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The One With The Heart

by Spooky Ghost

Chapter 14: Second Time In Space

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As Daniel sat down in the living room and looked back at the door that lead to the pocket dimension he felt relieved knowing that not only do they have a place to go if they get found out and it turned out bad, but also a place that his sister might be able to sleep peacefully and he won't have to worry about Luna entering her dreams.

After a while of resting he got up and headed to the lab. He remembered that Thag could not get into his lab and he wanted him to have a back up safe place incase he was attacked by...anything.

"First. Have a talk with Alpha about the construction and concealment of a lab door and secondly, when Annabelle is feeling better find out where the school is and apply her for it." When he arrived he saw Alpha was next to the generators that were being built and was going over some schematics and the other robots were standing close to Alpha like they were waiting on instructions. Daniel walked over to Alpha who turned to face him when he was close to him.

"Hello Boss." The schematics disappeared.

"Hi Alpha, I was wondering, how about we make a door for Thag and his wolfs. It would be used incase they are attacked and need a safe place to stay. It also needs to be quite large and we need some way of concealing it. Also is there something wrong with the generators?"

"No. But there is another problem, I am just about to give these bot the command to start the construction again but I am unsure as of now how the door for you friend Thag will work. I have a few ideas. We can make a holographic projector to hide what it looks like after it is constructed or we could make doors that are similar to blast doors that will blend in with the rocks or dirt when it is finished. I have been running some scans and i have discovered a mountain that is not to far from here, we can construct the entrance there, what do you think?" Daniel took a moment to think about this.

"Well that is quite far, and I do want to expand this lab definitely but the larger it is, the odds are we might have a bigger chance of getting caught. As for the door...I would prefer it if the doors were disguised. It might take more time to make but it would be better." Daniel had a thought and if it works it just might be the answer he was looking for.

"Can I use my space control to expand the lab without actually expanding it? Like make everything bigger on the inside?"

"Yes you can." He decided to give it a try.

"I think I have a solution for our expansion Alpha, just hold on a minute." Daniel closed his eyes and focused, he was going to do what he had planned until he realised he did not know a good way of doing it. When he made the pocket dimension he could easily just think of it like finding the barriers of this reality and altering space outside it then connection that to a door in his house but to do something like this.

He had no idea how he would think about it but he then had a idea. If Alpha could construct a sphere around the lab then he could use that as a imagination barrier. It would be better than dirt as someone or something digging could accidently get in so that sounded like a good idea but then he remembered that a entrance was planning on being constructed for Thag and there likely would also be one for the diamond dogs. He wondered how he would tackle that problem if he went through with the 'build a sphere around the lab plan'.

Lastly, he also needed to take into consideration if shrinking space by such an amount would have a long term negative effect. He might accidently crush his lab if he tried and messed up and he didn't want anything bad to happen to them. Annabelle might end up going in the lab and could get killed by crushing if the space was too small when she entered and he can't revive the dead.

"It's at times like this that i wish i was mentally enhanced instead of physically." He continued to think about what he would do and he had another idea. He could just not do that plan at all. This lab is in his house which is in the very middle of the Everfree forest which none of the ponies go into. He did not know if he should leave things the way they are or change them so he opened his eyes again and looked over to Alpha. "I actually think it will take some time to think this over, it's a bit complicated."

"Very well, I'll continue the construction of the generators until you have a plan." A sound was heard from Alpha and the robots went back to work while Daniel headed back to his house to think things over. When he left the lab he decided he should go for a bath to wash up before Mother Nature arrived and it also might help him think.

After he entered the bathroom he found it to be quite large, at least larger than normal. When he switched on the light he heard a fan turn on and as he looked around it he saw it had black tiles on the floor and the walls were white and the sink was like a normal one but had purple tree patterns that seemed to be merged with the porcelain.

Needless to say he liked the look and continued what he originally was going to do. He went over to the bath and turned on the hot water and a little of the cold water too. He then sat down on the toilet seat which was down and found some towels at the side in a wooden basket, while he waited all he could hear was the sound of running water and the fan.

As he waited he decided to play around with his powers by picking up the soap from the side of the sink and changing it into different things but just as he was going to do that the feeling died off suddenly so he just put it back.

As he waited for the bath to finish he listened to the sounds around him. He didn't know what it was about it that he liked but just listening to the sound of the fan blowing along with the water flowing caused him to feel calm and collected, he felt like a wave of peacefulness was washing over him.

"I wonder if all that meditation stuff that I heard about before was true. If it is and can help one focus then perhaps I should try it. If it does work with me then perhaps Annabelle could do the same in the future to help her deal with things." He did just that. Closing his eyes and trying to let go of all his worries. As he did this he started to feel strange, in a way that can't be described.

