As the sun was moments away from rising, 2 mares and 1 stallion resumed their meeting they had 2 days ago. While one was supposed to do recon on Cosmos and find out what she could about him, something had came up that required their attention even more.

"What do you have to report?" The stallion asked.

"I was packing up to head to ponyville to do my recon, when I overheard a conversation that you might like to hear. It seems a town on the other side of the Everfree is having problems with some rouge magic."

"Do you have any idea what kind of magic it could be? Who would be practicing it?" The other mare remained silent as the other 2 talked.

"No clue. But the mages have confirmed the magic as a dark kind and when the mages wwnt to investigate in the Everfree, their party was attacked by rabid animals." The stallion smiled.

"This could be both good and bad. If we deal with this then it will prove we did what the guards could not. We can't always rely on the elements. Sooner or later they will fail and when they do, we need to be prepared." The other Mare didn't look happy but worried.

"How do you expect us to deal with this? All we know is that it's dark magic and it's deep in the Everfree. Nothing else other than that." The stallion sighed. She was right. The best thing they could do it figure out what they are against and what they have before taking action.

"How goes our recruitment?" He asked?

"We currently have 150 ponies with us. Ready to take action when needed. But there is talk amongst them and even the founders about a name for us."

"A name? That's a hard one. Any ideas?" He asked both of them.

"Well we are reliant on ourselves to protect ourselves so...I have no clue."

"We are trying to show the ponies of Equestria that the elements can fail. It hasn't happened yet but it will likely in the future, and when they do then they need to fight. We are trying to show how Equestria can be stronger. So...change. A new direction. A new dawn." The mare went on rambling and the others listened.

It was 2 solid minutes before she spoke again with her suggestion for a name.

"How about The Order of the Virtuous Dawn." The other 2 were silent when they heard that. A few seconds passed before the other mare spoke.

"I like that name. Put it to a vote. We will discuss other names later. For now I must know, do the princesses know about this?"

"The magic? More than likely they will soon. The guards in the village are making their way to Canterlot as we speak to inform her." The stallion smiled when he heard that.

"We might be able to use this to our advantage."

Thorax sat alone on a hill, deep in thought about what Daniel said to him. He could leave the hive before it became something he wanted no part off, but he could also stay with it and try to get some friends to see things the way he does, even if it is a long shot. He was thinking of trying to convince his brother pharynx to join him but he loved the hive and the direction it was taking.

Hopping off his bed, he looked out the window hoping to clear his mind soon on what he should do, but in the distance he saw a changeling walk into the forest, but it looked like it was injured as it was unsteady on its legs. Thorax jumped out the window and headed to the supposedly injured changeling, but as it entered the forest it vanished within a moment.

"Hello!?" Thorax called out but was met with silence. He thought about heading into the forest to look around for them but before he could his attention was grabbed by a voice.

"Are you really going into the forest alone?" His brother pharynx was behind him and had a smile on his face. "About time you stopped being a scaredy cat."

"I need to. I think I saw someling limp into the forest."

"Nobody would go in there if they were injured. It was likely just your eyes tricking you." Thorax looked back into the woods and only saw a few feet in before the darkness became too thick to see through. Looking back at Pharynx he sighed.

"I guess you're right." He decided to talk to Pharynx about his issue right now. "Listen, Pharynx. I've been thinking. Perhaps the hive isn't for me."

"Isn't for you? Since when?" Thorax nervously tapped his hooves.

"Since we left the alliance." Pharynx just laughed at this before punching him in the shoulder.

"Why. We have survived out here ourselves for long enough. Not only that but how often has our queen came through for us?" He had a point. Their queen had helped them through famines and hard times when they had no home, so if she says the alliance wasn't for them then would it be wise to question her?

"I...can see your point."

"Now come back. It's getting late and I don't want to have to save you just cause you couldn't tell a tick of the eye." Thorax headed back to his room as it was getting late so he wanted to get some sleep.

Daniel was currently relaxing in his house and Annabelle was getting ready for her first flying class. The past few days have been funny to say the least, from a case of a silly disease called 'The Cutie pox' to rainbow Dash having a pet race as a means of choosing one.

"Alright. Are you ready?" Annabelle nodded happily and he turned them to them into their pony forms and teleported Annabelle to the entrance of her flight school. "I'll be here to pick you up later. But if I am not back after 10 minutes then head to Celestia and wait for me. Don't be afraid to use your powers if you feel like your life is in danger." Annabelle nodded with a smile and entered the building, a smile on her face the whole time as she headed to meet her new classmates.

