Through it all and Beyond

by ParaNomaly

Rating: teen
Tags: Adventure, Ben 10, Princess Celestia, Crossover, Human, Main 6, Princess Luna, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Comedy, Romance
Length: 10972

Ben Tennyson finds himself stranded on an alien world unknown to him run by Technicolor Ponies. What could possibly go wrong?

Benjamin Kirby Tennyson, more commonly known as Ben Ten, the former wielder of the Omnitrix, and current wielder of the Ultimatrix, has lost.

Even one of his most powerful transformations failed to defeat Diagon, a self proclaimed god and demon from a realm beyond his.

Instead of leaving Ben right after to fight George, and with victory soon at hand, Diagon casted Ben away to the most remote corner of the Multiverse it could find without care.

Now, the saviour of the universe must figure out where he has been sent to, and how to get back before it is too late, if it isn't already.

Story begins near the start of Season 2 Episode 4.

Published 2017-11-13 17:40:06 UTC
Last updated 2018-09-08 18:30:37 UTC

Definitely not on Earth anymore

Far above the skies of a vast desert, a beast floated.

Its appearance resembled that of a gigantic octopus, with tentacles easily longer than its main body idly moving up and down.

This was Diagon, an extra-dimensional demonic entity. It is said to possess power beyond understanding and could be easily mistaken for a godly being by anyone unaware of its true identity.

The massive demon was currently howling with laughter at the being that laid beneath it, barely conscious, in a gigantic crater filled with water.

Said being was the one and only Ben Tennyson, wielder of the Ultimatrix, the most powerful device in the entire universe.

Yet it still wasn't enough to stop him.

Just before Ben slipped into unconsciousness, he heard Diagon speak.

“Now to get rid of you once and for all,” it rumbled, shaking the ground for miles in all directions.

Ben felt his body begin to tingle with the all too familiar feeling of teleportation before he completely blacked out from his exhaustion.

His eyes shot open.

Ben immediately began to cough up the water he had collected in his lungs from landing face first into the river as he pushed himself up to a sitting position, using his left hand to support himself as he coughed violently.

As his coughing subsided, the memories of the events prior to his blackout began to flood his mind. His eyes went wide as he struggled to get to his feet, only to end up falling down again, a sharp pain shooting through his shoulder as he did so.

“What the…” He grunted as he brought his hand up to his face and rubbed his temple, a headache creeping in.

Half a minute passed before he finally regained his bearings, his mind beginning to fill with worry as he recalled what had transpired previously.

“Diagon!” he said out loud as his head snapped from side to side frantically. He didn't spot the giant space octopus, however. He spotted something else entirely.

As he took in his surroundings, he found himself near a small, peaceful river. The moon hung high in the air as crickets played their music, and frogs ribbited from across the creek, filling the air with a mixture of soothing night sounds.

Ben blinked a couple of times as he brought his hand up to the side of his head, scratching his brunette colored hair. This certainly wasn't the reservoir he had fallen unconscious in. Did Gwen teleport him out of there before Diagon finished him off?

A sharp pain shot through his head, making him clutch it with both of his hands and grimace in pain. He vaguely remembered the last words spoken by the demon. Something about dealing with him.

Could Diagon be responsible for him ending up here? Why not just kill him?

“Maybe he did… Is this heaven?” Ben asked himself as he lowered his hands slowly, the pain having subsided quickly afterward.

Hopefully not. If it was, that would mean he really did die... Which is never good for your health.

He sighed and leaned forward, putting his hands in front of him as he got on all fours and brought a knee forward, using it to push himself up and onto his feet.

He wobbled for a second or so, struggling to maintain his balance.

He held his arms out to act as a balancer as he stayed still for a second, his mind spinning as if he was dizzy.

After regaining his senses, his arms returned to his sides as he looked around, observing the area.

Off to the distance, there appeared to be a small, lit up town. He couldn't make out the finer details, but the houses looked a bit more on the medieval side, with figures moving about between the buildings.

He could see no cars on the roads, nor parked anywhere. Either this was a very remote little village, he had been sent back in time, or this was an entirely different world.

Ben wasn't any stranger to traveling to other worlds, but he definitely hoped it was the just a remote village. And he definitely hoped it wasn't time travel. His experiences with that one weren't very pleasant.

He rubbed his temple once more and let out a frustrated sigh. First order of business dictated that he found out where in God's green earth he had been sent to, hopefully not getting involved in any conflicts along the way. Given his track record, however, that might be a bit hard to accomplish.

He lifted his left arm up and looked down at it, his sleeve pulling back slightly to further reveal what was probably the most powerful device on this planet, the Ultimatrix.

His right hand lingered up and activated the dial, causing it to pop up and reveal a holographic projection of an alien. He turned the dial back and forth a few times before settling on a particular one that brought a small smile to his face.

“This seems like a good time to bring up an old favorite,” he said to himself as he pressed the dial down, resulting in the area being covered in a green flash.

It settled shortly after to reveal a tall, semi-armored velociraptor with a long, prehensile black tail. Four blue stripes formed rings around the tail all the way to its tip. His entire body was covered with black skin, the front and back of his torso being an exception, which was a bright green and had the Ultimatrix symbol in the middle.

Beneath his two-toed feet lied silver colored spheres, one under each foot. On each hand he had three sharp black claws that looked like they could easily slice through numerous tough materials.

To top it all off, his entire head was encompassed by a pitch black elongated helmet, and his blue face possessed green eyes with a black line running from one side of his head to the other.

“XLR8!” he exclaimed in a gravelly voice, a visor falling down from his helmet and covering his face.

Without another word, he sped off into the distance, leaving a blue trail in his wake.

XLR8 came to a sudden stop behind a fairly large building, a small cloud of dust and dirt forming at his feet as he did so.

He blinked a few times at the scene in front of him. His expectations of what he would find had ranged far and wide, but he certainly wasn't expecting… This.

All around the town, there were small ponies walking about, dressed in all sorts of what he assumed to be costumes. The smaller ones, which he quickly concluded were children, carried bags of various shapes and sizes.

“Did I just stumble into a horse town celebrating Halloween early?” he thought as his eyes lingered from building to building, taking note of the Halloween-style decorations that dotted the surfaces.

As he watched on, he came to the conclusion that this was definitely not Earth. Not his Earth, anyway. Everything from the plants to the occasional animal he’d seen had pointed to Earth flora and fauna, but he was fairly sure there were no brightly colored pony towns anywhere.

“Of all the planets I could have been sent to, why did it have to be the one with the girly ponies?” he groaned as he stopped peeking the corner and leaned his back against the wall.

