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// Rewriting History For Me 
// Story: Cause, Effect, and Consequences 
// by Coltsguy 
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Appearing on the monitor was me in some sort of office setting. I don't think it was Capsule Corp, but I could easily be wrong. It didn't really matter to me. The man sitting behind a dark wooden desk in a pretty lavish leather chair did. It was me. Except it wasn't quite the same. It was still the same face, but with a shorter, trimmed up beard. Also, I had never, ever had muscle definition like that. I had a lean, muscular build that was clearly visible in my usual style sleeveless shirt. I could also tell that I no longer had a big gut, but instead I had gotten into incredible shape. It was shocking to say the least.

"Hey there handsome," I, the one on the screen, said. "I bet this is quite the weird sight to see. Am I right?"

"I'll say," Twilight commented.

"Alright, first things first. If you're watching this it means that there is a general there of mine with you. I don't mind if they watch but they need to make sure that the you with Twilight doesn't head back to the HQ. General, that's an order."

"Yes sir!" Nanoha saluted the screen for some reason. "Ayane! Bring us to a dead hover!"

"Uh, okay ma'am."

A few seconds went by before the- I'm just going to call him future me continued.

"Okay, this is the big one here. I made this recording and classified it as the omega thirteen scenario so that every single man and woman in my army would know that shit is about to go down. The reason being, and don't freak out everyone, is that Aizen is about to bring an all out assault."

Nanoha gasped as I probably went a little pale. Sosuke Aizen was a real sadistic bastard who wanted to become the Spirit King, or in other terms he essentially wanted to become God. To do it, he had to kill thousands upon thousands of innocent people. His plan for this took over a hundred years and nearly succeeded. In the end the protagonist, Ichigo Kurosaki, managed to weaken him in battle enough for him to be captured and was subsequently imprisoned to be held for twenty thousand years.

That's right. A twenty thousand year prison sentence. Hell it was only because the guy was more or less immortal that they decided on that. That was only after he had merged with an overly powerful object called the Hogyoku though. I had no idea what things were like here. I was going to find out.

"Things are going to be going very differently than before. I haven't told anyone about what I'm going to say to you. I can only hope it's one of my cute generals there with you now to hear this."

Nanoha let out a giggle that I had no time to ponder about.

"Let me start with this. Everything that's going on is due to time travel shenanigans. Since you and Twilight are both familiar with this I'll skip to the important parts. This is not a closed time loop. MLP may work like that, but this world is set up using Dragonball style time physics. What that means is by changing the past a new timeline is created instead of events being predetermined. This is more for Twilight's benefit since all I have to tell myself is that it's like the Trunks saga.

"In this case, I was the one who went back in time. The original timeline was quite different than this one. When I had shown up with Twilight Aizen had been fighting for about two years with all the assembled forces from that day including some from the Soul Society. Only they were capable of getting back and forth from their world. Nanoha and Fate were locked dimensionally with their ship, but it wasn't capable of getting inside the planet's atmosphere. It's why they came down in person last time they were here.

"Aizen is a damn good tactician, but only when he is aware of the opponents he is facing. With all of the new factors he simply ended up using Kyōka Suigetsu to hypnotize most of the new enemies that stood against him. In doing so, he nearly won. Many of his enemies were killed and he nearly pulled off what he had done before.

"It wasn't exactly the same thing though. His plan this time revolved around a different issue; the rift. The fucking bastard did what Nightmare Moon attempted to do. He used the rift to pull energy into himself and that is the key to this world. Aizen drew them in unnoticed in his initial attempts. To this day, however, I still don't know how he himself came to this world to even do so. Nevertheless he didn't see a wrench in his plans coming from an unknown source."

"Myself."

"Twilight and I came to seal the rift to keep the universes from being destroyed like we were supposed to. We had no idea that Aizen was there making use of the rift for his own gain. Still the fact that he had taken in energy from the rift itself was a boon to us. After a long, terrible, costly battle with the remaining heroes we managed to seal the rift and since Aizen was partially comprised of the energy he was sealed away at the same time.

"What was most costly of all was the aftermath of the battle. Aizen had pulled a Super Android 17 a la GT and let out the denizens of Hell and supported them with a horde of hollows to try and stop us. The fight to get them all lasted quite a long time and cost us many brave warriors like I had said. It also cost us something very important. Twilight Sparkle died seconds after the rift was sealed."

Twilight understandably let out a gasp of horror.

"I'm sorry Twilight. I was too weak to save you. I was too weak to be of almost any help. I let you down and in doing so I let down your friends, family, and everyone else. We tried to revive you with the dragonballs, but Shenron couldn't grant the wish. Your soul had apparently moved back to your own dimension and in doing so left me stranded here. Shenron couldn't bring your soul to this dimension as it was beyond his power. I checked to see if Porunga was capable of doing so but it was the same. We may have saved the universe, but it came at a high cost."

Holy crap. Both myself and future me got teary eyed. The difference was that future me steeled himself and continued on.

