The sun was shining high in the sky, the birds were chirping, the sky was blood red... wait. I lifted myself off of my bed and looked outside, to see the bloody sky and the black clouds hanging over head.

I slowly got out of my bed and walked towards the window, once I was standing infront of the clear glass I placed my hand on it and noticed my hand was covered by something. It wasnt armor nor was it the ghostly glow from my right hand. It was just, Black.

Pure Onyx Black, I brought it towards my face to get a better look at it but it suddenly sprung forward and gripped itself on me. It dug into my head from what felt like claws and it burned against my skin.

I attempted to pull the claw off of my face but it felt like my own hand weighed a ton. The black gunk on my hand started to spread down my arm and across my body slowly covering my entire body in it. I was finally able to rip the hand away from my face, but instead of standing infront of the window I stood before a tall muscular figure, in his hand was an axe and the other was a pointed shield.

"Who are you?!" I called out, I felt my whole body go cold as his head looked down and his blank glowing blue eyes staring down at me. He narrowed his gaze and raised his axe above his head.

On instinct I tried to move out of the way but the black gunk over my whole body planted me right where I was and tendrils shot in the back of my arms skewering the ground holding me in place.

"DIE" The tower of a man said his voice bellowing and shaking my bones. It was only one word but I became terrified just from the voice. The black gunk began to slowly inch its way up my face, I tried to shake it off but it continued on. With a finally cry out my face was completely covered and all I saw was darkness.

Sitting in the darkness made me feel... at peace... alone..... sad. I dont know how long Id have to wait to feel the axe pierce my body, I was answered shortly after thinking and felt the cold but burning blade on my chest.

"NOT... YET... SHE DOESN'T... COMMAND IT... YOU ARE LUCKY... SON... OF... BRIZO " The giant voice boomed, his blade didnt let up though. "BUT... I... WILL... LEAVE... THIS... MARK... AS... YOUR... SYMBOL." He continued and pressed the blade further within me, I gave a hollowed scream of agony as he burn and froze my flesh. It felt like an eternity before the blade was broken away from me, I couldnt tell but I was panting violently. "NOW... LEAVE!" he commanded and I was thrusted forward and through the darkness a light shined and blinded me the second I was close to it.

(Real world)

I burst out of a black, cocoon covered in blue goop. lifting myself up with all my weakened strength I tried to look around but I couldnt see where I was, nor could I hear, smell or even taste anything. I did feel one thing, immense pain.

I gave out a cry and fell to my knees then my side gasping for air, the air was thick and the pain was excruciating. I slowly lowered my head to see a large frozen burn mark going down my chest but thats all I could see. I plopped my head back down and breathed slowly, with each breath it felt like the lungs inside of me were burning.

I began to get some of my senses back only my hearing, though, I only heared muffled and hurried pounding on the floor. I felt small, soft hands on my arm squeezing and shaking rapidly.

"h... hel... p....... m..... e" I choked out and felt the hands grip tighter. More hands bigger and rougher than the ones before they hoisted me off the floor and began carrying somewhere. I didnt stay awake for long, I was awake long enough to hear their muffled conversations until I blacked out.

(Hours later)

"..Steel~" a voice whispered had said, it was hard to hear it though it was that soft. "..Steel~" there it was again... I wonder what its saying?

"Who's... who's their?" I asked cracking my eyes open, but only slightly the bliding light made sure of that. "I feel like crap, I taste the crap, and I wanna puke out the crap" I said and slowly sat up, I rubbed the sleep from my eyes and looked arlund in a haze.

"Steel, are you okay?" I was asked again this time the voice much clearer now. I turned and saw Twilight her hair disheveled and looking both miserable and exhausted. "Oh thank the gods, I thought I lost you their for a moment"

"Takes more than whatever got me to kill me... something doesn't feel right" I said and began to stand up but fell on the floor. "Ooooooh.... I need some help" I groaned out, Twilight tried to help lift me up but she couldn't get me off the ground even with her magic, she was too tired.

"Im sorry Steel, Im to exhausted and I just need some sleep is all" Twilight said and sat down on the bed. "I'll fill you in before I do though, last night black spiked roots started sprouting out of the ground and began covering all of Ponyville if we dont stop it it could very well cover all of equestria thatsbalso the reason Im so tired, mainly because I was looking for a answer to this problem but as you can see outside... didnt work" Twilight said. "The princess's went missing and as did you for a short period of tims, that is... until we found you in the everfree forest covered in goo and a ice blue mark running down your chest"

As she said this, I tried once more to get up and succeeded and limped my way to the bathroom to see my topless form and was brought face to face with an icey blue strip going up and down my chest, slowly creeping up my body until it stoped at neck and down my right thigh. I slowly went to touch it but before I grazed it, the mark shocked me causing me to yelp slightly. I checked again after checking my finger, only to find it gone.

"Hmm... strange" I said and looked outside to see the black vines.

"I gotta find out whats going on dont I?" I asked twilight but she was already dead asleep. "*Sigh* Thats a yes" I said and quickly changed into some clothes and left the sleeping alicorn in her bed.

I walked outside of the library and was taken back by how much the black vines have grown. It covered some of ponyville but it looked like it had stopped for a moment, by the rate it is growing it would probably take about a week or two for it to completely cover the whole town. But that was only a theory.

I got two steps forward before I was grabbed and thrown across ponyville hitting buildings and grinding against the ground to make my stop. I laid on the ground face first and groaned as I made my way up to my feet, I looked around for a second and was hit once more this time by a fist.

