"Keep trying. You are making great progress." Daniel cheered Annabelle as she was training with Nature. Annabelle rushed up to her with the intent of landing a hit and Nature was pretending to struggle but Daniel could see from looking at her eyes that she was calm and knew what she was doing.

As Daniel sat back down he heard a crunch sound in his pocket and as he took what made the noise out he found it to be the letter he found at his door. The one that was addressed to him asking him to meet him in 3 days. Which was today.

"Nature. Please watch over Annabelle for a while. I'll be back later." She nodded with a smile as she blocked more of Annabelle's punches.

"Stop Blocking!" Annabelle screamed in annoyance.

Daniel looked back at the letter and it asked him to meet up at the entrance to the Everfree. Daniel flew from his location in the forest to his home and went back to ponyville after he changed his form. As he approached the entrance to the forest he saw 2 ponies waiting there. He recognized them right away as they were there when he let his rage out at the 3 soldiers that hurt Annabelle.

As he approached them, their eyes landed on him and the stallion smiled.

"Heart Bearer. Thank you for meeting up with me." Daniel decided to play it safe so he didn't try to hide who he was in case it angered them.

"You're welcome. Now, please answer this before we continue. How do you know I'm the heart bearer?" The male pony sighed and looked to the female who stood back.

"Promise you won't attack me?" He asked.

"As long as you don't try anything. I won't." Daniel informed him as he smiled.

"Good. Now as to why I know what you are. Just like you, I'm not a pony. This is just a disguise that I use to not cause the life forms on this planet to panic. I am...someone who wants King N removed." Bravacho decided to not tell him that he was King N's son. Doing so might lead to things he didn't want to happen. He would tell him in the future after they got to know each other more. "I want what King N is doing to come to an end, but I need your help to do it. That's why I had a heart piece, it brought me to this planet to find you. I stole it from the King while he was gone."

"So you're a rebel?" He nodded with a smile before looking to the side at the female one that was standing there.

"This is Darvia. My fiancé." He walked up to her and held her hoof.

"Nice to meet you Darvia." Daniel looked back at Bravacho. "So I take it you have some kind of plan to beat King N?" He lost his smile he had when looking at Darvia and looked at Daniel blankly.

"I thought you and I could team up to do it."

"Dude. I have been the heart bearer for only a little over a year right now. I'm not ready for any war as I'm still training." His ears dropped when he heard that.

"You're...training?" He nodded and Bracacho turned from hopeful to gloom. "I see."

"I also have a little sister and friends I need to protect from the upcoming threat." This caught the attention of both of them. Even with those troops not reporting back, King N should have taken notice but put it low on his priority list. He normally does that whenever a small team fails, he will send a strike force soon after.

"Darvia...we need to talk. Heart bearer. Give us a moment." Bravacho lead Darvia to the side and voiced his concern to her. "I hate to say this but...I might need to head back to the flagship."

"What? Why?" She whispered to him.

"If the heart bearer really is training, he won't be strong enough to fight my dad. I need to get back and delete the location and all knowledge of this planet from the databases." She looked determined and held his hoof.

"If you're going. So am I." He let go of her hoof and shook his head.

"No. You stay here. I will go. I know the ship layout and I don't want something bad to happen to you." He looked back to Daniel. He had no way to get off this planet but he had a feeling Daniel would know. "Bearer. Do you know of a way off this planet?"

"Well I know someone who might be able to help you. Also, my name is Daniel. Please use it."

"Alright Daniel. Lead the way."

Daniel walked back to Nature who was still training Annabelle. She was no longer punching but now she was trying to hit Nature with an energy attack, but Nature's shield that she kept up with her eyes held strong.

"Keep trying." She said with a smirk. Annabelle looked like she was about to explode with anger when she said that and she held her hands together to let the energy build up. After a few moments Annabelle launched the energy she built up at Nature's shield and when it stopped she fell on her back, completely exhausted. "Good effort." Nature's shield had a small crack on it which was a little surprising.

Nature looked to the side and saw Daniel had returned but he also brought 2 others with him.

"Welcome back Daniel. Who are your friends?" Daniel looked back to Bravacho and he walked up to Nature.

"She can help you get off this planet and where you need to go." Nature looked over the pony that was in front of her and she started to see a faded outline that showed a completely different creature, showing this wasn't its real form and it was in a disguise, just like Daniel.

"How can I help you?" She asked politely.

"My name is Bravacho. I need your help to get me back to..." He whispered something to her and she seemed a little surprised.

"There? It's dangerous there. Are you sure?" He nodded and she sighed "Alright. Put your hoof on my back and we'll get going." Before Bravacho did that, he looked back at Darvia.

"I will be a few days. I need to plan and prepare for this if I am to succeed. So you need t be patient."

"You just get back safely. Got it?" He nodded and put his hoof on Natures back. Then they both vanished in a flash of light.

Annabelle got up from laying on the ground and looked really tired as she could barely stand or keep her eyes open. She looked around, wondering where Nature had gone as she stood up.

"Where is she. I'm not...not backing down." She yawned in the middle of her sentence and she tried to gather up energy again but it just sparked and went out and as it did, she fell down on her butt and rubbed her eyes.

"I think you need some sleep." Daniel walked up to her and turned her and him back to normal before putting her on his back. He looked back at Darvia who was heading back to ponyville but she stopped and looked at him.

"I'll be alright on my own. All I care about is him making it back. Good luck with your training heart bearer." With that said, she left and headed home and so did Daniel, carrying a tired and now sleeping Annabelle on his back.

