"MOM!?"
"MOM!?"

She giggled at their reaction.

"Yes. It's me. Daniel. Annabelle." Annabelle ran towards her and hugged her. She looked a little startled but soon hugged her back. Daniel did the same but as he did a thought plagued his mind. Was this version of his mum before or after she had them?

"Mum. You look younger than I remember and we are speaking through time so...have you had us yet?" She shook her head but she looked happy and not upset.

"I only got a brief look at you a bit before now. But not a real good look, and I am aware of my fate. I have been watching your adventures with that pony called Twilight and the others and I must say I'm happy your getting out and about more." Annabelle looked at her surprised to hear what she was saying.

"So you sill haven't had Big bro?"

"Yes. I am going to disconnect myself from the heart, and as I do it will break apart and scatter. This will erase my memory so I don't affect the timeline. We don't have long to speak but I must say Daniel. I knew my kids would be handsome, but not stunning." Daniel chuckled nervously when she said that.

"What do you want to talk to me about mum?" He asked and she sat down, still holding Annabelle.

"I have seen what's tormenting you. Stop hurting yourself over what happens to your father and I. You say you have accepted the fact that you weren't strong enough, but you're still tormented because you think your father and I don't forgive you. But I spoke to your father and told him what would happen to him and then erased his memory of it. We both forgive you." She puled him into a hug, after she said that he felt tears starting to swell up in his eyes.

"Mom...I...thank you." He felt his chest become lighter after she said that.

"How could I be angry at you? After everything you have done to keep Annabelle happy and safe? Her safety was your top priority and still is." Annabelle looked at him then back at her mother.

"He has been the best bro I could ask for. But he could have done a little less hiding." Daniel sighed.

"Not going to let me live that down, are you?"

"Nope!" She giggled.

"Rascal." Their mum was watching them bicker back and forth and just laughed.

"Oh, when I have you two I can tell I'm going to have an adventure just from this interaction alone." She ruffled Annabelle's hair, causing it to no longer be nice and straight.

"Mum! Please don't do that." She turned to Daniel and lost her smile.

"Son. I have seen further into the future that you're going to have and i have to warn you. There is going to be more that will test you and Nature won't always be there to help. That Sphere that destroyed Earth is soon going to find out about Equestria and will soon make it's way there." Daniel felt his heart sink when he heard that. Was he strong enough to beat it?

"But...what if I can't beat it?" She smiled and walked up to him before placing her hand on his forehead and he felt himself calm down. But then blue rings seemed to shoot through his body for a few seconds before they stopped.

"There you go. That should help you. You should be able to control your rage better but it's the total merge form that will be tricky. I must admit even I wasn't able to stay in it during maximum power for very long. Total merge can be obtained but staying in that form and using it to the best of what it can offer is something even I could only do for no longer than 3 minutes." Daniel and Annabelle hugged their mother together and she returned it. "I don't have much longer to speak to you."

"Mum. There's something I have been wondering." Annabelle looked at Daniel when she said that.

"What will that be sweetie?"

"Back home, I was wondering how long my bro would stay with us. I mean, he's an adult. What if he finds someone? But with us being the last of our kind, do you think we will find anyone?" Daniel blushed when Annabelle asked this. She always liked to tease him about how he would find someone back home but that almost never happened when they started living in Equestria. Their mother smiled at her question and rubbed her head.

"Oh don't worry about that. Besides, I think I did see a future where my little Daniel finds love. I see 3 possible lovers for you right now." She looked at him with a grin, clearly teasing him.

"Really? With who?" She asked but their mum didn't answer. She kept the grin on her face and said.

"You'll see what I mean soon." Daniel was enjoying the time he was having but he knew it wouldn't last.

"Will this be the last time we meet?" He asked.

"No. We will meet one more time. I already have met you, but it's a further future you. But Daniel, I have seen some parts of your present and some parts of your future but not all of it and the best advice I can give you is this. Don't trust Xaveroth."

"Why? What's wrong with him?" She looked to the side and at the ground.

"He...gives me the shivers. Just seeing him gives me a 'Run away!' kind of feeling"

"But what about King N?" He asked.

