The Pale City was seemingly empty, rubbish bounced along the streets. I leapt back as what I assumed was a human leapt off the roof. It’s head was connected to a long neck, it’s arms and legs were short. It’s jaw was overly large full of sharp protruding teeth. It’s eyes were shrunken, it sniffed as if trying to find my scent.

I leapt at the horrid human, turning it into dust with a single punch. I shivered knowing I had touched it’s disgusting face. The sound of gunfire interrupted me, as a man with a machine gun for a head and long bony elongated limbs chased me. I started to run, I was not sure how well my body would stand up to bullets.

As I ran through the streets I could see Televisions everywhere, a giant ten foot mutated humanoid leapt off a roof. It’s muscular frame smashed through a brick wall, I was sick of this shit. I took to the skies firing a ball of solar power blowing them all up. I saw the Black Tower in the distance, I flew towards it at speed.

I was stopped as a tall thin man, wearing a top hat and full suit glitched into existence before me. It spoke “I am Thin Man, guardian of the Black Tower. Turn back now or else I will be forced to act.” I formed a ball of fire throwing it at him, he glitched out of the way. He then teleported in front of me, he punched me in the jaw sending me flying backwards. I couldn’t track him as he glitched around me.

I closed my eyes drawing on the full might of Discord for the first time, I created a supernova compressed to the size of a basketball in my hand and threw it towards the tower. He teleported in front of it, taking the hit. I gritted my teeth as he stood up unscathed. He is powered by something built to counter Discord’s might, we rushed at each other, his punches and mine sending out powerful shockwaves. I created hundred of mini-galaxies flinging them at him.

He glitched a bunch of mini-galaxies into existence countering mine. He raised his hand “You stand no chance against me.” He duplicated himself into thousands of copies, was the tower’s power truly limitless. I focused creating thousands of copies of myself, our copies clashed in the skies around. Explosions of mini-galaxies and Supernovas clashing as the two of us stared each other down.

I panted as he glared at me “You are too dangerous to be allowed to live.” I was not going to lose to him, I focused every last inch of my power into one single attack. It was larger than the tower itself, even when I compressed it. I fired it towards the tower, the Thin Man desperately tried to stop the attack but the force was too great even for him. My vision started to blur before all turned black.

I opened my eyes to see myself in a bed, Midnight was smiling at me. Her scarred face was pretty, I groaned “Where am I?”

She smiled sadly “We are in one of the abandoned homes, with the Black Tower destroyed all who were twisted by it’s power have now passed on. Freed from the twisted influence at long last. That power though, it was felt across the whole planet. Your power is so great that it was capable of annihilating the tower to nothing.”

I frowned “How long have I been out.”

She frowned “A month, your body was so drained of energy I surprised you survived.”

I groaned “Daybreaker is going to kill me, I better get back to Equestria before she get any madder.” With that Midnight and I walked through the streets of the Pale City, the sun’s light now hitting it at long last.” We boarded the maw, it was now empty save us and the gnomes who ran around the ship keeping it running.

Thankfully the corpses on the ship provided plenty of sustenance for my ravenous hunger. When had disembarked from the Maw. We were greeted by guards carrying firearms, they let us through. I had finally arrived back in Canterlot.

Daybreaker was silent. I smiled “This is Midnight. She helped me while I was out there.”

Daybreaker turned to the guards “Escort Midnight to one of the guest rooms.” She smiled at Midnight as the guards escorted her into the castle, she then turned to me coldly. She then teleported us to my room. She shouted at me “Where the fuck have you been! We had a separate attack after you left and then dissapeared for a month without even a word of where you went! Discord even lost contact with you!”

I sighed “I’m sorry, I had to use all my power to defeat something that gave me a lot of trouble I could have died against this being. I only survived because I destroyed the source of their power, it was what caused that massive explosion.”

Daybreaker growled “Don’t do that again or there will be trouble! I won’t be left to take care of everything unless you tell me before you leave and maintain regular contact with me! We had a Griffon Assault on the border that cost the lives of so many ponies and I had to handle it because you weren’t there!”

I nodded “I understand, I’m sorry for putting you in that position Daybreaker. I have been too focused on what was in front of me. I’ll take full responsibility and take actions for my mistakes. I won’t intentionally leave for more than twenty-four hours without checking in.”

Day breaker nodded “Good, now note we have got basic firearms on every officer. As for you, you will be training with General Armour. He will benefit greatly from fighting an individual of your power. With his skill in combat, you won’t have to worry about going out to handle big threats as often.” I nodded, I wanted to train with him. Maybe I could focus on the politics more and let the general handle combat.

Author's Note

I hope you enjoyed this chapter.