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Chapter 6: Innocent Motivations (Unedited)

After ten hours of walking, they finally got away from the cold. Yubel spread her wings, “I’m heading for canterlot,” She said turning to them, “Don’t cause anymore trouble.”

"No! You will not fucking abandon... Actually who needs you anyways? I'm going to Ponyville," Lucas retorted.

Yubel's eyes widened at that, "If you cause any trouble..."

"Don't finish that sentence," Lucas said as he teleported away, leaving Yubel with the still unconscious Styx and frozen Sombra.

Yubel just leaved Styx as she took off. ‘First I’ll give Celestia Sombra, then I’ll go see why Ladybug has Cadance.’

"No!!! DON'T LEAVE ME!" Styx screamed. Turned out he was faking unconsciousness.

Yubel ignored him and flew off in the distance. ‘Then I’ll finally have time with her.’

Sombra started struggling anew in his prison and cracks started forming. Finally though, a huge crack split the crystal and he flew away towards the Ponyville’s direction, probably to kill the Elements of Harmony.

Yubel sighed, ‘Screw it! It’s the Elements’ and Lucas’s problems now!’

Lucas appeared in the center of Ponyville without a flash, attracting everypony’s attention straight to him. “Where are the elements?” He muttered to himself before his eyes landed on a tree that looked exactly like where he needed to go. He walked towards it, ignoring all the stares he was receiving.

A Blue blur flew into his path and glared at him. “What do you think you are doing here?!” Rainbow Dash yelled.

“I wish to speak with your leader,” He said bluntly.

“Sunset! One of those three crazies want to see you!” Rainbow Dash screamed as Sunset appeared from the library.

“What which one?” Sunset asked.

“Former Shadow Marshal Lucas Kellan of the Vektan Security Agency and the Interplanetary Strategic Alliance,” Lucas said formally.

“Did you say interplanetary?” Sunset asked in confusion.

“Yes,” Lucas said simply.

Pinkie Pie appeared, “Oh I for sure that’s Yubel would be the one to come, or Discord!” Pinkie Pie then realized, “You're in Ponyville I forgot something!” Pinkie Pie returned with fireworks and dance.

“What is a Shadow Marshal anyways?” Rainbow Dash asked in confusion.

“I was an assassin for the Vektans. I lost my family and I had nothing left except the military…” Lucas reminisced sadly.

“So where is the other two?” Rainbow Dash asked, “Aren’t you like friends?”

“You really are clueless… They drive me insane. Yubel is way too mature and Styx is a fucking drug addict and a thief! I may have killed but at least I don’t go around trying to rob everything I see and drink every fucking bottle of alcohol I see! And I actually killed for a reason! To protect my country. So no, not really...” Lucas replied with laces of sadness as well as loneliness evident in his tone.

“Wait Yubel the mature one of you three?” Pinkie Pie asked.

“Pinkie she is a mother, of course she is more mature than them,” Rarity said.

Lucas was getting more and more depressed and the girls seemed to notice that as his shoulders slumped, “Can I come in?” Lucas asked softly as he gestured to the door.

“Come in.” Pinkie Pie said, letting him in. He walked into the library and found a couch and fell onto it.

“Tell me, what do you know about the Crystal Empire, Sunset Shimmer?” Lucas asked her.

“I know that it’s been lost in time ever since Sombra who usurped the throne was imprisoned under the ice.”

Lucas made an alarm buzzer sound, “Incorrect answer. Guess who we found? And guess what is back?” Lucas asked, making the Element’s eyes widen.

“You can’t be serious!” Sunset asked.

“Yep. Exactly. As for where he is now? Well… Apparently Interstellar travel is too much for a shadow. I’m trying to assemble a device that sends him at a quarter the speed of light which is approximately…670 million miles per hour and towards the sun or even a supernovae.” Lucas said. “Unless you like slavers, torturers, tyrants, dictators, and mind rapists.” He said evenly.

At that moment a voice was heard. “Crystals! Umbra!” The Shadow of Sombra passed by the town.

