Prologue:Memories, A Darkness Rising

It is a new era for the world of Equestria, many historical moments and legendary's accomplishments have been done in the past couple years since princess Twilight first arrived to Ponyville from Canterlot. She had fought great evils, rescued an empire from one of the darkest enemies in Equestrian history, stopped a nation of changelings from taking over her home city, and most of all, she learned the true power of friendship and became Ponyville and Equestria's newest ruler. She was now a powerful princess and wielder of the legendary rainbow power along with five of her friends, but not all of her life was full of achievements, no matter what happened, there was one failure that still burdened her to this very day.

It was in the city of Canterlot when her greatest failure and loss occurred, and it had threatened to take away her faith in friendship for the rest of her life as she thought of nothing but magic and studying from that day on prior to her arrival in Ponyville. It was a horrible day that shattered her heart, for she had failed to save a friend, a unicorn now turned Alicorn with power she could only dream to have, and the only pony that still had her heart to this very day. That pony's name... Was Heavy Weight, son of the legendary Canterlot captain Mega Weight, and by far one of the most magical ponies that had existed in the city of Canterlot.

It had been quite a few years since Twilight herself fought this powerful friend and unfortunately lost the battle, it had costed her the only friend she knew before the five best friends she knew now, and in her heart, she would never forget him. In the back of her mind she still couldn't help but understand that it was never Heavy's fault for leaving, it was their teacher, who was none other than the mighty Alicorn ruler princess Celestia who now ruled side by side with her sister princess Luna.

To this very day Celestia is still haunted briefly at times by this painful and heart breaking memory of her most promising student leaving her with nothing but undying hatred toward the princess for the terrible things that have happened to him because of her. In her heart, Celestia knew that losing her most prized pupil was her fault and she had to live every day knowing that she didn't just ruin Heavy's life, but Twilight's as well. However on this very day, that past life would not only come back to haunt her, but would be revealed to her little sister Luna.

It was now morning in the beautiful mountain city of Canterlot itself, the sun had now risen into the clear blue sky to begin the day as ponies from the fancy and wealthy city began to leave their homes and enjoy the day. The city appeared to be in very high spirits for the new day, the building were clean from last night's maintenance and many prospered from successful and quite the fine crafted stone buildings. However not every pony in Equestria was enjoying this fine morning, for this was a day that princess Celestia greatly disliked due to it being the anniversary of a lost student.

In the castle of Canterlot, a great white smooth stoned castle with golden royal roofs, strong iron and gold gates and hundreds of royal Canterlot guards in golden armor guarding the building twenty four seven, the day was starting out slow. Within the castle their was a brightly looking throne room with gold and white colors on the floor, the pillars and even most of the throne itself was gold, and sitting in it was an Alicorn princess known as princess Celestia.

With her pearly white coat and her light colored rainbow mane and tail that blew in the wind without the slightest breeze this Alicorn was the tallest of all ponies, her attire was all made of gold, her necklace, her horse shoes and her own crown were gold. Her purple eyes stared at the floor as this was a day that she was now feeling heavy with regret, for this was a day when one of her greatest losses had occurred, and some where out there in a town in the distance, young new princess was secretly mourning as well.

She let out a sigh of slight sorrow as she then levitated some paper work in front of her with golden magic in an attempt to help make the day go by faster, but the memory was still there and it kept a frown on her face at all times. It was then that her silent work was then suddenly interrupted by the arrival of some pony that did raise her spirits ever so slightly as another Alicorn entered through her giant throne room doors.

The doors to the throne room opened up due to the power of dark blue magic as princess Luna, the esteem princess of the night entered with a small picture book in her magical blue levitational hold. She was a smaller Alicorn by trade, but she was relatively larger than other ponies, her coat was a lovely midnight blue color that matched her mane and tail that was full of stars as they also flowed in the wind. Her blue eyes looked towards her secretive mourning big sister as she walked about in her silver royal attire of horse shoes, a black necklace with the crescent moon on it, and a black small crown on her head.

She had a few questions to ask her big sister due to a little something she saw in the picture book she now had in her grasp, it revealed another little secret that her sister had hidden from her to this very day.

"Good morning my dear sister...! The morning you have brought is certainly something special this day,"Luna announced as she saw her big sister give her a small smile,"Yet... For such a nice day, it shocks me to see that you are not enjoying this day...!"

"Oh... Everything is alright my sister... It's just a bit slow for me this morning, just trying to get pass this paper work and maybe I'll warm up to it..."Celestia said softly in her majestic and soft voice.

