Canterlot

2 days after Tirek's escape...

(Celestia's p.o.v.)

I was In blissful dream.

I was relaxing on top of my favorite hill overlooking the horizon as I slowly set the sun.

Luna walked up to me with a smile as she sat beside me.

It feels wonderful here does it Tia..

Indeed sister.

The way this land should be for ever...

Ya...

We both looked up to the sky hearing a familiar noise.

We saw Ben and Rainbow Dash trying to teach Twilight how to fly fast.

When he saw us he gave a wave as we did back.

Such a sweet boy, Luna said in her softest voice

I only wish that we can make him the happiest he can be.

Ya...

Suddenly a hard guest of wind hits from behind us. Blinding me for a moment.

When I could see a again all I saw was destruction and fire everywhere..

LUNA WHERE ARE YOU?!

I turned to see the castle engulfed with black flames...

Oh...no...

Within a second another guest of wind hit me. But this time I was in the castle.

I looked around the destroy walls and found Luna.

LUNA ARE YOU ALRIGHT?!

I try to grab her but I just fased through.

I turned to see me lying on the ground next to her.

We were both looking at a large black cloud with slime falling from it.

The great and powerful royal sisters...such a weak pair.

SAYS THE GUY WHO'S TALKING...

We snapped our heads back to see Ben standing in the door way.

His face was bruised and bleeding. He had sparks and slime all over his power suit.

The chest plat was so badly damage that you could see the glow of his matrix.

Holding a giant 6 hooves (foot) long sword in one hand. And a strange shield in the other.

BUT HOW...I DESTROYED YOU.

Ever hear the term its the last count down...well my count down isn't down just yet.

The dark cloud soon changes its form into...a large black monster ...

Soon they both charge at each other in another flash of light.

After the flash I saw Ben being supported by Twilight and the others.

He had a huge gash mark on his suit with blood slipping by his hand.

Me and Luna were on our hooves with armor and swords of our own.

TWILIGHT GET BEN OUT OF HERE. My dream self yelled.

LIKE HELL YOU ARE...

Come on Ben we got to GO!

A large red flash caught my eye as I turned back to see me and Luna together on the ground.

I'VE HAD ENOUGH OF YOU TWO FOR TOO LONG!...

A large crystal spair forms. Aim right at me and Luna.

We both cover our eyes.

In a another flash of light I was blinded but this time it was a blue glow.

Followed by a blood curdling scream.

Luna, me, my dream me and the others looked.

BEN!...Luna cried out in horror.

He was standing in front of us with the spire sticking out his back with blood and a strange blue liquid covering it...

He dropped to one knee. Trying to say something.

Never...ever...let me catch you here again...

Out of no where his sword gets thrown into the monster's head in a burst of black light.

NOOOOoooo!

I wake up screaming my lungs out.

It was just a dream...

Just a dream..

or was it...

The Fire house

(Ben's p.o.v.)

I was sitting in the basement of the lab repairing and upgrading my power suit.

knowing that my Transformer mode is now unusable till Ratchet can get a hold of it.

Since being here the suit has gone through a lot. Back in Dimension 1 I could just walk through a regenerator and it would be as new.

Now it has hole's from battle, Burn marks, scratches and slime residue stains.

Through the building the mane 6 and Spike were going at there things.

Twilight was in the foyer reading book after book. AppleJack, despite her knowledge of technology was working on the TIV. ( Why she was? I have no idea.)

Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy were in the kitchen making something.

I couldn't tell what but judging the smell from the vent it smelled good.

Spike and Rainbow Dash somehow managed to get addicted to a bunch of old video games I had back from years ago.

OH YA NEW HIGH SCORE! Dash's voice echoed through the vents.

And Rarity well...she was in the garage making jump suits for everyone.

(Don't ask why)

SYSTEM REPAIRS ACTIVIATED

ESTIMATED TIME 5 HOURS.

I really need to get that software and mechanics updated.

I got up and headed back up to the main floor.

Right when opening the door Pinkie's voice came on the intercom.

HEY EVERY PONY FOOD IS READY.

Lets hope it isn't sweets again...

I muttered passing AJ and Rarity.

Well you know Pinkie she likes a darn surprise anytime. AJ pointed out.

Oh Ben my darling I have to ask you. Where can I get a trace of a badge?

Rairty ask on the way up the stairs.

Just take one from my old suits. It hasn't changed much but the material color.

We made our way to the kitchen that served as a dinning room, meeting room, and testing room.

On the table were 8 plates each with a color matching to every one.

Oh come on Dash you only won because the controller cord broke.

Ya just keep saying that little guy.

