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// Chapter 37 - For what will... 
// Story: The Cosmic King 
// by Theyellowninja13 
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BANG! BANG!

I shot up, and started breathing heavily. First thing I did was check my chest and forehead making sure I wasn't bleeding again, like I sometimes would after trying to sleep. After being sure I wasn't dying again, I checked my surroundings, and was surprised when everything appeared white. I slowly got to my feet, and looked around, trying to figure out where I was.

"There you are! I was wondering if you'd ever awake!" I heard a voice behind me speak jovially, but the voice was also underlined with depression and the like.

I turned around, and was shocked by what I saw. Standing a couple of yards away was a creature that looked like my Cosmic Form, but was darker, and the eyes were red instead of yellow. "You! But I thought you stopped existing!"

The figure chuckled. "Why would I stop existing? Just because you got your powers and became a god? Nice appearance and powers anyway, much better than the copycat you had me fight in those pathetic stories you wrote in elementary school."

"Well, I grew out of him. He was way too Superman for my liking. So I choose to use different powers." I responded, knowing exactly what he was talking about. When I was much younger, and read a book in a library that told me how to draw superheroes, it suggested the idea to create my own superhero. So, due to being unoriginal, I named the hero version of me Conman. He basically was Superman, with video game references. I also created a bad guy for him, Shadow Connor, who's form would later be similar to my form.

"Better that way. Remember when you wrote that one story, and had me basically do the intro to Sonic Unleashed on him? So he had to go to different temples based off of Twilight Princess, and get his powers back." He said with a chuckle.

I couldn't help but laugh as well. "Yeah, I remember. Now can you please explain what you're doing here?"

"I'm saddened at what you become. You used to be a nice and imaginative young kid, even though you've been raped, tortured, and punished just because you'd try and protect your best friend. Now you just keep suppressing that personality. What happened to the kid who would ask questions, and the teachers would yell at him for asking questions they thought he knew the answers to, but didn't? What happened to the kid who was blamed for creating gravity when something you weren't using fell over and broke something else? What happened to the kid who would go to the ends of the Earth, just to be back with his family?!" Shadow Connor reminded me.

"HE DIED!" I screamed at him, before bursting into tears. "Okay?! He died from a bullet to the chest, and a bullet to the head."

To my surprise, Shadow Connor slapped me. "If he died! Then how am I here! I shouldn't exist at all if that was the case! You think he died, but you're suppressing him! I used to be the one thing scarier than your recurring nightmares, the ones that happened so many times you named them! Some of them even were three-parters! You would stop one night, and continue the next night! Now look at me! I'm trying to help you! When Sombra tried to take over your mind, I kicked him out. When you couldn't fight Nightmare Moon due to your inability to fight those close to you, I took over your body, using the high amounts of dark energy, and fought for you! Like it or not, I'm always going to be with you! But why do you have to suppress your old self?!"

"I COULDN'T DEAL WITH IT!"  I screamed at him again. "I've taken so many pains for my friend, but being forced to leave my universe, and perhaps never see him again, I couldn't deal with it! I've built a wall around my mind! Very little people have gotten in, but I don't want to deal with those pains again.

"You can't just keep it behind a wall! Eventually, it'll break, and you'll be a ball of nothing but tears! You have to deal with it now!" I knew he was telling the truth, but I didn't want to.

"No! I won't deal with it! I have to be strong for those who need me!"

"What good will that be when they see you break down in the middle of when they need you the most!"

"JUST LEAVE ME ALONE!" I screamed, and shot up again, breathing heavily, as I looked at my new surroundings. I appeared to be in a regular hospital room in the castle, but there didn't seem to be any creatures nearby. The place looked almost abandoned. "Crap!" I yelled as I figured out why it would be. I jumped off the bed, and ripped off the weird things doctors stick in you in hospitals, before running through the hallways to the only two life signs I detected in the castle.

As I was running, I jumped over, and slid under debris, before arriving right outside the door to Luna's room. I quickly opened the door to see a sad looking Celestia, and only a slightly sad Nebula. They looked to be packing. As both ponies looked at me, I gave a smile, and said something. "So... where ya going?"

"Daddy!" Nebula yelled, as she ran over to me, before jumping up, and I grabbed her in a hug. "I was worried when I woke up this morning, and Mommy was gone, and you were weren't doing good! Now, where's Mommy?!"

I looked to Celestia, and we shared a silent conversation, before I looked back at my daughter. "Well Nebula, Mommy is dealing with some bad problems. She won't be back for a while."

"When will she be back?" I mentally cringed at the question.

"Depends on how long it takes. She might even be gone for a thousand years." I told her.

"Will I ever see Mommy again?" She asked, almost on the verge of tears.