"Sister... In all of our times as the princesses of the day and night, I have never seen you so eager to see a day pass,"Luna pointed out as Celestia's smile began to fade,"There is... Something I have found that I couldn't help but to ask you about, and I wish for you to be truthful with me...!"

Luna then slowly made her way gracefully to the throne as Celestia could already see into her sisters mind and knew what she was going to ask her about as she even dared to hide behind her mane. Luna could feel her sisters heavy heart as she approached and felt a little bad about bringing this up, but her curiosity got the better of her, as it does with many younger siblings who take interest in their older sibling's lives.

Once Luna had gradually made it to her big sister's side, she began to open the book that was full of pictures from Celestia's older days before Luna's return, she found the pictures of Celestia with her young students. She saw Twilight Sparkle in some while she also saw a few pictures of the previous student known as Sunset Shimmer, the sibling student and former thief of princess Twilight's crown. What was really catching her eye however was a bunch of pictures of a white colt who had a mane and tail that looked like ice and eyes that matched along with the cutie mark of a frozen sword through a frozen heart in the middle of an ice blue six pointed star.

He certainly caught the eye of the night princess, for this colt was serious looking in many pictures, and yet she did find a photo or two with him smiling, one with Sunset Shimmer when he appeared to be very young, and another with Twilight. Twilight was even flashing a pearly white smile while hugging the colt in this particular photo, but while Luna was enjoying what she saw, Celestia's heart was hurting as she turned away from the photos. It wasn't long before Luna noticed her sister's reaction and slowly closed the book before turning solemnly to her sister.

"You never told me you had a third student... Who is he Tia, and more importantly... Where is he?"Luna asked in a gentle voice.

"I... Suppose I shouldn't have kept him a secret from you... It just gets painful to speak of him after so long... Especially since it's the anniversary of his disappearance,"Celestia said as she took a deep breath to clear her thoughts and her voice,"But you do deserve to know about him Luna..."

The little sister could see a bit of pain and sadness in her big sister's eyes, but she nodded and listened as Celestia got her thoughts together and spun the tail of her most magical and most powerful student.

"His name... Is Heavy Weight... And he is one of my most prized pupil, and he was my greatest failure as a teacher,"Celestia said with her voice full of solemn at this tale,"He was the son of a legendary captain who had nothing but undying loyalty to me... And I took it upon myself to raise Heavy Weight when he and the mother Golden Heart passed away when he was very young..."

"Oh dear... Was he talented like this captain, you said he was your prized pupil,"Luna pointed out before remembering the other line to her sisters answer,"And... He was your greatest failure..."

"Yes... Out of all the students I have ever trained, he was the greatest of them all, he was so powerful and so clever... I even dare say I was a bit jealous of him,"Celestia said as she stared to the empty guest room on the left side of her throne room,"But he had a temper... And it would work as a trigger for destructive power to be unleashed from him... It... Scared me..."

"So... What exactly did you do...? I mean it is not like you could have a destructive and angry colt running around all free to cause more damage...!"Luna said with a bit of surprise on her face.

"That's what I thought, but things got complicated when he got older and so much more powerful... I had no control over him,"Celestia said before taking another deep breath as the worst memory was to come,"One night he had enough of me trying to control him and he left... But Twilight... She tried to stop him..."

"What...! Twilight faced him, so... Why hasn't she ever told me about this, I would think she would know a good bit about him, and surely she would have trusted me enough to talk about him,"Luna said with a touch of confusion before Celestia shook her head at her little sister.

"No... She has never shared those times with any pony... Not even to her friends in Ponyville... Only I, Twilight, Heavy, and prince Shining Armor know of it all, and Twilight preferred it that way,"Celestia explained as she remember Twilight's feelings for Heavy Weight,"She... Gave her heart to Heavy, and to this day it still belongs to him, and when they fought, Twilight was the one who suffered the most..."

Luna couldn't help but place a hoof over her heart as she started to feel guilty and cold inside for bringing such a memory up on such a day, but there was more to hear and Celestia chose to share it all with Luna.

"He defeated Twilight in a great battle between love and freedom, he had become an Alicorn in the process as well, just like Twilight did,"Celestia said as the memories now felt a bit more easy to handle,"He then disappeared, where he went... We do not know, but Twilight... She was so heart broken, and I did this all to her... There are times that I wish I could take back my mistake, and I wonder how Twilight can still love me after what I did..."

