The Darkness Lives

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"