Daniel Opened his eyes but saw only darkness, looking down to his hands he discovered he could see them so he knew he was not blind. When he looked around he found himself floating in a void, there was indeed absolutely nothing here.

"Where am I?" When he asked that memories shot through his mind and he remembered what happened. He remembered how he woke up this morning and went to college like a normal day but when he was returning home from Gregory's leaving party he took the shortcut through the alleyway and encountered the unicorn who got away and left him alone in space. "Am I dead? Is this what death is like?"

Daniel place his hand on his chest and he felt a heartbeat which surprised him and he decided to try something else, he took a deep breath and found that he could breathe. Daniel was starting to freak out with what was is currently happening and what should be happening. "HOW AM I NOT DEAD!?" Daniel shouted at the top of his lungs and then as he looked down at his shaking hands, he was trying to come to terms with what was going through his mind. "I....I can't be alive, How is this possible?" Just then he heard a explosion from behind him and turned around to see it was a perfect rainbow circle, he watched the colours with wonder, until he saw they were getting closer to him to which he tried to get out of the way but he could not and was hit by them.

As Daniel opened his eyes he took a look at his surroundings, he found that he was back in the same alleyway that he went going through when he encountered that unicorn and was lying against the wall of a house, as Daniel thought back to what took place here there was something that popped into his mind and he could not get off of it.

"What happened? Was it a dream? I walked through this place when I remember it happening. A Unicorn attacking me, dying in space, floating in a void and now awakening here. Could I have taken a dizzy turn while walking and ended up dreaming about it all?" Daniel chuckled at that thought. "Yes. That's what happened. There is no other way to explain it." As Daniel started to stand up he felt a sharp stinging pain in his stomach and backed up to the wall, resting his back against it as he put his hand where he felt the pain from he saw that he had blood almost all over his clothes, this made him start to panic as he thought that the event might have been real.

"No, It could not have happened, I probably just cut myself on glass when I fell asleep here." When Daniel tried to assure himself of that something else struck his mind. "Why did I fall asleep here? What caused it to happen to me?" Daniel pondered on that for a few moments until he gave up. "No matter, I will find out what happened eventually." Daniel thought and got out his IPhone, he was going to call his friend Josh but he stopped after seeing the date on the main screen of his IPhone, it read the 12th of November 2017.
"If this is some kind of sick joke then it is going too far." He though as he change the date back to the 21st of November 2015.

Daniel sat down against the wall again and took a deep breath to calm himself down. "Ok, One thing at a time. I can't get much answers by myself and all this happened after that leaving party. So Josh might know what happened, but what about my injuries?" He said aloud to himself.

He touched the blood on his clothes to find that it was dry, then lifted his hoody only to find his injury was still causing him some pain but it was not bleeding. "It's nothing too serious that it can't wait." Daniel thought as he started to call his friend and waited for an answer. He discovered his phone was still connected to a phone network but because it was not up to date he had to use credit to make a call, which he had none of so he listened to the instructions given and pressed 1 to be given a small amount of credit which he used to continue the call.

After a few seconds the IPhone was answered.

"Hello?" Daniel was happy he got an answer quickly but what he heard next shocked him. "Did you find Daniel's old IPhone Mrs Bell? You did not need to call just to tell me that." This confused Daniel.

"Why does he think my mother is calling him?" He started to speak into the phone. "No Josh, it's me Daniel." He waited for a reply but there was no reply for a few seconds so he continued. "Listen Josh I don't know how to tell you this but, what happened at the party yesterday? I had the craziest dream and woke up somewhere other than my house."

He waited for another response from Josh and after a few seconds he finally got a reply from him.

"Daniel?...How can you be alive!!!?" Daniel moved his head away when he heard him shout, When what he said registred in his mind he was shocked. Why would he ask such a thing.

"What do you mean 'How am I alive?' What's wrong?" He heard what sounded like Josh hyperventilating on the phone. Eventually he calmed down and spoke.

"Dude. You got stabbed and you have been gone for two years!" Daniel felt his blood run cold when he heard Josh say this.

"How can that be true, I mean you are right I was stabbed but how was I gone that long....Hold on, how do you know I got stabbed? Josh I swear if this is joke you are pulling it's not funny!". Daniel shouted that last part.

"You don't know do you? When you encountered that unicorn there wa-" Daniel interrupted him.

"How do you know of that too!" He said in total shock and Daniel then got a comforting thought. "Perhaps, I am not going crazy....however this still could all be just a big sick prank, but the odds of that are slim because what prank would involve stabbing someone for real?"

"Remember how there were other people there when you got attacked by that unicorn?" He heard Josh ask.

"Yes there were a few but....its not very believable what happened, knowing how the police and law are is these days they would pass there stories off as being drunk or on drugs." Daniel never trusted the government, if history taught him anything it's that they think citizens are just expendable recourses or living test subjects.

"Some of them recorded it on there phones, there is like 7 of them on YouTube right now with millions of views." At this Daniel felt like he was going to collapse. If this was true then what would people do if they saw him in the streets.

