Inside a room hidden from the outside world, is a secret experiment taking place. There are four ponies inside, three in lab coats, and the demon Princess herself. "Status report!" shouted the goddess of the sun. In a shaky voice one of the other three said "59,843 failures your highness" In a poof a smoke he was gone as the Princess vaporized him. "Another fail mage how many is that now? Four?" asked the Princess nonchalantly. Another one of the mages spoke "Act...actually princess, that is number 56." The princess was not amused by being corrected. with another flash the second mage was gone. She turned her attention to the remaining pony and smiled "Well who would have thought that the, what did you call it scientist?" He nodded his head "Good, the scientist is the only one left." A light started to flash, and the pony moved to the beaker. With a startled happy surprise he said "PRINCESS! Number 59,844 is a success!" A wicked smile spreads across the mares face as she leaves the room.
5 years later
A young colt is strapped to a wooden table. 'Why is it like this every day' he thought as three other ponies warring masks wiped him until he fainted. When he finally awoke he found himself in his cell. The cell was four feet by four feet, with a mirror on the wall and a toilet under it. The young colt looks at the reflection to see a blood red pony looking back at him. He had wings longer then his body and a horn longer then his own head. 'I wander if that's what I look like? or is it just all the dried blood?' "Hi, they hurt you to?" asked the young colt 'he never replies, but at least he wont hurt me.' The door behind him opens and a pony enters saying "Get out, time for class."
5 years later
In a large room full of weights, punching bags, and weapons are two ponies a colt, that is bloody red and a older stallion. The stallion was black with a blue main his marking showed a sword with multiple heads impaled. He was the only other pony that the colt could ever see without a mask other then the Princess herself. His name is Sudden Death the master of war, and the colts instructor of combat.
"Good" exclaimed Death now that you are proficient with hoof to hoof combat lets see how you do against a real foe. In came a skinny stallion, he had a sword but nothing else. Death walked up to the new pony and whispered to him "Alright, by order of the Princess, you may gain your freedom if you kill the young one." The eyes on the pony shot open as he charged the colt. He drew his blade, as the colt took a fighting stance, the sword came down and the colt skillfully dodge it. The young colt quickly moved to the side as he grabbed the back leg of the stallion and pulled. This sent the stallion \to fall on his face, without giving him a chance to recover the colt twisted the leg and stomped as hard as he could. Snap! the leg was shattered as the stallion cried in agony. The colt was not done yet, he moved from one leg to another breaking each joint as the stallion begged for mercy. Finally, the colt looked to his teacher and Death said "What are you waiting for?" The colt grabbed the head of the whimpering station's head with both hoofs and placed his horn on the back of his skull. "Please no, please don't kill me!" screamed the stallion. In one motion the colts horn penetrated his head an gouged out his left eye in the process.
"Not bad, but you hesitated! That's one hour of torture for you." Death said. The colt did not say anything as he left the camber to head towards the dungeon. 'This cannot be right, I may be young but even I know this cannot be right' he thought on the way.
5 years later
The young stallion entered his magic instructors room. The room was full of slaves changed to one side, they were our test subjects. Out of the other door cam the mare that taught the art to him, she was orang from snout to tai with a lightning bolt for a mark. Her name is swift to tongue. "Alright test time!" she said haply "This is my favorite part, seeing the worthless peace of crap I was given prove they are worth something." She points over to the slaves and stated "Freeze" the young stallion lets fly a blue beam hitting the first slave turning him into an ice sculpture. "Burn" the stallion looks at the next one and flames sprout from his fur. The slave cries out for a second until he fell to the ground dead. "Shock" Bolts of lightning streak to the third, her body shakes uncontrollably until the spell stops. The body falls to the ground. "Good, now go to your cell" She says as she leaves the room.
Once back at his cell he looks at his reflection 'at least you are still here, and look at that! You are not bloody red! Well at least I can see some green in there.' he thought. The young stallion now looked lean, but muscular his wings are easily larger then any of the pegasie. His horn was even longer then the princesses. 'Why do I look like this? Why do I have both wings and a horn like the princess and yet I don't agree with anything she does?'
