"Who is this?" Annabelle asked as the hooded figure raised up it's staff and the purple pillar of power expanded. More zombie like creatures appeared as the pillar expanded and then a wall of purple was made on one of the castle walls, which had more of these creature pouring out of it the moment it was put up.

"Now it's our time. Take Canterlot!" He shouted and fired his staff at a group of changelings and guards who were quickly enveloped in the purple beam and then they started acting like the rest of the zombies. "But leave Celestia and Luna. They're mine." He said grinning.

Annabelle saw some of the zombies go up to some ponies and as they grabbed them she saw some purple smoke in the form of tendrils enter them from their skin before they dropped to the ground, only to raise up a few moments later after some violent twitching.

"No...my children." Chrysalis was almost in tears when she saw some of her zombified changelings approaching her. With her injuries she had trouble standing up but as Annabelle tried to help her, she slapped her away. "Leave me alone!" Chrysalis screamed and watched as her undead children walked up to her, she was crying but also...smiling? "What has...he done to you?" She asks as they easily pushed her to the ground and within a moment Chrysalis ended up just like them.

"Get away!" Annabelle realised that voice belonged to Freddy and looking over at him she saw an zombie Timberwolf push him against a wall.

"FREDDY!" She screamed as she saw purple tendrils enter him but after a moment, nothing happened. The timberwolf seemed to try again but with a single smack, Freddy turned it into twigs on the ground.

"Annabelle!" She heard Twilight's voice and saw Twilight was backing away from another zombie pony that was trying to get to her. Twilight blasted the pony and ran over to her. "Annabelle. You need to get help. Are you sure you have no clue where Daniel is?" She said looking around and then at the porta, which still had entire legions of undead coming out if it and even some infected birds.

"Fly over the city and infect all you can!" The hooded figure said.

"Freddy!" She called and Freddy ran over to her. "Do you have any idea where-" Before she could finish talking there was an earthquake and some bright lights that weren't that far from Canterlot appeared.

"The Covenant has arrived." Freddy informed her.

"What's the Covenant?" Twilight asked and Annabelle spoke to her.

"Forget about that. All you need to know is that they are on our side. Freddy. Do you know where Daniel is at all?" Freddy froze for a moment as whirling was heard.

"Sorry. I don't have any idea where he is. The only thing I can think of is he went off with Nature." Annabelle hoped that wasn't the case. The only place he would be other than Canterlot would be his home or Ponyville. He wouldn't go to the entity hangout with the wedding going on. So what was keeping him?

"Freddy. Head home and look around ponyville. See if you can find him."

"Alright." Before he took off he was hit with a purple beam and Annabelle watch in horror as Freddy screamed. As the beam stopped she saw Freddy on the ground and shaking.

"Freddy?" Freddy stood up and looked around.

"I'm alive?" Freddy was unaffected. The zombie beam didn't seem to work on him. Perhaps because he was more machine than anything else. Even the necromancer looked somewhat surprised to see that the one he hit didn't turn.

"What are you?" Firing another blast, but this time in the shape of a sphere and not a beam. Freddy's cloak was blown off and his metal body and glowing mane, tail and eyes were visible. "What..." The necromancer was speechless at what he was seeing. He didn't get long to think on it as a blast was sent his way, which a purple barrier blocked.

"Get going Freddy!" Annabelle shouted and as Freddy ran she stepped forwards, focusing on keeping the necromancers attention fixed on her.

Waiting to see what he did first she saw him fire the same beam at her that he fired at Freddy and she retaliated with her own blast. As it collided with the beam they soon both exploded, none getting the power advantage over the other.

Firing two more blasts at him he put up another barrier and Annabelle saw a few little cracks as her blasts made contact.

"Get out of my way." He fired another beam at her which she dodged and fired back. She would have gone in for an attack but she needed to try and avoid his beam.

This is when she saw a Diamond dog rushing up to the necromancer from behind and as he turned around the dog grabbed onto his staff. Annabelle saw the dog was wearing a shirt that had the symbol of their alliance on it, since they had friendly changeling they needed to tell who was friend and foe and this was later confirmed as she saw the Changeling leader thorax wearing the same thing the dog was wearing, approach her.

"Annabelle. Good to see you. What's the situation?"

"Well my brother isn't here. The queen has been turned. Celestia is injured. The elements are goodness knows where and the city is in chaos. Anything else?" She asked like it was obvious. They then heard screaming as the dog who was with the necromancer was having magical energy poured into him by the staff as it leaked into his arms and he soon became one of the undead.

"So we have some competition? Well alright. More for me!" He shouted as he then felt something that caused his eyes to widen and as he turned around he was face to face with a Giant Timberwolf. "Thag. The great spirit of the forest. I have been looking for you for a long time."

"I can tell. Your minions have attacked more than a few of our nests. But that ends today." Thag and the Necromancer stared each other down for a while before the Necromancer fired the changing beam at Thag who blocked with a green barrier. Thag then started to glow green and vines wrapped around the Necromancer as one which had a spear like tip stabbed right through the necromancers neck but he just smiled and as he was covered in purple mist, the vines turned black and then crumbled into dust.

"So we have the forest spirit, Daniel's sister, Celestia and Luna in one place. This will make taking over much easier for me. Especially with Celestia weakened." Looking around almost all the guard ponies and the Changelings that weren't with the Covenant were thralls for the Necromancer.

