by techno grid

During sombras reformation, something new happened, an alternate universe of his reformation appeared. this is the story of the alternate sombra and his push back to freedom

At once, I Sombra realized what had led me here,

It was to powerful to resist, but i had to wait until the time was right. I honestly didn't want to do this, but it felt like I was being forced to by my bond with the magic. That vase held the darkness that once was within me before the events of the crystal heart, and it was calling to me... it was like a dog to gems, I couldn't resist... I wanted it.

As soon as Celestia turned to take a look at something, I used my normal magic to tip the vase, and her reaction was perfect. The shatter, the gasp, the darkness, the fear and hatred. I knew it was wrong but I still did it.

The absorption of the dark magic was quick and painless as I was ready for it. I could see her magic build up in a multicolored light, beautiful, but I was ready to counter her as she blasted her bolt of energy at me. I dodged to the left and fired a returning bolt of dark magic, hitting her square in the right flank causing her to grunt in pain. As expected, and almost on cue, guards came through the door, only to be knocked into unconsciousness and sprawling onto the floor.

"You will not succeed Sombra!" shouted Celestia, who fired three consecutive bolts of energy at me, only one succeeding to graze my right shoulder causing me to grimace slightly. But, only for a second, as my healing kicked in and I responded with producing a copy of myself, and proceeded to flank Celestia, both of me firing at random times. Celestia, myself, and I kept this up until both Luna and Twilight galloped in.

"We heard the commotion, what happ-" they looked at the two of me of me "-Sombras?! what is this madness?" they exclaimed almost in unison.

"Madness? THIS. IS. DARKNESS!!!" I shot the charged up bolt of dark energy I was saving at Twilight. She tried to doge, but I hit her in the side, causing her to fly into the wall. "Feel the true power of dark magic twilight, let it show you the way." Me, myself, and Twilight's eyes erupted into purple flame. "Yes, can you feel it Twilight? Just let the darkne-" I was hit on the side by both Luna's and Celestia's blasts, causing the other me to disappear and sent me flying through a window, crashing onto a fountain in the party below. At first, the pony's didn't say anything, then they cheered for my "amazing performance", that is, until Celestia and Luna burst through the castle doors with an unconscious twilight on luna's back. The ponies then started realizing the truth, and started screaming and running in fear. I felt my power grow to more then full capacity. I had all that I needed to defeat the two Princesses and take over Equestria.

But I stopped, I knew this was wrong. I saw the look on my,new friend's faces, and knew I had to fight the darkness. But, It wouldn't let me and I lost control of my mind. But, was able to utter one word-"help,"-before my body was under control by the dark magic.

I started firing bolt after bolt, launching crystal after crystal at the sisters, only to have them all destroyed by four different magic bolts: two shades of blue, light purple and one of gold. two of the bolts were from the sisters, but the others, were from princess Candace and Prince Blueblood, who had just arrived from inside the castle, both with faces of surprise as they saw me.

"How dare you harm the princesses!" shouted Blueblood.

"My sisters will destroy you Sombra!!"

"Sombra isn't here right now, please leave a message after your destruction!" I couldn't believe what the dark magic made me say. The dark magic forced me to copy myself ten times, and progressed in attacking, only to be hit by five Pegasi with smoking lighting streaked tails, the Wonderbolts, or known as the E.U.P. way back when.

Five of me were gone, only small amounts of smoke that were now circling me were left. I, no not me, the darkness yelled in rage, all five of me charging at them, launching bolts and shooting crystals from the ground to block theirs.

They soon fell to the ground in agony, only two of me left. the darkness forced it away and said to them in a tone that was not mine, "Any last words, princesses?" "Hey!" Blueblood complained. 'I' turned to him and shot a spell of silencing upon him, bringing a small amount of pleasure seeing him cry out in absurdity only for it to turn into horror.

"Well my dears? Do you have any last words?'

"Y-Yes," Celestia weakly said and shot a bolt into the ground, bringing a red crystal to the surface. "You will fall Sombra!" The darkness controlling me started to disappear as I tried to gain control. The red crystal was a tie to control the dark magic, and I had to subdue it. I was almost there, struggling, when I saw a rainbow of color and a powerful magic, along three beams of Alicorn magic come straight at me. I only had the chance to shout "wait! help m-" before I was hit and knocked into oblivion, which faded into a void darkness.

I awoke, cold, in pain, trapped in a frozen cage of ice and my regret, and guilt... I could feel the dark magic trying to escape my mind, get out and take its revenge or even grow in power, but I forced a red crystal out of the ground, causing the darkness within to cringe, and, in the process of doing so, caused me to go faint and black out.

I awoke once again with three, wait, four? four alicorns? As I struggled to get up, I looked upon them, to see who this adition was. Celestia, Luna, Candance, and, Twilight Sparkle, which was an interesting pick, as she had the potential, but I didn't realize she was that ready to be given a magic that powerful. Of course, it could have been for political gain by Celestia... she was always quite the political powerhouse. Finally, after a few moments of silence, Celestia spoke, saying "Sombra, we know that you are still in there, and we know that the darkness was controlling you. We have given you the ability to live for thousands years, but only to be able to control the magic that you have. I know of a legend of one who can help. But, this legend seems to be a fake, only to strike hope to those who have made a bond with dark magic like you. Luna will visit you in your dreams from time to time, as long as you work to control the dark magic or break the bond. We will be keeping you here in the southern tip of Equis, so no one will look for you, or manage to find you, until you complete your task."

Luna started speaking "I wish there was another way Sombra, and yes, we know we have the option and ability to destroy you, but, as you once said, 'everything deserves a chance to live', and so, we have given you another chance. Do not fail us Sombra."

With that said, along with a small discussion on the good that was done and the potential to do better, they left. As they left, walking through the barrier that was now noticeable, I started to wonder, how could I break the bond with this, curse of sorts, or harness it to its full potental for good? I pondered this as I walked around the hundred foot long dome, but only to stop when I heard something outside the barrier. As I put my head to the dome to listen, I could hear somepony talking, it seemed like this pony was conjuring a spell, only, I realized to late that I should have ran away from that part of the dome as it was blasted open, throwing me a good distance away. With slightly blurry vision that didn't seem to be getting better, I saw a large black alicorn, a mane of dull emerald and a navy blue, along with eyes of an interesting color, or rather, two. A ruby red, and white like that of the sun. He stared at me as my vision faded, and as it went completely dark, I felt the spell of telekinesis upon me, only to fade away as I was swept into the eternal darkness of my unconscious.

Author's Note

I am only a beginner at fan fic writing, so any criticizing or suggestions would be helpful. Also, I would like to thank Note-Sketch for inspiring this story. couldn't have done it without the creation of Shadow's Enigma. I hope you enjoyed the prolouge

P.S: I have begun editing, revising, and rewriting parts of this fic.