The portal was worse than I thought it was, as my body was ripped apart and then rebuilt dozens of times, I fell from Celestia’s throne room’s ceiling, hitting the ground like a bag of rocks. I coughed a little bit, and then threw up my blackened red blood.

“SPIKE!” Celestia’s voice shouted. I looked around at Celestia and Twilight. This world’s Spike was in Twilight’s arms crying. I smiled a little bit, I was alive and I had made it through to this world just fine, but there was improvement that could be had. It was also almost luck that I gotten back exactly at this moment, not hundreds of years into the past.

“Hi.” I gurgled a little bit with blood still drowning me, I then fell face first and passing out cold.

“Spike, wake up.” Celestia’s voice said and I opened my eyes looking around. Twilight was next to my bed with this world’s Spike, both of them asleep on another bed. I turned to Celestia which was at the end of my bed. “I’m glad you’re awake.”

“How long was I out for?”

“A few hours, don’t worry you’re fine.”

“That’s good.”

“Thank you for saving our Spike. After everything he told us, well let’s just say we can understand very well, why you did what you did. Twilight and all of her friends have forgiven you and wish for you to stay with them in Ponyville.”

“Wait, first what did he tell you?”

“They did some really bad things to him, I took away his memories forever, it was bad, I saw the things they did. You were not lying when you said that you wake into a nightmare, not from one.”

“I see, but wait I lied to you all, I almost killed your Spike.”

“No damage has been done, Spike was not actually harmed, and I erased his memories so he will not suffer from what happen. You were scared to return to your world, it was understandable why you did what you did.”

“But I hurt, Flutter, um what was her name?”

“Fluttershy, and I explained it to her, she understood, just so long as you promised not to do it again, she said she will let you come near her.”

“Thank you, but this is too much.”

“Think of it like this.” We both turned to Twilight. She had awoken and heard everything we had said. “I want you in Ponyville because not only can I learn from you, but I can watch you, as can all my friends.” I swallowed a little nervous.

“I, guess that would be fitting.”

“But you’ll have to teach me everything you know.”

“I will teach you everything I know, but I can’t promise that you’ll like what I have to teach you.”

“I'll decide that for myself, while I feel sorry and understand, I don’t trust you. You have lied to us, had you come clean, this all would have been able to be avoided.”

“And then what? You would have panicked and I wouldn’t have ended up going back for Spike, and both of us would’ve died. I only realized that we would’ve died after talking to a weird creature named Discord.” Both of them paused.

“Someone call me?” I paused as Discord walked into the room.

“Hello little dragon, I figured you’d be back.”

“You, you tricked me didn’t you?” I growled.

“No, I didn’t lie to you, you both would have died had you not gone back. I just helped you a little, and everyone else.”

“Thank you.” Twilight said and Discord smiled a little.

“My dear you can always pay me back later.” He chuckled disappearing. I sat up and shivered a little.

“So you’re blue?” Twilight asked.

“And your purple, my Twilight was blue, and before I forget.” I snapped my claws making Spike’s wings disappear turning him back to his correct colors. “Those aren’t natural, in fact a lot of you were different colors, Rarity was green, Fluttershy was pink and none of your names are the same, they have the same first part, but not the last. Cutie marks are different, well except yours Twilight.”

“So you’ll go back with Twilight?” Celestia asked.

“If you’ll let me.”

“We need to give you a new name.” Twilight said.

“What?” I asked a little confused.

“Well this is Spike, he’s from this world so he’ll keep his name, you’re not from this world, and having two baby dragons will be confusing if they’re both called Spike. You need to pick another name.” Twilight had fire in her eyes, but new world, new name, it makes some sense, but it was maddening that she wasn’t giving me a choice.

“Um, how about Seffron?” Celestia asked.

“Sounds fine to me.” I said and smiled a little.

“Good, now I must ask you a few things,” Celestia said now with a very serious look on her face. “Can they follow you? The world you came from seems, wrong, I would not allow for something like that to come through.”

“No, there is no way for them to be able to get through, as I fell through I closed the barriers for a hundred years. They won’t be able to get through till then, and by then I'll be more than ready if they do.”

Actually they were moving at around thirty times this world’s time, so it would actually only take them around three years, but I doubt Twilight would come for me. A hundred years was a long time, then again, she could live forever.