Enjoy playing your hooves to the bone guys. Twilight smirked still holding a book.

Don't worry Spike I got wireless ones.

Oh ok.

Everypony sit down now.

We sat down as Pinkie wheeled a large pot over to the table.

I call this Pinkie's Five Alarm Soup.

Why's that Pinkie? Twi ask curiously.

Well knowing the name I'll say she put in five different kinds of peppers or something just as hot.

You guessed right Ben. She said pouring everyone soup.

Eat up now. If your still hungry I made enough for thirds...

At first we all hesitated when tried it.

Twilight,Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash screamed out in the first bit of the hot soup.

Rarity jumped out and ran to the sink's falsit to cool down her mouth.

I don't see what you all are complaining about this is the best soup I ever had.

I'm with ya on that pardner.

Same here. Spike yelled out.

All the girls watch as me and Spike were in was like a eating battle.

8 bowls of hot soup later...

Give up yet?

Yes... Spike said groaning under his stuffed stomach.

Wow...I never saw anyone eat so much of something so hot. Dash said with a bit of amazement.

Would you believe I ate a grenade once and thought it was a potato.

Umm...

Suddenly there was a knocking at the door.

Wonder who that can be at this time of night. I said pointing at the wall clock that read 10:25

I got down to the main floor and opened the door.

Even to my surprise there stood Celestia and Luna.

Celestia,Luna..?

This a bit of a surprise.

I do know that the timing is a bit strange but we have something we need to tell you. Celestia said with a weak voice

Oh well come on in. Me and the others just finished eating.

I think there might be some left.

We walked back up to the main room.

HEY GUYS! We got guests

Princess? What are you doing here?

Well...it's hard to explain...Celestia started to say but lost thought

Lets just say at this point things are about to go into a different direction Luna state.

Well what happened?

Before Celestia could answer she start to get dizzy and collapsed.

Princess!

On the other side of the room every PKE and M.a.e meter went off.

I ran over to see what it was reading.

Pke levels are insane. M.a.e. is hitting a solid 3X

What does that mean?

I don't kn...

Right when I turned to them the readings spike even higher.

I slowly walked over to Celestia and put the meters to head.

HOLY...boooooommmmm.

The meters literaly exploded under the strain of the power.

Ummm I'm not a scientist and all I'm sure that's not suppose to darn happen. Applejack state.

I stared at the meter for a moment.

Remembering that I never had readings like this since the Manehatten accident.

Get her down to the labs

I said nothing else as we got into the service elevator down to the lab.

Lay her down here.

They propped Celestia up onto a table that was connected to a large ring of some kind.

Alright I need yo guys to stand behind this barrier.

Why? It's not going to hurt her is it...?

I change into my X suit telling them its important.

( The X suit is the inner armor of the power suit a.k.a. Secondary Armor)

Alright Celestia... I said as the disk started to spin.

Just close your eyes and try not to move much.

Will this indeed hurt...?

Not at all but you my feel a headache latter

Alright..

I pull a lever that slowly sends the table into the rotator.

Activating scanner.

On cue a surge of blue electricity engulfed Celestia's head.

The others where shock and horrified at the site.

In one flash of light the machine slowly died down.

Alright you guys can come out now.

I yelled out helping Celestia up.

What did that thing do?

It scans her memory's and brain waves.

The PKE and Mae readings where deadly high for some one even of her power.

Celestia and Luna faced each other knowing what I was talking about.

And with Tirek now controlling Dark Slime any PKE energy detected must be found and removed.

Ben I... She said but was cut off because of the headache.

Easy. You need to sleep.

And as for the rest of you I strongly urge you to take a proton pack and Pke meter.

At any sign of problems get the pack on and be ready.

Alright They said in unison.

I'll stay here to watch over Tia.

Alright lets get her upstairs.

After the others left Me and Luna Steadily placed Celestia on my bed.

You sure we can put her in here Ben?

Belive me it's the safest part of the building other than the lab.

Alright, I'll keep a watch on for the time.

Ok, I'll be down in lab. If you need me just call on the intercom.

4 hours later

(Back to Celestia's p.o.v.)

I was in another dream. but this time it was just a white space and a foggy road.

Out of no where Luna came.

Luna how did yo...

You forget sis I get view and visit others dreams.

Oh, where do you think we are?

I don't know Tia...wait who's that?

They turn to see a figure walking up to them out of the fog.

Good evening...

We both looked at the figure.

We were almost sure who it was.

Ben?..

Not quite. I'm Sky Star.

Or what normal people call me Devin. Brother of Ben.

We both stood there in shock.

We were face to face with Ben's younger brother.

What are we...before you ask any questions I must tell you.

