<One Hour Earlier>

Flash and Twilight made their way through the warzone as their friends and allies fought off the nightmare griffins. As they made their way was to Nightmare Spire, Father watched them through a video stream. He looked down in annoyance. “She is just as stubborn as her mother.” He began to generate large amounts of dark magic into the tubes connected to his back. The tube fed the dark magic throughout the entire spire.

Flash and Twilight soon found themselves under attack as the spire began to shoot lasers. “Can we dodge them?” she questioned.

“Yeah, but I'm going to have to move faster. Hold on tight,” he replied as he moved even faster. Moving at lightning speed, he continued to dodge the lasers as they finally reached the entrance of the spire.

They raced inside and up an almost endless twisting stairway. It kept going higher and higher. They kept running longer and longer. “How is it so tall?” she questioned.

“He must be expanding the size of the spire,” he replied.

“He can do that?”

“Yeah, but don't worry. Give me some time and I should be able to outrun the growth,” he assured her as he raced faster.

Suddenly a voice spoke up. “Oh, really and how will she get there without you?”

They stopped and looked around for the source, but before they could find it Flash was grabbed. Twilight was knocked from his arms over to the edge and nearly fell off. She held on as she saw Flash being held by Prince Nexus Star.

“Jack?!”

“Hello sister, you mind if I take your coltfriend for a dance?” Instantly they were gone in a teleport.

“FLASH!”

Flash and the prince soon landed far from the spire. They were now in the abandoned ruin city of Baltimare. Nexus Star threw Flash.

“How did you survive the destruction of the Andross?”

“Have you forgotten I am the real Master of Teleportation. Though even I have to admit that Twilight's little move caught me off guard.” He smirked. "Tell me Flash, why do you want up there so badly?”

“Because Twilight is up there,” he answered.

“Oh really? So you know that is a faker, too.”

Flash looked in confusion. “How did you know?”

“Because I know where the real Twilight is.”

“She’s on top of the spire!” Flash answered quickly.

Nexus Star let out a twisted chuckle. “And what tells you that?”

“A device that Cult Race stole. It shows me that there are three massive amounts of magic on that --”

Suddenly the prince laughed aloud. “So that's what he stole from me! Tell me, have you looked at it recently?”

Flash’s eyes widened. With all that had happened, he hadn’t. Not even when Twilight handed it back to him after the talk with Tirek. He trembled as he grabbed it out. He activated it and froze upon what he saw.

The prince decided to continue. “I’ll go ahead and tell you that Twilight is alive and on top of Nightmare Spire, only there's not much left of her.” Flash continued to stand in shock, as Nexus Star took off his top armor. “Oh and as for the source of that third amount of magic. Well, that should be obvious to you now.”

Suddenly large amounts of dark magic began to emanate from Nexus Star. He took a stance and a deep breath. Finally, he began to chant a spell. “I call upon the gates of Hell. Grant me your power and malice. I call upon the wrath and rage.” His muscles began to grow. His coat began to turn a dark red.

“What have you done to yourself?”

“Why it’s very simple Flash. I have achieved power beyond that of an alicorn. A power that has not been seen for nearly one hundred thousand years and has not been seen since the very first Alicorn War.” His body continued to transform as horns grew on his head. His wings grew to double their original size. In the end, he was no longer a batpony. He was now a demon.

“So you have become a demon,” Flash spouted. “Fine, then no holding back.” He started charging up his light magic. “Let’s go all out!”

The prince charged head on. Flash dodged the punch as it hit a building. He punched his fist right through the wall.

Flash stood there on the building. “Well you're stronger now, but you're still slow.” Suddenly the building began to crack apart and fall to pieces. Flash quickly jumped off and looked in confusion as he raced to an even taller building. “How did you do that?”

“The demon mode allows a pony to amplify their talents to near infinity. For instance, my talent is lock breaking.” He held up his fist and charged right at the next building. “With this power, I can use a single hit to break as many locks as I desire.” He hit the building and it began to tear apart.

Flash jumped off again and flew up high into the sky. Nexus Star grabbed a rock in his hand. “Well, that's a lot of power. But all I have to do is dodge you, right?” Flash questioned.

