"What do you have to say in your defense?" Sunset asked, quiet pissed off.

"Sorry Sunny..." I said looking down. "I will keep a better eye on them."

"'sigh' I'm not angry Phil... it's just that, I'm worried. Look at how much damage they caused, and they were just playing. We need to do something." She said.

"And we will. As I said we will train them to use their power better. Now let's go we need to present them to the changelings." I said, but suddenly Xarx contacted me.

"Your majesty we got a situation!" He said worried.

"What happened?" I inquired.

"It's Derpy my king, she-she grew up." He said.

"W-what? What do you mean?"I said.

"Please explain." Said Sunset in the hive mind, her voice filled with worry.

"Your majesties, Derpy grew up, she gained ten centimeters in a matter of hours." He said.

"How could this happen?"I said. "What the hell is happening here?"

"I can explain." Said a male voice in the hive mind. I turned and looked at the new speaker. He was a changelings with no hair, he was also old and his eyes were closed, he wore a ruined brown cape.
"My name is Veteris Sapentia , I was the counselor of queen Chrysalis."

"How can you look so old? Chrysalis said that curse made your lifespan much shorter." I said.

"You see my king, the forest is special. Inside the forest every living thing is always subjected to changes, and those changes often are caused by predators that eats their preys. Because of this the creature of the forest adapted with a much more quicker growth. In time the very magic that permeates the forest got that same change. Everything inside the Everfree age ten times faster than normal until they reach adulthood. I'm a special case, I survived the curse for more years than normal and as such all the years that I saved up because of the curse, hit me all at once rendering me blind and old. Little Derpy is growing at a fast pace now, and even if you got her out of the forest, the process won't stop." He explained.

I was shocked, Derpy is growing faster than normal. I promised her mother to give her a normal foalhood... and I failed AGAIN! I smashed the floor with a stomp making the entire house and cave trembling under the force of the blow.

"I need to get there! NOW!" I shouted breaking the link, Sunset watched me but then nodded. I ran with all my speed towards the hive, and in less than five seconds I was there. Now that I think about that the Ursa really gave me a boost, normally I took two minutes to reach the hive, and I ran up to 150Km/h. But then I bursted up to 4500Km/h that's like mach 3.5! But I had other things in mind in that moment, I needed to find Derpy. But suddenly a powerful gust of wind generated behind me, when I looked back I noticed that I'd destroyed all the trees in my path, and I left a 8 meters wide crater.

"Holy fuck!" I thought. "What the hell happened?! Later, the scientific explanation can wait, I need to find Derpy." I entered the hive and used my sonar to find Derpy. When I reached her I was shocked. She was now taller and her wings grew more, also her clothes were stretched because of her sudden growth.

"Derpy!" I shouted. "Derpy are you ok?" I asked. "You imbecile of course she's not okay!" I thought to myself.

"Phil, I-I-I don't know what happened, I'm suddenly taller and bigger, what's happening?" She asked scared.

"The forest Derpy, I didn't know that but the forest make everything inside it grow faster. I'm so, so sorry... It's my fault I promised you a normal foalhood and now I'm taking that away from you." A tears traced my face. "I'm sorry" I whispered hugging her.

"I'm scared Phil. I'm going to die soon?" She whispered crying.

"Don't say that Derpy, you are not going to die soon, you will lose your foalhood years though, I'm sorry." I whispered back.

"Your majesty." Said Veteris in the hive mind. "Before you rushed away, I was going to say that there is a possibility for Derpy."

"Speak!" I ordered. He flinched but talked nonetheless. "There is a potion that is being said gift the drinker with their youth once again." He said.

"Where is it?!" I shouted in the link.

"Your majesty please calm down." He said, I just looked at him." The ingredients for the potion are inside the Everfree Heart. The Heart is legendary, no one ever found it. Countless of lives were lost in it's search." He explained.

"They were not me. Tell me what you need for the potion." I ordered.

"Your majesty this is madness, the Heart is a legend, and if it's not than it's impossible to find!" He retorted.

"TELL. ME. WHAT. YOU. NEED. NOW!" I shouted pointing every word with a step towards him and creating my claws.

"A-a-a piece of crystal from the Heart's Tree. That's all." He said scared.

"Very well. Xarx take Derpy home, I have an heart to find." I said firmly. Then I hugged Derpy once again and whispered. "I'll fix this, don't worry" She nodded and dried her tears.

I made my way outside the hive and created my wings, then I flew up and started to scan the entire forest with my magical sight. Something so important HAD to be filled with magic.

