“Sheesh, the hell happened?” I ask with a frown, seeing giant craters here and there as the two of us continued forward.

“No idea...but whatever it is, it’s really strong.” Joy says, Lindworm floating around him at the ready.

Joy and I flew around for a bit and arrived at a town, some kinda...dark miasma was in the air as the ponies were choking to breath. We found it hard to breath too. We both zipped up our cloaks to keep the miasma out and acted fast, Joy trying to push the miasma up and away from the people and me helping out the people to get to a safer spot. “Shit, looks like the parties already in full swing.” I growl.

“H- *Cough* Help!” I turned around, seeing a pony Applebloom wandering aimlessly, coughing along the way. Before I could react, Joy ran ahead.

“Don't worry. I got you.” Joy says while helping the poor pony, not wanting to see any version of the girl he loves hurt. “Let's get you out of here. It's too dangerous.” He says while moving fresh, untainted air towards AB to help her breath.

“*Cough* Who are you?” She asked, Joy noticing her eyes. I did too. She’s blind.

“My name's Joy.” Joy says slowly. “H-how did you become blind?”

“Heh, when some black eyed man and a purple robe wearing...things fought. They blew up the moon, and majority of Equestria. Then John and Blueblood both went demon and nearly blew up the world. If it wasn’t for some...god called Cript we’d all be goners.”

“Well...glad to hear he helped the world.” Joy says.

“Wonder which direction that cloud came from…” I frown, looking around and wondering which direction to head off to first.

Applebloom pointed up, and I dropped my jaw. It was...a lich, fighting some kind a Demon. “John’s fighting that thing. I heard it’s voice. It was the creature in purple.” She muttered.

“Well...that's a bunch if something.” I frown. “But let's get you to safety with the others. This place isn't safe at all.” I say worriedly, the air feeling...strained around me and Joy for some reason.

“The castle has a bunker, around the back.” Applebloom said. “Something in there too, might help.”

“So that's where the people we're heading off to…” I mutter.

“Well let's just get going. The sooner you and the rest of the people are safe the better.” Joy says, wanting to get out of here before the fight rushes to them.

Ben and Joy ran fast, looking around for others before they had a small group and finally made their way to the bunker entrance. They led the group down, and Joy and Ben stared at...a generator, pipes self dug into the soil of the planet itself.

“Well...that's probably what Cript used to help keep the planet okay.” I say while unzipping my cloak hood and pulling it down.

“Yeah, he sure knows how to make great things.” Joy says while doing the same just to breath some fresh air. “Okay, did we get everyone?” The pup asked both me and the people.

“No, but most are exploring further out from here, so they should be safe.” Joy and I looked up, to our surprise, a Changeling answered. “But Gilda and the Princesses were on the Castle’s roof training. Not sure if this gas is up there, but Luna and Celestia especially are weaker right now.”

“I have a feeling it involved a combination of the world almost blowing up and the moon blowing up correct?” I ask curiously, already finding this world a ton more fucked than I first thought.

“Back when Core, and a being John refers to as The Outsider battled, Luna and Celestia tried to stop them...Celestia lost her wings...and Luna lost all her legs. They have artificial ones now, but they’re not used to them all quite yet.”

“Well.” I state.

“That...is fucked up.” Joy says. “And who is this John person? We only heard a friend say his name and a little other tidbits, we never got any story on him.”

“At the moment he’s the demon fighting Core, that man in purple, or whatever he is. Before heading here I saw him change into what looked like Death itself.”

“Ah, I saw that.” I nod.

“And it was not pretty to say the least.” Jot finishes for me.

“You best hurry, John like this he’s...not exactly there. Best hurry before a stray attack knocks them into the stars.”

“That's not good.” Joy frowns.

“Right away. Come on Joy, let's get to work.” I say while rushing out, not wanting the people to get hurt from an accident, and Joy quickly followed. After we made sure the door to the bunker was sealed to keep any unwanted visitors out we rushed as fast as we could to the fight, hoping to at least do something to stop the world from ending...and to this reflection it would be a repeat.

We flew up on our Lindworms, rushing towards the top. When we arrived, we spotted Gilda, Cadence, and a Luna and Celestia with some mechanical limbs. “I’m going to assume you both are on John’s side?” Gilda asked.

“I want to make a sassy remark but I won't. Yes we are on John's side and want to see Core about as dead as you can get for super powered beings.” I shrug.

“Same, that SoB nearly killed off- Oh the fuck.” Gilda said, Joy and I looked back and saw Core change, his body shifted into a set of black armor with a MASSIVE greatsword version of Soul Eater. “Oh fuck… Get us out of here...fast.”

