After a quick spell, the two Alicorn parents had arrived within Asgard in a flash of light. As they looked around to see where they were, they two were surprised to see their parents already sitting idly under a large tree nearby. Along with a certain... Pegasus?

Without hesitation the two quickly galloped over to their parents and daughter. Marina hearing the hoof steps gaining in volume and heading in her direction, causing her to turn her head to locate the source. Upon finding the source, her eyes lit up before filling with tears as she jumped from her grandparents embrace and bolting to her adoptive parents.

The young Pegasus crashed into Celestia with such force that they both ended up falling to the cloud covered ground, crying and laughing as they hugged each other. A minute passed as the Pegasus noticed the lack of another parent, causing her to pull away from Celestia for a moment to locate the missing individual.

The two looked back to see the dark stallion sitting on his haunches, looking down, his wings limp to either side of him as he shook, silently crying onto the ground below. After a few moments, the stallion was surprised to see his adoptive daughter come into his vision as he stared toward the ground. She gave a soft smile as she looked up to him, tears running down her cheeks as she spoke.

"Daddy, I'm ok now. I don't blame you for what happened. I should have listened to you and momma. I love you both. Please don't cry."

Upon hearing this, the stallion fell to the ground, holding his daughter as he let out a sorrowful wail. Hugging his daughter to him, he kept whispering sorry, over and over again as he held onto his daughter for dear life. Every being within the vicinity looking on in awe upon seeing a living deity actually expressing such a strong emotion while in their presence.

After a short time had passed, the stallion pulled away from his daughter reluctantly. She raising a hoof and gently wiping away the tears that had stained his face as she spoke.

"Daddy, I know it wasn't your fault. You don't have to be sad anymore. I'm happy here with granny and papaw. I even got to meet your grandponies!" She smiled widely for a moment before halting as she looked at the expression of confusion upon her adoptive fathers face.

"Marina... you said you've met my grand parents? But... even I haven't met them before, and I've been here many times before." He stated in confusion before Celestia and both of their parents came up to him.

"Marina, I know that we have a lot to discuss. But for right now, I need your father and I to take a little walk so that we may discuss something very important." Celestia smiled softly as she gave her foal a gentle nuzzle.

"Ok momma." She smiled back before giving the dark stallion a final hug and bounding off to her grandparents.

"Tia?" Midnight began as he watched her turn from him, looking back and giving a slight nod toward the direction she was walking.

The stallion stood and followed the Sun Goddess as she began to trot slowly away from the main area that they had just been in, heading away from most of the beings that were in that area. The two ponies came to a stop in a slightly more wooded area as she began to speak.

"Night, although we have come into the afterlife to see our daughter this day. She has brought up something that I had hoped we could wait to have bore witness to when the time was right." She sighed, looking to the ground for a moment.

"Tia, what are you talking about? Is it about my grand parents? Is that what you are referring too?" He asked, a slight pang of worry etched across his face.

"Yes..." She trailed off for a moment to take in a deep breath, releasing it to steady herself. "I have known about your grandparents for some time now, yet I had hoped that this moment could have waited until our foals had grown quite a bit." She smiled softly as she looked back across the yard to see Marina playing with her own parents.

"I'm still not understanding why you seem so nervous hun. Is it really that nerve wracking to you for me to meet my grand parents? I mean... I've never actually gotten to meet them, and my daughter gets to meet them before I do? Although, it could have been under better circumstances." He sighed, laying his ears back.

"Night... I want you to meet your grand father." She stated sternly as she moved to his side to reveal a pony that was standing behind her.

Midnight stood there for a moment as he looked to the elder looking pony that had just been introduced as his grand father, then laughing for a moment, trailing off as he looked to the stern expression plastered across both of their faces.

"Heh, Tia... This is a pony... He can't possibly be my grand father." He paused for a moment seeing Celestia roll her eyes.

"Does this pony not look familiar to you? Perhaps, from some stories of old." She asked as the stallion stood a little taller, giving a smile as he ran a hoof gently over the long beard that ran from his chin, almost to the ground below. He turned slightly to reveal his cutiemark of a galaxy that was in a swirling pattern on his flank.