"He is a problem. But there is clearly something bigger happening that goes beyond him. Even when I was fighting him, it felt...wrong." Daniel wanted to know more.

"What do you mean by 'wrong'?"

"Like I was fighting a puppet. Like defeating him would mean little. Someone may be manipulating him."

"Bro. What is this about?" Annabelle was listening the whole time they were talking but when she asked that her mum hugged her tightly.

"Nothing you need to worry your little head about Annabelle."

"This..." Daniel still felt tears coming down his face. "This has been a pleasant meeting." She put Annabelle down and she started to turn ghostly.

"Nature will help you. Trust her training and do your best. But most of all, both of you. Be happy." She walked up to Annabelle and kissed her on the cheek. "My little daughter..." She then stood up and kissed Daniel on his cheek. "...and my grown up baby boy." She completely vanished and cracks started to appear around the landscape before it all broke and Daniel felt himself fall and opened his eyes.

He was now standing and holding a heart piece with Annabelle close to him.

"You saw that too? It wasn't just my imagination?" He asked.

"No Bro. It wasn't." He looked over at Nature and she was smiling.

"So...you know now." She asked as she walked up to him.

"Yes. The reason you are protective of us more than the other entities are. You promised my mother you would help us. But there is a more important matter at hand. The dark sphere. It will soon make it's way here." She planed a hand on his shoulder and looked him in the eyes.

"I'm aware of that. But it's you who needs to destroy it." He felt his heart jump when she said that. He didn't know if he was strong enough to do that.

"But Nature. What if I-" She put a finger over his lips.

"I believe in you. I know you can do it. You're not a foolish armature anymore." Hearing that she believed he could do this made him feel better. He was still shaking at the thought of encountering the Sphere again but he was confident he could do something this time.

"How long until it gets here?" He asked her.

"A would say a few weeks. But no more than 2 months. It can travel through wormholes so it likely won't take long to reach Equestria once it picks up your energy trail." He wanted to not waste any more time and asked Nature to train him more.

"Help me get stronger. I need to use the time I have." She smiled and stepped back.

"You got it Daniel. Follow me."

Both of them walked out of the castle with Annabelle looking around as they did. She was still keeping an eye out for whatever was in the castle with them, but she also felt safe with both Daniel and Nature beside her.

They soon stopped in the middle of the Everfree and she turned to face him. With a smirk on her face she made a large amount of energy appear in her hands before it expanded into a giant ball and she threw it at him.

He reacted by trying to push it back with his magic and he managed to bring it to a halt, but he couldn't push it back. He pushed with all his strength to reflect this attack back but the best he could do was keep it from going any further forwards.

"Push it back! Get mad!" She increased the energy in her cosmic ball and Daniel was getting pushed back. Daniel thought about his home. About what happened and how he could do nothing but watch it die.

He started to feel guilty even when he accepted he couldn't do anything to stop it but as he started to feel like that his power became weaker and the cosmic ball started to push him back at a faster rate and his hands started to shake.

Annabelle was watching from the side and she was worried about the damage that attack would do to her brother and it was then she noticed he was shaking and looked more sad than he was struggling.

"You can do it bro!" He looked to his side, right at Annabelle who was looking at him happily and hopefully. "I know you can do it! Push it back!" Daniel just stared at her for a few moments before his muscles tensed up and as he pressed his legs into the ground the cosmic ball slowed down until it was brought to a complete stop.

"Good. Now a bit more." Nature increased the amount of power in it yet again and Daniel started to struggle once more. He looked back over at Annabelle and as he did he saw not just her but the rest of his friends too. But they looked transparent, like ghosts.

"You can do it Cosmos!" Pinkie shouted.
"You're tough. This silly night light won't stop you!" Dash cheered.
"You can do it. Push it back. I mean...if you want to." Fluttershy was being her timid self.
"Kick it back at her!" Applejack shouted as she kicked her back legs.
"Don't let yourself down darling. It's something you will overcome." Rarity said with a smile
"Cosmos. I know you. You're strong and you know so much. This won't stop you." Twilight looked at him with a hopeful smile.

