The Golden Child

by Fusionflare374

Chapter 26: Austin vs the Ponies

Austin’s stood their, staring at Luna with his black screened face. Luna looked at him in shock, before looking at Twilight, still unconscious.

“Austin… w-what’s happening? Why are you attacking us?!” Luna said in a scared tone.

“He is not Austin anymore.” A voice said out of nowhere, making Luna flinch.

“Who’s their! Show yourself!”

Just then, a black ring appeared in front of Austin. The ring was filled up with a black fog, a black figure started to crawl out of the ring. The figure came out of the ring and opened up its white, glowing eyes. The figure smiled sinisterly.

“So… we finally meet, Princess Luna, Princess of the night.”

“Who are you? How do you know my name!” Luna shouted at the figure.

“Well, where are my manners, the names Shadow Austin and let’s say that I know you through… personal contact. Also I have made… quite the ruckus in… Ponyville.”

“Ponyville? But… Austin was the only one their causing accidents… unless…” Luna looked at Shadow Austin in shock. “You are the one causing it!”

“Ding, ding, ding, we have a winner! Yes, I’ve done all of this, and you blamed Austin on the crimes that I’ve done.”

“How did you do all this! Explain yourself!”

“You ponies really are idiotic, but fine, I’ll tell you. I poisoned Wingdings to take his place and have no interference of my plans. I’ve gave him false information about you ponies, and tampering with his powers against his friends. The rest was giving him visions of Celestia looking like he was going to attack him, while you all saw she was only trying to help.”

“How dare you do something this… evil to a child! For that, you must be punished for your crimes to the ponies you have hurt!”

Luna’s horn emitted a moderate cobalt blue glow and shot out a beam of light at him. When the beam was about to hit him, Austin went in front of the shadowy figure, hitting Austin in the process. Austin, however, wasn’t injured.

“A… Austin? What are you doing, he’s the enemy!” Luna said in a shocked tone.

“He’s isn’t Austin anymore, he’s my puppet. I control his every move.”

“How is that possible?!”

“While you were having that argument with him, you felt that dark aura surge right? Well, that was this soul losing his light. His heart is now tainted with darkness, with that, I now have full control of his soul, which means I can control his movements, his actions, everything.”

“What’s the purpose of all this!” Luna said angrily.

“The purpose… is to take over this world! With Austin by my side, no one will stop me, not even Necrafa!” Shadow Austin laughed creepily.

Luna looked at him angrily, until suddenly she heard footsteps coming towards her. It was the rest of the mane six, Tempest, Starlight, Gaster, Papyrus, Sans and Frisk came to the throne room.

“Princess! Are you alright?” Gaster said worriedly.

“I’m fine. But we have company.” Luna said to Gaster, before looking back at Shadow Austin.

“You found Austin, but… who is that beside him?”

“That is a shadow version of him. He’s controlling him to take control of Equestria!”

“Well we aren’t letting him take control of our friend, nor take over Equestria!” Rainbow Dash said confidently.

Shadow Austin laughed at the group. “How amusing, but how can you defeat me…” Shadow Austin used a tentacle and wrapped around Twilight, bring her to him. “Without your precious leader.” Shadow Austin smiled creepily.

“Twilight!” The girls screamed out.

“Oh your going down!” Rainbow Dash said, charging at Shadow Austin.

Rainbow Dash charged at Shadow Austin, however Austin stood in front of him and slapped Rainbow Dash out of the air. She fell to the floor with a thud. Before she could recover, Shadow Austin used another tentacle and grabbed Rainbow Dash. She tried to escape its grasp, but to no avail.

“Let me go!” Rainbow Dash yelled at Shadow Austin.

“Hold on Dashie, I’m a coming!” Applejack said, pulling out a lasso.

