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The One With The Heart

by Spooky Ghost

Chapter 15: Second Thoughts

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Daniel's training with Tilbul went on for several hours. He had difficulty controlling the amount of cosmic energy that he wielded and as a result it took him several dozen tries to get the amount of energy just right then he had to learn about the three main types that there was which were negative, neutral and positive and he barely got it down. After it was all done Daniel felt dizzy and almost collapsed on the floor.

"Understanding and controlling these different kinds of energies is not easy, is it?" Daniel's vision was starting to become blurry.

"No...no it isn't." Daniel said laid down on the couch, still tired from the training and Tilbul was still watching him.

"You should settle down for a while, spend some more time with your sister, it will do the both of you some good." Daniel looked to Tilbul and thought about it. It was true that he did make a promise to Brago that he would help protect his subjects if the ponies attacked like they did before. But while Daniel was sure that they had changed and they would not do that now, the dogs seemed to think otherwise.

While he wanted to learn as much as he could and as fast as he could he realized that there was no need to rush his training as he had more than enough time to train. He also thought that it might be better if the generators took a while longer as it could improve the trust and understanding between both the Diamond dogs and Timberwolves so with those things in mind Daniel agreed with Tilbul.

"I guess I could take some time off, considering the condition my sister is in it might be best if I spend more time with her." Daniel looked outside and realised it was almost morning which means Annabelle would be waking up soon so he picked himself up off of where he was sitting. "I should get going, I will also take some time off just like you said." It was a shame that Tilbul had scales for a head as Daniel couldn't tell if he was smiling but he was sure he was.

"Thank You for listening to my advice Daniel. I will take my leave, until we meet again, farewell." He then disappeared in a flash. As Daniel looked at the spot where Tilbul disappeared from he decided that sometime in the near future he should spend more time with the entities as the only time he has spent with them so far is in training and it just did not feel right for Daniel, so he decided he would see if he could spend some more time with them in the future.

Daniel headed to the Pocket dimension door and opened it to find Annabelle sleeping but he was certain that she would wake up soon so he headed to the side and sat on a rock then waited for her to wake up. As Daniel leaned against the rock he felt a small jab in the pockets of his jeans so he reached in and pulled out the necklace that death gave him when he first met them all in the Timberwolf citadel and his phone.

"I've had this in my pocket the whole time? Does it still work?" He tried to turn it on but it would not turn on so unsure as to what to do thanks to not have the charger for it. He then got an idea of something to try. "I might not need a charger." Daniel got ready to charge it up himself, so he put his finger on the screen and imagined electricity going into it to power it up and then he willed it to happen. The result was the phone lighting up and it also rapidly went up to 100% power. When that was done Daniel removed his finger from the screen and felt a sting on it. When he looked at it he saw that it was slightly burned but he didn't mind it.

He put in the pass code and unlocked his phone then when he was on the main screen he went into music and was happy to see all of his songs were still there. He snapped his fingers and earphones appeared to which he then plugged in and set his songs to shuffle. There was a few times that he wanted to sing along with the songs that were playing and he almost did but he controlled himself as he knew he would disturb Annabelle's sleep.

It was after the 5th song that Annabelle finally woke up and Daniel turned off his phone before taking off his earphones. He sat on the rock and waited for her to fully wake up and while he did he put his phone back into his pocket.

After about a minute or two, Annabelle got off of the tree bed still rubbing her eyes. When she finished she looked around and stopped when she saw Daniel sitting on a rock looking at her. "Good Morning."

"Morning Bro." He walked over to her.

"How are you feeling?" She just looked at him with a smile.

"Great. So are we going to see our friends today?" As Daniel continued to look at her he had a feeling that the time he decided to take off would hopefully help her and him get to know the others more. That is if he spends more time with her and them and less time in the lab or in ponyville.

"Hey Annabelle, I decided to take some time off of...well just about everything I do." She tilted her head a little.

"Why would you do that? I thought you cared about the Diamond dogs, Timberwolves and the lab." He sat down in front of her and hugged her.

"I do. But I also care about you, if you forgot." He broke the hug after he said that and Daniel just stood there, he did not know what he should say or do so he just said the first thing that came to mind.

"So let's go and see our friends." When Daniel said that he got a good look at the colour of her skin and she was getting some color back in her and was no longer as white as a ghost. He remembered when he was young he used to spend a lot of time in his room reading and watching videos which seemed to make him the same way but after he started going outside again he lost it and got some colour back in him. So he decided that it would probably be best for Annabelle to do the same. "Let's go." She took off ahead of him.

"I'll get changed." She shot out of the pocket dimension and towards her room to get changed. Greg jumped down from the rock and walked towards Daniel.

"She sure is hyper today." He looked at Greg's eye and he could see he was happy for Annabelle.

"It is nice to see she is recovering. I was worried about her." Daniel looked back at the door after Annabelle shut it then back at Greg. "Let's go." With that he pointed towards the door and they both walked out of the dimension. When he and Greg got out, Greg took off to the lab and Daniel headed to the living room to wait for Annabelle.

As he entered the living room he heard what sounded like books being moved and when he got sight of the source of the sound he saw that it was two of his robot kids, one blue and one gold. He smiled when he saw that his kids were curious about this world and were looking over the books that he copied from Twilights library some time ago. The blue one talked to the gold one and by the sound of the voice she was female.

"According to this, apparently the princess of this world can move the sun." The gold one turned to her.

"It would take a lot of power to do that." He decided to step in so he cleared his throat which made them jump in surprise. "Oh, Hi Daddy."

When Daniel was giving them names and sprayed them different colours he wanted the first letter of the colour to match the first letter of a name but these two were giving different kinds of names related to the colours he sprayed them with.

"Morning Selene, Freddy." He said looking at the blue and then at the gold one. "Interested in this world, are you?"

"It's our home, should we not know about our home?" Selene asked him but he just kneeled down and hugged her and she hugged back and Freddy soon joined.

"Nothing is wrong with it, but you can't go outside the house just yet, who knows what kind of attention you would draw if you did." They both gave a 'Aww' in disappointment. "Hey, cheer up. When the generators are done all that is left is for different function bots to be made and then tunnels constructed. When that is done you can all go and visit the Timberwolves home or the Diamond dogs." This seemed to cheer them up but then they both looked at each other and the bottom half of their eyes shutters raised which Daniel knew was their way of smiling.

"Then we will finish them as soon as we can." Selene and Freddy both ran off to the lab and Daniel went over to sit on the couch and wait for Annabelle. It took a few more minutes for Annabelle to come down and when she did she was wearing her jeans, hoodie and shoes.

"Hi Annabelle. Ready to go?" She looked out the window for a few seconds before she looked back at him.

"Can we just walk around the woods?" Daniel did not know what to say, on one hand there might still be some dangerous creatures that he doesn't know about. Not only to him but his sister too, but he wanted to spend some more time with her and try to make her new life here more enjoyable. With the Timberwolves now being their friends she would be safer but not completely safe in this forest. He thought about if for a few more minutes until he decided that he might as well do it to make her happy.

