The ultimate surprise
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Previous Chapter Next ChapterThe sun, after so long, was finally out. The iccicleans freezing of the planet took such a hard toll on so many lives; crops, animals, all the scentiant life on the planet.
Dillan was being praised as a hero, a global hero. No one had given much credit to Draco sadly seeing as he was from another dimension no matter how much Dillan insisted he helped more than they thought.
Rain gently fell over the landscape of equestria, causing water levels to rise. Ponyville, in particular, was having trouble. The water flowing from the melting mountains, canterlot being on the top of a mountain was now only about four miles away from a seemingly endless sea. Entire towns and homes were evacuated, orchards of food gone. Life was now on an endless sea, as Dillan glanced out a window at the moving waves as he listened in on the meeting of the princesses and shining armor with the main six.
"What are we going to do? The water is freezing as soon it reaches the frozen north, and is making glaciers. Not only that but it keeps rising, at this rate the entire climate of the planet will change." Shining armor said.
"Can't we just evaporate the water!?" Rainbow dash asked, making Dillan glance her way.
"We can't, if we did it would just conjugate in the sky and become rain." Dillan said. "Even with pegasi magic the amount would be too great to control. And at that point the rockslides and mudslides would be too much for earth ponies and-"
"Ok ok we get it, can't you use your new ultimate powers to get rid of the water?" Applejack asked.
Dillan sighs. "No… azimuth said I'm not ready for it and locked it. Said i'd rely on it too much."
Celestia sighs. "With the situation getting worse… i have been considering an alternative. But that is not important now, we must meet with the leaders of the other races and discuss what to do."
Dillan raises an eyebrow.
Celestia walks over to a window, watching over the liquid that covered her land. "The iccicleans rampage has caused such damage and sadness… it… feels like it shouldn't have been allowed to live."
"Your saying that you want revenge against someone who didn't understand what they were doing? Thats cold tia." Dillan said shaking his head. "Its animo that made the icciclean act that way, it wasn't his fault."
"Yes… i understand." Celestia sighs. "It still feels like all of this was for not thought."
Dillan nods slowly. "I understand Celestia."
“Tia, the creature was merely confused, we must not dwell on the past, let’s just worry about this problem.” Luna said.
"Yes i understand lulu, but dillan is right. If we simply evaporate it it’ll become clouds too strong for us to control." Celestia said. "And if we do nothing equestria will forever be underwater."
“What if we move it to space! Oh! Or maybe another dimension where there is no water!” Pinkie said, hopping excitedly.
"That might work, problem is without azimuths help we wont know what dimension is without water or life." Dillan said. "Plus after the whole animo action like god if we send water to somewhere without life it'll make life and no."
“Well, we could use my fourth wall breaking abilities to find a dimension where it is nothing but heat that will evaporate the water into nothing!”
Dillan puts his fingers to his chin as he looks over the water soaked kingdom while thinking. "That might work, actually Twilight didn't you say once there was a species of animals called naga that used water and land to survive?"
"Yes why?" Twilight asked.
"Well if i can get some dna of one we might be able to make a planet somewhere for them to live." Dillan said.
"At this rate you'll be populating the universe with dna." A familiar voice said before azimuth appeared in a flash of light.
“Azimuth, where have you been?” Celestia asked.
"Home, working on a new invention. I don't spend all my time helping shapeshifters." Azimuth said.
“Well, we could really use your help right now. Equestria is about to be nothing but water.” Applejack said, pointing out the window for Azimuth to see the endless sea.
"Ah yes, no doubt a result of the iccicleans ice melting." Azimuth noted jumping onto a windowsill to see. "I suppose we could attempt to do Dillan's idea, if we could get a scan of a naga."
“Any idea where the naga is Twilight?”
"They went extinct years ago, but i believe I've kept some fossils." Celestia said as her horn began to glow, before the skeleton of a long snake like being with the upper half of a human appeared
“Geez, that thing is freaky.” Rainbow Dash said,
“I-it looks like it could eat a pony in just one bite!” Fluttershy said, scared of the skeleton of the naga before her.
"Probably could." Dillan stated as azimuth takes a needle and takes some bone marrow from it. He then injected it into the ultimatrix, a projection of an adult naga propping up.
“Good, now we can proceed with the plan then?” Luna asked.
"I'd like Dillan to train with the naga scan for a little bit. I need to find a sutible planet." Azimuth said.
“Right, don’t take too long though, we don’t know how long we have.” Celestia said just as Azimuth disappeared.
Dillan looked over the growing sea, raising an eyebrow as two dark figures swam closer to the mountain canterlot. The two figures jump out of the sea, magic surrounding them as they become hippogriffs.
"Hippogriffs?" Dillan asked, confused.
“Greetings, I am Queen Novo, queen of the Hippogriffs. We have noticed the sudden rise of the sea and came here to investigate, which brings us here.” Queen Novo said,
Dillan nods slowly as the other one flys into his face. "Oh my gosh your dillan the human aren't you! The hero who freed the world right?!"
"Um yeah?" Dillan said, backing up a bit.
“Skystar, you are making him uncomfortable, give the hero some space.” Novo said, causing Skystar to pout but return back to her mother's side.
"Sorry." She said
"I-its fine just getting used to the attention." Dillan chuckles as his ultimatrix scans skystar.
"What was that?" Skystar asked.
"My ultimatrix scanning you so now i can transform into a hippogriff." Dillan said.
“Interesting, but we are getting off topic, tell me you have a way to fix this. Because we may like the water, but we don’t want everything to be one big ocean.” Novo said, pointing to sea with her head.
"We have an idea, but right now we're waiting on help." Dillan said.
“And who is this help?” Novo asked, until a bright flash appeared and Azimuth stood.