Nature had just finished her teleportation to the location that Bravacho wanted to go. She didn't like this part of the cosmos as it was close to the Dark multiverse, a place that even she feared to go near as it was the very place where evil couldn't be defeated and they were only a few universes away from it. She could even feel the effects where she currently was as this universe had more evil in it than good and evil won more than good did.

The only exception to this rule that she had ever seen was when Daniel's mother was in her total merge form. It seemed that in that form, the effects of such a place didn't affect the bearer, but Daniel still had a long way to go before he could even attempt to control that form, much less use it at full power.

But she was hopeful because with the rebuilding of the other heart, it means another bearer could be on the way and when the hearts separated it was that one that contained most of the knowledge of controlling powers. So she was hopeful but she still didn't like coming here.

"Alright. We're here."

"Thanks Miss..." She could beardly hear him from the space suit he activated when they teleported.

"Nature. Call me Nature.

"Thanks Miss Nature. I can go alone from here." She backed away and let him do what he wanted to do as she headed back to the hangout. She planned to get back to training Daniel tomorrow so she needed to plan out his training schedule.

As Bravacho watched her leave, his attention was turned to the ship in the distance which belonged to his father. He activated his cloaking and headed to the ship. His first step was to get inside and find a location in the ship to hide as he planned out how he could get the data of Equestria erased off of the computers without anyone on the ship knowing.

"It's a long shot. But I need to erase that data. As long as it remains on those computers, that planet is in danger."

3 days later

Daniel had just finished up his training with Nature as the sun started to rise over the trees of the forest, which also meant it was time for Annabelle to wake up. Before he finished up their fight he decided to try one more attack as he fired a blast at Nature but it missed, which is what he was expecting to happen.

He tried to control the blast and morph it's structure into different things as it turned around and changed into the shape of a cat before it charged at Nature. With a grin on her face, her eyes started to glow and as the energy cat was about to touch her it exploded and Daniel could see a shield around her, made visible by the smoke.

"Keep trying Danny. You might beat me one day." Nature said jokingly. Over the past few days he has trained for hours. Tried to use his anger to boost his power and tried many different strategies but Nature is always one step ahead of him as he has lost every battle he has had with her.

Daniel stood up and dusted himself off as today was going to be a little bit different than the others. Twilight asked him if she could come by and ask him some questions which he didn't mind.

"I'll get you one of these days Nature." He said with a grin.

"Perhaps in the next million years. But joking aside. You have greatly improved over the few weeks we have been training." She smiled and patted him on the back. "You're mother would be proud with how far you have come."

"I know. She did say we will meet one more time. But the next time I meet her will be before that interaction I had with her in that message." Nature walked to the side and got ready to teleport.

"Hey Daniel. Want to join me in a mission sometime? You will be able to go to other worlds and explore, plus get some experience in what it truly means to be one of us." He took a moment to think about that. He did like the idea of seeing new worlds and sights which humans before would only dream of seeing up close but there also would be dangers.

"I will give you my answer when you come back next time." With a nod, Nature teleported and Daniel headed back to his house.

As he arrived back at his house he was happy to see Annabelle already up, dressed and waiting.

"Where's Twilight?" She asked with a smile on her face.

"It's still early in the morning sis. She will probably be waking up soon. You need to be patient." She fell back and groaned.

"But I'm bored."

"Well how about playing the PC? Or watching a DVD for a little while?"

"Fine." Daniel headed to the lab while Annabelle found something to entertain herself. When he arrived he saw his kids huddled together and talking while Alpha was at a desk and working on something. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary and a quick look at what Alpha was working on showed he was planning to add something onto his kids. Something to help them defend themselves.

He sat down for a while and listened to some music. Wanting time to pass faster as waiting was not something he was good at. As he did he looked over the lab and chuckled to himself. If someone showed him that this would be in his future when he first got here, he would have laughed.

"Robot kids. An A.I. A factory that produces robots and a matter manipulator machine. Hard to believe." He rested his head against a desk and without realising it he soon drifted off to sleep.

Daniel found himself in the middle of a street and there was a massive snow storm coming across the area. As he looked around he saw the buildings around him were destroyed and covered in snow. They had been destroyed for a good while as the wood looked very weak.

He looked around and as he did his eyes landed on some dark fog to his south but instead of fear, he felt compelled to investigate so he stepped forwards and into the fog.

As he continued to walk the landscape changed to a forest, but the trees were not their healthy brown but instead a sickly black and were leafless but he still pressed on. As he pressed on through the forests he soon arrived at a clearing in the center where the sun was shining. But what really caught his attention was statues of his friends, carved out of health brown wood and they were all looking at the centre of the clearing.

Daniel walked into the clearing and looked around but he was unsure what he was looking for. Looking back at the statues he saw they were looking right at him and it was starting to get a little creepy.

He decided to move on but the moment he took his first step he felt his shoe hit something that wasn't dirt or grass or a rock. Moving his foot to the side he saw that he had stepped on a book and as he picked it up he recognized it. It was the book he had found back at the entity hangout as he remembered the writing on it which glowed with a blue colour.

He attempted to open it but as he did the book opened itself to show all the pages were blank. It then flipped through all the pages itself and they were all the same. Completely blank.

This is when the book closed and started to change as the blue writing became brighter and brighter but soon stopped. In it's place was a blue substance which looked like mist which rose into the air and covered the area.

The mist changed shape until it looked like a humanoid. The creature was tall and it looked at Daniel with eyes that he remembered from his previous nightmares.

