“INSOLENT SLIME!” yelled Sombra as he looked at the hundreds of Crystal Ponies rebelling against him. “YOU DARE BETRAY ME?! YOU DARE TO GO AGAINST ME?! I AM KING! I AM ABOVE ALL OF YOU PATHETIC FILTH!”
“Shut up moron!” replied Trixie. “Trixie doesn't give two pegasus feathers about who or what you are. All Trixie knows is that you need to be beaten and forgotten, understand?!”
“Be silent peon!” screamed Sombra. “You will pay the ultimate price for causing this disgusting mess, you shriveling wretched worm!”
Trixie ignored Sombra's last statement and turned to masses behind her. She then yelled, “Get ready everypony! There's nothing to fear! He's just a pathetic bloated lone stallion!” Trixie then tipped her hat with a small smile. “Don't worry, Trixie is here to help you beat this monster!”
Sombra's teeth gritted and grinded at Trixie's statement. His anger had hit its limit and smoke blasted out of his eyes. His horn began to shine the darkest light possible as he screamed. “YOU LITTLE NOTHING! DON'T YOU DARE IGNORE ME!”
Trixie merely turned and began to surge magic into her horn. As it began to shine, she put herself in a fighting stance. “Trixie's allowed to ignore you as much as Trixie wants. Now, will you just shut up and fight already?!”
At that moment, Sombra's horn shined and summoned giant dark crystals the size of houses from the ground. As he levitated the crystals in the air, Trixie shot a beam directly at Sombra.
BLAM!
Sombra quickly dodged and began to throw the crystals at the Crystal Ponies. The ponies quickly panicked and began jumping out of the way of the crystals.
THOOM! THOOM!
“Charge!” yelled Trixie as she pointed her hoof at Sombra. The other ponies followed suite and began to charge Sombra. Sombra stepped back a few steps and then turned into a shadow. Sombra's shadow quickly moved up the side of his castle. He then stopped for a second and thought, 'Wait...this is all a distraction, isn't it? They're trying to keep me from my Crystal Heart...' Sombra's eyes scanned over the Empire, trying to find Spike. 'Where did that drake go?'
CLANG! BANG! CLANG!
Several shovels and pickaxes flew up to Sombra, only to go through his shadow. He looked down as he saw more and more tools being thrown at him. 'This is ridiculous...' thought Sombra, 'I can't believe these pieces of garbage are actually trying to rebel against me...how truly pathetic...' Sombra looked out over the empire again, still unable to see Spike. 'He must be hiding behind a building...guess I'll just have to punish them first and then get the heart back...'
Sombra's shadow quickly shifted down the castle and turned back to an unicorn in front of the crowd of ponies. His eyes blasted more shadows and then he said, “Time for punishment.” His horn shined and huge dark crystals blasted from the ground where most of the Crystal Ponies were standing. The next few minutes were filled with screams of terror and pain as the ponies were hit and zapped by the dark crystals.
“AAAAAaaaahhhhh!” “Help!” “Augh!”
Trixie quickly charged and blasted several more beams at Sombra. He quickly summoned a dark crystal to shield himself. The crystal took most of the beams but broke to the second to last one. The last beam hit Sombra directly in face.
BLAM!
“Urgh!” he grunted. He then turned and glared at Trixie with a huge scowl. “You'll pay for that!”
“Bring it!” replied Trixie. “Just try and make Trixie pay!”
Sombra's eyes blasted smoke as her summoned a wall of dark crystals behind him, cutting off the Crystal Ponies trying to attack him. He shot several beams of magic at Trixie as she began to shift left and right, dodging the beams. Trixie then shot a blast magic that turned into fireworks. The light from it blinded Sombra. “Ugh! What is that?!”
“Fireworks!” yelled Trixie as she charged Sombra, blasting beam after beam. However, Sombra saw through Trixie's plan and summoned a dark crystal through the ground, right under Trixie. The crystal slammed Trixie into the air, causing her to go flying and then crashing into the ground.
“Augh!” yelped Trixie as she hit the ground. “Urgh...that hurt...”
As Trixie tried to get up, Sombra then stood over Trixie with a face of pure rage. “I will make you pay for making those crystal trash betray me, little peon. I will tear you limb from limb and I will torture you till you scream for mercy!” yelled Sombra as more dark magic began to flow from his horn. “By the end of this day, I will-”
BLAM!
A beam hit Sombra, knocking right through the dark crystal wall he made earlier. As he struggled to get up from the blast, he saw the attacker that interrupted him. “How...how did you...”
