Daniel was now approaching Canterlot castle and he had a bad feeling in his gut about it. Last night he’d been sitting on the couch with a paper and pen, writing out what might happen and how to react in a certain situation when he goes to meet Luna. He had a plan set out if she knew who he already was and how to act accordingly to it, but he was still unsure how he would react if she wasn’t going to attack him for what he did to her 1000 years ago.

While he does hope that happens, he is still uneasy about being around royalty or any kind of government ranked ponies after what happened back at his home.

"How would I react? I don't know for sure if it’s just to get me to lower my guard. If it’s not then what can I do? I can't look into her mind and even if I could it wouldn't be nice too, also if she means what she says then it means I’m the one in the wrong." Daniel was so nervous about this, that even the funny show he saw that was put on by the same 3 fillies who he helped yesterday did nothing to help ease his emotions.

It was quite late in the afternoon when he arrived and the guards wasted no time getting him after he got off the train. He would have just run or flew to Canterlot but he wanted to keep up his appearance and hope it worked. The guards escorted him to the main hall where they asked for him to wait until they informed Luna of his arrival.

While he waited he ran through the possible outcomes again and after much consideration, he had made a decision.

"I promised I would give Annabelle a better life, and I will. If Luna and Celestia try anything funny or to capture me without a good reason, I will not hesitate to fight them and I will later leave this planet...No, I can't, I promised Thag and Brago I would help them, and the queen changeling to. One thing at a time Daniel, one thing at a time."

It wasn’t long until he heard Luna call his name.

"Cosmos. We...I...am happy you accepted the offer to be my student." Daniel did his best to act normally so he put on a smile.

"If you don't mind me asking Princess Luna, why did you choose me as your student?" He wanted to see what her answer was.

"You’ve great magic potential in you and you seem to know more about friendship than most I’ve met. My sister took Twilight under her wing because of her magical ability and her kind-heartedness. You have quite a lot of traits that she had and you are also her friend. I honestly think you were the best choice." Daniel would have smiled honestly if he wasn’t on edge.

"What will I be learning?"

"I’ll chose what you’re going to learn, but my sister has told me a few things you should probably learn, like...politics." She shuddered when she said that and Daniel groaned is disappointment. "But mostly you will be with me and learning about magic but I do have something I want you to do and Celestia has also agreed that it might be a good task for you."

"What’s that?" Daniel was getting curious.

"In most of Twilight's letters she mentions about the advice you have given her and even to the others in situations where they’re having friendship difficulties, so that is what I wish for you to do, let Twilight learn about the magic of friendship and help her if it proves too much. Also, I'm curious about something. How do you know so much about friendship? Like what it requires to stay strong and what needs to be done, like what you did at the ticket incident?"

"Just some skills I picked up from my younger years." Daniel told Luna and he couldn’t tell if she was satisfied with the answer or not.

"Cosmos, I hope you don't mind me asking this, but how many friends have you had?" This question took Daniel back. He started to list off who he knew, from home or on his holidays. The ones who he had met but didn't end up staying in contact with. Every friend he ever had in his life.

"If Twilight and the others are not included...then I had 37." Luna's eyes went wide.

"Ho...How do you have so many?"

"I met 12 of them while I was on locations for holidays over the years and not all in one location, 7 from my old school, and another 8 from my other one I got moved too and 10 of them I know from my town before I moved out." That last part caused Luna to get curious.

"I only have one more thing I wish to ask before we continue. Where did you live?" He froze up but answered honestly.

"It was a town somewhere North, it was quite cold there and not in Equestria. If you want to know about my parents...all I will say is my father was in business and my mother had a job she did part time which was caring for elders in a retirement home." Luna's eye had a genuine sad look in them when he finished.

"I apologize if I have opened old wounds."

"I’ll be fine. Now, you mentioned about lessons?" This seemed to snap her back to her original intention.

"Oh right. First I wish to see how strong your magic is. Once I have, I’ll know what level to teach you on." Daniel started to panic but he didn’t show it. "I want you to launch your strongest blast at this." She indicated to a shield she put up next to them.

Daniel cursed himself for not trying to learn magic as this could expose him, but then he had an idea.

"Ok. I’ll try." He changed his powers to be used by his thoughts and imagined his horn lighting up with a dark blue aura. Then he thought about firing a blast, but he also used his power to alter space. He fired a blast from his hoof but it went through the small portal he had under his hoof and out from his horn. The light emitting from his horn perfectly covered the small portal and it went unnoticed. As his blast hit her shield it shattered instantly but so did his blast.

Daniel was now worried. That blast was a small amount of energy, about 1% of what he felt he had and it still shattered it. With the light on his horn vanishing he turned his power back to be used by his will, he looked at Luna but put up an act.

"Cosmos...that was...are you ok?" She looked at him half way through what she was saying and saw him holding his horn.

"I’ll be fine." Standing back up he looked at where the shield was. "Did I overdo it?"

"No, but now I know your level. You’re on Twilight's level so I see no reason to prevent our lessons from starting immediately." With that she indicated for him to follow her and he did.

A few hours later

Daniel was back at his house now. Luna showed him the castle layout and told him what she would be teaching him, offensive and defensive spells, and some government stuff, but for the most part she wanted him to stay in Ponyville and help Twilight in understanding friendship. The first day was more or less an introduction and not much more. But Daniel had much more on his mind right now.

As he sat on his couch, his mind drifted off to the events 2 days ago. He knew he needed to give some of his powers to Annabelle so she could protect herself and when she gets older he would give her more if she showed she would be responsible with them. But what Daniel found to be the real block in doing this is 'how' he could give her some of them as he could unintentionally kill her if done wrong. He didn't want that and he couldn’t think of anything to train on which could help with this problem.

He tried to get his mind off of that thought, until a light caused him to cover his eyes. When it died down he looked to where it was previously to see Nature standing there with a blue box in her hand.

"Sorry for appearing so soon Daniel, but all the questions have been written down." She tossed the blue box next to him on the couch. "It went faster than I thought it would. But I managed to quickly sort them and get rid of any repeated questions."

