As we were eating our lunch a dark portal opened and a man wearing black robes and had raven black hair walked through at this point I was suspecting this would happen as seeing as all of my DnD characters had stopped in for a visit. I spoke up before any of the ponies got a chance.

“Hey Eugus how are you doing?” I asked as he reached into the portal and picked up a reaper's blade

“Oh hey Richard I am just passing through trying to find Gilded Glass.” Answered Eugus as he made another dark portal and stepped through it.

“Ok who are all these ponies that keep popping up, and why do they seem to know you?” Asked Celestia with much steel in her voice as she doesn’t like being out of the loop.

“Oh those are some of the people I have played as.” I answered as I ate some delicious salad with something akin to Ranch dressing.

“What does that even mean?” Yelled Twilight as she stood up on the table and glared at me.

“Huh, it means that those are pieces of a game brought to life by the Multiverse.” I said as I used my magic to float Twilight back into her seat without looking up from my salad. I heard something like fire crackling and I saw Twilight was floating in the air and she was caked in flames. So I did the rational thing and pulled out a bucket of water and poured it over her head dousing the flames. She fell down and sighed.

“I don’t know how you do some of the things you do but it is clear as day you did them.” Stated Twilight as she looked at her lunch.

“Twilight it is ok not to be perfect all the time, that is what makes you pony.” She looked at me with a hopeful face as if she thought that making a mistake would make her a bad pony. I looked at her and nodded my head she jumped over the table and hugged me.

“It’s ok little one.” I said as I held her as she shed tears of happiness. She cuddled up to me and looked at peace for several seconds.....That is until she noticed what she was doing, at which point she jumped out of my arms and hid under the table making us all laugh our flanks off.

“Twilight and Paradox sitting in a tree.” Rainbow Dash started to taunt at Twilight, but I summoned up a bit of Poison Joke and slowly twirled it in my fingers.

“I would advise you not to finish that taunt if I were you.” I threatened Rainbow to which she gulped, and slowly nodded her head in understanding.

“Paradox what has gotten into you? You are acting strangely.” Yelled Celestia as she looked into my eyes, and what she saw in my soul brought her to tears. She turned away from me and tried to fly away but I held her in place with my magic.

“Let me go.” Cried Celestia as she floated down to me. I forced her to look me in the eye and then took away the memory of what she saw by force. She passed out from the mental spike from the extracted the memory. Luna looked shocked but stayed put while Rainbow Dash flew into my face.

“Hey what gives? Why did you do that to Princess Celestia?” Yelled Rainbow Dash as she glared me in the eyes.

“I did it to save her sanity, she was a few seconds away from losing her mind.” I said slowly as I pushed her nose making her float lazily away. She was unable to move as she floated into a wall and bounced off slowly floating to the floor.

“Oh ya and why would she be losing her mind.” Asked a sceptic Rainbow Dash as she stood up. I was going to answer but Celestia who just woke up beat me to it.

“Because I accidentally looked at the heart of chaos which is Madness. No mortal could look at without dying, and no immortal could look at without losing their mind.” Answered Celestia as she shakily stood up on the table.

“Here let me help you down.” I said as I picked her up and and set her down on the floor. She took a few steps and fell to her knees.

“Alright bed rest for you missy.” I said as I picked her up with magic and started to carry her out of the room and down the hall. After a few minutes of walking Celestia spoke up and asked me a question.

“How do you do it? I mean hold that knowledge and not go insane.” Celestia asked as I carried her to her room.

“I was already insane when I got these powers so I didn’t have any problem holding the madness inside myself but keeping it there will be a problem I see so I think I will have to make some gods to hold parts of it so this never happens again.” I answered her as I tucked her into her sheets. I walked out of the room to find Luna with a worried expression.

“Is she going to be alright? She means the world to me I couldn’t handle it if she died.” Cried Luna as she looked at me with sad eyes.

“She will be fine but her mind will need time to heal. The mind is not meant to hold all that information.” I said as I rubbed her head. I walked away and heard Celestia’s door open and close. I could only smile at their love for each other. I walked through hallways and past many elegant oak doors. I eventually found myself walking back into the eating room and I saw the girls slowly eating their meals. Twilight saw me enter and walked over to me.

“Is Princess Celestia going to be alright?” Twilight whispered to me as all the other ponies looked at me with worried expressions. I slowly looked at all of them one by one and nodded to each.

“She will be fine but she needs time to rest, and I need to make some gods.” I said to the shocked ponies. They started asking questions faster than I could listen to.