“Either way, I need to find out more about this place… Maybe they know what aliens are? They don't look all that advanced,” he thought to himself as he peeked around the corner again, observing the ponies going about their business.

“I need to scan one of those guys so I don't attract unwanted attention, but how would I go about doing that…” XLR8 wondered as he thought. Then, a sudden idea came to him.

He'd seen one of those ponies near the outskirts of the town while he was making his way to where he currently was. Perhaps he could go back and let the Ultimatrix scan one of them? He didn't want to scare any of them, but it wasn't going to harm them.

He made up his mind shortly afterwards when he couldn’t think of anything better. He shook his head and closed his visor before speeding off the way he came, leaving a trail of dust in his wake.

What would have normally taken him easily fifteen minutes to walk as a human, XLR8 did in under eight seconds. He now stood outside of a small cottage that seemed far enough away from the village to not draw any attention. Now all he had to do was knock and hope someone was home.

He tapped the Ultimatrix symbol on his chest, and in a flash of green light he transformed back to Ben.

Ben knocked on the wooden door a few times. He hoped whoever was behind that door didn't freak out, it would just complicate things.

“O-Oh! I d-didn't expect visitors so soon. Coming!” He heard a soft female voice come through the door, along with the sound of hooves hitting wood. It confused him for a second before he remembered that they were basically miniature horses, it would make sense for them to have hooves.

He waited a few seconds and braced himself as the door opened rather suddenly, revealing a small, yellow pony that barely made it up to his chest. She had a light pink mane and tail, along with teal eyes, and what looked like three butterflies tattooed on her hip.

She stared up at him with wide eyes and a bag of candy in her mouth, completely taken aback by his sudden appearance. Before either of them could say anything however, the Ultimatrix interrupted them.

“Uncatalogued DNA detected.” A synthesized female voice came from the Ultimatrix. The device itself turned yellow as an equally yellow beam shot from it, scanning over the pony a few times before it stopped and returned to normal.

“Unknown DNA sample acquired, scan complete.” Ben looked down at the Ultimatrix for a second before looking back at the pony, who had backpedaled away from him as she visibly trembled.

Before he could say anything, the door was slammed shut on him, leaving him alone with his thoughts.

The pony was clearly scared of him. Not that he would do harm, but he still felt a tad bad about it.

“At least I got myself a new alien,” Ben said out loud as a smile formed on his face. He took a few steps away from the door before turning around and beginning to walk away, his left arm raised as he messed with the Ultimatrix to find the newly unlocked alien.

He finally found the green silhouette of the alien he has just scanned after a few more seconds of tinkering. With a grin, he slapped the dial down with his right hand, engulfing the area in a green flash.

It faded quickly to reveal a tall stallion, easily twice the size of the yellow pony. He had a green coat, with a jet black mane and tail. The former made it all the way to his shoulders and seemed to flow nicely with the wind. The tail was no different. It was long enough to the point where it almost touched the ground.

He had brown eyes to complement the hair, along with a pair of tall wings that rested neatly on his back. The hourglass-shaped intergalactic peace sign symbol rested on his flanks for the last touch. The Ultimatrix itself was on his chest.

“Whoa… This feels cool!” He looked back at his wings and extended them with a smirk. “Another flier? Let's see if it can beat Jetray!” With that, he crouched down and thrust himself upward, taking him into the air.

The Ultimatrix, along with allowing its user to transform into different sapient species, also turned said transformations into the prime example of each of their respective species, along with giving its user what can be summed up as an instant manual of the transformation, which let them learn the controls of each one within seconds. It was quite a handy thing to have when changing into a completely new alien, and Ben didn't think he had thanked Azmuth for adding such a feature.

As he flew back towards the town, he couldn't help but think about the new name for this guy. Skyfire? Nah, too unoriginal. Pegafast maybe? If it lived up to the name, it could be an option.

He shook his head and focused back on flying. He could name the new aliens he unlocked here later. First, he had to find out some info before he did anything else. He'd learned the hard way that rushing in without knowing what you're getting into ended up with him getting into sticky situations.

Snapping out of his thoughts, he noticed that he was already near the town. It surprised him a bit at how fast he had gotten there. It almost rivaled XLR8, and he wasn't pushing it that much. This could definitely be one of his go-to speedsters from now on.

He slowed himself down and landed right in the middle of a road. There were a few ponies minding their own business around him, they didn't seem to suspect him at all, which was a good thing.

He may not be in a costume, but he doubted it mattered as he began walking down the road. It got bigger and bigger as he walked and he started getting a few stares from nearby mares, but he mostly ignored them. He got stared at by dozens of people every day, he was used to it.

He reached what he assumed to be a town center in under a minute of walking. The place was filled with numerous games with dozens of ponies walking around, either mingling or participating in the activities.

“Is there a library around here or something?” He looked around a few times to see if he could spot any buildings that might be identified as a library. The only building he saw worth visiting was right in the middle of the place, and there was a sea of ponies between him and it.

He settled on asking a random bystander for directions instead. Less of a hassle that way.

He glanced to the side and spotted a mare near a few stalls that seemed to be selling fruits, of all things. He frowned a bit. Who sells fruits on the local equivalent of Halloween? Such a crime surely does not go unpunished.

Without a second thought, he turned his full attention to the pony he had spotted and went over to her. She didn't seem to notice him until the last moment when she turned around and walked forward, almost colliding with Ben.

“Oh! Pardon me. I didn't see you there,” the mare said sheepishly. She had a lavender coat, along with a mane that seemed to have various shades of purple and pink running down its length in stripes. The same could be said for her tail. He couldn't see if she had the same mark the other ponies seemed to have on their butts, though. It was hidden by a ridiculous looking costume. Was she supposed to be a wizard or something?

“Uh, yeah. Actually, I was wondering if there was a library nearby. I'm sort of… ‘new’ to this place,” Ben asked, unintentionally putting a slight emphasis on the word new.

At this, the pony seemed to brighten up. “Oh, of course! In fact, I run and live in the Ponyville library! I can lead you there if you’d like!” She seemed a bit too enthusiastic about a library. And… Wait.

“Ponyville? That's… so stupid, and funny at the same time.” He had to stop himself from snickering, so he did so with a forced smile. “Er… sure. That sounds great.” The mare smiled and clapped her hooves together.

“Follow me!” She gestured for him to follow her as she turned the opposite direction, away from the large crowd of ponies.