"Ok, but don't go too far from me." She nodded and ran over to the door. Daniel got up off of the couch and unlocked the door then let his sister step outside, he then locked the door and both of them went for a walk in the everfree.

As they continued to walk through the everfree Daniel noticed that the forest seemed different, not just because he could tell it was autumn by the way the leaves were changing and falling, but the forest seemed friendlier. It was brighter than the other times he had been in this forest as sunlight shined down from the canopy and Daniel also felt like it was warmer than usual but he ignored that while he kept close to Annabelle.

After a few more minutes of walking Daniel and Annabelle arrived at a lake and when Annabelle saw it she turned and ran towards it. She sat down on the side of it and Daniel decided to try and get her to eat something as she hadn't eaten today so he sat down beside her and asked her.

"Annabelle, do you want anything to eat?" She looked at him with a smile.

"Waffles Please." He snapped his fingers and made a plate of 5 waffles appear and handed it to her.

"Here I made sure to add flavor to them." She took them and placed them on her lap. To took one and started to munch on it. After she finished one she looked at him and asked a question.

"How long will you take off? What about our friends?" She asked and she finished another waffle

"A few days, weeks perhaps and don't worry about our friends, they'll be fine." She looked at him and looked like she was about to say something.

"So what are your plans? How are we going to tell our friends who we really are?" Daniel though for a moment.

"Well we will wait a little longer then we will tell them. But I am worried that Twilight won't be able to contain herself and tell Celestia. I mean, we are supposed to be just myths in this world." She finished another waffle.

"What about Applejack? She is honesty. Why not tell her and then tell her to promise not to tell anyone?" Daniel told her that she was the element of 'Honesty' and would probably tell if she was asked. Telling her might bother her and when the others see that, it could be a dead give away.?

Daniel heard some movement that was close to them and by the sounds of it the creature was quite large so he snapped his fingers which altered space and the light around them, making them invisible. As he watched he saw that some bushes were shaking and after a few moments he saw that it was Thag the Timberwolf king who was walking somewhere with about 10 other wolves with him and scar was among them. He made them both visible again and called out to him. "Hey Thag." The timberwolf king turned to him.

"Daniel." He saw Daniel's sister beside him. "Annabelle. What are you two doing here?" He started to walk up to them after he asked that .

"I am here taking my sister out and about, what about you?"

"I am heading to see a old friend. Would you like to meet him?" Daniel looked back at Annabelle who was just looking back at him so he gave his answer.

"Why not? Lead the way." Thag turned and started to walk and Scar walked along side Daniel and Annabelle. He had talked with Daniel for most of the way. Daniel asked Scar how the wolves were getting along with the dogs and he was delighted to hear that they were starting to understand each others society and things were getting along greatly.

After a few more minutes of walking Thag stopped and Daniel looked forward. There was a single giant tree in a clearing that was much bigger than the other trees and it was about 100 feet away from all the other trees of the everfree. Thag started to walk forward to the tree and the others followed. When Thag was close to it he stopped and sat down.

"Hey Bark face. You awake?" Thag said to the tree.

"I have more bark than you do, and bite. You old bag of twigs." Daniel looked to the tree when he heard that as the source of the voice was coming from it. He looked closely at the tree and then heard what sounded like cracks. The tree had cracks spreading all over it and it was starting to move. After a second the tree split open in two sides to reveal a pair of orange coloured eyes that were close to the top of it which looked at Thag and then to Daniel and Annabelle.

"What creature is this, it is not something I have seen in the everfree." Thag looked to Daniel and spoke.

"Do you want to tell him or should I?"

"I think I will." Daniel looked at the tree. "My name is Daniel." He turned to Annabelle. "This is Annabelle, my younger sister. We are Humans." The tree seemed to be looking at them more curiously and Daniel heard more cracking sounds. They were appearing around the tree again which then stopped and it moved more than it did before with bits of bark braking off.

After a few seconds it stopped and Daniel got a good look at it. It was slightly bigger than Thag was, some of the older bark that was on it's face had fallen off when it had moved it had what looked like hair made from moss, it was like a tree had grown a face but everything else about it was still the same and it was now looking at Daniel and Annabelle.

"You're supposed to be a myth, but so was Nightmare Moon. So some myths might have truth behind them."

"Nice to meet you...eh...If you don't mind me asking, who are you?"

"I have two names, some call me Barrek, others call me The great duke tree." King Thag coughed loudly to catch Barrek's attention.

"I have some more news, the elements of harmony have been found and thanks to Daniel here the Timberwolves and Diamond dogs are living together peacefully." Barrek crossed his arms.

"You asked him to help you? You haven't done that with any other species before."

"Who could I ask? I couldn't have asked the ponies, all other creatures in the forest were hostile and they would likely have chopped you down if you tried." Thag said.

"But how do you know, the ponies might not be as you remembered them, that was so long ago." Thag did not look convinced by the answer Daniel gave him.

"With the elements found, the ponies are stronger than before so I am not going to take the chance." Daniel loudly cleared his throat while looking at Thag and he quickly remembered that Daniel was a element of harmony and he swore to not use his on him. "Oh, sorry." Thag looked back to Barrek before he continued. "The point is that when my scouts found Daniel he was not hostile and after meeting him myself I was certain he could help with the situation and he was able to." Barrek looked at Daniel.

"How did you resolve it?"

"I gave them machines that dispenced food for them after I saw the condition of their young and promised to help them in the future."

"Sometimes there is a thing called being too nice, be careful as you might be starting to tread that path." Barrek warned Daniel

"I know what I am doing." Barrek looked back at Thag.

"He certainly is unique." Thag chuckled at this.

"I know." He paused for a moment. "Is their anything happening in the forest that I should know about?"

The next few hours were just the 3 of them having a discussion but Daniel mostly stayed out of it. It was mostly about what was happening in other places around the forest like some trolls had expanded their territory in the east but other than that they mostly talked about the old times and Daniel learned some interesting stuff.

Like when barrek was still a seedling, his grand oak was the predecessor of Thag and that he was temporarily the king of the everfree for a few years until Thag appeared and became the spirit of the everfree. At first they were fighting over who should be the leader but as time when on they found that they were similar to each other and quickly became friends. Soon after that they had chosen to rule the everfree together as the reason that barrek was called the Great duke tree was because he was the oldest of the treeminders and they looked to him for leadership.

Eventually when Daniel looked over and saw that Annabelle was almost asleep he decided it was time for them to head back.

"My sister is getting tired so I will see you some other time." Thag and Barrek looked at him as he picked up his sister.

"It was nice to meet you Daniel." He herd Barrek say and he turned around to face him.

"Same with you. I guess I will see you some other time." Thag and Barrek resumed their talk while Daniel walked off, he didn't know the direction to his house from here so he retraced the path he took to get here all the while trying to keep Annabelle awake. He didn't know if Luna could or would enter a dream during the day and he was not willing to take the chance to find out.