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We've arrived to Ponyville after the disappearance of the barracks. Me and the Omegas were sent to investigate the strange phenomenon, needless to say the civilian avoided us like the plague. Maybe it's the fact that one of us had a coffin on his back, but that was just a hypothesis. Anyway we arrived to the site of the disappearance. A cordon of guards was finished secure the crime scene, I neared one of them and showed my badge, he let me pass but blocked one of the Omega.

"You can't enter with a coffin here." He said. The Omega with the coffin chuckled under his hoodie and said.

"But you can enter this coffin though." And slammed the coffin on the guard's legs, breaking them, then the coffin opened and a skeletal hand exited and took the guard by his mane. The guard was screaming but nopony moved a inch to save him, the skeletal hand yanked and the guard fell into the coffin, vanishing. No corpse, no screams. Nothing.

"Let's go." I said. They nodded and after picking up his coffin the last Omega reached us, we arrived to the terrain where the barracks were supposed to be and started to search for anything useful. After an hour, we finally found something, a single red and black tendril was in the ground. One of the Omega tried to yank it out of the ground, but when she reached for it the tendril went underground. We stared at the little hole for a bit before an earthquake surprised us, from the hole more and more tendrils shot out and merged together. They formed a single massive tentacle, it was twelve meters tall and five wide, with two bony protrusion that acted like fangs and many more little sharp teeth between the two of them. The giant tendril 'watched' us, it didn't have any eyes but it saw us. It leaned forward before opening it's massive fangs and letting out an acute shriek. Then it shot out a red tendril from it's mouth, I sidestepped it while the Omega dodged it. The tendril managed to grab a guard, this one was then pull against the tendril where he was cut in half before his body was completely absorbed by the red flesh.

"KILL THAT THING!" I shouted conjuring my rifle while creating a distance between me and it. The female Omega conjured her weapon too, a sickle like the one that Death itself uses, she started to giggle and slash at the beast. The tendril didn't even flinch, instead it swatted her aside with a powerful blow, the mare was flying above the ground but she used her sickle to stop herself before crashing against a house.

"Stay back! Hehehehe... That's mine!" She said laughing like a mad mare. The others shrugged and sat down waiting for her.

She cut the air and generated a pressure wave that struck the beast, she severed off it's right fang but the beast after a bit of thrashing regenerated it, she ran towards the tendrils giggling all the way and jumped, when the beast shot out another tendril, she purposely grabbed it and reached the fangs, there she slashed both of them and two jets of thick red blood came out. The beast now was trying to shake her off uselessly, seeing that what it was doing was useless it started to go underground, but the mad mare instead of disengaging her prey, followed it.

After they both got underground a giant pillar of blood exited the hole, then she exited completely covered in blood and with a giant grin on her muzzle. "That was fun." She said licking away the blood on her hand moaning in pleasure for every centimeter of blood drank. With a pop she cleaned her thumb and looked at me. "What now?"

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I was flying over the Everfree when I sensed that the hydra in Ponyville got killed. "Bad news incoming" I thought grimly. "I need to find the Heart."

I continued to fly over the forest for a few hours, when I reached the exact center though I picked up a gigantic amount of mana, I'd never seen so much mana all at once before. There was also something else, like if the mana was blue coloured, then there was some gold inside that aura, that was strange I needed to investigate. I landed a hundred meters away from the source of magic and continued on foot, I reached a giant cave with multiple crystalline stalactites hanging from the ceiling. The cave resembled a giant mouth filled with teeth, I made my way towards the entrance when the magical aura that I detected before spiked up. A titanic bear generated right in front of me, it was a light lavender colour with an enormous amount of stars inside its body, it keep growing and growing until it reached the forty meters of height, then it spoke with a deep feminine voice that oozed out authority.

"Who are you, stranger? There is nothing for you inside this cave." She stated.

"I'm Philip Mercer, and there is something inside this cave that I need. It's a crystal that grows on the Heart's tree." I said.

"Foolish mortal, you will never enter this cave if you don't pass the test of the Ambrosia." And with that she opened her gargantuan mouth and a stream of gold mist exited, the mist circled me for a bit before being absorbed, the Ursa looked at me with wide eyes before roaring.

"HOW?! How can you have the Ambrosia inside of you? You are not a celestial creature. Wait... I recognize that kind of Ambrosia... YOU! YOU ARE THE ONE THAT KILLED MY CUB!"

