Christoph sighed looking into the bathroom mirror, it was another morning on this world. One made less miserable by his new companion, who still slept in the bed the next room over. First it started off with her becoming an officially trained bodyguard, then him and Azula kind of just clicked. Odd, he knew since she was an alien, but he was never really one to care about such things, she was a person just as he was even if a tad odd. He blinked then his eyes widened in shock as his reflection grinned at him, its yellow eyes glinting with a red pupil now. Taking a step back in shock he lifted his arm, which split open into a plasma cannon. Having cybernetics was a plus of his job, he was allowed combat cybernetics normally only allowed to special soldiers. "Nah ah ah!" His reflection tutted. "What fun would that be? Don't you even want to hear my proposal?" It wasn't his voice that his now twisted reflection spoke with. But he recognized it all the same from the videos he'd watched.

Christoph lowered his arm as all the bits n pieces clicked back into place, leaving no trace as his synthetic skin closed up. "Discord? What the ever-loving hell do you want?" He had no clue in hell why this thing was even bothering to talk to him, didn't it normally chat with Emperor Lorenzo?

The reflection in the mirror shifted once more, revealing Discords true form before with a pop he was in the bathroom itself floating before Christoph. "Quite simple little human, I want to cause some chaos, and you can help me do so, in return you also get something you've wanted since you woke up in this place."

His eyes widened. How could that be? They'd been dead for thousands of years at this point. "How the hell do you plan to do that?" He glared, narrowing his eyes at the creature of chaos. He was weary of this creature, self proclaimed 'God of Chaos', and chaos was all his life had been until he'd met Azula. He didn't want more.

Discord laughed, so hard in fact his eyes popped out of his head and exploded before he opened a case of spares and installed them. Rolling them around in his head for a minute before re-focusing on Christoph. "I'm the literal God of Chaos, do you think a little time travel is beyond lil ol me?"

Christoph's eyes remained narrowed. "And what exactly do you get out of this?"

His eyes glinted with glee as he spoke. "Why, chaos my dear human! Just them BEING here, will cause chaos! Its always fun to mess about with Lorenzo every now and again, why else do you think I brought that town here to begin with? You where not from that version of Earth, but it was chaos all the same!, so what do you say pal, we got a deal or no?" Discord held out his hand, lit by plaid colored fire.

Christoph eyed the offending limb, weighing his options. As he thought of the grief he'd gone through thinking about them, about how he'd never even gotten to say goodbye, only to wake up and learn they'd been dead so long not even ash remained of their bones, he reached out and shook Discords hand. Causing the chaotic creature to laugh. "You've got ten minutes to get all the shit you think you'll need! You'll convince them yourself to come back with you, just press the button on this thing here." He handed the man a large comical red button. "When you're ready to come back! Just make sure they're touching you, otherwise they'll be left behind!" Discord grinned down at the man. "Remember, ten minutes before you go back, you'll have a day to convince them!" With that, he vanished in an explosion of cake.

A timer counting down from ten minutes appeared in the corner of Christoph's vision, causing him to rush into the bedroom. "Azula! Wake up hun, we're going somewhere in less than ten minutes, suit up and get the advanced plasma rifle I had made for you, as well as you're combat suit!"

Azula shot up out of the bed, from dead asleep to ten cups of coffee alert within an instant. Rushing, she did as he had said, suiting up in purple colored combat armor and a helmet that covered her entire face. Not unlike what to him, looked like pre-war riot gear that some police began to use, but more advanced. It overall, looked like riot armor if it was purple and black with gold trim, the eyes of the helmet glowing a dark blue color as she strapped a long plasma rifle onto her back. "Where are we going?" She questioned, the helmet giving her voice an odd muffled quality.

Athi gave a small smile as he packed himself a small bag, ensuring to load extra fusion cells into it as well as a holo-projector with a disc reader. "Not where, when." He'd always wanted to say that, reading those science fiction time travel books. As the timer ticked down he grabbed Azula's shoulder just as the timer hit zero, and they both vanished in a flash of white light leaving the room in a mess as wind threw everything inside it about like a tornado for not more than five seconds. But in that five seconds, everything had been tossed around or smashed into bits.

