Applejack was rushing through the Everfree Forest, whacking and hacking away at everything in her path, she wanted to make sure Zecora, or any foolish pony that decided to come in here at all was alright. When she got to the staircase that lead to the Tree of Harmony's location, she saw the explosion of light coming from Ponyville. Her exhaustion was beginning to mix with her worries, she didn't know to what to do.

"Flim Flammin' fiddlesticks, what in tarnation is goin' on tonight?!" Applejack asked aloud. She heard the sound of something running, it was down where the crater was. Applejack, still prepared to fight, instinctively pointed Sheila at the source of the running, only to go bug-eyed when she sees it's Anon, who was in an exhausted, but also worried state. "Consarn it, Anon, you sure know how to almost get yerself- What in hell's name is that thing on your arm?!" Applejack exclaimed, pointing at the watch on his wrist.

Anon was about to open his mouth to say something, until several more explosions of light started to erupt, illuminating the Everfree Forest in a blanketing barrage of light. "I'm not exactly sure what this thing is, but I'm just glad I didn't invoke another god's wrath this time... I think. Look, I'll try to explain everything later, but right now, I think someone needs help... like, now!" Anon explained. Applejack's not the type of sort to just up and abandon somepony in need of help, so she silently nods, and the two quickly make their way out of the Everfree, completely unaware of the dangers that they're about to face head-on.

***

In a flash of sparkling purple light, Twilight has reappeared in the midst of Ponyville. Odd, she was hoping to get back to bed as soon as possible, but her newfound alicorn abilities must not be acclimated to her yet. Twilight ran down the empty and quiet streets of the town, trying to get back to the library, but things are gonna be very difficult when Ponyville is suddenly blanketed by a bunch of explosions of bright light.

"Ahhh!! Oh no, please don't tell me this is Discord... Dear Celestia, please don't let it be Tirek!" Twilight hoped. Much to her satisfaction, it wasn't Tirek or Discord... to her utter Dismay however, she probably would've preferred one of the two. Almost as if the light had summoned these things, it was unclear as to what they were. Parts of them looked to be incredibly unrecognizable, like parts of it were fused to metal and other strange contraptions, while other parts seemed to stand out, parts of different creatures seemed to be forced together into some unholy hybrid shoggoth-like creature.

Twilight just stood there, in utter shock, and fear ridden disgust. Of all the creatures she has faced, from Nightmare Moon and Sombra, to Discord and Chrysalis, this... thing, was by far, the most inexplicably confusing in appearance, and of unknown origin. "I... was not prepared for any of this..." Twilight told herself, slowly backing away. the creature screeched out and lunged forward, attempting to attack the princess. Twilight ducked down and braced herself, but soon enough, the creature recoiled in agony as something suddenly collided with it as a metal humming sound echoed out.

To Twilight's side, she could see a shovel on the ground. She turned around and saw Applejack, who was getting ready to fight this unholy monster back, was followed up by Anon, who was trying to mess with some sort of strange trinket on his wrist. "Alrighty, I'll knock that thing back, you join in when you figured out how to use that blasted contraption." Applejack stated, grabbing Sheila and charging at the unholy creature.

"Anon, what's going on?!" Twilight asked worriedly. Anon was still trying to figure out how to make this weird watch work, but even if he could answer Twilight's question, he didn't have a concrete answer as to what was going on, let alone to what kind of Lovecraftian abomination was currently screeching in the middle of town, in dead of night.

Eventually, Anon started twisting on the dial, and the hourglass emblem inverted into a diamond shape, showing icons of weird creatures. Anon cycled through the various icons and just decided to go with one at random. He noticed the button on the front of it, so upon pressing it, the core popped up. Anon carefully pushed the core back down, only to then be enveloped in a bright green flash of light as his body began to change.

Anon felt his body contort, warp and shape, feeling some sort of power coursing through his body. He felt his body freezing, a torrent of freezing cold air and rapidly forming ice began to cover his body, all while his green skin had began to become teal in contrast. Enveloped in ice, Anon felt something shroud over him as the freezing cold felt normal, the ice around him shattered, his skin was covered in a smooth black film, while dark turquoise patterns formed on top. His eyes were white, compounded like a moth, huge dark teal wings were spread out, and the same emblem on the watch was now firmly placed on his chest.

