"Come on! We need to hurry!" shouted the Doctor as he ran through the Everfree Forest.

"I'm doing the best that I can!" said Alex as he cautiously watched where he was stepping. "Draco! How is she doing back there?"

"I think she's fine!" Draco shouted, "I can't be sure, but I think she'll wake up soon."

Alex turned his head forward, "Alright then, how far are we going Doctor? These woods are dangerous!"

"Just a bit further, we're almost there!"

"You've been saying that for the past thirty minutes!" shouted Alex.

"Technically it's only been twenty four minutes!"

"You know what I mean!"

"Just keep moving!"

~~~~~

Luna's guards were flying all across Ponyville; they were searching high and low for Alex. Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy were flying carefully through the air trying to avoid detection by any of the guards. They didn't know where to begin their search since the guards were already looking everywhere. They checked all the spots that Alex had been to before just in case he decided to hide somewhere familiar to him. They went by Sugarcube corner, Sweet Apple Acres, but had no luck in finding any trace of him. Then just as they began to head back to the library Fluttershy remembered about the lake where she and Alex had their talk about his nightmares. She quickly mentioned it to Rainbow and they rushed as fast as they could towards the area, Rainbow decided to have Fluttershy hold onto her and direct her towards the lake so as not to waste any time.

"Is this the place?" asked Rainbow as she landed. It hadn't seemed like the guards checked this far into the Everfree yet.

"Yes, this is it." said Fluttershy as she began to look around. The lake was calm and a gentle breeze rolled by. "There's no sign of him here either. I don't know where else to look. What are we going to do Rainbow Dash?"

"Don't sweat it Fluttershy. We'll just have to look somewhere else. And we'll keep looking until we find him. We have to."

"But...he said..." Fluttershy stuttered as she looked at her reflection on the lakes calm surface. "He said he hates us. What if we find him and he doesn't come with us? What if he runs away from us?" She covered her face with her hooves as she began sniffling. "It's all because we broke our promise! It's our fault!"

"Don't say that!" shouted Rainbow, "It's not any one ponies fault. It's because of all of us that this has happened, but crying over it now won't help! We have to believe that Alex will let us help him. Because right now we're the only ones who can help him."

Fluttershy turned back to face Rainbow Dash for a few moments until they heard a rustling sound in the bushes, "W-what was that?!" she squeaked.

"Alex? Is that you?" asked Rainbow. "It's okay, we're here to help you." Then from behind the bushes came out a small group of bunnies that lived in the forest. "Aw come on! It's just a couple of bunnies, come on Fluttershy we better get back to looking for that unicorn!" Just then the little bunnies began to squeak in their direction.

"Wait!" said Fluttershy, "I think maybe one of them knows where he is!"

Rainbow Dash looked in disbelief. "The bunnies? You're kidding right? How could they possibly know where he is?"

"It wouldn't hurt to ask." Fluttershy brought herself closer to the little group of bunnies. "Hello there little ones, my friend and I are looking for someone very important, a red unicorn. Have any of you seen him?" The bunnies huddled together for a couple of seconds, then one of them hopped forward and began to make little squeak sounds back at Fluttershy as Rainbow rolled her eyes, "You have? That's great! Where did you see him?"

"What? What did it say?" asked Rainbow.

Fluttershy turned her head around, "He says he saw Alex running through the forest with another pony and he also says that it looked like they were heading towards the other side of the forest!"

Rainbow quickly extended her wings out, "Alright! Let's get Twilight and the others, fast!" She grabbed Fluttershy and took off to the skies. "I can't believe those bunnies actually saw him! How lucky are we, huh?"

~~~~~

"Why would Princess Luna do all of this?" said Twilight as she paced back and forth impatiently.

"Ah'm not sure, but we can only hope that Rainbow finds Alex before her guards do." said Applejack.

"Yes, I'd hate to imagine what would happen if we were too late." said Rarity.

"What is taking them so long?!" said Twilight as she stopped pacing. "We have to find Alex in time. I know we will. Right, Pinkie Pie?" Twilight turned her head around. "Pinkie Pie?"

