"Hehe, beat that!" challenged the Saiyan, Purika, moving her figure on her side of the table.

"Oh, I will," grinned Magica, the pink Majin woman, moving one of her own figures and pressing a button on the table, causing the figure to erupt in red light and subsequently do the same for Purika's figures.

"H-Hey! That's not fair!" Purika argued, puffing out her cheeks.

Magica rolled her eyes. "Grow up, Purika. It's perfectly legal," Magica countered.

Larimar smiled lightly to himself as he laid back against the wall, arms crossed whilst he watched two of his good friends play their game. He smirked, adjusting his glasses. 'Though it looks more like they're focused on arguing now,' he mused, observing as Purika pointed a finger at her Majin friend in accusation whilst Magica once more rolled her eyes, giving a cool-headed retort. The man chuckled as the duo's argument steadily got more heated. 'Yep, figures.'

"Just because you're angry doesn't mean you have the right to call me flabby!" Magica growled.

"Does too!" Purika shot back, slamming her hands on the table.

"Stop acting like a damn child!" Magica shouted.

"Make me!" Purika retorted, sticking out her tongue.

"Why you-!" Magica was cut off as a new voice entered the small, floating building's confines.

"Now now ladies, let's calm down, shall we?" came a familiar, smooth, Italian voice.

Larimar and his friends turned their heads to the entrance, seeing a tall, black and grey Arcosian standing there, hands behind his back as his purple, reptilian eyes scanned the room.

"Hey sensei," Larimar greeted, pushing off of the wall and turning to face his mentor. "What're you doing here?"

Asala smiled. "Well, before we get to that," He looked to the Majin and Saiyan, smirking. "Ladies, you may want to look at the table."

The two blinked and looked down at said table. "Oh come on!" Magica groaned, letting her head slump to the table.

"That wasn't even a fair fight!" Purika whined.

"Don't start that up again, Purika," Magica intoned from the table. "You won, anyways."

"Yeah, but only because the stupid thing has a time limit!" Purika argued.

Asala chuckled and shook his head before looking back to his student. "Now, to answer your earlier question, the Supreme Kai of Time asked me to fetch you. She has a new mission for you."

Larimar grinned, slamming his fist into his palm. "Awesome. I'll be over there in a jiffy!" He ran past his mentor and took flight, stopping mid-air to turn and wave. "See you all later!" And with that, he flew off.

Asala sighed and shook his head with a smile. "That boy is always so eager..." He looked to the girls behind him. "Hmm, ladies, tell me, how would you feel about a Figure Battle with me?"

Larimar walked through the rippling, water-like gate and into the Time Nest, swiftly making his way down the path. As he did, he took the time to appreciate the scenery.

Well-cut grass stretched out for a good ways all around, with a small, round house surrounded by junk and machine parts and a small, man-made lake to the left complete with two small islands with large bird perches. One of those perches was currently being used by the divine, golden bird Tokitoki. Larimar gave the bird a salute before continuing onwards and up the steps to the large, circular building of white marble and blue mosaic.

After making his way up the stairs and past the doorway, he was greeted to a similarly large and circular room, a skylight overhead bearing a large number of roots from the tree that had somehow grown in said skylight. Diamond-shaped cubbies were scattered around the walls, containing hundreds upon hundreds of scrolls, and in the center of the room, at the bottom of the stairs, was a large, round wooden table.

A girl with pointed ears, pale purple skin and pinkish-red shoulder-length hair smiled at Larimar as he walked down the steps.

"Good to see you, Lari," she greeted.

Larimar returned the smile. "Same to you, Supreme Kai of Time," he said as he made it down the stairs and stopped in front of her. "What's the situation this time?"

The Supreme Kai nodded. "Right," she turned to the table, taking a scroll from it and unfurling it. "Have a look at this."

Raising his brow, Larimar stepped forward and looked down at the scroll, watching as a scene began to play out on it.

Star Swirl's spell spat out Twilight and Spike, the white magical sphere disappearing soon after as Twilight stopped her fall with her wings. Spotting her target, she shot a beam of magic from her horn just as Starlight emerged from a cloud, nailing the pink unicorn and encasing her in a rosy pink crystal.

