This story is a companion to From Darkness to Light and is meant to be read after. Will contain spoilers.
From Darkness to Light

Spike makes a promise that he’ll look after Fluttershy’s animals while she and the rest of the girls journey to the Crystal Empire. It’s just another errand, right?

But when things turn dangerous and Twilight is needed to stay in the Empire, can Spike handle her absence? Or the fact the pony he once defeated at the Crystal Empire is BACK?

Spike suddenly has a lot to think about.

But, together with his assistant Ditzy Doo, they’ll do their best. To help. To understand. To wait.

Tirek's brother Scorpan never really accepted his brother could wander so far off the good path. Deluded and crazed from missing him, he has one simple goal: break his brother out. To do that, he will need magic beyond anything he's seen before. DARK magic.

With the discovery that Sombra is not only the lone survivor of the Umbrum race, but may not have been completely destroyed, he sets out to locate what remains of Sombra's horn. From this he is able ressurect the former tyrant and keep him captive. Day by day, draining his magic. But thats just the start. He has other plans for the Umbrum pony's magic abilities...

When a passing bird finds its way into the cave, it delivers this news to Fluttershy. On Celestia's orders she and the others go to find Sombra and try stop Scorpan's plans.

But the Sombra they bring back to Canterlot isnt the former foe they once knew. Lost and afraid, his mind fractured by Scorpan's torture, Sombra seems out of thier reach. Now they have to race against an incoming doom to try and heal the broken King before it reaches Canterlot.

But how will things fare when Discord gets invovled? Can his unorthodox methods break Sombra's nightmares into dust and get him on his feet, or will the unicorn finally lose hope?

On arriving in the latest stop on their route, Flim & Flam find themselves the center of affection for two very different stallions. Will Flim ever TELL his brother he's in love? and will Flam ever ADMIT he's in Love? And just what is going on in that village?

(Im not sure if there's a term for shonen-ai in this fandom, but that's what this is!)

When the sky over the Crystal Empire is split open by a dark tear, Celestia, Cadance, Luna and Twilight must figure out a way to stop it. But in order to defeat darkness, sometimes you NEED darkness. And that leaves only one option; Sombra.

With his powers under lock down, and a growing connection to the strange darkness, can Sombra learn what it really takes to earn an empires respect, or will he abandon them to the darkness from another world?

UPDATED: Chapter one re-formatted, extra bits added, general tidying.

Edited by Dream Seeker!
Further helped into readableness by Hail King Sombra!