King of Equestria

by Neroson40


Parents


Wayvern woke up next to a statue in a plaza. He saw creatures standing over him with worried looks on their faces. When his vision finally settled he recognized the species of creature. The inhabitants of this world were human! Yeah they were multicolored like the ponies of Equestria, but still, their skeletal structure couldn’t be anything other than human.
“Hey! Are ya’ alright!?” one of them asked. It was a girl by the sound of it. The accent placed her origin as country. He scanned the crowd for her and found her, not believing his eyes.
“Applejack!?” the clone of Applejack wore the same hat and had the same facial features… for a human. She wore a denim skirt, western boots with three apples on each one, and a flannel blouse.
“That’s m’ name… did ya’ come from Equestria? Is Twilight with ya’!?”
“Yeah, I came from Equestria…” He said with one hand on the bump on his head. “TWILIGHT!” with that Wayvern ran away from the crowd with Applejack’s Doppelganger on his tail. He searched the entire area of a mile before he heard Twilight scream. He followed the source until he found a human version of her backing into a corner when Wayvern got a good look at the thing that was cornering her, he knew that Sunset Shimmer wasn’t lying. There was a Shadow in Canterlot City.
“No… Twilight’s in danger!”
“I’ve got this Applejack,” Wayvern said. “Just wait for my signal to pull Twilight out of there.”
“You’re goin’ up against that thing alone!?” Applejack looked at him like he was going to die. “You’re insane!” Wayvern grabbed Applejack’s arms and looked her in the eyes seriously.
“I’ve handled this kind of thing before, it’s my job,” he said. That wasn’t the main reason behind fighting this thing. He’d seen this particular Shadow before, and it killed his mother. He let go of Applejack and rushed into the open. He jumped up and drop kicked Soulbreak then pulled out the new standard transformer that Dante gave him issued by the Council. According to the instructions he read it was supposed to be a faster and more efficient way of becoming a Reaper.
“Evolution! Execution!” Wayvern said. The transformation was almost instant, and when he was a Reaper Applejack rushed onto the field and pulled Twilight out.
“So you’re the new King of Equestria!? You’re punier than I imagined.”
“You’re Soulbreak right? You’re the one who created the Elements of Harmony… I have to repay you for that.”
“Yeah, I did create the Elements didn’t I?… But what’s this about repaying me?”
“The elements are made of the first queen, Harmony’s spirit, which you split into six pieces,” as the words flowed from Wayvern’s mouth about his mother’s fate he reached for Hummingbird’s hilt, the rage filling his every action. “You will pay for what you did to my mother!”
Wayvern charged and was sent flying by Soulbreak’s backhand alone. He got up and was pushed back again and again.
“Your hate makes you weak!” Soulbreak said. “You won’t get your mother back by fighting me! What do you stand to gain!?”
“It’s not just about my mother!” Wayvern said. “You split my mother’s spirit into six and turned my father into a monster! I want my Father back!”
“You have your father, Wayvern!” Discord’s voice resonated through the battlefield. He jumped off a building and landed on his feet uninjured, the same monstrosity that Wayvern met in Equestria. “I remember now!” he pulled out a transformer and held it in front of him. “Evolution! Execution!” his form changed to that of a human with flowing black hair and blue eyes. He was wearing an armored Shōzoku, or ninja garb.
“Is that Dream Runner?” Twilight asked from the alley where she and Applejack hid. “Son of Starswirl the Bearded?”
“It is,” Wayvern said. “That’s the first King of Equestria… Dream Runner.”
“So you have Backup!” Soulbreak said. “I’ll still break you both!”
“I can forgive you for what you did to my wife,” Dream Runner said. “But you are still a Shadow, and must be destroyed.” He pulled a sword, scabbard and all, off his waist and shouted “Bezwinger!” Wayvern noticed small movements as Soulbreak took a beating.
“How’d he do that!?” Applejack asked. “He didn’t even move!”
“Yeah he did, just faster than the eye can see,” Twilight said. Wayvern stood up and rushed to meet Dream Runner.
“Can you still fight, Wayvern? Or have you yet to forgive yourself for your mother’s death?”
“What?”
“You’re defeat wasn’t because you couldn’t forgive Soulbreak, it was because you couldn’t forgive yourself.”
Wayvern was so confused, so he ignored the thought and slashed the final blow across Soulbreak’s torso. The core was revealed and Dream Runner split it down the middle.
“You really are my father.” Wayvern said.
“Yes, son. Forgive me for the brevity of the reunion, but this is not the place to account the missing time.” Just as Dream Runner said that, the Second life of Soulbreak sprouted from the ashes.