"AT LAST!" Xaveroth shouted as he felt his power was now back to full and he was ready to start the next part of his plan. Raising his hand to the sky and surrounding it with a purple aura, he then closed his hand into a fist. "Now the 5th dimension is locked. No more entering or leaving."

Now that his home was locked down it was time for a change in management. Walking up to the palace of the Queen he was stopped by guards who asked him who he was, but with a flash of his eye they suddenly dropped down to their knees in terror.

"Our King!" They said shaking in fear.

"Yes. I'm back. Now, show me where this 'Queen' is." He said chuckling. The guards lead him to the throne room but as they were about to knock, Xaveroth blasted the door down. Within a moment, an alarm was sounded and the throne room was filled with guards.

"Nice to see security is just as I left it." Xaveroth chuckled.

"Who are you?!" The queen shouted from the throne.

"Who am I? Who are you? You are in my seat."

"You dare speak-" A guard was in the middle of scolding Xaveroth but with a single flash in the eyes. The guards in the throne room all dropped in fear.

"What are you all doing? Attack him!" Xaveroth chuckled as they parted for him to walk to the throne.

"Why would they betray their king? Bring me the memory box!" Xaveroth told one of the guards who left immediately.

The Queen stood up and prepared for battle. Charging at Xaveroth she was confused to see she was unable to touch him. She even put her blade in him and it went right through him. Chuckling he floated up to her and with a flick of his finger, the Queen found herself in a crater and barely conscious.

This is when the guard returned with the memory box and Xaveroth took it as he sat on the throne.

"Broadcast this to the whole world and beyond." Xaveroth commanded and a portal was opened infront of him. The portal was one way and went to multiple locations so they could all see what he did.

"Citizens of the 5th Dimension. You may be wondering who I am. What is this announcement. And where is your Queen. Well...I am Xaveroth. The rightful king of this dimension who was unjustly overthrown. This is to let you all know that I am back in charge and that your queen...well...she's just starting to wake up." He turned the portal to the queen laying in a crater.

"Now. For you to remember who I am. I erased your memory of me with this." He held up the memory box to the portal. "I couldn't have you prepare for me when I came back for revenge. So now I will give you all your memories back." He took out a piece of something that looked like it perfectly fit in the memory box and it did indeed. As it connected and made the memory box complete again, Xaveroth held it up and green beams of energy erupted from it and went to the heads of ever sentient lifeform in the 5th dimension.

"So...do you all remember?" Looking out the window next to him he saw all the citizens outside all bow down after having a look of fear on their faces. "That's right. The king is back. And don't think of running to get help. I locked down the whole dimension."

"You're back. After so long." The queen got up, wobbling to stand up straight.

"Yes I am. And I plan to stay this time. But you...I wonder what I should do to you."

"When the heart bearer hears about this..." She said in anger but was cut off by Xaveroth.

"When the heart bearer finds out. It will be too late. Remember King N? After I was kicked out by you and erased your memory, I took control of King N's mind, who at the time was the heart bearer. The heart sensed this and disconnected itself from him but he had already done enough research on the heart and found out a lot about it. And I got all that knowledge when I took him over. So when the heart bearer knows about this, too bad. I know how to kill a heart bearer."

Xaveroth laughed as he saw the queen turn white from fear when she realised he was telling the truth.

"And do you really think that kid can save you? Daniel is no hero. He doesn't even see himself as one." the Queen almost broke down as tears started to cover her closed eyes.

"It's great to be home!" Xaveroth said sitting on his throne.

"It's been a long time and she still hasn't come back. What happened to her?" A shrouded pony asked. Worried about their friend who went to investigate Cosmo.

"No clue. But I fear the worst."

"Do you think Cosmo killed her after she found out something about him?"

"No clue. But we have waited long enough. Let's go and see what happened ourselves." This made the other pony nervous when he heard this.

"Really? Us?" He nodded.

