Author's Notes:

If you were wondering what took so long. My editor had things that needed done and this is the longest chapter in my story. (So far)

Daniel was currently laying back on a sunbed in space that was close to the sun that Equestria had and he was enjoying the heat coming off it. While he was in space his attention was also drawn to what it felt like to float in space without fear of dying. To him it was like swimming, but you couldn't feel the water. He pulled out his phone and looked at the time to discover he had been in space for almost 7 hours so he decided to go back home but not before trying something with the sun.

He made his hands face it and focused on controlling the magma that shot up from it. He then moved his hands around and the magma started to move like his hands were holding it, then he imagined it coming together and making a single long flame and morphed the flame into the shape of a dragon. He had the dragon fly back to the sun and dive into it and after it was done he decided it was time to go back.

He made the sunbed vanish and opened the portal then quickly flew in, closing it before anything managed to get pulled through. When he was back in his room he opened the door and headed down the stairs where he saw Selene watching TV.

"When did you start watching TV?" He asked Selene who turned around quickly, likely startled by Daniel's sudden entrance.

"Oh, Hi Daddy. I was looking for you and when I entered here I saw this was on and decided to sit down and watch it." Daniel smiled at her and she turned back to watch the TV, but she turned back to Daniel after a few seconds. "Can the rest of us all watch it?"

"You don't have to ask to do something a simple as watch the TV. You and the others can watch it as much a you all want." She smiled at that. Or Daniel assumed it was a smile.

"Where were you?" She suddenly asked. "You're normally here during the night."

"Yes, I usually am. But tonight I was out in space." Selene jumped up when she heard that.

"Can you take me into space sometime?" Daniel looked at her with a raised eyebrow.

"When did you start wanting to go into space?" She looked out of the window, into the sky that will soon have the sun rising in it.

"I heard about it from Alpha once. It sounded so awesome." She turned his gaze back to Daniel. "I wish to see the stars up close. Will you please let me?" Daniel was surprised by her request.

"Well, seeing stars up close might not be an option, but taking you into space is something I can do. But the others get to do the same thing, Selene. Remember, you're all my kids." She chuckled at his words.

"I know that. When can you do it?" Daniel looked at the sun which was starting to rise in the sky.

"Tomorrow. You'll be able to spend more time in space than if I took you there right now." Daniel knew that Annabelle wouldn't be awake for a while as the sun had still not fully risen yet, so he got up from the couch and walked to Aperture. After stopping to look at the new improvements for a moment he walked up to Alpha. Daniel was happy that everything was going much more smoothly compared to a few months ago and he has noticed that he's somewhat more calm than he was a few months ago. He didn't know if it was because of his kids making his life brighter or something else entirely. Maybe it was the fact that he felt a soothing sensation when he thought back to how he managed to stop a war between the Diamond dogs and Timberwolves, or perhaps it was thanks to the advice Mother Nature gave him on how he was still human, or perhaps all of those reasons together, but whatever the reason was he felt happier as he walked through Aperture.

As he walked up to Alpha his mind wondered to the improvements that Alpha had been planning. For now Aperture has power, but not enough can be generated for there to be a constant flow of power to the whole facility, so it puts a minor impact on the production of material being created. The main problem, however, is the machine that Daniel made. While it can make just about any kind of material it also had a cool down time, so while Alpha had a lot of plans for upgrades that he shared with Daniel, the actual production of those upgrades is slowed down. This paired with the fact that most of the material for now was going towards helping the Covenant as a whole meant that upgrade production was very slow, but Daniel didn't mind much as he knew he had long enough to prepare and mostly just wanted to spend time with Annabelle, his kids and his friends.

"Hey Alpha." Daniel said to make his presence know to Alpha who lowered the sketch that he was currently working on and turned to face Daniel.

"Hello Boss, I take it you're here about the further upgrades I mentioned?" Daniel nodded his head and Alpha turned to look at the molecule machine. "By the calculations that I made, these upgrades will take a while to be produced. Between sharing these materials, the amount that will be needed to help the empire thrive with the other races and the machine's cool down time will mean that these upgrades will not be ready for a few months." Daniel thought about it and while he could possibly change the machine to not have a cool down time he wondered if that was a good idea. One problem was that he didn't know how such a complex machine would react if he changed it with his powers and the possibility of creating bigger problems later on, like overheating and possibly even resulting in someone's death, was something he wasn't willing to risk.

He wanted his kids to feel like they were making contributes to Aperture by allowing them to help make things and that was one of the main reasons he didn't just make everything. Daniel also thought there was still things he did not know about his powers, like if he used them a lot then would he need to wait for them to recharge or would constant use of them hurt him like using too much power like what happened before? He was unsure as he almost always took a break in times where he used his powers in training or fooling around.

"Is it that big of a deal? It's just a slow down, it can't actually threaten production." He asked Alpha.

"You're right, it's not and it can't. I just wanted to inform you of it and see if you had an idea for anything that could be done." Daniel thought for a moment and realized that he could just make another one of those machines, but what he questioned is will there be enough power for it to work?

"I could make another one. But I feel like if I make one with no cool down it will likely overheat and explode." Alpha spoke next.

"That Machine uses a lot of power to work, if you were to make one that could constantly run you will need a good power source. If you made such a machine then Aperture would need to use almost all its power for the next two days to keep it going for two hours."

"Do you have a better plan?" Daniel asked Alpha.

"If it's not making 153 more generators or using you as a power source? Then no. I can't think of another solution to keep such a machine running." Daniel shrugged it off.

"We will make more in the future, there's plenty of time. When we have, then we will get a machine like that working. By the way what upgrades are you planning?" Alpha brought up a sketch of the robots that were in Aperture .

"Currently they have no kind of firepower, my thoughts are that if they are to protect this place then a firepower of some kind will be needed. The second is communication channels so I don't have to give orders to the bots directly." Daniel thought that one would be best to finish first as it could speed up progress slightly. "The other is the more complicated one, If it's OK with you, I plan to make some robots have a skeletal structure like yours. That will allow them to walk and run like you do. This will give them better speed and reflexes, but due to length of having to make the complete structure it will take the longest to make." Daniel was curious about what Alpha would use to make them.

"What do you plan on making them out of?" Alpha looked at the ground.

"As of now I'm unsure, because the schematics are still incomplete. When they are finished I will think about what materials will be used." Daniel took a moment to think about what Alpha said, he wondered if he was planning to give his kids and the rest of the robots that upgrade. He was about to say something but was stopped when a flash of light appeared and he saw Mother Nature in her Daisy form. She greeted him with a smile.

"Hello again. I found something that you might find interesting." His attention was caught and he turned to Alpha.

"I'll ask my kids about that upgrade. You might want to finish all the details before the decision is made." Alpha nodded his head and moved towards the robot production factory. When he was out of sight he looked back at Daniel who turned to Mother Nature and sighed.

"I should not have done that experiment with his blood. Now these side effects are going to slow me down." Alpha looked upset, but he quickly returned to normal and went back to work in the factory.

Daniel was talking with Mother Nature on what she found. "You found something? What is it?"

"It took quite a bit off digging but I discovered something that might interest you. It's about the Heart. It turns out there was some others who found the heart but couldn't use it and there was 1 more bearer." Daniel was somewhat surprised by this, but what got him curious was how she got this information.

"How did you find this out?"

"I talked to the other entities and asked them if they found anything out about the heart that is not common knowledge. But most I talked to did not know what the Heart bearer was." He kept listening. "This one is only speculation, but all of the stories about the others who found the heart all had one thing in common, they couldn't use it. But we though about something. What if the heart only chooses those who are not evil? In the past some found it who were like anti-heroes who fought evil, others were almost like saints, but they all had some kind of desire to do what was right and some were people who just wanted a normal life. They said they felt strange while their hand was inside it, like their mind was buzzing but nothing really happened. From that we thought the buzzing could likely mean the Heart scanned their minds to find out if they're evil or if they won't be corrupted by power. However, while looking into this, and with what a previous bearer did, it seems there is a way that evil can use the Hearts." Daniel jumped in surprise by this information.

"What do you mean?" She was silent a moment before speaking.

"The buzzing mind only seems to happen when the heart is complete, but we have speculated that it could be possible to merge with it if you brought the pieces of it together and remade it while it was touching you. That while it's getting remade, it merges to a host without scanning the mind. That is what a previous bearer did."

"If someone evil has merged with that thing then how are things the way they are right now? Who could beat someone merged with the Heart when I was able to beat Tractus after he made me angry."

"She was foolish. She tried to overpower the entities and she almost did so effortlessly, but her body was not adapted to the power and she ended up bleeding and then collapsed from the injuries that the amount of power inflicted on her. After that her body was destroyed but she came back and after a 2 year fight someone discovered that there is only 1 way to put down a heart bearer for good. They need to be removed from the heart. Unmerged before being killed and the only way to do that is to damage the heart enough for it to enter a repair mode." Daniel was now a bit worried about someone doing the same thing in the future. There was still another Heart out there, Incomplete but still out there. If it happened once it could happen again. He was also thankful that he had friends like her helping him learn about his powers.

"What was that about a 'Repair mode'? He asked.

"When the heart got damaged enough it said that it entered a repair state and knowledge of the bearer was put in a sort of back up. If the bearer is destroyed then the heart is damaged and falls apart, the bearer would still be in a sort of hibernation within the heart. But if the heart is damaged enough to enter a repair state while the bearer is still alive, then by killing the bearer it more of less deletes the bearer from the Hearts knowledge. Like deleting a backed up save file on a computer."

All in all Daniel didn't know how to take this information. Part of him was terrified because if what he heard was true then evil could use the first heart if they merged with it while it was rebuilding itself. He knew that if he was to stand any chance against King N he needed to master his powers in time and would also need an army. He knew that he would have a good army of robots in a few years, but he didn't want to ask the entities if they would help as he felt like doing so would be rude as this is his fight but then he remembered that they have fought him in the past alongside the previous bearer so he decided he would ask them after he gets to know them better.

"If that's so then I guess I need more training. I need to learn how to control my powers more."

"You know, not everything you do with your powers has to be training, you can use them for fun. In a way you are still adapting and learning so it's a win, win." This got a smile from him.

"You know, I have been doing just that." She giggled at his words.

"Just don't try anything too serious, like traveling to another universe, yet."

"You won't have to worry about me trying something like that." It was true, not just because Daniel knew he could do something very bad, but also because it could kill his kids or friends and he didn't want to go through the pain that he felt when he tried it before. He remembered what Tractus told him a while ago. How his tolerance to pain is pathetic and while he hated to admit it he couldn't agree more with him. He knew he would have to do some more battle training in the future along side normal training. He sighed. 'So much stuff to do.' He turned back to Mother Nature and smiled. "Thanks for letting me know."

Daniel got out his phone and checked the time to see it was 6:24 and since Annabelle wasn't going to awaken for some time he decided that now would perhaps be a good time to go and clean up his house. He blinked in realization that it was the one thing he hasn't done the whole time he was here.

"You can always pull a prank on your sister every now and then with them." Daniel shook his head in a 'No' way.

"No, I don't want to be mean to her so if I do prank her, it will be without my powers. It'll give her a chance to try and get me back."

"A fair player, that's what you are. Take care Daniel." She said before disappearing in a flash. Daniel now headed out of Aperture and to the living room. As he looked around he saw that things were not all that messy, but could still use some cleaning up. He snapped his fingers and the living room was back to normal. He walked over to the couch where his PJs were and a thought passed him, if he wanted to blend in he needed to learn to do things normally so he should clean these the normal way. Plus if for some reason he should lose his powers then he would need to do this stuff normally.

He picked them up and walked to an empty wall space where he thought of the room he wanted and then snapped his fingers causing a door to appear. When he entered the room he was glad to see that it turned out exactly as he wanted. It was a small room that had floor tiles, a washing machine, tumble dryer and above them was a worktop to place things and above that was cabinets that he planned to fill with cleaning supplies and a light that was in the center of the ceiling.

Daniel opened the washing machine, placed his PJs in and was about to set it to wash when he discovered he didn't know the correct setting for it. Looking at the words on the dial he decided to set it to a soft wash because there was not much to clean and he was happy to hear it starting up.

"I better stay here just in case I got it wrong. While I'm here I could always have some fun with my powers." Daniel sat on the floor with his back against the wall and thought about what he could do for fun and to pass the time. He settled on shapeshifting and thought about what to try.

He got curious and decided to see what it was like to be a cat so he thought about it and soon felt himself shrink and change and after a few moments he was standing on all four legs and close to the ground. "So this is what it feels like? Its strange." He looked at his own refection in the washing machine glass door and saw that his cat form had white fur and blue eyes. "So I remain mostly the same. Ok." An idea suddenly popped into Daniel's head and he almost laughed at the thought, but decided to try it out so he used his power of shapeshifting to turn into a chair and took a moment to adapt to how it felt. "I feel like my bone structure is out of place." He could still see and he tried moving and found that he could still move so he looked at his refection again and saw he was a normal wooden chair. "This is getting too weird for me, how about something a bit nicer." Daniel thought over what he could change into that was nice and he got a thought. It should be something related to gems as gems were nice to look at and just like the ponies of this world he thought his eyes should be big and colorful. He didn't have any form in mind so he closed his eyes and just imagined himself in a form with all those things.