Just as she did so, he noticed a small, reptile-like creature riding on her back. It seemed to be asleep, and it was clutching a large bag of candy in its talons.

Ben decided to question it later as he followed the lavender pony through a few streets for a minute or so. The town seemed pretty lively, too. There was not one street where he didn't see one or more ponies doing whatever horsie stuff they did when he wasn't looking.

The trio arrived at the library soon after, with the mare turning around to face him as they slowed to a stop in front of a large, hollowed out tree. Before she could speak, however, Ben interrupted her.

“Sorry, I didn't get your name,” he started.

“Oh! Sorry. My name is Twilight Sparkle, and the little dragon on my back is Spike. Speaking of which…” she trailed off as she glanced at the being on her back. She rolled her eyes as the now identified Spike was surrounded in a purple aura, which startled him into waking up.

“Ugh… Uh... Huh? I'm up! I'm up!” he yelled as he scrambled to his feet after being put down. Ben did a double take at this. Where did that purple glow around him go? And where did it come from? It looked like mana. Could it have been Twilight? His current form couldn't do that, as far as he was aware. Then again, he did notice the distinct lack of wings on her sides. Was there a subspecies thing going on here? And did she call Spike a dragon?

Before he could speculate any further, Twilight interrupted his train of thought.

“What's your name?” she asked innocently with a smile as she turned her head back to look at him.

“Oh shit, uh… Quick Ben, think of something!” He forced a smile yet again as a small bead of sweat ran down his forehead.

He glanced around a few times, spotting a pony with a black suit on pushing a dark cloud around.

“Um… Clou..” He did another glance, this time managing to spot nothing that catches his eye.

“My name is… Clouden Dark?” Ben finally answered.

Twilight only smiled and nodded.

“Well, Clouden, follow me in and help yourself to any book you like, we're open until three!” She didn't seem to mind his terrible made up name, which he was thankful for, as she opened the door with her hoof and stepped inside, Ben and Spike following in shortly after.

“We need to be going, but try not to make a mess. I don't think Spike will be in the cleaning mood any time soon with all the candy he's eaten.” Twilight giggled as she looked down at Spike, who was groaning and rubbing his stomach in pain.

“Ugh… Actually Twilight, I'll just… stay here for a while,” Spike mumbled as he made his way up the stairs, clutching his stomach with one hand and the candy bag with the other.

“Suit yourself. I'll be back by two,” Twilight called out to Spike as she stepped outside and closed the door behind her, leaving Ben alone in the library.

Ben looked towards both the front door and the stairs for a moment, before shrugging and turning to face the shelves full of books.

“I was never one for reading, but Brainstorm is!” Ben brought his hoof to the symbol on his chest but stopped just shy of hitting it. He took a quick glance to the upstairs before turning his attention back to the books.

“I hope he doesn't decide to come down anytime soon…” he whispered as he hit the Ultimatrix symbol, resulting in a bright green flash.

It faded soon after to reveal a giant, crab-like being with pincers in the end of each arm and six legs. Its head was considerably larger than most of its body, which was orange-red in color.

It wore a grey and black belt near its midsection, around where its neck might be, with the Ultimatrix in the middle.

“Brain…!” He stopped himself after he quickly remembered that he wasn't alone in the library.

“Ahem… Brainstorm,” he whispered as his pincers opened and closed, producing the iconic ‘clack’ sound most crabs were famous for.

Brainstorm wasted no time in getting to work. Two plates on his skull opened up as his entire brain seemed to glow yellow. Dozens of books from the shelves levitated over to him and began circling him as they all opened and he began to read through all of them.

“Hm. Another written language despite the striking similarities to English? Most peculiar. However, this is of no hindrance to me. I shall have this solved in no time,” Brainstorm stated as his hyper intelligent mind began to quickly translate the text.

His eyes scanned the pages in milliseconds as the books flew by. By human standards, it was almost impossible to been track of everything at once, let alone translate and understand all of it. But of course, Brainstorm was no human, he was a Cerebrocrustacean, debatably the most intelligent species in the universe. But don't let a Galvan hear you say that.

Meanwhile, Spike was having a not so good time upstairs. He had even forgotten they had a visitor as he laid in his bed and clutched his stomach in pain, groaning every minute or so.

“Why… why me…” He grimaced as he rolled to the side, regretting the day he ever decided to go out on Nightmare Night.

No less than five minutes later, Brainstorm had finished reading the entirety of the library after translating the text at roughly the two minute mark.

“Hm. Beings that could move celestial objects? Unlikely. But not impossible. Several species have shown such prowess. Anodites and Celestialsapiens do come to mind. This planet has shown remarkable mana potential as well, if such tales are to be believed. However, the functions of such a system would make other planetary orbits…” Brainstorm continued to ramble as he scanned over the books he had previously written, completely disregarding the possibility of being caught.

As the Cerebrocrustacean continued to talk to himself, Spike’s stomach ache had largely subsided after a rather painful trip to the bathroom. He opened the door to Twilight’s room and stepped outside, closing the door behind him. He had gotten rid of his costume before going to the bathroom, he was definitely calling it quits for the night. And no more candy either, lest he suffer further.

He scratched the base of his tail lazily as he headed towards the stairs and began to walk down to the first floor, expecting to either find the stallion reading a book or nopony at all.

What he did not expect, however, was the gigantic crab in the middle of the room.

Spike blinked once.

Twice.

Then he let out a very girlish scream and ran back up the stairs, almost tripping over as he clawed at the wood after the near fall experience and bolting away from the monstrosity he had just seen.

Brainstorm quickly glanced at the direction of the dragon as soon as he heard the scream, sighing as he levitated all the books back in place before tapping the hourglass symbol on his belt, transforming back to Ben.

“I think the cat's out of the bag now.” He shook his head at his recklessness and folded his arms across his chest. “Better go talk to him and try to settle this before things just get worse,” he stated as he walked over to the flight of wooden stairs. It amazed him that this tree seemed to be in such good condition after being carved from the inside out, but he didn't know much about how they worked, so he shrugged it off.

“Hey, are you okay? I just want to talk, promise!” Ben called out for him as he took a few steps up the stairs, stopping halfway up.

Spike peeked around the corner and looked his direction, his expression of fear quickly changing to one of confusion.

“Wha… Who are you?! And how did you… Is that crab thing still down there?!” he yelled as he shook slightly. Seeing Brainstorm really must have startled him. God knows what might happen if he was Ghostfreak.

“My name's Ben. Ben Tennyson. And the ‘crab thing’ you just saw was me, technically.” Ben responded as he puffed his chest out slightly in pride. He had only saved the Universe like, five times already.

