The One With The Heart

Daniel was running to the lab with a idea in his mind, If that was luna in his dream then she would have seen his cloths and heard about the heart of the universe so he needed to get a new set of cloths for his normal form in hopes she forgets about his hoodie as he has been wearing that around his friends and he now decided to wear no cloths as a pony as if luna was to see his cloths she would likely know it was him so he decided to wear none in pony form but this had one flaw, his mark would be visible and if luna saw it she might remember what was said in his dream so he was going to the lab in hopes that alpha could make his idea a reality when he entered the lab he ran towards the factory and then the control room to find alpha there but in a different spot, he hopped with all if his being that alpha could do what he had in mind so with that he stepped towards alpha.

"Greetings again boss." He turned towards Daniel after saying that.

"Hello again, Hey alpha I have something to ask. Could you make a fake pony mark, like a tattoo but not quite." A sound was heard and Alpha then seemed to be searching his databanks, the sound stopped and he looked to Daniel.

"Like one of those, put on your skin, put water on it then peel it off tattoos?" Daniel was getting hopeful.

"Yes, can you?"

"Yes I can, but why cant you?"

"In my pony form the mark is made from magic, if what I know is true, so if I change it the magic will change it back, I would likely need to keep using my power to keep it disguised as something else and if I keep on using it I could be exposed and while I can keep energy in it to keep in in disguise I also don't want to take the chance of  keeping some energy in it to keep it disguised as that as well might get me caught." He explained.

"I Understand. Which mark would you like?" Daniel though for a moment and then decided.

"A meteor, It would kind of go with my pony name and my astronomy hobby."

"Understood."  A side hatch opened on Alpha and a vial if red liquid appeared to which he opened and then poured on the floor, after that alpha got what looked like some kind of weapon and aimed it at the liquid and fired it, a green bean hit it and it started to change colour and shape and when it was done it was a cardboard box, Daniel went over and opened it to find what looked like paper so he decided to go and try them out.

"Put them over your mark, put water on it and it will do the rest. Just avoid more water as it might wash off."

"Ok,Thanks alpha."

"Your welcome." With that he turned around and went back to his work in the control room and Daniel headed back to his house, He changed into his pony for and used his space powers to hold the box like the ponies did with levitation so when he was back in his house he headed to the sink and got ready to test it out, he removed the cloths he was wearing and took one of the papers in the box and placed it over his mark, he then turned on the tap and levitated the water over to where he had place the paper and rubbed the water on it which almost made him jump from the cold but after a while he stopped and looked back to find that the paper had expanded and went over his true mark and now left a mark with a meteor and a telescope below it, Daniel was quite happy with this so he did the same with the other side and it turned out perfectly.

"Yes, Great. Well that solves it." He changed back into his human form and then Daniel suddenly froze up when another realisation hit him. "Oh crap, luna could enter my sister's dream, I might not have to sleep but she still does." Daniel went to his sisters room only to stop when he heard her crying, he chapped the door and then opened it to find her awake and still in the same state she was before, he left her alone as if he talked to her he might do more damage so he left her room. "How am I going to keep luna out of her dreams?" He thought as he was walking back to the living room and sat down on the couch when he got there. "I could perhaps learn how to enter dreams, but it would take time to make sure there is no side effects, what do I do." He was still thinking a few minutes later until a realisation hit him. "The pocket dimension, if she sleeps in there then she might be able to dream without luna being able to enter it. It is worth a shot, but I need to learn more about time." He then had a idea, if he could contact father time he might be able to help him with that. "But how do I contact them?" He closed his eyes and tried to send a telepathic message to father time, after a while he heard a noise and he opened his eyes to see father time standing there.

"Greetings once again Daniel."

"Nice to meet you too."

"Have you thought about my offer?" It took Daniel a second to realised when he was saying.

"Yes, I would like it if you could teach me more about time, but I have a favour to ask if that is ok."

"What might it be?" Daniel walked towards a door and motioned for him to come over and then he opened the door when he was near to it to reveal a grassland with flowers off all kinds blooming a waterfall, a giant lake, trees and bushes that had apples and berries as well as a very small sun that he made some time ago, it did not shine a lot but enough to see and he was planning on making it larger to shine some more sometime in the future, the first thing that father time noticed when he saw this was that everything was still, like it was a painting so he looked back at Daniel.

"I made this pocket dimension so me and why sister would have a place to be if we got discovered, only I cant add time to it, could you please do that, I would be very grateful." Father time seemed to be thinking for a moment but then spoke.

"I don't see why not, it is a simple request and a easy task." With that he held his hourglass out and a stream of golden dust seemed to emerge from it and gathered into a ball on top of the lake and then exploded and a wave of golden energy was spread throughout the land and everything started to move, Daniel stood there in awe before looking back at father time.

"Thank you so much."

"Your welcome, also you don't have to worry."

"What do you mean by-" Daniel was interrupted.

