"Tia, is he going to be okay?" Luna asked her older sister, as they watched the unconscious form of Connor, glad he wasn't asleep so he wouldn't be screaming and writhing in his sleep. Once he passed out next to them after the battle with the titan, they quickly brought him to his bed and tried to heal him. Both of his hands were missing, he had a giant hole in his chest, was missing a lung, has several scars on his chest, and his left leg wasn't usable anymore. He stopped bleeding out a while ago, but they were worried if he was going to survive even with massive blood loss.
"I don't know, Luna." Celestia sighed, trying to stay stronger for her younger sister. She was worried for Connor, being one of the only people she has left in her life.
After a minute of no talking, Luna asked another question. "If mommy and daddy are gone, who's gonna raise the sun?"
"I don't know, Luna." Celestia said in a more irritated and saddened tone, not knowing how to answer that question. But Celestia knows that morning should be coming along soon, and without their parents, Connor is the only one with enough power to lift the sun, and lower the moon. At this point in time, Celestia is around the size of a full grown stallion from Connor's time, and Luna is a bit bigger than a filly, so neither of them have much power yet.
"Tia, why di-" Luna was cut off by Celestia, who started to have tears in her eyes again.
"LUNA! I DON'T KNOW! I'm as confused as you are, and you aren't helping by asking questions I can't answer! Connor needs us right now!" Before Celestia could continue, several loud coughs were heard, and they turned their heads to see Connor coughing violently, as blood came out of his mouth, before he shot up, and his eyes narrowed on both alicorns.
"How long have I been out?" He asked, in a completely serious tone.
Celestia quickly responded. "Five hours."
Connor's eyes widened, before he pointed his handless right arm to the nearby window, and fired off a beam of energy, that latched onto the moon, and moved it down, before it latched onto the sun, and brought it up. When he was done, he cut off the energy, before sighing. "Perfect timing." He then chuckled, before moving to get up, but Luna quickly grabbed him in her magic, before forcing him back on the bed.
"You sit back down, mister!" Luna said in an angry but caring tone. "You are too injured to get up! And you have one useless leg with no hands to catch yourself! You are not getting up until you are probably healed!" Connor and Celestia looked at Luna with surprise in their eyes.
"Okay..." Connor said, before cracking his back, and leaning back on a pillow he propped up. "So, I assume you saw the damages to my body? How bad is it?"
Celestia took this moment to speak. "Well, apart from what Luna said, you have a small hole in your chest, and you are missing a lung."
Connor, in an uninteresting tone, replied. "Makes sense. I did lose my lung a bit before coming to the past."
"You also have several scars on your front and back." Celestia finished.
"Minor accidents, and my enemies getting clever. Oh, and the ones on my back are were my wings used to be." Connor answered.
"Are you going to be able to heal now?" Celestia asked.
"The titan used cosmic energy, so my leg won't really heal unless I try some technology. The hole in my lung can be fixed, but will probably remain a scar. I can repair both my hands too." Connor looked at his left stub. "I just need to figure out what kind of hand I want." He quickly looked back to the two ponies. "So... is there anything else you need? Or can I get to work on repairing my body? I'd prefer to work in private."
Celestia nodded, before walking to the door, but Luna looked unsure. "Luna, come on." Celestia urged her sister.
Luna quickly jumped up, and gave Connor a surprising hug. "I'm glad you're okay." She quickly ran after her sister, and Celestia closed the door with her developing magic.
I sighed, before giving a small smile, glad those two are okay. 'Celestia seems to be holding herself together, but she's still too young to have her parents die. She might be hundreds of years old, but her body is bit older than I am.' I looked down, and a tear escaped my eye. 'I was way to young for dying. No teenager should die. Especially like that. Car accidents are survivable, even with major trauma and loss of limbs and stuff. But getting shot in the head isn't.' I can still feel the scar on my head, even if I make it invisible. I sighed again, and started to get to my feet, before falling down. "Crap. Forgot about that."
Standing up, and leaning on the wall, I hobble to the balcony next to my room. "I might be able to fix this, but I'll probably have a limp for the rest of my life. I don't have my lab yet, so I can make a robotic leg." Looking down at my leg, I cringed, before I opened the doors to the balcony, and quickly walked out, supporting myself on the rails. "First. Check to see how damaged it is." I looked back down at my leg, and then went Cosmic, noticing my leg was flickering like mad. "That's not good." I looked up to the sky, looking at the stars in the sky.
