Eclipse Series: Equestria Chapters 1-12

by Redmanking

Part 2: Continuation of the Eclipse series. Abram leads his friends into an unknown world. Their fighters have lost power and soon crash into the planet. Abram finds himself to be the only one who wasn't knocked out. The rest shouldn't be spoiled

2. Eclipse Series: Equestria Chapters 13-24

Chapter 13: Tale of Brothers

Abram is full of surprises lately. At first he was the only male Alicorn I've ever met. Next he came from another dimension and has great magical powers. His two other friends showed up in a massive ship that covers up much of the ancient castle ruins. Now I learn his uncle is Discord! What other surprises I need to know. Does Abram have a son?

"Twilight can your thoughts be any louder, I can hear you all the way to my ship."

I flew out my bed and onto the floor. Spike watch me noise dive, and asked if I was ok.

"Spike, I'm ok. Just had a weird dream that's all." In an agonizing voice.

"Twilight Sparkle, please go to bed and meet me at my library in the morning."

Creepy, very creepy. "Fine, you crazy mind reader." Luckily, the night air made it easy for me to go to bed. Just before dawn came, I made my way to the Leviathan. The door cracked open and I flew in.

"Why do you want me here this early in the morning?" In a very angry tone.

"Twilight, calm yourself. I'm about to save your dimension. Just listen to this Brother's tale."

I followed Abram to the library and there was Discord. We sat down and Ron gave us all a hot cup of tea and a lot of Daisy sandwiches with a side of carrots. Ron was curious if he did a good job of cooking up this delicious breakfast.

"Ron, even though you're not from here, you can cook up a meal."

Ron was pleased and took a seat in the far corner with Vince. They are looking up some technology parts for the ship that Abram crashed yesterday. I turn around and Discord was about to tell me something.

"Twilight, let me tell you about me and my brother."

"Long ago before Equestria ever existed, three tribes of ponies existed. Earth, Pegasus, and Unicorn. Similar to what you act in your annual play, but this is what really kicked it off. My brother and I were legends of our time, but only to be wiped out. Cronos kept time in order and let no paradox exist and I was responsible for space itself. I made sure the Sun is at the right spot at the right time, and raise the moon to put the ponies asleep. I made creatures for night and day and all went well. My older brother kept telling me what a great job I'm doing. Then something went terribly wrong with my soul as I was creating a creature that can aid me in my daily task. But I started to lose control over it. This evil will spread like wildfire over the land. My brother knew I was powerless to stop it. So he sent the world back in time so we can see what went wrong. Neither I nor my brother can conclude what went wrong. Then he suggested we make a simple frog to equalize the space provided. Then the problem came back. Plain and simply space can't handle so much good. My brother made me a promise that he'll help me in this dark chapter, he'll bring back the good will's inside of me. He cast his hand and divided my power of space. I can no longer raise the moon nor sun. I can't make anything harmonic but discord. With little good will I had left I made my last species of ponies, Alicorns. Now evil is now full part of my life and Equestria was born. I corrupted of many to create Discord. Then I got rid of my brother. I created a dimensional door and he knew it was time to go. He blinded me and I let go. The evil's natural curse slowly transformed me into this. However my brother did keep his promise but not from him, but from my nephew Abram."

"Since Abram here is not a pure bred pony, he can do something's that nether ponies or humans can do. Unlike pure bred ponies, he can inherit his cutie mark and live in his father exact footsteps. Based on his flank, he has. Now the human side of him 'only 25 percent of genetics' can allow him to do anything he wants. He can be in his human form and do magic like a pony. He can also can be just a human or pony when he wants to. Now this is what puts him above all of you. He can control time, Abram here just needs to learn it. The problem is, that my past corrupt state caused the books to fade away in time. No pony knows where it is except me, and I won't give it away that easily. Abram here must show his true heart, but it will harden."

In my heart I was excited, but with any reformation of Discord there's always a catch. I looked over to Abram and he had the same look as I did.

"Twilight, sorry to interrupt your thoughts, but I do agree."

"Abram how do you do that, without even talking."

"Mind melding my dear, you should learn it. Sadly, I need to give it to you at the right time."

"Hey, sorry to interrupt you both, but you can't just mind meld in front of me."

"Sorry Uncle, just talking to Twilight that's all."

"Don't worry boy, you can't hide your feelings from me."

Abram blushed enormously, but I know there's more to that.

"Abram, tell me something, what are you hiding from me?"

Optional reading recap!

Twilight, knows I'm hiding my past, but here goes nothing. Mind meld!

"Fine Twilight, but keep this between my uncle and you alone. I was born on a planet named Markus and lived a semi-normal life as a human. Then I started to notice that I can read minds, and have simple telekinesis. As I got older, I went into the field of time travel like my father. It was very proud days with my father until two angels appeared to him. After that he was gone. My human mother couldn't cope with the disappearance of Cronos and left me. When I was 21 in human years, I committed my life to my father's legacy. Around 41 I married a beautiful woman named Jessica. In my dimension it's normal for a human to live up to 900 years of age. So my wife and I waited until we're 120 years old to have our first child. We named him Cloud. Ten years later, I redone my father's design and got the permission to use it. When I did, I was excited to say the least. I packed my bags and headed out the door and bam! Everything went to chaos, and that's how I ended up here with you guys. That's the quick rap up, can we get that book please?"[HT1]

Chapter 14: Sunday walk

It was a stormy Sunday morning. With my heart depressed that my son is in the other dimension and I didn't even know that he was alive after 51 years. I have good friends but the feelings inside me are bottled up for far too long. The door to the outside was tempting but I gave in. I needed a walk to blow off some of these feelings that are trapped inside. Once I stepped outside, the cold hard rain even expressed my feelings towards the situation. The ground however was warm but soggy. Just like the mess I'm in.

I slowly made it up a hill and sat and cried out. "Oh, God! Why can no one come to me strait and tell me the truth about my family. What covenant can put me through this pain? For whom and what am I fighting for? Where is my son and my father?"

The storm rumbled and shouted with a fierce sound. Lighting was striking like comets burning in the atmosphere. The rain flailed side to side from the furious winds that cut through the air like a sword. Yet, not a single drop of rain hit me. Then a song that my mom sang to me when I was a kid and began to sing.

"I was sure by now, God would you have reached down and wiped tears away step down and save the day. Once again, I say amen and it's still raining. As thunder rolls, I barely hear your whisper through the rain. 'I'm with you.' As your mercy falls, I raise my hands and praise the God who gives and takes away. I'll praise you in storm, and will I'll lift my hands. You are who are. No matter where I'm am. And every tear I cried and you hold in your hand. Never left my side, and though my heart is torn. I will praise you in this storm.

I remember when, I stumbled in the wind, you heard my cried you, and Raised me up again. My strength was almost gone, I cannot carry on. And I've can't find you. As the thunder rolls, I barely hear your whisper through the rain. I'm with you. As mercy falls, I raise my hands praise the God who gives and takes away. I'll praise you in this storm and I'll will lift my hands and you are who are, no matter where I am and every tear I cried, you hold in your hand. Never left my side and though was my heart torn? I will praise in this storm.

I lift my eyes to the hills, where does help comes from, my help the lord, the maker of heaven and earth I lift my eyes to the hills, where does help comes from, my help the lord, the maker of heaven and earth.

I'll praise you in this storm and I'll will lift my hands and you are who are, no matter where I am and every tear I cried, you hold in your hand. Never left my side and though was my heart torn? I will praise in this storm. Though heart is torn. I'll praise you in this storm. I'll praise you in this storm."[HT2]

When the memory left, Ron and Twilight were right behind me. "Abram! Are you ok man? Twilight and I heard you over a mile away. Besides, what are you doing out here in this mess."

I didn't feel like responding to them. I've simply disappeared in the rain and found myself standing in front of my father. "Abram, you grown up so much. I know you have a lot of questions to ask me, but hear my voice before you cry out. I love you son. We shall meet again, but the end is coming, and it's not going to be easy. You will be left with little choices. Your heart will search for me out of desperation and you will fail. Once my covenant with God is complete. The Holy Spirit will guide you and your people to a new land."

As soon as he was done speaking, he disappeared into the rain. Was that a vision or is that really him. I was left clueless, more questions to be ask, but I know he is alive.

When the rain cleared, and my thoughts settled. I've noticed that I was alone near an ancient ruin. Far from any known place in Equestira. I gathered my nerves to walk into these ruins. The ancient scribes and text showed a story told by Discord, but as I went further. I saw what my father wrote. What the end should look like.

