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"Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you." ― Horace

"The fiercest fire is hatred." ― Buddha

"Good. Use your aggressive feelings, boy. Let the hate flow through you." ― Emperor Palpatine

Everyone stared at the new Shadow Bolt, as he was staring at them as well. His body seemed to be made of fire, his eyes had no pupils similar to Twilight, when she used the elements and they were glowing yellow, he had sharp teeth that was made out of the fire. To everyone he looked like a monster. Shadow was staring at his enemies, those glowing yellow eyes staring with so much hate at them made everyone feeling scared. He focus his stare at Princess Celestia, “I…..BELONG!” he said in a voice that sounded similar to Queen Chrysalis.

Before anypony could figure out what he meant he seemed to have vanish in front of their eyes, only to appear in front of Princess Celestia as he punched her in the face. The force sent her body flying back, she stopped when she collided with the doors of the throne room, and the force tore the doors of their hinges and crashed down on top of Princess Celestia. Everypony’s eyes were wide open over the shock of what happened. A small blast broke out of the rubble as the Princess emerged. Her face had a look of rage as she charged at Shadow Bolt. Shadow charged at her and soon they collided. Each one was throwing punches at each other, but it seemed that Shadow was gaining the upper hoof as he blocked all of the Princess’s punches while his own hit her in the face, chest, and stomach. She charged at him only for him to dodge her, she turned around to attack only to be hit with Shadow’s energy beam, the blast shot her across the room and she crashed into the throne, knocking it over. She got up and shook her head, she looked to face her attacker only to see him right in front of her as he punched her again in the face. The punched knocked her down and before she could get up, Shadow kicked her in the stomach. The blow knocked the wind out of her as she laid there defenseless gasping.

Shadow stood on his hind legs getting ready to strike the defenseless Princess, “I…..HATE….BANANAS!”

As he was about to strike, he was hit in the back by an energy beam. He turned towards his attacker and saw Twilight’s horn glowing, “LEAVE THE PRINCESS ALONE!” she shouted as she shot another beam at him. The beam had no effect as Shadow stared at them, he roared at them before charging. He only got as far as halfway across the room before he felt something holding him. He saw that his body was covered in a gold aura, Shadow knew it was none other than Princess Celestia who was behind this. SHE’S GOING TO PAY! He tried to escape the hold but found that it was stronger than Twilights.

He could hear Princess Celestia groaning behind him, “I can’t hold him for much longer, he’s too strong,” she said, “Now is your chance, use The Elements of Harmony and finish him!”

Shadow saw the Twilight and her friends getting into position. Their elements started glowing, they all started floating with Twilight in the middle. Just like last time, a rainbow shot out over them and started coming down where Shadow was standing. The beam hit him as the rainbow turned into a tornado, This isn’t going to stop me. he felt his power rising as he let out a burst of energy that destroy Celestia’s spell. The attack took a lot of power out of Shadow as his body returned to normal Time to get out of here. he started flapping his wings to escape, but he wasn’t taking off. He felt something keeping his hind legs in place, he looked down and saw that his hind legs had been turned to stone. He saw that more of his body was turning to stone from the bottom to the top. He flapped harder but it was no use. He could feel his insides turning to stone the process was painful. It felt like someone had set his organs on fire.

“STOP… IT…. BURNS!” he called out. The pain made it harder for him to speak as he saw that his torso and wings were turning to stone. The only movement Shadow had left was his forelegs kicking around until they turned to stone as well. His head was the only thing he could move now that the spell had reached his neck.

“NO, NO, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooo-” he cried out until he couldn’t speak as his head turned to stone.

With the rainbow tornado, Twilight couldn’t see anything, but she could still hear Shadow’s cries of pain until it sounded like he was cut off from shouting. The rainbow tornado finally stopped and everypony could see what the elements did to Shadow. They saw him as a statue, standing on his hindlegs while his face had that angry look, but Twilight could see a bit of pain underneath his scowl. With the threat now defeated, everypony gave out a sigh of relief. All of them walked up to the statue as they tried to figure out what happened.

“How is this possible?” asked Twilight, “I thought he was trapped but he flew straight from the moon back here.”

“I am just as surprised as you are, Twilight,” said Princess Celestia as she walked down the steps slowly, still recovering from her injuries.

“And what was the deal with his body? He looked like a monster,” Rainbow Dash.

“I’m guessing that was the elements doing,” concluded Twilight, “it seemed to take him to a second stage of its power.”

“I have to agree,” said the Princess as she finally made it to the bottom, where she fell to the ground.

“PRINCESS!” shouted Twilight. She and the rest ran up to the injured princess. By the time they made it, Princess Celestia was able to stand up again.

Twilight let out a sigh of relief as she looked at the statue, “I didn’t know that the imprisoning somepony to stone was so….painful,” she could still hear Shadow’s cries of pain in her head, “So what do we do with Shadow now?”

Soon more crack appeared over Shadow’s body. The first piece to breakout was the piece where his element was. The red gem glowed brightly, as stone around his eyes were the next to breakthrough. One of his eyes stared at them, it gave them a look of pure rage. Soon his whole body was shaking as more cracks were forming.

“RUN FOR COVER!” shouted Twlight, but it was too late. The statue exploded sending pieces of stone were flying everywhere at great speed. Twilight raised a shield in front of her, while Pinkie Pie, was able to hide behind a pillar. The others weren’t so lucky as Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy, and Rainbow Dash were all hit in the head by pieces of stone. The impact knocked them out as they fell to the ground. Soon the barrage of rocks ended, Twilight lowered her shield and looked to see Shadow Bolt freed from his stone prison. He was glaring at her with those red glowing eyes, and before he could do anything he then fell to the ground coughing.

Twilight could hear how hard Shadow was coughing, her eyes opened wide when she saw him coughing up blood. Soon he started vomiting blood and Twilight could see chunks of rocks coming out of his mouth. After a few seconds, Shadow stopped coughing, got to his hooves again, and glared at Twilight.

“That…hurt,” he said breathlessly as he started walking towards Twilight as his body was covered in his red aura. Twilight couldn’t think of what to do, she looked to see her friends still unconscious. Pinkie Pie was trying her best to wake them up, but nothing worked. Twilight knew that she didn’t stand a chance alone with Shadow Bolt. Before she could do anything, Princess Celestia walked by and stopped in front of her as she stared at Shadow.

“Maybe, but you’ll have to catch me first.” She flew at great speed as she passed Shadow Bolt and flew through the opened doorway.

Shadow turned grinding his teeth as the Princess gave him the slip, “If you think you can escape me,” his body then turned back into the fiery monster form from earlier, “THINK…..AGAIN!” he then took off after the fleeing princess as Twilight and Pinkie Pie were left to wake their friends up.

Shadow chased after Princess Celestia through the castle, it didn’t take long for him to catch up and was right behind her. Shadow started blasting her, but Princess Celestia dodged his attacks. The beams tore through walls, left scorch mark on the floor, and pieces of furniture was destroyed in the process. Princess Celestia led him through the long hallways and through the main gates and flew outside where she was no longer confined making her an easy target. Shadow flew after her with only one thing in mind REVENGE! His head was in great pain that it was all he could think about. He was going to make her pay for all she did to him and he was going to enjoy every second of it.

He kept blasting her, but she was able to dodge them easily in the air as she led him away from the castle. Her plan was simple, distract Shadow to buy time for Twilight and her friends to recover because they were the only ones who could stop him. She did her best in dodging Shadows attack, but she knew she couldn’t last much longer. She was still recovering from the fight earlier and the pain was taking its toll. Each dodge she could feel herself getting sluggish and more exhausted.

