Fallout Equestria: Crystal Reborn

"A monster attack?! Blast! I'm performing at the ceremony this afternoon, and I still haven't sorted out what to play. "

The time is 7:45am, Equestrian standard time, I didn't get much sleep, I slept about 4 hours at most, I'm looking out onto Equestria it doesn't seem that bad, I mean minus the broken looking buildings and the cloud cover, I sighed, I guess I can count myself lucky that my kingdom didn't suffer as strong as an attack, however the radiation in certain area's are going to b a problem, I started packing my saddlebags, I still have some food in here from earlier, I pulled out my Crystal Revolver and reloaded it, I need to use it sparingly there isn't ammo out there for it, I also reloaded the 10mm pistol, I had 4 spare clips, each one is fully loaded.

"You know Cadance you wouldn't need such weapons if you harness the full power of dark magic," Sombra appeared behind me, I turned to face him.

"I thought you couldn't manifest a physical form."

"I can only manifest a form because of your hate and rage are so strong, dark magic feeds on that. I still have some magical power after all, my physical body may be gone but so long as I remain within you, I can channel magic."

"Good to know you will be able to potential kill us."

"No, no, if you die, I die with you, its not like I have a body to go back to."

"Anyways why did you surface, I haven't seen you in days, not since you lent me power to kill Shard," this should had been the first thing I asked, I looked back down at my Pip Mare, it was 7:53.

"Its not like you were conscious for all though's days, I can't talk to you if you are unconscious, if you are dreaming thats something else, you are still somewhat conscious, I see you got a new Pip Buck, seems a bit different from the ones I have seen."

"Its a prototype model from Stable Tech, it was meant for Luna. As you can tell it never made it to her. Anyways we can talk more later, I got things to do," I headed for the door.

"Fine then, call on me if you need my assistance."

"I just hope I don't have to," I open up the door and walk out and Sombra disappears, I headed down the stairs to the bottom floor, I walked into the throne room, Milky and Ember were standing in there talking, Milky had a battlesaddle on with a minigun on her "Hello girls, how are you today."

"I am doing fine Princess," Milky said, she seemed a little out of it, probably just tired.

"Cadance is fine, how about you Ember."

"I am doing well, thank you for asking," its been a while since I have met a pony with a refined voice. It reminded me much of Rarity's voice.

"Where is Silver Wire?" Suddenly I heard the sounds of hoof steps

"Sorry I am late!" Silver Wire came running into the room, right as she entered the throne room she tripped and slide across the throne floor and stopped right at my hooves. "Ow... that hurt," Silver was rubbing her head. "Sorry I am late, I had some last minute packing."

"It's fine, now we are all here should we get moving?" I helped Silver up. Ember and Milky nodded. "Alright, lets head out," we walked out of the throne room and down the stairs and opened up the giant palace doors and walked into the courtyard. After passing one of the Minutmare checkpoints at the end of the castle grounds we wondered into the ruins that used to be my city. We started heading west down a destroyed city street. There wasn't anything really here, well anything alive. On the buildings were shadows of ponies who were once there. The blast must have burned them into the walls, we passed the occasional skeletons and wrecks of wagons, we check the ones that were still mostly intact, most of them were empty and the rest filled with junk. After hours of walking we took a break. I looked down at my PipMare, it was 4:54pm. We have gained a lot of ground but it was still about a days trot away.

"Thank Celestia we get to stop, I feel as if my hooves are going to fall off," Milky said as she sat down.

"If we want to make it to Emerald Hill by tomorrow we can only rest for 10 minutes," Ember said, " Don't get to comfortable we got to get moving soon."

"Oh come on Ember we have been walking for hours, we need more then 10 minutes," Silver said as she was laying face down on the ground.

"Ember you know you can't force a army to march if they are tired, if they do end up moving they won't be as ready to fight as a army that has had rest but took longer. I appreciate that you are trying to get us there fast but if we get attacked and can't outrun a monster, we may not survive," I said Ember. A icy wind picked up, Milky got up and turned and looked around.

"Is anypony else getting cold or is it just me," Milky said as she looked up to the sky, snow had started to fall, "Oh shit, we need to get inside fast!"

"What do you mean?" I replied.

"A blizzard is approaching, but not just anyone a radioactive blizzard," Ember looked up with worry, "Yes and there is one more thing that appears with these blizzards," the icy wind got faster as radioactive snow was flung about, the sound of loud steps was heard in the distance.

