The portal opens outside the city limits of Queen City, me and the others come through it landing next to it like mighty times before. The group stops so I can close the portal. After the key comes back into my hand by reaching my hand out closing the portal to the Desert World; looking at the key and thought to myself. “Six down, three to go.” I got back into my car we quickly made our way back to the shop; so that me and others can find out about what we found back in Cairo. Once we got to the shop I got straight to work on the pictures and the scans from the symbols underneath the stone drawing of us. While Spike when to the bathroom from the day he had so far.

“Damn, this is going to take some time to figure out what this distraction is saying.” I said out loud looking at the picture of all of us and the symbols at the bottom. “Is there is something we can do?” Twilight asks me. “Yes there is, but it not going to be easy to translate. Because I’ve been trying to find out what they mean from day one I joined the Silencers.” I said answering her question.

“So what did you find out for a translation?” AJ asks me. “Well, other than symbols for the nine worlds and some of the mysteries tracks back in the day.” I answer her question opening a file on the table screen showing the Omega symbols and their English translation only the numbers and the sum of leathers both upper and lower cast. They take a look at what I have done so far.

“James, this, this is impressive from what you have done so far.” Twilight tells me seeing the translation so far. “I know it wasn’t easy from what I got so far.” I said out loud getting clot from my car and putting it back on while saying it.

On the file shows numbers, 1 through 0 is already been translated. A through J, P through Z on the uppercase side of the symbols is translated. The lowercase is a different story only A through E and J through O are done. Every else still needed to be translated.

I pull up the picture and the scans from Danny’s drone so we can find anything that looks different then from what already been translated. “James I don’t know how long it going take to full translated the rest of the symbols that are left.” Danny tells looking concurred from I’m trying to do. I take a deep breath before telling him what’s on my mind. “Danny, that’s stone drawing back in Cairo, shocks even me and everyone else that was there today.” I said out loud calming his nerves a little. Duke pulls the scroll from his back pocket before breaking the seal on it opening the scroll showing ancient Egyptian, ancient Greek, and Mayan and Aztec translated from the Omega symbols.

“James, better take a look at this.” He said out loud putting the scroll on the table. Me and the others get a closer look at it seeing what’s on it. “That’s impossible?” I questioning from what I’m seeing on the damn scroll.

“James, what kind of language is this?” Rainbow asks me looking lost. I take off my sunglasses to rub my eyes a little before answering her question. “Well where to start, there’s ancient Egyptian and Greek; which makes since because they are in the same part of the part back on Earth only different was nearly a thousand miles from each other and time as well it was almost 4000 years apart from each other.” I said answering part of her question. “Thanks for the history lesson. But what about the other symbols that’s already there?” She tells me making me look at the two other languages that’s on the scroll. “Those are Mayan and Aztec.” I said out loud answering her question making Twilight confuse from what I just said.

“Mayan, Aztec that sounds like the places where Daring Do when on her adventures in her books?” Twilight asks out loud. “Well I never heard of her books. Anyway, they two cultures on the other side of the planet and they take place during different times from each other. But they nearly the same from what I can remember.” I answer her question. “That why both languages nearly look that same.” She tells me.

“Wait a minute, you mean to tell me the places she when and wrote about are base somehow connect to places in your world?” Rainbow asks out loud in a state of confusion from what me and Twilight just said. “I’m saying that is or isn’t Rainbow.” Twilight said trying to answer her question. “Yea, we’ll ask A.K. when we get back.” Rainbow said finally calming down her nerves long enough to help me with the translation.

With the open scroll and the file on what I got so far; we get to work on the completing the translation. Me, Twilight, and Pinkly get to work on translating the remaining upper case letters while Danny, Duke, Rarity, and Fluttershy get to work on the get to work on translating F through I lower case. AJ and Rainbow get P through Z lower case.

