Author's Note

Song is not mine, only made slight changes to the lyrics to match my story. Mlp characters belong to Hasbro. OCs (Diego and Logo) are mine.

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Buying. Falling.

Buying. Falling.

All these people. So many costumes. It SERIOUSLY sucks that I couldn't afford one this time. Oh well, at least I got in. Hey, I wonder if Tex is still selling RvB merch? The stuff people sell here is awesome! Is that a Buster sword? Cool!
As I look around at the booths and cosplayers, I see something that draws my eye. A large booth full of merchandise, in the form of stickers. Hundreds and hundreds of stickers. All of different fandoms and characters.

I walk up to the booth to see a human UnderFresh Sans. White face paint, multicoloured hat, YO-LO sunglasses and everything.
Haven't seen this guy before. Must be new. I think.

"Heya Fresh." I say, waving at him.

"Hey. Logo's the name, actually." He replies in a deepish baritone voice.
Logo? Guess that makes sense, more than half of these stickers are logos.

"Cool name. So, how much is one of these?" I ask, pointing at the array of stickers.

"Depends." Logo responds.

"On what?"

"What's your name?" He asks.
My name? What does that have to do with anything?

"My name's Diego. Diego Logis." I say. Logo hears this and smiles, almost creepily.

"Ah ha. My employer said I should sell you this." Logo then takes a step back from his table to reach under it. He pulls out a 30cm tall figurine.

It looks awesome!
Is this some sort of Voltron figurine?!
In front of me stands a 30cm tall, white figurine, appearance almost a exact copy of the Voltron robot from Voltron Legendary Defender, except that the colour is completely white with some shades of light cyan thrown in, the pauldron on its right arm is missing, it has a tail like a Voltron lion, the hands and feet of it look like actual hands and boots and, instead of the crest-like chest plate that Voltron has, it has what seems to be a Bayard port with the two divots where the Bayard would slot into on it's chest. All my previous thoughts are miraculously forgotten as I look at this figurine.
Whoa! This is so cool! Is that a white Bayard in his hand? Cool!

"Whoa. What is this?"

"An OC my employer made. And you can have it for ten bucks." Logo says. I hand him the ten dollars and take the creation. "Have fun." Logo says as I walk away.

Cool. I've got a cool new…
Why did I buy thi-?

It was Equestria's darkest hour.

Nightmare Moon had returned.

Twilight Sparkle, Celestia's greatest student, had failed. The Elements of Harmony were destroyed and Nightmare Moon had brought forth eternal night. As Twilight sat there, she tried to think of a way to win. A way to bring back her precious teacher that she loved and vanquish the evil that had taken her away. But she couldn't. She couldn't win. Not alone.

But she wasn't alone. She had her friends. She could hear them searching for her. And in that moment, she knew a way to beat Nightmare. She knew-

And then a white meteor fell through the ceiling.

{One minute earlier}

It's interesting. Falling unconscious. I've never been knocked out before. All though what's even weirder is I don't know what knocked me out. One second, I'm buying a toy for some reason, the next, I'm falling through the night sky.

Did I mention that I'm falling through the sky? I don't think I did.

Welp. I'm falling through the sky. I don't know how I suddenly ended up 2km in the sky at night but I did. And now I'm about to crash through the ceiling of some ruins.

There was this one video I saw where a guy said "the people who don't want to go skydiving, are the ones who should go skydiving".

He was dead wrong. And I'm not saying that because I don't have a parachute. As I fell through the air, I noticed something. My body was different. Instead of the pinkish flesh and clothes I knew before, my body was a white full exoskeleton.

Translation: I was a full body suit of armour now. I couldn't even feel the wind whipping past me or the, I assume, chilly night air. I was so confused by everything that was happening, I hadn't noticed that I'd arrived at my destination of the roof of a derelict hall. Painlessly smashing through it, I landed on and broke a marble floor. I heard a scream next to me as I did. Literally pulling my head out of the ground, I look up to see a girl with light purple coloured skin and a curved horn pointing up from her head. She appears to be wearing mostly purple shaded clothes. She is looking at me with wide eyes.

