“And that’s all I know.” Luna said she finished telling me what the Vault was and what it held in its bowels.

“Thank you, Luna, don’t worry I will get you out of there.” I said.

“Thanks, Phil. You are my only hope. But don’t do anything stupid to get to me.” She said.

I nodded and exited the dream. ‘Don’t worry, I won’t.’ I thought finally.

“Dad? Have you finished?” The voice of Twilight asked in the hive mind.

“Yes honey, I now know all the details. The thing you picked up was the opening of a special kind of portal. Its function is to transport living creature to another universe, and if I’m not wrong it should be a universe filled with humans and little to no magic” I explained to her.

“Really!? A new whole different world?” She asked eagerly. “Can we visit it? Can we please.” She pleaded

“Unfortunately no. The portal is inside the Vault in Canterlot, the problem is that if Celestia remains there than we have no chance to get it, she is too strong.” I replied to her. Twilight features visibly deflated and looked down.

“I understand…” Then shot up with a pensive look. “But if… I have an idea. See ya later dad bye!” She shouted and immediately vanished from the hive scape.

“Ok?” I said out loud. ‘Let’s see what could I do now? I will probably need to build walls around the city as well as starting to train the guards with the rifles. No, I will create my own weapon screw the equestrians.’ I thought, so I started immediately to tinker a new type of weapon, I entered my chambers. I created them with the throne room but I never used them until now, the room was a simple one a double size mattress, a desk and a separate bathroom even if I will never use it. Anyway, I entered my chambers and created a tinker table where to create my new weapon.

After several hours, I finally managed to create my new weapon. It was a long barreled rifle equipped with three different visors, a tunnel one, a viral one and a night visor. The visors could be switched simply by rotating a little wheel on it. The body of the rifle was studied to be easily used and it has three type of fire. Single, burst and full auto. The rifle was charged with special ammunition designed by me. The bullets were made out of biomatter, to charge the rifle you need to open the back handle and thrust the tendril that exit from it into whatever is made out of biomatter. I designed so that it cannot take changelings DNA so I will avoid accidental deaths, at full charge the rifle could fire for ten minutes straight in full auto mode, firing forty projectiles per second for a total of two thousand and four hundred projectiles per minutes and a total capacity of twenty-four thousand projectiles at full charge.

‘This weapon is a fucking cheat!’ I thought. ‘I like it.’ Unfortunately, I didn’t consider an important detail, the weight. I can lift it but the rifle is very heavy at full charge, it goes from 3 kilos while empty up to thirty. It could have been a nuisance in the middle of a fight so I created another item. It was a pouch where one could store biomass in it, this way the rifle would remain at twelve kilos of weight while able to fire at full charge without weighing too much on the soldier. I modified the room and create a ballistic ground to try the rifle, after some test I found out that the rifle has an effective firing range of one kilometer in single shot mode while the number lessen if you used the other firing method going from a kilometer to eight hundred meters in semi-auto and at seven hundred and fifty in full auto. The rifle could penetrate standard equestrian armor if it hit the weaker parts while it needed more shot against the harder parts. All in all, it was an incredible rifle, but because of my strength, I didn’t know how much recoil the rifle had so I called a guard and instructed him to fire at the target. The guard lifted the rifle and shot a single round, the recoil wasn’t so bad, but it was a single shot. When he tried at full auto he was having high difficulties to maintain it somewhere near the target. I thanked the guard and continued to tinker on it.

‘The recoil can become a problem in the long run, I cannot enhance them directly, I don’t have the knowledge to do it properly, but maybe I can create an exoskeleton to sustain the recoil and enhancing their strength without modifying them.’ I mused.

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A week passed and I finally managed to create the exoskeleton, it was composed of different tendrils, all of them were created to be attached to the nervous system of the soldier. The exoskeleton gave them the triple of a normal changeling strength thus making them more than able to fire with the Merciful, I called the rifle that way.

In the weeks that passed through the city grew and changed, first of all, I built the hunter’s guild so that the supply of food could be restored as soon as possible. Then the girls and I started the new economy, there was some skepticism about it but we managed to convince them that it was the best solution. After that, I created the walls around the city with Woodman and Viribus. The walls were made of a special kind of stone that was extremely hard to break, the walls were then reinforced by several layers of runes and enchantments created by Twilight and Sunset. The walls were fifteen meters high and five meters wide, they circled a totality of two hundred square kilometers. We also had a full census of the population done, there was a totality of 19857 changelings of which the 48% of them were female. The city was inhabited both on the surface and in the hive under it, I called forth the gug from the forest and together we started to build several houses in the city. Thanks to the great space we managed to create several houses big enough to host families of four members. Meanwhile, we moved all the changelings from the hive outside of it, that’s because I had to do modifications to the hive itself.