Shadow could see this and waited for the right moment. It didn’t take long before he saw his opportunity. With the right timing, he shot an energy beam that hit Princess Celestia right in the back where her wings were. The Princess let out a cry of pain and started falling towards the city of Canterlot Gotcha was all he thought as he nosedived after her.

Princess Celestia tried to stop herself from falling and flapped her wings, but each flap caused her great pain preventing her from flying, she looked down and saw the city of Canterlot getting closer and closer. She tried to teleport but she still felt drained from using so much magic from before, using what little she had she covered herself in a gold bubble to protect herself from the inevitable crash hoping that she wouldn’t crash into anypony.

The citizens of Canterlot still recovering from the attacks of the storm cloud watched as something fall from the sky and crashed into a vegetable cart. Once the dust settled the nearby civilians saw Princess Celestia rising from the wreckage. Before anyone could ask her anything, she immediately jumped out of the way in time to avoid an energy beam where she was just standing. She and the rest of them looked up to see what look like a fire monster. Princess Celestia started running away from the monster as it went after her, ignoring the others.

Shadow kept his attack going as Celestia could only run and dodge from his energy blasts. Seeing the all-powerful Celestia running from him made grin, as he kept firing. As Princess Celestia ran as she used her magic to grab whatever she could and threw them at Shadow to defend herself. Whether they were, garbage cans, chairs, or nearby pieces of debris she threw them at the fiery pegasus. Of course, they proved useless as he blasted everything that came in his path. She then grabbed a nearby wagon and hurled it at him, which he destroyed it easily. But the process caused him to be blinded by pieces of wood and lost control. He landed on the building’s rooftops and continued the chase on hoof.

Princess Celestia ran through the streets of Canterlot as she tried to put distance between herself and Shadow Bolt. He kept blasting her from the rooftops as she turned around street corners trying to lose him but it didn’t work since he could see her wherever she went. He jumped off the roofs and dived at her tackling her in the process, they traded punches at each other. The Princess was able to get a good punch at his face and ran away as he recovered. He let out a roar and continued chasing her.

As she got deeper into the city she saw the royal and night guards doing damage control. She would have stopped and warned them but she had to keep running as she saw Shadow getting closer. The guards saw their princess running very frantically. As she passed them, they could see her body had scratches and bruises all over. Before they could say anything to her as she ran off, they saw something that looked like a fiery pegasus chased after her. They saw the creature fire shoot some type of energy beam at the princess who was running away from it. They realized that their princess was in danger and went in pursuit after the fire monster.

Shadow’s only focus was on Princess Celestia as he was getting closer and closer. His thoughts were only filled with revenge towards the princess of the sun. She will pay, I’ll make her regret thinking she ever had a chance against me! He could feel his revenge almost arriving as he was close to her that he could hear the princess’s hard breaths. Her injuries and the exhaustion of the chase had finally caught up to her. It was only a matter of time when he would take care of her once and for all. He was so caught up in his thoughts of revenge that he didn’t see a guard tackle him from the side. The force had him rolling until he crashed into a nearby building.

Princess Celestia turned to see how close her attacker was and stopped to see that he was nowhere in sight. Soon she realized that groups of guards were standing all around of her. Before she could ask what was going on a small explosion of smoke erupted next to a building. Out of the smoke was Shadow Bolt as he stared at her.

“Battle positions!” shouted one of the guards. She saw all her guards get into battle stance waiting for orders. She saw that Shadow got into the same position waiting for whatever came at him.

“Fall back,” she shouted, “He’s too powerful.” She remembered what happened the last time her guards engaged in combat with Shadow Bolt and he was much stronger now than earlier. She didn’t want any more of her guards getting injured.

A nearby guard said, “With all due respect Princess Celestia, our primary duty is to protect the princesses no matter what.” She looked around and saw the look of determination in her guards faces. They would do anything to protect their princess even if they were overpowered. “Get to safety, Princess. Well handle this monster in the meantime.”

She was going to argue but realized that nothing she could say would stop them. With a nod she ran away from the upcoming battle, she only hoped that the guards would be alright.

Shadow watched as Princess Celestia ran away, the only thing stopping him were the guards that stood between him and his vengeance. He could see guards of all three races, some had white coats with blue eyes, like the ones he faced earlier while some had dark grey coats with brown eyes. Either way, they will all fall from my power. He waited to see who would throw the first punch. After what seemed like minutes he heard one guard say, “CHARGE!” then all the guards charged right at him Here we go his face gave a monstrous smirk and then he charged at the guards.

For some reason, ever since Shadow returned from the moon, he noticed that everything was moving slower than usual. This gave him an advantage as he charged at the slow moving guards. He tackled one guard in front of him and jumped to punch another in the face. Another guard was coming up from behind him, he kicked him with his hind legs and he flew back crashing into a group of guards behind of him. One guard threw a punch at Shadow and missed, to which he returned with one of his own knocking him out. He saw a unicorn charging at him with his horn ready to impale him, he dodge at the last second and punched him in the side of his face. More guards came in numbers charging at him, but he punched and kicked everyone that came at him. One guard was foolish to grab him from behind but Shadow’s body burned him and he let go. Shadow gave him a backhoof to the head knocking him away. He then felt his fore hooves being lifted as he stood up. He looked up to see his hooves were glowing by somepony’s magic. He looked to see a guards horn glowing holding him in place. Before he could do anything another guard ran up to him and punched in the stomach. As the guard was about to punch him again he head butted him then kicked his jaw. As the guard fell to the ground, Shadow grabbed his helmet with his mouth and threw it at the unicorn guards head breaking his concentration. Shadow flew right at him and punched him before he could use the spell again. He then he felt a sharp pain from his side, he looked to see a spear impaled him by a nearby guard. He smacked he guard with his wing. He grabbed the spear with his mouth and pulled it out and then swung the spear and hit a nearby guard that was charging at him.

This is a waste of time he knew that the more time he spent fighting the guards, the farther Princess Celestia was in getting away from him. He build up his power and let out a blast knocking any nearby guards away. The clearing allowed him to flap his wings and take to the skies as he flew in the direction he saw the Princess run off. Seeing how long fighting the guards took, he figured that Princess Celestia was able to get plenty of distance away from the battle. However, after a few seconds of flying he saw the Princess still running through the streets. He dive-bombed as he readies himself to crash into the Princess.

Princess Celestia kept running, her wings were still recovering preventing her from flying. She heard a whistle sound coming from above, she looked up to see Shadow flying right at her. Before Shadow was able to tackle her, a pegasi guard tackled him away from the Princess and both crashed to the ground. The Princess stopped to catch her breath and looked to see the crater where the two pegasi crashed. All of a sudden the guard was launched into the air with Shadow Bolt flying after him. Shadow was faster and in no time passed the guard, he then slammed his hooves down on the guard sending him back down to the ground. As turned his sights on the Princess and started charging his beam. However, before he could fire, he was hit by a beam and crashed back to the ground. He got up to see he was surrounded once again by a squadron of guards. Just like last time, they charged at him and he did as well. With his wings, he built up momentum to clothesline the guard in front of him. The guard spun in the air while Shadow bucked his back sending him to crash into his fellow colleagues. Still with momentum Shadow punched another guard in the face, and then he gave a roundhouse kick at another guard, and finished as he clothesline two guards standing next to each other. One guard threw a spear at Shadow, who rolled out of the way and then uppercut the guard who threw it. He then elbowed a charging guard’s snout who tried to tackle him from behind then back hoof a guard coming from his side. One guard tried to punch him but missed, Shadow with his fiery hooves grabbed the guards hoof and broke it with a loud *CRUNCH*. The guard screamed from the intense pain, Shadow still holding on spun him around and used the guard as a bat as he knocked three oncoming guards out. Afterwards Shadow tossed the guard into another group stopping their charge.

