I was in a black void, that's all I remember really while I was out.

"Where am I?" Was the first thing I said when I woke up, forgetting to open my eyes, but as I do I realize I was in my room in the castle, warm and comfortable, until I moved.

The moment I moved a needle of pain shot up my spine from my thigh, but against the pain I got up, examining the stitches in my stomach and the bloody bandage on my thigh,  forcing myself to stand up, but I decided not to walk as far as I would have to and so I just entered a painting,  taking a couple steps, and reappearing next to realty in the main room.

"Holy butt fuck!" Rarity screams as I appear next to her, making me laugh, "that a good one, you almost jumped to the ceiling there!" I say, walking away from her and into the middle of the room, making it ten feet before I'm stopped  by celestia.

"Where do you think your going?" She asks me, looking stern, "on a flight" I say, trying to get by her, "your going to go lay down and rest, you'll tear your stitches!" Celestia says, keeping the stern look and walking in front of me, but I was hell bent on flying.

"Let me leave, you can't stop me" I say, taking another step forwards, but celestia once again blocks me, "I didn't want to do this but so be it!" I say, my horn glowing as I change my flesh to slime, the same way that had saved me from twilight before, and walked right through celestia.

It was actually she passed through me, splitting apart my slime body and rejoining itself behind her, leaving her covered in green mucus as I walked past her, reforming my body solid as I go to take off, launching myself into the air with a downthrust of my wings.

I fly around for awhile, greatful for some fresh air and a warm day, when I see a rainbow streak flying towards me.

"Dashie!" I yell when she approaches me, stopping before we collided with eachother, embracing her in my forelegs with care, "I love you dashie!" Was the only thing I could get out, realizing if twilight had killed me I would never been able to hug or kiss dashie again, "that's sweet Tesla, but you freaked us all out there" dashie says, hugging into me, leaving me holding up our weight as we hugged, "but celestia wants you back there, she wants to talk, she woke me up from a nap and when she was covered with slime I knew you were awake" she continues, "OK, I'll go back" I say, racing dashie back to the castle.

We landed on the balcony, walking into the main room, but right as I passed the wall I hear a scream.

"Holy shit!" Fluttershy screams, I must've scared her, "you couldn't warn me he was awake!?!" She exclaims, backing away from me, backing right into a slimed celestia.

"Watch it fluttershy, look where's your going, I thought you already knew." Celestia says, stepping to the side, "I don't care! Keep him away from me!" Fluttershy exclaims, still backing away, so I look towards celestia for a answer.

"You scared them pretty bad, rainbow dash is OK with you but you even scared Luna, we need to know what happened"

She calls a meeting, everyone but twilight showing up.

"I was taking a nap, and as I woke up felt a needle slide into my neck, immobilizing me as twilight dragged me down to that room, she put me into a room for awhile then took me to that laboratory of sorts, she chained me to the wall that folds out, lever the less I put up ba fight but she had something on  my horn to stop my magic, I find get a hoof in and kicked her in the side, then she sliced off my cutie mark...." I stop, something popping into my mind, quickly I tore the bandages off my thigh, and sure enough it was back, "rarity follows the trail of blood and destruction down to the room, then she came and told us it was there after she puked, we wondered where it had gone" celestia says, so I continue.

"Well after she cut off my cutie mark she cut open my stomach, all during which my mind had become a inferno of rage, and seeing my stomach cut open released the anger, I became a skeleton again and pulled the chains through the open points, and I wasn't in control as this happened, I was in autopilot, I crushed twilights face in and threw her into the walls a couple times, then threw her through the door, kicked her and crushed her bones as I brought her up here, after awhile just dragging her by her throat in my mouth, bucking her all the way across the room, and that's when I passed out." I finish, taking a breath.

"Well then, he didn't almost kill twilight for nothing then, he's not a threat after all" celestia said, the others stopping edginbg away from me, but something in what celestia said caught my attention, "ALMOST killed her?" I say questioningly, "come with me" celestia said, the others following us as we walked to another part of the castle.