"That cost was too high for me. So I came up with a plan. I asked for training from Goku to get stronger. I had to be if I wanted to never have that sort of thing happen again. He agreed and it took me years to get in proper shape. It was just the kind of hell you'd think it would be considering what I was like before. After I trained to where I felt was good enough, I managed to get the time machine that Cell had come in from Capsule Corp and I used my magic to return it to pristine condition. I didn't tell anyone about it, but I did say my goodbyes to Goku, Bulma, Chi Chi, and Fate. After some trial and error I used it to travel back in time to undo my mistake.

"I got the coordinates slightly off, which was honestly way better than I thought I would do, and made it there about a week after the battle in which Aizen had fought off everyone thanks to Kyōka Suigetsu. That was, in total, about three weeks after the end of the Cell Games just so you're aware. I was, all things considered, very lucky. Aizen had simply used his zanpakuto's shikai to gain a strategic foothold and hadn't killed anyone yet. He merely tested the waters in battle and found that he wasn't strong enough to handle any of the saiyans yet. He had retreated back to Hueco Mundo and was going over the data he had gained.

"I knew thanks to the time I had spent with Goku that he would begin using guerilla tactics to start whittling away at the people who would stand against him. It would be after that second attack that the Gotei Thirteen would step in, but it would be too late to stop the first casualties despite the fact that Yusuke, Zoro, Sanji, Fate, and Nanoha were all capable of being wished back to life."

I glanced sidelong to Nanoha who had covered her mouth with her hand.

"When they were wished back, it was then they realized that it was a trap by Aizen. The wish was granted but since the dragonballs became inert for a time, he launched an attack that took out even more of their group which by then was reinforced by troops sent by Genryūsai. I could get into what happened after that, but that could take forever.

"Instead of that tragedy occurring, I intervened. I may have gained a great deal of power in those two years which was augmented even further through infusions of magic thanks to Eris that was pretty much blatant cheating, but at my best I was probably a little weaker than Vegeta at the start of the fight against Frieza on Namek. I was still good enough of a fighter then for them to give me a chance to help them.

"Still that wasn't good enough for me to make sure things didn't go absolutely bad. Therefore, I played two aces I had to get into a better position. The first was my meta knowledge. Events in this timeline as well as their own. It gave me the foothold I needed for them to trust me. The second... was not something the you right now would be happy to hear about. I used the hypnosis ability that I used on Rarity on them."

"I what?" I asked equal parts angry and confused.

"Don't freak out just yet! I'm pretty sure that's what might happen in my old shoes. Let me explain first. You see, Aizen's Kyōka Suigetsu has the power of complete hypnosis. If you remember when I accidentally hypnotized Rarity I was capable of feeling the changes I made in her mind. Since Aizen had done the same thing I could feel the energy, or reiatsu if you prefer, he used to change them as well. By no means was I capable of drawing out his energy. Instead, I had to make a work around. By mixing in my own magic with his reiatsu I was able to overwrite it. I still couldn't extract it, but it was no longer his ability in control. It was mine.

"Yes, in case you did or were about to ask, I made sure to both ask for permission and state the side effects to anyone who wanted to get rid of it. I didn't actually know about the complete side effects until I applied it to Goku in the first timeline. With women the side effects are pretty much what you know already. Any human or humanoid woman you do this to will gradually become infatuated with you. Fore knowledge of this will at least let them have good self control. However, when used on any human or humanoid man it doesn't work quite the same. In their instances, they simply end up with an vamped up sex drive. In case you're wondering, Goku has eight children now. You heard me right. In those two years he had six more children. It's why I made sure everyone vowed to be on birth control before I administered the treatment because at some point I foresaw this coming to a head as a full blown orgy."

I looked over to Nanoha again. The fact that she was looking at the floor with a beet red face made me believe that either she wanted it to happen or he was right and it had happened. I just shook my head and looked back.

"From that point everything went much better than the original timeline. We handed them a great many defeats thanks to a much more coordinated fighting force. Not only that but they made me leader after we discovered something during that first battle that I really should have noticed sooner. I have an endless supply of magic in battle. Not like a duel when I fought Discord, but between two groups to be specific. It made sense really. There aren't many things more chaotic than a full scale battle. I was still limited by the amount of power I could pull and store with Eris, but that was my only limitation.

"All of that has led me to this moment. I led us to this time when Aizen led his full assault on Earth. Things are different than they were in that timeline such as he hasn't been able to absorb the energy of the rift properly this time. Also, I've managed to keep anyone from dying thanks to my ability to create senzu beans at will and so on.

"Despite things being different, I've found that just like in Doctor Who there are fixed events in time that can't be changed. When Trunks moved around in time I was aware of it, but didn't connect the dots. Frieza's arrival on Earth was the same. The cyborgs attacking was also the same despite the fact that it was different cyborgs who did it. The Cell Games and Aizen's initial attack gave me the pattern I needed to determine that this was going to happen again. I was going to make sure wholeheartedly that I stopped Aizen this time.

