Twilight Sparkle,
One year after the events of the Canterlot Wedding
On the Friendship express

I looked out of my window of the train and watched the scenery past on by. As I watched I reflected on what has happened over the past year, mostly the fact that I was a magicless unicorn. Ever since the wedding when I died and got brought back by Jace I learned that my magic was gone, I didn’t know how I lost my magic it just happened.

The first few weeks were hard for me. I try to live out my live as it was but after living my whole live with magic, doing the mundane became much harder. There were some nights that I cry myself to sleep, sure my friends helped me through it, Pinkie comes over everyday to cheer me up, AJ comes and listen to me when I need to talk, heck even Rainbow comes over to helps me with the library at times which is shocking. Moonlight made me a staff that I can use to shoot out magic bolts and been teaching me how to stick fight with it.

When I'm not hold up in the library I’m helping Rarity and AJ with their work. At first, again it was hard since I try to use magic to move stuff around just for it to not move. What can I say, old habits die hard.

Sure they are trying to help me get through this but I still feel so helpless, I can’t do anything. Why am I even alive right now, all I am is dead weight to everypony. Maybe it’s better if I just disappear.

I shook my head at the thought. ‘No, I’m not dead weight. I can get through this, it’s just magic, I can still do something without it.” I thought to myself.

‘But why do I still feel so empty inside.’ Another thought said to me. I frowned at it.

“Umm, Twilight are you ok?” I heard Fluttershy asked me. I looked at her and saw that she looked at me with a worried. I gave her a small smile.

“Yeah, I’m was just thinking.” I told her.

“Ya been doing that since we all left the station, ya all right there sugarcube?” Applejack asked me. I nodded to her.

“I’m alright.” I told her. AJ just stared at me for a minute and shrugged at me.

“Well alright then, by the way is it wise to leave her there by herself?” She said. I blinked at her. Oh right, her.

“I think she’s fine, we’re only gone for maybe a day or two so I think nothing will happen.” Moonlight interjected. I thought about it some more. It been a few months since those events happened and it took some work but it’s nice that she’s opening up to us. Plus it’s nice to see that she might consider being my-

“LOOK WE’RE ALMOST THERE!” Pinkie yelled. I blinked and looked out of the window to see the ground white with snow. The train slowed to a stop and a whistle was heard. We all got off of the train and as we did the first thing that went through my head was how cold it was.

“OH MY CELESTIA! LOOK AT ALL THIS SNOW!” Pinkie yell as she literally jumps into the snow. She then started to build snowmen, snow angels, snow forts and a snow cake.

“Carfull there, ya will get frostbite if you stay in there too long.” AJ said to Pinkie. Pinkie stopped what she was doing and looked at her.

“What do you mean?” She asked. We all stared at her for a few minutes until she grabbed her arms and started to shake. “It’s Freezing!”

“Is she slow?” Moonlight asked.

“She’s Pinkie.” Rainbow answered her.

“Oh dear me, it's quite cold here luckily I came prepared for this.” Rarity said as she opened one of her many suitcases and started to pull out winter gear. She handed a set to everyone other than Light.

“I'm fine, I know a trick Jace showed me.” she said. I squinted my eyes and saw a faint shimmer of red aura around her. As we put them on I turned to see Rarity giving Spike his. He has grown over the years, before he came up to my chest before. Now he's 6’4” and has muscles from working out. He has claw scared over his left side of his face from the time he grew from his greed, Sylph gave him have scar when fighting him.

“Hey Twilight, this is going to sound weird but how old is Spike?” Rainbow asked. I blinked at her as I thought about it.

“He's about eleven.” I told her. Rainbow, Applejack and Light looked at me in shocked.

“He’s eleven!” Rainbow yelled at me. This got the attention of Spike as he chuckled.

“Well no, in normal terms yes I would be.” He said to us. His voice is much deeper than normal, I frowned at him.

“What do you mean ‘in normal terms’?” I asked him. He gave me a sheepish look and rubbed the back of his head.

“Remembered back when I disappeared for three months.” He said to me. I nodded. “Well… ever since what happened to you and Jace going off to do Celestia knows what I wanted to be stronger to protect those I care for so I went and asked Sylph to train me, We both went through a portal to another plane to train and well, time worked much differently there than here.”

