Welcome to Equestria

You know, being a unicorn is one thing, but when I get myself shot behind my back.... That was all kinds of dishonor there. I was expecting a quick death. I didn't feel any pain though strangely. It was a matter of time before my brain dies with my body. Then my vision cleared again. This time however, I was in a giant library. There was even orbs scattered throughout the library with screens watching certain beings. And most importantly my unconscious body, or maybe my corpse.

The sound of hooves clopping on the floor got my attention to the pers- pony walking in. What I saw didn't surprise me as much as the other times I saw an alicorn. She stood an inch taller than Celestia herself with a dark red mane and tail. She had a white fur and for her 'Cutie Mark' it was a quill and inkpot on both of her flanks. (I still don't get these Cutie Marks.) The mare alicorn even wore a silk dress that only revealed a certain amount of cleavage. Even with all those features one thing stayed the same. Those big fleshy orbs on her- No, I will not go there!

She looked at me with a puzzled expression, then one of complete shock. "You're the pony that fell from the sky!" she exclaimed.

I raised an eyebrow a bit disappointed at the 'title' I was given.

"Out of all the things I've been called 'Pony from the Sky' is not one of them."

"I believe so? The name is Shadow Faze." I said.

"Then you are the pony that fell from the sky. I know you don't know me I'm Faust." She clarified.

"A pleasure," I said a bit awkward at the situation. "Listen, uh, why did you exactly summoned my soul here for?"

She looked knowingly at me. "Well, you are dying,"

"Tell me something I don't know."

"And I am going to offer you a second chance at life since you can't recov-"

"I would hold that offer. I won't need it for the most part." I said.

Now Faust was a bit irritated at my interruption, but that turned into confusion at my decline of life.

"Just tell me something, are you the mother of Celestia and Luna by any chance?" I asked.

"Yes, I am.... Not anymore." She said a look of guilt plastered on her face.

I get up from the floor and walked up to her. "What happened?" I asked.

"The Lord of Demons, King Hades. I've tried my best to contain him with the spell and everything Equestria has to offer.... I'm afraid my entrapment in the world between worlds is not enough to keep him from escaping."

"Then why not let go and go back to Equestria? You can st-"

"No, that will only cause him to surface quicker! That's why I have been watching you, pony from the sky." she concluded.

"Why is that?" I asked.

Faust looked at me before she lit up her horn. Little floating glass bubbles float toward me. They each showed me, the 'villains' and even my different accomplishments that I did for Equestria over the small amount of time I've been here.

"It's because a normal unicorn like yourself would not have stood against such terrifying and powerful threats if you weren't built with some kind of powerful magic. That's why I'm asking for your help. Please. Find it in your heart to help Equis." She practically pled to me.

My mental process was slow, but I already knew the answer before she even said anything. "Of course I would help. If I didn't care I wouldn't have tolerated with the completely backwards culture than what I'm used to, nor would I have stuck around once I had all my original power back in the alternative universe. What makes you think I would up and leave?" I asked finally.

She was silent after that but somehow I could feel the answer I was looking for. "My kind has been here before, haven't they?" I asked her. She nods her head.

I sighed and I directed her to a bench that just so happened to be in the library. We sat down as I let her gather her thoughts before I continued.

"Okay. Tell me what happened."

FLASHBACK

It all started about roughly a thousand years ago, back when alicorns were a tribe. As you probably already know, the four tribes of ponies never got along too well. Now at this time there were many, many subspecies of the pony race. The unicorns, pegasus, and earth ponies were the main groups of the entire pony race. However, Alicorns were considered demigods for their incredible strength, power, and sometimes great wisdom. It all changed with one pegasi...

A silver and black pegasus flew from where the sun was setting gently by the pristine group of unicorns, moving the sun downward. His mane was short, almost stubbed, with stripes of sliver and black. His tail was quite unique, however, because of its silver and black colors bleeding with each other in a unison shade of both mixtures. His cutie mark was in the shape of what looked like a red lightning bolt with a purple cross behind it. His purple eyes seemed odd to the colors that he was naturally born with, but reguardless, he wore a confident grin. His destination seemed simple: move along the mountain range until he got to the kindgom he was searching for.

The stallion pegasus was able to get pass the winter tops that protect the other side moving further and further southeast to the lush land of the Greenlands of Equis.

To most sapient beings of Equis, the Greenlands are a place of wonder and breathtakingly beautiful in its own natural right. But the stallion wasn't here for sight seeing. Hemoved throughout the landscape, a lurching heatwave could be felt on the ground. Some blades of grass end up involuntarily combusting into small flames. He looked in front of him to see a kingdom made of white brick that gleamed with its surrounding environment. He then lands on the drawbridge, the guardponies still had open. He looked around at the cheery alicorns and their bustling city with a certain hidden disgust to it all. There was just one key thing that was missing in this great kingdom to the pegasus.

