The Darkness Livesby Viper9172ChaptersLet us free Jackie!...What...Explanations and new enemiesSuccess!Curse my trust issues!Fuck you, NightmaresDaddy issuesWell....shit.I didn't want to write thisThe death of Fluttershy?Problem SolvedFluttershy Reborn through Darkness (FINALE)Let us free Jackie!"Fuck!" Jackie shouted as he hold a hand on the massive shotgun hole in his chest. "Jackie...We can help you if you feed us..." "Fuck that...you'd sooner prey in a church made of flashlights. I'll be fine on my own" "...feed us..." Jackie says nothing in response, just tries to stand. The shotgun wound was one of many he had, but the worst. He had rounded a corner in the Dicasies warehouse and boom, a random druggie Dicasie was there, holding a smoke barreled shotgun, observing the limp figure on the ground. Well, he was, before the same figure leaned up and put a bullet in his head. Now Jackie was as useful as a bag of potatoes in the middle of the ocean. "If I let you two out, you'd just use me like you did last time, no deal" He says while slowly getting up "You will die without us..." Jackie is up on his feet now, and hobbling towards the exit, "I'll be f-fine" He argues, "I'm not letting you demented little fuckers out of your cage unless I really need it" He opens the exit door, to see ten or twenty of his family members waiting for him, ready to fight. He blinks away the warm light in his eyes and realizes see that they weren't his family, they were Dicasi. "Oh fuck me!" "Do you need us?...." "As much as I will hate myself for it later-" He is astonished by the fact that they haven't shot yet, "-Go nuts" "YYYYYESSSS" Without a moments hesitation, a familiar, and horrid chill forms on Jackie's shoulder blades as the Darkness's draconic heads erupt from their mental prison. "Oh fuck, Oh fuck, Oh Fuck!" A dicasi screams before his jaw is impaled by a razor sharp tendril. Five or six Dicasi pussies throw there guns to the floor and run, while the rest open fire, riddling Jackie with many more jagged holes, but no blood comes forth, only more similar tendril, that soon find their targets, legs, arms, necks, eyes, and dig in. Jackie was basking in the power, the power he hated to love. "yyyeesss...yyyyeeeeesssssss!" The Darkness was having a field day, sliding as many hearts as it could down it's long throat, each heart making it more and more powerful. Once all the Dicani in the room were dead and heartless, the Darkness gave Jackie a warm, wicked grin, one that he returned without hesitation. 'Jackie, what are you doing! Control them before they control you!' He thought to himself after snapping out of his euphoric state. "I still need you to fix me up, the shotgun hole along with the new ones" Jackie tells the Darkness when he feels the searing hot pain return in his chest. "You did not think we would let you sssuffer did you?" The searing pain is replaced by one of ungodly proportions as the new skin is so suddenly ripped over the wounds, stopping the blood and pain within seconds. "You...are assholes" Jackie grunts, recovering from the ungodly pain that crossed his chest. The Darkness fills the silent room with it's sickly laughing. "We need more!" "You will wait! I am still the holder, that means I control you!" Jackie explains angrily. "You two have tried to control me before, and it will not happen again. Is that clear?" "You dare demand us?! We are the manifestation of evil, of corruption, of death!" The Darkness was fuming, like a toddler who couldn't have any more playtime. "Aw, whats wrong? You don't like having a boss?" "You are not our master! We have let you control us! But now, it's our turn" Two tendrils appear and go up to Jackie's neck, barely pricking him. "Idiots, if you kill me, you'll die too" "Will we? We will simply transfer to your next of kin, when it grows old enough we will control it, use it to kill everything!" "I don't have a-" Jackie couldn't finish on account of the tendrils ripping apart his throat. "You could have lived if you-" "You fool! He does not have a child!" "What of the female? He did not impregnate her? Curses!" "She was deliciously murdered before he had the chance" "For the first time in the history of existence, there will be no darkness, we cannot live without a holder" "The angelus is going to love this" Jackie laid there, blood pouring from his neck, slowly drifting into death, but still managed to croak his last words out; "yu....mutrfukrs...gon wit meh" He laughed weakly before accepting death. The Darkness soon follow, puffing into a cloud of dark purple "Tia!" Luna shouts worriedly "What, Luna?" "There are reports that the changeling queen is back in Equestria, shall we send scouts?" "We cannot, we need all the hooves we can muster to repair Canterlot as fast as possible" Celestia explains "Okay, I understand, we will simply wait until it's time" Luna says tiredly "I must head to bed now, can't raise the moon dead tired." She adds before walking off towards the castle. "I feel a more dangerous force is in Equestria, one that could destroy everything. The odd part is, it could also be used to help, What will it do?" Celestia was worried, the force could easily kill her and her sister, it was a force of pure hate, of pure destruction, of bloodlust. It would kill without hesitation, given the chance, but something was holding it back, keeping it under control, and it was losing the fight for control. If this evil got control, who knows the amount of damage it would cause, millions? Billions? Every last creature? She could not be sure. She started writing a letter to her student when she located where it would be: Dear Twilight Sparkle, Be on the lookout for anything suspicious, there is a dangerously powerful force near Ponyville, if you see it, don't approach, it is considered highly violent. Instead of approaching, get a message to me a soon as you can Your worried teacher, Princess Celestia "Be careful, my little ponies" ...What...Jackie awoke with a loud gasp, "What the fuck!" He shouted as he felt his neck, perfectly unscathed. "You're welcome" "Fuck you! You killed me and tried to leave. But we see how that turned out" "Calm down, Jackie. If you were in our metaphorical shoes, wouldn't you have tried the same thing?" "I can't say I wouldn't. Where are we anyways, long way from the Diconies, that's for sure" Jackie asked, taking in his surroundings. "It seems we are on a planet called 'Equis' and we feel no hate in this land, it sickens us." "No hate huh? So that would mean no mobs, little to no violence, and all around peace. That sounds so fucking boring." Jackie agrees. "Jackie, could I suggest something?" "What?" "I think it would be wise to focus on my form, other than the current Dark one." "And that would mean...?" "To make it simple, there are two minds in the Darkness, the extremly violent, *red eyes, and the, erm, less violent purple. Notice the eyes on the heads, right now they're red, meaning Rage is the current form, while if you focus on me, they would be purple, I am the thought"* "That...makes since actually, how come you've never spoke before?" He's annoying as all hell" "Better than a blood crazy fuck like you, Rage" Jackie retorts, he then tries to imagine the eyes of the Dark heads as purple, and they soon turned so. He felt calmer, as if giving Thought the form made him calmer, not docile, but calmer. "Now it may seem hard to believe, given our past together, but I am going to try my best to not go power crazy" "I'm starting to like you, Thought. Rage is an asshole" "I heard that!" "I know" Jackie laughs, he now could bring the serpent like heads out and put them back at will, Thought kept his promise. Jackie starts to walk towards a small path. "Hey Thought, why does Equis sound so familiar?" "I believe it is the land from that horridly 'cute' show you watched with your niece when she asked" "That's it. God, I'd hate to admit it, but it seems watching that little girls show with her is helping out a bit. I remember the show only having the one forest." Jackie reluctantly admits "Pussie" "Go fuck yourself" Jackie continues to walk down the path, passing some blue flowers that he vaguely remembered being poisonous. He walked for many hours more, before tiring and deciding to crash in a small cave. He hunkered down on what felt like a fur pillow, but it could breath, and snore, and wake up. "What the fuck is that?" He asks no one, the beast in front of him, was not a pillow, but a large manticore, "Oh fuck me!" Jackie shouts as he reaches for his pistol which, thankfully, was still with him. He aimed at the beast's head and pulled the trigger *Click* "I suggest you run" "No shit!" Jackie shouts as he bolts from the cave, "Wait, I'm the holder of the entity of death, of destruction, and ladidadida, why am I running?" He says openly before brings the serpent heads out, opting to skewer the beast from the ground. The manticore turns a sharp bend and Jackie could see the color drain from it's face as it observed it's would be dinner. Jackie send a rubbery tendril forwards and it wraps around the manticore's paw, keeping it immobile. "Does the little kitty want to play?" Jackie laughs wickedly before slicing the beast's chest open, letting it's insides fall out, but not killing it. It roars in pure, unrelenting agony. "Kittens don't chase bears" He says before sending a tendril through it's skull. "I've never tasted manticore before, may I?" "Why not?" One of the heads shoots towards the ground and picks up the massive heart in it's teeth, before swallowing it completely. "Jesus, those hearts are fucking huge." "What is this monster? It seems friendly, weak, susceptible" A new voice chimes in before promptly shutting up again. Jackie puts away the serpent like heads and starts to head towards a river he passed an hour or two back to wash the blood off. He arrives before sun up and jumps into the frigged water, regretting it instantly. "Holy fuck that's cold!" He bellows before getting out as fast as he could. The blood came off rather easily, given how it was still relatively fresh. "Thought, who was the new voice?" "She was not one of us, but rather a weakened evil in these woods" "Odd, She called me weak, susceptible even. I think we might be getting a visitor later. Would it be possible to open a darkling portal?" "Defiantly" A portal glowing with unholy bright light appears next to the tree Jackie was sitting against, and a brawler Darklings hops out. Jackie bends down to it's level and says, "I am going to nap while my clothes dry, wake me if you hear, see, sense anything suspicious." He tells the Darkling, it scurries to a tree and climbs up. "I missed the little guys, but it was worth not seeing them to keep Rage under control" He mutters "We actually have a smart Darkling now, we call him Monkey" "I don't care" Jackie dozes off soon enough and sleeps for n hour or two before the darkling returns "Jackie, bug pony," It says while pointing to the east, "should be here, ten minutes, darkling fast" It says before jumping into the portal and closing it "Bug pony? I don't remember any bug ponies" Jackie whispers as he hurriedly puts on his clothes. He sits in a small clearing near him and waits. Ten minutes later he hears whispers around him "Is it sssafe?" "Can we kill it?" "What will the queen do with it?" Jackie turns around and sees multiple pure black, small bug ponies, followed by a larger female, probably the Queen "Bow to your queen, weak one" She commands in a faux-intimidating voice. "Who are you calling weak one you dumb bitch." Jackie mocks "A weakling like you does not speck to a queen in such a manner" "I am no weakling, I could kill all of you in the blink of an eye" "What makes you think we would believe that? You look like a dirty hairless ape" "A dirty hairless ape that hold the manifestation of pure darkness, that's why" "Lies! No one is darker than the Queen!" A bug pony shouts "Is that what you think?" Jackie asks innocently before releasing the Darkness, causing the Queen to quiver. "Dear goddesses! You could prove quite useful, even if you have no love to offer." "Love?" "Us changelings feed on love, it gives us power" "The Darkness feeds on hearts, it gives them their power" Jackie demonstrated on the changeling that doubted Jackie, ripping out it's heart. "Anyways, I'm not helping you, I can feel the evil in you, you only want to cause havoc" "Then we will make you!" The queen screams before her changelings leap forward. "Really? You're really going to try that? Well, I have my own creatures too, the Darklings." Multiple portals open up and all send out chain gun Darklings, "These little fellas shoot thousands of little pieces of metal per second, one could wipe out your measly force of....twelve" Jackie laughed. "I-I-I don't want to do this." She says sadly "Do what? Attack a demi-god, or lead the wimpy changelings?" "Be a leader, I never wanted to. I just wanted father to be proud." "How did I know it would be daddy problems? Always is." "He's probably sitting back at the mound, laughing at how much of a failure I am" She started to sob "I don't know you, so it's probably not my place to judge but, he sounds like a dick" "He is. I wish I could just make him proud, to make him love me." "I know what you're feeling, my uncle tried to kill me" "That is much worse than my situation, what did you do?" "I killed him, simple as that. Where in equestria are we?" "We're not in Equestria, we are in Morphious, Equestria's neighbor and Changeling homeland, we are in a terrible civil war currently. That's why I'm in the forest" She paused then continued again, "My brother, the king, which in Morphious is not matrimonial, it is a birth right, is leading the rebellion" "My uncle paulie tried to take over the family mob, that's why he wanted to kill me, but the Darkness saved me" "If you're not going to help us, then what will you do?" "Well, since I know that there is more to Equis than just Equestria, I'll probably just wander aimlessly" Jackie said with an empty grin "Would you mind if I went with you?" "I don't know, I don't fare well with partners." "I can fight, I assure you that. I just need time to recover after the loss at Canterlot" "Okay, but I'm warning you, you'll have to carry your own weight" Jackie sighs "Thank you! I promise I will help." She looked happy, giddy almost. "Are you sure about this, Jackie?" "Yeah, I'm sure. She reminds me of jenny" Jackie said the last word with a pained voice "Who are you talking to? And who is Jenny?" The queen asks. "I'm talking to Thought, a form of the Darkness, the other is Rage, he's just an asshole. Jenny is, well, was, my girlfriend. She was murdered by a cop working for Paulie, she grew up with me, she was my best and only friend. I was devastated when she was murdered, I let the Darkness go insane and murder everyone that was remotely connected to Paulie" Jackie was hurting. "I'm sorry" "Don't be, without her death, as much as it hurt, I would have never been able to become the leader of my families mob. I got revenge for her death, so it's not much to worry about." Jackie dismissed the Darklings and stood, he was a good head or two taller than the queen. "Shall I refer to you as just the queen, or do you have a real name?" "It's Chrysalis, Queen Chrysalis" "Okay Chrysalis, first order of business, find out what the hell to do" "We could...help out in the war, or take over Equestria" "I think the war should be first, then maybe start a mob, get money, power, so on and so forth" Jackie explains before starting to walk along the river he bathed in. Rather silly thought, like one of those bad romance novels 'and then he walked down the glistening river of love to his awaiting maiden' Pure shit. "Should I bring the changelings or no?" "The more the merrier, they have to fend for themselves though" The changelings and Chrysalis follow close behind, awaiting orders. "Congratulations, Jackie. You have made the first step towards becoming a very powerful leader" "I'm not in it for just the power, that would make me no better than Rage, I'm going to at least try to help these little fuckers" A few changelings heard Jackie and hissed at him. "Eh, when we stop this fuckin 'civil war' I am not going to miss you little shits" They continued to walk in silence towards the capital city. "I will get you, Jackie Estacado" "What was that?" "nothing" Explanations and new enemies"Chrysalis, tell me. What happened at Canterlot to make you need to 'recover'?" Jackie asked, they had been walking in silence for a couple hours, only the occasional pip from Rage. Something about Thought not being Thought, but Jackie dismissed it as nonsense coming from Rage, the evil. "Well, I had to invade a wedding. But it was necessary!" "How could disrupting a wedding be necessary?" "We were, and still are, losing. Equestria has enough love to make my Changelings unbeatable." She was misty eyed, again. "Why didn't you just explain yourself?" "Morphious and Equestria have had a sour history, mostly unknown to the public. I changed my form into the one of the bride and waited for the perfect time, but the plan failed, it was only two days ago" "What made it fail? I bet I could help out." "The elements of harmony stopped me, the element of magic found out my plan before it could be finished" "Ah, Twilight dazzle, or something. I know her weakness, with it, she is a wreak." "What could it possibly be? She seems so collected, prepared, like she knows exactly what should be done when the situation presents itself." "Exactly, her weakness is stress, I remember an episode were Twilight was flipping out because she had nothing to write about" "Episode?" "Back in my world, yes, I'm not from here, this world is a TV show" Jackie says bluntly "A TV show? How odd, so you know everything about the elements?" "Most of it, I only watched it with my niece" "Huh. Anyways, why do you want to help?" "I don't. I just need shit to do, so I don't go crazy with boredom." "We should be nearing Yuigyfe, the capital" "That is a very weird name for a city" "Not the point. The city is under rebel oppression, it should be the first on the list" "You sly pony" Jackie laughed, she had lead him to fight without Jackie realizing. She blushed, almost unnoticeable due to her coat "Thanks, but I needed to get this done. I was heading there when I found you" "Thought will betray you, trust me." "Go fuck yourself, Rage" "I'm not lying! For once..." "Like I'd believe you, you killed me!" "You should stop talking to yourself, it's not healthy" Chrysalis laughed, an odd sound admittedly "Find him, he will help you" "Find who? What will he help with, Nightmare?" Luna had been listening to the voice of Nightmare, the spirit that possessed her when she returned. "I-You need his help, he needs yours." "Who?!" "He is in Morphious, find him and he will help" "Morphious? What would 'he' be doing in Morphious? Is he a changeling?" "He will be king, he must" "If your not going to help me, I'm not going to listen." Luna was getting agitated. "Luna? Are you alright, I heard you shouting" Celestia asks "I'm just talking to Nightmare, she has been talking a lot more since this morning, saying stuff about this random pony, probably a changeling seeing how he is in Morphious" "What has she been saying about this 'pony'?" "Just that I need to find him, I'm not going to though, can't trust her" "That is most wise, speaking of weird mornings. When you came to me with news that Chrysalis will return, I was worrying about a new evil that had arisen on Equis, do you think that Nightmare could be talking about the same being?" "Maybe, but it could be worth sending some guards to find this evil and banish it before it strikes" "That's just the thing, it felt evil, but good at the same time. It has a choice, to be a force of Evil, or of Good" "It still could be wise to find it, and possibly sway it to the light, rather than the darkness" "I suppose you're right, I'll send a troop force to bring it here, forcibly if necessary" "Alright, I must go now sister, the moon will not raise itself" "Later sis" "Twilight, I got a letter from the Princess" Spike said as he placed the scroll in front her "Thank you, Spike" Twilight says as she opens the letter and reads it. "Oh dear, but I think she was wrong, there is no evil near Ponyville, I would have felt-" "Twilight! There is some kind of monster near the Everfree! It looks to be made of pure dark energy" Lyra shouts "What? Pure dark energy? Impossible!" There was lots of screaming coming from outside "CHANGELINGS!" "So, under oppression? Looks rather empty to be under oppression" Jackie says as they enter the city "Well, there is a curfew, everyone is inside" Chrysalis explains as she points to a window with light behind it, "Gythin, go scout out the nearest couple of blocks, look for guards specifically." A changeling darts away to look around leaving the other eleven to wait impatiently. "Why does your brother do what he does?" "He is jealous, the Queen naturally gets more control than the King, Morphious is a matriarchal country, like Equestria. Except we live in the real world, we fend for ourselves, while the pony princesses do everything for them." Chrysalis looked sick. "Well than, what's the plan?" "Kill" "I'm fine with that" Jackie brings out the serpentine heads and spawns a couple of darklings "Cover our flank" "Why would you want them touching our hindquarters?" "What? Oh yeah, ponies" They walk farther into town, careful not to alert the patrols. They walk for a couple minutes before reaching the first group of rebels. "Did see new album?" One asks, the 'normal' changelings had basic speech skills. "No didn't was good?" "Yes good" "What that?" Guard one asks, hearing a military changeling shuffle "I think-" Guard two was brought down by Jackie snapping it's neck "Alert!