The Pony From The Sky

For the first time since I came to this new planet, I felt happy to be back in a familiar dimension. Only bad side to the entire experience was, to put it simply, I ended up face planting into the ground.

"Just lovely Lady Luck....."

I recovered relatively quickly, but I turned around just as fast seeing the portal still open. It wasn't long until black cracks quickly formed inside of the portal. Moments later, the entire structure shatters into nothingness again. I sighed glad that my plan had sort of worked.

I appeared to be in a forest with lush, weirdly shaped trees surrounding me. Old memories flooded in remembering my way through the massive forest. I remembered because this is the forest that I was trapped in the forest for a total of four days. I believe this forest was called the Everfree. What? Did I forget to mention I was a skilled survivalist?

Anyway, I slowly got bored of amusing myself when I realized the sun was about to set over the horizon judging by the sky turning an orange color And from my experience, this forest is at its worse during the night. My pace quickened through the thick forest as shadows blurred by me. A part of me wondered how long have I been gone? After all traveling through different realities always risks accidently warping time in the process, if done incorrectly.

My horn lit up realizing just now it was still there on my head....

"Shut up, Atone, that isn't funny." I said mainly to the bastard in my head before teleporting away.

I reappeared in the middle of a familiar garden of twisted bush maze of sorts. I looked around only to reel back in mild shock. A statue looked to have been blown to bits where it once stood. Upon further inspection, the shape appeared to be of draconequui shape which coild only be one possible being.

"This is obviously Discord's place before I almost died by 'magic loss'. The question is, why haven't the Princesses done something about this already?"

I felt each piece with my bare fingers, but no matter what I did I couldn't pick up a base source to trace. It was beyond frustrating.

Sighing in defeat, I dropped the discarded pieces before walking away. I used a little teleportation magic to make it out of the maze. I looked up at the castle before me barely even batting an eye. Taking a second long look at the Princess Castle, it kind of remind me of one of those overused cartoon castles you see in Camelot.

Nonetheless, I walked inside. I materialized a cloak over top of me, the one I wore the last time I was here, before sneaking carefully pass the guards in the castle. After all, I needed to keep my presence on a low profile. Eventually, I made it down a third hallway before my instincts sent a nasty shiver down my spine.

I had to take a few minutes to realize what just happened. "It was my universe's magic...." It did not help calm my nerves in the slightest though. I felt a familiar presence nearby suddenly appear causing me to jolt slightly in midair.

I materialized Apocalypse before approaching the presence I felt enter all of a sudden. I walk into the room weapon ready only to find Twilight laying sprawled out on one of the royal beds. I sighed in relief before dematerializing Apocalypse. I figured it was probably my paranoia that creeped in from being alone for so long.

I approached the unconscious Twilight checking her breath and vitals. She appeared to be unharmed, but what was really disurbing was the energy admitting off of her. It made me cringe in pain just touching the wisps.

"Don't think about it." I mentally chanted to myself ignoring the pain as I shook her awake.

She moaned in protest, but reguardless opened her eyes. "Where am I?" She asked.

I owlishly blinked at her wondering if she thought this was a dream. "This is real life, Twilight. Now wake up already." I replied. Her eyes immediately shot awake hearing my voice.

"Shadow?! What are you doing here?" She asked surprised at my appearance.

I scratched my head in thought bef ore shrugging. "Not sure exactly, but I got most of the travelling around out of my system again," My thoughts drifted to the scene of Zecora's corpse. "It's nothing important right now."

There was a long silence before Twilight continued. "Shadow. I know this is hard for you, but who were you before you ended up...in our world?" Twilight asked practically begging with her eyes alone.

Now, I have been debating this with myself for a while now. But then I remembered the promise I made to myself after my original imprisonment.

The truth can't hide forever, I must be that voice.

I sighed knowing what I had to do. "I'll tell you, Twilight, but first, you need to gather the rest of the girls. They all will need to hear this." I said. Twilight seemed to accept my answer getting up herself.

"Thank you Shadow." Twilight said smiling warmly at me.

She then walked out of the throne room my heart feeling somewhat lighter than before. I pulled up my cowl again beofre slipping out of the oalace unnoticed by the guards around me.

I end up going to Ponyvile in both dread and relief. Everypony around me seem to not notice my presence as much as they were curious about me wearing a cloak over myself. I head southeast away from the town. I ended up walking up to an abandoned shack just outside of Ponyvile. Wooden planks were nailed into all openings and the door to signify it not being in use. I used my magic to rip the nailed boards out of the house with ease.

Then I opened the door peaking in side only for silent and darkness to meet my vision. Place, my home in Equestria, looked to have been ransacked after my 'death'. A frown spread across my face thinking who would want to steal useless furniture.

