Life of a Wanted Changeling Season 3: Tyrants, Terrorists, and Tiaras, Oh My!

by Down with Chrysalis


Episode 6: Sombra Stole My Heart...Not In That Way! (Crystal Empire Arc Part 5)

The now physically formed evil king stands before you laughing his head off, as he places the Crystal Heart over his breastplate where it becomes a dark shade of green.
“Thought you could hurt me again Amore? Think again you…” he says while looking at the heart, before laughing once more in triumph.

So now the one tool that could’ve been used to hurt the guy is corrupted, and it’s all your fault…

Kersey’s Comment

"AAAAAAHHHH!!!!! WHY AM I SO BAD AT BEING GOOD?!" you yell to the heavens.
“Seriously, I’ve bucked up big time, someling hit me for…” and your yell is answered, as Rainbow Dash tackles you to the ground and starts throttling you.

“You Bucking Idiot! You Stupid Bucking Idiot! YOU’VE KILLED US ALL!” she yells in panic as she slams your head against the ground. She slams you so hard, your chest starts bleeding again.

“Open wound!...Open Wound!” you gasp out, causing Rainbow to look down at you and back off.

“Sorry, sorry,” she says as she backs up into a group of the rest of the Deadly 6 (except Twilight) Cadance, Spike, and Flash Sentry who flies in with a glaring Shining Armor. “But still, look what you’ve done!” she continues
You look back over at the still laughing Sombra as Crystal Ponies begin shake in fear.

Wow, he sure likes laughing huh? You think to yourself before looking back to the group.

TheRutherford’s Comment

“OK, I know I’ve bucked up big time…”

“YOU THINK?!” they all reply back to you.

“Hey, I was just trying to save Spike and Cadance,” you respond before looking at Shining with a Stink Eye, “and in my defense, who in their right mind would throw their wife off of a balcony? That could have killed her!”

Cadence responds, “I have wings. I can fly. I was going to save Spike and the heart, Shining was just giving me a speed boost.”

“By throwing you like a javelin from the Equestria Games?”

“Yes. Exactly like that” she says non-chalantly.”
You can’t believe how she’s still defending being thrown off a building when she is still barely just standing up in her condition, and how noling else seems to have a problem with it.

“Was everyling else in on this? If so I would have liked to have been included. You have no idea how many times actually being let in on a plan would have prevented me from doing something overly stupid!” you yell back at them.

“Ahem,” you hear from the dark king behind you, so you and everyone turns to look at him giving you a quizzical look.

“What?” you ask back.

“I’ve just stolen and corrupted your only hope of salvation, why aren’t you quaking in fear?”

“Hold your horses, we’re in the middle of berating me for my stupidity!” you tell him which makes him raise an eyebrow.

“B-but I’ve won! You lost. I said Long Live the King all dramatically and everything,” he says sounding offput.

“But the King is dead,” you tell him.

“What are you talking about? I'm standing right here,”

You shake your head at this, “You said "Long live the king." The King died about six years ago if my memory is correct.”

Sombra raises an eyebrow at that “What king would that be?”

“The King of Pop.”

“The King of Pop? He ruled over Soda?”

“No, as in Pop music,” you correct.

“Oh you mean that horrid sounding trash those three Sea Horses popularized 1,000 years ago and got banished by that bearded idiot because of it?”

“Umm…sure?” you reply unsurely.

“They made somepony king of that?” he asks flabbergasted.

“Yep. His name was Michael Moonwalker. A truly talented singer, dancer, songwriter, and he even had a stint as an actor for a time. Sure he turned weird towards the end of his career, and all those disturbing claims made by parents…but you cannot deny he was loved by millions the world over. Of course in my opinion, he pales in comparison to the late King of Rock and Roll.”

“What?”

“The King of Rock and Roll. I can't say his name since his record label magically copyrighted his name, but he paved the way for most of the music you can hear today. He took Rhythm and Blues and put a twist on it and made Rock and Roll. Since then countless musicians have tweaked his style and allowed the music to involve to today's classic rock, heavy metal, etc.”

“I’m only half understanding what you’re saying,” says the confused Dictator, “they made ponies rulers of noise and elements and metal? Does the title King not mean anything anymore?”