"I don't know about that." Looking at his partner he saw the stern look he was getting. "Fine. Lets go while the night is still young."

They headed to Cosmos' house and got passed the first door easily. Looking around they found nothing but dust. Everything looked like it was made for a hotel room but never got used. They searched until they decided to try the basement. Lighting up a horn the leader entered the basement and saw it was empty besides a single door. Opening that door revealed another room which was just like the one before.

"A basement extension?" They saw a set of stairs and walked up them, but as they got to the door they tried to open it, only for it to not work. Pushing it bit more they found the door would not budge a bit.

"Now what? Where would this even lead?"

"We need to get through. I have a feeling that whatever's on the other side is where she disappeared to. Go back and get a team ready. I will wait here. Hurry." The other pony ran off as fast as he could while the other waited and placed his ear against the door. All he heard was soft snoring that sounded like a female who was sleeping.

"They are...Alive!?" Daniel was speechless to hear that. His parents were alive and had been all this time. "How?!" He kept his voice down when he heard his friends shuffle in their sleeps from his loud voice.

"I have no clue where they are. I only know that they are not dead." Daniel fell down to the ground and took a moment to let what he was told sink in.

"So you're helping with a wedding. Nature loves wedding. You know...her representing life and everything." Daniel just stared at the floor. Unsure what this would mean. Where would he choose to live? Would the 2 planets be ok with each other if they knew? Where were they if they were still alive? All these and more were shooting through his mind. He felt all sorts of emotions from happiness to fear and nervousness. Not only that but if his parents knew that Nature was his girlfriend then they would never stop teasing him.

"You know me too well Death." Nature said sarcastically as she smiled. Leading against the ledge.

"How long have you been there?"

"A while. I must admit I am happy to hear my old friend is alive...even if she won't remember me." Nature knew that Daniel's mother wouldn't remember who she was. Before she gave up being the heart bearer she time jumped to the future a few times and she decided the best thing to do would be to erase her memory before she disconnected herself from the heart as her duty was complete. She used the last second to erase her memory and teleport back to her home.

"I understand if you wouldn't want to meet her. The memory must be painful."

"When you don't die of old age you need to learn to let things and people go." She said so casually but with how long she has lived that would be expected.

"So Daniel. How do you feel about this news?" Death asked.

"So much to go into it. So many ways things could go bad." Daniel sighed. He needed to focus on one thing at a time. This wedding and making sure it went well would be the main priority for now.

"Just take it easy. You have been through worse." Nature said with a smile which made him feel more confident.

"Thanks Nature. I will see you after the wedding?"

"Not staying? Too afraid to dance with me?" She asked with a grin and he blushed.

"N-no I mean..." She burst out laughing.

"Relax Daniel. I'm messing with you. I will see you after the wedding." With a wink she and Death teleported away.

Freddy did his best as he walked the roads towards Canterlot. He travelled all night and didn't stop for anything and he always went up a tree or hid in tall grass when a pony or any other species would be passing by. He knew he needed to be at Canterlot by tomorrow afternoon and he was able to see Canterlot in his sight by midnight.

Freddy wasted no time as he picked up the pace. He needed to place down the disk as soon as possible and then he made it his own mission to find an inform Daniel of an upcoming attack. But the one thing that would be a problem is the bubble that seemed to be surrounding Canterlot and if he would even be able to get through that.

But he stayed determined and pressed forwards towards the Castle.

It was currently dawn as the sun was rising and Freddy was just a hill away from Canterlot's shield. He looked around to find a location where he could place the disk but he needed to make sure it was a large clearing and a place that ponies or others wouldn't walk through often. Freddy decided to put in a open field that had enough space and was off a good bit to the side of the road.

Placing the disk down he pressed the crystal and it lit up. Claws appeared at the sides and held the disk in place as it powered up. Freddy now decided to search for Daniel but he needed to get through the shield first. He initiated a scan of the field to try and find a weakness and he found out to shut it down the one who is putting it up would need to deactivate it. Whoever that was, was currently inside the shield itself.