"Well, I don't have much to do and I still have plenty of time." Daniel opened the box, pulled out one piece of paper and read the question.

"Are you really a Human?" Daniel took his pencil and started to write his answer. "From the day I was born."

Daniel kept on doing this for a while, answering each question that was in the box. With this out of the way then that would be one less thing to do.

"How long have you been the Heart bearer for?" Daniel wrote his answer. "A few months now."

Most of the questions were about him and if he knew the previous bearer. Some asking if he had other family relatives outside of entity work. There was a fair amount that was being asked but one question caught Daniel by surprise and he turned red in the face when he read it.

"Is Miss Nature your Girlfriend?" Daniel was shaken a little from the question but he wrote the answer anyway. "No, and I'm not looking for one." If a girlfriend counted as someone who you kiss and hug then she wasn’t his girlfriend. Daniel continued to answer the rest of the questions until they were all done, and handed them back to Nature.

"Are you alright Daniel? You seem a little distracted." Daniel tried to act normally and just handed the papers over to her.

"Just some silly questions." She let it drop when she saw it was difficult for him to talk about but he still had something else to ask. "Nature. Is there anyone you know of that can help me learn how to give my powers to others?"

"Is it for Annabelle?" She asked and he nodded. "Yes, I know someone who can teach you something like that. I’ll get a hold of them after I put these in an answer list and then put it in the front billboard for the rest to see." She teleported away and left Daniel alone on the couch.

He turned his head and looked out the window and into the night sky which was turning blue as dawn was coming. Times like this caused his mind to wonder to the most random things to pass the time.

"I wonder what stars out there have planets with life orbiting them." Daniel's mind wondered from one thing to another. From science to possible realms that are made with different physical laws. With the knowledge that he had about what he was and being in a different world, it caused his mind to think up so much more stuff.

But as he kept on thinking he soon started to feel more upset. Here he was, one of the last two of his own race. On an alien planet, and has made a few friends with said aliens. Him being almost immortal and eternally youthful meant he would outlive the others and how their friendship might interfere with his future duties.

Should he leave them to avoid the pain of loss? What will he do if he becomes the very last one alive? What if in a lot of years in the future he and Annabelle are the last ones on this planet. Was he cursed to live and keep on wondering?

Sure it sounded like a dream to fly amongst the beauty that is the universe and others realities, but is it worth having almost nobody new by your side and all that you will know will fade away eventually?

"You’re thinking negatively again Daniel. Things might not turn out like that." He said to himself to try and cheer himself up. It was at that moment that Freddy walked in and started to look at the shelves of books, he seemed to be looking for a certain one. "What's wrong Freddy?"

"Do you know where the book 'Monsters of Equestria' is?"

"Oh that? I gave that back to Twilight a few days ago." Freddy seemed a little disappointed with that.

"Aww. It was an interesting read. Anyway I have a message from Brago. He is going to visit another Diamond Dog home for a few days and has told me to ask you if you would watch over his pack while he’s gone." Daniel was about to tell him that he was going to meet his friends and he couldn’t do that, until he remembered he could split himself.

"I’ll be along to watch over them soon." Freddy left the room and Daniel split himself up. His clone went into Aperture and to the Diamond dog home, while he stayed in the living room and waited for Annabelle to wake up so they could head out.

He closed his eyes and focused on what his clone could see and hear, then got to work. He stood there watching the dogs feast at the wooden tables that was recently build until he was nudged on his shoulder and when he turned around he was greeted by Rusty.

"So you came alone eh? Be nice to have friend here." His clone smiled at him.

"Nice to see you too. Before I start, is there anything I need to know about running this place?"

"No, you just have to stop fights if they happen and help us out if something that could be problem to the home, but other that, nothing much." Daniel sighed; having a good feeling this would be easy.

"Well, please don't bother me unless it’s important." Daniel found a chair and sat his clone down on it, now he could focus on getting ready to see his friends.

He was so focused on what his clone was doing he failed to notice Annabelle was standing in front of him, fully dressed.

"Were you sleeping on the couch?" She asked.

"No, I don't sleep. Brago is out visiting another dog clan and I sent a clone over to their home to keep an eye on them. I can still control it with my thoughts so if I’m standing still and not speaking, give me a moment." Daniel stood up and stretched his body.

"You’re going to give yourself a headache if you do that for most of the day, or walk into something, or fall off a cliff." Daniel chuckled at that last part.

"My clone is sitting down on a chair in their home, unless something important happens. So, ready to go out?" She nodded and Daniel transformed the both of them to their pony forms, then did what he needed to do to his mark before heading to his Ponyville house.

Just after his sister stepped down the stairs he was about to follow but he saw something out the window close by. It was the same purple mist again and it was moving.

“Annabelle. Stay there for a second.” Daniel watched as the mist moved over to his front door and he heard a knock on it. He stood there and looked at the door, nothing has ever knocked on his everfree door before so he got ready for a fight and walked over to it then opened it.

What he saw was the purple mist but it morphed into a human shaped form and its eyes were glowing green.

“You must be the new heart Bearer I heard about.” Daniel was immediately speechless. How did this thing know what he was. Was he another friend of Nature?

“Are you another entity?”

“Sure am. Spectral entity from the 5th dimension. Names Xaveroth.”

“How did you know what I am and where I am?” Daniel needed to know if he could trust him and wanted to know his story.

“Well I was here for a while, just exploring the forest and after I arrived and I saw you a few times but I could tell something was off about you, I can see what you really look like and that disguise can't fool me. When I went to the entity HQ and heard about a new heart bearer, I knew I had to meet you. So I wanted to introduce myself.” Daniel felt like he could trust him a little more.

“So that mist I saw a few times ago in the forest was you?”

“Bingo. You saw me a few times but I didn’t want you to find out about me as I was unsure about you so I decided to keep an eye on you.”

“Well it’s nice to meet you. If you live in the forest then perhaps I’ll see you around more.” Xaveroth gave him a thumbs up and left, flying off into the everfree.

