I scooped up the head and letter and cradled it in my wing, “Spike, get Shy some water!” I shouted out to him, picking Shy up and setting her on the couch next to Twilight.

“Chris what happened?” Twilight asked.

I looked at her and then to Shy and shook my head, “Not here, the kitchen.” Twilight nodded and got up to follow me, Spike moved past us, “Comfort her, please. And do not come into the kitchen until we tell you it's okay.” He nodded and sat down next to Shy and started rubbing her back.

“So what happened?” Twilight asked.

“This, this is what happened.” I pulled out the head, she gasped in shock, and placed it gently on the counter.

“Is that? Is that my… is that her?”

“Yeah, it even has your exact sme-wait… there's another scent underneath it.” I sniffed around the head, much to Twiggy’s dismay and located the source of the other scent, a familiar scent. I stuck my fingers in its mouth and felt around until I found what I needed to.

“Chris, what are you doing?!”

“I… oh no… no no no… not him too.” I said looking at the thing in my hand.

“Chris, what are you talking about?” She asked, I looked at her and set the thing down on the counter. It was an eyeball with a reptilian slit and an emerald green iris. “Spike… no…” She broke down in tears and collapsed onto the floor.

I bent down to help her relax, “Hey, hey calm down, it’s not our Spike, he’s in the living room helping Shy.”

She looked at me, with rage and hurt, “It doesn’t matter if it's our Spike or not, it's still Spike! Its still my son!”

I looked at her and blinked, “Oh… I never knew you saw him as your son, a little brother sure but.”

Twilight also blinked and realized what she said, “I guess, I guess I never fully realized it either, but I raised him since he was a baby even if I did have help.”

“I understand, I really do, but you need to hold onto it this time please. I'm doing my best to hold in my rage right now, it’s the most difficult thing I’ve ever had to do but I need you to help me be stable, please.”

She nodded and wiped her eyes, “Okay, I can do that, did you read the note yet?”

I shook my head, “No, I was more worried about Shy at the moment but now is as good a time as any.” I snaked my tail up to the head and grabbed the note. As I unraveled it I noticed the scent it was mine, of course it was, “The note reads, ‘If you want to see her again then come to White Tail Plains tomorrow, when the sun is at its highest point, if you don’t you’ll have missed the last chance to save her or ever see her ever again. Otherwise I will kill her and drop her head at the door like I did this one.’”

I felt something in me nearly snap, the entire cottage was nearly destroyed by the amount of power I was putting out, the only thing that was holding my pure rage back that there was a chance at saving my daughter, “I'm going to kill him. I’m going to kill him as many times as it takes, whatever it takes.”

Twilight however noticed the darkness billowing from her friend, her brother, and for the first time in a long time she felt the beginnings of true fear. But as soon as the darkness appeared it faded.

I took a deep breath and calmed myself as best as I could, “Twilight, I’m not waiting for tomorrow, I can’t.” I spread my wings, burst through the roof and took off towards the location until I met face first with a lavender barrier. It didn’t hurt but the surprise stunned me, I turned around and glared at Twilight, “What do you think you’re doing?”

“Stopping you from rushing into a trap.” She retorted, “You think he wouldn’t expect someone, anyone to come rushing after him after doing something like that?” I stayed silent so she continued, “Look, I understand you’re angry. I’m angry, furious in fact, but if we rush in without a plan then we’ll all end up like… her.” She gestured back towards her doppleganger’s severed head.

“I. Don’t. Care. He, it, has my daughter. I can’t let that stand.” I snarled out.

“And I get that, but what good would rushing in and dying do for her?”
I thought about what she said for a moment before sighing and landing back in the kitchen with a heavy thud, “Fine what do you have in mind?”

She took a relaxing breath, “Okay, good, first we need to make sure Fluttershy is okay, catch them both up to speed, and then I can go over my plan with all of you.” I nodded and we both made our way into the living room, not before a sharp pain ripped through my skull, only for a second though.

