All alone

Midnight felt his life slip away from him and he was met with nothing but darkness. He layed there injured and in pain unable to move even a single muscle. He failed to even speak but within his thought he ranted on and cursed.

"Dammit Dammit all" He thought "Where is my judgement i would rather burn then be here"

Slowly but surely the world around him began to glow and shine until the light was blinding him. The world took form shapes and colors flooded his vision. He found himself in a dark room strapped in tightly to a metal bed with a cushion like the ones used in hospitals.

He began to panic. He kicked and thrashed at the straps that held him down. Occasionally screaming in pain out into the dark void around him. He slowly began to calm down after his tactics were clearly not working. His limbs were on fire from the sudden outburst which left him out of energy and out of options.

He sat back and closed his eyes for a moment just to rest. He opened his eyes and gazed over toward on of the straps that help him down. They were made of iron normally easy for him to break off but after cheating death he didn't feel so righteous. What did he have to work with? He thought for a moment and realized.

"My magic!" Midnight exclaimed

His horn began to glow brightly but quickly began to fizzle out.

"No!" Midnight shouted

He doubled his efforts and his horn began to glow even brighter than before. He concentrated and using the better part of his slow withering willpower shot off the iron straps that restrained him. He slowly crawled his way out the cold uncomfortable bed and the moment his hooves made contact with the floor he fell over.

He heard gently tapping coming from above him. He easily determined that he was either in a building or underground. He heard banging and crashing. He heard screaming and banging that progressively got closer and grunts of pain that came at regular intervals and then stopped suddenly.

He heard a feminine scream and a crash against the wall across from him.

"Alright *cough* enough" He heard a familiar voice say "Take what you want and go"

"Hmmmmm" He heard another voice say definitely a male but not all that large he could tell by the pitch of his voice "I think you've forgotten who's boss"

"C'mon Striker be cool it doesn't need to..." The other voice said becoming increasingly familiar as he listened

"You need to learn your place Nightshade" A realization hit Midnight... Nightshade was alive and about to be in deep trouble.

He heard the grunts of pain and the crack of a bone or two. At this points his blood was close to boiling his eyes filled with anger. No not anger...anger is that emotion that you get when someone mocks or teases you. This was worse it was burning and feverish like love but at the same time dark cold and corrupt like anger. It was pure hatred. From the little light that was inside of the room he saw Nightshades blood.

One moment he was running towards the two voices barely being able to make out their shapes. He tackled one and heard a low grunt when it hit the floor. The next thing he knew he felt warm blood on his hooves and he was attacking the figure with a fury of punches.

The figure kicked him off and jumped at him. He dodged leftward and countered his attack with an uppercut to the head which sent him stumbling backwards. He then went of the offensive. He was like a demon some sort of savage rabies infected beast punching kicking and biting with his dagger sharp teeth.

He heard Striker shouting and felt him kicking. Midnight but into his throat and felt his blood pouring into his mouth. He didn't care that he was killing him. All he was thinking about was saving Nightshade's life and finding out why in the world he still had a heartbeat.

Slowly the kicking became less forceful and with a loud sudden crack Striker stopped moving all together.The world around him fell silent. For a moment all he heard was the sound of his own breathing.

"M...Midnight?" Nightshade asked

Midnight's head whipped around. He had been so busy fighting Striker that he forgot that Nightshade was lying there watching him.

"Nightshade" Midnight said. His voice came out harsh and threatening

He walked over to her.

"Are you alright?" he asked

"How did you?...How are you?" Nightshade said stumbling over every few words

"Crazy day huh?" Midnight said grinning offering to help her up

"You don't know the half of it" She said pulling herself up "Welcome back to land of the living killer" She said grinning

"How do we get out of here?" Midnight asked

"Up the stairs just over there" She said  taking the lead

Midnight followed her out of the dark room and up the stairs. he silently listened to the gentle tapping of her hooves. The stairs twist and turned until he could see a faint light. He ran towards it like a child running to his mother stumbling over a few times.

"Midnight wait!" he heard Nightshade yell but he didn't care all he wanted was to finally see the light of day.

He burst through the door to see the new world around him. He opened the door and he found everything to be strangely the same. Literally it looked like nothing had changed over the years. It seemed extremely odd and slightly unnerving. His mind started to slip away a bit as he was lost in a sea of his own thoughts.

"Suprising isn't it?" Nightshade asked

" Nothing's changed?" Midnight asked

"Not a thing" Nightshade said

"So what now?" Midnight asked

" Well we don't have any reinforcements they all...after the fight" She began

"Don't remind me"Midnight said staring at the ground

"Did...did they at least make it out alive?" Midnight asked

"Only about 100 out of the 10,000 that were there" Nightshade responded

"Were there..." Midnight paused control his emotions "...what about the little ones?"

"..." Nightshade refused to respond

" Motherfucker!" Midnight shouted as his few emotions began to take control of him

"That's not all" Nightshade begun "They came back to search for your body and since they didn't find a corpse the city is on high alert no chance of either of us getting in or getting back out"

"How can it get any worse?!" Midnight said

" Umm yeah well the thing is they have the Elements of Harmony looking for us?" She said

"We have to run" Midnight said

"No we've never ran from a fight and i'm not going to let you start now"

" Nightshade open your eyes!" Midnight shouted at her "we are out manned and out matched one step inside Canterlot will be a death sentence!"

"You're really funny Midnight" Nightshade said narrowing her eyes " You think they will get let us go? After all of the hell we raised? They won't stop they may find you if your stupid about it but not me. I don't want to die unlike somelings obviously!"

"Really you think you're living?" Midnight asked appalled " Running around, hiding, hitting them and then running for your life, simply hoping that they don't have someone stronger than you. You would be alive but you'd be living in fear and that's being alive not living its pathetic."

" Choose your next words really carefully. Midnight Fury who's side are you on? Your sister's or the side that tried to kill you?" Nightshade asked

"Whatever side isn't starting the fight" Midnight responded

"Then your no brother of mine" Nightshade said as she turned away

" Its time for us to part ways " Midnight said

"Fine by me"

"Maybe our paths will cross again"

"I hope not"

"Goodbye Nightshade"

"Goodbye Midnight"