In the two weeks, I also started to consume the vegetation around the city and create more gugs. With them, Twilight and I started to dig inside the mountain where the hive resided. We hollowed it almost completely leaving only a twenty meters thick wall of rock on the outside while the inner mountain was completely empty. With the stone that we gained from it we built our castle, it was created in the gothic style with many statues and ornaments. The castle was built with several layers one over the other, the upper layers were used as bedrooms for guests and for my family, the throne room was in the middle layer where anybody could access. In the lower layers, there were several bunkers designed to protect the population in case of attack by Celestia. To produce light inside I created a bioform which the only purpose was to create light. The bioform was a nonsentient plant-based entity. It got its nutrients from the roots of the trees outside the cavern and produced light. Several smaller specimens of it were around and inside the castle to provide illumination. The castle was imposing and fairly dark with spires that stretched up and many balconies. The entrance of the cave was hidden by the vegetation that Woodman created and even if someone found it anyway there were two heavy metallic doors keeping it close.

The castle was built to sustain heavy damage and thanks to the biomass around it could reattach lost pieces of itself thus regenerating itself. Under it, we put bunkers and storage rooms where we stored emergency food reserves, in the lowest layer there was the storage room that contained the Omega’s weapons.

“It sure is imposing.” Applejack said. We were all on the main road that leads to the castle.

“A bit too grim in my opinion.” Rarity replied scoffing.

I laughed at her attitude and said. “I know sweetie but we need to remain hidden and secure. When Celestia is dealt with you can make the castle fashionable ok?” She hummed for a bit before nodding.
“Ok now go inside and pick your room. Twilight the laboratories are in the first underground layer while the magic outpost is in the top of the castle.” I explained to her and she smiled eagerly before vanishing with a teleport.

“Now-” I was interrupted by Twilight when she popped up again in the middle of us, grabbed Applejack and disappeared again with a “Sorry I need her!”

“Sure… As I was saying, I need for you to help Pinkie.” They looked at me with confused faces. “Pinkie. I need for you to create the most awesome party you can to-”

“To celebrate the construction of the castle! Yepperoni daddy I’ll do it count on me!” She said with a soldier stand before starting to jump higher and higher until she touched the ceiling and bounced away out of the cavern.

“Whoops I need them too!” Pinkie shouted suddenly reappearing and taking the girls with her.

“Would you like to visit the castle?” I asked Sunset, now that we were alone.

“Yes.” She said rapidly.

“What’s the problem?” I asked knowing already what the problem was.

“It’s that… I don’t know I don’t feel it like our home. We lived there for a short time but still, I miss it.” She said looking down.
I took her hand. “What if I told you that, there is more of our house in this castle than the eye can pick?”

I made my way inside the castle and reached the throne room, the new thrones were all there with the new Cutie Marks on them. I went behind our thrones and put my hands on the back of them. I focused and with a soft glow several runes came to life, the runes created a pathway that leads inside of a wall. I took Sunset’s hand again and walked through the wall.

When we emerged from the wall Sunset’s eyes widened immediately, there behind a simple wall there was our home in the middle of a beautiful field filled with colorful flowers and a wonderful sky...

“How?” She asked with a tremble in her voice. “How did you do that.”

“Simple, the wall is a teleportation rune which is connected to an underground space. I put the whole house there, and here we are.” I said.

“And the sky? And-and the flowers?” She asked.

“For them, you should thank your daughters. Rainbow provided the clouds, Twilight enchanted the cavern to look like a summer sky, Applejack and Fluttershy created the beautiful flower camp and Rarity and Pinkie well, you will see.” I snapped my finger and activated the magic of the cavern, the sun that was at his zenith started to go down under the horizon, then a myriad of stars shined in the alabaster night sky and a wonderful white full moon appeared.

“Rarity designed the stars and the moon, Pinkie put them there. Applejack though created the sun with her flames. The whole thing is created and maintained by an extremely complicated array of runes created by Twilight.” I looked at her. “So… do you like it?”

My only answer was an intense and passionate kiss and a night to be remembered.