Daniel closed the door and went back down the stairs to where Annabelle was waiting. Almost the moment he stepped out of the door they were approached by Twilight and the rest of their friends.

"Cosmos, We need your help!" He sighed.

"What is it?"

"Spike is in a panic, something happened to Rarity." Daniel saw Spike who was jumping impatiently and looked worried.

"Ok, lead the way." He and Annabelle started to follow Twilight and later on Spike explained the situation to them. Apparently he was out with Rarity and helping her acquire gems until three dogs jumped her and took her to their underground home.

"Well, it might be another dog clan. What if it's the one Brago is visiting?"

"Boss." Daniel heard Rusty's voice, so he was talking to his clone. Still trying to focus on running he made his clone speak.

"What is it?"

"A pony has been captured. The others want you to tell what they should do with pony." Daniel's heart sank when he heard this.

"Is she a white one with purple hair?" He asked.

"Capturers said it was. Why?" He swore he heard glass crack when he heard that.

"Oh for...Great...Another thing to deal with." Now he and his friends are on their way to the Diamond dog home and he knew he couldn’t let them see the robots that were helping underground or the machines. "Tell all the robots to get to the main room and hide the food dispensers. Don't worry about the pony, she has friends on the way to help her and I will take care of them. Also, get someone to take me to where the pony is kept. I need to focus on something."

"Yes sir." Rusty ran off the moment he finished saying that and Daniel felt his heart tighten when he called him 'sir'.

"I guess I can talk to them. But how, knowing Rarity she will probably look for her gems after her friends arrive, so I need to stop them from doing that, and I can't show up as a diamond dog if I end up needing to defend myself. Shadow is out of the question and so is Mew, so that leaves my last form." With that he changed into his crystal form and looked at his hands.

He recalled his last time in this form and how strange it felt. "Besides. Diamond dogs really like jewels, so in this form I could pass off as their leader." Daniel went back to focusing on the real him and he had to quickly step to the side. He was still running with Twilight and the others but almost hit a large rock because he was so distracted. He also noticed that Annabelle was getting tired from running so he picked her up and placed her on his back.

"You just rest there until we get there."

"Thanks." She said with a tired smile.

"Boss?" Daniel turned to see Rusty looking at him with wide eyes and even some other dogs did the same.

"It's still me, as I said, I will take care of them. Just make sure they don't see the machines." Rusty nodded and continued to do what Daniel had asked. Now that he was alone he looked at the tunnels in front of him, he tried to remember the way out so he could get rid of them close to the exit.

"Split up and look around." He heard Twilight say and when his focus went back to him and his friends he saw they were all looking in different Diamond dog holes.

"I need to hurry." Daniel looked down one hole as he made his clone go down a tunnel and he followed his memory of the place. He asked a random dog if they had something that was like a jail cell or a dungeon and the dog told him where it was.

When he arrived he saw Rarity inside it and 3 others around her. He decided to wait for the others but then he heard movement from behind him. He turned around to see Rusty running his way, he stopped and looked at Daniel but Daniel put his finger to his mouth, telling him to be quiet.

"Tell those 3 Dogs that I’m in this form, but don't, I repeat, don't let the pony hear you." Rusty nodded and entered the room. The dogs greeted him but Rarity said something along the lines of 'another brute.' When Daniel heard her call them that he wanted to take her along the tunnels to show her why they live the way they do so she would perhaps see them in a different light but he stayed where he was.

After a few moments Rusty left and gave Daniel a thumbs up and he gave one in return but as soon as he did that, a lot of Diamond dogs ran in the same way.

"But they blocked up all the holes." He heard Fluttershy's voice. Now that everything was set, Daniel removed the focus from his clone and back to the others.

"Don't mean we can't dig' em out, come on." Daniel looked at Annabelle who was looking at him with a frown.

"What?" She leaned into whisper.

"They noticed you standing around, looking into almost nothing or the same thing for a long time. You're lucky I managed to convince them that you had a lot on your mind because of your meeting with Luna." Daniel chuckled and thanked her.

"Hey Cosmos. If yer done thinking about whatever it was ya' n Luna talked about. Could ya help?" Daniel looked to Applejack who was trying to catch one of the dogs he had seen with Rarity. The fact that he was making Applejack play whack a mole with him was quite amusing.

As he watched them he almost lost it, his friends were being turned into clowns by the dogs that were fooling around with them. He then felt something grab his tail and he knew it was one of the dogs thanks to the hand feeling so he pulled it out in the dirt pile and threw him back into another and out of his sight.

"Better luck next time." He said to the dog before he threw it down the dirt pile.

As he turned back to Twilight and the others, he saw them all on the ground, panting heavily and exhausted.

"All those scary monsters popping up everywhere. Poor Rarity must be terrified." When Fluttershy voiced her concern Daniel checked on Rarity with his clone. She was more disgusted than scared of them.

"I swear, Rarity is nice and a good friend, but I think she’s also a germaphobe."

"I've got it!" Spike shouted out which caught everyone's attention. "I'll save you my sweet." He pulled out a gem and then a fishing rod which he used to lower the gem down a hole that wasn’t filled with dirt.

"If this works, I will punch myself. Then again the dog's don't have the brightest brains so...It might. Which reminds me, I need to meet up with the Changeling Queen again."

"Whoa there lover boy." Spike got lost in his imagination and almost kissed Applejack.

Spike suddenly started to get pulled into the hole as the gem on the string seemed to be caught. Applejack tried to help him but failed, and then Twilight, then Rainbow and so on until they were all pulled in. Daniel now sighed as he decided to go along with what he said; he was going to punch himself soon.

"Seriously? How strong are the Dogs?" Annabelle asked him.

"No Clue, but they seem to be quite strong. More than I thought anyway." He looked at the tunnel their friends were pulled down. "Let's go."

Both him and Annabelle jumped down the tunnel and landed below. Daniel landed on Twilight shortly after he heard Spike shout out about something working, then Annabelle fell on his back.

"Sorry bro." He chuckled until he realised he was on Twilight and hopped off.

