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My real name isn't Light, it's just what they all call me, and after long enough it did become my name. We all picked the word that suited us the most.

When you're made of something different, and you shouldn't really exist, some people will go to any ends to kill you. They got my friends, but I didn't go down without a fight...

...Unfortunately that fight ended with me turning up in some candy-land lookalike and getting stoned...

...Literally...

Since then my life's been a giant waterslide down the shitter of the universe, and it doesn't look like it'll be letting up any time soon. Maybe it'll stop one day, maybe it won't, I don't really care either way.

But I digress, let me tell you a little story, but first you need to hear where it started...

A scream reached my ears as I ran through the burning streets of Capitol. Passing another drab building, I took a sharp left, towards the sound. A brief thought flitted through my mind, warning me of the dangers, but I ignored this voice. The other option was not acceptable.

I couldn't lose Air.

She was too valuable to our cause. She had to be saved. But it wasn't just that, she was a friend, one of the few I had. She had to be saved.

I could hear Earth's heavy footsteps behind me as he tried to keep up. It was futile however. It was in his nature to be slow, clumsy. He was the tank of our little group.

Water was already ahead, having used the sewer systems to her advantage. She had always liked surfing, and now this was the closest thing to it.

I could almost imagine what Fire would have been doing in this situation. Probably flitting alongside me, cracking some stupid puns to lighten the mood of the situation. I wish that he-

No, I can't allow myself to think about him. Too many bad memories.

The scream sounded again, louder than before.

I ran on, past the old supermarket. Everything in this place had been so much better before the all of this had happened. Nothing had ever been the same since.

I kept on running, approaching the place I knew that they had Air. As I rounded the last bend in the Old City, I saw my destination.

The citadel, rising high into the air, seemingly stabbing the underside of the sky. Banners with messages hung from the points all around this place, the Hub of all government operations. Fitting really that it was called the Hub. It coordinated all attacks and Peacekeeper movements around, well, anywhere.

It had to go.

I turned to look for Earth. He was just rounding the bend. I waited for him to catch up to me before calling out.

"Hey, you ready?" I yelled, not really expecting an answer from the stoic giant.

"Ready as I'll ever be." was the reply that rumbled out of his mouth.

"Good, now we just have to wait for Water, she should be here soon," I paused, "You okay to keep going? You kinda look a bit out of breath there..."

His only reaction was to give me the finger.

"Whatever you say..."

"Hrmphh"

I walked over to a nearby building and leant on it for support. Looking around my surroundings, I noticed one of the System's posters. It had some stupid message about conforming, and shit like that. Those were the kind of messages being blasted around the whole world by the Hub, and the driving force behind it. It disgusted me.

I felt the familiar signs of my rage towards the Capitol rising in by stomach. Earth noticed the look on my face and walked towards me with a worried look on his chiseled brown face.

"Light, calm down. You're starting look a bit obvious...."

I looked first at his concerned face, and then down at my hands. Sure enough, they were fading in and out of view. I knew that my whole body was doing the same, including my clothes. I concentrated and my hands quickly slipped back into view, but were still shifting through patches of light and dark, giving me the appearance of a walking shadow. I'd always had problems like that when I lost my temper.

"Hey, keep that under control. We might run into some people, might cause trouble."

Earth's voice slipped through my thoughts, and I quickly fixed my appearance, even going so far as to create a shadow to match my body as well. Nothing more suspicious than someone without a shadow. Earth looked like he was about to say more when a crash reverberated through the ground, shortly followed by a jet of water and... something else. A manhole cover shot through the air, and a large shape shortly after. I peered through the jet and, sure enough, Water landed in front of me.

Water, she was beautiful, but also temperamental and extremely dangerous...

"Yo, you boys ready?" She asked. Earth and I both looked at each other, wondering how she could be so carefree in a situation like this.

Without even waiting for an answer, she dashed towards the Hub.

BEEEP!

