Death of Loyalty, A Way Home

Twilight's eyes were closed, she had pointed the spikes at Rainbow right as she had lunged at her.

She heard a loud cough and something warm sprayed across her face.

Slowly opening her eyes she looked up and saw Rainbow pierced by her spikes, hovering in the air.

Rainbow looked back at Twilight.

And Twilight saw something like regret appear in her eyes.

"Say... Twilight..." Her voice was raspy and weak, blood was running out of her mouth. "After all this... do you still call me a friend?"

Twilight felt the soft stream of tears rolling down her cheeks.

"Of course Rainbow." She sobbed.

"Princess of Friendship indeed." Rainbow whispered. "Say... can I get... one last hug?" She asked, even weaker.

Twilight bit her lip as she lowered Rainbow, wrapping her legs around her friend, Rainbow returned the hug.

And her eyes widened.

"Temple of Life..." Rainbow's barely audible voice reached her ear. "Follow... the feathers.... and you..." Rainbow's voice got weaker and weaker. "The... way... home..." Rainbow's hooves slipped off of her.

Twilight cried as she felt something shaken Rainbow's body and with the sound of ripping flesh, light escaped Rainbow's wounds and a Dark Soul burst out of her.

Twilight jumped back, away from the purple soul, caked in Rainbow's blood.

Legion clapped his hands, his sword resting in his lap. "Oh what tragedy." His voice had a mocking tone. "Who knew that-"

"SHUT UP!" Twilight's voice boomed through the room, silencing Legion. "You will never understand what just happened. You, Dark Souls, Michael, the apocalypse..." She screamed in agony, the blood of her friend on her body. "I don't care about any of that... but you will never understand." She snapped at Legion. "YOU WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND!"

Legion grabbed his sword, a scoff escaped him as he stood up. "I don't even pretend to care."

Twilight growled at him, she readied herself, calling out some of her spikes.

"Oh Twilight." Legion shook his head. "Do you really think you could hurt me with-"

Twilight interrupted him as she shoved one of her spikes into his right shoulder. A small trail of blood began to seep out of the wound.

Legion shook his head, he grabbed the spike and pulled it out, crashing it in his hand.

"You are bleeding." Twilight scowled at him, her voice was ice cold. "If you can bleed, you can die."

Legion scoffed. "And you think you can do that? Kill me? You alone?"

BOOM!

A hole appeared in Legion's left shoulder.

Twilight looked up and saw Michael stand in the door, his gun was pointed at Legion.

"She is not alone!" He bellowed.

"And what about it?" Legion scoffed again. "What are two ants supposed to do against a god?"

Another bullet hit Legion and with a groan he fell to the floor, grabbing at the wounds in his chest.

Michael walked closer, pointing his gun at Legion.

"Get up! Get up you bastard!" Michael shouted at him.

Legion rolled on his back, his sword still in hand. "Alas, it would appear that I am done for." His voice had a sarcastic and mocking tone.

"You didn't reckon on the fact that the Dark Souls we possess would give us even greater power - power enough to take you down!" Michael shouted into his face, anger reflecting in it.

Legion slowly stood up, scoffing at Michael as he brushed over his chest, the wounds simply disappearing like dust.

"Well, you might think that. But unfortunately, and once again, you are woefully mistaken."

A deep groan ripped through the room as Legion began to shake, the sound of ripping flesh filled the ears of Michael and Twilight as Legion's body stretched, tearing the clothes off of him.

"What the?" Michael took a step away from Legion.

"Michael?" Twilight looked at Legion as his body became bigger and bigger. It deformed, grew tendrils, claws and a long spiked tail. A giant toothless maw opened up on his tomach, harboring a giant blade. His body faintly resembled a Dark Soul the way it stretched and bend. Taking off, Legion began to float through the room as-

Twilight screamed. The floor she was standing on crashed down, creating a crossed walkway, leading down into darkness.

The giant metal plates landed in a room below, an earpiercing clunk deafened Twilight for a second.

Twilight looked up and saw how a big part of Legion, the long spiked tail, split off, falling down into the room she was in.

"AND NOW YOU DIE!"

Legion's distorted voice echoed through the rooms as Michael began to fire away.

Twilight gasped as the part of Legion in front of her began to stirr, claws began to grow out of it's sides as it tail began to erect, standing on the claws like a scorpion. Something began to hiss and Twilight saw a purple liquid drop off it's spikes, burning holes into the floor.

Twilight gulped.

'One drop and I'm done for.'

Small holes opened up in the body and Twilight saw small spikes grow out, pointed at Twilight.

Twilight jumped as the spikes were fired at her, digging deep into the wall.

Twilight's eyes widened as the wall around the spikes also began to corrode.

She summoned one of her own spikes, sending it right into it the creature.

And Twilight screamed in shock as she jumped away from the long tail piercing the floor she just stood on.

Twilight shattered the spike and a small fountain of purple blood gushed out of it but the scorpion continued, pulling it's tail out of the floor, turning towards Twilight.

Twilight began to circle around the scorpion, dodging it's attacks, and sending spike after spike into it's body, shattering them the moment they dug into it's flesh.