"Sorry Twilight." She got a little red in the face from that. They all stood up and looked around while Annabelle jumped off his back.

"Um, Which way do we go?" Daniel looked around and he recognized this part of their tunnel network, they weren’t far from his clone.

"NOOOOOOO!" Daniel turned to Spike who just shouted that out loudly, not seeming to care if every dog in the tunnel heard, which they probably did.

"For goodness sake Spike, what's with the shout? It's not like you won't see her again." Daniel rubbed his ear and saw that one of the food machines which is normally here is now gone. “ Good. They moved them. "

The lot of them walked down a hallway that Twilight had chosen to go down and they were complaining about which tunnel to choose and about how they were so many. So his friends were clueless, until Spike mentioned about them perhaps taking Rarity down the tunnel with the 'most gems'. While Twilight was happy to hear his idea she mentioned about how only Rarity knew that spell, Until Spike reminded her that Rarity taught her it.

"The most gems? Seriously? How did you come to that conclusion? If they kidnapped Rarity to find gems for them then they aren't good at finding them themselves so they likely missed gems. Are you implying the dogs just buried the gems that they love so much back in the dirt around certain tunnels? Why would they even do that?" It just didn't make any sense to Daniel. If anything the gems that are still in the ground are just not found. Not put there for a specific reason.

"Stand back." Twilight's horn lit up and she looked at the tunnels which showed gems starting to show transparently through the ground and all of them rushed off down one tunnel, but this left Daniel with a question of his own.

"Ok, If the dogs want Rarity to find gems for them because they can't themselves like she can...then why would they take her down the tunnel path with the most gems and furthermore, why would the others think to go down that way? I swear either fate is laughing at me while pulling a prank or this is just dumb luck."

"Did the dogs place the gems there or is this just luck, because if Rarity is down that path and the dogs don't know there is a lot of gems in that path, then this is too fishy to seem normal." Annabelle blurted out, showing she thought the same thing.

"Let's go before they get too far ahead." He took off to catch up to them.

Daniel went back to what his clone was doing and the first thing he heard was one of the dogs talking.

"Find them all."

"Oh, is that all?" He looked around the corner and saw Rarity happily trying to find gems. She didn’t look scared or disgusted anymore. Daniel then realised that in this form he is, more or less, a giant gem so would her spell work on him? After a few seconds Rarity found gems and after she marked them she tried to leave but a guard stopped her.

"I thought I asked Rusty to...why is there a...Nevermind. They were probably too excited about finding gems to listen or they forgot." Shortly after the guard stopped her they told her to dig them up and after a few moments of little words, Rarity started to dig, very pathetically.

"We said dig." Daniel wanted to go in and stop this right now. He was caught between two friends. Brago's trust or Twilight's and the others trust. After Rarity talked about how she’s not going to 'chip a hoof for dislike about her digging style' and she continued. A moment later they got her to stop and ordered others who were waiting above them to dig.

"How did I miss them?" Daniel quickly went back to Twilight and the others, who were still running down said gem path so he re-focused his attention back to Rarity.

"She won't dig, she pulls." Two of them were now walking up to her with a cart and its attachment while Rarity started to back away when she saw this.

"I beg your pardon, but what pray tell are you doing."

"Others will dig, you will hull the waggon." Daniel decided to keep watch and only jump in if needed. The dogs placed it on her back and she started to fuss over their fingernails.

"Please be quiet." Daniel thought that, in a way, this was sort of like a low budget show, one of those you watch just because nothing you like is on and it seems a little interesting. Only this was real.

"Oh, what’s that smell?"

"Smell?" Rarity found the smell to be the dogs breath after trying to find it's source for a moment. "ENOUGH!" One of them shouted. "Search pony." Daniel quickly went back to the real him to check on his friends. They had just stopped to rest at a large tunnel and were catching their breath. Daniel thankfully managed to stop himself from running ahead.

"It's best I do this. I might mess up by accidentally saying something that I tried to get my clone to say. Better cautious than foolish." He went back to his clone once more and checked on the situation. There were now quite a few holes around the tunnel and some guard dogs were out cold on the ground and the ones that were with Rarity looked like they were about to explode from irritation.

"Good gracious I can't take this anymore. BE QUIET PONY!" The little one shouted. Rarity, yet again, went on talking about her being a lady and how she should be called. This was clearly making the dogs irritated.

"ENOUGH! Your whining, it hurts." This seemed to make Rarity only complain more and she eventually broke down into annoying whining. All the dogs held their ears and one even jumped into the cart in hopes of not hearing her whining. "Stop whining!"

"But I thought you wanted whining." She continued to whine. Daniel saw this was clearly making the dogs upset so if this continued he was going to step in.

"We'll do anything pony." This seemed to annoy her. "Oh, We'll do anything, Miss Rarity."

"Anything?"

" What are you planning Rarity?" He asked himself with narrow eyes.

Daniel waited to see if Rarity would be mean to the dogs and he would have stepped in if she was. Over a few minutes as he went back and forth between clone and his real self she made the dogs treat her like a queen and the same three that made her work were now working for her and were pulling gem carts like she was. He felt the urge to deal with this himself until he remembered that the dogs don't have a lot of training, and this could be an opportunity to strengthen their willpower.

When the three dogs who made Rarity work passed an opening Daniel spoke to them.

"What are you doing?" They seemed surprised by his sudden appearance but Daniel quickly put his finger to his mouth, telling then to be quiet.

"Pony hurt our ears. Give us headache. We work so no headache."

"You’re letting her push you around. Show her what you can do, and if she somehow finds and sees one of the machines then she might take one which could alert other ponies to you, leading to you being attacked to get them. Don't let that happen, fight back." Their eyes widened and they looked angrily at Rarity. "But, I am warning you. Don't hurt her and let her go after you've got some more gems." They were about to protest to that but a glare from Daniel quickly shut them up.

One of them went up to Rarity and quickly reattached the cart to her. She tried to whine again but it didn’t even make the dog flinch. Daniel checked on his friends and they were on the move. Just getting up from resting at another location and were now running down another tunnel.