The heat rose from his body as in one fluient motion he combusted into a ball of explosive fire. The explosion sent white bricks flying off the brick structures and ponies run and screaming in terror. The pegasus chuckled darkly moving through the streets casually. Then, the alicorn guards came in magic shields up; swords and spears at the ready.

The alicorns charge at the pegasus stallion, but his movement did not change. The alicorns stabbed and blast at the pegasus with all their strength. Debris still heavy in the air they cheered in victory. But their cheer dies off hearing the roar of terror itself.

"PATHETIC WEAKLINGS!"

A swarm of fire hit the alicorns burning and breaking any magic in its path. Even the alicorns known for their immortality against any normal weapon were.....dying from the flames. This only sparked the citizens into a bigger panic. The pegasus stallion took pleasure in burning the nearby buildings causing the fire to spread across the white brick buildings.

He looked around at the destruction with a toothy smile. Now this is what the landscape was missing. The screams of innocents and soldiers alike in agony and despair. He smiled in pure bliss flying off to the main castle to greet a certain pony he has been waiting for eternity to meet.

Meanwhile, Faust stares in terror at the flames engulfing the city below through the window. The rumble of the castle begins to start throughout the castle. Faust had to do something or else Greenlands and it's kingdom would die.

She rushed into the throne room until two distinctive cries caught her ears. She changed her course and entered the baby room. Her joy and pride foals were crying their poor eyes out from all the noise. She picked up the blue and white foals into her loving embrace immediately deciding her foals came first.

*BOOM*

The castle rumbled again violently nearly losing her balance. She had to get out of here. She darted out of the room to the exit only to see it had collapsed itself in. She was about to just blast her way through when a familiar cry of pain caught her ears. Her heart skipped a beat as she went back in to the throne room. A cosmos blue alicorn stallion laid on the ground with a flaming halberd impaling his chest. The sick pegasus from before laughed at his agony as Faust's eyes widen to pinpricks. Her magic unconsciously lit itself. She screamed in rage at the pegasus as a heavenly light caught the pegasus forming itself into chains.

The black and sliver pegasus looked at Faust in surprise before it became of pure rage. But Faust did not give this monster the satisfaction sending it to the lowest pits in Tartarus. It spoke in a language she did not understand nor didn't care much about. She closed the pit of Tartarus after he went into the place he belonged in.

With the foals still in her hands she goes to the stallion alicorn's side. He seemed a bit in pain but didn't move too much to her presence. Faust tried to move the halberd out with her magic, but the stallion put a hand on her shoulder shaking his head.

"It's no good. It pierced my...heart. I'm sorry I failed you Faust." He said weakly.

He didn't have to say anymore as the light faded in his eyes. Tears formed in her eyes as she silently weeped for him. Just now the castle decided to give in on itself; rumble and pieces of itself crumble on to the floor around her. She gets up and lit her horn up again as she teleported her and her foals out of the castle.

Faust reappeared on the outside grasslands. From there she ran to the mountains. She looked back seeing the fire growing bigger and hungrier for more fuel. It eventually spread across into the grasslands as she entered the mountain pass.

FLASHBACK ENDS

"I-I didn't know what to do. That stallion.... He had a terrifying power that was strange and foreign to me." Faust said.

I didn't blame her for acting the way she did toward a being like that. Many others would do the same in her situation.

"You did the right thing, Faust. Any sensible pony would have done the same thing. I just have to ask, if you had such a bad experience with my kind, then why let me live when I first 'fell from the sky' as you put it?" I asked.

She fell silent before answering. "You had similar power to the stallion and I was just about to banish you to Tartarus, but...... Your aura was different. I could feel a hidden torment deep inside of your soul. It made me feel sad for you instead of anger,"

Faust looked back at me into my eyes. "How can you live with all that torment inside of you? What makes you still go like nothing ever happened?" she asked like she was searching for the same answer herself.

I weakly smiled before side hugging her. "Well, it's not really a secret of mine. But I can understand of losing somepony as dear as you lost. What I do know is that it takes a strong mare to look past that and focus on the future without dwelling on the past," I looked away before glancing at the floating glass bubbles full of memories. "Not many have the will the keep going even after losing what they hold dear to them. But no amount of depression will solve anypony's problems. The best you can do for them is remember their memory in your heart and learn from the past."

Faust teared up listening to my explaination. I smiled warmly her way. I then hugged her gently as she sobbed into me. It was always heart breaking to see someone besides me in pain, but I knew this mare needed someo- err, somepony to talk to. Now that I know is a universal thing.