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‘Ok let’s see, balloons… check. Confetti… check. Streamers… check. Gummy…’

“No! Let go of me you stupid pile of rock!” Shouted Rainbow while Gummy was trying to eat her leg.

‘... Check.’ “Ok girls we have everything let’s send this invites!” I shouted bouncing around happily.

“Yeah, that’s good and all but would you please tell your pet to let go of me before I make him?” Rainbow shouted at me.

“Gummy! Stop trying to eat Dashie she doesn’t taste like Skittles!” I told him and he let go of her.

“Skittles?” Rainbow muttered at herself. I saw Fluttershy walking down the road, with her there were several children that followed her in a straight line.

“Ok children now remember to be good.” She said to them.

“Yes, princess.” They replied.

“Alrighty now! You know what to do GO!” I shouted giving them the invites for the party.

“Yay!” They shouted, running to different locations. The party will be held at Freedom Plaza and everyone was invited, my “Good work you finished the castle.” party Will be a success.

“Where’s Rarity?” I asked Fluttershy.

“She is at the hunters guild giving the children a course on archery.” Fluttershy replied.

“Ok” I said. “Alright now help me with cooking the cake.”

One hour later we finished our cake, it was a three layers cake with cream, strawberries, and chocolate. The cake has the same form as the castle. The children returned with their hands empty of invites and a crowd was forming around and in the plaza.

I created a speaker with my biomass. “Are you ready to PARTY?!” I asked the crowd. They cheered but I wanted more. “Can’t hear you. ARE YOU READY TO PARTY?” I shouted.

“YEAH!” The crowd erupted and immediately the party started.

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I was in front of the Hunter’s guild and I was waiting for the children to arrive. The guild wasn’t anything special, it was a three-story building, the first floor served as a bar and it was where you could buy the meat while the second floor was where some member of the guild lives. The last floor was the office of the master of the guild.

The honor to be the head of the guild fell on Lexio and he was absolutely ready for it.

“I’m not ready for this princess!” Lexio shouted worried.

“Now, now you are just nervous.” I said trying to calm him down.

“You don’t understand princess, I’m not so good. I mean Phoenix is at least twice me in both skills and experience.” He replied.

“Lexio, Pharinx is a soldier, not a hunter.” I said. “Don’t worry if my dad appointed you for this then it must mean that you have something that the others don’t.”

“Let’s talk again later ok? The nymphs are here.” Lexio said and I nodded.

“Welcome children, I’m princess Rarity and today I’ll teach you how to use a bow.” I said gesturing to my right where multiple bows were resting on a rack. All of them eagerly took one and we moved to the back of the guild where was built a training ground.

“Ok at first I’ll let you see a demonstration and then you can practice for a bit ok?” I asked and they all nodded. “Very well first thing. Draw your bow.” I said and created my bow in my left hand.

“Woooow” The children said in unison. One of them raised his hand and I nodded to him to speak.

“We can do it that too?” He asked.

I shook my head and replied.” No, my dear, only me, my sisters, the queen, and king can do that.” he seemed a little sad about that.
“But don’t worry, just because you cannot create your bow like me you can become the best archer in the world.” This lifted his spirit up and nodded.

“Ok, second, ready the arrow.” I created an arrow made out of biomass, it was designed to go at supersonic speed and to pierce through thick armor, I reduced its ability to penetrate for the sake of demonstration.

“Third, aim. Breath.” I locked my eyes on the targets.

“Fourth, fire.” I fired the arrow and it hit the target in the center.

“Fifth repeat until the enemy is rendered silent,” I said and fired a volley of arrows. All of them hit the target and broke the precedent arrow that was embedded, in the end, it created a blooming flower made out of broken arrows.

The children were staring at me with wide eyes and when I motioned to them to try they sprung and started to take arrows to throw. The arrows were modified with a blunt end so that no one would kill someone on accident.

I was busy explaining to a little girl how to properly ready an arrow when I noticed Lexio. He was in the middle of a large group explaining where to hit a target, how to hit it and what to do against heavily armored enemies.

‘And he said he wasn’t good. I think he will become the best tutor here. Now that I think about it… this city doesn’t have a name yet. I will talk about that later to dad’ I finished my thought.

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Down in the plaza, the party was going very well, a lot of people were either dancing or eating or both. Pinkie really knew what to do, I was soaring the skies in the meantime. Flying was something that I always loved and I always will. While I was flying I encountered a big solitary cloud, I thrust in it and I pierced it making it pop.