Nexus Star chuckled. “I knew you wouldn't understand the full scope,” He crush the rock in his hand and chucked it at Flash. He dodged it as the prince continued. “I can break any lock, even the ones that hold together atoms.”

Flash’s eyes widened as the shards of the rock ignited into a small nuclear explosion. Flash move quick as he could to dodge it and barely escaped. Nexus Star looked with a twisted smile. ”How do you think I created my nukes?”

Flash realized then, even with his speed, this would still be a near impossible battle to win.

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Twilight reached the first throne room. The throne room of Father. After all this time, she would finally meet him in the flesh. Darkness covered the room. Sitting at the other end of the room was a throne of pure onyx. Beside it was a scythe covered in blood stained chains, with a blade of pure obsidian on top. On the other side of the throne was a stairway, possibly leading to Nightmare Moon.

“It’s good to see you daughter.” Twilight heard the voice and took her stance. It was Father’s voice.

"I am not your daughter."

Soon the darkness cleared. It revealed an old, dark alicorn stallion covered in tubes. But that was not what sent a shock through her. It was who Father really was.

He had a charcoal coat. His wings were as black as the darkest night. His armor was a flawless shining silver. His royal cape was a royal red and almost perfectly covered the tubes coming out of his back. His mane flowed like a black flame. And his horn was fiery red.

“It can’t be you. It just can’t be. King Sombra? You're a dark alicorn?! You are Father?!?”

The king stood up. “Twilight, I wished it wouldn’t have come to this, but you must die.” He grabbed his scythe. As he did, gigantic amounts of dark magic emanated from him, so much that it sent shock waves through the air itself, shooting back with the force of a blizzard.

Twilight stood her ground as the power tried to push her down. "Sombra, tell me, why did you choose me and the others to adopt? And what is the true connection between you and Luna?"

"If you defeat me I will tell you everything." Sombra charged right at her. Twilight jumped as he swung his scythe. Quicker than she could react, though, he swung again. This time upwards and hooked her with the scythe, knocking her to the ground.

“Give up now. I’ll end it quickly,” he threatened as he held the scythe to her throat.

“Never.” She quickly pulled her katana out and stopped his attack. She knocked back the scythe and stabbed him in the leg. As he fell back, she flipped up into the air and charged dark magic into her katana. She turned and swung. “Moonlight Strike.”

The attack sent him to the wall. He slowly got up as if unaffected. “You learn fast,” he smirked, pulling back his scythe. “It’s a shame that you didn’t learn all the spells of this style of fighting. Dark Pendulum.” He swung the scythe and it shot forth a spinning astral scythe. Twilight quickly flew down as it hit the ceiling.

As she flew down, he flew above her and sent another strike. “Dark Hold.” Twilight found herself being wrapped in dark magic. She fell to the ground as he landed above her. “It's time I end this.” He raised his scythe up. “Please forgive me.” As it charged with dark magic, he dropped it towards her neck.

Suddenly a giant ball of fire ripped into the spire. It hit Sombra head on, knocking him back to his throne. Twilight looked in surprise as to who stepped into the room. Wielding two fiery red sabres, Sunset Shimmer walked in. “You might want to get out of here, Twilight. We got this handled.”

“Sunset, what are you doing here? Wait, you said ‘we’?”

Sombra tried to get up but found himself being wrapped by a serpent form. It was Discord. Sombra grabbed him. “Get off me brother!” He threw him to the ground.

“You lost the right to call me that long ago!” Discord yelled.

Sunset looked at Twilight as she cut her loose. “Twilight go on ahead. Nightmare has a spell you might be looking for.”

“The time traveling spell. Wait a minute, why are you even here?”

“Because an old foggie showed me that sometimes you have to ignore the lies.”

Twilight could see it in her eyes. A ray of hope that was as bright as a star. Quickly she got up and ran to the other stairway. “Be careful, Sunset!”

******

As Twilight made her final climb up to the top, Flash’s battle with Nexus Star continued across the sky. Flash flew as fast as he could, dodging the prince’s deadly fist as explosions filled the skies. The two began to fly higher and higher. Soon they would reach the edge of the atmosphere. Flash had to do something soon.

