"Seriously, where did Twilight and Spike disappear off to?!" Rainbow Dash demanded as she flew around her friends.
"Perhaps they're both tired?" Fluttershy suggested.
"No, Twilight went looking for Spike, and she wasn't tired," Rarity pointed out.
"It's near midnight! For pony's stake, she could be tired!" Rainbow Dash snapped, settling for the floor.
"She got a point," Apple Jack declared, and then yawned; "but since you mentioned it, can I go?"
"Are you crazy?! I could dance all night!" Pinkie pie declared, head butting Apple Jack.
"What's the worst thing that can happen?! What's the worst thing that can happen-WHAT'S THE WORST THING THAT CAN HAPPEN?!" Rarity wailed, collapsing with her front hooves on her temples. She blushed as the room turned to look at her. "Go back to your party…"
"I hate it when you're dramatic." Apple Jack grumbled. Discord was helping Fluttershy look for the missing, teleported to them.
"Discord?" Fluttershy whispered, stepping forward hopefully. Discord shook his head shamefully and summoned a flying violin playing to Requiem Mass in D Minor, damping the mood. Silence hushed between the five ponies.
"What?" he demanded as Apple Jack and Rainbow Dash glared at him.
"The princesses are nowhere in sight, Spike disappeared? What's next?!" Rarity screamed quietly, near fainting.
To their dismay, the clock rang, announcing it is midnight. As it rang its final gong, dark laughter filled the room. The torches on the walls turned into dark glowing lights. The crowd screamed as a stallion rose up. His disguise dissolved revealing…
"King Sombra!" A Crystal pony shrieked, bolting for the exit. The crowd quickly went into panic mode, leaving the room and tripping over each other.
Pinkie who was now jumping rapidly with her hair fizzing; furiously called out: "Rar-Rar-Rar-ity you j-j-j-jinxed it!"
"Hello, my crystal slaves," he snickered to the crowd, obviously enjoying the reaction. The Crystal ponies screamed even louder than the crowd and scrammed. A few fainted on spot.
"Hey, you! Where did you come from?! You were supposed to be dead!" Rainbow Dash challenged as she got into boxing position.
"Yeah! How did you get in?" Rarity challenged as she leaped into material arts offense position. She tripped over her dress due to her embarrassment.
Discord tapped on the King's back. As the shadow glared at him, the dragonequus quickly changed into a police officer uniform. "Here's your tickets sir, now get out."
King Sombra laughed, "Oh Discord, had they soften your chaos? Aren't you enjoying the crowd's reaction?"
"I am not falling for that trick again!" he huffed, folding his arms.
The king merely shrugged. "Very well," he hissed. Discord suddenly became engulfed by a crystal, and it pulled him down below the ground. Fluttershy cried out in horror, hiding behind Apple Jack and Pinkie Pie. By now, the crowd has diminished.
"What have you done with him?!" Apple Jack roared, bucking apples at the shadow king.
"I simply put him into my ice cage, fool." Sombra rolled his eyes and summoned a mirror. "Take a look."
The ponies gasped in horror as they saw Princess Cadance, Celestia, Luna, and Twilight along with Spike, their horns covered in crystal. The dragon was attempting to melt the bars.
"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH THEM?!" Shining Armor demanded as he made his way past ever coming crowd, charged in the room. King Sombra sighed in irritation and used dark magic. The guard suddenly found himself in the cage next to Discord, scaring the captives.
"Hey!" the cyan pegasus charged, only to miss the king.
"Rainbow!" Rarity scolded, "I thought you learned not to do that!"
"What do ya want?!" Apple Jack yelled at him, hugging Fluttershy who's now bawling.
"Obviously, my empire." He said, rolling his red eyes again.
"NO!" the ponies yelled at him, all but Fluttershy.
"We-we-we-we're no-no-not du-du-dumb!" Pinkie pie yelled, throwing a pie at him. It nearly hit King Sombra, but he turned into shadow at the last minute.