Bringing her closer to my body, I rubbed her head, and answered. "Maybe. I don't know."





It's been about a week since that happened and we quickly were able to start building Canterlot and it's castle on the mountain it would later be found. I was a very quick builder, as I was not only able to finish the castle within a day's time, but also finish most of the 'groundwork' of Canterlot, so people could start building what would later become the city from my time.

I was sitting on a cushion in my room, and currently in my alicorn form (which I have access to, due to being turned into it in the past), playing with Nebula. It also turns out that I would need to turn to my alicorn form to help provide a good example as both a mother and a father. Not that genders matter to Cosmic Beings. We don't care about gender, original race, or any of that stuff.

"Hey Daddy?" Nebula asked, as she was resting from playing with my wings (which I seem to still have in my alicorn form).

"Yes?" I asked, as I wrapped a wing around my daughter.

"Do I have to call you mommy while you're an alicorn too?" She asked, curiosity in her voice.

I got a small laugh at that. "If you want to, but remember that I'll always be your father, no matter what happens." After I said that, I mentally cringed, feeling sad about what I'm doing, as I'm trying my best to make sure she doesn't feel too sad that she won't see her mother in a thousand years. 'Wait. I don't remember ever even sensing her in the time I was in the future. I hope nothing bad happens, and that it's just future me hiding her from me.'

Nebula let out a deep yawn, as she snuggled up against my body, and started to drift off to sleep. I closed my eyes too, about to enter stand-by mode (I haven't slept for thousands of years, and I don't intend to now. I don't want to wake up Nebula with my night terrors), when the door burst open, and Celestia looked at me, fear and exhaustion in her eyes. Nebula was startled awake from the door being slammed open, and I tried to calm her down, before turning to Celestia.

"Connor! We got a major prob... why are you an alicorn? Why are you a female alicorn?" She asked, surprised.

I sighed, before slowly standing up, and picking up Nebula, before putting her to bed. "I have important business to do Nebula. Be safe, and sweet dreams." I kissed her on the forehead, before slowly walking out of the room, and gently closing the door, before harshly turning on Celestia. "This better be freakin' important Celestia! I have to take care of my daughter."

"Oh it is, just follow me. You know how the Griffons were to arrive today?" I nodded. "Well, I think they want to start a war, and I told them I needed to grab someone else to show them why it wouldn't be a good idea to start a war. Also, why are you a female alicorn?"

"Nebula needs a motherly role model as well as a fatherly one. I'm using a slightly different personality in this body to provide it." I answered simply.

Celestia took offense to that. "Hey, I could provide one!"

I rolled my eyes. "I mean a good one. Cake addiction isn't a thing I want my child to have."

"Says Mister pie addiction." She retorted.

"I at least get power from pie. It can be used to restore my power. You eat cake and all you get is fatness." I said with a smile.

"Just wait, someday I'll show young Nebula the true glory of cake." She mumbled under her breath. "So, can you change back into your regular form now? Before we meet the Griffons?"

I shook my head. "That wouldn't be that wise of a decision. You see, if I stay in this form, they would believe there is another alicorn princess, and might be more reluctant to start war. Plus, if they do start a war, I can surprise them with my regular form." We arrived at the door, and I could hear some talking coming from inside. I looked to Celestia, who still looked worried. "Trust me Celestia. I've dealt with stuff like this before. I have experience in war."

Celestia took a deep breath, and we entered the room, and the griffons all looked to us, and all of them look surprised. Both Celestia and I walked over and took out seats. "Why, Princess Celestia! Who is this?" The lead griffon asked.

"I'm Princess Cosmos." I answered. "And who might you be?"

"I'm King Gryph the 21st." I mentally cringed at that name. 'Who names their child after their race? Who does that 21 times?' "I must say I didn't know there was another ruler of Equestria."

"Most don't." I answered simply. "If they do, then I'm not doing my job correctly. I don't care much for being idolized."

"Well then, on to business." Gryph said. "I trust that you know why we're here?"

I nodded. "Yes. You need land to expand, but the only land habitable near your kingdom is one with ponies in it. The north is too cold, the west is dragon land, the east is the badlands, and the south is where our lands meet."

"Then you understand our problem. Would you be so kindly as to move your ponies for us?" He asked with a fake smile.

I shook my head. "I'm sorry, but our ponies have already colonized that area, and have been living there for a few generations. It would be wrong to force them to move." I noticed Celestia was trying to refrain from biting her hooves in nervousness.

Gryph snorted. "But my people need that land!" He yelled.

"So do our ponies." I calmly replied. "You still have plenty of land left. Why not build upwards? You don't need our land for farms, as you already have enough farms for your entire kingdom."

