Spike yawned as he got up in the morning ready to face a new day of training. He looked over at the cradle that was holding Moonlight Wisp. His eyes widened when he saw the pale coat. The growing dragon moved as quickly as he could to her side. He lifted her out of the cradle seeing her chest moving slowly.

“Twilight!” he yelled too afraid to move, he heard the hoofsteps as the mulberry princess ran into the room. Her eyes widened as she saw the baby as the other residents came rushing to the room his voice having through the halls.

“No!” Twilight said moving quickly to his side as she used her magic to scan the foal. Celestia moved to her side as did Sans. The white princess scanned the young pony as well as Sans’ left eye glowed blue and yellow flashing quickly. Celestia’s teeth clench before she bit her lip. Luna moved to her side. They had visited again on an entirely separate visit, checking on the human visitors. They didn’t expect something like this to happen.

“Is there anything we can do?” the dark blue sister asked looking peering at her older sister. A sideways glance of magenta eyes caused her to look worried. “You aren’t thinking….”

“He is the only one who could help.” replied the Princess of the Sun and all eyes looked at her, she turned to address them. “Spike get Rarity, I know someone who can help. Sister go to Canterlot and get the map… he’s always prefered you to me.”

“Perhaps now is time to make amends.” Luna told her sister before moving away.

“Princess Celestia, who are you talking about?” inquired Twilight being the first to speak up as the humans moved away. Jorge staying a little while longer to comfort Spike before leaving as the dragon had to get Rarity.

"The Lord of the Underworld himself, Hades.” the white alicorn explained as she moved quickly her pupil by her side. “You probably never met him when you took Cerberus, my sister and I are not even sure where he came from. At first we thought he was the only alicorn to have not vanished but now after years I am starting to suspect that isn’t the case.”

“There were more?” the mulberry princess was quite shocked at this news and the older princess shook her head as she responded. “What we thought were alicorns then were nothing more than illusions meant to teach us before the Spirits went their separate ways. I did not discover that until shortly before Star Swirl’s death. He had told me that there once were beings like the alicorns but they were hybrids. And even they did not withstand time.”

Her eyes travelled to Gears who was talking with Comet as she poked her head in the room to check on Spike. Twilight frowned as she thought about it, that meant that before Cadence and herself were turned into alicorns it was only those two.

“Sister, I have the map.” Luna’s arrival caused Twilight to jump in surprise. “Are you sure you do not want to go.”

“You have not seen him since your return, I am sure he is expecting a visit from you.” the dark blue alicorn knew her sister was making excuses at this point and raised an eyebrow. “Are you sure you can take care of everything while I’m gone?”

“I will be fine sister, go.” Celestia nodded her head just as Rarity arrived in a panic. She moved straight to the room with Spike to check on the foal.

"We should begin our journey now, I do not know how long the portal will stay open.” Celestia spoke as Sans walked up next to her. She opened her mouth and the skeleton interrupted. “i’m going.”

The journey didn’t take them too far out of the town as Twilight expected but she didn’t remember going this way when she was bringing Cerberus back to the Underworld. In fact she couldn’t remember going into a cave at all, yet she didn’t cast any magic at Celestia’s request. The group stumbled a bit in the dark before a figure with a lantern approached them.

“Princess Celestia, what a surprise.” the hooded figure spoke gold eyes peering out from under the hood before tilting it’s head to the side. “This way, Lord Hades is going to have questions.”

“I know Charon.” the Princess of the Sun replied her gaze lowered before the figure moved swiftly to Spike’s side. A hoof moved out and touched the fading foal on the head before moving away.

“The questions will have to wait.” this shocked all the ponies there, Sans was strangely quiet as he stared at the ferryman. They got onto the boat and they set off sailing across the river. Twilight wanted to ask questions but kept silent as the boat creaked.

“Tralalala…” Sans seemed to lift his head at that. “Beware of the man who speaks in hands. The child of fate is with him. Knives shall cleave and never end, until you find a way for the past to mend.”

"you.” the skeleton breathed as Charon turned their head to look at them before the boat stopped. “how?”

“Questions can wait my silly friend, the child is suffering.” the riverman reminded him before sailing away after they all departed. Celestia looked at Sans curiously before they moved towards the large palace carved from stone lit by flowing rivers of lava. White flowers and tall blue flowers mingled in the courtyard.

“They seem familiar don’t they?” a voice asked and the group turned their head to see a grey blue stallion walking out from beyond the stone doors. Gold eyes locked with magenta eyes as the strange alicorn walked over to the group.

“Lord Hades.” Celestia bowed her head slightly the others giving a full bow. The King of the Underworld returned the nod saying. “Princess Celestia, how strange to see you here after our last spat.”

“I am here on my sister’s request and for my student, nothing more.” the white alicorn answered tersely and Spike stepped forward. Hades tore his gaze away from the eldest princess to examine the child. He hummed under his breath as he lifted gently with his magic. Gold eyes glowed as color returned to her coat.

“I have done what I can, but she cannot leave until she can live on her own.” explained the ruler of the Underworld, he ignored the looks of confusion as he lead them through the castle to his throne room. “What I am going to do will anger the Spirits. They do not wish to let anyone know of what this world once was. A world with a magic all of it’s own.”

“my world.” Sans said thinking about the Echo Flowers in front of the castle.

"Precisely… perhaps I should say fragments of the old world.” the gold eyed alicorn looked at them as he moved his throne to the side. “I have made doorways to patch the old world together but even I cannot complete them all. Yet I believe the magic of this world will stabilize her far better than I can.”