“Good, you are healthy, and you can leave with Twilight when she wants to. I have other matters to be settled elsewhere.” She left the room and I looked at Twilight a little nervously, then at Spike.

“Is he alright?”

“He’s fine, just don’t expect a warm welcoming, we all nearly lost someone that we cared for deeply.” Ugh, at least I made them suffer for a little, this Spike would be fun to torture, so it would prove to be a better outcome.

“I didn’t expect you to talk to me, let alone want me.”

“Don’t get used to it, you have a lot of work ahead of you, and it won’t be easy for you to do, I can guarantee it. Now come over here.” I got out of the bed and went over to her. We appeared back in the library’s bedroom. I fell a little back onto the ground. She set Spike into the bed and I got up.

“So, where do you want me.” I asked. She walked pass me and we went down stairs. I paused seeing all of Twilight’s friends standing in a semi circle waiting for us. I stepped back a little nervous.

“Everyone, this is Seffron, he’s the Spike from another world, we are to watch everything he does from now on. We aren’t allowed to kill him, you know why, no matter how much you hate him or dislike him. I want you guys to treat him like anyone else.”

“I don’t know Twi,” Applejack said. “He can’t be trusted, he could be very dangerous to every pony. Is it smart to keep him here? Especially a lair?”

“He knows a lot of magic that can help a lot of pony, I want to learn everything I can from him, I also think he can be a huge help. Ask him for anything and he’ll help you.” She went close to my face. “Isn’t that right Seffron?” I gulped and nodded.

“Yeah, anything.” I said.

“Good, now then, you all can yell at him, but then let it go, Spike is fine and alive, nothing else needs to be done.” Rarity, Applejack and Rainbow Dash all started attacking me with words and I sat down staring at them as their words messed together making no sense, Rarity of this world was the most pissed at me. “Stop.” Twilight held up her hoof stopping them from yelling more.

“But Twilight.” Rarity said.

“Spike is upstairs.” Her eyes went wide and she rushed upstairs.

“Twilight, I need to talk.” Fluttershy said coming forward, she was the only one that didn’t talk, Pinkie Pie just had said a few words, but nothing much.

“Fine, but after you it’s over.”

“Princess Celestia told me you loved the other me, is that right?” I flinched a little.

“Yes.” I looked away.

“Well there will never be anything like that between us, so don’t ever touch me again, I don’t care if it’s a pat on the back, or even to save my life, you don’t touch me. You will never touch me again.”

“I can’t say I’m sorry for kissing you, you are very pretty.” She blushed a little. “I would do it again if you gave me the chance, but all I can do it heal your wounds.” I snapped my claws and her bones cracked, the casts on her two legs fell off and she backed up.

“Whoa.” Rainbow Dash said.

“I’m sorry about you getting hurt, I saw that beast coming, but, I didn’t think your Spike knew magic, and it would have given me away at the time.”

“That was cool,” Rainbow Dash said. “But you need to earn our trust, don’t just cast magic without our permission, and you just did it after she told you not to!” Rainbow Dash stomped her hoof very mad.

“I’m sorry, I thought.”

“It’s fine Dash,” Twilight said. “He knows now.”

“Thank you,” Fluttershy said. “My legs were in pain.” I smiled a little.

“I can’t tell you all how sorry I am, and I’m fine with you not forgiving me, but if you lived that world, I believe you would have done the same.”

“No excuse,” Applejack said. “Just don’t do it again.”

“I won’t, ah, actually before anything else, can you tell me things I shouldn’t do? I mean I know the normal things, but is there anything I’m not allowed to do?”

“Kill, harm, or destroy anything,” Twilight said. “You cannot lie for any reason.”

“Unless it’s for a party!” Pinkie Pie said and they looked at her. “What you guys did it to me, so.” Twilight sighed.

“Unless one of us tell you not to tell, you aren’t allowed to lie about anything.”

“Yeah or keep anything from us!” Rainbow Dash said. “You have to tell us everything, no secrets.”

“Okay, wait do I have to tell you my past?” They all paused. “That can get pretty bad, so I’m not sure.”

“No,” Twilight said. “We don’t want to know unless it’ll somehow affect this world in some way. Now if you have some information that we need to know, or should know, that would be something you want to tell us.”

