Hey... I did it, I finally finished another one!... what? You woul dreact the same way if you had this idea for ages and 1. you dont have time for this shit except for a few lines a day. and 2. you think about the reader (you guys out there...I see you shrugging!...Stop laughing already)

Ok... enough me breaking the 4th wall and let's get serious. Here is chapter 26. enjoy.

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When everything goes wrong

''Welcome everypony, thanks for accepting our invitation.'' Bluestar spoke to everypony in the café. ''Especially now that both princesses are here we can finally begin with the announcement we prepared.'' Rainbow dash whistled and made Bluestar blush a little. ''Even though it's a bit sad that Blade had other business to attend to I'm glad to say to you all…'' Bluestar gulped, he was nervous and looked at Twilight next to him, she gave him a smile and he softened up. ''Twilight and myself gotten engaged yesterday night.''
It was silent for a few seconds but then Icestorm began to clap her hooves, Rarity and the princesses followed and soon the whole room was clapping. ''Thank you, now enjoy the party everypony.'' Bluestar ended his speech. He sat down at a table while Twilight went talking with the Princesses. Icestorm closed in on him.
''So what kind of trouble is Blade in now?''
''Earth best friends. They arrived here and we have no clue what to tell them. Out there they heard from us what was going on and snapped, now we, and with that I mean everypony here, must enjoy this and Blade will get the girl calm… Really, why is he so hell bend on doing this kind of stuff alone, he barely survived Dark Thunder and stuff.''
''Oh, that reminds me, Bluestar, I want you to take a theory of mine to the test.''
Bluestar looked confused to Icestorm, what was she planning?

Ashley, Nicole and a stranger.
''You can help us? How?'' The owner of the voice stepped out of the shadow, it was a White pony with green mane and tail with a number of pouches on his belt. ''Simple my dear, just let the pony named Blade get into the mirror pond. It normally doubles the person who goes in but if you put this in first.'' The pony grabbed one of his pouches and hold it in front of him. ''He will be split in the human part pony he was before coming here, and the memories he made here pony. But because this is a delicate procedure, I'd like to ask you not to look, the pony memory part could be under severe stress and it wouldn't look good.''
The grin on the white pony widened.
''I'll do it, everything to get everything back to normal.''
''….Ashley…'' Nicole looked worried but Ashley was always the smarter part of them, she followed her without fail.
''Good, now, so you know, the mirror pond is just over the hill, past the third rock on your left down a manhole with blown up rocks next to it. I have to go now, good luck.''
''Oh and before I forget, he needs to say the chant; And into his own reflection he stared. Yearning for one whose reflection he shared. And solemnly sweared not to be scared. At the prospect of being double and faired'. Well that was it. Good day.'' The white pony disappeared as swift as it appeared and left the girls alone.
''What now sis?'' Nicole asked indecisively.
''We have to get Blade here somehow. That way we can take him to the pond and I'll get him to do that mirror pond thing and then we won't have to feel bad about taking him away from people…or ponies he loves.''
''Ashley…''
Out of nowhere the bushes behind Nicole moved and something jumped out. Nicole grabbed a branch she found on the ground quickly and hit the figure right in his face, and again, and again.
''Miss Nicole, please stop. Boss and myself have been searching for you.''
''Boss?… Leonidas!'' Nicole looked in the sky. ''Blade!''

