God Problems
Chapter 10: Visiting Seth and Bella
Previous ChapterNext ChapterIt had been a couple of days since the Everfree trip had ended. Sunset and Pinkie were smiling as they sat in front of the mirror they had created, it had a simple illusion filter and evasion enchantment placed on it so that people didn’t bump it or see it. Twi tapped the two devices that they had on their wrists “These will allow us to contact you if something big happens.”
Sunset smiled “I’m eager to see where Seth and Bella came from. I must admit I want to see the difference between the worlds.” The whole group wished them luck before they opened the mirror and jumped through the portal.
Sunset and Pinkie as soon as they jumped through were standing on their hooves, Sunset was wearing a light green dress over her orange chitin with holes to fit her changeling wings through. Pinkie had similar holes through her light blue dress for her Alicorn wings. Sunset snarled “Are you fucking kidding me?! Learning to walk on feet was hard enough!”
Pinkie frowned as she looked around the dark forest “Where are we?”
Sunset grimaced “The Everfree Forest, home to some of the most dangerous beasts within Equestria’s borders.”
Pinkie shrugged “Nothing we can’t handle, now which way to…” Pinkie and Sunset tensed as they saw an unfamiliar human land in the clearing. Pinkie’s eyes narrowed “Who are you?”
Sunset’s eyes narrows as the stranger exclaims theatrically “Pinkie~!I’m wounded, don’t you recognise one of your friends?”
Sunset’s clearly annoyed storms over to him “Okay, listen here you-!”
The figure raises his hand and four peach fingers turned into three massive green ones with metal knuckles. He then spoke in a familiar voice turning to them as he did so “Hi Sunset, Hi Pinkie.”
Pinkie leapt at him knocking him over with a grin “SETH!”
Sunset rolled her eyes “Get off him Pinkie” she then smirked “unless you want to bring him to our bed. I can think of some really kinky things to do in the bedroom.”
Pinkie giggled as Seth phased through the ground and came up next to Pinkie Pie. Pinkie Pie grinned at him as he shook his head “I now have two reasons to not make jokes with you two.”
Sunset laughed “I’m sure we could find some way to make it three” she then frowned “I can feel your energy along with some strange energy I can’t recognise in an area nearby. May you please explain what happened?”
Seth nodded “That’s probably from my friend who was just here. You actually just missed her.” He paused for a moment “Actually, that’s good because if you two met even the- nevermind. Anyway! What brings you to fine ladies to my dimension today?”
Sunset smirked “Fine?”
Seth facepalmed “Ugh, walked right into that one.” He then shook his head “Anyway, what’s up?”
Pinkie smiled “Well we returned from Camp Everfree. Then we met the highest ranking being in the Eldritch Pantheon, then we came here to visit. What about you?”
Seth smiled “Eldritch pantheon? Don't think I've heard of that. And camp Everfree? Good for you! Now let's see… I… went to Canterlot for the first time, had a duel with Luna, I won. I… met some people who are from the dimension my powers are from, figured out- well, got shown how to turn out of my hybrid form, as you can see.”
Seth’s voice shifted back to the way it was when he arrived “Met Jet, another Displaced who I'm friends with. Hey, is his car still here? Not important. And just today, I met my first two proper Displaced, had a battle with one of them, learned some new things about myself aaaand… almost ripped apart my reality. I think that's it.”
Sunset sighed “It sounds like you had fun and made a bit of a mess.” She then smiled “I would like to meet some for you friends here if you don’t mind.”
Pinkie grinned “Yes, we get to make new friends!”
Seth sighed “See, now I would love to that… except there’s one little problem.”
Pinkie blinked “What?”
Seth frowned “Simple. The second you arrived here, every unicorn in sight fainted.”
Sunset and Pinkie nodded clapping their hands together as their aura’s entangled before slowly dissipating “We found entangling our auras keeps them in our bodies so we don’t knock out everyone. Will that allow us to go into town?”
Seth smiled “Cool solution. Especially for you two. Allow me to escort you to the town.”
Pinkie laughed “Well aren’t you a gentlemen!”
As they were walking a Timberwolf leapt out of the bushes towards Seth, he simply moved his arm. The wolf bit and chewed on it for a second before Seth slammed it into a tree causing it to shatter.
He then turned to them “By the way, you two may want to put on some sort of disguise, we don’t want ponies being any more freaked out then they already are.”
Sunset frowned “That would be foolish, if we want them to trust us we need to be transparent. I’d rather not our disguises fail for one reason or another then cause a much larger panic. Besides Pinkie is an Alicorn here, she will be revered enough to give me some benefit of the doubt I hope.”
Seth nodded “Okay. That’s fair. And hey! At least we can tell them apart.”
Pinkie looked quizzically at Seth “Tell who apart?”
Seth grinned “You.”
Sunset and Pinkie blink in confusion which quickly turns to surprise as this Equestria’s Pinkie appeared out of thin air “Hey Seth! Did you see it?! All the unicorns in town fain..” Pinkie trailed as she saw her godly counterpart “ted.”
Sunset shook her head “Well this is going to be confusing.”
The godly Pinkie frowned “Okay while I’m here call me Yulo, it’s was the first of many different names. Unless you want to call me Cleopatra or Joan of Arc.”
Seth nodded “Yulo? Huh, better than anything I can- wait Cleopatra?” He then burst into laughter “Hohohoh, how’d that come along?”
Pinkie’s eyes narrowed “Seth, let me tell you that Julius Caesar and Mark Antony are really bad at sex. They were rough and fast more often than not, also dying by the bite of an Asp is not fun. Twenty minutes of fucking agony so don’t fucking mock me about that!”
Seth spoke quickly “Okay, I’m sorry, forget I mentioned it, let’s go!” Sunset gave Yulo a peck on the cheek as they headed into town.
Many ponies see the four of them, some in fear and others curious about there being two Pinkies. Several unicorns were standing shakily, Seth sees a rainbow blur only for a blue pegasus mare with a rainbow mane to land in front of them “Pinkie, what’s happened to…” she sees then two Pinkies and turned to Seth “Seth, what’s going on?”
Sunset stepped forward “I’m Sunset and this is my…”
Rainbow rushed at her “Changeling!” Yulo caught her hand and glared at her with pure malice “You will leave my girlfriend alone or else there will be trouble!” The Pink Alicorn casually threw the pegasus into the air.
Rainbow Dash orient herself and shouted “Changeling!” Everypony runs as fast as they can to get away.
Seth shouted “Rainbow! She’s my friend. She’s not a threat!”
Rainbow growled “But she’s a changeling.”
Seth shouted back “And I’m an energy sucking Osmosian! Now get down here and apologise before I make you!” He then turns to Sunset and Yulo “Please excuse her, she just trying to help everypony.”
Sunset shrugged “Dash can be like that two but Rainbow tends to keep her in check back home.”
Rainbow Dash landed only for a tennis ball to hit her on the back of the head, she turned and growled “Who hit me with that?”
A female covered in black chitin with a dark teal mane frowned “That was me, you caused a panic about changeling and many ponies thought it was me.”
Sunset felt a tear in her eye as she whispered “Chrysalis.”
Seth muttered “I’m an idiot” he then turned to Chrysalis “Listen, Chrysalis, I’m sorry about her, she just met…”
Before Seth could say word another Chrysalis was grabbed in a mighty hug by a crying Sunset “I’m sorry, so sorry!”
Chrysalis would have said something if it wasn’t for the overwhelming amount of love pouring out of Sunset. Yulo sighed as she slowly extracted Chrysalis from the hug “Sunset has lived multiple lives and in one of them she was Queen Lumina mother of our Equestria’s Queen Chrysalis.”
Chrysalis turned to Seth with hesitation “Another displaced?”
Seth frowned “Not exactly, they are not from our world though.”
