Fallen
By: Justarandombrony
As she sat there surrounded by dark crystals, Twilight Sparkle could have sworn she heard the evil laughter of the corrupt King Sombra. She stood up and look around for the piece of crystal she had lost.
"The heart! Where is the crystal heart?" She asked.
"It's over here! It rolled over to me when you dropped it!" Spike responded dodging dark crystals sprouting from the ground.
"Don't move!" Twilight commanded. Spike grunted as the crystals kept growing around him. "You can move, just not toward me."
Spike stepped back away from the crystals; the stopped growing. Twilight tried to teleport out of the prison she was held in, but was surrounded by dark magic and teleported back into the crystal prison hitting the wall.
"How could I have been so foolish?" Twilight said as she tried to push on the crystals with no luck. "I was just so eager to get it; then when I saw it was going out side I..." She ran to the other side of her prison to try to push it. No luck.
"You have to get out of there Twilight!" Spike yelled at Twilight. "You have to be the one to bring the heat to Princess Cadence! And if you don't, you will fail Celestia's test!" Spike looked to the edge of the tower and saw the tell-tale dark magic of King Sombra.
"King Sombra is already attacking the empire." Twilight stated looking out of the crystal prison still holding her and seeing Sombra attacking. "He could reach the crystal ponies at any moment; reach Princess Cadence, my brother, my friends! There may not be enough time to let me escape."
Twilight's eyes lit up with realization. She looked over at her number one assistant, his claws in his armpits, dodging some crystals. He fell over barely missing some crystals. Spike looked up at Twilight.
"You have to be the one to bring the crystal heart to the fair!" Twilight announced.
"Me? But Twilight-" Spike started.
"Go!"
"But-"
"Go!" Twilight yelled putting emphasis on the "o".
Spike took his claws out of his armpits. They dripped with sweat. He quickly picked up the heart just in time to watch a massive dark crystal grow where the crystal heart had once been. He then turned and jumped out of the tower, and onto a platform. Massive dark crystals started to grow preventing him from going back. He could hear the cries of the crystal ponies as they watched in horror.
"Now don't y'all worry your yer' pretty little crystal heads." Applejack yelled to the crowd still at the fair. "The real crystal heart will be here any second!"
"I don't know if they believe you." Rarity whispered to Applejack.
"I don't know if I believe me." Applejack whispered back.
Just behind them, Princess Cadence's magic grew wary from exhaustion and fatigue. Her horn finally stopped producing magic with a final burst of the the shield. It then failed, falling apart showing the crystal ponies what truly lie behind the shroud.
"He's back! I can't take it! Ahhh!" a crystal pony yelled, running from the fair, right into a dark crystal that Sombra had advanced to. "King Sombra." the same pony said in almost a whisper. King Sombra then did something no one saw coming, he corrupted the poor crystal pony.
"I will serve you for all time." the same pony stated.
"My crystal slaves!" King Sombra announced to the ponies.
Meanwhile, Spike had tried to get down to the princess, but the crystals kept blocking his way. As a last resort attempt to halt their advance, Spike had tried to blow fire at the crystal. There was no effect. He looked out, a spire had grown. Spike jumped onto the spire of crystal just as some crystals grew to where he was standing.
"Hey, up here!" Spike yelled to the ponies below him.
"Spike?" Rarity asked as they all looked up, including Sombra.
"I got the crystal heart!" He yelled back.
"That is mine!" King Sombra yelled in anger as he dived into the ground, spreading crystals where he went.
Spike started running down the spire. It became a race to the chamber. Sombra became a dark crystal and started moving really fast toward Spike, who tripped and let go the the heart as he fell off of the spire.
"Spikey-wikey!" Rarity yelled in horror.
Shining Armor pick up his wife, Princess Cadence. She looked up and saw the heart nearing the king. Sombra lost his shadow form, but not his power over crystals as he continued to climb to Spike, who was falling. Spike tried to grab the heart, but missed. Shining threw his wife and she soared toward Spike, the heart, and Sombra. Seeing this Sombra reached out and one of his crystals grabbed the heart, right before the princess could. Spike was devastated.
As they landed they all heard laughing.
"Ha ha ha ha ha! Aha ha ha ha ha ha! Aha ha ha ha ha!" to all of their horror, Sombra had the crystal heart. The heart suddenly turned dark and started sprouting dark crystals. "You fools! You think I could be defeated just like that? You are all going to suffer! Aha ha ha ha ha!" Sombra laughed.
"Nooo!"
"Help us!"
"He is going to enslave us all!" The crystal ponies yelled.
"How could this have happened?" Rarity asked horrified.
"I missed." They all turned to see Spike curled up in a corner. There were tears in his eyes. "I had one shot, and I blew it. I deserve what I get."
"Yes! All of you deserve what comes next, my slaves!" Sombra lashed out with his magic. It hit all of the crystal ponies corrupting them, twisting them. "You will never see freedom again! Aha ha ha ha!"
"No." Twilight Sparkle, who had been imprisoned all of this time, said. "No, no, no, no, no!" She tried everything she could, to no luck. She sat down in defeat. "I failed." she slumped over and wept silently.