As Daniel stepped through with King N the first thing that ran through his mind was how different everything looked. He had a hard time describing how the landscape looked. Islands were floating with purple pillars on them that seemed to be emitting waves of energy while the ground was bone white and the grass was pink. There was trees that were made of a colour close to a sickly yellow. The stream he saw in the distance had something that he didn't think was water as it was green. Looking up to the sky, the clouds were as black as the night sky while the sky itself wasn't the blue he knew but a vibrant orange.

"What the..." He said as he was lost in how the landscape looked.

"Daniel, focus." King N said as he pointed to a pillar in the distance that was projecting energy outwards. "Over there. The Great Projector is over there." King N started to walk over there and Daniel followed close behind.

"So...what happened to you? How did you go crazy?" Daniel asked him.

"You're asking now?" King N's mechanical head turned to face him.

"Well we might not survive so yeah. You were a heart bearer like me and it could happen to me. So i want to be prepared." King N let out a sigh that sounded mechanical thinks to the voice chip in his suit.

"I have no clue how it happened? After i got told of Xaveroth and what he done. I was ordered to hunt him down and thinks to his injured state at the time i managed to win the physical battle. But i guess i wasn't all there mentally." He looked down and stopped moving for a moment. "My wife died around that time. It was hard to keep doing a job when i was grief struck. I had a momentary laps in my mind where i wasn't in the battle and Xaveroth saw this. He attacked my mind when i was preoccupied with a bad memory and i lost the fight. I only realised what he was doing shortly before he completed it."

"I see. So basically i need to make sure I don't loose focus." Daniel still didn't understand one thing. "Why is Xaveroth like this?"

"Like what...power hungry?" King N asked.

"Yeah. Was he just raised a selfish jerk?" King N shook his head.

"No. I did manage to see something in his mind just before i was disconnected from the heart. He was once a hero but then the truth of immortality kicked in."

"The Truth of immortality?" Daniel was confused by that.

"He did the things that normal hero's do. Believed in justice and all that. But when he saw the people he helped fade away and their societies also fade away he started to become more distant and more of what you would call an anti hero. It must have been when he was around 3 million years old that his favourite planet was destroyed in a supernova. The planet he helped most was gone and it caused him to realise that if he was to outlive everything and all his help amounted to nothing. Then he would only look out for himself."

"I see. He lost interest in helping others when he saw the very ones he helped, fade away and leave no lasting impact." King N nodded.

"That's why most...most, not all that have achieved some kind of immortality usually end up ridding themselves of their emotions. They don't want to be a 'Bad guy' as they put it so with nothing other than a strict moral code, they move through life like a machine more than a living being. I don't think it will be long until Archie himself does that." His eyes widened when he heard that. In about 2 million years when the Earth has changed, would he rid himself of all his emotions as a way to deal with the pain?

"Do you think i will become like that?" King N chuckled.

"More than likely. I have seen pacifists become tyrants when they became immortal. One can only endure so much loss before they break. Even if Nature was still alive and was with you, you still have friends and family who will pass away."

"I see what you mean." It left Daniel with a lot of think about. Did he want to stay as he was or if possible, rid himself of it? "What will you do if you survive?" Daniel asked King N as he has also lived for so long thanks to how advanced his tech is.

"Honestly...retire. Let Bravacho take over, turn off my cell revival system and enjoy the time i have left on some planet with sunny beaches." To hear King N, someone who he had known for the most part to be cruel to say such a thing painted him in a different light for Daniel. "Now i think we have talked for long enough. We need to get to Xaveroth and convince him to stop or kill him, if it comes to that."

Both King N and Daniel moved through the landscape. While King N didn't really bother with how the place looked, Daniel was taking in how different it was and the very distinct differences between this reality and what he knew to be reality back at him. He also felt something like an extra sense that told him he was in a place he shouldn't be. Like in a bad part of existence just like how one gets a feeling they could be in a bad part of a city or neighbourhood. He tried to resist a shiver going up his spine but failed.

"I forget you are still young and not very experienced with interdimensional travel. This place would feel cold to you."

"Not cold, just...creepy." Daniel replied as he looked all around. Almost feeling like a bunch of eyes were on both of them.

