As Damocles led Luna into the lab he closed the door and locked it. She then put a Sound Supression spell so no one else would be able to hear them. From the outside while Damocles Shadow Darkened for a moment.

"So?" Damocles' voice was empty and made Luna flinch.

"I... I am sorry Damocles." Luna spoke as she lowered her head and looked at him.

"For what?" The question confused Luna.

"For having betrayed your trust and telling my sister about what you shared about yourself and past."

"Oh... yeah no, you don't need to apologize for that. I figured something like that was going to happen eventually which is why I didn't tell you everything about me and the old ways." Luna upon hearing this frowned and looked down. Her mane moved less even. "Why do you look so hurt?"

"You do not trust me... and rightly so. You expected to be betrayed by us and as you predicted it happened. So why are you not angry?" Her voice was soft and sounded just before breaking down.

"What's the point in getting upset about something that you know is going to happen anyways no matter what you do." he replied coldly.

"I know Cadance doesn't trust me anymore after what happened with Flurry heart. Shining Armor probably thinks i'm a monster, Which you know full well I am, Pretty sure that Twilight is going to have the elements of Harmony ready to blast both me and Sombra at any point." Damocles shrugged his shoulder. "This is just the nature of my life Princess Luna." Damocles said.

"You.. don't see us as your mother anymore do you."

"I'll be honest I never did, I was simply indulging you." Damocles said with his back turned as he sat at his work desk.

"T-truly?" Luna's eyes were starting to be filled with tears as her voice faltered for but a moment.

"I mean Kinda? I don't know, I think at one point I had duped myself into believing it was possible." He said picking up gems from the pile and working on them.

"I see. So my Actions just reinforced your point of view of your world?" Luna's voice held Jovial disbelief.

"Mhm, That's why not I'm not upset at you. I'll still refer to you as mother out in public unless the occasion calls for otherwise."

"Don't Bother!" She barked causing Damocles to turn with a confused look at Luna. "Just don't... to do so would be pouring salt into the wounds. But then again you don't even really care do you." she said with a mocking smile as tears in her eyes began to slowly crawl down her face. "No... Things happened exactly the way you expected them and close yourself off to the world you paint yourself to be a monster when you could be a hero. And I will never understand why."

"You want to know why I view myself as a Monster and not a Hero? Fine. Here it is in it's most direct form. I'm the monster you will need when the Hero Fails. You're heroes you have plenty of them, monsters... I'm the only one you all have. So let me close myself off. Let me be aloof. Its better that way for when I get to the point I need to be put down as no one would care and just say good riddance. 'I always saw it coming'"

"You... You truly are not a pony... I know you recognize What I feel. I know you feel something, some kind of emotion, but you suppress it so unbelievably well. Damocles I hurt you and broke a promise to you. Yet you do nothing about it..."

"Well what would you have me to do then?!" Damocles snapped his eyes glowing for a moment before shaking his head. "There's no point in seeking retribution, there is no point in getting angry, or doing anything about it. What's done is done, the damage, the choice, all of it has already been decided. So I don't need to do anything." Sighing Damocles offered tissues to Luna who took them wordlessly. "Luna... When you have something happen enough times to you, you become Jaded to it, I have closed my heart to that and I very well will probably never find a proper mate. Fuck, I mean I still cant fathom the concept that I have a horses dick for shadow's sake." That made her chuckle a little bit which made him smile before it fell away in a heavy sigh.

"Every Moment is fleeting, friends allies family, they will always come and go. Always have, always will. And there ain't nothing i can do about that. The only people who I can say haven't betrayed me are the ones who haven't had a moment, or reason to yet. No one... I mean it, No one, would willingly stand by my side when I find what it is I seek and that will only happen when i fully break and whats left of whatever form of sanity or morality is blown away like diamond dust. The only way for some one to be able to do that is if they two were born in darkness like me, dragged into the light and have seen the horrors of the world, and how the beauty of the world pales in comparison."

