Redemption: original

Chapter 12

Sombra closed his eyes tightly focusing on the exhausting activity at hoof. Sweat trickled off of him, soaking his dark grey coat.

"Sombra, push harder, you are so close!" Twilight called out to him.

"What do you think I'm doing?! I'm going as hard and as fast as I can!" he replied back.

"Well push harder, just a little more." Twilight nearly pleaded. Sombra grunted loudly and put everything he had into his task. Twilight nearly shouted at him in response. "Yes. Yes! YES! YES!... You did it Sombra! "

Sombra opened his eyes, he was sitting across a small wooden table from Twilight who was smiling with joy. floating an inch above the table was one of her purple feathers being held up by Sombra's maroon magic. Sombra stared at the feather in amazement for a few minutes before he bursted into laughter. As insignificant as this accomplishment would seem to most, it meant everything to him. He could still use magic, though very difficult and when the inhibitor ring was removed. Speaking of which, he heard the gentle click of the ring being locked back onto his horn by Twilight, he didn't care though, he was far too tired to care. He felt the darkness fall upon him and he fell into unconsciousness.

Twilight watched helplessly as Sombra slammed into the table and broke it in half. Twilight rushed over to him to make sure the unconscious Stallion was okay. "...I may have pushed you a little too far..." She said mainly to herself. She sighed and brushed the larger chunks of wood off of him and tried to decide what was the best option for getting him to his bed. She tried to lift him with her hooves but it was to the same effect of trying to lift a house. She lifted him with her magic yet just holding him in the air was taxing and she knew she couldn't take him all the way to his room. She braced herself and with her magic placed him on her back. "By Celestia! Of all the villains I've faced why do you have to be a big bulking warlord stallion? Why couldn't you have been a much lighter mare, like Chrysalis?" Twilight grunted, her legs nearly buckling. She started walking towards Sombra's room, getting steadier as she walked. "...I guess I should be glad you aren't as big as Snowflake." After some time and many breaks Twilight finally carried Sombra to his bed. Too tired to lift him off her back with her magic She walked to the side of his bed and rolled onto it, causing him to flop of her back.  She took a moment to catch her breath laying beside the unconscious. "Next time I'm bringing a guard so he can do this for me. After all they actually workout for things like this." She said to herself making a mental note. She started to get up to head to her own room when something wrapped around her chest and pulled her back into Sombra's bed. She had one guess as to what that something was. "Ah! Sombra let go of me this isn't funny!" Twilight turned her head to look at him and from the corner of her eye she could see that he was still asleep. He must of wrapped his hooves around her due to a reflex in his sleep. She tried to wriggle out of his grasp, but the more she struggled the tighter he held onto her. She eventually gave up and just laid in his arms to tired to break out of his grasp. The irony of the situation did not escape her. Sombra was one of the most feared and hated of all of the villains she had faced and now she was being held by him like she was a stuffed animal for a foal. She tried to relax and get some sleep so she could get back at him in the morning, when she felt him nuzzle her neck like he would a lover. Her normally violet face turned bright red with embarrassment. She had never had anything like this done to her before and Sombra was the last pony she would ever have expected to do it. She wanted to get out of this whole situation, but at the same time it felt kind of good. Suddenly he turned onto his back making her lay on his surprisingly comfortable chest. Okay, it felt really good. She looked up at Sombra sleeping peacefully, but somehow seeming ever vigilant and for some reason she felt safe. As Twilight drifted off to sleep she couldn't shake a feeling something was off about Sombra, his chest was silent.