“Just by how much?” I asked him.

“Well three months here is like… thirteen years there.” He answered me. I looked at him in shock. Thirteen years!

“But, why?” I asked him. He looked at me in the eyes with a stern face.

“Because I don’t want to sit back and watch my family get hurt.” He answered. I didn’t say anything, what could I say. I watched as Rarity handed Spike a green and purple scarf, he smiled at her.

“Thank you Rarity, you always know what to wear in these sort of situations.” He said with a smile. Rarity blinked at him and pulled up her scarf.

“I-It’s nothing Spike, just wanted to help.” She said to him. Was it just me or was she blushing? We all turned and headed toward our destination. It wasn’t so bad other than the blizzard.

“Seriously! Who in their right minds build a city out here!” Rainbow yelled as we trudge through the blizzard. We continued on until I saw a figure coming towards us, which is surprising because of the blizzard. As the figure got closer I saw that he wore winter gear and has a mask on to keep the snow out of his eyes.

“Twilly?” He said as he removed his mask. It was Shining.

“BBBFF!” I yelled as I ran and hugged him. He hugged me back.

“What the hell is a BBBFF?” I heard Moonlight asked.

???

I stood and watched as the eight figures meet with another. Wondering how I can see them, well magic.

“They seemed to have arrived like you said.” I heard someone said. I turned to see a robed figure walk up beside me. I looked back as the group began to move on.

“Of course, the Crystal Empire has just reappeared so it makes sense.” I told him. He crossed his arms and looked on.

“You know that he will send his shades after them like he did to you.” He told me. I sighed at the memory of that happening, it wasn’t fun.

“Well if he is let's hope that he does it after they all get to the Empire.” I said. As soon as I said that a big black cloud of smoke appeared and started to chase the group.

“You jinxed it.” He said to me. I faced palmed and groaned at that.

“I should keep my mouth shut, STRIPE WE’RE GOING HUNTING!”

Applejack

“What in tarnations is that!” Ah yelled as we all ran away from this black smoke. Twi’s brother tried to slow it down but it just knocked him to the side and knocked him out. Moonlight went and grabbed him and carry him away.

“What every it is let’s not ask it and just run!” Moonlight yelled. As we are running Ah heard blasts from Twilight and Light as they kept it at bay. Ah ran as hard as I could, hoping to get away from it. Soon the sound quieted down until all ah heard is the sound of the blizzard. I stopped and looked around to see that I saw alone.

“Hey, where is everyone?” I said to myself. Did I ran to far ahead? I started to look around to find them. After some time I saw a silhouette of somepony coming my way.

“Phew! Ah thought that I would have lost y'all, we’re close to this Empire now?” I asked. The silhouette didn’t say anything, it just kept coming closer. “Is everything alright, why y’all not sayin-” Ah stopped as ah saw who it is. Applebloom.

“Hey big sis.” She said to me. ah stared at her, why is she here!?!

“Applebloom, what are you doing here, it’s dangerous!” Ah warned her. She turned to glare at me.

“Oh ah know, mama.” She said. Those words hit me hard.

“Why did ya said that?” Ah asked her. She growled at me.

“What that ya aren't my big sis but really my mama, yes ah know and ah can’t believe that ya kept it from me for my whole life!” She yelled at me. Ah took a step back.

“Please Applebloom, ya need to understand-” She cut me off with a glare.

“Understand what! That ya just lied to me for my whole life, that you can’t just say that ya my mama, ah went though everypony making fun of me due to the fact that ah don’t have parents but really one of them was there but she lied to me, and ya said you're the Element of Honesty.” She said. Ah felt my heart being squeezed by those words.

“Please Applebloom, Ah just-” Again I got cut off.

“No, ah just want ya to be dead.” Those words felt like a spear hitting me through my heart. I fell to my knees and felt tears falling from my eyes. She knows the truth and she hates me, she wants me dead. Ah looked at her and saw something behind her, some shadowy creature.

“Hurts doesn't it.” She said to me. The creature began to reach over to grab me. Ah didn’t try to move, maybe she's right, ah lied to her for her whole life maybe this is my punishment. Just as I thought that a spear looking thing shot out of the blizzard and hit the shadow monster. Both it and Bloom screamed in pain. Ah looked and saw somepony in armor walking towards me.