"Annabelle, can you stay awake until we get home?" All she did was yawn and rest against him and Daniel knew she wouldn't stay awake for much longer so he picked up the pace and eventually found the lake they were at before and now he was ready to retrace his steps once again but before he took off he noticed the plate he had made for her waffles was empty and on the ground so he snapped his fingers causing it to vanished before he continued along his way.

He managed to find his way back to his house and quickly place Annabelle in her tree bed in the pocket dimension and place the covers over her. He then sat down on the stone bench again, looking at his sister. He sighed. "Well things are really getting better." As Daniel sat down his mind started to wonder again. He thought about what he wanted most of all and wondered if it was possible to do, he made some paper and a pen appear and wrote down what he wanted most of all.

"Our Home and parents back" Daniel quickly realized this will not ever happen so he crossed it out.

"Annabelle to be happy here" He thought about it and circled it to set it as a main goal.

"To be accepted and not need to hide." He circled it.

"To...find love." Daniel was never bothered by this but now that it was just him and Annabelle he realized how cold he felt. While blood related family were great, to love another who doesn't share your blood, a spouse, was something he realized he likely couldn't have now and likely wouldn't want. They would just age and die and it would not be fair to make them immortal and have them watch all they care about disappear to the current of time and if he is going to be assuming the role of a Entity then it would likely put them in danger.

With a little heavy heart, he crossed out 'To find love' and crushed the paper into a small ball and threw it away. Daniel then lay back on the stone bench and looked at the sky until he fell asleep.

A few Days later the construction of the generators were coming along nicely and Daniel also did what he said and hadn't done any training and spent time with his friends and Annabelle. He was currently heading to Twilight's library to return her books. But strangely, in the time he has spent with his friends he realized that just about all of them were looking at him more often and listening more closely to things he said and even ended up asking about his parents one time to which he said that his parents raised him in a far away town just like any other colt but it seemed that Applejack had a hard time buying it by the look she had.

Today as he was walking to Twilight's library he almost forgot to put on the water tattoo when he went into his pony form but he remembered just as he opened the door to ponyville so he hurried back and put it on before heading to the library.

As he reached the door to the library and chapped on it and waited.

"Hello? Oh Hi Cosmos."

"Hi Twilight, I have your books." He indicated to the books he had on his back.

"Thanks Cosmos." She took them with her magic and put them away with the others.

"So has anything interesting happened?" He ask.

"No. Not really." She then asked him something he was not expecting. "Cosmos. Is Strawberry alright?" He looked at her questionably.

"Yeah. Why?"

"I have seen her at times looking away and having a frown on her face. Like she's upset." He knew there was no way out of this but he would try his best to keep it hidden.

"It's probably because she is upset about the family trouble we are dealing with...or more correctly, the after effect. I don't want to talk about it. Please leave it at that." He said as Twilight moved to the side to let him in.

"We should talk inside, not while we are still standing in the doorway." Daniel entered the library and Twilight closed the door. When it was closed she turned to Daniel. "Cosmos, you have helped me and my friends out quite a few times, why can't you tell us what is bothering you and your sister so we can help?"

"This is one of those things that only time can fix." Annabelle still did go through phases of sadness but they were short and getting shorter with each passing day. She was playing with the robot kids more then before and if he tells them what they are and they reject them or think of them differently now, it would be the worst time because of what both him and Annabelle have lost. She was currently back at his home, spending time with his kids because she realized about 2 days ago that they were technically kids to and would think like she does when it comes to playing.

"Cosmos, just remember that we are here for you if you need us. Ok?" He looked back at her and he was actually happy to see that she was willing to help if he or Annabelle needed it.

"I appreciate it." Twilight walked back to a book that was opened, picked it up and started to read it. Daniel went along the shelves of the library to see what else he could learn about pony society but as he was looking he got a glance of the book Twilight was reading and he noticed the pony on the cover. It was the mare he had seen in the old castle on the day when he first arrived here after a time training failure. The memory of that sent a shiver through Daniel's spine, but what caught his attention was his mew form was also on the cover and Twilight looked like she was fascinated by whatever the book said in it so he decided to ask her. "Hey Twilight what are you reading?" She put the book down and looked at him.

"It's called Daring Doo and the new species. Daring Doo is a famous adventurer who explores temples and ruins, avoiding traps and other things to obtain treasures and she met a creature unlike anything that has been seen before. According to this book the creature she met can alter time and reality, it is also speculated that it can alter space too." His eyes closed and put a smile on his face when she mentioned this.

"Sounds like something from somepony's imagination." He was hoping that he could get Twilight to try and think that the creature was just a joke put in a book for entertainment.

"But it's not, there's even a photo to prove it." This caught his attention so he waited and Twilight flipped through the pages rapidly until she found what she was looking for and showed him. There was indeed a picture that was of him in his mew form eating the apple that Daring Doo gave him when they met.

After a few seconds Twilight moved the book back to her and looked back at the picture. "The creature ran away before she could learn anything more about it but other than what it can do it is also further speculated by Daring that it is a herbivore and very friendly judging by how she interacted with it." She looked up to the ceiling and sighed a sigh that was one of wonder. "Wish I could meet it, a chance to study and befriend a new species." She squealed happily which Daniel found cute.

He was then hit with a realisation, he didn't change his eyes when he was in his mew form when he met fluttershy and she had kept looking at his eyes as they were 'familiar' to her so if she saw this book it could remind her about the first time he met her and she could end up seeing a connection between his current form and his mew form so this was something more to worry about. But then Daniel felt some relief when he remembered Fluttershy's personality, so those adventure and action books might not be something she reads. He then heard Spike speak.

"Twilight. You're not planning on spending all day inside, reading that book are you? It's a beautiful day outside, too much to spend it inside." She looked at Spike and then out of her window to see that all the clouds were cleared.

"You're right Spike, I have plenty of time to read this later." She closed over the book and put it on her couch. "Cosmos, why don't you come with us?" Daniel decided to take her up on her offer.

"Sure, why not?" Twilight picked up Spike with her magic and placed him on her back then opened the door and looked back at Daniel who followed her out she then close the door and the three of them went for a walk.

As they were approaching the town hall Twilight spoke to Spike.

"You were right Spike, it is a beautiful day." Spike was looking at the sky.

"Rainbow Dash must have got up early for once and cleared all the clouds away." As they walked into the town Daniel did not see anyone at all, it was like a ghost town but Twilight did not see it as her eyes were closed from the smile she was giving Spike.

"I bet all of ponyville is going to be out enjoying the sunshine." As they continued to walk Twilight soon saw that there was nobody outside and no noise what so ever. "What? Where is everypony?" As they looked around they saw one pony shut their window and another quickly take their filly inside and close the door.

"Is it some sort of pony holiday?" Spike ask as they continued to walk and all they saw were more empty streets.

"Not that I know of."

Does my breath stink?" Spike burped and smelled it.

"Not more than usual." When Twilight said that Daniel looked at her wondering if that was a compliment or an insult.

