As his star destroyer drifted through space, the lord of chaos kept his sights on the planet, growing into view. Someone walked in behind him, "sir we're descending shortly," the trooper told him. The chaos lord said nothing, turned around, and walked past the trooper as if she didn't exist at all. He walked down the halls of the ship until he entered a board room, of arguing shadows. As soon as he walked in however they all became extremely silent as he approached his chair but did not sit down, instead, he kept his back turned to them as he stared out of the window, once more. The silence was broken by the groan of a fiery alicorn dressed in flames.
"I'm sorry, Blazzer is this meeting boring you," snapped a light purple alicorn with a dark purple mane.
"Well, storm, if you hadn't melted that map, we may have found another shard by now!" Blazzer retorted.
"Well, maybe we wouldn't need the map if you didn't blow away the only other creatures that knew where the shards were!" Storm yelled back.
"Enough!" Shouted the lord of chaos, as he removed his helmet. "I don't care about how you lost the next shard. They don't matter any way not anymore.
The room fell silent but was clearly surprised by the chaos lords claimes. "Sir, we must find the crystals for the empire, for the emperor," Blazzer reminded him.
"I don't care what the emperor wants, I never did," he spun around on them. "You work for me not the emperor and your failure is little more of an inconvenience next to darkness."
Darkness, bowed his head, "My deepest apologies sir."
"Your weak, and now we have lost nightmare, of all things."
Sir if I may, I don't understand, how could Nightmare have been killed by the old colt, could he really be that strong, or are you just that weak darkness," storm asked.
"Why you," darkness growled but was cut off by the lord of chaos.
"Enough! I don't care about your stupid confrontations, I have called you here for one reason, and one reason only." He growled. "I'm going after the rebels!
"Sir, what about the emperor, he tasked you with finding the shards!"
"Let me deal with the emperor," he groaned. "I want you three to track down where they're hiding, and capture them ALIVE! Do I make myself clear?" He snarled.
"Yes sir," they all replied.
Good, now Hurricane is currently, still on her voyage to find the shard in the furthest reaches of the galaxy, ordered by the employer, but I have received a message of her emanate, return, I want the rebels in my city by the time she gets back. You have your mission, do not fail me, Sombra, Starlight, Sunset, or I'll make sure you'll personally regret it. Dismissed," He hissed.
With his dismissal, the three left the chamber without another word.
The three shadows of chaos walked into the large hangar of the star destroyer. "So he's abandoning the shards, why would he do that," asked Blazzer, who was indeed sunset.
"Isn't it obvious, moaned darkness?"
"Hmm, I'm not following," Sunset asked.
"You're not suggesting-"
"I am Storm, he's clearly going to betray the empire."
"He wouldn't dare," gasped Sunset.
"Either way, we must choose, who do we follow, do We follow, the chaos lord, or the emperor?" Darkness turned his back to them, to hide his sly smirk.
"The chaos lord clearly," said Storm.
"No, the empire, how dare you even suggest that," Blazzer remarked.
"Blazz, the chaos lord has been there for us from the very beginning how can you just betray him, if this is what he wants-"
"I joined the empire, no, there is no way lord chaos would ever betray us, so there's not even a reason to argue about this! Darkness, you and tricks do not impress me, I see threw your deception!"
Darkness turned around with a look of neutrality, "I wouldn't count on it, any way if I and Nightmare couldn't bring down Starswirl and his new pet how can you?"
"Your weak, we are not! Come on blazz," Storm announced.
"Yes, sister." Was Blazze's only response.
As the two left darkness turned and headed straight for his ship. As soon as he was on it, a single shadow bolt walked up to him and gave a salute.
He smirked an evil grin, "The seed of doubt has been placed, and if I am right, the empire will fall, to our control. Once it does well be able to take the emperor and the crystal shards."
The shadow bolt removed her helmet revealing a dark purple alicorn, with dark bags over her eyes, and a silver crown around her head, "I don't care about that, all I want is my mother," grumbled Twilight, whose eyes glowed slightly red.
"Yes, yes you will have what I promised you soon, your training is nearly complete my apprentices. Have you retrieved what I asked?"
Twilight pulled out a hologram map.
"Good work, those fools think they destoied the only map to this shard, you were quick and smart to not reveal yourself to them, and scan the original grounds. Now I have been ordered to track down the rebel alliance, along with the other shadows of chaos. While I am in pursuit of that I want you to go, and find it."
"Yes, my master." She replied and bowed to darkness.
"Good, take a few scouts with you, I will not need them."
"But sir if the others are missing won't they discover our plot?"
"I can make an excuse that I have them searching in a different area for the rebels, and even if that doesn't work it won't matter, not to the discord, he's too fixed on finding your little friends anyway. Tell me, they were your friends, do you miss them?"
At this, Twilight could not hide her sadness, yet despite that her eyes grew in termination, "I want my mother back, I already made my choice, my aunt and her rebellion have been lying to me for far too long, I know what I must do." She clenched her teeth.
Pleased with her answer, Sombra, wasted no time and walked past her.