"Aaaaah *small hiss* what the fuck?!" I cried and looked at who did it to see-"Lux?" I said in shock and the man stood infront of me not saying a word only rearing his arm back and sending it towards me, luckily for me I caught it just in time.

"Ay, who's this handsome bastard?" Lux said inside of my head, I was completely confused at this point, it shocked me to the point where I didnt see the knee coming and landing right in my gut. It was almost enough to puke up whatever was in my stomach at the time. "Pfft ha!"

"S-Screw... You" I grunted out and dodged a fist from the fake Lux, "How the hell is this even happening?!" I said blocking a big left hook and sending my own nailing him in the side.

"Maybe that cocoon thing was scaning your body and took some blood from said body, manifesting a clone of yourself but since you were cut out halfway it could only get some of my mentality and looks from it.... ya know
If we tried to save this body I go in it" Lux said inspecting the body while I fought it.

"LUX NOT NOW OK!" I shouted then was grabbed by the arm and flung through town hall and making a trench in the ground as I landed. I groaned as I sat up and a sharo pain made me give a small cry, I looked to see that my wing was hanging limp on my back I couldn't move it and if I tried it hurt like hell. "Fuck... Lux this guy is basically you right, so tell me how to kill it" I asked.

"No way, you'll end up abliterating it and then me when I get out of this head I call a home" Lux snapped at me. "Look just knock it out and I should be able to take back whatever was stolen from my mentality" He finished.

I groaned slightly and summoned Rebellion, Lux manifested a light blade from his hand and readied himself. We charged towards eachother and clashed blades, sparks were sent flying as was some dust below us.

I pushed off eachother and threw more slashes at one another ending with only sparks. I started getting annoyed with little to no progress happening in the battle, I quickly turned super saiyan and fused my magic within Rebellion. "This might hurt... a lot" I muttered to myself and sprinted forward putting my everything into this one shot.

The fake lux also charged forward with his sword raised, as we were about to hit strike we both jumped and brought our swords down. Time had almost come to a stop at this moment, but our blades cut through the air like a knife cutting right through butter, I threw all my weight into this attack. Our swords met and time resumed to normal, a loud boom was the last thing I heared before being sent across ponyville in the everfree then getting embedded into a stone wall.

I hung for a moment and broke my head loose and chuckled. "Did I win?" I asked in a daze and fell to the ground with a big thud.

"I think, you might wanna go check just in case" Lux said and I lifted myself up in pain before making my way back to ponyville. Though I was limping the whole way back, I felt myself questioning the events happening right now.

Like why did vines take my marefriend and celestia, why was I taken with them but cut loose before that. "Why are their black vines growing in the everfre-Fuck!" I stopped and was grabbed by my ankle and dragged a couple of feet until I came to a sudden stop.

"Steel why are you here, its dangerous out here right now" Logan said severing the vine and lifting me to my feet. "Come we must le-" Logan said before getting cut off by a mare screaming. "Zecora, come boy" Logan said and we rushed off to find the mare.

We cut through some of the vines and found the mare trying to fight off the vines grabbing her leg and her cart. Logan wasted no time in helping her, he grabbed the black vine and rippied it in half, I went over and helped Zecora up and freed her cart full of elixirs and her Cauldron.

"Thank you for that boys, another minute and I would have been peirced on a point" Zecora said in ryhme. "*Ahem* forgive me, when I get frightened I tend to use my native language, come lets get out of this horrible place" Zecora stated before grabbing her cart and started pushing. As we followed we noticed Zecora was walking a bit funny, I looked at her legs to see what was wrong and I noticed she had been bleeding and large cut had been on her left calf.

"Zecora you're bleeding" I said and stopped her, she clicked her tounge and sat on the floor. "Why didnt you say anything?" I asked ripping my sleeve off and cleaning the blood then tore off a big leafe and vine and wrapped it around her calf.

"Adrenaline was what kept me up this far and I knew if I stopped Id feel the pain" Zecora said and grabbed a green bottle from her cart and rupped it atop her make shift bandage making glow a soft light green.

"Boy, push the cart I'll get zecora" Logan ordered walking over and kneeled down motioning for the mare to get on his back. "Climb on my back, we will get their in no time, and heal your leg properly"

"Its not that bad, it is the pain I cant stand... fine" Zecora said rhyming.

"It will be fine woman, do not be frightened" Logan assured her, she sighed and climbed on his back. With a small grunt he lifted her up and began walking, as they I gave a small chuckle and pushed the cart.

After a few minutes of walking we made it to the town squar of ponyville. Logan sat Zecora down on the fountain in the middle and I stopped the cart next to them. I walked over to the mare and removed the makeshift bandage, the wound had stopped bleeding but it was still deep.

"Your going to fine atleast, but my healing magic isnt that good... so we gotta do it the old fashion way" I said and looked up to her, basically asking for permission. She took a shakey breath before nodding, I stood up and went to the cart.

From what Twilight had said, Zecora likes to sew so it wasnt hard finding a needle and some thread. I then summoned some alchohol and real bandages, walking back to the mare I told her to lay on her stomach so I can get a better look.

Following my directions she laid on the stone fountian showing me her wound clearly. "The good news is its gonna take atleast seven stitches, the bad news its gonna hurt.... you ready?" I asked.

"Yes" Zecora said.

