The Story of Mr Allan in Equestria

We had arrived back at Ponyville, I didn't care what we were doing, Twilight just said we had to find the Elements. Still a useless effort to my mind. ShadowMere didn't look happy, he was constantly looking over to Rarity as she carried a large boulder on her back. I still couldn't get my mind off of what happened in the maze, my best friend hates me, and Rainbow dash abandoned me. I was expecting all of my friends to abandon me very soon so I just gave up hope and waited for the inevitable to happen. I looked up and saw ShadowMere looking at me weirdly. I didn't like this.

"What are you looking at?" I spoke coldly.

He gave me a surprised look and turned away. I didn't like ShadowMere anymore than he liked me, he was digging into my personal space before the maze, he didn't trust me even after the Gala, his mistake, because I'm a good friend to have.

We walked up to the edge of town, by the field. Twilight looked at me "Allan, you head to the Library and get a head start on finding the Elements."

"Whats the point? We've already lost."

ShadowMere walked up to me and gave me a serious look. "Even when the battle is lost, the fight may still go on! We can't give up now!"

I sighed and spread my wings. "Fine." I started flying towards the Library, not caring about the....additions....to Ponyville.

I landed at the front door, I entered and started skimming through a load of books before Spike entered the room. "Hey, your back! What are you doing?"

"Twilight told me to come here and search through the books for the Elements of Harmony, I don't see the point though."

Spike gave me a confused look "Why would the Elements be in a book?"

"I don't know I wasn't listening." I threw every book I looked through into a pile on the floor.

Spike started helping me by picking out books on different shelves. I wasn't going through the shelves fast, I didn't see the point in trying. After a short time Twilight walked through the door with the others, I immediately dropped the book I was going through and sat on the floor. I didn't do anything, I didn't listen to anything, I just sat there. After a bit longer, Twilight attached something to my neck.

"Allan, your the new Element of Loyalty, lets go." She started pushing me outside.

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A bit of time had past and Twilight had gotten everypony outside. Discord was waiting for us "Oh look, you found the Elements."

I looked over to ShadowMere, he didn't seem confident that the Elements were going to work. I turned back and Discord continued "Oh well, I accept my fate, I give in. Fire,when, ready." He made a target board appear on his chest.

Twilight's horn started glowing, I knew it wasn't going to work, this was all pointless to me, until it happened.

I suddenly an incredibly horrifying pain in my head, like a headache in a festival, I raised a hoof to my head. I looked up and saw Twilight and the other's levitating in the air. Suddenly, a stoke of pain hit my rib cage and I fell to the ground screaming in pain. The last time something like this happened was when the Void Pony arrived, and just like last time, the pain stopped and I stood up. I looked around and saw Twilight looking in disbelief, she also looked a little grey.

I saw the others leaving as well, I sighed and walked back into the Library. I took one last look back to see ShadowMere pacing. But I didn't care even the slightest at this point.

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I got back to the Library and entered my room, there was nothing I or anypony else could do to fix this, so I just sat on my bed and closed my eyes. At least I could get some rest.

"Well if you can't do it, I will!"

I tried to open my eyes to see who was talking but for some reason I didn't have any control over them. I tried moving in general but I couldn't control my body. I chose to speak instead "Who are you?"

"You'll find out soon enough." then I blacked out.

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I opened my eye's to see a large empty room. I was lying down on the floor, I tried to stand up but I felt weak. Looking around I saw nothing but darkness, "Hello?!" I called "Is anypony out there?!" I started hearing distant voices.

"So you think your so tough all of a sudden?" It sounded like ShadowMere, this confused me.

"THOSE PONIES DIED BRAVELY!" I could tell something was wrong.

"How do you know what that thing was called!? TELL ME!" He sounded angry and distressed.

"After what you just said you expect me to help you?" Something was going on, he was talking to somepony but it wasn't me.

I placed my dark orange hoof to my head while I thought. My eye's widened, I looked at my hoof again to be sure I wasn't seeing things. I looked at my mane to see if my suspicions were correct. I thought back to the image of the pony connected to my mind, Dark orange fur, Dark green mane with strands of red going through it, and predator eye's. When I checked my mane I was in disbelief, Dark green with strands of red, I could still see normally compared to the way you see thing through predator eye's. I thought of all the possible ways this could happen. I didn't have time to make a proper guess before ShadowMere started talking again.

"Your treading on dangerously thin ice here Allan." I realized at this point that I had switched bodies with the other pony connected to my mind. This meant that whoever's currently controlling my body doesn't seem too keen on making friends.

"What exactly are you looking for anyway?" I could only hear half of the conversation, I wanted to find a way to get back to my body, before he started messing things up. I built up my strength and stood up. I noticed my change in attitude, I was more determined than hopeless. I didn't think about it too much and instead spread my wing to start flying when I heard something.

A few dim lights started to come on revealing a long path to a doorway. I was about to start flying when I heard something behind me. I turned around to see a huge Void Shard, except it had four large purple material legs, and was walking towards me. My ears pinned back as I slowly backed away in fear of the crystalline creature. Three large purple shard grew on the side facing me, one of the Shard launched from the creature and hurtled towards me. I dived out the way as the Shard impaled the ground. I began to panic as the Titan drew near. The Shard grew back onto the monster, I turned to look at the exit door and realized it might be my only chance to escape. I spread my wing once again and started dashing towards the exit. The Goliath continued to launch Shards at me as they impaled the ground. I dogged left and right as the Shards destroyed the ground around me. The exit doorway drew closer and closer, the Void creature wasn't letting up. Almost every shard was inches away from impaling me into the ground. The exit was in reach and with one last push, I flew through the doorway, and then I blacked out again.