"You are not in control. It's the magic in you. The Dark magic is using your body as a vessel to spread itself. But the personality is a copy of what the user of the magic was like before he realised what he had become." When Annabelle heard that she looked at the Necromancer and he smiled. As he did they saw purple light coming out of his mouth and even his eyes started to glow purple.

The cloak he was wearing fell off and Annabelle was almost sick when she saw the body. It was a stallion and from bottom to top, His legs were withered and the skin seemed to be tightly hugging his legs as open gapes in the skin revealed muscles that she saw move around and some of the muscle was also damaged to the point she saw passed them and the bones were visible. There was also black spots with fungus growing in places like around the knee part of his back left leg.

The chest area seemed relatively unchanged and looked normal, however his veins under his skin were visible and they were a sickly purple, like poison and his neck was the worst looking part as his airpipes were visible along the sides of his neck and his eyes were glossy white along with the horn which was grey and rotten.

"Finally. Night will last forever. Just as my mistress, Nightmare Moon intended it to."

"You mean Luna? She's back to normal. She doesn't want to bring eternal night."

"Luna is not my mistress. My teacher. Nightmare Moon is, Luna is just the shell." He said to Annabelle who was trying to get him to stop.

"But this world would di-"

"Die without the sun. Exactly." He was grinning and then he said something that Annabelle didn't expect to hear. "But why waste the sun? When I can make the sun my greatest weapon." Annabelle had no clue what he meant by this but Thag seemed to be shaking in fear.

"You don't have the power to-"

"Oh but I do Forest Spirit." He held up his staff and Thag saw the gem at the end of it. "Know what this is?"

"The Bloodstone of the Dead." Annabelle was lost to what was happening.

"Someone care to explain?" Annabelle asked.

"The reason ponies banned necromancy is cause they almost went extinct to it long ago. Remember how they were separated into 3 tribes before? What isn't recorded is before that there was one instance where they banded together to take on a queen called Rozela. She had her own kingdom called the Flesh Federation. She was defeated and Necromancy was banned. But before she was destroyed, she wanted to taint the ultimate source of life."

"The Sun." She said as Thag explained.

"Yes. The rumours were that she found a way but knowing she would lose, she hid the gem."

"Until I found it." The necromancer grinned.

"Annabelle. Make sure Celestia is safe. If she turns, it's all over for Equestria. Not just Canterlot."

"What would happen if the sun is tainted?"

"Everything it's light touches will turn undead." It was at that moment Annabelle wasted no time running into the castle to defend Celestia while Thag stayed behind to defeat their foe. "Who are you anyway?"

"Call me what I was called in life. Blackeye."

Annabelle made it to Celestia and quickly informed her that she needed to leave Canterlot, but she saw she was hugging Twilight and she was crying.

"Celestia. We need to go! Now!" She screamed.

"Annabelle. I-"

"No. Now. If the necromancer gets to you, he will taint the sun. Everything it's light touches will turn undead." Hearing that, Celestia stood up. She was alone in the throne room except for Twilight who was horrified, unable to process what she heard, as the guards had almost all left besides 4 who stood next to her. Annabelle followed Celestia and Twilight till they vashished behind a secret passage and watched the book case go back over the entrance.

With Celestia and Twilight now safe she headed back outside to rejoin the battle. But what she saw shocked her. There was corpses laying around Blackeye as he was firing a blast from his staff which was battering against a green shield that Thag had up but was starting to crack.

Annabelle acted as fast as she could and with a blast of her own, Blackeye was distracted.

"NOW THAG!" With a scream, Thag released all the energy he had towards Blackeye and his blast was reflected back. Annabelle smiled when she saw Blackeye was starting to disintegrate bit by bit as his legs were vanishing like sand in the wind. Happy it was over.

But Thag's attack was cut short with a bite to his leg from a zombie Diamond dog which caused his blast to disperse.

"Get away from me!" With a back leg kick, the zombie was knocked away and he turned to look at Blackeye who was barely standing.

"Looks like we won." Annabelle said happily but her happiness was cut short by some chuckling coming from Blackeye.

"Looks like I better use all my power. I underestimated the defences that Canterlot would have. So lets turn this up a notch!" With a tap from the staff he had, 10 zombie close by dropped down dead but what she saw next disgusted her, their bodies started to twist and snap as bones were broken. Soon the bodies had parts of them ripped off and they flew over to Blackeye who was soon restored to normal as the parts he was missing from the blast were replaced.

Blackeye stared at Thag and launched another purple beam at him, but this one was much more intense in colour and even the vibrations that it emitted just from it getting cast showed them that he was holding back before. Thag put up his shield again but it only lasted a few seconds before it was broken and he was caught in it.

"THAG!" Annabelle called out as she saw him get enveloped in the energy and his green eyes turn purple.

"You're mine now Forest Spirit." Blackeye turned to face Annabelle as she was looking is disbelief at Thag. He was now a thrall of Blackeye.

"No..." She said almost shaking and even most of the Timberwolves started to freak-out when they felt their connection to their elder become severed.

"You're next." Blackeye raised his staff and pointed it at her but was soon stopped by Brago who slashed at his face. Splitting one of his eyes clean open and most of his face. "Alpha of the Diamond dogs." Blackeye said with a smile.

"You know?" Brago asked surprised.

