I wake up, but notice something wrong immediately, half of my vision is dark. I bring a hand to my right eye and feel for it. I feel nothing at first then a sting of pain. I bring my hand away from my face and see a blood stain. I then look around and the dark horizon is still there and the blood water is there as well. I stand up and try to walk forward. But as soon as I try I hear the giggling again and my feet become stuck.

“Did you think it would be over that easily?” The filly said as she appears from the blood. “I will always be nearby whether you know it or not. You see this blood here? This is the combined total blood you have spilled and I was born from it. I was born from the massacre you had done over those one hundred years you were trapped and the single year you were free. All those lives lost because you fought to be free, and fought so you could die. Yet whenever you were slain you would always come back and you would still remember the pain you felt when it happened. Every single one here is crying out for your blood, for vengeance.” Soon hands and claws rise up from the blood and I see millions upon millions of figures.

“I caused so much bloodshed that it is finally catching up to me?”

“Not really, because until the day you truly die all of them lie in wait for you. And I will be the one to lead them to you.”

I look down and close my eye to let this nightmare end.

“It is not that simple, you haven’t experienced enough pain yet.”

As she says those words I feel nauseous and lose consciousness. I eventually feel myself slipping back into consciousness and hear something strange, Like someone is eating something. I open my eyes and immediately wish I hadn’t. The filly is eating Nightmare and she slowly looks up at me as bits of gore are clinging to her mouth. Her grin soon returns as I feel something worse is about to happen. She slowly stands up and I see the damage done to Nightmare. Her entire chest cavity is torn open revealing her insides. Her heart is bitten in half and her organs are littered all around her. I see that her neck is torn open as well. I then feel myself being pushed on my back. I try to get up but bloodied hands grab ahold of me and hold me down. The filly is walking towards me and has a serrated knife out that has blood stains on it. I try to struggle but nothing happens.

“Don’t worry this will only take a second or longer.” She then stops by my legs and stabs into my knee. I throw my head back in pain as I feel the bone shatter. Her grip tightens on the knife and slowly starts dragging the knife down my leg. I scream in pain as I can’t hold back any longer. I feel every bone she hits crack and break as it stops at my ankle. My breathing gets heavy and I wince in pain as the knife is pulled out. I look down upon my leg and see white and red as bits of bone and flesh are strewn out. I immediately think she is going to do the same to my other leg, but instead she walks forward and stops by my chest. She then makes thin cuts along my chest and peels open my skin like banana. I look down and see my insides and suffice to say, I am thankful I had an empty stomach.

She raises a hand to her chin and taps it “Hmm, what to do, what to do? Oh I know.” she then has her hand that was on her chin become a fist and smashes it into my chest. I cough up blood as I feel the bones strike all over. I then feel her grab my heart and hold it in her hands. “Your heartbeat is so wonderful Daddy. It is faster than Mommies. I wonder if the same will happen if I do this.” She then tightens her grip and I groan in pain and my vision is red and black as it starts to tunnel. Soon I see she brings it out of my body and holds it in her hand. Her grin becomes bigger as her teeth become shark like. She then crushes my heart and my vision tunnels even further. The last thing I see before I black out is her teeth about to bite into my neck.

I shoot upward and grab my chest as I try to calm my rapid heartbeat. I look down at myself and see a claw grabbing ahold of my chest. I sigh in relief then quickly reach upward and feel my eye. I then feel for it and it is still there.

“That was severely fucked up beyond all reason.” I then lean back and lie on the ground. I have no idea where I was but I don’t care, I’m just happy to have that nightmare over with. I then see a piece of paper entering my vision. I grab it and read it.

“Dear Gregar, if you are reading this letter that means you have awoken and your memories are back in working order again. YAY. Now it has been a month and I would like to tell you that the Crystal Empire is back as well. So that mean Sombra is back as well. Well I can safely say that Sombra is in for it when you get there. Good Luck.”

I chuckle a little as I see he ended it with a chibi of himself giving me a thumbs up. I shake my head and stand up. I crouch and build pressure in my legs. Before I rocket off I play a song that suits perfectly to what Sombra should do. Run to the Hills by Iron Maiden.

“Run for the hills, Run for your life Sombra.” I then launch off towards the Crystal Empire leaving a dust trail behind me. I keep on running and I see that the terrain slowly turns into a tundra. I see snow falling and I know I am getting closer to my destination.

‘Hmm, what should I do to that bastard when I get there? Well there is many things I could do to him that would make it worthwhile. I think-’ Suddenly I get hit in the side by a large object. When I finally stop tumbling in the snow I hear someone.

