(Twilight Pov)

We all just stood there shivering in the cold mist of this fog as the door revealed a grey floor with a dark room. I couldn’t see the walls at all or any source of light. The only light in that room seemed to be the candlelight from our side of the door lighting the floor of just barley.

I saw Celestia and Luna start towards the door only to have spike and Nova grab at them with spike holding Celestia and Nova holding Luna.

“What are you doing are you crazy?! Even if that is him how do you know he’s still the same?!” Nova shouted but the look on the princess's face told a story, one filled with sadness, longing, and hope

“Even if it is as you say Nova… we need to know… I need to know if he’ll forgive us.” Luna said as she pulled her wrist free before marching into the door.

“Celestia… mom please don’t. What if it’s a trap?” Spike begged as she smiled and turned to him wrapping him in a hug

“He was and still is our family spike. That means yours too.” She spoke in a soft whisper before letting go of him and walking through the door.

The girls and I were torn. I really wanted to fallow them and learn more, but it was so dark… I don’t think even Sombra knew a darkness this pitch black. Slowly Spike fallowed them through, then Nova, then applejack. Soon all of us we’re walking through this strange door. Once we were all through the door shut behind us with a crash as the mist and darkness were all I could see.

(Celestia Pov)

I knew of darkness. I knew it well, but it would seem I didn’t know it nearly as well as I thought. All around us all we saw was a void, a gaping hole in life where no light existed. Nor would it ever touch this cursed place.

Luna and I knew of the story’s our father told us. Of the Empty abyss which no life could survive. But HE did, not only survive but also thrive. To covet knowledge is to be like him. An absolute wealth of unknowns and possibilities, even at high costs.

We all made sure to stay close to one another. The girls all holding hands or hugging each other’s arms in Fluttershy’s case Nova and spike stood beside each other as did I with my sister. Together we peered into the abyss that surrounded us. Until it spoke to us.

“Such young and inexperienced people come into my home. A home I no longer care for yet find myself reluctant to leave entirely. You know what kind of home this is don’t you girls.” His voice was unchanged from the days we remember. I only imagine what has changed if anything at all.

“G-Gaster please come out from hiding. Let us see you!” Luna cried out hoping to reach him, I only hope my sister's words reach him, but that hope was dashed when he spoke again.

“Ha, see me? Why? You haven’t felt the need to see me in the past several thousand years. Why the sudden request? Did your mother not instruct you to release me? Or had you forgotten me like all others. Ripped from existence yet again!” His voice was calm, but it held emotions on every word. We all heard his pain, his suffering, even his loneliness.

Twilight took that moment as opportunity to speak up. Stepping away from our group shouting into the unknown. “Wait I-if you’re Gaster. Then surly you rely on that they loved you with all their hearts! They never forgot you or abandoned you!”

Suddenly and without warning the tall skeletal figure of Gaster stood before the group. His hands clasped behind his back. “Is that so?” His tone was neutral and even. No emotion at all.

To the girls, they never imagined Gaster was so intimidating. This tall creature that looks like even death avoided it or it became death, was the father figure for two of the most loving and understanding being in the known world. it was maddening.

(3rd Pov)

"Where was this love when I was forced into the one place I despise so much? Why was I left to rot in a barren dessert? Where oh where, were the two angels I raised... when the nation they led... called for my death?" asked Gaster, his emotionless tone and stern posture making his rage feel empty but also filled with a flame that promised to burn out the sun itself.

Twilight wasn't sure how to respond but Rainbow seemed confused. "Wait! what do you mean by that?"

"Oh, so history was erased that much this time around?" He seemed to chuckle to himself as he heard her ask that. "Well young one. Long ago I was called a hero and a Protector of the Realm, but at that time war surrounded our home. with the threat of attacks around every corner." As he spoke, he walked to the side to a corner of the "room" that seemed even darker somehow. waving his hand, they all watched as the void obeyed him creating an "eye" like before. Through it they all saw Gaster standing beside Faust and the princesses who were smiling and giggling to themselves as they played in the castle garden. "I was once a proud and loving man who looked at them as he once had before. Like a father." The "eye" blinked reviling them all in the throne room, but it was chaos! dragon knights wearing ancient armor from decades ago and griffins wearing light leather and masks were charging into the room fighting both guards and brave servants who had taken up arms to protect the queen and her children, and just Infront of them fighting off two different assassins was Gaster, a scythe in each hand and two red colored floating hands. which were shooting out red orbs at other assassins that tried to flank him. "And when the war came to them, I did what any father would and should have done!" his voice raised till the rage almost filled the boundless void. as the eye blinked again it showed the once lush lands of the dragons being reduced to sand as a ginormous floating skull that had two large glowing pink eyes!"

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It was breathing out a large pink beam that was turning everything to ash, dust and sand! it was indiscriminate! and standing atop it was Gaster who was watching it all happen with that same empty look, but also was seen shedding a steady stream of tears. while his eyes also glowed pink, another blink and they saw the ancient capital of the griffin kingdom its mighty Mountain peak fortress was being destroyed by large glowing spikes that seemed to just erupt from the ground and slice through anything they touched! and at the base of the mountain was Gaster again seen with an empty look, but his eyes glowing a different color. Again, another blink, reviling Gaster marching up to a blooded throne of the Yakes as the severed and smoldering horns of the past king laid at its base with a red and black hand floating Infront of Gaster.

with this next blink it was showing Gaster's return to the capital with sluggish shoulders and a grim look on his face, but the crowds lining the streets for his return didn't cheer, or shout in joy, or anything that would be seen in a positive light. instead, they glared it was a quiet, steady and burning glare that filled the eyes of every citizen that watched his return.

