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A/N: Sadly no one has voted for this one on the poll yet. But I am still holding out hope that some pony will. Anyway fellow pony fans shall we get back to the story? It's about to get much more interesting… And much more intense! Btw the ponies of light are weak to darkness and vise versa.. just so you guys are aware. On with the FanFic!

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Attack on Ponyville

Crystal Empire Mission!

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It was not long before they arrived inside of the Canterlot Castle and were met by Luna. "Twilight! We are glad you are here," Princess Luna yelled, rushing toward them her voice panicked. "Quickly we haven't much time." Twilight nodded and followed Princess Luna, Shimmerwing darted off after them. Glimmerwing tried to keep his eye on the young princess as he followed but so many sights and colors managed to catch his eyes. He did manage to resist stopping to inspect some of these things, his mission was important. They reached the throne room where a white Alicorn with long flowing multicolored mane and tail. It almost looked like the mithreal of his homeland, a light phenomena that occurred in their coldest region to the north. He took a moment to look at the one who led them only to realize she too was an Alicorn, he flattened his ears she very much resembled a dark goddess who ruled the helion realms. While the other looked much a goddess of light, he chastised himself surely if they were goddess' they would wish to be addressed as such.

"Who did you bring with you Twilight?" The white Alicorn asked.

"Princess Luna, Princess Celestia this is Glimmerwing," Princess Twilight replied. Princess' so they were indeed considered princess' here as well then.

"Oh.. I see," Princess Celestia looked ready to collapse but she stopped herself from falling. "Twilight we have a terrible evil coming, I received a vision from.. my father." Princes Twilight looked surprised. It was clear that she never even knew that Princess Celestia even had a father, surely she must however and surely she had never truly planned to tell the other this fact. Glimmerwing sensed something more perhaps something she was hiding but he couldn't tell what.

"Your father?" Princess Twilight asked.

"Yes, it this vision were dark clouds stemming from The Crystal Empire," Princess Celestia replied. "A great evil is coming to this land, I suspect it is King Sombra once more."

"Or the evil that destroyed my planet could be heading for this city of yours," Glimmerwing offered. The Princess looked surprised, she was studying him even more now.

"What evil could destroy an entire planet?" Princess Luna asked approaching him.

"I did not see it I only know that dark crystals covered my planet," Glimmerwing replied. "I was shoved and prodded into a shuttle, that would send me off into the dark abyss of space. I was unable to look back and see the source but this evil took everything from me, even my family and home world. Whatever it is, it is dangerous."

"Dark crystals?" Princess Celestia asked, seeming to perk up a bit. "That is the same power King Sombra used, Princess Twilight, take this newcomer with you to the Crystal Empire and see if you can find something. Maybe King Sombra left some clue as to what the evil might be, they could be related."

"But.. he didn't really have anything in that other place, other than the crystal heart," Princess Twilight began but stopped herself. "But maybe somewhere else in the city might be a clue, after all if he is related to what happened to Glimmerwing's home world he had to have at least written something down. Don't worry Princess Celestia we will find something, I'm sure of it!" Princess Twilight seemed confident as she left, Glimmerwing followed a bit behind as she led him and her friends back through the castle.

"Twi, are you sure we're gunna find somethin'?" Applejack asked. Twilight looked back, her half smile seemed a bit uncertain.

"I hope so, we could use all the information we can get about this evil," Princess Twilight relied. "I'm not going to lie though, I am going to need all of your help for this. There's no telling where he would have hid such important information."

"Don't worry I'm sure we'll find it," Rainbow Dash replied. Though she didn't look too keen about the possibility of having to read anything. Glimmerwing watched them as they exchanged small talk, it was clear they were a close knit group of friends. It also made him realize he was even more of an outside than he was on his home planet, he missed his own friend who had given up his own life so Glimmerwing could escape the great evil that had destroyed so much of his home. He followed but decided not to partake in the conversation, it just didn't feel right to intrude.

He did listen a little bit as they approached the train, it seemed they were talking about some sort of school. He couldn't help but smile about all their adventures, even the ones around the school.

"It is a little sad we aren't teaching anymore," Fluttershy replied.

"Don't worry Fluttershy the new teachers are just as capable of teaching as we all were, besides we can take over their classes when they need us to," Princess Twilight replied. "Besides the map has been calling us away too much lately and it was about time to expand our school anyway."

"That is true there were so many ponies and creatures attending that it was a little hard to keep up with them all," Rainbow Dash replied. "Well you all had issues keeping up anyway."

"I recall a few out pacin' an' out smartin' you too Rainbow Dash," Applejack teased.

"That was one time," Rainbow Dash replied, looking offended. Glimmerwing smiled as they continued to chat.