"No, that can't be true. If it is then." Daniel's hands were shaking. Something quickly entered his mind and it was the last thing he thought of before he supposedly died. "Then...what about my parents? My little sister?" Daniel whispered to himself.

"It's true dude, I am amazed you are still alive for goodness sake. Everyone thought you died! You best get back home to tell them that you are alive. I will be over as fast and I can!"

Just before Josh hung up he heard Daniel talk again "I am going to use my IPhone on the way back to see if this is true. If I find out you're screwing with me I will Not be Happy in the slightest!" Daniel shouted before he hung up. He sat on the ground still trying to understand what is happening. "Ok, So, I finished my college lessons. Went to Gregory's leaving party. Got attacked by a creepypasta demon unicorn on my way home. Got stabbed through my stomach and died in space while falling towards what looked like a star. Then I wake up almost 2 years later with my injury still not fully healed and almost everyone who has internet knows of what happened and if the encounter I had turned up on the news, it means also some who don't have internet also know." He sighed "This is too much for me to take in." He got up and started to walk home. While walking home he used his IPhone and went on to YouTube. "Lets see if he was telling the truth."

The Fight between Sombra, Luna and Celestia had been going on for a good few minutes and Sombra was quite fatigued. He had injures that were more than just burning stings and was also crippled as well thanks to his horn which had a crack on it that was from before when the human hit him there. It was causing his magic to be weaker that what it normally was. Not to mention it also cause him to feel a stinging pain when he used his magic.

He had multiple cuts over his body that were dripping blood, his back leg where he got stabbed with his own sword when return to the empire was barely able to hold him up, he still could not see very well with his right eye and when he could see out of it there was no other colours other that black for the outlines of objects or ponies and red for everything else. The loss of blood was causing him to struggle just to remain conscious and keep fighting.

He almost collapsed to the floor but just barely managed to hold himself up. "You accursed princesses. I will kill you both for this!" He said as he hit Celestia with a powerful beam of magic which knocked her back a few feet then screamed in pain as he felt his horn sting. Then he was hit across the face by a back leg kick from Luna which knocked him against a wall.

As Celestia got up she caught a glimpse of something next to her, it was a pile of things that Sombra seemed to try and burn recently. From the shape of the objects and what they seemed to be made of she found them out to be around 9 burned scrolls and a few energy gems. "He mustn't want us to know what he was doing before we arrived." Celestia thought as she stood back up when something caught her eye. There was a scroll at the bottom that Sombra tried to burn completely and it almost was, but it also looked like it might still be readable. Using her magic she picked it up to check that it was not be capable of restarting a flame. When she saw that it was not, she folded it up and placed it in her front left hoof armour.

"It is over Sombra. You can't defeat us and for you evil crimes we will banish you to Tarterus." Luna said to Sombra as she powered up a spell but he just smiled in response. Celestia know what Luna was going to do and joined in.

"I was ready for this." Then he started to power up magic in his horn, which was causing his pain but his determination helped him pass it. He was then hit with the magic of the 2 princesses which caused him to start fading into the crystals. "If I can't rule this empire then nopony can." He casted his spell and all the crystals started to disappear then he looked towards the princesses. "When the empire returns, so will I." He said before vanishing with the crystals.

As soon as all the crystals vanished Celestia and Luna went back to the ground to meet up with there troops, as they arrived they found that they were waiting for them. When the princesses landed they approached the general of their army, general Swift a yellow unicorn with a gray mane and tail and a cutie mark of a sword with dash lines behind it, who bowed to them as they approached.

"Did you free all the crystal ponies?" luna was the first to ask to which she got a sigh from Swift.

"Yes we did you're highness but they disappeared when the crystals did." Celestia sighed, She did not expect this.

"Never the less. Good job general, at least we tried. Now let's head back to Canterlot. We all need some rest." To which Swift nodded and ordered the troops to return to sister's castle. As the army started moving Luna saw that Celestia removed what looked like a burned scroll from her hoof armour.

"Tia, what do you have there?" Luna asked this Celestia looked at her sister.

"This is one of the scrolls that Sombra tried to destroy before we confronted him. I hope it will tell us of what his plan was or at least just a clue about it." Celestia told he sister as she placed it back in her armour. "I will look into it when we get back to our home." Luna looked to her sister.

"What ever he was planning to do has been stopped, he will no longer be a threat. Now let go, it has been a long day and surly we will need the rest for tomorrow."

The sisters then took flight and were soon at the front of the army heading back to their home.

"Are you serious?!?" Daniel thought as he just finish watching a video on YouTube about his encounter with the unicorn. As he watched it some of the dialog was scrambled but he could clearly remember everything that was said. "Well now I know I'm not crazy." When he thought back to what Josh said to him about him being last seen 2 years ago, Daniel did not know how to feel about that. Sure he was happy to be alive and to get to see his family and friends once more but what worried him was how they would react.

Daniel looked at the at the date that showed the videos upload date to see it was uploaded on the 21st of November 2015, he then opened the YouTube main page and went to the recent uploads and it showed that the random video was uploaded on the 12th of November 2017 . "It really has been 2 years." He thought with a sigh. "When I get back my mom is going to kill me or faint, or faint then kill me when she wakes up.".

