As the Human took a walked towards Ponyvile he was unknowingly being stalked by three pony's covered by various trees and greenery.

"Should we strike it down now?" A white Unicorn asked

"No our orders are to watch and observe" Responded a Thestrial

"Oh Come on we should kill it before it empowers Hatred's army even more!" shout whispered a Orange Pegasus

"And that is the reasons we are just observing instead of making a rash decision lest you forget the whole reason Hatred has come to power." replied the Thestrial with barely contained malice. With the lack of a response from the Orange one the three began to watch the Human enter Ponyvile.

Gregory's POV

As I walked into the clearing I saw the town of Ponyvile but it looked ransacked and ever more importantly abandoned.

"Hello anyone here" I called out to the ghost town looking at how there appeared to be pockmarks that dotted the land and black stain marks that looked frighteningly like blood splatter. it was until I passed a long, weathered, trenchlike crater that I heard a noise rang out. I was confused at the sound because it was a metallic whirring sound that did not belong in a place like equestria and was coming from behind a building. I stood still as soon as I saw that the thing making that sound was a Arachnotron from Doom. I continued to stay there as I saw that it had finally had noticed me in its gaze. It inspected me for about five seconds before it hissed at me and started to charge its main weapon in which I ran. I felt a blast from behind me as I tried to find some shelter. I booked it towards the building that was the least destroyed and jumped through a empty space where a window would have been. I continued to sprint through the desecrated house as I heard the Arachnotron burst through the walls like they weren't even there. I ran out of the building and as soon as the demon passed through the building I heard it power up it's cannon again, I prepared my self mentally for the burst of air and heat but it never came as instead I heard the sound of glass shattering. I took a chance to turn around and saw that the monster was now on fire with a Orange Pegasus that looked similar and a midnight blue Thestrial. The Thestrial soon flew up to me.

"Follow me you want to live!" She said and I did what was asked. We ran away from the town and back towards the Everfree where a white Unicorn with a red cross waited for us. The Unicorn then cast a spell and nodded her head at which we continued to go deeper into the forest. We kept our pace even as the Pegasus rejoined our group. The journey continued like this until we got to a seemingly random place at which the Thestrial stomped her hoof in a rhythmic fashion and waited until the ground suddenly popped open. We then traveled into a cramped tunnel system. It was then I decided to finally speak.

"Uh hey thanks for saving me." I said to the group and got no response from so I decided that they didn't want to speak right now and I began thinking on what has happened so far.

Luna's POV

I walked in the hallway that led to Celestia's room with my head in the clouds. I Ran through multiple scenarios on how I could of stopped Hatred's vicious war upon Ponykind. Maybe I could visited him in his dreams or even better done it in person, maybe I could have joined my sister in fighting the Monster in what was once Jason, or I could have even told her that the reason Jason gained these new powers was because of my Nightmare But I didn't get to go down that oh so familiar rabbit hole of self hatred as I walked up to a pure white door with a symbol of the sun that marked Celestia's bedroom.

"Tia can I come in" I said as I knocked on the door.

"mmm" came the half hearted reply from the room. I assumed that meant come in so I opened the door and saw my sister doing her daily routine of staring at the roof. If the fact that Perfect Hatred was my fault made weep in guilt then Celestia made my tears look like a small leak in a thousand hoof tall dam. At first she would lie there and cry but her tears had dried up years ago and now all she had was an empty look in her eyes that tore at my heart every time I dared glance at them.

"I have reports from the door guards that the anomaly we felt was indeed a Human and that he is not aligned with ....his agenda." I said and noticed how her eyes a a brief but oh so reassuring spark that gave me hope for the future. "But I am debating with my self on what to do when the Human arrives and wanted to know your opinion."

"Have the Penitent One assess him." my sister said and with a nod I left to her to ruminate on herself.