Chrysalis sighed as she turned to Sunset “Listen, while I thank you for the hug” she then whispered something impossible to hear before continuing “I’m not the same Chrysalis, I’m not even the one from this dimension. My mother’s name was Arachnia the Vile. A real witch even by my standards.”
Sunset dried her tears “I’m sorry too but I couldn’t help, just seeing your brought back so many good memories even if it didn’t end well between your counterpart and I.”
Seth shrugged “Anyway, how about…” he noticed that Rainbow as she was trying to sneak away. Seth’s arm turned into a huge reddish black construct and pulled the Pegasus over using gravity. Seth frowned “Where do you think you are going? You, little filly, still haven't apologised.”
Rainbow struggled furiously “Hey! I’m not a filly!”
Seth’s eyes narrowed “And I’m not hearing an apology.”
Rainbow Dash frowned “Fine, I…” she then mumbled “I'm sorry.”
Seth growled “What was that?”
Rainbow turns to Sunset “I’m sorry.”
Sunset sighed “Apology accepted but don’t do it again, I have little patience for this foolishness. Consider yourself warned.”
Seth nodded “I’d listen to her, Dash. She is NOT to be messed with.”
Rainbow exclaims “Oh come on. What can she do?”
Seth shouted “Sunset!” Sunset turned to him as his body began to grow and turn a metallic silver “Can you lightly kick me please?”
Sunset blinked “What? Why?”
Seth frowned “I want Rainbow to see what you can do. And don’t worry about me falling. If an Arburian Pelarota can survive a fall from orbit. An Ultimate one can survive much more.” His voice became at lot deeper as he said the last sentence and now had light blue metallic skin. He had multiple cylindrical studs on his back, one each shoulder, wrist and leg plate. He then stepped towards Sunset and rolled into a spiked ball.
Yulo blinked “Weren’t you bigger last time you transformed into that?”
Seth nodded slightly in the ball form “Last time, I was almost four metres tall.”
Yulo nodded “Good point.”
Sunset frowned “And your sure about this.”
Rainbow exclaimed “Hey wait a minu-”
Seth nodded “Yes, just lightly kick me. Now watch closely Rainbow.”
Sunset nodded “Alright.” She then reared back her hoof “Here we go.” Sunset even with her weak kick easily hit with the force of an exploding universe sending hurtling into the sky.
Sunset didn’t get to say a word before she felt a fist punch her cheek, she then proceeded to backhand the individual stupid enough to punch her so hard that the mare did one full orbit of the planet in less than a second before being caught in her hand by the throat. She turned to see an unconscious Celestia in her hand, she rolled her eyes “Of course it would be you, it’s always you.” She then looked up as she dropped the unconscious princess onto the ground without an inch of concern “I probably sent him to other side of the universe with that kick.”
Rainbow let out a growl as she flew towards Sunset “How dare you hurt the Princess!” Rainbow coughed up blood as Sunset had stuck her hand through Rainbow’s body on impulse, Sunset blinked “Oops.”
Rainbow landed on the ground the light leaving her eyes, Pinkie ran over crying “Rainbow Dash!”
Yulo facepalmed “Sunset I love you but that was dumb, now let me fix this.” Yulo clicked her fingers and all of Rainbow’s wound healed.
Rainbow jolted up in shock and shivered “I can’t believe she killed me! It was so cold, like all that was good in the world was gone.”
Yulo sighed “This world is not like ours dammit, death is a lot more permanent here and we can’t just going around like that.”
Sunset rubbed the back of her head before looking at Rainbow “Sorry about that, I didn’t think. I just reacted to a threat.”
Rainbow shouted “Why is that the first you do?!What kind of sick world are you from?!”
Yulo frowned “Your overreacting Rainbow, three things first generally most beings that we would fight are much stronger than you. Second we have dragon balls that can bring back the dead and third Sunset was holding back a lot, we both are and it’s very difficult for us to interact with mortals. We both have enough power to wipe this entire plain of reality out if we are not careful.”
Chrysalis exclaims her eyes wide “What?” Celestia begins to awaken, Chrysalis burst into green flames assuming the form of a black pegasus with a streak running through her mane and tail.
Yulo commented “That was fast?’
Celestia once fully conscious stood up and glared at Sunset “Why are you here Changeling Queen?”
Yulo stepped forward with a scowl “She is my girlfriend, lay a finger on her and you’ll be in a world of pain!”
Celestia’s eyes widened “You’re an Alicorn?”
Yulo frowned “I’m much more than that, I’m Yulo Goddess of Chaos but back home I’m Pinkie Pie.”
Sunset nodded “I am Ava, Goddess of Harmony and known back home as Sunset Shimmer.”
Celestia exclaimed “Pinkie Pie? Wait, Sunset?!”
Yulo frowned “Not the one you know. We are from a different dimension.”
Celestia frowned “Your, what did Twilight call them, Displaced?”
Sunset shook her head “No, we are not like that. We came here because we are incredibly powerful beings, goddesses capable of building entire universes should we so choose.”
Just at that moment they saw a purple unicorn galloping over “Princess Celestia, I need to tell you about what has happened in Ponyville. Wait where’s Seth?”
Yulo rubbed her head “He asked Sunset to kick him, he will be back soon.”
The purple mare growled as her horn sparked glaring at Sunset “Changeling!”
Rainbow frowned “You shouldn’t do that, she will kill you then her girlfriend over there will bring you back to life. It’s not a pleasant experience.”
Sunset shrugged “You’re different from the Twilight I know, then again she is an undead Paladin Alicorn so there is bound to be difference.”
Twilight stares at Sunset and Yulo completely confused “What?”
Yulo frowned “We don’t really know the full story, she would be better at explaining but she isn’t here right now and pulling her here to explain it would be very rude.”
Twilight blinked in confusion “She? Who’s she?”
Sunset frowned “Our Equestria’s Twilight Sparkle, she’s an Undead Paladin Alicorn married to the Lich King Arthas.”
Twilight’s brain proceeds to shut down “Uuuh… Huuuu…”
Yulo raised an eyebrow at Celestia “I thought your student was made of tougher stuff than that?”
Celestia blinked “What do you mean by that?”
Sunset frowned “She means considering you have dimensional traveller living in your world she would be more used to strange stuff.”
Sunset grimaced as a purple hairless cat appeared in front of them “Beerus, what are you doing here?”
Beerus frowned “The other Gods of Destruction are really eager on a meeting with you.”
Yulo growled “We are not beholden to them, Beerus! Damn it why are they so bloody insistent!”
A light purple mare with a white and purple mane and tail popped into existence. She wore a yellow propeller hat with a green fan on top, her purple spiral irises looking curiously before she grinned as she wrapped Beerus in a hug “Thank you for getting me a cat!”
Beerus growled “Get off me you stupid fool!” He flared his energy throwing her off, she then screamed in agony as Beerus punched a hole in her chest.
Sunset snarled “Beerus!You idio…” she then turned around to see Seth land “…it. Seth?”
Sunset and Yulo hear a unknown voice as Seth’s eyes begin to glow“D̵̰̊i̴̝͂s̵̯̆ē̵̮n̸͍͘g̷͓̓a̷̛͓g̴̬̿ė̵͔ ̴̤̂A̴̛̪L̷̩̀L̴̥̅ ̴̤̋Ḑ̴̓i̶̼̚r̷͙̎ę̷̈́c̷̻̈t̷͒͜í̵̮v̵̲́e̸͎̓s̴͍̀.̵͍̐”
Yulo approaches cautiously “Seth?”
The voice grew even louder as one of Seth’s eyes turned began to glow green“W̶̛͇E̴͕̚ ̶͚̌Ẅ̷̱́O̴̡̚N̶̜͘"̷̜̽T̴̒͜ ̶̛͓L̵͍̕E̸͙̕Ṫ̷͜ ̷̥̀Y̵̫͛O̴̝̓U̸̬̽ ̷͕͛G̴̨͠Ë̷͍Ť̴̰ ̶̙͘A̵̳͂W̷̞̉A̸̲͠Ý̷̼ ̴̡̾W̷̛̜I̶̹̓T̷̨̂Ĥ̸ͅ ̷̙́T̶͓̔H̴̛͖Ī̷̗S̸̘̿!̶̖̎”
Yulo frowned “Seth, what are you-?”