“Hey! Are you okay Trixie?” said the attacker.
“Shut up criminal...” squeaked Trixie in pain. “Trixie doesn't need a thief's help...”
“You have some serious pride issues Trixie.” said Twilight with a slight sigh. She then turned to Sombra, who just stood there with a face of shock. He then yelled, “How did you escape my illusion?! I know you fell down there! Why are you here now?!”
Twilight just showed a small sly smile. “I had some help.”
Indeed.
'Be quiet Nightmare, I need to deal with Sombra right now. We'll talk later.' thought Twilight, talking back to Nightmare Moon.
I know. Just tell me if you need some dark magic...
'I have a feeling I won't need that...at all.'
Whatever.
Twilight cricked her neck as she saw Sombra getting ready to attack again. Twilight then put herself in a battle stance and began to charge magic into her horn. “Let's go Sombra! Your reign ends here!”
“SILENCE PEON! I WILL KILL YOU ALL!” he screamed as he began to shoot off several dark crystals at Twilight. “DIE! DIE! DIE!”
Twilight quickly made a magic shield, blocking most of the crystals. Soon, the shield broke and Twilight dodged the final crystals. “Looks like someone is a little too angry for his own good.” she said as she began to blast a few beams at Sombra. Sombra summoned another dark crystal to block the beams. As the beams withstood the attack, Twilight quickly darted around the crystal, shooting more beams at Sombra. He then saw the attack coming and turned into a shadow again. He shifted through the ground, quickly shuffling his way through the empire. 'I'm so sick of this...' he thought as he zoomed through the empire. 'Where is that blasted drake?! Where is my Crystal Heart?!'
He then moved his shadow to the top of a building and began to overlook the empire again. 'Curses! Is my empire so big that I can't find a single stinking worm?!'
BLAM!
A magic beam hit him in the back and he quickly fell off the roof. He scrambled to get up, only to see Twilight and Trixie standing in front of him, ready to fight him again. “You two don't give up, do you?!”
“Yeah, we don't give up.” Twilight said in a deadpan tone.
“That's one thing Trixie will agree with you criminal.” Trixie said in a bitter tone. “Trixie is tired of this, give up already stupid king!”
“You...” Sombra's face began to go through several motions at that moment, anger to fury to pure rage. “YOU DARE CALL ME STUPID?!” he screamed.
“Yeah...Trixie dares to call you stupid, stupid.”
“YOU DARE COME HERE AND INSULT ME?! IN MY DOMAIN?! I WILL END YOU PEON!”
Twilight and Trixie ignored his statement and just looked at each other. They didn't need to say anything, just nod to each other. “Yeah...I'm tired of this too Trixie, let's beat this moron and go home.”
“Agreed.”
“RRRRAAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!!!” yelled Sombra as magic began to blast out of his horn. “DIE!”
Several dark crystals began to fly at the duo while more crystal came out of the ground. The two quickly began to dodge each one as fast as they could. As the two dodged more and more, Sombra continued to scream profanities at them. Then, he charged Trixie, knocking her down and began to punch her with his hooves. “YOU! LITTLE! NOTHING! I WILL DESTROY YOU!” he screamed as he hit her more and more.
“Trixie!” yelled Twilight as she dodged the last of the dark crystals and began to charge her horn. “Hang on!”
Then, as Twilight began to blast magic at Sombra, suddenly a huge light came from the sky. Sombra tried to shield his eyes from the light, only to see the figure causing the light to shine over the empire. “No...not here! Not now!” he said as he saw the pony fly down with the Crystal Heart. “No! Why is the Princess of Love here?!” he screamed as he turned himself back into a shadow.
Cadance just stood there, the Crystal Heart floating above her. Other crystal ponies began to cheer as they saw her stand there, ready to fight Sombra. “This ends here Sombra! You will no longer reign over the Crystal Empire!”
“BE SILENT YOU DESPICABLE LITTLE TRAMP! I AM KING! I AM SOMBRA, RULER OF THIS EMPIRE!” he yelled as he moved his body into a fighting position, turning himself back into his unicorn form. “LEAVE THIS PLACE AT ONCE, YOU INSIGNIFICANT COW OF AN ALICORN!”
“What did you just call me?!” yelled Cadance with anger beaming out of her eyes. Sombra then let out a yell and darkness began to swirl around his entire body. “I'll kill you...” he said in a malice filled tone. “This is my empire...everything here belongs to me...everything...everything is mine!”