The experience was, disorienting to say the least. Things are generally not meant to travel through time, all Athi could see was an endless tunnel that stretched onwards for eternity. Colors he never knew existed flashed before him as he and Azula, who was now clutching onto him road through this tunnel at what seemed to be the speed of light. Moving images rushed past them at such speeds they could not determine many, a few he did manage to notice only thanks to his cybernetic eyes slowing things down was flashes of mushroom clouds. Of atomic fire spreading over a planet as war ravaged its surface, poisoning the air and water and mutating the life within. It only lasted a brief flash, but in that moment he vowed to himself further than he had before that he would convince his family to come back with him, and force them if they refused.

Somewhere in another time, a time so long ago barely any knew of its existence electricity began to crackle in a suburban backyard. It began to crackle and static, before bolts of energy began striking out as a ball of white energy formed in the center of the disturbance, a thunderous bang that rattled the windows on several houses sounded out as the ball suddenly condensed then vanished, leaving two figures sprawled out in the scorched grass and dirt. Given that it was about 6:36 AM in the morning, people began to groggily step out of their houses to try and find the source of the noise. All any of them found was a partial sphere in the ground which was scorched black by the time anyone came out to investigate. None noticed the two sets of footprints, one larger than the other, leading onto the sidewalk and into the distance.

Re-entry into time had almost made Athi vomit, it was like vertigo, if vertigo had vertigo. Almost indescribable, that was as close as he could think to put it into an understandable language. They'd fled from their little scene as fast as possible, not wanting people to see her and call the cops, Athi had Azula use a stealthboy that was built into her armor. She was near invisible to the naked eye, and knew to keep silent until he stated otherwise. Azula had been trained well, after all.

Walking down the road, Athi began to have flashbacks as memories came flooding forth from a burst dam, no walls to keep them at bay, both happy and sad, both angry and depressing, each washed over him, and yet he felt none of them as sight of his family home came into view. All he felt when it came into his sight, was a grim determination which only got stronger as he approached the door, each step solidifying his will to ensure this was done. He knew the timer was ticking away, and that he didn't have forever. He would do what needed doing, even if it meant causing violence. It wouldn't matter tomorrow in this time anyways.

Without the slightest hint of hesitation he rapped on the door. A simple, authoritative knock, almost like how a cop would knock to show a warrant. Mere moments after knocking, he heard someone shout "Coming!" at the door as footsteps approached. Then the door opened, and there in the doorway stood his father. "..Son? Is that you? You've finally come back for a visit, after being so busy with work?"

Athi smiled and stepped inside, brushing past his father who'd already dressed for work, keeping watch out of the corner of his eye to ensure Azula entered by the shimmer in the air her stealthboy caused, which his father didn't notice. "I am here, yes, but I come with grave news that the entire family needs to know, please bring them all into the Livingroom." He set the holo-projector onto the living room coffee table, and waited.

When his mother entered the room, she broke out into happy sobs rushing forwards and tightly hugging her son. "My God, you've been gone for so long! I'd thought you'd forgotten about us...you haven't been responding to our letters, or emails and calls for months now!"

His brother just stared at him silently. His face one of stone. "So, you finally came back huh?" And his tone that of ice.

Athi began to speak up, before the stoneface fell away as his brother hugged him alongside his mother, the ice replaced with joy and mirth. "Took you long enough you fucking workaholic! What the fuck where you doin not respondin for so long?!"

This made Athi laugh, before his face went serious. "Guys, I've been away for a long time, longer than you may even realize right now. But I didn't do that willingly...what I'm going to say next, will shock you all to the very core but is the absolute honest truth, and I want you to promise you will trust me."

No one argued, no one disagreed, the three family members sitting on the sofa as Athi stood before them. "Firstly, I'm not the Athi you knew. I am still Athi, but I am different. I know I may just look older than you remember, but the truth is I should have died long ago."

"Why would you ever say such a thing?!" His mother cried out with shock.

Athi held up a disc and slid it into the projector, grimacing as it began to play scenes of nuclear bombs going off over American cities. "Because I was frozen, cryogenically against my will by a group in the American Government that called themselves the Enclave months ago, some months afterwards the Chinese government began launching nuclear bombs, this will happen tomorrow at about 10:30 AM in the morning." Scenes played out, one of which was a recording he'd taken while in the tunnel using his cybernetic eyes streamed directly to the projector replayed from his memory. The family was silent with shock.

