I unfurl my wings and take to the air, heading to the Everfree forest.
Let's hope I can find a clearing where I can train for a few minutes. I think as I fly. As I'm looking over the forest I spot the castle of the two sisters in the center.
That could work.
I fly ahead towards the ruined castle before I hear a wooshing noise coming up behind me. I look at the source to see Bella flying alongside me.

"Oh hey Bella. Didn't know you were up." I say to my friend.

"Yeah, it's kinda hard not to be when somepony slams the front door open and shouts "Good morning!" Don't you think?" Bella says.

"Ha, I guess so." I laugh.

"You should have seen Lunas face when you went through the wall, it was great." Bella says. "Hey, what did Luna say after she left? I couldn't hear."

"That I was not allowed to go intangible during our bout."

"What did you say to that?" Bella asks.

"All's fair in love and war." I respond smugly.

"Ha, you would. So, where're we going?" Bella asks. I point to the castle we are now close to and say.

"The castle of the twin sisters, to get a little training in before my bout in an hour."

"An hour? That isn't a lot of time." Bella says as I slow down to land.

"It'll be fine. Plus, I'm pretty sure I can get to Canterlot pretty quickly." I say, landing softly in front of the castle, folding my wings and passing through the door, Bella squeezing through the open crack behind me.

"You really use that power allot." Bella says as I start thinking about my powers and what I can learn quickly.

"What can I say, it's useful. Better than screaming my way through." I say as a thought comes to mind. "Hey Bella? I just thought of something."

"Yeah?"

"I have all the powers of the ultimates, right?"

"That's what you said. What are you thinking?" Bella questions.

"What if I have the powers…
Of Ultimate Ben." I say dramatically.

"What's that?" Bella asks, confused.

"Ultimate Ben? You know, that time when Ben went into the future again, met one of his older selves, specifically the one that grew old with the Ultimatrix?" I explain.

"Think I missed that episode." Bella says.

"Ugh. Well anyway. That Ben, Ultimate Ben, had found out how to make himself go ultimate. When he did that, he had the powers of all his aliens while still being human. With just a hit of the Ultimatrix on his chest, he could have any of his powers. Slam, he's as nimble as Spidermonkey. Slam, he's shooting Heatblast flames. Slam, he's as fast as XLR8. Slam, he has Clockworks time powers. He even had the powers of his ultimate forms."

"Wow, that's awesome. Also, his chest?" Bella asks.

"Yeah. Like the Ultimatrix symbol?" I answer.

"Oh. Right. Hadn't thought of that. Well, try it out." Bella says, taking a step back. I unfurl my wings and focus on the Ultimatrix symbol like the Genies note said and…

A black spot forms over the center of my chest before rising out, forming a silver button. A green hourglass shape forms over it, fitting into the curves of the button, four prongs spiking out of the sides, attached to my chest.
I stare wide eyed at my chest, the piece of technology stuck to it glowing a faint green light. I look up to see my friend with the same expression. I just start chuckling at my good fortune.

"Hehehe, awesome. Let's see if this works. *Thump**Shumm* Clockwork!" I yell, hitting the Ultimatrix as I do. A green tinted figure of Clockwork appearing in a green hourglass shaped flash behind me. I snap my fingers and will time to stop.

I succeed.

I move behind Bella and release my hold over time. Bella looks behind her, jumping for her life and screaming as she sees me.

"Really Bella? You jump just from seeing me again? And after so long too. You wound me." I say mock hurtfully. Bella fums and stomps her foot.

"That wasn't funny! And what do you mean long?" She says accusingly.

"It was just a joke. On both counts. But wooow, this is awesome." I say, a goofy grin on my face. "Well. We'd better get going. Don't want to be late. *Thump**Shumm* XLR8." I say, gaining the Kinecelerans powers in a flash. "Gotta go fast." I say, folding my wings and smiling wickedly as I prepare to do something I know my friend will hate.

"Oh no. Don't you da-" My friends sentence is cut off as I pick up Bella and race toward Canterlot at breakneck speed, being careful not to hit anything. I arrive at the base of Canterlot mountain, Bella panting heavily where she stands hunched over next to me. "Don't ever do that again. Please." Bella says scoldingly.