He tried to open his eyes but couldn't and the darkness he was in started to light up and take shape. When it was done he saw himself hovering over...Equestria. And to his horror he saw King N standing over Canterlot...holding a bloodied and dead princess Celestia. As King N started to laugh the world broke like glass and his eyes shot open. He jumped in fright and almost fell over.

"You can't fall asleep, you don't want Luna to get into your dream, and even if she doesn't do this in daytime I can't leave the bath running or things will flood." Daniel then remembered what he is capable of doing and wondered why he was avoiding it if it was nothing to worry about. "Why am I worrying about it if it is no big deal?"

"It's because you still hold onto being human." Daniel felt his heart jump and so did the rest of his body when he heard that which caused him to hit his head off of the bathroom roof. While rubbing his head he looked over to see Mother Nature was standing there looking at him.

"Oh, Hi...I was eh....just going to get washed up before you arrived but it seems I was to late." She just giggled.

"No need to worry, I will wait in your living room until you're done." As Mother Nature started to walk away Daniel remembered what she said.

"What do you mean by still holding on?" She turned back and looked at him.

"You are still holding onto being human, so you try to avoid using your powers. It's not what you consider 'Normal'. Have you not wondered why you almost never use your powers even when there's nobody around?" Daniel was amazed by her words.

"I...eh..." She just shook her head.

"It's best not to deny who you are and what you can do, the sooner you accept that the better." She turned around to leave

"What's the difference?" She stopped and looked back at Daniel. "What's the difference between who I am and what I am? I was Daniel, I was a normal human, but now, look at what I can do. A human can't do these things so does that mean I'm no longer human?" She just looked at him.

"You are 'What' you are, but you chose 'Who' you are." She left the bathroom and Daniel locked it. He went back to sit down and waited for the bath to finish. After a few more moments it was done and Daniel put his cloths to the side and stepped in the bath and he sighed in relief. This might be the first time he had actually settled down and relaxed since he got to this world. He just laid down in the water and didn't do anything for a few minutes. After a while he started to wash up which did not take long and used some of the towels that were in the basket to dry himself off.

After he was done he put his cloths back on and headed to the living room where Mother Nature was waiting for him.

"Why is it you're visiting me again? If you don't mind." She looked at him with a smile.

"I want to teach you what it means to be a keeper of power. Well...I can't teach you what it means to be a high end entity but by the looks of things you should start out with normal things. Besides, now that you are merged with the Heart you need to learn this stuff." Daniel got confused by this.

"Hey, I did not choose to merge with it, it just happened." She just looked at him.

"Well me and all the others would like to train you as you are one of us Before I start I have a question to ask you."

"What?"

"Have you been into space before?" Daniel wondered why she would ask that.

"Yes, before I merged but have I since then, No, why?"

"Why? Just about every entity has. It's a common thing among us." Daniel remained quite as he was hoping they would not go into space. He remembers about the time he encountered Sombra and almost died so he stayed silent for a few seconds and hoped it would pass. Things were quite for a few seconds before she spoke again. "Let's go then."

"Where are we going?"

"Where do you think? Into space. If you are going to be one of us then you have to do something very common that we usually do. Plus it takes some getting use to, so the sooner, the better." Daniel was about to tell her he was fine with not doing it until he was teleported. When he felt his breathing stop he started to panic. The images of the time he almost died flashed in his head and she saw this.

"Calm down, you don't need to breath. Stop trying." He didn't stop so she did what she had to. "DANIEL!" He heard her shout and tried to calm down so he would not hurt her by accident. If he could even do that. After a few second he found it to be like he could constantly hold his breath, a few minutes passed by and he did not feel like he needed air which was somewhat freaking him out and Mother Nature was still looking at him. "What was that about?"

"Just...bad memories." He then realised something.

"How were you able to talk in space." He covered his mouth. "How can I hear myself talk."

"You're normally used to hearing sound carried within air, but with your enhanced hearing, you can hear the sounds of space. Normally you would not as the density of the particles wouldn't be high enough but with your enhancements you can hear lower particle sounds and understand the waves that are throughout space." Daniel stopped for a moment and listened and he could indeed hear something, he looked behind him and almost had a heart attack when he saw the planet Equestria and started shaking.

"What's wrong?"

"I-I am scared of heights." She seemed to chuckle at his statement but Daniel eventually got so focused on hearing the sound emitting from the planet he almost lost all of his fear. It was a sound he had never heard before and the best way he could describe it would be if wind was constantly blowing slowly and smoothly while a machine was making a soft humming noise.

"Sounds nice, doesn't it?" He turned to look at her.

"What is it?"

"Celestial white noise." Daniel was more knowing of the life cycle of stars when it came to astronomy, not something like this and while it was nice to listen to, all of this was starting to be a bit too much too quickly for Daniel to take but there was something he needed to know.

"How can I hear it like that, you mentioned I can understand the waves throughout space, how? I have never studied that before."