"You are the mother of that Ursa minor?" I asked before continuing. "Then yes, it was me that killed him, he killed one of my subjects and threatened to kill the rest of them too! He gathered what he sowed!" I shouted back.

"You, murderer! I will avenge my cub! Prepare to die!"

She tried to smash me with her gigantic paw, but I dodged it she was slow fortunately, she continued to attack me with her paw before going bipedal, she then sucked in a large amount of air before slamming down onto the ground and unleashing a powerful blue colored death ray. I made my way inside the ground to avoid the attack. After the ground stopped trembling I came out and witnessed the total destruction of the forest behind me. I refocused on my enemy in time to see another paw heading in my direction, I created my claws and slashed her I made a big cut on her paw and a good amount of golden blood exited, the wound then closed immediately.

"How are you able to hurt me? No one except a celestial creature can!" She roared before staring into the air and then assume an even more angry look."YOU ATE MY CUB!" She said roaring again and creating an enormous sphere made out of pure mana, she then took it and throw it at me. I created my armour and planted myself into the ground, then I used my hammerfist and punched the sphere with all my force. The energy of that sphere was immense, the strongest thing I ever felt, but I couldn't give up so I pushed more and more. After a good twenty seconds of struggling, the sphere started to give up. I managed to take two steps forward before, with a loud roar, throw the sphere in the air. The sphere passed the clouds before detonating in a almighty crimson and golden explosion, it was like the birth of a sun.

"That's all you got?" I taunted. The Ursa gritted her teeth but said nothing. She then disappeared and reappeared right behind me and hit me with a powerful blow, sending me away through the trees of the forest before stopping against the side of a hill, cracking it for a good forty meters. I looked up and saw another death ray heading in my direction, I dislodged myself from the hill and went again underground, I used my magical sight to make my way towards her while underground. I exited the ground in front of her and leaped into the air uppercutting her with my hammerfist.
The Ursa flew into the air and landed on her back making the earth tremble. I saw my occasion and used my hammerfists as a weight to give her a powerful double punch in the belly. The ground around us shattered under the massive blow and she let out a pained roar, when she tried to swat me away with her paw I used my lightning magic to electrocute her, with the power of a thunderbolt the Ursa thrashed around. I was forced to interrupt when she rolled over trying to squash me.

"Damn you mortal. I will kill you!" She said before her entire form was enveloped in a bright light.
"I'll show you the power of the gods!" She shouted. I readied myself for more trouble.

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I was repairing the door and floor that was destroyed by Phil's outburst and mad run. I was halfway done when suddenly.

I sensed an enormous amount of mana inside the Everfree forest, I recognized Phil's mana but the other source was an enigma.

"Mommy." Said pinkie. "Where is Dad?" I looked at her and her poofy hair were now long and straight.

I sighed. "I don't know sweetie but don't worry, your father is strong far stronger than anything inside this forest." I smiled at her. "Don't worry he will come back. Now why don't you go upstairs and start to think about your dress for the ceremony?" I said.

"Okie dokie loki." She said cheerfully while her hair poofed up again, she then bounced up the stairs.

I shook my head and then I said. "You can come down Fluttershy, I know you are there." True to my words, Fluttershy leaped down from the ceiling and landed on the floor.

"What's really happening?" Said Fluttershy. "And don't try to sell me some reassuring thing, I want the truth."

"Your father is searching the Heart of the Everfree. It's a legendary place that contains a special ingredient to cure Derpy." I said looking at her.

"Derpy is sick?" She said concerned.

"No she's not, she's growing too fast though. It turned out that every living creature inside the forest grows ten times faster than normal in order to reach maturity. Phil is searching for the ingredient to create a potion that will give Derpy her youth back." I said.

"How about us?" Fluttershy asked. "Won't we grow faster too?"

"Our race is far more complicated, we are shapeshifters, if we really want to we could remain babies forever. Also we are immortal so your growth will be the last of your worries." I explained.

"We will never die?" She asked, I nodded. "Neither dad?" I nodded again. "And Pinkie, Rainbow, Applejack, Twilight and Rarity?" She asked excited.

"Our family is the same species, we will all live forever." I said.

"Oh my, that's so awesome, I could just scream! AAAAAAAH" She 'shouted'.

I shook my head amused and rubbed her hair a bit before saying. "Yes it is indeed."

"But Derpy? She is immortal too?" She asked.

I sighed and answered. "No dear, Derpy is a pony. I don't know if she will become an evolved like us, that's her choice and Phil's too."

