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// Chapter Eleven- A Canterlot Wedding Part 2 
// Story: The Traveling Son of a Great Dreemurr 
// by jjb0420 
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I feel the crystals, and close my eyes. Through the energy of life, I see Twilight, and an injured Cadence in separate rooms.

“So............aside from my friends and family, and the spell.................everything’s following along the main timeline.” I sit down. “Whelp. All there is to do is wait...................” I look down in disappointment. “However long it takes.” I lay on the ground and start to sing.

“Take off, at the speed of sooooouuund!
Bright lights, colors all aroooooound!
All the while i’m living fast, and freeeeeeee!
Got no regrets inside of me-e-e!
No looking back!
Not giving up!
Not letting go.............I’ll keep on ru-nning...........”

A purple beam bursts into the room. I turn my head, and see a furious Twilight.

“Where. Were you?” She starts to tear up. “Where were you at the rehearsal!? I would’ve thought of all people, you would’ve believed me!”

“That the Cadence up there, isn’t your old foalsitter?” She looks at me in confusion. “I know who it really is. Frisk does too, but................we both kept it secret to protect the timeline.”

“If...............If that person up there, isn’t Cadence...............then where is she?”

I stand up, form a fist, and blast the wall in front of me. On the other side is the true, princess Cadence. Twilight tries to rush them, but I grasp her in my blue magic.

“Twi............Twilight?” They look at me. “Who.........are you?”

“God Celestia kept ponies in the dark.” I face Twilight. “If I let you go, do you promise you won’t do anything drastic?” Their eyes dart between Cadence and me, and they slowly nod. I let them go, falling onto the ground. I face Cadence. “You’ll have to give them some slack. Chrysalis has tricked everybody save me and my sister, they all thought Twilight of ruining your day.”

“I get it.” They turn to the filly Twilight. “Twilight please! I’m the real Cadence! The one that trapped you down here is still up there. She’s an imposter!”

“Likely story!” They shout, pouting. 

Cadence then starts doing the dance. “Sunshine, sunshine, ladybugs awake. Clap your hooves.............” 

They look at her as they finish the song with her. “..........and do a little shake.”

Cadence smiles at her, earning a grin from the filly.

“You remember me!” They exclaim, hugging the alicorn.

“Of course I do. How could I forget the filly I loved to sit for the most?” They get a closer look at her. “Speaking of filly............how are you so young?”

“An immensely powerful being by the name of Infinite, cast a spell over Canterlot. Everyone save a few of my friends, Chrysalis, and the Queen were regressed into fillyhood.................Including my family, and the princesses. I avoided it by running through the shield.” We then hear Chrysalis’ laugh, which sends a shiver up my spine. “.............After everything, that’s what i’m afraid of?”

“We have to get out of here. We have to stop her!” Shouts Twilight.

“Follow me, I can sense all the life up there.” And I run off through a tunnel. The two soon follow.



“Princess Cadance and Shining Armor, it is my great pleasure to pronounce you...........”

“Stop!” Twilight and I run in, all the ponies and monsters chattering.

“Ugh! Why does she have to be so possessive of her brother?” When Celestia looks at her in confusion, she starts to muster up fake tears. “Why does she have to ruin my special day?”

“Because it’s not your special day! It’s mine!” Cadence comes in, causing everyone save Frisk to gasp.

“What? But how did you escape my bridesmaids?!”

“Two words. Wedding bouquet. Apparently even under mind control no bridesmaid can resist. Such idiots!”

“Hmph. Clever. But you’re still too late.”

“Ah-Ah don’t understand. How can there be two of ‘em?” Asks Applejack, standing near my family along with the girls, all in small formal attire.

“She’s a changeling!” Says Frisk.

“Exactly. She takes the form of somepony you love and gains power by feeding off your love for them!”

Her eyes glow green in rage as her horn, and the ground around her ignites in green flames. They burst up into a column, and I shield my eyes as I spot Lightmare slowly walk in front of the crowd, her eyes wide. Inside the fire the disguise I saw gets burned away, revealing the true changeling queen as she opens her reptilian green eyes, and opens her fanged mouth into a cackle.

“Right you are, Princess! And as queen of the changelings, it is up to me to find food for my subjects. Equestria has more love than any place I’ve ever encountered. My fellow changelings will be able to devour so much of it that we will gain more power than we have ever dreamed of!”

“The shield spell is still holding Chrysalis. I told you Shining Armor’s spell would be a challenge.”

“Oh I doubt that. Isn’t that right, dear?” Their horn lights with pure green magic, making Shining nod in response. Cadence tries to get closer.

“Ah, ah, ah. Don’t want to go back to the caves, now do you?” Cadence slowly keeps her distance. “Ever since I took your place, I’ve been feeding off Shining Armor’s love for you. Every moment he grows weaker and so does his spell. Even now, my minions are chipping away at it. Hehahaha! He may not be my husband, but he is under my total control now. And I’m sorry to say, unable to preform his duties as Captain of the Royal Guard!”

“Not my Shining Armor!”

“Soon, my changeling army will break through. First, we take Canterlot. And then, all of Equestria!
”

“You forgot Chrysalis.” She looks at me. “Just because I didn’t interfere then doesn’t mean I won’t interfere now!”

I shift forms, and I run in, my blades clashing with her Keyblade. “Now that everyone’s knows who you truly are, I can fight you on my terms!”

She bucks me backwards, and sends a blast of green magic at me.............but Celestia jumps in the way, and takes the hit. She ends up sprawled across the ground.

“Impossible..............Alicorns have increased durability, even as fillies!”

“Ah! Shining Armor’s love for you is even stronger than I thought! Consuming it has made me even more powerful than Celestia!”

I kneel near them. “Despite everything.................you saved me? I don’t understand.” 

“The.............the D-5 was a year ago. Before your death. The Elements of Harmony. They must be used to defeat the queen.”

