The Darkness Lives

"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.