-Deep in Chris’ subconscious-

Thicker and thicker cracks formed in the white door, letting out black light. Behind it all you could hear laughter so cold, so malicious that it would scare the devil himself. The area around the door too tainted into the same inky black as the white and it began to spread.

The spirit that resided within this place was trying their best to hold it back. She couldn’t warn her friend, her successor, of what was going on as it took all the concentration she had to even hold back this amount. But whatever was happening out there was giving more and more power to the darkness beyond the door and she feared one more push too great would be beyond her power to hold it back and god help whoever stood in his way when that happened.

-The next day at the allotted time and place-

Fluttershy walked into the clearing, eyes icy and devoid of love for the being she was staring at. The love of her life, the person she gave everything to and got everything from, was grinning at her, ear to ear, eyes full of nothing but pure malice and yet there was joy behind it too.

“Ah, so you came, I didn’t think you’d have the nerve after I slaughtered all your friends.” He said, his voice cold and hollow.

“They were your friends too.” She spit out.

He rolled his eyes, “Please they stopped being my friends ages ago, honestly they were never my friends and neither were you.”

Tears welled up in her eyes as she screamed at him, “Thats not true! We all loved you, I loved you! We would’ve helped you no matter the obstacles!”

The corrupted version of Chris snarled, “No, you wouldn’t have. None of you would have, once you saw that I was tainted the only thing you held in your hearts for me was fear and disgust. Just like everyone else in my life! You all betrayed me! And you know what, I wasn’t even surprised by it! I knew it would happen but so soon? After I saved you all from Sombra too!”

“You killed Sombra, you didn’t have to the Crystal Heart would have-” SHe started but was cut off by a spike of ice embedding itself in the ground next to her.

“Would have what? Dispersed him? Only for him to come back at some later point, like every villain in these kinds of cliches? No, I wasn’t going to let that happen, I was going to protect you all no matter what!” He yelled back at her.

“It wasn’t the fact that you killed Sombra, it was the fact that you kept killing anything and anyone who posed a threat. We could have talked them down, converted them. Twilight believed we could, so we all believed we could!” She tried reasoning with him.

“And that would’ve been a foolish mistake on all of your parts, I did you all a service and got rid of the villains and the bad guys.” He stated calmly.

“And in turn you created the worst villain in history. But you don’t have to be anymore.” She tried more and more.

“Pfft yeah, I’m the villain for protecting my family, but what does it matter, you and this…. Offspring of mine will reject me anyways.” He said holding up a battered and bruised Golden Skies by the neck. She was wearing nothing but rags and had cuffs on her wrists and ankles, a collar on her neck. Each one had chains dangling off of them.

Fluttershy gasped, “Golden Skies!” She called out for her child, “Please give me my baby back, please come back to us, I promise we won’t leave you we’ll help you, please!”

He smiled an evil smile, “No… No, I don’t think so. You know I was going to give her back to you if you groveled for your life and hers, but instead you lied to me, again. So I think I’ll kill her and you both and be rid of my past life forever and start anew.” He held Golden Skies up higher, gripping her neck tighter.

Before he could squeeze any tighter something slammed into him like a bullet from above sending him into the ground and sending Golden Skies flying to which she was gently caught in a lavender aura and lowered to the ground.

She looked around confused until she saw her aunt and Spike standing next to her mother. She ran over to them and cried, “He… he said he killed you both…”
Twilight looked down at her… other niece, “He did, we aren’t from this Equestria, it’s a long story but we’re here to help.”

Golden Skies looks at everyone, Spike giving her a reassuring smile and her mother getting to her knees and holding her, “I missed you so much sweetie.”

Golden Skies returns the hug, burying her head in her chest, “I missed you too mommy, daddy was so mean and scary.”

Fluttershy shook her head, “That wasn’t your daddy, not anymore.” Golden Skies was about to ask some questions until the ground started to rumble and exploded out from where her dad was.

“WHO DARES STRIKE THE GOD OF THIS WORLD?!” He roared out as dust and debris settled.

He looked around until his eyes fell on a familiar yet strange sight, himself. No, who he was before.

