(Few Hours Earlier in the Crystal Empire, Randablitz’s P.O.V)

“Cadence has been in there for quite a while. I hope everything’s alright.” I thought to myself as I waited in the throne room patiently, until one of the guards came and told me that Cadence and Shining Armor had requested my presence. “I’ll be on my way there soon.” I said as I pondered as to why they wanted to see me, I shrugged it off and walked towards the medical wing of the palace. “I wonder why they wish to see me.” I thought to myself, but soon I got my answer in the form of a sleeping alicorn colt in Cadence’s hooves. “I can’t believe it, it’s a colt, and this one has a very strong spirit.” I said as I gazed upon the sleeping prince. He had the same coat color of his father, but he had a cream and cerulean mane and tail. I stood there for a few seconds, but I found my voice. “He’s very handsome, and he has a strong spirit.” I said as I approached the bed. As if the prince was only pretending to be asleep, he opened his deep ocean blue eyes, and started cooing happily at me. “It seems somepony was deceiving mommy.” I said playfully. the little prince just giggle in response.

“He’s got a really strong spirit if he can sense me from that far away.” I said only to hear him giggle at the words strong and spirit. “Well I guess I just found a name for your son.” I said to Shining Armor who was busy laughing up a storm at my comment about his son’s strong positive energy, however his happiness was cut short when Cadence opened her eyes with an angry stare. “If you know what’s for you Shiny, you’ll stay quiet so our son….” she stopped mid sentence to see her son wide awake and giggling at me. “Looks like somepony’s having a good time, come here little one.” I said activating my magic.”I hope you don’t mind me doing this because it seems that he’s pretty interested in me.” I said to Cadence who smiled at me as I held her baby with care. “Not at all, and you seem like a family kind of stallion.” Cadence said causing me to blush slightly. “She’s right, I do actually want to settle down with a mare someday.” I thought to myself as I tickled the colt with my magic eliciting a storm of cute giggles. After about five minutes he fell back to sleep in my hooves. “Here you go Cadence, he certainly seems to enjoy my company, like I’m a part of the family.” I commented as I carefully placed Strong Spirit into Cadence’s hooves. Cadence nodded in agreement. “He certainly does, how would you like to be his Godfather?” She asked, my jaw dropped to the floor, in awe. “I’ve only been here for a few hours and already I’m part of a royal family!” Then before I could answer a guard came running into the room and gave Cadence a letter from somepony she must’ve knew. “Princess Cadence, you aunt, Princess Celestia requests you, and your guest to come to Ponyville as soon as possible.” the guard said in an urgent tone. “Very well, Shiny?” Cadence said as she looked to her husband who nodded in response.

“I’ll contact General Oasis to mobilize my convoy.” I said as I entered into my meditation. “General, General are you there?” I asked. “Yes, sir. What do you need?” She asked. “I need you to wake the troops, we’re leaving for Ponyville today, I’ll meet you at the train station.” I said in an authoritative tone. “Yes sir, right away sir.” She responded as I ended the mental connection.

(Ponyville, Twilight’s Castle Twilight’s P.O.V.)

After the last few days of the alicorn Prince’s arrival to the Crystal Empire, I was ecstatic about meeting a real male alicorn and wanted to make Ponyville as presentable to any new arrival to Equestria, but Obsidian looked troubled than he was yesterday, but I did not want to be a burden on him. With my friends alongside me, we were able to see the Crystal Express approaching the platform. I stood with my friends as the doors opened to reveal the four crystal guards and following them were a group of white armored guards, an officer wearing what looked to be platinum armor, and finally the alicorn prince. I tried my best to not embarrass myself, but they looked unlike anypony I have ever seen. ‘Hi, my name is Twilight Sparkle, Princess of Friendship, and these are my friends Applejack, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Minuette, Roseluck, Spike, and Dark Obsidian.” I said gesturing to each of my friends who made friendly gestures of their own. “Greetings Twilight and company, I am Randablitz of Taurus, and I’m very pleased to meet you.” he said with a bow. “You don’t have to bow to me.” I said as he rose to his hooves. “I know it’s just the way my subjects greet one another.” He said with a smile.

I felt so stupid about this, of course he had his own customary greeting, all foreign dignitaries do. But I had to pull together and make his visit grand. “We welcome you to Ponyville and we hope that you may find that everypony here will make you feel right at home.” Randablitz smiled as more disembarked the train, my B.B.B.F.F., Shining Armor, My old foalsitter, Cadence with a little foal in her hooves. On instinct we all went awe at the precious site, but nopony happened to notice that Obsidian backed away with hatred in his eyes. “Is it a colt or a filly?” Fluttershy asked. “It is a colt.” Shining answered as this made my day better to find there are now two alicorn males in Equestria. “And what’s the little darling’s name?” Rarity cooed happily. “His name is Strong Spirit.” Cadence said with a proud smile. “How did y’all come up with that name?” Applejack asked with a quirked eyebrow. Randablitz cleared his throat. “I inadvertently named him when I made a comment on how strong his spiritual aura was, and he seemed to like the words strong and spirit, and then Shining said, “Well I guess that’s his name.” and so now you know how my godson was named.” Randablitz said with a smile. I was impressed by all this and to not make everypony wait longer. “So, Shall we head off to my castle to discuss some things?” I offered and Randablitz nodded as we all went off to my castle and trailing behind us like a shadow was Obsidian glaring at Cadence and Shining Armor.