"Is it...zombies?" Daniel was about to say to Spike that what he said was ridiculous until he remembered that he could likely raise the dead to be servants or make skeletons walk. But not revive the dead back to life, the ones he raised would be like puppets that he would have to give commands to so it would more or less be like having a empty shell and it would be a dead corpse that was being controlled and not a thinking, breathing life form so with that in mind he stayed quiet..

"Not very likely." This did not seem to ease his fear.

"Not likely, but possible."

"Psst" They both looked around when they heard that and they soon saw Pinkie Pie inside the building in front of them. "Cosmos. Twilight. Spike. Come here" She said as she appeared then disappeared from their view a few times before indicating for them to come into the building with her hoof. "Come here. Hurry before she gets you." Her head stuck out and looked around before going back inside and then Twilight ran in and Daniel soon followed and shut the door behind him. When they were inside they found it was quite dark but Daniel could see fine, he saw Pinkie and she turned on a flashlight that was aimed at them which cause Twilight to cover her eyes and Spike to hold her.

"Who, the zombie pony?" Spike's eyes were looking everywhere when he asked that and Pinkie made the light shine on her face from below.

"Zombie pony?" Her voice was somewhat creepy enough to scare Spike who was now holding onto Twilight even more which caused her to look at him angrily.

"Spike. There are no zombie ponies." Spike got off of her and Twilight turned to Pinkie. "Pinkie, what are you doing here alone in the dark?"

"I'm not alone in the dark." As she said that the place seemed to light up and they saw the rest of their friends.

"Ok then what are you all doing here in the dark?"

"We're hidin from her." Applejack pointed out the window and then moved the curtains to the side. Daniel and Twilight both looked out the window to see a pony in a brown cloak with the hood up picking away at the dirt and turned to look in their direction with a pair of glowing green eyes causing all of them besides Daniel and Twilight to hide at the sides of the window. It was then that Twilight was approached by Applebloom.

"Did ya see'er Twilight, did ya see Zecora." Applejack then looked her sister in the eyes closely with her face almost touching hers.

"Applebloom, ah told ya never ta say that name."

"Well I saw her glance this way." Pinkie pie went up to Twilight's face.

"Glance evilly this way." Twilight pushed her away from her face.

"And then a bunch of you flip out for no good reason."

"No good reason? Ya call protecting yer kin no good reason, why as soon as mah sister saw Zecora heading ta town she started shaking in her little horse shoes." Applejack started to shake Applebloom.

"Di-I-id no-o-ot." Applebloom told everyone while she was still getting shook.

"So ah swept her up 'n brought her here." Applejack place Applebloom on her back after she finished saying that, then the two of them started to argue.

"Ah walked here mah self."

"Fer safe keepin." Applebloom jumped off of her back.

"Applejack, im not a baby. Ah can take care ah mah self." She was now looking at her sister with a serious face.

"Not from that creepy Zecora." Daniel was about to ask what has Zecora done to them but Fluttershy spoke next.

"She's mysterious."

"Sinister." Rainbow said next.

"And spo-o-oky." Pinkie was the last to talk. Daniel was starting to get annoyed at their behavior so he looked out the window to see if Zecora was still there and she was. Twilight also looked at Zecora with him and cause all of their friends to do the same. As they watched all of their friends took cover again when all Zecora did was take down her hood and when she did Daniel saw that she was a zebra.

"Will you cut that out?"

"Just look at those stripes, so garish." Twilight replied to her question.

"She's a zebra."

"A WHAT?" Daniel did his best to stop his jaw from hitting the floor, he couldn't believe besides Twilight, his friends did not know what a zebra was.

"A zebra, and her strips arn't a fashion choice Rarity, they are what she was born with." Rarity now had her hoof over her mouth and a look of shock on her face before she fainted.

"Born where, I an't never seen a pony like that in these parts. Accept her." Applejack said that last part shaking with fear and Daniel was starting to get annoyed by that and was about to speak when Twilight spoke.

"Well she is probably not from here, and she is not a pony. my book says that zebra's come from a far away land, but I have never seen her in Ponyville. Where does she live?"

"That's just it, she lives in...the everfree forest." As soon as Applejack finished saying that there was a crash that came from the kitchen, Twilight somehow knew it was Spike so she gave him a scolding and he apologized from in the kitchen before Applejack continued. "The everfree forest just ain't natural, the plants grow."

"The animals care for themselves." Fluttershy said next.

"and the clouds move. ALL ON THEIR OWN." Rainbow Dash started that part but then ended up finishing it by saying it together. Daniel actually didn't find the everfree that much of a big deal, in fact it was the closest thing he had to his actual home on this planet but all the things his friends are saying are starting to hurt him.

He thought about how Annabelle didn't want to stay hidden but the way his friends were reacting to someone from the everfree and a different land was eating away at him as he was now unsure if he should tell them about him and his sister. This caused a sudden realisation to strike him and it made him both angry and sad, like his heart got stabbed by a knife but instead of it stop beating it became a raging inferno that still had the stinging pain from the knife wound, he turned to his friends.

"I can't believe you all." They all looked at him with looks of curiosity. "She is from the everfree so that instantly makes her something to be feared? What about me, did you forget that I lived in the everfree? I suppose that means I am, what was it again? Mysterious, sinister and spooky." He said the first part with anger but as he went on he felt like he was about to cry and all of his friends looked at him in shock.

"Cosmos, ther's a difference between you en her." Applejack said with a hoof over his back.

"What? What Is the difference?"

"Ya went through the everfree ta get here, she still lives in it an has for quite a while, think about that time we went ta stop Nightmare Moon and what we had' ta deal with in that forest. Now if somepony lives there then they are likely like tha rest of the critters in it." This did not help him as if they discovered who he was or if he told them they would likely treat him and Annabelle the same way when they discover they have always lived in everfree as well.

"Yeh and your not a evil enchantress like her." Daniel looked over to Pinkie Pie when she said that.

"A what?" He ask rubbing one of his eyes.

"That wicked enchantress does her evil...stuff. She is so evil I even wrote a song about her." Daniel did not want to hear a song at all, he was not in the mood to.

"Here we go." With that Daniel set his powers to use of thought and alter space around his ears so he would not hear anything and he watched Pinkie Pie doing...whatever she was doing which caused Applejack to shake in fear and after she stood up on a table and didn't say anything. Daniel removed the alteration around his ears and set his powers back to use of will just so he did not accidently use them unintentionally.

"Wow, catchy." Twilight's face clearly showed confusion.

"It's a work in progress." Pinkie told as she got off of the table.

"This is all just a lot of gossip and rumours, now tell me, what have the lot of you actually seen Zecora do?" Daniel was looking at the rest of them for an answer too.

"Well...once a month she comes into ponyville." Rainbow started and Twilight just gave a sarcastic 'Ooh'.

"Then she lurks by the stalls." Twilight did the same to Rarity's statement but it was a 'Oh my' instead.

"Then she digs at the ground." Fluttershy finished the last part.

