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The One With The Heart

by Spooky Ghost

Chapter 27: Discord 1/3 : What are we dealing with?

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"Wait. So let me get this straight. The actions you make are based on probability?" Daniel was currently talking to the two most powerful entities besides Archie and Nature. These 2 had simple names, Blade and Wisp-o.

Blade stood an astounding 8.5 feet tall, wore something similar to a black coat but it was mainly for show and comfort than armour or stealth. He was currently the 3rd strongest out of all the entities mainly due to how insane his adaptability is. If you hit him with something like magic it will only do full damage the first time and each extra will do significantly less than the last. So far he has shown to become immune after being hit by something just 4 times and then his body changes so it starts making him stronger every time he is hit with the same attack past that point.

Not just that but his adaptability is also used offensively as every attack he does only makes them sharper and stronger. Daniel just saw him fight and he kept getting tougher as the fight continued.

The other Entity called Wisp-o was a strange one. It was a Brown metal skull with no physical body, but instead a strange blue gas like substance made up his body and he had no legs but instead had 10 hands.

Wisp-o was very good at predictions, so much so that he can understand someone almost completely by spending less than 1 minute with them. Everything from body language, to the tone of voice, how tense the muscles are a whole load of other things that most overlook. By seeing all those he narrowed down a personality and the most accurate fighting style that matches it. Needless to say he was right and predicted how Daniel would fight and what he would do.

Their fight was over before it was even arranged.

"The more likely something someone is doing that fits their personality the lower the chance of failure will be, but if it's out of their personality or if extra events contribute something then that could raise or lower the chances." Wisp-o informed him.

"Alright then. I like a form that's not my original one more." Wisp-o's hands flashed between Black and white for a few seconds before stopping. 2 hands were black and 8 were white.

"2. You are attached to some of those other forms, but only minorly as they are not who you really are even if you act differently in them." Daniel hadn't mentioned much about his other forms and how he does act differently in them, so there was no way Wisp-o knew to tell him that.

Wisp-o's way of decision and response was like rolling a dice. He could predict what the odds of something are such as an attack or plan succeeding and his arms would flash to give a result that is unusually spot on. It was a really strange way his powers worked, but they were well earned. Guess that's why he's the 4th best.

"His brain works fast. Perhaps the fastest out of us all. From all his calculation and his minor ability to gaze into the future he is aware of every possible outcome to situations."

"A 5." Wisp-o said randomly before his hands flashed again and this time only 4 were black and the rest were white.

"Ha, a 4. You're the one buying the Pizza this time Blade. You are my friend which improved the odds, but not enough." Blade smiled and shook his head.

"So...you knew I would ask?"

"You normally tighten your stomach when you're hungry and your breathing patterns fell into place like many times before. I am aware you bought it last time so you would ask but calculating what you said in our last assignment, the portability sat at a solid 5."

Daniel smiled at these 2. They were the best of friends and said they had been for at least 73.000 years.

"So...do you see your calculations to decided things like what you will eat for dinner or where you will sleep?" Daniel asked.

"No, not all the time." Blade answered more accurately.

"You did that time when you had a physical body and had to keep a healthy diet. You always said anything less than 4 is a no to junk food, and to this day I'm still amazed it worked."

"Blade, you really need to put more faith in yourself. You could get lucky a few times."

"Wisp-o. You know what I think of luck. Luck isn't just luck. It's when preparation meets opportunity. I mean come on, you plan out the most likely scenario and plan for that. Not others events and I have seen you be wrong about 4 times so far."

The two of them started to talk about each others faults.

"You know full well that I think every scenario possible and arrange myself accordingly."

"Like that time you challenged Nature?" Blade sighed when Wisp-o mentioned that. "Ha. You didn't expect her to overpower your own adaptability, did you?"

"No, but that's when I was young and still learning. Now I think of every possible scenario that could happen in a fight."

Annabelle came through the door with Nature. She looked exhausted as she was sweating and had trouble moving her arms.

"Annabelle. Are you alright?" He ran over to her.

"I'm fine, just tired." She said between deep breaths.

"I was teaching her how her own inwardly stored energy could be used for physical enhances. It exhausted her but other than that she is in great health. So how was your training going?" She asked, looking over to Blade and Wisp-o.

"It was a complete failure. I couldn't land a single hit." Daniel said, holding Annabelle in his arms.

"If I may Nature. During the fight I saw Daniel was holding back. He isn't pushing himself." Nature looked over to Daniel.

Daniel. Please fight Blade." Both of them were taken back by this.

"Wait...me, fight him? You must be joking."