I could see Gryph was getting very angry at not getting what he wants. I know the type of person he is, one of the spoiled new rulers who tries to exert their new power after coming to power. Gryph's father isn't that bad of a person actually, he just messed up in raising his child. Gryph acts like he owns the world, and everyone has to do his bidding, but he forgets that he's talking to a race of creatures who each are able to control a certain object. Not everyone believes that Celestia raises and lowers the sun. "This meeting is over!" He yelled, as he quickly stormed off, his guards closely followed him.

I sighed, and turned to Celestia, before smiling. "That's how you do it. You can't let anyone step over you, but you also need to respect higher powers. I kinda expected that guy to charge at me in seething rage for denying him. A lot of people I've met have done it." I stood up, and walked out of the room, and Celestia quickly followed me.

"But now they're going to go to war with us!" Celestia said, not wanting to go to war without her sister.

"There's a fifty fifty chance of it happening. But don't worry, I have experience in war, but I'm mostly used to the most common type of fighting Cosmic Beings do. Domination." We walked down the hallway we came, and I wanted to check in on Nebula.

"Are you sure we can do it?" Celestia asked, not sure of herself.

"Trust me, not a single injury on our side." I said with confidence.

"Alright then." We walked without talking for a few minutes, and then Celestia brought up another question. "Why are you not a male alicorn?"

"Alicorns are an all female species." I answered.

"But my father..." She was about to respond, but I cut her off.

"Was part Cosmic Being. So his DNA wasn't exactly full alicorn. I believe he was related to Jerry, the Cosmic of stars." I reminisced, remembering that one time I killed Jerry. "Good times." I said with a dopey smile on my face.

"Well you make a very beautiful alicorn princess anyways." Celestia complimented me, trying to get me to be embarrassed.

"Why thank you, I try my best. And besides, you forget I would technically be an alicorn queen." I said with a smile, causing Celestia to blink in surprise.

Before she could respond, we arrived at Nebula's room, and I gently opened the door, and noticed Nebula was sleeping soundly. I closed the door, and motioned for Celestia to follow me to the planning room. After we were a certain distance away from Nebula's room, I decided to change my form back to what I'm used to, and my bones started cracking as I was walking.

Celestia cringed. "Doesn't that hurt?"

"Yes. Very much so." I answered in a calm voice, as my golden mane turned back into my short brown hair, my face quickly turned back to normal, my tail disappeared, my fur turned to my clothes, and my cutie mark appeared on the back on my vest. I started balancing on my forelegs, as they turned into my legs, and my head and neck moved upwards, as my hind legs turned into my arms. My bones cracked again, as everything turned back to normal, and my fingers burst out of their respective hands. "Ah, it's good to be back in my normal form again." I cracked my neck, as my metal limbs came back online.

"Why did you change like that? Why not just stand on your hind legs, and use them for your regular legs?" Celestia asked, confused on why I transformed back the way I did.

"Because I wanted to try it this way. Plus it weirds people out." I said with a mischievous smile.

"You don't seem to be bothered by changing genders at all." Celestia noted.

"I'm not. I kinda lost touch with stuff like that when I got shot saving my best friend. I could honestly care less what gender I am. I could be a male..." With a single thought, I changed genders. "Female." I said with a higher voice. Another thought later, and I was now gelatinous. "Or anything else. I honestly don't care." I turned back to male as we entered the planning room.





It's been about a month since the griffons stormed off, and Celestia recently received a letter from King Gryph. She read it with me, and I had a dark smile on when I finished reading it.

Dear Princess Celestia,

We wish for you to come to the Griffon Capital so we may discuss your recent decision. We also wish for only you and whatever guards you choose. Please don't let Princess Cosmos come, as we wish just to talk to you.


Sincerely, King Gryph the 21st.

"That is such a trap." I tell her.

"Well what are we going to do?" Celestia asked.

"Easy. We're gonna go." I stretched my metal arm, hearing the faint sound of some of the gears moving around as I try to loosen up my arm.

"But you can't come." Celestia was confused. I mentally sighed, needing to get Celestia some more confidence and more training dealing with this stuff. When we were dealing with the Crystal Kingdom, she wasn't that nervous because she was still running off the confidence she got after beating Discord.

"Cosmos can't come. I'm not Cosmos, I'm Connor. And I'll be guarding you." I said with a knowing smile. Celestia soon gained the same smile, and wrote a quick reply, before sending it to Gryph using magic.





"Ah, Princess Celestia!" King Gryph the 21st greeted Celestia with a forced smile. "I'm glad you were able to make it, and the other Princess didn't come as well." At that point, Gryph looked for the guards that Celestia took with her, but was surprised when all she had with her was a tall bipedal creature. "And who is this?"

