Fluttershy sighed. She came to this place often, when she missed her children. She'd sit on benches, watching them all play and enjoy one another. Her attire was different. Gone was the long pink mane she was known for, now cut short, just slightly above her neck. A captains tan cap on her head, and the same tan colored suit adorned her upper body. Her tail was also cut short. A high ranked, decorated Nexus member. She had known Nexus her whole life, living a double life.

A blonde human woman with eyes as blue as the ocean walked over before sitting on the bench across from Fluttershy. "Got to love watching kids play around, wouldn't you agree?"

She smirked, laughing lightly. "You have to know my uniform. Why talk to me?"

The woman smiled before gesturing around. "I don't see a battlefield. I don't see walls between realms. As far as I am concerned, we are just two beings having a chat, regardless of who you are in the waking world."

"Unlike most here, I'm not actually hiding my physical appearance. Don't need to."

"Heh, yeah, was a shocker when I came here looking like this. After all that's happened, I didn't expect for the dream realm to default me to this appearance." The woman chuckled. "So, what's up. I've been around enough beings and children to know when something is bothering them. It's the stiffness of you posture, stiffer than even military folk, the tightness of your neck, and the look in your eye."

"Nexus isn't most Military." She replied. "This place sometimes helps me remember."

"Remember what? Good times I hope."

"The reason I returned to Nexus to begin with. I… was out, by sheer luck, for a long time."

"If luck brought you out, why go back?" The woman said, a strange undertone in the question that Fluttershy couldn't put her finger on.

"Because… the one who I trusted to keep me and my family safe… wasn't there when we needed them most… and because I was too weak to do it myself."

"Don't blame yourself… it's something that took me years to learn is to stop blaming myself for things that were out of my control." She said with a somber tone, one that rang alarm bells in fluttershy's head but she still just couldn't figure out why.

"I don't blame myself. I blame them. A Heartless almost stole the heart of our baby… and where was he? I don't even know. And that's the worst part. They'd leave, to get stronger 'for us' they'd say proudly, fail once… and leave again and we'd have no idea."

The woman looked down at the floor, leaning forward before saying with a slight crack in her voice. "They…. Probally have that as the sol number one regret in their life. The time when they were needed most, and failed everyone because they could see what was in front of them. The time when not only their family and friends were in danger, but also their spouses family. And they let it all fall because they just could accept that they had all they needed already." Tears began to fall from Eclipsa's face. "Shy… I don't ask for forgiveness. I didn't…. I don't deserve it. And I know why you can't come back even if you did forgive me…" the blue eyes faded to the red as she turned to Shy. "I…. I am at your mercy, because sorry…. Doesn't cut it for betraying those who loved me."

Still and silent, there was a long, defining pause. Suddenly, Eclipsa's eyes went white. She backed up, knowing she took some, not much, but some damage. Her sight returning, Fluttershy stood ready to charge, a long, bright pink sword radiating pure magic in her bite, her wings shifting from their butter yellow to a metalic chrome, and their eyes, flooding with rivers of tears. "This is low… so low Eclipsa… changing forms, hissing, just to hide?"

"I didn't change forms. I spoke the truth, the dream realm out me into the form of one of my old lives." Eclipsa said, not summoning so much as a mote of her power, just standing there, her eyes creating their own rivers as she looked at shy.

"Listen to me, you selfish bastard. You betrayed my trust, you left your family… for something as stupid as power and strength. Tell me… did you find it?"

"Even if I did, it wasn't worth the cost." Eclipsa said, lowering her head as grey acted on its own, showing Shy just what Eclipsa had gained. "If I could I would throw it all away. It wasn't worth it."

"Heh. So if it's so worthless to you now… let me help you choke on it!" Shy slashed her sword, a massive energy blast that destroyed the ground and uplifted the soil underneath, the impact blasted Eclipsa through several buildings, noticing that she hit innocent people and some were dazed or heart from her attack.

"Grey mass curaga." Eclipsa simply said, healing all those who were hurt before walking her way back through the rubble, a shallow slash across her chest that she didn't pay any attention to.

Through the dust and rubble walked Shy, blade glowing brightly as mana flowed into it. “What? No witty banter or even your prized Keyblades?”

"No. I am not going to fight you, and I stopped joking around in fights a while ago." Eclipsa said calmly despite her blood dripping onto the floor below and tears in her eyes.

“That’s a joke.” She said, her now metallic feathers starting to crackle with energy and vibrate. "You know, everyone who is born into Nexus has some unique genetic alterations. Guess what metal makes up my feathers.” She said, flapping as the energy from her wings blew out at Eclipsa in a massive shockwave, blasting her through several buildings and landing inthe destroyed bench of a park.

