The Begining of a New Life

“Tie him up in this chair Guards.” Said Princess Luna as they waited the arrival of Celestia.

“Finally we found the culprit for the crime of stealing the our crowns!” exclaimed Celestia as she opened the main door and walked into the small room.

Shadow then tried to communicate with Sombra while everyone was not paying attention to him.

“Is everything going according to plan?” asked Sombra from the other side.

“No, I was captured but the crowns are still hiding so now you have to complete your side of the deal, after the invasion I want you to give me my brother.” Whispered Shadow to King Sombra.

“Yes, do you recommend starting to prepare or wait a bit more?” asked Sombra again with no emotion in his words.

“I am not sure. I do not know what kind of methods these people are going to do to squeeze information out of me. I think you should wait for the correct day .” Shadow quickly snapped out of the conversation as Celestia walked over towards him.

“What is your name?” asked Princess Celestia in a curious way.

“It is Shadow your highness.” Shadow replied emotionless and sort of uninterested at the question the princess had just asked.

“I do not believe you. ANSWER ME!” then replied Luna using her Royal Canterlot voice which completely scared every pony in the room.

“Actually your majesty with all do respect, it is Shadow. I heard Rainbow Dash call him by that at least.” Replied Star which had a fair grudge with Shadow.

“Oh, sorry about the voice then everyone!” replied Luna in her normal voice which she was a lot better at controlling.

“Your majesties I am going to be honest, a giant army will to destroy Equestria if you do not stop it, I have other reasons why I stole the crowns though.” Shadow's form of expressing what he had in mind was a bit too harsh since he was talking to the rulers of Equestria... his expression was still emotionless, but deep inside he knew he needed to leave and not let anyone find the crowns, or atleast not yet.

“Umm, Oh my.” Replied Celestia as her eyes opened widely.

“So please just let me go so I can finish my business, you are wasting your time if you try and get more information out of me.” Shadow continued as he rolled his eyes and looked towards Luna.

“Shining prepare the army… And give me some time to pull this all in…” Celestia continued with her shocked face, the princess walked a few steps then turned around towards the walls of the castle.

“You have a couple of days before he appears.”

“Who leads this it may I ask?” asked Princess Luna in a curious way as she looked down to the tied pony.

“You should know him really well… just think about my name and compare it to 1,000 years ago. Shadow” replied Shadow as if he was late for something “now I really have to go! I need to get my brother which is trapped with it.” as he continued, Luna noticed his forced tone and decided to stop asking him questions.

“Umm… I think he is saying “IT” returned…” Luna's reply was pale, as she remembered the time of Sombra's rule over the Crystal Empire.

“Well Guards I need all the guards on duty 24/7 for these next days… We need to take every precaution on this matter.” Celestia replied not looking at the group, “Shining prepare the whole army and get my Twilight and her friends also, we need to be ready for this great threat.”

“Could I be free now? I can’t return your crowns at the moment because then Sombra will know I have joined you and told you his plans, but like I said before he has my brother trapped..." Shadow replied with a forced voice as he remember in the next few days he would have to return to "The Void" to get his brother back.

“Untie him.” Celestia then had a long sigh before she was able to turn around towards Shadow.

“I will try and help in anything else I can." Shadow looked away and towards the window, he then looked back at Star who looked a bit mad at him being free again.

-MEANWHILE-

“I can’t believe it was Shadow! And I was falling for him…” Rainbow Dash started to sob as she said incorrectly a couple of words. “I still think he had a reason… but it was him!” She continued to sob, as she remember again when he was taken away.

“D—don’t worry Rainbow… We are here to support you.” Twilight tried to confort Rainbow as she thought for the correct words to say to calm her down.

*Knock Knock*

“Looks like someone’s at the door?” asked AppleJack.

“SHADOW!?” screamed Twilight from the door as she opened it carelessly.

“Hey…” relied Shadow as he looked inside the room.

“How DARE YOU!” screamed Rainbow Dash as she bolted down from the second floor towards the door, “steal from the princess then  come back to even look at us in the face.”

“Well I can explain!” replied a very nervous and scared looking Shadow. “I-I… I worked for King Sombra—“ as Rainbow tried to cut him off, he forced his way through the conversation, ” BUT I was just doing it trying to save my friend… Sombra has him, I talked to the princess and well she let me free… There is a war about to happen and I would like for you all to go to Canterlot… where it is safer... I really need you to go to Cante---" Before Shadow was able to finish what he was saying; Rainbow Dash cut him off with a strong increase in tone.

“I DON’T believe you!” Rainbow Dash slapped Shadow as hard as she could before he could even react. This left Shadow a bit dazed but after a second he was able to regain posture.

“RAINBOW DASH!” screamed Fluttershy from inside the house in an outburst of pure fear.

Rainbow Dash was paralyzed. She did not know why she had just slapped Shadow after he had tried to explain why he had done what he did... that's what she wanted, answers. He looked really mad and unwilling to keep explaining what he had to say.

“Actually its true I need you all in Canterlot, now.” Shining appeared from behind Shadow and looked awkwardly at Twilight as Shining noticed she was mad at him.

“Sh-Sh-A-Sha-Shadow…” Rainbow Dash flushed with sadness, angriness, and embarrassment as she wouldn’t dare look up. Her emotions were all mixed as she thought about what she had just done.

Shadow did not say anything or did not look at her, he just took off into a random direction so no one would follow him.

“Shadow!” screamed all the girls in unison but he just left the group and flew off to the clouds of a nice afternoon.

Close by the Evergreen Forest, Shadow landed as he found a nice shade, he started to think about where he came from. "The Void" was a dark crystal like kingdom away from Celestia's power. It was crowded with ponies, some who had ancestors from the Crystal Empire who liked being under Sombra's rule and others who were brought in as slaves from wars or raids. Sombra's wife was from a small family who liked being under the control of Sombra. They were a poor family, had a small house in the outskirts of the city, but they lived a nice life. The dad went to work for Sombra's army and proved his commanding skills to Sombra, so he was made a captain in the army. The mom usually stayed at the house, cleaning up and cooking for when he returned. Silver (Shadow's mother) was a young mare at the time, she started to work as a secretary but had a deep crush on the ruler of the Crystal Empire. One day they met... and Sombra noticed how nervous Silver was talking to him, they started hanging out... Before they could become anything though, Celestia and Luna banned Sombra into the void.