I decided it was time to reassess my priorities a few seconds after my phone turned into a chicken that screamed “Scootaloo”. It seems like I can’t go back home and I also have to win this game thing. How do I even do that? Disharmony said no more hiding, so that’s one option less. Think, Havoc, think. How do you win a game if you don’t know the victory conditions? She said I had to stay alive, does that mean that the last man standing wins? What if winning has nothing to do at all with fighting or surviving? For all I know, you win by being the most amusing!

I flew to the top of the magic barrier and sat on it while meditating on the game. In the end, I decided it was a waste of time, as I suspected one of the rules was that no one could know how to win the game. I thought that the best course of action was to cross the bridges as I came to them while trying to gain as much power as possible just in case I needed to fight someone. Same plan as always, without the vague idea of finding a way to return to Earth. With that settled, I focused on the faint scent of strawberries and flowers I was smelling since I sat on the barrier. I lowered my head to the barrier and sniffed it. It’s blue, but it smells like strawberries. Fuck logic.

“This barrier smells like happiness!” I exclaimed, then I licked it. “And it tastes like love and innocence!”

I spent the next minutes licking it, never questioning why a magic barrier had a smell and a taste, until I noticed I could see the ponies inside. I appearified a pair of binoculars with magic and watched them. The first minutes I was intrigued, as they were different to the ponies I had seen before. Their manes were straight, their colors were dull and they seemed to walk around with no real direction. I focused on one of them and the only thing he did was sit on a chair, rest his head on the table and sigh. The rest of them were pretty much the same, some of them talked in small groups, others walked with no destinations and many sat and stared into the distance. Crystal Empire? More like Emo Empire! Are they discorded or something? I was about to resume licking the barrier when I saw a rainbow trail between two buildings. I followed it and found Rainbow Dash herself flying towards one of the emo ponies. She talked to him for a few seconds while making some sort of boxing moves, then the emo pony replied something and left her. Rainbow Dash facepalmed and moved to another pony and repeated the process. I watched her as she became more and more frustrated due to her lack of success in whatever she was doing, hoping she would beat a pony or something. She disappointed me, as she gave up and joined the rest of the mane six. Where is Pinkie OH GOD THAT ISN’T FLUTTERSHY! Pinkie you are so random! I laughed so hard at Pinkie’s Fluttershy disguise that I lost track of all of them. Shit. I scanned the area trying to find them, but I wasn’t lucky.

I decided to watch the emo ponies until I found one of the mane six again, which was around one hour later. In that hour I learned to hate the emo ponies’ dullness. No, really, they were REALLY boring! I would rather watch paint dry than spy them ever again. When I finally found the six ponies they were preparing some sort of festival and probably singing while they did, but I couldn’t hear them from my location. Watching six ponies and one baby dragon work wasn’t THAT fun, but it was a nice change after so many emo ponies. I wondered if they would make the emo ponies less emo, or if they would fail until something happened in the end that would lead to Sombra’s defeat. Curious, I watched as some of the emo ponies took some food from a stand, and after talking and eating a bit they were suddenly enveloped in a magic light and they changed into colorful, crystal-like ponies. Oh, I get it. Crystal Empire. Crystal ponies. Cool. The change was really interesting, as not only did they become brighter; their hairstyles changed and had some sort of metal decorations that weren’t there before. More and more emo ponies turned into crystal ponies with the help of the mane six, which surely meant something good but I had no idea what it was. I decided to follow Twilight, who will always be best pony, because I suspected she would be the one with the main part in the plot. I lost her after she walked under the HUGE and ugly as hell palace in the middle of the city. It looked like some sort of humongous, spiky diamond-like crystal, and the city’s roads were arranged as a star around it. I didn’t like it a bit, the less said about it the better.