"Oh, this?" Celestia gestured to Connor. "This is my bodyguard Connor." Connor shared brief eye contact with the griffon, and instantly put fear in his heart, as his electric yellow eyes bore into his soul. "You did tell me I could bring whatever guards I choose, and I chose Connor."

"T-that's fine." He stammered, trying to hide the fear in his voice, and figure out how to use this to his advantage. "Now if you'll follow me." Gryph led Celestia and Connor to what appeared to be the royal dinning room. "Please, have a seat." Unlike the cushions they use in Canterlot for seats, this place had wooden chairs. While Celestia sat on them in a fashion similar to a dog, Connor sat on his chair in a rare fashion that humans use where their bottom is on the chair seat, their back is against the weird thingy that always sticks up out of your chair, and their legs are dangling off the edge of the chair. Except that Connor's legs didn't, due to being several feet tall. "Would you care to try some of our wine? It was recently made?" Gryph handed both Celestia and Connor a cup of red wine.

Celestia looked to Connor, trying to hide her nervousness, and Connor just gave a small smile, before taking a quick sip of the wine, and savored the flavor. It didn't taste that good, due to Connor's innate dislike for alcohol, but he did pick out one distinct flavor in it. Bitter almonds. Sensing this flavor, he quickly gulped down the entire thing, slammed it against the table, and looked at the nervous King Gryph.

"Interesting wine. Did I detect a taste of bitter almonds? Because the only reason that would be put in a wine, would be because someone put cyanide in it. Now, why would someone try to poison Princess Celestia and I? Do they not know that I in fact love drinking poisons, and can detect a poison just by drinking it, no matter how diluted it is? So, tell me, why do you want to kill Celestia?" Connor pointed an accusing finger at Gryph, who looked around nervously.

"Umm.... GUARDS! ATTACK!" He yelled to the few guards in the room, and the guards hiding outside the room. But before they could do anything, the utensils on the table disappeared off the table and were all firmly planted in each griffon guard's throat. Gryph looked in awe as each guard fell over dead, blood pooling under their bodies. "What?! What happened?!"

"You idiot! Why would you think Celestia would bring me instead of some guards? I can move at FTL speeds. So, care you explain why you would want to start World War one against a country that has a ruler who moves the sun and the moon?" Connor said with an angry face. Gryph responded by running out of the dining room, and running as fast as he could from the two guests. But before he could get far, he was tackled to the ground, and had a fist slammed into him. "Care to answer me?"

Gryph tried to scratch at Connor, but without proper training, he was barely able to draw blood from Connor's face. The very faint claw mark quickly healed, and Connor delivered another punch, this time to Gryph's arm, breaking every bone in it. At this point, Gryph was crying like a little baby. "Please. Mercy."

"I don't know. Did you ever think about showing us mercy? No, because all you cared about was using as much power as you could. In fact..." With a flick of his hand, Connor's right arm was now sporting a blade below his wrist. "I'm feeling like some chicken legs. And I happen to have one right here, just begging to be eaten." Connor brought the blade down on Gryph's neck, but stopped at the last second by what Gryph said.

"Please don't kill me! I'll do whatever you say! Just please don't kill me!" He was sobbing so much that there was a pond of tears below him. Connor removed the blade from his neck, and helped Gryph up.

"Now, that's better. But I'm gonna hold you to your word. If I find out you're lying." Connor made a motion to kick Gryph, but stopped his leg right before it could hit him in the sensitive parts. "I won't hold back. You understand?" Gryph quickly nodded. "Good. Now follow me."

Later that day, we went over all the new changes to his government and economy, and the Griffon Kingdom greatly improved due to them. In fact, after a few years of great economic boon, Gryph finally got over his 'hidden' hatred for us. He hated us for changing his country, but he got over it, and is now more like griffon version of Fancy pants instead of Blueblood.





"You sure you got everything?" My father asked, as I did one last check of myself.

"Yes Dad, I have everything. Stop asking that." I responded after making sure that I had my cloak to hide my wings, and my hat to hide my horn, just in case I lost my cloak. I had my hidden pockets that held my bits, and I had my magically enhanced hair band to negate the magic making my mane blow. It's been doing that ever since I got my cutie mark in space. Auntie Tia told me that her mane did the same thing after she first moved the sun, and that mother was the same way. I scowled for a brief second, angry at my mother for abandoning us, and leaving my father to take care of me.

"Sorry, just making sure." He said with a smile, before he quickly bent down and gave me a big hug. I returned the hug, knowing that Dad just deeply care for me, and doesn't want me hurt. My 750th birthday was a week ago, and Dad is letting me go out to Canterlot unsupervised. Previously he would take the disguise of a male pegasus and walk with me, but now he's letting me go on my own, and he's not going to even follow me.

