Sombra has been defeated yet again. Death has never put a crimp in his plans for total conquest though. However, this time he has been brought back not by a pony or a meddling Draconequus, but by a Dragon. A Dragon who had been planning to have his horn for dinner. Sombra finds to his horror that not only is he powerless, he is stuck alone with this cute aggravating Dragon for around 3 months. What will happen in that time?
A Sombra/Fizzle fic for the Crackship Contest: 2022. Takes place after Sombra's defeat in Season 9, but before Future Twilight at the very end of the season. AU, since it diverges from the canon ending.
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Why would anyone want to eat a Unicorn's horn?
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He thought it was a red crystal or gem.
y r ratings disabled?
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I was gonna ask that too, I liked this one.
ooohhh wait... He got some transphobia on his big fic recently, might be PTSD from that
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It's because this is a M/M ship fic, all of which are downvoted on principle by biggots on this hellsite, and I didn't want to deal with that.
I'm glad you enjoyed the story, thanks, that means a lot.
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Thanks, glad you enjoyed! Means a lot coming from you, big fan of your work!
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whelp ima upvote ur comments then
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Ha ha, thanks!
What the heck, my mental health can't get much worse, have a ratings option!
Very cute story!
Is that a hint to magic-made flying/levitation, or being an alicorn?
Either way, this story is… interesting. I’m enjoying it thoroughly.
Has he turned into mirror-world Blue-Sombra, or has he got a boner..? In the latter’s case, why would you need a mirror? I.. have questions.
Wait, WHAT?!
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In the show he could do the turning into shadow and flying or shadowwalking thing... at that moment he's completely out of Magic though.
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Fizzle wanted a mirror to show him his new self.
Yeah. He turned into a Dragon after the Love Confession and night together. Maybe because he fell in love with Fizzle, or maybe there was just some random shift of very local magic. It's Equestria, weird stuff is the norm.
I'm gonna like this story. A very creative crackship where hilarious shenanigans are bound to occur!!
haha, i always loved how vicious this scene was in that episode, and seeing it from Sombra's perspective really underlines that!
well yes, but you see, they had to make Sombra hot, therefore;
perfect Sombra
aww! classic misunderstanding
hahaha
aww!
and yeah, the other species' civilizations as depicted in the show don't really seem very functional if what we saw was all there was! makes sense that what we're seeing is their civilization on a decline
well, that explains the fangs and the carnivorousness!
hehe, we'll see where this goes, Sombra
haha, when Sombra calls you diabolical...
quelle horreur!
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augh, piling on top of all the other indignities Sombra is suffering right now, the idea that he has to now depend on the Friendship Express to leave the Dragonlands really is delicious
the Dark Lord doth protest too much, methinks
aww, Sombra has so many centuries of social progress to catch up on!
it is funny to think of the griffons as actually living up to the whole too-equally-misanthropic-to-be-homophobic thing. i'd actually believe it for them!
oof, fascinating backstory to think about. sort of like the reverse of Changelings!
ah, yeah, the dragon society as depicted in the show does pretty uniform in their expectations, with Smolder feeling the need to hide her feminine side out of shame. oof, gendered expectations!
i mean, the only difference between it and what Sombra prefers seems to be temperature, just saying!
aww! almost makes you want to see Sombra take over the Crystal Empire for the ninth time
oh nice, was wondering what the Diamond Dogs were up to!
oof, a Flesh Vaccuum Cleaner would be frightening to even a non-canine creature! very fun to imagine it as some sort of evil deity in the Diamond Dog pantheon
i appreciate how genre-aware Fizzle is. must be the bookworming!
i mean, to be fair to Sombra, two months is a pretty long romance buildup compared to most shipfics!
awwwwww
hehe, not a drakefriend?
hahaha, oof! i mean, both for Luna's sake and for the privacy of creatures' sake, i'd hope she wouldn't be looking at those kinds of dreams!
ah, that gives the "pony-shaped" remark from earlier a fun irony
aww, this was a sweet moment of kindness. almost like shared moment between veterans of the same war, on opposite sides
Cadance! there is something nice and full-circle about that!
i loved the bits of worldbuilding with the dragons and the Umbrum, as well as Sombra's tragic backstory. i like that it wasn't just his gayness that deprived him of a happy place in the intolerant society that he grew up in, but also his Umbrum nature, with the two thematically joined in the way that brings to mind how vampires, aristocratic decadence, and queerness have historically been coded together in literature. (i mean, the fangs and the ermine on Sombra!)
i never would have thought to pair Sombra with a secondary dragon character i barely remember, much less see it work! this was as adorable as it was unexpected, which is everything that a crackship should be. a very enjoyable read, thank you for it!
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I mean, he's an evil villain, yes, but Sombra gets vaporized with alarming regularity, and it looks like it hurts like Hell each time.
Ha ha, fangs make an evil grin that much better!
Ah, the Wyrm/Drake debate, who can keep track of these things just on sight?
Fizzle would definitely know more terminology then Sombra! 😉
I always thought that Umbrum wouldn't be able to physically stand temperatures above freezing, hence them hanging around the Cyrstal Empire, but there really isn't that much difference ...😉
Oof. That ... thing in a filly's skin. I really do think she would fall under the "Horrifying the Horror" trope. Chrysalis wanted food for mostly herself but also her subjects, Tirek is implied in the comics to snatch power as a way to impress his family, but Cozy is just plain evil.
Ha ha, the horror of Sombra realizing he enjoys cuddles...
Yeah, using the Friendship Express (if they'd even let him on it) would have been the cherry on this humilation Sundae. Fizzle also might have known other ways out of the Dragonlands he just chose not to share at the time... He was enjoying this too...
Griffons seem to hate you just for existing in canon, so they really wouldn't care about minor details like that!
Yeah, it's never really discussed in the show, but it looks like Dragons may have had a mighty empire at one point, they just slowly slid into what they are now...
#TherapyforLuna I mean, the Princess of Dreams would see some @#$!@. She's basically the therapist to an entire country, neither of those things can be good for your mental health...
I just love the thought of an evil demon in Diamond Dog mythology being a vacuum cleaner.
I liked the thought of that guard realizing that no one had ever shown Sombra a bit of kindness, so he should have some before whatever came next.
Ha ha, what, the Princess of Shipping setting Sombra up with Fizzle while getting him out of everone's mane in one swoop? Whatever gave you that idea?
Thank you for the kind comments, and I'm glad you enjoyed the tiny bit of worldbuilding I was able to do with this. It means a lot.