I watched as Twilight left the huge and useless empty space between the palace and the ground, only to enter the palace seconds later. A few minutes later she appeared in a balcony with Shining Armor and Princess Cadance herself. Twilight talked while passing the pages of a huge book, while Cadance seemed to be about to fall asleep. The pink alicorn said something and then she fell on Shining’s arms, or forehooves, or whatever they are called. Her horn lost the blue glow it had maintained since I first saw her and suddenly the barrier disappeared and I started falling. I managed to stop my fall soon enough, then I landed on a roof before anypony saw me. I noticed that Sombra’s shadows had formed a giant circle around the whole city, and his now giant head appeared just in front of the balcony where I saw Cadance, Shining and Twilight. He laughed and slowly approached the palace, but then the barrier began rising again. He looked shocked for half a second, and when he tried to cross the magic force field cut his horn. I heard his cry of pain as the barrier closed around the city again. What an idiot! I crossed the barrier with no problems and he only managed to lose his horn. I mentally laughed as I changed into my owl form to reach the huge, ugly, physically improbable palace without being noticed. Before I took flight I noticed that the ponies who were still “emo” were releasing chaos energy. I hope the episode doesn’t end too soon, I would hate to miss the chance of recharging my batteries.

I decided that I should talk to Shining again, just so he knew I was still alive. I also thought that, if I managed to get on their good side, they might give me some sort of royal pardon for the mess I caused in Fillydelphia. I reached the balcony where I last saw the royal couple and best pony, the former two being still there. I decided that startling the alicorn that was holding Sombra away wasn’t a good idea, so I landed on the floor behind them, making sure I wouldn’t be seen by the ponies on the ground level, and hooted until they noticed me.

“What is an owl doing here?” asked Cadance, and they both looked at me.

I will make a parenthesis to explain something, because I think I have never explained it and I would hate to forget it. When I spent two months in the woods learning how my new body worked I discovered that my transformations aren’t instantaneous. They start from the body part I am changing into, and they happen so fast the eye can’t see them. However, I can slow the process as much as I want, but it is useless because I am completely defenseless while changing and it doesn’t make a difference in how much magic it takes.

That is what I did then and there. My owl body slowly grew, feathers turning into fur or scales, my beak becoming a mouth full of teeth, and many more changes. I stood before the shocked ponies, unable to resist the urge of smirking smugly.

“Hey Shining, aren’t you going to introduce me to your marefriend?”

He bucked me straight where my balls should be. Luckily for me, he only hit muscle.

“WHAT WAS THAT FOR?!” I asked as I flew out of his reach. “I am on your side you racist psycho! That’s how you pay me for saving your life?!”

“Shining, do you know this creature?” asked Cadance, trying not to look exhausted in my presence.

“I ran into him and Sombra while going to the train station,” he explained as he stood between her and me in a defensive stance.

“Tell the whole story: I saved you from Sombra and you tried to get me killed.”

“You are a liar, just like Discord,” he replied.

“Am I? Then who was the one who pushed you into the barrier before Sombra turned you into a dark crystal? And who was the one who told me to run for the Crystal Empire, only to find that the barrier didn’t let me in while that pony-like monster chased after me?”

Shining frowned, while Cadance looked at us both.

“Shiny, is he telling the truth?”

“Maybe he is, but I didn’t know the barrier would stop him.”

“The barrier only lets in those who would never harm me,” explained Cadance, prompting Shining to become even more aggressive towards me.

“Alright, that makes me look bad. In my defense I will say that I don’t even know your name, so I would harm you in self-defense if you attacked me or something like that,” I landed as I kept on talking, trying to look as friendly as I could. “Moreover, if I wanted to harm any of you I could do it right now. You can’t use magic because of those dark crystals, and you are completely exhausted. I said I am on your side, but if you want my help I expect some apologies to begin with.”

“We don’t need your help,” said Shining, glaring daggers at me.

“Princess, you seem to be the most reasonable one. You surely know that Sombra will be unstoppable when your magic barrier falls. I don’t know if you have some sort of plan to deal with him, but if that fails you will be doomed. I will try to save as many ponies as I can if that happens, but I won’t be able to help if you all keep on trying to kill me.”

“How many ponies could you save?” she asked.

