The Escape of The Darkness

     As Jackie was walking up and out of the crystal caves, he had his left eye fixed on the vision of what Darkling was seeing, and what he was seeing was starting to make him think he was hallucinating...or high out of his mind.

"I mean seriously, freakin' PONIES for Christ's sake!" he exclaimed in disbelief at his situation.

Sure enough, Several pastel colored miniature ponies were fastened to the floor by what looked like some sort of resin. However, what caught Jackie's eye the most were the bug-pony things holding them as apparent prisoners. The ponies looked like they had come out of some little girl's cartoon show, with slightly over sized eyes and some had wings or horns, and from what he could see from the imp's vantage was that there were two significantly larger ponies cocooned on the ceiling that were dressed  in fancy jewelry and had both wings and horns.

'Must be some kinda royalty'  Jackie thought to himself as he started to emerge into what seemed like a medieval dungeon of some sort.

The insect ponies on the other hand were vastly different, looking like four-legged beetles or flies. Jackie immediately noticed a much more slender and authoritative looking insect-pony that he immediately assumed was the leader of them all, barking orders and taunting  his/her captives.

While Jackie was thinking to himself,The Darkness on the other hand, was giggling and chattering to itself like a kid going to bed on Christmas Eve "SO MUCH INNOCENCE, WE WILL FEAST UPON IT!!" It exclaimed excitedly.

Just as Jackie was about to reprimand the darkness for forgetting who was in charge, he saw something through the Darkling's vision that made his blood boil . One of the ponies on the floor, a rainbow- maned pegasus, from what he could see, was shouting in a tone of defiance and anger at the bug leader.He/She apparently didn't like what she was saying, so she nodded her head at a few drones towards the cyan pony. The bugs then viciously pounded on her until she apparently lost consciousness, the other ponies screaming in terror, concerned for her life.

Now if you know Jackie Estacado, then you know he hates many people with a passion. One of these are bullies and those who prey on the weaker out of arrogant spite. Ever since his horrible bully and pain filled childhood at the orphanage (save for meeting Jenny), he has beat the living shit out of anyone who tries to bully his friends. Most notably breaking every tooth in some prick's mouth for shoving Jenny(He had to  eat all his food with a straw for the rest of his life).

After the beating had stopped, the bug leader then proceed to do what Jackie described as, the most stereotypical evil villain monologue he had ever seen.  Jackie then looked at the beaten and battered ponies cowering on the floor when two caught his eye. A pink horn/wing pony was cuddling up next to a male looking white unicorn, and the two seemed like they were together romantically, the white one whispering words of confidence.  It reminded him of Him and Jenny, except this guy was actually doing something to protect the one he loved from harm, and he wouldn't let what happened to him, happen to these two. Jackie then decided immediately what he would do

" Those fucking bugs are gonna die"

"Hello"

Every living soul within the large throne room was looking at Jackie with an expression revealing some degree of fear, shock, or both. Jackie then had the Darkness use its' essence to block out all of the light from the windows like it had done when he slaughtered those guards in the hall, the aforementioned massacre clearly visible from behind the doorway. Jackie then took a few casual steps forward before stopping and locking eyes with the bug leader.

"Wh-wh-what a-are y-you, WHO are you! " the bug managed to stutter out (turning out to be female)  after a few seconds, regaining composure slightly.

"Jackie Estacado" He stated, bringing his guns out of his holsters and readying himself. " Human, mostly,and  the last thing you're gonna see before I dismember you piece by piece you overgrown dung beetle." He added, readying the powers of the darkness.

"You dare threaten ME!" the insect shouted, "CHANGELINGS bring me this monster's head, MAKE.HIM.SUFFER!" She screamed in rage at his words.

Over two hundred changelings then swarmed at Jackie, thirsty for blood and eager to kill for their queen's honor. But what they didn't expect was 'Jackie' being covered from head to toe almost completely by a dark, organic-looking armor that seemed as if it were made of muscle and dark energies, and a swarm of glowing green flies spat out by the demon heads meeting the changeling's charge head-on. They screamed as the flies burrowed, bit, and clawed at every exposed surface and orifice on their bodies before they dissipated, and then saw a sight that chilled their blood lust by a wide margin.  Jackie had picked a random drone and grabbed it with the left head, coiled the right  around its' body and burst through its chest like some sort of parasitic monster being born. To the changeling's horror, it appeared to heal minor scrapes and burns that were already present on its exposed face when it had arrived, the now VERY intimidating looking creature then said "Now, it gets fun"

Then the real slaughter began, they resumed their charge haphazardly but were forced to weave and bob as the two metal objects it was holding exploded over and over, bursting with a purple light, and blew apart changelings two or more at a time. At the same time, the right head was slicing through the changelings left and right, blood and organs being thrown around everywhere, and in between was feasting on their hearts and growing blades for a few seconds to tear through a few more. The left head was grabbing anything around it (chairs, bricks, and changelings) and throwing it at the swarm,which then promptly exploded in a shower of debris or gore, taking several changelings with it. The imp from before was also aiding "Jackie" as it had called itself, ripping into changelings with reckless abandon, laughing as it tore one's throat out, then urinated on its' fallen corpse. The changelings couldn't lay a single blow on it, as any that got near were either blown, sliced, or bashed apart. Suddenly, one sliced changeling glowed darkly for a second before a dark red and pulsating heart dropped from its body cavity,  a swirling dark mist surrounding it, at which the creature smirked at and picked up with one snake head.

