Note: Okay! So, I am posting this early because a few choice (and thus, by extension, totally awesome) people wanted this to show up a little early. I will, however, lay off updating anything tomorrow (a mayhap the day after tomorrow) so anyone who is behind can catch up, and so I can restock my doc manager again.

Dimension: My Little Pony

Planet: Equestria Earth

Specific Location: Ponyville

Time: Five days after the arrival of Miranda

"Wow…" muttered Night Shade as he slowly trotted into Ponyville. He looked around, and was about to move to find a map to the town when he was tackled by a certain pink earth pony.

"Hey! What's going on? Who are you? Oooohhh… You're new. IknowthatbecauseIknoweveryponyinponyvilleandsinceIdon'tknowyouthatmustmeanyou'renew! Hello! I'm Pinkie Pie! Who are you?"

Night Shade gaped and blinked at the pink party pony who was now hopping around him.

"Er… hello? Who… are you?" he managed to say.

"I just said silly! I'm Pinkie Pie! Sundown! Twilight's House! Don't be late!" With that, Pinkie Pie began to bounce away.

"Late for what?" Night Shade yelled out.

"Your welcome-to-Ponyville party!"

With that, Pinkie Pie disappeared around a corner. Night Shade got to his hoofs and shook his head. Twilight's house? Where was that? All the more reason to get a map, he supposed. With that, he went off to Town Square.

The more he walked through town, the more he doubted the demon Malpas's information. This place in no way had been destroyed by Legion's armies. His mind darkening with these thoughts, Night Shade trotted into Mayor Mare's office.

"Hello, young pony. What can I do for you?"

Night Shade smiled a winning smile and said, "Oh, I'm just here for a map, thank you. Are you the mayor?"

The mayor smiled back and said, "Indeed I am. Are you new here?"

Night Shade nodded. "I am. Just moved her from… er… Are these the maps? Thanks!"

He picked one up, and quickly left.

"I've got to think of a good back-story for myself if I want to blend in here."

He flipped open the map and looked it through. After a few moments of scrutinizing it, he determined where this "Twilight's Library" was and looked at the sky. He still had a good few hours before sundown. He looked around, he supposed he would just have to bide his time somewhere. Suddenly, a ringing noise went off in his head, the telepathic intercom was coming back up. Looking around frantically, Night Shade dove into a bush and accepted the link.

"Hey, look, I'm busy," he said, "I can't risk looking like a lunatic here."

"Yeah, cool, but that would be lying otherwise," rang out Franklin's voice.

"Stop it Franklin," said Daniel's voice, "Night Shade, what have you learned so far about that place?"

"Well," replied Night Shade, "I have no idea where Malpas got his information, but this place in no way has been destroyed."

"That isn't good," said Franklin, "Malpas was too scared to be lying, obviously he must have been misinformed."

"I don't know how that is possible," said Daniel, "I mean, he's an arch-demon, all his information comes straight… from… Oh no."

Night Shade rolled his eyed, "Oh, no what?"

"Malpas, as I said, is an arch-demon," replied Daniel, "this means he get his information straight from the telepathic hive-mind, which gets its information straight from Legion, Abbadon, Lord Diablo, Baal, and the Grand Devil. Lord Diablo and Baal are dead, and Abbadon was never involved in any of the Grand Devil's plans. This means…"

"This means Legion purposefully lied to the hive-mind, and thus, by extension, the Grand Devil himself," finished Night Shade, "What could make him do that?"

"Probably nothing," said Franklin, "Which is the most worrying part. Legion is the freaking commander-in-chief of the whole infernal realm, if something forced him into lying… well, that's just not possible."

Night Shade shifted in the bush uncomfortably, "This is reaallllyyy bad. Now that we know Legion has lied to the Grand Demon, now what? Where would Legion be? Where would he go?"

"Who ya' talkin' to?" a voice rang out behind Night Shade.

Night Shade gave a surprised whinny and tumbled out of the bush. As he did, he conjured up a cellphone out of thin air and quickly picked it up.

"Oh, er, I was talking to a friend," said Night Shade as he turned to the source of the voice. It was Apple Blossom, Sweetie Bell, and Scootaloo.

"Oh… Hi! I'm Apple Blossom!" said Apple Bloom, "Who are you?"

"Oh, er… I'm Night Shade."

"Who are you talking to?" said Franklin over the intercom, "Oh no! You're cover has been compromised by little ponies! Attack! Attack!"

"Shut up Franklin," whispered Night Shade, he then looked at the Cutie Mark Crusaders and said, "How… how are you three?"

"Oh, we're just fine, thank you!" said Sweetie Bell brightly, "we were off crusading for cutie marks when we saw you in this bush!"

"What's a cutie mark?" asked Night Shade.

Sweetie Bell's pupils shrunk. "Oh no… it's on your flank. Do we have to explain this to everypony?!"

"Oh no, I totally knew that," said Night Shade, grinning, "I was just checking to see if you guys remember. A pop quiz, if you will."

Scootaloo looked at Night Shade's cutie mark, it was a blue lightning bolt encircled with an elaborate eternity circle. "Oh man… you're a dimensional traveler aren't you?"