"Back when we first met, you thought that if we discovered you did not know how to control you powers we might see you differently, we don't." Daniel forgot all about that. "Anyway, you mentioned you would like me to train you in time control, when do you want to start?" Daniel took a moment to think on this.

"Perhaps sometime next night as it is almost sunrise."

"I can freeze time and start your training right now if you want." Daniel decided to take him up on his offer.

"Well...ok." With that he raised his hourglass and in a flash everything seemed frozen.

"Lets begin."

A while later Daniel had finished some of his training and discovered that time was indeed very hard to learn to control, what Daniel had learned was a little time gazing as he could not see a few minutes into either the past or future and his ability to do time loops were much better as the mass of the object or creature only had a minor effect on it now as long as it was not as big as a sun or had a ton of gravity around it like a black hole. There was a side effect when he tried his time gaze for the first time and it was horrible as to Daniel it felt like he just had got hot sauce poured into his eyes and it took him a few minutes until he could open then again. After this Daniel thought that was enough for today.

"I think that will do for today. I have some other things to go and do." With that father time unfroze everything.

"I will see you then." He was about to leave when he stopped and looked at Daniel with curiosity which was freaking Daniel out.

"What?" That seemed to get father time's attention.

"Sorry about that, it just....you look familiar, I swear I have seen you somewhere before we met at the timberwolf citadel."

"But I had never met you before that." He was about to leave when Daniel asked him something. "Hey father time. Can you tell the rest of them I accept their offers for training and I would like to learn what death was going to teach me first."

"I will let them know." With that he teleported away leaving Daniel in his now finished pocket dimension. As he looked around he wondered if his sister would like it, it was then he had a idea of what he could add to it so he looked at the sky and got to work, he made a barrier around the whole land that starched into the sky and decorated it with stars, by the time he was done it looked so realistic.

"It might just be a illiosion but its easier than actualy trying to make them, if I tried that god knows how badly I would injure myself." Satisfied with his work Daniel left his pocket dimension and headed to his sister's room, when he was there he chapped on the door. "Annabelle......I know you are still upset but....can we talk?" He decided he needed to have a talk with her, he did fear he might do more damage but he also now felt that he should at least try to make things better, he looked down at the food he left and it was still untouched and somewhat rotten so he snapped his fingers and it vanished he was about to say something else to Annabelle until the door handle turned and when it opened she was looking at him. He stood there for a few seconds looking at her, he hair was very messy, her PJs looked like they were all crushed and her eyes had not changed at all, as she looked at him Daniel felt what she was feeling. He decided to approach carefully as he did not want to make her more upset than she already was. "Annabelle I....I know understand how you feel." she was looking at him through her tears.

"They were our parent, I feel awful for what happened to them but what make it worse for me is knowing I was the one who cause their deaths."

"You...could have save them. You could have given up and when you would have returned from whoever wanted to take you away we could have been together again." Daniel was once again reminded of that, he could have but he did not but something she said got his attention.

"Yes I could have, but Annabelle, I would not have returned."

"They why did you not-What, what do you mean?"

"I think its time I told you everything." With that Daniel lead her to the living room where they sat down and had a chat, Daniel mentioned some thing she knew and some she did not, like about how it was King N who was after him and how he would have died if he gave himself up, he also mention about NOC to her and as first she though he was turning into a psychopath until he proved it by answering some questions for her that were related to what she was currently thinking of and after a while she believed him. After the talk was done he gave her a minute to understand it all.

"So, you would have died if you gave yourself up, not taken away and you could not have done anything other that as you were not strong enough." He just nodded at her question. "Brother I..did not know.

"Not everything ends in butterflies, sunshine and rainbows Annabelle." She had a face that showed she knew that was true. "Do you want to head outside today or stay in, it is your choice." She though for a moment.

"I think I will stay in. But, why do we hide? Why can't our friends know about us?" Daniel wondered if he did tell her and he or she just forgot it but he swore he did not tell her the reason so he decided to now.

"Do you remember when I first scouted the forest when we arrived here?" She nodded and waited for him to continue. "Well Thag feared me because I was a human and here humans are myths, so was nightmare moon. When I looked up myths of this world when I was in twilights library I discovered that just about all of them were of being with great power. So that's why we can't tell then and the fact of what I can do will just make it worse as it will be just make me seem like one."

"So what if we are myths, so what if you can do so much. Surly twilight knows not to judge a book by its cover, so the rest wont judge us......right?" He just looked at her and he could see that she was now worried about losing her friends and with what she is currently going through together with this will probably be to much for her.

"You let me worry about that." She sat up and turned to head back to her room. "Annabelle." When she heard him she stopped. Daniel made some cereal in a bowl with milk appear and handed it to her. "You need to eat something, you have not had anything in a long time." She just looked back at him and then continued walking to her room with the bowl in her hand and Daniel was once again left to think about what to do, he did not know if she should stay here or go to ponyville to see his friends, he heard a door open and looked to the side to see some of his robot children and they were looking at him.