“Of course it does, now let me tell you about the Kings of metal…”

“Is he seriously giving a lecture to that monster?” asks Rarity.

“How stupid is this guy?” says Applejack.

“Well to be fair, he does know a lot about music,” says Pinkie.

“No this is good,” says Shining causing everyone to look at him. “He’s distracting Sombra, now’s our chance to strike.”

Fireheart’s comment

“…and then he bit the head off a bat on stage. Now moving onto DIO, he was left on his own…”

“LIKE A RAINBOW IN THE DARK!” shouts Dash as she speeds past your ear and socks Sombra right in the nose followed shortly by Flash who gets him in the gut.

“Hey, I wasn’t done telling him about…”

“CHARGE!” you hear Shining yell behind you as the rest of the group, except for Cadance and Spike then run up and start raining blows onto the king and trying to take the Crystal Heart off of him..
“Oh…right, evil dictator, AAAAHHHH!!!” you yell as you jump into the beatdown.
You all beat and pummel the King as he keeps yelping in pain.


“AH! Pain! I forgot how much you hurt!”

“Die MotherBucker! Die MotherBucker!” you sing out as you prepare to give him a curb stomp, before you are all blasted away by a wave of dark magic.

“ENOUGH!” he yells. “Very clever of you, distracting me so your friends could attack. But it’s USELESS! USELESS! USELESS! USELESS!

Kichi’s Comment

"The King is back! And without the Crystal Heart no one is going to defeat me" he says with a sinister smile as you all see the Crystal Heart begin to emit a dark glow.
"Now! Kneel to me! Kneel to your King!" he shouts causing the crystal ponies to kneel in fear, but You, the Elements, Cadence, Shining and Spike still stand.

“Never Zod!-I mean Samba-I mean…whatever the buck your name is!” you shout back.

"We are never going to kneel to you! You are a false King! Leave the Crystal Empire now!" shouts Cadance.

"Dude, we have you outnumbered! Between us, Cadance Shining and El Hunko it’s going to be easy to defeat you!" Rainbow Dash boasts.

"If you are not going to kneel, you will have to be punished!" Sombra chuckles as his horn glows and a beam of dark magic flows out of the heart and awashes you and the group.
You look around after the beam and feel fine.

“Well that was pretty weak, what was that supposed to have…” you say before you look back at your group and that they all have a horrified/sad expression as their eyes glow green.
“Oh…”

"No! I'm not a turtle! Please Spitfire give me another chance! I'm not the slowest pony in Equestria!" screams Rainbow.

“You can’t take Applebloom away! We’re her family! I didn’t let the farm die! I didn’t let the farm die!” cries Applejack.

“Please no, come back little critters. Please don’t be afraid of me…” cries Fluttershy.

“I just wanted everypony to be happy…somepony, anypony, please just smile…” cries Pinkie.

“I worked so hard on these outfits for you all. Why do you hate me? Please don’t cast me aside,” blubbers Rarity.

“I don’t want to go…” says Spike sadly.

“No! Shining! She’s a Changeling! Let me out of here! LET ME OUT!” screams Cadance.

“Cadance, please don’t leave me. I didn’t know it wasn’t you! She tricked me! I love you…” whimpers Shining.

“Oh Sweet Celestia! Make the voices stop, MAKE THEM STOP!” screams Flash as he holds his head. “I didn’t steal anything I swear! Please stop screaming for my blood!”


“Wow…that’s depressing,” you mutter before looking back at the smirking King.
"Uhhh... Why is that I'm not in a nightmare?" you ask.

"You? Why must I put you in a nightmare? No...El Hunko, was it? Strange name, but still it's thanks to you that the Crystal Empire is again under my hoof.”

“Well don’t say it like that…” you whimper.

“Even after the melee we’ve just been through, I'm going to give a position working with me, you can be one of my generals,” he says making you choke.

“Wait, seriously?”

“Of course. Work with me, El Hunko, you are powerful and crafty. Together we can defeat those stupid princesses and expand the Empire all over the world!" he says like a businessman.

I can’t believe, I really can’t believe it. He actually tried to get me to join the dark side. You think.
OK sure, I hate the Princesses just as much as the next guy but still.