"Grey mass curaga." Eclipsa said again, healing those who were caught in the path as she stood up from the bench, her arm having protected her belly instinctually, but not healing herself. "And I don't know. And I don't care. I just care that it is you."

“Vibranium. Maybe not the strongest, but it’s unique trait was just one thing that makes it useful.” She said, her wings charging again. “When I was four, they made me test the limits I could go. Just a foal, and my wings when fully charged leveled mountains. Course, they broke. Painful, and being metallic they don’t exactly heal fast. I wasn’t even built for combat, modified for recon. No one ever thought it strange that I could understand all animals, back home some spoke words, others their primal tongues, didn’t matter, no better way to gather intel than speaking to the wildlife.”

Eclipsa's face turned to shock before anger before her powers started to change, and Fluttershy felt it all. She felt everything, Grey, magic, light, dark, Insanity, even code become fueled into Eclipsa, so much power that the very foundations of reality began to year around her as excess power flowed into a white dot on her hand. "You know, I think I know, but I need to ask. Did you ever love me? Nexus, time after time has tried to get rid of me. They erased me from existence countless times, and each time I just came back. Nexus hates me because I am something they couldn't calculate, couldn't truly clone, predict, or even destroy permanently. Did you ever care? Or were you hoping to use me. Turn me into a weapon for Nexus, or just a resource. Grey is a ever replicating and boosting power source. Priceless in even a single droplet." Eclipsa asked, her body becoming Naga to handle the amount of power flowing through her even as it almost starts to become suffocating in its strength.

“At one time I did care. At one time, I did love you… but you broke my heart Eclipse. Your family needed you, I needed you… and you weren’t there. I can’t trust you.” Shy said, tears forming in her eyes.

Eclipsa blurred towards shy, the mare raising her sword defensively. What she couldn't have expected was for the naga to go next to her, her eyes barely catching the "I'm sorry" before Eclipsa was behind her, and as she turned blood splattered across her face. Eclipsa's blood, as a sword made up of a sliver of that ancient Void impaled into her shoulder, a deep slice across the naga's chest. With a roar Eclipsa slammed all her built up power against the blade shattering it before ripping it out. "No one touches my WIFE!" She roared her insanity showing as she took the broken top of the blade and ran it through the would be assassin.

They ducked, suddenly slipping passed her and gaining distance. “Should have guessed.” They said, giving a clap. “Ever the thorn in our side.”

Eclipsa took a breath, making her insanity work with her instead of control her as her powers sky rocketed beyond safe levels. "And I will ever be so." She said, willing herself via code to be behind the assassin and her tail erupted in light, the teath of keyblades at it's end as she tried to impale the assassin while swiping with the broken blade still in her grip.

To her surprise, the attacks phased through them. Summoning Better half to her other hand, she sliced again, adding grey to the mix. "You all have torn my life apart again, and again, and again. No more."

“You, are the anomaly that has cropped up again, and again, and again in our work. Hehehe. You think Marcy, Collin, they were not your first times screwing with us.”

"And we won't be the last." Eclipsa said, her voice echoing with all the voices of all the lives they had lived. "You have killed us, deleted us, erased us from existence, tortured us, even went deep enough to remove our code, and still we rise."

“Yes. Like the little glitch you are.”

At that, the eclipse smirked. "And we are proud of it." It said before everything, even the assassin froze. They watched as Eclipsa split again and again, each one a different version. The unicorn Eclipse, Marcy, Colin, and countless others before they all raised a hand upwards, grey pooling from all those deleted timelines and realities into the current Eclipsa's pool, on all their hands a white dot. "We are eternal. We always have, and always be. We are defenders of our reality, and thus have only a single thing to say to you."

Eclipsa, Marcy, Eclipse and Colin all smirked a smile that Shy fell in love with. ''You dun fucked up."

The assassin seemed to be concerned now. “Shit, she’s actually able to access it all. This is gonna be trouble.” They muttered.

Fluttershy kept a distance, observing as she seemed to be planning something.

Eclipsa suddenly was behind the person again, this time their phase ability was rendered useless by Eclipsa’s overflowing Grey. With a single swing of her arm, the assassin was now in two, and finally, her power began to calm as the many past versions of her now faded away.

With the assassin delt with, the color returned to the world, Eclipsa’s hair stoped flowing, and her eyes turned from a shining silver grey to red. Before fluttershy could react, Eclipsa collapsed forward, her wounds all reopening all at once. “Flutter….shy….” Eclipsa rasped out though the pain as she let out a cry before darkness over took her vison, a figure of fluttershy walking towards her.