-" Guard one brought down by Chrysalis ripping it's head off with magic. The dark heads consume the hearts without hesitation. More guards heard the rebel yell and were sounding the alarm. "Fuck! Looks like stealth is out of the question," Jackie allowed a demonic grin to form, "more fun this way" The heads let out a loud, gruesome wail before they get to work, dismembering the rebels one by one while Chrysalis did the same with her magic. The darklings were laughing manically while they fought, and the changelings were silent. It was an easy fight all in all. "Jackie, I have an ability that I think you'll like" "And what would that be?" "Dark channeling, it makes ammo for your gun" "That's useful, use it" Jackie's pistol began to glow in a faint purple, Jackie lined up the shot and pulled the trigger, *BANG* Jackie was livid, he could use his favorite gun again and he was using it on the people, er, ponies he hated. They ones who sought power for greed. "What was that?" Chrysalis asks, pulling her hooves from her ears. "A gunshot, a mini explosion that launches little pieces of death" "Good, use it" She said with a wicked grin. Jackie shot again and again, dropping rebels like flies while the Darkness ripped them to pieces, consuming the hearts greedily. It took hours before the rebels gave up and ran. "Well, that was fun. Where to next?" "Go meet her, you need her help" "Thought, who are you talking about?" "I-you need her help!" "Who?" "Jackie, the next place we should go is the military town of Ewunig, saving it will be a big military force boost" "Okay, let's go, this should be fun." "Don't find her!" "Who?!" "Don't worry about the voices, let's just get moving!" "Fine, let's go" Success!"Oh sweet Celestia!" Twilight screamed as she bolted away from a group of changelings. "Get away from her!" Rainbow dash commanded before she slammed into the mass. In the largest group of changelings stood King Feros, surrounded by a dark aura. "Give up, you can't beat us." Feros commanded calmly. "Why are you here, again? We beat you once already, we'll do it again!" Rainbow asks while bucking multiple changelings. This little battle had been being fought for about three days. "I have never been here before, my sister, that goodie goodie, had though." "The changeling queen is your sister? And she's 'good'?" "Oh yes, she is an angel compared to me. I am the holder of the manifestation of darkness!" They continued to fight for hours before Canterlot soldiers arrived to help. "Look out, Rainbow!" Applejack screamed before Rainbow dash was struck by a dark tendril, knocking her unconscious. "You bucking bastards!" She added before getting hit by changeling, she soon went ballistic, knocking out changelings rapidly. Twilight had eventually calmed down and was blasting the rebels with magic, Rarity was shooting needles at them(fucking ouch), Pinkie was blasting her party cannon, and Fluttershy was...being Fluttershy. The royal guards were doing their fair share, Shining was there too. He had recovered and was blasting changelings down ten at a time. "Ha! You will never beat us! We are the Darkness, the greatest evil known to anything!" Feros was gone, all that was left was Corruption, his Dark form. "Come Celestia! Fight for your ponies! Unless you're too scared..." He hissed, he struck down two more soldiers. "I've been here the whole time, you just never saw me." Celstia said calmly before she struck Corruption in the back of his head. "Gah!" "The greatest evil huh? You seem pretty docile" Celestia was mocking him, trying to get him furious, it would make him wilder, less coordinated "We will kill you!" Corruption was getting mad. He landed a hit on Celestia with his tendril, knocking her to the ground. There was an explosion soon after, followed by Corruption being tackled by an enraged Twilight, mane ablaze with rage. "You will pay!" She screamed while slamming her hooves down on Corruption's face rapidly. "Nopony hits the Princ-" She was stopped by a searing hot pain in her chest, Corruption had stabbed her, not near anything vital luckily. "Your heart will be delicious!" Corruption raised his tendril, poised to carve her heart straight from her chest. "Twilight, no!" Celestia screamed, powerless. Corruption brought his tendril down as fast as lightning, but never made contact. His tendril was held in place by a hand. "Who dares!" "The names Jackie. I'm going to kill you now" (Two days earlier) "Chrysalis, tell me. When did your brother start fighting?" Jackie asks, walking out of a cheering Yuigyfe. "A year or two ago, something bit him and he slowly became more bold with his acts of spite." "Odd, where is he now?" "If he wasn't in Yuigyfe than he should be in Ewunig" "Then let us make haste!" Jackie said in a posh accent, Chrysalis laughed before picking up the pace. "It's a shame you don't have wings, could get there so much faster" "I can give you wings, Jackie" "Convenient. A little too convenient" Two massive wings sprout from his back in a painful instant, winding Jackie. "A little more warning next time?" "That's a feeling I could get used to" "You're starting to sound like Rage "I find that offensive" "Again, I don't care." Jackie takes a moment to get his breath back, "Chrysalis, let's fly" Jackie says before taking to the sky, it felt natural. "You are just full of surprises. Speaking of which, you said this world is a TV show? TVs are very expensive on Equis, are they the same on your world?" "Not really, for some people yeah, but not for a mob boss." "And what is a 'mob'? You keep talking about it, but there is no such thing on Equis" "It is a family, but not a real one. People are picked to join and they do crimes together. You gotta be tough to be in a family." "Oh, like a gang" "Kinda" They flew as fast as they could and reached Ewunig and got there within the hour. "Stealth or guns blazing?" "Why do you even ask?" Chrysalis mocks, "Of course guns blazing." More and more like Jenny every question. "Lets get to it then" Jackie said with that evil grin of his. They ran in and Jackie started unloading into some rebels, dropping ten in the blink of an eye. He slashed another with a wing, gouged three with a large tendil, and consumed the hearts all at the same time. Chrysalis was struggling to keep up, there were far more rebels in Ewunig than there was in Yuigyfe. The rebels had taken down six of the military changelings, leaving the rest demoralized and weak. "You got yourself covered there, Chrysalis?" "Yeah-I got it." She reluctantly answers, blasting another rebel in half, blood and bits of organ flying every which-way. She had her own little grin, one of power, of hate. Jackie grabs one rebel and pins him, it, whatever to the ground, "Where is your boss?" He asks "Like I tell" Jackie slowly stabs a tendril into its leg. "Still...not" "Go for the wings, Jackie. Their very sensitive." Chrysalis suggests. The changeling looked back at Jackie with fear in it's eyes,pleading for Jackie to let it go. Jackie made a small incision and the rebel screamed painfully. "Okay! He in Ponyville!" Jackie gives the rebel a warm smile for answering, right before ripping it's wings in half. The rebel soon died very very painfully of blood loss. Jackie continued to rip through hundreds of rebels without hesitation, Chrysalis following suit. The town was soon cleared of rebels, leaving the ground blood soaked and Jackie tired. "Thank" A small baby changeling says, if Jackie had one weakness, it was children. He grinned in response, not one of evil, but of happiness. "My changelings, lend me your love so I may grow strong again" Chrysalis commands, she soon siphons red aura from the mass of civilian changelings and looks stronger, full of energy. "Thank you, your Queen appreciates your sacrifice." Jackie and Chrysalis soon take off, leaving a happy Ewunig to clean the mess. The rest of the military changelings stayed behind, their injuries handicapping them. An hour into the flight Jackie noticed Chrysalis looking him up and down. "Like what you see?" Chrysalis blushed deeply "I don't know what you're talking about" She responds quickly. "Whatever. We should stop for the night, even the holder of the greatest evil known to anything needs rest every once in awhile." Jackie begins his decent, towards a small cave. "She wishes to mate" "That's a very blunt way of putting it" Jackie laughs, somewhere deep down inside his corrupted form, he wished it could be, but it couldn't. "Blunt way of putting what?" "Nothing!" Jackie lays down soon after making a fire to keep himself and Chrysalis warm during the night. He sleeps for a couple hours before being awoken by Chrysalis sobbing.'Why you cry!' "Something wrong, Chrysalis?" "No...nothing wrong." She was lying "Yes there is, tell me so I can help." "It's just, I am going around my country killing rebels with a very nice alien that is harboring a demon that could rule the world on a whim but doesn't. The same alien comes from a world that views this one as a TV show, and the fact that I'm going to have to kill my own brother." She explains "Wow, I'm nice? Preposterous" Jackie says to try and make Chrysalis laugh, it works. "And us aliens are called 'humans'" "Why are you so nice to me? My own people are afraid of me, the neighboring country will kill me if they find me there, and I know I'm not pleasant to be around" "Of course you pleasant to be around, I wouldn't be here if you weren't. Your 'people' are scared because you have power, it's natural. Screw Equestria, you have Morphious." "How is it natural for your subjects to fear you?" "Well, Celestia gets away with it by acting motherly to her subjects, I got away with it by being friends with my mob members. You should try doing something like that." "I'll try. Thank you Jackie." "Well, sun'll be up soon and me and you are already up, so lets move out." They spend the next couple of hours flying towards Equestria. "Chrysalis, do changelings eat meat?" "We are omnivores, yes" "Good, I will not be able to live off of daisy sandwiches for the rest of my life" They fly for about four more hours before they stop to catch dinner, a deer. "I call the heart!" "Of course you do, Thought" Jackie laughs as he feed the heart to the serpent-like head protruding from his shoulder. The deer carcass was being cooked on a makeshift spit over a bonfire. "That smells delicious, even i can't live off of love forever." Chrysalis says before she takes a bite from her serving. "It tastes as good as it smells. How do you know how to cook so well?" "I'm Italian, it's in our blood." "Italian?" "It's a person with family from Italy, a country from my old world." "Oh, that's pretty neat." "Except for when your own family tries to kill you, it is pretty neat." They finished eating and threw the remains of their meal in a Manticore den. They then proceeded to fly for the rest of the day towards Ponyville. After the first initial hour they crossed the Morphious-Equestria border, they were making good time. "Do you want to take a different form so they don't 'kill you'?" Jackie asked, remembering the conversation from earlier. Chrysalis took the form of a sea-foam green pegasus with a pink mane. "My alias shall be 'Chrysi stars'" She tells Jackie. "You really just made that up on the spot?" "Yes I did" "Neat, that's a useful talent." They made it to the outskirts of New colt city before they made camp for the night, a simple camp fire in the middle of a gigantic field. "Goodnight, Chrysi" "Goodnight, Jackie" They soon fell asleep for many hours before they awoke, immediately taking off for Ponyville. "There are signs of my brothers presence in the area, but he has changed into something...darker, like he's not himself" "Huh, we'll have to look into that." Jackie said before increasing his speed. They made it to a war ravaged Ponyville to see Twilight being pinned down by a large changeling. "That's Feros! We must stop him before he kills the element!" Jackie sprints over to Feros and catches his tendril before it stabs into Twilight again. "Who dares?" "The names Jackie. I'm going to kill you now." Jackie says plainly before he rips the tendril off "What makes you think you could take me on?" "The fact that I am the holder of the greatest evil known to anything." Jackie brings out the serpent-like heads and grabs Feros. "Lies! I am corrption, the Darkness!" "You're an extension on the Darkness I hold the real copy. Now I'm going to take Corruption from you and keep him in me, for I can control him" Jackie says before plunging a tendril into Feros' chest. Instead of blood coming out, a black fluid leaks forth. Jackie continues to pull out a glowing dirty-blue orb and feeds it to one of the heads. "How is this..." Feros passes out. Jackie takes a knee next to Twilight and places a hand on her, he starts to channel some of his power into her to heal her, the wound is sealed shut soon enough, inciting a whimper from Twilight. "Is he...?" Chrysalis asks "No, I left him alive in case you wanted to let him live, or kill him personally" "I think I'd like to kill him myself" She says with a wicked grin. "What happened here?" Feros asks, waking up from his brief sleep. "You started a civil war against your sister, then invaded Equestria. Your sister is now about to kill you." Jackie states bluntly. "Oh, that sucks" He adds woozily. "Sleep well, my brother" Chrysalis says before slashing his throat with a jagged hoof, he gags for a couple of minutes before passing. "Where the hell am I?" "Corruption, welcome home. Meet Thought and Rage" "Okay, this is weird" "Whatever. Twilight, you alright?" Twilight gawks at the sight of the man in front of her, more than twice her size with serpent heads coming from his shoulders, covered in blood. "I-I'm f-fine" She stutters. "I know I look scary now, but when I clean the blood off...I'm still pretty scary" Twilight weakly laughs "Get away from her!" A rough voice shouts, Jackie turns to see a blue blur shooting towards him. He uses a rubbery tendril to catch it mid-air and sets it on the ground gently. He saw it was Rainbow blitz, or something like that. "Let me go so I can beat the hay out of you!" Jackie grabs a nearby rebel and rips it's spine out, "Do you really think you could beat me?" Jackie asks mockingly "N-no, you're a monster!" She screams. Jackie is knocked to the ground and punctured by needles in the blink of an eye 'That'll teach ya!" "Take that, Ruffian beast!" Jackie uses the same tendril to subdue Vanity and Appledash "Lemme go!" Appledash commands "Applejack, don't make him angry, I just watched him rip out a changelings spine" Rainbow advises "Really, Dash?" "Yes, he did" "That's so brutal!" "Hey hey hey! You shot me with needles, NEEDLES! Those things fucking hurt." "Girls, he may be brutal, but he's not a monster, he saved me from that demon." Twilight ensures. "If you're sure, sugarcube, I'll trust'em" "I'll try" Rarity whines. Jackie is hit YET AGAIN, by a scorching hot yellow laser. "Get away from my little ponies!" Celestia shouted, she was held in place by Chrysalis, or Chrysi. "He's not a monster! Stop attacking him before he kills you!" Chrysi says "How can you be sure?" "Because he has been helping me fight this war," Chrysi takes down her disguise to reveal herself as Queen Chrysalis "He has been helping the Queen" "Than he shall be imprisoned!" Applejack, Vanity, Rainbow, and Celestia all pounce on Chrysalis to immobilize her. "Get off of her!" Jackie commands, launching them all off with a dark pulse. "Let her explain what she did!" "Thank you Jackie-" "YOU MOTHERBUCKER!" Twilight screeches before pouning on Jackie for potentially hurting the Princess. "Get off me before I consume your heart." Jackie says calmly. Twilight promptly hops off. "Chrysalis, continue" "Well, the reason I sabotaged the wedding was because I need the love to make my changelings unbeatable-" "We know that. To use them to take over Equestria!" "No no, to help fight the war that was going on in Morphious, if the plan had succeeded, we would have won easily. But it doesn't matter anymore. Seeing how my ace in the hole here," She put a hoof on Jackie, "could kill anything. I'm truly sorry for troubling you, it was for the greater good though." she takes a breath before continuing "Could you ever forgive me?" "I think we may be able to, with time." Celestia ensures. "Thank you, Princess!" "Yeah yeah, so Celestia-" "You will call me Princess or Princess Celestia" "I will call what I damn please, seeing how you couldn't stop me if you tried. So Celestia, what else is happening on Equis that you haven't done anything to help with?" "Well, there is a slavery problem going on in Gem fido, diamond dogs are enslaving griffons. There is another alien trying to help there actually, his name is Griffon, he's a griffon." "Oh the irony. Well, maybe Chrysalis and I will go there and help out. Couldn't hurt to try." "Sounds like a plan." Chrysalis adds before kicking her dead brothers body. "One question though, which direction is Gem Fido?" "North" "Thanks" Jackie turns to leave when a yellow hoof stops him. "C-could I go with you?" Flutter-something asks "Even though I look so scary and have dark serpent heads coming out of my shoulder?" "Oh, if you don't want me to go with you, that's-" "No no, it's fine, but you will have to carry your own weight." "Thank you!" She looked happy, giddy almost. "Really Fluttershy? You want to go with the monster?" Rainbow asks "Yes, I think it will be fun." "Well than I'm going with you" "Me too" Applejacks says "Don't I get a say?" Jackie asks "Well?" "It's fine. But again, I will not carries another persons-ponies weight." "I have a feelin ya don't know me. I can pull mine and Fluttershy's weight" Applejack boasts "Anybody else?" "Could I come?" A small yellow filly with a red bow in her hair asks "No! Ya can't come with us" Applejack quickly responds "I Might catch up with you later" Twilight says. "As might I" Rarity adds "I'll go! I can plan the parties!" Pinkie says "Fine, that's all I'm taking with me." Jackie says before getting his wings back out. "Since you two can't fly," He points to Applejack and Pinkie, "I'll carry you, and Fluttershy, if you want, I'll carry you too" "That would be fine." She says with a blush. "Okay, let's set off for Gem Fido, if anybody has to use the restroom, now would be the time. I will drop you if you go on me. Curse my trust issues!Jackie and his new found 'family' flew towards Morphious in silence, after the all went to the little fillies room of course. "Tell me, why did you four want to join up with Chrysalis and I?" "Well...I wanted to join you to help keep Fluttershy safe." She was lying "And I joined up ta help Rainbow out." Applejack also lying, terribly. "I-I've always wanted to go on adventures, but I'm too weak to go on my own. When I saw how strong you were I decided that it would be my chance to go adventuring." (Insert d'aww picture of adventurer Fluttershy here) "I wanted to go because I think you kinda cute." Pinkie states bluntly. There was a silence following it. Chrysalis looked pretty miffed also, cute. "Okay, so Chrysalis, what is your plan for when we get to Morphious?" "Step one, Give proclamation stating the war is over. Step two, relax for a day or two. Step three, tell father he can go buck himself." Chrysalis almost sings. "Good for you, getting over your daddy issues." Jackie mocks. "Oh shut up. Daddy issues are better than uncle issues." Chrysalis chimes. "Don't. Fucking. Talk about that." Chrysalis opened a large emotional wound, more of a gash really. "Why? What happened?" Dash asks. "It's hard to explain, I wish I could just show you." "I could probably help with that." Chrysalis admits. "How?" "There is a memory reading spell I can perform that will let us watch the memories you let us like a TV show. If you will allow it, I can use it on you so we can watch what happened." "That's fine...I guess. Let's land first." Jackie swoops to the ground, Chrysalis and Dash following. Jackie was carrying Pinkie, AJ, and Fluttershy on his shoulders. Chrysalis let's them get settled in before she touches his forehead with her horn...and then she does the spell. (Wink) Jackie awoke in a black room surrounded by the mares wanting to watch. He tried to remember what happened exactly, and a screen popped up in the room.The memory plays. "I'm not going to let you see what happened before and after, because of the horror." - (end memory) Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, and Applejack were in tears. Pinkie was bawling, and Chrysalis was teary eyed as well. "That's...horrible. The Darkness took control of you after it?" Rainbow asked through her tears "Yeah, well, it tried. I wound up destroying it and keeping in dormant until recently. I am trying my damnedest to keep it under control, and it's working fine." "Was that Jenny?" Chrysalis asks, wiping away a tear "Yes, she was amazing. I lost it when she was murdered. I wanted to die with here, but the Darkness wouldn't let me." Jackie was hurting, bad. "Wait, you can't die?" AJ asks "I can, just not by other people, ponies, whatever. The Darkness will just bring me back." "Weird." "I'm sorry for your loss." Fluttershy sniffles "Don't be. I grew from her death, no matter how much it hurts, it was for the better." Jackie was fighting back tears at this point. "Who was that man?" "My uncle Paulie, that fat bastard tried to kill me, so i returned the favor. Jenny was murdered by a corrupted cop working for Paulie, he was ripped to shreds." Jackie laughed a cold laugh, filled with remorse and sadness. "I loved him like a father, my father was such an asshole. I do everything Paulie asks and he just turns around and blows me out of a window, with C4, C4! You wouldn't know, but it does NOT feel good. He wanted me dead more than anything." jackie was nearing the brink of his emotional wall. "There is nothing like that here in Equestria." AJ ensures. "That's another thing, life in Equestria is pretty much perfect, but in other places like Morphious and Gem Fido its terrible. Slavery in Gem Fido, and a recently stopped civil war in Morphious. None of you knew about it." "Well we knew about Gem Fido, we hunted Griffon for a while, we thought he was a bad guy." Rainbow insists. "Well, you still knew nothing of the situation in Morphious." "As bad as it sounds, that doesn't matter anymore" Chrysalis retorts. "Okay, but I'm still disappointing that Celestia