Universe of Mineby Emperor_AmariaChaptersPrologueChapter 1: The BoundariesChapter 2: Among The Trees ShadowPrologue"What's that?" I asked my wife, surprise face plastered in my face. "The glitch of error, Your Majesty, timelines reported unusual anomaly in your Universe." "Anomaly thingy? Hey, but its kinda cool, look at those stars!" I exclaimed, interuppting the scientist and flying closer to the edge of spaceship, making her jump and shot me a death glare. There were coffee spills scattered on the floor, a result from my jumpscare. All of my scientists looked up from their desk and computers, annoyance clear in their face. Some were smiling at me. "Whoops, sorry guys! Just too excited!" I yelled at them. "Oh, Mosy! Can you a bit more serious here?!" She yelled. "Fine by me, Dear. You told me that this glitches might be a threat to our dimension, I don't see anything so scary. Relax, its not like we are going to war again with those assholes. Just give me a coordinate, I will check it myself." I told her, nuzzling her rather passionately behind the neck to show my point. "Your Highness, you make your subjects feel useless. Just let them take care of this. You need some relaxation, you dont even care with your health. Just please, lower it a bit...." She looked at me with those beauty of nature her eyes emmited. "Well, I'm their ruler too, hon. They have to respect my choices." I sat down beside her, nipping her ears playfully. Turning my head, I faced my guards. They were the creatures that stood upon four legs, had a muscles, like my wife and I. But they didn't have both of wings and horn, or even didn't have those two at all. "...and you. Can you fetch my spaceship? I'll go to the Milky Way, out of all galaxies this one is always be the center of problems." I gave them an order. "Shall I contact Emperor Galaxy first, Your Highnesses?" One of them pointed a hoof to the computers, the others murmured with aggrement between my wife and the phone. "Hmm, m'kay. Make sure you contact Navven in the Earth, I want to talk about Libra." "You just concerned about those lovebird, isn't? Your majesty, Libra is a teenager, so does our Zodiacs. Just give them a space." The Empress ran her hoof between her glowy hair, winking a bit at her lovely husband. "Guess you right..." I turned my head, "All dismissed! And one more....... don't call me with those royal titles again. I much prefer my very own names." "Sir, yes sir!" All of my crew headed toward the main hall, chatting and laughing, leaving me with the most wonderful mare from all Universe of mine. She bit her lips nervously before stood up and slumped a bit on the floor. She sighed, "Your Maje--" "You too, My Lady." "Cosmos, are you sure about this? This anomaly is very unusual. What if you are ended up in another timelines?" "Then, I will consider it a wondrous vacation." I grinned before sticking out my tongue to her. "Nebula, its not like I am going to die. Ponies like us didn't know ages, they cheated death." I trotted up to the large window, watching my Imperials with its glorious splendor. Suns, mons, asteroids, and stars, my children. Zodiacs is my children, we raised them when they were only an infant. Oh, they were the cutest things I saw.... They were the embodiment of stars formation in space, just like me and my wife. Except, I am the the body of Unverse itself, while she was a maiden from the Ink, Nebula. Her magic that surrounded her long, spiral horn had a sparkling orange auras, both wings were reddish feathers with wavy mane and tail. From the auras, I don't likely have to describe the colours of her eyes. Proud and her charisma would take down even the strongest stallion. She was my definition of perfect. Besides our children of course... I sighed and lay my body down to the floor, "We're not so different from them who inhabits another AU. Ponies sleep, ponies eat, and breath like them....why are you keep worrying about me?" "Well, I know our immortaly can help us a lot in battle. Our scents are animals so the other will not consider you a threat as soon as you come, just lets hope that glitch doesn't send you to another dimension." She looked at me with meaningful look. "Although, it might be one per thousand chance for you to come back safe." Her piercing orange eyes looked at my soul, making me shivered under her breath. I might have to describe my young body from this point. Just like others, I'm a pony creature with wings and spiral horn and tail. Distand cousin of horses they, inhabitants of outside 4th wall, said. Thin body covered with pale grey fur, all of it, except the tip of my wings. Light red mane and tail, and red irises. Ah yes, what do the kids say? Cutie mark? Well, I had a picture of galaxies tatto on my flanks. Neither my children nor Nebula's had a galaxy mark, they most likely had a stars mark or blue suns mark on their flanks. Our species were rare, almost miracle. But Gods don't sleep, luckily we had a powerful magic and capable of doing something impossible. But that was not an item of adoration mind you. That was not my point at all. In this world is safe or be saved, and all kindness with others. "Easy, I will be fine." "That time, when you came to Alpha Centauri. You almost gave me a heart attack, Cosmos. I thought you were trapped in that lava pit!" "Hey, I was just curious about the lava! No biggie." "What about when you accidentally crushed a blue star in the north of your realms? And broke the Coila Galaxy?" She raised an eyebrow. I glared at her, "Well its just an accident, beside that stallion was getting on my nerves." I puffed my chest proudly. "How about that time you almost created a black hole in Milky Way? Galaxy was very mad at that time." "I was just experimenting my powers! Seriously, I wanted to prove that mad scientist theory about balance." "What about this one, you threw..." "Okay, okay. I might be not really careful, but that doesn't mean I'm not care." I said with finality. "......whatever you said." She threw a disgust look to me and trotted up to the main hall, dragged her long wavy tail. "I just... uhh, I just want to think!" Nebula was having a bad time now, she didn't even looked at my eyes. This situation always made my heart broken with sadness and guilty feeling. I touched her face with my hoof, she looked at me, locking our eyes together in silence. The awful night was still hanging in the outside Realms, where life was still a mystery. The mere world wherever our eyes could see. Hugging her tightly, I felt old memories flooded in my mind, making a nostalgic atmosphere. I cooed her, murmured something nice and just hugged her again. She relaxed a bit, her muscles still tensed up upon my chest. I felt her deep, warm breath, so calming and inviting. "Dont be sad, Deary." I nuzzled her softly, "You make me sad too." "Mosy." I winced at my nickname, heh. Poor Lady, she had to survive this era, she had to suffered every second, every night, every years for me to come back. I know she was lonely, I know how our kids felt when their father was gone for Gods know where. For a moment, she felt so fragile, so weak and easily broken. But, I know she was really powerful, her claws hidden beneath her softest touch. "You using your charm again to me, young lady?" "Haha, took you long enough to realize, my lord." She nuzzled my soft fur. "Awww....." some off my crew's hearts melted with our affection. She hugged my waist and drew me closer. Yeah, this was a perfect family, this was my paradise. "Mosy, remember that one time we just a kids. You gave me a flower! Oh, your face was so red at that time!" "Nebula, don't you dare ruin the moment." "What about that, when you were trying to kiss me on the bath?" She wiggled her eyebrows. "No, Naby! Stop!" "Oh, I remember when you sucked---" "NOOO!!!" It was a gorgeous night-- despite the fact that his Realm, which was located in the outer space, was always night. A full stars formation drenched the Palace to the lusterless color of platinum, and late-blooming harvest flowers breathed into the motionless air aromas that were like low, half-heard laughter. The open Realms, carpeted for rods around with bright flowers, was translucent as in the day on Earth. it was almost impossible not to be affected by the sheer beauty of the nature. Almost. Cosmos was not a spiritual pony-- his esthetic sense was rudimentary. "Here, let me carry your bag." "Thanks, hon." Cosmos glanced at the stallion beside him, "Are you sure, thats not a glitch?" "Lord Cosmos, as much as I like to make trouble in my galaxy. this time, this is different, never happened yeah. Its like a black hole, screw that, an immense black hole." "Immense?" said another good-looking stallion, his eyes were green. "Oh Hell No!" "No swearing in this palace, please." Cosmos stood up from the floor, he came toward his old fellows. "Navven, r ya sure you wanna come with me?" "Meh. Galaxy's problem is my problem too, ya know. Because he rule Milky Way, and you know what Besties? MY WORLD IS INSIDE THAT DAMN GALAXY!" Navven breathed heavily, looking at Cosmos direction with a seepish face. "Well, no pun intended. Beside that, you're my friends." "Uhh....Shall we go now? I already contacted our children, sent em messages." Galaxy stared at the floor, suddenly attracted by its sparkling marbles. He rubbed his hoof behind his cyan mane, looked really uncomfortable. Far up the road the lights of thousand stars drifted into view. A nameless fear crawled toward their chill, decision was upon their hoofs, there was a sighing sound that crept persistently-- it might have been the rustle of the silver flowers under the stars. A mare got out, then an eldery gentle stallion, and there was Nebula, beautiful as sin. Galaxy and Navven bowed at once, in the presence of the Empress. The other mare was slender and frail, with hair was ashen under the moon and honey-colored under the sputtering gas-lamps of the Palace Lights. Her hoof were glittering like diamonds. That, of course was Alpha, Nebula's