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I opened my eye's to find I was laying on grass I got onto my hooves to hear "What was that?"

I turned to see ShadowMere looking at me confused "What was what?"

"You just collapsed onto the floor after you picked up that crystal Shard."

I looked at my wing to see a Void Shard being held underneath one, I immediately dropped it and jumped back. ShadowMere continued to give a confused look "Whats wrong with you? First you lose hope, then you insult me, then you bring me out here to get this Shard, and now your acting all weird again. I, DEMAND, ANSWERS!"

"WELL I DON'T HAVE THEM!" there was a moment of silence between us. He seemed surprised at my sudden outburst. "What's with the shard?"

He looked at the Void Shard "You said something about, stopping Discord."

I looked at the Shard carefully, it didn't look any different to the others. "Did I, by any chance, say where we were going next?" I started to feel tired.

Shadow spoke in an annoyed voice "You were about to say when..." before he could finish I fell to the ground and passed out.

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I felt a familiar surface on my back. I opened my eyes to the sight of the giant 'Void Walker' raising one of it's legs and pointing the tip down at me. My eyes widened as I rolled to my right letting the leg dig into the ground. I got to my hooves as fast as I could, the Void Walker's leg was stuck in the ground. I used this opportunity to gallop away, the Walker started launching Shards at me. I didn't know where to go, it was just darkness everywhere I looked. I turned around and saw the Walker had pulled it's leg out from the ground and was now walking towards me. I considered my options, I could run away endlessly into the darkness in the hopes that it wont follow me, or I could stand and fight it. With one last gulp I had decided. I turned around and quickly flew into the air to make myself a harder target. I analysed the threat, taking it from the ground would be a suicide mission so that wasn't an option. Another option would be to charge it's central Shard, but the Void Shards it constantly fires at me makes that one near impossible. An option worth trying would be to land on the top of it and find a weak point.

I took my chances and flew above the Walker, it launched so many Void Shards at me that I had to do a barrel roll just to avoid getting hit. I had finally landed on top of the over sized crystal. I looked around, searching for a weakness, but all I saw was the crystal shell. I had a hard time standing up strait on the thing, it kept moving around. I tried walking over to the edge to see any weak points, then I noticed that the legs were made of the same material that the Void pony used to create a body. I also remembered how easy it was to make a hole in that material.

I took a deep breath and spread my wings, I aimed my point of launch through the leg closest to me, and then I launched into the leg creating a pony sized hole. I skidded around in the air and stopped to examine what I did. The Void Walker's leg quickly began to fall apart, this didn't stop it from firing more Shards at me. I didn't hesitate to dash into its other front leg right after. It fell over onto the ground, shattering half of the purple crystal. With only two legs and a broken body, it was stuck and couldn't get up. I landed next to it, I thought of what this thing could be for the Void, was it security system? A war machine? Or was it what a normal creature of the Void looked like? All these questions seemed impossible to answer.

I began to hear the voice of the pony who linked to my mind again "Well my work is done here, I got what I came for anyway."

I grew angry "Who are you?! And what exactly did you come here for?"

"All in good time, now it's time you went back to Equestria while I continue to...   ...oh wait, that's right, no spoilers."

I was about to say something when I blacked out.

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I opened my eye's to see that I was in bed again, "Was it just a dream?" If it was, it was one really realistic dream. I got up, I noticed multiple bandages along my body, including my head. I didn't want to think about it for too long, I walked out my bedroom door to see Twilight, Rainbow, and ShadowMere sitting at a table. Upon seeing me Rainbow dashed up to me and hugged me.

"YOUR OKAY!" She yelled happily. When she ended the hug Shadow and Twilight walked up to me, they looked happy to see me.

"Whats going on?" I asked.

"After you and ShadowMere helped us realize that Discord had made us the opposite of our true selves, you went into a fell unconscious." Said Twilight.

"Then when we got you to the hospital, they said you were in a comma." Said Shadow.

"Your were in that comma for about three weeks." Said Rainbow Dash.

After a good hour of being filled in on the stuff I missed, ShadowMere want to talk to me. We walked into my room.

"Ever since the Discord incident I've been wanting to ask you, when you went back to the Library something happened for you to start acting strange."

I thought I knew where he was going with the subject. "Look I don't know anything about...?"

"Then the doctor said he started to find these by your bed..." He levitated a small glowing piece of Void Shard in front of me "...they were covered in blood, and every time he found a new one there was a wound found on your body."

"Really, that's......interesting."

He levitated the Shard away "I know somethings going on around you but I don't care unless it directly effects me, my friends, or Rarity. So whatever it is, I think you should deal with it, before it becomes a problem." With that he walked away.

He knew something was going on, this was worrying me. There was all sorts of questions that needed answering:

'What did ShadowMere know about me?'

'What happened to me during the Discord event?'

'Are the creatures of the Void getting smarter?'

These questions each required an answer, so my next step would be to find them.