"So what is it you will seek when you break fully?" Luna's voice held trepidation.

"Blood. I will seek blood and fill oceans with it. And when that blood comes crashing down on me I will drown in it, finally then i will have my peace... Do you want to hear a story from my world? It's one you don't know yet... and its not very nice but its about these deities that walked the earth." Sitting down on the couch Luna joined him as she laid her head down on the armrest just to listen. "Once upon a time, There was a man named Edmond Dantes, He was not litterage or smart but he had a good heart. Saved a man at sea who would then become his best friend. Fell in love. Was to be married to the girl of his dreams. however due to one act in effort to save his commanding officer his alleged best friend had all the means he needed to take everything AWAY!" He began to roar. "On the very day of his wedding Edmond Dantes was arrested and tried for treason stolen away from the altar by the doings of his best friend and 2 others to rise in power. He was found guilty and instead of being executed was sent to a place worse than Tartarus. They were Sent to the Chateu D'if, There he was beaten tortured and whipped every day given the worst form of nutritment possible with little care for medical condition for over 12 years Luna. In that time His best friend married his love and had a child. Edmond Dantes was considered Forgotten and dead to the world! When he escaped through the means of an old man's help and was taught everything in literature, math, and language, he sought his freedom to return to the world. Unfortunately the world had not been kind enough of for that.

"The men who had caused him so much pain had all but erased and ruined any chance of his return and when he found the love his life in the arms of one of his betrayers? He went mad." Suddenly Damocles' eyes were both shining as the room seemed to darken. "So he struck a deal with the Devil." Thunder crashed in Rhythm as Damocles put his hoof up to her as he went and opened the door everypony from before having been listening in on the conversation through the use of Sombra's magic in Damocles's Shadow. Everyone Spike included gave a gulp of fear as Luna saw them wide-eyed. For each being that was there they began to see The room shift and turn into a plane unlike anything thy have known. Sulfur and brimstone filled their noses sickening them as the grounds cracked.

"The world is a place, Where the Villains where a smile on their face, While they take what you could never Replace. Stolen moments gone forever!" The full memory of Damocles's Betrayal as he was human played before everyone. "But Tables can turn, like my enemies will soon enough learn. As i strike a match and watch them burn, upon the pyres of Obsession!" The visions each of them saw changed as things changed. For Twilight it became the burning of Alexandria. For Rarity the French Revolution. Pinkie Pie was the Fate/apocrypha back story of Jack the Ripper. Spike just saw the end of all light. Fluttershy was destruction of the planet via pollution. Sombra saw the systematic destruction via nuclear war. Starlight Saw the dreamscape Rowan Wicker going mad and massacring everyone. Trixie just saw as everyone shunned her until the beckoning rope coiled around her neck like a snake. And so on Until an opening was made that they could save everything. "You'll run till you drop, Chasing an Advantage, You'll pay any price, as long as its free! I will Carry hell to their doorstep. I will make them pay! They will reap the Hate they've sown on their Judgement Day!" Twilight was able to lower the fires using liquids she pulled from behind her but it was only until something fell in her peripheral. It showed to be a dried husk of another pony. That she pulled the liquids from. Making her scream. Spike saw things from Damocles' eyes as he waged a war on the cruel deities that brought this about. Himself against agents of heaven and hell. "Sleepless nights, Days of Damnation! Soon and evermore! I will bring the Chateau D'if, knocking upon their doors!" Then suddenly everyone's vision became an image of Rowan and his love. The one whose tombstone is in Canterlot. With Damocles infront watching it all beside him was image of another man who watched as his love went with another man. "And Love is a Lie!" Damocles declared as a vacuum tried to pull him away and he fought to stay with her. Only for her to start laughing as she wrenched his hands free hold him by the wrist as whispered into his ears.

