It had taken a full day but Daniel could now transfer his powers to another. Travon was quite tough in his training and they only had a few quick rests. Apparently Daniel had to feel his power source which was to him, his heart and he had to imagine it going from his heart, to his hands and then to whomever he wanted to give it too. He failed on the first few times when he tested it out on objects like statues, but he managed to get the right amount of power that he needed to use. Travon monitored everything, from the amount of energy he used to what powers he was giving and so on.

The whole time this was happening, Annabelle went onto Daniel's computer and started to play some more games, and she did something that left him speechless. When Daniel was training with Travon she jumped up and cheered at one point which caused him to look over at the screen, and he saw she had just beaten Dark Souls 2. She looked at him with a smug grin after he saw that she did that.

Daniel was now sitting down on the couch and cleaning the sweat off his forehead. Travon wasn’t a teacher that trains lightly, it was hard work to get that power under control but he managed to and he felt much better about it, now Annabelle could have some of Daniel's power to help protect her, but this meant that he would have to train her too and Daniel sighed at that thought.

Nature offered to help Annabelle and she agreed so Daniel transferred his healing and energy manipulation powers over to her and Nature took her out the front to train her

Travon left soon after his training was done and Daniel sat down on a chair, trying not to fall asleep from exhaustion but that didn’t last long as his stamina came back quickly. Looking outside he saw Annabelle holding a ball of energy and throwing up before catching it a few times. She ended up dropping it which caused it to explode and she was left covered in dirt but she just laughed it off with Nature.

They came in a few hours later and Nature looked at him with a smile.

“She got a hold of it quickly when I transferred my knowledge to her.” Annabelle was sitting on the floor and holding another ball of energy.

“So cool.” She didn’t take her eyes off it but then she remembered something and got a piece of paper and went over to Daniel."You have your meeting with the changeling queen in a few hours." Annabelle held out a note for Daniel. He took it and it mentioned she wanted to meet him back at the previous meeting place in Brago's den at midnight today.

"Thanks for reminding me sis." Daniel got up from the couch and wondered what he should do to pass the time. Then he remembered he hasn’t spent a lot of time with Annabelle recently, she was usually home or with his kids, this made him feel a little guilty, he’s her brother and as such he should spend more time with her. "Hey Annabelle. Want to play something like hide and seek?" He tried and managed to hold back an evil grin, he planned to use his powers to make this hide and seek a bit more fun.

"Seriously? You mean it?" He nodded. "Alright, but it must be the house. Outside and in aperture is not allowed."

"Seems fair." She cheered.

"Alright, you hide. I count." Daniel ran off and hide in the closet and them turned into his Mew form. He slid into a jumper that was under a pile of clothes that was on the ground and waited. After a few minutes he heard Annabelle coming up to the closet and she opened the door only to close it a few seconds later.

Daniel chuckled and slowly opened the door. He saw Annabelle looking away from him and at the bedroom doors so he flew close to her and stayed behind her. She checked each room and started to get a little annoyed when she couldn't find him.

"If he's gone away again I swe...does he not like me anymore? Is that the reason why he is so distant?" Daniel decided to end this now before she got too upset so he tapped her shoulder and when she looked behind her he said ‘Boo’. Annabelle screamed and fell backwards which caused Daniel to fall to the floor and laugh so hard it made his sides hurt. "No-Not funny." She said at first then started laughing with him and he soon turned back into his normal form.

"Got you."

"You used your powers. That’s not fair." Daniel grinned.

"You didn’t say no powers." Annabelle tried to speak a few times but failed, then she managed to say what she wanted to say.

"Still. It's not fair." Daniel heard Nature speak. He completely forgot she was still here.

"I agree with your sister, play fair Daniel, or I will join in and make it fair." Now she was grinning.

"Fine, fine."

"So play fair this time." Annabelle started counting again and Daniel went to find a place to hide.

This went on for a good amount of time and they took turns in hiding and seeking, soon Freddy came into the room to ask something but when he saw what Daniel and Annabelle playing he asked if the rest of them could join and they both agreed to it. Now Daniel was in a cramped spot that was under the sink and he was the last one to be found. Annabelle was talking to the rest and saying that he was using his powers again, until Nature told them he wasn’t and they kept looking.

After a while it was Elizabeth that found him under the sink after she tried to get some scrubbers to clean up some stains she had found on the TV unit.

"What are you doing in there?" She asked, unamused.

"Hiding...and being stuck." Here eye shutter fell down half way.

"You can just use your powers to get out. Or would you prefer it I pulled you out?" He sighed.

"I’ll get out." Daniel teleported out and was immediately tackled by Annabelle.

"I found you. I win." They all shared a laugh.

Hours passed and Daniel was ready to meet the changeling queen again. He hated himself for being so forgetful with names but regardless he went back to the Diamond dog den and remerged with his clone before heading to the main room, and the changeling queen was indeed waiting there. He also brought his kids along with him so they could meet her.

"Daniel. It's nice to see you again." Daniel looked to the left and saw her sitting in a chair with the same little changeling from before.

“Likewise queen...eh...sorry I’m not good with names." She smiled and rolled her eyes at his comment.

"It's Chrysalis." It was at that moment Thag arrived but in a much smaller form, he had shrunken himself by removing large chunks of himself and now he was the size of a normal Timberwolf.

"Right, Well Chrysalis. I’m happy you decided to accept our offer to join our alliance. As long as you and your children are nice to everyone then we will help you and won't have any problems. But I do have one question. Why don’t you like ponies? Besides the whole territory thing." She looked at the table angrily but then sighed.

"Alright. I guess I can tell you. First I need to tell you this. A normal changeling can live to 100 years old. A warrior can live between 300 and 400 and a queen can live to between 1500 and 2000. I am currently 1167." She looked to her daughter Armoura. "My mother was the queen who was executed by the ponies 1150 years ago along with most of our hive. Just for being different and needing just a little love to survive. I had to take over what was left of the hive when I was only 17."

Daniel started to see where this was going. He felt bad for Chrysalis and decided to comfort her.

"We’re not so different in the matter of parents." This caught her attention. "How old do you think I am Chrysalis?" He asked her.

"Well from what I saw you can do when we first met. It takes a long time to be able to learn that stuff so I say around...500 to 1000." Daniel chuckled.

"You are very, very far off of it. I am only 4...or 5 days passed my 20th birthday." Her jaw hit the floor when she heard that. "You see. I wasn’t born with my powers...I obtained them, and it came with a cost. Someone out there wanted what gave me my powers and attacked my home planet. Only me and my sister survived and at the time I wasn’t long into my nineteens, with my little sister Annabelle being around 10 at the time, and because of what I could do I was seen as something different. I was seen as something to be used so the government tried to capture me by threatening to kill my parents if I didn’t listen to them. They no longer saw me as a person but as a tool to use, and at first even my own parents said I wasn’t their son. I don't know what it's like to feel as an outcast for a long time, but I know how the feeling of the start." Daniel sighed at that memory. "Now you know, I haven’t told a lot of others this, but I feel like I can tell you as you know how it feels to lose someone close to you at such an age." Chrysalis had tears in her eyes from this information, she found someone who almost understood her and her drive for vengeance.

"I-I am amazed you are still going after all of that. Wait, did you say planet?" Daniel decided to tell her, not just her but everyone in the room.

"Alright. I’ll hold no secrets from all of you any longer. But what I say might scare you." He swallowed a lump in his throat and told his story to them. "I’m from another planet but sadly it's no longer around. You see I was once normal, no powers, just a person going to get some education to try and get a good job in life. But all of that changed on the day I was heading home as I met a black unicorn that also looked like a king. He tried to take me back to this world but I managed to fight back, and I don't know what happened but the portal he had opened must have messed up when I hit his horn with a weapon I found. I fell into the portal with him and he managed to escape, but as for me, I found myself in space and dying from lack of oxygen and I swear at the time I could also feel my blood start to boil."