“This’s not going to easy.” AJ said looking at the untranslated lowercase letters that she and Rainbow as to do. “I know what you mean there AJ, this trying to solve one of those puzzle that can’t be solve.” Rainbow said out loud.

Spike just came out of the bathroom to see what’s going on. “Spike, you can help the Rainbow and Applejack with the translation.” Twilight tells him. “Translating what?” He asks before looking at the open file and scroll on the table in front of him. “Well this isn’t going to be easy.” He said thinking out loud. “You should have been there when I started on the translating this.” I said in repose looking at one of the symbols that looks like uppercase K think.

Hours past the clock hit 1:00 am on the clock on the wall; everyone still awake until Rainbow and Applejack gotten so tired of they just fell asleep on the couch. I toke off my hat to scratch my head a little leading my hair losing up a little from working the translation. “You weren’t lying this going to take some time.” Rarity said trying to something of the lowercase H in the language of the strange of this world. “I know it would, it toke me nearly a year to get this far as I did.” I said getting the last of the uppercase letters.

Duke yawned finished translating another lowercase letter for the letter s, the charterics of a lowercase s back in my home only with two dots in the empty space. “James, I’m going to turn in for the night.” He tells me before crashing on the couch. “Alright, but remember you’re next for the nightmares so be careful when you see the mysteries figure going to show you and what he has to tell you.” I told before he close his eyes for the night.

He got conferrable and when straight to the dream world; Waking up seeing nothing but desert sand for miles with dark skies above him coming from horizon to horizon. “Well, here we go again.” He thought to himself before seeing something that looks like a moving sun coming towards him before stopping on top of him. “What the hell is going on here?” He thought out loud seeing what looks like the sun glowing bitter before shooting out the symbol of desert world into the darken skies above him glowing yellow; Before shooting out a beam into the ground next to him, sending sand and dust into the air before hearing a voice calling out to him. “Duke.” The unknown voice called out his name; scaring him from what’s going on around him.

He finally around to face who’s calling out to him to see the mysteries figure that showing everyone else about what’s going on in the other world. “It good to see you again old friend.” The figure said confusing him from what he said. “Pardon; I’ve never before in my life?” He asks the figure. “That’s right, I keep forgetting that. Anyway best for us to get going to show you like I showed the others.” The figure tells him reaching out his hand. Duke takes his hand before he even noticed that both of them were in the air heading for a nearby town.

By the time they got there Duke trying to catch his breath from the trip alone before seeing a what looks like an old wild west town back on Earth and the movies that toke place during that time. “Where are we?” He asks the figure. “Dodge City.” It answers his question seeing ponies all over the place minding their owned business. “Can they see us?” He asks the figure. “No, they can’t see us. We are more ghosts to them.” It answers him before a pony walks past them rivaling the true to him leaving light blue traits from where he walks past before coming back to him like nothing happened. “That feels ward.” He said out said after the last of the trails comes back to both of them. “He’s coming.” The figure said out loud. “What on Earth are you talking about?” Duke asks whatever the figure is looking off into the distance. He turns his head to see blue lights in the darken ski above them coming towards them and the town. “What is that?” He said out loud seeing the lights getting closer and closer before he figure out that’s a ship fly through the skies like there’s no tomorrow. It slows itself down enough to make a landing next to the towns train station. Duke walks towards the strange looking ship before hearing something coming from the intercoms.

“Ponies of Dodge City there is something coming towards your town, it would be best for you to get on the ship before it too late.” The unknown voice said through the speakers from the ship. “That voice why does it sound so remember?” The said thinking out loud, getting closer to the ship with all the ponies that’s in the city before feeling the ground shake a little before seeing shadows of something coming towards him. “What the hell?” He said out loud; questioning himself seeing the shadows in the distance of something big. Noise start coming from the ship of ramps be lowered and one of the doors opening showing someone that even shock him from the basic of what’s going at that moment. “James, it can’t be that’s impossible.” He said out loud from the shock of what’s going on in front of his eyes. Before seeing what looks like Pinky Pie but older and in a pony form. There is one more that looks a mix of both their forms. There are four more ponies coming off the ship behind them.