After a few minutes of walking Daniel made it to his house. Along the way he got some strange looks from people who saw him which he figured was mostly out of surprise because they knew who he was thanks to the videos on YouTube. Some even went back into their house the moment they saw him. He walked up to his house and chapped the door and it opened a few seconds later. His mother was the one who answered. "Lets get this over with." He thought as he gave a shy smile and said the first thing that came to his mind. "Hi mom...how has things been?" He asked expecting a scream but instead his mom stood there unmoving with almost unnaturally wide eyes for a while before he started to see tears coming from her eyes.

"H-h-how are, you should, but you're-" She started to say before reaching out and gently pushing Daniel on the chest, when her hand made contact with him she stood still and had that look on her that shows when a person is trying to terms with what is happening. Not long after that she threw her arms around him. "You should be dead, How are you alive? Wher-" She then got a look of sudden realisation on her face before looking at Daniel angrily. "Where have you been these pass 2 years!? You didn't once call or message me to tell me you were alive. Do you have any idea how I felt when I saw the video of what happened to you!? Do you know how miserable Annabelle has been ever since I had to tell her you died!?" She screamed at Daniel who just stared at her.

"I-I-" He sighed "How do I explain this?" Daniel thought of how he would explain this. "All I remember after that attack is that I soon woke up in the same alleyway where it all happened no longer that 2 hours ago. I didn't know I was away for this long so please don't blame me for it." He then heard another voice.

"Mom, why are you shouting?" Daniel looked to the side, passed the shoulder of his mother and saw his little sister Annabelle standing there looking at him in the same way his mom was a few seconds ago. "Big Brother?" She looked at him for a few seconds before slowly approaching him and then going into a full spirit with tears flowing from her eyes. When she got to Daniel she tossed herself at him and grabbed him in a hug all the while still crying. "You're back, my wish was granted. You're alive." At that statement Daniel hugged her back.

"Yes. I am back. Even if I don't know how. The point is, I am." He said still hugging his little sister. He felt some tears leave his own eyes now that he was back with them. After a few seconds Daniel turned his head and looked at his mother, clearing the tears from his eyes. "Is Dad home?"

"He is away on a business meeting and won't be back until tomorrow." She said as Annabelle broke the hug. "Come on. It's almost time for dinner." As the 3 were walking to the house Daniel felt happy knowing that things in his life could now get back to normal but as he approached his home he felt a slight quick pain in his chest which he ignored.

"Merge Fully Complete" He heard a voice and looked around but nobody was there. His mother saw this.

"Daniel are you ok" He turn towards her.

"Yes I'm fine. Just happy to be back." He told his mom and as they entered the house something entered Mrs Bell's mind.

"He looked like he knew someone was there. I should be careful, it might be the unicorn impersonating my son. Who knows what it's magic is capable of. If it is that unicorn then I swear that I will make it sorry for what it did to him."

"Hey Mom I am going to my room. Is that ok?". Daniel told his mom as he was at the stairs.

"That fine but dinner will be ready soon, just so you know." Daniel nodded his head at her before going up to his room. When she heard his door close Mrs bell decided it might be best to tell Annabelle about what she though a few seconds ago. "Annabelle, I need you to do something for me." Annabelle turned around to face her mother. "As much as it pains me to say this. That might not be Daniel, our Daniel. It could be that unicorn that attacked him 2 years ago. So I need you to keep a close eye on him. If you see something out of the ordinary be sure to tell me, ok?" She received a nod from her. "Thank You." As Annabelle went back to watching the TV, Mrs Bell turned to look at the stairs and sighed.

Luna had just finished raising the moon and was now heading to her room to finish up for the day when she met Celestia on her way, who was holding the burned scroll that she said she had found during that battle with Sombra wit her magic. Luna thought that the scroll was not all that important now that Sombra was defeated. "Tia, why are you still holding on to that? Sombra is gone, it's not that important anymore."

Celestia looked at Luna with a determined look. "I have a feeling it is Luna." At this Luna sighed.

"Tia why is it so important, its just a scroll that he stole for the archives, other kingdoms like the griffin kingdom should have copies of it as most knowledge is shared between all species." Luna was hoping to get he sister to stop bothering about what that scroll might contain but she was unsuccessful.

"This is not one that he stole from the archives. I asked for a full list of what scrolls we had in the archives and as it turns out Sombra stole 8 of them. I found the ruined remains of 9 and to top it all off, the paper of this one is older that the ones in archives as the colour of the parts that are not burned are quite withered and dark where it should be pure white." Luna was surprised by this and did not know how to respond. "Well I'm heading back to my chambers to read it and see what I can find out. You should get some rest too little sister. You have more than earned it after the battle we had today." Luna had no objections and just looked down at the floor in defeat.

"Very well then sister, I shall continue to my chambers, happy dreams Tia" Luna said before walking off to her room.

Celestia continued towards her room and when she arrive she removed her royal gear before lying down in her bed, placing the scroll she had obtained from the crystal empire down on her nightstand, unfold it and started to read it.