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The One With The Heart

by Spooky Ghost

Chapter 6: A little Help (Rewritten)

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1000 Years Later

Daniel and Annabelle waited until they didn't feel like they were falling anymore which is when they both opened there eyes and saw that the sun was just starting to rise.

"Nothing bad happened...well it's a first considering all my other powers I used had side effects." Daniel said with relief in his voice.

"It does have a side effect Daniel." Daniel looked at Annabelle with confusion by what she meant.

"What do you mean? What side effect?" Daniel asked

"This." At that Annabelle slapped Daniel in the head but he barely felt it.

"What was that for?" He asked in confusion.

"We could have died you fool, did you not think of that!" Annabelle shouted at Daniel while still shaking from the thought of being at death's door "Anyway let's get back in the house, you have done enough for one day." Annabelle said in annoyance as they both walked to the house and when they entered it they saw that everything was dusty and the house itself looked ruined inside. "What happened here? It was not like this when I left a few moments ago" Daniel agreed with his sister so he asked PIA.

"What Happened here?"

"You haven't been here in a long time." This reply sparked Daniel's curiosity.

"What do you mean by that? We were just here a few minutes ago."

"When you fell into that unstable time flow you travelled 1000 years into the future." Daniel would have been shocked but he wasn't. The the only difference it was to him and his sister was that it made everything dusty. He decided to replace all the things he previously created because they likely would be either broken or weak. Within moments everything in the house looked just like it did when he first made it.

Daniel decided to try and lighten up the mood that Annabelle was still in so he thought that the best way to do that to put on a DVD that she liked a lot. He got one from the pile and placed it in the player.

"What are you doing?"

"Well becouse of what happened I can tell you are probably mad a me and a little upset over the news of our parents. So I am putting on a comedy DVD to lighten the mood." He said as he turned the TV on and both of them sat and watched the movie. About half a hour into the movie Daniel felt like he was just felling more down than he did before. Both him and Annabelle remained silent the whole time. He began to wonder if he was homesick but he didn't think so as he didn't think one could feel homesick so soon so it was bothering him. He got up from the chair and walked over to the shelf and got a book to read but he just sat looking at it as his mind wondered.

"So 1000 years....great that means I have to search the forest again." He thought to himself with a sigh. "Well if I have to I might as well chose a different form and with it being day time, something that blends in more." With that he turned to his sister. "Annabelle, I forgot to tell you. We time travelled when we fell into that unstable energy so i am going to take another look around." He said and change his form and started to go to the door. Annabelle just looked at him as he finished that sentence only to see Daniel's new form.

"Daniel why are you a wolf?" He turned around.

"Why not? It's easy to blend in." His sister just looked at him with a confused look and Daniel wondered why until he remembered that she wouldn't understand him. So he turned back to normal and said his answer again to her before turning back and taking off into the forest.

He was not long into the forest and he still did not feel any better as he often got lost in thought only to snap out of it when his face collided with different things. He looked around from his spot and as he did he caught sight of a figure in the distance, it looked like his mother.

"Mother?" He ran up to her. "Mum, How are you here?" The figure did not move one bit. "Mom?" Daniel tried to get closer and when he did the figure started to turn around. When his mum was fully facing him felt his heart skip a beat, the face of his mother was nothing more than a skull. "M-mom?" Daniel started to step back.

"You...did...this." It said in a dark voice before slowly vanishing into nothingness.

"I-i..." He felt all strength in his legs vanish and he fell down on the ground. He lay there in a battle with his emotions for a few seconds before he got back up. He managed to prevent himself from breaking down. "I need to search this place. I need to keep Annabelle safe. I don't have time to mourn right now." Daniel said to himself with determanation but what he saw before was still haunting him, he was now staring to get worried as to what might be wrong with him so he decided to ask PIA.

"What is wrong with me?"

"You're feeling guilty about what happened to your own kind. You know that King N sent that dark sphere to get you but instead got the full planet so you feel guilty knowing that in his attempts to catch you it caused the death of your own species." He knew he had no control over what happened and that he was not strong enough to stop it so he chose to forget about it. But the thought that it would have stopped attacking his planet if it got him still lingered in his mind.

"What has happened is in that past. The most I can do is prepare for the future by training.....which reminds me." Daniel turned to a random tree then focused on it and using what little knowledge of time he had he made the tree de-age. The result was what he hoped for, no explosion or his hair getting set on fire, there was no side effects and Daniel actual felt happy in what he had done. "Perhaps I will train later. For now I need to look for threats." He said as he continued his search and after a few minutes Daniel saw what looked like wolves but they were made of wood. He tried to hide from them in a bush but they managed to hear him. They were looking at him with green eyes which creeped him out and to avoid conflict he started running.

"You're not one of the everfree, what are you?" Daniel was surprised they could talk and stopped running. He decided to see if intimidation would work so he turned to face them, turned back to his human form, which startled the wolves and held a fireball in his right hand then he answered.

"You're right. I'm not from here and I don't want to cause any kind of trouble if it can be avoided. As for what I am...well I am a human." As soon as Daniel said that he saw the one wolf turn his head to the side like what a dog would do in confusion.

"A human? You mean the mythical creature that some ponies are interested in?" Once more he was surprised and the fact that his kind were known here made him more curious.

"Ok, first off i am a human, that's the name of my species and second what do you mean by mythical?" He asked as the wolves gather around and talked amongst themselves. They were trying to stay quiet but Daniel could hear what they were saying clearly.

"What should we do?"
"He does not know he is supposed to be myth."
"It could be a changeling."
"Can a changeling become something smaller than itself?."
"We don't know what his kind is capable of."
"Let's just leave it."
"Let's see if we can be peacefully with it."
"Bring him to meet the boss."