He continued to tell his story, from the part of him almost dying to the part about him being reborn and even more. He was now telling them about how he met them and how he’s messing with the ponies in a few other forms he had made for himself. He got to the most recent event about him being Luna's new student and he even showed them all his pony form so they knew what he looked like if they or anyone else meets him interacting with the pony society.

"Now here I am, telling you about me. That is basically the long and short of it." By this point Chrysalis and the others were in tears from his story. The fact that he told them he felt like he was responsible for the death of billions and the odds are all life on this planet will be gone when the same thing arrives on this one centuries down the road.

"Y-You have been through so much." Thag was almost speechless.

"Hey, I manage. I focused so much on protecting Annabelle and keeping her happy that I forgot most of the pain. But then I knew it would be best if I told her the truth." Brago was next to speak to the queen.

"It will...take my dogs little wh-...a little while to get used to your kin." Brago spoke a little slowly and froze to correct his language. Daniel smiled to see their speech was getting better.

"Do you think you should show your other forms to them?" Thag asked.

"Alright, Chrysalis. I have 2 other forms that I use." Daniel changed into his Mew form, then diamond form and back to normal. "If you see any of them then it is me. I mostly just use them to fool around." It was silent for a few moments until Daniel looked at Freddy and whispered to him. "Hey Freddy. Want to make another party? It’s to welcome the changelings to our alliance." Freddy chuckled.

"You got it Daddy." Freddy gathered the others and they whispered in a little pile before all nodding and running off.

"Chrysalis. I Daniel, the founder of the Covenant Alliance would like to be the first to welcome you. I have a feeling we’ll all get along fine." She was looking in the direction that his kids went.

"What were those? Were those machines?"

"I’m aware that technology isn’t very advanced on this planet, but yes, those were robots but they were also my kids. They were cloned from my DNA and they have organs on the inside. You call tell the difference between them and normal machines with their eye colours. My kids are green and a normal robot is red."

"So what now?" Brago asked.

"Well, while my kids get your true welcome ready why don't we sit and talk?" Daniel heard an alarm go off in the distance and he knew that meant someone was at his door. "Be right back" With all his speed he transformed and zoomed back to his house and quickly got to his ponyville house.

He opened the door and saw Fluttershy, she looks a little stressed.

"Cosmos, I need to speak with you."

"Sure Fluttershy, is something wrong?" She looked like she was about to cry.

"Well, A while ago Rarity wanted me to try out a new dress for somepony called Photo Finish. She wanted to catch that fashions stars attention in hopes it would help her business be know across Equestria." Daniel patently waited for her to continue. "But it was me who caught her attention most. Now I’m a fashion model and I am doing it to make Rarity happy, but the thing is...I don't like it, not one bit, it's all too much. I don't know what to do." Daniel sighed at this and was about to speak when Twilight appeared.

"Fluttershy. I...Cosmos? Fluttershy, why did you come here?"

"I was wondering if Cosmos would have any advice, he’s helped us with our friendship before." Daniel cleared his throat to catch their attention.

"Fluttershy. I know the answer to your problem." She had a big smile on her face.

"You do?"

"Yes, but first I want to tell you a story. It's a story from my old home and something I learned. I had a best friend back at my home town and one day when we were just fooling around, I found out his favourite music was from a singer that I didn’t like and when I asked him what he didn’t like, he didn't like my favourite singer and to make it worse I had to plan out a birthday party for him. We're talking food, decoration, cake and even music and I also didn’t like cooking at all but I did it for him on that special day." Twilight was taking notes of what he was saying.

"It sounds like you didn’t like what was happening." Fluttershy mention.

"In a way I didn’t. When the party happened I asked him if I could speak with him and we talked about what we did like and didn’t like, and through that I was able to get him to understand the music problem and we both found a song we liked that wasn’t our favourite and from that day forward I got ingredients and decorated the food and cakes, I did not have to cook. All those worries I had were solved because I sat down with my best friend and talked it over with him. You’re doing it because you don't want to upset Rarity, but Rarity also likely won’t want to upset you and you said doing what you are doing does. So there is the answer. You have to sit down with Rarity and talk to her about it. I mean she is a true friend and what true friend would get their friend to do something that don't like just to do something like benefit their business?"

"Do you think it’ll work?" She asked.

"I’m certain it will. Just tell it to her nicely and she will understand. If you need help then come back and ask me, I’ll help you with it." Fluttershy pulled Daniel into a hug.

"Thanks Cosmos. Twilight, I would like it if you would accompany me. Cosmos, will you come too?" Daniel knew he had to get back to the others so he had to decline.

""I have some work to do. Tell me how it goes and come back if you need help." Daniel closed the door when the two of them were out of his sight and rushed back to the 3 leaders and transformed along the way which caused him to fall over. "Ok, transform while moving. Needs working on."

Back at Canterlot, Celestia had been thinking about the option of meeting Glimmer. She was indeed strong if she wasn’t even phased by Twilight's magical attack but after looking over the story it seemed they were both at fault. The dogs took Rarity and it might have been without Glimmer knowing and after she discovered she tried to get them to leave and split the loot 50/50.

So while Glimmer didn’t seem bad, she seemed like someone who takes their work seriously, and while Celestia was thinking it over yesterday she asked Luna what she thought. Luna said if she got a chance to meet Glimmer then they might be able to become friends.

"Should I ask Twilight and Cosmos to come along? What about the rest of them, Glimmer might misunderstand something as a threat and attack." She wrote down that option. She has been putting her ideas and possible results into a spider diagram and hoping to find a way that results in peace or the least amount of hostility. "But Glimmer is likely very intelligent. In Twilight's report she spoke clearly unlike the dogs, so it might not come to that."

Celestia already decided she would go with no guards so it wouldn’t look like an attack. Glimmer really hasn’t been a creature that’s been seen before and she might be able to tell her where she came from and what she knows on the origins of Mew and the shadow, if she knows any at all.

"No, me and Luna should go alone. It’s a meeting between us and she’s not prepared to take on something like Glimmer if it came to it." Celestia checked her schedule for the next week and saw she was off tomorrow in the afternoon. She got up off her bed and headed to Luna's room to tell her she’d made a decision on Glimmer.

As she approached Luna's bedroom door she chapped and waited. After a few moments Luna answered the door.

"Sister? What are you doing here at this time?"

"Sorry Luna. But I think you should know, I plan to have a chat with Glimmer tomorrow afternoon. I was wondering if you would come along." Luna looked to the side for a few moments, thinking if she wanted to go with her or not.

"I accept. If it goes wrong I can't let you be alone against such a strong creature." Celestia smiled when she heard her sister's answer.

"Well get some rest then, in the morning we’ll prepare to visit. I’ll also send a message to the Diamond dogs tomorrow." As Celestia left, Luna was left to think over what was happening.

"This is getting really confusing. If Glimmer is Daniel in disguise then why is he helping the Diamond dogs? What if Glimmer is not Daniel? There is so much I don't know and I don't even know what his species is or what he’s truly able to do, this just leaves even more of a mystery that needs uncovering. What if Glimmer, Mew and the Shadow are his kids which explains why they are so strong, if that’s the case then how strong is he?" Luna rubbed her head, it was a pain to think of such a thing with so many possibilities so late at night.

Luna decided to turn in for the night as the best way she would get answers wasn’t just through speculation, but to meet Glimmer in person.

As Celestia walked to her room another scroll appeared and the symbol on it indicated it was from Twilight. She opened it and started to read. On the way back to her room she finished reading it and it seems that the problem Fluttershy had with her job she hated but kept doing to please Rarity was settled after Cosmos told her of a Friendship story from his past.

"Cosmos will make a great friend and with the way he is going, I have almost no doubts that he’ll become more than what I have planned. But there’s still so much I don't know about him. I know the others quite well but he keeps to himself a lot, perhaps I should chat with him next time he’s over." Celestia reached her room and turned in for the night.