"When you merged with the heart it allowed you to translate just about anything, waves, words, languages and other things." Daniel remembered that some time ago he did recall he heard Fluttershy's bunny speak.

"I thought you didn't know a lot about the Heart."

"We don't, we only know what we have seen and been told from the previous heart bearer." Daniel decided not to question it.

"Can you take me back to my house now?"

"Alright." He soon found himself back in his house in a flash and he took a deep breath when he arrived back and then turned to look at Mother Nature but noticed the sky outside from the window behind her.

"It's getting late. I need to go and check on my sister."

"If your going to be busy then I guess I will go too." He turned around and looked at her.

"I will see you some other time then?"

"Yes, and we will be going into space more often, just a heads up. Also, Death will be here tonight to teach you something that you wanted." Daniel had one last thing to ask but them remembered that she probably used cosmic power to teleport him and not magic so he let it pass, he waved goodbye to Mother Nature as she disappeared.

Daniel sat down on his couch and thought about what had just happened, while it was scary that he was floating in space the sheer amazingness of it quickly overtook him. Just the thought of being able to fly amongst the stars, the nebulas and all the other things out there that have yet to be discovered made Daniel feel thrilled to the core, he then had a thought.

"If I can find out how, then I can take Annabelle with me, I am sure she would love it." It then hit him that he had to go and check on her. He rushed over to his pocket dimension and entered it. As he did he was greeted with a water balloon to the face.

As he whipped the water away he heard Annabelle laughing along with the rest of his kids. Looking to the source of the laughter he saw them all hiding behind one of the rocks that was besides the hot spring. As soon as she saw him looking her way she ducked and remained quiet, but he just walked over and spoke.

"I did hear you by the way." She slowly raised her head with a shy smile. "Feeling better?"

"Quite a bit better. After taking what you said into consideration. You're right. Mum and Dad wouldn't want me to be upset and i still have you, I could have died like they did. Or have been...all alone." Her cheery attitude dimmed slightly before it came back. "But that's in the past. We have already been here for a few weeks so there is still so much to see." He looked up to the sky and saw that it was the same way he had made it and it was actually a nice sight to behold but not as much as when he was actually in space. "When I start traveling out into space and see some great wonders, I will change the sky here to look as beautiful as I can make it. It's a real shame that I can't actual make them real. Perhaps in a few years when I know how to use my powers on a greater scale but for now this will have to do." He looked around and saw his kid Greg on top of a giant rock so he motioned for him to come down which he did quickly. "So, how has she been?"

"After you had a talk with her she laid on the rock for a while and them she...was just up and about. Wanting to have fun and play around, just like a normal kid." Daniel smiled when he heard that and looked over to see Annabelle chasing Freddy around the garden. He then turned back to Greg

"Thanks for watching her. Can you stay here a bit longer? I have something I need to do." Greg turned to look at the sky then at the flowers all over the fields.

"I won't mind, I actually like it here." Daniel smiled and left knowing his little sister was safe.

Daniel headed to the living room to wait on Death to arrive. In the mean while he turned on the TV and looked over the DVDs that were on the shelf, in a way he did not want to watch something but rather play a game so he made a note to make a computer not just for him but his sister too. He didn't make it right now as he did not want to take the chance of it distracting him while he was going to be training so he left it for later.

"We can start now if you want to." Daniel jumped in fright and turned around to see Death standing there, just looking at him.

"How long have you been there?"

"Not long. Anyway you accept my offer?" Daniel nodded his head.

"Yes, you said about a way of preventing death?" Daniel found that sentence somewhat ironic.

"Yes, I was. But first." Death raised a hand and his living room shifted and changed, when it was over with Daniel found himself standing in a misty graveyard. "Now that that's done, here is how it works. You can't bring back the dead, none of us entities can but there is a way that you can prevent it if certain conditions are met." Death raised his other hand and some of the mist changed shape. When it was done there was a ghostly looking figure of him.

"Just about everything has a spirit, a soul, if they die and go to the spirit world then there is nothing you can do to reverse it, however if one was to die of a injury and as long as either their brain or heart are still in one piece, they can be restored. If you were to blast a hole through something and destroy its heart then if you used your powers to heal it before it's brain shuts down and if you guide it's soul back to it's body it will remain alive."

At this the mist changed and the mist figure of Daniel got hit in the chest by a sword which went through his heart, he then saw another but more faded version of himself over the misty him on the ground. He then watched as his heart was remade and the faded misty version of him returned to within the other figure who got up like nothing had happened.

"What if both their brain and heart are destroyed?"

"Then there is nothing you can do as far as we know. When that has happened before, the spirit always left before the 2 can be repaired. Also it would be best if it was the heart of the one who you were trying to prevent from dying got destroyed, as a brain can be a real annoyance to repair or remake. So now that you know, let's start. First thing I need to teach you is how to see and hear the souls of the soon to be departed." With that his training started.

