(Frozen North, Sombra’s P.O.V.)

“At last the time has come, I shall take my rightful place on my throne, and Obsidian shall take his rightful place by my side as my general.” I said as I looked out of the cave at the Crystal Empire with a devious grin on my face. “It’s a pity that I will have to take away some of Obsidian’s power so he can’t overthrow me, but it’s for the best.” I said as I went back into the cave. I walked to the center of the cave and activated my magic. “I’m almost at full power, soon I shall be able to leave this damn place!” I exclaimed at the fact that I will soon be able to join my son, and steal his power, and erase his memory. “I might as well get to that disgusting hamlet called ‘Ponyville’.” I said nearly gagging on the sound of such a cheerful place. I activated my magic once more and teleported myself near the outskirts of the town, so I wouldn’t be spotted by anypony. “Soon Celestia, Luna, Cadence, that stalker of a prince, Randablitz, and the disgusting brat of Cadence shall know what defeat and terror feel like.” I said as night began to fall on the village.

(Ponyville, Obsidian’s P.O.V)

After arriving back to Ponyville from my little trip from the Crystal Empire, I was quite exhausted from the little adventure I had, even if I had gained more knowledge of Dark Magic than I could have ever hoped to learn, I was tired and I needed some sleep to begin my conquest by annihilating the primary targets. However, my subconscious keeps reminding me of my Father and him betraying me. “Come on Obsidian, keep it together.” I said to myself as I felt as if my sanity was slipping away. I became more defensive whenever somepony looked at me as I returned to Twilight’s Castle.

Once at the Castle doors, I saw the sky becoming dark as the night was beginning and some thunder clouds rolling in as if a storm was coming in. Upon entry, I heard some laughter from the dining hall. I looked in to see that it was Twilight and her friends, Minuette, Roseluck, Randablitz, Celestia, Luna, Cadence, Shining Armor, and the baby Strong Spirit. They were enjoying a nice dinner and none seemed to have noticed my presence so I quickly teleported to the other side of the hall and went inside of my room. Once I was in my room, something was really bugging me. “Randablitz must’ve sensed me, or maybe he’s ignoring me, but why?” I pondered as I went to my bed and lied down to think. “It doesn’t make any sense, by now I should be hearing Randablitz preaching his nonsense to me, but instead he’s just not acknowledging my very existence!” I mentally yelled. I was truly confused why would he stop trying to ‘help me’. “Well maybe it’s for the best, I will take these Princesses and Princes out.” I then morphed into a shadow and slithered out of my room and towards the enemy.

(3rd Pony P.O.V)

After dinner was concluded, Everypony was enjoying one another’s company like a big happy family. “Oh my goodness, Twilight I knew that you had an interesting foalhood, but you never told me that one of your friends got her head stuck in an Alchemical beaker!” Randablitz said whilst laughing his flank off. Everypony, Strong Spirit included, were laughing at the funny story of how Lemon Hearts got her head stuck in a beaker. “Now come on Randablitz, why don’t you tell us a story from your foalhood.” Luna suggested with a smile. Randablitz simply shrugged. “Alright, I’ll tell you the tale of how General Oasis managed to prank one of our teachers with a foul smelling potion she made in the Alchemy labs one time.” Randablitz said with grin on his face. “Okay, so it was a Tuesday when this happened, Oasis and I were sitting in class just minding our own business when all of a sudden our teacher, Mr. Ink Blot wasn’t looking, Oasis quietly placed a whoopie cushion on his stool and sprayed this foul smelling concoction she made in the Alchemy labs on to his stool, and as he went to sit down it took all of our self-control to keep ourselves from laughing right then and there.” Randablitz said with a smug grin on his face. “What happened next neither of us anticipated, Mr. Ink Blots had a surprise visit from the Principal. Our principal’s name was Miss Olympia Goldheart, and she seemed to have no sense of humor, but that was not the case as Mr. Ink Blots started to take his seat while Miss Goldheart was going to present to us. The moment Mr. Ink Blots sat down, a huge green cloud erupted from his stool as he set off the whoopie cushion, the next thing we knew was that we saw Principal Goldheart drop to the floor laughing and she passed wind herself, then the whole class started laughing.” Randablitz said as he concluded his comedic tale. The room was filled with loud and nearly uncontrollable laughter.