“You know this person?” The figure asks him. “Yes I do, but he looks like 20 years older from my friend I know now.” He answers its question while what’s going on in the background. One of the ponies asks the older man in the blue suit.

“I’m here to help and to save as many lives as possible.” The older man said out loud before taking the rifle in his hands and takes aim out the in the middle of town where the shaking is. He pulls the trigger fire the round into where it was aimed at hitting something big killing instantly. Both of them see a body of a 50ft scorpion handing towards the older man and the others. “Oh my god.” He said out loud from what just happen right in front of him.

“James you did. You saved them.” The white pony said to him pocking the beast with a metal poll. “No it isn’t, it ain’t over yet.” The older man said out loud stepping over one of its claws begins to going down the road with two other ponies and the hybrid.

“Let me ask you this Duke; where did you even meet this person you called James?” The figure asks him. “It back during the time when we were both Silencers during the war between the Reds and Silencers.” He tells him. “What war?” It asks him. “The war been going on for what felt like hundreds maybe thousands of years; long story short the Reds found the main base of operations on the Forest World, killed nearly everyone in their but for me, James, and Danny. I still don’t know if Sam made it out of there and I’m guessing James has no idea as well.” He tells the figure. “Go on.” It said. “After the base was attacked and James when into hiding, I had to fake my death to fool the Reds and toke under a new name of Dr. Duke and starting working as a DJ for a small club in New York. I was making money and trying to forget my past, until James found me and told me about what he trying to for Twilight and her friends.” He tells the figure the whole story from what he can remember. “Do you think that James is a bad man?” The figure asks him. “No, he’s not, from the time I been with him back when we were both Silencers and as of lately. He only does the things he does, because he has to survive from the mob and General and his Reds.” He tells the figure before hearing gun fire going off in the distance. “Thank you Duke, for the information you gave me.” The figure tells him making sand fly around Duke notice that the desert symbol on the side of his neck starting to glow. “Wait, there one more question. You called me old friend when we first meet out in the desert?” He asks the figure for one as time the sand kicking up around him lifting him off the ground making tuff to hear. “There no time to answer that, just tell James and the others that you need to find the other elements before it too late!” The figure shouts to make sure that he hears the message. Before being jolted awake from the dream world nearly scaring everyone in that’s still awake.

“You’re alright there Duke?” I ask him. “Yes, as far I can tell.” He answers me before seeing sand floating around his right hand and that his neck is still glowing from the dream. The glowing die down making the sand go into his hand making it glow a little before dying down like his neck.

Everyone else that fell asleep just now waking up seeing the glowing dying down from Duke’s hand and neck. “So I’m guessing the mysteries figure visit your dream as night daring?” Rarity asks him.“Yes, he did or I think it’s a he?” He said out loud getting his thoughts on the dream he just had.

“I know what you mean, there it tuff enough to even tell who or whatever this figure is?” AJ said in repose from what Duke just said. “The dream was very strange for me; then the nightmare I had after the attack on the base years ago.” Duke tells the group.

“Really we want to know everything.” Twilight asks him. “Ok just let me get my thoughts together. I woke up in the middle of a desert in your world. Then I see the Piece of Omega coming at me stopping above my head; before shooting out the symbol of the Desert World glowing yellow. Then shoot out a beam to the ground next to me sending sand and dust into the air.” He tells them.

“Then what happen?” Fluttershy asks him. “I was trying to cover up my face from the sand being sent into the air, before hearing the figure from out of nowhere saying something that shocked even me a little.” He said out loud.

“What did it said?” AJ asks him. “You wantn’t believe me if I told you? He said; Good to see you again old friend. Like we had meted many times before.” He tells them shocking everyone there.