Daniel smiled when he heard their words of encouragement and as he felt happiness fill him he suddenly noticed the cosmic ball felt lighter. With a smile he stepped forwards and pushed it back slightly.

Nature looked at him with a smile on her face and felt so proud of him. That cosmic ball had a lot of explosive force in it but he was pushing it back with minimal effort. He was starting to grasp how his powers work with his emotions and his mental state.

"How about one more time?" She increased the amount of energy once more but it only slightly slowed him down. He was still pushing the cosmic ball back and the walking soon turned into running as he found it easier to push it back as his confidence increased.

He soon had the cosmic ball off of the ground and with a kick he sent it back at Nature. She just stood their with a smile and didn't even try to stop it at it impacted her and exploded, sending shockwaves through the forest.

Daniel saw a perfect sphere appear from the explosion but as the dust cleared he realised that sphere was Nature as she put up a barrier to contain the power of the explosion. She let the cosmic ball hit her and put a shield up around her as it did to stop the explosion damaging the planet.

As the dust cleared he saw Nature was unharmed from the attack and lowered herself to the ground with a smile.

"Very good Daniel. I'm impressed." She reached the ground and took a battle stance. "Now. Fight me."

Daniel was nervous as he knew Nature could easily beat him without even trying, but he kept his confidence up and waited for her to make a move.

"So you want to stop this? But...my Queen. We have all the food we could want. The human is providing us with food." A changeling was trying to understand why their queen wanted to leave.

"I know but...it will be the same. Everything gives off a different kind of love. To be stuck with one kind of love so much wouldn't make us happy in the long run." The changeling dropped its head in defeat and it walked away to deliver a message.

As the changeling left it failed to notice another changeling was listening in and this changeling saw things differently. For this one didn't want to see the human as food but as a friend. Someone he could count on to help and be helped through tough times.

"I know you're there Thorax." The queen was clearly aware of his presence so he walked out into the open.

"My queen. Is it really a good idea to -" He didn't get to finish.

"My orders are final. We will tell the human we're not interested. Not go to sleep. It's late."

Thorax returned to his own sleeping space and looked out the window before it closed. He lay there for a while, wanting to meet the human he has heard so much about in person.

But he felt alone and was worried that none of his brothers and sisters saw things the way he did, much less want the same thing.

Daniel had just blocked a punch from Nature as she charged at him but after the block, she grabbed him and threw him over her before kicking him in the back.

"Keep trying Daniel." She said with a grin. Daniel wasted no time and dashed right at her, attempting to land a punch but she easily blocked it.

Her grin faded and it soon turned to a smile when she realised he was stronger than last time they fought. When they battled before she had no trouble beating him until he went into a rage, but now he was strong enough to the point she needs to put effort in and he wasn't in his rage form.

"You can do better than that." She said to mess with him but he just smiled.

"You want better?" He pushed forwards and moved her back little by little which surprised her but she just increased her power again and stepped getting pushed back.

"You still have a lot to learn." She lifted him up and launched a blast into his chest which knocked him far into the forest, leaving a train of smashed trees behind him. She walked up to the crater only to find it empty and looked around for him.

Daniel appeared behind Nature and landed a single punch before she could react and as the punch landed it send green waves through her body before she was pushed back.

"Getting better." She saw Daniel was grinning and as she looked at where he punched her she saw a green orb there. It expanded around her and she was soon in what looked like a glowing green aura.

"Did it work?" He asked and he looked at Nature as she stood still, slowly moving her head up to look at him. "It...worked. My time trap attacked worked!" He said with glee but as he looked back at Nature he saw she was now grinning.

She started to take slow steps towards him, not breaking eye contact as she did. Daniel reacted by putting everything he had into one attack as he built up a blast in his right hand. A few seconds later it was ready and he flashed to Nature's right side to try and stop whatever front block she had planned to use but before he delivered the blast she closed her eyes.

As he released the blast from his palm he was shocked to see the single beam of energy split into multiple and disintegrate moments later. Looking at Nature, he saw another aura around her and this one was bent into the shape of a hand with one finger pointing at him. That same finger is the one that split his attack and now became a fist and flew towards him.