“I dare, you poor copy.” I said, finally getting a good look at this horrid version of myself. He looked nearly identical. The major differences being his skin was pale gray, his eyes were both inky voids with yellow irises, and he didn’t have wings. He had seemed to only reach his tail evolution.

“Wha- Oh, oho and who or what are you?” He said casually, though curiosity was in his voice.

“God, are you stupid as well as ugly?” I said, not hiding any of the hatred in my voice, “I'm you, but better, not this corruption.”

“Corruption? Please, I’m the perfect version of who we are. Unbound, free from the trivialities of fear and worry of betrayal.” He said off handedly.

“Yeah, by killing everyone. Our friends, our family, everyone! And I can never forgive that!” I screamed out.

“Please like I need your forgiveness. I’ve found true freed-” A fist slammed into his cheek, though it didn’t do much. Nega-Chris laughed, “Ha, is that really all you can do?” His hand wrapped around mine and he tossed me into the forest, slamming through trees and boulders.

How the hell was he so strong? He’s at a lower evolution than me, and I planted him into the ground earlier. As these thoughts went through my mind I felt something slam in my stomach knocking the wind out of me and sending me flying further.

“So I bet you’re wondering what happened since you firmly planted me in the ground earlier.” I heard a voice coming from the left of me. I turned my head and saw him running next to me, and he seemed to be doing it easily. “You seem to be in a further evolution than me, wings huh? A bit unfair but it doesn’t matter.” He shrugged it off and disappeared from view.

I didn’t need to wonder where he went for too long as I felt a leg plant itself firmly in my back, “Ice Dragon’s hammer.” His voice calmly said, and I was sent speeding back towards the clearing faster than I was sent away. I crashed into the ground, a mound of dirt and stone piling up in front of me as my face was digging into the ground.

“Hmm, though it doesn’t seem the evolutions matter if you can’t….” He chuckled, “No, I won’t spoil that for you. I’d rather you deal with it as it comes.” He said before gasping, “Oh wait, no you won’t be alive for that, so no answers for you then.” He picked me up out of the ground by one of my horns turning me to look at him.

“I can’t believe what a weakling I used to be, with that strength they will all die, wherever you came from.” He said matter-of-fact.

“Whatever, its more than enough.” I coughed out, looking at him out of my one good eye, “And guess what.”

“Wha-” He started to ask until I slammed my tail into the side of his head, catching him off guard enough to let me go and I used the one advantage I had, my wings, and I took off into the air.

“Wings are really god damn fucking useful!” I shouted at him. Fuck, he’s strong stronger than me by a good margin, I knew none of my attacks would land and well… shit there wasn’t much he could do but damnit, “I have to try.” I inhaled as much air and ambient magic as I could, my torso distending larger than ever, “Hyōryū no-!” Then he flashed in front of me, my eyes widened but I took the chase at the closer blast, “Hōkō!” I unleashed my full power onto this fake, the blast shook the heavens and even on the ground trees were being uprooted and sent flying miles away, everyone else only managed to stay in the area because Twilight put up a barrier.

Before the mist and fog died down I felt a hand wrap around my throat I grasped at his hand to no avail, “That was a good shot, I honestly can't even absorb it because it's technically my own magic. Smart, however.” His yellow eyes flashed through the mist, followed by his face sporting a venomous grin, “Not good enough.” He threw me to the ground then I felt an immense pain pierce my stomach and wings. I screamed, the pain unbearable, I even felt something running down my head, it was warm. I reached a hand up and felt that one of my horns was missing, I brought the hand back to my face, my fading vision only seeing red.

“Oh… that's… not…. Good.” I wheezed out. Then the pain in my stomach got worse as I felt the spike get pushed in further.

“Oh look at that! You’ve been impaled.” He said with a laugh, standing on the flat end of the spike, “Well that was fun, now, as much as I’d love to see you die slowly, I don’t need a hero’s comeback.” He held out a hand, a sword of black ice forming in his hand.

Then he got hit in the back of his head by a ball of fire, “Leave my brother alone!” Spike yelled out. Nega turned his head, still engulfed in fire, to look at the young drake.