"Goodness gracious." Twilight yet again did the same thing. "Ok, I'm sorry, but how is any of this bad? Maybe she comes to town to visit." Applebloom walked beside Twilight.

"Yeh maybe shes just tryin ta be neighbourly." Daniel would have laughed at the face that Applebloom acts a lot more mature than Applejack if he was alone, but he didn't want to make her feel insulted or ashamed so he suppressed it.

"And maybe she is not lurking by the stalls, maybe she's going to them, lurk free. To do some shopping."

"Yeh, everypony likes to shop, an you know what ah think-" She was cup off by Applejack.

"Applebloom, hush an let the big ponies talk."

"I am a big pony." She said walking off.

"What about digging at the ground? You have to admit that's weird." Daniel was starting to get annoyed by this, his friends were not giving up on their speculations that Zecora was up to no good. This is pure paranoia.

"What if she is digging for innocent creatures?"

"I am sure there is a explanation for everything Zecora does, and if anypony here were brave enough to approach her we would find out the truth." Daniel was now getting very annoyed so he decided he would go to meet Zecora and show them their thoughts about her were false. He walked out of the door while they were still having a conversation and went out where he saw zecora in the distance still digging at the ground and looking around so he took a deep breath to calm himself down because he was still a little angry at his friends for their behaviour and approached Zecora but stopped when he saw Applebloom hiding.

Zecora turned around and started to leave and Applebloom followed her. Applebloom kept following zecora to the everfree where she stopped for a moment before continuing and Daniel followed her to make sure she was safe.

"Applebloom!" Applejack shouted which caused Zecora to turn around and Applebloom to freeze in place. "You get back here right now!"

"Beware, Beware you pony folk, those leafs of blue are not a joke." Zecora shouted to them before she stepped back into the mist. Daniel looked to where he was about to step and saw what looked like a blue flower and what zecora said went through his mind which got him curious about that flower so he grabbed it by the roots and pulled it. He had seen some strange things in the everfree and heard much more about it so he was certain that something that looked harmless was very harmful which is why he took this flower so Alpha could scan it when he got back home.

"Even back on my home some plants have lots of poison or other nasty surprises so that means this one could to." Daniel thought as he held on to the flower like plant.

"You keep your creepy mumbo jumbo to yerself ya hear?" Applejack, Rarity and Rainbow were the ones who shouted at her the most.

"Beware, Beware." Zecora shouted at them before she disappeared in the mist.

"Yeh, back at you Zecora. You and your lame curse are the ones who better beware!" Rainbow was still shouting at her even after she left. Daniel saw that Rainbow Dash was standing in a bunch of those flowers which worried him.

"And you, why couldn't ya just listen to yer big sister?" Applejack said to Applebloom angrily.

"I-I" She tried to say something.

"Who knows what kinda nasty curse Zecora just put on you."

"Just like in my song. Evil enchantress." Pinkie started to sing again and bounce about the place.

"You guys, there's no such thing as curses." Twilight said perhaps trying to calm them down.

"Well that's interesting to hear coming from miss magic pants herself." Rainbow flew through more of those plants and when she got to Twilight she poked her horn.

"My magic, Real magic comes from within. Its a skill you are born with. Curses are artificial, fake magic. It's conjoured with potions and incantations, all smoke and mirrors meant to scare but curses have no real power. There just a old ponytale." When she finished that sentience she noticed her friends were leaving.

"Just you wait Twilight, you're gonna learn that some ponytales really are true." In a way Daniel agreed with Applejack. Nightmare Moon was supposed to be one and she was real, he is a myth and he is real so why couldn't this be? He left that thought for now and started to walk back home and when Twilight caught up with him they started talking.

"Well I am going to head back to the library, do you want to join Cosmos?" She asked him.

"No thanks." Twilight eyes the plant he was carrying.

"Why do you have that?"

"I'm taking this back to study it." While Daniel could just asked PIA about it, whenever he discovered something by himself he felt a greatness of success so he decided to only ask PIA if it was a life or death situation or if he was in a pickle and needed the answer. But he wanted to be safe this time. "PIA is this plant poisonous, like life threatening?"

"Yes and No, it is known as a poisonous plant but it is not life threatening." With that in mind Daniel was determined to find out the rest so after Alpha had scanned it he would keep it stored in the lab.

"Cosmos?" He looked back at twilight.

"Yes?"

"You zoned out there for a second."

"I tend to do that a lot." Daniel realized he was alone with Twilight and now could see if she accepts other creatures that have nothing said about them that marks them as dangerous.

He dent space around him so it looked like he was still walking and then split himself. After he split off and his pony clone was still walking forward he removed the space illusion field and turned into his Mew form then hid in the plants. He was about to get Twilights attention until he remembered she only found out about his Mew form just a few hours ago and if she saw it this early with just him, his pony clone, then she might find something suspicious so he decided not to.

But instead he decided now would be a good time to learn how to control a clone more than before.

"Anyway, I'll see you some other time." He started to walk back to his home in the opposite direction from where Twilight was going.

"Ok, see you Cosmos." Twilight started to walk to her home and as she did Daniel looked at her and then sighted. The way his friends reacted to Zecora just because she was different and from the everfree made him very unsure about telling them who and what he and his sister were. Also they were supposed to be myths, combined with what Daniel could do just made the situation seem worse as they could see him as a threat or fear him, perhaps both.

"What am I going to tell my sister?" He asked to himself as he walked home, using a space field to keep his mew form hidden.

When he arrived at his house the first thing he did was change back to his human form, remerge with his clone and then go to the lab. When he saw the progress of the generators he was happy to see that they were more than half done. He found Alpha in sleep mode so he approached him but he didn't activate so he spoke. "Alpha?" When he said that the pillar started to brighten up and Alpha's hologram appeared at the top.

"Hello again boss. I take it things have been going smoothly for you?"

"They could be better. Alpha, I need you to run a scan on this." Daniel held out the plant he got from the everfree and a second later a hatch opened on Alpha, a claw extended out and took the plant.

"A scan or some tests?"

"Both if you will."

"Certainly." Alpha went off to a new section of the lab that Daniel had still yet to see. He was approached by a cream coloured bot.

"Annabelle is in the pocket world. She said she wanted to be alone for a while" The voice was female.

"Thanks Caroline. Did she say why?" She shook her head...or body in a 'No' way. He was then approached by a violet colour robot who Daniel remembered he named Victoria.

"She took some paper and pencils with her. We can't really access the place" He remembered he made the door to the pocket dimension to only react to his or Annabelle's touch so that was something he needed to fix.

"She's probably drawing. It's a hobby of hers." Daniel walked out of the lab to go and check on his sister and he found her in the pocket dimension on one of the stone benches and was drawing.

He walked up to her and was hesitant to tell her about today.

"How long have you been in here?" He asked.

"A few hours." He took a moment to think about it and decided to not tell her about what has happened today but instead he talked about something else.

"Do you want to come out next time? She turned to look at him.