"Oh no this isn't good, Ember where is the nearest place thats still in one piece?" Milky pulled out a map of the Empire, her and Ember discussed locations for a few minutes, my PipMare began clicking. The sound of footsteps echoed through the city streets, it sounded as it was getting closer.

"Alright everypony get up, we don't have time to... waste..." Ember face dropped into shock, I turned around and Snow Golem was a few feet behind us.

"Run!" Milky shouted, we all took off, running, the Snow Golem picked up a building and threw it at us.

"Incoming!" Silver shouted, she took off into the sky, "I will let you know if any of the objects he throws are about to hit you!" The house collided with a tall building on the left side of the street. I looked back and the Golem was running after us we started to approach a dead end street, our only option as to go left and return to the castle or right and towards the outer city.

"Take a right here!" Ember shouted, we all turned right. My PipMare started clicking faster, the blizzard was getting worse.

"Heads up everypony! Incoming building get on the left side of the street!" Silver shouted still flying above us, I heard what sounded like a laser pistol firing, I looked up and Silver was occasionally turning around to shoot at the Golem. We continued running up the street, we continued to dodge incoming buildings.

"Take a left here and after take another left, we need to lose the Golem!" Ember looked back at us, I was the farthest away not counting Silver who was in the sky, "Silver back on the ground we are going to lose him!"

"On it," Silver dove down to us and began running again. We hooked left and left again, this time we were behind the Golem, he immediately turned left.

"There is a safe place we can spend the night near here, follow me," Ember led the way, we continued to run down the street until Ember pull off to the side, she opened the door to the building, "Everypony inside now!" We all ran inside. I collapsed on the floor panting heavily.

"What in Celestia's name... was that," I said panting, "And where are we?"

"We are in the Imperial Playhouse, we are in the lobby right now," Ember said sitting back against a wall, I looked down to my PipMare it had stopped clicking and the Imperial Playhouse now was register as a location on my map.

"Is everypony here?" I lifted my head up to see but my I couldn't focus.

"I am here," Milky said, she was laying on her side breathing heavily.

"Present," I heard Silver Wire's voice she was probably somewhere behind me.

"Are we all good, anyone sustain any injuries?" Ember walked over to Milky and started examining her, she started mumbling to herself. I saw her levitate a healing potion out of her saddle bag, "Drink this, you only have minor cuts, probably from glass shards. Cadance are you alright?" I sat up and started to examine myself, I got away unscathed sort of, I had a few scrapes but nothing that warranted a healing potion. "Here Cadance take a Rad-Away, you may not be as resistant to magical radiation as he ponies living on the surface."

"Thank you," I drank the Rad-Away. It tasted awful, "That tasted absolutely disgusting," now I had a even worse aftertaste, "Bleh, the after taste is even worse."

"Don't be such a foal, it helps you," Ember said while checking up on Silver. I stood back up.

" We should explore this place before we set up camp, make sure its safe? I don't want any ghouls eating me in my sleep,"

"Yes, we should, we should sleep in the easiest spot to defend if anypony else decides to enter and not take to kindly to us," Milky got up and opened the door to a hallway, "Come on, lets get moving," we got up and walked into the hallway,I levitated the Crystal Revolver in front of me as we walked down the hallway, we walked down the corporate part of the playhouse, lots of offices here, problem for the owners and staff. We opened every door, checking for hostiles, there were mainly broken terminals, desks and papers all over the place. We walked into the boss's office, there was a terminal, it was glowing, seemed to be still active.

"Ooo... A terminal, let me see what kind of goodies you hold," Silver Wire went over to the terminal.

"Now, now Silver Wire, you can play with the terminal when you're done helping us scout out the place," Ember grabbed Silver with her levitation and pulled her away from the terminal.

"But I want to see whats on it!" Silver said flailing about in Ember's levitational field, we walked out of the office and Ember put her down.

"Lets get back to exploring, lets check stage area," I said taking point, we walked back down the hallway and back into the lobby, I opened the door to the orchestra seats, instantly 4 red marks appeared on my EFS," I held my hoof back to signal them to stop, I moved farther into the room. All of a sudden ceiling turrets appeared, and on shot right in front of me.

"Stop where you are! Not one step closer or your dead, tired of you raiders tearing up my theater," a voice came over the intercom, it sounded a lot like a Canterlot pony, at least by her dialect.