I tapped into my power before snapping my fingers. Almost instantly, the house began recreating all the furniture it had lost. I smiled satisfied with my work seeing all my previous furniture being restored to its rightful glory.

With my furniture restored, I brushed off the dust and cobwebs with mu magic to make the place look at least a bit presentable. It didn't make the room any less old looking though. With an content sigh I promptly fixed myself in the closest lounge there was. Silence reigned in the room for a good few moments filling me with a sense of peace before somepony came knocking on my door.

I softly groaned getting out of my comfortable position walking up to the front door. "Who is it?" I asked through the door.

"Twilight." I heard the lavender alicorn respond back.

I twist the knob before opening it to reveal the visitors at my place. But I didn't have time to see before somethings yellow and pink bombarded my vision. I had to recover from the practical tackle while the two ponies cry on me. I inwardly cringed at the sight of crying biped ponies. It just didn't seem right to see on their faces.

I looked at the other beings present to see Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Rarity, Spike, and Twilight. They all seemed to get a bit of mixed feelings about my return. Some felt anger toward me while others resolution and relief. I couldn't help but smile at the interesting group of ponies before me, except for Twilight.

"Did I miss anything while I was gone?" I asked the entire group.

Many seemed stunned by my response so I elaborated: "I have been out cold for, what, five years? There must have been something big that happened while I was absent."

"That can be explained later, perhaps after your explation of your origins." Twilight suggested.

"Yeah, that's why I came here for." Rainbow said earning a fist into her left bisep by the farm pony. "What?"

I looked down at Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy, which were pressed up against my chest before using my magic to pry them off of me. "Sorry Pinks and Flutters. I think we should take this conversation inside, yes?"

The two mentioned ponies blushed a light shade of crimson before Pinkie chuckled nervously in response. I motioned for the girls inside as they obliged my request. I checked outside one last time to make sure nopony was stalking about before shutting the door behind me.

Inside, the girls made themselves comfortable and had small conversations with each other while I sat myself down in my captain's chair. That is when all side conversations died in their throats.

"So, I'm sure you're all aware of when Hades declared me to be the Lord of Darkness before his untimely death by my hands." I began. They all nod in confirmation except Spike who looked really confused on what I was talking about.

I prepared myself for the next part of my explanation. "Well, he's not wrong in what he said about me. I have explained beforeha- hoof how I am not from this world. One of my many titles is the Lord of Darkness."

There was a long silence following that, but Rarity seem to have recovered the fastest. "We already know this, darling. What we want to know is how Hades knows you. Also, how did you know the creatures that he brought with him were called demons?"

I sighed knowing I couldn't get around the truth. "Because, Rarity, I have been fighting Hades and his demons for a long time. I eventually was able to figure out a demon's weaknesses. What I didn't expect was how determined they were to release him back into the mortal realm."

"Wait, wait, slow down. How long have you been fighting this guy and his thugs?" Rainbow asked trying to wrap her brain around this.

"For about... Three thousand years, I believe." I stated without hesitation.

All of the girl's mouth dropped. "Y-You're an Immortal?!" Twilight said flabbergasted.

"Hah! Told you he was an alien!" Pinkie Pie said a matter of factly. The girls ignored her however.

I frowned at the word they used to describe me. "I wouldn't go that far. Being immortal requires to hang out with other gods like me. However, I was rejected from that role. No, I don't have just three thousand years under my belt," I said getting uncomfortable about how they looked like they were about to worship the ground I walked. "I don't like to boast about my title or anything.... Not after what I did."

Curious looks were exchanged among the group as they all had one thought running through each of their heads. "What did ya do to be rejected from this 'God' status of yours?" Applejack asked.

I closed my eyes briefly before elaborating. "To put it mildly, I conquered the entire multiverse to do my own bidding."

There was an even longer silence from my statement, so I continued to press forward. "The multiverse was not a place filled with harmony and friendship at just about every corner way bcak when. Ideas and inventions were relatively new. Heck, at this time, the multiverse was wiped clean of its previous history. Death, violence, and slavery roamed ramped across just about every universe at the time. Long story short, I had a slight....problem with my psyche when I was growing up. I didn't have the best of.....caretakers either. Matter of fact, they relished my pain and misery."

I had to pause for a moment to let the terrifying memories pass out of my brain before I continued. "Anyway, at the time, I had finally had enough during my early years, so I barely escaped that life walking out into a whole new hell hole. In the end, I was simply too weak and inexperienced to survive for long. It wasn't until a little later on I required the power I needed to be rid of all the evil there was. I wanted to become a hero to the people of every world, but they all disgraced me for my good deeds," A dark glint in my eyes must have appeared as the girls and Spike seem to recoil slightly at my expression. "So I learned to say 'fuck them' and decided to take the whole multiverse with me. Ever since those years ago people refered to me as the Dark Lord of All Evil, ironic huh? Over the millions of years, I guess people forgot about that dark moment in the history of the entire multiverse. Not that I want them to remember such an event." I explained.