"I... Didn't know sister... I'm sorry I brought such a memory up, I only wished to know what has happened since my time in the moon..."Luna said as she gave her big sister a gentle hug to help ease Celestia's sadness, and it did certainly help a bit.

Celestia welcomed her hug as she let out a deep breath that stopped tears that threatened to form, she then reached out and hugged her little sister for the longest time as she felt her sorrow feel at ease and wither away slowly. Finally they parted from their sisterly hug and they both looked to the window as a thought then struck Celestia's head.

"Some times... I like to think that some where out there, Heavy Weight is still alive to this day being all he can be, and being the best Alicorn Equestria has ever seen,"Celestia said as a small smile finally reappeared on her face,"That was Heavy's dream after all... To be the best of the best."

"I have no doubt that he probably is out there... And one day... He will return to you my dear big sister,"Luna said in attempt to raise her sister's spirit higher,"Who knows, he may be thinking of returning soon... We can only hope for the best... And perhaps the best will come."

With Celestia's spirits now high thanks to Luna's kind words, she was able to finish the morning paper work without less stress on her mind for the day, and with Luna's help she would be able to finish her papers in no time. However it would not be too long when they would realize how right Luna was, for off in the distance towards a very well known and very evil forest, the pony of the hour was hard at work.


Ever Free Forest

The Ever Free forest, the darkest and most evil place known to Equestria itself, it is known as the most feared and most dangerous place in the world due to it's evil magic and the most terrifying creatures in Equestria that live in the forest. With it's thick black wooden trees and bushes very few ponies have ever been able to reach inside and scratch the surface of the forest's secrets, the deepest any pony has ever traveled in these woods was straight to the tree of harmony to rescue the world from the forest when it threatened to grow every where in Equestria.

However there was one pony who resided in the center of it all, the heart of the forest, and to every pony's greatest surprise, it was also the safest spot in the forest where a pony can live out of the reach of others. It was then that a pony in a cloak had then appeared from the darkness of the forest carrying a bundle of fire wood in his magical ice blue grasp with no effort what so ever, and he was as silent as ever, not a word left his mouth as he entered the forest heart.

He felt the sunlight hit his back as he entered an opening that was the heart of the forest, it had a large old looking tree at one side, and a small pond on the other full of pure delectable drinking water as the pony dropped the fire wood in a pile. The mystery pony then walked over to the tree with the desire to rest a bit as he threw back his hood and revealed himself as none other than the rogue himself... Heavy Weight.

He let out a sigh of relief from his harvest of fire wood for tonight, he now lived off the land of this sacred place, the one place where no pony would dare tread, the one place that ponies don't even know of. It was the perfect place for him to live free and undisturbed by any pony in the outside world, and he was untouchable to all including the one he hated with all of his heart... Princess Celestia. The mere mention of the princesses name would bring great anger to Heavy and make him go into a frenzy, and the forest was the perfect place for him to work out his anger, no pony would care about damage to a forest.

"Well... At least that's done and over with... I deserve this break now,"Heavy said as he laid down on his back and rested his head on an old tree root,"One hay of a sun this fine morning, too bad it's controlled by... Her..."

Heavy's ice blue mane and tail instantly began to blaze like a burning camp fire as he remembered her all too well, but he had promised that he would never bring up his past if it meant remembering the princess. Yet there was one pony that to this day still meant something to him, his mane and tail began to calm down and flicker like a small flame as he remember the one he held so close to him... Twilight Sparkle. She was the only one who he had ever come to care for, and even love for that reason, it pained him to think about her after what he had done, but to this day, he still believed that he had no choice. To this very day he still bared the scar Twilight left him with, it was in the form of a straight line going down the center of his right eye as he momentarily placed a hoof on his scarred eye in memory of Twilight.

He felt the memories flowing through his mind and fading away as he rested on the tree root and soaked up the sun as it made his white fur shine like new, he felt warm and comfortable, but that didn't mean he liked the feeling knowing who the sun belong to. He was resting peacefully as he placed both front hooves behind his head, but when he was about to shut his eyes for a few winks, that's when he was disturbed by something strange, it sounded like laughter, and yet it was somewhere near the heart of the forest.

Heavy snapped his black circled icy blue eyes open and looked to his right as he directed his attention to the source of the laughter, he wanted to ignore, but that was before he then felt something cold and dark even in the rays of the sun. His look became more serious as he felt that this was indeed the feeling of a very dark presence, it was evil and it didn't belong in the forest's heart, no type of evil belonged in this one free place. And Heavy was going to do a little something about it as he quickly got to his hooves and directed his attention to the source of the noise.