“So I hope you enjoy playing in the snow, cause you will be doing a lot of that.”

I deadpan as I hear that. ‘And this is why I don’t taunt, I will end up sounding like an idiot.’ I pick myself out of the snow and get to my feet. I look around to see anything that stands out. Then I see a giant ice block coming straight for me. I quickly dodge to the left then immediately get smacked by another block and I hear laughing.

“Ah come on there Gregar, you’re making it too easy for me. I mean I thought you were supposed to be some all powerful beast, not some boy who can fall so easily.”

I sigh as I stand up and wipe stray snow from myself. “Just show yourself asshole.”

“Fine, hurt my fun why don’t you.” Then I hear snow crunching behind me and I come face to face with a walking freez-I mean Coldman.

“Coldman, why?”

Coldman shrugs and jumps back and a blizzard forms. “Well i’m not one for discussing specifics, so shut up and take it.”

The storm hinders my sight and I quickly lose sight of him. I then get hit by another block of ice. I growl as I stand up.

“You know what fuck this.” My hand glows red as I use a good battle chip for this situation. I slam my hand in the snow and shout “Flame Tower!” A tower of flame surrounds me and goes forward. It lights up the area for a few meters and I can see Coldman. I then ready my blaster and shoot at him. As my shots connect, they do little damage because I can only rabid fire my shots instead of charging, I see him shrug off the damage.

“Well that was a neat little trick but that won’t work in the long run here.” I hear him then take a deep breath and he then shouts “White Breath!”

My eyes widen slightly “Shit!” I jump back as I faintly see three white clouds follow me. My tower of flame then disperses and I lose visual of them immediately. I then keep backing away and use another chip.

“Recov 200.” A soft blue light surrounds me as the damage I sustained repairs itself. I look around for him still, trying to find any indication where he is. My legs start growing colder and I jump up and evade the mist.

‘Damn this is a lot harder than I thought. I need some help with this.’ I grin as I think of the perfect one. As I land and try to pull out the navi mark I hear something falling over the whistling of the storm.

“Iceberg Press!” I look up and see Coldman turned into a block and about to land on me.

“Invis3!” My body fades slightly and he phases through me. I then jump away and hear him grumble.

“Cheating bastard.”

“Really? I go invulnerable for thirty seconds while you camoflauge with the storm and I am the cheater? Prick.” I then grab out out a navi mark with a red background with a yellow flame.

I then raise the mark and shout “Heatman! Battle Routine Set!”

Then a slightly echoing voice calls out “Execute!”

A flash ensues and I raise my hand to cover my eyes. When it ends I see Heatman Floating there and looking slightly surprised.

He turns around “Well I’ll be damned, Gregar it has been a long while hasn’t it.”

I chuckle “Yeah it has, but for now we got a fight on our hands.” He then floats over and stops right next to me and faces to where Coldman is.

“So who is it?”

“Coldman.”

He then chuckles “Well this will be interesting.” He then cracks his knuckles “Considering things are slightly different than the game.”

“Right.” we both then get into combat stances as three ice blocks are coming towards us. Heatman puts both of his hands forwards and shoots out jets of flame and melts them. I rush forward as the light from the flames gave away Coldmans position. I change my buster to a sword chip and get in close. He evades every strike and is unable to make a counter attack.

“Heat Burn!” I jump upwards as a jet of flame comes from behind and torches Coldman. As the flames die down I see that he is getting slower in his movements.

“Tch, damn I better get something good out of this. Ice Shooter!” He summons ice block after ice block to launch at us. Heatman uses his flames to melt them before they touch him while I Dodge them.

“Navi chip Activate: Thunderman!” Time freezes all around me. I then see a projection of Thunderman and he fuses with me as I point a finger in the air and a bolt of lightning strikes Coldman. Time resumes and Coldman flashes yellow and yells in pain. Heatman then rushes forward and punches Coldman and as he flies I intercept him.

“Goldfist!” My arm then changes into a giant golden fist and strikes Coldman back into the ground. Coldman struggles to get up as I see his body is banged and sparking.

“Screw this, I’m getting out of here.” Then the blizzard picks up speed and Coldman is lost from sight. Both myself and Heatman cover our eyes as the wind picks up as well. It soon dies down and Coldman is nowhere to be seen.

“You know, I think that was just a warm up to what supposed to come.” Heatman says with a huff of annoyance as he crosses his arms.

I sigh “I know what you mean. But first I need to get to the Crystal Empire and put Sombra in the grave.”

