Why are this fic's chapters longer than my oneshots? And why do they take three times longer?

I'm consolidating the Void and The Truth's into one continuity due to um... crossings... Also some things may not make sense. Just trust that I thought of that... Like actions. They become clear.

Also I get a bit metaphysical. Take anything as you will. I just needed to set up an explanation for something. And this is a lot of explanations. I need to set up a few things before we get to the meat. Also, sorry guys in Mobius, you are pushed aside due to "I NEED TO GET THIS EFFING THING OUT." restraints. Next chapter maybe...

Engessa led the group to one of the castle's walls. The stallion turned and said, "Wait here." before he jumped up and a spell was cast to give him just the extra jump he needed to get over. He was doing great till he realized he was falling into the rose bushes. Doh!

After getting all the thorns out of his body, Engessa started sneaking toward Marnax's quarters. The guards were running everywhere due to the disappearances. Everything was in full panic mode. The grounds were filled with guards.

She looked out. All of them were in their regular bulky, stallion forms with the unicorn and pegasus colors. The standard. If he was going to get there he would have to do the same. He cast the spell and his body changed from the normal slender and sneaky form to the standard bulky guard. He envied sergeants like Marnax. They could keep their forms while they worked. It was to distinguish them. But still it seemed a bit unfair. It was a very uncomfortable feeling.

In this form he easily blended in. Noone took notice as he entered Marnax's door. He changed back and walked on. Marnax was asleep. Engessa went and gently nudged him. "Stop it Luna." Marnax whispered. Engessa shook his head and smiled slightly. He nudged the sergeant's back again. Just groaning. Engessa didn't have a lot of time so he just picked up the bed and shook Marnax out of it. Needless to say he wasn't thrilled at this.

After a bit of groaning Marnax got up and eyed Engessa, "What do you need that is so important you had to dump me out of bed?"

Engessa sighed and began, "You see, while you were dozing off a few things happened. Two of your friends were seen again. I don't have much time so I may seemed rushed."

Marnax's ears perked up, "Is that so? Hey, I thought you had got a special assignment this morning in Luna's personal guard."

Engessa nodded, "That's when they came. Along with a large group of others. But long story short, we got out of there. Then we were attacked by the friend of assassin from a week ago and I, along with others chased it. Celestia came to the others and they were attacked by a manticore. Shadow got impaled thrice, Luna was crushed against a tree and they, along with Celestia and her student Twilight, disappeared. That's the major part."

Marnax's mouth was wide open. Then he started panicking, "What are we going to do! We have to save them! We must-"

Engessa shook his head, "No, you must get everyone ready. I won't go into detail but there may be a small war against something very big. I won't explain for brevity's sake. But I need you to give me something that will get me and a few other ponies into Rumentia for an audience with whoever is in charge."

Marnax eyed him suspiciously, "Why? Why not send me?"

Engessa nodded, "Because more likely than not Rumentia will become ruins along with Equestria if we don't get the right help. And you are too valuable to risk."

Marnax wasn't convinced, "Dragging different countries into our own business isn't exactly good."

Engessa shrugged, "Hey if it wasn't for you their leaders would probably be dead. I think they owe us something."

Marnax wasn't exactly convinced. But Engessa probably wouldn't back down. He thought, 'whats the worst that can happen.' So he sighed and pulled out a letter. He signed it saying it gave passage. He slowly handed it over, "I'll have your head if something goes wrong."

Engessa smiled and needed as he changed back into the standard form. He left unnoticed. And soon the party was out on their extremely long journey.

Sunset Sky was drilling through her mind to guess what was going on. She had a few things figured out. Like where they were and what was happening. But she had a few little questions all the same, "Yo, beast!"

A grumbling or ah... you know the whole everything but nothing thing, "What now? I seriously will enjoy killing you so you will shut up."

