“Hi … Why did you call me that?” Twilight asked, looking at the three of them with wide eyes.

“The crystal heart!” Pinkie said excitedly, having walked out from one the library shelves while reading a book. She had looked up and found the group with the heart in one of their hands.

“That's because in our world, you;re her aunt,” Jason explained, tossing the heart to Twilight, “Though, I very rarely ever come across unicorn Twilight...”

“In your world? I am a Unicorn though. See the horn?” Twilight said, pointing to the horn on her forehead after catching the heart in her magic.

“Yeah well, for the past fifteen years you’ve also had wings,” he sat down, running a hand through his hair, “So, it’s really weird seeing you as just a unicorn...on top of being anthro.”

“Wings? That’s not possible. Everyone knows that there are only three Alicorns in existence. Cadence, Princess Celestia and Princess Luna.” Twilight counted off on her fingers.

“What’s this anthro business?” Derrick asked, putting a hand up after having recovered from the teleportation. “Also, is your world where you came from when you walked out of that light?”

“Well actually it is possible Twilight,” Jason argued, “I came to my Equestria three years after this point and I’m been there since, so about...eighteen years give or take.”

“No, it’s not! I wouldn’t even know if getting permanent wings through magic would even work.” Twilight argued back. “I’m not sure how it works in your Equestria but it’s just not possible here.” She added, crossing her arms.

“Well, considering that 90% of all Twilight’s get wings...I mean hell, my alicorn form is based off of you.”

“Only 90%? If it was 99% I’d be more inclined to believe you. And if this Alicorn form is based off of me, then let me see it.” Twilight said with a skeptic look.

“Omnitrix, Star Dust,” Jason commanded, shifting into a four-legged alicorn. His coat was a deep green while his mane and tail were black with green stripes. “Ta-da!”

Both Twilight and Pinkie gasped at the form. “There is no way that is me. That’s not even the right colour …” Twilight said with a bit of a laugh but it was clear that she was swayed a fair bit by Jason’s transformation.

“The Omnitrix took a sample of your DNA and randomized it,” Jason explained, “So in a way, I’m related to you through this form.”

“That would explain why it’s a different colour, but I’m still standing by the fact that it’s not me because clearly, I’m not a pony.” Twilight gestured to her body and raised her eyebrows

“Does the concept of the multiverse mean nothing to you?” Jason asked, getting annoyed.

“Of course it does. I’ve written several theories on the matter but that’s all they are. Theories. I didn’t think they were possible at all.” Twilight sounded a little hurt.

Welp, it’s not a theory, it’s all real.” Jason shifted back, crossing his arms. Twilight leaned back in her seat and chewed on her bottom lip for a bit, thinking about the possibility.

“If it’s all real, then that would mean that there are multiple Equestrias but they would all be different in their own way. You’re from one of them?” Twilight said slowly, looking at Jason.

“Bingo, but ours is even more different, considering Faust created Equestria out of what was left of Asgard.”

“Your Equestria is Asgard? So does that mean the Norse gods and goddesses exist there as well?” Derrick asked him with wide eyes.

“They did but Ragnarok was millions of years ago, only ‘god’ left is Hel, my grandmother,” Jason explained, “And I’m one of the last jotun remaining.”

“That’s gotta suck. You doing anything about your species going extinct?”

“I have kids,” Jason gestured to Freya, who waved, “And this.” He held up the device on his right arm.

Twilight looked over to Freya and waved back hesitantly. “She doesn’t really look like you, to be honest. And I don’t think that device on your wrist can give you kids.” Twilight pointed to his wrist.

He sighed, pinching his nose. “One, I’m a shapeshifter, secondly, this thing houses the DNA of over a million species and be used to bring any of those species back from extinction.”

“What, really? How does it work then?” Twilight asked, her eyes lighting up at that.

“I have no idea, I’ve never used it like that before.” He shrugged. “Unless you mean taking samples.”

“It can take samples too?” Twilight asked excitedly.

“Freya, do you know what that thing I used to summon you was?” Derrick asked her, scratching the back of his head.

“That's my dad’s token.” She turned to look at him. “It’s a unitrix, a prototype of the Omnitrix, that thing on my dad’s wrist.”

“A token. This can be used to summon him at any time?” Derrick idly rubbed his arm as he looked at Jason as well.

“Yeah, but you have to remember, he has a life of his own ya know,” she reminded, “Geez, I wish I brought a change of clothes, this armor is squeezing my chitin way too much.”

“I know, I know, just wondering theoretically. You couldn’t get some armor that was a bit more loose?” Derrick asked as he leaned back against the wall.

“No duh,” she retorted, rolling her eyes.

“No Twilight it can’t sample you,” Jason informed the excited unicorn, taking a seat at her table.