“Spike what are you doing?” Twilight said worried and surprised.

“Protecting our family, he’s still an Ice dragon, he’s still weak to heat.” Spike said firmly.

Nega let out a thunderous laughter, “Oh please, I fixed that weakness years ago, now… SIT DOWN AND WATCH!” He yelled, throwing the sword into the drake’s leg, causing him to fall backwards and write in pain.

I held out a hand and wheezed, “N-No!”

“Spike!” Twilight yelled out, running over to him, dropping the barrier around Golden Skies and Fluttershy, “How dare you, you monster! He’s your family!”

“And I killed him once and I’ll do it again, same to you.” He said coldly, “So if you want any chance at survival, keep your mouth shut!”

“How could I?!” She started.

“TWILIGHT!” I yelled out as best as I could.

“But-!” She saw the look in my eyes and it told her enough, “But… Chris…”

“It’ll be fine... I promise, just get… get out of here and… make sure that this never hap...pens in any other time, please.” I coughed more, blood flying out of my mouth.

Nega smiled, glad he’s finally getting his way, “Good, you’ve accepted your death, perfect.” He once again formed a black ice sword and pointed it down at me, “Do you have any last words?”

I coughed and smiled, “Yeah… I-I didn’t… get my spaghetti-o’s… I-I got spaghetti…”

He looked confused but shrugged it off, “Whatever, let’s just end-” A ball of snow hit him in the face, “Oh what now?!”

The one who threw the snowball, I turned to look and my eye went wide, my heart dropping, well as much as it could with ya know… half of it being kinda gone, “N-NO!”

Nega laughed, “You? You?! Really? Oh that’s rich.”

Golden Skies was crying, snowing dripping out her hand, “L-Leave my daddy alone!” Her voice shook with fear and determination. Fluttershy looked horrified, what had she just done?

Nega rolled his eyes, “I should’ve killed you when I had the chance.” In his other hand he sent a spike flying at her, it went by in slow motion in front of my eyes but I’ll never be able to forget it. Fluttershy jumped in front of her daughter but it didn’t matter it pierced both of their chests, a hole left in its place as they dropped to the ground, dead.

In that moment a door broke inside Chris’ mind, and the world went black.

-Twilight’s POV-

I looked in horror as I watched one of my best friends and my niece get killed, I could’ve stopped it, I could’ve done anything but I was too caught up in making sure Spike was okay. Oh, Spike, how was he handling this? She looked down to her lifelong assistant, her son and he was weeping, he was broken. From the pain in his leg yes, but more so the pain in his heart.

I couldn’t stand this any longer. I had to do something, anything! I stood up after making sure Spike would be fine and turned to confront this- What was happening?

In the spot where Chris and his evil self were at there was nothing but an inky black pool and Evil Chris was off in the distance at the edge of the black pool.

“What? What is that?” I heard him ask, “You!” He said looking directly at me, “What is this? What is going on?!”

I stammered out an excuse, “I-I don’t know, I’ve never seen this. Didn’t you do this to him?”

Before he could get out an answer a massive black hand shot out of the pool and grasped at the edge of it, followed by another and slowly the pool shrunk as a body rose from it, being lifted by the two gigantic arms. The being that came from it would’ve been unrecognizable if it weren't for the hole in its stomach that I only caught a glimpse of until it completely sealed up.

Chris… or whatever this was was completely black, no… not balck, a void, you could see that he was there but it looked like any light that came into contact with him just stopped existing so it was more like a hole in space and time. He still had horns but there were now 6, 3 on each side of his head, sharp spines ran down his back and tail, which ended into a deadly axe shape, His arms and legs were longer and thicker and ended in terrifyingly jagged claws that seemed to have some sort of black fire emanating from them. And his wings weren’t wings anymore, they were the giant arms that pulled him out of that black abyss. But the worst things were his eyes, those flaming red eyes I swear I will see in my nightmares for years to come, there was no light in them, no love, no anything, just death. And then he opened his mouth which was accompanied by what sounded like tearing flesh.