"But then... that means she will die eventually..." She said with tears in her eyes.

I hugged her and said. "I know it's sad sweetie, but we can't force anyone to become immortal like us. Alright I think that now is the best time to teach you about us." I said then I shouted. "GIRLS! Come here please."

Pinkie popped out from behind Fluttershy and said. "You called?"

"How did she?... Nope I will study this later."

Rainbow came down flying while Rarity and Applejack used the stairs.

"Where is Twilight?" I asked, before a sudden pop behind me startled me.

"'huff' 'puff' I'm-I'm here... hehe." She said.

"Did you teleport?" I asked surprised.

"Yes mommy, I don't know how but I just knew how to do it. It's harder than I thought though." She said regaining her breath.

"There is an explanation. Now sit down and I will teach you everything you need to know about our species."

"Booooring." Said Rainbow.

"Shush" Twilight silenced her. "Continue Mom."

"Thanks dear, Rainbow look." I morphed my arm into a claw. "Do you think that this is boring too?"

"Sooooo coool!" She squeaked.

"Now that I have your attention." I transformed my arm back. "We will start lesson."

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I was inside a green tent with the Omegas, after the battle against the giant beast we mounted a little camp on the outskirt of town, the tent was bare with just a lantern to make light and a wooden table with a holographic emitter.

"We will start searching for the thing that generated that beast and-"

"Mammoth!" I was cut off by the same Omega that killed it.

"What?" I asked.

"I want to call him mammoth, you know because of his size and the teeth." She said.

"How do you know that it's a male?" I asked curious.

"Well he does resemble a giant co-" "Too many details!" I shouted cutting her off.

I cleared my throat and continued. "Anyway as I was saying, we will start searching about the, uh 'mammoth' starting with the Everfree. It's the best place to find some abominations. The mammoth also was very similar to the creatures of the Red Event, I bet my rifle that 000 is the cause of this entire mess." I finished.

"What information we have on 000?" Asked Shining Armor.

"Very little unfortunately, he is incredibly strong, fast and can absorb his victim in order to assume their form. We don't know how much similar he can get while disguised so we will go with the worst case and say that he gain every memory of the victim. He can morph his arms in extremely powerful weapons, the maximum of his power is unknown for now. In no case you are authorized to fight him alone, if you spot him you will retreat and wait for reinforcement. Am I clear?" I asked.

"Pfff hahahaha." Laughed the crazy mare. "Bitch you are not my captain, if I want to fight him alone I will!" She shouted.

"How dare you!" I started before a motion of Shining stopped me.

"Let this go, if the crazy one wants to die just let her. I will take full responsibility." he said.

"Very well..." I muttered. "We know also that he have allies, six mares are currently with him, they are the personification of the six elements of harmony, they are the same as him but much weaker, they are his daughters. From now on we will use codename to identify them." I created the image of 000.

"He will be Hunter, because of his status as a predator." Then one of a little purple filly. "She is Magic."
A butter coated pegasus. "Kindness." A rainbow maned one. "Loyalty." An orange earth pony. "Honesty." A pink one. "Laughter." and finally a white unicorn. "Generosity."

"Is of the utmost importance that they are captured alive all of them except for Hunter. If you have understood everything you are dismissed." I said, the Omega stood up and exited the tent.
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After the blinding light faded away I looked at my foe, she wasn't a giant bear anymore. She was now a two meters tall anthropomorphic bear, with a light lavender fur, blue sky eyes and a massive hammer in her hands. She wore a light armor made out of some kind of silk, it was completely golden with an intricate white design that depicted her constellation among many others. Her ears were more like human ones, her hammer was at least 1.8 meters long completely made out of some kind of white metal, it was covered in intricate pattern that depicted hunt games.

She pointed the hammer towards me with one hand saying. "Fell the wrath of the heavens!" She charged at me with astounding speed, she was so fast I almost missed her I saw her but seeing the attack coming and dodging it is different from just seeing it. When the hammer made contact with my face I was rocketed away leaving behind a giant shockwave that destroyed the nearby trees and made me fly for a hundred meters.

"Dammit that hurt!" I thought, I created my armor and claws, then I returned to the battlefield landing with a loud thud. "That hurt you know?" I said. I tried something new to surprise her, I used my electricity to enhance my legs and speed up to mach 3 in a matter of seconds. With my newfound speed I punched her in the snout with my hammerfist destroying her snout and producing two gigantic shockwaves, the first when I sprinted and the second when I hit her. She destroyed several trees in her flight and when she managed to return, she had her entire snout completely broken with a lot of golden blood on her.