After a moment, Midnights eyes began to get wider and wider as realization dawned on him.

"W-wait... You must be joking!?" He sputtered in shock. "T-this is Starswirl the Bearded! There is no way he could be..." He paused as the stallion before him spoke up.

"Your grandpony? Come now my boy, you of all individuals should know better than to think it not to be possible. After all that you've experienced?! HA! To think that my grandchild could still be thinking on a two dimensional scale?! Celestia! Are you sure this colt is really from my lineage?!" The bearded pony scoff, causing Midnight to give a slightly annoyed expression back.

"I'm beginning to think Tia was right. Because you're acting just like my blow hard of a father." He snorted out, causing the other stallion to glare.

"Speaking of my son, I've already spoken with him on several occasions. Our first encounter was nothing like this one while in Asgard." He smirked giving a soft chuckle.

"Knowing him, he probably freaked out upon seeing a pony as his father." Midnight groaned. "Still, that doesn't explain how you could be my grand father. So spill it! How in the hell are you my grand father?" Midnight snapped causing the pony to smirk back to him.

"Ha! I was hoping that you could have come to that conclusion on your own boy. But, if you need things laid out for you. I guess I could help to guide you." He laughed as he began to trot along with Midnight and Celestia in tow.

"I'm sure you've read the stories about me from the olden times, and about my sudden disappearance, correct?" He asked, getting a nod from Midnight as he filled in the missing information.

"Yea, you apparently went missing after a failed spell casting."

"Correct, but that isn't all of the information. Do you remember reading about my history? Does anything in there seem familiar, or resemble you in any way, shape, or form?" He grinned seeing the memories of possible resemblances play across the stallions face.

"Wait wait wait! I remember reading that you were the only other pony to ever be able to make spells out of the blue just like myself, but that is the only thing I think we have in common." Midnight snorted out as the three continued to trot along.

"Yes, that is one thing. But were you aware of where I had vanished too?" The elder stallion asked, only to see Midnight shake his head.

"The spell I had cast all that time ago, that caused me to vanish from the face of Equestria, was a long distance transportation spell. I was attempting to create a worm hole that would use less magic than a teleportation spell, so that a pony could travel any distance on the planet with almost no magic at all. the only problem though, was that I had not taken into account that the worm hole spell, could traverse into another dimension."

The dark stallion stopped in his stride as the thoughts of what had happened began to click in his mind. Looking to the elder stallion he gave a slightly confused expression for a moment as he looked him up and down.

"Boy, don't give me that look. I'm getting to that." He snapped back as he continued. "The world I ended up in had a dominant species known as humans in it. There was a problem though that coincided with the humans. This world was not only covered with them, but it also lacked magic." He paused seeing realization etch across the stallions face.

"So you used transformation magic, to permanently turn yourself into a human?!" Midnight asked in shock.

"Correct! See Tia! I told you he was as quick as a whip when he needed to be!" Starswirl laughed as he nudge the dark Alicorn, causing Celestia to give a soft giggle.

"Yes my boy, I turned myself into a human, fell in love with yer grandma, and had a couple kids. It was just fate that you just so happened to be swept away. Back into the world that you were meant to be in." He laughed.

"It doesn't make sense though." Midnight began, causing them both to look at him in question. "You disappeared around three thousand years ago from Equestria. I'm only in my forties. Tell me how that is possible." Midnight stated with a snort, thinking he had disapproved the circumstance at hoof.

"I think I should fill in that spot my dear." Celestia stated with a soft smile. "I am sure you remember the story that I told about the human that had helped Equestria to start farming when you arrived, correct?" She asked, seeing the dark Alicorn nod. "That human was from earths midevil period. Now, do you remember the time period that Samantha came from?" She asked seeing him nod.

"Yea, she was from about thirty years in the future from my time on earth." He stated, rubbing his chin in thought.

"And do you remember when you met your friend while playing video games with Luna?" She smiled seeing realization play across his face once again.

