Applejack could ignore the feeling of Maximilian lying at them. So after they split up, she waited for a bit and returned to the throne hall. There she saw him looking worried at something, but she couldn’t make out what. Suddenly Maximilian turned and headed to the balcony. Applejack had to blink for a second, but when she looked again she saw that Maximilian grew wings, not like the ones pegasis have, but they looked more majestic and powerful. As Maximilian reach the balcony, he started flapping with his wings and flew into the sky. Applejack raced to the balcony, thinking he is going the leave them.
Maximilian really didn‘t like seeing that crack, because he knew that to get rid of it and to find the princesses, he had to talk to a old friend, a friend he didn‘t really like. He had to talk to the Doctor. Not that Maximilian had a problem with the Doctor, they just didn‘t fit together. The Doctor tries to solve problems peacefully and Maximilian was more the hands-on type. The real problem wasn’t fixing the crack or finding the princesses. The problem was finding the Doctor. So he decided the best way of solving that problem, is to use the search spell, he came up with to find exactly that guy. So he headed for the balcony to fly above Canterlot, because he needed lots of free space. For his luck, Crimson Wing, his angelic personality, agreed to let him use his wings. Maximilian always enjoyed the times, when he could use the wings of a angel. As he began to fly, he heard galloping beneath him and as he look down, he saw Applejack running on the balcony. Maximilian wondered for a second, why she was there, but then continued flying higher.
As Maximilian reached the centre of Canterlot, he was very high in the sky. It didn‘t bother him, that the pony below him could see him and started to wonder, what strange being was up there. He just began to concentrate on the spell and help his staff out in front of him and began to chant.
”Old being of before time,
friend and foe of mine,
let me find, where you are,
no matter, what time or space you were,
energy, that courses through very being‘s vein,
show me the Doctor‘s plane!“
Rarity look up into the sky, wondering if the person up there was Maximilian or not. It only could be him since there were no other bipedal beings around, but Maximilian didn‘t have wings before. Maybe he is that powerful, that he can summon real wings, Twilight did it once. Rarity was especially by the look and movement of the wings. It look majestic and other worldly. Combined with the lights surrounding him, he just looked divine, like, Rarity couldn‘t find a word to described what she saw. Suddenly she winched, as a loud boom and a circular wave came from Maximilian. It looked like a sonicrainboom, but without the colour and that he wasn‘t moving. As she noticed, that Maximilian was flying down again towards the throne hall, Rarity turned and headed there.
Maximilian knew that there was no way that anybody in Canterlot could have missed the sudden release of a large amount of magic. It caused a large boom. No one could have overheard that. As he returned to the throne hall, he saw the six girls already gathered and talking about what they so. He began walking towards them, while his wings turned into light particles and disappeared.
Twilight step forward and began to talk “What did you do up there? I though you check the rest of Canterlot.“
Maximilian started to explain his actions by saying “I was checking but not for the princesses. I lied to you about something…“
As he was interrupted by Applejack saying “Ah knew ya were lying. What did ya really do there? Did ya call your lying friends or did ya cast some strange attack spell?“
“I assure you, that I don‘t have the intention of attacking Canterlot or Equestria. And if I had, you all be dead. I was looking for a “friend“, because of that.“ As he pointed at the crack.
The six couldn‘t make out at first what Maximilian was pointing at, then they started to see a crack in the wall. Rainbow Dash turned back to Maximilian and said “So, big deal. There‘s a crack in the wall. It‘s not like that could have taken our princesses.“
“That isn‘t just a crack. That‘s a crack in space and time and that has taken your princesses and I can‘t fix that.“
Twilight look at him in disbelieve. “A crack in space and time? How could there be a crack in space and time here? Isn‘t that dangerous? And why did you use that insane amount of magic before then, if you knew about this?“ she utter, trying to remain calm.
