A meek voice rang through the cold winter wasteland. "What is... going on?" Groggily the body began to lift itself with a mane untamed and drooping as it rose but in response, the creature felt piercing pain and aching joints. "Ah!" The voice yelped in pain, feeling like shards of glass had pierced what he barely understood was happening.

The body began to slowly push itself through the pain as it began to breathe shallow breaths, slowly regaining a rhythm of breathing before opening its eyes.

The light had been too much for the body to handle all at once and forced the eyes to shut in compensation, slowly he began to open them. Squinting to reduce the light but drinking in more and more of the surroundings. "Where-" It turned around to view the surroundings to find nothing but a cold desolate snow desert.

"I-" it caught its voice, as it began to process the area and its unfamiliar voice it looked downwards, and a huge smile formed.

The area, the cold harsh weather, the resonating pain that was like being struck through a building. I looked down to see what I thought I had seen, hooves, black hooves like charcoal covered in some kind of armor around my hooves. The scenario, the new body I was within...

I looked at the vast empty cold harsh weather on the endless trek of snow. "My God, it's Equestria. My parents, my co-workers. I'll never see any of them again...."

"Yes!" Excitement flowed through my body as a huge sense of gratitude oozed over me. "I did it! I got in! Yes, yes yes YES!"

I've never had more buyers' delight than I had now, what seemed like a dream was now a bright reality that I was slowly taking in with all my delight. A fresh new start! In my favorite show! I was gushing inside but slowly my excitement mellowed down only for me to realize how much my body ached. Maybe the changing of consciousness affected the spell? Or maybe this character I was in was just lost... The idea made me move my head to take in the snow field. Lost? In a blizzard, huh that uh, that doesn't sound very promising. But! If it's a side character then it really shouldn't matter!

I'm here! I'm in Equestria with all my loveable characters and stories with so much lore that I could fill a whole book with! Wait, that's a...GREAT IDEA! Yeah yeah, I can make a book of my experiences, relish the deal and make the most out of it. I am so smart.

As I tried to lift myself with my hooves I realized two very bad things. One. I was failing miserably at keeping my balance and Two. I uh, don't know who I am," I frowned but shook the feeling off. In hindsight, it doesn't matter, some sprinkles of good brownie points, some praising, friendship problem-solving, and I'm basically absolved of all sins.

Heh, wow this deal is the easiest! Once a year comes around and Discord comes to check on my good behavior, I'll be practically as saintly as Fluttershy in this world's terms of good, free to roam the world as I please.

One year to turn around someone's name? I chuckled, shaking my head from all the worry and anxiety I had before. I mean come on, could this be any easier?

I lifted my front right hoof then my left, it felt weird having stumps as legs to hold yourself up but, it dem the breaks I guess.

But as I lifted myself over multiple trials and errors I felt a chill in my spine, not from the cold, no I was out here for a while, it felt... different.

As I looked in front of me I heard flapping behind me, at first, it was distant but began to get closer and closer. I felt myself freeze at the moment, I saw a figures outline in the shadow it was making in front of me. But then I saw its wings and relief washed over me, it was a pegasus of course! A lost pony in a blizzard of the Crystal Empire, of course, someone would go looking for me!

I chuckled as I turned to my savior, "You know you had me scared for a second I thought you were an" As I finished my rotation my voice got caught in the middle of my sentence as I saw a familiar rainbow maned mare. "-animal..."

I couldn't contain a smile slowly approaching my face, the first pony I meet is THE RAINBOW DASH!

But before I could say anything, her eyes widened and flew off at high speeds I hadn't seen in cars.

I was mostly at a loss for words before I heard the crackling of where Rainbow was, particles of purple light began to form before briefly vibrating and shining as if one event had just ignited a keg of powder. And just as a powder it exploded with vibrant purple light with a rush of wind pushing onto me, I had to close my eyes to cover my senses but just as quick as it started it didn't even linger for half a second. While the light was bright I could see six figures slowly fade into light as the particles slowly disappeared.

As the light slowly dampened in its velocity and as it slowly became clearer and clearer to see the figures, I saw what I wanted from the start, along with a familiar rainbow theme pegasus I saw the rest of the gang, with Twilight having a purple hue left in her horn giving me a good idea who had started the small display in their place.

I smiled like a maniac, all the important ponies were here! I could be friends with them while I turn over this "new leaf" for this background character! Killing two birds with one stone and more!

Hair strands began to intervene with my vision of my idols and I quickly tried to blow it away, "Guys!" But when I finally got a look-in at what was on their faces, it was as if all ranged from shock to amazement with open eyes and mouths.

Twilight was the first to speak, with no wings I knew I wasn't past season 3. She spoke in amazement, "It's- it's really King Sombra-." Her voice became quiet and trembled.

What?

"King Sombra? Where?" As I turned to look behind me I caught something in my vision, at the bottom corner of my eye I saw a cape, tattered and ripped but a red crimson cape that faded slowly into black at the end. With white fluff surrounding what was left of the actual material, it was as if a blade had cut the cape diagonally in a perfect, clean half.

My mind recoiled at it all, the deal made with Discord, the wasteland near Crystal Empire, the sudden surprise and appearance of Rainbow Dash, and the others. The aching in my body, the coat color- I. Am. Sombra.