He then looked at the creature and with a swipe of his sword the creature screamed and disappeared along with Applebloom. He then looked at me and bowed and walked off into the blizzard. Ah was speechless at what just happened. Ah got up as ah started to hear more voices.

“Applejack! Are you ok?” Twilight said as she ran up to me. Ah smiled and nodded.

“Y-yeah, ah’m fine.” Ah told her. Rarity looked at me and had a worried look.

“Darling you look like you seen a ghost.” She told me. I waved dismissively at her.

“It’s nothing, now come on let’s get to the Empire before we all turn into ice cubes.”

???

“Well that could've went smoothly.” My friend said as I walked over to where he was standing. We watched as the group move closer the the dome.

“He made AJ’s fear of the fact that her daughter would hate her if she found off to try to kill her, luckily I was there to stop it or she would be dead.” I told him. He nodded and looked at the group.

“Question, when they get into the dome what do we do?” He asked. I turned and walked off.

“That’s easy, we wait and watch.”

Twilight.

We arrived to the Empire which is covered by a dome to keep the the blizzard out. It was also warm as well. As we continue to head to the castle I looked back at Applejack, her eyes were glazed over and lost in thought. Something has happened to her when those shadow monsters attack us. Shining woke up along the way and he walked along with us. I looked at him and saw his horn, it was covered in black crystal. After a bit we got to the castle and into the throne room. I saw Cadence sitting on her throne, looking exhausted.

“Cadence!” I called out. She looked up and smile, she stood up and stumbled a bit. Shining ran up and caught her before she fell. We walked up to her as she smiles at us.

“It's nice to see you all again, I wish I could look more presentable to you all but we'll I been busy.” she said with a chuckle. I went up to her and gave her a hug.

“It's good to see you.” I said to her. She pulled away and smiled at me. She then frowned.

“How have you been?” She asked me. I frowned knowing what she's asking.

“I'm… Surviving.” Is all I told her. Both she and my brother looked at me,before heading to the throne for Cadence to sit.

“So what’s the situation?” Moonlight asked them. Cadence and Shining explained to use that a evil force known as Sombra who was a tyrant that ruled the Crystal Empire a long time ago, Princesses Celestia and Luna both stopped him by using the Elements of Harmony. Now he’s back and wants his kingdom back.

“So what’s stopping him?” I asked them.

“Well two things, one is the Crystal Heart, an artifact that shields the Empire since it was made, but I think Celestia already told you all about it.” Cadence said to me. I nodded remembering our conversion before we left to come here. I frowned a bit.

“You said two things, if the Crystal Heart is one of them what’s the other?” I asked. Shining went over to one of the guards and the guard hands him a gem.

“You see Sombra has taking control of the monsters that live near and around the Crystal Empire to bolster his army, for a while we had them pounding on the dome shield for weeks on end,” He then lifted the gem up, “That is until a few months ago when he showed up.”

With that the gem glowed and a image appeared in front of us. It showed a stallion waring knights armor with a greatsword on his back. I hear a gasp from behind me.

“That him! He’s was the one that rescued me from before.” Applejack said. Shining nodded at her.

“He just showed up out of the blue, I got a report from one of the patrols that they were under attack by the monsters but he saved them, so far he been holding them off,” He then snorted at the image, “Some of the men nicknamed him ‘The Knight of the Frozen North’ but I’m grateful that he’s helping.”

“Well, that great and all but what should we do now?” Rainbow asked.

“Well, I think we should find the Crystal Heart darling.” Rarity said then looked at me. “That’s a good idea right?”

“Yes, even though it’s not here it’s still working, kinda, if we find it and return it to where it should be then it should put up the shield that protects everypony.” I said to them.

“Well if I can suggest something, as you try and find the Crystal heart can you all do something for the crystal ponies here, with them becoming more depressed by the minute is only making Sombra stronger, I can hold him off for so long but sooner or later he’s going to bust through the shield.” Cadence said to us.

“Ponies that need to be cheered up, no problem! I’m going to throw the biggest party to end all parties!” Pinkie said as she started to hop around. Everyone else started to voice their ideas to cheer the Crystal ponies.