"No promises." I say. Bella responds by glaring at me. I open my wings slightly and switch to Clockwork again, freezing time for me and Bella. "Time for a little surprise." I say as I fix my wings back in position.

"What are you thinking?" Bella asks, looking around at things frozen in motion.

"Walk into Canterlot castle, move past all the guards, keep going until we get to the throne room, resume time and look at everyponies reaction." I list off.

"Huh. Okay, lead the way." Bella says. We make our way through Canterlot towards the castle, making small changes here and there just to be funny. We arrive at the castle entrance to see the door is open as a guard is in the process of letting a pair of ponies into the castle.

"Looks like our lucky day." I say to Bella.

"Looks like." She says back. We continue on into the castle, looking for the throne room. After a few 'minutes' Bella asks me. "Do you even know where the throne room is?"

"Yeah, just follow the guards." I respond.

"Why?"

"They're escorting ponies in, so, if we follow them, we'll end up at the same place they're being sent, which is probably day court, in the throne room."

"Oh." Bella says. We turn another corner to see a large door with two pony guards in front of it, the door being closed.

"Now what?" Bella asks.

"Well I can phase through the door… but I don't think I can include you… maybe you can teleport to the other side?" I ask.

"I can do that?" Bella asks.

"I think so." I say.

"Alright. I'll try." Bella says.

"Let me go through first so that I can meet you on the other side." I say, phasing through the door after. I stand back from the door and see a pink flash. The flash fades and I see my friend checking herself over.

"Cool. Still In one piece." Bella says, smiling.

"Alrighty. Prank time." I say, approaching Celestia on her throne, Bella walking next to me. I stop five steps away from the throne. I get ready to snap and say to Bella. "Alright, three, two…*Snap*." Time resumes and I look forward and say with a smile. "Hello Celestia!" Celestia hops in her chair, squeaking as she sees me and Bella appear in front of her. The guards see us and freak out for a second before surrounding us with weapons drawn. "Morning boys. Did ya miss me?"

"Seth. Where did you come from? And whose this?" Celestia asks, look at Bella.

"We came from the hallway. And this is my friend, Bella. Twilight mentioned her in her message yesterday." I answer. The guards surrounding me and Bella look a little confused at Celestias familiarity with these seemingly unknown creatures, only a few pegasi guards lowering their weapons.
They must be some of the guys who met me at Ponyville.

"Oh. Alright…? Well it's nice to meet you, Bella, but I have a few questions. Most importantly, where were you for four days, Seth? Also, stand down." Celestia asks me, the guards putting away their weapons and returning to their posts, although some reluctantly.

"Didn't you read the letter Twilight sent you? I got sucked into another dimension. And no, I'd rather not talk about it." I say, cutting off Celestias next question. Before Celestia can ask anymore, I hear running hoofsteps down the hallway. "What the?" I say while looking to the door. A pegasus stallion in guards armour bursts through the door.

"Attentio-! Ah!" The pegasus yells before seeing me and screaming. "Seth? Your early." He says.
Wait a minute.

"Lance Bolt? Ha! Well hi. Wait, early?" I say, greeting the pegasus.

"Yeah, princess Luna said you shouldn't be here for another twenty minutes. Oh, that reminds me. You should head to the arena. Your duel with Luna is in half an hour." Lance Bolt says, lots of the guards looking surprised at what he said, before directing his attention to everypony in the throne room. "Also, message from princess Luna, her highness will be participating in a duel in the arena in half an hour with Seth." He says, pointing at me at the end of his sentence.

"Alright." I say before I stop time and move next to Lance Bolt, resuming time after. "By the way." I say, Lance Bolt and everypony in the room jumping into the air as I appear next to the pegasus. "Where's the arena?" I say, my tone oblivious. Lance Bolt looks to where I'm standing and where I was a second ago, completely flummoxed. I can't help but crack up at the look on his face. "Pfft hahaha, your face! Anyway, in all seriousness, where is the arena?" I ask.

"Uuuuh. Oh, I'll escort you there. Follow me." Lance answers.

"Awesome. Bella? You coming?" I ask, looking behind me to my friend.