With a gulp of fear, he took a battle stance, ready to fight. As it walked up to him, something happened that he didn't expect. The eyes turned silver and it held it's head as it collapsed onto it's knees. He saw that around the dark outline of it's shadow, the mist appeared again, but what caught his attention was that it became a trail behind the giant.

Daniel ran to the side to get a better view and what he saw shocked him. There was another creature in a black robe that had the same mist that was surrounding the giant coming out of it's chest. It had no eyes Daniel could see, but the moment his sight landed on it, it's head turned to look right at him.

Daniel shot up from his sleep and frantically looked around but quickly calmed down when he realised he was dreaming. After taking a look at his phone he realised he had been sleeping for almost 2 hours so he got up and headed to get Annabelle.

"Alright Annabelle. Ready?"

"Give me a moment." She took around 10 minutes to finish up the game she was playing before she switched the PC off and walked over to him. "Alright. Ready."

Daniel smiled and turned them into their pony forms. Twilight should have been here by now but she wasn't which was strange so he decided to go and find her.

"Come on. Twilight should have been here by now." As Daniel left his house he remembered that he hadn't seen Xaveroth in a few days, but what got him confused was why his mother felt like he should avoid him. He helped him find the heart pieces and is more or less a joker like Discord. If he's a threat then why did he help Daniel find all the pieces for the heart to be restored?

Daniel put it t the back of his head for now as he was focused on finding Twilight. Looking up at the sky, he saw the sun was right overhead so it had just became noon.

"It's that time already." Annabelle looked at the sky and saw the location the sun was in the sky.

"I don't get it. Twilight did say she wanted to talk to us more." Both of them went to the Library and chapped on the door which was soon answered by Spike.

"Good morning you two. Are you looking for Twilight?"

"Yeah. She said she would be over today but she hasn't been. Also, it's noon." Daniel corrected Spike.

"She left not that long ago. She's freaking out because she hasn't sent a friendship report this week and she normally does every week." Annabelle looked at him with some confusion and worry on her face.

"We'll try to find her. Hopefully she isn't going to crazy trying to get a report. Thanks Spike."

"See ya both later." He closed the door at they walked off, determined to find Twilight.

"So where do you think she will be?" Annabelle stopped in her place to think for a moment.

"You head to Applejack and I'll go to Fluttershy and we will meet up at the park in 1 hour. How's that idea sound?" Daniel didn't like the idea of Annabelle being alone but he knew he needed to start giving her some independence as she was growing up. It wouldn't be long till she enters her teen years.

"Fine. But you go nowhere else." She smiled and ran off to Fluttershy's house.

Daniel went to Applejack's home to find her with Rainbow Dash and carrying a load of rubble.

"Hey Coz. How ya been?" She said with a smile.

"Great, thanks for asking. But I'm looking for Twilight. Have you seen her?"

"Ya just missed her Coz. She thought Dash was mad at me when she was helpin' me tear this down." Daniel looked at the rubble and decided to help. He used his powers to levitate the whole pile over him.

"Where do you want it?"

"Over here." He followed Applejack for a moment and placed the rubble down where she placed hers.

"Twilight was last heading to Fluttershy's house." Rainbow told him as she dusted herself off.

"Annabelle was going to Fluttershy's house. Thanks for letting me know." Daniel ttoyyed off towards FLuttershy's house where he almost had a heart attack. Annabelle was with Fluttershy who were both attending to a bear who was laying on the ground. Annabelle just brought some hot soapy water in a bucket for Fluttershy who dipper her hooves in them and started to rub the bears back.

"Is that better?" The bear sighed as it rested its head on the ground. Daniel didn't know if he should be surprised or not but he decided to get Annabelle so he walked up to her.

"What's the story here?"

"This bear had a lot of tension in one of his shoulders, but Fluttershy has helped him." Daniel watched as she tended to the bear who was still laying on the ground.

"Well as long as it helps. So, did you see Twilight pass through here?" She shook her head.

"Nope. I arrived and saw Fluttershy doing this and after I asked her I stayed to help."

"But...Dash saw her going this way." Annabelle shrugged her shoulders when he said that.

"Well I didn't see her. Neither did Fluttershy." Fluttershy hopped off the bear who stood up.

"If that happens again, you let me know." The bear gave a nod and walked away.

"So Twilight must have changed where she was going or she didn't try to go up to you." He sighed as he now had no clue where Twilight was.

"Why are you looking for Twilight?" Fluttershy asked him.

"She was going to come by today. She wanted to know more about my species, but it seems she's preoccupied. Best thing I can think off is to go back home and wait for her to come to visit." Annabelle went over to Fluttershy and Daniel got a bit surprised when she gave her 1 bit.

"Thanks Fluttershy."

"I know that bear must have been scary for you, but you were brave." With an excited squeal, Annabelle ran back to Daniel

"What was that about?"

"It was a bear. I mentioned to Fluttershy how bears were in our world but it turns out they are not like that in this world. She gave me this for being brave." Daniel smiled when he heard this and as she walked beside him he saw how big she was getting.

When they reached their house he was immediately greeted by Nature who teleported in. It wasn't night time which was when she normally trained him so it was a surprise to them both.

"Is something wrong?"

"No. I just want to ask you. Do you want to partake in a tournament?" She asked with a smile.

