//------------------------------// // Chapter 2: New Day, New Objectives, New Enemies, and a New Power // Story: The Darkened Past: Alex’s Past History in Ponyville // by captinalex1 //------------------------------// Hours pass by and finally I begin to regain consciousness. Weak at first I open my eyes and look around. Then a pony in armor and a green holographic scope on her right eye approaches. "You alright bud?" She asks. "Yeah, I'm feeling better. By the way, who are you?" I ask. She smiles, "Just call me" -Swings head to the side really fast- "Light Bringer." "Light Bringer, Light Bringer, sounds familiar for some reason." I start to think. "Really, how so?" She asks. "An earlier war before this one." I respond. Light then sees that I know. "Well yes their was that but, don't over think, your still weak." "Yeah, say, what are you doing here anyway?" I ask. "To come and check on you. Heard what happened. Also" -She trots to the door and locks it. Then, she puts up a sound shield- "Also, to tell you what's going on." She tells me as she trots back to me. "All ears and also guessing that it's secret, being for the locking of the door and all that." I tell her. "Precisely. Alright so first things first, give me your hoof." She tells me. "Ok?" I question but do as told. She then slides a device onto my hoof and it locks forming armor around it, in the process. "Don't worry you can take it off, but I recommend leaving it on for now." "Ok. Let me guess, Fallout armor." I guess but know I'm right seeing and understanding the design. She glares at me and gets close. "How the hell do you know?" Trying to defend myself, "Uh, uh, l-lucky guess." "Hm, watch what you say, and that topic is nothing to take lightly, understand." She says in a more serious voice. "Ok I understand..." I tell her in a frightened voice. "Good." She tells me. She then backs up a little giving me room. "Also this device I gave you is no joke. Also that's not your full form. See that green holograph. Hitting that button gives you your full form. But only use it when you really need it." "Got it." I show that I understood. "Now to explain what's going on. So Veger has been declared as a Count and now has control. How this happened is that he saw that Crystalis was about to quit seeing that you killed Sombra and the shadow army fell. Crystalis was like screw this and was gonna quit, so Veger took Crystalis in and said, I have captured her. Celestia, not knowing that Veger was part of the enemy, said thank you and then everypony cheered for him. Now he is called Count Veger and has almost all control. You and I are the only survivors that know about this. But I don't know how to throw him out and believe me, I know exactly what he is looking for. He doesn't care about anypony, only to find the Precursor relics and release their power." She explains. "I see. I do know that Changelings know about him and his doings as well." I tell her. "Yeah, I know but what pony is gonna listen to them." She says. "Good point." I agree. Light Bringer then checks her device on her hoof, "Hey I need to leave now, hope I informed you enough. Sorry, but we'll be out of contact to where I'm going for a while. Good luck my friend and stay safe." "You too, Light." I tell her. She then unlocks the door and trots out. I then get up and out of bed. Still feeling a little weak, I trot out of the infirmary and look around. "Gee, things really changed." I tell myself. I then trot over to a blue holographic looking thing and look at it. "Hm, what's this?" I ask myself. I then put me hoof through it and it feels weird but it does nothing to my hoof. Then I pull out one of my pistols and take a shot at it. The bullet hits it but disintegrates. "A shield, now why would they make a shield?" I look out and see a Changeling with it's head down. So knowing the type of pony I am, I trot out of the shield and sit down next to him. "Hello there." I begin. "Huh, oh, it's just one of you. Yeah you can shoot me if you want." He tells me. I choke at what he says, "Say what...? Now why would I ever do that?" "Because us Changelings are bad and you hate us." He tells me. "I think your confused with somepony else, I would never harm you." I tell him. "Then why did Count Veger add a shield to Ponyville blocking us out?" He questions. "Look, I don't have enough info to answer that. I just awoke from my sleep in the infirmary." I tell him. "Oh, I see." He says, continuing to look into his reflection in the water. I put my hoof around the Changeling to comfort him. "Don't