Only he forgot that the prince could teleport. Suddenly before Flash could even react, he was grabbed by another teleport. This time they landed so high up that it was too hard to even breathe.

Flash quickly got out of his grip, but not before the prince grabbed his metal hand. Flash tried to pull away, but the prince used his power to crush Flash’s hand.

Flash slowly floated backward as his breathing began to weaken with each second. “Tell me Flash, do you know how dark and light magic works?”

Flash didn’t answer, he knew this would be coming. “That's right, Anywhere there is light, light magic grows. Anywhere there is darkness, dark magic grows. And what better place for me to end the life of Realta’s chosen one, then in space itself.”

“Damn you. You planned this,” Flash barely answered.

“Indeed I did, and you fell for it perfectly. Plus I have been training myself for these types of conditions.”

Flash felt himself weakening with each second. He stood his ground, though, despite his air slowly going. Nexus Star raised his arms out and began to chant. “I call forth the dark imprisonment.” Soon a barrier of pure dark magic began to surround Flash.

Flash had no time at all as it completely enveloped him in a sphere shape. Flash stood there as darkness covered everything. He slowly crumpled to his knees as his breathing got worse. The imprisonment was taking more and more air from his surroundings. His mind began to blank as everything was going black.

Randomly an old memory popped up. A memory of his first lesson in light magic. Meanwhile outside, Nexus Star laughed at his victory. He had won. This was the end. Or so he thought.

Suddenly light began to pulsate from the sphere of darkness. He looked in shock as the sphere began to crack. Soon it was ripped apart. Standing in the remains was Flash, covered in pure light. He shined like a star.

“What is this? How?”

“I once asked my mentor why the light and dark don’t destroy each other. He answered that is wasn’t that they don’t, but they can’t.” Flash answered him as he held up his arm. The arm that had the metal hand. “With every light, there is a shadow. With every shadow, there must be a light.”

“What are you saying? How are you getting this much magic? There's no source anywhere.”

“Oh yes there is. In space, we have the stars themselves.”

The prince’s eyes widened. “But they are too far, you would only get a small amount.”

“Yes, a small amount of billions!” Flash yelled. Suddenly his arm began to glow. “I never thought I would ever use this move.” Soon a hand of pure light took the place of his metal hand. “Finale spell, Great Hand of The Light.”

Suddenly the hand shot forth a massive laser of light magic. Nexus Star crossed his arms as he took the hit. The blast began to push him back. Even with his demon power, he could not hold this much power back forever.

“No, it won’t end like this.” He spoke as it began to burn his flesh.

“Surrender, Jack and I’ll stop the blast.”

“Never!”

“Come on, you have a wife and friends. You can’t keep being loyal to Father forever.”

“But I can and I will. Like I said to Rainbow Dash, loyalty is the most important thing a pony can have.”

Flash was taken back by these words. “But he kidnapped you from your parents.”

“What parents? I had nopony. My real mother died in a hospital bed, and my real father refused to ever leave his lab. Never once, even on her death. He was always obsessed with that dragon.”

Flash’s eyes widen. “Night Fright was your real father?”

“Even after he made Spike transform. He still did not care for me. All I ever was was a tool. A connection to Father for him to use and then throw away. You get it now? I serve Father because he is the only family that cared for me.” Suddenly dark magic began to pulsate in his eyes.

Flash realized what the prince was doing. “Wait not that spell. It's too strong!”

“If I can’t beat you, then I’ll destroy you.” The prince refused to listen as he forced his magic to use the strongest version of the dark magic Glare. “CONDENSE!!”

Soon space began to condense around them. Condensing so much that a tear in space began to form. “You have bent space too far! You’ve created a wormhole!” The spell Flash had cast was now gone. The two felt themselves being pulled into the wormhole. “What have you done Jack? You'll kill us both and the planet!”

“I don’t care. I will win.”

“Jack, you have to stop. Think of your wife. Would she want this?”

The prince’s eyes widened as tears flowed. Memories of her flowing through his mind. “Be careful out there.” He dropped to his knees.