I grabbed the needle and thread putting them together and then opening the alchohol bottle. Pouring some on her cut to clean it and dabbing it with the needle, she hissed at the burning coming from her leg. I gave a quick breath and went to work.

(A few minutes later)

"Alright, its down now we just gotta leave those in until we get someone with better healing magic" I said looking at the panting mare who choked down her screaming during the stitching. "You did good, most people would've screamed half way through"

"Heh... yeah" Zecora panted out, I grabbed the bandages and wrapped them securely around her calf and slowly sat her up. "T-Thank you Steel... I cant remember the last time I had to get a stitches" she weakly said and tried to stand, with a strained yelp she began to fall forwards but I caught her in time.

"No walking, you need to sit and rest you might be strong but going through something like that and just barely getting stitches, you could lose alot more blood or worse" I said sitting her back down. "Now sit and rest"

"B-But... Logan!" Zecora looked towards the man but he said nothing. "Argh... fine, I appreciate your kindness and helping me with my leg... I will rest and regain my strength" Zecora said and noticed something was wrong with the sky. "The sky is confused, as the sun and moon stand side by side" She said making us look up and our eyes almost popped out of our heads.

The sun and the moon were bothing in the sky making the right side night and the left side day. "What is the meaning of this steel?" Logan demanded and I remembered what twilight had said.

"Twilight told me that Luna and Celestia were also captured along beside me, but I was broken free but some of my power was takin... that mean Lunas and Celestias powers arent working and they cant control the moon or sun anymore" I said and Logan looked up at the sky in awe. "I have to get them and set things right, but I dont know where to start!" I said.

"I believe... I know a way but it is dangerous" Zecora said and scooted towards her cart, she rummaged for a bit and pulled out a bottle of purple liquid. "This is an concoction I created that is supposed to give you visions for dire times in need... but their is only one catch, it takes a toll on anyone who uses it unless they are a god, strong willed... or" Zecora stopped and looked up at the sky telling me everything.

"An Alicorn... we need Twilight" I said, before I began walking towards the treehouse I stopped for a moment. 'Shes in no condition for this type of thing... but shes the only one that can do it....... unless-"

"Fuck no Im not doing that!!!"Lux shouted in my head.

'Lux please, your have more will than even me just this once if it doesnt work we can get Twilight... c'mon its to save equis and our friends' I asked but he wasnt having none of it. 'Lux please... you'll never get to see nightmare if you let Luna die' I said and I heared him click his tounge.

"We are going to hell, and when we do I will beat you till we kill the devil" Lux said and I chuckled before feeling myself switch with him.

My hair turned black and grew shorter, my body mass lessin slightly and I felt rage inside me. "Fuck you man, alright woman give me the damn drink" Lux demanded stomping his way to Zecora. Logan stood infront of him and glared at him, "Like you scare me, besides Im not gonna kill her I just want that damn potion" Lux stated pointing to said potion.

"Why?" Logan asked suspicious.

"Because your son and my brother told me too now are we gonna get this over with or not?" Lux said irritated, With a hand held out he waited for the potion to be givin to him but Zecora did not. She didnt trust Lux neither did Logan.

"I do not think that is wise, I will be blunt. I dont trust you, nor will I ever" Zecora stated and put the potion back, with a small groan of annoyance Lux took a deep breath.

"Fine... Stupid fuckin... stupid potion... fuck all that" Lux mumbled to himself before switching back to me.

"What happened?" I asked feeling slightly dizzy. "Did he drink it?"

"I did not let him, I dont trust him nor will I ever... he is evil and his very being was created by hate and rage" Zecora said. "Im sorry but you have to go get Twilight" Zecora said but before I could even take a few steps we heared the sounds of rushing feet.

"Steel, we figured out what caused this!" Twilight shouted running with the others behind her. As they neared I noticed that the vines started moving again, and it shook the ground more knocking all of us except for zecora off our feet. "Oooh... ok that one hurt, is everyone alright?"

"Yeah... just some scratches nothing serious" I said, as everyone got back to their feet they walked over to fountian.

"Zecora, darling what happened to your leg?!" Rarity asked in horror.

"Nothing to worry about, just at the wrong place at the wrong time" Zecora said and looked at her leg. "Steel actually did this, stitching I mean"

"Wait Steel knows how to do that?" Greenie asked.

"I mean its not hard, learned it pretty fast to be honest but putting that aside" I said turning to Twilight. "You said something about figuring out whats going on?"

"Yes! Well kinda, dont get mad but uh... Discord kinda caused this" Twilight said.

"Pardon?" I asked. "Did you just say... Discord did this?" I asked again, Twilight nodded and I felt like hunting a draconequis. "Imma kill'em, straight up kill him" I said but before I could try to find him I was met face to face with the man himself.

"Hello" He said.

I gave a small yelp and fell on my ass, Discord just laughed and lifted me up. "Steel before you try to kill him, he told us he forgot about these things, it was supposed to be used on the princess way before they became the rulers" Twilight added.

"Sorry, I'll be honest these things caught me off guard as well. Thought these things would pop out sooner" Discord said giving a small chuckle, though nobody laughed with him not even his daughter. "Yeesh tough crowd"

"Alright he caused it, how do we get them to stop growing?" I asked him.

"Oh well thats very simple" Discord said and stopped mid-sentence and went into deep thought. "Huh... I can't remember really, its on the tip of my tounge though" he said and I cocked my pistole I took from the templars. "W-Well uh... the answer might be in that potion right over their" he hastily said in a cold sweat.