older sister, and Galaxy's wife. "Old fellows like me can't learn new stuff." The Elder observed profoundly, " It is you youngsters with energy and vitality that have the great decision before you." "Our stuff is ready in the spaceship, what we have to prepare now is our soul, the risk is great, are you ready to bear?" Determination passed over them, blood rose into their cheeks, their forehead, and there was a steady thumping in the ears. the decision, decision of life. They just hoped, if they ended up in another world, well it was not really bad. Just a vacation in the middle of nowhere. Alpha approached the little group. Reared in the old tradition, she bowed at Cosmos. "Boys?" "We're in." Unknown for them, another timeline was open to the world called Equestria. Because the fragment of the evil King Sombra still remained, they slowly undermine the boundaries between Equestrian's timeline with their own Universe. Let's just hope they didn't treat them like enemies, after all, what could possibly go wrong? Alicorns, yeah....that didn't matter, right? Boy, they were really wrong. Author's Note Heya there. If you get the references, wowiee..... You're a brilliant person....or pony. Chapter 1: The Boundaries"We approach the place, Your Highnesses." "Low the speed, will you?" "Very great, sir." The internal until the time for them to reach the far point of Milky Way should arrive dragged itself out interminably. Cosmos stood close to the wall, silent, inscrutable, watching with curious eyes the black hole that appeared on the screen as the thing sucked more and more light and planet mass. How incredibly big! the stars circeled near the glitch, its mass crushed beneath the very high gravitation. Blind with magic, he felt that this, was just a beggining of something terrible. His friends were as scared as him, watching with almost unblinking eyes the world that was so new to them. The far part of Milky Way, no one ever came there, even the owner. "Gosh, this is so dark." Galaxy exclaimed, fluttering his wings as a strange feeling began crawling on his back. Navven looked like he was about to faint at any time. his face pale, almost white, his hoof shivered badly, green eyes didn't blink, focused on the screen. "Navven, are you okay there, bud?" "N-no..." He whimpered, its looked like he was trying so hard not to release a blast of magic in the ship. His feathers was shaking, "Man, this is not good." "Report from Gala one, attention we approach the objects, locate the coordinates. 20000 KM from target, as scheduled." Cosmos staggered into the panel as the pressure began to very intense, more dead than alive as it seemed, and tried to stand up. He reached the control panel, and pressed the yellow button. "We take it from now on, Whiskers." "Ay, ay sir." The spaceship stopped in the space, hovering like dust with thousand other asteroids. The small part of it began to shake as a bolt of lightning shout out from the front part. The mechanical ready for their duties, the team leaders came from the lower part of the ship, they casted some magic. "12000 KM." The control room gave an instruction, they entered the gravity area. There was no light, everything was dark except the areas that surrounded the death hole. Everybody, even the pilots, looked in awe at the big hole that approach their spaceship. Good Lord! What a mess, what was that thing anyway? Nothing....nothing happened. Five minutes passed in silence... "9900,7 KM" The Black Hole drifted into their views, as the ship used its gravitation to come closer. And then... "5600 KM." Something was not right. "2000 KM." "Woahh..." The change of the distance between the ship and that death hole was very big. There was something wrong, they definitely went with the speed of light. The ship began to shake, as if it was just a mere warning, the alarm rang out. "880 KM." " Control! CONTROL! activate the anti-gravity field! Activate the anti-Gravity!" "Alright, sir." "690 KM." Oh, boy. They were so close... "There is no way we can avoid this!" Navven shrieked. "Boys, pull the switch!" Everyone looked at their fellow with horror expression, Cosmos stood there. He sweated almost an entire body, watching with unbelievable expression that their life would come to an end. He didn't want to being stuck in Ultrareality again, it was boring, and painful. He stumbled to the switch, "Whiskers....How?" "320 KM, sir." "Teleport the ship, as soon as we leave." "Alrig-- LEAVE? SIR!!" Galaxy prepared the backpack, as he and Navven readied their wings. If the Spaceship could not approach the object, then it would need something more simple and smaller to fix it without being crushed or dead. For that job, well, only them could manage the pressure. even if it cost their own life. "NOW!" zinnnngggggg The ship teleported with its glorious splendor, as three stallion bursted from the views, leaving the blank space and trails of dust. Navven casted a protection field as they flew with unpredictable speed. Their body was in pain, as the pressure racked the atoms and took the hell out of their eyes. blur and white, dark with light. Their vision started to blur and gone. They couldn't hear each other voice anymore, even if Cosmos sure they were shouting from the beggining. The timelines flashed between the eyes of ponies, as the boundaries were no longer could separated this wondrous worlds. Very hard to breath, inside the protection bulb. Without their immortality, who knows maybe they became a grilled meat of ponies. Or worse, As soon as Cosmos fell unconscious, he just knew one thing. "This is gonna be a damn-long vacation." BOOMM! AREA: UNKNOWN ..................TIP...BEP TRANSLATOR: READY Danger: Scanning in progress NONE/ Clear N43°38'19.39" "Ughh, my..." Red and green, they witnessed for the first time. The world was majestic with a river flowed near them, with hills and trees, covered with green grass. The sky above them was so pale blue, no clouds whatsoever, just sun projected in curious shadow and heat, giving them the strangest appearance conceivable. This new world was so unlike what they had anticipated, that for a moment they was terrified. "Holy Mother of nature!" Cosmos shouted. "Indeed. Its so charming." Navven stood immediately, looking around with curious eyes. His jaw was dropping as he looked behind them. There was an Apple trees wherever the eyes saw, and barn with a pony stood beside it. The afternoon sun penetrated the mass of honeysuckle that covered the trees, and fell on their upturned face. The air was so clear, as if this world had not been touched by dirty hovves. So nature, so majestic, what on earth was this all exist, the future they knew was very different. Ancient, you could say, but not outdated, if you know what I mean. "Its looks like The Earth." He finally said, "Nyeh...hehe.." Galaxy stumbled over, looking at his ruler. "So what do we do now?" "I don't know, its all different." The younger stallion answered, his feathers were sticking out of place. Neither him nor his friends knew why the boundaries were easily broken, for now they had a more serious problem. Their stuff was safe but their body still sour, having thrown at high speed until you feel your body being torn apart. "Can we, by any chances, go back to our Timeline?" "I'm afraid not, my friend. But we can try something at least." Cosmos trotted up with a splendid gallop, his mane was swinging furiously on his back. "After all!" He shouted, his voice almost lost in the wind. "Lets enjoy this vacation!" "He can never be serious, isn't it?" Navven whispered, looking directly at Galaxy as he started to flap his sour wings. "Mhmm, better than Alpha's madness anyway." After that statement, they decided to move on, packing their stuff on their side so that their wings were completely hidden under the bag. The two alicorns began galloping at the same speed, tried to catch up with their fellows. As the apple trees flashed in their memories. Birds were singing, their hooves lingered almost unconsciously on the foreign leaves and blossoms which had just come forth to greet the sweet southern spring. Far away in the South, was a bulding that looked like a school, for some fillies played next to it. They entered the edge of the barn, as the younger member of the trio spotted something. "Who is that?" In front of them, a grey pegasus was eating some cookies, she looked rather calm and fun pony, her eyes were wonderful orange shade. She looked like an odd pony, with bright blonde mane and tail. What a... "...perfect combination of colors." Navven murmured. They hid behind the bushes, with the tree shadows hide their bodies completely from the witnesses. He started to feel uncomfortably as he sat on the sharp branches. "Nothing different." Cosmos stated, then he looked at his friends, examining them. ".....except for her eyes." Galaxy pointed a hoof with a horror expression plastered upon his face. "She is talking with that things! What is th--mphhh!" "Galaxy, lower your voice." Cosmos leaned closer to the edge of the bushes, curiosity definitely had overpowered his fear. From what his vision saw, it was a mare, but not mare ponies. She had a black and white stripes all of her big body, and a goofy grin. Her flanks was big, and she have a lion-like tail, but in black and white strips. Kinda attractive for her kind, they thought. "That is a zebra." Answered Navven with a monotone voice, "Earth have many of 'em. Well, except they can't talk." The pegasus one was a delivery pony, Cosmos pointed at the letters she held with her hoof. Nothing too different from their origin, but of course, the Mother Nature must have another way. He had a very uncomfortable feeling about this sight. This ponies were talking at each other with a low voices, as if they were afraid being noticed by the others. But that was not the point, from how they were walking, their bodies from heads to tails. They could see it all because it was so, open. He realized something, ".......They don't wear