~~Hi~~. I try to say but no sound comes out my mouth. I now realize that I don't have a mouth anymore. I hear an intimidating female voice directly behind me.

"You there. Who are you?" I hear. I turn around to see a large woman with very dark blue skin, a long horn similar to the girl behind me, wearing regal clothes and wings spread from her back. "I asked you a question. Who are you?!" She repeats.

~~If I could answer your question, I would but I can't.~~ I try to say, again making no sound.

"Well? Speak!" The woman shouts. My shoulders sag in exasperation as I try to show that I can't talk. After a few motions, she seems to realize what I mean. "You cannot speak? No matter, step aside." She says, her horn now glowing.

~~The heck is that? Wait, step aside?~~ I look behind myself to see the purple girl cowering.
She wants to shoot her? ~~Well she's gonna have to go through me!~~ I stand my ground against the woman.

"You're protecting her? Hmm. It seems we have a hero in our midst. Ha!" She says, ending her sentence with a shot of energy from her horn, straight at me. I raise my arms to block. The shot hits me.

And I barely feel a thing. If I still had an organic face, I would have raised an eyebrow. I lower my arms and look at the woman.
Really?

"What?! How did you- arg!" She shoots me again, this time with a larger blast. It hits me in the chest, stinging very slightly.

~~Ow?~~ I look down to see my chest smoking, the blast having hit the Bayard port in the center. ~~Guess that's a bit of a weak spot. Still didn't really hurt though.~~

"How are you doing that?! My spells can rend the lands!" The woman shouts.

~~Then those are some weak lands.~~ I decide to run at her, bringing my fist up to punch her. She dodges by flying into the air.
Guess those wings work. How am I- A surge on my thigh draws my attention. Jets on my legs flare to life, sending me into the roof.
Oh. I became that thing I bought. Well, let's see what I can do! Pulling my head from the roof, I charge at the woman. Unfortunately, because of me not being used to my flight, I just crash into the ground.

"Ah!" The purple girl shouts next to me. "Watch out!" She yells.

~~I'm trying! Huh?~~ I feel something bounce off my armour. I now see that the dark blue woman tried to dropkick me. Her hit hurt her leg more than it hurt me.

"Agh! What is that armour made of?!" The woman yells, nursing her leg. She then starts taking shots at the girl and me. I shield the girl with my body. The woman's magic has no effect but I do feel a shift of weight near my butt.

I then hear a wall explode. Looking behind myself as I stand up, I see the end of my tail glowing.
I have a tail? Oh right, I have a tail. Wait, shouldn't I have the Bayard too? I look around to see if maybe it fell somewhere. In my searching, my hand comes near three lines on the jet by my thigh. With a small flash, I'm now holding the white Bayard.
Coo-
Engage.
The woman goes for another barrage. Diego holds up the Bayard, a massive white energy shield forms in front of the Bayard, completely blocking the attack.

"What?!" The woman shouts. Suddenly, the Bayard glows white as the energy shield disappears. The Bayard now sports a glowing white blade on its front, like a Katar blade. The woman and girl look in awe of the transformation. Diego holds up the blade and squeezes the handle, sending the blade forward on a tether. The woman yelps in shock as she dodges to the side in midair.

"How dare you make me utter such a pitif-"

Diego yanks the Bayard to the side, pulling back the blade, straight into the woman's hip.

"Ah!" The woman shouts as the blade shocks her with white electricity. Caught off guard by the shock, she almost falls to the ground. Diego seizes this opportunity by expertly flying behind her and pinning her to the ground, pressing the retracted blade into her back to shock her. She yells in pain but still struggles, almost turning her head to look at her attacker, slowly charging her horn to try to defend herself. Diego, seeing that his weapon isn't working as he expected, changes it into a new form, the blade now slightly split in the middle to form almost a claw shape. Diego presses the blade against her again, this time making her entire body spasm with electricity. After a second,he stops, the woman now unconscious.
Disengage.
Ah! Huh? I'm back? I think, finally being able to move freely again. ~~Yes!~~ I raise my arms, happy to be in control again as the white Bayard disappears.