"What is it?" Twilight asked.

"Its the key to whats going on, it doesn't fully tell you but by the end you should know what to do" Zecora said. "But only the strong willed or a higher power can consume it without backlash"

"Higher power? You mean only Alicorns can consume this potion" Twilight asked walking over to the mare and picked up the potion.

"Twilight, we dont know if it will work with you... you were recently just turned into an Alicorn so it might not work" I said.

Twilight looked at the potion and then at the black vines and then the sky. "Only one way to find out... just make sure nothing happens to me, ok" Twilight said, sighing at this I agreed.

Twilight slowly put the bottle to her lips and and slowly drank the white potion till nothing was left. She grimaced a bit at the taste, we waited a few minutes but nothing had happened.

"Huh... I guess it didnt wor-"

Her eyes suddenly grew bright and she stood stock still, I almost had a heart attack seeing this but calmed down enough to see that she was still ok. Alot of things had happened during the time she was under.

She cried.... alot, got scared and then more crying.

After about an hour of her crying, another bright flash was seen and twilight was spinning and looked confused. When she got her bearings, she saw everyone looking at her.

"What... happened?" Twilight asked.

"You dont remember any of that?" Rainbow asked and Twilight.

"Well... you cried... alot" I chipped in and she grew a faint blush to this.

"O-Oh you saw that" She asked.

"Not only that, you preformed your own one pony show" Discord said and held out pictures showing twilight what she was doing the whole time. "Quite entertaining if I may say"

"Alright enough embarrassing the poor mare... twice what did you see?" I asked her.

"Well, its hard to explain, I saw both princess fighting in the old castle in the everfree. Before that it was both of them in a ruined equis where discord was the most powerful and before he was in stone, but I did notice something odd" Twilight explained. "It was some sort of crystal tree, in a cave just outside of the princess's old castle... and the elements where attached to it"

"Ok, lets go see this tree you talked about" I said and helped up zecora. "Lead the way"

(An hour later)

We walked to the ditch near the castle of the two sisters, and at the bottom we saw the cave twilight was talking about and it was covered in black vines. So whatever was happening was coming through there.

"Alright, this looks pretty crazy" I said as we got nearer to the opening, once we got to the entrance the ground shook and the vines shot out, forming a wall to keep us out of the cave. "Welp... we're in the right spot, the only question is, how do we get pass the thorn wall?"

"I could try a fire spell?" Twilight offered.

"No, these dont like the type of vines that burn easily or hack off if Im being honest" I said.

"Cant you blast the vines Steel?" Fluttershy asked.

"I can try but, no promises" I said and moved everyone back, I charged up my god peircing light and shot it at the vines full force, but not even that was making it budge. After awhile of constant blasting, we deemed the blast useless and tried thinking of something else.

"Oi, cant brigid use fire to burn the vines?" Greenie asked and we looked at the girl. She gave a shrug before making a ball of fire and threw it at the vine wall, and it worked.

"Greenie you beautiful bastard, Brigid throw as much fire as you can, and make it scorching" I ordered, Brigid put both her hands together and shot a beam of red fire against the wall. We heared the vines snapping and crackling as the fire continues to bombard it.

"I think I can see something, keep going Brigid!" Twilight said and she was right, some sort of blue crystal was in their and it was huge. As Brigid continued, I noticed something... off.

The vines weren't snapping anymore, and the fire felt like it was getting cooler. I looked over to Brigid and saw her shaking like a leaf and her skin pale as the castles wall's, She soon began heavily breathing and then fell over. Applejack and Jack went over to help her.

"I-Im... Im fine" Brigid said hoarsely.

"No you aint, you're shakin like a leaf sugarcube" Applejack stated and laid her down. "Steel ah dont think she can do anymore, it looks like she was already low on magic as is"

I walked over to her and grabbed her hand, I concentrated on her magic power and their was barely any left. "Brigid... you should've told me, we would've found something else"

"I know... but Celestia is in their, I had to do something... I dont want to lose her" Brigid said, a small tear ran down her cheek. "I was... scared"

"Its ok Brigid, let me handle this ok" I said and transferred more magic into her. "I'll figure something out, but for now just rest. And Applejack make sure she doesnt do anything stupid"

"No problem Steel" Applejack said and I walked back to the wall. I saw a small opening in it and I peeked through the little hole, it wasnt much but I saw a few pods infront of some sort of big crystal like before.

"You see anything Steel?" Gilda asked and I took a step back from the wall before it closed itself back up again.

"Yeah but only a few things, their are a few black pods and giant blue crystal behind them.... I think the pods are holding the princess's" I said getting concerned looks from the others.

"Well now what? Brigid is the only one that knows how to use fire, unless Twilight knows any fire spells, were pretty much stuck" Rainbow said and that gave me an idea.

".... Well"

"Well?... well what man?" Spike asked and I stayed silent for a minute. "Steel, if it will help we gotta do it"

"Well, your not gonna like it guys but here goes" I said and closed my eyes. 'Hey Lux, I need another favor' I thought.

'What do I get out of it?'

'A whole day a freedom, no questions asked, just dont do anything stupid... deal' I thought and a loud groan was heared making me smile.

'Ok' Lux said and we switched places. He opened his eyes and looked around to see the others cowering around him, he smirked and a bit and looked at fluttershy. "Well hello beautiful" He said wisping over to her scaring her to death.