2 years later
Six new mares have come to the castle after they defeated Moonshine. Moonshine is the younger sister of Sunburn, equal to her in all areas but Moon is kind and that was why she used a spell to take shelter on the moon for a thousand years. When she came back, these six stood against her and used the aspects of hatred to change her into Blood Moon. The six are sun's "special friends" and they enjoy one another's company everyday. Each and every time the young stallion is forced to watch their perverted display. Steadfast the stallion keeps thinking 'I refuse to be taken in by this! I will never join them. I will be the one to kill them for what they have done. first ill need to get allies, lets see there is Moonshine if I can turn her back, there is Balance the spirit of harmony once again I need to know how to break him free of the stone spell, there are the changelings and also King Ronba, of the crystal empire, to bad he is only a shadow right now.' "Princess, who is that stallion and more impotently why is he not joining us?" asked one of the aspects. Sun looked up to see the stallion standing like a rock "Right I never gave him a name have I?" she asked. The stallion snapped out of his thought and answered "No milady, this one haves not a name." She looks around for a second and states from this day forth your name is Hanted Shadow" No one corrected her about the word Hanted since they would be killed.
one year later
Hoof steps could be herd as Hanted ran through the early morning streets, the aspects in close pursuit. He turns onto a different road as he kept sprinting as bolts of magic flew past him. One of the guards hit him making his horn glow 'Shit, they countered my magic, Ill have to try and out fly them.' He stretch's out his wings to their full extent (7feet, which is ridiculous considering most ponies are only four feet tall) and with one great sweep of his wings he took off only to be hit again. This time his wings clamped close to his body, as he fell back to the ground. he curled up into a ball a as he hit the ground so he would not lose to much momentum. He rolled to his hoofs and took off once again 'At least I have a larger lead on them now.' He thought haply. He turned down another road then into the alleyway and hid behind a trash can.
In Ponyville
In a house in the form of a tree a lavender pony passed back and forth. 'The princess will want another friendship letter' she thought 'and none of the ponies I know need help with anything. what should I do?' After a few minutes of thinking an idea came to her "I know! Ill just summon a pony that needs help!" She exclaimed happily. She grabbed two spell sheets and red them: the first was How to summon a pony, and the other was How to increase a spells range. As she started to write on a peace of parchment the thought 'Alright if I combined the two I can make a new spell!' As soon as she finished the merging of the two she cast the spell.
To the pony that needs me most.
No matter the coast.
I send you a bridge to me
So that you may see.
Help is always here.
So you need not fear.
She looked around expectantly, not seeing any pony standing if front of her she thought 'The spell must have worked, I feel drained. It must have sent the pony some ware nearby. The poor pony is probable scared out of their mind.' With that she took off to find the stranger.
In a alleyway in the capital city
Hanted once again was running after he was found by a guard. 'At least I had a small rest the magic canceler is no longer in effect. as he neared the end of the alley a violet portal formed right in front of him 'Shit I'm going thought it.' Hanted was encased in this spell 'Well this must be the work of the magic aspect. Were am I going to be sent the dungeons, coliseum, or the aspect of screams "fun room"? Just then he could hear
We raised this barn, we raised this barn
Yes, we did
Together we sure raised this barn
Yes, we did
Being together counts the most
We all came here from coast to coast
All we need to strive to be
Is part of the Apple family
He soon found himself falling from the sky, back first, at an insane speed. He looked over his shoulder and saw a large red building coming at him fast. He braced for impact as he shot thought it, brining the structure down as he exited the other side. As he hit the ground a small creator formed. 'Shit that hurt, I think my wings are busted. If that's the only thing ill be lucky. What was with that strange way of talking I heard?' He looked up to see many earth ponies standing around him, all of them had ether a look of anger or another the stallion did not recognize. "Hay their partner" said one of them "you alright?" Hanted looked to see the one that spoke, and to his horror it was Apple Rot the aspect of lies. Thinking quickly he sent a blinding flash from his horn making the surrounding ponies go blind for two minuets. More then enough time for him to escape.