"Daddy, is auntie feeling better?" One asked who was painted grey.

"She seems to very slowly be getting better." It was a bit true as Annabelle did not touch any kind of food he left out for her but now she took some, he did not know if she would actually eat some of it but it was a start. "Anyway, Greg, will you and the others watch her while I head out?"

"Certainly." With that Daniel changed back into his pony form and headed to ponyville by going through the door in the basement. When he arrived there some other ponies were just starting to wake up as it was still early in the morning so he wondered around until he found a bench and sat down on it, he started to think about the situation he was in and after a while he discovered that as long as what he was wearing before was not mentioned to luna or that luna mentions what she saw him wear in his dream to the others in hopes that they know something then he would be fine.

"Hi!" He was snapped out of his thought by someone talking to him, he looked to the source of the voice which turned out to be pinkie pie. "I'm pinkie pie, who are you?" Daniel started to wonder why she was asking that if they were friends, could not wearing his cloths in his pony form make him seem like someone else.

"You already know me pinkie." That seemed to get her attention as her eyes went wide when she recognized his voice.

"Cosmos? You not wearing those cloths. Why?" She asked with her head tilted to the side.

"You guys don't wear any so I though I might as well do the same now."

"well...ok, hey here is strawberry?"

"She is feeling a bit under the weather."

"Aren't we are all under the weather? If you think about it only the pegusi can go above the clouds?" What she said actually made sense to Daniel, why would under the weather count a feeling down if they were all always under it. He shook his head to remove that thought before the thought on it too much.

"Anyway...Is there anything happening today?" For the past few days something has happened almost everyday.

"Nope. I have no parties planned, unless somepony new comes to town. Hey want to go a prank somepony?" Daniel decided to head to twilights library to see if there was some more books he could study up, he knew about the history of this land but now he wanted to read about their current society to see if it was very different or almost the same as his was back on earth.

"No thanks, I will head to twilights and study some more."

"Ok, bye." With that she bounced off and Daniel started to make his way to twilights. As he passed through the marketplace on his way there he was suddenly knocked to the ground as someone bashed into him and when he got up to look at who it was he discovered that it was the same pony he saw last night when Trixie was still in town, it was the grey pegusis mare with a yellow tail and hair and he mark was of seven bubbles.

"Sorry mister." She said as she got off of him.

"Its ok." As he got up he saw that she had a mail bag and that her letters were scattered across the ground and she was cleaning them up, Daniel saw that she was having trouble with getting them so he decided to help her, he started to gather them up and when he got the last few of them he handed them to her. "Here." He said as he handed her the letters, when she looked at him Daniel could clearly see that her eyes were not looking the same way and seemed to look surprised that he was helping her and somewhat hesitated to take the letters.

"Th-thanks." She said as she put them in the bag.

"No problem miss." He started to walk away when she said something.

"Ditzy." He looked back at her.

"What?"

"My name is Ditzy."

"Cosmos."

"Well, thanks for the help, cosmos."

"Not a problem miss ditzy." She flew of after he said that towards wherever her next mail delivery location was and Daniel continued on his way to twilight's house. When he arrived he chapped on the door and waited for twilight to open it and while he did, what Annabelle said was ringing in his mind, if he did tell them who they were would they accept them also while it is true his is one of the elements of harmony would they count on him if they knew what he was capable of. When he thought of that his mind wondered to another question, why did he not use his powers for everything, was it because of the fear of side effects, was it the fear of getting caught or was it because he wants to be human, is he still human because no human could do what he could do, just then something pops up in his mind. "What if I am not daniel, what if I did die after encountering sombre and I am just the Heart will the memory of Daniel and if that is not the case am I still human?" His decided to ask NOC that and he got his answer.

"When you merged you did not die or change, you are still Human." He felt happy knowing he was still him and after he got his answer his thoughts then went beck to what Annabelle said.

"A few months, I will wait a few months and let our friendship improve and if we become better friends I will tell them what we are but not about what I can do as that might cause them to fear me." He was suddenly surprised by a voice from behind.

"Excuse me." He jumped in fright as he totally forgot that he was waiting for twilight to answer the door. "I'm sorry I did not mean to scare you."

"It's ok twilight, I need to pay more attention." She had a look of surprise on her face.

"Cosmos, you are not wearing those cloths you normally do?"

"Well the rest of you don't so I thought if I am going to stay here I should start doing the same. I was wondering if you could let me read some more books today." She stepped to the said and let him in.

"Of course cosmos. What do you want to read up on?" She said as she went to book case and started looking.

"Well, history is done so how about society?"

"I know." She started going back and forth at quite a fast speed and within a few seconds there was about 27 books beside Daniel that were all based on society.

"Thanks. Can it on the sofa and read?"