"Hazza Mule!" The dog slapped Rarity on the behind and that shocked both her and Daniel.

"Did you just call me a mule?" She was almost crying and the one who slapped her got a look of guilt.

"I need to remember their names. I have seen them around but haven’t asked them their names." Daniel decided he would when this was all over.

"Mules are ugly, are you saying I too am ugly?" Rarity broke into tears after she asked that.

"What are these noises?" The small one asked.

"He called me ugly!" Daniel started to wonder if those were genuine tears Rarity had or fake but they seemed real. Was she really that upset over a name that even a child would probably say?

"No, Mule, I said mule."

"An old ugly mule and it's true. Just look at me. I used to be beautiful but, but now!" The situation just went from annoying to weird very fast.

"No, No. You're still beautiful po- Miss Rarity." Now the large one was joining in. Daniel checked on his friends and they had stopped at a metal door. He heard something from behind and side stepped, letting a diamond dog hit the ground and fall over onto it's face first. All of the others started to fight the ones that jumped on them but Daniel just placed his hoof on the one that tried to jump him and went back to his clone.

"You're just saying that." They kept on talking until Rarity burst into tears.

"Oh for...That is it. I am stopping this now." Daniel was about to speak until he heard what one of them said.

"We let you go." She stopped crying and he stopped in his tracks.

"Perhaps I don't need to show myself. All they have to do is let her go now. I need to get my robots to train them in willpower, resisting silly stuff like this. It could help them a lot." He sighed with that thought.

"Really?"

"Yes, and take this so never come back." They gave her one of the carts loaded with gems.

"Thank you. Now please show me the exit." The three of them lead her down a tunnel and towards a metal door, that burst open and Spike was on Twilights back, riding her like a knight would. After the dogs told Twilight about why they were giving her back, Spike ran up to Rarity and hugged her.

"Rarity, you're safe."

"Why yes, hello Everypony, you arrived just in time to assist me."

"Assist you with what?" Applejack asked and even Daniel was curious to what Rarity meant.

"With those." She indicated to all the carts that were full of gems.

"You're letting her leave with all these...Jewels."

"What? Really?" Daniel didn’t know why, but he started to feel angry.

"Yes, take them, and her with them."

"Please." All of his friends looked at each other with happy faces, but Daniel was having none of that.

"Ok, I will say. Kidnapping her was wrong. But, not only did she ‘intentionally’ hurt their ears and their heads but now she is taking all the gems when half of them were obtained by the dogs when she was being treated like a queen. I don't think so Miss Greedity." He said in his mind but then for real. "I don't think so."

All of them stopped and looked over to him. Rarity seemed offended by what he said.

"I beg your pardon?"

"I said you're getting half of them, not all." Rarity looked at him angrily.

"I was kidnapped by them, called ugly and they tried to make me work in the dirt." Daniel was still having none of it.

"And you hurt them intentionally. I am not having any of that. Now go before I change my mind." Rarity took off the cart attachment and walked up to Daniel.

"Now listen here you...you..." Her words disappeared as Daniel walked, or floated, up to her and she was stepping backwards.

"What? Say it." He was still floating forwards and he was now out of the shade. He could be seen by all of them.

All of his friends gasped and even some of the dogs did too. Spike was looking at with both curiously and with hunger. Rarity had stars in her eyes and a giant smile.

"A living and fully sentient jewel!?" Twilight shouted out and Daniel looked over to her.

"I don't like being called 'jewel', my name is...Glimmer and I also don't like it that you think you can just take all the gems when half of them were gathered by the dogs when Miss marshmallow here was playing princess with them." Rarity gasped at that.

"How dare you. I’m not a marshmallow." Rarity said.

"Honestly, at this moment I don't care who or what you are. You caused my friends pain, fear and sadness. So I am giving you one warning. Get out!" While Daniel didn’t like talking like this, he didn’t want the dogs to get nothing out of the suffering they had been put through and he wanted his friends out of here ASAP.

"You don't scare me." Dash said to him.

"I’ll show you how scary I can be if you don't leave." Dash flew back and then right towards him and kicked him in the face, but he didn’t move.

"Is that all?" Daniel asked. While his clone was busy toying with Dash the real him was standing behind his friends and watching this, after letting the dog that was trapped by his hoof go.

Dash tried to kick him again but much harder. He put a space barrier around her and made his eyes glow blue. Then threw Dash back to Twilight and the others before removing the barrier and making his eyes go back to normal. None of them were hurt, the barrier was just a push force.

"Rainbow! Why you." Applejack ran up and kicked him on the underside of the giant diamond he was on but Daniel didn’t feel it.

"Can you do better?" Applejack started to kick rapidly multiple times and after she was done Daniel was still in the same place he was. "I didn’t feel anything."

Applejack looked scared for a change and backed off.

"My patience is getting very thin, so I suggest you leave before you make me any more angry." He saw Twilight fire a magical beam at him and he just stood and took it. When the dust cleared it looked like the attack did nothing but that's because before the dust cleared, the small burn he got from the magic blast had already healed.

"Wha-What?" Twilight looked scared now and so did the rest of them. "What are you?" She asked.

"Someone who is quite angry at you." Daniel decided to keep to his promise so the real him put Annabelle down before he ran forward and kicked his clone, which sent it back into a wall and then the real pony him spoke.

"Leave my friends alone." He then made his clone speak.

"Nice hit. Let me show you mine." His clone rushed forward and gave a punch to the side of his face, which sent him backwards and onto the ground and even caused a small shockwave.

"COSMOS!" They all shouted.

"I will give you to the count of 30. Take the half of the gems and go or I’ll make you leave with none." He started counting and his friends listened as he made the real him go with the flow. Taking a cart and walking up to the surface with it.

When they were out of sight he turned to the dogs.

"Give me a moment." He went back to the real him who was pulling a cart with the others. They all seemed a little uneasy about their encounter with him but they were unharmed and they didn’t see any of the machines. Twilight was looking at him and her hoof was on his face at the place where his clone punched him.

"You ok Cosmos?" All of the others were looking curiously too.

