The Darkness Lives

(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.

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(Carousel Boutique [Holy shit I spelled it right!])

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"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.

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(ten minutes later)

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"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."

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(Canterlot, main atrium)

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"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."

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(East Everfree, two miles from Canterlot)

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"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.

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(Main atriunumnnmnmnmnmnmn)

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"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.

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(Above the Atrium)

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"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...