“That was too good!” Rainbow said before erupting with laughter once more. “Did y’all get into trouble afterwards?” Applejack asked as she caught her breath. “Nope, Principal Goldheart truly thought that Mr. Ink Blots farted in class, and even if we were sent to the office, Oasis and I would’ve been given the award for class pranksters.” Randablitz said as he calmed down and smiled at his blushing general. “Quite the tale, but has anypony seen Obsidian?” Luna asked as the room was speechless about their missing stallion companion. “I have not seen him since we were all at the train station.” Twilight answered as it lead to no evidence of where he had gone. “Do you think he might be cooped up in his room?” Rarity asked as it did spark that he was always an indoor type. “Well let’s bring him here and we can formally meet, I have heard Luna talking about him after her encounter with him in the Everfree.” Celestia said.

But some black shadow smoke entered the room and surrounded everypony inside as the table and chairs disappeared and the room seemed bigger to make space for something. The ponies, except Randablitz were confused and looked around at the new environment. “What’s going on?” Twilight asked as small evil laughter echoed through the room and in front of the ponies were a pair of green eyes with red pupils and purple smoke seeping out of them. “So you’ve finally made your move to destroy us, Obsidian?” Randablitz mentally said void of all emotion. “Wait, King Sombra?! I thought?” Cadence said with fear as the smoke laughed once more. “I’m not My Father, but rather somepony you already know.” Obsidian said as his head emerged with his eyes and appeared before everypony with a menacing glare. “Ah Obsidian, Big surprise.” Randablitz said, sarcasm evident in his tone. “I’m sorry for not informing all of you, but I’ve foreseen this, but soon his world will start crumbling around him” Randablitz said as everypony say that he had smile on his face which confused them greatly. “How can you be smiling at a time like this?!” Luna nearly shrieked. “Because, I know how he will fall.” Obsidian grew angry at this and slammed his hoof down. “Enough! I’ve grown tired of your overconfidence.” Obsidian shouted at Randablitz with hatred in his voice. Randablitz simply had an emotionless expression on his face. “Look around you, we’re all upset that you’ve chosen this path, especially the mares who truly love you, and now you do this to them. You should feel ashamed of yourself, choosing power over friendship, it’s a sickening thing.” Randablitz said with his brow furrowing in both anger and disappointment. “Just wait and see if your Father will truly let you rule beside him as his equal.” Randablitz said as he knew that those who practice dark magic hate sharing power with others.

As Randablitz finished his sentence, Obsidian’s raged increased. “I’m in control of my own destiny, A destiny I once dreamed of as a colt, and you can’t tell me that you know me, You don’t know what I’ve been through, so allow me to show you.” Obsidian activated a screen in front of the ponies as they watched a mare tossed me into a trash bin like garbage and her walking off and saying “You always held us back, now you’re just one less problem we’ll have to deal with.” She laughed as I crawled out of the bin with tears welling in my eyes as I sat down and cried. The memory finished and I even had tears after watching the memory myself.

Another cloud of smoke appeared and the smoke morphed to form King Sombra. Obsidian was all too happy to see his Father standing next to him. “Of course I’ll let my son rule by my side.” Sombra said as he charged a blast of dark magic at Randablitz. “As your equal Sombra, will you let your son rule beside you as your equal?” Luna asked now understanding Randablitz’s plan. “O-of course, I will, he is my only son and heir after all.” Sombra said with a slight stutter. “Father do you really mean to have me sit below you in power?” Obsidian asked slightly choking up, his father never stuttered, but now that he did Obsidian now knew that Sombra truly didn’t need his help anymore.

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

“Father, I know you wouldn’t betray your only son, would you?” I asked unsure of what the answer was. “You’ve become too strong, and I know I can’t let you surpass me otherwise we’ll be fighting each other for supremacy.” Father said with a defeated look on his face. “I told you if you followed in his hoofsteps you wouldn’t like what you would find.” Randablitz said with a look of concern on his face. I invoked dark magic to shut him up by enchanting him into his worst nightmare as the same green eyes, red pupils and purple smoke took effect. However, I couldn’t deny it, he was right my own Father was betraying me, and I was too focused on my own desires to realize it. “He has won. Even when he’s trapped in his worst nightmare, he’s already claimed his victory, so now mine means absolutely nothing.” I thought to myself as I saw Randablitz’s body on the floor not even moving, I didn’t hear a sound of him cowering. The other ponies on the other hoof were either in fear, disappointment, sadness, or betrayal after what I had just done, but I just wanted to live in the dream I’ve always imagined.