"Do you intend for them to go alone?" Blade asked Archie with a hint of anger in his voice.

"No. But if I go then I don't see much I can do with this energy going about. If they stop it then I will just in and help them right away." Archie looked over the landscape of the hangout. Corpses of his fallen entities, ash piles and the like that symbolize their deaths all shown across the area.

"I don't think i have ever seen us in a condition as bad as this."

"We haven't been this way before. We have been attacked but never this badly beaten before. Come, we should bury the dead or send them back to their family. The battle against Xaveroth is out of our hands for now."

It was at this moment when they felt a vibration go over the platform they stood on. It was strong and both of them got ready for the ground to give out under them, but thankfully it never did.

"What was that?" Blade asked with a hint of fear.

"I don't kn-" Archie turned to the entrance to the underground lab and saw a light was shining from it that wasn't there before.

Descending down into the underground he was shocked to see the Heart itself was pulsing and was emitting a great deal of light and even tendrils of light and energy were coming off it and going towards the load of bodies.

"What...is another bearer chosen already?" Archie could only ask in shock and he was soon met with a glowing figure which manifested infront of him.

"Archie. Leader of the entities. Nice to meet you after all this time." Archie had a strong feeling that he knew what he was looking at while Blade who was just picking himself up after falling down the stairs thanks to his injuries, could only look on in sheer amazement at the sight before him.

"Avatar?" Archie asked and received a nod from the figure.

"Initiating Lockdown." Alpha announced as Aperture closed and sealed all doors. Thag and Rusty had recently arrived per Alphas request and had sealed them all inside the laboratory. It was well known that battling the enemy with all that negative energy going around was nothing more than a death sentence so Alpha concluded to sealing themselves up and waiting it out if that was possible.

"All exits sealed." Alpha then turned to the rest of them. "We will stay here until the fighting passes. If it even does. Daniel said he might not return."

"No. He will. He's strong and has shown that time and time again. He'll return." Twilight said hopefully.

"Miss Sparkle. There are things far beyond even the knowledge that humans had and they were very technologically advanced. They made it to the moon and even a planet nearby called Mars without the aid of magic and yet they themselves could only imagine the things that Daniel and the rest of the Entities do as comic book entertainment. There are forces out there that nobody understands. Don't stop hoping, but also don't just assume everything will be alright in the end." Alpha told her which made not just her but her friends and the rest of them silent with worry.

"What if he doesn't come back?" Thag asked and as Alpha thorough about what they could do he remembered Daniel made his own pocket dimension and that a door lead to it in his house. If the negative energy didn't make it into there then they might have a defendable position.

"What about Canterlot? Ponyville?"

"I'm afraid there is nothing we can do for our homes. All we can do is watch out for ourselves and each other until this passes." Rusty told them with sorrow in his voice as he himself lost a next and the news of some of the pups being taken by bandits sank his heart. He would be going after them himself the moment this was all over. If it ended for the better.

Alpha dispatched a drone to the Pocket Dimension to see if it had changed or if it was infected by the negative energy like the rest of this universe. What he thought was that since Daniel was immune to the energy, at least in his total merge form, then that might give Terabithia, the pocket dimension he made a resistance or if they were lucky, immunity to the energy.

Annabelle sat up in her room as her mum and dad were down the stairs watching the news. Things on earth were not good in the slightest as riots and terror attacks were happening almost everywhere in the world. The world leaders were at each others throats, all of them looking for someone to blame even if it made temporary peace by uniting the people agains a common foe.

The Earth itself was also not in a good condition as natural disasters increased tenfold. Florida was almost all under the ocean. The middle east was almost uninhabitable thanks to the increasing heat and crops all around the world were dying. Resources were becoming worse as the quality of mental was sharply declining and steel was in such poor quality that people could almost bend it with their strength alone. There was even a video online to prove it of a bodybuilder bending a whole lamppost in the span of 10 seconds. Wires and all. Guns were almost useless as after about 3 shots the insides of it would snap and no longer work.

To make things worse the animals around the planet were also infected with a parasite that hide in their stomach and ate anything they were fed and ate the inside of the animals themselves. This resulted in another infection which cause necrosis and inflation of the brain, making the animals almost go on a frenzy. Meat was now not only in poor quality but also not very abundant and dropping fast.