“Aww. Why not?” Twilight asked, her face falling at that. “Is it because it already has the DNA from the Twilight in your Equestria?”

“No, it’s because I already have the scan of an anthro unicorn, another Equestria’s version of Starswirl, now if you find me a species not in the Omnitrix, I’ll show you how it scans.”

“Is the DNA of a Dragon Slayer in there? I look human, I know, but my body can handle fire. I can actually eat fire and not get burned.” Derrick asked, explaining the ways he wasn’t human.

“That doesn’t mean you’re not human,” Jason said, rolling his eyes, “We’re way off topic, remember, Sombra trying to get in?”

“Right. The rest of my friends had checked in and said that they were all finished. Pinkie and I have learned the anthem with the heart, we’re good to go for the fair. We just have to report back to Cadence.”

“Good ole’ Caddy,” Jason smiled, “Tell her to let him in.”

“Why? From what I hear, apparently he’s bad news.” Derrick questioned.

“I said, let him in, I’ll handle it in a way that doesn’t end with him getting executed by the heart.”

“If you’re sure about that then follow me.” Twilight said, getting up and walking towards the entrance. He nodded, getting up, following after her.

Derrick leaned away from the wall and followed them, wincing a bit as he felt the crystal grow slightly.

“You ok there?” Freya asked, walking up behind him, sword over her shoulder.

“I’m fine.” Derrick asked as his hand involuntarily clenched against the pain. “Let’s just get to the castle. Word of advice though, don’t antagonise Gruff Voice. He’s one of Cadence’s guards and will bop you over the head if you do.” Derrick advised her. “Is that sword not heavy to you or something?” He asked, looking at the sword on her shoulder.

“Please,” she said with a giggle, which sounded odd with her echoey voice, “I can lift up to a ton easily.”

“Only a ton? Then how heavy is that sword?” He asked with a pained smile.

“Eh, twenty pounds.” She shrugged nonchalantly.

“That all? Thought it would have been heavier.” Derrick said with a small hand wave as they started to climb up the stairs. “So what’s this token thing you mentioned? I know it’s what I used to summon your dad here but do you know if there is more to it than that?”

“Not really. Most Displaced have a token but some don’t make them as they just want to be left alone.” She explained. “So, how long have you been here?”

“Twelve hours. From what I can tell with the sun and all.” Derrick shrugged. “So Displaced is … what?”

“If you want the whole story talk to my dad, he’s the actual Displaced in the family.” She shrugged. “I’m just glad I’m not one.”

“I’ll be sure to do that then. Soon as he’s finished with Sombra.” Derrick said, nudging open the front door with his shoulder.

“The castle is this way. See? Straight down here.” Twilight said, leading the group towards the crystal castle in the distance.

“Twilight, I had my wedding here, I know where I’m going.” Jason rolled his eyes. “Thank you though.”

“Oh. Sorry.” Twilight apologised. “Forgot you were from a future version of Equestria? That right?” She asked, tilting her head slightly.

“Yup.” He nodded, looking up at the castle. “Still pretty though.”

“Mhm. What are you going to do to stop Sombra?” Pinkie asked as she clasped her hands behind her back.

“You’ll see, it’s a surprise.” He smirked. “You’ll just have to wait and see.”

“Aww. You know I don’t like surprises unless I’m the one giving the surprise!” Pinkie said as her face drooped a bit.

“Too bad.”

Pinkie simply poked her tongue out at him in protest.

“I really hope Gruff doesn’t bop me over the head for going missing for the whole day.” Derrick grumbled as he glared at the castle, or rather, one of the guards standing on the balcony.

“You’ll be fine,” Jason said, giving a dismissive hand wave. He put a hand on Twilight’s shoulder. “The rest of you put your hand on my back.”

Pinkie immediately placed a hand on top of Jason’s head with a massive smile. Derrick though, managed to grab the back of Jason’s top as he couldn’t move his arm up and down anymore. Freya placed her hand on his shoulder. A moment later, they were on the balcony, startling the guards. One of the guards immediately whacked Derrick on the head, not phased in the slightest by their sudden appearance.

“Ow.” Derrick muttered. “Jason and Freya, this is Gruff Voice.” Derrick introduced them as he endured the throbbing on his head. “Gruff Voice, this is Jason and Freya.”

“Hello.” The guard said gruffly.

“Sup?” Jason asked. “Where’s Caddy and Shiny? Throne room I take it?”

Gruff’s eye twitched as Jason gave nicknames. “Yes, they are. Do you need me to escort you?”

“You shouldn’t have called Cadence and Shining Armor nicknames. Gruff takes his position as a member of the guard very seriously and holds them in the highest esteem possible.” Another guard, this one a female, said with a smile.