"How come we are always a runnin' into you ponies! Are you ALL comin' here?" exclaimed Apple Bloom.

"No, I am so totally not a dimensional traveler, in fact, what is that anyway? Nope, no travelers around here, I'm just a pony minding my own business," said Night Shade quickly as he backed away.

Sweetie Bell blinked at him. Then she pointed behind him and yelled, "Oh no! It's Abbadon! He's come to get us! Run!"

Night Shade instinctively conjured up a bolt of kinetic energy and hurled it off behind him. It harmlessly disappeared over the horizon. He turned around sheepishly. "Oh… er, that was magic?"

Scootaloo facehoofed. Night Shade sighed in exasperation, "Okay fine, I'm a dimensional traveler, but I come in peace! Honest! Um… if you don't mind me asking, how do you three know about travelers?"

Apple Blossom smiled, "Oh, we know a mite about them! First we found Sunset Shadow, he was the first traveler to show up, then Flaming Star, then Regal Crescent, then Miranda! Sunset was later followed by that scary demon Abbadon, but Sunset defeated him. Then another giant demon came along, his name was Legion, but Regal Crescent killed him! Sadly… Regal Crescent didn't make it."

There was a moment of silence. Then Night Shade said, "This Regal Crescent… he KILLED Legion?"

"Killed who?" exclaimed Daniel over the intercom. Daniel lifted the phone up to his ears and said, "I can't talk right now, buddy, I need to go." With that, he made a show of turning off the cellphone before terminating the telepathic link. He then looked at Apple Blossom, "Are you saying Legion is dead?"

Scootaloo pulled a face. "We didn't see it, everyone was evacuated, but eventually Sunset told us that Ponyville was safe again, and that Legion was gone. That was about a year ago now."

"Um… woah… I can't believe it… Er, so, um, who is Sunset? Is that his name?" said Night Shade, who was still trying to wrap his head around the death of Legion.

"Oh, his actual name is Joseph Torrus," said Scootaloo happily.

Immediately Night Shade became alert. "Torrus… is still alive? Are you sure?"

Scootaloo nodded. "He sure is! He is a great friend!"

Night Shade just shook his head. "Okay… my head is near exploding now. So, I'm almost dare not ask, who is this Flaming Star?"

Apple Bloom scratched the back of her head with a hoof. "Oh, er… what was his name again? Somethin' weird and long and the likes…"

Sweetie Bell gave her a playful shove, "I know right? I remember it now though, I think it was, er, Abbamal 'Jamie' Sethy or something…"

Night Shade's ears pricked up. "Abimael 'James' Sethson?"

Sweetie Bell nodded vigorously. "That's the one! Abimael… wow, that is a mouthful. I'm so glad he changed his name to Flaming Star."

Night Shade was teetering on the edge of feinting. This was too much. According to these three ponies, Abbadon had been defeated again, Legion was dead, and both Joseph and James were still alive… Wow.

Night Shade shook his head as he tried to clear it. "Wow… just… wow… I cannot believe it. Um, could you three take me to one of them?"

Sweetie Bell frowned. "I don't know… they've been quite busy so far. Something about trouble with other nations at the moment. Flaming is looking for Rainbow Dash… I'm sure we don't want to interrupt him. I don't know where Sunset is. Hey, do you want to hang out with us?"

Night Shade blinked. "Um… okay… I suppose hanging out with you three for a bit wouldn't hurt. I really do need to figure out what is going on. Give me a second, I need to call my buddy, er, Bob, back."

With that, Night Shade pretended to turn the phone on again and reconnected the telepathic link. "Hey, we have a problem," he said.

"There's always a problem," said Franklin.

"Shut up Franklin," said Daniel, "What is it, Night?"

"According to some ponies I've been talking to, dimensional travelers have been here before recently."

There was a short pause, then Daniel said, "Okay… weird. Who were they? Do you know?"

"That's where it gets weird," said Night Shade, "The dimensional travelers who are here are James and Joseph."

There was another pause, but this one was a little longer. "Ooookkkaaayyyy… weird. Anything else life-altering like that piece of information?"

"Unfortunately yes," said Night Shade, "Legion is dead, and has been dead for over a year."

There was one last pause, this one twice as long as the previous one. "Well… I'm going to have to think about that one," said Daniel, "Could you find a way to verify all that information while we secure our new base?"

"Will do leader," said Night Shade, "I was just about to hang out with the three ponies. See you later."

"Wait… what?" interjected Franklin as Night Shade began to disconnect, "Hang out with ponies? What-"

Night Shade rolled his eyes and closed the phone as he disconnected the link. He then turned to the CMC, who were looking at him curiously and grinned. "Okay! I have the rest of the day. I have to go to some 'welcome-to-Ponyville' party thingy at, um, Twilight's library or something at sundown though."

Sweetie Bell winked. "Pinkie Pie found you, didn't she? We know where that is! We can take you there when it is time!"

Night Shade nodded his head. "Thanks! Soooo… what's there to do around here?"

