He ran, the young man had no idea where he is nor what to make heads or tails out of this place, but he kept running. He had no memory of how he got here, but he needed to get out as soon as possible.

The sound of his footsteps and his panting being the only things he can listen right now as it echoed with every step, everything else was deathly silent. He was the only living thing in this place of madness and indescribable chaos.

He stopped as he was running out of breath, he had no idea how long he was running. It could have been minutes or hours, but there was no sure way for him to know.

Looking around he had found what seemed to be a door with an exit sign above it, he wanted to believe that he had found a way out, but a part of him remained skeptical. Nevertheless, this time he walked instead of running to the door, turning the handle to open it and finally getting out of this place.

Or so he believed.

He could make what was outside this time, but it wasn’t how he had expected it. The sky had turned dark gray, the city that he had appeared into looked like it was it was built by rich persons, lots of their buildings are flying and remaining in the middle of the air.

He appeared to be in a piece of those buildings, but there was something else. A large shadow, just like the buildings, remained in mid air. It was too far away, he couldn’t make the details of the shadow, but it gives off an aura of despair and dread.

It made him feel uneasy, but in the corner of his eye he spotted a purple blob. Focusing his gaze over where it is, the man saw something else. It looked like a purple pony, with a horn and a star tattoo on both sides of her flanks.

His eyes grew wide as he remembered now, it was Starbutt, as he’d like to call her. But she seems different, her eyes are sharp and she has wings too like Sunbutt does.

She squatted and jumped flapping her wings, flying at a huge speed towards the shadow looming over the city. Suddenly one of the buildings moved and flew to her direction, she was unable to stop in time as it collided with her and crashed into another building.

“Owch! That’ll hurt like a bitch tomorrow.” He said out loud visibly cringing at that attack.

She flew out of that collision seemingly okay, but not soon after the shadow shot multiple dark purple blast at her which she blocked in time with a barrier and dodged the next few as she kept moving towards the unknown figure.

“Things aren’t looking good.”

“It can’t be helped,” A voice spoke at his side that has startled him “She cannot handle this alone, but she still accepted this task my sister gave her.”

Looking at his side was the little sister, Moonbutt. She didn’t even looked at him, her eyes remaining on the battle unfolding before them. The purple alicorn was closing in on the figure until it shot a point blank blast that had threw her to the ground, her cuts and injuries noticeable, especially on the trail of blood that is coming from her forehead.

“Looks like she’s in deep shit.” He commented as he saw her tilting her head up and rose her head high to scream something he was unable to hear from this distance.

“If she gives up now, Equestria is doomed.” Luna spoke again as she turned to him with hopeful eyes “But maybe you can do something young Matt.”

“Wait, me?!” Matt’s eyes grew wide as he took a step back “What can a piece of shit like me do any good in here?!”

“If I borrow you my power, you can change this. You can help Twilight where she most needs it, I know you can do it.”

Matt kept quiet as he saw the purple alicorn being thrown off and plummeting to the streets, managing to flap her wings in time to give her a soft landing. She remained to catch her breath as the blood kept dripping down.

He thought about this for a moment, on one hand he can finally do something good. He would be recognized as a hero, loved my thousands, legends to be told about this victory against this enigmatic titan, all the glory would be his only with the victory of this battle.

But on the other hand…

“So, can I really make a difference here?” Matt asked looking at Luna again.

“Of course you can, just take my power and become the mystical Lunar Warrior.” Luna extended a hoof towards him as she finished. However, he could have sworn that her eyes became silts like a reptile and her colors became cyan.

Instead of taking her hoof, Matt felt some deep anger awaken. He rolled his hand into a fist, arched it back and moved it towards Luna’s face as hard as he could. Once he felt his fist collide with her face, the scene around them cracked and broke into pieces as did the smaller alicorn.

Matt felt nothing at his feet anymore as he plunged into the dark abyss below, his consciousness slipping away from him once again.

The next thing he knew he woke up face first into grass, his body still feeling injured. Remembering the dark smoke that lunged at him and disappeared into his skin, figuring that maybe that was the reason why he was in pain.

“That… little…” He muttered as he attempted to get himself up.

However, his arms won’t stop shaking as he slowly rose to stand up with way more difficulty than usual. He leaned against a nearby tree once he had set a knee on the ground, groaning while his entire body screamed at him, nearly falling to the tree.

‘You’re stubborn, I’ll give you that.’ The voice that he was searching for spoke from his mind.

“Y-You…” Matt barely got up on his feet, limping towards a little light that he can see just ahead of him “What did you… do to me?”

‘I thought I could use you as a host and take my revenge, but it seems that either I’m not strong enough to take complete control over your fragile mind or something else.’

“So you fucking tricked me? Fucking figures…” He suppressed a groan as he continued limping, supporting himself against the trees besides him.

‘It may seem so at first, but and I aren’t so different Matt.’

“Let me guess, you read my mind or something did you?”

‘Yes, yes I did.’

“Whatever… j-just leave me be…”

‘That won’t be possible, now that I have fused with your body we cannot be separated unless you’re struck with the Elements of Harmony.’

“The same ones… that stoned Discord?” His breath picked up speed, his heart pounding on his chest and ears. The light ahead grew orange colored signifying that dusk was setting in and was also able to make out some outlines from the light.

‘You can be funny when you wish to,’ The voice chuckled ‘And yes, the elements found new bearers to protect Celestia’s throne.’

“Listen here… I hate this world and the ones living on it, so we’re not the same and I’m not gonna help you overthrow her or some shit like that. End of story.”

Soon enough he finally got out into the light and nearly collapsed again when he didn’t find anything else to lean against, standing still as his knees haven’t stopped shaking. The sun has almost completely set in and continued to limp back to the only place he knew near here, Ponyville.

Despite his mental protests he didn’t see much of another choice but to go back and hopefully get to rest to see if he can recover after a dark spirit of some sorts had made herself home inside of him, something is wrong with the way he thought of it.

‘Very well, but what shall you do now? Ask the element bearers to separate us?’

“That’s… a start…” He replied despite that he is feeling more tired as he went on.

‘That would be a good idea, if you knew who they were, which I do.’

Matt stopped and fell to his knees once again, a gust of wind brushed above him and heard something crash behind him. Taking a moment to catch his breath he was able to mutter a reply.

“Just who… the fuck… are you?”

‘You know who Discord is, yet you don’t know who am I? Ignorant boy.’

Once he rested a few moment he turned around to find some ponies behind him, one of them being an orange colored one with blonde hair and a stetson hat, the other is a cyan colored pegasus with a technicolor hair and tail.

The two of them turned to Matt, giving him an angry glare as they approached him and tried to crawl away from them. Suppressing more groans and trying to ignore the aching sensations again.

‘I am the mare in the moon, the mare of darkness born from Princess Luna and the one true ruler of Equestria, Nightmare Moon.’

With the ponies charging at him and the revelation that he was just told, there was only one word that could perfectly describe his thoughts of the current situation.

“Fuck…”

Author's Note

Yes I know, it's easy to guess what I'm referencing at the beggining, but maybe it'll come into play in the future.

Sorry for taking so long, it isn't too easy for me, but I try. Hopefully I won't take too long next time.