clothes." ...... "......AHHHHHH!!!!!" There was a thud, followed by high-pitched girly screams, and broken branches. And a sound of broken bone? "NEED HOLY WATER!! BWAHH!" The pegasus, turned her head, gasped as she saw a group of young stallions blurted out from nowhere, screaming bad words and 'unknown' languages. Birds immediately flew from the trees branches, as the zebra took a good look from the strange sight. She walked closely, inspected them carefully. "Oh my, are you three okay?" "Bwa huh...?" Galaxy's head was spinning like crazy. Navven's hooves kicked his head hardly, as he tried to turn around from that awful scenes. Bad scenes, bad thoughts. Looks like he lost some of his witty from that hard collision, or brain cells, which he did not have. He apparently was an awful ruler, in Cosmos's opinion, didn't show any sign of care toward his lovely galaxy. Heh, he even named after that. No pun whatsoever. "What are young colts like you doing at this time? its too late." "uhh, Excuse us, M-madame." Cosmos stated, "We just get lost in this place." The Zebra stared at them with a confused look, as if they were growing a second head or something. "You, lost at Sweet Apple Acres? How is that even possible?" "Are you new?" the grey pegasus said for the first time, walked toward them. "M-maybe." Oh noo....Cosmos said to himself, don't you dare think something bad. You have freaking wife, Cosmos. Well, she definitely had a nice butt up there. The Zebra shoot them a glare, with stony face. She looked right through their souls, as if she was going to read their minds. Round and round, she inspected them like a rare diamonds. TAK.....TAK, her hooves that hit the hard ground sounded quite musical. "You call me Madame." She started, still staring at them. She leaned closely until her nose touched Galaxy's. For Galaxy, well, he suffered from the sight, cowered under her death glare. If looks could kill, they had been dead on the place. "What a nice gentlecolts you are." The mare smiled when she saw their terrified face, "My name is Zecora." Navven stood up carefully, avoiding eyes contact, their young Emperor was next, leaving Galaxy on the dirt path. His head was hurt, thanks to Navven's hyperactivity. "Thank you, Madame Zecora. My name is Cosmos, this....is my partners. Navven, the youngest. And that is Galaxy, he has a serious injuries I think." "I'm okay!" Galaxy muffled, still faceplanted at the ground. "Ditzy Doo." The pegasus waved her hoof, "Or you can call me Derpy." "My, MY.... What a mess, look at those feathers, out of place." She sounded very worried, wait. How did she know they had feathers? Cosmos immediately looked at his back, indeed, his suspicion comfirmed, their bags was still in the bushes. Fortunately their armors covered half of it, so it was just like a bumps from the distance. Zecora jaw-dropped, she spotted that they had pair of wings, not jut one pony. All of them! All of them, Good Heavens, they had horns and wings. This was too much to handle, what plans did the nature actually planned. Their princess should know about this, whether they were royalty, or just born in that way. She decided to keep her questions for later, after all, she didn't like to hear a same story again. So, why didn't she let the princess find out first? "Kids, come with me. Derpy, can you delivered this to Berry Punch? I really glad if you want." "Okie dokie, Zecouuraa. Don't forget the tip!" She dashed through the blue sky. Wingking at them, she disappeared from their sights. "Don't forget to come to Ponyville!" As Derpy gone, she turned her head toward the newcomers direction, smiling as she did so. "Now, You three. Three... Alicorns? Lor-a mussy-me! I must be dreaming a lot. Looks like the world has been messed up with us, don't you think?" She chuckled, "Y-yes, Madame." They packed their stuff, She trotted up between them with a proud face, signaling the boys to follow her. Looking at them in the deep twilight among the trees shadows, her mane flowed with ease under the strong wind. "Come, my children. Come and you shall see my sweet dark house." Chapter 2: Among The Trees ShadowThe sun set behind the opposite hills. The wind turned colder, with a scatter of rain, and in less than an hour it was dark. All color had faded from the sky: and although the crooked gate creaked slightly in the night wind (as though to insist that it had not dissapeared in the darkness, but was still firmly where it had been put). There was no pony to read the sharp, hard letters that cut straigh as black knives across its white surface. They said, REMAIN OF SOMBRA, BEWARE PONIES And a red paint under it, THEY WHO CHEATED DEATH, SHALL PAY FOR HIS CHAINED SOUL They shall end with the same fate as their fellow..... For unknown reason, the ground started to shake and shake. Deep red light emerged from its surface, transfering the magic energy, it seemed. Beneath it, stood a fearless creatures, as their purple eyes twinkled in the darkness of the majestic night. In the darkness and warmth of the house the trio woke up, staring at the outside world from the window, as the foreign world enveloped their minds. Their young conductress stood in front of the fire place, gathering as much heat as possible for her big body. It was silence, no sounds, only the sound of rain outside. The luminescent of the moonlight covered the dark house with a glint of light. Indeed, her house was in the Everfree forest, heard its name maybe could send you some chills down to your spine, experienced them, well, if you were not strong enough, that brain of yours would be melted with horror. There was starts, many of them, spreading like sprinkles of white chocolate. They made the moon shone much brighter, oh their determination, how awfully majestic, Cosmos numbly thought. Somehow, he thought, he knew that up there was his home. He knew that his lovely children was watching him out there, encouraging their father to be brave. He knew that his wife was waiting for his arrival. He just somehow knew, that his friends was very loyal to him. They would never betray him, they would never hurt a fly. But he somehow knew, that this time it was harder than before, as if someone was trying to block him and his friends, cutting their existense from their own world. "So," The zebra tried to break the silence, "You must be tired, my children. I made some muffins for you to eat, oh, and some Apple Ciders if you want." "Thanks," Navven answered, still looking around before his vision ended up at his friend's bandaged head, "How is your head, Galaxy?" "No broken bones, luckily." "Well, I had bandaged your head, with some of my herbals medicine. I ......just hope you feels better." Zecora ruffled his hair, smiling as she did so. She stared at the fire for a moment, the heat of fire twinkled at her large brown pupils. The shadow, they saw, had made her more bigger and scary than before. "You are not a threat, are you?" Cosmos, who still looked very sleepy on his bed, jolted awake as he heard that question. "Wha? no, of course not. It just a technical problem in our world. As soon as we g--" "Your world." She stated carefully. Zecora spun her head round, stared at Cosmos's eyes with curiosity. "Our world, not from this world." "You mean you aren't Equestrian?" Navven yawned, stretching his back hooves with pleasure of infinity, ahh.... finally. Home sweet home, before answered, "Equestrian? Who's that?" Zecora was very startled by his answer, she looking at him with unblinking eyes. "You. Don't know. Equestria?" "Uhmm, is that the name of this country? if it is then why yes, we don't know." Silence "What are you?" "Ponies." "No, I mean your kind!" "Alicorns." "NO! Just, ughh.....where are you from?!" "Another timelines." Why are you wearing clothes? Zecora thought. "Well, maybe because our customs were different. We seems fine with these armors." Zecora looked at Navven with that curious looks of her. "You said that out loud." He stated simply. The zebra slumped at the floor with a thud. She stared disbeliefly at her alien guests, as if she wanted to devoured them all or just simply turned them to ashes. My, my, she thought she was beginning to lose her mind. Three alicorns? Unbelivable, but princes? Celestia would become crazy about this. All of her peaceful life, this anomaly was the strangest she had ever seen. "Timelines?" "Different AU from your world, A U, Alternate Universe." Cosmos explained, "looks like you don't know much about time, Zecora." "Well, I don't know! Say, are you even born for royalty or just normal ponies in your world?" "Say, if I explain about us. Will you shut up?" "That's very rude of you, young man!" Zecora glared at Cosmos, "But if its what you want, I can't disagree. Procced." Cosmos jumped from the bed and settled himself next to the fire, he faced Zecora. "Then I shall tell you our world." "We, are alicorns. We are not commonborn, like what you had said before, but yes we are the ruler of our world. Royalty, in your word. As much as I want to hide our identity, I think that isn't very neccessary. Navven here, is the Emperor of Mardane, the Earth. Galaxy, Emperor of Time, ruler of Milky Way. Me, my name is Cosmos Galaxio, ruler of Universe as much as the embodiment of Universe itself, Ruler of Cosmos Empire, father of The Zodiacs." "Emperors?!" Zecora shrieked. "Now, my lady, rude or not, it is almost midnight. Can we go to sleep now? I promise I will talk to you later." "A-As you wish, Your Highnesses." "Ah Zecora, you don't have to address us like that." Galaxy winked. Zecora then walked silently to the door, she still had that somehow amused face. "As much as I like to know all of your story, where is my manner? You are my guests, gentlecolts. Goodnight." She turned the light off, the mythical aura seemed lingering above her. The guests didn't hear any sounds again. They fell asleep as soon as their head touched the soft, fluffy pillow. The sound of winds startled them to wake, it was nearly morning. Cosmos