You look back at the crying whimpering group and remember the horrible images you were shown. And it was all thanks to him. You look back at him and sneer.
“No,” you mutter

"What was that?" he asks.

"I said...NO!" in the RCV making the King stumble back from the wind before correcting himself.

"A pity. I guess you are as stupid as you dress" he laughs before addressing the Crystal Ponies around him.
"Slaves! Take him!" he orders and the crystal ponies look between you and the tyrant, too scared to do anything.
"Grrr... If you want something done, you have to do it yourself,” he mutters darkly as he starts charging up his horn.

“HOLD IT!” you cry out.

“What? Why?” he asks.

“I’m kind of wounded at the moment, let me put some salve on,” you tell him pointing at your wound.

“Hmm, nasty wound. Orichalcum?” he asks.

“Eyup,” you respond as you put the salve on and then put the jar back into your bag.

“Alright, now, as I was saying, It’s time for you to,” he begins before you interrupt him by…

Kersey’s Comment

Grabbing random things in your inventory and chucking them at him.
“Eat Multimedia Madness!” you yell.

You chuck 2 of the Sherclop Holmes novels at his face, (you still haven’t read the other two yet) a bunch of Movie Reels at him, some of which wrap around his horn, and Checkov’s Pen which stabs him directly between the eyes.

“Gyagh!” he roars.

“Ooo, that’s gotta hurt,” you say.

-2 Sherclop Holmes Novels
-Checkov’s Pen
-Movie reels
Lost from Inventory


You then reach in and grab another item and are about to throw it when you realize what it is.
“Oh yeah, My Future Telling Comic…kind of forgot about you,” you say as you mentally facehoof. You look back to the cursing dictator as he tries pulling the pen out of his head.
“OK, just a peak,” you say as you open the comic book.
Unfortunately, most of the pages are blank, save for the words, “Future Changed,” upon them.
The only page that has anything is one that shows an Image of Spike standing heroically while the Crystal Ponies bow to him.

“The Buck? How do we get from this to that?” you wonder before being interrupted by a growl.
You look back and see Sombra has taken the pen out of his forehead.

“For that, your friends shall be crushed under my boots.”


OK, I gotta get this guy away from them until they snap out of it. Gonna have to hit him hard. I need a sec to charge up a mega hit from the glove, gotta keep him talking.
You know that this guy is hitting every major evil villain cliché, so no doubt he’d like to do a little more Evil Gloating.


"So... Now that you have the Macguffin of Ultimate Power or whatever, what's next on your evil agenda?" you ask.

"Simple, after I crush these interlopers and destroy the last of Amore's royal lineage, I will free my family!"

"You dastardl- Wait, free your family?!" you (and several other ponies) exclaim in shock.

"Yesssss. For too long the Crystal Ponies have kept my fellow Umbrum trapped under their Empire, but no more!"

"Well... At least your goal is sorta-kinda benevolent like in Star Trot into Darkn-" you start to say.


"Once my army of fellow shadow ponies are free, we will take our place as the masters of this world!"

"And there it is" you deadpan. “Would you kindly buzz off!” you yell as you send a massive swarm of bees at Sombra.

Before any of the bees reach him however, he sends out a wave of darkness using the heart and each one is encased in crystal.


“Mediocre…” Sombra taunts.

“Oh come the buck o-argh!” you start before being lifted by your neck by a shadowy tendril coming from his arm.

“Oh-*cough* I find your lack of faith disturbing right?” you gasp out.

“What are you talking about?” Sombra asks.

“What?! You haven’t seen Star Wars? Oh right, 1,000 years sleeping and all that,”

“Just die already you little…” he curses as the pressure increases on your windpipe.
You start seeing little black dots in your vision but then…

BrownDog’s Comment

From out of the Inventory, Nightshade pops out.
"Hey Buckface!" she yells, causing him to look to her.

“Why is there a child in your saddle bags?” he asks before forgetting all about that when Nightshade holds up the scurrying Wombat.
"*Gasp* Oh my goodness! He's so cute and cuddley with his little paws and nose," says Sombra in a Fluttershyesque manner with stars in his eyes, causing his force choke on you to stop.

