Omega was quickly working, it had been a month since the events of the wedding, fall had started, after the discovery of the crystals in the cave, Omega sent mining droids to test them, he had made an almost frightening discovery.

When heated to a certain temperature, the crystals acted like non-explosive anti-matter, disintegrating themselves and an equal mass of whatever else on contact, after cross-analyzing the temperature they had to be above, he found that the range was well within common bullet temperatures, he had upgraded the Pownder, changed to just Powder, to fire 5mm diameter 20mm length spitter rounds of the stuff, the crystals could easily be shaped into bullets and the scraps could be ground up and formed into bullets with a bit of bonding fluid, the large box magazine held 6000 rounds, so he could fire continuously for 10 minutes, effectively erasing his target from existence.

He teleported to Canterlot again to see the progress on the mining process, only a dozen of the large crystals had been extracted and processed, yet the droids had made enough rounds for 100 magazines, he would not run out of bullets anytime soon.

Teleporting back, he upgraded his Ballistic Nightmare again, the rounds would be heated to white hot, and the blades could cut through tank plating with great ease. He wasn't sure why he kept improving his gear when his enemies barely stood a chance against him with only one Judgement Blade, his normal Ballistic Nightmares, and his Power armor.

'It's because I want to make sure that I can save everypony.' he remembered, he cared for the ponies very deeply, he did not want to see them get hurt, speaking of which, he needed to see his sister.

Teleporting to Ponyville again, dismissing the Ballistic Nightmares and summoning the Speed suit, he took to the skies to find his sister, she would often fly very close to Ponyville air-space, peering throughout the blue expanse, he found her, practicing her moves for the upcoming Best Young Flier's competition, it was starting to get close, about 6 weeks away, the middle of winter.

Rainbow Dash would not be participating this year, as she was now 20, and the age requirements were 12-19, Scootaloo was just within that range, having turned 12 at the end of July, she had been improving herself greatly, Rainbow Dash often lacked motivation without a challenge, Scootaloo was working herself hard, Omega was full of pride about his little sister's achievements, he once speedometer scanned her going 700mph, very close to Mach 1, the speed of sound.

Watching the small orange filly zooming through the sky, pulling off expert level tricks with ease, and going break-everything-in-your-body speeds, he wasn't worried though, with the air resistance and her own ability and perception, she wouldn't crash if left unopposed.

He jetted off to someplace else, feeling importance rising.

What would happen today?

<>

"Sister, I will NOT abandon Twilight Sparkle without my own reason, your reasons mean NOTHING!" Luna protested.

It was dark inside the throne-room, often used for court, the only light shone down along the center carpet, showing Luna standing in the middle of the room, facing Celestia, who was staring Luna down from her perch on the throne.

"You will get rid of her, she no longer deserves to traverse the path of ascension." Celestia demanded, her voice was dripping with malice and blood.

"I refuse, she still as potential, and I'm not giving up on her, so DEAL WITH YOUR PROBLEM WITH HER, AND LEAVE ME OUT OF IT!" Luna argued, shouting and desperate.

"I will not simply 'deal with it', she has been tainted by Omega, both of them will be executed." Celestia revealed.

"You cannot hope to execute Twilight, and even less so Omega, he will protect her, he will come after you and he will kill you in blazing fury and cold blood." Luna warned, the scary part was, it was true, the sisters may have been ageless, but they were far from immortal.

"He will not succeed, and Twilight will pay for what she did, regardless of how much Omega or yourself will protect her." Celestia had flared up her magic.

"You will do NO SUCH THING, Twilight is innocent, she was desperate, something that YOU seem to have forgotten the meaning of, YOU were too busy with STUPID SHIT to CARE ABOUT HER, YOU turned her AWAY without a SECOND THOUGHT, YOU did not TAKE HER CONCERNS SERIOUSLY, THIS is EXACTLY like.... like..." Luna trailed off, the tears were coming in waterfalls now.

"I will banish you if you continue to try to change the way I have things working." Celestia threatened, her magic was aimed at her little sister, ready to blast the midnight-blue alicorn.

"THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT YOU SAID BEFORE I BECAME NIGHTMARE MOON!!!" Luna screamed, using her most powerful royal canterlot voice, the force of the sound threatened to break the building around them.

Celestia was shocked silent, her magic died out, she simply sat there, unmoving, unblinking, and probably unbreathing.

"That is EXACTLY what you said before I became Nightmare Moon, you were mad that mother had left us, you couldn't deal with your own problems, and YOU TOOK IT OUT ON ME, ALL I WANTED WAS A LITTLE RECOGNITION, BUT NO, BOOM, TO THE MOON WITH YOU LUNA." the younger princess was now imitating her white coated sister.