I flew around a bit more until I crossed a black cloud filled with electricity. I grabbed the cloud and squished it into my hands. When it became too little it exploded with a thunderous clap freeing the charge that was inside.

‘So thunder clouds explode if you press them too much… What if I put them into a container and ask Twilight to find a way to make it explode whenever you want? They can be our grenades.’ The idea was wonderful so I started to search for more clouds, fill them with electricity and found out when exactly they blow-up.

After ten minutes or so I discovered that if squiz them down to a little ball they remain stable, but if you reduce the space, even more, the explodes. The dimension though was different depending on how much electricity was in them.

‘This things will be a blast when we will make them perfect. Hahaha’

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I was at the Heart of the forest, I was passing more and more time there. I was trying to understand my connection with it, I discovered I could make cute crystal like flower blossom but nothing more.

“What can I do?” I asked the Heart. “You made me immortal, why?” I touched the heart with my hand and immediately my vision shifted and I found myself staring at a planet from its orbit. I recognized Equestria and several others countries, my vision continued to move and did a full round of the planet. What really attracted me were the seven points on the planet, six of them were grey while one was a bright white. The bright one was the Everfree Heart.

‘Are those other hearts? Why is the Heart showing me this? I don’t understand.’

Suddenly a malicious sensation gripped my body and washed me with untold fear. I turned around and saw in the vastity of space several burning stars. With all their light though a great seemingly limitless darkness lounged over them, like a coat made out of pure horror, the darkness was slowly encompassing them all in its embrace. When I tried to take a better look, a sudden and even stronger feeling of terror struck me.

I screamed in terror and suddenly I found myself back at the cave. I cried in pure terror, when I felt a hand on my back I screamed in raw fear but the hand morphed into a hug, then I heard the kind and calming voice of Ferdinand.

“Do not fear princess. I will protect you from any harm.” He said, and so I continued to cry until there were no more tears in my eyes. Ferdinand remained here with me all the time without moving even a single time.

“What is that struck such fear in your heart?” He asked.

“Horrors that lay beyond the stars.” I muttered between tears.

“Do not worry. If they come here to get you, your father will send them back.” Ferdinand stated. I nodded at that and broke the hug standing up.

“Thank you, Ferdinand, come with me I want to show you something.” I took his hand and walked towards the Heart, I rested my hand on it and the crystal that formed the Heart opened letting me and Ferdinand enter.

Inside the Heart, there were six empty frames. I discovered the room by accident one day and I wondered about his purpose. The room was constantly filled with light from above and that gave the entire room a crystalline appearance. From inside you could see outside but from outside you could see nothing inside. The six frames were adorned by six symbols, A dragon, a griffin, a fish, a spider, a buffalo and a zebra. In the center of the room on the floor, there was depicted a heart enveloped by thorns.

“Does your father knows of this?” Ferdinand asked.

“No, I want to study this room better before telling him. I know it sounds stupid but, I have this feeling that I HAVE to understand this room but I need to do it on my own.” I replied. “This sounds crazy doesn’t it?”

“My princess I witnessed things far crazier than a feeling. I won’t tell your father, but if he asks I will have to.” He said.

“I understand Ferdinand. Thank you.” I said exiting the room. Suddenly a dreadful feeling overcame me and I fell on the ground.

“What is it?” Ferdinand asked worried rushing at my side.

“Something is going to happen. Something dark and powerful will be found. Today.”

‘I need to go to the castle. I just hope I will be on time.’

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“Remind me again why I’m here?” I asked Twilight.

“Well it’s fairly easy sis, you see I want to study the portals magic and right now I got the background energy from the portal’s magic. What I need now is a stabilizer and you are that stabilizer.” She said.

“And why?” I asked now intrigued with where this was going.

“You see between us all you have the more powerful earth tuned magic. You are extremely tuned to this planet and that is why you can act as a stabilizer.” Twilight explained.

“Are you sure it is safe though?” I asked the lab was very advanced with multiple bio-machine that constantly pulsed with life. Twilight had both of her hands inside a giant one in the back of the room. She grew two more hands and walked to me with the other two still attached to the main one. She created several pins and stabbed them into my body, two for each arm and four for my chest.

“Now this pins will canalize your natural magic and will transmit it to the central computer.” Twilight muttered more to herself than to me.