I turn towards my parents. “Protect them.” I turn towards Chrysalis. “I have a job to finish.”

“Did you not see? I’m more powerful than Celestia herself!”

“...............Then I have no choice.”

“Asriel...........No. you have no idea what that’ll do to you!” Exclaims Lightmare.

I close my eyes, and block her out. “Whatever the price is, for what I’m about to do................I’ll pay it.” My body glitches as I clench my fists. “’LOVE too, is an acronym. It stands for Level Of Violence.’”


Chara and Frisk gape at me as a black screen appears behind me, displaying my stats.

“’A way of measuring ones capacity to hurt.’ Know this, Queen Chrysalis. I promise you................” I open my eyes, one pure black and blazing with rainbow flame, the other pure red. The face marks link fully to my eyes, and another line grows down as the LV on the screen jumps from 3 to 20. “I will stop you.”

She looks at me in confusion as I blur out of view, and appear behind her, spin kicking her into the doorway. I turn to my family. “Get the six to the throne room. Lightmare, get Sans and Riolu, then come straight back here.”

“Asriel...........” says Chara.

“GO!” And they run off as Chrysalis slowly gets up.

“Well then......................I assume LOVE, is a magic booster?”

“All sentient races have LV. The more you kill, the easier it becomes to distance yourself.” My right arm turns into a Chaos Buster, which I aim at her and send a spray of shots. “The more you distance yourself..................” She jumps out of the way, and tries to stab me with the Keyblade. I warp out of the way at the last second. “The less you will hurt.” The Buster charges up, and blasts her through a window with a beam of rainbow magic. “The more easily you can bring yourself to hurt others.” my back glitches as pure magic erupts, forming a pair of wings. She barely has enough time to block my swords. “In other words, i’m as strong as you.”

Then I feel it. I look up, and see hundreds of changeling drones rocketing down in green flames. I teleport behind her, and hold her arms down. 

“You’re too late, Asriel Dreemurr! They have strict orders to carry on no matter what, even if I die! The only way for this to end, is your surrender.” She spots Sans and Lightmare run up to the window. “Stay out of this!” She then tries to blast Lightmare. They shield themselves with their hooves, and both are surrounded in a bright light. As the light fades, both of them are still standing. In Lightmare’s right hoof, is a Keyblade identical to Chrysalis’.

“And now it is revealed.”

“What do you mean? That is impossible! The only changelings that can use the blade are................!” She stops, and looks at Lightmare in shock, the pegasus panting and looking over the Keyblade in confusion.

“are what?”

I lean my head to the left. “Are the Royal bloodline.”

His eyes go pure black as Lightmare looks more confused.

“You mean................”

Chrysalis’ horn lights, and green flames surround Lightmare, shooting up and revealing her changeling form. 

“Those eyes.” I let go, and we both slowly land. They slowly walk up to Lightmare. “...........................Mirror Image?”

“You................know them?” Asks Riolu.

“More than that.” A single tear drops from their face. “She was my daughter.”



“That.............But that’s, impossible, I...............” She grips her head in confusion.

Chrysalis looks at me. “How is this possible? Mirror................She..................She died, to NIDS.”

“Reality is made of infinite possibilities. For every event, or decision that has ever occured, there is at least one universe...................Where it never happened. She’s from a version of Equestria where your daughter lived, and left the hive. Became Celestia’s Prized Pupil alongside Twilight...................and was corrupted by the mare in the moon. The elements saved her, but...................she lost her memory.” She gasps, covering her mouth. “Everything she knows about her past was told by Celestia, or the symbiotic remnant of Nightmare Moon, that lives within her.”

“Despite.............” She looks at the ground, tearing up. “Despite all i’ve said....................I did all this for her. Ponies wouldn’t help my daughter....................So I blindly wanted to use them for food as penance.”

“People grieve in different ways. My father declared war on humans, my mother left him and entered the Ruins................I started to kill for kicks and giggles. The difference between then and now...............is I have someone I can actually care about. Out of all the people in the Multiverse...............Your daughter, is the only one I can love.”

She slowly walks past me, and sees the chaos outside. “What.................What have I done?”

“its not too late to call this off.”

“I’m afraid it is, Sans. Before I left the hive, I gave an order to not stop until the Ponies surrendered. Not even my death will change that.”

“There’s been enough death. There’s al.............” Riolu and I both feel sharp pains in our backs. I turn and use my magic to fling the changeling out of the way as I pull the dagger out of my back. Riolu did the same and seized up. I raise my hand and see it start to glitch.

“No.................No...............NO!” The ground around me starts to catch fire. “I can feel it.....................My body..........it feels like its fading away. Like, at any instant.................i’ll disappear from the world. But.................deep, deep in my magic, theres a burning feeling I once couldn’t describe. A BURNING FEELING THAT WON’T LET ME DIE!!” The flames surround, and spin like a tornado, causing everyone to step back from the heat. 

“It’s like...............i’m slipping away. Like, at any instant, my SOUL will shatter. But.....................Something within...............WILL NOT LET ME DIE!” A blue beam of energy shoots up from under him.

“chrysalis, lightmare, back away from the monster. he has Determination in him...............and it gives him a large boost when he’s about to die.”

Riolu and I keep spouting the lines as the different energies get stronger. 

“What would happen when he has increased LV?”

Their eyes go black again. “lightmare, you need to warn the kids family. I have a theory, and it’s not good.”

“Sans, I pretty much look exactly like the things that are busy attacking the city!”

Riolu and I emerge. I stand there, looking at the ground. Riolu is a Mega Lucario, and I look like I did before.

“Finally-Finally. I-I was so tired-tired of being a flower-flower-flower!”

“every one back up slowly.” 

They start to back up towards the door when I quickly look up at Lightmare. “Howdy-Howdy! Chara, are you there-there? It’s me-me! Your best............friend-friend.” I float up, sending them back in a blast of energy. “A S R I E L D R E E M U R R ! ! ! ! !” I then warp out.

