Chapter 3: The Truth

*Picking up from where we were previously*

Everypony gasped is horror to Twilight's theory fearing that she could be right. It would make sense, them being transparent, floating, King Sombra, and the crystal flash, it all summed up to Twilight's theory, they are in the past.

"I think your right Twah." whispered Applejack

Sombra and Shimmer started walked out the exit, which was where the gang was.

"Ahh!!! Here they come." exclaimed Pinkie Pie

Everypony didn't have time to hide, they thought they were doomed. Sombra and Shimmer walked through the entrance and turned towards the group of ponies, but oddly enough they just walked right through them like ghosts. Everypony was shocked what had happened, especially Rarity because nopony could see her fabulous, NOPONY. Everypony eye's were shot wide open and stared into the same direction with shock on their face, well except Pinkie Pie who just waved goodbye to Sombra and Shimmer.

"Wha...what just happened???" asked Fluttershy with a frightened expression.

"I don't know but I think Twilight's theory could be correct, we must be in the past but, we might just be witnessing the past, before King Sombra turned evil." said Cadence as everypony gasped in horror.

As soon as she said that, everything changed, literally they were all transported into a different scene, they were inside a crystal like cave and they found Sombra, and some guards venturing through what they think is the ruins. They all followed Sombra and his guards to see what was going on.

"King Sombra, So word on the streets says you got eyes on a pegasus." announced Private Mirror

"Heh, guess there's no use to hiding it, yes those rumors are true, she is as beautiful as the crystal heart, I do wish to express my feelings on day."

"Who's the lucky mare's name?" asked Sargent Glass

"I do believe her name was Jade, and she is the most beautiful pegasus I've ever seen, I will try to ask her to dance at the Crystal Ball."

Princess Cadence's ears perked up as soon as she herd the name Jade, Shining Armor looked at her, worried for his wife. "Uh. honey are you okay, you looked worried." said Shining Armor

"Well, that name, Jade, it sounds so familiar." said Cadence

"Well let's try not to worry about it, remember we are here to find out the truth."

"Right."

Sombra, his guards, and the ghost ponies stopped at what looks like a dead end. There in front of everypony was a massive door with old skeleton ponies, and strange hieroglyphs on the door.

"King Sombra, what are these strange hieroglyphics on the door, it doesn't look too familiar to me." said Captain Shimmer.

"Hmmm.....well....it's a bit vague but I think these are markings from Neighsia. Yes I think this is the language from the group of neighsans called the Neighhongo. I think if I can read this right, "Only the power of rulers may open the way". Alright so what I think is that only the ruler of the Empire may open it, still I think we may have already made a discovery, the Neighongo were first to inherit the Empire." Sombra explained

"Wow sir, that's amazing, how did you know how to read this language?" asked Sargent Glass

"Well when i was just a young colt, I had to learn almost everything, and since I was in royalty I had to learn almost every language there was, my tutors were trying to turn me into a Mare E. Sue, luckily I survived that royal pain in the flank." Sombra explained.

All the guards chuckled, as did Sombra. After their quick laugh Sombra got into a battle ready position and used his magic on the door, it was extremely heavy and hard to move, harder than defeating an ursam major. The door opened and Sombra collapsed to the ground gasping for air, the guards came to his aid.

"Sir are you okay? Are you hurt?" announced Shimmer

"Y-Yes, It took a lot of magic."

Again everything changed, the scene and scenario changed, our ghost ponies now found themselves in a black crystal room, inside they found that there was a black crystal version of the crystal heart, the ponies had also found King Sombra and his guards, though something was strange, they looked older.

Pinkie zoomed in to Sombra face and zoomed back to her friends. "Hey Twilight, why does Sombra look a lot older?" asked Pinkie

"Hmm I think we transported a few more years in the past." said Twilight.

King Sombra and his guards sat there and just stared at the black crystal heart.

"So King Sombra, It's been 3 years since you married Jade, when are you going to have a foal?" asked Shimmer

"Heh, well truth is, she just became pregnant." Sombra announced

Everypony, even the ghost ponies gasped in excitement at Sombra's news.