He felt himself change and after it was done he opened his eyes and tried to look at his reflection in the washing machines glass but he couldn't because he was looking down on it. Daniel looked at his hands and saw he had fingers so he snapped them which caused a mirror to appear and when he looked at it he saw the form he took on. His bottom part was a diamond that was floating off of the ground and it was also in the shape of one so it looked like two joined triangles, his top half was connected to the diamond on his bottom half by his skin which held on to it like roots, he was wearing a grey robe that went down and covered almost half of his bottom so a bit more than half of the diamond was still visible.

As he looked at his face he saw that his skin was ghost white and when he looked at his eyes he saw that they were indeed bigger and the irises were an emerald green colour, they were so wide they covered almost the entirety of his eyes and his pupils were a sparkly rudy red and he had no eyebrows. When he looked at his hair he saw that it was longer and there was also crystals where his hair should be. Upon close examination he saw that the crystals that made his hair were connected to his head and when he looked at his head he saw that all those crystal that made his hair were connected to a large spherical sapphire on his head. Behind the sapphire sphere there was five large amethysts growing there and they were touching the sapphire but were not connected to it so it almost made it look like he was wearing a crown.

He moved his robe away to get a closer look at his body only to discover it was blank, no belly button or anything. He then looked at his hands which were missing fingernails but other than that and the ghost white colour they were still the same. Daniel put the robe back on and looked at his face once more and he saw two details he missed out, first he had no nose but he could still breath through it and his lips were the same colour as the rest of him, the only thing he saw when his mouth was close was a black line where his lips would be.

He stood in font of the mirror for a few seconds and didn't look away from his new form, it felt so strange to look in the mirror and see someone unfamiliar looking back at him and he didn't know what to think about this form. He liked the way it looked but it felt strange. As he touched the sapphire he had on his head he surprised when he could actually feel it. His hand felt the surface of it and it felt smooth but he also felt his hand with the sapphire.

"What?" Daniel covered his mouth when he said that as his voice took him by surprise. It didn't sound like him at all, it sounded so feminine. But that didn't last long as hit attention was caught when he no longer heard the washing machine working and when he looked over at it and he saw that it was done cleaning. So he quickly changed back to his normal for and opened the tumble dryer door, took his cloths out of the washing machine, placed them in it before closing the tumble dryer door and setting it to a 30 minutes out of random. "Man, I never knew mom had to keep track of all these little details while doing stuff like this." Daniel froze in place when he mentioned his mom and a image of her flashing in his mind, he later recollected himself and turned the tumble dryer on.

He went back to the mirror and changed back into the other for he took a few moments ago. He decided to see if there was anything he missed about it so he took of his robe and looked at his back in the mirror. He saw that he had lots octagon shaped crystals that were about 3mm each going from the big diamond at the bottom all the way up his back to where his spine connected to his neck, shoulders and a little further. They stopped at the amethysts that were growing just behind the sapphire on his head, they only seemed to be on his spine as they went down the centre of his back in a perfect straight line. Just seeing that thing protruding from his spine make his feel sick so he quickly put his robe back on and turned back to face the mirror. He stood there for a moment and thought about this new form he had made.

"I guess I could make this work somehow. If I ever need a new disguise, I can use this one." He decided to try out his new form so he made the mirror vanish and tried walking. When he tried that he discovered he didn't walk but instead he hovered and his hovering was controlled by his mind. Daniel tried to see if he could hover higher than what he current was, so he imagined himself going higher and soon he felt his head hit the celling. He then lowered himself to the ground. "Ok, this form is one I'm defiantly going to use again." An idea popped into his mind and decided to try it out so he waited for the tumble dryer to finish. As he looked at the remaining time he saw there was 7 minutes left so he changed back to normal and sat down on the floor with his back against the wall.

As he sat there the only thing he heard was the tumble dryer working, he didn't know why but he like times like this, being in a small room with some kind of soft sound. He had always questioned himself on it and never got a answer but he guessed it was because he found it peaceful.

After a few moments Daniel heard the dryer stop and got his PJs out of it, he putting them on his shoulder and pulled out his IPhone to check the time, to see it was 7:47 which means Annabelle should be waking up soon. So he turned off the light and the power sockets for the machines in the small room before leaving it and heading to the living room where he placed his PJs on the couch. Then he changed into his new form and waited at the side of the door to the hallway for Annabelle.

He didn't have to wait long as he heard the door to Terabithia open and footsteps coming, growing louder as Annabelle moved towards the living room. He stood where he was and waited for her to enter and when she did she looked around for him.

"Bro? Daniel?" Daniel was still standing at the side, he couldn't wait to see her face when she showed her his new form.

"Here Annabelle." She jumped in fright and turned around to face him, her eyes went wide and her jaw dropped when she saw what was in front of her. Daniel laughed at the look on his sisters face. She approached him after he stopped laughing.

"D-Daniel?" Daniel decided not to play around anymore so he changed back to normal.

"Hi Annabelle." He said greeting her with a smile.

"What was that?" She was still shaking a little.

"My new form."

"What is it called?" Daniel froze when she asked that. He didn't give it a name but he quickly made one.

"My Crystal form. Want to see it again?" Annabelle nodded a few times and Daniel changed back. She walked around him, looked all over his new form.

"How did you come up with that?"

"I just thought about something that's nice and different kinds of jewels are nice to look at, so with those things in mind I transformed but not with a specific form in mind and got this." Annabelle looked at the sapphire he had on his head and the giant diamond that his upper body was connected to. "Are those real?" Daniel touched them with his hands and just like before his hands felt the smoothness of the jewel on his head while he felt his hands with the jewel, because he could feel with them he started to wonder of they were real.

"I can feel if something is touching them like normal skin can so I...I don't know." He saw Annabelle trying to reach his head but she couldn't so he lower his head for her and she started to feel the sapphire on his head.

"It feels real." She looked at him and smiled. "Also, your voice sounds like a girl." Daniel didn't like to be reminded of that, while he could just change his voice back to normal he decided that the voice he currently has would be good for that form as he felt the voice matched the appearance more. He looked at Annabelle as saw she had a grin of her face.

"Annabelle, why are you looking at me like that?" He was getting a bit scared.

"If I tickled you before and it made you squeal like a schoolgirl, then I wonder how you would sound now with that voice." Daniel knew what she was going to do but before Annabelle could reach him he pointed a finger at her which glowed a blue colour and after a moment saw she was levitating.

"Not this time, Shrimp." She froze when she heard him say that and then turned to look at him angrily.

"What did you just call me?" Daniel grinned.

"I called you a shrimp. What are you going to do about it?" She was now glaring at him.

"I swear I will get you back for that." She told him and he chuckled.

Daniel almost dropped Annabelle when his concentration was broken by a ring that Daniel knew. It meant that someone was at the door of his house in ponyville so he lowered Annabelle to the ground, changed into his pony form and put on the fake tattoo mark before heading to the basement door.

"Can I come along?" He heard Annabelle ask and he turned back to her with a smile.

"Sure." Daniel changed her into her pony form and the both of them went into the basement, through the door then out of that basement and into their ponyville house. When they were in their ponyville house Daniel went over to the door and opened it to be greeted by Twilight. "Oh, Hi Twilight."

"Morning Cosmos." She said with a smile. Annabelle walked up and stood by his side. "Hi Strawberry."

"Hi Twilight." She said with a smile, Twilight looked a little surprised.

"You seem more cheerful."

"I am, I feel great. What's happening? If anything is." Twilight turned back to Daniel and spoke.

"Oh Yeah, Rarity would like you to come and visit her at her boutique. she wants to show us all something." Daniel thought for a moment and he realised he didn't know where Rarity's boutique was.

"I-I have never been to her boutique." Twilight looked a bit surprised.

"Well, you can follow me, I'll take you there." Daniel looked at Annabelle who just smiled.

"Ok, lead the way." Daniel followed Twilight to Rarity's boutique which was a good walk away from where he lived, it didn't look like much from the outside but when he went in he saw it looked quite nice. She knew how to keep things organized, that was for sure and she also had the tools like sewing machines rather than making them with her hoof for the most part. But what caught Daniels attention were the sewing machines as he didn't see any power lines outside or plug sockets inside. Now that he thought about it he almost never saw any kind of machinery in Equestria besides the ones he had in Aperture.

"Perhaps I could start a business, It could be beneficial not just to me and Annabelle but equestria as a whole." Daniel thought it was a good idea but he quickly discarded it when a realisation came to mind. "No. Ponies would question how I made them and that could lead to investigation and that could expose Aperture to all of equestria. While I might show my friends it in time I will not show all of equestria as who knows how the ponies will react. What they will do to my kids." Daniel got a image in his head of his kids being taken away to be researched and that very thought caused him to get angry but he quickly calmed down.

"Cosmos? Darling are you ok?" Daniel was snapped out of his thoughts by Rarity who was looking at him with worry. He looked around to see all of his other friends around him, looking at him the same way.

"Yes, I am fine, I was just thinking." Dash flew in front of him with a look of curiosity on her face.

"Of what, You just tensed up there for a second and didn't respond to any of us."

"Family matters, Painful to thank about, please leave it at that." He felt a hoof on his back and turned around to see Applejack.

"Coz, we are friends, friends help each other, If ya tell us about what's been bothering tha both of ya then we might be able ta help." Daniel appreciated their concern for him and his sister but he was not ready to tell them.

"I don't want to talk about it, Not yet anyway." Twilight spoke to him next.

"Wait, you will tell us?"

"Sometime, yes, I don't know when however." Daniel saw they had looks of disappointment on their faces so he tried to lighten the mood. "It's not that I don't trust you, I do. A lot in fact. I will tell you small parts as we go along but for now I just don't want to talk about the matters." They seemed to lighten up when he said that.

"Well it's a family matter so it's privet to you. I wont ask anything further about it." Daniel smiled at Rarity when she said that.

"Thanks Rarity. Now Twilight mentioned you had something to show us." She got a confident smile on her face when he said that.

"Why yes I do indeed. Now if you would all just close your eyes and follow my voice." They did at they were told but Daniel focused so his other senses were much better and he could hear their heartbeats as clear as day. "That's it, keep them closed, Don't look....Ok you can look now." They all opened their eyes and Daniel made his senses go back to normal. When he put them back to normal he heard all of the girls gasp. "These are your new outfits."

Daniel looked over the outfits and in his opinion they looked fantastic. He didn't know much about clothes but he could tell just by looking at them who's outfit was for who. They all seemed to have something that was at the front and fastened two sides of the outfit together like a cap that people make out of their bed sheets. Applejacks outfit had a apple fastener at the front of it and was both green and orange, with some parts white and a little red on the boots. Just from looking at it Daniel though it would certainly would look nice on Applejack.

Twilight's outfit was bigger so it covered more and it was the same at the front but instead of an apple holding it together it was a star, her outfit was mostly blue with white stars at the areas where the back would be and at the areas that would be closest to the ground. She had no kind of hoof wear to go with her outfit unlike applejack's did.

Fluttershy's looked like it was made out of pieces of nature itself as her shoes had vines coming out to hug her front legs. The dress looked like it was made of a giant leaf with a flower pattern about half way down and just like Twilight's and Applejacks outfit, hers was held together at the front by a clamp that was the shape of her own mark, a butterfly.

Rainbow Dash's outfit was in the colour pattern of a rainbow with the edges of the outfit having some kind material that Daniel guessed was cotton that made the edges of her outfit look like they had clouds. Her hoof wear was gold shoes with golden strappings and it was held at the front by what looked like berries of some kind.

Pinkie's outfit had pink shoes with blue and white striped bowties, the bit that rested on her back was the same pattern and colour at the bowties. She had a little hat to go along with her outfit and at the back it was mostly pink but the closer it got to her back it changed to what looked like a white skirt with a pattern of sweets on it and was held at the front by a pink bow.

Daniel saw his at the end. It was a Black suite with a white undershirt that came down to where his ankles would be if his front legs had feet and a top hat but what got his attention was the blue bowtie at the front and a little meteor badge at the side where it buttons up. He wondered where Rarity got the idea for a blue bowtie but before he could ask her she spoke.

"What do you think of your old duds now Applejack? Pretty swanky are they not?" She then spoke to Twilight. "Twilight I made this dress for you and I designed each outfit theme to perfectly reflect each ponies unique personality." She moved to Dash's outfit. "It took me forever to get the colours right on this one Rainbow Dash but I did it, oh and it turned out beautiful, Don't you think?" She looked to Fluttershy next. "I know you are going to love yours Fluttershy, it just sings spring." She looked to Pinkie next. "Pinkie pie, look, Pink. Your favorite."