"and you’ll keep giving me the means to feed my children?" Daniel nodded in agreement.

"What I gave you last time was just a fraction of a portion of my power, even I don't know its limit right now. If it even has any." The others had been talking for a good while and they had come to an agreement and they found out a great way the changelings could help in terms of combat. The slime that they made came in 2 kinds. Heater and Extractor. It was thanks to Alpha who did some quick tests with them that it was found out if one wore the extractor over the heater then both of them could be worn without the fear of love extraction. The heater could keep them fighting in cold weather and with the extractor slim that would be partly merge with it, would make an armour that feels tough and pliant. Best of all it was also very light so it didn’t affect the dog's speed.

"Well I’m happy to see we can all get along. But Chrysalis I have something to ask you. Who was the leader of the ponies when they did that to your kind?"

"It wasn’t Celestia, but another leader. I can't remember the name." Daniel though he could get her to see differently with that information.

"Do you still hate them for listening to their leader?"

"I’m angry that none of them even considered letting my kind go back then." Daniel sighed.

"Revenge is never the answer, you’re just making yourself go as low as they went. All Species makes mistakes but they learn, and hopefully the ponies have learned. My kind was no different."

"I hope so too." Daniel was about to speak again until a dog entered the room.

"Boss, Message from Pony Leaders." They all looked confused at that.

"Let me see that." Daniel said. He was given the message and after a few moments and saw the name was addressed to 'Glimmer' and they wanted to meet her. Daniel got a large grin on his face, he wanted to mess with Celestia and Luna for fun.

"What is it?" Chrysalis asked.

"Oh nothing. Just Celestia and Luna are coming here for a visit tomorrow." She looked uneasy with this, and so did the others. "Hey, relax. I would never let her hurt you, and if she did then she would regret it. But we still have time till tomorrow. Also, after dealing with Celestia and Luna my kids have something planned for all of you. So come back tomorrow evening." Chrysalis stood up and so did the others.

"I have to get back and check on my subjects. See you later Danny" Thag left after saying that.

"Danny?" He heard Thag chuckle as he left. "Cheeky twig." Daniel chuckled.

"I need to go back. I need my sleep." Brago left and it was just Daniel and Chrysalis left at the dirt table.

"I take it you need to get back to your children before they get worried?" She nodded. This is when her daughter Aromura walked over to Daniel and looked him in the eyes.

"Your Aura has changed, it’s no longer negative. It's a mixture of white and green, so you know what you want and you’re happy with what it is. You’re also no longer bound to just the first level, soon you’ll know what I mean. Take care Daniel, you have a great deal of things ahead you. Pain, and perhaps further loss. But there is a light at the end."

"Aromura!!" Chrysalis shouted and Aromura went back over to her. "Sorry about that."

"There’s more to her than what you told me. Isn't there?" She sighed.

"She was born with a few psychic abilities. She can get visions of the future every now and then, see the past of any object she touches and has enhanced sight. She can see through almost any single thing. Not many things at once." Aromura rubbed the back of her head and looked away.

"Well that’ll be useful for you in the future." Before she could leave, Aromura spoke again.

"A darkness is coming, you know this and are preparing for it, but you are not alone. You have another ally that is on this planet, not originally from it. The 2 of them will be your greatest companions in the future battle that is to come." She soon left and Daniel was left alone in the room. He went back home and decided to think over how his meeting with Celestia might go.

As he got back to his home he couldn’t hold back a smile when he saw all of his kids piled together and watch TV with Annabelle almost on Caroline.

"Hey kids. Want to see a movie I think is really good?" They all looked to him.

"Is it scary?" Elizabeth asked.

"No it's not. Also, please take Annabelle to bed when she goes to sleep." Daniel walked over to the player and put on Nightmare before Christmas for them to watch. He then sat down on the couch and started to take notes on what would happen tomorrow.

It wasn’t long until Annabelle fell asleep and Barry took her to her bed then came back to the living room. Secretly Daniel was very worried, before then, all he thought about was messing with them because of their curiosity in him but now he’s starting to see this could be very serious. He was holding the paper that had his options written out on it.

"I seriously hope I don't need to move to another region on this planet or another planet all together just because a Sun princess is unsure about me for being different or for having the power I do. Well...Newsflash! I did not ask for them!" Daniel was now gripping the paper tightly in a rage. "I haven’t hurt a single soul who didn’t deserve it since I arrived here. In fact I don't think I have hurt anyone or anything and you might want to capture me or stop me just because of how strong I am!?" Daniel was brought back to reality when the paper he was holding burst into flames.

He sat where he was and just looked at the barely visible black bits that fell to the carpet floor.

"What? I didn’t wish for that to happen or think for it. Whatever it's not important. I need to focus right now."

As morning approached, Daniel had written down his options and possible outcomes. He decided to not judge Celestia, the others were sort of like her but on a much smaller scale. While the ponies had courts and likely everything else his world had, Thag and Brago were more like large tribes so perhaps the reason he felt uneasy around her was cause it reminded him of the political way of his world.

After going through all his options he seemed to like them, all he had to do was keep her out of the underground and by telling her he wouldn’t let her in as 'it would induce fear in the dogs' seemed like a good complaint.

Now all he had to do was get the dogs to remove the machines just in case they got too nosy. It was now time for action and he was about to leave for the Diamond dog home when he heard an alarm.

"Who’s at my door?" He turned into his pony form and headed to check. When he got there he found Applejack and the rest at his door. "Applejack? What are you doing here?"

"Hi Cosmos, ah was wonderin if ya would like to come with us to Appleloosa."

"What's that?" Twilight spoke next.

"Apparently Applejack wants to take a tree there to get planted."

"His name is bloomburg." Applejack got a little annoyed when Twilight called it a 'Tree'.

"Listen Girls. I’m really busy right now. If you need me to help with a problem that happens when you’re there, Twilight can just get me with teleportation. Now I need to focus on something, I should be done sometime today." They all seemed to agree with the teleportation option for contacting him.

"Just what are you doing anyway?" Dash asked.

"Preparation. That's all I want to say about it. If you need me, Twilight can get me." They walked off and he closed the door.

Daniel made his way to the Diamond dog home and headed to the surface, where he turned into Glimmer and waited. As he waited he soon ended up taking to Rusty after he passed by on a patrol. The two of them spend a good amount of time playing knots and crosses in the dirt.

"So what’s your role meant to be?" Daniel asked him.

"I am Head guard." Daniel looked at his rusty set of armour. It wasn’t just rusty but dented and worn out with age as there was a few holes in it. He needed to get better armour.

"Well I think the head guard should have better armour. I’ll look into that if you want." He seemed to be thrilled after he heard that. Daniel heard distant wings flapping and he looked at Rusty seriously. "Rusty. Get underground, now. Celestia’s almost here." As soon as he said that Rusty bolted in a hole and out of sight almost faster than the eye could blink.

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Daniel didn’t know what he felt right now. But he was determined to make sure Celestia would leave him for good, either by talking or by force. As he closed his eyes the image of the new photo that was recently taken on his birthday and the times he hanged out with Thag, Brago and even Chrysalis flashed in his mind.

"I don't see Celestia as a bad leader. I see her as someone who’s far from any kind of corruption. But if I’m wrong, I won't let them down." Daniel opened his eyes when a memory came back to him. "If they act with kindness and understanding to this meeting, then I might just reveal myself to them sooner." Daniel remembered Celestia already saw him in his Mew form and acted kind and she did silence the council who were bickering over what to do. "I hate being forgetful." He slapped himself when he realised he forgot that and now felt better about meeting Celestia, so much so he smiled.

He waited with a smile on his face as thoughts of a possible better future ran though his head and filled him with hope.

"Glimmer?" Daniel didn’t realised he closed his eyes in the middle of thinking and saw both Celestia and Luna standing in front of him.

"Celestia...Luna." He said. They seemed a little surprised but he quickly answered. "The dogs told me about you."