"Two dimensions will collide and stay together. When this shall happen is unclear to me, but it will happen in my children's lifetime. Thus I will prevent this as long as possible. My brother and my student Discord will turn against me and that's where my plan will begin. In this…"

The ancient script ended with a pair of holes engraved on a wall. I was curious…what can this mean. I can't hold back, I put my hoofs up and into the holes and a violent wind came gushing out and the wall opened up. Inside was more transcripts of spells and wisdom of advice. A water fall was gushing down the middle with light going down the center of it. "Wait a minute, there's something in the middle of the water fall. Is it a book, or a crown? Fascinating discovery, hmm should I bring Twilight here. Might as well, she might have an idea what this is."

POW, and Twilight was scared to death right in front of me. "Abram! Can you stop surprising me half to death. Ron and I been searching all over for you and just mess around with us whenever…, where are we?"

She finally calmed down to explain myself. "Umm, I just wandered around and stumbled into my dad's castle, but this is definitely not why I brought you here. Look at the water fall. 'She casually looked over.' Maybe you can help figure out what this is."

We walked around and got a better look at the thing. There was a short bridge that connect to the center of the water fall, but I was not too certain how stable it is though. We both gulped and walked up the bridge to the object. BOOM! Twilight was flung across the room, but somehow I wasn't even affected. I kept walking and a flash of light rang wildly across my body. I felt as if someone was penetrating my soul and it was whispering to me. "A Keeper of Time, must allow life to have these natural things. Life; Liberty; Happiness; if any of these fundamentals are broken by your actions. You can face severe consequences." Then it was over in a matter of a minute. I fell on the platform, can't even move a muscle. Next thing I knew, Twilight came up running towards me, shaking me violently. Then she backed off slowly. Her jaw dropped, I felt some energy coming back into my legs and body. "What happened?"

She was just as confused as I was. "I don't know, you were out for a while Abram. Once I got my strength back, I ran towards you and try to wake you up. Then I gave up, and just laid next to you crying to sleep. Then all the sudden you started glowing, and then you woke up."

I was lopped sided about what she said, so I decided it's best to get out of here. "Come on Twilight, let's get out of this creepy place." With simple nods we left, only to face a Unicorn on the outside. The unicorn tripped us and we landed with our backs against some rocks.

Twilight got angry to see who it was. "TRIXIE!"

I was now more confused on what's happening, and I have to ask. "I'm guessing you two met before, and tell me what this is about."

The sky blue Unicorn looked at me with an evil grin on her face. "I'm am the great and powerful Trixie. The best sorcerer in Equestira, and now I'll will get back my dignity back after my last two encounters with Twilight."

I looked at Twilight with the 'really' face. "Twilight can I take care of her real quick, had a bad enough day already and I really just want to go home." She just gave me a simple nod to do so.

"Well Trixie, I want to challenge you to see how good you really are."

Confused, Trixie was up to the challenge. "Who you think you are? No matter, I will beat you no matter what."

Next thing I knew, I saw boulders flying towards me. Without even thinking, I blew up the boulders and launched my counter attack. I use tele-kinesis-port to transport boulders right on top of Trixie and made them explode into a dust cloud. Trixie was stunted for a quick few seconds and made a few recovery tricks of her own. "You're good, whoever you are, but can you beat this."

The ground started to cave in, and I'm started to get really mad. I looked behind me and the ground was giving in around Twilight. She try to fly away but she was too weak to do so. Then Trixie shouted. "You got two choices, save yourself or save the princess. Pick wisely!"

I gave Trixie the evil troll look. "I choose this instead." BOOM! I picked up Twilight and put her in a safe place and went back to finish Trixie. The ground was gone and Trixie was on a strip of land where her spell was casted. I landed right behind her and kicked her across the newly form canyon. She hit a tree and was barely able to stand up. I teleported across and she began to speak in an aching voice.

"Who are you?"

"I'm Abram, the son of Cronos. Now give me a good reason to let you live."

Twilight was shocked and tried to get up and stop me. Luckily I looked back and saw her panicking look of don't do it. I turned back and broke Trixie's horn clean off. "I guess I'll spare you today Trixie, thank the princess for saving your life." Then I cast a spell to turn the environment back to the way it was and returned to Twilight.

She ran up to me and backed off. Only thing I could do is look down in shame. "Abram… I can't believe you almost did what you're about to do to her. I know she deserves it but not punishable by death. Besides what did you do to her, I had my eyes closed."

I looked back up with a grin and tears on my face. "I just simply took her powers away, that's all. Luckily I did look back at you, it was like a lightning bolt to this poor souls' heart and it woke me up.

Twilight walked up to me and gave me a hug. "Oh, you're just trying to protect me you crazy philly, time will make you better. Now let's go home."

On our way home, we got intercepted by Ron and Celesta. Celesta was the first to speak in a frantic voice. "ABRAM! Where did you two go, and what was that explosion back there.

Twilight chuckled while my face flushed in embarrassment. "I don't really know, but it was my father's ruins. I went in and investigated and I found something in the manuscripts and I found something that I didn't what it was. I then teleported Twilight to me and a bunch of crazy stuff happened. We left the ruins and the once Unicorn Trixie showed up and me and her dueled. Then she tried to make me choose between my life and Twilight's. I got mad and I blacked out. Then I snapped out of it when I looked back at Twilight. Oh I'm so sorry for this. Please forgive me."

Celesta was mad for only a second and then she gave me a grin. "Calm down Abram, thank goodness you two are alright. I'll forgive you for now Abram, but Twilight, please come with me. We need a more valid order of events."

Celesta and Twilight flew off together and Ron was giving me a funny look. "You like her do you Abram?"

I can only give him three words "Shut up Ron."

Chapter 15: Cloud

Where did that ship go? Well, like my father said to me, "Sometimes you have to do it yourself." Ugh, I run a fleet of dim wits, can't even catch a ship that size.

"Pilot let me commandeer that fighter."

Without questioning me he backed away and let me use it. "Tell Captain Argo that he's in charge till I come back."

"Aye, Aye, Admiral Cloud!" he went off like a loyal pilot should have. Now, back to matters at hand. Retrieve that ship and its crew. Its cargo can change the course of history.

When I went through the warp space, it closed behind me. I was trapped and I don't see that ship anywhere. I shook the controls and nothing happened. I was going to crash on this foreign planet.

The entry of the planet knocked me out. When I woke up, I was in the middle of nowhere. It was a cold place. I tried walking and somehow I can't keep my balance. I looked down and my feet weren't there. They're replaced by two pairs of pony hoofs, so I tried walking on all fours and at last I can walk again. Though it was strange I was not freaking out about this. Mainly I'm focused on my true mission, getting that ship.

I ventured off to the noises of a bustling town or city. I hope the mercenary boot camp paid off, I'm not too sure if I'm going to make it or not. Out of the blue, crisp, whistling air, a sound of… leaves? I ran as fast as I could to see if I was imagining. The air turned warm, the smell of grass filled my nostrils; how could this be? I crest a ridge and saw a beautiful town made of crystals and fine marble. The center of the town lay a very titan looking stone. More like a castle or something, but who knows? I looked up as far as I could on the rock and saw a telescope or something flash my way. There's life here?

I picked up my pace and entered the town. My heart felt weird, like I was here before, but I know I wasn't. Then what is this feeling? To keep my mind occupied, I ventured through the town. What looked like guards, kept a watchful eye on me. Some even followed at a distance. Why are they doing this, is it the way I look? I looked down and noticed my skin color… or fur color is a gradient white to blue. I had a horn, and now I got feelings on my back and noticed that I have wings. Still this doesn't freak me out, honestly I thought it was pretty cool. I sat down and called it a day, but the guards kept staring at me. "What do you want? Can you guys leave me alone?"

The guards split in two and another pony thing that looked like me came walking up. It was the color pink as far as my colorblindness goes with the color red. On its left flank was a…unicorn? At any rate the pink pony began to talk. "Hello there, I'm Princess Candice. Ruler of the Crystal Empire and this is my husband Shining Armor, and may we have your name sir?"

Ok, these animals can talk, how's does this surprises me, and I turning into one of them don't surprise me at all. I'm definitely done for today. "Umm, my name is Cloud Yugotav, and I'm definitely not from this dimension."

Both Candice and her husband looked at each other's faces like they recognized me before. Acting on instinct, I fled as fast as I could to what look like a train station. I hopped on to a boxcar and the train shuttered off. Leaving Candice and her guards in the dust. "That was close. Yum! This box is filled with tons of apples and apple sider."

The train based on the location of the sun was heading due south. The weather started to get warmer and a little more humid. Then a memory flash of my past kept creeping back in. It was the day my mother was shot and my dad was taken. Luckily, Uncle Mark showed up and took me in as his apprentice to time travel. Next the memory leaps ahead to the time I signed up for a mercenary group near the planet Star Knight IV. It was a gloomy day when I signed up, but I rose through the ranks and 50 years later, I became an admiral. Then I started to feel angry and half the car exploded. I looked up and aurora formed around my horn and disappeared. "What in the world was that… was that magic or something I don't know about?"