His father set a mug of coffee down, now cold and forgotten. "Surely this can't be real, if it was how do you know about it? How do you have VIDEO of it no less?"

Athi gave them a sad smile. "Because, I was frozen, I was frozen for thousands of years. And then, revived from cryogenic stasis by a literal chance of luck, I came back from thousands of years in the future, to convince you all to come with me and avoid the death that awaits you, and most of America and the world tomorrow morning."

His brother snorted. "How can you claim to be from the future? You just look a little older, but nothing drastic!"

They all gave a startled gasp when his eyes began glowing, and his arms opened up to display multiple medical instruments while his right one slid open into a plasma cannon. "I awoke in a time more advanced than anything you could imagine today, the robotics, the cybernetics, make everything we had in this time look like primitive garbage, but if thats not enough proof for you, Azula, you can show yourself now my little Huntress."

With a shimmer in the air, Azula stood behind him as the stealthboy wore off, taking her helmet off and looking at his family members. "Guys, meet Azula, she's my....soon to be wife, if you catch my meaning. She's a species called Manuka, a species the Crystal Empire recently conquered with minimal effort. The conquest was mostly peaceful to boot, only a few hundred have died due to it, much more where saved because of it." He said, thinking about the various slaves he'd seen wandering around with little to no idea of what to do with themselves, with no one to call 'Mistress' or 'Master' to command them their every waking moment.

His mother let out a shriek of terror, clutching at a cross necklace she always wore before her eyes rolled into the back of her skull and she fell backwards onto the couch limp, and unresponsive. His brother's eyes bugged out of their sockets when he saw how tall she was, let alone her...assets, to put it nicely, while she did wear armor, that armor still had to conform to the shape of her body to ensure proper mobility. His father picked up the cold mug of coffee and sipped. "Congratulations son, but this is a hell of a lot to take in, Empire? Alien worlds? What the fuck sort of technology do they have in that time?" He asked, eyes laser focused on Azula, who smiled nervously.

"You will see for yourself soon, because even if you try to fight it I'm going to be bringing you all back with me, even if I have to drag you kicking and screaming, or sedated."

His brother rushed to pack, while his father sighed. "Alright son, I'm happy to see you, and this is a lot to take in but I'm going to trust you for now. You've never lied to us before, so I have to assume you're not lying now. Your mother won't like it, but she's not in a position to voice that right now." The father said looking to the couch, where his wife had fainted like a goat. "So I'll pack for both of us, it shouldn't take long."

As the family minus the mother were packing what they seemed the essentials away, a knock was heard on the door. Athi opened it slowly after motioning for Azula to redone her helmet and activate the stealthboy again, which she did so without question. When the door was open, two men in black suits with sunglasses pushed their way into the house. "Federal Bureau of Investigation here, we've got reason to believe this household has something in here, that shouldn't be on this planet." Both agents drew pistols, colt 45's. "Until we investigate and have reason to doubt these claims, you're all under arrest, hands behind your heads and on your knees, now!"

Before anyone could react, one of the agents was lifted into the air by his throat. Azula uncloaking as she did so. "You will not harm my man!" She snarled, and slammed the man into the floor with a sickening crunch, the other agent twirled around and fired two shots at Azula, before his head was blown off with a blast of plasma from Athi's right arm cannon. Arm extended and weapon ready to keep shooting, Athi aimed it at the agent Azula had thrown into the ground who was wheezing and clutching his throat. Another blast of plasma put an end to the man's breathing.

His father and brother stood in shock, mouths agape as the mother came too and saw the carnage, before fainting once more onto the couch with a scream. "We're going, NOW, grab your shit and grab onto me." They did as he ordered, they'd gone too far to argue at this point, suitcases in hand, they grabbed onto him, even the Household Mr.Handy his brother had been tinkering with for god knew how long, grabbed onto him since his brother was holding one of its metal claws. Athi pressed the return button just as more agents broke the door down pistols drawn and ready to fire, only to find an empty house and two dead agents.