After a few minutes of dodging and attacking Twilight became desperate. She didn't even know if her attacks were actually hurting it. The scorpion continued unfathomed, it followed her ramming it's long tail into the ground or firing at Twilight with it's spikes.

And everytime one of the spikes missed her, or a drop of the scorpions poison dropped to the floor she felt her gaze glued to the holes they were burning into the wall and floor.

Her mind worked feverishly. She had to do something or at some point it would corner her and-

Something heavy crashed into walkway above and Twilight felt the plates tremble as the tail-scorpion began to flail and stomp around. It began to shrink, it's poison seeping out every pore, burning away the monstrosity.

Twilight looked around. She found a small ramp leading around the room, up towards the walkway above.

She sprinted towards it.

Running up she saw Michael stand in the middle, pointing at Legion. He was saying something but Twilight was too far away to understand him. Suddenly an arc of purple escaped Michael, a dark purple lightning crashed into Legion as Michael did... something.

Legion's agonized screams echoed through the room as something above them exploded. Twilight looked up and gasped as she saw a massive part of the ceiling come down, breaking through the walkway, and bending her ramp.

She jumped over it, looking back she saw the ramp bend even further, breaking under the weight. She looked up and saw another, bigger part crash down, seperating her ramp from the walkway above. She came to a halt, looking towards the edge of the walkway. It was too far away for a jump. Michael walked over the walkway, looking around.

"Michael!" She screamed, he turned around and saw her. He laid down, extending his arm as far as possible.

"Jump!" He shouted.

"What? I can't-"

"Either you jump or you die!" He interrupted her, he looked up as more and more parts came crashing down and more machinery behind the walls exploded.

"Do it!" He ordered.

Twilight gulped, walking back she looked at the distance between them.

She had one chance.

She sprinted towards the edge, jumping at the very last moment and-

Twilight fell down a hole, it's sticky surface reminding her of flesh. It felt like she was falling down a vein.

She shuddered as she landed on the same squishy surface. It bounced slightly, cushioning her landing. She stood up, looking around the new room she was in.

After their escape Michael had helped her back to the Temple of Life, the temple she had been in before, back in the Wastelands.

He had helped her over the coalpits, carrying her while he simply walked over them, telling her some of the things he did after he had disappeared back in Shiv's realm. Something in there had killed him and he couldn't find a way to return, the way back to Shiv's portal had been blocked off. The one imitating him was probably Legion, deceiving her, even though Michael wasn't sure how he opened the coffingates. He had shrugged it off. Legion would know ways around them.

After they were seperated he continued his search for the Dark Souls. He didn't even know if she had been still alive. He had fought his way through temples, gathering ancient tattoos that allowed him to touch, walk over and even be engulfed by fire.

He had stopped at the entrance to the hole she had jumped down a few moments ago and had seen her off, waving at her.

It was weird to be alone right now, surrounded by squishy, fleshy walls. She shuddered again. She walked through the room, exiting it on the opposite side.

After walking through another long, and luckily flesh free, serpent like corridor she found herself standing in a half moon shaped room. In the middle was an empty podest bearing etchings of the sun, the crescent moon and stars. Right behind it was another Ether portal. Five corridors were leading into small adjacent rooms, each bearing a weird wooden altar.

She ignored the altars and looked around.

And then she found a feather. She followed the feather, entering one of the small corridors.

Sticking out of the back of the altar was another feather.

She furrowed her brows. Stepping closer she noticed a small hollow space behind the altar.

Quietly moving it she found a small, plain wodden chest in a hole.

Opening it she felt tears begin to well. Inside the chest was a group photo of them, in front of Twilight's castle, together with Rainbow's necklace, the red lightning was softly glimming.

Twilight grabbed both, teardrops landed on the photo. She pressed the necklace to her chest, crying softly.

She pictured her own Castle, standing in front of it.

She felt her own body bend and twist as the world whirled away.

And she heard Rainbow's voice echo through her mind. Together with her feelings, a feeling of pride washed through Twilight.

"See? I'd never leave my friends hanging."

The world stopped spinning and Twilight found herself standing in front of her castle, spike was standing on a ladder, cleaning a window. He was a little bit bigger than before.

Twilight sobbed. She felt Celestia's sun, she felt the grass beneath her hooves, she was seeing her number one assistant.

And she still cried.

She was finally back.

But it would never be the same.

THE END

Author's Note

Yay, the good ending! Or... well as good as possible. And look, feels!

For those who don't remember, the 'See? I'd never leave my friends hanging.' is actually one of Rainbow's lines. She said that to Twilight Sparkle right after she escaped Nightmare Moon's allurement.

And before anyone asks: ~~No I won't write a sequel. If someone's out there who would like to write a sequel, feel free to do so, just credit me.~~

I will write a sequel.

Okay, so this is the end of Welcome to Deadside, my weak attempt at a mature, gore crossover story. I can't say I'm sorry that I wrote this, it was funny, even though I feel like the quality dropped towards the end. But that may be just me.

So yeah, I hope you all had fun and... Yeah good day to you my fellow reader and...

Well...

Whatever...

See ya next story