He's overusing the darkness.
'What do you mean Nightmare Moon?' thought Twilight in response as she watched the scene unfold, unsure if Cadance needed help.
I mean he's gonna burn out. He's used the darkness too much. He probably only has about one to two attacks left in him.
'Oh...' Twilight then looked at Cadance as she closed her eyes and began to pour her magic into the Crystal Heart. Sombra then yelled a war cry and shot a huge beam of dark magic at Cadance. But the light from the Crystal Heart devoured the darkness. Sombra then took a few steps back and said, “Impossible...this can't be...”
He quickly shifted back into a shadow and sped his way through the empire, back into his castle. There, he shifted back to normal as he entered his throne room. 'Okay...' he thought, 'I'm not done...there has to be something I can still do to win...my dark magic...why is it all gone?! Did I use up that much magic up that quickly in that last attack?!'
He then felt a small tap on his shoulder. As he turned his head around, he saw an angry Sunset Shimmer with her hoof extended back as far as she could pull it. “Consider yourself dethroned.”
POW!
A hoof then slammed into Sombra's face, causing a tooth to fly out of his mouth as he fell to the floor. Sombra was completely unconscious. Sunset then dusted off her hoof as she saw Sombra just lay there, his eyes twitching in pain. “Glad that's finally over...”
A few minutes later, several ponies ran into the throne room. Sunset turned and faced them with a big smile. “Hey guys! Look who I knocked out...” Sunset then grabbed and dragged Sombra's unconscious body.
“Wow...how did you knock him out with your horn sealed?” asked Cadance.
“A right hoof to the face, never saw it coming.” Sunset said with a grin. Trixie then gave out a large laugh and said, “HA! Well done Sunset!”
“I agree.” Twilight said with a small smile. She then turned to Cadance as she pointed to Sombra and asked. “So...what do we do with him?”
“Um...I'll have the train outside of the empire arrange a trip to Canterlot. I bet Celestia can put him in a nice dungeon cell. You three don't mind escorting this monster, do you?”
Twilight, Trixie and Sunset looked at each other and nodded to each other. “Yeah...I don't think any of us mind.”
Sunset rubbed her sealed horn and asked, “Uh...what do I do about this?”
Cadance then put her hoof on Sunset and replied. “Let's take you down to the Crystal Heart. I'm about to use it and have it get rid of the dark crystals infesting this empire. It'll get rid of the seal on your horn.”
Shining Armor walked into the room and added on, “Don't worry Sunset, Cadance already used it on me and my horn is working again.”
“Okay.” Sunset nodded. Twilight then walked up to Cadance and asked, “Say...why are you here Cadance?”
“Oh? You didn't know? I'm destined to rule over the Crystal Empire.”
“Destined?!” yelped Twilight.
“Yes.” Cadance nodded. “I have been training to become the Crystal Princess for a very long time now Twilight. Now, my time has come to be the ruler of the Crystal Empire.”
“Celestia did this...didn't she?” Twilight said in a grim tone.
“Yes.” Cadance then saw the face Twilight was giving and then let out a small sigh. “Twilight...I know you hate things like fate and destiny...but I was born and trained to become this. Please accept that...”
“But...” Twilight wanted to retort but couldn't. She could see that Cadance was happy to accept this role.
What's the matter? Cat got your tongue?
'Be quiet Nightmare...' thought Twilight with a sigh.
Aw, don't be like that...I mean, look at this situation. Isn't it everything you hate?
'No...I've accepted my destiny with Harmony. I understand why Cadance is doing this.'
True...too bad we have to return to Canterlot and meet your favorite pony Celestia...
'Keep this up and I will go to the Tree of Harmony and get you out of me...'
Fine...
Nightmare Moon shut up for a while as Twilight gave Cadance and Shining Armor a hug. Sunset and Trixie then talked to Rumble and Spike, wondering why they were here. After being told it was Celestia's plan, the two agreed to talk to the princess later. Twilight just laughed at the situation. Before they knew it, the five were on a train to Canterlot with a chained up Sombra in tow. Twilight sat in the cabin car with the duo and showed a small smile. There, she began to think, 'So Sombra was what Harmony was warning me about...I lost the Element of Darkness in this as well...Oh well, that doesn't matter anyways. As long as I can keep my friends safe, I'll take on any monster Harmony has in store for me...Now, I need to go to Celestia and begin the Harmony training! After that...I'll find someway to get back to my friends, I just know it!' Twilight's smile grew a little bigger as the train continued on, back to Canterlot.