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The thunder boomed up in the skies. Heavy rain poured from the clouds. Shadow's eyes were directed to the dark rain clouds. He could feel the gust of wind, but unfortunately he didn't feel the raindrops on his body. Midnight was standing next to him, with her hand resting on his shoulder as he own eyes are gazed up to the rainy clouds as well. Shadow, though was mostly confused as he didn't remember this thing in his memory. He did have a lot of rainy nights in his life, but right now he didn't felt like he experienced this at all. It was something unfamiliar for him. He then sighed deeply and closed his eyes as his head dropped.

"Why did you bring me here?" He asked, but Midnight chuckled simply over his question, what prompted him to open his eyes and to look at her with a frown. As Midnight stopped her giggles, she placed her free hand on his second shoulder and turned him to the right.

"Watch this." She said as she looked forward. Shadow was confused by her words again, but when he looked to where she was looking, he gasped in a surprise as his eyes grew wide.

On the top of the nearby mountain, they saw two persons. Both of them were men, but one of them was a unicorn dark grey in a color and having a black and red hair floating in the wind, and dressed in a black knight's armor without helmet, while another one was a hedgehog, completely black in color and having a red stripes on his hair, and dressed in a dark grey armor. Shadow recognized the hedgehog's silhouette, as it looking at him, he saw himself.

"Is that… me?" He asked quietly, "But who is the other person?"

"This is King Sombra…" Midnight answered, "My Master's old foe…"

"You Know Shadow…" Sombra shouted with a devilish grin, "It seems as if anyone who gets close to you usually gets hurt, beaten,and then killed" He said causing Shadow to look at him with a piercing stare, What Shadow didn't know however was that Sombra was reading his mind using his dark magic to find his fears as leverage against him (he wasn't getting very far, but he did find something close enough) "just like your friend Sonic for example he died because you weren't there for him, you cost him his life and his friends haven't forgiven you " Sombra stopped for a moment to observe how Shadow was now covered in a crimson aura and was giving him a murderous look but Sombra chose to continue all while getting face to face with him, and stared him down before blatantly spitting in his face.

"FUCK YOU!" Shadow yelled as he then let the chaos aura gather up on his left hand "You don't know what it feels like to lose someone you cared about!" He said angrily, and with that he released the chaos magic hitting Sombra in the chest, driving him back a few feet then knocking him down, Sombra chuckled as he got up once again and walked off the pain, then continued.

"Maybe so, but I'll make sure you join your friend in the afterlife." Sombra said. Shadow growled and got ready to attack again, but Sombra stopped him "Ah,Ah,Ah, Shadow you must look at the consequences of fighting me." Sombra mocked "CONSEQUENCES MY ASS!" Shadow yelled out as he lunged towards Sombra, striking him in his left cheek, causing him to go back a few feet.

"Oh so you want to play that way huh?!, WELL LET'S PLAY THEN!" Sombra yelled as his horn illuminated with dark magic. With a crackle he released it, hitting Shadow in face and making him go flying into the wall.

But Shadow just simply rose up from the rubble, got into a southpaw stance and with a cry of fury he started throwing punches at Sombra, each one hitting with devastating impact, Sombra then quickly countered, and hit Shadow again with another blast of magic making him go down to the floor. Shadow growled and attempted to get up again to fight but he found that he couldn't move, as Sombra was holding him down with his magic.

"Let me go!" Shadow yelled ."I would love to but I won't" Sombra said, laughing at Shadow. Sombra then shot Shadow with spell after spell after spell, making Shadow weak and near death "HAHAHAHA A WEAKLING LIKE YOU CAN NEVER DEFEAT ME!" Sombra said mockingly and triumpfully. Just when Shadow was about to lose hope and accept defeat, he saw someone behind Sombra.

It was Midnight.

"Midnight...is that you?" Shadow said struggling to speak.