A few hours later Daniel completed his training, he now knew how to see and hear the souls of others and learned minor healing abilities. He could now fix cuts and bruises in a instant but things like a wound that went right through someone he could not as it took to long. He was now sitting down but was shaking a little as one time during the training when he was trying to heal up a minor wound from a generated lifeless body, he accidentally put too much power into it which caused the wound to over heal and the skin started to grow over the rest of the skin and it happened a lot. The result was ugly, he swore he would have nightmares for weeks.

"You did good Daniel."

"Thanks, when you meet up with the others will you tell them that I accept their offers? And if you don't mind...I would like to learn the different kinds of energies there is."

"You mean what Tilbul has offered to teach you?" Daniel nodded. "Certainly I'll let them know. Why don't you take it easy for a while? It will help calm your mind for your next training session."

"Actually I don't have anything to do right now so, perhaps I could start soon? I mean if they are not busy."

"I will go and ask now, Be right back." Death disappeared in a dark cloud and Daniel sat down on the couch wondering what to do. He then remembered that Tractus offered to teach him about space control and while he knew how to do it most of the time and in a large scale, he had to use his imagination to use it properly which is why he did not follow through with that idea for keeping the lab small.

But being able to expand it freely, he did not know if he should have imagined the lab in a infinitely small space or imagined that area around it as something like his Pocket dimension, so he thought that perhaps Tractus could teach him about it in ways that he just needs to think about it rather than imagine it. So with that in mind he waited for Death to return which was not long as he reappeared in a dark poof in front of him. "Tilbul will arrive tomorrow night, him and the others are busy."

"Ok then, bye." Death disappeared once again and Daniel was left alone. He started to think about what to do until sunrise which was a good few hours away.


Twilight and all of her friends besides Cosmos were gathered in the library as Twilight started her plan to help Cosmos like he had helped them before.

"Alright girls, I'm certain you are wondering why I called you here tonight?" Rainbow Dash hovered in front of her.

"Yeah, what gives Twilight? Why are we here anyway and why at this time of night?"

"It's about our friend Cosmos." They all looked at her like something was wrong.

"Why whatever do you mean Twilight?" Rarity asked her and Twilight started.

"Do you remember when you all were annoyed by Trixie?" They all nodded at her. "Well Cosmos told me that you wouldn't see me like you all did Trixie and he was right. However, during the conservation he said something to me, he said he knows how it feels to be seen as something different because of what he can do, at first I thought it was his strength and it still might be but as you all saw him when he didn't wear those clothes, he is not very muscular. I think that something is bothering him and I want to help him like he has helped us. Do any of you girls agree?" They all looked at each other.

"Of course we do, Cosmos is our friend and we never abandon a friend." Twilight was happy to hear that from Dash.

"Twilight darling, I do want to help him if something is bothering him, but is this not considered invasion of privacy, what if he does not want to talk about it or want it to be known?"

"We are not going to break into his house and try to find a solution or force him to speak. I called us here together so we could get together what we know of him so far and hopefully come to a conclusion as to what might be bothering him."

"Well now that you mention it, is it not wired that Strawberry has been seen being a little under the weather at times?" They all looked at Fluttershy when she said that.

"Well, duh, she is feeling under the weather, he told me so." They now all looked at Pinkie who was happily jumping in place.

"Think girls, what could be bothering him?"

"Well...He did get quite angry when Fluttershy got upset from Gilda and he more or less stood up to Nightmare Moon." Rainbow Dash mentioned

"Your right about that." She wrote that down on some paper

"He seems ta know a lot about friendship, too Twi. Consider'n the things he seems ta know." Twilight wrote what Applejack said.

"He has incredible strength." She wrote down what Pinkie said.

"Anything else?" She looked at her friends and heard Fluttershy speak next.

"He is quite forgiving. Remember those Timberwolfs?" Twilight wrote it down.

"Well for what we have gathered he knows about friendship quite a bit so he likely has had friends before us. He got angry and stood up against Gilda for Fluttershy and stood up to Nightmare Moon, so he seems to be protective of his friends and tries to deal with issues quickly, he is vey forgiving and lastly is his strength." Twilight stopped and though for a moment before she heard Rainbow speak.

"You don't think that his previous friends saw him as a monster when they found out how strong he was, do you?"

"That might be somewhat true but why is he so protective? I mean, sure we would all help and keep each other safe but the way he dealt with Gilda."

"Twilight dear, you don't think his previous friend got...killed do you?" They all looked at Rarity when she said that.

"That might be possible Rarity or they could have been bullied when they were young and he stood up for them." Twilight was in thought for a few seconds before she spoke. "Perhaps his friends did see him as a monster but eventually apologised to him and he forgave them, that explains his forgiveness. So his colthood friends who he stood up for in school must have found out about how strong he was and saw him as a monster but later said they were sorry."