The shield was to keep things out that weren't ponies and while Freddy could pass as one, he didn't know if this shield would let him in. Picking up a rock, he threw it at the shield and it went passed it no problem.

"So objects can pass through. I am a robot and made of metal...so..." Walking up to it he placed his metal hoove on it and he phased right through it. This brought a smile to his face and he ran in. Heading for cover as soon as he could find anything like a haystack or something.

Daniel went to wake up Annabelle but was surprised to see the bed empty. Figuring she was with his friends he went to find all of them but Twilight in the throne room.

"Girls. Have you seen Annabelle?" They all looked at each other before looking back at him.

"Sorry Darling. I haven't."

"I saw her. She went back home." Cadence told him and that confused Daniel.

"Why?"

"She didn't say anything to you?" Daniel shook his head.

"She told me she was heading back home for something." Daniel left the throne room and teleported to his house where Annabelle was going back and forth, confused to why she was home.

"What did I leave Canterlot for?" Annabelle was awake and confused to the reason she was back home. She remembered a guard telling her something about Daniel saying to go home so he must have had a reason.

That was at night time so she saw no reason to stay in the house anymore so she tried teleporting back to Canterlot and managed to do it.

What she didn't realise was Daniel arrived back at the house 2 seconds later.

"Annabelle? Are you here?" Daniel saw the pillows on the couch were arranged into a pile at the edge so Annabelle had been asleep here. "Did she go back?" He was about to head back when he heard an alarm and knew it was someone at his ponyville door.

"Oh great." He said with a sigh. But that was quickly replaced with worry as he heard not one but multiple hoove steps on the other side of his basement door. His sent a chill up his spine as the only ones who knew about his real house was his friends...who were in Canterlot.

"Hurry up with that." He heard from the other end. Putting on a straight face Daniel landed 2 solid and hard hits on the door which shut them up. The other side was totally silent and then he unlocked the locks and opened the door. What he saw was around 15 ponies, all covered in cloaks and all were staring at him in shock.

"Who are you?" He said lowly. The ponies were completely frozen in fear. The one who they didn't want to encounter had found them.

"Where is she?" A Unicorn at the front asked.

"Who?"

"One of ours didn't report back. She was last sent here. What did you do to her?" Daniel then realised they were talking about the pony who broke into his house a few days ago. Keeping a straight face he gave them the answer.

"I have no clue. If she didn't come back then she probably got lost in the Everfree. Now leave."

"We're not going anywhere until she is safe. And you cosmos. Things don't add up with you. How can a normal pony like you keep Discord in line?" Daniel was surprised they even knew this. The story got out that the Elements overpowered Discord and as a bargain to not be sealed away he agreed to reform. How did they know what only the Canterlot staff knew?

"How do you know that?" Daniel asked almost sinisterly. If these ponies knew about that and were organized like this. If one of theirs broke into his house and they had ponies on the inside of even Canterlot castle then they were a likely threat.

"That's not important. What is, is where is she. Just give her back and we will leave."

"I told you, she is likely in the everfree. She didn't go back the way she came." Daniel could tell he is going to be a while with these ponies. He just hoped Annabelle would be ok in the mean time.

Back in Canterlot, Annabelle had just finished her teleportation and found herself in front of the door to the wedding area.

"Cosmo!? Where are you?" She called out, hoping he would hear her as she was confused to what was going on. Not only that but the wedding would be starting soon. Heading outside to see if he was checking out the shield, she didn't see him at all but she did see a hooded figure hidden to the side. Figuring it was someone causing trouble, she walked over to the figure and was soon behind it but before she could speak she heard it's voice.

"Where's Daddy?"

"Freddy?" The figure turned around and to her surprise it was Freddy. "What are you doing here?"

"Auntie...thank goodness I found you. Where is Daddy?"