"10" Wisp-o said and his hands started to flash again and the only black part was half of a finger." Only 2%. Unless you stop restraining yourself I cannot fully get an accurate result. The current way you are going you have no chance but the 2% there cause of what has not been seen yet." Blade looked at Daniel with narrowed eyes.

"If we must, but I don't like this. You're clearly nowhere near my level." Daniel tensed up, worried. "Don't worry. You'll be fine. From what Natures told me the heart won't allow it's host to die from simple things like physical injury."

"So I'm going to be put through a lot of pain as training. Well that's just thrilling." Daniel and Blade walked into the middle of the room and faced each other.

"No holding back this time Daniel." Nature told him.

"F-fine. But if something goes wrong, don't blame me cause you asked for this." Daniel got into a fighting stance and the 3 spectators watched.

Daniel charged in and as he was about to reach blade, he dashed off to the side and tried a side kick. Blade moved faster than Daniel could see and all he felt was a sharp pain, so much so he had trouble breathing it.

Daniel collapsed, gasping for air and holding his chest. After a moment he tried again but got the same result.

"Daniel. Those attacks are slow and can easily be seen. If you're not going to take this seriously then just give up, cause if i keep hitting you in your weak points you will only be put through more pain." Blade made his point, he knew the weak points on a creature's body and how to hit them in the most painful way, but Nature shouted at Daniel.

"Get Mad, stop restraining yourself!" Daniel didn't want to do that but he knew he needed to if he was to have a chance. He dashed at Blade with everything he had and he looked surprised for a moment. Daniel didn't try a trick attack or anything like that, he just went straight in for the hit and landed it.

Blade was knocked back and held where he was hit. Daniel remembered Nature said that if someone is caught off guard then they get hurt with lower level attacks. Like the time he got Tractus by surprise. Even if Daniel was said to be a universal level powerhouse then, Tractus was multiversal but the surprise attack weakened him and gave Daniel the advantage.

Daniel wasted no time going in for another attack but Blade bent his legs backwards and moved his arm upwards when Daniel was over him. Knocking him into the air.

"Keep trying. Keep trying." Daniel said to himself as he kept attacking, mixing it up a little such as changing his fists to flames or using blasts in front of or behind him when he went in for an attack.

Annabelle looked up at Nature who was watching Daniel with a smile.

"His power is increasing. Daniel's attacks are getting stronger and faster. But Blade is adapting quicker than he is powering up." Blade was countering almost all of Daniels attacks. Every kick he tried was knocked away and then he soon followed with his own.

As his energy attacks hit Blade, his skin flashed green which signalled he is adapting. He launched more and they did even less damage then last time. Blade went through the 3rd attack with almost no visible damage and hit Daniel on the side of his head, leaving a visible dent.

He stood up. His skull cracked and dented and he grunted in pain as it was pushed back into place as it healed. As Daniel opened his eyes after his healing was done his vision was blurry but it soon fixed itself then the fight continued.

"You're running out of ideas. You have no attack pattern and you're using less powers. Hoping that physical damage will do it. While it is true I cant become immune to physical damage, the question is that if I know what you're going to do, what's the chance it lands?" Daniel knew he was right. He was not holding back but he still couldn't beat him. But he wouldn't give up.

Daniel saw the world around him become still and Blade coming towards him and he blocked him, the way Blade moved was almost like he wasn't trying. Blades eyes went wide when he saw Daniel move and the world around him went back to normal.

"I see...you're immune to time alteration. Stopping time or using it on you to try and trap you won't work." Daniel jumped when he heard Blade say that.

"Wait. I can wha-" This time the world stopped but then went back to normal right after and Blade struck him multiple times in the chest. Daniel stood there, paralyzed. Wondering what happened but also couldn't move from the pain that was shooting through him.

Daniel collapsed on the ground and Blade looked back at Nature.

"I understand that this is to help him, but he is not close to my level yet, this is almost like bullying." Nature's gaze didn't leave Daniel and Blade looked back at Daniel too.

Daniel was slowly getting back up as his injuries healed. When he looked up at Blade, Nature smiled.

"There we go. Now he isn't holding back." Daniel stood up as his vision became darker around the edges before he felt himself black out. His gaze not leaving Blade and his Aura burning red. The background becoming disoriented as his aura become stronger.

His eyes turned red and his muscles tightened up. Blade got back into a stance but before he finished getting it down Daniel was already charging. As Daniels fist collided with Blades the area around them was hit with a shockwave so strong that even the altered room couldn't contain it all and there was a small crater left where they collided.

Blade went in for a hit but Daniel grabbed the arm his fist collided with and moved to the side, twisting his wrist but Blade didn't seem bothered as he kicked Daniel in the face and knocked him back.

"Nature. What's happening?" Annabelle asked.