"We don't hav'a lot'a go on Twi." She looked over to Applejack and she sighed.

"Your right, we don't. But we have a good assumption, perhaps we should call this meeting again in a few weeks? Hopefully we can find out more. I just want to help him." Applejack put her hoof on her back.

"After what we hav'a heard here Twi, I think we all do." They left the library and went back home and Twilight went to bed.


Luna was currently doing her duties of watching over the dreams of others and she had just finished banishing another nightmare from a dream that one of her subjects were getting terrified from. She had been here for a good while now and she had not seen the dream of the strange creature that she had seen almost every night and was starting to wonder if something went wrong but then remembered what she saw in one of the previous dreams.

"There is no need to worry, that creature Daniel might be the shadow which means he was capable of taking on Nightma...me and if what Tia said is true, and she has not lied to me before, then he also took on two Ursas with what looked like no effort and one was a fully grown and angry mother." In a way Luna was both amazed and terrified of that because so far, if Daniel is the shadow then she has probably not seen what he can truly do, but this terror was somewhat brought to ease when she remembered how long he has been around. "If he is a threat he would likely have tried to do something bad by now, but so far, nothing, the only things he has done is attacked me when I was Nightmare Moon and the ursas when they arrived in ponyville, that is if he is the shadow. Both of these situations were protecting others so perhaps he is not a threat."

Still Luna could not help but feel a bit upset, wondering why he was hiding and the reason for it. Does he think of ponies as monsters and is scared of them. "Sure me and my sister know that our subjects are not perfect, no pony is. But does he truly think of us as bad? And why would he be scared of us?" She was then hit with a thought. "Perhaps he is hiding so he does not scare us. Considering what he can do that I have seen so far. While others thought he was struggling against the Ursa's, my sister saw he was putting no effort into his attacks."

She started to wonder if that is why he killed himself in his dream, so he could get away from her. She was then hit with another realisation that made her chest hurt.

"Could he be hiding because of me? A thousand years ago when I first encountered the shadow, he didn't outright attack me. He seemed to be trying to get me to leave, but I attacked him." She remembered about the other one just like him only smaller. "He must have thought I was a threat to the younger one and...I...attacked him. The reason he fears ponies is because of me." Luna felt like she was about to start crying before she got a look of determination. "No, I will make things right again."


It was morning time now and Daniel had decided to make a PC using his reality powers. He managed to make a perfect copy of the one he had back home with all the games he downloaded. He then sat down and started to read the original lord of the rings book, he got so into it that he forgot it was daytime and passed morning, he was snapped out of his reading by a familiar voice.

"Bro." He looked up from his book and saw Annabelle.

"Yes? What is it?" She sat down next to him.

"Who was that Skeleton you were talking to a while ago?" Daniel closed the book and placed it on the arm of the chair.

"That was Death. Remember Mother Nature? I am sure you met her before. Death is her best friend...funny considering they are total opposites." He ruffled her hair. "Nice to see you are recovering, I can finally stop beating myself up." He said as a little joke.

He looked at her arms and she looked very thin. She needed to eat something. "You should really eat and drink something, you've not had a proper meal for quite a while." They got up and went to the kitchen, as Daniel watched her she was climbing up and he saw she was going for the cookie jar, he just shook his head and giggled at this. He was not going to complain, if she does eat the cookies it would mean she has had something but he would like to see her have more healthier meals in the future. "Oh and Annabelle." She stopped and looked at him. "You should go for a bath, you have not had one in ages." She sighed.

"Fine." She got off the chair and was putting the cookies back. Daniel was thinking if he needed to do anything today before his training with Tilbul, he then remembered he needed to go and sign Annabelle up for school but he was not sure if she still wanted to so he asked her.

"Annabelle, do you still want to go to school?" She looked over at him.

"I...I...yes." She went into the bathroom and he heard the bath starting to run.

As he saw her run off, a though hit him. She needed to keep herself safe and she would grow up and then have her own life away from him. But with someone out to get him them she might be a prime target, so he wondered if he could give her some of his powers.

"Can I give her powers?"

"Not near to the extent that you have but yes you can." Daniel felt thrilled at this, he could give his sister the power to fly and not need to breath which would mean he could take her into space and show her what he saw. But then he remembered he had no clue how to do that without a side effect that could be small but also large so he would leave it until he knew how to and would be sure to ask her if she wanted to have those powers and not just give her them against her will.

Daniel got up and decided to go and check on his lab and see if there was any improvements as he waited for Annabelle to finish cleaning herself. He walked up the stairs to the door to the lab and opened it to find that nothing had actually changed much. He saw his robot kids over with the other bots, helping build the generator all the while talking and laughing, he smiled at that, seeing them happy. That is one of the reasons he did not just make generators appear, his robots kids wanted to try and build it and he could just not say no to their request so that's why he did not make them himself.

