3rd person

Twilight’s ears drooped as tears flowed from her eyes. “And…w-what would that be?”

Blaze pulled her closer to whisper in her ear. After he had finished whispering into her ear she had wide eyes, before closing them lowering her head. “y-you’re right….I’m sorry I used you…y-you were so intriguing having the ability to use magic, and when I learned you had feelings for me, I knew if I showed the same feelings back, you wouldn’t leave…and I could study you more in secret…”

Her friends all yelled ‘WHAT?!’ after she finished as Blaze seemed to tense his hand around her neck. Twilight began to cough and pulling at his arm, until a loud snap sound was heard making Twilight go limp. Blaze than tossed her aside walking towards Sombra.

“How COULD YOU?!” Blaze, looked back at Armor who looked infuriated. “You won’t get away with thi-“ A yellow energy wrapped around his muzzle, stopping him from speaking as Blaze looked at Sombra.

Sombra chuckled and held his hoof towards Blaze as the darkened and dying ground kept progressing towards the castle. “Great job Blaze, now give me the Crystal Heart, and I shall end the reign of those tyrannical princesses…”

Blaze began to walk towards him. “Give you the Crystal Heart?” Sombra nodded, as blaze got close to him. “Fuck off…” Blaze raised his knee into Sombra’s jaw sending him falling back and turned throwing the heart towards Cadence. “Cadence, charge it now! Twilight, I need a sword from a dark crystal!”

Twilight got up and blasted a bolt into a black crystal as it crumbled revealing sword shape as it flew to Blaze’s hand, as he held it pointed at Sombra. Twilight ran to the other’s helping them up and towards the Castle, leaving them all confused, and shocked, as Sombra got up rubbing his jaw.

“you traitor…I freed you from their contr-“ Sombra got a hard whack with the side of the crystal sword’s blade, making him fall over, as Blaze set his foot on the “king’s” side, placing the tip of the sword to his neck. “How…? How did you break my hold on you…? All that darkness, I put within you during all that time?! You should be forced to listen to me!”

“oh, that’s still in me…but, it was only time before I broke through it with my own light…the feelings for my friends…my family…my convictions to protect all life from those like you. I may have been torn down, but I just needed to hear a voice special to me to help my light become bright enough to break through your darkness…” I looked at the castle seeing a light forming at the bottom. “I guess this is goodbye Sombra.”

Sombra chuckled darkly, making Blaze look at him. “No…I will return, I may have been king of this empire, but there is one even I followed, one who had been in contact with me from the shadows…” Sombra looked at Blaze. “The nightmare king will tear you down. You could never measure up to his full power. He’s coming, and you will not be able to stop him. You will fall to his power.”

The light from the castle exploded out creating a flash that extended out restoring the ground, and destroying Sombra into nothing more but a puff of black shadow the dissipated making Blaze’s foot fall onto the ground, and his sword crumble into nothing.

1st person Blaze

I began to head back towards the castle looking at my left arm grabbing the upper part of the arm. I reached the castle and smiled seeing everypony looks like the crystal ponies’, knowing the Heart’s power was radiating over the empire.

Twilight looked at me and ran over jumping into me hugging me making me groan, gripping the upper part of my left arm tighter, making her gasp and let go. “Blaze? What’s wrong?”

I flinched from the major pain in my arm and looked at it. “that snap sound didn’t come from nowhere. I focused all my magic I had left to grip the bone in my forearm, and broke it….” Twilight gasped, as I chuckled weakly, feeling the exhaustion hit me. “I’ll be fine…I just need some time, and I can heal it back up. It isn’t ‘broken’, but it’s still in pretty bad condition. It took a lot out of me to use the magic to do so, as well as to keep myself from showing the pain from doing it.”

Twilight and Dash helped me to a wall where I slowly sat down leaning my head back closing my eyes. It wasn’t long after I heard heavier hoofsteps, and Armor’s voice. “Blaze…are you alright?” I looked at him as he looked concerned, sorry, yet still slightly angry.

“you have a right to be angry with me…I’m sorry I couldn’t let you know about my plan, when I came to, and making you think Twilight was dead…I’m sorry…but it was the only thing I could think of that I could get close to Sombra and disorient him, before betraying him.” I looked down; closing my eyes expecting him to hit me, but nothing came.

Armor blinked and chuckled nervously. “N-no, I’m a little angry, but mostly I’m just glad to see you snapped out of it. It hurt when you believed we had lied to you…you are our friend Blaze, and that won’t ever change.” I blinked and smiled laughing a bit.

“you have no idea how good it is to hear that…after being alone in that darkness…his voice pounding into my head…even now, I can still hear those whispers, but they are fading…don’t worry about them.” I yawned, feeling my eyelids becoming heavy. “I just…need to rest up…”

I closed my eyes, quickly falling asleep, feeling cold, but it became warmer for me shortly after, as Luna appeared ahead of me. “Ser Blaze. It is good to see you. My sister is happy to see everything has worked out, but when I felt your presence in the dreamscape, I felt a sense of dread…fear. Tia asked me to check on you when I mentioned it. Is everything alright?”