Seth turned to her staring directly into her eyes “Ū̷͙n̷͉̉d̵̪͋e̸̹͊r̷̤̈́ ̶̨̈ṋ̸̔o̷̬͊ ̴̡̊c̶̗̋ḯ̴̘r̸̭͋c̷̣̈́û̸̡m̶͎̀s̴͎̓t̴̻͝ä̷̟́n̴͠ͅc̷͖͝e̷͖͒ś̴̱ ̷̢̾a̷͚͝r̷̓͜ë̸̜́ ̸͕͝ÿ̸̠́ö̸̟́ù̶̘ ̸̫͗t̴̻̓o̶̙͑ ̴̳̇i̷̝͠n̵͇̍ṫ̶͍e̵͔͝ŕ̴̡f̷̻̀e̴͉̍r̵̖̕è̴̲.̶͚̊ ̷̣̍Ù̸̘ń̶̖d̴̺̐ḛ̶̈́r̵̨̈s̸̗̎t̸̺̍a̷͉͆ņ̵͌d̵̳̍?̴̭́”
Yulo nodded with a shrug knowing that she could easily stop him with a finger if she wanted to but Beerus had crossed a line and this would be an important lesson for him to learn “Okay.”
Beerus roared “You really think you can talk to a supreme being like that? And now you challenge me?! You really are foolish!”
Seth glared at the God of Destruction “W̶̘͗e̵̗̾ ̷̧͌w̸̻͝ì̶͇l̷̛̤l̵̰͆ ̵̦̈́ḳ̷̋i̸̥̿l̵̩̄l̸̪͒ ̷̛̬y̶̲̎ŏ̷̖u̶̜͋ ̸̳͛f̸͙̅o̴͙̅ṟ̶̈́ ̸̳̿ṯ̵͌h̴̦̆a̷̔ͅt̸̡͒!̷̣̄”
Beerus laughed “You honestly think… koof?!” He was cut off as Seth punched him with a metallic fist launching him into the air with a “clunk!” Beerus’ eyes widen ins surprise but before he could do anything Seth flew in front of him and slugged him with an armoured red leg. Beerus crashed into a mountain and Seth flew after him with a fist glowing orange and red.
Beerus fired a blast of energy at Seth, Seth quickly absorbed the energy and redirected it into a punch sending Beerus flying out of orbit. Everyone was watching through an orb Sunset and Yulo provided, Seth started quickly firing neuroshocks towards Beerus who dodged them with incredible speed.
Seth grimaced “Ẃ̸̺è̶̦ ̵̩͠ǹ̵̖e̵̯͝e̵̱͛d̸̻̈ ̴̳̚t̸͖̃o̴̟͊ ̴̣́b̴͚̂ẽ̷̘ ̷̟͠f̵̟͒a̸̗̍s̵͓̊ț̴̾e̸̫̔r̶̩̓.̴̤͘” Beerus fired another attack only for Seth to absorb and redirect into more neuroshocks which Beerus dodged.
The other voice comments “W̶̥͛e̵̹͂ ̸͓̒m̶͍̔a̴͇͌y̸̩͐ ̷̮̕h̴̹̿a̴̻͝v̷͈̾e̵̳͑ ̸̙̉â̸̗ ̴̱̕s̸̰͛ò̴͜ḻ̴͐u̴̲͋t̶͉̽i̷̹̊ó̶̤n̵̝̚.̴̱̋”
Seth nodded as he reached up to the Ultimatrix on his chest and pushed the four spiked in sequence. The spikes retracted and he placed his fingers on the faceplate and turned it sideways causing the core of the Ultimatrix to extend outwards. He then slammed down on the core creating a new transformation, the spikes extend outwards once more as energy shoots throughout Seth’s body. His chest turns cyan blue while his back and shoulders turns dark blue. His eyes extend on small dark blue stalks as they grow larger. His arms grow longer, now having patagia along the side of his body. Seth’s legs grow shorter as a blue tail grows out of his back, the Ultimatrix staying on his chest.
Seth shouted as he flew up to Beerus “Ú̸͈l̴̳̄ṱ̷̈́i̵͙̅m̸̰̌a̸̻͋t̸̤͝e̸̜͐ ̸̬͆J̴͇̈ë̷͔t̶̼͐ŕ̶̗a̸͍͂ȳ̶͈!̵̩͗”
Beerus laughed “Ha! If you think transforming is going to save yo…” Beerus let out an exclamation of pain as shot from Seth’s tail hit him“Ah!” Beerus shouted as he fried a blast at Seth “Why you little!”
Seth’s bulbed eyes glowed and opened two portals, one in front of him and one behind Beerus. Beerus doubles over as he gets hit by his own blast from behind, he then turns to Seth “You insigni…” Beerus yelled as Seth travelled through the portal and blasted him again “Huh? AH!”
Seth continues to repeat the pattern, using the portals to change positions and redirect Beerus’ attacks. The Psyche-shocks were slowly wearing the God of Destruction down, Beerus shouted as he releases a massive wave of energy around only for Seth to absorb it. Beerus blinked in surprise “Huh?”
Seth blasts him down to the planet, only to open up a portal under him that leads to above Seth. As soon as Beerus fell through the portal he was blasted back by Seth. Seth then blasted him down again until he crashed into the ground, the God of Destruction laid there catatonic and twitching. Seth landed looking around at the terrified ponies before seeing Screwball bleeding on the ground, he tried to walk towards her “Screw…”
He collapsed to the ground unconscious, Sunset frowned as she examined him. She then let out a sigh of relief “He’ll be fine with some rest.”
Yulo meanwhile was looking over Screwball “Her chaotic energies are trying to heal the wound but the are struggling to repair the damage.” Pinkie then placed her hands and poured chaotic energy into the wound healing Screwball. Pinkie frowned “She will still be unconscious for a couple of hours but will be fine afterwards.”
Sunset and Pinkie looked at Beerus, they sighed not entirely pleased he survived. They closed their eyes and focused “By the might of Harmony and Chaos may this god be caged.” A massive purple cage surrounded Beerus, Sunset sighed “At least he won’t harm anyone else.”
A few hours later in the Golden Oaks Library, Celestia and Twilight were outside talking about what happened. Yulo was standing guard outside the library while Sunset was leaning on the wall next the disguised Chrysalis, Screwball was sitting there confused next to the bed Seth was laying in “How am I alive exactly?”
Before Sunset could explain, Chrysalis smiled “Looks like Seth is waking up.”
Seth opened his eyes and tires to sit up on for the pain of his headache to pin him down. Screwball shouted “Seth!”
Seth turned to her with shock “Screwy?! I thought you were…”
Screwball nodded “Dead? Yeah, I thought so too. Not nice…Oh!”
Seth gripped her in a tight hug “I’m so glad your okay.”
Screwball smiled as she returned the hug “So am I.”
Sunset cleared her throat, Chrysalis smiling with amusement. Seth turned to them, Sunset sighed “As much as I hate interrupting the two of you, we have to discuss a lot with Celestia. The Nobles have caught wind of all this chaos and…”
A voice came from around them “Did someone mention chaos?”
The serpentine form of the Lord of Chaos slithered over grinning, only to be kicked into the wall hit by a giant ninja ping pong ball. Yulo approached him as he slid onto the ground, she looked down at him with a calm look “Kneel before your god.”
Seth waved “Hey Dissy!” Discord was frozen in complete and utter terror unable to turn his gaze away from Yulo.
Screwy waved “Hi daddy.” She pouted when she got no reaction.
Seth turned to Sunset “How long was I out?”
Chrysalis frowned “Four hours.”
Seth turned to her “Huh.”
