We had made it through the wilds and into the heart of Equestria, approaching the Castle of the Two Sisters quietly. The sky was black, and fittingly it was a new moon. The castle was ahead, with not a single torch or window lit. We all slowly approached, and with Tharn's Fang in my upper right hand along with both of my plasma cutters in my lower set I pushed the door open. We entered the dark halls and slowly made our way along through the unnatural, almost suffocating silence.

We made it through the first blood stained hallway before anything happened. The sound of a rock hitting the ground echoed, and from every open door poured out blood stained unitologist soldiers. We fought through them, making our way along. I heard voices from all directions, and for the first time I felt the voices of the brethren moons push against the song of Luna, way in the back of my consciousness. One of our soldiers waved us to go ahead.

"We'll hold them off your highness, you two save Princess Celestia!"

Luna and I nodded, and rushed forward. We found ourselves in front of the door to the throne room, and I opened it and entered first. As we slowly walked forward the torches on the walls slowly lit up brighter and brighter with a deep crimson glow. I looked in and saw a lithe form of a mare dancing around the throne. I heard Celestia's voice singing and echoing through the chamber

"Soon oh soon my lovely moons, your light shall pierce the skyy~yyyy!

Soon oh soon I'll watch your doom as all good things then die!

There won't be peaceful transi~tions!

The apex predators will lose their positions!

All the ponies will bleed!

The world will soon need!

A push to proceed!

In the glory of evoluti~on!

The torches erupted in a burst of light, fully lighting the room. I could see Celestia was the mare dancing, and her coat was covered in blood stains. She was lacking in any royal outfitting, save for an amulet of red metal, bearing the image of a Marker in glowing ruby. Her eyes were wide, and her face pulled into a tight, toothy grin. Her head jerked as she turned to face us.

"Oh Lulu! I knew you'd come back for the convergence!"

Luna seemed unnerved by this turn of events.

"The convergence?"

Celestia shook her head fiercely.

"Uh-huh! All the little ponies are gonna get dead, well not the ones in the castle since I already killed them all, and then become one with the marker in Tartarus! Oh sure we'll need to open the pit and let all of the monsters and stuff out, but hey! All life will be cleansed anyway, so who cares!?"

Luna shook her head.

"Sister snap out of it! You are under the influence of the Marker and need to look at yourself!"

Celestia's face turned into an ugly glare and she seemed to finally see me.

"Oh I get it now! You're one of those little meanies in the north that want to stop us from ascending! Well I'm not gonna let you!"

Luna called out again.

"Celestia snap out of it! You need to stop this!"

Celestia gave us one final hate filled glare as her wings spread and she lifter into the air, a crimson light surrounding her amulet and then wrapping around her entire body in a wave of light.

"I'm not Celestia anymore! I am Sol Daemonius!"

She was now a different mare than when she stood on the ground with us. Her coat was a pale red, as if her white coat was now dyed in blood. Her eyes had changed to resemble Mercer's, but with bright blue pupils and orange irises, giving the appearance that her eyes were two flames in a void of darkness. Her wings were jagged and bent, as if they were a fusion of the wings of a dragon and a pegasus. Her horn was curved now, the same color as her coat but ending in a point that resembled a piece of white hot metal. Her body was covered in jagged battle regalia, made of the same crimson medal as the amulet she had been wearing, which was now fused into the front of the regalia. Her mane was now shades of orange and red, resembling a burning forest. The ceiling above her collapsed and we could see the sun rise with jerking movements, now glowing with a black and red aura, making the sky seem to be the color of blood.

"AND MY SUN WILL BE THE PLACEHOLDER OF THIS WORLD'S DEATH AS I BRING THE BURNING WRATH OF THE MARKERS ONTO HERETIC FILTH LIKE YOU!"

Luna lunged for her, only to be rammed aside in a wave of magic. I aimed my guns only to see her turn to me.

"Oh don't think I have forgtten you..."

In her magic I saw a charred horn, a unitologist necklace, and the fragments of the Black Heart float out. The remains of Sombra. She let out a maniacal laugh, I saw Tyrath the dragon float out, bound in chains. His body erupted with her magic and he screamed in pain as she brought the materials to him. A wave of light blasted forth, along with the sound of flesh bending and tearing. When the light cleared I looked up, only to see... it.

The monster from my nightmares. A massive monstrosity, towering over me with a form somewhere between a pony, a dragon and the Snowbeast Necromorph. It had a twisted horn, almost resembling a Black Marker. It roared at me, showing a mouth of malformed teeth and tentacles. A pair of bone plated wings spread on its back as it stood over me. My dream was coming true somehow... Just like in my dream it lunged for me, but this time I changed the out come by jumping into the air and barely avoiding it. I dodged around, and looked up to see Luna and Celestia clashing magic above me. Luna was already unable to magically overpower Celestia, and that was before she was magically powered by a Marker. She needed me. I turned to the monster before me, preparing to fight one of my worst foes yet.

It lunged for me a few times with its claws, only to be slashed by my swords. I could hear its flesh seem to sizzle as Finis' magic cut into it, and Tharn's Fang still cut massively deep wounds. All the while I blasted away with my plasma cutters, scoring hits on the bulging yellow weakspots that formed on it. I dashed behind a pillar as the monster took a deep breath and then unleashed a wave of rancid smelling, sickly yellow flames at me. I wasn't hit, but the pillar was all but melted. I dashed back into the fray, dodging around its legs and slashing away at it. Then I saw it. Roughly aligned in its mangled ribcage was the Black Heart, formed of the fragments of the original and the flesh of Tyrath. I was distracted for a moment, and it smashed me away with its tail, sending me sprawling and then throwing both Finis and Tharn's Fang and my plasma cutters from my hands. I drew my secondary shortswords in my lower arms and looked up in time to see two massive tentacle erupt from its maw and seize my lower arms, ripping them both off of me and throwing me against the wall. I landed hard, and barely rolled out of the way of another blast of flame. I made myself stand again, and surged with my magic, pushing against the Marker and then forcing my right arm into the bone shield arm of a Brute and then my left into an Ubermorph's blade arm. I screamed against the pain and charged, using my Brute arm to smash aside his claws and then plunge my bladed arm into the Black Heart, sending out a massive wave of red light as the abomination was torn apart from the inside out. I crumpled to the ground on the other side of the room. I reverted my arms and concentrated my magic into giving my body an Ubermorph's regenerative abilities. It took out a lot of my quickly waning magic but I felt it as my lower arms regrew and my injuries mended slightly. I stood up, and saw Luna crash down into the center of the room. I limped towards her, and heard her speaking as she cast magic into the floor.

"Oh dear sister... I am sorry but you have given me no choice but to use these..."

The floor opened next to her, and the pedestal with the Elements of Harmony rose up. All six elements lit up a floated to her, circling at great speeds. Celestia released a charged up a crimson blast of power, only for it to clash with a rainbow of energy from the elements. The two clashed and Celestia was slowly overpowered as a final wave of energy from the elements hit her, carrying her straight into the sun. As she seemed to hit, the sun had power ripple across it along with a scream from Celestia until finally the sky cleared and it was shown to now shine with a faint blue light. Luna sank to the ground, and sobbed. I walked over, and Luna collapsed into my chest.

I didn't say a word as she cried. There was nothing I could do to help except offer a shoulder for her to cry on as she wept for her lost sister. I heard a familiar voice echo in the chamber.

"No no no! She was supposed to kill them both, not be destroyed! that amulet I gave her for Mercer should have given her enough power to be unstoppable!"

I turned my head slowly and saw him.

Captain Star.

Luna had gone rigid in my arms, and I allowed her to stand on her own.

I rushed him before he could run, and seized his throat.

"So you did this? YOU brought Celestia into madness and forced all of this bloodshed?!"

His eyes went wide with fear, and he gasped like a fish out of water as I cut off his breathing.

I extended one of my arms into a blade and held it back to run it through his skull, only for Luna to halt me with her magic.

"No, dear Jack. He will face the punishment of the whole kingdom for his sins..."

Luna had a sad look, and one that showed heavy restraint to not end him there. I slowly nodded, still livid. I dropped the unconscious captain to the ground.

We both stood there in silence, mourning the passed when a voice cut through the room.

"The fallen sun still lives"

We both jerked our heads around and saw the Oracle standing between the two thrones.

"For a thousand years the sun she once bore will be her prison, and in the thousandth anniversary of this night the dark moons will aid in her escape"

Celestia was still alive.