"How is this possible?" Stare Lane said.

"This is beyond troublesome," Luna replied.

Celestia slowly walked up to her throne and gave a sigh. She then turned around and sat down in her chair.

"Sister?" Luna said.

"I feared this day would come. I have hoped and prayed that five thousand years ago was the absolute end of him," Celestia said.

"Sister, it is time."

Luna gave her sister a nod in assurance and turned to Thunder Bane and Star Lane.

"Thunder, I want you to assemble the group together and come with me," she said with a serious look that could pierce through the toughest of souls.

They both saluted the princess with their front right hooves.

"Yes ma'am!" Thunder Bane said.

Thunder Bane turned to Star Lane. "Star, I want you to go get the rest of the group, get set up and meet here,"

Star Lane responded with a salute. "Yes sir!"

Thunder Bane gently placed his front right hoof on Star Lane's shoulder. "Look, I know you are only twenty two years old and the youngest in the group, but I am going to bring you all back home to your families in one piece. That is a promise."

Star Lane gave him a somewhat assured smile and quickly began sprinting off to the soldier housing building. He made his way down the long hall and took a left down another hallway pushing himself to go as fast as he possible could. Quickly using his shoulder, Star lane forced the wooden door wide open to the outside walkway across one of the inner walls. He gazed up at the sky horrified that a swarm of dark grey clouds had completely engulfed the bright blue clear-less sky that once loomed from above.

Bolts of lighting came crashing down striking other surrounding buildings and the massive towers directly above him. He quickly sprinted across the walkway, smashing his way through another door and began making his way down the what seemed to be endless stairs.

***

"Thunder, please come with me," Luna said.

Thunder gave her a nod as they both followed up the stairs to Celestia's throne chair.

"Sister? Sister are you ok? We must prepare," Luna said hesitantly.

Celestia some what lost in her own thoughts and dazed quickly snapped back to reality with a worried look.

"Yes, lets go," Celestia said.

The three walked behind her throne chair and the two sisters horns began to glow. A image of the sun and moon inscribed in the brick wall began to glow brightly. Brick by brick started to disappear until then there was a door made followed by a flight of stairs. They made their way to the bottom and arrived to be greeted with a pedestal holding a staff with a dark blue shaft as the handle with a symbol for a sun and a crescent moon perched on top of the staff. The bottom and top end of the shaft had gold plates in each end and there was six slots near the top end of the staff, each with six gems placed inside them.

"This staff was created in the event Sombra would return. Each of the colored gems each represent one of the elements of harmony. Yellow for honesty, pink for kindness, blue for laughter, purple for generosity, red for loyalty, and finally magenta for magic," Celestia explained.

"When used together as one, the staff can expel and an amazing amount of power from anypony who is kind hearted and believes in harmony itself."

"However," Luna added. "Should one or all of the gems be lost, then the staff will not work. It requires the power from the six gems in unison to grant such power,"

"Thunder Bane, I trust you to take this and use it against Sombra and rid him once and for all. I have my full faith with you and your fellow ponies to be able to expel this darkness."

Thunder Bane bowed down before the princesses.

"Yes princesses, we will not fail you and Equestria."

Celestia's horn glows as the staff lifts from the pedestal and is secured into Thunder Bane's back.

"Let us return back to the top, we need to hurry," Celestia explained.

The three returned up top taking four steps out from the door way in the well when suddenly there was a couple of knocks on the main door.

"Enter," Luna said cautiously.

Suddenly, two large stallion guards come bursting through the door and crashing into two pillars ahead.

A dark black shadow crept out of the door way as a roll of black fog began to come into the room. A pair of crimson eyes appeared from the shadowy figure that glowed a bright green around them. A purple flame flickered widely from around the eyes themselves.

"Knock, knock!"

***

Star Lane quickly ran down a narrow empty hallway made of cold and rough brick. He quickly made a sharp right nearly knocking down a planter when he come to the very first door on right. The door swung wide open as three ponies turned their heads looking right at Star Lane. There was Crimson Guard, a crimson red pony with a jet black mane like Star's who was in the middle of reading a book. Then there was Shining Strike, a tan pony who just got done grooming his short dark green mane which was typical since he was always in a constant state of grooming himself to stay looking sharp. Finally, there was Nova Wind who was sitting in the floor polishing his armor. He was a dark grey pony who had a pure white as snow mane which made him good at recon in heavy snowed in regions when he wore his snow ghillie suit.

Star Lane was panting extremely hard while trying to speak, but all he could do at the moment was slur his words, making him incoherent.

"Geez what's got into you?" Crimson said.

Star Lane tried to speak again, but still couldn't properly form a sentence.

"Star just regain your breath and relax. What has got you in such a rush for?" Nova said, placing a hoof on his shoulder.

Star Lane took a few deep breaths and finally managed to calm down and breath properly.

"Thunder Bane told me to get you all and suit up. Something is coming towards Canterlot and it doesn't look good," he said.