"Of course." With that he took on of the books and went over to sit down then started to read it, the book was about social interaction for nobles which Daniel found a bit funny for some reason. While Daniel was reading twilight looked over to him. "He is not quite muscular, so how does he have such strength?" She was quickly snapped out of her thoughts when she realised she was staring at him to which she turned her head the other way with a blush on her face but her attention was then caught by spike.

"Twilight, a letter from the princess." With that twilight took the letter and started to read it and this also caught Daniel's attention and he waited for her to finish reading it, when she did she went to one of her windows and looked out it.

"What happening twilight?" She turned to look at Daniel when he asked that.

"Have you not seen the smoke in the sky cosmos?" With that Daniel got up and went over to the window and he saw that there was indeed dark smoke going across the sky.

"What's with that?" He looked to twilight who answered.

"Its a dragon that is causing that cloud." Daniel looked at the cloud again. "We need to inform the town, Cosmos are you coming?" Twilight walked towards the door and Daniel looked back at twilight.

"Are you coming back here?"

"Yes, why?"

"Then I will stay here and read if that is ok with you." She used her magic to open the door and grab spike who she then placed on her back.

"That's find, just be here when I am back." With the sound of a closing door he was left in the library. Daniel was left alone as he continued to read the book about noble social interactions. A while passed and he was about a quarter way done reading it when he hear the door open again and when he turned to the door he saw all of his friends.

"Hey twilight who is that." Rainbow dash asked pointing at Daniel.

"Do I truly look that different without those cloths on?" All of them except twilight and pinkie pie looked at him in surprise.

"Cosmos? Why are you not earing the cloths you normally do?" He was about to say why when pinkie pie said it.

"When I asked him that he said because none of us did so he might as well do the same." It was then that twilight spoke.

"Everypony, we have a dragon to deal with right now." They all looked to twilight and rainbow dash spoke.

"A fully grown dragon?" Twilight looked at her.

"Yes." Applejack spoke next.

"What in the name of cinnamon swirls is a full grown dragon doin her in equestria?" Daniel was now wondering what other saying there was like applejacks as it was unusual to hear as he had never heard it.

"Sleeping." Everyone looked confused but Daniel just listened in.

"According to princess celestia he is taking a nap, his snoring is what's causing all the smoke." Daniel started to wonder how strong dragons were in this word, if one can catch the attention of the princess just from snoring then goodness know what I could do if you ticked one off.

"He should really see a doctor, that doesn't sound healthy at all." He almost giggled at pinkie pies comment.

"Well, at least he is not snoring fire. What are we meant to do about it?" He agreed with rarity, this sounded like something celestia should take care off. He heard rainbow saying that they should give the dragon a kicking and then kicked a sculpture made out of wood which almost made it tip over but twilight stopped it and moved it out of the way when rainbow tried to hit is again which caused her to crash.

"We need to encourage him to take a nap somewhere else. Princess celestia has given us this mission and we must not fail. If we do equestrian will be covered in smoke for the next 100 years." Daniel started to see something that did not seem so nice, they wanted to get the dragon to sleep somewhere else, but what about the creatures living wherever it chose to sleep next, did these ponies not care as long as it was not on there land and why did celestia not deal with this herself, unless she already has tried to and failed. He started to wonder if these ponies were harmonious or not and by all the things he has seen, heard and discovered so far they don't seem to be very harmonious.

"Talk about getting your beauty sleep." If rarity was trying to be funny then that was not very humorous as nobody seemed to laugh.

"Alright everypony, I need you to gather supplies quickly." Twilight finished packing her stuff in a bag and placed it on her back. "We have got a long journey ahead of us. Lets meet back here in less than an hour." With that rainbow gave some kind of speech asking then if they have what it takes and after they cheered they all went away to get their stuff but Daniel just continued to read as he knew he would not need anything. "Cosmos, are you not going to get something's?"

"No twilight, I don't need anything." She looked like she was about to say something but stopped.

"Well....if you are sure then ok."

A hour later they were all in front of twilights library, each one of them except Daniel had a bag of some kind and twilight was speaking. "Alright everypony, I am mapping out the fastest root , we all have to keep a good pace if we expect to make it up the mountain by nightfall." Fluttershy seemed to be scared when twilight said mountain. "The dragon is in that cave at the very top." She pointed to a mountain in the distance.

"Looks pretty cold up there." When applejack said that rainbow talked next.

"You bet it is, the higher you go the chillier it gets." Daniel was looking at the mountain while the others talked, after a minute or so twilight pulled out a map and fluttershy was trying to speak to her while she was busy choosing which way to go, it ended with twilight giving a answer she did not mean to give and fluttershy started to walk away but twilight quickly came to her senses.

"Wait, you have to come, your way with wild animals will surly come in handy." She was about to say something else but twilight interrupted her. "Oh and don't worry about your little friends in the meadow, spike's got it covered while your gone." Spike was next to her with a few animals around him.