As the green light died down, Anonymous was replaced by this alien moth creature. Twilight and Applejack were both taken aback by the sudden transformation, but the unholy creature seemed to have expected this, and began to solely target the transformed Anon. The creature lunged forward, trying to ram into the new creature, only to suddenly see it go intangible, passing through it as its body was rapidly coated in ice. The moth alien took a deep breath, and exhaled a stream of freezing cold mist from its mouth, completely concealing the monster in a frozen prison.

"A-Anon?... I-is that you? Talk to me, partner, wh-what did that thing do to you?" Applejack asked. The alien looked down at the ponies, and then looked in the reflection of the ice, seeing himself... what he was now. The number of thoughts running through his head were exponential, but the fact that he could transform now, if that was what this thing did to him, he might actually be able to help ponies properly.

"Huh... Cool. Literally... I should wish on stars more often." The alien spoke in a chilling, but audible whisper. twilight approached the transformed Anon, and noticed the odd emblem on his chest, and began to tap it lightly with her hoof.

"What a strange device, I've never seen anything like this before... Anon, do you feel any different? How do you feel?" Twilight asked. The alien looked at himself, feeling how different he was. It was so much to understand, but he wasn't complaining, he has some kind of superpower now, at least he'll be useful in a fight now, unlike the last few times.

"I feel... amazing. This kind of power, it's invigorating. It feels like magic, but it's not magic at all... this is so awesome." Anon answered, smiling. Suddenly, the emblem began to blink a red light, and in a flash of red light, Anon was returned to his original form, now with the green on the watch glowing a red color. "Oh, well that was short-lived... this thing must have a time limit, or something along those lines... Hey Twilight, what's with the uh... the sudden growth spurt, you doing some kind of exercise regimen now?" Anon asked.

Twilight just simply sped off towards the direction of the library, Applejack however, was keen on figuring out what this unholy creature was all about. But, as soon as it showed up, it was gone just as fast. Anon and Applejack looked at where the frozen creature should be, but only saw a bunch of nothing, and splintered off pieces of ice in its place.

"Well this can't end well, can it?" Anon asked. Applejack just looked at the human bemusedly. This whole situation was confusing for her, and the fact that a weird watch was on him, and could turn him into some Tartarus-bound ice bug thing, she was not in the mood... let alone the appropriate mind state. She wanted to believe that all of this, all of what just went down, was some kind of bad dream. So, she just started to head back to Sweet Apple Acres.

"Partner, Ahm goin' back to bed, this is some Luna damn bad dream, and ah don't wanna find out what happens from 'ere on out. If I wake up tomorrow an' see that watch on you, yer gonna promise me that ya won't go lookin' fer trouble, ya hear?" Applejack called out. Anon nodded, and the two of them headed back to their respective homes to get some much needed sleep.

***

Back at Canterlot's castle, a white stallion with a short blue mane was dressed in a knightly armor, being followed by two other armored individuals. The Night was still young, but that just made the probability of chaos being more pertinent. Right when they least expected it, a strange chaotic hodgepodge of animal parts had already already disarmed them with a snap of the fingers. The stallion growled as he watched another stronger foe drain the magic from the two other guards. A big red skinned Centaur with curved silver horns, black fur, a silver nose ring and beady yellow eyes.

"You will pay for this, you traitor!" The stallion exclaimed. He soon felt his own magic be drained by the centaur, and was then tossed aside. Discord let Tirek waltz right past him, until he felt his body suddenly go into a sudden spaz. "Oh! Hm, well that can't be right." Discord said aloud.

Tirek looked at Discord cautiously. "What can't be right?" The centaur asked. Discord shook his head and just brushed off the odd feeling. Soon after, a bolt of magic had struck Tirek in the back, and an aggressive scream rang out as Tirek was met with 4 hooves to the jaw, staggering him back. Discord quickly hid away and watched things unfold.

Flying above Tirek, was Cadence, now dressed in a warrior's armor, and is prepared to fight to her last breath. "I'm going to love and tolerate the hell out of you, foul beast!!" Cadence exclaimed, charging up a powerful spell in her horn as the fury in her eyes burned bright.