yawned, he rubbed his horn as he was trying to remember the last conversation. Heck, that mare was very takactive, he thought. But well, he was used into it, after all he had been through they always asked him the same questions. They, ponies or other creatures from another timelines, sometimes asked him about something very personal. Sometimes, they flirted with him. Sometimes, they approached him and almost made him out of his mind. All of that soft fur, Cosmos shuddered at the thought. But this world! They didn't even wear any clothes. The imagess! He decided to walk outside. "Mhhh, C-cosmos? What are ya doin'?" Navven streched his wings, he half-opened his right eyes slightly as he heard hoofsteps. "Going out, you wanna come buddy? Zecora probably make our breakfast." The tall stallion jumped and trotted up to the door. "Wake Galaxy." He ordered. His tail flowed as the wind blew right through the window. Soon, he dissapeared at the corner, it was silent once more. Morning sun shone brightly today, Navven sighed, another stallion next to him still didn't move, laying in perfect silent like a dead body. "Galaxy." Navven nudged his friend's horn slightly. He didn't move a bit. "Galaxyyy!" Navven screamed in the ear. He grabbed and yanked his feathers, not caring the amount of pain his friends might endure. And there he was, staring wide eyes to the pony who yanked his wings hard. "Awww OWw! Navven!" "S-sorry!" "First head, now this! What creature that possesed you, dude?" Navven rolled his eyes as he stood up, glaring at him. "C'mon, we have to leave. You don't want to go against Cosmos's order, will'cha?" "Relax, dude. its not like he will jump out of nowhere and startling us!" As if on cue, their leader jumped from the window, startling them. Galaxy stared at him, jaw-dropped, what on earth did this happen? He couldn't do that on purpose, not with his personality! "Cyahhh! Come onn, you lazybones! Up, up, for this morning~~" He said with a sing-song tone. "That was....out of your character." "Guess the apple cider still affect my brain." He smirked, "But that's delicious! C'mon, let's talk to Zecora." The flowers were blooming, birds were singing. A shadowy figure walked through the treess, unseen, forgotten, leaving some cloven-hoofed hoofprints on the dirt path. Winds didn't bother her, as leaves fell down from its branches, covering the path with orange-ish colours. That was scary, until she took off her mask, that tall figure was a zebra. Zecora hummed another foreign tune, happily trotted up to her mystical garden. Well, her garden was mystical, for the ligering light that seemed floating in the darkness of Everfree forest. She decided to pick up some mushroom and herbals, for Galaxy's head. She thought grimly. Their names even so unfamiliar for her tongue. She was deep in thought, what reaction did the Princesses show? Were they angry, or delighted? For all this years, Equestria knew there was no Alicorn prince. If the Princesses were that powerful, how about it Princes? Zecora knew from their pure heart, they were not enemies. But still, coins have two different side, wasn't it? Zecora only knew one thing, their wings couldn't be show in front of the other ponies. Then, maybe they could go back in peace to wherever they belong without gathered so much attention. "Um, excuse us, Madame Zecora?" "Hiii!" She startled, turned her head fast. "Oh, you three." "Uhm, are we bothering you now? Maybe we can talk later.." "No, no! I mean, come my children. I want to cook some mushroom soup for you." "Thank you, Madame." Galaxy said, rubbing his messy wing. She stared at their colorful wings with wonders, then back at her unamused guests face. 5 minutes they were standing in silence, as they heard a chit-chat sound not far from their place. "Let's talk inside, there is one thing I want to clarify." "Who are they? Another ponies with no clothes?" "Galaxy!" Cosmos hissed, sending his now scared friend a death glare. "Mind your manner!" "S-sorry, Majesty." he coughed, "lets just go inside then?" The track from Zecora's garden to her house took many twist and turns and without her they would have lost it a hundred time (well, if they didn't have the ability to teleport anyway. They didn't dare to do it again in front of a stranger). As they descended, the air grew warmer through the thick bamboo forest. On the end of it, Zecora followed the path into thick jungle with galleries that met overhead and blotted out the sunlight. Their furs were warm with the help of the glorious sunshine, as they breathed the warm air, heavy with the scent of damp earth and rooting plants. "Well, who know walking is way better than shortcut." Navven said, astonished by its jungle splendor. Birds of bright plumage flashed over their ears, small monkeys chattered and gibbered on the top branches and brilliantly coloured butterflies hovered over the flowering vines. With dramatic suddenness, the jungle ended and they came out into an open plain that extended about a league to the opposite wall of the jungle. In the centre of this clearing stood a majestic house, covered with vines. As much as they wanted to just sit there doing nothing, Zecora seemed to be so serious right now. Cosmos, on the other hoof, starting to feel tired of this long-distance walking thingy. He sighed, he missed home already. "Maybe, just maybe, this will be my last journey in Alternate Universe." Navven was hovering in the air as Zecora opened the door, he looked at her with great interest, as if she was somekind of moving hologram or just a living test subject for a mad scientist. While Galaxy, yes well, he IS Galaxy..... "Galaxy! How come you can walk when you are sleeping?" Cosmos stated, utterly shocked about his, well, his friend's unique behavior. Oh, why he had to cooperate with this ponies, looks like the Fates was messing with his already messed up life then. Hey, I'd like to tell you something, Emperor's Jobs were hard, they managed their whole empire, which consist of many kingdoms. Imagine that these damned kingdoms declared wars against each other, and you're the one who hold the access to justice. They needed your justice and freedom, while on the other hand---Hoof, enemies would easily kidnap and kill your blessed soul. You doomed, really, mental breakdown, commit suicide, aye? Death seemed so nice right now, wasn't it? "Nah, he always like that." Navven answered, giving his master a glance before returning to his scientist prey. "I wonder if her metabolism sistem is similar to us." he thought to himself. "Ahem. Navven?" "Yeah?" "No. Last time you brought a living subject, I had to clean its bloody body that you accidentally taped in MY wall." Cosmos sent a death glare, "Besides, killing is an unnecessary manner, it is not?" "It's not about killing! It's about science! Imagine what we can find in that goddamn big body. Other way, she is sexy tho." He chuckled darkly, flapping his wings in the manner of an insane Pegasus. "I need that body..." "Navven! Cut it out!" He didn't listen, instead he flapped his wings faster and faster, his horn glowed brighter. Navven definitely was not in his normal state. His face was full of insanity with an insane big grin plastered on his mouth. He proudly took a step forward, reaching for his innocent prey. Closer....closer... Before a bright light flashed between his eyes, he felt his body flying to the forest. He felt like being turned upside down but no pain at all. When Navven's vision became more clearer, he spun his head toward his friend's direction. They were there, Galaxy astonished by the act that just happened a second ago, jaw-dropped as he looked toward Navven, full of disbelief. Zecora glared between him and her own house, as if she was scared her house would vanished to ashes. And there he was, Cosmos, stood angerly in four hooves. his eyes were calm, but you could see a flickering orange flame surrounded each other eyes. Wings were open widely and horn glowed bright, brighter than his own. Navven stared at his angry friend, regretting everything he had done. "Navven.." He spoke calmly. "You do this one again, Ill easily whip up your empire." "M'sorry." Navven answered timidly. "What is it?" "M'Sorry, My lord. And thats very rude of me to think about my experiment, Lady Zecora. Please, accept my apology." The said mare was looking at the sight in front of her with big, scared eyes. She wanted to run, but deep into her heart, she took a pity about them. Poor them, didnt have any direction, lonely, in this strange world. Maybe they have a family? Zecora thought grimly. "Oh poor you." The Shaman sighed, "That's okay, dear children." She had a feeling that this anomaly had to be reported to both the princesses and The Element of Harmony. Maybe they could open the portal, she smiled at the plan. But every plan had a risk, what if the princesses decided to keep them and cut their existence from their lovely universe? Navven already stood up next to Galaxy, his injured hoof (for an obvious reason) was being cured by no other than his friend and boss, Cosmos. The universe ruler was still a little bit mad about Navven's earlier action, but looking at his injured hoof, Guilty and sadness was surrounding Cosmos's feeling. "Its almost noon. C'mon children, I'll cook a special meal for you all." She turned her body to the door, "And about earlier actions, I forgive it. But please, don't do that again, especially when I take you to Canterlot. Understand?" "Yes miss. But may I ask who were they, the ponies that were talking next to your gardens?" "Hmm, I suppose thay they may sense your presence too, other than me. That, or Derpy already told them about us all." Galaxy titled his head, "And that is?" "The Elements of Harmony," the Zebra stated coldly, " You'll meet them this afternoon, I suppose. But once you meet them, dont you ever dare revealing your world to them. Or big mistake will happen very, very soon. Author's Note Wohooo, Its me again! Emperor Amaria..... well yes, will they survive this madness???? lets see the next chapter!
