Sombra Vs. Jason

  Shining Armor had left the Crystal Empire shortly the next morning. He packed a travel bag of food and clothes, he also packed his weapons just in case. The note Cadence had received had given him chills all through the night. The way it was written and what it said made him feel uneasy. For once Cadence wasn't the only one in trouble it was all of PonyVille. The thought of Twilight and her friends cycled in his mind over and over again without stop. If anything happened to her and Shining was away he wouldn't forgive himself. Though the captain held his bearing at times, the thought of his sister being in danger without her knowing yet was breaking him. Shining Armor walked onto a train at the Crystal Empires station. He moved along the walkway, trying not to step on any ponies hooves in the process. He sat in a seat near a window and placed his baggage in the glove compartment. Shining then laid his head back on the seat, tenderness on his shoulders from carrying his bag for a mile.

  Curiosity then made its way into the captains mind. This was the first time Shining has ever heard a pony go by the name Jason. It wasn't common for a name like that to be in Equestria or any other country on Equus. So that only added to the journal of questions that circled this situation. Who ever wrote that note was very bold or very stupid for sending it to the empire. Shining made it his target view to see this situation as a trap and likely his sister doesn't know about this situation. Which only makes things worse. Shining Armor wanted to make his way to PonyVille as soon as possible to make sure his sister is safe and find the bastard who is targeting her. Unpronounced to Shining Armor, an individual in a brown trench coat was watching him from afar. Bright greens eyes shined in the darkness of the coat with razor sharp teeth.

  Chrysalis lowered her head slightly to not attract any attention. She had been following Shining Armor since he got on the train and keeping a close eye on him. The queen tried to contain herself from confronting the captain and eating his magic. She had a mission, plain and simple. Lure Shining into PonyVille and have him fight Jason. Once the two are distracted, Sombra will appear and send a army of magic swords at Jason which will tear him to pieces, literally. Chrysalis chuckled in her throat at the thought. Once Jason is killed, Chrysalis will step in and kill Shining from behind. Killing two birds with one stone. She had to give it to Sombra, this plan seemed solid. Though it sounded to good to be true at times. For one thing, how was she going to lure the captain? He was obviously going to Twilight Sparkles home which is wear Jason is stationed. Another problem though is Jason is abnormally strong. She worried if Shining Armor would even be strong enough to fight Jason long enough until Sombra arrived. Again, it sounded to good to be true. Chrysalis snapped out of her thoughts apon feeling  the train coming to halt. A wide, toothy grin came over her face.

  Shining Armor grabbed his bag and made his way off the train onto PonyVille station. Chrysalis followed close behind. Shining walked down the dirt roads of PonyVille, looking left and right for the familiar tree house. The small village had slightly expanded since he last been their. Their were more buildings then ever and more ponies roaming around. To Shining, it felt like he was in Manehattan though slightly back a few generations. He then saw the tall oak leaves over a small house. A smile came across his face and he jogged around the building and saw it. The tall oak tree with a built in windows and balcony. Over the door was a sign with books and a familiar star cutie mark on it. Shining came to the door, knocking three times before stopping slightly and knocking again. The door swung open immediately and a wide grinning mare was starring into Shining Armors eyes. Before he could speak, the captain was wrapped up in a bear hug that could give an actual bear a run for his money. A squeak escaped Twilight as she suffocated her brother in her hug.

"Shining! Its soooooo good to see you!"

  Twilight broke off the hug and invited her brother in. He gladly obliged. The two made their way into the main room when a small dragon the size of Shining's lower body came over the corner. His eyes lit up like the sun and his wrapped his arms around the stallions torso.

"How's it going Shining?" he asked.

  Shining Armor laughed and scratched Spikes head.

"Its been doing great Spike. I'm guessing you've been keeping an eye on Twilight?" he said. Giving his sister a playful grin.

  Twilight slugged her brother in the shoulder and he chuckled again. Twilights cheeks puffed out and she gave narrowed eye look toward her brother.

"Hey I haven't destroyed anything!"

  Shining gives Twilight a glint.

"Well...not on purpose anyway."

  The two ponies laughed while Spike looked around the room with a concerned look.

"Um Twilight."

  The mare looked down at Spike with a emotionless look. Shining copying her.

"Yeah Spike?"

"Where's Jason and the crusaders?"

  Shining's ears perked up as he heard the name. He quickly kneeled down to Spike's height at looked at him with determination in his eyes. His voice changed to a firm one.

"What was his name Spike?"

  The dragon was caught off guard by the question. He looked behind Shining and saw Twilight with a shocked look. The baby dragon collected himself and looked back at Shining.

"Jason. He's a big, tall, wolf wearing a mask." Spike said. Waving his arms around in a goofy way.

  Shining nodded and made his way to the door before he turned and smiled at his sister.

"Twily I want you to get all your friends together. I might need your help."

  Twilight stopped her brother before he even put his hand to the door.

"Wait! Why do you need to find Jason!?"

  The captains smiled vanished and instead was replaced with a scowl. He turned his sister with a glint in his eyes.

"I'm going to make sure he doesn't hurt any more ponies."

  With that Shining opened the door and walked out, leaving  stunned Twilight and Spike behind.

  The crusaders walked down a grassy path. Toward a tree with a wooden structure on top of it. A small ladder leading up to it. The tree house had a small symbol of a shield and sword on the size of it. The crusaders stopped in front of the ladder and faced each other. Looks of wonder on their faces. It had been nearly five hours since they had seen their best masked friend. He hasn't done this before since the crusaders had met him. One morning he just vanished, leaving behind something that made the crusaders worry about him even more. Apple Bloom reached into her backpack and pulled out her friends sword. The crusaders looked down at the blade with sad expressions.