He dodged it and looked back at Nature who now opened her eyes and the aura from his time locks vanished, she was not moving normally again.

She stood there looking at him and more aura hands appeared before all flying towards him in an attempt to punch him. After he avoided them he tried to lands a single hit on Nature but her own aura made a barrier around her that stopped him from reaching her.

He lost all confidence in himself when he saw this. Despite his improvements in training and becoming stronger, she could still defeat him with her aura alone. She didn't need to even move to beat him but the moment he realised that she stopped. Her aura vanished and so did the hands.

"Don't lose confidence in yourself. The battle is only truly over when you're either dead or you quit." She walked up to him and rubbed his hair. "Remember. You haven't even been an entity for 1 full year yet. Do you really think you can go so far in such a short time?"

"No. I'm just worried that I might not be strong enough when I need to be." Nature knew Daniel needed to be the one to destroy the sphere when it arrived at Equestria as if he could do that it would be a milestone for him and a major confidence booster.

She looked to the side to think for a moment. She didn't want to deal with the sphere cause it would likely demolish his confidence which could be disastrous in the future for him. This was something that she needed to let him deal with without outside help. All she could do was prepare him.

"Come on. Don't give up. I believe you can do it." She offered her hand out to him and he took it. She then teleported him and Annabelle back home as the sun started to rise. "Go and spend time with your friends and I'll come back to train you at night. Hanging out with them could be a major confidence booster for you."

"Is it morning already?" He looked out the window and indeed it was. He turned back to his pony form before he turned Annabelle back to hers. "See you tonight."

"It's a date." Nature said with a grin before she disappeared.

Looking at Annabelle, he saw she was looking at him with a grin on her face.

"What?"

"You like her, don't you." He blushed when she said that. While it was true he liked Nature, he didn't know if he liked her differently than a friend.

"I...don't know."

They left his house and went to see if Fluttershy needed help with Discord. When they arrive they saw there was chickens made of paper going around the place. Discord was laying on a chair upside down in the roof and there was a little lamp that he turned into a statue of himself.

After he saw that from the window he chapped the door and Fluttershy soon answered it.

"Cosm...Daniel, Annabelle. Nice to see you both again."

"Please Fluttershy. Use our pony names when outside, even if it's talking at a door."

"Oh, right. Sorry." He smiled at her as she was still herself and not changed at all. She didn't even have a grey tint on her like before so Discord hasn't tried to change her.

"How's it been with Discord?" Discord looked over at Daniel and his eyes widened when he saw him. He quickly made the chickens turn back into paper and remerge with books that were scattered on the floor and he himself brought his seat back to the ground.

"He's been a bit of a handful with changing things but other than that he himself hasn't been much of a problem." Daniel poked his head out to the side of Fluttershy and looked at Discord.

"Are you ok with him doing this to your house?" He asked her.

"As long as he doesn't break anything that he can't restore or go too far." He heard hoofsteps behind him and turned to see the rest of his friends walking up to Fluttershy's cottage and when they saw him they smiled.

"Morning Daniel."

"Please girls. Call me Cosmos out in public." He didn't realise that Fluttershy was looking at his mark. He didn't need to hide who he was from them anymore but in that moment back at his house, he forgot to add the cover for his mark. But he could likely explain it to them as long as none of the other ponies saw it.

"Sure thing Cosmo. Are you here to check on Discord too?" He nodded.

"More like making sure he's been nice to Fluttershy. So far she says he hasn't been that bad." Fluttershy decided to speak up about his mark

"Cosmos. What...is your cutie mark?" The others heard that as they walked up and saw his mark too.

"Oh, I must have forgotten to cover it. I will need to hide it when other ponies are around." All of them, even Discord crowded around to look at it. "This is why I chose to hide it. It's an artefact I merged with, not that I had a say in it. It's just called 'The Heart'. One of the most powerful artefacts from what I have heard." Daniel made trousers appear to cover it up. He didn't want ponies staring at it and just trousers would look silly so he also made his hoodie appear on him.