"Me, i believe i've found a suitable planet that has no liquid that we should be able to teleport the water to." Azimuth said.
“Really? Then how soon can we begin?” Twilight asked,
"It'll take a little time, but it shouldn't take too long." Azimuth said looking over the sea. "We should have it done within a month."
Everyone let out a sigh of relief.
Dillan smiles and looks over the sea. "Thats good… but what are we gonna do about any like sharks and other sea creatures that are gonna be swimming around in there?"
“We will deal with them, you just worry about this problem. Now, good day and good luck.” with that said, Queen Novo and her daughter left, transforming into their aquatic forms and began swimming off.
Dillan smiles softly, before a small frown made its way onto his lips.
“What is the matter?” Luna asked,
"Its animo and everyone else, i have no idea where they are and with animo making the icciclean. Im worried he might make new aliens again." He said. "And they might be worse than the icciclean."
“Dillan, we will stop Animo once and for all. You have friends with you, and not only that, other Displaced are out there waiting and willing to help you. Animo will be stopped, one way or another.” Celestia said.
Dillan nods slowly, glancing up into the sky. "Thing is, im not sure how to handle all this. In the dimension my powers are based off animo and everyone else always comes back one way or another. Heck when he first started off animo just mutated animals… now he's making aliens."
“We will find a way to keep him from doing harm. And we will make sure the creatures he makes find a new home for them to live peacefully.”
Dillan nods again, before he grabs his head as small currents of electricity come from the ultimatrix going unnoticed by everyone.
"So what should we do in the meantime?" Shining armor asked.
“For now we get ready for our part of the plan, transporting this much water is going to take a great deal of magic.”
"Azimuth uses technology to do it." Dillan said.
“Besides Azimuth.” Luna said with a chuckle. “Tiny thing just loves his technology.”
"You can say that again, heck he built a whole planet just to store the dna of the aliens in the ultimatrix." Dillan said.
Everyone just stared at Dillan.
"What?" He asked, blinking. "I didn't tell you about primus?"
"No you didn't, would you mind explaining?" Celestia asked.
"Sorry." Dillan chuckles. "Primus is a literal planet that azimuth made to store the codon stream, a bubbling pool of dna. It holds the DNA of over one million aliens in it. On primus it looks like a river of green lava or probably blue lava in this dimension."
Twilight is writing everything down. "And do they all have ultimate evolutions?"
"They can, but only a few have been shown in the show, i could try going ultimate for a few others but i don't know how it'd turn out." Dillan said.
“That is interesting to hear, Dillan.” Luna said,
Dillan thinks for a moment before transforming into an alicorn, he taps the ultimatrix sending a wave of energy over himself as he becomes an ultimate alicorn. His horn becomes sharper and his wings larger, his legs became even more muscled as he stood even taller. "Cool." His deepened voice said.
“That is awesome!!!” Rainbow Dash says as she flies up to Dillan. “What about a dragon or a griffon?! What will they look like?”
"I have a dragon scan but not a Griffin i could try?" Dillan said. "But judging by spikes growth spurt on his birthday from how you guys described id probably become the size of the dragon lord scorch."
“And we are pretty sure we are not planning on remodeling the castle, so maybe in a much more open space.” Celestia said, already thinking about the massive damage Dillan would cause if he does become the size of Torch.
Dillan nods returning to normal. "I could go ultimate for some of my other forms first."
They all nodded their heads. Eager to see some of the Ultimate forms of Dillans aliens.
Dillan transforms into heatblast before unleashing his ultimate energy. "Ultimate heatblast!"
“Dang! That guy is awesome!!
Dillan chuckles. "Heatblast was the very first alien shown in the show my powers are based on, ah nostalgia."
They all smiled.
Dillan returned to normal, looking out the window before glancing at the calendar. "Wow, its already been nearly half a year since i arrived here."
The others looked at the calendar as well, surprised at the date. “You are right! I’ve haven’t even noticed! Wow time sure flies.” Twilight said,
"Oh my gosh i need to throw you a party!" Pinkie pie said frantically.
“A it’s-been-a-year-since-you-came-to-equestria party?” Rainbow asked, a smile on her face.
"No silly a thanks for saving equestria and a it's-been-nearly-half-a year-since-you-came to equestria party." Pinkie giggles.
Dillan chuckles. "I think we have more important matters to attend to." He said looking at the calendar again with a sigh.
“What is it Dillan?”
"Oh uh nothing." Dillan said depressed before leaving. Pinkie looked to where he was and then the calendar before gasping.
"Do you all remember when we went to the chasm of memories?" Pinkie asked, ripping the calendar down.
“Yes, it was one the most important places to remember. Why?” Luna asked.
"When we looked into dillans memories and saw his family die." Pinkie said her hair deflated a bit. "I saw his birthday and it was three months ago!"
Everyone had shocked looks on their faces, then they all looked to Dillan with upset looks.
They saw him sitting on the balcony, his back to the wall. Celestia raised an eyebrow as light shone through the opening, multiple spectral figures making it ripple before they faded away but she seemed to be the only one to see them. "Did anyone else see that?"
“See what?” Applejack asked, eyebrow raised.
Celestia shook her head while rubbing her eyes. "Must have been a trick of the light."
Applejack just shrugged, “So what are we going to do.”
"I don't think this is the best time for parties sadly." Twilight sighs. "But once everything is taken care of we should throw him a great big celebration."
Everyone voiced their agreement.
Azimuth re-appeared in a flash of light, looking to Dillan before everyone minus Dillan was teleported to his home planet. "I've begun preparations on getting the water off your planet, however there is another matter we need to discuss."
“What is Azimuth?” Fluttershy asked.
Azimuth sighs. "What i am about to tell you is classified… but the one who watches over life and death in all dimensions is in a rage unlike any other."
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