"I'm fine. But I must say, Glimmer packs quite a punch." Daniel now just realised his vision was a little blurry but nothing that would fix itself soon.

"What’s going on? Twilight, do you know what that...thing was? What Glimmer was?" Dash asked Twilight who shook her head.

"Not a clue. I’ve never seen one or heard a myth about something similar. This is getting strange. In just a few months there’s been 3 creatures that have never been seen before and they all hold very great power. Could all three of them know each other? Where did they come from? If they’ve been around for so long then why are they just starting to appear now?" She went on about how's and what's about each of his different forms.

"Nightmare moon." Rarity said. "They all started appearing after Nightmare moon came back or perhaps it's something to do with the Elements."

"No Rarity. Remember, Celestia told us that Luna had an encounter with the Shadow before she became Nightmare moon." Twilight told her.

"Do you, think they’re a threat?" Applejack asked.

"I don't know. It's a question we keep asking. Cause even if they aren't a threat to us or others like minotaurs or griffins. With the power they have, they could do some serious damage of they were to fight each other. So even if they aren't a threat to us, we could still be in danger of they are hostile to each other." She said and there was a moment of awkward silence before Daniel decided to break it.

"So where’re we taking these?"

"To my place Cosmos. I’ll arrange them when I have time." Rarity told him.

"And I have to write to Celestia about this. There’s another unknown creature and that’s not something to just overlook." Daniel sighed inwardly at that.

"Come on everypony. Now’s not the time for any of that. We should be happy for Rarity, happy for her and the fact that she got all these gems." Pinkie cheered out, trying to make them happy.

"Yeah, and I can't believe you tricked all those dogs."

"Just because I’m a lady does not mean I can't handle myself in a sticky situation. I had them wrapped around my hoof the entire time. That was until that...wonderful creature showed up." Rarity got stars in her eyes again.

"I’ll be sure to also write to princess Celestia to tell her what you taught me today."

"Me? What did I teach you?" Daniel wanted to know too, but he didn’t want to hear it if it was sugar coated like most things are here. Twilight mentioned about how being lady like didn’t make a pony weak but if she used her wits well she could outshine them all.

"Sounds like humanity. No Magic, no flight, no fast speed, no great strength or hard hide. But with our brains we make weapons that are almost unmatched and even managed to get into space. Granted we did have a lot of problems but we pulled through."

"Now you have just enough gems to cover sapphire shore's costumes." Spike was happily eating some gems but Rarity quickly took the one he was about to finish away with her magic.

"Boss?" Daniel heard an echoed voice, meaning someone was talking to his clone.

"Not if you eat them all." Daniel focused on his clone again. He turned around to look to the one who was trying to speak to him.

"Boss. Message from the Changeling queen." Rusty was waiting behind him.

"What is it?"

"She wishes to meet with you soon, tomorrow if possible. She has accepted your alliance request." Dogs around him started talking among them when they heard that but he just smiled as that’s one less possible enemy.

"Good, inform the others we will have new friends around. Also, please don't disturb me if I’m standing still like that. I might be dealing with something important." Rusty nodded at him. "Thanks, now you can cancel the alert and move the machines back. It's all clear." Rusty ran off to do just that and Daniel headed to the main room.

When he was in the main room he closed his clone’s eyes and went back to the pony him pulling the cart.

They had just arrived back in Ponyville and stopped outside of Rarity's home, they were now removing the cart attachments and Rarity was pulling them in one by one. His was the last one to be removed.

"I must say, thank you all for helping me with them." Daniel wanted to ask Rarity if she would’ve still tried to pull all those carts if they didn’t show up but he let it drop.

"I am going to be busy for the next day or two. I have things I need to work on." Daniel told them, and then both him and Annabelle took off.

"See you Cosmos."

Shortly after Daniel picked up Annabelle and started going home he ended up running a bit too fast and ran into a pony. This pony had a grey coat and his hair and tail were white and his eyes were emerald green.

"Darling are you alright?" There was a mare next to him and she had a light yellow coat with a dark brown tail and hair and her eyes were aqua.

"I'm fine. What's with the rush?" He asked Daniel.

"Sorry about that. I was in a rush to get back home." Daniel felt strange, he did not know what it was but it was like this pony didn’t feel normal.

"Well perhaps you’ll remember to slow down next time." The pony picked up a bag and place it on his back.

"Bearer" Daniel heard a voice that seemed to be coming from within the bag. After looking at it for a moment the pony in front of him spoke.

"Are you ok?"

"Fine. Just curious but I know it's none of my business, sorry." Daniel said and walked away.

"What was that about? You looked at his saddlebags like you saw a ghost." Annabelle was still on his back but more like she was lying down on it now.

"That’s something I have to look into. If it’s what I think it is, then I need to ask him where he got it and if he’s selling it." Annabelle has been a great help to Daniel today, making very realistic explanations to his friends about why he stood and stared a lot. Looking back at her he realised that she would have some powers of her own soon enough.

"Did you see Spike and Rarity's face when they saw Glimmer?" Daniel laughed at the thought.

"Yeah, it was a face you rarely see. I swear she would have been trying to make friends with it if it didn’t tell us to leave." Annabelle knew that was Daniel as she has seen him in that form before but she acted like she never did just in case someone was listening. She was getting good at hiding herself and when she gets her powers to be able to defend herself, he might start letting her go out by herself more often.

Daniel got back home and they changed back to their human forms. Daniel decided to try and contact Nature with a telepathic message, hopefully she would have an answer to his little problem. After he tried to contact her it wasn’t long until she appeared.

"What's wrong Daniel?"

"Nature. Remember how the heart piece acted when I was close to it and how I said I felt?" She nodded at that. "Well I felt the same thing just moments ago from a bag that some pony was carrying."

"So another piece is on this planet?" She seemed surprised.

"Yes, but the one who has it might not..." It was at this moment when Daniel noticed someone standing beside Nature. This person looked like an anthropomorphic fox, his fur was blue with some white, and he wore a black robe with some fancy black shoes. "Who’s this?"