“It depends on how much time I have until your barrier falls. Right now I think I could take with me the four non-flying Elements of Harmony, and maybe the baby dragon. Anything more will require more time. Before you ask, yes I know who the Elements are and that they are here. Harmony is not my cup of tea, but they are important for you ponies and I want to help you, afterall.”

“I don’t know why you want to help us, but I believe you are being honest, so I apologize for judging you for your appearance and I ask you to help us,” Cadance said after thinking for a few seconds. “By the way, my name is Cadance.”

“I am Havoc.”

“You really think this is a good idea?” Shining asked.

“I trust in Twilight and I know she will do her best to save us, but this is a dark hour and we’ll need all the help we can take.”

“If you say so...” said Shining, not completely convinced. “Havoc, the safety of my little sister and her friends will depend on you if Twily doesn’t find the Crystal Heart, so-

“The what?” I interrupted him.

“The magic artifact that will beat Sombra if we find it in time,” he explained, annoyed. “As I was saying, if you even THINK of doing something bad to any of them, there will be no place in Equs for you to hide from me.”

“Calm your horses, Shiny boy.” Did I really say THAT? “Just tell me where do I have to carry them and they will arrive just as I found them.”

“You will have to travel that way until you reach the train station. Then you will have to protect the train until it reaches Equestria or the Royal Princesses arrive to deal with Sombra.” He pointed his hoof in a direction I didn’t bother to memorize, as I was sure that Sombra would be defeated because My Little Pony is a show for little girls and villains never win.

“Understood. Now, before I leave you, I would like to know what is the deal with that Sombra guy. Why is he so angry and powerful and prone to killing?”

“King Sombra is a unicorn whose heart is black as night who took over the Crystal Empire,” explained Shining. “A thousand years ago, Princess Celestia and Princess Luna defeated him by turning him into the shadow you saw and banishing him to the ice of the arctic north. But before the spell sealed him he was able to put a curse on the empire, which caused it tovanish into thin air. A few days ago the Crystal Empire and Sombra suddenly returned. Now he wants to retake the throne and enslave the crystal ponies again.”

“I still don’t understand why he is so strong. He was just an unicorn like you, right?”

“We don’t know.” I wonder if you are telling me the truth, Shiny boy. I suspect you don’t want to tell me how he gained his powers for some reason...

“Alright, that’s all I need to know. Now I have to leave and take some energy.”

“What do you mean by ‘taking energy’?” Cadance asked.

“I am a draconequus. I feed on chaos, literally. I will go down there and grow stronger by feeding on the chaotic energy ponies release whenever something weird happens to them. And believe me, being turned into an apathetic version of yourself counts as something weird. Don’t worry, my form of feeding is completely harmless to ponies.”

“You grow stronger when weird things happen to ponies? Really?” Shining said, raising an eyebrow.

“I don’t know how it works, but it does. I can actually die due to lack of chaos, like you would die if you stopped breathing. I would love to talk about how awesome I am, but the more time I spend here the less power I will gain. By the way, they aren’t carrying the Elements of Harmony on their necks, are they? I would hate to be zapped by them before I explain that I am not an enemy.”

“Don’t worry about that, now go. I need to concentrate on the barrier,” said Cadance, closing her eyes while leaning on Shining.

I waved goodbye and turned back to my owl form to return to the town. Havoc, master of trolling and wrecker of canon episodes. I landed on a lampost next to a stand with some sort of food. I fed on the chaotic energy released by both the cursed emo ponies and the recovered ones for a long time. I knew I wouldn’t have enough power to beat Sombra by the time Cadance’s barrier fell, but I was sure he would be defeated by Twilight with some sort of overpowered magic so I wasn’t too worried about fighting him. However, I was still very weakened so I decided not to waste such a good chance to recover. Moreover, it was rather fun, watching the crystal ponies change so drastically just because they ate a sweet.

“Oh my! This sweet roll tastes just like the ones my mother bakes,” a mare exclaimed, then she turned to face a cursed stallion. “You have to try one, darling. I’m sure they’ll help you recover from Sombra’s spell.”

“I want nothing made by that arpy you call mother. She hates me as much as I hate her,” the stallion replied, sighing.