“Now Obsidian, After I take out these pitiful ponies and so-called rulers, I shall build an army with you as the general and together we can conquer Equestria.” Sombra said trying to be persuasive as Roseluck and Minuette stepped in. “Please Obsidian, don’t do this, We love you too much to see you like this.” Roseluck started. “We want the Obsidian we first met back and not some follower of some evil tyrant.” Minuette said as he blasted some dark magic at them rendering them unconscious. Obsidian felt some hurt in his heart as he saw them lying on the floor. “Silence you disgusting commoner wretches! This was our plan all along!” Father said as he walked past the unconscious mares, and he nearly spat on Roseluck to punctuate his thoughts of them, but decided not to. “Maybe they’ll be useful in some way after all.” I heard Father say with an unsettling smile. “ I can’t let him do that to them, that’s far too cruel, even for me!” I mentally shouted as I activated my magic to levitate the two mares to my sides. “I can’t let you do that Father.” I said with an angry scowl on my face. He looked at me with displeasure as Celestia and the others charged up their magic. “King Sombra, We shall defeat you once and for all.” Father laughed a little as he summoned his dark crystal scythe and the Princesses summoned their weapons, The Element Bearers readied to fight, and Cadence protected Strong Spirit. “If it’s a fight you want, then it’s a fight you’ll get.” Father said as he charged straight for the other princesses.

Over in the corner I saw Randablitz rising to his hooves, my dark magic still in effect. “Do you know why I wasn’t cowering as you thought I would?” he asked as he sat beside Minuette. I nodded my head in acceptance to his question. “It’s because my worst nightmare is already unfurling before me, my friends are fighting a force they can’t stop on their own, and another friend of mine has to make a choice, do what’s right, or fall into darkness and forever lose himself.” Randablitz said as tears fell from his eyes. “You consider me a friend, even after all that I’ve done?” I asked completely befuddled about what just told me, Randabitz nodded in response. I released him from the spell I put him under and his eyes returned to their normal hazel color. “You’re doing the right thing, just trust your heart and you’ll be able to destroy all evil.” I then saw the battle between the Princesses and my Father raging on as I saw Randablitz summon his own weapon. It was a curved, single edged blade that was as black as night and had a very beautiful pattern along the spine that looked like clouds and he was ready to strike, but I put my hoof out to stop him.

“Don’t.” was all I said as Father laughed manically to see the heroes fall. “Now, I shall rule with Obsidian and the beginning shall be vanquishing you all!” Father said as he readied a dark spell and as he zapped toward the fallen heroes, I quickly got in the way and countered with my own dark magic. Some of his spell got to me and shocked me from the inside. Father stopped to see it was his own son.

(3rd Pony P.O.V)

Sombra swung the first attack and missed as Celestia and Luna flew above the king and dived into him with a spear and sword at the ready. Sombra then morphed into shadow and dodged the attack as he swung at the Element Bearers. Twilight fired a magic beam which made the shadow king back off a little as he then summoned a large crystal and sent it towards Cadence. The crystal was cut cleanly in half by Shining Armor’s and Randablitz’s swords as Randablitz winked at Cadence and Strong Spirit which made the foal giggle happily at his godfather. Sombra then sent another beam of magic towards Celestia and Luna who had been flying to try and find an angle of attack. Both of the sister's dodged the attack and landed with the Element Bearers and the Crystal Empire royals. Sombra then trapped all of them in a crystal cage as he spoke. “Ha ha ha, it seems you have a choice my dear heroes, you can either surrender to me, or face the Crystal dungeons and later executed by Dark Obsidian.” All the ponies showed anger toward the dark king. “We shall never join the likes of you.” Shining Armor said as they all combined their magic to break the cage. Sombra morphed into his shadow form and spoke. “So be it.” as all the ponies charged at the large shadow pony.

Then all the heroes fell beaten as Sombra reverted back to his physical form. “Now, I shall rule with Obsidian and the beginning shall be vanquishing you all!” Sombra then charged up his magic and fired a beam at them, but was surprised to see his own son in the way, defending the ponies he was suppose to kill.

