Author's Note

After a long time, part 2 is finally done! I apologize greatly for the long wait, but I just haven't had the courage or the will to work on it. So the end of this chapter may be a little bit forced. I'll most likely be taking a break from writing til I get some motivation to continue. Episode 3 will come eventually, just not anytime soon. I also apologize if some characters don't sound like themselves or if some scenes are awkward, especially the fighting scenes. Writing battle scenes is somewhat of a challenge to me, so again, I do apologize if they seem short or awkward. Disclaimer: I'm not an experienced writer, so everything I make won't be perfect, and there may be a few errors here and there. With that said, enjoy part 2 everyone!

Ep.2: A Dark Crystal Pt.2

"Hello my subjects." King Sombra says, looking up from Twilight to me.

Twilight quickly teleports to my side, surrounding us with a bubble shield made from her magic.

"Your attempts to block me out will falter." Sombra says. "With my new army at my side, we will trample all who stand against us!"

"I've dealt with creatures that sound a whole lot like you, Sombra." I say to spite how intimidating he's trying to sound. "There's Crota, Skolas, Oryx, Aksis, and-"

"SILENCE!" Sombra shouts in anger, walking towards the empire. "Deal with these pests!"

Some of The Fallen draw their attention towards me and Twilight, attempting to shoot her shield down.

"Twilight, get ready to take the barrier down on my mark!" I shout, putting my Hawkmoon away.

Twilight looks at me with a shocked expression on her face.

"But why?!?"

"Trust me." I reply, pulling out my knife. "I got a trick up my sleeve."

As soon as she brings down her barrier, my knife charges with arc energy. I lunge towards a couple nearby dregs, swinging my blade onto their chests, and they vaporize in pure arc energy. The Fallen draw their attention to me, giving Twilight an open window to launch into the air and shoot a magic beam at a servitor, blowing it up instantly. The rest of The Fallen split their attention towards me and Twilight, but that didn't matter in the end. What felt like a minute passed and all The Fallen that Sombra flooded us with are taken out. My knife loses its electric charge, letting off a small spark, so I put it away and pull out my Hawkmoon in it's place.

"We need to get back to the empire." Twilight says. "Sombra's attempting this a second time, so he's going to fail a second time." "Right." I reply. "Be careful." We rush back into the empire in search of Sombra, hoping that he didn't get to Applejack and Rarity while we were distracted.

As we were closing in on the crystal heart, I pick off a few dregs and vandals from the rooftops of some these buildings with my Hawkmoon. The crystal heart is in view, as well as some of the royal guard fighting off incoming Fallen. As Twilight flies in to assist them, I stand back to pull my sniper rifle out and pick off some vandals that are too close for comfort to the guards. We defend the heart for what feels like a couple minutes, so we regroup and discuss what's going down.

"All the citizens have been evacuated." One of the guards says. "As for Applejack and Rarity, we don't know where they went."

"We did see a giant black cloud moving around the empire, however." Another guard says. "It looked as though to have been chasing somepony."

"Do you think he could have been chasing your friends?" I ask Twilight. "Wasn't he suppose to come after the heart?"

"This wasn't his first time trying to steal the heart." Twilight replies. "He knows our tricks, and he won't fall for them a second time."

"He may be aware of your tricks." I reply, pulling out my Hunger of Crota rocket launcher and taking aim at Sombra in his black cloud. "He's not aware of mine though."

I take aim at the cloud, locking on to it, then fire away. The rocket speeds off into the cloud, blowing up as soon as it makes contact with Sombra. From where I'm standing, I think I can see Sombra falling out of the cloud as it dissipates from the cluster bombs.

"Bingo!" I shout as a reaction. "Let's move, quick!"

I put my Hunger of Crota away, and I follow Twilight toward where Sombra fell.

Midway through our trek towards the crash site, Twilight said she had to go check on something, and she went flying off in another direction, separate from the path. I proceed the rest of the way to where Sombra fell, only to find that there isn't anything at the crash site.

"Isn't this where he was suppose to be?" I ask myself. "Could have sworn I thought he tumbled here."

"Maybe he took off on our way here." My ghost replies, noticing a strange looking print in the ground. "Hold on, I'll see if I can track him."

As he goes to scan the print, I take a look up and down the street we're on.