He saw that the bronze one, Barry. Was pranking Orion, the orange one. But got busted when Orion turned around to see Barry holding a nut and bolt that he removed from Orion who now looked angrily at him and picked up a screwdriver then started chasing Barry as he ran away.

"I'm going to switch your head and your butt around when I get you!" Orion shouted.

"We don't have butts!" Barry shouted back.

"Then I will put your eye inside you so you can watch me beat the crap out of you!" Barry ran and hid behind Daniel.

"Daddy, Help, he's gone nuts." Daniel could not pass this up.

"How could he when you have his." Barry's eye went wide and Daniel laughed at the look he was giving him. "Ok. Barry." Daniel held out his hand and after a few seconds Barry put the nut and screw in it. "Don't you have something to say to him?" Barry looked over at Orion.

"Sorry." Orion seemed to calm down at his apology.

"Orion, come here." Orion went up to Daniel who held out his hand and Orion gave him the screw driver. Daniel started looking and it didn't take him long to find where the nut and bolt fitted so he put them back into place.

"Thanks daddy." Daniel handed the screwdriver back to Orion who took it and went back to work on the generator.

Daniel found Alpha in the centre of the lab the avatar of him looked like he was thinking, Daniel walked up to him to tell him he might have a answer soon enough to that little issue.

"Hey Alpha." He turned to look at him.

"Hello again Boss. Have you got a solution to the problem yet?"

"Not yet Alpha. In fact, I have something to ask you." Daniel decided he should try to do something he had planned to for a good while.

"What might that be?"

"Can you removed the radiation within me?" A small port opened up on Alpha and a red beam started to go around him for a few seconds before it stopped.

"I think I can, but iy will be quite a long time until I know, longer to make what is needed for it to be done. However I must ask. Why do you want it removed, it breaks down all but the most powerful of magic so would you not be better off with it?"

"I am trying to find out how I can add and remove it at will, remove it to fit in and add it if I am in a fight."

"I understand." They both turned to look at the construction progress of the generators. "Why don't you make them? You can just make generators right here and now."

"I know but my kids are having fun building them and when it's done they will feel like they did something for the lab and I don't want to disappoint them. Besides in the mean time we can go over what needs to be done multiple times so when the time comes they will be done with ease."

"True." Daniel was going to head to ponyville for a walk about as there was nothing to do.

"I will be back soon. Later Alpha." He said walking to the door.

"Until next time."

When Daniel left the lab he could hear Annabelle washing herself as he passed by the bathroom door on his way out but he then had a thought. "It's only me and Annabelle that can open the pocket dimension door and Greg was in...Oh crap!" He ran off to the door which lead there and opened it but he could not see Greg. "Greg?"

"What is it daddy?" He turned around to find Greg standing behind him.

"Oh...you're out."

"Yup, I got out the same time auntie Annabelle did."

"Well I am glad to know you are not trapped in there." He said patting Greg on the head which made him chuckle. "Tell Annabelle I will be back soon."

"Ok Dad." Greg went off to do whatever it is he liked to do and Daniel turned into his pony form without the clothes and headed to ponyville after he put on the fake mark. As he entered his ponyville house and was about to exit the door into ponyville he took a look around the house and found things to be quite dusty.

"I should clean this place up, just in case I have someone visiting sometime." He opened the door and stepped outside. When he was outside he stopped for a moment and wondered what he was doing until he remembered about the school and walked towards it. He had learned the location of it one time when he had to take Applebloom there when he worked on Applejacks farm. When he arrived at the school he decided to wait for a while until he heard a bell and all of the foals ran out of the door and there was a earth pony in front of them.

"-and remember class, don't forget to do your homework." They all groaned in disgust before leaving. If Daniel remembered correctly then this was Miss Cheerilee who was the teacher so he waited until the kids went home and then decided to speak.

"Excuse me are you Miss Cheerilee?" She turned to look at him.

"Yes I am, how can I help you?"

"I was wondering if it would be ok if my little sister Strawberry attends this school."

"Certainly, will I be expecting to see her tomorrow?"

"Perhaps not, she is still feeling a little upset over something but she seems to be recovering." While he does like to see her happy again, if she started doing a lot in such a small time he feared it might cause a breakedown. Just because she can smile and play again does not mean her trauma of being one of the last two of her kind is just gone.

"I understand, you want to wait until she is feeling better before she attends and you can." Daniel wanted to make sure that the school in this world was similar to his.

"When does school start and end?"

"It starts at 9 and ends at 3." It was similar and Daniel was thankful he would not need to learn anything new.

"Thanks for your time Miss Cheerilee, I will bring her when she has recovered some more."