“Wait the figure said that to you?” Rainbow asks him. “Yes he did and the dream gets stranger from there.” He answers her question making everyone wonder what happened from both in the dream and back home.

“After that, he takes my hand and the next thing I knew we were flying towards a nearby city.” He tells them. “Which city is that daring?” Rarity asks him. “Dodge City.” He quickly answers her before getting back to the story.

“When we got there I was shocked at first of seeing ponies everywhere before coming to a relation that this is your world not my and one of them walk through us like we were ghost. Before the figure gets my attention to the edge of the city seeing something coming towards the city. When it got there it was an airship that I have never seen before.” He tells them before Rainbow cut in the middle. “Duke did this ship as panels at the bottom of it and there’s lighting coming from them?” She asks him. “Yes, why you ask?” Question her with a question of my own. “Well, you see in my dream that strange looking ship show up as well and it catches a train from a collapsing bridge.” Rainbow said out loud before I cut her off.

“Thank you Rainbow. Duke, please continue on with the story.” I said out loud. “Right after the ship landed next to the towns train station. Whoever driving the ship said over the ship intercom said; “Ponies of Dodge City there is something coming towards your town, it would be best for you to get on the ship before it too late.” After moments later the ramps lowered and one of the doors open up let the driver and it's passengers off and you want not believe it if told you and I there seeing in front of me in my own eyes.” He tells us. “What did you see?” I ask him. “You, I saw you and Pinky there.” He tells me.

“WHAT!” Pinky shouted in shock. “I know what you mean why you said that before telling us.” Twilight said out loud from the state of shock the rest of the group is dealing with.

“The only difference was that of the both of them looks 20 years older and they weren’t alone there was a hybrid of a human and pony there with them.” He tells them. “Wait you mean our child?” I ask him. “As far I can tell yes.” He answers my question.

“Was there anypony else with them?” Twilight ask him. “Yes, there are. There are four of them and they look like something else. One was a while with a blue hair with a pair of purple sunglasses; another was gray with black hair and wearing a pink bowtie; another was yellow with purple and pink hair and the last one was light green with green and white hair.” He tells them.

“The those four are ponies we know very well back home and they are Vinyl Scratch, Octavia Melody, Lyra Heartstrings, and Bon Bon.” Pinky said out loud. “Why are they with them?” Rainbow asks out loud.

“I don’t know Rainbow. I just don’t know.” Twilight tries to answers the question. “What happened next?” Spike asks Duke.

“After everyone got off the ship and four of them had weapons with them, I know one looked like your old gun on Earth there James.” He tells them before I said that nearly shock even myself. “Marlin, Old Marlin.”

“Yes as are I can tell. Pinky had some canons towing behind her, the white one was carrying something I have seen before but I can’t remember it from the top of my head and your child was carrying a crossbow.” He tells them. “Why would they need those weapons and I wonder that drone that was in my dream the other day was really there?” AJ asks out loud.

“From this information that happen so far in both worlds; I would say yes indeed.” I said answering her question. “Anyway back to the story the ground below starting to shack like there’s something coming towards them; You walk pass the crow of ponies to the middle of the street. You toke aim with your gun and fire it into where the shacking is coming from. You pulled the trigger sending the round hitting a 50 ft. scorpion killing it in a intend sending the body dragging itself on the ground stopping only a few feet from you.” He tells them. “That impossible; even for me.” I said out loud. “You somehow did it.” He tells me.

“What happens next?” Spike asks him while Fluttershy shed a tear for the scorpion. “After the body stop said something I couldn’t make out after the pony you called Vinyl pock the beast with a metal poll. The group with the weapons when onwards down the street; while the others help the town folk get on the strange looking airship that landed next to their train station. After the two group when onwards with their task at hand; the figure asks me who you were. So I told him that you were James Cribb and that you look like 20 years older than what I know you now. Also, the first time we meet and the war between the Reds and Silencers. Also, the Reds attack on the base that still gives me nightmares about to this every day.” He tells them.