"Why am I getting a strange vibe from this?" I think to myself. "I don't know why, but I have a feeling something big is coming."

My ghost stops scanning when the ground suddenly starts to shake.

"This tremor isn't natural." My ghost states. "Something big is inbound!"

As my ghost disappears, as I notice a big shadow wash over me, and I look to where the shadow's coming from, noticing the massive creature looking back down at me.

"What the- an ARCHON???" My ghost shouts in disbelief. "This explains all the Fallen in this world!"

This Archon isn't like all the other Archons back in the Cosmodrome. This one has four legs, four arms, and dark crystals completely enveloping it, as well as massive ones protruding from its forehead and spine. The Archon raises its leg, kicking me across the street, but I keep my balance and slide across it instead, stopping in the middle of the street, looking back towards it with my Hawkmoon in hand. The Archon then screams at me in Sombra's voice:

"You cannot defeat me, Guardian, for this world's power is mine to control!"

I pull my Devil's Dawn out, taking aim and replying to the Archon:

"The only power you're going to be controlling is your ether coming out of your body!"

The Archon quickly forms a crystal shield around his left arm as I fire at his head. It flinches as the bullet ricochets off it's head, taking a few steps back.

"I have taken control of this being's power!" The Archon shouts, forming a crystal shrapnel rifle in it's right arm "And soon I will take control of your light!"

He fires at me, the projectiles from the rifle covering a massive surface area in front of me. I quickly take action by jumping above the blast, pulling out my rocket launcher and firing in his general direction. The rocket makes a direct hit, and it's cluster bombs scatter all over his body, detonating in smaller explosions. The Archon roars in rage and agony as it's four eyes start to glow green. The Archon teleports in front of me, kicking me with one of it's front legs into a building. As I impact the building, I grunt in pain and fall to the ground, dropping my weapon. The Archon slowly walks over to me, saying:

"You are foolish to mess with Sombrosia, the new leader of the reborn House of Stone!"

"He's not serious, is he?" My ghost asks me nervously.

Out of nowhere, a magic beam strikes him in his chest, making him step away from me. Twilight lands right next to me, casting a magic shield around us. Sombrosia regains his balance, and takes aim at us with his shrapnel rifle.

"Your attempts to vanquish me are futile!" He shouts triumphantly. "It is physically impossible for me to go down by the likes of you-"

He explodes in front of us, the blast shaking the earth below our legs. All me and Twilight see for the time being is smoke. As soon as the smoke dissipates, Twilight brings down her shield, and in front of us is a black cloud, the same as the one I shot at with my rocket launcher. Two green lights can be seen from within the cloud, shining directly at us.

"This isn't the end." The cloud says in Sombra's voice. "I will return stronger!"

The cloud disintegrates, leaving behind a yellow engram. Twilight looks to engram, then to me, asking:

"Are you ok, are you hurt???"

"I'm fine, I've had worse fights." I reply, walking towards the engram. "The real question is: What's in here?"

I pick up the engram, Twilight looking at it curiously.

"What is that?" She asks.

I reply with:

"It's an engram, it usually contains some form of weapon or armor piece when decrypted."

"Are you able to decrypt it?" Twilight asks curiously. "Oh I wish I had some paper right now!"

"Yea, I can decrypt it." I say. "I spent some time back home learning from the cryptarchs on how I can decrypt these bad boys on the go."

I proceed to decrypt the engram, and as soon as I break the encryption, it transforms into an auto rifle. This auto rifle wasn't like anything I've ever gotten or seen. It's got tiny purple crystals protruding from the barrel, and a layer of crystal covering the tank where you can see it's ammo. I could easily tell this was suppose to be an Omolon foundry auto rifle.

"Oh my, I've never seen anything like it." My ghost comments. "I'll take a look at it later."

"Never seen anything like this before." I say. "I wonder what I should call it?"

"Shattered Pride, maybe?" Twilight blurts out. "I feel it should be called that, I don'€t know why."

"Alright, Shattered Pride it is then!" I shout proudly. "Good thinking, Twilight!"

"Oh, it's nothing." She replies.

I put the Shattered Pride auto rifle away, and look around at the scenery around us.

"Yo Twilight, I have a question to ask." I say curiously. "How do we get home by chance?"