She then looked at Daniel. "Cosmos, it took me a while to get this correctly as I don't know your size but from what I have seen when you wore those other clothes, it's that dark colours go well with your hair but not you coat, so I made a undercoat that should go well with that and the rest of it is to match the dark stripes in your hair and the blue bowtie I think goes well with you dark blue strips in your hair and light blue eyes. I've never had to make a outfit for somepony who's coat is so different from their hair and eyes. I'm still working on strawberry's outfit, It shouldn't be too long now until it's ready." Rarity explained to Daniel the details she was thinking of when making his outfit. "Aren't they all amazing?" Daniel was not going to deny it, in his eyes Rarity did a great job.

There was silence for a good few moments as all the others were looking at their outfits with questionable looks. Rarity looked nervous but with how good a job she done with them, Daniel didn't see why she should be nervous. Eventually Twilight spoke and broke the silence.

"Wow, they're...." She didn't finish her sentence as Dash spoke next.

"Yeah. they're...." Daniel was starting to wonder if they liked what Rarity made for them.

"They sure are...uh...something." Applejack said next.

"Yes. Something." Twilight said after pointing at Applejack. After she said that Daniel wondered if that was just half of the sentence, Something good or bad?

"I love something, Something is my favourite." Pinkie was not her normal cheery self and Daniel could see that the smile she has was a forces smile. Pinkie looked to Fluttershy who spoke next.

"It's...Nice." Her ears and head dropped when she said the second part. Rarity looked worried.

"Well what's the matter? Don't you like them?" Daniel spoke to cheer her up.

"I for one love what you made. Thanks Rarity." He said and smiled genuinely which cause her to smile at his words.

"Why Cosmos, you're very welcome." He looked back to the others, waiting for their answers and so did Rarity.

"They're very nice." Daniel could see that Twilight was trying to be nice.

"An were plumb grateful cause you worked so hard on' em." Dash spoke after Applejack said that.

"Mine's just not as cool as I was imagining." She said clearly and all the other looked at her angrily but Dash didn't seem to be that bothered by their looks. "She asked." Dash pointed out.

"I guess what we're saying is they are just not what we had in mind." All of the others agreed and when Daniel looked back at Rarity he saw she looked upset but she soon lost that look and tried to smile again.

"That's ok. Not a problem. Plenty more where that came from. They're only a first pass, you are my friends and I want you to be 110% satisfied. Not to worry, I'll redo them." Daniel was worried that Rarity was pushing herself to far.

"Oh Rarity you don't have to that. They're fine." Rarity started to remove their suites off of the mannequins.

"I want them to be better than just fine. I want you to be absolutely perfect." Daniel was already satisfied with his outfit so he didn't bother asking.

"Are you sure? I mean we wouldn't want to impose." Rarity laughed at Applejack's words.

"It's no imposition, really I insist." She said with a smile and all the others started leaving.

"Well in that case, thank you again Rarity." Twilight said to her and Daniel headed to the door, when it closed Daniel pressed his ear up against it and listened.

"What have I gotten myself into?" Daniel felt a bit sorry for Rarity. She made those outfits out of the kindness and generosity of her heart and they turned out to not be liked by her friends. Daniel thought about helping her make them to help get some of the pressure of her back but he knew she needed concentration so working at Rarity's was a no go and he wouldn't just ask for the designs of the clothes and then make them with his powers because Rarity might see him.

He thought it over for a moment and realised that he could make it a one time thing, that should be good enough to help her so he chapped on the door and waited for a reply.

"Come in." Daniel opened the door and Rarity greeted him.

"Why Cosmos, nice to see you again." She was still taking the outfits off of the mannequins, Daniel decided to get to the point of why he was here.

"Rarity, Do you want some help with making those outfits?"

"Oh, No it is quite alright Darling, it's a challenge and I love the opportunity to design something new." Daniel was still sure that this was just a disguise.

"Well, you don't need to make me a new one, I like it the way it is." Daniel heard her sigh and it sounded like a sigh of relief.

"Thank you Cosmos, You really are to kind. But don't worry, I can do this." Daniel was unsure.

"Are you sure Rarity?"

"Totally." She said back. Daniel decided to take her word.

"Well ok, If you change your mind and want me to help just stop by and say so." Daniel walked to the door where Annabelle had been waiting patently.

"I will, Thanks Cosmos." Daniel closed the door and turned to Annabelle.

"She's clearly worried about those clothes." Annabelle was looking in one of the windows when he said that.

"I know. But what can you or I do about it?" Daniel didn't like his plan that much but it would have to do.

"First, I make it easier for her. My outfit will not be getting a redo so that is one thing off her back. But she refused my help and I'm not one to enforce it on her, so let's go back home. We will wait and see if she asks us to help." Annabelle looked at him with a raised eyebrow.

"Us?" She asked

"You can help out too if you want to." He smiled.

"I would like too." Daniel and Annabelle continued to walk to their home and Annabelle asked him something along the way. "Hey bro, can you show me you new thing when we're back home?" Daniel had a feeling she was asking if she could see him in his crystal form again.

"Sure thing." They both arrived at their home and Daniel changed them back to their normal forms as they entered the basement and headed to their everfree home. When they arrived Daniel was surprised to find Freddy, Victoria, Barry and Caroline playing poker with a pack of cards they found and bits of paper with numbers on them that represent money, the others were watching from the sides and Selene was the dealer. His kids held the cards with one of their extra accessories which was a claw extension they got not too long ago.

Daniel was never one for poker but that all changed after he played the game Poker Night at the Inventory, he mostly wanted it to get the items that could be won but he learned to play poker along the way and by the looks of things in the game his kids were playing, Freddy and Caroline were winning as they had more custom paper money.

"Perhaps I could teach them how to play liars dice." Annabelle watched them too but she didn't know much about Poker.

"Check." Freddy called and the card flipped to reveal a jack of aces. Freddy got a look on his face that Daniel knew means he had a plan. It was Victoria's turn now.

"I-I go all in." She did not have much but she took a risk. Caroline was next and she pushed a few paper money bits forward.

"Call." They all looked at Barry next who looked at his cards and then at the ones that were out, he folded.

"Fold." Freddy chuckled and pushed most of his paper money forward.

"Raise." All the others looked at Caroline who smiled and pushed more forward.

"I call." They all placed their cards down and looked to Selene who flipped the last card. Daniel looked over it and saw that Freddy had a jack of hearts, a 7 of spades, a 9 of clubs and the jack of diamonds. The cards in play were the Jack of spades, a 7 of hearts, a 10 of clubs, a king of clubs and an ace of diamonds. Caroline had a 10 of diamonds, a queen of spades, a 2 of clubs and a jack of clubs. Selene spoke.

"Freddy has a full house with 3 jacks and 2 7s, Caroline has a full house with 3 jacks and 2 10s, Caroline takes the pot with the bigger house." Freddy did not look to happy but Caroline was jumping in joy.

"I did it, I did it." Daniel smiled and spoke.

"Nice going." They all looked to him the moment he said that.

"Daddy?" The all said together and Daniel just waved at them.

"How long were you there?" Caroline asked.

"I only seen that one turn." They all looked at each other then back at Daniel.

"Would you like to play with us?" Freddy asked.

"At Poker?" He nodded. "Sure." As Daniel walked over to join them, Selene gathered the cards and shuffled them and Barry moved to the side.

"You can take my place. I don't like this game that much." He said to Daniel.

"Thanks." He turned back to Annabelle. "I'll show you it soon. Ok?"

"Fine." She took a seat on the couch and watched the game as Selene started handing out 4 cards to each player. Daniel, Freddy, Caroline and Victoria.

A while later the card game was over and Caroline was the winner, turns out she was very good at not just poker but most other games. Daniel then remembered the promise he had made to Annabelle and decided he should show his kids as well as his kids haven't seen him in his other forms so he decided that if he was going to show off his new form he would show the others.

"Hey Annabelle. I am going to show them the other forms before I show you and them the new one. Ok?" Annabelle got off of the couch and walked up to him.

"That's fine, I want to see them up close too." Daniel saw all of his kids were looking at him curiously.

"Show us what?" Freddy asked.

"Well, You might not know this, but I can change my appearance?" They all looked at one another before he heard Elizabeth ask.

"What can you change into?" She asked.

"Well...As far as I know, anything." They looked surprised and Daniel took that as his cue to start so he transformed into his shadow form which caused the all to jump back in fear.

"D-Daddy?" Caroline asked.

"It's still me, don't worry." Caroline approached him and move one of her legs over to him, touching the dark mist that flowed off of him.

"A bit cold. According to my temperature measurer." She moved her leg away and saw that the mist moved like smoke, she moved her leg back and forth causing the smoke to go into different patterns. Daniel chuckled at how cute that was and he thought it was time to show his other form so he turned into his Mew form and when he did Elizabeth's eye went wide.

"Daddy, what form is that!?" She asked loudly.

"This is my m-" He was cut off when he felt himself get grabbed from behind and pulled into a hug. He knew it was Annabelle when he saw the hands that grabbed him.

"You're so cute in that form." She hugged him tighter, not wanting to let go.

"Annabelle, please let me go." She hugged him more.

"Aww, you even make the sounds." Daniel wondered what she meant by that and then remembered when he is in this form all others hear is 'Mew' but he had a thought, could that be cause from his sub consciousness? He thought about him talking normally while in this form and spoke again.

"Annabelle. could you put me down?" He asked.

"No, you're to cuddly." It seemed to work as she understood him or she took a wild guess as what he said. Daniel teleported out of her hold and flew up to the ceiling. "Aww." She said in disappointment and it make him feel a bit guilty.

"Sorry Annabelle but I want to show my kids my forms." Her face now looked like one of disappointment.

"Fine." She said and Daniel turned back to face his kids.

"This is my Mew form."

"You look so cute!" Elizabeth squealed. Daniel looked over to Annabelle.

"Ready for the new one?" This caught her attention and she smiled again. Daniel looked back to his kids. "This one I made up just this morning, this-" He stopped and started to change into his crystal form. When he was fully changed into it he continued. "-is my crystal form."

They all looked at his crystal form with wide eyes and Annabelle started to feel the gems that were on his head again but Daniel didn't mind, he was to busy looking at the reactions of his kids.

"Are those real?" Abby asked, pointing to the sapphire and amethysts on his head.

"I don't fully know." They all remained silent and then giggled after hearing his voice.

"You sound stange." Daniel face turned red with embarrassment after Freddy said that.

"I know, don't remind me."

"Ok, we wont..." All of them besides Daniel burst into laughter when Freddy said that becouse of the look Daniel had on his face. After a little while their laughter died down. "Sorry, I couldn't resist." Elizabeth spoke next.

"Daddy, can I...feel that gem on your head?"

"Sure." Daniel lowered his head and she touched the sapphire on his head.

"It looks real." All the others gathered to look at the crystals he had on him. After a while Daniel decided they have seen enough and turned back to his normal form.

"Aww." They groaned in disappointment. Daniel was about to ask them if they wanted to play liar's dice but just as he was about to he heard the alarm that indicates that someone is at his ponyville house. He turned back to his kids.

"I need to take care of this, Annabelle do you want to come along?" Annabelle smiled and nodded. Daniel changed them to their pony forms and headed into the basement and to their other home. He hadn't cleaned the fake mark off so it was still on and good to go. When they were there Daniel answered the door to see it was Rarity. Curiosity got the better of him as he remembered she said that she would be working on the dresses she made, so what was she doing here?

"Cosmos, I know this is kind of sudden but can you come with me so we can get you suited up?" Daniel wondered what he needed to be suited for.

"What for? I thought those clothes were for the gala."

"Yes they are but Hoity Toity is coming to check out my dresses." Daniel raised a eyebrow at that name.

"Who?" Rarity had a look of shock on her face.

"How can you not know Hoity Toity?" Daniel frowned.

"Remember. We are not from around here." She lost the shocked look on her face.

"Oh right, sorry. Well he's a big fashion hot shot in canterlot, and he is coming here to see the dresses I had made." Daniel could understand why she looked so stressed now.

"Well congrats, your business will likely be booming after he visits."

"But it's not that I am worried about. It's the dresses the girls asked me to make, they are...are....well, you have to see. Please follow me." Rarity walked away and Daniel quickly turned Annabelle back to her pony form before they followed her to her boutique. When they arrived she turned to him and pointed to the side. "Look at what they made me design."

Daniel took a look to where Rarity pointed and saw the ugly dresses that were there.

Twilight's didn't look like a dress, it looked more like a small poorly designed blanket with constellation on it, starts coming out of the area where her hair would be and a bowtie for her tail.

Fluttershy's one looked like a overly large dress that was made to look like flowery bush, it had nests for shoes and another nest that was larger than the rest and it was supposed to be a hat.

Applejacks looked like a cross between a baking outfit and a work outfit with what looked like rain boots, a silly large red hat and a green scarf.