"I love you Dad." I responded, as I continued to hug him.

"I love you too Nebula." He let go of me, and looked me straight in the eye. Dad says that sometimes his bright yellow eyes put fear into creatures, and it helps his job, but when I look into them, all I see is comfort and love. "Now, please be safe, and if you ever get into trouble, just call for me, and I'll be there."

"I will Dad." As I walked away from him, I quickly took flight, and flew out of a window before flying over the massive city of Canterlot. Dad told me that I was born before Canterlot, but I don't remember much of it. I can't even remember what mother looked like. The closest thing I have to a mother is Dad, and sometimes Auntie Tia, but she's always busy, taking care of the entire country. Seeing a good back ally to land in, I did, and quickly hid my wings under my cloak, and walked out, looking in amazement at all the ponies and the big buildings. I've been around it before, but it always looks impressive and amazing to me.

As I walked out into the streets, I looked around, and carefully avoided the snobby ponies. A lot of them looked at me like they thought they were better than me, but Dad always told me that no one is better than anyone else. He didn't even consider himself better than another. I kept walking down the road, looking at all the buildings, before they turned into shops. There was a shop for everything here. I eventually found one that caught my eye, a jewelry shop.

I entered through the door, and a bell chimed, which prompted a voice to speak up. "Coming!" The voice belonged to a mare, who quickly came over. The mare had a pinkish white coat, with a light purple mane that was styled in a fashion giving it lots of curls. "How may I help you?" She asked, her tone always keeping the same pleasant tone, despite living in Canterlot.

I coughed, clearing my throat, before speaking. "I'm looking for a necklace." I answered simply.

The mare's eyes lit up, as she gestured me to follow her. She lead me through different display cases, filled with rings for all kinds of ponies, and even different species. Eventually I was lead to the display cases that held the necklaces. I looked in awe of all the necklaces. Most of them were covered in beautiful gems, and I could tell they were all made with expert craftsmanship, and you could even feel the love they hold from the creator doing what they love.

As I looked at all the necklaces, there was one that caught my eye. It was a necklace that held a star pattern on a simple silver chain, but had several different colors of gems on it, making the star look even more beautiful. In the very middle of the necklace was a big diamond. "I want that one." I pointed to it with my hoof, and the mare nodded, using her magic to grab it and bring it to a cash register, where she boxed it up.

I handed the mare the correct amount of bits, and left the store, giving the mare a big 'thank you,' as I walked out of the door. When I was outside, I opened the box, and looked at the beautiful necklace, before something hit my side, knocking me to the ground, and causing the necklace and the box to fall to the ground, the necklace falling outside the box.

I quickly got up, and looked at the thing that tackled me, to see a dazed unicorn laying on the ground, before he shook his head, getting rid of his temporary dizziness, and quickly stood up, and looked at me. The unicorn had a pale white coat, and had a light brown mane that was longer than most stallions keep it. It was so long, he could be easily mistaken for a mare.

"You ran into me!" I scolded the unicorn, who quickly realized his mistake, and slightly blushed. "What do you have to say for yourself?" I asked, as I picked up the necklace with my magic and put it back in the box.

The unicorn was about to respond, but quickly turned his head when five thuggish looking ponies burst out from a building down the road, and all yelled when they saw him. "There he is! Get him!"

Then, to my surprise, the unicorn panicked, and quickly grabbed me, and pulled me away, running from the five thugs. "Run!"

I quickly gained my footing, and was unable to get him to let go of my foreleg without seriously harming him. Eventually, he pulled me into a dark alley, and pulled both of us behind some trash cans. I was about to speak up, when he shushed me.

We sat there quietly, as the voices of the thugs came up, and we could clearly hear them. "They went down this alleyway." One said.

"How do you know?" Another asked.

"Because I saw them. We chased them down a straight street, so we could easily see them. This isn't some kind of stupid story where they could escape by doing that!" The first one said again, and there were murmurs of agreement, before they walked down the alleyway. "Come on out, Stardust."

I heard the unicorn, who I now believe to be 'Stardust' mutter something under his breath, before walking out from behind the trash cans, and told me to stay there. "Alright, you got me." He said in a tone that sounded like he was giving up.

"Where's the girl?" One of them asked, which caused me to flinch.

"What girl?" Stardust lied.

"The girl we saw you take with you. The boss might want to see her." I heard their sickening laughter at that. I could barely see Stardust's face, but I could tell he was torn up.

"I don't know what you're talking about." Stardust replied.