With Annabelle happily in her class for the next few hours, he decided to head over to and check up on the Covenant alliance as it has been quite a while since he heard anything. Walking into Aperture he made his way passed the Tank that was currently almost half complete and the model of it showed it was in the design of the British challenger 2.

One his way there Daniel had an idea that suddenly jumped into his head, this alliance was mostly just in name, but now there should be something to formally prove it. Perhaps he could find a location in the everfree to start the construction of a town that is shared by both Timberwolves and Diamond dogs. That is if the treeminders didn't mind about a town in the middle of the forest. Plus it didn't seem like Barrek would be someone who would be interested in the Covenant but there wouldn't be any harm in asking.

He went to both Brago and Thag and asked for them to meet him in his lab for a meeting. Thag mentioned he also had something he needed to talk to him about so they wasted no time meeting up. Daniel also invited Alpha as he was his 2nd in command and normally ran the lab more often then Daniel did.

"I know this is so sudden but I realise I have not checked up on our alliance for some time. How are things going?" Brago smiled as he had some good news.

"Our population has increased and so has our workforce, all thanks to those machines you gave us. Things have never been better in our history." Daniel looked over to Thag who looked a little more shaken.

"Economically, things are getting better. But my wolfs are in a state of unrest." This grabbed Daniel's attention

"Political unrest?"

"No. They feel a change in the Everfree and it's unsettling. Something has arrived or awoken which wasn't before." Daniel needed more information but he didn't want to seem rude.

"Can you tell me anything else?" Thag shook his head.

"No. While we have sensed it, we have yet to see it." Alpha spoke next.

"We have many more bots than before and they are more advanced. We can send you an entire battalion if you think it will help settle your people down."

"It's not the citadel that needs it. It's our nests around the forest, all 137 of them. We have too few troops to currently protect them all." Alpha just smiled.

"Fear not. Just show me where they are and I'll have guard bots sent there right away." Daniel pressed the matter on about what had changed.

"Do you have any idea where the source of this unrest is?"

"All I know is it's near the centre of the forest. Near the old castle." Daniel smiled.

"I'll check it out after our meeting. Now, there is 2 more things I want to talk about. I was thinking of asking the Treeminders if they wanted to join our alliance but I feel like they might not want to. Speaking of them...do they have a city? Like a capital?" Brago shrugged, unsure what to answer.

"I best talk to them. I know them better than anyone in the room. I highly doubt they would join, but it might be worth a shot." Daniel moved onto the last thing he wanted to suggest.

"I was also thinking. How about we make a city in the Everfree for both Wolves and Dogs as a symbol of our friendship. Instead of just saying we are allies, let's prove it." Both of them smiled when they heard it, they seemed to like that idea.

"Just one problem, where will it be?" Brago asked.

"I have no clue. I will think on it and get back to you. Anything else we need to discuss?" Brago spoke with a concern he had.

"Any news on the changelings?"

"A changeling Called Thorax doesn't want to leave the Covenant and he is trying to convince other Changelings. If worst comes to worse, it might just be only him. But even if it's just him, I won't mind and I'm sure you three won't either." Looking around, nobody else spoke with concerns they had so Daniel concluded their meeting.

Heading to the Everfree, to the castle of the two sisters to see what was worrying Thag and his subjects. After he saw it in the distance he changed back to normal and walked there, checking the forest for anything that looked out of place as he walked.

Xaveroth sat in a chair, thinking over what his next plan of action would be to get back home. He wanted to make it back to the 5th dimension and not stay in this 3rd one for much longer.

"Daniel is too inexperienced. He can't even time travel, much less dimension jump. He might need help getting there. Perhaps his girlfriend Nature would be happy to take him."

He stood up and looked at the sun. Lifting up his hand he brought a trail of flame from the sun down to him and after another flick if his hand he turned it into a cake.

"Not much longer now. My plan to get back home is in action. Who knows, perhaps I will have the queen as my wife when I'm back."

Looking at his cake, he started to think about what he has been through. How the revolution affected him for the worse and how he was now here and in a body that limited his power greatly.

"Boy, this is going to be one for the history books. I guess I will go and see Daniel soon. See how he has been." He sat back down and started to eat his cake.

As Annabelle went to the classroom, she took some time to look around the building she was walking through. She saw skeletal figures of wings and different things that looked like pages that were copied out of books, on the wall and explaining how the wings worked.

She didn't pay them much attention as she made her way to her class.