He started to walk quickly but with much vigilance to ensure that he left no stone unturned, he vastly left the sanctity of the heart and ventured into the darkness, but he entered with ease since he had dealt with the darkness many times before. He felt the shade cool his body as he entered the darkness and worked his keen ears toward the sounds of laughter before looking a little more to his left, the laughter was wicked and an echo, it was possibly in a cave. It even sounded like their was another set of laughter that was different and sounded almost demonic, but Heavy felt no fear what so ever as he walked through the dark forest at his own leisure.

"Whoever you dark ones are... You can't hide your darkness from me...!"Heavy said as his eyes suddenly glowed bright blue and jerked his head in a specific spot.

A small spot in the ground just behind a bush then suddenly began to glow in the same color as his magic, and in that very instant, Heavy ran to the spot that glowed, for this trick was of his own making as many spells he knows of were. With a quick flash of his horn Heavy ripped the bush straight from the ground and tossed it aside to find a mysterious hole that appeared to go really deep into the ground. Curiosity got the better of Heavy as well as caution for that fact, but he wished to know what was going on down there and he had a little trick that would help him find out.

He quickly lit up his horn while letting out a snort before a small ball of pure magic exited his horn just as his eyes then began to glow bright blue, the circle wiggled as Heavy followed the ball before he looked to the hole. The ball then melted the edges of the hole as it slid down the small entrance while Heavy was being treated to a lovely sight, his eyes were now seeing everything that the ball was in the presence of, and at the moment all he could see was dirt as far as his eye sight in the ball could see. He could also hear everything the ball heard as well and heard all the laughter get louder and louder the deeper he went.

His vision narrowed as he could see a small exit in the distance, and that's when he heard the laughter and the dark voices become loud and clear, it made him feel uneasy as he slowed the balls movement as it reached the exit. When it did reach the exit, the ball suddenly popped out of the hole and suddenly found itself in a large, dark, and wet cave, where the cave was located he could not tell at the moment, and he was then interrupted by something else.

A small conversation in the distance appeared to be taking place as well as the sounds of animals growling along with them. Heavy made the ball float down a small rocky hill and watched the cave get darker and more wet the deeper he went, and that's when he heard the voices just around a corner. Heavy dimmed the light on the ball of magic as he slowly moved it up just around the corner, it then peaked out over the corner and caught an eye full for Heavy at what he was gazing on, for he had never seen anything like this, except for a certain centaur he remember seeing as this tried to lay the forest to waste.

The first thing he saw were lit up torches that illuminated a massive part of the cave, and in this cave there were two dark beings shaking hoof and hand while they marveled at the creatures behind them. One enemy he easily recognized as the vile centaur himself Lord Tirek, but something was a bit different about him, he was no longer red skinned to compliment his black fur, his true skin was now green, his eyes were green as well rather than black while his horns looked like sharp tree roots. He looked massive and full of power, yet Heavy kept his cool as he then focused on the more surprising and unknown assailant Tirek was with.

This character was new and certainly an eye opener, for this one was a pitch black Alicorn with a straight and very sharp horn and red eyes that complimented his dark look. His mane and tail were silver and flowed in the wind much like the royal sisters themselves, and he had large black fangs to compliment the dark smile he flashed at Tirek as he stood as tall as Celestia. What really caught Heavy's eye was a cutie mark on the Alicorn's flank that had appeared to be sliced up in the shape of an x, obviously he did not like his former self.

Heavy then got an even bigger eye full as he then saw the dark ones cheering over what they have captured and forced under their care, It was a large Ursa major, and two giant cragodiles. There was something off about these creature however, Ursa majors are suppose to be either blue or purple, and cragodiles were suppose to be brown and greenish. Yet these three creatures were completely pitch black and their eyes were completely green just like Tirek, and Heavy was willing to bet that the dark Alicorn had something to do with this strange change in the darkness of the centaur and the creatures.

"Well done Tirek... I just love what you have brought me back and filled with my Ever Free power, they look simply marvelous!"The Alicorn hissed as he behold the creatures at his command.

"You have proven to be a pony of your word Mr Dark Star, the least I could do is attempt to be a centaur of my word,"Tirek said as he stood almost as tall as the Ursa major,"This was all done because of this new power from the forest, and you say it consists of Ever Free nature magic magic correct?"

