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"And that is what happened about a thousand years ago." Celestia said to Twilight. Celestia stood alone with Twilight in the throne room." Though the Empire reappearing is all well. It will also mean that Sombra has awakened." She said somberly." You must find the Crystal heat and save the Empire. And if you can save the mysterious being, he may help you if he can."
" Yes, princess, I will be sure to meet your expectations." Twilight said with pride. Her current appearance as a unicorn has a lavender shade for her coat with a darker shade for her mane with a pink highlight near the side of it. Her mane's style is simply cut straight and neat. As expected from a on point student. On her haunch lays the six pointed star representing magic.
" I know you will Twilight." Celestia said with a motherly smile. But the smile soon turned into a small frown. " Shining Armor and Princess Cadence are already there. They have also been briefed on the situation, and are trying to rescue the being, as well as protecting the Empire. You must hurry quickly and help them. Now go." Twilight nodded and walked away from the princess before leaving to gather her friends. " I know you will succeed Twilight." She thought as Twilight left.
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Train station after the ride}
Twilight and her friends have exited the cold station and went to see the outside. Though they were expecting more then they saw on the train, it was still the same with all the snow. Shining Armor has gone to meet up with them and guide them back to the barrier, but along the way Sombra appeared.
" Twily! You girls have to go ahead!" Shining shouted across the barren plain of snow." Don't worry about me i'll catch up soon." He stops to confront the looming shadow with eyes.
Twilight understood with complete trust. She ran along with her friends with the Empire's barrier in sight. With time to spare Twilight along with her friend made it into the barrier. Twilight looked back to where her brother should have been. Within the moment, Shining appeared, but not without Sombra on his tail. Shining was about to make it until he slipped up, as Sombra took heed to this.
Shining got enveloped by the shadow only to fight his way out, but not without getting hurt. The girls watched in horror as Shining made it into the barrier. Twilight walked over to her brother with worry. Shaking his dizziness off both sibling assess his damage. They both gasp as they lay their eye's on his horn. Before the horn was majestic, with that spiral around the core, the prime color of white, and the pointyness of a shish-ka-bob. But now it is slandered and shamed by Sombra as he has covered it in dark crystals nullifying any magic impossible.
" Brother! Are you feeling okay?" Twilight asked as she inspected the rocks on Shining's head with worry.
" Nghh... I'll be fine. * Coughs* Let's go to Cadence. Now!" Though out of breath and damaged Shining pushed on.
As they walked to the castle the girls look at their surroundings. They all notice the buildings made of chiseled crystals straight from the ground, but that's not all they notice. A crowd gathers around a deep purple crystal pillar. Upon closer inspection from the girls they notice that the crowd is the very residents themselves.
" Shiny? What are they doing?" Twilight asks as they make their way around the crowd. Murmurs and whispers dance across the crowd, but nothing clear enough to hear.
" They're trying to get it out. When Cadence and I got here the ponies started to gather around that pillar. We didn't feel like we needed to do anything as of now, but we might just need it's help." Shining continued to walk towards the destination while explaining it. With a small smile he turned towards Twilight's group. "Were almost there come on."
The group walked though the castle's doors and halls until they went into the throne room. Upon opening the door Twilight was filled with hope of seeing her old foal sitter. But what she saw was simply something else. Her once elegant foal sitter, now messy and disheveled. Twilight thought that seeing Cadence would be a wondrous time, but Cadence looked worse for wear.
A multiple pinging sound resonances from the outside. Completely ignored to all.
"Cadence! Are you okay?" Twilight said with worry as she walked over to her old foal sitter. The rest of the girls gathered around listening to their conversation.
" I'll be fine *winces in pain* I just need to keep this shield up a little longer..." She staggers across to Twilight. Twilight's eyes open wide upon realization.
" You can't do this to yourself. You have to-" Twilight started with worry for Cadence.
" I can't do that Twilight!" Cadence interrupts her." If I rest then HE would come." She stumbles a little then stabilizes herself.
The pinging sound continues into a cracking sound.
" Sombra?" Twilight questions. Cadence nods wearily in return."What can we do to help." Accepting the fact that Cadence couldn't rest as of right now accepts it.
" I don't know much.*Stumbles* But you might find some information in the library... Hurry..." Cadence staggers hard like liquor, she almost falls until Shining catches her.
" Girls, let's go help." Twilight said. Each of them nodded and left the castle.
Outside the castle the ponies have broken the prison of the creature. The crowd around the mysterious creature grows louder.
"How can we wake him up?" One of the 'crystal' ponies ask.
" He's still wrapped in chains, What can we do?" Another asks.
"Let's do the same thing we did to get it out." A crystal pony with a pickax says.
" Do you think it will hurt him?" He responds.
"DO FIRST THINK LATER!" The 'crystal' pony with the pickax rises with it in hoof raising to strike.
The girls witness the scene as he is about to strike. They look with a questioning gaze until it the pickax strikes. A loud clang rings through the silence. The girls run up to the pickax wielding pony. The pony in name has a mull green coat with a small rock crossed over with a pickax for a mark. His mane a brown color like tree bark. Like tree bark *Author nods his head continuously and slowly like he just let it happen*. His eyes a contrasting blue bringing the look together.
" What are you doing!?" Twilight yells at him while stepping between the chained and he pony." You're going to hurt it!" The girls make a defensive circle around the chained.