"Well I can assure you I have no intentions of harming Fluttershy." Discord said with a hand over his chest and another in the air. His heart then literally opened his chest and jumped into the hand closest to him. "See. Heart in my hand."

"Perhaps you should have your own house. Like a pocket dimension that you can decorate and fool around as much as you want."

"Oh that's easy to make. I could have such a thing finished in moments." Discord disappeared and they were left looking at where he use to be.

"Where did he go?" Twilight started to panic but Daniel reassured her.

"We will give him 10 minutes. He said he could do it easily so he should be back before then." They walked into the house and Fluttershy closed the door before she turned to Daniel. Fluttershy had been curious about his species but didn't get a chance to look over him properly back at Canterlot.

"Daniel...um...is it too much to ask if...I can get a better look at your real form?" He turned to her.

"Sure. Why do you want to see it?" He turned back into his human form and pulled down his hood. Annabelle was standing at the side and he decided to turn her back to her human form too.

"I just want to study you both a bit more, if that's alright." He smiled and nodded. While he didn't see himself as an animal in this world, he knew Fluttershy is good with different creatures and is likely curious to know more about him because he has never been seen before.

She looked at his fingers and then at his arms. After that she asked to see his legs and teeth. While this was happening Twilight was making a sketch of him as best she could and writing down what she missed about him when she saw him in Canterlot.

Fluttershy then moved to Annabelle who was considerably smaller than Daniel, she was just a head taller than Fluttershy while Daniel was taller than Celestia if you didn't count her horn to her total height.

"Both of you have teeth that are similar to that of an omnivore. Do you..." He had a feeling he knew what she was going to ask and looked at the others who also looked a little worried. They would have probably ran if he wasn't their friend.

"No. We don't eat ponies. Back in our world I don't ever remember even hearing of a culture that uses pony meat in it. For the most part one of the most common meats a human eats is fish." This calmed them down.

"From what else I see, your fingers and nails are too weak and not sharp enough to cause damage but the fingers would give great grip. So they are clearly used for climbing and from what I have seen on your body you have no wings or any way to use magic. So I think your kind are pack hunters who relies on their intelligence to make tools to do the damage for you." He smiled at her explanation.

"You figured out our species really well just from a simple observation. I'm impressed."

"Pack hunters?" Dash questioned. "Really. You've seen what he did to those...things back in Canterlot and that was him doing it alone. If that's a single human then a pack would be insane." Dash seemed to be getting the wrong idea, that all humans were like him.

"Actually Dash, the only reason I am different is because I was merged with the artefact that I mentioned. Annabelle here has part of it in her after I transferred some of it to her. So no, not all humans could do what we do, unless they had training." He had a feeling that if they met the right teacher than his kind could have learned how to use cosmic power with a lot of time and effort.

Twilight walked up to him with a smile and Daniel knew Twilight so she was likely wanting to ask a bunch of questions about him and his species.

"Alright Twilight. You may ask me 5 questions for now." She rapidly fired questions but ended up being more than 5.

"What magic do humans have?"
"What is the best achievement your species has accomplished?"
"Why does your kind wear lots of clothing?"
"If you're an adult male then what does an adult female look like?"
"Who's your Ruler?"

Those were the first 5 she asked and he just held up his hand and she stopped. He felt happy, knowing that he could be himself around them.

"No, humans can't do magic from what I know. Perhaps we can but we just don't know how to."
"That would perhaps be the moon landing. Yes, we landed on our moon."
"Modesty."
"You will see when Annabelle grows up."
"We don't have 1 ruler for our whole race." He answered her questions in order/

It was then that they heard Discord teleporting back into the room and looked like he was sweating.

"Finally, done." He had a cloth which jumped on him and rubbed itself on his forehead before disappearing and he lost his exhausted look.

"Finally. We have all the pieces." Nature walked into the testing room where Archie was waiting. The room was protected with many layers of glass and wall lined with the strongest metals and there was also other entities like Blade and Wisp-o who were putting shields up and around the area and a dunch of scientist and researchers were all sitting and watching with other entities behind them.