"Yes. Every Thrall I gain I get access to their memories. I know of your alliance. And even this Daniel fellow." Grinning, he pointed his staff at Brago. "You will be a fine tool for keeping him in line. He likes to protect his friends." He chuckled. "But I have a bigger fish to fry." Blackeye moved and Thag went to tackle Brago who dodged him.

"You take care of him. I have a sunbutt to find. After dealing with this brat." He looked at Annabelle but as he did his smile faded.

"You....you...." Annabelle was practically glowing and her eyes were red. "You...….MOTHERFUCKER!" With that scream she exploded in a burst of energy that cracked the ground from the pressure alone and the wind blew passed him like he was in the middle of a hurricane.

The entire battle all across Canterlot all stopped for a few moments to look at the exertion of power Annabelle was emitting into the sky.

"Yes. Show me all you got. It will make it all the sweeter when I break you." Blackeye grinned and he flared to life with a purple fiery aura.

"I'm going to kill you!" Annabelle said, unblinking.

"Looking forward to seeing you trying little girl."

Freddy ran back to the portal where Covenant was getting troops from and entered it. He looked around for the door that lead to the house and wasted no time going through it, frantically searching for Daniel.

"Daddy!"

Daniel's heart sank when he heard his voice. Freddy was in a panic and the ponies he was trying to make peace with weren't making it any easier. They were to put it politely 'Almost Paranoid' that he was planning to take over Equestria and when he said if he wanted to he would have but hasn't they shot back with 'Because you likely wouldn't want to deal with any resistances or rebellions.' Because he was choosing to keep Celestia alive to not deal with any of that.

He was starting to lose his patience with them and now that Freddy was here, it would just make it worse.

"Daddy! Where are you!?"

"Who's that?" The pony asked.

"Just one of my kids. Not Now Freddy! And Stay where you are!" He didn't want them to see what Freddy looked like as it would likely set them off or make the situation worse.

"It's an Emergency!" Sighing, Daniel looked at the ponies.

"I will be a moment." Daniel wanlked to where Freddy was and he looked scared. Daniel could see the fear in his eyes.

"Daddy. We need your help." He said frantically.

"I already have a pony cult or something, thinking I am trying to take over Equestria. If I don't deal with them then-"

"Canterlot is under attack." Daniel stopped talking as this got his attention.

"How?"

"Well at first it was going well, then the Changeling queen appeared and beat Celestia, After that your sister battled her and she was all like 'I'm going to give you a bad time' and she was all like 'Muwahahaha' and Annabelle beat her-" Daniel interrupted him.

"Just tell me what's currently happening."

"Canterlot is under siege by an undead army and the Covenant is also trying to stop it." It took a moment for Daniel to process what he head. The Covenant was at Canterlot and trying to stop and undead army from taking it over. An undead army that as far as he knew could only have been by Luna's old apprentice. Back when she was Nightmare Moon.

"I see." He would talk to the leaders to ask why they did that later. Right now he needed to get these ponies to either agree to a truce or just leave them and report them to Celestia. "Wait...are the rest of the kids on the battlefield?" He asked and he nodded. His kids were in a battle that could end their lives.

Narrowing his eyes, he went back to the ponies.

"Listen. We need to cut this short. Something has come up." Their response was about as much as he expected.

"Nice try. You're not going anywhere until we know your not a threat." Daniel was getting tired of being a pushover so he got serious.

"Listen. I have kids who are currently in a situation where they might die. And I am not going to stay here talking just cause a bunch of paranoid and delusional ponies like you are shaking at the knees over a stupid 'He's taking over' theory. So you will let me go to my kids or I will report you and your whole pathetic cult to Celestia and we can see how you like it in the dungeon." Daniel started slowly but got faster as time went on, he almost snapped the table they were sitting at.

"So choose. Cause if you really want to protect ponies, then start with helping me stop the Canterlot invasion." This caught their attention.

"Wait. Canterlot is getting invaded?"

"Yeah. Some Necromancer attacked after Celestia was bested by the Changeling Queen." This caused them to stand up quickly.

"Are you doing this!?" Daniel beardly stopped himself from grabbing their necks to get them to stop.

"Shut up. Do you want to help or not?" It took a moment but they agreed.

"Fine." There was about 40 of them which almost made his house totally packed.

"Listen. I will also tell you this. When we are at Canterlot there will be Timberwolves and Diamond Dogs. Don't hurt them. They are trying to help." They were about to say something but a glare from Daniel caused them to shut up.

"Just hurry up and take us there." They all stood in a circle around Daniel as he activated his teleportation.

"Perfect. This gift will do." Luna said happily. She had finally gotten the gift for Cadance and Shining Armour's wedding that she had planned to get but had to leave to pick up herself. Luna was accompanied by 4 bat pony guards.

"I'm sure they would like it. Mind telling me what they think if we meet again Princess?"

"Certainly loyal subject. Now we must be off." Luna heard screaming and all the faces in the room landed on a mare who was looking out a window.

"Canterlot's on fire!" She screamed. When Luna heard that she ran outside and looked to see Canterlot in the distance and there was indeed fire coming from it as a cloud of black smoke sprouted up from it. Looking at the gift she was carrying she gave it to one of her guards. "Hold this. We are heading back." Luna and all her guard took flight and rushed as fast as they could as Luna started to power up a teleportation spell for her and her guards.