"Move outta the way Stardust." The leader of the small group shoved Stardust into the wall, and came close to my hiding place. Panicking, I bolted down the alleyway, but was surprised when it abruptly ended, and I turned back around, to see that I was completely cornered. "Why don't you come with us? We'll show you a good time." He said with an evil smile.

I decided to use magic, and was about to fire a spell at them, but when they fired a different spell straight at my horn, blocking out my magic. They kept on slowly walking forward and laughing, while I kept on backpedaling until I hit the wall. Not having enough room to fly away, I decided to do the last thing I could think of. "Help me Dad!" I yelled out loud.

The unicorns all laughed. "Your daddy can't protect you now. So, why don't you join us?" They were about to take another step forward, when a loud thump was heard behind them. We all looked to see the shadow of a tall bipedal figure slowly stand up, before taking a step forward.

The lead unicorn turned around, and walked up to my father. "You should leave before you get hurt." He said in a threatening tone, as he pulled out a sharp knife.

"Funny." My father spoke, his body still only a silhouette as he was surrounded with smoke. "I was gonna say the same thing." The unicorn threw the knife at Dad, who didn't even flinch, as he grabbed the knife in his hand, and crushed it to dust. "Adults shouldn't be playing with toys." As Dad took another step forward, the smoke finally let up, allowing the unicorn thugs to see who they're battling.

"What are you? Some kind of naked Minotaur?" The lead thug asked.

Dad chuckled. "Close. My kind is the father of the Minotaurs. In fact, I even created them." I knew what Dad was talking about, since he said he represented the Greek mythology from his world, which makes up a good portion of this world. The unicorn charged at Dad, who sidestepped, and with a single movement, knocked out the unicorn.

The others stared dumbly what what happened to their lead thug, before charging at Dad with their own knifes in their grip. They couldn't even move a foot, before they passed out, unconscious. Dad looked at me, and his dark gaze softened, as he slowly walked over, but Stardust quickly moved in the way.

"I won't let you harm her!" He yelled. Dad raised a curious eyebrow at that.





"I won't let you harm her!" The unicorn yelled. I quickly noticed that this unicorn looked vaguely familiar, like I knew him from somewhere, but I don't recall ever meeting him. Maybe I knew his ancestor or descendent?

Ignoring the unicorn, I turned to my daughter, and spoke up. "Do you know this unicorn, Nebula?"

"Not exactly." She answered. "He ran into me after buying something, and was being chased by those thugs. He quickly brought me with him, and tried to protect me from the thugs."

"Hmm." I responded, before looking to the thugs. "Who exactly are these thugs? Who do they work for?" I crouched down to the lead unicorn, and started searching through his pockets. I quickly found a little card, and brought it out, looking it over, and realizing who these ponies were. "So they have a unicorn supremacist group in this world?" The card was basically a card that said; 'This pony is a member of the Klu Klux Klan.'

I stood back up, and briefly noticed the only awake unicorn looking between Nebula and I, confused. "So you know this creature?" He asked Nebula.

Nebula nodded. "He's my father." The unicorn gasped.

"W-what? How is that even possible!" He couldn't wrap his mind around it.

I sighed. "Look. I don't want to spend time explaining to you the birds and the bees. Just tell me where this group's base is, and I'll take care of it."

The unicorn sighed, before walking past me. "Just follow me."

As we walked out of the alleyway, I activated the perception filter on my arm, making it seem like I was a pony to those who don't know me. I saw the nobles walking around with their noses in the air, looking down at the world. I mentally chuckled, glad my kind doesn't deal with stuff like that. We all earn our status and powers. I've earned mine through years of hardship and sacrificing myself to help others. I remember all the times I did. From when I almost fell off a skyscraper to save my best friend, to running into a burning building to save a family. I spared a quickly glance at my arm, remembering the burn I got on it, which left a permanent mark.

I looked to my side, and noticed my daughter acting strange. She was slightly blushing, and trying her best to not look at the unicorn we were following. 'Why would she act like that?' I briefly thought about it for a moment, before realizing the answer. 'Oh... okay... not sure how I feel about that. She is about 20 years old physically, so she can be with whoever she wants, but I don't want to see her heart broken when she outlives whoever she's with. When Luna returns in about 500 years, I'll probably outlive her, as long as I'm not killed. I'm so gonna get killed at some point. I may be immortal, but I can still die. If someone manages to prevent my healing factor, by causing cranial trauma so I can't heal, then I will die.'

"Here it is." The unicorn said, as we stopped, and looked at what appeared to be an average building. The unicorn then looked at me, uncertainty in his face. "Listen. I-I want to help you. These jerks killed my family. Plus you could use some help."

I gave a small smile. "Sure, but you should be careful, you could get hurt."