“Look the crack isn‘t a problem, as long there is no energy directly put into it. I need that much magic for a search spell. It isn‘t easy to look for a timetravilling idiot.“
Rarity said then “Couldn‘t you have searched for the princesses directly? With that amount of magic it would surely be no problem then.“
“I would have, if the crack wouldn‘t be interfering, since there is still some of the princesses’ energy left here.“ Maximilian explained.
Twilight finally snaps out of thinking with the help of Fluttershy, that Equestria will be sucked into a wormhole, and picked up the last think she heard. “I know a time-traveller. Doctor Whooves in Ponyville.“
Maximilian now said “Well, I don‘t know, if he is the one, that I am looking for, because I am looking for the Doctor. As long as this Whooves guy lives in Ponyville, it isn‘t a problem since the Doctor is there as well, which is for some reason not really surprising. Back to Ponyville!“
Maximilian took his staff, tapped the floor again, the circle appeared and there was enough time left for the six to scream “No.“
Back in the library, the six ponies started to feel sick. Maximilian, who was used to teleporting a lot, wasn‘t affected at all. The two first to recover were Twilight and Pinkie, which was for some reason strange for Maximilian, since he knew, that only Unicorns in this world had a strong enough connections with magic to use it. He wondered about it for some time, but dismissed it shortly with the decision, that she had a strong stomach.
Pinkie now started saying “You should show Twilight all those light thingie, you do all the time. Those are so awesome. Especially that with the wings.“
“Uhh, I could teach Twilight some spells, but I can’t teach her how to summon angel wings, because I don‘t summon them. They are a part of me. I just don‘t have them on my back all the time, since they get in the way a lot and they need a lot of space.“ Maximilian said, still wondering about the pink one and why she was so strange.
“I would like to learn some new spells and EVERYTHING about your world. Once this all is over, of course“ Twilight said with glee, which Maximilian found even more disturbing as Pinkie.
The rest need more time to recover, so Applejack suggested, that the three of them should go ahead. As they leaved the building, Maximilian noticed that the library was in a tree, which was nice, since he was used to see something like this in the mage guild.
Twilight now asked “So, how do you know, where this Doctor is?“. Maximilian replied, as they left the library and they were headed for the center of Ponyvile.
“The spell, I used, send out a large amount of magic, check for a person with certain energy pattern, which every person has a unique one. Then if the person is found, the energy gathers around the person, close enough for me to find him and not close enough for them to notice. Then I just use my demon eyes and look for them. It is quite easy.“
“That isn‘t a easy spell. You could check through time and space for a single person and find them with that spell. You would need to be as good of a magical being as Celestia, in experience and power.“ Twilight said, while trying to figure out how powerful Maximilian was.
“Well, I am kind of old and I do have a lot of experience and I am a Master Mage and I am know to be the strongest mage in the Guild. So it wasn‘t that hard and it wasn‘t the first time I did that.“ Maximilian praised himself, then stop and looked around, saying “This should be it.“
Pinkie now said “That‘s the house of Doctor Whooves over there. We could check, if he‘s home.“ As they knocked on the door, they heard someone saying “Hang on for a second. I ran into uh complications. I will be there right away.“ then there was a humming sound and somepony trotted to the door. A brown pony with a brown mane and a sand clock mark on his behind opened the door and said “Ah Hello, Twilight and Pinkie, what brings you her“, he stops as he notices Maximilian, who just raised a brow and said “So a pony this time?“
“What are you doing here? Everywhere you go, violence follows.“ “Oh, you‘re the one to talk. Every time you show up, something bad happens.“ “Well, at least I don‘t solve my problem with violence.“
“Oh the Doctor and his high standards of solving problems with talking, which HE COMPLETELY NEGLECTED AFTER AMY‘S CHILD WAS KIDNAPPED!“
“SO THEN YOU DIDN‘T HELP ME FIND HER THEN, DID YOU? AND HOW ABOUT YOUR GIRLFRIEND? DIDN‘T YOU WANT TO WIPE OUT AN ENTIRE RACE?“ argued Maximilian and Doctor Whooves.