"Yes... You will not be bested so easily with this power, the rainbow power itself will not bring harm to this magic,"The Dark Alicorn reassured with a wicked smile full of black sharp teeth,"Not even the Crystal empire's famous crystal heart will attack you, the heart wouldn't dare bring harm to anything that is made with pure nature magic, not even if it's from the forest...!"

"So when did you want to start the attack, can you really promise me the world of Equestria?"Tirek asked out off curiosity while the Alicorn just chuckled at the centaur's excitement.

"Yes... But don't get carried away here, remember who's in charge here... This is my magic that gave you your power, and it's not something to play with or just suck into your gut like a vampire fruit bat,"Dark Star hissed as he circle the centaur while chuckling at him,"I have an unlimited supply of this magic, and you don't... If you should trick me like you did that Draconequus fool...! All I need to do is drain the magic from you and all the life force from your body as well...! You would be nothing but a rotting old corpse in my cave!"

The Alicorn's sudden yell echoed through out the cave making all the creatures flinch with fear, Tirek himself shuttered a bit inside knowing the pain of being weak and without magic, he remembered how the Alicorn pulled him out of his cage. He was now trapped, the power was good in all but, he was now a trapped pet in this dark one's game and for the first time in his eternal life, Tirek had no way out, and no tricks up his sleeve.

"So what is the plan for our attack? I am eager to test my new power out on the wretch that defeated me...!"Tirek growled as he remembered the humiliation dealt to him by princess Twilight herself,"I want her... I want to destroy her NOW!"

"And you will my friend, I will take pleasure in watching you end the princess of friendship forever, she was quite the annoying little wretch back then,"Dark said as he suddenly made his horn glow red and brought up a red map of Equestria,"All I need you to do is drop off one cragodile in the Crystal Empire, then you drop off the Ursa major in Canterlot, and I will take much joy in watching that city burn...!"

"And what of the town of Ponyville?"Tirek questioned while the dark one shook his head and chuckled.

"You may take the other cragodile and do as you wish, you may take your revenge on the princess and take their beloved rainbow power,"Dark said as he made the map disappeared while an evil and excited smile grew on Tirek's face,"Now how about it Tirek?! Lets get going already and take Equestria for our own!"

"I will leave at once... PARTNER!"Tirek roared as he walked to the creatures.

Suddenly a great mass of powerful magic energized from Tirek's horns before turning into a ball of green magic with red and orange magic in the center of the green magic, he then directed his attention to the creature. Black lightning and green magic then surrounded every each one of the monsters before Tirek himself began to glow in the same aura as he then turned to face his dark partner. He then gave Dark Star a small wave before Tirek and the creatures finally disappeared in a flash of multicolored dark magic, leaving Dark Star to enjoy the incoming conquest of Equestria.

"Wonderful...! WONDERFUL! Now no pony will be able to stop me! They will all regret throwing me away and forgetting about me,"Dark growled loudly to himself as he began to laugh wickedly,"All will now know my pain, and I will finally have everything I truly deserve! And this time... Even... HE won't be around to stop me!"

Dark then exploded into a round of laughter and cackled like a maniac while Heavy Weight's own little spy orb had caught everything the pony had said, and made chills go down Heavy's spine as he finally dismissed the orb without getting caught. The disbelief and even the fear however was still haunting Heavy as he slowly walked away from the hole and felt like he was going to be sick, a dark one was now going to take over the world with help from a very ancient and formidable foe.

Heavy began to sweat as he teleported back to his little hide out at the forest heart, but when he finally got there, something struck him as he dared to pack what he had with him and leave to hide some where else. Suddenly without a warning he then started to think about Twilight strangely, and when he began to think about her, he then felt more sick knowing that even she would not be able to handle this duo of enemies, but there was some pony he knew that could stop them.

He wanted to deny wanting anything to do with Equestria and especially the city where he was born, but just thinking about what these dark ones could do to Twilight and so many more innocent ponies, he could hardly bare it. He placed a hoof over his heart as it began to hurt a bit from the past that made itself present once more, yet he felt his body betray him before his mind followed.

In his heart he did want to help, for so long he had been running from his past and hiding from the princess herself, and he had trained incredibly hard as he had reached magical limits he did not know until he uncovered them and then some. Finally after one more deep thought of Twilight being harmed, and the thought of actually seeing her smiling face once more, he had finally come to a decision, and one that he was not taking lightly.

Suddenly two strange things began to poke at the back of Heavy's cloak as he threw his hood over his head to hide his face as his body tensed up and his magic began to flare up in his horn along with his fiery mane and tail. It was then that two large white wings tore through the back of the cloak and sprouted out wide and pride before they started to flap, Heavy felt pumped and ready for this as he looked to the sky.