"So could you." He remarked, which caused both Nebula and I to laugh. "What's so funny?"





"How the hell did we end up here?" I ask, as I looked between my daughter and the unicorn who I earlier found out was named 'Stardust.' Both the ponies were stuck in cages, but I was being suspended in midair by chains wrapped around my arms, with my powers currently failing due to an egg injection. How they knew about that weakness, I have no idea, but luckily I activated the cameo feature on my arm, making it look like my normal right arm. Before it got blasted off when I arrived in this world.

"Well, what do you expect from a non-unicorn." A voice spoke out, and I looked up to see a unicorn walking out of the shadows. "You're not even a pony, and now you don't have any powers. You're worthless. As you see, unicorns are the dominant species, and will rule the planet. We will wipe out all those pathetic other races, that soil our land with their presence."

"If they do, then who will tend the land? Because I'm pretty sure you need earth ponies for that, or your food will taste terrible." I asked, bringing some logic into this.

The unicorn was about to respond, but left his mouth hanging open. After a minute of being like that, his horn glowed, and we were all free. "Just go." He said begrudgingly, sad that he didn't think this through at all.

As we were walking out of the building, I spoke to my companions. "Well, that was easy."

"How did you do that?" Stardust asked bewildered.

"Logic. It's a rare kind of science on this planet. Second only to Common Sense." I answered.





'Why is there a lack of eventfulness in the past? It all happens in the future.' I look down at the watch I have on my arm. '340 years left, and there's nothing left to do!' Suddenly the doors to my room burst open, and Nebula and her husband Stardust run in, looking excited.

"Dad! I'm pregnant!" I shoot off the chair I was sitting on, grabbed a cup of water, and took a deep gulp of it, before swallowing, sating my thirst.

"What?!" I asked, surprised. They got married one year ago, after several dates with each other after that one day.

"And it's twins!" She added. That time I spat out that water I drunk earlier.





"Congrats! It's a colt and a filly!" The doctor said, holding out the babies. They're not related enough to me to be even considered Cosmic Beings anymore, so I'm letting the doctor deal with this. As Nebula was holding the two foals close to her, I walked over, and looked down at them with a smile, before I realized something about the filly.

"What do you think Dad? Don't they look adorable?!" Nebula asked me, rather exhausted, but still managed to have a smile on her face.

"Well, I think one of them is Cadance. A pony from my time." That filly is also an alicorn who has Cosmic Energy within her, while her unicorn brother doesn't have any except for the small amount all living being have... so things be getting weird. Both Nebula and Stardust knew about me being from the future, so they also seemed surprised. "Don't know who the colt is though, but he does remind me a bit of a certain prince from my time. That prince was the biggest jerk in Canterlot." The parents looked between each other in worry over their lineage.





"The hell is happening! Why is everything moving so fast!" I yelled as I felt the time moving much faster than it should. Using as much power as I could, I managed to put time to a stop, only to come across who was doing it. "Hey you! You look like me! Why?!"

"Because I'm you from the future idiot!" He yelled to me.

"So what? I'm from the future too!" I responded.

"I'm you after some time back in 'the present.'" Future me decided to exit his Cosmic Form, and I took a step back in surprise. He looked like me, but about 20 years older. So that would make him about 40 years old.

"What kind of stuff should I expect?" I asked, wanting to know if I needed to know something so I can make sure history doesn't change. His silence worried me. "Twilight?"

"Twilight." He answered. We both shivered in fear of the psychopathic unicorn.

"So, care to explain why you need to speed forward time?"

"Do you seriously want to wait around for decades until the next big event?" He asked.

"You're right."

"Of course I'm right. I'm you."

"Do I really develop an ego like that?"

"Kinda. Trust me, when you beat up gods and unlock massive power-ups, it'll be hard not to get an ego."

"Do we ever succeed in the plan?"

"Kinda. Well, this is your stop. Only things you have to know is that you've been gone for a few decades, doing some important Cosmic King work. Oh, and Cadance doesn't know you. See ya." Then, with a quick flash, I was on the hidden landing pad for me, and I felt some sadness in my heart, as my memories caught up with me for this time period.

"No..." I said in disbelief, as I quickly run through the crumbling corridors of the castle. I kick down the doors to the throne room, and saw Celestia standing next to Stardust, who was crying over something. I ran over, but Stardust noticed me, and looked at me with tear soaked eyes.

"Stay away from us you monster! It's your fault she died!" At that point, I noticed what was being held in his grip. The dead body of Nebula.

"No..." I said, tears forming in my own eyes. I tried to come closer, but was smacked away by a spell from Stardust.