Gregory's POV

We continued in silence until we arrived at what looks like a turn at which the Thestrial once again rhythmically pounded her hoof on the wall, in which like before the door opened but this time it opened a much more spacious gathering hall that had another wall at the end and another hallway that split off to right and led to a big set of steel doors. As we made our through the door I saw for the first time a general populace. The town that we had walked into was made up of tents as far as the eye can see, which surrounded a two story building made into the rock. I didn't know what I expected when I walked into the impromptu refugee camp but it was not looks of rage from every pony I saw. I was afraid that some would act out on that feeling as we walked but alas it seems that the group that had saved me was doing so once again for once the anypony's eyes fell on the entourage their looked away and grumbled. that continued until we got to the two story building. The doors opened to a busy library but all sound stopped once we entered the building. I had expected to see those hate filled glares again and while those still existed I could see a couple of faces that were full of regret and shame. We walked past them and up a flight of stair and at the end the stair I saw Twilight for the first time. I gasped as I saw that she wore a white porcelain mask and that right above her eyes was a bloodied cross.

"What happened to you?!" I blurted out before I could stop myself and Twilight looked at me. In her I eyes I could not see the hatred or even the rare bouts of shame but instead I saw a deep sadness.

"Let me tell you a story. it begins with a simple action as most story's go but one that has doomed the entire Pony race. A Unicorn mare that in a rejection of everything she was taught rejected a person that was only looking for friendship and thought nothing more of it." Twilight closed her eyes and continued on.

"but the town seeing this thought the person was monster and in turn treated it with hatred when all he wanted was someone to lend a hoof." she turned back to stare at me and started up again.

"And so as any creature when faced with overwhelming hatred he broke and tried to end his life, But whether by divine providence or by karma he was taken before he commit the act. A week pasted and the same creature wearing a set of armor bathed in white and gold. The pony who was once a Unicorn, but now a Alicorn and her friends gathered to stop this threat. That threat with all the Hatred that it had gathered had turned that hate unto its original sources. The One who tortured the being with cold Lightning had been stabbed and tossed away like the villain she was, the one who had led him in with false promises only to strike him down and witnessed the would be final moments of the person had her deceitful hoofs broken, and the one who had created the angel of vengeance was dragged across the land and given a monument to her heretical denial of all she believed in."

I stood there shocked as I tried to process what she had said but she was not finished yet. "But the two rulers of the land had came because they were called by the Heretic but they were too late as the being fled. But while the three that had been torn down lay bleeding the one who broke her vow of kindness ran along with the spirit of chaos from the anger of the Celestials. The one that represented went to chase the specter of Hatred while the one the held dominion carried the three to the hospital, but the being was clever and had tricked the Sun into showing him the gate to hell and he gladly took the opportunity and so he remained for a year.

She stopped and got up to approach me. "During the year Heretical Generosity and the torturer Loyalty became devout in her hatred of the being and so learned nothing. The Liar and witness of fruits bourn rejected all of her once friends and for once told the truth to all who could hear and once the liar was recovered cut her mark for she realized she had committed a sin against the very thing she stood for. The Heretic Alicorn was set to follow the example of The torturer and the so called Generosity and relish in the heresy of it all, but the truth of The Liar opened the doors in which the Sun had blown it wide open to the horrendous truth. So the heretic had spent the rest of the year in exile to learn reflect on the truth but the angel was not gone.

She walked closer to me but when she got half way there she sat back down and hung her head. "The angel had spent all that time gathering forces from hell and on the exact day he tried to complete his promise that he had made on the day he tricked Sun .... and he succeeded but while he rode on a storm of justice that was rightly earned I realized that it did not just target those guilty but those who are innocent of our crime, so I decided then and there that to repent for my sins of heresy I must lead the ponies and create a new world free from the hate of the previous and in that promise I realized I must abandon the name Twilight Sparkle for she was injured on the day she closed the door and was finally slain when he began his revenge. From that day onward I would be known as the Penitent One. So you ask what happened to I say that the storm of Perfect Hatred is what happened to me, but my question onto you is will you help us?" she finally asked as I stood there processing all she had told me. I knew from the moment i saw the demon what my answer would be but this speech just solidified my determination to do the right thing.

"How can I help?" I asked taking a half step forward.

"Well we will need need the tree of harmony to make sure your intentions are good." she said as she walked the rest of the way to me and outstretched her hoof in which I gladly took and shook. "But I am certain that together we can end this cycle of--

VIOLENCE