"You're welcome Mister...?"

"Cosmos." Her eyes went wide for a moment.

"Wait, the Cosmos who stood up to Nightmare Moon?"

Yes, why?"

"Sorry, I was just curious." Daniel decided to leave now.

"Ok, well bye." He was actually happy with how easy things were done in this world. What would have probably taken about two hours and some paperwork back on Earth was only a quick talk here. Daniel now had no idea what to do and just decided to take a stroll around ponyville for a while.

He soon found the park and decided to lay down on one of the benches. While he was there his mind started to wonder about what had happened last night, about how he ended up in space above equestria to the signs of his sister getting better to when he asked Alpha about removing his radiation, everything seemed to be going smoothly but then a thought came to his mind.

"I am a unicorn, unicorns are supposed to be able to do magic. Crap. I need to remove the radiation within me before I get asked to show my magic. If they find out I can't then they will likely also figure out that magic can't effect me, which would be bad considering that everything in this world runs off of it." The importance of radiation removal went higher on his list and he knew it would just keep rising unless something was done. While thinking of that he also had another thought about going to visit a place like Canterlot with Annabelle. It would get them both away and hopefully cheer her up more.

"Yeah. A visit to someplace nice. I don't always need to worry about 5 or 7 things at once. A simple trip to calm down and clear our thoughts would probably work wonders."

He saw that there were Pegasi setting up clouds in the sky and wondered why they were doing that. A few seconds later it started raining and Daniel sighed. He got up and was about to head back to his house when he heard Twilight's voice.

"Applejack! Rarity!" He looked to the side to see Applejack and Rarity running for Twilight's library and Twilight then saw him. "Cosmos!" He was about to run to Twilights library until he remembered that the fake tattoo he put over his mark would go away if it came into contact with water after it dried and with him already wet from the rain he did not want to take the chance of being seen so he ran back to his house.

When he was back he locked the door and went into the basement and looked at his mark, some parts were clearly visible and some becoming more so as the water from the rain washed the fake mark away so he shook himself which got most of the water off and turned back into a human with his clothes on. While his clothes were dry, he wasn't so he tried something new. He imagined to increase his body temperature and he heard sizzling and then some steam started coming off him. He turned his body temperature back after a few seconds and besides feeling a little woozy like the way you do after a bath that's very hot, he felt alright.

He walked into the living room expecting to see Annabelle but she was not there, he took a look outside and saw that it was almost night time so he headed towards her room and put his ear against the door but heard nothing, he was starting to get a little worried so he headed to the pocket dimension and found her sleeping peacefully on the tree bed and cuddling Greg like a teddy bear. When Daniel had made this bed for her he forgot pillows and covers but then remembered that Annabelle took the ones he made for her and put them in her room so he quickly made his way out and got the pillow and covers from her room then returned, he lifted her head up and placed the pillow under it before he laid her head back on it and then put the cotton covers over her.

He sat down for a moment and looked around at the pocket dimension he had made, this was actually the first time he stopped to look at it to take in the sights of the full thing. If one was to just have entered from the door they would see a load of fruit trees to the left that expanded into a forest that looks like one from a fantasy movie. To the right is where the waterfall was, it fell into a reasonably large hole full of water that had smooth stones in a circle around it and the water was giving off steam. It flowed from that hole down a stream and into circler pool that was the hot spring and was surrounded by smooth rocky benches.

Daniel went over to it he found it to be the perfect temperature for a hot spring, in a way it looked, it could best be described as a small stone age spa. Now he decided to look straight on and ahead was a lake. The water was clear as crystal with the sun and stars reflecting off of it beautifully and around the edges there was flowers of all kinds blooming. "It's still not fully complete." he looked to the sky. "I want to make it so this place turns night and day without me having to do it and I want to make the night sky of this place as beautiful as I can for Annabelle." Daniel remembered he was going to get some training from Tilbul tonight in the different kinds of energies there was, so he got up and headed back to his house and waited in the living room.

He did not have to wait long as Tilbul appeared in a flash of lighting, while Daniel was happy to meet an entity again he was still a little freaked out by how Tilbul's head was scales and one eye ball was in each disk.

"Nice to meet you again Daniel." He heard him say.

"You too Tilbul."

"I take it you want to cut the small talk and go right to training?"

"If you would not mind, I would appreciate it." Tilbul looked at him and his eyes started glowing, next the scales on his head seemed to tip to one side quite instantly.

"You are stressing yourself, your mind is out of balance."

"What do you mean?"

"If you keep going you might have a mental breakdown."

"I will worry about myself when I have fulfilled my promises to Brago and Thag, then I will settle down." Daniel knew he had plenty of time until he had to deal with the sphere that destroyed his home. A few seconds passed and Tilbul was still looking at him until he spoke.