Applejack began looking around as well. "She's gone!"

"But she was just here!" said Rarity.

Twilight began to think. "Y-you don't think she left to find Alex on her own do you?" The room suddenly got quiet.

Rainbow Dash then bolted into the library with Fluttershy. "Hey girls, we found him!"

"You did?! Where is he?" asked Twilight.

"He's in the Everfree forest." said Fluttershy as she shook her head, "We also found out that he's with another pony running towards the other side of the forest."

Twilight and the girls were filled with hope, "Alright then! Let's go and save Alex!"

"Save Alex? Just what are you girls up to?" said a voice coming from the doorway.

"Princess Luna!" shouted Twilight.

"I could ask you the same thing!" said Rainbow, "How could you do something like that to Alex?"

Luna looked at her confusedly. "What are you talking about?"

Applejack stepped up, "We're talking about how you tried to take Alex away, send poor Scootaloo back to the orphanage, and how you were going to throw Draco in prison even after he returned all of the stolen items!"

"I beg your pardon?! I did no such thing! I only just returned from Canterlot moments ago!"

"We saw you!" shouted Rainbow, "We all saw you and your guards attack Alex!"

"I assure you I did no such thing." said Luna as she turned her head over, "Isn't that right?"

"That is correct." said the Gospel as it floated into the room.

"Gospel?" said Twilight, "What are you doing here?"

"I am here because I was told that Alex has been having some rather troubling nightmares, where is he? I must speak with him about these visions. It is an important matter." said the Gospel as he floated around the room.

"He's run off I'm afraid," said Rarity, "Luna was here earlier with her guards and she told Alex about the plan of having him stay here with us. Alex then accused us of lying to him and yelled in anger that we were not in fact his real friends." Rarity's eyes began to heat up. "It's all our fault, you asked us to look after him and yet we failed."

"That...that is impossible." said the Gospel, "I was with Luna the entire time up till now, so she couldn't have been here."

Rainbow opened the door and pointed outside. "What about all the guards outside?"

"What guards?" asked Luna, "There was nopony outside when we got here." The girls all walked outside and just as Luna had said, there were no guards. They didn't know what to think, it was as if they had all just vanished into thin air.

"What does this mean Twilight?" asked Applejack.

Twilight turned to face her, "I don't know." She tried to make sense of what had just happened. "Those couldn't have been fakes we saw, because they were able to physically touch Alex so they had to be real. Could they have been imposters?"

The Gospel floated up to Twilight, "Perhaps you would like to explain everything that's happened up till now?"

All of them went back into the library and began to tell Luna and the Gospel what had happened when they returned home earlier. "Are you absolutely sure that's what happened?" asked Luna. The girls all nodded their heads in unison. "What do you think Gospel?"

"This is not good. This is far worse than I could have imagined. We must find him quickly, before it's too late!" The Gospel then quickly floated out of the Library and the rest followed after him. "Quick! Where is Alex now?"

"He's in the Everfree forest!" shouted Rainbow, "Come on, this way!" She bolted off the ground and their chase began.

"I don't understand though Gospel," Twilight began, "How could there be two Luna's?"

"There wasn't, it was a set up," said the Gospel, "Somepony wanted Alex to see the figure before him as Luna, but in actuality it was just an illusion made up of magic."

"They wanted him to see it? But then why are they after him? Why did they try to impersonate Luna and try to take Scootaloo and Draco away from him?" asked Rarity.

"They wanted to make him mad." The Gospel began, "Somepony wanted him to get real mad, they needed him to get mad. Alex is unaware of it, but he's fallen into a trap."

Rainbow slowed down towards the Gospels position, "What do you mean?"

"The power of Alex's element is great, but only if he activates it the right way." said the Gospel.

Twilight raised an eyebrow, "Does that mean there is another way to activate his element?"

"Yes it does," the Gospel began, "But this other method will only bring destruction. Just as his element reacts to his love, it can also react to his anger if driven far enough. I'm glad I asked Luna to keep an eye on him."