"I-I-I'm s-s-sorry?" She question in a low voice, almost inaudible, she sunk even lower as lux was literally face to face with her.

"Why are you so adorable, if Strings fucks at anytime... dont be afraid to call" Lux said and grabbed a flying punch from said man, Lux looked at the man and chuckled before swatting his hand, making him go flying to a large rock. "You tried, I'll give you that, but next time I'll leave you as splat insteadof a hurt back" He threatened and looked over to the group. "What up you lot, hows it been since the last time you saw me?"

"Were doin just fine Lux, now why did Steel bring yuh out here?" Applejack asked the man. Lux smiled at the fiery woman and pointed to the vine wall, with that he made a finger gun and a small red flame mixed with a black core appeared on it.

"Well miss cowgirl, how bout ah... show ya instead" Lux said mocking her accent, he walked over to the girl hand still pointing and swiped her hat away.

"What in sam hell do ya think yer doin?!" Applejack roared at the man and greenie along with edge and gilda held her back. He gave a big smirk and put the hat on then let his thumb drop.

"Bang"

A giant beam of fire blasted out of his finger and engulfed the wall in mere seconds, the sounds of the snapping vines and the the cracking could he heared through the bombardment of fire. Everyone stared on... befuddled by how much fire Lux could create with barely any effort.

"Holy hell" coal said and this made the man smirk.

"Just you wait lil man, shows about ta get better, hope you brough a fan" Lux quipped and opened his hand fully causing the fire to grow even hotter than before and go even a darker red. As Lux continued his work, he felt something... off he began looking around and even stopped blasting the fire.

"Hey! Were almost through, dont stoo now Lux!" Twilight said and noticed the look on Lux's face. "What is it?" She asked.

"It could be my imagina-" Lux stopped in his tracks as he saw a figure with red aura brushing off of it. "Everyone... run, right now" He said calmly and they all gave him confused looks and looked towards were he was, and they all froze.

"What the hell is tha-" Greenie said only to be interrupt by a ki blast, lauching him away in a ball of smoke.

"Greenie!"

"RUN DAMN IT RUN!" Lux shouted at the others and was tackled by the figure. Lux and the person went through rocks and small hills before stopping in the middle of an open area that used to be a river bank.

Lux pushed the man off of him and jumped back to a good distance and took a look at the attacker. "Oh this day is getting better and better" He said as he looked at the clone of himself, the clone was scratched up and bruised heavily all over his body. And long cut was going down his chest, causing Lux to chuckle.

"Looks like Steel got the hit on you, you fake, but when this is over Im take back whats mine and little bit more" Lux finished and the two launched at eachother. The fake Lux threw a punch at Lux only for it to be caught and get kneed in the gut before getting spin kicked towards a boulder and the fake got embedded in the hard rock. Ripping itself out, the fake fly forward and shot off a few ki blasts towards Lux, he dodged the attacks with ease but found himself in a corner.

The fake ran up at breakneck speed and threw a heavy right to Lux's gut, he threw up some spit and blood but his mouth was forced shut as The fake uppercuted the man then grabbed him hy the hair and smashed his face into the wall before throwing an onslaught of punches against Lux's face and chest. Reeling his fist back, the fake sent a far left hook towards Lux's left arm and snapped it, making the man scream blood murder.

Lux kicked the fake back and fell to his knees, tired an weak. He barely even got a few hits in before the fake overpowered him, and he doesnt look like he broke a sweat! Lux got back to his feet and glared daggers at the fake.

"Whats the matter, cant handle a little beating from me?" The fake said with a sadistic smile. And Lux finally figured out what he was missing, it was his most important side of him. His sadistic and violent side. "C'mon we're not done yet dumbass, we're barely getting started"

"Oh you little motherfucker, dont get to cocky with me you wannabe bitch" Lux growled getting back up to his feet, the fake had a smile that would make even a clown be scared of itself. "Now give me that fuckin body" He demanded and began powering up, the fake did the same then it was now the start of round two.

Twilight and the others watched as the two fought and noticed that the fake was taking the upper hand in the battle, grabbing Lux and tossing him like nothing then blasted him with four strong ki blasts then started taking heavy punches and kicks to the sides and the face.

"Guys we gotta do something, Lux is getting his ass handed to him!" Jack said.

"I know but can we do, I mean they are both chaotic, I dont think we can get down their even if we wanted to" Mint added, "But have you guys noticed something about the real Lux?"

"What do ya mean?" Gilda ask and they all heared a loud boom from the constant explosions of ki blasts. Lux and the fake went into a stalemate but the fakeelbowed his face and kneed his gut before grabbing him by his throat and slamming him to the ground then kicked him through a few rocks. "Yeesh, he's getting demolished out their!"

"He seemed to have gotten weaker than he was before, how could that even be possible for Lux?" Strings asked Twilight but even she didnt know herself. He had the body of steel, the strength, the speed, but something didnt feel right to her.

"Its... like he's not himself anymore, but more of a calmer version of his violent self" Twilight said and they all looked on with the fight. Lux threw a heavy punch connecting with the fake blowing him back, but the fake shot out and tackled him to the ground. Paving a small trench with Lux's body.

"Well my dear you are right in a way" Discord said catching their attention. "You see my dear Twilight, our psychotic friend Lux doesnt have his sadistic and violent side anymore, its in the clone he is facing" Discord said shocking the group.