I thought it couldn’t get any worse and then he roared, it sounded like metal being ripped to shreds, it shook me to my core. I looked over to Spike and there was fear for his life in his eyes, and I have never seen that look in another living being until today, and I could tell that I had that same look when he glanced over at me. We both knew that whatever this thing was would kill everything in its path.

That thing breathed slowly, its breaths long and drawn out as mist from what I could only guess was heat meeting cooler air seeped out, or maybe it was reversed. I never wanted to be close enough to find out. The same voidlike blackness was dripping from his mouth, hitting the ground and then immediately crawling back onto his body.

His head title to the left and looked at us. I froze on the spot, hoping to every god that existed it wouldn’t come after us, but there was some sort of recognition in his eyes, almost a sadness. Then it tilted it’s head to the right and looked at Evil Chris and the look in its eyes changed completely, the sadness was gone, the death was back but it was fueled by seething rage and hate.

Once more it roared, this time loud enough to decimate any nearby boulders, some the size of houses. Evil Chris looked almost as scared as we did but he was still confident, “What are you supposed to be huh?” He asked the thing, it didn’t answer, “No response, so what are you? Just some mindless beast? Some primal will to live?” He raised his hand but it was quickly grabbed by the thing, faster than any of us could register faster than even when he raced rainbow, to the point where until I blinked I swear he was still in the spot he was just at.

Evil Chris Looked surprised but smirked, “Faster? Oh well now this will be fun but unfortunately.” His smirk disappeared, “I do not enjoy being grabbed.” In his only hand he formed a sword and stabbed it into the things chest, stabbing straight through his back.

The thing roared and let go of Evil Chris and he smiled as he jumped back a few feet, “See you aren’t so tough.” The thing looked down at the sword in its chest and tilted his head before the sword slowly began to be swallowed by the darkness, leaving nothing in its place, not even a wound.

That roar from being stabbed wasn’t in pain it seemed, it was out of surprise, this one was out of anger. The thing reached out one of the large hands that sprouted from its back and Evil Chris jumped further back out of its reach but the hand followed after him and quickly grabbed him, crushing him in its grip. Evil Chris groaned in pain.

“W-What?!” He thrashed around but he was unable to escape, “Damn it, damn it! ICE DRAGON’S IRON MAIDEN!” He yelled out, spikes pierced through the giant hand holding him, which once again surprised the thing and caused it to drop the evil doppelganger. And once again the ice spikes were swallowed up and no wounds were left.

“W-WHAT ARE YOU?!” Evil Chris yelled out once more, backing away as far as he could in the time he had, fear evident in his voice. The thing looked at him and started to make his way towards him, “No no no… this… this can’t be happening.” He inhaled, “Hyōryū no Hōkō!” A swath of snow and ice shaper than the sharpest razors rushed towards the thing, but it just unhinged its jaw and swallowed it all, not slowing down in the slightest.

Evil Chris looked around in desperation, looking for anything, something that he could do, any idea and then he had a look of revelation before once more smiling as if he’d won. He placed his hands on the ground and a black mass poured into the ground, “Shadow Dragon’s Black Hole!” The darkness raced towards the Thing and as soon as it touched the massive hand that was on the ground it started to swallow it.

I couldn’t believe my eyes, it took everything that was thrown at it but it was being swallowed up, just like that. It took a couple of seconds but then the thing was gone and I sat there in shock, Spike sat there in shock. Even the Evil Chris was in shock and then he started laughing.

“I knew it! Nothing can escape the Black Hole, not even that monster!” He took a deep breath, as if he was holding it the entire time and then he looked in our direction and made his way over, “And now for you two and I will be rid of this once and for all.”

I looked up at him and stood in front of my son, “Do whatever you want to me, but let him live.”

He scoffed, “No, I don’t think I will. Now I shouldn’t ask this, but any last words?”

I was about to say something but movement from his shadow caught my eye and then… it was back, that thing, coming from his shadow and forming directly behind him. He noticed the look in my eyes and the direction they were pointing, “No…” He said quietly before quickly turning around only to have the lower half of his head grabbed by one of the huge hands.