I had gotten used to there being parts of the castle I didn't know about, so when I entered the small room it wasnt a shock, what was was seeing twilight, covered in casts and bandages from horn to hoof, breathing. She was behind a wall of metal bars almost three inches thick, "to keep you from her, when we thought you just wanted to kill her for no reason" celestia explains, so to test it I tug on the bars, and couldn't believe it when they bent like putty.

The others were gaping at me, "that's it! I give up!, every fucking time you get nocked out or injured or killed you get a new fucking ability, I give up on this!, if you want to kill twilight do it, we fucking can't stop you!" Celestia screams, surprising all of us and leaving us in shock as she storms out of the room.

"What just happened?" I ask, getting no reply, so I push the bar back into alignment and chase after celestia.

"Celestia wait up!" I yell, running after her, catching up to her as she was about to go into her room, "what's wrong?, please tell me" I say, "its just that your always getting new abilities, and its messing with my mind on trying to keep up with you, its like a constant puzzle" she replies, "then don't try, just let it happen, it confuses me sometimes too, don't worry about it, just let it flow" I say, celestia visibly calming down, seeming to be better as I leave her.

The others had followed me as I ran after celestia, which I now regret doing, because I  pulled quite a few of my stitches, and I didn't want my organs dragging on the floor.

I find a couple strips of cloth and tie them around my stomach and back, holding my sides together so I didn't tear my stitches further, happy to see it was working I decide to go on another flight, just to get some fresh air.

I enjoy the feel of wind over my wings, just relaxing to the sound of birds near me, wishing everyday was this beautiful and calm, then I see a cloud shaped like pinkamena.

The shape stirs something in my mind, about back when pinkie and pinkamena was one body, and I race back to tell celestia what I had thought.

The moment I land I see celestia, "celestia! I thought of something!" I say, out of breath, "you thought?!?, now that's dangerous!" I hear from across the room, fluttershy grinning, "leave him alone fluttershy, what did you think of?" Celestia says, glancing over at fluttershy, "you know how pinkie and pinkamena were once in one body?, well thats what I think of twilight, there's something else in there that tried to kill me, not her!" I say, starting to bring my breathing back to normal, "that, that... That is possible, let me think" celestia mutters, closing her eyes and bowing her head deep in thought, then suddenly she stiffened up, her eyes wide.

"Holy shit!, that might be it!, I thought she wasn't herself lately but not literally, we have to hurry!" Celestia exclaims, grabbing ahold of me with her magic and dragging me to were twilight was, which really hurt.

"Dammit celestia, let me go!" I say, right as we enter the room twilight was in, and we stood in shock seeing twilight was gone.

"Where did she go!?!" Celestia yells, hurting my ears, but before I could think of a answer we hear crackle, a evil laugh pursuing, and we booked it.

We make it back to the main room, the laugh trailing us, but the real horror was awaiting.

To our horror the rest of them were in some kinda sphere, Luna, pinkie, dashie, rarity, fluttershy, all of them trapped in a sphere, all fighting and screaming to get out, then we heard something behind us.

Well, it was to things, a twilight covered in casts and gently crying, and another twilight, seeming evil and vicious with her glowing eyes, but all it did was bring my mind back to pinkamena, and I got mad.

Celestia took a step or two away from me as I started to glow, my mind rekindling the flame of the pain this thing caused me, all the anger i had beat twilight with pooling into a lake of magma in my mind, and this lake was about to blow.

The alternate twilight had started circling me, like a shark on a school of fish, but I kept her in sight, my mind working out the weak spots on this thing, but only one stood out, the neck.

We stared eachother down as she circled me, and without warning she lunged, catching me on the shoulder and knocking me to the side, and in horror I realized she was to fast for me to see, let alone fight.

