The Golden Child

by Fusionflare374

Chapter 25: The Evil Within

The sky was blackened by clouds, the ground stained with black sandstone, and their was no sign of life in the area, except for Austin. He was flying close to the ground, scattering dust as he goes by. As he was flying, he couldn’t help but feel sad, alone and betrayed.

I didn’t mean to do it… it was an accident… right? Austin thought to himself.

“Oh it was no accident. You made the right call.” Shadow Austin said to Austin.

“Leave me alone. I want to be alone with my thoughts.”

“Aww come on, I thought you want company, not being depressed by some ponies betraying you. Plus, your getting close to the ground.”

“I don’t want your company! Everything was fine, until you came alone!” Austin began to get closer and closer to the ground.

“Don’t play the blame game, you saw the truth, I was the one who made you see it.”

“Just, leave me alone! I don’t want to talk.”

“Very well, but might I warn, your wing—“

“I said leave!” Austin’s wing touched the ground, causing him to impact to the floor.

Austin started to slide on the floor, before turning back to his normal self. He impacted the ground, starting to roll and finally came to a stop. Austin tried to get up slowly, before stumbling back down to the floor, coughing up some blood. Austin looked up, seeing Shadow Austin crossing his arms.

“I told you.” Shadow Austin said.

Austin growled in annoyance, he started to get back up. As he got up, he dusted himself off and started to walk, phasing into Shadow Austin. As he was walking, Shadow Austin hovered beside him.

“Leave me be.” Austin said in annoyance.

“Why are you running from this? You should finish what we… I mean… you started.” Shadow Austin said to Austin.

“No, I want to go as far away as possible, that way I won’t hurt anyone else.” Austin said, still walking through the area.

“We don’t even know where we are, I say we turn back and finish this. Once and for all.”

“I said no, alright! I just want to be alone, I don’t know for how long, maybe even forever.”

“So you prefer to run away from your mistakes, instead of fighting them?”

“Exactly, I want to leave my mistakes behind.”

“I see… it’s a shame really, you let your parents die for nothing then, huh?”

Austin stopped walking, turning to Shadow Austin, looking surprised.

“What did you say?” Austin said, his fists tightening.

“I’m just saying, you let your family down.”

“Don’t you dare talk about my parents like that.”

“Which ones, your current ones that betrayed you, or the family that you forgotten.”

“I didn’t forget them!”

“Really? Then how come you accepted Princess Celestia as your mother so fast? Was your other mother not cut up for the job?”

“No! I love my mom!”

“Then why didn’t you save them?”

Austin growled at Shadow Austin, tears beginning to form.

“So, I’m right. You couldn’t save them.”

“Don’t—“ Austin is getting furious, ready to pounce at him.

“You didn’t save them because you never loved them.”

“Just—“ his emitting a black smoke.

“That’s why you want to run from your mistake, to run as far as possible from them.”

“Grrr, SHUT UP!!” Austin jumped at Shadow Austin, ready to punch him.

Austin however, phased through him and ended up punching the floor. As his hand impacted the floor, the area around him exploded, cracks forming around the impact. Dust flew everywhere around Austin, as the dust began to settle, he was in a small size crater of his doing. Austin huffed angrily and looked at his hand, seeing the black smoke coming off his hand. Austin, however, wasn’t surprised or shocked by this. Instead, he sat down on the crater floor, looking more upset than he already was. Austin stared at the ground, tears starting to flow. Shadow Austin saw the destruction Austin had done, and couldn’t help but smile.

“Don’t you see Austin, all this power you can do, why waste it by running?” Shadow Austin said to Austin.

“Because… because i don’t want to hurt anyone. I failed at being the hero, now… I’m nobody.” Austin said sadly.

“You can be so much more than a nobody, you know.”

“Huh? What are you talking about?” Austin said, confused but also curious.

“Why be the hero of the story, when you can be the villain.”

“A… a villain? No, I can’t.”

“Why not? You weren’t meant to be the hero, and I made sure of that.”

“Wait… you made sure of that? What… what do you mean?”

Shadow Austin couldn’t help but laugh, a sinister laugh.

“How idiotic do you have to be to get this through your thick skull of yours. I did those things, I done them since the moment I took Wingdings place. Their, I said it, happy?”

Austin got up from the floor and looked at him, stunned by what he said.

“Y… you did all those things? Almost killing Wingidings, telling me false information, hurting innocent civilians, hurting my friends and hurting Celestia! Those were your doing?!?”

“Finally, you now know everything I’ve done. Yes, I did do all those things.”

“B… but why! What will you gain from this?!” Austin said, getting angry again.

“Well you see kid, I was made by Queen Necrafa, the one you need to destroy for everyone’s sake.”

Austin couldn’t help but step back a bit.

“You were created… by her?!”

“Yes, my mission was to make the others not trust you, that way the darkness can slowly settle in, making you her personal weapon when I return to her.”

“But… why are you telling me this now?”

“Well… Necrafa made one fatal mistake when creating me… having free will. Now, instead of bringing you to her, I’m making you my own weapon, I will stop Necrafa with you and take over this planet. And soon, everyone will know what it’s like to be casted into the shadows.” Shadow Austin laughed manically.

Austin clutched his arms. “I won’t help you with your plan!” Austin started to charge at Shadow Austin, his arm ready to punch.

“Oh my dear friend, you misunderstood me,” Shadow Austin lifted his hand and suddenly, Austin stopped. “You WILL help me, you don’t have a saying on this.”

