A year after the birth of Metals children

Metal stood in his Neo Metal Sonic form, which had become his main form, with the black cape coveting most of his lower body. He stood at the edge of a cliff overlooking the sunset, pondering over his life and all he had done, and what was next for him. He looked to his hand as it glowed red, the Apocalypse Magic within him now fully under his control.

"Whatcha doing daddy?" Metal turned to see the little Metix walking up to him.

Metal smiled and lifted the tiny robot onto his shoulder. "Just thinking."

"About my moms?" Metix asked innocently.

Metal shook smiled and tickled his son for a second before answering. "Well, in a way, yes, but I'm also thinking of other things."

"Like Auntie Lisa and Uncle Gale?"

"A little yes. Mostly just thinking about everything, like the stuff that happened before you were born." He explained while looking back to the sunset. "The world you were born in is much different from the one I was born in, and even then, this Equestria is far different from the one I arrived in.'

"What changed?" Metix asked while crawling onto his fathers head.

"Well we've got floating islands now, so that's a thing. But that's just a minor change, the real change is the darkness that was held in this world. Most of it is gone, with just enough left to keep the balance of light and dark."

"And it's gone because you fought some really mean guys right?"

Metal winced at the memory. "Yeah...you could say that. It was a long hard battle, for all of us, but Jin the end we pulled throughout. And now, you kids are able to live in a far more peaceful world than we did."

Suddenly the two heard the sound of two babies crying.

"A...mostly...peaceful world." Metal sighed. "Come on, I'll need your help with Prism."

Metix nodded and they both flew up to the room which served as the bedroom for the two foals. Prism laying in one crib while Midnight lay in one beside her.

"Alright, let's get these two back to sleep, we don't need Luna woken up any earlier than needs be." Both of them shivered at the thought of Luna being forced awake by the crying children, while having no coffee in her system.

"Yeah...I don't want to go through that again..." Metix added fearfully.

Later, Metal stood in front of a large boulder with Gale at his side. He lifted his hand and swung it forward. A stream of red energy left his and and completely destroyed the rock in a large explosion.

"Damn, and that's one of your weaker attacks now." Gale said in awe, looking out at the small crater that had formed.

"Yeah, my training in the void really helped my channel all of this energy, as well as learn to do other things like back in the Black Plain." Metal held up his hand and the energy returned to him, absorbing itself into his hand.

"You think you've got all the Apocalypse Magic now?"

"Yes, if not that then most of it, there could just be a few more crystals out there, but I could be wrong. It already feels complete."

Both of the robot hedgehogs sat back against a rock and looked up at the sky. Metal pulled two beers out of the magic satchel and handed one to Gale. Both popped the caps and downed the drinks in one go. "Kinda boring around here without any multiverse ending events going on isn't it?" Gale asked.

"Kinda, although we should be grateful that we can live in peace now, at least our kids don't have to worry about Xram or anything." Metal pulled out two more bottles, this time they only took short sips.

"Still got to be prepared in case any crazy void dwellers or whatever show up though."

"No doubt. I'm gonna start teaching Metix how to use his spindash and copy ability soon, he's already mastered his speed, given the fact he was born with it. But I'll just need to prepare him for anything, or if I'm not here."

"What are you talking about? You don't age and you are incredibly hard to kill, why wouldn't you be around?" Gale asked while looking to his brother.

Metal sighed and looked up to the sky. "Gale, I'm not like the rest of you guys, I don't want to live for thousands of years. Once Dash dies of age I'll probably find some way to rid myself of my immortality. I've done everything I needed to do, if the multiverse needs me I can find some way to get out of the Forest Of Eternity (the Nightmare-verse's afterlife)."

Gale looked away sadly. "What about Samantha and Luna? They'll still be here."

"I don't know man, all I know is that eventually I want to die. Right now things are quiet, and we've pretty much take out all the overpowered threats in our multiverse, you guys can handle whatever else-"

"Shut up Metal." Metal looked to his friend who had a tear in his eye. "I've lost too many people, I'm not letting you be one of them. What about Luna, Samantha, your kids and Lisa? What about them? How would they feel if you started saying these things to them?" Gale saw Metal looking away slightly ashamed. "Why are you even thinking about these things?"

Metal sighed and closed his eyes. "I guess whenever we live the lives we do, at some point, you get tired of it and wish for another. I wouldn't trade what I have right now for anything, but I know there will be a point where I don't want to go further. You'll have that moment some day, all of us immortals will. It's not like I'm just going to up and kill myself tomorrow. I'm just saying, eventually I'll want to go. For now, I just have to enjoy what I have."

Author's Notes:

Another look into the future. You can tell that Metal has matured and his grown far stronger over the years, but that exhaustion of looking out for his universe and others never really left him.

I just made this little chapter because it will be awhile before the next Wolf chapter is out, which should wrap things up on that train wreck of a story arc.