I began to experiment by moving some apple boxes. The top box started to levitate, and I moved my head to where I wanted to go. Then the box moved to the exact spot and dropped. I flew backwards in astonishment, "Wait, my dad said he did this before in his labs. Now I can do this with little to know effort all. How cool is that. I wonder if I can teleport or not?" I looked to the top of what's left of the box car and boom! I was on top of the rail car. "HOW COOL!"

I turned around and a tunnel was approaching ten meters in front of me. "Oh My GOD…NO!" "Boom!" I hit the top of the tunnel and fell back into the car. I didn't wake up until the train was out of the tunnel. When I woke up, I saw a castle on the ledge of a mountain. The train wasn't heading in that direction, but it will be an interesting sight to see. I looked down and noticed that we're on a bridge crossing a canyon a thousand meters deep. "Hmm, better not be afraid of heights in this world." Then, an inspiration of flying came to me, so I just jumped off the train into the canyon. I flapped my wings hard to slow down and it worked. I was hovering just ten meters from the bottom of the canyon. I flapped harder to gain speed and altitude and landed on top of one of the peaks.

The scenery was breath taking. Then a male voice that sounded like my father's came to my attention. "It's beautiful isn't it?" I looked back to see my father's face, but instead I see another pony thing.

I was curious who this was and I have to ask. "Who are you exactly?" He had a gradient skin like mine, but it was black edges to blue center.

"I'm Abram Yugotav, your father son."

I was confused. "You must be mistaken, my father was taken away from me 50 years ago. Must be dead by now."

He started chuckling, like he wasn't kidding. "I can't mistake you Cloud, how has it been in the last 50 years."

I had enough with this game and blew up the peak with my magic, and flew off. It can't be true, where would my father be if he wasn't dead. Umm, that was a dumb question. I looked behind me and he was in chase. I shot what magic can relate to a laser and hit this thing directly. I teleported to another peak in the distance to try to get away. Then a flash of light came upon me and I was kicked across to the next peak a kilometer away. "Now he wants to fight, I'll show him a fight."

I leaped towards him with great speed and ready a punch to the gut. It failed when he teleported and kicked me straight to the ground. Dust bellowed everywhere, and I got up and flew back up to face another kick across a long distance. Luckily I recovered to see him face to face. "I don't want to fight you son."

I grew angrier, who is this guy. I'm pretty confident that my father is dead. I punched him smooth in the face and he went flying into the sky. I knew he'll recover before he starts falling back and waited to attack him when he decided to teleport, but instead I heard this loud boom above me. Little time to look up, I saw a massive wave heading right towards me. I teleported out of the way but it was no use. He just teleported to where ever I was going. I flew a good ten kilometers before hitting the ground. I wiped the blood off my face and try to make my escape to lick my wounds. Then a young woman's voice cried out. "You two stop fighting!"

Out of the woods five ponies appeared. The one that spoke was another pony thing, but her coat was a very light purple color. She has three distinct stripes in her mane and tail. I've also noticed that I'm paralyzed from the neck down and my horn was blocked from any magic. The other dude was right in front of me, but he was not paralyzed at all nor was his magic blocked. The lady spoke again. "Let's get this Alicorn to Abram's ship, then we'll take it from there, again." Well she sounds annoyed, kept ringing in my head.

It didn't take long until I was on the ship I was looking for, but I no longer want to take the machine anymore. Second thoughts on a mercenary group with a time machine is quite wreck lace. Now I'm wondering where I'm am, and who are these people? A natural blonde mane and tail pony with a tan skin came waking up and knocked me smooth out. I woke up to an interrogation room and stand the one who claims to be my father. "How's Mark Yugo, Cloud."

Then my started to open wide in astonishment. "How do you know about him?"

He grinned at me. "Oh… Mark and I we're good buds, I often call him Uncle Mark when I was little and you were little."

My heart turned cold. "You're just messing with my head."

He changed his facial expression to try something different. "Do you remember that time when it was your eighth birthday and the candles started floating and spinning?"

My eyes started to dilate, and I started to gasp. "No way, it can't be true. If so, what happen three days later?"

His face sadden. "It was the day my experiment on the time machine went through. I was so eccentric, I came down the stairs with my bags and hugged the both of you. Jessica was just as happy as I was. Then you gave me a high five and said 'Good luck dad, don't forget those dinosaurs I was talking about.' I turned around and went out the door and a large explosion of light and horrid sound came in. Two men shadowed in my brain, two gun shots went passed me and hit you two from the looks. They turned me around and I saw blood squirted all over the wall. You we're lucky, I saw that the bullet only grazed by your skin, but the pain knocked you out. Then they put a sack over my head and injected some type of sedative to put me to sleep.

When I woke up, I was in a (Ice chamber) and got out and looked around. The date was 50 years later and I'm still running this ship to this date."

I had no other words to say, this is my dad. Ironically, I still want to beat the crud out of him with no just cause. "Well hello dad, I'm still going to beat the crud out you!"

His face turned into a grin, but when he heard the last part. He teleported me out of the ship right when I punched him in the face. The ground shook when he crashed, and recovered quickly. He looked up and said, "Well, at least I got you back, but I need to train you how to use your magic instead of your hoofs."

The other ponies looked at both of us and laughed, except for the Alicorns. My dad got out of the crater and told them to cheer up.

Chapter 16: Wake up Rainbow Dash Part: 2

"Ugh, where am I. Is Twilight ok, am I dead." A voice then came in from my right.

"Hello there you, I finally get the chance to see you in person."

"And you are?"

He had a grin on his face, like I know who he is. "I'm the one who put you here, and don't worry your friends are ok."

"Ok then, how long have I been out?"

"Oh, I say…about three months."

I flew out of my bed and looked around. "Hey, this is not Ponyville's hospital. Where am I?"

Still have that annoying grin on his face scares me sometimes. "Oh Rainbow Dash. A lot has changed since you were out. I'll let Twilight catch you up to speed on things ok?"

With little doubt, things have changed. What about Twilight's Kingdom, or even Canterlot? Can Twilight explain this or do I have to go to Celesta. Oh well.

We arrive at this metallic door that open on its own, with no magic at all. I was amazed how this placed looked. Though there's no other pony here. I hope he's right and everybody is ok.

"Rainbow Dash!" A familiar voice came from my right flank. I turn around and, "Twilight, oh my gosh. It's very nice to see you again Princess."

"I know it is Rainbow Dash, I know it is." We hugged for more than five minutes. It was of those family hugs when you come home for the holidays or a quick visit. Once we let go of each other, we knew it's time to get down to business. "What is happening Twilight."

With a very sadden look I knew something was wrong. "Abram and I looked back at what he was reading last, before he crashed here three months ago. The end is coming, when the two different dimension align to each other." With a sort gasp of breath. "The dimensions become one. We can travel back a forth between our worlds without ripping fabric of time. Abram says this is the silence before the storm. Once the dimensions are aligned, his enemies will invade. He says that our only hope is to play the war game just right, and hope his nation will send reinforcements to our world. The conflict between the two will make the alignment permanent or hold on long enough to escape and stop the evil forces. However we got a good clue where they going to invade first."

With the most confused look a pony can put on. "Where exactly would that be?"

"Well… let's just say Abram's son crashed near the Crystal Empire."

"Oh… then where are we exactly?"

"Inside a mountain near Ponyville."

"That's the only thing I need to know now."

"Whatever you say Rainbow Dash!"

Chapter 17: Operation Father Time

"Oh almost got it…there. Whoa, everything is going in slow motion. Let me see here, will this ball go in slow motion when I throw it at Ron's head." When I threw the ball, it went as it normally would in normal time. Now let's see what happens when I go back in normal time.

"Hey! Who threw that at me?"

Keeping my laughter to myself, Twilight was on the floor crying with laughter, Jane and Crystal were curious how the ball hit Ron, but Cloud had a disappointing look on his face.

"Really Dad! I know you're the one who did it."

Then a flashback went into my head just before he disappeared.

"It was just like it happened a moment ago. My mom was finishing the cake for my 8th birthday. When she turned around a mouthful of cake was missing. She turned and saw me at the kitchen table and got mad at me for eating the cake. Then my dad walked in with cake around his lips. Mom was curious how he did it and my dad said 'it's magic sweet heart'."

Then I saw Twilight shaking my shoulder and saying my name repeatedly.

"That's it, Twilight follow me!"

Franticly confused and chasing me through the hallway. "What's it?"

We entered my room and I pulled out my dad's old journal.

"Abram, can you tell me what's going on? Getting tired of all these surprises."

"Twilight I know you're tired of surprises, but I think I know where to find Cronos."