There was a mixture of feelings among the group, but one thing that they all had in common was they all didn't believe a word that I just said with a grain of salt. I expected them to go into denial. After all, they have been raised in an environment where such things were nothing more than terrible plot excuses introduced to cause the hero to intervene with 'saving' the land.

"As many people would say, ignorance is bliss, I guess."

Twilight turned her attention back on me with renewed interest. "How were you able to do that? If the 'multiverse', as you put it, were that chaotic and strange?"

I scrunch up my face temporarily in thought before looking at her again. "It's best if that was taken to my grave. Plus, I wouldn't want anymore master villains trying to attempt the same goal to get those ideas anyway."

"A-Are you still....evil?" Fluttershy stuttered just over a whisper.

I gently smiled. "No. Of course not. I wouldn't have saved Equestria from certain situations if I felt the need to be evil again. Evil is a choice Flutters. Nopony is ever born evil." Fluttershy seemed to be satisfied with my reply.

But I didn't have enough time before a certain pink pony blurred in a flash of pink straight at me before moving all around giving me only enough time to see her excited face.

"OOOOHIcan'tbelievethatimmortalsactuallyexistjustlikeinthelegendsbutthat'snotgoodsinceIhaveneverthrownanofficalWelcometotheMortalRealmpartyforanyimmortalbefore!" (OOOOH I can't believe that immortals actually exist just like in the legends but that's not good since I have never thrown an offical Welcome to the Mortal Realm party for any immortal before!) Pinkie said in one breathe. Sometimes this pink anthropomorphic horse really surprises me.

I teleported out of the chair and into the middle of the furniture that the group sat in while Rarity seem to be dealing with the pink frenzy. I sighed at the previous reactions. "Alright, now that's out of the way, what would be the ongoing problems that are happening in Equestria." I acquired bringing Twilight out of her spaced out trance.

"Oh, yeah, about that..."

Celestia ends up in the Canterlot Castle searching the hallways for her target. However, she was nowhere to be found, and worst of all her spiritual signature is gone as well. She could feel the demon inside her head going berserk trying to release her frustrations out into the world.

The Sun Princess resisted that urge though. No, it was not something worth getting upset over. What mattered now was how the negotiations were doing. If she ever finds Twilight again, she'll just get the information out of her mouth. The Princess was very confident that Twilight would obliged.

A green flame appeared over her head as it fell perfectly into her raised hand. The seal was of royalty and had a star shape on it with a sort of 'X' on the Star. Twilight Sparkle came to mind as she opened the letter.

Her eyes widened in shock and concern. Her worst fears had came true. "Shadow is still alive?!"

"Well, isn't this a nice update. At least going to the creepy castle wasn't a complete waste of time."

Celestia ignored the demon's idle thoughts before she made her way into the throne room. She just as she was about to grab something to write with the doors to the throne room opened again revealing a Royal Guard in the doorway.

"Your majesty, the nobels have all gathered at the summit. They are waiting for your final verdict about the World Summit condition being held tomorrow." The guard said.

I nod to him understanding what that ment. "Of course. I'll be right there to answer their questions."

With his request satisfied, the guard left the throne room. Then, Celestia got an idea. She quickly pulled out the quill and rolls of paper beginning to write a letter to her favorite princess.

"Well, that must have been painful to see unravel." I commented. Twilight had just finished explaining to me how much Equestria dug its own grave. The other countires seemed more than peeved at the events with Hades and I. But they didn't know the finer details of the true caus. Some of the countries irriationally blamed Equestria for all the death caused by the 'Worldquake', they call it, as a result.

Twilight nods in agreement before pinching her nose in annoyance. She must really hate dealing with the privileged. Who am I kidding, every being with common sense hates noblety for one stupidity or another. That doesn't mean that all of the nobles are rich pricks.

"Yes, and I'll have to attend to the twelfth World Summit meeting to talk again about this issue." She stated.

I sighed wishing I could just slaughter the idiots and be done with it. However, past experience warned me such actions only cause civil wars.....and cults.

"I see, well, that most definitely-" In the middle of my comment, a scroll appeared in front of Twilight which had the seal of the Equestrian diarchy on it.

Twilight picked up the scroll reading it to herself before shock written itself on her face. "What is it?" I asked.

"Princess Celestia knows you are alive and she has asked for you to attend the World Summit with her." She said finally.

However, my shock was not greater than my suspicion. Something wasnt right about that set up. How could she have known about me so soon? "Did you sent her a message about me?" I asked.

Twilight still looked shocked just for suggesting such an accusation. "Of course not! I maybe a princess and admire her a whole lot, but I still would have waited to tell her about you. I did promise to tell of your existence after a month went by."