I landed near Nicole, she was glad to see me, for the first time ever. ''Damn you girls and your speed, you were further away than I anticipated.'' Nicole wanted to say something but Ashley stepped right in, blocking her off. ''Blade, we have found a solution to the problem we're in.''
''Really? That's great, that saves some work. So what is it?''
''Follow me.''
Ashley began to follow the directions of the mysterious pony from before, Nicole and myself followed her. ''She never cuts you off. You two got in a fight?'' I whispered to Nicole. Trying to avoid suspicion, Nicole nodded and remained silent along the way. After clearing some minor trials like constricting vines and animals that tried to scare us we arrived at an opening with a hole in the middle.
''Here it is.''
''A hole?... In the ground… You don't want to kill me and bury me right?''
''No of course not Wulfie, you just go in, find some kind of pond, throw these in,'' Ashley handed over the bag, '' say a chant and literally jump in the pond. Easy as hell.''
''…You want me to take a bath with custom bath salt?''
''If that explanation makes more sense than yes. But you have to go alone, if you do it, I will go back to… the village and apologize to that pony for what I said.''
''Even if you didn't made the promise I would have said it for you but ok. Leonidas stay here till I return… Wait what is the chant?''
'' And into his own reflection he stared. Yearning for one whose reflection he shared. And solemnly sweared not to be scared. At the prospect of being double and faired.''
''Ok, I'm off.'' To good trusted I jumped in the hole towards the pond, who wouldn't trust his or her best friends right?
While I went down Nicole stepped to Ashley. ''Sis, is this really the right thing to do?'' Ashley looked to Nicole, she was silent for a minute and nodded. ''I hope so, I just want to go home, with Blade and Johnny. I'm just sad that they have lives here that will brake because of that but now… now this could be the solution, he won't have to break up and we can go home.'' Ashley laughed a little, she probably had too much to handle, Nicole thought. Sad with how her sister had become Nicole led the way to Ponyville while Leonidas stayed behind, waiting for Blade.

As I went down the cave I noticed that the lights weren't dimming. It was like sunlight underground because it was also warm. It took a while until I noticed I was nearing the end but it was worth it. The whole room was lit up with cyan light. I couldn't see where it came from but it was beautiful.
In the middle of the cave was the pond, and what a pond. It was like a private pool in your backyard, but bigger. I stood before the edge when I saw my own reflection, it has been a while since I saw myself. The addition of the sunglasses finished my look pretty much but… was that a bump on my head? Oh well, probably bumped against something. No big deal.
I grabbed the pouch and threw what was inside in the pond. ''Hopefully this won't trouble anyone else… now what was the rhyme again…'' As I walked and turned I didn't notice the pond lighting up and going down again. When it was too late I looked and I shrugged. ''Probably my imagination… oh remembered.''
'' And into his own reflection he stared. Yearning for one whose reflection he shared. And solemnly sweared not to be scared. At the prospect of being double and faired.''
I took a deep breath and jumped in and to my surprise, I floated in midair, like I had jumped through a window. But what surprised me the most was the second Blade floating next to me. We both landed on shore and looked to each other. We moved a little and we noticed we were exact copy's.
''Wow this is awesome, what about a name because we can't both be Blade, we need something cool, something badass. We need…'' *Thung*
''We need a bodybag to clean you up.'' The second Blade looked into the pond and smiled. ''My followers did a good job, this body feels strong, is young and has a lot of nice memories. Let's see if I still got my touch'' When the second Blade passed the one on the ground he stopped. ''Oh, just to show at least a little kindness. I'm Nemesis, one of the Shadows… I see you already met one, the foolish youngling of a Dark Thunder never stood a chance.''
Nemesis walked around Blade as he tapped in more memories of him. ''Oh, you were human, and you still got a marefriend here… and more friends oh how nice. You know what, I'll say hello to them. I still need to see if I'm still me and not you.'' Nemesis began to laugh like mad while flying back to the entrance of the cave, leaving me unconscious on the ground, with no clue what just happened.