"You… you did it. You won!" The girl shouts.

"Twilight!" We both hear a faint voice.

"Rarity? Girls, I'm here!" Twilight shouts. More shouting is heard as five other girls enter the hall. They all see Twilight and jump, shouting.

"Twilight!" As the six multi-coloured girls hug, one with butter yellow skin sees me and squeaks, alerting the others. Four of the six girls stand up, standing between me and the purple and yellow girls. One girl with wings, cyan skin and hair coloured like a rainbow, flies up to me and points at my face.

"Who are you?!" She shouts.

"Rainbow!" Twilight yells at her friend, getting between her and me. "He's not gonna hurt us, he beat Nightmare Moon!" All of Twilight's friends gasp at this.

"What? How?" Rainbow asks, still hovering in the air.

"I'm not exactly sure. He can fly, his armour is really strong and he had this thing that shocked Nightmare." All of Twilight's friends gasp again except for Rainbow.

"He can fly? How? Those wings barely look real!" Rainbow yells, pointing at my back. I look at my back and see the wings she means. She's right. They look more like pieces of metal stuck to my back than wings.

"He didn't use those. He used the things on his legs." Twilight explains, pointing at the jets on the sides of my legs. To prove her point, I start flying up and touch the roof. The five girls gape in awe at my display.

"Wait, what's this thing on the ground?" One of Twilight's friends, one with light pink skin and poofy pink hair asks. All of Twilight's friends now look down and see the unconscious body of Nightmare Moon. Seeing this, the five of them all scream.

"SHHHHH!" Twilight shushes loudly, making her friends quiet down.

"Whoa. What happened to her?" Rainbow asks quietly.

"He managed to pin her to the ground and shock her." Twilight says, pointing at me as I land.

"He did that? Wow, such a gentleman~" One girl with marble white skin and cut curled blue hair says, giving me a lidded stare.

"Rarity. You just met and you don't know his name. What would your prince charming say if he saw you right now?" Twilight says to her friend. Rarity blushes in embarrassment and looks away. "I thought so. Now, we need to restrain Nightmare Moon." Twilight says, her horn glowing as a purple net of energy covers Nightmare. "There. Double encoded magic nullifying net. That should hold her."

"Uh… Twilight?" The yellow girl asks meekly. "Where are the Elements of Harmony?"

"Uhh… Nightmare…" Twilight trails off. "Nightmare Moon shattered them." Twilight's friends gasp. "But I think I can restore them!" Twilight quickly interjects. "We just need to work together." Twilight walks up to one of her friends. "Applejack. You reassured me when I was in doubt." All of a sudden, grey shards of stone on the ground start glowing, all in different colours. A few orange glowing shards circle Applejack.

"You represent the Element of: honesty." Twilight then turns to Fluttershy.
"Fluttershy. You tamed a Manticore with your compassion." More shards begin moving, the ones circling Fluttershy glowing pink.

"You represent the Element of: kindness." Twilight then turns to her pink friend.
"Pinkie Pie. You banished fear by giggling in the face of danger." Cyan shards then begin to circle Pinkie Pie as Twilight says.

"You represent the Element of: laughter." Twilight turns to Rarity.
"Rarity. You calmed a sorrowful serpent with a meaningful gift." Purple shards circle Rarity as she smiles at her friend.

"You represent the Element of: generosity."
Finally, Twilight turns to Rainbow.
"And Rainbow Dash. You could not abandon your friends for your own heart's desires." Red shards circle Rainbow Dash as she hovers in the air.

"You represent the Element of: loyalty." All of Twilight's friends smile at her.

…Before looking down as they hear a pained voice say.

"You foolish children. You still don't have the sixth Element. Without it, they are all worthless." Nightmare Moon says as she struggles against her bindings. "Your spark didn't work."

"But it did. A different kind of spark." Twilight turns to face her friends. "I felt it the moment I realized how happy I was to hear you all, searching for me. It made me realize how much I cared about you. It ignited the spark inside me, when I realized that you all…" Twilight turns to look at Nightmare Moon, standing proud. "…Are my friends!" Above all of us, a white light shined. It came from a round stone with a six point star indent floating in the air. The stone floated down to Twilight as she kept speaking.