“Duke, I never would have suspected that you had scares from that day as well.” I tell him. “What in tarnation are you talking about James?” AJ asks me. “Well AJ, when you have seen what we been through it leaves scares on you either mental or physical or both. A lot of those scares run deep and it would take something to remind you that scare and it would tear itself open again.” I said trying to hold the tears I had answering her question.

“I know about the scares from my brother Shining Armor and he’s the captain of the guards before marrying Cadence. But I don’t think his scares are big or as deep as you three.” Twilight tells the three of us. “Trust me if your brother was there with us his scares would run that deep as well.” I told her finishing off the as of the translation.

“Before I woke up I see a sandstorm of towards another town and gunfire going off in the destine. Dust was kicking up around me and starting to float in the air with the sand. I ask him how does he know me, but I didn’t get the answer I wanted all I got was the same as the others before get the remaining elements before it’s too late.” He tells them as I pull out the map with the symbols of it and he puts the desert symbol where he thinks he woke up in the Equestria; next to the Bad Lands.

With the translation done and quickly translate the direction under the stone drawing of the nine of us and here it what it said.

Darkest is mysteries. When the time is need the nine worlds calls on the guardians to defect the darkest and sent it back to where it’s came. When all the elements are together the tenth Element we show itself and pick a guardian to protect its power from anyone or anything would like to take it.

“Jesus, this barely makes any scents.” I said out loud. “What?” Twilight asks me before looking the translation. “Darkest, Guardians, what in the name of Equestria are they trying to say?” She asks herself and the others.

“Maybe it something to do with something we can’t fully understand as of yet.” Fluttershy said out loud. “Yes, it got to be that, because I remember in one of Daring Do books it had something like this at showed it true meaning later on.” Twilight said out.

“I must have missed that book?” Rainbow said out scratching her head from what going on. “It was one of the early books that no longer being published.” Twilight said answering her friend question. “Why that Twilight?” She asks her friend. “I don’t know but that book is on the very rare list and I was about to get a copy of the book before it got pulled off store shelves for an unknown reason and that was nearly a month ago.” Twilight tells her friend answering her question. “Come to think of it things just got strange even before we when to your house and found you with the Piece of Omega.” Rainbow said out loud.

“What, you mean the TV station and the tower in the Canterlot right?” Twilight asks her. “Not just that the family that came out of nowhere and started the TV broadcast ENN and other networks that made them millions of bits in a mouth and where they live in an old bunker out of Manehattan.” She tells her. “Yell do think that the older versions of James, Pinky, and there child came are the same. Come to think of it I got a visit from myself that one time but that was only for a week and for only a few seconds before sending me back.” Twilight said out loud. “Do forget that time Starlight just a time travel scroll to change the everypony time line.” Rainbow said out loud. “No I didn’t forget that and got everything right in the end. But this is different because there must have been some powerful magic to make this happen in the first place.” Twilight said trying to get head around the problem.

“Listen I don’t know about what going with a family that came out of nowhere and even if their older counterparts. I just want to get back home to see my family again.” Applejack said out loud nearly going into a rate about it. “I know you all want to get home and there is only a few more elements we need to get before getting to the cross-dimensional portal.” I said trying to calm them down a little.

“He right; it been a long night trying to translate this and listening to what happened in Duke Dream and Equestria. I’m turning in a while.” Rarity said out getting off the couch heading to her room. “She right, I wonder what time it is?” Danny asks himself before looking on the clock on the wall showing 2:45am.

“You know without that scroll and the translation you got so far before we finish it off would have taken all night.” Twilight tells me. “I knew it would take some time to translate that. Go on head I got some things to finish up before turning in.” I said going on the hall to the lab to check on the medicine for my back.