Applejack started to spin around the lasso and threw the rope with her teeth. The rope caught Austin’s arm and Applejack pulled the rope, however, he wasn’t budging. Austin looked at the rope and back to Applejack. Austin pulled the rope towards him and Applejack was lifted up to him. Austin grabbed Applejack by the throat, nearly strangling her, before throwing her in the air and Shadow Austin catching her with a tentacle.

“Austin you must stop this! This isn’t you!” Papyrus said, trying to reason with him.

“He won’t listen to you, he only listens to me.” Shadow Austin chuckled creepily.

“If we can’t talk to him, we will have to smack some sense into him.” Gaster said to the rest.

“But we shouldn’t hurt him, it’s him that’s controlling him.” Papyrus pointed at Shadow Austin.

“Paps is right, we need to distract Austin and defeat Shadow Austin, that way Austin can break the curse.” Sans said to the group.

“Very well. Sans, Papyrus and I will distract Austin, the rest of you, take down the shadow version of Austin.”

“But someone has to take care of Frisk, they can’t fight back like we can, they prefer to stay a pacifist.”

“I-I’ll stay with them… if that’s okay?” Fluttershy said nervously.

“And I’ll stay with them too.” Spike spoke up.

“Good, now, let’s bring Austin back.”

The group nodded and Sans, Papyrus, and Gaster approached Austin. Sans and Papyrus summoned a bone and threw them at Austin to get his attention. The bones hit him in the back of his head and he turned around to see the three.

“If you want a fight, then the Great Papyrus, will provide the fight.” Papyrus said, summoning bones behind him.

“Sorry kiddo, it ain’t personal.” Sans said as one of his eyes turned bright cyan with a black pupil.

“We cannot let his plan go through with this, so we must stop this now!” Gaster said, summoning his bone hands behind him.

“What bothersome pests, doesn’t matter. Austin, change forms into something they… met before.” Shadow Austin commanded.

Austin nodded and the black fog surrounded him. The black fog disappeared and a small child with a lime and cream coloured shirt with red brown pants and shoes. The child looked at the three and smiled creepily. Sans gasped and his eyes went black. Papyrus looked at Sans with concern.

“Sans, what’s wrong? You look… nervous.” Papyrus said worriedly.

“It’s … nothing.” Sans said, sounding angry.

Austin took out a knife and stared at the three, his eyes widening creepily and smile grew wider.

Austin began to charge at the three, knife readied. Papyrus summoned some bones and aimed them towards Austin. Austin used his knife and deflected them. Austin leaped into the air, aiming at Papyrus. As Papyrus was about to block with two bones he summoned on his hands, Austin was stopped in the air. Papyrus looked at Sans and saw him using blue magic. Austin’s soul was displayed outside of his body, seeing the chains on his soul.

“G, look. Their is chains on his soul. If we can break the chains, maybe he can have self control of himself again.” Sans said to Gaster.

“It’s worth the shot.” Gaster said as he summoned a small bone and was about to start to unlock the lock.

Before Gaster could unlock the lock, Shadow Austin looked at the three as he was fighting the ponies.

“Oh no you don’t!” Shadow Austin extended a tentacle at the three.

The three of them saw the tentacle, Sans and Gaster dodge it, but Papyrus was to late to dodge it. He got hit by the tentacle and fell to the floor. Sans and Gaster went over to him to check on him if he was okay. Sans realized his blue magic is off of Austin. Sans turned around and saw Austin behind him, his leg approaching his face. Sans teleported away, but Austin ended up kicking Gaster in the skull, knocking him out.

“Dad!” Sans yelled.

Sans looked at Austin angrily and started to summon bones and aimed them at Austin. He dodged them with his knife and charged at him with his knife. Austin swung at him, but Sans kept dodging, until suddenly, a tentacle came up behind him, catching him off guard.

As Shadow Austin captured the three skeletons, they were delaying the ponies attacks and the two focused their attention on the ponies. Austin charged at the ponies and started to swing his knife to separate the group. One by one, the ponies were getting captured by the tentacles. Tempest looked at Shadow Austin and used her magic on him, but he dodged it and stared at her. He brought her closer to him and took another tentacle to her horn.