35 Minutes Earlier.

Nature walked into her room to settle down and prepare herself for the upcoming tournament. Every 100 years the entities would hold a tournament where the top 1000 of them would fight to improve their skills and sharpen their abilities. This was installed not long after Archie took lead and he excluded himself from the tournaments previously while Nature fought in the past 20 and lost 2 times out of the 20.

The first time being when Blade and Wisp-o teamed up on her and even then they just won. The other time was a special event which was a battle royal where a multitude of others took her out as they saw her as the biggest threat.

To say she was excited for this tournament was a complete lie as if she won this time then she would be facing Archie in the ring. The worry that she had about Archie meeting Daniel was gone as the reason for it was that Archie had a crush on his mom but later found out she was getting married.

"Alright. Let's get this over with." Half an hour passed and she made her way down to the grass field where an arena had been made and all the others were going to it before splitting up. The ones fighting went under the area to the left while the ones watching the combat went to the right and to the observation seats.

As Nature went down the stairs she got looks from the others but her gave fell on Blade and Wisp-o who were waiting at the back together.

"So you're fighting again?" She smiled

"Got a problem with that?" Blade shook his head.

"If you think we are going to leave you alone, you have another thing coming." Blade stepped forwards to her and the entire basement was silent as all eyes and ears were on the 3 of them.

"7. Not bad odds. Could be better." Wisp-o's hands flashed quickly until 7 were left dark.

"Where's Daniel? You want him to get stronger, so what is better than a tournament?" Nature shook her head. While Daniel did want to get stronger too, she could see he was more of a protective nature rather than a warrior like Blade. He would likely not want to fight or last long in such an arena.

"You know full well why he isn't here."

"Did you ask him?" Wisp-o asked her as he now had 9 dark hands. Nature remained silent to his question as she didn't ask him. "Just as I thought. You didn't. Don't you think you should ask him? If he doesn't want to fight then he could at least be a spectator."

Nature stepped out to the field and looked around to see how full the arena was and it was only 1/3rd full so there was still time.

"Fine. I'll ask him, but don't be surprised if I come back without him." As she teleported, she didn't see Wisp-o's hands as 5 of them were dark.

Very rarely did Wisp-o's arms do that. With them being 5 black and 5 white it meant that even he didn't know what to expect.

"He might not be a fighter. But he isn't stupid. He knows he needs to get stronger but with something like this...even I'm unsure if what will happen."

Current Time

"So wait. Blade and Wisp-o and you will be in this? I am nowhere near the level of you 3." He still remembered his fight with Blade from before and it was not a pleasant one.

"Can I watch?" Annabelle had a smile on her face and Nature nodded and looked at Daniel.

"If he says yes then you can." Daniel sat down and thought it over.

While being in the tournament could help him it could also not and set him back. He could end up fighting loads and get better than he currently was much quicker, or he could get knocked out within the first 10 seconds. He might get injured within moments and need to rest which would only set him back.

Annabelle did want to watch it and he trusted her to be safe with Nature but she would be fighting in it so if he wanted her to be safe while there then he would need to go.

"If it make it any better sounding, I promise I won't attack you until there is only 10 left. Until then I won't go after you." He sighed and with a mind that was at war with itself, he agreed.

"Fine. I will go. I want to see what it's like and I might partake in it." With a smile on her face, she teleported them to just outside the arena and they were changed back to their human forms.

"What kind of battle will it be?" He asked her.

"Actually. I don't know. I never asked." She walked down to the underground and he followed her. While Annabelle wanted to head to the main seats, Nature wanted her to follow them as she was planning to seat Annabelle next to Archie, who she trusted.

When they arrived, Daniel got looks from all the fighters who were waiting and Nature wasn't surprised to see more than there was when she left.

They followed her to the arena and over to Archie who was seated on the arena rather than with the rest of the observers and she asked him to watch over Annabelle.

"Alright. She may sit here and I promise she won't be harmed by any blast or shockwave."

"Thanks Archie. Now, I know I should have asked this but what kind of battle is it?" Nature asked while chuckling nervously.

"Team Battle. 2 vs 2. Does Daniel want to partake in this tournament?" He nodded and he felt his heart rate increase. "Very well. Head to the underground and wait. We will be starting soon." Nature was given a band with a number on it which was Green and had the initials N:55 on it while Daniel was given one that was blue and had the initials D:17 on it. When Daniel made it back to the underground he was confronted by Blade.

"Decided to show up?" Daniel was still a little uneasy around Blade but he calmed down.

"Yeah. I figured, why not." Blade had a Black band with the initials B:03 on it while Wisp-o had a bronze one that had W:12 on it.

"Well I hope to battle with you. Teammate or Foe." Blade smiled and offered his hand which Daniel shook before him and Wisp-o went to the side to wait.

Moments later they all went up and took seats on the edges of the arena. Archie then walked into the middle and spoke.

"Welcome to the 21s entity Tournament. Before we begin. We have a special guest here today. The heart bearer Daniel. While it is true that the previous bearer didn't fight, remember, the heart that he is merged with is a slightly weaker one as it doesn't give it's bearer the full knowledge of how their powers work. There are also others things that make him different such as him not knowing how to access his full power so I see no reason that he can't take part." He indicated to Daniel who was sitting next to Nature who held his hand when she saw he was nervous. This got a few chuckles from the entitles on the stage over where he was sitting and from some of the participants sitting around him.

"Just do your best. I believe in you Daniel." She reassured him.