Those were some of what were heard amongst them but they was so much talking he could not make out all of what they said. The chatting stopped and they turned back to him.

"We would appreciate it if you would follow us, we think our boss would be interested in having a talk with you." The one at the front said with a bit of fear in his voice. Daniel could hear the fear and decided to try and ease it. He also thought that if he could meet the leader who was in charge of these wolves and make peace with him or her then this forest would be safer for his sister. He crushed the fireball in his hand and it was gone.

"I will gladly meet with your leader, and you have no need to be afraid of me as long as you don't attack me or my sister." He said hoping to ease there fear. "Why would they be scared of me?" Daniel thought but he did not will it for an answer so PIA did not answer him.

"You have a sibling? How many of you are there?" One wolf asked but this only made Daniel feel worse as he was reminded of his own race.

"I don't want to talk about that." He said quietly while looking at the ground. The wooden wolf saw this was something he did not like to talk about so they decided to let it drop.

"Ok then, follow us." Daniel just nodded his head and followed them.

He followed them for about twenty minutes, which was going downhill for most of the trip. Soon they arrived at a giant tree which was about 350 feet tall, 200 feet wide and in the centre of a huge crater. Daniel could see that the top of the tree barely made it to the surface of the forest from how far they were underground. He continued to move towards the tree and entered it, as he looked around the inside of it he saw that it had multiple tunnels and ramps that went to different levels of the structure. There was multiple kinds of tree wood like oak, ash and chestnut, there were also other wolves running about and playing with each other. The height of them was only up to the knee of a normal wolf so Daniel assumed they were pups.

They continued to walk down a hallway at the back of the structure until they entered a large open room about 50 foot tall, 40 in length from left to right and 90 or so from the door to the back of the room. The back of this large room had a huge pile of twigs and leaves. On both side where more wooden wolves, but they were larger than the normal ones and their eyes were red rather than green. The wolves in front of him suddenly stopped and bowed their heads to the floor.

"My King, We found something that you might want to meet." One of the wolves said and seconds later the pile of leaves started to move. They started to pile upwards to reveal it was not leaves and twigs but another wolf only this one was half the size of the room they were in. The leaves it had were around its neck and some on its head the same way a lion has hair around its neck but what was most recognizable about it was it's eyes. Unlike the rest which had green or red ones, this wolf was the only one that he has seen with purple eyes. It looked over to Daniel before looking back to the wolf who spoke.

"Why have you brought a...what is it?" It's voice was deep but somewhat calming too. Daniel was a little hurt from being called 'it'. He was about to tell this wolf who was likely the alpha who he was when one wolf beat him to it.

"This is a human your greatness. The mythical creature that some ponies are interested in."

"A mythical creature? So another myth has become truth. What is your name human?" From the sound of the voice Daniel assumed this wolf was male.

"My name is Daniel." The wolf king went from standing up to laying down.

"I am Thag Mul. King of Timberwolves." Daniel made a mental note of their species name then decided to ask why he was brought here.

"If you don't mind me asking, why was I brought here?" After he asked this Thag motioned over to the side of him with his head. Daniel looked in the direction he indicated in and saw a picture that was carved into one of the walls. It was of a pony or more specifically a winged unicorn or pegacorn that was dark and looked like it was wearing some kind of royal gear thanks to the crown it was wearing. Around the pony was a image of the moon. Daniel looked back at Thag, but Thag was still looking at the picture.

"You are another myth that is true. There are many myths but the two that are the most popular are Nightmare Moon and Humans. Nightmare Moon was real, she was Princess Luna, before she was corrupted with anger. Just about all myths and creatures relate to them having great power and my rule as a leader is to make sure that my subjects are safe."

Daniel though he understood what he was saying, that almost all myths in this world apparently have some kind of scary amount of power, and he was afraid that Daniel might be a threat to him and his subjects. Daniel looked back to the door and saw that there was lots of fully grown wolfs and pups listening to what was being said. He did not want any kind of trouble so he decided to tell him here and now.

"As long as you don't intend to harm me or my sister you have nothing to fear." At this Thag looked back at Daniel quite quickly when he said this.

"You have a sibling?" Daniel nodded at him as an answer. "How much of your kind is there?" He asked in a calm voice. He seemed to think that Daniel alone could be a threat and with the little unease in his voice too, it was almost clear that he was trying to hide the fear in it. But that question just made Daniel not want to talk any further. However after a few seconds he decided to tell Thag. If he didn't say then these wolves might get more scared of him, which Daniel did not mind as they would probably leave him and Annabelle alone, but then again they might try to kill them if they think he was too much of a threat to let pass.

"There...was between 7 to 8 billion back on my planet before it was destroyed. Now it's just me and Annabelle." He did not want to mention that it was he who more or less was the cause for it's destruction.

"I-I'm...sorry for your loss." Thag said as he saw Daniel had a face of sadness after he asked that question. He had lived long enough to tell of one was lying by how they speak, along with their body language, and he could tell that Daniel truly did not mean any harm. Thag then got a idea. If it was done right it could benefit them both. "I can tell you mean no harm by the way your voice was when you mentioned it. If you don't mind I have something to ask you, could you perhaps help me and my subjects with a problem?"

"It depends on what the problem is. I wouldn't do something that involves hurting another for no good reason." Daniel said turning his head and looking up to him.

