-Ryan's point of view-

"Things just got a whole lot interesting..." The Doppelgänger (I'll call him Mr. D) said as he reformed into his original size.

"What now?" I asked Jayden.

"Thinking..." He replied.

Frank stepped forward, "Who are you really after?"

He chuckled, "I'm after you three, of course. What I am here to do is to kill you."

"News flash," Jayden spoke, "It ain't happening."

He chuckled, "Another new flash, blink!"

I blinked and what I saw was terrifying. Silver liquid entered into our bodies. I pulled it off with my magic and activated a cleansing field to heal my friends. 'Thank god Chrysalis taught me this, otherwise we would have been done for.' I thought as Jayden and Frank ripped the silver substance off their bodies.

"Fucking hell." Frank coughed out the liquid.

"Thanks, Ryan." Jayden said.

"Well, it looks like I have to separate you three." Mr. D spoke as he split into three copies of himself.

I took a deep breath and I was in another room. It was a white box shaped room, just nothing but myself facing Mr. D himself. He moved forward to strike me, but I countered by smacking my hoof against his face. He flew across the room, his body splattered against the wall and melted to the ground to reform. I observed the way he reformed, to pinpoint a weakness, but couldn't because the silver liquid lunged towards my face.

The liquid touched my horn and stopped my magic in its tracks. 'Shit.' I thought as the substance entered into my mouth. I gagged as I tried to spit it out, but nothing was working as the silver inched its way towards my insides.

'Now, I have control...' A voice echoed through my head.

"No, you don't...." I croaked as I moved my body.

'Give... IN!' He shouts as I lose focus.

Mr. D was gaining control as my fight was useless. As all seemed lost, I saw Chrysalis blast her way into the white room and used her magic on me. I felt her green magic warming my body. I threw up the liquid that was in my body and I saw my blood mixed in with it. I saw the liquid turned black and it disintegrated. I glance at Chrysalis who was in a serious mood.

"Thanks..." I gasped as she healed me with another spell.

"The show's not over yet." She said.

I got up to my hooves, she and I head out the room to get to my friends. To my amazement, Chrysalis disappeared and I was back into the altar. I glance to my right and left to see Frank and Jayden were hypnotized. 'So Mr. D did a mind trick with his silver? I don't know how, but it was somewhat impressive.' I thought as I analyzed my friends. They were standing in their fighting stance, but their eyes were silver and weren't moving. My eyes look forward to see that Mr. D was standing right where he was before, unimpressed when he saw me.

"You passed through my illusion," He smirked. "Impressive."

I grunted, "What do you want?!" Without hesitation, I rush towards him and stabbed him with my horn. Then injected my changeling magic into him, he grunts due to the impact and I pull out immediately when I saw his hand heading for my head. I jumped back a few feet away from him and he froze into place.

"What did you do?" He asked as he twitched.

I sighed, "I want more answers from you. So, I injected some paralyzing magic that changelings use to subdue their prey's emotions. It doesn't matter what you do, as long as the magic is within you, you can't move."

"Intriguing." He sighed in defeat, "What do you want to know?"

'That was kind of easy...' I shook my head internally and asked the first question, "Why do you want to kill us?"

He chuckled, "It's my nature."

"Explain your nature then."

He frowned slightly, "If you must. Doppelgänger's are weird creatures you see, we crave of being killed by something or anything. We analyze the enemies wants, weaknesses, personalities and most of all, memories. Then we use this to kill them to satisfy our revenge? No, satisfaction would be the correct term. Then the cycle repeats itself. If we don't complete this cycle, our instincts will try to overcome it and well, I haven't figured out what happens if I didn't complete this cycle."

I stood there silent, thinking about the gravity of the situation. His pure instinct is to kill us... This is disturbing in so many ways. My question of how this happened was answered when Frank saw him when the wedding was interrupted. I need to know what cause Mr. D's cycle to start, but I only feared the worse.

"What started your cycle...." I gulped.

He smiled as his right-hand forcibly points to Frank, "I lived in Equestria, you see, and I choose to transform as Chrysalis because I was able to defeat her once through my cycle." 'Kind of explains what Chrysalis was saying when she had multiple bodies that had the same mind.' I thought as he continued, "I found a mirror in a cave that shattered due to an event, that I cannot recall, went into the shard of the mirror and found myself in a..." He tilted his head a bit, "Ah, a mall if I recall."

I felt the color of my fur being drained as more of what he is saying was filling in the missing pieces. I only heard of what happened in that mall in America, that terrorist tried to threaten the city by an explosion. Though we now know this it was the story of when Frank killed Chrysalis in that same mall... Even though my mind was trying to process this, he still continued.