"That." She said while her snout regenerated. "Hurt too." She finished charging at me again with her hammer, I paired her blow with my hammerfist and locked the fight, I started to push against her but she was strong too, in the end we jumped away from each other before charging again. I empowered my speed again and went behind her with my fist raised, when I tried to hit her she rolled away and springed back with her legs, she did a backflip and hit me on top of my head, I fell face first into the ground. She was ready to hit me again but I morphed my legs into arms and blocked the attack, then I moved my head from the ground up to my new upper body.

She backed away and asked. "What are you, a demon?!"

"I'm an extremely pissed off and concerned father!" I shouted back, I created my whipfist and grabbed her leg, then I yanked and started to bash her into the ground before rotating on myself and launching her in the air. I followed her into the air enhancing my speed, I was over her and then I used my hammerfists and lightning to propel myself towards the ground, with her in my trajectory. I hit her and smashed her onto the ground leaving another gigantic crater in the terrain. She coughed up golden blood and I heard the sound of multiple bones snapping. I stood up and I was ready to consume her, but she lifted a hand and shot me in the face with another magical ray.

"Would you kindly remain dead?!" I shouted. "I don't have time for this!"

"You foolish mortal! I'm a god! How dare you defy me!"She shouted.

"Gods don't bleed." I stated. I charged again and tackled her, with my speed though we entered the cave. We rolled giving punches at each other until we stopped against a giant crystal tree, I was on the top so I rolled up, breaking her arm and threw her against the wall. She regenerated her arm and looked at me then she smirked before erupting in laughter.
"What's so funny?" I asked.

"Hahaha, nothing, just thank you for bring me here, I really needed the extra power emitted from the Heart's tree!" She thrusted her hand inside the tree and started to glow more brilliantly, I switched to my magical sight to shield myself from the sheer brightness and saw that her aura got brighter too, also the entire cavern was filled with magical conducts, but the most impressive was the tree itself, it was like if it was an endless fount of magic. I refocused on the fight. She was fast before, but after absorbing the tree's energy, she was extremely fast. She sprinted and reached me in a fraction of a second, hitting me again with her hammer, then she grabbed my leg in mid-air and started to spin before launching me against the same wall I launched her against before.

I stood up and created my armor and claws. She charged me with her hammer rised, I paired her hit with my claws and I was shocked when she made my feet collapse under the ground, she was stronger than before. I broke the standoff and slashed her arm with my claw, she didn't even flinch. I grabbed her arm and threw her away, then I created my hammerfist and slammed them into the ground raising my spikes, she jumped into the air avoiding them. She then landed on the ground slamming her hammer onto it and creating a massive golden wave. I used my biomass to create a shield around me, when the wave passed I retracted the shield and created my whipfist. I tried to grab her again but she dodged and smashed my whipfist with her hammer destroying it.

"It won't work twice, mortal!" She shouted.

I regenerated my arm and stared at her. "I need something new, something that she never saw before." An idea struck me why I never thought of this before was beyond me. I used my biomass to create a new weapon, a long lance with a long double edged tip so that it can thrust and slice near the tips, a single rope was hanging with a deep red colour like almost all the spear. It was covered in intricate symbols and arcane runes, I never saw those signs before so I didn't know how I created them, nonetheless the rest of the lance was reinforced with a big amount of compressed biomass, the lance could snap open and be used as a short, mid and long ranged weapon. Not only that but I created it in a way that it could canalize my lightning, in this way I could throw them at will. Strange enough, it wasn't my arm that morphed into a lance, but the lance formed as a separated entity so I could take it in my hands. The design, the coloration, I recognized it immediately.

"Gungnir!" I thought.

When I did that the lance brightened and I felt myself grow more powerful and lighter. Then I sensed it, the lance was filled with the same coloration that was inside the Ursa, she called it Ambrosia. I smirked at my opponent, then I rotated Gungnir multiple time in my hands before pointing it at her and saying.

"Prepare yourself Ursa. The real battle starts now!" She charged at me with her hammer but I swatted away her attack with Gungnir, the blow was powerful enough to make her skirt along the floor for four meters. She watched me and my new weapon with fear and anger in her eyes.

"That's impossible! You can't use a godly weapon, you are a mortal!" She shouted.

"Wanna bet about that?" I said taunting her. She shot another beam at me, I deflected it like it was nothing and looked at her with a teeth filled smile.

"You're gonna have to try a little harder than THAT!"

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