"Catch this!" she then throws the wombat into Sombra's face.

"Oh he's coming right at my...Gyagh!" he cries as the Wombat starts clawing and scratching his face up harshly, allowing you to back up.
"Why fuzzy wuzzy?! Why?!" he cries.

“*Cough* thanks Nightshade, now get back in the…”

“Quick daddy, use this!” she interrupts you handing you the slinky.

“What am I supposed to do with…” you begin before a light bulb chimes in your brain.
You look back to Sombra who grabs the Wombat and throws him away, with tears in his eyes.


“I just wanted to love you you ungrateful marsupial.”

"Hey, don't be sad, take this," you say as you give Sombra one end of the slinky.

"My Slinky!" he cries out in happiness, "I would watch this thing go down my stairs for hours and hours and..." he rambles while you stretch the slinky to it's limit.

"Hey Moron!" you yell, causing him to look up. "Everyone loves a Slinky!" you say, letting go of the taught spring, launching your end straight back towards Sombra and gouging his eye out.

"GGGGYYYYAAAAGGGHHHH!!!! Why do the things I love hurt so much?!" he yells holding his bleeding eye.

“Nice one Daddy,” Nightshade says to you.

“I know right?” you respond.

“Now you hold him off, and I’ll go wake everyling from their Nightmares,” she says before bounding out of the Inventory and towards the group.

“Wait, NO! Get back in the…” you cry before get suspended in dark magic.

“Enough of this!” cries Sombra with one squinting eye, before he blasts you into a nearby building.

Kersey's Comment

RainbowPootis' Comment

As you crash through the building, the wind is knocked out of you and a cloud of dust rises all around you.

“Dang it Nightshade!” you groan as you get back up. You're about to go back into the fray when you notice that your purple top hat is now split open at the top like a soup can and your El Hunko suit is starting to tear.

“No! My Duds! I won’t lose you, you’re too awesome to tear further!” you declare before taking them all off. You then grab out the Nobody Cloak and sigh.

“Well the situation is bucked either way. At least they won’t know I’m also El Hunko…except for Pinkie,” you say before donning your Vigilante Cloak once more.
You look at your reflection on a wall mirror.

“Huh, still looks awesome. Now all I have to do is…”but before you can do anything else, a large chunk of black crystal comes crashing down on you.
"...Buck," you moan from under the rock before even more pressure comes down on you as Sombra lands on the rock.

*CRUNCH!*
You feel your chitin crack beneath your disguise, causing your wound to bleed again.

“Ugh…” you groan in pain.

"HAHAHA! you even make that same crunching noise as I crush you beneath my hoof like a bug!" you hear him gloat.
Like a bug...
Like a bug...
like a bug.

You feel despair, just wishing for it to be over, before you remember, without you, who’s going to look after Nightshade?
A faint buzzing starts in the back of your head.
She’s all you have as family left.
The buzzing grows louder in your mind.
You remember a motto from you early days: The hive is your family, and the family, your hive.
The buzzing consumes your entire mind, as you become filled with the single minded thought to protect Nightshade.

"Any last words?" you hear him, as he presses the Crystal chunk further onto you.

"Did you know insects can lift over 20 time their own weight?"

“Huh?” he asks.

“And in dire circumstances, a parent can lift an entire carriage up to save their baby?”

“What are you babbling about?”

“Well guess what. I’m Both!”
Your body protests, but you push the Crystal up hard enough that it punches the surprised stallion in the face hard enough to launch him through a wall. The whole time, consumed by the urge to protect nightshade.
You get up panting and hold your wound again.

“Ugh, I ain’t got time to bleed!” you cry as you decide to do something incredibly stupid.
You hold your power glove to your wound and breathe out.

“Would you kindly cauterize?” and an intense pain wracks your chest as you burn your own flesh.
You double over in pain and cry. You look back down at your wound and see that it still remains, but the bleeding has stopped for now.
You pop some pain pills, still hopped up on adrenaline and look to the hole you just made.


Sombra appears in it angry, but then a look of confusion comes over his face.
“Wait a minute, who are you? Where’s El Hunko?”

“Oh he’s safe for now, which is more than I can say for you,” you mutter.