"You were just taking some books back. Weren't you?" He chuckled.

"I took the books back. Point I am asking, want to come out next time? Even for something small like a delivery?" She smiled and nodded.

He sat there for a few hours and watched her draw. She was becoming quite a good artist for her young age. At one point he left to get a drink and fix the door so his kids could use it too. When he returned he looked over to Annabelle and saw that she was asleep and then he remembered that it has been a few days and nothing has happened so Luna likely can't enter Annabelle's dreams when she sleeps in the pocket dimension and sleep could help him calm him mind.

"Why not?" He took out his phone and checked the time on it. 22:47. "It is night time and I have nothing better to do." Daniel snapped his fingers and his clothes were replaced with his PJs but as he took his first step he felt the ground vibrating and looked at the hotspring which was causing it. He sat down and put his feet up and he didn't feel it anymore. He then put his feet on the ground and felt it again. Focusing he realized he could also feel the vibrations of Annabelle's heartbeat. He lifted his feet and put his hand on the ground and felt the same thing.

"Ok. So by heightened senses it meant ALL of my senses." He made a cover appear for himself after he took Annabelle to her tree bed. He had to fly there because the grass tickled him as he stepped on it. He then fell asleep on one of the stone benches.


It was a nice summer day and Daniel was out in the garden pushing Annabelle on a swing set and she laughed happily the whole time, after a few minutes, Daniel heard their mother call.

"Daniel, Annabelle it is time for dinner." Annabelle jumped off of the swing and started running towards the house.

"Race you." She called to Daniel as she dashed off towards the house getting a head start and he soon followed close behind but Daniel soon overtook her and got in first. "Not fair you cheated." He looked at her with a smile.

"I did not, you just have tiny legs." She looked annoyed when he said that.

"I am not tiny, your just tall and thin so you move faster." He giggle at this.

"Don't you worry, when you grow up you are likely going to run circles around me." She grinned at his statement. "What?" He asked.

"Yes, because you will be a slow old farty pants." He moved his face in front of her and looked her in the eyes.

"But until then your the slow shrimp." She had a frown on her face as they both sat down at the table but the frown quickly changed into a smile.

"Do I need to do to you what I did on your 17th birthday?" Daniel remembered that. She used a marker and drew on his face giving him a moustache and monocle which he had to wash for almost a full hour to remove.

"You don't have to do that." Their mother interrupted them.

"Now, now you two, you're brother and sister so why do you have to fight?"

"We are brother and sister, is it not our job to annoy each other?" His mother just shook her head and had a smile on her face.

"Well anyway. Dinner is ready." She put the plates on the table which was chicken and sweetcorn.

"Hey, where is dad?" Annabelle asked.

"He is away on a important meeting and won't be back until tomorrow." Daniel and Annabelle both started to eat their dinner and while Daniel could not taste anything he did not acknowledge it. After a few seconds they were done with their dinners.

"Hey brother can I play on your PC?" She asked.

"I don't see why not. Let's go." Annabelle rushed up the stairs and Daniel followed but he was slower than her and he felt like he was running in sand. Annabelle got to his room and opened the door and then closed it again. Daniel got to the door and opened it to find darkness. "Annabelle?" He stepped into the room. "Annabelle if this is a joke, it's not funny." The door shut behind him which caused him to jump, he ran back and tried to open it but it would not budge. "Come on, you stupid door." He then slammed against it but it still wouldn't open.

"Bro." He heard Annabelle shout, but her voice sounded like a echo so he turned around. The place he was in was his home town but most of the buildings were nothing more than rubble and the ones that weren't were burning in a inferno of flames. The sky was darkened with the amount of smoke that was protruding out from the buildings and all the while screams were being heard in the distance. Daniel looked around for Annabelle and eventually he saw her running towards him with a giant purple hand close behind her.

"Annabelle!" He started to run towards her but he did not reach her in time and the hand grabbed a hold of her. She squirmed to get out of it's grip but failed and as the hand started to rise, it soon arrived next to a pair of red eyes and a body of purple which Daniel reconized instantly.

"King N! Let her go!" He shouted at him but it only caused him to laugh and tighten his grip causing Annabelle to scream in pain.

"Why should I? You can't hurt me without risking hurting her." Daniel got angry and rushed up to King N and let out a blast of cosmic power, when he landed on the ground he looked back up to see smoke around King N's head but when it cleared it showed that the blast had done nothing to him and he neither loosened his grip on Annabelle. "Is that all?" He started to laugh and after that Daniel looked at Annabelle and saw she was looking at him and crying, hoping that he would help her some way or another.

"Let her go, this is between you and me only."

"You think I will just do that, if so you are more stupid than I thought, why would I let her go when I can have some fun finding different ways to kill her." His grip tightened on Annabelle more and now her screams were high pitched. Daniel looked on in horror as he realised he could do nothing and was about to try and help his sister again when King N was smashed in the face by a blast that sent him stumbling back and caused him to lose his grip on Annabelle who Daniel managed to catch before she hit the ground.

"Annabelle?" She was crying and breathing heavily but Daniel did not have much time to check on her as King N stood back up.

"Who did that!?" He shouted looking in the direction the blast came from only to be hit by another one which also caused Daniel to look in that direction. When he did he was surprised that his kids and the other robots were all standing there looking at King N.

"Daddy." He recognized who that voice belonged to and Greg ran up beside him.

"What are you doing here. It's dangerous." This just caused Greg to chuckle.

"Did you think we would leave our Daddy and Auntie alone? We wont." Greg looked at Annabelle. "She needs help. I'll take her back to the lab." Before Greg left Daniel had to ask him something.

"Greg, when did you all get lasers?"

"We got a upgrade, remember?" Daniel couldn't remember that, while he was thinking about that Greg had already taken Annabelle away to have her injuries treated.

"I'll kill you all!" King N shouted before being blasted again.

"We will never let you hurt Auntie or Daddy!" Ross shouted to King N and after that they all turned to Daniel with their bottom hatches raised into what Daniel knew was a smile, feeling confident Daniel got up and joined his kids in their group.

"Thank you. All of you." As soon as Daniel finished saying that they all glanced back at King N who got up and was now looking very enraged as he was screaming to the sky.

"Daddy?" Daniel heard a voice in the distance but when he looked around he didn't see anything.

"You bugs, I will stomp you all!!!" King N shouted as he raised his hand.

"Daddy?" Daniel heard the same voice again and the world around him seemed to slow down as King N fired a red beam at them.

"Daddy!" Everything started to brighten up.


Daniel awoke from his sleep and as he slowly opened his eyes he saw Greg looking at him. "Oh, Hi Greg." Daniel's dream came rushing back to him and it made him realise that he didn't need to fight King N alone as he could make an army and have it greatly upgraded by the time King N or the sphere arrived to Equestria, he knew what he was going to do now after he helped this Alliance as much as he could. You better watch out King N. I swear I will not be fighting you alone and in the end I will show you no mercy for what you did to me, my sister and everyone on my home planet." Daniel had a smile on his face but when he looked back at Greg his eye pupil was larger than normal, it was like he was staring at him. "What?"