"Ok, this should be it." She said as she looked at a large blue wooden door with clouds painted on it that said 'Flight class' on it. Opening the door she saw the teacher looked at her with a smile.

"Oh. Hello. You must be..." She took a moment to look at a clipboard she held with her wing. "Strawberry." Annabelle nodded with a smile.

"Well just choose a seat and sit down." As Annabelle sat down, she saw the classroom was built for 40 pupils but there was only 11 of them here. 4 Colts and 7 fillies including her. "We have a new student with us." Annabelle hopped off her chair and walked up to the front of the class.

The teacher was a Blue Pegasus mare who was called Gentle Breeze. Her cutie mark was a wing on the left and a cloud on the right blowing wind on the wing.

"Hello. I'm Strawberry. Nice to meet you." Annabelle said before she went back to her seat.

"Now Strawberry. You will have missed a few chapters, but don't worry. Featherweight will help you get back up to scratch." A Pegasus colt was sitting next to her who she recognized from Cheerilee's class.

"Hi. I'm Featherweight. I guess I'm your study buddy." Looking around she saw the others also had their own buddies to study with and the one who was alone had the teacher help her.

"Now class, I have good news for you all. Spitfire, the captain of the wonder bolts will be visiting us and giving you all tips on how to fly like a pro. So you all better be ready for tomorrow. She will be here from the start and we will be heading out to a training field." All the Fillies and Colts looked thrilled but Annabelle had a normal expression as she had no clue who Spitfire was. Or the Wonderbolts, other than that time that Dash briefly mentioned them when they first met.

"Who?" Annabelle asked Featherweight.

"Spitfire, the best flyer ever. Nopony can beat her in a race." She rolled her eyes at the mention of that.

"So...can you teach me what I missed?" Featherweight snapped out of his daydream and turned to face her.

"Oh sure. Now, you know how there are 3 kinds of magic. Earth pony earth magic, Pegasus sky magic and unicorn magic?" Annabelle nodded. "Well to fly, you have to find the magic within you. Most learn to do it when they are younger out of instinct."

"So it's not just flapping wings?"

"Nope. There is more to it than that."

"Great." Annabelle was happy to learn how to fly, but this kind of studying was not what she was expecting.

Daniel stood outside of the school as the time for Annabelle to head home should be any moment, and just a few moments later he heard the bell ring. Fillies and Colts all left the door with Annabelle at the back of them.

"How was school?" Annabelle sighed.

"Annoying. It seems even Pegasi have their own magic and now I need to figure out how to access it before I can even start to fly." Smiling, he decided to cheer her up.

"Come on. Let's get you some sweets. After being off for so long, a school in a new world with different concepts of learning are probably a pain." This perked her up as she lost her gloom look and smiled.

Heading to sugar cube corner, Daniel purchased 3 muffins for her before heading home.

"Now Annabelle. I need to go and check on something out for a few hours. You know the rules?" She nodded.

"No going into the forest or answering the ponyville door unless it's our friends." He smiled and headed out. Transforming into his human form and heading to the Castle of the Two Sisters to see if he could find what Thag was worried about.

He quickly headed to the castle with the intent of finding what Thag was worried about and to deal with it.

Daniel looked around the castle of the Two Sisters and even flew up to the sky and looked around but he couldn't find anything that looked out of place.

Thinking the thing had left the Everfree, he decided to head back home as he saw the sun was just starting to rise.

"I better get back." Looking around he still couldn't sense anything or see anything out of the ordinary. As he got back home he saw Annabelle had fallen asleep on the couch and he sat down next to her. "I hope Luna gave you happy dreams."

She soon woke up and stretched her limbs.

"Morning Bro."

"Enjoy your sleep?" She nodded.

"Yeah. Luna visited me. Mostly asking how you were doing and that she wanted to speak to you as soon as you were available. Says it might be important." Annabelle got up and headed to get changed. She had a good while until she needed to head to flight class again.

"I will be back in a moment." He told her as he turned into his pony form and teleported to Canterlot.

"Sorry to intrude Princess, but where is Luna?"

"She's about to turn in. You might be able to speak to her if you hurry to her chambers." Daniel ran off to Luna's room, making sure not to go to fast so the guards were suspicious. When he got there he chapped on the door.

"Luna! You wanted to see me?" The door opened and what he saw was quite a cute sight. Luna's hair wasn't flowing and it was like a normal ponies hair, on top of that her PJ's were a full body onesie with a hood up. It has star on it but when he looked at the hood he saw it was in the shape of an ursa with eyes that looked like they would fit in an anime.