“FUCK! WHAT IS HE DOING HERE?!” Lucas screamed. “Girls you gotta help me! Please! I don’t like him any more than you do!” He pleaded.

“Fine.” Rainbow Dash said, “So Sunset how do we harm him?” Rainbow Dash asked.

“We need the Elements of Harmony.”

“Hehe… About that… They won’t really work on him... very much…” Lucas said nervously as he twiddled his thumbs, “I mean… Actually… Wait. Unless you want him dead? I mean… I would prefer that as well as a lot of his former slaves…”

“How could you be so casual about death?!” Rarity asked Lucas.

“You be around it for all your life and expect yourself to worry about every death that happens when just a few years ago over a billion deaths were caused by a single superweapon.” Lucas retorted.

The elements looked at Lucas in horror until they heard Sombra yell.

Sombra was looking for something. Inside Twilight’s Tower a crystal glowed. “Come my son set us free!” Sombras raced for the tower.

“Oh fuck no! You get your goddamn elements quickly! Do you really want to find out what will happen when he becomes intelligent again?!” Lucas screamed at them.

“Spike! The Elements!” Sunset screamed. Spike went for a book tossing it as it opened hole with the elements of harmony. Sombra circled around the tower to the crystal at the top.

“Set us free!” The crystal said

“Mother… I… Will!” Sombra said raising his horn.

"What is he doing?!" Rainbow Dash screamed at Sunset.

“I think… no I thought it was a myth.” Sunset said. “The tower original owner Star Swirl was said to have found an ancient force, something more deadly to ancient ponies then even the Wendigo.” Sunset said. The Crystal was cracking. “The Umbra!”

"FUCK YOU MYTHOLOGY!" Lucas screamed before he fainted in front of Sunset Shimmer from lack of Oxygen.

In a blast of Darkness Sombra was tossed off the tower his shadow soon raising up as hundreds of shadows like him strung out. After thousands of years imprisoned the Umbra where freed. “The end is Nigh!”

Lucas shot up and clung to Sunset, "There are too many! I'm too young to die!" He whimpered. "Wait a minute I have a... Oh." He tightened his grip on Sunset.

Sunset hit him over the head in anger as he was touching what he shouldn’t. “Pervert!”

"I couldn't tell I was touching you there! All I can see is death! AHH!!!!" Lucas unslung his assault rifle and switched to grenade launcher mode. "OOHRAH!" He started shooting grenades everywhere the Umbras were, not noticing he was pissing them off.

“Stop it they can’t be harmed like that!” Sunset screamed, “You're just making them madder!”

"AH! FUCK YOU SINCLAIR!" Lucas screamed, as all he could see was his past.

Sombra raised his horn as Crystal trapped Lucas. “What are you?” Sombra asked.

Lucas teleported out, shocking everyone. "Vengeance! FUCK YOU POLITICS!" He pulled out his pistol and started shooting at everything that was crystal.

Meanwhile far away in the everfree Castle fragments of darkness and dreams were slowly bringing themselves together. A eye opened in the mix of them. “I am alive!” It said.

"Would you fuckers stop coming back from the past?! I WILL BLOW UP THIS WHOLE FUCKING PLANET TO KILL YOU IF I HAVE TO! Well... mostly. I have no idea how strong petrusite really is but if it worked that well..." Lucas kept shooting at the crystals and most of them shattered immediately.

The Umbra simply reformed the Crystals. However a massive shadow loomed over Lucas. Sunset moved back. “It’s her… The Umbra Queen, Nexa!”

"Come here Styx! I know you love your jewels." Styx appeared and looked drunk.

“You have no idea how many women tell me that they love my jewels...if you know what I mean.” Styx said as he drunkenly walked on the battlefield.

Everything literally stopped and facepalmed at Styx. Even the Umbra.

“Oh it’s you, Lucas...what do you want? Need your old buddy to bail you out again?”

"One word. HEIST!"

Styx, for reasons no one knew, his drunken behavior quickly disappeared and all his senses came together.