Pinkie's had a ballerina dress with some green and yellow at the front where her neck was, balloon for her tail and a cupcake for her hat.

Dash's looked the most decent out of them all but it looked more like a military costume than a actual dress. Her helmet and shoes still had her rainbow pattern but the helmet looked like it was made for speed, her shoes had feathers on them and the red clothing part that went over her mark had a picture of her mark on it. If Dash was going for a military design she got it.

"Did you do anything to mine?" He asked her.

"Oh, No Darling. You asked me not to change it so I did just that." She pointed over to the other side and Daniel saw his suit there and unchanged. "I took you here to ask you if you can help, What can I do? I can't let Hoity see these dresses." Daniel took a moment to think and he eventually got a idea.

"I know what you can do." She perked up when she heard him mention that.

"You do? What?" She became a bit cheerful.

"Do you still have their other dresses?" He asked.

"Yes, Why?" Daniel grinned.

"Then let them show these dresses off, When it is over I will talk with Hoity. I am certain I can get him to give you another chance." Rarity looked a bit uneasy.

"But, why must I let my friends show off these ugly things?" She asked pointing to the dresses.

"If you don't then they might get angry at you for not letting them show off their own designs. If you let them show those things off and when they see the horrible reaction they get, you won't get any of the blame. I will ask Hoity to give you another chance and then you can show off what you made and impress him. That is...if...he says these ones are horrible." She looked back to the dresses and then back at Daniel.

"You sure?" He giggled.

"I'm sure he will love the dresses that you originally made. Also because of those disasters waiting to happen, I won't appear at the first one. When he gives you another chance and you show off the originals, then I will wear mine." Rarity was silent for a few moments before she spoke.

"Ok, It's at 9:00, here, tonight. I hope you know what you are doing."

"I hope so too." He said under his breath and looked at Annabelle who was still looking at the dresses with disgust. "Strawberry. it's time to go."

Just as they were about to leave Rearity spoke again.

"Wait. I almost forgot. I finished Strawberry's dress." Both of them turned around and saw a small mannequin with a small dress on it. The dress was a warm pink color that matched Annabelle's coat and she had small cream colored shoes to go along with it. Her dress also had a little bow at the front that match the color of her hair. "I hope it's not too bad."

"I like it." Annabelle went up to the dress and was rubbing her cheeks against it. "So soft. I can't wait to wear it." Rarity smiled.

"I made it...be it in a little hurry but I'm glad you like it." She sighed in relief.

"Thanks Rarity. Now you best get some rest. You will need it for tomorrow." A while later Daniel and Annabelle went back to their house and Rarity was now alone, watching over the horrible dresses.

"I hope he knows what he is doing." She said as she looked at the dresses with worry. She then heard a chap at the door and when she answered it Twilight and the others were there. "What are you all doing here? I finished your dresses and Hoity doesn’t arrive for a while." Rainbow Dash spoke.

"Remember a good while ago we tried to find out what is bothering Cosmos?" Rarity nodded at the reminder. "Well, Twilight says she thinks she’s discovered what’s bothering him." Twilight stepped forward.

"My we come in, it's not something to talk about outside."

"Oh why, yes. Come in." They all entered and Rarity shut the door.

"So tell us Twi, what did ya find out." Applejack asked. She looked around at her friends who were all staring at her, waiting for an answer.

"It was during the Running of the Leafs. Cosmos wasn’t running like the rest so we stayed back and spoke for a while. I asked him about his parents and he froze for a moment, but it's what he said next that got my attention. He said 'We all have to deal with it eventually.' If we take what he said and look over recent things, like strawberry not being around, how he froze up and how he mentioned the thing that was wrong with her was some family matters." They all gasped.

"Are you saying that the reason for Cosmos and Strawberry's strange acting is because their parents died?" Dash asked.

"I am certain that’s the reason, and remember, Cosmos has kept Strawberry safe while living in the everfree. So that might explain some of the stress he had before. How he never seemed to settle."

"So what do we do now?" Pinkie asked Twilight.

"Well, I guess the only thing we can do is be there for them. Something like this take time for somepony to overcome."

"But he has been so helpful to us." Rarity said.

"Which means now it's our turn, the most we can do for him in a situation like that is to be there for him when he needs us." All of them nodded in agreement with Twilight's statement. "Did you all find anything?" They all shook their heads. "Ok then, He has been a little more open to us, if we just wait then we might get to know him a bit more."

Rarity looked out of the window, at the sun, and saw it was starting to set. Worried, she turned back to Twilight.

"Twilight, Is the stage and everything set?" She turned to Rarity.

"Yes it is, Not long and you can show Hoity your dresses." Rarity had a nervous look on her face.

Later that night a stage had been set up at carousel boutique and there were a lot of ponies who were arriving. Annabelle chose to stay home because she didn’t want to see what happens when these dresses are shown so Daniel let her stay home. As Daniel approached the stage and waited for Hoity Toity to arrive. He saw Rarity peek out from the curtains and look around. She gave a nervous smile when he waved to her and she saw something which caused her to gasp in surprise and he turned around to see all the other ponies looking at this one who hat white hair, a suit, glasses and a fan mark.

While he was walking Daniel overheard some of the others saying 'It's Hoity Toity.' and when he was at the stage he clapped his hoof and someone brought him a cushion to sit on.

Daniel looked back to Rarity who seemed to start hyperventilating and shaking. She screamed a little when the lights turned off but quickly went back behind the curtains and the lights turned on and music started. Daniel heard Spike speak to the crowed.

"Since the beginning of time, the elite of equestria have longed for pony fashions that truly express the essence of their very soul."

'What image would fashion make for 'give up to get back'? I would give up my powers just to have my parents back.' Daniel thought.

"Patently waiting decades, no, centuries for that perfect pony gown. Today at long last equestria, your wait is over. Let's hear it for the breath taking designs of ponyville's own-" The curtains started to rise. "Rarity." The lights focused on Twilight and the rest of them and the crowd gasped in surprise. As Twilight and the others stared to walk out Daniel saw the looks the crowd was giving them and it was looks of disgust and unpleasantness.

As they got to the edge and stood for the crowed to see, Daniel was trying not to laugh at the faces the crowed were making. Daniel listened into what his friend were saying. He heard rainbow Dash speak.

"You think we overdid it?" Applejack replied.

"Nah." She took one look at her boots and changed her mind. "Oh, Maybe." Daniel heard Hoity speak next.

"Oh those amateur designs look like a pile of mish mash of everything but the kitchen sink." The crowd laughed at that. Daniel looked at the designs and had a thought.

'Compared to the original dresses Rarity made, these one look like something that Oogie Boogie pulled out of his butt." Hoity continued to speak.

"It's a travesty, is what it is. Those outfits are the ugliest thing I have ever seen, Oh for shame. Who is responsible for subjecting out eyes to these horrors? Not to mention wasting my valuable time." Daniel could see Rarity in the back, cowering in fear. Spike appeared and spoke.

"Come on out and take a bow Rarity. You worked really hard for this." Rarity walked out but kept her head held low. As she walked, Daniel heard some of the things the crowed said and it was unpleasant.

As she continued to walk the looks on the others changed from a nervous smile to looks of sadness. As she stopped at the front Hoity spoke.

"Miss I must say those outfits were awful. Not only did you waste the time and hurt the eyes of the citizens of Ponyville but mine also. I did not travel here from Calterlot to see the work of an amateur. Farewell." Hoity's words hurt Rarity to the core and Daniel could clearly see it. She ran back into her home, crying. He was going to keep his word so he followed Hoity Toity until he was away from the crowd that now dispersed and returned to their homes.

"Excuse me Sir." Daniel said to get his attention.

"I am sorry but I don't have time for idle chit chat, I must be returning to Canterlot." He continued to walk but Daniel was not going to give up that easily.

"It's about the outfits you saw." Hoity shuddered.

"Why must you remind me of those atrocities?"

"Because they were not Rarity's designs." This seemed to stop him from walking as he turned to look at Daniel.

"But I came here to see her designs and she showed me those, Please explain." Daniel smiled now that he had his attention.

"You see, Rarity had made original dresses that she planned to show you but her friends thought the dresses she made were not their style. So Rarity made new dresses, the way that her friends wanted them and you saw the outcome."

"So are you telling me her friends would only appear if they wore those dresses that they got her to make?"

"That is true. If you don't believe then come by tomorrow, I can guarantee you that you will not be disappointed." Hoity was silent for a moment before he spoke.

"If she is as impressive as I heard then I guess I can find a way to fit it into my schedule. I do hope you’re nott saying this to waste my time." Daniel shook his head.

"I’m not."

"Very well, I will be there around the afternoon of tomorrow. Good day." Hoity continued to walk and when he was out of sight Daniel smiled.

"I did it. I got him to give her another chance." Daniel decided to go back to Rarity tomorrow, what Hoity said would have upset her and she might want to be alone so that's what he did.

Bravacho looked at the sky as night fell on the planet, he knew that his father would arrive tomorrow and he feared for the lives of all the people on this planet. He knew the plan for tomorrow and while it was risky it was also their best hope to beating King N. Bravacho would sneak into his father's room while his friend dealt with the troops and when his father decided to join the fight then he would make his move, he would get the heart piece to the machine and activate it.

If what his friend said was true then it should lead him to the planet and the point in time where the Heart bearer was, but he was told it wasn’t fully accurate so while he would be on the same time zone and planet as the bearer, he would have to search for him or her.

While he waited on the balcony of the hotel his thoughts started to wonder about Dravia, he knew that he was going to take her with him when he went looking for the Heart bearer but he had a bad feeling in his gut about Flong. Flong told him that one of his troops would destroy the machine so his father couldn’t track him but he was still worried because while Flong battles, he could still die. The more he talked to Flong about the molecule cannon the more he learned about it. He learned that it had to be fired manually because a timed firing would risk being fired at the wrong time and it was a good bit away from the Portal Machine, in an abandoned side tower away from the palace.

While Flong did say he would try and come with him to help him search for the Heart bearer, he was still uneasy because this could be the last time he gets to see him. He placed his hands on his face, wondering what he could do when he knew all he could do was hope his friend didn’t die before he got the Heart piece.

"Honey, are you ok?" Bravacho looked to the side and saw Dravia looking at him with worry in her eyes. He cleaned his face and spoke.

"No. The thought of losing Flong is...." He did not finish his sentence. Dravia walked over to him and stood beside him.

"I don't like the thought of this ether, but we are in this together, so we need to see it through." She leaned against his arm and looked to the night sky. "Why don't you go and hang out with him?" This caught him by surprise.

"What do you mean?"

"If you are that worried that this will be the last time you get to see him, then have as much fun as you can tonight, keep happy memories of him with you." While he did like the sound of that he was still uneasy about leaving her.

"But, what about you?"

"I want to see you happy, and if being with him for this last night makes you happy then who am I to stop you." He leaned his head against hers.

"Thanks." She cuddled against his side for a few moments before he looked at her and the both shared a passionate kiss. Bravacho pulled away softly after a few seconds and looked at the door that was still opened then looked back to Dravia. "I will be back by midnight, at the least." With that he started to walk back into the club and Dravia looked at him happily.

"Have fun." She said before he got passed the club's door.

Luna was still currently going over her notes and trying to find out more about Daniel and try to spot some clues as to who he was. This was very hard considering the details she was dealing with. He and his sister had been around for 1000 years so they would have got time to learn about Equestria's society, but one thing was causing her mind to go in loops and it was Daniel's sister. If he was protecting her all those years ago then why did she still look so young in both his and her dreams?

Luna had come to two conclusions, the first one was that Daniel and his sister were time travelers which would explain why she looks so young and it might also be the reason that she has not seen them in the dreamscape for such a long time. When she thought about that she remembered what the book that Daring Doo made said about the pink cat creature and how it could likely time travel which is likely why it has almost never been seen. Luna was now certain that Daniel and that Pink cat had a connection one way or another.

The second conclusion was that his species aged very slowly but Luna didn’t think that was the answer as she is certain that no creature of any species ages that slowly, while dragons live longer than that they still showed signs of ageing but Daniel and Annabelle had shown none whatsoever. This caused another thought to go through her head. Daniel and his sister Annabelle might be immortal or eternally youthful like her and her sister.

This conclusion she came up with made her a little nervous about approaching either of them because Daniel likely told his sister and if they are both immortals then that is two to deal with rather than just one. Luna knew she had to take her time and think this through completely because if Annabelle was like Daniel then the two could be a greater threat than Discord of they end up taking what she says the wrong way.

While she was thinking about how she would approach both of them in the future, another though crossed her mind. Why would two Immortals be hiding in the first place? Luna thought it was for a reason that all immortals had to deal with eventually, which was dealing with death, the loss of both friends and loved ones. She thought more on the reason as to why they were hiding just encase she was wrong, if she was then she feared that saying such a thing if the met would hurt or offend them. After a few moments she thought of another conclusion.

