My Little Pony: When Friendship Shimmers - Reboot

by RobtheMorpherPony


Season 4: Prologue - Rebirth

The group just got off the train from the Crystal Empire at Ponyville, with Celestia and Luna still on board, when suddenly, the entire train started to explode, causing the two alicorn princesses still onboard to suddenly vacate the vincinity immediatly.

"Hello there ponies." A very familiar dark voice said. It was Nozrog. "Missed me?"

"Not really." Throsen said. "Did you forget what happened last time?" He asked.

"Oh I didn't forget. I just figured I'd drop on by to let you know, I've been reconstituted. But more then that, I've been reborn." Nozrog said.

"You should've just stayed the way you were when you vanished." Throsten said.

"Aw I'm hurt. Still, I got to give you some props for being able to turn me into a litteral puddle of my former self in the most literal sense of the term now. But I've been reborn." Nozrog said. "And I've got a whole new power I'm just itching to try out."

"Throsten's right: You ARE insane." Raiden said.

"Am I?" Nozrog grinned before he suddenly hit Rainbow Dash with a dark attack, but it seemed to do no physical damage what-so-ever. However, her shadow began to be drawn to Nozrog's side before a dark version of herself suddenly materilized itself out of thin air.

"What the? That breaks all known laws of physics. Matter cannot be created nor destroyed; only exchanged from one form to another." Flash Sentry said.

"Try telling that to The Creator if you ever met him; I'm sure he'd LOVE you." Raiden said sarcastically.

"This little puppet born of your friend's inner negative thoughts is nothing more then a lifeless undead husk right now..." Nozrog said before some kind of flame ball suddenly went inside the puppet and when it did, it sprung to life, eyes glowing red. "But when I put a spirit inside of it, it'll do whatever I want without question." Nozrog said.

"Uh oh...I know where this is going." Sunset said.

"If you can figure that this means that I'm going to order this dark reflection of your friend to kill you? Then yes; you would know where this is going." Nozrog said. "Kill them."

The puppet jumped into action, but it was quickly overpowered. However, shortly after it vanished into thin air, Gorzon hit Sunset next, creating a puppet out of her next.

And this went on for quite a while: The ponies were being forced to defeat undead puppets of their inner darkness one after another. Nozrog was wearing them down without throwing a single punch. However, things got wierd when he suddenly tried to do this with Throsten. In fact, his entire arm began to burn.

"Gaaaaaah! Burning! Burning! Burning!" Nozrog said.

"What?" Twilight asked.

"Gah. In order for me to get that kind of reaction, it has to mean that your not only pure of heart, your mind is pure and devoid of negative thought." Nozrog said.

"No idea what that means, but I'll take the compliment." Throsten said.

"Don't be so cocky." Nozrog said before summoning puppets of his alternate forms suddenly. "Now try this on for size."

"That's a lot of puppets..." Bart said.

The group had no choice but to fight these much stronger puppets now. Raiden managed to grab one at some point. "Hey Nozrog, chew on this!" Raiden said.

"Huh?" Nozrog's attention was drawn and Raiden tossed the puppet he grabbed at Nozrog.

"Take that." Raiden said. But then, Gorzon quickly recovered.

"That was a cheap shot." Nozrog said, but when he looked back, part of his face had several eyeballs on it that made him look creepy and menacing. "Do you have any idea how much effort it takes me to maintain this disguise?!" Nozrog said in a voice no longer the ones the group knew.

"What the..." Flash Sentry said.

"I don't think this is the Gorzon we've come to know anymore..." Deca said. "I'm sensing something vile...something completly demonic lurking behind that facade."

Nozrog laughed. "Gorzon? That name was just a cover for me. And only that false father of mine even called me by my real name." Nozrog said. "When I said I was reborn, I meant it in ever sense of the term. When my form was restored, so was my memory. The name 'Gorzon' no longer holds meaning for me. I am Nozrog through and through now." He explained.

"Restored memory? What are you talking about?" Throsten asked, demanding an answer.

Nozrog restored his face and voice. "Patience. It's clear that I still have some preperations to make before a proper rematch. But remember this: You haven't seen the last of me." Nozrog said before he suddenly disappeared in a pillar of those same creepy and meancing eyes.

"Wh-what in tartarus did we just witness there?" Rainbow Dash asked.


Deca MLP Log #1

Redacted Subject: Gorzon

This figure no longer exists, according to Nozrog

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Updated Subject: Nozrog

Somehow, the former Master of Darkness had returned, and now he had new tricks. He claimes to have had his memory restored, even went so far as calling The Jackle his "false father".

More data will be required before I can come to a conclusion as to how Nozrog ended up this way...