"Now...the rules. This is a Team Battle tournament. 2 vs 2. There will be 5 battles happening at the same time and another 5 will start after they are done until it's 2 vs 2 in one final team battle, then the winning team's members will fight each other. No helping anyone who isn't your teammate. No interfering in battles and most of all No attempting to kill the other team. The contestants are defeated if they are knocked unconscious, out of the shield ring or if they are unable to continue fighting."

Archie walked back to his seat and reached into a large bag before pulling out 4 pieces of paper.

"The first battle is...H:45 and T:78 against I21 and X:01" 4 entities from the participants walked over and a ring was place around them. It offered a large field to battle on and limited all blasts and attacks to their field of battle only.

"Battle 2. S:17 and Z:12 are against F:88 and W:12" Daniel remembered who had those initials and he saw Wisp-o go out there to battle.

"3rd Battle." Archie stopped when he saw the first 2 who were to be in a team and he knew it was completely one sided. "No. Redraw." He called out more initials and more went out to fight.

Nature and Daniel were waiting for one of them to be called and not long after the 8th battle ended, Nature was called up.

"N:55 and J:44 against O:45 and T:51" Nature stood up and walked out to meet her opponents and teammate. The team she was against had one who was a ice statue with a dark sphere inside it's chest that was pulsing while the other was a small think that must have been around only 4 feet tall and wore a yellow cloak. The only thing he could see was it's eyes which were yellow spirals.

Natures teammate was some strange pink slime that had no visible organs that he could see.

As the battle started the Ice one charged right at her and blew a ice cloud her way. With a grin, Nature casually threw a small glowing orb at the thing in a yellow cloak and when it hit it, she switched side with it. With a thrust from one of her legs, she charged forwards and struck her icy opponent in the back as the yellow one was frozen in place.

"Come on. You expected that to hit me?" She crossed her arms and waited as her pink teammate jumped on the yellow one with enough force to smash the ice and the two started to battle.

Her opponent turned around and looked at her with anger as water dripped down his body and the dark sphere in his chest became more erratic.

He then did something Daniel didn't expect. He punches his chest and took out the sphere, then he threw it at Nature. As it impacted her it expanded and even the ground started to break apart and fall in it. This caught the attention of most of the stadium and even the other 4 battles that were happening stopped to look at what happened.

Even the other 2 who were fighting started to get sucked into the dark sphere all the while the ice opponent rooted himself to the ground and seemed to be controlling the sphere as he had one of his hands extended to it. However the smile he had on his face soon disappeared when the sphere started to ascend off the ground and slowly reveal a bored looking Nature under it who also had a pinkie finger pointing to the side which was making a forcefield, keeping the 2 other fighters from falling into it.

"A black hole? Really? You thought that would get me?" Quicker than he could blink, she appeared in front of him and with a single swipe of her hand, his entire arm was knocked off his body. This caused the Black hole to shrink and Nature walked up to him, grabbed him by the neck and stuffed the mini black hole back in his chest. She then increased the temperature of her arm and her opponent melted into a puddle. The only part that was still ice was his head as even the arm that she smacked off had been reduced to water. "Nice try. Better luck next time." With a simple kick, she knocked his head out of the shield.

She looked to the other 2 who were fighting and decided to let her teammate deal with him but she remained nearby if it turned out the yellow figure was too much to handle. As she watched the fights she laughed as the yellow figure constantly tried to shock the slime with lightning but all the slime did was harden its mass and it was unaffected. As her slimy teammate started bouncing while still holding his foe in him, the yellow figure soon started to get really dizzy and soon after being let go, collapsed to the ground.

After 20 seconds of not getting up, Archie ruled him unable to fight.

Nature went back and sat down with Daniel and they both watched the current fights until Daniel was called up by Archie. As he got up he heard Nature wish him good luck.

"H:55 and Y:03 are going up against D:17 and B:03 for the next match." Daniel's eyes widened when he heard his teammates initials, looking to the side he saw Blade walking up to him.

Daniel did feel better with him being his teammate rather than his opponent but now he was focusing on not being a burden.

"So...it seems we're working together this time. Try your best." Blade walked to the side and faced their opponents. When Daniel looked at his foes he saw one of them was a blue gas figure with yellow dots for eyes. It stood around 9 feet tall and had no legs, instead it's torso ended as it went into the ground so it looked like it's bottom half was under the ground.

The other looked human like but it's skin was silver with diamond sharp tips coming out it's elbows and knees. It's lips were gone, it's teeth were flat and it had no pupils in it's green eyes.

"Fight." The moment Archie said that, the humanoid one charged at Blade who just stood in place and before he was hit his fist found its way right into the humanoid creatures stomach.

Daniel turned to face his foe which was the blue gas creature. As he stood his ground, he tried to figure out how he would deal with this thing. It had no physical body and he had no clue how it would hurt him so he decided to try and avoid his attacks for a while to see how it fights.

Daniel saw it's arms grow and become darker before it launched them at him. He avoided the first 3 punches but he had to block the 4th and as he was hit he discovered the punches of this thing were like compacted air as the impact didn't hurt him but he was almost totally thrown off balance by the force.

Watching his opponent, it soon started to spread like a mist and Daniel was soon enveloped in it and his vision became dark. He ran forwards but was pushed back then quickly hit but another impact of a powerful force. This knocked him again and again, each hit he took only sent him backwards at a faster rate and all he did was keep his guard up.

A moment later his vision went bright again and he felt himself go much further than before. All this caused adrenaline to go through him and as he punched down to stop himself from going back, he saw the circle like was almost passed his hand.