"Oh but SHIT, I DIDN'T THINK THIS THROUGH, I SHOULD HAVE DEALT WITH MY PROBLEMS, you thought at NO POINT, I'LL JUST BANISH MY FLESH AND BLOOD SISTER for wanting some attention, you acted without thinking, NOT EVEN FROM MYSELF, BUT FROM OUR SUBJECTS, OUR, NOT MINE, SHE IS JUST AS MUCH OF A PRINCESS OF EQUESTRIA AS I AM, you ALSO thought at NO POINT, YOU CAN'T DEAL WITH YOUR OWN PROBLEMS, HOW CAN YOU DEAL WITH EVERYPONY ELSE'S?" Luna was ranting.

"Luna, I..." Celestia's voice was weak, pitiful.

"THINGS USED TO BE SIMPLE, AFTER WE BEAT DISCORD WITH THE ELEMENTS OF HARMONY, we were HAPPY, things were HAPPY AND SIMPLE, but then, THEN WE TOOK CONTROL OVER THE PASSING OF TIME, OVER DAY AND NIGHT, MOTHER LEFT US though, THROUGH THE YEARS you became a SHELL OF YOURSELF, NIGHTMARE MOON didn't come BECAUSE I REFUSED TO LOWER THE MOON, it came BECAUSE YOU REFUSED TO RAISE THE SUN, I TRIED to HELP, TRIED TO RAISE THE SUN MYSELF, I WASN'T READY AT THE TIME, you had FORSAKEN ME, our COUNTRY, BECAUSE YOU HAD ABANDONMENT ISSUES, you would not DO YOUR DUTY, the one THAT NOPONY or ANY OTHER CREATURE COULD DO. I am MORE FIT to RUN this country than YOU, you TRIED TO KEEP CONTROL, despite your INABILITY TO DO SO, I TRIED to HELP YOU, TRIED to HELP you SEE, HELP you SEE that you had PONIES THAT CARED ABOUT YOU, and ALL THIS, ALL THIS HAPPENED, because YOU COULDN'T LET GO, you couldn't LET GO OF THAT WHITE COATED RED MANED MARE we called a MOTHER, YOU CAN'T FIX ANYTHING, SO STEP DOWN, I'll do it MYSELF." Luna ranted, though every point she made was true

"Luna, I, please..." Celestia sounded helpless, weak, defeated.

"You will NOT oppose MY decision, or SO HELP ME, I will MAKE MYSELF an ONLY CHILD!" Luna threatened.

"Luna, I, please, I..." Celestia's voice was meek, she could barely talk.

"I will teach young Twilight Sparkle MY OWN WAY, and my first decree is that she will help with the Crystal Kingdom and King Sombra problem, I have faith in her, something that you and I OBVIOUSLY do not have in common." Luna announced.

"Go ahead, Luna, I will not oppose you." Celestia accepted, she sounded completely defeated.

Luna stopped for a few seconds, the words sunk in.

"That is what I thought, now, if you need me." Luna said, summoning a dark looking book "I'll be working on the magical coronation ritual, Twilight will be joining us, and the preparation steps are in this book." Luna said, trotting out of the throne room.

Celestia only sighed, she knew she was in the wrong, there was no denying this fact nor attempting to change the state of affairs, she stood, stretched, the remainder of the bones in her wings had been surgically removed, the pegasus magic gland was still there, she could walk on clouds, but it was practically useless if she could not get to them.

She walked slowly out of the throne room, she would listen to her sister, she would deal with her problems, the first step was to acknowledge them. It would be hard, but she would do it, for herself, and for the sake of Equestria.

Luna would have to be in charge now, but the younger princess had ironically sky-rocketed her interaction skill level by dealing with not only nobles, but all social classes of ponies, Luna was 10 times more sociable than herself despite the 1000 year gap.

The solar princess teleported to her bedchambers, she would acknowledge her problems in her sleep, she was completely exhausted in every possible way anyways.

Luna took her Solar Deity power, Celestia didn't oppose, she didn't even deserve it in the first place, Luna would take care of everything, her sister had a tendency of doing that.

<>

Twilight and Omega were talking, they were at the library, just sitting next to eachother on the couch, talking.

They stopped when they heard the distinctive sound of Spike coughing up a letter, the little dragon entered the room with the strange scroll in tow.

Rather than tannish paper and black ink, like Celestia, Luna sent dark blue scrolls with silver colored ink, Twilight levitated the scroll over and opened it.