"Look forward to seeing you try. Little girl." Blackeye grinned. "When I have you, Daniel will be easy." Annabelle turned back to her human form. Holding nothing back, she rushed at Blackeye faster than he could react and landed a solid punch on him. which snapped a bone as her fist impacted him but all he did was laugh and crack them back into place.

Smiling, he pointed his staff at her and it lit up. He then moved it back and forth as purple lines were moving in the air. About 8 of them. Then he disappeared in a cloud of smoke which appeared behind her. Turning around she blocked an attack from his staff but he just grinned as the lines from before rushed forwards and struck her in the back. As she was stunned he pressed his staff on her chest and fired.

Annabelle was blasted into the Canterlot throne room where she picked herself up. Her injuries starting to heal and even the burn on her chest started to heal but it was slower than normal. She has never been this mad or used this much energy before but she didn't care. Even when she felt her skin rip on her arm. Just like Daniel, she needed to adapt but there was no time for that.

Blackeye walked in through the hole she made and grinned when he saw her. Annabelle stood up and let her energy power up again. Wincing as she felt her injury on her arm feel like it was on fire and it even stopped healing.

Blackeye attacked her with other beam and she met it with hers. As their beams struggled back and forth they soon met up at an equal distance and exploded. As this happened Annabelle felt her skin rip again at her shoulder.

"Your body can't deal with the amount of power it produces? This will be easier than I thought." Pointing his staff at her, he grabbed her in his magic and threw her through the doors as she keeps sliding across the ground in his magic grasp. "Deal with this." He said as his staff flashed for a moment. As she slid down the hall she saw swords coming up from it and some falling from the ceiling.

Annabelle did her best to avoid them and managed to do so for most of them but on the 2nd to last one the sword caught her hand. Annabelle screamed as she felt her hand get severed and on the last one she fractured her leg as it hit off the last few swords.

Blackeye teleported to her and was smiling.

"Looks like I have won."

"Not yet." Annabelle's eyes started to glow and the roof and walls all collapsed onto Blackeye. Managing to catch him by the leg and as he pulled to get out, the leg was severed but just like before, was soon replace by the leg of one of his thralls.

"I wont give some speech like other 'Bad guys' I will just finished you right now."

Annabelle still had one last trick up her sleeve, she had an idea of how to beat him but she has never used the amount of energy required for it or even attempted to try it. But she was out of options. As she saw his staff glowing purple, she teleported to the other side of the hall.

"Stop delaying the inevitable!" Blackeye said angrily. But she didn't respond. Lifting herself into the air she used her one hand to start powering up another blast, but this one would be a little different. Seeing it, Blackeye sighed.

"Go To Hell!" Annabelle said as she felt her body rip itself in a few places when she copied her blast and multiplied it. The blast she had charged up was in the centre while 9 others were on the left, right, bottom and top. 100 In total. Annabelle felt like her hand was about to give away and with one last scream she used her energy and fired.

Blackeye lost the smile on his face as the blasts being powered up were more than enough to light up the whole hallway.

"Oh...horseapp-" He heard what sounded like a powerful drum smash as she fired all of her blasts at once and he put up a shield.

Within 4 seconds his shield was destroyed and he was caught up in the blast as the blast kept going and with a very loud 'Boom' it destroyed the wall and fired up to the sky. Annabelle fell down to the ground and sat back as she held her fractured leg. Looking at where blackeye was, she was happy to see there was nothing. The only thing that was left was the purple gem which was at the end of his staff.

"It's...over. I did it." She smiled and giggled joyfully. "I DID IT!" She was crying tears of joy which didn't last as she heard him laughing and looking around, she saw the gem was starting to float.

"I wasn't expecting that. If I didn't store myself in this gem I would have been destroyed." He sounded like he was speaking through a tunnel as his voice was very echoed. The gem then started to glow and as it did, zombie along with 2 legs were brought over to them. The gem poured purple energy into it and 2 legs were ripped appeared down to the bone and merged together. The gem resting on top of them and making a new staff as well as a new body for Blackeye.

Annabelle couldn't move. Her body was totally exhausted.

"As I was saying. Looks like I win. And with the energy I will have from you. The things I could do. I can only imagine." He aimed his staff at her and she closed her eyes. Tears of anguish swelling up. She failed.

Before the staff was fully charged, it was knocked out of his hand and he looked to the side to see Luna.

"Luna?!"

"Blackeye. Stop this! You don't need to keep doing this!" He chuckled and the staff moved back into his hand.

"My teacher wouldn't say that. Don't you remember how you were treated beforehand? They didn't like your night. And you want to go back to that?" Luna knew what he was trying to do.

"Nice try. But i was immature. I didn't realise how much my night meant to them and Equestria as a whole. Thinking if instead of eternal night...if i refused to raise the moon...then too much sunlight would harm everything. The crops. The ponies. The plants. All of it matters and survives because of me and my sister. So don't try to get me to change like before."

Blackeye held his head and he then had a smile on his face.

"I see. So that's where she is. Well Luna. After i have dealt with you. I will also deal with Celestia. One of my thralls infected a guard who knows where she is. So no more hiding."

"STAY AWAY FROM MY SISTER!" She shouted in her Canterlot voice and fired a blast at him but he blocked it with a single hoof.

"The more my thralls infect, the more total magic is added to me. I have the magic of tens of thousands, even those who were long dead and turned into skeletons. If you think you can win, you have another thing coming."

