We stand together

Writer's note: Let's have a change of perspective shall we?

Dark Spectre looked out over Bloodstone falls. The Cultists of Nightmare looked miserable. He knew that they hated working with the Black Dragons. He didn’t like it either, but it wasn’t his choice. He felt his body jerk away from the outcrop.

‘On the move again are we, my queen?’ he asked himself, bitterly.

‘Shut up you!’ came a voice in his head, ‘Nopony must know!’.

He smirked, pleased with himself for this act of defiance. ‘I still don’t see why you can’t just do this yourself, being an almighty and powerful goddess like yourself...’

‘Didn’t I tell you to shut up!?’

‘Implying I’m going to let you control my brain too? Not likely ma’am’.

He knew this was risky, but hey, he despised the pony he was talking to. The pony he had once looked up to and worshipped. The pony which had taken over his body.

‘Dark Spectre... I have no idea whose idea it was to put a coward like you in charge of my cult’

‘Oh I don’t know, maybe it was father Nagarváx? You know, seeing as he loved you so much?’

‘Shut up Dark Spectre, or I’ll give you another pain rack’

‘How kind-’ he began, but stopped as a surge of pain ripped through his body, as if it was trying to tear itself apart.

‘Yeah, I can hear you thinking too boy! Don’t even try to call me that’

‘I could just tell them you know? Tell the cultists that their leader is being... mistreated, by none other than Nightmare Moon herself! Ha! What a story that’d be!’

‘Dark Spectre! Shut your sly little trap and let me move you more easily!’

He relaxed and felt his body begin to walk normally, propelled by some unseen force.

‘Still having trouble with Bowdler?’ he asked smugly, knowing full well that this pony had beaten his queen senseless. An unbearable pain shot through him, but he’d got used to it and did little more than flinch.

‘Shut up you insufferable oaf!’

He reached the great hall behind the falls and felt himself open the door. Inside was Bek’kiliip. He sighed, this was a dragon who he had known personally. It was sad to see him in such a way. He was bound in purple chains which sparked with arcane lightning. His pupils had vanished, leaving only the whites of his eyes. Deep gashes covered his body and a dark blue haze poured from his mouth and nose.

‘Beautiful, isn’t it?’ said the voice in his head, ‘I even amaze myself sometimes. Look, I can make him scratch his back!’

Just as the voice said this, the mighty dragon scratched it’s back, screaming in pain as his sharp claws ran over the various wounds there.

‘You’re a monster Nightmare... Now I see why the Celestian ponies hate you so much’. Pain shot through him again.

‘Don’t call me that! I am NIGHTMARE MOON!’. Bek’kiliip stared at him angrily, but in the whites of his eyes all Dark Spectre could see was sadness.

‘Don’t worry Bek’kiliip, we’ll come out of this all OK, alright?’

‘Shut up Dark Spectre!’

‘What’s the agenda for the day then, my queen?’

‘Nothing much more than usual, make an inspiring speech, worship me, stare at this sorry heap of a dragon’ his head cracked to look at Bek’kiliip again, ‘you know? To remind you of what I could have done to you?’

A pain went through his leg, but not a big one, more of a playful tickle. He dismissed this thought. Obviously he’d just got used to the pain. He jerked around and trotted awkwardly back up to his outcrop.

‘Oh, it’s not that bad,’  he thought to himself, ‘It’s only code A-46, just think what’d have happened if she’d done you in with code X-973 like Bek’kiliip back there! She’s a good and merciful queen!’

‘That’s the spirit Dark Spectre! I knew you’d come round to my way of thinking!’

‘Ugh, I forgot she could hear my thoughts...’

‘Come along now, address our minions!’. He looked out over the side of the outcrop and saw the faces of the cult of nightmare, stained with blood, dirt and tears. He sighed. ‘How could this day get any worse?’

Writer's note: I've just realised how similar to GLaDoS NMM sounds in this chapter, bear in mind this was unintentional and I am in no way breaking any copyright laws, amirite companies that can't count to three?