“Well I guess there’s one thing to do and it’s to tell you where’s the library is, I believe that’s the only place that I know of that could have info about the whereabouts of the Heart is located.” I heard Cadence said. I snapped my head to her.

“Did you say library?”

???

I was walking through a crowd of ponies. I saw that there was a festival going on and a certain pink pony was blurring from one place to another. I chuckled at that.

“You know that you stick out like a sore thumb right.” I heard my friend said beside me. I looked at him.

“How so?” I asked him.

“You’re six foot tall and you’re wearing a robe, I don’t know about you but that screams ‘not normal’.” He said to me. I just shrugged at him.

“Whatever, you know why we’re here, to make sure that the evil smoke monster doesn't destroy this place,” I said to him.

“You mean Sombra?” He asked.

“Yeah,” I answered. He then looked off to see a crowd of ponies looking at something until his head snapped towards one of the roads.

“Well things just got bad, two of the shadows are here.” He said as I looked where.

“How? I thought the shield was still up?” I said to him.

“Well it’s very weak so some of his forces are coming through, what should we do?” He asked me. I thought about it, I don’t believe that they would attack together so they would have split up and attack somepony else at different points.

“We split up, try to find the two shadows and take them out.” I told him. He nodded and headed towards one of the shadows. I went a different way and headed towards the other one.

Rainbow Dash

“Thank you, thank you! My next show will be going to start in thirty minutes!” I yelled to the cheering fans. I flew down to a spot the no one was around as I took a swig of my water bottle. I smiled at the cheers coming from where I was at.

“Gotta love the cheers, if it wasn’t for the the fact that I was trying to get into the Wonderbolts I would have tried out being a show mare.” I said out loud.

“Is that so, because where I’m standing that’s all you're going be just that, a show mare.” I heard a voice behind me. I froze at it, I knew who it was.

“D-Dad?” I said. I turned and saw him glaring at me in a camo sweater and cargo pants. “W-w-what are you doing here?”

“Trying to figure out the buck is taking you so long to be a Wonderbolts.” He said angrily. I took some steps back.

“W-well it just that I got somewhat busy with some other stuff, don’t worry I will become a Wonderbolt,” I said to him. He just snorted.

“I don’t know about that, the Rainbow that I know would of became one a long time ago.” He said. I was about to say something but he continued. “You’re the Element of Loyalty yet you haven’t been loyal to your family, I’m disappointed with you Dash.”

That struck me very hard, he’s disappointed with me. “But dad, I’m trying! I’m not giving up on being a Wonderbolt!” I yelled at him. He just shook his head.

“You’re a disgrace, you have made so many promises yet you didn’t live up to them, I think the mantle of the holder of the Element of Loyalty should of went to somepony else.” He said. I fell to my knees as I felt my tears run down my cheeks.

“But dad please…”

“And soon everypony else will know about it, even your marefriend.” He said to me. That made me caught my breath. Moonlight? Hating me? No that can’t happen, it won’t! Will it? So many thoughts ran through my head that my dad was standing right up to me.

“Like mother like daughter, always disappointing everypony around them.” He said coldly. I curled up into a ball and started to cry.

“That’s not true.” I said over and over again. I heard a whooshing sound and some other sounds but I didn’t look up, I just wanted to die where I was. I then felt a hand on my head.

“It’s ok Rainbow, everything he said wasn’t true, you won’t fail at becoming a Wonderbolt. If you do you can always try again.” The voice said. I looked up but saw nothing. I looked around to find whoever said that.

“Rainbow your next show is about to start, you ready?” I hear Moonlight call out at me. I blinked at that and started to wipe my face a bit by using my water to get the tear marks off. I hear hoofsteps coming my way.

“Are you ready?” Moonlight asked. I looked at her and saw that she had a look of worry as she saw me. “Are you ok?”

“Yeah I’m fine, just had a scary thought that’s all.” I told her. She started at me. I shifted a bit and remembered what my dad said. “Hey can I asked you a question?”

“Of course you can.” She said. I took a deep breath and looked at her.

“You know that I’m trying to be a Wonderbolt right,” I said to her. She just rolled her eyes.