"You got the message?"

"Yeah. Annabelle told me you wanted to see me." With a wave of her head he entered her room. Daniel didn't think he would be there for long as Luna was having some trouble keeping her eyes open.

"I got reports of something happening in the everfree forest. A town has reported strange blue fog over some parts of it in the distance and some of the animals have become rabid."

"Really? I wasn't aware of the rabid animals. I heard about a disturbance and I have already looked around the forest, mainly at the old castle and I found nothing." Her eyes tried to open as she yawned but they didn't open.

"Nothing?" He shook his head.

"Nothing...so far." Daniel was planning to head back and check another time.

"I also have something to add to the schedule. Next week we will be taking part in a political meeting." He looked at her uneasily. Back home on Earth when he still lived on it, Politics were a very heated topic, so much so that people's lives could be ruined just by saying what they though.

"About what?"

"Healthcare. I know it sounds boring, but you are still my apprentice and I need to train you. After this meeting we will go back to magic training." Luna's eyes were starting to drop and her head was lowering.

"I think you should rest. Don't worry. I will deal with the Everfree problem if Twilight and the others don't." Luna smiled, knowing he would keep his word and she slowly made her way back to her bed and fell into it. Daniel left her room and closed the door over quietly.

He made his way out of the castle and teleported back home. When he arrive he found Annabelle waiting for him outside as she was getting in some exercise before the day started. She ran back and for in the front yard and as she ran she out sped the wind itself. Every time she passed him it took a second or two for a large gust to then blow through. While she was still a child, she had powers to match even the best unicorns.

"You done?" She screeched to a halt and turned to face him.

"Yeah. I'm done."

"Good. Let's go and see Twilight and the others before you need to head back to school." They headed into ponyville but as they did they arrived to see a crowd cheering on Dash as she did poses over them. Twilight and the others were at the side and looked a little worried.

Walking over to them he heard Twilight just say that being a hero was getting into Dash's head.

"What has she done?" They all looked over at him and smiled.

"How long have you been there?"

"Not long." They heard Dash zoom off and the crowd followed her, or they tried to but her speed made them almost lose her. They also followed when they saw she was landing at Sugar cube corner.

"What do you want for a lunch before you leave?" He asked Annabelle as they walked to where Dash was.

"I want to try some of these yum yums that Pinkie baked not long ago." This is when Daniel wondered if he should ask Twilight and the others if they have seen anything strange in the everfree, or he could ask Zecora as she lives in it and so far his own investigation has shown nothing.

Arriving at Sugar Cube corner, the only thing they heard was Dash talking to a crowd about how she saved a filly trapped in a well. All the while Spike was writing down what she was saying.

"And awesomely argent ever since." Dash pulled Applejack back and asked her if she wanted to be 'Immortalized' as her friend. Applejack only managed to ask a slight question before she was showers with camera flashes as Spike kept on writing down things in his notebook.

After hearing Dash mention she was too busy saving lives to write her own autobiography, a thought popped into Daniel's head but he quickly shoved it out as he thought it was a mean thought and she didn't have the capabilities to pull it off.

Daniel knew that Dash was getting too boastful and she needed to know that there was things that were beyond her, cause right now her ego was growing at an insane rate.

One thing that did almost make him want to show her is when she said it takes guts to do things that nopony else could perform. Looking over at his other friends, minus Pinkie who zoomed out the door a few moments ago, he saw they also weren't very happy with the way she was acting.

Even Annabelle was having trouble with Dash's bragging as she still had yet to finish her muffin when she normally would have consumed about 3 in the time that has passed. Sighing with slightly narrowed eyes that were fixed on Dash, she looked back at her muffin and took a bit out of it.

This kept on with foals lining up to have their picture taken with Dash as she kept on talking about being a hero and the more she bragged, the more Daniel wanted to take her with him on one of his assignments to show her what jobs Nature is getting him to do.

A while later after he left sugar cube corner, Daniel saw it was time to take Annabelle to flight school again.

"Ready to go?" With a smile and a nod, he teleported them to the entrance of the school and she ran in after waving goodbye to him. As he teleported back to ponyville, a question crossed his mind.

" Have there been any incidents where someone has teleported inside another?" He shook that out his head, not wanting to think about it. Now that Annabelle was in school, he had time time to himself before he needed to pick her up and then later on when Nature would arrive with another assignment for him.

