Loki - Rebirth of Deception

„I wonder what does Pinkie need from me.“  Said Loki to himself, when he was walking through empty Ponyville. Soon he arrived to Sugar Cube Corner, so his horn glowed with green magic, opened doors and was welcomed by Pinkie Pie.

„Hi Loki! I am so happy, that you´ve come here.“

„No problem. What do you need?“

„I want to make cupcakes! Will you help me?“

„Sure thing.“

„Ouky douky loki. Before we start, don´t you want a sample? I have one left.“

„Yea, sure.“

Pinkie gave him cupcake and grey pony ate it.

„It tastes de-“ didn´t even finish and lost consciousness. When he woke up, he was tied to a table.

“What the heck?”

“Oh, you are awake.” Said Pinkie standing next to him and Loki´s eyes widened when he saw, what is she wearing. Suit make of cutiemarks, several wings and necklace made of unicorn´s horns.

“What is this?”

“Oh, my suit? You like it?”

“As much as I´d like grim reaper on my wedding. What do you want?”

“Don´t be silly! I am gonna to kill you.” Pinkie answered with wide smile.

“And you think, that I will let you?”

Pink pony stabbed him in the leg with knife.

“Aaargh! Why are you doing this?”

“Don´t be impudent. This is just how things has to be, I don´t control it.”

“Well, you are the one, who is going to pay.” His horn shined, Loki teleported behind Pinkie Pie, but when he prepared to hit her, his left front leg started to itch. Enough that he had to stop and scratch it. Unfortunately the feeling was getting stronger so it eventualy turned into a pain, like when a bee stings.

“What is happening?” said unknown voice, but grey pony didn´t hear him.

Loki´s vision starter to blure, but the pain wasn´t going away.

“Damn trickster! What did he do?” spoke the voice again, now closer and Loki´s vision returned to normal.

“What, who are…” that was the last thing, what the voice said, before everything dissapeared and Loki woke up in his bed, with piece of cloth soaked with some kind of liquid, bandaged on his left front leg.

“So our trap worked.” Said Loki when he saw his other self holding with magic, unknown mare´s neck.

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Few hours later, in cave, deep in Evefree Forest.

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In large cave were three ponies. Two Lokis and dark blue mare with dark purple mane. Unicorn. She had neck, and all legs chained to the stone wall and on her horn was ring with green gem.

“That ring will block your magic, so you wouldn´t run away in the middle of chat.” Said earth pony Loki, when she woke up, after hit in the head, what she took back in Ponyville from Loki.

“You bastards. How did you do it? You shouldn´t be able to wake up in the middle of my nightmare.”

“Ts. I just put on my leg a pice of cloth soaked with weak acid. It needs some time to start being anoying, during that time I fell asleep. We predicted that pain will wake me up and also that you need to be close to me, in order for spell to work, so when the acid started to wake me up, you were forced to come even closer in order for nightmare to continue and that´s how you were caught by my friend here.”

“Damn. Beginner´s mistake.”

“That sure was. But I am here to ask questions. Who are you working for?”

“You think that I will just tell you?”

Loki turned around and stared on the wall.

“There is something I promised you. In that Rainbow Factory nightmare. I said that when I will find you, you will be praying to be on Rainbow Dash´s place.”

He looked back at her and happily saw tension on her face.

“I guess that you remember. So let me ask again. Who are your superiors?”

“Screw you.”

“I understand.” Loki with black and green mane walked away from mysteriosu mare to a small campfire that was in the corner of cave and pulled something from it. Every pony could see that it was red-hot fireplace poker.

“I hope, that it will not be too much for you.” Said to another Loki.

He smiled: “The end justifies the means.”

“What does it mean?”

“It doesn´t matter how much evil you will cause, as far as the good, what will come out at the end, will be greater, then caused evil.”

“Wise words. Will you my girl be also so wise?”

Prisoner didn´t say anything, so Loki scrossed her chest with the tip of poker. Mare screamed and tried to get away from painful fire.

“Please stop!”

Loki put the poker away.

“Maybe I was little bit harsh. What is your name?”

“Nighttime.” She answered with tears.

“So, Nighttime. I decided to be little more slow. What is the purpouse of those nightmares?”

Silent, except her cries and painful gasping.

“There are sensitive places, not just your chest.” He pushed still red-hot poker on the base of her leg and slowly pushed the tip deeper.

Scream once again pierced his ears,but he burned her leg few seconds longer.

“Again. What do you want from me?”

“I will not tell you anything you devil!”

“Devil? I am more like judge or protector. You are danger to my friends and in order to protect them, I will cause as much pain as necessary.”

“Protect your friends, or protect Applejack?”

“All of them.”

“Even Rainbow Dash, that you unmercifully skinned alive? It seems, that you are just hiding behind protecting your friends, but at the end, the only one who you care about is your beloved one.”

Loki silently stared into darkness of cave (in the part, where they were, there was light created by black haired Loki).

Grey unicorn walked to Nighttime.

“You could live, but not after this.” Whispered to her with smile.

She didn´t seem to understand.

“There is darkness in him. It already controled him once. It´s not easy to prevent the balance between darkness and light, to crumble.”

In mare´s eyes appeared fear.

“You know, darkness isn´t always evil. The pain, what you will feel, will be for greater good.”

“Are you two done with your chit-chat?” asked grey earth pony with cold voice. All kindness what was in it dissapeared, also he was holding sharply looking knife in hoof.

“When you two were talking I decided, on what questions I want to know the answer. So, what do you want? Who are your superiors? Where do I find them? And what is that chest with mirrors on it?”

Nighttime just spit in his direction. Loki cutted skin on her flanks and made a circle around one of her cutiemarks, which was ghost hiding under a bed.

“Aaaaaah!!! What are you doing?”

Then he pushed the blader under the skin and ripped it off. Blood immediately covered the wound and stained Loki´s leg. Same thing he did with her other cutiemark.

“No please! Stop it! I will talk!”

“Too late.”

Then Loki took a dose with white scrystals from his saddle bag, what was lying the cave.

“Soil.” Said and covered both wounds with it.

Scream what came out of Nighttime was the most terrible so far. Pain was so great that she lost control over her body and under her appeared a pool of urine mixed with blood.

As if it wasn´t enough, Loki sliced her flank a little and forced soil inside too.

Mare screamed long time, until all she could was coughing.

“So?”

“The…chest is…way of my superiors….to allow you….control the Shard. They want…you to…take down Celestia…and Luna. Then…they´ll use…the chest…to turn you back into…unicorn.”

She spoke so quitly, that other ponies had trouble to hear her.

“Continue.”

“Their names are…Sunset Shimmer…Queen Chrysalis…and…some other pony…I really don´t know…his name. They are in…Starswirl´s castle…in Everdark….forest.”

“Thank you.” Loki looked at her tired face. “If I didn´t love Applejack, I might have some interest in you.” Whispered into her ear and laughed.

“Please…let me…live.”

Black hairder Loki, who was until now just quietly standing nearby pulled from saddle bag a glass with trapped parasprite inside. He carefuly took it out and walked to Nighttime.

“Sorry little girl.” Said and pushed the insect into her throat.

Then he teleported himself and other Loki back into library, so they didn´t had watch it.

“Do you know what is that Starswirls´s castle?”

“Yes I do. Once I found there a silver dagger. I remember that it had carved snakes on it. Unfortunately I forgot it in the Changliville. But I am afraid, that I don´t know how to get there.”

“From what you told me about this world, there should be answer in library of the Crystal Empire.”