"Yea, he said he hadn't seen me in fifty years, and that I looked the same! He also mentioned that Luna and I looked like a cartoon... and that Twilight was supposed to become an Alicorn at the end of season three of that cartoon." He stated as he gave a questioning look toward the Sun Goddess.

"Um... we shall get back to that my dear. But for now, we need to finish the explanation about your family history." She smiled nervously toward him.

"You see my boy." Starswirl picked back up, garnering their attention once again. "Time will fluctuate, and magic is very fical and random when it comes to such a thing. Magic does not play by the normal laws of physics. Magic will do what it wants, when and where it wants. You can fine tune a spell of course, but when I made that worm hole spell. It was still in the alpha phase, and I failed to bind myself to Equestria before stepping through it into an unknown world. Hence, why I was stranded on a world with only the magic I had within my body."

"Wait... the magic left in your body?" Midnight asked as he stared at the elder stallion.

"That's correct. Do you not recall the instances in the history books when I had to take meditation cycles several times a year by myself?" He asked, seeing the stallions eyes light up.

"So, you were absorbing magic the whole time?!" He squeaked out in surprise.

"Yes! I never told anypony this except for Celestia, but, I was born as a unicorn that could not produce any magic at all. My leeching ability actually exceeds your own my boy." He smirked seeing the look of shock on the stallions face.

"That explains my stunted magic capability." He chuckled.

"Do you also recall the stories about my spells being very potent as well?" Starswirl asked seeing the other stallion smile.

"You used that special magic to cast your spells as well, didn't you?" He asked seeing the elder stallion smile and laugh.

"Now you're getting it! I'm actually quite proud of you for putting the pieces together so quickly. It took Celestia quite a bit longer to figure things out." He snickered, causing Celestia to burn a bright red from embarrassment.

"Even I wasn't aware at the time that you could do such a thing my dear. It was a surprise, even for someone of my age." She tittered softly.

"So then... I was destined to come to Equestria again, wasn't I?" Midnight asked, seeing his grand father nod.

"I thought that your father would get the chance, and that I could possibly return as well in time. But that never happened." He sighed. "That plus your grandmother still hasn't forgiven me for keeping my being a pony a secret until we met again in the after life." He groaned, running a hoof down his face.

"That explains why she isn't here with you." Midnight chuckled. "Well.... *flicker* dammit! I guess it'll have to wait. *Fade* I'll return in time... Grandpa..." The dark Alicorn stated softly as the two of them faded from sight. Starswirl giving a content smile upon being called that for the first time.

"You had better boy. I look to have some lengthy discussions with you when I can." He laughed softly as he headed back to the square.

The two Alicorns opened their eyes to see themselves back in Celestias quarters. Both with tear stained faces that had dried from the short time they had been in the afterlife. Midnight gave the Sun Goddess a little nudge to get her attention as he smiled.

"So then... Marina isn't angry with either of us, is happy and well. And also.... a Pegasus...." He trailed off giving a confused expression.

"When a being travels into the afterlife, they take the form of what they were meant to be, or had only known themselves to be. Marina was meant to be our daughter, and a Pegasus as well my dear. She will continue to be happy and loved for the rest of time in Asgard. So please, do not worry yourself." Celestia smiled softly as she nuzzled the dark Alicorn.

"I'm not worried, but I will miss her."

"You will get to see her as often as you like my dear. Just be sure to take me along with you so that we may see her together." She tittered softly, giving the stallion a gentle kiss on the cheek.

"I will, you've got no worries there love." He paused as a sly smile spread across his face. "I do have one question though."

Celestia paused, knowing that look all too well. "And what would that be?"

"I was wondering about the whole Twilight becoming an Alicorn thing." He smirked seeing her roll her eyes.

"That... will need to wait for the time being. I fear that the time is coming to that point, and when it occurs..." She trailed off for a moment before picking back up. "When it does come to fruition, you need to vacate the area until it is over."

Midnight was taken aback by the sudden request as he paused in his stride. "Tia?"

"Midnight, I do not want to have to explain this, just please. Trust me, when the time comes, you need to be as far from here as possible, for your safety, and ours." She sighed, looking down a little.

"Very well then. I guess a little vacation is in order." He chuckled.