A Handyman On The Multiverse

Once Twilight managed to sober up and calm down, she let go of Mark and sniffed a couple of times. Taking a deep breath before retailing the events that transpired a long time ago.

With Twilight defeated, yet still defiant she glared at the giant minotaur who held hostage his friends inside bubbles making her pause in her actions "Ok Tirek, you win, now release my friends"

"Certainty" Tirek grinned and floated the bubbles toward Twilight alongside Discord, yet when they were all at eye level from Twilight looking at her in concern Tirek's words froze the princess in shock "I will release them, from this world!"

With a snap of his fingers, all the bubbles pop, but instead of letting go of the mares, all of them simply pop along the bubbles leaving nothing behind. "¡NO!"

Twilight outstretched her arm trying to find anything Tirek only laughed maniacally until the realization hit Twilight and she fell down hitting the ground in the process "This was not the deal! What did you do to them?"

"I made them an example, this is what happens to anyone that dares oppose me, you will be wise spreading the word princess if you wish this from ever happening again. I'm invincible"

"Tirek" Twilight whispers as she clenches her teeth looking at the Minotaur leaving and starting his reign of terror. Yet instead of despair, the princess was consumed by a murderous rage, her eyes were starting to turn green as a result "I swear on my life, no matter the cost, I will make you suffer twice as much as you just made me suffer here" She silently promises as she stood up and start her plan.

With a sigh, the queen rests her body against the table in shame and pity looking ahead of her.

"After that, I spend the next 3 months planning my revenge, one week tracking that son of a bitch...and a year keeping MY promise. All the while having forgotten the magic of friendship and unable to think of anything else but to make Tirek regret what he did to me and my before friends"

Mark and his friends could only stare at her in horror at what they were hearing "And what happened to the princesses? Sure you could have looked for them right?" Mark asked in fear yet the queen only shook her head.

"I tried but like Tirek was sadist on his quest. They were his first victims as he feared how they could be an obstacle and wanted to make a point with them as well, he turned them into paintings and then set them on fire. By the time I found out, there was nothing but ashes"

She clenched her fist in fury "That is probably why Shining gave me his support on my quest, that day I lost a mentor, a mom, and a princess, but him? He lost a wife and for I found out later, an opportunity for a family. And that was a scar neither of us has ever been able to heal"

"I'm so...so sorry Mom, nobody should ever experience that, I...I'm really sorry" Mark can only say that and places his hand on her back trying to console the grieving mare as she remains quiet.

"That is why I start my projects. With Equestria in ruins, and needing time to heal. I had no choice but to step up as the new queen and Shining as the new King of The Crystal Empire, both doing everything we could to restore the planet to its former glory as the new royal siblings, yet even if the towns were repaired and magic returned to the world, those that remain. us included knew better, we all knew things would never be the same again, Equestria no longer had the gleam it once held, and it desperately needed it back so at some point while exploring Princess Celestia's chambers I stumble into her own projects and an idea came to mind" Twilight continue sitting upright and looking at Mark.

"Of course, I didn't start with you right away, in fact, it wasn't even my idea to begin with, the project I mean not the surprise you are a mom thing, and I just..." She chuckles nervously before sighing and trying to collect herself

"Look, it might have no be planned, but now that you are here. I...I feel the joy of having a son, I mean just look at me, I create life on my own terms! Take that, Mary Shell! I had a son and I did it without the help of anyone"

"Twilight!" Spike and Pika snap her out of her trance as she pretends to cough before continuing.

"Anyway, all of this, it just came to me while I was reading one of Spike's old comic books" Twilight confesses with a small chuckle.

"That is how we end up meeting" Spike speaks gaining their attention as he smiles and crosses his hands "In my world, a war between ponies and dragons erupted and lasted for so long that neither side knew why it even started, and just end up killing one another by the time I hatch, I was all alone"

He then looks at Twilight. "By the time Twilight came I was 10 or maybe 12 living in the ruins of what once was a thriving and fertile world, fighting to survive...and going feral, despite all of that, we both knew how hurt we were, so she took me in and brought me here. It took me a while to learn to write and read and be the dragon you see today. Yet I would forever be thankful for what she did for me that day"

"Spike" Twilight clears her eyes as she smiles and looks at him, Chrysalis smiling as well sniffing the happiness those two have.

"It was similar in my case" Pika replied "In my world the changelings launch a massive attack years before Cadence was ever born, like Spike it didn't end up well for either side. Dusk had hatched me no more than a year ago when he was called for the war. Twilight found me, and brought me here when things took a turn for the worse, I could barely remember but I still miss Dusk and the life we could have had, if not for that puta of Chrysalis and her army" Pika growls letting slip her Spanish accent

Chrysalis almost choked at the story but nobody took too much mind to it as Pika continued "We both have become their loyal assistants and siblings ever since. We know neither of us could ever replace her Spike but at the very least we could ensure she would no longer be alone, in a way we are fulfilling Spike's legacy"

"You two...thank you" The queen cried a bit more and nodded with a big smile at their worlds as Pika continued "And to think, all of this started because of a comic book of misfits heroes going on adventures all over the multiverse, crazy how reality copy fantasy, right Mark?" Spike says with a chuckle as he is startled but agrees laughing a bit

"Hey ideas could come up from anywhere I suppose"

"Well that explains those two, and I imagine you just keep the project of the multiverse Princess Celestia started so long ago" Chrysalis mentions with intrigue "But what about all those clones everywhere?" She asks pointing behind her where a patrolling Big Mac passes by.