"I...See." Celestia was still looking at him curiously.

"You know it is rude to stare. Even for a princess."

"Sorry, but why are you smiling?" He chuckled.

"What isn’t to smile about, I mean today is a nice day, the dogs are happy and the Everfree is quiet. Also if this is about what I did to that pony...what was his name...Cosmos? If this is about when I hit him, it was out of self-defence. I want my dogs to live peacefully so I hope you’re not here as to get some kind of revenge for hitting him back." Daniel was no longer smiling and Celestia remained unmoving but he heard her heartbeat slightly increase.

"No I’m not. I’m just here to meet you. You’re a new leader and a unknown species. I was hoping we might get to understand one another without violence." While he liked the sound of this there was still one thing he wanted to know.

"While I like the idea of that, there is 2 things that are bugging me. One of them is about what you said. Firstly, why didn’t you try to make peace with the dog leader previously? Secondly, are you only here because I’ve never been seen before?" She seemed to get a jolt of realization when he said this.

"Wait, you are not their leader?" He shook his head.

"I’m second in command. I helped them a little while back and became their friend. As I got to know them more they started to trust me and now their leader made me the second in command. Why am I here and not him? Well, two reasons. One, your letter was addressed to me and not him and while I might be second in command, I’m the strongest so I chose to meet you to make sure you don't try anything bad." She seemed a little taken back at this. "You also didn't answer my other question, when you do you may ask me 1 in return. Asking me about the leader position, already one down."

"No, I did try to get the diamond dogs to be friends but...when I sent the messenger I also send battalion if they attacked and they did. I chose to meet you not just because you’ve never been seen before but because you also seemed more...educated, to put it lightly, in the letter I received." Daniel seemed to know what happened now; perhaps they mistook a messenger and his protectors as an attack and a sign of war. He would need to talk to Brago about this later.

"I see. Well you have one question to ask me."

"If you don’t mind me asking this Glimmer...but what are you?" He thought in his mind for a quick moment, he needed a name for ‘what’ he was in this form, and he quickly got one.

"I’m a Spirit Shard. It's nice to see you’re a nice and understanding ruler. Most I have known are just corrupt and care not for their subjects." Celestia smiled when he said that, a genuine smile of happiness.

"Glimmer. If I may, how strong are you?" Luna asked this one.

"I suppose you deserve 2 questions too. Let's just say at my minimum I can...” He didn’t want to say how strong he was. Nature said when he was made he was a universal level powerhouse but that would be too much for this meeting. Even the simple moon level Archie said would be to much. “…destroy mountains like that one in the distance, the one that the dragon was a few months ba-" He was cut off when he shot a beam from his finger and as it collided with the mountain it exploded into nothing but rubble. "What? How did I...I didn’t will that to happen...just like with the paper. What’s happening? I need to talk about this with Nature and Archie when I get the chance too. He heard both of their heart rates increase. "You don't have to be scared of me. I don't hurt innocent creatures of any race unless it's in defence of me or another. Also please don't try to hide it as I can hear your heartbeats." Celestia took a step back and Luna looked at him wide eyed.

Daniel made a table and some chairs appear that were made of Crystals. He then lowered himself so that his diamond body was on the ground with two other chairs across from him.

"Let's sit down and talk for a while. Luna, you still have another question to ask, if you want."

"Glimmer, do you know anything about the Shadow or Mew?" He almost chuckled.

"You mean that flying cat and dark mist creature?" She nodded. "Smoky and Fur ball. Yes I know them. Smoky wonders the Everfree and Fur ball is a bundle of fun, why?" He had a feeling they were going to ask him more about...himself.

"Well you have been in the everfree more than us. Do you know what their intentions are?" He almost rolled his eyes.

"Fur ball just wants to play from what I understand, I can't see it doing anything else. As for Smoky...I am not sure. It's a mystery." He was having fun playing Glimmer, it felt like she was not just him, but an extension, just like his kids.

"Do you have any questions for us and if you don’t mind me asking. Do you see them often?" Luna asked.

"No, not that much. Every now and then. But besides scaring some creatures, Smoky hasn’t attacked any of the dogs or me, and yes actually. Why are you so interested in them?" The reason he tried to tell the truth as much as he could was the same reasons as before but also because he remembered that lies get you caught faster than the truth and even if the lie isn’t found out, it can still bug you for days or even years after you said it.

“The Shadow and I had a fight years ago and then we found out about the Pink one and how strong it was and now you. We though you 3 knew each other or were related in a way.”

"So Glimmer, if you don't mind me asking, what is your story? Like where did you grow up?" He sighed.

"I grew up in a mountain region. I won't bore you with the details but it was a fairly large community we had. I haven’t seen my birth home in about a year or so." Celestia raised an eyebrow.

"You were born around mountains. Like among dragons?" He shook his head in a 'No' way.

"I had no clue about dragons until a few months ago when I had to think up of a way to deal with that sleeping one on a mountain close to the outskirts of the forest. Thankfully it was taken care off." Daniel didn’t know why, but he suddenly felt like he needed to drink something. Looking around, his eyes stopped at a bush close by. He saw some Cherries in it so he made 3 crystal cups appear and used his powers to bring the cherries over before crushing them and filling the 3 cups.

"You are the 3rd of strange and powerful creatures to appear, forgive me if I seem cautious around you. I’m sure you understand. But Glimmer, how did you do that?" Celestia asked but he kept on drinking the cheery juice until it was all gone before talking.

"Do what? Levitate things?" Celestia nodded. "I don't need a horn as that is not magic. There are other forces besides magic. Like Psychic." She seemed a little surprised.

"Psychic? The power of the mind. There is very few who have such abilities and they haven’t been able to levitate things."

"It's not psychic I used. It was another force, but I don't want to talk about it." Daniel got more cherries and crushed them before drinking them. "What is happening to me? I never felt like this before." He was getting worried about this, first the paper, then the mountain and now his strange love for juice and he felt his muscles start to tighten or grow as his arms were getting sore. He needed to speak to Nature and Archie about this as soon as possible. "Celestia, Luna, I would like to continue chatting but something has come up. We could speak for a few more moments but then there’s something I need to check on."

They chatted for a while and things were going great. Celestia wasn’t what he half expected at all, but she was more than the other half. The first half thought that her kindness was all just and act but after using the cosmic mind read power to look into their minds about the situation they were doth in right now he saw no bad intent. So the other half of him that thought she was a good leader seemed to be the correct one. Celestia mostly asked about that his intentions were and he told her he just wanted to see others happy, to feel like he was making a difference and there was even a hint of them being possible friends in the future. He asked her about her past and learned of how she and her sister faced Discord, how the whole Nightmare Moon thing happened and about something called 'The tree of harmony'. It was now 20 minutes later and Daniel had taken around 7 drinks of the cherry juice.

"I think we will get along nicely Glimmer. We should talk more in the future. You could come and visit us in Canterlot.” Daniel nodded at her offer. “Would you mind telling us about the different energies when you visiting? I’m sure our wizards would be happy to learn something new.”

"There are the forces of Magic, Life, Death, Matter, Psychic and a few others. If you’re wondering, no I don't know them all. But I guess I can tell you about some of them." He suddenly started to feel a pressure in his chest, and it was building up quite quickly. Clenching his chest he stood up and both Princesses looked a little worried. "Luna, Celestia. Please leave. We’ll talk another time." His hands were shaking a little.

"Glimmer, what's happening?" Celestia tried to get close to him but he held his hand out to stop her. As Daniel opened one of his eyes to see if he stopped her and he also saw his hand was glowing and electricity was sparking from all over his body.

"I don't...know w-w-what thi..." Daniel felt like he could no longer hold in the pressure that was building up and he let it out with a scream. It felt like a large Earthquake just hit the area and a pillar of energy shot up to the sky, causing the clouds to break. Daniel was unaware to the white glow coming from his chest. His body felt like it was in shock as electricity rapidly struck the ground around him and broke it on contact. The glow in his chest expanded and within a few moments it was like he was inside a heart piece. The centre if it which was at his chest and was Green, and going outwards the other 3 were, in order, blue, pink and then white.