Austin struggled to move, his body felt stiff, like he was stuck in time.

“Gah… why… why can’t I move?” Austin struggled even more.

“Don’t you get it! Your soul isn’t pure anymore, now, it’s tainted with darkness.” suddenly strings started to come out of Shadow Austin and struck Austin’s body. Which means… your soul… belongs to me. Shadow Austin smiled creepily.

Austin screamed for help, but no one came. Suddenly, he felt something in his chest and slowly going up to his head. Black goo started to flow into his mind. Austin tried everything in his power to make it stop, but he was still stuck. His eyes slowly turned black, Austin started to hyperventilate, until… he stopped. Shadow Austin released Austin, making him collapse to the ground. Austin slowly got back up, his head still looking at the ground. He move his head up, looking at Shadow Austin. His eyes were completely black with white pupils and he smiled creepily at him.

“Now then, lets return and finish what we had started.” Shadow Austin laughed.

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Back at Canterlot castle, Gaster, Sans, Papyrus, Frisk and the ponies were inside the medical room, treating to Princess Celestia’s wounds. Princess Luna looked nervous, scared of what will happen to Celestia. Gaster looked at her wounds and sighed of relief.

“Not to worry everyone. Her wounds are not major, she will be fine.” Gaster said to the group.

Luna sighed of relief, as a tear fell on her cheek.

“However, she needs bed rest, but for now, I’ll patch her wound with some bandages and she’s good to go. Though, I’ll need everyone to leave the room so I can treat her wound better.”

Everyone nodded and the started to leave the medical room. The group looked at Princess Luna, looking scared and confused of what had happened.

“W… what do we do now?” Papyrus said to the Princess.

Luna closed her eyes and sighed. She reopen then and responded.

“Now, as we wait for my sisters recovery, we should stay and look out for Austin to return. Check everywhere, the windows, outside, everywhere until somepony spots him. In the meantime, I need a word with Princess Twilight,” Luna looked at Twilight with a stern look. “Now go! Leave us!”

The group nodded and they started to split up, going to the hallways they have chosen. Luna and Twilight, however, stayed where they were. Luna eyed at Twilight, as Twilight looks down in shame, her ears flopped down, her eyes looking sad.

“Why in Equestria did you that to him?” Luna said, trying to contain her anger.

“I… I’m sorry, Princess Luna… i let my anger get to the best of me.” Twilight said sadly.

“You sure did. Now, we have a human with powers we don’t fully understand yet, loose in the world. He could be hurt, or worse.”

“I know what I did was wrong, but he hurt Princess Celestia and my friends. How can I not be angry about that?”

“I know, but he didn’t do It willingly, something, or someone must’ve done it.”

“But who? Who would make him do such things?”

“I’m not sure, but once he returns, you will apologize and we will set things right once again, do you understand?”

“I… I do, Princess Luna.”

“Good. Hopefully he’s okay.” Luna looked out the window and sighed.

Suddenly, a Royal guard was running towards the princesses. When he got to the princesses, he was out of breath.

“Y… your highness.” The guard said, still out of breath.

“Yes? What is it guard?”

“It’s… it’s Austin. He’s returned.”

Luna and Twilight looked thrilled of the news, but something in their guts were… unsettling.

“How long was this? Where is he?” Luna asked the guard.

“He… he returned not to long ago. I saw him by the garden, but he went inside and I’m not sure where’s he gone.”

“He must be at the throne room.” Twilight said to Luna.

“He must be. Guard, tell the others to go to the throne room and in case something happens, have some guards wait outside the throne room.” Luna said to the guard.

“Yes, your highness.” The guard started to run to one of the directions of where the group split up.

Luna and Twilight started to run to the throne room. They opened the throne room doors and they saw Austin looking at the thrones, while transformed into Soundwave.

“Austin!” Luna said in relief.

Austin stared at the two. He turned towards them, his feet stomping on the ground as he turned.

Wait a minute… something doesn’t feel right. Luna said to herself, feeling uneasy.

Just then, Twilight approached Austin.

“Austin, I’m… im sorry for what I did to you back their. I… was angry that you did that. But I know it wasn’t your fault, something or someone is controlling your actions or something. I should’ve acted like the princess of friendship, but I didn't. Please, accept my apology and we can help you through what’s happening with you.” Twilight said as she stopped in front of him.

Austin said nothing. He only stared dead at Twilight. Luna sensed something was wrong. She was about to warn Twilight, but she was too late. Austin used his arm and in a swift motion, slapped Twilight hard, causing her to fly at the wall, impacting it and was knocked out.

“Twilight!” Luna screamed worriedly.

Just then, Austin started to approach Luna. Luna gasped as she heard Austin’s heavy footsteps coming towards her. He extended two metal tentacles and pointed them at her, electricity emitting off them.

“Austin, superior. pony kind, inferior.”

To Be Continued…

Author's Note:

Hey everyone. Sorry I haven’t been uploading on here for so long. I’ve wanted to start up my other stories before coming back to this one. We’re almost done with this story, however, I want to remake this one, but have some changes. Like instead of Austin being a kid, he will be 18. Austin’s parents will be dead and the humans will blame him for the murder, even though he did not do it. A mysterious villain that everyone knows of will be the cause to his parents death. How does that sound? To me, it will be more of the mature side, but it also sounds pretty cool. What do you all think? Anyways, see you next time, bye.