“If you want to show your loyalty to Father, then protect the ones you love. Like he protects his.” Flash demanded. “Jack in the other timeline, that the other Twilight comes from. She told me that we are the best of friends. That what made using that spell so hard. So please as a friend. DON’T LET YOUR LOVED ONES DIE!!”

Nexus Star realized his falter. He looked to Flash and gave a tearful smile. He knew there was only one way to close the wormhole. “Flash, tell my wife I will always love her.” Suddenly he charged right at the wormhole, flying right into it. There was only one way to close it. From the inside.

“JACK!!!!”

Once he was inside, he was gone. The wormhole began to close. Flash felt all his magic draining. He had forgotten that the finale spell took so much magic. He began to fall as tears flew from his eyes as he fell back down to the planet. The final thing he said as he lost consciousness was, “Goodbye friend.”

******

Meanwhile back in the spire, the battle between Discord, Sunset, and Sombra, was getting tougher. Sunset quickly dodged another scythe attack. She jumped backward into a flip. Meanwhile, Discord shot his chaos magic at Sombra from behind. Sombra grabbed it and flung it towards a wall.

As it hit the wall, Sunset jumped forward with sabres pointed forward. Sombra saw this and deliberately fell backward. He caught the ground and used it to kick her hard in the stomach. He used his wings to stabilize himself as Discord tried to swing kick him.

Once in the air, he flung Sunset. She found herself being thrown to a wall near the throne. Sombra grabbed Discord by the throat. “I don’t get it Discord. We were like brothers once and you are now fighting alongside the mare who killed Celestia.” He spun Discord around and threw him to another wall.

Sunset got up. “Damn it I thought this would be easy. But his strength is so immense.” She cleaned the blood coming out of her mouth and charged at him again. He backhanded her to the ground once more.

He walked over to her and pulled out his scythe. “This ends now.”

Suddenly a beam of pure magic knocked Sombra back. He looked to see who sent the attack and saw ‘F’. “Sombra! You will not take her life. I will stop you.”

“Really? You plan to stop me?” Sombra boasted.

He was right, though. How would ‘F’ be able to do what not even Discord and Sunset could do? What would he do? He would fight.

‘F’ took a deep breath and spoke aloud. “Parasite!! You may be gone from me, but I ask you now wherever you are, give me your power once more.” Sombra looked in confusion. The parasite was gone and yet he was yelling to it. ‘F’ took every bit of strength he had and began to chant. “I call upon…. the madness, the insanity, the hatred!!” Soon tears fell from his eyes as he began to glow and all too familiar demonic roar could be heard all around.

“MENOITPURROC!!!!”

Sombra looked to ‘F’’s left arm regenerating. The left arm had been finally revealed, it was the arm of a demon. “So you continue to make deals with that monster.”

“This will be the last thing I do. Once you and Nightmare are defeated, I will finally die.”

Sombra charged right at him. “How I about end you myself?” He swung and his scythe’s blade was caught by ‘F’ demon hand. As he caught the attack, it sent out massive amounts of magic. Discord and Sunset felt themselves being a push with incredible force towards the wall. ‘F’ manage to push back Sombra’s attack. As Sombra was pushed back, he flew into the air and tried to tackle ‘F’. ‘F’ moved at lightning speed to get out from under him. Using the great speed he got behind Sombra and stabbed his demon arm through his armor like it was paper.

Sombra roared as it tore through his stomach. He pulled back and flew off as ‘F’ explained to the others how he did such a move. “As you know, Sombra, demon mode allows a pony to amplify their talents to infinity.” He suddenly fell halfway to the ground as he began to cough up red dust. “My talent was defense. Henceforth this power gives my demon arm the ability change it’s density, to make it virtually as hard as diamond.”

Sombra grabbed his gut where the wound was. Suddenly Sunset’s eyes widened as she saw the tubes that still connected his back to the throne, begin to glow. Soon Sombra’s wound was healed. ‘F’ got annoyed as he flew at him and tried to strike at him again. This time Sombra dodged and kicked him in the chest, knocking him back down to the ground. He then charged downward towards him with his scythe ready. ‘F’ flipped in the air and landed on his feet. Using his legs, he pushed himself backward to dodge Sombra’s next attack, but not before getting his leg grabbed in the grip of crystal magic. Sombra landed and swung once more. ‘F’ ducked just quick enough to not lose his head.