"That's what I'm wondering too. Have you not seen him either?" He shook his head. Freddy then ducked down behind a bin when he heard hoofsteps approaching and a guard patrol passed by.

"That was close."

"Why are you hiding? Follow me. If you're with me then you will be fine." Annabelle said with a smile. This is when Freddy realised her height as she was not just as big as him and a few months ago she was about half his size.

"Fine. Lead the way." They then started to hear bells ring which signalled the wedding was about to start. Annabelle was a little worried as not everything was going smoothly and with Daniel away at the moment she had a feeling it would be up to her to make sure things ran smoothly.

"Try and not let any of the ponies see under your hood. If they do then this will get really awkward." Freddy followed Annabelle to the main room where there were a bunch of ponies all standing in a formation for the bride to walk up to meet the husband. Annabelle and Freddy waited at the back and at the side and while it got a few looks from Celestia and the others, when they saw the figure was with Annabelle they decided to trust her and let the figure stay beside her.

"Relax Freddy. I'm sure everything will turn out fine. As long as this planet isn't attacked like that time with Discord and we be careful we will get through in one piece."

With the sound of trumpets, Cadence walked between the crowd of ponies and up towards Shining Armour as Celestia started her speech.

"Mares and Gentlecolts. We are gathered here today to witness the union of princess Mi Amora Cadenza and Shining Armour." Annabelle looked around nervously to see if she could see Daniel. Perhaps he was taking a different form to see how she would do alone? But she didn't see any animals and even if he was looking at her, he would probably get suspicious of Freddy in his cloak and come over to her. Her breathing became deeper as she got more worried that something happened to him.

However what she didn't know was Daniel was back at his house and dealing with a band of ponies who knew about him and have a suspicious view of them. To him right now his priority was trying to either convince them he wasn't a threat or to subdue them and he hoped to do the former.

"Princess Cadence and Shining Armour. I now pronounce you-" Annabelle smiled, thinking that this would pass with nothing bad happening.

"STOP!" A voice rang through the room and all the ponies turned their heads to see Twilight. There was a lot of groans of disappointment when they saw her and Cadence even started crying, or fake crying which was obvious to Annabelle.

"Why did she have to ruin my special day?"

"Because it's not your special day. It's mine!" Another voice called out and it was another Princess Cadence. The entire hall was confused to who was who. "She's a changeling." When Cadence said that Annabelle then remembered Thorax and the other changelings that recently joined the Covenant alliance and made a new home.

Within a moment the Cadence who was up next to Celestia had a green ring appear around her and started to transform before all the ponies eyes. Annabelle then saw and remembered who she was, the Queen that was once in the alliance but left. She heard the reason she left was for revenge or something to do with their food supply.

"Right you are, Princess." Annabelle saw this as her chance. All her training and the times she spent watching her brother fight all lead up to this moment for her. She felt confident she could handle the situation that was currently unfolding.

"They'll never get the chance. Shining Armour's protection spell will keep them from ever reaching us." Annabelle was waiting for the right moment to move. While she could just blast her right now she thought that if the ponies around her knew what she was planning then it would be less of a shock that she got defeated than her just suddenly attacking.

"That's right. Explain everything. It will make it so much sweeter when you fail." She whispered to herself.

"Oh no." Freddy said worried as he looked at the Changelings that were hitting the shield.

"Don't worry. I got this." Annabelle said confidently

"No, it's not them. There is something else on the way." Annabelle turned to him.

"What do you mean?"

"Something in the forest. It knew the changelings were going to do this and is waiting for the right moment to attack. There was an entire meeting held between the leaders of the covenant, but because Daniel wasn't there we made the decision ourselves." Annabelle felt like her heart was just gripped and had trouble pumping blood around her body.

"What did you decide on?" Freddy was nervously tapping his hooves.

"We...well...we..."

"Spill it." She said firmly.

"Decided to come to Canterlots Aid after the attack started." He said sheeply.