worry, I'll see how to get a much more fair rule than this. What Veger is doing is blasphemy!" The Changeling looks up at me with a small smile and hugs me. So I hug him back. "Y-you'd really do that?" He questions. "Well I can't guarantee, but I'll try." I tell him. “T-thank you.” The Changeling says, as he smiles back at me hugging me tighter. “Alright, you know what, I’m gonna do it right now!” Tell him confidently. “By the way, you want to come along with me?” I ask. “R-really!” He jumps up happily. “Well of course.” I tell him. “Ok!” He agrees. So we get up and I look at the shield. A light bulb then appears in my head and what I do is take the new device I was given and aim at the shield. The shield sparks and a small opening is created. The Changeling and I trot through and begin to head towards the castle. Halfway there, I have the Changeling get on my back and I fly us the rest of the way. I then land and the Changeling lays on my back, which I’m ok with. I trot through the doors and enter the castle. “Celestia, you here, we need to talk!” I demand. Celestia then puts her hoof on my mouth to shut me up. “Shh, or you'll get caught.” She whispers. “What from who?” I ask quietly. “From Count Veger. He owns the throne now. I’m but only a elite guard is what he made me.” She answers. “What?!” I'm surprised. “Now why in the name of… like why the hell would he do that. Who the F**k does he think he is?” I get mad. “Well we cant do anything now.” Celestia tries to calm me. “NO! NO! I’m not gonna have an enemy take over your throne just like that. Oh man does he have something coming. He was the leader of the Shadow Army!” I explain. Celestia gets mad, “What!? So I was lied to?” “Pretty much.” Me and the Changeling answer. “Look, why the Changeling and I are here is because I request a rule change affecting the Changelings.” I tell her as I get my piece of paper and hand it to Celestia. “Ahh, you're not the only one. Had another pony stop by with similar rules.” Celestia explains. “Well?” I question. “Well what, I don't own the throne anymore, Veger does. I can't do much.” Celestia reminds. My hooves turn dark and a darkening glow surrounds me, as my wings turn sharp, my eyes change color, I grow bigger and my tail forms a spiked ball on the end.“Oh we are going to see about that!” So the Changeling jumps off and is by my side. Celestia stays back behind the doors watching at what I’m about to do, as i stomp across the carpet up to the throne. "Hey! You better explain yourself before I let my punches do the talking!" I yell at Veger. "Muhahaha, so it's true. It's really true, you did turn dark. Now I'm able to banish you." He grins evilly. "What!?" I gasp in shock. "Not without a fight you bully." The little Changeling next to me says. "KGs now." Veger orders. Then out nowhere, robotic droids roll in and begin to fire. I dodge the shots and even destroy one, but then a Magnaguard gets behind me and shocks me to the point where I pass out. Hours pass and then I finally awaken. I look around and see I'm back to normal. "Ugh, what happened?" I ask myself. "No matter I can just pass through the shield cause I'm no Changeling." So I trot up to the shield, put my hoof on it to pass through but instead get electrocuted backwards. "Hey! What gives?!" I then take the Fallout device and try using that, but the shield EMPs it and the device becomes deactivated. "Great, just great!" Then a note drops from above. "What's this?" -I pick it up- "Oh it's one of Celestia's letters. It reads, ‘Dear Alex, you might have awoken to find that you have been banished to the Everfree Forest.’ -I pause reading- "BANISHED?! What else does this say." -I begin reading again- ‘What you told me about Veger is true, he is an enemy and those were enemy units he was using. I pretended to play part of his little act just to stay and investigate. The Changeling that was with you was also thrown back into Everfree but on a different side so you two can't team up again. Veger claims that your banished for 2 years because of your dark power. And to help, here are my words, try to control and reduce the dark inside you to 0% that way, the shield won't be able to detect the darkness thus letting you back in. Also I'll do my best to defend and get rid of him, but I have no idea if we will be able to do it without you. To end my letter, I wish you best of luck.’ I put the letter down. "So they banished me for my power huh, hm. Well, should find a tree to lay under. It's getting late." So I trot over to a tree, lay down and fall asleep.