Sunset nodded “You were out for a while, whatever you did there drained a lot more energy that you normally use. Now we will have to discuss more serious matters.”
Seth frowned “Serious matters?” He then sighed “Yeah, that’s understandable. What’s first?”
Sunset frowned pointing to Chrysalis “First, she needs to come clean” she then sighed “second we need to discuss how we are going to explain all of this to the nobles in Canterlot.”
Chrysalis smirked pointing at Seth and Screwball “Third, you two need get a room. You two are way too lovey dovey, I can taste it.”
Seth’s face lights up and he accidently phases through the bed and falls through the floor. Chrysalis bursts into laughter as Seth reorients himself “Uh…bhpt…hu umm… So!Chrysalis! Any ideas?!”
Chrysalis’ smirk only grew “Yes, I tie you and Screwball while naked to a bed for three hours.”
Seth huffed “That’s not what I meant! Ideas on you coming clean?!” He then turned to Screwball, her hands were on her cheeks with an embarrassed grin on her face.
Sunset rolled her eyes “If she is anything like my daughter was then she does this all the time. Although judging from your friend’s expression she would enjoy that.” She them smirked “I can’t deny that you flying in like a white knight to save her does say something doesn’t it.”
Seth groaned “Ugh!So! How we are going to deal with revealing Chryssi and deal with the nobles?”
Chrysalis huffed at the nickname, Sunset giggled “Sorry but teasing you is fun.” she then shook her head “Well the first step will be telling Celestia, she will help us plan the next steps out.”
Seth blinked “Huh. Where is Celestia? I would think she would be nearby.”
At that moment Celestia walked in with Twilight, Sunset turned to Chrysalis and nodded. Chrysalis burst into green flames revealing her true form, Celestia growled “What is she doing here?!”
Twilight turned her mentor “She means no harm.”
Celestia turned to Twilight with a scowl “Why didn’t you tell me she was here?!”
Sunset frowned as Twilight cowered before her mentor “Enough, Celestia! She already thinks your going to turn her to stone, put her stone self in a dungeon and banish that dungeon to the moon. Ease up on the threats.”
Spike walked downstairs with a yawn “She thinks that will happen if she sends a letter late.” He then looks around at the crowd and sighs “Another crazy day in Ponyville. I’ll make you all breakfast.”
Seth smiled “Thank you Spike!” He then turned to Celestia with a frown “So- Celestia what happened to your cheek?”
Celestia pointed to Sunset “I got punched by that one.”
Seth turned to Sunset “Oh.Wait, is that what that trail when I was going through re-entry? Sunset! Did you punch my Celestia around the planet?”
Celestia whispered “Your Celestia?”
Sunset shrugged “She punched me first.”
Yulo not turning away from Discord nodded “It true, she did.”
Sunset turned to Celestia “The reason why he used my in reference to you is because there is a Celestia in the Equestria I came from as well.”
Chrysalis commented “The Celestia in the Equestria I came from alongside her sister are retired and Princess Twilight rules Equestria.”
Celestia blinked “Princess Twilight?” She gasped before shouting pumping her fist into the air “I was right. I knew it!” She then blushed as Chrysalis and Sunset smiled with amusement while everyone else save Twilight was stunned, Celestia blushed “Sorry, just… got excited.”
Any further words were interrupted by a thump as Twilight’s body hit the floor, Sunset rolled her eyes “It seems your Twilight is neurotic mess, the one I know isn’t that way. She is an Undead Paladin Alicorn, not sure how that happened mind you but it did.”
Seth frowned “Did I ever meet her? I can’t remember if I did.”
Yulo shook her head “No you didn’t.”
Seth raised an eyebrow “What about the on with the MMs?”
Sunset shook her head “Different one.”
Seth looked around “Oh. Hey, where’s Bella?”
Screwball frowned “Still helping some unicorns.” She then pointed to Sunset and Yulo “Some of them still haven’t recovered from these two arriving.”
Seth nodded “Ah, I see. Now then, back yo…oh wait! I just remembered!” He then turned to Yulo and Sunset “You two can warp reality?”
They both nod. Yulo raised an eyebrow, curious about why he asked “Me more precisely than Sunset but we both can.”
Seth nodded “Down to the genetic level?’
Yulo corrected him “Down to the atomic level.”
Screwy blinked “What are you…oh! The Aliens!”
Seth smiled “Exactly. Listen, I need a favour.”
Yulo frowned “Depends on what it is, I’m not one to jump into something like this willy nilly. Messing with reality is serious business.”
Seth sighed “Listen, I have a bit of a problem. I have five sentient beings trapped inside of me.”
Yulo walked closer, curiosity crossing her features “What do you mean?”
Seth frowned “A day before I met you two, a bad guy from the dimension I got my powers from showed up. He was the same race as me. Anyway, he was trying to obtain godhood by absorbing the powers of a baby Celestialsapien, gods in their own right. In order to do that, he absorbed five aliens. He stood up transforming into each form as he told them each alien “Bivalvan, an Orishan. Andreas, a Talpaedan. P’andor, a Prypiatosian-B. Galapagus, a Geochelone Aerio. And Ra’ad, an Amperi. Because I absorbed their powers, they are all now stuck in me. I want to free them. Can you help?”
Yulo giggled as she clicked her fingers all five them appearing in the room confused “I thought you were going to ask something hard, I even left a genetic sample of each in you so can still use their powers.”
Sunset frowned “Now tell me where is this being, I will destroy him personally.”
Seth spoke to the aliens “Hold up…”
Galapagus asked “What is going on?”
Seth tried to speak again “Don’t worry.We are not going to…”
P’andor growled at Seth raising a glowing armoured hand “Who are you?”
Seth tired to reassure him “ Calm down, P’andor. We’r…”
P'andor from inside his suit shouted “How do you know my name?!”
Seth tried once more to reassure the group “If you would just…”
Galapagus retreated into his shell as Andreas scared “Andrea scared!” Andrea was now hiding behind P’andor.
Bivalvan looked around “Where is this place?”
The aliens continued to clamour about until Seth shouted “Would you just shut up! Everything will be explained, if you could all just LISTEN?!”
Before any of the aliens could start clamouring about again, an intense presence washed over them and they immediately bowed to Sunset and Yulo “Forgive us Goddesses for our transgressions.”
Sunset sighed “I wish we didn’t have to do that.”
Seth frowned “Okay, now that that’s established, you five are on the planet Equis, in a different dimension to the one you were in before. If you would co-operate with me and the three Plumbers in the area, we can get you all back to your respective worlds.”
Celestia, Chrysalis blinked in confusion while Yulo raised an eyebrow as they all spoke in unison “Plumbers?”
Sunset frowned “You better explain that, I have no idea why we should trust these plumber friends of yours.”
Seth explained “Ah right. ‘Plumbers’ are the name of what basically amounts to an… intergalactic police force, keeping the peace and… ‘fixing the leaks’ in society, as it were. Three of them have travelled here. They were looking for Aggregor.” The aliens around them flinched at the mention of his name. Seth reassured them “Don’t worry, Aggregor is in a dungeon, in the capital of this nation.”
As the Aliens relax, Sunset stepped forward “I will dispose of this Aggregor permanently” she then turned then turned to Princess Celestia “take me to his cell.”
Seth frowned “Be careful. Aggregor is clever. And ruthless. He will try to attack you when he sees you. Also I suggest you bring one of the Plumbers with you.”
Sunset frowned “No need, he will be dead before he sees me.” Celestia teleported the two into the room outside the cell, Sunset saw Aggregor and before he could even turn around Sunset had torn him in half and then held out one hand “Erase.” His body evaporated in lees than a second. She then joined Celestia and teleported the two back “Aggregor’s gone, erased from existence.
Seth blinked “Well that was quick. Ben’s not going to be happy about that.” He then turned to the five aliens “Now, as for you five. We need to get you back home.”
