Equilibrium, Book 1: The First Human.

November 3, 1000, C.E.
10:45 A.M.

John felt like a new man as he reached Rarity's door. He knocked a few times and patiently waited for an answer. The dorr glowed a soft blue hue before it opened to reveal Sweetie Belle. She gave john both a hug and a smile.

"Hey there Sweetie." He smiled as he hugged her back.

"Hello yourself." she said as she invited him in. He shuffled around nervously looking over to Rarity's arts and crafts room.

"Is your sister in today?" Sweetie gave him a nod and headed on over to her sister's art room. She poked her head in and saw her sister hard at work sewing up a ripped seam.

"Psst sis? Can you come out here for a sec?" Rarity looked up from her machine with a smile.

"Oh Sweetie Belle how are you?" Sweetie gave her sister a nod of her head.

"There's someone her to see you." Rarity hopped off her machine and gave her back a stretch. A satisfying pop made her sigh with relief. She gave her hair a quick toss to the side as she trotted out the room. Seeing John standing there made her smile.

"Hello darling." She went and gave John a hug that he accepted and smiled as Rarity gave him a critical eye. Rarity let a smirk roll over her muzzle as she looked back to her craft's room.

"So I would assume that your finally back to your senses and are here for your gift?" John too took a look at the room. With little hesitation he gave her a nod.

"Suit me up Rarity. I've got some flying lessons ahead of me." Rarity simply nodded with a smile as her horn glowed.

11:01 A.M.

Fluttershy softly landed on a cloud just out of reach of Rainbow Dash's house. Her crimson eye's scanned her friend's home and she was horrified to see it utery surrounded by the dark silhouette of the phantoms magic.

"Oh Rainbow." She muttered as she hopped off her cloud and headed to Dash's front door. She knocked a few ties and patiently waited. Her hearing picked up the sound of several ponies traipsing around inside the house. As the door began to open Fluttershy's smile dissolved into a scowl as she saw none other than Soarin n the other side of the door. He absolutely reeked of the phantoms magic and Fluttershy was pissed to see him look so smug as he leaned against the door.

"Well hello there-" Fluttershy didn't let Soarin finish as she launched herself at the stallion decking him with a single blow to the face. She caught his body before it could slump to the floor and alert Dash who according to Fluttershy's hearing was still upstairs in bed. She let out a sigh of relief as she made her way into the house.

11:02 A.M.

As Fluttershy was up at Rainbow's house Pinky Pie was out and about delivering invitations to Rainbow Dash's upcoming birthday. She reached into her saddle bag and pulled out a huge invitation as she trotted down the dirt path to Sweet Apple Acres. Looking into the sky a wry smile passed over her muzzle.

"Let's take a shortcut." Her smile never left her face even as the world suddenly warped around her and she found herself right outside the apple family home. With a little temporal magic from the void she began to rapidly knock on the front door. With her rapid assault of the finely aged wood done she stood back and waited for someone to answer. The screen door door opened and Pinky beamed as Aion tentatively looked up at the strange mare before him. He felt the distortion of magic from within her and frankly it scared the hell out of him.

"H-h-he-l-l-lo." He stuttered and then blushed at his own voice as it cracked. Pinky let out a chuckle as she got to her belly and looked Aion in the eye.

"Hey there Aion. Are any of your older siblings around by chance?" She asked in a soft low tone. Aion looked back to the staircase behind him and then back to Pinky,

"Um yeah. Let me go get Applejack." Aion was nervous, not without good reason however. He had been feeling plenty of temporal distortions all around town. They just felt wrong to him. Like a piece of reality was just not there or acting unnaturally. Pinky had that same feeling to an extent but she gave off a warm fuzzy feeling to go along with it. As he hopped up the stairs his mind went wild with crazy theories and ideas. His brain came to a halt when he stepped up to Applejack's door.

"Hey sis Pinky Pie's here to see you." Applejack looked over at her door from her bed and smiled.

"All right there squirt. Tell her I'll be out in a bit." She heard his little hooves walk down the stairs and sighed as she rolled out of bed. She looked at her mirror and fixed her slightly askew mane. Putting into her signature ponytail she smiled as she went and grabbed her dad's hat and mother's handkerchief. She put he hat on her head and tied the red bandana around her neck.

"All right cousin let's go see what you got for me today." She smirked as she trotted out her room and down to the door. She looked outside but didn't see Pinky standing there. She smiled as she headed towards the kitchen, hearing the clanging of pots and pans.

"Now this is how you make a nice fluffy pancake." Pinky's voice sang from the kitchen as she and Aion stood at the stove. Applejack laughed to herself as she leaned against the door frame to the kitchen. Pinky gave her a wave with her tail while Aion turned around on his stool.