“So he was the one who caused that fifteen hundred years ago.”

“Yeah, because of him Celestia and Luna had to use the elements on me so I wouldn’t go all Terminator on them.”

“Makes sense. also was getting boring without us being called to help you.” Heatman then sighs himself “You know, when you aren’t off killing some evil being we need to catch up with the time you missed with all of us.”

I nod “Don’t worry I will, see ya next time.” I give him a two finger salute and he nods his head and disappears in a flash. I then turn towards where the Crystal Empire is and make my way there again. I keep my scanners active in case if I get blindsided again. I run for about an hour then I see a spire of crystal in the distance. I slow down and make my towards a hill overlooking the Empire. I then take out another navi mark with a crosshair.

“Searchman! Battle Routine Set!”

“Execute!” Then a flash goes off and Searchman is standing in front of me holding his scopegun.

He looks at me with an amused smile “So Heatman wasn’t lying when he said he was summoned. So shorty what do you need me for?”

I facepalm at him, because he will make that joke whenever he can to me. I mean I stand at six foot three, which is the same height as Nightmare Moon. The only pony who is taller than me is Celestia who stands at six foot seven. Searchman however stands at exactly seven feet tall.

“I need you to use your scope to see what's going on in the Empire below. Think you remember how to use the scope.”

He smirks at me “Oh don’t worry I know how to use a sniper, unlike a certain blue A.I from RVB.” He then crouches down in the snow and looks into the Empire. “Alright linking with your HUD now.”

Then I see what he sees in his scope. I see Cadence, Shining Armor, and Five of the six Element bearers being tied up. I then zoom in on Sombra and he has a smirk on his face. I clench my hand in anger but control myself. I then see something that made my eyes widen. Shademan carrying Spike and Twilight while the Crystal Heart is floating next to him.

“Well how do you want to go about this?”

I end the link and bring a hand to my chin. I then have a good idea of what to do.

“Here is what I want you to do. After I jump down I want you to wait 3 seconds then fire at Sombra so I can sweep in and take the Crystal Heart and put it in my hammer space. Then after that I will start my fight with Sombra and Shademan.”

“Well that sounds nice and all, but will you need sniper support or are you gonna lone wolf it?”

“Lone wolf it.”

Searchman nods “Alright, get ready then.” He then takes aim. “Waiting on your mark.”

I crouch down and build the pressure. after a couple of seconds I launch off.

“3” I race towards the empire and I see the gates closing in.

“2” I get inside the empire and slow down slightly and prepare to encounter Sombra.

“1” I get to where Sombra is and I am about to get the heart.

I then hear a gunshot go off and I grab the crystal heart.

I hear a yell of pain as I stand up with the Crystal Heart. I make it seem like I am putting it in my pocket and it disappears from sight. I hear some gasps while I also hear ‘Key Item received: Crystal Heart.’

“You!” I turn around and see Sombra glaring at me. “I thought you wouldn’t be back yet,no matter this only delays the plan.”

I scoff “Sure, but I will beat you both before I free this place.” pointing at Sombra and Shademan.

“You will find it difficult then, because even with your power two opponents will give you trouble.”

“True, but that means I need to be on my toes then.” I then raise my fists and get ready. I see Sombra growl as he uses his magic to heal his wound. He then draws his sword as Shademan readies his claws. I then rush towards Sombra but Shademan blocks my way. I growl at him as I jump back from his strike. I remember that Shademan is a lot stronger than he seems. He then turns into a swarm of bats as Sombra launches crystals at me. I dodge to the left and roll under the red swarm of bats. I then stand up and shoot my buster at Sombra which he counters with a crystal shield. I then get kicked in the back by Shademan and I steady myself quickly before receiving a blast of magic in my face. I dodge out of the way before it could hit and quickly use my claws to strike at Sombra. He smirks as he becomes a shadow.

“Long Sword!” my buster arm then changes into a long sword and I swipe at Sombra. He is surprised as he looks at me with a cut on his chest. I then roll out of a swipe from behind and stand back up with Shademan after me. I keep my distance while also keeping an eye on Sombra. I then see Shademan disappear and I quickly see three swarms of bats appear.

“Spreader!” My buster then changes and I fire at the middle one as it hits the other two and Shademan appears from the left. He glares at me as I return it as well. Before I can go on the offensive I feel my movement restricted. I look down and see black crystals at my feet. I look towards Sombra only to have Shademan fill my vision. I try to claw at him only for him to duck under my attack and bite into my neck. I start to feel faint as some of my power has been drained into Shademan. He lets me go and suddenly the ground beneath me erupts and I get stabbed through the stomach by a crystal. I hold it in place and try to stop my tunneling vision. I hear footsteps and see Sombra standing in front of me with a smirk on his face.