"We aren't raiders, its me Princess Cadance."

"Doubt it, the princess is long dead."

"Ok how do you want me to prove to you I am her."

"Hmm... Who brought the Crystal Heart to the pedestal after Sombra's return?"

"Spike did, Shining Armor threw me to save Spike from falling and got the Crystal Heart to the pedestal."

"Thats correct, one more question, what happened to the princess the day the bombs fell?"

"I was instructed to go to Stable 13 when we got the alert of incoming megaspells, Shining Armor stayed outside to help defend the kingdom, he barely made it to the stable before the magical radiation killed him, he lost the use of his legs in the the battle and now the lower half of his body is mechanical, after that we were cryogenically frozen in Stable 13, then Shining Armor was stolen by the Griffon King, I didn't know which one since I couldn't tell how much time had passed, then I woke up again and now I am here. Now that you know what happened can you show yourself?"

"It really is you, let me disable the turrets meet me at base of the stage," we walked up to the stage and a hologram appeared on stage, it took the likeness of Octavia Melody, a famous musician from before the war. "My Name is O.C.T.A.V.I.A, its a acronym for Optimized Computer for Tactical Assistance via Interface AI."

"You're a combat AI? What are you doing in this theatre?" Milky asked as she walked up to the stage.

"Well, I am a Ministry of Morale AI unit. A few days the megaspells fell, ponies sought shelter from the blast and some came here, since this place has its own water talisman and better resistance to the radiation, I was originally inside of a PipBuck for the head Ministry of Morale Crystal Empire brach, I believe her name was Sugar Belle. After the bombs fell my previous owner heard about all the ponies gathering in one place to try to figure out how to survive, so after trying to help the ponies here security became a issue. The turrets here used to be automated but my owner thought it would be better for me to take control of it for better control and more efficient security."

"Fascinating, I didn't think a AI could do such a thing, the fact your a full copy of another living pony or was living I should say, " Silver Wire asked as she jumped on stage and examined the hologram.

"Well I am not a full AI, my core program chip is a soul jar with a piece of Octavia Melody in it, she volunteered for the experiment, according to my data banks, the Ministry Mares oversaw my creation." Milky gave a look of confusion.

"What is the Ministry Mares? What's a soul jar?" I forgot that they weren't as big here as they were back in Equestria.

Well the Ministry Mares were a group of six ponies that made up the Elements of Harmony, Twilight Sparkle ran the MAS which stands for Ministry of Arcane Sciences, Applejack ran the MWT which was the Ministry of Wartime Tech, Pinkie Pie ran MoM which is the Ministry of Morale, Fluttershy had the MoP which was the Ministry of peace, Rarity had the MI or the Ministry of Image and Rainbow Dash ran the MAW which is theMinistry of Awesome. Each one had a vital role in Equestria government, research, and production. I was created by all of the except for the MI and MAW as well as some help from Stable Tech. They made three different AI's using Octavia as the first one, then a Shadowbolt named Wild Fire, then a pony named Raven... There are others but those are the only ones who work in the MoM."

So they used three ponies each of different types, I am surprised they used Raven as a subject knowing her personality," I knew Raven before the war she was the Princess Celestia secretary and advisor, she was very good at planning not surprised they used her.

"Were the other two like you or did they have different purposes?" Milky interjected.

"All three of us were different, I was made more for general use while Wild Fire was used for homeland reconnaissance she was able to freely jump from terminal to terminal without her chip being inserted to search for information, they put a 5 foot radius her jumping abilities to prevent her from going rogue. Raven's counterpart was used to monitor transmissions in and out of Equestria's radio stations and save them to the MoM server and each one of us is our own acronym to separate us from our live pony counterparts."

"Do you know where the other AI's are?" I asked taking off my saddle bags and putting them on the stage, the hologram shook her head.

"No, I don't, we weren't allowed to privately contact each other, not like could on our own anyways," we enter a awkward silence. I looked around at everypony else.

"Anyways Octavia mind if we stay the night here, there is a radioactive blizzard outside and on top of that a Snow Golem is out there and he probably doesn't want to see us any time soon," Ember said entering the conversation. She put her bags down on the stage and sat down.

"Sure, but on one condition," Octavia's hologram sat down. "You have to take me with you, I am tired of guarding this place, its empty no pony knows its here, most of the turrets are malfunctioning and I think I am starting to go crazy with no pony else here."

