Alter Path stood in the same room looking through whatever orbs floated by. He saw an orb that had Fafnir the wendigo having tea with Princess Celestia. He then saw an orb that had the long horse having some kind of picnic with Zecora. He then saw an orb that had Pinkie Pie being dragged to some wooden platform only to have some rope tied around her neck. His eyes widened at the last one and immediately levitated it near him. Only to now see Pinkie Pie hanging by her neck while a crowd cheers. He gasped at the horrid vision. "What was that?" he asked himself.

He looked at the orb closer. "That can't be right."

He levitated many orbs close to him so he can compare. "Let's see Train Eater prowling, Slender wandering, Samara playing..."

He went through the many orbs until he saw another one he didn't recognize. It was a large black train charging over a bridge. "Was that always there?"

He then noticed the orbs that were unfamiliar. He was confused there should be nineteen orbs, not twenty four. He glanced through the five new ones. A weather factory being shut down with a lot of pegasi arrested. A mass vigil being held outside of Sugarcube corner after the hanging of Pinkie. The large black train again. The skeletal remains of a stallion with a harness on inside a coffin. And a mare named Cheerilee being digested in the belly of a monster.

"This can't be right. Someone is doing something." He said to himself as he left the room and went down the halls.

He didn't walk far as he noticed a crowd of creatures down the hall having a hushed conversation. As soon as an earth pony mare noticed Alter Path she hushed everyone. Alter walked up and cleared his throat. "Do any of you know what's going on? I'm suddenly seeing new story orbs I don't remember making."

The other creatures, who were all wearing dark hooded robes just looked nervously at each other.

Time Lapse laughed as he wandered on a forest trail in another universe. He felt he was having the time of his life. "Oh ho ho this is more thrilling than I imagined. So many worlds I can play with oh where can I go now..."

His necklace glowed as he spawned many orbs that showed different worlds. "Lets see a monstrous candy mare who turned an entire town into her slaughter house? Maybe this human changeling emperor who couldn't forgive and let go of his grudge? Ooh ooh or maybe this Sunset Demon who took her rage out on everybody for a cyber bully. Or maybe..."

As he continued pondering he didn't notice black veins that were slowly spreading from his cutie mark.

Alter Path paced back and forth, growing increasingly annoyed. "Ok I'm getting tired of asking questions so one of you is going to tell me what is going on."

He then pointed to an anthropomorphic goat wearing a cloak over her red shirt and a long black skirt. "Muriel! I know you know. So tell me."

Muriel the goat was flabbergasted. "Darling, I- I'm sorry I can't."

"Oh really was it one of your seven kids like that adopted human boy?"

"No he would never-"

Just then a big orange jellyfish with one eye raised a tentacle. "Alright Alright Everyone calm down."

"Well look who decided to step up. What do you know Stinger Flynn?"

"Ok I'm going to tell you what's going on but you're not gonna like it."

Meanwhile outside a huge castle in a nearby forest a red anthropomorphic alligator was fishing in a lake. He hummed a happy tune as he waited for a bite. When suddenly his piece and quiet was interrupted.

"WHAT!?"

The shout startled him a bit and the trees had birds flying out in a fright. He looked to the large castle on the mountain which had a similar design to Canterlot Castle. He let out a small chuckle. "Sounds like somebody is messing around the multiverse. It's only a matter of time before... consequences come to bite them."

"I can't believe this! None of you tried to find and tell me!?"

A large black dragon with purple eyes pointed to the black earth pony mare. "We wanted to, but Epoch here insisted we find Time Lapse first. We're still trying to figure out what universe he's in now."

Alter Path face hoofed. "That's something you guys are always forgetting. There are millions of universes and timelines he could be in. Finding him would be like finding a needle in a haystack the size of a mountain, maybe two. Never the less we need to find him soon. The more he keeps going around the multiverse without proper control the more he can damage himself and lose his sanity to chaos and darkness. I nearly lost control when I put Slender Stallion in Equestria. We need to search harder NOW!"

All the creatures saluted and left for a different room Epoch was about to leave when she felt a hoof on her. She turned to see Alter now having a look of disappointment. "My room, we need to talk."

Epoch nodded and followed him. Both of the ponies know as Guardians they need to keep, not only the multiverse safe, but themselves as well.

Author's Note

I dare anyone in the comments to list both the villains time lapse listed as well as the creatures who work with Alter Path. As well as that old alligator fisher. (true FNAF fans would know.)

Hint: One of them came from a horror Claymation short film.

Also funny regular show reference