Bonus Chapter

Rainbow Dash awakes in the fields underneath her house and catches a glimpse of somepony next to Soarin. Try as she might to get her vision to clear she just couldn’t, she couldn’t even move her body for some reason. The next thing she knows there is a soothing light around Soarin and he starts to float next to the unicorn. It took her a minute to realize that the pony from earlier was now right beside her.

Now that they were closer Dash noticed the helpful pony had eyes that started glowing as his horn was lowered to her forehead. When the horn reached her head Rainbow immediately felt herself relaxing and feeling better all around. Finally her vision returned to normal and she could see the unicorn’s colors, he had a light orange coat and a light red mane. He placed Soarin on her back and raised a hoof towards Ponyville.

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Kindo couldn’t believe it. He was one of the strongest creatures in the universe and he just got defeated by two simple changelings. Although their merger at the end of the fight was unexpected and their mastery over shadow magic was extraordinary. Still it was no excuse for a failure. Even if this was the only mission he had ever wanted to fail. He knew that he had to finish the task at had or else reality would disintegrate.

Reluctantly Kindo charged through the time vortex itself passing through the void and reaching the desired universe. This universe was his home. He was never very open about it but he was actually born in Equestria. It hadn’t been Equestria for very long but it was his home, his birthplace, the planet he protected the most. With a sigh of depression he entered Equestria airspace and headed straight for Ponyville.

Underneath the only cloud house in Ponyville he was surprised to find both Soarin and Dash missing. The only possible explanation would be that the unicorn had known lost and forbidden magic that allowed a very speedy recovery.

He landed confidently although he was being more cautious this time around. Kindo put some energy into his eyes to intimidate the three but something else happened, something confusing. When energy is flowing through his eyes to improve vision he can see everypony’s aura. The most common colors are orange for unicorns, gold for alicorns, a light red for pegasi, and dark brown for earth ponies but this unicorn had a very unique white aura.

  “Who are you?” Kindo asked keeping his aura vision active.

  “I don’t know anymore, so many names in my head. Over three hundred lives,” was the reply.

  “You remember all of your lives? But How?” he asked his next question.

  “Time was dying and I was its’ attacker,” was the unicorn’s confusing answer.

  “What do you mean?” Kindo asked hopeful for an explanation.

  “You never figured it out?” the unicorn asked.

  “Enlighten me,” he said sounding more like an order than a request.

  “Do you remember the changelings named Crimson and Midnight?” Kindo nodded in reply.

  “They were me or they will be. I’m not entirely sure,” he continued but it was enough.

  “Two soul’s one body. Normally that wouldn’t matter but the Alteer share the same soul so two Alteers’ in one body means one soul at two different points in its own time stream would be disastrous,” Kindo realized.

  “The Alteer is a soul that had been chosen to collect information on other species by returning to the world of the living in a new body. Every time a body dies a new race is chosen and the Alteer is reborn as that species to help the deities learn. All deities gain their knowledge that way, including the EoH that gives your body its monstrous power. In three days you must head to the changelings western hive,” he finished.

  “What does the western hive have to do with the Alteer?” I asked hoping for an answer but none came. The unicorn was out of sight before I even finished my question. All of the pieces were there now at least, Midnight and Crimson were both an Alteer thus their single form was destroying time. It only happened due to the fact that they should have died by now and that they were gaining information for different deities.

I felt awful about attacking an innocent due to rushed research and it definitely didn’t help that the innocent this time was my own daughter. In the battle I killed the party responsible but they weren’t even my target and it would have taken a simple spell to fix. One little spell and reality would have been saved without the loss of life.