"Cadance its your call, your PipMare is the only way we could bring her with us. Well that is if the MoM didn't use modified PipBucks to carry the AI's but back to the matter of fact that I don't know how long we will even stay alive, for all I know we could be dead tomorrow, are you sure you really want to go with us?" Silver Wire said, I took off my PipMare and gave it to Silver. Silver nodded to me.

"Lets take her with us, she could be a huge help," I said, I started rubbing my leg where the PipMare used to be.

"You can retrieve me in the morning, it will be my last night of security here, there are some preparations I want to do before you unplug me. Oh I almost forgot, I hoped you packed something warm, its going to cold night with the blizzard, if you need anything just ask," the hologram disappeared and the house lights went on, good to know there is still some power left.

"Ember, Milky, mind getting the bedding rolled out and the food prepared, I need a minute to be alone with my thoughts," they nodded and I walked out into the lobby.

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I sat in one of the chairs off to the side. Sombra appeared and walked out of the shadows.

"You know Cadance, Octavia is going to have to know about me if she is going to be traveling with us, you in particular," Sombra sat down in a chair across from me, I looked up at him, he wasn't wearing armor this time, he looked like a normal unicorn.

"What happened with you horn?"

"My horn, heh, the curve is going, that was formed from a side effect of the dark magic, since I no longer have a physical body I can either appear as myself before the dark magic or after," Sombra changed his appearance, he was now wearing armor and had a cape. "Better princess?" I face hoofed, he still had the same look as the day I defeated him. "Tell me princess why didn't you call for me to help beat the Golem?"

"I don't want to use dark magic if I don't have to, I will only use it when its absolutely necessary. I don't want the magic to corrupt me like it did to you," I looked down at my hooves, dark magic corrupts the user the more that its used.

"I was never corrupted, I was always like this, before I became the tyrannical ruler my friend and I approached the Crystal Heart and saw our destinies, hers was pure and lead to a life of luxury and love, mine lead to darkness and torment, it was something that haunted me forever. When the day came where I learned dark magic I embraced my destiny and said to myself that I wouldn't be like that, these powers can prevent it, but all it did was make the ponies fear me. If I couldn't be loved I wanted them to fear me instead, for those who called me a monster, I showed them a monster, I was always in full control, the purest of hearts always are uncorrupted."

"You took over a peacefully country and enslaved them how can you call that pure."

"When you heart is dead set on something nothing can stop it, they hated me and I didn't care, those same ponies caused my friend to abandon me, so I took their Crystal Heart and hid it, then Celestia and Luna came by and took everything from me. Then you come along and finished what they started. My cutie mark was in magic, it was a spinning black hole. My magic just wasn't strong enough even with the dark magics help."

"Even then, what would had been worth, land is nothing but dirt for buildings to be placed upon to house your citizens. A ruler should not have his ponies fear them but love them, they will be more willing to fight and fight harder but seeing how both our rule went, in a way we both destroyed the empire. This empire has fallen three times, the first when you took over and you overthrew the former ruler, then when I finished you, then when we were destroyed by the megaspells," Sombra was looking at me, he seemed emotionless.

"Yes it seems that way, but I wouldn't say it has fallen, it doesn't die till the last citizen or monarch dies, continue where I have failed."

"Sombra, if your dark magic can make the empire what it was, I would gladly sacrifice myself, its time for me to rejoin the others, I will call on you if I need you," Sombra nodded and dissipated.

I walked back into the orchestra seating area, there I saw Milky pulling out cans of food and sleeping bags arranged in circle. Silver was on the other side of the stage tinkering with my PipMare. I walked onto the stage and sat down, Milky gave me a can of oranges. I used my magic to pull them out and put them into my mouth.

"So Princess have thought about what we plan to do after Emerald Field?" Milky asked as she sat down next to me.

"I have. I had Starlight making preparations to go into Equestria so that way we are ready to depart when I get back, seeing that Snow Golem is going to set us back but it's nothing we can't work around."

"I see, who do you plan to go with you? Ember said as she sat down, I looked up and she was across from me.

"I don't know. I thought about just going alone because I need somepony to watch the empire for me. I can't take any of Quartz as they are now the head of the guard, Ember they will need you to provide medical attention and Silver will be needed to maintain the castles technology or getting running whatever comes first and I can't take the any of the Minutemares because I need them here maintaining order."