'Perhaps they know what my sister and i are to our little ponies and are worried how they would react if they knew. That they might see him and Annabelle as an affront to us and hurt them. That is, if they are Immortal or forever youthful. ' Luna didn’t know if this was the correct reason for his hiding but it certainly sounded like a plausible reason. She also got a bit happy because if Daniel is like them and if she can be friends with them then she does not need to worry about him dying as time passes

She thought back to when she had a fight with the Shadow all those years ago and how it easily took her down. She knew that if Daniel was the Shadow then it would be very bad if she angered him but with him being around for so long and because he knew how to talk, as she had seen in his dream, then she might be able to reason with him. She didn’t want to tell Celestia about him because she wanted to do this herself; she attacked him so it's only right that she should apologize to him.

Tomorrow had come quicker than Daniel expected and he was currently on his way to Rarity's boutique after playing Poker, Liar's dice and Go fish for most of the night with his kids. After he taught them how to play Liar's dice and played a few games with them, he discovered that Elizabeth was very good at it, she won 4 game out of the 9 while Daniel won 2 and so did Barry.

Seeing as it was still morning at that time he decided to go and talk with Alpha about protocols just encase something happens to Aperture like a fire or a blackout. While Daniel knew he could deal with things like those he also knew that he might not always be around to help so he asked Alpha to make them just encase he was not around when something happened. Daniel had also noticed that Alpha had been acting strange recently. Before he would just say something and keep looking at Daniel, but now he is rarely looking at him and he stuttered a few times when they spoke. Daniel decided to ask him about it when he returns after helping Rarity.

While Daniel was walking he was also thinking about a previous thought that he forgot about for a while. He remembered he was originally planning to appear in his mew form to his friends more often and felt stupid for letting it slip his mind so he decided that after today he would start to do that more often.

He was on his way to Rarity's when he saw Hoity in the distance so he ran up to him, hoping to start a friendly conversation.

"Good afternoon Mr Hoity." Hoity turned around to face him.

"It's a good afternoon so far, I just hope it’s not spoiled by horrible dresses." Daniel was a little angry with him when he said that but he let it slip by.

"I promised you that you will not be disappointed, and I am certain once you see Rarity's work, you will be delighted."

"I hope you’re correct." They continued to walk to Rarity's boutique, along the way Daniel discovered that Hoity wasn’t a pony for small talk as every time he tried to talk to him he only said about one sentence and didn’t look at him or stop when speaking. Hoity seemed to be getting tired of Daniel's talking so for the remainder of the trip he kept quiet. As he approached the boutique he heard voices that he recognized that belonged to his friends.

"-We all saw how well that turned out." Daniel and Hoity turned the corner to see all of his friends standing with Rarity, trying to comfort her.

"Oh, I forgive you." Rarity said to Dash.

"Well that's mighty big'a you." Applejack said with a smile but it didn’t seem to cheer Rarity up.

"But my whole corer is still ruined." She said dramatically and doing poses to go with it.

"Oh, right. That." Applejack said sadly. He decided to surprise Rarity.

"Don't count your chickens before they hatch." Daniel said with a small smile as they all looked to him and were surprised when they saw him with Hoity. "Rarity, I managed to convince Hoity to give you one more chance." Hoity sighed.

"All right well I haven't got all day." He said impatiently and Rarity's eyes were like dinner plates by how large they were. She shook her head and her face went back to normal.

"A-Ah, yes, Right this way." She said, pointing to her boutique. "Girls, would you all get ready?"

"Certainly." Twilight said and they all entered but Rarity stopped Daniel before he entered.

"Cosmos. Thank you, So much."

"Did you think I’d leave a friend hanging?" He said with a small smile and he swore he could see a tear in Rarity's right eye appear. She rubbed her eye and spoke.

"Well then, best not keep him waiting. You will find your outfit where you last saw it." Daniel nodded and went in to get his suit on.

It was where Rarity said it would be and Daniel ran into a little problem while putting it on, hooves are not good for none clip on buttons. Rarity saw his struggle and helped him get it on properly. He found the outfit to be a little itchy but other than that it was a perfect fit.

"Ok, just like last time girls. Cosmos, follow their lead." Rarity said before she left the group and went to Hoity, leaving them behind the stage curtain, ready to show off the outfits.

"Take Two." He heard Hoity say from the other side of the curtains. After he heard that everything went dark for a moment before it started to brighten up again. The curtains opened and Daniel saw stars that were flying around the place before the settled on Twilight's dress and soon it all disappeared, leaving Twilight standing on the stage looking very happy. Daniel looked at Hoity and he seemed to be impressed at the display.

"This can't be the same designer." He heard Hoity say to himself.

Applejack was up next and he saw that she had her hair and tail tied in pigtails, she lassoed an Apple seemingly out of nowhere and threw it to the side, Daniel looked around to try and find where that Apple came from but found nothing.

'What? Where did that apple come from? Can these ponies alter reality?'

"Simply magnificent and I suddenly have a fierce craving for some Dutch apple pie. Candied apples on a stick. Apple turnovers. Apple cobbler." Hoity was clearly impressed by the designs.

Candy started to fall and while Hoity was distracted Pinkie pie slipped on to the stage and ate one of the sweets that fell. After that she struck a pose with a happy smile. "Brilliant!" Daniel continued to watch and almost jumped out of his skin when lightning started flashing. After it stopped all he saw was mist and then multiple lights, all with different colours, started to appear and quickly all joined together and Rainbow Dash appeared and stood on the stage. "Oh, spectacular!"

'I wouldn’t find this strange if it was outside, but why is this stuff happening indoors? Well then again compared to what I have been through this is almost laughable, but why lightning indoors, some of those outfits have metal on them.' Daniel thought but then remembered there was magic in this world and it was likely the answer.

Hoity looked to the sides as some flowers started to grow and when they all bloomed Fluttershy appeared on stage as a living butterfly. All this display left Hoity clapped his hooves.

"Now this is a fashion show."

'Oh crap! What will mine be?' Daniel thought, a little worried. As he looked around he saw he was now supposed to appear so he walked out to the stage. As he walked out to the stage he saw Hoity was looking at something and when he looked to where it was he faintly saw the outline of a telescope, it zoomed in on its lens and showed him. Himself as a star constellation in the same pose he was currently in and it then slowly disappeared to reveal Daniel in the pose. 'One way Illusion magic? Like those One way looking windows you sometime see? Smart move Rarity.' He thought as he heard Hoity speak again.

"Amazing." He started to look around. "Who is responsible? Step forward and show yourself." While he wasn’t looking they all went back behind another curtain and Rarity, who was wearing her costume, took the stage. She used her horn to illuminate the area and the curtain opened to show them all together.

"Bravo, Bravo. Magnifeco."

"Thank you. Oh Thank you so much." Rarity said, looking quite happy with herself.

"Spike!" Twilight called to him and he appeared almost instantly with the speed he ran at.

"Yes Twilight?"

"Take a note please." Spike pulled out a scroll and a quill and started to write. Daniel was thinking if he should fool around with his friends right now by going into his mew form but he decided not to as he was in the middle of quite a busy town.

'I guess I will do it another time. Sometime soon. Should I also show my crystal form to them sometime?' He didn’t know if that was a good idea. So far he had appeared as two different things and the princesses know about them, he also knew there were two princesses so they probably thought that they could deal with them if they work together. But if he appears as a 3rd creature than that might cause them to panic. He learned from lots of movies, books and cartoons that fear and other negative emotions can cause beings to do things they normally wouldn’t.

'I should probably be careful if I do appear in my crystal form, especially to the diamond dogs.' Daniel's head jumped up when he got an idea. 'I could use my crystal form if any of the ponies or other races get into their tunnels. It might make sense that they would think I was their leader and their leader would be made of gems.' While Daniel didn’t like the thought of being a leader he still didn’t want to show his true form to any other race besides the Wolves or Dogs yet. He saw himself as more of a helper to them rather than a leader, He was already a brother, a father and an element of harmony, which he was uneasy about but it's all been fine so far.

His attention was caught when Hoity spoke.

"Rarity my congratulations on your most fashionable day view. Would you do me the great honour of allowing me to feature your fantastic dresses in my best of the best boutique in Canterlot?" Rarity gasped, she looked like she was going to faint. "Now I will need you to make a dozen of each dress for me by next Tuesday." After Hoity said that Rarity got a twitch in her eye and Daniel saw it.

'Oh great. She's going to overwork herself.'

As Dravia turned in her sleep she reached over and felt for her Fiancé but when she felt the bed beside her was empty she shot up out of the bed, worried that Bravacho had not returned. But she soon saw him standing at the window, looking up at the sky, wearing his armour. She got up from the bed and walked over to him.

"You’re up early." He turned to look at her.

"I couldn’t sleep."

"You’re still worried, aren't you?"

"Why wouldn't I be? I couldn’t see him again." She sighed.

"Honey, He is the leader of all those troops, they will protect him and then we can search for the bearer and end this for good." While Bravacho did want to end his father's terror across multiple universes he was still worried of the aftermath of the event.

"Then what? Will I take command of all he has, and you mentioned a long time ago, after we marry that we should probably try for kids." He sighed and sat down. "All this is too much. How could I deal with running an empire, be a King, a loving husband and a father all together?" Dravia smiled at him before she sat down beside him and pulled him into a hug.

"It will take a while for the kids to get here, and you seem to think you’ll have all of those duties to do alone. We will do all that together, I will be by your side the full time." Bravacho looked at Dravia. He knew she was right. When they marry and if he becomes King then that means she will be his queen, they would be facing the same things together, and he would not want it any other way.

"I sometime forget that the stuff I know will happen won't always happen at the same time. Thanks for reminding me." The two of them leaned in for another kiss but were cut off by the sound of door chapping so they pulled away. "Yes?" The door opened to show Flong was the one who chapped.

"Sorry to intrude, but Bravacho, We should be getting things prepared. King N will be here in less than 4 hours." Bracacho stood up and looked at Dravia.

"You should head to the palace, it's the safest place. When I get the piece, come to the portal." She stood up and pulled him into a hug.

"Don't do anything stupid, come back safe." She looked at him with eyes of worry.

"I will." He turned back to look at Flong, and saw two guards were by his side.

"They will lead her to the palace. She will be safe there. We have to get ready." Dravia was escorted out of the room by the guards, leaving Bravacho and Flong alone. "Hey dude, listen. If I don't make it, I would just like to say. Thanks, for being my friend, for the memories and the good times." Bravacho sighed and looked out the window. He knew that he needed to be successful with the task that he’s been set with. Many lives depended on it and those who die in this upcoming battle, all of their efforts and sacrifices would be in vain if he failed.

"What Weapons do you have, and where will he be touching down?"

Daniel and Annabelle were walking back home now that they were finished helping Rarity. Daniel was happy that Hoity saw the true genius in her work but he couldn’t shake a feeling that Rarity was going to push herself too far trying to get Hoity's order ready.

"Is she going to be ok?" Annabelle asked while they walked. Daniel chuckled.

"I don't know, Hoity did say he wanted a dozen of each dress so it’s not like she needs to stress her mind and come up with more designs, but a dozen for about next week makes it-" Daniel stopped and did the math in his mind. 12 x 7. "- 84 orders, in a week. 7 dresses a day won’t make that order. It will have to be 8 per day."

Daniel paused for a moment. Hoity said by next Tuesday and he did not know what day it was today. He decided to ask someone what day it was so he looked around him and saw a mint coloured unicorn, her hair and tail was cyan with some white in it.

"Excuse me miss, Do you know what day it is today?" She turned to Daniel.

"My name is Lyra, and today is Monday." Lyra informed Daniel.

"Sorry Lyra, and thanks." He started to walk back to Annabelle when Lyra called to him.

"Wait. Sir." Daniel stopped and turned to face her. "Is your name Cosmos?" Daniel was a bit scared that a complete stranger knew his name.

"Yes it is. Why?" She got a big smile on her face when he said this.

"How could I not recognize the Pony who stood up to, and insulted, Nightmare Moon."

'I only did that because Annabelle was terrified of her and she meant trouble.' He said in his mind. "Was it that big of a deal? Someone had to do it."

"Well it was still amazing how you did it." She extended her hoof to him. "Nice to meet you. My Full name is Lyra Heartstrings." Daniel shook her hoof.

"Cosmos-" he turned to face Annabelle who walked up beside him. "- and this is Strawberry. My little sister."

"Nice to meet you both-" She was cut off by another voice.

"Lyra I found that book you-" Another pony said, who was female by the sound of her voice, she was beige and her hair and tail was blue with a pink streak going through it. She stopped approaching when she saw her friend talking to Daniel. She looked like she knew him for a moment before her eyes went wide. Lyra walked up to her and took the book she had in her bag.

"Thanks Bon Bon." She groaned.