"Oh those were previous projects for restoring the world" Spike answered in a chill tune and a wave of his hand "Believe it or not, it was Big Mac's idea"

"What?" Mark and her friends look at him in shock as he chuckles and nods

"Like Twilight said, Equestria was in ruins and needed time to repair, and we were short on hands. Big Mac in his grieves tries to distract himself with work and for the most part he helps Ponyville, but the progress that we were making was going slow, and the scars were still present" Pika sighed and looked down in pity.

"The crusaders wanted to help as well, and according to their story, it was Applebloom who got the idea" Spike continues as Twilight sighs and looks up in memory.

"To this day, I can't believe we actually used an old folks tale as a way to fix this mess"

"The pond" Mark whispered as he realized what was happening.

"Of course, it makes sense you used those waters, it all tracks" She nods in understanding.

"So you heard the story too?" Spike asks as Daisy looks confused

"I don't know it, can you explain please?" She asks raising her hand.

"Claro, we were getting there anyway" Pika explained "You see deep in the Everfreen forest there is this strange magic pond that if you say a poem and reach out with your hand, you can copy yourself as many times as you want"

She could only blink in surprise at the revelation before looking at the queen "And you decided to use that?"

"No straight away, of course." Twilight adds starting to relax with their stories "We needed to test and experiment with the water a little, before doing something rash. With the best unicorns available, but luckily we manage to get results pretty quickly"

Feeling like her throat was getting dry, Mark asked and handed over a glass of water for Twilight to drink before continuing who she thanked "Once the first test was a success and with his permission, we used Big Mac to create the Mac Drones"

Everyone looks at Twilight with a neutral expression and a raised eyebrow "The name wasn't my idea" She defends herself.

"A mi me gusto," Pika says under her breath

"Anyway, the Mac Drones work similar to Big Mac, they have his strength, his stamina, and his workaholic nature. But they don't have a mind or will of their own. We couldn't bear the idea of basically creating slaves" Twilight shivers at just the thought "THAT is what we were worried about and needed to make sure they wouldn't be quote on quote alive. Plus it will give Big Mac his autonomy and we will always know he is the real one"

"So that is why they are grayer than normal Big Macs then?" Daisy asks remembering how they weren't perfect copies as Twilight nods.

"We owe a lot of the reconstruction to them, and of course, Big Mac was granted the medal of honor, is known as a hero all over Equestria, and was compensated accordantly with money and all the land he would ever want. Yet he didn't want the money, he just did what was best for Equestria and what AJ would have done. Nowadays he still lives happily in Apple Acres with his new family as the head of the house, with Applebloom making sure to live up to her big sister's name"

Mark looks down in pity as he keeps looking at the sad queen. Deciding to be more empathic he approaches and brings her into a hug as she sniffs and doesn't fight it, accepting the contact. Daisy having the same idea brings the two into a group hug as Chrysalis only sighs and joins in mostly to keep her cover, hiding a burp from the resulting love.

"Anyway, the Mac drones, most of them now serve as part of my guard while the rest are dispersed all over Equestria keeping the peace or helping the farmland" She sighed before shaking her head "Sorry we went off topic here, I was telling, your origins right?"

"Yeah" Mark nods as he breaks the hug and she clears her throat.

"Well after finding Spike and Pika, and discussing it with Shining Armor. I decided to expand my search and find a new spark of hope in a way. Bringing joy to those who lost everything or didn't belong in their world anyway, I will never abandon my B.B.B.F so my next target was seeing if we could find a Cadence"

Mark starts to worry "Ah mom...you didn't like...kidnap a Cadence so they could pretend..."

"Oh no, nothing like that! Think of it more like joining two pieces of a puzzle together" Twilight defended herself, "Which I succeed in a way." She sighed and toyed with her glass of water

"We found a world that when King Sombra returned for the first time, he captured and sealed Cadence in a black crystal for thousands of years, and hid it in some place neither Shining nor my version was ever able to find. By the time she escaped, Equestria, The Crystal Empire, everything she knew was gone, replaced by another kingdom with ponies she didn't recognize, good ponies sure. The world was kind to her but it was no longer her world"

"We call her future Cadence" Spike adds, "And she and Shining are such a cute couple nowadays"

"Wait, you brought her here then?" Mark questions Twilight's methods as she nods

"More like I offered the choice, and it wasn't like I asked her to be with my brother either. They both knew the truth, but after a while their romance blossomed naturally and she decided to make the jump. Nowadays the Crystal Empire keeps connections with that other world and has advanced thousands of years in the future." Twilight pulled a cell phone so everyone could look, shocking Mark with how he looked just a regular iPhone as opposed to the scroll he got used to using.