There were now tears streaming down Evil Chris’ face, he couldn't believe something like this was happening, was real but here it was and he knew it was his own doing and yet he still asked the same thing he did every time, although muffled you could still make it out, “What are you?”

The thing got close to his face and smiled, something I didn't think it could do but I will never forget it as long as I live and then it opened its mouth and roared the only word it ever spoke.

“VOOOOOOOOIIIIIIIIIIIDD!!!!!!!!!”

With the sickening sound of ripping flesh and breaking bone his head was torn clean off his body and tossed to the side, his body followed shortly. I almost threw up, Spike almost threw up, but we didn’t, we couldn't. We were too afraid that it, Void, would turn its attention on us. Luckily it didn’t, unfortunately it let out another roar and started to rampage looking for something to turn it’s ire one. I didn’t know what to do, so I let it happen, I let it rampage for what seemed like hours but in reality was only minutes, the woods were devastated but the clearing was mostly fine. Then it saw the corpses of Fluttershy and Golden Skies once more and it stopped and just stood there in front of them.

It’s mouth was dripping that black ink again, was it drooling, was it going to eat them? No, no I looked closer, as best as I could and those drops of inky black were coming from its eyes, it was crying. That’s when I remembered, this was still Chris, still my brother, still my friend. I walked over to him and tentatively put a hand on his back, Spike even managed to hobble over and get to the other side of him and do the same.

“It’s okay Chris, it’s okay, we’re here. You still have us, and everyone back home. Remember them okay?” I felt tears running down my cheek now too, “I know this hurts, even if they weren’t ours they were still them and it hurts to see this happen. But we have to get back home. We have to stop Starlight to stop this timeline from ever happening. Please, come back to us.”

“Come on dude, this isn’t you, you’re stronger than this, you’re still my big bro, the Chris I know wouldn’t be beaten by this especially if he knew how to fix it and you do, so snap out of it, please.” Spike added.

Us two being there and speaking to him seemed to have helped as he let out a wail of sorrow before the inky blackness dripped off of him, leaving the same Chris that we knew and loved in its place, his other horn being restored and no holes in his wings or torso, though his wings were smaller now, I guess whatever this was regulated the excess magic he said made his wings huge.

-Chris’ POV-

I sobbed for god knows how long but Spike and Twilight were there and it helped but I still felt this void in my heart and soul, but it wasn’t as bad as it was. I knew that I had my family waiting for me and I knew, or at least hoped this timeline would disappear once Starlight was taken care of.

“Starlight.” I spit out with as much malice as anyone could feasibly muster and then some.

“Yeah we have to stop her.” Spike said.

“But first why don’t we give them a proper burial.” Twilight said but I just shook my head.

“No, it won’t matter this timeline will be erased, they’ll get a proper burial back home but right now we have a unicorn to stop.” I said definitely, angrily, hatefully.

The Alicorn and Drake looked at eachother with worry, “If you say so, let me just fire up the spell.” Twilight said, her horn glowing and a worm hole opening up sucking the trio in, leaving the corpses on the battlefield to fall to nature.
Once we landed in the past I looked for Starlight but couldn’t find her, but I couldn’t smell her. I quickly spun around and grabbed her by the throat with my tail, “Not this time.”

“W-What?!” She croaked out.

“No more of your games! I’m sick and tired of them!” I yelled, my grip tightening around her throat.

“L-Let me… g-go!” She yelled hoarsely, magic gather in her horn until she let out a blast of raw magic to my face, it stung I won’t lie but I was done playing.

I pulled her close to my face, “I. Said. No. More.” I growled, baring my teeth, “Because of you we’ve been thrown through time and space over and over again, each new time we get sent into is increasingly worse than the last. Nightmare Moon, Chrysalis, Sombra, Discord, The Flim Flam Brothers, Tirek, and myself. I watched my sister’s head delivered to my door step. I watched my wife and daughter get murdered in front of my own eyes while I laid bleeding out on the ground from a hole in my chest due to an evil version of me who I then proceeded to rip his head off. I AM DONE!” I roared, shaking the sky. I felt a tap on my shoulder and saw Twilight looking at me.