"Daniel is in a rage now. He's not holding back, this can help me keep track of his power and the more he uses this rage the more his body gets use to this level of power." Nature looked on as the fight continued. Daniel was clearly giving Blade more of a fight as she even saw Blade sweat a little.

"He is in the next level. With him being merged more with the heart his power is much better, now his rage is multiversal instead of universal like it was in the fight with tractus. But it's still a low multiversal level." She said to herself as she watched them fight, waiting till Daniel either collapsed from exhaustion or until his power started to hurt him.

Wisp-o's hand flashed and the result was a 1 out of 10.

"Better odds than last time. But still not enough to win against Blade. Blade has more experience and his body is more use to battle. Not to mention he is still on a higher level and knows more fighting styles." Wisp-o was right. Blade changed his fighting style and the tide started to turn.

As Daniel went in for a punch, Blade avoided it and grabbed Daniels wrist with an arm before using the other to strike his elbow inwards causing Daniel to scream in pain. Daniel went in for another hit but this time Blade did the same with his leg on his knee.

As Daniel collapsed, Blade grabbed him by the neck and started punching him in the chest at his weak points. The pain Daniel felt caused him, even in a rage, to stop breathing. Daniel regained his vision but he freaked out when he felt he couldn't move but then a sharp pain shot up his spine but he couldn't even scream.

"Stop. Stop!" He screamed in his mind. He saw his body move but it wasn't of his own doing, it was moving on its own as he saw a fist going for Blades' face but he grabbed it with his punching hand and crush his hand.

"Stop!!" The pain Daniel felt started to slowly fade but this confused him as Blade didn't stop punching him. Was he so damaged he was loosing feeling in his body?

"STOP IT!!!" He screamed in his mind. He felt rage, pain, panic, adrenaline and was confused all in one.

Next thing he knew, he saw a flash of white like a camera flash and his vision was blank. He felt cosy. Like he was on a fluffy bed and he felt at peace. He felt like all his worries disappeared and all he wanted to do was sleep. He tried to stop himself but couldn't with a single inhale and exhale he felt his mind drift off and a warmth in his chest.

"That's enough Blade." Nature said.

"Sorry I had to do that, but I needed to exhaust him to stop him. Since you weren't going to." Blade put Daniel down, letting his neck go as his body fell like a ragdoll.

"I'll explain to him when he wakes up. With that rage state his body will be able to handle much larger portions of power so he will be able to learn stronger attacks. Not to mention it also made him physically tougher." She went in to get Daniel but stopped when she saw him shuffling slightly. "Still awake after that? Wow Daniel. You're tougher than I thought."

Daniel slowly got up but Nature felt uneasy seeing Daniel like this. It wasn't the fight as she knew Blade, he wouldn't do anything that Daniel couldn't recover from and Daniel needed a boost. Not to mention he also fought a few entities before blade and ended up injured and a few times, even with a missing limb.

Daniel did mention he wasn't that bothered by it since he knew they would regrow so he was clearly in worse positions than the one he was in now and while she cared for him and didn't like seeing him injured it was something that happened when entities battle or did hard training. But as she saw him lift himself off the ground and saw the way his body leaned downwards, she felt uneasy.

"D-Daniel?" She asked cautiously and even Blade looked at Daniel curiously. Daniel slowly lifted his head and it had...a smile on it, his breathing was steady and his eyes were closed.

"Is he...sleeping?" Blade asked. It was then he saw a glow on his chest. It was like seeing a light through some cloth. Dull but visible. "What's going on." Nature saw what Blade was looking at and walked up to take a closer look.

"Is that..." Her eyes widened and she took a few steps back. "Blade...get out of here!" She said, almost panicking.

"Why? What's wrong?" Nature looked at him angrily but Blade was looking at Daniel, who had just opened his eyes.

Nature looked back at Daniel and saw his eyes were open and glowing white.

"Oh no. I didn't think this would happen!" Blade was confused and this is when he noticed that Daniel's aura had changed. It wasn't fiery red and going everywhere but it was a light blue and was a calm gentle flow, like water as it gently moved around his body. "GET OUT OF HERE!" She screamed at Blade and he decided to listen to her and run.

But the moment he turned and started to move, Daniel appeared in infront of him and he stopped in his tracks. Blade looked back at Nature but she was still looking at Daniel who was still in the place he was standing before. Blade looked back and there was indeed another Daniel in front of him, the same as the one in front of Nature.

The Daniel in front of Blade moved it's leg forward and took a single step. The next thing Blade felt was a pain on his face and saw a flash as Daniel kicked him.

"What?" Blade said in his mind as he landed in front of Nature after he was kicked backwards.