"I need you to try and see if you can find some way to stop the Diamond Dogs from cutting down more trees as they are getting close to one of our main nests. Their main city...well town as it's not big enough to be a city, is a good bit away from here. If you do this for me I will let all the Timberwolves of the Everfree know you and your sister are considered friendly and you will be free to visit this hold as much as you want." Daniel though for a moment and decided to go with it. If he could befriend some of the inhabitancies of this forest which is apparently called Everfree then his sister would be safer, however he had one question to ask.

"Why would the dogs need to cut down your trees anyway?"

"They are making weapons to protect there territory, about 30 years or so ago pony settlers moved into one of their towns and took it over. When the dogs returned they did say that it was there land but the royal guards drove them off so now they are doing whatever they can to make weapons. I have asked some scouts to go into the tunnels to see what they have been doing. There weaponry is....well, it's not very good. They keep trying to make better weapons out of the trees they cut down only for them to fall apart. This just keeps repeating." Daniel decided to help as the situation did not sound too dangerous.

"Ok, I will do it, I just need to know where they are." When Daniel said that Thag looked to the side and gestured for a wolf to come over. This wolf had very visible scratch marks all over him.

"This here is my finest scout. He will lead you to the tunnels of the Diamond Dogs." Daniel nodded and started to leave. As soon as the doors closed a pup wolf went up to Thag.

"Sir, is it true that Nightmare Moon is supposed to return tonight?" The king wolf looked down to the pup.

"Yes, it is child, why do you ask?"

"A human has appeared...well two have on the same day that Nightmare Moon is supposed to return. Is this a bad sign?" The pup asked with worry in it's voice. Thag though on this for a moment.

"It might be...or it could be a good sign." He said that last part looking at the door.

As Daniel walked through the forest with the scout wolf he learns a few things about this world along the way. The wolf asked Daniel what he knew about Equestria and other things like who the Princesses are, if he knew they are alicorns, the different kinds of ponies and the history of the land. Daniel got a few pointers on what happens in this world. How the Princess called 'Celestia' raises the sun and moon. He also learned about past events that happened like how there was a lord of chaos called Discord who was beaten by Luna and Celestia while they were the wielders of things called the Elements of Harmony.

Daniel was actually starting to wonder if that was just a silly nickname the ponies had given them, because for what he has heard they have been used twice and both of those times they were like weapons which did not sound very harmonious to him. He also learned of a few other creature that lived in this forest and some that lived further away like cockatrices and changelings.

It took a while but eventually Daniel made it to Diamond Dog territory. When he looked at it all he saw were large open field of dirt with some dirt hills scattered around. The wolf looked at Daniel who went and approached one of the dirt hills and when he took a few steps he stopped, looked around and saw there was nothing here. With a gut feeling that this might be a trap that was set up for him, he started to head back and just as he was about to walk away, 7 of the dirt hills burst open. Daniel soon found himself surrounded by about 14 large dogs, these ones were not like the kinds of dogs he knew as the were standing like him in a bipedal way, there fur was grey and looked very ruffled, they also had large claws on their fingers.

"Well boy's look's what we here have." Daniel looked at the dog who said that but he was more interested in why they were talking. It sounded like broken English.

"What it supposed be? It too tiny for minotaur and too little hair for dog." Daniel looked at the dog who asked that but when he did he saw it was wearing armour where the others were not, even if the armour was quite rusty. With it being the only one wearing any kind of armour Daniel assumed this was the leader.

"Are you the leader of the Diamond Dogs?" He asked to the one that was wearing the armour.

"Silence. You creature, in our territory so you say to us. What is you?" Daniel was getting annoyed with this poor kind of language but he chose to let it pass if he wanted to try and negotiate with them.

"I am Daniel and I am a human." Their reaction was kind of what he was expecting, because of the way the Timberwolves acted when he first encountered them. All of them, except the one who is perhaps the leader of this small pack, seemed to back off a bit but he did see that all of them had a look of surprise and fear. "Just like the way the wolves reacted. That was until their leader, who Daniel decided to nickname 'Rusty' for now because of the condition his armour was in, started laughing. Everyone around him looked at him in confusion but after a few seconds he stopped laughing and turned to Daniel.

"You think us is stupid? You be no more that joke. Now leave." The other seemed to agree that Daniel was not a human and waited for him to leave but Daniel just stood there, unmoving. "Very well, You no say we did not tell you." The dogs attacked him to which he avoided the attacks with ease. This kept up for a few moments until he kicked one of the dogs in the face which knocked it out cold, causing the others and Rusty to look at him in shock.

"I Don't want to fight them. Perhaps I can intimidate them." Daniel held out his hand with the palm facing the dogs and let energy flow into his palm however he did not fire it. After less that five seconds they all backed away and did not try to attack him so he stopped the flow and lowered his hand back to his side before folding his arms while still looking at them.

"Still think that I'm not human?" He asked to which they all shook their heads in the way that indicated 'No'. "Good, now I am here to meet your leader. Can you please take me to him?" They nodded at Daniel and then Rusty stepped forward.

"Ok, follow me. But me keep eye on you." Rusty turned back to his dogs. "Fido get Frank, The rest of you go back to whatever were doing before." He lead Daniel to the leader while one of the dogs went to help the one that Daniel knocked out and the rest disappeared down other dirt tunnel.

As Daniel walked through the tunnels following Rusty, there were a few more dogs that started to follow him when they saw him. While they were walking to the leader Daniel saw something that he did not like in the slightest, there were young pups but unlike the happy and playful kind that people like so much, these one were picking whatever scrap remains they could off of bones and they were very malnourished as he could almost as clear as day see their veins in their legs and arms along with their chest bones.