“Of course, you are, you haven’t stopped talking about it since we started dating.” She answered me.

“W-well I have to ask, if I didn’t get into the Wonderbolts would you be… disappointed in me?” I asked her. I closed my eyes fearing of what she would say. I then felt two arms wrap around me.

“Of course not, why would you think that?” She asked me. I looked up at her and looked into her teal eyes. I could lose myself for them.

“Umm well, I just thought-” I was cut off as she kisses me. My head was fried at that point. She broke off and looked at me.

“Well stop thinking bad thoughts, I don’t care if you do are don’t, you're my marefriend and that’s all I care about. Now come on, you have a show to do.” She said.

“Ummm ahh Umm,” I said as my brain was still fried.

Spike

I walked into a room to grab stuff for Rarity, and I did so with a smile. I got to work with Rarity! This was the best day of my life, sure there's a giant shadow monster right outside of the dome that would turn us into mindless slaves but still! I shook my head of the thought and looked around in the room. It was full of boxes, I walk up to one of them and looked into one of them. It was full of crystals. I opened a few more and saw that they to full of crystals.

“Of course there would be crystals here, it is called the Crystal Empire after all.” I chuckled at my own joke. I looked at the one box of crystals and grab one of the blue ones and pop it into my mouth. It tasted sweet and like a blueberry. I wonder if I'm allowed to have some when this is done?

“Why not just take them?” a voice said to me. I jumped a bit and spun around to see who it was. What I saw was… Me? What??

“How, what, why, how are there two of me?” I asked. The other me laughed and walk over to a box of gems and put his hand into it and picking up a bunch of them.

“That’s not important, what's important is that these gem should belong to you.” He said. I frowned at him.

“Yeah, no thanks I'm good.” I said to him. He frowned at me for a moment and gave me a creepy smile.

“What's wrong, scared that you would turn back into that giant dragon from before?” he said. I blinked at him.

“No that’s not it,” I said. He frowned at me.

“Of course it is, you're scared that you would hurt everypony that you love, destroy everything around you, and-” I cut him off as I kicked him in the chest that sent him out of the room.

“No what I'm scared of is if I transform due to my greed then I have to fight Sylph again.” I paused for a moment and felt a shiver run up my spine. “For a nice lady she's down right scary sometimes.”

I picked up what I came for, a box of gems, and headed out. I saw that the other me was gone and groaned a bit. Great now there's another me running around. I turned and headed back to Rarity.

I got to where Rarity is set up. She was just finishing up a order as I got there.

“Here's the box of gems, oddly enough they were in a room full of crystals.” I told her.

“Oh thank you Spikie whikie they will make lovely addition to anything I make.” she said. I nodded and began to turn to go but stop. Well since I'm here and it been a while.

“Say Rarity I have to ask you something,” she turn to look at me. I felt my face heat up a bit. “ Well ummm… After all of this and we return to Ponyville, do you want to get something to eat?” I asked her.

“Spike, are you… are you asking me out?” She asked me.

“ Ummm yeah, you can say that. Look if you don't want to I understand, just thought I would-”

“Oh no Spike that's not what I meant, you see I ummm…” She shifted a bit and looked at the gems. She shook her head a bit. “Yes Spike, I would love to.”

“R-really?! Umm cool well after this we should go then, maybe not right away but maybe on the weekend, and we should try… Ummm…” I stumbled a bit with my words.

“You have no idea where to take me do you.” Rarity stated. I gave her a sheepish smile.

“Truth be told, I never thought you would've said yes.” I told her. We both laughed at that.

Unknown to us was that there was a stallion watching us as we talked to each other. He shook his head and walked away.

???

I leaned onto a crystal wall eating a veg dog that I swiped for one of the booths. I paid for it!

“So how did yours go?” My friend asked.

“Oh you know, it used the fear of Rainbow to make her feel bad, I took care of it and made her feel better, you know the same old stuff you?” I asked him.

“It went after the dragon and got kicked in the stomach before I got there, then followed him to see him ask a white unicorn out.” He said to me. I whistled at that and finished my food.

“Well there's one thing to do," I said as I pulled out a fruit and handed it to him. "You remember where the Crystal Heart is at?”

“Yeah, why?” He asked.