"Swearing that no matter what, it won't die!" just before she threw him into the vortex. before she went to lay with another man. "Disappearing like a star in the sky, in the hot light of morning!" The image changed to all of females who have been offered in his time in canterlot and the Crystal empire. "But what do I care, When there are women to be had Everywhere. First there's Retribution I must prepare, Mighty Vengeance is MIIne! I'll prepare a great show That will tempt you onward." the scene changed to Damocles the pony uniting the world ending all conflicts. "And just when its done, and the prize is yours. I'll Deliver Hell to their doorstep, Dressed IN rich Facade. "Then I'll burn them to the ground Like an Angry God!" Everyone saw as several strange beings were lit in flames at the mere tap of Damocles' hoof to the ground. A Cathedral then appeared around all of the spectators as Damocles was wrapped in chains and dragged to the cross. As A bell began to ring each time it did another chain broke freeing Rowan Wicker from the cross."Once your in my shining Cathedral heed the tolling bell. It's the final sound they hear before they descend to hell!" Black demonic like wings Spread outwards as one of them filled to be like an angels wing. "Fall Down on your knees. FALL DOWN AND LET US HEAR YOU PRAY. Fall down on your knees 'till we can hear you bargaining, scheming, begging and Screaming to pay! SO I'LL GUIDE YOUR WAY TODAY! ITS A PLACE WITHOUT ANY MERCY! - FASHIONED IN COLD BLOOD! STONES OF MERCY, STONES OF DOUBT! NO FORGIVENESS NOWAY OUT SAY AMEN!" And just like that the visions and songs ended With Damocles' back to everyone as he faced the door way everyone huddled by Luna but Spike.

"You're right it's not a very nice story... But i get what your doing... You suppress everything until you have something to direct it at, then you use it like a blade." Luna said shaking her head. "This is not a way to live Damocles."

"No it's a way to survive... Luna when I first arrived I told you all, that you guys killed me. There is no grand rebirth for me. My heart know it, my mind knows it, the body just hasn't caught up yet. So no... I am angry at you that broke your promise and lied to me. But I'm not too angry because I expected it. I'm sure once I've outlived my usefulness to you guys you euthanize me with the elements of harmony."

"Is there nothing I can do to make it up to you? Or even get you to truly believe?" Luna asked looking at Damocles. "Because I want you to believe that I can be a mother to you, a true one."

"You may want me to believe that but remember my words? Action's speak louder than words. There is not a being alive in this world or the next that would NOT betray me if i went against Equestria. I know it, Hell Sombra is probably only with me to learn how use and manipulate Pure darkness. Not what he uses. So he probably wont hesitate to do away with me if given the order."

"But what about-"

"Luna in order for me to believe anyone won't betray me. They would need to be ready to stand with me when that ocean of blood I make comes crashing back down on me. And you are one of the few ponies who just can't no matter how much you want to." He said before leaving everyone else behind. Starlight, Twilight, Trixie and Spike all looked at each other briefly. Spike getting off Twilight's back and running after Damocles. "C'mon Spike lets go get you something to eat." He said before flying into the Everfree forest.

"So that's it then... That's what it all boils down to... you put on a show for everyone to think you are happy when in reality, you are the loneliest being i have ever seen." Pinkie said to no one before Luna charged her horn to head back to Canterlot.

Spike came back just before the sunrise to cook the prepared food for himself and make some for the castle occupants. Starlight was informed of her invitation to Griffonstone, and hesitantly Accepted it. So she and Veil both got ready. Damocles did not go back to the base but upon questioning Spike said he knew where he was and that Damocles 'Needed time to himself.' During that week Spike would grow about 5 inches and lose a bit of baby fat for muscles as his claws and fangs grew stronger.

Author's Note

So Damocles has harboring hatreds, Has been LYING TO THE DIARCHY AND THE ELEMENTS. And yet... he calls himself a monster with reason. The ponies need to learn and give up on a lost cause. Some cases cannot be fixed. Not without getting your hands dirty.