"This is Travon the one who’s the expert in power transfer. He can transfer some of his powers into others so I thought he could teach you." Travon stepped forward and looked at Daniel curiously.

"So you are the heart bearer I have heard so much about? But you couldn’t hurt Archie?”

"Yes, that’s me, and I can’t because Archie is too strong."

"The last heart bearer was able to fight him in his final form and beat him. Guess you have a lot to learn." Travon mentioning that caught Daniel's attention.

"What do you mean his Final form?"

"Archie is the strongest of us, mostly from lots of study and training as there are some of us that can beat his first form and when you met him and tried to hurt him he was in his first form. He has 3 and each one is more powerful that the last." Now Daniel was curious about what Archie's true power was. "Anyway, you wanted me to teach you about power transfer?"

"Yes, it's for my sister here." He pointed to Annabelle.

"Hmm, a lifeform with no cosmic, magical or psychic powers, and a youngling none the less. If you’re planning to give her some of yours then I would recommend doing it little by little each passing week. Too much could have bad side effects." Daniel nodded at Travon, telling him he was aware of what he said.

"I want to make sure she can protect herself."

"Understandable, but remember this. If you should die, she will lose what you gave her."

"Ok, I understand." Travon smiled.

"Good, now let’s start." With that said and done, Daniel's training began.

Celestia was sitting down at the table and currently sipping away at her tea. Today had been very annoying as it was just more nobles and business owners coming up with stupid reasons to try and get her to agree to some changes that would only end with them getting more money. Like the one who said they should remove injury benefits because 'the workers should not be so clumsy'. Needless to say she rejected such things instantly, but not all of them were corrupted.

After she took another sip of her tea a scroll appeared over her and bopped her on the nose as it fell. When she saw the symbol on it she knew it was from Twilight so she opened it up and read it. It was another friendship report but she also mentioned she would be sending another letter that contained something important.

Not long after that another letter did indeed appear and Celestia opened it. It told her about another never seen before creature that’s made out of diamond and she further mentions how she thinks this creature is the leader of the diamond dogs. It also explained how it took a magical blast from her, hits from Dash and Applejack and didn’t even flinch. Lastly it says about what it did to Cosmos, and how even his attempt to hit it didn’t seem to cause it any real damage.

Celestia had been told about Cosmos's skill with magic and how he could enhance himself, both in body strength and toughness and how he normally keep it that way. But to hear something managed to beat Twilight when she used magic and how it beat Cosmos in a physical fight. This made her feel uneasy, and if the speculation part was true then unlike the Shadow or Mew this creature called Glimmer wasn’t alone and was the diamond dog leader.

"What is going on? First Shadow, then Mew, now a living Jewel called Glimmer, and they all seem to possess a set of their own powers. Mew being mostly magical then Glimmer being physical by the sound of the report and Shadow who seems to be similar to both of them. From the ursa fight and from Luna's story about how it used energy to fight her before.

It was at that moment that Luna entered the room, clearly tired from the paperwork she’d been signing. She agreed to help Celestia out with half of her paperwork but took longer because Celestia could read slightly faster that her, thus finished earlier.

"Your tea is ready Luna. How’s Cosmos?"

"His magic is very impressive, it took down my strongest shield but it seemed to hurt him in the process, it seems he’s not used to using magic offensively. I’ve told him I would send for him if I needed him or if I have a lesson, but until then he is to stay in Ponyville and help Twilight out with her Friendship discovery." Celestia almost choked on some of her tea when Luna said that.

"He...He took out your strongest shield?"

"Yes. Why?"

"Luna, Remember when I made an alert to the guard to be ready if the Shadow is hostile?" Luna nodded. "Well, there’s another creature out there and Twilight along with the rest of her friends encountered it today. It was a creature called Glimmer and she was made almost entirely of diamonds, but that’s not what surprises me. What does is that she managed to take a hit from Twilight's magic, Applejack, Rainbow Dash and Cosmos and still didn’t flinch, and worse, if what Twilight suspects is true then she’s the leader of the diamond dogs." Luna had a look on her face that was a cross between terror, surprise and curiosity.

"Twilight encountered this creature, did it hurt her?"

"No it didn't surprisingly, it took whatever they threw at her and just told them to leave. Well she punched Cosmos and knocked him to the other side of the room. But what scares me is the report seems to indicate that Gimmer was holding herself back the whole time. Meaning all those attacks were just annoying and not hurtful, so what scares me is just how strong Glimmer really is, and with troops to back her up." Celestia didn't want to be mean to the dogs, even if they have some that barely counted as troops from what she's heard.

"Do you think we should go and meet Glimmer. If the two of us are there then she might not attack."

"While I would like to meet her, I don't want her to attack us because she thinks we are hostile. Perhaps we should send her a letter first and over time we could arrange to meet. Still, that’s 3 creatures out there that are just as, if not stronger than us and smart too. Glimmer so far seems to be the smartest. If the worst comes to the worse and they are a threat then I fear we might all need to work to beat them. You, me, the Elements and even Mew if it agrees to help." Luna notices Celestia wasn’t that scared when she mentioned Mew, even saying she hopes it would fight with them.

"You are not scared of the little pink one? Have you gone soft for cuteness again?" She giggled at Luna's question.

"No, it's just that one doesn’t seem very violent and has never hurt anything. It's always helped so we may have a good ally, if it agrees to our request that is."

"Sister, I think you should rest. Your brain is likely tired from the court today. Let's think about this after we’re rested and refreshed." Celestia smiled. Luna was certainly starting to realise when things were perhaps being pushed too far and she was adapting to the culture changes to a degree.

"Very well. Besides, tomorrow’s our day off. We can discuss what might be done and what is needed to be done then." Celestia finished her tea and stood up. "Goodnight...LuLu." Celestia laughed as Luna pounted and was blushing from embarrassment.

"You know I don't like that name. I'm not a filly anymore."

When Celestia left the room and Luna was left alone she took what she was told into perspective of her own problems.