While this was going on Sunset and the others looked for Applejack and Fluttershy. “Where are they?” Rainbow Dash asked. A wisp of dreams passed by them.

Machine Gun Blues by Social Distortion started playing loudly on Lucas's phone. Styx started taking in the details and his eyes widened. There were crystals and valuable things literally everywhere.

“Well slap my rear and call me an elf...I hit the jackpot!”

"I thought the saying was 'Well fuck me silly and call me Papa." Everyone blushed at that.

“That works too...but what's with all these shadowy things?”

"They own... or should I soon say owned the crystals?"

“Fuck that...They're all MINE!!!” Styx quickly pulled out his daggers and ran to the nearest crystal just for an Umbra to knock him down. Which only pissed him off as he jumped on the Umbra and decapitated it ,and let me tell you something. You never want to piss off Styx. His anger tamed around Lucas but if you get in his way... Let's just say you are literally grabbing the bull by the horns.

Styx after cutting the head off that Umbra, caught the attention of some more shadowy basters. Styx ran at the charging horde and just as they were about the tackle him he jumped in the air, pulled out small bombs, and threw them on the Umbra.

"HOW DID HE EVEN DO THAT?!" Pinkie Pie screamed.

"That’s just the opening act!!” Styx yelled.

"Laws don't apply to an angry Styx." Lucas said, happy Styx wasn't trying to kill him.

Styx quickly ran to the next group of Umbra, making his way to Lucas and the looming Umbra Queen. The goblin grabbed one Umbra and stabbed it in the eye socket, it was still alive so Styx rode it past the groups of horrified Umbra.

This enraged the Umbra Queen who now was looking at this little green speck to crush. Styx didn’t look like the smart type but you never know as a Styx magical Copy slowly snuck up to the crystal surrounding Lucas and placed a large bag of bombs near the base to free the crazy human who got imprisoned again.

The Umbra soon arose back up again. Mad angry and in pain. The Umbra Queen glared at them but turned her attention onward. She could feel it. The newest guardian of the cursed object. “To the crystal holder! She demanded with that all Umbra flew off with the Queen to Canterlot.

"Kyosei. Shuryo. Shimasu. KUN GA!" Lucas screamed as his prison exploded.

Styx looked back at his work to see the Umbra rise up and follow the queen, even the one he decapitated came back. ‘Fuck me raw how do you kill these things?!”

Styx had to think and then it came to him like a bad rash on his ass. First he had to check on Lucas while the Umbra Queen and minions flew off to Canterlot.

"I have one idea and it may work." Lucas said, getting everyone to look at him.

“Good because my idea is probably a bad one...mostly for me, what’s yours?”

"Genocide! YAY!" Lucas said as he gave a joker laugh.

“I hope there is more than just that.”

"Hey girls. I bet you are too scared to use the elements on the Umbra like the weak sissies you are!" Lucas yelled in a drill sergeant impression.

“We aren’t but there is only four of us, we can’t find Applejack or Fluttershy, without the six of us these are mostly worthless.” Sunset answered.

"MAGGOTS! You are weak! GET YOUR SISTERS IN ARMS AND RETURN HERE DOUBLE TIME. I have someone I need to talk to."

A screen appeared in front of Yubel as she was talking to Chrysalis, "The elements of Harmony are missing in action and potentially wounded and there are thousands of Umbra currently en route to your location." Lucas said.

Yubel simply glared. “A letter would be nice! Try again!” She yelled, going to smash it.

"No time! They should be here already! I'm afraid you are on your own. And don't try to smash the screen. It is holographic you imbecile." With that, the screen disappeared.

Yubel thought for a moment. “I really should just ignore him.” Yubel said, why should she care about what the failed to stop Sombra. She missed her daughter for a thousand years already! ‘No unless they attack us I will not help’

"Mother... What if they come here?"

“How would they even find us?” Yubel asked.

"Have you really been gone that long? Just because they were imprisoned doesn't mean they lost their senses..."