My senses went on high alert. If she didn't sent that letter than who did? "It's fine, I'll deal with that when we meet her face to face. For right now though, I think I had enough excitement for one day." I said feeling quite tired at the moment.

The group finally disbursed after hearing what I had said only stop once each to say their good byes before heading back into their own houses. I trudged up the stairs over to the bedroom opening the door to see the inside of it. The room itself appeared to be untouched while I smiled happily at my belongings still being there. Even my bed was in mint condition when I left on that faithful day.

I sighed contently before resting my head on the pillow. It didn't take only for my mind to drift off to sleep.

I felt myself drifting in nothingness floating like gravity did not exist. This startled me to think clearly before my nerves felt like they were standing on edge.

"Who's keeping me awake this time? Atone, is this another one of your sick jokes?" I questioned the emptiness around me, however, he did not respond to me. My paranoia grew to greater heights.

Then I heard the soft sound of someone crying. My ars swiveled in the direction of the noise before I felt myself getting off of the.....floor? I looked down seeing a solid grey surface below me.

I didn't particularly cared at the moment though my body moving automatically on its own. I start my track on this new surface getting closer to the source of the noise. The closer I got, the more familiar it sounded.

"Shadow....Please, help me!" A female voice cried out in the darkness around me.

My heart nearly stopped altogether hearing her exotic voice torn up in fear. "Zecora!"

My pace dramatically increased before I saw her laying on the floor crawling away slowly positioning herself against a vertial grey wall. I looked quickly around the sort of room to see five grinning bastards looking down at Zecora with a hint of bloodlust and desire. The room was also equally a mess with broken wood and pottery scattered across the floor. My anger rose in an instant ignoring every rational thought in my head, so I charged at the bastards. However, an invisible wall prevented me from getting any closer to the scene promptly smacking me in the face.

I looked back at Zecora seeing several bloody wounds across her body and her tattered clothing. Her arms wrapped weakly around her chest while the guards grinned in delight.

"What should we do with her, Shine?" One of the guards asked the obvious leader.

"We'll need to burn the evidence and remove everything we can about the Hero, as ordered, but first, let's have some fun." The leader, Shine, replied. Sinister laughter rang out from the guards as they closed in on the zebra in front of them.

My vision became red while my inner self-control slipped at that moment. I felt the black substance code me while Zecora wails fueled my fury. The once strong invisible barrier cracked under my berserk onslaught. I didn't care about morals or rules at that point. I only cared about making the guards bleed and scream in agony.

The invisible barrier quickly shattered upon itself. I felt myself run on all fours gaining a speed advange before lounging at the five guards. I saw their eyes widen in absolute terror before the fresh taste of blood filled my mandible. It felt...right to feel the adrenaline running through my veins. Most of all, the blood that gushed into my mouth tasted just as good as a dehydrated being in the middle of a desert finding a spring.

I felt my reality slipping from that realm as I began to see a light.

I awoke feeling the moonlight cast down upon me, but to my surprise, I was no longer in bed anymore. I looked at my surroundings until my eyes laid upon a carcass in front of mes My eyes immediately widened before feeling my mouth with my fingers upon finding out that said fingers were now claws. Nonetheless, I removed the claw and examined it to see stains of dark red on it. I realized a little too late that it was blood.

I go up from my prone position before looking at the carcass in fear of harming a pony by accident. However, the carcass turned out to be a big black grizzly eyes widen in frozen fear. Half of the poor victim's neck was brutally torn from his body confirming his death.

I looked at myself just realising that I was walking on all fours. I quickly head to a nearby water source to examine myself in the moonlight. My worst fears were confirmed seeing as my beast form had been activated on accident. A dragon version of myself stared at me in the face. I had midnight black scales with silver horns and jagged teeth. My serpentine red eyes also seemed to stare straight into my soul with a murderous intent plastered inside of them.

I couldn't stand myself in this form, but the thoughts of my late wife pushed me to a level that was unbareable to stand causing old feelings to rise from me. Just the thought of what those bastards did to her made my blood boil. And I'm still not even close to finding out who might have ordered the attack on my wife. After all, I had made many enemies in the past.

"I can't lose myself again. At least not right now."

I closed my eyes forcibly willing myself to return to normal. I could feel my features dramatically change getting smaller and smaller. I wait a few seconds more, before opening my eyes, to find myself back in my pony form. I had also realized that my clothes were shredded during my transformation. I grumbled angerily and mentally curse myself for destroying my nice clothes.

To make matters worse, I looked at my house's condition only for a more vulgar word to escape my throat. A huge gaping hole in in the side of my bedroom where I had burst out of in my fit of pure rage. However, I was too tired to fix the wall now. So I carried myself back into my bedroom promptly collapsing onto it face first.

"Where's whiskey where you need it?"

I had to force myself to fall back into a dreamless sleep again.