"Well what about Starlight," Milky asked.

"I don't want her coming with me, I almost got her killed on more then one occasion," I yawned, I was so tired from all the excitement that has been going on. I finished my can of orange slices and got into my sleeping bag. "Well girls I am off to sleep, don't stay up to late we got a long day tomorrow, Octavia can you wake us up at 8am, I want to get the Emerald Field as fast as I can."

"Ok I will," Octavia said speaking through the speakers in room. After that I closed my eyes getting much deserved rest.

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I started dreaming, I was in the Canterlot the day of our wedding, it was such a fond memory. It was both a day I will never forget and can't forget. I was dancing with Shining Armor, I closed my eyes and smiled and after I opened them again, Shining was gone, there was nothing all around me but a burning landscape. Then another me appeared, I stared at her and she followed my moments, I stuck my hoof out to touch her and she slapped it away.

"Poor, poor Cadance, nothing can ever go right for you, your wedding was crashed and Canterlot was invaded, you were pushed to the point of exhaustion to keep a tyrant from taking over again and your nation was destroyed. Seems nothing can ever go right for you," the clone of me circled me.

"Things did go right, Shining Armor as saved and we were married, I stopped Sombra and I am rebuilding my kingdom," I started to get agitated. The clone laughed.

"Oh you really think so, where were you when Shining Armor was outside the Stable fighting for the empire, what did you to stop him from being taken from the Griffons, where were you when you citizens were suffering after the bombs, where were you when everything went to hell," she started laughing again, "I sense strong darkness from within you," she was probably referring to Sombra. "No I wasn't referring to him."

"Wait, what, how did you..." she interrupted me.

"I am you and we are one, you just don't know which one I am but soon you will come to accept me, very soon and then we will rule this kingdom with..." A laser beam came from out of nowhere. "Damnit how did you get in here, Cadance I will see you next time," she start laughing as she start to vanish into thin air. Sombra then approach me.

"Am I dreaming?" I asked.

"No, no your not," Sombra replied.

"Who was that Cadance there?"

"She is what was created when I lent you my powers, the dark magic need a place to manifest, it seems it found a way to manifest its self into a mental form. Pay no attention to it, it should cause you any trouble, so long as you keep your mind focused and pure you can keep her at bay, she is one of the risks that comes with dark magic, she is just a manifest of insanity and rage, be carful when preforming certain spells because she will affect your ability to cast the spell, I help you keep control of the magic, she on the other hoof will make you lose control and cause harm to everyone. As of now she is no harm but this is just a warning, stay strong and..." Sombra looked away for a moment.

"You alright there Sombra?"

"Something is coming, you have to wake up right now," I was confused as what he said. All of a sudden I heard a large crashing sound, the next thing I knew I was flying through the air, I hit the back wall of the orchestra area, I opened my eyes and the Snow Golem was pulling his arm out of the theatre. "Shit, that thing is back, I looked back at the stage, we all go knocked off. Everypony sound off!" I yelled.

"Ember's here and not happy this snow cone ruined my beauty sleep."

"I am still alive! I got knocked up on the balcony," Silvers voice echoed though whats left of the theatre.

"I am good too, I just got knocked into the orchestra area!" Milky yelled.

"Get up quick, we don't have a choice we got to fight this thing, Octavia can your turrets target the golem?"

"They can but I will have to manually fire them, the golem doesn't appear as a entity," I looked over at the golem and a hail of bullets rained on him. The golem staggered back a bit, Silver took to the sky, shooting her laser pistol at the golem. Ember took cover behind some of the chairs and start shooting at it with her pipe pistol, I ran towards the stage, my saddlebags where still up there along with the Crystal Revolver. I jumped onto the stage, I saw milky climbing out pit where the orchestra would be I used my levitation to help her out.

"Thanks," Milky ran across the stage to get to her battlesaddle. The Snow Golem furious with rage tore half of the roof off, looking up at the sky I noticed the sun hasn't risen. I turned my head back down as I dug through my saddlebags, I heard Milky's minigun starting to spin up. I found the revolver as well as the 10mm pistol and pulled them out. I looked back up to see the golem fist smashing down onto the stage. It sent me flying through the air, I opened my wings and glided to one of the balconies. From there I looked out, I saw Milky on whats left of the stage firing her minigun at the golems head, Silver flying backwards distracting the golem as it tried to swat her down, Ember was occasionally firing back, not like hers was doing much and Octavia's turrets constantly firing at the golem. We weren't doing any long term damage, most of our bullets just bounced off.

