Equestria Canterlot Castle

1004 years ago

5 months after Discord's first defeat

*Bong, bong, bong!*

The silence of the room was disturbed by the vibrations that filled air as the metal gears ground together with a metallic click. Something stirred in the bed of the Princess Celestia's room. Celestia awoke from her sleep and poked her head out of her bed sheets to find what had disturbed her sleep.      

*Bong, bong, bong!*

Her ears perked up as she scanned the room for the source of the noise. Her eyes followed her ears as she looked around the room.

*Bong, bong, bong!*

As the noise went off for the third time, Celestia locked eyes with the noise that caused her to wake up. It was the grandfather clock that Meowth had built for her. Celestia glared at the clock. Sometimes she wondered if the clock was meant to be Meowth's revenge for when she accidently lost his charm. As Celestia tired her hardest at glaring at the grandfather clock, she noticed the two arms the clock was positioned to.

It was five in the morning, and the sun should have been starting to rise up to start the day.

"You win this time." After her failed attempt at giving the clock a piece of her mind, Celestia took off her bed sheets to get out of bed and then proceeded to start raising the sun.

But there was a problem. Celestia could not raise the sun.

Again Celestia concentrated to begin her spell, but she wasn't able to feel the warmth of the sun as she tried to find it.

"What is going?" Celestia asked herself.

" What's the matter Celestia, can't you use your magic to raise your measly little sun?" the voice echoed around the room.

Celestia's eyes widened as she heard the voice of an old foe she defeated long ago.

"Jack?!"

In a flash of light a familiar Pokémon had appeared. The Pokémon was known as Bannette it has three short spikes on its head and a long zigzagging ribbon trailing off the back of its head. A zipper acts as its mouth, and it has purplish-pink eyes with slit pupils. Its long, flat arms have three-fingered hands, while its legs are short and stubby. It has a yellow, brush-like tail. Unlike all the other Pokémon she met, this Pokémon didn't belong Team Rocket. No, this one belonged to Discord.

Celestia was about to attack the creature, but then she noticed something off about it, his eyes were dimmed, and his body was in horrible condition.

"What- What happened to you?"

Jack looked up and gave Celestia his signature grin, only that it wasn't his normal cocky grin, no, this one was a sad, defeated smile. "Not important, what is important is that you have to help me..." the doll answered as he focused back to Celestia.

Celestia rose an eyebrow. "Help you? And why should I help you? And what have you done to the sun!?"

Jack's grin never left him. "The reason why you can't raise your sun is because i'm speaking to you in a dream. And if you don't help me, my master's fate could become yours."

That had certainly gotten Celestia's attention, something happened to Discord while trapped in Tartarus? "What do you mean?"

The Bannette's eyes flashed. "Why don't I show you."

Celestia's eyes opened, seeing that she was alone, she looked around, until she heard a explosion nearby. Celestia ran towards the explosion and saw somepony she knew all too well, Discord. Although there were some differences in her old enemy. The first thing Celestia noticed was that Discord looked a lot more weaker, there were burn marks and bruises all over his body and scars that ran deep, exposing some skin. Another noticeable difference was one of his horns, his unicorn horn was mangled, one could not even tell it was a unicorn horn. His chaos gem was broken, pieces of it scattered across the floor.  

All of a sudden Discord became surrounded by sword-like creatures, their single eyes, which was purple with a white, linear pupil, readied their stances in the offensive of the sword-like creature's blade form, as they carried their shield in the left arm and exposed their golden blades, ready to attack. Jack had appeared in front of Discord, determine to protect him, his mouth began to open as a dark energy began to leak out.

"Enough." , A loud commanding voice echoed.

Immediately, the sword-like creatures went to their defensive stance, a shield form, as they held their shield up in front of the blade, with both of their arms crossed behind the shield. Three more creatures appeared, two of them were a mummy like creature both of them only had one eye. The third one was a pitch-black figure he was shadow-like . It's small head had a white fog-like mane flowing in a non existent breeze from its head covering one of its bright piercing blue eyes. It also had a red spiky growth around its neck. It had skinny arms and long black tatters hanging from its shoulders with black, claw-like hands. It had the slight appearance of an hourglass figure and appeared to be wearing an old, ripped cloak.

The creature spoke. "Young Bannette, why do you side with this creature and not your fellow ghost?"

Jake growled. "My name is Jack and he-," Jack pointed at Discord. " -is my master."

The black figure chuckled. "Master?" The creature shook his head, as if he was disappointed. "Bannette don't you see? We're in a new world! Filled with these pathetic creatures, who are so weak, that an Meowth's natural abilities impress and awe these weak minded equines!"

The figure pointed at Discord. "Even this creature you call master! Who has the power of a god! Was weak enough to let himself be defeated by a team of six Pokémon. Do you not see this is our chance! We can rule over these creatures, and be treated as the gods we are!"

"You seem to act all high and mighty even as you fight a opponent who's magic was stripped from him. That shows that you are a coward, so why don't you fight me? ", Jack shot back.

"An amusing thought Jack, but there is no point in engaging in battle with you, I have already won." the pitch-black figure answered while turning its back to Jack. "Now leave, there is nothing you can do."

"NO! " Yelled Jack, "I WILL NOT LET YOU LEAVE! NOT BEFORE I MAKE YOU REGRET EVER FIGHTING AGAINST MY MASTER!" Jack shot a Shadow Ball toward the pitch-black figure hitting it in it's back.

     In an instant, the sword-like creatures reappeared around Jack in their  blade form and lunged forward to attack. But the attack was halted by a strong telekinetic attack. When Jack saw this, he saw that it was the Discord who was using the last of his magic to stop the attackers with. Discord flung the sword-like creatures away from Jack, throwing them into the walls of the room, eventually disappearing into nothingness.

  "Very well Jack, I gave you a chance to leave, but now you will get your wish."

The pitch-black creature vanished from sight. Jack had to become alert; he had no idea where it will strike. As he tried to figure out where it went, the shadowy form reappeared behind him. One of it's claws glowed black with a purple outline. The aura grew into a large claw, and the shadowy figure struck Jack. Jack fell on to all four as he felt the claws sink through his back.

Again the pitch-black figure reappeared to strike at Jack, but this time he was ready for it. Jack flew up into the air as the shadowy figure attempted to attack him from below. Jack's mouth opened as a foul energy started to leak as he searched for the pitch-black creature. From out of the shadows, the creature attacked again and when Jack saw an opening, he discharged his attack in front of the creature, landing a critical blow at the creature. The pitch-black creature retreated into the shadows as it tried to recover from the direct hit.

"Lucky hit, but you will not land another so easily."

Jack simply smirked at what he just observed. He had noticed that his opponent would only spring up to attack anywhere the room was darkest. This gave him an idea. Jack's whole body began to glow. In a short distance , the shadowy creature became aware of what the ghost type was doing, he began to rush towards him. Just as Jack was about to release the energy he gathered up, the creature jumped out of the shadows behind him. The creature crouched together and then extended its arms quickly, making a wave of purple circles come out of its body and hit it's opponent. In its place were the screams of pain as the ghost type fell.

"I told you that I had no reason to fight you. You are weak. The power I will gain from your master will make me invincible." The creature turned his back. "You never even stood a chance." said the creature.

"Who-Who are you?"

"I am the pitch black Pokémon, The Phantom King Darkria." Darkria put his hand on top of Discord's head. "And with this body, no one will be able to defeat me." Darkria's body began to glow, and soon enough both Discord and the Phantom King began to merge. "Let the era of the phantoms begin!"

Next Chapter: Ch.14- And then there were 3...er 5 Estimated time remaining: 57 Minutes