You then whisper "Would you kindly Mix it up" which activates the "Mix-Up Smash" mode on your Power Glove. You adjust the dials to "Insect Swarm" and "Electro Bolt"

He growls, “And who are you then?”

“I’m the Hooded Offender you stupid B@$%@#&, and according to the world at large, I’m worse than you,” you declare, causing him to look confused.
You then point your Power Glove hoof forward and declare.

"Yo Smokey, Don't you know that smoking KILLS?!"
This causes a swarm of Twittermites to come at the tyrant, scathing him off-guard. He attempts to just imprison them in crystals again, but the Twittermites violently electrocute him allowing you to rush in, adjust one of the dials from "Electro Bolt!" to "Incinerate!", point the Power Glove point-blank at his face, and yell,

"Hasta la BYE BYE!"
This fires an electrified ball of fire that explodes in Sombra's face sending him flying through the building and into another one. It also sends you smashing back through a building and you mutter,

"Not to self: Explosives are NOT a close-quarters weapon..."


You then hear gasps behind you and you turn around and see your group out of their Nightmare Funk, standing with Nightshade, who has disguised her horn, making her look like a pegasus.
The ponies look at you in shock.

“H-Hoody?” squeaks out Fluttershy.

“Bugze?” Cadance whispers.

“Oh hey, you’re all out of your funk,” you say.

“Yes, this filly came and rescued us,” she says pointing at Nightshade.

“What was your name again?” asks Spike, “You seem really familiar.”

“Oh, I’m…Dark Shadow,” she says after some hesitation.

I knew that Thesaurus would come in handy, you mentally cheer, before being brought out of it by an angry Stallion.

"What are YOU doing here?" demands Shining.

"Just clearing the air" you reply.

“I knew it! I knew it was you that left all that money!” he yells.

“You’re welcome by the way, now you can stop hounding me right?”

“Like Tartarus I will, you can’t just buy your way out of this!”

“Oh come on, can we worry about this later? Thought we were in crisis mode at the moment?”

“Grr…fine, but we are not done talking,” he relents.

“Hey, what happened to El Hunko?” asks Fluttershy.

“He’s fine, I rescued him and sent him away for his own safety.”

“How do we know you’re telling the truth?!” demands Rainbow.

“Oh I’m sure El Hunko is just fine you guys,” says Pinkie with a wink to you.

“OK, enough of the small talk, I’m here to help, and we have to stop Sombra!”

“Good luck with that!” declares the Tyrant from behind you.

You turn around and see the heart glowing bright.

“Oh son of a…” you say before Sombra hits you with a powerful blast of dark magic that sends you soaring towards the top of the Crystal Palace.

“I’m blasting off again!” you yell as you crash through the roof of the palace and smash into a cluster of crystals.

“AAAAHHH!!!” you hear a feminine voice scream as you land on something soft.


As you open your eyes, you see that you are lying on top of Twilight.
“Oh, hey Twilight, are you alright?”

“Yeah, sure I’m…” she starts before opening her own eyes and seeing you.
Her eyes widen momentarily before they take on a look of annoyance.

“Oh it’s you. Of course you’d be here, what a surprise,” she deadpans.

“Well hello to you too,” you reply indignantly.

“Please get off of me,” she snarls.

“Oh, right,” you say as you do so.

After she gets up, she asks, “What’s going on out there? I heard explosions and yelling, IS SPIKE ALRIGHT?!”

“Calm down, yeah Spike is alright, I saved the little guy,” she looks relieved to hear that, “Unfortunately Sombra got the Crystal Heart and is kicking our butts.”

“Oh No! Wait…did you have anything to do with this?” she accuses.

“No…Ok yes, but I had a good reason,” you reply.

She facehoofs at this. “I don’t want to hear it, we have to get down there and stop that evil pony before it’s too late.”

“Alright, good plan.”

“But you and I are definitely going to talk after this. You’ve shown up yet again to a random crisis nopony else knew about.”

“Hey, I saved your life the last time,”

“True…” she begrudgingly says, “But on the other hoof, your weird dragon friend can’t take a hint and won’t leave my house.”

“Crackle?” you say surprised.

“Yes, she got it in her head that you would pick her up, and she refuses to go away.”