'What is that'? Chrysalis thought, calling in 50 more drones to aid in the fight that she was quickly losing

"I love these things" Jackie said, smiling maliciously, gripping the black- hole heart. "Alright, just the drones, no one else" Jackie said to the darkness while pumping black energy into the heart.

"WHY, THEY SHOULD ALL DIE!" The darkness said, slightly irritated.

"Because I wanna look  this bitch in the eyes before I kill her"

To say that the ponies in the room were afraid would have been the most epic understatement in the history of the entire multiverse. Every single one of them was watching either pale with terror, or vomiting off to the side. Twilight being in the latter category (thankfully not much). She had been afraid before, being at the mercy of the changelings, and seeing Rainbow Dash (who had awoken shortly after the slaughter began) brutally beaten into unconsciousness by a group of drones had only made it worse, now this thing had appeared out of nowhere.

'What in tartarus IS that thing' She thought panicked and sickened, she had heard it call himself "Jackie", and a "Human", but gave no explanation as to why he had that twisted magic, and those two demon snakes protruding from his back tearing into changeling carapace. The human was slaughtering every changeling that swarmed at it,blood and ichor raining down all around(and on) the frightened ponies, the creature was an absolute whirlwind of death. The way it and that imp thing were killing, it seemed as if it was a game, or a  hobby to them, the creature for example laughing when he used the right snake to reach down a changeling's throat and tear it out violently, then blow apart two more simultaneously with his L-shaped weapons.

She then turned to her friends, Rainbow Dash was watching in  morbid fascination, her eyes unblinking and her jaw slack in disgust, terror, and awe, a mirror of Twilight's own expression. Applejack, Pinkie Pie, and Rarity were all semi- looking, shutting their eyes when he did something particularly ghoulish and messy, tears staining all three's faces. Cadance and Shining were on the same page as Dash and Twilight, Shining somehow becoming even whiter at the grisly spectacle, while Cadance huddled next to him for comfort and emotional stability. Fluttershy was taking it the worst of all, she was curled tightly into a ball , burrowing into her pink mane, and if Twilight didn't know better, from her shaking it looked like she was having a violent seizure.

Then she noticed a recently killed changeling had dropped something from its bisected carcass. It looked like a heart, except it was glowing red and a foul black mist permeated it, it gave off an unnatural aura that repulsed everypony in the room. Jackie became very excited when he noticed it, smirking deviously as one of the demon-snakes picked it up. Then something happened that no one in the room could have ever expected, or will ever forget.

"I love these things" it said, admiring the cursed heart while simultaneously ripping a changeling in half.

Chrysalis was getting scared, what was this thing that had this living death machine so happy?She got her answer a few moments later when the thing yelled "Catch" and tossed the red heart toward the swarm with one snake. When the heart landed, it exploded in a burst of foul energy and a yawning black abyss opened up in its place. Every single drone was sucked kicking and screaming into the abyss, their bodies vanishing into the blackness and spinning as if in a washing machine. After every single one had passed through, the portal collapsed on itself and a massive explosion of gore and bone shot out across the entire room.

The creature then cleaned the blood off of its two weapons then dismissed its dark armor to reveal its form. It then walked slowly, SLOWLY towards Chrysalis. She was frozen in utter terror, not five minutes ago, she was on the verge of victory, taking Equestria and feeding off of its love, then this,this THING, slaughtered over two hundred of her personal guardians, crack troops specifically bred to defend the queen. The creature then came face to face with her, a look of contempt and malice on its face, while the imp dissipated in a flash of dark purple smoke, chuckling.

It looked her in the eyes and said "I'm a man of my word bug" in a dark and slightly sadistic voice while bringing the snakes to bear

Suddenly, a growing sphere of light began to take shape to their right and they both turned to face it. The pink and white ponies whom he had seen together were somehow combining their powers (apparently the had magic or something) and were rising into the air. A few seconds later, a wave of energy pulsed outwards from them and made the bug queen go flying out through the balcony at an extremely fast speed, screaming.

"Whoa!" Jackie said as he stumbled backwards from the pulse, now noticing a mass of other changelings doing the same thing as the queen, the darkness retracting into him from the sheer amount of light.

The other ponies' bindings broke away and they all huddled together after a second or two and started to console each other, crying and hugging as they said words of comfort. Twenty five or so white coated ponies in Roman-esque armor then burst into the room, the pegasi ones flying up and cutting the two cocooned ponies still on the ceiling, while the rest attended to the others that had just broken free. The two larger ponies, after flying down to the ground,then immediately (alongside everyone else)turned to face Jackie, eyes full of fear .

The large white pony and the dark blue one had a good height above the others, but Jackie had a good 2 feet over the largest one in turn. The white one had large angelic wings, a large horn, and a flowing ethereal mane with a spectrum of pink, green, and blue mixed in. The smaller blue one had smaller, but generally the same features, save for the sparkling blue mane. On the white's flank was a picture of the sun, while the blue had an inky spot and a crescent moon.

Both of them looked at each other with looks of worry and whispered to each other before the big one addressed Jackie "Who are you?" she said nervously

"Jackie Estacado", he said looking around at the broken bodies littering the room before a dark voice reared its ugly head for all to hear, "MY VESSEL".