As Annabelle stood up and looked out the window she couldn't help but feel angry at Daniel for what he did. She did understand why he done it, that still didn't stop her from getting mad when she thought about it.

"Sweetie?" Her mother called to her as she gently opened the door. "Are you ready to talk?" Annabelle turned around to see her mother and sighed. Her mother likely wouldn't believe her as she no longer had any of her old memories when she was a heart bearer.

"What is there to talk about?" She brought her knees to her head and rested her chin on them.

"Well to start off, where is Daniel?" She was about to answer but didn't know how to explain it.

"He's....gone." She didn't really want to explain what happened as it would take too long to explain and she likely wouldn't believe her.

"Annabelle. I still remember what happened." Annabelle's eyes widened.

"But you said your memories would be erased. You would be removing them!" She shouted the 2nd part like she was accusing her mother but all that done was make her smile.

"Just tell me where Daniel is. You disappeared with him and now you're here alone and refusing to tell us where he is. And....why do you look...older?" Annabelle was starting to wonder at this point if she did remember and just wasn't telling her. But if she didn't remember then if she told her, would she think she's insane? It had been about 5 years they were gone for.

"Mom. Just...leave me alone. I need to clear my mind and i am quite angry with Daniel right now." Annabelle just wanted her Mother to leave her alone for a little while.

"Fine." She went over and locked the window. "Just to make sure you don't run off." With that she left the room.

"Not much longer now. Be ready for anything." King N warned Daniel as they were slowly approaching the projection point.

"So our main goal should be to destroy the great projector. Right?" King N nodded.

"Correct. Even if we can't beat Xaveroth, destroying that will at least set things slowly back to normal." So that was the plan, even if it wasn't much of one. Take out the Great Projector and things will go back to normal. Hopefully if he failed then in the future someone else might take up the mantle of Heart Bearer and finish what he failed to do.

A few steps later the Great Projector was in sight. It was connected to some kind of rip or rift with the insert jammed in it and the export location was pouring out a dark purple gas that quickly vanished into nothing. He saw Xaveroth off to the side and he looked a little distressed.

Xaveroth was distressed as he still got a feeling that there was something he wasn't seeing. He felt it in his gut. Something was wrong. Where was that thing? The thing that beat him with just it's projection? He searched and searched across all worlds. Realities. Alternative universes but he couldn't find it. There was nothing across all of time, space and existence that matched who he was looking for.

Slamming his fist on the ground he caused it to spit open. Until he found that thing the feeling of unease, of fear wouldn't leave him. Even if Daniel came back from what he done, he beat him so badly that he didn't feat Daniel anymore and Nature, Archie, Blade. All the top entities were either dead or broken mentally and in their own hearts. Their fighting spirit was no more. But if they came after him he would kill them for good. He left them alive as an example so that others who thought of raising up against him will see the broken heroes who tried and would change their mind. Leaving some alive was a sign of his power.

"Sir? We have company." Xaveroth turned around to see Daniel and...King N walking towards him.

"Leave me. I will deal with them." Xaveroth smiled as he took a human like form. He had no distinguishable features as he just looked like one of these lazy drawings of humans of some sheets of paper. No hair, eyebrows, eye colour and the like.

"Look who survived. I gave you about 35% chance you would recover and an even lower 10% chance you would come after me again." Daniel wasn't smiling or had any fear in his eyes. Xaveroth saw rage. Bloodlust. He smiled when he saw that. Daniel was enraged at the death of Nature, meaning he would also likely make more mistakes in the upcoming fight they would surely have.

"Xaveroth." Daniel could only say as a greeting. He had no snarky remarks or jokes. How could he when facing the one who killed his love.

"That's me. I assume you are here to avenge Nature? Your loved one?" He said as he put his head in his hand as one does when bored and smirked. Daniel twitched for a moment but composed himself. King N spoke next.

"Xaveroth. Why have you thrown away what you had? You were a King and loved. Why throw it all away?" King N asked him.

"You know full well. What's the point? If I be nice to people then all that will do is nothing. They will still die. Times won't change and there is also those who despite being nice to, will just abuse you. You see things differently when you are immortal. But then again you don't have that. You just have a machine that restores the youth of your blood cells and allows you to keep living. That's not immortality."