"I can't believe we are going to do this. Rebuild it." Nature smiled happily.

"Well I can." She told Archie as she gave him the piece that was found in the tree and he took out the other 2 he had in storage."

All the observers braced themselves as they had no clue how that would work. Would the pieces just merge and send out shockwaves at it was rebuilt or would the process be different?

Nature walked up to the 2 pieces that were on the floor and placed the last one next to them and stood back. The pieces started to glow and the ground started to crack as they felt the pressure in the room build up but the 2 of them were so far unaffected by it.

The pieces rolled into each other and as they did it increased in brightness to the point that Nature and Archie had to cover their eyes and the pressure in the room was only getting worse and they had to take a few steps back.

It was then that it started to expand and float upwards as Nature and Archie stepped backwards. Soon the pressure in the room became too intense for Nature and she backed out of the room, but Archie stayed. The observation windows started to crack and they put up the shield but it was clear the entities were struggling to keep the shield up.

Nature joined in with them and the shield held steady but the heart that was getting rebuilt just kept increasing in intensity. Soon Archie walked out of the room as the shield was starting to fail but then Archie put a single hand up with them and their shield went back to holding strong.

After 2 minutes of shifting colours and growing pressure in the room, it soon stopped and with a bright flash it all died down. In the middle of the room was the 1st heart, fully rebuilt.

It looked like a glowing sphere but there was 3 other and smaller ones inside it, each with a different colour. The first one was yellow, and going in from that was red, blue then white. The yellow outer layer seemed to be giving off small yellow partials that went outwards and vanished. The red one gave off red partials that vanished inside the yellow layer outside of it but never made it passed halfway across the yellow layer. This was the same for the rest as the blue gave off partials that went into the red and the white to the blue.

"It's done. It's remade." Nature said with glee.

"Yes it is. But now what. The heart chooses its host, and goodness knows when it will do that." Archie reminded her.

"I'm well aware. Guess all we can do is wait." Nature walked out of the room and to the cafeteria where she decided to settle down.

"So now Daniel knows. While I think one of the reasons he was chosen to be the heart bearer is because he is the child of the 2nd one, I'm sure there was another reason. But the best thing I can do now is train and encourage him. I'll only deal with threats that he failed to deal with or are too powerful for him. Which reminds me." Nature narrowed her eyes when she remembered what Annabelle told her in the castle so she teleported to the Castle of the 2 sisters and started looking around.

Annabelle told her of some kind of monster that was in this castle, with silver eyes. The silver eyes and the dark figure narrowed her guess down to 2 specific creatures of the cosmos.

Of the 2 creatures, one of them was one she didn't worry about which was called 'The Looker'. These creatures did just as their name suggested. They observed and used the knowledge they got from certain species they observed to use in their own survival. They were mostly a sort of scavenger that fed off the energy of dead stars or off of the cosmic energy after a battle. They were never known to attack anyone unless they were starving but they were horrible fighters. Even low level entities had no trouble dealing with one.

The 2nd one was more unpleasant and she worried what would happen if it got Daniel. It was a creature they called 'Glutton'. This creature was like a parasite that would seek out cosmic energy and if it sensed someone with such energy emitting from them it would attach itself to them and enter their body before releasing a chemical to make the host forget they were carrying them. From then on it would feed off the host until they had no cosmic energy left then it would drain their life force, resulting in the death of the host.

While it was hard to tell the difference between the 2 from afar, the main way to tell the difference between the 2 is the stinger like drill on the front of it's face. If it had that, it was a Glutton while The Looker had a sort of trunk like appendage on it's face. Both of them would likely be drawn to this planet thanks to the recent battle that happened but the ponies and other inhabitants would be safe as they were not a source of food Glutton and left nothing for Looker to eat.

Nature walked around the castle with every intention of figuring out what the creature was, as she wasn't taking the chance of it being a Glutton and it getting to Daniel or Annabelle. She activated her time gaze ability and went to the stairs where they found the last heart piece and indeed, she saw a ghostly version of Annabelle.

