New guy at CHS

People stared at Cobalt as he walked past them. He still had his armor on in public, which he could've done after he had gotten out of public view.

"Don't you feel weird Cobalt?" Sunset asked as she saw Cobalt marching without a care in the world.

"They can stare all they want. Right now, my goal is to stop my father from harming all of you. After that, we can all have a nice, normal time at CHS."

"Cobalt..."

"Come on, speed is of the essence!"

"Wait, how are you going to get to where your father is. In fact, you didn't even explain to us where he is."

"Uh, let me try this," Cobalt held his hand up and said, "Gate!" A large portal formed in front of him that led to a large forest. Cobalt was about to step through, but was stopped by...

"Cobalt!" Everyone turned towards the voice. The voice was his sister as she was running towards him. She tackled him down and put him in a headlock, "What do you think you're doing?"

"I'm... going to..."

"See dad?"

"..."

"There's no way you're going..."

"Emerald..."

"Without me!" Cobalt looked at his sister with wide eyes, "I can't allow you to fight our father without my supervision."

"Oh come on, you know father won't be at his full power, so I won't lose control from trying to defeat him."

"That's not the point. I'm talking about not fighting our father without me!"

"Alright, just release me from your grip woman!"

"Say uncle!"

"No!"

The girls were kind of relieved to see Cobalt like this. Although, they still didn't think he was mentally stable. They thought that his mind still wasn't stable after that most recent outburst.

"Alright sis, uncle!"

Emerald chuckled as she let go of her brother, "Now we can step through," Emerald winked as she stepped through the portal.

"Damn you, I'll get you back...," Cobalt stretched his back as she stepped through, but only after he waved the others towards the portal, "Come on, let's get going."

Meanwhile, in the same forest, the same dark individual, along with their two minions traversed the forest, "My lord, a portal was opened nearby..."

"Hm, find it and close it. While you're at, find the one behind the portal and kill them. We can't have any other mystics ruining our plans," Their minions nodded before disappearing into thin air, "Hmph, so they're already onto us. What other tricks do you have up your sleeve my dear..."

Not long after, Cobalt, along with his friends sprinted towards the dark figure. Cobalt took his halberd, and attempted to hit the dark figure, but the dark figure caught the blade in midair. Cobalt gritted his teeth and hopped back from them. Cobalt's friends soon arrived behind him all in a battle ready stance.

"Cobalt, can I ask you something?"

"What?"

"Why are they here?" Emerald pointed back to the girls, much to their surprise, "Do they have any combat training?"

"Nah, but they said they had magical powers."

"Can they activate it at will like us?"

"Uh... they never said..."

"Girls, just stay back, and let Cobalt and I handle this. If you can't activate your powers at will, then there's no point in all of you getting in the line of fire," The girls stood around before hiding back deep into the forest, but only enough to still see the two siblings.

"Hm? I didn't know it was your style to know I was on the Overworld my son. I'm quite impressed."

"Duel me father!"

"Cobalt!" Emerald yelled as Cobalt took a step close to their father.

"Hm? I didn't think you'd be so up front with a duel against the King of the Underworld. How smart of a decision do you think that is?"

"Grr, I will defeat you, and prove my strength! Get ready!" Cobalt let out a battle cry before charging full force towards his father.

"Cobalt!" Emerald followed him in the charge.

"Hmph...," Cobalt's father grabbed Cobalt's halberd, and he kicked his daughter into a tree with so much force that it knocked down the tree itself. Their father then picked up Cobalt with his halberd, and threw him far as well, but he landed on his feet.

Cobalt dug his feet into the ground before charging back towards his father. This time, his father blocked Cobalt's attack with a halberd of his own. They sat in deadlock with each other as Cobalt stared his father down for one second before saying, "Do it right..."

"Huh?"

A dark aura started to form around Cobalt as his eyes changed color along with his voice changing as well, "I want you to use your dark power."

"Say what?!"

"What's the matter? You can do it can't you? I want to face the strongest part of you father!"

"Hehe, you're losing yourself in that dark power. Hmph, I'll do as you wish...," Soon after Cobalt's father started to form a dark aura around him as well. Similar to what Cobalt did earlier.

"Yes, that's it... that's just fine. That's what I've been waiting for father!" The aura around Cobalt grew in size as his father smirked.

"That's all then, huh?" Cobalt charged again with a psychotic laugh. His friends looked on in fear and anticipation. But before Cobalt could attack his father again, his attack was stopped by his father's minions, "Huh?"