"Blade? But..." She looked behind her and saw another Daniel, who soon disappeared. The Daniel infront of her turned to look at Blade.

After Blade stood up and took a stance, Daniel walked forwards causally, no tricks or sudden movements. Just a casual walk like he was walking in the park and kept at it, not changing. As he got closer Blade though about striking but...something stopped him. He tried to move but he couldn't.

"Blade! Move!" Nature shouted at him but he remained unmoving as Daniel got closer. "It is...this is...I need to act now!" Daniel had just reached Blade and delivered a punch to him, and then another, and another.

Blade tried to move but his body wasn't listening and the punches Daniel was using weren't normal. Normally when he was hit physically his body would get tougher to make the attacks do less damage. But Daniel was getting through that. He kept trying but he couldn't adapt. It was like his ability was locked or lost.

Nature walked up to Daniel and touched his shoulder which got him to stop hitting Blade and turn to look at her. She slowly and gently put her hands on him. One at his head and the one she had on his shoulder she moved to the glow on his chest and closed her eyes.

Daniels aura started to surround Nature but she didn't look worried and Daniel didn't attempt to hurt her or push her off him. Nature soon went back to normal as Daniels aura let her go and she smiled.

After a few moments the glow around Daniel started to disappear and he fell forwards as his eyes closed. Nature caught him as he fell forwards and hugged him. Looking over at Blade, he was on his knees and holding his stomach and taking sharp breaths.

"Sorry you had to go through that Blade." Nature walked over to Blade after putting Daniel down on the ground and healed him as best she could, but the injuries he got from those punches needed to heal naturally as Cosmic power didn't fully work.

"What was that? When he was in a rage he could barely touch me but after...that...I have no idea." Nature was looking at Daniel with a look that was a mixture of fear and nervousness. "Nature?" Her gaze never left Daniel.

"I...I'm sorry Blade. I don't know how I forgot about that." Blade asked again.

"Nature. What was that?"

"It was a form only heart bearers can achieve. It's called 'Total Merge'." She walked up to Daniel and held her hand out over his head and a light appeared for a few moments.

"I see. He was panicking, lack of oxygen when he still subconsciously thinks he needs it, the confusion and the pain. His body and mind were in maximum alert. He thought he was going to die cause he wasn't in a position like that before, and with the power line already opened to the heart thanks to his rage, the heart thought it's host was in danger and took control." Nature picked him up and put him in her arms.

"The heart's full power? How did you stop it?"

"No. Not it's full power. I have seen it's full power be used once before with the previous bearer and what was used there was not it's full power. Sadly she was tricked. She let her guard down when she though King N was too weak and when that happened..." Nature didn't continue.

"I see." Blade said as he looked down with his eyes closed.

"Count yourself lucky. The heart is also limitless. It's limit is always increasing and there is no way you would be able to handle it. I luckily got some interaction with this 'total merge' form with the previous bearer. I learned how to show the heart what is and isn't a threat. It's semi sentient so it understands threats and misunderstandings. It's an object that doesn't have a will itself but more like a set of codes that it uses but it can also add and remove them by itself. Which is why it's semi sentient. It cant act itself but it can reposed and just like you, adapt to the situation it's in." Annabelle was at Daniel's side, looking over his body and checking for any injuries.

"How could you tell it wasn't using it's full power?" He asked.

"His aura. It was a calm one, the heart knew Daniels body is nowhere close to being able to handle it fully so by keeping the power calm and focused it avoided damaging him. You will know if he is going full power because it will look like he is inside a giant heart piece. The small piece we have, if you see Daniel's aura become that of a giant one...that's the heart at full power."

Annabelle walked over to them, her eyes on her brother.

"Is he...?"

"He's just sleeping." Nature told her. "I'll take you and him back home." Nature placed Daniel on her back and took Annabelle by the hand.

"Is he going to be alright?"

"Don't worry Annabelle. He just needs some rest. All his injuries are healed." She teleported them both back home and placed Daniel on the couch. "Now you just stay with him, if anything happens that you don't know how to deal with, remember the training we did? You can telepathically call me."

"You're not staying to help him?" Nature stopped when she asked that.

"He's on the couch, in his home, asleep after burning out from a fight. I'm sure there won't be a problem. But I need to get back. I have no doubt in my mind that Archie sensed him transform." Nature teleported away and Annabelle sat close to Daniel as he slept.

As she sat there and made sure he was alright, she saw the windows were dirty so she was just going to go outside and clean it, but as she stood up she saw it was all the windows that were muddy.