"Hm? Oh, of course." Bella says, jogging up next to me.

"Who are you?" Lance asks Bella.

"Seth's best friend." Bella answers.

"Ah. Well follow me." Lance says, leaving the throne room. We follow him for ten minutes before we come to a complication. That complication?

Blueblood.

"Ah! Uhuhgu- what is this?!" Blueblood screams stammering as he walks past a corner and sees us.

"Don't worry, prince Blueblood. He and his friend are guests on behalf of princess Luna." Lance says, trying to calm down the unicorn.

"Are you sure?" Blueblood asks, taking a step back.

"Yes, I'm sure. They are not a threat." Lance says.

"Oh. Well. Pardon me. It is nice to meet you." Prince Blueblood says, extending his hand, although I can tell he is still scared.
Looks like he's nice here. Thank goodness.

"A pleasure, your highness." I say, lightly shaking his hand.

"Well, we should get going. We are on the clock." Lance says, walking down the hall.

"On the clock? Ah yes. My aunts duel. Are you going to be watching too?" Blueblood asks, following after us.

"Watching? More like participating." I answer.

"Participating? Oh. Are you the one my aunt challenged?" Blueblood asks.

"Yes I am." I answer.

"Wow, you must be brave to accept a challenge from the princess of the night."

"Or just an idiot looking to have some fun." I say, grinning. Blueblood explodes with laughter.

"Bahahaha. I like you. Well, I wish you luck in your duel." Blueblood says as we come to a door that leads a outside path.

"Shouldn't you be wishing princess Luna luck?" I say.

"Oh please. Everypony is doing that. I personally like to be optimistic." Blueblood says, winking.

"Hm. Thanks, I'll be sure to provide a show." I say, smiling.

"Your welcome. And thanks." Blueblood says as we come up to a large stadium.
Whoa. Where'd the time go.

"That was fast." Bella says.

"I know. And I didn't even do anything." I say, Blueblood looking at me confusedly. We come to a door to the stadium, a guard posted next to it. He sees us and raises his weapon, a spear.

"At ease, guard. This stallion is our guest. He is the one princess Luna challenged." Lance says. The guard secures his weapon and says.

"Why would such a monster have the honour of fighting a princess." Blueblood immediately looks at the guard angrily.

"Ohg! Apologize this instant! He is not a monster. If he was, why would my aunt challenge him?" Blueblood demands.

"To execute him?" The ~~guard~~ idiot says.

"Another word like that and I will demote you. Now apologize. That's an order." Blueblood commands.

"I'm sorry." The idiot says uncaringly. I narrow my eyes at him before I notice his spear is damaged.

"That's quite a crack in your spear, you should get it looked at. In fact, allow me to fix it for you." I say, holding my hand out. He clutches his weapon to his chest.

"Do you really think I would give my weapon to a mo- an outsider." He tells me. I notice what he intended to say but simply keep my hand held out.

"Do as he says." Blueblood orders. The guard steps forward, between me and Blueblood. I take his weapon and will it's time back to when it was whole. The weapon glows green for a second before returning to normal, completely intact. I hand the guards weapon back. He accepts and stares at it with awe, before narrowing his eyes at me. We enter the stadium to the sounds of what seems to be fighting and light cheering. As we enter the arena, I see ponies have started to fill up the stands and that Luna is in the arena, swinging two swords and intermittently shooting magic out of her horn at targets around the arena wall, hitting bullseyes every time. She sees us and approaches, the crowd going silent as they see me.

"Greetings Seth. Your earlier than I expected." She says.

"Thanks. Although I don't think anypony was expecting me." I say, looking to the silent crowd. Luna notices and turns around.

"Ponies of Canterlot!" Luna calls out in her royal Canterlot voice. "My opponent has arrived! Yes! He is a strange being! But that does not deter me! He is the one who saved Ponyville five days ago!" Ponies in the stands start murmuring and whispering to each other as they hear this. A golden flash goes off above the stands. Celestia now sitting in a throne overlooking the arena. She looks around at the crowd, an eyebrow raised.

"Well? Are we not here for a duel?" Celestia asks, everyone able to hear her.

"Well that's my cue, I'd say. Wish me luck!" I say as I move to one side of the arena, Luna moving to the other. The crowd starts chanting.

