Marvel looked at Sombra with sheer hate in his eyes as the dark horse began to examine himself, the dark smile on his face growing wider and wider as he felt out just how powerful he had become. Sombra pointed his hoof off towards a building and fired a bolt of black electricity into the side of it, smiling as he heard screams followed by panic. The two princesses were also up now, but they were just as stunned as the ponies at the sight of him.

"This power...it's incredible," Sombra said to himself as he looked down at his hooves with awe, taking note of the electricity coursing through them.

"Billy, what happened?" RD asked Marvel as she and the other Elements of Harmony took up fighting stances as Sombra turned his attention towards them.

"How do you do it child?" Sombra asked Captain Marvel with sheer glee in his face as he floated over to him. "How do you manage to go about in your weak mortal form when you could be a god with a single word? Why would ever want to be anything less than almighty?"

"Because then I'd be someone like you," Marvel snarled as he launched himself at Sombra, throwing a massive right hook with all his might. Sombra brought both of his hooves forward to intercept the blow, the result of the two gods colliding was a massive shockwave that blasted apart the air around them and shattered all windows. Marvel might be a god in human form, but now Sombra could match his power blow for blow. Using his divine muscles, Sombra pushed Captain Marvel back with a yell, smiling as his once unbeatable foe had now become a manageable threat.

"How did you steal the power of the wizard, Sombra?" Marvel asked as he flew back over to Sombra, throwing rights and lefts that Sombra managed to block with his fore hooves.

"Easy. Once I got in your head, I rummaged around for the word of power that you used to summon forth your godly form," Sombra explained as he brought his back leg up to kick Marvel in the face. "Since I figured that the word only works for those who are chosen, I took a small bit of you and placed it in myself, hoping that the lighting would deem me worthy as well. Imagine my surprise when I found that there was another champion that is so similar to me in your world. If the magic could work for him, then why not me?"

"Because you’re a monster!" Marvel roared as he slammed his fist into Sombra's face, creating another shockwave that blew the ponies back. Despite the power of the blow, Sombra only flew back a few feet with a single trickle of blood running down his face, which he wiped away with his hoof.

"I'm the monster? No my dear boy, I am a visionary," Sombra said with a smirk, appearing behind Marvel and twisting his arm up against his back. "See, the way Celestia and Luna have ruled in my absence had been revolting to look at. The most important thing for a ruler is to make sure that his word is never questioned," Sombra whispered while dodging shots from Marvel's elbow. "Back when I ruled with an iron hoof, none of my subjects dared to question me and there for peace and order were kept. Sure they were never truly free, but I kept them safe and gave them homes to live in. But once Celestia and Luna disposed of me, what happened to Equestria?"

"It became a peaceful land that was much better off without you," Marvel growled as he flew backwards, driving the both of them through multiple walls. Marvel used the momentum of his flight to loosen Sombra's grip on his arm so he could swing around and drive his knee into Sombra's gut, doubling the pony over. An elbow to the back of his head sent him crashing into the ground below, but he got up with a smirk on his face.

"Peaceful? Please, don't make me laugh. When do you think that the four horses showed up, while I was ruling? No, it was during this time of so called peace, when ponies were allowed to voice their opinions that the true evils showed up," Sombra said with a grin. Marvel didn't believe what he was saying for a second and flew back in to attack, but Sombra countered with a blast of lighting to his face. "The Cyclops came nearly a hundred years after my defeat and crushed so many of those helpless ponies. And do you know what they did to him. Imprisoned him in stone."

"Do you think he would have preferred to be killed?" Marvel asked as he caught Sombra's rear leg and tossed him into the ground, driving his foot into Sombra's back before he could get up. Sombra vanished back into the darkness, causing Marvel to roar in rage and fly up to look around for him. Sombra materialized behind Luna and pulled her into a headlock.

"And then there's what happened to these two parents," Sombra began as Luna pulled herself out of his grip. "Their parents gave their lives to protect the entirety of Equestria despite the fact that they were retired, but all they managed to do was trap the four horses in stone for about five hundred years or so. I'm not too sure on that, I was trapped to at the time under the ice."

"Sounds like they got lucky due to the princesses being merciful," Marvel said as he flew into Sombra's gut, driving him into the side of a building and punching him in the jaw. Sombra retaliated with a knee to the groin that dropped the Captain, which was then followed up with magical lightning to the face.

"Lucky? Do you know what it's like to be trapped in stone or ice for a thousand years?" Sombra snarled as he drove his hoof into Marvel's face. "Not being able to move or speak, trapped with yourself for all those years? It's hell child and let no pony tell you different. Unable to move, unable to scream; I believe that the majority of us would have preferred death to the hell we found ourselves in. I myself would have gone insane if my hate hadn't fueled me through all those years." Marvel grabbed him by the throat and slammed him into the ground, bringing a foot down on his chest to pin him to the ground.

"Maybe if you weren't a raging tyrant and the others weren't such sickos, the princesses wouldn't have had to trap you in stone," Marvel said with a growl as he pressed down. "Maybe if you had left me and my family alone I wouldn't have to break all the bones in your body."