Yubel rolled her eyes. “Chrysalis unless you tore off more crystals they shouldn’t find us…” Yubel glared at Chrysalis looking guilty. ‘I hate you Lucas, I really do.’ Yubel thought with a glare.

Meanwhile back at Lucas and Styx location...

"Well that was a waste." Lucas remarked.

"Not for me!" Styx cheered. There were still many crystals to be had. However it was said that Styx’s brain grew three sizes that day as the thought occurred to him that all those Umbra may be a problem in the future, still he had his crystals...but if the world is destroyed...where is he going to get his liquor!?

“Lucas!! We need to do something!!” Styx yelled.

Right as he said that, the Elements of Harmony returned and Lucas walked up to them. He pointed to the leader. "You are now First Lieutenant Sunset Shimmer." He pointed at Rainbow Dash and Rarity. "You both look responsible. "You are now Technical Sergeants." Lucas said in a cold voice that only officers used. "Let's go! We have a world to save!" He said in the same voice.

"What gives you the right?" Rainbow Dash demanded.

"ARE YOU QUESTIONING ME?" He asked in a scary officer voice.

"N-no."

"Good. I have more command experience than all of you rookies combined times a hundred. Now Lieutenant, I need you to teleport us all to Canterlot. Don't ask why. I think you already know." Lucas ordered Sunset Shimmer.

“Ok but… I don’t have enough magic for that.” Sunset said.

“You may not but I do.” Discord said appearing before them.

"No Discord. We are doing this the hard way. You teleport them to where I teleport. TIME FOR MAX PAYNE!" Lucas screamed. Styx didn't know why but he facepalmed at that.

With that Lucas teleported away and soon following him were the ponies and Styx to Canterlot.

"I feel like a fucking marine! Oh god that hurts!" Lucas said as he screamed in pain.
The Elements looked at him in concern. The City of Canterlot was in in a panicked state as the Umbra Horde came ever closer to their target. The Element, Lucas, and Styx got to the edge of the city to see the Horde approaching.

Lucas spat out large amounts of blood. "Are you okay man?" Styx asked.

"Never better." He calmly said.

“Good, Now let's make a goddamn plan, unless you think Yubel or some other crazy shit will just happen.”

"Oh I don't doubt Yubel will be enraged by the Umbra presence. That is where Lieutenant Sunshine over here comes in."

"What are you talking about?!" Sunset Shimmer screamed.

"Calm down. We aren't going to send you to the frontlines to die... Unless you like that kind of thing?"

Yubel however interrupted them. “LUCAS!” With her was Chrysalis.

"Would you please not do that?" He asked, surprising her with his professional response. "You ruined the plan. Now we have an unknown amount of hostile forces heading straight towards us." He said in a tone that was like a father disappointed with his child. Twilight appeared next to the with the two sisters.

"Hello, Twilight-kun and the two celestials." Lucas said smoothly.

“What is going on?” Celestia asked.

“They let Sombra escape.” Yubel said.

"Approximately 1 thousand Umbra entities heading towards us. And no, I'm afraid it was you who let them escape seeing as they were in your possession at the time. Lying is an unbecoming trait of someone such as yourself. Is it not Empress?" Lucas said with a smirk.

“Are we going to do something or just jack each other off? Styx asked.

"I don't know Styx. Empress Yubel took the unfaithful route and resorted to lying. I am simply waiting until they get close enough before I take action."

Styx was tired of always being in this kind of situation, He wish he still had some hard liquor. "I'm not holding you back my friend." Lucas said slyly. "Oh and sorry about shooting you. It was nothing personal. We merely wanted to see the light of day again."

“I am the day….” Celestia sighed. “Discord pardoned you I hope he knows why.”

"How...egotistical." Lucas said vaguely. "How is that diet working out for you by the way?" Lucas asked Celestia. Everyone froze except Styx who laughed at that remark. "Oh, don't be so shocked. I was an assassin for a security agency and a shadow marshal."

Luna didn’t want to point out she knew that herself. Dream walking caused some memories to enter her. "Oh, Luna. Why have you been so silent? Do you know? What I know?"