“See, this is what happens when you try to take on more than you can handle. Besides I am sure that it will be a while before you come back.”

I growl at him “What makes you think I am just going to sit here and let you kill me?”

“Simple, your strength was drained when Shademan bit you. As your strength slowly fades away you will die.”

“I won’t let that happen.” I then bring my arms up and try to break the crystal, only to have Shademan to hit me and stab me in the shoulders. I grunt in pain as he pulls away and lets my blood flow from the wounds.

“You see, I have always wondered if you have claimed Nightmare Moon as your own. I mean if you haven’t, it will be all the more enjoyable for me when I break her and she will no longer have her sight set on you, but becomes a slave to my will.” Sombra says with a devil's grin.

I then look at Sombra in shock as I heard him say that. Which slowly turns into a burning fire of rage. (Optional Background Music) . I glare at him and my look says it all. Sombra loses his grin as he starts backing away from me. Shademan is about to ask as well until he sees electricity coursing over my body. I hear that my health is going down and is approaching critical. I then start laughing. As I do so Sombra starts looking worried as I feel my eyes are glowing.

“Pain. I have known it all my life. It is almost second nature to me. Ever since being here I have known it. Now you will experience it as well.”

I then shatter the crystal and my stomach wound isn’t closing but I am not concerned about that at all.

I then roar and the ground around me cracks.

“Forbidden Power Unlocked! Super Beast Out Activate!” I then hold out my hand in front of me “Muramasa!” Then a katana appears and I grab it. Shademan then looks completely worried as he knows of the blades power. The more damage I take, the stronger the blade becomes. I then fade out and appear right in front Somba and Shademan and swipe both of them across the chest. The sword disappears and I follow up by unleashing punch after punch upon the two of them. Shademan blocks the attacks while Sombra turns into a shadow. I then grab Shademan and swing him around by the arm and toss him to where Sombra is. When the two hit I backstep away.

“Program Advance: Life Saver!” Time stops and I feel all my wounds quickly heal and I am back at full health. Time resumes and I see a barrier on myself. I grin as I look towards the two and then rush the two again as they try to put up a defense. When they try I easily read all their moves and beat them before their defense can even be set up. I uppercut Shademan in the jaw and drop kick Sombra. I then bring my buster up and use my left arm to steady my sights on the two.

“Program Advance: Hyper Spreader!” I then unleash a barrage of shots towards them and they take the full brunt of the force. As smoke is created I take the time to prepare for what comes next. It clears up seconds later and I see both struggling to stand up.

“Navi Chip Activate: Protoman!” Time stops and I see a faded version of Protoman in front of me and merges with me. My buster changes into a wide sword that is tinted purple instead of the normal blue. I rush towards Sombra and cut him from right shoulder to left hip while I cut Shademan from right hip to left shoulder. Time resumes and both fall to their knees. Shademan is sparking from the punishment I put on him while Sombra has a growing pool of blood around him.

“Any more words you two?” They both just glare at me. “No, good.” I then grab five navi marks.

“Protoman, Roll, Gutsman, Shadowman, Metalman! Battle Routine Set!”

“Execute!” I hear five voices say in unison.

As the five appear I grin at seeing them again.

“Well well, it seems the original party is here again.” Protoman says with a smile as he crosses his arms. Roll then flies forwards and tackles me in hug.

“I am so happy to see you.” She says as her grip tightens around me. I tap her on the shoulder for her to let go which she does. Shadowman nods at me. Gutsman and Metalman gives me a thumbs up.

“Well it is nice to see everyone, but we got a situation.” I move around and they see Shademan and Sombra. They are all narrow their eyes at them. “You see these two were trying to steal the Crystal Heart. I grabbed it with the help of Searchman. Now I kicked the ass of both of them and are in too much pain to do anything. I need you to go around and give assistance to any who need it. I will stay here and make sure these two don’t move.”

“Right, besides since you have finally unlocked your super beast out it must’ve been easy.” Gutsman says as he walks away. They all go away except Shadowman.

“What?”

Shadowman sighs and begins “How did you unlock it?”

“I don’t know, but Sombra said something about Nightmare that pushed it too far.”

“Hmm, did anything happen before coming to the empire?”