"I couldn't live with the guilt I would have if I didn't try." Luna looked at Annabelle who was now unconscious. She was still alive but she couldn't see her injuries healing themselves as her wounds were leaking blood.

"Well then you can watch as I take over Canterlot and beyond. Both you and your sister." He fired a beam at Luna who took flight and started firing energy blasts at him, each blast destroying the floor below him. His aura flared up and the force of it pushed her blasts away. Completely missing him.

After 2 minutes of Luna's bombardment of magic blasts, she stops and looked on as the dust settles. The whole floor of the throne room is destroyed besides a pillar which Blackeye was standing on.

"My teacher would have focused on one location and fired a large magic blast. Not many little blasts like you have done. Some didn't even try to hit me." He said mockingly.

"Don't you lecture us!" He smiled. Seeing he was getting under her skin. She charged downwards and he jumped out of the way. Causing her to hit the pillar, collapsing it.

He stood at the side smiling at her. His aura flared up and he powered up a blast to hit her as some of his thralls arrived to deal with her guards. Luna saw as one of them was taken by surprise and quickly turned.

"Look around Luna. Canterlot will fall. You have lost."

"You're wrong. My new pupil will teach you a lesson you won't forget."

"Ah yes. Cosmos. He is Daniel, isn't he? But I will get him too. I will need to have all of Equestria under my command to beat Daniel. All I need to do is get your sister and then the sun will be mine. Some of my thralls are bringing her here right now. I need to infect alicorns directly. So you get to have a small chat with her before you too become mine."

"How did you-"

"Know Daniel and Cosmo are the same? Simple. Rainbow Dash and Applejack. They decided to fight and were the first of the elements to be infected. So even your elements wont work now." He chuckled when he saw her face. She looked hopeless but it went back to normal.

"We didn't stop Discord just to have all of Equestria fall to you!" She charged at him, her horn glowing. Grinning, Blackeye teleported behind her and she turned around to face him before launching a blast at point black range.

"Gotcha!" Luna head behind her and her heart stopped. Blackeye vanished in a vale of mist, showing he went invisible and the one behind her was an illusion.

Luna felt a stab in her back as the staff went through her. She dropped to the floor, unable to feel her magic but she was still somewhat in control of her body. Looking up she saw the door open and a bunch of his thralls holding her sister and they dropped her next to Luna.

"Sister. I'm sorry."

"Don't be. It's not your fault." They heard another thud as a Diamond Dog, heavily injured was also thrown beside them.

"Good work Thag." Blackeye said and looked at the remaining 4 left to turn. Brago. Luna. Celestia and Daniel's sister Annabelle. He had won this battle. All that was left now was Daniel.

Raising his staff to them, he grinned. Wasting no time. He fired the beam at them.

"Zombies?" One of the hoodless ponies said in shock. "I have read about them, but...seeing them..." Daniel was looking around to see if he could find the Necromancer. Hearing a large 'Boom' and seeing a blast shoot into the sky he went to see what happened. He was both happy and worried to see Annabelle in the state she was in. She was still alive and she looked like she had won. He thought so, until a zombie that was approaching him was lifted into the air and went over to a glowing gem.

"Of course. A Necromancer. Likely has a source that needs to be destroyed. Destroying the body is not enough." Daniel then saw Luna fly overhead and start to talk with the necromancer. Daniel needed to think. He could deal with the Necromancer but what about the army in Canterlot.

As he thought on this he remembered when one of the treeminders was infected. He needed to destroy the shell with the soul in it to set them free and not kill them. He sighed. He would need the help of the cult ponies. He needed to trust them. Heading back over to them he counted 40 of them.

"Are you all ready? We are going to free Canterlot."

"How?"

"Give my your cloak." Taking the cloak, Daniel made it invisible and did the same to the rest of them. Soon they were all invisible and he then focused his energy into 2 more items. A dagger and glasses. "Now i am trusting you. If you really want to keep ponies safe, then this will free them. The glasses will let you see where the soul is trapped and the daggers will let you break the seal. The cloaks will keep you from being seen."

"You...trust us to do this?"

"Unless you want to be known as traitors to Equestria. Or to what remains. Then i don't see why you wouldn't. Leave the Necromancer to me. You focus on freeing the thralls. It's likely the skeletons won't have a soul in them as it's long departed so it's kept alive by the magic. So save who you can. Once the Necromancer is dealt with then the ones that are kept alive by magic should die."

Daniel looked out and saw a Zombie close by.

"Go. Try it out." One of the ponies walked out, Daniel watching his/her steps on the grass. As the pony got close to the zombie they all watched. The zombie filched and screamed unnaturally. But it soon sounded normal and the pony took deep breaths. Looking to the side, he saw the other zombies advance close to him and he ran away.

"It worked?" He heard the leader say.

"Yes. It did. Now go out there and save them. They are counting on you. And so am i. But anything wearing that." Daniel pointed to a timber wolf that was infected but wearing a shirt with the covenant flag on it. "They are friendlies. If you find one that's not infected then leave it alone and tell them I said 'Hi'"

"Fine. But you owe us answers after this. Nothing held back. Deal?"

"Deal. Do this and I will tell you everything you want to know. No holding back." Daniel didn't care at this point. He knew that the whole City of Canterlot and even the lives of countless beings was much more important than his silly secret at this point. "But be careful. Just cause you cant be seen, doesn't mean you are guaranteed to succeed."