"My name is Sweetie Drops. Why can't you get that?" She said looking at Lyra a bit disappointed. As Lyra took the book Daniel saw the title of it. 'Anthropology.A Trip into the theories of the mythical Human race.' Sweetie Drops was now looking at Daniel. "Is your name Cosmos?" She asked.

"Yes it is." He answered a bit slowly. He looked at Lyra with a strange look. "Lyra, What’s that book about?" He asked, playing dumb.

"It's about Humans. I study them." Sweetie Drops groaned.

"Lyra, how many times do I have to tell you.They.Are.Not. Real." Lyra looked at Sweetie angrily.

"Then what about that Shadow creature that dealt with the ursa? It had hands." Lyra had a confident smile on her face.

"So does a minotaur." That seemed to make her smile disappear but it quickly returned.

"They live quite far away and can't do magic, How do you explain the smoke that was getting expelled from it?" She shot back.

"According to what 'You' said to me, Humans can't use magic either."

"Perhaps they have evolved? Who knows how long they have been around for?" Sweetie drops was getting a bit irritated so she changed her gaze and looked at Daniel.

"Sorry you had to put up with her." He chuckled.

"I know what humans are. I was reading up on them after Nightmare Moon appeared." He said. Lyra got a big smile on her face.

"So do you think they’re real?"

"I think they 'were' real, but they are likely extinct now." Lyra looked a bit disappointed.

"But then, what was that Shadow creature?"

"It could be a new species all together. Why do you care about Humans so much anyway?" She calmed down before speaking.

"It's not just humans, I study a lot of ancient races but because humans are the most mysterious, I always find myself coming back to them." Daniel was sure there was a name for what Lyra was. He thought on it for a moment.

"So you’re a...archaeologist?" Lyra smiled.

"More or less." Sweetie drops spoke next.

"She is. You wouldn’t believe the things she collects." While Daniel would have liked to stay and talk he had to get back and make his sister something for dinner.

"I hate to cut this short, but I need to go. I need to get my sister home."

"Oh, Ok. How about we hang around some time?" Daniel didn’t see why he should refuse.

"If I see you around then I guess we will." Daniel looked to Annabelle and spoke. "Let's go Strawberry. It's almost dinner time."

"Ok." With the encounter over, they both started to walk to their house. Along the way Daniel thought about his choice earlier to show himself more in both of his others forms but he was wondering if showing up every now and then as the Shadow would be a bad thing. Considering it is the form that has shown no signs of being nice, he remembered trying to hold back the urge to hit Fluttershy when she mentioned his parents a few weeks ago so he decided to use the mew form instead.

'Starting tomorrow I will try and appear more in my mew form, but I can't let them follow me.' He remembered the letter he got from Celestia so he knew his friends would likely try to follow him and while he didn’t mind that, he still wanted a bit more time until he revealed what he and his sister were. 'They don't seem to mind my powers, but just to be sure I will wait a while longer, who knows. I might get to see Celestia again and see how she reacts. If she doesn’t act like a paranoid freak then I might tell my friends sooner. I am still unsure about telling royalty, but I hopefully will soon.'

Daniel only intended to tell a select few who he trusted, he didn’t want all of Equestria to know. He and his sister are supposed to be just myths and if he was discovered then reporters and/or interviewers would likely not leave them alone, and he was weary that there might be some bad ponies out there, like that Sombra guy.

Daniel was so deep into his thoughts he didn’t notice he was at his house until he hit the wall which pulled him back to reality.

"You were lost in your mind for a good few moments." He heard Annabelle say to him and he just shook his head.

"Sorry about that." They both entered their house and then went into their everfree house before Daniel changed them back to normal. "What do you want for dinner?" Annabelle sat down at the table and thought for a moment.

"Got any noodles?"

"Annabelle, I can make it appear, sure I can make you that." Daniel made noodles appear and realised it wasn’t cooked. He was about to just make it cooked with hot flavoured water when he remembered what he did earlier on today. He did the washing correctly because he wanted to blend in encase he needed to in the future so he got the kettle and put water in it before turning it on and waiting for it to boil. Annabelle looked at him questionably.

"Why are you doing that if you can just make it?"

"I don't use my powers much in public, even when I do I could get caught. It's best to be prepared for any situation. I might need these skills in the future if we are to not get caught or draw suspicion before I think it’s the right time to reveal ourselves." Annabelle sighed.

"How much longer will it be?"

"Not too long hopefully. I plan to see how they react to my mew form, if it is positive and they don't mind my powers then things will go smoothly, if they don't then..." Daniel didn’t finish his sentence. He could tell Annabelle was a bit disappointed by what he said at the end. "The best we can do is hope it doesn’t come to that, with the reaction from them so far from the previous encounters, I say it’s a good possibility they won't mind."

"Please don't keep us in the dark forever. You should be honest with your friends." Daniel knew she was correct.

"I know, I’m just looking out for you encase they over react. Remember, on this world we’re supposed to be just myths. Also I’m being honest with them. I’m just not telling them everything." They heard a 'ping' which signalled the kettle was done boiling. Daniel poured the hot water into the bowl until it was almost full and left it for a few moments. "Do you still want to go to the school in ponyville?" Annabelle was silent for a few moments.

"It will give me something to do, and it will help me fit in." Daniel smiled at her answer. "What will you be doing? Wont you need a job to pay for the house?"

"No, I bought it so I don't have to pay to keep it, and I still have some bits left over so for a while food won't be a worry. I will mostly be spending time in Aperture and with my kids, or out exploring, or training. I have a few things I need to do."

"Lucky" She said with a little bit of a huff.

"Hey, I already did my time at school." Daniel said to her and turned back to the bowl and saw it was ready. He picked it up and gave it to Annabelle who looked at him. "Oh, right. He made a fork appear and handed it to her. She scooped up some noodles and ate them.

"Not bad." She said as she continues to eat her dinner with a smile on her face.

"Well, it's almost your bedtime. So once you finish your dinner you should head to bed. I will tell the teacher, Cheerilee, that you’re ok and should be there the next day. Which might not be tomorrow but the day after."

"Don't worry, I know, I will go to sleep in Terabithia." She said without him reminding her and Daniel smiled when he heard that. It was now he went to check on his kids, to make sure they were ok and didn’t accidentally do something wrong.

"I will be back in a moment. I’m going to check on my kids quickly." He said, heading off to aperture.

Daniel opened the door to aperture and looked around. It was a strange sight cause while there was a lot of open space it was almost completely empty. There was a good few machines like the robot factory but because of how far the worker bots dug, it seemed like it was much smaller than it truly was. Daniel looked around and saw two of his kids, Freddy and Barry, who were talking. Daniel walked up to them.

"Hey guys." They both turned to the sound of his voice.

"Hi Daddy." Daniel looked around but couldn’t see the rest.

"Where are the others?"

"They’re talking with Alpha in the factory." After Daniel heard Freddy say that he looked over to the factory and then back at the two.

"Thanks, but what are they doing there?"

"Alpha is showing them the new skeletal upgrades he showed you." Daniel was curious to know what they thought of it.

"What did you think of it?"

"I think it's a great idea. We can finally move around and look like you." Daniel chuckled at Barry's cheery tone. As Daniel looked towards the factory he saw the rest of his kids were leaving it, talking amongst themselves. As he was looking among them he soon found who he was looking for, Selene.

He walked up to her and all the others smiled when they saw him. He looked over to Alpha who looked at him and then quickly looked away.

'What's up with Alpha? He is acting different.' He was pulled out of his thought by Orion’s voice.

"You’ve been gone for quite a while today."

"Yeah, sorry about that. I would have been back sooner but there was things I had to do. What's with Alpha?" Orion turned to look at the location where Alpha was a few moments ago.

"I don't know, he seems distracted. I did hear him say something to himself about Bio-metal, or something like that." Looking away from the factory Daniel asked Freddy to do something for him.

"Hey, Freddy. Could you do me a favour?"

"Sure, what is it?"

"Can you keep an eye on Alpha. I am a little worried about him"

"Sure I will." Daniel smiled.

"Thanks. You can go and play now, I have something else I need to do." He started heading towards Selene.

"Aww, aren’t you going to stay?" Daniel stopped in his tracks when Freddy asked that.

"Perhaps tomorrow." Freddy looked a bit disappointed and it almost made Daniel feel guilty, but he remembered what he said to Selene earlier on today. He continued walking over to her. "Hey, Selene." She turned around to face him.

"Hi Dad. Is it true that Alpha plans to upgrade us again?"

"Yes, but likely not for a while. Anyway, I am here about what I mentioned to you two days ago." She looked away from a moment before her eye went wide in surprise but quickly turned into a smile.

"You mean you will take me into-" She looked around to see if any of the others were listening and when she saw they were a good bit of distance between her and the rest she looked back at Daniel " - into space?"

"Yes, I also plan on taking them sometime, if they want to. Now are you sure you want to? It can get quite scary."

"I'm sure I can take it." She said confidently. He smiled and shacked his head at her confidence.

"Well, meet me in the living room in a few minutes. I still need to get Annabelle to sleep. You can come along if you want." Daniel started to walk out of Aperture and Selene followed him. He first went to Terabithia to check if Annabelle was asleep and indeed she was, after that he went to the living room and turned to face Selene. "You sure you want to do this?"

"Yes." She said without a moment’s hesitation.

"Ok then." Daniel picked Selene up, she was a little jumpy when he did but quickly settled down. "Hold on." Daniel felt her legs grip his back as he walked outside and looked into the night sky. It looked so much better than it did back on earth as there was no city or town lights blocking it and he almost lost himself in how it looked.

"Daddy?" He was snapped out of his mind by Selene's voice.

"Sorry about that, it just looks so nice." Daniel grabbed a hold on the two legs Selene had on his shoulders. "It's just to keep you safe." With that he started to slowly fly upwards, letting her get used to the increasing height. "Let me know if you want to go back home."

"O-Okay" Daniel turned them invisible to make sure he wasn’t seen by anything and continued to fly higher.

Bravacho stood in the village of Cogerstone, waiting for his father’s ship to touch down. The village had been evacuated and he was currently hiding in a basement at the edge of town. He went through everything in his head once more to make sure he knew what to do.

'Step 1: Get inside. Step 2: Find the Heart piece. Step 3: Get it back to the machine. Step 4: Find the bearer.' Everything seemed good about the plan, all that was left was its execution.

Bravacho heard the sound of an engine and looked out the window of the basement to see that his father’s ship was touching down so he lowered his head to avoid being seen.

"Ok, it's now or never."Bravacho pulled out his plasma knife and hid in a small hole he had made under the rug in the basement and waited. After a few minutes he heard footsteps approaching and two guards talking.

"Why do we have to check the place? Who would stay if they knew we were coming?" One guard said from his left and he also heard some crashing which meant that they were looking through everything.

"If we just went right for the palace we could get attacked from all ends if we didn’t secure our grounds. That's why we’re here." The other guard to the right said.

"Well, anyway, there is nothing good here. Just junk. Let’s go already."

"We have orders to secure the buildings first, if we don’t then who knows what our punishment will be. We will regroup and move to the palace after we are done.." The guard grunted.

"Well, I am going to check up the stairs. Hey did you check in there."

"That’s where the generator to the house is. It's not that useful."

"Someone could be hiding in there. Even with the small amount of room there is." They both stopped and silence fell.

"Good point." Bravacho heard slow movement that was going away from him and another that was behind him, he was still waiting for his moment to strike.

After a few seconds he heard both of the guards footsteps were at one side so he quietly stood up with his knife in his hand, moving the small rug with as little noise as possible. The front guard bursted the door to the generator and when he did Bravcho used the sound of it to his advantage and stabbed the closes guard in the back of the head. The other guard didn’t hear as the sound was drained out by the generator door getting smashed.

"Nothing.see, there is nobody hiding he-" He was cut off when he turned around and was stabbed in the neck, the plasma knife cutting through the armour.

"Sorry, but I need your armour." Bravacho whispered to him before he dropped to the ground dead. He hid the corpse of the first guard in the hole that he hid in and hid the body of the other guard behind the generator after he stripped him of his armour. He looked outside and saw there were not a lot of guards on the street but most were inside so he put on the helmet and lowered his neck a bit so the plasma burn on the armour was covered up. He then grabbed one of the guard’s weapons which was matter splitter gun and carried it the way the troops normally did. "Ok, Now to get to the ship." He left the house, heading into the streets. It wasn’t long before he was approached by another troop, he recognized her uniform, and she was a corporal.

"Report."

"The house I was sent to is clear. Sir."

"Good, Now get back to the ship and meet up with the rest of the troops for the main assult." Beavacho saluted before moving to the ship. He went up the ramp and took the 3rd left and went down the stairs, he knew this direction would lead him to the lower levels but he was looking for the laundry room.

' There’s very few patrols here and If I can get to a laundry shoot then I might be able to get this done faster.' He hid in a dark spot under the stairs when he got to the bottom and removed his armour.