wouldn't tell you of the outside world news" Jackie gives up. They exit his mind 'theater and continue towards Morphious. They walked for a long time before stopping to make camp. Jackie went to hunt a rabbit or a deer, but Fluttershy stopped him before he killed one. "Do you have to eat meat?" She asked "Well, no, I don't but I can't eat flowers." Jackie answers plainly. "But, if we can find some fruit, I wouldn't need to hunt, help me find an apple tree or something." They look around the immediate woods for some fruit and find a bushel of grapes and some apples. Looks like a deer has survived...for now... - They had their dinner and laid down for bed when Thought finally spoke up, "Wow, Jackie. First Chrysalis now the blue one, yellow, and pink. You truly are a ladies man" "Shut up, Thought. Before I mind murder you." Jackie sighed, 'My gift, and my curse.' He fell asleep in his jacket and woke up in another black room, there were three other Jackies there as well, one red, one purple, and one blue. "Welcome to our prison, Jackie" Rage said. Jackie was a little confused, why did they look like him? "Why do you keep us here? We need power, we need freedom." "I want out of here" "I can't let you out, it's too much of a risk, well, not as much as risk as it is an utterly retarded thing to even think about. You are all forms of the Darkness, an evil greater than Satan." "Ah Jackie, that hurts, it really does." Thought mocks "Go fuck yourself. If I let you out you'd kill everyone I... never mind. You'd kill everything with a pulse "Jackie, listen to me, do not find the moon princess! She will be the end of you!" Rage seemed actually concerned, scared even. "Don't listen to him, he is lying. Find her and you will be strong, godly even." "Jackie! Don't listen to 'Thought' He is not who he says he is! He is not 'Thought', he is Sadism!" Rage was scared, a form of the Darkness was scared. "Come now Rage, you are not in the right mindset." "I am not 'Rage'! I am Reason! Jackie, Sadism is trying to control you, don't let him." Jackie was a little concerned now. "Jackie...screw this. Give me control!" Thought, or, Sadism jump into Jackie, literally jumped into Jackie. - "GET OUT OF ME!" Jackie bellowed, waking the camp. "SADISM! GET OUT!" Jackie was in a crippling amount of pain as he started to morph into something...demonic. Half of his body was covered in a black, spiky scale-like material while the other was contorted and broken. "What's wrong, Jackie?!" Chrysalis called out. "Thought...is Sadism! He is trying to control...me again!" Jackie was struggling to stay in control "JUST GIVE UP, JACKIE. I WILL CONTROL YOU! Sadism was speaking through Jackie, he was winning. "What can we do?" Rainbow asks, teary eyed. "You can't help here! Just leave me be! I can handle this-" His voice falters, "NO YOU CAN'T! WE WILL WIN!" Pinkies mane looked deflated, Fluttershy was crying behind a shaken AJ while Rainbow was trying to bring Jackie to the ground. Chrysalis was hyperventilating with worry. Jackie was losing, until the most stereotypical, bad romance novel event saved him. Rainbow dash kissed him. Jackie reeled back in a mix of pain, shock, and disgust. He had just been kissed by a horse, pony, whatever! The black scale began to break away and his body fix itself up. "NO! I WILL NOT BE BEATEN AGAIN!" Sadism had been beaten, for now at least. "Are you okay?" Rainbow dash asked "Well I'm not being brutally mind raped by a form of the greatest evil to ever exist if that's what you're asking. But I was also just kissed by a pony, so I need a minute to recover." "It was that good?" "No! I was just kissed by a pony! Ponies are mindless animals where I'm from, it's illegal to have 'feelings' with ponies. It's weird as hell is what it is." Rainbow looked hurt. "Of course, the first person I make a move on and they hate me for it, nice one Rainbow." She scolds herself. "I'm sorry, Jackie. It's just, you're so awesome! And it's around that time of the year when all the mares start going into heat." "...Heat?" Jackie thinks for a moment, "Oh fuck me!" He shouts as he comes to a realization. "Gladly!" Pinkie says before she pounces, followed by Chrysalis, Rainbow, and Fluttershy. AJ pounced on Rainbow for some odd reason. "Not what I meant! Not what I meant!" Jackie, in all his years of being the holder of the Darkness, he went to hell and back without so much as flinching, he died hundreds of times, he killed millions of people, and he was terrified of four, heat crazed mares. 'SHITSHITSHITSHITSHIT' "You are all evil! taking advantage of me while I'm weak from Sadism. I will get you all back." "Don't care." They all said in unison. "I just don't know what went wrong!" Fuck you, NightmaresAnd then he woke up. "Oh thank you sweet baby jesus it was a dream! A nightmare really..." He looks up and sees the girls looking at him with concern. "Someone remind me what happened?" "Well, we all went to sleep, you woke us up with your yelling, you started turning into to some demonic creature, Rainbow kissed you, you hit the ground with a large thud and went to sleep." Pinkie answers "That is much better than what I thought happened." "Why? What did you think happened?" "Nothing! Not important. What time is it?" "I'd say around six or seven in the morning." AJ chimes. Rainbow was red eyed, along with Chrysalis. "Whats wrong with you two?" Rainbow takes a breath before answering, "I thought you were dead." "I already told you, the Darkness won't let me die, I've tried before." "I never want to see you have to go through pain like that again." Chrysalis says sadly "I've been through much worse, I've been shot more than nine thousand times, bullets hurt...a lot." "I'd wouldn't know." She laughs. "But still, I wouldn't know what to do with myself if it happened again and I still couldn't help." "Don't be getting soft on me now." Jackie mocks. He really wanted to jump of a cliff after what Chrysalis did next, she kissed him. "What is it with ponies and kissing me? Am I that irresistible?" Chrysalis looks away in shame. "I-I-I don't know why I did that..." "Calm down, it's alright." He would never admit it, ever, but he liked it. "You're not mad?" "Of course not. You think you're the first person to throw themselves onto me?" He looked at Rainbow. "Anyways, let's start towards Morphious so Chrysalis can get her business done, then we move on to Gem Fido." Jackie gets his wings out and picks up AJ, Pinkie, and Fluttershy. They flew in silence until they reached the Equestria/Morphious border. - "Ummm, what are you doing?" Fluttershy asked herself. While Jackie and the rest of them were doing paperwork, she went to the restroom. "It's obvious, why would he want to be with a weakling like you when he could be with Rainbow dash or Queen Chrysalis, people who can handle themselves in a fight." She was beating herself up over her feelings towards Jackie, "And why would you want to be with a monster like him? Oh yeah..." She thought of what Chrysalis had told her about Jackie being really nice under his tough shell. "Whatever, just forget it." She walked back to where the rest of the gang waited. "Have fun?" Jackie asked. Fluttershy just turned a shade of red and climbed back onto Jackie's shoulder. They took off and made it to Yuigyfe at sun down. "You all should go ahead and go to sleep, I'll stand watch." "You just need an excuse not to go to bed don't you?" "Exactly, can't risk waking up a demonic fuckhead." They all get comfortable when Fluttershy walks up to Jackie. "Oh, uh, hey." "Whats up, Fluttershy?" "N-nothing, I shouldn't have come over here..." "And why is that?" "I just wanted to talk, but I see that your busy so I'll just go now." "No no, you can stay. You know, when I watched your show with my niece, you were my favorite." She turned a deep red. "R-really? That's sweet of you to say." "Yeah, you made me think of Jenny, kind and gently, but assertive and strong when needed." "When I first saw you, I thought you would be mean, but you're really nice." "Huh, I tend to have that effect on people. Well, what is your opinion on working with Chrysalis?" "She was really mean at Shining armor's wedding, but if you trust her, I can." "She's not as bad as you think, she had a good reason. While she was in her civil war, she needed the love to make her changelings stronger so they could fight her brother's army." "Oh! I had no idea." "No one did. Well, it would be best for you to go to bed, can't have a sleepy Fluttershy if things go crazy, no matter how cute it would be....I have no idea why I said that." "Aren't you going to sleep?" "Nope, can't risk having to fight Sadism again." "I can stay up with you, if that's alright with you I mean." "if you're sure you can handle-*THUD*-aanndd she's asleep." Jackie sighs. 'She really is adorable when she sleeps' Jackie takes his jacket off and wraps Fluttershy in it. 'It's going to be a long night...' (So sorry for the short chapter, computer fucked up and deleted the 4,000 word original by restarting itself.) Daddy issues"So. Fucking. BORING!" Jackie exclaimed, causing Fluttershy to stir in her sleep. "We cooouuulldd.....kill things?" "No fuck you." Jackie was still pissed at Sadism, who wouldn't be? "I warned you about him, multiple times. But yet, you were and are a dumbass." "Fuck off." Jackie looked over to Fluttershy and saw her cute, little content smile. "Aww." "HHHHHHNNNNNGGGGGG" - (Two hours later) - "Quiet! You'll wake the campers." Something half-whispered. Jackie got closer and recognized the small party as Diamond Dogs. "Where are da gems?" Another dog asks. Jackie started to creep towards them when he noticed one of them was leading a small carriage full of chained up ponies. "I don't think there are any. Chain them up so they can be sold." The largest, the alpha presumably, commanded quietly. "Okay, Che-var, get the chains." A second dog says. A dog, Che-var most likely, returned from the cage with some chains and that is when Jackie decided to make himself known. He walked up to Che-var and calmly ripped his throat out without being noticed, leaving nothing but a limp, gargling body in a pool of blood and saliva. "Che-var? Oh...he's dead!" Someone called before being skewered through the jaw, sending teeth, blood, and meat flying into the open. "Were dropping like flies, boss! We need to-!" Silence. Silence followed by a sickening ripping sound as two parts of the dog's body is thrown near the leader. "One, two, three. Dead! Three of us dead, in seconds!" This dog was facing the leader, Jackie, from the shadow, sent one of the Darkness' head through his chest, causing the blood to splatter on the leader and letting him watch as it ate his buddy's heart. "Show yourself!" The leader shouted, loud enough to wake the camp. "What the...? Wait...is that a...body?!" Rainbow Dash said wearily when she woke up and looked at the carnage. "Girls! Body! Blood! Teeth!" "Huh?" Applejack yawned. "Oh...!" "Where are you?!" The leader repeated. Jackie stepped from the shadow and walked slowly towards the leader, leaving a trail of dead grass, flowers, and when he stepped over a body, he turned it into a skeleton. "Looking for me?" Jackie growled. The leader visibly wet himself. After cutting off his stream, the leader lunged at Jackie, stone knife in paw. Jackie sent four razor-sharp tendrils into the leader's wrists and ankles, suspending him in air. "Idiot." Jackie pulled the top two tendrils upward, and the bottom two downwards, resulting in a loud, messy, snapping and ripping sound to echo in the campsite. "Aren't you glad you decided to try and enslave my partners?" Jackie said to the quickly dying leader, exactly before he died. "What the hay happened?!" Rainbow exclaimed. "Oh, you know, just some Diamond Dogs trying to chain you up, don't thank me or anything." Jackie said plainly. "Oh...well...thanks." Rainbow said before passing out again. "What an odd filly." Jackie sighed. "Are ya gunna...clean up?" Applejack asks. "I've got nothing else to do, so yeah." Jackie noticed Chrysalis walking up to him. "Yeah?" Instead of talking, Chrysalis just threw her forelegs around Jackie's upper chest, she was taller, and hugged him. "Thank you...I know what slavery is like...and I don't like it..." Chrysalis hopped off and went back to sleep, AJ soon doing the same. Jackie turned his attention to the carriage full of ponies "Where are all of you from?" He asks "They got us from the outer area of Hoofington. Can you please let us out?" A tall, broad shouldered stallion says. "Yeah, here ya go." Jackie used a Darkness head to 'eat' the lock off "What are you, mister?" The same stallion continued to ask "Some call me a monster, some may call me a hero, but I'm just the holder of evil, nothing special." Jackie shrugs. "Thank you mister. You know, there is another doing this work, they call him Griffon the griffon. He's probably in Gem Fido by now, you should join up with him." The stallion rubs his forelegs where the cuffs where. "Maybe. Get home safely." Jackie started his way back. Jackie quickly made his way back to where Fluttershy slept, and saw her staring into the distance. "You okay, Fluttershy?" He asked. She drearily turned her head to him, "I'm fine...just really tired..." She said slowly, ending with a yawn. Jackie sat where he had originally. "Get some sleep, you need it." Jackie said. He was slightly startled when she fell asleep sitting up. "That is adorable." "DOUBLE HHHHHHNNNNNNNGGGGGGG" She slowly leaned sideways and plopped her head down on Jackie's lap, using him as a pillow. "My god, she is slowly giving me diabetes." "YOU'RE KILLING US! HHHHHHNNNNNNNGGGGGGG" - (Morning) - "Wake up girls!" Jackie shouted, waking everyone up. An hour earlier, he had placed Fluttershy near the fire after cleaning up the Diamond Dog mess. "Oh Rainbow~" Applejack moaned quietly enough to where only Jackie could hear. "What the hell?!" Jackie started laughing hysterically. Applejack shot up and invented a new shade of red with her face. "Don't worry, none of them heard. But I sure as hell did!" Jackie looked back at the rest of the crew and saw that everything, which was essentially nothing, was packed. "You girls ready?" Jackie asked. "Yeah, we're ready." Chrysalis answered for the girls. Jackie picked up Pinkie, AJ, and Fluttershy, letting Fluttershy ride on his shoulders. "We should arrive in a bout two hours." Jackie said before sprouting his wings. - (One and a half hours later) - "Hey Chrysalis, why exactly does your dad sound like a complete dunce?" Jackie asks. They had been flying in silence the entire time, except Fluttershy, she was using Jackie's head as a pillow "Please...stop...HHHHHHNNNNNNNNGGGGGGG" "He wanted another boy, but he got me. He beat me constantly, if it wasn't for him," She laughed sadly, "I'd never be the way I am now, my brother would have taken control, and everything would have been different, worse, but different. He was always a jerk." Chrysalis wiped her eye. "I'm glad you're coming with me, he will probably attack, or send some guards on us." She looked at Jackie with a set of puppy dog eyes. "Eh...semi-HHHHNNNGGG" - (Front door of Chrysalis' father's house.) - "Should we wait out here?" Rainbow asks. "You girls wait out here, me and Chrysalis will talk to her father." Jackie says, Chrysalis nodding in agreement. They walk in and spot Chrysalis' father reading in his kitchen. "Chrysalis?" He started "What are you doing here? Shouldn't you be directing an ant hill? Or being the failure you naturally are? Who is your friend?" "I'm here to tell you something important. I am the Queen of the Changelings and you will respect that. I am not a failure, you are. This is Jackie." She answered quickly. "Oh, I'm the failure? Name one thing you've ever done right. What is Jackie, he doesn't look anything special, like a wimp if I'm honest." He father retaliated. "Yes, you are. One thing I've done right is leading this empire, not the invasion, just leading the empire. Jackie is human and could kill Celestia if he wanted to. Now, what I have to tell you is-" "Wait. How am I a failure, you incompetent shrew! I should kill you where you stand!" He levitates a sword from over his mantle to himself. "I'm not scared of you. Now I'm trying to tell you that-" "Liar! You are horrified of me!" "No I'm not! I'm trying to tell you that I killed-" "I should have done this a long time ago!" He shot the sword down at lighting speeds, but it was caught by one of Jackie's tendrils wrapping around the blade. "Don't even think about it." Jackie said as coldly and menacingly as he could. "What the hell?!" Chrysalis' father shouted. "Oh, another thing I've done right, I befriended the keeper of the greatest evil to have ever existed." Chrysalis says, as if on cue, Jackie releases around twenty tendrils and made the Darkness head roar in her fathers's face. "Holy..." He mumbles. "Yeah dad, this is real. Jackie here controls-" "More like 'harbors'" Jackie pipes up "Harbors the Darkness, an evil entity that could kill all of Equestria, Morphious, Gem Fido, and the Dragon Badlands without trying. Oh, and he doesn't show mercy." Chrysalis added, Jackie smiled evilly. He was actually starting to like Chrysalis. But, he liked Fluttershy as well... polygamy?(That is this chapter's question) "I've never heard of that before! It is not of this world!" Her father argued. Jackie got into his face, pulled an evil grin and whispered, "I know..." "Well, what I'm trying to tell you is, I killed brother the other day, he was corrupted by the Darkness, Jackie is the same way, but he has control over it." Chrysalis sighed. "He's...dead?" Her father sounded saddened. "Yes dad, he is dead, but he deserved it by enslaving his own people. Now, me, Jackie, and four of the Elements of Harmony are off to Gem Fido to try and liberate the griffons from the Diamond Dogs." Chrysalis turned to leave and Jackie followed. "That was fun, should we rest for a day? Or just go ahead and move-what the fuck!" Jackie looked at his chest and saw the sword in his chest. He reached for the handle and yanked it out of his back, expertly hiding the searing amounts of pain. "I take it THIS," He threw the sword at her father, skewering his fore-leg, "is yours?" "Lets go, Jackie." Chrysalis nudged him out. - (An hour later, at a nearby hot spring.) - "This is so awesome!" Rainbow exclaimed. While Rainbow did jumps and dives, Applejack just relaxed and enjoyed the view. Pinkie was splashing around, and Fluttershy was sun bathing. Chrysalis was in the shade scribbling something on a piece of paper. Jackie was in just his pants, and occasionally he would see all but AJ sneaking peeks, staring really. "Hey, um, Jackie?" Chrysalis started when she walked to him. "Yeah, Chrysi?" Jackie said, looking straight at her. She help up the paper she was scribbling on: Well....shit."Well...the answer is...." Jackie started. He was going to toy with Chrysalis. Pause for dramatic effect. "No." "No...? Okay..." "Kidding! Yes, the answer is yes." Jackie laughed. "You're so mean!" Chrysalis punched Jackie in the arm playfully. "I'm not mean! I'm playful. Anyways, we'll stay here for the night and set towards Gem Fido in the morning." Jackie heard Chrysalis pout. "What's wrong?" "Do we have to go to Gem Fido? This Griffon guy seems like he has it under control. I'd like nothing more than to stop fighting and try to have a normal life." Chrysalis suggests. "We don't have to, we could just head back to Ponyville or Canterlot, somewhere." "That'd be nice, let's do that." Chrysalis took a seat near Jackie. "Girls!" Jackie shouted, getting the attention of the rest of the girls. "Change of plans! We are no longer heading to Gem Fido. We're heading back to Ponyville!" Jackie stated. "Awww, do we have to?" Fluttershy whines. "It'd be too dangerous anyways." Jackie adds. "I suppose 'at makes sense." AJ shrugs. "I really wanted to kick flank though!" Rainbow whines. "LETS HAVE A PARTY!" Pinkie screams. "Not now, Pinkie. We'll make camp here for the night and set back towards Ponyville in the morning." Jackie sits back down and everyone goes back to what they were doing. - (Hours later) - "Fuck it! I'll try sleeping again!" Jackie says. "Jackie, problem, BIG problem!" "What do you assholes want?" Jackie says, getting confused looks from the gang. "I can't find Sadism! He's just...gone" "What!?!?! HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE!" Jackie booms "I can't find him either." "WHAT THE FUCK!" "Jackie! What's wrong?!" Chrysalis asks. "Sadism, he's gone! Just gone!" Jackie was panicking a little. "Sadism?" The girls all ask in unison. "You know the other day, when my body was flipping the fuck out?" "Yeah?" They say in unison "That was Sadism, the most dangerous personality of the Darkness. He's gone and it is seriously not good, and by that I mean, NOT FUCKING GOOD!" Jackie shouted. "How can he just be gone?" Rainbow asks. "I DON'T KNOW! Whatever, I'm too tired to deal with this right now. Let's just get some sleep and deal with it in the morning." Jackie tries to calm down and sits near a tree. "Fluttershy? Who are you talking to?" Chrysalis asked after noticing Fluttershy talking to herself a ways away from Jackie and the girls, she looked paler. "Oh! No one. Just talking to myself." Fluttershy hastily answers. "Alright. Try to get some sleep." Chrysalis says before walking back towards Jackie. "Hey Chrysalis, whats up?" Jackie yawns "Nothing. Just wanted to talk." "What about?" Jackie sits up a bit more. "I don't know. How do you feel about the Darkness?" Chrysalis asks "The thing is fuckin evil! Well, it's not evil itself, it was just corrupted by evil people who held it before me. There is another being like the Darkness, that is being held by someone I don't know back on Earth. The Angelus. Basically the opposite of the Darkness in every way. I don't know that much about it, so I can't explain it that well." Jackie yawns again. "Let's get some sleep." Chrysalis snuggles up to Jackie and they try to fall asleep. "One more thing." "Yes?" Jackie says, half-asleep. "Fluttershy was talking to herself, and she looked different, like something changed her." Chrysalis said. Jackie's eyes shot open. "What?" - (Meanwhile) - "It's true...he loves her, not you...I can make him love you..." "As much as I'd like that, it's his choice." "You deserve him! Let me make him love you!" "If you really want to..." "YYYEEEESSSSSSSS!!!!" I didn't want to write this"Equine are dumber than humans!" "That not very-" Fluttershy's supposed one-sided conversation was cut short by a sharp snap, her wings snapped in half. She was screaming in octaves not thought possible. "Embrace the Darkness and the pain will end!" "P-p-p-please! M-m-m-make it s-stop! I'll Do whatever! Just make it stop!" Fluttershy stammered. "I am giving you a new form, stronger." Several more snaps and tears were heard as Sadism re-made the once cute and innocent Fluttershy into...something. "Fluttershy!" Jackie shouted when he arrived. He saw Fluttershy being converted by the Darkness, like when the Darkness took Jackie, made him...different, darker. "What did you do!" "I was given an offer I could refuse. An offer you should have taken years ago, Jackie!" Fluttershy was gone, all that was left was Sadism. "What going on?" Rainbow Dash wearily asked, she had already been asleep when she heard the shouting. "F-fluttershy?" Rainbow looked intensely crestfallen. She looked and saw her best friend, the friend that grew up with her, went to flight school with her, and helped her fix the oh-so many injuries she collected in her life, turn into a monster. "Fluttershy! Make a Pinkie promise you'll stop!" Pinkie pleaded "How would that help anything?" Sadism asked, honestly confused. "Just entertain her!" Jackie shouted. Unbelievably, Sadism did what was told. "Cross my heart and hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye." He half-heartily did the motions, but it counted. (>:D It counted soooooo much...fuck you Sadism) "So you'll stop now?" Pinkie asked. "No, are you stupid?" Sadism laughed. There was a large crack of lightning. "Let Fluttershy go!" Jackie demanded. "What are you going to do? Hit me? You wouldn't hit your fr-*SMACK*" Sadism was knocked back by Jackie hitting him with a tendril. "My friend is gone. Now its just, THIS fucker!" Jackie sent another tendril at Sadism, but it was caught by Sadism and Jackie was flipped over his shoulder. "You can't fight him Jackie, not without giving in yourself." "It's either, let the world be destroyed by the Darkness, or I give into to the Darkness and the world is destroyed by the Darkness, IT'S A TOTAL WIN-WIN SITUATION!" Jackie boomed sarcastically "You said it yourself, we are not evil, we were just used by too many evil people and we were corrupted! Well, Sadism took the all the corruption to himself. He is the evil one!" "I don't know if I can trust you." Jackie tried to stand, but was smashed back down by one of Sadism's own tendrils. "Do you honestly have a choice?" "Shut up and let me think." Jackie sat in his mini-crater and started to think of a plan. 