I followed Water across the clearing that surrounded the Hub, not even waiting for Earth. We stopped by the door.

"Water, you sure that the place is clear? No alarms?"

"Nope, all clear. Seems weird but, meh, I'm not one to complain."

"Not even any guards?"

"Nothing but Air and some other random captives."

This seemed strange, but before I could voice my opinion, Water slammed through the front doors along with Earth. I jumped through with just enough time to see the two of them on the other side of the foyer, running towards the basement section of the complex.

"Guys, wait up for a sec..." I yelled in vain, running over to the other side of the foyer and into the corridor. There were all sorts of messages on the wall.

I could see signs posted on the walls with pictures of all five of our faces; Earth, Water, Air, Fire and me, Light. There was a caption reading 'Most Wanted: Traitors to the System, kill on sight'. All of our faces were mugshots with our 'real' names on them. The names that we had had to assume to remain relatively undetected for our duration in the Center.

BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!

I continued to follow my companions, to find that they had both disappeared around another corner of the corridor. No matter how fast I was, I could never catch them, only ever seeing them disappear around each corner in front of me.

I ran after them for a while, I'm not sure how long, before stopping. I had arrived at a five point junction. There were no clues to help me decide which one to pick. I looked into each corridor one by one, but they disappeared into darkness after the first five metres. The scream echoed louder, joined by the anguished cry of two others.

I picked the middle one at random at random and ran down it. The tunnel slowly became darker and darker until eventually became pitch black. I lit up my hand and continued running, but stopped when I heard the scream a third time. I was close.

BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-

I arrived at the end of the tunnel, and my jaw hit the ground. In front of me was the most horrible sight that I could see at any point. I was in a dead end with a clear glass wall. Through the glass was a dark cavern with Air, Earth and Water. Only the latter was still alive, the others were strewn carelessly across the ground, blood covering them. I focused on Water.

She was on her knees with her hands tied behind her back, there were burns covering her body and her right ear was missing. Blood stains from the two others had coated themselves on her like some demented jacket.

There was a gun pressed to her head, held by a shadowy silhouette.

She noticed me in my chamber, unable to help.

"Light! It's all a trap! Run!"

The gunman pulled the trigger.

-EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!

"AHHHHHH!"

I jolted out of my bed in a cold sweat sending shadows flitting into every corner of the room. I heard a smash as a cup that had been left on the floor was hit by one. Reaching over, I brought my hand down over my alarm clock, picked it up, and proceeded to throw it out the window of my apartment. I heard it hit the ground a few seconds later. At least the beeping stopped.

I collapsed back in bed, memories of my nightmare stopping me from returning to my sleep. I felt like crap, so I rolled out of bed and promptly collapsed on the ground. Every movement punctuated by flickering lights and shifting shadows.
My whole body was shifting in and out of the sight, my form half liquid.

I ran over to the bathroom, barely making it to the toilet before I keeled over and expelled... just about everything I had left. The acrid smell of my own puke along with the taste was more than enough to get my wide awake in an instant. But remember, coffee is better any day kids. Eventually, I'd relaxed a little and withdrew from my kneeling position, unsteadily lurching over to the mirror. All that I saw was a disheveled piece of black hair on a disheveled piece of face, the whole image shifting in whirls of light distortion. It took me a moment to realise that the vagrant was actually me.

I jumped back from the mirror to avoid the horrible sight that I had become. Walking back over, I slowed my breathing and made my whole complexion much more stable. I reached towards my face, smoothing my hair down and making myself at least at bit presentable for nobody in particular. Standing back, I admired my pathetic effort. I totally looked awesome, notice the sarcasm?

"Well Light, today's the day, time to make a difference."

Before I left I admired my choice in clothes. White, black, nothing else. Quite the fashionista. Wasn't like I had a choice though...