“Hang on.” Me and Joy say while seeing summoned our cards big enough to hold all of us and shot swiftly through the air away from what's going to happen rather quickly. “How the hell do you get Keyblade Armor? I want to know.” I frown, thinking it's a form that gives you a power and defense boost.

We shot fast back to the Bunker doors, letting the Princesses and Gilda enter before we closed them and headed down with them. “You got a plan?” Luna asked Joy and I.

“Uh…” I mutter.

“We...normally don't have plans to start out. We know how to plan during a fight but…not before.” Joy explains sheepishly. “Been in too many fights to have a plan going in when we don't know much about the situation.”

“Maybe the generator can do something?” Celestia offered. “We haven’t messed with it, but it might be able to do something.”

“Maybe…” I mutter while gently floating over the people and bringing my Assistant up to try and find the exact details of this thing. “Okay...where is this generator cause there's a fuck ton of them…” I frown, wanting at least some basic knowledge about it even if my brain is going a million miles per hour half the time.

“So how long have you all known John?” Joy asks Luna, Gilda, and Celestia while I dicked around trying to figure out the Generator.

“Well, that’s a story. You see, we first found out about him when a series of murders were happening in Canterlot. Guards saw John over two corpses and he was labeled the murderer, though, turns out it was one of those corpses he was next to that was the real serial killer.” Celestia explained. “He just kept delivering justice, depending on their crimes the criminals were either found unconscious, dead, or...rarely, eaten alive by hoards of rats. Then Blueblood teamed up with Core, but he already had Void powers, he’s little under half of my sister’s age. Well, was. He made his move, and the world, and the guards, finally realized who the real hero was on Equestria.”

“You know...I forgot Blueblood even even existed back on our world.” Joy frowns. “Well...he deserves getting his ass kicked cause if memory serves he's nothing but an asshole.”

“Well, we are unsure of your blueblood, but what ours did...he deserved the death he got. Decapitated by Cript and body rolled into a ravine of lava.”

Joy took a breath. “I can think of worse ways to die….but I won't name them cause most involve torture to a high degree…” He sighs out.

“What do ya’ think he did ta’ us?!” an Applejack walked up. “He had me hung up with needles in every inch of my skin, Twi on a rack, for you can guess what, Luna in an Iron Maiden, and Celestia strapped to a table for…” She shivered. “And that wasn't even the worst part of it all.” She hissed. “He took...our marehood. We can’t have foals…” Applejack said, tears filling her eyes.

Joy walked over and gently put a soft gentle paw on her shoulder. “I understand...I don't know anyone personally or have experienced such a horrible thing….but believe me….I understand the pain of losing something so important…” He says sadly, remembering himself turning into Rejection and losing himself entirely for so long.

“We are trying to keep that experience just a memory.” Celestia sighed. “We raised Blueblood since he was a foal on the streets. I just wonder what went wrong.”

“Who knows. It could be so many things.” Joy shrugs. “But the fuckers dead and he can't do anymore damage to any of you.”

“Well…” I said. “Remember your Tiara’s dad?”

“That's different.” Joy said to me.

“I’m just saying, if he’s that bad and in hell, which he likely is, who knows what he could become down there.” I said, pressing another button and the machine began to glow. “Okay...did a thing.”

The generator glowed brighter, and flashed bright enough to blind us a bit. When it faded, the Generator was larger, and even more tubes were going into the ground...and some that were just sticking out of the ground, unlike the larger ones, these ones were small, thin, and were poking out of the ground everywhere.

“Ben...what did you do?” Joy asks worriedly.

“Um….” I mutter while looking at the manual again to see what happened. “Okay so… New pipes?” I checked my Assistant about this Generator.

This Model Generator like all World Core Generators, makes a dying, or uninhabitable world habitable by fertilizing soil, rapid growing plant, rapid evolution of animal species, rivers, oceans, and in extreme cases, air. To generate clean air or filter an already existing atmosphere, simply press the reset button after engaging Heavy Renovations mode. You will know this mode is activated when small, thin tubes sprout out of the ground around the planet.

“Well...that answers that…” I frown. “Okay so it's nothing drastic but...I put it in heavy renovations mode. Basically it's a setting that cleans up or replaces air.” I explain. “Nothing bad. But i...still have no idea what I'm doing…” I frown.

“The hero of an entire universe everyone. Give him a round of applause.” Joy says sarcastically.

“Oh shush you.” I huff at Joy. I clicked the big red Reset button on the machine and it turned off for a few seconds, then turned on again, the tubs sucking and blowing out air. “Huh, smells like...New car smell?”

“I hope it doesn't stick around long.” Celestia said, cringing at the smell.

“Weird…” Joy mutters. “It’s will probably go away after a little bit...but...who knows sadly.”