It took several moments for her to regain herself, but I didn't mind. She looked at me again clearing away the tears that stained her white fur. "Thank you Shadow for listening." She said with a slight smile.

"All in the days work. It's a knack I have." I said. Then something in my heart started to spread pain in itself.

"Not again."

I clutched my heart and fell to the ground in fresh agony. I couldn't hear what Faust said next, but I knew it was concerning me considering that she rushed to my side. However, my soul faded away from the world between worlds as I returned to my body.

Nightmare Moon POV

I thought the pains that Luna felt that turned me into being was painful. But hearing cries of Shadow in pure agony on the operation table, even through this thick glass, made it painful to even watch him. He was alive and kicking.

A doctor came in to the room soon after. He seemed to be a bit bloody from doing the operation on Shadow. He looked absolutely terrified and thankful at the same time.

"Princess Celestia, Shadow Faze is somehow healing himself." He said.

Celestia and I looked at each other. Even Twilight and Bon Bon looked baffled.

"Take me to the operation table." Celestia said. The doctor obliged as we all went with him.

The operation table was like a living plasma ball. Lightning was everywhere. Celestia made a force field around all of us as we entered the room. Everyone could still hear the screams of Shadow. As we got closer we could see that just as the doctor said his wounds were miraculously healing themselves. Once the wounds were all healed the lightning completely stopped.

Celestia disspelled the force field as we went to inspect Shadow. He groaned but woke up.

"Remind me to find the bastard that put the bullet through my heart." Shadow said.

All of us just stood there shocked of his reaction. He nearly died and was healed somehow and all he could think about was getting even with the demon assassin?

He gets up as he inspected his surroundings. "What?" he asked.

Celestia gave him a hard stare saying what's on all of our minds. "What was with all the lightning in the air?" Celestia asked.

He owlishly blinded at us once before receiving what she said. "Oh, that? It happens when I come close to death.... Don't get me wrong, with the wrong stuff I would actually die, but a bullet to the heart is not life threatening." Shadow said.

The doctors in the room were all wide eyed looking at Shadow as some inequine thing. "A-Are you some kind of monster?" one of the doctors asked rhetorically.

I could tell they hurt him at some mark when a brief flash of a pained expression came on his face.

The head surgeon gave an angry look toward him before he snorts. "I'm sorry Princess, but we didn't know that this....thing was a monster. I want him out of this hospital! He's not welcomed in here anymore."

Celestia was about to calmly 'talk' to the stallion, but Shadow placed a hand on her shoulder shaking his head. He then quietly walks out of the hospital. We followed him, but a growing concern came over the group. We honestly knew nothing about the stallion. The only mare that knew of some idea was his wife, Zecora..... This needs to be talked about.

Shadow Faze POV

I was surprised they all followed me. I knew Zecora was safe and my friends were safe too. So I had nothing to worry about, right?

The mares around me I could tell what they were as clear as day. Twilight is a hardcore bookworm and was curious about the world around her. Celestia is a good ruler and only wants what is best of her subjects and her sister. Even if it means covering up her feelings. Bon Bon is a mare that tries to hide feelings for her Lyra, but I can tell that she deeply cares for her as much as Lyra does for her. And Nightmare Moon.... Nothing is really bad about her. She is loyal to her friends and is very cheerful about life in general. Although there are some times where she lets her emotions do the talking. All the other ponies I have met so far held no restraint on feelings and caring for one another. I'm glad they enjoy life. I always have. Ever since I came up in this world I felt my spirit lighten itself up from all the bullshit my world produced. The only place I still miss is my past home.

I can't complain though. I have a good life here, so might as well savor what I can. Celestia walks up to me. "Hey, Shadow."

I glanced at her. "What's up Celestia?" I asked.

There was a long pause before she continued. "I would like for you to take a break for a while." She replied.

Now that was surprising. I looked back at her to see any playfulness in her expression to find none.

"Celestia, the demon threat-"

"That can wait later. Besides, I have other agents that could fill in for you. You never took a break without no complaint except for when you disappeared for a few months. You deserve this break." Celestia said.

I was uncomfortable with this request. Yeah, sure I can handle a few weeks with my wife, but this is a bit too much goodness for me.

"I'll only stay with Zecora for a few days then I'll come back to work." I said.

"Then I hereby assign you to Ponyvile until I say otherwise to you directly. That is a direct order." She said.

Now that was cheating. There was a long pause before I sighed. "Fine, you win, Celestia. I'll stay in Ponyvile as long as Zecora can stay with me as well."

She smiled. "Very well then. It shall be done."