I blinked and scratched my head. “I’m fine Luna, I just….” I sighed rubbing my eyes. “No…Sombra caught me when he first arrived…he tortured me for I have no idea how long, and he broke me…made me believe you…Celestia…my friends…that you all lied to me, just using me as shield and sword…that none of you would care if I was injured…or even killed, that I was a tool, and nothing more.”

Luna went wide eyed. “Ser Blaze, you are most precious to us, especially to my sister. Twilight Sparkle and all her friends hold such admiration towards you, that they still feel bad about…” Luna looked down sadly. “When I was…her…”

I blinked and chuckled a bit, before laughing. “Luna, you were never her. Whether it was some force or entity of anger or jealousy, or a split personality, it doesn’t matter. It’s a separate conciseness. You shouldn’t worry about what she did, because it wasn’t you. You…Luna…are one of the nicest, and kindest ponies I know.”

Luna smiled and walked up to me hugging me. “Thank you for saying that…so we expect you and your friends to head back soon?” I nodded. “Alright, I shall let Tia know to expect you all then.”

“Alright. And don’t tell Celestia about…how I felt when Sombra broke me mentally…I feel it would really hurt her if she knew.” Luna nodded as she disappeared.

I slowly opened my eyes, and groaned a bit grabbing my left arm, before looking at it to see it had two small wooden planks and gauze wrapped around my forearm. I went to sit up but felt something pull me back down, looking over to see Twilight on my right side , with her hooves wrapped around my torso.

I smiled stroking her mane gently, as she yawned in her sleep nuzzling into my chest. “It’s time to wake up. We need to start heading back.”

She groaned before slowly looking up at me. “Mmmm…Blaze?”

“Morning beautiful.” Twilight blushed and smiled kissing me on the nose.

“Morning. I’m glad to see you feeling better.” Twilight slowly got up and off the bed, stretching as I sat up carefully.

“Like I said, I just needed some rest. Come on, we need to get ready to head back to Canterlot. Right?” Twilight nodded, as we both began to leave the room, and down the crystal castle’s halls to the main hall where the everypony else was.

When the others saw me the girls all ran or flew towards me, which Twilight caught them all with her magic which made me chuckle. “His arm is still injured girls, don’t be rough with him…not yet anyway.”

I stopped chuckling and looked at her. “That isn’t funny…” Twilight looked at me and smirked while the rest walked up to me, making me look at them. “Don’t worry, I’ll be fine. We need to start heading back. Twilight has to report back after all.”

Twilight gasped. “OH CELESTIA, HES RIGHT!” she ran to Armor and Cadence hugging them saying we had to head back, as we all headed for the train station to head back.

It took a few hours to get back to Canterlot, where we went to the castle. All of us waited outside while Twilight went in. I chose to relax on the steps holding my right hand over the wrapped area of my left arm which had a gold glow over it. I started to get feeling in my hand again and slowly made a weak fist with my hand, before relaxing and tensing my hand a few times.

I began to unroll the gauze off my arm as Twilight busted out of the door happily, saying she had passed her test with Celestia. I just smiled getting the last of the gauze off making the wooden splints fall to the floor. “Congrats Twi. So, everypony ready to head home? I think all of us can’t wait to sleep in our beds.” The others all nodded as we began to head to the train station, all of us excited to get home.

Few days later

I groaned as I felt something shaking me from my sleep. I slowly opened my eyes to feel something land on my face and see a mass of orange in my vision. “Hey Scootaloo. Shouldn’t you be in school right now?”

Scootaloo slid off my face smiling. “It just ended. We had a short day today, and I saw you over here, so I thought I would see what you were up to.” I chuckled and sat up fixing my mane, and stretching my wings.

I looked at the little filly, before answering her. “Well, the princesses gave me the month off from my duties considering what I had been through, so I can recover fully from any possible after effects.”

She blinked looking confused. “What did you go through to let you get a month off?”

I flinched and felt my ears droop. “I would rather not remember it…let’s just say, it was very painful, and even mentally broke me so I believed a lie, until Twilight was able to get through to me.”

I felt a tight squeeze on my right foreleg looking at Scootaloo, seeing her hugging me, which made me lightly hug her back with my free foreleg. “you’re better though right…?” I nodded smiling, which made her smile as well. “How have you been? No problems with your school work, or anything?”

“Umm…no?” she smiled nervously, which made me raise a brow at her. “Maybe…” I blinked raising the brow a bit more as she looked away. “I’m not doing that great in math…”

I blinked and gently pat her head smiling. “Do you need to meet with Applebloom and Sweetie Belle today?” she nodded. “How about after your meeting, you stop by the library. I can help you with whatever you have left. Ok?”

She looked at me wide eyed and smiled jumping at me hugging me. “That would be AWESOME! Thank you so much Blaze!”