"You see Nightmare Moon, when these Elements are ignited by the… the spark, that resides in us all, it creates the sixth Element. The Element of… Magic!" The stone glows brighter, blinding Nightmare Moon as Twilight and her friends close their eyes, all of them lifting into the air. The stone and all the shards form together, making jeweled necklaces for Twilight's friends and a tiara for Twilight. As the six of them float in the air, pure energy flows off of them, merging together to form two spiral rainbows above them. The rainbows unite, rushing down straight at Nightmare. She screams in terror as she is bathed in colours. Twilight opens her eyes, white light shining from within before all the magic around them disappears.

As I help the six of them get up from the ground, I see that the sun is rising outside.
Huh. Odd time for the… hey wait a minute!

~~How is the sun rising so fast?! It looked like it was midnight three seconds ago!~~ A bright yellow flash interrupts me as I hear footsteps coming from the window. Twilight gasps as the light dies down, revealing a tall woman with slightly off-white coloured skin, multi-coloured hair, wings and a horn, wearing white drapes.

"Princess!" Twilight shouts as she runs up to the woman, hugging her around the neck, tightly. "I thought I lost you." Twilight says, tears flowing down her face.

"Don't worry, my little Sparkle, I'm fine." The princess says. "Now, on to another matter." She says, looking down at the ground. The seven of us follow her gaze to see a ball of blue magic floating above the ground, a white crescent moon on one side. The princess separates from Twilight, picking it up and holding it with reverence.

"Princess, what is that?" Rarity asks.

"This is my sister." She replies. All the girls gasp loudly. They all start rapidly asking her questions before getting silenced by Twilight.

"Wait! Is this the secret you've been keeping all these years? Your sister?" Twilight asks.

"Yes. My sister." The princess says. "And the greatest mistake I've ever made." Again, the girls gasp.

"W-what do you mean? What mistake?" Fluttershy asks shyly.

"Nightmare Moon." Twilight says. "Your sister is Nightmare Moon." Twilight's friends gape in shock.

"Almost. My sister became Nightmare Moon… because of my ignorance and neglect. Let me tell you a story… from one thousand years ago." The princess looks out the window, at the sun as she begins singing. "♪Once did a princess who shone like the sun, look out on her kingdom and sigh~
She smiled and said "Surely there is no-one so lovely and so well beloved as I~
So great was her reign, so brilliant her glory, that long was the shadow she cast~
Which fell dark upon the young sister she loved and grew only darker as days and nights passed~
Soon did that princess take notice that others did not give her sister her due~
And neither had she loved her as she deserved. She watched as her sisters unhappiness grew~
But such is the way of the limelight, it sweetly takes hold of the mind of its host~
And that foolish princess did nothing to stop the destruction of one who had needed her most~♪" The princess almost looks to be in a trance as she keeps singing.

"♪Lullay moon princess, goodnight sister mine. Rest now in moonlight's embrace. Bear up my lullaby, winds of the earth. Through cloud and through sky and through space~
Carry the peace and the coolness of night. And carry my sorrow in kind~
Luna, you're loved so much more than you know. May troubles be far from your mind~
And forgive me for being so blind~♪" The princess finishes her song, crying in earnest and clutching the magic orb to her chest. She looks at us, still crying and says. "That is the story… of my greatest regret. The day I lost my sister… to my own carelessness." The orb begins to glow, slipping through the princess' fingers and becoming almost liquid in form before solidifying into a tallish but young looking woman with blue skin and short blue hair.

"Do you mean it?" She asks. "Do you really mean what you say, sister?" The princess steps forward.

"Every word, Luna. Every. Single. Word. From the depths of my h-heart." It is at this point, the princess gets choked up. Luna steps forward and gives her sister a hug around her chest.

"I believe you. And I forgive you, Celestia." Luna says as she pulls away.

"T-thank you, Luna. T-thank you s-so m-much!" Celestia then begins crying much more and tightly hugging her sister.