"What do you guys think happened to him? He never leaves anywhere without this thing." Scootaloo said.

  Apple Bloom shacked her head.

"Ah I don't know ya'll but its been buggin me since this morning."

  Sweetie Belle grabbed onto the ladder and was about to climb up when the sound of twigs breaking caught the trios attention. They screamed and looked around in all directions. Holding each other as they did so. The forest had become silent, nothing the frantic breathing of the crusaders could be heard. A chilling voice was heard from with in the forest.

Ch. Ch. Ch. Ah. Ah. Ah.

  The girls screamed again and run up the ladder. Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo were already up the ladder but Apple Bloom tripped when her friends scrambled. She quickly made her way up the latter but was stopped when a cracking sound made her blood run cold. The ladder was breaking off from the tree house. The step under Apple Bloom split in two and the filly fell until she grabbed onto another step. Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle looked over and saw their friend crying in fear and trying to hold into the ladder.

"Apple Bloom! Hang on!" Sweetie called.

  Apple Bloom looked up to her friends.

"Help me!"

  Another crack was heard and Apple Blooms eyes widened like saucers. The step she grabbed broke in two. Her body became heavy as she fell to the ground. Time slowed down to Apple Bloom. She was nearly at the top of the ladder when it broke and their was still a seven foot drop to the ground. This was a going to hurt. Apple Bloom closed her eyes as she prepared for the impact. However, it never happened. Instead she felt like she was suspended in the air with something holding her from below. Apple Bloom opened her eyes again and looked below her. To her surprise she saw a white mask starring up at her. Jason slowly lowered Apple Bloom to the ground. She looked up at the wolf man with surprise in her eyes. Jason simply cocked his head, he then looked up at saw the other tow crusaders looking at him. He offered his hand to them, offering if they wanted to come down. The girls looked at each other but then smiled as they crawled into Jason's arm and hanged on as  he lowered them to the ground.

  With all the crusaders on the ground, they all wrapped the mask wolf in a hug. Jason stood their and looked down at them as he heard hear sobs and sniffles from them. His head was still cocked  as looked down at the fillies. He put his hand on top of Apple Blooms head and she looked up at him. Jason then looked to his right and saw his machete on the ground. The crusaders broke off of him and watched he went over and picked it up. With Jason being a little farther away, the crusaders got a new look at him. He had a brand new jacket and shirt on. His jacket was sage and his shirt was black. Jason picked up his machete and looked it over. It seemed to be in tact. Jason lifted a his jacket and showed a sword scabbard. The crusaders gave confused looks as Jason sheathed his machete. The wolf man then turned his attention toward the crusaders, walking to them before stopping and standing their motionless. The crusaders stared up at the wolf man with wide smiles.

  Sombra stalked in the shadows of the Everfree Forest. The entire plane was coming together. The note he wrote and sent to the Crystal Empire worked as expected. However he was curious about the said bodies on the note though. For once, Sombra didn't kill some pony to get a message across someone. He just found them like that. Back to the main mission however, Shining Armor was in PonyVille and Jason was near as well. Though Sombra couldn't sense him, he knew Jason was in the forest though Sombra didn't know where. It was like trying to find a masked needle in a haystack. He floated over bushes trying not to make a sound.

  He heard something. Sounds of children laughing and running through the bushes. Sombra turned and saw two familiar fillies running wide smiles on their faces. Sombra grinned evilly as he knew who they were. Disappearing into a cloud of smoke, he took to the trees and watched as the fillies stopped under him. He listened in to their them.

"Do you  think we lost them?" Sweetie Belle asked.

  Scootaloo was breathing heavily and laughing at the same time.

"Are you kidding me? The big guy doesn't even run and Apple Bloom lost us the moment we ran off!"

  Sombra ears perked up. The big guy? They must have been talking about Jason. They knew where he was. They would tell him where to find him. Sombra morphed himself back to normal and dropped to the ground in front of the fillies. They screamed and grabbed each other. Sombra grinned and bent over the fillies. His shadow covering them as he did so.

"Hello my pretties."

  A sound of fillies screaming for their lives rang out from the forest. It was so loud in fact, Apple Bloom and Jason heard it. The filly stopped dead in her tracks and listened. She never heard anything like that before. Jason looked around as well but gripping the handle of his machete just in case. Apple Bloom knew who screamed.

"We have to find Sweetie Belle and Scoots as soon as possible!"

  Jason looked down at the filly and watched as she ran off toward to where the screams came from. Jason followed close behind. Apple Bloom ran until she came to a tree and felt like she stepped on something soft. She looked down and saw something that made her eyes tear up. Jason caught up top the filly and watched as she kneeled and picked something up from the ground. She turned to him on the verge of crying as she held out a pink bow in her hands. Jason's head snapped to the bow and then back to her eyes. His breathing increased and his anger boiled. A demonic sounding laughter was heard through the forest. Jason drew his machete and turned toward the laughing. He didn't have time to comprehend what happened when a black cloud came from the trees and carrying Jason through and breaking him through trees.

"Jason!" Apple Bloom cried.

  The black cloud stopped and Jason was thrown far into the forest. He landed on his back and skidded across a wide open field on his back. Jason flipped and landed flat on his mask. The revenant could feel some of his bones were broken. Jason slowly got up, holding his arm as he did so. A irritating voice then rang out to the revenant.

"Hey! Asshole!"

  Jason snapped his attention to the sound with a scowl under his mask, making his arm violently crack as he did so. Sombra stood in a opening in the forest. Behind him was a clear view of a farm in the distance. He laughed and disappeared into a another cloud of smoke. Jason's anger boiled and started to sprint walk. Following the dark stallion with intention to kill him.