“Well go there and wait for Twilight, she's going to find where it is and head there, I want you to give the fruit to her and tell her it's a get well gift from a friend.” I said to him. He nodded and looked at me.

“Then what are you going to do?” He asked.

“Well when she heads off all hell will break loose, I'm just going to slow it down a bit.” I told him as I tune and walk away. I heard a popping sound as I left. I continue on to here I was go. Yup hell will break loose soon.

Twilight

I can’t believe that it was right in front of us this whole time! I mean seriously it was right under our noses, or to be specific above us. Sombra placed the heart in the castle and the way there was hidden by spell. I wanted to say that I found that out by reading a book in the library but really I just walked up to the castle and looked up, which made me facepalm. I found Spike and told him that I know where the Crystal Heart is at, we both ran towards the castle since by looking around the others were running out of ideas to keep everypony happy. I even saw one of them wearing a hat made out of a string and some straws.

We got to the throne room and began looking around for something the screamed ‘Secret thing to open secret door!’ easier said than done.

“They made it look so easy in books.” Spike complained as he search. I rolled my eyes at that.

“This isn’t a book Spike, nothing like that would happen.” I told him. He looked at me and place his hand on a pillar, only to push something in. A beam shot out and started to hit different points of the room until it hit the crystal on top of the throne which made a passageway open up. We both stared at it for a minute.

“You gotta be kidding me.” Spike said. We both headed down the passageway and came up to a door. I saw the crystal shine a bit then fizzle a bit and fell off, shattering on the ground. Huh, I guess the spell didn’t have enough power in it. Next we came to a spiral staircase which we both look up, then at each other and then sighed and began our climb. We walked, and walked, and walked, and walked, and…….

We finally got to the top of the stairs, although we were now crawling and out of breath.

“I- really need- to- work out- some more.” I panted. Spike looked at me and nodded though he too was panting. After a few minutes of breathing we stood up and looked in the room we were in. Right in the middle of the room was the Crystal Heart. A smile grew on my face, there it was just sitting there. I walked a few steps towards it then stop to look around.

“This is too easy, the Crystal Heart is right there and I don’t see any defences anywhere.” I said out loud. Just before Spike could say something we heard a loud booming sound we both looked and saw the shield slowly gave way and the shadow cloud moved in, we’re out of time. I looked at the Heart again. ‘Screw it’ I thought as I lunge at the Heart and grabbed it. At first nothing happened, then I saw runes glow and they were around me. I looked at Spike and saw him panic at what going on. I looked at the Heart and threw it towards him as a wall of black crystal formed around me. I looked around and grip my staff and swung at the wall, only for it to shatter into splinters.

“TWILIGHT!!” Spike yelled. I heard him punching the wall with all of his might but didn’t do anything.

“It’s alright, just go!” I yelled back. I heard him breath fire a bit and I backed up as he got to the edge.

“Don’t worry Twilight, I’ll be back!” He yelled as he jumped of the edge. I nodded and slunk down in my crystal prison. I closed my eyes and waited, I knew that my friends will save the day.

“Well I should say nice weather we are having but I think that wouldn't work at this moment.” A voice spoke out. I looked up and saw a stallion with black and dark gray fur and a black mane, he had green eyes and wore some robes. As I looked at him I knew who he was since I saw him in a drawing in a book. I picked up a piece of my broken staff and pointed it at him.

“Sombra.” I said angrily. He frowned at me.

“That's a rude way to greet somepony.” he said. I stood and was still pointing my makeshift weapon at him.

“You're too late Sombra, the Crystal Heart isn't here and soon you'll be defeated.” I told him. He rolled his eyes at that.

“Oh I don't care about that, truth be told I want you to win.” He said. I blinked in surprise at him. What?

“What do you mean.” I asked him.

“Well in a nutshell the big evil shadow monster is me, the evil insane me, and the me standing in front of you is the sane me, you follow?” He explained to me.

“Kinda…” I said in a confused tone. He sighed and looked away from me.

“this would be easier if Jace was here, oh by the way here.” he said as he pulled out a fruit and handed it to me. I looked at it with an odd look.

“Why are you giving me this?” I asked him. He shrugged at me.