“OK, you can’t blame me for that one, she’s her own dragon.”

Twilight just sighs, “Alright, we’ll argue later, now hold on,” she says as she grabs your arm.

“N-no wait, I’ll just jump out the…” you start before she teleports in front of a battle between Sombra, the other Elements, Flash and Shining, while Spike, Cadance and Night Shade stay back.

“Well don’t just stand there, come on!” Twilight demands, while you try to undizzy yourself.

“I’m coming, I’m coming,” you tell her as she joins the battle.


You take note of the battle and see that it is a mostly physical one, since only Rarity and Twilight are able to use their magic against the Dark King. And still, he is not going down.

Cadance walks up to you with Nightshade and Spike.
“Bugze, I’m glad you’re here,” she says weakly, “but shouldn’t you help them?”

“I will, I’m just planning out my attack.”
You need to help punch him, but you need an extra oomph to put him down. You need a more powerful punch.

TheRutherford’s Comment

“Without Selena I can't use my Nightmare Cloak so there is no real way to give myself any more power. Too bad I don't have anything that can help with that like from those old timey cartoons… Hold on a tic!” you yell out before rummaging through the Inventory. Eventually you find it.
“Canned Crystal Spinach! I can eat this and become even stronger!”

“I don't think that will work,” Cadance says doubtfully.

“Of course it will. It always worked for the Sailor Pony.”
You quickly realize that you need a can opener, which you don't have.
“Nooooo! Defeated by a lack of can openers! Why?”
Suddenly a Pink Hoof appears in front of your face with a can opener.

“Just use this one!” chirps Pinkie.

“Thanks Pinkie!” you cheer and begin opening the key to your salvation.

“Pinkie, where did you get that from?” asks Cadance.

“Oh I always have can openers stashed away. In case of can related emergencies.”

“O...K....?” says Cadance, not as used to Pinkie’s antics as the rest.

While they talk, you open the can and lift it to your mouth, under your hood.

“Well here is to Spinach and all the good it can do. Maybe this will help convince Nightshade to eat her veggies,” you say as if toasting someling.


“No it won't Daddy,” says Nightshade pointedly.

You give her an incredulous look, before turning back to the can, “Anyway...”
You chug down the canned vegetable which taste better than you thought it would considering that it came from a thousand plus old can.

“Now for it to kick in.”
You wait for about five seconds for it to kick in to no avail.
“What's going on this always works in the cartoo-
You suddenly feel invigorated and extra strong as you hear music playing in your head.

You have unlocked Spinach Power-You gain a temporary increase in Strength, Coordination, Mental Fortitude, and even Luck when you consume Canned Spinach.

“Well Blow Me Down,” you say with an accent, before you rush forth into the middle of the battle.


Sombra, being busy fending off the others, doesn’t notice as you charge forth like a train until he feels your green fire encased falcon punch hit him right in the stomach, sending him flying back into the side of the palace.

“gggggooooohhhhh” he wheezes out since the wind was knocked out of him.

“What in tarnation?” cries out Applejack.

“Easy there HickiBilly, I got dis!” you say before you rush forth towards your downed foe.

“Why are you talking like a pirate?” asks Twilight.

“Sailor, not a pirate!” you yell back, closing the distance to Sombra.

“Oh, what hit m…” is all he gets out before you begin an ULTRA COMBO upon him.
All your moves now come equipped with a green flame encasing them, you chain the attacks, not letting up as you mercilessly pummel the King. Rapid Falcon punches, chained No Shadow Kicks, and Multiple Shorykens, and Stalliongrad Blizzards later and you have beaten him dizzy and confused.

He lashes out blindly with his magic and strikes you in the nose, causing you to punch him away and hold it.

“I-whaza-hail to the…” Sombra drunkenly says as he sways around.

Amazingly, during all that, the Crystal Heart stayed on his breastplate. You realize you need to loosen it up, maybe with something sharp.

You turn around and see all the others looking at you in awe. You don’t see anything sharp in sight…except…

BrownDog’s Comment

"H-hey, what the buck are you..." cries out Shining Armor as you pick him up.

"Returning the favor!" you say as you launch him like a torpedo at Sombra.