A wisp of dreams was seen behind her as a blade formed behind her. “Of course she does, dream walking has it’s perks after all.” Sunset, rarity, Rainbow Dash, Luna, Celestia all looked in shock. It was Nightmare Moon.

"Dreams don't tell you everything. Only pieces of the puzzle. And some people just love to solve that puzzle. Like you. Oh, you brilliant little entity." Lucas laughed sadistically. "Starting from nothing. And achieving all that. Gotta give credit where it's due after all."

“So this is Nightmare Moon.” Yubel had a smile. “You are much prettier in person.”

"Well, if that is how you want to acknowledge it." Lucas laughed before he grabbed two grenades, primed them, threw them behind his back, and stood still as an explosion and demonic screams of pain were heard. "By the fact that all of you are just standing there I am starting to assume that you either don't have a plan or that this is a celebration of some kind." Lucas remarked.

A magical blast went and hit Yubel. She responded by delivering the pain back. “So who is leading them?” Yubel asked going on the attack soon afterwards.

"This mother entity or something? I don't know." Lucas said.

“You mean The Umbra? The Umbra Queen? Are you mad? Discord the only thing more powerful than her!” Yubel exclaimed.

"That is creepy. The fact that the title reminded me of Changelings. Are you sure you didn't copy them?" Lucas asked pointedly at Chrysalis.

“No Chrysalis was born from my blood mixed with dark magic and pony corpses.” Yubel answered.

“Wow that's some picture you paint, Yubel...I bet your a bitch in the sack with that pallow talk.” Styx said.

"Haha! Did you really just make a pun about her imprisonment?! Gimme a fucking high five!" Lucas congratulated Styx.

“Sure, you only live once...sometimes.” Styx high fived Lucas as the everyone looked confused.

Yubel just stared at the two, “That isn't even worth a response," Chrysalis said.

“Ponies!” The Umbra Queen screamed.

"Ponies? No man we are fucking Asians! We work for our master Mao Zedong! Mr I killed 80 million!" Lucas laughed.

“No, We are Orcs doing a circle jerk with each other while the wives are killing boars, haha!” Styx Laughed with Lucas.

"No We are the three who are going to beat you up and banish you to the moon, or to Discord’s suitcase.” Yubel said waving her hand.

"That sounded fucking lame." Lucas and Styx said simultaneously.

“Would you rather I say, ‘No I’m going to rape you then make my kids eat your kids while you watch?’” Yubel asked.

"Yes." Lucas and Styx said.

“Oh so you must be Yubel? The demon whore of Discord?” The Umbra Queen asked. Yubel eyes glowed red.

“Shots fired there...” Styx said as he backed away from the demon.

"Are you going to take that shit Yubel?!" Lucas asked in a Shia LaBeouf impression.

Yubel was covered in dark magic taking on Terror incarnate. “Bitch I’ll make you my Whore!” She screamed firing blasts of dark magic from her mouths.

"TACTICAL NUKE!" Lucas screamed as one of the blasts hit the Umbra Queen.

“Now use your hyper beam!” Styx screamed at Yubel.

"Yubel evolved into Chuck Testa!" Lucas laughed.

Yubel glared at them. “Shut up and fight or I will castrate you both permanently!”

"WE DON'T ENTER THOSE KIND OF FIGHTS! WASTE OF AMMUNITION!" Lucas yelled.

“Ya its a swarm of shadow ponies for gods-above sake...what do you expect us to do?!” Styx had to agree with Lucas on this one.

“YOU FIRE FUCKING LOVE AT THEM!” Yubel screamed as the Umbra Queen attacked her

"Actually, all we are good for is genocide, rape, asphyxiation, torture, glassing, as well as racism in a fight like this." Lucas said blankly.

“Ok i'll show them love...let me get my pants down and mount a pony, the yellow sunset one will do.” Styx laughed evilly as he looked at sunset shimmer.

Chrysalis blasted Styx and Sunset had a sword in her hand formed from magic. “I’ll cut you apart if you saw that again!”