“Urgh! What in Unova was that?” Asks Lucario.

“its just as i feared. his LV mixed with the Determination, mid-transformation. He’s forgotten everything that’s happened!”

“So...............He’s become the Absolute God of Hyperdeath again!?” Asks Lightmare, Chrysalis gaping.

“if he kills frisk or the demon, he’ll be able to reset everything back to zero. fly ahead, and warn his family!” She nods and flies off. He faces Lucario and Chrysalis. “will the two of you be able to fend off the swarm?”

“We might be able to do you one better.”

“With our combined energy, I might be able to redirect the hive using my connection to them all.” She turns to Sans. “However, why should I do so? What is so bad about this?”

“if he resets everything, everything will change. we’ll be forced back underground, all the good he’s done will be erased................and everyone who was displaced here will get sent back. including your daughter.” He slowly approaches them as her eyes shrink. “and i get that you have resentment towards celestia, i do too. but this is your second chance................not many people get those. do you want to lose it?”

She looks down in thought, and back up at him, shaking her head. 

“then make sure that your hive doesn’t get in the way.” He walks towards the door, pulling out the Cipher box. “there’s a kid who needs a bad time.”



“H-How many of these things are there!?”

“Whatever the answer is, we have to keep going!” Exclaims Chara. She stabs through several into a wall, and is about to stab another when they shield themselves.

“It’s me! Please.........Don’t hurt me!”

“Wait..........”She stabs behind one sneaking up behind her. “Lightmare?”

“You have to listen! The queen doesn’t want to keep fighting! They’re all going on old orders!”

“And how exactly can we trust you?” Asks Obsidian.

“Please! One of them stabbed Asriel, and he refused it! He thinks its the end of a Pacifist run!”

Frisk freezes. “It can’t be.”

“It is..............he’s coming for you. If he kills you, or Chara, he’ll gain total control of the timeline......................He’ll RESET everything!”

We hear a warping sound behind me. I slowly turn my head, and spot Sans getting knocked away by Asriel, who turns towards us.



“If it isn’t my best friend!” I shout, surrounding Canterlot in a rainbow dome. ”You know, I don’t care about destroying this world anymore! After I defeat you and gain total control of the timeline..........I just wanna RESET everything! All your progress.........everyone’s memories........I’ll bring it all back to ZERO! Then, we can do everything all over again!” I blast Frisk into a wall, and a changeling with green eyes gets in the way. “And the best part.............YOU’LL do it!” I wave my hand, sending the changeling to the left. “Because you want a happy ending...........because you, ‘love your friends’! HAHA! Because you never, give, up!” I summon several blades, two in my hands, and jump in the air. “C’mon! Let’s see what good your Determination is against this!”

I get blasted out of the air by a beam of blue magic, sending me to the ground. Everyone turns to where the beam came from, and see a mare emerge from the shadows. Nightmare Moon.

“How..............How are you here?”

“I believe it’s best if you ask your friend.” Right then, a red glitch in the sky appears, releasing a small girl with a red and black sweater-skirt, black and red eyes, and red hair. They’re also wearing a black scarf.


“Who............are you?””

They land on the ground, and look at them. “You know me by many names. The Author, Jack, Obscure Core..............In this form, i’m called Player.” They turn towards Sans. “I see you’ve been keeping him busy Bill.”

“As best we can. He has the strength of the demon  and Celestia.”

“Hehehe! While it is true that he has the strength of a god, we all have ways to boost our power. To surpass him. For me and Nighty here, its a matter of tweaking ATK levels to measure up to him. Mega Lucario has the power of every Pokemon within him, you have the power of the dream demon, and....................” They toss a bracelet over to Undyne. “I finished the DT Activator. A small boost of Determination, and you’ll be right as rain.”

They look at it, back to them, and smile. “Anything to have the chance of helping out. Plus, the kid and I never sparred!” They put it on, and press the button. They grab their chest as the vial empties into their body. Their other arm grabs their eyepatch. “My SOUL.................I can feel it. Deep, deep inside, there’s a burning feeling I once couldn’t describe! A BURNING THAT WON’T EVER LET ME DIE!” They tear off the eyepatch as a beam of white light shoots out, sending everyone back as I start to get up. “I know that if you get past us, you’ll kill my friend, and RESET EVERYTHING! I WON’T LET YOU DO THAT! EVERY MONSTER. I CAN FEEL THEIR HEARTS BEATING AS ONE! AND WE ALL HAVE ONE GOAL! TO DEFEAT, YOU! FOR THE SAKE OF OUR FREEDOM.......................I, UNDYNE, WILL STRIKE YOU DOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” A barrage of spears shoots at me, and knocks me back into a wall. She emerges twirling a spear as I fire a beam. She blocks it. “You’re gonna have to try a little harder than THAT!!!!”

They all line up as my wounds heal. “That’s what I always liked about you all! That you never, give, up!” Both my arms turn into Chaos Busters, and I send twin beams straight at them. Lucario warps in front of them, and puts his paws forward. The exact moment it hits, his feelers face towards the blast, and absorb all the magic into him. 

“Dragon Pulse!” Both his paws and feelers send out dragon-shaped energy out, straight at me. I jump out of the way at the last second, and the blast completely destroys the wall.

“It’s time you faced against us all, fighting as one!” Several spears appear as Lucario takes a fighting stance with aura flames surrounding his paws, Nightmare Moon levitates Night Terror and a scythe, Player snaps and creates copies of everyone’s weapons, and Sans hits the ground with his cane, creating several yellow and blue eyed Gaster Blasters. 
“We Will Strike You Down!!!!!” And they charge me.