"Then your friend came along with Twilight Sparkle, killed me, and restarted my cycle. It was a new experience for me, seeing these memories of his friends, his enemies and oh!" He shouted, "It made me evolve into something that I thought wasn't even possible!"

"You mean...."

"YES!" He exclaimed, "Once I got back to Equestria, it made copies of me that resembled you and your friends bullies! It was something that was new and fresh! I loved ever moment of it! I was able to feel when your friends died!" His laugh deepens, "Though, you and Jayden were the only one to overcome your bullies, but Frank HASN'T!" He laughs maniacally.

I glance at Frank, whose eyes were full of tears. Whatever he's going through, he wasn't able to live it down. I look at Jayden, I saw that he was twitching a bit. From the look of it, he was almost out of the illusion. 'Just a little more time.' I thought. I turn my attention to Mr. D, but he was gone. My eyes looked around the room and I felt his punch impacting my barrel. My body flailed in the air, while shattering several wooden chairs, across the floor and landed on the marble floor.

"H-How?" I gasped as I looked at him.

He cracked his knuckles and sighed, "I will say this, once my buddies died, I gained a few abilities that I've adapted from them. In other words, I can adapt easier, a Gary Stu, if you recall. This is just one of the causes if I don't complete my cycle. Your changeling magic was difficult to deal with, but during our conversation, my body was able to," His eyes glowed a dark color as he clenched his fist, "Overcome it."

I got up to my hooves, "I won't lose to you." I tried to move, but I felt that my ribs were in a different position. 'Fuck, my ribs are broken.' I thought. I blinked and saw a blade heading towards me and I jumped to the right in reaction. I thought I was in the clear, but to only figure out that the blade bend to the right and stabbed my left hoof.

"Gah!" I shouted in pain.

I used my wings, to my best ability, to land on my three hooves. The blade that was in my hoof, tore through my flesh, and went through the other side into my right hoof. I gritted my teeth as I used the back of my hooves and jumped up into the air to head towards Jayden. If I'm going down, I have to awaken my friend by injuring his body. This will snap Jayden out of this 'illusion' that Mr. D put on his body. 'If I can wake him up then I can get him to fight alongside me.' I thought. I accelerated with my wings and used my fangs to bite into his left forearm. The silver liquid faded away from his eyes and he shouts in pain in response as I pulled out my teeth from his skin.

"What are you trying to do!?" He shouts as he grips his forearm to stop the bleeding.

"Getting you awa-" An audible stab went through my ears as the blade, that was still connected to me, went through my chest. I coughed out blood as the blade slowly pulls out of my body and hooves. My body plopped down in front of Jayden and I shouted, "Get Frank to snap out of it!"

Jayden complied to my wishes and punched Frank with an uppercut. The silver that was in his eyes flew from him as well. He flew for a second, but to only land on his hooves and hissing to the pain.

"I know you did that to stop something, but I won't hold it against you." Frank informed Jayden as he shook his head.

"Ah, Frank, so glad for you to join us finally. Unfortunately, your friend is about to get to his friends above." Mr. D announced.

I could see the anger in Frank's face, he hung his head down for a moment and I could see his magic radiating throughout his body. He looked up at him and his horn lit up and sent a beam towards me. It was sudden, but I could feel all of my wounds begin to heal up. My energy that I had before returned and the broken ribs moved into their correct spot with ease. I sighed as I rose to my hooves and I could see the enemy getting irritated.

"Now, you're really are pissing me off." He announced.

"You hear that?" Jayden spoke up, "He said he's pissed guys. Can we offer him something?"

I could see it as a joke and smirked, "I suppose we can end his instinct so he won't kill us all."

"I think I already know how to do this." Frank mumbled something else that I couldn't catch.

I nodded, "Alright, if you're sure, then let me help you at least."

He glances at Jayden and I, "Give me time and... Forgive me for what I'm about to do."

I wondered what that meant, but I shrug and nod to Jayden. He nods back and raises his scythe into the air.

"We'll give you time, but don't expect much." Jayden warned as Frank sat down and closed his eyes.

"I understand." He said.

"Whatever you're doing isn't going to help you!" Mr. D shouts as he launched his arm for a long distance punch. His fist was stopped by the hilt of the scythe and Jayden spoke, "First off, wrong anime. Second, BACK OFF!" The magic he put through his scythe disintegrated the silver goo.