"You're Safe Daniel." Archie called out to him. As Daniel looked over to him, he couldn't help but notice that the arena went quiet. Looking around he saw that only a few entities including Nature were still moving. Looking back at his opponent, he saw he was frozen like a statue and Blade was waiting with his arms crossed, like he was bored.

"What..."

"You're mind is thinking rapidly, as a result everything around you seems slower." Nature called out to him. He looked back at his opponent and saw only small movements, like dust in super slow motion. He calmed down and everything suddenly went back to normal.

"How am I going to beat this guy?" Daniel tried to launch a blast at him but it just went in him and he grew. "Did that just make him stronger?" A punch was sent his way and it had a much more powerful force than last time. Daniel slammed his legs into the ground to keep him in place.

"This things has no normal body so likely no lungs, so it probably can't get tired in the same way I can, if it can get tired at all." Daniel looked to the side and he saw Nature's eyes were fixed on him and she even had one of her hands tightened into a fist. Standing up straight, he decided to attack.

He let Cosmic energy flow into his hand and rushed forwards, avoiding another punch and slashing at the things arm with the energy pouring out his arm. It had no effect and the arm didn't look like it disconnected at all.

It was then that Daniel got hit with another attack as his vision suddenly became bloody. Reaching to his left eye he pulled out a Diamond spike and looking over to the side with his good eye, he saw Blade avoided an attack from his opponent which ended up hitting him.

Daniel was starting to get annoyed and his grip on the diamond spike tightened. He launched at the humanoid figure and delivered a punch to it's face but the moment he did he was hit away again by his own opponent.

"That's it!" His aura was starting to become a heated red and without thinking, he ran forwards and launched a blast of energy which got absorbed. But he kept running and puts more energy into his arm as he went in for a punch which resulted in his fist colliding with the energy he had shot into it.

The arena was shaken with an explosion and when the dust cleared Daniel saw his opponent was smaller than before. He didn't know what he did, but he intended to do it again so he ran forwards and launched a blast before putting energy into his fist and going in for another punch.

The result was the same. He collided with the blast he launched and an explosion soon followed, then when the dust cleared his opponent had shrunken.

Nature smiled as she watched Daniel starting to win his battle and also cheered. Within moments Blade knocked his opponent out of the ring and Daniel was able to reduce his opponent to the size of a cat before it gave up and by that time his eye had been healed.

Daniel walked back to his seat next to Nature, who nudged him with a grin.

"You did well."

"Thanks." Both of them watched the battles and took their turns fighting in their own. It was 5 hours later when there was only 2 more battles left. One more team battle and then the team who won would fight each other. Daniel admitted that he wouldn't have made it to the final round if Nature hadn't gave him some battle advice on certain kinds of entities while they watched the battles.

"It seems this will be an interesting battle. We have. N:55 and D:17 against B:03 and W:12" Daniel was much more nervous about this fight than before. His teammate was Nature and they were going up against Blade and Wisp-o in a team battle. Even if he won then that means he would be fighting Nature in the final match. Even Nature herself saw he was shaking.

"Hey. Come on, show me what I taught you. Show me you have been practicing. I'll deal with Blade, think you can handle Wisp-o?" She asked.

"No. The guy likely has all of my strategies down and a counter for all of them and most likely knows what I'll do." As Daniel walked up with her, he felt like the voices of the crowd were fading and he soon only heard his own heartbeat as his breathing became deep.

He was soon standing next to Nature and facing his 2 opponents.

"You're dealing with me Blade. I bet you're still salty about how badly I beat you last time." This looked like it irritated Blade as his eyes narrowed to her. "Oh, I did. Didn't I?" Daniel was facing Wisp-o as he was looking at him and his hands flashed 3 times. The numbers were 7, 2 and 9.

"Ready? Start!" Archie shouted and Blade charged at Nature after Wisp-o charged at Daniel, only for him to suddenly Change direction and go after Nature who was caught off guard. Wisp-o landed 5 successful hits on her before Blade landed a solid hit on her face and she was knocked back. Daniel tried to move and help her but he soon felt a sharp pain on his face and when he could see what did it he saw Wisp-o's other 5 hands.

"Oh you gotta be kidding me." Daniel watched as Nature got up and as Blade went for another hit he went right through her. Wisp-o turned to look behind him and threw a punch but it hit nothing.

"You guessed wrong." Nature reappeared and with a solid kick in Blades stomach she knocked him back and into Wisp-o. Before Wisp-o got up he sent 2 of the hands he had at Daniel over to her and with his other hands he used 5 to attack Nature while 2 were being used to get himself up.

With a smile on her face she jumped and used her feet to stand on Wisp-o's hands and to block the others that were trying to punch her. She even crossed her arms as she let her legs do the blocking to annoy Wisp-o even more.

Daniel saw this at his moment and rushed passed the hands while Wisp-o was distracted. He managed to knock Blade back down by attacking his leg which got Wisp-o attention, giving Nature the opportunity to teleport and land a downward kick on Wisp-o's skull.

Daniel saw Wisp-o's hands were flashing much more slowly and they sometimes changed numbers. From a 5 to a 4 then to a 6. But there wants any rapid colour flashing between them, showing he was unsure of the result.

Daniel rushed forward as Wisp-o was still recovering and tried to eliminate him by kicking him as hard as he could on the skull. He was more or less a Skull and arms held together by energy, so it should be like kicking a football.

This is when Wisp-o's eyes became golden and his hands got a golden aura around them. One of his hands rushed in front of Daniel and held it's palm out, creating a force field which blocked his kick and another hand did the same but it was at Daniel's right and instead of a forcefield, it launched a blast at him.