The former Dictator comes out of his beatdown funk, but is so stunned and confused by Shining Torpedo coming his way, he lets his guard down, and Shining's horn is able to stab Sombra in the chest right in the Crystal Heart, loosening it from his control. Sombra screams in pain, and Shining wobbles back towards the group holding his head.

“Bull’s-eye!” you roar out, before holding your own head as someling slaps it. You look back and see it is Cadance.

“Why did you do that?” she chides.

“What?! His horn was useless for magic, so I put it to good use,” you tell her, before looking back at the king.
“Now if you’ll excuse me…”
You then rush forth and begin to pound on him once more.

TheRutherford’s Comment

During your beatdown you manage to knock the Crystal Heart out of his magic grasp and it falls to the ground as you launch him through a house and down the street. As you come up to attack again, he lunges out at you with a hoof drawn back. You catch it and hold it back before you start to come off your Spinach trip.

“Oh no no no! Not now!”


Spinach Power has ended.


“Buck you lady luck,” you mutter before chuckling at the angry face of Sombra.
As the power and energy you used has gone out you start feeling the strain and soreness take their place. Sombra sneers at you as he jerks his hoof out of your grip and punches your face with the other.


“My turn,” he sneers as a layer of crystal covers his hoof like a gauntlet before he sends it smashing into your face with enough force to shatter the crystal and send you smashing into the Mane 6 like a bowling ball before charging after you.
Cadence is about to jump in when she spots the Crystal Heart. Seeing her chance to save everypony, Cadence grabs the Crystal Heart and runs to the palace with it.

“She got the Crystal Heart from Sombra! Look everypony! The Crystal Princess!” the Cyrstal Ponies all cheer out.
Sombra looks up from thrashing Applejack with your body with a look of panic on his face.

“NO!!!” he screams out as he tosses you away, dissipates into a shadow, and zips in front of Cadence, causing the alicorn to shriek in surprise, but Sombra uses this opportunity to grab the Crystal Heart from her before blasting her point-blank with a dark magic blast.

“Cadance!” you and the rest call out as she skids and smashes into a corner. Sombra presses the Crystal Heart into his chest and starts to merge with it once more, the Crystal Heart turning a dark shade of purple as his dark magic corrupts it, increasing his own power as his eyes glow solid green with power.

“Never Again AMORE!” he roars out as he conjurers a Crystal Spear, “NEVER AGAIN!” he roars as he throws the spear at her.

NNNNNOOOOOO!!!!” you and countless others yell.
You all hear the sound of someling getting stabbed, but as you run forth, you see.

“SHINING!!!” Cadance cries out as she holds her husband who dove in front of her, the spear in his gut.

“Big Brother!” Twilight screeches.
You watch as they all gather around Shining, and you can’t tell if he’s alive or dead, as the one who did this to him chuckles darkly,

"Heheheh, so the foolish stallion threw away his life to protect a weakling like you? Pathetic, he would have made a good slave. Oh well, I'll just have to kill you all the-"

“No… NO!!!” you yell out as you make a beeline for the monster, but he just nonchalantly backhooves you away.

"Oh what's this? The 'Hooded Offender' was it? Ohh, you must be thrilled to see one of your enemies dead at your hooves. Don't you feel great to see his blood all over the groun-"

"YOU MOTHERBUCKER!" you cry out in you hate as you get back up and your hooves begin to have a dark mist swirl around it. "How could you? How could you kill him? He was Cadance's husband, the love of her life. And you killed him!"

"So? He was an obstacle to my plans so I got rid of h-"

"So....I'M GONNA KILL YOUR MOTHERBUCKING FLANK TO MAKE IT UP TO-Grah!" you yell in indignation before being stopped by a rising fire in your heart.

"Oh, is that so?" Sombra replies with smug disinterest "How will a weakling like you kill an all-powerful shadow god like-?"
His monologue is interrupted when a massive waves of Killer Intent start to radiate from you. Your hatred flows through and out of you as you feel the Nightmare Cloak forming… but something is different. The Power. The Rage. It’s gushing out of you too quickly!

“AAAHHH!!!” you cry out as the power floods you painfully, you can feel it trying to burst free. Suddenly a large demonic bat wing painfully bursts through your chitin shell and back of your cloak.

