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// Chapter 6: Sombra's Fight 
// Story: Sombra's Triumphant Return 
// by GrandSpellcaster 
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	Rainbow Dash shot at Sombra and he was ready he sidestepped and large black crystal grew out of the ground for her to smack into.  She tried to avoid it but it grabbed onto her tail then dragged into it as a prison.
"Now that the annoyance is pacified I would like to open negotiations, here are my demands. You free Chrysalis I'll free Shining Armor, you leave the Empire to me and I'll free Princess Mi Amore Cadenza, and last but not least, I'd like to at some point establish trade negotiations." He said coolly.
"You promised Cadence to me!!" Chrysalis shouted sounding betrayed.
"And you would have had her if you hadn't gotten yourself captured!" He said staring daggers at her.
She stayed silent. 
"What makes you think that we would ever agree to those terms." Twilight asked.
"Yah!!" Pinkie chimed in.
"Simple I have an Alicorn of love, which means an infinite food source for the Changelings, which could cause you some trouble. Undoubtedly the Crystal ponies have informed you of my palace slaves. As for Shining Armor, he would make a good strong work horse. It is really your choice on whether or not this battle drags out or you get your royal couple back." He said smiling with his teeth.
Twilight looked over at her friends, she was thinking hard. She looked at the crystal guards; they were quivering in their armor. "I can't make that trade; I won't condemn these ponies to slavery." She said bravely.
"Really? You would risk losing the ponies that you actually know for these ponies?" Sombra asked genuinely surprised, well she is a princess for a reason. he assured himself.
"Yes! The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few." Twilight said and her friends took up positions around her.
"Well then Element of Magic, would you reconsider if I added in the Element of Loyalty?"
Twilight had forgotten about Sombra's latest prisoner, "I...um...No! I stand by my decision."
"Ha! You can't win Sombra" Rainbow Dash taunted from inside her prison. 
"Says the pony who has already lost" He replied angrily.
"We'll be freeing Dashie now" Pinkie said pulling cannon out from nowhere. 
Sombra was surprised by the sudden cannon that he didn't notice Applejack come up on his side. He did however notice the sharp pain that flowed through his body as she dented his armor with a swift buck to his side. He flew sideways only to be hit from the projectile from the cannon. He fell back onto the ground and he felt several magical bolts hit him.
After a few moments the bolts stopped and he got to his feet. With a dark chuckle he said, "My turn." He cast his first spell, it was simple, and he simply grew crystals on the horn of Rarity. The next spell was child's play, he grew crystals on the feet of all of them. This only left the Princess with the ability to attack him, and boy did she. She shot a beam of pure Alicorn magic at him, he used a crystal to deflect the beam. 
Twilight used her magic to break all the crystals around them, this also freed Rainbow Dash who in her first moments of freedom charged Sombra. She gave him several swift hits and he fell down.
A dark liquid trickled from his nose and he stood back up, "Do you know why I only turned the palace into it'd dark form?" he asked, getting some puzzled looks from the ponies around. Then the Crystal ponies got it and tried to run, it was no use the walls formed around them, trapping them all. "Because it has a defense system agents things like this." 
Jagged Crystals were growing inward towards them, Sombra smiled and showed his teeth. One of the crystals broke the shield that Chrysalis had been imprisoned in and she fell to the floor, she quickly scurried over to the wall. 
"Now you see the folly of not accepting my terms!" Sombra shouted through the crystals.
They all began to panic as the crystals grew ever closer, then Rarity shot a beam at the base of one of them and it broke. "Twilight, aim tor the bases of the gems." She said ready. Together the two of them were able to stop the crystals and even make them recede.
"Your little trap didn't work Sombra!" Twilight exclaimed.
Sombra wasn't even paying attention to her, he was whispering to the grey Changeling that had accompanied him. "What? Oh! I'm sorry I was distracted. What did you say?"
"We escaped your little trap!" She exclaimed again, now irritated.
"Yes you did, didn't you? Well looks like I have to go back to plan A" he said shooting tendrils of dark magic out and away from his enemies. They reached their marks and the unicorn horns reacted by stealing the energy from the ponies in between them. "You know the only thing better then beating two princesses in a day is?" He asked cheerfully, "I got to beat them the exact same way." He began his evil laughter as the ponies in the center of the triangle started to wither. 
Twilight could feel her power draining, she could see that she was losing this fight. She used what little magic she could muster and knocked down one of the horns right before she passed out. 
Sombra wasn't fazed by this and just keeps laughing, "I've won at last!"