Redemption: original

Sombra had officially given up on life. He was sitting at one of the many tables in Twilight's castle, but instead of sitting in his chair like a normal pony he had laid his head down onto it. Twilight had used every single translation spell in her arsenal, and nothing happened. He was still speaking a language nopony understood. Now the entire colorful gang had arrived to think of some way to figure out what was going on. This was the most frustrating.... no.... second most frustrating situation he had ever been in. He was frustrated and worse of all it was Discord's perfect crime. He was sick and tired of these crazy mares, then he realized he didn't have to keep his annoyance confined to his head. "Viejas locas!" Sombra smiled as the mares gave him confused looks.

"Si!" Pinkie shouted back to him bouncing with a big smile on her face.

Sombra was caught completely off guard. His smile vanished and he just stared at the crazy pink mare. "Que?" (What?)

Twilight was just as shocked. "Wait... Pinkie you can understand him?"

"Yup."  The sound of six collective facehoofs sounded throughout the castle.

"Well... can you ask him why he is talking like this?" Twilight looked like her sanity was hanging on by a single thread.

"sure thing Twilight." Pinkie did a cheerful trot over to Sombra and asked. "Que te paso Señor Sombrero?" (What happened to you Mr. Sombrero?)

When she finally gives birth he was going to punch her for every time she called him Sombrero. "Discord."

Pinkie turned back around. "Discord happened." she happily announced.

Another set of facehoofs echoed. "Come on, lets go find Discord." Twilight told her friends.

Finding Discord turned out to be much easier then Sombra thought possible. A pink cotton candy cloud raining chocolate milk over the Everfree is about as subtle as a fireworks display that spells out 'Here I am!' In the sky.

Twilight looked up at the pink abomination in the sky. "DISCORD! Get down here and fix Sombra."

The Draconequis in question woke up from his nap, looked over the edge, and smiled gleefully at the results of his prank. suddenly he teleported in front of Twilight with a pocket watch in his hand. "Two hours forty seven minutes. Well done, personally I was betting it would take three hours for you to figure it out."

Twilight opened her mouth to tell the mad prankster to stop being so proud and change Sombra back already, when Sombra pushed her aside, walked up to Discord and yelled "Pinche carbon!"

Discord's eyes bulged with shock and everypony looked to Pinkie who looked just as shocked by Sombra's words. "I am not translating that!" With that everypony turned back to Discord and Sombra who were glaring at each other.

Discord bounced on his hind legs and held his clawed arms in fists. "Them be fighting words, come on put up. Give me your best shot." He faked ducked and weaved and through a couple of practice punches treating this situation like a joke.

Sombra watched Discord's little performance with an unchanging expression for a few moments. The former king then brought his front hooves to his head and twisted it to pop his neck. Then He did something no one expected he stood up in his hind legs and punched Discord with his right hoof. Discord's head flew clean off his body and was imbedded in a tree, though instead of seeing an decapitated spine the place where his head used to be was covered in brown fur as though a head was never there. Sombra finished the extremely one-sided fight by quickly turning around back onto all fours and kicking Discord's body, which also flew into a tree and made a squeaking noise as if it was a dogs chew toy. All in all the "fight" lasted 2.7 seconds.

Everypony stared at Sombra completely stunned at seeing the strength the stallion possessed. Discord broke the silence. "That was a pretty good hit...." his mismatched body got up from being a crumpled heap on the ground pulled his head from the tree and placed it back where it belonged.

Twilight returned to her senses and decided to intervene and prevent round 2 from happening. "Okay. Discord you have had your fun change Sombra's voice back to normal already."

Discord rolled his eyes and grumbled. "Alright, miss bossy." he snapped his fingers and folded his arms.

Sombra looked at Discord not exactly sure if that meant everything was backed to normal or not. "Does this mean I can speak and write as I please now?" he was a little shocked to hear his voice speak like that again but at least the first part of his question was answered.