“Let’s go see how things are topside.” Celestia said, leading Joy and I to the bunker doors. We opened the doors and the miasma was quickly being sucked into the pipes while clean air was pumped out. “Thanks goodness.”

”Well at least the air isn't filled with that miasma.” Joy nods. “Now...what to do next.”

“Dying is a start.” Joy and I dodged, jumping back in time before…she almost sliced us with...a skeleton version of Reunion. “Nice moves.” She said, her body...was weird, darkness and...void, I think, were fizzing out of her.

“Dying is not on my list here lady.” I tell her while summoning Frozen Pride and Reunion. “And what the hell happened to that Keyblade?”

“And looks like more experiments were done on her.” Joy frowns while summoning Lindworm and readying himself for a fight.

She raised up her corrupted Reunion. “This is the Keyblade Core gave me, after all, for every Reunion, there’s a Fall Out.” She said, pulling out her sword in her other hand.

“Well aren't you just fancy with word play.” I frown, readying my Keyblade and shield.

She smirked, and slammed Fall Out into the ground. “Sin’s Greed!” She cast, a pair of hands coming out of the ground. They pulled whatever it was out, and a silhouette of a human emerged from the soil. It looked at me, and summoned a silhouette version of Reunion, then charged.

I took a deep breath. “Let's get started.” I mutter.

“Dragon Talon!” Joy shouts, using his lances to summon a dragon claw made up of green magic and wind and swinging it at the charging silhouette.

It quickly dodged each swipe, and even grabbed one of the spears, throwing it back at Joy before going into hit me. I raises Frozen Pride and blocked it. There was a large spark of darkness from the block. Then, much to my displeasure, it grew a single eye in the center of it’s head, and a mouth filled with needle like teeth as it grinned at me. “Can shit stop being creepy?” I frown, Nothingness coiling around my Keyblade as I slashed at it.

It bent its head back an exact ninety degrees to dodge, then it went back into position, opening it’s teeth filled mouth as a tongue that looked like something out of Alien was sliding towards my face.

“Frozen Pulse.” I growl, my shield glowing blue and sending a wave of energy at it, and fully able to freeze it if it stayed close.

Sadly, it jumped back, but that freaky tongue of it’s was frozen, cut off when the weight of the ice brought it down on it’s teeth. It...it’s blood is red? “Confused yet?” The assassin asked.

“The hell did you do?” I ask with a frown.

“Sin’s Greed summonses forth the person you have wronged most, and makes them fight you to the death. In this case…” The Silhouette’s darkness around it’s face peeled back like a mask... and the person inside was me. Younger, by at least two years, crying and scared. “The hell is going on?!” He, I, asked.

“Since it couldn’t summon you, as it’s fighting you, it pulled a version of you from another reality, same life, well, past anyway.” The assassin explained. “You always did hate yourself above anyone and everyone else.”

“Technically speaking I hate another version of me that makes you look like a bitch in comparison...but he's not here and hadn't bothered me for some reason.” I shrug,

“Oh god…” Joy mutters. “So...he can only be saved through death? Cause that seems weird.”

“Heh, kill him, the dark Silhouette will still puppeteer the body, kill me, the silhouette kills him, or…”

“Or?” I ask, knowing I'm going to regret answering as I kept my guard up along with Joy.

“I can let him go, be out of your hair, leave you alone for, oh...five years max, if you do something for me.”

“I'm not going to kill myself, Joy, innocent people, my wives, or my children got it you sick whore?” I growl, white energy sparking around me.

“Oh please, I do my own killing. No, I just need one, small, insignificant favor. No one dies, on the contrary, someone will be brought to life with my favor.”

“And who would that be?” I ask, finding this way too weird, especially for a very sick and twisted assassin that's been tested on more than...something only God knows.

“It’s simple.”She said, tossing me a box. It was small. Inside was a...very odd looking syringe. “I just need that syringe full of your blood, and I’ll be off.”

“Are you going to hand Core a new person to clone?” I ask with a frown.

“Please, with how that John is taking care of Core I don’t expect him to be himself after this fight. No, your blood is for something...personal.”

“Will you tell me this personal thing? Cause I doubt it's too make a boyfriend.” I frown,

“If you find me before five years are up, yes. If not, you’ll have to wait and see.”

“Oi vey…” I sigh out while lifting the sleeve of my arm and finding a vein.

“You sure about this Ben?” Joy asks worriedly.

“Nope, but if it helps save a life then I'm fine...and apparently it will bring about new life…” I say while pushing the needle into my arm and drawing out blood. “And hey, maybe she just wanted a child and chose me for some weird fucking reason.” I point out, taking a wild shot in the dark as the syringe was filled with my blood. I pulled it out and healed my arm real quick. “There, don't do anything weird with it okay?” I ask, holding my hand out with the syringe.