I walked back over to my bedroom/living room. There were four pictures hanging from the wall above my bed. They were pictures of Earth, Air, Water and Fire. I quickly turned away, just in case my memories made a cameo appearance. Walking towards my 'kitchen', which was only an gas stove and a bucket, I boiled some water and added that to some quick-make food. Sitting back to 'enjoy' my meal on my couch I looked around my sorry excuse for a home. A small bed in one corner of the room, the small stove, and the battered and beaten old couch that I was siting on. All of this in a 10x10 room with a doorway leading to my bathroom. But I wasn't sad. Either way this would be the last time that I saw this place.

Today was the day that I took out the Director.

The Director was basically the ruling force of the System. This being was an evil tyrant that seemed hell bent on the destruction of all things different, to create a world of sameness with no variation. He had mostly succeeded. Already he had eradicated most species and conformed everyone. Everyone but me.

He had to go.

I put on my trench coat. It was brown, but the moment it touched me, as always, it turned to a pure white. I walked around the room making sure that everything looked crap. Check.

"Okay, here we go." I looked over to the portraits of my friends. "Wish me luck."

I slowly walked over to the window of my apartment and de-constructed myself. To anyone watching from the outside, they would have seen a stream of shadows flit down into an alley, only to have a 19 year old with a blank expression on his face walk out. If they had looked closely enough, they would have noticed that his shadow was about a second out of synch, but no one looked, and no one noticed, they were like that.

I turned onto the main street, trying my hardest to blend in, which is quite hard when no one wears anything but grey suits all the time. A white trench coat stands out quite a bit, but at least it looked clean. I could see people running to the other side of the street just to stay away from me. The posters were working, they recognised me, and I was beginning to regret my direct approach. But it didn't matter, either way, this would be the last time that I left my home.

Possibly the last day to do anything. But I had accepted that, I was ready.

I broke into a run, knowing that it wouldn't make a difference, heading straight towards the Hub. This part of the city was empty of civilians, with only the occasional armed patrol. Immediately this brought the dream back to me. It was always the same dream. Running along the street, into the Hub, and the dead end. I picked up my pace and sprinted towards the Hub, not caring for the looks that I attracted.

?????

"Sir, should I activate the holding cell?"

The shadow standing near the computer nodded.

"Okay sir, I'll set that up now..."

Another nod, and turned to the Second in Command, searching the bank of screens in front of him for Light. He couldn't be seen. The Director motioned towards the screen, his intention clear.

"I'm sorry sir, I can't seem to find him on any of the monitors at the moment, but he must be here somewhere..."

The Director merely glared at his Second in Command.

A whimper slid out of his helper's mouth.

"Please sir! It's only temporary! He will turn up in a few moments!"

The Second in Command was never seen again.

The Director did not tolerate incompetence, in any form.

Light

I rounded a corner and saw the Hub. It was the exact spot that I had been in my dream, but this time Earth wasn't there to keep my temper in check.

He was the only thing that kept me from annihilating everything.

The moment I saw the Hub I lost all semblance of humanity, becoming a being with no shape. The thing that was me shone with a brightness that made it impossible to look at, but at the same time contained a darkness that emitted nothing at all, being merely an empty space in the fabric of reality.

In short, I became something that broke all of the laws of physics and told common sense to go shove it's head up it's own ass.

The being that was me flitted across the clearing that surrounded the Hub, and immediately blew down the wall. It rushed down the corridor in a form that looked more liquid than solid.

Destruction was all that was left in this creatures wake.

It reached the junction, and with barely any hesitation took the same corridor as in it's dreams. Upon reaching the dead end, it smashed the glass wall and burst into the room beyond. It was a massive cylindrical hollow, a narrow spire rising through the centre of it, a glass control room built into the top.

The thing only took a moment to take stock of the situation before it immediately went for the simplest solution, go in and destroy everything.

It flew up the outside of the tower to the bulge that was the top. There were windows, but it smashed down the wall anyway. It looked around the inside of the control tower and saw-

Nothing.

The control tower was empty.