I sighed and loosened up my grip so she could breathe but I still wasn’t letting her go, “You look like you don’t believe me, I want you to open up a wormhole right now send us into the future because the race is already disrupted and this time you’re coming with.”

“And if I don’t?” She asked smugly.

With no hesitation from myself and with all the dead seriousness of cancer, “I will rip your fucking flesh from your face, feed it to you, and watch you die here in the past. I will have no care or emotion about it either.”

Her eyes darted to Twilight and I could tell just from Starlight’s face that even Twilight didn’t know if I was serious or if she could stop me. So instead of taking that chance she nodded and opened a wormhole to the future.

When we landed this time, the world was a barren wasteland. I couldn’t see magic anywhere, I couldn’t smell any life, there was nothing, I tossed her to the ground, “Do you see what I mean, you messing with the timeline causes nothing but pain and death, eventually the end of the world.” I said coldly.

“No, no… there is no way six ponies can be that important!” She screamed defiantly.

I looked at her baffled and Twilight was about to speak but I slammed my tail on the ground, silencing her, “You can’t believe it? Look at Spike his leg is a fucking mess. You don’t think the fucking ELEMENTS OF HARMONY could be important? What the fuck is wrong with you, they are the literal embodiment of harmony you egomaniacal bitch! If they don’t get their cutie marks the world ends what's so hard to understand about that?!”

She scrambled to her feet and glared at me, “But that’s absurd!”

“Absurd? ABSURD?! This entire world is fucking absurd! It’s full of fucking mythological creatures and runs off of friendship and hugs! And you think 6 ponies being the end all be all fate of the planet is absurd?! There is a literal GOD of Chaos! I come from a different world altogether, I was brought her by a fucking magic wish granting dying ice dragon, who’s spirit resides in my fucking head. I’m a human who at this point is more dragon than human and THAT’S what's absurd to you? That friendship is the savior of friendship planet? What the hell happened to you to make you so fucking stupid?” I questioned her, baffled at the complete, well, absurdity of it all.

She was seething at this point, “S-STUPID?! Fine you want to know what happened to me?! Then I’ll show you!” Her horn glowed and another wormhole opened, this time we were dropped out in a small village outside of what looked like a library.

“Look in there, that’ll give you the answers you’re looking for.” She said, panting in exhaustion.

Twilight and I both Looked into the building to see what looked to be a young Starlight and some orange unicorn colt studying magic books. Suddenly the colt’s eyes started glowing as he levitated in the air with books swirling around him. As quickly as it started it stopped and he now had a cutie mark. Young starlight screamed in joy for her best friend which caught the attention of everyone in the library, how they missed a floating child I don’t know but they did. The ponies in the library picked up the colt like it was his bar mitzvah and carried him out the door towards the center of town.

“That was my best friend, Sunburst, this is the day he got his cutie mark and the day I last heard or saw him.” She explained, “It broke my heart, I vowed to never let a cutie mark take someone away from anyone ever again.”

Twilight and Spike nodded in sympathy and I just facepalmed, “Did he die?” I asked, benefit of the doubt and all that.

“What?” Starlight asked, surprised by the question.

So I repeated myself, “Did. He. Die?!”

She stumbled back a bit, “N-No, last I heard he was some big shot wizard in Canterlot.”

I took in a deep breath and turned to my sister in law, “Twilight please take us into a time pocket or something, right now, please.” She did as I asked and we were now floating in between space and time. I then took this opportunity to once again grab Starlight by the throat, with my hand this time as ice started to form on her neck. She looked terrified, good, she should be.

“So you’re telling me. Despite how good you are with planning a literally time heist, how smart you seem to be you didn’t take the time to write him a DAMN LETTER?!” I roared, the ice creeping up her chin.

“H-He didn’t….wr-write me… either…” She managed to get out.