I looked back and her face was pure shock. "I'm going to need your help Twilight. We're going to the other dimension. Prepare yourself with few provisions as possible and meet back here at night."

Twilight snapping out of shock. "Why do you need my help Abram? You got five loyal friends that can help you out."

"True Twilight, but they'll just turned back into their normal selves. Your magical powers can keep your natural form, unless you did what my dad did and use the permanent morph spell. Besides, they don't know who you are and you can easily watch my back."

Twilight came to a perfect understanding and left to pack her stuff. I went to my son and told him what I was doing and he had no rejections to it. The crew was too busy planning the defense of Equestria to notice me gone. With all loose ends covered, I went back to my room and took a nap.

After a while, Twilight came back with only a book of spells and the book I gave her when she first boarded the Leviathan. "Abram so what's the plan?"

"Follow me, we need to get to space first. Next, we'll travel back in time, just before Cloud entered from the other dimension. Thirdly, we'll travel to Titan and meet my Dad's coworker Mark; according to his journal entries. Lastly, we'll track him down and/ or find out what happened to him."

Twilight easily agreed to the plan and we headed off to the hangers. Ron fixed the modified fighter to where it can fly into space. We got in and took off. Twilight was scared, probably because it's her first time flying in one of these machines at a high rate of speed. Once we reached orbit, I used the time spell in reverse and traveled back in time. Last and final step, go through warp space to the human dimension.

"Twilight, I must warn you of one thing?"

She turned and looked at me with questionable face. "What is it?"

"OH, I was going to tell you about the possibility of running into the fleet that was chasing us to this dimension. That's all."

Before Twilight can answer, we entered into my dimension and there was the Merc and T.C. fleets. Waiting like it was before we entered it. I handed Twilight a helmet and told her to trust me. She looked kind of petrified at the armada of huge ships in front of us.

"Don't worry Twilight, I got this, just hang on."

"I'll hold my breath Abram!"

The fleet fired every weapon they had on them, but they weren't so fast in slow motion. I'd just simply flew past the barrage of fire with no sweat. By the time I was in a safe distance from the armada of ships, I launched the ship into jump drive and restore back into normal time.

"I told you Twilight I got this."

With a blush face she responded. "I guess you weren't kidding." Then she fainted.

"Hmm, forgot that she never flew in space before. Needless to say, but I'll ponder to flip her over so her blood will get back to her head."

Within a few hours, we arrive in Israel Space, near the Plutonian sector. The Jews have made a wonderful life here on these icy moons and dwarf planets that it still surprises me to this day. Europa for example, a planet made of ice and underwater oceans. The populace there have total protection from invasion and bombardment won't do any good due to the thick ice. Now however, I need to get my head out of the clouds.

"Now where is that journal? Ah, here it is, my dad's coworker lives on the moon Titan in the Santorin sector. His name is Marx Yugo, and he lives near the city of Tel Alvi. Well with that name in my head, I can tell where my dad got his last name."

The trip was easy and uneventful. Twilight woke up as soon as I found where the first break into the case of my missing father. Twilight was mad that she was sitting upside down, but I had no real choice.

Chapter 18: Titanfall

The flight ended well, Abram was excited to show me his dimension, but he had questions to ask and people to meet. In true honestly, I don't care what happens, I'm too caught up in the beautiful scenery around me. Abram is probably used to seeing the massive bodies of rock or gas. The ship Abram has fails in comparison to some of these ships. He looked over and saw me gazing into space. "Like what you see Twilight?"

It took me a minute to snap out of star-gazing. "Oh, yeah, just overwhelmed about your dimension. Where are we heading to again?"

Seldom laugh rang out of him. "Twilight we're heading to a moon named Titan. Right now, we're lining up our orbits, so we don't crash into another moon. Also, don't worry about being lost in space. It still gets me every now and again. Enjoy the show, we'll be landing within three hours."

I was astonished to see him laugh every now again. I think my friends kind of put him in a depression for something. I don't know, but I am enjoying the show. I wonder who we going to meet first.

Three hours went by fast and I saw the moon we're about to land on. The clouds were an orange-yellow or maybe just a tan color. Every now and again you can see white specs on the surface. I was curious to what they are, but I'll know for myself in a little while. We're landing on that moon anyways, but what happens if we can't breathe their air. Oh, I don't want to ask but I have to. "Abram, I have one question that's ringing in my head?"

He looked over and smiled, "Ask whatever you want Twilight. There's nothing to hide here, well, except for the past of course."

"I know my moon looks kinda bare, but how do these moons have clouds and weather on the surface while mine doesn't?"

"Well Twilight, that's a good one. You see, most moons magnetic field disappears after millions of years, and the gases and water that were there, drifted off by the suns ionic winds. Titan however, resides to one of the biggest planets in this solar system. The moon itself and the planet have their own magnetic fields to block the solar wind. However, we can't live on Titan until we terraform it into a more life friendly environment. Once this all clears up I'll show you some before and after pictures."

I was amazed on how a moon can be livable. I kept asking some curiosity questions till we landed on Titan. The ship however wasn't suited to Titan's weather and things got a little heroic, but Abram landed this ship. We leaped out and I notice that the gravity is a lot weaker than planned. I tried to keep from jumping or flying, but just keep a nice steady walk. Looking over to Abram, he was just levitating across the surface. He told me just lightly flap your wings and follow me.

The scenery was beautiful, the sky was a weird tan color and the surface was mountainous. We came upon this ranch and Abram says that we need to walk the rest of the way. As we got closer, I notice a tall figure standing near a post. This is the first time I'll see Abrams race in person, and not in a book. My thoughts we're interrupted when Abram was asking this figure a question.

"Hello sir, are you Marx Yugo?"

The man responded in a nice voice and realized who Abram was.

"Abram, it's been a while my boy. Your father and I had a lot great ventures together. Hmm, let's go inside and talk about this."

He looked over and notice me and asked Abram. "Who's your friend here?"

"That Mark is Princess Twilight, I brought her here to help me in my quest to find out what happen to my father, and if I'm lucky, find him."

The man, had a great smile on his face. "Well she is a pretty thing isn't she, you always pick out the good ones."

Abram blushed and responded with a whisper "Please stop, don't embarrass me in front of her you old toot."

As we headed inside, I looked back and notice something familiar to what I read in that book Abram gave to me. I went into a separate room so those two boys can talk, and I can look what that object was.

"Planets…no, Space anomalies…no, ships…AH! Here it is. The Zorro battle carrier.

'The Zorro Battle Carrier is one of the main ships used in the Terran Covenant. Though it's outdated compared to today's ships even for the Terran Covenant. The ship has still very good use in spec ops missions. Mostly to assassinate high-profile targets. This is due to the ships now new low profile compared to the new ships being manufactured to date.'

Umm, that's not good, not good at all."

I looked out the window and the ship has moved on, but I think we're not in a good spot. I left the room and joined the boys. Mark was telling Abram the last place he saw Cronos, then they both noticed me entering the room. Mark was to first to respond to my entry. "Sweetie come on in and take a seat, tell us what's wrong."

I took my seat and showed Abram what I saw. He looked at me with the scariest of faces. "Mark it was nice talking to you. Do you have a ship we can use?"

Mark got up and handed Abram some keys and told us to follow him. "The end days are coming you two. I wish I wasn't around to see this, but it's going to happen. It's better to be me then in you guy's shoes right now. Hurry head to Earth, find out what those T.C. scumbags are up to. I wish to best to you Abram, in finding your father."

The ship was covered up in a massive tarp. "She might be old on the outside, but my adventuring days are over, she's yours. Just don't put her in full throttle until you get away from here."

We hopped in and gave Mark a warm hug and thanked him for helping us. Abram got the ship going and as soon as we left the Zorro was on top of the ranch. Then a bright light flashed, and… Mark was gone, he's gone. Abram was bawling, but we had no time for mourning. I patted his back, "Abram now I understand what you're fighting for."

I never had so much emotions going through my body. Is this what a human fills when the situation in not in your control. We headed out of Titan and the Terran Covenant we're surrounding Titan. Abram started putting the ship in full throttle, and we were off.

Abram got up from his seat and looked back on Titan, "The place where I grew up as a kid when both my parents died. Titan has fallen, the third Terran war has begun. My search for my father can wait for now. We need to find out what's about to happen to this universe, and to our dimensions. Earth will lay the key to victory, once the dimensions are align. I can't promise you any good from it. I hope my father has something important on Earth."

I gave Abram a hug, and promised to stay next to him to the end.