To my Personal Student Twilight,

I have discovered a great mystery, one older than the Nightmare Moon incident, has uncovered itself, the Crystal Empire, long forgotten to the history books, has reappeared in Equestria's arctic north, I request that you and your friends, as well as Omega and Spike for support, come to Canterlot castle for further information.

I have already ordered the Friendship Express to pick you all up on Royal Order.

Signed, Her Majestic Highness,
Princess Luna of Equestria.

"Interesting, a lost kingdom has reappeared for the first time in more than a millenium, well, Omega, Spike, time to get ready for a trip." Twilight directed the 2 males, Omega stood up and Spike followed the tall man to the train station.

Twilight simply sent a message to the rest of the Mane 6, the conveniences of cybernetics ran wide and deep, the whole group was informed in a hundredth of the time it would take to go out, find, and talk to just one of them..

The whole group inbound on the train station, Twilight quickly tested her warping system by summoning the Grudge, tactical evasive round sniper rifle, and the Choker, poison gas round pistol, they summoned just fine, she dismissed the weapons and made her way to the train station.

The Mane 6, Spike, and Omega rode the short train-ride to Canterlot, luckily there were 2 stations in Canterlot, one near the southernmost end, and the other right next to the castle, the latter being the one at which the train stopped, the group exited and made their way into the castle, Omega taking a detour to the soldier area.

Twilight was several meters in front of the others, she entered the door to the throne room, which immediately closed itself, the other 5 were locked out.

Luna sat on the throne, reading a black covered book, the dark alicorn lowered the book after a few seconds, looking to her student.

"Ah, Twilight, nice to see you've arrived, please, come forward." the lunar princess greeted.

"Luna, it's wonderful to be here and to see you again, I would love to stay and chat, but I'm here to acquire further information on my assignment." Twilight greeted, getting right to the point.

"Right, now then, you know about something that everypony calls, someone's 'dark-side'?" Luna querried.

"Yes, everypony has a dark-side, their light-side is when they are in control of themselves, the dark side comes out when they lose control, the things that their light-side demeanor would restrain them from doing would become very accomplishable when the dark-side breaks free, and their minds are hard to bring back to the light." Twilight answered.

"Correct, now you see, not just ponies, or any living being, have dark-sides, even things like buildings and rocks and the air have dark-sides, but the point is, is that you will need to know a certain spell to help you on your mission, and I will teach you it." Luna explained.

"You must channel all of the negative energy inside of you, energy that not even the Elements of Harmony can remove, it is part of being alive to have this energy inside of you, it is what drives our survival, channel this energy and focus it into the environment." Luna explained, her horn lit up with magic, the aura, rather than the normal dark blue or raging starry sky pattern, was black, she fired it at a crystal on the ground, a crystal Twilight didn't notice before, it was a beautiful light maroon color, but it turned black with the magic, the marble floor around it turned to gray stone and a bit of ore.

"This crystal is from the empire, it is a useful material that, if used correctly, can alter the nature of the space it touches by reverting the time around it, this castle was, in the past, not here, part of the mountain was dug out to make room and stability for the whole city, the crystal has reverted the time of the space it touches to show the past." Luna explained.

The dark alicorn levitated the crystal, the air it touched turned to stone, she moved it around, leaving a trail of magically suspended stone behind it, she turned the crystal back to light, all of the changes reverted.

"It can be dangerous, but you must find the cause of the suffering of the crystal ponies, and using this spell, you can change the area around you to the past, when King Sombra was in rule, and see what differences are there, it's a game of alternating space, you can even reverse age if you can utilize it correctly." Luna debriefed.

"I see, that can be useful." Twilight responded, focusing the magic like Luna instructed and waving around the time-reverting object around, then removing the energy and reversing the time-space changes.

"Now then, you're ready, one last thing before you leave." Luna said.

"What would that be?" Twilight asked.

"Shining Armor and Cadance are at the crystal kingdom, as Cadance is it's ruler, I just thought you should know." Luna informed.

"Right, thank you, I'll be looking forward to seeing them." Twilight replied with gratitude, turning to leave.

The lavender mare left, Luna gave a 'good luck' while she was still in ear-shot, Twilight made her way quickly to the northern end of Canterlot, where the group had agreed to rendezvous, she found all but Omega there.

"Where's Omega?" Twilight asked as she came up to the group.

"He said something about preparing a transport." Pinkie Pie answered.

"How could he organize a transport?" Twilight skepticised.

Suddenly, the Mane 6 and Spike heard the loud sound of a moving machine, they turned to see it.