As he was about to charge, he suddenly felt frozen. He was once again caught in another immobilization spell. With his boost of power and hatred from this spell, he tore out of the spell like tissue paper. The spell was weak coming from the guard who casted it. He charged at the guard but was stopped before he could do anything, once again, he was caught in the same spell he broke out seconds ago. Only this time the spell was casted by multiple unicorns. Shadow concentrated as he build up his power, he could see the guards strained faces as they tried to keep him from escaping, but it wasn’t enough and Shadow broke out of the spell. Feeling much rage towards his failed captors, Shadow let out a roar and quickly fire multiple energy beams, each one hit all the guards that tried to trap him. He looked around to see more guards coming from all sides, he started firing from all directions, and each beam hit its target. Some unicorn guards used a shield spell to defend themselves, but the beam was more powerful and blasted through the shield and struck the guards. The earth pony guards had metal shields to protect themselves, even though the beam was not powerful enough to pierce the metal, it had enough power from its momentum to knock the guards back hitting nearby walls. Shadow started laughing as each guard fell helpless in his attacks. Weak! They’re all so weak!! He laughed harder as more guards dropped like flies. Shadow was too caught up in the moment to notice the group of pegasi guards dive-bombing on top of him. By the time he noticed it was too late and he was dog piled by the pegasi guards. All the rest of the standing guards saw this and they joined in the dog pile too make sure their enemy stayed down.

Princess Celestia watched everything that happened right before her eyes. After witnessing such brutality, it seemed that her guards had finally stopped Shadow Bolt. But before she could let out a sigh of relief she saw something going on with the pile of guards. The pile started shaking, the guards sensing something was wrong used all their strength to hold their positions. Soon red lights started shooting out from the pile, as the shaking was intensified. Then a loud explosion erupted from the pile and all the guards were flung in all directions. Celestia looked at the center of the explosion to see Shadow Bolt, still in his fiery form. He looked at her and their eyes were locked. Celestia couldn’t believe what was happening and for the first time in a long time, she was afraid. As soon as Shadow looked at her he flew right at her with so much speed that by the time she blinked, he was standing right in front of her.

Celestia stood paralyzed with fear, she let out small whimpers and gasps as she stared at the monster in front of her. His monstrous face had an evil smirk as his glowing yellow eyes were glaring at her.

“WHAT….WILL….YOU….DO….CELESTIA?” as one of his hoofs was slowly reaching towards her face.

All of a sudden a beam hit Shadow on the left side of his head, knocking him away from Princess Celestia who was still frozen in fear. Immediately Shadow was hit by multiple beams coming from the remaining unicorn guards who recovered from Shadows blast. Celestia quickly snap back to her senses and ran away from the range of fire and ran towards her guards.

“WE HAVE TO PROTECT THE PRINCESS!” shouted one of the guards. The guards looked to see that the beams had no effect on Shadow Bolt as he growled at them and started chuckling.

“SHOOT! SHOOT TILL YOU'RE EMPTY!” the guards started firing once again, “FULL POWER!” The guards used all their power and shot Shadow Bolt. The blast caused puffs of smoke to cover where he was standing. The guards stopped firing thinking they finally did it. The guard who was shouting the order gasp as the smoke finally cleared. Shadow Bolt was still standing completely unharmed, “IT’S A MONSTER!” said the guard. Shadow then let out an ear-piercing roar that sounded nothing that lived in Equestria, “Oh my Celestia.”

Shadow charged at great speeds and started attacking the guards from all sides. He was flying so fast that none of them could see him, all they could see was the red streak coming from his tail as he punched and kicked from all sides making the guards defenses. The lead guard could hear his fellow soldier’s screams as they were taken down one by one. In a panic he started firing from all sides, trying to hit his invisible target, “WHAT IN THE TARTARUS ARE YOU?!” he shouted before getting struck in the head by his attacker.

Soon all Celestia could see were her guards all unconscious with Shadow Bolt standing on top of the squad leader. He walked up to her where she stood frozen. Once he was standing in front of the Princess, Shadow punched Celestia on the left side of her face knocking her down. She looked up to see him towering over her. Before he could attack her again, something tackled him. The force knocked him into a building and caused the wall to collapse on top of him. Shadow quickly blasted himself out of the rubble WHO DID THAT? He thought as he shook all the gravel from his head.

Shadow looked to see who shouted and looked to see a lone guard. The guard smirked at him and said, “Remember me?”

He looked at this guard that he didn’t recognize, he could tell he was a earth pony guard, but his armor was totally different from the others. The armor was more bulky than the others were and it covered the guard’s entire body. The only part that wasn’t covered was his face, Shadow looked to see that the guard had a scar going down on his right eye. Shadow immediately recognized the stallion, he was the one he fought earlier and defeated, “YOU!”

“That’s right, it’s me. You didn’t think you could beat me that easily? Well as you can see I’m back for round two and this time I came prepared,” he quickly charged and punched Shadow Bolt in the face. The force sent him back to the pile of rubble he broke out a few moments ago.

It took a moment for her senses to return as she stared at her savior, “Sergeant Solaris, what are you doing here? You’re supposed to be resting from your injuries.”

“I’m fine Princess, It will take more than that to stop me. Besides, I have a score to settle.”

Right as he said that, the pile of rubble exploded revealing a very pissed fiery Shadow Bolt. He got up and glared at the soon to be dead stallion.

“You like the new duds?” he asked, “This is a prototype of our new battle armor. This baby enhances the strength of its wearer.”

Shadow quickly charged and punched the guard in the chest. The force caused the guard to skid a few feet away before stopping, “The armor also has high endurance and can take a lot of damage without harming the wearer.”

If that’s the case then it’s time to see how strong I really am! Shadow Bolt hovered a few feet in the air. With a flick of his hooves, Shadow’s bracelet fell off and crashed to the ground. Each bracelet made a small crater as Shadow landed and started stretching his hooves. Alright, it finally time to see if these magically enhanced weight bracelets really do work or I just wasted my bits. Shadow could already feel himself getting lighter than he was just a few moments ago.

Shadow charged at the guard once again, he noticed that he was moving faster than before as he punched Sergeant Solaris once again in the chest. The force of the punch made the Solaris skid back farther than last time, but he was able to stop before he crashed into a nearby building. Although the attack didn’t hurt him thanks to his armor, Solaris did feel more power from that punch than before.

Shadow saw that the guard was still standing. He then blasted the sergeant with his element, only to see it had no effect. “This baby is also magic proof, making this the ultimate defense against monsters like you.

Frustrated with the fact the armor made him weak and the guard calling him a monster, Shadow charged again and both of them started a hoof fight. Punches flying all over, some were blocked while others hit their mark. But Shadow’s punches had no effect wherever he hit as he tried to find a weak point. In addition, with the armor enhancing the guards already high strength, the punches were hurting and disorienting him, Shadow tried a wide punch to the guards face only for the guard to dodge him and counter with a buck to the chest, sending him through another buildings wall.