"Except that I can't. Eris and I can both feel it. If we are there when you show up the conditions will be acceptable that it will send us back to Equestria with your Twilight and you'll be stuck here without Twilight with the rift still open. We both know that only Twilight can use Eris to seal the rift which means that we will have no way to do so and things will only get worse from there. As such I created the omega thirteen scenario and have left in the time machine to a point where I estimate is a week after the battle.

"I wish this wasn't the case. Everything I did was not only to make this time around better, but to make sure you, Twilight, stayed safe to correct my greatest failure. To that end, I have made things much better for that scenario to happen. To quote Linkin Park, 'I've tried so hard and got so far, but in the end it doesn't even matter'. In the end I have to leave it to my past self to finish what I've started. Things won't be the same. Aizen will come after you first and you'll need to be ready. There's only one thing I can do for you in this situation."

I watched as future me held his hand out in front of himself. An orb a little smaller than a basketball formed in his hand which quickly turned solid and translucent. He then placed it on top of a small candle holder which was the only decoration on the desk. It made me a little confused that I hadn't seen it until he placed the orb on it. I suppose it could have been invisible, but it didn't look quite like how I did it.

"When the battle starts I want this orb to be delivered to myself as quickly as possible. Squeeze it in your hand and it should give you all my memories of the time I've spent since coming here with Twilight the first time. General, make sure that happens as I doubt he'll have the time to come here and get it."

Nanoha again saluted the image of me on the screen.

"Do. Not. Fail. Seth. I spent four years of my life regretting my biggest mistake. Both redemption for me, peace for this world, and saving both worlds rides on this. I'd say no pressure, but I would just be making fun of myself so no pressure."

"I am so goddamn funny ain't I?"

"Mhm, you sure are," I heard Nanoha say a little more throatily than I was expecting.

"Well, I've been talking long enough explaining things to you. All the rest of it should be contained in this orb. Good luck and see if one of those babes are still willing to pop your cherry!"

"Oh you son of a bitch!"

"What does that mean?"

"Nothing Twilight! It means nothing! It's a poor joke in bad taste!"

I stood ramrod still as I felt a breath in my ear.

"You know, some of us have wondered who took your first time," she whispered in my ear. "Despite the fact that we all know the side effects and many of us have been okay with it regardless he has been remarkably steadfast in staying celibate. He said he would be willing to break it if we won once and for all and it's been a driving factor for a few of us if you catch my drift."

"I got the impression that you and Fate were sort of together."

"We're willing to share," she said even quieter as she leaned into me.

Oh god this was turning M-rated fast and I don't think I cared one bit. I blanked out as I felt her press herself against me. I was saved from anything else happening right there in front of Twilight that I probably wouldn't have cared about by the pilot yelling back at us.

"General. We've received a report of a large scale hollow incursion at point G-66. It looks like there are Espada on site."

I not only heard the growl from Nanoha, but I could feel it as well.

"Get us there ASAP Ayane. And tell someone at HQ that there's an orb on the Commander's desk there that needs to be brought to us yesterday! Send the fastest person we have to deliver it!"

"Yes ma'am!"

"So Seth," Twilight began, "should I be concerned about this hypnotism of yours?"

"I've already talked with Rarity and Rainbow Dash about it. We've come to an understanding and they've forgiven me for it. I don't... well, didn't plan on using it again. It seems that regret is a big motivator."

"Rainbow Dash? What happened with her?"

"It was at the library when you messed up my game. Now isn't really the time for this. We're heading towards what will become a battlefield right now. Think the changeling invasion of Canterlot. We need to be ready for this. I've never been near anything like this before and oh the crap I think the realization is starting to hit me right now."

"We don't have to do this now," Twilight said placing a hoof on my hip. "We can wait until the battle is over. You don't need to put yourself in harm's way."

"I'd like to," I said a little shakily, "but Eris is the only thing that can seal the rift and with it stop Aizen."

"But only I can use Eris to seal it. You don't have to come with me."

"How horrible of a person would I be if I let you try to do this on your own? I could never forgive myself if I let you go without coming with you."

"See? It's not so scary when you're not alone is it?"

That... didn't even sound like it belonged in the same conversation. Still, I clung to it if for no other reason than it kept me stable. I breathed in deeply and let out a long sigh. Being nervous would do no good anyway. I opened my mouth-

Only to get wrapped in a hug from behind by Nanoha who I had tuned out while I gave Twilight my attention.

"You'll do fine Seth. If you're anything like the commander I know, which you ought to be considering you're literally the same person, then you should do just fine. Even if you stumble or doubt yourself we'll all be there for you like you've been there for us."

She then let go and spun me around to face her... then bopped me softly on the head.

"And if you don't succeed, I'll be mad at you."

"Fair enough."

"Now get yourself together. We'll be there in about thirty minutes."

"You hear that Twilight? Get your game face ready."

"Sure. Just be ready yourself okay?"

A smile came to my face.

"Yeah, I'm screwed no matter what."

"You are if I have anything to say about it!"

"Dammit Nanoha!"