The Punishment of the Villains

Sombra rolled onto his back, and let out a long sigh, curling his legs onto his belly. He had been in the woods for hours now, and hoped no-pony would remove him from his paradise just yet. Unfortunately, that is just what happened. A beam of blue magic shot out from the bushes next to him, and he slammed against a tree with a loud grunt.

"What the-" He was cut off when Luna popped out of the bushes, and shot at him again. "HEY!"

He rolled to the side, the spell narrowly missing his side-burn, and stood, preparing to blast her with a spell. This turned into a hold battle.

"Why...are you out of your cell?" He demanded, perspiration rolling down his face.

Luna gritted her teeth. "Twas the magic of friendship that aided us you fool."

Sombra gasped as the rest of the captives jumped out of various bushes, and surrounded him. His magic faltered, and Luna overwhelmed him quickly. He smacked against the ground, his crown flying into the creek. He rubbed his head, and tried to stand, but she shot him again.

"We told you you will not prevail." Luna huffed, towering over him.

He eyed her angrily, and lit his horn, ready to use a spell to call his subjects for help. Celestia shot him in the face before he could cast it though, and his horn turned off abruptly..

"What do we do now?" Pinkie asked.

"Well, we tie him up." Celestia decided. "And keep him with us."

She nodded at Apple Jack, who pulled out three ropes.

"Hey no!" He cried in protest as she began to bind him. He kicked and squirmed restlessly, making it a whole lot harder.

Apple Jack managed to get one coil of rope around his legs, and began to tie the second one around his muzzle.

"Whoa Nellie!" She cried as his fangs snapped at her furiously.

"Outrageous!" He cried. "I am a king and I shall be treated like one! I am one with kingship and kingship is one with me-hey ow! Stop!"

Apple Jack shoved a hoof full of grass into his mouth to shut him up, then put the third coil of rope into her hat. "Guess this can be a spare then." She told Celestia. The alicorn nodded, and looked back to the umbrum who was spitting grass out of his mouth.

"I think we might need it." She replied, floating him up into the air.

As soon as he was close to her, he unfolded his wings and slapped her across the face as hard as he could. Celestia grunted, stumbling for a short minute. Luna glowered at him, and grabbed his wings with her magic, making them dissolve into particles.

Sombra snorted angrily at the mares, and looked away, finally accepting his fate.

"Ma'am, It's been three days since their escape, I can assure you that they are long gone by know." A drone buzzed to Cozy.

"Your MAJESTY to you. And what about Sombra? He's been missing for three days also. I bet he freed them."

Chrysalis shook her head and gasped. "Sombra would never!"

"Oh ya?"

"Ya."

The two remaining villains sat in the throne room, two of the thrones empty, a horrible symbol of their near defeat, and the absence of the second. Chrysalis bit back the urge to cry out, the heart wrenching thought of her lover being missing, and her child dead, along with one of her only friends. She stood, and nodded to a guard.

"I am trying again. When was the last time we saw Sombra?"

"Uhh....He was flying towards Mellow Woods." Cozy pipped up.

"Why didn't you tell me this earlier?" Chrysalis snarled quietly.

"I just remembered."

"And how did you know this?"

"I was flying back to the palace, and he just flew past me without a word. He barely even looked at me. It was really weird."

"I have another question, why are you all healed?"

"I found the Crystal Heart, and it healed me."

"What? Where is it now?!"

"In...my room...."

"You idiot! The shadow ponies are weakened by it. Give it to me now!"

"You just want to suck the love out of it."

"It probably has no love in it by now! Smash it."

"But-"

"It had better be gone by the time I return."

Before Cozy could protest anymore, Chrysalis flew out of the room in search of her mate, and the captives.

"So what is the next plan ya'll?" Apple Jack asked.

The group of ponies where circled around a small campfire, except for Sombra, who sat by a tree, glowering angrily at them. The sun set slowly behind them, Celestia barely paying attention to her work as she comped on a hoof full of roasted moss and leaves.

"Well, we use Sombra for blackmail. If they want him enough, they have to give up their thrones, and go back into their prisons." The Sun Monarch decided.