Inside the building Shadow was slowly trying to get up, only for the guard to kick him making him roll on his back and then the guard stomp down on his element to keep him from getting up. The pain intensified him and made his hate grow. The guard raised his hoof to stomp down on Shadow’s head, Shadow countered by kicking his hind legs behind the knees. The guard lost his balance as Shadow pushed him away, he landed face first on the ground. Shadow quickly jumped up and elbow drop the guards back, then quickly punched the back of his head causing a small crater to form under it. Shadow grabbed the guards tail his teeth, lifted him up, then slammed him to the ground, then slammed him to a wall, and finally spun him around before letting go. The guard slammed through a wall and landed outside with his back skidding on the ground. The armor protected him from extensive damage, but he still felt injured after that attack.

Before he could get up, he saw Shadow standing on top of him. Shadow raised his right hoof and slammed it down on the guards exposed face. Shadow’s fiery hoof pressed hard on the guards face burning it in the process. The guard let out a muffled scream as his face was being burn. He raised his left hoof and started punching Shadow in the face. Shadow felt pain from the punch but kept pressing his hoof down on the guards face as he continued punching Shadow’s face again and again. After being punched multiple times, Shadow had enough. When the guards hoof came to punch him again, Shadow moved his head back as the punch missed him and immediately Shadow bit down hard on the guards hoof that his fiery teeth penetrated the armor. The guard cried out in pain from the combined pain of the Shadow’s teeth biting him as well as he could feel his wounds were burning from the inside. He could see blood flowing down as it stained the gold armor and he saw smoke coming from the entry wounds. The guard used all his strength and kicked Shadow Bolt in the stomach. The force finally knocked Shadow off the guard, but the force caused Shadow to bite down harder before letting go. The guard screamed again and saw that a few pieces of his flesh were ripped off when Shadow let go of his hoof. The guard got up with his remaining hooves but he couldn’t move much from the pain he was feeling. The pain made him lose focus, as he didn’t see Shadow charging at him.

Using his wings for more momentum, Shadow tackled the injured guard and slammed him sideways to a nearby wall. He then pressed his hoof on his enemy’s head. The heat from his hoof was causing the helmet to heat up, Shadow then started dragging the guard body down the wall with intense speed. The guard could feel his helmet breaking. From one side of the helmet was being scrapped by the concrete wall while the other was being heated up by Shadow’s hoof. It was only a matter of time from the combined force that the helmet started cracking up until the pressure was too much and the helmet broke into pieces. Shadow kept dragging the guard along the wall until he reached the end and finally let go. The guards face was a bloody bruised burned mess, but he tried to ignore the pain and tried to attack Shadow Bolt. But the guard was too injured and exhausted that Shadow had no trouble dodging the guards weak punch, he countered with a punch to the head. The blow made the guard start losing his balance, Shadow then punched him again. Shadow kept punching the guards head again and again, Not so tough now, are you? Shadow then gathered his strength and punched the guards chest, the impact was so powerful that it caused the rest of the armor to break apart, leaving the injured guard exposed.

“TIME….TO….FINISH!” he said as he charged up his element and blasted the guard in the chest. The force sent him crashing into a building, Shadow then blasted the small building causing it crumble down and bury his enemy.

“FELT….GOOD,” as he walked to the pile of rubble. Before he could walk away, the pile started to shift.

He looked back and saw something crawling out. It took time but the guard finally crawled out of the rubble. As soon as he was free, he passed out. Very impressive, he thought as he stood in front of the unconscious guard. Time to take care of you once and for all! He started charging his beam as he aim at the stallions head.

“ENOUGH!” shouted a voice. Shadow stopped the charge to see who shouted. He turned to see none other than Princess Celestia.

Princess Celestia who had stood frozen, witnessed Shadow’s brutality on Sergeant Solaris, the guard who defended her. She did nothing as Shadow pulverized him, and now Shadow was finished as he started charging his beam point blank at the unconscious guard. Seeing this, the Princess had enough of standing around and watching her guards get taken down one by one. It was her duty to protect Equestria and her subjects, but until now she had let her guards do her job while she stood by and did nothing. Now enough was enough, No More she called out to Shadow. She got his attention as he canceled his attack and started approaching her. Celestia now felt her power returning after she spent the time recovering from her injuries. Shadow stopped a few feet from the Princess and waited to see what she would do. She started charging her magic as her horn glowed with intensity. No More she charged it for a few more seconds as a small energy ball the size of a golf ball formed at the tip of her horn. Once her charging was done, Celestia took aim, NO MORE and fired her beam.

Shadow Bolt saw the tiny energy ball beam coming at him and stood his ground. She has got to be joking. This beam is nothing compared to the attacks she used earlier. She must be getting weaker or desperate if she thinks that little thing is going to do any damage to me. He grinned at the Princesses pitiful attack thinking it wouldn’t do anything to him. The beam moved at great velocity and hit Shadow on his left shoulder and went through it. OW! He felt the burning pain the beam caused as it went through him causing him to bleed. The impact sent him skidding a few feet before he stopped. Shadow was so shocked that the beam went right through him, he didn’t noticed the beam changed direction returning to hit him in the chest. The beam changed direction again and hit him on the left side of his body.

The beam started hitting Shadow Bolt from all sides causing him to losing his footing and started skidding from the impact. Each hit caused him great burning pain and blood to shoot out of his wounds as each shot went through him.

The beam continued its command and hit Shadow continuously sending him skidding away from the Princess.

“DIE AND GO TO TARTARUS!” she shouted as the beam was about to go through his head.

Shadow saw it coming and at the last second, he caught the energy ball with his mouth.

Celestia gasped at what she just witness. But that’s impossible she couldn’t believe but there she saw it. She saw the energy ball stuck in Shadow’s teeth. The ball was still glowing and trying to move. She could see smoke coming from Shadow’s mouth as the ball continued to burn him with its intensity.

Shadow just looked at her surprised face and grinned, “GUESS….WHAT….I….CAUGHT?” he bit down and crushed the energy ball, causing a small explosion to go off, which didn’t affect Shadow Bolt at all.

Celestia’s confidence just went up in smoke as she was paralyzed with fear again. What am I going to do? Nothing I do works on him. Shadow started approaching her. He’s coming, I have to do something. I have to….get away, I have to get away, have to get away! She opened her wings and took off as she tried to escape from Shadow Bolt.

Princess Celestia flapped harder as she headed back to her castle. Only the Elements of Harmony have any chance in stopping him. Her wings haven’t fully recovered as she could feel herself flying slower than normal. She turned back to see Shadow flying after her at great speed. She flapped harder as she tried to keep him from getting to her. But it was a losing battle as Shadow was getting closer and closer by the second.

“YOU’RE….MINE!” he said just as he was about to grab her by the tail

All of a sudden, something crashed into his stomach that pushed him away from Princess Celestia. Once he felt whatever pushed him away leave its spot, he looked to see a pegasi guard.

“That as far as you go,” he said, as Shadow looked around and saw that he was surrounded by pegasi guards. Shadow noticed that while all the pegasi he fought earlier had white coats, he saw some that had grey coats. What got his attention was that these grey pegasi wings were different from regular ones and wore different type of armor, he also saw that their eyes were more dragon like. It doesn’t matter what these new pegasi look like, THEY’LL ALL FALL! After a few seconds, they all charged at him at the same time he charged too. They all collided and started their dogfight.