"If I can use my powers to make a food dispencer for them then they might not cut down the trees in return, but how will they protect their home if they have no weapons to make? I can't do it all the time and their home it too far away from mine. I guess I can probably make robot soldiers to protect them but that might scared them and the pups more. "

The more he thought about the problems he could face the more he struggled to find a solution. "Also there is magic in this world that I need to consider too, along with what I will do if the robot's are seen. If I do that I might attract lots of unwanted attention from magic wielders in this world which would also put these dogs in danger. Se far in this world I have seen mythical creatures so them thinking my robots would be powerful golems is perhaps very likely. Hold on......PIA you said I can't restore someone to life if they died but can I make new life?"

"Yes and No. You can make artificial life like machines and plant life. However you can't make full life, like a giving something a soul. You could make new life with training but it would not have any kind of free will, it would be a lifeless clone, like you did before. If you were to make sentient life then it would have to have a soul and with it being made from nothing rather than just being born naturally then a spirit would have to be forced into it and you can't interfere with the spirit world."

"Ok, so when I am back home after this I will make another room in the house and make a Intelligent A.I and other equipment in that room for it to use. It will certainly make my job easier. When I am away it will also help me research and understand this world, i would also need something like a failsafe just incase they get out of control. I could also have a few here which would help these dogs by keep there home safe but machines alone might not be enough. If I can give the A.I knowledge of things like battle tactics, weapons, engineering and other things then this would likely keep them safe. I will need to see if I can also get the wolves and dogs to be allies. Thag might think of me as more of a threat if I help the dogs a lot."

Daniel was too deep into his own mind he did not watch where he was going and tripped up when he approached some stairs, falling face first on them. Thankfully they were made of dirt so he did not feel a thing upon impact. After 5 more minutes of walking he arrived in a tunnel that was larger the rest he had seen before and at the back sitting next to a pile of gems was another dog but Daniel could clearly see that this was their true leader. The four other dogs with him that almost had full body armor on and the fact he himself was bigger than the normal Diamond Dog was sort of a dead give away.

The top of each of the four guards heads, with the helmets on, just reached a little under chest height but a little above stomach height. Not only that but his jawbone looked like it had the strength to bite right through steel and he could see it's muscles clearly, not just on the arms but also on its legs, chest and neck. It was unlike the others to which he could barely see any kind of muscle but were also not as skinny as the pups were. At this point, Daniel was thankful he was not a normal human as if he was he would be torn apart in less than 5 seconds if he tried to fight this tank of a dog and he did not want to try to see how much he was enhanced by fighting it, he was here to try and settle things peacefully.

Rusty approached him and bowed.

"Alpha, wishes to see you, something does." The leader looked away from his gem pile to the one who spoke to him then to Daniel.

"What is creature you bring here?" When he said that Daniel saw that its teeth were also slightly larger than the normal dogs, almost like daggers. He started to wonder if this was a dog or a bear in disguise. Rusty looked back at Daniel then moved to the side so he could speak.

"My name is Daniel and I am a human." As he said that he heard chatter behind him and he turn around. There was a lot of other dogs here, so much so that it almost took up the whole room.

"A Human? Here? Near the ponies sun celebration?" The leader did not seem scared or surprised, he seemed to be in thought. This made Daniel feel a bit better about how this meeting might go as this is the first time something has not been fear stricken or has shown worry when he mentioned he was a human.

"Yes. I am a human and I am not here to cause trouble, I just what to talk to you about something." All dogs stopped chatting and their leader snapped out of this thought.

"We never seen you, you supposed only a pony myth and you want to talk us? What about?" If Daniel was to be on there friendly side he perhaps should address the dog leader by his real name.

"I am here to ask for a trade Mr..." Daniel stopped there and the dog knew he wanted to know his name.

"I not Mr. Name is Brago. Alpha Brago to the dogs." Daniel nodded and then continued.

"Brago, I am here on behalf of King Thag of the timberwolves to ask that you please stop cutting down their forest." After he said this Daniel had a feeling of uneasiness as everything went quiet for a few seconds.

"Why should we? We been doing this for years. We need make weapons to keep home and pups safe. What you offer us that be good enough?" Daniel felt a bit scared now as he prepared to use reality alteration to make a food dispenser for them. He saw the condition the pups were in so he hoped this would be accepted. He closed his eyes, snapped his fingers and then opened them again to see a white cylinder machine with a few blue buttons along it and a big red one on the top at the side. He felt like his world started to spin and almost fell over. He felt like he was about to throw up and he did but he saw it was blood instead of normal puke. This has not happened before so he asked PIA.

"What happened?"

"You made the machine the way you wanted it to be made. It won't run out of it's own electricity or meat supply, however even though you know how to alter reality, if it defies some laws like the machine you just made does where it won't run out of power or supplies then it needs some more power to make it, you are used to altering reality but not to the extent you just did so it took a toll on you. You will be able to get used to it if you do that kind of alteration more often."

Daniel stood back up and looked more closely at the machine and saw the small blue buttons had different pictures of animals on them like a chicken, duck, cow and more. There was 2 slightly bigger blue buttons at the top that said cooked and uncooked, while the red button on the top had nothing on it. The machine was about 5 feet tall and about 25 inches wide. Daniel pressed the pig button then cooked before the red one on the top. When the center of the top opened up to reveal cooked bacon, he took it and tossed it to a random dog who looked at it like it was poison before taking one bit while everyone in the room watched. After the dog tried it he or she looked at it in amazement.

"It very Good." From the sound of the voice of the dog Daniel assumed it was female and after she said that she quickly finished it. Daniel turned back to Brago.

