Mary stood completely flabbergasted. Before her was this strange mare that not only sounded like her, but seemed so familiar.
Mary Mare looked at the human and spoke five words that struck the girl deep, “Why do you hate me?”
*
Sombra looked down at the black eyed Mary and smiled in satisfaction. He turned to gaze back at his captives who were in a state of shock, except for two of them. Martin was completely enraged as he smashed the cell with his fists, Applejack was no different. Both of them wanted to do nothing more than to rip Sombra limb from limb for what he had done to their daughter.
Martin yelled at the unfazed king in rage, “WHEN I GET OUT OF HERE I’M GONNA PLAY SOCCER WITH YOUR HEAD!!!”
Sombra examined his gauntleted nails in boredom, “That’s a rather unsightly image.”
Applejack bucked the cage as hard as she could muster, “No one hurts mah family and gets away with it!”
Sombra smiled as he licked his fangs, “Then you’re gonna hate what I’m about to do.”
Sombra approached the incapacitated Mary and picked her up by her right arm. He then brought his free hand toward her neck as he conjured a cluster of black crystals that took on the form of a blade. The blade then slowly began to inch toward Mary’s jugular. King Sombra smiled in triumph as he raised his hand to slash, only for a blast of raw electricity to blast the blade to smithereens.
A voice rang out through the room, “Drop her.”
King Sombra turned to where the shot came from and spoke in anger, “Who in blazes are you!?”
The individual stepped into the light to reveal the familiar and fully healed face of the last COH member, “Names Dominic, Dominic Washington.”
King Sombra dropped Mary roughly, “I'll wring your neck!”
Dominic then spoke unfazed by the statement, “Come get some.”
*
Mary was confused by the statement, “What do you mean?”
Mary Mare paced in front of her, “Exactly what I said, why do you hate me?”
Mary got down on one knee, “I don’t hate you. Frankly I think this whole thing is just confusing.”
Mary Mare suddenly flew off the handle and bucked Mary in the face as she yelled out, “STOP LYING!!”
Before Mary could regain herself, Mary Mare pinned down and proceeded to beat her relentlessly in the torso and face. Mary raised her hand to defend herself and cried out for help. There was not a definitive answer at first, but soon Mary Mare was pulled from Mary and sent flailing into the darkness which was lit up with red flames. Mary stood up and looked around confused as a figure in a black hood passed fluidly through the inferno that raged around her. The figure stood in silence as Mary stared in confusion at this new development.
Mary took a cautious step forward, “Who?”
The figure smiled beneath the hood, “Didn’t your dad tell you about me?”
*
Outside of the mental plane, there raged a titanic battle of crystal versus lightning which shook the room violently. King Sombra was currently locking his sword blade of dark crystal with Dom’s lightning katana. Dominic had been taught well the way of sword fighting thanks to his dad, guards, and a couple Quentin Tarantino movies. He deflected a swing from Sombra and disarmed the King with a flourish which quickly transitioned into Dom cutting of Sombra’s right arm at the elbow.
Dominic smiled, “Looks like you’ve been disarmed…man that sounded bad.”
Sombra‘s arm then quickly grew back in an explosion of black smoke as Sweetie Belle yelled, “OH COME ON!!”
*
Mary circled the hooded stranger, “So your Aequivalere, where the hell have you been!? We could have really used the backup dude!”
The figure proceeded to laugh as Mary raised an eyebrow, “You think I’m? Oh man that’s rich!”
Mary pointed at the figure, “Well then who the hell are you?”
The figure removed the hood to reveal a woman that seemed almost the same age as Mary. The only difference was the fact that the woman’s hair was copper coloured and cascaded in natural curls down just below her shoulders.
The woman blinked her two different coloured eyes, one electric blue while the other was forest green, “Okay kiddo, this is where it gets weird.”