Well, I was actually looking for a particular light in the sky. Once I made sure it was there, I raised my right arm to it, and fired a flash of purple light. A few seconds later, a whistling sound was heard, as an large object landed on the balcony right next to me. I turned to it, smiling, as I walked over, and put my right arm in the empty socket. The pod flashed a few times, before opening, revealing several tools and materials of mine. "Gotta love being a genius. Sending pods of resources back and forward through time, in case of situations like these. Too bad I can't even make a portal inside one to store an infinite amount of materials, because a portal like that could be dangerous to nearby planets." Not wanting to dive into quantum mechanics and Basic Cosmic Principle with anyone who is hearing this, I just started getting to work.
First, I stuck my right arm in another slot, which refitted it with a new hand, and then I decided to work on my leg. Pulling out a few pieces of the same material I make my arm out of, I got to work making some nanochips, and quickly finished, before implanting them in my leg, and activating them, and they started getting to work, repairing my leg using even smaller nanobots. I watched with a small smile as my leg began inflating slowly to it's normal look, and the bones started cracking back together.
I looked at my left arm stub, and thought about what to change it to. I thought about gun hand, another robot one, and even just building a normal hand (I laughed at that one). Sighing, I sent a quick message across the multiverse, trying to see what others think, before deciding on something. Raising my left arm to the open sky, I summoned several storm clouds, which started to all zap my hand, and my body stated shaking from the power, as I started molding the electricity into a new hand. The power I was using was so ancient and powerful I started screaming in pain, as electricity started forming something similar to a skeleton for my hand, before building the nervous system, blood veins, muscle, and eventually skin.
I pulled my hand down quickly, and dispersed the clouds, before looking at my hand. It looked like my normal hand, but held a yellow glow and electricity sparked across it. "Well, one of my main powers is electricity." I chuckled a bit at that, before looking back at my pod, and deciding to close it back up. Once it was locked again, I picked it up with both hands, quickly calculated how much force and power to use, and the direction I need to throw it in, before throwing it back into orbit. I watched with a smile, as the pod continued it's orbit.
The next days passed quickly, as I helped the two fillies get used to life without their parents, and started rebuilding the castle. Eventually, several decades after the castle was built, I was walking down a hallway, eating an apple (like a normal human would), and getting ready to raise the sun and lower the moon, when Celestia came up, and asked me a question.
"Connor?" I heard a voice ask, and turned around, to see Celestia looking nervous.
Finishing my apple in one gulp, core and all, I crouched down to her level (which wasn't very low, as she's around half my size), and asked. "Something wrong?"
"Yes... I was wondering if you would let me try raising the sun? My magic is getting stronger, and you've been doing it and so much more since... since... mom and dad died. I just wanted to help you for a change." She asked nervously, almost rivaling Fluttershy, but not close enough.
"Sure!" I said with a smile, that caused Celestia to blink in surprise.
"Really?" She asked.
Standing back up, I nodded, and gestured for her to follow me. "Raising the sun is pretty hard. Even for me, it takes a good amount of power to move an entire celestial body. You're going to want to wrap your magic around it, and let it give you control. I don't need to do that because I could just snap and bend the universe to my will, but since you're weaker, you'll need to let it help you. The sun is a living creature, and it doesn't want the planet to freeze and die in everlasting night."
By the time we got to the area where I usually raise the sun and lower the moon, which was a rather big room with one side covered in sun/daylight objects (like chairs good for in the sun), and the other side was nighttime related. We stopped in the middle (which was a sun and moon interlacing, similar to yin and yang), and the enchantment on the ground activated, which caused the ceiling to disappear, and show the sky, and where the soon to be falling moon is.
I reached out, and wrapped the entire moon with my energy, before looking to Celestia, who nodded and lit up her horn. Remembering my lessons, I noticed the sun was surrounded by a yellow field (I can see the sun. even if it's on the other side of the planet), while Celestia had her eyes closed, as she concentrated, before the sun started to appear in the horizon, and I chucked the moon downwards without a care in the world.
I turned around, only to be blinded by a huge white flash and got slammed into a wall, hitting my head pretty hard. When the light cleared, I saw Celestia standing there shocked, with her normal (my time normal, not the past time normal) mane and tail, complete with flowing...ness, and a sun cutie mark. I started clapping. "There we go! You realized your talent! Yay!" I said in a single tone, too dazed to speak in something other than a single tone of voice.
"Wait, did you know this would happen?" She asked accusingly, as she held a hoof at me.
I just gave a goofy smile, before responding. "Maybe..."
Celestia then looked worried. "Connor, are you okay? You're not usually like this. You're usually more serious." She took a step forward.