"I can make more of these. Your dogs will not run out of food if you agree to not cut down anymore trees." He said and prayed to god that Brago would accept his deal.

"We cut down tree to make weapons to defend our home, I would agree to this but how would we protect ourselves if the ponies tried to take our land again?" Daniel decided to tell him about his plan.

"You saw how I made this. Well I could make more with different purposes like I can make some to be guards, weapon makers and combat trainers. However I need some time to adapted to my power to be able make them without a side effect, as you saw after I made this. I will help defend your home if you should need it. Or you could ask Thag if your dogs and the Timberwolves could be allies." Brago had a look of uncertainty.

"How do we know they won't betray us? We been cutting down their land for years." He sighed.

"You had a reason to didn't you? There is no shame in doing what you must to protect those you care about. If you ask he might accept." Brago looked around in the large tunnel he was in, that was full of his subjects and those that could not get in because it was too crowded so they listened instead. All the eyes and ears of his people were on him, awaiting his answer.

"Ok, it worth a try, never has happened. Like you, it might be good thing." All the dogs seemed to howl cheerfully and Daniel kept his word and made more of those machines. After the 7th one he made he felt like he could now make them with no side effects so he continued until he made 50 of them were made, thinking that there was now enough to supply them. Brago had ordered some of the dogs to spread the machines around the tunnels and feed the pups as soon as they can. Now that he and Daniel could chat about the possible future alliance he tolled Brago there was a scout wolf that lead him here for this negotiation and that if it was still there then he could get a message back to Thag. Daniel and Brago now headed to the surface.

When they got to the top Daniel looked around for the wolf but did not see it so he decided to call.

"Hey eh...I did not get his name...Scar!?" Some bushed started shaking and the same wolf appeared.

"How did you know my name?" He asked

"Lucky guess? Anyway can you go back to Thag and tell him to meet me here? Brago the leader of the dogs has come to an agreement and there is something we wish to discuss with him." Scar looked at Brago then back at Daniel before nodding and leaving. Once he was out of sight Daniel decided to discuss something with Brago.

"Hey Brago, Can you do something for me in return of this?"

"Sure, what it?" He asked looking to Daniel and now Daniel saw that Brago had a scar going down his left eye but it was not very visible.

"If you consider me an ally then can you let your dogs know about it and extend it to my sister?"

"You have sibling?" He asked in a bit of a surprised voice.

"Yes. I have a sister and I want to keep her safe, also if you are going to ask how much of us there is, then the answer is only me and my sister. The rest are gone." At this Brago seemed to be a bit upset about something but before Daniel could ask what it was Brago already asked it.

"Why? Why you help us? All other creatures run from us, call we us monsters, brutes, barbarians and so. Why you no like them?" Daniel thought about that and he was not upset but actually quite happy he and his subjects were getting help. But from what he said just there, that all other species called them monsters and this was them getting help from another race so suddenly, Brago likely did not know how to take this.

"I have seen enough and heard to know not to judge one by what they are. It's their actions that show who they are and only they can change that." Daniel realized what he had just said and face palmed. "Oh great now this world has me talking like someone does in a Disney cartoon or a fanfic."

"Ok, I tell all dogs about you and your sis, say you are friend." Brago said to Daniel.

"He already considers me a friend when we just met not one hour ago? I wonder how I will die this time. Will the insanity of semi-immortality drive me to do it first? Will I kill myself while training with my powers or will this worlds overdose of sugary weirdness drive me to it first..

They chatted for about 2 hours until Daniel heard sounds from the forest and saw that Thag had arrived with 30 wolves. He stopped in front of Brago, he looked to Daniel.

"You have managed to get them to stop cutting our trees?"

"Yes I have. I made them some machines in exchange for it. They did ask me about how they will defend their territory so I though that if you two could agree on an alliance then it would benefit both of you." After he said that both Thag and Brago looked at each other and after a few seconds Thag looked back to Daniel.

"He and his dogs were close to destroying one of our main nests and he did not stop even after we had asked him to a lot of times. If you had not stopped it we would have attacked them." Daniel though it might be like this so he decided to make some cartoon speech and hope it worked.

"If you two look at one another you probably see a rival, a foe or something like that, where they have no care about you and you have none for them in return. You probably see them and think they know nothing of you and their kind is nothing but greedy and or mean.
But what I see are two leaders who are just like one another, who care about their subjects and what them to be safe and happy at any cost." He has a feeling he would need more convincing so he just went with what his gut said

"When you both met each other here just a few seconds ago you did not attack one another so do you not think that is an indication that you both are not mean and greedy? He did cut down trees and that was destroying your territory but he was doing it to make things to protect his dogs so he had a good reason, not a bad one. Also when I first encountered your subjects before you met me they did not just attack me on sight or without a warning and a reason, so yet again another point that shows you are not bad or monsters. Lastly you Thag tried to keep reasoning with him so you clearly did not want to fight. The same goes for you Brago, you could have attacked Thag's messengers but he didn't because you did not want a fight or a full blown war. Just to be ready for one if it was inevitable so neither of you wanted to hurt the other. Do you not see you are a lot alike?"

After he finished saying this they turned their view away from Daniel and to each other.

"He...is right. I suppose we could try to be allies. What do you think?" Thag asked Brago who nodded in return.

"Yes, could help both." Daniel smiled. These two were foes but now they have listened to reason and took a chance to be friends.

"Oh. I need to get back to my sister, she might be worried about me." He was about to take off until another thing clicked in his mind. "I can't keep my sister in that house forever just to make sure she is safe. It's just not right, I need to find a small town, village, settlement or almost anywhere with not a lot of activity that could expose us so she can still go outside and play or go and visit different locations. Somewhere for her to live safely but also not isolated." He turned back to the two leaders. "Do you two know a place that is like a town or village where there is not a lot of activity and is quite small?" Thag was the first to speak.

