Author's Note

In this chapter, Celestia loses her shit... and Blaze goes nuclear.

I know this is rushed but I needed to do SOMETHING!!!

The Truth about Blaze - The War

After the ponies had a good laugh over the whole 'Wake-up Call', they noticed Sombra looked even older than he did... almost corpse-like.

"M-Milord?" Sandstorm asked softly, being careful with what he said. "Are you alright?"

Sombra shook his head and said, with almost pure anguish, "Then the war came... and I saw my son more as a tool than an heir..."

Over 1,000 years ago, after Blaze's 20th birthday:

"Father!" Blaze called as he entered the throne room, outfitted in a suit of armor similar to Sombra's. "Canterlot forces are in the Outer District!"

Sombra growled as he rose, wrapped a hoof around his scythe, a steel rod topped with a crescent blade as black as night, then slammed the butt of it into Blaze's nose with a wet crunch.

Blaze winced in pain as blood gushed from his nose and onto the floor, but did nothing other than look up at his father.

"GET BACK TO THE FRONT LINES AND BUCKING KILL SOMETHING!!!" Sombra roared, causing the castle to rumble.

Blaze took a deep breath, the edges of his eyes becoming lined with fire, then said with steely resolve as he drew his rapier, "You have crossed the line for the LAST. FAUST-DAMNED. TIME!!!!"

Sombra lunged and slashed downward with his scythe, watching as the fool he called a son, step to the side as he lashed out with his right leg. He slashed, twirled, swept and jabbed to keep his new opponent on the defensive to prevent him from using the pathetic toothpick.

Blaze arched backwards and came up as if he was launched from a catapult.

CRACK!!!

Sombra staggered back and put his free hoof to his nose, feeling the warm sensation as blood trickled down it and his forehead, and charged recklessly, slashing wildly.

Blaze tried to leap back, but was still caught in the curve of the blade, swung around, and thrown into the wall with enough force to crack it. He coughed up a little blood, then looked down... at the slash that split his stomach open.

"BLAZE!!!" A familiar voice cried.

Sombra turned and was about to charge when a silver scythe locked with his, drawing his attention to Luna as Celestia picked up Blaze, gently.

"Be-gone..." Blaze coughed. "Bitch of the S-Sun..."

Celestia, Luna, AND Sombra stopped at the words that escaped Blaze's mouth.

"Ooooooh Sombra." Celestia chimed as she set Blaze down gently. "You remember when I said you would face your crimes against Equestria?"

Luna lowered her scythe and backed away as Celestia turned to face Sombra.

"THAT WAS BEFORE YOU POISONED OUR CHILD TO THINK I AM THE ENEMY, CUR!!!"

The wall and floor shattered as Celestia lunged at Sombra, grabbed his mane, spun around and through him THROUGH his throne, taking off after him. Sombra twisted in the air, moving his scythe to deflect Celestia's pole-arm, and received a drop-kick to the chest that slammed him into the ground, leaving a crater around him.

Celestia aimed her hoof at the dazed tyrant when a commanding voice echoed throughout the war ravaged city.

"ENOUGH!!!"

The two combatants looked to the edge of the crater, Blaze leaning against Luna, his eyes glaring down at Sombra.

"Before I let her finish you off..." He growled fiercely. "What does she-" He points a hoof to Celestia. "-mean by 'our child'?"

The air became thick with tension, as Sombra looked up at Celestia, his eyes begging her to end him, only to have her turn and invoke the Canterlot Right of Descent.

"I, Princess Celestia, herald to the morning star and all things blessed by its light, acknowledge Eternal Blaze, son of Sombra and I, as prince to the thrones of the Crystal Empire and Canterlot and as my equal."

There was a suspenseful silence and as Sombra looked at his son, he saw something inside him break.

"LIES!!!" Blaze shouted, smoke pouring from his open wound. "MY MOTHER WAS A SIMPLE MAID WHO DIED DURING MY BIRTH!!! YOU ARE LYING!!!"

Luna howled in agony as Blaze's skin began to radiate heat, then disappeared in a flash of blue.

"MY MOTHER WOULD HAVE NEVER DREAMED OF LEAVING ME WITH THIS... THIS MONSTER!!! I WANT YOU TO LISTEN TO ME IMPOSTER, GIVE ME ONE GOOD RE-"

His voice refused to work as Celestia wrapped her arms around him, her skin sizzling as she touched him.

"I'm sorry... I'm so sorry..."

Blaze roared and a wave of energy knocked Celestia away, then vanished in a flash of black energy... splitting the ground in a web-like pattern as he vanished.

Sombra was about to laugh and proclaim he still won when a five point star hovered over him.

"Y-You wouldn't..."

Celestia let out her pain, anger, anguish, and despair out in a blood-curdling roar... and Sombra vanished in a pillar of light.

Meanwhile in ?????????

Blaze stumbled over a rock and looked over his shoulder.

How long had he been here? Where was he? What was chasing him?

He felt a sharp pain in his temples and collapsed, twitching as pain like no other wracked his body. He heard the sound of mighty wings flapping, followed by a soft thump next to him.

Blaze was about to ask who was there when the world went black.