The spark of redemption

"What an appropriate way to die. My baby will be literally taken from my body by powerful magic and then I will die a death so excruciating that death and pain itself will flee my rotting corpse." Luna laid down in a portable green bubble cage, she wore a magic muzzle and straps over her wings.

"Yep that seems about right to me." Sombra walked in-front of Luna, while two changeling guards followed behind pushing the bubble cage.

"And you're just going to let Chrysalis kill you, and take everything she wants?"

"Chrysalis wants to rule the world, all I wanted was redemption, and power, thats the only reason I decided to help in the first place. I wanted the Crystal Empire and the Crystal Heart to myself." Sombra thought it would be ok if he explained everything to Luna before they were both killed, it's not like would matter at this point.

"Why did she save you? What did she want from you? Why do you want the Crystal Heart? How did she save you?" Sombra lowered his head, he was bombarded by Luna's questions.

"Uuhhhhh, look Luna, to be honest I have no idea how Chrysalis saved me, but I do know what she wanted from me." Sombra then lifted his head and continued walking. The throne room was only about a thirty second walk away, it would be the place Chrysalis would use the stone to make Luna give birth, torture her, kill her, and then kill Sombra.

"Why would you let Chrysalis just kill you? We have a chance at a better future, a path with me could be your redemption Sombra. Bad or not, your life is precious, especially to me." This made Sombra stop walking, he thought of the best words he could say to Luna. In Sombra's heart he felt like giving up, just let Chrysalis kill me, he thought, but strangely enough, something in his heart was trying to tell him to turn around, but would he listen.

Sombra peeked over his shoulder and looked at Luna for a split moment, Luna got confident he would turn eventually. Sombra then looked forward and continued walking. The sound of the battle going on outside was loud, very very loud. It was almost like one-hundred tornados hit what remains of the Crystal Empire all at once.

"We're here." Sombra stopped at the door.

______________________________________________________________________________________________________

The battle outside was turning in favor of Celestia and her army, but more and more changelings kept on coming. The fugitives had been evacuated outside of the city, along with Cadance, Twilight, Shining Amor and the other ponies remaining. Celestia knew Chrysalis still had Luna, so she couldn't back down. She also had the problem of Chrysalis using the stone against her army, but at the moment Chrysalis had different intentions with the stone.

"Captain!" Celestia approached Royal Shield.

"Yes your highness!" He saluted in respect.

"You must hold off the rest of the changelings, i'm going to find Luna and retrieve the stone."

"But your highness, there are too many, we need you here!" Captain Shield tried to explain to Celestia that the army wouldn't last much longer without her.

"It doesn't matter, once I have the stone, I will use it against Chrysalis and the army." Celestia said no more and dashed for the portal.

"We should be helping." Twilight and Cadance stood next to each other just outside the city. Blankets were given to them to help them shield with the freezing cold snow. A train was on the way, that would take them back to Canterlot, out of danger. Although they were all alive, they were so weak they could hardly stand, even Cadance and Shining Armor thought it was a bad idea to go back.

"Twilight, we should stay here and wait for the train to come. The station is just over there, we must hurry or the changelings could destroy the tracks." Cadance explained to Twilight that they were just too weak to fight.

"Ok, fine. Wait? Where is Lilly? I haven't seen her in a while." Twilight looked around for the one pony who seemed to always be right beside her.

"Um, I don't know? Lilly!? Lilly Tulip!? Everypony look for Lilly Tulip." Cadance got up and started to look around, as did Twilight. Little did they know, Lilly was still in the city.

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________

"Well well well, look at what we have here! Sombra my dear, thank you very much." Chrysalis sat on her throne, she got up as Sombra, and Luna entered her throne room. Luna was still in her portable cage, trying to think of some way to keep Sombra from creating this horrible fate, for both of them. "Guard 786, got fetch my weapon, it's time to give birth Luna, are you happy, at least?"

"Happy? That you're taking my child and killing me! You're out of time, Celestia will be here any minute!" Luna yelled threw her cage, her voice wasn't as loud in it.

"Oh Luna, so stupid, I could just use the stone against her, knowing it has more powerful magic than her." It only took about a minute for the changeling guard to get the stone. It was orange, illuminating a red light. It was resting on a cushion that the changeling guard was carrying. Sombra stood next to Chrysalis' throne, just waiting to see how this intense moment would work out.

"Sombra my dear, would you be a gentlecolt and get our pregnant mare ready?" Sombra nodded in approval and walked towards the cage.

"Chrysalis i'm not due for at least another 30 weeks!"

"It doesn't matter Luna my dear, I could just use the stones magic to make you due in five minutes." Chrysalis' smile widened. Sombra destroyed the cage using his magic. Two changelings chained Luna's hoofs, she fell to the floor, she was very weak. Chrysalis picked up the stone from the cushion the changeling was holding, the stone only obeyed to Chrysalis' commands, because she was the keeper of it. For another pony to have complete control over the stone, they would need to disarm Chrysalis and then take the stone, which was exactly what Celestia was going to do. She was still racing towards the palace, but would she be quick enough? Only time would tell.