'What was it called? Made that evil pony good again? Element of...elements have...Elements of...Elements of Harmony! That's it! If I give into the Darkness and rid Fluttershy of Sadism, the Elements can rid the Darkness of it's control of me. There we go! But wait, didn't something say that the head pony, queen something, can use the elements? She could take Fluttershy's place and the rest of the elements can use the Harmony things on Fluttershy and get rid of Sadism.' "Jackie! What are you doing!" Chrysalis screams. "Never mind! I have a plan! AJ and Pinkie, get on!" Jackie runs over to where AJ and Pinkie were and they climbed onto his shoulders. "What are you doing, Jackie!" Rainbow screamed, in tears. "I have a plan, Rainbow, go get Twilight and Rarity and meet us in Canterlot, just hurry!" Jackie sprouted his wings and took off towards Canterolt with Chrysalis. Rainbow took off as fast as she could towards Ponyville. "Cowards..." Sadism growled (This is how I imagine a Darkness controlled Fluttershy to look) The death of Fluttershy?(JUST KIDDING!) Rainbow Dash flew through the night sky as fast as she could, close to a Sonic Rainboom. She was about thirty minutes from Ponyville, from Rarity and Twilight. "What's wrong, little Dashie?" An unknown voice chimes. "Who are you?" Rainbow asks the voice. "An old friend, now, what has you so down?" "It's Fluttershy! She's been taken by...something, all I know is she is different now, darker. She's not Fluttershy anymore!" Rainbow slowed down, her eyes were fogged by tears. "Even I'm not that evil. What is this power called?" "I think it's called the Dark. It was in Jackie at first, but it somehow got into Fluttershy and now she's...evil." "How do you know she is evil? Maybe the Dark just made her stronger?" The voice sounded concerned "Jackie said that the Dark had different parts to it, the one that took Fluttershy is the worst." Rainbow could see the dim light of Ponyville ahead. "How strong is it?" "Well Jackie told us that it, well, he has killed tens of thousands with it. He has these things, he calls them 'guns', they are like little cannons you can hold with your hooves that can kill almost anything, the people he faced have better guns, that can kill anything. But that's not what the Dark does, the Dark can kill anything that can die, even some things that can't, like Discord, Celestia even! And now that it has Fluttershy, not Jackie who can control it, it could destroy the world!" Rainbow was in tears now. "Even...Discord? Nothing can...kill...Discord!" The voice sounded scared. "C-Celestia too?" "That's why we have to stop her! It! I'm scared! I don't want her to die!" Rainbow went from being in tears to straight up sobbing. "That isn't going to happen Dashie, I won't let it, I run this universe and I won't let it. I've created a monster that must be stopped." The voice suddenly stopped as he went back to work. Rainbow Dash could start to see buildings on the horizon. "I won't let you die, Fluttershy. I won't" Rainbow Dash sped up a within seconds, broke the sound barrier, creating her fourth Sonic Rainboom and launching her towards Ponyville faster than ever. "Rarity first." She murmured. - (Carousel Boutique [Holy shit I spelled it right!]) - "Sweetie Belle! GO TO BED!" Rarity screamed, Sweetie Belle was jumping on her bed instead of sleeping in it. "Do I have to?" Sweetie pleaded *BBOOOOOOOOMMMMMMM* "What was that?!" Sweetie hastily asked. "Just Rainbow Dash doing something unladylike." Rarity scoffed. "Why can't she be normal, like me?" "You know what? Nobody want's to be like you. You're boring!" Sweetie shouted, Rarity was always like that. "Oh no! Dirt! Oh, you want to have fun? Fun is so unladylike!" Sweetie mimicked Rarity's voice. "Sweetie! How rude! Apologize right now!" Rarity said, clearly shocked. "No, it's the truth and the truth hurts!" Sweetie blew a raspberry at Rarity. *KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK* "Who could that be?" Rarity thought aloud. "Rarity! Open up!" Rainbow shouted harshly. "Ask like a civilized pony! Say please!" Rarity shouted back. "OPEN THIS BUCKING DOOR RIGHT BUCKING NOW!" Rainbow boomed near RCV level (Royal Canterlot Voice) "Fine...fine." Rarity scoffed again. She opened the door and found a red-eyed Rainbow Dash. "Oh dear, have you been crying?" "Of course not! Why would I...yes! Yes, I've been crying!" Rainbow stammered. "Whatever for? It must be horrid if Rainbow admits she cried about it." Rarity tried to joke. "It's Fluttershy, we need to get the Elements from Twilight and meet Jackie in Canterlot." Rainbow grabbed Rarity and carried her towards Twilight's library. "What happened to Fluttershy?" Rarity asks, hanging on by a fore-leg. "She was...was..." Rainbow starts to choke up again. "Oh..." Rarity's eyes started to fog. Rainbow stopped on Twilight's doorstep and saw all the lights were out, she was asleep. "TWILIGHT!" Rainbow tapped on her window. "Rainbow? What are you doing here?" Spike asked from a lower window. "Wake up Twilight for me!" Rainbow went from small taps to banging. "Rarity? What's goin' on?" Spike turned his attention to the mare of his dreams. "It's Fluttershy...she's gone." Rarity sniffled. "Buck it!" Rainbow shouted, she brought a hoof back and punched the window, breaking it. She walked briskly over to where Twilight lay, got real close to her ear..."WAKE THE BUCK UP!!!" Twilight sprang out of her bed like a jack in the box. "What the hay!" Twilight stammered groggily. "Rainbow? What are you doing here? I thought you were going along with Jackie?" "Fluttershy...she's gone." Rainbow chocked out. "She's missing?" Twilight was really dense. "No...she's gone." Rainbow repeated. "Get the Elements, including Fluttershy's, and then you need to teleport yourself, me, and Rarity to Canterlot to meet up with Jackie, Pinkie, AJ, and Chrysalis." "Okay, give me a couple minutes to find them." Twilight wasn't grasping the full concept. - (ten minutes later) - "Rainbow c'mon, I found them." Twilight walked down the stairs into the main room. "Rarity, let's go. Spike you might not want to go." Rainbow said in a sad, steady monotone. "Yeah, I'll just stay here...clean I guess." Spike walked back upstairs. "Rarity, Rainbow, put on your Elements and stand near me." Twilight already had her tiara on when she floated the two corresponding Elements to Rarity and Rainbow. Rainbow puts her's on before Rarity and takes a seat next to the half-asleep Twilight, Rarity soon follows. "Alright, hold onto your lunch." - (Canterlot, main atrium) - "You just don't get it, do you Celestia?" Jackie scorned. "Fluttershy, your Element of Kindness, has been corrupted by a murderous demon that I have to harbor. She isn't Fluttertshy anymore. But I need you to use her Element when Twilight brings them here." Jackie explains for the third time. "I just need a little time to take this in...don't you? Knowing that a friend has passed?" Celestia sighs sadly. "Yeah it's sad, but I don't have time to grieve, grief is for the weak." Jackie spits out coldly. "While I don't entirely agree with your take on grief, there is no time for it now. Please, inform me of your plan." Celestia was just going to bed when Jackie barged in. "I remember that you can use the Elements, correct?" Jackie starts. "Yes, I can under circumstances." Celestia answers "Well, when the rest of the Elements get here, Twilight with the Elements themselves, I want you to use Fluttershy's. When you all have your respective Elements, I will go out and try to lure Sadism to this atrium." Jackie explains. "I see. But what will we be using the Elements on?" Jackie face-palmed when he realized he hadn't explained. "You will be using them on Fluttershy, well, what was once Fluttershy. I have a feeling that if you use the Elements on Sadism, what is controlling Fluttershy, it will separate him like it did with Luna and Nightmare. But if it doesn't...I need you to use it on me once I give in to destroy Sadism, if it doesn't work I mean. It would turn me to stone like it did Discord." Jackie takes a breath. "But let's not dwell on the negative possibilities." "That's very noble, Jackie. Willing to sacrifice yourself for a friend." Celestia...she was an idiot at times. "No, I wouldn't be 'sacrificing' myself for Fluttershy, by 'destroying' Sadism, it would mean complete and utter destruction of Fluttershy, I wouldn't be saving her, I'd be killing her, in a way she is already dead. I'd be 'sacrificing' myself for everyone else on the planet. But be warned, when I bring Sadism here, there will be blood, pony blood, a lot of your guards and ponies will most likely be slaughtered. I need you to start evacuating the surrounding area of here, now." Jackie stands, "I think I hear Twilight and the rest, go get Fluttershy's Element and wait here." Jackie walks to where the rest of the girls sat, "Chrysalis?" "Yeah Jackie?" Chrysalis was just sitting alone, still not fully accepted by the rest of the girls. Jackie stepped closer and gave her a quick kiss. "Wish me luck, I'm about to do something stupid." Jackie laughs "What are you about to do?" "Die." - (East Everfree, two miles from Canterlot) - "Jackie thinks he can stop ME, that's a laugh." Sadism was talking to himself. "Are you sure about that? You should be scared you know." "Fluttershy? How are you talking? And why should I, the Darkness, be scared?" "You broke a Pinkie Pie Promise." "The Darkness is scared of no measly pony!" "And, you've said it yourself, you are not the Darkness, only a part of it, Jackie has two parts, therefor, he is stronger." "Quiet! Or I'll-" "What could you possibly do? I'm already dead!" "True, but who said the dead couldn't suffer?" "LOOK OUT DICK-BAG!!" Jackie shouted as he landed a boot to Sadism's head. "Jackie! I'm Going to kill you!" Sadism snarled. "Wouldn't be the first time!" Jackie laughed. "Come and get me, douche-bag!" Jackie hovered (with his wings of course) just out of Sadism's reach. Sadism flapped his pair of wings and flew quickly after Jackie, Jackie was quicker. Jackie flew towards Canterlot, Sadism following Dangerously close. - (Main atriunumnnmnmnmnmnmn) - "What did he mean when he said...die?" Chrysalis asked slowly. Celestia walked into the room bearing Fluttershy's Element and sat near Twilight. "He said it was close to a sixty to forty ratio of him dying if the Elements don't work to expel Sadism from Fluttershy. He would have to give himself up to the Darkness to...kill...Fluttershy, er, Sadism. We would then have to use the Elements on him to turn him to stone, like we did Discord. It almost sounded like he welcomed the thought of death. He said himself not to dwell on the negatives, so let's not do that." Celestia explains. "Oh...Let's hope your Elements work as good on Sadism as they did on me than!" Chrysalis laughs. - (Above the Atrium) - "Shit!" Jackie exclaimed as a tendril landed a hard blow to his back. Jackie could see the girls from a glass panel on the roof. "You will BOW to me!" Sadism demanded. "Ha..no." Jackie coughed. Jackie was a little to slow and got smashed downwards towards the atrium. He slowed himself enough to where he wouldn't crash through the roof, but would alert the Elements that he was there. "Just accept that you have lost!" Sadism put on a wicked grin. "No." Jackie said plainly. Sadism snarled before trying to hit Jackie, his attack was countered by Jackie opening a mini-Black hole to throw Sadism off balance. The Black hole ripped a whole in the roof as well. "Jackie!" Chrysalis screamed from below. "Are you alright?" "I'm fine! Start charging the Elements or something!" Jackie commanded. The Elements start glowing dimly, the light slowly building up. "I will rip out your heart! DIE!" Sadism pounced on Jackie and was on the verge on biting out his heart when an absolutely massive crack of lighting crossed the sky. "What was that?" "YOU BROKE A PINKIE PIE PROMISE!!!" Pinkie boomed over RCV level, shattering windows. She jumped behind Sadism and brought a heavy fore-hoof down on his skull. "This one has power, power that I can use." Sadism growled quietly and grabbed Pinkie, teeth bared. "No you don't motherfucker!" Jackie used a maw to bite Sadism's face before using a dark tendril to smash him through the roof. "That...actually hurt." Sadism was surprised, he hadn't experienced actual pain in long time. When he looked up from his pile of rubble, he was staring into the barrels (PewdiePie: BARRELS!!!) of multiple Darkling's chain-guns. "Open fire!" Jackie commanded from the Elements side, Pinkie safely with them. The Darkling's guns spun to life and the atrium was soon filled with a deafening drone of gunfire. Jackie could see Sadism losing little chunks off flesh gradually every second, Jackie was winning. "You didn't think it would be that easy would you! Bullets can not kill me!" "I wasn't trying to kill you, I was trying to stall you." Jackie let out a small laugh, coughing up blood in the process. He steeped to the side and dismissed his Darklings. "Stall? Stall for what!" There was a bright flash of light as the Elements discharged into a massive beam of Pure light, directed entirely at Sadism. The beam of Friendship (I laughed for a good three minutes after righting that) hit Sadism sending him into a wall. "Did it work?" Celestia asks, panting. "I don't know." Jackie walks over to Sadism and saw... Problem SolvedJackie hefted a larger piece of rubble off Sadism and saw...he was still breathing. Fluttershy was still Sadism. "What? I...I can't move!" Sadism said painfully "Huh..." Jackie noticed two lights pouring from Sadism's wounded chest. "Purple and Yellow?" Jackie thought aloud. He reached a hand inside and pulled out two small orbs, one purple, one yellow. "What're those?" AJ asked. "If I had to guess...Sadism and Fluttershy." Jackie picked up the dead body of Sadism and carried it over to Celestia. "Any way to fix this thing up?" "No, sadly. The body is dead, completely dead, no way to heal it." Celestia choked out. Jackie stared at the orbs intensely, thinking. "She's dead?" Rainbow was in tears again. "In a sense." Jackie was putting something together, a plan of sorts. "What do you mean?" Twilight was intrigued. "Well, you see the orbs, the purple one is Sadism, a piece of the Darkness, the other is yellow, Fluttershy, Sadism can't die because he is not physically able to, he is not a physical form capable of death. When he took over Fluttershy, he pushed her into a non-physical form, making her not capable of death. I removed them from the body, so they'd survive, while they can't die themselves, they can die if they are in physical form. Basically, I can now make Fluttershy a part of the Darkness, but I'm not going to. Sadism in one hand, Fluttershy in the other, I plan on getting rid of Sadism and keeping Fluttershy until something can be done about her." Jackie explains. "How is that possible?" Twilight was dumb-founded. "And how will you discard of 'Sadism'?" "He can't take control of anyone unless they let him in. Celestia, do you think you could bury this somewhere far underground? As in hundreds of miles?" Jackie asks "I suppose I could." Celestia sniffles. "Jackie, I have an Idea!" Chrysalis starts. "What is it?" Jackie tossed Sadism to Celestia, who placed it in the safe-box originally used for the Elements. "Remember when Fluttershy was first taken by Sadism? He made her look different simply by being in charge of her body. You could make one of your Darklings and tell it to let Fluttershy take control of it, it should re-form into that of Fluttershy and BOOM. Problem solved." Chrysalis smiles smugly. "That's...genius!" Jackie exclaims. Fluttershy Reborn through Darkness (FINALE)"I don't think that little pony could handle hearing the voices in her head" "She'll be fine." Jackie shrugs "Who're you talking to, Jackie?" Twilight asks, she had forgotten the Jackie has several voices in his head. "Ugggh, can't you like, put some sort of amplification spell in my head so you can hear him?" Jackie suggests. "That would be a neat experiment!" Twilight was excited. She hit Jackie in the temples with a lavender beam and Jackie felt his throat swell a tiny bit. "Well, side effect! By letting whatever is in your head speak, it gave you a second voice-box." "Fuckin' greeeaaat." Jackie grumbles "What Darkling should we use?" Rage asks in his evil, dragging voice. Everyone(save Jackie) in the room jumped, the voice they heard was not what they were expecting. "I think a normal one should suffice." Jackie answered. A Darkling portal opened nearby, letting a single Darkling to pop out. "Holy me! That thing is horrifying!" Celestia stated as she returned from the other room. The Darkling sat new Jackie as if it was a dog. Jackie held the orb to the Darkling, who took it in his dirty claws. "Do you hear the voices?" Jackie asks the Darkling. It nodded. "Let those voices enter your mind, believe in them, I don't know." Jackie shrugs again. The Darkling squints it's eyes at the orb, which grew brighter by the minute. "Nothings happening" Rage pointed the obvious. The Darkling squeezed the orb a little and it popped like a soap bubble. The ponies, and Chrysalis, gasped. Jackie had a feeling in his gut that told him that this wasn't the end of it. "Girls? Why are you taller now?" The Darkling asked in the sweet, musical voice of Fluttershy. "Odd, she is the Darkling now, but still looks like the Darkling. Oh wait, never mind." Jackie smiles when he hears the bones breaking and Fluttershy screaming in pain. (Holy shit that's morbid) - (two hours later) - "So, I died?" Fluttershy asks, back to normal, like it never happened. "In a way. But that's not important." Jackie yawns. "Celestia, where did you put Sadism?" "Twenty miles underground in a magic resistant bunker." Celestia answered groggily. "Huh, he shouldn't get out any time soon." Jackie gets up and sits back down beside Chrysalis. "Tell me, house in Ponyville, Morphious, or Canterlot?" He asks her. "I think Ponyville would be nice." Chrysalis snuggles up to Jackie, "We'd need to get jobs to pay for it though." "Jobs? I just saved the entire planet, universe maybe, from being destroyed by Sadism, and I still have to get a job? Yep, seems legit." Jackie laughs. "Don't worry, I'll get you two a house for your troubles." Celestia gets up, "I have stayed up way too late, and need to sleep." She says before walking towards her bed-chamber. "Well that's nice of her." Jackie puts an arm around Chrysalis. - (One year later) - Jackie and Chrysalis lived happily in their two-story home, payed for by Celestia. Nothing really happened, other than a single Diamond Dog raid, but they were, as to be expected, slaughtered. Chrysalis had gotten a job as the Ponyville substitute teacher, the foals were scared of her at first of course, but they soon warmed up to her. Jackie had several odd jobs around Ponyville, fix this, take me there, help me clean, put this thief in his place, you know, slow things. Jackie had saved up enough bits to buy an engagement ring for Chrysalis and was just trying to think of a way to propose when it happened. "The Darkness Lives, Jackie. The Darkness lives..."