"There's no way they would do that!" Rainbow retorted.

Apple Jack glared at her friend, and smacked her across the head with her hat. "Rainbow! Show some respect!" She hissed.

"Or maybe we can get Sombra to tell us their plans through the means of torture!" Pinkie suggested, a wicked and teasing smile playing up her lips.

"NO!" Twilight cried. "Pinkie, what the hell?!"

Luna smirked at the unicorn. "I'm all for it. Remember what he did to us?"

Rainbow raised her hoof. "I second it!"

Pinkie shrugged. "I was just kidding, but okay, I'm in!"

The rest of them gawked at the three with horror. "What has gotten into you?" Twilight demanded. "If we torment him, we are no better than him!"

"Revenge is aloud as long as it is fair, and seeing how he so nearly killed half of us, I think revenge is perfect." Luna stated, tossing her flowy mane.

"I agree." Fluttershy blurted.

The ponies looked at her with wonder. "Fluttershy?" Twilight said in bewilderment.

"I agree. I think Sombra should get tormented for hurting me, Pinkie, all of us. I say we torment him until he tells us the plans he shared with Chrysalis, Cozy Glow and Tirek."

She stood, and glared at the umbrum, hatred for him igniting with a burning passion.

Rainbow was the first to speak. "That's four to four. Whose next?"

Celestia let out a long sigh, and looked down at the mossy floor. "Very well. But his blood is not on my hooves."

Luna nodded, and the four mares looked over to Sombra. "You gonna make this easy chump?" Rainbow demanded. "Or do we have to do this the hard way?"

Sombra snorted, and smacked his tail onto the ground to show his displeasure. "I refuse to tell you what is in store for you. If you need to be a tyrant, so be it. I would rather die than submit you a spunky foal."

"Sombra?" Chrysalis called, scanning the Mellow Woods from above the treetops. "Are you still here?"

She spotted a puff of smoke up ahead, and flapped her wings harder. 'Is that you?' She prayed.

Glancing down, she spotted vibrant colors from among the bushes. 'The mane 6?' She circled the smoke, and landed not to far from the campsite.

Sure enough, eight ponies and one dragon were dotted around a small fire. Chrysalis sneered, and hunched down to the ground, morphing into a squirrel.

"Sombra!" She squeaked with relief when she spotted him. To any-one who heard her, it was random chattering.

She rushed over, and placed a gentle paw onto his side. His brilliant red cape was torn, and blood stained the ground One of his iron boots lay nearby. She grimaced, and nuzzled him.

Sombra groaned, and jerked away from her, kicking gently in his sleep. Luna turned and eyed the stallion with a hatred that angered Chrysalis to no end. She bounded over to the ponies and dragon, and slammed her hind paw into Luna's hoof. The alicorn glanced down to see a squirrel stomping up and down, shaking a fist, and throwing kicks at her.

"Fluttershy? A squirrel is...beating me up." She said in disbelief.

Fluttershy looked at the tiny brown creature, and blushed. "Oh my, that is some powerful language there. She seems upset that we hurt Sombra."

Luna eyed the squirrel with suspicion. "Sounds awfully suspicious..." She moved away from the rodent, and sat onto a log.

"Chrysalis?" Cozy called out from above the ponies.

The changeling cringed, and glanced up to see Cozy glaring down at the mares. "There you are you little brats!" She swooped down, and snarled.

Chrysalis summoned her essence, and it eloped her, turning her back to her true form. "How dare you!" She bellowed, nodding her head towards Sombra.

"You!" Luna growled, spreading out her wings and igniting her horn. "Of course it would make sense that a squirrel would be so furious about such a tyrant's near demise!"

Cozy Glow glanced at Sombra and gasped. "YOU KILLED HIM TOO?!" A couple of birds shot out of various trees. She grabbed a stick.

"We tortured him." Luna replied with a simple ease. "For matters you do not need to know about."

"I am sick and tired of having to fight you repeatedly! I should've finished the job sooner, so that Tirek would maybe still be alive!" Chrysalis choked back a sob, and lit her horn, her essence growing more powerful by the second.

"I agree!" Cozy snarled. "This. Ends. Now."