After a while it died down and Daniel fell to the ground. His whole body was shaking from whatever just happened. The best way he could describe it was he felt like his was a generator and he had just let out everything he had out in 1 minute. He was able to stand, or float in this case so from where he was. He looked back at the Princesses, they were a good bit away and looked shocked.

"Please...Leave." Daniel said weakly. "I don't know wh-what that was...I do-don't want to hurtt..you." He collapsed and was barely awake.

He was too tired to notice that Nature had just arrived and she wasn’t in her pony form. She looked around for him frantically.

"Where are you Da...Oh my." Her eyes stopped and widened when she saw him. Walking over, she picked him up and checked him over, besides being totally exhausted he was fine. "So what she said was true...you will be going through it soon." This is when Nature looked over to the 2 princesses but while Celestia looked intrigued at her, Luna's eyes were like dinner plates and her jaw was on the ground. "Please leave. Whatever you were talking about needs to be put on halt." Nature watched as the 2 princesses left and when they were out of sight Nature teleported Daniel back to the entity hangout.

"ARCHIE!" She shouted out, causing all the others in the level to look over at her. Archie appeared the instant she finished saying his name.

"Nature, what’s wrong? Who’s that?" Archie asked when he saw the crystal creature she was holding.

"It's Daniel. He’s going into stage 2." Archie's eyes widened.

"I take him to the medical wing. I need to get the document." Archie flew off and Nature took Daniel to the medical wing.

Annabelle was sitting down on the living room floor and playing snakes and ladders with Elizabeth, she thought she was cheating as the dice landed on six and she got an extra turn 5 times in a row.

"You cheat. How’re you doing that?"

"I calculate the fall impact and shape of the object to know what it will land on." Annabelle was angry to hear this.

"That's cheating." Elizabeth just giggled.

"That's called physics Auntie." Elizabeth said with a laugh. At this point Annabelle heard an alarm and she remembered when Daniel heard this before he went to the front door, but he wasn’t here and she wasn’t in her pony form.

"What if they’re burglars? What if it’s an emergency and one of our friends is there? Or it could just be the mail pony?" Annabelle decided to take matters into her own hands so she told Elizabeth to stay where she was and headed into the basement to go into their ponyville home. She stayed low to avoid the windows and made it to the front door. "Hello?" When she asked that she heard Twilight's voice from the other side.

"Strawberry. I need to speak to Cosmos." Annabelle was now in a panic. But it was also her friend and she sounded desperate. Annabelle gulped and spoke.

"Sorry Twilight, he’s not here right now. I’ll tell him you’re looking for him, come back soon. He should be back soon."

"What do you mean he’s not home? He normally is."

"He’s busy somewhere. I don't know where." She heard Twilight sigh when she said that.

"Alright, but tell him we need him, as soon as possible." Twilight teleported away and Annabelle raised her fist in victory.

"Yes!"

Nature was sitting beside the bed that Daniel was in, making sure he was recovering and even turned him back into his real form. As she did this she looked at him as he slept. In a way she though he looked cute but more than a few times her mind seemed to play tricks on her cause she sometimes saw him as the previous bearer. With the robe and everything, but she realised she was gone.

She looked at his hand as he slept and grabbed it. Holding onto it tightly, but not too tightly.

"I promised her I would keep you safe, and I intend to keep that promise."

Shortly after she said that, Daniel started to stir in the bed as he started to wake up. All he remember before he passed out was that he felt like all the muscles in his body tightened up to the point it felt like they were crushing his bones, along with a very exhausting feeling coming from his chest.

Nature realised she was still holding his hand and let go of it as he woke up

"W-Where am I?" He pushed himself up from the bed he was in and as he did he saw he was back to his human form.

"Daniel. You're awake." He looked to the side and saw Nature was sitting on a chair next to him.

"What happened?" He asked as memories flashing in his mind about the event. "I was just sitting down and talking to Celestia and Luna, next thing I know I am going nuts and blasting energy everywhere.

"Daniel. Perhaps we should hold off on your training for a few days." Her face was emotionless and he couldn’t read her mind with his cosmic mind read.

"Nature...what is happening to me?" He asked.

"You’re going into stage 2 of merging." He raised an eyebrow.

"Stage 2? How many is there?" She sighed.

"When you got told of the powers you have, that is what you had. But there is a big difference between having something and being able to use it. After being merged with the heart for so long it is starting to understand you more and is merging with not just your body, but your mind and spirit too. This stage will unlock all the rest of your abilities like extreme loads of cosmic power and you will be able to learn faster, be stronger, tougher. The final stage is heart mastery, but that is very hard to get." Daniel nodded to her explanation but he still wanted to know more.

"So, what will happen exactly?" She sighed and looked at him for a few minutes.

"You will occasionally get energy spikes, some are small but others can be quite large. Your body will adapt to it and it will soon disappear. As for your question, there are 3 stages. The second stage comes over time but the last one needs a happy and clear mind of not just what you want but knowing who you are. The 3rd stage is an understanding of one’s true self and even the previous bearer didn’t get that far...well she did but by the time she did...she..." He knew what she meant by the look on her face as she looked at the ground. As she explained this she moved a hand over his body and scanned it. She then looked a little surprised at him.

"What is it Nature? Is something wrong with me?"

"Daniel, I have to know this. Does what happened with your planet still haunt you?" He raised an eyebrow, wondering why she would ask that.

"No, Not anymore. While it is painful to think about, it does not haunt me anymore." Nature’s eye widened. "What?" He asked.

"Why doesn’t it bother you?" Daniel rubbed his forehead.

"Because I know I can't change it. I know i was too weak to do anything. But I can't let it haunt me. I’m an older brother with a sister and a bunch of kids and a load of friends who I care for. I have accepted I am the heart bearer and to help them is now my duty, and while I may act like a child from time to time, I don't care. It's who I am now." Nature was looking at him with her eyes almost like dinner plates.

"Stage 3. A happy heart and a clear mind of one’s self. Knowing who you are. Keep going like this and you might just get to stage 3. I’m no expert but you are going through stage 2." Hearing that, he wanted to just lie down and think about this but as he was about to Nature spoke again. "Daniel, your sister needs to speak to you."

He teleported back to his house as soon as he could and when he got back he felt a small surge of energy get released and it left a small crater in the living room but with a snap of his fingers, it was gone just as quick as it appeared.

(Continue from here)

"Annabelle? Where are you?" He was answered by Caroline's voice.

"She is...um...in Aperture." He walked off after giving Caroline a 'Thanks' and found her with the others.

"Something Twilight wanted, I don't know." Was all he heard from her talking to them but he wanted the full story.

"Annabelle. What happened while I was away?" She sighed.

"Our friends seem to have gotten into a pickle...again." Daniel started to wonder it fate had a plan for his friends. With the amount of stuff that happens to them, it all seems like it was planned out.

"Well did Twilight say what she wanted to talk about?" Annabelle shook her head.

"Nope, she just wanted to talk to you but I told her you were away, so she left." The last thing Daniel could remember was Applejack talking about some kind of tree, but he wasn’t paying much attention at that moment so he likely missed something important. Luckily Luna taught him to sense magical auras so he could track her magic with cosmic power.

"Want to come along?" Annabelle stood up and had a large smile. "I take it that‘s a yes." He then turned to his children. "Kids, we’ll be gone for a while. How’s the party coming along?"

"It’s almost done dad." Abbey was holding a large bucket with apples in it and was trying to take it to a tap but she tripped over her own legs and the apples fell on Freddy. Freddy got out of the pile of apples and looked at Abbey a little annoyed. "Sorry."