What you have experienced early was not a dream nor a nightmare, but history.

Me and Luna had hit a wall of confusion.

What do you mean?

The events you saw was not from your imagination. It was time rifts of the future times to come.

You mean that what I saw was to happen. We us,Equestria and Ben...?

Indeed. I must go now.

Wait what happens after...

Before I could finish he had disappeared into the fog as we drifted back to reality.

I woke up as Luna shook the dream off.

The clock read 6:20 am.

I got up to the window to raise the sun.

I could only think to my self.

If this Black monster is the source of this...Dark Slime then what is Tirek's part in this...?

After raising the sun we walked out to the kitchen to see Ben working on some device and drinking coffee.

Aren't you a bit young to be drinking that? I said with a chuck.

I said catching Ben's attention.

Are you a bit old for asking that. He smirked.

I made eggs and waffles if you both are hungry.

We sat down to enjoy the nice meal with out being watched by guards.

Soo did you find anything?

Indeed I did. He said pulling long pieces of paper.

You see this. He said point to a small blue line.

This is the average brain activity for dreams and memory

This green line shows the activity for the three main kinds of ponies. Earth,Unicorn and Pegasus.

Now this purple line is the average alicorn thoughts.

And this is yours.

We both looked at the Red line that was 5 times higher than the normal alicorn.

And that's not everything. I found silencer traces of PKE energy.

That means it came from a source of Dark Slime.

What can we do?

We need to go back to the place where it first happened.

What?...

Before I could realize it we're were back in Canterlot

Ben remind us why where here? I ask with a bit of wonder.

What ever happened the night before started here. Soo that means there should be a trace of the energy.

Me and Luna were still confused as he scanned my entire room. Wear that strange pair of goggles.

Ben what are you...

There I got a tail. And it leads to the direction of the crash site.

Where Tirek returned.

(Yes the chapter's name is in the story)

Come on we need to find the source and stop it.

In no time Me,Luna and Ben were flying to the old crash site.

When we got there small patches of grass and frost covered the site.

Ben what is the hope of finding anything here?

I know that Shockwave did ground bridge him away.

But knowing the one-eyed con he always has another wild card ready.

What do you mean? Luna asked.

If he came back in this area with a strain of slime then the chance of him returning here is 7 out of 10.

Here put these on.

It's would help if we had more eyes searching. He said giving us two more sets of goggles.

Umm...Ben...

You can hold them with your magic or just extend the strap.

We all began to look around the area for...for...well I didn't really know. I guess something out of the ordinary.

After a good five to ten minutes. I walked up to the mountain side and saw a large purple ora.

Hey Ben! I found something.

I yelled out as Luna and Ben came over.

I don't see anything Tia...

Put your goggles on.

Oh...sorry.

We all stared at the rock face. To a normal eye it was just rock but with the goggles it showed a large glowing purple ora.

Well what now? I asked.

Take a step back and hose it down.

Me and Luna stood aside as Ben sent a stream of green slime at the rock.

In time it slowly faded showing a fairly large tunnel.

This way girls...

We began to walk into the large cave.

I caught something wrong with Ben.

Ben is something wrong...?

I don't know.

It just feels...werid in here.

Like... familiar weird.

It's like going bac...WAIT what's that sound?

We got stopped in our tracks as a rushing river stood apone us.

Oh...My...God...soo much dark slime.

I stood there in shock at the river.

I turned to see the cave went two ways.

One end had caved in but had enough space for the slime to flow through.

The other side went into a dark black tunnel where the slime came from.

Come on. I think we're getting close.

But first...

We were a little puzzled as Ben turned to guys with his watch glowing red.

In a bright light he spawned two small objects into his hands.

They looked like his proton pack but was much small with two circular guns.

Before we go any further it's best that you guys have some form of fire power.

He handed me and Luna the small packs and we carefully put them on.

Say hello to the compact arm pack mark 8

Or in this case hooves pack.

A 9 ring-x pack now equiped with slime blower.

Fairly simple to work now. Right leg is Proton, Left is slime.

You can us your magic to press this button to vent the pack when it over heats.

After a short speech on how to us the packs he spawned in his as we started back down the cave using the spot lights.

Ben...what happenes when we find out what's at the end of the tunnel? Luna asked.

We find out who or what is and shoot everything we got.

Oh...

We kept on walking for a good ten minutes as we followed the river.

Soon we came to what appeared to be candle light and talking.

My master I have news to report...

And what would that be Tirek...

The princesses have seen the events that we have planned...

And have more and more curious...

We stood at the door way to a large chamber.

There stood Tirek to a normal size of what he looked like before he had the alicorn magic in him.