"Alpha says that the scans on that plant you brought are finished, but daddy, what happened to you?" He said as he looked downwards and then back up which got Daniel confused so he looked at himself and got a shock. His skin had changed but he could not get a good look at it so he headed to the lake that was nearby and got a good look at himself.

He looked like he had taken a human form of his pony mark as just like his mark, his skin was a bright starry sky full of stars and galaxies and each one had a red line that came out of each one. When Daniel looked under his PJ shirt and saw that they all connected to a heart that was in the center of his chest but when he looked at his eyes and mouth he saw that they were bright white holes. He tried to change his appearance back to normal but he couldn't, he tried to change into his pony form and got the same result.

"What the heck?" He turned back to Greg. "Did you say Alpha finished the scans of that plant?"

"Yes he did, he is waiting for you in the lab right now."

"Thanks Greg. Watch Annabelle while I am gone." Daniel took off towards the lab hoping that Alpha knew what was happening. As he ran through his living room he suddenly felt overwhelmed in his senses. He could feel vibration, hear birds chirping and...others talking? He went to his window and looked out it only to see nothing had changed. He chose to fly and when his feet were not touching the ground he no longer felt vibrations but could still hear things. "Alright. What's going on?" He was panicking and headed to the Lab. He felt vibrations again when his hand touched the doorknob to the lab but he ignored it and opened the door. When he arrived at the lab he found Alpha instantly as he entered the door because he was at the door and facing it.

"It seems my speculation was right. You have become a victim of the plant that you had brought me."

"What? Do you know what It did to me?"

A hatch opened on Alpha and a metal hand came out which stopped in front of Daniel then it's finger opened up and a red line went up and down Daniel several times before it went back into Alpha.

"Yes, you have defiantly been effected by the plant. I had detected that the plant uses magic along with a unknown chemical to play pranks on whatever life form touches it." This got Daniel curious about it.

"How does that work? Can it be reversed?" Alpha did not look away from Daniel.

"Currently I do not know how it works, further study is required for that however by my calculations the magic side of it should be neutralised by your radiation soon and with that away, the chemical will be useless which will result in you returning to normal."

"So I just wait for a while?"

"Yes, The effect should disappear."

"Should?" Daniel was wondering if he was going to stay like this.

"About a 87.3% chance you will turn back. If you don't then don't worry, I will find a cure." Alpha was about to turn around and go back to work on whatever he was doing but Daniel decided to put his plan into action.

"Alpha, I have something for you to do." He stopped and looked back at Daniel. "When the Diamond Dogs have been helped I want to expand this lab as much as it can and I want you to build an army."

"If I may, what is it needed for?"

"It is for stopping someone that needs to be stopped." Alpha looked at him for a few seconds.

"Understood." Alpha turned around and went off to the factory and Daniel now had to play the waiting game so he headed to the living room to watch a DVD to pass the time.

Two hours later and after much annoyance from sounds, Daniel saw that he had indeed changed back to normal and was thrilled, he got up and turned off the TV before he started to go and check if Annabelle was awake but he stopped in the hallway of his when he realized 2 things.

First off his feet were touching the ground but he no longer felt any vibrations and he remembered that his friends also touched those plants which means they will likely be effected like he was and Twilight saw him touch it so if she saw that he was normal then she would wonder why it didn't effect him.

Just then he heard the alarm he had installed in his home and when he heard it he knew it meant there was someone at his ponyville house door so he turned into his pony form, put on the fake tattoo and headed to the basement and into his ponyville home. As he approached the door he heard a voice and he instantly recognised it was Twilights.

"Cosmos? Are you here?" He answered, not opining the door.

"Yes Twilight, what is it?" After a few moments she spoke again.

"Have you been affected too?" Daniel got curious as to what effect it had on them so he willed space around his eyes and gazed outside and he almost dropped on the ground laughing. Rarity looked like a large fluffy dog if it had a bad hair day. Pinkie had a giant tongue with blue spots on it. Rainbow had her wings backwards and Twilight's horn was moving around like jelly with blue spots. But nothing seemed to be wrong with Fluttershy. Daniel managed to resist the urge to laugh and with the knowledge that his friends had been effected by it in such ways all he had to do was change something about himself. He thought about what he should do and seeing how his friends looked silly he decided to do something like that to. "Cosmos?" Twilight called again.

"Hold on." He thought for a moment and decided just to do the first silly thing that came to his mind which was to change the colour of his coat to pink but after he had done that he saw that his mark had a white square around it most likely from the tattoo to match his original color so he quickly used his power make some pink paint appear and then paint over it closely. It worked out nicely as his mark was still there but the rest was covered in paint. Now that he was feeling ready he opened the door. "Yes twilight?" He was met with a look from Twilight that was a look of surprise.

"You too?" She said with a sigh.

"See Twilight, I told you that this is all Zecora's fault."

"There has to be a logical expiation for all of this, we can't just go blaming some pony without proof." Rainbow Dash looked annoyed.

"Well anyway. Were we not coming here to check on Cosmos and then going to find Applejack and Applebloom?"

"Yes we were, Cosmos will you come with us?" HE wanted to see how think would turn out. But he also fearned they might not change their views and do something rash. "Ok."

"Then let's go." With that they took off to the everfree forest. "Come on everypony we have got to get to zecoras and hurry." Daniel ran alongside Twilight.

"What are we going to do when we get there?"

"See if Applebloom is ok, prove to my friends that Zecora is not evil and then ask Zecora if she can reverse what has been done to us." Daniel continued to follow Twilight until they arrived at a creepy tree home.

"Oh my, It looks horrible." Rarity said while covered in leaves and twigs. Pinkie said something that Daniel had a hard time understanding but she raised Rarity's hair so she could see. "Oh my, that place really does look horrible." They all approached the house and looked in the window and saw a lot of wooden masks around the place as decorations. "Nice decorations. If you like creepy."

"Girls. Is what you are doing not violation of privacy?" They all seemed to duck down and look back after a few seconds. Daniel could hear Zecora talk from within the house but what caught his attention was he heard footsteps that sounded like they were a good bit away so he turned in that direction to make sure it was not a manticore or something that could be a threat to his friends but after a few second of walking he found out it was Applebloom and she was carrying something with her. "Hey Applebloom." She jumped when she heard his voice.

"Cosmos? What are ya doin here?" He raised a eyebrow at her question.

"What am I doing here? What about you, even if Zecora is nice this forest is still dangerous."

"Well ah went ta get Zecora the things she needs ta mix her herbs. Don't worry she told me tha safe way ta go an get these." She said confidently but then looked at him and giggled."Why are ya pink?"

"It has something to do with that plant we ran across yesterday. By the way the others are at Zecora's house right now, trying to find you." Her eyes went wide.

"Well what'r ya waitin for, lets go." She sprinted off and Daniel followed her.