Daniel heard all the cult ponies leave the room they were in and smiled when a few seconds later, he saw zombies starting to become normal again and when they returned to normal they either ran or went back to fighting. Smiling, he had confidence that those cult ponies could deal with the army. Now Daniel had to deal with the Necromancer.

He looked back over and his heart almost sank. Thag was next to the Necromancer and Brago was next to Luna and Celestia and Annabelle. All of them exhausted. He saw the staff getting raised and starting to glow purple. Without even thinking he sprinted forward and didn't even bother with the door as he ran right through the wall.

He reached the front of the blast and raised his hand to put up a shield and as he did the blast impacted his shield. Exploding and kicking up the dust but before it did he saw Luna's face who saw him just a second before the blast impacted. It went from hopelessness to hopeful in a moment.

"It...wasn't supposed to do that." He heard the Necromancer say.

"Let's see you stop us now Blackeye." Luna said. Daniel looked at her as she smiled, seeing he was now here. The explosion also made Annabelle open her eyes and when she saw him she smiled. But when Daniel saw the state she was in, even her severed hand which he missed before. He felt his blood boil. While his healing wasn't the best, he knew he needed to help them, so before the dust cleared he cast a minor healing power on them. A few scratches and bruises were gone but the gashes and even Annabelle's severed arm were still visible.

As the dust settled. Daniel's eyes lay on Blackeye the necromancer. If there was one thing he wanted to do to him before killing him, it would be to make him suffer for what he's done to Annabelle.

"Daniel. You're here?"

"Surprised?" He said grinning.

"No. Your timing was just a little off. A little too early." Daniel chuckled.

"Early. You thought I would let you turn my sister and my friends?" Blackeye chuckled.

"I already have." His staff flashed a few times and Rainbow Dash and Ditzy, along with Applejack a few seconds later all arrived. Daniel was doing his best to contain his desire to rush forwards and rip this...thing apart.

"So this here's your options Daniel. You can back down and I will let your friends go. Or not and I will sink them on you."

"Sick them on me? How about I do this instead?" In a flash he was in front of Applejack and Rainbow Dash. Grabbing the soul container which was right under their necks, he crushed them and after a scream they returned back to normal.

Blackeye was shocked to see what he did. Daniel on the other hand turned to face him. A wide grin on his face. If he was going to rip this guy apart, he would break him emotionally before he does so, if he can still feel emotions.

"Did you think I would let you hurt my friends and get away with it?" Blackeye frowned and tried to launch his signature purple beam at him but Daniel stopped it with a space wall. Daniel then started to power up his own blast to give Blackeye a demonstration and a taste of what he was going to do to him. Firing it he saw Blackeye put up a purple forcefield but it didn't last. Within 2 seconds of the impact, it was broken and Blackeye was enveloped in it.

As he waited to see the result of the attack he had a smile on his face when he saw Blackeye was chard black as coal. His skin made cracking noises even from things like taking a step and as he did, some rotten skin fell off and to the ground.

Looking back at the 4 of them he saw they were incapable of battling.

"Get out of here. I don't want you to get caught in the crossfire." They all left but as Thag who was still a thrall approtched Daniel, Brago jumped at him to get his attention.

"Here skin dog." Thag's attention landed on Brago and he then started to chase him. Leaving Daniel alone to deal with Blackeye who was just absorbing more purple energy and his body healed. Grinning, Daniel taunted him more.

"Is that all you got?"

"Nope." Grinning, Blackeye tapped his staff on the ground and soon the ground was covered with purple dots. Quickly standing between them, he wasn't surprised to see spikes shoot up but Blackeye kept on smiling. With one more tap of his staff the dots appeared all over the walls on both his sides and then the spikes sprouted forwards.

Daniel put up another space field around himself as the spikes impacted it and broke like glass but as he lowered it he saw Blackeye's staff on his chest and glowing purple. The staff fired and Daniel was send backwards. Daniel stood up, his injury almost fully healed from the attack.

As Daniel stood up he smiled when he saw his staff flicker and the light lower for a moment.

"Missing some of your power?"

"You wish!" Blackeye prepared to attack him again with the spike attack but the floor was only slightly covered by the dots. Blackeye saw this and looked at his staff. "What the...what happened!?"

"I wasn't alone. Your army is whittling away." Blackeye looked to the side and saw a zombie suddenly turned back to normal. "W-what happened?" He fired his beam at the pony and turned them back, only for them to return to normal once more. Daniel could see a cult pony was waiting to see if Blackeye tried to do it again. But as the turned pony freaked out and ran away he just looked on in surprise. The same happened to Ditzy a moment later.

"No...NO! NOT LIKE THIS!" Blackeye looked at Thag and decided he would keep him like that. He needed to make sure he wasn't alone and if the ponies didn't know he was a friendly and killed him. Then even if he lost, Daniel would be ticked off with the ponies.

Raising his staff to the sky he fired some kind of gas off into the air and all the zombies screamed. Looking around he saw them all return to normal and the purple magic was all pooling into Blackeye. Daniel even saw some of the purple magic come out of the ground, at locations where the zombies turned back. Showing that while they were set free, the magic was still there.