“Well, you already guessed what I am going to do with it.” She smiled, looking at the syringe.

Both Joy's and my own jaws dropped. “WHAT!?!” We shout in surprise. “I mean...considering what Core did to you...I suppose this would be the only way to have a child...but why me?” I ask in confusion.

“Two reasons, one, Core’s dark void implant on my hand has been damaged. Not even he can repair this.” She said, showing us the slash on her hand where a strange tattoo was. “I’ll be dead in six or seven years. And you, because puppy there is a tad too young to have offspring, even being a dog.”

“Okay but why me specifically?” I ask again.

“Honestly, you’re the first target to survive me, figure the child of a grand hero and a master assassin might lead quite the life, deciding which parent to follow.”

“Uh…” I frown.

“So let me get this straight, because you couldn't kill Ben...you technically fell in love with him huh?” Joy asks.

“Since when do two people need love to have kids?” The assassin questioned. “I just always figured, when the time comes, pick a good partner, a rather unsafe one night stand later, then I raise my kid.”

“Oh no, you're not raising that kid alone here lady.” I frown. “I don't care what you say, but I am not some dick bag like that…” I shake my head, “You can have a second chance at life-”

“Yeah, I’m gonna stop you right there.” She interrupted. “I have about six years left to live, for five of them, I plan on raising my child, my way, and once the kid is four and year five is up, I’ll leave him to you, walk out into some random place, activate my dark void mark, and explode like an A Bomb. Till then, ciao.” She said, walking into a DTD.

“Fuck…” I frown.

“That's not good…” Joy says worriedly, looking at the other Ben. “Come on, we have to help him out...and then get ready for the next fight.”

“But I also have to hunt her down and make sure she doesn't just give up on a possible good life without being a mass murderer and my new kid she's going to take care of.” I frown, Joy walking over to my other self carefully,

“So...anyone wanna tell me what the heck is going on or…” The other me asked.

“Its...a fuck lot of complicated.” Joy sighs out. “But cliff notes, I'm Joy, the physical manifestation of your own emotion of Joy and happiness. Why we look like wolves is because of some omnipotent god person with a curse and our technical new mother is a twelve foot tall, six breasted dire wolf, and everything in video games, books, and all other fictional things are real in every way shape and form.” Joy explains. “Complicated I know.”

“Yeah… So, we’re all the same person? What about names? Are they the same or different?”

“I'm technically different but the names Joy.” Joy says.

“I'm Ben, but my hero name is ‘White Knight’.” I shrug. “Also I have a harem...and so does Joy here.” I point out.

“Did you really need to point that out?” Joy frowns.

“Okay...so names are different, well, sorta, my name’s Bate.” The other me said.

“Who names their-” I start.

“Two of my girlfriends were literally named One and Two.” Joy cuts me off. “Oh…also….your technical parents are alive and at our castle.” Joy says. “Unless their different where you come from.”

“No idea, we look the same so I’m assuming they look like mine. So, did yours not die or?” Bate asked.

“The chick that summoned you here murdered them and staged them as accidents.” I frown. “And now I'm technically going to have a kid with her...by technicalities.” I sigh out,

“Heh, mine died in an airplane crash about eight years ago.” Bate said.

“My dad was killed by burning to death in a big bread oven, and my mom was murdered by hunting rifle through the mouth. Saw the aftermath as well.” I sigh out.

“Heh, yikes...So, how am I getting out of this?”

I summoned a DTL back home. “There you go, walk into the light and you'll find yourself in front of a castle, knock on the front door and say your husband sent a clone of his here.” I explain.

“Yeah, no. Wouldn’t two of us in the same place be...weird? I mean, I still look human, you’re a wolf, but still.”

“No actually. Since you'll be the third me on my Equestria. Short answer a very powerful, and very murderous version of us is there doing something I don't know about. Also I've met other versions of my fiance’s, and they've met other versions of themselves. Seeing double means fuck all at this point, considering there's practically an infinite amount of us in some way shape or form.” I shrug.

“O...kay? Well, might as well.” Bate said, entering the DTL.

“Well...that was a thing.” I sigh out while the DTL closed after Bate entered it. “He is going to be so confused when he enters our house.”

“So...are you really sure you want to give that bitch another chance?” Joy asks me.

“She just literally asked me if I could help give her a child...she may be cold and ruthless but there's a heart in there somewhere...and it's and heart that wants to see a child grow strong...not sure if happy cause it's her but still.” I explain with a shrug.

“Whatever you say.” Joy shakes his head. “But we better get a move on, maybe we can find some friends who's also sensed all this. And we better do this quick.” Joy says.

“Yeah…” I sigh out. “Let's hope shit doesn't hit the fan too hard.” I shake my head and start heading out, hoping to find some friends and stop this.