“I will.”

“Good, now this is done, everyone put away your feelings.”

“Hi! I’m Pinkie Pie!” She shook my hand shaking me.

“Hi.”

“Oh tell me all about the me from your world.”

“Pinkie!” Twilight shouted.

“What? I want to know, was she a party animal there to?!” She sang.

“Pinkamena Diane Pie was her name.”

“Oh that’s my whole name.” I stepped back a little bit. “Well so tell me, what was she like? Was she fun?”

“I wouldn’t call her fun, she, she was the most notorious serial killer my world ever knew.” All of them stared at me. “She would turn her victims into cupcakes and then feed them to her guests, she was only caught because a filly managed to hit her over the head and escape her kitchen. She had over five hundred victims before the war, I released her at the start of a major war, she was unbeatable in front line combat.”

“No more asking about his past!” Twilight said going in front of me. “You don’t need to know about the ones on the other side.”

“Twilight, I want to know now.” Applejack said.

“Applejack please.” She whined.

“Me to.” Rainbow Dash said.

“Dash, not you to, fine.” She said sighing.

“So your name is Dash?” I asked.

“Rainbow Dash is my full name, but Dash for short.”

“Oh.”

“Tell me.” Applejack said.

“Well you were a very close friend, you actually lead the army into battle with the Lich, you died against him, it was because of you that I was able to kill him. Without that, the land would have fallen to the dead.”

“Now me.” Dash said.

“You died of old age in Celestia’s dungeons, but you kept Sky Dale from falling and killing a lot, it lead to your capture though. You fought till the very end. It was actually really cool, I remember you doing triple rain booms. Wiping entire armies away in seconds. You were by far the most powerful pony I ever knew.”

“Triple!” She shouted jumping around. “How did I do it?! I can only do a single rain boom!”

“Really?”

“Yeah.”

“So wait how powerful was I?” Applejack asked and I chuckled.

“You were known as the greatest military general of the world. You weren’t known for your power, but your cunning and wisdom. You single hoovedly out matched the Lich in battle which was thought to be impossible. Though you were very swift with a gun and a sword, you were able to cut down undead like it was nothing.”

“Gun?” Twilight asked.

“A weapon for war, it shoots magic projectiles which can go through anything. Armor was useless, but they helped with ripping apart enemies. Also I should say this, I won’t teach you war magic, you saw the cost.”

“That’s fine, I wouldn’t expect you to. Now then is every pony done?”

“What about me?” Rarity asked with a still asleep Spike on her back. I cleared my throat a little.

“You, um, were the one which created the boom bomb.”

“The boom what?” Twilight asked.

“She was known as the master engineer of my world, she created a weapon which could rise entire cities to the ground in seconds. In fact you were the head of many projects, which lead to advancement after advancement. I kept you alive a lot longer than you should have, you helped me fight, and I couldn’t let you die. You were killed in a raid though not long ago, I was alone in the end.” No she was probably enjoying a piece of cake with Twilight at this moment in time.

“Really, so you didn’t like me like this Spike does?”

“Well, I never said we, um, didn’t mess around.” She blushed. “We just never loved each other. I kept you alive and you were happy about that. In fact I probably shared a bed with all of you at one point or another. Fluttershy was the only one the I really loved, well and Twilight, but, yeah.”

“Well, don’t expect anything like that here,” Twilight said blushing. “You are never to touch any of us unless we tell you otherwise.”

“I won’t! I never, I would never! I may be a coward and a liar, but I’m not a rapist or a without a conscious, I got carried away with Fluttershy, but that’s because I really loved her, imagine if you lost Celestia.”

“What?” Twilight asked shocked.

“Wouldn’t you act badly if you lost her for hundreds of years, then finally she appeared in front of you again? Wouldn’t you want to, to own her so she couldn’t leave you alone and empty again?”

“Okay that’s it, we are stopping, every pony it is over!” Twilight said and everyone moved back a little bit.

“We should introduce ourselves!” Pinkie said. “I’m Pinkie Pie! I’m all about parties and everything fun!” She giggle. “That’s Dash.”

“Yo,” Dash said smiling a little. “I’m the best flier of Equestria.”

“Fluttershy.”

“Hi.” She said blushing a little bit.

“Applejack.”