Chapter 19: Scorched Earth

It was a 14 hour journey to Earth, I've advice Twilight that we need to get some sleep before we get to Earth and Lunar Eclipse. I put the ship into autopilot and headed off to the bunks. Twilight set herself up on the right side bunks, and I occupied the left flank of bunks. Before I went to bed, I read the news tabloids on what happened to Titan. It was grim but Titan was saved for another day. The Terran Covenant said they had no involvement in the attack, but they did put a statement out that the ship was retired from service and was reported missing to the Alliance of Planets. The other ships were unknown to them, maybe one of the pirate groups they were tracking and lost them through a warp space. The Israel Syndicate didn't believe that the other ships were a pirate group, but they do believe about the Zorro Class battle cruiser gone missing. I had my own doubts but it didn't explain why Marx Yugo was targeted.

The trip to Earth was smooth and easy trip, I woke up first to see where we're at. I got to the cockpit and saw Earth and Lunar Eclipse. The system now has a foggy look to it, as if it was hit by a fog machine. The reason for the look is due to a comet exploding right between Earth and Eclipse. Causing a ring of gas between the two systems that will last forever and won't get pulled in by Earth's gravity. I wanted to wait for Twilight to wake up before we landed. Then I heard a scream, "Twilight!"

I went back to the bunks and I have noticed that Twilight turned human. Twilight look over and saw me and flinched back and covered herself with a blanket. "Don't look at me I'm hideous!"

Laughing to myself, I decided to turn human myself. "Twilight, you're not hideous. Get the blanket off of you, you silly girl."

Not knowing if she knew I was doubting or not. Uncovered herself from the blanket. My jaw dropped, her skin was normal white but her hair was the color of her mane and tail. Her clothing matched her body color as a pony. On her skirt was her cutie mark on both sides, just like she was as a pony. Her face flushed, "I told you I was hideous Abram!"

Snapping out of it, "No Twilight, your amazing, outstanding, I got no words to describe how wonderful you look. Umm, did you ever walk on two feet before?"

Twilight now feeling confident, "Yes, but I never turned this color as a real human, I thought I looked hideous, then I looked at you and you had the same skin color as me."

I was flushing Irish red, the last time I did this was when I met my wife for the first time. Sad to see her go though. "Well…Lack of words, but humans skin color only contrast from black to white due to genetics. Your case however, your defaulted to white. Now why you turned human is because you're in the center of my dimension."

Twilight looked satisfied with the answer I gave her, but when we got to the cockpit she gasped when she saw Earth and Lunar Eclipse. "How beautiful, never saw anything like this."

"She's a beaut but the surface of the Earth is a whole different story. Get ready for touchdown."

I landed the ship at the same place where Ron and I landed when we went back in time. The area looked remote, but I got a funny feeling it won't be the same. Once we passed through the atmosphere, the land looked like it was scorched by a firestorm. A massive crater formations are seen from a far. "I hate to be on the surface when the major religions left this place in 2562 A.D., Twilight we must be very careful here. I don't know what to suspect anymore once we land."

She looked at me with a sadden look. "Abram, what will happen if the Terran Covenant get to Equestira?"

I hate breaking it to her, but I'm looking at the example. "It will look like this Twilight, but your people won't be on it luckily. The Paradigm Republic are good allies with my father. There the ones who separated me from my family to prevent an earlier end. I looked my dad's journal and they built a ship for evacuating large populace's, and my father gave them the idea in the first place. Don't worry Twilight you have two homes now, they already set up the future of our people."

She looked down with that grim reality in her head. "Ok, so your enemies are worse than I thought." I interrupted her in correction.

"No Twilight, the monster in this dimension is sin. There is no good nor evil in humans. It's their actions that tell that tell, we say what we think is right from wrong. We're just the poor fools in the middle of this. If Adam and Even didn't fall from Eden then none of this wouldn't happened, but Satan has his way and this is how it turned out."

She looked at me and looked back at the Earth. "Just like I read in the book of religions, all men have sinned against your God. He is just, he's not good nor evil. He's justified in his actions. If Adam and Eve didn't eat the apple from the tree then none of this wouldn't happened."

Once we're closer to the surface, I've noticed abandoned charred buildings. We must have landed in Jerusalem. I see an open plaza big enough to land at. We touched down and the ground started to crack due to massive weight of the ship. Twilight and I got our stuff and got off the ship.

The air was choked the smell of burnt earth and clouded with ash. I grabbed Twilight's hand and we moved off to a greener pasture just down the street from here. The sound of crumbling buildings filled our ears. The ground sounded like crunching bones as we walked along. Search drones pop out every now and again in the distance, often followed by terraformers regenerating the land to its natural state.

I pulled out my GPS and my dad's journal. He wrote down a way to get to the Terran Military Headquarters just up in Lebanon without being caught. I looked at Twilight and told her that we'll set up camp at a green zone just outside of town. She agreed and made our way out. Then a building collapse behind us, we both looked back and saw a mech walking along in the opposite direction from where we're heading. "Abram, what was that?"

"I haven't seen that in years, they gotten really big. Twilight that is a Mech unit, they are vehicles that walk not roll or levitate. They are used for everything, including war. The quad-walkers can support multiple weapon systems that can bring massive chaos to whoever imposes it. We defiantly need to get to the green zone now. Luckily I can still use my powers, but I don't know about you though. Can you use your powers here?"

Twilight was having that same question, and she gave it a try. Her hands began to glow and POW! "I guess I could use my magic here, but how can this be. When I went through the magic mirror I lost my powers. Hmm!"

"Well, Twilight let's don't question it. Let's use our telekinesis and teleport to the green zone."

Chapter 20: Cryptic Heart

The green zone, what's green about it. Abram was just as surprised as I was. He looked on his hand-held gadget and proved that we're in the green zone. "Abram, why do they call this the 'Green zone' when it's not even green or has anything green in it."

He looked at me with the same look I had. "Twilight, the military set up these zones. It means it's a safe zone, nothing more or less. Luckily for us, it's just a straight shot to the base. Military presence will be higher as we closer to this Cryptic Heart they call a base. More like a death camp than anything else. We must keep our eyes peeled and get some better clothing on to blend in. Fortunately for us, I brought these ninja suits. These suits can blend into the scenery like a chameleon. They won't even see us coming. I don't want us to use magic unless we absolutely have to. The reason will tell itself if we do. Let's get ready before it gets dark."

He handed me a suit and I put it on. It feels tight but it's very flexible and I can at least breathe. Once the suit was completely on it turned invisible, just like Abram said. Genius! Next I put on the helmet and it also turned invisible. Then Abram ran in and I can still see him. "There you are Twilight forgot to mention, the helmet allows us to see each other while invisible, also we can only talk to each other and nobody else can hear us. The suit provides us with oxygen so we don't choke to death. Now! Let's go!"

We charged down the road to the military base. The scenery started to have some life to it. The buildings weren't charred, the roads weren't cracked or even covered with ash. As though nothing has never happened. The base was getting closer to plain view. Now I can tell that we're on a highpoint in the city, behind us was nothing but darkness and in front of us was nice clear skies with green pastures. The base was near a canyon and it stands out perfectly.

Abram kept pushing on, at some points we we're sprinting over buildings till we got to the base. Once there, the only thing that stands in our way was a massive wall lined with barbed wire. Abram didn't look scared to climb it, or he just simply walked pass the guards and we walked right on in.

Inside the main building was made of marble and glass. Abram suggested they did this so you can hear and see what everybody was doing. We kept going down the same hallway until we got to a single large steel door. The door was twice my height and from the looks very thick. Abram suggested we use a little magic to walk through the door or we can find the key to it. I looked around and made my suggestion. "How about the air vents?"

He looked up and agreed to the idea. He boosted me up so I can go unlock the door from the other side. The plan was working well, until I was alone on the other side of the door. I grabbed the handle to the door and nothing happened. "Abram, the door is broke?"

"Well then, Twilight you on your own but I'll give you guidance on what to do. First look around you to make sure no one is there."

I stepped back and took a detailed look, only file cabinets and book selves as far the eye can see. "Room is all clear Abram."

"Good, now the way most military bases handle their information is from most recent to distant passed, look at the dates on the top right of the papers or on the plaques. Today's date is July 3rd, 3002. You'll have your time to concentrate a bit, I'll find another way to get in that room. If anything happens, use your magic."

I started my search, for the most recent dates. A simple search for the right date turned into a 3 hour nightmare. I've started hearing noises in the room, like a very dull heartbeat. Boom, boom…Boom, boom in a very repetitive way. Then I'll start hearing my heart pounding. Oh, the agony. I kept calm and continued my search. I was on the 882nd row and bingo! I found the most recent date. I've open the drawer and pulled out a large piece of paper. I've opened it up and it was a map with lines and arrows on it. Then I was interrupted by an opening of a door. I quickly stuffed the map back in and moved to the next row. I peeked over and saw five soldiers. They noticed the vent was pushed out and went looking around for someone. I didn't quite give them the chance though. I use my magic to knock out the lights to the room. Next I blew up one of the guards grenades then took one of them and threw it at others. Easy termination with extreme prejudice. Abram would be proud that I can take care of myself.