"Um, what exactly do you mean by that?" asked Twilight.

Luna turned to the girls, "You see girls, back when I was preparing to come here under my sisters order, the Gospel came to me and gave me a very special assignment. He wanted me to watch over Alex and to let him know when he was ready."

"Ready? Ready for what?" asked Fluttershy.

"Ready for the trial of the element." said the Gospel, "I knew eventually Alex would receive a vision indicating the trials beginning, but I was not expecting for his test to come so soon."

"A test, what sort of test?" asked Twilight.

"Each holder is given a vision in their dreams; this vision shows them a certain point in their future. Most visions come in the form of a quest that they must complete to prove their worthiness, but I was not expecting Alex to have one so horrid."

"And...If he fails?" asked Rainbow.

"Nopony has ever failed, but they never had to face something like what Alex is going through. However, should it be that his anger activates his element, then we will all be in danger." said the Gospel.

"What do you mean?" asked Twilight.

"It would take too long to explain it to you now. But let's just say that if Alex's emotions run wild, then those visions I showed Celestia and Luna could become reality much sooner than expected."

Luna had a grim look on her face, "So now that Alex believes that we have all betrayed him then..."

"It is only a possibility at this point." the Gospel began. "But we must not let that happen! We must find who is behind this and stop them!" Together with the Gospel, they entered the Everfree forest unaware of the dangers that they would have to face.

~~~~~

"Here we are." said the Doctor.

"Here? There's nothing here! We came all the way out here for nothing?! Why did you even bring me here?" asked Alex.

The Doctor turned around and looked at Alex, "I'm going to be honest with you. I want you to go home."

Alex's eyes opened wide. "Go home? What are you talking about?"

"I know that you've come from another universe. The human world is your home Alex, not Equestria. You must come with me to the human world."

Alex became suspicious of the Doctor. "What?! That's impossible! You can't know that! How do you know that?!"

"Something interesting about parallel universes Alex, each universe has their own parallels of a pony no matter who they are...except for you. In this universe, there is no Alex. How could I resist? A new being, just appearing out of nowhere? My curiosity may have gotten the better of me, but this must end now. You must return to your home."

"But that doesn't answer my question! There's no way you could have learned about me so quickly and easily! How did you know I was here?! Over a million places to be and somehow you found me here? How?!"

"I crashed here. About a month ago my Tardis detected a powerful rift being torn open, it was so strong that not even my Tardis could resist going towards it. The energy levels were increasing dangerously, the Tardis couldn't handle it so I ended up crashing here, in this spot."

"I don't understand, why didn't you just leave? Why stay here?"

"Because my Tardis is badly damaged and it only has enough power for one last trip. After I had discovered where I had crashed landed, my Tardis began picking up similar rift energy. However the energy readings were even greater than before, it was as if this planet generated rifts on its own. So I stayed until I could discover the cause and find a solution to close them once and for all. Then I realized that not only were the rifts opening up here, but that they were connected to another universe."

"Home."

The Doctor nodded his head, "Correct, and since the source was on this planet I had to find it or else both universes will end up colliding with one another. Then one day the scanners on my Tardis began to go off, its point of origin led me to Ponyville. Then you appeared, and then I learned everything that I needed to know in order to seal off the rifts once and for all. You are the cause; your entire family has been causing rifts to open throughout time! Now you need to come with me, back to your universe."

"Can't you just close them?! If you are who you say you are, then you've done it once and you can do it again!"

"I only have enough for one trip. Even if I did somehow manage to close them it still wouldn't be enough."