“Ben? That's… and did you say that was you? But… how?” Spike grew even more confused as he stepped out into the open, still a bit nervous.

“Come down and I'll show you. It's… A bit complicated,” he replied as he backtracked down the stairs and walked over to the center, waiting for Spike to come down, which he did after a minute or so.

Spike carefully walked down the stairs as his eyes locked on the being in the room. He had never really seen anything like him, except maybe those weird test dummies that seemed to have a similar shape to him.

“So, uh… Ben. You said you were the crab,” Spike began as he nervously rubbed his hands together. He didn't want to be alone here with a potentially dangerous pony... Or whatever he was. Not that he couldn't take him, it's just that… he really didn't want to clean up the mess afterwards.

Ben nodded. “Yep. It's one of my more intelligent transformations. I used it to read the books.” He pointed behind him at the bookshelves.

“Transformations? You can do magic? And what about that stallion that was here a few minutes ago?” Spike had finally reached the bottom of the stairs, but he still maintained a good distance away from Ben.

“I can't do magic, although that'd be awesome if I could. And that ‘stallion’ was me, if you didn't guess already,” he explained as he looked around and took a seat on the floor.

“You can't do magic? But how the hay did you transform then?” Spike was getting even more confused by this point. How could anypony transform into something completely different without using magic?

Ben looked down at his left arm before lifting it up, revealing the Ultimatrix to Spike as his sleeve was pulled back a tad.

“This is how. Don't question me about how it does it, because I have no idea. All I know is that it has samples of DNA inside of it, I think, that allow me to transform into all sorts of cool aliens. It's pretty neat,” he explained as he leaned back and used his right hand to keep himself from falling back.

“Whoa… did you say aliens?! And I don't know what Dee and A is, but that's so cool! Twilight told me they didn't exist, but who's laughing now? I sure am!” Spike fist pumped as he did a little victory dance. It got a chuckle out of Ben as the watched the little dragon transition from suspicion and fear to laughter.

“I know right? I'm kind of this big celebrity back home because I use it to save the world, and sometimes the universe. And that's only half of it. This one time I-” Ben began as he raised his finger before he was rudely interrupted by loud thunder that seemed to suddenly settle over the town.

He waited a couple of seconds for it to go away before he resumed his tale. “Er… this one time I saved the universe from a bunch of genocidal aliens by curing then with the Ultimatrix, which is the thing on my wrist.”

Spike drew closer in and sat down a few feet away from him. “Really? That's just like in my comic book! There's a bunch of giant genocidal robots that want to kill everyone and Commander Lightning has to gather everyone in the galaxy to fight them!”

Before they could continue talking, a soft spoken female voice interrupted them.

“Uncatalogued DNA detected.” A beam of yellow light shot from the Ultimatrix and scanned over Spike a few times, startling him.

“Unknown DNA sample acquired, scan complete.” The beam stopped a second before the Ultimatrix itself changed from yellow back to green.

Ben lifted his left arm up and grinned. “I got a dragon transformation now? Swe-e-et!” He activated the dial and began turning it to the side a few times, looking for the new alien.

Spike, having snapped out of it, looked at him in wonder. “You can transform into a dragon? That is… So cool! Is it full grown one too?!”

“Probably. Are they big?” Ben asked, not taking his eyes away from the Ultimatrix.

“Pfft. They're really big! Like, a three story house big! Size varies a lot of the time though,” Ben was just about to slam the dial down before he heard Spike’s comment, making him lower his arm.

“Maybe that wouldn't be a good idea if they're that big. But if they are, it could wrestle with Humungosaur over the goto strongest alien, if it's the heavy hitter I think it is,” Ben thought to himself as he deactivated the Ultimatrix.

Spike was about to say something before the door suddenly flew open and two ponies, one which was Twilight and the other one was…

Really cool looking, actually. Her mane and tail looked like the night sky as they floated around as if there was a constant breeze. Her coat was a midnight blue, and she had a stunning pair of teal eyes.

On her flank was what looked like a crescent moon, with a pair of large folded wings further up, along with a long, sharp looking horn resting on her head.

She wore a crown, a chest piece, and what looked like silver shoes for her hooves. Ben guessed she was someone important, maybe royalty?

“Spike, I'm..!” Twilight began, but as soon as she spotted the two of them, the words died in her mouth.

“Uh oh,” was all that came to Ben’s mind as he reached for the Ultimatrix, not wanting to take any chances with the suddenly scary looking horse lady that seemed to be glaring at him with a mixture of curiosity and caution.

“Oh, hey Twilight! This is Ben. He says he's a superhero that's saved the world like, a dozen times already! And he's an alien too! I told you they were real!” Spike said as he jumped to his feet and pointed at Ben, who was starting to get nervous.

Meanwhile, as for Ben, he was an inch away from activating the Ultimatrix and getting the fuck out of dodge. But instead, he decided to try and use words first. Shocking, isn't it.

“Uh… Hi?”

Author's Note

Surprise!

I managed to get this out by my deadline, and I gotta say, I'm a bit taken aback by the lack of Ben 10 stories on this site, or anywhere else. Thus, I decided to try my hand out in writing a half decent one. Hopefully it isn't too bad.

Hope you guys enjoy.

Appoplexians and Ponies Don't Mix

Silence fell upon the room after Ben's insightful comment, resulting in the aforementioned to begin sweating nervously, unsure of how to continue from there.

As the silence continued, Ben's mind began to race with battle plans in case he needed to protect himself or escape, the latter of which was looking quite appealing at that moment. The awkwardness was making him curl up and die a little inside with each passing moment.

Finally, after what felt like an eternity, but was actually five seconds, the dark blue one decided the best course of action was to shatter poor old Ben's eardrums.

“GREETINGS! WE ART GLAD TO MEET A NEW SPECIES THAT HAS SURFACED AFTER OUR BANISHMENT!” she exclaimed as she took a step towards him and raised her hoof up to point at him, the force of her voice pushing Ben back quite literally and sliding him into a shelf full of very heavy looking books.

He let out a startled yell and a number of curse words that held no meaning to the three other beings in the room as the books fell on his head. Out of instinct, he lifted his arms up and covered his head with them with the Ultimatrix still active.

One of the heavier and bulkier looking books finally lost its grip on the wood it was put in after the sudden shaking, sending it careening into the alien device, hitting the dial with enough force to cause the metal underpart of it to hit Ben in the head.

Before he could curse the Gods themselves for making him suffer so, he was cut short by the all too familiar flash of green light that bathed the room in its glow, causing the two ponies and the baby dragon to shield their eyes.