"What?" She got the key and opened the door. It was raining mud, which was strange as she has never seen that before, in the everfree or elsewhere in this colourful world. She put her hand out and her hand got a few drops of it but as she looked at it she didn't think it was mud. "This can't be..." She smelt it before licking a little off her hand and she was surprised. "Chocolate milk? It's raining chocolate milk?"

She smiled and went to the kitchen, where she got around 7 glasses on a tray and put it outside the door. She waited for around 5 minutes and the glasses were full, then she brought it in. As she did this, Daniel started to wake up.

"What...happened?" She placed the tray on the kitchen table before going over to him.

"Raise and shine bro." Daniel turned to look at her and she was met with the blue eyes she was so familiar with. Happy to see he was himself.

"What happened to me? Did I faint?"

"Well you passed out after getting choked and punched rapidly, but then you became all glowy and started to beat up that Blade guy before Nature stopped you and brought you back home." He chuckled at her explanation.

"Well that's quite a story. But I don't remember any of it. The only thing I remember is...panic then. Peace. Next thing I know, I woke up here." Daniel laid back down but as he did he got a look at the chocolate covered window that was behind the couch he laid on. "What the?"

"Oh. Apparently it's raining chocolate milk. I went outside and got some." Daniel saw the 7 glasses on a tray.

"Wait Annabelle." He made a glass of chocolate milk appear for her. "We don't know if it's safe. Have you drank any of it?"

"Well I did only have a little. No more than a teaspoon before you woke up."

"Tell me if you feel strange or sick. It might look like it but I don't fully trust it." He said and she sighed.

"Fine." She took the milk he had and drank it before the glass vanished.

"Oh, I forgot to tell you. Someone knows about us now." She jumped up when hearing that.

"Really. Who? Twilight?" He laughed when her mind jumped right to Twilight.

"With her always messaging Celestia? Nope."

"Applejack?" He shook his head. She listed off their friends but she didn't get any right. "Then who?"

"Luna, Celestia's sister." She didn't know how to take that.

"So...wait. You didn't tell Twilight because she would have likely told Celestia. But you told Luna, her sister?" She asked, trying to piece it together.

"Well she found out. She showed me a whole load of evidence and I knew that running away would do nothing and if I tried to lie I still didn't have anything to say to convince her and if I took too long thinking of one then she would likely know it was me. So I had to tell her." She smiled.

"So we can be in our true forms around Luna?"

"Well, only if it's just her around. But she's not use to seeing our forms. I haven't seen her since the Gala and that's when I showed her my real form. But she probably didn't get a good look at it in the dark." Daniel heard the alarm go and both of them sighed. "Come on, lets see who it is."

He changed them to their pony forms and he quickly put on his fake mark and both of them headed to their other home.

They both looked out the window and saw that not much seemed to be different in ponyville then the everfree as the chocolate rain was falling here too.

"Ok, what's going on?" Annabelle asked.

"No clue. Come on. Let's see who's at the door." Daniel opened it to see all of his friends waiting for him. "Oh, Hello girls. What's with the chocolate rain?"

"No clue Cosmos. But Celestia wants to meet us in Canterlot. All of us." She held up a letter for him to see and it did say that Celestia wanted to see them as soon as possible.

"Alright. Let's go to Canterlot then."

"Everypony, get around me. I'll teleport us there." They all gathered around Twilight and after a few moments of charging up, she teleported and they all found themselves outside the main door. "Let's not keep her waiting! Move!" Twilight shouted as they all ran in.


Bravacho was looking up at the sky and looking at the other ponies with confused looks on their faces. This was clearly something new to them so whatever was happening was uncommon.

"What's going on?" Darvia asked as she just came back and was covered in chocolate milk.

"No clue, and it's not a common thing. Look at the faces of the ponies." She went over to him and looked out the window. Between the chocolate rain, cotton candy clouds, long legged rabbits, overgrown apples and popcorn hills it was like a twisted child's imagination.

She looked at Bravacho to see him messing with his wrist device. He then took some chocolate milk off her before dropping it into a slot in his device.

"Alright. So...it's magic." He kept looking at his device as it scanned the chocolate milk. "It's not poison."

"What is causing this?" She asked him.

"It says...the magic links up at a single point." He messed around with the buttons before he smiled. "Got it, the location of the magic source is Canterlot."

"The same place that boring Gala was held at?" He nodded. "Fine. Just give me a moment to clean off and find something to keep the milk off of us."

Darvia came back with 2 umbrellas after 5 minutes and after putting their disguises on and grabbing the heart piece, they headed to Canterlot.


"Princess Celestia! We came as fast as we could!" They ran up to her but stopped at the stairs. Daniel looked to the side and saw Luna there. She looked like she stopped in her tracks and her eyes were glued to him.

