[My conscience Kill writes in the brackets and bolded]

    <  My conscience Joy writes in these and  Italics>

~ Grace talks in these and underlined~

         { I respond in these}

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Panting a bit slowly, Chaser glanced back and forth keeping a watchful eye on Charge and a careful one of Shadow. 'Heh, looks like his fight is going pretty damn well,' he thought to himself, seeing Silent being flung onto the ground, a crater being formed on impact.

"WATCH OUT!" Omnius shouted tackling Chaser who made an audible 'oof' upon the bashful contact. In what had seemed to be a quick blur, Cloud exchanged glances with Shadow as time seemed to have slowed down with the quick burst of adrenaline through his body. Quickly pivoting on his hooves and using his magic, Shadow engulfed both ponies with a red aura, slamming them onto the floor and dragged both their bodies as he continued his short sprint only to be interuppted with a quick attack made by Cross.

"Holy buck Chaser! Focus next time!" Cross asserted himself as he lent out a hoof to Chaser grabbing Omnius with him.

"Sorry, I was just looking at Charge and--"

"He's Charge, he can handle himself," Cross pointed out, focusing on the crater. "Okay, maybe he is having a bit trouble, but still, keep your game up man!"

Breathing heavily with a tired trot, Shadow Mark finally made his way towards the group, "I'm getting too old for this kinda shit in my school." He then took a few seconds to mumble to himself relating to self-work issues.

"Okay, before the old man goes mental on us, who wants to finish this quick?" Chaser glanced back at the fellow members of staff and Shadow who was getting back to his feet.

"Oh! I do!" Omnius raised a hoof.

"Right! Then you distract!" Chaser then pushed his friend onto the field, leaving the safe zone. Already there, Omnius took it upon himself to continue his journey and short lived life as he approached Shadow he had now stood up to his natural and powerful pose.

Raising a single eyebrow, Shadow watched the smallest pony of the teachers with curiosity. "Seriously, out of all the teachers they send you?"

Looking worried as hell, Omnius knew he had a snowball's chance in a volcano of even surviving an alicorn yet alone this guy. He watched back at the teachers with a face that expressed 'Are you serious!?' but was then pushed to the side by Cross with a shout.

"DON'T LOOK AT US! LOOK AT HIM!" Cross informed.

"HE ISN'T DOING ANYTHING!" Omnius shouted back.

"JUST KICK HIS ASS! WE ALL KNOW YOU KICKED CHARGE'S ASS!" Chaser lied his flank off and then gritted his teeth with an intent stare.

"Oh, so big things do come in small packages," Shadow rehearsed.

"Yeah, I have a pretty huge di--"

Omnius was unable to complete his sentence as he quickly dodged a hoof from Shadow moving to the side with great reflexes. Taking advantage of this moment, Omnius took a quick jab to Shadow's gut and followed up with more, continuing his futile attempts to harm the alicorn, only making him laugh. "You actually think that will hurt me? C'mon next shot is free," he teased the janitor closing his eyes with a black wing.

Accepting the challenge, Omnius walked behind Shadow, coughed, cleared his throat, cracked his neck, spat on both hooves and unsheathed the might knife-wrench. Taking aim, he swung it like a golf bat as he stopped right just before hitting it, making sure his aim was perfect. He continued this process for a few more seconds as back and forth the knife wrench swung only teasing the 'victims.'

"Well? I'm waiting, what's taking you so lon-" His words and breath went silent as the amount of pain was unbearable, not even the mighty alicorn could have endured. The pain itself of the cold and dense metal could have caused multiple epiphanies as well as, that short lived moment to see your life pass by.

Shadow dropped to the floor, his hooves groping what could have been left and reserved of his genitals. A few moments were taken to respect the death of millions of tiny ponies as Shadow winced and whinnied in pain.

"Dear Celestia Omnius! We asked you to distract not to murder countless lives!" Mark said as even he himself cringed on sight.

"I am so glad he isn't going to be one of my patients," Cross sighed with relief and then watched in fear as a pony rose from the ground. Shadow had not taken that lightly as he miraculously recovered from the hit holding his breath to endure. " WATCH OUT!"

Double taking on Cross' words, Omnius had realized a shadow covering his own as a dark and ominous vibe came from behind him. A powerful hoof to the face, Omnius slid on the floor and back to his friends with a bloody and broken snout. In a daze and heavy pant, he used whatever strength he had left to touch his face ensuring that it was there and that his snout was broken.

"CROSS! YOU'RE UP!" Mark shouted as a blur of red and white dashed out not being told twice.

Cross unfolded his wings and dashed forward to meet the slowly recovering alicorn, only to graze past him with a slight touch of a hoof and wing. Making a quick U-turn, Shadow prepared himself for the medic as he too unfurled his wings, only realizing that one was limp and completely useless. Open for another attack, Cross took advantage of this moment to repeat his previous assault on the hindlegs, making Shadow's heavy mass counteract upon his body, sending the alicorn onto his back and upon the floor.