Finally the ground began to shake and a magic ring of ice blue magic surrounded Heavy before he focused hard on the sky, and in that moment that Alicorn stallion finally took off hard. The ground exploded greatly around Heavy as he shot into the sky in an instant leaving a massive crater in his wake as he took to the skies, he flapped his wings and flew around in the air as he looked around and focused his sights on the first stop of his rescue, the Crystal Empire.

He focused his magic into his wings and allowed a smirk to grow across his face as he then blasted off towards the empire at incredible speeds that would almost match the speed of sound, he would be there in no time at this rate. He felt his spirit suddenly start to lift as he felt a bright blaze of fire in his eyes, a feeling that he had not felt since he was a colt, it was much like a spirit that was full of fighting for pleasure and the will to never give up, he now had his flame for fighting coming back to him.

"Crystal Empire! HERE I COME!"Heavy shouted as he zero'd his sights on the empire ready to do some rescuing.


Crystal Empire

The Crystal Empire, It is named for what it truly is, an empire made of the purest of crystal and kept alive and well by the power of love, and the love of it's beloved inhabitants, the crystal ponies. The empire itself was ruled by an Alicorn princess known as princess Cadence and her husband, who was none other than an old acquaintance of Heavy Weight, that stallion was Shining Armor the captain of the Canterlot royal guards, the prince of the Crystal Empire, and the big brother of Twilight Sparkle.

Since the married couple's rise to power in the Crystal Empire, love and affection had spread freely through out the entire world of Equestria through the power of the Crystal Empire's most beloved gem, the crystal heart. For years now the couple and their loyal crystal pony subjects have had much peace and stability since the fall of king Sombra at the hooves of the couple themselves and the power of the empire. The subjects were full of love and happy with the royal couple, and it brought even more love to the princess who was ironically the goddess of love.

However it was on this very same day that their time of peace of love in the empire was coming to a halt, as the princess of love felt the dark tide that was coming to the kingdom, and needed to talk it over with her husband.

Within the Crystal Palace, there was a crystal throne room made of nothing but the finest crystal the empire could produce, and in that throne room stood none other than prince Shining Armor himself. He was still the same giant stallion he always was, his fur was white as ever with his three shaded blue mane and tail as he stood tall looking over some paper work, his fur still never covered his hooves and his cutie mark of a pink star in the center of a deep blue shield had always given him away.

As the bold stallion and burly unicorn stallion was looking over some paper work, he had sorted out what he needed to finished and made them disappear off to be deliver to fellow civilizations across the world. He let out a sigh and was about to leave the throne room with a great sense of satisfaction for completing his work, but just as he was reaching the doors to leave the throne room, the doors swung open and in came the Alicorn goddess of love herself in her bright and shining royal bronze attire, princess Cadence.

"Shining Armor...! We need to talk about something...!"Cadence said in a deep yet soft foreboding voice.

Shining looked to his wife for concern, as he listened to her however he lazily looked at her beauty and loved her with all his heart as they shared a small kiss together, her pink coat was endearing and lovely to look at. Her mane and tail were colorful with light yellow, purple and pink to compliment all the looks that love was though to appear as, and her crystal heart cutie mark was the greatest proof of her loving nature. However she was less than in the mood for love as a dark force was coming to the kingdom, and she could feel it within her heart and her mind that was being haunted at this very moment.

"What is it Cadence, I've haven't seen you this spooked in quite some time, is everything alright?"Shining asked as Cadence took a minute to gather her thoughts.

"I... I feel we need to heighten our guards security for the day... I feel something bad coming to the empire, and we have to prepare for it!"Cadence warned as she panted with fear much to Shining Armor's shock.

"What...! Are you serious...?! Who would be crazy enough to attack the Crystal Empire?"Shining Armor asked as he and Cadence decided to take the conversation out of the throne room.

"I felt it Shining Armor, there is something very bad coming, and... I think it may very well be lord Tirek,"Cadence warned as Shining Armor froze in his place at that name being uttered,"I'm just not certain, but something is coming!"

"How do you know that Cadence? He's stuck in Tartarus, he can't possibly return to Equestria again,"Shining Armor said before he was suddenly being stricken by the same dark foreboding feeling his wife felt,"No... We have to send a word out to every pony, Twilight, Celestia, Luna, every pony!"