"So the 'Entire' covenant alliance is about to arrive in Canterlot?" She was shaking so much from this information she couldn't even bring herself to shout or pay attention to Celestia who was now pushing her face into the Changeling Queen's face.

"Yes." Freddy said, sitting down and his head lowered to the ground.

"Calm down. One thing at a time. One thing at a time." Annabelle took a deep breath and focused her attention on the Changeling Queen who was currently Celebrating and Celestia was on the floor. The tip of her horn burnt black as coal. Annabelle walked up passed her friends who were all huddled around Celestia and their views went from each other to her.

As she approached, Chrysalis' view landed on her as Annabelle looked at her with a glare.

"I must say, thank you. Now that your older brother isn't here to stop me thanks to you teleporting home I am able to complete my plan."

"Can you shut up already? You talk too much." Annabelle deadpanned but this only made Chrysalis laugh.

"And what are you going to do about it?" Smirking and raising a hoof. Annabelle charged up a beam of energy and aimed it at the Queen.

"Catch." She said almost laughing. Feeling happy she could be on the good side of an event.

The blast she fired made contact with Chrysalis' beam. The same one that defeated Celestia and she watched hopefully as the beam slowly shrunk and her attack broke it. Hitting Chrysalis right on the chest and sending her through the wall behind her.

"I can do this. I can do this!" With a grin and confidence in her power. Annabelle walked up to the Queen and their eyes met. She charged up another energy blast and fired it at Chrysalis again but this time she took it seriously and the beam started pushing back Annabelle's blast.

As it hit Annabelle she was blasted back but unlike the queen, she was able to remain standing as her legs dug into the ground to bring her to a halt.

"Ha. Why don't you run back to your brother. If you even know where he is." Chrysalis started to laugh again but she slowed down and then stopped when she heard Annabelle laughing too. Looking at her she was shocked to see Annabelle's injury was healing right before her eyes and her eyes were also glowing at the pupils.

"I don't need my older brother to beat you." Annabelle launched another blast and this one made the very ground under it break appear. Chrysalis jumped to the side to avoid it. Knowing she had no chance to reflect or block such an attack. As she looked at Annabelle who was looking at her with the eyes of a predator, she knew she messed up by not taking his younger sister seriously.

"It's a real shame. You planned this for how long and you got beaten by a kid who isn't even in her teens yet. Needless to say...you're gonna have a bad time." She grinned not just at the queens situation but also at the reference she made. Her friends were watching from the hole in the wall and were cheering her on but as Celestia said something they removed the dresses they were wearing and ran away.

"You know what the funny thing is? I am not even in my real form. So I am still holding back." A large crack was heard and looking up Annabelle saw the shield broke. She got a little worried as the queen alone was easy but if she had the help of her whole army then it could be a problem.

Chrysalis realised that she would have to deal with Daniel in the future and the only way she could see a way out was to take Annabelle prisoner, which would be hard as she never thought she would be this strong.

"Capture her!" Chrysalis shouted and pointed to Annabelle who let out a chuckle as the changelings charged her. They were easy to avoid as they were slow to her and not very strong. They felt like Styrofoam to her as she grabbed one by the neck and threw it away.

Annabelle heard fighting around her and looked around to see the guards were getting overpowered by the Changeling numbers at a quick pace. But even if that was so, Annabelle wouldn't give up and would fight the whole changeling army if she had to.

"Daniel...where are you?" She whispered. Chrysalis was worried when she heard her whisper that and launched another attack. She needed to keep Annabelle focused on her and not on possibly contacting Daniel. At least not until they were done.

"I won't fail. Not after coming so far. We will take Canterlot and that's final." Chrysalis looked at her with 10 changelings around her. 5 on each side and all ready to attack Annabelle but all Annabelle did was chuckle. She was having her first true battle and the adrenaline was running wild through her body so at that point she was jittery.