Sunset gulped, "Ah just two things. One: my da- I mean Shadow-"

The beast sighed, or- gah! It communicated in some way a form of displeasure, "Call him whatever you want, girl."

Sunset continued, "Anyways, he was impaled thrice before being transported here. Shouldn't he be dead by now?

The beast communicated in some way a form of mock pleasure, "When you see the wounds tell me. He won't be in exactly good shape if he goes back to any other world but thanks to lack of form he doesn't have any wounds does he?"

Sunset couldn't argue there. But she had one more thing that was sure to catch him off-balance, "Doesn't our existence prove that these ponies escaped out to the open world?" She knew she had him.

The beast conve... oh... "No. You could be from an alternate branch of this universe. As long as my master dominates the trunk thats all that matters. You see, the universes are like trees. There is the main universe is the trunk and its the true timeline. All the branches give the various different results. But not all actions are a branch. So you never know."

Sunset thought about that. It scared her a bit. She may be fighting a losing battle after all. That is generally not good.

Twilight thought about the first date and location Shadow gave. It was only six years ago. The images displayed in Twilight's mind but Shadow could see them as well, since he was communicating with the dream.

A young Rainbow Dash appeared and looked like she was in Cloudsdale. She was walking home and it seemed to be a good day. Then she was stopped by an older colt. His cutie mark was weights and he was well built for a young colt. He had a black coat and grey hair. "Hey, Rainbow Crash!" he said.

Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes, "Bell, I don't have time."

The colt laughed and kicked Rainbow Dash in the side, sending her flying. This was extremely sudden. Twilight could have sworn there was something odd about this colt. "You're weak, Rainbow Crash."

Rainbow Dash got up, obviously hurt. She looked at Bell with a fire in her eyes. But she couldn't do anything as the colt flew toward her again and bucked her hard. She was tossed again and this time she was bleeding. She got up again and saw her attacker coming at her once more. This time she avoided him and gave a hit of her own in the pony's wing. A crack was heard and the colt howled in pain. He looked like if he wasn't going to maim Rainbow Dash before he was going to now. He charged once more but Rainbow Dash was too quick. She sidestepped and kicked him in the other wing. Hopefully he didn't need to fly for a while.

Rainbow Dash was following her instructions that she was given in school in case somepony tried to hurt her. But then things took a turn for the worse. Bell got in a buck. And this time it was really hard. Many many bones broke and she blacked out for a moment. When she came again Bells had his hoof at her throat and looked like he was going to kill her. That was when she managed to kick her way through the cloud she was on. Bell wasn't the brightest pony so he didn't know what happened for a second. Then Rainbow Dash flew up. She burst through the cloud but misjudged her position and slammed herself at high speeds at the pony's neck. Her hoof was angled at the exact worst place and she cut into the neck with the edge. A crack was heard and Bell fell to the cloud floor, bleeding from his neck.

Rainbow Dash took a step back. He was dead. She stood there, frozen in place. She then realized what she had done. Sure he was a jerk, but that doesn't mean... She couldn't continue. Her heart was racing a thousand miles an hour, and her eyes were streaming tears. She suddenly realized she was a murderer, and she had a body on her hooves. She panicked and threw his body through the clouds and raced down. She dug a hole and placed him in there and covered it quickly. She flew far away, crying bitterly. She wanted to vomit. She couldn't feel the pain. She had to find Fluttershy.

Twilight stopped. She couldn't go on. "Shadow... how did-"

Shadow nodded, "That would explain the way she acted."

Twilight was confused, "Acted when?"

Shadow sighed, "Well, lets just say our little excursion to Canterlot a week ago wasn't the smoothest ride."

Twilight felt a lump in her throat. She realized that she may have that same experience soon enough. She may have to fight a real pony before this was over. Shadow didn't seem shaken at all. She thought that was more disturbing than what she had just seen. If he had absolutely no reaction whatsoever to this. How many beings had he killed?

