Non-Sequitur Adventures of a Pair of Loose Canons.

"Tell me Celestia, what would it take for you to lose all hope?  To know that you are truly and completely powerless to stop me?"

"You could never push me to such an extreme.  Even if my celestial given powers fail to stop you, the power of the elements will no matter what it takes."

"The elements and sun, huh?  Very well then.  I suppose I'll just have to delete them all."

The sun princess looked at me with a quizzical expression, "Delete?  What could you possibly mean by that?"

I smirked and letting out a small chuckle I responded, "You know, I'm really tired of explaining things so I'll just let this next part surprise you."

I focused my power into my left hand, and raising it in an arcing motion towards the sun I snapped and let loose a beam of energy that shot towards the sun.  As the seconds went bye it slowly began to disintegrate into nothingness.  Celestia watched it dissapear before her eyes and once more I repeated the motion only towards Ponyville.  Six multicolored ponies appeared in the throne room and as Celestia looked towards them in horror they too began to began to break apart at a molecular level.  As an after thought I stasis locked the majority of her body, leaving only her ability to speak and hear unaffected.

"What reason could you possibly have," said the alicorn with tears in her eyes, "to doom this world and destroy my most precious student and her friends?"

I responded with a gentle rhythm to my voice saying, "It's simple.  The amount of time this demonstration took will not even exceed half an hour within the flow of time.  This was the fastest way I could think of that would give me your complete and total cooperation because I alone won't be able to do what's needed to save this dimension."

Celestia responded in muted rage, "save?  You've been here for not even ten minutes and you've destroyed our life giving sun and killed six of my little ponies."

I smirked, knowing that now was the time to reveal my secret "You know... I can do more then just delete things.  I can transport the two of us backwards through time.  It won't do anything to stall the coming crisis since all time is linked but it will undo the horrible things I just did."

At that, I undid my stasis, which was immediately followed by the princess collapsing.  "So you mean to tell me this will all have been just a horrible nightmare?"

I thought for a second, before responding "Kind of.  Think of it this way, I'm plucking the two of us out of this world, then switching our places with a pair of us on another world that's exactly 30 minutes in the past, then destroying this world that we're now on— or rather, it'll be more like this world never even existed."

"Do you mean to tell me you'll then be killing everything on this planet?"

I shrugged, and said, "well, if you want to put it that way then I've killed myself hundreds if not thousands of times, including people that I would willingly give my life if it meant preserving theirs.  It's about time we depart though.  You'll be seeing me again... hopefully with me being on good terms with your 'little ponies'.  If things do go south though I'll be needing you to bail me out and assist me in gaining the trust and friendship of your subjects."

"What... what use could you possibly have for the friendship of my subjects?"

I smiled knowingly, and said "Simple.  I'm actually a really nice guy when I have the time for it.  I have a time limit of exactly one week from the moment I jumped to this dimension to make my preparations.  Had I ignored this crucial step that week and more could have been wasted just gaining your trust.  By then it would have been too late and I would have had no allies to assist me when the darklings come."

"I think... I think I understand now.  I've gone through this horrible experience so the rest of my subjects won't have to."

I smiled and said, "Exactly right!  It really is time for us to move on though.  Every minute counts after all!"

And with that said, I focused my power one last time and turned back the clock on all but Celestia and I.  As the world around us shifted in an instant I sent myself to the Everfree forest and emerged from the woods, battered, lost, and with all my memories sealed for three short days.