Chapter 23
With a jolt I awoke from my slumber the sound of my breaths was the only thing I could hear. Hearing that my breaths were rapid I began to try and calm myself down.
Once I was finally able to get my breaths under control I tried to remember what had happened to me. My body was all bandaged up as if I had been in a fight of some sort.
After trying for a couple of minutes to remember my predicament I couldn't come up with anything. I felt sore all over but since I could feel I was sore I deduced that nothing was majorly broken.
I took a look around and noticed that my surroundings looked familiar. There were crystals everywhere of every size, shape, and color. This is the crystal mines that I had kept Princess Cadence confined in. What was I doing here?
Just as I was about to try to get up and look around a familiar brown stallion entered the chamber. Immediately everything came back to me.
"You."
My horn began to charge up with energy.
"You did this to me."
Pain flared from my body causing the spell to cancel out leaving me to collapse onto the floor out of breath.
He rushed over to me and put my body in a more comfortable position.
“It's best not to over exert your body too much I did do a lot of damage to you after all."
"So you admit you did this to me.”
The amount of malice I put into every one of those words was excruciating.
What he did next caught me off guard he had a look of complete sorrow on his face.
"Yes I admit that I did do this to you but I would like to explain how and why this happened if you’re willing to listen."
The last thing I wanted to do was listen to him but, he did seem different. For one thing his eyes were no longer dragon like and they didn't hold the darkness that I saw within them before. In fact I would even go so far as to say he was a different stallion but that still isn't an excuse for what he did to me and the other members of the hive.
"Fine I'll listen to what you have to say you obviously went through the trouble of healing me when you didn't have to it would be a waste if I didn't."
"That's where you're wrong I had an obligation to help you but I'm getting ahead of myself let me start at the beginning."
He then took a seat in front of me and began to tell his story.
"I was assigned by Princess Celestia and Princess Luna to go with Princess Cadence and Captain Shining Armor to the crystal empire. Once there I took care of the crystal pony's who had mild injuries and was charged with making them feel comfortable.
“One night as I was patrolling the halls I felt something calling me. After searching for it for a couple of days I found a door and when I opened it my greatest fear lied beyond it.
“That fear was I, turning evil and destroying everything in my path. Of course I was shocked and horrified at what I saw. That’s when a figure approached me a unicorn that was just about as tall as the princesses; he had regal attire and a curved horn.
"He told me 'You shouldn't fear the darkness that lies within you come with me and I'll teach you how to control it so that you won’t be corrupted by it' he was very charismatic and what he said did appeal to me at the time. I had been going through some problems back then so I figured learning from him would help better myself.
"I was under his tutelage for a couple weeks and within that time I grew darker and darker becoming more like Sombra with every passing moment. My eyes became dragon like and my cutiemark changed from a star with a dark triangle in it, to a star with 5 lines connected to the dark triangle.
"Soon after my own transformation Sombra was defeated by the element bearers and the crystal heart once that happened I felt the need to revive Sombra. I saw his horn fly off into the horizon. So I went around searching for it causing destruction almost everywhere I went.
"I almost turned an old friend into a great threat through my travels; luckily the elements took care of her and have forgiven her for her past and have even started to become friends with her.
"Then one night I saw a changeling wondering around I assumed he was trying to find a pony to impersonate but I wanted to know the purpose of it being there. So I used a spell to bend it to my will and it told me all I wanted to know.
"This inevitably led to me coming into confrontation with you and I assume you remember the final moments of the battle correct?"
I nodded.
"Well that spell I used was an experimental spell that I created to attack my enemies but it has a large probability of doing anything so even I didn't know what it would do to you once I released it. When it did hit you it did some damage to your exoskeleton and trapped you within a crystal.
"I then decided to hide you in a place no pony would ever think to visit and it was the crystal caverns. Once that was finished I met a changeling by the name of Red and he had heard of my exploits through other changelings and so one thing led to another and we had a truce."
There was a pause and I took this time to think. Purple did tell me that Red hated me maybe he thought Specter could help overthrow me but that would then mean he had no intention to save our queen in the first place.
Specter reached into a saddlebag for a canteen and took a drink of water.
He then said"are you ready for me to continue?"
I nodded and he continued.
"It turns out all along he had with him Sombra's horn and I assumed that the horn would need a lot of power to reconstruct his body but to my surprise the horn got absorbed into me.
"I think you can imagine the pain I felt as my body began to change. For thirty minutes this went on and my body was about to let Sombra have complete control of it but then at the last moment I fought back and was able to reject Sombra completely from my body.
"When I did I noticed that I had complete control of my body and my conscious. No longer had any thoughts of doing bad things to others occurred, but in the midst of all the happiness I felt I remembered the pain I had caused to everyone within my darkened state.
“I then noticed that Sombra stood in front of me, Red was standing right next to him and the both of them had evil grins plastered on their faces. Not wanting to be in the presence of them both I fled to the only place I could down here.
“I figured I would need help with taking out Sombra so I found where I had stashed you and released you from your crystal prison; I then began to heal your wounds.
"While I was taking a quick walk around the mines to check if the coast was clear I returned to find that you were awake."
He finally finished and he stayed silent for a while as I processed all the information he had told me. He does seem to have changed and if all that he’s telling me is true then he truly regrets what he has done. It would explain why I'm still alive and why he's healing me.
"I believe you."
"You do? Thank you so much..."
"But that still doesn't mean I forgive you for what you’ve done, in the end you still caused all of this."
His face turned into one of sadness.
"I understand but will you help me restore order to Equestria."
"No I only care about my fellow changelings safety once I'm assured that their safe our alliance means nothing."
"Well it's a start at least but even if you’re not going to be helping me forever I still have some wrong doings I want to fix."
He then walked over to one of the many crystals. Looking at it closer I could see that something was within the crystal.
With a small burst of magic it cracked open. He then levitated the contents of what was inside to my side.
My jaw was wide open I couldn't believe who he had just put next to me. It was none other than Queen Chrysalis herself and from what I could see she looked perfectly healthy.
Tears flooded from my eyes as I hugged my Queens slumbering form.
"Thank... you."
My voice was barely audible but it was enough for him to hear.
"It's the least that I could do to make amends for all that I've done. I'll leave you two alone to catch up."
He then left the room allowing me to cry in peace with my queen.