He could head back to check around the castle area more as that's where the magic was said to be detected but he as he was starting to make his way there he heard a scream. He looked up and saw a pony who was falling to the ground at a high speed, screaming for help.

Daniel looked around and didn't see anypony who was currently trying to help her and as he got ready to change form, he was suddenly stopped when a pony wearing a body costume, cape and hat, jumped up to save the pony who was falling, while Dash got caught up in the burst balloon and crashed down to the ground.

"That pony came out of nowhere." He heard the crowd cheering and chatting as Dash watched from under a popped hot air balloon.

"Ponyville has a new hero." The moment mayor Mare said that, Daniel looked at Dash who looked angry and she pulled herself out of the balloon.

"Mare do well? Well that Mare would do well to stay outta my way. Ponyville only has room for one hero, and that hero is me." Dash tried to stand up and just fell back down thanks to a rope around one of her legs.

Smiling, it looked like today would be another crazy day for his friends, but for him it would be different as Nature would soon arrive and give him an assignment to do.

The moment he thought of that he remembered the vision he got when reading that glowing blue book and wondered if he could ask Nature about the 5th dimension and possible go to it. He didn't know what to expect if the vision was real but if she takes him there then it should be safe. The main reason he wanted to go is to find out more about the hearts as they seemed to have originated there.

Daniel headed back to the castle after he entered the everfree and was out of sight.

Entering the castle he activated his magic and projected a light around the area. He looked everywhere, in the kitchen, the bedroom area, the dining hall but where ever he looked he only found spider webs, rusty metal and worn down cutlery.

He sighed as he stood in the middle if the castle, wondering if Thag asked him to do this to distract him or as some silly joke, but that wasn't like him so perhaps his feelings were wrong this time. To make sure he checked everywhere he headed down to the tree to check that everything was all right there and to his annoyance, it was.

"Why do I feel like I am wasting my time?" Looking at the tree, Daniel remembered the first time he and his friends used the elements on Nightmare Moon. He also remembered that he heard a whisper when he was looking at his own element. But he couldn't remember what it was.

"Ok. Something is up. I know my mum saw the future and left messages to help me, but were they the only things she did? And how far did she see?" Daniel looked at his phone and saw he still had a little bit of time until he had to pick Annabelle up.

A few hours earlier

Annabelle walked with her classmates as they entered their classroom to see their teacher and another Pegasus pony in uniform with her and wearing sunglasses. Her mane and tail had a colour pattern on them that made it look like she was on fire. Taking their seats, they all looked to the Pegasus who was waiting to speak to them.

"So these are the little ones who want to learn how to fly? Well I can teach you to fly like champions." Looking over them, she looked back at the teacher. "Let's see what they can do so far."

"Sure thing. Alright Class. Let's head to the flying track." Annabelle followed the class as they went down the stairs and outside to a small backyard flying track. It was like a fusion of an obstacle course and a soft play as when Annabelle felt what a tunnel in it felt like it was as soft as a sponge.

"Alright Class. Show captain spitfire what you can do." Annabelle was at the back of the line and she had no clue how to access this 'Pegasus magic' and she didn't want to use her powers unless absolutely necessary. She watched as each of her own classmates took off and as almost all of them crashed in the first few obstacles.

As Spitfire looked over the students, her eyes landed on Annabelle who she recognized at the ceremony to celebrate the reforming of discord. She knew she was the younger sister of Cosmos and was wondering why she was here.

"Hey kid. Is your name Strawberry?" Annabelle looked to her and nodded.

"Yes it is."

"The younger sister of Cosmos?" She nodded once more. "What are you doing here?"

"Learning to fly." She said bluntly. "Why else would I be here?" Spitfire raised an eyebrow.

"You don't know?" Annabelle shook her head. Spitfire looked over the other kids who were still trying to clear the course and back at Annabelle who seemed to be struggling with something. "Well. I'll help you. What part is it you can't get down?"

"Using the 'Pegasus magic' as you call it." She lowered her glasses, wondering if she was serious and she saw Annabelle wasn't lying. She really had no idea how to access it.

"Well it's...hard to explain as it's like instinct. Imagine your heart as a ball of energy and as you take flight that energy goes to all your limbs and helps keep you up in the air. Most learn this when they are young naturally, so trying to explain it is a little hard."

"I see. I'll give it a try." Stepping into the course, Annabelle opened her wings and tried to flaps them while thinking about what Spitfire said. She closed her eyes and after a few moments she opened them to see herself flying off the ground. This caused her to panic as she wasn't use to this and she quickly came crashing to the ground. They all stopped to see what the crash was and saw Annabelle picking herself up. "Well...that was something."