Once the light faded, the three were greeted with a sight to behold. In front of them stood a ten-foot tall bipedal tiger, with one sharp black claw protruding from both of its wrists. It also looked incredibly muscular.

The two ponies stared in awe at the now transformed Ben as the blue one took a step back and lowered her hoof, staring at him with wide eyes.

Rath, on the other hand, looked down at the smaller creatures and scowled, raising his arms into the air and letting out a roar.

“LEMME TELL YA SOMETHIN MYSTERIOUS BLUE, YET SOMEWHAT PRETTY LOOKING HORSE LADY, NO ONE SHOUTS AT RATH AND GETS AWAY WITH IT! NO ONE!” Rath roared as he pointed a finger at the mare in question, who in return gained an expression of confidence and stood tall in the face of assured defeat in at the hands of Rath.

“We interpret thy threat as a challenge that we gratefully accept! Let us see-!” Rath stopped paying attention by that point as he let out another roar and charged forward suddenly, grabbing the mare with one hand and proceeding to throw her through the wall, leaving a pony-sized hole in it.

“NO ONE CHALLENGES RATH AND GOES WITHOUT GETTING SOME SIRIUS BUT-KICKING HORSE LADY! BECAUSE YOU JUST BIT OFF AN EYEFUL BIGGER THAN YOUR STOMACH CAN CHEW!" If Twilight wasn't in a state of utter shock, she would have questioned the absurdly ridiculous comment he had just made. Instead, she was focused on the fact that he just threw the princess through her wall. The thought alone made her poor brain short circuit.

“SIRIUS BUTT-KICKING!” Rath shouted as he dove straight through the new hole in the wall, easily making it five times bigger than it previously was. The sudden force causing the entire library to shake slightly, making even more books fall off their shelves. Spike shuddered when he saw the aftermath.

“Great, more work…” he mumbled.

Outside, Rath had just finished diving through the wall and doing a sick roll afterward. He looked around frantically, trying to spot his latest victim.

“SHOW YOURSELF HORSE LADY! RATH WILL DESTROY YOU!” Rath shouted for the fourth time in under a minute as he punched the palm of his hand, using the gesture to get the point across.

Before Rath could continue, he felt himself being surrounded by a force unknown to him, restraining him completely.

“LEMME GO AND FIGHT ME FACE TO FACE! RATH WILL-!” He didn't get to finish that sentence as he was forced to the ground by the force surrounding him, making him grunt in pain as he put both of his hands on the ground and struggled to keep his face from meeting it.

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw the purple pony, Twilight if he remembered correctly, straining herself as her horn shined brightly, her head leaning slightly down as she struggled to move it down further.

He didn't know where she had come from, but even Rath could figure out she was the one responsible. Determined to not lose against a small, colorful horse, the Appoplexian summoned forth a burst of strength as he lifted himself up to his knees, a loud roar exiting his mouth as he did so.

“RATH WILL NOT BE DEFEATED BY YOU, TWILIGHT SPARTICLE!” he exclaimed as he finally managed to get on his feet, much to Twilight’s shock.

It was short-lived, however. As soon as he got to his feet, another wave of force washed over him, sending him to the ground in an instant.

Rath groaned as he was forced to the ground, his breath leaving him due to the immense force. “Lemme t-tell ya something… Gravity, give up… Y-you can't… beat… Rath…” With those final words, he fell limp, the aura around him fading soon after.

The area was engulfed in another green flash, and in Rath’s place now stood Ben, who groaned as he weakly rolled over and sat up in the Appoplexian sized imprint on the ground.

He rubbed his head and looked up, only to be face to face with two very angry looking ponies.

Twilight was looking at him with narrowed eyes as her horn glowed, ready to take action if he were to try anything again. The other one, on the other hand, didn't seem as mad, though. She barely had a scratch on her apart from some dirt on her coat. She looked down at him with the same mixture of slight caution and curiosity as before. He could almost see some disappointment.

“Okay, I have no idea what the Tartarus just happened, but we want answers. Now,” Twilight said through gritted teeth, to which Ben responded with a weak chuckle as his hand rubbed the back of his head.

“Well… that was Rath. I'm really sorry, he's a bit of a brute sometimes.” Ben nervously chuckled as he glanced in between the two, who looked at each other with uncertainty.

“Wait! Hold on!” the three heard Spike call out as he ran towards them. He stopped and put his hands on his knees as he panted slightly.

“Might want to start working out more…” he muttered before he lifted his head up to face Twilight.

“Like I was telling you, he can transform into aliens! I saw him as a giant crab thing with a huge glowing brain! He doesn't seem that bad.” Spike finished. Ben smiled slightly, grateful for him coming to his defense.

“Doesn't seem that bad?! Spike he literally threw Princess Luna through the wall!” she argued as she turned her head to look at him, her hoof now pointing in Ben's direction.

Spike opened his mouth to reply, but was silenced as the now named Princess Luna spoke up first.

“We agree with the dragon,” she stated as she stared at Ben with analyzing eyes, making him a bit uncomfortable.

“Wha-?! But..!” Twilight babbled as she looked at Luna in shock, who took Twilight’s confusion as a sign to continue.

“We mistakenly used our Royal Canterlot voice on him, resulting in him getting injured. Although, we think him throwing us through a wall makes us even. Doesn't thou agree?” she finished with a smile as she looked back at Ben.

Ben blinked a few times and nodded slowly. Twilight had called her a princess, and that meant she was royalty around these parts. He was glad she forgave him so quickly, otherwise, things could have gotten a lot more complicated and difficult with an entire nation after him. It wouldn't be the first time though.

“Uh… yeah, I guess?” he croaked as he attempted to stand up, grimacing and rubbing the side of his head as he did so.

Twilight turned to face him almost immediately after he moved as her horn glowed brighter. Suddenly, he felt himself being pushed to the ground once again.

At fault or not, he wasn't about to get pushed around by a small horse, so he grunted as he activated the Ultimatrix once again while he lay on his knees and was about to press down, but he stopped himself as he felt the pressure rapidly fade away.

Confused, he glanced up and saw Luna scowling at Twilight as her own horn glowed. A small, transparent blue shield surrounded him, which he quickly concluded was the reason for the sudden relief.

“Twilight Sparkle, we forgave him. Couldst thou not do the same? We art sure thy wall can be easily fixed with magic. There is no need to provoke further conflict,” she lectured as she shook her head at Twilight, whose horn had abandoned the purple aura and now stood dormant. She lowered her head and sighed.