"I didn't do what I did for their cheers or gratitude. few understood why, fewer agreed with my ways. but I did it, I'll live with it, and I'll never regret it. because in the end. the family I had was protected." his voice once again even and calm. showed just how aged he felt watching this again.

To the girls and spike this was one hell of a history lesson, of course they knew the wars and they're existence, but they never heard or knew it was one man that ended it all. or that he was hated for it! yes what he did was beyond what they would have thought necessary, but it also felt unfair, having families of their own. Could they rightly say they wouldn't do anything to protect them? Maybe not everyone would, or even could. but they knew that conflict is harsh, and you can't always reason or talk to someone out of it. Sometimes you just need to win.

"But I don't understand, how is this they're fault?!" Asked Twilight as They all looked to the princesses, only to see the looks of guilt and sorrow on their faces, one so embedded in them you almost mistook them for someone who never seen the sunlight.

"I'll show you." Gaster said as the eye blinked again reviling a chain of events that lead to it all. firstly, the girls saw a calendar that sped through its pages and get replaced four times, indicating four years had pasted Durning the span of the wars. then it should that Faust had started teaching the girls how to rule, that she had begun receiving mountains of letters and pettishness from nobles that demanded Gaster be executed for war crimes. and that a year after that war ended the Caribou Came to the known world. slaughtering, pillaging, conquering, and raping all in their path.

After Gaster was sent to the front to stop them Faust was pestered by all about removing him before more war crimes happened. But one day she left the court to help on another front leaving her daughters in charge. but after reports of her front falling to the Caribou, Gaster went on a spree! he started slaughtering entire cities of Caribou with no survivors. he wasted no breath offering peace or mercy, each encounter was a FIGHT and every Fight ended in blood. once the Caribou retreated to, they're home in the far north he was pulled back to the city by order of the princesses. with no news from Faust and her front of the war, he wandered if there was finally news of her! wondering this he continued he walked into the throne room to be met with spears and bows pointed at him.

"What's the meaning of this? men lower your weapons at once!" he ordered the Guards tensing up as they ignored his order.

"They'll do no such thing 'father', and they will not be swayed by your authority!" Shouted Celestia with Luna by her side both dressed in their plate armor and wielding they're weapons.

Gaster was stunned seeing them waiting for him like this. "What... are you doing girls."

"What we have to, with mother gone we learned of your many crimes against those we fought. I will not allow it to continue Gaster. we will see that you are punished properly! we have been told of your ways to manipulate the rules! and of your use of our mothers' feelings to escape justice! No More!" Luna yelled, beside her and Tia were a small group of nobles all seen glaring and smirking at Gaster.

To Gaster. it was worse than being forgotten or left behind. this was betrayal. betrayal of the heart.

The eye blinked again showing the vast desert he had created. now had a massive grey door built in the middle of nowhere, with runes carved into the frame that glowed a faint purple. There in front of the door watching it open with had hands chained behind him was Gaster, further back behind him Celestia, Luna, the Nobles, and every guard he had trained watched as he was forced to march into the door with a spear at his back. the princesses watched with stone cold faces. as Gaster walked into the void, his face as empty as it was today. with only stains from his tears adorning his face. his eyes empty of any color or trace of his life. as he turned to watch the door close, they girls saw as the darkness seemed to grab hold of him and hug him, as if being welcomed back and caressed by it. until the door finally fully shut. on the door the words glowed and rearranged "Only when two bloods and worlds meet at this entrance will it open."

When the "eye blinked again it showed that Faust had returned after escaping her fronts fall. she explained that thanks to the Caribou communications in that area were being disrupted and she was busy helping the families evacuate to other nations. upon her return and learning of Gaster's imprisonment she broke down, losing herself to her grief she spent untold days weeping and yelling. she tried ordering for the heads of every noble involved, take action against her daughters but they stood against her, forcing her to submit to the fact he was gone. Mad with grief and sorrow she went to the front again looking to finish off the Caribou, but never returned. but the Caribou suddenly all vanished. never to be seen again.

The "eye" closed leaving the void now only filled with them, the vast emptiness, somehow couldn't be empty enough to hold all the tension in this group now, the princesses having relived they're biggest mistake, the father who now reminded himself of his anger, and the girls and spike. Who just watched as the princesses sentenced, they're father figure and protector to an eternity alone and betraying his love for them? for doing what he should have, which was protecting them. The fact it was the cause of the Queens sorrow and for her to go missing to begin with!

"This place... this void... though I can't stand it, has been my home far beyond what can be understood as time. and it has allowed me to see or shown me many things. but life outside this place is just that, A life. and I had one worth living once upon a time. but until I finish what I started. do I think I'll ever get it back? till then princesses. this is your formal warning. like any good warmonger I'm telling you now instead of surprising you. I'm going to war. and my army will not stop till I've finished what I started so long ago. DONT, GET IN MY WAY! Each word caused the void itself to come to life and ripple as if it was a slugged, large black tentacles of black slime shot up from the ground wrapping each and every one up causing each of the girls to gasp and giggle as they swayed back and forth in the air before everyone was thrown out of the door they came in from.

Twilight groaned as she sat on top of Rainbow Dash and Applejack, the others all scattered about in the room with Fluttershy sitting on a beanbag with spike on her lap, Rarity on the couch with the princesses. As Twilight stood up and looked back to the door, she saw it was suddenly gone! as if it was never there. the only sign that they were ever there, being the bone chilling cold, they all felt.

"Oh... Shit..."

Author's Note

HELLO EVERYONE! IM BACK! sorry for the lack of chapters I had an issue with my PC going up in flames! so I got a new Laptop to work with and I will be returning to this with Renewed vigor! hope you all still enjoy this, and I hope you see improvements in my writing thanks to them many helpful advice you and other have given me! thanks to all of you and love all of you!