“You cannot expect us to allow a mere foal to help you.” Rarity interjected her blue eyes narrowing. Hades chuckled as he answered giving her a sideways glance. “Of course not, my magic is the only thing keeping her alive.”

“i’ll stay here.” Sans offered knowing that his knowledge would only get him in trouble. Hades nodded his head as Spike handed Moonlight over.

“So by restoring this old world of ours she will be able to survive?” Rarity asked in order to understand the situation. The lord of the Underworld nodded his head as he replied. “I had already restored two parts of it. The rest would take far longer than I thought it would.”

“What was the reason why she started to fade?” Celestia inquired and the demonic alicorn didn’t answer as the doors swung open with a gust of wind pulling them towards it. “Hades what is going on?!”

“I don’t know!” he snapped before before dragged into the doorway the group screamed as they were all separated.

Luna’s eyes snapped open as she sat up in a hurry and looked around her room. Her connection to her sister was just severed and she didn’t like the feeling. It was like her sister wasn’t even on the world anymore. She yawned before looking outside seeing that it was still dark out. ‘She should have returned by now.’ thought the younger sister as there was a knock on the guest door.

“Enter.” she called out climbing out of the bed with a concerned look on her face. She was wondering if they were back from the Underworld.

“Princess Luna.” it was one of the humans that Twilight brought with her, Halsey, if she remembered correctly. “I have some questions about how this world works. Ever since yesterday the sun and moon both rose and set in a schedule time. Yet today the sun shows no sign of rising.”

“What?” Luna went to the window and peered out seeing that her sister’s magic had yet to bring the sun up. “She’s not back. Alright, Luna calm down.”

"Is everything alright?” Halsey asked, more curious about the lack of sun at this time. The dark blue alicorn moved over to the window before sighing.

“How my sister managed this for a thousand years is beyond me.” she mumbled before concentrating her magic beginning to flow. The moon began to lower and the first golden beams of the sun began to show over the horizon. Once the sun began to move on its own did the Princess of the Night collapse to the ground. Halsey ran over and checked on the alicorn letting out a small sigh of relief when she found no sign of injury. Looking out the window the scientist wondered how magic in this world has affected the environment around them. Though she was worried for the eldest princess as it was her who extended the hoof of friendship towards them. She was allowing them to stay in the country that she ruled. The human had to prepare for the worst.

Sombra walked through the halls before heading through a door where trophy stands stood in darkened crystal. They all surrounded a large table with a map of Equestria upon it.

“What do you want to do?” Stormy Shadows asked as she looked at the map. “We can take over the Crystal Empire while they are unaware. Canterlot is a good option, the Royal Guard and the Wonderbolts are useless.”

“We are not strong enough yet.” the dark unicorn replied his red eyes scanning the map. “Changelings cannot be trusted, we’ll look for allies in the Everfree forest. Mindless beasts respect power, you have your own role. Figure it out.”

“Whatever.” mumbled the monochrome mare. “How much do you trust Abyssia and myself?”

“I don’t, neither of you have proven yourselves to me.” the corrupted unicorn retorted not even glancing at her. “We have a common goal, that is all.”

“Not all of us.” Stormy commented offhandedly her eyes narrowing at the map. “I may not hold any loyalties to you, but Abyssia is more dangerous.”

“I know, she is hiding many things from me. I am not expecting her to keep to her end of the bargain.” Sombra looked at Stormy Shadows with a raised eyebrow. “Why did you tell me that?”

“Because, we think the same.” answered the pegasus smugly and she shook her head. “I’d hate to see you blindly follow someone like that.”

The unicorn king shook his head as he smirked saying. “You are plotting something.”

“Perhaps, but who would you rather have on your side?” the golden eyed mare questioned watching as Sombra summoned mirrors into the room. “Must you watch them in here?”

“Neither, you have no loyalties and Abyssia’s rest with somepony else.” he answered ignoring the next questions. Red eyes looked at three black mirrors with a frown. He couldn’t see the ponies that they belonged to. That concerned him greatly, there was no way could have known that he was watching them.

Sans sat in the hallway of the throne room looking at everything carefully. The design was eerily similar to the one in New Home. He looked towards the throne wondering if Hades was the one who brought his brother back. It was a possibility with the timing. ‘How did he find out about the other universes in the first place?’ that was the one question that plagued the shorter skeleton’s mind. The sound of hooves caught the lazy brother’s ear causing him to look up. Princess Celestia was standing there, wounds littering her body. The skeleton managed to stop her the moment she collapsed. She smiled at him weakly before falling unconscious.

Looking up he saw the others moving towards him. Hades was keeping the child close to him before spotting Spike. He floated her over to her father as Sans’ asked. “How is she?”

“She will be alright from here on out.” Hades answered a grim expression on his face as Spike took the filly from the magical aura. “Yet there is a danger. Though what I had to do, I may have caused even more problems for this world.”

"If you want I can put a temporary seal on the doors.” it was Twilight who suggested this. Hades thought for a moment before leading her away. Spike looked down at Moonlight Wisp and saw that she was sleeping peacefully. Sans scanned her and relaxed, the Ruler of the Underworld was telling the truth.

“Styx, what is the matter?” Hades walked from the hallway behind his throne a frown on his face.

“Tartarus is in an uproar. Apparently they sense the presence of an alicorn.” Styx replied with a bow. “Do I want to know or will you take care of it?”

“I will handle this matter.” replied the blue gray alicorn before his horn glowed sending the ponies, dragon, and skeleton away. His mane lit again the wounds across his body healing as he followed the fire colored mare.

Author's Notes:

I do not own MLP or any other series in this fanfic

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