"Celestia help!" I yell, only by inches dodging another strike, but celestia had backed into a corner, far away from the fight, "I'm not a fighter!, I can't help!" She yells, using magic to drag the twilight covered in casts to her, "well do something!, I can't last much longer!" I yell, once again dodging by inches, this twilight had dodged my lightning, my plasma, even my magic itself, it was only a blur as it moved, "you sure you need it?!?" Celstia yells, "fucking yes!" I yell back, ducking as the alternate twilight lunged, sending her flying overtop of me. "OK!" Celestia yells, pulling something out of one of the bags she wore on her back, the moment it was out it flew to me, sticking me and knocking me into a wall, but I felt even more power enter my system.

I watched as whatever it was clamped to my flesh, color shooting from it, not only color but I watched my muscles grow, my wounds heal, and I could see something else, I could see what was going to happen, I could see where, I could see how fast, I saw I could win.

It was almost like the entire world was in slow motion, even the once fast alternate twilight, I pulled myself off the wall and walked up to the almost frozen alternate twilight, watching as her eyes ever so slowly moved towards me, but before they could I gouged them out.

It didn't bother my mind that the world was pretty much frozen, I was busy pulling alternate twilight apart, gouging out her eyes and snapping the optical nerve, lying here eyes on the floor as I flipped her over and slit her gut open, pulling out one by one the organs that I could follow, lying them out on the ground in the pattern they came out, until I was left with a empty body, so to take it further I skin her, peeling it off and leaving only the muscle and bone intact. Then I remember the brain.

I crack the skull open with a blow from the side of my hoof, careful not to damage the contents as I remove the brain and spinal column, lying it in the correct position with the other organs, standing back to admire my work, then the world returns to normal speed.

As I watch the world kick back up into normal gear something starts to protrude from my flesh, a crystal, deep black, which pops all the way out and lands on the floor with a clang,my flesh un injured.

"T...e..s.la!" I hear as everything goes back to normal, the sphere that trapped the others  disappearing, releasing them, but they all backed away from me, scared at something, but dashie runs up to me.

"Tesla!" She yells as I take her into my forelegs and hold her tight, my mind just registering what I had done.

"This is disgusting Tesla, what did you do?" Celestia asks as she walks back towards me, picking up the crystal that had popped out of my skin, "its my revenge, she wanted to dissect me so I dissected her" I reply, letting dashie go, "its the perfect poetic justice" I continue, picking up alternate twilights skin, "can I keep this?" I ask, just imagining the mount, "that's disgusting Tesla, do you really want it?" Celestia asks, seeming disgusted, "yeah, its awesome!" I reply, holding it up and spreading the wings out, feathers still attached, examining the cutie mark, which was identical to twilights, "what ever, but did you really have to spread her organs out? Celestia asks, poking a organ, " I want those too, I want to study them" I say, imagining how much I could learn from them, "OK, that's were I put my hoof down, you can keep one organ, the rest get incinerated" celestia replies, going to say something else, but right then the remains of alternate twilights carcass jump up.

Before any of us could react it had already launched celestia into a wall, then turned to me and spoke: "this isn't over!, you will die or I will trying to kill you, I will be back!".

The carcass spread its skinless wings and flew out to the balcony, turning back and staring at me once again as it took off, a deafening screech piercing the night sky.

" what in the name of the holiest fuck was that fucking thing!?!" I say, watching it disapeared on the horizon, running up to celestia, dashie trailing me, "I don't know, but I'm injured, broken ribs, I think, help me up!" Celestia says through gritted teeth, but I didn't dare move her, I could see blood coming from the base of her wing.

"Come and help!, Celestias hurt!" I hear dashie yell at the others, hoof beats coming our way quickly as Luna and fluttershy arrive, coming to help.

We quickly got her onto her stomach and we almost gagged when we saw it was a compound fracture, the bone sticking through the skin and blood almost spraying out, "Tesla were going to put her on your back, OK?, just move her to her room, be gentle!" Luna says, quickly lifting celestia onto my back, and trying to keep as still as possible I move her to her room, groans of pain coming from her clenched teeth, blood oozing out and onto my back.