"Glimmer? Really? If that’s Daniel then why would he choose that form? It could be his sister but I haven’t seen what she can do. I don't think his sister is as strong as him concerning her age so either that is him or another life form, but going on what I know about Daniel and what I’ve seen he can do. I’m sure that Glimmer is Daniel, which would explain more of why Twilight and the rest weren’t attacked. But if that is true then why is he with the diamond dogs? Is he trying to make as many friends as possible? There’s no way they could have captured him based on what he can do." Luna was going over ever possible thing on what this new information could mean and she decided to write it down in her notes when she gets back to her room.

Bravacho and Dravia got to town hall and managed to purchase a house with the money they multiplied, it was a small two room cottage in the middle if the town.

"So what’s your plan?" Darvia had been told Bravacho had a plan to catch the heart bearer that involved an event that was happening in a few months.

"It says in 4 months this thing called 'Grand Galloping Gala' will take place and there’ll be a lot of ponies there. If the heart bearer is here then he or she might go to this, I mean while this planet is nice and peaceful and out on the edge of a far off universe, it might get a bit boring so who’s to say he or she won't be there? We just go and take the heart piece with us; it will likely attract the bearer or be attracted to the bearer, either way it seems like our best chance."

Dravia put her hoof to her chin as she remembered how a pony from before reacted.

"Remember that pony from before, he looked at your bagpack curiously when he didn’t know what was in it. You don't think that...that pony was who we’re looking for, do you?" Bravacho stopped to think for a moment.

"I’ll be sure to keep my eye out for him in the future."

"Sir, I regret to inform you that the fleet has been destroyed." King N had been trying to conquer a planet for the past 2 days and every troop he had sent had been killed in battle.

"How pathetic. How did my troops fail to conquer this planet again?" He stood up and folded his arms.

"Th-They’re powerful magic users and their queen has enough magic in her to destroy planet assault carriers." King N just sighed.

"If you want something done right, do it yourself." He started to walk off his throne and out of the bridge, as he did the troop followed.

"Sir, what do you plan to do?"

"Deal with them myself." As King N approached an airlock he seated himself in it and locked it from the inside. Not long after it was locked he heard a transmission from the same guard that followed him.

"Sir, I’ve just been informed that they have a fleet inbound to our flagship." This only seemed to make him chuckle.

"Good, some fun." As King N opened the airlock and activated his jet boots he went to the front of his ship so his whole crew could get a good view. When he arrived he saw a bunch of other star ships in the distance, he counted 25 in total.

He picked up another transmission and listened into it. It was a threat that was directed to him and his ship.

"This is admiral Tholian and this is a message for the one called King N. For your attempts to conquer our planet and the slaughter of the innocent you are to surrender immediately. Don't try to fight or we will destroy you just like the rest you sent."

King N waited, not caring about their threat. As he waited he heard them mention their Queen would personally destroy him for hurting her citizens and he saw a door in their largest ship open and a blast of magic shoot towards him.

"If I can't conquer your planet, then I’ll destroy it and you for this defiance." He flicked a finger at the magic blast and caused it to reflect in another direction.

It was then he saw all the ships change. They were preparing to launch their strongest assault and as the ships changed, they deployed a weapon that King N realised on the spot. It was a cone shaped Glass cannon with flowing yellow energy in it.

"Star blasters." He said to himself. These weapons are strong but take a long time to charge as they have to be close to a star and require hours of charging by absorbing the solar rays. He saw some lights on the planet that just appeared and even some of their space stations that were in orbit of their planet also diploid their star blasters.

As they charged up, he looked back at their main ship and saw their queen preparing another blast of magic. King N held up his hand and tiny little spheres about the size of marbles appeared there before moving to different locations around him.

All the star blasters fired and King N flicked his finger forwards and the dark spheres also went forwards and towards the beams. The moment the beams from the star blasters touched the dark spheres they started to get pulled into them. Almost like how a black hole would suck in light but as King N's dark spheres consumed more of the beams they grew larger and larger.

Soon all the ships that were trying to kill him were trapped in them along with all the energy from the beams and a few moments, so were the space stations. Seeing this, he grinned. Holding out his hand and with his fingers spreaded, he closed them, bringing the now giant dark spheres together and his hand now looked like it was indicating 'Stop'

With all the ships and space stations now in one giant sphere besides a few more currently going and consuming the beams that were shot from the planet, King N made a back hand slapping motion to the giant one and it started to go towards the planet. Making contact with the last dark spheres on the way down and forming into one before impacting the planet.

A few seconds later when he saw the sphere made it to the core of the planet, he held out his hand and bent his fingers into a fist. Causing the sphere to shrink, killing all who were trapped in it by slow crushing and putting immense pressure on the total energy of all the beams that were also trapped.

"I'm done." King N said as he turned around to start walking back in. The moment he was out of the way and his crew inside didn't have him obscuring some of their vision, the small sphere at the planet's core exploded. The planet was not blown apart. Cause there was no parts left as the explosion was so large if covered it many times over. The size of the explosion could be compared to that of a gas giant.

With his job done, King N headed back to his ship until he heard a transmission from one of his officers on the bridge.

"Sir, we’ve found another planet with the same magical signature, but weaker." A screen appeared in front of him that showed information on the planet. "Some space travellers have been to this planet before and it isn’t much in terms of fighting."

"Send the Captain to check it out, and tell him I want him to see if we can conquer it with little losses. I don't want to lose a portion of my army from my arm of this sector."

"Yes sir." After King N was back in his ship he got a reply. "The captain will leave first thing tomorrow."

"Good. By the way, what’s the name of this planet?" He asked as he arrived back on the bridge and sat down on his throne.

"It has no official name on our databases but the travellers that went there said the locals call it Equestria."

Author's Notes:

While Daniel could focus on both his clone and him at the same time, I made him switched between them to not make it too confusing for the reader.

Yes, Whis is a DBS (Dragon Ball Super) reference.

Also, very important. There might be a time skip, about 3-5 episodes some time, but the first part of that chapter will be a large explanation of what happened in the time that passes and episodes that don't have more than 3 of the main six in them with important roles will also be skipped or will be a filler chapter.