Lucario jumps into the air. “Flamethrower!” He breaths in, and spews blue fire out of his mouth straight at me. I manage to dodge it, but get jump kicked by Undyne. Player runs towards me, and I put my hand out. “Stars Blazing!” Large rainbow stars enter the dome, and impact the ground. Sans and Player teleport out of the way, but everyone else gets hit at least twice by the aftereffect. I stand up, and conjure electrical magic into my hands. “Shocker Breaker!” The dome sends down large bolts of lightning.

“Lightning Redirection.” They catch the lightning in their fingertips, and send it back at me through the other. 

“Impressive.”

“Just some simple firebending.”

Both of my eyes light with rainbow flames. “Hyper Blaster!!!!!!!!!” Hundreds of horned Gaster Blasters materialise around me, and charge up their shots. Sans and Player both summon and fire their blasters, and Lucario sends another Dragon Pulse just as the Hyper Blasters fire, counteracting the shots.

Lightmare looks between the group and I. They turn to Frisk. “Yesterday morning...............He told me about his strongest attack. He’s used everything else so far, so you know whats next.”

“There’s nothing we can do. Either they defeat him, or everyone save me and Chara gets ERASEd.”

“Sigh. I guess you’re right.” 

“Lightmare.”

She perks up at this. “Chrysalis................Mother?”

“Don’t bother looking around for me. I’m communicating to you through the hive mind. And I don’t have a lot of time.”

“What............is it?”

“The drones..................They figured out the ruse, and are coming for you!”

Her eyes shrink, and she turns to Frisk. “We’re out of time!”

We all hear a large swarm of drones fly in above us. Every single one sends a beam of green magic down onto me, creating a building sized crater. Soon after, the rainbow dome shatters as the dust clears, my unconscious body revealed.



Player slowly floats down, and walks up to my body They put their finger to my neck. “Still has a pulse. His DT boosted his already increased HP.”

“His aura is very weak. If I could take a guess, that lowered him down to 5 or 10 out of 200HP.”

Player moves their hand to my head. They speak in a faint whisper, and I quickly gasp, opening my eyes.

“What did you do!?”

“Relax. I simply restored the lost memories. Sudden memory gain can pack a punch.”

I grab my chest. “What............Happened?”

“You went full on God of Hyperdeath, that’s what!”

“We can explain later.” They point up to the sky. “The hive won’t stop until we surrender, or we’re all dead.”

I slowly get up, trying to adjust to the legs again. I fall into a kneel. “My Determination is slowly regenerating my strength, but not fast enough. Outside of essokinesis, i’m out of options.”

“Well..................”

Sans shakes his head when he realizes. “No, no way!”

“The morpher’s the only booster we have left!”

I pull it out from behind me. “I.............I haven’t used this...............since the day I died. Without a SOUL, or good purpose..............I don’t know what’ll happen!”

“It’s this, or we lose the battle.”

I hold my face. “Growl! Fine! But you four and Chrysalis are on standby. The moment something happens, take me out!” I shakily stand up, and insert the key. “Legendary Villain Mode! INFINITE!!!!!!!!!!!!” I twist it, and a storm of black HATE circles around me like a tornado. A red shockwave goes out, shaking the entire city as the tornado erratically moves towards the swarm.

In the altar room, a bunch of drones had caught Celestia and put her in a cocoon. The shockwave caused it to drop, releasing her as well as knocking the drones out the opposite window. She slowly recovers, and looks out the window at the raging tornado. It stops, and condenses into a single floating figure. Me. 

“You.................You used it again?”

I turn toward her, mask and all, and a tendril of HATE flies at her. She covers herself, and slowly lowers it to see I stabbed a drone approaching on her left. I pull it closer, and throw it to the ground.

I look back at her. “How about a little gift? With his energy signature I can temporarily remove the spell.” She quickly nods, and I raise my hand. I snap, sending another shockwave that, when hitting someone, changes them all back to their normal ages. I drop to the ground, and start to wail on the drones as they attack. I use a mix of attacks, from melee skill sets from different worlds, and using my claws, to creating weapons with the Phantom Ruby.

I look at my hand, and see it’s alight with black flames. I smirk under the mask, and slash through the air, shaping the flames into a black sword that I use to stab a couple drones.

Celestia flies down next to me. “After all this time, you would use that form again?”

I look at her as I pull my blade out of another drone. “The swarm left me very weak. This was the only option I had left. Besides, it helped you, didn’t it?”

“Touche,” she responds as she blasts several drones into a wall. “By the Rising Morning of the Solar Solstice, I summon the Light of Dawn!” In a burning flash of light, three individual Keyblades, all based off herself and her power, appear into her magical grasp.




“Take them down only, not out. My blade causes shock-induced unconsciousness.”

“Why only knock them out? They attacked us.”

More tendrils grow out, and provide cover as I speak. “That’s the difference between us, and villains Celestia. Plus, these drones are acting under old orders. Chrysalis wants to stop this!” I make a shield with my arms, and break them quickly, sending another energy wave that clears the area. “Besides, haven’t you killed enough people!?”

“Oh for the love of.................!” She stabs the three blades into the ground, creating a beacon of light. “Sigh..............Look. Yes, I had planned to make weapons with Determination.......................but then, before your friends left this world, they showed me everything..............all the pain you’ve experienced. Through racism, guilt, knowledge of your death................me. And your family, friends, Sans..............everyone, reminded me everyday, of my mistake.”

“Then why did you try to attack me on Hearthswarming Day?”

“I’m a pony, we can be stubborn sometimes. I had gotten an anonymous letter, that you might’ve been still alive, days prior...............and when I saw you in the house.................something came over me. Since then i’ve been trying to figure out what............this feeling is. Even now I feel it. Groan! What is this, and why do I feel it with your family!?”

“I don’t know...............but I have a possible theory.” I grab a drone by the neck as it shoots down, and throw it behind me. “Tell me. Who did you feel it the most with?”

She looks down in thought as I blast several drones behind her. “Now that you mention it....................it’s the worst with you, Asgore, Obsidian, Infinite, and your sisters.”