"-is there!" Twilight stopped in mid sentence and he looked back to Celestia who was holding up a hoof to silence her.

"Follow me!"

They all followed Celestia, with Luna behind them. They soon entered a long hallway with different glass pictures on the windows.

"I've called you all here for a matter of great importance. It seems an old foe of mine, one I thought I had defeated long ago, has returned. His name is Discord."

"Wait. I'm going to meet him? I heard of Discord before a few times but he's still around?"

"Discord is the mischievous spirit of disharmony. Before my sister and I stood up to him he ruled Equestria in an eternal state of unrest and unhappiness. Luna and I saw how miserable life was for earth ponies, pegasi and unicorns alike."

Luna walked passed them and stood beside Celestia. While she looked at the others, her gaze was mostly on Daniel who smiled at her. Nobody seemed to have said anything to him or looked at him suspiciously, so she likely kept her word.

"So after discovering the elements of harmony we combined our powers and rose up against him. Turning him to stone." She showed them a glass picture of discord being hit by a blast.

"Alright princess!" Rainbow cheered.

"I thought the spell would keep him contained forever. But since Luna and I are no longer connected to the elements, the spell has been broken." Celestia went on to tell them that they needed to take these elements again and use them to stop Discord.

"Hey look. We're famous." When Daniel heard Pinkie say that his eyes darted to where she was and saw a window picture of him and the rest of them shooting beams up at Nightmare moon.

"So I have to wear my element again. Wait a moment...wasn't my element a...golden heart crown?" He cringed inwardly, hating the idea of wearing that again.

He looked back at Celestia who just finished opening the door at the end of the hallway and lifted a box over to them.

"Have no fear ponies. I have total confidence that you will be able to defeat discord with these." She opened the box but it was empty.

They all gasped and Celestia dropped the box.

"The Elements! They're gone!" Celestia was walking back and forth in a panic. Mostly out of confusion.

Luna was walking up to Daniel but stopped when she heard a laugh echo around the room.

"Discord! Show yourself!" Celestia shouted and they all looked around. It was then Daniel saw one of the glass carvings on the window came to life.

"Did you miss me Celestia? I missed you." The carving of discord moved from one window to another before sitting down on a carving of a circle around Fluttershy. "It's quite lonely being encased in stone but you wouldn't know that, would you? Cause I don't turn ponies into stone!"

"Wait...Ponies? He's not a pony and the S implies more than one. Is this a trick or...is this truth?" Daniel looked at Celestia.

For the next few moments it was mostly bickering between them all and he quickly lost interest. He looked to the side and then felt a nudge. He looked around to see Luna nudging him.

"A word please." She whispered. He nodded and they walked away from the rest of them till they were out of earshot. Annabelle was still with him and walked by him as he walked to the side. If they whispered from this distance then they wouldn't hear.

"What is it Luna?"

"Do you think you can handle Discord? I now know you stopped that Ursa, but Discord is something else."

"I'm not sure. I don't know how strong he is but I will if it comes to that. I want to see what kind of...person he is." Daniel knew he couldn't say 'Pony' and he didn't know what Discord was so person seemed like a safe choice of word.

"Trust me, his jokes and idea of 'Fun' is horrible. But I would like to speak to you. One on one when this is all over."

"Sure thing Luna." He said with a smile. Luna then looked at Annabelle who was looking at her happily.

"So you're his sister. If you don't mind me asking. What's your real name?"

"Annabelle. Nice to meet you Luna." She held out a hoof and Luna shook it with a smile.

"Nice to meet you Annabelle."

They turned back to the others just in time to see Pinkie burst out laughing at what Discord was doing. He was dancing on the head of a glass carving of Twilight. Daniel found himself smiling and lightly chuckling at that.

"He's standing on your head!" He vanished from where he was and they lost sight of him but when Daniel looked behind him he saw Discord looking at him with a smile.

"And you. Cosmos. The Element of Forgiveness." Discord narrowed his eyes at Daniel. "I know you're not normal." He said with a grin.

"Stop stalling Discord! What have you done with the elements of harmony!?" Discord sighed and moved to another painting.

"Still so boring Celestia? Really? Fine, I'll tell you but I'll only tell you my way." He vanished from the glass window and started to move around the glass window speaking in a riddle. "To retrieve your missing elements just make sense of these changes of events. Twists and turns are my master plan. Then find the elements back where you began."

"Just make sense? I thought he said making sense was boring. Is this a trick?" Daniel looked at Twilight and she was deep in thought trying to solve it.

"Twists and turns. Twists and turns! That's it! I bet Discord hid the elements in the palace labyrinth!" As Celestia nodded Daniel almost jumped when he realised something. If this Discord knew who he was and could access the door to the elements that Celestia herself sealed, then what about his kids and the lab?