I lay her down on her stomach on her bed, fluttershy taking over, since she had treated animals with similar injuries, pretty much kicking me out of the room.

I go back to alternate twilights organs, deciding which one to keep,, when I realize the rest were still huddled in a corner.

"Applejack,rarity,seriously?, its safe now come on and move" I say, urging them out of the corner, and slowly they come over to me, disgusted at the organs and skin, "its not disgusting, it funny!" I say, holding the skin to my face and pretending to be twilight, when a idea pops into my mind.

While they weren't looking I slip my head into the skins head, and sure enough it fit, I quickly slide the rest of my body and my wings into the skin, surprised it fit even though I easily held three hundred pounds on alternate twilight, even more now she was just a carcass, "look!" I say, they turn around, and scream.

Rarity passes out after she screams, applejack let out a very girly scream and runs, quickly I slip out of the skin and run after her.

"Applejack!, wait up!" I yell after her, chasing her down the stairs and through several turns, before she's met with a dead end.

She turns around, looking frantic, but calms down when she sees its just me. "Ya'all had me scared, don't do that ever again!,'k" she says, walking up to me, "agreed, lets go back, I no longer like the basement" I say, walking back up the stairs with applejack, when something else pops into my mind: "where's pinkie?"  I ask, applejack not answering because right in front of us, pinkie was hiding behind a wall, telling us to be quiet.

I peek my head around the corner and see pinkies brilliance: she had put the alternate twilight skin on pinkamenas statued body, just the head, and place it right in front of the unconscious rarity.

We hid around the wall with pinkie, waiting for it, so when it happened it was awesome. We watched through holes in the wall as rarity began to come to her senses, the moment she opened her eyes and saw the skined pinkamena statue she screams, running away and huddling in a corner, shaking in fear.

We couldn't help ourselves, we all started laughing, which must've tipped rarity off because she uncurled from the corner and turned around, saw the pinkamena statue better, and looked pissed.

She honed in on pinkies laughing, applejack booking it and leaving us as rarity charged us, as mad as can be, pinkie must've saw her because she ran, leaving me to deal with rarity's wrath.

I covered my eyes with my hooves and layed down while rarity beat me over the head, after awhile either giving up or tiering, "that's not funny" she said walking away, "your right, its not funny, its hilarious!" I say, receiving a glare from rarity, who went and laid down.

I didn't realize the whole time dashie had been watching, so when I turned around and came nose to nose to her it scared me almost out of my skin.

"Tesla, seriously?, I thought you were above infant like games." Dashie said, staring me in the eyes, "I've never heard you talk like that before, what's going on?" I ask, perplexed by the mannerisms in her speech, but suddenly she wasn't dashie no more.

She was the carcass.

It was only breif, but fora second I could see right through her skin, into her flesh, and I knew she was trying to set me up.

"I have something I want to show you" she says, urging me towards my room, and I followed about halfway, then I brought out my sword.

Rarity watched us as we crossed the room, so it must've been quite a shock when I brought out my sword and cut the fake dashies head off, so she screamed.

I stood there, fake dashies head rolling on the ground as they gathered around me, Luna, pinkie, rarity, and applejack, all staring in horror, but luckily for me the real dashie entered the room right then.

"What's going o..." Dashie starts to say, cutting off when she sees the fake dashie without her head, "what the fuck?" She says, edging in closer, and slowly the dashie form starts loosing its skin, reverting to the carcass, and I see the decapitated head blink.

"GET BACK!" I yell, everyone running away as the head rolls back over and reattaches itself to the carcass, which without a word flew out of the room, out into the night sky.