Prologue"What's that?" I asked my wife, surprise face plastered in my face. "The glitch of error, Your Majesty, timelines reported unusual anomaly in your Universe." "Anomaly thingy? Hey, but its kinda cool, look at those stars!" I exclaimed, interuppting the scientist and flying closer to the edge of spaceship, making her jump and shot me a death glare. There were coffee spills scattered on the floor, a result from my jumpscare. All of my scientists looked up from their desk and computers, annoyance clear in their face. Some were smiling at me. "Whoops, sorry guys! Just too excited!" I yelled at them. "Oh, Mosy! Can you a bit more serious here?!" She yelled. "Fine by me, Dear. You told me that this glitches might be a threat to our dimension, I don't see anything so scary. Relax, its not like we are going to war again with those assholes. Just give me a coordinate, I will check it myself." I told her, nuzzling her rather passionately behind the neck to show my point. "Your Highness, you make your subjects feel useless. Just let them take care of this. You need some relaxation, you dont even care with your health. Just please, lower it a bit...." She looked at me with those beauty of nature her eyes emmited. "Well, I'm their ruler too, hon. They have to respect my choices." I sat down beside her, nipping her ears playfully. Turning my head, I faced my guards. They were the creatures that stood upon four legs, had a muscles, like my wife and I. But they didn't have both of wings and horn, or even didn't have those two at all. "...and you. Can you fetch my spaceship? I'll go to the Milky Way, out of all galaxies this one is always be the center of problems." I gave them an order. "Shall I contact Emperor Galaxy first, Your Highnesses?" One of them pointed a hoof to the computers, the others murmured with aggrement between my wife and the phone. "Hmm, m'kay. Make sure you contact Navven in the Earth, I want to talk about Libra." "You just concerned about those lovebird, isn't? Your majesty, Libra is a teenager, so does our Zodiacs. Just give them a space." The Empress ran her hoof between her glowy hair, winking a bit at her lovely husband. "Guess you right..." I turned my head, "All dismissed! And one more....... don't call me with those royal titles again. I much prefer my very own names." "Sir, yes sir!" All of my crew headed toward the main hall, chatting and laughing, leaving me with the most wonderful mare from all Universe of mine. She bit her lips nervously before stood up and slumped a bit on the floor. She sighed, "Your Maje--" "You too, My Lady." "Cosmos, are you sure about this? This anomaly is very unusual. What if you are ended up in another timelines?" "Then, I will consider it a wondrous vacation." I grinned before sticking out my tongue to her. "Nebula, its not like I am going to die. Ponies like us didn't know ages, they cheated death." I trotted up to the large window, watching my Imperials with its glorious splendor. Suns, mons, asteroids, and stars, my children. Zodiacs is my children, we raised them when they were only an infant. Oh, they were the cutest things I saw.... They were the embodiment of stars formation in space, just like me and my wife. Except, I am the the body of Unverse itself, while she was a maiden from the Ink, Nebula. Her magic that surrounded her long, spiral horn had a sparkling orange auras, both wings were reddish feathers with wavy mane and tail. From the auras, I don't likely have to describe the colours of her eyes. Proud and her charisma would take down even the strongest stallion. She was my definition of perfect. Besides our children of course... I sighed and lay my body down to the floor, "We're not so different from them who inhabits another AU. Ponies sleep, ponies eat, and breath like them....why are you keep worrying about me?" "Well, I know our immortaly can help us a lot in battle. Our scents are animals so the other will not consider you a threat as soon as you come, just lets hope that glitch doesn't send you to another dimension." She looked at me with meaningful look. "Although, it might be one per thousand chance for you to come back safe." Her piercing orange eyes looked at my soul, making me shivered under her breath. I might have to describe my young body from this point. Just like others, I'm a pony creature with wings and spiral horn and tail. Distand cousin of horses they, inhabitants of outside 4th wall, said. Thin body covered with pale grey fur, all of it, except the tip of my wings. Light red mane and tail, and red irises. Ah yes, what do the kids say? Cutie mark? Well, I had a picture of galaxies tatto on my flanks. Neither my children nor Nebula's had a galaxy mark, they most likely had a stars mark or blue suns mark on their flanks. Our species were rare, almost miracle. But Gods don't sleep, luckily we had a powerful magic and capable of doing something impossible. But that was not an item of adoration mind you. That was not my point at all. In this world is safe or be saved, and all kindness with others. "Easy, I will be fine." "That time, when you came to Alpha Centauri. You almost gave me a heart attack, Cosmos. I thought you were trapped in that lava pit!" "Hey, I was just curious about the lava! No biggie." "What about when you accidentally crushed a blue star in the north of your realms? And broke the Coila Galaxy?" She raised an eyebrow. I glared at her, "Well its just an accident, beside that stallion was getting on my nerves." I puffed my chest proudly. "How about that time you almost created a black hole in Milky Way? Galaxy was very mad at that time." "I was just experimenting my powers! Seriously, I wanted to prove that mad scientist theory about balance." "What about this one, you threw..." "Okay, okay. I might be not really careful, but that doesn't mean I'm not care." I said with finality. "......whatever you said." She threw a disgust look to me and trotted up to the main hall, dragged her long wavy tail. "I just... uhh, I just want to think!" Nebula was having a bad time now, she didn't even looked at my eyes. This situation always made my heart broken with sadness and guilty feeling. I touched her face with my hoof, she looked at me, locking our eyes together in silence. The awful night was still hanging in the outside Realms, where life was still a mystery. The mere world wherever our eyes could see. Hugging her tightly, I felt old memories flooded in my mind, making a nostalgic atmosphere. I cooed her, murmured something nice and just hugged her again. She relaxed a bit, her muscles still tensed up upon my chest. I felt her deep, warm breath, so calming and inviting. "Dont be sad, Deary." I nuzzled her softly, "You make me sad too." "Mosy." I winced at my nickname, heh. Poor Lady, she had to survive this era, she had to suffered every second, every night, every years for me to come back. I know she was lonely, I know how our kids felt when their father was gone for Gods know where. For a moment, she felt so fragile, so weak and easily broken. But, I know she was really powerful, her claws hidden beneath her softest touch. "You using your charm again to me, young lady?" "Haha, took you long enough to realize, my lord." She nuzzled my soft fur. "Awww....." some off my crew's hearts melted with our affection. She hugged my waist and drew me closer. Yeah, this was a perfect family, this was my paradise. "Mosy, remember that one time we just a kids. You gave me a flower! Oh, your face was so red at that time!" "Nebula, don't you dare ruin the moment." "What about that, when you were trying to kiss me on the bath?" She wiggled her eyebrows. "No, Naby! Stop!" "Oh, I remember when you sucked---" "NOOO!!!" It was a gorgeous night-- despite the fact that his Realm, which was located in the outer space, was always night. A full stars formation drenched the Palace to the lusterless color of platinum, and late-blooming harvest flowers breathed into the motionless air aromas that were like low, half-heard laughter. The open Realms, carpeted for rods around with bright flowers, was translucent as in the day on Earth. it was almost impossible not to be affected by the sheer beauty of the nature. Almost. Cosmos was not a spiritual pony-- his esthetic sense was rudimentary. "Here, let me carry your bag." "Thanks, hon." Cosmos glanced at the stallion beside him, "Are you sure, thats not a glitch?" "Lord Cosmos, as much as I like to make trouble in my galaxy. this time, this is different, never happened yeah. Its like a black hole, screw that, an immense black hole." "Immense?" said another good-looking stallion, his eyes were green. "Oh Hell No!" "No swearing in this palace, please." Cosmos stood up from the floor, he came toward his old fellows. "Navven, r ya sure you wanna come with me?" "Meh. Galaxy's problem is my problem too, ya know. Because he rule Milky Way, and you know what Besties? MY WORLD IS INSIDE THAT DAMN GALAXY!" Navven breathed heavily, looking at Cosmos direction with a seepish face. "Well, no pun intended. Beside that, you're my friends." "Uhh....Shall we go now? I already contacted our children, sent em messages." Galaxy stared at the floor, suddenly attracted by its sparkling marbles. He rubbed his hoof behind his cyan mane, looked really uncomfortable. Far up the road the lights of thousand stars drifted into view. A nameless fear crawled toward their chill, decision was upon their hoofs, there was a sighing sound that crept persistently-- it might have been the rustle of the silver flowers under the stars. A mare got out, then an eldery gentle stallion, and there was Nebula, beautiful as sin. Galaxy and Navven bowed at once, in the presence of the Empress. The other mare was slender and frail, with hair was ashen under the moon and honey-colored under the sputtering gas-lamps of the Palace Lights. Her hoof were glittering like diamonds. That, of course was Alpha, Nebula's older sister, and Galaxy's wife. "Old fellows like me can't learn new stuff." The Elder observed profoundly, " It is you youngsters with energy and vitality that have the great decision before you." "Our stuff is ready in the spaceship, what we have to prepare now is our soul, the risk is great, are you ready to bear?" Determination passed over them, blood rose into their cheeks, their forehead, and there was a steady thumping in the ears. the decision, decision of life. They just hoped, if they ended up in another world, well it was not really bad. Just a vacation in the middle of nowhere. Alpha approached the little group. Reared in the old tradition, she bowed at Cosmos. "Boys?" "We're in." Unknown for them, another timeline was open to the world called Equestria. Because the fragment of the evil King Sombra still remained, they slowly undermine the boundaries between Equestrian's timeline with their own Universe. Let's just hope they didn't treat them like enemies, after all, what could possibly go wrong? Alicorns, yeah....that didn't matter, right? Boy, they were really wrong. Author's Note Heya there. If you get the references, wowiee..... You're a brilliant person....or pony.
