S.T.I.A.D.L: Future problems and past solutions

The most dangerous secret weapon ever created was dubbed the Destiny Cannon for its similarities with the old fashioned cannons used at some point on most planets. It’s made almost entirely out of metil, a gold and silver slab that is almost impossible to destroy and extremely rare in any universe. It could be as small as a piece of paper and still withstand a supernova but the thicker it is the stronger it becomes.

The other material used to create it is known as dark matter, an extremely dense and heavy black substance usually found as little orbs. When found the orbs of around thirty feet in diameter can weigh in at near three thousand pounds. They can become so heavy because they are made when a star collapses in on itself due to its own gravity; the other outcome is a black hole.

The cannon itself was dubbed the Destiny Cannon not because it can bend or destroy fate or destiny but due to the power that the cannon produces. It’s powered by the very same items that created the universe though that power now has different cases. The sphere was the majority of the big bang but was shattered and given to the guardians due to the untold dangers the sphere created. The other part of the power was a massive ball of energy that was sealed away by the guardians into two swords due to it destroying universes.

The Destiny Cannon fires the power of the universe, held and amplified by the metil that makes the outline of the cannon. The dark matter base ensures that it will not move when being fired and its position forces it to fire away from existence. The firing mechanism is so intricate that any movement by the creature firing it ceases the blast.

~~~~~~Now back to the story~~~~~

Nightmare perched on the cannon just the right way to cause it to fire a beam of light that had every color imaginable at Kindo. He had almost no time to react but in the little time he did have, Kindo created a hole in time and pulled out a slightly more worn out version of Dialia and Shadowbane. Having no time to waste he pulled a shard out of his body.

  “Reality Shield!” Kindo screamed at the last second hoping against odds that the shield would form. To everypony’s surprising relief a multicolored shield enveloped him as an older version on the other four thousand shards spun around him along with his swords. The were on even ground right now because if she moved the cannon would cease fire and if he moved his shield would be unable to fully block the attack. As the attack hit the shield the colors changed causing the shield to look almost like it was spinning. This was caused by the shield separating the colors of the attack randomly.

  “WHOA,” nearly everypony said as the attack hit the shield and almost everypony was impressed at the extent of sheer power was produced. It took a while for everypony to notice that Kindo had lost his previous alicorn form and was now a giant white dragon.

  “When did that happen?” Dash asked after noticing it, not that it surprised me that they would question it.

  “We always assume that form when using the full extent of our powers, especially with something as hard as the Reality Shield,” I explained to the other seven.

  “Is that amount of power allowed to even exist at the same moment?” Fluttershy whispered her question in my ear.

  “Actually no, it isn’t. If this continues for too long than time will crack further and the warps in space will also get worse. It’s entirely possible that this could have marked the end of existence,” I answered while keeping my usual tone but was also absolutely sure of whom ‘Fluttershy’ actually was now.

  “What did you say about reality as it is now?” Luna spoke up making me cringe at my earlier mistake.

  “The universe started with a big bang, an enormous explosion that created everything and is still creating things to this day. Well at the end of reality there was a similar explosion, another big bang commonly referred to as big bang two. The big bang started creation and the second one destroys it but the second one was more powerful and actually cracked the time before it and caused enormous and extremely disastrous warps in space as well,” it was surprisingly Applejack that spoke up about it.

  “To counteract the effects of big bang two a group of time travelers from shortly before the second big bang went back in time. These time travelers were the ones that broke the sphere into shards and distributed them amongst themselves but later passed them onto other creatures. As time went on the Guardians as they’d come to be called became more and more diverse until something happened that made the Guardians extremely rare. They finished their decline in numbers when the most powerful crack in time started forming in your universe causing the mistake that lead to Dash nearly getting killed,” Applejack continued.

  “I believe that that crack was actually caused by Kindo’s delay of this battle,” Fluttershy suggested.

  “That’s what I think as well but it could have also been helped by Midnight and Crimson sharing a single body. I thought that because although the time travelers weren’t Time Lords they had the same regenerative properties. I believe that Midnight and Crimson, being the same pony from two different points in their own time stream, caused the crack to become more dangerous,” I voiced my opinion and received nods from both Fluttershy and Applejack.

  “How do you two know all of this?” Twilight aimed her question at her two best friends.

  “This is it,” I interrupted causing everypony to focus on the draw that the battle currently was.

  “REFLECT!” Kindo yelled causing a barely noticeable white patch to form on his shield sending a beam of energy towards Nightmare. She knew it wouldn’t be enough to kill her and when she noticed his shield beginning to crack decided to take the attack head on.

She saw the shield crack and crack it did. What started out as a tiny scratch where the white patch was quickly spider webbed covering his entire shield. Kindo’s counterattack didn’t reach Nightmare in time as the shield was unable to endure the punishment any longer. The sound of shattering glass echoed throughout the entire place as his shield caved under the power and pressure of the attack.

The reflected blast hit Nightmare at the same time the Destiny Cannon shattered Kindo’s swords, which he had instinctively placed between him and the attack. Within microseconds Kindo was stabbed by shards of both his shield and his swords before being blasted by the last of the Destiny Cannon’s blast. When the blast finally hit the entire place went white and was obscured by haze.

The attack had ended a mere minute before it would have destroyed reality but it was easily long enough to create a crack in the fabric of reality. Kindo fought to stay conscious as the crack pulled him into the time vortex. Inside the usually safe vortex he bounced around getting struck by time energy over and over again before a bolt hit him hard enough to break through the vortex and back into reality.

As Kindo broke through the barrier the room started to come back into view. The first thing back was the walls, a few seconds later they could see the bed again, and finally Kindo himself was visible. The last Guardian of Time was not how they had last seen him however. In front of the eight that had just viewed his memories was a statue of their one King and protector laying on the bed where he was last seen.