"You can count on me." With that a white bunny started to kick him in the head which caused him to try and reach for it and that seemed to scare all of the animals off, he ran after them shouting wait. Fluttershy seemed to be scared about going on and he even heard rainbow ask twilight if it was a good idea to bring her along as she was afraid of her own shadow and that she would only slow them down, twilight tried to assure her that she would be fine until they saw fluttershy  jump in a bush after she saw her own shadow and rainbow gave twilight a look that seemed to be a little angry but twilight just ignored it.

"Alright everypony, move out!" With that all of them except Daniel started to run and they actually ran right into fluttershy and carried her off, he just stood there for a few seconds contemplating what had just happened, that a bunch of friends ran into their shy friend and carried her off screaming.

"What...the...everlasting...fudge." He stood there for a few seconds just looking on before he shook him head and went after them.

When he caught up with then they were all in the one spot, he did not go full speed as he did not want then to see how fast he could run or accidently outrun them.

"That is what it sounds like when a dragon snores." Daniel had just hear it when he caught up to them and saw that Fluttershy was cowering behind applejack.

"Its so high." Rainbow looked at her.

"Well it is a mountain. I'm going to fly up there and check it out." She was about to fly away when she was grabbed by the tail by applejack who pulled her back down.

"Hold on now, ah think we should all go up tagether. Safety in numbers n all." Dash looked disappointed at this.

"Oh, all right." With that they started to climb the mountain but what caught his attention was that besides fluttershy, twilight was at the back, he wondered why she was not at the front if because she has the map. All the while they were climbing or walking up a mountain the others were talking and rarity mentioned about a dragons scales and how they sparkle and the only thing that sparkles more than that is the jewels they uses to make their nests. What caught his attention was that rarity mentioned she hoped she could get the dragon to part with some and pinkie pie imitated a dragon inviting rarity, offering her a diamond and then roaring to which they all laughed at how silly she was acting. All of them besides him and twilight.

"Look, this is no laughing matter. Fluttershy, your the expert on wild creatures, what do you think the dragon will be like?" She got no response and started looking around for fluttershy who was hiding in a bush as the bottom of where they were walking, they all looked down to her and rainbow called out.

"Hey, what are you waiting for, a invitation?" With that pinkie pie spoke.

"Oh I think I have one in my bag." she pulled out a invitation from her bag and confetti shot off surprising dash.

"Pinkie, were you planning on inviting the dragon to a party?" he asked her.

"yup yup." He just raised a eyebrow at this and looked back down to where fluttershy was.

"its...so..so steep." fluttershy still did not move.

"Well it is a cliff." Rainbow told her.

The others started to encourage her to fly after rainbow dash mentioned it and she actually did very well up until the dragon snored again which seemed to cause her wings to lock back in which caused her to fall back into another bush and when she got out she seemed to be trying and failing to fly.

"We don't have time for this." He heard twilight say and Daniel decided to take action so he jumped down the slope and towards fluttershy. "Cosmos, what are you doing?" He did not listen to her and turned to fluttershy when he reached the bottom.

"Fluttershy, why are you so scared?" She looked at him and was about to say something but he continued. "Where did your bravery go, like yesterday when the shadow had fought both of the ursas, you just went up to it with no fear what so ever, what happened to that." This seemed to get her attention and after a moment she spoke.

"Yo-your right but,  cant control that, I just saw a minor getting hurt and I seemed to just lose it then." Daniel sighed.

"Fluttershy, you need to face your fears, if you don't they will just keep you down and you wont get anywhere. That's what my mom told me and when I conquered my fears I felt so happy, So will you please try." she looked at Daniel then at her other friends.

"I-I guess." they then walked towards the slope and as Daniel took his first few steps he turned around to look at fluttershy who was looking at the slope, she then looked at Daniel who smiled and with that she closed her eyes and took a few steps up and after a while she opened her eyes and found herself close to her friends all the while Daniel was behind her to help her if she slipped of panicked.

When she reached where her friend were they all cheered for her.

"Fluttershy, you did it." twilight said and fluttershy looked back to where she climbed up from and quickly went back agents the wall shaking in fear and then the dragon snored again which cause fluttershy to stop shaking and fall to the ground paralyzed with fear and Daniel sighed.

"Do I have to carry you?" She did not move. "Fine then." He picked her up and put her on his back.

"Thanks cosmos, now lets go." With that word from twilight they all started to walk up the mountain again, while they were twilight walked beside Daniel. "Hey cosmos, thanks." He had a feeling the tanks from before was for carrying fluttershy but he wondered what this one was for.

"For what?"

"For helping fluttershy with her fears."

"Everything has fears, it up to you if you will let them get the better of you." With that they continued walking and soon fluttershy was a ble to move again so she got off of Daniel's back and they continued walking on the path until they came to a gap and while all the others jumped the gap fluttershy did not.