"Luna! Luna! Luna! Luna!" I see a flash to the left then above right of me and see that Blueblood has teleported Bella to the the stands bellow Celestias viewing box. Celestia raises her hand and counts down in a voice that everypony can hear.

"Three… two… one… BEGIN!" She counts, dropping her hand and signalling us to start. Luna immediately starts by ~~shooting a blast of~~ getting slammed into the ground as I move behind her and grab her by the back of the neck in an instant, pummeling her into the ground.

"Too slow." I say. Luna teleports out of my grasp to the other side of the arena, ~~firing a big magic bolt~~ getting a kick from behind as I dodge her spell. She looks behind herself, shocked to see me standing there. I take a step forward, stop time and move behind her again, resume time and tap her on the shoulder. She jumps and turns around.

"How are you doing that?! You're not teleporting! So what is it?!" Luna yells.

"Simple. I'm just walking behind you and attacking you. Sure, you can't see it happening, but that's what it is." I say, Luna looking at me like I'm crazy. "Here, I'll prove it. I will not lift my tail off the ground for my next three attacks. How's that?" I say, lowering my tail so that it drags on the ground. I now stop time again and move to behind Lunas right. I resume time again and prepare to punch Luna. She sees the trail my tail left and ducks on instinct, narrowly dodging my strike. "Nice." I say. She responds by rushing me, both her swords raised. I raise my hand and hit her with a time beam, slowing her to a crawl. Everypony in the audience, Celestia included, stare wide mouthed. I take a few steps to the side as she slowly progresses forward. I snap my fingers, freeing her, and watch as she sails past. I look to Celestia and see she is speaking to Bella who has moved into her box. Celestia gasps and stands up, hands on the box wall, and calls out.

"Luna! I don't know how but he's controling time!"

"What?!?" Luna shouts. "What do you mean?!?"

"Allow me to explain." I say. "I posses the power to manipulate time. Fast forwarding it, slowing it down and even directing it into a beam, as you saw before." I say, Luna looking she's starting to catch on.

"So you weren't moving at extreme speed or teleporting. Your just speeding yourself up." Luna realizes.

"Or slowing you down, but enough with the clockwork," I say, opening my wings and raising my arm. "Time to XLR8.*Thump**Shum*" I say, switching to XLR8.

"What is that-?" Lunas sentence gets cut off as I dash in front of her and almost hit her, with her only just dodging me by teleporting. I look over the field in less than a second and spot Luna, speeding straight at her, causing her to flinch, giving me an opportunity to attack. Before I can, she teleports away from me. She reappears in front of me and throws up a barrier. I pelt the barrier with high speed blows, straining her power.

"This is fun. Don't you think so?" I say.

"Very." Luna says from within her barrier.

"Let's change things around a little." I say, deactivating my Ultimatrix power and focusing on my Rath claws. The Ultimatrix sinks away from under my wing-cloak and two pairs of large claws sprout from the backs of my hands. Luna looks surprised at my new claws before I drive them through her shield and shatter it by spreading my arms. Luna raises her swords and tries to strike me but I deflect with my claws, surprising Luna again. She backs away and raises her swords between us.

"Those claws are durable." Luna comments.

"Thanks." I say. I rush forward and continuously slash at Luna, her blocking me with her swords infused with her magic. On one slash, she ducks and scores a hit on my shoulder but her sword doesn't even scratch me.

"What the?" She says before I backhand her back a few feet, she landing on her feet.
Let's try this. I think before I retract my claws and lean my head back.

"Hey Bella! Throw up a dome, won't you!?" I yell over my shoulder. Two seconds later, a large pink dome appears over the arena, Luna getting nervous in front of me.

"What are you doing?" Luna asks.

"Damage prevention." I say, smirking.

"Dam… oh no." Luna says, worried.

"Tell you what, I'll give you a choice. Pick a number. One, two or three."

To be continued…

Author's Note

Sorry for the wait, everypony. Laziness hit me Really hard. Let's hope that doesn't happen again.
Also, what do you think of the fight?

Ps: comment what outcome you want. If it's a tie (or no one votes) I will choose 2.