Tirek wiped his jaw, and saw a bit of red stain on his silver cuffs. "All of that, for a few drops of blood. You have my praise and respect, Princess, you have decided to face me on your own... how noble, it disgusts me. Discord, keep her still!" Tirek commanded. With a snap of Discord's fingers, Cadence was stuck in place, and her spell had been interrupted, dissipating the magic in her horn. Tirek opened his mouth, and began to drain the magic from Cadence's body. She yelled out once more into the starry night sky, but her cries fell onto powerless ears. Tirek could feel his strength growing, and Cadence collapsed, just barely holding onto the stallion as she went unconscious.

"Fantastic... One down, and only 2 more to go," Tirek said with a devilish smirk, leaping down as he made his way to the castle, with Discord by his side, who seemed a wee bit... suspicious. "Hmm... how strange, the sun should've been up by now." Discord remarked, looking at the starry sky.

***

Anon laid in his bed for hours, trying to sleep, but his attention was brought back to the watch on his wrist. He constantly wondered about what else he could become, if he could become anything else at all, what were the limits, what was possible and what wasn't... he wanted to use these abilities more, but he knew he had to practice. Applejack said he shouldn't go looking for trouble, and she's right, but that doesn't mean he can't practice with this thing, get used to it for when the next crazy villain shows up... speaking of crazy villain, wasn't the sun supposed to come up by now?

Anon checked the alarmless clock on his bedside. 7:22 AM... Anon frowned. "I swear if Celestia's sleeping in..." Anon said, getting out of bed as he left his room to go to Twilight's. Anon knocked on the door softly, but loud enough for Twilight to hear, and waited. He heard the sound of magic being used, and saw the door knob slowly be turned on its own, and the door slowly creaked open, revealing a tired and confused Twilight.

"Anon... *Yaaawn* is there something else going on at this hour?" Twilight asked, slowly waking up. Anon sighed and gestured to the dark night sky. "It's nearly Seven Thirty in the morning, Twi... why hasn't Celestia risen the sun yet?" Anon asked. That woke Twilight up, she had Celestia and Luna's powers... she immediately shut the door on Anon, leaving him confused.

"And somepony's hiding something... I gotta see what's going on in there," Anon said quietly, looking at the watch, shining its green color. "Well, practice is practice, no matter how stupid or contrived it is." Anon stated. He twisted the dial and picked another icon at random, pressed the button. the core rises up, and he pushed the core back down, lighting the hallway up in a green light.

Anon felt his whole body suddenly feel stringy and loose, until it's all wrapped together in some kind of paper-like substance. His face had been wrapped up and obscured, until two slits open up and show two green eyes peering out. A strange headdress and collar form on his body, as do weird arm guards and a dark gray tunic. The watch's emblem forms on the top of the headdress and the green light dies down.

In Anon's place was some sort of strange Egyptian mummy thing, made entirely of bandages. Anon could feel his whole body unravel as he easily made his way under the door. As Anon reformed his strange new body, he saw a real interesting spectacle. Twilight's hair was sparkling and waving, she was... also kinda struggling to lower the moon and raise the sun- wait, lower the what and raise the what?!

Anon could see the moon moving around the night sky in a ridiculous manner, until finally being lowered below the horizon, and raising the sun in a similar manner before she finally took a moment to let the Sun stay in the sky. "Man, that is so much harder than I thought it'd be." Twilight stated. Anon quickly formed his stringy bandage fingers into hands and began to give a round of applause, startling the mare as she looked at the monster in her room, who just seemed to look like he was smiling and gave a thumbs up.

Twilight looked at the creature carefully, and noticed the emblem on the headdress. "Anon? Well, I guess that proves that you have more than one form to use... though a head's up would've been nice." Twilight said, smiling as she sighed in relief.

"You can raise the sun, and lower the moon... as much as I'll give you congratulations, I fear trouble will be coming soon." The mummy rhymed. Twilight sighed and opened the door, and the alien followed. "What became of Celestia and Luna? I shan't presume, I'd feel terrible to think they met their doom." the mummy inquired.