“QUIET!” I bellowed in a voice that puts the Royal Canterlot Voice to shame. The ponies all shut up after that.

“Now Twilight as you are the one who is the most studious, you ask the questions.” I said to her so I could answer the most important questions and be done with it. The ponies started to whisper amongst themselves. After a few minutes of this Twilight walked up to me and sat down. She took in a breath and asked me a bunch of questions.

“What do you mean you're going to make a god? What will they be gods of? Why are they needed?” Twilight shot off one after another, I was slightly reeling from the questions but I stood my ground.

“To answer your questions in order. I will take a few people from my world that I knew back in my old life and ascend them to godhood. They will be gods of Fear and Courage. They are needed so nopony will ever fall to the madness like Celestia did.” I said in quick spurts as I looked over the ponies.

“Now then I have to start grabbing so.” I reached into the world of humans and pulled out the now named Courage and Fear. I set them down they looked at me with fear at first but they realized who I was and hugged me while crying.

“Where were you we looked all over for you for weeks?” Cried Fear as he hugged me. He looked at me closely and backed up slowly shaking his head and mumbling to himself. I pointed at Fear with my middle finger.

“You will be the spirit of Courage.” I boomed as he turned into a bipedal blue Alicorn. I then pointed at Courage with my foot.

“And you will be the spirit of Fear.” I boomed as he turned into a living shadow. I then laughed at Fear was jumping up and down laughing with glee over his new chaos powers. While Courage started to look around and slowly sank into the shadows under the table.

“When it is time for me to be called I will be here taking a nap.” Said Courage in a voice that lazily floated on the non existent wind. I just shrugged my shoulders and teleported me and Fear to my home in the throne room.

“Wow you have upgraded since the last time I was here.” Whistled Fear as he inspected the rooms. I heard a sneeze from the bedroom and a loud pop. I rushed into the room to find that there was an exact copy of my bed on the other side of the room.

“So how does it feel to have almost unlimited power?” I asked Fear as he jumped on the bed and he pulled out a tablet from nowhere and started to play angry birds. He looked at me and smiled then went back to playing his game. I left him to his devices and teleported to Celestia’s room. I walked up to Luna who was sitting by Celestia’s bed as she tossed and turned in her sleep.

“Luna I need to talk to you.” I said barely over a whisper. She looked at me with a tear stained face, after a few seconds she nodded and walked over to the other side of the room. I started to talk but I was interrupted by Luna breaking down in tears and hugging me. I was surprised at first but I slowly rubbed her back to calm her. After a half hour of this she finally calmed down enough so that I could tell her what I was going to in the first place.

“Luna I need to tell you something important. something that will make sure this never happens again to anypony. I have made two gods both of them are in the castle right now.” I whispered to her. She looked shocked at first but after a few second it sank in and she glared at me. She teleported us to the throne room.

“How dare you make gods before telling us. I have half a mi.” She yelled in the Royal Canterlot Voice as she glared at me with unholy anger.

“Silence!” I bellowed using The Voice of The Mountain which is ten times as loud as the RCV. Luna looked at me with a mixture of fear and shock. She tried to back away from me but I held her in my magical grasp.

“I did what I had to do to keep your little ponies safe from myself. If one of them were to look at my soul as it was before I split the madness into two pieces and passed them onto other gods they would have died.” I said with as much venom in my voice as I could muster. I teleported Luna out of the throne room and teleported myself to the mountain top. I started to pace back and forth, over and over and over till I wore a slight ditch into the rock. I started to do the only thing that could calm me down at this point I sat down, pulled out my grandfathers pipe and started to smoke. After a few hours of doing so I heard wing beats as a huge power source landed behind me.

“Hello Celestia you should still be in bed.” I said without looking while I smoked the old pipe. I saw the white Alicorn sit down next to me in the corner of my eye.

“Why did you make gods Paradox?” Asked Celestia quietly as she looked over the setting sun. I didn’t answer at first as I was enjoying the aged pipe.

“Because if I didn’t I would have ended up hurting mortals with the Madness.” I answered to her around the pipe. I looked at her and she was looking at me with a shocked expression. She shook her head and looked at me again.

“You would give up the Madness the source of you unlimited power so you wouldn’t hurt My Little Ponies?” She whispered looking me dead in the face to see if I was lying.

“Yes I would I would give away a great deal of my power to keep your ponies safe.” I said while I smoked my pipe. Celestia hugged me as she saw no untruth in my face or voice. Next Chapter: Chapter 5 Estimated time remaining: 1 Hour, 27 Minutes