Shadow wasted no time as he punched two guards the face, knocking them out. He used his wings the smack two guards coming from behind him. All of a sudden, one guard dashed by and struck him in the head. Before he could retaliate, another guard dashed by and hit the back of his head. Soon he was assaulted from all sides and the guards saw how their hit and run tactics were working.

“ENOUGH!” he shouted and let out a burst of his power blowing all the approaching guards away. Shadow quickly took off and struck the nearest guard. He flew and punched another in the stomach, he then flew above another guard and kick him in the back. Two guards were coming in by his sides, Shadow waited and as soon as they were about to collided with him, he flew up causing the two guards to crash into each other. He punched another guard in the face as he was charging right at him. Shadow was feeling the adrenaline going through him as he was enjoying the fight. These guards are dropping like flies. He saw once again that he was surrounded by guards. Shadow simple grinned at their feeble attempts of keeping him contained. He started spinning around at super speed. The guards were confused as they waited for whatever Shadow was planning. With Shadow spinning like a tornado, they couldn’t see that he was charging his element. Once fully charged, Shadow fired his beam, hitting all the guards that were surrounding him. He stopped spinning to see that his tactic worked as all the remaining guards were falling to the ground. His face had a little look of disappointment when he saw that what remaining unicorn guards that were still standing stopped the guard’s descent. The unicorns would be too busy tending to the wounds of their fellow comrades that Shadow used the opportunity to go after Princess Celestia without anymore interruptions.

Princess Celestia was almost at her castle when she heard something coming from behind.

“COMING….FOR….YOU!” Shadow Bolt was once again closing in on her. Enough running, its time I fight back! She turned around and in a flash of light, her body changed. Her mane and tail were no long in a multi colored state. Now they were flames giving her coat a light shade orange and yellow. Her eyes had no pupils as they glowed completely white with flames flowing out. Now that she was in her full power state, a state that she hasn’t used for thousands of years, Princess Celestia charged towards Shadow Bolt.

They clashed each other so hard that a bright light shined from the impact followed by a loud boom. Immediately they flew back from each other and collided again. As soon as they pulled back, Princess Celestia took on the offensive and started firing energy blasts at Shadow. Shadow dodged the blasts as he shot a few of his own at Celestia. The two danced in the sky as they tried to hit each other as they avoided each other’s blasts. Celestia released multiple beams that were homing in on Shadow, who quickly went on the defensive as he tried to outmaneuver the energy beams. However, no matter where or how fast he flew the beams were still locked on him. He tried to fire his energy beam at them but saw that the beams were able to dodge his own. He then tried to shoot the Princess thinking it if he could hit her, the beams of her attack would cancel out, but Celestia protected herself with a barrier that stopped his attack. Shadow kept flying to keep himself from getting hit, until he noticed that the beams were now coming at him from all sides. The only thing Shadow could think of was to build up his power and release it at the right moment.

Princess Celestia could see that all the beams hit their target right at the same time as a cloud of smoke replaced where Shadow Bolt was. Finally its over, she thought seeing what was left of the monster. A gust wind started blowing away the smoke of what remained of him, Soon the Princess was able to see something appearing from the smoke. Her eyes opened wide upon seeing Shadow Bolt still alive and unharmed.

He glared at her, "TIME....TO....TEACH....YOU....LESSON!" his red aura building up.

They charged each other once again, they raised their hooves to give a powerful punch at each other. Their hooves turned into fireballs they collided with each other. The impact caused a bright flash with a loud boom. Celestia quickly cast a barrier around her, Shadow kicked it causing it to shatter. Immediately Shadow slammed both his hooves between Celestia’s head causing her to be disoriented. She quickly recovered as she raised her hooves and slammed them on top of Shadow's head sending him down. He shook it off, flew back up, and retaliated with an uppercut to the jaw. The Princess shot beams at him that were able to pierce him, Shadow started building up his power. Princess Celestia saw this and continued her attack, when she saw that her beams bounced of his aura she quickly put up another barrier to protect herself. Shadow’s power exploded causing the shield to shatter once again, with Celestia too close to Shadow the blast sent her flying back away from him. She quickly flew back while dodging Shadow’s energy beams. She tackled him and they quickly got into a hoof fight. This time they didn’t bother to block each other’s punches as they went all out as each punch hit their faces. At this point, they didn’t care about their injuries or the pain as their only goal was focused on defeating their opponent. They got so into the fight that they didn’t stop when they were punched in the face and blood was running down their snouts and mouths as they immediately retaliated with a punch of their own as if they didn’t get hit with anything at all. Each punch let out a bright flash followed by a boom, giving the illusion that a fierce storm was going on in the sky.

This kept going on for minutes until Celestia shot a beam at Shadow’s face blinding him. She was about to smack him with her powerful wing, but Shadow recovered quickly. As he saw the wing coming at him he retaliated by biting down her wing. Princess Celestia cried out as the sharp burning pain pierced her wing. Shadow continued his assault as repeatedly punch the incapacitated Princess in the gut and face. She then stabbed Shadow in the eye with her horn causing him to let go and she immediately shot him with a beam sending him spinning away from her. She had difficulty flying as she saw her wing was bleeding badly and each flap caused her to wince in pain. It took all she had to just hover in place, she knew that she couldn’t move around anymore. She looked up to see that Shadow had recovered from his spinout and was glaring at her with his one opened eye. She quickly summoned all her remaining power and let out a barrage of energy beams at Shadow. Shadow went into a nosedive as he set his one-way course at the Princess. His speed increased as he was getting closer, the beams hit him but had no effect on him, and they didn’t even slow down his descent. Celestia saw this and concentrated harder to make the beams more powerful, but it looked like it wasn’t working as Shadow kept descending faster and faster. The pain in her head was taking its toll from her intense concentration but she kept her attack going, the aura around Shadow was slowing turning him into a fireball, as he was only a few feet from his target.

The Princess saw this and used up whatever power she had left to stop him, “AAAAAAHHHHHHHH!”

“AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!” Shadow yelled as he crashed into Princess Celestia sending them down to castle. They crashed through the already crumbling roof of the throne room and crashed into the podium causing a big explosion, destroying the throne in the process.

During the time Shadow was fighting Princess Celestia in the city, Twilight was in the process of waking her friends. After many minutes of shaking them and shouting their names, they finally awakened.

“Ah! Ma head,” said Applejack as she rubbed her head, “ma head hasn’t hurt this much since dat cider drinking contest with Dash last New Year’s Eve.”

“You girls were knocked out when Shadow broke out of his stone prison. The blast sent debris flying knocking you four out in the process,” said Twilight.

Twilight nodded in response, the answer made Fluttershy quiver in fear. Pinkie walked over to comfort her.

“But dats impossible!” said Applejack, “It took Discord a thousand years before he broke free. How did he do in jus' a few minutes?”

“I’m not sure Applejack. The only thing that I can think of that explain it is that his element was able to break him out of his stone prison.”

“Well it doesn’t matter how he got out,” said Rainbow Dash as she punched her hooves together, “after I’m done with him he’ll wish he stayed a statue.”

“Speaking of which, where is he?” asked Rarity as she looked around and noticed that besides the six of them, the room was empty.

Twilight was about to respond before a loud *BOOM* coming from above stopped her.

They looked up through the holes in the ceiling and saw flashes of light. Whatever the cause of the flashes was moving so fast the six had a hard time focusing on it. After a few moments their eyes were able to see two ponies flying around attacking each other. Pinkie pulled out some binoculars out of her mane and looked to see who it was.