I was about to say no then I remembered the nightmare I had. I sigh as I began telling him all that happened in the nightmare. To say he was horrified would be an understatement. He was silent for a while and just shook his head and left to help. I sigh and look towards Shademan and Sombra. I raise an eye as I see Shademan’s expression.

“Thats an interesting nightmare you had.” He says with a smile on his face he then starts laughing “Well this makes what will happen next all the more enjoyable.” Sombra smirks.

“What are you on about now?” I narrow my eyes.

“You see, I have one more trick up my sleeve for you.”

I am about to ask what until my eyes widen in pure disbelief, the crest of Duo appears before Sombra and Shademan. I rush forward and grab ahold of both of them. I then get launched back and hear ‘Cross fusion ability unlocked. you can now give the ability to others to cross fusion.’ I groan as I hear that. I mean it is one of two ways I am able to turn back into a human after all. I then get back up and try rush forward again.

“Noise Crush!” Shademan launches a blast of pure noise at me. I clutch my hands to my ears and move backwards as it hits. I groan as my ears stop ringing and I see my team around me and Metalman holding Sombra and Shademan down with his fists. I stand up and nod at Protoman.

“Everyone clear?”

“Yeah, but what happened here?”

“Bastard has the Crest of Duo.” Then a purple glow surrounds Sombra and Shademan. Metalman looks down in surprise and then he gets knocked away.

“Cross Fusion Activate: Shade Fusion!” The glow becomes bright and I cover my eyes. When it ends I stare in disbelief.

“Fuck.”

Sombra laughs and readies an attack.

“Ripper!” he swings both his arms forwards in an X formation and strikes all six of us.

“Barrier!” Protoman shouts and it protects him. The rest of us get hit. I drop to one knee while the others flash out in a blue light and disappear.

I growl as Protoman helps me up. I look up and see Sombra with a smirk on his face.

“Recov 300!” The blue glow surrounds me and my injuries are healed.

“This form holds so much power.” Sombra brings a claw to his face and clenches it and looks at us “But also you won’t be around much longer for me to use it to it’s full power.” Sombra then rushes at us. Protoman dodges to the left while I dodge to the right. Sombra throws his arms out towards both of us “Crystal Barrage!” Then he launches shards of crystals towards us. I see Protoman dodge them. I wait for them to get close to me.

“Guard!” As soon as they are about to hit me a huge yellow shield with a green cross appears in front of me and launches a shock wave towards Somba as the shards hit the shield. I see Sombras eyes widen as it knocks him away. Protoman jumps over to me as Sombra gets back up.

“Well I admit, that was a good shot.” He says as he wipes a little bit of blood from his mouth. “but don’t think that I will easily be defeated like I was before. Now let’s continue where we left off at shall we.”

Sombra rushes forwards “Shade Hand!” and a clawed shadow forms in front of Protoman and badly injuries him. I intercept Sombra as he rushes forward.

“Widesword!” I then swing downward and Sombra forms his crystal sword and intercepts my own. I struggle against him as he grins.

“It seems we are at an impasse here. But that will shortly change.” He then dodges out of the way as I fall forwards. I look up and see Protoman had gotten behind him to strike his back. Sombra reappears behind him and impales him from behind. “I think it is time for you to leave, the big boys are playing.”

“Fuck. You.” Protoman says before he disappears in a blue light.

“Well I think this little toy can spice things up.” He then brings forward a dark chip. My eyes widen and I take a step back, remembering what that did last time it was used on me. He chuckles then closes his hand around it and slowly a dark aura is surrounding him. His eye soon gain the shadow effect around them. He then rushes towards me and I rush towards him. I bring my arm back as he does as well. I bring it forward and Sombra does the same and when our fists connect a huge shock wave is sent out and neither of us is willing to let the other gain the upper hand. I then have an idea, but before I can execute it Sombra brings his arm back and I stumble forward, which results with me getting an uppercut to the jaw. I get launched and Sombra grabs my leg and spins me around. He lets go shortly afterward and I go flying into a few houses. I groan as I attempt to get up from the debris. I hear laughing coming from where I was launched.

“Ok I am having enough of this shit.” I feel electricity course across my body and I shoot out of the rubble and catch Sombra in the gut.

“Gold Fist!” I then punch Sombra repeatedly with my fist of death. After three hits Sombra is hurting badly. He catches my fist on the fourth hit. I slowly bring my fist down as he resists. He then turns into a swarm of bats and surrounds me.

‘Shit!’ As Sombra surrounds my vision goes dark and I faintly hear laughing.