The dark red car, with neon orange rims, dark gray hood and roof, super thick front, blindingly bright yellow lights, amber orange windows and windshield, capable of going 777mph, faster than the speed of sound, the front grill had a large dark red omega-symbol on it, and a glowing orange one on the dark gray hood, it was a weapon Omega never really used for fighting as it was very heavy and hard to carry around quickly, it was known as the 'Rider', the Joy Rider and the Gatrev had been renamed and combined into the Joy Love, as the models for the weapons were upgraded forms of the Joy Filly and the Joy Colt, thus, mare and stallion, thus, love.

Driving up to the group of 7, Omega stopped the car, the edge of Canterlot city was less than 50 meters away.

"I have the transport." Omega greeted.

"Wow, it looks even cooler than before." Dash praised, gliding around the automobile and gazing at it's parts.

"Right, so, Twilight, what's the situation with the Crystal Kingdom?" Omega querried.

"As it stands right now, same shit-different setting, I found a book about it and downloaded its information, we have to find a relic called the 'Crystal Heart' and save the Crystal Kingdom from a big and powerful evil that threatens to shroud the land in darkness." Twilight explained.

"It certainly sounds like same shit-different setting." Applejack observed, the others agreed.

"Right, get in, Twilight will be with me up front, don't worry about the drop, I added a function that makes the car fly." Omega directed, the group of 7 piled into the powerful vehicle and got comfortable, Twilight sat up front with Omega.

"Wait, did you say the car can fly?" the lavender unicorn querried.

"Yep, don't worry, I tested it." Omega assured her.

The automobile backed up about 100 meters, and Omega hit it the gas, the car drove fast, when it reached 111 mph in 4 seconds, Omega flipped a switch, outside the car, a pair of wings extended from the back seat doors and the exhaust pipes became jet thrusters.

The car was now a car-jet, and it was flying towards the Crystal Kingdom at close to the speed of sound.

<>

5 minutes later, the vehicle ploughed through the 'light-only' forcefield and began flying over the Crystal Kingdom, Omega let off of the gas entirely, the impossibly strong vehicle began to descend, it would crash into and most likely straight through the Crystal Castle, Omega focused his warping energy and dismissed the car suddenly, Omega, Dash, and Fluttershy acted quickly, Omega caught Twilight and Applejack, Dash caught Spike and Pinkie Pie, and Fluttershy caught Rarity, the group slowed their descent to a gentle stop on a balcony with a muzzle-agaped Shining Armor looking out.

Letting themselves down light, the group stood calm, letting their beats per minute slow to normal rates, Omega looked at the shocked white stallion.

"What? No dive score?" the red haired male joked.

"That was, I, wow, that was incredibly stupid and awesome at the same time." the blue haired male responded, his muzzle still agape.

"I see, so, nice to see ya Shiny." Omega said to the stallion, walking past him and into the wide open room beyond.

The Mane 6 greeted the crystal prince as they passed, all that was left was Twilight.

"Hey bro, nice to see you again." Twilight greeted her sibling.

"Let me guess, part of 'black operations transport-procedure'?" Shining guessed.

"No, part of 'black operations having-some-fucking-fun'." Twilight corrected, trotting past her brother and bumping him with her flank.

"Get in here and help us with the situation." she instructed, the white stallion followed.

"Right." Shining replied, Twilight seemed much less professional and more forceful, a bit brash, and very playful.

The group entered, Twilight saw Cadance sitting at the throne, looking exhausted with her horn aglow with magic, Twilight rushed forward to greet the pink alicorn.

"Cadance!" Twilight greeted happily.

"Twilight!" Cadance greeted, happy but tired.

The two mares got close to one another, they were about the same build at this point, slim and attractive, but strong and powerful, they did the song and dance.

"Sunshine Sunshine,
Ladybugs awake,
Clap your hooves,
and do a little shake." the two mares sang, going through the motions, ending with a wiggling of their flanks, resuming their normal stances, they giggled at eachother and hugged.

"We really need to meet up when the fate of Equestria isn't hanging in the balance." they said to eachother simulataneously.

"Well darlings, we're here for a mission, so, what do we need to do to save the day?" Rarity brought the conversation back on track.

"Well, we need to set up the permanant defense, the Crystal Heart is the centerpiece for an evil-destroying aura that covers the Crystal Empire.

"Right, anythin' else?" Applejack asked.

"Yes, the Crystal Empire supposedly is supposed to be happy, and the citizens happiness fuels the Crystal Heart, keeping the evil out and keeping the citizens happy, so it's a circle of cause and effect." Shining continued.