"What?!?" I hear several ask, "its going to haunt us until I kill it, I gotta go kill it!" I say, getting mad, "I'm going with" dashie says, being firm, "no, I won't know if its you or it." I reply, thinking about how to kill it, "then find a way, maybe some kind of mark or something?" Dashie replies, looking as deep in thought as I was, "that might work..." I say, trailing off, "I'm going too" I hear rarity say, "me too, that thing is creepy!" Pinkie says, and I get a idea.

"Luna, are there more of those crystals, for the others?" I ask, "yeah, one for each, there your source of power" Luna replies, looking unsure, "we need them" I say, and Luna goes to get them, "okay, if we go elemental and use the crystals well be able to stop it, but we need a way to make sure its us, I'm going to whisper a number into each of your ears, remember it, that way only well be able to identify eachother, even if its in this room with us now, OK?" They all agree, and one by one I tell them the number, 123,  and Luna got us the crystals.

"Now be careful, we don't know what this thing is or what its capable of, if your overpowered by it run, don't fight, and I know Tesla isn't going to listen forcibly dragg him out of there, be careful, just be careful". Luna seemed genuinely concerned about us as we went to leave. Applejack had gotten fluttershy, who was still fixing celestia, to wear her element, and had put twilights on her, so as we prepared to leave we went elemental, readying for a massive battle.

We left without another word, applejack and pinkie scouring the ground and me and dashie flying, travelling at almost mach one, keeping a eye out for the carcass.

" Tesla, so much has happened lately, to much if you ask me, but are you sure your OK?, you seem changed" dashie says, turning Her head to look at me, "I don't know really, so much is happening, like you said, I don't feel any different, but I've got a feeling somethings going to happen  soon, and I'm going to have to fight it, oh, did I tell you?, I got a friend!" I reply, remembering discord, "you didn't tell me, who?" She asks, looking puzzled, "discord!" I say, dashie giving me a look of horror.

"What do you mean discord?!? You killed him!, right?" She exclaims, her wings missing a beat, "yeah I killed him, he took up residence in my head and he helps me!" I say, gliding along with the wind, "does anything remain constant with you!?!, seriously you change everyday!" Dashie exclaims, slowing slightly, "your my one constant, my rock In The ocean of life, without you I would've drifted of course long ago" I say, trying to be sweet, "Tesla, that's beautiful!" Dashie says, leaning to kiss me, but before we could something smashed into me, sending me hurtling to the ground.

On the down I caught a glimpse of my attacker, the carcass, followed by images of my life, my life flashing before me, followed by images of dashie, image after image, then impact.

It was only luck that we landed in a lake, striking bottom and thrashing with eachother As we tried to fight, then I remembered something about water, that it will burn.

I start pushing my electricity through the water, electrocuting the carcass and breaking the water apart, into hydrogen and oxygen. The thing about hydrogen is its very easy to fuse, into helium, and i began magicking the hydrogen into my reactor, and breathing the oxygen.

I turned my reactor on and felt the power course into my system, along with my elemental power, but I wasn't through.

I pulled my crystal out and slammed it into my chest, feeling it combine with me and even more energy flood my system, the world slowing down and I speeding up.

When the world had almost completely stopped I picked the carcass up and through it into the air from the bottom of the lake, launching myself into the air behind it, along with several hundred gallons of water.

As soon as it reached the peak of its flight I hit it again, launching it into the lower portion  of space, following it with the water behind me.

When it had once again climaxed I pull the water from behind me and put it underneath the carcass, quickly changing it to hydrogen and oxygen with a lightning bolt, then starting the hydrogen fusing.

The explosion was tremendously powerful, nearly nocking me back, but with all the power in my system I held my position as the carcass was launched into space, right into the sun.

I more or less fall back to ground, landing hard on my legs, but at that point I was pretty much invincible.

The others had all met up to see the fight, and they were still looking up, ever so slowly looking towards me as time sped back up, or I slowed down, I don't know which.