"Yes there is a town next to the Everfree. There is not a lot of things that happen there but from what my scouts have told me the residences are friendly, at least to anything that is a pony. There is a lot of activity from us near it's borders so for you and your sister it will be much less dangerous." Daniel felt like he could flip there and then with this news.

"Thanks Thag. What's the name of the town and where is it?" He asked with a smile.

"It is a few miles north. Its called ponyville which is strange consider ville for village is in it's name but it has a town center." He answered to Daniel while pointing north.

"Here, take this." Brago said to Daniel and handed him a piece of paper and when Daniel unfolded it he found it to be a map of the land. He saw the location of ruins and if his hunch was right then those ruins were of the castle he was in when he first arrived here and if the ruin was somehow important enough that it was on a map then there was probably a path to ponyville from it. He decided he would give it a quick check before going back home.

"Thanks Brago." Daniel said before folding it back up. "Well I should get going then. Bye." With that Daniel used space alteration to fly and took off towards the ruins which were east.

After a few minutes of flying Daniel arrived at the ruins and he recognized it as the same place he was at when he arrive on this world so he entered the castle. After a few minutes he was about to go outside and try to find a path to ponyville when he heard what sounded like hoof steps so he went right up to the ceiling and looked down. He saw a pony that had a coat with a color that he found hard to descried but when he focused his vision he could see that the pony had very visible eyelashes so Daniel assumed it was female.

Her eyes were a raspberry red, she was wearing some clothes, a hat and had what looked like compass on the side of both of her back legs. Daniel tried to sneak passed her by heading the other way she was looking and managed to get into a room and lost sight of her. Looking around at the room he was in he realized he found the castle kitchen. He though about it and realized he has not ate in a long time so he thought about what he wanted and after that he snapped his fingers to be greeted with a piece of chicken that appeared on the table.

"If this does not give me food poisoning then I will know it's safe to make food like this for Annabelle. If it does give me food poisoning then...well I can't die from it so I am fine. He though as he started to eat. But he quickly spat it out. It tasted flavorless and just plain bad.

Looking up at the shelves he saw a bunch of different cook books. He quickly realized he was going to need to learn how to cook or Annabelle would be eating flavorless food.

Back out in the hall Daring do was disappointed because she had planned a trip here for quite a while and fought the creatures and other dangers of everfree just to find nothing that could be considered treasure in the castle.

"This search was a waste of time all along." She said as she took out a notepad and pencil from the pocket on her clothes and scored out 'The sisters old castle'. "When I get back home I will find something else to explore." She was about to leave until she heard some books moving in a room behind her so she went back to check on it.

Daniel was rummaging through the books and found out most of them were for cooking plants but there was a few on how to cook meat that was in the shelve marked 'Griffon and minotaur meals' As he was rummaging through them a though appeared in his mind. "What could I do to cheer Annabelle up?" As he thought about this he remembered his time as a kid, how he used to think some his action figures and made up paper drawings could be real. With that in mind he tested out his shapeshifting to see if it had limits. He turned into a bird, a bear and a snake.

"No. She would likely want something made up. What cartoons does she like?" He thought and he remembered a few, but he choose the one they both liked which was Pokémon and tried to see if he could take their forms. He changed into a few until he stopped in the form of his favorite legend which was Mew. Looking at himself in a mirror, he chuckled. "She might like this."

He looked out the window and saw that the sun had not moved much, it was actually still morning so he kept on looking around but all he found were some more cook books, cups, plates and other related things. Just as he was about to continue searching for anything that could be meat related he remembered he learned how to age and de-age things so he decided to test it out again to make sure he had the hang of it and kept how it was done fresh in his mind.

There was a old miniature painted statue of an Alicorn which he recognized, it was of the one he kicked to keep her for finding about him and his sister's true identities. He flew up to it and held it in his hands, closed his eyes, felt the flow of time and used his power to reverse the flow. He then opened his eyes and saw that it looked as good as new, the colors were easily distinguishable and the surface of it was now very smooth. "Great, I have not forgotten how to do this." With that thought he put the statue back down and flew over to one of the books he saw on a shelf that was about making different kinds of soups.

Daniel was about to change back to his normal form until the idea hit him that he best stay in it. If the ponies knew about humans more than the Diamond dogs and Timberwolves then they might know how his species truly looks. And he could not think of a animal that could carry all these books out without help or without making it seem unrealistic. At the same time there was others like bears but they would probably scare ponies away and draw the attention of the guards. With him being in his Mew form he could pass himself off as a new species if he was found out and not cause a panic if he does not look like a predator. Plus with magic being real on this planet he could carry them all with his powers and pass it off as magic. Seemed like the best option he could think of.

Turning his attention back to the books he though that he might as well take the book on making soup. It would probably be easy because he could just add different things to it that were edible. He tried to remove it with his hands and he did but it fell to the floor so he decided he would pick it up with levitation. When he was about leave he heard what sounded like a pencil on paper behind him and looked at the door, only to see the same pony he tried to avoid earlier looking between him and her notepad but when she saw he was looking at her she stopped doing whatever she was doing on the notepad and just stood there, staring at him and he did the same.

There was a long awkward silence that was soon broke by the pony.

"Uh...Hi." Daniel cursed himself as he has now been seen but on the plus side he has not been seen in his true form. Daniel charged at the door which opened it upon impact and then started to fly away while shouting at the pony to go away but then he remember in this form all that others would hear is him saying 'Mew' over and over again. But this did not stop him as he tried to find the exit of this castle.