Chapter 1: The Boundaries"We approach the place, Your Highnesses." "Low the speed, will you?" "Very great, sir." The internal until the time for them to reach the far point of Milky Way should arrive dragged itself out interminably. Cosmos stood close to the wall, silent, inscrutable, watching with curious eyes the black hole that appeared on the screen as the thing sucked more and more light and planet mass. How incredibly big! the stars circeled near the glitch, its mass crushed beneath the very high gravitation. Blind with magic, he felt that this, was just a beggining of something terrible. His friends were as scared as him, watching with almost unblinking eyes the world that was so new to them. The far part of Milky Way, no one ever came there, even the owner. "Gosh, this is so dark." Galaxy exclaimed, fluttering his wings as a strange feeling began crawling on his back. Navven looked like he was about to faint at any time. his face pale, almost white, his hoof shivered badly, green eyes didn't blink, focused on the screen. "Navven, are you okay there, bud?" "N-no..." He whimpered, its looked like he was trying so hard not to release a blast of magic in the ship. His feathers was shaking, "Man, this is not good." "Report from Gala one, attention we approach the objects, locate the coordinates. 20000 KM from target, as scheduled." Cosmos staggered into the panel as the pressure began to very intense, more dead than alive as it seemed, and tried to stand up. He reached the control panel, and pressed the yellow button. "We take it from now on, Whiskers." "Ay, ay sir." The spaceship stopped in the space, hovering like dust with thousand other asteroids. The small part of it began to shake as a bolt of lightning shout out from the front part. The mechanical ready for their duties, the team leaders came from the lower part of the ship, they casted some magic. "12000 KM." The control room gave an instruction, they entered the gravity area. There was no light, everything was dark except the areas that surrounded the death hole. Everybody, even the pilots, looked in awe at the big hole that approach their spaceship. Good Lord! What a mess, what was that thing anyway? Nothing....nothing happened. Five minutes passed in silence... "9900,7 KM" The Black Hole drifted into their views, as the ship used its gravitation to come closer. And then... "5600 KM." Something was not right. "2000 KM." "Woahh..." The change of the distance between the ship and that death hole was very big. There was something wrong, they definitely went with the speed of light. The ship began to shake, as if it was just a mere warning, the alarm rang out. "880 KM." " Control! CONTROL! activate the anti-gravity field! Activate the anti-Gravity!" "Alright, sir." "690 KM." Oh, boy. They were so close... "There is no way we can avoid this!" Navven shrieked. "Boys, pull the switch!" Everyone looked at their fellow with horror expression, Cosmos stood there. He sweated almost an entire body, watching with unbelievable expression that their life would come to an end. He didn't want to being stuck in Ultrareality again, it was boring, and painful. He stumbled to the switch, "Whiskers....How?" "320 KM, sir." "Teleport the ship, as soon as we leave." "Alrig-- LEAVE? SIR!!" Galaxy prepared the backpack, as he and Navven readied their wings. If the Spaceship could not approach the object, then it would need something more simple and smaller to fix it without being crushed or dead. For that job, well, only them could manage the pressure. even if it cost their own life. "NOW!" zinnnngggggg The ship teleported with its glorious splendor, as three stallion bursted from the views, leaving the blank space and trails of dust. Navven casted a protection field as they flew with unpredictable speed. Their body was in pain, as the pressure racked the atoms and took the hell out of their eyes. blur and white, dark with light. Their vision started to blur and gone. They couldn't hear each other voice anymore, even if Cosmos sure they were shouting from the beggining. The timelines flashed between the eyes of ponies, as the boundaries were no longer could separated this wondrous worlds. Very hard to breath, inside the protection bulb. Without their immortality, who knows maybe they became a grilled meat of ponies. Or worse, As soon as Cosmos fell unconscious, he just knew one thing. "This is gonna be a damn-long vacation." BOOMM! AREA: UNKNOWN ..................TIP...BEP TRANSLATOR: READY Danger: Scanning in progress NONE/ Clear N43°38'19.39" "Ughh, my..." Red and green, they witnessed for the first time. The world was majestic with a river flowed near them, with hills and trees, covered with green grass. The sky above them was so pale blue, no clouds whatsoever, just sun projected in curious shadow and heat, giving them the strangest appearance conceivable. This new world was so unlike what they had anticipated, that for a moment they was terrified. "Holy Mother of nature!" Cosmos shouted. "Indeed. Its so charming." Navven stood immediately, looking around with curious eyes. His jaw was dropping as he looked behind them. There was an Apple trees wherever the eyes saw, and barn with a pony stood beside it. The afternoon sun penetrated the mass of honeysuckle that covered the trees, and fell on their upturned face. The air was so clear, as if this world had not been touched by dirty hovves. So nature, so majestic, what on earth was this all exist, the future they knew was very different. Ancient, you could say, but not outdated, if you know what I mean. "Its looks like The Earth." He finally said, "Nyeh...hehe.." Galaxy stumbled over, looking at his ruler. "So what do we do now?" "I don't know, its all different." The younger stallion answered, his feathers were sticking out of place. Neither him nor his friends knew why the boundaries were easily broken, for now they had a more serious problem. Their stuff was safe but their body still sour, having thrown at high speed until you feel your body being torn apart. "Can we, by any chances, go back to our Timeline?" "I'm afraid not, my friend. But we can try something at least." Cosmos trotted up with a splendid gallop, his mane was swinging furiously on his back. "After all!" He shouted, his voice almost lost in the wind. "Lets enjoy this vacation!" "He can never be serious, isn't it?" Navven whispered, looking directly at Galaxy as he started to flap his sour wings. "Mhmm, better than Alpha's madness anyway." After that statement, they decided to move on, packing their stuff on their side so that their wings were completely hidden under the bag. The two alicorns began galloping at the same speed, tried to catch up with their fellows. As the apple trees flashed in their memories. Birds were singing, their hooves lingered almost unconsciously on the foreign leaves and blossoms which had just come forth to greet the sweet southern spring. Far away in the South, was a bulding that looked like a school, for some fillies played next to it. They entered the edge of the barn, as the younger member of the trio spotted something. "Who is that?" In front of them, a grey pegasus was eating some cookies, she looked rather calm and fun pony, her eyes were wonderful orange shade. She looked like an odd pony, with bright blonde mane and tail. What a... "...perfect combination of colors." Navven murmured. They hid behind the bushes, with the tree shadows hide their bodies completely from the witnesses. He started to feel uncomfortably as he sat on the sharp branches. "Nothing different." Cosmos stated, then he looked at his friends, examining them. ".....except for her eyes." Galaxy pointed a hoof with a horror expression plastered upon his face. "She is talking with that things! What is th--mphhh!" "Galaxy, lower your voice." Cosmos leaned closer to the edge of the bushes, curiosity definitely had overpowered his fear. From what his vision saw, it was a mare, but not mare ponies. She had a black and white stripes all of her big body, and a goofy grin. Her flanks was big, and she have a lion-like tail, but in black and white strips. Kinda attractive for her kind, they thought. "That is a zebra." Answered Navven with a monotone voice, "Earth have many of 'em. Well, except they can't talk." The pegasus one was a delivery pony, Cosmos pointed at the letters she held with her hoof. Nothing too different from their origin, but of course, the Mother Nature must have another way. He had a very uncomfortable feeling about this sight. This ponies were talking at each other with a low voices, as if they were afraid being noticed by the others. But that was not the point, from how they were walking, their bodies from heads to tails. They could see it all because it was so, open. He realized something, ".......They don't wear clothes." ...... "......AHHHHHH!!!!!" There was a thud, followed