She looked to where Annabelle was looking and saw a dark figure with silver eyes. Walking up the stairs, it ran off after Annabelle fired a blast at it and missed. She followed the creature with her time gaze still activated and soon she found herself up on the top level of the ruined castle.

This is when she heard wheezing but also heavy breathing close by. Following it she soon found the creature she was looking for. Slowly approaching it as it turned around, she felt relief fill her when she saw the trunk like appendage on its face, just under its eyes. It was a Looker and not a Glutton.

What caught her eyes next and made her feel sorry for it was the colour of its shell. While they had a defence mechanism that made them look completely dark from a distance so they could hide in shadows. If someone was to get a closer look they would see such darkness fade and it would looked liked a 8 limbed insect with a thick coloured shell and the colour of the shell showed the age of the creature.

If it was young, it would be a bright healthy green and as it got older the green would become darker before it fully becomes grey when they reach their elder stage. This one was bright green and it was also injured as it had a gash on it's soft underbelly. To Daniel, this would be like finding a child no older than 7 with a knife cut on their stomach.

It left out a frightened screech as it backed up into a corner when it saw her but she just stood in place and didn't move to show it she didn't mean it harm. She lifted her hand and made a cosmic ball appear in it before she rolled it over to the Looker.

It must have been hungry as it didn't hesitate to quickly absorb what Nature gave it and while it was distracted she placed a hand on its shell, calming it down.

"How did one so young get here? You're not even old enough to fly." This is when she was hit with a smell, a really bad one. Looking over to the side she saw another Looker but the small was grey and ripped open. She also saw a Glutton whose skin was rotten and both of them were on the ground with flies around them.

"I see. That was your mother." Nature held a hand over the injury the Looker had and it was gone in a few moments. "But I can't just leave you here." She took a few moments to think it over until she made a decision. "How about I adopt you until your old enough to take care of yourself?" Lookers aged much more quickly than humans did as 1 year to a human was 9 to a looker so at most she only needed to take care of it for 2 and a half years.

She teleported it to her own living area in the entities hangout and looked over at the corpses of the other Looker and Glutton. She didn't know if she should leave them or not so a quick decision was made, and she used fire to incinerate them before she headed back herself.

"What do you mean 'They're dead!?'" King N shouted at his staff.

"I'm sorry my king. But their life signs have gone dark. We can't even get a com link open to them." King N groaned in annoyance. One of his best captains and a bio-experiment have been lost and one of his Revenger guards were lost too.

"Then we destroy that planet. Is the Consumer ready?" He asked. He recently decided to name the Dark sphere 'The Consumer'. Mostly because his guards joked around about how it just disintegrates whatever it touches.

"Yes sir. It just finished dealing with a planet that refused to become a puppet state."

"Good, now send it to that planet." The scientist looked nervous.

"Ehh. Sir, it will take a while for it to recharge it wormhole drive." King N sighed.

"How long?"

"About...3 to 4 weeks. Max."

"Fine. But when it's ready, get it moving, post haste. Also, send another trooper to keep tabs on what happens." They saluted and went back to their stations.

King N sat on his chair, contemplating what his next action should be. But as he looked to this side and saw a glass sphere that shined a bluish and greenish coloured tint, he smiled.

"This will be a potential key in my victory." He said to himself.

"Alright Girls. Listen. You know what I am, so I think it's also time you met a certain group who want to see you. Me and Annabelle have told them about you." Daniel said to them as they stood inside his ponyville house and just opened the door to the basement.

"Who are they? You said you and your sister are the last of your kind." Daniel and Annabelle were almost grinning at what their reaction would be to seeing his robot kids

"Yes we are the last of our kind so these who you are about to meet are not humans but instead, they are...do you know what a Golem is?" Twilight nodded and spoke.

"A Golem can be one of 2 things. A suit of armour or a body of rocks given life by magic. But there is a less pleasant way to make Golems and that's to rip out a soul and put it in the armour. The magic used in the 2nd example I just mentioned is forbidden and carries the punishment of being banished to the sun." Daniel smiled at her as he turned back to normal and did the same to Annabelle.