"Milky watch your fire I am going to try to take out its head!"

"I have been trying but you are more then welcome to give it a shot!"

I flew up into the air, I pulled out the Crystal Revolver and spun the slide. I flew as fast as I could and stopped right before I hit his face, then fired a point blank round right into his face. After firing the shot I flew directly above him as his face was encased in crystal. The golem fell backwards, crushing several buildings behind him. Silver flew over to me.

"Wow Princess how did you know that would work?"

"It won't, as tough as this thing is its not going to go down that easy..." I was swatted out of the air, I opened my wings as wide as I could to try to stop the fall. I slammed into the ground, I couldn't open my eyes, the pain was to immense, then the clone Cadance appeared.

"You know you can use to defeat that monster, us your insanity to burn him up, burn that thing to the ground!" she broke out into laughter and vanished. I opened my eyes, using whatever strength I had left to stand up, I took a look around, Milky collapsed on the stage in a pile of snow, Ember was continuing to fight, and I watched as Silver was knocked out of the air and into the chairs in the balcony section. All the turrets in the room were either destroyed or ran out of ammo.

"Ember! Run to the lobby and take cover, I will handle him on my own, I can't risk you getting hurt."

"But..."

"I am not asking I am ordering you! Go now!" Ember ran across the room, I started firing the the shots I had left in the Crystal Revolver at the golem. I froze one of his legs in place, the rest of the shots either missed or hit his body. I couldn't focus, I had a immense headache. The golem reached back behind him and threw a building at me. I jumped and rolled into the orchestra pit. "I have no other choice, going to have to use it."

I heard a voice inside my head that sound like my own, "My power is yours use it to defeat him, Sombra's powers are nothing like mine," the voice began to laugh, "You ready now?"

"Lets do this," I felt the dark magic surging through my body, my horn began to glow black and purple, my eyes turned green, I rose up into the air in front of the golem, he tried to swipe at me, before it hit my I gripped his arm with my magic and ripped it off. The golem wailed in pain, I pulled the arm back behind me and threw it at him, it went clean through his body. The golem was on a knee, suffering from pain. He started to regenerate his arm and started to cover the hole in his chest. "No! You! Don't," I gripped him in my magic lifting him up into the air and then slamming him back into the ground. I picked him up again, throwing him into a sky scrapper. The sky scrapper toppled on top of him. The golem began to get up again. "Enough playing around. Time to die!"

I gripped him in my magic, lifting him a few feet off the ground, and began to chant: "Death to you, the one who destroys, now death is on your doorstep, death will show no mercy, I call upon the fire's of tartarus, now it will surround you. Ignite!" A magic rune appeared on the ground and then green fire shot out from the beneath the golem engulfing him in flames, the golem was screaming from the fire, I increased the power and the fire shot up into the air way past the golem, the pillar of fire could be seen for miles. I burned him till he was no more. I flew down to ground zero, a small blue orb was laying on the ground, I picked it up, the PipMare identified it as the 'Snow Golems Core'. I felt the magic starting to recede, I couldn't focus, I picked up the orb with my hoof and walked back to the stage, I dug through the snow and pulled Milky out of the snow pile my PipMare was clicking fast, the snow was irradiated.

"Ember! Come quick we need your help!" I started panting, Ember opened the door and ran to the stage, she began to look for her saddle bags, I went into the lobby to try to find a way to the balcony section, I followed the signs and began to walk up the stairs, I felt dizzy and weak. I finally finished climbing up the stairs, I began to search for Silver. "Octavia... you still with me?"

"I am here a bit shaken but still sound."

"Are you able to locate Silver?"

"Let me see if there are any ceiling cams still working," I looked through the rows, I sat down and shook my head, it only made the pain worse. "She is three rows above you better hurry who knows what that thing did to her," I walked up to the row she was in, I tried to pick her up with my magic but it just couldn't concentrate. So I decided try to carry her, I walked up to her and put her on my back and then proceeded to the railing.

"Lets hope I can still fly," I jumped off the balcony spreading my wings, I started to glide down, I was having trouble balancing with her on my back, when my hooves touched the ground I tumbled and flip over. I was panting harder, next thing I saw was Ember running up to me. She lifted my head up and fed me a healing potion, as well as started to bandage my leg, I must had hurt it during the fight. The pain in my head started to vanish, my vision was becoming more clear.