“It’s Princess Celestia……and it looks like she’s fighting Shadow Bolt.”

“What?!” shouted Twilight, “Let me see,” she grabbed the binoculars with her magic. She was too focused about seeing the battle that Twilight didn’t notice that she was choking Pinkie with the binoculars straps.

Twilight watched as she cheered for her mentor as she followed through their movements. She watched as Princess Celestia blasted Shadow away, Shadow then flew right at her as she shot multiple beams at him.

“Princess, move out of the way,” she said. Of course, Twilight was too far away for the Princess to hear her. She watched as Shadow collided with the Princess and they were falling…..right where they were standing.

All six mares ran for cover right when a fireball burst through the ceiling and crash-landed into the Princesses throne, destroying it in the process. The podium was covered in smoke as the girls gathered waiting for the smoke to clear. After a few seconds, they could see something through the smoke. Once the smoke cleared they saw a horrible site, they saw Shadow Bolt still in his fire monster form standing on top of Princess Celestia as her body was back to her old self, she was lying on the ground.

Princess…it can’t be! Twilight looked at her beloved teacher. Her body was bruised all over, her face was beaten and bloodied up, and her right wing was almost completely red. Twilight eyes tear up as seeing the Princess in this state hurt her on the inside. She saw that Princess Celestia was slowly trying to get up. Please get up, Princess. You can do this, stand up and fight back. Celestia was shaking as she rose, she was up to her knees before the pain was too much for her and she fell back to the ground unconscious.

“PRINCESS CELESTIA!” she cried out as she started running towards her. But she didn’t get far as Applejack grabbed her by the tail and stopped her.

“Come to your senses, we need to do this together and with a clear head if we ever hope to defeat him.”

Twilight resisted for a few seconds before she was able to take deep breaths to calm down.

“Thanks, Applejack. I’m feeling calm now.” Applejack let go of her tail as Twilight was taking a few breaths.

“I got one,” said Rainbow Dash, “beat him so bad that his red coat is black and blue and then we’ll use the elements while he’s passed out.”

“No, not that,” said Twilight but was too late as Rainbow Dash refused to listen and flew to attack Shadow Bolt.

Shadow stood there on top of the fallen princess of the sun as he enjoyed his victory. The sight in his right eye was still healing after the Princess stabbed it. He was also enjoying that he could relax and breathe since he’s been under constant attack throughout his chase in the city of Canterlot. He could see his breath as he was breathing. His body returned to normal as he was looking at Princess Celestia. He felt a burst of joy seeing her in this state. I guess she was not as powerful as they said she was. That will teach her to mess with me. He was too focused savoring his victory and lack of seeing from the right side of his face that he didn’t see the cyan hoof smashed into it.

Through his good eye it looked liked time had slowed down as his body was falling off the podium in slow motion towards the ground. He could see his blood moving slowly from his snout where Rainbow Dash had kicked him with her hoof. Then time sped up as his body crashed to the cold hard ground. Rainbow Dash landed a few feet away from him, his back facing her. She stood her ground waiting for whatever would happen next. She hoped that her kick had knocked him out when he hit the ground. However, unfortunately for her Shadow was still conscious, as he lay there waiting for the pain in his head to stop. Why is it that SHE keeps interfering? She always gets in my way! His head burned with all the memories of Rainbow Dash and all the things she did to him. His head started shaking from his hatred on the cyan pegasus that was the cause of all his misfortunes. I’VE HAD IT WITH HER! SHE IS NO LONGER GOING TO GET IN MY WAY EVER AGAIN! It seemed that something had snapped inside his head as Shadow started glowing and exploded, causing a tower of smoke to cover him. Rainbow Dash watched and gasped seeing Shadow standing, his body was back in his second stage form. The angry look on his face made Rainbow Dash’s blood run cold.

He started charging his beam as a red energy ball the same size as one of Princess Celestia’s energy attacks.

“BURN!” he fired the beam at Dash. The beam was moving so fast that she barely was able to jump out of its way. She didn’t know that the beam was now heading towards her friends. She turned in time to see the blast hit her friends causing an explosion and smoke to cover the site.

“NOOOOOO!” she cried as she watched her friends were blown up in front of her eyes. She then watched to see the smoke to disperse revealing a purple dome that had protected her friends. The dome vanished as Twilight fell to the ground exhausted at the power she had to use to keep the barrier from shattering.

Rainbow Dash was happy to see that her friends weren’t killed that she was too distracted to see Shadow charging at her from behind. By the time, she turned her head. Shadow gave her a powerful uppercut that sends her flying leaving a bloody trail from her broken snout. Shadow flew up and stopped as soon as he was above Rainbow Dash, then he gave a powerful buck to the stomach that send her crashing to the ground on her back as he dive-bombed after her. The combined impact left Dash gasping for air, as she couldn’t move. Her eyes widened to see Shadow coming right at her as she tried to recover. Just as Shadow was about to land on Rainbow Dash, a blue beam hit him in the face blinding him as his descent slowed down in the process. This gave Dash the moment as she was able to roll away, Shadow crashed where she was just laying a moment ago.

She looked to see that it was Rarity who shot him, “Now’s your chance, darling. Give him everything you got.”

Rainbow nodded as she charged at the blinded pegasus. Shadow sight returned to see Rainbow Dash coming right at him. She immediately started punching his face repeatedly as her hooves were covered in blood. The adrenaline was keeping her from feeling pain as she didn’t pull back from her punches or from the burns her hoofs were getting from coming into contact with Shadows fiery body. She then launched Shadow to the air where she attack Shadow from all sides. Shadow was able to hover in place as he looked to find his hated enemy. It didn’t take long before he was hit from behind, before he had chance to recover, he was attack from all his sides. Rainbow Dash was going too fast that he couldn’t see where she was coming from until it was too late. She was able to use the same tactic the pegasi guards used on him with the exception that she was doing it all by herself. He could tell that her speed was faster than any of the guards he fought, he tried to stand his ground from the assault but was failing miserably. The assault ended when Rainbow Dash slammed her hooves on the back of Shadow’s head causing him to crash to the ground face first.

“Time to finish this,” she said as she flew through one of the holes in the ceiling and kept going higher and higher to the sky.

“I think she is,” responded Twilight, “She’s going to do a Sonic Rainboom.”

Rainbow Dash flew until she was high enough and dive-bombed back to earth. She kept her hooves in front of her as she pushed herself to fly harder.

“Come on faster,” her eyes were starting to water up from the wind. In a few seconds, she could see the cone of air forming in front of her. She could feel the force of the cone pushing her back but she kept going.

“NOW!” she used all her might and broke the sound barrier as a shockwave rainbow ring appeared over the skies of Canterlot.

Shadow, with both his eyes healed, looked up to see spectacle in the sky. He saw Rainbow Dash coming right at him like a rainbow missile. He tried getting up, but the pounding pain in his head made him too dizzy to get up. He looked around to notice that a purple dome was covering where he was laying and saw that it stopped when it touched the ceiling. It took a few seconds to figure out that Twilight had trapped him. He glared at the purple unicorn as she concentrated on keeping the barrier up to keep Shadow trapped as well to lessen the damage of the castle from the impeding explosion.

“YOUR….ALL….DEA-” he didn’t finish as Rainbow Dash landed on top of him causing a huge explosion as the inside of the dome was filled with the rainbow mushroom cloud that shot out of the only opening through the ceiling.