"I see you are looking at your friend's secrets." A voice said. Shadow groaned. Not her again. Twilight was too shaken to respond. "A bit of an abuse of power don't you think?"

Shadow wouldn't even turn around. "Are you going to be serious this time?"

Equestria sighed, "Yes, yes I will. I have something for you two. You will remain here in part."

Twilight brought herself together enough to say, "What about the other part?"

Engessa started down the road to ponyville. Vanilla stepped up next to him, "Why are we going back here?"

Engessa sighed, "We have a few things to do. First we may need more people to come with us. Also, I guess you may not know this, the ponies here have a few special things we may need. Hopefully not but maybe."

It became dark. Everyone looked around. That couldn't happen. It wasn't night yet. And Celestia and Luna were gone. Who did that?

Greyson was excited. The moon had risen early. It might be soon. With the eclipse earlier and this it seemed that they could strike now. He was the commander of the black army. They were the greatest force of black magic users since the proclamation that had banished their kind from Equestria that was made a thousand years ago. They resided in a stronghold that even the most skilled royal guards had never penetrated.

Greyson himself was a dark blue unicorn with sandy hair. Not the greatest colors but what are you going to do? His cutie mark was a sword. But if you looked closely you see its a magic sword. Now not all the people in this stronghold were warriors. Some were artists and poets. It's simple. The thing that makes the best art and music is love. And it was told to generation that the spark that gives the element of black magic to the bearer is love. It was dangerous, and painful. But one of the greatest gifts. Like friendship is the spark of light magic. They were just misunderstood.

Recently it had been an exciting time. Just over a week ago one of the elements of harmony's bearers and an unknown black mage were seen escaping from Luna's castle. Then it was said that a rival group had received a gift to go kill them. One hasn't been seen since but another turned and for some reason tried to assassinate Luna. One of the the black army spies said that a certain guard had been responsible for saving her. Then the mysterious caster and the bearer appeared again and killed that one. The rivals were at arms about this. If they could only get those two...

He heard a knock on his door. In came one of the guards, "Sir, two white unicorns requesting permission to enter. They demonstrated they are casters. One stallion and one mare. They say they are a couple"

Greyson nodded, "Let them in and bring them to me."

The guard hesitated, "Sir they say and act like they are nearly dead of exhaustion."

Greyson thought for a second, "Give them a guest room and we will talk in the morning."

The guard nodded and exited the room. He then came back to the travelers, "You were given permission to enter. I assume you want a room with double bed."

The mare seemed to force out the answer, "Y- yes."

The guard looked at them suspiciously, that sounded forced. One had a cutie mark of a shooting star. The other had one of a few black magic explosions. He decided to wait a second, "What are your names?"

The stallion answered, "I am Shade and my wife is Midnight Star."

The guard relaxed a bit. It was probably just them being tired. They looked like they had just raised the moon by hoof. "Ah, I will escort you to your quarters. It's refreshing to see an actual couple come here. Most are just wanderers who come here to fight and might find love along the way." He nodded.

Shade and Midnight gave a half-hearted nod. After they were shown to their quarters Midnight turned to Shade, "Midnight Star and Shade. Is that the best you could come up with?"

Shade groaned, "You nearly blew it yourself with the hesitation."

Midnight rolled her eyes, "Acting is hard when you are half dead from lowering the sun."

Shade growled, "And what about me? I had to raise the moon and use complicated spells to make it look like my magic was coming from your horn." He was understandable annoyed. Equestria just gave them bodies while theirs were trapped in the void and it wasn't the most comfortable thing. But the dual control was cool no doubt even if experiences and memories aren't shared.

Midnight yawned, "Well I'm going to bed." She opened the covers with her magic and climbed in. It felt warm and relaxing. Then she felt a warm figure at her back. It was Shade. "Oh no, you are sleeping somewhere else. I am not sleeping with you. Couple ruse or not." Midnight felt a bit better that Twilight never had to know of this scene.

