Monday

The past two days were awful. Sunday the mare had taken me to some weird cave. Inside were about seven other stallions, all with the same look on their faces. When she said stand, they stood. They were under her control just like my body was. After she had fed all of us with rotten meat, she had brought us down to a bare room and for some weird reason had told all of them to fight me. I had won but just barely, my body using a combination of muscle memory and its imprisoned mind to win. I was much stronger than the three pathetic earth stallions and the pegasi and unicorns didn't fly or use magic, respectively. I came out beat up almost beyond repair but she had fixed me. After that she just set me in a corner until this morning.

Being stuck in this domed room sucked and earlier today a completely black and faceless humanoid creature appeared in here and trapped me in some weird ass cage. I don't know why since it's redundant as heck but I didn't care, at least it was something different.

We were on our way out of the forest but she stopped before we got to the edge.

"Now my warrior, time to unlock those gifts of yours." She told me.

She brought her hands up and placed them on my chest and they started to glow. I was still astonished at her use of magic since she was an earth pony but I couldn't voice my question.

A deep rumbling began in the dome and the walls started glowing a red that hurt to look at. I also felt a dull throb on my upper back and on my forehead, which I realized was where a pony's wings or horn would be located.

Suddenly a long black point suddenly came on the screens, which by now I had figured out were my eyes. It looked just like the humanoid in every way: no texture, black, with defining lines like a spiral. I realized suddenly that it was a horn.

"What the hell did you do to me you crazy bitch?" I mumbled to myself.

"Oh Celestia, you're an alicorn. Oh this is even better than I thought!" She exclaimed giddily.

Alicorn? Don't Alicorns have the strength of Earth ponies, magic of unicorns, and the wings... of... pegasi. Oh.

Was all I could think as it dawned on me what had happened. I could only assume that my wings looked like my horn.

"First we take out the element bearers and then we won't having anything stopping us from taking out Celestia and Luna. Come stallion." She said as she waved her hand in a 'follow me' gesture.

"I will be hiding over there." She pointed to a large tree.

"You will go into the town and start causing mayhem, the bearers will be drawn to it and when you see them take them out anyway you can. You are a warrior, not a hero. Got it?" She told me with a firm voice.

I could see my body's head nod.

"Good, now go kill some ponies." She said as she ran off and leaped up into the tree.

Twilight's POV

I was reading a book trying to get my mind off of Caine. His leaving had hurt me and the best thing I could do was throw myself into what I loved.

I was actually enjoying myself when Rarity burst through the library's door.

"Twilight! Everypony is saying there is something in the western end of town destroying everything and everypony in sight. We need the elements." Rarity called to me. I grabbed them from their storage space and donned my crown and gave Rarity her necklace.

"Let's go find the others." I told her as we rushed out the door.

Eventually we rounded everypony up and raced towards the commotion.

What we found there shocked all of us. It was Caine, or what we think is Caine. He had wings and a horn that were completely black with no textures and his eyes were a solid sea-green.

When he saw us he rushed us with a blank expression. We needed help, we couldn't activate the elements in time. Suddenly a red form rushed out of nowhere and tackled Caine. I saw it was Big Macintosh, Applejack's older brother. He might have been the only pony in town who could go hoof to hoof with Caine in strength, but he was no fighter and wouldn't last long.

We started up the elements as Big Mac and Caine wrestled on the ground, Caine would get the upper hand eventually. We needed to hurry.

A few seconds later Caine had taken out Big Mac who was lying in the road unconscious. Caine rushed us but we had the elements ready and only needed a shot, which we took. The bad thing is, is that it didn't work. The magic hit Caine but he only stumbled and after a moment charged us again.

Applejack went to intercept. They met a few feet away from us with Applejack throwing a hard jab at Caine's stomach. He caught this and twisted her arm up and in doing so twisted her around. He shot his hoof into the back of her knee with a resounding crack, felling her, he then grabbed her neck and smashed her face into the ground a few times, completely immobilizing her and probably giving her a concussion. Rainbow Dash had taken to the sky after the elements had failed and was now attempting to do a sonic rainboom. She did one, sending a shockwave and herself into Caine but somehow he had judged this. He sidestepped to grab her wing and arm pulling her into a whirlwind spin. He suddenly angled her downward and let go and Rainbow made a small crater in the road, down for the count and hidden from us. Fluttershy had run off and hidden by now and it was just Rarity, Pinkie, and I.

"Rarity!" I called to her. She nodded an understanding. We locked hands and began channeling our magic.

Pinkie had taken this as a cue to buy us some time and charged Caine. She was quickly immobilized by Caine who intercepted her halfway and flew up and body slammed her with another crack.

Rarity and I had started pooling our magic for a blast and had achieved synchronization. We let it off with the intent for it to follow and destroy Caine. I didn't want to do it but there was no other option and I knew if we couldn't stop him, nopony else in Ponyville could either.

We let it off. Caine flew up high into the air and waited for the blast. When it was right in front of him his arm started glowing black and he back-handed the blast, changing it from a purple/blue mix to completely black, sending it back to us.

We couldn't dodge in time nor bring up a shield to hold it off. Rarity was thrown several feet and into a tree and I heard a crack and saw Rarity's leg and forehead in blood. I made a tiny crater in the road but was left conscious but I couldn't feel my arms and my left leg felt broken.

