> God Problems > by HeartfireFirebrand > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Chapter 1: Normal Day > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunset and Pinkie are smiling as they arrived ta the school rather early to catch up with their friends, Pinkie grinned as she pulled a list out of her mane “I have got over fifty parties to plan for the next month. Not to mention we need to get those good actually doing their jobs.” Sunset gave Pinkie a small peck on the cheek “Don’t worry about those idiots right now. We should try to have a normal life as much as possible including spending some time with our kids.” Pinkie smile “I agree” she then grinned as she saw Vinyl and Octavia standing with their doubles, Viola and Rocky “I got to go, parties need a planning!” Sunset giggled as Pinkie knocked Vinyl over “Parties! Planning!Now!” Before Octavia, Vinyl, Viola or Rocky could say anything Vinyl was pulled off rapidly. Sunset chuckled only to dodge a beam of magic flying down the hallway, Lyra rubbed the back of her head as her double Lyrica was glaring at her “Oops.” Lyrica scowled “You can’t just go oops, anyone other than the two magic bands would die from such things and unless it was Sunset or Pinkie it would still injure them! Why are you just discharging magic through the halls anyway?!” Lyra pointed to Sweetie Drops “I was showing for my girlfriend. Is that an issue?” Lyrica sighed “It is in the school, safety is paramount when you are practising magic. I am only teaching you because if you try to learn on your own you could harm someone.” Meanwhile Sweetie Drops was listening to her double Bon Bon discussing candy and all the different types of people who showed up in her store. Sunset jumped as she heard a massive explosion, she ran in to see both Twilights shaking their head at Dash. Sunset frowned “Twilight.” She sighed as both Twilight’s looked at her, she pointed to RB Twilight “You’re Sparks” she then pointed to MM Twilight “You are Twi. I am sick of confusing you two.” Spark sighed “You have a good point, I’ll tell the others.” Twi grimaced “After we clean up this mess that Dash made, we are trying to bump up her grades. She has been far more stubborn than Rainbow and less attentive.” Meanwhile in another part of the school the Undead Sweetie Belle Necrosa, the Mechanical Scootaloo Cyberloo and the Changeling Princess Crysathia Apple were helping their normal counterparts with their studies. Scootaloo frowned “Why do I have to learn this stuff, it’s boring.” Cyberloo frowned “Scootaloo, you re just like Dash. If you focused this would be over, it’s always good to have a back up plan in case your dreams fall through. Rainbow understands this well enough.” Apple Bloom and Crysathia Apple were sitting together, Apple Bloom frowned “What is it like hearing multiple voices in your head?” Crysathia Apple smiled “I can tune them out, I don’t really need to pay that much attention until I am actually Queen. The only ones I keep in contact with are the drones assigned to protect me, there are one hundred in the room as we speak.” Apple Bloom blinked “How do they all fit in here?” Crysathia giggled “They are disguised, it would be very obvious if a bunch of us were just hanging around like a bunch of idiots.” Necrosa Belle was calmly playing chess easily beating the regular Sweetie Belle, Sweetie Belle slumped “How do you keep beating me?” Necrosa smiled “Well you are quite easy to stress out, I play a few strange moves and you start over stressing which causes you to make mistakes. I can tell because your heartbeat rises slightly” she then sighed “I wish I had one of those.” Sweetie frowned “What is it like being undead?” Necrosa shrugged “Well you feel cold, like really cold all over. After all my body can’t generate any heat, still I can’t complain. I’m still able to speak, and interact with my family. That is enough.” Meanwhile Sunset had made her way to the music room, she saw Rainbow playing her guitar outside of the music room a decent way away from the door. Sunset frowned “Where is Flutters, she was supposed to be practising with you?” Rainbow grinned “Flutters did for a while but when Shy came over I decided to give them some privacy?” Sunset blushed “Oh, they are doing that in there. I just hope they don’t ruin anything in there.” Rainbow laughed “I moved stuff for them giving them plenty of room, those two were really pent up. Seriously I have been trying to get them to do this for a while now but they are two shy to do anything so I finally decided to make it happen.” Sunset grinned “So do you have anyone, maybe it would do you some good to find yourself a girlfriend or boyfriend. Either works.” Rainbow wilted slightly “I may have found someone but I’m not sure if they will ever like me back. She is fierce and strong will when she wants to be, her tongue is as sharp as a needle.” Sunset shook her head “Rainbow, you need to say something or else nothing will happen. Just give it a go, it will make you happier.” Rainbow shook her head “It would destroy me if she said no, I would have to be in a pretty bad scenario to tell her. I’ll keep it to myself, it is better that way.” Sunset sighed as she placed a hand on Rainbow “Don’t wait too long or else he may move on without you. That will hurt you much more knowing you missed out on an opportunity.” > Chapter 2: God of Destruction Meeting > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunset was sitting next to Pinkie, her eldest son the Grand High Priest Illusio stood next to her while Pinkie had their youngest son Xeno sleeping on her lap. They were sitting at the end of massive table, the Gods of Destructions with angels and Supreme Kais behind them were all nervously seated along the table save Beerus who was fast asleep on his chair. His brother Champa shouted “Beerus, wake up!” Beerus yawned unresponsive to his brother’s shouting, Whis and Vados gave each other a mild smile. Sunset teleported over and punched Beerus in the gut, he let out a beastly roar of pain before looking in fear at Sunset. Sunset snarled “Don’t give me a reason to find a replacement Beerus, you are on thin ice as it is!” Belmod grinned only for Sunset to glare at him “Beerus may be an idiot but it doesn’t mean you can be smug about it!” Pinkie frowned “We are here for serious business, we didn’t you summon you all here for you to hold petty grudges against one another. Please keep the volume reasonable, Xeno is a nightmare when he wakes up.” Illusio frowned “Now we are here to discuss your mortal levels the reason for the Tournament of Power. Now the Supreme Kais and Gods of Destruction from Universes 1, 12, 5 and 8 for having mortal levels above 7 are considered to be in good hands.” Sunset frowned as she walked away from Beerus who was paying a lot more attention now “As for those lower, we will not erase your universes as all the mortals don’t deserve to be destroyed because of your lack of results. However if you don’t start taking your roles more seriously I will be forced to find replacements.” Pinkie looked at the universes who participated in the Tournament of Power “During the Tournament Universe 11, the strongest universe that was active in the Tournament had a Mortal level of 6.5. Universe 2 was lower at 6 and Universe 3 had one of 5.8 while Universe 10 was at 5.5.” She then turned to the other four Gods of Destruction “You four have been proven to have the lowest mortal levels. Universe 4’s Mortal level was at 3.5, Universe 6’was at 3.2 while Universe 7 was at a Mortal level of 3.18, Universe 9 was the lowest at a Rating of 1.86.” Sunset frowned “Now some time has passed since then, Universe 11’s Mortal level has risen to 6.8. A substantial improvement, Universe 2 is now at 6.1 minor improvement, Universe 3 and Universe 10 remained the same thought notably Mule has been doing more work than Rumsshi. Universe 4 went down to 3.3 while Universe universe 6 stayed the same, Universe 7 went up to 3.3 and Universe 9 went up to 2.5.” All the other Gods of Destruction looked to Sidra, the God of Destruction of Universe 9. He frowned “I have been too passive in the past, I refused to wipe out weaker planet due to indecision and it almost cost my universe everything. I have also made a concrete effort to improve the infrastructure of my universe so we don’t lose powerful fighters to death matches for survival.” Roh, his Supreme Kai growled “He has also taken to training small groups of mortals! We gods are not supposed to intervene in mortal affairs!” Most of the Gods of Destruction glared at him, Pinkie frowned “That is enough. We have been meaning to speak about that, we are removing that restriction. Too many of you don’t take enough time to really solve problems, this will allow fighters to grow stronger. Also the angels should train them as well, Whis did good work with both Goku and Vegeta in a few short years.” Roh was about to speak up when Sunset silenced him “We created these Universes, these rules you came up with are no longer valid. We didn’t approve them therefore they are abolished.” Illusio frowned “I believe that is all. The angels will take you back to your respective universes.” Sunset, Pinkie, Illusio and Xeno disappeared in a flash of light, Pinkie laid Xeno in the cot they had added to the bright orange and pink room they shared. Sunset, Pinkie and Illusio left the room turning off the lights and closing the blinds preventing the sunlight from coming in. Sunset frowned “How many of them do you think will listen?” Illusio frowned “The ones with a Higher Mortal Level, those with lower mortal levels ignoring Sidra won’t. Beerus might but only because you are nearby and capable of picking up on his lack of efforts much more easily than the others.” Sunset frowned “We should get some rest, we still have school tomorrow.” Illusio frowned “I still don’t understand why you two go to school. You are immortal goddesses who could easily take over this world.” Pinkie grimaced “Son, listen we enjoy it here. It makes us feel normal, like we are just another person. Being at the top is a lonely place and it is so easy to forget what is important.” Sunset nodded “Exactly.” She then yawned “I would like to go to bed.” Illusio nodded with a smile “Goodnight mums, I’ll take care of Xeno tomorrow.” Sunset smiled “Thank you, Illusio. If anything goes wrong call the school. The Principals will come and get us.” They all went to bed eager to get some rest, the next morning Sunset and Pinkie were waiting outside the school. The Rainbooms sat alongside the Mystic Monstrosities waiting for Sunset and Pinkie, both Twilights were discussing magical theory while the Rainbow Dashes were challenging both Applejack to various athletic activities. Both Rarities were discussing fashion while the two Fluttershys were kissing with their animals hanging around them. Sunset frowned as she saw a strange disk black disk with the interior being blue. Pinkie picked it up and grimaced “We need to talk to the girls about this item, maybe we can come with a decision on what to do with it.” > Chapter 3: Guest > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The two groups were looking at the strange object, Sunset frowned “Any idea what this thing does? I mean it had energy going somewhere from here but I’m not sure where?” Sparks frowned “Maybe we should ask either of the Princesses about it?” MM Pinkie shook her head “We should just see what happens, we could easily funnel some power through the object till we achieve the effect. It can’t use too much power that we can’t fill it.” Twi grimaced “That sound incredibly dangerous, we should get an expert’s advice just in case.” Both Rainbow and Dash shouted in unison“Nonsense, worst case scenario we can see these too use their awesome powers to defeat whatever it is!” RB Pinkie smiled “They may be friendly, come on. These two could easily beat whoever it is if they are an enemy.” MM Pinkie smiled “Come on Sunset, we can handle anything.” Sunset sighed “Fine. We will handle whatever comes.” Sunset holds the objects and begins to pour her energy into them and causing it to glow opening up a portal. Sunset and MM Pinkie took a defensive stance as a creature twice the size of a human with grey cloak, a huge dinosaur like head with four eyes on the lower half of the forehead as well as a disk similar to the one that brought him here between his eyes and two of them where his ears should be shot out of the portal slamming into one of the school walls. MM Pinkie noticed there was also a pair of strange shoulder pads on his shoulders. Before anyone could say a word, a human girl fell out of the portal before collapsing to the ground. Sunset and Pinkie approached in concern as the girl started to cough a lot. Pinkie fixes the wall with a click of her fingers as the strange creature pull itself out of the wall, it then shouts “Bella!” then gets up and runs to her ignoring Pinkie and Sunset still maintaining it’s loud volume “ARE YOU OKAY?! WHAT’S WRONG.” Sunset and Pinkie continue to approach only for the creature to shout at them “STAY BACK!” Sunset and Pinkie noticed she stopped coughing although she hugging herself. They take a calm breath as the girl stands up, Sunset frowned “Pinkie I think our energies are very intense. We need to suppress it further if are to approach.” Pinkie nodded as they turned back to the pair who were looking at them. Pinkie bounces over ecstatically as she suppresses her power further “I need you to know your names so I throw you two a welcome party!” Sunset raised an eyebrow as the creature starts laughing as Bella looks at him strangely “Seth are you…” Sunset suppressed her own power further as she got closer to the girl who used Seth to steady herself. She sees the uncertain look in Seth’s multiple eyes as he asked Bella “You okay?” Pinkie frowned as Bella responded “Yeah, it’s just a headache.” Seth frowned, huffing at the end “I can see why. With the amount of energy everyone here is giving off, I think I’m absorbing it unconsciously. And I’m not even touching anyone. Ha.” Sunset exclaimed “Wait! What?!” Her eyes narrowed to slits “Did you say you are absorbing our energy?” Seth exclaimed “Whoa whoa. I’m sorry.” Pinkie cautiously watched Seth as he tried to calm her fuming girlfriend “You two are giving off Tons of energy. I can absorb energy but touching it, and since you two are basically fountains of it, my body is reacting on it’s own. I’ll try to stop but with how strong you two are, I may not be able to. Again, sorry.” Pinkie frowned “You don’t quite realise just how dangerous you are, even the fragment of power you are absorbing from us could potentially shatter multiple universes. You could be considered a god amongst gods in most universes with the power you have already have obtained from us, note that is infinitesimally small amount compare to our full power.” Before another word could be spoken, Seth turned in the direction of a sound, Pinkie’s frown deepened “Hey. Did you hear me?” Seth trails off “Yeah yeah., I heard you…” Pinkie and Sunset grimaced as Seth walked away, before his cloak changed, making him turn into a ball shape and roll through town with Bella calling out to him as she used magic to fly behind him. Sunset and Pinkie take off with their aura quickly catching up with the pair, Sunset roars “Are you two nuts?! Do you just use your powers without thinking?! Do you understand discretion!” Seth unrolls himself and jumps into the air. He opens his cloak, revealing it to be a set of wings and disappearing from sight. He tells Bella “Stay with Pinkie Pie and Sunset.” He then flies under them “I can hear police sirens ahead, I’m going to see if I can help them.” Pinkie sighed turning to Sunset as she could feel Seth moving ahead “At least he is being discreet about it. Still we shouldn’t let him act on his own.” They alongside Bella fly behind Seth watching closely, Bella winces as the cars nearly crash into a turning car. They follow around the corner only to frown as one of the cars swerved to one side of the road Seth’s energy signature being nearby. Sunset and Pinkie’s frowns deepen as the doors of that car were then webbed shut near Seth’s energy signature. Sunset and Pinkie were following Seth as his energy moved from car to car the process repeating itself. Once the chase is stopped Sunset and Pinkie sense that Seth is flying away from them, Bella blinked in confusion as Sunset and Pinkie fly off in a random direction. They arrive at a building where Seth having shed his invisibility contemplating something. He turns to them as they land apologising “Okay, I will admit, dashing off like that was a stupid idea, I’m sorry for that but…” Sunset raised her hand “Relax, you did the right thing. I must admit I tend to try to avoid getting involved in smaller issues but that is largely because doing such things would be bad as me and Pinkie would probably cause more harm than good with our powers.” Pinkie smiled “I’d like to show you two around the school, weird is quite normal there so you will cause very little fuss.” Seth sighs in relief, he then smiles directing a question to Bella “I think I would like that, Bella?” Bella responded “If you’re going then count me in.” Pinkie smiles clicking her fingers the trio appearing in front of the school near their friends. Pinkie giggles as Seth said the first thing that came to mind “Well. That beats flying.” Bella deadpans “Really? Seth responds “What would you have said?” Bella scowls as she turns to Pinkie. Pinkie smiled ecstatically pointing one of the two bands “This is the Mystic Monstrosities. The band that me and Sunset are part of this nerdy girl here is Twi, that is AJ with Rainbow right next to her. Gem is there next to Flutters who is kissing Shy.” She then pointed to the other band without taking a breath “The other band here is the Rainbooms, I already mentioned Shy but with them is Dash who is next to Jackie, Spectacle who is next to Sparks and there is Bouncy the other me.” Sunset noticed everyone was looking at the two flabbergastered individuals, Seth regaining his composure pointed to himself the Bella “Hie everyone, I’m Seth. This is my friend Bella. I’m an Osmosian, formerly human and if it’s okay with you I’d rather not touch anyone.” Bella asks “What? Why not?” Seth pointing at Sunset and Pinkie “I have absorption powers and have already absorbed some energy from these two, so I would rather not risking hurting anyone or myself.” Sparks raged turning into a purple demon with giant dark purple wings glaring at them “Magic Thieves, I’m going to…” Sunset frowned standing in front of Sparks as Seth eye’s widened “Sparks, calm down. He just absorbed the excess energy our bodies emitted. We are well aware of his powers, just calm down.” Pinkie apologised to Seth as he slowly calmed down “I’m sorry about that. The Rainbooms still learning about friendship, I must admit that I didn’t know they still had access to their demon forms. The magic of the elements stopped Sunset from transforming.” Seth having calmed down addressed the two bands in front of him “Listen, I’m sorry about that but I can’t change it, it’s part of what I am now. Also Bella can’t abso.. oh wait mana. Hmm. Never mind that. Nonetheless, I don’t want hurt anyone unless necessary. Okay? Okay.” Sunset cast a glare at Dash and Jackie who likely wanted to start something. She then turned to Seth “Everything should be fine, just stay away from Lyrica. She is a mage who hunts monsters and is Lyra’s double. Turns out Spark’s version of the human world had it’s own unique magic, when it fused with ours it brought it over along with doubles of everyone as well as it’s extra portal to Equestria. We have two portals , both are linked to different Equestrias.” Seth asked “Okay, question. What is, no, are the Equestria’s like?” Sunset smiled “Relax, I can tell you are worried about getting back to where you came from. I have already in the time you have been here I have already triangulate the position you left from and now” she clicked her fingers a mirror portal appearing on a small raised platform next to one of the horse statues “This can easily take you home assuming the weird thing I summoned you with can’t take you home.” Seth asked “Weird thing you summoned me with?’ Pinkie reaches into her pocket and pulls out a round black object. Seth asked “One of my speakers? How did that get here? And you used that to summon me and Bella? How?” Pinkie frowned “Sunset funnelled her energy through it, it already had a summoning matrix in it. From what we have gathered it is supposed to speak to certain individuals like yourself, it took a very intricate scan to discover that. We have also detected universal influx energy in you that came from somewhere, we have tracked the user and…” A strange genie looking figure turned up “May I explain myself before one of the goddesses punches me in the face?” Seth immediately punches him in the face, Seth growled “That’s for turning me into this!” Bella fired two balls of mana into the Genie “And that’s for taking us from our homes!” The Rainbooms and Twi were shocked, feral grins however came across the other members of MM band. The Genie said “Okay, I deserved that, but if you’ll allow me to explain.” ‘Flutters’ stood up holding a meat cleaver “I don’t think so, we’re going to have some fun with you first. I haven’t got to butcher someone in so long.” ‘Rainbow’ stood up, a lab coat materialising over her “I hope you leave some for the rest of us Butchershy.” ‘Gem’ stood up, she had three red scars along one of her eyes and was carrying a Pinkamena Doll “I agree with Dr Dash, we all need to get some killing in.” ‘AJ’ stood up, she was now a scarecrow carrying a huge scythe “Little Miss Rarity, don’t forget about me. I really could use a good culling.” The Genie’s eyes widened “Butchershy Pinkamena’s dreaded companion, Dr Dash master of the Rainbow Factory, Little Miss Rarity the Deranged Masochist and Applehack, the Reapers of the Fields.” Sunset’s eyes narrowed as she bound him with her power “You have such great power, you have used it like a child. You are a god in your own right, they can’t kill you which means I have no qualms in letting them have their fun.” Then Seth stood between them and the Genie looking at the woman in front of him “As much as I would love for you to turn you him into a pulp, I can’t let you. That being said,” he turns to the Genie. “You offered an explanation? Good. Speak quickly before our patience runs thin.” The Genie looks at all of them before clearing his throat, he then points to Bella and Seth “Ahem, you two are something called a displaced, or dimensionally misplaced. Displaced are beings that my kind, Displacers and Void Dwellers, sent into different parts of the universe. You,” He points to Seth “I displaced as an Osmosian Hybrid, as you read in my letter. Displaced can contact each other by making tokens. Think of them as calling cards. With them, Displaced can summon, or be summoned by other Displaced. Or very powerful beings, as is the case that has happened here. Your token, Seth, is one of your sonic disks. And yes, that’s their proper name. Not Echo speakers.” Seth said “I don’t remember making a token.’ The Genie chuckled “Funny thing actually. You actually made you token accidently, while you were fighting Aggregor.” Bella asked “Wait, what? When did this happen?” Seth answered “They day before you arrived.” he then directed his attention to the Genie “Carry on.” The Genie told the, pointed to the disk in Pinkie’s hand “The rush of power you felt? That was when you made your token. The speech you made then became your creed and that sonic disk, your token.” Pinkie stepped in front of the Genie, a cold fury in her eyes “I’m sorry but my friends are awaiting a toy. If you don’t find them something soon, they will start attacking innocent people. So I need suitable bad guys or I will throw you to them, is that clear?” Seth said “Wait, one more thing.” He walks over the Genie and kneels looking him in the eye “Why did you displace us?’ The Genie starts laughing “Because I could, and it’s what I do.” Seth stands up and turns to the MM’s baring Twilight, Sunset and Pinkie “Girls.” He then turns on his heel and raises an arm to the Genie, his finger sinking into his metal knuckles and forming a missile launcher. He fires a small volley of missiles at him and said “He’s all yours.” As the MM’s jump on him tearing into him with maddening glee he turns to Sunset “Keep my token. If you ever want to take care of someone dangerous.” He clenches his upheld fist as he continues “I have a few ways of making sure they don’t hurt anyone.” Sunset shakes her head “That won’t be necessary. Still do you want have a look around the school?” Seth said to Sunset “I think it would be best if we went home. Who knows what everypony is thinking right now. Screwball must be worried. But thanks, it was nice meeting you, come on Bella.” Sunset clicked her fingers opening and smiled to Pinkie as the two guest left “We need to visit their world sometime.” Pinkie smiled “I agree, they seem like a fun duo.” The pair head back to their friends who have calmed down, they ignore the writhing Genie as the two bands head into the school. > Chapter 4: Preparations for a Field Trip > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunset entered the school with her friends and girlfriend only for a slightly distressed voice to come over the intercom “Sunset Shimmer, we would like to see you in our office.” Sunset smiled to the girls “I’ll be right back.” Gem sighed “This has something to with our guests outside the school and maybe our actions towards that Genie guy.” Rainbow gritted her teeth “He was a bastard, he deserved every bit of that torment we gave him!” Flutters nodded “I agree, removing someone from their home and turning them into a something that would be considered a monster by their standards. We didn’t do nearly enough to him.” Pinkie looked at Fluttershy “You are really scary, you know that right?” Fluttershy grinned “With Butcher’s help I am no longer let myself be pushed around. I threatened to remove the balls of the boys who tried to bully me when I was a kid.” Everyone just looked at Flutters stunned. Meanwhile Sunset arrived in the office, Principal Celestia and Principal Luna were sitting at the table with frowns on their faces as their respective Vice-Principals were leaning on the walls. Pr Celestia sighed “Sunset, we would like if you don’t bring any more magical creatures here. We have enough trouble with both Lyra and Lyrica as well as the demon girls.” Sunset frowned “Magic is here to stay I’m afraid, soon you will get more students that will have magic. Magic is now flooding this world due to the sheer amount of magical individuals drawing on it and that’s just the Equestrian magic. Human magic is starting to grow stronger not to mention the ability to use ki and the strange magic of the universe that merged with this one. Earth is going to draw more attention form both magical beings and aliens, there is nothing that will change that now.” Pr Luna sighed “Can you at least try to keep the magic and aliens out of the Camp Everfree trip in a few weeks.” Sunset sighed “I will try but I have a feeling fate is going against us here. After all the Everfree Forest even in Equestria where magic is relatively controlled is a home for wild magic. As such this place may be suffering surges of wild magic sooner rather than later.” VPr Luna frowned “Will this endanger anyone, we may have to cancel it if it does.” Sunset grimaced “My friends and I will handle anything should it attack us, still I hope it doesn’t or else we may need to do something about the forest.” VPr Celestia nodded “Very well, we’ll trust you’ll do your best to keep the magical na alien incidents to a minimum.” Sunset nodded “I’ll do my best, I’ll mention this to my friends as well.” Sunset teleported back to them only to frown at the stunned looks from everyone except Flutters. “What happened here?” Pinkie turned to her some of the shock fading “Flutters is scary, threatened some boys about removing their balls.” Sunset facepalmed “She is living with a psycho killer in her head, I am surprised she hasn’t done worse all things considered. I know little about Butchershy and Applehack as well but judging from the others, the nightmarish Rainbow Factory, the ferocious Cupcakes and the actions of Little Miss Rarity. At the same time they are not the worst versions of themselves.” Flutters nodded “Butcher told me of Herobrine and his crew, they have been causing great harm across multiple realities.” Sunset shook her head “They know better than to mess with me and Pinks, don’t worry. For now we need to deal with the school’s small problems namely the Principals told me we will be going to Camp Everfree. As such we are responsible from keeping the magical and alien based incidents to a minimum during our trip.” Rainbow smiled “We can do this, don’t worry. It can’t be that hard to keep a magical problem.” A serious voice joined the conversation “I think you are underestimating the task you have at hand.” The group turned to see Sonata at the front with Aria and Adagio behind her. Sunset sighed “We have had three magical incidents, we had one demon incident involving myself and another involving six demons and three sirens.” Twi gave a slightly grateful smile that no-one mentioned her recent magical problems. Dash grinned “We’ll figure it out.” Jackie frowned “Dash that means no demon forms. You want to show that off at every opportunity, one day that attitude is going to end up with you on the dissection table.” AJ walked over as Dash began to growl “No fighting you two, Ah want this school to stay intact.” Rainbow sighed “Was that we used to be like? I’m starting to understand why we got on the nerves of others.” Pinkie frowned “We also should get ourselves ready for the trip when we get home, not to mention Illusio needs to take care of Xeno for a couple of weeks.” Sunset sighed “We’ll figure something out, I hope Illusio and Xeno don’t cause an issue while we’re away.” Sparks frowned “So we should do a little magical investigation each night and remove it discretely. I can work with that if you’re all willing.” Shy nervously spoke “Well, um I’m not sure if I could handle that.” Flutters wrapped an arm around her giving her a small peck on the cheek “I’ll go with you, Butchershy and I will protect you. Don’t worry.” Shy’s face glowed red in response. Bouncy grinned “That sounds like fun, I’m sure Dash with come with me.” Dash mumbled something akin to whatever. Twi meanwhile was busy adding it to her schedule. Sunset sighed “We at least we have a plan.” They all spilt up, heading for their home rooms. > Chapter 5: Strangers > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunset was chasing Xeno around the house as he giggled, Pinkie meanwhile was sitting next to Illusio looking over some plans “We need more to put more effort into uniting the Gods of Destruction, maybe have them give us a statue report every ten years.” Illusio nodded “That is fair, stop gods like Beerus from sleeping for too long and neglecting their duties. Now we just need to…” They heard the sound of knocking at the door, Pinkie grimaced “I’ll get the door.” Pinkie walked over to the door and opened it only to see several men carrying firearms, Pinkie frowned “Who are you and what do you want from us?” The man at the front frowned “I am Captain Ironside, and we have something to discuss with your alien friend.” Pinkie’s eyes narrowed “First that’s girlfriend, second you didn’t answer my questions! Who are you and what do you want from us?! You will answer me or I will tear you to shreds!” The Captain flinched as energy began to bubble around her “Alright fine, we will tell you just don’t tell anyone else this is top secret government information.” Pinkie frowned “I promise I won’t tell anyone who this doesn’t pertain to, but if it involves others I will inform them. Whatever you are doing sounds dangerous and I will not put those around me in danger.” Captain Ironside sighed “Very well, we are X-COM. A secret organisation fighting aliens who have been appearing all over the world. We are here as they have been moving towards this area likely in response to the strange energy signatures that wqe have detected.” Pinkie nodded “It seems we need to work together on this, come on in.” The squad entered the house, Illusio and Sunset who was carrying Xeno frowned at the firearms “Who are these people?” Pinkie grimaced “It seems a group of hostile aliens are seeking out magic, we will need the help of these X-COM soldiers here to figure out what to do now.” Captain Ironside laughed “Magic, you mean that fairy tale nonsense. There is no such thing as magic, that is just some dumb legend and…” Sunset conjured up a ball of fire raising an eyebrow “The Captain’s eyes alongside those of his men widened in shock “Impossible.” Sunset flared out her bug like wings “We have plenty of seemingly impossible things, besides I’m sure you have heard of the other continent and the strange beings that live there.” The Captain shook his head “From what I can tell we have entered an agreement to avoid contact with the. As such we are two separate worlds in the eyes of all governments.” Pinkie grimaced “So what aliens have bee spotted locally.” The Captain put up pictures strange tall looking human creatures and small bipedal aliens with large heads “These are the Thin Men and Sectoids, nothing bigger has been spotted yet in the area. Still I advise you two be careful.” Illusio nodded “We’ll keep an eye out, for any suspicious activity.” Sunset passed Xeno to Pinkie as she headed upstairs, she picked up her journal To Twilight Sparkle We have been informed that a series of hostile aliens have arrived on the planet. Be careful, they may try to come through the portal. We are unsure what they are capable of. As such I wish for you to be careful. From your friend Sunset Shimmer Meanwhile in Equestria Arthas heard the sound of the journal buzzing, he shouted “Twilight, Sunset is contacting you.” Twilight teleported into the room and gave him a peck on the cheek before opening the book. Her eyes narrowed as she read the words across the paper “We need to put some guards around the mirror portal. It seems hostile aliens could come through somehow and I’d rather that if they find a way through can’t get far.” Arthas nodded “Twilight, I will see that it is done.” Twilight smiled as she started writing in the journal To Sunset Shimmer I must thank you for the warning, It would be bad if these hostile aliens found their way into Equestria. We are not equipped for a large scale war that would come from this type of conflict. Stay safe over there. From your friend Twilight Sparkle On the other side of the portal, Sunset smiled glad that Twilight was taking this seriously she then looked over to the magical scanner she had built. She was picking up powerful readings from Camp Everfree, she frowned as she returned downstairs “Good news I was able to inform someone to reduce a certain risk but there is high source of magic coming from Camp Everfree. I will be heading there for an activity in two weeks. You may wish to deploy a few small squads there in secret.” Captain Ironside nodded “Very well, I’ll bring the report to my higher ups. For now though you two should know that we are watching all of you closely. While some of you are confirmed to be citizens that magic of yours has us observing you closely.” Sunset shook her head “Going to war with us wouldn’t be wise, I could quite easily seize control of the sun and weaponise it should you decide to oppose us. I would rather not but sometime hard decisions have to be made.” Pinkie then clicked her fingers as several wolf sheep appeared “I can control reality in almost any aspect as can Sunset to a lesser degree. There is not much point fighting those who can turn the laws of reality against you is there.” Captain Storm looked at the two of them “What are you two exactly?” Sunset frowned “It would not be inaccurate to call us gods that gods would consider gods. I hope that is enough for you to understand what we are capable of.” The Captain nodded sweating slightly before ordering his squad to leave. The two goddesses decided to have a rest with their family for the rest of the day. > Chapter 6: Camp Everfree Part 1 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunset was in the centre of a large cave like chamber with goo covering the walls, small creatures with sharp teeth with tusks coming out of the sides of their jaw ran around the hive cluster. Sunset was humming to herself as she looked one of the creatures, her Zerglings running around her. Massive creatures much larger than elephants known as Ultralisks slammed their tusk together as the serpentine Hydralisks shot needles at targets. Sunset sighed as a large bulky bipedal creature with blades coming out of it’s arms saluted “My Queen, I’m sorry I’m late. Had to clean up an accidental Baneling explosion.” Sunset nodded “I’m going to be away for a while Swift Blade, so I’m trusting to keep the hive safe and unnoticed while I’m away.” Swift bowed “Will do my Queen.” Sunset teleported to the Canterlot High Busy Bay only to see Pinkie standing there while Twi was fiddling with some strange machine, Rainbow and Dash were kicking a ball around while AJ and Jackie were having a good old Arm wrestle. Gem and Spectacle were exchanging notes on fashion, while Flutters was holding a blushing Shy tightly. Sparks was meditating as Bouncy was bouncing in place. Pinkie jumped at Sunset “You’re back!” Sunset caught her pulling her into a kiss with a grin on her face. Pinkie purred “You’re quite good at that.” Sunset smiled “Well I have had plenty of practice, does everyone have their ;luggage with them?” Bouncy grinning madly exclaimed “They put in the bus already, we still have about half an hour before we leave. The will inform us when we are leaving.” Spectacle pouted “They told me I could only bring one suitcase, I had several I wanted to bring.” Gem rolled her eyes “Less is more, trust me carrying around all that luggage isn’t necessary. We are going to be sleeping in a tent, quite a fancy tent from what I’ve heard but a tent nonetheless. I brought some of my hardier designs for the trip, I was hoping to go wandering the forest for a bit.” Rainbow grinned “Roughing it, huh. That was something I was expecting to hear from AJ, not you.” Gem smiled “Nature is an inspiring place, beautiful yet fierce. Something I enjoy incorporating into a design and sometime you need to experience that first hand. I was planning on sleeping in a tree when it rains to get some inspiration.” Spectacle blinked “Your not serious are you? That sounds horrible.” Gem grimaced “You must make sacrifices for your designs, a little hardship does wonders. You need to push yourself in this line of work.” AJ frowned “We need to get on the bus, they want to make some last minute checks.” Bouncy smiled as she dragged Spectacle away “Come on we need to get on!” Everyone followed onto the yellow bus. Twi was looking nervously at Sunset as they took their seats, Sunset frowned “Twi is there something wrong?” Twi shook slightly “It’s about Midnight Sparkle, she keeps appearing in my dreams. I’m scared she is going to resurface and hurt everyone around me.” Sunset shook her head “Twilight, I have faced my own demon. Know this however Midnight Sparkle is not evil, she was created by your thirst for knowledge. You need to talk to her properly, not listen to your nightmares.” Twi slumped “Are you sure about that? What if she tries to hurt you all?” Pinkie frowned “That’s not going to happen Twi, we’re stronger than even you truly know. The reason we didn’t act was for you safety, not ours. We could have beaten Midnight with little effort, the Question would be would there be anything left of you afterwards.” AJ grimaced “Pinkie, that is a bit much isn’t it. She is still new to all this magic stuff and your not exactly making her feel welcome at the moment.” It was not long after that was said that they felt the bus stop and everyone got off. Principal Celestia smiled towards her sister “It’s been a while since I’ve been here, I still remember the first time we came here.” Vice Principal Luna smiled “I still remember how the camp was back then, a lot smaller and we had to pitch our own tents.” They lead the group into the camp only to see a brown skinned man with green hair walking next to a wolf made of wood while a pale pinkish woman with dark raspberry hair was directing her hands to some plants accelerating their growth. A green haired woman like creature was tending to some trees, Celestia walked over to and whispered “I thought you were trying to keep the magic out of this trip?” Sunset hissed “I didn’t know there was magic here, why would I expect there to be magic here? I thought if magic had spread this far there would be big disasters happening.” The woman turned around with ecstatic smile “Welcome to Camp Everfree! I’m the Camp Director, Gloriosa Daisy. You can think of me as your friendly Camp and Nature Guide. If you ever need anything I’ll be ready to help, just say the word.” The man next to her placed a hand on her shoulder and whispered “Gloriosa, don’t overdo it.” He then turned to everyone “I’m Timber Spruce, the Cool Guy who should always be invited to fun things” he then gestured to the wolf beside him “This is Striker, the fastest wolf you would ever meet.” Celestia approached with a smile “It’s been a long time and a lot has changed since I was last here, may inquire as to your friend behind you.” The green haired woman like creature approached and bowed “I am Gaea Everfree guardian of the forest surrounding the camp. Gloriosa and Timber have been assisting me in caring for the forest.” Gloriosa smiled “Things have gotten quite magical around here, don’t worry it’s under control. We’ve got this.” Luna shrugged “We have had our fair share of magical and non-magical weirdness. If it doesn’t cause an catastrophe then we’re good.” Timber grinned “Well now is the time to sort out tent assignments, follow me.” Gloriosa began talking with the two Celestia and Luna as Gaea returned to tend to the forest. > Chapter 7: Camp Everfree Part 2 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- It was not long before everyone was assigned their tents, Sunset and Pinkie shared a tent as did Flutters and Shy. Sparks was groaning about sharing a tent with Bouncy, AJ was sharing a tent with Rainbow while Jackie was sharing one with Dash. Gem and Spectacle shared their tents. Twi was in a tent with Derpy. AJ and Gem both carrying some camping equipment walked over to Gloriosa, AJ smiled “We were hoping to rough it in the forest, is that going to be an issue if we don’t return to our tents tonight.” Gloriosa frowned “I’m not sure about you two doing that, I have a responsibility to keep you safe. You shouldn’t head out there alone.” Gaea floated over with a smile “I will keep them safe, don’t your worry.” She then whispered in Gloriosa’s ear “I prefer your camp to a huge resort, it keeps my forest much cleaner than anything else.” Gloriosa nodded before at smiling AJ and Gem “Gaea will be keeping you safe if something bad happens. Just come back tomorrow, I don’t want you two to go missing.” AJ and Gem nodded as they headed into the forest, they looked around the mighty trees green leaves glistening as they walked through the forest with smiles on their faces. Some of the trees glowed with magic as wolves made of wood slowly trekked through the forest casting the odd glance at the pair who started to hum softly. AJ grinned as they found a small clearing surrounded by trees “This will be a perfect place to set up camp.” Gem nodded looking at the light green grass smiled as she looked at the grass “I agree.” Gem set down the tent with a smile, she started hammering in the pegs as AJ watched in awe. She didn’t expect the fashionista to be doing any hard work out here, but there she was setting up the tent. Gem turned to her with a frown “Are you going to help me set up our stuff in the tent?” AJ nodded walking over and picking up one of the heavy food preparation tables for their tent only for Rarity to attempt pick one up as well. Applejack frowned “Let me handle this Gem, Ah’ve been doing this for a while.” Gem let out a low growl “I’m sick of being seen as the weakling, everyone has been put in danger and I have always been the most useless one! Even Shy is tougher than me and that is made even more clear with our monster counterparts, yours is a woodcutter turned murderer! Rainbow’s is a mad scientist who has quite a talent with knives and killing, Butchershy is a literal butcher and mine just likes hurting herself! It doesn’t really help in a fight!” AJ’s eyes widened for a second before she took a deep breath “Ah can help you with that but not like this. Ah have worked my entire life on a farm, you will not be as strong as Ah am overnight and it certainly won’t happen if you keep injuring your body.” Gem smiled “Thanks AJ, let’s finish setting up this tent.” Meanwhile Rainbow, Jackie and Dash were in the middle of a competition to see who was doing the most push ups with Twi and Sparks keeping count. Spectacle was busy sewing a dress in her tent. Bouncy was cheering as shock waves were coming off the water as two large beams of energy clashed over the water. Pinkie’s large feathered wings flapping behind her as Sunset’s buglike wings were buzzing rapidly. Pr Celestia was shouting pacing back and forth “I’m sick of magic turning up, we’ve had three magical incidents already. What if we have another magical disaster here and that’s into even including that strange cat god that turned up.” VPr Luna sighed “You need to relax, Sunset and Pinkie are far more powerful than you and I can imagine. They can handle any threat that comes for them, we should focus on relaxing. We are here as much for us as for them, even Vice Principal Celestia noticed that you are over stressed and she is you.” Pr Celestia sighed “I have a responsibility sister, I need to care for my students. If I don’t take care of them then who will. Maybe one day you will understand what that truly means.” VPr Luna growled slapping her sister “I know full well what that means sister but you can’t help them if you are about to fall apart! You are usually the unwavering spirit able to handle everything without breaking you smile but look at your outburst! You need this rest or else you can’t help anyone!” Pr Celestia slumped “Alright I’ll try but only for a bit.” VPr Luna grinned as she pulled out a pair of swimsuits “I’d say we go for a swim, it’s been years since we’ve had any time to really cut loose with one another.” Celestia giggled slightly at her sister’s excitement, Luna put on a dark orange two piece swimsuit while Celestia's was the same but black. Many of students watched in shock as they saw the two Principal headed to the water, Sunset and Pinkie who were now relaxing after their spar smiled as the two jumped into the water. Several students were shocked as VPr Luna splashed her sister with water only for her sister to splash her back as she laughed. Pinkie and Bouncy quickly got changed having their own little water fight only for Sunset to join in grinning. Rainbow and Dash convinced Twi and Sparks to go into water while Jackie convinced Spectacle to join. Rainbow, Dash and Jackie were racing while Spectacle relaxed. Twi and Sparks were diving under the water with snorkels. Everyone was enjoying themselves in the water. > Chapter 8: Camp Everfree Finale > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- It was late at night, Gem was looking at the stars from one of the tree branches bundled up in a sleeping bag. It was not raining sadly but the beauty of the stars was inspiring in it’s own right, her mind was already collecting ideas for a line of dresses with the night sky as a theme. AJ meanwhile was sleeping soundly in the tent, Gaea Everfree was watching closely. This world very strange compared to Equestria, she was nothing special there but here she was something more. She was the Spirit of the Everfree Forest in this world and she was going to keep these two safe. Meanwhile Twi was standing in a pink environment only for Midnight Sparkle to float in front of her. Twi was tensing at her counterpart’s form “Are you here to mock me again, Midnight?!” Midnight slumped “No, I don’t know why you think that’s what I want?” Twi frowned “You seem different from every other time I’ve seen you, you wanted to take over my form or said evil things to me. What changed?” Midnight sighed “You did, you saw that if we actually really talked to face to face it may fix everything. I am your ambitions Twilight, I can tell that you are happy now Twilight. If you ever need my help just say the word.” Twi sat down next to Midnight Sparkle “I have been scared of you, worried that I could lose everything about myself. That I could become you again.” Midnight frowned “I won’t try to take over your body, if you need my help just let me out. Whatever happens I’ll stand by you to the end of the line, you have my word.” Twi and Midnight stayed silent for the rest of the night as their body achieved it’s rest. The next morning, Twi awoke with a smile. She got dressed and bounced out the door her voice coursing through the air I sought out knowledge of something I didn’t understand It consumed me, changed me into something far darker Yet with the help of my friend I accepted it I am now stronger, faster and wiser It is my time to shine, to grow and learn To stand alongside my friends as an equal I am done living in fear I am done living in the shadows Her smile widened as Sunset and Pinkie as everyone in the camp was dancing around, her friends voices joined in We are friends to the end No matter happens we stand together We will shine through the darkness Rescuing those who fall by the wayside Our friendship will never be forgotten The years may weary us May even lay us low But what we stand for will live on forever Sunset laughed heartily “Musical moments are truly something special, they bring us together and unite us. One of the things I missed the most when I came here for the first time.” Sparks smiled as she walked over “I can’t agree more, this world feels more like home then my old one ever did. Too many bad memories back there.” Sunset nodded “Yes but we will have to face them one day, if you need any help just ask us.” Pinkie and Bouncy grabbed them “Come on you two, let’s join in the huge dance party that has started.” Flutter and Shy were slowly dancing with one another, Rainbow was trying to teach Dash how to Waltz with very little success. Twi was looking around for a dance partner only to be dragged into the swing of things by Derpy. Meanwhile in the forest Gem was looking around “AJ, what is life like on the farm? I have never done any really hard work in my life and it shows, I’ve always been soft.” AJ shook her had “You have a force of will that most would dream of having, you have goals and dreams that a farm girl like me could never dream of. Not everyone can be strong in the same way and that is okay.” Gem frowned “Maybe but I do have family to protect. I may not be as strongly connected to my family as you are to yours AJ but I do wish to protect them from danger.” Gaea appeared before them “I can hear a lot of commotion coming from the camp, stay behind me in case it is dangerous.” The four of them entered only to see everyone dancing, VPr Luna was breakdancing in front of everyone as Pinkie and Sunset were doing some strange wobble dance. Derpy and Twi was swinging around madly, Rainbow ran over and grabbed AJ “Dance competition against our counterparts, come on!” Gem giggled as AJ was yanked away by the eager Rainbow, some thing just never changed with the group. She headed in only to see Spectacle looking around in confusion, Gem grabbed her hand “Let’s Dance.” Gloriosa Daisy was dancing next to Pr Celestia who was sighing as her sister made a fool of herself in front of everyone “She should know that nobody will take her seriously after this. There is a reason we don’t eve cut loose in front of our students.” Gloriosa nudged her with her elbow “Stop being such a stiff, even back then you refused to have any fun. Seriously go out there and enjoy yourself, you already had fun in the water. Now have some fun on the Dance Floor.” Pr Celestia frowned “That was a lapse in judgement, I shouldn’t have done that but my sister was very insistent I join her. Still I can’t make a fool of myself any more than I already have.” Gloriosa’s eyes narrowed as she called out “Timber!” Timber ran over “Gloriosa, is there a problem?!” Gloriosa nodded with a grave expression as she beckoned to Pr Celestia “Someone is being a stick in the mud. You are going to take her out there and get her to cut loose, stick in the muds are not allowed in the camp.” Pr Celestia’s eyes widened as Timber saluted with a serious expression and dragged the Principal toward the dancers. Gloriosa giggled as she followed, she loved being in charge of the camp. > Chapter 9: Azathoth and Yog Sothoth > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunset was humming to herself, they had just returned home. Xeno was playing with a ball of light as Illusio hummed “So you wish to go and see those interdimensional friends of yours?” Pinkie smiled “Yes, I’m curious about their world. They are both very interesting individuals, I’m curious to see the world they call home and…” A huge burst of light appeared as a strange figure that looked like a Pharaoh appeared, Sunset and Pinkie stood up defensively. Pinkie snarled “Nyarlathotep, why are you here?!” Nyarlathotep bowed “Simple, Azathoth and Yog-Sothoth wish to see you. I simply came to deliver a message, now I have other affairs I must take care of.” Illusio frowned “How are you supposed to find them, they didn’t exactly tell you where they were.” Sunset frowned “Azathoth is everywhere, we simply need to go somewhere completely empty of matter and we will speak to him. Yog-Sothoth will arrive not long after.” Pinkie grimaced “Well let’s not leave two of the most powerful beings in existence waiting.” With click of her fingers the Sunset and Pinkie were floating in an seemingly endless void. The void began to pulsate (“You have arrived, Yog-Sothoth and I have been awaiting you two. Beings who are despite being in a bound form are filled with boundless power.”) Another part of void pulsated (“Your presence was enough to awaken Azathoth, that is mighty impressive.”) Sunset turned to the second pulsating part of the void “Yog-Sothoth” she then turned to the other part of the void “Azathoth or *shskjhfdbfdsh* why did wish to meet us?” Azathoth pulsated (“You two are more powerful than you realise, neither of are not part of my existence. I’m sure you aware of what that means.) Pinkie watched cautiously “Not exactly, still I want to know why you haven’t consumed everything yet. You are the great *shskjhfdbfdsh* and that you should be consuming everything right now as all reality is a dream for you.” Azathoth pulsated strongly (I wasn’t awakened until you arrived, your mere presence is enough to stabilise me. You grew beyond me and Origin who created me, you have power beyond even existence itself.) Pinkie grimaced “So your basically saying we are the masters of all things?” Yog-Sothoth pulsated (If you wish to be, there is no-one who can really make you do anything. You could likely absorb all of *shskjhfdbfdsh* into yourselves, you are realms of power given form and thus nothing could truly stop you.) Sunset sighed “So you brought us here to tell us how powerful we were I assume? We already knew that.” Azathoth pulsated (No, what I am here to tell you is quite simple. You two are extraordinary beings and that means you will draw attention. You have already drawn the attention of Displacers and Void Dwellers, one day you may have to assert your dominance over others.) Pinkie grimaced “We’ll deal with that should the need arise, but for now we must leave.” Sunset raised her hand and with a click of her fingers caused the head of the Eldritch to return to his deep slumber. The two Goddesses left arriving back in their home only to see Illusio cradling Xeno quietly. After laying him in his cot, Illusio joined his parents in the living room and frowned “What did this Azathoth want?” Sunset frowned “It seems we may need to take a more active involvement in the affairs of other entities in the Multiverse. They will become increasingly aware of our existence and if we don’t lay down the law it could put the others around us in danger.” They spent the rest of the next two days preparing to visit Seth and Bella. > Chapter 10: Visiting Seth and Bella > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- It had been a couple of days since the Everfree trip had ended. Sunset and Pinkie were smiling as they sat in front of the mirror they had created, it had a simple illusion filter and evasion enchantment placed on it so that people didn’t bump it or see it. Twi tapped the two devices that they had on their wrists “These will allow us to contact you if something big happens.” Sunset smiled “I’m eager to see where Seth and Bella came from. I must admit I want to see the difference between the worlds.” The whole group wished them luck before they opened the mirror and jumped through the portal. Sunset and Pinkie as soon as they jumped through were standing on their hooves, Sunset was wearing a light green dress over her orange chitin with holes to fit her changeling wings through. Pinkie had similar holes through her light blue dress for her Alicorn wings. Sunset snarled “Are you fucking kidding me?! Learning to walk on feet was hard enough!” Pinkie frowned as she looked around the dark forest “Where are we?” Sunset grimaced “The Everfree Forest, home to some of the most dangerous beasts within Equestria’s borders.” Pinkie shrugged “Nothing we can’t handle, now which way to…” Pinkie and Sunset tensed as they saw an unfamiliar human land in the clearing. Pinkie’s eyes narrowed “Who are you?” Sunset’s eyes narrows as the stranger exclaims theatrically “Pinkie~!I’m wounded, don’t you recognise one of your friends?” Sunset’s clearly annoyed storms over to him “Okay, listen here you-!” The figure raises his hand and four peach fingers turned into three massive green ones with metal knuckles. He then spoke in a familiar voice turning to them as he did so “Hi Sunset, Hi Pinkie.” Pinkie leapt at him knocking him over with a grin “SETH!” Sunset rolled her eyes “Get off him Pinkie” she then smirked “unless you want to bring him to our bed. I can think of some really kinky things to do in the bedroom.” Pinkie giggled as Seth phased through the ground and came up next to Pinkie Pie. Pinkie Pie grinned at him as he shook his head “I now have two reasons to not make jokes with you two.” Sunset laughed “I’m sure we could find some way to make it three” she then frowned “I can feel your energy along with some strange energy I can’t recognise in an area nearby. May you please explain what happened?” Seth nodded “That’s probably from my friend who was just here. You actually just missed her.” He paused for a moment “Actually, that’s good because if you two met even the- nevermind. Anyway! What brings you to fine ladies to my dimension today?” Sunset smirked “Fine?” Seth facepalmed “Ugh, walked right into that one.” He then shook his head “Anyway, what’s up?” Pinkie smiled “Well we returned from Camp Everfree. Then we met the highest ranking being in the Eldritch Pantheon, then we came here to visit. What about you?” Seth smiled “Eldritch pantheon? Don't think I've heard of that. And camp Everfree? Good for you! Now let's see… I… went to Canterlot for the first time, had a duel with Luna, I won. I… met some people who are from the dimension my powers are from, figured out- well, got shown how to turn out of my hybrid form, as you can see.” Seth’s voice shifted back to the way it was when he arrived “Met Jet, another Displaced who I'm friends with. Hey, is his car still here? Not important. And just today, I met my first two proper Displaced, had a battle with one of them, learned some new things about myself aaaand… almost ripped apart my reality. I think that's it.” Sunset sighed “It sounds like you had fun and made a bit of a mess.” She then smiled “I would like to meet some for you friends here if you don’t mind.” Pinkie grinned “Yes, we get to make new friends!” Seth sighed “See, now I would love to that… except there’s one little problem.” Pinkie blinked “What?” Seth frowned “Simple. The second you arrived here, every unicorn in sight fainted.” Sunset and Pinkie nodded clapping their hands together as their aura’s entangled before slowly dissipating “We found entangling our auras keeps them in our bodies so we don’t knock out everyone. Will that allow us to go into town?” Seth smiled “Cool solution. Especially for you two. Allow me to escort you to the town.” Pinkie laughed “Well aren’t you a gentlemen!” As they were walking a Timberwolf leapt out of the bushes towards Seth, he simply moved his arm. The wolf bit and chewed on it for a second before Seth slammed it into a tree causing it to shatter. He then turned to them “By the way, you two may want to put on some sort of disguise, we don’t want ponies being any more freaked out then they already are.” Sunset frowned “That would be foolish, if we want them to trust us we need to be transparent. I’d rather not our disguises fail for one reason or another then cause a much larger panic. Besides Pinkie is an Alicorn here, she will be revered enough to give me some benefit of the doubt I hope.” Seth nodded “Okay. That’s fair. And hey! At least we can tell them apart.” Pinkie looked quizzically at Seth “Tell who apart?” Seth grinned “You.” Sunset and Pinkie blink in confusion which quickly turns to surprise as this Equestria’s Pinkie appeared out of thin air “Hey Seth! Did you see it?! All the unicorns in town fain..” Pinkie trailed as she saw her godly counterpart “ted.” Sunset shook her head “Well this is going to be confusing.” The godly Pinkie frowned “Okay while I’m here call me Yulo, it’s was the first of many different names. Unless you want to call me Cleopatra or Joan of Arc.” Seth nodded “Yulo? Huh, better than anything I can- wait Cleopatra?” He then burst into laughter “Hohohoh, how’d that come along?” Pinkie’s eyes narrowed “Seth, let me tell you that Julius Caesar and Mark Antony are really bad at sex. They were rough and fast more often than not, also dying by the bite of an Asp is not fun. Twenty minutes of fucking agony so don’t fucking mock me about that!” Seth spoke quickly “Okay, I’m sorry, forget I mentioned it, let’s go!” Sunset gave Yulo a peck on the cheek as they headed into town. Many ponies see the four of them, some in fear and others curious about there being two Pinkies. Several unicorns were standing shakily, Seth sees a rainbow blur only for a blue pegasus mare with a rainbow mane to land in front of them “Pinkie, what’s happened to…” she sees then two Pinkies and turned to Seth “Seth, what’s going on?” Sunset stepped forward “I’m Sunset and this is my…” Rainbow rushed at her “Changeling!” Yulo caught her hand and glared at her with pure malice “You will leave my girlfriend alone or else there will be trouble!” The Pink Alicorn casually threw the pegasus into the air. Rainbow Dash orient herself and shouted “Changeling!” Everypony runs as fast as they can to get away. Seth shouted “Rainbow! She’s my friend. She’s not a threat!” Rainbow growled “But she’s a changeling.” Seth shouted back “And I’m an energy sucking Osmosian! Now get down here and apologise before I make you!” He then turns to Sunset and Yulo “Please excuse her, she just trying to help everypony.” Sunset shrugged “Dash can be like that two but Rainbow tends to keep her in check back home.” Rainbow Dash landed only for a tennis ball to hit her on the back of the head, she turned and growled “Who hit me with that?” A female covered in black chitin with a dark teal mane frowned “That was me, you caused a panic about changeling and many ponies thought it was me.” Sunset felt a tear in her eye as she whispered “Chrysalis.” Seth muttered “I’m an idiot” he then turned to Chrysalis “Listen, Chrysalis, I’m sorry about her, she just met…” Before Seth could say word another Chrysalis was grabbed in a mighty hug by a crying Sunset “I’m sorry, so sorry!” Chrysalis would have said something if it wasn’t for the overwhelming amount of love pouring out of Sunset. Yulo sighed as she slowly extracted Chrysalis from the hug “Sunset has lived multiple lives and in one of them she was Queen Lumina mother of our Equestria’s Queen Chrysalis.” Chrysalis turned to Seth with hesitation “Another displaced?” Seth frowned “Not exactly, they are not from our world though.” Chrysalis sighed as she turned to Sunset “Listen, while I thank you for the hug” she then whispered something impossible to hear before continuing “I’m not the same Chrysalis, I’m not even the one from this dimension. My mother’s name was Arachnia the Vile. A real witch even by my standards.” Sunset dried her tears “I’m sorry too but I couldn’t help, just seeing your brought back so many good memories even if it didn’t end well between your counterpart and I.” Seth shrugged “Anyway, how about…” he noticed that Rainbow as she was trying to sneak away. Seth’s arm turned into a huge reddish black construct and pulled the Pegasus over using gravity. Seth frowned “Where do you think you are going? You, little filly, still haven't apologised.” Rainbow struggled furiously “Hey! I’m not a filly!” Seth’s eyes narrowed “And I’m not hearing an apology.” Rainbow Dash frowned “Fine, I…” she then mumbled “I'm sorry.” Seth growled “What was that?” Rainbow turns to Sunset “I’m sorry.” Sunset sighed “Apology accepted but don’t do it again, I have little patience for this foolishness. Consider yourself warned.” Seth nodded “I’d listen to her, Dash. She is NOT to be messed with.” Rainbow exclaims “Oh come on. What can she do?” Seth shouted “Sunset!” Sunset turned to him as his body began to grow and turn a metallic silver “Can you lightly kick me please?” Sunset blinked “What? Why?” Seth frowned “I want Rainbow to see what you can do. And don’t worry about me falling. If an Arburian Pelarota can survive a fall from orbit. An Ultimate one can survive much more.” His voice became at lot deeper as he said the last sentence and now had light blue metallic skin. He had multiple cylindrical studs on his back, one each shoulder, wrist and leg plate. He then stepped towards Sunset and rolled into a spiked ball. Yulo blinked “Weren’t you bigger last time you transformed into that?” Seth nodded slightly in the ball form “Last time, I was almost four metres tall.” Yulo nodded “Good point.” Sunset frowned “And your sure about this.” Rainbow exclaimed “Hey wait a minu-” Seth nodded “Yes, just lightly kick me. Now watch closely Rainbow.” Sunset nodded “Alright.” She then reared back her hoof “Here we go.” Sunset even with her weak kick easily hit with the force of an exploding universe sending hurtling into the sky. Sunset didn’t get to say a word before she felt a fist punch her cheek, she then proceeded to backhand the individual stupid enough to punch her so hard that the mare did one full orbit of the planet in less than a second before being caught in her hand by the throat. She turned to see an unconscious Celestia in her hand, she rolled her eyes “Of course it would be you, it’s always you.” She then looked up as she dropped the unconscious princess onto the ground without an inch of concern “I probably sent him to other side of the universe with that kick.” Rainbow let out a growl as she flew towards Sunset “How dare you hurt the Princess!” Rainbow coughed up blood as Sunset had stuck her hand through Rainbow’s body on impulse, Sunset blinked “Oops.” Rainbow landed on the ground the light leaving her eyes, Pinkie ran over crying “Rainbow Dash!” Yulo facepalmed “Sunset I love you but that was dumb, now let me fix this.” Yulo clicked her fingers and all of Rainbow’s wound healed. Rainbow jolted up in shock and shivered “I can’t believe she killed me! It was so cold, like all that was good in the world was gone.” Yulo sighed “This world is not like ours dammit, death is a lot more permanent here and we can’t just going around like that.” Sunset rubbed the back of her head before looking at Rainbow “Sorry about that, I didn’t think. I just reacted to a threat.” Rainbow shouted “Why is that the first you do?!What kind of sick world are you from?!” Yulo frowned “Your overreacting Rainbow, three things first generally most beings that we would fight are much stronger than you. Second we have dragon balls that can bring back the dead and third Sunset was holding back a lot, we both are and it’s very difficult for us to interact with mortals. We both have enough power to wipe this entire plain of reality out if we are not careful.” Chrysalis exclaims her eyes wide “What?” Celestia begins to awaken, Chrysalis burst into green flames assuming the form of a black pegasus with a streak running through her mane and tail. Yulo commented “That was fast?’ Celestia once fully conscious stood up and glared at Sunset “Why are you here Changeling Queen?” Yulo stepped forward with a scowl “She is my girlfriend, lay a finger on her and you’ll be in a world of pain!” Celestia’s eyes widened “You’re an Alicorn?” Yulo frowned “I’m much more than that, I’m Yulo Goddess of Chaos but back home I’m Pinkie Pie.” Sunset nodded “I am Ava, Goddess of Harmony and known back home as Sunset Shimmer.” Celestia exclaimed “Pinkie Pie? Wait, Sunset?!” Yulo frowned “Not the one you know. We are from a different dimension.” Celestia frowned “Your, what did Twilight call them, Displaced?” Sunset shook her head “No, we are not like that. We came here because we are incredibly powerful beings, goddesses capable of building entire universes should we so choose.” Just at that moment they saw a purple unicorn galloping over “Princess Celestia, I need to tell you about what has happened in Ponyville. Wait where’s Seth?” Yulo rubbed her head “He asked Sunset to kick him, he will be back soon.” The purple mare growled as her horn sparked glaring at Sunset “Changeling!” Rainbow frowned “You shouldn’t do that, she will kill you then her girlfriend over there will bring you back to life. It’s not a pleasant experience.” Sunset shrugged “You’re different from the Twilight I know, then again she is an undead Paladin Alicorn so there is bound to be difference.” Twilight stares at Sunset and Yulo completely confused “What?” Yulo frowned “We don’t really know the full story, she would be better at explaining but she isn’t here right now and pulling her here to explain it would be very rude.” Twilight blinked in confusion “She? Who’s she?” Sunset frowned “Our Equestria’s Twilight Sparkle, she’s an Undead Paladin Alicorn married to the Lich King Arthas.” Twilight’s brain proceeds to shut down “Uuuh… Huuuu…” Yulo raised an eyebrow at Celestia “I thought your student was made of tougher stuff than that?” Celestia blinked “What do you mean by that?” Sunset frowned “She means considering you have dimensional traveller living in your world she would be more used to strange stuff.” Sunset grimaced as a purple hairless cat appeared in front of them “Beerus, what are you doing here?” Beerus frowned “The other Gods of Destruction are really eager on a meeting with you.” Yulo growled “We are not beholden to them, Beerus! Damn it why are they so bloody insistent!” A light purple mare with a white and purple mane and tail popped into existence. She wore a yellow propeller hat with a green fan on top, her purple spiral irises looking curiously before she grinned as she wrapped Beerus in a hug “Thank you for getting me a cat!” Beerus growled “Get off me you stupid fool!” He flared his energy throwing her off, she then screamed in agony as Beerus punched a hole in her chest. Sunset snarled “Beerus!You idio…” she then turned around to see Seth land “…it. Seth?” Sunset and Yulo hear a unknown voice as Seth’s eyes begin to glow“D̵̰̊i̴̝͂s̵̯̆ē̵̮n̸͍͘g̷͓̓a̷̛͓g̴̬̿ė̵͔ ̴̤̂A̴̛̪L̷̩̀L̴̥̅ ̴̤̋Ḑ̴̓i̶̼̚r̷͙̎ę̷̈́c̷̻̈t̷͒͜í̵̮v̵̲́e̸͎̓s̴͍̀.̵͍̐” Yulo approaches cautiously “Seth?” The voice grew even louder as one of Seth’s eyes turned began to glow green“W̶̛͇E̴͕̚ ̶͚̌Ẅ̷̱́O̴̡̚N̶̜͘"̷̜̽T̴̒͜ ̶̛͓L̵͍̕E̸͙̕Ṫ̷͜ ̷̥̀Y̵̫͛O̴̝̓U̸̬̽ ̷͕͛G̴̨͠Ë̷͍Ť̴̰ ̶̙͘A̵̳͂W̷̞̉A̸̲͠Ý̷̼ ̴̡̾W̷̛̜I̶̹̓T̷̨̂Ĥ̸ͅ ̷̙́T̶͓̔H̴̛͖Ī̷̗S̸̘̿!̶̖̎” Yulo frowned “Seth, what are you-?” Seth turned to her staring directly into her eyes “Ū̷͙n̷͉̉d̵̪͋e̸̹͊r̷̤̈́ ̶̨̈ṋ̸̔o̷̬͊ ̴̡̊c̶̗̋ḯ̴̘r̸̭͋c̷̣̈́û̸̡m̶͎̀s̴͎̓t̴̻͝ä̷̟́n̴͠ͅc̷͖͝e̷͖͒ś̴̱ ̷̢̾a̷͚͝r̷̓͜ë̸̜́ ̸͕͝ÿ̸̠́ö̸̟́ù̶̘ ̸̫͗t̴̻̓o̶̙͑ ̴̳̇i̷̝͠n̵͇̍ṫ̶͍e̵͔͝ŕ̴̡f̷̻̀e̴͉̍r̵̖̕è̴̲.̶͚̊ ̷̣̍Ù̸̘ń̶̖d̴̺̐ḛ̶̈́r̵̨̈s̸̗̎t̸̺̍a̷͉͆ņ̵͌d̵̳̍?̴̭́” Yulo nodded with a shrug knowing that she could easily stop him with a finger if she wanted to but Beerus had crossed a line and this would be an important lesson for him to learn “Okay.” Beerus roared “You really think you can talk to a supreme being like that? And now you challenge me?! You really are foolish!” Seth glared at the God of Destruction “W̶̘͗e̵̗̾ ̷̧͌w̸̻͝ì̶͇l̷̛̤l̵̰͆ ̵̦̈́ḳ̷̋i̸̥̿l̵̩̄l̸̪͒ ̷̛̬y̶̲̎ŏ̷̖u̶̜͋ ̸̳͛f̸͙̅o̴͙̅ṟ̶̈́ ̸̳̿ṯ̵͌h̴̦̆a̷̔ͅt̸̡͒!̷̣̄” Beerus laughed “You honestly think… koof?!” He was cut off as Seth punched him with a metallic fist launching him into the air with a “clunk!” Beerus’ eyes widen ins surprise but before he could do anything Seth flew in front of him and slugged him with an armoured red leg. Beerus crashed into a mountain and Seth flew after him with a fist glowing orange and red. Beerus fired a blast of energy at Seth, Seth quickly absorbed the energy and redirected it into a punch sending Beerus flying out of orbit. Everyone was watching through an orb Sunset and Yulo provided, Seth started quickly firing neuroshocks towards Beerus who dodged them with incredible speed. Seth grimaced “Ẃ̸̺è̶̦ ̵̩͠ǹ̵̖e̵̯͝e̵̱͛d̸̻̈ ̴̳̚t̸͖̃o̴̟͊ ̴̣́b̴͚̂ẽ̷̘ ̷̟͠f̵̟͒a̸̗̍s̵͓̊ț̴̾e̸̫̔r̶̩̓.̴̤͘” Beerus fired another attack only for Seth to absorb and redirect into more neuroshocks which Beerus dodged. The other voice comments “W̶̥͛e̵̹͂ ̸͓̒m̶͍̔a̴͇͌y̸̩͐ ̷̮̕h̴̹̿a̴̻͝v̷͈̾e̵̳͑ ̸̙̉â̸̗ ̴̱̕s̸̰͛ò̴͜ḻ̴͐u̴̲͋t̶͉̽i̷̹̊ó̶̤n̵̝̚.̴̱̋” Seth nodded as he reached up to the Ultimatrix on his chest and pushed the four spiked in sequence. The spikes retracted and he placed his fingers on the faceplate and turned it sideways causing the core of the Ultimatrix to extend outwards. He then slammed down on the core creating a new transformation, the spikes extend outwards once more as energy shoots throughout Seth’s body. His chest turns cyan blue while his back and shoulders turns dark blue. His eyes extend on small dark blue stalks as they grow larger. His arms grow longer, now having patagia along the side of his body. Seth’s legs grow shorter as a blue tail grows out of his back, the Ultimatrix staying on his chest. Seth shouted as he flew up to Beerus “Ú̸͈l̴̳̄ṱ̷̈́i̵͙̅m̸̰̌a̸̻͋t̸̤͝e̸̜͐ ̸̬͆J̴͇̈ë̷͔t̶̼͐ŕ̶̗a̸͍͂ȳ̶͈!̵̩͗” Beerus laughed “Ha! If you think transforming is going to save yo…” Beerus let out an exclamation of pain as shot from Seth’s tail hit him“Ah!” Beerus shouted as he fried a blast at Seth “Why you little!” Seth’s bulbed eyes glowed and opened two portals, one in front of him and one behind Beerus. Beerus doubles over as he gets hit by his own blast from behind, he then turns to Seth “You insigni…” Beerus yelled as Seth travelled through the portal and blasted him again “Huh? AH!” Seth continues to repeat the pattern, using the portals to change positions and redirect Beerus’ attacks. The Psyche-shocks were slowly wearing the God of Destruction down, Beerus shouted as he releases a massive wave of energy around only for Seth to absorb it. Beerus blinked in surprise “Huh?” Seth blasts him down to the planet, only to open up a portal under him that leads to above Seth. As soon as Beerus fell through the portal he was blasted back by Seth. Seth then blasted him down again until he crashed into the ground, the God of Destruction laid there catatonic and twitching. Seth landed looking around at the terrified ponies before seeing Screwball bleeding on the ground, he tried to walk towards her “Screw…” He collapsed to the ground unconscious, Sunset frowned as she examined him. She then let out a sigh of relief “He’ll be fine with some rest.” Yulo meanwhile was looking over Screwball “Her chaotic energies are trying to heal the wound but the are struggling to repair the damage.” Pinkie then placed her hands and poured chaotic energy into the wound healing Screwball. Pinkie frowned “She will still be unconscious for a couple of hours but will be fine afterwards.” Sunset and Pinkie looked at Beerus, they sighed not entirely pleased he survived. They closed their eyes and focused “By the might of Harmony and Chaos may this god be caged.” A massive purple cage surrounded Beerus, Sunset sighed “At least he won’t harm anyone else.” A few hours later in the Golden Oaks Library, Celestia and Twilight were outside talking about what happened. Yulo was standing guard outside the library while Sunset was leaning on the wall next the disguised Chrysalis, Screwball was sitting there confused next to the bed Seth was laying in “How am I alive exactly?” Before Sunset could explain, Chrysalis smiled “Looks like Seth is waking up.” Seth opened his eyes and tires to sit up on for the pain of his headache to pin him down. Screwball shouted “Seth!” Seth turned to her with shock “Screwy?! I thought you were…” Screwball nodded “Dead? Yeah, I thought so too. Not nice…Oh!” Seth gripped her in a tight hug “I’m so glad your okay.” Screwball smiled as she returned the hug “So am I.” Sunset cleared her throat, Chrysalis smiling with amusement. Seth turned to them, Sunset sighed “As much as I hate interrupting the two of you, we have to discuss a lot with Celestia. The Nobles have caught wind of all this chaos and…” A voice came from around them “Did someone mention chaos?” The serpentine form of the Lord of Chaos slithered over grinning, only to be kicked into the wall hit by a giant ninja ping pong ball. Yulo approached him as he slid onto the ground, she looked down at him with a calm look “Kneel before your god.” Seth waved “Hey Dissy!” Discord was frozen in complete and utter terror unable to turn his gaze away from Yulo. Screwy waved “Hi daddy.” She pouted when she got no reaction. Seth turned to Sunset “How long was I out?” Chrysalis frowned “Four hours.” Seth turned to her “Huh.” Sunset nodded “You were out for a while, whatever you did there drained a lot more energy that you normally use. Now we will have to discuss more serious matters.” Seth frowned “Serious matters?” He then sighed “Yeah, that’s understandable. What’s first?” Sunset frowned pointing to Chrysalis “First, she needs to come clean” she then sighed “second we need to discuss how we are going to explain all of this to the nobles in Canterlot.” Chrysalis smirked pointing at Seth and Screwball “Third, you two need get a room. You two are way too lovey dovey, I can taste it.” Seth’s face lights up and he accidently phases through the bed and falls through the floor. Chrysalis bursts into laughter as Seth reorients himself “Uh…bhpt…hu umm… So!Chrysalis! Any ideas?!” Chrysalis’ smirk only grew “Yes, I tie you and Screwball while naked to a bed for three hours.” Seth huffed “That’s not what I meant! Ideas on you coming clean?!” He then turned to Screwball, her hands were on her cheeks with an embarrassed grin on her face. Sunset rolled her eyes “If she is anything like my daughter was then she does this all the time. Although judging from your friend’s expression she would enjoy that.” She them smirked “I can’t deny that you flying in like a white knight to save her does say something doesn’t it.” Seth groaned “Ugh!So! How we are going to deal with revealing Chryssi and deal with the nobles?” Chrysalis huffed at the nickname, Sunset giggled “Sorry but teasing you is fun.” she then shook her head “Well the first step will be telling Celestia, she will help us plan the next steps out.” Seth blinked “Huh. Where is Celestia? I would think she would be nearby.” At that moment Celestia walked in with Twilight, Sunset turned to Chrysalis and nodded. Chrysalis burst into green flames revealing her true form, Celestia growled “What is she doing here?!” Twilight turned her mentor “She means no harm.” Celestia turned to Twilight with a scowl “Why didn’t you tell me she was here?!” Sunset frowned as Twilight cowered before her mentor “Enough, Celestia! She already thinks your going to turn her to stone, put her stone self in a dungeon and banish that dungeon to the moon. Ease up on the threats.” Spike walked downstairs with a yawn “She thinks that will happen if she sends a letter late.” He then looks around at the crowd and sighs “Another crazy day in Ponyville. I’ll make you all breakfast.” Seth smiled “Thank you Spike!” He then turned to Celestia with a frown “So- Celestia what happened to your cheek?” Celestia pointed to Sunset “I got punched by that one.” Seth turned to Sunset “Oh.Wait, is that what that trail when I was going through re-entry? Sunset! Did you punch my Celestia around the planet?” Celestia whispered “Your Celestia?” Sunset shrugged “She punched me first.” Yulo not turning away from Discord nodded “It true, she did.” Sunset turned to Celestia “The reason why he used my in reference to you is because there is a Celestia in the Equestria I came from as well.” Chrysalis commented “The Celestia in the Equestria I came from alongside her sister are retired and Princess Twilight rules Equestria.” Celestia blinked “Princess Twilight?” She gasped before shouting pumping her fist into the air “I was right. I knew it!” She then blushed as Chrysalis and Sunset smiled with amusement while everyone else save Twilight was stunned, Celestia blushed “Sorry, just… got excited.” Any further words were interrupted by a thump as Twilight’s body hit the floor, Sunset rolled her eyes “It seems your Twilight is neurotic mess, the one I know isn’t that way. She is an Undead Paladin Alicorn, not sure how that happened mind you but it did.” Seth frowned “Did I ever meet her? I can’t remember if I did.” Yulo shook her head “No you didn’t.” Seth raised an eyebrow “What about the on with the MMs?” Sunset shook her head “Different one.” Seth looked around “Oh. Hey, where’s Bella?” Screwball frowned “Still helping some unicorns.” She then pointed to Sunset and Yulo “Some of them still haven’t recovered from these two arriving.” Seth nodded “Ah, I see. Now then, back yo…oh wait! I just remembered!” He then turned to Yulo and Sunset “You two can warp reality?” They both nod. Yulo raised an eyebrow, curious about why he asked “Me more precisely than Sunset but we both can.” Seth nodded “Down to the genetic level?’ Yulo corrected him “Down to the atomic level.” Screwy blinked “What are you…oh! The Aliens!” Seth smiled “Exactly. Listen, I need a favour.” Yulo frowned “Depends on what it is, I’m not one to jump into something like this willy nilly. Messing with reality is serious business.” Seth sighed “Listen, I have a bit of a problem. I have five sentient beings trapped inside of me.” Yulo walked closer, curiosity crossing her features “What do you mean?” Seth frowned “A day before I met you two, a bad guy from the dimension I got my powers from showed up. He was the same race as me. Anyway, he was trying to obtain godhood by absorbing the powers of a baby Celestialsapien, gods in their own right. In order to do that, he absorbed five aliens. He stood up transforming into each form as he told them each alien “Bivalvan, an Orishan. Andreas, a Talpaedan. P’andor, a Prypiatosian-B. Galapagus, a Geochelone Aerio. And Ra’ad, an Amperi. Because I absorbed their powers, they are all now stuck in me. I want to free them. Can you help?” Yulo giggled as she clicked her fingers all five them appearing in the room confused “I thought you were going to ask something hard, I even left a genetic sample of each in you so can still use their powers.” Sunset frowned “Now tell me where is this being, I will destroy him personally.” Seth spoke to the aliens “Hold up…” Galapagus asked “What is going on?” Seth tried to speak again “Don’t worry.We are not going to…” P’andor growled at Seth raising a glowing armoured hand “Who are you?” Seth tired to reassure him “ Calm down, P’andor. We’r…” P'andor from inside his suit shouted “How do you know my name?!” Seth tried once more to reassure the group “If you would just…” Galapagus retreated into his shell as Andreas scared “Andrea scared!” Andrea was now hiding behind P’andor. Bivalvan looked around “Where is this place?” The aliens continued to clamour about until Seth shouted “Would you just shut up! Everything will be explained, if you could all just LISTEN?!” Before any of the aliens could start clamouring about again, an intense presence washed over them and they immediately bowed to Sunset and Yulo “Forgive us Goddesses for our transgressions.” Sunset sighed “I wish we didn’t have to do that.” Seth frowned “Okay, now that that’s established, you five are on the planet Equis, in a different dimension to the one you were in before. If you would co-operate with me and the three Plumbers in the area, we can get you all back to your respective worlds.” Celestia, Chrysalis blinked in confusion while Yulo raised an eyebrow as they all spoke in unison “Plumbers?” Sunset frowned “You better explain that, I have no idea why we should trust these plumber friends of yours.” Seth explained “Ah right. ‘Plumbers’ are the name of what basically amounts to an… intergalactic police force, keeping the peace and… ‘fixing the leaks’ in society, as it were. Three of them have travelled here. They were looking for Aggregor.” The aliens around them flinched at the mention of his name. Seth reassured them “Don’t worry, Aggregor is in a dungeon, in the capital of this nation.” As the Aliens relax, Sunset stepped forward “I will dispose of this Aggregor permanently” she then turned then turned to Princess Celestia “take me to his cell.” Seth frowned “Be careful. Aggregor is clever. And ruthless. He will try to attack you when he sees you. Also I suggest you bring one of the Plumbers with you.” Sunset frowned “No need, he will be dead before he sees me.” Celestia teleported the two into the room outside the cell, Sunset saw Aggregor and before he could even turn around Sunset had torn him in half and then held out one hand “Erase.” His body evaporated in lees than a second. She then joined Celestia and teleported the two back “Aggregor’s gone, erased from existence. Seth blinked “Well that was quick. Ben’s not going to be happy about that.” He then turned to the five aliens “Now, as for you five. We need to get you back home.” Sunset frowned “Well this Ben should know that trying to torment villain instead of wiping them out gives them a greater chance to escape. If you want to kill a villain then you do it swiftly and without hesitation.” Seth frowned “O…kay. Anyway, Ben should be…” Seth turned around as the door opened and Ben walked in “Right there. Perfect timing Ben.” Ben looked around flabbergasted “Bu…ho…wha…when did… Guys!Your alright!” Galapagus smiled “Ben Tennyson. It is good to see you.” Ben looked around in shock “How did you?” Yulo grinned “For a talented reality-warper such as myself it was no biggy, I’m confident I can make these Celestialsapiens of yours look like children playing with toys.” Sunset frowned “Also Aggregor is dead, erased from existence. He will not harm another.” Ben shouted “What?!What do you mean he’s dead?! Hew was going to be handed off to the Plumbers!” Sunset’s eyes narrowed “Why? So he can escape and hurt more innocent lives? No, he needed to be put to an end. Either they were going to put him in a cell in which he would escape eventually or they were going execute him themselves after a lengthy trial. A being that can absorb power seeking universal domination is too dangerous to let rot in a cell. His life was not worth the potential trillions he could slaughter.” Yulo nodded “We are gods, Ben. We see not just future of the universe but the of the infinite mulitverse. A being like this could easily bring tyranny to every single universe that exists, he needed to be dealt with.” Seth frowned “Now then, all we need to is find a way…” they heard a huge explosion that came from outside of town. Celestia shouted “What happened?” Sunset frowned “ That’s where we left Beerus.” She clicked her fingers teleporting herself, Seth and Yulo to the location only to see a furious Beerus twitching uncontrollably before glaring at Seth “I will destroy you!” Yulo frowned at Seth “What did you do to him?” Seth grimaced as he realised what was going on “His energy’s gone out of control. Like he’s destroying everything. Not just what’s around him but himself.” Sunset raised an eyebrow “Okay, but how?” Seth grimace deepened as he figured it out “It must have been my Psyche-shocks! They attack the mind, damage it. I must have blasted him over a dozen times. That can’t be healthy. For anyone.” Yulo frowned “So you are saying your attacks broke his mind?” Seth nodded “Yeah, if not more.” Beerus roared in the cage “HRAAH!YOU DID THIS TO ME SO I CAN…GAH!” Beerus began to twitch violently pain marring his face, he roared even louder “…AAH! I’LL KILL YOU!! I’LL KILL YOU IF IT’S THE LAST THING I DO!!!HHRRAAAAHH!!” Beerus’ energy flare out as he tried to break the cage “HAAH! LET ME OUT OF HERE SO I CAN…GAH!!!” Seth rubbed his chin “Hmm. I maaay have an idea.” Yulo frowned “What is it?” Seth turned to her “Amperi have the power of reading and manipulating brain waves. If I can get in…” Sunset nodded “You might be able to fix what you broke.” Seth turned to her with a sigh “Yeah.” Sunset shook her head “This is his fault, he acted with out thinking.” She then focused on Beerus channelling harmonic energy, the God of Destruction collapsed to the floor of the cage, Sunset frowned “I’m creating an open channel for you into his mind through, there is too much destructive energy in him for you to go in without my support.” Seth frowned “Would you be able to change the cage so it holds his body in place?” Seth and Yulo nod as they click their fingers, the cage turning into am energy straitjacket binding Beerus in place “Of course.” Seth smiles “thanks.” His hand then glow a light blue as he reaches for Beerus’ head. The God of Destruction swings around violently. Beerus’ mind send out a mix of distorted thoughts (HRAH! HAH! GRAH! DES…! YAAH! DEST… You are nothing.I WILL DESTR…You are weak.NO! I WILL KILL THE ONE WHO DID THIS TO ME! I WILL DE- You are useless.) Beerus then roared as his energy flared out “DESTROY!!” He then falls limp to the ground, Sunset frowned “What happened to him? What is the state of his mind?” Seth frowned “He couldn’t act… every time he tried to think of something, he thought of me beating him. It made him think he couldn’t… be a god of destruction! Every time he tried to destroy me, I retaliated. Add my Psyche-shocks into the mix, you got every thought of him trying to destroy, he instead feel the pain of my Psyche-shocks, which is why he was twitching.” He then thought to himself “By reinserting the idea of destroying, I helped him. I think.” Sunset frowned “Do you think that would be enough to fix his mind or is there still more to be done?” Seth shook his head “I don’t know. I’d have to go back in for that.” Yulo frowned “Then do it, Sunset can facilitate your trip. I would love to help but my chaotic power would not do well messing around with something so destructive.” Sunset began opening a channel once again “Are you ready for this?” Seth frowned “I hope so. Wish me luck!” Sunset and Yulo smiled as Seth re-entered Beerus’ mind “Good luck.” Seth after a second or two shouted “Done!” Yulo blinked “Already? You just went in.” Sunset rolled her eyes “Time moves differently in the mindscape. What felt like ten hours in a hive mind may actually only be two minutes. It’s the same when you dream.” She then frowned as she turned to Beerus who had just woken up, Beerus groaned “That was the single most painful experience of my life.” Sunset removed the straitjacket as Yulo frowned “Beerus, you brought that on yourself. I hope that you will start making some changes.” Beerus nodded “I’ll try” he then turned to Seth and bowed“It appears I owe you an apology, I have seen myself above mortals for a long time. I’m sorry for my arrogance.” Seth sighed (Uh oh. I think he’s still broken.) Beerus exclaimed as he heard Seth’s thoughts “No, I’m not.” Seth exclaimed “What?” His eyes then widened “I think we have a psychic link now.” Beerus grimaced (What? What’s that supposed to mean?) Seth sighed “It means, I can hear your thoughts and you can hear mine.” Beerus shouted “What?!You mean I’m stuck with you in my…” He took a deep breath “it’s fine, it’s fine. Remember what Whis told you.” He then frowned at Seth “Alright, do you have any way to break this link we have?” Yulo frowned “I don’t know. From the looks of it, the two of you are linked through your energy. So… unless you both are realities apart or find some way to, very painfully, separate yourselves. Your stuck.” Beerus shrugged “It should be fine, we aren’t going to be in the same dimension of reality.” Sunset nodded “That’s why I’m sending you back to Earth Beerus.” Beerus nodded and Sunset clicked her fingers sending the God of Destruction back from whence he came.” Seth frowned “Testing, testing? Anyone there?” Screwy popped into into existence “Hi Seth.” Seth jumped “Guh!” He then frowned “Screwy! Not funny.” Screwy then grabbed his hood and stuck her tongue down his throat. Sunset and Yulo were grinning as he melted into the kiss, wrapping his arms around her. Neither Screwy nor Seth noticed the icy misty emanating from Seth forming into a blooming flower with the two of them in the centre. Sunset and Yulo grinned “Called it.” The two teleported back to the Library leaving the new couple to their free time, Celestia blinked in confusion “Where’s Seth and why did Screwy leave.” Sunset giggled “Seth and Screwy are having some private time, I’m confident Cadence would kill you all if you intervened.” Chrysalis cheered “Love is in the air!” Twilight frowned “Still we need to deal with the nobles and Chrysalis.” Celestia nodded as she raised her hand “We need to speak to Luna, she would want to be part of our next move as well.” Celestia teleported everyone in the room to her personal chambers in Canterlot, which was always empty at this time of day. Twilight looked at her mentor “What are we going to do now?” Celestia smiled “I’ll explain what is happening to my sister, in the meantime I think you should get to know the present company.” As Celestia left Sunset was looking over Andrea “Your interesting, you remind of the Metalmen from Universe Six. You are much larger than Universe Seven variant of Metalmen.” Andreas looked around in fear “Are we safe here?” Meanwhile Bivalvan was glaring at P’andor “Now I am not usually one to get angry but what were you thinking! We all were captured and absorbed by Aggregor because of you! We could have escaped before he suspected a thing but no you had to engage him!” P’andor snarled as he shed his metallic suit “You want to have another go!” Sunset and Yulo feeling the radiation put a shield around Twilight and Chrysalis while Ben’s Ultimatrix changed him into a Prypiatosian-B. Sunset frowned “Get back in your suit or else we will destroy you for threatening the innocents around you.” P’andor backed down. Meanwhile Celestia has just arrived at the a t door covered in stars, she knocked on the door “Luna, I need to discuss something with you? It’s important.” Luna frowned as she opened the door “After you ditched me in court because of that strange power surge, this is better be important.” Celestia entered and frowned “Apparently Seth had a set of dimensional travellers turn up. In fact there was another that he didn’t tell us about and they brought their Chrysalis,with them. Furthermore Seth decided that she was going to stay in our world and I need your help in explaining it to everypony.” Luna rubbed her forehead with her fingers “This is going to be a political Nightmare, we might as well get this sorted out now. We need to inform everypony as quickly as possible and then do damage control.” Meanwhile Sunset was frowning “Ben, are you still holding a grudge?” Ben grimaced “Aggregor was a plumber problem, you didn’t need to interfere.” Yulo frowned “Actually we did, if he managed to steal either of our powers he could easily rule the entire multiverse and not a single entity could stop him. The chances were less than a percent of him being able to do that but that chance is too high when the fate of all reality is at stake.” Celestia entered the room “We have managed to organise a Canterlot wide meeting, there will be a lot of commotion so I hope that Yulo and Sunset can keep the peace.” Sunset and Yulo smiled “We can do that.” Chrysalis frowned “I think we should limit this to Sunset,Yulo, Twilight, Celestia, Luna and I. Seeing aliens from another dimension will only make this worse. Ben, can you keep them calm in here.” Ben frowned “I’ll try, P’andor is the only real trouble maker here.” P’andor mumbled something as Celestia teleported Sunset, Twilight, Yulo, Chrysalis and herself into a spartan room behind a balcony. Sunset frowned “Where are we?” Luna frowned “This is our secret meeting room we go to before any announcement, we are going to sought this out.” Celestial and Luna stepped out onto the balcony, Celestia spoke first “Recently we have received visitors from another dimension as I’m sure you aware.” Luna continued “Two of them came from an alternate version of our nation along with a few native members from their world. One was offered to stay by our dimensional resident Seth.” Celestia and Luna, Chrysalis stepped out only for the all the ponies to gasp. Chrysalis’ eyes narrowed “Celestia and Luna prepare to mobilise the guards.” Her eyes glowed green and countless ponies burst into green flames, countless Night guards jumped on the changelings before they could respond. Chrysalis grimaced “I should have known, my second invasion had already begun. I put a lot of thought into that plan, I would have won if my own subjects didn’t turn on me.” Chrysalis then closed her eyes “Still I am grateful for Seth, he saved me from torment. He believed in me even when my Twilight was about to give up hope on me, her eyes glowed orange. I’m done with hiding in the shadows, I know will stand tall!” Hew body began to shift as fiery passion filled her, her chitin changing to deep sea blue colour with strand of orange running through it. Two curved blades forming on either arm before retracting into her arms. Celestia frowned “What do you mean by that Chrysalis?” Chrysalis sighed “I had captured everyone, the Elements of Harmony, Discord and both of you. In the end it took the combined efforts of Starlight Glimmer, Princess Twilight’s student and a simple drone known as Thorax to stop. They learned that Changelings evolved into a new form by giving love instead of taking it. I refused to be that way, I sought power and that lead me here.” She then frowned “One thing I learned from my string of failures is the strength of how you rule, even should all hope seems lost there is always another line of defence. Another set of heroes that will rise above all odds.” Luna looked over her “You changed, is this how your fellow changelings are now?” Chrysalis shook her head “They changed because of love, Changelings at least from the Equestria I came from can evolve through emotion. This is the power of passion, burning hotter than the flames of one thousand suns.” She then grinned as orange flames began to lick around her body “I’m done being hidden in darkness. I will burn brighter than the sun!” Celestia’s eyes narrowed slightly, Luna frowned “Control yourself sister. You are well aware of what jealously did to me. Chrysalis is our ally, she revealed a dangerous threat to our nation hiding amongst our nobles.” Chrysalis frowned “We need to be very cautious here, the other me is likely feeling cornered right now. She could very easily do something incredibly stupid and many ponies could lose their lives. I suggest we call a truce to exchange prisoners.” Celestia sighed “Your right, I just hope we can those captured back.” Sunset frowned “I suggest we get help form Seth on this once he’s done with whatever he is doing.” Yulo nodded “We will of course have to catch him up to speed first. This will be a lot to take in.” Twilight is rubbing her head “I’m going to need three days of sitting down and reading to get over the strange stuff that has happened today.” Sunset and Yulo frowned “We’ll leave you to sort this out. We will take Ben and his friends to Ponyville so we can arrange returning them home.” The two teleport into Celestia’s room, Sunset and Yulo turned to Ben “We’re taking you back Ponyville so we can organise your trip home once Seth is done.” Ben nodded “I’d say that would be wise, they are getting a little rowdy in here.” There were a few knocked over books, thankfully nothing was damage in any meaningful way. They teleported the group back to Twilight’s Library only to hear explosions outside. Sunset and Yulo left the building to see Changelings running away from a certain part of town. The changelings leapt at them, Sunset and Yulo knocked the Changelings away as Ben transformed into a blueish green crystal-like entity. Seth and Screwball arrive at the scene, Seth rubbed his forehead “Okay, good. You’re all here. Sunset can you clear out all these… hey wait. Where’s Chrysalis?” Sunset frowned “She’s in Canterlot taking care of the Changeling impersonating multiple nobles in Canterlot. These changelings are trying to gain what pockets of power the can in one final attempt to take over now they have been revealed and…” A Changeling wearing a purple bow tie slams a Cello over another Changeling’s head, another Changeling carrying a lyre fires magical music notes at hostile Changelings. An orange Pegasus pulled a cart with a White Unicorn, a grey Changeling Nymph and an Earth Pony filly in it ball three throwing rocks at the hostile Changelings. The bow tie wearing changeling knocked another invader out with her Cello turning to the lyre playing changeling “This is quite invigorating, after playing for those snobby nobles for hours on end this is really cathartic. I’m glad you talking me into this Lyra.” Lyra giggled “No problem Octavia, now let’s give everypony a real show.” Seth frowned “Okay, as I was about to say, can’t you just clear these things out?” Sunset and Yulo turned to glare at him with fire in his eyes “Yeah and why don’t we just glass the entire planet hunting them down! What you asking us to do is mass murder? Look around, how many dead do you see?” Countless unconscious changelings were littered around, not single dead body. Ben knocked one out with a punch. Yulo knocked out another Changeling “It is so easy to justify being a killer, to murder millions, billions, trillions for the good of all. For beings of our power it gets to the point when you begin justifying genocide for the good everything else.” Sunset grimaced “We don’t make the choice kill lightly, when we do it’s a very rare occurance. Aggregor was one such exception, when you are god of our level it is so easy to justify so much bad.” Seth frowned “I mean, why don’t you just teleport them all back to their hive. You two can warp reality, and I quote; make these Celestialsapiens of yours look like children playing with toys. I find it hard to believe that you can’t make them all go away.” Sunset and Yulo blinked, Sunset facepalmed “Why didn’t we think of that?” Octavia knocked another changeling out “May we speak to you, Lyra and I aren‘t intent on going back to the hive. We left that horrid place years ago, Chrysalis was always shouting do this, do that. We escaped as soon as we could, cut our link to the hive mind.” Yulo growled as Changeling leapt at her “Okay, fuck this!” She clicked her finger and all the hostile changelings collapsed unconscious, Yulo grumbled “Should have done that earlier.” Seth nodded “I agree.” If looks kill there would be nothing left of Seth as Yulo’s eyes glowed with pure livid fury. Seth smiled trying to placate the angry goddess “Sorry.” She continued to glare at him, he turned away from her “Anyway, now that’s done. Screwy!” Screwy grinned “I’m standing right next to you!” Seth jumped “Bwah!.” He then shakes his head “Woops. Right, Can you clean this up?” Discord popped into existence keeping a distance from Yulo and silently glad she was glaring at Seth and not him “Allow me!” he clicked his fingers and all the changelings dissapeared in a pink *”Poof!”* Discord smirked “Done.” Seth smirked “Hello Dissy.” An anvil fell on Seth’s head and then he pointed at Seth “You, are not allowed to call me that.” Seth nodded “Okay.” Screwy jumped onto her father giving him a massive hug “Hi daddy.” Discord hugged her back “Yes, hello dear.” Bella shouted from Seth’s left “Seth!” He waved “Hi Bella.” Bella frowned “What have you done this time?” She then turned to Sunset “Hi Sunset.” Sunset waved back “Sup.” Seth shrugged “Been showing our friends around.” Yulo with her glare still on him “He also has a thing for Discord’s daughter.” Discord froze before his head slowly twisted around in it’s socket, he slithered over to Seth “You have a what for my daughter!” Seth knocks his head with a metallic echo reverberating around the area “I keep forgetting things and not noticing others..” He shook his before looking at Discord “Anyway, yes, I’m in love with … huuu … that feels weird.” He put his hand on his chest and looking Discord in the eye “Yes, I’m in love with your daughter.” Discord’s eyes narrowed “Then let me make this very clear, hurt her and I promise you there is nowhere you can hide from me. You wouldn’t believe the terrible things I had come with to torment others. I just have never found anyone deserving of them but if you hurt my daughter that will change, I will be watching you closely.” Seth smiled at Discord’s protectiveness of his daughter “By my name, I will move heaven and earth to protect her. If any try to hurt her, I will stand in their way. Be they devil, God, good or evil. I will protect her with my life or my name isn’t Seth Trian.” As he finished his oath, power surged through him before seeping out and going through Screwy to stop in front of me, solidifying into a baby yellow pendant that falls into his hands. Seth smiled as Screwball hugged him tears of joy flowing from her face “I have no idea what just happened but I don’t think I’ll be letting this go. “ Sunset smiled “I’m not exactly sure what that was but it was something special, quite possibly something that only happens once in an eternity. Cherish what you have found because it is more precious than all the power in all of existence.” Seth looked at Sunset with wide eyes, he then shook his head “Now where an I going to put…” The gem cut him off by flying out his hand and attaching to his chest “That works.” He then turned to Ben “Now, if I remember correctly, we have some aliens to rehabilitate and some dimensional travellers to send home. Isn’t that right, Ben?” Ben frowned “Yes, but first. Gwen said you did something weird and said it looked like you had the Ultimatrix on your chest. What was that about?” Seth realised what happened “Oh right. I did. See, I got my powers by buying a copy of your Ultimatrix, giving me the powers of all the Ultimate aliens. Including, Ultimate you.” Ben’s eyes widened “Ultimate me. I have an ultimate form?” Seth nodded “Yep. The most powerful one.” Ben’s eyes widened further“The most powerful one? What can it… I do?” Seth explained “While in your own ultimate form, you can use any of your alien powers, while still being human. Tell you what? I’ll even see if I can activate the Ultimate mode. May I?” Seth held out his arm, and Ben held out his Ultimatrix arm. Seth formed a third eyes on his forehead, Ben flinched “Ugh, creepy.” Seth pointed to the third eye “Ultimate Galvan eye. Boost intelligence.” Seth began looking over the Ultimatrix, he grimaced “Yeesh. This sucks.” Ben shouted “What!” Seth rattled off “Yeah. The interface is twenty-three percent out of sync, the transformation sequencers are seventeen percent miscalibrated and there’s the glitch in the evolution feature.” He adjusted the Ultimatrix to proper functionality “there, it should be much more efficient now.” Ben rubs his head “Uhh…thanks?” Seth shrugs “Anyway, I’ll activate the Ultimate mode now. *Shing!