I took the map and folded it into the suits pocket, and left the room. "Abram I got the goods!"

"That's good to hear, now do you want the good news or bad news."

I was confused on the question but I had no choice. "Bad news first?"

"Umm, I'm stuck between two platoons of soldiers and robots. Good news is that, we can definitely use our magic now."

Then a series of explosions were heard in the distance. Then the lights went red and soldiers poured out every which way. I used my magic to fire upon the battalion in front of me. What I didn't know was that the room next the archives was the armory. A loud thunderous sound rocked the building to its core. Before I can react, I was flown against the wall and a massive pain came running up my right arm. I tried moving it and it was only pain. I limped out of the room and the massive iron door was blown smooth open. "Abram I need your help? The door is open."

The next thing I knew, everything went dark. I can still feel what's going on around me but I can't open my eyes due to the pain I was feeling. I heard my name, and some fighting going on all around me. Then I felt someone picking me up, but it wasn't hands it was a pair of hoofs. "Hang on Twilight, I got your back."

We took off and he teleported us back to the ship…well I hope so anyways. I'm hearing a loud noise following us, I manage to open my eyes and see Abram as a pony and I look up and a massive ship was chasing us. "Twilight, umm, I can't seem to get far enough from the ship to make our escape."

"Abram, can you use your time magic?"

"Yes, but it takes too long to get going, it requires perfect concentration."

"Abram Watch OUT!"

We got hit by falling debris, and landed in a very cozy patch of grass. Abram was knocked out and I can't move without blacking out. A group of soldiers came and took us prisoners. I woke up the next morning and saw Abram chained to the wall. The cell itself was dull and grey. No window, no nothing. Just a big square box. I looked at my hand and noticed that it's not broken anymore, and no pain when I try to move it. Abram started to wake up. "Oh, what happened?" in a painful tone.

"We got hit by debris from a nearby building, and hit you in the head."

"Well at least we're alive, how's your arm doing?"

"I think it's healed, I don't know how that happened."

He looked up at me and was amazed as well. "Now the better question is, how long we've been here. Even with the best medical technology, that can't happen overnight."

Looking back at my arm, I kind of tell he was right. Then the door started to melt.

"Abram, what's going on with the door?"

He looked at the door and he started to freak out. "I don't know, I'm pretty sure a door does not do that on a ship."

The door melts through. The room is filled with smoke and a shadow figure walked in. I can't tell who it its. Abram's voice broke the drama of who it is. "Spike!"

"Spike how did you get here?"

"Guys calm down, I stowed myself in both of the ships. I can't help but to worry about Twilight's safety. I don't know how I'll live without knowing, and I still don't trust that guy."

Abram didn't seem insulted but agreeing with him. "Honestly Spike, I don't blame you. I would do the same thing. Right now I got us both in a tight spot."

Spike looked at both of us and told us what happened when we crashed. "So there I was. Getting out the ship and following you guys. You two were talking about a base and a green zone of some sorts, which in my opinion wasn't even green. Then I saw the base you were talking about Abram. I got on top of the roof. You guys sat there for a while so I took a nap. I woke up and you guys disappeared. I looked at the base and BOOM! Explosions went off everywhere. I was worried sick, then a flash of light went by me and landed on a far roof. It was a pony but I can't really tell. Then I saw Abram fly out of the base with you on his back. You guys were moving it to, but the ship stayed right on you guys. The ship shot the building I was on and knocked out a massive chunk of it, and it hit you guys. Then another flash, came up and it was the same pony that was on that roof. He looked just like Abram, but a tad bit older. Then a smaller ship came out and nine to 12 soldiers came out and picked you guys up. I jumped off the building and sneaked on board. Once the ship landed, a guy on a red horse came up and told them to lock you guys up. I followed and waited till you guys were awake. I didn't watch who came in out of the cell, but the flashes of light kept happening every six hours."

Abram and I were curious what the flashes were, we looked at each other and said "Cronos!"

It's the only other explanation for the flashes of light. "Spike get us out of these chains quickly, and don't worry about burning us."

Spike without question burnt the chains off and we got loose. Abram came up with a plan to take over the ship. It was easy for him, but not for me. "Twilight, they will kill us, it's either kill, or be killed."

I lashed back at him screaming. "Why do your people want to kill to get things done? I was never taught to do that. We fight and until one side gives in. We don't fight to exterminate anyone." Then Abram started glowing blue again, and he woke back up and came to my side of the view. This is not the first time he did this. He's done this twice back at that his father's ruins. It seems that every time I'm in distress or in any negative mood he does that.

"Abram, let me take in charge in what we're about to do. Ok."

"Ok, Twilight lead the way." In a very weak tone.

"Abram, you need to get your emotions settled, every time you get out of control… it worries me to death about you. Spike please help me keep an eye on him, and watch our backs."

Spike nodded and went to a spot to watch over us.

I went back and laid next to Abram. "Now do you have any better ideas that won't get us killed?" I heard his heart beat calm down, then I looked where my hand is at and saw a ring with the same normal color as me on his body. Ok, maybe there's more to this story than I thought.

He started to turn back into a human, and started to cry. I hugged him tightly, so he'll know I'm there for him. "Twilight, my heart is confused. I want to fight like a human, but you pull me back into my senses and spare many. I don't know what will happen if you're not there beside me. It's like you wake this cryptic heart of mine."

What I didn't see coming was the kiss of thanks he gave me, but do I dare kiss back. I quickly looked up at Spike and he waved me on to do it, so I did. We looked and smiled, but out of nowhere the ship rocked violently. Abram, was not afraid of what's happening. "Turbulence, we must be heading north towards Europe. We need to take over the ship now, but don't worry, there won't be any death at all with this plan."

Then time flew still, Abram and I can walk like we normally would. We simply walked up to a whole bunch of guards and Abram teleported them to the jail cells. We went around the ship and repeated the process until everybody was detained. Then an ear-splitting noise came upon me and time went back to normal. Abram grabbed my hand and carried me to where he can control the ship. Spike came running right behind us to see if we're ok. "Now we can go home everybody, we got what we need to defend Equestria." He sat me down and went to the controls.

Chapter 21: Past Curfew

Once I got everybody settled down, I grabbed the controls and released the jail cells. Now we can go home. I went back in time to when we came back from Equestria and teleported us there…well that's confusing. The ship went back through the warp space without a hitch and landed in the desert near a town named Apple Loose. I looked back at Twilight and she turned back into an Alicorn. My face flushed, and went back to her. "We're back home Twilight. Let's go, I see the train station over there."

The town of Apple Loose was kinda antique. Had saloons everywhere, and the whole old west theme. Twilight was happy to be herself and advised us to get some rest on the train back to Ponyville. We hopped on board and found ourselves a nice comfortable place to sit and nap. Spike was still giggling about what happened and made an honest remark. "You two will be perfect together, but I'll keep it a secret if you want me too."

Twilight looked at him with a blushed face. "Please keep it a secret Spike, we don't want any unwanted attention, and you know what? I'll give you some gems when we get home."

She leaned against me and slept with a smile on her face. For me, I wasn't really tired, neither was Spike. "Hey, Spike,"

"What?" he answered.

"Do you have that nagging feeling that something weird is about to happen once we get to Ponyville?"

He nod with a yes. "But what is it, is the question Abram?"

"I think we're going to have more than just a warm welcome." Three to four hours past and Ponyville was in sight. I've noticed that the Pegasus were in a flight pattern and diving out of the sky. Once they got to a certain altitude they pulled up and did it again. I wasn't the only one watching this, Spike came to my side and watch the exercises being performed. "Abram what are they doing?"

"High possibly my son is teaching them how to dive bomb."

Spike looked at me with confusion. "Why do they need to learn that?"

"When the dimensions lock Spike, a massive warp will form and we can see Earth from the skies. What we're trying to do is to prepare for any invasion that the T.C. might throw at us when it does happen. We need to get to Ron as quickly as possible, once the train stops."

It took another hour before we got to the station. I rubbed Twilight awake and we got ready to leave the train. I looked at Spike, and he nodded on what we're about to do. Though it might be slower on my part, Twilight doesn't know what we're doing yet. "Ready Twilight, we got a lot of things to do and little time to spare." With little time is right, we got one week days to prepare for the dimensional lock.

The trip back to the base was quite…romantic. Spike ran ahead of us so we can goof off as we headed up. Once we got there though, Celesta and Ron were waiting for us. Celesta was the first one to speak. "Where did you two go? I was worried sick about you Twilight! Come with me Twilight, we need to take this discussion elsewhere."