Let us free Jackie!"Fuck!" Jackie shouted as he hold a hand on the massive shotgun hole in his chest. "Jackie...We can help you if you feed us..." "Fuck that...you'd sooner prey in a church made of flashlights. I'll be fine on my own" "...feed us..." Jackie says nothing in response, just tries to stand. The shotgun wound was one of many he had, but the worst. He had rounded a corner in the Dicasies warehouse and boom, a random druggie Dicasie was there, holding a smoke barreled shotgun, observing the limp figure on the ground. Well, he was, before the same figure leaned up and put a bullet in his head. Now Jackie was as useful as a bag of potatoes in the middle of the ocean. "If I let you two out, you'd just use me like you did last time, no deal" He says while slowly getting up "You will die without us..." Jackie is up on his feet now, and hobbling towards the exit, "I'll be f-fine" He argues, "I'm not letting you demented little fuckers out of your cage unless I really need it" He opens the exit door, to see ten or twenty of his family members waiting for him, ready to fight. He blinks away the warm light in his eyes and realizes see that they weren't his family, they were Dicasi. "Oh fuck me!" "Do you need us?...." "As much as I will hate myself for it later-" He is astonished by the fact that they haven't shot yet, "-Go nuts" "YYYYYESSSS" Without a moments hesitation, a familiar, and horrid chill forms on Jackie's shoulder blades as the Darkness's draconic heads erupt from their mental prison. "Oh fuck, Oh fuck, Oh Fuck!" A dicasi screams before his jaw is impaled by a razor sharp tendril. Five or six Dicasi pussies throw there guns to the floor and run, while the rest open fire, riddling Jackie with many more jagged holes, but no blood comes forth, only more similar tendril, that soon find their targets, legs, arms, necks, eyes, and dig in. Jackie was basking in the power, the power he hated to love. "yyyeesss...yyyyeeeeesssssss!" The Darkness was having a field day, sliding as many hearts as it could down it's long throat, each heart making it more and more powerful. Once all the Dicani in the room were dead and heartless, the Darkness gave Jackie a warm, wicked grin, one that he returned without hesitation. 'Jackie, what are you doing! Control them before they control you!' He thought to himself after snapping out of his euphoric state. "I still need you to fix me up, the shotgun hole along with the new ones" Jackie tells the Darkness when he feels the searing hot pain return in his chest. "You did not think we would let you sssuffer did you?" The searing pain is replaced by one of ungodly proportions as the new skin is so suddenly ripped over the wounds, stopping the blood and pain within seconds. "You...are assholes" Jackie grunts, recovering from the ungodly pain that crossed his chest. The Darkness fills the silent room with it's sickly laughing. "We need more!" "You will wait! I am still the holder, that means I control you!" Jackie explains angrily. "You two have tried to control me before, and it will not happen again. Is that clear?" "You dare demand us?! We are the manifestation of evil, of corruption, of death!" The Darkness was fuming, like a toddler who couldn't have any more playtime. "Aw, whats wrong? You don't like having a boss?" "You are not our master! We have let you control us! But now, it's our turn" Two tendrils appear and go up to Jackie's neck, barely pricking him. "Idiots, if you kill me, you'll die too" "Will we? We will simply transfer to your next of kin, when it grows old enough we will control it, use it to kill everything!" "I don't have a-" Jackie couldn't finish on account of the tendrils ripping apart his throat. "You could have lived if you-" "You fool! He does not have a child!" "What of the female? He did not impregnate her? Curses!" "She was deliciously murdered before he had the chance" "For the first time in the history of existence, there will be no darkness, we cannot live without a holder" "The angelus is going to love this" Jackie laid there, blood pouring from his neck, slowly drifting into death, but still managed to croak his last words out; "yu....mutrfukrs...gon wit meh" He laughed weakly before accepting death. The Darkness soon follow, puffing into a cloud of dark purple "Tia!" Luna shouts worriedly "What, Luna?" "There are reports that the changeling queen is back in Equestria, shall we send scouts?" "We cannot, we need all the hooves we can muster to repair Canterlot as fast as possible" Celestia explains "Okay, I understand, we will simply wait until it's time" Luna says tiredly "I must head to bed now, can't raise the moon dead tired." She adds before walking off towards the castle. "I feel a more dangerous force is in Equestria, one that could destroy everything. The odd part is, it could also be used to help, What will it do?" Celestia was worried, the force could easily kill her and her sister, it was a force of pure hate, of pure destruction, of bloodlust. It would kill without hesitation, given the chance, but something was holding it back, keeping it under control, and it was losing the fight for control. If this evil got control, who knows the amount of damage it would cause, millions? Billions? Every last creature? She could not be sure. She started writing a letter to her student when she located where it would be: Dear Twilight Sparkle, Be on the lookout for anything suspicious, there is a dangerously powerful force near Ponyville, if you see it, don't approach, it is considered highly violent. Instead of approaching, get a message to me a soon as you can Your worried teacher, Princess Celestia "Be careful, my little ponies"
...What...Jackie awoke with a loud gasp, "What the fuck!" He shouted as he felt his neck, perfectly unscathed. "You're welcome" "Fuck you! You killed me and tried to leave. But we see how that turned out" "Calm down, Jackie. If you were in our metaphorical shoes, wouldn't you have tried the same thing?" "I can't say I wouldn't. Where are we anyways, long way from the Diconies, that's for sure" Jackie asked, taking in his surroundings. "It seems we are on a planet called 'Equis' and we feel no hate in this land, it sickens us." "No hate huh? So that would mean no mobs, little to no violence, and all around peace. That sounds so fucking boring." Jackie agrees. "Jackie, could I suggest something?" "What?" "I think it would be wise to focus on my form, other than the current Dark one." "And that would mean...?" "To make it simple, there are two minds in the Darkness, the extremly violent, *red eyes, and the, erm, less violent purple. Notice the eyes on the heads, right now they're red, meaning Rage is the current form, while if you focus on me, they would be purple, I am the thought"* "That...makes since actually, how come you've never spoke before?" He's annoying as all hell" "Better than a blood crazy fuck like you, Rage" Jackie retorts, he then tries to imagine the eyes of the Dark heads as purple, and they soon turned so. He felt calmer, as if giving Thought the form made him calmer, not docile, but calmer. "Now it may seem hard to believe, given our past together, but I am going to try my best to not go power crazy" "I'm starting to like you, Thought. Rage is an asshole" "I heard that!" "I know" Jackie laughs, he now could bring the serpent like heads out and put them back at will, Thought kept his promise. Jackie starts to walk towards a small path. "Hey Thought, why does Equis sound so familiar?" "I believe it is the land from that horridly 'cute' show you watched with your niece when she asked" "That's it. God, I'd hate to admit it, but it seems watching that little girls show with her is helping out a bit. I remember the show only having the one forest." Jackie reluctantly admits "Pussie" "Go fuck yourself" Jackie continues to walk down the path, passing some blue flowers that he vaguely remembered being poisonous. He walked for many hours more, before tiring and deciding to crash in a small cave. He hunkered down on what felt like a fur pillow, but it could breath, and snore, and wake up. "What the fuck is that?" He asks no one, the beast in front of him, was not a pillow, but a large manticore, "Oh fuck me!" Jackie shouts as he reaches for his pistol which, thankfully, was still with him. He aimed at the beast's head and pulled the trigger *Click* "I suggest you run" "No shit!" Jackie shouts as he bolts from the cave, "Wait, I'm the holder of the entity of death, of destruction, and ladidadida, why am I running?" He says openly before brings the serpent heads out, opting to skewer the beast from the ground. The manticore turns a sharp bend and Jackie could see the color drain from it's face as it observed it's would be dinner. Jackie send a rubbery tendril forwards and it wraps around the manticore's paw, keeping it immobile. "Does the little kitty want to play?" Jackie laughs wickedly before slicing the beast's chest open, letting it's insides fall out, but not killing it. It roars in pure, unrelenting agony. "Kittens don't chase bears" He says before sending a tendril through it's skull. "I've never tasted manticore before, may I?" "Why not?" One of the heads shoots towards the ground and picks up the massive heart in it's teeth, before swallowing it completely. "Jesus, those hearts are fucking huge." "What is this monster? It seems friendly, weak, susceptible" A new voice chimes in before promptly shutting up again. Jackie puts away the serpent like heads and starts to head towards a river he passed an hour or two back to wash the blood off. He arrives before sun up and jumps into the frigged water, regretting it instantly. "Holy fuck that's cold!" He bellows before getting out as fast as he could. The blood came off rather easily, given how it was still relatively fresh. "Thought, who was the new voice?" "She was not one of us, but rather a weakened evil in these woods" "Odd, She called me weak, susceptible even. I think we might be getting a visitor later. Would it be possible to open a darkling portal?" "Defiantly" A portal glowing with unholy bright light appears next to the tree Jackie was sitting against, and a brawler Darklings hops out. Jackie bends down to it's level and says, "I am going to nap while my clothes dry, wake me if you hear, see, sense anything suspicious." He tells the Darkling, it scurries to a tree and climbs up. "I missed the little guys, but it was worth not seeing them to keep Rage under control" He mutters "We actually have a smart Darkling now, we call him Monkey" "I don't care" Jackie dozes off soon enough and sleeps for n hour or two before the darkling returns "Jackie, bug pony," It says while pointing to the east, "should be here, ten minutes, darkling fast" It says before jumping into the portal and closing it "Bug pony? I don't remember any bug ponies" Jackie whispers as he hurriedly puts on his clothes. He sits in a small clearing near him and waits. Ten minutes later he hears whispers around him "Is it sssafe?" "Can we kill it?" "What will the queen do with it?" Jackie turns around and sees multiple pure black, small bug ponies, followed by a larger female, probably the Queen "Bow to your queen, weak one" She commands in a faux-intimidating voice. "Who are you calling weak one you dumb bitch." Jackie mocks "A weakling like you does not speck to a queen in such a manner" "I am no weakling, I could kill all of you in the blink of an eye" "What makes you think we would believe that? You look like a dirty hairless ape" "A dirty hairless ape that hold the manifestation of pure darkness, that's why" "Lies! No one is darker than the Queen!" A bug pony shouts "Is that what you think?" Jackie asks innocently before releasing the Darkness, causing the Queen to quiver. "Dear goddesses! You could prove quite useful, even if you have no love to offer." "Love?" "Us changelings feed on love, it gives us power" "The Darkness feeds on hearts, it gives them their power" Jackie demonstrated on the changeling that doubted Jackie, ripping out it's heart. "Anyways, I'm not helping you, I can feel the evil in you, you only want to cause havoc" "Then we will make you!" The queen screams before her changelings leap forward. "Really? You're really going to try that? Well, I have my own creatures too, the Darklings." Multiple portals open up and all send out chain gun Darklings, "These little fellas shoot thousands of little pieces of metal per second, one could wipe out your measly force of....twelve" Jackie laughed. "I-I-I don't want to do this." She says sadly "Do what? Attack a demi-god, or lead the wimpy changelings?" "Be a leader, I never wanted to. I just wanted father to be proud." "How did I know it would be daddy problems? Always is." "He's probably sitting back at the mound, laughing at how much of a failure I am" She started to sob "I don't know you, so it's probably not my place to judge but, he sounds like a dick" "He is. I wish I could just make him proud, to make him love me." "I know what you're feeling, my uncle tried to kill me" "That is much worse than my situation, what did you do?" "I killed him, simple as that. Where in equestria are we?" "We're not in Equestria, we are in Morphious, Equestria's neighbor and Changeling homeland, we are in a terrible civil war currently. That's why I'm in the forest" She paused then continued again, "My brother, the king, which in Morphious is not matrimonial, it is a birth right, is leading the rebellion" "My uncle paulie tried to take over the family mob, that's why he wanted to kill me, but the Darkness saved me" "If you're not going to help us, then what will you do?" "Well, since I know that there is more to Equis than just Equestria, I'll probably just wander aimlessly" Jackie said with an empty grin "Would you mind if I went with you?" "I don't know, I don't fare well with partners." "I can fight, I assure you that. I just need time to recover after the loss at Canterlot" "Okay, but I'm warning you, you'll have to carry your own weight" Jackie sighs "Thank you! I promise I will help." She looked happy, giddy almost. "Are you sure about this, Jackie?" "Yeah, I'm sure. She reminds me of jenny" Jackie said the last word with a pained voice "Who are you talking to? And who is Jenny?" The queen asks. "I'm talking to Thought, a form of the Darkness, the other is Rage, he's just an asshole. Jenny is, well, was, my girlfriend. She was murdered by a cop working for Paulie, she grew up with me, she was my best and only friend. I was devastated when she was murdered, I let the Darkness go insane and murder everyone that was remotely connected to Paulie" Jackie was hurting. "I'm sorry" "Don't be, without her death, as much as it hurt, I would have never been able to become the leader of my families mob. I got revenge for her death, so it's not much to worry about." Jackie dismissed the Darklings and stood, he was a good head or two taller than the queen. "Shall I refer to you as just the queen, or do you have a real name?" "It's Chrysalis, Queen Chrysalis" "Okay Chrysalis, first order of business, find out what the hell to do" "We could...help out in the war, or take over Equestria" "I think the war should be first, then maybe start a mob, get money, power, so on and so forth" Jackie explains before starting to walk along the river he bathed in. Rather silly thought, like one of those bad romance novels 'and then he walked down the glistening river of love to his awaiting maiden' Pure shit. "Should I bring the changelings or no?" "The more the merrier, they have to fend for themselves though" The changelings and Chrysalis follow close behind, awaiting orders. "Congratulations, Jackie. You have made the first step towards becoming a very powerful leader" "I'm not in it for just the power, that would make me no better than Rage, I'm going to at least try to help these little fuckers" A few changelings heard Jackie and hissed at him. "Eh, when we stop this fuckin 'civil war' I am not going to miss you little shits" They continued to walk in silence towards the capital city. "I will get you, Jackie Estacado" "What was that?" "nothing"
Explanations and new enemies"Chrysalis, tell me. What happened at Canterlot to make you need to 'recover'?" Jackie asked, they had been walking in silence for a couple hours, only the occasional pip from Rage. Something about Thought not being Thought, but Jackie dismissed it as nonsense coming from Rage, the evil. "Well, I had to invade a wedding. But it was necessary!" "How could disrupting a wedding be necessary?" "We were, and still are, losing. Equestria has enough love to make my Changelings unbeatable." She was misty eyed, again. "Why didn't you just explain yourself?" "Morphious and Equestria have had a sour history, mostly unknown to the public. I changed my form into the one of the bride and waited for the perfect time, but the plan failed, it was only two days ago" "What made it fail? I bet I could help out." "The elements of harmony stopped me, the element of magic found out my plan before it could be finished" "Ah, Twilight dazzle, or something. I know her weakness, with it, she is a wreak." "What could it possibly be? She seems so collected, prepared, like she knows exactly what should be done when the situation presents itself." "Exactly, her weakness is stress, I remember an episode were Twilight was flipping out because she had nothing to write about" "Episode?" "Back in my world, yes, I'm not from here, this world is a TV show" Jackie says bluntly "A TV show? How odd, so you know everything about the elements?" "Most of it, I only watched it with my niece" "Huh. Anyways, why do you want to help?" "I don't. I just need shit to do, so I don't go crazy with boredom." "We should be nearing Yuigyfe, the capital" "That is a very weird name for a city" "Not the point. The city is under rebel oppression, it should be the first on the list" "You sly pony" Jackie laughed, she had lead him to fight without Jackie realizing. She blushed, almost unnoticeable due to her coat "Thanks, but I needed to get this done. I was heading there when I found you" "Thought will betray you, trust me." "Go fuck yourself, Rage" "I'm not lying! For once..." "Like I'd believe you, you killed me!" "You should stop talking to yourself, it's not healthy" Chrysalis laughed, an odd sound admittedly "Find him, he will help you" "Find who? What will he help with, Nightmare?" Luna had been listening to the voice of Nightmare, the spirit that possessed her when she returned. "I-You need his help, he needs yours." "Who?!" "He is in Morphious, find him and he will help" "Morphious? What would 'he' be doing in Morphious? Is he a changeling?" "He will be king, he must" "If your not going to help me, I'm not going to listen." Luna was getting agitated. "Luna? Are you alright, I heard you shouting" Celestia asks "I'm just talking to Nightmare, she has been talking a lot more since this morning, saying stuff about this random pony, probably a changeling seeing how he is in Morphious" "What has she been saying about this 'pony'?" "Just that I need to find him, I'm not going to though, can't trust her" "That is most wise, speaking of weird mornings. When you came to me with news that Chrysalis will return, I was worrying about a new evil that had arisen on Equis, do you think that Nightmare could be talking about the same being?" "Maybe, but it could be worth sending some guards to find this evil and banish it before it strikes" "That's just the thing, it felt evil, but good at the same time. It has a choice, to be a force of Evil, or of Good" "It still could be wise to find it, and possibly sway it to the light, rather than the darkness" "I suppose you're right, I'll send a troop force to bring it here, forcibly if necessary" "Alright, I must go now sister, the moon will not raise itself" "Later sis" "Twilight, I got a letter from the Princess" Spike said as he placed the scroll in front her "Thank you, Spike" Twilight says as she opens the letter and reads it. "Oh dear, but I think she was wrong, there is no evil near Ponyville, I would have felt-" "Twilight! There is some kind of monster near the Everfree! It looks to be made of pure dark energy" Lyra shouts "What? Pure dark energy? Impossible!" There was lots of screaming coming from outside "CHANGELINGS!" "So, under oppression? Looks rather empty to be under oppression" Jackie says as they enter the city "Well, there is a curfew, everyone is inside" Chrysalis explains as she points to a window with light behind it, "Gythin, go scout out the nearest couple of blocks, look for guards specifically." A changeling darts away to look around leaving the other eleven to wait impatiently. "Why does your brother do what he does?" "He is jealous, the Queen naturally gets more control than the King, Morphious is a matriarchal country, like Equestria. Except we live in the real world, we fend for ourselves, while the pony princesses do everything for them." Chrysalis looked sick. "Well than, what's the plan?" "Kill" "I'm fine with that" Jackie brings out the serpentine heads and spawns a couple of darklings "Cover our flank" "Why would you want them touching our hindquarters?" "What? Oh yeah, ponies" They walk farther into town, careful not to alert the patrols. They walk for a couple minutes before reaching the first group of rebels. "Did see new album?" One asks, the 'normal' changelings had basic speech skills. "No didn't was good?" "Yes good" "What that?" Guard one asks, hearing a military changeling shuffle "I think-" Guard two was brought down by Jackie snapping it's neck "Alert!-" Guard one brought down by Chrysalis ripping it's head off with magic. The dark heads consume the hearts without hesitation. More guards heard the rebel yell and were sounding the alarm. "Fuck! Looks like stealth is out of the question," Jackie allowed a demonic grin to form, "more fun this way" The heads let out a loud, gruesome wail before they get to work, dismembering the rebels one by one while Chrysalis did the same with her magic. The darklings were laughing manically while they fought, and the changelings were silent. It was an easy fight all in all. "Jackie, I have an ability that I think you'll like" "And what would that be?" "Dark channeling, it makes ammo for your gun" "That's useful, use it" Jackie's pistol began to glow in a faint purple, Jackie lined up the shot and pulled the trigger, *BANG* Jackie was livid, he could use his favorite gun again and he was using it on the people, er, ponies he hated. They ones who sought power for greed. "What was that?" Chrysalis asks, pulling her hooves from her ears. "A gunshot, a mini explosion that launches little pieces of death" "Good, use it" She said with a wicked grin. Jackie shot again and again, dropping rebels like flies while the Darkness ripped them to pieces, consuming the hearts greedily. It took hours before the rebels gave up and ran. "Well, that was fun. Where to next?" "Go meet her, you need her help" "Thought, who are you talking about?" "I-you need her help!" "Who?" "Jackie, the next place we should go is the military town of Ewunig, saving it will be a big military force boost" "Okay, let's go, this should be fun." "Don't find her!" "Who?!" "Don't worry about the voices, let's just get moving!" "Fine, let's go"