"Well, then how about a compromise?" he growled.
"As if!" Rarity snorted, attempting to shoot a light beam. However, it failed.
"First of all, you want Twilight back, oui?" King Sombra said as he returned to his pony form.
"Well… yeah…" Fluttershy whimpered, bolting for the door. The shadows appeared and blocked Fluttershy, causing her to scream and hurry under the table.
"Look like somepony is smart!" he snarled sarcastically. "My first deal is no more attacks on me, and vice versa."
"Never!" Rainbow Dash yelled as she gained her consciousness, and charged again at him.
Sombra lazily used his magic to put her in trance. "And you pull her out of her nightmares."
"That's a deal!" Apple Jack quickly declared before the ponies could protest. "But first, Pinkie Promise now!"
King Sombra looked at them in confusion as they chanted: "Cross my heart and hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye!" However, Pinkie stammered through the promise.
"Huh?"
"No-no one ev-ev-ever breaks a-a-a-a Pie pro-pro-promise!" the party pony added teasingly: "Oooo-" her mane released balloons as she gasped "-oooOOOOOooo!"
"Promise! Now!" Rarity snapped, banging her hoof on the floor.
"Cross my heart and hope to fly-hey! I CAN ALREADY FLY!" he roared.
"That's not ho-o-o-w you sa-say it!" Pinkie Pie protested.
"Cross my heart and hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye. Honestly, this is stupid."
Rainbow Dash snapped back to reality, her eyes wide with fear with her wings bristling. Twilight soon appeared by her, looking around her in shock.
"Twilie!" Pinkie squealed, attempting to hug her.
"Er-Pinkie-I-can't-breathe-stop-bouncing-too." Twilight gasped looking blue.
"Now you have Princess Twilight back, can we deal now?!" he snapped.
"Rainbow Dash-no!" Apple Jack pulled her tail.
"Let me at him! Let me at him!" she screeched.
"What deal? Twilight said suspiciously.
"Since I can't retake my Crystal sla-ponies, you mares will annoyingly defeat me into humiliation, so I want a deal." He hissed, pausing. "Or I trap you six and retaking it. So now you meddlesome ponies ready to listen?!"
"If it's the crystal ponies, forget it!" Rarity spat, slightly trembling. King Sombra was going to answer, but then he closed his mouth.
"If I wouldn't reclaim the empire, I need a spot where I can be nearly all alone." He growled, prancing around the 5 ponies, ignoring Fluttershy.
"Very well, how about the Northern Mountain. Far enough that the Crystal ponies wouldn't see it. Take it or leave it." Twilight responded calmly.
"Very well…"
"Hey, answer me!" Rainbow Dash screamed, finally escaping Apple Jack, her face dangerously close to his. "How did you get in?!"
"You fools thought I was dead!" King Sombra snarled, "I've been hiding until my powers returned to maximum!"
"Hol-old on a sec-sec-second!" Pinkie Pie grabbed a cup of water and spat it out, "WHAT?!" she screeched.
"Pinkie! That was louder than when the Cutie Mark Crusaders screamed!" Rarity scolded, pulling her ears down.
"Very," Fluttershy poked her head out, and then her friends started laughing. For a moment, they forgot that the shadow king was standing, shaking his head from the volume of Pinkie's voice. He cleared his throat and continued prancing.
"Next, I just want one slave in exchange for the captive." He said, stopping in front of Twilight, "and the pony has to come willingly. No dark magic will be used on the slave."-
"…If you use magic?" Apple Jack asked.
"Feel free to banish me to Tartarusus." King Sombra stepped away. "You have five days. If not given to me, either Twilight returns to her prison or the Crystal citizen will be mine." The king turned and left the ponies in shock.
Rarity was the first to break the silence, "Come on, girls. We better announce this in the morning." She walked slowly to her room, head down.
"Twilight… Gone… Forever?" Pinkie Pie wailed, hugging the Alicorn, her pinkie-sense gone.