But after the last remark, Maximilian said something in a foreign language, which sounded like, when Celestia and Luna scream at each other in private, which Twilight heard by chance once.
Pinkie then asked “What did Maxi say?“, guessing it was something hurtful from the looks on Maximilian‘s and Doctor Whooves‘ face, but before she could get a answer, Maximilian already turned around and said “I‘ll just solve this problem on my own. I don‘t need help from this asshole. Good bye!“ and disappeared. Twilight guessed that he went back to Canterlot, figure out what happened to Celestia and Luna. So she turned to Doctor Whooves and asked him, what just happened.
“Maximilian and I have met in the past. We are “kind“ of friends. We first met during the time Maximilian was exiled from his Guild and he went on a journey to learn to “Ancient Language“.“ Doctor Whooves explained, on which Twilight asked “The “Ancient Language“?“
“It is a language, the mages think of, as one of the first languages there were, aside gallifrian, my mother tongue. This language is supposed to be created, when the first magical beings came into existence, but I myself don‘t know that much about it. I just speak by bit, because of Maximilian, as well as he speaks gallifrian.“
“So, Maxi just called you mean names in a old language, right? What a meany pants.“ Pinkie said, frowning.
“Well yes, like I said, we aren‘t really friends. We did travel sometime together, but we had our differences. And I kind of hit a sore point in our heated discussion. But that‘s a story for a other time, now what brings you here?“ Doctor Whooves asks, recovering from a sudden sad look in his eyes. Twilight now explains the situation and Doctor Whooves jaw drops.
Maximilian teleported himself back to Canterlot. It is a bad habit of him, to slip into the “Ancient Language“, when he was angry. He should learn to control himself. The language was dangerous, since it is filled with magic. He could have killed them all, because he said those words, which loosely translated into “Go to hell.“. He needed to focus on the matter at hand, not on what happened in Manhattan in 1938.
“Why did the Doctor had bring her up?“, Maximilian thought, “Well I kind of challenged it.“ He didn‘t want to think about his dead girlfriend. It brings up bad memories and feelings and it reminds him of what he did back then.
“No, you need to focus. Don‘t think about the past.“ Maximilian thought.
“We know, you miss her“, mentioned Crimson Wings, Maximilian‘s angelic personality.
”Yeah, what the moron said. We should wiped out some species again. That was fun.“ Grinning Face agreed.
Before they could start a fight in his mind, Maximilian cut them both off and said out loud “Both of you, SHUT UP. Yes, I miss her. I was in love, Crim. You were too, remember? You‘re part of me. And Grin, we won‘t wipe out some species for fun. Remember the last time, when she died. Remember, what happened?“
Luckily the guards were all gone, looking for their rulers, so nobody noticed Maximilian talking to himself.
”Yes, I do remember, what happened. We went berserk. We lost control of our magic and we killed all the weeping angels in Manhattan and I don‘t regret it. We had to do it.“ Grinning Face mentioned and Crimson Wing agreed with him
”As sad as it is, but Grin is right in this case. We had to. If we didn‘t, humanity, your race, would have suffered. Despite the Doctor suffered as well from that day. It‘s not your fault. You just were at the wrong time in the wrong place.“
“You‘re right. It had to happen. Well do any of the two of you idiots know, how to close that crack?“ Maximilian asks, as Grinning Face and Crimson Wing answered in sync ”NOPE!“.
“Great, why was I born with two more fucking personalities? ‘Cause the two of you are utterly useless, expect the eyes and wing part, of course.“ Maximilian asks, slightly annoyed.
”Well, you could just asked the Doctor, since he‘s about to enter.“ said Crimson Wing, as Doctor Whooves walked into the throne room, followed by the six girls. Maximilian muttered to himself “Great“, then turned and asked “So how did you get here so fast?“.
Doctor Whooves answered now “Ah, we came here in the TARDIS.“
“And I didn’t hear it? Did you stop leaving the brakes on?“ Maximilian replied.
“Well, I‘m guessing you were busy talking to Grin and Crim. But let‘s crack this problem“ Doctor Whooves suggested.
