Author's Note

I'll explain my inconsistent speech writing style with Med Kit with him having Depersonalization disorder. Losing his touch with reality sometimes he narrates his own actions and sometimes he doesn't.

Chapter 5: Father

King Sombra throws objects around the throne room in pure frustration using his magic. By the end, it looked like a hurricane had gone through the large room.

"How have my slave army not found the gem that is LITERALLY radiating malice from the strongest dark magic in Equus?! It was RIGHT HERE in Canterlot! I had the Alicorn amulet my HOOVES! It fell only briefly!" King Sombra growled.

Seeing as there is not much left to destroy he takes his anger out on one of his enslaved guards blasting them with his dark Umbrum magic that peeled away their flesh for a few seconds before leaving behind a pile of bones.

"Hahaha. Oh that was entertaining. A fine use for a common slave. Now hold on a minute! I think I got it!"

He trots over to Celestia's formal throne and sits on it with a hoof supporting the side of his face as he thinks back during his fight with the two alicorn sisters.

"When it fell, the closest pony to it was.... Oh. Clever colt. HAHAHAHA! But foolish nonetheless! I'll retrieve it from your corpse!" Sombra thinks to himself. "GUARDS!"

An entire battalion gathers at his command mindlessly obedient.

Sombra uses his magic to destroy the stained glass mural of the Mane Six and remake it into the image of Med Kit.

"Find this colt and bring him to me dead or alive." Sombra demands and just as they came Sombra's slave army trots off to do his will. "Even if you are alive foolish colt, you won't last long. Only somepony who embraced Dark magic can handle the corruption from what you stole."

Back at Med Kit

"Med Kit, we are going. We are leaving Equestria," Solar Star said to Med Kit despite his earlier statement about fighting Sombra.

What? I... Don't understand... My dad said were going to stay and fight. I... Don't get it.

"Sigh.... I was a captain of the royal guard of the Day guard... My duty was to Equestria.... To the Princesses.... But... Most importantly... To you. But now Equestria is burning, Princesses are dead, and the six mare heroes are gone... But You... You were the only thing left for me to fight for... When I heard you were in the district that was attacked.... I swore I would butcher that son of a Umbrum."

... Is that... Possible? To... Leave Equestria? COWARD......What's wrong with me... Dad is not a coward... I... Might not be his little colt if I keep changing... I'm sorry Equestria.... I just want to be with my papa...

Their ears perk up and they can hear the sound of lots of hoof steps.

"DAMN IT! They shouldn't be this aggressive! FUCK!!!" curses his father under his breath.

Solar Star picks up Med Kit and puts him onto his back. He hopes the rest of the resistance troops can buy them time but the moment Sombra's enslaved army sees the colt they ignore the resistance entirely and chase after them.

"W-WHAT?! Why are they all after me?!" Solar Star shouts before stopping.

.... No.... My father is going to fight.... He'll die... They.... Are after me..... We'll both die.... shuts eyes Please.... Grant me the strength to run....

Med Kit's heart pounded as a surge of energy crackled through him, igniting a painful, unstoppable transformation. His legs quivered, muscles bulging and sinews snapping before reforming into powerful, sinewy limbs. Hooves split and reshaped into sharp claws. His spine bristled, dark fur thickening protectively as his tail elongated, providing newfound agility and balance. Despite the searing agony of each change, his determination to escape overpowered his fear. Med Kit leaped forward, his newly formed body propelling him, each stride fueled by a primal need for freedom. He easily jumped up on a roof to evade them planning for them to come after him and leave his father alone

All the determination drains from Solar Star's face, "What.... A Changeling Spy...?"

Solar Storm drops his weapon and drops to the ground with tears rolling down his face. Med Kit looks back and sees the face of his father. It suddenly dawns on him that there truly is no "monster" in Canterlot coming after him. He was the monster. And his father no longer could see him for his own colt. He wanted to scream and beg and explain, but he could only roar in anguish when he heard a crunch. He looks down and sees that they had beheaded his father who they thought was aiding his escape.