Blade stood up and Wisp-o stood behind him, both back to back and looking at Daniel and Nature. Both of them knew that they needed to team up to beat Nature as she was clearly the bigger threat and if ether of them fought her 1 on 1 then they would be out of the ring within minutes.

Wisp-o turned to face Nature while 3 of his hands went over to Daniel which worried him. One of the hands stretched out it's fingers and pink streams of energy were shot out at him. He tried to avoid them but as he tried another hand pointed at him with it's index finger. That finger had a glowing orb at the end of it and he soon found a similar orb next to him. With a flick of the index finger on the thumb, the orb vanished and the one next to him exploded, knocking him back into the streams of energy which wrapped around him.

The other 2 hands now started to punch his face as he was held in place by the 3rd hands pink streams. After a moment Daniel was able to see Nature as she struggled against both Blade and Wisp-o together and he started to feel his anger raising again. He did his best to get out of the streams, at first he was having trouble as the other 2 hands kept on punching him.

He thrusted his fist forwards as quickly as he could and he got it out of the pink stream and caught one of Wisp-o's hands. It opened it's palm to his and was about to blast him like before.

"NO!" Daniel felt his adrenaline shoot through him and used all his strength to grip the hand, and ended up crushing it. This caused Wisp-o to scream in pain and the streams he was caught to suddenly vanished. Daniel stood there as he felt his anger telling him to just attack and keep attacking and he also felt the flow of power he was in control of but he was slightly struggling to control it. Daniel hadn't even noticed that his red aura was larger than it was in his first battle and was ever radiating heat.

Looking at the other 2 hands that were still near him, he rushed over to them as fast as he could and did the same to them which caused Wisp-o to shriek in pain even more. With Wisp-o in pain, Nature was able to turn the fight and quickly started to overpower Blade. Daniel himself rushed over to Wisp-o who quickly recovered and moved to the side. As he got up and looked at Daniel his remaining hands started to flash black and white again but he looked different, like he was unsure and nervous.

Not giving him any time to recover and think of an attack plan, Daniel lunged at him and tried to grab another hand but Wisp-o saw it and moved away.

Nature was grinning as Blade tried to adapt and avoid her attacks and attack patterns, but she constantly changed them which confused his adapt ability and even started to weaken him. Even if he could adapt to it, Nature was much stronger than him and would be able to overpower the adaptation. All this caused Blades body to fatigue really fast as his movements became sluggish and his attacks became predictable.

"You're done for." He tried to punch her again and in response she got his arm in a lock in between her arm and ribs. Holding him tightly, she dropped backwards causing his arm to bend when it hit the ground and as she put more pressure on it caused Blade to wince in agony. "It's over."

With her free arm she put the palm of it outwards, facing Blade and launched a blast into his chest which rose into the air. She smiled and crossed her arms as her blast exploded in the air and Blade was thrown out of the ring so hard that he ended up in the spectator section on the top level.

Nature looked back over at Daniel who was battling Wisp-o and seemed to be winning as he rendered 2 more of Wisp-o hands useless as they were crushed and now he only had 5 left. Daniel's aura was radiating a heat that even she could feel and Wisp-o was having a hard time keeping up with Daniel's speed. Wisp-o was like Blade in that he adapted but not in the same way, he would adapt to situations and fighting style while Blade was also able to do that to attacks and soon become immune to them, but Wisp-o couldn't do that.

As the fight kept going Daniel slowly got the upper hand and needless to say, Nature felt happy seeing how far he had come. While it is true that Wisp-o was currently significantly weakened because he was missing half his hands, he was in pain and scared cause he was now fighting alone which all drained not only his overall power but also his battle mind she still felt that this fight would boost Daniel's confidence in himself.

A little while later, Daniel grabbed Wisp-o's last hand and crushed it. Now he was only a skull but that didn't stop Wisp-o from trying to launch his bronze head at Daniel who caught it and threw it out of the ring, thus winning the match.

The entire arena cheered at the fight was finished and Daniel's aura vanished as he calmed down.

"You did it!" Nature said to him as he smiled and looked at her.

"I...did. I can hardly believe it." She didn't think on her next action as she was too happy to see how much he had progressed that she ended up hugging him tightly.

Needless to say this got him to blush red with embarrassment and Annabelle was looking at him with a sly grin.

"Nature. What are you doing?" She realised what she was doing and let him go.

"Sorry about that." Daniel realised what their victory meant, now he would have to battle her.

"I guess this means it's now you vs me." He said with a nervous smile.

"Just do your best. No holding back. Archie can stop the shockwaves of our battle doing any damage." She took a few steps backwards and got into a fighting stance with a grin on her face.

Taking a deep breath, Daniel got onto a stance and decided to wait on her making the first move.

Nature knew what he was doing and decided to test him as she tried to use a time jump to strike him, but Daniel just managed to block her punch. She didn't wait even a moment and did the same but went behind him to strike his spine. Daniel couldn't block it but he did managed to avoid her punch, barely.

He tried to attack by putting energy into his hand and launching a punch at her but as soon as her eyes started to glow, he knew he messed up. With 3 sharp hits to his stomach and one to his face he was flipped backwards and landed on his face.

"Keep trying." She said in an encouraging way. Daniel knew that he wouldn't beat her normally, he had fought her too many times to know that so he started to try and get angry, but he couldn't. He tried to think of times where Annabelle was put in danger but even that didn't get his anger raising.