"Hey there sis." He said hopping down and giving AJ a hug. AJ gave him a soft nuzzle in response and looked around.

"Hey why don't you go find your other sister and hang with her and the rest of the C.M.C. Aion stuck his tongue out at the thought.

"Ik Why do i have to go and play with a bunch of fillies?" He said as AJ gave him a stern look. He let out nervous chuckle as he darted off out the door and down the street. Aj just snickered to herself as she trotted over to the stove.

"So how's John doing?" Pinky asked causin AJ to suck in a breath. She gave Pinky a sad smile.

"He's doing.." She hesitated for a split second. "Good." She said as she forced herself to flash Pinky a kind smile. Pinky for the most part didn't call her out on her obvious lie. Instead she shook her head and pointed to the dining table. She then flashed one of her trademark smiles.

"There's an invitation for all of you to Rainbow Dash's birthday party in there." She said as Aj trotted over to the dining room. Aj scooped up the gift in her hooves and sighed.

Pinky I don't--" She stopped as she looked into the kitchen to see it empty. Aj just chuckled as she set the gift down. Then she let out a long sigh.

"Guess I'll have to have a nice long chat with John about this." She said setting the gift down and sitting there in a chair.

"The shit has officially hit the fan." She muttered as she shook her head.

11:13 A.M.

Fluttershy stood there scanning the house for the source of the phantom.

"Gotcha!" She softly spoke as she tracked it to Rainbow's bedside. With a quick flap of her wing's Fluttershy pushed through the cloud's and headed to the third floor room. As she drifted through the floor she saw that Dash was still asleep. With her mind focused and her nerves steeled Fluttershy glared at the picture but stopped when she saw the group photo held within.

"What? How?" She said as she reached over with a wing and picked up the picture. She held it close not believing her eye's. She knew the picture very well. The girl's were all there including the C.M.C. The problem however was the absence of her son. In his place was none other than the fucker out cold on the bottom floor. Fluttershy held back her rage and called upon her magic once more. She cast a sound dampening spell over the room.

"Come out phantom. I know your here." She leveled her gaze upon the doorway as a form began to materialize out of thin air. As the pony trotted forward Fluttershy's crimson gaze hardened. The phantom meanwhile was smirking as he sauntered over to Dash's bed and began to stroke her main.

"I told her I'd get her in bed one day." He smirked as he saw the look of unbridled fury on Fluttershy's face. She in turn let out a pulse of dark magic repeing the alicorn befor her.

"If you touch her or a single hair on my son again, I'll make sure you beg me for death when I come for you." The phantom let out a fase tremble of fear as he laughed.

"Oh you really think you can take me on?" He laughed some more. Fluttershy grinned as she took a step forward.

"You really don't know who I am do you?" The phantom stopped his laughter and gave Fluttershy a sultry smirk.

"Oh I have an idea of just who and what you are." He winked as Fluttershy get getting closer. Fluttershy for her part just smiled as she locked eyes with the phantom. He stood stock still as she got closer and closer. Finally she was nose to nose with the sill as stone phantom. She smiled whickidly as she booped him. He stood there still not moving. While his body was silent his mind was frantic.

"What the fuck did you do to me!?" He screamed as he fought to regain control of his body. Fluttershy just circled his stone form as she began to giggle.

"Oh what's the matter big boy can't break out of a little hypnotism?" She caressed his cheek as he slowly began to sweat. She then stepped up to him and kissed him on the lip's. His mind let out a garbled moan of pleasure as she continued to kiss him while making her way down his face stopping once she got to his neck.

"You know I could get used to this." She said as she looked into the phantom's eye's. His own were filed with fear.

"What?" He asked mentally as his heart raced. Fluttershy just smiled and showed him her row's of razor sharp teeth. In his blind panic the phantom stumbled over his hooves as he managed to regain his motor skills. He fell flat on his back and let out a scream as Fluttershy pounced upon his prone form. His screams echoed throughout the room as blood and organs splattered all over the room. When Fluttershy was done with her mauling she held the phantom's severed head up with her magic.

"Tell your master I'm coming for him." She then tossed the head to the side as if it was no more than a piece of shit on her hoof. She then looked around and sighed as she used her magic to mop up the blood and guts strewn about the room like gory party streamers.

"Two down." She looked over to see Dash's still sleeping form. She then saw the temporal distortion from before appear and right before her eye's the group photo had switched out Soarin for John. She smiled as she leaned over and gave Dash a kiss on the cheek.

"Sweet dreams Dashy." She then drifted through the floor and trotted out the door. Before she closed the door however ana evil grin spread over he muzzle. Slowly she turned over to Soarin's still unconscious form.

"You want to fuck around with me and my family fine. I'm game." She smiled ruefully as she used her magic to enter Soarin's mind.