“I know, I just… reacted when I saw him move. Sorry.” She looked back up at Ben, hoping for an acknowledgment of her words.

Ben glanced down at the Ultimatrix for a quick second and sighed inwardly in relief. The holographic display had Way Big on it. He was somewhat glad Luna had interrupted when she did, or they would have been royally screwed. Quite literally.

“Don't worry about it. I'm used to it,” he joked as he tried to lighten up the mood.

“You're used to throwing princesses through walls?” Spike questioned.

“Er… Not what I had in mind,” he replied as he stood up once again, finally showing his height compared to the ponies.

He was almost as tall as Luna, excluding her horn. And he easily towered over Twilight, with her head barely reaching his chest.

“I don't think I've introduced myself yet. My name's Ben. Ben Tennyson,” he said as he rubbed his arm, which was still a bit sore from the previous activity.

Twilight smiled slightly and spoke up first. “My name is Twilight Sparkle, but I have a feeling you already know that,” Ben responded with a nod.

“And our name is Luna. Thou may call us Princess Luna,” Luna said as she smiled at him. “Ben Tennyson, what a… unique name.” She giggled under her breath. Ben responded with a roll of his eyes as he remembered to deactivate the Ultimatrix before he accidentally turned into Alien X, given his luck.

“My name's not that weird! I'm sure you people have some ridiculous names if they're meant to represent your appearance,” Ben retorted as he crossed his arms.

“Guys, maybe we should head back inside before anypony sees us out here,” Spike said as he glanced around, glad that there wasn't anyone around to witness what had just gone down thankfully. That would be hard to explain

Twilight responded with a nod as she turned towards the library and began trotting towards it. “Spike’s right. Let's head back inside before anypony decides to come around for candy.” Ben glanced over at Luna for a brief second before following Twilight.

Luna followed closely behind him along with Spike as they stepped through the giant Rath-sized hole in the wall. Ben shook his head as he turned to look at it and lifted up his left arm, activating the Ultimatrix.

“Don't worry, I'll have this fixed in no time!” With that, he slammed the dial down.

Author's Note

Sorry this a shorter one. I didn't expect this story to gain so much popularity at all. Let alone get featured. Thank you all so much for that.:twilightblush:

A Way Big Problem

Twilight closed the door behind her and sighed. Her night was not going the way she expected it to go at all.

“Something wrong, Twi?” Spike asked from her back as he looked over his shoulder, expecting the other two inside the library to follow them out at any second.

She turned her head slightly and glanced at him. “This night has not been going as planned, at all! First, the entire town seems to get scared at the mere sight of the Princess, and now we have an alien in our home?” She let out another frustrated sigh as she shook her head and began walking.

“Could this night get any worse?” Twilight muttered as she walked further away from the library at a slow pace, waiting on the other two.

“You shouldn't say that, Twi.” Spike sounded concerned as he looked around nervously, as if waiting on something to happen.

She rolled her eyes at his antics and stopped ten meters or so from the library. “Don't be silly, Spike. Just because you say that doesn't mean something bad will happen, it's all coincidence.” She turned around and looked back. Luna was walking towards them with a smile on her face, but Twilight couldn't see Ben. Perhaps he was transforming into his Pegasus form? It did make sense, they didn't want to startle the town any more than they already are. If such a thing was even possible.

“But it does! Just… don't say it, please?” Spike reasoned as he nervously fidgeted on her back, to which she responded with another eye roll.

Luna stopped in front of Twilight and glanced back at the library for a brief second before turning her attention to her.

“Pray tell, Twilight Sparkle. Who is this… Fluttershy the dragon mentioned?” she asked with a small tilt of her head, and Twilight smiled brightly in response.

“Fluttershy’s one of my friends. She can be a bit, well… shy, but hopefully I can convince her to…-” She was interrupted by a huge flash of green light that forced her to suddenly close her eyes and turn her head away from the source.

Luna, who was facing away from the library, wasn't nearly as affected by the light. She squinted her eyes ever so slightly as she looked behind her.

“Ugh, what the hay was that?” Spike asked as he rubbed his eyes.

“Spike, language!” Twilight lectured him with a glare as she briefly glanced at him, to which he responded by rasing his arms in surrender.

“Geez, it's just… a....” The words seemed to die in his mouth as his now wide eyes seemed to slowly inch upwards, his jaw dropping.

Twilight blinked and looked back at the library, trying to find what he was looking at.

“What? I don't…” Her mouth ran dry as her eyes finally lingered upwards.

Luna looked at the two with confusion evident on her face, unsure as to what had caused them to react like that.

Before she could turn around and follow their gaze, her answer came in the form of a large shadow that quickly covered the entire area and even the distant hills that could be observed from her position.

Slowly, she swiveled her head to try and spot what had caused the colossal shadow that had blocked her moon's light.

When she spotted the culprit, her jaw hit the floor.

Far away from Ponyville, inside a tall, spiral tower that stretched high above a large castle, Princess Celestia laid on her queen-sized bed.

She couldn't get any sleep, no matter how hard she tried. Her mind always wandered back to her sister, and how the small town was receiving her.

She always knew that they were easy to scare. Too easy, in fact. Easy enough to the point that Luna's presence could cause them to treat her with fear, leaving her baby sister to feel rejected once more.

Celestia wanted to practically fly down there herself to see how everything was going. The only thing stopping her was the hope that Twilight could make her sister feel welcomed and loved by her subjects.

She let out an un-princess-like groan as she twisted and turned beneath her covers for a few more seconds, before she sat up and rubbed her eyes gently, letting out a sigh. “Maybe I should have gone with her…” she quietly told herself, trying to calm her nerves.

“Oh, don't be silly, Celestia. Twilight can handle it… right?” She looked around the room, almost expecting someone to answer her.

She sighed once more and shook her head, laying back down on her bed and pulling the covers back up.

“I'm sure it'll be-” She stopped herself as she noticed the light coming from her balcony fade away, as if something was blocking it.

“Strange, the skies above Canterlot should be clear tonight…” the princess thought to herself.

She slowly sat back up on the bed and looked towards the empty balcony, spotting nothing that could have caused the sudden blockage of light.

“Hm, interesting…” Her horn glowed as she pulled her covers off and swung herself to the side, stretching her wings a bit as she yawned.

With a clop, her hooves met the marble floor as she got up and put on her white fluffy bunny slippers. She pushed herself up and trotted over to the double doors that separated her room from the balcony.

The door was enveloped in a yellow aura as it was pulled open, allowing Celestia to step outside and glance around.