"Did, did you just say that the Crystal Heart runs on happiness?" Omega querried, twitching slightly.

"Not exactly, but it was heavily implied." Shining answered.

"I thought so." Omega said, twitching much more noticeably.

"Is there something wrong? I just said that the defense of the nation is fueled by happine-" Shining was cut off.

"THAT'S IT, I'M DONE, I'M FUCKING DONE, I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE, I CAN'T HANDLE ALL THIS SHIT THAT STAYS SAFE BECAUSE OF POSITIVE EMOTIONS, I'M FUCKING DONE, BYE, I'M FIXING THIS PROBLEM MY WAY!" Omega shouted suddenly, equipping the Speed suit and flying away.

"What the hell just happened?" half of the group asked in confusion.

"I have no idea." Twilight replied, unsure of her mate's sudden outburst of rage.

<<bullshit-free transition

Omega flew away fast, he ascended the tower to sit at the top, he was NOT going to deal with this.

"I can't fucking believe it, ANOTHER THING that gets power from positive emotions, first the EoH with peace, then Chrysalis with love, and now the Crystal Heart wiht happiness, what next? An alicorn-ification spell that runs on success?" Omega ranted.

He could not deal with the bullshit of an aura field that ran on happiness, where was the blood powered engine? The fire fueled rockets of cataclysm? Anything that was dark or violent but still on the side of good.

"*sigh* Where did I fly to even?" he asked himself, he got up and lookd around, he found the one, the only, the source of his current rage, the motherfucking Crystal Heart

"Well, they can have their shit." Omega said, walking over and taking the heart out of the air.

Suddenly dark crystals shot up from the ground, locking him in.

Or so King Sombra thought.

"Nice try, stupid cunt." Omega said, punching his way through the crystal, with shattered with his Ballistic Nightmare's secondary fire, called the 'Inter-continental Missile Punch'

The crystal shattered on impact, luckily it wasn't the same crystal from the Canterlot mines, because if it was, he could have just lost a hand.

Walking out of the dark crystal entrapment, Omega found another larger one ringing around the entire gazebo-like area, he destroyed all of the crystals, and sat down, he would wait.

Omega just sat there, Crystal Heart in hand, and waited.

Getting an altitude check, he was in the thermosphere, so high up that the temperature could reach up to 1500 degrees celcius, but the magic of the gazebo thing kept him safe, he could see both all of the horizons from here, he waited, he could tell something was going to happen, besides the whole 'King Sombra is going to fuck shit up' thing.

He waited.

<>

The Mane 6 were looking through the library, trying to find a history book.

"I found it, I found it!" Pinkie suddenly starting singing, as though she had won a contest, Twilight took the book and brought the group to the main intel room, she had downloaded map information into her memory banks and knew where everything was, at least in modern day.

"So, the Crystal Fair, it's how the Crystal Ponies became happy in order to power the Crystal Heart and defend the Crystal Empire." Twilight explained briefly.

"That's a hell-of-a lot of 'Crystal'." Dash observed uselessly.

"Yes, yes it is, so, food, fashion, jousting, floogle-horn, fun, I've sent all the files to your data-banks, so GET TO IT!" Twilight commanded, the other 5 saluted and went on to fulfill their duties.

Twilight sighed in relief, she would have to get the Crystal Heart, wherever it was.

First she thought about all of the possible places it could be, it had to be in the castle, the most important thing had to be at the highest point, she teleported back to Canterlot, she was very able to do that at this point.

<>

Luna had taken full responsibility while Celestia recovered, taking the 'Solar Deity' magic force from the white alicorn, the dark princess held full control of the sky, she felt full of energy from the magic she held, her mane taking on several shades of blue alongside it's starry appearance, the stars themselves being all sorts of different colors, court was in session, not legal court, of course, it was diplomacy court.

A boring pony representative from Germaney, Adhoof Hitler, was going on and on about his plans for Steurope, another representative, the pony leader of Great Brimain, Winston Churfill, was arguing with him, joining them were Benito Mussaddlini, the pony leader of the masculinist country Istaly on Adhoof's side, and Joseph Stalion, the bear leader of the proud and strong country of Bearussia, on Winston's side.

Luna watched them go at it, the leader of Equestria diplomacy, Flanklin D. Roosevelt, broke up the arguing by bucking Adhoof upside the head, the leader of Japone, Hirocuto, slashed Flanklin in the side with a katana, the wounded unicorn diplomat retreated, Churfill, being a pegasus, dive-bombed Hirocuto and punched him in the neck, Flanklin returned with a bright green rage-enhanced spell charged up, Joseph, being a fucking bear, simply mauled Adhoof, Hirocuto got a leg blown off by Roosevelt's explosion spell, the Japonese leader stabbed himself through the heart and spine to preserve his honor by not dying at his enemies' wills, Joseph simply began eating the corpse of the mauled Hitler, Winston and Flanklin high-hoofed.

