The Element of Darkness

Dashie's Dad POV

I was knocked out by Dark Shadow. I then woke up tied to a chair with a sack over my head in God knows where. The sack was taken off my head and I saw that I was in some room with a light over me; the rest of the room was in darkness. Dark Shadow stepped into view with a smile on his face.

"Where am I?" I asked.

"That's not important rate now" he snapped back.

Another Dark Race came out of the darkness. I don't get it; they look just like the ponies from Equestria, just with darker colors. This one looked like a Pegasus; he had a black coat with brown eyes and a brown mane.

"You all look just like Equestrian ponies", I said.

Dark shadow smiled, "that's because we are Equestrian ponies. I attempted to take over Equestria but me and my followers where defeated and banished by the princesses thousands of years ago"

Learning more history of Equestria interested me.

"Was this after Discord's take over?"  I asked.

"Yes. My subjects and I are never mentioned because the princesses pretty much forget about us. We were so easy to defeat. One attack on the castle and in less than five minutes, the Princesses used the Elements of Harmony to banish us to the far reaches of space, never to return".

"So are you like the princess’s brother or something?"

"No, I am the product of a spell that I tried to use on myself. This spell was destroyed by Celestia when she found out it could turn ponies into immortal Alicorns like myself".

This was all very interesting information, but I still didn't understand what he needed with me.

"I don't understand, what do you want with me? What use would I have for you?"

"You have an amazing power that you don't know of yet"

"What the fuck are you talking about?"

"If I told you now, you would be able to escape your restraints"

I narrowed my eyes at him. "...what are you going to do to me?"

"Beat the living shit out of you. Seeing you beaten beyond repair will surly help in breaking Rainbow Dash"

Before I could say anything else, Dark Shadow turned around and bucked me as hard as he could, causing my chair to fall and the back of my head to hit the floor hard. Everything went blurry as my chair was brought back up and I was punched in the face again and again until my nose was broken and I was bleeding immensely. Before he walked away, he bucked me one last time, once again causing my chair to fall and the back of my head to hit the ground hard. I was sure my brain was bleeding on the inside and I was going to die. As I lied on the floor in pain, my thoughts weren't working probably. My mind went blank; I think I suffered brain damage. After about five minutes of pain, a Dark Race that looked like a doctor came in the room.

"You are dying" he said calmly, " I am going to save you"

He then used magic to heal my bleeding brain and my broken nose. However my bruises and black eye stayed

"You can use magic!” I stupidly said. I didn't understand anything that was being said for some reason.

The doctor quizzically looked at me.

"Hhhmm....I think you suffered brain damage. You won't die from that, so I'm not needed anymore"

The doctor then left me with my mind slowly deteriorating. I was soon able to think again. Dark Shadow came back with a look of pure anger on his face.

"I CAN'T BELIVE IT!"

He pulled my chair back up and looked at me straight in the eye.

"I hate to say but...Rainbow Dash is dead...my partner killed her when he possessed Princess Celestia"

I stared rate back at him. My reaction was something that Dark Shadow didn't expect. With the news of Dashie's death, my mind completely snapped. I began to laugh hysterically as Dark Shadow slowly backed away.

"Aren't you suppose to be upset?" he asked with confusion

"Of course I'm upset...DO I NOT LOOK UPSET!!!" I yelled with a huge smile on my face.

I then burst into laughter and the chair fell back on the ground. Dark Shadow, knowing I was going insane, kept backing away. All of a sudden he was bashed at the back of the head from behind; he fell on the floor unconscious. I was untied and helped up by the Dark Race that was standing with Dark Shadow in the room earlier.

"Common, we need to go now if you want to get out of here" he said.

I ran with him out of the building and he pushed me into a purple portal. I soon found myself in the Everfree forest in Equestria.

"Hello Human, my name is Night Sky; I am revolting against Dark Shadow. I don't want to be involved with him anymore. He's a monster...do you know what he planes to do to Equestria?"

"No what?"

"He's gonna rebuild the Rainbow Factory and use every pony in Equestria to make rainbows as he and the rest of the Dark Race take over the land!"

"Ok back up, I still don't know what the Rainbow Factory is or what Dashie had to do with it"

Night Sky took a deep breath and told me the story of the Rainbow Factory.

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“And then Celestia shot magic at Rainbow Dash before she could kill Scootaloo. The magic killed Rainbow instantly, Celestia then killed doctor Atmosphere. After that, the factory was shut down and Scootaloo want mad with trauma. She wrote a poem about the factory and dyed her mane to look like a rainbow so she could still be as good as her idle.

It took me a few seconds to take in all the information that Night Sky gave me.

“Dashie was…” I began but was cut off by Night.

“No…Rainbow Dash was never evil. She was infected by evil magic when she was a filly. The same infection that infected her when she was an adult. When Princess Celestia found about this, she decided to use the ‘time spell’ to stop the evil ponies from creating such an evil factory. Because of this, Rainbow Dash and all the other Pegasus are still alive with no knowledge of the Rainbow Factory’s existence in time. And as you know, Celestia can never use that spell again"

"Why would they let failed Pegasi be banished in the first place!?"

"The ones who created the factory put a curse on Equestria that made every pony think that that was ok... even Celestia fell under the curse. Celestia makes sure that no pony is taught that magic anymore. Why do think Equestria is so peaceful?”

I rub my temple, trying to comprehend all this information. I was pretty sure I didn’t actually have brain damage, I thought that maybe the doctor was trying to scare me. There was one more piece of information that I wanted.

“What is this special power that I supposedly have?”

Night sighed, “you have the power to teleport anywhere you want, even if you are being held down by magic. You can also teleport to Earth and back whenever you want”

I stared at him for minute with complete disbelief.

“I…WHAT! How is that possible!?”

“You are the first Human to ever come in contact with the Ponies form Equestria. When Celestia and the others opened up the portal to enter your world and bring Rainbow Dash home, there where extreme side effects that Celestia was not aware of. When a none magic being like you came into contact with such powerful beings like Princesses Celestia and Twilight Sparkle, the magic rubbed off on you”

“Would that happen again if they met another Human?”

“No, the magic would be used to your world at that point”

With this incredible news of my power, I stared at Night for a minute, then smiled.

"Can you use magic?"

Night looked at me with a worried expression

"Uh...yes?"

My smile got bigger. "Can you use that magic to change the look of your coat and mane?"

Night narrowed his eyes. "...yes..."

My face went from happy to serious.

"Good, we're going to need all the magic we can get for what where about to do"

"What are talking about? What are we going to do?"

"You really think any pony in Equestria will accept you? To them you'll be a freak. If you change your appearance and have a lot if bits, you will be accepted into society"

"We don't have any bite"

"That's why we're going to steal it"

"What? Where trying to be good, not bad"

"Good people go nowhere in life, trust me. I spent my whole life acting as you would call 'good'. And let me tell you...it didn't work out at all. My daughter was taken away from me them killed, I witnessed my son be shot in the head, and my wife dumped me. Where I come from, the only people who make it in the end are rich. This world uses fucking gold for currency....I would be filthy rich if I were to return home with that.

"There’s no way I'm helping you"

"Ok fine, take your chances...go to a city and see how well you fit in, how well it will be to get a job. You've been told your whole life to hate...trust me, you won't fit in well in a world where everyone loves"

Night began to think about what I had just said. "...you have a point"

"Of course I do, you won't need a job when you’re as rich as you’re going to be. Wealth buys happiness, plain and simple. Now are you going to help me or not?"

Night thought about it. "I'm in...but what about Dark Shadow? He's going to kill everypony!"

"I'm sure Celestia can handle him...now come on...Ponyville's our first stop"