I lunged myself forward and cast another spell on him. The spell causes the veins of any liquid to freeze, in this case, it stopped him in his tracks once again. Jayden used this opportunity to slash his chest wide open. I fired a melting point beam from my horn and it separated his body into three pieces. They hit the floor and were melting into little puddles.

"Trap them Jayden!" I shouted.

Jayden snapped his fingers and there was a magic 'jar' that surrounded the three puddles. It trapped the silver substance and real glass formed into the shape of a jar around it. 'That's cool.' I thought.

"It sucks using magic as a human..." Jayden panted.

"We got him trapped finally." I chimed in.

"You think this thing is going to hold me?!" He shouted through the jar.

"Yes. In fact, I have more spells up my sleeve if you escape." I lied.

His laugh was gagged from his liquid form, "Very well. If you want me to go all out, then I'll just do that!"

Mr. D, in his liquid form, started to grow inside the jar until it was full. I guess he found out how to break my spell. The glass jars started to crack, but Jayden wasn't having any of that noise. He groggily snapped his fingers and the jars expanded three times their size. I could tell the glass became thicker, but the enemy grew even more and filled up the jar once again. The sudden pressure that he was giving off was immense. I stepped back and Jayden did as well as he held his scythe in defense.

"Brace for impact." Jayden advised.

"Keep your mouth closed and breathing low..." I commented as I glanced behind to check on Frank and was amazed.

Frank was different. His fur became the color gray and mane was pitch black. It sent goosebumps up my spine in his sudden change, but when I blinked again, he was in his human form. I didn't know what was going on, but if it was going to help us in the long run, then I'll let it be and talk about the subject after we're done. I could tell from Frank's position that something was going to happen and I knew that this was going to be big. 'Just a little longer...' I thought as I began to cast the next spell.

I fired another type of paralyzing spell and a strengthen spell to toughen the glass. Jayden was panting to keep the jars intact, but was relieved when I used it. I fired a magic refuel spell on Jayden as I felt that my head was getting irritated. This spell casting is getting me exhausted, but thanks to Frank, I think I could have last a few more casts until I couldn't let out any magic.

"I'm just going to get through your little game of freeze tag that's going on." Mr. D commented as the jars themselves are bending into a bubble shape.

"Fuck...." Jayden panted.

"Already out of magic? Well then! Let's get this out-of-the-way!!!" He shouted and the glass shattered into pieces and were absorbed into the liquid.

Jaydan and I held our breath as the substance formed into the same entity, but was a lot taller and bulkier than before. Mr. D looked at himself then to us as his eyes glowed with a dark color and smiled.

"How are you coping Jayden?" I whispered.

He panted, "I need to recover."

I raised my hoof, "Let me do the fighting for a bit."

"ENOUGH TALK!!" Mr. D shouted as he threw a punch.

'He's a little slower than before.' I thought as I fired a magic beam to deflect his punch from Jayden.

Jayden backed off a from him, but collapsed on his knee. Mr. D threw another punch at him. I rushed towards Jayden and used my teleportation on ourselves to get away. We popped up in front of Frank and Jayden nearly collapsed on my barrel.

"Get a hold of yourself, dude." I called him out.

I heard thumps that were behind us and I felt my back hoof being grabbed by the substance. The feeling of being lifted in the air with your friend is nauseating, my eyes looked at Mr. D as he pulled us in. I felt my hind legs being consumed by the liquid, Jayden was unconscious and was being consumed by it too. I look at my friend who was still sitting at the end of the altar. There was some sort of dark pulsing magic going through and around his body. Now I know something was wrong when I got another look at him. 'Am I going to regret what I let Frank do to be in this state?' I thought. I felt my barrel being condensed by the substance and I couldn't see Jayden when I looked behind me.

"You're going to suffocate within me....." Mr. D announced.

I took a deep breath and hope that he can save us in time, "FRANK!" My voice echoed through the altar and the sunlight that illuminated the hall became dark. A shadow appeared above Frank and his eyes open to the color of light blue.

"You called?" Frank said in a different tone. Hiss voice threw me off a bit, but that didn't matter. I was slowly sinking into the silver body as I saw Frank getting up to only stand there and watch as the substance was covering my neck. To his amazement, Frank smirked as if he was being entertained by what he was seeing.

"Help us!" I shouted for my last breath.

I closed my eyes and held my breath as it consumed me. The feeling of your whole body being covered in silver liquid really constricts my movements. 'What are you doing Frank?' I thought as the silver slowly covered my ears.

The last thing I heard from Frank was this, "As you wish."

Author's Notes:

Things are about to get real. What will become of our hero's? Find out next time on The Unexpected Adventure!