--------------------Princess Celestia---------------

Princess Celestia stood alone in a chamber deep below Canterlot Castle, deeper than the long forgotten Crystal Mines. She stood in the center of the room, which was a dull drab gray of plain stone. This was no ordinary room however, for it was laced with enchantment after enchantment, only she herself could enter it. Not even Discord or Luna could dare try to breach it, for the defensive magic lacing the very walls themselves would deter them in a rather painful manner. Princess Celestia stood, staring at the stone door that would bring forth the arrival of the vermin she'd been delivered by the Crystal Empire.

Celestia didn't need to wait long, she'd given explicit instructions that only a foolish moron with a deathwish would dare to ignore. Within ten minutes the stone door lit up with a golden color of her magic as it peeled itself open, two halves sliding into the wall to either side. Two Royal Guard dressed in their ceremonial armor threw a small green biped into the room and bowed so low that their snouts touched the cold stone of the floor. With a wave of a wing, they retreated and the room was filled with the sound of scraping stone as the door slid back into place and locked of its own accord. Celestia glared down at the pathetic creature now on the floor.

Celestia hadn't questioned how, or why the Crystal Empire had some of them in its custody and not dead, but she didn't care about that enough to ask. The alien creature looking up at her from the floor with large black eyes and a scowl on its face, that seemed to be the only expression these things could make from what little of them she'd seen up close. It was dressed in a one piece rubber jumpsuit of a plain white color, with three blue circles arranged in a triangle on the left shoulder. After a few seconds of her silent glaring, the Zetan began screeching at her in its ugly alien language. Its squinted eyes widened as her horn lit with a bright golden glow. A small blast of magic struck the creature sending it crashing into the wall with a wail. The spell wasn't intended to harm, but she'd put some power behind it. Not like she honestly cared if the thing got hurt.

With that done, it's screeching was now a clear language she could understand. "We will eradicate you pests just as we have everything else that dare stood in ou-GLK." It's screaming was cut off as the same golden glow from before grabbed it by the throat and lifted it into the air. The creature grasping at its throat in a futile attempt to remove the pressure while kicking and flailing.

As Princess Celestia slowly trotted closer its struggles got more frantic, her ethereal mane and tail turning from their normal hues to bright flowing waves of flame. She lowered it until her snout was pressed directly against its ugly, flat nose. Her eyes burning with a fire of their own as she glared directly into the aliens eyes. "I'm going to burn everything you and your kind hold dear. I will burn everything so thoroughly not even ash remains to blow in the wind." She dropped the creature, which had for the first time since it was thrown into the room, shown fear on its face. The moment she let go it's face morphed back into the snarl it'd held before, and it tried to swing at her. Within a second Princess Celestia had spun around and bucked the creature into the wall again so fast, that it hadn't even known what'd happened before the pain hit it.

She trotted closer once more, the creatures green blood now seeping from a broken leg, and the side of its tooth filled maw reminding her of a changelings in color as it was a bright emerald green. Celestia lowered her glowing horn and touched the creatures forehead. The moment she did, it began to wail in pure agony as she watched every memory this creature had ever formed. From its birth, through the years of its life, nothing was hidden from her sight. When she was satisfied she'd seen everything there was to see, she stood back. She'd gotten everything she would ever need to know, and then some. The alien was gasping and clutching itself. She didn't give it a second thought as a bright flash vaporized the alien completely, the heat being so sudden and hot that not even its blood remained on the ground. As she had promised, not even ash remained of its corpse. Celestia gave it zero pause as she stepped out of the room as the doors slammed closed behind her.

As Princess Celestia climbed the various stairways back to the lower levels of the Canterlot Castle she contemplated all she had seen within the creatures mind. She passed magical barriers that would only allow those she wanted into the chambers below, once outside of the barriers she simply teleported. Such powerful anti-teleportation spells had been placed upon the chamber and the hallways that lead to it, that not even she as the one who'd produced them could bypass them without overloading the spell matrixes. And she'd rather not destroy her own creation, it did take effort to make after all. She did hold some regret over the fact Equestria was breaking its thousand year long peace, but she couldn't just allow what those vile creatures did to go unpunished. Her little ponies would have their revenge, she'd see to that.

Author's Note

Hello, sorry folks! chapters where delayed and may still be, for reasons. I was going to move, then changed my mind when I saw what a shithole it was, lmfao. Busy moving shit around, an all that good shite, leave a comment, give me something nice to read, for I do the same for you all :D