Interlude:
Fragment from Jack the Reaper’s Diary

Here I am, writing foolish stuff to kill time. Ah’ wish our other selves’ hit me with the Elements of Harmony to make me sleep for a while. Just for a change ya’ know? But that would mean to get locked on our suite, and A’m on ma’ own so it would take a while.

All A’ do all day is wait to the night so A’ can assault some drunken morons. At least A’ have Flam to play during the day. Flim died after the first week even if A’ do mah’ best to keep him alive as much as possible. A’ think he died out of fear.

Today somepony threw the newspaper to the sewers and looked at the date for the first time in centuries. March twelve, from the very same year we escaped from Ponyville and joined the Knights of Silence. Now A’ realize how much we changed things when we traveled back on time.

A’ remember as it was yesterday. Or it was today?

It was an event that changed history in our timeline. The fight between the bitch of Starlight Glimmer and the Great Master.

We were hiding on Canterlot for a month after Glimmer took our Cutie Marks and turned them into the = Mark. The mark of our failure. It was painful, we were hiding as pariahs since we did not wanted to see the Princesses to the eye. Even A’ decided to hide from my own family.

How could we fail Equestria and leave it to Glimmer’s mercy? We felt pity for ourselves.

Then we joined them. The Knights of Silence.

We thought that they would give us the power we have lost in order to defeat her. But Glimmer took all our strengths and qualities with our Cutie Marks. We would never be able to fight her no matter how hard we try to learn from the Knights of Silence.

Damn Glimmer. A’ wish she was still alive to make her suffer for what she did to us. Again.

It began at noon. We recognized her and ran to hide. We were afraid of her!

And A’ swear she smiled at us. Glimmer have recognized us! But then she did not have the time for us.

She made her way to the main plaza and then she began talking. A’ really hate her voice.

“Ponies of Equestria! The Equalizers claim this city as ours! Nopony haves to be especial. Nopony is better than anyone. Join us and we’ll show you the way for true happiness! Lots of you think you are happy, and won’t let us show you the way. I understand. The lies of modern life have corrupted your minds. This is why I came to save you, I’ll show you the way even if I have to force this lies out of your heads!”

She tried to stole the ponies’ Cutie Marks and destroy them on the spot as she did with ours back on the day. But this time something stopped her. A black shield made of shadows as strong as Shining Armor’s.

It was Commander Flash Sentry. Looking back at what happened, she was not shocked at all by seeing a pegasus doin’ magic. Maybe she have heard about the Knights of Silence.

“What are you doing pegasus? Back off and accept Equality!”

Flash Sentry was about to say somethin’ to the mare but he went silent and moved away as the Great Master walked toward Glimmer. Everypony bowed to the Great Master as she bravely faced Glimmer.

“Greetings Starlight Glimmer.”

“Who are you?”

“Somepony like you. Somepony who fights for equality. I am the Great Master of the Knights of the Silence.”

Glimmer looked at her with anger.

“Oh yes the Great Master! You better than anypony should know I do this for everypony’s sake. Come on, try Equality!”

Starlight Glimmer tried to take the Great Master’s Cutie Mark but she easily blocked the spell with her power.

“We share a goal Starlight Glimmer. But our ways are different. I make everypony equal not by weaken them but by make them all equally strong! Education is for everypony.”

“I’ve heard about you and your little group. You may believe that your way is the way of equality but in the end…”

“In the end everypony is offered the same opportunities to develop their own talents. I do not make them weak and put them below me. I help them to reach my level and beyond! This is what true equality means!”

Glimmer attacked the Great Master again, but she fused in her shadow and appeared right before Glimmer. A’ yelled in excitement when I saw her kicking that bitch in the jaw! Glimmer shot more magic beams but the Great Master simply went back inside her shadow and disappeared.

More ponies joined the fight sending magic beams to Glimmer. Black beams with all the power of shadows.

“What is this?!”

“This is twhat happens when everypony is given the same chances. Everypony in Canterlot is as strong as I am! You have no power here Starlight Glimmer. This territory belongs to our Knights!”

“All of these ponies are your knights?”

“Not my Knights. Only the ponies who I’ve given the same chances I had. You are surrounded by my students. Everypony that I’ve made equally strong. You have no power here.”

Starlight lost her crap and started to shot magic beams but none of her attacks affected the ponies. They joined to create a shadow force-fiel.

Suddenly her own shadow bucked her in the jaw.

“Eyes on your opponent. Always.”

“You cannot do this! I am as strong as my convictions!”

“This is why you’re weak.”

Starlight lost her crap even more and continued attacking randomly trying to get Starlight. But the Great Master was more powerful than her and she had the whole city at her side.

In a matter of seconds the bitch escaped as everypony was still shooting magic beams at her. Back on the day A’ kinda’ wished one of them actually hit them but A’ guess we were lucky. Otherwise we would not be able to kill her the way we did. Ah, A’ still remember how great it was.

But back on that day the girls and A’ decided we could not stay any longer in Canterlot. Without our Cutie Marks we would not be able to be strong enough’ to defeat Glimmer. If we wanted to defeat the fucking bitch we had to find another way to become strong.

And we did a few years later. We found the book that sealed our destinies. The Bearers of Harmony were no more. From that day we became the Undead Knights. Forever.

Author's Note

And here’s another chapter. The wording is a little weird but the idea is to make it sound as a diary full of random thoughts. So I hope you liked the memories of Jack the Reaper.

Read ya’ later!!