"Well...I didn't know that. But you are correct on the golem thing. The ones who you are about to meet are like that but aren't like that at the same time. It's a long story that I'll tell you another time." Daniel lead them into the basement and opened another door to show another dark room and as they entered that, they went up a set of stairs and into his Everfree house.

"What the?" The first thing Twilight noticed was the forest that was visible outside the windows.

"Yeah. This is my real home. I just use the other one to make others think I live in it. Sorry about tricking you like that." They must have not seen a TV before because they were staring at his as it stood mounted on the wall.

As Daniel was about to tell them to wait so he could go and get his kids, he heard a voice behind him that he knew belonged to Freddy.

"Daddy?" Daniel turned around to greet Freddy but as he did he almost jumped out of his skin in surprise. There was a golden metal pony standing in front of him with green eyes. It's mane and tail were almost glowing a blueish colour but it had no mark on it's flank. Even Annabelle walked up beside Daniel and looked over Freddy's new golden pony body.

"Is he back?" That next voice he heard belonged to Selene and another metal pony walked out and stood beside Freddy. This once was blue and the mane and tail were both like Freddy's were, glowing but were orange instead of blue.

"What...happened to you?" He asked as more of them walked out from the lab door. There were 10 of them in total so one was missing. Freddy and Selene were there along with Barry, Victoria, Elizabeth, Abbey, Greg, Orion and Caroline. The one who was missing was Robert, who just came through the door.

All of them were their respective colours but their manes and tails were the complimentary colour to their bodies.

"We got an upgraded from Alpha a few hours ago. These bodies are more advanced and were made to help us fit in." Their voices still hadn't changed as they still had a mechanical tone to their voice that was very audible from what Freddy just said.

Barry looked to the side and saw Daniel's friends behind him.

"Who are they?" Daniel turned to face them.

"Oh. I forgot to say. They are my friends Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Rarity, Applejack and Pinkie Pie. They know who and what I really am now, so no need to hide. At least from them." All of his friends were looking on in wonder at the small metal ponies infront of them. They were not the same size as his friends but they were taller than the CMC.

"What are they?" Dash landed and walked up to Freddy.

"Hi." Freddy said with a smile. "I'm Freddy."

"Wait...Daddy?" Twilight asked, looking at Daniel. He just rubbed the back of his head and chuckled.

"Long story. I'll tell you all another time. Now girls. Promise me you won't say anything about them? That means no telling Celestia, understand Twilight. At least, not yet." She looked a little worried when he asked that but she trusted him as a friend.

"Fine."

As Daniel watched his kids and friends interact he decided he would go and speak to Luna about if him being a human would change anything about him being her pupil. He would do that tomorrow as he had training with Nature at night times for the next few weeks.

"Sister. I wish to speak to you." Luna called out to Celestia as she entered the throne room.

"Guards. Leave us." The guards around the throne all left the room and the doors closed. "What is it you wish to speak about Luna?"

"It's about Daniel." This caught Celestia's attention. While they were surprised to see Daniel's real form and find out he was a living myth, Celestia had a feeling she knew what Luna was getting on at.

"Is it about that plan we had?" Luna nods.

"Yes it is. Do you really think he can still be a...you know. If he's not a pony?" Celestia smiled at Luna

"There is no law saying it can't happen, and Daniel is a element bearer. Do you not trust our subjects will see things the way we do?" Luna looked to the ground and tapped her hooves.

"I'm just...worried. We have been around him so long and have learned so much about him. They haven't."

"Well the only way to know if our subjects will be alright with him is if he reveals himself to them and that's his choice. Not ours." Luna sighed. The plan they had for Twilight and Daniel might have changed with him revealing what he truly is.

"So you think we should talk with him about it?" Celestia looked uneasy. While she was keeping up a cool posture, inside she was worrying.

"Let's not do that. I trust our subjects to accept him for who and what he is, like we do. But thinking it over just to be sure might also not be too bad of an idea. Let's discuss it tomorrow."

With that Luna left the throne room to get ready for her night shift. She hoped to see Daniel in a dream tonight but was still doubting she would because as he said, he didn't need to sleep.

Author's Notes:

Mostly just world building and future planning in this chapter.