"W..h..at.. the fuck?" Applejack exclaims, seeming to speed up as something changed, "I killed it" I reply, hoping it was enough of a answer, "yeah you did, you killed it good" pinkie says, still looking up at the remains of the fusion explosion, which looked like flowers in the sky, "lets go back" I say, picking up the crystal that had just popped out of my skin, and we headed back.

We decided to walk back because we hadn't gone far, plus it was a nice day.

"Pinkie, right before we heard the fight, you said something, what was it?" Applejack asks pinkie, "I said  that it seems like we don't get a break anymore, something is always going on, like today would have been completely normal if we didn't get locked in a giant sphere, didn't watch a corpse fly out of the room, didn't watch Tesla cut of fake rainbows head, then we saw it reattach, if we didn't just watch Tesla launch it into space, other than that it would be a normal day".

It was quiet as we pondered what pinkie said, when something occurred to me. " pinkie, do you blame me for all the weird stuff?" I ask, just wanting to see I she did, "its kinda hard to blame you, I highly doubt that you want it to happen, but it does kinda follow you, so I don't blame you but you do initiate it" pinkie replies, choosing her words carefully, then something else hits me, the way she spoke. "Pinkie, I know this sounds weird, but in a scale of one to ten how smart are you?" I ask, my mind working itself into a frenzy.

"If the average mind is a five my mind would fit in the nine to ten region, I know what you did was initiate a fusion reaction between deuterium and hydrogen, forming massive amounts of plasma and wenergy in the form of a explosion, the residual oxygen recombining into water with even more hydrogen, contributing even more energy to the sustaination of the fusion proccess"

I stared at her in awe, I didn't ever think she even had a brain, let alone a intelligent one, "I'm assuming  that you know what you said, and your right, perfectly right, I didn't know you had any brains!" I say, astounded, "my intelligence comes from reading a lot of twilights books on science, I understand it but have little knowledge of the actual systems or processes in question, my knowledge is limited  on the application of a equation but I understand what it means, I'm a library without any users" pinkie replies, wiping a lock of her out of control hair out of her face, and once again I was astounded.

"Pinkie, if you wish I'll show you how to put that mind to use, I know what's its like to have genius, I think we could go far together, the greatest minds in equestria teaming up" I say, hoping she would accept, "i would like that, but for now I'm just pinkie, no brained and happy" she replies, continuing,"no words about this from any of you, not one word!" Pinkie says, her face sobering back to her happy cheery grin.

The rest of the walk home was quiet, everyone surprised at the new development, but like I said it was a nice day, so it was saddening to go back inside.

"You all OK!?! I saw the explosion!" Luna asks right as we enter, tired from the climb up the hill, I had opted to walk up, "yeah we're OK, you same launch the carcass into the sun" i reply, giving her the crystal back, but she wouldn't take it, "keep it, its easier if you have it with you", she says giving it back, " OK then" I say, leaning against the wall because suddenly all the energy I had drained away, "can we see celestia?" Applejack asks, and Luna leads us to her.

When we entered her room she was on her back, covered in a cast that went around her wings and her waist, "Celestia, you have visitors" Luna said softly, celestia looking over at us, "ah, your all OK, when I heard you went after the beast I had a fit, you could've told us" celestia says, speaking softly, "Luna knew, so did fluttershy, and rarity, don't worry, we can handle it" I say, keeping my voice low, "when I saw that explosion out the window, I thought it had killed you and your reactor exploded, I was honestly scared for awhile, its good to see all of you are uninjured too, that beast is powerful" celestia says, her voice getting lower and lower, "actually, it was only Tesla, we just watched" applejack says, taking off her hat,  celestia looks over at me and says, " I thought so, your a good match for it, to good a match, in fact, I was worried you would die when It did, matched in battle, but I guess you would just come back to life again" celestia says, her eyes closing slowly, we look worriedly at Luna, "she's asleep, go now, she needs quiet" Luna says softly, walking with us out of the room, our hooves the only noise in the entire building.

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