That crash was harder than I had expected. But I've been in worse scenarios. What was I even thinking? Crashing on the planet. I could have just teleported... but what difference would have made? I'd still be fine, and that's all that matters.

He hadn't actually landed on a planet in several hundred centuries. Often he'd simply moderated worlds from there orbit most of the time. Not usually one to get up close. It wouldn't bother him if he had though.

The alicorn got to his hooves. Flapping his wings, he lifted himself up and out of the crater. Now floating in the air, he looked around. Trees were ripped clean out of their roots and spread out and away from the crater. In the distance he saw a small town.

Well, THEY likely know I'm here or at least that something has happened. I suppose this is bad mannerism - just barrging in like this, but on the other hoof, I DID make this rock. Albeit several millenia ago and it has changed quite a bit on its own but that's not really of importance now.

The alicorn began to fly toward the town.

Let's see what kind of creatures live in this town. Better go quietly, don't want to stir up any more attention. No doubt, what ever lives on this rock will think very xenophobically of me.

A white aura surronded his body. The aura exploded outwards, expanding in all direction. It engulfed everything very quickly.

Ah time control. Such a useful ability. I'll have this done in an instant.

The alicorn chuckled briefly at his own joke as he drifted towards the town.

Twilight was on her way to Sweet Apple Acres. Her worrying thoughts swimming through her mind as she galloped. Ponies all around seemed to be moving about now. Twilight's focus stayed on the safety of her friends.

I hope Applejack and Pinkie are ok. Hope nothing bad happened to her farm. And the others. I hope there ok. Rainbow Dash will probably be fine but Fluttershy could be in serious trouble.

Maybe I should che-

Her thoughts were cut off as what felt like a hugh wave of magic energy washed over her. Her vision suddenly became blurred. There was a ringing in her ear as she stumbled, nearly losing her balance and fell to her knees. She felt a pain in her forehead and held a hoof to it. Steadying her balance, her surrounding began to come back into view. The ringing in her ear had begun to subside. She had notice her horn was reacting to something as small spurts of static seemed to be given off by it. The energy quickly faded as she began looking around. Everything had seemed to lose its color and revert to black and white. The ponies that were moving about not a minute ago now stood perfectly still. They seemed as though they had been frozen while in motion. She was dumbfounded by the sight. She lifted her hoof up and found no change in the color of her coat. She turned her head back. Her mane and tail was its usual dark purple with a pink highlight and her cutie mark stilled looked to be the same pink star with surrounding white sparkles it has always been. After her self examination, Twight refocused her attention on the town.

What's happened to every pony?

She quickly trotted up to the now grey Lyra.

"Hello?" Twilight asked.

No response.

"Hellooooooooooo?" she asked again, now waving her hoof in front of Lyra's face.

No response.

She poked Lyra.

Not even a flinch.

Twilight tries other ponies and only yielded the same results. Several ponies later, Twilight eventually gave up her attempts.

It's as if everypony has just... stopped.

Twilight sat in wonder of what could of caused this. It seemed impossible how every one could not only stop, but stop in mid-air. Her train of thought was cut short when she saw a black and white form drift throught the town a few houses ahead of her. It seemed to pause every so often as it moved. Twilight gave brief hesitation before she started galloping in its direction. The form kept on moving, seemingly unaware of her approach. It moved very swiftly. Twilight managed to get closer to it and made out what appeared to be some kind of pony. Twilight was still able to keep up with it.

Ok first, a massive tremor, then everypony seems to freeze in place and now there is a mysterious, pony looking... thing moving about. This day just keeps getting wierder. I've got to find out what's going on. Twilight thought to herself as she galloped.

She followed mysterious figure to Carousel Boutique. The form landed right in front of the boutique. She caught up to it. She found that it was nearly twice her height. Looking taller then even Celestia.

"Hey!!!" Twilight called out. This seemed to startle the creature as it jumped and turned around quickly.

As Twilight approached, she made out the details.

Is that an alicorn? No, only the princesses are alicorns... But it has a horn AND wings. The wings don't look normal but still it has them.

She stopped a few feet in front of it. The alicorn stared at her with his white, widened eyes.

"Impossible..." The alicorn said in disbelief.

"Huh?"

"You... How did..."

It's voice sounded distinctly male and, while surprised, somehow intellectual. There was a long pause of silence before the alicorn spoke again.

"Well then, you must have extremely high magic levels to get caught up in this spell. That's very interesting." He said blatantly.

Twilight hesitated before answering.

"I... do?"

"You speak the universal language. Also interesting. I'm still not quite sure how exactly you got caught up in it, but no doubt you are powerful. Only those who have such high magic capability can get themselves caught in it. Although I did not know this pertained to those the spell was not ment to effect."

"Um... caught in what exactly?"

"A time flux spell. It creates a temperal rift in exsistence where time does not move. Of course only those who are... exceptionally gifted may cast it, even if they have the magic to perform it."

"So... then... time is... frozen?" Twilight asked, she found it difficult to grasp the concept that time even could stop.

"Basically, yes."