"Good luck my little ponies." As Celestia said that Daniel did what he had done time and time before. Made a field around him that bent the light to look like he was just standing there, then separated and went invisible. He was going to send his clone back home.

His clone flew to keep quiet and the moment it was out of Canterlot it Dashed to his home. Hoping that everything would be alright.


"Get ready. We will arrive at this planet in 1 hour." Jerik put on his armour and held his blaster close. The Prototype was sharpening its nails with it's other nails and the revenger was cleaning it's blade.

From the main window Jerik could see their destination coming into view.

"So, what's the plan sir?" The prototype asked.

"When we touch down, scan for any advanced tech and see if we can find who's the ruler. Tell them of what we're looking for and if they know nothing then it's subjugation or death. This planet is far off from our empire so making them a puppet state would be beneficial."

"What if we encounter resistance?"

"If they fight, kill them."

Jerik went over to the front and input coordinates. He wanted to land in a place that wouldn't draw much attention.

"There. Our cloaking will activate 10 minutes before we land and I have set us up to land in a forest. There seems to be a large city not that far away from it. That will be our first place to go."

"And if we encounter the heart bearer?" The Revenger asked.

Jerik checked his wrist and saw the device on it was working.

"I'll tell our king we found it. So rest up. We have a lot to do when we land." Jirek started to take his weapon apart and do a deep clean. He didn't want it to stop working in the middle of a possible large battle


Xaveroth was having the time of his life, even if his body was nothing more than purple gas he was having fun shaping things differently to what they normally were. He sat on the roof of the old castle as he fooled around.

"Oh, It seems Discord has been released. What a joker." Xaveroth decided to reverse one of discords own creations so he made a chocolate milk cloud that dropped cotton candy.

"Oh, I miss being back home in the 5th dimension. But I hope I can go back soon." He changed another cloud but this one was golden and rained golden drops that when they impacted something small like a vase, it would turn the whole thing golden.

Xaveroth put his hands behind his back and fell backwards as the ground changed to a seat and he sighed. It was then he looked up to the sky and saw a ship approaching.

"Oh. We have guests. Goodie. I should greet them. I mean it took them long enough to get here."

Xaveroth stood up from his chair which disappeared and his body changed to a cloud before dashing off.

As he travelled through the forest he passed something that made him stop. He felt something strange on the forest floor so he went to investigate.

After going down some stairs he found himself face to face with some kind of crystal tree. It was huge and glowed with magic.

"Oh. What's this?" He flew up to get a closer look but as he did he stopped. He realised now what he was feeling. "Oh...so that's where it ended up. Daniel's going to be thrilled to hear this. But before I tell him, I need to do something else."

Xaveroth flew out of the cave with a chuckle.


"We will need to be careful. With him now having access to that new form, goodness knows what could happen." Archie was talking with Nature over Daniel and the Total merge form that she recently had to deal with.

"As long as we don't go too far then we should be fine. But if he's going to beat King N then he will likely need to know how to access and control it. But that will be hard as he still can't control his rage yet." Nature looked at Archie and he was in deep thought.

"I can't help but feel there is something we're missing."

"You feel it too?" He turned to face her before looking out the window in his office.

"Yes. I have a feeling King N is not the only threat we have to deal with." Nature walked up to him and stood by his side.

"I know. I felt it too, but I fear for Daniel. Goodness knows if this will effect him and if it does, to what extent." Archie looked over to a picture he kept on his desk, a picture with him, Nature and the previous bearer.

"You really miss her, don't you?" He nodded.

"But she had love for another, and I could tell she was happy. Even after I accepted that she loved another and let her be with him, the pain of her loss is still there." Nature put her arm on his shoulder.

"She was like a sister to me. Always annoying me but looking out for me when I needed it." Nature giggles at the memories she had.

A few times the other entities have even spread rumours that Archie and Nature were going to be more than friends but even if they got along and understood each other after years of working together they still felt like they were also not meant for each other.

"Oh, Nature. Blade wants to have another battle with you." She grinned.

"Is he asking for another beating?"

"Well you could fight me if he's too easy." She lost her grin and looked at him and saw he was serious.

"Ehh. No thanks." She said and left his office.

She went down to the training area and saw Blade fighting Wisp-o. Wisp-o's hands flashed rapidly as he calculated and avoided most of Blades attacks.

"Miss. Miss. Hit. Miss. Hit. Oh, Hit." Blade punched the talking skull right in the teeth and knocked it out of the ghostly body before sending one more punch ending up with it stuck in the ghostly body, then putting energy into his fist before opening it and the energy expanded and exploded.