"Why not?! There's something you're keeping from me isn't there?" Alex's anger began to rise.

The Doctor slowly bowed his head, "This isn't easy for me to say. If you leave then Equestria has no chance of defending itself from this upcoming threat that is supposed to destroy this world. Equestria will be destroyed thereby destroying the source of the rifts, causing them all to close once and for all."

"What? Do you know what you're asking me to do?! How could you even ask me to do something like this?!"

"Your family started this and sent Equestria down this path. Every time a member of your family was summoned here, they expanded the crack in space which caused the amount of rifts that open up to increase. If we stop that from happening then there's no possibility of any rifts opening ever again."

"And if I reuse?!" shouted Alex.

The Doctor looked at him dead in the eyes, "Then everyone dies. Every single being that lives in both universes will die. It will all be your fault. I know you won't refuse though. I can see it in your eyes, you refuse to accept this world as real. So why start caring about the ponies who live here now?"

Alex stood frozen lost in thought; he couldn't believe what he was hearing. He hated to admit it but the Doctor was right, Alex didn't believe in Equestria's existence any more. He couldn't stand it any longer, he just wanted to go somewhere far away from Equestria. His train of thought was then broken by sounds coming from his back. Scootaloo had begun to awaken.

She slowly opened her eyes, "What? What happened?" She tilted her head up to look at Alex, "Alex? Alex, it's you!" She wrapped her hooves around his neck, "You're here! I had a terrible nightmare where Luna tried to throw you and Draco in jail and tried to take me back to the orphanage!" She looked him in the eyes and began to cry.

Alex let her climb down and brought her close to him, "I'm sorry Scootaloo, but it wasn't a nightmare." Alex held her closer, "Luna really did try to take you away from me. They all lied to us." He looked back at the Doctor, "What about her? What about Draco? Do I have to leave them too?"

"Yes, they must stay here. They don't belong in your world, so they must stay behind."

"I can't leave her here! She's just a little girl!"

"I know, but if we brought her to your world then that would only cause more distortion amongst the rifts."

"But...I....what am I supposed to do?"

"You must come with me, before time runs out. You don't belong here Alex, you know deep down that you don't belong here. Come with me, and I'll take you home."

The Doctors words echoed repeatedly in Alex's head. You don't belong here. You don't belong here. You don't belong here. Alex looked down at Scootaloo and back at the Doctor. "Alright Doctor lets go."

"Wait! Where are you going?" asked Scootaloo.

"He's going home." said the Doctor.

"But...you can't! We...we're family aren't we?!" she asked.

"I...I don't want to leave you here! I wish I could take you with me, but I can't! If I did, it would hurt this place more than I already have."

"But Alex, what about me?" asked Draco.

"You two will have to take care of each other. I can't do anything! Everything I do only brings me trouble! I'm sorry, but if I leave then things will get better here. You can get back to living your lives without some loser like me."

"I don't want to live without you!" shouted Scootaloo as she ran towards him. "Life was horrible before I met you! You're not a loser, you're my hero! You...you're my dad..."

"Scootaloo..."

"Alex, we have to go." said the Doctor.

Draco approached them both. "Don't do it Alex! We need you here! I'm ready to turn my life around but I can't do it if you're not around to help me!"

"I...I don't know."

"Alex?" Suddenly there was a sound coming from the bushes nearby.

"What was that?" asked the Doctor.

Alex looked around aimlessly. "I don't know. Who's there?! Show yourself!"

It was Pinkie Pie; somehow she managed to follow him all the way to the Doctors Tardis. "Don't listen to him Alex! He's nothing but a big meanie!"

"What the, Pinkie Pie? How did you manage to find us?" asked Alex.

"I followed your voice silly!" said Pinkie Pie with a smile, "You told me where to find you!"

"I never told you anything." said Alex, "I don't know who you were listening to, but it wasn't me."

"That's not important now! What's important is that you don't leave!" said Pinkie Pie.