My vision shortly returns, and it seems I am back in nightmare land. I look down at myself and see blood covering my claws and blades.I look up and notice the entire city of Canterlot and the mountain that it is sitting on is nothing but a pile of rubble. I sigh as I walk forward without a care in the world.

“I am the herald of death, none shall get in my way and none can stop me.” I chuckle as I say those words. “I wonder how the others are doing.” I smile under my mask and walk towards Ponyville. When I get there I am met by screams of terror and the brandishing of weapons.

“Aw is that any way to treat a friend?” I say in a mocking tone.

“You bastard, you killed the princess’s what more do you want?”

“Easy” I then throw my arms out to the side “To watch the whole world burn beneath my feet until there is nothing left.”

“You monster!”

“The proper term would be a beast no-” I then get cut off as a barrage of magic blasts enter my view. A huge cloud of dust then erupts and I am lost from view.

“Did we get him?”

I use my scanner to see each one of them slowly walk forward. I smirk at them ‘Too easy.’ My eyes then glow and they all stop.

“Nice trick I will give you that. But that was completely useless, good attempt regardless. But alas, time to die.” I then growl and the ground around me starts crumbling. I then get on all fours as my body starts glowing. I then slowly begin towering over the town. I then get to my full height and I hear multiple voices ring out in despair. I look down upon myself as I see myself in my true form. I roar out and the dust is cleared and everything in a one hundred meter radius is blasted back from the force of it. I walk forward a little then see a bright light come from my left. I turn that way and see the elements being prepared. I open my mouth a little and fire is slowly flickering out of my mouth. Then a rainbow beam is launched towards me and I launch out my burning breath to intercept it. The beam cuts right through my fire and hits me. However it does absolutely nothing to me as I walk forward a little. Lighting is then flickering around my mouth as I open my mouth and launch a beam of lighting out at Twilight and her friends. When the beam ends the world around me shatters and I am back in the blood zone.

“Daddy, are you alright?”

I look to my right and see the filly again, but this time she looks different. Her eyes are still the same yellow and teal. The rest of her is more defined. She is charcoal grey in color with a forest green mane. Her wings are no longer rotting and she doesn’t look like she is crying blood. I also notice that both of my eyes are there.

“Daddy?” she asks again with concern in her voice.

I look down at myself and see I am back into my beast out form.

I sigh. “I am fine, I guess. But why are you concerned?” I ask as I turn towards her.

“I may want to kill you, but you are still my father. I will care about you regardless of what happens.” She says as she walks forward. I was touched slightly because it reminds me of when Nightmare Moon first met me. I remain cautious about her considering what happened earlier today.

“Then what was with you showing me a living hell then?”

To my surprise she sighs sadly and looks down in shame. “I was not sure what to do when I would first meet you. But I was mostly controlled by the anger of those you had wrongfully killed all those years ago.”

I sigh as I sit there wondering what to do. “How do I know you are not lying to me?”

She looks up at me and smiles widely, while she does have her sharp teeth her smile is more warming than cold. “Easy, listen.” I then begin hearing a piano. Then the lyrics begin and it turns into a familiar song. I close my eyes and just let myself be lost in the music. When it ends I open my eyes and look up and this time I play a song of my own. It's a song that suited how I felt during my one hundred year enslavement. Instead of letting it play, I let the instruments play and sing the song myself.

Hello Darkness my old friend

I’ve come to talk with you again

Because a vision softly creeping

Left its seed while I was sleeping

And the vision that was planted in my brain

Still remains

Within the sound of silence.

I look down as I feel the filly sit down next to me and leans her head against me. I smile at her as I look up once again.

In restless dreams I walked alone

Narrow streets of cobblestone

‘Neath the halo of a street lamp

I turned my collar to the cold and damp

When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light

The filly tenses up at the words stabbed and I put an arm around her and bring her closer to me, letting her know I am here and I don’t hold it against her all too much.

That split the night

And touched the sound of silence

And in the naked light I saw

Ten thousand people maybe more

People talking without speaking

People hearing without listening

People writing songs that voices never share

And no one dared

Disturb the sound of silence

Fools said I you do not know

Silence like a cancer grows

Hear my words that I might teach you

Take my arms that I might reach you

But my words like silent raindrops fell

And echoed in the wells of silence

And the people bowed and prayed

To the neon god they made

And the sign flashed out its warning

In the words it was forming

And the sign said the words of the prophets are

Written on the subway walls

And tenement halls

And whispered in the sounds of silence.

I let the music end and I looked down at the fil- no my daughter. I could see her tearing up at me and hugs me. I hug her back and I can feel her crying slightly into my chest.