"So yer tellin us that Lux's is... normal?" Applejack asked Discord nodded. "This aint good, not at all"

"Ya think?!" Brigid yelled.

"We have to help Lux, but how are we going to do that with that damn clone turing him into a bloody pulp?!" Trixie asked and no one came up with a solution. Twilight was the only one still thinking about what to do, she knew that since Lux lost his cruel side he didnt really have the upper hand since he wouldn't hold back.

"Wait... hold back" Twilight mumbled and got an idea, she whipped around to Discord and got her eyes lit up. "Discord, do you think you could give Lux a small amout of chaotic energy?" Twilight asked suprising the Chaos being and the group.

"Well... I suppose I could, but that would damage the body even if it was just a small amout... why do you ask?" Discord questioned only to be interrupt by Lux screaming bloody murder as The Fake dislocated his arm.

"How long?"

"Pardon?!" Discord asked and Twilight grabbed his goatee.

"How.Long?" She demanded and let go of him.

"Alright, alright, itll take me about a minute or so to concentrate long enough to make a small amout of chaos magic" Discord answered and Twilight nodded before running off the cliff and flew towards the fight.

"TWILIGHT!" They all screamed as she flew towards the weakened Lux and the fake. Lux was panting heavily as his clone was laughing like a madman.

" Jesus man, for being me, you really fuckin suck!" He joked and laughed even more, he began stomping on Lux's dislocated arm getting more cries from the man. Giggling like a little colt he continued his actions until he heared someone land near them, The fake took his foot off lux and looked towards Twilight. "Well, well, well... I get to kill two bitches in one day, this must be my lucky day after all" he said with a big smile.

"T... Twi... Light, get... out of... here" Lux choked out before getting kicked in the gut.

"Shut it you... here princess, you can have your trash back" The fake said boredly before kicking Lux towards Twilight. Rolling at her feet he coughed violently and she noticed how much blood covered him, she looked at the fake and then slowly kneeled down towards Lux.

"Are you ok?" Twilight asked.

"Do I *heavy coughing* look ok... anyways, I need you to get outta here... now" Lux demanded but Twilight didnt listin. "Get out of here, now!"

"Im not leaving you like this Lux, we need you, I need you" Twilight begged and the fake chuckled to himself. "Lux, you have to win or else everyone here will die" she said. "Me, the girls, the guys, Trixie, Gilda, Spike, Cinder, Discord and his Daughter, Celestia, the twins, crystal, Luna, Steel, Cadance, even Nightmare will die"

"Twilight... I dont know if I can beat him" Lux said, his voice no longer distorted, it was smooth and comforting to Twilight. "I did all I could... he has most of my moves, and my mentality on how to use them"

"Lux... we need you, we all need you to be strong, what would Steel say if he saw you like this?" Twilight asked.

"Im pretty sure he would've gave another inspirational speech... but you're right" Lux said, he very slowly lifted himself up from the ground grunting as he could feel his legs about to give out and the pulsing of his wounds pumping out the blood, I ripped off what was left of my shirt and got into a fighting stance. "I gotta... I gotta win this" he finished.

"That was so touching, I think I almost shed a tear seeing that... but petty words cant help you now, Im far stronger than you or your otherself, so I hope your both ready to die" The fake said and held out his hand, a large purple ki ball formed in his hand. "And when you see the devil... tell'em to make some room for a whole planet"

"Not today, now discord!" Twilight shouted and Discord shot a small ball of chaotic energy right into Lux, he cried out as the power surged through his body. Red electricity flew off his body and something started happening to his body, his paper white skin started turning into a dark tan color making the scars more visible, his blood red eyes turned into a darker red, and his snow white hair turned into an onxy black color. The cuts on his body closed up and the blood evaporated, sending small red steam particles in the air.

Lux kneeled to the ground as the power continued to surge through and with a loud cry to the sky, almost like a roar something started coming out of his body. Or someone. A hand reached out and Twilight quickly grabbed it and began pulling. With as much strenght as she could manage, she yanked me out of Lux's body landing us on the floor.

"Steel?!" Twilight asked in her shock, I groaned slight as I lifted myself up, but I was to weak to move anymore. The power surge finally settled inside of Lux and the man was left on his knees looks towards the sky with a smoke trail coming off of him. "What.... what just happened?"

"He's... free" I said before passing out

(Pov, Lux)

'What... what is this?" I thought as I started into the broken sky, I felt so much energy inside of my body. I felt like a whole new person, my power had shot through the roof... I no longer felt trapped anymore.

I took a long shakey breath as I realized what was going on, I raised my hand to my face and my eyes widen. It wasnt white anymore, it was a dark tan color, I lowered my head and looked down at my body to see it completely healed. Getting back to my feet I stumbled slightly before regaining my balance and just stared at my hands in awe.

"Im... Free" I softly mumbled and smile touched my lips. "Im finally free!" I cheered and laughed in excitement. "This is... I just.... I dont know what to say anymore!"

"Lux?" I heared and turned my head to see Twilight who looked, shocked even though that was an understatement. "You... your..." she couldnt finished and noticed a small pink blush go across her cheeks. "Wow"

"Heh... thank you" I said and looked at Steel passed out on the floor next to her. "Thanks for the pick me up Twilight, tell Steel thanks for lending me his body.... I'll take it from here" I said turning back to what we started. As I did, I dodged the punch heading towards my face and saw the fake me gritting his teeth in anger.