All the ponies in the room stared at him for a second, somewhat second guessing what they was hearing.

"Now!" Star Lane shouted.

The ponies quickly began to put on their suits. They slipped on their dark purple chest pieces that fit around their entire torso that was trimmed with pure black with a crescent moon stamped in the center. They then attached the armored plates to each of their legs. Finally they all put on their shoulder plating and was set.

"Alright, follow me! We have to meet Thunder Bane back at the princess's throne room."

They all gave a nod and began the journey back. They quickly made it back down the hall and started up the stairs making quick haste.

"What do you think it is?" Shining said.

"I don't know, but it is something we have never seen before. On my way I saw the darkest clouds I had ever seen begin to completely swallow the sky and roll towards Canterlot," Said Star Lane.

"Well, whatever it is, it better be ready to sent back from where it came from!" Crimson said confidently.

"Up ahead!" Star Lane shouted.

The four ponies seen the door to the princess's throne room doors had been completely blown off. They quickly made it to the door way and was terrified what they had ran into.

Princess Luna and Princess Celestia were on the ground motionless. They saw where two larger stallions had been completely thrown through two pillars and was completely motionless as well.

All of their jaws hung wide open when they saw who was there standing above the two sisters holding Thunder Bane by the throat with magic.

"No..it can't be." Nova said in pure terror.

"King Sombra," Star lane said in a low somewhat quiet tone.

"Sorry to crash in like this, but I have been waiting for this reunion for sometime," Sombra smirked, while holding Thunder Bane in the air.

Thunder Bane tried to speak, but he continuously made strangling noises from having Sombra's magical grip pressing down on his throat.

"Let him go!" Crimson Gaurd yelled at Sombra while taking off in a dead sprint towards the two.

"Crimson, no wait!" Star Lane shouted.

Crimson Guard jumped off his back legs towards Sombra, but he gave a sly smirk standing on his back two hooves and spinning around extending his right hoof and making a complete connection with the side of Crimson's head.

Crimson Guard was sent flying through a pillar then a huge pane of glass and then over the balcony, plummeting to his demise.

The three remaining was completely horrified. Fear and completely paralyzed them broom head to hoof. They couldn't even begin to comprehend what had just happened or that their friend was gone.

"Now where were we?" Sombra said with a smirk towards Thunder Bane.

"Ah yes, now I remember."

He flung Thunder Bane up towards into the ceiling so hard it caused a imprint of his body into the stone ceiling. He unstuck and began to free fall back to the ground.

"Thunder Bane!" Nova shouted, as he ran to catch him, but Sombra appeared in front of him looking down upon him, standing on his two back legs with a evil smile.

Nova's legs began to buckle and could feel the sweat rolling down his face. Then Sombra put booth his front hooves together and swung them downward pile driving Nova into the ground causing a crater.

"Star come on we got to get out of here!" Shining said, shaking Star Lane has hard as he could, but couldn't break the paralyzing fear that fell upon him.

"Come on or we are going to die here!" He said yelling at him. At that point he realized he wasn't going to move. He quickly ran back through door and down the hallway.

"I don't think so," Sombra said.

His horn glowed a bright red and a long beam shot from his horn passing Star Lane's face by mere inches and down the hallway. Suddenly an explosion erupted from deep down in the hall causing smoke to bellow out from the door, pouring into the room.

"And then there was one," Sombra said with a miniacle chuckle.

Sombra slowly made his way to the single pony that stood before him. He looked down at Star Lane and could see absolute fear in his soul. Star Lane's back legs grew weak and he fell sitting on his flank.

"I can see it. I can see it in those dark hazel eyes of yours that you truly understand what fear is. I can see that you truly respect the powers that I have and how easily I can extinguish your existence," He said with a serious straight face.

Star Lane could speak. The only thing he could do was stare into the pure evil that burned within his eyes.His whole body felt weak and thought that the spot he was sitting in was the very spot he was going to die.

"I'm not going to kill you," Sombra smirked. "No, I am going to give you something worst then death itself."

Sombra's right hoof began to glow and he placed it on Star Lane's shoulder. Suddenly he could feel something growing all over his body. He looked down to see clumps of crystals began to rapidly consume his entire body until his entire body from his neck down was incased in these crystals.

"Don't worry little pony, just relax and enjoy the nice nap," he maliciously chuckled.

Then the crystals worked their way up to his head until Star Lane was completely incased in a giant crystal like coffin.

Sombra's horn began to glow a dark green and managed to lift the giant crystal prison and launched through the castle ceiling and into the sky till it was out of sight.

Sombra turned his attention to princess Celestia who had just managed to open here eyes. He slowly trotted to her kneeling down being mere inches away from her face with his.

"Your reign has come to an end."

Author's Note

Finally got this one pumped out. Hope you enjoy it and if he see a mistake let me know and I'll have it fixed asap. Hope you all are enjoying the ride so far!