"Wait, please stop. I did not mean to scare you." The pony said as he heard her following him. He did not know if she was being truthful or just saying that but so far today he has met two different species that looked like monsters but at heart they were no different than him, they were intelligent, felt emotions and had desires just like him so he decided to give this pony a chance. He slowed down and turned around to look at her. After a few seconds he started to lower himself towards the ground but stopped just before he touched it. He was now on eye level with her.

Daring do did not know how to proceed with this. She was experienced in getting treasures and avoiding traps, she also studied animals to make sure she knew what she would be up against when her adventures led her to encounter them in ruins but now she was face to face with an animal she has never seen or even read about in the current day or in old myth. Not only that but it seemed to be more intelligent than most when she saw it looking over books back in the castle kitchen and it also seemed to have some powerful abilities. She had seen it levitate the books it was looking over, it was flying without wings and it restored a old statue by what looked like time reversal, all without a horn.

"If it does have the power to control time then than is that why it has never been seen before? Because it keeps traveling? This might be a new species and discovering something like that is better than almost any treasure. I don't know what the full extent of it's abilities are so I should be careful." Daring decided to see if she could discover as much about it as she could, starting with it's diet, so she took out an apple from one of her pockets and offered it to the pink creature.

"Is she trying to be friendly?" Daniel thought as the pony seemed to offer him an apple. He decided it would be rude if he refused so he took the apple and took a bit of it. The moment he tasted the juice in it he felt like he had just melted as this was the best apple he had ever tried so he closed his eyes and savored it.

"Looks like it eats apples. So it is probably a herbivore or omnivore. With the ears, eyes and the way it looks is it supposed to be some kind of cat?" Daring thought as she watched the creature that was starting to eat the apple faster until only the core was left. While it was distracted Daring took out a camera that she uses on her adventures and took a photo of it while it was still eating then quickly puts the camera back into her inner pocket, the camera she was using was made to not flash or make a click sound.

"That was the best apple I have ever had. I should give something in return, but what?" Daniel levitated the apple core and changed it into a sunflower then handed it to the pony. Who was now looking at him with eyes as wide a dinner plates.

"It can...can alter reality too? So that's time and reality, the flying and levitating it did before, so that's space too. What are you?" "What are you?" Daring said but was snapped out of it when she just realized she said that out loud.

"I don't have all day. I need to find ponyville and get back to Annabelle." Daniel flew off once more to find the exit which turned out to be down a large hallway that was 1 of 4 way to go in the large room he was in. As he opened the door he looked back at the pony and nodded as his way of saying 'Thanks' before flying off. Daring was left looking at where the pink creature flew before it disappeared into the forest, she took out her notepad and looked at her drawing of it, still wondering what it was.

Daniel flew across a bridge that looked very unstable and to his delight he found a dirt path at the other side and followed it. A few minutes later he saw it left the forest and he could see ponyville from the entrance of the forest. The place looked just right, it was not too crowded and there did not seem to be a lot of activity happening. Not to the point of total boredom however.

"Good. Now I know how to get here from the castle. All I have to do is get back home and then bring Annabelle here." Daniel was about to head back to get Annabelle but as he turned to his right he saw a rabbit looking at him curiously. They stared at each other for a few seconds and Daniel was about to ignore the rabbit and leave before he heard a voice.

"Angel? Oh, Angel there you are?" He turned to the source of the voice which sounded female and saw a yellow Pegasus approaching the rabbit from his side so she couldn't see him but she soon looked in the direction the rabbit called 'Angel' pointed at Daniel while looking at the mare.

"Again? Congratulations you dingbat you are horrible at trying to stay unnoticed." He cursed himself again but was so annoyed at himself he did not notice he said it out loud. When he did he thought it would not make a difference in this form anyway.

"Why would you call yourself that? You're not a bat. What are you?" The mare asked Daniel

"I know I am not a bat. It's a figure of spe- Wait, you can understand me?" He asked when his brain finished processing what she had just said.

"Yes I can. Is that a surprise?" Her voice was like a mother's voice, soft and very caring but Daniel was freaked out about that this mare knew what he said when he was in this form and that could be a bad thing. Also if these ponies were smart enough to use magic, if it required a lot of intelligence, then he needed to be more careful than before so he decided to get out of there now.

"I...have to go." He said and flew back to his house as fast as he could.

"What do you suppose that was Angel?" Fluttershy asked angel who just shrugged his arms.

"Ok, no more side tracks." Daniel thought as he continued to go through the forest to his house. When he arrived at his house a while later he change back into his human form and entered the house to find Annabelle asleep on the couch. "I might as well do what I said I would." With that he went up the stairs snapped his fingers to make a door appeared on a flat wall, he opened it and went down a stair case to a large empty room with the only source of light being a 60 watt bulb on the center of the celling.

"If what PIA told me was true then I am going to feel like crap after I do this, but if I do it then it should make things easier." With that he snapped his finger once more and machines with lots of different purposes appeared in the room but Daniel did not know what they were use for so he now got ready for the part he was not looking forward to. He close his eyes and focused on what he wanted to make. A highly advance A.I with the total knowledge of things like weapons, martial arts, engineering, genetics and few other things. It will try to learn more in non violent ways and solves problems by itself, but will not betray him or his sister and will always follow their commands, the first command he gave it was to grow and become better, then make robots with different functions but not leave the house. With all that ready he snapped his fingers and then he felt his head take a hit which felt like he got hit by a baseball bat, then his world went dark.