by high-pitched girly screams, and broken branches. And a sound of broken bone? "NEED HOLY WATER!! BWAHH!" The pegasus, turned her head, gasped as she saw a group of young stallions blurted out from nowhere, screaming bad words and 'unknown' languages. Birds immediately flew from the trees branches, as the zebra took a good look from the strange sight. She walked closely, inspected them carefully. "Oh my, are you three okay?" "Bwa huh...?" Galaxy's head was spinning like crazy. Navven's hooves kicked his head hardly, as he tried to turn around from that awful scenes. Bad scenes, bad thoughts. Looks like he lost some of his witty from that hard collision, or brain cells, which he did not have. He apparently was an awful ruler, in Cosmos's opinion, didn't show any sign of care toward his lovely galaxy. Heh, he even named after that. No pun whatsoever. "What are young colts like you doing at this time? its too late." "uhh, Excuse us, M-madame." Cosmos stated, "We just get lost in this place." The Zebra stared at them with a confused look, as if they were growing a second head or something. "You, lost at Sweet Apple Acres? How is that even possible?" "Are you new?" the grey pegasus said for the first time, walked toward them. "M-maybe." Oh noo....Cosmos said to himself, don't you dare think something bad. You have freaking wife, Cosmos. Well, she definitely had a nice butt up there. The Zebra shoot them a glare, with stony face. She looked right through their souls, as if she was going to read their minds. Round and round, she inspected them like a rare diamonds. TAK.....TAK, her hooves that hit the hard ground sounded quite musical. "You call me Madame." She started, still staring at them. She leaned closely until her nose touched Galaxy's. For Galaxy, well, he suffered from the sight, cowered under her death glare. If looks could kill, they had been dead on the place. "What a nice gentlecolts you are." The mare smiled when she saw their terrified face, "My name is Zecora." Navven stood up carefully, avoiding eyes contact, their young Emperor was next, leaving Galaxy on the dirt path. His head was hurt, thanks to Navven's hyperactivity. "Thank you, Madame Zecora. My name is Cosmos, this....is my partners. Navven, the youngest. And that is Galaxy, he has a serious injuries I think." "I'm okay!" Galaxy muffled, still faceplanted at the ground. "Ditzy Doo." The pegasus waved her hoof, "Or you can call me Derpy." "My, MY.... What a mess, look at those feathers, out of place." She sounded very worried, wait. How did she know they had feathers? Cosmos immediately looked at his back, indeed, his suspicion comfirmed, their bags was still in the bushes. Fortunately their armors covered half of it, so it was just like a bumps from the distance. Zecora jaw-dropped, she spotted that they had pair of wings, not jut one pony. All of them! All of them, Good Heavens, they had horns and wings. This was too much to handle, what plans did the nature actually planned. Their princess should know about this, whether they were royalty, or just born in that way. She decided to keep her questions for later, after all, she didn't like to hear a same story again. So, why didn't she let the princess find out first? "Kids, come with me. Derpy, can you delivered this to Berry Punch? I really glad if you want." "Okie dokie, Zecouuraa. Don't forget the tip!" She dashed through the blue sky. Wingking at them, she disappeared from their sights. "Don't forget to come to Ponyville!" As Derpy gone, she turned her head toward the newcomers direction, smiling as she did so. "Now, You three. Three... Alicorns? Lor-a mussy-me! I must be dreaming a lot. Looks like the world has been messed up with us, don't you think?" She chuckled, "Y-yes, Madame." They packed their stuff, She trotted up between them with a proud face, signaling the boys to follow her. Looking at them in the deep twilight among the trees shadows, her mane flowed with ease under the strong wind. "Come, my children. Come and you shall see my sweet dark house."
Chapter 2: Among The Trees ShadowThe sun set behind the opposite hills. The wind turned colder, with a scatter of rain, and in less than an hour it was dark. All color had faded from the sky: and although the crooked gate creaked slightly in the night wind (as though to insist that it had not dissapeared in the darkness, but was still firmly where it had been put). There was no pony to read the sharp, hard letters that cut straigh as black knives across its white surface. They said, REMAIN OF SOMBRA, BEWARE PONIES And a red paint under it, THEY WHO CHEATED DEATH, SHALL PAY FOR HIS CHAINED SOUL They shall end with the same fate as their fellow..... For unknown reason, the ground started to shake and shake. Deep red light emerged from its surface, transfering the magic energy, it seemed. Beneath it, stood a fearless creatures, as their purple eyes twinkled in the darkness of the majestic night. In the darkness and warmth of the house the trio woke up, staring at the outside world from the window, as the foreign world enveloped their minds. Their young conductress stood in front of the fire place, gathering as much heat as possible for her big body. It was silence, no sounds, only the sound of rain outside. The luminescent of the moonlight covered the dark house with a glint of light. Indeed, her house was in the Everfree forest, heard its name maybe could send you some chills down to your spine, experienced them, well, if you were not strong enough, that brain of yours would be melted with horror. There was starts, many of them, spreading like sprinkles of white chocolate. They made the moon shone much brighter, oh their determination, how awfully majestic, Cosmos numbly thought. Somehow, he thought, he knew that up there was his home. He knew that his lovely children was watching him out there, encouraging their father to be brave. He knew that his wife was waiting for his arrival. He just somehow knew, that his friends was very loyal to him. They would never betray him, they would never hurt a fly. But he somehow knew, that this time it was harder than before, as if someone was trying to block him and his friends, cutting their existense from their own world. "So," The zebra tried to break the silence, "You must be tired, my children. I made some muffins for you to eat, oh, and some Apple Ciders if you want." "Thanks," Navven answered, still looking around before his vision ended up at his friend's bandaged head, "How is your head, Galaxy?" "No broken bones, luckily." "Well, I had bandaged your head, with some of my herbals medicine. I ......just hope you feels better." Zecora ruffled his hair, smiling as she did so. She stared at the fire for a moment, the heat of fire twinkled at her large brown pupils. The shadow, they saw, had made her more bigger and scary than before. "You are not a threat, are you?" Cosmos, who still looked very sleepy on his bed, jolted awake as he heard that question. "Wha? no, of course not. It just a technical problem in our world. As soon as we g--" "Your world." She stated carefully. Zecora spun her head round, stared at Cosmos's eyes with curiosity. "Our world, not from this world." "You mean you aren't Equestrian?" Navven yawned, stretching his back hooves with pleasure of infinity, ahh.... finally. Home sweet home, before answered, "Equestrian? Who's that?" Zecora was very startled by his answer, she looking at him with unblinking eyes. "You. Don't know. Equestria?" "Uhmm, is that the name of this country? if it is then why yes, we don't know." Silence "What are you?" "Ponies." "No, I mean your kind!" "Alicorns." "NO! Just, ughh.....where are you from?!" "Another timelines." Why are you wearing clothes? Zecora thought. "Well, maybe because our customs were different. We seems fine with these armors." Zecora looked at Navven with that curious looks of her. "You said that out loud." He stated simply. The zebra slumped at the floor with a thud. She stared disbeliefly at her alien guests, as if she wanted to devoured them all or just simply turned them to ashes. My, my, she thought she was beginning to lose her mind. Three alicorns? Unbelivable, but princes? Celestia would become crazy about this. All of her peaceful life, this anomaly was the strangest she had ever seen. "Timelines?" "Different AU from your world, A U, Alternate Universe." Cosmos explained, "looks like you don't know much about time, Zecora." "Well, I don't know! Say, are you even born for royalty or just normal ponies in your world?" "Say, if I explain about us. Will you shut up?" "That's very rude of you, young man!" Zecora glared at Cosmos, "But if its what you want, I can't disagree. Procced." Cosmos jumped from the bed and settled himself next to the fire, he faced Zecora. "Then I shall tell you our world." "We, are alicorns. We are not commonborn, like what you had said before, but yes we are the ruler of our world. Royalty, in your word. As much as I want to hide our identity, I think that isn't very neccessary. Navven here, is the Emperor of Mardane, the Earth. Galaxy, Emperor of Time, ruler of Milky Way. Me, my name is Cosmos Galaxio, ruler of Universe as much as the embodiment of Universe itself, Ruler of Cosmos Empire, father of The Zodiacs." "Emperors?!" Zecora shrieked. "Now, my lady, rude or not, it is almost midnight. Can we go to sleep now? I promise I will talk to you later." "A-As you wish, Your Highnesses." "Ah Zecora, you don't have to address us like that." Galaxy winked. Zecora then walked silently to the door, she still had that somehow amused face. "As much as I like to know all of your story, where is my manner? You are my guests, gentlecolts. Goodnight." She turned the light off, the mythical aura seemed lingering above her. The guests didn't hear any sounds again. They fell asleep as soon as their head touched the soft, fluffy pillow. The sound of winds startled them to wake, it was nearly morning. Cosmos yawned, he rubbed his horn as he was trying to remember the