“Howdy, I own the apple farm around here.” She said tipping her hat.

“Rarity.”

“Really dear?” She said flipping her hair.

“She’s still upset, but give her time, she does fashion, and Twilight! Our newest Princess and our greatest magic user.” Pinkie Pie threw colored paper in the air. “Now that you’ve met every pony, we should throw a party to celebrate a new friend!” I chuckled.

“Hyper aren’t you.”

“That’s an understatement.” Dash said rolling her eyes.

“Oh how about I cook every pony something?” They all paused.

“He is a great cook.” Twilight said.

“If there’s only thing you cannot forget on a battlefield, it’s to eat. If you don’t eat and something good, then you don’t last.”

“We’re not on a battlefield Seffron.” Twilight said with a frown.

“Oh sorry, I, um.” I sighed. “I meant that I learned to cook really well, I didn’t mean we were on one, not that I would probably live this time.” I smiled a little.

“Sounds good to me,” Dash said floating into a chair. “Just hurry it up alright.” They all went and sat down as I went into the kitchen. I smiled a little, I could poison them and none of them would even realize it, but now wasn’t the right time, I needed to gain their trust before I did anything.

I swiped my hands and everything I needed flew out of the fridge. Things glowed with my magic. Things cut, diced and cooked falling into a large bowl and then onto eight separate plates. I walked out of the kitchen and they all stared at me as I lay everything down onto the table only being a few minutes. I sat down and they all stared at the food.

“Whoa.” Applejack said oddly, with an impressed expression on her face.

“I used magic to make everything, so it was pretty fast, if I had the right tools I could have done it in about thirty seconds.” They looked at me. “I had to cook for a lot of ponies during bad times. So tell me how you like it.”

“Ugh what happen?” Spike asked looking at Rarity surprised. She kissed him and he blushed.

“Thank goodness your alright, I’m never letting you leave my sight again.” Rarity set him on the chair next to her and then pulled him closer to her with her magic. “Now you should eat up.”

“Who?” He asked.

“Hi.” I waved a little.

“Oh hi.”

“I’m you from another world, so you know.”

“Really?” He looked around and then at Twilight. “Is he like some kind of experiment that you didn’t tell me about or something?”

“Nope, he’s really from another world. We gave him the name Seffron so we don’t get the two of you confused.”

“Okay.”

“He made this for us, and don’t worry about the memory loss, you should have a few hints that let you know why you don’t want to remember.”

“I do, and, I really don’t want to.” He shivered a little. “I remember begging Celestia to make the pain go away, but, other than that not much.”

“Yet again I’m sorry about that Spike.” He looked at me. “Those memories shouldn’t be yours.”

“It’s fine, Celestia explained everything to me, and I remember that, I’m just glad you’re alive.” I smiled and held up my hand making it light on fire.

“Oh there is so much I can teach you, I’m over five hundred years older than you, and best of all I can teach you magic, oh come here.” I went over to the closet and pulled out a large ruby half my size, I went over to him setting it next to his plate

“WHOA!” Applejack shouted surprised. “That’s huge!”

“Eat up, it’ll make you feel real good. Of course that’s desert, try my food, I’m sure you’ll love it. Also don’t worry about saving the gem, I have a ton more where that came from.” I went back to my chair and sat down.

They all started eating and enjoying it greatly making me smile. I paused for a moment, it was weird to feel good again, everything was normally so rotten. I still was going to take over this world, it just might take a while longer than I thought.

The feelings they had for me seemed to melt away with each bite. They talked about random things, I watched and listened closely. I couldn’t afford to miss information which could prove useful to me.

The few hours went by, each them left leaving just Twilight, Spike and myself standing in the library.

“So why can’t I stay at Rarity’s?” Spike asked. “She did offer.”

“Spike you aren’t going to leave my side, and as your princess you’ll obey me, is that understood?” He nodded a little nervous. “Seffron you can have Spikes old bed since you’re a baby dragon as well.”

“Actually I only look like this because it was easier to fit through the portal, I’m actually much bigger.”

“Is that your way of saying you want to sleep on the floor?”

“No it’ll do.” We went upstairs and she pulled Spike onto the bed with her and she hugged him. I went onto the bed and laid down. Tomorrow was going to be a long day, I could just feel it. I fell asleep rather easily.