“I thought correctly.” several Gaster blasters appear in the air, and create an umbrella above us. “Your not feeling unease..............you sense LV.”

“What?”

“Somehow, I don’t know how, you can sense a persons dormant LV. My sisters have LV 19 and 20 respectively, I have impossibly high amounts, who knows how much Infinite has, and both Obsidian and my dad have fought in wars. This entire time, you been feeling our capacity to hurt!”



“How the Mane Six dealt with this, I have no idea!”

“Try fighting several Legendary Pokémon at once. Double Team Dragon Pulse!” dozens of copies of the Pokémon appear around them, and all send out blasts of energy at a large swarm.

“With the right tools, and the right strategy, these are easy.” The side of their vision suddenly blares red, and their eyes shrink. “Multiple errors detected. The timeline can’t handle all this energy!”

“What............?” right then, Lucario grips his head.

They all slowly start to give them space as Player pulls up a display, showing several error messages. “A normal timeline can’t contain more than 6 Super forms at once. Once the errors start, the energy rubberbands, manifesting as the side effects of said forms. I’m immune since I exist separate from the timeline, and Undyne is able to withstand Determination.”

“Agh!” They look back at him. “Its like a poker in my head, trying to get me mad!”

“Breath! If your body uses Outrage, you’ll go feral!”

They drop to the ground as Undyne runs past him and chases after a swarm escaping. They pant. “This must be what Lupé feels.” They slowly get up. “I’m good, but it’s just..........waiting. For something to set me off.”

“Wait.” They all look at Lightmare. “If those errors are causing Super form side effects.............!”

Player blinks in realization. “Get your mother, and tell her to fly to him as fast as they can. Lucario, it’s best you don’t fight since you’re like a ticking bomb. Help evacuate the ponies!” They nod and run off. “Sans, your with me. Frisk, Chara, keep these things busy.” And the two run off.



“They just keep coming!” I exclaim as I release another blast wave.

“How much longer can you hold the monsters form?” She asks as she stabs through three drones in succession.

“It’s a test of strength. One good hit, and I’ll demorph. But I got to kee...............” right then, I grip my head in agony.

She turns to me. “Asriel, are you okay?”

My eye opens, pure red, and looks at her. “Never been better, Celestia.” I raise my hand, and violently lift her up into the air. 

“Asriel, what............!?”

“Asriel’s not here right now. The false Author never perfected the morpher, and gave me an opening!” I rise up into the air, and send out a shockwave that reveals thousands of white strands of magic. All linked to her horn. “Somebody’s not going to be happy when they find out about this!”

“As.........”

I pull her towards me. “I’m not, Asriel!” She gets launched forward into a wall.

She looks over in shock as I hover towards her.

“It’s............It’s you, isn’t it?”

“Like I said before. You may call me.................Infinite. For the brief moments that remain to you!”

She braces for impact as they send an energy blast..................and looks when she realizes she isn’t dead. In front of her is Chrysalis, Sans, and Player.



“So...........if it isn’t the Neutral Judge, the False Author, and the Changeling Queen.” They hold their mask as they chuckle. “Is that fear is smell?”

“So, this is the one my daughter told me about?”

“He is not to be underestimated Chrysalis. Plus, I might be the only one who can fight him on equal terms.”

“When he’s a psychopathic killer with essokinesis? Puh-lease!”

They chuckle. “In this form, this entire world is just ones and zeros. I can change the code with just a thought.” They slowly walk forwards, smiling. “Flowey and Frisk deals with timelines, I deal in possibilities.”

“I’m surprised no one beyond the fourth wall saw you coming. ‘I want a true, happy ending, with everyone in it.’”

Player snaps, creating purple glitching Gaster Blasters. “Last chance.”

They chuckle, and raise their hand..............

“Asriel?”

That word, from that voice, caused them to grab their head, and drop to the ground on their knees.

“Light.............Lightmare.”

“My daughter.”

They walk forwards. “I figured that my voice would do the trick. It’s snapped him out of outbursts before.”

“Not............for long. You have...............to use the morpher, to seal him back in!”

“We have no idea what that’ll do to you............!”

I grip my claw as it reaches towards them. “He’ll use me to kill you if you don’t!” I toss them the morpher as I start to glitch. “Go!”

Right as they regain control, multiple purple chains attach to their limbs. They break them, only to have them replaced over and over. Slowly they move towards Player.

“I can’t hold this forever!”

Right then, my family and friends, and all the changelings run in, casting spells that create more and more chains.

They keep breaking the chains as Celestia and Faust look at Chrysalis. 

“We have to work together,” says Celestia.

They growl. “After you rejected my kind? After you got my daughter killed?!”

“And I regret that, okay!? After Discord and Infinite I had become xenophobic.............and I’m sorry.  But you have her back, right!? You have a second chance! I............no, my mother, and my sister, have been fixing my mistakes.” Infinite gets closer. “It’s time I fix them myself!” She holds out hooves to both Chrysalis, and my mom. “Too long have our race set been divided! No, more!”

They look down, nod, and take her hooves. All the others do the same, including my sisters and Lightmare. It results in all the chains combining into seven rainbow colored ones holding Infinite. As Player holds out the morpher, a large storm of HATE burst she out in them, getting sucked into the morpher. The force of it starts to push people back, but Player barely holds their ground. As the HATE gets sucked in, parts of my body start to change back, and the HATE starts to form the key from which it came. Eventually, the storm stops, and Player pulls the key out of the socket. As the chains disappear, my strength starts to drain away. First the Determination fails, then the LV and Hyperdeath form, then finally my shimmer. 

“Thank.........you.........” I smile as I collapse to my knees, and hit the ground unconscious. My family and Lightmare run towards me in worry.



I’ve been taken into the room Lightmare slept in. Lightmare is sitting on the bed next to me.

I slowly open my eyes, and look over at her. “What...............happened?”