"How... how did you get your own body damn it!" He roared and threw some more punches only for me to dodge all them with little to no effort, I caught his fight and moved it aside. He struggled to get control back into attack but failed, he threw another punch but I caught it again and moved it as well. "How did you get this strong, I was tossing you around like a rag doll earlier so how?!"

"I dont know-" I said and crushed his hand making him scream. "But frankly I dont give a damn, you almost killed my friend" I growled and snapped his arm then kicked the side of his legs making him kneel. "You took what was mine, you took my personality... but honestly I have to thank you" I said confusing him then my knee planted itself against his cheek. "You gave me even more power then I could have ever Imagined" I finished and threw him back.

"No... no, no, no, no! I should be the winning not you, your nothing without me you hear me! NOTHING! " The fake roared and sent a ki blast towards me but I smacked it away making it explode on a rock.

"No... Im better than nothing, better than what you've offered" I said and glared at him, I slowly walked forward and a red aura slowly lifted into the air. The fake slowly started backing away, he no longer had anger in his eyes, just fear. "Say hi to Satan for me would you" I joked and my psychotic smile returned to my lips.

"No! I AM NOT DIEING TO A WEAKLING LIKE YOU!" The fake screamed at me, the hate back in his eyes and he healed his hand quickly before flying toward me. I smirked as he went to punch me, I saw it coming a mile away, I quickly leaned back dodging the punch then did a backflip kick hitting him in the chin sending him in the air.

"Oh, but you dont have a say anymore" I shot back and used my magic to grab Steels phone and picked a song. "This should hold for a few minutes" I said and pressed play.

When it started I heard a battle cry as the fake came to beat me to a pulp. When he got close enough I jumped towards him and kneed him in the gut, quickly stopping him in mid-air. I elbowed his face before grabbing his hair and repeatedly smashing my fist in his face, one after another till I felt his bone crack and his nose shatter, I continued my onslaught till I reached about 15 then I grabbed him by his throat and chucked him back to the ground.

He slammed hard against the floor, hard enough to make him bounce a few feet but I smashed him back into the ground embedding him in it. He spat out his own blood when I stepped off of him, he gritted his teeth and ripped himself out but I punted him across the face launching him against the end of the wall towards the vine wall.

Getting back up again, the fake was badly injured. Blood gushing out his reopened wounds, blood running down his face and brand new bruises on his body. The fake clicked his tounge and flew towards me sending wild punches, but I was able to block all of them with just one hand. I broke his stance and threw my own barrage of fists, each one making it look like I was denting his body. I reeled my fist back and clenched it to the point of the skin breaking and sent it against his stomach as hard as I could, making his body bend and showing my fist he threw up blood on my arm before I sent him flying back against the wall.

I walked towards him at the same pace as before and he fired off a few ki blasts to which I blocked or dodged. When I got face to face with him he tried again to send a hard punch but I back handed the fist to the wall trapping it in it then smacked the fake and grabbed him by his throat. He went for a left hook only for me to counter by dodging and slaming his head against the wall repeatedly till I saw blood trickle down it.

"Is that all you have? I knew I had more power, but I cant believe how much I was holding back. Maybe it was because I was trapped inside of Steels head, and his body couldnt handle my power just yet... or my new found insanity" I said chuckling then turned into a full blown laughter, scaring the clone. "Whats the matter? Scared you soft little bitch, did you forget the original is better than the remix?" Said and kneed him making him grunt. "You had me going their for a minute earlier but you're nothing more than an imitation of me, you know what" I said and let him go, I took a few steps back and left myself wide open. "Im going to give you one free shot" I said as the fake ripped his hand out of the wall. "Dont hold back now, cause if you do-" i said before he cut me off with a hard right making me take a small step back.

"Ha! Take that you son of a-" He stoped when he saw me slowly turn to him. A small amount of blood left my lips but that was because he made me bite my tounge a bit.

"*Chuckling*... You're gonna regret it" I growled out with a smile. The clone shook with fear and shock, he hit me with everything he had and not even a flinch or any serious damage. "My turn" I announced and reeled back before punching his right arm snapping it like he did mine. "Dont feel good, dont it?" I asked as he screamed bloody murder falling to his knee's holding his arm.

"You.... you!-"

"Bastard? Why thank you" I said and yanked him up to his feet. "It was fun me, but theirs only room for one Lux Tennebris" I said before throwing him into the air, with no effort I turned super saiyan and held both of my hands out. "See ya later! FULL POWER!" I roared and a giant blue beam came out of my hands and launched itself towards the fake.

"Not yet!" He screamed back and sent his own ki blast, when the two means came into contact. My beam cut through it and absorbed it making the attack stronger. When the beam came into contact with him he gave a blood curdling scream then soon faded off as he turned to dust and the song ended.

The blast soon disappeared and I was left their standing with small dust particles falling to the ground, I saw Applejacks hat resting on the floor so I picked it up and put it on. "See you later, I hope we never meet again" I said to myself and began walking towards Twilight and Steel. "How is he Twilight?"

"He's doing ok, just out cold" Twilight said and I sighed before plopping down, turning back to normal feeling super exhausted. "Hey Lux... thank you, for saving us" She said making a smile form on my lips.

"Thats a new one... but, no problem... glad I could help for once" I said and saw the group running towards us. "Well time to see what the others think about me" I said and groaned as i got back to my feet. As the group got closer I noticed that Discord look a bit tired, it was probably that magical surge I felt through me made him exhaust a bit of his magic.

