I looked down at my phone in sadness my life had gone to shit in less than a week. My family had died on our yearly trip to Florida when our plane crashed but luckily or unluckily I survived mostly intact if you didn’t count the fact that I now possessed custom slightly illegal robotic limbs I was able to purchase due to the fact that I had accumulated a lot of wealth after my family’s death. They were illegal only because they were military-grade limbs and not the civilian grade. Due to this, I had to have extra cybernetic parts put into my body in order to have full control over my new limbs. These cybernetic implants connected the mechanical limbs to my brain through a specialized low-grade AI. I also now possessed a bionic spine as mine had been damaged but not destroyed in the plane crash. I was actually considering replacing my eyes but had decided to wait.

I had found something rather interesting on the internet called the power lottery but it wasn’t the money kind of lottery but more for superpowers. I decided to give it a go and tapped the button thrice and waited for the powers to load all the while my brain began to feel an odd fuzzy sensation as if the world was fading out of reality. As this happened my cybernetics began sending my brain warnings which the dumb AI translated.

“So let’s see what I got,” I said to myself holding my head as I read out loud. “Darkness Attacks, Crystal Manipulation, and Technomagic,” I looked up as my vision started to fade and placed my phone back in my pocket. “What the fuck?” I said as everything went black and I felt as if I was pulled through the air at incredible speeds and then suddenly I felt cold snow against my face.

I quickly got up finding myself in a blizzard happy for the long sweatpants and hoodie I was wearing, not that they helped my arms or legs. Despite the fact that I was wearing warm clothing the cold still stabbed at my flesh on my face like needles that were so cold they burned like fire. I looked around the surrounding area only to see something tall in the distance, a blueish spire surrounded by a black haze. Despite the evil black haze I moved towards the tower as it was the only structure I could see and it could possibly have some form of shelter.

It had been a while since I started and I had finally reached the spire and what looked like a town made of crystal surrounding it. The town looked deserted and I would have thought so had I not seen the large eyes looking out of windows at me as I walked towards the spire which still had that black haze swirling around the tip of it. As I walked I had noticed several bipedal crystalline constructs following me. They were large ugly things without any care put into their construction; they looked like a child had super glued rocks together in the rough form of a person. Still, if they were to become hostile I’d want to keep out of their reach as one hit from the massive club arms they possessed would crush my chest. So I didn’t pay them much attention and finished my walk into the spire which for some reason felt amazingly warm despite the fact that there were multiple open windows. As I walked the constructs seemed to herd me down specific halls until I reached a large throne room Its only occupant a bipedal equine who seemed to be the same color as the haze that surrounded the tip of the spire.

“Bow before your king peasant,” it said.

“Um no,” I responded, causing it to whip its head up and look up at me with a growl.

“You will bow or I will kill you!”

“I highly doubt you can do that,” I said, noticing his lack of weaponry not to mention the fact that he lacked armor of any kind.

“Oh I won’t be doing anything,” he said with a smile showing off his sharp teeth which like his slitted eyes definitely weren't normal as they glowed with an odd off white shine.

“Thump thump thump...WHAM!” I stepped aside just in time to avoid one of the crystal constructs smashing me.

“Fuck!” I dodged backward as the thing followed swinging its unwieldy club arm around trying to hit me. I would have been fine until my back hit a wall and I looked up at the large club falling towards me. In a last-ditch attempt at survival, I brought my mechanical arms up to block only to hear a crunching sound but did not feel the mental warnings of my loss of arms. Instead, as I opened my eyes I saw a wall of black crystal blocking the attacking construct.

“You can control the crystal as well?” shouted the equine in a voice that was just as surprised as I was but then I thought back to before I had fallen into the snow and remembered my rolled powers. I thrust my right hand forward thinking of my darkness attacks and a blast of black energy exploded outwards destroying the crystal wall and the construct behind it. I stared at my hand and smiled, which was something I had not done since the crash, meaning that I probably looked insane as I had almost forgotten how to smile.

“I can do much more than that ponyboy,” I chuckled as the other three constructs began to close in. “Let me show you,” I said as I thrust my left hand into the air causing a black crystal spike to impale one of the crystal constructs. I then let out two beams of energy with my hands punching holes through the other constructs and slowly turned to the throne where the equine sat shocked until it’s shock turned to rage.

“Fine I’ll do it myself!” he stated loudly his body becoming shadowy as a large bipedal construct formed and mixed with the shadows. This construct was unlike the others and looked like a living statue of crystal with stylish war armor, massive black crystal wings, a large horn on its equine head, and at its sides two large swords.

“Well this oughta be fun,” I muttered at a whip of black smokey energy lashed from the horn cutting a jagged scar into the floor as the eight-foot monster stomped after me swinging its large blades uncoordinatedly like a child trying to imitate a knight in a storybook. This guy was definitely not a hands-on fighter but somehow either through my ego getting the better of me or through luck, he managed to clip my left arm getting his blade lodged in it and snapped in half leaving a large crystal in my arm. “Shit gotta take this seriously.”

“Ha bow and I shall make your death quick mortal!” it roared as I once again dodged after managing to dislodge the blade from my arm. As I dodged I saw multiple other equines staring through the large door and watching the battle yay I was their version of TV. Well best to give a good show I smiled and lit a ball of black energy in my right hand while my left dangled with minimum functionality at my side. I stood tall in front of the construct and stared it in its glowing white eyes which leaked energy that flickered like flames.

“May I have the honor of knowing my opponent before we end this?” I asked slowly, planning out my attack while simultaneously checking the damage to my cybernetics.

“I am King Sombra ruler of The Crystal Empire!” He announced loudly.

“Nice to meet you I’m Jekyll,” I said before attacking. I first shot spikes of crystal into the thighs of the construct pinning it in place so as to have an easier target. I then raised my hand up it was now coated in darkness and then I snapped my metal fingers. The darkness exploded into action surrounding Sombra in a vortex of darkness which slowly tore away at his crystalline body the sound of the swirling vortex mingling with his inhuman screams as what I guessed was his soul was destroyed. The vortex did not dissipate until Sombra was nothing but a single floating black crystal which was quickly encased in another of my crystals stopping Sombra from escaping. I smiled as I fell to my knees out of breath and tired with my left arm finally falling off at just above the elbow and hitting the ground just as I passed out from exerting myself by using my new abilities.

Author's Note

So I started a new story after quite a long absence hope ya'll like it lemme know in the comments what ya think.