“You love my mother’s food and you know it,” she replied, frowning. “Eat. Now.” Somepony is going to sleep on the couch tonight.

The stallion sighed again and took a bite from a sweet roll. A smile appeared on his face as he chewed it, and suddenly he stopped being emo.

“They really taste like your mother’s! Let’s buy some more to eat them while we see the jousting!” he exclaimed.

Jousting? That could be awesome. I flew higher to find the jousting place. My love for medieval films helped me recognize its particular shape very soon... Oh Hell no, not again!

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OK, it’s over now. I have just remembered all the chapters of Game of Thrones I’ve seen, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Excalibur, and many, many more films. I hate that I keep on remembering those things instead of the faces of my relatives, my friends or even my own name. Heck, I don’t even know if I was married before coming to Equestria. Well, that’s enough ranting, let’s continue.

I flew towards the tiltyard, which is the name of the jousting arena (how do I remember that?), and noticed that there were quite a lot of crystal ponies already waiting for the show to begin. Oh, this could be a good time to try illusion spells. I will probably need them in the future. I landed on a roof and returned to my main form. From there I used my magic to make an illusionary sombrero appear on a pony’s head.

“Where did that sombrero come from?” asked another pony.

“A sombrero, where?”

I stopped channeling the spell and the sombrero disappeared.

“It disappeared!” said the same pony, “how could- Oh wait it must have been one of those equestrian unicorns. Hmph...”

Good, good, it doesn’t require as much energy as I thought it would. Let’s try something more complicated.

I focused on my own body and made myself invisible. I stopped half a second later, as it required so much energy I felt something like pain when I did it. Alright, turning invisible is possible but I will become powerless in no time if I do it. Let’s try changing how I look, without changing my real shape. I tried changing my colors first, and I managed to turn myself pink. I needed a constant flux of energy to keep it up, but it was very small so I decided to use it to mimetize like a chameleon if I ever needed to do such a thing. After that, I created an illusion of a blue police box around me. This is cool, but I can’t see anything from here! I crossed the illusion, and turned back to see it. The illusion was opaque from both the inside and the outside, so the inside was completely dark. When one of my hands went through it I just felt the same familiar sensation I felt whenever I touched something created by my magic. After a few tries I managed to modify the illusion so I could see from the inside but no one could see me from the outside. I dispelled it and decided that I could try a transformation into something that wasn’t included in the “kit” of creatures I was made of. I tried to turn into human, but my mana wasn’t enough to do that, just like the last time I tried. Instead of giving up, I tried to turn into a pony instead. I felt my body being twisted and morphed by my own power, shaping me as a pony. It was slow, a bit painful, and much more demanding in terms of energy than my usual transformations, but it was working. I was about to turn into a non-specific stallion when I heard a pony shout.

“Nothing tastes better than a crystal BERRY!”

That cry broke my focus, so I turned into Berry Punch; an earth pony mare with pink coat, dark pink mane and a bunch of grapes and a strawberry as a cutie mark. I didn’t realize that at first. Only when, after returning to the street, I looked at my butt and noticed the specific color scheme and cutie mark did I discover something was wrong. A quick peek at my private parts confirmed my suspicions.

I am a mare now... I have a freaking VAGINA between my legs. My current emotional status is too complex to describe it with words.

I was wasting energy to maintain the pony transformation, so I had to find a way to gain more energy or I would be forced to break the transformation. But first, I had to... FEEL... my new body part. I hid in a small alley between two houses and I poured some magic into my right hoof to turn it into a human hand. Lyra would be so jealous if she saw this. I slowly reached towards my ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████

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I left the alley, feeling relaxed and happy. Combining the new sensations of a female body with the use of magic to increase the pleasure had given me the ride of my life. I wasted more magic than I should, what with summoning the huge ████ and stabbing my wet ██████████ ██████████████████████████████████████████.