Sunset frowned “Well this Ben should know that trying to torment villain instead of wiping them out gives them a greater chance to escape. If you want to kill a villain then you do it swiftly and without hesitation.”
Seth frowned “O…kay. Anyway, Ben should be…” Seth turned around as the door opened and Ben walked in “Right there. Perfect timing Ben.”
Ben looked around flabbergasted “Bu…ho…wha…when did… Guys!Your alright!”
Galapagus smiled “Ben Tennyson. It is good to see you.”
Ben looked around in shock “How did you?”
Yulo grinned “For a talented reality-warper such as myself it was no biggy, I’m confident I can make these Celestialsapiens of yours look like children playing with toys.”
Sunset frowned “Also Aggregor is dead, erased from existence. He will not harm another.”
Ben shouted “What?!What do you mean he’s dead?! Hew was going to be handed off to the Plumbers!”
Sunset’s eyes narrowed “Why? So he can escape and hurt more innocent lives? No, he needed to be put to an end. Either they were going to put him in a cell in which he would escape eventually or they were going execute him themselves after a lengthy trial. A being that can absorb power seeking universal domination is too dangerous to let rot in a cell. His life was not worth the potential trillions he could slaughter.”
Yulo nodded “We are gods, Ben. We see not just future of the universe but the of the infinite mulitverse. A being like this could easily bring tyranny to every single universe that exists, he needed to be dealt with.”
Seth frowned “Now then, all we need to is find a way…” they heard a huge explosion that came from outside of town.
Celestia shouted “What happened?”
Sunset frowned “ That’s where we left Beerus.”
She clicked her fingers teleporting herself, Seth and Yulo to the location only to see a furious Beerus twitching uncontrollably before glaring at Seth “I will destroy you!”
Yulo frowned at Seth “What did you do to him?”
Seth grimaced as he realised what was going on “His energy’s gone out of control. Like he’s destroying everything. Not just what’s around him but himself.”
Sunset raised an eyebrow “Okay, but how?”
Seth grimace deepened as he figured it out “It must have been my Psyche-shocks! They attack the mind, damage it. I must have blasted him over a dozen times. That can’t be healthy. For anyone.”
Yulo frowned “So you are saying your attacks broke his mind?”
Seth nodded “Yeah, if not more.”
Beerus roared in the cage “HRAAH!YOU DID THIS TO ME SO I CAN…GAH!” Beerus began to twitch violently pain marring his face, he roared even louder “…AAH! I’LL KILL YOU!! I’LL KILL YOU IF IT’S THE LAST THING I DO!!!HHRRAAAAHH!!” Beerus’ energy flare out as he tried to break the cage “HAAH! LET ME OUT OF HERE SO I CAN…GAH!!!”
Seth rubbed his chin “Hmm. I maaay have an idea.”
Yulo frowned “What is it?”
Seth turned to her “Amperi have the power of reading and manipulating brain waves. If I can get in…”
Sunset nodded “You might be able to fix what you broke.”
Seth turned to her with a sigh “Yeah.”
Sunset shook her head “This is his fault, he acted with out thinking.” She then focused on Beerus channelling harmonic energy, the God of Destruction collapsed to the floor of the cage, Sunset frowned “I’m creating an open channel for you into his mind through, there is too much destructive energy in him for you to go in without my support.”
Seth frowned “Would you be able to change the cage so it holds his body in place?”
Seth and Yulo nod as they click their fingers, the cage turning into am energy straitjacket binding Beerus in place “Of course.”
Seth smiles “thanks.” His hand then glow a light blue as he reaches for Beerus’ head. The God of Destruction swings around violently.
Beerus’ mind send out a mix of distorted thoughts (HRAH! HAH! GRAH! DES…! YAAH! DEST… You are nothing.I WILL DESTR…You are weak.NO! I WILL KILL THE ONE WHO DID THIS TO ME! I WILL DE- You are useless.) Beerus then roared as his energy flared out “DESTROY!!”
He then falls limp to the ground, Sunset frowned “What happened to him? What is the state of his mind?”
Seth frowned “He couldn’t act… every time he tried to think of something, he thought of me beating him. It made him think he couldn’t… be a god of destruction! Every time he tried to destroy me, I retaliated. Add my Psyche-shocks into the mix, you got every thought of him trying to destroy, he instead feel the pain of my Psyche-shocks, which is why he was twitching.” He then thought to himself “By reinserting the idea of destroying, I helped him. I think.”
Sunset frowned “Do you think that would be enough to fix his mind or is there still more to be done?”
Seth shook his head “I don’t know. I’d have to go back in for that.”
Yulo frowned “Then do it, Sunset can facilitate your trip. I would love to help but my chaotic power would not do well messing around with something so destructive.”
Sunset began opening a channel once again “Are you ready for this?”
Seth frowned “I hope so. Wish me luck!”
Sunset and Yulo smiled as Seth re-entered Beerus’ mind “Good luck.”
Seth after a second or two shouted “Done!”
Yulo blinked “Already? You just went in.”
Sunset rolled her eyes “Time moves differently in the mindscape. What felt like ten hours in a hive mind may actually only be two minutes. It’s the same when you dream.”
She then frowned as she turned to Beerus who had just woken up, Beerus groaned “That was the single most painful experience of my life.”
Sunset removed the straitjacket as Yulo frowned “Beerus, you brought that on yourself. I hope that you will start making some changes.”
Beerus nodded “I’ll try” he then turned to Seth and bowed“It appears I owe you an apology, I have seen myself above mortals for a long time. I’m sorry for my arrogance.”
Seth sighed (Uh oh. I think he’s still broken.)
Beerus exclaimed as he heard Seth’s thoughts “No, I’m not.”
Seth exclaimed “What?” His eyes then widened “I think we have a psychic link now.”
Beerus grimaced (What? What’s that supposed to mean?)
Seth sighed “It means, I can hear your thoughts and you can hear mine.”
Beerus shouted “What?!You mean I’m stuck with you in my…” He took a deep breath “it’s fine, it’s fine. Remember what Whis told you.” He then frowned at Seth “Alright, do you have any way to break this link we have?”
Yulo frowned “I don’t know. From the looks of it, the two of you are linked through your energy. So… unless you both are realities apart or find some way to, very painfully, separate yourselves. Your stuck.”
Beerus shrugged “It should be fine, we aren’t going to be in the same dimension of reality.”
Sunset nodded “That’s why I’m sending you back to Earth Beerus.” Beerus nodded and Sunset clicked her fingers sending the God of Destruction back from whence he came.”
Seth frowned “Testing, testing? Anyone there?”
Screwy popped into into existence “Hi Seth.”
Seth jumped “Guh!” He then frowned “Screwy! Not funny.” Screwy then grabbed his hood and stuck her tongue down his throat. Sunset and Yulo were grinning as he melted into the kiss, wrapping his arms around her. Neither Screwy nor Seth noticed the icy misty emanating from Seth forming into a blooming flower with the two of them in the centre.
Sunset and Yulo grinned “Called it.”
The two teleported back to the Library leaving the new couple to their free time, Celestia blinked in confusion “Where’s Seth and why did Screwy leave.”
Sunset giggled “Seth and Screwy are having some private time, I’m confident Cadence would kill you all if you intervened.”
Chrysalis cheered “Love is in the air!”
Twilight frowned “Still we need to deal with the nobles and Chrysalis.”
Celestia nodded as she raised her hand “We need to speak to Luna, she would want to be part of our next move as well.” Celestia teleported everyone in the room to her personal chambers in Canterlot, which was always empty at this time of day.
Twilight looked at her mentor “What are we going to do now?”
Celestia smiled “I’ll explain what is happening to my sister, in the meantime I think you should get to know the present company.”
As Celestia left Sunset was looking over Andrea “Your interesting, you remind of the Metalmen from Universe Six. You are much larger than Universe Seven variant of Metalmen.”
Andreas looked around in fear “Are we safe here?”