He walked down the hallways of this area; when he was young he always liked it down here because there was not a lot of noise and plenty of places to hide. He took out a small gadget from the arm compartment of his suit and studied it as it showed the schematics of the ship. He found out he was close to the vent that would lead to his room, which was close to his father’s room.

'2nd right and 1st left and straight on.' He did as it said and went along.

He found the room he was looking for and was a bit surprised that he hasn’t even heard any patrols around as normally there was a guard around here and there down in this part of the ship. Not caring, he looked at his gadget again and searched for where his room was connected to this laundry shoot and he found it after a few seconds.

'So, the 47th hatch upwards. I never expected that. Can I even climb that high?' When he asked himself that he remembered what was at stake if he didn’t. With his newfound determination he started to climb up the laundry shoot.

After a few moment of climbing he almost lost his balance and fell back down when his nose smelled the food that was being cooked in the ship's main kitchen.

'What I would give for a scraviola roll right now.' He heard his stomach rumble as he thought about it. He heard something coming down from above him and pushed his arms against the wall to keep himself in place. He was hit by a few pieces of clothing that were on its way down but one bit stayed on his head as the rest continued to fall down. He put his elbow on the wall and reached for the piece of clothing that was on his head and removed it, only to see it was a pair of female underpants. His face became red and an image of Dravia flashed in his mind.

'Not now, Now is not the time.' He threw the underwear down the shoot and continued climbing upwards, trying to get the image he had gotten out of his head.

As he was approaching the shoot door that was the one in his room he heard a voice coming from it. He knew it, it belonged to Captain Jerik, the one who found the Heart piece. Stopping, he remained still and listened to what he was discussing with another guard.

"-then you will meet up with the rest of the troops and attack from the east wall. Understand lieutenant?" As he peeked in through the laundry door he saw Jerik talking to a soldier who stood about 6 feet tall and was wearing silver armour with a purple x-shaped trim on the center of his helmet at the front of his small orange coloured visor eyes. Bravacho knew this soldier was part of his father’s elite guards called Ravengers.

"Yes Sir, Permission to speak sir."

"Permission granted."

"What about the Prince? What if we encounter him?"

"Hold him off. When it comes to combat and power in this empire he is second only to his father. Even 10 of you would have trouble with him so hold him off until the King gets there to deal with him. Anything else?"

"No sir."

"Good, now go. Report back to me when your job is done." The troop walked away and Jerik walked in the other direction. Bravacho got out of the laundry shoot and headed to the door of his room. He looked out in the halls to find the place was clear, he continued to move towards the stairs which would lead up to his father’s room. His father used to wear normal clothes but during the gap in Bravacho’s memory his father started to always wear his armour for some reason. While his room still had a laundry shoot it was made so it scanned his fingeprint so only he could use it

Bravacho made it to the stairs and went up a to the top level which was two floors up from his current one, he arrived at a large hallway with no other door but one giant door at the end of the long hallway. He knew this was his father’s bedroom. Walking down the hallway, he arrived at the door and tried to open it, and surprisingly he found it to be open.

"I thought it would’ve been locked." He looked into his father’s room and saw the Heart piece sitting on his table in a password protected force field generator. "A password. If I know my father then he wouldn’t think someone would get this far, too bad he did not plan on it being me." Bravacho walked up to the generator and got ready to enter the password, his own heart was pounding in his chest with fear in case he got the password wrong.

He started to type his mother’s full name and when it was all in he held his breath and pressed the enter button. He was correct and the generator deactivated.

"I was right, it was my mother's name, he wouldn’t take the risk of writing it down so he chose the name of someone he hated and could not forget." He picked up the piece and looked at it. If he remembered what he read about the heart then the piece he had was the negative piece as the center of it was red. The positive piece would be White and the neutral would be blue.It felt like a magnetic field of some kind was on his hands because it felt almost weightless and as he looked at it he saw something odd, a purple mist was coming off the outer sides of it but he paid it no attention. "Well, I got what I came here for. Time to leave." As he went back to the door carrying the piece, he closed it on his way out and continued to walk back down the hallway.

When he got to the stairs he started to walk down them but after going down just one flight of stairs he ran into Jerik.

Jerik was carrying his own weapon which was his own customized LN-72 Lazer rifle. They both stopped at and looked at each other.

"Oh, Prince, Did you change your-“ He stopped when he saw what Bravacho was carrying and then looked at him sinisterly. "Hey Prince, What are you doing?" He said in a low voice.

"Just...Borrowing something."

"Borrowing something?"

"Yes."

"Stealing from your father!"

"Stealing from my father?"

"Are you!?" He shouted at him.

"Yes." He said slowly. Jerik chuckled.

"You know, prince, your father told me to guard his door and kill anyone who tries to take the Heart piece. Speaking of which, how did you get passed the patrols." Bravacho smirked.

"You guys don't guard the laundry shoots." He said mockingly and Jerik just chuckled.

"Well, nice going. But it ends here, so you have two options. One you can give that to me and I will take you to your father unharmed, or you don't and I will take both it and you to him in pieces. The easy way or the hard way, the choice is yours." Bravacho decided to try and see if he could get Jerik to side with him.

"Why, why are you doing that? Do you not know what this is and what it can do?" He held up the heart piece in clear view to show Jerik. "We can find the bearer and end this. No more suffering. No more killing. Why don't you join me?" Jerik chuckled.

"End it? Nothing can stop our king, if a creature that is just as strong as him exists then we will also help him fight it. I am on the winning team, and you no longer are." Bravacho lowered the piece and looked at him disappointedly.

"Then I guess you won’t let me leave?"

"You are damn right I won’t. Now just give that to me and come along nicely." Bravacho reached for his plasma knife. "No you don't." Jerik pulled out his rifle and shot but he dodged it and lunged forward, dropping the heart piece as he did. Jerik stepped to the side and punched him in the face when he was close enough which sent him backwards. "Fool, you need to do better than that." Bravacho got up totally unfazed and quickly ran to the piece and kicked it towards Jerik who caught it but less than a second later Bravacho punched him in the face which caused him to hit his back off of the wall behind him.

"You know you can't beat me, I heard you mention to your lieutenant that I am second only to my father." Jerik got up off of the ground with a bruise on his face and a bit sore from the impact..

"That doesn’t mean I can't keep you busy while the revolution is slaughtered." Jerik held his rifle and shot at Bravacho who avoided it by ducking and going forward, bringing out his plasma knife and getting Jerik on the left leg with it. "Ahh, you, you molber butt!"Jerik shouted when he was stabbed in the leg.

Bravacho went in for another hit but Jerik leaped to the side and shot with his lazer rifle, it hit Bravacho on the right leg which left a minor burn.

"You heartless fhalon! You really don't care that thousands are going to die?" Bravacho shouted at him.

"Why should I care about the low class, its high class like me that make the law with words. Also, watch your language."

"Yeah you are a high class. A high class incredal."Jerik looked furious.

"Why you little. Call me that again and I’ll break you." Jerik got ready to shoot with his rifle again but Bravacho threw his plasma knife which cut the weapon in half. Then, forgetting the burn on his leg, he ran up to Jerik and kicked him in the face causing him to drop the cut weapon and the knife and stumble backwards. Bravacho got his knife and tried to finish the fight by rushing forward to stab Jerik before he could recover but when he put pressure on his injured leg again he felt a sharp pain in it and fell face first onto the floor.

Looking at his leg, he saw that he had a burned hole in it and it wasn’t leaking blood because the Lazer had burned it shut, but it still stung a lot. He tried to look back at Jerik but was met with a kick to his nose. He felt a slight sting from it but his leg still hurt.

"You’re a pathetic prince. You might be physically superior but you are not very good in actual combat tactics, just like your fiancé who could not even last 10 seconds against a recruit in training. Perhaps I shall send your head to her when I am done." Bravacho tensed up when he mentioned Dravia. He felt all of his pain slowly fade away and he stood up.

"What did you say about her!?" Jerik chuckled.

"I should send her your head and perhaps I will kill her next." Bravacho got a grin on his face.

"I don't think she would like to die by someone as ugly as you, especially an incredal." Jerik lunged forward with the knife but Bravacho grabbed his hand with one of his and using the other he hit his arm causing him to drop the knife. As it fell, Bravacho grabbed it and cut off the hand of Jerik that his other hand was still holding onto.

"Ahh! You-Yo-" Bravacho kicked Jerik to the ground and put the plasma knife to his neck.

"Do you fear death? Well-" Bravacho started to chuckle insanely. "- it's knocking at your door buddy. Should I let it in? If I do then when I'm done with you, your own mother won't recognize you." The look on Jerik face was total terror; he had never seen this side of Bravacho before.

"You, You’re insane." Bravacho laughed but is sounded more like a wheeze than a laugh.

"Just realised that right now did you. Everything has a breaking point, and you have almost reached mine." He didn’t loosen his grin as he spoke. He raised his hand and a white sphere started to appear in his palm, which was aimed at Jerik.

"Wa-wait. I think I will take you up on your offer. I will join you, just please don't kill me!" Bravacho looked Jerik in the eyes and there was no change in them, they were still full of fear. His smile slowly started to fade. He looked a Jerik and saw that his armour was red from the dripping blood from the hand he cut off.

"You better not just be saying that. If you are - " Bravacho pressed the plasma knife against Jerik's neck which started to burn it a little.

"I swear, I mean it!" Bravacho slowly moved the knife away from his neck.

"Don't try anything, or I will kill you, we need to cover up our injuries, so nobody sees our dripping blood." Bravacho got off of him and helped him up. "There is a medical area not far from here. Let's go. You first."Jerik walked in front of Bravacho as they went down the stairs after he picked up the heart piece. The whole time Bravacho was looking at him with Narrowed eyes and his plasma knife ready.

They made their way down 3 flights of stairs and went into the medical bay and they started to bandage their wounds up, Bravacho did not take his eyes off of Jerik at all. While he did only have one hand, he still wanted to make sure that he didn’t try anything. After they were both patched up Bravacho realised something. Jerik couldn’t get out. His missing hand meant he could not climb down the laundry shoot or sneak out as guards would see his missing hand. With the amount there was they would certainly see it. As he was thinking he averted his sight downwards, looking slightly down from Jerik, enough to still see his legs.

He had two choices, to leave him or take a risk and help him. He decided to try and help him get out but when his vision went back to Jerik he saw him eyeing a smashable alarm. That changed his decision of trying to help him; if he was eyeing such a thing then he would likely betray him. Looking to the side he saw a medicine cabinet that was full of all kinds of useful things but what caught his attention was an Anaesthetic bottle that was among them. Standing up, Bravacho moved to the cabinet and opened it, looking over his shoulder from every few seconds to check on Jerik who was still sitting and sealing his wounds.

Bravacho got the Anaesthetic and put it on some cotton that he got in a first aid kit. He then turned around as he hid it behind him. Jerik was now done treating his injuries.

"Let's go, the laundry shoot is just up the stairs." Both of them went back up the stairs and into Bravacho's room. They went to the laundry shoot and opened it. When they did Jerik spoke.

"I can't do this, or if I can, not very well. Because 'somebody' cut off my hand!" He said that last part rather loudly and angrily.

"Don't worry, I have a plan."

"What?"

"I saw you looking at that alarm." Jerik's face changed to one of fear.

"You did?" Jerik stepped backwards.

"Yes, so I need to make sure you understand, I can't have you getting in my way." Jerik lunged forward and tried to punch him but he moved to the side and then forward towards Jerik quickly and managed to get the Anaesthetic covered cotton over his nose, he quickly dropped down to the floor unconscious. When he did he pulled out his plasma knife and was about to finish him but stopped when he heard another voice.

"Sir, are you ok. I heard somethi-" Bravacho looked to the side and saw an elite guard looking in through his bedroom door. When he saw Bravacho holding a plasma knife over Jerik he panicked. "Someone, Help. The Captain has been Slain!" Bravacho knew he couldn’t stay any longer so he grabbed the Heart piece and jumped down the laundry shoot.

When he made it to the bottom he sprinted in the same direction he used when he arrived here. When he was halfway to the docking bay he heard the alarm go off.

"All Units report back to the ship. This is not a drill." A voice was heard throughout the ship and likely beyond it too. Bravacho continued to head towards the docking bay and when he turned to go up the stairs he stopped when he heard movement from up above.

"Sir, what's happened?"

"The prince has betrayed us. He stole from his father. If you see him, kill him." Bravacho knew he couldn’t get out of the ship normally now. He knew his only choice was to make a run for it, but he needed a distraction.

Looking at his wrist device on his suit he activated his cloaking, he put down the heart piece and peeked his head out slightly to look around. He saw that there was a guard next to him who had an Electro grenade. Carefully reaching for the Electro grenade, he managed to get it and still remain undetected. Now all he had to do was find out how he should use it.

"Is that all of them?"

"Yes sir? The village is cleared and the troops are all waiting for the word." Bravacho knew it was now or never. The village was cleared and all the troops have regrouped here, ready to attack.