“What?! Obsidian, what are you doing?” Sombra asked surprised as Obsidian looked at him sternly. “Father, you have given me the luxury any colt would have asked for, gave me more power than I could have imagined, and showed me some things I would never forget, but up until now I see how much of a tyrant you really are. You never intended for me to claim the throne, I see it now that I don’t need to have the royal luxury, a kingdom, or even a family to know what my true destiny is. You forced upon my destiny and made me forget what was supposed to be important and what’s more important than friends to be there with you.” Sombra growled at his softness. “You’ve gone soft and weak, you’re nothing without me, I raised you to become who you are now and now you’re just going to die with these pathetic do-gooders.” Obsidian then activated his magic, but something was different as he ascended into the air. “You’re wrong Father, today, you’ll fall and I’ll rise.” Obsidian said as he summoned his own weapon, a crystal greatsword that had a red hue to it. The two unicorns clashed in a furious battle as Shining Armor and Randablitz tried to help up the heroes.

“Tend to the others, I’ll deal with him.” Obsidian told Shining and Randablitz as they picked the others up. “Alright, by the way, you’ve made the right choice, just remember, it’s easy to forgive others, but it’s even harder to forgive yourself.” Randablitz said as he hefted Luna on to his back.

(Obsidian’s P.O.V.)

I fought my Father ferociously as I tried to subdue him and win the fight, but with my companions not able to help me fight, I felt it was all on me. “After I kill you, I’ll slaughter those Royals and your friends, before I clone you to do my will.” He said villainously as I maintained a stern face. I then clashed with his scythe in a block and spoke. “It seems as if you’re mistaken, I know all your tricks since you trained me everything, we could be doing this for all of eternity.” He merely smiled at my statement and chuckled. “Well good luck trying.” We clashed once more using all I knew to defeat him. I blasted some magic toward him only to be deflected by his magic and every attack was blocked. Then a surprise beam of dark magic got me and shattered my sword as I tumbled to the ground. Father looked down on me smiling evilly with his scythe in his magical grip. “And now you fall, like the failed prince you are.” I then activated my dark magic and felt something off as shadows surrounded me and I was lifted into the air. Sombra looked on as I had achieved something Penumbra would be proud with, unlocking my full Dark Magic Potential.

“Sombra, You shall fall and you will never harm my friends again.” Was all I said as I blasted a beam of magic. Sombra tried to deflect it, but his scythe shattered and Sombra then became engulfed by the magic I possessed and slowly his armor, cape, and crown were blown off as he was transformed into shadow and I magically forced him far away in the Arctic North and underneath the mountain ranges where he let out one final scream before becoming concealed in the ground. “OBSIDIAN!” The battle concluded and the effects of my dark magic had faded off as I reset the dining room to what it once was. I fumbled for a moment as I stood back up to see everypony rushing towards me.

(3rd Pony P.O.V)

After King Sombra was banished to the mountains of the Arctic North, Obsidian had returned to his natural self as all of his friends re-entered the room. “Oh my gosh, Obsidian you saved us!” Roseluck said as she and Minuette tackled him to the floor and kissed his cheeks. “Thanks, but I wish to say something, to all of you in that matter.” Obsidian rose up with the two mares by his side as he began. “I want to apologize for everything I have done, Shining Armor and Cadence for threatening you and your foal, Twilight for deceiving you,Rose and Minuette for breaking your hearts and you Princesses for trying to take over. I probably am not worthy for your forgiveness for my acts, but I want you to know how sorry I am for everything. Obsidian said with tears streaming down his face. Randablitz took a step forward and put his hoof under his chin. “I forgive you, and you’ve got a friend in me.” Randablitz said as he gave Obsidian a small noogie. The others joined in for a group hug as Obsidian still felt some remorse.

“Thank you all, but I fear that I can’t forgive myself for what I’ve done.” Obsidian said as the hug ended. “I can tell you from experience that it’s hard to forgive yourself, but it’s well worth it, just let go of your guilt and move on.” Luna said as she winked at Obsidian knowing the she had faced a similar problem not too long ago. “What do you mean Luna?” Obsidian asked with a curious expression. “The Tantibus got out of control and started invading everpony else’s dreams to the point that it was my guilt for what I did as Nightmare Moon fueling its rampage, so I had to learn to forgive myself and move on with my life.” Luna said with a slight blush on her face. I knew she was right, but after what I did, I don’t think I’m ready to forgive myself as of now.

Author's Notes:

Hello ponies and bronies, Obsidian here to apologize for this being late, the saving was on the fritz and I had to wait a while to finally upload this chapter, I hope this never happens again and I want to thank Randablitz for editing as always.

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