Looking up he saw Blackeye in a whirlwind of Purple magic that was getting Darker and darker every passing moment. Until all the magic collapsed to a certain point and exploded. Shielding his eyes as the roof off the hall was completely blown off, he looked back to where Blackeye was but he saw someone else in his place.

It was a stallion. His mane and tail were pink but his coat was olive and his cutie mark was an odd one. It was an eye with its tail wrapping around a Question mark.

"DANIEL! WAIT!" He heard Luna shout and saw her walk over to his side. Her injury reduced to a normal one that didn't hold her down.

"Finally. I didn't think it would work. I didn't think I had enough." His voice was much softer than it was before.

"Blackeye?" Luna asked cautiously. He turned around to look at her but as he did her look of hope was soon replaced with sadness.

Blackeye's right eye was missing and had a purple fire in it.

"You have become a...a..."

"Yes Luna." What Daniel saw next unsettled him. His skin started to fall off. The skin on his front legs up to his elbows was gone and replaced with hardened blood and the skin of his face fell off. The only skin left on his face was around his jaw area. His legs started to inflate and then they ripped apart as his bones grew into a set of boots that could be mistaken for armour. All 4 of his legs were like that and the rest of his bones also grew. His skin tearing as they grew but they soon stopped and the bones then seemed to merge with the remaining skin which hardened as it rotted quickly and became darker. His skull becoming thicker and some more bones grew on the visible ones, giving off the appearance of spiked armour.

His mane and tail grew longer and even seemed to join up and wither but not fall off. Making it look like he had a cloak or cape on.

"A Dread Lord." Luna was shaking and backed off.

"Now Daniel...where were we?" Blackeye rushed forward at a speed that caught Daniel off guard as he did a downward thrust with his horn, which was glowing a mixture of purple and black. Nothing happened for a moment, until Daniel felt pain spike through him as a deep gash appeared across his chest.

"At this level. I am beyond even Discord. The magic of thousands of ponies. All mine!" He then aimed his horn at Daniel's chest and fired. The Blast was just as strong as Annabelle's ultimate attack and Daniel was blasted back.

He lay there. Burned but also starting to heal. Blackeye was stronger now. Much more than before and he had the power to....Daniel didn't even want to imagine what he would do. He knew he couldn't make him suffer and break him emotionally. He needed to destroy him and quickly.

Picking himself up from the rubble he looked over to see Blackeye was waiting for him to get up. Daniel felt his anger start to raise and even a red aura started to appear around him.

"Good. I wasn't done with you yet." Blackeye charged forwards again and tried to do something, but Daniel didn't give him the chance as the moment he moved, Daniel moved at the same speed and grabbed him by the neck.

"Same here." Daniel punched him on the skull and then threw him across the room. His skull was cracked but he got up like it was nothing. Both of them stared each other down for a few moments before they both charged at each other. Throwing punches from their hooves and magic blasts at close range.

This caught the attention of a lot of confused ponies who recently turned back. Even Ditzy who was still in the room was just starting to come to.

"What hap-" She stopped when she saw Cosmo fighting some strange looking skeleton pony. "Cosmos?"

"Ditzy. Get o-" He saw Blackeye fire an attack at her and slash at the air. Sending magical slash attacks at her. Daniel reacted on instinct. Wasting no time getting in front of her, taking the attacks head on. This did leave him injured but he knew his healing would take care of it as he had dealt with worse. But from what he guessed from Annabelle's fight, he didn't know if his healing could also burn out.

He rushed back over to Blackeye who ripped off one of the bone spikes he had and morphed it into a spear. He managed to get it in Daniel's leg and then he took it out and slashed Daniel's neck. As Daniel lifted his hoof to his neck he felt the blood leaking out. This almost made him explode in anger as he was starting to get really annoyed with Blackeye and the injuries he received only threw oil to the fiery rage he had growing as his red aura got more intense.

"You are so dead!" Daniel turned back into his human form. Taking this fight seriously. Not caring that there was also a growing amount of ponies starting to crowd around and watch the fight.

"Wow. You're more ugly up close than in memory, also I am already dead you fool." Blackeye taunted.

"Shut up!" Daniel wasted no time and charged up another blast like before to hit him with but as he fired it, Blackeye raised his spear so it was pointing at the blast. It started to part it, not letting it hit him. Daniel grinned and controlled the flow of his energy, causing it to turn around and hit Blackeye from the back. He heard him screaming and saw his spear snap in two.

Blackeye got up, his purple eye glowing more intensely and he then grinned. He still had Thag under his control.

"Thag. I need more energy." Thag turned his attention away from Brago and started to head to the ponies who were crowding around.

Brago was running out of options. He had tried to stop Thag by incapacitating him but it didn't work out so well and battling him was not an option. Not to mention he was also injured and out of energy. So he did the next best thing he could think of. Try to get Thag to remember.

"Sticks for Brains!" He shouted at him as he scratched his leg, getting his attention. "Remember me? You hated me for so long. But no more. We don't fight anymore." Blackeye tried to stab Daniel with his staff as he shouted over at Thag again.

"Listen to me! Your master! Get those Ponies!" Thag was about to go to them but was stopped again as an exhausted Brago stood in front of him.

"You and I. Friends. Not Enemies. We hate no longer." Thag's eyes went back for a moment and Daniel looked over. He saw Thag's soul thrashing around in the seal. Hitting it and some cracks were appearing.

