King Sombra's P.O.V:
It was now evening, and Fluttershy was pulling me to Sugarcube corner. She pulled me by my tail, which I wasn't happy about.
She was going to ruin how it looked! I wanted to wear my armor and cape, but the mare didn't let me. She had forced me to wear a suit, which her marshmallow friend had made.
*Flashback:*
Fluttershy started, "Quickly eat and then we'll go to Rarity so that she can make you a suit for the party."
"Can't I just wear my armor and cape?" I asked her.
"No," she replied. "You can't scare ponies; it's a party."
"But scaring them is fun!"
"I won't let you scare them. Now it's time to go."
She dragged me out of her cottage, and to this shop. I saw a white unicorn there.
"Fluttershy! What a surprise!" the unicorn started. Her eyes fell on me, and she asked, "Why is he here?"
"It's nice to see you too, Rarity. Could you make a suit for Sombra? Pinkie's giving him a party at Sugarcube corner and I can't have him scaring ponies," the pegasus told her.
"I see." The white marshmallow started measuring me.
*End of flashback.*
I sighed quietly. I had attended parties and galas in the past before, but nothing like this. Though...I had to admit to myself…the suit did look nice on me. Still, I would have preferred my armor and cape.
We finally reached Sugarcube Corner and Fluttershy gave me a slightly serious look. “Here we are. Please, behave yourself.”
A nod was the only answer I gave before we entered. As expected, every guest turned towards me with surprised or scared expressions, but I kept myself neutral.
Barely a moment later, Pinkie jumped in front of me with a cheerful smile and I jumped slightly back. “Hey there, glad you could come and hope you enjoy yourselves!”
Before I could form any sort of reply, she hopped away. I'm sure that even if I still had my dark magic, I would never be able to understand this mare.
“I-is there anything that I can get you, Mr. Sombra?” A light blue mare, Mrs Cake, if I am not mistaken, asked me, slightly shivering.
I smiled, which made her jump in fear. I remembered that my fangs showed when I smiled. “I apologize for scaring you. I keep forgetting how my fangs show when I smile. And yes, there is something that you could get me. Do you have any…strong drinks?”
“I’m afraid that I don’t,” she replied.
“Oh. Do you know where I could get any?” I asked.
“Berry Punch sells those types of drinks. Pinkie would be more than happy to tell you where her bar is.”
“Thanks,” I said, and the mare left. She seemed eager to leave. I shrugged, and looked for the pink mare.
I found her, and was about to go to her when I felt something on my mane and back. Touching my mane with my hoof I felt a foal. I turned my head and saw another one on my back.
“You foals are brave, aren’t you?” I asked them. “Coming up to a scary pony like me?” They didn’t seem scared. “Who has fangssss?” I hissed the last word, even showing my fangs to them.
I put them in front of me and saw Fluttershy. She said, “Remember to be good, Sombra?”
I sighed. “I will.” She left and the foals were back on me.
One was a pegasus while the other was a unicorn. They looked alike. The pegasus giggled, “Sombry! Sombry!”
The other joined in, and they played with my mane. “Sombry! Sombry!”
“My name isn’t Sombry; it’s Sombra!” I told them.
But that only made them giggle more, and continue saying, “Sombry! Sombry! Sombry!” They started crawling onto my mane. How could foals do that?
I looked for help and saw the pink mare. “Help me!” I told her.
She came only to giggle, “No Sombry!” and bounced away.
I sighed. I took the foals off my mane and stroked them. Soft. I haven’t touched a foal in years. Not since she-
At that moment my head was flooded with memories of her, ones that I had kept locked away. My heart felt the pain again, and I collapsed, breathing hard.
Fluttershy came to me and asked, “Sombra?”
“Somepony, help!” was the last thing that I heard as I faded into unconsciousness.
Fluttershy’s P.O.V:
“W-will he live?” I asked the doctor. “W-what happened to him? Is Sombra going to be ok?”
“He will live; don’t worry,” the doctor told me.
King Sombra’s P.O.V:
I opened my eyes and saw that my surroundings were white. What? Where was I?
I sat up and saw Fluttershy. She was…crying? “What happened? Where am I?” I asked.
She looked up from her lap and ran towards me. She hugged me. “Sombra, you’re alive!”
“Why wouldn’t I be?” I asked. “Anyways, what happened?”
“The doctor said that you had a small heart attack. You’re in the hospital now. You’ll have to stay here for a while.” she told me.
Ignoring what she said, I got out of the bed to find the closest bar and get myself drunk. “Sombra! You have to stay here!” she ran after me.
“No,” I told her. “You can come with me, but I’m not staying here.” Not waiting for her answer, I ran out of the hospital and started looking for a bar.
After asking a few ponies, (all of whom were frightened by my presence) I had found Berry Punch’s bar.
Once in, I walked to the counter. “What can I get you?” she asked.
“I would like something strong. The strongest drink that you’ve got,” I told her.
By now, I had lost count of how many drinks I had. But they were just so good; I couldn’t stop.
I think I could say that I was completely drunk by now. I saw a yellow mare coming in.
“Hello lovely mare,” I began. “Come wiz me?”
“Sombra, I need you to stop drinking now.”
“No; I wants to drink more!” I continued drinking more. She pulled the bottle out of my hooves. “Hey! Giz that back now!”
“No Sombra!” She put it on a table and I grabbed it, finishing it.
Fluttershy sat in a corner, an unhappy expression on her face. I staggered over to her and asked, “Come wiz me lovely mare? Lez get more drinks?”
Before she could do anything, I had pulled her with me over to my table, and poured a drink into her mouth. She tried to spit it out, but I forced her to drink it.
“Drink more” I told her.
Now the lovely mare was drunk too. “I luv you Shy” She giggled as I kissed her.
“I luv you too Sombry” She laughed “Sombry, lez go somewhere”
“Yeah lez go somewhere”
“And then I exploded her! Haha!”
“So funny!”
“And thatz how everypony feared me! I exploded them all!”
“Yes, more explosions! Tell me more!”
We were at the cottage. “Lez go in and have parteez”
“Yea party!”
And that’s how Fluttershy’s cottage was turned into a wreck.
“Lez have party with everypony!”
“Yea!”
That’s how Ponyville was full of drunk ponies, making a big mess of the streets.
“Shy lez sleep now”
“Togezer?”
“Togezer”
I woke up to find that I had a huge headache, and the cottage was a wreck. What happened? I couldn't really remember anything from the night before, so I just laid there, looking at the ceiling.
And then I realized that I was in Fluttershy's bed. Fluttershy's bed. A mare's bed. I quickly tried to get off, but Fluttershy woke up before I could. She rubbed her eyes with her hoof, and then she saw me.
And after seeing me, she screamed. Luckily, her scream wasn't as loud as anypony else's, but my head hurt a little more. "What are you doing here?!" she asked, panicked.
"I...don't know," I replied.
"Why does my head hurt? What happened last night? Did you..." she trailed off.
My cheeks turned red. "No."
Before she could ask anything else, a white light appeared out of nowhere, and I had to shield my eyes with my hoof. Once it faded, I saw a very angry Twilight Sparkle.
Before I could even do so much as open my mouth to tell her that it wasn't what it looked like, we were both enveloped in magic and teleported to the Canterlot Castle's throne room. I found an empty vase and vomited into it.
Sparkle bowed to Princess Celestia, and Fluttershy did the same. Sighing, I copied them. Celestia motioned for us to rise, and Sparkle began, "Princess Celestia, I've found the pony responsible for getting the whole of Ponyville drunk."
I gulped as the Princess stared at me with a look as hard as stone. Then she coldly said, "Explain yourself, Sombra."