I made it to the door but I felt something was off like I was being watched; I look around to see if I was alone before putting in the code for the door and when inside to see the machines as stop and the medicine are put in into the needles for 2000 shots. “That toke longer than last time I made some. Then again I’ve been busy trying to help them out the best I can.” I thought to myself before hearing the door hitches opening to see Pinky and Twilight at the door. “What are you doing here?” I ask them. “Well, we just want to know what you are doing behind a locked door.” Pinky answers my question. “Well I was checking on the medicine and it’s done for only god know how long it been.” I tell them.

“God, Who is that?” Twilight asks me. “It a long and confusing story to get all out.” I answer her question. “Your right maybe another time would be best.” She tells me. “Yep, we got to get another element in the morning.” I said getting a few needles from the storage and put it in a bag for them when the time comes to use them.

The next morning everyone is up and checking on some last things before heading back to the Forest World. Danny and Applejack were checking upon the drone from the sandstorm yesterday before loading it into the bed of her truck. While I get the key from the briefcase where I have the others lock away. “How we looking there Danny?” I ask him. “So far, so good the drone didn’t suffer any real damage from the storm yesterday; If it did it would be so minor damage that I can’t see or even worry about.” He tells closing the tailgate on AJ truck. “Good very good.” I tell him before walking over to my car putting the key on top of the hood of my car again, maybe for the last time.

Pinky sees me looking like I have seen a ghost or something on my mind. She walks over to me and asks me. “James, is there something wrong?” “I don’t know; I been having these dreams lately about a cube spinning in the middle of the desert.” I tell her. “A spinning cube?” She asks confusion “I know but it was spinning on one of its corners going faster and faster.” Twilight overhears what I saying and cut in by asking me.

“What was it made out of?” “I was about to get to that; It was made from chrome titanium looking like a giant mirror.” I said answering her question. “Then a platform comes out of the sand stopping right above the spinning club and it was made out of rusted metal a staircase came from the platform lowering itself to ground below, and it made out of same material as the platform.” I tell them both when the other fears in the story.

“Then what happened?” Twilight asks me. “I was about to climb the stair to the platform when I hear a horse whiting of in the distance, I turn to face the horse running towards me made of pure white clot and mane stop only a few feet away from me; I walk to the horse putting it head next to my hand making look to see he or she was carrying only a sword and a hostler for it.” I tell them.

“Interesting.” Duke said out said scratching his jaw a little. “Then dark storm clouds come overhead making everything turn dark even the sun as black as shake cloth, the only light there was around the still spinning away and the horse stay right by me the sword begins to glow. So I toke the sword from its hostler and it glowed brightly like it has been touch by God himself. Then my dream ended as well the story for now.” I tell them.

“How long you been having this dream sugarcubed?” AJ asks me. “I’ve been having this dream when I first discover the nine worlds all those years ago.” I said answering her question.

“Daring when did you starting you get this dream?” Rarity asks me. “Rare at first until you seven showed up; the dream been showing up nearly every night now.” I answered her question putting my hands on my car to try to clear my trouble thoughts from what been going on in my dreamscape, before hitting the hood of the car making a lot of noise and sending small sparks lighting from my hands scaring nearly everyone in the room.

“James, I don’t know what kind of scares you carry with you, but with the baby on the way; we’ll get through this together and we wantn’t be alone on this.” Pinky tells me trying to calm my nerves a little by giving me a hug with the others but Duke and Danny didn’t join in.

“James, Pinky is right about your scares and what you carry with you.” Rarity tells me “And James you will never be alone again.” Twilight tells me.

“Thanks guys for being with me and for my old friends coming back to help me through these dark times.” I said out loud to make sure everyone in the room could hear me and trying not to shield a tear.

Moments later the nine of us are leaving the city to the portal to the Forest World. The key lunches itself towards where the portal is and opens it up for us to go through to find the element and piece of this puzzle.

Here the 33^th chapter of the story so far. I got nothing to say that doesn't explain itself in the chapter.

This James Cribb signing out.