As they approached Zecora's home they both entered the door just after Daniel heard Twilight ask Zecora where Applebloom was.

"Stop it y'all!" Daniel saw a tiny Applejack on zecora's ear.

"Applebloom, yer ok!"

"Why wouldn't ah be?" Twilight jumped in front of Applebloom and was still facing Zecora.

"Because Zecora is a evil enchantress who cursed us and was going to cook you up into soup." The two of them laughed at that statement.

"Oh Twilight, did those silly fillies finally get into yer head? Ya know there's no such thing as a curse." She said with a smile on her face the full time.

"Applebloom, sweetie, you can't just stand there and tell me that this isn't a curse." Twilight said pointing to her friends while Applebloom walked passed them and to Zecora.

"This isn't a curse."

"If you remember back, the words I spoke were quite exact." She then said what she said yesterday. "Beware, Beware you pony folk, those leafs of blue are not a joke."

"It was ah warning, about that blue plant. It's called poison joke."

"That plant is much like poison oak, but it's results are like a joke." Daniel was listening closely as this was about that plant he wanted to study and he could give this information to Alpha to help further the study on it.

"What in tha hey does that mean?" Applejack asked from the top of Zecora's head.

"It means this plant does not reed wrath, instead this plant just wants a laugh." Applejack just continued looking at Zecora, unsure of what to say.

"Will some pony please talk normal?"

"I think what she's saying is that when we ran into save Applebloom we ran into the poison joke. All our problems are just little jokes they played on us." Everyone in the room was looking at Twilight.

"Little jokes? Very funny." Daniel would have laughed at that considering Applejack's situation.

"Ok, but what about the cauldron?" Rainbow dash asked.

"and the chanting." Daniel almost lost it when he heard Fluttershy's voice.

"and creepy décor?" Zecora turned to look at her masks that were on the ground.

"Treasures of the native land where I am from, this one speaks 'Hello' and this one 'Welcome'."

"Not welcome at all, if you ask me." Daniel was now starting to wonder how the effect can be reversed so he decided to wait patently.

"The words I chanted were from olden times, something you call a nursery rhyme." Zecora pointed to Twilight.

"But the cauldron, the Applebloom soup?" Applebloom walked up to Twilight.

"Lookie here Twilight, that pot'a water wern't for me, it was for all these herbal ingredients." Applebloom indicated to the side where a book was and Twilight walked up to it. "The cure for poison joke is'a simple ol natural remedy. Ya just gotta take a bubble bath." Daniel's eyes went wide as if he were to get water on him it would cause his mark to appear and the fact that he was faking being effected by the plant means his friends thought he truly was effected by it. Daniel's brain started to scramble to come up with a solution to his problem.

"But I tried to find a cure in all my books and couldn't find anything. What book has this natural remedy?" Zecora closed over the book to show Twilight it's cover.

"Here is the book you see, sad that you lack it in your library." Twilight's ears dropped and she looked at the ground.

"Actually. I do have this book, but I didn't look inside because the title was so...weird." Zecora reopened the book for Twilight. "Supernaturals. Natural remedys and cure alls that are simply super." Twilight was now looking nervous and upset. "I-I'm so sorry Zecora, I had the answer the whole time if only I bothered to look inside." Zecora giggle at this.

"Maybe next time you will take a second look and not judge the cover of the book." Zecora said while looking at them all.

"Cosmos was actually the only one among us, beside me at first who didn't assume you were mean." Zecora looked at Daniel then back at Twilight.

"And why might that be, does he see different of me?"

"Well, It might just be his personality but it also might be that he lived in the everfree while he and his sister were moving to ponyville. Zecora looked over at Daniel with a little surprised look on her face.

"Can we get rid of this things effects now? Please?" Twilight turned back to Zecora.

"Zecora, would you be kind enough to mix up another batch of the herbal bath?"

"Mix it up I certainly will, yet I am missing a herd from ponyville." Twilight's face of happiness dropped when she said that second part and Applebloom walked up to Twilight.

"But when ever Zecora comes to town all tha shops ar mysteriously closed." Applebloom told Twilight who looked at her friends and then back to Zecora.

"Oh well, I think we can help you with that."

They walked back to ponyville and all the while Daniel was still trying to think of a way out of this situation As they entered ponyville all of the ponies started to panic and one even shouted out 'The horror' dramatically and they all went inside the closest building. Twilight walked up to one of the doors and chapped it, when it was answered she spoke to the pony that answered it.

"Daisy, we need to talk." Daniel was not listening as he was still thinking of what to do to get out of the situation and he then had an idea. He could ask Zecora for a bit of the remedy and take it back to his house that way they will think he cured it the next time they met. With that idea in mind he turned to Zecora who was nowhere to be seen and he continued to look around. "Cosmos?" He looked at the source of the sound to see Twilight looking at him.

"Sorry about that, I dazed off. Where is Zecora?"

"She is on her way to the spa with the others. This way." He followed Twilight to the spa where he saw Zecora pouring something into the hot water bath and decided to ask if he could use some.

"Zecora, can I use some of that?" She looked at him confused and Daniel likely knew why. "I like to bath alone." Zecora nodded and gave Daniel one of the holders that had the cure for poison joke inside. "Thank you zecora." He started to walk out but stopped when Twilight said his name.

"Cosmos, are you not going to bath with us?" He looked back at her and saw that the rest of his friends were looking at him too. Her question made him blush a little.

"No Twilight, I prefer to bath alone. I'll see you all later."

"Ok, Bye Cosmos." Daniel left the building and started to walk towards his house, happy that he had managed to avoid that as it could have exposed his mark.


Back at his home Freddy has just opened the door to the pocket dimension and is looking around for Daniel. He decides to be quiet to not disturb Annabelle and as he looks he finds a piece of crushed paper.

"What's this?" Freddy unfolds it and reads it. "Home? Annabelle Happy? Be accepted? Find...Love? This is Daddy's writing."

Freddy takes the piece of paper to the lab and show the others.

"He wants to find someone to love?" Caroline asked. Unsure why her dad would want that when he has them.

"Seems so. But why?"

"Perhaps he feels lonely. I mean there is a loneliness that comes from a lack of social interaction that is not family based." Selene said.

"So he want's someone he can call a love? Who?" Barry asked and the rest went silent to think.

"How about that plant pony?" Robert suggested to the rest of them.

"That Plant pony you said you saw him with a while ago?" Robert nodded to Freddy's question.

"So that's it. We will set them up on a date?" They all cheered and started to make up a plan.

Author's Notes:

I hope you like this new chapter, I would also like to thank Nectarina for suggesting the name Selene for one of Daniel's robot kids.

22/2/17: For those of you who are eagerly waiting on a new chapter for my FNAF story. A new chapter will be out soon. (Say less than 2 weeks) Please remember I am mostly focused on this re-write so it might be the last chapter until the re-write is fully done.

If you see any (Part 'number' Ends) in future chapters. That's to brake down chapters for my editor and of you see a (Continue from here) that's a continuation point I left and I forgot to remove them.

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