"Yeah, that was AWESOME!" Flanklin announced.

"I say, chap, that was most exciting of a battle." Winston replied.

"Da." Joseph agreed simply, he was a bear of few words, but much power, because he was a FUCKING BEAR.

"Military priority COMING THROUGH, GET OUT OF THE WAY." Twilight announced as she entered and passed the trio of winners.

"Da, is little Twilight filly, hi Twilight, is me, Joseph." the bear greeted.

"Hm? Oh, hey Joseph, how's Bearussia?" Twilight asked, the 2 were old friends.

"Motherland is fine, I come to Equestria for vacation, leave Vladimare Putin in charge, hopefully FPSBearussia does not put skills to test on motherland, how is your life?" Stalion replied her.

"I've been great, moved to Princess Luna for my royal studies, I have a stallion-friend, his name is Omega, and I'm helping save the Crystal Kingdom right now." Twilight answered.

"Ah, crystal kingdom, I heard is in arctic cold like motherland, this true?" the black-haired bear asked her.

"Yes, but Princess Cadance and my brother Prince Shining Armor are keeping it safe and warm." Twilight revealed.

"Nice, is very nice, wish I had pony magic to make motherland warm, but I settle for mild Spring and Summer times, how goes you and this Omega stallion? You have foals yet?" Joseph laughed.

"Heh heh, no, maybe, if we were genetically compatible." Twilight jokingly answered.

"I see, you already have intercourse, but he not pony, I guessing?" Joseph guessed.

"No, he's a human, remember, those bald monkey-like things?" Twilight revealed.

"Da, I know story, very nice, is he strong like Bearussian? Or weak like Prench?" the bear requested more information.

"He's very strong, not to discredit you or the other countries in the area, but he could probably beat about half of Haysia by himself." Twilight statisticised.

"Ah, he great mighty warrior of much power, I respect one who can suplex Bearussian, much more one who could single-pawedly wipe out motherland." Joseph praised, something he did not often do.

"Right, sorry but we'll have to meet some other time though, I need to talk to Luna." Twilight dismissed.

"Is alright, comrades, wait for Joseph!" Stalion shouted to the departed pair of diplomats.

"Right, so, my student, what do you need?" Luna asked, casting a bit of magic to send the bodies of Adhoof and Hirocuto to the afterlife, Twilight analyzed the spell, it could be useful.

"I need a reliable way to move myself around." Twilight requested.

"That all? Okay, follow me." Luna directed.

In less than a minute, Twilight was shown a powerful spell called 'Sai-yan's Flight' she learned the spell in a few minutes, it was a very highly controllable levitation spell, she could adjust her altitude at will, something only a few levitation spells could do.

"I'm learning spells much faster under you, Luna, why is that?" Twilight asked the lunar (and now solar) princess as they levitated together.

"Well, my faithful student, like your mate Omega, I don't bullshit around, Tia would tell you the name of a spell and order that you look it up, study it, and learn to successfully cast it, I show you the spell so you can know how it works, and do it yourself, no need to study beforehoof, you can do that on your own time, not my allotted time, I lead by example, Tia leads by the book, that's why she's taking a very long break while I take over all of the affairs of Equestria as it's Lunar and Solar Deity." Luna explained.

"That's, wow, I didn't realize, you're a much better leader, Luna, and a much better teacher." Twilight complimented.

"I suppose I am, Tia is too reserved, some pride-well-deserved never hurt anyone." Luna accepted the positive words.

"Well, I suppose I ought to get back to the Crystal Kingdom, I'll see you later Luna." Twilight said, flaring up her magic to teleport.

"I'll see you later, Twilight." Luna replied, and then, her student was gone.

The bi-spacial princess returned to the court room, happy to have helped her personal student, the 2 had grown close with their 'friend-to-friend' relationship than with a 'student-to-teacher' relationship, Twilight had very much gotten over Celestia, Luna was much cooler anyways.

Teleporting back to the Crystal Kingdom Castle, Twilight prepared to use her newly acquired spell to fly up to the top of the castle.

Soaring upwards, she quickly found out just how high the castle tower went, taking to the thermo-stabilized space in the stairway, she flew fast and high, quickly calculating the perfect path, the lavender mare waited as she flew, her friends could handle their own tasks to make the crystal ponies happy, she would get the crystal heart.