"You seem pretty quiet," Twilight spoke up. Glimmerwing looked around to be sure she wasn't talking to someone else.

"Yeah he is pretty quiet," Rainbow Dash spoke next. "More quiet than Fluttershy and that's saying something."

"Oh I dunno, he seems very talkative when he has something to say," Fluttershy chimed in.

"You're right, he isn't one that seems to be the shy type," Pinky Pie spoke up.

"He's probably missing his friends," Rarity said.

"You can talk to us bout anythin' if ya need to," Applejack told him.

"Thank you but I do enjoy to just listen," Glimmerwing replied. "It is nice to be around such lively ponies." He got a few smiles before the conversation shifted away from him, he listened to most of their memories before Princess Twilight began to formulate a plan.

"Okay we have searched the castle high and low once before," Twilight began.

"And we have searched the library," Rarity chimed in.

"True but we weren't looking for the right thing," Princess Twilight replied. "King Sombra hid everything that was important to him with dark magic." She took a deep breath. "I may have to use the same magic to find it."

"Ya know how dangerous that magic is," Applejack interrupted. "You can't.."

"I might have to, I won't just go around using it wherever," Princess Twilight promised. "That's why I will need all of your help, if we can find the same crystals that we found in the throne room maybe we can find his secret library or something. I don't even know if he has one but if he does he would have hidden it well, so we need to be alert and looking for anything out of the ordinary." Her friends nodded in agreement and even conveyed that they understood what she was asking for. Glimmerwing wasn't sure how all of this would pan out nor how they would find this King Sombra's evil lair, if he had one that is.

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Despite all of the descriptions the other ponies offered him he couldn't imagine what the city would look like until they finally arrived. He gaped at the huge city, it was so much like his home world that he was taken aback. Granted the city was much smaller then the city where he had lived and it had a huge shield around it, which his people hadn't used anything like it before. Could it be the ponies here had somehow gotten this similar crystal like city from some lost tech from his people or did they evolve to make this all on their own?

"You alright sugar cube?" Applejack asked. It took Glimmerwing a moment to realize she was speaking to him.

"Oh.. um yes," he replied. "I hadn't expected it to look so much like my home city, well on a smaller scale that is." The mares looked at him in astonishment, it seems this little bit of information was new to them.

"Did your city have a crystal heart too?" Princess Twilight asked. He searched his memory a bit as he was a bit confused by it, but he did remember that the crystal heart is what generated this magical shield.

"No nothing like that I am afraid," Glimmerwing answered a bit sadly. "If we had maybe we could have defended ourselves better. But how could we have known of such an evil on my home world? It had been so peaceful for so long, even our written history held no clues of the mysterious attacker. Only in myths were such forces spoke of. In the tales of the ancient gods and goddess' there was a being named Helia who ruled a realm called Helion deep below our planet's surface, she was sentenced to rule there by the god Odin but it never mentioned what she had done to be banished."

"Hmm, I see," Princess Twilight replied. "Any reason why no one had cared to keep up with the myths and legends?"

"I do not know," Glimmerwing replied. "The legends date far back into our past, perhaps those who witnessed it, or wrote of it, had already perished and hoped their writings would remain intact for those who were yet to be born."

"Why were you you the only one reading about the myths?" Rainbow Dash asked. Glimmerwing blushed at this.

"Their stories were.. very interesting, mild fascination perhaps?" Glimmerwing shrugged. "I didn't actually think any of it was fact it seemed to unreal to be anything but fiction."

"Basically it became nothing more than an old mares tale," Princess Twilight replied. "Maybe if the Crystal Empire is, er was colonized by space ponies a long, long time ago.. then maybe it will still have some of that knowledge locked away somewhere."

"Ooo, like something with strange writing that we can't even read?" Pinky Pie asked.

"Yeah something like that," Princess Twilight said stamping her hoof.

"I saw a couple books like that in the library," Pinky Pie said excitedly.

"Do you remember where you found them?" Princess Twilight asked.

"Yep, I sure do!" Pinky Pie replied hopping off. Glimmerwing smiled at her enthusiasm as he stepped across the shield to follow. Glimmerwing stopped suddenly as searing pain burst through his skull, his vision went from spinning with a multitude of colors to darkness.

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*intercept's* Hey guys sorry this took so long I have been trying to decide how to introduce the infamous Sombra to the story.

Sombra: That's King Sombra to you!

Me: *jumps out of my skin* Where did you come from? How did you get in.. nvm how are you even in my realm.. wait a minute.. *looks Sombra over*

Sombra: What.. why are you staring at me?

Me: *blushes* Umm.. no reason anyway see you guys in the next chapter! *tries to slow my beating heart*