Suddenly just as Shining Armor had uttered those words, the entire palace suddenly began shaking as a monstrous roar suddenly sounded off in the distance, the roar was loud and eat splitting to the crystal couple, but it did not deter them. They saw a small balcony just to their right in the crystal hall ways and both ran to it as fast as they could, and as they made they made their approach to the balcony they could feel a dark presence within the empire, but strangely enough, the crystal heart was not attacking or defending.

Finally as the crystal couple made it out to the balcony, they both looked over the city as they then saw it, they did not see the much feared lord Tirek, but they did see a giant black cragodile in the city and destroying everything in it's path. The beast was massive and was half the size of the palace itself, but Shining Armor and Cadence did not fear a mere beast, this was child's play to them, and they were ready to play.

"Whatever this thing is...! At least it's not Tirek, we can take this thing!"Shining Armor said firmly to his confident wife.

"I will take to the air, and you take to the ground, we shall take it from both angles!"Cadence planned firmly for her husband and sealing the deal with a nod.

As Cadence sprouted her wings and took off into the sky to have the advantage of the sky, Shining Armor jumped off the balcony and descended towards the crystal ground, as he made for the ground he landed on his hooves and with tremendous force sending debris flying in all directions. As he stood tall many crystal pony guards in gray crystal armor suddenly emerged from the palace gates, numbering to about fifty just how Shining Armor like them.

"Alright stallions, we will attack it from below while princess Cadence takes it from the sky! Let's move out!"Shining commanded as the guards pulled out their spears and charged with Shining in the league.

The cragodile at that time had finally made it's way through the city knocking down crystal buildings in it's path before a sudden small blast of light blue magic hit it's head and merely got it's attention as it looked to the sky. It could see princess Cadence herself flying high in the sky and blasting beams of magic at it, but the beams had little effect against it's super strong black scales. It then also felt sharp things hitting it from under the chin as well and looked down to see many royal Crystal guard throwing spears at it to try and pierce it's hide.

The dark reptile shook it's head in agitation for the spears before it felt another blast of magic hit it on the top of it's head, it looked back up into the sky and swung one of it's massive claws at an incoming Cadence. The princess managed to spin and dodge the attack while the narrowly avoiding getting snatched up in the beast's powerful jaws. Cadence then ascended once more to make distance between her and the cragodile, but it was then that another waves of spears then struck it directly in the right eye.

It shook it's head in anger and let out a loud hiss like roar that shook the whole empire before it felt another blast of magic hit it from under the chin. With the good eye it still had it looked down to see Shining Armor right under it as the beast accidentally reared back to far with a good bit of pain in it's right eye before falling back and slamming hard on it's back crushing a group of home right under it. The cragodile struggled and wiggled around as it used the one good eye it had to observe everything.

"That's it every pony! Lets drive this thing out of the empire together!"Shining commanded as more spears flew and struck the beast at it's side.

The cragodile singled out the unicorn stallion as it's eye narrowed on the crystal prince and growled as he made Shining Armor it's target, at that time Shining Armor was getting excited as he charged with his horn glowing right at the creature. It was then that Shining Armor was blind sighted as was the rest of his guards as they failed to miss one dangerous tool that all cragodiles had, their tail. The massive weapon swung high in the air and blotted out the sun as it swung it's massive tail in a complete spiral before it aimed right for Shining Armor and his guards.

There was no stopping this incoming attack as Shining braced himself and took the iron like slam of the tail and felt himself fly across the empire as he watched his guards get crushed in an instant. Shining braced as he finally felt himself slam completely through a crystal home and finally crashed against another home almost making it topple as he felt completely winded and dazed. All he could hear was the approaching steps of the cragodile, he could hear many of his fair crystal ponies running in a panic to escape as he saw the beast had gotten up and was quickly approaching him.

He then could see his wife fighting the creature and blasting it with all the power she had, but her magic barely fazed the beast as it slowly approached the crystal prince before swatting Cadence away from it's face with a claw. It watched the love goddess soar through the air before she was able to maintain her balance and stop flying forcefully across the empire. but she was then in a panic as she desperately flew back to try and stop the beast.

Cadence...! Stay away! I don't... Want you to get hurt,"Shining Armor begged as the beast focused it's sights back on Shining Armor,"WHAT ARE YOU?!"

Shining let out that yell as he felt his strength starting to fade as he watched the creature about to lower it's head down and was about to devour Shining Armor, and he knew Cadence would not make it in time. He closed his eyes and prepared for the worst as the shadow got darker, but as hope was about to fade completely for the crystal prince, the most miraculous rescue occurred much to the surprise of the Crystal couple.