Not giving up without a fight, Shadow slashed his sharp horn against Cross' sides, leaving a small slash by his wing. Unbalanced, Cross' body dropped and rolled onto the floor while Shadow laid on his back, his eyes rolling to it's ends keeping an eye on the extra ponies left.

Watching both Omnius and Cross wounded and completing their task, it was time for his part as he made a quick gallop onto the field with nothing more than one properly functional wing and his wits. "OMNIUS! NOW!" He shouted continuing his sprint towards Shadow. Mustering whatever strength he had left, Omnius grabbed the knife wrench and tomahawked it overhead the principal.  Jumping and with a glide, Mark had caught the knife wrench within his hoof as he jumped, arching his back to take proper aim with knife in hoof and landed, plunging the daggered side into Shadow's other wing.

"Ha! Missed!" The alicorn taunted.

"Nope! CloudChaser!" He then pointed upwards to the darkened clouds and left the alicorn to suffer. Layer upon layer of cloud, the sky flashed with lightning as streams of bolts ruptured the scenery. The thunder continuously rolled like drums, echoing throughout Equestria and, frightening what was left of animals in the vicinity.

From Shadow's point of view, he watched the sky unnaturally flash as a certain pony punched through the final layer of cloud which in turn released thee loudest and earth quaking vibration. A single lightning bolt striking at a quick, yet slower pace than it should have, made it's way down to Earth with Chaser at the focused point as streams of electricity were sent in all directions.

Charge still by Slender, he watched as the lightning bolt form as it progressively made its way down to Shadow and finally strike. "Heh, I knew you guys could do it," his words soon overpowered in volume by the great boom. Waiting for the final signal, his request was made as the entire area flashed with a powerful blinding light with a very few noticeable streams of bolts from the ground up violently shooting out and striking the surrounding perimeter of the stadium.

Breathing heavily from impact, Chaser smiled one of victory seeing that Shadow was finally gone, eradicated from existence.

"I am his bane, the evil and sin inside of him, not yours."  Chaser's eyes opened wide hearing the statement from the familiar voice as his victorious vibe was killed in an instant, his expression in disbelief. "And no pony but thyself can rid of one's corruption."

"Then, it's time I do this by myself," Light said finally taking a stand and now facing his former self.

--- Minutes before ---

Ditzy had now left, and I was left distraught and confused. I don't know, I honestly didn't know what to do anymore. I was only a few seconds ago on my death bed with her crying by me and embraced within my hooves and just like that, poof, she was gone.

[She didn't actually say this time she was leaving you. Just shut up and hope for the best.]

~Yeah Graze, Kill is right.... Wait a second, Kill was right?~

<This world really is coming to and end....>

{Yeah, but.... I just don't know! She hugged me and left! Why do you girls just leave feelings around like that! You think I like being confused?!} Kill and Joy then looked at Grace with stares for an answer.

~Hey, don't look at me! I'm just his conscience.~ Grace then sighed watching my saddened and hopeless expression. ~Listen, she is just very hurt at the moment, give her some space and let her vent it out. When us girls are like that, we just need time to ourselves.~

<She did just see you die in her arms and brought back to life. I mean, I would be kind of confused what to feel as you did lie to her and yet, she gave up herself just to protect you.>

{Thank you for the reminder Joy, that makes me feel ironically happy.}

<Really?> He said with a slight glimpse of hope.

[No Joy.] Kill then facehoofed [You just reminded him of everything which completely and utterly destroyed his soul.]

{Thank you for that one Kill.}

~Wow, he is on a roll today.~ Grace admitted.

Silently finishing the conversation with the inner me's, I laid on my bed silent, no pony around but me. Hearing a shuffle from underneath my bed, I looked to the side and saw Valkyria by my bedside. As a bad owner, I admit that through all of this, I had forgotten about her. "Hey there Kyria, you okay girl? Sorry I sorta frightened ya," I lent out my hoof to her which she slightly brushed her head upon. "Thanks, I know I can always count on you."

Patting the bed, Valkyria jumped from the floor and onto my legs which slight pained from the past event. I continued petting and brushing my hoof against my scales, the only event to pass the time at the moment. Ruining the master and pet, best friend relationship moment, Valkyria abruptly coughed and forced a burp with two scrolls from her fiery breath.

Attending quickly to the scrolls, I opened the first one and read aloud:

'What's up Graze? I'm kinda in the middle of something, so, this will be short.

Really? Just boop her on the nose and she'll do all that? SWEET! I can finally stop worrying if she'll prank me again. With this information, I can make her my best friend and no longer fear her! Thank's bro!

I'm sorry about that bro, she'll come back.... Break says to buy a hooker, but, Dawn suggest trying to talk the problem out. I on the other hand suggest you give her some time. She'll come around.

That's disturbing bro, because I know her. And let me tell you this, if she says she'll fix your problem, don't listen. Trust me on this one.