'Wait, am I usually like this?' I reached for behind my head, feeling it, before bringing my hand in front of me, and noticing how it was covered in blood. "Musta hit my head. I'll regenerate it..." I activated regeneration, which caused the wound to quickly seal up. I slowly stood back up. "Sorry about that. I get weird when I hit my head."
"Why?" She asked simply.
"My brain is pretty messed up from when I got my powers, and if I take serious damage to the back or sides of my head, it messes with my personality." I started walking to the door. "Now let's drop the matter. You can show Luna in a bit, but we need breakfast, me more so than you." Celestia nodded, and we walked to the kitchen, so I can make something for us, and the soon to be waking Luna.
A year later, Luna asked me if she could try to raise the moon, but this time, Celestia decided to watch and help encourage her.
Celestia had her magic around the sun, and Luna was trying to cover the moon in her magic, and I was sitting down, drinking a coke. Eventually, like I expected, a bright flash happened, and I felt a large force press against me, but I altered the reality around me to prevent being blinded and flung. And, as expected, Luna now had a cutie mark, and flowing mane. She was surprised for a second, before she became ecstatic, and started jumping up and down.
"Yes yes yes yes yes!" She screamed, reminding me of Twilight (surprisingly, I did not miss a single person I knew in the future. Not like I would miss Twilight. I'm going to enjoy the time when I finally decide to get her sent away for life. Just got to build up enough crimes she committed against me so she can be put away for life).
"Come on Luna. It's getting late. Let's get you to bed." Celestia said with a motherly smile. Luna 'aww'ed, and started to follow her sister to the door, before she stopped right at the doorway, and ran over to me, before delivering a quick kiss to my cheek, and whispering something to me.
"Thank you Connor." She quickly ran out of the doorway, her older sister not knowing a thing. But I sat there with a shocked expression. Before I processed it enough, and took another sip of my coke.
I stood in front of a table in my room, using the welding function on my arm as I worked on my invention. I didn't even stop working when I heard some knocks on my door. "Who is it?!" I asked.
"It's me." Celestia's voice said, in a serious tone.
"Come in." She did. Not bothering to turn around from my work, I waited for her to speak, as I reprogrammed my invention. She took that as a note to speak. "We've found them Connor."
That caused me to stop my work, as I turned around, staring at the alicorn who was almost my height. "The elements?"
She nodded. "They were in a crystal tree in the forest. It was tough getting to them as Discord seemed to corrupt the creatures of the forest." 'Wasn't the tree almost right next to the castle? Just at the bottom of the ravine?'
"When are we going to launch our plan?" I asked.
"In three hours. Discord's rein will end today. Us three will march into the town Discord has claimed as his 'chaos capital of the world', and we will finally defeat him." Celestia said heroically. I just gave a small smile.
"I'm almost done with this invention. It should help us make sure Discord is stopped." I said as I turned back to my invention, and started to get to work.
I could tell Celestia nodded behind me. "Good. No more ponies will be under his rule by the end of the day." She walked out of the room, and I turned to look at my invention.
"I know I was a little late when I decided to start making you. But you'll be one of my favorites." I said with a smile, as I looked upon a suit made of space metal. "When back in my time, I'll make you of better metal, like my arm."
"Oh, Celestia and Luna! So good to see you again!" Discord said with a smile, as he ate a handful of black seeds, several of which landed on the ground.
"We're here to stop you Discord!" Celestia said out loud, which caused several hiding ponies in the village to slightly emerge from their hiding places, and look upon the pair of alicorns who stood before the being of powerful chaos.
"Let me guess. You have the Elements of Harmony, and are planning to use them against me?" Both alicorns gasped.
"How did you know!" Luna demanded, stomping her hoof into the ground.
"Like I wouldn't know of a powerful bit of magic so close by!" He yelled, pointing to the nearby forest which had another Discord floating in the air, waving to the group from right above the location of the Tree of Harmony. "It's right next to my capital!" Both ponies blinked., before Celestia and Luna quickly pulled out the Elements, which each started to circle around them, and start glowing. They fired a beam of rainbows at Discord, who quickly dodged, and dodged another beam. "I won't be standing still for you to hit me." Then, getting on the alicorns' nerves, he danced as he dodged.
"But I'll force you to stand still." A voice spoke out, tapping his hand on Discord's shoulder, before punching him in the face. Discord quickly recovered to see Connor in a medium sized power suit, which made him about twice the size of Discord. Discord gulped, before he snapped his fingers, and fired a powerful purple beam at Connor, who flicked it away with a finger. "You honestly expect me to put that weakness in my suit?"