There was another long pause. Twilight was unsure what to think of this alicorn given what he was saying but she knew she needed answers. Finally she spoke up.

"Who are you?"

"I am known by many names... the universal creator, the deity of life and death, master of the universe. You may call me what you wish but my formal name - my self given name is Void."

The alicorn lifted his wings as he said this. Twilight had just then notice what appeared to be the picture of a small spiraling galaxy upon his flank. She wasn't quite sure at first. As she stared at is she noticed it slowly moving. Twilight was dumbfounded by it. Bewildered by the thought of what it could very well mean. She was a little startled when he spoke again.

"Who are you?"

"Me?"

"Yes... you are, so far that I know, the only one effected by this spell and there is no one else around."

"... My name is Twilight Sparkle."

"Interesting..."

Twilight began to feel nervous about this alicorn but wonder only drove her to ask more questions.

"Why are you here?"

"Observation."

"What are you... observing?"

"That isn't really any of your concern."

"Um... ok... then why and how do you have nicknames like 'The Creator' and 'deity of life and death?"

"These are names other creatures in the stars have given me. I have demonstrated to them my power and how I'm worthy of these titles."

"Can I get a demonstration?"

"You already have. And possibly, you will again in the future."

Twilight's uneasy feelings about the alicorn began to fade. He obviously wasn't a hostile being like Nightmare Moon and not as sparatic and unpredictable as Discord. Void seemed very straight forward. Remembering the power that shook her library out of its roots, she decided to press the issue onto him.

"Did you cause that tremor?"

"Yes, though I hadn't anticipated a town to be here."

Twilight felt a hint of anger starting to build, she started to raise her voise.

"Why?"

"It's part of the result of me coming to your world. I crashed on its surface." Void said blatantly.

Twilight was once again dumbfounded by his words. She began to wonder if any of it was even real. The thought that all of this could be happening seemed unrealistic.

Ok I have to be dreaming. None of this makes any sense. A weird alicorn stopping time who had fallen from space and survived who I am now having a conversation with.

"It's all real I promise. I can feel and manipulate the fabrications of space and time. Which is also how I know what you're thinking. All through the power of my very unique magic capabilities. But if you are still in doubt, I can always offer you some form of reassuance."

Twilight stared at him, at this point unsure of what to say. Void took this as a sign she needed to know it was real. He rasied his hoof and struck her on the head.

"OW! What did you do that for?"

"Pain cannot exsist in dreams in the way that it does in reality, it is often faint if ever felt at all. The fact that you are feeling pain like that only proves my point and furthermore that this cannot be a dream."

Twilight just sat there. She didn't want to believed it. She was still in disbelief over how he manipulated time. She decided to conitue her questions seeing as she was at least getting answers. Even though they didn't quite make sense to her. Twilight decided to just go with it, remembering the incident with Pinkie's pinkie senses.

"If you caused that tremor... and you can... bend space and time?

"Yes."

"Then why don't you fix what has happened here."

"I see no reason to."

Twilight's grew enraged at this. The thought that anyone could be so heartless as to cause such destruction with almost no reason and not do a thing to make amends infuriated her.

"But YOU did this, YOU should fix it!"

"Everything changes. Nothing ever stays the same. What's the point of fixing things if they're just going to end up broken again?"

"But people could be hurt because of what you did! You can't just hurt people like that!"

"Why does it matter so much to you?"

"Because... because this is my home... and I live here with my friends! I don't want to see them hurt!"

"Friends...?"

Twilight tried to regain her composure.

"Yes, they are my friends, and I care about them."

"Interesting..."

Twilight stood, glaring at Void who simply just gazed back at her, looking intrigued. She had never heard someone utter such heartless words but apart of her felt afraid of him. Her grey surroundings only reminded her that he was the one who made time stand still and apparently caused the tremor. Twilight could only imagine what else he could do. Her thoughts were interrupted when he spoke up.

"Well, it sounds like your friends are your highest priority. Correct?"

"Yes. They are."

"And you want to go help them with this... crisis. Correct?

"Yes"

"Very well, I shall see to it that you do."

"What?"

"I'm going to stop the time flux, so you can help your friends."

Twilight sat for a few moments as Void began to charge his energy.

"I thought you didn't care about us. Seeing how you won't at least undo what you did to our town."

"Events cannot be undone Twilight Sparkle. Their results and aftermath can be changed but they themselves cannot. Also, I disreguard life's existence but that does not mean I do not care about what it does with that and I'm not going to get in the way of your goals for it slows life's advancement and, in this instance, repair. I feel that gives me enough incentive to do this. I can feel your power Twilight Sparkle and I can tell you are very capable. Before I go however, I feel you should know that we will meet again and hopefully we'll both be prepared for it, seeing how neither of us were prepared for this little encounter."

Twilight tried to say something but didn't get the chance. As energy gathering at Void's horn had begun to expand and she was blinded by the white light. She started feeling the same headache, blurred vision, and ear ringing that she had felt earlier. Within moments, she found herself lying on the ground in front of Carousel Boutique, alone. The color that had earlier been drained from the scenery seemed to have return to its prior state. Twilight could once again hear the sound of ponies, moving about.