"Stay away! I never want to see you again! And don't even think about interfering with my kids' lives!" When he said that, I fell to my knees, and my hands were the only thing keeping me up off the ground. I noticed my tears falling to the ground, before I started hearing laughter. Familiar laughter.

"Aww, did I ruin your life?" I heard the sadistic god say. I quickly shot up, and turned around, punching my predecessor in the face, which caused him to be flung all the way across the room. He continued laughing, as he pulled himself out of the wall. "Looks like you have power, but you don't use it correctly. Maybe I should teach you!"

He charged at me, but to his surprise, I rushed up to him as well, and put my hand against his face before he knew what was happening. "You forget something. The next Cosmic King is always stronger than the previous. I'm stronger than you at your strongest. And you're not supposed to be in this time, so I'll see you in the future." Then, he disappeared in a bright light, as I sent him to the future, where he would eventually fight me.

I looked back at Celestia, who looked sad at the death of her niece, and Stardust, who's horn was charged, just waiting to attack me, as he blames me for having an enemy like God. "STAY AWAY FROM HER! I NEVER WANT TO SEE YOU AGAIN!" He fired a massive spell at me, blasting me into the walls.

I pushed myself off the walls, and walked towards him. "It's not my fault, you idiot!" He fired another blast at me, which slammed me into the wall again, but I got back up, and kept walking over. "I loved her too, but you can't blame me for my murderous predecessor!" Another blast, but this time, I was blasted into the wall, just a few feet back. I kept walking though, until I reached them, where I picked up my dead daughter, and held her close. "If you don't want me to interfere with your son and daughters' lives, then I won't, until they start to interfere with mine. But you do not get to tell me to stay away from my daughter!" I yelled at him, his ears folding back, as I looked back down at my daughter. Her neck was snapped, and her heart was ripped out. As I looked upon her, I felt the small warmness in my heart that I received from taking care of her shatter, leaving my heart stone cold to everyone.





I sighed, remembering that day, as I walked along a hallway in the castle. My time to reappear is coming quickly, but during all those years after Nebula died, I kept my promise, and never talked to either of their children. Cadance is still alive, and about the age of a teenager, while her brother died of old age, and had his child, who had their own child, and so on until it came down to Blueblood, who was a young colt at this point.

I kept walking, until I heard a loud booming sound coming from the sky, and I briefly got a glance out the nearby window to see a sonic rainboom. Unfortunately for me, the sonic rainboom caused me to stumble a bit backwards, where one of the beams of magic Twilight shoots off during her test hit me straight in the eye, causing it to expand and blow up.

"GAH! CURSE YOU TWILIGHT! WHEN I GET BACK TO MY TIME, I WILL BE EXACTING PUNISHMENT! MAYBE KICKING YOU ACROSS THE ENTIRE PLANET WILL DO NICELY!!!" I seethed in pain, a I clutched my bleeding eye socket, as I tried to get my eye to regenerate.

Luckily for Twilight, my eye came back in just fine, but I now was planning how to suitably punish Twilight when I get back to my time.





"Let's see here, carry the two, and don't forget to..." I was cut off from my planning for revenge (which I've been doing for one month straight now), by Celestia, who slammed my door open.

"Connor! Come quick!" Her voice was urgent, so I reluctantly got off my chair, and followed her, to the courtyard near the maze and statue garden. When we got there, my eyes widened in surprise at what I saw. A tear in reality was standing a few yards away.

"OH CRAP!" I yelled, as I ran over, and put my hands on the edges of it, trying to close it before it can do any harm. "HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?!" I yelled to Celestia, who was barely able to hear me over the sounds this tear was making.

"TWILIGHT WAS STUDYING HOW TO MAKE PORTALS!" She yelled back.

"Grrr... Twilight! Trying to kill us all!" I spoke to myself, as the tear was almost fully closed, and was gone in a bright white flash that temporarily blinded me. When I could see again, I sighed in relief that the tear was gone, but my eyes widened when I saw a creature on the ground. But this wasn't any kind of creature, this was a human, who was starting to get up. But the scary thing was the fact that he looked kinda familiar.

"Ugh, where am I?" He asked, as he got up, and looked around, before noticing Celestia, and jumping in surprise. "What the?! Giant horse!"

"It's actually a pony." I responded, and tapped on his shoulder, which caused him to turn around, and look at me.

"Another human?"

"Close. I was once human, but I became a god." I held out my hand, which he looked at for a second, surprised to see the futuristic design of my arm, before he shook it. "Name's Cosmic King Connor Smitty Ican." I used my full name, which was a tactic I usually used to calm people like this down. I still couldn't shake the feeling that I've met the guy before.

"I'm Doctor Ivan Malicious." He replied with a nervous smile. The second he said that name, I realized who this human was, and was torn about what to do.