The being shifted back into a form that was Light. I started to walk around the room. It looked like it had been recently used, but that all of the valuable equipment had been removed in a short amount of time. There were only banks of computers with lifeless screens facing towards the windows of the tower. There was also a pile of ash that resembled a person spread across the ground. Obviously someone that had pissed off the Director.

Something here was wrong.

I walked back over to the breach in the room and was about to jump down when a slow, drawn out chuckle echoed around the room. This alone sent shivers down my spine. It seemed to be coming from everywhere and nowhere at once. For the first time in my life I felt truly scared. I scanned the room and jumped about a metre in the air when I saw something that scared me more than anything. The Director stood there, slowly clapping his hands.

All that I could see of him was a dark silhouette, framed against the backdrop of the computer monitors. He didn't even move. Another chuckle dripped out of his mouth lazily, like honey dripping from a ledge .

I moved forward slightly. "You-you son of a bitch..." I whispered, menace in my voice. "You did all of this."

Still no movement from him.

"I'm gonna make you pay for what you did..."

Silence from the Director.

I only let out a loud yell as I leapt towards him, poised for a killing blow, but I felt something stop me. The air around me turned to something with the consistency of treacle, and I slowed down, unable to move.

Then the Director spoke.

"No."

The word was punctuated by the world exploding into a mess of electricity. I felt my mind scrambling, preventing any coherent thought. The electricity stopped, but the effects remained, stopping me from controlling my nature, leaving me powerless. I collapsed in a heap on the ground, unable to move, flickering in and out of reality. The sound of footsteps of drifted through the confusion that was my thought process. I tried to lift my head, but my paralysis prevented anything but my eyes from moving.

The Director approached me. I could barely make out anything on him, but his left hand was outstretched, and electricity danced along it. I could only watch, dreading what was going to come next.

He grabbed the collar of my trench coat and pulled me up from my huddled position on the floor.

I tried to get a good look at him, but all I could see was shadow.

Except for what was in his hand.

A gun.

I registered this for only a moment before it was pushed against my nose, hard.

I couldn't see much of the Director, but somehow I knew, I just knew that he was smiling.

The gun flashed.

Darkness.

Ponyville Library

A purple dragon baby stood on the balcony of the Ponyville Library alongside a purple unicorn. Both were staring towards the Everfree Forest, the only source of light being the bright moon that shone overhead, sending streams of luminescence shooting down through the partially cloudy sky. The dragon looked towards the unicorn and tapped her to gain her attention.

"Twilight, are you sure that this will work, I mean, it seems a bit weird..."

"Of course Spike, now be quiet for a moment. I need to concentrate."

The unicorn named Twilight closed her eyes, and a purple glow appeared around the horn on her head. Beads of sweat rolled off of her brow as the glow expanded first to twice the size of her horn, then her head, and then her whole body. The dragon Spike hastily retreated to the other side of the balcony, fear is his eyes. He had never seen his companion like this before.

"Uhhhh, Twi?"

No response.

"TWI!"

Twilight turned to face him, her eyes pure white. There was a large ball of pure energy on the tip of her horn.

"Spike, I've almost got it! It's about to ope-!"

As she said this, an explosion echoed around all of Ponyville, accompanied by a bright white flash, lighting up the world as if the Sun was overhead in place of the Moon. The energy ball on Twilight's head shot off and hovered above her head, forming a bright purple oval, lightning shooting from the edges.

Twilight, now returned to normal, span around to face Spike, who's eyes were as wide as dinner plates, jaw touching the floor. Her eyes shone with pride.

"Spike! I've done it! I think that the portal worked! We will have to write a letter to the Princes-"

There was a resounding crash. Twilight turned in time to see the portal destabilise and veer out from above her head, until it impacted a dark and evil place.

The Everfree Forest.

A blinding light shooting out of the portal. The flash formed a single point, which then turned into a form, which then proceeded towards the ground while the laws of physics laughed in revenge for earlier events. The world returned to it's normal dark state, but for the object falling to the ground. Twilight could do nothing but watch.

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