"Ok good, I didn't think I got you the potion to you quick enough. You had a concussion, I didn't think I could stop you from blacking out, but your still conscious," Ember moved on from me and began to treat Silver. "Milky is alright I gave her a Rad-away, she should recover, her radiation levels were almost lethal from being in the snow but she is fine now. Now Silver here she got the worst of it, we are out of healing potions and all I have left is magical bandages, her left wing is broken and has fractured 3 ribs," Ember began to wrap the bandages around Silvers wing.

"I'm going to grab Octavia," Ember nodded at me and I walked out into the lobby.

"How did the power feel, the ability to crush a opponent who is ten times bigger then you are. To dispatch him with ease," the clone of me appeared in front of me.

"That power was incredible, that spell, I have never heard it before when I studied dark magic.

Then Sombra appeared, "It is a forbidden spell, the flames you conjured burn hotter then tartarus itself, I am surprised the golem's core survived. But be carful with, although forbidden spells are not dark magic, they do corrupt the user, this other you..."

"I am tired of not having a name, since Cadance doesn't use Cadenza I will go by that. Its better then being called it or other you."

Sombra rolled his eyes, "Cadenza here, combines dark magic and forbidden spells together, how she knows these I have no idea, but what we do know is that she can you need to be carful."

"All you need to do is ask me Sombra, after all I am a combination of both of you, Cadance's little love spell that she uses is a forbidden spell, to force two ponies to fall in love, it manipulates the mind, being the princess niece she was allowed to study spells that no pony should use, at a young age she was able to caste a love manipulation spell. Of course she used it to benefit the two ponies rather then use the spell to control them. Since I reside inside her mind, I have access to all her memories and to ever forbidden spell she ever studied, so I combined your knowledge of dark magic and her knowledge of forbidden spells and combined dark magic fire with a death spell and Cadance was able to preform it with my help, of course it does corrupt but in this day and age who isn't in fact who wasn't corrupt back then," Cadenza started laughing.

"Look Cadenza try to go easy on the spell combining, anyways lets go get Octavia," they both disappeared, I walked through the hallway that lead to the boss's office, the hallway was destroyed from the battle most of the wall had come down and the stage was visible from the hallway. Upon entering the hallway Octavia greeted me.

"Hello Cadance, let me just eject my chip and I will be ready to go," a chip came out of the terminal on the desk. I grabbed the chip in my magic and put it into my PipMare. The small round piece at the top of the PipMare began to glow and Octavia appeared in hologram form, "Alright all system seemed to be green, OS is... PipMare?" She gave me a look of confusion.

"This was a prototype meant for Luna, it had more uses and had bigger storage capacity as well as a improved SATS."

"Oh, alright, I will run a system diagnostics later to get more acquainted with the system, lets go see how the others are doing shall we," I nodded and walked out of the office, I jumped out of the huge hole in the wall and landed up on the balcony section, Ember had moved Milky and Silver on stage, Milky was sitting up while Silver was laying down. I jumped off the balcony and glided down to them.

"Lets take sometime to rest, after that battle I don't think I can travel," I looked down at my PipMare, it was 5:20am. I looked out the giant hole the golem made, the sky was starting to turn blue, it was still dark but daylight was coming fast.

"That sounds like a good idea Cadance. I need to make sure everypony is ok, and check our supplies before we leave anyways, plus after that battle I could use a little break myself," Ember said as she rummaged through her saddlebag.

"Yeah I could use a little break as well, that thing caught us while we were asleep, so I feel exhausted, might sleep for a hour or two to make up for it," Milky said as she began to rub her hoof, it was covered in bandages, Ember must had given the last healing potion to Silver, her injuries were far worst but its bad to run out.

"Alright then we will leave her at 9am, Octavia let us know when that is."

"Roger that."

"We will sleep in shifts till then to recover, I will watch for the first shift, Ember, Milky get some sleep, I will wake one of you up to take over for me in a hour," they both nodded and pulled up what was left of our sleeping bags and went off to sleep. "I guess it can't get any worse than this."

Footnote: Level up
Perk added: Spell Binder: You learned how to bind spells together, take caution when using, it has a small chance to corrupt the mind, chances of corruption vary depending on power and ability of user.