Success!"Oh sweet Celestia!" Twilight screamed as she bolted away from a group of changelings. "Get away from her!" Rainbow dash commanded before she slammed into the mass. In the largest group of changelings stood King Feros, surrounded by a dark aura. "Give up, you can't beat us." Feros commanded calmly. "Why are you here, again? We beat you once already, we'll do it again!" Rainbow asks while bucking multiple changelings. This little battle had been being fought for about three days. "I have never been here before, my sister, that goodie goodie, had though." "The changeling queen is your sister? And she's 'good'?" "Oh yes, she is an angel compared to me. I am the holder of the manifestation of darkness!" They continued to fight for hours before Canterlot soldiers arrived to help. "Look out, Rainbow!" Applejack screamed before Rainbow dash was struck by a dark tendril, knocking her unconscious. "You bucking bastards!" She added before getting hit by changeling, she soon went ballistic, knocking out changelings rapidly. Twilight had eventually calmed down and was blasting the rebels with magic, Rarity was shooting needles at them(fucking ouch), Pinkie was blasting her party cannon, and Fluttershy was...being Fluttershy. The royal guards were doing their fair share, Shining was there too. He had recovered and was blasting changelings down ten at a time. "Ha! You will never beat us! We are the Darkness, the greatest evil known to anything!" Feros was gone, all that was left was Corruption, his Dark form. "Come Celestia! Fight for your ponies! Unless you're too scared..." He hissed, he struck down two more soldiers. "I've been here the whole time, you just never saw me." Celstia said calmly before she struck Corruption in the back of his head. "Gah!" "The greatest evil huh? You seem pretty docile" Celestia was mocking him, trying to get him furious, it would make him wilder, less coordinated "We will kill you!" Corruption was getting mad. He landed a hit on Celestia with his tendril, knocking her to the ground. There was an explosion soon after, followed by Corruption being tackled by an enraged Twilight, mane ablaze with rage. "You will pay!" She screamed while slamming her hooves down on Corruption's face rapidly. "Nopony hits the Princ-" She was stopped by a searing hot pain in her chest, Corruption had stabbed her, not near anything vital luckily. "Your heart will be delicious!" Corruption raised his tendril, poised to carve her heart straight from her chest. "Twilight, no!" Celestia screamed, powerless. Corruption brought his tendril down as fast as lightning, but never made contact. His tendril was held in place by a hand. "Who dares!" "The names Jackie. I'm going to kill you now" (Two days earlier) "Chrysalis, tell me. When did your brother start fighting?" Jackie asks, walking out of a cheering Yuigyfe. "A year or two ago, something bit him and he slowly became more bold with his acts of spite." "Odd, where is he now?" "If he wasn't in Yuigyfe than he should be in Ewunig" "Then let us make haste!" Jackie said in a posh accent, Chrysalis laughed before picking up the pace. "It's a shame you don't have wings, could get there so much faster" "I can give you wings, Jackie" "Convenient. A little too convenient" Two massive wings sprout from his back in a painful instant, winding Jackie. "A little more warning next time?" "That's a feeling I could get used to" "You're starting to sound like Rage "I find that offensive" "Again, I don't care." Jackie takes a moment to get his breath back, "Chrysalis, let's fly" Jackie says before taking to the sky, it felt natural. "You are just full of surprises. Speaking of which, you said this world is a TV show? TVs are very expensive on Equis, are they the same on your world?" "Not really, for some people yeah, but not for a mob boss." "And what is a 'mob'? You keep talking about it, but there is no such thing on Equis" "It is a family, but not a real one. People are picked to join and they do crimes together. You gotta be tough to be in a family." "Oh, like a gang" "Kinda" They flew as fast as they could and reached Ewunig and got there within the hour. "Stealth or guns blazing?" "Why do you even ask?" Chrysalis mocks, "Of course guns blazing." More and more like Jenny every question. "Lets get to it then" Jackie said with that evil grin of his. They ran in and Jackie started unloading into some rebels, dropping ten in the blink of an eye. He slashed another with a wing, gouged three with a large tendil, and consumed the hearts all at the same time. Chrysalis was struggling to keep up, there were far more rebels in Ewunig than there was in Yuigyfe. The rebels had taken down six of the military changelings, leaving the rest demoralized and weak. "You got yourself covered there, Chrysalis?" "Yeah-I got it." She reluctantly answers, blasting another rebel in half, blood and bits of organ flying every which-way. She had her own little grin, one of power, of hate. Jackie grabs one rebel and pins him, it, whatever to the ground, "Where is your boss?" He asks "Like I tell" Jackie slowly stabs a tendril into its leg. "Still...not" "Go for the wings, Jackie. Their very sensitive." Chrysalis suggests. The changeling looked back at Jackie with fear in it's eyes,pleading for Jackie to let it go. Jackie made a small incision and the rebel screamed painfully. "Okay! He in Ponyville!" Jackie gives the rebel a warm smile for answering, right before ripping it's wings in half. The rebel soon died very very painfully of blood loss. Jackie continued to rip through hundreds of rebels without hesitation, Chrysalis following suit. The town was soon cleared of rebels, leaving the ground blood soaked and Jackie tired. "Thank" A small baby changeling says, if Jackie had one weakness, it was children. He grinned in response, not one of evil, but of happiness. "My changelings, lend me your love so I may grow strong again" Chrysalis commands, she soon siphons red aura from the mass of civilian changelings and looks stronger, full of energy. "Thank you, your Queen appreciates your sacrifice." Jackie and Chrysalis soon take off, leaving a happy Ewunig to clean the mess. The rest of the military changelings stayed behind, their injuries handicapping them. An hour into the flight Jackie noticed Chrysalis looking him up and down. "Like what you see?" Chrysalis blushed deeply "I don't know what you're talking about" She responds quickly. "Whatever. We should stop for the night, even the holder of the greatest evil known to anything needs rest every once in awhile." Jackie begins his decent, towards a small cave. "She wishes to mate" "That's a very blunt way of putting it" Jackie laughs, somewhere deep down inside his corrupted form, he wished it could be, but it couldn't. "Blunt way of putting what?" "Nothing!" Jackie lays down soon after making a fire to keep himself and Chrysalis warm during the night. He sleeps for a couple hours before being awoken by Chrysalis sobbing.'Why you cry!' "Something wrong, Chrysalis?" "No...nothing wrong." She was lying "Yes there is, tell me so I can help." "It's just, I am going around my country killing rebels with a very nice alien that is harboring a demon that could rule the world on a whim but doesn't. The same alien comes from a world that views this one as a TV show, and the fact that I'm going to have to kill my own brother." She explains "Wow, I'm nice? Preposterous" Jackie says to try and make Chrysalis laugh, it works. "And us aliens are called 'humans'" "Why are you so nice to me? My own people are afraid of me, the neighboring country will kill me if they find me there, and I know I'm not pleasant to be around" "Of course you pleasant to be around, I wouldn't be here if you weren't. Your 'people' are scared because you have power, it's natural. Screw Equestria, you have Morphious." "How is it natural for your subjects to fear you?" "Well, Celestia gets away with it by acting motherly to her subjects, I got away with it by being friends with my mob members. You should try doing something like that." "I'll try. Thank you Jackie." "Well, sun'll be up soon and me and you are already up, so lets move out." They spend the next couple of hours flying towards Equestria. "Chrysalis, do changelings eat meat?" "We are omnivores, yes" "Good, I will not be able to live off of daisy sandwiches for the rest of my life" They fly for about four more hours before they stop to catch dinner, a deer. "I call the heart!" "Of course you do, Thought" Jackie laughs as he feed the heart to the serpent-like head protruding from his shoulder. The deer carcass was being cooked on a makeshift spit over a bonfire. "That smells delicious, even i can't live off of love forever." Chrysalis says before she takes a bite from her serving. "It tastes as good as it smells. How do you know how to cook so well?" "I'm Italian, it's in our blood." "Italian?" "It's a person with family from Italy, a country from my old world." "Oh, that's pretty neat." "Except for when your own family tries to kill you, it is pretty neat." They finished eating and threw the remains of their meal in a Manticore den. They then proceeded to fly for the rest of the day towards Ponyville. After the first initial hour they crossed the Morphious-Equestria border, they were making good time. "Do you want to take a different form so they don't 'kill you'?" Jackie asked, remembering the conversation from earlier. Chrysalis took the form of a sea-foam green pegasus with a pink mane. "My alias shall be 'Chrysi stars'" She tells Jackie. "You really just made that up on the spot?" "Yes I did" "Neat, that's a useful talent." They made it to the outskirts of New colt city before they made camp for the night, a simple camp fire in the middle of a gigantic field. "Goodnight, Chrysi" "Goodnight, Jackie" They soon fell asleep for many hours before they awoke, immediately taking off for Ponyville. "There are signs of my brothers presence in the area, but he has changed into something...darker, like he's not himself" "Huh, we'll have to look into that." Jackie said before increasing his speed. They made it to a war ravaged Ponyville to see Twilight being pinned down by a large changeling. "That's Feros! We must stop him before he kills the element!" Jackie sprints over to Feros and catches his tendril before it stabs into Twilight again. "Who dares?" "The names Jackie. I'm going to kill you now." Jackie says plainly before he rips the tendril off "What makes you think you could take me on?" "The fact that I am the holder of the greatest evil known to anything." Jackie brings out the serpent-like heads and grabs Feros. "Lies! I am corrption, the Darkness!" "You're an extension on the Darkness I hold the real copy. Now I'm going to take Corruption from you and keep him in me, for I can control him" Jackie says before plunging a tendril into Feros' chest. Instead of blood coming out, a black fluid leaks forth. Jackie continues to pull out a glowing dirty-blue orb and feeds it to one of the heads. "How is this..." Feros passes out. Jackie takes a knee next to Twilight and places a hand on her, he starts to channel some of his power into her to heal her, the wound is sealed shut soon enough, inciting a whimper from Twilight. "Is he...?" Chrysalis asks "No, I left him alive in case you wanted to let him live, or kill him personally" "I think I'd like to kill him myself" She says with a wicked grin. "What happened here?" Feros asks, waking up from his brief sleep. "You started a civil war against your sister, then invaded Equestria. Your sister is now about to kill you." Jackie states bluntly. "Oh, that sucks" He adds woozily. "Sleep well, my brother" Chrysalis says before slashing his throat with a jagged hoof, he gags for a couple of minutes before passing. "Where the hell am I?" "Corruption, welcome home. Meet Thought and Rage" "Okay, this is weird" "Whatever. Twilight, you alright?" Twilight gawks at the sight of the man in front of her, more than twice her size with serpent heads coming from his shoulders, covered in blood. "I-I'm f-fine" She stutters. "I know I look scary now, but when I clean the blood off...I'm still pretty scary" Twilight weakly laughs "Get away from her!" A rough voice shouts, Jackie turns to see a blue blur shooting towards him. He uses a rubbery tendril to catch it mid-air and sets it on the ground gently. He saw it was Rainbow blitz, or something like that. "Let me go so I can beat the hay out of you!" Jackie grabs a nearby rebel and rips it's spine out, "Do you really think you could beat me?" Jackie asks mockingly "N-no, you're a monster!" She screams. Jackie is knocked to the ground and punctured by needles in the blink of an eye 'That'll teach ya!" "Take that, Ruffian beast!" Jackie uses the same tendril to subdue Vanity and Appledash "Lemme go!" Appledash commands "Applejack, don't make him angry, I just watched him rip out a changelings spine" Rainbow advises "Really, Dash?" "Yes, he did" "That's so brutal!" "Hey hey hey! You shot me with needles, NEEDLES! Those things fucking hurt." "Girls, he may be brutal, but he's not a monster, he saved me from that demon." Twilight ensures. "If you're sure, sugarcube, I'll trust'em" "I'll try" Rarity whines. Jackie is hit YET AGAIN, by a scorching hot yellow laser. "Get away from my little ponies!" Celestia shouted, she was held in place by Chrysalis, or Chrysi. "He's not a monster! Stop attacking him before he kills you!" Chrysi says "How can you be sure?" "Because he has been helping me fight this war," Chrysi takes down her disguise to reveal herself as Queen Chrysalis "He has been helping the Queen" "Than he shall be imprisoned!" Applejack, Vanity, Rainbow, and Celestia all pounce on Chrysalis to immobilize her. "Get off of her!" Jackie commands, launching them all off with a dark pulse. "Let her explain what she did!" "Thank you Jackie-" "YOU MOTHERBUCKER!" Twilight screeches before pouning on Jackie for potentially hurting the Princess. "Get off me before I consume your heart." Jackie says calmly. Twilight promptly hops off. "Chrysalis, continue" "Well, the reason I sabotaged the wedding was because I need the love to make my changelings unbeatable-" "We know that. To use them to take over Equestria!" "No no, to help fight the war that was going on in Morphious, if the plan had succeeded, we would have won easily. But it doesn't matter anymore. Seeing how my ace in the hole here," She put a hoof on Jackie, "could kill anything. I'm truly sorry for troubling you, it was for the greater good though." she takes a breath before continuing "Could you ever forgive me?" "I think we may be able to, with time." Celestia ensures. "Thank you, Princess!" "Yeah yeah, so Celestia-" "You will call me Princess or Princess Celestia" "I will call what I damn please, seeing how you couldn't stop me if you tried. So Celestia, what else is happening on Equis that you haven't done anything to help with?" "Well, there is a slavery problem going on in Gem fido, diamond dogs are enslaving griffons. There is another alien trying to help there actually, his name is Griffon, he's a griffon." "Oh the irony. Well, maybe Chrysalis and I will go there and help out. Couldn't hurt to try." "Sounds like a plan." Chrysalis adds before kicking her dead brothers body. "One question though, which direction is Gem Fido?" "North" "Thanks" Jackie turns to leave when a yellow hoof stops him. "C-could I go with you?" Flutter-something asks "Even though I look so scary and have dark serpent heads coming out of my shoulder?" "Oh, if you don't want me to go with you, that's-" "No no, it's fine, but you will have to carry your own weight." "Thank you!" She looked happy, giddy almost. "Really Fluttershy? You want to go with the monster?" Rainbow asks "Yes, I think it will be fun." "Well than I'm going with you" "Me too" Applejacks says "Don't I get a say?" Jackie asks "Well?" "It's fine. But again, I will not carries another persons-ponies weight." "I have a feelin ya don't know me. I can pull mine and Fluttershy's weight" Applejack boasts "Anybody else?" "Could I come?" A small yellow filly with a red bow in her hair asks "No! Ya can't come with us" Applejack quickly responds "I Might catch up with you later" Twilight says. "As might I" Rarity adds "I'll go! I can plan the parties!" Pinkie says "Fine, that's all I'm taking with me." Jackie says before getting his wings back out. "Since you two can't fly," He points to Applejack and Pinkie, "I'll carry you, and Fluttershy, if you want, I'll carry you too" "That would be fine." She says with a blush. "Okay, let's set off for Gem Fido, if anybody has to use the restroom, now would be the time. I will drop you if you go on me.
Curse my trust issues!Jackie and his new found 'family' flew towards Morphious in silence, after the all went to the little fillies room of course. "Tell me, why did you four want to join up with Chrysalis and I?" "Well...I wanted to join you to help keep Fluttershy safe." She was lying "And I joined up ta help Rainbow out." Applejack also lying, terribly. "I-I've always wanted to go on adventures, but I'm too weak to go on my own. When I saw how strong you were I decided that it would be my chance to go adventuring." (Insert d'aww picture of adventurer Fluttershy here) "I wanted to go because I think you kinda cute." Pinkie states bluntly. There was a silence following it. Chrysalis looked pretty miffed also, cute. "Okay, so Chrysalis, what is your plan for when we get to Morphious?" "Step one, Give proclamation stating the war is over. Step two, relax for a day or two. Step three, tell father he can go buck himself." Chrysalis almost sings. "Good for you, getting over your daddy issues." Jackie mocks. "Oh shut up. Daddy issues are better than uncle issues." Chrysalis chimes. "Don't. Fucking. Talk about that." Chrysalis opened a large emotional wound, more of a gash really. "Why? What happened?" Dash asks. "It's hard to explain, I wish I could just show you." "I could probably help with that." Chrysalis admits. "How?" "There is a memory reading spell I can perform that will let us watch the memories you let us like a TV show. If you will allow it, I can use it on you so we can watch what happened." "That's fine...I guess. Let's land first." Jackie swoops to the ground, Chrysalis and Dash following. Jackie was carrying Pinkie, AJ, and Fluttershy on his shoulders. Chrysalis let's them get settled in before she touches his forehead with her horn...and then she does the spell. (Wink) Jackie awoke in a black room surrounded by the mares wanting to watch. He tried to remember what happened exactly, and a screen popped up in the room.The memory plays. "I'm not going to let you see what happened before and after, because of the horror." - (end memory) Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, and Applejack were in tears. Pinkie was bawling, and Chrysalis was teary eyed as well. "That's...horrible. The Darkness took control of you after it?" Rainbow asked through her tears "Yeah, well, it tried. I wound up destroying it and keeping in dormant until recently. I am trying my damnedest to keep it under control, and it's working fine." "Was that Jenny?" Chrysalis asks, wiping away a tear "Yes, she was amazing. I lost it when she was murdered. I wanted to die with here, but the Darkness wouldn't let me." Jackie was hurting, bad. "Wait, you can't die?" AJ asks "I can, just not by other people, ponies, whatever. The Darkness will just bring me back." "Weird." "I'm sorry for your loss." Fluttershy sniffles "Don't be. I grew from her death, no matter how much it hurts, it was for the better." Jackie was fighting back tears at this point. "Who was that man?" "My uncle Paulie, that fat bastard tried to kill me, so i returned the favor. Jenny was murdered by a corrupted cop working for Paulie, he was ripped to shreds." Jackie laughed a cold laugh, filled with remorse and sadness. "I loved him like a father, my father was such an asshole. I do everything Paulie asks and he just turns around and blows me out of a window, with C4, C4! You wouldn't know, but it does NOT feel good. He wanted me dead more than anything." jackie was nearing the brink of his emotional wall. "There is nothing like that here in Equestria." AJ ensures. "That's another thing, life in Equestria is pretty much perfect, but in other places like Morphious and Gem Fido its terrible. Slavery in Gem Fido, and a recently stopped civil war in Morphious. None of you knew about it." "Well we knew about Gem Fido, we hunted Griffon for a while, we thought he was a bad guy." Rainbow insists. "Well, you still knew nothing of the situation in Morphious." "As bad as it sounds, that doesn't matter anymore" Chrysalis retorts. "Okay, but I'm still disappointing that Celestia wouldn't tell you of the outside world news" Jackie gives up. They exit his mind 'theater and continue towards Morphious. They walked for a long time before stopping to make camp. Jackie went to hunt a rabbit or a deer, but Fluttershy stopped him before he killed one. "Do you have to eat meat?" She asked "Well, no, I don't but I can't eat flowers." Jackie answers plainly. "But, if we can find some fruit, I wouldn't need to hunt, help me find an apple tree or something." They look around the immediate woods for some fruit and find a bushel of grapes and some apples. Looks like a deer has survived...for now... - They had their dinner and laid down for bed when Thought finally spoke up, "Wow, Jackie. First Chrysalis now the blue one, yellow, and pink. You truly are a ladies man" "Shut up, Thought. Before I mind murder you." Jackie sighed, 'My gift, and my curse.' He fell asleep in his jacket and woke up in another black room, there were three other Jackies there as well, one red, one purple, and one blue. "Welcome to our prison, Jackie" Rage said. Jackie was a little confused, why did they look like him? "Why do you keep us here? We need power, we need freedom." "I want out of here" "I can't let you out, it's too much of a risk, well, not as much as risk as it is an utterly retarded thing to even think about. You are all forms of the Darkness, an evil greater than Satan." "Ah Jackie, that hurts, it really does." Thought mocks "Go fuck yourself. If I let you out you'd kill everyone I... never mind. You'd kill everything with a pulse "Jackie, listen to me, do not find the moon princess! She will be the end of you!" Rage seemed actually concerned, scared even. "Don't listen to him, he is lying. Find her and you will be strong, godly even." "Jackie! Don't listen to 'Thought' He is not who he says he is! He is not 'Thought', he is Sadism!" Rage was scared, a form of the Darkness was scared. "Come now Rage, you are not in the right mindset." "I am not 'Rage'! I am Reason! Jackie, Sadism is trying to control you, don't let him." Jackie was a little concerned now. "Jackie...screw this. Give me control!" Thought, or, Sadism jump into Jackie, literally jumped into Jackie. - "GET OUT OF ME!" Jackie bellowed, waking the camp. "SADISM! GET OUT!" Jackie was in a crippling amount of pain as he started to morph into something...demonic. Half of his body was covered in a black, spiky scale-like material while the other was contorted and broken. "What's wrong, Jackie?!" Chrysalis called out. "Thought...is Sadism! He is trying to control...me again!" Jackie was struggling to stay in control "JUST GIVE UP, JACKIE. I WILL CONTROL YOU! Sadism was speaking through Jackie, he was winning. "What can we do?" Rainbow asks, teary eyed. "You can't help here! Just leave me be! I can handle this-" His voice falters, "NO YOU CAN'T! WE WILL WIN!" Pinkies mane looked deflated, Fluttershy was crying behind a shaken AJ while Rainbow was trying to bring Jackie to the ground. Chrysalis was hyperventilating with worry. Jackie was losing, until the most stereotypical, bad romance novel event saved him. Rainbow dash kissed him. Jackie reeled back in a mix of pain, shock, and disgust. He had just been kissed by a horse, pony, whatever! The black scale began to break away and his body fix itself up. "NO! I WILL NOT BE BEATEN AGAIN!" Sadism had been beaten, for now at least. "Are you okay?" Rainbow dash asked "Well I'm not being brutally mind raped by a form of the greatest evil to ever exist if that's what you're asking. But I was also just kissed by a pony, so I need a minute to recover." "It was that good?" "No! I was just kissed by a pony! Ponies are mindless animals where I'm from, it's illegal to have 'feelings' with ponies. It's weird as hell is what it is." Rainbow looked hurt. "Of course, the first person I make a move on and they hate me for it, nice one Rainbow." She scolds herself. "I'm sorry, Jackie. It's just, you're so awesome! And it's around that time of the year when all the mares start going into heat." "...Heat?" Jackie thinks for a moment, "Oh fuck me!" He shouts as he comes to a realization. "Gladly!" Pinkie says before she pounces, followed by Chrysalis, Rainbow, and Fluttershy. AJ pounced on Rainbow for some odd reason. "Not what I meant! Not what I meant!" Jackie, in all his years of being the holder of the Darkness, he went to hell and back without so much as flinching, he died hundreds of times, he killed millions of people, and he was terrified of four, heat crazed mares. 'SHITSHITSHITSHITSHIT' "You are all evil! taking advantage of me while I'm weak from Sadism. I will get you all back." "Don't care." They all said in unison. "I just don't know what went wrong!"
