Who was I?

"Everything is falling into place, just as I planned. These ponies are all predictable." chucked Sombra while he looked over his chess board. "Now to take care of Luna, because once I have her, I have Celestia. But how am I going to accomplish this?" he asked himself.

"Why don't you just stop what you're doing and surrender!" spat Kage as he tried to break free from his chains.

Sombra just laughed. "You naive fool!" a chuckled. "I still can't believe I used to be you in a past life, like I would ever surrender!" he spat. "You're speaking to the future ruler of ALL of Equestria, the future controller of the sun, moon and stars, and eventually, the entire planet!"

"I refuse to believe that we were the same pony once!" Kage spat back. "You're nothing but a cold and heartless bastard!"

The shadow stallion chuckled again. "You're right, I am a bastard, literally and figuratively, and to an extent, you as well" Sombra walked over to Kage. "'Mommy? Where are you? Please! I'm scared and alone!'" he mocked. "That's what you would say to yourself every night before going to bed as a colt, how pathetic" Sombra immediately kicked Kage in the stomach.

"You're a monster!" Kage exclaimed in pain.

"An EXCEPTIONAL monster!" the shadow stallion exclaimed back. "Would a monster successfuly charm his way into Twilight's nice and tight virgin cunt?" he asked rhetorically. "Of course he would!"

"Leave Twilight out of this!"

"Too late, she's a part of the chessboard now, and she'll be my queen once all of this is done, and we will spend our days ruling Equestria together, and our nights fucking our brains out until dawn!" Sombra smirked.

Kage was getting angry. "Twilight will never agree to be your queen!"

"True, I can always take control of her like I did with Trixie, but it wouldn't be as fun and entertaining, I prefer for her to be my queen willingly. Makes it all the more sweeter."

Kage's blood was boiling with rage. "You were nothing but a mistake!"

"Mistake? You were the one that wanted a warrior, someone to end the great war against the Diamond Dogs. I just came in, wiped out the entire Diamond Dog Army by myself and then took the crown they awarded me with."

"You got out of control and greedy, and forced your way on to the throne!"

"I did, didn't I? But it doesn't matter anyways, that was a LONG long time ago." Sombra chuckled.

"I wish I could take back my decision." Kage stated with guilt.

"And watch all the Crystal Ponies be slaves under the brutal regime of the Diamond Dogs? Oh please, I treated them with dignity and respect compared to how they treated their slaves."

"That doesn't excuse what you did!" he spat at the shadow unicorn.

Sombra just kicked Kage again. "You know, I can't have you rattling around in my head forever. So how about we duel each other to see who will take ultimate control?" Suddenly, Kage's chains disappeared and a sword showed up in front of him. "Pick it up and fight me like a real stallion." Sombra ordered.

Kage did as told a picked the sword up with him magic, but then noticed the landscape change to an icy lake in a pine forest. "Reach land, you lose, fall through the ice, you lose, first pony to bleed loses. Do you accept these terms?"

Kage just nodded in agreement. "Good, let's begin." Sombra immediately charged up to Kage, wielding his sword. Kage, unprepared, immediately dodges out of the way. The ice creaked under him. "Don't move around TOO much, you'll fall in."

Sombra charged again and swung, but Kage managed to block, the clanging of metal can be heard. "Oh, the things I'm planning to do to Twilight once she becomes my queen. Do you think she'll love anal?"

"SHUT UP!" Kage angrily swung at him, but Sombra turned into shadow form, the sword going through him and hitting the ice.

"Yes, get angry it will make it so much easier to defeat you." Sombra appeared behind him and swung, but Kage rolled out the way.

Sombra just walked towards Kage, the scared stallion backing away from the monster. "Look at you, you're nothing but a weakling, you don't deserve to live, You were the one that unleashed this monster a long time ago, and now it is time for this monster to set out what it was created for; unite Equestria under my iron hoof with Twilight by my side and with everyone else bowing down to me!" Sombra laughed before plunging the sword down on the ice. The ice began to crack below them as Sombra reverted to his shadow form.

"WAIT! NO FAIR!" Kage exclaimed once he realized what as happening, he suddenly felt the ice fall out from under him as he fell to the freezing water below.

Sombra looked down from above, enjoying the sight of Kage pounding on the ice, trying to find a way out. Kage and Sombra's eyes met one last time as Kage accepted his fate and let death take him in the form of drowning. He disappeared in the depths below.

"You brought this upon yourself long ago, I am sorry" Sombra mumbled without emotion. He sat himself down in front of the chess table. "Now...what should be my next move?"

Luna immediately shot awake, screaming. "NOOO!!!!"

She looked around to see that she was in the Crystal Palace, sleeping in the guest chambers, panting. The princess finally realized something. "THE CRYSTAL HEART!" she immediately got off her bed and teleported herself to where it was being kept.

What Luna saw next shook her to the core. "No...no...it can't be!"

The Crystal Heart was pitch black and cracked everywhere. The situation grew even bleaker. She quickly turned around only to see a blue unicorn mare standing in front of her, Trixie.

"Hello Luna, long time no see?" chuckled Trixie in a sinister tone, her eyes green with black smoke coming out.

"Sombra." answered Luna. "Hiding behind a mare this time huh? How cowardly of you."

The mare chuckled. "Actually, she's just a vessel that I fooled around with once, totally expendable."

"And let me guess, you're here to kill me?" snarled the princess.

"I would LOVE too...but not right now, I want you to stay alive long enough it see my coronation as the new ruler of Equestria, then give a quick, yet agonizing death." the mare answered.

"And what of my sister?"

"Same thing, but ending with a slow yet painless death."

"I can kill you right here! Right now!" Luna snarled.

"Oh? Princess Luna killing a pony for the first time in over a millennia? This I have to see." smirked the mare who was channeling Sombra.

"Not me Sombra, someone else." Luna's eyes glowed as dark shadows engulfed her.

"Why this is new." Sombra looked on with interest.

The dark shadows receded and out came a very different Luna, wearing armor and more darker. "Nice trick Luna." praised Sombra, only to be pinned to the wall by her magic. "The name is Nightmare Moon!" snarled the new mare.

Sombra just smirked in response. "Just as I planned it to go"