“You know, I never did learn you name.” I say to her as she lets go of me and sits on my lap.

“Lily, that is my name.”

“It’s beautiful.” I say as I look at her. She smiles at me. We sit there in silence.

I sigh “I need to go back, and finish my fight with Sombra.”

“I know, but don’t worry Dad I will stay here and protect your mind.”

“How so?”

She then gets up and stands in front of me and puts a finger on my forehead. “I will always be here in your mind. I may not be real, but I am here for you.”

“While that is nice, but how can you protect my mind?”

She smirks “Like you, I have a lot of untapped power. So I can easily protect your mind.”

I stand up and put a hand on her head and ruffle her mane and she giggles a little. “Thank you Lily.” I walk forward then look back. I see that before the landscape was like an island and is slowly turning back to how it was before. I also see Lily turning back to how she was before. “And for the record, you are real to me. And next time I will make sure your Mother is here as well.” She smiles at me, even though it looks really creepy with her demented look. I wave to her and she does the same as I am coming back to the waking world.

When I come back I see Sombra gloating how he beat me. I was getting tired of his shit and I didn’t even need to know what he was saying. His back is turned to me and I slowly get up. When I stand up I receive a fist to the face and stumble backwards. I grunt as I am stilling waking up. I shake my head and receive a punch to the face once again. This time my senses are cleared and I get kicked in the knee and drop down to one knee.

“Is this the extent of the so called “Super Beast Out”?” I can literally feel his smirk as I look on the ground and receive a punch to the back of the head. “This is nothing compared to the power of a Dark chip.” He then kicks me in the face and I grimace as I feel it connect. Damn why did he have to be paired with Shademan, that fucker is hard enough on his own. “You are NOTHING COMPARED TO ME!”

I close my eyes and I can feel his fist coming towards me. I breath out slowly and then I catch his fist in my left hand and I can feel his disbelief. [Optional Background Music.] I stand up while I slowly crush his fist in my grip. I open my eyes and I can clearly see the fear in Sombra’s eyes.

“You may have power, but you do not know how to use it. True I may have only just now unlocked more of my power, but it is only a fraction of what I can do. You are only a fool who is blinded by his idea that all should bow before you because you call yourself the “King of Equestria”. You may have a crown, but it’s a false crown. And even if you somehow did defeat me, there would others who would stop you and rid your tyranny from this world. But no, you reign, your life ends here by my hand.”

I then clench my fist and mentally select the ‘FireHit’ battlechip. Shortly my right fist is in blazes and Sombra is stuttering on what to say.

“So I ask you this Sombra” I let go of his hand “JUST WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK I AM?!” I then uppercut him under the jaw and send him flying a few meters away. I then rush forward and grab him.

“DrillArm!” My buster changes into a drill and it spins to life. I then strike him in the shoulder while holding him. I hear his screams of pain and I continue to hold onto him. I then let go and he goes flying. When he lands he is holding his shoulder as it is sparking and bleeding heavily. My arm goes back to normal as three chunks of rock and crystal appear in the air around me.

“Tripleshot!” all three of the chunks hit Sombra and he drops down, but I'm not done with him yet. As he struggles to get up I decide to help him.

“Cominround!” Suddenly a magline appears beneath him and pulls him towards me fast. I then bring my arm back and as Sombra is about to get to me I end the magline but Sombra is still brought towards me because of the force of the chip.

“BigHook!” My buster changes into a giant fist and I hit Sombra with it and he goes back at least one hundred feet. When my arm returns to normal I raise my hand to the air with my palm facing the sky.

“BlueMoon!” A blue crystal appears in the sky above and then takes the shape of a cannon. Sombra and Shademan slowly get up, huh I guess I did enough damage to them that it knocked them out of the unison, and they look upon it as it is charging.

“Any final words before I laser you asses into oblivion?”

Shademan smirks “This is only the beginning an-”

I stop him there “Yeah, I am not dealing with that cliche bullshit.” I then bring my hand down and the beam launches at the two of them. I hold it there for one full minute before ending it. When it ends all I see is scorched earth and a smoke trail leading in the air.

I sigh as I look upon the smoke trail that was once Sombra “It is finally over for that bastard.” I look around and see crystal ponies come out one by one. I begin to wonder what they do until they all bow to me.

I rub the back of my head “There is no need to bow, stand and be free from your past of Sombra.” All of them stand up and cheer for me. I then walk towards the castle. On my way there I meet up with Cadence, and I walk up to her.