New conscience? Cool. Also no, I didn't get my new form by magic. Here, I'll describe this as short and fast as I can.

I'm no longer a pony or human, I'm an angel. If you don't know what that is, then ask somepony who knows about this kind of stuff. How did I become one? Simple, I died. How did I die? I was protecting Twilight from something called The Nightmare. No, he did not kill me. I sacrificed myself to save her. I'll tell you more later, if you ever come back.

From the brony who's currently getting some!

Lance.

Chuckling at the vivid memory of a pissed of Vinetion, my smile quickly wiped off from my face as I read the other one:

Hey Graze, bad news.

A few of my enemies came together and attacked me and a few of my friends on Nightmare Night. They actually beat us, as in they beat the shit out of my friends and forced me to surrender.

Luckily, Twilight and the others came for me and rescued me. And, we were able to remove all of the threats, at a high cost.

Ponyville is gone. As in, it was completely destroyed during the fighting. So many innocent ponies died... and it was all my fault. I don't care what every one says, I screwed up!

I'll never get those images out of my head... I saw a filly die, killed by a explosion. And knowing it's my fault is the worst of it.

Wish me luck, I'm going to try and go on with my life.

Lance.

Well, seeing the first scroll and comparing it to this, my life doesn't seem all that bad now. I was sort of glad that he made it out alive but yet, it must be a burden to live on like that. The next time I see him I am going to talk to him and try to help him out and that would be very soon. Why because I could finally respond to him in peace and quiet:

'Hey Lance,

                      Sorry I didn't reply to you in such a long time and, sorry to hear about everything on your side... I .... I really don't know what to say except that I am glad you're safe. If there is anything I can do, I would love to help you out and some of Ponyville too once everything on my side clears up. I can't do much though, my wing is sort of.... Different and by different, I mean not mine... It's a changeling's wing. Mine got ripped off and, well, I died. I died and was only brought back to life to see Ditzy leave me confused and hopeless.

One thing man, it's not your fault. You did your best and that's all that matters, it was their fault. You shouldn't beat yourself up about this or else I would. Give me around two days man, I will be there for my bro.

Also if I can make a request, I would like to pay a visit to that filly's grave. No pony should go through that. I've lived a few seconds of it and detested every bit except for seeing my mom.

Just a small visit, that's all I ask and after, just you and me bro, we are going to catch up and live life to the fullest for the weekend, okay?

I guess, this is just a part of life. Best we live it to the fullest, right?

Two days man!

No Shame. No Pride..... Wow, I haven't said that since, a really bucking long time man.... We really have a lot to catch up on.

Razor Graze.

*Knock Knock Knock*  "Graze? Can I come in?" I heard from the other side. Quickly shoving the notes under Valkyria, which I add is a horrid and random thing to do, she quickly sent the newly written scroll to Lance making sure all evidence was well hidden.

"Yeah! Come in!" I exclaimed. Opening the door, a certain draconequis was revealed. "Hey Anarchy....Wait, why are you here? Shouldn't you be with the Charge and them?"

"They told me to look after the other students," she replied.

"And you're here why?"

"Because, you are as well one of my students and not only that, you're my friend," she smiled and then quickly wiped it off. "Also, I think a bunch of nineteen year olds know better than to run into bucking danger when they see it," she then watched my wing in bandages and the blood stains on the sheet. "Well, most of them."

"Hahaha, yeah," I faked a laugh.

"So buddy, what's on your mind?" She then sat on the bed's side. With a great sigh, I contemplated for a moment whether I should have told her or not, but, it was my problem anyways, I just needed some help and getting it from an actual female rather than a conscience would be more useful.

~HEY!~

[You know he's right]

~I know, but it's still mean~

"Well, that really is a mess you're in but, all you can do is wait it out, at the end of the day, it's her decision not yours," she advised.

"So, what should I do then?"

"Give her space, a lot of it and who knows, maybe she will miss you or at least reconsider."

"Thanks," I actually smiled with my response. Getting up from her seat, I noticed a slight bulge by her belly and only had one question to ask. "So, what are you going to name it?"

"Her," she corrected me. "I think her name would be Effect, you know, like the Butterfly Effect."

"Wow, Butter," I said surprised at the choice of name, "what a weird nickname."

"You know Cloud said that same thing, and guess what? He was boiled like one in hot coffee," she then stared at me with intent to kill but couldn't help but stifle a laughter. The image in my head was too funny as we both soon broke out into a giggle fit  which evolved into a loud and audible laughter. I didn't know what had made me laugh so hard, but just with Anarchy there had seemed to make the pain a little bit more.... Tolerable. Laughter really was the best medicine and damn, she knew how to do it best.

Wiping a tear from my eye, I then watched my teacher who was still trying to catch her breath. Both of us finally calming down, I called her out, "Hey Anarchy?"

"Yeah?" She responded with interest hearing my sudden change of tone.

"You're going to be a great mom."

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