"Sombra, you're going to just let this happen? This is your foal to! You must protect it as I am doing!" Luna turned her head towards Sombra, who was standing next to Chrysalis. Chrysalis now had the stone in her hoof, she was about to use it for her final biding.

"You think he cares? He doesn't care! He never cared! He choosed me, and because of that he will become more powerful than you or Celestia have ever been, and we will rule Equestria together, and kill anypony who gets in our way!"

"Thats not what you told me." Luna's hooves were still chained, but she could walk a little.

"What I told you doesn't matter you princess cunt!" Chrysalis was getting angry, meanwhile Sombra was just standing there waiting for his and Luna's demise. "It matters not though, I think our little conversation ends here. So tell me Luna, what shall I call MY new baby foal?"

"Maybe Chrysalis is a bitch!" Luna started to fight back in anyway she could, unfortunately the only weapon she had was here words. Chrysalis snarled, but didn't say anything. Instead she raised the stone in the air with her magic. Chrysalis now had magic of a hundred immortal alicorns running threw her veins. Luna saw that she was running out of time, and realized that Celestia would not make it, but before Luna gave up hope, she turned to her only hope of escaping this horrible fate. Sombra, who was still just watching.

"Sombra, please listen to me! I know whats it's like to be like this, I know the pain dark magic can do to yourself, I was imprisoned for one-thousand years because of it! I know you want to give up! I know the feeling of the world rejecting you, but you don't need to give up because the world doesn't believe in you, because I believe in you! Don't do this, not for Equestria, but for me! For our future! I love you!" Chrysalis turned towards Sombra, he was looking down, but she could see a tear starting to run down the left side of his face.

"Sombra no! Don't let these false teachings destroy you! You have everything now! And with this power you could have more!" Chrysalis was starting to see his betrayal, she was planing to kill him after getting Luna's foal, but she didn't know he knew that.

"No, I have nothing, but I had everything, without you." Sombra lifted his head, rejecting Chrysalis' offer. Chrysalis frowned and blasted a beam of magic from the stone at Sombra. He quickly moved away from the powerful blast that would off killed him. He then quickly fired the spell to unlock the magic muzzles at Luna's horn, her magic muzzle then came off and she immediately blasted the cuff off of her hooves. Luna then turned towards the four changeling guards in the room and with on spell, they were discarded. Chrysalis was then surrounded by Luna and Sombra, who were both about to blast spells at her with no mercy, Chrysalis growled once more.

"Fine, if I can't have your baby, IT WILL DIE WITH YOU." Chrysalis raised the stone with her magic and blasted a orange magic beam at Luna. Luna reacted by conjuring a magic wall to protect her, little did she know, it would prove to be useless against the power of the stone.

"Luna NO, IT WONT STOP IT." Sombra knew Luna's spell wouldn't stop the blast headed right for her, it would simply blast threw the magic wall and directly hit Luna in the chest, but before the magical blast hit Luna, Sombra jumped in front of it. The magical blast from the stone hit Sombra hard on the side of his muscular chest. Sombra then fired a disarming spell directly at Chrysalis. Chrysalis was not prepared and was hit head on by the spell. Chrysalis fell to the floor, the stone landed behind her. Chrysalis could now not use the stone, Sombra had disarmed her using it, the stone now would only accept Sombra, who fell to the ground.

Luna didn't realize that Sombra was hit by the spell, from the angle she was at it looked like it hit her magic wall and bounced back at Chrysalis, so Luna ran past Sombra heading for Chrysalis.

"Make a move, I break your face!" Chrysalis was laying on the ground, she was still in shock from the disarming spell Sombra blasted at her. Luna stepped on her chest so she couldn't get up.

"Yo-yo-yo-you bet-better tur-turn around." Luna raised her eyebrow in confusion, at first she didn't know what she was talking about, but it only took at second for her to find out. Luna turned her head at Sombra, who was holding his chest. He was laying on the ground, clearly in pain, Luna quickly ran towards him.

"Holy shit Sombra what happened?" Luna put her hoof on his head and the other on his chest, where his hoofs still were. Surprisingly their was no blood, there was a burn mark on his chest, but no blood. "You're ok, there is no blood, it must have been a bad spell." Luna calmed down, she thought the spell was just a bad spell, and didn't work.

"No Luna." Sombra said those two words before his body started turning to ash. Starting with his legs, then his head and body. Not three seconds later, Sombra turned to ashe. The ashes starting flying away, flying out the open window into the atmosphere, disappearing. Luna had a ash stuck to her hoof, thats all what was left, she then turned her head to Chrysalis.

"What did you do, WHAT DID YOU DO!" Chrysalis smiled.

"I killed him my dear." Chryslis finally got the strength to get up, the stone was still sitting behind her. Then suddenly the doors to the large room slammed to the ground, and Celestia steamed rolled threw the hall and blasted a spell at chrysalis. Chrysalis fell right back to the ground as blood started dripping from her chest.

"Celestia!"

"Luna! Thank god you're still alive! Come on, the battle outside is almost won! We must use the stone against Chrysalis." Celestia hugged Luna for a split second.

"No Celestia we can't."

"Why not?"

"Sombra disarmed Chrysalis with the stone, it only obeys to him now."

"Well, where is Sombra? Wait, is he here?"

"Celestia, he's gone." Luna teared up.