"Come on fluttershy, we should be much further along by now." Twilight told her and Daniel wondered if he would need to help her again but pinkie pie started to sing and jump across the gap multiple times which caused a visible smile to appear on fluttershys face, she stood up and closed her eyes and then jumped. "Just don't look down." When twilight said that she opened her eyes and looked down which caused her to start panicking but soon found herself with her back and front hoofs on the edges of the separate cliffs and the gap was very small, rainbow went behind her and pushed her while pinkie pulled her and after that she got across.

"I guess I forgot to jump."

"They continued along the path for a few more minutes as Daniel's mind began to wonder about how Annabelle is right now to which he kept telling himself his robot kids are watching her and she is in the house he made so she is safe, he then remembered he has not told brago about the machines progress so decided he would do that after they were done dealing with the dragon.

"Lets keep it down, according to my map we are entering a avalanche zone, the smallest peep could cause a huge rock slide." Fluttershy was about to say something but twilight shushed her and they continued walking for a few seconds until fluttershy shouted and at the same time she sounded startled.

"AVALA-" She was stopped by applejack shoving a hoof into her mouth and they all listened, all that was heard was fluttershys echo and after a few seconds they sighed in relief then the ground started to shake and when they looked up they all saw falling rocks and ran around dodging falling rocks and some shouting avalanche and look out, Daniel stood still and was looking up and was easily avoiding any rocks that were coming down.

"Help." He looked to the source and saw twilight was having trouble avoiding falling rocks but just as he was about to run and help her applejack tackled her out of the way of a falling rock, as the avalanche stopped they all were coughing and no longer panicking.

"everypony ok?"

"Thanks to you I am." Twilight said to applejack with a smile and Daniel looked around to see fluttershy poke her head out of a load of dirt and rarity covered in dirt to which she shook off and it ended up on pinkie pie who was bouncing beside her.

"Woo hoo, lets do it again." Daniel was not paying much attention to what they were saying as when he looked in front of them he saw a giant pile of dirt and rocks that were blocking the path.

"Sorry." He heard fluttershy say which seemed to be directed at them all.

"aw, no big whoop sugar cube." Twilight spoke next.

"Yeh, we'll just have to, climb over." She sighed at the last part.

"Wait." Applejack said and then she looked at cosmos.

"Cosmos, can you get rid of this? I mean you did destroyed one of mah trees with yer strength." Daniel knew that to say to this.

"That was a tree, those are rocks, much harder and that tree probably weighed nothing compared to all of those rocks and dirt, I might be strong but I don't think I can move all of these, also If I could do you want to take the chance of a much bigger avalanche happening?" None of them seemed to have anything to say regarding what he said.

"Well then, we go over it." with that they started to climb the pile of rocks and dirt, they made it to the other side and with a slip fluttershy slid and hit all the others causing then to slide down and crash at the bottom, Daniel had just enough time to move to the side to avoid getting pulled down which ended up with him stepping on a steep but and falling face first into the ground below.

"Cosmos!" He heard them shout but he just got up and cleaned the dirt off of his face.

"I am fine, how much further twilight?" She took out her map and looked at it.

"It should be just up there." She pointed to the path ahead of them and started to walk to which Daniel got up and followed her with the rest of the group, rainbow dash was talking to twilight and asking her if she still thought it was a good idea to bring fluttershy with them to which she said.

"We're about to find out." They looked in front of them and saw a giant cave with the dark smoke coming out of it. "We're here." They all continued to look in the cave and Daniel looked at twilight who had a look of determination on her face. "Rainbow dash, you use your wings to clear the smoke." Rainbow flew into the smoke above. "Rarity and pinkie pie, you create a diversion to distract the dragon if things get a little hairy in there." Pinkie pie dashed off and a second later was holding some kind of squeaky chicken toy and all of them looked at hit with faces that looked like their brain was stuck in a loop but twilight just continued. "Applejack, your ready with the apples in case he decides to attack." Applejack kicked two apples against a tree to which they smashed on impact. "Cosmos, you be ready to try and reason with the dragon just in case."

"Wait, why have I to reason with it." He was curious to know.

"Well you reasoned with those timberwolfs a while ago. Why cant you do the same for this dragon if it comes to that."

"They were protecting their young as they thought we were a threat. this is asking someone to change where they sleep, its totally different." Twilight seemed to get the point.

"Well will you at least try?" He sighed and nodded. "Thanks. Hopefully it wont come to all of this because fluttershy will do what she has to do to wake him up and between the two of us we should be able to get him to understand why he needs to go. Is everypony ready?" They all made sounds or gestures of agreement but fluttershy was on the ground in fear. "Ok then, were going in." With that twilight went into the cave but later came back out when she found out fluttershy was not following her to find her with her head in the dirt. "Oh come on." She pulled on her wing which got her head out of the dirt and it also seemed to look quite painful. "We have to do this." She was trying to push fluttershy into the cave. "Now." Rainbow dash joined in to help her. "every second longer that dragon sleeps is another acher of equestrian that is covered in smoke." As she said this the others joined in to try and get fluttershy in the cave. Daniel was watching with a amazed face as to how fluttershy who was so kind and gentle was able to hold back the combined strength of her friends, not including him and she soon spoke.