* There!” A green flash passed over Ben’s body the Ultimatrix moving to his chest. Ben held out his hand and fired diamond like shards into the ground “That really help, I’d say very few people could actually beat me like this! I could beat that Whisper girl this time!” Sunset frowned “Who is this Whisper?” Seth collapsed from laughter as everyone stared at him “Bahhahaha! You seriously…? Bahhahaha! Dude, the only reason me and her didn’t rip apart this very reality is because a Void Dweller stepped in and stopped us. If he hadn’t, you probably wouldn’t even exist right now! Bahhahaha! And you think…? Bahhahaha! Ben fumed “Oh yeah, well how about you and I settle this here and now!” Sunset frowned “That’s not happening, if you could keep up with him at full power there will be no reality left. The only other option is that you lose horribly, don’t be stupid.” Seth frowned “Yeah, like she says, your wouldn’t win.” Ben growled “Hrrr.” Seth turned to Sunset “Anyway, the Aliens!” Ben rushed at Seth only to stopped by Sunset “You can’t beat him, he absorbed a small fraction of our power but I think it’s time you understand how powerful we really are.” Sunset and Yulo stepped in front of them the colour fading from them, what they saw when they looked at them was countless infinite stars within infinite stars. Inside them Supernovas flared as Galaxies collided, Aliens fought wars, multiple set of seemingly universes blinked in and out of existence randomly. Sunset frowned “You see it don’t you, countless infinities of power within us changing and growing. We are so far beyond infinity that you are only seeing what you can possibly perceive of us.” Seth frowned “Thanks for showing us this, but we have things to…’ He was interrupted as this world’s version of Chrysalis flew towards Sunset carrying a spear made of green fire “Die Traitor!” Before this world’s Chrysalis could get close Seth jumped in the way forming speakers on either hand. He sent put a high pitched screech causing all the other changelings in the area to clutch their ears as they creamed in pain. Seth yelled at Discord “Discord! You missed one!And not only that, you missed the most important one!” Discord responded aptly by exploding into a pink dust cloud. Octavia yelled “What was that?!” Lyra shouted “Yeah! That hurt!” Seth frowned “That was a sonic blast. Are you alright?” Octavia shouted “No! High frequency sound hurts!A lot!” she then blinked as she saw this world’s Chrysalis “Wait, what is she doing here?” Seth turned to her “Yeah, what are you doing here, Chryssi?” Chryssi shouted “I am Chrysalis! Chrysalis Aphid!” Sunset rolled her eyes as Chryssi pointed at her “And I will end that wretched traitor for ruining my plan!” Seth blinked “Traitor?” He then facepalmed “Oh right, changeling.” He then walked towards her “How about this instead! You can stand your army down.” Chryssi looked at him with pure hatred. Seth frowned “Think about it. You are alone here. There’s no way you can stand against us, so… how about you choose a different way instead. Surrender. Open yourself up to a different choice.” Chryssi shouted “And what. Let myself fall to the level of these wretched ponies?!” Seth shook his head “Not fall. Stand with. Your kind are starving, taking what isn’t theirs just to survive. It doesn't have to be this way.” Chrysalis yelled as tear began to fall from her eyes “What other way is there?! The ONLY way I have survived this long is because I have taken what I need and left nothing behind!” Seth interrupted “And look where that got you! A starving colony. Ponies fearing you wherever you go. Not a drop of love in sight for your beloved children. It doesn’t have to be this way.” Chrysalis yelled on her knees tears flowing freely onto the ground “Fine! If your so all knowing, what can I do?! What can make the changelings loved in the world?! What can you possibly do to satisfy our hunger?! Huh?!” Seth responded “Stop taking what isn’t yours.” Chryssi blinked “What?” Seth frowned “The reason you hunger for love is because the love you have is stolen. Some wise words I know are: the more you take, the less you have. They can’t be more true than right here and now. But in that lies the answer. Stop taking and give instead.” Chryssi shouted “What?!” Seth’s frown remained “Don’t steal love from others, share it instead.” Chryssi retorted “Your insane. How can giving love away fill our hunger for it?! You can’t quench your thirst by giving it to another! What suggest is mad!” Seth smiled “Then how about I show you.” Every changeling around him save the smiling Sunset exclaimed “What?” Seth turned around to Octavia “Octavia.’ He held out his hand “Come here please.” Lyra jumped in the way growling “Now way. I’m not letting you do anything to…”] Octavia frowned “Lyra.” Lyra spun round “Octavia?” Octavia nodded “I thing we should trust him.” Lyra exclaimed “You can’t be serious! You barely have any love in you!” Octavia frowned “I think he can help us.” She then sighed “Please, let’s try his way?” Lyra grimaced “Fine, but I’m doing it to.” The two stepped forward, Octavia asked “What now?” Seth nodded with a smile “I need you to let go of the love inside of you.” He then held up hand as Lyra was about to shout “Please. Trust me. Don’t hold the love inside you, share it with those around you. Okay?” Octavia and Lyra nod hesitantly before closing their eyes, Chryssi watching with suspicion. A second later, a pink spot appeared on Octavia’s chest causing her to fly into the air, the same thing happened to Lyra a second later and they both start emitting waves of pink energy in every direction. After two seconds they were encased in blue cocoons, Seth smiled before lightly touching their cocoons. In a flash of light the two changelings appeared in a flash of light with their carapace now the colour of their pony coats and their bodies now free of holes. Lyra shouted “Wow! I’m not hungry anymore!”She then ran down the street excitedly “Bonnie’s not gonna believe this!” Octavia coughed “Ahem. Sorry about her but I think I speak for both of us when I say, thank you.” She walked down the streets as well, going in a different direction. Seth turned to Chryssi “See Chryssi? This is what I mean. Now, what do you say?” Before Chryssi could respond the grey changeling nymph approached beside a pegasus mare with eyes that looked in different directions. She burst into flames revealing a hole-less Changeling Queen with slitted eyes that looked in random directions as she frowned “Don’t make a rash judgement Chrysalis.” Sunset blinked “Derpy is a Changeling Queen, that I didn’t expect.” Seth blinked “Me either.” He then turned to Chryssi “Well? What will it be Chryssi?” Chryssi frowned “Why do you keep calling me that?” Her question was quickly answered with a burst of orange flame as Chrysalis stepped out of the flames “Okay, this world’s changelings have been cleared… out of … Canterlot.” Seth frowned cautiously “Chrysalis? Is that you?” Chrysalis nodded “Yes?” She then pointed at Chryssi “Is that me?” Seth replied with a nod “Yes.” Chryssi looked over her counterpart in confusion “What happened to you?” Chrysalis frowned “A lot, I executed this same plan I had almost one only for a single but it failed due to the efforts of a single changeling and a single pony to cost me everything. I was no longer a Queen, I ran off and tried to create an alternate set of Element Bearers but that plan failed. I joined Tirek and Cozy Glow in service of Grogar only for us to betray him and the discover that Discord was pretending to be Grogar to test Princess Twilight.” Chrysalis took a breath continued “Twilight and her friend managed to stop us, Celestia, Luna and Discord sealed us in stone.” Seth explained to everyone “If you’re confused, her universe is farther ahead than this one. What is happening here, had already happened there.” Chryssi blinked “Wow.” Seth smiled “Yeah, wow indeed.” Chryssi raised a hand “I have a question?’ Chrysalis looked at her “Wait is it?” Chryssi frowned pointing at Seth “Not for you, for him.” Seth shrugged “Okay, what is it?’ Chrysalis looked over him “What are you? You don’t look like a pony. You don’t really look like anything.” Seth blinked in surprise “Oh.” He then centred himself as he reached up to his head “I’m an Osmosian…What the?” He felt some strange bumps on his head, he tapped before opening his eyes in realisation “Huh. It seems I have Osmosian horns. Did no know that.” Chrysalis asked incredulously “How could you not know that?” Seth exclaimed indignantly “Hey! I just got this form… was it yesterday? Yeah, I got this form yesterday! I haven’t looked at it yet.” Chryssi shrugged “That makes sense” she then turned to Sunset with frown “Who are you anyway? ” Sunset frowned “Goddess of Harmony and Queen of a Zerg Hive back home, you see unlike your changelings we are descendants of a space race known as the Zerg. A species known to adapt and evolve, rather than the Queen producing all the eggs we have a hatchery that creates eggs from Biomass. We mutate hatchlings into various more impressive forms, unfortunately in that lifetime my daughter killed me before I could teach her how to do those things. The invasion of Canterlot would have gone very differently had she known how to do that.” Seth raised an eyebrow “Okay…that explains… something. So if you don’t mind Sunset.” He turned to Chryssi holding out his hand “Are you ready?” Chryssi looked at him like a lost child “I… I don’t…I’m scared.” Seth smiled as he helped her up “Don’t worry. You don’t have to be. Just let go… and share. Okay? Chryssi nodded weakly as she closed her eyes “Okay.” A pink spot appears on her chest as she rises into the air. She beings radiating love energy outwards, beginning her transformation. Instead of being encased in a cocoon, her carapace starts changing colour. Starting from the pink spot on her chest to pass over her whole body. What was once green-black now becomes a beautiful white-blue, her sash around her chest now becoming a radiant pink. Her wings become butterfly like, now without holes and a glossy blue colour. Her wings also gain a purple protective ladybug like shell. Her transformation finishes with her hair and tail becoming the same colour as her new chitin, her horn straightening out to be curved instead of jagged as it was and her eyes become ocean blue. Seth smiled “Congratulations, Chrysalis Aphid. You have been reformed.” Chrysalis raised an eyebrow “Aphid? What type of name is that?” Seth smirked “Better than Vile” he then frowned “and you’re ruining the moment.” He then turns as he hear quiet laughter, Chryssi was trying to stifle laughter. Chryssi giggled “Vile? That your last name? Chrysalis Vile? I think I prefer mine.” Chrysalis grimaced “I don’t like being laughed at because of my name, it was always hahaha Miss Vile is going to turn out to be an evil bitch. It’s no wonder I decided to live up to the reputation and became one of the most savage changeling queen’s ever known.” Chryssi rubbed the back of her head “My apologies. Wow, that’s weird to say honestly.” Seth frowned “Anyway, unless anyone wants to inter…” He was interrupted again with a another blue and pink flash as Derpy transformed as well. Seth exclaimed “Ah, of course.” He then shook his head “Anyway!” He then turned to Sunset “Sunset, where are Bivalvan, Andreas, P’andor, Galapagus and Ra’ad?” Yulo groaned “Drat, we left them in Canterlot?” Seth grimaced “Why?” Yulo sighed “We rushed the teleport and were too distracted by the changelings to notice. I just hope they don’t… *Boom*” Everyone looked to Canterlot as red radiation beam flew out of the castle “You honour, I pack my case.” Sunset grimaced “What is that idiot doing now?” Yulo clicked her finger and all five aliens appeared in front of them, Yulo grabbed P’andor’s uncontained form “What are you doing you stupid moron?!” She then summoned his containment suit and shoved him in it before locking with a special padlock that only she could open “Now that inconsiderate jerk has been punished it’s time to send these five home.” > Chapter 11: Returning Home > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunset and Pinkie just stepped through the portal, Sunset looked around the area in front of Canterlot High. She frowned as she saw strange looking man with slitted reptilian eyes, Pinkie blows it up with a single finger “Thin Men huh.” The sound of gunfire drew their attention, several men and woman carrying firearms were shooting at a group of Thin Men, as well as giant brutish looking aliens in strange armour. Pinkie and Sunset ran over blasting the aliens with mighty blasts. Sunset frowned at one of the men “Captain Ironside?” Ironside shook his head “Major now, the aliens attacks are getting heavier and…” He paused as he was getting emergency signals from command, he growled “Damn it! Humanity has surrendered to the Aliens and our main base has been taken alongside the Commander!” Pinkie frowned “We’ll handle this, these aliens won’t beat us so easily.” Sunset frowned “They are not the only aliens here, I am technically an interdimensional alien. I could set up some defences to protect this area as well so you can build up an army safely.” Ironside raised an eyebrow “How will you do that?” Pinkie clicked her fingers and massive three hundred metre tall walls made of an unknown blackish material began forming around the greater area. Crystal Prep, Canterlot and Camp Everfree were all included within the borders of the walls. Ironside looked around as he saw the towering walls in the distance “How did you d that?” Pinkie smiled as Sunset closed her eyes “I’m a goddess with complete control over reality. This was no challenge at all, don’t worry about it.” Meanwhile Sunset was standing there eyes closed (Swift Blade, I need you to begin surface colonisation alongside the walls. We have powerful enemies that will strike at us soon.” Huge living ships began emerging in the distance, Ironside blinked as they were flying through the sky. One was approaching their current location, it had a massive bulbous growth on the back. It was at that moment that their friends and family shown up, Illusio frowned as he held Xeno “What is that?” Sunset smirked “One of your great nieces or nephews.” Sparks’ eyes widened“That’s a Leviathan from that game I played, it was called Starcraft! I can’t believe I’m seeing one!” Twi blinked “How does such a thing fly? It’s body shape is all wrong and is way too heavy to achieve flight!” Sunset smiled “Leviathans are largely hollow, allowing for transport of resources and Zerg. They are even capable of surviving in the vacuum of space.” AJ looked over the strange creature “So this is one of the creatures that grew in that underground cave of yours. Well Ah’m glad to meet ya.” Gem nodded as she looked the creature “It does have quite an monstrous charm to it, I could think of several horror outfits based on that design alone. I wonder if I can see some of the others.” Spectacle looked at her like she grew a second head “Are you kidding me, it looks horrid! Who could possibly think that looks good!” Gem drew up a female wearing light chitinous armour that melded with her frame as long sharp blades emerged out of the both arms. A man covered in chitinous plate armour with a shield slightly bulbous plate shield extending from his left arm as a long sharp blade emerged from his right. Gem grinned as she showed Spectacle whose jaw dropped “You need to find beauty in everything to be a designer. It’s how you innovate and improve.” Swift stepped out of the massive structure and saluted Sunset “My Queen we have set up hive clusters as the walls. Brood Lords and Magic Archons are being produced to provide air defences while Ultralisks and Swarmlings are being produced to handle any potential ground assault.” Ironside frowned “Are you sure we can trust them? What if they plan on conquering the planet like the other aliens.” Sunset frowned “They follow my orders, they are my hive and I am their Queen. This is my home and I am willing to fight for it. Now I want to ask are you with me?” Ironside saluted “I am Commander, what do you want us to do?” Pinkie stood beside Sunset “Set up a base of operations near the wall, we need to bring these aliens down. I’m sure Swift Blade can take you with him to the walls.” Sunset frowned “Swift Blade, I need to make sure thing are set up here. For now take the X-COM squad to the walls.” She then turned to her friends and family “It seems war has come to our world. An invasion of aliens that has gotten out of hand and we are going to stop them.” Illusio nodded “We’re going to show them why you don’t mess with us.” Xeno bounced excitedly out of Illusio’s grasp “This is going to be fun!” Twi frowned “We need to be careful, we don’t know what our enemy is capable of. We all still want to be here at the end of the day.” Dash grinned “Well I have always wanted to be part of the military, maybe those X-COM guys could teach me something.” Jackie smacked her on the back of her head “Dash, this is war. We may not come back from this conflict!” Both Fluttershy’s looked at each other before turning to Sunset “We will be happy to be medics for the team. We are not soldiers but it will allows us to help.” Twi and Sparks nodded “We’ll like to join the tech team, maybe put our knowledge to use.” Sunset and Pinkie nodded as they looked to their friends considering how they move for this war that they had just embarked on. > Chapter 12: Show of Force > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunset was standing on the black katchin wall alongside Pinkie, she frowned as hordes of strange bug like things. The brutish creatures from earlier, as well as strange flying creatures that seemed Egyptian in origin. Sunset grimaced as she looked at the list she had “So the bug creatures are Chryssalids and can create more of themselves, those brutish creatures are Mutons. Those flying creatures are also known as Archons but nothing like the one the Protoss had.” She then noticed the snake like Vipers that were formally Thin Men “So they are here as well.” Pinkie frowned “So that’s what we are up against. We could wipe them out by ourselves.” Sunset smirked “I’d rather see my forces can do.” The huge hulking Ultralisks with massive blades surrounded by millions of raptor bug like Zerg known as Swarmlings devastated the enemy forces. Magical giants of carapace that dwarfed the Ultralisks eradicated huge swathes of the attackers. UFOs began flying over the battlefield, only to come into contact with the mighty Brood Lords and swarms of the bug like bats known as Mutalisks that tore them apart. The Alien’s forces were quickly forced away by the mighty Zerg forces. Ironside looked over the forces “I’m impressed at the defensive capabilities but when are we going to launch an assault against the aliens.” Pinkie smiled “Right now, the Zerg are moving out as we speak.” Sunset smirked as several Hive Clusters were set up over the decimated battlefield and began producing more forces. Sunset grinned as she began mutating hatchlings into Ultralisks but they were different from the standard Ultralisk produced prior have toxin glands. Meanwhile the other Ultralisks had mutated the trait, the Ultralisks began attacking outposts of the mutant humans know as the Advent Soldiers that were being created by the aliens. The remains of the twenty Advent Soldiers mutated into huge cocoons, after two minutes huge more Ultralisks burst out of the bodies. Sunset chuckled “We’ll have the continent under control with the week, our Ultralisks have integrated the ability of those Chryssalids allowing them to use corpses to create more of themselves. Don’t worry they will only attack the enemy, the Zerg aren‘t mindless monsters.” Pinkie teleported the group to the bottom of the wall, a grizzled older man stood there with a automatic rifle looking at the Zerg “Never thought I would be working with Aliens to fight Aliens.” Ironside saluted “Acting Commander Bradford.” Sunset frowned “That means you were the second in command of X-COM. I hope you understand that Pinkie and I will be directing efforts from here on out.” Bradford stood in her face “Why should I listen to you! You are teenager who clearly has no idea what she is dealing with.” Sunset lifted her finger and created a massive ball of energy that blotted out the sun “I have enough power to blow up this planet, I am far older than you know.” She then reabsorbed the energy into herself “I am the one leading this army, my Zerg are already out in force.” Bradford ignored her show of force entirely before walking away, Pinkie blinked “He is really a hard ass. He didn’t even flinch at that show of force.” Sunset nodded hoping that he would see sense. Meanwhile Flutters and Shy were sitting amongst of injured people with a sigh. The Doctors watched as the two girls treated the patients with care, looking over various papers to make sure they were correctly treating the wounds. Flutters sighed as they heard the screams of Dash and Jackie “Those two idiots, what are they doing?” Outside in the training fields Rainbow and AJ, were cautiously sneaking around the field only to hear the screams of Dash and Jackie. Rainbow threw a flash bang over and the two ran out shooting each enemy in the vicinity before moving to another point of cover. AJ sighed as she loaded another set of blanks “Why did we agree to do this?” Rainbow frowned “So Dash and Jackie don’t get themselves killed, they don’t have the advantage of seeing themselves being raging assholes on account of them being former raging assholes.” They ran over to the Dash and Jackie firing enough to keep the enemy in cover. Rainbow shouted as she saw blood trickling out of small wounds “Which of you idiots was using live ammunition!” All the others ran over and looked in shock, AJ growled “You idiots help them into the infirmary!” Flutters and Shy grabbed them forcing Jackie and Dash onto beds, within seconds they had stemmed the bleeding. What shocked them was one of the guards bursting in with his rifle. He was about to fire when a bullet blew his brains out, an ashamed Bradford looked at the man as his assault rifle smoked “This was Captain Michael ‘Lock-on’ Williams, he was one of my most trusted team-mates. I should have checked my team for Traitors.” Rainbow shook her head “He made his choice,we can’t be suspicious of everyone because of this. That makes us weaker as a unit.” AJ nodded “You made mistake but so does everyone, nobody is dead so we have no reason to be upset. Still the fact that enemy got in here is concerning, we need to up security around the training grounds.” Bradford sighed “I have been too stubborn, I should have allowed Sunset to have her own troops guard this place. I’ll speak to her about it.” Meanwhile far across the world Goku and Vegeta were standing there over piles of aliens as millions more marched towards them. Vegeta frowned “Kakarot, these creatures are sure persistent.” Goku complained “And their so weak too, there is not a single strong one amongst them.” Vegeta rolled his eyes as the pair obliterated the onrushing hordes with a combined blast. > Chapter 13: Aliens End > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunset was looking over the walls only to see Goku and Vegeta flying over, Vegeta growled “What the fuck are these aliens and where can I find their mother ship!” Goku frowned “Vegeta, that is not very nice. We come over here to see a fired and the first you do is make demands.” Pinkie joined them “It’s in orbit around Earth somewhere and…” Vegeta flew up rapidly, Goku flew up after him. Sunset paused as she saw a spectral red robed figure floating in front of them, it spoke “Ỳ̷̥̬̕o̸̧̦̊̕ṳ̸̒'̶̮͛r̷̮̣͌̏e̶͎̕ ̴̡̀̽t̵̩̺̾͒h̶̡̩̍͝è̶̬ ̵̤̌̄l̵͍͐e̸͓͖͂a̸͉̐̔d̵̼̗̅ȅ̶͙̹̓r̴̻͒̔ ̵̥̀o̶̢̙̅f̶̡͍͛́ ̷̝̍t̵̹̜̓͋h̷̯̭͊è̴̦̥͆ ̶͔̬̂ŕ̴̘̯ě̴̮̒ḯ̷̹̫ṣ̷͛̿ĭ̶̖͙̊s̴̥͓̈́̃t̷̕͝ͅa̷̛̗n̶̳͌̅ć̸̰̿ė̴̜̬͌ ̴̝͑̕f̶̱̄ŏ̶̜r̷̭͝ͅc̴̰̍͠e̶̲̻͌͒ṣ̷̉͗,̷̮̅͐ ̸͇̪͘Ḯ̶̥͌ ̴͍̽d̴̰̕e̶̢̱͊̏m̷̱̈̒â̶̹̖͗n̶̳̰͌̉d̶͎̠͊́ ̴͈̐̈́t̶͓͆͠h̸̘̽̚a̴͕͑̋t̴̗͘̚ ̸͚͒̇ẏ̷̪͜͠ò̸̮̽͜ṷ̴̞̕ ̷̧̫͝š̸̨̰̏u̸͇͓̐r̶̘͕͊r̵̰͔̓̄e̶̹͚̎n̶̖͌d̵͕̓͋e̵̼̾͝r̴̹̪̕.” Sunset frowned “I am not some mere mortal, I can shatter entire universes with these hands. You should back off if you know what if good for you. This is our world and you have no part in it.” Pinkie looked at the entity with a fierce scowl “You will leave and take your pathetic aliens servants with you.” The entity looked at them with disdain “Ỷ̴̳̍ǒ̴̡u̴͚͗̈́ ̷̖̻̎ȃ̸̛͉r̴͖̪̍e̵̢̲͊̈ ̷͇͐l̶̙̅͝y̵̚ͅi̸̩̒̾ñ̸͘ͅg̵͇̰̀,̷̤̭̈́ ̷͓̬͐n̸̜̔o̶̢̊̚ ̶͔̟̽͋s̶͓͔̅͂û̸͓̙c̴͚̆h̵̫͋͗ ̵̣́ͅb̸̭̌e̸̡͇͆͛i̷̬͂ṅ̸͔̉g̵͍̋͘ ̷͚̍̿ḗ̴̙x̵̲̪̓́ȋ̸̚ͅs̵̞͗̎t̵̼͐s̷͇͆͝.̸̰̮̃̊ ̸̡̲̈Y̸̍͂ͅo̶͔̽͘u̶͚͉̇̊ ̵̣͘͠w̵͖̑ĩ̶͉͖ĺ̷̙l̷̰͖̍̕ ̶̺͗f̴̩͓̃à̴̠l̸͉͙͆l̵̢̞̉ ̸̬͊͐t̶̟̃ͅo̴̪̥̊̚ ̴̲̑u̸̯̟̎̕s̵͍̍.