I think I should stop talking about that. Only when I left the alley did I notice that Cadance’s barrier was beginning to flicker, letting an ominous dark yellow sky replace the fake bright blue one for a few seconds. I went to the jousting arena and sat on the stand, amongst the crystal ponies who were trying not to look at the weakened barrier that protected them from King Sombra .

“Hey! You are from Equestria, right?” a pale purple mare with yellow mane sitting by my left asked.

“That is...” oh fuck my voice is so weird, “right. I am Sweet Grape, from Ponyville, Equestria.”

“If you are from Equestria, why are you sitting here with us instead of working like the others?” asked the mare on my right, who was blue coated with a purplish mane.

“The thing is... Those ponies are heroes, but I’m not one of them,” I explained, baking a new lie. “I came to the Crystal Empire on my own to be the first equestrian to write a cookbook for food only found here, like... Uh... Crystal berries.”

“That’s a great idea!”

“No, it isn’t,” said one of the ponies who were still emo. “There are lots of cookbooks in our library. If Sombra is defeated and everything returns to normality those books will be more popular than yours.”

“It’s been a thousand years since those books were written. Cooking has evolved, so I can and will make a successful cookbook,” I poked my tongue at him... and he turned back to his original, happy state!

“Oh my! You are right! Tell me everything about your cooking from the future!” he said with a huge smile on his face and his eyes sparkling. He’s creeping me out... And I know nothing about pony cuisine. Think fast, Havoc!

“Shut up down there! The jousting is about to begin!” another stallion said, saving me from an uncomfortable situation.

I saw Pinkie Pie, wearing a clown outfit, jump into the arena and do some juggling for a few minutes, while Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy ‘wait, Fluttershy is going to compete against RD? What the fuck?!’ put the armours and s on. Cadance’s barrier blinked a few more times, and Pinkie reacted to it by blowing the horn so the jousting could begin before the ponies panicked or became emos again. Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy charged against each other. The blue ambiguously lesbian mare running at great speeds, while the yellow one tried not to become too scared to continue. For a moment I thought that Fluttershy would defeat Rainbow Dash due to sheer luck and cartoon logic, but then the pink-maned pegasus shied away, giving Rainbow an easy target to hit. The force of the impact made Fluttershy fly away and fall in a pile of hay a few meters away.

“Woooo! Awesome!” I shouted, infected with the excitement of the crystal ponies around me.

Rainbow and Fluttershy had another two rounds, which ended just like the first one. By the time they were readying themselves for the fourth one, I noticed a reduction in the energy I gained from how funny Fluttershy’s awful jousting was. This isn’t working, I’m going to do something stupid!

I ran to the tent where they kept the armours and the s, and tried to put a set on. Only when I was fully dressed did I realize I had managed to do it all with hooves, including things that should be only possible with hands. Don’t think about it, Havoc. Cartoon logic, it’s just cartoon logic and magic.

“Mares and gentlecolts!” I shouted as I left the tent. “I challenge Rainbow Dash here and now!”

The crowd exploded with cheers when I took Fluttershy’s place. Said pony just cowered away from me as Rainbow Dash flew towards me.

“What do you think you are doing?” the athletic pegasus asked, frowning under the helmet.

“Making a big show so these ponies forget about the giant shadow monster that is about to burst in.”

“Alright, but I want a proper explanation after I wipe the floor with you,” she replied, flying back to her position.

“Sure, sure.” … I hope this doesn’t hurt.

We charged against each other. Rainbow Dash came to me like a bullet, while I struggled to keep the lance pointing towards her, which is harder than it seems when the lance is attached to your body and you can’t use your hands to move it. I messed up and my lance moved to the right just before it hit Rainbow in the chest, hitting her own lance instead. That caused her weapon to move upwards, so it hit me in the face instead of the better protected chest. Everything went dark in an explosion of pain. I lost control of my magic, so I could feel my body struggling against the armor as it tried to return to my draconequus form. Why do I always have such terrible ideas?! I managed to regain control of my magic to keep the form of Berry Punch, but I didn’t dare to try healing myself, as I feared that doing that would turn me back to draconequus.

“Oh my gosh! Are you alright?!” asked Rainbow Dash as I struggled to get on my hooves.