"Are you all okay?!" Rarity asked when the group reached us.

"We're fine Rarity, Steels just resting, most likely because of getting separated from Lux" Twilight said and motioned her friends to look at me. When they turned they're jaws had hit the floor, the girls stared in awe and I even think I saw pinkie drooling a little. The guy's themselves were just in awe, jealousy and shock.

"Uhm... Hey" I said with a little wave, fluttershy and Trixie both fainted just from the sound of my voice. I blushed a little from the constant staring but the first one to approach was discords daughter. "Hi, names Lux's" I said and she began feeling my upper body.

"Whoa~" She awed and continued feeling me up, making the other girls jealous. "How can someone get a body this hard, its like diamond- no even harder!" She described.

"Uh... Thank you" I said and took her hands off my chest, she blushed heavily and quickly went back to the others. "Alright, I guess introductions aren't required so let's go get that vine wall down" I said and they all agreed.

Walking towards the wall, I raised my hand and lit another flam in it. I blasted the wall with my fire and I noticed that it was even hotter than when I was in Steels body, finally blasting the wall away we saw what was finally behind it.

"Thats what I saw in the vision!" Twilight called out and it was a giant crystal tree with the inky black pods that was holding the royals. We quickly went to try and get the princess's out of the pods but it was no use and I cant use my fire unless I want a barbecued alicorn.

"Now what, we cant get them free and we don't know what this tree is even for" Jack said and I began staring at the tree. "Twilight did you see anything else in your vision?" He asked.

"Well, I saw princess celestia and princess luna get the elements of harmony from the tree but thats where the vision ended" Twilight answered.

"Great... that didnt help at all" Rainbow heckled but I stopped her when I walked over and stood right infront of her. "Whoa... a little to close their Lux dont you think" she said and I looked down, "Hey! My eyes are up here buddy!"

"I know, but thats not what Im looking for" I said and stared at her necklace, I grabbed it and took it off of her. "Im gonna borrow this for a bit" I said and flew up to one of the holes in the tree.

"Hey give me back my element you dick!" Rainbow demanded but I ignored her, I ripped the gem out and placed it in the opening. I chuckled slightly getting my suspicions right, the tree closed around the gem matching the shape and a red line poured into the tree.

"Girls... give me your elements" I asked and they looked at me with a mix of shock and suspicion. "Trust me... please" I said and held my hand out. They all looked at one another then at their elements.

"These are what kept us together all this time... and what if another foe appears and we dont have the elements to stop it?" Twilight said as she looked at her crown, but in the corner of her eye she say Steel.

"Thats right, but even without the elements we'll all be connect together no matter what" Applejack said and threw up her element to me. I caught it and placed it in the slot having it close around it and creating an orange line pour in.

"Well, I have to agree with you their Applejack" Rarity said and one after another they each hand me their elements doing the same thing as the first two did. The tree started shine brightly from the five corners, but the middle was still missing one, the element of magic.

"Twilight" I called out and the mare looked at me with eyes filled with confusion. "Whatever happens to all of us, we will figure it out... so I ask you again" I said holding out my hand, "Will you trust?"

"... I will" She answered and levitated her element in my hand and with the final element in, the tree shined as bright as the sun. The cave started to shake and vines from all over started to try and bury the tree under its hard skin, but suddenly the shaking stopped and an explosion blasted the vines away and truned them to ash.

Waves of magic pulsed out all across equis, destroying the vines and setting everything back to the way it was. Ponyville was back to its normal state and the everfree was now under control. The magic waves lasted for 20 minutes before the tree stopped and shined elegantly.

"Look!" Applejack called, and we saw the black pods start breaking and soon one by one, the royals we released and knocked unconscious. All but one pod, Lunas pod.

Everyone hurried over to the princess and Brigid was crying tears of joy seeing celestia alright. I on the other hand was wondering about Luna, and why she hadnt come out. Walking towards the pod, I studied it for a few minutes before placing my palm on it.

"Somethings not right" I said getting everyone's attention and they saw the single pod left. "Luna hasnt come out yet" I said, and just as I finished that sentence their was a loud crack causing me to take a step back. The cracking soon showed itself goin down the middle and stopped when it reached the bottom.

"Ugh... wha-whats going on?" Steel asked regaining consciousness, everyone was to occupied to even noticed. Steel slowly got to his feet and made his way towards the group and saw all the royals out of the pods. "Hey, there free! But how?" He asked and before anyone could saying anything.

The pod cracked open, a loud hiss came from it letting out blue steam like if something was cooking. Steel gently pushed passed the group and stood next to me, with batted breath I walked over and gripped the opening and slowly ripped it open.

"Oh my god" I said under my breath, my eyes widening as I ripped the pod open. When it was completely open, Luna came had fell out but... she was different. She no longer had fur, or a tail, only smooth blue skin like her other self in the human world. Her horn was was gone but she still had her wings, she wasnt a pony anymore that much we can tell.

"Princess Luna... she's... she's-"

"Human" I said.

Author's Note

Hey guys, been awhile huh. Well just know Im still working on stories including the PoME story as well. Might have rushed this one but I do hope you like it.
Anyways the reason for me being inactive was because I hit a writters block but now Im trying to push past it. So expect more stories soon.

Stay frosty, later.

Ps. If I messed up anywhere in the chapter spelling wise, let me know so I can fix it