“Rainbow, slap the Doctor in the face for this awful joke. So how to you usually fix these crack?“ Maximilian asks.
“The last time, I‘ve let the TARDIS explode along with a perfect prison, causing the universe and the timeline to reset, then erasing myself from existence, then being restored to existence by Amy remembering me.“ Doctor Whooves told Maximilian.
“Ok, fuck that. We can‘t reset the universe. Is there another way to do it?“ Maximilian continued asking Doctor Whooves, as Crimson Wing mentioned ”Like he is a big help either.“. Maximilian faceplamed, letting Twilight and her friends wonder, what was going on.
Fluttershy now said quietly “Could somepony explain what is happening, if that wouldn‘t be a problem, of course?“
“Ok, first of I have multiplied personalities. To be exact, there is a demon and a angel personality, because some of my ancestors were angels and demons. That‘s also the reason, why I have demon eyes and angel wings. Also my personalities can communicate with you by telepathy.“ Maximilian says.
”Hello, my name is Crimson Wing and I am the angelic part of that guy.“ Crimson Wing introduced himself, being followed by Grinning Face ”And I am Grinning Face. I‘m the demonic part of Max or Maxi as Pinkie calls him. I like you. You‘re all random and stuff.“
“Thank you. You sound like fun, too.“ Pinkie replies.
“Ok, enough of that. Uhh telepathy gives me the creeps. The big problem is, that to close the crack, we have three options. First: We reset this universe. Second: We widen the crack and hope it will reveres the effect. Third: Somepony jumps into the crack and gets erased from existence, which is bad, so no. And we can’t do the first one, since we are missing some stuff. So we are stuck with the second option.“ Doctor Whooves continues the explanation of the current things.
“How are the odds by the second option, dear?“ Rarity asks and Doctor Whooves answers “About 51% of success.“
Maximilian now grins and says “Well, those are good odds. Let‘s get started. So how are we going to do it?“
“I need to get closer to the crack.“ Doctor Whooves says, as Max taps with his staff the ground, a circles appears, it solidifies and begins moving upwards with all of them on top. As they head towards the crack, Doctor Whooves continues “I will now widen the crack with my sonic-screw-driver and hope, that the two timelines, which are connected by the crack, will snap apart, letting the crack close.“
As they reach the crack, Maximilian brings up a protective shield to guard them from whatever is going to happen. Doctor Whooves steps forwards, turns his sonic-screw-driver and then points it at the crack. It makes it usual humming sound, the crack widens and something comes out of it, just as the crack snaps shut. Maximilian looks in disbelief at Doctor Whooves and then back to the statue standing in front of them all.
“Ok, everypony, don‘t blink.“ Doctor Whooves says, as Maximilian slowly lowers them back to the grounds. In front of them, out of the crack, came a weeping angel, or weeping pegasus, as it had the form of one.
As they reach the ground, Maximilian asks “Twilight, can you teleport all of you outside of the room?“
“Yes, why“ Twilight responds, wondering why Maximilian asked that and why Doctor Whooves was sacred of a statue.
“Do it now. Get you off you all into the TARDIS. It can‘t follow there. At least if it get past me.“ Maximilian orders.
“Are you insane? You can‘t take on a weeping pegasus alone.“ Doctor Whooves shouts.