̶͔̦͠.” Sunset shrugged as they heard a loud explosion and the image vanished, a huge ship fell from the sky crashing in a mighty explosion in the distance. Swift Blade frowned as he joined them “The Aliens seem to be paralysed and unable to respond. Our forces have spread across the world to clear them out.” Vegeta landed next to Goku “That was a waste of time, I was holding back and it still couldn’t take a hit. I’m going to do some training with this idiot.” Sunset and Pinkie giggled as Vegeta flew pulling Goku away. Bradford frowned as he joined them “What happened?” Pinkie grinned “Vegeta blew their mothership out of the sky, I believe those Aliens are kaput. Still we decided that upper part of the American Continent is our nation now. We took it over so it’s ours.” Bradford’s jaw dropped “What?” Sunset nodded “A new nation where all are free, Starfree. We will be the beacon of hope for this world, lead by us the two High Princesses to rule peacefully. As well as a series of advisers to aid us in our rule.” Bradford grimaced “That seems backwards, we have long given up the Monarchy system where there is one ruler.” Pinkie smirked “Technically we are a Diarchy and we may even uplift certain individuals as Princesses. We also will implement a Royal Guard for the purpose of peacekeeping, I’m hoping with Alien behind us you will help train some of the recruits.” Bradford frowned as he looked at the pair “You two are serious about this but what do you two know about running a nation?” Sunset tapped her head “Changeling Queen in one lifetime ruling an entire kingdom by herself, also was taught politics by a Pony Princess who ruled a nation for a century.” Pinkie grimaced “Despite what little of history was passed down since then and very little of it flattering I was quite a leader. After all Mark Antony wasn’t much of a politician unlike Caesar was, in hindsight trying to use them to control Rome was dumb and I should have been content with Egypt.” Bradford blinked in a few seconds before sighing “I need several drinks before I’m drunk enough to handle this conversation.” Ironside stepped up beside them in shock “Bradford is pretty good at taking things in stride. The fact he has to drink to cope with this says a lot about what you just told him.” It was not long before for the two bands arrived, Rainbow frowned “I heard from Bradford that you two plan on ruling a new nation. Are you sure this is a good idea?” Dash grinned “I like the idea of having a friend who runs the nation, it means we can get away with stuff that normally would be in big trouble for.” AJ and Jackie deadpanned “Yeah, that is a very poor attitude to have. Also I doubt our resident goddesses are that foolish to do anything out of line.” Gem smiled “Just know we will support you all the way and ever you need some formal clothes Spectacle and I can help you two.” Sparks frowned “Where do we begin in constructing this new nation?” Sunset and Pinkie smile “Right now.” They point their fingers into the distance and fired two beams of energy together. The energy begins forming a huge castle, colossal stone spires pulsating with power emerged from the ground. Huge metal golems flew around the walls. The central structure was a massive imposing keep designed to protect those inside. Everyone’s jaws dropped in awe of the structure. > Chapter 14: Alien Roundup > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The alien’s leaders had been destroyed but the aliens’ ground forces weren’t down and out. Several Advent facilities had began producing tremendous amounts of troops. In response Belladonna, a bug like biped known as a Hive Queen set up a Hive Cluster. It was only small a Hatchery for producing and Spawning Pool that allowed mutation of Swarmlings, several love generators were providing resources for construction. Belladonna growled as a group of Advent Troopers lead by an Advent Officer entered the base “Get out of our base!” The Advent Officer pointed his firearm a her “You are the one in a restricted area, your are not authorised to be here.” Belladonna snarled as she fired a bolt of lightning that killed the Advent Officer, his corpse spasming on the ground. The Troopers turned their guns on her only for a ten Swarmlings to pounce of them devouring their bodies. Belladonna commissioned more drones to create a Merging Pool and Hydralisk Den as well as Ultralisk Cavern. She began mutating Ultralisks, more Swarmlings and Hydralisks. She then constructed a Spire allowing for the creation of Mutalisks and Brood Lords. Belladonna commanded two Hydralisks to the Merging Pool, she smirked as the two merged into a huge giant of Carapace bound by magic “These Archons are mighty impressive. To think our ancestors never found a way to do this before.” Belladonna quickly put together a force of countless Archons, Swarmlings, Ultralisks and Brood Lords. She marches the forces only to come in contact with an army of white Mechs carrying advance Magnetic Cannons. Far larger Mechanised machines that towered over the battle field as Alien Archons floated around the battlefield ready to fire beams at any flying creatures. The battle turned into a fierce conflict as the Mechs tore through the Swarmlings desperate attempts to get close leaving bloody piles of flesh strewn corsets the ground. The larger machines known as Sectopods rapid fire and charged cannons were enough to greatly damage Ultralisks. The Magical Archons though were able to absorb the charged cannons energy and could easily deflect the rapid fire. The Brood Lords were spewing out Mutalisks that tore apart the mechs and Alien Archons. One Magic Archons had grabbed a Mech and slammed it into a Sectopod crushing it. A huge fleet of sleek planes wielding plasma weaponry began gunning down the Magic Archons and Brood Lords. Belladonna watched in horror as her forces were decimated, she saw a surviving Mech pointing it’s gun at her. She slumped as she closed her eyes (I’m sorry mother, I have failed you.) A confident voice spoke “Nonsense, this is my fault for underestimating these aliens and putting you at risk.” Sunset stood there in the crushed wreckage of the Mech, she grabbed one of the Sectopods and threw at one of the planes tearing it to shreds the resulting explosion destroying three other planes. Belladonna watched as her mother, her Queen turned to the Sectopods firing blasts out of her fingers. The Sectopods began turned to ash from each blast, she heard an explosion as a zombie girl, a robot girl and and one of this world’s Changelings shouted “Woohoo, Alien Fighters yeah!” Crysathia Bloom, sister to Jackie using err Midnight Sparkle form destroyed plane after plane. Necrosa Belle, sister to Spectacle hoped into one of the cockpits and began eating the pilot with a giddy smile on her face. Cyberloo, sister to Dash fired a barrage of rockets tearing apart the Advent planes with ease. Necrosa giggled to herself “This is an all you can eat buffet, more flesh for me.” Cyberloo frowned “Crysathia, should we stop her. I’m not sure she should be diving so deep into eating flesh like this.” Crysathia shrugged “It should be fine, it’s better here than home.” Sunset meanwhile had cleared out the ground forces, she looked at the three girls before shrugging. She headed for the Advent Compound, it was a huge building with three large turrets on the front. Sunset blew the front of the building up, as thousands of Advent Troopers ran out and began firing their plasma rifles. The plasma simply evaporating as it made contact, she walked over to one and grabbed him by the head draining him of essence as his body simply vanished. The other guards looked at her in horror. They frantically fired throwing whatever fire power they could muster at her but it all proved futile as she one by slowly drain the life force from each one adding their essence to her Swarm. Sunset shrugged as walked through the facility, much of their alien tech was complicated and she wanted to implement much of it. Sunset walked through the empty labs, half finished weapon projects were strewn around the building. Sunset frowned as she saw a figure in a strange suit strapped to a machine, there was a strange alien standing over him. Sunset blew up the alien and walked only to see a familiar face in the suit “That explains a lot. I’m glad that loose end has been tied up for me a least.” She teleported out of the building with a smile, she had some good news for Bradford. > Chaptr 15: Commander > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bradford was sitting in the medical wing of the castle, nurses and doctors were tending to multiple patients. The castle hospital allowed anyone who was ailing medically in, he looked down at the Commander. Her orange skin glowed as fiery red and yellow hair surrounded her face, her right eyes had a huge scar across it. She was wearing a fresh black shirt and blue jeans The commander groaned as she opened her eyes “How long have I been out?” She then looked around “Where am I?” Bradford frowned “We are in Canterlot Castle, the capital of the new Starfree Kingdom. The High Princesses Sunset and Pinkie saved us from the Aliens and formed a new nation.” The Commander slumped “So I’m home after all this time I’ve been running. Throwing myself into my work because I never wanted to return here. The war is over and I am home.” Bradford placed a hand on her shoulder “Commander, it is not good to run from your past. You are young woman with a bright future ahead of her, as you said the war is over. It’s time to put the gun down.” The Commander smiled “Thanks Bradford. You always new how to get me to focus, I’ll be back soon.” She got out of the bed, put on some boots and walked out of the room, Swarmlings were patrolling the corridors in groups of ten. The Commander walked throughout the corridors, she bowed as she saw Princess Sunset walking down the hallways. She bowed “Princess, I must thank you for saving me.” Sunset shook her head “Commander, you are my counterpart in this world. There is not need for formalities, I know it would be strange but I would be happy for you to assume your old job. You could work for me.” The Commander smiled “I would like that Sunset but for now I need to meet up with my mother.” Sunset smiled “I’m sure Principal Celestia would like to meet you to” she then frowned “Why are you carrying a handgun?” The Commander shrugged “I always carry a handgun, I’m a Commander. I need to be able to defend myself.” she then frowned “Still do you mind if I take a ride to get to Canterlot High?” Sunset laughed “I already had a vehicle a prepared, wish you luck.” The Commander smiled as she headed out of the building. A car was awaiting her, it a small blue buggy. The Commander got in the front and drove away from the castle noticing that buildings were being built closer to the castle. She hummed to herself as she drove along until she arrived at Canterlot High. The Commander parked and got out of the care taking deep breath as she breathed in the fresh air around her. She walked towards the school, students looked at her in confusion. She reminded them of Sunset Shimmer, but she was older and had a much sharper face. She walked past ignoring the looks, she looked around the clean halls of the school “Mum, it seems you have done well for yourself.” The Commander walked to Principal’s office and opened the door, Pr Celestia’s eyes widened “Sunny!” Pr Celestia wrapped the Commander in a hug tears flowing form her eyes “I’m so sorry Sunny, I should have listened to you! The Commander shook her head, her own tears trailing down her face “Mum, you know that back then there was nothing that you could have changed. I was horrible brat.” Pr Celestia began drying her tears “It’s all forgiven” she then smiled “so after you left for the military what were you doing.” The Commander shrugged “I was quite a competent strategist and with those skills I advanced quickly through the rank until the X-COM project was brought into action. I given command of X-COM despite my youth.” Pr Luna frowned “That can’t have been easy, soldiers can be pretty hard to command. Especially when they are older than you, many think they are better than you.” VPr Celestia nodded “During our time in the military we were often disrespected by those in our squads. Even when were promoted there was no respect.” The Commander chuckled “Bradford opposed me quite strongly when we first met he was older but I was by no means inexperienced. I always took on the hardest missions without hesitation and it showed when I challenged him to a one on one fight. Bradford respected me after I beat him and he quickly got the rest to follow suit.” VPr Luna frowned “The question is what are you going to do now?” The Commander nodded “I would like to continue my old job under Sunset’s command.” She then chuckled “It is weird to say that, when I took on the job to fight against aliens I never thought I would work for a former pony who is a Princess and my counterpart from another dimension.” VPr Celestia raised an eyebrow “Did anyone mention that she also rules the multiverse we are part of?” The Commander raised an eyebrow “No-one told me that. Why she would need soldiers at all?” Pr Luna shook her head “Because her powers would cause catastrophic damage to the world if she tried to intervene. As such she needs others to handle the smaller problems while she handles the political matters and universal level threats.” Pr Celestia nodded “Pinkie has about the same power as Sunset, messing with her would be a truly foolish endeavour.” The Commander smiled “I’ll be in touch with again soon but I have work to do.” The four waved as the Commander left a smile on her face. > Chapter 16: Diplomacy > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunset was sitting in her castle alongside Pinkie, several other world leaders were sitting there frowning. One of the men in the room, an older tall muscular grey skinned man with a voice deep and gruff “We are all grateful for you assistance against the aliens, what they were planning to do to us was horrible. However I’m little concerned that you two, out of nowhere I might add turned up with another army of strange aliens then proceeded to take over an entire continent turning it into your own nation.” Pinkie smiled “I can understand your concerns, Prime Minister Calm Repost. As the current Leader of France I can understand your concern. We mean no harm to anyone nor do we desire conflict.” A woman with skin ice blue and snow white hair, her warm demeanour was jarring considering her appearance “Relax Calm, why do you have be such a stiff?” Calm turned to her with a scowl “Snow Frost, you have forgotten what your nation did! What you nation did during the last ‘Great War’ I was alive during those days and I never forgot what happened to my family!” Sunset raised a hand “Enough! I have heard about that conflict, it was a catastrophe on a massive scale. It was foreshadowed at the end of the first war though wasn’t it, Germany was broke and it’s people were starving. No wonder they were so eager to go to war.” Pinkie grimaced “The past is past, we should not let it ruin the present.” Another man shorter by about a head stout and focused, his forest green skin clear as day “Agreed, how are we able to understand each other. I’m Russian, he is French, she is German and then there is the English Prime Minister and the Spanish Leader are here as well.”Not to mention the other two that are here as well.” Sunset nodded “We have a complicated translation matrix on the castle so everyone hear their own native tongue. I hope that is enough explanation for you, Wood Lance.” She turned to the blue skinned young English woman and the older silver skinned gentlemen in a suit “We are here to discuss peace, Sea Song and Silver Sheen. I have no desire for any conflict, in truth I wish to bring an end to war.” Silver Sheen laughed “Your delusional, there is no way to bring an end to war. It something we just do.” Pinkie’s eyes narrowed “No one wins a war Silver Sheen, not in this day and age. You have built world destroying weapons. It’s not just abut stopping war, that may indeed be an impossible task but we should try to mitigate conflict wherever possible.” Sea Song frowned “That is a noble goal but how do we achieve it? Preventing conflict is never easy.” Sunset raised a hand “We need to find what the other party wants and find a way to compromise that with your own goals. Now I believe we should relax and have some Lunch. I’d say we take a break and wander around the castle a bit, me and Pinks are going to ahem a sparring session in the training room if anyone wants to watch.” Calm looked at the both of them “I do want to know what you two are capable of. I’d say it would help diplomacy to see what the Princesses are capable of.” The other leaders nodded following the pair through the solid crystal hallways to a room which simply has training marked on it.” They enter to see a small computer room with a door next to it, a huge screen was in front of the terminal. Two guards stood either side of the computer, turning up to it’s highest setting and the two Princesses hoped through the door. Snow raised an eyebrow “Where did they go?” One of the guards grinned “They went to their specific training space, dimensionally tethered to the castle. It’s called the universe graveyard, where dead universes remain. Now you get to see them in action.” They all were watching Sunset and Pinkie, their eyes widened as several Universes passed by. Sunset and Pinkie leapt at each other a single blow sending a mighty shockwave shattering multiple universes much to the shock of their fellow leaders. Silver Sheen looked horrified “What kind of monsters are they?!” The guards glared at him “They are not monsters, they are gods. They rule our localised universe cluster, disrespect them and we will have a problem.” Wood Lance frowned “I figured as much, seeing such power. Well only a god could be capable of such a thing, I suggest we should listen to them. I certainty don’t want such power turned against my own nation.” Silver was about to say something when he got hit by a straight hook from Sea Song “I have been wanting to do that for a long time, I knew his father. Much better person that he is.” Snow Frost sat next to Calm with a sad smile “Sorry about everything, I have been trying so hard to put those dark days in our history behind us. Germany has committed many a crime in her recent past and I’m trying to put that behind us.” Calm frowned “You think it’s that easy, a few words and all the pain will just go away.” Snow shook her head “No, but I want it to be a start. It’s part of why I came here was to put that behind us one step at a time. I’m sick of those looks I get at the diplomatic meetings, the words behind my back ‘When is the next war crime they are going to commit.’ It sickens me to hear those words.” Sunset smiled as she exited alongside Pinkie “It’s good to see some of you are cooperating at least.” The group soon had a nice meal before returning to the business at hand. > Chapter 17: Chrysalis > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunset was sitting in a simple room with very little in it save a pink bed, a vanity as well as a chest full of party supplies and a little crib were their son Xeno slept soundly. Pinkie entered with a smile, giving her a peck on the cheek “Is something wrong?” Sunset frowned “Since we moved the Mirror portals to the castle, I was hoping to find my daughter Chrysalis. I have a lot to do when I return there and it could take a while, could you take care of everything while I’m gone?” Pinkie smiled “Of course, I must thank Illusio for taking over court sometimes. It gives us some time to do things for ourselves. He has become quite a competent leader over the eons.” Sunset grimaced “If it wasn’t for Harmony and Chaos we wouldn’t have been separated for so long. Still that is not my concern on this visit, that will be for the both of us.” Pinkie nodded with her own smile, Sunset walked out of the room waving goodbye to Pinkie as she did so. She walked through the crystal-like hallways to a large crystal door. She placed her hand on the door, it opened with a faint glow of her magic. Three portals stood there in the massive room, far bigger than how it from the outside would suggest. One had Princess Twilight above it, the second had Princess Sunset and on the opposite side was one that said Seth and Bella. Sunset restrained her power as she leapt through the one that said Princess Twilight, she found herself in a room with dark stone walls coursing with necrotic energies. She looked over herself, her four orange chitinous hooves were filled with holes. Her mane was the same as before but more web like, her back had a crimson red piece of hardened carapace with glowing orange wings folded neatly onto it. Princess Twilight entered, parts of internals exposed due to her undead nature. She growled “What are you doing here Changeling, how did you get into my castle!” Sunset simply held out a hoof levitated the Princess into the air “Twilight, I just popped over from the human world.” She then showed her flank to Twilight, her yin yang sun Cutie Mark was clear to Twilight. Twilight’s eyes widened “Sunset, what are you doing here and why are you a Changeling! You were born a pony!” Sunset lowed the Princess to the floor softly and dissipated the spell “Twilight, the portal had been making me a Changeling because it’s how I see myself nowadays. It’s better than making me some strange deformed creature.” Sunset paused as she heard the sound of battle “It seems that further discussion will have to wait.” The two galloped out to see a humongous battle beginning to unfold, undead warriors fighting against a swarm of changelings their black chitin descending. Sunset rubbed the gash in her chest that sparked with green magic “Now I will be able to find my daughter and kick her flank.” Sunset kicked a Changeling into the ground of the courtyard surrounded by dark stone walls. Twilight landed next to Arthas blasting away a Changeling as he tore one in half with Hallowed Gate. He gave her a peck on the cheek before turning to the enemy “There sure is a lot of these Changeling creatures, how are we going to handle this!” Twilight frowned as she saw Sunset swatting thousand of Changelings aside like ants “Well, she seems to have this well in hoof.” Sunset turned around to see Chrysalis, dive bomb out of the sky towards her. Twilight growled “The Queen is here and…” She was stopped as Sunset smiled warmly as she rushed at the Vicious Queen wrapping her in a mighty hug “My precious little buggy wuggy, it’s so good to hold you again.” Chrysalis froze in the hug, she turned to see the smiling face of a Changeling Queen holding her. Sunset smirked “I must admit you did pretty well considering, I believed that Celestia was impossible to defeat but you proved me wrong.” Chrysalis looked over her, then saw the scar on the chest. It was the every same place she stabbed her mother, who the Changeling Queen was obvious to her. She burst into tears “Mum, I’m so sorry! Please forgive me.” Sunset held her tighter “My precious love bug, nothing is wrong .In truth I was hoping for you to return with me to my home, a place far from here where even the Princesses hold no authority. A place where our hives can be safe.” The two landed, Twilight galloped over to her angrily “Why are you hugging her!” Sunset frowned “Twilight, when I told that I was reincarnated from a Changeling Queen I mentioned I had a daughter. I had a daughter.” Twilight was about respond before looking between the two of them, slowly noticing the resemblance in both form, gait and from her memories of their first meeting, demeanor. Sunset smiled “Chrysalis is my daughter but back then my name was Queen Lumina, oddly enough my daughter killed during then time when I was trying to form diplomatic ties with Equestria.” Twilight blinked as Chrysalis looked down guiltily “Why then are insistent on protecting her?” Sunset frowned “Simple, she is my family. I have been long awaiting our reunion and to introduce to her my extended family as well as my group of friends. I will not take a no for an answer and…” There was a golden flash of light, Celestia’s eyes narrowed as she saw Chrysalis “How dare you try to Equestria again! Give me one good reason why I shouldn’t fry you where you stand?” Twilight was about to speak when Sunset delivered a mighty uppercut, sending her skyward bound. They looked up only to see the sun shake slightly in the sky, Celestia flew back shortly afterwards glaring at Sunset “Who are you!” Twilight rubbed the back of her head “This is Sunset, she arrived through the mirror portal. She came to retrieve her daughter from a previous lifetime.” Celestia’s eyes widened for a split second before she frowned “Sunset, what is this reincarnation business? What proof could there be.” Sunset rubbed the scar one her chest, green changeling magic coursing through her scar as she winced “This, it was present one me and two others, Princess Platinum and the first Bluebelle. Have you made the connection yet.” Sunset frowned “You know what I don’t care, I’m taking Chrysalis and her hive away from here.” Her horn glowed and all the Changeling of Chrysalis’ hive dissapeared from the dimension alongside Sunset into Sunset’s new hive. Sunset smirked as Chrysalis took up residence in the caves alongside her hive learning how to properly run the hive. > Chapter 18: Meeting Dimensional Friends > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- It had been a couple of years since Chrysalis had come through the portal. Sunset and Yulo had brought Princess Twilight over so she meet Seth and Bella, Twilight was looking over the portal “So this is the gateway to get to your friend’s dimension.” Sunset frowned “Yes. He hasn’t met you yet and I would have brought you over sooner but the Dimensional Time Shift had to occur preventing dimensional travel.” Yulo bounced with a grin “Let’s go!” She pushed the two through the portal and bounced in after them. Sunset and Yulo has suppressed their energy ahead of time. Twilight stumbled before looking over herself, she growled “Really, bipedal with hooves!” Yulo frowned “I fear you may cause a bit of a scare.” Twilight's jaw was partially visible, two fingers on each hand were nothing but bone. Her heart was clearly visible as were her intestines,. Twilight shrugged as she looked around “It should be fine, Ponyville is a weird place. I’m sure they can handle this, plus if I’m with you two then I’m obviously a friend.” Sunset nodded with a smile “It should be fine. Now let’s go and introduce you to Seth, Bella and Screwball.” As they headed towards this dimension’s version of Ponyville, Sunset and Yulo felt an explosion coming from the town. Sunset frowned “There was an explosion in town, should we rush to help?’ Twilight rolled her eyes “It’s Ponyville, explosions are normal. The Crusaders create one every other week, it will be fixed within the day.” They entered town getting some odd looks, as they approached the Library with Bella, Seth, Screwball as well as this world’s Twilight, Ben and two other humans. As they were approaching the Library, Twilight stumbled “Damn hooves.” Sunset frowned “Yeah hooves suck.” Sunset then waved at them “This is Princess Twilight, we thought she should meet up with you. Um, who are those other two humans near Ben?” Seth smiled “Hey Sunset! I guess you haven’t met Gwen and Kevin.” He gestures to the two humans “Sunset, Yulo, this is Gwen, Ben’s cousin and Kevin, Ben’s best friend.” He then gestures to Sunset and Yulo “Gwen, Kevin these two are Sunset, the Goddess of Harmony and Yulo, the Goddess of Chaos.” Kevin raised an eyebrow “Why does Yulo look like Pinkie?” Seth replied as he looked between the two mares “That’s because she is another version of her, just as Princess Twilight is another version of ours.” Princess Twilight was intrigued, as this world’s Twilight was flabbergasted. Princess Twilight looked at the group “I’m surprised nopony here has mentioned how my body is rotting because even the light can only stop the rot so much and the dark magic keeping me alive has to be much greater to keep up with light.” Princess Twilight then poked her intestines a little bit as she giggled “That is ticklish oddly enough.” Seth turned around as he hears retching, Rainbow’s head was to the ground. She had one hand over her mouth and the other over her stomach. Seth frowned “Well that’s…” He turned to face a strange white Void portal. A female humanoid figure with red hair that had black streaks running through it stepped out of the portal. She shouted “SETH! THERE’s A..” She then began to stutter “Oh. H-hello? S-so, you t-three must be the ones I sensed in my sector… hi. Um… if I may, why are you here…?" Yulo frowned “We are here to visit our friend Seth and introduce Princess Twilight to him.” Yulo’s eyes narrowed “Now who are you? I don’t trust just anyone who pops out of random portals, so explain yourself before things get ugly." She eeped like a mouse in response. Bella frowned as a strange goo crawled over her body "Calm down Pinkie. She's a good friend. We can attest to that." Bella raised an eyebrow at herself "What are you doing?" She then frowned before shaking her head "Introducing yourself? There are better ways to do that, you know?" Sunset raised an eyebrow “What is that goo anyway?” Bella gestures to the goo “Hm? Oh this…” She paused as the goo spread over her body “… is Havoc.” She then pointed to to the female humanoid “A very close friend that Dama gave me.” Dama steps closer she then gushes as she looks over Bella’s body “Oh wow. You’ve really grown haven’t you. So firm, no rejection at all. That’s amazing!” Kevin blinked “Uh.. what’s that?” Bella raised an eyebrow at Gwen “Gwen, you didn't tell him?” Gwen countered “It didn’t come up.’ Kevin asked one more time “Okay, but what is it?” Damn nodded “Allow me.” She then explained "What you see is one of my experiments. My adaptive symbiote, Havoc. He is able to merge himself to any creature. In exchange, that creature gains an increase in their natural abilities as well as the abilities he possesses. He needs to merge with another to stay alive though. Without the connection, he becomes more or less catatonic. As I said, he is an adaptive symbiote. That means… well, Seth, if you could?" Seth looked at everyone “You all better stand back.” Everyone does as he said, watching as his body started to mutate. In ten second each of Seth’s limbs was different. Havoc meanwhile had covered Bella’s entire body. Bella/Havoc grinned “Hit me with your best shot.” Seth replied with his own grin “With pleasure.” He fired flames from his left hand which had become plantlike while he fired high pressure water from his right clawed, mollusc like hands. Bella adapts to the flames by encasing herself in ice, she then adapts to the water by turning her body into silver metal and bolting herself to the ground. Seth turns on his heel, slamming into her side with a huge dinosaur tail. Bella's metal body held, no worse for wear. Seth then delivered an electrically charged kick to her stomach, only for the electricity to flow off her body into the ground. Seth asked “Yeesh, what metal is that?” Bella having her face no longer covered by Havoc, answered in unison with Dama “Vibranium.” Seth remarked in shock “Really? Wow.” Dama grinned "Anyway, as you can see, Havoc is very powerful. And, I haven't even mentioned his unique shape shifting." Bella/Havoc then raises their hands up, letting Havoc flow upwards to form a pair of large intricate blades. Then, in an instant, Havoc recedes, leaving only a smiling Bella “Pretty cool huh?” Sunset steps forward with a smirk “Let’s give your abilities a full field test, with me.” Seth shouted “NO! Sunset that is not funny.” Sunset frowned “I am serious about this, I am holding back considerably for this purpose.” Seth turned to Yulo “Yulo.” Yulo raised an eyebrow “Yes?” Seth gave her an incredibly serious look "Not. One. Atom. Understand? I don't want one atom to be affected and I'm trusting you to make sure of it." Yulo gave him a serious look. “You are a friend. I will agree to your request but Seth you need to remember who Sunset and I are. We are quite capable of simply pulling the plug on reality, an Army of Celestialsapiens would not be able to stop us. We are more than capable of ending all things and that deserves a little respect surely.” Ben shouted “What?!” Before Gwen shushed him. Seth frowned "I do respect your power. That is why I have to be sure. She's my best friend. But, if you're absolutely sure, go ahead." Sunset nodded before turning to Bella “Where should we start, planet level or somewhere lower?” Bella flinched at the question "Wow, never thought I'd get asked something like that.” She then thought for a moment before answering “Let's go for… why not? Continent level?" Sunset nodded “Very well.” She then tapped Bella with her finger. Bella's eyes widened as she is sent flying a little. Bella shouted “A little warning next time!” A sliver of Havoc covering her chest where Sunset tapped her, a cracked crystal receding away. Bella said "Sheesh, diamond? You really know your stuff." She then looked to Sunset as Havoc covered her whole body “There. Now we are ready.” Sunset rolled her eyes “If you were in a real fight, they might not give you that much time. I was not serious but many are and would move much faster than that, let’s step up to multi-continent shall we?” Sunset swung her finger again at Bella. Havoc then changed their body to a strange grayish, almost stone like metal. As Sunsets finger struck her blocking arms, a massive *CLANG!* rang out over Ponyville. Bella smiled happily "Thank you, Uru. I don't think I felt that." Seth blinked “Wait, Uru too? Wow, she really can become anything." Screwy turned to him "What's Uru?" Seth responded "Very powerful substance, very durable, super good magical conductor." Both Twilight's let out a huge barrage of questions as Seth continued to watch the fight. Yulo provided both with a huge lump of Uru to distract them. Sunset frowned “Okay, let’s jump to crust level then planet level if you can handle that.” She delivered another powerful poke. Bella’s arms were pushed back against her chest but other than that, she was no worse for wear. Bella frowned "Okay, definitely felt that one." Sunset frowned “Are you sure you want to go to the next level up?” Bella nodded slamming arms together "Yeah, I think I can take it.” Sunset nodded before delivering another poke. Bella says, slamming her arms together. Sunset nods before delivering another poke. As she struck, there strangely wasn't another loud clang. Instead, Bella's body began to glow where Sunset’s finger rested. Bella smirked “Bingo” Sunset removed her finger “Hmm, interesting.” Bella smirked “Your move.” Sunset frowned “Next comes Large Planet, Star then Solar System.” She then delivers an even mightier poke. Like before, no sound came from the attack, the spot on Bella’s where Sunset struck only glowing orange. Bella smirked before moving to Sunset’s left. Sunset smirked “You absorbed my attack didn’t you? Clever. But…” Multiple Sunset’s walked out of every shadow “I had to do something to lower my power enough, so I created duplicates and hid them.” Bella's face scrunched up at Sunset’s words "Hmmm. Understandable. And yes. We reconfigured our armour to absorb kinetic energy and we were going to blast it back, hence why we moved.” They both shouted “Wait, idea!” They suddenly say, their armour skin changing to a reflective black colour. Bella smiled "There. Now try." Bella says, holding their arms up again. Sunset slams down with her finger. As her finger makes contact with Bella, orange light seems to ripple from the spot for a second before stopping… then it reversed. Coming back to the spot where Bella was struck… and sending a shot of kinetic energy straight at Sunset. Sunset blocked the attack with her finger, she frowned “Alright, next level up.” Sunset delivers a mighty strike with her finger. Again the force was reflected back, washing over her like a breeze. Bella grinned "This is much more fun than I anticipated. Let's see if I can kick it up a notch…"Their skin then began to change again. This time becoming completely silver, their skin glowing with strange energy. Bella smirked as she got into a defensive position “Let's see if this works." Sunset delivers another much more powerful poke. Strangely, Sunset’s finger just keeps moving, sinking into Bella's arm. Sunset frowned.“So you turned your arm into energy?” Bella smirked "Close but no. My skin has been imbued with power cosmic, allowing it to gain… interesting properties. Such as a contact portal to a pocket dimension. You touch me, you sink." Sunset shook her head “Be careful with that power, it allows you to know everything and trying to filter what you want out of infinity is very difficult. Also there are ways around that defense.” Sunset’s finger glowed with harmonic energy as she struck. Bella yelled as stepped back “Agh!” She then began to sway on her feet “Ooh. Uhh. I see what you mean." She held her head as she returned to normal "Ouch. That hurt." Bella got a thoughtful look on her face, Seth called out to her "Bella… what are you thinking…?" Bella said to Seth "Don't worry, I have an idea." She held up her fist in front of her face, soon Sunset felt the increase of power which she had to admit was quite impressive. Seth yelled "Bella, what are you doing?!" Bella closed her eyes in concentration "It's ok! We got this." Sunset sighed as Bella’s eyes shot open, purple light emanating from behind their hand. Bella cheered "Hah! We did it! Universal singularity contained!" Sunset rolled her eyes.“I think we should stop here before Bella decides to absorb the universe. Containing a Universal Singularity if it went wrong would have destroyed this universe and heavily damaged every universe around it.” Bella shrugged "Hey! It's only a partial fragment! Plus, if one infinity stone can get destroyed, a piece of one can be replicated." Seth shouted at her "Infinity stone?! Bella, no offense but WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?! YOU REPLICATED AN INFINITY STONE?! WHY?! Not to mention, the most dangerous one too!" Bella looked down at the floor as Havoc started to recede "Sorry, I want to test our powers." She then suddenly yells “Ow!” Seth runs up to her “Now what?” He sees the power stone replica still in her hand “Bella...?” Bella concentrating on her hand apologises “Sorry, it’s just being a little difficult to undo. Gimme a sec.” Yulo raised her hand “It would be unwise to undo it, if you made any mistake making it, if you were even a billionth of a percent off you could have caused a snowball effect that would have caused multiversal damage. Trying to undo it would do the same if you're not really careful and to be honest you may have drawn the attention of a few major gods already who are not exactly keen on what you have already done.” Bella looks at Sunset with fear."I'm sorry, I just wanted to test myself. I didn't… I…" Bella then begins to tear up. "I'm sorry." Sunset and Yulo give Bella a hug “Don’t worry, we will placate the other gods but you all should lay low for a while. Don’t want a major god battle in our neighbourhood.” Seth sighed “Well, this sure has been an interesting day.” Seth jumped as he heard a *Bang!* Whosawhat?!" He turned around to see both Twilight’s holding the glowing piece of Uru while covered in soot. Seth deadpanned “What did you do?” Seth’s Twilight coughed "We… don't know. We were just checking what kind of enchantments we could put on this stuff when I slipped up and the bam. The thing popped and made a bunch of smoke.” Pricness Twilight frowned "I think we may have found an enchantment that doesn't mix with it. Although, I have no idea what it was." Yulo smirked “So Seth, how’s things with Screwball. Got a wedding planned out yet?” Seth’s face lit up like a Christmas tree "Hztbbctjnf. Pinkie! Enough with that! *Poof!* Poof?" Seth looked around only to see no sign of Screwball, he exclaimed "Oh, great. Now look what you did!" He looked around before walking away from the Library, pausing only to throw a plant bomb at Pinkie that did nothing. He then continued to walk. Yulo rubbed her head “I forgot that it hasn’t been as long for him as it has been for us, we had a Dimensional Time Shift that happens every so often to stabilise the dimensional boundary, and locked us out from dimensional travel for two years. Not that much time passed here.” Seth just ignored her and kept walking… he then paused as everyone felt and heard deep rumbling. He then turned on his heel and started walking back. A glowing blue man wearing no clothes, an older portly man wearing a suit and bowler hat and finally the final figure was a glowing yellow human that seemed to switch between male and female every time you looked at him/her. The blue man introduced himself first “I am Dr Manhattan, it's a pleasure to meet so many new faces.” The older man bowed “I am The Presence, it’s been a while since I left my corner of the Multiverse.” The final figure smiled “I am the One Above All.” Seth was slightly taken aback "Hoookay. This is a first. Hello, all of you. I'm guessing we have something to talk about?" Dr Manhattan started “Yes, the Displaced as you are called are often an object of major concern. Your powers are no joke and it does put all of us on edge, we more or less maintain order across the infinite multiverse. Creating infinity stones while not forbidden is very concerning, you can make universes with those. That power is very dangerous.” Bella stepped forward “Listen. I’m sorry. It was my fault. I didn’t think. I…” Bella starts tearing up again "I just wanted to see w-what I can d-do. I… I've even deformed the infinity stone. See?" Bella raises her hand, no part of Havoc on it. “It’s gone a-and I won’t do it again.” She hung her head. Sunset stepped forward “I have a plan to resolve this issue, I will take this universe into the group as the new universe 13. I will appoint a God of Destruction and a God of Creation to this universe, I even have two candidates in mind. I am not sure about who the Angel should be yet however.” Yulo stepped forward nodding to Sunset, she placed her hand on Seth’s head “Destruction and Screwball will be Creation.” The Presence nodded “Very well, we will allow this. As long as a god is watching over this plain we will not intervene.” Seth gasped, Sunset and Yulo noticed that the power he took from Beerus was increasing steadily. Seth was dumbfounded as the three other gods leave. Seth turned to them "Okay. Question…… WHY?!?! You made ME a god of destruction?! Why?!?!?!?!" Yulo stepped forward. “You are the best candidate, you possess incredible power yet are not arrogant or cocky because of it. We know you will take the task seriously and we made Screwball the Goddess of Creation for three reasons, first she is filled with chaotic energy perfect for creation, second you two would miss each other if you had to be gone for long periods of time and third now you will linked in another way as well.” As Seth was coming to terms with all of this, Screwball appeared beside him holding a purple staff with a planet like object that constantly shifted colours and a soft yellow ring floated above the planet. She looked at him confused “Uhh, Seth. Did you give me this?” She then stuttered slightly “I was just… uhh… it just fell on my head out of nowhere.” Seth muttered “Yeah... it looks like the two of us have becomes gods?” Screwball’s eyes become literally the size of her head each “Huh?” Seth groaned “Ugh. Just..” he then turned to Yulo “Yulo! If you could?” Yulo nodded “Simply put, you are now the head gods of your universe. Seth’s purpose as God of Destruction is to destroy planets with no life on them while your job as God of Creation is to create planets that grow prosperous and powerful forms of life.” Screwy's eyes widen at Yulo's words. "W…wow. That… that's… oh dear." Screwy then faints. I catch her before she falls to far "Yeah, should have expected that. In fact, I'm surprised I'm still conscious." Sunset stepped forward “My advice for the both of you is to start small and slowly work your way up, now while there tends to be one god of Destruction there are often multiple Supreme Kais with one at the top of the Hierarchy.” Seth asked “What do you mean?” Yulo frowned “The God of Destruction tends to have more individual power than one Supreme Kai, thus to balance that out there are multiple Supreme Kais to the one God of Destruction. Now during our long absence it was decided to create a race to be Supreme Kais but we are changing that now.” Seth frowned as he got Screwy comfortable on the ground “So you’re saying I need to chose others to be my Supreme Kais.” Sunset shook her head “No, that is the job of Head Supreme Kai. It is not incredibly pressing right now, that will come in time. You have all of eternity to set up the right system but I do expect you to make a solid effort.” Seth frowned deep in thought “I see.” He then held his head high “I promise to do my best.” Yulo nodded with a smile “We know you will. We will have you attend a God of Destruction meeting soonish, more just to introduce yourselves. Some tend to be snobbish but we are working on that, even if we have to replace some.” Seth asked "Hey, that reminds me. How is Beerus doing? Is he being nicer? If not, I'll have to punch him." Sunset frowned “In truth he has been incredibly quiet, no-one, not even his brother have heard heads or tails of him. Whis can’t even find him but we do know that he has been destroying planets. I feel he has become more devoted but it worries everyone.” Seth frowned "Hmmm… Maybe I should go talk to him? See what's going on?" Yulo shook her head with a sigh “Impossible I’m afraid, even with our most detailed scans. We can’t find him, if he is capable of hiding from even us then even with your link finding him will be impossible. Hiding that much power would require something truly special and we don’t have a clue on what that is.” Seth suggested his hand on his chin "Hmm. I see. Maybe instead of finding him, I can just use our link to talk, see why he is acting so strange. Maybe convince him to tell me where and why he is hiding." Sunset grimaced. “We did something like that, using the link of the Supreme Kai’s to track or communicate with him has proven fruitless. It vanishes somewhere along the line, whatever he has done or wherever he has gone has him isolated that nothing gets in or out other than him. Seth asked "Alright. If you are able to find him, tell him I want to talk. Okay?" Sunset sighed "We do have a suspicion, he went to the realm of Null but that would be very dangerous. It’s a place that even Yulo and I would not enter lightly. All transmission dies trying to go in there, simply put it’s not a place that just anyone can enter lightly. One enters there to reflect on themselves and in time master themselves. If you are not there for that it will erase you from existence, even Yulo and I can maybe resist it for a minute with all of our power.” Seth paled and shivered, he then shouted "Hrragh! There has to be something!" swiping his hand through the air. Doing so created a ball of red energy that flew into a nearby mountain, wiping it off the face of the world. Seth cried out “Holy!”He then stared at his hand “Ok. Was not expecting that.” Yulo frowned “What do you mean?” Seth frowned "I…well. I knew I was strong but it's been very hard for me to use my more basic power. Specifically my energy manipulation. I can easily mutate myself from things I absorb but with just energy, I keep struggling to release it, like it's stuck to me and doesn't want to let go. With that blast just now, I didn't even notice it until I saw it flying through the air. I didn't need to put my usual amount of effort into sending it, it just went. I'll need to get used to that." Princess Twilight frowned “I do need to return to my castle. I shouldn’t be away too long.” Sunset frowned “That is a good point” she then waved goodbye “I guess we’ll see you at the meeting Seth, Screwball?” Yulo waved “Farewell.” All three of them disappeared in a bright flash of light, after they returned Sunset smiled as she and Yulo took a long nap. > Chapter 19: Paths > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunset was standing in a new building, from the outside it was a massive structure but on the inside it was much grander. Countless paths spread through the structure, Pinkie frowned as she looked around the structure “What is this for?” Sunset smiled “The multiverse is vast and far greater than the thirteen universes we watch over.” There will be gates to countless universes in this structure, ones that will bring all kind of beings so different from us.” Pinkie frowned “Hopefully the world will be ready for the change that we will bring to it.” Meanwhile deep in the realm of Null, a place darker than the darkness itself. A realm were the only light came from Beerus who was meditating, purple light began emanating from his body. In his own mind he struck at a cop of himself “You are colossal failure! Letting your lazy nature make you weak.” Beerus took a deep breath “I won’t be weak anymore, I will do my duty and become a God of Destruction that can be truly proud.” He rushed forward kicking his copy to the ground, he stood over the copy“Not anymore. I will be the god I should have been.” The other him nodded “I’ll hold you to that.” Beerus opened his eyes, the glow silver filling the empty space. He leaves the shadowy realm, he looks around the vast expanse of empty space he found himself in. He frowned as he returned to the planet he called home, Whis bowed “Lord Beerus, I see you have achieved the first stage of Ultra Instinct. Impressive.” Beerus smiled “None of that Whis” he then grimaced “several planets need my attention.” For the next day Whis silently teleported them around the universe as Beerus blew up barren multiple planets that were incapable of sustaining life. Whis smiled “My lord, I’m glad you are taking your position seriously now. What is the next plan of action.” Beerus frowned “We need to get the Supreme Kais back in action and the first we need to do is permanently restore the youth of the Meros and put at the top job. Also it very clear that he will do his job properly if I do the same.” Whis smiled as he teleported to Earth, Bulma bowed in his presence “Lord Beerus!” Beerus shook his head “Just Beerus, you have shown me great kindness. I have treated you poorly in the past” He then bowed “Forgive my arrogance. I was going to seek the Dragon Balls in hopes of restoring the Old Kai, Meros to eternal youth.” Bulma smiled as she passed him the Dragon Radar “This will show you were the Dragon Balls are located, wish you luck.” It wasn’t long before Beerus and Whis gathered all the Dragon Balls. Beerus frowned “Come forth Shenron and grant my wish.” The sky turned dark as a long green dragon emerged, the dragon bowed it’s head “Lord Beerus! It’s a great honour!” Beerus frowned “I have two simple wishes, I wish you to restore Meros, the Old Kai to youth and secondly that youth is permanent. I’m sure that can be done quickly.” Shenron voice echoed as his eyes glowed “You wishes have been granted!” His form returned into the Dragon Ballsand they scattered across the world. Beerus turned to Whis “I need to pay a visit to the Supreme Kai’s world, please transport us there.” Whis bowed as his staff glowed “Yes my lord.” It was not long before they arrived at world of the Supreme Kais, Meros who had been returned to youth glared at him “Beerus, why are you here!” Beerus raised his hand “I am not here to trouble you Meros, I must ask that you take charge here. All of us have been too lazy of late and that could have been our end. I have been destroying quite a few planets that needed destruction and I’m hoping you can start creating new ones.” Meros frowned “Why should I believe you?” Beerus shrugged “I don’t care whether you believe me, I care that you and the other Supreme Kai do your jobs.” He then turned to Whis “Let’s get to our planet, I have much to check up on and have a clearer look on what planets are in need of destruction.” Meros frowned as Beerus left “Why should we trust his words, he has done nothing but cause trouble since his appointment.” Sunset’s form shimmered as she materialised in front of them, Pinkie appearing next to her in an explosion of confetti. Sunset smiled “Lord Beerus arrived on Earth and summoned Shenron, judging from your youth that is what he wished for.” Pinkie frowned “Beerus is our responsibility not yours, soon we will have another God of Destruction meeting.” Sunset frowned “When that time comes you will stand by him as the Grand Supreme Kai of our universe. You were around during his start and thus you have greatest amount of experience dealing with the in and outs of this meeting.” Meros bowed “I will do as you say.” Sunset grimaced “Good Meros, we will be away for a bit. We have something that requires us to check up on, another universe has appeared on our radar.” She then smiled “We seek to implement into our group, we already have added another that will be officially announced after they choose an angel. I extend to our cluster to the point that they start travelling between them and interacting, bringing a new wave of prosperity to them.” Meros frowned “Are you sure that is a good idea, it could make you a target for others who wish to harm you.” Pinkie shook her head “We have our own ambitions, when you get to the level of power we are at then you need to keep pushing the envelop. Power at our scale is dangerous if we don’t keep it focused, you don’t want god who because their bored use distant universes as ping pong balls.” Meros nodded with a frown “I see your point. Wish you luck in your endeavours.” The two gods left eager to complete their next task. > Chapter 20: New Gods > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunset and Pinkie entered the world Sunset as a Changeling and Pinkie as an Alicorn both bipedal, they saw that the mighty Castle in the Everfree was still in perfect condition and a high tech city was built around it. They landed in front of the castle, they saw four women standing in front of them wearing school uniforms, one with brown hair, one with purple hair and the other two’s hair was pink. The brown haired one stepped forward with a frown “I’m Monika, the purple haired girl is Yuri. The pink haired girl with the tail is Natsuki and the other pink haired girl is Sayori. You are the Sunset Shimmer and Pinkie Pie of another world I assume?” Sunset frowned as she nodded “To avoid confusion I’m Ava and my girlfriend here is Yulo.” Monika shook her head “Look now is not the best time, follow us and we will take care any issues you have later. We would rather keep the panic to a minimum.” Yulo bounced as they entered the castle “So what has been happening in this Equestria! Anything exciting!” The four girls didn’t respond, Ava’s eyes narrowed as they descended into the dungeons something was up and she knew it. Ava grimaced as they approached a cell only to see a bipedal Luna being glared at by a Bipedal ‘Celestia.’ Ava frowned “What happened here?” Natsuki growled “Celestia went full Daybreaker and went mad attacking her sister as well as a foreign diplomat.” Ava rubbed her head, this was a real headache and she knew it. This was so different form the Equestria she grew up in. Luna frowned as she walked away from the cell “She won’t listen to me, I’m going to leave her locked down there for now while we address the public.” She then bowed her head slightly “I’m sorry for ignoring you but all of this take serious precedence.” Yulo nodded in understanding “We are running our own nation and that is colossal headache in itself. We have left a few trusted individuals in charge while we were away.” Yulo and Ava followed Luna alongside the four girls, Luna was standing outside the castle as the commotion had brought out almost the entire city to the castle. Luna frowned as she looked over the crowd “Me and my sister have had a falling out, she has never been happy to allow non-ponies into our nation. As many of you can see how that would affected all of us, how many of you are in cross-species relationships that my sister would annul.” Some of the nobles looked nervous, Luna frowned “I will be taking over all of my sister’s duties. Now as much as I would like to, for my sister’s sake I will leave the noble cast alone but I will institute a council of the citizenry that are elected to represent them. Nobles can’t be part of this groupand small towns will also elect an official.” The crows cheered while the nobles let out a breath of relief, a partial loss of power was much preferred to what Luna could have done. Luna entered, Monika smiled “It sounds like things will get better from here.” Luna nodded with a sigh “I’ll head off, I don’t know who those two are but I have my share of stress to deal with. I’ll leave them to you.” Sayori raised an eyebrow as she turned to Ava “So anyway what are you two here for?” Ava smiled “We have been hoping to expand our little group of universe, I can sense you have already met Seth. His energy is here already, I was the one who made him a God of Destruction. We were hoping to add this universe in as well.” Monika frowned “That shouldn’t be a problem, still who do you think should be who?” Yulo frowned “You should be the Supreme Kai and Natsuki is already showing quite a bit of god power so she would be Destruction. Would you accept these roles.” Natsuki grinned “Sure, do I get my own planet?!” Ava turned to Monika “You will have to ask your Supreme Kai if she accepts.” Monika frowned “I could but it will take some time, I am a busy person and this will make me even busier.” Yuri pushed Sayori forward “I think she should be their Angel, she will keep then in line.” Sayori frowned at Yuri before nodding, Ava smiled “It will be done.” All three surged with power for a brief moment. Natsuki grinned as her hair glowed red her Super Saiyan God form emerging. A glowing staff fell into Sayori’s hands, an orb with a ring floating above it. Monika frowned “I assume we will need to attend some sort of introductory meeting, the other gods will need to meet us I assume.” Yulo nodded “Indeed they will, still you should never forget your friend back here. Friends are a very important thing to have and you will miss them if you don’t have them.” Yuri looked at her three now godly friends “I expect you to visit me every now and then. I will be really upset if I don’t see you for a decade or so.” Sayori smiled “Don’t worry, Natsuki and I will return often.” Monika laughed “I’ll be staying here, I have to oversee the company’s paperwork even if it is incredibly boring. You’ll never be alone that I promise you.” Ava and Yulo smiled as the four girls hugged each other. Ava and Yulo smiled “We’ll send you a message when we wish for you all to come to the meeting.” They waved as they teleported away, Illusio was awaiting them in the castle “Did you meet some interesting souls?” Ava smiled “We did son and soon we will link them up to this planet. For now we will need to check on how Seth’s angel search is going so we can fully get the next God of Destruction meeting into action. Yulo smiled as Xeno popped into her arms “Mum, your home!” Yulo ran off with him grinning like a fool “We’re going to have so much fun, come on!” Ava sighed as she followed her girlfriend hoping she didn’t have to clean up a massive mess. > Chapter 21: Angel Discussion > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunset frowned as she turned to Yulo “We didn’t mention the angel business to Seth when we arrived there did we?” Yulo frowned “We better bring Beerus along or else Seth won’t be happy with us.” Yulo teleported away arriving in front of a decorated palace, Beerus’ silver eyes met hers “Lady Yulo, what do I owe the pleasure?” Yulo frowned “We are going to visit Seth and he wants to meet with you.” Beerus nodded “Very well, I will come with.” Yulo teleported the two into the portal room, Sunset smiled as she gestured to the portal “Shall we go.” Yulo bounced through smiling, Beerus walked through next with Sunset following. Beerus looked around the trees of the Everfree “This place is a lot more beautiful than I remember.” Sunset smiled “It is quite beautiful, we should go and check on Seth.” Yulo burst off enthusiastically with Sunset and Beerus catching up to her quickly. They hover outside the Library to see Screwy, this world’s Twilight and Seth standing outside the Library. Seth flies up to them, stopping in front of them “The heck?” Beerus smiled (Indeed it is. Hello Se.. wait a minute.) Beerus shouted “Are you a god of Destruction?!” Seth and Beerus fly back down to the ground “Yes, also, what happened to your eyes?” Beerus blinked for a moment “My eyes?” He the realised what he meant “Ah, yes. My eyes. Am I to assume you know about my recent …excursions?” Seth frowned “Excursions?” Seth then nodded “Oh, you mean vanishing off to that Null place. Yes. Also.” Seth punched Beerus in the arm “That’s for worrying me.” Beerus rubbed his arm “Ow. Since you know that, you’ll know why I was there.” Seth who was poking around Beerus’ memories “Mostly. Being able to poke around your head helps.” Beerus smiled "Good. Then you probably know that, through my soul-searching, I was able to… find myself, I guess. Through that, I have, at least partially, obtained Ultra Instinct." Seth complemented his fellow God of Destruction “You got UI? Wow. Good for you.” Seth then punched him again, thankfully more lightly this time “You still really worried me thought.” Beerus nodded apologetically "I am sorry for that, but it is what I needed to do." Seth nodded "So, with that out of the way." He turned to Sunset and Yulo "I'm guessing you're here to pick me up for that meeting you mentioned?" Yulo frowned “Not exactly, you see we forgot to inform you last time that every God of Destruction needs an Angel by their side for such a meeting. Seth blinked “Angel?” He then nodded “Oh right. I forgot about that. And I guess Screwy doesn’t count for that?” Sunset shook her head “No, Screwball is your Supreme Kai. They are you equal while an Angel is more a mix of a caretaker and Overseer, they make sure you are cared for but also pull you back into line if you go too far.” Seth thought to himself “Oh. If that's their job then I think I have a candidate.” He turns to Bella who had just arrived behind him “Would you like to join the conversation?" Bella stepped forward "You think I should be your Angel? Are you sure?" Seth smiled "Why not. You're my best friend, you always kept me in line when we were kids and this way, neither of us get separated. We become the three musketeers, basically." She still looked hesitant. Seth sighed "Listen, if you don't think you're right for it, I can choose someone else. Okay?" Bella called out turning to Sunset and Yulo “Wait.” She asked “What exactly does an Angel do?” Sunset frowned “That varies from Angel to Angel, their main duty is to report to us if their God of Destruction is not doing their job properly. Also to help care for them which varies greatly, some Angels do a lot more than others depending on their God of Destruction’s capability in caring for themselves. Some let their God of Destruction get away with too much.” Seth nodded "Well, that doesn't sound so bad. Not that you would… I just noticed something." Screwy turned to him “What?” Seth frowned "I haven't needed to eat or go to the toilet since I've been displaced. At least, I don't think so. I have barely eaten anything all week." Bella raised an eyebrow “Could it be your powers? Because I haven't been hungry or thirsty since I bonded with Havoc.” Seth nodded "That might be. Anyway, a topic for another time. Hng?" He stumbled slightly, there was a small spasm in his chest Seth frowned before shaking his head "Weird. Anyway, if you don't want to Bella, I might have an idea for somepony." Chrysalis blinked “What?” Seth turned to Sunset “Sunset? Do you want to explain? Sunset nodded “Chrysalis, quite simply Seth is a God of Destruction and Screwball is God of Creation. The God of Destruction needs to have an overseer and caretaker, how much that role entails depends more on the God’s competence.” Seth cut in “Just Overseer really.” Beerus frowned “Whis did a lot more than that but I was a very lazy god with an over bloated ego. I really owe him for being so patient.” Seth nodded “What they said. I think you would be a pretty good fit.” Chrysalis blinked “Why me? Why not somecreature like Bella?” Seth frowned "Already asked. She wasn't sure about it." He then smiled "So, I thought you could do it. Being a changeling queen can't be easy, so you must have experience with this kinda stuff, right?" I ask her. Chrysalis grimaced "…Sure. Overseeing an entire hive wasn't easy but, I couldn't even do that right. My hive rebelled against me." Seth shook his head "You were still evil back then. And now you've changed. It can't be that hard, right?" Chrysalis frowned "Can you let me think about it? Seth nodded “Of course.” He then turned to everyone else "Welp, that's all the candidates I could think of." Screwy frowned "There were only two of them." Seth shrugged "And that's all I could think of." Screwy smiled "Well… could we maybe do something fun?" Yulo grinned as she clicked her fingers and it started raining cheese “Cheese for everyone!” Seth got an idea as he watched the cheese fall "First to catch as much cheese without letting it touch the ground wins!" Seth began moving at rapid speed catching as much cheese as possible. Sunset deadpanned as she watched the cheesefest in front of her “Is this really what we are doing? I’m going to take a nap.” She walked over to the side of the Library and laid down next to it. She started to snore loudly. Seth poked her side "Oh come on Sunset. Have some fun!" She rolls over and forms a barrier around herself, Seth frowned “Fine. Go ahead and have your nap.” Yulo is zipping around even faster than Seth was, Screwball was using a massive fishing net. Seth frowned “Screwy. MANUALLY catch the cheese." Screwball rolled her eyes and emptied her net into the air, now wearing a helmet and roller skates. Seth called out “That’s the spirit!” Five minutes later all the cheese was caught, Yulo was in first place with two hundred and seventy four pieces of cheese. No one was able to figure out how she stacked them that high, Seth was second with one hundred and one. Beerus came in third starting part way through with sixty pieces of cheese. Screwball was just slightly behind in last place with fifty eight pieces of cheese. Screwy moaned “Drat. So close.” Beerus raised an eyebrow "So, are there any prizes?" Seth thought for a moment before smirking “Snowball to the face.” He made one in his hand and tossed at Beerus “One for you.” He then made two clones to throw them at himself “Two for me.” He then turned to Yulo “And three for you!” Yulo dodged them only to get grabbed by two clones phasing out of the ground , Seth shook his head as the three of them threw the snowballs “No dodging!” Yulo’s face is covered in snow as Seth shouted “Bullseye!” Yulo laughed “Okay. you got me good!” She then turned to Sunset “We are not going to be able to wake her up, I once dropped an infinite conceptual overwhelm cascade detonation on her head and she didn’t even budge. That could have destroyed reality if it didn't hit her.” Seth raised an eyebrow at this "Are you sure you don't need an Angel?" Yulo pulled out a balloon and whacked him with it “That was not funny.” Seth pulls his head out of the ground and apologises “I can see that, sorry.” Seth smiled “I have an idea.” Yulo blinked “What?” Seth started to transform “First one to the edge of the universe wins.” He formed a portal in front of himself, he came out a light-year or two from the edge “Dang, a little off.” By the time he arrived there were one hundred Yulo’s waiting for him, Yulo rolled her eyes “Races don’t mean much when you are above the very concept of speed itself, it’s why Sunset and I don’t race anymore. It means little.” Seth frowned “Oh. Drat. Oh well. Can’t blame me for- *bam!*” He is cut off by an asteroid slamming into the back of his head “..Really.” Yulo started giggling, Seth deadpanned “That wasn’t funny, Pinkie.” Yulo calmed down and retorted “Oh come on. It was a little funny.” They both fly back, avoiding more asteroids as well as some of the planets and solar systems Screwball created. Some were really interesting while other were quite wacky. They soon landed back in Ponyville. Chrysalis walked up to the group “Hi. I think I will accept your offer.” Seth frowned “Are you sure?” Chrysalis looked at him with determination sparkling in her eyes “Yes, You can count on me.” Yulo smiled “Well then.” Yulo clicked her fingers, power surged into Chrysalis as a halo appeared around her neck as a long staff with a black orb that was surrounded by a vertical light blue ring. Yulo explained “That halo shows you are at full power and that is your staff, all Angels carry one if they are overseers to a God of Destruction. There are a few who aren’t but they are in training.” Chrysalis smiled "Wow. Thank you. I'll do my best. I promise." Seth patted her shoulder “I know you will.” He then turned to Yulo "It's been very nice seeing you again." Yulo smiled “Likewise, I’ll see you at the meeting. I will take Sunset to our bed so she can rest.” Beerus gave him a thumbs up “I can’t wait to see my brother's reaction at the meeting. I'll see you there.” Seth smiled “Likewise.” He then got his attention “Also.” Beerus turned around “Don’t forget to tell your friends your back. And don't let Goku pressure you into fighting him. Got it?" He looked surprised for a moment but, after niggling around Seth’s head for a second, he smiled "Sure. Take care, friend." He then turned back to Yulo. Yulo clicked her fingers and Sunset appeared in her right arm, Yulo smiled “Farewell everyone.” She clicked her fingers and the three of them vanished in a bright flash of light. Yulo laid down Sunset in their bed, she then teleported Beerus back to his planet. She then laid down next to Sunset, when they both awoke next they would get the date for the meeting organised. > Chapter 22: Meeting of the Gods > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunset and Yulo had just sent out letters to the meeting, they then teleported to the meeting room. The large marble table was elongated and there were now three chairs for each universe in instead of one, the places were marked with numbers, 13 and 14 added to the table. The room was fairly plain with simple dark blue walls and a soft red carpeted floor. Sunset frowned as over the next couple of hours the other gods filtered in, Iwan God of Destruction of Universe 1, the strongest Universe. He was a being with black fur covering most of his body save for his black eyes, pink hands and pink pointy ears. He wore a similar costume to most other Destruction Gods, a short Angel named Awamo accompanied him. His light blue skin and white hair was indicative of all angels. Anato, the Supreme Kai accompanying him looked similar to Shin from Universe 7 but with pink skin. Heles arrived next, the God of Destruction of Universe 2 was very different from Universe 1’s. She was a tall and beautiful brown skinned woman, she had large green eyes and wore quite a bit of makeup as well as jewellery. Her hair was lack and braided, representing popular depictions of Egyptian female pharaohs back on Earth. Alongside her was a much taller Angel named Sour and her Supreme Kai, Pell, he was old but bulky sporting a white beard and a small amount of hair on his head. A huge green robot named Mosco wearing God of Destruction attire steps through with a hatch on it’s stomach, inside of it the God of Destruction Mule from Universe 3 is a small red imp like demon with black eyes. A tall smug looking angel by the name of Camparri was behind him. His Supreme Kai, Eyre, was short and had blue skin as his white half-mohawk was off to the side. He also wore big rimmed red glasses. From Universe 4, the God of Destruction was a small yellow mouse named Quitela. He had a wicked smirk on his face. Cognac was tall but was similar to the other angels except for his pompadour hairstyle. His Supreme Kai, Kuru, had orange skin and effeminate features except for his white mohawk. Universes 5’s God of Destruction, Arak, was a tan wrinkly humanoid creature with large purple eyes and a red mohawk. He did not have a nose but nostrils and purple lips as well as whiskers. Alongside him was the bulky Angel, Cuckatail, and the portly pink Supreme Kai Ogma. Beerus’ brother Champa was the God of Destruction from Universe 6, unlike his brother he was heavily overweight. Besides was his angel, Vados is tall like most angels and had her white hair in a ponytail. His Supreme Kai, Fuwa, was fat and green with hair that resembled the top of a pineapple. Beerus stepped through alongside Whis and Shin, his silver eyes put the other gods off guard. Even Champa and Quitela who usually liked to make jabs at Beerus were stunned. The God of Destruction of Universe 8, Liquir, is a golden fox humanoid with yellow sclera and black pupils as well as three tails. Iru, his Supreme Kai, was purple and long faced with a tuft of white hair. His angel, Korn, was tall and had short white hair. Universe 9’s God of Destruction, Sidra, was a short and pudgy green skinned individual with long orange hair, a moustache and beard. His humanoid from was reminiscent of a viking. His Supreme Kai, Roh, was short and lean with light green skin. Roh’s white hair was in a mohawk. Mohito, Sidra’s angel was very tall and slim with white hair shoulder length hair. Universe’s 10’s God of Destruction, Rumsshi was a thin and pink humanoid elephant. He had blue eyes, wide ears and short tusks. Alongside him was a light yellow elderly Supreme Kai named Gowasu whose white hair was in the style of a mohawk flipped to the side. The angel, Kusu, accompanying Rumsshi was short, she had the pale blue skin and white hair that all angels had. Her hair is combed in an 80/20 ratio with a single braided pigtail on the right side. Universe 11’s God of Destruction, Belmod, is a tall and scrawny God of Destruction. He looked like a clown, chalk white skin with a hail bald head that has a large orange puff of hair on each side of his head. He has a big red nose and bright red lips, he also had thick vertical blue lines running over both of his eyes which had thick black outlines. His Supreme Kai, Khai, had lavender skin and black eyes. His hair was styled in a slicked back mohawk. As for Belmod’s angel, Marcarita, she was very similar to Vados but her hair was done up in twin ponytails with a small bang on either side of her forehead. Universe 12’s God of Destruction, Giin, is a tall fish-like humanoid with red irises and two fin shaped ears. He is also the only god that looks like a conditioned warrior, having a noticeably muscular build. His Supreme Kai, Agu, had yellow skin with white hair and pointed ears, Agu’s eyes were black dots and he had a round nose. Agu’s head was also oval shaped. Giin’s angel, Martinu, is visibly overweight and her hair is slicked back. As all of them took their seats, Sunset smiled “The reason you are all here is to greet our new two Gods of Destruction, as well as their angel attendants and Supreme Kais. I hope you will make them feel welcome here.” Two portals appear in front of the two spare seats. Out of one of them Seth, Screwball and a version of Chrysalis exited. Seth looked around, taking in the room and all the other beings that stared at him. He sees the seat with the number 13 on it and takes a seat before looking at all the others "Thank you for having me. My name is Seth. Seth Trian. These two are my Supreme Kai and Angel." He pointed at Screwball and Chrysalis respectively. Many of the other Gods, Angels and Supreme Kai's start murmuring and muttering to each other, all except Beerus, Whis and Shin. Quitela looked over the group of three “They don’t look like much, do we really need more weaklings and idiots running around?” Seth narrowed his eyes at him before smiling calmly “I assure you, I'm no weakling. If you require, I can show you what I can do?” Before another word could be spoken, Natsuki, Monika and Sayori stepped through the other portal. Natsuki’s pink hair was wild as a slight red aura glowed around it and under her clothes her body was covered in pink fur, a red aura surrounded her body as she took a seat with a grin. Monika took a seat next to her, Sayori stood behind them holding onto her staff. Champa groaned “Oh great. More of them.” Natsuki looked like she was about to jump on him, Monika’s eyes narrowed “Maybe a God of Destruction who looks like he ate half his universe’s weight in food should not judge others before fixing his own flaws?” Seth snickered at her remark, holding his hands in front of his mouth. Kusu smiled “As entertaining as this all is, we have other things to discuss do we not. I believe we should get down to business.” Seth nodded "They're right. Shall we get down to the brass tacks?" Many of the other Gods blinked in confusion. "Right, you don't know what that means. Shall we begin?" Sunset frowned as she did multiple quick scans, she frowned “Right now the first point on the agenda is Mortal Levels.” Seth raised an eyebrow, clearly not knowing what that means. Yulo explained “Mortal Levels are the average power of a mortal in your universe. Now that it has been established, first Universe 1 has a Mortal Level of 12, Universe 12 has a Mortal Level of 11.5, Universe 5 has a Mortal Level of 10, Universe 8 has a Mortal Level of 9. For those of you unaware these are the four universes whose Mortal Levels were high enough to avoid participating in the Universal Erasure Tournament that our son held before we regained our powers and memories.” Seth frowned "Universal ERASURE Tournament? Do I even wanna know?" Sunset frowned “Our youngest son was in charge, while we were gone and I have no idea why his older brother thought that was a good idea. Regardless that’s in the past, as for the other universes with exception of the new ones we will be going over increases. Universe 11’s Mortal Level has passed 7 going from 6.8 to 7.2, Universe 2’s Mortal Level increased from 6.1 to 6.6, Universe 3 has gone from 5.8 to 6.4, Universe 10 went up from 5.5 to 6.4. Universe 4 went down again from 3.3 to 2.5, Universe 6 went up from 3.2 to 3.8, Universe 7 has shown tremendous improvement going from 3.3 to 9 putting it above 7. Universe 9 doubled going from 2.5 to 5.” Champa shouted "Wait… Universe 7… Beerus?!" "How did your Universe go so high?! 3 to 9?! That's impossible!" He continued to shout loudly. Beerus’ silver eyes bored into his brother “Champa, I have been taking my job much more seriously and my Grand Supreme Kai is working with me. I’ve destroyed thousands of dead worlds as thousands more have been made ready to spawn life and several have already shown great promise.” Seth smiled at his friend, proud of how he has changed. Champa noticed this "Why are you smiling, human? What did you do?" Seth pointed to his horns "First, I'm not human." " Second, well… to be honest… I beat some sense into him. Literally." Beerus chuckled "You did more than beat it into me. That was the most painful experience of my life." Seth frowned “Well I was pretty angry.” Beerus grimaced pointing at Screwball "Understandable, I punched a hole through her." She shivered at the memory. Yulo frowned “As for the two new Universes, Universe 13 has a Mortal Level of 7.5 and Universe 14 has a Mortal Level of 8. Both have been doing good work so far.” Seth blinked, surprised “"Wait what?" He looked at Monika. "You have a higher Level than me. Drat." The trio from Universe 14 grinned. Monika smirked “You are pointing to the wrong person, I am the Supreme Kai here. Natsuki is the God of Destruction here.” Natsuki grinned “Do you really think I am the creating type?” Seth shook his head "No, but Monika is the one closest to me. Also, I see you nailed four?" Natsuki giggled “SS5 actually and I’ve combined the God form with it, so SSG5. I haven’t quite gotten blue to work with it yet.” Seth’s eyes widened at her words "NICE! Very good for you!" Seth looked around in to see most of the other Gods confused faces “Oh. Allow me to clarify. SS stands for Super Saiyan." At this, many of the other Gods cried out in outrage. Yulo silenced them. Beerus frowned “She is definitely at a bare minimum the second strongest of us Gods of Destruction. The Saiyans used the Blue form in my tournament with Champa and this form while not quite having blue power only the previous form is at the fifth level of it. I’m not sure whether she is stronger than Seth at full power. Champa shouted at Beerus "Are you insinuating that this mortal is the strongest?! Beerus glared at his brother, fire burning in his eyes "He beat me. BEFORE he became a God. I'm not insinuating it. I'm stating it. He is the strongest God of Destruction at this table." All the other gods begin shouting again, refusing to believe that a newcomer was stronger. Monika calmly raised a hand, reality began warping and twisting around them. Reality began ripping apart around them before reforming “You will all quiet down.” Silence filled the room, Sunset smiled “Thank you for settling them down.” Seth frowned "If you all doubt us so much, let me repeat what I said earlier. I assure you, I'm no weakling. If you require, I can show you what I can do?" Sunset shook her head “None of that, he honestly could beat everyone here except me, Yulo, Monika, his Angel, Chrysalis and Sayori, Natsuki’s Angel.” Seth raised an eyebrow as he looked at his friends “Are all of them really that strong? I mean, you and Yulo, definitely but it's actually surprising.” Sunset frowned “Well your Angel has to be stronger than you and your Supreme Kai, it’s part of the position. Monika’s reality warping is insane, out of all those in this room only Yulo and I as well as Sayori can exceed it as she has to be stronger than her because she is her Angel.” Seth’s eyes widened “Well. This will be a lotta fun.” He smiled at them. Yulo frowned “So does anyone have anything else to discuss at this meeting that doesn’t involve our new gods?” Champa frowned “What about the changes with my brother?” Sunset frowned “As long as the Mortal Level of his Universe grows it is of little concern. That does bring up another point” she turned to Quitela “You’re dropping Mortal Level is concerning, if you keep this up we may need to pick a replacement.” Seth raised an eyebrow "I'm actually curious as to why it's falling." Champa snapped "You don't have a say in the matter. Your have nowhere near enough experience to deal with this kind of problem." Seth retorted "I'm just asking a question. What's so wrong with that?" Beerus frowned “Nothing, as for Quitela well simply he was like me before I got my act together but even lazier. I did my job sometimes even if I was very haphazard about it when I did. Quitela never does his job, it’s simply the fact of the matter.” Seth frowned "Ouch. That's definitely bad. Although I might have an idea." Seth then stands up... while Seth was sitting in his chair explained his idea "I think a helping hand might do the trick. This is one of my clones. He's not as strong as me but most things I can do, he can too. Perhaps if Quitela has someone to show him how to do what he needs to, he'll do his job better." Quitela shouted "I am centuries old! I do not need some mortal telling me what to do!" Seth’s clone frowned "First, I won't be telling you what to do. I'm not your Angel. I'm just going to help you pick up the slack. Also, if you're so old, why aren't you doing your job?" Quitela looked outraged but didn’t reply. The clone then moved to stand beside his Angel. Quitela then burst toward Seth only for Kusu to appear in front of him and slammed his head into the table “Forgive my Queens but he needed to be put in his place. He was getting on my nerves.” Yulo nodded “I understand that Kusu, you seem different from all the other Angels. I can feel something different about you.” Kusu smiled “Well I was always a little more emotional than the others, I guess it comes with time. I am the oldest of our family save father.” Sunset blinked as she looked over the twelve original angels that were in the room before her eyes widened “We have grandchildren!” Seth spoke with hesitation "Uuuh…? Ok?" Yulo frowned “It seems we may need to call this meeting to an early closure, we have a son who needs to give us an explanation on why he didn’t tell us we had twelve grandkids.” Seth’s eyes widened as he realised what she meant "Oh! I get it. Yeah, That's probably a good idea." Sunset and Yulo frowned “I trust you can find your own way home from here.” The two teleported into their castle and shouted “Illusio!” The entire castle shook in the face of the two angry Goddesses. > Final Note > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have decided to end this story at the last chapter, I may make a sequel in the future but I am struggling to move this story forward as it is. When the sequel comes around it will be different focusing on the expansion into different universes.