She only hoped it was there.

<>

The rest of the Mane 6 were keeping the Crystal Fair running, the Crystal Ponies were happy.

Spike was jumping from roof-top to roof-top, he had made a pact to get more fit, and he had kept it, he could easily make the various jumps, his current goal, however, was different.

Check out 'Dose Asses', the plural form of 'Dat Ass'

He was under the impression that the Crystal Ponies were made of gemstones, and gemstones were 99% of a dragon's diet, the other 1% being anything else they could possibly eat.

Cadance was barely going with her magic, it would be less than 10 minutes until the forcefield fell.

Shining Armor was trying to siphon his power into his wife, but Cadance was unable to keep the forcefield going AND do the energy siphon at the same time.

Nothing else was really happening other than King Sombra trying his damnedest to get inside the forcefield.

<>

A few minutes passed, Twilight finally reached the top, only to find:

A; Omega was already here and had the Crystal Heart
B; The top of the tower was like a gazebo.
C; Omega was staring at the horizon, waiting for something.

"Twilight, look now." Omega suddenly said, he had heard her approach.

"What is it?" Twilight was a little bit worried now.

"It's the beauty of nature." Omega said, he pointed to the 2 horizons.

The sight like a dramatic song.

From this altitude, the pair could see about 50 billion rainbows covering the sky in spectral beauty.

Not only that, but the sun was setting and the moon was rising at the same time.

They gazebo they were in was completely lit up.

Suddenly, a small, sand-tan colored burst of magic flashed, and out of it came a dark bit, which is worth 1,000,000 bit units.

Twilight spoke first.

"While this is nice and all, WE HAVE TO SAVE THE CRYSTAL KINGDOM WITH THE CRYSTAL HEART!" Twilight got the situation back on track.

"Right, come on." Omega said, stepping onto the stairway.

Then something happened.

The darkness of the crystalline energy detector, made to activate when an EoH bearer entered was diffused by Omega's dark energy, being a generally dark and sometimes moody person, this energy was so strong that it masked the EoH energy Twilight had, at least while Omega was still on the platform.

The dark crystals shot up from the ground again, trapping Twilight in the gazebo.

"TWI." Omega said in shock, he tried to break the crystals, punching them with the ICBM attack, but they were magically reinforced.

King Sombra chose that moment to break through the forcefield.

"Omega GO, this isn't enough time!" Twilight commanded.

"Alright! But I'm coming back for you after this is over!" Omega complied, diving off of the edge.

Omega was about 100 meters above the ground when Sombra charged at him.

Using the advanced trajectory and perception calculations he recieved when he first downloaded the Grudge, Omega threw the Crystal Heart to the ground at the right physics-specs to have it bounce into the aura generator.

The Crystal Heart plummeted to the ground, it didn't shatter like a normal crystal because it was a relic, relics don't break because the rules of reality forbid it, it bounced off of the ground and still went forward, landing perfectly between a stalagmite and a stalactite and charging energy forth.

The warm, protective aura blaster King Sombra away, back to the depths of the arctic, the Crystal Kingdom was saved.

Omega landed, using his Power armor to not die or even get hurt from the impact.

He turned to the Crystal Ponies, they stared at him like a god of war.

He slowly raised his hands into the air, they cheered louder and louder until his hands were straight upwards.

As though to accentuate his power, he had a bloodless scar over his right eye, for no real reason other than to look more badass.

Dismissing his armor, he let them cheer.

Everything at that moment was perfect.

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Purpleness

"I have heard that you are in possession of knowledge of someone who is in possession of a map that can lead me to the one who is in possession of a powerful relic, one that could, in the right hooves, overpower even the Elements of Harmony." a feminine voice, it was full of pride.

"Yes, you want it? They're in Trottingham, the map is with them." a humble, masculine voice replied.

Blueness

"We need to ATTACK, Equestria is TOO MUCH of a THREAT, they CLAIM to be a paradise of HAPPINESS, a UTOPIA, but they possess a weapon, one that, if they unleash it, could destroy EVERYTHING, we mush SEIZE them and DESTROY their 'Plan X' before they destroy US." a different feminine voice raged.

Orangeness

"She'll pay, she'll pay for what she did to me." another feminine voice, it sounded strange.

"What did she do?" a raspy masculine voice asked.

"I'm going to find her, and when I do, I'm taking back my gold." the feminine voice replied.