"Holy shit my guns are evolving! Thank you Ultron!" Everyone stared as Lucas's Assault rifle turned into a fucking minigun, "Say hello to my little friend!" The minigun let out a buzzing sound as it ripped through hordes of Umbra.

“If you can’t hit them with love torture them!” Chrysalis screamed. “As for me!” Her form started to shift with demonic wings fangs and a spiked tentacles appearing. “I’ll fight them like any half Demon!”

“I’ll fight...but the Yellow sunset pony owes me…*wink*.” Styx made Sunset feel very weird all of the sudden.

Yubel glared at Styx in her fight. “You do it for free or I'll eat your life force.”

“Fine…” Styx said as he focused his magic inside himself and began to glow an amber brown color.

"MY DADDY WAS SCARFACE!" A boom sounded out as Lucas's minigun overheated.

Styx conjured magical fire bombs in his hands and chucked them into the swarm of Umbra ponies, setting most of them on magical fire.

“Fuck this world, Fuck the ponies, and FUCK YOU UMBRA!” Styx used his muti copies skill to make a small group of goblins who shot that the Umbra with fire balls.

"I'll be back!" Lucas yelled as his minigun cooled down.

Chrysalis hold one of the Umbra down and bit into it with her fangs her spinkes launching on to dozens more. Celestia started to fight and amazing the two dream demigoddesses entered into battle with swords slashing. As for Yubel, The umbra Queen was actually inflicting damage to her. It was only light but it was there. “You may be strong demoness but I can out last you all!”

“Can someone get an ultima or a hadouken or a fucking kamehameha in here?" Lucas asked in boredom.

Styx thought it was time to use the big guns...He pulled out a small black bomb and tossed it into the Umbra…

“IS THAT IT?! HAHA.”

“Just give it a second…”

in a flash of blinding light the Umbra Stopped dead in their tracks and were being pulling into a large black ball of energy. “Everyone run! My black hole bomb only lasts a few minutes but you better not get caught in it!”

"Styx! We have to teleport!”

The Umbra Queen had a smile as her horn held the bomb up and she tossed it as Yubel. Yubel cried out for a few moments before the black hole was gone. Yubel collapsed as the Queen glared at them creating crystal golems.

"Styx! This fight is out of a shitty strategy game I swear. You two bitches handle it yourself and make sure to fuck and make up!" Lucas said as he teleported away.

“Yubel is down!” Twilight screamed.

"Oh fine! I'm back. The mountain had a shitty view. Hey bitch! I saved something for ya!" Lucas grabbed a flashbang grenade and lobbed it at the Umbra Queen. It exploded and dazed the Queen, giving Yubel a distraction.

Yubel form started to burn into fire and ash. Only to burst back into flames as the air got darker. Chrysalis looked up as the sound of demonic dragon roars could be heard. “Oh no mom is using that!” The fire gave way as Yubel dragon form grew larger her heads more armored, eyes on each knee and her chest… was literally a face. “The Ultimate Nightmare.”

"All I see is Asia... which might not actually be a bad thing..." Lucas said in awe.

“Burn bitch!” Yubel said in an echoing voice unleashing a blast that burned the Queen forcing her to move back into the the ground in fear.

"Ok... Guys and girls? Let's get the fuck out of here." Lucas said as he started to shove the girls away from the battle, pissing them off. "Stop bitching. Unless you want to join that battle." He said. That shut them up.

"Holy shit look at that!" Styx pointed at Yubel as she swatted away the smaller Umbra trying to stop her.

Yubel then roared and fired a blast almost hitting Styx. “Die!” She screamed, firing randomly.

"How do we stop this?! This is wrong!" Sunset Shimmer whimpered.

"Oh sunshine you haven't seen shit if you think this is bad." Styx laughed.

"Haha... Think of planet eater." Lucas giggled as Yubel punched a hole through the Umbra Queen. "And that is why you never anger anything that is bitchy and has power, because two words, passive aggressive."

"Too soon." Styx said with a grimace.