"I-I can't go in the cave." They all fell over with a groan of annoyance.

"Great, she is scared of caves now too."

I am not scared of caves, I'm scared of the dragon." Daniel could hear that last part but the others could not and they kept asking her what she was afraid of until she shouted it "I'm scared of dragons." There was another loud snore followed by a giant load of smoke which burst out of the cave and after it had cleared twilight tried spoke to fluttershy who was hiding behind applejack.

"But fluttershy you have a wonderful talent dealing with all kinds of animals."

"Yes, because they are not dragons." Rainbow got annoyed by this.

"Oh come one, we watched you walk right up to a horrible manticore like it was nothing."

"Yes, because it wasn't a dragon."

"Spike is a dragon, your not scared of him."

"Yes because he is not a huge gigantic terrifying " She went on a lot and Daniel lot count of what she was saying and after she was done there was another snore which ended with her on the ground shaking in fear again.

"But if you were so afraid of dragons why didn't you say something before we came all the way up here?" Twilight asked her.

"I was afraid to." Applejack got her up on her legs.

"All of us are scared of that dragon."

"I'm not." Rainbow said which caused applejack to look at her with a face that looked like it just detected a lie. "Almost all of us r scared a that dragon, but we gotta job to do, so get in there with twalight and showem what yer made of." Daniel decided to add something to hopefully help her.

"Fluttershy you need to face your fears, if you don't then you are letting them get the better of you. At least try." She looked at all of them as they looked at her for a answer.

"I-I..i just can't." She turned around and walked away after saying that and they all looked at her as she walked off.

Twilight entered the cave herself while the others waited outside, after a few minutes she came back out of the cave coughing and another smoke cloud soon followed.

"So much for persuading him." Rainbow told twilight.

"Now what?" Rarity walked up to the cave.

"Obviously this situation calls for a little more, pony charm." With that she walked into the cave. "Allow me."

A few more minutes later she ran out of the cave and Daniel heard everything that had happened, rarity was at first charming the dragon and it sounded like it was going nicely until it found out she was trying to take some of the jewels it had for its nest which I was not happy about and now rarity was back outside the cave complaining about how she was so close to getting a diamond.

"You mean getting rid of that dragon?" Twilight asked when she heard what she was saying.

"Oh, yeah sure." It was then they heard a party streamer getting blown and they all looked to pinkie pie who looked like some kind of balloon mutant frog with sunglasses and with a party streamer in its mouth.

"Darling, you look ridiculous." Rarity informed pinkie pie.

"Exactly, sharing laugh is a sure fire to get someone on your side." She walked awkwardly into the cave and after hearing pinkie pie say hi and a few pops she walked back out of the cave with 2 flippers missing and a lot of balloons gone. "Apparently he does not like laughing, or sharing." Rainbow dash seemed to lose it now.

"Alright that's it, we have tried persuasion, charm, whatever it is pinkie does, its time to stop wasting time, I'm going in." With that she zoomed into the cave and twilight called to her.

"Rainbow, No!" She did not listen as she flew right up to the dragon's face.

"GET OUT." After she had said that she kicked it in the face which only seemed to get it to sneeze rather than hurt it and after it sneezed it looked at dash with anger before roaring and sending her flying out of the cave and knocking her friends down like bowling pins, Daniel got hit on his front left leg but managed to regain his balance only to see a very angry dragon come out of the cave and look around until it saw all of his friends together in one spot to which it breathed smoke right at them which caused them to be knocked back by the force and hit a rock which smashed apart to reveal fluttershy who was hiding behind it, Daniel confused at to why it was not breathing fire but because it did not do a lots of damaged to his friends and instead just made them woozy he was not complaining, as Daniel looked back at the dragon and at his friends he wondered if he would have to fight this thing until he heard a voice from behind him.

"How dare you. HOW DARE YOU!!!" Fluttershy was now looking furious and flew up to the dragon's face. "Listen here mister, just because your big doesn't mean you get to be a bully." Daniel was now standing there with a smirk on his face now that fluttershy had gotten angry and the dragon was on the receiving end but at the same time he felt sorry for the dragon as all I did was knock his friends away after rainbow attacked him and they would not leave him alone so did that really make the dragon a bully? He then remembered when fluttershy acted this way to him when he was in his shadow form and of how he would have done goodness know what to her if he did not regain control of his anger after she mentioned his parents so he made a mental note to learn to control his anger when he could find some time to. He was getting distracted so he shock his head and looked back at fluttershy who was now looking the dragon in the eye. "Well?" After a few moments the dragon spoke.

"But that rainbow one kicked me." Daniel looked to dash who had a smile on her face.