Nature went to strike him again and he avoided her, but as he did he started to feel happy. He had no clue why but he enjoyed fighting her. She quickly rushed back at him and launches a series of punches but to Daniel, they were slower and he blocked most of them.

Nature soon stopped and saw his face, he had a smile on it and didn't look worried. She attacked him again but this time she went a little faster and saw Daniel was able to keep up with her. Daniel on the other had was having trouble containing how he felt and decided to go on the offensive.

He felt so full of energy that he just rushed forwards and as he saw her eyes glow again, he looked down and saw 3 aura hands going to punch him but her blocked all 3 attempts with 1 hand and with the other he stopped the ones going for his face. Using his leg, he side kicked her and was surprised to see it land.

Nature didn't feel any pain but she was a little surprised at how quickly he landed a hit on her. Looking back at Daniel she saw he was still smiling but his aura had grown as it was glowing a healthy green instead of red. He was starting to like fighting with her, even if he knew his chances of winning was 1 in a billion.

After a while with Nature taking her time to enjoy the fight she was having with him, she decided to end it so she gathered up her own energy for a blast and when Daniel had his guard down she struck him with it. The result was a large explosion which knocked him down to the ground.

"You fought well Daniel." She walked up to him to heal him but then he started to move. As he lifted up his face she saw that half of it was almost completely blasted off but his healing also kicking it and it was putting him back together, but at a slower rate as it was cosmic power he was healing from.

"Over? Already? I want to keep going." He picked himself up and Nature saw half of his shirt was blasted off and she could almost see his bone. Apparently, getting him by surprise did more damage than she though as she was aiming just for a few minor burns but this was much more.

While she was distracted by his injuries, he managed to land a hit on her as he boosted forwards which even surprised her. While she was beardly even using 1% of her power it was not what she was expecting.

"You're still moving? Impressive." Nature decided to do the same as before but she greatly reduced the amount of energy she gathered up and as he launched at her for another attack, she put her palm on his chest and another explosion happened. She was confident he was down for the count as she looked at his body on the ground as he was slowly healing from his injuries.

"Daniel is ou-"

"WAIT!" Daniel called out and started to pick himself up slowly from the ground again. When the stadium saw this they all looked on, holding their breaths as the entire arena had gone silent. "I can do better." Daniel's smile disappeared a little but his green aura had only intensified.

Nature got back into battle stance and she quickly blocked to the side as Daniel teleported next to her, trying to land a hit. This is when she realised he hit her harder and his speed had also increased. She quickly grabbed him and placed her hand on his forehead to calm him down and it worked.

He dropped to the ground but he wasn't asleep. She didn't know if she wanted to continue fighting as she was worried about Daniel possibly burning himself out or not fully controlling his powers if they got to a point he couldn't control them.

She offered him a hand to help him up and he accepted it.

"You fought well. I was impressed." She said with a smile.

"Thanks. I really enjoyed fighting you, which even surprised me." Daniel went over to Annabelle. "So...want to head home?" She nodded.

"You did great bro. But...can we come back in a few days?" She asked.

"Why?"

"Archie is going to battle Nature tomorrow. I don't want to miss it." He chuckled.

"Sure thing." Daniel waited for Nature to come over and help them get back home.

On the top level of the spectator section there seated and Entity who was wearing a cloak with the hood up which covered it's whole body. When they all started leaving the arena this one walked off to the side before removing the cloak.

"Looks like Daniel had gotten stronger than I thought he would in such a short amount of time. I have a feeling I can soon put my plan into action." The cloak was removed and Xaveroth teleported away.

When they arrived back in the living room Daniel saw that the sun was just starting to rise meaning he had been gone for a good few hours.

"You really should be happy Daniel. You have become much stronger than you were just a few days ago."

"But still not even close to you." With a wink and a smile she started to teleport again but not before saying one thing before she disappeared.

"Keep practicing." She said as she disappeared, leaving the 2 of them alone as Daniel winced when he felt his face sting. Lifting his had to hic cheek, he felt it and when he looked at his hand he saw blood. He looked at his rib and his muscles had healed and now his skin was starting to heal too.

"I don't know if it's stupid to ask this but...will you be alright?" Annabelle asked.

"Yeah I will. Just need time to heal." After a while of Annabelle getting a drink and sitting down next to him as he healed he was soon fully recovered. As he was about to head to his lab he heard an alarm go off and changed to his pony form before rushing to this ponyville home and answering the door.

"It was Twilight and she had a book with her along with 3 others that she held in her magical grasp and even had a quill behind her ear. Needless to say, she looked cute like that.

"Cosmos. Sorry about yesterday." He held up a hoof.

"Let's not talk here."

"Oh, right." Twilight came into his house and followed him to the basement and into his Everfree home, where he changed back into his human form and sat down. "Thanks for doing this. I have been studying up on humans and some things that are said just don't match you."

"I know. Imagine how I must have felt reading them." They both shared a laugh before he asked what she was happy to hear. "So, what do you want to know?"

Author's Notes:

My Editor is busy for a while. So this is unedited but the next one shouldn't be.

If you follow my other 2 stories then please understand this. This one is my main one and the one I have put most effort and have the most planned for but I have also been writing it for almost 4 years.

I want to finish it and I am thinking of having the finally start (Start. Not finish) By the end of MLP season 3. So there is still a way to go but I am positive this will not keep going after Twilight becomes an Alicorn.

After this one is over I will make sure I finish the Fnaf one I made and then finish The Prince returns.

Please point out any grammar errors I made in this chapter.