"Are you even listening to yourself child?" Sombra asked him as he started to push up on his foot. "I was condemned to an eternity in stone without so much as a fair trial or even a chance to explain myself. The princesses imprisoned the one called Discord for simply being himself. Celestia sent her OWN SISTER to the moon when all Luna wanted to be recognized for her talents." Sombra pushed Marvel's foot off and kicked him in the knee before driving his rear leg into his head. "And let me guarantee you, if you were to try and oppose her, she would do the same to you in a heartbeat."

"She was just trying to protect the ponies," Marvel said with a growl, but Sombra could feel his resolve begin to shake.

"And that make what she did right?" Sombra asked as he drove another hoof into Marvel's face, noticing that Marvel's reaction time had slowed down as he became more and more distracted. "You call yourself a champion of justice, so I'll ask you, is what she did justice? Is imprisoning me in stone without so much as a trial justice? Or how about when she sent her sister to the moon to keep the peace? Was THAT justice? Is sacrificing the freedom of others for the sake of a false peace JUSTICE?!" Marvel grabbed his neck and brought his fist back to punch the smile off his face, but his mind was distracted by what Sombra had been saying. He knew that Sombra was evil, there was no doubt about it, but was he saying the truth about when he had been cheated out of justice? That Celestia and Luna had taken it upon themselves to be judge jury and executioner? And...was he becoming like that?

"And is what you’re doing justice?" Sombra asked Marvel with a grin, not bothering to fight out of his grip. "Declaring yourself protector of the world, even if the world doesn't want one. You and your league have taken away the freedom that you say you fight for. People in your world are no longer to make free choices; because they know if they choose something that you all disagree with...you'll come down like a bolt from in high to smite them. Your justice is nothing more than a facade." Marvel tried to think of a way to respond, but couldn't think of an answer that he could defend himself with. Was he really doing the right thing? The moment Sombra felt Marvel's hand loosen on his throat as he thought about what Sombra was saying was the moment he put his plan into action.

"SHAZAM!"

Sombra threw himself under Marvel's leg just as the magical lightning bolt came descending down from the sky and into the body of Captain Marvel, consuming him in a shower of lighting. Billy collapsed to his knees as he felt his strength leave him and he looked down at his hands in shock.

"SHA-" Billy never finished the word of power as a black bolt of magic blasted a hole through his stomach. Twilight let loose a scream that Billy never heard as he looked down at what remained of his stomach, making a small gurgle before falling over on his face. Sombra walked over to the child’s body and kicked it with his hoof to make sure that he was dead. When Billy didn't move, Sombra threw his head back and let out a laugh to the sky. A laugh that was quickly interrupted by a magic shot to the face. Sombra turned to see Twilight standing across from him with such rage on her face that War would have been shamed by it. Her entire body was filled with so much magic that the ground cracked under her hooves. Before anypony could say or do anything she flung herself at Sombra, unleashing all of her fury and sorrow into one massive blast that connected squarely with Sombra's chest and had the startling effect of blasting him backwards despite his god powers. Even though she had Sombra on the ropes, Twilight immediately ran over to Billy.

"Billy...oh heavens, Billy," Twilight said with a shaky voice and tears as she looked down at Billy's body. She saw much to her relief that he was still breathing, but it was shallow breaths that told her he was dying. "No, no." Twilight didn't waste time with any more words as she began using every single healing spell she knew to try and heal Billy, getting more and more frustrated with each failed attempt. Sombra had gotten back up and walked over to her, raising an eyebrow at her attempts with a smile on his face.

"Pity. And he had such potential," Sombra said with a sigh. Twilight didn't bother to look at him as she focused all of her energy on Billy. The other ponies were more than willing to fight.

"Die you monster!" Celestia roared as she unleashed her hellish fire upon Sombra, consuming him in flames. Sombra walked right through the flames and brushed them off his suit, smiling at the princesses failed attempt. Luna was next to attack, summoning her storm of darkness upon him. The combination of explosions and magic barely even fazed him as Sombra walked through her attacks as well.

"Please. If the two of you had any brains in your heads you would know that your attacks mean nothing to me," Sombra said with a sigh as the two princesses combined their attacks into one massive blast that they fired at him. Sombra shook his head and smacked the blast aside with a flick of his hoof. The two didn’t have time to register what had happened before he flew over to them and drove both his hooves into their stomachs, dropping them. "It would be a shame to kill you before you got to see your city burn," he said with a smile as he raised his hoof into the air, a massive thunderstorm forming around his hooves. The other Elements began to battle against Sombra with no success while the CMC ran over to Billy along with Spike.

"Billy! Oh Celestia no!" Applebloom cried out when she saw his body having to look away at the blood. Spike couldn't say anything; he could only just pray that Twilight could find some spell that would save him. But as the seconds ran into minutes, the chances of Billy being saved seemed smaller and smaller. Twilight had used up the last of her healing spells just as Sombra finished off the last of the Elements, not bothering to finish them off at the minute. He walked back over to Twilight who was crying over Billy, who was barely moving.