I hugged her back laughing a bit. “It’s no problem. Go on and meet your friends, I’ll be at the library by the time you three finish your usual stuff today.” She nodded before getting her scooter and using her wings to speed her way towards Sweet Apple Acres. I decided to head to the library, and got a Daring Do book to waste time.

After about an hour and a half, the door to the library opened, which made me look over to see Scootaloo run in, and I helped her with her homework for a while before I had a thought looking at her. “Hey Scoot, why don’t you get your mom to help you? She’s home isn’t she?”

Scootaloo flinched looking down. “umm…she’s still sick, and she needs all the rest she can get.”

I draped a wing over her making her look at me surprised. “Scoot, you know you can tell me anything. Right?”

Scootaloo jumped into me sniffling, hugging me tightly. “please don’t take me away…I don’t want to be taken away from my friends.”

“Scoots, what are you talking about? Why would you be taken awa-“ I stopped what I was saying and looked at her. “Scootaloo…are you…” she sniffled nodding slightly. I felt my ears droop and gently wrapped my wing around her. “it’s ok, I won’t let you be taken away. Even if I have to get myself set as your legal guardian, or adopt you. I promise I’ll do what I have to, so you won’t be taken away.”

Scootaloo looked at me. “y-you would….do that for me?” I nodded and smiled a bit. “I…I don’t know what to say. T-thank you Blaze.” She calmed down relaxing. “I think that would be awesome. You being my dad.” She chuckled a bit silently. “I could totally brag to Sweetie Belle and Applebloom about you being my father. I could even brag at school.”

I just chuckled. “I suppose you could.”

She yawned then looked at me rubbing one of her eyes. “could I stay here tonight…? I don’t want to be at that house alone tonight…”

I nodded and got up using my wing to get her on my back gently, as I began to head upstairs. I headed into the guest room carefully laying Scootaloo on the bed seeing she was barely awake. “are you sure you want me to adopt you Scootaloo? I want to be sure it’s what you want.”

She yawned and nodded. “yeah, I really think it would be awesome if you were my dad.” I smiled a bit.

“Ok, we’ll go to town hall tomorrow before you go to school, and get the paperwork dealt with. That way I can take you to school, and tell Cheerilee she can contact me if there’s any…trouble involving you, seeing how you crusaders are.” I smirked as she groaned a bit. “alright, get some sleep. I’ll see you in the morning.”

I pulled a blanket over her, which made her eyes close. “ok. Night Blaze.” She began to snore silently soon after, so I silently snuck out of the room closing the door, seeing Twilight look at me with a blank stare.

She raised a brow at me, with an annoyed look to her eyes, which made me smile nervously. “did I hear you correctly…? You’re planning on adopting Scootaloo…?”

My ear twitched as I looked to the side. “y-yeah…?”

Twilight sighed than smiled a bit nuzzling me. “that was very sweet of you Blaze, but if you want to do anything like that again, let me have a voice in it. I’m not saying no to this Blaze, I’d just appreciate being a part of conversations around adopting. Now, come on. You need as much sleep as you can get to deal with the paperwork tomorrow.” She kissed my cheek heading for the bedroom, which made me smile. I began to follow right behind her, as we slipped into bed. I dread the paperwork tomorrow, but, it’ll be worth it I think.

Author's Note

WHOOOO!!! CORRUPTION IN THE PROTAGONIST! ALWAYS HAS DRAMATIC POSSIBLITIES!!! LIKE A GREAT RPG GAME WHERE YOU CAN BE A TOTAL HERO, ANTI-HERO, GREEDY, A COMPLETE BADASS, OR A COMPLETE PRICK, OR A COMBINATION OF ALL THAT!!! AND I AM HAPPY MODS ARE COMING TO PS4 AFTER ALL!!! although, they wont be as great, but personally i dont give a fuck because we will still get special homes, armors, etc. jsut because modders are stuck with vanilla assets, doesn't mean shit when it comes to color of armor. duplicate the armor, recolor it, bam awesome armor set, that's seperate from the original. i will miss the cahnce to see the skyrim styled power armor...ground up programmed homes/places....quests...but i'll have armors, homes, etc. especially the cheating system, so i'm happy enough i suppose. maybe sony will cave in at some point saying "we agree to full mod support" its a possibility. so...

i do not understand why you want to...cheat. isn't cheating a bad thing to do?

YOUR'E GOING TO CHEAT ON SOMETHING?!?!

whoa whoa! i'm not cheating to make things easy, i'm cheating for creative reasons. i hate gathering all that concrete, and random crap to break down to make an awesome home, or protect places. the random people are so STUPID, and can't aim for shit.

so...not cheating? oops, sorry.

eh, its kind of cheating, but not like...becoming invincible to just walk through everything like nothing, or get super strong armor and weapons at point 1....which i may do...

it's a game...single player at that, it's for my enjoyment, not playing with friends...i really need to explain this stuff to you.

yes...yes you do...

i would like to know as well. my sister may enjoy these...games. i have invited her here, so you can expect her to be here soon.

you have got to be fucking KIDDING ME!!!!!