Wisp-o was now a skull and hands on the ground. His body slowly rebuilding itself and Nature clapped at Blades victory.

"Nature. You came along."

"Sure did. I heard you wanted to have a battle with me." She said with a grin.

"You know it." He took a stance and she got into a stance too.

"Good luck."

Blade charged at her and she changed stance so her fingers were pointing at him like a gun and she started firing blasts at him. Blade avoided some of them but the ones that did hit he soon adapted too and as he got close to Nature a vine appeared and grabbed his leg, stopping him.

Nature just put her hand on his face and fired a blast as the vine threw him then burrowed under the floor.

"Gotta do better than that." Blade got back up and took another stance. Ready to fight once more.

He tried to use time against her by stopping it but to no such luck. As he leaped forwards to kick her, her eyes turned to a bright green and he felt himself get hit multiple times on his chest then get knocked back into the wall.

He stood up with red indents in his chest but they soon disappeared and he felt ready to keep going.

"1. You still stand little to no chance against her." Wisp-o told Blade as his hands flashed again.

"Shut it!" Blade's aura grew and surrounded his body and he was soon glowing a grey colour.

He rushed forwards with so much force the ground under him shattered and when his fist impacted Natures palm some cracks appear in the windows that were there for observers. But Nature was just standing there with one hand behind her back and using one hand to block which made Blade even more angry.

He launched a series of rapid punches that she blocked with just her palm. Blade saw it wasn't working and jumped up, coming down with a hard heel kick but this time Nature grabbed him on his foot and threw him to the side.

He retaliated by putting out his palm and launching a series of blasts over to her. Nature grinned and her eyes started to glow blue as she focused her aura and compressed it at a certain point and moved it with her eyes. She used her aura shield to block each of Blades blasts without moving from her spot and he soon stopped.

Blade charged up a much larger blast and sent it towards her but she just put her hand out with it in the shape you would make for a chopping motion and the beam split in half. This is when she saw Blade smile as the 2 chopped halves turned around and tried to impact her from behind. Nature smiled and closed her eyes, focusing on increasing the pressure of her aura and as the blasts got closer her aura pushed them upwards slightly. They just missed her head and shoulders but didn't touch her, she then opened her eyes with a grin her lips. Blades attack had reversed and missed her, now it was going for him and it hit.

"Hit by your own attack. That must hurt." The grin not leaving her face.

Blade stood back up and his aura was compacted into his hand and he rushed forwards once more, intending to hit Nature with all he had. Just before his fist made contact she quickly sidestepped him and the sheer shockwave from the power in his fist shattered all the windows in the room. As she was at his side with him still yet to turn and face her, she brought her arm down in a chopping motion and struck him on the neck.

With a gasp, he stumbled and struggled to breath and she followed up by another chop to his spine which cause him to arch his spine upwards and the last was a strike to the back of the head with the tips of her fingers.

Blade stood there for a moment, looking on at nothing until Nature stood behind him with her back facing him.

"Adapt to that." After she said that he collapsed. Now in a coma. "Don't worry, he'll be fine in 1 hour." She walked out of the battle room and went to the cafeteria area. She was one of the few entities that didn't need to eat but she still loved a hot meal after a battle.

As she got up to that level and looked around the huge open room that would put a coliseum to shame in terms of size she saw a lot of young entities around the assignment board, looking for tasks that were around their own level. Even possible new ones who came here and saw this place for the first time, the expression of wonder they have made her smile.

She looked upwards and using her enhanced sight, looked through the many levels this places had. From the library to the training area where the more powerful and older entitles taught the young and newer ones.

The level where they tested out possible ways to make new powers and trying to better understand how the multiverse works.

The massive outside area where there were entities of all kinds resting. Those with bodies of ice to those who were part robotic and even to those who weren't one life form but a collective hive mind of many.

This was the place she mostly grew up and trained after her mom was killed on an assignment. This was her home. Not just because she was surrounded by those she knew but also those who cared about her.

As she walked over to the cafeteria area she was greeted a few times by many people that she knew and even those who just wanted to say 'Hi'

When she sat down with her food she thought back over her adventures and her time with the previous heart bearer. She liked to annoy her from time to time and she did the same as payback. But there was a few times she said something that shocked her and one of those was about Daniel.

"Daniel won't be my future love. She was just joking. How could he love someone like me. I'm millions of years old. He isn't even 1/4th of 100 years old. He doesn't even like me that way and I don't like him that way...do i?" She remembered her mother telling her that almost anything is possible so she started to think.

"Do I like him? Perhaps as more than just a friend? I have known him for a few months. We have been on dates and..." She shook her head to get that out of her mind and went back to her food.

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