“I will be fine, but my face hurts a lot,” I managed to say with a nasal voice.

“I shouldn’t have let you participate. I don’t even know who you are. Fluttershy, tend to this pony while I try to calm the crowd.”

“Come with me, if it’s okay with you,” Fluttershy said, her shyness surpassed by her desire to help me.

I followed her to a nearby tent as Rainbow Dash shouted some reassuring words to the crowd which I didn’t bother to hear. The first thing Fluttershy did was to take her own armor off so she could move freely.

“Please, let me take the helmet off of your face. Tell me if it hurts,” the kind pegasus said.

I stood still while she took the piece of metal from my head. It didn’t hurt at all, which was fine because I thought I had already felt enough pain for a day.

“Oh my...” Fluttershy murmured, taking a few steps away from me.

“Is it that bad?” I asked, but then I realized that Fluttershy was looking around, as if she was trying to find an exit. Why would she... Uh oh.

I turned to face a mirror, and found what had scared Fluttershy. The left side of my face, which was where the lance hit me, was gray instead of pink, with sharp teeth and an orange and black eye. SHIT, what do I do now?! I stared at the mirror, mouth agape, for ten seconds, until I decided to fake a faint. I managed not to smirk as I heard Fluttershy slowly walking towards me. I broke the transformation and grabbed her with an arm while covering her mouth with the other. Why do I feel like I’ve done this before?

“Shhhh, it’s alright,” I whispered. “I am an ally of Shining Armor, I am not an enemy.”

I stared into her eyes, but that was a terrible mistake, because she used The S̀t͝҉̶á̸̡͜͡r̨ȩ̴͘͠on me as soon as I did.

“Shit,” I managed to say before I felt its effect.

I felt a terrible remorse for grabbing her like that, so I dropped her immediately. I tried to look away, but those EYES were like hooks digging into my very soul, and I was powerless to stop their silent judgement.

“Listen to me, and listen well,” the scariest pony in the world ordered, “I want you to tell me the truth, and only the truth. Understood?”

I nodded, unable to do anything else.

“Are you really on our side?”

“Yes,” my mouth replied without my conscious mind ordering it to do so.

“What is your name?”

“My current name is Havoc. I forgot my older name.”

“Do anypony else know that you are here?”

“Shining Armor and Cadance.”

“Why did you hide from the rest of us?”

“Because I fear you will turn me into a statue or something equally bad with the Elements of Harmony if you see me.”

“Why do I feel like I have seen you before?”

“Because you have seen me before.”

“... I am waiting for an explanation, here.”

“Yes, yes, sorry! A month or so ago I went to Ponyville. There a servant of Discord attacked me. I went to your house, used my powers to make you forget about me and then I forced you to Stare my enemies away. I left before they recovered from your Stare.”

“So that’s why one day I woke up in the evening, not remembering anything and surrounded by broken furniture?”

“I’m sorry, but I didn’t know what to do at the time! I guess Screwball made you forget about everything to avoid being discovered.”

“How did you know about the Stare?”

“Oh, please, not that question. I... Damn it... Where I come from... There’s...”

I heard a cracking noise, and dark crystals covered the ground and part of the tent. That broke Fluttershy’s S̀t͝҉̶á̸̡͜͡r̨ȩ̴͘͠, releasing me. I closed my eyes as soon as I recovered my will.

“Look, Fluttershy, I would like to explain things to you, preferably without being forced by your Stare, but Sombra is out there and that’s more important. You know I’m on your side, so let me be on my way so I can help you all.”

“Alright, but this isn’t over. I mean, if you don’t mi-” she stopped for half a second. “No, this isn’t over, and that is all.”

I dared to open my eyes when I heard her walk outside. I changed to my owl form and flew towards the castle, trying to forget the horrifying experience of being Stared. I still feel chills right now when I think about those eyes, staring right into my soul...

I... I am too freaked out to continue... I need some time to forget about the S̀t͝҉̶á̸̡͜͡r̨ȩ̴͘͠.

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