Maximilian just says calmly “Remember Manhattan?“, on that Doctor Whooves responds “Ok, I see your point. Twilight, get us out of here. I will explain later.“
Twilight tries to demand a answer, but realises that it would be useless to asks, as she sees that Maximilian was focused on some kind of spell and Doctor Whooves tried to keep staring at the statue. So Twilight focused her magic and teleported them into the TARDIS. As she leaves the teleportation, she feel like something isn‘t right, like time was moving slower. As she looked around, she saw Doctor Whooves smiling and say “What a brilliant idea.“
Maximilian, ever since they touched the grounds, was concentrating on a spell. This one of the few times Maximilian actually appreciate it to be a genius. A long time ago, he came up with a spell, which slowed his surroundings‘ time down. The last time he used that spell, was in Manhattan. He was able to take care of the most weeping angels, but they were just too many. So he got unfocused for a second and they got his girlfriend. Even worse, the two of them were escaping by crossing a cemetery, which was when they got her. When she disappeared, the angel, who got her, pointed at a grave with a evil grin. The grave, it pointed at was hers and he read it, which means it can‘t be change. After that, Maximilian went berserk. He doesn’t remember what happened, just that after that, nearly all the angels were gone. He noticed, that Twilight finally teleported, so he could finally cast the spell. Something, Maximilian always found funny was, slowing down time counts as not looking, which means you can see the angel or pegasus‘s true form. They look terrifying. They have pitch-black fur, but white eyes. They‘re wings are as sharp as a razor and had the colour of blood. Their teeth are sharp and long and even if the time is slow down by a hundred percent, they still moved unbelievable fast. Maximilian had just enough time to deflect to first strike of the pegasus and send it flying into the wall, then he took his staff and turn to face the pegasus and began to chant:
”Fire, that burns a bright as the day,
come and burn my enemy away,
cleans the evil before my eyes,
until it loses it‘s disguise,
showing the soul, where the evil truly lies,
take it‘s soul, then burn the ties,
that contacts it to the world‘s skins,
it‘s painful death will now begin.“
Maximilian‘s eyes began to glow during the chant, as the pegasus tried to attack him again, but just before reaching him, it suddenly set on fire, screaming on pain. The fire wasn‘t a normal fire, it had a deep blue tone to it and when ever a bit of the fire drop on the floor, it didn‘t go out. It continued burn until Maximilian stop the spell. He waited three minutes till the cries of the pegasus died out, then he stopped the spell and let time return to it normal flow. He then teleported the pegasus, somewhere no one would ever reach it and began chanting a spell to find Celestia and Luna.
”Being that move the son and the moon,
lost in time and space to be found soon,
energy, that contacts us three,
show me, where they‘ll been“
A burst of magic erupts from, where Maximilian stands and it takes a few second and Maximilian knows, where they are. He teleports to the location and immediately find the two, trying franticly to get out off their prison. Maximilian just stands there and starts laughing, as he noticed that they were send to a closed prison of the Mage Guild, which activated as two powerful being suddenly appear inside it. Celestia and Luna now notices Maximilian standing there, they gallop over to him, tackle him and start to crying, since they are happy to see a living being, since they were trapped for 3 days. Maximilian then teleports them all back to Equestria into the library, where the other were waiting. They cheer as, they see the two princesses.
Maximilian walks over to Doctor Whooves and asks “So, as I know you, you told them about, what happened in Manhattan, right?“
“Yes, I did.“ Doctor Whooves, replied.
“So, are we good again? I mean, no grudges or anything between us?“ Maximilian asks, hoping for the best.
“Well, no grudges, if you admit, that I‘m the best time-travel ever.“ Doctor Whooves says.
“Until you stop leaving the brakes on, when you travel, you can kiss my ass.“ Maximilian replies jokingly.
Now Celestia stands up and says “I must thank you, Maximilian Wolf and Doctor Whooves, for saving us from this dreadful place. I don‘t know, how I ever could repay you.“
Doctor Whooves says now “Ahh, there is anything to repay, just doing our job.“
Maximilian now nervously smiling, says “Actually, there is something. When I looked for the Doctor, I noticed some powerful tool in Canterlot, not counting the elements. I would like to have look at them.“
Luna now says “Anything for our saviours. You shall have permission to look at our collection of magical artifacts.“
Later that day, they celebrated to return of the princesses, Maximilian check the artifacts and found some, he was allowed to take with him to the Guild. He then said good-bye to everyone and returned to the Mage Guild. There he was hardly gone half a day, as he returned the sun was just beginning to raise. Happy to see that, he headed to his apartment to begin some research on the artifacts, he got.