Meanwhile Bivalvan was glaring at P’andor “Now I am not usually one to get angry but what were you thinking! We all were captured and absorbed by Aggregor because of you! We could have escaped before he suspected a thing but no you had to engage him!”
P’andor snarled as he shed his metallic suit “You want to have another go!”
Sunset and Yulo feeling the radiation put a shield around Twilight and Chrysalis while Ben’s Ultimatrix changed him into a Prypiatosian-B. Sunset frowned “Get back in your suit or else we will destroy you for threatening the innocents around you.” P’andor backed down.
Meanwhile Celestia has just arrived at the a t door covered in stars, she knocked on the door “Luna, I need to discuss something with you? It’s important.”
Luna frowned as she opened the door “After you ditched me in court because of that strange power surge, this is better be important.”
Celestia entered and frowned “Apparently Seth had a set of dimensional travellers turn up. In fact there was another that he didn’t tell us about and they brought their Chrysalis,with them. Furthermore Seth decided that she was going to stay in our world and I need your help in explaining it to everypony.”
Luna rubbed her forehead with her fingers “This is going to be a political Nightmare, we might as well get this sorted out now. We need to inform everypony as quickly as possible and then do damage control.”
Meanwhile Sunset was frowning “Ben, are you still holding a grudge?”
Ben grimaced “Aggregor was a plumber problem, you didn’t need to interfere.”
Yulo frowned “Actually we did, if he managed to steal either of our powers he could easily rule the entire multiverse and not a single entity could stop him. The chances were less than a percent of him being able to do that but that chance is too high when the fate of all reality is at stake.”
Celestia entered the room “We have managed to organise a Canterlot wide meeting, there will be a lot of commotion so I hope that Yulo and Sunset can keep the peace.”
Sunset and Yulo smiled “We can do that.”
Chrysalis frowned “I think we should limit this to Sunset,Yulo, Twilight, Celestia, Luna and I. Seeing aliens from another dimension will only make this worse. Ben, can you keep them calm in here.”
Ben frowned “I’ll try, P’andor is the only real trouble maker here.”
P’andor mumbled something as Celestia teleported Sunset, Twilight, Yulo, Chrysalis and herself into a spartan room behind a balcony. Sunset frowned “Where are we?”
Luna frowned “This is our secret meeting room we go to before any announcement, we are going to sought this out.”
Celestial and Luna stepped out onto the balcony, Celestia spoke first “Recently we have received visitors from another dimension as I’m sure you aware.”
Luna continued “Two of them came from an alternate version of our nation along with a few native members from their world. One was offered to stay by our dimensional resident Seth.”
Celestia and Luna, Chrysalis stepped out only for the all the ponies to gasp. Chrysalis’ eyes narrowed “Celestia and Luna prepare to mobilise the guards.” Her eyes glowed green and countless ponies burst into green flames, countless Night guards jumped on the changelings before they could respond. Chrysalis grimaced “I should have known, my second invasion had already begun. I put a lot of thought into that plan, I would have won if my own subjects didn’t turn on me.”
Chrysalis then closed her eyes “Still I am grateful for Seth, he saved me from torment. He believed in me even when my Twilight was about to give up hope on me, her eyes glowed orange. I’m done with hiding in the shadows, I know will stand tall!” Hew body began to shift as fiery passion filled her, her chitin changing to deep sea blue colour with strand of orange running through it. Two curved blades forming on either arm before retracting into her arms.
Celestia frowned “What do you mean by that Chrysalis?”
Chrysalis sighed “I had captured everyone, the Elements of Harmony, Discord and both of you. In the end it took the combined efforts of Starlight Glimmer, Princess Twilight’s student and a simple drone known as Thorax to stop. They learned that Changelings evolved into a new form by giving love instead of taking it. I refused to be that way, I sought power and that lead me here.”
She then frowned “One thing I learned from my string of failures is the strength of how you rule, even should all hope seems lost there is always another line of defence. Another set of heroes that will rise above all odds.”
Luna looked over her “You changed, is this how your fellow changelings are now?”
Chrysalis shook her head “They changed because of love, Changelings at least from the Equestria I came from can evolve through emotion. This is the power of passion, burning hotter than the flames of one thousand suns.” She then grinned as orange flames began to lick around her body “I’m done being hidden in darkness. I will burn brighter than the sun!”
Celestia’s eyes narrowed slightly, Luna frowned “Control yourself sister. You are well aware of what jealously did to me. Chrysalis is our ally, she revealed a dangerous threat to our nation hiding amongst our nobles.”
Chrysalis frowned “We need to be very cautious here, the other me is likely feeling cornered right now. She could very easily do something incredibly stupid and many ponies could lose their lives. I suggest we call a truce to exchange prisoners.”
Celestia sighed “Your right, I just hope we can those captured back.”
Sunset frowned “I suggest we get help form Seth on this once he’s done with whatever he is doing.”
Yulo nodded “We will of course have to catch him up to speed first. This will be a lot to take in.”
Twilight is rubbing her head “I’m going to need three days of sitting down and reading to get over the strange stuff that has happened today.”
Sunset and Yulo frowned “We’ll leave you to sort this out. We will take Ben and his friends to Ponyville so we can arrange returning them home.” The two teleport into Celestia’s room, Sunset and Yulo turned to Ben “We’re taking you back Ponyville so we can organise your trip home once Seth is done.”
Ben nodded “I’d say that would be wise, they are getting a little rowdy in here.” There were a few knocked over books, thankfully nothing was damage in any meaningful way. They teleported the group back to Twilight’s Library only to hear explosions outside. Sunset and Yulo left the building to see Changelings running away from a certain part of town.
The changelings leapt at them, Sunset and Yulo knocked the Changelings away as Ben transformed into a blueish green crystal-like entity. Seth and Screwball arrive at the scene, Seth rubbed his forehead “Okay, good. You’re all here. Sunset can you clear out all these… hey wait. Where’s Chrysalis?”
Sunset frowned “She’s in Canterlot taking care of the Changeling impersonating multiple nobles in Canterlot. These changelings are trying to gain what pockets of power the can in one final attempt to take over now they have been revealed and…”
A Changeling wearing a purple bow tie slams a Cello over another Changeling’s head, another Changeling carrying a lyre fires magical music notes at hostile Changelings. An orange Pegasus pulled a cart with a White Unicorn, a grey Changeling Nymph and an Earth Pony filly in it ball three throwing rocks at the hostile Changelings. The bow tie wearing changeling knocked another invader out with her Cello turning to the lyre playing changeling “This is quite invigorating, after playing for those snobby nobles for hours on end this is really cathartic. I’m glad you talking me into this Lyra.”
Lyra giggled “No problem Octavia, now let’s give everypony a real show.”
Seth frowned “Okay, as I was about to say, can’t you just clear these things out?”
Sunset and Yulo turned to glare at him with fire in his eyes “Yeah and why don’t we just glass the entire planet hunting them down! What you asking us to do is mass murder? Look around, how many dead do you see?” Countless unconscious changelings were littered around, not single dead body. Ben knocked one out with a punch.
Yulo knocked out another Changeling “It is so easy to justify being a killer, to murder millions, billions, trillions for the good of all. For beings of our power it gets to the point when you begin justifying genocide for the good everything else.”
Sunset grimaced “We don’t make the choice kill lightly, when we do it’s a very rare occurance. Aggregor was one such exception, when you are god of our level it is so easy to justify so much bad.”
Seth frowned “I mean, why don’t you just teleport them all back to their hive. You two can warp reality, and I quote; make these Celestialsapiens of yours look like children playing with toys. I find it hard to believe that you can’t make them all go away.”
Sunset and Yulo blinked, Sunset facepalmed “Why didn’t we think of that?”
Octavia knocked another changeling out “May we speak to you, Lyra and I aren‘t intent on going back to the hive. We left that horrid place years ago, Chrysalis was always shouting do this, do that. We escaped as soon as we could, cut our link to the hive mind.”