“Yeah? I’m a prince of Equestria too, fucks your point?” he asked, moving past Gruff, heading toward the throne room.

“You may as well hear this as well as this is news to me too.” Derrick said and beckoned the two guards that spoke to follow them. Twilight and Pinkie followed Jason, unsure of what else to do.

“So new plan” Jason announced as he entered the throne room, “Caddy, let Sombra in.”

Cadence looked up at him with sullen eyes. “Why would I do that? I’m doing everything I can to not let him in.” She said as she saw the people walk in behind him.

“Because I can stop him without killing him.”

“How will you do that?” She asked. “I’m not going to let down the shield unless you give me a really good reason to do so.”

Jason sighed, holding his hand up, casting a spell, putting Cadence to sleep. “Relax, it’s just a sleep spell, she needed it anyways.” Jason cracked his neck, moving over to a window.

Cadence’s head slumped forward as she quietly slept and the magic of her horn faded out. As it did, the blue shield surrounding the city started to lift up and then quickly moved back until it winked out of existence. At the far side of the city, Sombra smoked his way into the city, invading every home and crystal wall along the way towards the castle.

“That's my cue.” Jason jumped out the window, landing hard on the ground, cracking it. “Hey! Smoke monster man!” Jason shouted, getting Sombra’s attention. “Omnitrix, Clockwork.” He shifted again, this time into a tall, metallic creature with a wind up key on top of its head and a green porthole in its chest.

“Yess?” Sombra’s voice sounded smokey as he hissed when he rose sideways out of the wall, looking at the metal man quizzically. “You don’t have crysstal.” He hissed again.

“Oh I do, but you’ve got to come down here first.” Jason waved, suddenly taking on a Swedish accent. Sliding back into the wall, Sombra’s shadow moved from wall to wall, leaving every wall he touched the colour of midnight as he headed closer to Clockwork.

Clockwork reached up, turning the key in his head. “Psyche!” He shouted, unleashing a green blast from his chest once Sombra got to ground level. Once the blast faded, Sombra was gone, replaced by a small foal, sitting in a pile of Sombra’s clothes. “Tada!” Clockwork called triumphantly, placing his hands on his hips, striking a pose.

“His big plan was to turn Sombra into a baby?” Twilight asked in disbelief. Derrick looked out at the blackened walls and he saw them return to their normal colour.

“Well that’s anti-climactic.” Pinkie said with a frown.

“What? Did you expect him to use a Spirit Bomb or something?” Freya asked, raising her eyebrow. Both Pinkie and Twilight looked over to Freya, noticing what she actually looked like.

“You … are a changeling.” Pinkie said dumbly.

“You going to invade us like you did with Canterlot?” Twilight asked, narrowing her eyes at her cautiously.

“First off, that's extremely racist, secondly, fuck you.” Freya glared, bearing her fangs a little.

Both of them moved back a bit when she bared her fangs. “I just assumed you were one of the changelings that invaded Canterlot.” Twilight said simply, shaking her head a bit.

“It’s hard to judge a single individual when it’s a lot simpler to judge a race and therefore create stereotypes.” Pinkie said with a straight face.

“Jason is my father, logically I’m not from this universe,” Freya said, giving them both a flat stare.

“That part may have slipped our minds.” Twilight said, idly scratching at the side of her lip.

“I’m completely lost.” Derrick said with a slack jaw.

“It doesn’t matter,” Freya said, sighing a little, “I forget other universes aren’t as well off as my own.”

“What are we going to do about that baby down there?” Gruff asked, pointing with his spear towards baby Sombra.

“Not point weapons at harmless infants,” Freya chastised, pushing his spear away.

“Sorry. Won’t happen again.” Gruff sighed, standing a little loosely at attention.

“What’s that face for?” The female guard asked Derrick, whose face was one of surprise.

“Gruff doesn't have the emotional range of a teaspoon.” Derrick said in awe and wonderment.

“I suppose you could have Caddy and Shiny take him,” Jason reappeared in the room, holding Sombra, who was swaddled in his cape, not looking very happy, though now his horn was that of a normal unicorns and his eyes were no longer green and purple.

“Aww … he’s so cute!” Pinkie cooed. “It’s hard to believe he was invading mere moments ago.” She added as she leaned down to look at Sombra better.

“We’ll certainly take care of him. What I want to know is why my wife is asleep.” Shining demanded as he ran into the room, panting slightly. “When I saw the shield go down, I ran over here as fast as I could but it doesn’t look like there’s any danger here.”

“Oh, I just put a sleep spell on her.” Jason shrugged, rocking Sombra a little. “I think his mind might still be there, but I’m not entirely sure.”