"Yeah, yeah. By sunbutt you can't take a joke can you?" Discord stuck his tongue out at Sombra at looked away like an angry foal, only to find himself face to face with a disappointed Fluttershy. "You can't seriously be taking his side on this!"The yellow pegasus folded her front hooves and glared at him. "Oh come on, it was just a harmless joke!" Fluttershy pointed towards her cottage sternly. Discord sighed and looked down at the ground defeated. "Fine..." he grumbled and flew off.

Sombra was completely stunned by what he just saw. Fluttershy had just ordered Chaos incarnate to basically go to his room without saying a word, but she couldn't prevent a bunny from taking advantage of her. He kept his questions to himself for the moment, and started walking off towards her cottage. He didn't care if Twilight or one of the others said something to him he just wanted to relax and ask a favor of Fluttershy. After a few minutes of walking Sombra happened to notice that the small yellow Pegasus was walking beside him.

Fluttershy took that acknowledgement of her existence as permission for her to speak to him. "Uhhh... Sombra... I was just wondering... Where did you learn to fight like that?...you know standing on your back hooves... If your okay with answering.... sorry..."

Sombra hated to admit it but he had a soft spot for the little Pegasus, she showed him kindness when he did not deserve it and she acted like the most loyal of slaves. She was respectful, did as she was asked and would only ask for clarification, and would then apologize for her ignorance. He decided there was no harm in letting her know and answered her. "From the Diamond Dog wars. I was a general for the Crystal Empire, I lead an army against the much larger Diamond Dog force. We had many casualties, but under my command and using that fighting style you saw back there I was able to lead my troops all the way to the Diamond Dogs capital. It was a great fortress made from a hollowed out mountain, I destroyed the city by causing a massive cave in and secured peace for my people." His memory began to flow with his words letting him remember more and more. He broke his trance and looked back to the path hoping she was content with his answer. Nothing more was said, as they walked back to the cottage.

Sombra drank the anti-dream potion Fluttershy had gotten him and made sure that the rest of the anti-dream charms were in place, before he laid back down on his couch. Fluttershy had gone to bed already and Discord had gone to Canterlot after swearing to not tell anypony about him. Now Sombra could take pride knowing that tonight he would finally get a good night's sleep.

Sombra was in a small snow covered school Yard. He was reading Starswirl the bearded's 5th book. He loved Starsswirl's boalwayshe famed mage was his idol. Magic had always been difficult for Sombra but due to Starswirl's books Sombra was finally able to use magic when he turned five. He was smarter then any of his classmates and excelled at all subjects in school. Although he had earned the respect of his teachers his fellow classmates was another story. A snow ball slammed into his face, the snow melting and sending cold shivers down his spine. He looked up to see a blue crystal colt.

"If it isn't the blank flank freak, Sombra. What are you doing here so late after school? Your father finally disown you?" The Colt mocked.

Sombra tried to remain calm, he closed his eyes, and took a deep breath. "Leave me alone Shale..." A chunck of ice slammed into Sombra's muzzle, and he felt warm blood slide down his nose. That's it, he wasn't going to take this abuse anymore. He let his rage fill him up and he struck back. With a black aura and purple smoke drifting from his eyes he gripped Shale's throat with his magic. He lifted the struggling colt into the air, Shale could do nothing to stop him. Sombra was the powerful one now, but he wasn't done yet, no, he was going to insure that Shale never bothered him ever again. He tightened his hold on Shale's throat like a snake strangling it's pray, tighter and tighter. "Crack!!!" Shale went limp, and finally stopped struggling, Sombra tossed the limp colt into a large snow drift and walked back into the school. He grabbed a peice of chalk from a nearby class room and locked himself into a supply closet. He knew exactly what he was going to do. He drew a circle and pentagram within it, he then let the anger that he felt when he choked Shale fill him up again, and with that anger he formed the spell to speak with a being in Tartarus. The circle glowed and a shadowy image appeared in the air before Sombra, it was a pair of red eyes with purple smoke trailing from them. Sombra bowed. "Hello Master Grogar, today I learned how to kill."