“You alright?” I ask her.

“I am fine Gregar, but did you truly kill Sombra?”

I nod “Yeah I did.”

“What was that thing in the air that appeared?”

“That was a cannon, that's all I’m saying about it.”

“Alright, but where is the Crystal Heart?” She narrows her eyes at me.

I bring my hands up in front of me “Woah, no need for hostility.” I then go for my pockets and I think of the Crystal Heart and it appears in my hand. I hear the words ‘Key item lost’

‘Thank you hammerspace’ I say to myself. “Here you are, don’t drop it.” I say with a hidden smile.

Cadence rolls her eyes and smiles. She takes the Heart and and goes over to the pedestal. I notice Twilight looking a little down.

“Hey is everything alright?” I ask her.

She jumps a little and rubs her arm. “Well I am just thinking on how Celestia will pass me on this test.”

I then put a hand on her shoulder “Don’t worry about that, if I know Tia she will pass you.” ‘That and the fact that she didn’t come herself means she needs to get her fat ass off that throne and be productive than eat cake and listen to the bitching and moaning of nobles.’ “Anyway I never did catch your name.” I already know her and her friends names, just felt like asking.

“Oh, Well my name is Twilight Sparkle. And this is Spike my number one assistant.” She says as she motions over to Spike.

I nod my head “Well nice to meet you, officially anyway, I know you already know my name so no need for me to say anything. Any others I should know about?” I ask as a wave of warmth comes from the castle and everyone around me gets a crystallized sheen to them.

“There is my BBBFF” I then say to myself ‘sounds so fucking childish’ “Shining Armour, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Rarity, and Pinkie Pie.” As she motions to all of them. Shining Armor is over by Cadence. Applejack tips her hat at me. Rainbow Dash just rolls her eyes at me. Fluttershy hides behind her mane and weakly says hello. Rarity flicks her mane and bows to me, I can only internally ask why. Pinkie Pie has a huge smile on her face and then suddenly jumps me and hugs puts me in a death hug.

“Oh my gosh that was so amazing I mean-” I stop her from talking anymore as I struggle to get out of her grip. Pinkie in soon surrounded in a purple glow and pried off of me.

“Thanks Twilight.” I then stretch my arms out and start walking away. I then hear wings behind me and I see Cadence land in front of me.

“Before you just up and leave like last time, I need to confirm something.”

I internally prepare myself for what she is about to ask. “Go ahead.”

“Is it true you are married to Nightmare Moon?” she asks in a serious tone.

“Yes it’s true.” I nod my head. Then she surprises me by pulling me into a hug.

“Well it is nice to meet you Uncle Gregar.” My mind has derailed and I can only hug her back. Then she whispers in my ear “And if you ever need help when you and Aunty Moon are all alone just come to me for advice in the bedroom.” 404 error brain has stopped working. She then lets go and has a smile on her face as if nothing had happened.

I shake my head “Nice to meet you as well I guess. Anyway, I need to get going see all of you around.” Before I turn around I swear I saw Cadence wink at me. I shake my head at that and rocket off leaving a dust trail behind me. I could swear over the wind I heard someone shout ‘Showoff!’.

Shortly after leaving the Crystal Empire a message appears in front of me. ‘Key Item acquired: Token.’

“Huh I wonder who this belongs to?” I ask myself as I think about it and it appears in my hand. It appears to be a black, onyx like dragon scale and then I hear someone's voice.

“I am Ken Ahkrin, The Scalebound. Call upon me if you need some help, advice or want to tip the scales in your favor.”

“That sounded so corny.” I then think about it for a bit. “Hmm, well I could use someone to talk to.” As I was thinking about summoning him a portal opens up beneath and I get sucked through “ Son of a bitch.” I say before it closes around me.

A few minutes later I crash land into the ground. I groan as I get up and look around to see myself in a canyon in the desert. I stand there for a few seconds and I see a tumbleweed roll by. I check my scanners to see if there is anyone nearby. Nope there isn’t. I feel my left eye twitching Uncontrollably. (How he is on the inside at this moment.)

Author's Notes:

Well it is edited now, thanks to Trithtale for helping me edit it while Bluemoon is busy. only minor edits needed to be taken care of as far as i can tell.

Alright now onto things in the story, Now for the main thing with Lily. cant say much about it because that would be spoilers but there is a reason for her rapid change of heart.

Next is the Hammer Space, that is ONLY used for tokens that Gregar receives from meeting other displaced, or important items like the crystal heart.

Also sorry about the sizes of the pictures.