“Hoody!” Flutteshy cries out as she notices your transformation first.
Another wing bursts through your back causing you to let out another roar of enraged pain with enough force to shake everything nearby.

"WHAT IN TARNATION?!" Applejack yells as the rest of the Mane 6 look at you in terror as your mutation continues.
You look at your trembling hooves and see claws sprout from them and tusks start to jut out of your jaw. As you feel the Nightmare painfully transforming your body, one clear thought comes through to you as you feel your mind slipping into dark rage,

“NO! Selena! I have to stop! If I don't I-AAAAAHHHHHH!!!” before the pain, anger and power flood through you.
Recognizing this potential threat Sombra firmly throws a hoof forward into the ground, crystal-bending a massive crystal that levitates in front of him. He then uses his power to hurl the massive boulder at you and you're about to dodge out of the way when you see a dark filly running towards you. With the power surging through you, you can't hear what she's yelling, but you can see that the boulder would surely crush her too-

"Nightshade!" you yell as you use the last of your sanity to push her out of the way before the boulder crushes you.

"DADDY!" Nightshade cries out.

"Hmph, That takes care of one potnetial threat." Sombra smirks, "Now where was I-"

“GGGRRRROOOOAAAAHHHHHH!!!!”



POV Change: Nightshade

As Ms. Twilight and Auntie Cadance try to fix Mr. Armor, you notice the others looking to where your daddy started fighting the Evil Pony. You notice a look of horror on their faces, and even on the Evil King’s as well.
Your daddy is writhing in pain as shadows begin coalescing around him and he cries out, and saying your Mommy’s name.

“Oh no, no no!” you cry out in realization as you rush towards him. Daddy had told you that he couldn’t use his Cloak powers while Mommy was sick because he could hurt her.
“DADDY! STOP! YOU’LL HURT MO-” you yell before he suddenly dashes forward and pushes you out of the way before being smashed by a giant crystal boulder.

"DADDY!!!" you scream as Sombra says something, but it's cut short as you all hear a monstrous roar and the crystal boulder explodes into millions of tiny pieces as you throw up a hoof to protect your face.

When you all look, you see a terrifying figure in your father's place. Six Nightmare Tails flail wildly around him, medium-sized tusks jut out of his face, sharp claws upon his hooves, two shadowy looking wings and he is bigger now. Bigger even than Applebloom’s brother. A jagged line runs down his chest and pulses red as does his scarred eye with the other glowing its usual orange. His breathing is ragged and sounds like a grunting beast.

“What sorcery is this?” Sombra asks with a quiver in his voice.

“Daddy! Listen to me, you have to stop using the cloak or Mommy will…” you try one more time to stop it, but he suddenly charges at Sombra with an animalistic roar. Sombra manages to revert into a shadow in time and Bugze ends up barreling through him and into a crowd of Crystal Ponies, knocking them everywhere.
Sombra crystal-bends a pillar of sapphire after him, but he whirls around and smash it with a Falcon Punch before charging at him again.

"This again?" Sombra smugly states as Bugze blindly barrels through his shadowy form and smashes into a building, "You can't hurt what you can't touc-ACK!"
Sombra's gloating is cut short as a Nightmare Tail (NOTE: The Nightmare Tail can still grab and hurt Sombra even when he's in shadow mode) lashes out and grabs the tyrant by the neck before whipping him high into the air, then slingshotting to viciously smash Sombra into the ground face-first. When Sombra gets back up, he's suddenly rammed through a building by Bugze as Crystal Ponies try to flee the building in terror, some getting hurt by the debris.

“He’s doggone lost it!” Applejack yelps.

“He’s hurting innocent ponies trying to hurt that jerk! We got to stop them!” says Rainbow.

"Wh-what has that evil witch done now!” Fluttershy yells angrily.

As your daddy continues recklessly fighting the evil shadow tyrant in a berserker rage, you realize one thing,

I have to stop this! I have to stop Daddy! If I don’t Mommy, the Elements, Spike and Everyling else will get hurt!

“Buck You Lady Luck!” you groan.

WHAT THE BUCK DO YOU DO?