"What now?"

"Are you alright my lord? We'll protect from this fool. Are you ready my sister?"

"Yes, my dear sister..."

The two minions then spawned a flail and a chain with a sickle on it. They chained Cobalt's arms back to prevent him from attacking, "Let's get him sis!"

"Right!"

They both jumped into the air and wrapped their chain around Cobalt's body to trap him even more, "Gah, let me go! You're getting in my way! Don't mess with me... get out of my way!" An explosion enveloped Cobalt, but left everyone else to watch what had happened.

"What happened?"

"Hm?" Cobalt's father looked on in confusion, and then smirked.

"I can't allow myself to foolishly die here because of my choice. If I die here, my friends will be in danger... that just isn't going to happen here. I can't allow myself to die. Not here, not now, not ever..."

Then use me, I am your only choice in this matter. Use my full power!

"Yes... it's my only choice!"

"Take him out!"

Emerald then yelled out, "Snap out of it you stupid idiot!"

"Huh?"

The smoke around Cobalt cleared as he turned to a brutally injured Emerald, "This isn't you! The Cobalt I knows wrestles with his sister, mouthes off whenever he wants to, and is laid back! This Cobalt isn't my brother. This Cobalt is an imposter!"

"What?!"

"You can't let yourself be consumed by the dark power. Think about what you'll lose if you lose control of the dark power!"

"She's right... if I let myself lose control... I'll lose the only thing I ever wanted. Friends. The friends that I've made while at CHS will never be my friends again if I allow myself to lose control. Alright, just calm down... calm down. Don't be like father. Be yourself. I am... Shining Cobalt. Boy genius.. mystic... greatest friend of all time!"

A light shined around Cobalt, much to his father's dismay, "Hmph, so quick to defeat the dark power. We didn't even get a big arc for this dark power type of thing..."

"Stop breaking the fourth wall! That's Pinkie's job!" Cobalt yelled as he charged for his father without his weapon.

"Stop him!" The two minion sisters attempted to stop Cobalt, but were met by a pair of nunchuku to the face. Both of the sisters were instantly knocked out, and Emerald both placed her palm on their faces.

"You know what to do sis!"

"Yeah, you get dad!"

His father didn't retaliate, or more so, his father didn't want to retaliate. Cobalt placed his hand on his father's face as his father smiled. A beam of light shot through Cobalt's hand as Cobalt smiled back.

The whole time, my father wanted this. He never showed it, but this is what he wanted. He wanted this entire charade of darkness to end, and he knew that I could do it, along with Emerald. Father... I won't make the same mistake you made. With my new friends, I will ensure that I can live a normal life. Hell, I already am...

-1 week later-

"So, that will be $500 in damages," Cobalt stood in front of the hospital that he was at after he was attacked, "Adding that to you're bill, that will be $2000."

"I'll deal with the payments. I don't think my son has the necessary funds for that," Cobalt's mother took out a checkbook, and began writing a check. Cobalt sighed as he walked out the hospital to meet his friends.

"How much was it?" Sunset asked as Cobalt walked up to them.

"Well, they said $2000, but I know it was more because I hurt some of the workers here in order to do what happened last week. And I have that week of community service next week because of the damages that I did. So I don't know what the actual price is."

"That's what you get when you try to do something too fast."

"At least I got all that dark power stuff off my hands. Even if I have community service next week, I know I'll be glad to finally live a normal life afterwards."

"Yeah, and all in your first month here at CHS."

"Hehe, I'm surprised I'm still attending CHS. I guess that's the perk that of you mother knowing the principal of the school."

Later that day, they decided to hang out outside the school for no apparent reason. Just to hang out.

"So Cobalt darling, do you plan to stay here at CHS?" Rarity asked as the rest of them stared at Cobalt.

"Well, I don't see why not."

"Yes!" They all hugged Cobalt until he said.

"There's just one problem."

"Huh?"

"Well, I still don't have a job, and I just got kicked out of my apartment because of what happened last week. So I'm pretty much homeless at the moment. I have to move out by the end of this week."

That's when the girls looked at each other, and they all said instantly, "You can stay with me!"

Here we go, I know they all have a crush on me, but now I'm gonna have to choose between them. Well, at least this can go back to being a slice of life. Hey, Pinkie's not the only one that can break the fourth wall. I mean, I do it by doing this. Oh well..., let's see what happens now...