"You did good kid. Why not try again?" Spitfire led her back to the start and got ready to fly along side her. Annabelle did the same but this time she tried to keep her cool. That still didn't mean she wasn't scared and this interfered as the moment she took flight, spitfire had to put a hoof under her to stop her slow descent.

But Annabelle was determined and she focused on looking ahead, telling herself that what was under her didn't matter and what was in front mattered more so she wouldn't crash. This worked for a while as she was able to stay in the air, but she couldn't control her accent or decent and could only stay flying while moving. But she was happy with the progress so far.

Daniel was currently waiting outside for Annabelle's school time to end. His searching had turned up nothing again which both irritated and worried him, not to mention the other things he had going on in the back of his mind. The Elements. The 5th Dimension and his training.

"One thing at a time. Get Annabelle and take her home." As he calmed down he heard the school doors open and the fillies and colts went out like a river with Annabelle at the back. The moment she saw him she smiled and ran over. "So how was your lessons?"

"Interesting. To say the least."

"Did you crash?" He asked Jokingly which made her a little mad

"None of you business." This almost made him laugh. She was almost a teen but she still hadn't changed.

"Well come on. I need to be at my home for Nature to train me." Annabelle's huff turned into a grin.

"Oh, your girlfriend is coming for a visit." Daniel froze and blushed when she said that. He still wasn't use to hearing Nature was not his girlfriend and he usually said he didn't want one when he was back on earth.

"Y-yes she is."

"So now you don't deny she is your Girlfriend. Oh Big bro. What happened to you?" Looking back at her, he saw she was loving every moment of this and planned to keep on embarrassing him.

"Stop it." Walking up to her he put a hoof on her and teleported them home.

"Am I getting under your skin?"

"A little. Now please just let me rest until she arrives." Annabelle sat next to him and waited for Nature to arrive.

About 1 hour later a light appeared in his living room and just as he expected, Nature was the one who teleported to him. Annabelle's smile grew when she arrived and she looked back at Daniel who got up and walked over to her.

"How was your day?"

"Slow. Having to deal with pirates to secure an artefact was a boring job. Even if it was way below my level, it was the only one that was available." She looked bored as she let out a yawn but it soon turned into a smile. "But I have a training idea that won't be boring."

"What might that be?"

"I think it's about time you learned to control your rage." Daniel knew what she meant but he didn't know how she would do that. "I think Annabelle should stay home for this training session, and we should practice somewhere far from Equestria." Annabelle walked to the door to Aperture but before she entered she turned back to Nature and with a smile she said.

"Be back by morning now and don't go to crazy with the kissing." Daniel bushed but Nature snickered at his reaction.

"Oh, I might sneak in a kiss." He looked at Nature to see if she was serious and she just winked. "Now come on. I know just the place to battle."

Within a moment, Daniel found himself on a moon but instead of feeling lighter he felt much heavier. So much so he was on his knees with his hands on the ground, just trying to keep himself up.

"What is this?"

"We are going to battle here. On a neutron star. I'm sure you know what that is." Daniel knew what it was. A star that was made from a supernova but was not under enough pressure to become a black hole. He closed his eyes and told himself he could stand up and he soon felt the pressure of the gravity start to lesson on him and he stood up.

Nature smiled when she saw him standing up as he was starting to understand how his powers worked. But she herself still had one test before their training, to make sure his powers worked the way she understood.

"Here. Hold this." She held out what looked like a glittering bubble and threw it to him and he caught it no problem, he held it up and looked at it before she looked back at her.

"What is this?" He asked.

"Pass it back to me." He did just thet then Nature held out a ingot made of steel. "Catch." He caught it but struggled to lift it for a moment. "You have lifted heavier." A moment later he was holding it no problem. Confirming that his powers indeed had a connection to his mind.

"Why give me this?" He tossed it back to her.

"Do you know what this is?" She asked.

"A large lump of metal?" She nodded before holding out the glittering bubble.

"And this?" Daniel shrugged as he had no clue.

"Daniel. Watch this." Nature made scales appear and put the metal on it and it's weight was measured as expected but when she put the glittering bubble on it, it crushed the scales instantly and she had to grab it before it felt through the neutron star. "That metal was just normal metal, but this." She held out the glittering bubble. "Is the weight of an entire universe."

"Wait. Then how did-" She cut him off.