(Twilight’s Castle, Dark Obsidian’s P.O.V.)

After my encounter with my Father, I was unsure of what is supposed to become of me. I had gone back to the Castle to sleep this off, but that conversation my Father and I had echoed through my mind like an endless void. The next day, Twilight woke me up to tell me we were heading to the train station to meet a special visitor.

On behalf of keeping my true feelings hidden I went with no argument. When we saw who it was, I felt instant rage to see Cadence and Shining Armor after what they did to defeat my Father. I saw another alicorn with them, it was a male, and I felt somewhat afraid of him because he had the eyes of Nightmare Moon, only they were hazel, he didn’t seem to notice me but then he looked at me. “I know who you are, Son of Sombra.” I heard a voice say from within my mind. “G-Get out of my head!” I mentally shouted to get him to go away. Then activated a mindscape spell to keep anything out of my mind, or so I thought. “It’s funny, you trying to keep me out with a mindscape spell, when I’ve clearly studied them and reverse engineered them so I can penetrate them, we’ll talk more later, for now I need to focus my attention on other matters.” The alicorn prince said to me within my mind, finally leaving me alone as we departed from the train station. When we returned to Twilight’s castle, I went back to my room to hopefully stay out of the sight of the Royal Bitches, because they were coming here too. “I can’t believe this, he broke through my mindscape spell like it was tissue paper!” I thought to myself as I paced around my room angrily. I tensed up, but not enough to invoke my dark magic. “I feel as if that alicorn will be my downfall and Father would disown me.” I said with my anger diminishing into sorrow as a single tear left my right eye, then shadows formed around my room like a bubble and forming my Father once more.

“Obsidian, I can sense your fears and I understand that there is are new threats amongst our plans.” I looked at my Father in the eyes. “Yes, Father, an Alicorn named Randablitz and Cadance and Shining Armor along with their new alicorn foal have arrived in Ponyville.” I issued him as he had a displeased look on his face. as he continued. “I feel now is a good time as any to tell you something, even Celestia, Luna and Randablitz could not hope to control; All the knowledge is in a book, hidden away by the first Dark Magic user Penumbra, who is never mentioned in any history books. It has all the secrets and powers that nopony could ever imagine and I happened to have found it after discovering it in a secret underground chamber in the Frozen North.” I was intrigued with this new information. “The book is also guarded by something so terrifying, even Luna would want her mommy, the guardian is called Grim, the incarnation of pure evil and darkness.” Father said and how he described it, it must have been terrifying. I was desperate to please him, so I formed an evil grin and spoke with confidence. “So when do I begin?”

“You must get to the Crystal Empire and go to the East, use your dark magic to guide you and you’ll understand how to locate the book. I have faith you will not fail, but be warned, the entire cavern is cursed by Penumbra's spell to keep the book hidden from those who wishes to destroy the last remnants of Dark Magic, so be sure to not be followed otherwise the book and the cavern will vanish for another one hundred years.” I understood how important it was to find this book and if it means lying to his two friends Roseluck and Minuette. After Sombra finished, he dissolved into shadow once more, the Bubble was released and to make sure Randablitz, Luna, or Celestia could listen in.

Obsidian now had new goals and that is to take down Randblitz, take out Celestia Luna, Cadence, Shining Armor and Strong Spirit, and rise to power with his Father.

(Twilight’s Castle, During meeting with Randablitz, Randablitz’s P.O.V.)

I truly wasn’t expecting this, I was holding my godson in my hooves, and he seemed to like me, which I loved. Every time he giggled I felt like a huge portion of my own guilt melting away. “He’s so cute, just think of how handsome he’ll be when he gets older.” I said as I nuzzled him. Soon the doors opened and I saw two more alicorns beside Twilight and Cadence. One of the alicorns was taller than her peers, she had a white coat, flowing ethereal rainbow mane and tail, her cutie mark resembled the sun and light fuchsia eyes . The other had a similar mane and tail, the only difference was that it looked more like the night sky, her coat was midnight blue, she had black splotches on her flank, her cutie mark was that of a crescent moon, and her eyes were a beautiful teal color.

I got up and gave Strong Spirit back to Cadence before walking over to greet the two alicorns. “I take you must be the rulers of this fair land, Randablitz at your service.” I bowed as I introduced myself. Both returned the bow and spoke. “Pleasure to meet you Randablitz, I am Princess Celestia, and this is my little sister, Princess Luna.” Celestia said as she and Luna bowed in response. “I thank you for your cooperation, because Taurus has been a closed border country for too long, and we’ve been looking to expand our economy, but there’s also a population crisis that’s been very upsetting to a lot of families, we have too many stallions and not enough mares and most stallions don’t like the idea of sharing a mare.” I said with my ears folding down against my head. The ponies did not like the sound of this and Luna spoke.