Twilight eventually found her ground and took a small hesitant step forward, "King Sombra! As Celestia's Student, I'm here to stop you here and now!" She began to take a fighting pose and so did her friends.

"I-" The words were stuck in my throat, they couldn't know who I was- it was part of the deal...

"Let's clobber this guy!" Rainbow bumped her hooves together before immediately flying towards me with hooves out.

"Rainbow, no!"

As my heart quickened and my eyes shot open, seeing Rainbow quickly close the distance between us, I slowly felt intangible. When I heard the speed of her flight from where I was I had closed my eyes in wait for her body to collide with mine to strike me with pain. But as I heard the impact I heard her yelp and groan in pain but I felt nothing. I opened my eyes to see my body disappear, with no traces except a black smoke surrounding where I once was.

My eyes widened as I realized what had happened, "I just phased into smoke." I gaped at the revelation as if a flight or fight response had occurred, even without knowing how to use Sombra's abilities, I had used his signature phasing ability.

Twilight was in shock with the others, but I saw an opportunity to take my leave as Rainbow recovered.

The purple pony yelled out, "Don't let him escape!"

As I moved and solidified without command I saw a shadow over me to look up to find a yellow lasso. As I tried to sidestep away I saw a rainbow already by my side, "You're not going anywhere!" I got pushed towards the lasso and yanked away towards the Applejack.

As I got pulled along I tried to quickly activate whatever sort of fight or flight accident that caused me to phase out but nothing was working!

This was starting to piss me off! First I get the worst person to inhabit and then I have to fight off the main six?!

"Watch out Applejack! He's about to use his magic!"

I stopped to look up at my horn to see it bubble with purple and green with black coursing and pulsating with streaks in zig zags like lightning. It was the same kind of effect that Sombra used when he attacked!

"How did-"

"Stay back! I got him!"

"Rainbow, no!

I turned to see Rainbow charging at me, and without thinking I phased again.

As she passes me a look of disbelief and annoyance was all along her face. When I heard the thud I solidified without command, I quickly realized I was out of the rope but turned to see the gang quickly recovering.

Rainbow snarled in protest, "Agh, I hate when he does that!" She hit the snow with her hooves like a child in a tantrum.

I ran but from the sound behind me, it didn't take much to realize they were already on my trail.

The blizzard felt as if it was becoming harsher and wild as the snow blazed around me and my pursuers. The snow began to become thicker in smoke and fog, I turned to see Twilight holding a light in her horn to keep some kind of viewable distance but slowly I began to gain more distance as the snow slowed them down. Just as I was about to lose them a rainbow streak began to whizz by me and stopped a few feet in front of me before turning around to hit me before I could react.

As we rolled in the snow I used my hind legs to kick her off and launched her away. But as I slowed down I felt a sudden inclination in the ground going down. As I picked myself up I saw what I feared, inches away was a canyon of deep ice that seemed bottomless.

"Shit" I cursed under my breath.

As I turned I saw the main six stopping only a few feet away from me. "Surrender King Sombra! There's nowhere to go!"

They began to slowly approach me with Twilight leading the charge. I took one hoof back but felt the half-empty space with a small rock being pushed into the endless abyss. Readying their bodies, they had their walking in unison. I couldn't do anything! This situation was going from bad to worse and I couldn't do shit but watch!

Twilight backed off a bit only lighting up her horn, "Stay back girls! He's readying a spell!"

Looking up I found the same result as before but what was causing it? My frustration was getting bigger and bigger and I was becoming more and more furious with the inability to do anything!

As I was clouded with anger I quickly realized Twilight had put up a shield and very slowly pushed forward.

I grinded my teeth, this wasn't how things were supposed to happen! This was supposed to be easy! More and more my anger built. I slowly realized the brightness of my horn was building up, I looked up to see it was going wild with black lightning and oozing purple and green. Anger.

That was the key to it! Anger! Of course, the built-up of frustration was making my horn activate and the episode where the main six was going to the Crystal Empire for the first time revealed that black magic was incited by anger!

It all made sense! I lifted a smile, and for once in this whole horrible situation, I found a win! I laughed, I genuinely, heartedly laughed. It was all so simple! Anger led to his magic and since I now knew the power I could easily take them down!

But the winter became more wild and strong and I had to shut my eyes in response, it became wild and unreasonably stronger. As I tried to get a view of the main six I saw them only doing the same I was with Rainbow slowly readying her wings with one final push she flew towards me.

But just as I was preparing for the hit the storm wrapped around my vision. I closed my eyes waiting for the collision but seconds seemed to drag on to minutes. I cautiously opened my eyes to find myself in a forest, I was thrown off by the sudden change in the environment before I heard a click of a tongue behind me.

As I turned I found a spectral ghost of a certain Draconequus with one eyebrow raised and a look of slight shock but amusement on his lips.

He chuckled before uttering a single sentence. "I'm glad my guess wasn't wrong."

Author's Note

Yes yes I know, "A new story? Really?" And while yes not a good idea, I want these concepts out of my head. And I'd like to mention this is still very much a side hobby for me. But if you're that invested in my works there is a discord server I have now, you can keep track of Offical Artwork (Well official as it gets), progress on stories and more!

I know you've probably seen this and honestly I'll shill my server one more time before I stop.