“You don’t deserve this horn.” Shadow Austin said, snapping her horn in half.

Tempest yelp in pain as tears flowed through her cheeks.

“Tempest!” Spike yelled out.

Shadow Austin looked at Spike, Fluttershy and Frisk, extending three more tentacles at them.

“Fluttershy, look out!” Spike jumped in front of her, getting caught by one of the tentacles.

“S-Spike!” Fluttershy said, shaking in fear.

The other two tentacles came after Fluttershy and Frisk.

“Austin, make our guests a place to ‘relax’. Shadow Austin commanded.

Austin nodded and a black fog surrounded him. The black fog disappeared and Austin turned into Sans the Skeleton. Austin summoned blue bones into a square box prison. Shadow Austin dropped the group into the prison and Austin sealed them in. Austin returned back to himself, while Luna went over to the front of the prison, looking frustrated.

“You won’t get away with this!” Luna said to Shadow Austin.

“Oh really? And how will you defeat me?” Shadow Austin chuckled.

“Austin will defeat you.”

“Ha! He’s under my control! He will never be free from me!”

“Not if… I have something to do with it.” A faint voice said in the distance.

Shadow Austin looked at the entrance of the throne room and saw Princess Celestia, still looking weak.

“Sister!” Luna yelled out.

Shadow Austin started laughing. He started to approach Celestia, still chuckling.

“You’ve got to be kidding me, you? How are you going to defeat me?”

“I’m not, but he will.” Celestia said, pointing at Austin.

Austin’s eye widened a bit, while Shadow Austin laughed at her, wrapping a tentacle at her neck.

“As much as I like to kill you myself, I’ll let him kill you first.” Shadow Austin said, staring at Austin.

Shadow Austin went over to Austin, and he summoned a weapon that resembles a scythe.

“Use this scythe, and kill her, prove your self that you have full loyalty to me.”

Austin looked at the scythe and picked it up. He looked at Celestia and raised the scythe however, his arms started to shake. He was hesitant of swinging the scythe at her.

“I know this isn’t you, you can fight this!” Celestia tried talking to Austin.

Shadow Austin looked at Austin. “Do it.”

Just as Austin was about to swing the scythe, another voice yelled out in the distance.

“Wait!” The voice yelled out.

The three of them looked in front of them, seeing Wingdings, looking healthy.

“Impossible! I thought I killed you!”

“Your virus only put me in a coma, but you did not kill me.” Wingdings said to Shadow Austin.

“grr, it doesn’t matter, Austin here will finish you off after Celestial gets it!” Shadow Austin said as he pointed at Austin, still holding the scythe at her.

“Austin… what on earth happened to you?”

“He can’t hear you, he’s under my control.”

Austin stood their as his hands were shaking.

“Austin, I know you can hear me. You don’t have to do this, you must fight back him.”

“Austin, kill her, then kill him next.”

Austin hands were still shaking and still was hesitant.

“Austin, please, fight it!” Wingdings yelled to Austin.

“Kill her!” Shadow Austin yelled.

“Fight it!”

“Kill her!”

Austin’s eyes closed his eyes and looked at them both. He felt something inside of him, a memory of his parents appearing. The memory showed Austin as a little child, seeing his mother and father. He saw his parents faces, looking at him softly.

“Son, don’t let your anger get to the best of you.” The father said.

“If you do son, you may regret it in your future. Do what you think is right, okay son?” The mother asked the little Austin.

“Don’t worry momma, I will do what’s right, for me and everyone around me.” Little Austin said.

“That’s my boy! Now my son, give it your all!”

Austin opened up his eyes and threw the scythe at the square bone prison, destroying the front bones. The ponies got out of the prison and Shadow Austin looked stunned.

“How is this possible?! Your soul is tainted in darkness!” Shadow Austin yelled at Austin.

