Harmony, as well as the Princess and a random unicorn. He smiled devilishly as it managed to get a hit on the Element of Loyalty with its razor sharp claws. The other ponies tried to stop his creation from harming her any further, but it stopped them by making many spikes emerge from the ground and trap them. As it got closer, a filly ran up and told it to leave her alone. The unicorn chuckled at her foolishness. Before his creation was able to end the filly's life, a pegasus colt tackled her out of the way. The pegasus wore a coat and a hood, as well as a mask with smile painted on it. He was...actually intrigued when the pegasus pointed a glowing sword at his creation. Then a fight broke out. The pegasus landed a few hits, his creation landed a few hits, but in the end, the pegasus ended up stabbing his creation in the chest and defeating it. To this, the unicorn let a bestial growl of anger before slamming his hooves on the stone floor. "BLAST! My dark creation...defeated...by a mere colt?! How could this be?!" the unicorn screamed. "King Sombra," a voice called out to him. Sombra turned to face the voice's owner. Unfortunately, it was too dark to see the figure's face. Sombra was only able to see the outline of the figure, but he recognized the voice. "What do you want?" Sombra snorted. "You told me that creature was going to kill the Elements of Harmony, as well as the Princesses. What happened?" the figure asked. "I don't know! Everything was going as planned before some stupid colt stood up to it, and actually defeated it!" Sombra shouted. The figure's response was to laugh. Sombra clenched his teeth rage before the laughing died down, but the figure was still chuckling a bit. "Wow Sombra. I never knew you were one for jokes. I always took you for dark and brooding," the figure said. "Are you calling me a liar?!" Sombra said. "No you idiot, I'm calling you a joker. Tell you what, how about instead of lying about how you were weak to create something capable of killing a few ponies, you make yourself useful and actually make something strong and deadly," the figure said as it turned around and started to walk away. Sombra growled even more. "It's true! He used some kind of glowing sword, easily dodged its attacks, and had this black mask with a smile painted on it," Sombra exclaimed. The figure immediately stopped and turned back. "What was that last part?" it asked. "He had this stupid black mask with a smile painted it." ... ... "May I see a picture of this colt?" "Groan. Fine!" Sombra rewinded the playback and started to replay everything. From the creature fighting the Elements and Princess, to the Elemnt of Loyalty getting hit, to the filly standing up and being rescued. He then paused the scene when the pegasus pointed his sword at the creature. His black mask with the cyan smile showing and everything. As Sombra gritted his teeth in anger, the figure just...stared at the image. "I see," the figure finally said before turning around once again and walking away, "Don't worry about the colt. For now, just focus on killing the Elements of Harmony and the Princesses." And with that, Sombra was alone once again, already thinking about what his next creation will be.