The pins weren’t painful so I just remained still while she worked.
“Alright, already let’s try with this!” She exclaimed. She sat down with her legs crossed and her entire body was suddenly encompassed in a lavender aura, she started to levitate in the air and her eyes shined with blinding white light. The light was growing in intensity before suddenly vanishing making Twilight yelp and fall to the ground.

“Are you alright sis?” I asked her ejecting the pins and running to her side.

“Yes-I-I’m fine.” She said with short breath.

“Why don’t you wait for Trixie? She can help you.” I proposed.

“No, Trixie is researching alchemy with Zecora. I don’t want to disturb her.” She said, standing up.

“If you say so…” I said with a hand scratching the back of my head.

“Now, let me regain my strength and do some more math and we will try again.” She said formally hushing me out of her lab.

“Ok, ok geez.” I said jokingly. I exited the lab and decided to take a quick walk around the castle, I traveled towards the higher layers to explore some more. I found the doors to my sisters and my parent's room. I passed several other guests room but I stopped at my room to retrieve my hat, I put it there when we moved everything in here but I forgot to get it.

'It's good to see you again partner. From now on always on my head understood?' I giggled in my thoughts putting the hat on my head, dad said it suited me and darn it I will keep it with me.

I traveled even higher and reached the magic lab where Trixie was working. I entered the lab and found her mixing some kind of potion with her tongue out of her mouth.

“Yes. If I add this and these… yes, it can be done. IT. CAN. BE. DONE!” Trixie shouted like a mad.

I was growing a little worried and curious so I remained to see where that was going. Trixie shacked the vial in her hand vigorously before opening it, she sniffed it and recoiled for the horrible stench it emitted but nodded happily. She then poured the content of the vial on her head.

Immediately a foul fume rose from her and hid her. I then heard her screaming so I rush at her breaking up the door.

“Trixie!? Where are you?” I shouted in the dark mist. A light blue light sparked in the darkness of the smoke and made the whole thing disappear, I turned towards the light and saw Trixie with her hand on her hair in front of a mirror.

“Applejack dear, look at my mane! It’s wonderful, thanks to this potion I will never have to wash it nor to style it every morning! Isn’t it wonderful?” She said with a huge smile.

“That was all the ruckus?” I asked in a deadpan voice and a flat look.

“Well yes, now I can work without worrying about my mane, also I can sell this recipe and no one will ever have to worry about their manes!.” She explained excited. “You girls are so lucky you never have to do your manes.”

“Hair” I said, she looked at me strangely. “They are called hair, not manes.” I explained further.

“Same thing dear.” She said dismissively with a hand. “So why are you here? Do you need something?” She asked.

“Not exactly, I was just walking around waiting for Twilight to recover-” I was cut short by the familiar feeling of teleportation and I found myself in the lab with Twilight again.
“You can at least warn before doing that.” I said with a scowl.

“Yeah, yeah we don’t have time sis. This experiment is of the utmost importance.” She said in a solemn voice.

Twilight again put the pins in my body before sitting down once again, but this time she attached herself to all the machinery in the lab creating a huge web of tendrils. Her aura showed up again and all the tendrils brighten up in a lavender light, her cutie mark appeared behind her shining in the air, it appeared on the ground under me too. The more Twilight concentrated the more the room was starting to curve and flex.

“Twilight! Stop, what's happening?!" I shouted at her but she didn’t hear me. “Twilight!” I continued. The room was now almost upside down, a wave generated from Twilight and bounced on her cutie mark before coming straight at me. The wave hit me and knocked me to the ground, from the pins eight rays shot out and created a sphere in the air. In the sphere, I saw a street with what seemed like humans but only for a bit before the image blurred away, the sphere was growing larger and larger on its edges the space was distorted and I completely lost vision of Twilight behind it, I tried to move to do anything but I couldn't move. I flailed uselessy until it finally reached me. When it touched me I started to break apart.

“TWI!”

Author's Note

Here we are guys! This chapter was a nightmare to write but nonetheless I finished it so sorry for the lateness.

Anyway for the next password for the secret chapter I dvised this riddle, find the answer and find the secret chapter. Easy right?

Also... Woooosh portals! EQG! Who is excited? I am. Ok enough of my rumbling

Stay tuned and sharp for next chapter see ya there!

The riddle:
I tell the tale of everything. I foreshadow the actions of the fools.

Also the riddle:"I am the best teacher but those who dont learn are doomed to repeat me"
https://www.fimfiction.net/chapter/1213545

Edited by: Rolay7