last conversation. Heck, that mare was very takactive, he thought. But well, he was used into it, after all he had been through they always asked him the same questions. They, ponies or other creatures from another timelines, sometimes asked him about something very personal. Sometimes, they flirted with him. Sometimes, they approached him and almost made him out of his mind. All of that soft fur, Cosmos shuddered at the thought. But this world! They didn't even wear any clothes. The imagess! He decided to walk outside. "Mhhh, C-cosmos? What are ya doin'?" Navven streched his wings, he half-opened his right eyes slightly as he heard hoofsteps. "Going out, you wanna come buddy? Zecora probably make our breakfast." The tall stallion jumped and trotted up to the door. "Wake Galaxy." He ordered. His tail flowed as the wind blew right through the window. Soon, he dissapeared at the corner, it was silent once more. Morning sun shone brightly today, Navven sighed, another stallion next to him still didn't move, laying in perfect silent like a dead body. "Galaxy." Navven nudged his friend's horn slightly. He didn't move a bit. "Galaxyyy!" Navven screamed in the ear. He grabbed and yanked his feathers, not caring the amount of pain his friends might endure. And there he was, staring wide eyes to the pony who yanked his wings hard. "Awww OWw! Navven!" "S-sorry!" "First head, now this! What creature that possesed you, dude?" Navven rolled his eyes as he stood up, glaring at him. "C'mon, we have to leave. You don't want to go against Cosmos's order, will'cha?" "Relax, dude. its not like he will jump out of nowhere and startling us!" As if on cue, their leader jumped from the window, startling them. Galaxy stared at him, jaw-dropped, what on earth did this happen? He couldn't do that on purpose, not with his personality! "Cyahhh! Come onn, you lazybones! Up, up, for this morning~~" He said with a sing-song tone. "That was....out of your character." "Guess the apple cider still affect my brain." He smirked, "But that's delicious! C'mon, let's talk to Zecora." The flowers were blooming, birds were singing. A shadowy figure walked through the treess, unseen, forgotten, leaving some cloven-hoofed hoofprints on the dirt path. Winds didn't bother her, as leaves fell down from its branches, covering the path with orange-ish colours. That was scary, until she took off her mask, that tall figure was a zebra. Zecora hummed another foreign tune, happily trotted up to her mystical garden. Well, her garden was mystical, for the ligering light that seemed floating in the darkness of Everfree forest. She decided to pick up some mushroom and herbals, for Galaxy's head. She thought grimly. Their names even so unfamiliar for her tongue. She was deep in thought, what reaction did the Princesses show? Were they angry, or delighted? For all this years, Equestria knew there was no Alicorn prince. If the Princesses were that powerful, how about it Princes? Zecora knew from their pure heart, they were not enemies. But still, coins have two different side, wasn't it? Zecora only knew one thing, their wings couldn't be show in front of the other ponies. Then, maybe they could go back in peace to wherever they belong without gathered so much attention. "Um, excuse us, Madame Zecora?" "Hiii!" She startled, turned her head fast. "Oh, you three." "Uhm, are we bothering you now? Maybe we can talk later.." "No, no! I mean, come my children. I want to cook some mushroom soup for you." "Thank you, Madame." Galaxy said, rubbing his messy wing. She stared at their colorful wings with wonders, then back at her unamused guests face. 5 minutes they were standing in silence, as they heard a chit-chat sound not far from their place. "Let's talk inside, there is one thing I want to clarify." "Who are they? Another ponies with no clothes?" "Galaxy!" Cosmos hissed, sending his now scared friend a death glare. "Mind your manner!" "S-sorry, Majesty." he coughed, "lets just go inside then?" The track from Zecora's garden to her house took many twist and turns and without her they would have lost it a hundred time (well, if they didn't have the ability to teleport anyway. They didn't dare to do it again in front of a stranger). As they descended, the air grew warmer through the thick bamboo forest. On the end of it, Zecora followed the path into thick jungle with galleries that met overhead and blotted out the sunlight. Their furs were warm with the help of the glorious sunshine, as they breathed the warm air, heavy with the scent of damp earth and rooting plants. "Well, who know walking is way better than shortcut." Navven said, astonished by its jungle splendor. Birds of bright plumage flashed over their ears, small monkeys chattered and gibbered on the top branches and brilliantly coloured butterflies hovered over the flowering vines. With dramatic suddenness, the jungle ended and they came out into an open plain that extended about a league to the opposite wall of the jungle. In the centre of this clearing stood a majestic house, covered with vines. As much as they wanted to just sit there doing nothing, Zecora seemed to be so serious right now. Cosmos, on the other hoof, starting to feel tired of this long-distance walking thingy. He sighed, he missed home already. "Maybe, just maybe, this will be my last journey in Alternate Universe." Navven was hovering in the air as Zecora opened the door, he looked at her with great interest, as if she was somekind of moving hologram or just a living test subject for a mad scientist. While Galaxy, yes well, he IS Galaxy..... "Galaxy! How come you can walk when you are sleeping?" Cosmos stated, utterly shocked about his, well, his friend's unique behavior. Oh, why he had to cooperate with this ponies, looks like the Fates was messing with his already messed up life then. Hey, I'd like to tell you something, Emperor's Jobs were hard, they managed their whole empire, which consist of many kingdoms. Imagine that these damned kingdoms declared wars against each other, and you're the one who hold the access to justice. They needed your justice and freedom, while on the other hand---Hoof, enemies would easily kidnap and kill your blessed soul. You doomed, really, mental breakdown, commit suicide, aye? Death seemed so nice right now, wasn't it? "Nah, he always like that." Navven answered, giving his master a glance before returning to his scientist prey. "I wonder if her metabolism sistem is similar to us." he thought to himself. "Ahem. Navven?" "Yeah?" "No. Last time you brought a living subject, I had to clean its bloody body that you accidentally taped in MY wall." Cosmos sent a death glare, "Besides, killing is an unnecessary manner, it is not?" "It's not about killing! It's about science! Imagine what we can find in that goddamn big body. Other way, she is sexy tho." He chuckled darkly, flapping his wings in the manner of an insane Pegasus. "I need that body..." "Navven! Cut it out!" He didn't listen, instead he flapped his wings faster and faster, his horn glowed brighter. Navven definitely was not in his normal state. His face was full of insanity with an insane big grin plastered on his mouth. He proudly took a step forward, reaching for his innocent prey. Closer....closer... Before a bright light flashed between his eyes, he felt his body flying to the forest. He felt like being turned upside down but no pain at all. When Navven's vision became more clearer, he spun his head toward his friend's direction. They were there, Galaxy astonished by the act that just happened a second ago, jaw-dropped as he looked toward Navven, full of disbelief. Zecora glared between him and her own house, as if she was scared her house would vanished to ashes. And there he was, Cosmos, stood angerly in four hooves. his eyes were calm, but you could see a flickering orange flame surrounded each other eyes. Wings were open widely and horn glowed bright, brighter than his own. Navven stared at his angry friend, regretting everything he had done. "Navven.." He spoke calmly. "You do this one again, Ill easily whip up your empire." "M'sorry." Navven answered timidly. "What is it?" "M'Sorry, My lord. And thats very rude of me to think about my experiment, Lady Zecora. Please, accept my apology." The said mare was looking at the sight in front of her with big, scared eyes. She wanted to run, but deep into her heart, she took a pity about them. Poor them, didnt have any direction, lonely, in this strange world. Maybe they have a family? Zecora thought grimly. "Oh poor you." The Shaman sighed, "That's okay, dear children." She had a feeling that this anomaly had to be reported to both the princesses and The Element of Harmony. Maybe they could open the portal, she smiled at the plan. But every plan had a risk, what if the princesses decided to keep them and cut their existence from their lovely universe? Navven already stood up next to Galaxy, his injured hoof (for an obvious reason) was being cured by no other than his friend and boss, Cosmos. The universe ruler was still a little bit mad about Navven's earlier action, but looking at his injured hoof, Guilty and sadness was surrounding Cosmos's feeling. "Its almost noon. C'mon children, I'll cook a special meal for you all." She turned her body to the door, "And about earlier actions, I forgive it. But please, don't do that again, especially when I take you to Canterlot. Understand?" "Yes miss. But may I ask who were they, the ponies that were talking next to your gardens?" "Hmm, I suppose thay they may sense your presence too, other than me. That, or Derpy already told them about us all." Galaxy titled his head, "And that is?" "The Elements of Harmony," the Zebra stated coldly, " You'll meet them this afternoon, I suppose. But once you meet them, dont you ever dare revealing your world to them. Or big mistake will happen very, very soon. Author's Note Wohooo, Its me again! Emperor Amaria..... well yes, will they survive this madness???? lets see the next chapter!
