Nerdy and I had just gone back through the portal before present/past me had even arrived at the castle. We were about to head to his place to plant the M.M.D.M. when I had an interesting idea.

"I just had an interesting idea!" I declared. The idea I had would help us a lot. "This idea will help us a lot!" The idea I had would solve a lot of our problems. "This idea will solve a lot of our problems!" I suddenly had a flashback to certain dreams Luna had given me about Rainbow. "Buck you, brain!"

"Uh..." Said Nerdy. It's not really 'saying' though, is it? The word in written form describes the sound, but in speech it isn't a word you would 'say' unless it were to be used out of context. I like bananas. Why am I a dumbass?

"You go and plant the M.M.D.M., I'm gonna wait here and follow the crown. I probably won't be able to take it without causing a paradox, but I can still find out who took it." Nerdy nodded.

"Okay. Meet me back at my place when you're done, I have an idea for a weapon that should help you." What kind of weapons would Primotaurs have? I don't really like using weapons, I'm more of a bare-hoof and magic guy.

"What is it?" Nerdy swung his bad off of his shoulders and began rummaging through it.

"You can't use your magic or your Arcane Circles here," he pulled out a rectangular, black box, "so your attacks won't be nearly as strong."

"I can still use Circles a little," I corrected, "I'm just limited to small, weak ones."

"But the point is that you're not as strong here." He motioned to the black box. "This is called a stun-gun." He pressed some sort of button and jabbed it at- BUCKING DICKS IN TARTARUS! He jabbed it at my stomach region and lightning shot through my veins.

"What the buck, Nerdy?!" I shouted angrily. "Why?!" I suddenly felt a lot of pain in my teeth and realised I'd ground them into each other at full strength. Bucking Tartarus... I ran my tongue over them, trying to stop the pain.

"I wanna try to make a glove version of this so that every one of your punches will feel like that." That does sound very effective... I sighed.

"It sounds cool, but it's a bit much, isn't it? I already took Gilda out once with a single, if small and weak, KC Punch." Nerdy got a serious look in his eyes.

"No you didn't, trust me." What?

"Then why was everyone saying that I-?"

"The only reason the fight ended was because Filch was coming. If he hadn't interrupted, Gilda would've annihilated you." I waved a hand at him dismissively.

"Pfft, I doubt it. I've beaten gods, demons and sociopaths tougher than her."

"The attack that hit you off guard was was a normal punch from her." There was an awkward silence.

"Well then, thunder-gloves it is. I'll meet you back at your place, but we've gotta stay somewhere different overnight or we'll meet ourselves and then I'll have to stop another paradox."

"We can stay in my shed, I don't go in there today or tomorrow."

"Okay." He reached into his pocket and pulled out a key before tossing it to me.

"Just let yourself in and go into the back garden, you'll see it." I nodded.

"I'll see you later." We turned away from each other and walked away. I climbed into some nearby bushes to wait for the crown to come through the portal. It should just be a matter of time now...

Some time later, Primotaur Fluttershy stood just outside of the portal, trying to give out posters. That's weird... If this universe is as parallel as it should be, she should be friends with Primotaur Pinkie. Why doesn't she get her to help? She's great at stuff like that... Suddenly, the crown flew through the portal and smacked Fluttershy in the head. Here we go...

I began following Fluttershy as she took it into the school.

My quest to follow the crown ended when Primotaur Luna locking it in some kind of storage room with a single door that connected to the outside. This makes it easy, all I have to do is wait until someone breaks into this door. A few minutes passed. I wonder how long-? I suddenly noticed a strange noise, somewhat similar to a hairdryer. What the buck's that-? Suddenly, a cuboid object was thrown next to the door from somewhere above. I noticed a shape on the object. Wait, that's a rune! I barely had a moment to brace myself when the runed object exploded, covering the area around the door in thick, black smoke.

I stood up, coughing and spluttering, just in time to see what had been making the noise and who had thrown the runed object.

An armoured Primotaur was hovering not far above with what looked like jets in its feet and back. It landed and I got a better look at it. The armour covering it didn't look like any armour I'd ever seen before; it looked more like blocks of crystal coloured the darkest purple I'd ever seen. As the jets turned off, they seemed to morph into the armour while remaining solid. The armour covered their entire body, leaving no spaces to be seen. On their face, their were four small, red circles around where their eyes should have been.

The purple Primotaur began walking towards the crater of a door. If they used a rune, that means they have some kind of magic! This changes everything, I need to intervene right now. If they already have magic that dangerous, then getting their hooves- Hands- Whatever on the crown, this world will be in terrible danger. I should be able to stop them without causing a paradox. Even if I somehow still do, I can just stabilise it like with the Zecora incident. I ran towards the stranger who stopped moving at the sound of my footsteps. They turned to face me.

"Oh," they said, in a distorted voice, "it's you." They sounded almost... Bored. "I suppose this is the first time you meet me, is it?

"Who the buck are you and why are you after the crown?!" I demanded.

"The crown will be returned before your three day limit in this world. I recommend that you continue with your plan to remove Sunset's forces before Twilight attempts to stop her. By the time it's important, the crown will already be returned."

"And why the buck should I trust you?!" The stranger sighed.

"Very well. If you really want to fight me, I'll let you have the opening attack."

"That's fine with me!" I charged towards them. I'll need to make a hole in that armour before I can do anything right now. A medium strength KC Punch should be enough. I summoned a Kinetic Circle around my right fist and charged it up. I quickly reached them and unleashed my KC Punch straight into their chest.

My fist slammed into their chest, but the stranger wasn't even knocked back slightly. It was as if I hadn't done anything to them at all. Myself, however, was a different story: All of the bones in my hand shattered, my forearm fractured and my elbow was torn from its socket. It was the hardest I'd ever screamed.

The stranger prepared their counter-attack; a soft sweep of their arm as if they were brushing me away. I didn't fall for it and put all of my focus into the strongest Shield Circle I could make. So much strength, in fact, that it might have been strong enough to block a beam attack from Nightmare.

It wasn't enough.

The stranger's arm shattered the Shield Circle as if it was nothing and then hit me in the chest. Every rib of mine snapped and ricocheted through me, slicing me up inside as I flew backwards about ten meters. I put the last bit of control over my body that I had trying to land upright, but I just ended up twisting both of my ankles and scraping plenty of skin onto the asphalt. At the very least, I stopped my head from slamming onto the ground. I'd never been through so pain in any memory I had.

As I lay there in agony, barely able to think straight, the stranger walked over to me in a calm way.

"You should have enough strength to get back to the portal. You can heal yourself with the help of Vesper when you're back through and then go to meet up with that Human friend of yours." The stranger then casually walked over to the crown, took it and walked back to me. I was unable to do anything more than watch and gasp in constant pain. "Like I said, I'll return it when I'm done." The stranger disappeared in a weird flash of light, leaving me to black out.

Author's Notes:

I'm back to writing!

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Who is this mysterious stranger?
How are they so powerful?
How do they know so much?
What do they want with the crown?
Find out all of this and more the exact same way you found out everything else so far!

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I'll do a drawing of the Amethyst Stranger at some point later on. Humans are hard enough to draw normally, so the AS will be ridiculously hard for me.