Yulo growled as Changeling leapt at her “Okay, fuck this!” She clicked her finger and all the hostile changelings collapsed unconscious, Yulo grumbled “Should have done that earlier.”
Seth nodded “I agree.” If looks kill there would be nothing left of Seth as Yulo’s eyes glowed with pure livid fury. Seth smiled trying to placate the angry goddess “Sorry.” She continued to glare at him, he turned away from her “Anyway, now that’s done. Screwy!”
Screwy grinned “I’m standing right next to you!”
Seth jumped “Bwah!.” He then shakes his head “Woops. Right, Can you clean this up?”
Discord popped into existence keeping a distance from Yulo and silently glad she was glaring at Seth and not him “Allow me!” he clicked his fingers and all the changelings dissapeared in a pink *”Poof!”* Discord smirked “Done.”
Seth smirked “Hello Dissy.”
An anvil fell on Seth’s head and then he pointed at Seth “You, are not allowed to call me that.”
Seth nodded “Okay.”
Screwy jumped onto her father giving him a massive hug “Hi daddy.”
Discord hugged her back “Yes, hello dear.”
Bella shouted from Seth’s left “Seth!”
He waved “Hi Bella.”
Bella frowned “What have you done this time?” She then turned to Sunset “Hi Sunset.”
Sunset waved back “Sup.”
Seth shrugged “Been showing our friends around.”
Yulo with her glare still on him “He also has a thing for Discord’s daughter.”
Discord froze before his head slowly twisted around in it’s socket, he slithered over to Seth “You have a what for my daughter!”
Seth knocks his head with a metallic echo reverberating around the area “I keep forgetting things and not noticing others..” He shook his before looking at Discord “Anyway, yes, I’m in love with … huuu … that feels weird.” He put his hand on his chest and looking Discord in the eye “Yes, I’m in love with your daughter.”
Discord’s eyes narrowed “Then let me make this very clear, hurt her and I promise you there is nowhere you can hide from me. You wouldn’t believe the terrible things I had come with to torment others. I just have never found anyone deserving of them but if you hurt my daughter that will change, I will be watching you closely.”
Seth smiled at Discord’s protectiveness of his daughter “By my name, I will move heaven and earth to protect her. If any try to hurt her, I will stand in their way. Be they devil, God, good or evil. I will protect her with my life or my name isn’t Seth Trian.” As he finished his oath, power surged through him before seeping out and going through Screwy to stop in front of me, solidifying into a baby yellow pendant that falls into his hands.
Seth smiled as Screwball hugged him tears of joy flowing from her face “I have no idea what just happened but I don’t think I’ll be letting this go. “
Sunset smiled “I’m not exactly sure what that was but it was something special, quite possibly something that only happens once in an eternity. Cherish what you have found because it is more precious than all the power in all of existence.”
Seth looked at Sunset with wide eyes, he then shook his head “Now where an I going to put…” The gem cut him off by flying out his hand and attaching to his chest “That works.” He then turned to Ben “Now, if I remember correctly, we have some aliens to rehabilitate and some dimensional travellers to send home. Isn’t that right, Ben?”
Ben frowned “Yes, but first. Gwen said you did something weird and said it looked like you had the Ultimatrix on your chest. What was that about?”
Seth realised what happened “Oh right. I did. See, I got my powers by buying a copy of your Ultimatrix, giving me the powers of all the Ultimate aliens. Including, Ultimate you.”
Ben’s eyes widened “Ultimate me. I have an ultimate form?”
Seth nodded “Yep. The most powerful one.”
Ben’s eyes widened further“The most powerful one? What can it… I do?”
Seth explained “While in your own ultimate form, you can use any of your alien powers, while still being human. Tell you what? I’ll even see if I can activate the Ultimate mode. May I?” Seth held out his arm, and Ben held out his Ultimatrix arm.
Seth formed a third eyes on his forehead, Ben flinched “Ugh, creepy.”
Seth pointed to the third eye “Ultimate Galvan eye. Boost intelligence.” Seth began looking over the Ultimatrix, he grimaced “Yeesh. This sucks.”
Ben shouted “What!”
Seth rattled off “Yeah. The interface is twenty-three percent out of sync, the transformation sequencers are seventeen percent miscalibrated and there’s the glitch in the evolution feature.” He adjusted the Ultimatrix to proper functionality “there, it should be much more efficient now.”
Ben rubs his head “Uhh…thanks?”
Seth shrugs “Anyway, I’ll activate the Ultimate mode now. *Shing!* There!” A green flash passed over Ben’s body the Ultimatrix moving to his chest.
Ben held out his hand and fired diamond like shards into the ground “That really help, I’d say very few people could actually beat me like this! I could beat that Whisper girl this time!”
Sunset frowned “Who is this Whisper?”
Seth collapsed from laughter as everyone stared at him “Bahhahaha! You seriously…? Bahhahaha! Dude, the only reason me and her didn’t rip apart this very reality is because a Void Dweller stepped in and stopped us. If he hadn’t, you probably wouldn’t even exist right now! Bahhahaha! And you think…? Bahhahaha!
Ben fumed “Oh yeah, well how about you and I settle this here and now!”
Sunset frowned “That’s not happening, if you could keep up with him at full power there will be no reality left. The only other option is that you lose horribly, don’t be stupid.”
Seth frowned “Yeah, like she says, your wouldn’t win.”
Ben growled “Hrrr.”
Seth turned to Sunset “Anyway, the Aliens!”
Ben rushed at Seth only to stopped by Sunset “You can’t beat him, he absorbed a small fraction of our power but I think it’s time you understand how powerful we really are.”
Sunset and Yulo stepped in front of them the colour fading from them, what they saw when they looked at them was countless infinite stars within infinite stars. Inside them Supernovas flared as Galaxies collided, Aliens fought wars, multiple set of seemingly universes blinked in and out of existence randomly. Sunset frowned “You see it don’t you, countless infinities of power within us changing and growing. We are so far beyond infinity that you are only seeing what you can possibly perceive of us.”
Seth frowned “Thanks for showing us this, but we have things to…’
He was interrupted as this world’s version of Chrysalis flew towards Sunset carrying a spear made of green fire “Die Traitor!”
Before this world’s Chrysalis could get close Seth jumped in the way forming speakers on either hand. He sent put a high pitched screech causing all the other changelings in the area to clutch their ears as they creamed in pain. Seth yelled at Discord “Discord! You missed one!And not only that, you missed the most important one!” Discord responded aptly by exploding into a pink dust cloud.
Octavia yelled “What was that?!”
Lyra shouted “Yeah! That hurt!”
Seth frowned “That was a sonic blast. Are you alright?”
Octavia shouted “No! High frequency sound hurts!A lot!” she then blinked as she saw this world’s Chrysalis “Wait, what is she doing here?”
Seth turned to her “Yeah, what are you doing here, Chryssi?”
Chryssi shouted “I am Chrysalis! Chrysalis Aphid!” Sunset rolled her eyes as Chryssi pointed at her “And I will end that wretched traitor for ruining my plan!”
Seth blinked “Traitor?” He then facepalmed “Oh right, changeling.” He then walked towards her “How about this instead! You can stand your army down.” Chryssi looked at him with pure hatred. Seth frowned “Think about it. You are alone here. There’s no way you can stand against us, so… how about you choose a different way instead. Surrender. Open yourself up to a different choice.”
Chryssi shouted “And what. Let myself fall to the level of these wretched ponies?!”
Seth shook his head “Not fall. Stand with. Your kind are starving, taking what isn’t theirs just to survive. It doesn't have to be this way.”
Chrysalis yelled as tear began to fall from her eyes “What other way is there?! The ONLY way I have survived this long is because I have taken what I need and left nothing behind!”
Seth interrupted “And look where that got you! A starving colony. Ponies fearing you wherever you go. Not a drop of love in sight for your beloved children. It doesn’t have to be this way.”