"Your welcome, sister. Your welcome." Luna says. Luna then sees the seven of us all looking at the two siblings. "Ah. I don't believe we've been properly introduced. Hello everyone. My name is Princess Luna. What are yours?" She asks.

"H-hello princess. My name is Twilight Sparkle. I'm Celestia's personal student." Twilight says.

"Her student? Since when have you taught someone, Tia?" Luna asks, looking at her sister who smiles sheepishly. "Weren't you always the one who had to retake classes because of your small attention span? And now you have a student? My my. How times have… changed." Luna then begins to look downcast.

"Well it's nice to meet you princess. My name is Pinkamena Diane Pie! But everyone just calls me Pinkie Pie. I'm a baker at Sugarcube Corner." Pinkie says, het chipper tune making Luna smile.

"And Ah'm Applejack. Ah work at Sweet Apple Acres in Walkerville." Applejack says.

"My name is Rarity. I run the Carousel Boutique, also in Walkerville." Rarity introduces herself.

"U-uhmm. M-my n-name is F-fluttershy and… I-I work as a… animal caretaker i-in my cottage. Also in Walkerville." Fluttershy shyly says. Next, Rainbow speaks, hovering into the air.

"And I'm Rainbow Dash! Fastest Flier in Fantasia, Walkerville weather controller and future Wonderbolt!" All Twilight's friends introduce themselves.

~~My name's Diego. Although you don't know that because you can't hear me. Huuugh.~~ I say, my shoulders sagging as I 'sigh'.

"And what is your na… why are you sagging like that?" Princess Celestia asks.

"Sister, I do not believe he can speak." Luna says. I nod, motioning that I don't have a mouth.

"Well that is just wrong!" Pinkie shouts. "How are you supposed to sing? Or ask people questions? Or eat?! Can you even eat?!" She yells. I shrug my shoulders.

"Isn't there something you can do, princess? Er- princesses?" Rarity asks. Celestia looks pensive and walks closer to me.

"Hmm. I don't see any exposed flesh or any kind of seams anywhere. Can you take off the armour?" Celestia asks.
I don't think so. This doesn't feel like something I'm wearing… it feels like my skin but numb. I decide to check and reach up to the back of my head where it meets the neck. Grabbing hold, I try and pull like I'm taking off a helmet but nothing gives. Pulling harder, I only notice a small sting below my head, like my skin is stretching. Must be the metal. Looking up, I shake my head.

"Hmmmm. Perhaps an armour removal spell?" Luna suggests. I shrug and take a step back, letting her do her magic. Luna's horn glows in a bright blue colour before that glow appears on my body. Luna grunts in exertion but stops after a couple seconds. "Either that isn't armour, or it's too tightly fit to remove."

~~I'm gonna guess not armour.~~

"Well there has to be some way we can help him? Wait, you are a him, right?" Pinkie asks. I nod at her questions before a random idea comes to me. Raising a finger, I say.

~~Writing!~~ Bending down, I begin using my finger to write in the dirt.

"What's he doing?" Rainbow asks.

"Wait… I think he's writing!" Twilight yells before reading. "My name… is… Di…eg…o. Diego. Oh! His name is Diego!" Twilight says. "Wait, he's writing something else. Diego… Lo…gis? Logis? Is that your full name? Diego Logis?" Twilight asks. I nod. "Well, it's nice to meet you, Diego." Twilight says, holding her hand out. I shake her hand before looking down.
«Where am-» My writing is cut off by a large explosion in the distance.

"That came from Fantasia!" Celestia yells.

"What?!" Twilight and her friends yell.

"Fantasia?! Isn't that the new capital?!" Luna asks frantically.

"Yes! We need to go! Now!" Celestia says. "Everyone, gather round. I'll teleport us." She says. I step forward, putting my hand on her shoulder. "Diego? Do you want to help?" She asks. I nod, clenching my fist in preparation.

"Good. We will need all the help we can get." Luna says.

"All right. Here we go!" Celestia shouts, teleporting us all.
Here we go.