Sombra then surprised him by punching him in the gut with a free hand. He hit with such force that ’F’ was knocked to the wall. Soon the pain from using the power he used to have was now getting to him.

Sombra charged right at him and proceed to punch him again and again. “‘F’ you make no sense. You're allied with a draconequus that had feelings for the same mare you did. You dare work with the mare that killed the one that both of you adored.” He stopped punching and lifted his scythe, ready to kill. “And in all of this, you still believe you can be saved.”

‘F’ eyes widened, “You're right, I do make no sense. I fight alongside ones that, long ago, would have been my enemies. I made a deal to protect the mare and have committed so many evils. I have lost so much because of that deal, but I have learned many things in this cursed immortality. Most of all I have learned of the two most important things somepony can truly have to be happy. And these two things are more powerful than both you and the parasite.”

“And what are those?”

He looked beyond Sombra and answered. “Friendship and family. Now Sunset!”

Sombra turned to see Sunset standing by the throne, or more importantly the tubes. Before he could even react, she severed the tubes with her sabres and cut his connection to the spire. Suddenly he roared in agony. “You stupid mare!” He chucked his scythe right at her.

Sunset turned to see the scythe heading right to her. She had no strength nor time to dodge as the scythe flew right at her. Soon blood splattered across the floor, and in a single moment, a life was snuffed out.

******

Meanwhile Twilight finally reached the top of Nightmare Spire. The one place that was the center of all of this. This is where it would end. However, she did not expect to find what she found up there. Up there she saw the most shocking thing of all. It was the prisoner in chains. A blue alicorn.

“Luna?!?!” she questioned in utter confusion.

Luna looked at her and screamed, “Twilight, you have to get out of here before she wakes up!!” Soon she saw the katana on Twilight. “No, hurry Twilight, you can still save her. Strike her--”

Suddenly she was interrupted as a roar of agony. As it continued, it slowly turned into a roar of rage, then finally a roar of happiness. Twilight turned and looked at the throne. Her eyes widened in horror as everything began to make perfect sense. She looked to see a mare with the eyes of Nightmare sitting on the throne. The mare wore bone-like armor, and there was a large buster blade sitting by the throne. In one hand she held this timeline's version of Starswirl’s spell. But the most twisted part was the mare was a…. dark lavender alicorn, with a black mane that had teal lines going through it.

“No it’s can’t be. It just can’t be!”

The mare smiled. “But it is. You wanted to know how we knew you were the fake the whole time?” She stood up, grabbed the buster blade and continued. “Because I am living proof. I am Twilight Sparkle. The real Twilight Sparkle, but you can call me Nightmare Midnight.”

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Author's Notes:

Well two plot twist. Yep I planned from all the way in the Flash Saga to have Night Fright be Jack Nox's father, Norman Nox. And yes that Night Fright exist in both timelines. Secondly I also planned from the very beginning of writing this story to have Nightmare Midnight as the villain. Now if you are a little lost let me clear it for you. The final enemy of this story is Nightmare using the alternate Twilight's body. Alternate Twilight didn't really die she just became weak enough for Nightmare to posses her.

Now aside from those little twists, you all are obviously a little annoyed with Sunset's battle. Well all I can tell you is it's alternate timeline that I'm about to finish so warning ahead, there will more death.

Another thing to note is the language that 'F' spoke during the regenerating of his arm. Indeed it was another google translate, but with a twist. As you may have noticed, it was translated and spelled backwards. Why? Because demon magic that's why.

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side note: Did Flash's battle with Jack seemed a little rushed? I mean I wrote that scene months ago, and rereading it now, it feels kind of rushed.

Final note: I have decided on posting the final parts of the war next week. So expect the next chapter on a Tuesday and then another on Thursday. Why? On Thanksgiving week I will not be posting stories of any kind.