Nathan just stood there, frozen. He couldn't make sense of it, how could this girl be his daughter? Sonata hadn't layed her eggs yet and this girl was way too old to be any sort of newborn, even when compared to how Sapphire and Lyric were born.

"You... You're my daughter?" He asked with both confusion and shock.

Ruby pulled away and looked at him with a tearful smile. "Yes, I am." She whiped her tears and looked at him with a great load of joy. "You have no idea how long I've waited for this moment, when I could finally see you in person, while you were alive."

This only caused more confusion. "Wait what? While I was alive? What are you talking about? How are you my daughter?"

"That will take... a lot of explaining, but I can give you the short explanation." Ruby sighed and turned away slightly. "I'm... I'm from the future."

Nathan blinked and just stared at her. "Sorry could you repeat that?"

"Metal and I are from the future."

Nathan stood up and looked down at the girl with caution. "I find that very hard to believe. I'm gonna need some proof." Ruby nodded and began fumbling around her pockets until she pulled out Nathan's amulet. Nathan blinked and checked his inventory, finding that his amulet was still there. "How?"

"You gave this to me, well, Metal gave it to me after you gave it to him to give to me." Ruby explained with a bit of sorrow.

Nathan looked at her, finding it increasingly difficult to deny what she had told him. "Roden, I need you for a moment!" On que the man in green stepped out of a portal and looked up at him.

"What do you need Nathan?" The ranger pointed to Ruby. As Roden set his sights on her his eyes widened. "Wait... how are you here? You aren't even born yet." Roden closed his eyes for a moment before opening them and frowning in disapproval. "You won't be born."

"Hey, can I get some clarification here?" Nathan asked but was ignored.

"I know that, I didn't know that would be a side effect when I came here."

"Hello?!"

"You should have been more careful or studied up on it more, who sent you back?"

Are you even listening to me?"

"You know who sent me, who else would do something like this?"

"Seriously, can I get an answer please?!"

Roden groaned and rubbed the side of his face. "It was Symbol wasn't it?"

"Who?!"

"It was, he's the one that taught me how to fight in the first place."

"Can someone explain to me what in the fuck is going on?!"

"Of course, but he would have seen what the consequences would be, unless he planned for you to stay here that is."

"HEY!!!" The two looked up at the now annoyed warbot. "CAN SOMEONE EXPLAIN TO ME WANT TGE FUCK IS GOING ON?!?!"

Roden and Ruby looked to each other and nodded. "Nathan, this girl is your daughter and is from a different time. It would appear that something will happen in the future and this caused Ruby here to travel back in time through the future version of my apprentice."

"How do you know all that when she never said that?"

"I can read minds." Nathan facepalmed and sighed, not surprised by anything at that point. "Now, whatever happened caused my apprentice to take drastic measures and sent one of your children from the future to try and prevent the event. By doing this he has trapped her in this time period. Nathan, when you scanned Sonata the other night to count the amount of eggs she was producing, how many was there?"

Nathan looked back on the memory. "Six."

"There are now only five." Nathan froze in shock and his anger quickly grew. "Now calm down, the one that would be in that missing egg is Ruby. Now that a version of her is in Equestria that egg had no reason to exist because of a certain rule of the methods of time travel that Ruby used."

"What was the rule?"

"That even if you change the future in your own timeline you will remain the same and will be trapped in that time period. When I entered this time period the egg I was developing in disappeared since there is a full grown version of me, I still exist because I was cut off from the timeline, my timeline no longer exists because I changed the way Sapphire and Lyric were saved." Ruby explained.

Nathan shook his head and sighed. "Ok, I don't wanna know any more details. Just tell me why you came back here."

Ruby rubbed her arm nervously. "You know about the Nightmare Fuels right? Well, the King of the Nightmares had joined forces with another great evil by the name of Xram. Everyone in the Chaos Family went after them, but most of them were killed in battle."

"The Chaos Family?"

"It's the name of the displaced family you belong to, Metal is part of that family. Metal was one of the few that survived, after the battle was won he found you near dead with me as an infant in your hand, you told him to take care of me and then you gave him the amulet, before you passed on. There were only a few other survivors, they were Plague and Amnesia, Symbol, Marx, Metal and me. Everyone else including Roden, Sapphire and Lyric were killed." Ruby started to tear up and Roden comforted her.

Nathan sat down and began to process what he had just been told. The thought of Sapphire and Lyric being killed was enough for him to almost activate devil mode, but he held it in. He looked down at the crying girl that claimed to be his daughter and began thinking. 'If what she said is true, then we need to get a message to the rest of this 'chaos family' and prevent that future from happening, but that means entering the multiverse, and after what happened with Jack of Blades I'm not to sure I want to risk it. But if it means I'll be saving a good bunch of people, I guess I should do it.' Nodding Nathan stood up. "Roden, can you bring me to those other displaced so we can warn them?"

Roden shook his head. "Not at the moment, there are a few things happening in their universes that we need to stay clear of for now. There will be a gathering in a few days because one of them is getting married to his worlds version of Twilight though."

Nathan scooped the pair up in his hand. "Well then, looks like I need to get a tux, cause I've got a wedding to attend."

Author's Notes:

Sorry if this is confusing, I didn't want to just bombard you lot with a huge info dump,Mao I tried to keep it short.

Nathan is now becoming involved with my other stories that are included in the Nightmare-verse, don't worry this doesn't mean I'm doing a bunch of crossovers, not with this story.

Oh and a little announcement, Nathan alongside Sapphire and Lyric are now characters in the story The Displaced as special guests and have a good role in the story. Nathan appears in chapter two, give it a read if you can.