Connor's body started to glow green, as the Element of Courage powered it, adding more power to his attacks. Then, quicker than anyone could blink, Connor charged forward, slamming his fist into Discord's face at light speeds, the energy burning Discord's face, and the force cracking Discord's skull. With another snap of his fingers, Discord healed himself, before teleporting into the sky, and creating a cloud that poured molasses on Connor. "Well, now you'll be slower than molasses!"
Before the cloud could disappear, Connor reached up and grabbed it, and caused his hand to start glowing purple, as the cloud started raining acid which burned away the molasses. With the molasses gone, Connor jumped up in the air, going higher than Discord, before slamming his fists on Discord's head, causing him to plummet to the ground, leaving a comical crater.
Connor landed, and pulled Discord out of the crater, before Discord could snap, and held both of Discord's hands closed to prevent him from snapping. "NOW!" He yelled, and the alicorns nodded, firing the Elements once more, and Connor sent the power of his own Element into Discord, which caused him to yell, as he got turned to stone. And just 'cause, Connor quickly moved Discord into the position he was supposed to take.
Connor took a few steps back to admire his work. "Sorry about forcing you like this. No one deserves to be stuck for a thousand years in stone." He whispered to Discord. Then, Connor's entire body shivered, as he felt a familiar power. He turned to see a distant purple shape on a mountain top, before it disappeared in a purple flash. "What the?"
'What was that? It felt so familiar, but it seems different than it should be.' I turned back around to see the ponies slowly coming out of their hiding places. I could tell they're scared, and worried that we'll be the next Discord. Speaking of which, I just noticed that the whole Sonic themed ground disappeared, and everything just looked medieval, and not childish chaos-y.
Deciding to become a less threatening figure, I push a few buttons on the arm of my suit, and it dismantles itself into my back-pack. Oh, forgot to mention this, but that backpack I found in my house before storming CFTDP's base, I created it. Which means I'm going to have to build that house as well. I look around to see we are in fact in the place Ponyville will soon be. I guess something will get rid of this village, so the Apples can start the town.
"W-who and w-what are y-you?" I heard the voice of a nervous pony ask us, as I walk over to both alicorns.
"We're here to stop Discord, and free the ponies from his evil reign." Celestia answered. "As for what we are, my sister and I are alicorns, and this is a Cosmic Being." She gestured to me.
The ponies that started to emerge all had wide eyes, as they began whispering to each other. Eventually, the pony that spoke up asked the question. "Alicorns? Like the gods Ouranos and Gaea from legend?"
Celestia and Luna's faces fell. "Yes. Those were our parents." All the ponies immediately fell to the ground, and began bowing. Celestia and Luna looked confused, and turned to me.
"They believe you're goddesses, and are worshipping you. You're supposed to become their princesses." I tell them, which caused their eyes to widen, before Celestia coughed.
"Yes, My little ponies, Discord has been defeated!" She said in a motherly tone she would sometimes use.
The ponies started cheering. "What are the names of our saviors?" One asked.
"I am Princess Celestia, and this is Princess Luna." She gestured to herself, and Luna, before gesturing to me. "This is Connor."
"Princesses. It looks like this 'Connor' could be a spawn of Discord! You can't trust it!" One pony spoke out loud.
"I can hear you." I said with a chuckle. "And if I was a 'spawn of Discord, would I be able to wield an Element of Harmony, and also not be affected when Discord got turned to stone, while everything else disappeared." The pony's eyes widened, before he bowed.
"I'm sorry, sir." He pleaded. I just nodded a bit, glad I'm not being accused of working with Discord.
Eventually, after much talking with the ponies, Celestia asked me a question. "What should we do with him?" She was talking about Discord's statue.
I just gave a smile. "Put him in a statue garden." Celestia shared my smile.
A couple of years later, I was walking around the forest surrounding the castle (it wasn't quite the Everfree yet), when I heard some crying. I quickly started running to the voice, to see a small pony, around the age of the CMC crying with a broken and mauled leg. I calmly walked over to him, and he stopped crying a bit to look at me.
"Please don't eat me." He pleaded.
"I don't want to eat you. I want to know what happened to you." I said, as I crouched down, and began healing his leg with some energy.
"I was wandering the forest, looking for something to eat today, when a manticore attacked me. I blasted it away, but it got a quick swipe at me." I was almost done, purposely going a bit slow to hear the full story.
"Where are your parents?"
"I don't know. I lived my entire life in this forest." His leg was fully healed, and I picked him up.
"I'll take you to a safe place. What's your name?" I was not prepared for what I heard next.
"Star Swirl."