“Your problem is almost similar to ours, Equestria’s population is mostly mares and few stallions.”She said which caught my attention. “Then I have a proposal, how about we allow some of Taurus’ stallions emigrate to Equestria, while some of Equestria’s mares immigrate to Taurus.” I said with a smile returning to my face. “It sounds fair, I shall announce this to all of Equestria to aid Taurus.” Celestia agreed as we shook hooves to make the agreement official.

“As for the economical growth, we don’t use bits like you do, we use paper money since it’s easier to reproduce, and it also allows for better paying jobs, I’m not suggesting that you change your currency methods, all I’m asking is for a conversion system in case tourists from each of our respective countries, so there’s no complaints, or confusion.” I said as I remembered one of the other reasons I came to Equestria in the first place. Luna nodded in understanding. “That sounds like a great idea, since it allows ponies to learn more mathematics to help ponies balance their finances effectively.” Luna said as we shook hooves to seal the deal.

“Well with all of these matters taken care of at least a month ahead of time, I think I’m going to spend my time here in Equestria to truly get to know my potential business partners.” I said as I winked at Luna who blushed in response.

(Meanwhile at the Ponyville Train Station, Dark Obsidian’s P.O.V)

After slipping out of the castle, I was able to call a ticket for the next train to the Crystal Empire. Luckily the train would be here at any minute so I had some time to think about my plans to when I reach the Empire. “So he said to the East of the Empire, I can use the sun to find directions but what about the cavern, will it contain some kind of trials to see if I’m worthy to read the book?” I thought to myself and quickly dismissed my thoughts of the book away and focused more on the future of my reign over the Empire. I looked up in time to see the train pull onto the platform. “Next Stop, The Crystal Empire!” the conductor shouted out as I offered my ticket to him and sat down in my compartment. That’s when I heard His voice again. “I see you’re still trying to impress that tyrant you call Father, You do know that he doesn’t care about you, if you die in that cavern, he’ll try to take on Twilight, Cadance, Shining Armor, Celestia, Luna, and myself all by himself.” He said, I fought back hard to try and keep him out, but had a crazy idea. “What if I were to say, I can show you… The future of Taurus and Equestria?” I said as I activated my magic through my mind and the telepathic waves carried my spell to Randablitz as I showed him an alternate reality.

Fires burned as I walked out over the balcony of the Crystal Empire fallen under my hoof, doned on the armor from my Father but a black cape flowing in the breeze as I looked upon the statues of the former Princesses and Shining Armor and a crying Strong Spirit decorated the gardens and the Crystal ponies served under my new army tasked to conquer Equestria and expand my rule. Sombra was the General and began an operation to eradicate anypony who would resist or speak out against me and as a flag flew with a grey circle with two red spires on the side flew in the orange sky.

Randablitz didn’t seem to be fazed by this future, as he spoke again. “Is that supposed to scare me off, because if it is,, then I must say that Taurus will never kneel to a tyrant, we’ll fight to the last pony standing, we do not fear you, for we have faced things you’ve only seen in your nightmares, my ancestors actually fought and defeated Penumbra before he fled like the coward he was!” He said, this made me shiver in fear a little. “His ancestors managed to push the great Penumbra out of Taurus and into Equestria? How powerful were his ancestors by comparison to himself?” I thought to myself as I tried to think of another scenario where both Taurus and Equestria fell to me and Father.

“I have a vision for you Dark Obsidian.” Randablitz said to me. “Once you take down the princesses of Equestria, your so-called Father won’t need you anymore.” He said as a bright flashed and we were in the middle of a battle. This battle had troops from Taurus dressed in white armor, and the officers had either chrome, or platinum armor, then I saw Randablitz standing on a hill overlooking the carnage. The troops from Taurus were using both weapons and magic. The earth pony forces used some sort of wood and metal combination devices that created flashes of fire and hurled metal projectiles at Father’s forces, the unicorns were using their magic as well as curved swords, and the pegasi dropped rocks, and explosives onto the battlefield, and Randablitz was standing with another stallion, I knew who it was, it was me. I joined his army because Father truly just used me to get rid of his opposition, then he tried to kill me because I had outlived my usefulness.

“No, this can’t be, I-I know this is a trick!” I said trying to find if it was some kind of trap. “What if it isn’t, and you come to find that you were a slave, a tool to only be used and discarded?” He had a point, but I refused to believe this is what it will come to. Rage filled me to the core and the amount of hatred I had would literally go off the charts as the mindscape collapsed in on itself forcing the link we had to cut and I found myself pulling into the station of the Crystal Empire.

“That just can’t be the truth.” I said softly as I disembarked to return where it all began.

(A/N)
Hello ponies and bronies, Obsidian here to say I hope you enjoyed some of these cool surprises and a deeper look into how may play out. Now I know Flurry Heart is the canon foal of Candance and Shining Armor, but me and my editor, Randablitz said "Screw it, lets make a character that won't suck and the creation of Strong Spirit was born (Heh, baby puns). In al seriousness, thanks for reading and give us some support and feedback to improve this story.

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