The explosion was getting too big for Twilight to contain, but she kept her spell up. She kept concentrating as the strain was becoming too much for her to handle as drops of sweat rolled down her head. She kept the spell going until she reached her limit and the dome shattered that sent a shockwave that pushed everypony back until they hit the wall. After a few seconds the blast finally stopped, everyone started walking towards the crash site that was still covered in cloud of rainbow smoke. Once the smoke had settled, they saw a big crater that was deep. They looked down to see two ponies, Rainbow Dash was standing while Shadow Bolt was lying on the ground in front of her, his coat had returned to its normal state.

Rainbow Dash stood triumphantly over Shadow’s body. She would see him twitch every now and then but it looked like he wouldn’t be getting up anytime soon. To add insult to injury she spit in his face, “That’ll teach you to mess with the Dash.”

Her friends started cheering over Rainbows victory. It looked liked it was finally over. Rainbow Dash called out to her friends, “It’s over girls, I did it. He’s finally been stopped once and for all,” her friends cheered harder from her statement. Rainbow smiled to cover her pain, “Ugh, I think I over did it,” she said to herself.” She looked up to her friends, “I’ll be right up in a minute,” she lowered her head and spoke in Shadow’s ear, “Now you stay down on the ground.”

“Sir, we ask you to leave this establishment. This place accommodates ponies, not……your kind.”

“Come on guys, let’s leave this freak in the dumpster, where he belongs with the rest of the garbage.”

Shadow’s head were filled with voices of ponies that had treated him like dirt claiming he didn’t belong anywhere he went.

“Impossible, why can’t you just stay down?” Rainbow Dash took to the skies once again. “Let’s see you get up from this,” as she prepared herself for another Sonic Rainboom.

After flying into the sky, Rainbow Dash was now higher than last time as she hovered getting ready to attack.

Shadow had finally gotten up and looked up to the skies, he looked at the small blue dot that was Rainbow Dash.

He looked with so much rage boiled inside him, “I BELONG!” he changed to his second form and launched himself into the night sky.

“What is that?” Rainbow Dash saw something red heading straight to the sky, more accurately it was heading straight at her. Soon the red dot became something more, she saw Shadow Bolt coming right at her. She could tell that he was flying at great speed that she could see the air cone in front of him.

“No way, there is no possible way he can do that.” Nevertheless it was, in only a few seconds Shadow burst through the cone breaking the sound barrier. Unlike Dash’s Rainboom his shockwave ring was completely red. Rainbow Dash was too stunned that somepony was able to do something that only she could do, she forgot that Shadow was coming right at her until it was too late. With the momentum he got from breaking the sound barrier, Shadow charged at Rainbow Dash. His hooves collided with her stomach, sending her higher into the sky. The blow took all the air out of Rainbow Dash’s lungs she couldn’t move or breathe as she sailed through the sky. The momentum caused her to spin around and she saw the sky instead of the ground. Her eyes open wider than ever before and her pupils shrink when she saw that Shadow Bolt was already hovering above her and she was getting closer.

He smirked at her and then he flew down and tackled Rainbow Dash. He immediately started punching her face repeatedly with such ferocity. It took only a few seconds before Dash’s face was completely bloodied up as they both were heading back down to the ground. He let all his anger with every punch that hit Rainbow Dash's face, as he was enjoying himself. After his barrage of punches, Shadow stopped and grabbed onto Rainbow Dash, his fiery coat already starting to burn her. While still holding onto her, Shadow kept going faster and soon the cone of air started forming in front of Dash’s head. After nose-diving a few more seconds, Shadow for the second time he broke the sound barrier, the red ring spread across the night sky. As soon as he broke the sound barrier, Shadow let go of Rainbow Dash sent her plummeting at super speed back to the castle.

Twilight looked to skies as she saw for the second time a red shockwave ring shot across the sky. Then she noticed something coming down at an extremely fast pace. She grabbed Pinkie’s binoculars that were on the ground and looked that the falling object. Her eyes opened wide when she saw that it was Rainbow Dash, who was falling to the ground at great speed.

At that speed, the crash will certainly kill her! Twilight immediately used her magic to stop Rainbow Dash from plummeting. However, Dash was falling too fast to stop her and Twilight was still recovering from protecting herself and her friends from Shadows last attack. Nevertheless, Twilight pushed it to her limits to save her friends from certain doom. She could see that Rainbow Dash was slowing down, but she was coming in too hot, Twilight concentrated harder to slow Dash’s descent even if it killed her. Rainbow Dash was slowing down but it wasn’t enough to stop her, in the end Rainbow Dash crashed into the crater that she created moments ago. Twilight rushed over the crash site and looked down, Rainbow Dash was lying on the ground belly down, her wings were spread out on the ground beside her, and she had some cuts, bruises, and burns all over her body.

However, Twilight saw that she was still alive as Rainbow Dash looked up to her smiling, “Wow…..you saved me Twilight, for a second there I thought I was a goner,” Rainbow Dash started laughing after coming so close to death and surviving.

It had happened so fast that it took Twilight a few moments before she saw what happened. Shadow Bolt had landed on top of Rainbow Dash, more specifically he landed right on top of her wings, crushing them in the process.

Shadow got off Rainbow Dash as he savored the moment, he watched Rainbow Dash rolling on the ground crying out in pain. He saw her wings were completely bent out of shape as Dash painfully wrapped them around her body. With tear in her eyes, she cried out from the extreme pain she was feeling. Her cries were like music to his ears. This is wonderful. He was feeling so much satisfaction at seeing the mare that ruined his life groveling in pain right in front of him. It was the closure he was waiting after all those years during his travels trying to find a new home.

He leaned down to the sobbing mare, “APOLOGY….ACCEPTED,” he left her and started walking up the crater on the opposite side that Twilight was standing who was too shocked to do anything. Once he was out of the crater he looked back to see Rainbow Dash in a fetal position crying in pain. He then shot some spit down at her face. He turned his head, only to be greeted by two orange hooves that smashed into his face. The impact would have sent Shadow Bolt flying but he didn’t even budge, it was as if Applejack had bucked a mountain. Shadow noticed that he didn’t feel any pain from the kick. He knew that the kick did some damage as he felt the snap of his nose being broken and he could taste blood in his mouth. Applejack turned to see what her kick had done, her eyes widened when she saw that her kick did nothing to Shadow, as he stood there glaring at her. She quickly turned around to buck him again, at the same time Shadow did the same thing. Their hind hooves collided with such force that it made a loud boom that echoed throughout the throne room.

“AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!” a cry followed afterwards. Applejack was now lying on the ground in pain, she turned her head to see that her hind hooves were broken. The force from Shadow’s and her hooves collided was too much for Applejacks legs as they snapped like a twig. She was blubbering in pain looking at her broken hooves, she could see bone sticking out piercing her flesh. She continued sobbing and screaming from the intense pain, that she didn’t noticed that Shadow was now standing in front of her.

He returned to his normal self as he looked down at the sobbing earth pony. While he enjoyed Rainbow’s cries, Applejacks was a different story. Her screams were more like daggers to his ears than music. He raised one hoof and punched Applejack in the face, knocking her out in the process. It’s unknown whether Shadow knocked Applejack out so she wouldn’t be conscious anymore to feel the pain of her broken hooves or he just did it to shut her up. Three down, four to go.

He started walking away when Fluttershy flew at him and smack him in the face. He looked at the brave or stupid yellow pegasus, she then with all her might gave Shadow the most powerful Stare she’s ever done. Unfortunately, like last time the stare had no effect on him, he responded with a powerful head butt knocking her out instantly. Four down, three to go.