A while later

"Bro? Danny?" Annabelle was shaking him as she was calling out his name.

"Annabelle? What happened?" He said as he sat up on the couch. Annabelle seemed to have dragged him to the living room. "How did you get me here? Am I not to heavy for you?"

"You were passed out next to a new room and after I dragged you here I went back to check on that room. There was some kind of talking blue orb that was building things with mechanical arms. But what I mainly want to know is, Why were you LYING IN A POOL OF YOU'RE OWN BLOOD?!" She screamed that last part at him and Daniel looked over himself to find that his hoodie now looked almost pure red on the top but the blood seemed to stop about half way down it. Daniel tried something different, he cleaned his hoodie by thinking about it being clean and it was cleaned from all the blood on it.

"Sorry about scaring you...again. I discovered I don't just need to learn how to control my powers but also I need to watch and adapt to the amount I put into them. How long was I out?" He started to stand up and looked over to Annabelle as he said that

"I don't know for sure, but I found you about 20 minutes ago. Bro, what did you make those machines for?" Daniel told her he would tell her later and gave Annabelle a quick story of what happened to him while he was out scouting.

"So are we moving to a town?" She asked with joy in her voice. He smiled.

"Yes we are, however you will need a pony disguise so, first off what do you want to have, horn wings or non but be stronger?" He asked her.

"I want wings." She answered happily.

"Ok, what about your coat, hair, tail and eye colour?"

"I want to be pink with blue eyes and brown hair and tail, I want to look like a strawberry ice-cream with chocolate." She chuckled at the though of her looking like that.

He then put his hand on his sisters forehead and focused, a few seconds later he looked at her and she was just like how she wanted to be but he saw something he did not add, on her back leg he saw a image of a pencil.

"PIA, what is that?" He asked.

"It's a cutie mark, it symbolises ones special talent." Daniel remember that Annabelle always loved to draw and did so very well for her age, but he still felt his stomach twist when he heard the word 'cutie mark'.

Annabelle looked over herself and when she saw her mark she asked the same thing and Daniel gave her the same answer PIA gave him.

"Ok, Now me, if I go a unicorn then I should be able to use my powers without drawing to much attention." He though of what he wanted to look like and started to change form.

When it was done Annabelle looked over he brothers new form, He was a unicorn, his coat was pure white, his eyes were a purple, his hair and tail were black and blue in strips, but what caught his sisters eye was his mark.

"Bro, what does your mark mean?" She asked not taking her eyes off it. When Daniel looked at it he saw what she meant, his mark was half way down his back leg on both sides and almost joined above his tail, the mark was lots of stars and galaxies but each one had a red line that left them and some red lines connected to nothing other that just space but eventual all the red lines came together in the centre of his mark which showed a image of a heart. He remember what PIA said he had merged with.

"The Heart. Is that what this indicates. Can I change it?" He asked PIA.

"Yes that is what it indicates and you can change it but I will be very difficult. This world runs on magic for everything so it is not only very strong but everywhere. Too much for your resistance to stop. You can change it if you constantly use your power on it to keep it the image you want or you can increase the amount or radiation within you so the magic won't effect you." Daniel decided to just put on some clothes to cover it up, he did not want to do the other options PIA mentioned as it could get him caught if he used his power all the time or he could serious hurt someone with that amount of radiation.

He thought about the clothes he was wearing before and the hoodie and some trousers appeared on him, completely covering his mark. "If ponies can tell what ones talent is by looking at their mark then I don't want them to see mine. It will cause to much attention."

"It means Heart. By the looks of it, i will just call it The Universal Heart." He said answering Annabelle's question but now she was curious of what that was.

"That sounds...I don't know Like something out of a story." She frowned, not quite satisfied with the answer. Daniel saw she was about to ask something else so he beat her by speaking first. "I will tell you more about it later. Now let's go, I can't keep you in that house forever." He said as he started to fly again and then picked up Annabelle. Both of them flew off to ponyville all the while staying close to the ground. "I will stop this when we are closer to the town. We will walk the last little bit." To which Annabelle just nodded.

"Can I get clothes like you?" She asked him.

"Sure, what do you want?" He asked.

"Jeans and hoodie like you but I want a white one." Daniel made them appear on her and she hugged herself to feel them and then smiled. "So cosy." Daniel smile and continued to fly in the direction to town.

Canterlot

"It has been 1000 years Luna, and I can't wait until you return. Celestia thought as she was eagerly awaiting her sisters return but she was interrupted from her thoughts by a letter that was sent to he from her student, Twilight Sparkle. Her letter was informing her that she found out about Nightmare Moon and was trying to warn her.

Twilight had always caught Celestia's attention as she was a lot like her old friend Star Swirl who was close to alicorn ascension but did not achieve it as he could not fully grasp the understanding that was needed for it to happen. Celestia had a strong feeling that Twilight could wield the Elements of Harmony and purge her sister from the evil that clamed her but Twilight would not be able to do it alone. She would need help, she would need friends and perhaps that would help her in the future. Friendship was what Star Swirl did not have besides her and Luna, and that could have been how he was not able finish his research. With this event that was going to happen meant that Twilight would need friends to help her get through it. Celestia now had a plan and she hoped it would work.

Looking over the map of Equestrian she saw the little town that was holding the sun celebration this year and decided that Twilight should head there to check on the preparations and make some friends.

With that in her mind she opened a scroll and started to write.

"So I am sending you to Ponyville to check on the preparations and while you are there I have another task for you, make some friends." She finished the letter and sent it to Twilight.

Author's Notes:

Diamond Dog speech is suppose to be broken. It's not a typing Error

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