"Hey, don’t mention it." Freddy gave her a knock to the side that was similar to a shoulder bump. Daniel chuckled at their silly behaviour.

"Just be good till we’re back." Daniel transformed both of them into their pony forms and put on his fake mark. "Ready to teleport? It might feel strange for you."

"I’ll be fine." She reassured him with a smile. Daniel then focused on a magical signature and when he realised it was Twilights he started to teleport them both.

When he teleported he heard the ground cracking and when he looked down he saw he was inside another crater he caused. He turned back to Annabelle to see if she was alright from the teleportation but she looked like she was about to be sick so he patted her back, and after a few seconds she got up, still a little woozy. As they climbed out the first thing he saw was he was in a desert area with a load of buffalos looking at him from one end and as he looked behind him he saw a village that looked like it was ready for a battle and were armed with...pies?

"Are we even in the right place?" He asked himself. Then he heard a familiar voice behind him.

"Cosmos!" All his friends quickly ran up to him. Dash was the first one to speak to him.

"About time you got here, just in time no less."

"What is it that you need my help with?" Dash told him how this land belonged to the buffalo and, while it was unintentional, the settlers used it without their permission. Applejack then started to counter it by saying the settlers need to keep the trees to live. "Why not just move the trees and make a path?"

"Ya want them ta move the trees that they busted their hooves to plant just cause a some tradition?" When Applejack said that he just sighed before chuckling.

"Alright Applejack, how about you just change your apple bucking tradition just because some pony says so? Does that sound fair? No? Remember that their tradition is not any more or less important than yours." That shut her up. "Alright. Be honest with me, have either of you even bothered to give the other side a chance? Do you really hate one another over something that can just be talked over if you weren’t to suborn in getting it your own way?" That saying seemed to hit home for both sides.

"Surly there must be something. All they want to do is run the path they always have, is that too much to ask?" Annabelle was putting on an act, trying to look like she was almost in tears and it was working.

"Fine. If the ponies will allow, we will sit down and talk about this." The chief buffalo said and he heard his friends sigh in relief.

Daniel decided to stay just to make sure things didn’t get out of hand. As time passed the ponies seemed to be talking to the buffalo more and more. It wasn’t until dinner time that they reached an agreement. That the settlers could keep their orchard in and exchange for a share of its food and a small path was even made that goes through the trees so they could still run on their traditional path.

"Well look at that. Talking solved it." He said as they watched the buffalo running on the path through the trees. Just then he felt a little power spike go through him but he was able to contain almost all of it as a slight spark of electricity appeared between his horn and nose for a moment.

"Cosmos, are you alright?"

"Yeah I am. Why you asking?" He asked Fluttershy.

"Your horn sparked." He just smiled.

"That’s nothing to worry about." He knew that if he felt a large one that he couldn’t control he would just teleport away. But now the rest of his friends were looking at him. "I’m fine. Really. But I need to get back. My work is almost done." He then teleported both himself and Annabelle back to his house and he was happy to see there was no crater this time.

Annabelle sadly rushed to the sink and was sick. After which she simply washed it away down the drain.

"From now on, I hate teleporting." Daniel chuckled before turning them back to their human forms. "Can we have that party now? The one that was intended for the changelings." He nodded at her question.

"You just want a piece of chocolate cake."

"Do not!" She said in response but he tilted his head and looked at her with a smile. "Alright, perhaps I do want a bit."

"Alright. You get my children to get the place ready. I’ll get our guests." Daniel teleported to Chrysalis and the changelings first then the Diamond dogs and Timberwolves. With the Changelings being further away they would take the longest to get to the Diamond dog home. He then teleported back home and saw all of his children around Annabelle. "Alright, Everyone ready?" They all cheered. "Alright then." Daniel took them to the dog's home with them carrying things in large plastic bags which the held on their heads with 2 of their 5 legs at they walked with the remaining 3. When they got there they all started to set everything out. "I’ll be right back." Daniel went for a wonder to find Brago and he found him on the surface.

"Hello Daniel."

"Brago, I need to talk to you." He said.

"About what?"

"The ponies. I think you and your dogs have misunderstood them." He seemed confused so Daniel continued to explain. "You thought they were attacking when a lot of guards arrived, but they were there to protect the messenger. Not to hurt you." Brago looked at the ground with his arms folded for a few moments.

"You know this?"

"Well, when I was talking with Celestia the mind reading I did showed she wasn’t lying. So I honestly think it was true. Perhaps you should think on this for a while and get back to me." Daniel put a hand on his shoulder. "We all make mistakes. None of us are perfect."

"I know, I try to make amends. Also how is changelings doing?" He asked.

"No clue. Not seen them properly since out last meeting, and the teleportation was just to let them know we have things set up, so they’re going to be here soon. My children are planning to throw a party for them and the rest of us, as a celebration for getting along so well." Brago chuckled and they both walked back into the tunnels but Daniel saw some purple must in the distance and he knew who it was. He waved and soon Xaveroth appeared beside him.

“Hey Daniel. How you been?” He made a chair and drink appear in mid-air and sat down on it.

“Just fine. You still wondering the forest?”

“Yeah. This 3rd dimension is funny and some of the creatures are unlike the ones I see in my world.” Xaveroth drank the drink but it wasn’t the drink he drank but the glass that held it and ate the actual drink like it was a food. As he took a bite the solid dark coloured drink seemed to have a yellow cream of some kind in the middle of it.

“What’s the 5th dimension like?” Xaveroth stood up and laughed.

“You likely wouldn’t notice a difference. You see Daniel, the heart is multi-dimensional and part of time and space. It can also exist outside time, space, outside the very fabric of creation, any of the 13 dimensions and perhaps even further. Until it finds a host and then it stays with the host, no matter the time, location or reality. So if you came to my world you likely wouldn’t notice anything cause what you see, hear and feel will all be process through the heart in a way for you to understand it, and you know the 3rd dimension best so you likely wouldn’t notice any difference. Well besides a few.”

“Do you think you could take me there after this is even is over? I would like to see what it’s like there.”

“Sometime but not anytime soon kid. I’m too weak right now but my power will come back over time. Also what even are you talking about?”

“We are throwing a party. A sort of celebration for our alliance getting along. Want to join?”

“No thanks Danny. I got places to see but you should have fun with it. See you another time.” Xaveroth teleported away and Daniel walked back into the dog den where he found Brago waiting on him.

When they made it back to the main room for the Diamond dogs they saw everything was set. Tables, chairs, food and drinks, and even a piano and a microphone.

"What? Hold on Brago." Daniel looked around for Freddy and found him speaking to Victoria.

"Now don't go sounding like a dying puppy up there. Alright? I don't want to have to drag you off the stage for hurting the ears of others." Daniel approached Freddy as Victoria got on the stage, he also saw 2 more on the stage, Orion at a set of drums and Selene on an electric guitar which she help with a side claw from a hatch on her side.

"Starting a band? Really?" Freddy sighed and turned around.

"It's their hobby, these 3 like music." Daniel smiled.

"Are their songs any good?"

"Songs? It's mostly no lyric music they play, they can't think of any good lyrics, or they do but forget them cause they think they’ll just make a fool of themselves." Daniel looked at Victoria who was getting up on the stage.

"I’m sure they won't be that bad. Anyway, where’s the rest of you?" Freddy was going through a list to check if they had everything and he spoke as he did that.

"Barry is laying down somewhere. Elizabeth is fooling around with party poppers. Abbey is taking her sweet long time with the disserts. Goodness knows where Greg is and Caroline is working on her own to set up the remaining chairs." While Freddy explained this to Daniel, Selene was bashing the drums and making a good bit of noise.

"Selene please stop that." Daniel told her after he saw some dogs holding their ears in pain.

"When are they going to get here? I am so bored." She fell off the drummer seat and into the floor. Daniel walked up on the stage and picked her up.

"Not much lon-" Daniel was cut off.