"I have put a field around it to make it weightless. But I deactivated it when I tossed it to you and had to put up another field around the star to stop it from splitting. It seems you thought that the universe bubble was easy to lift cause it looked like a bubble. Your mind thought you would have no problem and you didn't."

"So wait. Are you telling me that if I am confident enough and know I can do it, I can do anything?" She laughed.

"No. There is somethings you will never be able to do. But in terms of power, I am interested to see how far you can go when you know how to control yourself." Nature stood a good bit away before she teleported that universe bubble away. One thing she wondered is what he did to be able to hold that universe bubble. Did his mind think it was light and changed it's weight by altering it's matter or did he increase his own strength? Or both?

But she left that alone for now and focused on his training. She needed him to get angry which was 1 of the 2 hard parts of the training that slightly worried her.

"Now Daniel. Get mad."

"How?"

"Think. What makes you angry?" Daniel thought about different things, trying to get angry but most of them just made him feel annoyed. After 5 minutes of him trying he sighed in defeat.

"Sorry. I just can't do it." She walked over to him and placed her hand on his head.

"What about that time in the tournament when I fought Archie?" Daniel's mind flashed with the image of her on the ground and bruised. He felt his heart rate go up in anger but she saw it still wasn't enough to get him to break. "Or about that time Annabelle got shot?" Nature hated to remind him of these as he is likely trying to avoid those memories but she needed to get him enraged so he knew how to control it.

Daniel's hands started to clench his fists and was shaking. He was getting more angry and she needed to keep pushing him. While she hated to see him like this, she knew it needed to be done.

She needed to start telling him about a possible future if he didn't learn to control his anger so she ended up saying things she didn't want to say. As she had to tell him about a possible bad future it tore her up to do this.

Eventually he did break as his aura turned a blood red but he didn't let out a scream of anger, he just stood there and stared at the ground. She approached him and looked into his eyes as they didn't look up at her but they weren't the same red she remembered from previous times.

His head lifted itself up and his pupils grew larger and as his deep breathing continued. He then looked at her and she waited for him to make a move, but surprisingly he didn't. Looking at his hand, he exhaled a large amount of air and his red aura died down greatly.

He fell backwards and started taking breaths to calm himself down. Nature was impressed to see he already had some control over his anger, or perhaps he didn't do anything because he didn't see her as a threat. This was good as he had already had some control, but he needed to have more training in it and the best way she knew how to do that was in a battle.

"Not bad. But the moment you have rested up. We are going to start fighting." She grinned and Daniel saw it and got a little nervous.

After a moment, Daniel got up and watched as Nature walked backwards and took up and battle stance and so did he. As he waited for her to strike he realised he didn't feel nervous but excited. He felt energy flowing through him and he was tensing up, having trouble staying still and waiting for her to make the first move.

Nature decided to start off small and just rushed forwards to attack him to see what he did and as she stretched out her hand to punch. Daniel ducked under her and puncher her stomach upwardly, knocking her upwards as she flipped backwards and landed on her feet with no visible injuries.

Smiling, she ran to him again but this time she tried an uppercut. Daniel's response to that was a side step and then a kick on the back of the leg followed by another attempted kick on her spine, which she stopped and grabbed his leg before flipping him up and having him land on his head.

"Smiling? You like fighting with me?" She asked as she saw the smile on his face after he picked himself up.

"I don't know why. I was never one for fighting." Daniel went in for an attack but Nature was too fast and grabbed his arm, jumped over him to twist it and with a strong hit, she disjointed it. Daniel winced as he looked at his arm and as his healing kicking in and with a painful sting and a sickening crack, snapped back into place.

Daniel felt the adrenaline rush through him and ran towards her, making sure this fight lasted for as long as possible and thanks to their location, they didn't need to hold back that much.

Nature saw Daniel's aura started to glow green and he got stronger as the fight progressed. While she was only using about 5% of her power and having to use more every now and then, she was having fun regardless.

The 2 of them exchanged blows for a while, with Nature occasionally needing to use a bit more power to have the advantage. Daniel's attacks didn't cause an injury to him which showed just how much his body has adapted to using large amounts of power.

"Try this on for size." She said as she made a ball of energy appear in her hand and threw it at him but he grabbed it and crushed it with his hands before pressing the attack. Smiling, she fired more that he chose to avoid rather than block until he saw and opening and dashed right through her blasts. Almost hitting her if she didn't sidestep.