Med Kit starts to cry tears of black ichor as he sees his father’s lifeless body. A silent scream tore from his throat, and his body began to tremble, surging with a feral rage. His transformation was instant, his form swelling with monstrous power as he launched himself into the midst of King Sombra’s battalion.

His claws slashed through the air, ripping through armor, flesh, and bone with barbaric force. Soldiers fell around him, their cries of pain and terror drowned out by the thunderous force of Med Kit's assault. He moved like a shadow, swift and relentless, each strike fueled by his unyielding grief and wrath.

As he tore through the ranks, his eyes locked onto each target with a predator's focus, his newfound strength and agility making him an unstoppable force. Med Kit had cursed his silence when all he wanted to do was to scream. And scream he did. Med Kit's scream was more deafening than any war cry and ruptured the eardrums of all the ponies nearby, a haunting testament to the depth of his pain. With every soldier he felled, the ground was stained with the blood of those who had taken his father from him and yet it wasn't enough. Never enough, and Med Kit fought on, driven by the indomitable will to avenge. He could not feel the spears piercing his hide nor the bleeding from the slashes.

The fight would end with all of them dead, but to Med Kit, all he could do was just make a monstrous wail that would make anypony shiver. Eventually, anger gave way to sorrow and slowly his monstrous form would be undone and all he could do was hug his father's body.

"What art thou Med Kit?" asked the voice in his head that sounded like Luna.

"A Monster"...

"Perhaps. But thou hath the power to make thy will achieved. Thou perhaps knowth not the power of Grogar. But perhaps thou has heard of Nightmare Moon. Thy inner monologue and narration irritates me. Speak plainly in thy mind for thou were born mute, not brain dead."

"I lost my father... I would give up anything for Nightmare Moon's power if it would bring him back...." Med Kit replies mentally.

"REJOICE! For all the eternal night shall last FOREVER. Thou hath collected Luna's horn. Nightmare Moon was Luna's shadow. A shadow given life through the magic of Grogar's gem which we used in the alicorn amulet. I art Luna's Shadow-"

"SHUT UP! I DON'T CARE ABOUT YOUR STUPID BACKSTORY! I JUST WANT MY DAD!!!" he screams mentally trying to ignore the voice and grieve.

"Thou art a child... If thou dies then Luna's/my remaining existence is forever erased. I shall help thou. If thou wants thy father back. Will it to be so. A pony's soul remains in the body for a short time. I'll put up with "

I stopped. I realized now that... this fragment of Luna was helping me. keeping in check the evil corruption. All those Transformations were extreme reactions to my will without control...

Med Kit spoke mentally trying to activate the power intentionally, "This time... I know what I want... I want my father back... I DEMAND THIS POWER TO GIVE ME BACK MY FATHER!"

Med Kit could see his father's soul. He picked up up with his little hooves. He could feel the warmth of his father. His father could feel his pained soul. He needed a vessel. With guidance from the voice, he ripped off the shadows of everything nearby and cut his own hoof causing him to bleed black ichor as the final ingredient. Solar Star appeared as a black, tall, and lanky, form that had tendrils forming from all over, and vaguely resembled an equine with a pony's skull for a head with giant antler. But in Med Kit's eyes. He didn't see a monster. He saw his father.

It reaches out and hugs him holding him close and to its chest like how his father used to do before he was captain of the day royal guards. Med Kit lets himself be taken as he feels tired from the use of the highest and most powerful kind of dark magic multiple times. It cries black Ichor. It didn't see Med Kit as a monster. It was its colt. It loved him. It had doubted him when he was a pony and as a father it was ashamed for making Med Kit feel abandoned. It made him feel like a monster. And so... It would accept it's new form. A monster form for a monster father who dared to think their own child was a monster. It didn't want to run away now. It will be the best father...