"So you kill because things don't last? What about the entities? They are able to last." Daniel felt his rage building up as he heard Xaveroth chuckle.

"Daniel. You really are a joker. The reason i didn't join those idiots besides how weak they were was...well to avoid what you are going through. I have lived longer that you can understand. I have had 2 families and had to watch my chain go all the way to the end. If it was because my offspring wanted none of their own or because they were murdered doesn't matter. I have outlive 2 family chains. Outlived 3 home worlds so more than 3 star lifetimes."

"But...when you were banished-" Daniel was cut off.

" I went to other worlds. Different dimensions and i tried to live a normal live. I raised up kingdoms and you know what happened? They fell. My friends died and i saw there was no point in trying to preserve it. Anything that doesn't last forever means nothing to me. Anything that gives me an emotional connection to another person is nothing to me."

"So that's why you are doing this?" Daniel pointed to the Projector.

"Yeah. To keep those like you out of my way." Xaveroth was insane. All these years of seeing things fade away that he cared about has driven him mad to finds something that lasts. But all the kingdoms he has ruled, families and so on all faded or were killed. They were either not immortal or too weak to defend themselves against attackers.

"Is this my Future? Will I be like this if I live long enough?" Daniel felt a sting in his chest. Nature was gone and...he was already feeling it. The loss of a loved one who while they were semi immortal were still killed. Friends he had known were dead or in danger of currently being killed. Twilight and the others might very well die to the Bandits. He was starting to realised what Xaveroth meant. He was starting to...understand him.

"Daniel?" He heard King N say his name in concern and as Daniel looked at him he saw he was looking at his chest. Daniel had a hand to his chest and it was almost clenched into a fist.

"You feel it don't you Daniel?" Xaveroth asked and Daniel swore that for a few moments he saw Xaveroth's eyes change. They seemed hopeful. But as Daniel put his hand back to his side and spoke. He saw his eyes return to normal.

"Even if i am. I would rather be emotionless than do what you are doing."

"You would rather live as something like a robot? Following only logic and having no emotions? Would you really choose that?" Xaveorth and Daniel narrowed his eyes at him.

"In a heartbeat." He sighed and got down to buisness. "Look Xaveroth. We have accepted we likely can't beat you. But we are going to destroy the great projector anyway."

"Sorry but no can do. How can i not stay at the top of the power pyramid if I let you destroy it? It will keep all the weak ones weak. No hero will have the chance to train and become strong enough to challenge me and even if they do it will all mean nothing without an immunity."

"I see. Then i guess we have to fight?" Daniel asked with a small smirk on his face. He wanted revenge.

"You bet and this time it's to the death." Xaveroth stood up and cracked his neck and then without warning he punched Daniel, sending him back and the shock waves alone almost knocked King N over. Xaveroth then backhanded King N and easily knocked him aside.

Daniel emerged from the ground he was knocked into and immediately entered his total merge form.

"Let's finish this heart bearer." King N also got up and changed his robotic arms to offensive weapons.

"Avatar?" Archie asked and received a nod from the figure.

"I am here to play my part. The pieces are moving and the most important play is about to take place." The avatar said as it looked over at the pile of bodies on the basement floor.

"Play your part? Is there going to be a new host?" Blade asked with hope in his voice. 2 heart bearers would be a great help right now.

"Yes. I am here to merge with the host i have chosen. A host who has not yet fully departed from their body." The 2 of them also looked over at the bodies they had yet to bury.

"Who?" The avatar turned to Blade and smirked.

"You know her very well." It said and a tendril wrapped itself around the body of Nature and pulled her up to the main heart. "My new host."

They watched as Nature Was absorbed by the heart and it started to shrink but also glow more intensely.

All Blade and Archie could do is look on as the glow became more intense and the ground started to crack under the sheer power that was being emitted. As the heart finished merging with her, her body glowed with a golden aura and all her injuries were gone.

Nature remained in the air with a light in her chest for a moment before it all vanished and she fell down. Archie quickly moved to grab her as she was still unconscious. Hopefully she wouldn't be for much longer as Archie figured Daniel could use all the help available.

Author's Notes:

I don't know how i feel about this chapter.