Suddenly out of the corner of my eye I saw a periwinkle and yellow blur flying across the sky. It slammed into Caine, bringing him down to the ground. It was Derpy, I realized with terror. She wasn't nearly as fast as Dash was nor as strong, she didn't stand a chance.

She started yelling something at him but I couldn't hear anything. He threw her off of himself and got up. He picked her up with his magic. Suddenly black figures appeared around him and Caine froze. Then he let Derpy go and I blacked out.

Caine's POV

The girls had just shot me with the elements of harmony. They had looked at me in utter terror and confusion when they thought the elements didn't work but they were wrong. It just took myself to help them along.

When they shot me with the elements a Rainbow version of the humanoid had appeared. It had reached into the walls and pulled out a green one and left.

"Will" Was all it said as the black one rushed forward.

They grappled on the floor. The green one sending jabs to the sides and the black one sending jabs to the stomach.

They eventually fell out of this and stood up. The green one rushed and led with a sideways punch but the black one expected this and grabbed green's elbow and wrist and twisted him in such a way that he was sent into the floor, hard.

Black stalked over to him and stood there waiting for him to make a move.

"Trust" Green called out to me in my own voice while raising his arm out to me.

I didn't understand what he meant. Black picked green up and threw him at the cage. At the moment he hit it, we had made contact and I knew instantly what to do.

I had to trust. I was confused at this since I did trust until I realized that I never truly did. All the relationships I had set up had trust in them but it wasn't true trust, it was calculated. I didn't tell them more than what was needed and purposefully left things out and didn't tell them anything unless they asked. The trust I did have with them was also marred by my feelings for them, either lowering or heightening it. I didn't truly trust anyone, not even myself. I didn't trust myself to make important decisions, like between Derpy and Twilight. I had chosen not to choose. Even when I had come here I hadn't trusted myself to make friends. Ponies had made friends with me and I went along with it. I never really, truly, trusted anyone in my life and now was the time to end that. I needed to let someone in and who better than myself.

When this revelation hit me the room shook. A blue humanoid crawled out of the walls and rushed black and tackled him. Green got up to help and black ran to the edge. Green and Blue walked side by side up to black before giving him punches across the face at the same time crushing his jaw and cheek bones with a crack. They then put their outer arms on his shoulders and, using their inner arms, punched upward to deal a sickening blow to black, promptly dissolving him. The cage disappeared when they walked up to me.

"Will" Green said.

"Trust" Blue said.

"All" I said as I felt myself slip away.

I awoke to find myself clutching Derpy's throat and about a dozen or so clones of black around me but these ones were different. These ones had claws and wings.

I dropped Derpy to the ground, unconscious, and readied myself for battle.

One of them lunged at me with his claws. I sidestepped and twisted around with my leg in the air and walloped him upside the head, dissolving him.

Two more charged me and surprised me, throwing me to the ground while they clawed at my exposed underside. I brought my fist up and slammed it into the head of the one on my left, sending him away from me. I rolled over and up into a crouching position and lunged at the other one, putting my fist through his neck and dissolving him as well. Suddenly I felt claws on something on my back that pulled me backwards and sent me flying. I twisted in midair and landed on my feet, preparing for the next charge. Once again two more charged me in the same manner as before but this time I was ready. I charged towards them, throwing them off in the progress. I got just enough of a delay to do a flying drop kick to both of them and dissolving them.

After this three more landed from the sky around me. One slashed at me and I dodged but did so into another claw that slashed across my back. I stumbled forward from this and felt a fist slam into my face, sending me backwards. I landed on my back and recovered too slowly as I felt a hard kick to my chest sending me backwards a few more feet.

I was starting to get angry now and went into a rage.

Three charged me again and I shot forward with speed I didn't know I had, almost like I was flying, and grabbed two of them and flew up, much to my surprise, and then straight back down into the ground. I created a small crater and the creatures disappeared.

The remaining half a dozen suddenly morphed together into two, much bigger and stronger looking, versions about twelve feet tall. They charged me and I flew upwards but one of them grabbed my foot and brought me back down with my head slamming against the road. I heard a crack and felt dizzy. I was pretty sure my skull had cracked and I felt a sharp pain in my sides indicating some broken ribs as well. I didn't have a lot of time to contemplate my next move as the other one grabbed my head and threw me at a tree. I had just enough time to right myself and landed feet first into the tree, which drew backwards from my landing then sprung straight back up again launching me. I didn't plan for this but I took it.

I flapped my wings as hard as I could and brought my hands up superman style. I punched through one of them and dissolved him. The other noticing its twin gone dissolved itself and went back to the tree that the mare had hidden in.

Without warning her body fell from the tree completely limp. Seeing as how all my enemies were defeated for the time being, I passed out and fell to the ground.

A/N: Here is the action I promised. Sorry if the action before Caine got his body back was a little underwhelming. Action for stories is kind of hard to do from a third person perspective. I wanted to post this yesterday but my computer has been an asshole everyday since Saturday and basically fucked itself yesterday and I had to fix it, so sorry about that. How do you like chapter? See ya on the flip side.