She didn't spot anything out of the ordinary in the skyline of the city, nor was there any clouds in the sky that could have blocked the moon's light.

“Must have been a-” Celestia almost choked on her own words as her eyes finally found their target.

Right on top of Ponyville, a truly colossal creature towered over everything within eyesight, even the mountain Canterlot itself rested on.

The entire body of the creature was a pure white color, with numerous exceptions, such as the upper chest and neck area. The former possessed a crimson colored pattern that stretched all the way to its waist area. A strange hourglass symbol sat in the middle of the aforementioned pattern. The latter was completely black and seemed to extend to the back of its head.

Near the feet of the being, which were thankfully spread apart enough so that it didn't crush the town underneath it, it possessed the same crimson color that it had on its chest, with a very faint white line near the bottom.

Celestia’s mind screeched to a halt as she tried to comprehend the sudden appearance of something bigger than even an Ursa Major. The footsteps alone from a creature of that size would feel like earthquakes, even all the way in Canterlot.

Before she could dwell on it any further, it spoke.

Its voice thundered for miles in all directions, almost as if God himself was speaking. She could feel the tower beneath her shake ever so slightly at the sheer volume. Her ears even folded to the sides of her head out of instinct.

"WAY BIG!"

Author's Note

This was supposed to be part of a bigger chapter, but I felt like separating it.

Because I like cliffhangers.

But anyways, since I'm horrible at names, I'm taking suggestions on Ben's new aliens. My creativity died when my childhood ended.

Trouble In Pony Town

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Not every Clock is created equal

Luna, Twilight, and Spike averted their eyes from the blaze of green light that illuminated the library. It grew dimmer rapidly before it completely vanished, revealing a large, robot-like alien right where Ben had been standing.

Its outer layer seemed to be made out of copper, and its body possessed numerous black lines that ran through its torso and arms. In the middle laid a piece of transparent glass with the Ultimatrix symbol on it. One could even see gears inside turning as it moved.

On its flat head, a key of sorts protruded from it, with holes in each side.

“Clockwork!” the now identified Chronosapien said in a German accent, the key on his head spinning slightly as he did so.

“Whoa… Did you turn into a clock?” Spike asked as he stepped closer and knocked on Clockwork’s metal shell, which made a resounding clunk every time.

“I'm not a clock!” Clockwork responded as he looked down at Spike with his best attempt at a scowl, to which Spike rolled his eyes.

“You even make clock sounds.” He held a hand up to his mouth as he attempted to hold back his laughter.

“Those are unintentional!” the Chronosapien shot back.

Twilight watched on in curiosity and disbelief. She didn't detect any magic coming from Ben when he ‘transformed’ the first time. And now that she had seen him do the same under more calmer circumstances, she noticed that he didn't output any sort of magical essence when he hit that watch of his and transformed, apart from the very faint magical signature he emitted when he was in base form.

She couldn't understand how such a thing was possible. How can he just perform such an advanced spell and not use magic?

While Twilight’s brain continued to have a meltdown, Luna looked on in surprise once more at the walking clock in the library. While it was less of a shock the second time around, it still piqued her interest. Such strange things had surfaced since her banishment, she wondered how it worked.

“Enough of this. Just let me do what I was going to do.” Clockwork dismissed the baby Dragon and turned his attention towards the hole. “Let me show you how I fix things.”

He spread his arms open as his centerpiece began to glow green for a split second, causing Spike to take a step back in caution.

“Uh, wha-” He didn't get to finish as a bright emerald beam shot out of Clockwork’s chest, impacting the few dangling pieces of wood that remained on the edges of the hole.

Instead of passing through them and making the hole even bigger, it seemed to stop as the area around it began to be illuminated by an enchanting green hue, and slowly but surely, the hole seemed to be repairing itself in a rather odd way.

The little bits and pieces of wood flew back into the hole rapidly, almost like time itself was going backward, to everyone's continued surprise.

Clockwork stopped a second or so later and tapped the Ultimatrix symbol, reverting him back to Ben.

He turned around with his arms still folded and smirked at the three. “Sorry for the hole, by the way. Rath can be a bit of a brute sometimes,” he apologized as his gaze shifted towards Twilight, which responded with only a slow nod.

“Did you… How did-... How did you fix that?” she stammered as she looked over his shoulder at the now fixed wall with a look of confusion on her face. It looked just as it was before it had been destroyed.

“I went Clockwork and fixed it,” he stated as if he was telling the evening weather, which resulted in getting Twilight more agitated.

“But I couldn't sense any magic! Everything uses magic!” Her horn glowed as a book suddenly materialized above her head, and right next to Luna's, startling her slightly.

If Twilight did notice, she paid no mind as she held the book in her aura and opened it, the pages flipping wildly as her eyes scanned the contents.

“See?! It says right here that-” She was cut off by Spike, who tapped her muzzle and cleared his throat.

“Maybe you should let him explain, Twilight.” He said as he shook his head at her antics, to which she responded by looking back up at him with a sheepish smile.

“Er… right, sorry,” she murmured as she put the book back in its place.

Ben responded with a shrug as the spotlight was turned to him. “The Ultimatrix–” he lifted his left arm up, “–doesn't use ‘magic’. I honestly don't know what runs it or the details. But I do know that it basically changes my DNA into one of a different species and transforms me into them. I've used it to fight all kinds of evil forces throughout my world and beyond. It's pretty handy,” he told her.

“Thou said thy world, correct? Art thou implying that thou art... not from our planet?” Luna inquired as she stepped forward.

Before Ben could answer her, he was cut off by the Ultimatrix as the dial and the tube-like structures on it turned yellow and scanned Luna, much to her sudden surprise.

“ Uncatalogued DNA Detected,” it spoke as it scanned her numerous times before stopping and turning back to its original color.

“Unknown DNA sample acquired, scan complete.” It beeped before the dial popped back down into place, leaving the two ponies, save for Spike, stunned.

“...What did thou just do?” Luna regained her composure and glared at Ben, taking another step towards him.

He responded by taking a step back and holding up his arms in defense. “Hey, don't look at me. Sometimes this thing just does it automatically.”

“That doesn't answer her question though,” Spike added from beside Twilight, who chose to remain silent and hear his answer.

Ben glanced at Spike with a ‘Come on, bro’ look on his face before his gaze shifted back to the blue horse advancing on him.

“Uh… The Ultimatrix scanned you and added your DNA to its storage… thingy,” was the best he could come up with given the circumstances.