“It's a get well gift from a friend, and that you should eat it.” He said. I looked at the fruit again and frowned.

“How can I trust you?” I again asked him.

“You don't but what do you have to lose?" He asked me. I stared at him for a minute then at the fruit. He… had a point. I turned the fruit in my hands and raised it to my mouth and took a bit out of it. It tasted bitter.

“Uggg this taste bitter, how is this… a get… well gift?” I slurred as my vision began to blur. I fell to the ground as a pounding headache was happening. My vision went darker as I passed out.

I opened my eyes to see that I was laying down on the floor somewhere else. I got up to look around. I was sitting in a massive library. Books and books as long as I could see. I would be excited about this but the fact that I should be in the castle in the Crystal Empire.

“What's going on, where am I?” I asked out loud.

“You are in my plane child.” A voice spoke to me. I looked around and saw a blue robe figure with a golden tear from on the hood. I was surprised at this since I didn't see here there before.

“What do you mean in your plane?” I asked her.

“Well, that's not really turn, your mind is here yet your body is back home.” She informed me. I let go of a breath that I didn't realize I was holding.

“So why am I here?" I asked her. She tilted her head a bit.

“You remember a year ago that you have parishes and then brought back with out magic by the knight.” She told me. I bit my lib at that.

“Yes…” I told her. Even if I can't see it, she was staring at me.

“You see, what happened to you makes it impossible for you to regain your magic, not even black mana magic can bring it back.” She said to me. My heart stopped for a moment, it's impossible, there's no way to bring my magic back. I felt tears in the back of my eyes.

“But that’s why this knight, or as you call him, Jace is special he makes the impossible, possibly.” I looked up in shock when she said that.

“You mean…” I started as she nodded.

“Yes child, your magic has been restored, with some extra gifts as well.” She stated. I tilted my head in confusion.

“What do you mean?" I asked. She just chuckled.

“All in due time little one, but for now you should return to your body, our time is up. As she said that the whole library began to turn to dust around us.

“What! I have so many questions for you.” I said to her. I felt a pull that moved me away.

“Of course you do, all scholars have questions but I will tell you all the answers that you seek another time.” She said as my vision went dark again.

Jace/

Giant shadow monster?

Swish!

Now nothing but dust. Ice scorpion?

Slash!

Ice crystals. Frosty the snowman evil twin brother.

Boot!

Sludge. Ever since the dome fell a small army of monsters rushed into the city. Right up to me. Before they were right up to me I watched them run and then got shot up into the air with explosive runes that I place before hand.

“Guess they found the land mines.” I said to myself as I charged towards them. I was fighting them for about a bit as I saw the crystal guards came and joined in. What surprised me is that they are handling themselves much better than I thought. As we were fighting I saw movement over by the castle. I looked and saw black crystal forming around it and a purple blur falling off it. As I was looking I felt something kick me and sent me back. I looked up and saw a evil looking Sombra.

“Well, your big. Let's see if your better than that vamp I fought in Canterlot.” I said as I charged him. I swang at him and missed as he side stepped me and backhanded me. I blinked and looked at him. I felt a grin come upon my face. “YUP!”

We clashed against each other with my greatsword against hit black crystal buster sword looking thing as we treaded blows. It would of been a epic fight if it wasn’t for a loud booming sound behind me. I looked back to see a wave of energy coming towards us. I turn to him and saw that he saw this and I took my chance. I swang in a upper arc across his chest which made him scream in pain as the wave came to us. I watched as he got torn to shreds from the blast, leaving nothing but his sword. I picked it up and watched as the crystal blade turned into dust in my hands.

“Right…” I said as I looked at myself. My armor was all crystal like and as I pull my glove off I saw that my skin was also crystal like. Okay, this is weird, I put the glove back on and headed towards the castle.

Along the way I found Strip, a magma deathclaw that I got from a friend, looks over himself as he’s now a crystal like magma deathclaw. He looks at me and gives me a confused look.

“I have no idea either.” I told him. We continued onwards to a castle as the rest of the populace looked at us with ether awe or with fear, maybe both. We got to the front doors and saw that there wasn’t any guards so we just walked right in.

After spending a few minutes looking for the the throne room we now stood in front of the doors. I could hear the mane six talking in there. I sighed and looked at Strip.