“As long as it wasn’t an eternal sleep spell then that’s fine. What do you mean his mind might still be there.” Shining asked, folding his arms across his chest.

“Never actually did that before,” he said with a shrug, “I honestly have no idea.”

“For your sake, I hope it is.” Shining warned. He sighed, exhaled and tried to calm himself.

“Yeah, like you couldn’t just use a mind wipe spell, though, that might not be exactly ethical...” Jason mused, stroking his beard.

“Maybe not. Can I hold him then?” Shining asked, a lot calmer than how he felt before.

“Sure,” Jason said, passing the tiny foal off to Shining. He took the foal carefully, and gently rocked him when he made it into his arms.

“Jason, Freya mentioned something called a Displaced and that you were one of them. Can you explain what they are?” Derrick asked, tapping his hand against his leg.

“You bought something related to the character you became from some weirdo and than bam, you landed in Equestria.” Jason didn’t even bother to look back at Derrick.

“No .. I didn’t do that. I fell into a fire wearing this costume, saved by a woman and that woman sent me here.” Derrick said, moving a bit closer.

“Well that's different...” Jason mumbled, looking back at him, “Same thing applies though.”

“Okay, and what about the thing that summoned you here? What’s that about?”

“Each Displaced makes a token and sends it out into the multiverse, to come to the aid of those that call upon them.”

“If that’s what it does then I want to help. How would I go about getting one of these tokens?”

“Just take an item that represents you, focus on it, put a message in it and toss it into the void.”

“I’m not even going to ask about the void as that sounds a whole nother can of worms.” Derrick said. Looking around a bit, he then looked at himself and saw his scarf. “Will my scarf do? I just don’t want to lose it, is all.”

Jason just shrugged. “You can use literally anything.”

Thinking for a bit, Derrick finally decided on using his scarf. “I’ll use my scarf. Do I have to say a message as well?” Derrick wondered. The female guard managed to get the scarf off his neck and placed it into his hand. “Thanks, now for the message.” He said and tried to think of a good one. “I think I have it.” Holding his scarf tightly, Derrick thought really hard about the message and said it out loud. “I am fire, I am light. If you need a way to light the darkness that surrounds you or just to have someone to talk to, I will be there. Wear this scarf and in a burst of flames, I will come running.” He finished, proud of his message. “What happens now?”

“Omnitrix, Hodgepodge,” Jason commanded, shifting into a strange mishmashed creature.

“Ah!” he exclaimed, stretching his limbs out, having the voice of Christopher Walken, “I was hoping he’d let me out again.”

“AAAAH! IT’S DISCORD!” The various coloured horse people screamed at the sight of him. “How did he get out?” Twilight wondered a little more logically than the rest of her friends.

“Who’s that?” Derrick asked.

“No, I’m Hodgepodge, totally different person,” he spoke again, coiling around Twilight, “Besides, I’m a lot better than him.”

“How are you better than him?” Twilight asked as she crossed her arms over her chest. The other people in the room slowly calmed down as they realised he wasn’t harming any of them.

“Well, I haz teh internetz to troll you better with, Hodge responded, “Besides, he mellowed out after he and Fluttershy hooked up.”

“Oh no. Not the internet. Did you break him much?” Derrick asked as he closed his eyes and groaned.

“That’s good to know? Not sure how that Fluttershy thing works out but hopefully they’re both happy.” Twilight said.

“Well, then they hooked up with Nightmare Moon, you got with Flash Sentry, Dash hooked up with Gilda, Applejack is still single, Pinkie got with Cheese, Rarity got with Jason, and now they all have kids!” Hodge smiled, “As you can see with dear Freya over there.”

“Alternate Equestria, keep that in mind. I have no idea who Flash Sentry or Cheese are but I’m sure they’re all happy. What happens with Derrick’s scarf now?”

“I’ll take that.” Hodge was suddenly behind Derrick, stealing the scarf from him. He punched the air, breaking reality like glass, revealing a black emptiness behind it. “Anyone got a rock?”

“Ooh! I do!” Pinkie cried out. She suddenly moved behind the throne and plucked out a rock from an invisible crevice. “There are rocks everywhere if you know where to find them.” Pinkie said simply and tossed the rock to Hodgepodge.

“Thanks!” He tied the scarf around the rock, tossing it through the hole, which suddenly wasn’t there anymore. “Welp! That's taken care of!”

“That was surprisingly simple.” Derrick said with a small smile. “What happens now?”

“Well, the authors want Jason to stick around and train you, or we could toss the script out of the window. Personally? I just want to troll everyone.” He snapped his fingers, switching everyone’s gender, except for himself. “Rule 63 bitches!”

Author's Notes:

More info on the alien in this chapter:
Clockwork - http://ben10.wikia.com/wiki/Clockwork