“Here, I'll show you!” Ben quickly added afterward as he activated the dial and slammed it down.

Luma turned her gaze away from Ben and shielded her eyes with her foreleg during the brief period of light. Once it had faded away, she lowered the foreleg and her eyes widened in shock as she looked over to where Ben had previously been standing.

In his place was a tall, white alicorn mare that stood as tall as Princess Celestia, with a long, white horn and a pair of large, equally white wings. Along with them was an ethereal mane that seemed to contain various shades of green in a rainbow-like pattern. Her eyes were a bright emerald, and on her flank rested a green hourglass figure. The Ultimatrix symbol stood proudly on her chest, just like all of Ben's previous transformations.

“See?” she said, then immediately covered her mouth with a hoof, surprise clear on her face.

“Oh. This, uh… am I a girl now? Strange… the Ultimatrix has never given me the opposite gender, I think.” Ben shrugged and looked back at Luna, who looked up at him, or in this case, her with wide eyes.

“Anyways. See? It was just a scan, I swear!” Ben tried to reason as she raised her foreleg to tap the Ultimatrix symbol, but stopped just shy of it as a smirk formed on her face.

“You know what? This is the second new alien I've gotten in under half an hour. And if this one has magic, that means…” she trailed off as she looked over at the bookshelves with a smirk.

Her horn began to glow in a yellow aura as several books shot forth from their places and levitated in front of her, resulting in a triumphant hoof pump.

“Hell yeah, I can do magic now! In your face Gwen!”

She continued to seemingly be entertained by the books in front of her for the next minute or so, before eventually becoming bored of it and tapping her chest, reverting back to Ben.

He turned his attention back to Luna, who had been staring at him for the duration of his transformation. He stepped closer and waved a hand in his face.

“Uh, hello? Is anybody in there?” Luna snapped out of her shocked state and focused back on Ben with a surprised expression.

“Did… Did thou transform into an alicorn?” she slowly started with a hint of caution in her voice.

“I mean, if that's what you call yourselves, I guess so?” Ben shrugged as his arms return back to his sides.

“Anyways, do you believe me now?” He folded his arms across his chest.

Luna blinked a few times and backed down, taking a step back and returning to her previous position. She brought up her left hoof and rubbed her forehead.

“We… We suppose so. Sorry for our sudden aggression, we art still… adapting to this new society we found ourselves in,” she finished as she lowered her foreleg back to the ground and looked down at Ben.

Now that he was somewhat up close to Luna, he noticed how tall she was. Granted, he wasn't very tall himself, but she still held about two inches on him. So she was… five foot eight, if his math was correct.

He mentally shuddered at the thought of math, easily one of his most hated subjects in school. Ironically, Grey Matter adored math no matter how much Ben hated it.

“Adapting?” He asked, not sure of what she meant by that.

“It's been two months since we came back from our banishment, we thought it had spread all across Equestria by this point,” she stated as she looked at him with a confused expression, to which he responded with a shake of his head.

“To answer your question about me not being from this planet, no, I'm not. I'm from Earth. Although none of you probably know about it,” he clarified, which earnt him even more confused faces.

Spike scratched the top of his head as he stepped forward. “This is Earth. Well, our Earth anyways,” he said, eliciting a raised eyebrow from Ben.

“Well, I'm from a different Earth. It's a bit complicated on how I got here, I barely know myself. But I'm betting on it being Diagon’s fault.” Ben glanced around the room at the mention of the name, a look of unease overtaking his face.

“Diagon?” Twilight questioned. As she adjusted her wizard hat with her magic, Ben reminded himself to question her on her ridiculous choice of costumes.

“I doubt you know who he is, but to sum it up: He's an extra-dimensional being of pure energy, if I was listening correctly. I was in a battle with him and I got knocked out, heard him saying something along the lines of, 'Deal with you’ before I blacked out though,” he answered as he looked towards Twilight.

“Hey, my comics have somepony similar to that! She's called Ciredan, and she's this cool space squid monster that-” Spike was cut off by Twilight, who put a hoof to his mouth.

“Spike, I don't think it's time to talk about your comics.” She shook her head disappointedly, to which he responded with a pout.

“This… Diagon, is he a threat to our nation?” Luna spoke up, her face adopting a dark and serious look.

“Honestly? I don't know. He may choose to follow me here and try to finish what he started, or he'll just leave me stranded here forever.” Ben resisted the urge to take a step back, this lady could be really intimidating whenever she wanted to be.

“But I wouldn't worry about him, I have something special for him the next time around.” He smirked and cracked his knuckles. Ultimate Way Big may not have worked on him, but he still had one final alien up his sleeve. If he ever even got to face him again, that is.

Luna didn't seem to relax very much at Ben's reassurance, as she still looked unsure. But slowly nodded as she calmed down. “We hope thou art correct. We take threats to our subjects very seriously,” she declared.

Ben nodded as a small smile found its way to his face. It was nice to see the leader of a nation that genuinely cares about their people, something he saw less and less frequently on television these days.

“I understand, but don't worry. I have a knack for saving the world, it's sort of a usual occurrence nowadays,” he boasted with a prideful smirk.

Luna rolled her eyes at him and smiled slightly. While she may not express it openly, she was happy he was treating her so casually, unlike most of the ponies in Ponyville.

That last thought erased her smile and brought a small frown to her face. Thankfully, no one else seemed to notice it.

“Twilight, shouldn't you have been over at Fluttershy’s by now? You promised.” Spike turned to the lavender mare and crossed his arms, to which the latter responded with a nod.

“Princess, we should get going.” She glanced towards Ben. “You'll be coming along with us too.”

“What? Why?” His smirk fell as he looked over at her, confused as to why she wants him to come with her.

“You’re new to Equestria, so I thought I could introduce you to my friends and give you a tour while we walk! Unless you plan to say all night in here reading.”

Ben sighed and shook his head. “I guess not, I've already read all the books in here.” Twilight’s eyes nearly bulged out of her skull at that.

“Y-You… You read the entire library already? How?!”

“With Brainstorm, of course,” he replied casually, which caused Twilight's eye to twitch.

“Hehe… Right. Let's just get going.” The door to the library was suddenly surrounded by a purple aura as it opened. She picked Spike up and placed him on her back before walking out of the building.

Ben glanced over at Luna, who returned the favor before she followed after Twilight, leaving him alone.

“Well, I guess I better follow too.” He lifted his arm up and activated the Ultimatrix dial, turning it a few times as he looked for the right alien.

“Come on, please give me the alien I want…” he uttered before he slammed the dial down.