Chapter 56: a burning dark dream
THE 49TH FLOOR
Everyone was waiting for dillon to show up as they all stood at the elevator that would take them to the 50th floor. As they kept waiting they then heard a buzzing sound of electricity, as they all turned to where the noise was they then saw a portal open up and saw dillon walk out of it "sorry I'm late guys" he said.
"it's alright, your just in time" Corey said.
Dillon smirked at him as he then felt fluttershy grab onto his waist "dillon!" fluttershy said as she laid her head on him. Dillon then placed his left hand on her head "hey sweetheart" he said in a loving tone. Fluttershy then stood back a bit as she then saw his bloody right hand and his scars "oh my" she said "what happened to you?".
Dillon glanced at his right hand "I had a little run in with my old man" he said "but don't worry...he and I worked out some problems". Fluttershy didn't have to ask him about the rest of the ordeal as she then understood.
"I-I see, well I'm j-just glad that your alright" fluttershy said.
Dillon nodded at her "same here".
He then walked over to max and twilight "so" dillon then glanced over at the elevator "this will take us to night shadow huh?". Max nodded at him "yup, that's right".
"so were finally gonna end this once and for all?" jack asked.
Max then crossed his arms "I hope so jack, I just hope that we can beat him".
Applejack then stomped her hoof "of course were gonna beat him!" she said "he doesn't stand a chance against all 12 of us", twilight then sighed as she turned to her friend "it's not going to be that simple applejack" she said "were going up against somepony that is of royal blood. I don't think that this fight will be a walk in the park".
"he's a decedent of royal blood" Corey added "so it's not like he's on par with princess celestia or Luna or even princess cadence, but I can understand your point in being worried. We have no idea what he might do nor do we know the potential that he may have, hell for all we know he might mop the floor with us in one attack".
Rarity then placed her hoof on Corey's leg "now Corey dear let's not think the negative just yet" she said "who knows, for all we know he might be easy on us".
"buck that! He killed my coltfriend once!" rainbow dash said "there's no way that he's gonna be easy on us!".
Jack and pinkie pie nodded in agreement with rainbow dash's statement "rainbow dash is right" pinkie pie said "if he's not gonna play fair then neither should we". Jack then rubbed pinkie's head as gave her smile "pinkie's right, we should take him out by any means. After all, he might use a few tricks on us. So why not just even the playing field".
Twilight placed a hoof on her chin as she thought about what to do. As she was thinking Clayton then sighed "I say that we just think of a plan as we fight him" he said "look were gonna be here all day thinking of what to do when he attacks or how to avoid what ever move he does next. Let's just think of something as we fight him". Everyone thought about what Clayton just said as they gave it some thought.
Twilight kept thinking of something until she then sighed "well, I really don't want us to fight him without thinking of some kind of strategy" she said "but...i guess it's better than nothing", the mane 12 then all looked at each other as they all nodded. Max then turned to the elevator and pressed one of the buttons as they all heard the elevator door open up. They all then walked inside as the elevator doors closed behind them.
The elevator then took them up to the final floor as it then stopped.
Max then breathed slowly as he then felt twilight nuzzle his side a bit "don't worry, just relax" she whispered to him. Max took one deep breathe as he glanced back at twilight "thanks twi" he said, twilight nodded at him as they all then heard the elevator doors open as they all walked out and looked at the oval office.
"well what do we have here" a voice said "if it isn't my decedent sisters most loyal little band of heroes" the mane 12 then turned there attention to the desk in front of them as the chair was faced toward the window.
"so your the one behind all of this" sam said.
"that's correct" the voice said as the chair then turned around showing none other than night shadow himself.
"and you must be the humans that have been causing me trouble, along with your pony friends" he said "hmmm how odd".
"what?" sam said.
Night shadow then glanced at the six boys as he kept looking at them over and over "hmmm, didn't I kill one of you?" he asked. Clayton stepped forward as he then pulled out his Yamato katana and aimed it at night shadow "that would be me you bastered!" Clayton snapped. Night shadow then smiled at him "ah yes the wild one of the group, you must have been the one hat vanish had been talking about over and over again" he said.
Clayton raised an eyebrow at him "what do you mean?".
"hehe, oh my dear boy truly you can't be this slow can you? What I mean is that my left hand vanish had been talking about you non stop and he wouldn't shut up about it. I swear that idiot kept telling black haze how much he wanted to kill you and how much that it should have been him to end your life, but now I don't have to hear it anymore since you killed him".