I put my arm out to stop Twilight, she looked at me with a worried face. "Celesta, it was my fault. I needed Twilight to help me with a something. If you're going to punish someone, it should be me." Twilight hugged me tight as I could and Ron saw the big picture.

Ron turned to Celesta with a grin on his face. "Celesta let me handle this. I think it's time for my approach to punishment."

Celesta agreed with Ron and went back to her post. Ron look back at us. "Abram, I knew you liked Twilight, let's go to the lake. I need to give you two a lesson about love." With little doubt Ron was going to preach from the bible or tell about his war stories. Well that only means that Twilight and I can spend more time together. Then I notice small changes with Equestria. The land was starting to get a dark vibrant color scheme. Which looks more like my dimension. The water started to lose its lustful blue color and turned into a glassy clear color. Twilight was looking at me and notice something was up. "Abram what are you looking at?"

I look down at her. "Look at your world, its changing texture."

She looked out and gasp. She laid her head against my chest when she noticed. "Abram tell me one thing. What will happen in the end?"

"We escape with all the ponies on this land."

"Then where do we go then?"

"To the world that Cronos has set up for us."

Twilight was confused. "How do you know Abram, you told me that you haven't seen him since you were eight years old. For our sake, tell me one thing? Do you know where we're heading?"

I looked back shocked, I don't know what to say. The best answer I can give her is I don't know, but she knew. "Twilight, I don't know what to say, but before we start doubting, let's head back to the base. Ron are you coming?"

Ron looked back and saw us worn out. "Yeah, that sounds like a good plan, I think Celesta has calmed down now."

Chapter 22: Abram's Temptation

I woke up this morning with a frightening voice ringing in my ears. Twilight was still sound asleep on the opposite bed. I got up and left the room with little noise from my hooves. The noise kept getting worse and worse. Kept on repeating, "Abram, Abram, Abram." By the time I got to the mess hall, I had enough and screamed. "WHAT DO YOU WANT?" It was so loud that I woke up everybody. The voice kept getting louder and louder. I pressed my back against a corner and covered my ears. The first people to enter the room were Joseph and Vince. Their faces said it all, Joseph was to first to approach, "Abram, don't give in to Satan's temptations or any other demon. We'll try our best to help you, but no one will understand what's going on with you. Good luck."

He turned around and gave Vince a nod to block the doors. The voice suddenly changed rhythm, "Abram, you have the power to take over Equestira, and even better; the universe as a whole." I shake my head violently and knocked over some chairs. I'm now on my back on the floor. The voice gotten even more frightening, "Your friends don't care about you. They only fear you." Without even knowing it, I was talking out loud.

"No, my friends do care about me, and I care for them."

"Don't be a fool Abram, after you learn your true power. Your friends became frighten with fear and anger. They lie to you…"

"NO! That's not true!"

Then Vince's face changed from a worried face to an evil look. It started talking the same way the voice in my head was. "WHAT ARE YOU?" I fired a spell at Vince and he dodged and his face turned back to normal. I have to get of here. I ran into the hallway and all my friends were standing, looking at me in the face. Twilight my love came rushing forward, but Vince intercepted her. "Twilight stay back, this is definitely not a good time to help him."

Twilight was shocked, "Why not…"

I was not distracted for long, the agonizing voice came back louder than ever. "Who is this? This girl doesn't give a wooden nickel about you, she almost killed you twice already!"

"I will not listen to you?" My voice screeched.

"Abram, you can be ruler, you can be king, you can more than what you're doing now."

"Stop it you devil!"

"You can twist time to fit your needs, take whatever you want, when you want it."

I looked back up and everybody was backing up. Twilight and Vince were nowhere to be seen. Then I looked down and saw them on the ground with my hoofs on their necks. I let go and teleported outside. The voice was relentless and gotten deeper. "You could've saved them, before it ever happened. You could've put an end to this mess before it was even thought of. You wasted your time with these fools and that father of yours."

My face felt livid. "What do you mean by that?"

"It's obvious Abram, you wasted your time, fixing that dumb machine when your father obviously left you. He didn't want anything to do with you. He didn't even like you. He thought of you as a distraction to his work…"

"Show yourself you foul demon."

"Your own mother even criticized you for marring that girl and letting her die and leaving your son injured."

"She's dead!"

"Abram now you see what you have done. If you weren't so caught up with your father's work, she would've lived. Your son wouldn't be hurt."

"Sadly for you, I won't give in."

"WHAT!" The voice screamed and black cloud formed in front of me.

"You heard me, now leave me alone!"

The voice laughed and snarled at me, and eyes started to appear out of this dark entity. "Abram, I don't want to tempt you anymore. I want to kill you."

The entity teleported me back inside and blew out all the lights, except for the lights above my friend's heads, and me. The cloud then attacked my friends and turned the skin dark and turned their eye color blood-red. Even Twilight was taken by this cloud. The only ones left was Joseph and I. Then the lights turned off completely, and Joseph's voice rang with pain. The light came back on and he was chained to the wall. I, on the other hand was surrounded by: Vince, Ron, Cloud, Discord, Crystal, Jane, Twilight, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Apple Jack, Pinky Pie, Celesta, and finally Candace.

Joseph's voice rang out. "Abram don't give in!"

Next a fiery flame came running up and down my spine. Vince was the first to jump, and I smacked him in the face and he crashed face first into the all. I made my escape through there and the others followed in pursuit. My next move teleported and kicked Rainbow Dash all the way down the hallway, and ended it with Apple Jack being power-driven into the ground. I got hit by Cloud and Celesta in the rib and flew into the wall. Discord fired a spell at me and I got out-of-the-way.

I recovered and fired ray spell and the room filled with a bright blue light. I let go of the energy and hit all but Twilight and Cloud. All of the sudden, they began multiplying in front of me. 20 Twilight's were now in front me and 10 Clouds. How can I hurt the ones I love the most. I teleported out of the base again to only find myself on top of a mountain. I turned around and I found… "Jessica!"

Her entity was ghostly, but she didn't take long to notice my presence. "Abram Yugotav, now I get my chance to kill you after all these years."

Obviously, I totally missed something. I got into a good battle stance and fired a spell at her. She disappeared and came back as a physical pony. She was still ghostly and had a reddish hue to her skin. She was a unicorn by the looks, but less time to think. Bam! I was hit dead on and flew across the mountains. I didn't get the chance to recover, and hit a cliff and fell into the river below.

I can tell the time was late when I woke back up. The sky was blood-red, but I looked at my watch and I was only out for 12 minutes. I ran to a high point and saw that I was very far away from the base. I don't know what's going to happen, but I need to defeat Jessica. The word how is now the question. All my friends are either tied up or possessed. I can sneak back in and get my dad's list of spells. Wait, it's not at the base at all. I left it in the Zorro. Oh I hate using time magic but here goes nothing.

The time bubble formed around me, but I can see something out of the ordinary. Animals only show up blue, and what shows up like demons are red. Never knew I can do that, hmm. The red vapor trail leads to the Zorro, that's not a good thing. I flew as fast as I could to the ship and once I got there… "Whoa! The whole ship is possessed. Only thing that's not red is the book." I need to act quickly, and teleported to the book. "Gotcha…"

A voice crept up behind me. "Very good Abram, now will you die."

"Wait? You're not effected by time spells?"

"Abram you silly man, I'm dead, and no longer effected by time, I got all the time I need to do whatever I want. I'm also guessing you have all the time you want."

"I love chatting with you babe but… you tied to the ship by the way and I'm not." I jumped out the window and fired a reaction spell to the nuclear engines in the middle of the ship. With a split second to spare, I use a shielded sonic rainboom and got out of there. I wasn't fast enough though and got caught up with the explosion. The shear force knocked me smooth out and I woke up next to a river. I can still see the massive nuclear cloud rising in the air. I got up and turned around to see that I'm very close to Ponyville. "Man the ship was 100 miles away, how in the world did I end up this close to Ponyville."

I looked down at the river and saw that the current was flowing from the explosion. "Hmm, that explains everything. Now can I get some sleep?" Then I heard a bunch of familiar voices coming from the town. "Abram!" I just sat there and they came up. I was tearing up and that's all I can do about it.

"It's ok Abram, just breathe; just breathe."

I open my eyes and noticed that it was Twilight. Everybody else was watching the explosion in the background. "Well my father knows how to fix loose ends without making a mess, I think I need to do that too."

Everybody turned with a scared look. Twilight and Ron thought of the same thing and said. "What do you mean by that?"

"Oh it was just my dead wife trying to kill me, that's all."