The creature was then blind sighted by a massive blast of ice blue magic, but when it struck the beast in the chest, the magic was so strong that it lifted the beast up into the air and launched it far away from Shining Armor and narrowly missed Cadence in the process. The princess watched the creature slam hard right behind her as crystal and regular ground exploded and flew into the air while making the entire empire shake.

It was then that Cadence felt another presence and turned around to get the surprise of her life as what appeared to be an Alicorn stallion in a cloak was right behind her and cringing his nose at her as he flew only a few feet in front of her.

"Who are you suppose to be? I never thought another Alicorn could ever exist, where did you come from?!"Cadence exclaimed as the stallion snorted at her.

"Non of your business... Relative of Celestia, just stay out of my way!"The stallion demanded before flying passed her towards the beast.

Cadence watched the stallion with great astonishment as he suddenly grabbed the struggling cragodile by it's massive tail, her eyes then widened as she saw the craziest thing in her life happen. The stallion had actually picked up the large reptile in his grip and had now lifted it above his head and began swinging the cragodile for a loop. Cadence was shaking her head in disbelief at this mysterious ones strength as he then tossed the cragodile down to the ground again watching it crash and send more crystal debris flying every where.

Shining Armor himself had come to and watched the chaos begin as the stallion flew over to the cragodile once more and grabbed it by the tail again before lifting it into the air and swinging it down to the ground again. It slammed head first into a home before the stallion then lifted it back up into the air and began to swing it around at great speed, and finally he then released it throwing the cragodile straight out of the crystal empire, but the stallion was not done yet.

He chose to finish it by building a large orb of magic on the tip of his horn, the orb lit up and made the whole crystal empire glitter with blue light as the orb quickly grew to the size of an Ursa minor in the blink of an eye. He then narrowed his blue eyes on the flying monster before he let out a primal roar of power before unleashing the attack he had build on his horn. The orb blasted completely off the stallion's horn as it soared quickly over the city itself and zero'd in on the target in the distance.

Cadence widened her eyes as she watched the precise attack suddenly struck it's target and suddenly made a distant explosion go off in the distance as the creature exploded into nothing but blue smoke and flames. Her eyes glowed blue as she then turned back to the stallion as he watched the light start to dim before he slowly turned away to reveal a scar down his right eye.

Cadence took notice of the scar as the stallion then took off in another direction to leave as fast as he had came, but Cadence flew after the stallion while remaining crystal guards and even civilians attend to the injured Shining Armor. She followed the stallion clear out of the empire before the stallion threaten to speed off leaving her in his dust.

WAIT...! Hold on there for a second!"Cadence called to the stallion as he gradually stopped right in his tracks.

He stood their floating with his wings flapping hard as he slowly turned back to her and glared at her, for he knew all too well just by the smell of that scent she was a relative to a pony that he hated with all of his heart.

"What do you want! Shouldn't you be worrying about that pathetic looking husband in the rubble?! Make it quick princess...!"the Alicorn demanded while Cadence just gulped and found her words to say.

"Who ever you are, thank you!" Cadence said while smiling at the pony.

The stallion merely snorted as he rolled his eyes before slowly turning back around and finally taking off towards his next destination, much to the disappointment of the princess of love. She watched the pony disappear in the distance, where he was going she did not know, but she knew it had to be important, she let out a sigh before she then flew back to the empire to check on her husband and her kingdom that now had some rebuilding that needed done.


Meanwhile in the skies once more, the mysterious pony who was none other than Heavy Weight himself flew over the land giggling to himself at Shining Armor's performance against a mere cragodile, he then made a turn going towards city he never thought he would be flying off towards.

"Shining, you are still as pathetic as always, so weak and useless... How the hay did you become a prince of the Crystal Empire," He said to himself while giggling at his former friend before a frown replaced his giggles,"*sigh*... I can't believe I'm doing this... But I suppose some pony had to do it..."

Heavy then began to feel a bit angry at the direction he was going, for his next destination was where it all began for him, and it housed the most hated pony in his life, but he used his memories of Twilight to guide him as he made his way towards the mountain city of Canterlot.

ALRIGHT EVERY PONY IT'S TIME FOR HEAVY'S TRUE RETURN TO THE WORLD, AS I PROMISE, THIS IS THE RETURN OF THE MIGHTY HEAVY WEIGHT. NEXT TIME... HEAVY AT CANTERLOT, HEAVY VS TIREK, AND A HEART WARMING REUNION.