Twilight looked at the creature as she prepared to make some tea. "Tirek's been on a non-stop rampage, stealing magic from everypony in Equestria. I thought Discord could stop him, but he just got persuaded to go back to his evil ways... I thought friendship was enough to change his ways. Celestia and Luna are still around, but they were hedging on the idea that Tirek won't know that I'm an alicorn princess, so they gave me their magic." Twilight explained.

She set a kettle and sat down at the table, looking at the monster that her friend had become. "How did this even happen? I remember so little from last night, it was all just a blur... a freezing cold blur." Twilight stated.

"I was feeling a bit left out, doing all these chores while you settle bouts. Up in the sky, I saw a star, I made a wish to give the bad guys scars. I presume my wish had somehow gone awry, as there seems to be more to this watch than meets the eye. But we can focus on the watch on a safer day, we must worry about how to stop Tirek and save the day." The mummy said in a cryptic way.

Twilight nodded and poured herself a cup of tea, but she decided to give her transformed friend a cup as well. "Can you eat or drink anything like this?" Twilight asked.

"From what I can plainly see, if I tried, it would just go right through me. Best to wait till I'm normal, no need for the stress. Plus, I don't want to risk making a bigger mess." The mummy said, cryptically, but politely declining. A knock on the door brought both of them to attention, and Twilight went to see who was at the door.

Twilight opened the door. "Hello, how can I help you-" Twilight's words came to an abrupt stop as she looked at the towering entity standing. The thing reached into a paper bag and held a small red sphere in his fingertips.

"Hello, Princess Twilight, care for a gumball in these trying times?" Paradox offered. Twilight backed away and closed the door with a nervous smile. "Sorry, but I'm trying to watch my sugar, have a good day!" Twilight stated, closing the door as she ran back to the kitchen. "There's another human! And they know my name!!" Twilight exclaimed in a panic, hiding under the table.

The mummy looked at the pony in confusion. Another human? So he wasn't the last of his kind after all, that's a hell of a kicker. The mummy looked to the library to see that man for himself, reading one of the big thick books from off the shelf. "What a wonderful little world this is. The fact that the very concept of friendship can house so much power and possibility, it's phenomenal, though some of these creatures are in fact strong in their own right, I wonder what the Omnitrix could do for such a species. Equestrians, who knew?" Paradox stated simply, putting the book back and walking over to the mummy.

"I see this Omnitrix already has access to the Thep Khufans, how magnificent. It was already impressive to see you use a Necrofriggian's abilities so casually, even if it was your first time transforming into an alien species... You must be a fast learner, my Equestrian friend." Paradox marveled. the mummy was severely confused, and in a flash of red light, Paradox got a good look at the man behind the aliens... and this guy was not who he had expected.

"Uuuugh... man, I'm not using that guy again. I think I accidentally unraveled my brain..." Anon stated, sitting down as he rubbed his head.

"Ohhh dear, this could be troublesome..." Paradox stated. Twilight got out from under the table and stayed behind Anon.

"Allow me to properly explain myself. First off, My name is Paradox. I don't know where I am, but I can definitely make the assumption that the Omnitrix has indeed found a user... a rather strange user, but at least you know how to use it properly. You two are probably incredibly confused by what is happening, correct?" Paradox asks. Paradox takes a seat and pulls out another gumball, popping it into his mouth.

"Allow me to share the abridged version of my story, if you don't mind, we are on a bit of a time crunch." Paradox stated. Twilight sat up in her chair, and Anon was making sure he was paying attention.

"I'm from another world, I work to make sure the timeline goes as it should go. I'm something of a time traveler, and I have traversed time, space and reality to chase after an unsightly ruffian who stole that device from one of the many timelines I try to set right. He lead me to your world, and sent the Omnitrix to some location here on your planet... I cannot risk watching this planet fall because someone has abused such power... I can hope that you'll make the right decision, won't you?" Paradox explained.

"As much as I'd like to give you it back, it seems to be... well, for a lack of a better word, stuck." Anon said, lowering his head.