Ron and Cloud knew about my past better than anyone here, but everybody was confused. "Yes, I had a wife in the past, but what I didn't know was that she didn't give a wooden nickel about me nor my son. That explosion finally and hopefully put an end to her madness. Now I can move on, with no regrets. No one trying to take me from my friends or try to kill them in process. She was tricky but not good enough. With this book now in my hands. I can learn everything my father knew and more. I also want to apologize to all of you for anything I might have done to you. You're now my family, and I want a fresh start. Twilight, I want to talk to you once we get back, I got the book."

The group gave me a hug and they started on their way back to the damaged base. Twilight waited with me and we headed off last shoulder to shoulder. Then she looked back and saw the book I was talking about. "Abram, better yet! Let's go to my castle. It has a nice and quiet reading area. We can look at the book in peace and no distractions."

"Sounds like a good plan Twilight, the last thing we need is anymore distractions."

We agreed and headed off to her castle in Ponyville. Then the voice came back, "Abram you fool!" This time it wasn't just me that heard it. Twilight started looking franticly around for the voice, but I had a bad suspension. "Twilight don't touch the book."

The voice returned and taunted both of us. "You'll pay… YOU WILL ALL PAY!"

I took off my satchel that was handling the book and a flash of bright red light beamed from it when it touch the ground. Then a shadow figure flew out and landed in front of us. It was Jessica! Then three more flashes of light and came three more ponies. One was black as night, another was white as a dove, and the last one was silver. They surrounded us and shot both of us with a vision.

"You two will be fortunate, as evil will come all at once. Next the dimensions will lock and the warp space between the two will cease to exist. Three factions will fight both in Equestira and on Earth. Both will be destroyed and Abram's father will lead you to your new home."

Twilight's voice rang out. "When is this going to take place?"

Jessica giggled, "Abram just started it when he got the book. Just look up."

We both looked up and saw Earth forming dead center in the evening sky. Next, what really shocked me? I heard the jump drives of numerous ships in the distance. "Umm, Twilight we need to go…NOW!"

Chapter 23: The End

Abram and I were running as fast as we could to the base in the mountains. The trip started to become dire as we got close to the entrance. The sky turned blood red and the air started to get really hot. Ron was waiting for us at the door and was shouting, "Hurry you two love birds, we don't have all day nor 12 minutes to be exact."

Ron guided us to the war room and it was crowded with all our friends and royalty. The moving picture they call radar is not looking so good. A huge red triangle was pointing in our direction. Abram started giving us instructions to get to the train he modified to get to the Leviathan. "Get everybody in Ponyville on that train!"

Abram, Cloud, and I made our way to the town, to help with the evacuation. After ten minutes we managed to get everybody on board. The train shuttered and we were off. I can see the nanobot fighting them as hard as they could and two of which came to defend the train. I teleported to the top of a peak to see the full picture. "My heartland, being destroyed before my very eyes."

Abram teleported as well, and he brought all of our friends with him. "Twilight, I'm sorry. Your people will never see this land again. It's going to be a dark adventure to my world, but you will have to carve out a new heartland for your people. I hope my father didn't have anything to do with this."

He teleported everybody back to the train. I look up one more time and followed suit. The train is very fast, and I can see the mountains ahead of us. On my right something caught my eye. Abram also noticed it and look at me with a frighten look. "Twilight, get our friends, we got company and it's not going to end well if we don't do something."

I did what he told me and everybody was in the last car on the train. "Ok Abram, got everybody here, what's the plan."

He nodded and gave out his plan. "Ron, Jane, Twilight, and I will be outside watching the enemy in the valley. Vince and Joseph will show everybody else to their positions on the train. Just don't have any cross fire and aim carefully."

Everybody did what their told and my group went on the back railing of the car. Ron and Abram were looking at the objects and their skin turned pale. "What is it guys?"

Abram turn back and spoke, "Greyhounds, you remember that walker on planet Earth. Just this time, it's the elite group."

An explosion above us took out the nanobots who were escorting us to Abram's ship. Jane turned into a two legged walker of some kind of thing and Ron went inside of it. Abram is telling me to assist Ron and Jane, then he just jumped off. I look back to Ron and he gave a nod of faith. I look up and saw a whole bunch of rockets heading right towards us. Quick as a wick, I shot out a force field and protected Ron and Jane. In return, they fired and destroyed the greyhounds that were firing at us. Ron was nervous about something, "Ron what you so nervous about?"

"It's just Abram, every time he goes out and fights… he loses it. I hope he has better control this time."

Another massive explosion, interrupts the conversation. I look in the direction of where the firing might have come from. GASP! "Ron look straight in front of me, what is that."

His voice became frighten, "TITAN , GET DOWN!"

When he said that, massive explosions rang all around us as the cannon fire became fierce. "Ron how do we get rid of them?"

"Get to the Sabro M.A.C. on the next car. You might need to blow off the roof though to get a clear shot."

I went to the next car and three little Phillies were sitting next to the window. "Apple Bloom; Scootaloo; Sweetie Bell? What in Equestira are you doing here?"

The three all started to talk at once, I can't make out what their trying to say. "Never mind, but I need your help with something"

Apple Bloom spoke out, "What is it Twi?"

"I need your help getting this darn thing to work. Can you guys give me a hand?" Without a word, they came over and actually managed to get the machine to work. The car walls and roof, flew off and the gun started to turn. Apple Bloom was manning the controls, Scootaloo had the range finder from the looks, and Sweetie Bell had the sights. I told them where to fire and they did an excellent job. "Keep it up girls, I'll go check on everybody else!"

The next car has only personal belongings, but Spike was now entering the room. "Spike!"

Spike expression of excitement made my day, "Twilight, I've been looking all over for you. Where's Abram by the way?"

"That's what I'm also trying to find out, can't seem to get a good view of what's going on."

"Twilight, let's go back to the caboose, maybe we might get a good vantage point."

"Good idea Spike, let's go."

We got to the car that Jane and Ron are on and I noticed something was wrong. "Ron what's going on?"

He looked towards me and screamed. "Abram is trying something, but I think he's about to lose it. We need to get somewhere safe quick!"

Jane turned back into a Pegasus and we all ran towards the car closest to the tunnel entrance. I picked up the cutie mark crusaders as we went along. Then a bright green and blue light flashed, followed by a loud explosion. The last two cars were blown smooth off and obliterated before our very eyes. When we cleared the tunnel, I looked out into the valley and saw a flashing orb of magic. The sky turned black with green lines imprinted on it. "Ron what is he doing?"

"Honestly Princess, I've never seen him do this before. Usually ends up with the world getting warped to its destruction. Maybe, just maybe, he got his powers under control. He doesn't just control time, he can turn a world to what he wants it to be."

Abram's voice started to creep into our conversation, "I don't know how long I can hold out, you guys are not far from the ship. Keep…"

His voice left our ears with a static discharge and comes back. "Going… Paradigm Fleet is evacuating the…citizens of…this world. I'll keep the T.C. away from you guys, once everybody is on board the Leviathan, that's when I'll return. "

Lighting struck down every hound that was chasing us. Then massive ships appeared over where Ponyville is. Ron was smiling at the sight. "Twilight, reinforcements to the south, your people are getting out of here. Now we must focus on getting out of here."

The mountains began to crumble as the ship appeared. "Ron, let's get on board quickly!" We jumped off the train and ran to the ship. Discord and Cloud opened up the main access areas and a thousand or so ponies got onboard. I waited until Abram showed up, but he didn't show. When, my heart started to give up. A bolt of lightning flashed right in front of me and Abram gave me a kiss on the cheek. "Sorry I was late, kinda forgot how to get out of the spell I cast."

"You silly Philly, let's get out of here."

With the doors now closed, the ship accelerated at a great pace. I looked out a window, and saw my home leave me before my very eyes. "Twilight cover your eyes!" A pair of hoofs covered my eyes and the ship began to rock heavily. The hoofs let go and I saw my world explode. I look up to where Earth will be, but it was falling apart as well. "ABRAM!"

He came running towards me and hugged me tightly. "Abram. Was that the End?"

He giggled, "Twilight, it's now the beginning of a new era for all of us. I know where to send our people. A planet called Alexandria. Forget what my father says, he broke his promise to my God anyways. With my powers under my complete control, I can turn that planet into what you used to living to. Please accept this as marriage proposal for not giving up on me. Will you marry me is the question?"

"How can I say no, you saved my life and countless others? Your heart is above any ones capabilities and you put your friends and family first, before you act on your own behalf."

Chapter 24: Home Sweet Home

After five months of terraforming Alexandria to the Ponies new home; Twilight and I began rebuilding Ponyville. The extra time with each other brought us closer together as a couple. Time will only tear us apart. Hopefully not literally!

[HT1]This part of the chapter is optional, just in case you forgot about something

[HT2]The Song is "Praise you Through this Storm" by Casting Crowns J

Typed the lyrics as I listen to the song, the lag of my processor made some minor to major mistakes to the lyrics.