Metroid Prime: Into Darkness

I can fly like a bird not in the sky, which can always swim and can always dry. I say goodbye at night and morning hi. I'm part of you what am I. I follow and lead as you pass, dress yourself in black my darkness lasts. I flee the light but without the sun, your view of me would be gone.

                                                                - Abracadavre

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Darkness. That's all Twilight could see. Her head ached. As she opened her eyes, she saw that she was in a room that was brightly lit, and voices swarmed her ears. She was in pain for some reason, although she didn't know why. Then she looked down at herself, and that reason presented itself.

Her body was covered in bandages and casts, while blood attempted to escape her veins staining her fur and casts. When she tried to move, pain greeted her body even more and she fell back into darkness once more.

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Several hours earlier

The Emperor Ing felt the energies of the Crystal Heart. It gave him strength and power. It was unlike anything he felt before. This would be a great contribution to his cause.

Using his eye, he saw Royal Guards and ponies staring at him as if they had wet themselves. He witnessed a yellow pony with a pink mane cower in fear.

This amused him. Using one of his Darkling Tentacles, he reached out and picked up the pony and brought it to his head, and the pony did the most natural thing when being held by a monster.

It fainted.

Since his prey usually screamed or tried to fight back, this was a new reaction to the Emperor.  He didn't notice the blue blur coming at him.

Rainbow Dash was trying to comprehend what was happening, first a bunch a black portals where attacking the Crystal Empire, and then a giant monster just ate the Crystal Heart. When she saw the monster holding Fluttershy she snapped back into reality.

"Hey! Drop her, ugly!"

Being Rainbow Dash, she did what any reckless daredevil did, charge head first into danger.

At blinding speed, she struck a blow to the creature's tentacle causing it to drop her friend and carry her to safety.

The ponies gathered around their friend and checked her condition.

"She's gonna be alright," Twilight told the others.

"Wait!" Spike said. "Where's her Element?"

Twilight's expression changed when she noticed that Fluttershy's Element was missing from her neck. She looked at the creature and saw it holding the Element of Kindness in its grip.

The Emperor had a small amount of knowledge about the Elements of Harmony, but he knew that they could lead to his defeat and a the delay of his plans, so that's why he removed it from the pony just before she was rescued by her companions. Then the ruler of the Ing felt something jam into this torso and he looked down to see that it was a spear.

Shining Armor ordered his men to fire another volley of magic bolts at the monster. "Hey ugly!" The creature turned in his direction.

"This is for hurting my sister!" a cannonball made of an explosive material shot forth at the beast and struck it dead on.

At first Shining gave a smile of confidence, but that was before a bolt of dark matter shot back and struck him in the chest, sending him a few feet backward.

"Shining!" the voice of his wife called her husband's name as she ran up to him, and Cadence began to care for him. Shining found the power to get back up.

The Emperor watched as the pink pony began to care for the white one who dared attack him.

Then that meant he would just have to keep them apart.

Using his powers, he opened a portal behind him and grabbed the pink one.

Shining watched as his wife was grabbed by the creature who attacked his sister. Both him and Twilight did what they thought was the most rational thing to do: run and fire everything they had at the creature's torso, but their attacks did nothing to the monster.

Tired of the constant stream of bolts, the Ing ruler used the power of the Crystal Heart to erect a shield around him that slowly grew bigger.

Not knowing if the creature could hear him over the force field, Shining Armor and Twilight shouted at the monster.

"You put my wife down now!" Shining Armor screamed over fear that he may lose his wife to a monster.

The Emperor Ing saw no purpose for holding the pink one hostage other then the fact the it amused him how these creatures fought for their loved ones. He opened a portal and sent her to the to the dark realm.

Shining Armor watched as his wife disappeared through the portal to Celestia knows where, the captain ran up to the barrier and started to bang on the force field demanding to know what the evil being had done with his wife.

Having had enough fun for one day, The Emperor activated the full extent of the Crystal Heart and literally blew everypony out of the Crystal Empire.

Twilight met the full force of the blast. She and her friends where blown out of the Crystal Empire just as they had exiled the changelings from Canterlot.

The ponies descended from the sky and plummeted towards the ground.