Project Ultimate Life

Shadow walked the streets of Canterlot, now clear of corrupted. Rainbow Dash, The Guards, and himself had all worked extremely hard to clear all of the pests from the city, and were rewarded with this moment of peace.

"Who am I?" Shadow asked himself. He had been doing this for quite some time now, and more questions had come with the new "memories". "What Am I?" Shadow asked quietly. He kept walking trying to decipher the memories that now floated around his mind.

Suddenly his vision wavered, and he stumbled. Fatigue hitting him like the front of a train.

"I guess a little rest couldn't hurt." He said. He found a open area that might have been a park at one point. A lone leafless tree stood in the center of the park. Shadow trotted over to the tree and curled up near its trunk. He slowly closed his eyes, and soon was sleeping peacfully.

But the cure's dreams were anything but peaceful.

He assumed he was in the palace, judging from the architecture and the immense size of the room. Pillars, that at an earlier point in time might have been sturdy, now lay crumbling as piles of rubble. Shattered windows let light seep into the otherwise dark room.

"How-"

"Silence" a voice said from the darkness. Shadow turned to see the princess of the sun striding towards him. A fire as fierce as the sun danced in her eyes.

"Princess, why am I here?" Shadow asked. he was utterly confused by the whole scene, having no idea what was going on.

"I. Said. SILENCE!" Celestia roared, "Shadow you betrayed us, i should have never allowed you to come into being. Just the end of a failed science project, that's what you are." The princess snarled.

"T-the end of a failed project? traitor?" the words swirled in Shadow's mind. In his already confused state Shadow was easily angered by this. He bared his teach, and the red glow started up around him once more.

"Your wrong princess. I am so much more than the result of an experiment," The words were coming from his mouth but they didn't feel right, like they belonged to someone else, "I. Am. The Ultimate Life-Form and I swear; Celestia, You're going straight to hell!"

With that Shadow unleashed his full power on the princess. Bolts of energy, lightning, and bombs of unstable power exploded and cracked all around her.

The princess screamed.

"SISTER!" Shadow whirled around to see another figure. This one had a darker coat, and had a smaller frame than the sun princess, but she had the same flowing mane, and she radiated power. The figure charged at the cure, but she never reached him. Because Shadow had woken up.

The black and red unicorn shot to his hooves. Checking his surroundings; he was still in the park under the bare tree.

"What was that all about?" Shadow thought. He rubbed his head, and felt that it might split open if he did anymore questioning.

A loud thump caught his attention, and the cure turned to inspect. What he saw surprised him, if anything it at least scared him.

Standing a yard or two from Shadow's position was the dark-coated pony from his dream.

"Who are you?" Shadow asked. Anger was evident in his tone, but he was on edge because of the sudden arrival.

The pony glared at Shadow. Her own anger was as evident as his. She turned, and tightened her gaze, her eyse becoming angry slits.

"Thou should know; that we are not sure of our sister's choice to let thou live. We still do not trust thee, even after thy acts of bravery against the corrupted. Know this, creature, We will be watching thou's actions very closely," the princess hissed, "And also know that thou speakest to the princess of the night. We have observed thou's dreams. We are NOT pleased." the princess said.

"look, I don't care what you see in my dreams. I only care about destroying those damn corrupted, and anyone who stands in my way is an enemy," Shadow hissed back, "Also know that you're speaking to the ultimate life form. I wouldn't try to make me angry if I were you princess." Shadow turned to leave, but was stopped by the princess.

"Thou art powerful and confused, but we still think thou art hiding something. Tell us w-"

"I have no time for this, outta my way!" Shadow said. To his surprise the princess lit her horn and disappeared, but her voice lingered.

"know whom you deal with creature, it will lead to your end if you don't"