"So what are you going to name your foal, and what type is it?"

"Well we haven't decided on a name yet, and Jade recently got pregnant."

"King, I think we've finally found out how to break that barrier." announced Private Mirror.

"Barrier?" thought the ghost ponies.

"What is it Mirror?"

"Over here, I think it's more neighongo. Can you translate it sir?"

"I can try." said Sombra.

Sombra examined the language and came with a conclusion. "Only magic as black and as night may unleash it's heart." Sombra read. "Black magic? The only magic that is black I know is anger and despair.......Gaurds! Stand back, I'll need to do something dangerous." The guards nodded following his command and stood back. Sombra closed his eyes, his eyes became green, and had a dark purple aura, he then shot a dark beam of magic at the barrier which shattered to pieces. "All right, time to make contact with this black heart."

"Sir are you sure? It might be a trap."

"Well how else are we to discover it's wonder."

Sombra approached the black crystal heart with extreme caution. He slowly reached out his hoof towards the heart to make contact. With a single tap, the heart shattered into a million pieces.

Everypony just stared into the pile of dust, of what was now the black crystal heart. Nothing happened, no traps, nothing. "Well that was disappointiieuuuuuuuu..." Suddenly time stopped, Everything was black with lines of white inclines. Sombra was confused, he waved a hoof up close in front of Shimmer's face, no response. Not only could Sombra feel time stop, but the ghost ponies could witness time being frozen.

"Psssssssssst". A voice was heard, Sombra felt a chill on his back, he looked behind him, but all he could see was the entrance to the room.

"Heh....Over here my toy. Sombra looked over to the shattered heart, A black purple mist flowed out from the shattered heart, a crystal unicorn with a coat black as Luna's night and a black gray mane flowing up like fire appeared right before Sombra's eyes. Sombra readied a position and lit up his horn, eye glared at the black unicorn with daggers in his eyes. "My....Such a bad dent you are."

"WHO ARE YOU, IDENTIFY YOURSELF." Growled Sombra

"Heh, well...I know who you are King Sombra." Sombra became unsteady, he knew who he was. "Tch...but if you must know, the Neighongo called me Vex."

Vex snickered and galloped straight towards Sombra. He shattered into a millions of pieces like shattered glass and flew inside Sombra's nostrils, ears, and mouth. Sombra screamed in pain as Vex traveled throughout the inside Sombra's body. Sombra's was on the ground curled into a ball of pain. He opened his eyes, purple aura came of his eyes, his mane turned black, and his voice changed. "Yes. YES! This is the perfect toy for me." Vex had taken over Sombra.

Vex violently shook his head changing from dark to light.

"NO, YOU WILL NOT! CONTROL ME!!!"

"YES I WILL!"

"WHAT ARE YOU WILLING TO DO WITH ME! HUH!?"

"HA I WILL DESTROY YOUR REPUTATION!"

"NO!" Sombra was enraged, we didn't want his subjects to suffer, especially under his own hoof.

"YES. YES!!! SHOW ME ANGER!!!"

The color of the world came back, Sombra's guards regained consciousness. Captain Shimmer found Sombra maniacally laughing to himself. "King Sombra, are you okay?"

"Graagghh, crystals, crystal hearts!" Vex Sombra screamed as he summoned black crystal impaling all of the guards killing them.

"NOOOOOO!!!" Sombra screamed as he was trapped inside his own mind.

Twilight and her friends were horrified, this was the truth about King Sombra.

They were then transported to a different scene. They were in a hospital room, they found a lone pegasus mare holding a small foal in her hooves. She had a bright green coat and a grassy green mane. A doctor came inside to meet the mare.

"Ms. Jade Are you sure about this?"

"Yes, Sombra may be gone but I know he would want this." The patient known as Jade, who was also Sombra's wife had given the foal to the doctor. Cadence squinted her eyes, the foal looked familiar to her. As Jade was about to let go of her hooves she led out tears and said a few words.