“My soul maybe tainted in darkness, but I know when to do the right thing!” Austin said to Shadow Austin.

Just then, his heart was displayed outside of his body, the chains beginning to break. His soul was broken free, but his soul shined bright, brighter than the sun. They all covered their eyes until the brightness dimmed. Austin opened up his eyes once again and he looked around. He saw his arms was covered in a golden aura. He realized his whole body is covered in a golden aura. Shadow Austin looked at him, stunned.

“H-how, I had you in my grasp!”

“Their is something you will never understand, having loving friends and family surrounding me.”

Suddenly, a burst of light emitted off of Austin, hitting Shadow Austin, making half of his body disintegrate. Shadow Austin fell to the floor, staring at Austin in fear.

“I thought I could trust you, you were me after all, but you were only using me for your own gain. For that, farewell, traitor.”

“W-wait, can’t we talk about this! I’m sorry, I’ll make it up for you please…” Shadow Austin pleaded.

“Your want mercy like what you were going to show to Princess Celestia!? Being Nefcrafas servant was one thing, but using me to hurt my friends?! That’s unforgivable! For that, you deserve every last one of this!”

With that, Austin began to form a sword made out of light. He charged at Shadow Austin and stabbed him in the head. Shadow Austin’s eyes widened, before taking his last breath, he whispered something to him.

“You may have stopped me, but you will never stop Necrafa.” Shadow Austin smiled creepily.

“Not this time.”

Shadow Austin, disintegrate into thin air. Everyone took a sigh of relief and looked at everyone.

“Is everyone alright?” Austin said to everyone.

Suddenly, everyone started to hug Austin tightly.

“Oh Austin, I’m so sorry. I’ve been a terrible friend.” Twilight said, tears flowing down her cheeks.

Austin looked at her with sad eyes, before smiling at her. He wiped the tears of her face and hugged her back.

“It’s okay Twilight, we all make mistakes.” Austin said to Twilight.

Twilight looked at Austin and smiled.

“I’m glad you were able to listen to me, Austin.” Wingdings said to Austin.

“And I’m so glad you are feeling better, Wingdings.”

Wingdings nodded and the two hugged each other. The group stop with the hugging.

“So… it looks likes… it’s over.” Celestia said, still sounding weak.

“It looks like it is, sister. Let’s get you seated.” Luna said, holding onto Celestia.

“I don’t think it’s far from over.” Austin said, sensing something’s wrong.

“You are right, Golden Child.” A female voice said out of nowhere.

Everyone flinched and looked around the room, seeing nothing. Suddenly, a red light emerged from the floor and the figure emerge out of the floor. The figure came into view and the group saw the tall, skeletal , red cape wearing with bat like wings and red slitted eyes with no mouth. Just then, they hear metallic footsteps coming from the halls. Suddenly, guards were tossed into the room, having a bright yellow cut on the sides. The one behind the slashing came into view, a cyborg came into view, with a mask blocking its true self. Beside them were droids, the ones Austin knew all to well back on earth.

“So, we finally again, Golden Child, and on such a wonderful little world. It’s a shame we will make it mine soon enough.” Necrafa said to Austin.

“Not this time, I’ve unlocked my special powers, so you don’t stand a chance!” Austin snapped at Necrafa.

“I know, why else did I create a shadow version of yourself? With enough motivation, you would unlock your true self, and once you destroyed your shadow self, I would come in and take it.”

“Not on your life, Necrafa.” Austin summoned his light sword out and pointed it at her.

“Is that so? Then, how about two other lives.”

“Wait… two other lives?”

“Grevious, bring the prisoner to me.” She commanded.

The cyborg, Grevious, nodded and went back behind her. He came back, hold two human adults, one male, the other female. He threw them in the middle between Necrafa and the group.

“Mom… Dad?”

“To Be Continued…

Author's Note:

Only a few more chapters left and this story will be complete. Thank you all for reading and I hope you enjoy the last few chapters that will be coming out soon enough.