"Emperor of mankind hear my prayer from beyond the veil,"

"I have returned to the form that you have intended for me to wear for my immortal charge,"

"However my curse was broken too soon for Terria... has fallen and you along with it,"

"I now serve under one of your loyal servants of your immortal eye that survived Sol's betrayal to chaos,"

"I may have failed humanity but here I pray to you even if you may not hear my voice,"

"Allow me to remain here as the final bulwark of humanity's memory,"

"Grant me the strength to defeat those who would seek to destroy your memory,"

"Grant me the will to defeat the beast,"

"From your grace..."

"I shall no know fear,"

Titus knelt down his bolter in one hand while his helm rested in his other, head lowered he allowed his face to feel the cold wind of the aging night. It had been so long since he had been allowed to return to his form of flesh and bone finally free of that curse he was trapped in.

Now he gave another prayer to the emperor of mankind for the aid of his unseen hand.

Not opening his eyes, the once cursed marine heard the careful familiar steps of his friend.

"I didn't believe you were one for prayers Inquisitor," Titus spoke while Salem knelt next to him.

"I do however I don't pray so openly lieutenant," Salem answered. "How do you feel?"

Titus gave a slight smile at his ally's question.

"I feel as if I'm two centuries younger inquisitor. Long before my days as captain of the second company... before Graia,"

"They're not gone, lieutenant. Their physical forms may have been slain but their memory of them remains with us. As long as we remember them they will not be truly gone,"

"Hopeful words Inquisitor,"

"Hope isn't a always fool's dream Titus remember that,"

Opening his eyes the marine turned to the Chimera next to him, even now the Astrates had not yet embraced the form the inquisitor took but understood why he did so.

"How are our xenos 'allies' fairing after this attack," Titus's distrust for the ponies was shown in his tone.

"They'll recover. However, this is the second attack they had since one of their allies was attacked not long before the first siege on this castle," Salem stated while the marine huffed.

"I not surprised. For I may not be a son of Dorn, Inquisitor but I can already tell you the flaws of this palace we find ourselves in just by one quick look," This caused the Terrian to stand up.

"These natives haven't had a war in over a thousand years you can forgive them for they did not need to fight the darkness as we do these ponies and their allies have been living in the light," The Chimera spoke to his friend while the Astrates gave a low nod.

"Those words can't be more true... however I believe that these ponies may find themselves facing the darkness without our aid," Standing up the ultramarine placed his helm back on while Salem crossed his arms to think for a moment. "Permission to speak freely inquisitor?"

Salem smiled at Titus' question.

"Granted,"

"Why is it that you didn't inform me of this ball?" The ultramarine asked causing Salem to go wide-eyed for a moment.

"Uhhhhhhhh- I think I hear someone calling my name let's put a pin in this for later,"

The ultramarine stared down at Salem who was trying to escape the question.

"Inquisitor..."

"Come on Titus. It was so sudden and-" Salem froze upon seeing the glare of the mark seven Aqulian pattern helmet, this caused the terrain to gulp and adjust his tie. "We'll talk about this later yeah?"

"I will take you up on your word inquisitor,"

"Just... come on you oversized blueberry,"

"Blueberry?"

"It's a- Doesn't matter come on,"

(The ballroom)

Magical healers were out and about helping all those harmed in the surprise attack while many nobles were already starting to argue.

"THIS IS THE PERFECT REASON WHY WE DON'T NEED SOME FILLY ON THE THRONE!"

"TWILIGHT SPARKLE IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS! IF ANYTHING MAYBE THE PRINCESSES ARE-!"

"ARE WHAT? INCOMPETENT!"

It was like a group of fillies arguing over the simplest thing.

Sunset gave a sigh while holding a bottle of champagne, out of all the bottles this one had survived the whole incident. She hadn't had a drink in a very long time due to her 'highschooler' age but she was hoping to have a drink for her '21st birthday' on earth.

It's funny she hated earth at first but now? She misses the magicless world...

Especially her friends.

Her thoughts were snapped out of it as the sound of heavy hydraulic armor caught her attention, causing her to look up and nearly choke on her tongue.

"Uhhhhh... hi?"

The red lenses of the blue helmet stared at her before turning and walking away.

"Don't mind him he's been 'bodyless' for awhile," Salem's voice reached her ear causing the pony to turn her attention to Salem.

"As much as I want to know what that means I kinda don't want," Sunset held her head. "Head hurts as much as is... damn magical headaches,"

"Magical Headaches?" Salem sat down next to her.

"Holding a spell-like telepath for that long kind hurts... a lot," Sunset put the cold bottle to her head.

"Heh..." Salem started at the drink. "You going to drink that or use it as an expensive ice pack,"

Sunset snorted amused.

"Yeah just give me a second. Is Malo okay though can't see her," Sunset asked Salem nodded pointing to the spot on the stairs next to him.

"She's here but she 'shift' the dust on her was knocked off," Salem informed the yellow-coated pony.

Sunset waved to the blank spot causing to give his own amused snort.

"She hopes your headache fades so you can open the bottle already," Salem phoned causing Sunset to notice as his tie was pulled slightly to the empty spot.