"He must leave." said the Doctor, "Since you were hiding in the bushes there then that means you heard every word we said. So you know why Alex must leave Equestria. It's too dangerous for him to be here."

"He's not dangerous! I heard everything you said, but that doesn't make him dangerous." said Pinkie Pie as he took a step towards Alex. "I...I know I haven't been the best friend ever lately. Even after I threw you that party it was ruined by Gilda and you didn't have any fun. I'm the element of laughter, but I never made you laugh once have I?" Pinkie pie pulled out a small box with a ribbon on it.

"..." Alex simply stared at the box.

"What is that?" asked the Doctor.

"It's Alex's present from the party I threw for him!" said Pinkie, "You never got the chance to open it. I wanted to see your face after you opened it but, you left the party after you had your argument with Princess Luna."

"You...you kept it?" asked Alex.

"Of course I did! I kept it because you're my friend, and I wanted to make sure that you knew that for sure."

"I...I don't know what to say."

"Just...tell me that you'll stay." said Pinkie Pie.

"I..."

"No Alex, you must leave!" said the Doctor.

"He is an enemy!"

"Alex!"

"I don't..."

"You must leave!"

"I can't..."

"Stay!"

"But..."

"They betrayed you, they betrayed us! They never cared about you, they never even thought about how you felt after you were brought here."

"That's a lie!" shouted Alex.

"Alex? What's wrong?" asked Pinkie Pie.

"I cannot wait any longer! shouted the Doctor as he quickly tackled Alex. "You're going home! There's no time to wait!"

"I will not fight you Doctor!"

"That's good because I don't fight either, but you have to go home now!"

"Dammit!" thought Alex, "What am I going to do?"

"Kill him."

What? No! I refuse!

"You must kill him!"

No! I won't do it! I can't!

"You don't have a choice!"

Suddenly a big shock wave of dark magic erupted from Alex's body which threw the Doctor off of him. "Argh! What's happening to me? Who are you?" Alex began to shout in agony as he felt dark magic growing in his horn which caused pain to travel all over his body.

The voice in his head began to chuckle, "You poor boy, you've been hurting for a very long time haven't you? I know how it feels to be betrayed! I can help you."

Alex eyes opened wide, "I don't understand! What are you, why are you doing this to me?!"

"You and I are much alike; we've both felt pain and jealousy several times over. We both crave revenge on those who have hurt us, yet you refuse to act upon it. So I thought I'd give you a helping hoof. So sit back and relax, I'm taking over for now. And together we will have our revenge on everypony who's ever hurt us! At last we will have our justice!!!" The voice began to laugh maniacally as Alex shouted in pain.

Pinkie Pie rushed to his side, "Alex, what's wrong?! Are you okay?!"

Alex turned his head to face her, "Don't touch me! Just get away!" He pointed at Scootaloo and Draco. "Take them somewhere safe! I can't stop it! Just go, hurry!!!"

"Why, what's happening to you?!" she asked again.

Alex shouted once more at the top of his lungs as another explosion of dark magic erupted from his body which sent everypony flying away. Twilight and everypony else could hear the eruption from their end and began to pick up the pace. Smoke covered the area; Pinkie Pie lifted herself off of the ground and looked around for Scootaloo and Draco. When she found them she picked them both up and brought them over to a nearby bush for safety. The smoke cleared to show Alex standing still, Pinkie Pie decided to move closer to him.

"Alex? Are you okay?" asked Pinkie Pie.

Alex turned around, "Oh my, I've forgotten what it's like to have a body. Sleep now boy, I will make everything better. You've been hurt so much, just like me. As for you element of laughter, I must thank you for falling into my trap."

"W-what are you talking about Alex?"

Alex began walking closer to Pinkie Pie, "I mean that you came here after Alex all on your own just like I wanted! Without your friends here, you have no one to save you!" Alex gave her an eerie smile.

"S-s-save me, from what?" asked Pinkie Pie, now frightened by Alex's strange behavior.

Alex stopped in front of her and began to charge up his magic, "FROM ME!!! IT IS TIME TO PAY FOR WHAT YOU'VE DONE!!!"

