The Darkness Lives

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!"