"Goodbye Mi Amore Cadenza, always know that me and Sombra will always love you." She said as the doctor took the foal and brought the foal to a room that labeled Isolation chamber. The doctor walked inside and put the foal inside a chamber with a glass shielding. Before the doctor could close the chamber a loud shoat came from what sounded like corrupted Sombra.

"GRAAAAAAHHH!!!!!! CRYSTAL HEARTS!!!!!"

The doctor sighed and spoke to the foal. "Look kid, you should know I am against Equestrian law to do this, but you are our only hope against Vex. You should never forget about your parents, but you are. Sorry kid but it was addressed by your mother Jade and your father Sombra. Celestia and Luna would probably find you but you'll forget about your parents by then. Good luck kid." The doctor said as he closed the chamber and pressed a red button. The foal inside gave a long yawn and fell asleep, the chamber then began to freeze.

Sombra was banished, Jade was killed by Vex and the Princesses had triumphed Vex, or Sombra which is what they thought.

"Tia what about the empire, what will happen to it?" asked Luna

"We cannot do anything, the empire is going to freeze. The crystal ponies will be safe except one."

"One sister?"

"Yes, Queen Jade asked us to find a certain foal deep within the hospital, her name is Mi Amore Cadenza. She will be special like us, she is going to be a princess, as well as an alicorn."

A bright light flashed in front of Twilight and her friend's eyes. Twilight slowly opened her eyes, she found herself inside Sombra's private room inside the library. She found her friends also lying unconscious on the floor, she quickly looked under her and her friends, nopony was a ghost, thank Celestia. Eventually everypony awoke from the visions, Cadence's face was horrified from the last visions. Her husband came close to her hugged her, she cried all over his shoulder, she never realized that King Sombra was her father. Everypony gathered around her comforting her.

"So you know the truth, well I'm sorry my dear daughter." Sombra's aura reappeared, he sounded depressed as he was sorry for Cadence. " I am so sorry, I wanted to see you, but the only way I saw you was anger towards me. In a way I'm proud of you."

"It's-" *sob* "It's okay dad, It wan't your fault, how could nopony remember you as a good leader? Everypony said that you were always born to be evil, that you killed Queen Diamond to take the throne."

"Let me explain, Vex had control of my body and empire. He knew that we would be eventually defeated, but he wanted be to suffer, he casted a spell so powerful that it would effect the princesses. Nopony could remember who I was only making me rage and powering him up. As soon as he casted the spell, my whole empire defiled and bowed to me in slavery. Vex eventually spread some rumors that destroyed my reputation."

Twilight walked over to Sombra placing a hoof on his wisp. "Sombra, if there's anything you need, we'll do it." Twilight was determined to help a poor old suffering soul. Nopony deserves what Sombra had gone through. Sombra floated towards Cadence who was still sobbing for finding the truth.

"Cadence, my daughter, know that I will always love you. Your mother always loved you and gave you life. She sacrificed herself in order to save you. I unfortunately had lost you, but know this. If it wasn't for us, what would you have now? You wouldn't have a great husband, or an empire to rule along with loyal subjects who trust you." Shining Armor had smiled towards Sombra, he had trusted him more than ever now. Sombra then displeasure into oblivion, he had no more information to share, he had told them everything.

"Wait!" yelled Twilight Sparkle. Sombra reappeared, Twilight approached him. "What should we do about the citizens of the empire? Can we try to help them remember you?"

"The only way they'll get their memory back is if Vex and I pass. We are bound together into one, and their memories are locked within their mind." And with those last words, Sombra disappeared.

Shining Armor walked over to Twilight putting a shoulder over Twilight. "Twilight, I now know the truth. You are my sister and I will stay by your side on this quest."

"So will I." followed Cadence

"And me"

"Me too YAY!"

"Me too Darling."

"Ah me to sugar cube."

"Oh...um...me...to"

"Alright everpony, lets save King Sombra!" All of Twilight's friends stayed by her side, let the quest for rest begin.

Author's Note

If your wondering what Neighhongo is, well first Nihongo means Japanese in Japanese, (lol IKR) and Nihon means Japan in Japanese, so yea combine the facts Nihon/Neighon and Nihongo/Neighongo, yea kinda sounds alike.