~~~~~

Twilight and the others were running through the forest until they saw flashes of light coming from straight ahead, but then they heard the screams of somepony being attacked. "What's going on over there?!" shouted Twilight as they entered the clearing.

"Wh-what's going on here?" asked Rainbow Dash as she saw Pinkie Pie's body lying on the floor with bruises all over. "Pinkie Pie!!!"

"Oh look! Company!" said Alex as he turned his head to face the others. "They're not as much fun once they've stopped screaming. But hey, she got what she deserved." He let out a small chuckle.

"Alex what have you done to Pinkie Pie?!" shouted Applejack, "How could you have done something so terrible?!"

Alex dropped his smile, "Humph! Sorry, Alex isn't here! He doesn't want to talk to you."

"What are you saying Alex?" asked Twilight as she began walking towards him. "Who else could you be?"

Luna moved ahead of her and stopped Twilight from getting any closer, "Don't get too close, we don't know what he might do." She turned her head to face Alex, "Who are you?"

"Who am I?" asked the figure as magic began to emanate from the ground around him. "I'm the one who haunts ponies in their sleep. I'm the one who will throw this world into eternal darkness!"

"It can't be!" said Twilight as she covered her mouth with her hoof. "We defeated you! The evil in Luna is gone so you can't be alive!"

The magic began to rise even higher from the ground, "Did you really think you could get rid of me forever? I am eternal! I am the mare in the moon!" The magic that emanated from the ground shot up and turned in to a giant tower of dark magic that surrounded Alex's body, "I am the new and improved, NIGHTMARE MOON!!!" The magic cleared to reveal a tall violet red unicorn with a brown mane covered in armor. He laughed maniacally as the others stared in horror. Alex was gone, and they didn't know where he was.

~~~~~

"Alex?"

"Alex?"

"Alex!" shouted a voice.

"Gah! What? What happened?" asked Alex as he shot himself up. He looked down to see himself as a human again, sitting on a chair with a desk in front of him.

"You fell asleep during class again." said a voice to his right.

Alex turned to see a human girl standing before him, "Oh, it's just you Twilight Sparkle. Wait a moment....class?" Alex looked around to find himself in a classroom with his friends.

"Yeah, I can't believe you! The teacher gives us a free period and you decide to take a nap?" said another voice.

"Hm, oh, it's you Rainbow Dash. What's wrong with taking a nap during a free period? It's not like I'm breaking any rules." said Alex.

"He's got you there Rainbow. Besides, he's had a hard day today." said another voice.

"What's up Applejack? Wait, I did? Strange, I can't remember anything from earlier." said Alex as he began rubbing his head.

"Oh dear, is there anything I can do to help?" said a soft and gentle voice from behind.

"I'm fine Fluttershy, I'm sure I'll remember what I did earlier soon." said Alex.

"Hey, where's Rarity and Pinkie Pie?" asked Twilight.

"Over here!" shouted a voice in the doorway to the classroom. A girl was dragging another girl with pink hair inside of the classroom.

"No! Wait! I know I can convince them to see that it wasn't my fault!" shouted a girl with pink hair.

"What did you do this time Pinkie Pie?" asked Alex.

Rarity walked up to them, "I'm afraid she attempted to use another one of her 'party cannon' inventions again. This time she blew a hole in the lunchroom and knocked a teacher unconscious."

They all let out unsettling laughs; Alex stretched his body as he felt as though he had been sleeping for days. "Man, I feel like a mess."

Twilight turned to face him, "Maybe you're still tired from all the hard work you did earlier? Just relax, you're awake now and you're with your friends! Don't think too hard on it okay?" She moved in to give him a hug. "Everything's fine now Alex."

"Yeah, you're right Twilight! I probably am thinking too hard! I'm glad I have friends like you!" said Alex as he returned the hug.

"Of course Alex," said Twilight as she tightened her grip on him. "So long as you're here with us, you won't have to worry about anything ever again."

Author's Note

Hoo boy! It's about time I put this out! I've been putting this off for too long! But it's out now. The next chapter though, that one was a real doozy to re-write. I'm just glad I'm getting back to writing, I've been so over-worked with school, work, friends, and side projects, that I thought I woud've never been able to get to this.

So has anyone else seen the original X-files show? I can't stop watching it!

Thank you everyone for reading and I hope you enjoyed reading it!