In front of him was a large dark blackish-red crystal floating above the river.

Once I've full gained the power to destroy the Elements of Harmony I'll gladly rip that so-called Matrix of Universal Power out of that... human boy's lifeless body.

Then I'll be able to rule Equestria with an iron hove...

We kept on watching the conversation.

I saw that Ben's hand was tighting into a fist around the gun's handle.

Sir may I have the ability to destroy the alicorns for good.

Suddenly a large beam of red energy shot from the crystal as he cried in pain.

YOU WILL NOT DARE TOUCH THEM.

IF the elements do fall. Then with all of their combined powers they can over power me and end everything...

Now take care of our little guesses...

The crystal slowly sank into the slime as Tirek faced right at us.

Well...isn't it Princess Celestia ,Luna and the little human hero Ben...

Tirek...

Not the greatest sight for sore eyes. I said smirking o how he got beaten.

**moans** Ever since our last encounter. Clever trick putting all your magic to your little student.

Twilight Sparkle had it within her. Even without our magic she and the others defeated YOU.

Indeed but it seems that she isn't here now is she. And the elements are miles away from your reach.

And now with my new powers even your magic can't STOP ME!

THE MASTER WILL RISE AGAIN!

We stood there in shock as his veins glowed a red-black as the river starts to bubble.

YOU FORGOT SOMETHING.

And what might that be boy...

WITH EVERY POWER IN THE UNIVERSE THERES A EQAUL AND A OPPOSITE.

Heat them UP!

Knowing what it ment we activate the packs in a steady noise of the cores cycling.

HOSE HIM DOWN...

We took aim and fired at the giant.

Streams of Blue,green and pink slime clashed with his black beam.

BEN IM RUNNING OUT! I yelled out.

As a response I guess he stops firing slime and sends a beam of energy at his beam.

HOW CAN SUCH A WEAK CREATURE OVER POWER ME...

Maybe because you don't know what power is..

After a minute of firing he gave up as slime covered his body.

We were just feet away when the river bubbled again as the crystal came out.

Soo this is the little human that is the holder of the Matrix of Power...

A pity that such power in the hands of the child...

And even that you have failed me again...

NO MASTER!...I...

BE GONE!

In a bright flash all the energy was sucked out of Tirek.

You worthless servant...

The crystal seemed to face us as it slowly sank back into the river.

We will meet again...

And the worlds will fall...

We stood there for a moment. Not knowing what it meant

We shook it off and turned back to Tirek.

We was back to his drained state.

What do we do with him now?

There's always room in the containment unit.

Wait I...

Before Tirek could say what he was about to say Ben throws a trap near him.

As Tirek slowly got pulled in the there was a though in the back of my mind.

I told Shockwave about him. And yet it seemed that he was meant to come back...

I shock off the thought as Ben picked up the trap and walked back.

This would be a good spec for Egon to study. Now let's get the hell out of here.

We made our way back to the cave entrance.

Have the guards to be ready for anything in the coming days.

Alright Tia.

A few hours later...

Back at Canterlot

After lowering the sun the facts came to truth.

A great evil has fallen on to Equestria.

One more powerful than Tirek.

Me and Luna we're thinking of what to do.

If the elements of harmony and us can't stop it then what will fall apone our land...

I don't know Tia but...

This is what we know..

We know that the threat is using the dark slime as a source of power.

We know that Tirek wasn't the real threat. But he wanted us to believe he was.

Right..?

Which raises the next set of questions.

Who is it and where is the slime coming from.

But you said that he gains power from the slime right?

Can't we just remove it...?

Luna...I've done that before and the results never change.

And with the amount of dark slime here I find it hard to try that.

But what about the source?

Hmmmm...we could try but we would have to find it first.

Even if we do stop it there is still what ever slime that made it through.

What about that sewer tunnel? I asked.

You said you, Shining Armor and Night Light found a large chamber with a water fall of it.

Yes but that doesn't mean it's the source.

Unless...

Unless what?

We didn't know at first what he was thinking but we knew he had something.

I have a plan but you may not know it at first...

Dimension 59

Tuefort Badlands...

197X

( Engineer's [Engi] p.o.v)

It was a day like any other.

Me and the team was battling it out with the Blu's Intel case.

PUT DISPENCER HERE!

It was a long day. Both of us had large sentry nests in the intel rooms.

But thanks to Scout and Spy we were able to win the match before going into over time.

( And thank damn god we didn't)

We were back at the respawn relaxing when medic came in holding a jar of some purplish black goo.

*What ya got there doc? Sniper asked.

I have not ze slightest clue...but this would be excellent for some tests!