Midnight's Journey

"If you think about, dots are magic." I said suddenly just after Rainbow and I had left the study, Lightning said he wanted to look at a few things.

"What do you mean?" Rainbow asked as her face turned to curiosity, not confusion.

"If friendship is magic and friends make friendship and friends are made of dots then dots are therefore magical. Far more than the actual friendship-magic really." I said quietly as for some reason everypony figured it would be a good idea to post guards throughout the palace, who I continuously had to dismiss from said posts.

Now she was confused "How would anypony be made of dots?"

"View screens." I said simply as if they existed

That served to only baffle her more "View screens? what are those?"

"You look at a view screen and you view things... namely you six."

"Us... six?"

"Nevermind Rainbow, i've already told you more than you ought to know."

"Have you now?"

"Yes... could you forget I said all that?" we had arrived at the throne room doors, along with the group of advisors I had selected earlier. Luckily they had the sense to stay out of earshot.

"Why should I?" she challenged with a challenging smile on her face. It seemed to do just what I had expected as she seemed to forget her dead friends, I was surprised it didn't backfire on me.

"We have more important things to discuss. If not forget it then at least drop it for now."

She huffed "More important things? What exactly do you mean?"

"For one you have an almost destroyed world to rule over and repair. Also you need to consider a few proposals from the nobles who are still alive... and I have one as well."

"Gah! already? I thought i'd have sometime before we launched into that kinda stuff."

"You did, it was the walk here, Rainbow." I said with a bit of laughter and opening of the throne room doors with my magic, which had a black and purple aura.

"Why's your magic look like that?"

"No idea, never looked like that before... perhaps it is a reflection of what i've done in this land so far." I walked towards the throne, stopping a few feet before it. Rainbow promptly went towards the throne and sat upon it, looking down on me. Nopony else was in the throne room. the doors and windows had become engulfed in a black mist.

"What is it you wanted, Midnight?" She seemed to not be bothered by the mist so I assumed it wasn't there. That was a terrible mistake.

"I suggest disbanding all guard factions and let the citizens help themselves. I have seen this work elsewhere and it seems to have a positive effect on society in the long run. Also there is much money to be saved by doing this that can be used to fix your Equestria." The mist inched towards me and made me a little uncomfortable but I kept telling myself it wasn't there.

"What?! No guards?! That just it... wait that does kinda make sense." her face went from shocked to understanding. I waited on her verdict, wondering why the advisors had said nothing yet. As I waited I made a light with my magic and made it a permanent, bright light that hung onto the ceiling, effectively lighting 1 foot behind me and Dash and a few to our sides.

"%appdata%..." I whispered thoughtfully after a while.

"Alright I have come to a decision. Your proposal has been accepted and will take effect in 3 days." Rainbow said in an authoritive voice. As soon as she finished a song played... it was 'Smile' the sad one, the one with no lyrics just saddening music. The mist closed into them as much as it could but was stopped by the light. Now Rainbow sounded either scared or sad, I could never tell the difference. "What is that? where is that music coming from?!"

"I have no idea rainbow, what concerns me more is this mist around us.The mist is never friendly, obscuring enemies and traps... never once did it help me." I said the last sentence to myself, quietly.

"Is that what it's called? Seems a little generic if you ask me."

"Well what else am I gonna call it?"

"No idea maybe 'The evil mist' or something but that also sounds..." she trailed off as my light spell winked out and the darkness entirely surrounded us. Next thing I knew I was back where I had started, the block world. As a minecraftian.

"They say all paths lead to home..." I said in amazement as I looked around and saw a familiar rainbow colored portal, active and everything.

"Home? this is not home! wait... am i made of squares now?!" Rainbow was standing up and looked down at her arm, which was indeed made of rectangles and squares.

"Well we just need to go through there." I pointed with my rectangular arm towards the rainbow-colored-wool portal.

"Oh good I was thinking I was going to be stuck here." She sprinted in the portal and experienced falling 4 feet to the ground. A moment later we were both back in Equestria, I had landed on top of her because she had failed to move. I quickly got off.

"At least I know how to get back now." I said a loud, more to myself though. Lightning appeared with his crystal next to him

"You two didn't get swallowed by a black mist, did you?!" he asked frantically.

"Actually we did, that's how we got here."

He calmed down considerably "Uh... well sorry in that case I found a rather interesting spell in Luna's study, one that homes in on black, or dark, magic and sends them to another world."

"Dark magic hmm?" Rainbow looked at me suspiciously

"I had no idea I was using dark magic, at first my magic aura was blue, then dark purple, then it turned black and purple. Now that I think about it magic auras aren't supposed to change color..." I looked at the ground.

What happened next would be the craziest thing to have happened so far in Equestria for me: A pony with the black armor of a night guard jumped from a nearby cliff and almost killed Rainbow, had he not been screaming about revenge he would have been successful however Lightning made a shield wall into a sharp point which went straight through the pony's armor and body, effectively it split the fellow in half.

"Note to self: Stay away from cliffs." Rainbow said and walked away from the cliff, out of jumping distance.

Lightning found it extremely funny when RD said this and I got this feeling that said mare was ready to knock his teeth out at this point. "Lightning I get this feeling your on thin ice with Rainbow Dash here." I commented while resisting joining him in senseless laughter, whenever somepony is laughing I get the urge to laugh as well if you didn't know.

"I... I kno- know that its jus- just so funny!" he said between bouts of laughter.

Rainbow turned to me and said rather angrily "Can we teleport back to the throne room before he can get a laugh out of something else that happens?"

"Of course." I teleported us both into the castle's main entryway. "It seems as if something is stopping me from returning to the throne room, you will need to go there yourself. I need to tell the nobles that you will speak with them now." I turned around and left the castle as Rainbow went further into it. I didn't actually have plans to tell them that as they already knew it and were likely on their way there now. I should build a castle I thought out of nowhere as I realized my goal had been achieved and all pony were equal now and should be forever.

What happened afterwards was just a slow rebuilding of Equestria, where no guards were to be found and the elements were slowly buried by that pesky build up of soil. Also that entrance to my base was buried, likely never to be found again. Another thing is that Rainbow Dash died 70 years into her reign, which was actually rather peaceful besides the assassin who had done so. As it turns out I had sparked a series of fights between two factions that arose shortly after Luna's rebellion ended which is to say that I left the New Templar Order to it's own leadership and an Assassin's Creed appeared which fought with them endlessly while they tried to protect their member who was Queen at the time. The assassins never appeared to want to be in power, or rule everything, just simply to not have the other side in power. Sounds noble enough to me, never heard about them in those history books and I wasn't surprised when I learned how sneaky and 'in the shadows' they were, refusing anything to be written about them.

THE END