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It's loud. I like to sleep, who doesn't. I hear sounds of people yelling. Why would there be people at home yelling. Ma and Pa don't yell at each other. And that sound isn't a lawnmower... It's not a alarm either. I guess I should wake up...
I 'open' my eyes to see a scene that would make a god of chaos proud. Oh yeah ponylandia, emocorn, all around me are unfamiliar ponies, talking cronies and a guy with a pickax and butts. Six butts of difference color all surround me, My uncomfortableness intensifies. Hm, they're all talking about something.
" But we have to free him! He is our only hope!" Pickax pony said. Yelling at the ponies that surround me. Sounds like they should just free him then.
" But you'll hurt it like that!" The purple one reasons." You're going to have to find a different way to free him." This talk is like when there's some kind of when there's a trapped animal and they don't know how to get it out.
" There's no time for it! We must free it now!" He tried to reason. The purple one stayed silent. Me being Megaman made a mega suggestion.
" Why don't you just use magic?" I say sarcastically. If magic got me in, it can get me out? All the ponies stare at the new sound which is me. Yeah I know, pretty awkward. " Was it something I said?" Looking around gives me mostly surprised faces. "Where's the problem? Brute force solves everything." Always.
"He might be right about that." The blue one with a rainbow mane said.
"Always." The rainbow one nods in approval. " I got this shit." Famous last words. I push against the chains. With some strenuous effort the chains start to break. "Fuck yeah, breaking shit." My family always called me out for breaking stuff. With a burst The chains fly everywhere. I get off the ground standing, while brushing off any dust. The chains disappear like dead enemies in Zelda. "So where's the problem?" I look around and I see a multitude of faces.
A couple of them are scared, but most seemed relieved for the most part. A couple of them are happy. And then there's that yellow one that's cowering in fear? A voice yells out the problem.
" Sombra is the problem!"I hit my hand in realization that he's right.
" Oh yeah. Where is he?" I look around an all I see are ponies.
" You're coming with me!" The purple one yells in my face. I back up as she advance.
" Uhhhh. No." I use one of my fingers to push her back.
"Why? You have to help us." She pleaded.
"Who's making me?" This is really one sided, like a fake coin. Or one cut in half.
"..." She puts a pouty face on while thinking hard. Her face starts to puff, then turn red." BUT YOU HAVE TOO SO I CAN PASS!" She screamed in my face.
" Fucking rude." I push her back surprising her and everyone around me. Wouldn't this be the normal reaction to some animal yelling in your face? " Look I got my own problem, like me going home. But these horses over here..." I gesture to the enslaved ponies." Were enslaved so I came to rescue them."
The purple horse looks at me mouth agape. She put's a thoughtful face thinking of a solution. she apparently get's an idea as she started to talk again.
" Why don't we team up?" She bats her eyes and tries to make a cute face. Kinda creepy, especially after yelling in my face. Yandere much?
" Where's the advantage in it." I question back. RPG lesson 101: When you team up with someone, it might be permanent. A good example is Drachma.
" Well Sombra is the common enemy, right?" She turns and smile at me." An you know what they say.'The enemy of my enemy is my friend'.Right~?"
"Nice, but no." She reels back as if she just got hit in the face. She turns around after gathering with five other ponies. I assume she's on some kind of mission. I turn to the pickax pony to speak with him.
" What's with them?" I ask.
" We don't know sir." I raise an eyebrow? Do I have those?" As we were trying to free you-" So they freed me, noice." - they appeared and halted our movements." He said as if he was trained to speak like this.
" Do we know what they are here for?"
" No sir. We assume that she is to help against Sombra. As she has said so herself." Makes sense.
" I see. Wanna team?" I ask Pickax. I'm naming him that.
" I would be honored to sir." Teammate get?
" Let's go somewhere else." I point a random direction opposite from the group of six. The enslaved ones moved away allowing us to leave." Hey you.." I wave a random pony over. A girl horse came over... A mare it's called? Probably.
"Y-yes sir?" She looked at me with slight fear. "D-d-do you need something?"
"Yeah...What's your name first of all." I ask quietly.
"Crystal Shard sir" Crystal's appearance right now has a light blue coat but dirtied with soot. Her mane a darker shade, it would look good if not for the dirt. A mark on her butt shows diagonal crystal shard with two smaller ones flaking off it. Her eyes a silvery color. Though she fears it now deep down she has hope. Probably.
" I have a job for you. Are you up for it?" She nods quickly. "Okay. So those six over there-" I point at the still huddled group. They like to take their time don't they." -are about to be done talking, so you need to tell them what happened. But not at the same time." Her face showed true fear at this, as she didn't know what I am talking about. "Uhhh, and by that I mean you tell them we went a different way. Got it?" Her face changes to a jovial expression as she nods. "I'll see you later. Come on Pickax." I start walking away from the group,
The group re-closes around the huddled ponies. Pickax and I walkaway.
" What's your name?" I ask Pickax. That's what I call him. But that's probably not his name.
" My name? It's Rock Pick, sir." That's kind of a weird name. But I wouldn't say that, no one would, because it's not the cool thing.
" I'm gonna still call you Pickax, okay?"
"Yes sir." He trots along with me by my side.
" Cool, so where would Sombra be? It's time to beat down a little bitch."