"Is that REALLY what she said?" Sunset asked.

"More or less,"

Sunset pulled the bottle down and tried to pop it open but due to her headache she handed it to Salem.

"Could you?" Nodding he took the bottle and carefully opened it trying to make any more noise over the nobles bickering.

It still gave some foam pour out but Salem lifted the bottle up.

"I've been dying for a drink since I got here," He pulled his mask on his face showing Sunset his 'two-faced' face before taking a swing of the party drink and pulling it away. "Ahhhhh~"

"So?" Sunset asked.

Salem handed the bottle to her.

"It's okay I've had better,"

Taking a sip of the fizzy drink, Sunet could feel her mouth melt at the taste causing her to laugh slightly.

"If this is okay... you got to show me what you consider better," Sunset stated in which she passed the bottle back.

"Maybe," Salem handed the bottle to the spot next to him in which it disappeared sending a slight shiver down Sunset's spine.

After a moment Salem seemingly pulled the bottle out of thin air in he took another sip of drink.

"So Salem..."

"Yeah?" Salem handed her the bottle.

"Your from Earth correct?" Sunset asked causing Salem's ears to perk up slightly.

"Yes. Someone told you huh?" Salem asked to which she nodded.

"But that's not what I wanted to ask you," Sunset took a taste then handed the bottle back to Salem.

"What did you want to ask then?" Salem titled his head.

"I don't know how to ask this but do you know a high school called Canterlot High?"

"Canterlot High?" Salem got the bottle back as he looked sunset with yellow eyes.

"Yeah,"

"I didn't know they had a high school here-"

"No. Not here but on Earth?"

"I don't follow,"

"Did Celestia tell you about a mirror that could allow anypony to enter the human world,"

Salem stared at her, lowering the bottle in his hand.

"I mean she did tell us that she had an artifact that could pier into the human world," Salem responded. "What are you getting at?"

"Well, I was at this school called Canterlot High. It's a long story but in a nutshell, I have friends there which I'm worried about because I can't go back through the mirror because it was destroyed," Sunset told the Chimera next to her. "And after what I heard from my friends... could they have been taken by those things you spoke about?"

Salem stared at her for a moment before taking a sip of the drink.

"I don't know," Salem answered honestly. "How long has it been since you last seen them?"

"A couple of days,"

Salem smiled holding the bottle.

"To be completely honest with you I don't know much about magical mirrors but I'm pretty sure what happened to my earth could have not happened to yours,"

"What do you mean by your earth and my earth?" Sunset asked while the Terrian handed the bottle back.

"Do you know about the multiverse theory?"

Sunset gave a nod.

"Than you know about how every choice we find ourselves facing literally causes another earth to form. Take example of if you had a choice between a red pill or a blue pill and you picked the blue which you then go about your everyday life," Salem explained. "However by choosing the blue pill you unknowly created an alternate earth where you went for the red pill and not the blue in which you go about your life. Although the red pill that version of you took could have a completely different approach to there life no matter how little it may be,"

"That sounds confusing," Sunet noted.

"It is," Shifting in his seat he turned to look at her. "So my Earth was betrayed by our sun. Yours wasn't. This also falls in line with different earths where different things happened. It could be super minor like the red and blue pillow idea. Or it could be something extremely different like: Tesla was chosen over Edison or there's an 'evil' earth where you and I are bad guys or an earth where a certain dictator of Germany won World War Two or there's a version of Earth where man never existed,"

"Whoa..."

"Yeah, it's hard to wrap your mind around it huh?" Handing her the bottle sunset looked down at it.

"So my friends are okay?"

"I can't say," Salem shrugged. "What happened to my earth happened a long time ago. However, you left your earth a couple of days ago I can't really say for certain,"

"I hope you are right," Sunset's words made Salem smile.

"Hope is all we can have," Patting her should he get up followed by him stretching his arms. "Oh! I don't know about you but I'm tri-erd! I'm going to get some sleep... you should too,"

Sunset nodded while Salem walked and got off the stairs.

"Sunset?"

"Hm?"

"I'm sure they're okay," Salem said with a smile.

Nodding Sunset took another drink of the bottle watching while Salem walked over to the giant blue armored thing leaving her alone. Lowering the bottle she whipped her mouth off with her ruined dress, her eyes looked up at the room before stopping at some nobles staring at Salem.

"What is that lot planning now?"

Author's Note

PRAISE NURGLE! (Not really)

I've been sick for a couple of days and I tried to finish writing this some time back but I was too weak to do so. Sleep has been my friend as of late even though my misery wouldn't let me do so but with the help of nightquil and other cold medicine I was able to sleep.

Downside I am now awake in my room at 4:50 am after sleeping an entire day yesterday and now I'm here at 6:30 after getting ready for the day and still not feeling sleepy. I do feel a lot better though...

Now to the story!

Multiverse theory is one of my favorite things and there are SCPs that can either pier into an alternate earth or allow you to travel there like a certain Red Sea object. Before anyone asks no Salem does not have SCP-093 on his person however his warp pack is quite deceiving.

Think like the TARDIS from Doctor Who...

Still, I'm done now and be ready for I have a planned special chapter coming up that you don't want to miss.