Then out of the corner of his eye, he saw something coming right at him. He turned to see Rarity charging at him, she leapt and extended her hoof to kick him, but he saw this coming and dodge at the last moment. Once Rarity had passed him, he grabbed her by the tail, swung her around, and let go. Her body flew through the air and stopped when her back hit one of the room’s pillars. She let out a painful gasp and fell to the ground unable to move.

Five down, two to go Shadow turned around to face the last two ponies standing, he saw Twilight standing outside of the crater completely paralyzed from shock. He then turned his sight on Pinkie Pie who had ran to where her party cannon was lying on its side. She turned it right side up and aimed it at Shadow Bolt, as she was getting ready to fire. However, before she could press the button, Shadow shot out a beam that went into the cannons barrel causing it to explode. The blast sent Pinkie flying back and she crashed into the wall behind her knocking her unconscious.

Twilight couldn’t believe what she’s witnessed. She saw her mentor and friends get taken out one by one, and now she was alone with the monster responsible. She could still hear Rainbow Dash cries from inside the crater, Applejack and Fluttershy were both lying on the ground unconscious, Rarity was still awake but she wasn’t able to move, her face showed that she was in complete agony. Pinkie Pie was leaning against a wall with her eyes closed, and Princess Celestia was still lying on the podium where she crashed, she hasn’t move once since then. Now her eyes were on Shadow Bolt who was also staring at her.

Her body started shaking out of anger, it was burning up inside her and she wanted to let it out. I'll make him pay for all this! He wont get away with this, not while I'm still standing In an instant her purple coat had turned white, her eyes turned red, and her mane and tail turn into fire. THIS IS FOR MY FRIENDS!

What’s with everypony turning their manes and tails on fire? That was all Shadow could think about as he stared at the new Twilight Sparkle. Before he could start thinking on what to do, she immediate started firing energy blasts at him. He avoided the blasts and started flying around the room, blasting Twilight in the process. She would jump out of the way and immediately retaliate with her own beams. The kept this up for what seemed like hours, none of their blasts hit their target. Shadow would easily dodge them while in the air and Twilight would teleport to avoid his. It was harder for Shadow since he had to quickly look around to find the purple unicorn before he would get shot by one of her beams. This dance continued until one of Twilight beams grazed one of Shadow’s wings, causing him to fall to the ground. As soon as he got up, Twilight appeared right next to him and punched him right in the face. The impact knocked him down, as he was about to get up, Twilight bucked him and sent him rolling. Once he stopped, he got back up to fight back only to see that Twilight was nowhere to be found. In an instant she teleported right in front of him and smacked him, before he could retaliate she teleported away. Then she popped next to him and used her horn that was glowing as a sword as she slashed him across his side and then teleported again.

By now Shadow was getting fed up with her tactics, as soon as he heard her teleport right behind him he smacked her away with his wing. The force sent her rolling across the room, she teleport to avoid crashing to a nearby pillar and instead crashed into Shadow Bolt knocking him down. The impact was able to stop Twilight’s momentum as she got up. She could feel how much pain she was in from the blow she received. She determined not to risk herself anymore in hoof-to-hoof combat and returned to long-range attacks as she once again started shooting beams at Shadow. Shadow Bolt was able to roll away from incoming beams. Once he got up, he saw that Twilight shot a powerful beam at him. He defended himself by shooting a beam of his own. The beams sailed across the room and hit each other. Now the two were in a standoff as they put more power in their beams to see who would win.

“Why?” said Twilight as she concentrated her beam to push his back, “why did do you come back?! You would have been left alone like you wanted on the moon.”

“Oh sure, you would think that,” he said as he tried to push Twilights beam back, “what made you think that would make me happy? What she did to me was the worst thing ever. She made it look like I didn’t belong, but I DO BELONG!”

“Why do you keep saying that? Ever since you came back you keep saying that over and over,” she could feel that she was winning, as she saw that her beam was getting closer to Shadow.

“Because wherever I go I would always be told that I didn’t belong. Those ponies didn’t see me as one of their own, they saw something else. Everywhere I went they say that I didn’t belong with them and it made me feel like some kind of freak. Cloudsdale, Balitmare, Manehattan, Trottingham, Appleloosa, Fillydelphia, Van Hoover, Detrot, Hoofington, and Las Pegasus,” he pushed back Twilights beam as he named each city and town he visited the beam was now getting closer to Twilight. “Every one of them said I didn’t belong and then SHE did that,” he titled his head to the unconscious princess of the sun. “When she sent me to the moon, she was basically saying that I didn’t belong anywhere in the world. That I was so monstrous that I was not the same as everypony else, that I didn’t belong to live with any living thing! The thought of that made me furious, I belong on this world just as much as everypony else, and that’s why I couldn’t let her get away with that! But no more. Too long, I have stayed my hooves. No more. Today, this will end. No more. NO MORE!” his aura was growing, “I BELONG, I BELONG!” he changed once again. Changing made him more powerful as he beam was heading to Twilight at a fast pace. She concentrated harder and used all her power as she tried to push it back, but it wasn’t enough. All she could do was watch as the beam got closer until it finally hit its target. She screamed in pain as Twilights body vanished as the beam consumed her, it continued until it hit a wall causing a small explosion. When the dust settled, Shadow stared to see Twilight back to normal lying on the ground all bruised up. Twilight couldn’t move, she was too exhausted and in too much pain to move. All she could do was watch as the fiery monster started walking slowly towards her.

I’ve have to get out of here, I have to escape. she tried to get up but it was too much for her to move. Twilight watched, as Shadow Bolt was getting closer. He’s going to kill me. I’m going to die, I’m going to die. Oh Celestia, I’m going to die! She shut her eyes as she waited for what would end her fate. The clip clop sounds of Shadows hooves getting closer were the only thing she heard with her eyes closed. The sounds got closer and closer until it finally stopped meaning that Shadow Bolt was standing right in front of her. Twilight’s body started trembling as she waited for the end to come. The silence and waiting was making Twilight fear rise higher wondering what was taking so long. After waiting a few more moments, nothing happened. Twilight opened her eyes to find out what was going on. She looked up to see the fiery Pegasus staring at her, he then looked up to the night sky staring out into space through one of the many holes in the ceiling. After a few seconds, he let out a sigh and changed back to his normal self. He continued looking at the sky before he lowered his head and was looking at Twilight once again.

They stared at each other in silence until finally Twilight broke it, “Well, what are you waiting for?”

Twilight started thinking about what he was talking about, after spending a minute of thinking she figured out what he meant. She had a sad look on her face as she looked around the room seeing her friends and mentors battered bodies. Her eyes started tearing up as she lowered her head to avoid looking at him.

He brought a hoof under her chin and raised her head so that she was looking at his face, “You were wrong about what?”

“I was…..wrong about………friendship being more powerful than hate.” She continued to look at him as she eyes watered up. “You were right, Hate…..hate truly is more powerful than…...friendship.”

Shadow smiled after getting Twilight to admit that she was wrong. He removed his hoof from under Twilights chin, she quickly lowered her head to avoid his gaze as she started crying. My friends…..Princess Celestia, I’m so sorry. This was all my fault because…….because I wrong and you all paid the price for my failure. Her tears slid down her face and fell to the ground.

The Element of Hate

by Shadow Bolt

YOU’RE ALL BUCKED! (Mature Warning)