"Dad, they're here." Daniel put Selene back on the drummer seat and got off the stage as Queen Chrysalis walked in and looked around at all the decorations that were put up. Daniel felt another power surge coming and he tried to contain it but he ended up clenching his head and a few sparks were let loose. When he let go of his head and looked around he saw everyone looking at him and some even backed into a corner.

"I'm fine. It's just a phase I am going through." They slowly came back out from the corners they were in. "Well Chrysalis it's nice to see you again." Beside Chrysalis stood Armoura who was looking at Daniel with a smile.

"Daniel. I have a question for you. It was brought up from one of my subjects."

"Ask away."

"Why are you being so nice to those who’re not your species?"

"Truthfully. I feel like it would be the right thing to do. I was going through a lot when the covenant was first made and peace between the two others started. I did what I could to cope at the time and over time the alliance grew on me. So when I saw you and all the other changelings I just got this feeling I should hear you out and try to help." Daniel heard some glass moving and when he looked behind him he saw Annabelle trying to sneak a piece of the chocolate cake. He lifted up his hand and she was lifted into the air. "Nice try sis."

"No fair! Don't use your powers!" She started thrashing about in the air so he put her down.

"Then leave the cake for now." She pouted but did as she was told. "Alright then, let's get this over with. Before everything starts, is there anything else you want to know?"

Daniel spent around 10 minutes giving answers to her questions. He also ended up telling her a bit more about his past.

"If you weren’t standing here right now and could do what you can do, I would never believe your story. I mean seriously, you get taken to space by some evil pony and merge with something like that?" Daniel chuckled.

"I know. If this didn’t happen to me or someone told me this would have happened to me in the future I would have told them to quit whatever they are on. What's happening to me is almost as bad as some fanfics I have read, and I feel like I’m in one of those bad ones." Chrysalis raised an eyebrow at what he said.

"Fanfics?"

"Something good but something bad too. Best not ask more. Now I think we’ve talked for long enough. You and your kids should go and have fun. This is to celebrate you into our alliance." Daniel left to quickly check everything was ok in his house before he joined them and as he headed to the living room he was greeted by Mother Nature.

"Made some new friends?"

"Yes I did. Did you stop by for a visit?" She sat down next to him.

"I stopped by to tell you I think we should take your lesson more slowly for a while. You’re at the next stage of merging so your body will start acting strangely."

"What do you mean by strangely? Am i going to go inside out?" She laughed at how silly he sounded and after a few moments she got herself together.

"No you’re not. But with the new and stronger energy you will be able to use, it will affect your body. It will cause it to produce some chemicals to changes your body to suit this new power so you’ll have some things like restlessness, hyperactivity and an increase in appetite but nothing that won't pass." He realised that explained his craving for the cherry juice a while ago. "So what do you plan to do?" She asked.

"Wait for a while. When the changelings are true friends and not new friends I’ll probably be close to revealing myself to my friends. Applejack first as she won't lie and if she promises, I know I can trust her. Then perhaps the rest. I will tell Twilight last, knowing her she will want to learn about my species and probably tell Celestia before I feel alright with that. Until then? I guess I’ll explore, learn, build and expand Aperture." She place her wooden hand on his shoulder.

"I know you can be forgetful at times. But remember, we will help you too. You are one of us and we stick out for each other." Daniel smiled and nudged her arm with his fist in a friendly manner.

"I know. I just overthink things sometimes. I need to learn to cool down." She got up off the seat and turned to face him.

"You know how to get a hold of me or the others if you need help. Also, try and spend some time with your sister. I heard it’s what most life forms wish. Mortals and even Semi-Immortals." Before she could disappear Daniel spoke.

"Want to join us for the party?" She stopped her teleportation and looked at him with a smile.

"I’d like that a lot."

"Let's go then." They both went to Aperture and were greeted to some music by his 3 kids on stage when he opened the door. "They’re not half bad." Nature nudged him and pointed to Annabelle who was sitting against the wall, Asleep with a piece of cake in her right hand and one quarter of the large cake gone. "Oh, Annabelle." Daniel shook his head and both Nature, him and a few others who just saw this shared a laugh together at how cute the scene was before them.

About 2 hours into the party, Nature talked to Chrysalis and the two seemed to be getting along well. Nature looked back at Daniel and yet again, she saw him as the previous bearer for a moment.

"You like him." Chrysalis said and Nature blushed.

"Sorry. He just reminds me of an old friend." Chrysalis had a grin appear on her face and walked to one of his kids.

"Excuse me gold one. Who are you?"

"Freddy."

"Alright then, Freddy. I have something I want to do for me." She whispered to Freddy and a few moments later Freddy chuckled.

"Oh, you got it." He walked away from Chrysalis and up to Nature. "Excuse me." Nature put down her drink.

"Yes Freddy?"

"Daddy was to shy to ask you this so I will. Will you dance with him." She almost spat out her drink. She could tell Freddy was joking.

"Oh haha Freddy I kno-" She thought about it and looked at Daniel, who was sitting down, watching the rest and making sure they were happy. She already played around with him on the date and got a cute reaction, so a dance wouldn't be to bad. "Sure...Tell him I accept." Freddy walked away as Nature got a cheeky grin on her face.

Over with Daniel who was looking over everyone from a corner to make sure they were happy and safe, Freddy just arrived over yo him.

"Hey Daddy."

"Hi Freddy. Enjoying the party?"

"You bet, but I have something to tell you from Nature. She wants to dance with you." Daniel almost fell of his chair and had a blush on his face, which Nature saw and laughed to herself about.

"W-what?"

"She want's to dance with you." Daniel stood up and took a moment to collect himself.

"Freddy. I am a horrible dancer." Nature walked up beside Daniel and he didn't even know she was there.

"How about I teach you then?" He turned to see her, the blush on his face increasing more, mostly from shock and embarrassment.

"Nature...I eh." She silenced him.

"No need to be embarrassed. I can teach you how to dance. You might need to for this Gala coming up or for when you do find someone you like." She had a point. If this Gala did have dancing and with him still not having a full understanding of the culture these ponies have, he might need it.

"Alright then." She held out a hand to him and he took it, lead him into the middle of the room and started to teach him.

"Alright. Let's start off with waltz."

As she was teaching him how to dance and actually doing it with him after he understood it his kids were at the side, chuckling at the sight.

"Another successful mission." Freddy said to himself.

As Nature danced with Daniel they got some looks from the others, mostly smiles in the shape of smirks but as she continued to teach him she started to enjoy dancing with him and not just teaching it. Overtime her smile turned from a laughing one laughing at his blushing to a smile of enjoyment as they kept dancing.

In her eyes Daniel kept changing into the previous bearer before changing back to normal a few seconds later.

"I can see what she meant now. I didn't think she was serious about what you were. Perhaps that's reason the heart chose you. But now there is no doubt in my mind."

King N was in the shuttle bay of his ship, waiting for Captain Jerik to arrive who survived the attack from his son. From what he heard, this planet was low in technology levels and had magic which was a strong type of energy but easy to get around. Jerik arrived wearing the magic repellent armour he was given for this assignment. He was still injured but King N figured with that armour and how the planet was from what he got told, Jerik could get the job done with just the armour and a standard Laser rifle.

"Got everything?" He asked.

"Yes sir. Even medical supplies." Jerik saluted him.

"I'm sending you to that planet with 2 other assistants. A revenger scout and a prototype bio-weapon." A revenger soldier entered and sat down on a chair along with the prototype weapon which was a creature that had 8 limbs. 4 for walking and 4 arms, the ends of the limbs were claw like appendages, it's body was slender and long. It's head was sharp and narrow. It had around 10 eyes all around its head, giving it 360 vision but what was most disgusting about it was it had no skin. Just visible and pulsing muscle. "Don't fail this assignment. You 3 either come back with a successful mission or not at all. Understand?"

"Y-yes sir." Jerik shuddered for a moment. "What are our orders when we get there?"