Their fight lasted for 2 hours but at the speed they were going it felt much longer than that and it was ended when Daniel's attacks started to pass how strong his body was and as a result, started to damage him. Sitting down, he looked at his arm that had a gash on it and he winced as his healing kicked in. He had another one on his back almost in line with his spine that was also healing and a 3rd one on his neck which would have killed him if he was still a normal human.

"It seems you can control your anger, to an extent." Nature sat down beside him and tried to help tend to his wounds. Her healing only sped up his recovery slightly and he was currently in discomfort as the gash on his neck actually cut into his windpipe so Daniel was holding his breath as he waited for the injuries to heal. "I'm sure you know these will take longer to heal. But this won't kill you."

It took several minute for Daniel to be fully healed and then he could speak again with no pain or discomfort.

"Thanks Nature. That was a real pain." Nature then did something he didn't expect. She got out a bag of marshmallows and made a fireball appear in her hand.

"Want one?" She asked. Why she was doing this was a mystery to him, if it had an intent or was just a friendly interaction.

"I hope this isn't awkward to him." Nature thought. She wasn't that good at this love stuff so she looked up some advice for going out. While it was all about restaurants or looking for signs, one of them which she found for camping said marshmallows were a good choice to roast and share and going out like this might not be camping but they are still away from civilization. So she thought she might as well bring them.

"Sure." Daniel took on and roasted it before sitting down and looking up at the stars that botted the sky.

"Lovely. Isn't it."

"Sure is. A sight I thought I would never see." Daniel's mind then jumped to what he thought earlier. About asking to go to the 5th dimension and he wasn't sure how he should ask her to do that. If she even could. So he tried to think of something else. "Hey Nature. Who's the oldest entity you know of?"

"That would be Archie."

"How old is he?" She didn't say anything and just chuckled. "You don't know? But how do you know he's the oldest?"

"He's the only one who was around when the previous leader was around. Way before me by...I think at least 3 million years."

"Do you have some sort of record kept as to who previously lead?" She nodded.

"We sure do. Archie is currently the 9th leader." Before he broke the question about the 5th dimension, he wanted to know how the structure of command worked.

"How do you decide a leader and what other ranks are they?"

"Well there is grandmaster. Archie's position. Then there is 5 other positions for the 5 oldest entities besides the grandmaster to act as advisors in times of trouble. Grandmaster is the one who is the most powerful and acts as a protector for the rest of us against great threats while the advisors deal with ideological conflict or just normal unrest. The advisors also need to not be friends to the grandmaster because if the grandmaster goes rouge then the advisors will know how to beat him or her and then replace that grandmaster with a new one. That's one way to become grandmaster. The other is in combat where you must kill the grandmaster. This is to stop them getting too prideful out of defeat and coming back for revenge. Which has happened 3 times. Other than that. Not much. We are in a senes, still our own master. The grandmaster only assumes power when it is needed." That was a lot to take in and he waited for a moment to sort his brain out.

"You kill the grandmaster? Can't he just step down?"

"Yes. But if they are in combat for the position then the tradition is they are killed if defeated. One individual can't challenge a grandmaster for their title more than 3 times." He was curious to what her relationship was with Archie.

"You and Archie. Were you ever-" She cut him off.

"A couple? No. We never were but I can't deny he is my best friend." Daniel decided to drop the question.

"Nature. Is it possible to go to the 5th dimension?" She gave him a look of confusion.

"Why would you want to go there?"

"I have a feeling they might have some answers about the heart I am merged with." The look she was giving him was one of uncertainty, like she knew something was up.

"Are you sure that's the reason?" He nodded and she kept her eyes locked with his for a moment. "Well...getting there is no easy feat, for me or Archie. But I will see what I can do. I will contact you in a few days. But for now, let's rest." Daniel and Nature cuddled together and ate the marshmallows she brought.

A pony was loading a bag of oranges onto a cart behind the back of a shop as the back door was closed and locked for the night. He finished loading up the cart and it took off out of the alleyway.

This is when he heard rustling in the bushes behind him and turned around.

"Who's there?" He called out and he saw something going across the ground. It's looked like a black snake. He immediately backed away but stopped when he realised it wasn't a snake, but a black tendril.

In a moment it lunged out at him and got him in the chest.

As it struck him it started excrete a blue liquid around the blood that leaked out of the ponies chest.

"Another one to add." A voice called out as the pony was pulled into the forest by the tendril.

Author's Notes:

I am going to try and keep my chapters as story friendly as possible but from now on thing might start to happen that didn't in the show.