Twilight then walk forward "enough night shadow!" she said "were going to put an end to everything that you have done!"
Night shadow then got up from his chair "oh please" he said "just because the 12 of you managed to kill both my right and left hand, and escape a reality universe, and stop my small army, and save princess Luna and discord doesn't mean that I'm finished". He then walked up to twilight as he towered over her a bit "besides, I have something that I want to show you all", he then user his magic making the mane 12 and himself vanish from the room.
BASEMENT FLOOR
As the mane 12 got the chance to open there eyes they looked around only to see nothing but pure darkness.
"I can't see a thing" rarity said.
"I know rarity, were are we?" jack said.
"I'm scared" fluttershy said.
"shhhh, don't worry fluttershy. You have nothing to be afraid of" dillon said.
"yes, the 12 of you have nothing to be afraid of...for now anyway".
They then try to pin point where the voice is coming from "come on out night shadow! You can't hide in the darkness forever!" Corey yelled, night shadow then laughed "hahahahahaha! Your right child I can't hide in darkness forever, here let me turn on the lights". Soon there was a bright lime green light over there heads.
As the mane 12 were finally able to see they then looked at there surroundings and were completely horrified at what they saw. What they saw were thousands and thousands of light red glass tubes, each one having an alicorn in them.
"what the hell?" Clayton said.
"what is all of this?" max said.
"this is my army that I will be using against my sisters when I attack equestria" night shadow said as he stood near the large black metal ring in the wall. The mane 12 just looked at him with disgust as he smiled at them "oh come now, you really can't look at me like that. After all this wouldn't have happened if my sisters hadn't just gave me the throne in the first place when I was young".
"you don't deserve your place on he throne!" jack snapped "you could never be the ruler of equestria!".
Jack's comment was something that night shadow was not to fond of as he then made his horn glow as an aura surrounded his body as night shadow then threw him into the wall. "jack!" the mane 12 shouted as they ran to his side, night shadow's eyes then started to glow blood red "how dare you address me like that" he said "you shall show me respect! Especially to a royal!".
"sorry" applejack said "but yer only a descendent of royal, yer not even up to princess celestia or luna's level. Yer just somepony who's jealous!".
This was something that night shadow was not going to stand for "ENOUGH! I HAVE HAD IT WITH YOUR INSULTS!" he shouted in his royal cantering voice "YOU WORTHLESS FOOLS THINK THAT YOU CAN JUST PUT ME DOWN AND WALK ALL OVER ME!? NO! YOU WILL LEARN THE HARD WAY OF WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU HAVE MET THE WRATH OF A ROYAL!".
Night shadow then started walking toward the group as he continued "ONCE I HAVE KILLED THE TWELVE OF YOU! I WILL THEN UNLEASH MY ARMY ONTO EQUESTRIA AND TAKE WHAT IS TRULY MINE! EVERYTHING THAT MY SISTERS HAVE SHOULD BE RIGHTFULLY MINE! I WILL BE THE HEIR TO THE THRONE AND I SHALL BE THE RULLER OF EQUESTIRA! AND THEN...I'M GOING TO GO BEYOND!"
This caught the gangs attention "beyond? How in the world can you go beyond becoming the ruler of equestria?" rainbow dash said.
"Hehe, by becoming a god".
"what!?".
"that's impossible, nopony can ever become a god" twilight said.
"twilight's right, even I could never become something like that" pinkie pie said "that has to be the most crazy thing that I have ever heard anypony say".
"SILENCE!".
Pinkie pie then ran over to jack's leg as night shadow shouted "YOU WILL ALL SEE! MY POWERS ARE ON LEVEL TO THAT OF GODS! I AM ALL POWERFUL! NO FORCE CAN STOP ME! NOT MY SISTERS NOR THE TWLEVE OF YOU! I WILL BECOME A GOD! AND ONCE I HAVE BECOME GOD HIMSELF, THEN I WILL CONTROL THIS WHOLE UNIVERSE UNDER MY WILL!"
The mane 12 then looked at one another as they all then looked at night shadow "not if we can help it" dillon said, Clayton then had his sword at the ready "no matter what happens, will keep on fighting until we will defeat you and put an end to all of this" calyton said.
Night shadow then shook his head at them "you fools, you have no idea what your getting your getting into" he mocked.
Sam and Corey then cracked there knuckles "will just see about that" they said in unison.
Max looked at his brother and his friends as he then looked at the mane six who were all standing there ground, max then started to have a smile across his face "there right" he said "we won't give up, not until we stop you night shadow".