"We have all sorts of things like this thanks to their trip and their decision to keep connection with a town called Zephyr High, one pegasus princess even became a huge sensation that breathed even more life into our otherwise gloom world. Things had yet another happy ending" She smiled and put it away "Our world was slowly recovering and we all were healing on our way as a result. That is when I decided to set my mind on the next piece of the puzzle missing, The princesses" Twilight tries to stand up and with the help of Mark this time succeeds.

"You should come with me, it will be easier if I show you"

They all agree and follow her out of the room, offering the wheelchair in which Mark arrived. Yet the Queen declines and they keep walking through a hallway.

"Just out of curiosity, what happens to Tirek in the end?" Chrysalis asks walking beside Twilight.

The queen remained quiet for a moment before answering after scanning the place "See for yourself, we are passing his painting right now" The queen replied as he pointed at a giant painting of the centaur in question, as it was tied to a stake on fire and was in the process of being impaled with white hot firepokers, all over his body who has cuts and gashes all over, his stomach was wide open revealing his intestines and they could see all sort of insects and vermis devouring his flesh and eyes as he was frozen in complete agony.

"Well painting using air quotes is more fitting" The queen confesses as everyone looks at her in horror as she sighs and looks at Mark "As I said before. I kept my promise. With time moving at a snail's pace, with his pain receptors amplified, in a prologue execution extended to its limit and a spell that will ensure he will not be even able to pass out, he will experience every second of his punishment that he deserves to the bitter end, and once it done Tartarus can have what is left."

She proclaims as the group gulp and looks at the painting nodding slowly and speeding their march, not wanting to see such a gruesome fate.

Nothing is more fearsome than the wrath of those that once were kind

Mark pounder as they round the corner and continue their travel.

Meanwhile in the regular Equestria.

The mane six are hard at work trying to restore the mirror by carefully picking it apart and putting it back together. Most of them gather on a table while Twilight uses her magic to reactivate it and break the locking spell left behind by Chrysalis

"Mark, that freaking moron, diving headfirst into that bizarre Twilight world, I swear once we save his life I'm gonna a kill him" Dash swore as she picks another piece of the mirror

"Now, now darling, let be reasonable here, we all have our fair share of adventure, bending rules here and there, and well...he is sad, and we have partly to blame" Rarity intervened as they put the last piece in place.

"What the heck are you talking partner?" AJ looks at her confused.

"We thought he needed space, so we gave him space, maybe too much space, so much so that he thinks we view him as strangers I mean we kind of did, wouldn't you feel hurt if all of a sudden we start treating you as if you were a new pony in ponyville"

"Oh, I would have thrown a party in that case!" Pinkie adds before deflating "But I see what Rarity is saying, that sounds a bit mean"

None of them have anything to reply until Dash grunts "Whatever, memory or no, that moron is our friend and I will not abandon him, who cares if your brains are scrambling?! I will just make new memories and see if Twilight can unscramble them"

"I'm not sure if that would ever work Dash" Twilight confessed as she finished her spell and sighed

"It ready"

"Good, then we can go there already" Dash prepares and puts her element ready to fight but Twilight stops her, and rather than say anything she turns to look at Fluttershy talking on her scroll.

"So this is it then? You are just gonna stay here and throw it away and pretend it never happened?" She asks in desperation.

"Fluttershy I'm sorry, I remember bits and pieces but this...this is just getting too crazy for my taste, I know it's selfish but I don't feel comfortable throwing everything away as this" Milky replies from the other line "It hurts me, it really does, but the letter Mark left has a point, We kind of lose that spark if we ever had one in the first place"

"You are his alpha mare for Celestia's sake?! Does that mean nothing to you?!" Fluttershy scold her making her friends cringe, from watching her friend swear like that.

"Was his alpha mare Fluttershy, in another time in another life. I'm really sorry for what happened to him and if things were different I may have been open to a blind date, or even coffee, but I'm not like you, I'm not a mare that goes into danger for this adventure, I like a more quiet normal life, and what life has stop been that, I will just feel out of place, more when I'm not even sure what to think of all of this. Is just too much for me" Milky apologies making Fluttershy pants, and shiver.

"Fine! Do what you want, but just know that you just threw away something beautiful just because you decided not to fight for it" Fluttershy ends the calls and grunts in frustration holding back tears.

"Fluttershy?" Twilight slowly approaches her friend with worry. "Are you ok, if it's too much you can stay here and...?"

"She ruined it Twilight" Fluttershy glares at her with tearful eyes "Mark, me, Milky, Surprise...all of us. We were such a happy herd and she broke us apart. She hurt us in ways I could not even imagine. She is gonna answer for that" She proclaimed in determination as she cleared her eyes and picked her element before stepping into the portal before anyone could stop her or say anything.

"Ahm well, you heard her girls, let go!" Dash follows suit and after the initial surprise the rest of the mane six steps inside the portal. Spike left behind still startled by what happened and with his orders to hold the fort.

"Now I wonder who is in real danger, Mark or that Queen?" He asks himself slightly scared of how Fluttershy reacted.