"Yes my lover, please...let me help you, my powerful magic combined with your chaos powers, will make him regret the day he decided to challenge you" Just after this Shadow saw her become covered with a dark purple aura, then she turned into a dark purple like mist, her aura also surrounded Shadow as he found himself floating into the air, Sombra seeing this immediately tried to shoot another magic blast at Shadow, said blast that just simply hit Shadow unschathed and bounced back and struck Sombra, making him go flying into a wall, Shadow could only see Midnight's aura cover his vision, before being able to see her face, said face that was staring at him lovingly, as she leaned her forehead against his, then her aura absorbed itself into Shadow's body, there was then a flash that completely hid Shadow from Sombra's view for a few seconds, then Sombra could see Shadow and he looked very different, Shadow now had wings on his back that each stretched out to 10 ft, he had a 1 1/2 ft long glowing blue horn on his head that was surrounded by a orange aura, and was completely covered with a crimson red aura, the outline of it being dark purple. as this happened Shadow felt...stronger, more powerful than ever before!.

Now feeling completely rejuvenated, Shadow floated back down to the ground, walked back up to Sombra, stared him down, and then punched him square in the face and sending him flying, instead of a wall stopping his little flight this time, he went through the 3 ft thick wall before crashing to the ground.

Shadow calmly walked over to the hole in the wall and waited for Sombra to get up ,

Sombra yelled out in pain "Why you little I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!" Sombra tried to summon more dark magic but none came out, realizing he had completely drained himself of his magic, Sombra yelled out in rage as he went hoof-to-hand with Shadow. They started throwing devastating punches and kicks at each other, but with years of training on Shadow's side, he quickly got the upper hand and soon, Sombra became completely tired and fatigued, but he refused to stand down, he tried to get an opening but Shadow wouldn't let him, as he knew how to hide them well.

'Let's finish this.' Shadow thought to himself. He then eyed Sombra horn and grabbed in one hand Sombra's neck on the other his horn.

"Say goodbye Sombra." With a laugh Shadow ripped the horn from his head stabbed Sombra's back with his own horn. Sombra screamed and yell out in pain as he slowly died. "Burn in hell… bitch." Shadow said, and with that he went to go meet up with the others. He held Sombra's horn in his right hand and was breathing deeply and slowly, thus recovering from the adrenaline surge. Though, while Shadow was walking through the crowd, no one dared to utter at least a single word. Perhaps they were shocked by his act.

But another person who was more shocked, than everyone was Shadow himself who didn't actually believe that he made himself do this before. He killed Black Doom once, but he never thought that he had to kill before Black Doom. Though, soon his memory examination started to come to the end. The image of the battlefield started to blur, and the figures of the past started to disappear. Soon, he found himself and Midnight on the top of the same mountain where they were in the beginning of this. He then looked at her and noticed how she's looking at him sadly.

"Now you know why you need to save my mentor?" She said, "Your powers, your actions in the past are the things that will remind Nightmare Moon about who she really is and will get her back to her normal self." She then wrapped her arms around his neck, "I can't do this, because I can't get close enough, but you can…"

"But how?" Shadow asked, though, Midnight just smirked, "Use your charms, Shadow." She said, "These girls you've met in Ponyville. They are close to the Equestrian Princesses. If you convince one of them good enough, they will let you close enough to them and you can bring Nightmare Moon back."

Shadow, though, was debating himself and about these memories he just saw. He wanted to know how many of these memories he used to see earlier. He wanted to know who he is, and where these memories did come from.

"The memories…" He spoke, "I want to see more of these… I was sure about my origin, but now, I am not sure of anything… Show me more. I need to know."

"Ah-ah… Be patient, Shadow." Midnight said softly as she smirked at him, "This dream is about to end, and I'm afraid that we don't have a lot time for it. But I promise that tomorrow, we'll continue our travels through your mind." She then leaned over his ear, "And now…" She whispered, "It's time to wake up…"

"Wake up..."

"Wake up…"

Space colony ARK, 9:00 AM.

Shadow's eyes opened slowly as he stirs and started to wake up. He moaned in annoyance, and felt like he had a hangover. He felt dry throat, pain in his head and weakness in his limbs. He thought that he went off drinking for millennium. He then took a sitting position and grabbed his head, as he tried to gather his thoughts.

Nightmare Moon. This words echoed in his mind all the time. Who is this Nightmare Moon, and where he can find her? He didn't know it, but he might know the person who can tell him about Nightmare Moon. He knew who this person exactly is and where to find her. He then sighed and opened his eyes as he stood up and walked over to the shower room to start his day.