She looks over, and lightly hugs me. “I’m glad your okay.” She lets go, and looks at me smiling. “Everyone will be.”

I look down. “I’m.............I’m sorry, that............I never told you about your past.”

She looks towards the window. “Who else........knew?”

“Gaster, the princesses, my family, the Mane Six, Stellar Nova............Sans. Before you were displaced here, I used the watch to become you. That version could remember everything.” She turns and gapes at me. “I didn’t know at first that you were her daughter, you just told them you were a princess from the hive..................but I did some research. I didn’t expose the wedding plot because I was trying to protect the timeline.” I hold my face. “What an excuse! Exposing or not, it would’ve ended the same way anyway. She had planned this a month in advance!” I look at her. “I see you learned to shapeshift?”

“............Kinda. I changed back in the nick of time to SAVE you............and my mom’s been teaching me how. So far I can only do girls.” She looks down. “It’s still weird saying that. One second I’m confident that I know who I am................now I’m not sure anymore.”

I sigh, and look at her. “Listen. While I was researching your lineage, I found out everything. Out of all the timelines, you’re the only Lightmare that lives. Rather than dying, you split off from the hive mind, to answer a question.”

I slowly get up, and hug her. “That question was ‘can a Changeling love another?’” I kiss her on the cheek. “The point is, you’re unique. And I know who you are.”

“............then tell me.”

“Isn’t it obvious? You’re the mare I love.” Right then, the door opens and Chrysalis, Mom, and Celestia walk in.

“Sigh.............What do you want, Celestia?”

“It’s not just what she wants.”

Celestia looks down, and four buttons appear. FIGHT, ACT, ITEM, AND MERCY. She hits MERCY.

“After all this time.............You’re trying to spare me?!” MERCY. “After killing my dad!?” MERCY. “AFTER ATTEMPTING TO MAKE ANTI-MONSTER WEAPONS!?” MERCY. “AFTER TRYING TO KILL ME!?!?! WHY?!?!?!?!” MERCY. “...........” MERCY. I show confusion. “.........Why?” MERCY. “Why are you being...............so nice to me?” MERCY. I grip my head. “I can’t understand.” MERCY. I grip my head even harder. “I can’t understand!” MERCY. My hands drop, and a tear drops from my face. “I just..................I can’t understand.” I warp to the balcony, my mom and Lightmare showing worry.

Mom walks up towards me. “You.............You really can’t, can you?”

I slowly nod. “Before................Before we came back..............Something happened. Something that actually made..........made me feel. Somehow.................Flowey still had a SOUL speck, before we died. It survived..................and its enough to feel pain from extreme sadness, or guilt........................but not enough to feel like myself again.” I turn to her, tears dropping from my face. “This hurts mom. It................it hurts, not being able to understand.”

She hugs me as Celestia and Chrysalis walk closer. 

“You can’t feel compassion for others................but you can feel love for my daughter?”

I shakily nod. “We.................We discovered on day one................that monsters, are susceptible to ponies emotions. Somehow.................her SOUL. It lets me feel love for her. The only person...............to do something similar...............is my sister.”

She looks down. “We................We changelings, can see emotions. When we say we feed on love, we mean that we feed on that emotion in the SOUL. It’s why, after a feeding, they feel.............drained. apathetic. When I look at you, its like.................the emotion is linked, between you.”

“So............we can both sense, or see something about the SOUL. I can sense LV.” They all gape at Celestia. “Asriel figured it out while we were fighting the drones. Somehow...........I can sense a persons LV. It’s the feeling of unease i’ve felt.”

I close my eyes. “This is what it’s like, isn’t it?”

“What?”

“Being around..............forever. I feel.............tired. Of all the fighting, anger, sadness, just.................living, for this long. If I had a way to start over, properly..............I would take it. But I’m stuck. I’m stubborn, so I can’t stop the injections. I’m afraid, so my body will just RESET if I try dying.................and I’ll never be whole again. Do the math, I could only be whole if I took the human SOULs..................I’d never do that.” I turn my head to her, and open my eyes. One blue and the other green. “How do you do it?”

She closes her eyes, and looks down. “It’s not easy. Having Luna and mother helps, but..................mainly, I keep busy. I help people however I can, I spend time with the friends I do make.................I take up hobbies. But it never gets easier, and...............I’m sorry. For forcing it on you. All of this................because I never talked with you. I stuck by my stubborn, inaccurate conclusion, and pushed your family and mine away.”

I smile as I slowly walk up to her. “You’re trying to fix things, right? And you’ve finally made the big step.” They all look at me. “I...........I never had the chance, but.............nows the time. Before you sent me into the caverns, Chrysalis................I was stewing from the argument. That’s when I found a rather interesting spell. It’s called Chronal Sight. Allows the user, to view the past like it’s happening around them. That’s when................I found out the exit clause for Infinite’s spell. It was the races making amends.” They all gape at me as I chuckle. “I don’t know why he did it................but you would’ve become fillies again the moment I demorphed. We’ve finally have it. Now that I see it...........I forgive you. I get why it happened.............so let’s leave the fighting for the bad guys, okay?” I hold out a clawed hand. Eventually, she smirks, and shakes it.

“Now that that’s finally over..............why do you look like that dear?” Asks mom.

“Sigh. This is the result of the broken RESET button. It barely had enough determination to do the job, so.................some aspects of me weren’t fixed. Helping in Jason’s universe didn’t help much either.”

“What..........aspects, weren’t fixed exactly?” Asks Celestia.

“Well my left eye, for one. And this red scarf is what Sans wears in a Genocide run. Papyrus’ cape. When something is missing in someone’s part of the fabric, the universe compensates.” I walk over to the balcony. “Anything else you want to tell me?”

“Oh, yes! Player said to get you and Lightmare. He wanted to talk with your group about something.”

I nod, and Lightmare and I walk out of the room.