Chrysalis yelled on her knees tears flowing freely onto the ground “Fine! If your so all knowing, what can I do?! What can make the changelings loved in the world?! What can you possibly do to satisfy our hunger?! Huh?!”
Seth responded “Stop taking what isn’t yours.”
Chryssi blinked “What?”
Seth frowned “The reason you hunger for love is because the love you have is stolen. Some wise words I know are: the more you take, the less you have. They can’t be more true than right here and now. But in that lies the answer. Stop taking and give instead.”
Chryssi shouted “What?!”
Seth’s frown remained “Don’t steal love from others, share it instead.”
Chryssi retorted “Your insane. How can giving love away fill our hunger for it?! You can’t quench your thirst by giving it to another! What suggest is mad!”
Seth smiled “Then how about I show you.”
Every changeling around him save the smiling Sunset exclaimed “What?”
Seth turned around to Octavia “Octavia.’ He held out his hand “Come here please.”
Lyra jumped in the way growling “Now way. I’m not letting you do anything to…”]
Octavia frowned “Lyra.”
Lyra spun round “Octavia?”
Octavia nodded “I thing we should trust him.”
Lyra exclaimed “You can’t be serious! You barely have any love in you!”
Octavia frowned “I think he can help us.” She then sighed “Please, let’s try his way?”
Lyra grimaced “Fine, but I’m doing it to.”
The two stepped forward, Octavia asked “What now?”
Seth nodded with a smile “I need you to let go of the love inside of you.” He then held up hand as Lyra was about to shout “Please. Trust me. Don’t hold the love inside you, share it with those around you. Okay?” Octavia and Lyra nod hesitantly before closing their eyes, Chryssi watching with suspicion. A second later, a pink spot appeared on Octavia’s chest causing her to fly into the air, the same thing happened to Lyra a second later and they both start emitting waves of pink energy in every direction.
After two seconds they were encased in blue cocoons, Seth smiled before lightly touching their cocoons. In a flash of light the two changelings appeared in a flash of light with their carapace now the colour of their pony coats and their bodies now free of holes. Lyra shouted “Wow! I’m not hungry anymore!”She then ran down the street excitedly “Bonnie’s not gonna believe this!”
Octavia coughed “Ahem. Sorry about her but I think I speak for both of us when I say, thank you.” She walked down the streets as well, going in a different direction.
Seth turned to Chryssi “See Chryssi? This is what I mean. Now, what do you say?”
Before Chryssi could respond the grey changeling nymph approached beside a pegasus mare with eyes that looked in different directions. She burst into flames revealing a hole-less Changeling Queen with slitted eyes that looked in random directions as she frowned “Don’t make a rash judgement Chrysalis.”
Sunset blinked “Derpy is a Changeling Queen, that I didn’t expect.”
Seth blinked “Me either.” He then turned to Chryssi “Well? What will it be Chryssi?”
Chryssi frowned “Why do you keep calling me that?”
Her question was quickly answered with a burst of orange flame as Chrysalis stepped out of the flames “Okay, this world’s changelings have been cleared… out of … Canterlot.”
Seth frowned cautiously “Chrysalis? Is that you?”
Chrysalis nodded “Yes?” She then pointed at Chryssi “Is that me?”
Seth replied with a nod “Yes.”
Chryssi looked over her counterpart in confusion “What happened to you?”
Chrysalis frowned “A lot, I executed this same plan I had almost one only for a single but it failed due to the efforts of a single changeling and a single pony to cost me everything. I was no longer a Queen, I ran off and tried to create an alternate set of Element Bearers but that plan failed. I joined Tirek and Cozy Glow in service of Grogar only for us to betray him and the discover that Discord was pretending to be Grogar to test Princess Twilight.”
Chrysalis took a breath continued “Twilight and her friend managed to stop us, Celestia, Luna and Discord sealed us in stone.”
Seth explained to everyone “If you’re confused, her universe is farther ahead than this one. What is happening here, had already happened there.”
Chryssi blinked “Wow.”
Seth smiled “Yeah, wow indeed.”
Chryssi raised a hand “I have a question?’
Chrysalis looked at her “Wait is it?”
Chryssi frowned pointing at Seth “Not for you, for him.”
Seth shrugged “Okay, what is it?’
Chrysalis looked over him “What are you? You don’t look like a pony. You don’t really look like anything.”
Seth blinked in surprise “Oh.” He then centred himself as he reached up to his head “I’m an Osmosian…What the?” He felt some strange bumps on his head, he tapped before opening his eyes in realisation “Huh. It seems I have Osmosian horns. Did no know that.”
Chrysalis asked incredulously “How could you not know that?”
Seth exclaimed indignantly “Hey! I just got this form… was it yesterday? Yeah, I got this form yesterday! I haven’t looked at it yet.”
Chryssi shrugged “That makes sense” she then turned to Sunset with frown “Who are you anyway? ”
Sunset frowned “Goddess of Harmony and Queen of a Zerg Hive back home, you see unlike your changelings we are descendants of a space race known as the Zerg. A species known to adapt and evolve, rather than the Queen producing all the eggs we have a hatchery that creates eggs from Biomass. We mutate hatchlings into various more impressive forms, unfortunately in that lifetime my daughter killed me before I could teach her how to do those things. The invasion of Canterlot would have gone very differently had she known how to do that.”
Seth raised an eyebrow “Okay…that explains… something. So if you don’t mind Sunset.” He turned to Chryssi holding out his hand “Are you ready?”
Chryssi looked at him like a lost child “I… I don’t…I’m scared.”
Seth smiled as he helped her up “Don’t worry. You don’t have to be. Just let go… and share. Okay?
Chryssi nodded weakly as she closed her eyes “Okay.” A pink spot appears on her chest as she rises into the air. She beings radiating love energy outwards, beginning her transformation. Instead of being encased in a cocoon, her carapace starts changing colour. Starting from the pink spot on her chest to pass over her whole body. What was once green-black now becomes a beautiful white-blue, her sash around her chest now becoming a radiant pink. Her wings become butterfly like, now without holes and a glossy blue colour. Her wings also gain a purple protective ladybug like shell. Her transformation finishes with her hair and tail becoming the same colour as her new chitin, her horn straightening out to be curved instead of jagged as it was and her eyes become ocean blue.
Seth smiled “Congratulations, Chrysalis Aphid. You have been reformed.”
Chrysalis raised an eyebrow “Aphid? What type of name is that?”
Seth smirked “Better than Vile” he then frowned “and you’re ruining the moment.” He then turns as he hear quiet laughter, Chryssi was trying to stifle laughter.
Chryssi giggled “Vile? That your last name? Chrysalis Vile? I think I prefer mine.”
Chrysalis grimaced “I don’t like being laughed at because of my name, it was always hahaha Miss Vile is going to turn out to be an evil bitch. It’s no wonder I decided to live up to the reputation and became one of the most savage changeling queen’s ever known.”
Chryssi rubbed the back of her head “My apologies. Wow, that’s weird to say honestly.”
Seth frowned “Anyway, unless anyone wants to inter…” He was interrupted again with a another blue and pink flash as Derpy transformed as well. Seth exclaimed “Ah, of course.” He then shook his head “Anyway!” He then turned to Sunset “Sunset, where are Bivalvan, Andreas, P’andor, Galapagus and Ra’ad?”
Yulo groaned “Drat, we left them in Canterlot?”
Seth grimaced “Why?”
Yulo sighed “We rushed the teleport and were too distracted by the changelings to notice. I just hope they don’t… *Boom*”
Everyone looked to Canterlot as red radiation beam flew out of the castle “You honour, I pack my case.”
Sunset grimaced “What is that idiot doing now?”
Yulo clicked her finger and all five aliens appeared in front of them, Yulo grabbed P’andor’s uncontained form “What are you doing you stupid moron?!” She then summoned his containment suit and shoved him in it before locking with a special padlock that only she could open “Now that inconsiderate jerk has been punished it’s time to send these five home.”
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