"Now then, I promised the child that I would kill his family in front of him, although I would have preferred him to be awake while I did it, but he'll just have to imaging it," Sombra said with a smile as he pointed his horn at Twilight, lighting crackling alongside his magic. Twilight barely even turned her head as she put up a shield around herself and the children around her. Sombra's magic and lighting tore through her shield and tossed her across the ground, the lightning coursed through her body and prevented her from moving. "Such a pity though, you and I could have been quite the incredible team," Sombra said with a grin as Twilight lay on the ground, not even trying to get up. Spike and the girls ran over on front of Twilight, standing between her and Sombra.

"Out of my way, I have no wish to kill any more children," Sombra demanded of them.

"No. If ya want Twilight, ya'll go through us," Applebloom said without fear in her voice.

"We're not afraid of you!" Spike yelled, only to shrink back as Sombra let the lightning course through his body.

"Then you are both foals," he said in a whisper as he aimed his lighting powered magic right at them, preparing to fire. But before he could, a sound reached his ear that stopped him in his tracks. It was a whisper followed by the sound of lighting crashing into a body behind him. Sombra slowly turned to see Captain Marvel stand up, lighting flashing in his eyes as he looked at Sombra and the broken form of Twilight.

"How...? How did you live?" Sombra asked him before eating a fist to the face that launched him back into the wall. Spike and the girls all ran over to him with huge smiles on their faces, but Marvel walked right past them and Twilight's unconscious body to Sombra, glaring down at him.

"How? Twilight's spells may not have been strong enough to completely heal me, but they gave me enough strength to speak," Marvel said in a deadly whisper as he grabbed Sombra by the throat and lifted him up to eye level, glaring into his eyes with rage. "And all I needed was one word to beat you senseless." Marvel slammed his fist into Sombra's gut, letting go of him as he sailed back through the wall and out the other side, collapsing on the ground in a heap. He quickly got back to his hooves just in time to receive a massive boot to the face that snapped his head back, knocking him to the ground. Sombra flew up past him and raised his hooves to the sky, forming a storm of lighting in his hooves that he then let rain on Marvel. Marvel held up one hand and caught the lighting in it with ease, letting his own energy flow through it before throwing it back at him. Sombra took the blast full in the chest that let loose a massive lighting storm that dropped Sombra back down to the ground.

"Why? Why are you still superior to me?" he roared as he got back up and threw a hoof towards Marvel, a hoof that was caught by his hand and crushed into powder by Marvel.

"You may have the same powers as me, but I've had them a lot longer than you and I know how to use them," Marvel replied before driving his fist into his gut, lifting the dark horse into the air before spinning him around and slamming him into the ground at his feet. "Plus, the powers only truly respond to those who are worthy. And trust me when I say that you're not worthy." Marvel picked up Sombra again and tossed him over his head, catching his leg and slamming him into the ground. He picked Sombra out of the ground and swung him over his head again, his eyes giving away no emotion as he drove him into the ground again and again. Sombra roared as he fired a blast of lighting magic into Marvel's eyes, the pain and light both blinding him. Marvel dropped Sombra as he staggered back, leaving him open to anther blast to the chest that launched him through a street light and into the ground. Marvel shook his head and groaned just as Sombra placed a hoof on his chest.

"I do not know how you lived, but I will remedy that mistake now," Sombra said with a cold voice, looking to the sky and calling out- "SHAZAM!" But this time Marvel was ready for the lightning bolt. He grabbed Sombra's leg before he could move and held him in front of the lightning bolt, watching with a smile as the dark horse returned to the pony that had no godly powers. Marvel tossed Sombra to the side as he got up, allowing the pony to look over his body to realize what had happened.

"SHA-!" This time it was Sombra who had not been able to get off his word as Marvel flew over with the speed of Mercury and drove his palm into Sombra's throat. Sombra gagged and held his hooves to his throat, trying to speak but found that he was unable to.

"I know what you're thinking. What happened to my voice, why can't I speak?" Marvel said in a mocking tone as he smiled at the helpless form of Sombra, who was desperately trying to speak the word. "The answers simple. Using a combination of magic and force, I have damaged your vocal cords to the point where you cannot speak. Ever again." Sombra looked up at Marvel in terror as Marvel waked towards him, no emotion on the gods face. Sombra let out a silent cry and rushed Marvel, who slapped him down with his hand. Sombra got back to his hooves in time to receive another slap to the face, this slap caused Sombra to start bleeding. Sombra couldn't even cry out as Marvel grabbed him by the throat and lifted him up, bringing him up to his eyes level so that Sombra would never thought that he would see in his eyes. He saw murder.

"You attacked my family Sombra," Marvel began as he tightened his grip on Sombra's throat, causing the mute pony to gag. "Attacked those I love, my friends that I care about and tried to kill me and steal the powers of the only man that saw something in me. You wanted to make me into a god so badly so that you could rule over all of pony kind. But you forgot that a god judges others. And now this god will pass judgment on you." Sombra's eyes widened in fear as he frantically mouthed the word Shazam while Marvel brought a fist back, letting Sombra watch as electricity crackled all around it. "And my verdict is...guilty." And then he drove his fist forward.