As he looked around he saw the generator that powered the door of the docking bay. He slowly reached for it while still cloaked and managed to get it to start shutting the bay door which caught everyone's attention.

"Who started closing the door? Get it back open!" Two troops went towards the controls and were about to start opening it but Bravacho chose now to grab the heart piece and sprint out before the door almost fully closed. As he sprinted he also dropped the Electro grenade which went off and caused the door to freeze. "Stop Him!" He heard the corporal shout before he got out and when he got outside he sprinted as fast as he could back to the town. The grenade’s EMP effect wore off after a few seconds and the door closed on the troops as they tried to chase him.

"I did it. I can't believe I did it." He said to himself as he went as fast as his injured leg would take him. Just before he was in the town a piece of the ground close to him blew up and a distant noise was heard. He knew that sound was from a sniper so he ran through a house and out the back door, making his way into another and repeating the process. He kept running for the palace, holding onto the heart piece like it was his own life-force and he eventually managed to get to the front gate.

He chapped on it and it opened a after a few seconds and Flong was the first one to greet Bravacho.

"Get in quickly!" They both entered the palace and as the door closed Bravacho heard another shot as it hit the doors but didn’t go through it.

When the doors were shut Bravacho let out a sigh of relief and he walked over to Flong, limping from both his injured leg and fatigued from the running and fighting.

"I did it. I got the Heart piece." Flong looked at it when Bravacho held it up for him to see.

"Amazing Work. Now all we have to do is power up the transporter."

"Sir, the King's troops are on their way right now!" A troop that was among the top level shouted.

"How far away?" The troop looked back outside of the window.

"They seem to be about 2 to 3 min-" Glass was heard getting smashed and the troop fell down from the window and landed on the ground floor with a loud thud.

"Snipers."Flong said with anger. "Always hated snipers. Total cowards, can’t fight face to face." Flong activated a device on his wrist and a hologram of a troop appeared.

"Sir, What are your orders?"

"We have the heart piece, now all you need to do is hold them off while we get the machine ready."

"Yes sir, I will alert all the troops in the palace." The hologram disappeared and Flong looked back at the Heart piece that Bravacho was still holding.

"Well, at least you recovered it." Flong took it from Bravacho and looked at it. "So this is what it looks like. Not what I expected but it is what it is. Now, hopefully, we can end this." Flong started to walk down one of the halls of the palace and Bravacho followed him.

"So what will happen?" Bravacho asked. "Will you come with us or are you staying here?"

"Not if we do get overwhelmed, the troops will need me, if we are the last ones then yes." As they walked the palace shook. "What was that?"

"Sir, they are initiating a bombardment!" A lookout troop shouted from the top level.

"Stations everyone!" He shouted and all around the troops started moving. Flong turned back to Bravacho. "If your father joins the attack before the machine is done powering up, will you help us? You are the only one who is strong enough to even hurt him."

"The sooner we start to power the machine, the better." Flong nodded in agreement.

"Then let's get going." Bravacho followed Flong as they both ran down multiple halls and eventually arrived at the transporter machine. Flong placed the heart piece on the scanner and pressed a red button and the machine spring to life. "It needs to scan for a source of the same kind, if there is any difference in the energy, like positive or negative, it won’t make a difference. After that we then need to give it time to power up."

"How long will it take?"

"Powering up will be somewhat quick. Waiting for it to find a similar source is the part where we need patience." Flong flipped a green switch and a message popped up on a holographic screen that said 'Scanning in process'.

"Where's Dravia?" Flong pointed to a staircase in the corner to the left.

"She is up there, 2rd floor, 3rd door." Just a Bravacho started to head to the stair case the palace shook again but much more violently. "Wow. You must have really pissed them off." A knock on the door was heard. "What is it!?" It opened and a troop wearing bronze armour entered.

"Sir, Their king has joined in the battle and they are right outside the palace." Flong looked at Bravacho with pleading eyes.

"Fine, I’ll help." They both walked to the door to join the battle but Bravacho stopped when he heard a familiar voice behind him.

"Dear, What's happening?" He turned to see Dravia was standing at the bottom of the stairs. He turned back to Flong.

"I will be there in a moment." He walked over to Dravia and explained the situation to her. "Sweetie. I need you to do something."

"What?"

"Stay here, when that gate opens, go through it." He pointed to the transporter machine.

"But what about you?"

"I should be fine. But if I’m not, I want you to find the heart bearer. Finish what we started. Will you do that?" She looked uneasy about his request.

"Fine. But don’t you die out there." He looked at her sadly.

"I fate wills it, I won’t." A crash was heard close by and another familiar voice was heard, this time in the form of a laugh. Bravacho knew it was his father. "I need to go. Stay here and stay safe." He kissed her on her forehead before heading to the door Flong went through.

On the other side of the door was a battle ground. There were rebel guards and his father’s troops fighting almost everywhere. No less than 10 seconds after he entered he was attacked from his right by one of his father’s troops, he pulled out his plasma knife to block the sword and used his other hand to hit the sword out of the troops hand then drove his knife right between his eyes.

As he looked around he saw Flong had just high kicked another troop in the nose and a sickening crack was heard and when the troop fell it didn’t get back up. Flong ran over to Bravacho.

"How’s the battle going?"

"Your father’s troops are easy to deal with, but if he is how you said then he will be another story altogether." What he said was true as all around his father’s troops were being easily dealt with by the rebel forces, most of them were starting to retreat. "Look at those cowards run."

His father's troops were starting to retreat back out of a giant hole that was blasted into the wall but most of them stopped in their tracks when they got out and after looking to the side they started shaking. Loud footsteps were heard coming from outside and they were getting closer.

"My King." One of the troops outside dropped in a bow and the rest soon followed.

"Get back in there and fight."

"They- they are too strong." The troop was blasted by a beam which disintegrated him upon contact.

"I did not ask you how strong they were. GET IN THERE!" He shouted to the rest of them and they rushed back into the palace and stopped a bit away from the rebels. Flong had a look of determination on his face as he turned to look at Bravacho.

"Keep his busy." His whispered before heading off somewhere.

Bravacho watched as he saw a giant Purple armoured figure enter the building through the hole, just barely fitting through. When King N was in he stood with his arms folded and as his orange eyes looked over the rebels they stopped on Bravacho.

"My Son. You Betray me. Just like your mother did."

"You’re no father of mine. You’re just a monster."

"You should watch your words; they might be your last." His father now looked at him seriously. "You have something that belongs to me. Give it back to me and I just might not have you executed."

"I would sooner die than give it back to you." King N chuckled.

"So you do have some fighting spirit and determination in you. It will make it all the more sweeter when your corpse is dragged around throughout the ship as a warning to all who oppose me. You know full well the true power my Exo-suit holds." Bravacho sweated a little. He remembered seeing some of the schematics to the Exo-suit his father always wears and it was terrifying. King N looked down at his troops. "Kill them, but leave my son. He’s mine." He pointed forward and the troops charged at the rebels, all of them completely ignoring King N and Bravacho.

"Your move." Bravacho said to King N in a low voice.

King N lunged forward to punch him, quicker than Bravacho could react. His fist impacted him on the chest and sent him backwards into the wall. Bracacho quickly grabbed his knife and threw it but King N caught it with little effort and threw it back, it slashed Bravacho across his right arm, easily going through his suit.

He powered up a blast in the palm of his hand in hopes it would stun King N, he fired it at him but he just stood there as it impacted his face and exploded. When the dust cleared there was not a scratch on his armour. King N pointed a finger at him and a beam was launched at him and it passed right through him.

Bravacho was on the ground with a good few injuries, his right arm was bleeding, his leg had a small burned lazar hole in it and he was now sure that the beam he just took from King N killed almost killed his liver. He held himself up with his left arm and was facing the ground while panting.

"I thought you were better than this. You can't even hurt me." Bravacho started to prepare another blast in his right hand. "Just like your mother. Weak, pitiful and fragile." Bravacho lost it when King N said that.

"She was 10 times better than you will ever be!!!" Bravacho launched the blast at King N and it hit him right in his left eye which caused him to step back and hold the eye that was blasted. Bravacho jumped up to his feet and focused all his power into his good leg, with a powerful swing he kicked King N right on the hand, there was an explosion when his kick impacted King N's hand, which caused him to grab it.

"You little piece of Crap! Do you know how long it will take to repair this!?" Looking at Bravacho through his good eye, King N kicked him and sent him through a palace door. King N walked through the door that was destroyed and looked at his son while still trying to get the eye back online. "Misery, that’s what you have chosen. How many more do you think have tried to stop me? I can tell you, 738. I kept track of how much. You are no different, just another failure." A voice was heard which caught the attention of the two of them.

"Location of source found. Portal will open in 10 seconds." King N looked over to the source of the sound and saw the transportation machine with the heart piece in it. He looked back at Bravacho, who was also looking at the machine and chuckled.

"I will give you credit however, you were the one that pissed me off and disappointed me the most." A spherical portal on the machine opened to reveal a forest of some kind on the other side. "You’re not going to win. I will assemble the first Heart, and when I do, nothing will be able to stop me." King N lifted his left leg over Bravacho's head. "Nice knowing you. Traitor."

Just as King N was about to bring down his foot, another voice was heard.

"Hey, Flar Face!" Both of them looked to the sound of the voice and it turned out to be Flong, sitting in the seat of the molecule cannon and it was pointed right at King N.

Bravacho helped out and started to power up another blast. As he looked to the side he saw Dravia looking at him with teary eyes. He beckoned her to go through the portal with his head as he nudged it in the portal's direction. While this was happening, King N was still looking at Flong and the cannon. He started to chuckle.

"That thing can't hurt me; you will need to do better than that."

"How about this!?" King N looked down at Bravacho. When he heard that and was met with a powerful blast to the face causing him to stumble backwards slightly.

"You two, Go, Now!" Flong shouted to them. King N tried to stop them but Flong fired the cannon at King N and it hit him right on his other eye. As he covered both of his eyes up he turned around and tried to hit Flong but thankfully the beam he shot at him missed. With both eyes damaged a window opened in the chest of the suit. It was dark but they could make out 2 eyes looking at them through the window.

“You might have damaged the eyes but I had this installed for just such a situation.”

Flong looked down at Dravia who had just went through the portal and Bravacho went through it next after taking the Heart piece out of the scanner and through with him. Knowing that they were where they needed to be he did what he said he would, so he aimed the molecule cannon at the machine and fired. The portal disappeared as the transporter was turned to nothing but dust.

"Good luck, you two." He said while looking at the remains of the transporter, he turned his attention back to King N who was now looking at him furiously through the window in the chest and the eyes that were self-repairing. He tried to move away but was caught in King N's grasp when he tried to move.

"Where are they!?" Flong chuckled.

"They are on the same planet that the Heart bearer is on. Face it King N, soon you’ll be no more." Flong laughed but it was soon turned into gasps as King N tightened his grip, in less than 5 seconds the cracks of bone could be heard but Flong was still breathing. King N tossed him down onto the ground and he was quickly surrounded by his troops.

"Sir, all of the rebels are dead."

"About time. Tell Jerik I want to see him as soon as possible." He said in anger.

"Yes sir. What should we do with him?" The corporal pointed towards Flong and King N chuckled.

"Through him in the prison. I want to see his face when he sees that all his effort was in vain."

"What do you mean what I did will be in vain?" Flong asked in a low wheezing voice.

"Did you not think I didn't have a plan if something like this happened. I still have my...bargaining chip and a backup plan." After King N said that he looked up to the sky and so did Flong, both of them saw a dark sphere descending towards the planet.

Bravacho and Dravia were both in the middle of what looked like a forest and as Bravacho sat down to rest and try to heal his wounds his ears were met by the pleasant sound of chirping birds but this relaxing feeling was soon lost when he felt a sting in his right arm.

"Hold still." Dravia was washing the blood away from his injury with clean water she obtained in a nearby stream. "I’m so happy you’re still alive. I was so worried about you back there." Bravacho chuckled at her words.

"It will take more than that to put me down, but it was still a hard fight." When she was finished cleaning the blood away from his wound she looked around at the trees that surrounded them.

"We should try to find some sort of civilisation, perhaps we can get you treated."

"Sweetie, I was cut by my plasma knife. The odds of infection are very low, even lower if you count the strength of my immunity system."

"I don't care. Unless I hear from a doctor that we can leave it alone and it will heal on it's on I’m not taking any chances." She stood up and offered her hand to him and helped him to his feet. "Ok, first off we should find a road, if we find that we can likely find a town or city. Let's go." When she said that both of them started to walk together to find a way out of this forest.
As they walked Bravacho looked at the Heart piece he got. He still found it hard to believe he was successful and got it from his father and he felt really happy he did. Now they had more hope than they did before about stopping him.

As he looked at the heart piece however, something was wrong and he soon noticed it. The purple fog that was coming off of it back when he got it in his father’s room was gone.