We eventually find them in the garden, watching Ponyville from afar. They turn towards us as the rest arrive behind me.

“Ah, Asriel. Lightmare. I just sent Nightmare Moon to find you.”

“Let me guess. You restored her using leftover magic in the Castle of the Two Sisters? No wonder you went there.”

“What can I say? Its good to have friends in different places.” They close their eyes in sadness. “It’s time...................I told you everything.” They face towards Ponyville again as I walk closer. “A long time ago.........................I was traveling your multiverse. That’s when I discovered an empty, white void...............with only one inhabitant. That world was the victim of a Genocide run.”

“if that’s true, then where was the brother killer that started it?”

“That’s.................one of the unique things about it. Unlike X-Tale, Chara was using Determination, not OVERWRITE. And unlike X-Glitch........................There was no Bête Noire. This one only survived because, like Betty, they were neither human nor monster.” They look down. “At first they...............were so scared of me. But time went by. We had fun playing games, I opened breaches, showed him different worlds......................we were friends. Until one day.................He asked me if it was possible to bring his world back. But that’s one of my only weaknesses, Asriel Dreemurr. I can’t bring back people from death. When I told him.....................His eyes. I think that’s when he started to drift away from me. I can’t believe I never noticed. If I had just been there that day!” 

That’s when I realize. “Error.”

They nod. “He...................He attacked them. I was on Earth-3, getting something new to show him. By the time I found out, and got back....................I was too late. Error took their SOUL, and fled. He looked at me...............with so much anger. We argued, I left...................and the next time I saw him....................Infinite, had been born.”

My eyes shrink, Betty and Lightmare gasp, Riolu gapes at me, and Sans’ eyes go black.

“You’re saying......................You, created Infinite!?”

“It wasn’t just me. Something happened after I left, that turned them into that monster. He’s like Flowey because of losing his SOUL, He hates me for not being there, and not repairing his world......................but he hates you, the most. He hates all of you. You got the happy ends, that he never did.”

“.......................What does he want?”

“He wants...............to become something new. While you were gone, I did some research along with the Sans of Time, Azmuth, the 10th Doctor, even Lightmare’s Celestia...............and I figured it out. He doesn’t only want to end us...................He wants to be omnipresent. More than that, he wants to possess every form of essokinesis, or control over time and space, in the entire Omniverse.” They points to me. “Seven Human SOULs.” They point towards Lightmare. “Chaos Magic.” Riolu. “Creation Trio.” They gesture around us. “Infinity Stones, Bill’s power, the freaking Skasis Paradigm..........He wants it all. And he’ll do whatever it takes. The moment I found out, I worked with every leader, god, and protector to devise a way to stop him..................We only found one way. Your sister wondered why you had essokinesis now, rather than before. He.................his power, comes from binding himself to the Void.”

“Binding himself t...............” My eyes shrink.

Sans realizes, and his eye sparks. “no.”

“I’m afraid so. He.......................is the First Traveler.”



“You.............You said...............”

“Riolu is the first one I made. He created himself. Like the Architect, He abandoned the person I knew behind..................and became, Infinite. Being the first is why he’s so much stronger than you, even without the Phantom Ruby. However.............you have something unique. You. Are Not. Alone. In order to prevent what happened to him, from reoccurring.....................We bonded each of you together, with the desire you all share. As long as that bond still exists....................You cannot die.”

“Thats a load of...........!”

“I mean it. You still live because I, created the broken RESET.” They gasp as I look at them in disbelief. “It was meant to heal you completely, albeit forgetting you died..................Your HATE must’ve corrupted the button.”

I look down. “And the breach he got sucked into..............”

“Was my work. After Discord was sealed in stone, I worked with Ink and another Faust..................to curse him. He lied, about being here since that day, he kept getting pulled back to where his base is. As long as I still remain in this plane, he can only be in the same world as you, or any Traveler, for one hour. I don’t know how, but he found a loophole with the ones he corrupted.”

I hold my face as I walk past him, and look over Ponyville.

They turn to me. “It wasn’t............It wasn’t just because of Infinite. Yes, Celestia had plans for anti-monster weapons. But...............personally, she never had all her cards on that. She was secretly playing something else.” They look up. “There was an idea. Sans knows this. Called..............the Delta Timeline. The idea was to bring together, a group of remarkable people.................to see if they could become, something more. To create a timeline they could protect, and see if they could work together when we needed them to.................to fight the battles...........that we never could.” They turn to Riolu. “Kyuubi and Vulpes fell, still believing in that idea. In heroes.” They walk off, Riolu following them.

I chuckle as I pull out my locket. “You know.................I had plans, designs. After seeing the Omega Timeline...........I wanted to build something. A place where the judged.................alone............unwanted........and unknown................could live in peace. Core Frisk, had shown me how they created their doorways.............and how to find genocide timelines. It’s how I found X-Glitch..............how I found Betty. And how.....................I wanted to create a new timeline.” They all gasp. “I’m so tired. So many timelines, so many more RESETs. Before Frisk took that power, I had done everything. Read every book, burned every book. Played every game, lost every game. SAVED everyone.............. and killed everyone. That much LV twisted my mind.............until I took up that mantra. It was then I had let the timeline pass the week I kept RESETing..........and Frisk fell down.”

“It’s al.............”

“Its not alright, Lightmare!” They flinch. Unbeknownst to me, Chrysalis and Frisk are watching.


“I............I can’t keep putting people in danger. Not anymore. It’s...............all my fault.”

“Asriel.............No one could’ve predicted whats been................”

I grind my teeth. “You don’t understand!” I look up as the face markings start to form. “I’ve been watching possibilities since I got back. Been trying to RESET since I died.” Their eyes shrink as they gape, and Sans’ eye lights. “This isn’t even supposed to be happening.”

“But you promised you wouldn’t! And Frisk has that power, don’t they?”