“Well let’s get this over with.” I said to him and opened the doors, Dark souls style. As I did I saw all of them look at me. What threw me off was that they are all crystal like and have weird hairdos. Yup not taking this armor off until I’m un-crystal.

“Hey there, miss me.” I said. I saw both Fluttershy and Pinkie run up and hugged me and saw smiles from the rest. I saw Moonlight, who by the way looks funny when crystal like, walk up to me.

“Changed armors there Jace?” She said with a smile. I just shrugged.

“The old one was to bland to me.” I told her. I looked around at the rest of them. “Where’s Twilight and Spike?”

“Here… ow…” I heard someone say behind me. I turned and saw Spike there walk in with one claw on his head. I blinked at him.

“Dude you’re huge.” I told him. He chuckled as Rarity ran up to check if he’s alright. I raised a brow at that. I was going to say something but the floor in front of the throne opened up to a set of stairs. What came out was Sombra helping Twilight up the stairs. I took one step as Shining pointed his sword at him.

“Get away from her you monster.” he said. Sombra looked at him, had a board look on him and lift his hand up and moved it over to the one side. Shining, who was now incase with a blackish purple aura, was lifted up into the air and moved away from him. He then walked up to me.

“Before you ask yes, she ate the weird fruit thing.” He said to me. I sighed happily and looked at Twilight.

“So, have you tried to use magic yet?” I asked her. She blinked at me and slowly lifted her arm up and opened her hand. A orb of purple and blue appeared in her hand. She chuckled a bit.

“Well… look at that, I can do magic again.” She said as she looked at me. A evil grin appeared on her. I was about to asked her what’s up when she thrusted the orb at me and sent me into a wall.

“I… deserved that.” I said as I picked myself up from the now dented wall. I heard laughing from the rest of them. I then saw Shining glaring at Sombra. “What’s up with you?”

“What’s up!?! He just attacked us and no pony or one is going to do something.” He said angrily at me.

“Someone or pony did do something and you got moved to the side,” I said. “Also he isn’t the same Sombra, the evil Sombra is now dust but weird crystal wave energy.”

“Then who is he?” Pinkie asked me. I looked at her and saw Fluttershy petting Stripe.

“Well this is the Old Sombra, before he got corrupted with black mana.” Then I started my story. You see Sombra isn’t really an evil tyrant that everyone says about, truth be told he hates being a king. That all change when he was researching black mana and he got a taste of it and well it corrupted him. I found him fighting himself to stay alive and saved him.

“And I do apologise for everything I done, even if it was my evil side, I want to make it up to you two.” He said to Cadence and Shining. Shining was still glaring at him but Cadence looked at him and smiled.

“That’s very honorable if you but how can you make it up to us?” She asked. I decided to step in.

“Well he can be a very good advisor to you, since with everything that happen I think you need it.” I told them. Shining snorted at me and Cadence elbow him in the ribs. She then looked at Sombra.

“You wouldn’t mind being an advisor to us Sombra?” She asked. Sombra smiled and bowed.

“It would be my honor my lady, also call me Vel, Sombra just has too many bad memories.” He said.

After getting everything sorted me, Moonlight, Stripe, Spike and the mane six headed off to the train station, I was in the frozen wasteland for a year with now warm bed, I needed this.

I got to the cottage alone. Moonlight, AJ, and Rainbow went out to get some drinks as the rest went home to bed. I moved around my home to my bed and laid on it. Oh Maker it’s nice to sleep in my bed again.

As I got comfy I also felt that my bed was, off for some reason. I moved around but stop as an arm moved itself onto me as I froze. It felt me a bit and paused for a minute as it didn’t move. I turned my body and made a little light spell to see what’s going on. What I saw was two silver eyes staring at me. We layed there for a bit as I took a bit more detail.

She had Silver eyes, dark blue fur, white hair with a streak of light blue and gray. What was weird is that she looks a lot like Twilight. There was one thing that went through my head.

“WHO THE LIVING FUCKING ARE YOU!?!?!”

Author's Notes:

And some of you thought that she would be magicless forever. Nope!

Also who's this other pony and why does she look a lot like Twilight?

See you all in the next chapter :)