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// Fallen Kingdom 
// Story: The Void 
// by Utopianking 
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Void split his existence between feeding upon universes, observing the pony universe which it dubbed ‘Equis’, and trying to break its own way into said universe. It took many of Equis’ years before Void was able to find a single soul that might put a single crack in the boundary. 
The soul in question was a young, black, unicorn stallion. What largely made the stallion different from all others was the fact that all other ponies within his community were like the crystals Void had seen in so many universes. Even the stallion’s relations were these so called ‘crystal ponies’. Void focused its will onto the stallion and continued to observe.  
The stallion was in a crystal castle, holding books in a red energy glow. He walked through the corridor until another unicorn, this one seemingly made of red crystal. The red unicorn used its power to press the black one up against the wall.
“Why do you spend so much time in those books, Sombra?” the red unicorn asked sharply.
“I-I want to get better at my magic,” Sombra choked out, “You know that I have trouble, Dusk.”
“I know that.” Dusk shook his head in frustration. “What I mean is why are you going to and from the library when you should ask one of the guards to do it. A royal cannot show weakness to the public, especially with your pitiful skillset.”
This caused Sombra to glance down at his flank, which had the image of a spiral staircase.
Dusk pressed his face close to Sombra’s, “If I see you outside of the castle when it’s not absolutely necessary, I will suggest to father that we disown you from being a member of our family.”
Dusk let Sombra go and walked away.
A few hours later Sombra was crying in his room.
“Faust,” he began to pray, “w-why did you make me like this? I’m so weak; I can’t be a proper prince of my empire.”
Void realized its chance and forced a small portion of its power through the boundary of the Equis. All it needed was to materialize a little within the empire.
Within Sombra’s room, a black cloud formed. From within the cloud, Void’s voice resonated, “Sombra.”
Sombra looked up at the cloud and backed away to his bedroom door, “What are you?”
“I suppose you could consider me a guardian angel. I want to give you power.”
“How much power?”
“I can give you more power than you can ever imagine. Just stick a hoof into my cloud and you will get all the power you need and more.”
Sombra cautiously stuck a hoof into the black cloud and energy surged into him. Void began to force mutations upon Sombra’s body, causing his teeth to sharpen and his eyes to glow black and green. Before Void removed itself from Sombra’s body, it placed a destructive portion of itself into Sombra’s mind.
Once it was finished, Void left Equis and prepared to watch the storm that was going to come. The only way Void knew how to put a hole in a universe’s boundary was to increase the amount of that universe’s energy in a single point. And Sombra would be able to gain the power of the other unicorns.
Void observed Sombra as he hostilely took over the Crystal Empire. Sombra killed every crystal unicorn, gaining their power in the process. The boundary of the world was weakening. Once the two alicorn princesses appeared at the empire, the concentrated energy was almost enough to puncture a hole. Void was almost able to slip inside when Sombra was banished. Once he was banished, the boundary restored itself.
Void was screaming inside, *efffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff*