Who the hell is Darkness and why is he a player? Why did his joining automatically make the world have PvP? I have so many questions! I'll figure it out once I wake up I guess.

Your ally is being attacked!

...What... the fuck. A screen popped up showing the location of Mutate and a red skull and crossbones. It was swerving around and attacking her.

I started running towards her. I started flying because it is slightly faster than walking. I could see her below, along with a person who looked to be made out of corporeal shadows. He kept on attacking her with something like a shadow version of a Solar Eruption. He kept on going forward and slashing out with it then backing up to dodge anything she threw back. I summoned one of the summon hornets beside him. It got a single hit on him and I saw his life total.

It was 5,000. The amount of awe I felt filled me with determination. Not. I wanted to just sprint away from him as fast as I could, but the fact that Mutate was there stopped me from doing so. If she wasn’t there I would’ve pussied out like some of the Orcs from the Lord of the Rings. In the end, my will to save Mutate weighed in more than my survival. Especially because I can respawn. It helps curb my need for survival.

I threw the claw at him. Sadly, it didn’t do actual damage to him. It just took away… 5 health from him. Joy. I dashed forward but he deflected me away from him with a limb. It took away half of my health. “Mutate! Run away!” I need all of the help I can get here! A strong wave of mental speech rocketed through my mind. Yes Master!

In the time it took for them to get here I dealt 15 more damage to him. He was now at 4,978 health. The weight of the situation was bearing down on me. Then the ground split. Quite a few of my worms tore into him. I saw a valiant Tiny Devourer dive into Darkness’s body. Something I didn’t see coming, though, was it getting spit out as a stronger version. Everyone, get away, he’ll corrupt you! A darker version of the mental roar I heard earlier answered me. Too late!

...Fuck. I’m dead. The swarm coalesced into one giant worm. It then solidified. The label over it’s head was: Destroyer of Worlds. From what I know of the game, I won’t like this guy. It looks scary as fuck, mostly because it looked metallic, but made out of shadows. It was a shiny purple color, almost my favorite color, but a bit more evil. I almost wanted to catch it and keep it as a pet but I then remembered that it was made of all of my worms and that I wanted them back.

The worm dove at me. It was gyrating. I slashed at it to try to get it away. It didn’t recoil away from the slash at all. As it came closer I saw the nature of it. There was a seamless weave of all the worms. The blade came towards them and it went in between two of them. It didn’t stop there though. The blade continued into one of the worms farther down and bisected it. I felt a quick pain, almost like being pinched sharply. I knew it was because I harmed one of my creatures. Wait, if they still are connected to me, maybe they can be purified. I grabbed Mutate and put her into my inventory with the Bug Net. I then warped to the Crystal Empire and ran to Doctor Sombrero.

“Are you in need of purification? Take these.” He handed me a full stack of Purification Powder. I looked at him. “I’d rather not die if that’s what you’re asking. There’s a gods damned worm out there.” Alright then… I will have to ask about the gods later. I flew back to where the worm and Darkness were. They weren’t there anymore. Fuck. I felt around my mental link for the corrupted presence.

It was halfway to Canterlot. I hopped onto Thermite when he appeared from wherever he comes from. We both flew onwards and reached them once they got a little bit farther. We were near a landmark called Neighagra Falls. I knew what that was making a pun about, but I just separated it from my care. I have better things to worry about.

I ran towards Darkness and noticed that he still had the same amount of health as before. I was filled with hope. I can do this. I cloned myself using the Mirror of Ororrim and both of me rushed at Darkness with haste. When the worm came at me, I threw some Purification Powder at it. The portion of worms it hit all broke off from the main one and went underground. They all were back to normal, thank God.

The worm diverted from me and roared. It had much less HP than before. Darkness lashed out with his whip and both me and the clone jumped at just the right time. The whip went under my feet and continued until it wrapped around Darkness itself. I saw his health go down by 200. I pulled out the Solar Flare, because it might be useful. Upon doing it, my clone did as well. We both used it on Darkness, and his health went down quite a bit faster.

The worm made a pass at my clone, and he waited until the worm was much nearer, and threw quite a bit of Purification Powder at it. Half of the remaining worm was purified. It recoiled and went underground. I shot another flare at Darkness. He was now at around 4300 health. I continued to attack him, and once he got to 4000 health he began to speak to me. ”So this is how it’s going to be? You’ll fight me and kill me before you even speak with me? Not even trying to “purify” me? Typical. The thought of reforming me didn’t even cross your mind. I know why it is so. You think this is all a game, like Terraria. When someone goes against you, they have to be evil.”

I paid him no mind, because he was just trying to make me distracted. But nothing prepared me for what he said at 3000 health. ”I should know you won’t listen, I used to be like you, hell, I’m just another version of you who went through different circumstances. But this doesn’t matter.” Bullshit. It means everything.

“Bullshit. Prove it.” He looked at me, and what he did after that, was remove his armor and vanities. He was a mirror of me, if I had gone through extremely hard times. He had gained at least 10 scars and his face looked strained. Fuck. He then put his gear back on, but left the vanities off. He was wearing an extremely dark looking armor. The kind of armor I liked to have my characters in Terraria wear. It looked like it was a weighty armor. It was mostly black, with purple runes gouged into the armor. He looked like a scion of the Corruption.

He threw out a summon. It wasn’t like anything I had ever seen before. It looked to be something similar to the Moon Lord, and I knew if I wasn’t wearing my Sunglasses I would be dead. The other version of me must have had the same idea. He reached up to his face and removed his sunglasses. He then had a glimpse of utter terror before his head legitimately exploded. I was showered with gore. Regardless of sight, the feel of blood covering your face and feeling bone shards cut into you are universally bad.

I looked back at Darkness, and saw that his name had changed. It now showed a name that I had used online, but perverted. DisHonored. Oh fuck. He rushed at me much faster than I had rushed at him and he lashed out with a sword that from the look of it was much more powerful than mine. It hit me and I was instantly set to one health. His beast rushed at me. I jumped over it but it shot a tentacle at me. I remembered nothing until I woke up in the palace.

...Fuck.

When I respawned, I warped to Ponyville. The first thing I was greeted by was panic. I let Mutate out of my inventory. She looked terrified. As soon as she saw me she rushed at me and threw her arms around me. I fell over backwards from the force. She was saying things nonsensically. I hugged her and tried to comfort her.

“How did you… I saw what your life was… how did you live through that on Earth?” What. He didn’t. He fucking didn’t. He better not have. “How did you live through the people doing that? H-how are the people there naturally that black in morality?” He fucking did. I’m going to murder him. Maybe, he is me after all.

I went into my Essence tab, and imbued myself with a hundred Hellspawn Essence, then felt an extreme amount of pain. I dropped to the ground as a burning sensation went through me. I could vaguely hear Mutate talking to me and trying to heal me. A tearing sound filled the air as a pair of horns stabbed out of my temples, a pair of wings tore out of my back, and a tail grew out from my tail bone.

I flew out to DisHonored faster than I flew before, and dropped into the ground at mach one. I punched him in the face and dealt 100 damage to him. He swung his sword at me, but I ducked under it and clawed at him with claws that grew in during the flight. My tail shot out and slashed a line into his chest. I grabbed him around the neck.

”How dare you tell Mutate what I’ve-what we’ve been through. I didn’t want it to come here! I didn’t want to put others through what I’ve been through!” I began punching him in the face repeatedly with my other hand until he disappeared from my grasp. I then looked around me, surprised.

“Wait, where did he-what?” A notification popped up. Honored has slain his shadow. What? No! I wanted to talk to him! Why? I walked to a pond and looked at myself. I barely even noticed the items that popped into my inventory. Note From Your Shadow and Shadow Treasure Bag.

I opened the note and looked at it.

Dear... Terry, I guess,

If you’re reading this it means you’ve finally won against me. I hope I gave you a good fight, and I hope you realize why I did that. I guess you probably won’t, but I did that to show you that not everything you fight is a mindless beast, and that you should act accordingly.

I hope you’re not too upset, but I had to do that because you were going down a bad path, one that I’ve only just recovered from. What I’m trying to do is stop other mes from doing the same thing. Now, some things may be out of your knowledge right now, but soon enough you will Understand, if you use the main thing from my Treasure Bag. I hope you won’t, but if you do I won’t judge.

As you may have guessed from this note, I’m not dead quite yet, but you brought me close. Just in case, you can remove specific essences from your soul by going into the Essence tab and tapping the Essence you want to get rid of and tapping Remove Essence. As a last thing, I’m sorry I told Mutate about Earth, but it’s the only way you’ll heal. I’m sorry, but,

I saw some circular patches of liquid on the paper and realized I was crying. I folded the note up, and put it into my inventory again. I walked back to the treehouse I made.

It wasn't just a small walk that seemed normal. Equestria seemed to catch on to my feelings and did an extremely cliche thing. It started raining. I'm not talking about a small refreshing shower, I'm talking full on thunderstorm. It just made me feel worse. Once I walked in the door I was full-on crying soaked. I remembered something from the note.

I went into the Essence tab and removed all the Hellspawn Essence from my soul. I got 50 back. Mutate seemed to get how I was feeling and walked towards me and hugged me. “Hey, Terry, it’s not your fault. You didn’t know. Wanna go talk to Glacial?”

“That might be nice. Where is he?” She pointed behind me. I turned around just as Glacial jumped at me. Master! You’re back! And the uneasy feeling is gone! “Hey Glacial. Yeah, it’s over for now. The person who was doing this is gone.” Glacial snuggled into me. I’m glad it’s over.

Just then, the events of the last two days crashed into me like a tsunami. I started walking back to the bed in the treehouse, and almost fell asleep. Mutate decided to intervene.

I felt an amazing burst of energy flowing through me. I turned to look at my queen, who had a sad look on her face. “Tell me about your world, please?” I knew she wouldn’t give up, so I decided…(Again… tempted to end here) that her request couldn’t do much harm. I got a Gargantuan King Eater and fifteen Small Eaters to come to me. I motioned for Mutate to go into the worm. Mutate and I went into the King Eater, which was actually furnished on the inside, courtesy of me.

I sat on a couch in the worm, and Mutate sat down beside me. I commanded the King Eater to just carry us around underground until said otherwise. The Small Eaters were there to guard. I could barely feel the motion as we went along, but when I opened the map we were zipping around quite fast.

“Where should I start? Probably from the beginning, I guess. If you’re to know what went down on Earth, I should start from when my life was pretty average...

Author's Notes:

Holy shit... this took forever, but it's done now.

Next chapter is going to be a look into Earth, because I saw that some people wanted to see more of bad Earth.

See you guys next chapter, and it'll be out much faster than this one. EquestrianNecromancer signing out.