"Search for any power readings you can find and obtain it to use in conquering the planet. If you find the heart bearer, alert me right away and if you find another piece, obtain it, do whatever it takes. Also, take this.” King N gave him a large metal wristband that had a green gem on it and a small cannon. “That’s a nova gem from a giant star. It has enough power to destroy a solar system. Use it as a last resort.”

As Jerik entered the shuttle where the other 2 sat, he started it up he looked back at the king who was leaving. When the king was out of sight he sat down on the chair and fired up the engines and left the hanger. Now that he was alone, save for the 2 troops minding their own business and not in much pain he finally had time to think clearly.

His mind drifted back to Prince Bravacho when he was fighting him, he was so sure the prince would never betray them. He may not have seen eye to eye with his father but he never hurt anyone at all and he treated the prisoners like his equals. Jerik never knew such kindness as all of his childhood was filled with training and brutality. Almost from the first few years he was able to stand he was trained to fight. He remembered getting into a fight with a child around his age at a normal school a long time ago and he ended up braking a few of the attackers ribs. It was the main school bully that pushed him to far one day and he latched out at him. The next thing he knows, he is getting told by his mother that the king is sending him to a training school because the way he fought was what he was looking for in younger troops and the royal guard were the most well paid and highly respected on his planet. So he left the school he was currently at and had been for only 3 weeks and went to the new one.

That was the worst time of his life. The 'school' was made to train young ones to their very pinnacle of combat skill. All those who were there for longer fought him for fun and to warm up for their next fight. Within the first 3 hours on his first day he had to fight someone who had been there for 1 year and he was easily beaten. The place had a system that gave guard ranks based on violence and strength along with teamwork and leadership in gang battles. You started off with 0 points and if you beat someone who was there a year longer than you, you got 2 points. Same year got 1 point. 2 years longer than you got 3 points and so on. Anyone who beat up someone who had been there for less time than them got only a quarter of a point regardless if it was 1 year less than you or 5, it made no difference.

The only time there was no fighting was during sleep or training where they would get taught fighting styles by seeing it being used on someone with low points. Other than that they were taught to stay alert all the time, even when eating as sometimes trainers tested him by punching him while he was eating which resulted in him almost choking to death one day. Nobody helped him and even the trainer who got him by surprise that day said if he died to a silly thing like choking then he was too weak to serve.

He remembered his 5th year there and how he watched his friend get almost beat to death and he lost his cool. He took on 3 at the same time, one was 3 years ahead of him and the rest were 2 years but he didn’t care. He wanted them hurt and he used anyway possible to do it, which was in the form of a brick from a broken wall being smashed into their faces and even when one of the trainers tried to stop him for his brutality he just turn around and almost killed the trainer too after he hit the trainer with a chair and stabbed him with the snapped off chair leg.

After he came to it and realised what he done, he knew it was what he had to do in such a place and from that day forward, barely anyone tried to fight him with a few acceptations here and there. The points he got from his time there and the events that took place, he was given the rank of berserker when he came of age to serve in the royal military and over time he managed to become a captain by showing his leadership in a few battles and proving his strength against anyone who challenged him, citizen, prisoner or guard.

"If I never fought back the first time...would I be happy right now? Would I be in my own home with a family and a child? Could the prince be correct? Is what I’m doing wrong? It's been this way for years, it must be right." Jerik sat there in the ship, rattling his mind on the past and asking 'What if' to himself a lot. Comparing his current life to what little he could remember from his early childhood and before he went to 'that' school.

"So what do you plan to do to find the bearer?" Dravia asked as she looked through a catalogue book.

"I have no clue. I could make a scene but that might attract all kinds of attention. I could leave the heart piece somewhere and observe who interacts with it, but that’s stupid. The last thing I want to be known of here is 'That pony with a strange object'. We are here to find the bearer, nothing else."

"Well, what about the event being held in a few weeks. It's called 'Gala' or something like that, but with all I have read about it, it seems important." Bravacho rubbed his head which was sore from brainstorming.

"How do we even know the bearer will be there?"

"Well we could attend with the heart piece covered up, like in a bag or something and it’ll likely attract the bearer." After a couple of moments he sighed and chose to go along with her plan.

"Alright, it's worth a shot. Do we have the right attire to go? If this is an important event then we might need formal clothes." Dravia kept looking through the catalogue book.

"Well I have picked out my dress, I just need to find you a suit, then buy it and we’re good to go." He sat down next to her.

"Please don't let it be a silly suit. We need a formal one, like your dress." He saw the dress she circled on the other page.

"Alright, I’ll try and get the one that brings out the best in you." He smiled and hugged her.

"Thanks dear." She hugged him back.

Back at Canterlot, Luna was rattling her brain over what she saw when visiting Glimmer. It was the same creature she saw in Daniel's dream, the one that managed to throw her out of his own dream with little to no effort at all.

"Glimmer has to be Daniel I can't see it any other way. All the previous pieces of evidence I have seen. The shape of him and the Shadow and the fact he turned into it in his dream. His supposed form changing ability that seems to be linked to Cosmos and even that Mew creature. It's not too much of a stretch to assume Glimmer and Daniel are the same."

Luna was writing note and sitting on her bed as she was piecing things together. From the dream a long time ago, to all the recent activities happening and to what she knows about Cosmos.

"The dream showed others just like him that were dying from some kind of black fog. Not mist, it was too thick. The face of his sister and his parents saying it was his fault, shows a guilty conscious and it’s likely his home was destroyed. But was it in Equestria or another world? Perhaps it’s in Equestria and he’s a time traveller? Perhaps the far future? The Mew creature has been told to be able to travel through time and I first met the Shadow 1000 years ago. A dimension jumper perhaps? Whatever it is, he’s likely not from this world or the time space of this world."

Luna went over the power he had shown when she was meeting Glimmer and the other reports from Mew and Shadow. All of them showed great amounts and with 3 creatures showing up with that amount of power in less than 2 years, it was too much to just be a normal coincidence. But what was confusing her was when she looked back at the others of his race from the dream, she saw they were all using weapons of some kind, no magic, no extra kind of power, just tools. But Daniel has shown real power like her and Celestia so she started to piece together the possibility of Daniel being a leader or some kind of royalty in his old home. But it was unlikely as he wasn’t wearing any kind of royal gear like armour or a crown.

"I need to confront Cosmos and see if he really is Daniel.....but when." She looked over her options and saw that the Gala was close, a few weeks away. She thought about it and decided she would confront Cosmos there in a quiet location, not talk threateningly and hopefully she could finally apologize for her actions 1000 years ago and get to know his a lot better.

She lay down in her bed, barely able to contain her excitement at meeting a new species that was very intelligent and still wondering about what might happen on the day she confronts him.

Author's Notes:

Author: If you are wondering why this took so long. (1) I have a lot of things happening. (2) I am a gamer so I like playing games. That's all. (Crash) Also there will be a time skip in the next chapter.

Daniel: You never leave your door unlocked. I have not been able to get in here for a long time.

Author: Door? What door?

King N: Your dimension door.

Author: Well I will leave it unlocked from now on. Come and go and you please.

Daniel: Also when are you going to fix your grammar errors? There is a lot of complaint's about them.

Author: (Angry) At least I try to fix them. I just have trouble understanding differences like Affect and Effect and others like Since, scenes and sense. I know 'Their' means something they own and 'There' means location. So please don't be a grammar nut. It also depends on where you are. Someone from....say California would take differently to someone from Canada even tho it is still English.

Daniel: I think 'Since' means something in the past, like it has been 4 years Since. 'Scenes' seems like a part of a movie and I am going to guess 'Sense' is things like hearing, touching and all the rest.

Author:........I guess all I had to do was stop and look back over them, and what do you have to say about the other?

Daniel: Affect is perhaps something that happens in the future. Like 'If you do this it will Affect that' and Effect is what is happening now. I don't know.

Author: I guess all I had to do was slow down and look at the words.