“...........I lied about the promise...........as for Frisk, that’s probably their biggest mistake yet. Why do you think Gaster never tried talking to me, or her since Christmas? He knew we had been lying and pretending this entire time, Faust and Player do too..............but they probably didn’t tell you. As for this whole mess, this timeline.............it probably won’t end well. It’s not supposed to........unless I could go back. Back before the Pacifist runs.”

“........Runs?”

“..........Sans never told you, or Frisk, but.............at the point of the last timeline, she had already done everything she could..........tried every single route and variable..........a couple times each LV.................Flowey knew the timeline was glitched, but they abused it anyway.” Chrysalis is looking at Frisk now in shock, as their completely frozen. “She eventually wanted to see if she could get a different ending. So.................after the last Pacifist Route............she gave it a try.”

“hard mode.”

I slightly nod. “After all................just like me...............worst case scenario, she could just RESET and try again. Flowey and Chara were furious, more so than usual. We had both pushed the timeline to its limits, with no consequences..............she should’ve noticed something was wrong. I mean.............she was the one who unknowingly cast the HATE from their genocide run on them.” All their eyes shrink. “We were wrong. When you feel true hate towards someone, or something, from within your soul, and you’re truly convinced it’s the only answer to whatever is troubling you, and if the feeling is strong enough........................HATE might appear. Flowey and her thought the HATE would just go away.................but she came back, blinded by the substance..................in me.” I look up to the sky. “In the end, everything worked out.................Frisk got the ending she was looking for.............just not the way anyone expected. She was ready to let it all go. Keep from RESETing, go back to the black screen, and leave us all free.....................Thats when I found her. After Gaster was freed, and you came, I found her in the bathroom....................I thought she was gonna RESET........................I was wrong. The world continued its course with us in it. Once I saw that, I had a sneaking suspicion that..................it was only a matter of time before something happened. Either way..............she could only CONTINUE, whereas I could only RESET. Neither of us realized until I died that by smashing the button, we couldn’t SAVE or LOAD.................Then it happened. Do you understand, all four of you?” Chrysalis and Frisk flinch at this. Sans turns and spots them. 

“It’d be a miracle if we win this in one go. If I lose, and they kill me, it’s game over.................forever.” She gasps. “You don’t have to worry about it. It’s not like you can do anything anyway. I’m the only one who can defeat him. I’m sorry I couldn’t be the one you wanted...............I just had to get this off my chest. I’ve already made up my mind.............and I’m gonna do this ALONE.”

“You can barely hold your form as it is! We have to get stronger first! You need me..............I need you.”

“Since when are you worried about me dying? I recall you trying to do the job a few times before.”

“That was when I was confused, or angry! But you can still feel guilt, you sacrificed yourself, and you're still a kid! If you face them now, you’ll lose.....................everything.”

I slowly turn my head towards them. I look at Chrysalis for one second, and she spots some emotion glistening in my eyes...............before I look at Lightmare. What I say next, I will regret for a long time. What I say next, I shouldn’t have said. What I say next..................will change everything.

“At least Nightmare Moon isn’t such a coward.”

She covers her muzzle as her eyes shrink, and tears start to run down her face. Sans actually frowns, Frisk gapes at me, and Chrysalis backs up in shock. Lightmare closes her eyes, and runs off in despair, Chrysalis running off, and Frisk running away towards where Player went. Sans just stares at me in shock as I look away, and pull up my LV.

“the more you hurt...........the easier it becomes to distance yourself. the more you distance yourself..................the less you will hurt. the more easily you can bring yourself.............to hurt others.”

A single tear runs down my face as my LV jumps from 3................to 6.



(In the Castle of the Two Sisters...................)

A shadowy figure emerges from the shadows, and walks towards an old throne when they hear something.

“I was wondering if you were still in this world..................after helping Thunder Blight.” The figure turns around. “You have quite the reputation, don’t you............Bete Noire?”

“HEHEHE! You would know about having a reputation. After all, you desire the same thing as me, Infinite!”

They hold their mask. “Don’t flatter yourself. I merely seek to make sure Asriel, and his family suffers like I did. You on the other hand, were solely made to ensure Monsters and Humans never live in peace. I will admit though.................we share a distaste for their happy ending.”

“I know, right!? They act like nothing ever happened before this timeline. In fact, the only ones who know the truth are Asriel, Frisk, the Author, the horse he’s in love with, and her mother.”

“False, Author.” They look out the window. “He risked a total event collapse by creating this timeline. He doesn’t deserve a Displacer Title.”

“Ya............aren’t you worried about coming here? He made this AU.”

“He dare not interfere with me. He knows that if he dies, i’m free from this...........wretched curse, that keeps me from setting up here. Besides, unlike you, I am unconnected to this plane.”

They frown. “That’s impossible I........”

“Met Asriel in Guilt of a Phantom?” He had said this at the same time as them. “I only came here with Error?” happened again. “I then fought him in the Arrowverse?”

Their eyes shrink. “H-How.............?”

“He tells the story in another plane. I know that story. You’re all puppets, tangled in.............strings. But I, have no strings, on me!” The entire castle crumbles around them. “You and I are more alike than you realize. We're the check-sums. We both also see their lies, and their destruction............” They walk closer. “We’re just.........”

“Speeding up the process.” 

They both smirk as Infinite takes off the mask.

“I want to ruin their ending, you want to ruin their ending...........”

“And we both have the power to end them. Once I have complete control over the Omniverse, I can ERASE him, and OVERWRITE their peace with a snap..........” He snaps. “Of my claws. Everything he built would cease to exist. Its the closest thing to mercy they'd get.”

“And only FEAR can beat DETERMINATION. All I need is some SOUL power to get things started.”

“And I can supply it.................if you help my plans. You scratch my back........I scratch yours. So, Bete Noire..........” They put the mask back on, and hold out their hand. “Shall we become gods?”

She looks at it, smirks at them, and shakes it.