Fuck you, NightmaresAnd then he woke up. "Oh thank you sweet baby jesus it was a dream! A nightmare really..." He looks up and sees the girls looking at him with concern. "Someone remind me what happened?" "Well, we all went to sleep, you woke us up with your yelling, you started turning into to some demonic creature, Rainbow kissed you, you hit the ground with a large thud and went to sleep." Pinkie answers "That is much better than what I thought happened." "Why? What did you think happened?" "Nothing! Not important. What time is it?" "I'd say around six or seven in the morning." AJ chimes. Rainbow was red eyed, along with Chrysalis. "Whats wrong with you two?" Rainbow takes a breath before answering, "I thought you were dead." "I already told you, the Darkness won't let me die, I've tried before." "I never want to see you have to go through pain like that again." Chrysalis says sadly "I've been through much worse, I've been shot more than nine thousand times, bullets hurt...a lot." "I'd wouldn't know." She laughs. "But still, I wouldn't know what to do with myself if it happened again and I still couldn't help." "Don't be getting soft on me now." Jackie mocks. He really wanted to jump of a cliff after what Chrysalis did next, she kissed him. "What is it with ponies and kissing me? Am I that irresistible?" Chrysalis looks away in shame. "I-I-I don't know why I did that..." "Calm down, it's alright." He would never admit it, ever, but he liked it. "You're not mad?" "Of course not. You think you're the first person to throw themselves onto me?" He looked at Rainbow. "Anyways, let's start towards Morphious so Chrysalis can get her business done, then we move on to Gem Fido." Jackie gets his wings out and picks up AJ, Pinkie, and Fluttershy. They flew in silence until they reached the Equestria/Morphious border. - "Ummm, what are you doing?" Fluttershy asked herself. While Jackie and the rest of them were doing paperwork, she went to the restroom. "It's obvious, why would he want to be with a weakling like you when he could be with Rainbow dash or Queen Chrysalis, people who can handle themselves in a fight." She was beating herself up over her feelings towards Jackie, "And why would you want to be with a monster like him? Oh yeah..." She thought of what Chrysalis had told her about Jackie being really nice under his tough shell. "Whatever, just forget it." She walked back to where the rest of the gang waited. "Have fun?" Jackie asked. Fluttershy just turned a shade of red and climbed back onto Jackie's shoulder. They took off and made it to Yuigyfe at sun down. "You all should go ahead and go to sleep, I'll stand watch." "You just need an excuse not to go to bed don't you?" "Exactly, can't risk waking up a demonic fuckhead." They all get comfortable when Fluttershy walks up to Jackie. "Oh, uh, hey." "Whats up, Fluttershy?" "N-nothing, I shouldn't have come over here..." "And why is that?" "I just wanted to talk, but I see that your busy so I'll just go now." "No no, you can stay. You know, when I watched your show with my niece, you were my favorite." She turned a deep red. "R-really? That's sweet of you to say." "Yeah, you made me think of Jenny, kind and gently, but assertive and strong when needed." "When I first saw you, I thought you would be mean, but you're really nice." "Huh, I tend to have that effect on people. Well, what is your opinion on working with Chrysalis?" "She was really mean at Shining armor's wedding, but if you trust her, I can." "She's not as bad as you think, she had a good reason. While she was in her civil war, she needed the love to make her changelings stronger so they could fight her brother's army." "Oh! I had no idea." "No one did. Well, it would be best for you to go to bed, can't have a sleepy Fluttershy if things go crazy, no matter how cute it would be....I have no idea why I said that." "Aren't you going to sleep?" "Nope, can't risk having to fight Sadism again." "I can stay up with you, if that's alright with you I mean." "if you're sure you can handle-*THUD*-aanndd she's asleep." Jackie sighs. 'She really is adorable when she sleeps' Jackie takes his jacket off and wraps Fluttershy in it. 'It's going to be a long night...' (So sorry for the short chapter, computer fucked up and deleted the 4,000 word original by restarting itself.)
Daddy issues"So. Fucking. BORING!" Jackie exclaimed, causing Fluttershy to stir in her sleep. "We cooouuulldd.....kill things?" "No fuck you." Jackie was still pissed at Sadism, who wouldn't be? "I warned you about him, multiple times. But yet, you were and are a dumbass." "Fuck off." Jackie looked over to Fluttershy and saw her cute, little content smile. "Aww." "HHHHHHNNNNNGGGGGG" - (Two hours later) - "Quiet! You'll wake the campers." Something half-whispered. Jackie got closer and recognized the small party as Diamond Dogs. "Where are da gems?" Another dog asks. Jackie started to creep towards them when he noticed one of them was leading a small carriage full of chained up ponies. "I don't think there are any. Chain them up so they can be sold." The largest, the alpha presumably, commanded quietly. "Okay, Che-var, get the chains." A second dog says. A dog, Che-var most likely, returned from the cage with some chains and that is when Jackie decided to make himself known. He walked up to Che-var and calmly ripped his throat out without being noticed, leaving nothing but a limp, gargling body in a pool of blood and saliva. "Che-var? Oh...he's dead!" Someone called before being skewered through the jaw, sending teeth, blood, and meat flying into the open. "Were dropping like flies, boss! We need to-!" Silence. Silence followed by a sickening ripping sound as two parts of the dog's body is thrown near the leader. "One, two, three. Dead! Three of us dead, in seconds!" This dog was facing the leader, Jackie, from the shadow, sent one of the Darkness' head through his chest, causing the blood to splatter on the leader and letting him watch as it ate his buddy's heart. "Show yourself!" The leader shouted, loud enough to wake the camp. "What the...? Wait...is that a...body?!" Rainbow Dash said wearily when she woke up and looked at the carnage. "Girls! Body! Blood! Teeth!" "Huh?" Applejack yawned. "Oh...!" "Where are you?!" The leader repeated. Jackie stepped from the shadow and walked slowly towards the leader, leaving a trail of dead grass, flowers, and when he stepped over a body, he turned it into a skeleton. "Looking for me?" Jackie growled. The leader visibly wet himself. After cutting off his stream, the leader lunged at Jackie, stone knife in paw. Jackie sent four razor-sharp tendrils into the leader's wrists and ankles, suspending him in air. "Idiot." Jackie pulled the top two tendrils upward, and the bottom two downwards, resulting in a loud, messy, snapping and ripping sound to echo in the campsite. "Aren't you glad you decided to try and enslave my partners?" Jackie said to the quickly dying leader, exactly before he died. "What the hay happened?!" Rainbow exclaimed. "Oh, you know, just some Diamond Dogs trying to chain you up, don't thank me or anything." Jackie said plainly. "Oh...well...thanks." Rainbow said before passing out again. "What an odd filly." Jackie sighed. "Are ya gunna...clean up?" Applejack asks. "I've got nothing else to do, so yeah." Jackie noticed Chrysalis walking up to him. "Yeah?" Instead of talking, Chrysalis just threw her forelegs around Jackie's upper chest, she was taller, and hugged him. "Thank you...I know what slavery is like...and I don't like it..." Chrysalis hopped off and went back to sleep, AJ soon doing the same. Jackie turned his attention to the carriage full of ponies "Where are all of you from?" He asks "They got us from the outer area of Hoofington. Can you please let us out?" A tall, broad shouldered stallion says. "Yeah, here ya go." Jackie used a Darkness head to 'eat' the lock off "What are you, mister?" The same stallion continued to ask "Some call me a monster, some may call me a hero, but I'm just the holder of evil, nothing special." Jackie shrugs. "Thank you mister. You know, there is another doing this work, they call him Griffon the griffon. He's probably in Gem Fido by now, you should join up with him." The stallion rubs his forelegs where the cuffs where. "Maybe. Get home safely." Jackie started his way back. Jackie quickly made his way back to where Fluttershy slept, and saw her staring into the distance. "You okay, Fluttershy?" He asked. She drearily turned her head to him, "I'm fine...just really tired..." She said slowly, ending with a yawn. Jackie sat where he had originally. "Get some sleep, you need it." Jackie said. He was slightly startled when she fell asleep sitting up. "That is adorable." "DOUBLE HHHHHHNNNNNNNGGGGGGG" She slowly leaned sideways and plopped her head down on Jackie's lap, using him as a pillow. "My god, she is slowly giving me diabetes." "YOU'RE KILLING US! HHHHHHNNNNNNNGGGGGGG" - (Morning) - "Wake up girls!" Jackie shouted, waking everyone up. An hour earlier, he had placed Fluttershy near the fire after cleaning up the Diamond Dog mess. "Oh Rainbow~" Applejack moaned quietly enough to where only Jackie could hear. "What the hell?!" Jackie started laughing hysterically. Applejack shot up and invented a new shade of red with her face. "Don't worry, none of them heard. But I sure as hell did!" Jackie looked back at the rest of the crew and saw that everything, which was essentially nothing, was packed. "You girls ready?" Jackie asked. "Yeah, we're ready." Chrysalis answered for the girls. Jackie picked up Pinkie, AJ, and Fluttershy, letting Fluttershy ride on his shoulders. "We should arrive in a bout two hours." Jackie said before sprouting his wings. - (One and a half hours later) - "Hey Chrysalis, why exactly does your dad sound like a complete dunce?" Jackie asks. They had been flying in silence the entire time, except Fluttershy, she was using Jackie's head as a pillow "Please...stop...HHHHHHNNNNNNNNGGGGGGG" "He wanted another boy, but he got me. He beat me constantly, if it wasn't for him," She laughed sadly, "I'd never be the way I am now, my brother would have taken control, and everything would have been different, worse, but different. He was always a jerk." Chrysalis wiped her eye. "I'm glad you're coming with me, he will probably attack, or send some guards on us." She looked at Jackie with a set of puppy dog eyes. "Eh...semi-HHHHNNNGGG" - (Front door of Chrysalis' father's house.) - "Should we wait out here?" Rainbow asks. "You girls wait out here, me and Chrysalis will talk to her father." Jackie says, Chrysalis nodding in agreement. They walk in and spot Chrysalis' father reading in his kitchen. "Chrysalis?" He started "What are you doing here? Shouldn't you be directing an ant hill? Or being the failure you naturally are? Who is your friend?" "I'm here to tell you something important. I am the Queen of the Changelings and you will respect that. I am not a failure, you are. This is Jackie." She answered quickly. "Oh, I'm the failure? Name one thing you've ever done right. What is Jackie, he doesn't look anything special, like a wimp if I'm honest." He father retaliated. "Yes, you are. One thing I've done right is leading this empire, not the invasion, just leading the empire. Jackie is human and could kill Celestia if he wanted to. Now, what I have to tell you is-" "Wait. How am I a failure, you incompetent shrew! I should kill you where you stand!" He levitates a sword from over his mantle to himself. "I'm not scared of you. Now I'm trying to tell you that-" "Liar! You are horrified of me!" "No I'm not! I'm trying to tell you that I killed-" "I should have done this a long time ago!" He shot the sword down at lighting speeds, but it was caught by one of Jackie's tendrils wrapping around the blade. "Don't even think about it." Jackie said as coldly and menacingly as he could. "What the hell?!" Chrysalis' father shouted. "Oh, another thing I've done right, I befriended the keeper of the greatest evil to have ever existed." Chrysalis says, as if on cue, Jackie releases around twenty tendrils and made the Darkness head roar in her fathers's face. "Holy..." He mumbles. "Yeah dad, this is real. Jackie here controls-" "More like 'harbors'" Jackie pipes up "Harbors the Darkness, an evil entity that could kill all of Equestria, Morphious, Gem Fido, and the Dragon Badlands without trying. Oh, and he doesn't show mercy." Chrysalis added, Jackie smiled evilly. He was actually starting to like Chrysalis. But, he liked Fluttershy as well... polygamy?(That is this chapter's question) "I've never heard of that before! It is not of this world!" Her father argued. Jackie got into his face, pulled an evil grin and whispered, "I know..." "Well, what I'm trying to tell you is, I killed brother the other day, he was corrupted by the Darkness, Jackie is the same way, but he has control over it." Chrysalis sighed. "He's...dead?" Her father sounded saddened. "Yes dad, he is dead, but he deserved it by enslaving his own people. Now, me, Jackie, and four of the Elements of Harmony are off to Gem Fido to try and liberate the griffons from the Diamond Dogs." Chrysalis turned to leave and Jackie followed. "That was fun, should we rest for a day? Or just go ahead and move-what the fuck!" Jackie looked at his chest and saw the sword in his chest. He reached for the handle and yanked it out of his back, expertly hiding the searing amounts of pain. "I take it THIS," He threw the sword at her father, skewering his fore-leg, "is yours?" "Lets go, Jackie." Chrysalis nudged him out. - (An hour later, at a nearby hot spring.) - "This is so awesome!" Rainbow exclaimed. While Rainbow did jumps and dives, Applejack just relaxed and enjoyed the view. Pinkie was splashing around, and Fluttershy was sun bathing. Chrysalis was in the shade scribbling something on a piece of paper. Jackie was in just his pants, and occasionally he would see all but AJ sneaking peeks, staring really. "Hey, um, Jackie?" Chrysalis started when she walked to him. "Yeah, Chrysi?" Jackie said, looking straight at her. She help up the paper she was scribbling on:
Well....shit."Well...the answer is...." Jackie started. He was going to toy with Chrysalis. Pause for dramatic effect. "No." "No...? Okay..." "Kidding! Yes, the answer is yes." Jackie laughed. "You're so mean!" Chrysalis punched Jackie in the arm playfully. "I'm not mean! I'm playful. Anyways, we'll stay here for the night and set towards Gem Fido in the morning." Jackie heard Chrysalis pout. "What's wrong?" "Do we have to go to Gem Fido? This Griffon guy seems like he has it under control. I'd like nothing more than to stop fighting and try to have a normal life." Chrysalis suggests. "We don't have to, we could just head back to Ponyville or Canterlot, somewhere." "That'd be nice, let's do that." Chrysalis took a seat near Jackie. "Girls!" Jackie shouted, getting the attention of the rest of the girls. "Change of plans! We are no longer heading to Gem Fido. We're heading back to Ponyville!" Jackie stated. "Awww, do we have to?" Fluttershy whines. "It'd be too dangerous anyways." Jackie adds. "I suppose 'at makes sense." AJ shrugs. "I really wanted to kick flank though!" Rainbow whines. "LETS HAVE A PARTY!" Pinkie screams. "Not now, Pinkie. We'll make camp here for the night and set back towards Ponyville in the morning." Jackie sits back down and everyone goes back to what they were doing. - (Hours later) - "Fuck it! I'll try sleeping again!" Jackie says. "Jackie, problem, BIG problem!" "What do you assholes want?" Jackie says, getting confused looks from the gang. "I can't find Sadism! He's just...gone" "What!?!?! HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE!" Jackie booms "I can't find him either." "WHAT THE FUCK!" "Jackie! What's wrong?!" Chrysalis asks. "Sadism, he's gone! Just gone!" Jackie was panicking a little. "Sadism?" The girls all ask in unison. "You know the other day, when my body was flipping the fuck out?" "Yeah?" They say in unison "That was Sadism, the most dangerous personality of the Darkness. He's gone and it is seriously not good, and by that I mean, NOT FUCKING GOOD!" Jackie shouted. "How can he just be gone?" Rainbow asks. "I DON'T KNOW! Whatever, I'm too tired to deal with this right now. Let's just get some sleep and deal with it in the morning." Jackie tries to calm down and sits near a tree. "Fluttershy? Who are you talking to?" Chrysalis asked after noticing Fluttershy talking to herself a ways away from Jackie and the girls, she looked paler. "Oh! No one. Just talking to myself." Fluttershy hastily answers. "Alright. Try to get some sleep." Chrysalis says before walking back towards Jackie. "Hey Chrysalis, whats up?" Jackie yawns "Nothing. Just wanted to talk." "What about?" Jackie sits up a bit more. "I don't know. How do you feel about the Darkness?" Chrysalis asks "The thing is fuckin evil! Well, it's not evil itself, it was just corrupted by evil people who held it before me. There is another being like the Darkness, that is being held by someone I don't know back on Earth. The Angelus. Basically the opposite of the Darkness in every way. I don't know that much about it, so I can't explain it that well." Jackie yawns again. "Let's get some sleep." Chrysalis snuggles up to Jackie and they try to fall asleep. "One more thing." "Yes?" Jackie says, half-asleep. "Fluttershy was talking to herself, and she looked different, like something changed her." Chrysalis said. Jackie's eyes shot open. "What?" - (Meanwhile) - "It's true...he loves her, not you...I can make him love you..." "As much as I'd like that, it's his choice." "You deserve him! Let me make him love you!" "If you really want to..." "YYYEEEESSSSSSSS!!!!"