Shade's response made her more sure of that, "No."

Midnight's face flushed, "Why?"

Shade whispered in her ear, "We are being monitored and being apart would arouse suspicion."

Midnight looked up and saw a magic recorder. Oh Celestia, no. Thank goodness it was only video and not audio.

Shade chuckled, "You're cute when you are horrified." Shadow felt more relaxed in Equestria. Sonic or any of his friends would probably say it more like he got a heart. He wouldn't be joking right now most likely if he was back in his world. But he felt there was something odd about it. Like he was meant for Equestria.

Midnight decided to play around, "Oh sure. I mean you are kinda cute." She said looking him in the eyes and getting a smile on her face, "And if you want we ca-" She never finished that sentence.

Shade had caught her off guard and kissed her. It wasn't long but it was hard. When he pulled away he checked her face, which was red as a tomato and opened in shock, and laughed. "That was so worth it for your expression right now alone." For some reason Midnight didn't find it nearly as funny. She was gasping for air. The red on her face was amplified nicely by her white coat. She was not expecting that. She just lay in that position for a long time, making Shade laugh harder. All of a sudden, Midnight liked the pony who had her pinned down in a forest better than the one she was with right now.

Twilight was still a bit shaken from seeing her friend go through that. Equestria had made the split an hour ago and Shadow had gone back to looking through stuff. "There are consequences to misusing power. However, I was kidding about what you were doing. You are doing something valuable but you will have to suffer some more. But don't use it too liberally" Equestria said.

Twilight sniveled a bit, "I liked you better when you were teasing us."

A light grew in the plain, and as it grew it took a shape. What exited was amazing. A large alicorn came out. Her coat was white as the snow. The first thing Twilight noticed was her mane. It didn't seem to be there until she realized it was like mist. It was almost invisible but you could make it out, waving in a imaginary breeze. Her tail was something else completely. It had the form of fire burning but did not seem hot. It licked the air and ground but nothing was burning. Her back legs seemed to be adorned with vines and her front ones were adorned with shells.

Equestria came and sat down beside her, "I do too. But right now you have things to do."

Twilight sighed, "Yeah, I guess. I have a question though."

Equestria smiled, "What would that be?"

Twilight began, "Why are Shadow and the others involved? They have their own world to care about. Why are they fighting our battles?"

Equestria nodded her head, "Very interesting question. I might tell you about worlds first. You see, my mother, the goddess, made different worlds. And she put different people in charge. At first in this world it was me and my sisters. But the goddess said this world would only last thirty thousand years. And have three ages. Me and my sisters weren't immortal. But we had each ten thousand years of life. At the end of my times black and light magic would arise. At the end of Celestia's reign the world would become completely self-sufficient. At the end of Luna's the world would end. Do you understand that?"

Twilight nodded, "Yes, I guess."

The white alicorn began again, "Now in some worlds she does different things. In some she rules directly. In some she takes people like me to rule. Some she takes the people and see what they do themselves. You've been to one of each."

Twilight's eyes shone in confusion, "I have?"

Equestria nodded, "In the world of your new friends my mother- wait, I should clarify she is not always a female in each world for she is what she wants to be. But anyways my mother set up three common beings as protectors. One for the creatures and two for the magics. Short story is: one is the "Master Emerald" One is completely destroyed and one is trapped inside the emerald and was stripped from most of his power. It didn't turn out well."

Twilight gasped. That didn't sound good. But what did this have to do with anything?

Equestria continued, "And the one she controls directly you only stopped in for a time. The library? But she gave them free will and a choice. They abuse it. But no system is perfect. I can't say I was a saint when I ruled." She got a far-off look. "We will continue this later. Your friend has something for you."

Twilight heard a noise, footsteps. When she turned around Shadow stood there. He looked at Equestria and gave a half-hearted bow. "I have another date. Sweet Apple Acres. Ten years ago."