"GET! THOSE! PONIES!" Blackeye shouted as he hit Daniel with his purple beam and because he was distracted it got him. Daniel felt the magic trying to take him over and he slowly raised his head to see Blackeye grinning at him. "Thank you Daniel. While I don't know if you will turn. I know I have now gotten some time to act.

"We friends. Look out for each other." Thag's soul thrashed around more violently, the seal cracking more.

"Don't listen to him!" Blackeye shouted over and aimed his staff at Brago. Daniel watched at it charged up and fired. But he then saw Discord appear and blocks the attack. Fluttershy was also with him.

"Thanks Discord."

"You owe me one Fluttershy." Brago tried once more to get through to Thag.

"Remember your puppies? They are happier now because our fighting has stopped. We no longer hate each other. We are friends." The soul seal on Thag broke and his eyes turned back to green. Thag collapsed onto the ground, exhausted.

"How could I hurt you. You dumb dog." Thag said jokingly as he and Brago shared a laugh. Daniel grinned when he saw them like this and it even caught the attention of the ponies in the area, who had never seen a timberwolf like Thag before.

Looking over at Blackeye. Danie's heart skipped a beat when he didn't see him infront of him and he then heard hoof steps to his side. He saw Blackeye running towards them and he tried to run after him but the magic in his system slowed him down as it was still not fully out of him.

Looking on he saw Blackeye pick up a part of his broken spear and as he ran he got Discord by surprise. Stabbing him in his hand and then in his other one quickly before he kept going on towards Brago.

"You won't ruin my plan!" Daniel felt like he watched the scene in slow motion as Blackeye drove the spear part right into Brago's chest and as he did he saw blood was shooting out of it. He hit his heart.

Brago collapsed and Thag got up but as he did he was quickly hit by another beam from Blackeye who turned around and also hit Discord with the beam. "Now both of you! Get those ponies!" Discord went to get Fluttershy who was backing off and Thag went to get the crowd of ponies. But Daniel was too focused on Brago, who was still laying on the ground. Not turning into an undead.

"You almost cost me everything with that stunt. I could have kept Daniel occupied while he infected the rest." Blackeye stomped on Brago's wound, causing him to scream. "For that stunt. I am not bringing you back."

As Daniel looked on at Brago screaming as Blackeye stomped his chest he felt his own heartbeat and heard it in his ears. All of his body was tensing up in an anger he had almost never felt before. He looked at Blackeye and all he could think of was 'Kill'

Daniel's aura suddenly shot to life. Red as a rose and pulsing in time with his breathing. The magic in his body suddenly dropped and when he couldn't feel it anymore he let out a yell as he rushed at Blackeye. The scream was audible to all of Canterlot and Daniel lunged from where he was standing right over to Blackeye. With a punch as hard as Daniel could do he took off Blackeye's head and sent his body through several walls in Canterlot castle.

He looked down at Brago and tried to heal him. Even if he didn't know it would work, only for him to get hit in the hands with a magic attack. Daniel clenched his hands into fists and looked back over to where Blackeye's body was sent and saw it standing up, headless.

He wasn't headless for long as his head reattached itself a moment later and he morphed his spear into a sword and charged at Daniel. Swinging his sword he brought it down on Daniel's shoulder but it got stuck in it. It didn't go through him. Looking at Daniel's face, he saw he was staring at him blankly but his eyes were almost on fire with rage. Blackeye saw his sword get grabbed and then crushed and Daniel increased his grip. Daniel then pulled his hand back and lunged it out as fast as he could to make sure that he inflicted the most damaged he could and Blackeye's chest armour was almost totally shattered.

"Die!" Daniel shouted as he threw him.

Blackeye pointed his staff at some ponies around him and turned them into thralls and ordered them to attack Daniel. But Daniel walked slowly towards Blackeye and as the zombies got close the soul seals on them shattered, setting them free again as Daniel kept walking towards him.

"Will you just die already!?" Blackeye lost his patience and charged forwards but Daniel grabbed him by the neck and held him high as his magic flared around the area, damaging it. Daniel then looked at Blackeyes chest and saw the purple gem. "Don't you-" He was cut off as Daniel drove his hand into his chest and ripped out the gem. He then increased his grip as the gem slowly started to crack.

Still holding onto Blackeye, he threw him as hard as he could and then focused on crushing the gem with both hands. Blackeye landed and started to rush back but before he reached Daniel, the gem shattered in his grasp.

With a howling scream, Blackeye fell to the ground in the middle of his run as purple energy slowly started to leave him. His bone armour becoming grey and cracked as pieces that fell off turned into a black sludge. His legs became thinner and so did his torso and soon the screams sounded like they were bubbling as he melted into the ground. As the black sludge was absorbed into the ground and a skeleton of a pony was left, the skeleton then cracked. Breaking into little pieces and those tiny fragments turning to dust which blew away in the wind.

The invasion was over. Daniel calmed down and sighed. Sitting down as he felt the flow of adrenaline end and his muscles relax from his rage. He felt a little tired but just as he was starting to relax he remembered Brago.

Running over to Brago he saw he was unmoving and another Diamond dog was next to him. Nudging his head but he didn't move. Daniel feared the worst and as he stretched out his hand to Brago he activated his soul gaze.

Nothing. Blackeye didn't try to trap his soul at all. He killed him...

Author's Notes:

I am not good at making fight scenes. I am sure I mentioned that before.