"If you think that will be enough to stop me then lets see if it is." She grinned with her eyes wide almost like she was insane and she then charged at them. One changeling fell with a single punch and before the other one could react, she landed another punch to it and sent it through a window.

One of the changelings tried to tackle her but she lunged forward with her head out and hit the changeling on the stomach and it was down on the ground. Two more tried to double team her as the queen also tried to blast her but she grabbed and of them and blocked the beam with the changelings body before throwing it at the other one and causing them both to fall off a bridge.

"Half down!" She said laughing. Feeling like the hero.

She saw 3 changelings coming for her and they fired 3 beams of magic and fused together into one. The blast hit her in the face but to her it felt like a pillow hit her. It didn't do any real damage but it did annoy her.

"My turn." Firing another beam of energy at them, she saw them try to stop it with another triple beam but her blast went right through it and hit the ground under the changelings, leaving them on the ground and injured

Looking at the Queen she saw 2 more changelings with her.

"On me." She said as she fired her beam at Annabelle for a moment then charging with her horn still lit up. As Annabelle blocked it she then saw Chrysalis under her and her horn pointing to her chest as 2 other changelings did the same. "NOW!" They all fired at the same time as Annabelle was lifted into the air.

They watched her as she was carried off and then fell down to the ground with a crash.

"Did...we do it?"

"My Queen. Is she dead?"

"Unlikely. She can regenerate like her brother so with any luck she is either weakened or best scenario, out cold." They walked up to where Annabelle crashed into the ground and as the dust settled they were surprised to see that she was standing up on all 4 legs and she was smiling as her chest showed signs of burns which were slowly healing.

"Now you ticked me off." Chrysalis then realised she was glowing with power and there was even some lighting coming off her. Chrysalis and her changelings backed up when they saw this and a moment later Annabelle was in front of one of her changelings and they didn't even see her move.

With a single slap from Annabelle the changeling was knocked out cold and she turned her attention to the other one who was shaking at the legs before running away.

"Get back here!" Chrysalis screamed.

"Well would you look at that. It's just you now." Chrysalis turned around to face Annabelle as she was smiling at her. It was now just between the 2 of them.

"You just had to make things difficult!"

"You left the alliance. So who's the one making it difficult on who?" Chrysalis was boiling with anger and went in to hit Annabelle but quicker than Chrysalis could see, Annabelle caught her leg and was grinning at her.

"Let go!" She pulled to get free and as she was let go she stumbled backwards. "Why you..." Her anger was clouding her mind and as she went for another hit she felt a sharp pain in her stomach as Annabelle landed a solid hit on it. Holding her stomach with one hoof, she was barely standing. "I won't gi-" She felt another sharp pain on her shoulder area near her chest as Annabelle landed another hit there.

"Give up." Annabelle said sternly.

"N...o...." Chrysalis' breathing was weak and sharp but also shallow as she collapsed and looked up at Annabelle. Trying to stand up again she was grabbed by the neck and held up before Annabelle threw her into a tree, almost snapping it in the process and this left her with a lot of back pain.

Walking up to Chrysalis, Annabelle saw her trying to stand up but as she tried to, she gasped and fell back down to the grown. Almost crying.

Seeing her like this caused Annabelle to calm down and she was able to collect herself.

"Chrysalis. You have lost. Daniel will be back soon and when he is, what will you do?" She didn't respond to her question. "Give up. Keep some pride rather than lose it all making yourself looking like a fool. It's not cowardice to admit your defeat if you actually tried." She was trying to appeal to the queens ego and she didn't know if it was working.

"I....I...."

"Yes?" Annabelle hoped to hear her say she gave up so this could end.

"I-" As she was just starting to speak there was a huge earthquake and a beam of purple shot up to the sky. Looking over to where it was coming up from out of the ground, Annabelle saw a hooded figure and several other races. From ponies to changelings to Timberwolves and trees. All of them looked rotten.

"So nice to finally be in Canterlot." The figure said with a smile.