"Come on, girls. Rarity is right, we need our sleep to figure out this problem. Everything will be alright." Twilight sighed, following Rarity.
The next morning Princess Twilight, followed by her friends, stood on the patio.
"Ponies of the Crystal Empire, do any of you wish to eternally work for King Sombra?" Twilight called out. The crowds swiftly went into chaos, booing and screaming hysterically.
"I told ya, Twilight, I sure did," Apple Jack sighed, hiding her face with her hat. A few ponies started throwing tomatoes at them.
"Good gracious! I'm sure lucky I bought this umbrella with me today!" Rarity yelped as she opened her umbrella before a tomato struck her mane. Pinkie Pie, to the ponies surprise, started eating flying tomatoes!
"Whee! This is -chomp- fun! I prefer pies but -chomp- tomatoes are such as -chomp- good! Hey -chomp- have you heard of -chomp- tomato pie?!" Pinkie said with enthusiastic.
"Oh, you're on!" Rainbow Dash shouted angrily to the crowd, bucking the nearest thing she could grab-cookies. "Take that!" Now there was a full on Rainbow Dash's cookies versus angry Crystal ponies' tomatoes.
"That does sound good," Fluttershy admitted to the pink pony, creeping towards the door in hope to avoid getting hit by tomatoes.
"It sure does! However ah'm apples to the core. What made them act so ill-tempered?" Apple Jack removed a tomato stain from her hat, occasionally punching a tomato away.
A single tomato made its way directly onto Twilight's horn. "Alright, we get it!" she snapped to the crowd. Then she turned and whispered "We need a new plan."
"Well duh!" Pinkie Pie said, turning her head to the left.
"For now-retreat!" Twilight screamed as a huge horde of tomatoes flew towards them.
"Where did they all come from?!" Rarity yelped, following Twilight and Fluttershy.
"Brace yerselves!" Apple Jack yelled, as Pinkie Pie bounced towards the tomatoes.
Splat-splat-splat-splat-splat-splat-splat! The remaining three ponies on the platform found themselves covered in tomato juice and paste. "That was fun!" Pinkie cheered.
Soon the mane 6 split up all over Equestria, fortunately not facing a worse scenario than the first announcement. By the fourth day they gathered together at the Crystal Empire. None of them had found an volunteer.
"Any luck?" the princess asked.
"Nope," her friends responded back in unison, then Pinkie Pie added: "but Gummies wants to go!" She held out her pet who was sucking on her hair. It had grown a hoof or two longer, but it was still toothless!
"That's an alligator," Rainbow Dash pointed the obvious out.
"Err... It wouldn't be ah good butler." Apple Jack added, rubbing her hooves awkwardly.
Pinkie Pie head turned red and her ears let out a long toot, and then returned to normal. She hastily remarked: "It can vacuum and mop?"
"Um, Apple Jack's right," Fluttershy added sympathetic.
"Don't worry, I hope we'll find someone tomorrow..." Twilight trailed off, staring at the sunset that Celestia had left it.
"Come on, darlings. Let her be." Rarity whispered, nodding towards Twilight.
Author Note: Finally... Just finally able to work on this! Due to homework, my sister stealing the computer, and busy schedule, I've managed to start typing! Sorry for late chapter! Also, if it seems short to you, sorry again! :(
I'd had to make up King Sombra personality because, like, he only had 5 lines. Just five. So I was free to make up King Sombra personality! I think he dislikes cleaning and enjoys being bossy, and in my view, laaaazy when he's not desperate. I mean, he wants his crystal slaves back. Also I don't think his fangs hangs from his mouth like that evil Queen changeling, haha. Whenever we see King Sombra in the crystal empire episode, his mouth is always open or hidden. Plus, he's a stallion. Know any male pony in the series with fangs beside the changelings?
By the way... why does it seem like bad guys has fangs? To make him/her seem scarier? ,':\ Or... They're secretly vampires?!
Anyways... enjoy!