I didn't want to write this"Equine are dumber than humans!" "That not very-" Fluttershy's supposed one-sided conversation was cut short by a sharp snap, her wings snapped in half. She was screaming in octaves not thought possible. "Embrace the Darkness and the pain will end!" "P-p-p-please! M-m-m-make it s-stop! I'll Do whatever! Just make it stop!" Fluttershy stammered. "I am giving you a new form, stronger." Several more snaps and tears were heard as Sadism re-made the once cute and innocent Fluttershy into...something. "Fluttershy!" Jackie shouted when he arrived. He saw Fluttershy being converted by the Darkness, like when the Darkness took Jackie, made him...different, darker. "What did you do!" "I was given an offer I could refuse. An offer you should have taken years ago, Jackie!" Fluttershy was gone, all that was left was Sadism. "What going on?" Rainbow Dash wearily asked, she had already been asleep when she heard the shouting. "F-fluttershy?" Rainbow looked intensely crestfallen. She looked and saw her best friend, the friend that grew up with her, went to flight school with her, and helped her fix the oh-so many injuries she collected in her life, turn into a monster. "Fluttershy! Make a Pinkie promise you'll stop!" Pinkie pleaded "How would that help anything?" Sadism asked, honestly confused. "Just entertain her!" Jackie shouted. Unbelievably, Sadism did what was told. "Cross my heart and hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye." He half-heartily did the motions, but it counted. (>:D It counted soooooo much...fuck you Sadism) "So you'll stop now?" Pinkie asked. "No, are you stupid?" Sadism laughed. There was a large crack of lightning. "Let Fluttershy go!" Jackie demanded. "What are you going to do? Hit me? You wouldn't hit your fr-*SMACK*" Sadism was knocked back by Jackie hitting him with a tendril. "My friend is gone. Now its just, THIS fucker!" Jackie sent another tendril at Sadism, but it was caught by Sadism and Jackie was flipped over his shoulder. "You can't fight him Jackie, not without giving in yourself." "It's either, let the world be destroyed by the Darkness, or I give into to the Darkness and the world is destroyed by the Darkness, IT'S A TOTAL WIN-WIN SITUATION!" Jackie boomed sarcastically "You said it yourself, we are not evil, we were just used by too many evil people and we were corrupted! Well, Sadism took the all the corruption to himself. He is the evil one!" "I don't know if I can trust you." Jackie tried to stand, but was smashed back down by one of Sadism's own tendrils. "Do you honestly have a choice?" "Shut up and let me think." Jackie sat in his mini-crater and started to think of a plan. 'What was it called? Made that evil pony good again? Element of...elements have...Elements of...Elements of Harmony! That's it! If I give into the Darkness and rid Fluttershy of Sadism, the Elements can rid the Darkness of it's control of me. There we go! But wait, didn't something say that the head pony, queen something, can use the elements? She could take Fluttershy's place and the rest of the elements can use the Harmony things on Fluttershy and get rid of Sadism.' "Jackie! What are you doing!" Chrysalis screams. "Never mind! I have a plan! AJ and Pinkie, get on!" Jackie runs over to where AJ and Pinkie were and they climbed onto his shoulders. "What are you doing, Jackie!" Rainbow screamed, in tears. "I have a plan, Rainbow, go get Twilight and Rarity and meet us in Canterlot, just hurry!" Jackie sprouted his wings and took off towards Canterolt with Chrysalis. Rainbow took off as fast as she could towards Ponyville. "Cowards..." Sadism growled (This is how I imagine a Darkness controlled Fluttershy to look)
The death of Fluttershy?(JUST KIDDING!) Rainbow Dash flew through the night sky as fast as she could, close to a Sonic Rainboom. She was about thirty minutes from Ponyville, from Rarity and Twilight. "What's wrong, little Dashie?" An unknown voice chimes. "Who are you?" Rainbow asks the voice. "An old friend, now, what has you so down?" "It's Fluttershy! She's been taken by...something, all I know is she is different now, darker. She's not Fluttershy anymore!" Rainbow slowed down, her eyes were fogged by tears. "Even I'm not that evil. What is this power called?" "I think it's called the Dark. It was in Jackie at first, but it somehow got into Fluttershy and now she's...evil." "How do you know she is evil? Maybe the Dark just made her stronger?" The voice sounded concerned "Jackie said that the Dark had different parts to it, the one that took Fluttershy is the worst." Rainbow could see the dim light of Ponyville ahead. "How strong is it?" "Well Jackie told us that it, well, he has killed tens of thousands with it. He has these things, he calls them 'guns', they are like little cannons you can hold with your hooves that can kill almost anything, the people he faced have better guns, that can kill anything. But that's not what the Dark does, the Dark can kill anything that can die, even some things that can't, like Discord, Celestia even! And now that it has Fluttershy, not Jackie who can control it, it could destroy the world!" Rainbow was in tears now. "Even...Discord? Nothing can...kill...Discord!" The voice sounded scared. "C-Celestia too?" "That's why we have to stop her! It! I'm scared! I don't want her to die!" Rainbow went from being in tears to straight up sobbing. "That isn't going to happen Dashie, I won't let it, I run this universe and I won't let it. I've created a monster that must be stopped." The voice suddenly stopped as he went back to work. Rainbow Dash could start to see buildings on the horizon. "I won't let you die, Fluttershy. I won't" Rainbow Dash sped up a within seconds, broke the sound barrier, creating her fourth Sonic Rainboom and launching her towards Ponyville faster than ever. "Rarity first." She murmured. - (Carousel Boutique [Holy shit I spelled it right!]) - "Sweetie Belle! GO TO BED!" Rarity screamed, Sweetie Belle was jumping on her bed instead of sleeping in it. "Do I have to?" Sweetie pleaded *BBOOOOOOOOMMMMMMM* "What was that?!" Sweetie hastily asked. "Just Rainbow Dash doing something unladylike." Rarity scoffed. "Why can't she be normal, like me?" "You know what? Nobody want's to be like you. You're boring!" Sweetie shouted, Rarity was always like that. "Oh no! Dirt! Oh, you want to have fun? Fun is so unladylike!" Sweetie mimicked Rarity's voice. "Sweetie! How rude! Apologize right now!" Rarity said, clearly shocked. "No, it's the truth and the truth hurts!" Sweetie blew a raspberry at Rarity. *KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK* "Who could that be?" Rarity thought aloud. "Rarity! Open up!" Rainbow shouted harshly. "Ask like a civilized pony! Say please!" Rarity shouted back. "OPEN THIS BUCKING DOOR RIGHT BUCKING NOW!" Rainbow boomed near RCV level (Royal Canterlot Voice) "Fine...fine." Rarity scoffed again. She opened the door and found a red-eyed Rainbow Dash. "Oh dear, have you been crying?" "Of course not! Why would I...yes! Yes, I've been crying!" Rainbow stammered. "Whatever for? It must be horrid if Rainbow admits she cried about it." Rarity tried to joke. "It's Fluttershy, we need to get the Elements from Twilight and meet Jackie in Canterlot." Rainbow grabbed Rarity and carried her towards Twilight's library. "What happened to Fluttershy?" Rarity asks, hanging on by a fore-leg. "She was...was..." Rainbow starts to choke up again. "Oh..." Rarity's eyes started to fog. Rainbow stopped on Twilight's doorstep and saw all the lights were out, she was asleep. "TWILIGHT!" Rainbow tapped on her window. "Rainbow? What are you doing here?" Spike asked from a lower window. "Wake up Twilight for me!" Rainbow went from small taps to banging. "Rarity? What's goin' on?" Spike turned his attention to the mare of his dreams. "It's Fluttershy...she's gone." Rarity sniffled. "Buck it!" Rainbow shouted, she brought a hoof back and punched the window, breaking it. She walked briskly over to where Twilight lay, got real close to her ear..."WAKE THE BUCK UP!!!" Twilight sprang out of her bed like a jack in the box. "What the hay!" Twilight stammered groggily. "Rainbow? What are you doing here? I thought you were going along with Jackie?" "Fluttershy...she's gone." Rainbow chocked out. "She's missing?" Twilight was really dense. "No...she's gone." Rainbow repeated. "Get the Elements, including Fluttershy's, and then you need to teleport yourself, me, and Rarity to Canterlot to meet up with Jackie, Pinkie, AJ, and Chrysalis." "Okay, give me a couple minutes to find them." Twilight wasn't grasping the full concept. - (ten minutes later) - "Rainbow c'mon, I found them." Twilight walked down the stairs into the main room. "Rarity, let's go. Spike you might not want to go." Rainbow said in a sad, steady monotone. "Yeah, I'll just stay here...clean I guess." Spike walked back upstairs. "Rarity, Rainbow, put on your Elements and stand near me." Twilight already had her tiara on when she floated the two corresponding Elements to Rarity and Rainbow. Rainbow puts her's on before Rarity and takes a seat next to the half-asleep Twilight, Rarity soon follows. "Alright, hold onto your lunch." - (Canterlot, main atrium) - "You just don't get it, do you Celestia?" Jackie scorned. "Fluttershy, your Element of Kindness, has been corrupted by a murderous demon that I have to harbor. She isn't Fluttertshy anymore. But I need you to use her Element when Twilight brings them here." Jackie explains for the third time. "I just need a little time to take this in...don't you? Knowing that a friend has passed?" Celestia sighs sadly. "Yeah it's sad, but I don't have time to grieve, grief is for the weak." Jackie spits out coldly. "While I don't entirely agree with your take on grief, there is no time for it now. Please, inform me of your plan." Celestia was just going to bed when Jackie barged in. "I remember that you can use the Elements, correct?" Jackie starts. "Yes, I can under circumstances." Celestia answers "Well, when the rest of the Elements get here, Twilight with the Elements themselves, I want you to use Fluttershy's. When you all have your respective Elements, I will go out and try to lure Sadism to this atrium." Jackie explains. "I see. But what will we be using the Elements on?" Jackie face-palmed when he realized he hadn't explained. "You will be using them on Fluttershy, well, what was once Fluttershy. I have a feeling that if you use the Elements on Sadism, what is controlling Fluttershy, it will separate him like it did with Luna and Nightmare. But if it doesn't...I need you to use it on me once I give in to destroy Sadism, if it doesn't work I mean. It would turn me to stone like it did Discord." Jackie takes a breath. "But let's not dwell on the negative possibilities." "That's very noble, Jackie. Willing to sacrifice yourself for a friend." Celestia...she was an idiot at times. "No, I wouldn't be 'sacrificing' myself for Fluttershy, by 'destroying' Sadism, it would mean complete and utter destruction of Fluttershy, I wouldn't be saving her, I'd be killing her, in a way she is already dead. I'd be 'sacrificing' myself for everyone else on the planet. But be warned, when I bring Sadism here, there will be blood, pony blood, a lot of your guards and ponies will most likely be slaughtered. I need you to start evacuating the surrounding area of here, now." Jackie stands, "I think I hear Twilight and the rest, go get Fluttershy's Element and wait here." Jackie walks to where the rest of the girls sat, "Chrysalis?" "Yeah Jackie?" Chrysalis was just sitting alone, still not fully accepted by the rest of the girls. Jackie stepped closer and gave her a quick kiss. "Wish me luck, I'm about to do something stupid." Jackie laughs "What are you about to do?" "Die." - (East Everfree, two miles from Canterlot) - "Jackie thinks he can stop ME, that's a laugh." Sadism was talking to himself. "Are you sure about that? You should be scared you know." "Fluttershy? How are you talking? And why should I, the Darkness, be scared?" "You broke a Pinkie Pie Promise." "The Darkness is scared of no measly pony!" "And, you've said it yourself, you are not the Darkness, only a part of it, Jackie has two parts, therefor, he is stronger." "Quiet! Or I'll-" "What could you possibly do? I'm already dead!" "True, but who said the dead couldn't suffer?" "LOOK OUT DICK-BAG!!" Jackie shouted as he landed a boot to Sadism's head. "Jackie! I'm Going to kill you!" Sadism snarled. "Wouldn't be the first time!" Jackie laughed. "Come and get me, douche-bag!" Jackie hovered (with his wings of course) just out of Sadism's reach. Sadism flapped his pair of wings and flew quickly after Jackie, Jackie was quicker. Jackie flew towards Canterlot, Sadism following Dangerously close. - (Main atriunumnnmnmnmnmnmn) - "What did he mean when he said...die?" Chrysalis asked slowly. Celestia walked into the room bearing Fluttershy's Element and sat near Twilight. "He said it was close to a sixty to forty ratio of him dying if the Elements don't work to expel Sadism from Fluttershy. He would have to give himself up to the Darkness to...kill...Fluttershy, er, Sadism. We would then have to use the Elements on him to turn him to stone, like we did Discord. It almost sounded like he welcomed the thought of death. He said himself not to dwell on the negatives, so let's not do that." Celestia explains. "Oh...Let's hope your Elements work as good on Sadism as they did on me than!" Chrysalis laughs. - (Above the Atrium) - "Shit!" Jackie exclaimed as a tendril landed a hard blow to his back. Jackie could see the girls from a glass panel on the roof. "You will BOW to me!" Sadism demanded. "Ha..no." Jackie coughed. Jackie was a little to slow and got smashed downwards towards the atrium. He slowed himself enough to where he wouldn't crash through the roof, but would alert the Elements that he was there. "Just accept that you have lost!" Sadism put on a wicked grin. "No." Jackie said plainly. Sadism snarled before trying to hit Jackie, his attack was countered by Jackie opening a mini-Black hole to throw Sadism off balance. The Black hole ripped a whole in the roof as well. "Jackie!" Chrysalis screamed from below. "Are you alright?" "I'm fine! Start charging the Elements or something!" Jackie commanded. The Elements start glowing dimly, the light slowly building up. "I will rip out your heart! DIE!" Sadism pounced on Jackie and was on the verge on biting out his heart when an absolutely massive crack of lighting crossed the sky. "What was that?" "YOU BROKE A PINKIE PIE PROMISE!!!" Pinkie boomed over RCV level, shattering windows. She jumped behind Sadism and brought a heavy fore-hoof down on his skull. "This one has power, power that I can use." Sadism growled quietly and grabbed Pinkie, teeth bared. "No you don't motherfucker!" Jackie used a maw to bite Sadism's face before using a dark tendril to smash him through the roof. "That...actually hurt." Sadism was surprised, he hadn't experienced actual pain in long time. When he looked up from his pile of rubble, he was staring into the barrels (PewdiePie: BARRELS!!!) of multiple Darkling's chain-guns. "Open fire!" Jackie commanded from the Elements side, Pinkie safely with them. The Darkling's guns spun to life and the atrium was soon filled with a deafening drone of gunfire. Jackie could see Sadism losing little chunks off flesh gradually every second, Jackie was winning. "You didn't think it would be that easy would you! Bullets can not kill me!" "I wasn't trying to kill you, I was trying to stall you." Jackie let out a small laugh, coughing up blood in the process. He steeped to the side and dismissed his Darklings. "Stall? Stall for what!" There was a bright flash of light as the Elements discharged into a massive beam of Pure light, directed entirely at Sadism. The beam of Friendship (I laughed for a good three minutes after righting that) hit Sadism sending him into a wall. "Did it work?" Celestia asks, panting. "I don't know." Jackie walks over to Sadism and saw...
Problem SolvedJackie hefted a larger piece of rubble off Sadism and saw...he was still breathing. Fluttershy was still Sadism. "What? I...I can't move!" Sadism said painfully "Huh..." Jackie noticed two lights pouring from Sadism's wounded chest. "Purple and Yellow?" Jackie thought aloud. He reached a hand inside and pulled out two small orbs, one purple, one yellow. "What're those?" AJ asked. "If I had to guess...Sadism and Fluttershy." Jackie picked up the dead body of Sadism and carried it over to Celestia. "Any way to fix this thing up?" "No, sadly. The body is dead, completely dead, no way to heal it." Celestia choked out. Jackie stared at the orbs intensely, thinking. "She's dead?" Rainbow was in tears again. "In a sense." Jackie was putting something together, a plan of sorts. "What do you mean?" Twilight was intrigued. "Well, you see the orbs, the purple one is Sadism, a piece of the Darkness, the other is yellow, Fluttershy, Sadism can't die because he is not physically able to, he is not a physical form capable of death. When he took over Fluttershy, he pushed her into a non-physical form, making her not capable of death. I removed them from the body, so they'd survive, while they can't die themselves, they can die if they are in physical form. Basically, I can now make Fluttershy a part of the Darkness, but I'm not going to. Sadism in one hand, Fluttershy in the other, I plan on getting rid of Sadism and keeping Fluttershy until something can be done about her." Jackie explains. "How is that possible?" Twilight was dumb-founded. "And how will you discard of 'Sadism'?" "He can't take control of anyone unless they let him in. Celestia, do you think you could bury this somewhere far underground? As in hundreds of miles?" Jackie asks "I suppose I could." Celestia sniffles. "Jackie, I have an Idea!" Chrysalis starts. "What is it?" Jackie tossed Sadism to Celestia, who placed it in the safe-box originally used for the Elements. "Remember when Fluttershy was first taken by Sadism? He made her look different simply by being in charge of her body. You could make one of your Darklings and tell it to let Fluttershy take control of it, it should re-form into that of Fluttershy and BOOM. Problem solved." Chrysalis smiles smugly. "That's...genius!" Jackie exclaims.
Fluttershy Reborn through Darkness (FINALE)"I don't think that little pony could handle hearing the voices in her head" "She'll be fine." Jackie shrugs "Who're you talking to, Jackie?" Twilight asks, she had forgotten the Jackie has several voices in his head. "Ugggh, can't you like, put some sort of amplification spell in my head so you can hear him?" Jackie suggests. "That would be a neat experiment!" Twilight was excited. She hit Jackie in the temples with a lavender beam and Jackie felt his throat swell a tiny bit. "Well, side effect! By letting whatever is in your head speak, it gave you a second voice-box." "Fuckin' greeeaaat." Jackie grumbles "What Darkling should we use?" Rage asks in his evil, dragging voice. Everyone(save Jackie) in the room jumped, the voice they heard was not what they were expecting. "I think a normal one should suffice." Jackie answered. A Darkling portal opened nearby, letting a single Darkling to pop out. "Holy me! That thing is horrifying!" Celestia stated as she returned from the other room. The Darkling sat new Jackie as if it was a dog. Jackie held the orb to the Darkling, who took it in his dirty claws. "Do you hear the voices?" Jackie asks the Darkling. It nodded. "Let those voices enter your mind, believe in them, I don't know." Jackie shrugs again. The Darkling squints it's eyes at the orb, which grew brighter by the minute. "Nothings happening" Rage pointed the obvious. The Darkling squeezed the orb a little and it popped like a soap bubble. The ponies, and Chrysalis, gasped. Jackie had a feeling in his gut that told him that this wasn't the end of it. "Girls? Why are you taller now?" The Darkling asked in the sweet, musical voice of Fluttershy. "Odd, she is the Darkling now, but still looks like the Darkling. Oh wait, never mind." Jackie smiles when he hears the bones breaking and Fluttershy screaming in pain. (Holy shit that's morbid) - (two hours later) - "So, I died?" Fluttershy asks, back to normal, like it never happened. "In a way. But that's not important." Jackie yawns. "Celestia, where did you put Sadism?" "Twenty miles underground in a magic resistant bunker." Celestia answered groggily. "Huh, he shouldn't get out any time soon." Jackie gets up and sits back down beside Chrysalis. "Tell me, house in Ponyville, Morphious, or Canterlot?" He asks her. "I think Ponyville would be nice." Chrysalis snuggles up to Jackie, "We'd need to get jobs to pay for it though." "Jobs? I just saved the entire planet, universe maybe, from being destroyed by Sadism, and I still have to get a job? Yep, seems legit." Jackie laughs. "Don't worry, I'll get you two a house for your troubles." Celestia gets up, "I have stayed up way too late, and need to sleep." She says before walking towards her bed-chamber. "Well that's nice of her." Jackie puts an arm around Chrysalis. - (One year later) - Jackie and Chrysalis lived happily in their two-story home, payed for by Celestia. Nothing really happened, other than a single Diamond Dog raid, but they were, as to be expected, slaughtered. Chrysalis had gotten a job as the Ponyville substitute teacher, the foals were scared of her at first of course, but they soon warmed up to her. Jackie had several odd jobs around Ponyville, fix this, take me there, help me clean, put this thief in his place, you know, slow things. Jackie had saved up enough bits to buy an engagement ring for Chrysalis and was just trying to think of a way to propose when it happened. "The Darkness Lives, Jackie. The Darkness lives..."