Leonidas was still on guard when he sensed something. ''Boss, you're back.'' Leonidas turned around to see the face of Blade, he sat in attention but his smile went away. *sniff, sniff*
''Wait a second, you aren't Boss, who are you and why do you have his face?''
''don't worry my friend, I'm his mirror image, the solution the girls talked about.'' Leonidas nodded and sat down again.
'Phew, lucki;y I have Blade's memories or else I wouldn't safe from suspicion… wait, why am I trying to sneak? I need to take him out.' Nemesis thought and he accessed the powers of Blade. He made a fireball in his hoof and aimed for Leonidas. ''Boss, I think the girls are probably back by now, we should also start to… Boss?''
''Till hell, Timberwolf.'' With a quick throw the fireball went towards Leonidas, who didn't had enough time to react and was hit full blast. He was thrown against a tree and broke right through it, making the tree fall on him, trapping him. Nemesis closed in and now made a small flame in his hoof. ''Let's play a game little wolf. Try to get out before you burn down to charcoal.'' Nemesis lighted the tree and flew up high. ''Time to see if I'm still me.''

Almost an hour later
''God…what happened?'' I stood up and looked around me. ''Pond…check, pouch…check, clone like pony… uncheck. Where is Blade clone?'' While trying to orientate myself I slowly walked up to the entrance of the cave. The closer I got, the warmer it got. But it was unnaturally warm. Like something was on fire. ''Leonidas.''
I shot awake and galloped up, when I came up I saw a number of trees on fire and burning, but no Leonidas. I flew up and looked for a cloud, I found a dark one and quickly pulled it in. ''Rain damn it, Rain!'' With a few jumps water began to fall out of the cloud and the fire slowly went out.
After a minute or three, four… make it 7 to be sure, I landed and continued to search for Leonidas. When I found nothing but charcoal and remains of the fire I sat down sad.
''Bo..ss'' What was that?
''Boss…'' Leonidas! I jumped up and flew straight to the origin of the sound. There I saw Leonidas, curled up, wounded but alive. ''Boss… you found me…''
''shh, Leonidas. I'll take you to Fluttershy, she will make you better.''
''Boss, you need…to..lisss…'' Leonidas lost consciousness, the fire was too much for him, he was wood after all.

After A little journey with Leonidas on my back I arrived at Fluttershy's cottage, I opened the door and as most would think there were a lot of animals in there. Last time they ignored me for the most part but now… ''Why are all of you staring at me like that?'' I asked while putting Leonidas on the sofa. I put a blanket on him and sat down. ''Leonidas, something weird is going on and I'll find out what. You just rest here buddy.''
I stood up again and opened the door, closed it behind me and stretched my wings. Let's see what's going on with the girls… and if Bluestar survived. That last part came out with an uncontrolled giggle.
I flew away and went straight for the café when I saw somepony else hovering above the city limits. It was the Blade clone. He saw me and came to me.
''Well hello Blade, nice of you to join the party, everything was so much fun.''
''Glad you enjoyed yourself, but did we have a name for you yet?''
''Yes, it was Nemesis.''
''Ok, next question, do you know what happened with Leonidas?''
''Victim of when I was testing my powers.'' My mouth widened.
''You're joking right?''
''Sure I am, but I have to go now, we'll see each other soon enough Blade, and remember this time. My name is Nemesis!''
I shrugged and continued towards Ponyville while he left. ''He'll come back and then he will WHOA…'' Magic flew past by me and forced me to land. When I did I began to be surrounded by the Royal guards. ''Hey guys, what's up… Did I miss anything?''
The guards remained silent and a few moved aside, Princess Celestia and Princess Luna made their way through. ''Hey Luna, Hey Celestia, I''
''SILENCE!'' I fell on my back. What the hell was that for a scream? ''Blade, I still can't believe what you did but I must be true to what all the evidence says. Blade Flarestorm, you're hereby arrested for numerous anarchists and the attempt on destroying Canterlot and Ponyville.''
''…What?''

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Expected this? Yes, No, Maybe, Lobster?... Wait why a lobster? Oh well.
Hope you enjoyed it and please review on this. and look out for the next chapter.
Blade, out.

Oh almost forgot, a little warning. If school fucks me up more then I already am... well, this cliffhanger will be the mother of all cliffhangers. At least if this IS indeed a cliffhanger.
Blade, over and out this time.