Twilight flew up to it, smirking. "Now more than ever I know how important it is to stop you!" she proclaimed.

Starlight's face swiftly shifted, gritting her teeth as her own horn lit up in it's signature teal aura and cracked the crystal rapidly until it shattered. Just as swiftly as she did this, she levitated herself and gave the alicorn a smug smile. "Well good luck," she said, before speeding off.

Twilight ground her teeth and flew after the mare, trying to catch up. Sadly, she wasn't swift enough, as Starlight made it to her own target. She quickly hid beneath some clouds as a number of young pegasi raced each other. Just as the filly Rainbow Dash reached Starlight's cloud, the unicorn shot a hoof out and tripped up the poor filly, letting the other pegasi zoom ahead.

Starlight peeked out of her cloud, glancing behind her with a smirk as Twilight and her assistant were sucked into Star Swirl's spell again.

When they were spat out again, the entire terrain was different. When they looked about themselves, they saw a burned and broken Equestria, and the sounds of lasers and loud, thundering stomps alerted them to what was behind them; Tirek, larger than ever, and more powerful than ever, grinning like a madman as he fired off laser after laser from his horns at the landscape.

Spike swiftly raised up the scroll detailing Star Swirl's spell, and Twilight gave no hesitation as she activated it's inlaid magicks, once more being brought to the past.

As soon as Twilight and Spike were spat out again, Twilight fired a beam of magic as soon as she spotted Starlight. Starlight deftly dodged, a smirk on her face as she watched the beam hit filly Rainbow Dash, encasing her in a rosy, transparent crystal. Starlight turned to Twilight and clapped her hooves mockingly as the alicorn and dragon were dragged back to a separate future.

This continued over and over, Twilight being sent to a future where Discord ruled, or where Flim and Flam ruled, and each time Twilight would come back and fail to foil Starlight's plan, to stop her from ruining Equestria. Again, Twilight appeared in the past, narrowly dodging a beam of magic from Starlight.

"Up for another race-ending fight, Twilight?" Starlight queried, giving a smug smile.

As the scene faded from the scroll's surface, Larimar simply stood there, staring at it blankly. The Supreme Kai sighed, rolling the scroll up.

"Yeah, I kinda expected that," she said, turning to face him.

"What...did I just see?" he asked slowly, putting a hand to his cyan-haired head. "Were those...tiny horses?"

"Ponies," The Supreme Kai corrected.

He shook his head. "Not the point. What the hell was that?"

The petite Kai sighed once more, putting her hands on her hips. "Well, you remember how Tokitoki's egg hatched not too long ago?"

Larimar nodded. "Yeah, I remember we had a huge celebration and everything." He crossed his arms. "Why?"

"Well, the universe that was born from it houses the world of these ponies, Equus," The Kai explained, gesturing to the scroll.

"Okay but still, just..." he started, before sighing himself, slumping a little as he held his head. "...This is just really, really weird. I mean, come on!" He gestured to the scroll. "Talking pastel ponies? That's like a concept straight from a little girl's show!"

The Supreme Kai smiled, shrugging. "I've seen some pretty outlandish things before, and I know you have as well, especially during the Tournament with Universe Six."

The man pinched the bridge of his nose. "The sad thing is I know you're not wrong."

She giggled. "I'm rarely not," she agreed.

Larimar removed his hand from his face, staring down at the Kai. "So, what am I doing, exactly?"

The Supreme Kai picked up the scroll and offered it to him. "Simple. Head in, and investigate."

Larimar sighed, taking the scroll. "Right, right, of course." He looked at the scroll, frowning as he realized what he was getting into, before sighing and closing his eyes as he focused on the scroll's energy. 'Well, since they seem to use magic, maybe some of them will be fun to fight...' He mused before the scroll's power whisked him away in a burst of white light.

Author's Notes:

This chapter is susceptible to future changes for a bit, but right now, I'll leave it as is. I hope you all enjoyed it, even if only a little. I promise things will heat up in the next chapter.