Paradox sighed. "I think you misunderstood. I'm looking for the Omnitrix that was stolen from my world... as odd as it may seem, your Omnitrix, the very device on your wrist, this one was meant to be found by you, so says the rules of one individual universe, to the rules of another. I've seen countless timelines, infinite realities, your timeline is a branching off point of a branching point, and so on and so forth. Your timeline is exceptionally rare, so I'm not going to take your Omnitrix, lest I risk bringing whatever divine powers are present here down on me... though it wouldn't be the first time. The Omnitrix that I am looking for, is somewhere on this planet, but it's not your Omnitrix that I'm referring to. Does that make any sense to you?" Paradox explained.

Anon's face was blank, the question mark on his face was just more prominent as he couldn't find the words to answer yes or no. Twilight, however, had started writing stuff down. "This kind of info will definitely come in handy. So, this watch, The Omnitrix as you call it, is there anything we have to worry about?" Twilight asked.

"Not at the moment, but eventually, all will be revealed in due time. Tell me, my lean green fellow, what is your name?" Paradox said, shifting his attention to Anon.

"Anonymous Torrentsonn, but my friends call me Anon." Anon introduced. Paradox was still flabbergasted by his name.

'Whoever named you that was asking for trouble.' Paradox thought to himself. "Well, Mr. Anon, Princess Twilight, I do hope we can meet again. As for now, I have to continue my search for the Omnitrix... it's never easy, though. Ciao!" Paradox said, walking around the corner. Twilight and Anon looked at the corner, and couldn't find any trace of him.

"Why am I getting Discord vibes from that guy..." Anon said aloud.

Twilight shuddered. "Unlike Discord, I don't think that guy is on the side of evil... or is even easily swayed by it." She said.

Anon looked at Twilight for a moment. "So, when were you gonna tell the others about the whole 'I can now raise and lower the sun and moon' situation?" Anon asked curiously.

Twilight frowned at Anon. "That all depends, when were you gonna tell the others about the whole 'I can now transform into aliens thanks to a strange space watch from another dimension' situation?" Twilight retorted.

Anon frowned back. "Both of us are in the 'we have powers that we both can't understand' boat, don't try to throw me overboard." Anon stated.

***

Tirek makes his way to the throne room, kicking the doors open to reveal Celestia and Luna, in a not so lively state. "You puny princesses even succumbed to the sands of time, I'll be taking your magic now... it won't save you in this case." Tirek states, opening his mouth to absorb their magic. Yet nothing happened, they remained on their thrones, drastically weakened as they can't even revel in how stupid Tirek is feeling right now.

Tirek felt his anger reach the breaking point, and yelled out in a fit of rage. "WHERE. IS YOUR. MAGIC!?!?" Tirek exclaimed, the castle shaking from the volume. Celestia, despite her crippling weakened state, smiled knowingly before she collapsed into an unconscious state. Discord looked at the princesses with confusion on his face.

"Hm... powerless, before we could get here, is it me or did something change? I feel as if something didn't go as it should've gone." Discord said skeptically. He found this rather odd, Cadence tried to fight back on her own, fails to do so, and the two royal sisters are powerless already? Something didn't make sense about this, even to the Spirit of Chaos this made no sense whatsoever.

Tirek brushed Discord's skepticism off, and just tossed the Alicorns to the ground as he took the throne. "It matters not, I'm without their powers, but I'm content enough for the moment to have at least one of them powerless, even if the other two's powers can't be mine... fetch me more puny ponies, Discord, I'm going to take Equestria by force... and I need the strength to do so." Tirek commanded.

Discord went off to get more ponies for Tirek to drain of their magic, but as soon as he was out of his line of sight and out of earshot, he immediately made his way to Ponyville. That spasm in his body, it was a sign that things weren't going the way they were supposed to, and he was going to figure out exactly what was going on.

Author's Note

I found it kinda difficult to not have the desert-dwelling alien mummy not speak in a similar rhyming dialect that Zecora speaks in, so if you have an issue with it, just know I can read the comments, say whatever you feel. Also, here's some info on the aliens that debuted in this chapter, in case some of you don't know what they can do.

The frozen moth alien, AKA Big Chill:
https://ben10.fandom.com/wiki/Big_Chill

The Mummy, AKA Snare-Oh:
https://ben10.fandom.com/wiki/Snare-oh