"It will take more than just settling down. You have bottled so much up and you are still keeping it bottled up. But if you want to deal with it your way, then I will let you. Now back to the training. First off, what do you know about cosmic energies?" With that Daniel's training on cosmic energies started.


In a house somewhere in Equestria a mare had finally finished her next book. She was not sure how to explain her adventure in the old castle of the two sisters a few weeks ago, but with clear detail and a picture of the creature at the back of the book she was sure that others would not think that this was made up.

"I will get this published soon. Now to start planning where I will go next." She thought still sitting down at her desk, she then looked over to her book that she planned to publish soon and held it. "But I am never going to forget this encounter, I hope I get to see that creature again." She yawned. "I can plan my next adventure tomorrow." She said as she turned off her lights and went to her bed, the moonlight shined through the window on to the book making the title and picture visible.

Daring Do and the New Species. With the picture being Daring Do in a ruined castle looking at a strange floating pink cat like creature in front of her.


Somewhere in another universe a spaceship was hovering in the vast depths of space. Within the ship a species that looks like giant lizards were working away on the different sections of the ship. One of them was running down the hall of one of the sections towards the bridge and when it entered the bridge it stopped. It started to walked up a set of stairs slowly and fearfully and it bowed when it got to the top.

"Your greatness." As it bowed all the others stopped and watched in fear as a giant dark figure that was on it's throne and concealed in the shadows sat. It's eyes opened and looked down at the one who was bowing to him.

"Trigo. What reason do you have for disturbing me?" It's voice was deep and booming and also dark. It's red eyes narrowed to the lizard in front of it.

"I-I hate to say this but...we have found no trace of the heart bearer." All the others backed away.

"I gave you one job. One job, and yet you still failed me. Has anything else been discovered?" They seemed to all be shocked at the figures sudden calmness

"Yes, my assistant Trog scanned around after that planet was consumed and found that there was a trace of magic."

"Get Trog here for me now."

"Already here." Trigo said pointing to the bottom of the steps and the dark figure eyed him.

"Trog. Congratulation you have been promoted." They all looked surprised.

"T-to what station my grace?" The figure pointed at Trigo.

"To his station." They all looked surprised at this. "Trigo, you let the heart bearer get away and considering he or she can go toe to toe with me. that means he or she could ruin all of my plans, I can't have failures like you." With that a beam shot out from the figures finger and hit Trigo on the chest, after a while Trigo screamed in ear bleeding pain before he exploded. "See that Trog, that's what happens to those who fail me. If you value your life, you won't."

Just then something popped up on the computer and one of the lizards spoke.

"Sir, Extermination team Omega have returned and we are being hailed."

"On screen." The screen popped up to show a humanoid like grey suite and there was some medals across it. "Captain Jerik, was the mission completed?"

"Yes sir, that planet is now yours and...we have something you might be happy to have."

"What do you mean?" At this a package was held up to the screen.

"I think you will be happy with this." They all looked towards the dark figure.

"Bring it to me and we will see if what you say is true." A few minutes later Jerik arrived on the bridge and waited at the bottom of the steps. "You may step forward." He started to walk up the steps and stopped before the figure.

"Your mightiness King N, I have a package for you." Jerik held out the box to which King N took it and opened it. The result was a light shinning from inside the box, everyone could see King N's eyes go wide with surprise as he removed the object from the box. It was a sphere with four circles that got smaller the further in they got into the center and the colors from the outside to the center were yellow, then orange, then blue and lastly black. There seemed to be a little bit of color that sometimes moved to the next circle up so sometimes small yellow bubble like spheres would start to float away from it but would disappear shortly afterwards. The orange would sometimes have smaller spheres that go into the yellow before disappearing and it was the same for the other colors. King N looked back at Jerik.

"Jerik, I am promoting you to general." Jerik was shocked by this.

"M-my dear King N, whatever for?" Everyone could see a smile appear on King N's face even when he was still within the shadows.

"Do you know what this is?" Jerik shook his head. "This is a part of the first heart." King N closed his hand around it. "Now, get ready, I have recieved word that there was a trace of magic when the world of the heart bearer was absorbed, so I want all scouts and scanners out there to find any world with magic on it. Few or lots, Small or large, it doesn't matter!" They all quickly got back to work as King N held the piece of the first heart in his hand. "I will find you heart bearer, and when I do I can finally get what is mine."

Author's Notes:

Author: Bonus points to people who know what inspired me to make Daniel's shadow form and the dark sphere that destroyed earth. I will give you a hint. its from a game, a computer game. not a book, movie or comic.

Also, I am needing a bit of help with the names of Daniel's robot kids, anyone have any ideas? So far there is.

Grey-Greg
Orange-Orion
Red-Robert
Bronze-Barry

I am still missing 8 more, 2 male ones and 6 female ones.

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