Whiteness

"What's the progress Meg?" a dark male voice asked

"I've traced the DNA sample you had through the Equestrian records, apparently, the modern day descendent is one of the Element Bearers." a strange voice answered, it sounded like it was speaking through a spinning fan, it's voice distorted.

"Right, I'll find them, and I'll make them pay with their lives." the dark male voice replied

Yellowness

"How goes the research, Watt?" a strange female voice, it sounded like she was gargling while speaking.

"Lady Wooden, it would be very beneficial to your health if you didn't bathe in the blood." a professional male voice replied.

"Have you found the escapee?" the strange female voice querried, apparently ignoring the wise words from an unseeable splash.

"Right, you won't believe this, she's living, literally right next to the EVERFREE FOREST!" the male voice lost it's professional tone for a second.

"Okay, I don't fucking care, we are the rulers of the sky, we don't worry about the Earth Pony and Unicorn problems, we will find her, and continue our operations, starting with HER FIRST!" the female voice, un-distorted, sounded absolutely insane.

"Your daughter will not escape this time, Lady Wooden." the male voice assured.

"STOP CALLING ME THAT!" the female voice rebuked

"Sorry, then, Director." the male voice apologized

Pinkness

"I will find that bitch, she's getting an arrow right between the eyes." an angry female voice said.

"Calm down, you'll find her soon, I heard from the bartender in Chicolto that she's in Ponyville." a friendly male voice comforted, or at least tried to.

"I'll kill her for triggering that mining 'accident' she killed my father." the female voice still raged.

"My father was killed too, but I guess you've taken it harder, listen, I'm going to Seaddle, I'm not helping you with this." the male voice said, apparently getting farther away as it got quieter with each word.

Redness

"Is the prototype running?" a forceful male voice demanded information.

"Sir, you've been gone for 2 days, it has been fixed and gone out of beta, the prototypes Kratos and Infus, as well as Rekivad and the android are fully operational and functional." an intelligent male voice revealed.

"Right, so, the soldiers are functional, upgrade all parameters until you FEAR them, then, give them the old weapons, the ones the I sent you, give them to the bots, make sure they stay how we had them." the forceful male voice directed

"Right, what about the alien?" the intelligent voice querried.

"The alien is still safely stored, it will be released either when we go after him, or when he comes for us." the forceful male voice revealed.

"Omnilord, sir, how can we trust those bastards at the Biological Intelligence district to keep their word and help us?" the intelligent male voice skepticised

"They're after him just as much as we are, they were lucky enough to get the first alien, and he killed it, the second alien doesn't stand much larger of a chance, but his survival rate was less than 1%, so maybe this time he'll die." the forceful voice answered

"Right, we haven't located him, so the latter will be the option, if he finds us." the intelligent voice added.

"Listen, we may have given him a horseshoe, but that doesn't mean he wins in a land of horses, or ponies, or whatever, he will NOT escape this time, he will NOT live this time, and he will DEFINATELY NOT win this time." the forceful voice proclaimed

"Right, and you think he hasn't been improving himself?" the intelligent voice argued

"He may be a soldier, but he would dive head-first into the peace of this land, I bet he hasn't even repaired or built a single weapon, let alone his Power armor, and I doubt he even knows about having the Judgement Blade." the angry voice claimed, unknowingly ironic.

"I see, if confidence could kill, you'd be alone in this world, sir." the intelligent voice grumbled.

Darkness

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Twilight stood with Luna in front of a new stained glass window, it showed Omega with the crystal heart above him and the Mane 6 below him, he held the Joy Love, a dual wield of the renamed Joy Mare, his MP, or machine pistol and the renamed Joy Stallion, his gatling revolver. the rest of the window was normal background stuff.

"Let me guess, I failed?" Twilight asked, sad.

"Nope, you passed." Luna replied.

"I, I passed? How?" Twilight asked in confusion.

"You see, by accepting your fate and letting Omega save the day, you have shown the ability to accept your own limitations, a valuable lesson, one of several that I have planned for you." Luna assured her student.

"I, I don't know what to say." Twilight said, breathless for some reason.

Luna hugged her, the hug lasted a few minutes, when they broke off, Twilight said her goodbye and turned to make her way to the door..

"Well, I'll let you get on with your life, then, stay smart, and keep on living." Luna said in farewell.

"I will, trust me." Twilight replied.

"I do, I do trust you." Luna whispered to herself

And with that, Twilight left.

The future would hold more adventures, more lessons, more emotions.

The only question was;

When?

Author's Note

Whelp, that's that chapter done.

Not much to say, I didn't bother with much editing.

I <3 you all, see you next time.

Byeeeeeeeee