"Well I am very sorry about that." Rainbow's smile disappeared. "But your bigger than she is and you should know better." Daniel was wondering what she meant by that as a child dragon would be bigger than a pony and just because one creature is bigger than another does not instantly make them more intelligent or mature until he remembered that this was a fully grown dragon so he stayed quite. "You should also know better than to take a nap where your shoring can become a hazard to other creatures."

"But I-" The dragon started to talk but got interrupted by fluttershy.

"Don't you but I me mister. Now what do you have to say for yourself?" She was looking at his with a face that looked like a combination of anger and curiosity. "Well?" Daniel could not believe what happened next, the dragon started crying but after seeing the looks on his friends faces was shocked, his friends were smiling which got him to question himself if they were they happy to see it cry, he looked back to fluttershy who was now trying to calm the dragon down. "There, there, Your not a bad dragon. You just made a bad decision." She started to fly down to the ground. "Now go and pack your things, you just need a new place to sleep, that's all." When she reached the bottom he friend all ran to her and cheered her.

"You did, it, I knew you could." The dragon then started to fly away from the mountain. "Well that takes care of that, We should get back now I will tell the princess that we succeeded with the mission." With that they all started to walk back to ponyville, all except for Daniel who was looking in the direction the dragon was flying as a question he had asked himself earlier plagued his mind, did they not care where the dragon slept as long as it was not on their land as if the dragon could cover this land in smoke just by snoring then it is likely it will be the same where ever it sleeps. "Hey cosmos." He looked back to see them all looking at him. "You ok?"

"Yes, i'm fine." He said with a smile.

"Alright then, lets go." Daniel started to follow then but took one last look back before he continued to follow them back to ponyville.

When Daniel arrieved back in ponyville he headed back to his house, and changed his form when he was safely inside, he went to go and check on his sister but instead found Greg at the door, he approached him.

"How is she doing?" Greg looked at him.

"She still has not came out of her room." Daniel sighed at this.

"Let me try." He went up to the door and chapped it. "Annabelle." After getting no reply he opened the door to find her lying on her bed the same state, he went over and sat at the other side of the bed, he took a look at her food to see if she had any and to his disappointment she had not touched it. "Annabelle, you need to eat, its unhealthy for you to be like this." She just lay there and did not say a thing, Daniel was about to leave her alone when he remembered something, he needed to get her to sleep in the pocket dimension as it might stop luna from being able to go into her dreams so he turned back to her. "Hey Annabelle, want to see something you might like?" Her face was unchanged but she did look up at him.

"What?" she asked in quite a low voice.

"Follow me and you will see." She slowly got up off of the bed and followed him. He hoped that the pocket dimension would not only stop luna from entering her dreams but would also cheer her up.

When they got to the door that lead to the pocket dimension Daniel opened it and they both stepped inside, when they did Annabelle's eyes widened slightly as she saw the fields of flowers of all kinds, the sparkling lake and waterfall along with a sun shining and there was no blue sky but instead a black sky with sparkling stars, but nothing else changed about her expression. "I finished making it, well with help from father time, but its done, what do you think?" She was looking around the land but her face still did not change and Daniel sighed at this, he looked to the side and saw a few trees and used his reality altering power to make a bed appear that had ropes on the top and bottom which connected to the trees at each side and the edges of the beds went up slightly so the only lying in it would not fall out. "Here." He pointed to what he had made and took her over to it.

"Brother, why are you doing this?" Daniel did not lie to her.

"I was hoping this would cheer you up. Do you not like it?" He asked as she climbed up on the tree bed herself and took another look around.

"Its...nice...but.."

"But?"

"How do you deal with it, the loss of our parents?" He sighed and walked over to the side of one of the trees.

"I deal with it by keeping you safe, I think to myself, what would mom and dad what me to do in this situation and I know they would want to keep you happy and safe, I will do that not just because its what they would want me to do but also because your my little sister and it is my job as your older brother to do that, to keep you happy and safe. Think about the situation you are in right now and think what mom and dad would want you to do, if that helps." He then remembered he needed to go and meet up with brago and tell him about the machines progress. "I have to go and do something but I will be back soon." With that he left the pocked dimension and saw Greg waiting at the other side of the door. "Hey Greg." He looked at Daniel who reopened the door. " I want you to keep and eye on her while I am away, I should not be to long."

"Certainly." With that Greg entered the door and looked around the land, he soon found quite a large rock close to the waterfall and got on top of it and then started his job.

Annabelle was deep in her thoughts about what Daniel said about thinking what mom and dad would want them to do.

"They would want me to be happy, that's what mom always told me that she wants when we were back home, but what about my brother, he is doing all of this to keep me happy and safe, what can I do for him, my mom would defiantly ask, no not ask, she would tell me to do the same, so what can I do to make him happy?" She lay down on the tree bed and looked over the land around her, taking in the fact that Daniel make this for them, she sighed. "I guess I can try and cheer up a bit." With that Annabelle looked back at the door that lead back to the house and then lay down on the tree bed looking at the stars in the sky. "What would they want me to do?"