“That is besides the point, you said he’s a big shot wizard right?! Maybe he didn’t have the time in his busy schedule maybe he got swept up in things, so fucking what? You weren’t a filly forever you could’ve taken literally any time in your obviously oh so not busy life to go visit him or again WRITE A GODDAMNED LETTER! I SUFFERED PAIN RACKING MY BODY, WATCHING MY HOME GETTING TORN TO PIECE BY VILLAIN AFTER VILLAIN AND MY OWN FLESH AND BLOOD BEING SLAUGHTERED BY A WARPED VERSION OF MYSELF JUST BECAUSE YOU COULDN’T BE A BIG GIRL FOR 5 FUCKING MINUTES?!” I squeezed tighter and tighter, the ice creeping up her face, now below her eyes, her breathing coming out in shivering, shallow breaths, “Give me one, one, good reason I should freeze your head solid and shatter it like glass right now!” She opened her mouth to answer but no sound came out.

I felt a tapping on my shoulder and turned my head to look at who was interrupting me to see a terrified Twilight, “Chris, please, you aren’t like him, don’t make the same mistakes.” She said quietly.

I looked at her, then at my hand, then at Starlight, she was crying and afraid. I snarled and let go, dropping her to… well there’s no real group here so just dropping her I guess, “Whatever, Twilight, rehabilitate her or whatever, I don’t care. But, if she comes anywhere near me or my family I will rip her head off.”

I moved away from them to calm down and I could hear Starlight coughing and gasping for air, +Well that was dramatic, are you okay?+ Ixis asked, her voice sounding in my head for the first time in some time.

‘And where have you been?’

+Honestly? Trying to keep Wrath from getting out.+

‘Fine job of that.’

She snorted, +Someone’s grumpy but I get why. And if you’re referring to that thing you became, Void, was it? That wasn’t Wrath. I don’t really know what it was. Normally when Wrath Takes over I’m shoved deep into you subconscious but I’m still there, it’s why I’m eventually able to pull you back out. But Void, it was like I didn’t exist, like Wrath didn’t exist. Though, at the same time it felt I was you. I don’t know what it was, if I can find out more on it I’ll let you know.+

I grumbled, ‘Thanks.’

+You’re welcome, in other news Wrath’s door is closed again, but it has cracks in it but he seems… dormant. I have no idea what that means. But I don’t think he’s locked in there anymore so we need to be careful.+ She warned me.

‘Got it, anything else?’

+Your magic is balanced out, that’s why your wings aren’t as big, the downside being you can’t use frozen time anymore nor are you as fast. Upside being you’re stronger and more durable, oh and you can still fly, so even trade I guess.+

‘Totally even, the ability to freeze time and insane speed traded off for more strength and durability, totally fair.’

She rolled her eyes, again I could just tell, +Don’t be so grumpy, you’ll get it back at some point.+

I just grunted, not wanting to continue this conversation, “Oi, can we go home? I want to see my wives and daughter!” I yelled out to them.

“Wives?” I heard Starlight ask.

“None of your business!” I yelled back out.

“He can hear me?!” She whispered.

“Yeah, he can hear a lot apparently. But yes it’s time to go home Chris.” Twilight said.

“Good. Let’s get this over with, Spike when we get back you wanna go for some sapphire cupcakes?” I asked the younger dragon.

He smiled, “As long as you’re paying.”

I smiled back and laughed, “My wife’s the chef I don’t need to pay… well not money anyways.”

He decided to not acknowledge that, smart. “Then we’ve got a deal.” And with that my adventure through time and space was done…. At least this time.

Author's Note

So, once again it has been a looong time. I'm sorry, life and all that I don't wanna bore you with details. I also didn't want to put out anymore chapters until I had this arc done. Writers block and life tends to get in the way of things like that. Don't worry I'm going to keep writing this for as long as I can when time permits. This story is my baby. I have big plans for it and I want to thank those who are going to stick with it the entire time even when this fandom is long dead. So to you all who are still around, thank you, I love you and your support, keep on being awesome.