"Let me tell you, Night Shade!" said Scootaloo, "There is so much to do here! Let's start with Sweet Apple Acres!"

With that, the four trotted off, the Cutie Mark Crusaders talking to a dumbfounded Night Shade faster than rain fell from the sky during a deluge.

For the next couple of hours, the CMC showed Night Shade all the best hangout spots, where the best milkshakes were, and where to hide from Rarity if you messed up one of her dress designs. Night Shade at first was simply confused with everything that was going on, but he eventually got the hang of it all, and actually began to enjoy himself.

Dimension: Looking For Group

Planet: Earth

Specific Location: The forest of Nestorep

Time: A couple of days after the arrival of the Brother's In Arms corps

Daniel turned to Franklin as the telepathic intercom link was terminated with Night Shade.

"This is bad," he said.

"I'll say," replied Franklin, who was cleaning his sniper rifle, "It looks like we have to sit here making sure we don't get ambushed in the future by demons while Night gets to prance about in a rainbow-filled land with a bunch of new pony friends! I mean, talk about unfair!"

Daniel rolled his eyes. "No, I'm talking about this issue with Legion."

Franklin nodded. "Ah, yes, that is a problem. It looks like not only did Legion lie about destroying the dimension, he also died. And since he was the only one who could possibly lie to the hive mind about this situation, we can only assume he double-crossed the Grand Demon just before dying at the hand of these ponies. That doesn't make sense, what could be so important to Legion that he would indirectly protect the creatures that killed him by lying to his greatest superior?"

Daniel returned the nod. "Exactly," he said, "That is what worries me. Is it possible that something coerced Legion into doing this? So much so that he cared not even at the doorstep of death what would happen to him, only to carry out this new… plan?"

Franklin finished cleaning the sniper rifle and stood up. He balanced the thing on his shoulder. "Yepper! That's what it all looks like. And what about this issue with Joseph Torrus and the firstborn still being alive?"

"That's weird too," said Daniel as he continued to shore up the camp with photon-reflecting energy shields and dark matter pitfalls, "We were told by traveler database that they had died. This means that the database is either inaccurate, or being tampered with."

"You know what I think?" said Franklin, who was always more than happy to state his opinion, "I think we need to get over to that My Little Pony universe, cootie filled or not, and figure what the hell is going on. If Torrus or the firstborn is there, we will be able to get answers from them."

Daniel, not taking his eyes off the lightning wire he was conjuring in a large perimeter, then said, "I agree. Let's finish the last of these defenses and get there. We have no time to lose. If something is going on where Legion is being forced to lie to his superior and something is tampering with the traveler database, then we have a major multiverse upset coming on, and we need to figure out when it is going to get worse."

Franklin snorted. "I think it's already 'getting worse,' Daniel," he said, "Remember the weird shapeshifting, power-adapting creatures from another multiverse? That was where the worse got worse, the worse is just being upgraded to worst now. Soon it will be more worst, then most worst, then most most worst…"

"That's right, those creatures," said Daniel, "Well, we are sort of in luck then. If the firstborn is there, perhaps we together can shed light on what is going on now."

Franklin winked, "Sure you can! We all know how well you two get along!"

Daniel sighed. "Yeah, well, we have no other choice. Let's get going."

Franklin conjured up a gas mask and placed it on his face. He then gave Daniel a thumbs-up. Daniel rolled his eyes, seized the mask, vaporized it, and opened a portal to the My Little Pony dimension.

Franklin rolled his eyes back at Daniel and jumped through the portal. Giving the place one last look-over, Daniel too turned to the portal and jumped through.

Dimension: My Little Pony

Planet: Equestria Earth

Specific Location: Ponyville

Time: Five days after the arrival of Miranda

"You just have to watch out for Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon," said Sweetie Bell as she trotted along with Night Shade, Apple Bloom, and Scootaloo, "Those two are trouble. Are you sure you're not allowed to even use a LITTLE of your powers on them?"

Night Shade snorted, half-amused, half-annoyed. "Sorry, Sweetie Bell," he said with a wink, "No-can-do."

"Oh! And here is Twilight's Library!" said Scootaloo as the approached the large tree-cottage, "This is where Miranda is staying. I think Fluttershy is in there as well! Let's see if she is in!"

Apple Bloom rapped a hoof against the door and said, "Hello?"

The door opened. It was Sunset. "Oh! Hey Apple Bloom! Hey Scootaloo! Hey Sweetie Bell! Who is this?"

Night Shade recognized Joseph Torrus. His pupils shrunk, and he flattened his ears. Despite the rumors of Torrus turning his back on crime, the atrocities he had committed three years ago still held a terrible place in his most traveler's hearts.

"This is Night Shade!" said Sweetie Bell brightly as she gave Sunset a huge hug.

Sunset smiled kindly at him. "Well, hello Night Shade!" he said, "It is so nice to meet you! I'm Sunset Shadow."

Night Shade looked at Sunset curiously as he gave each of the CMC a hug. Was this the Torrus he had last seen, burning down a city? Impossible.

"Torrus?" he said, "Are you really changed?"

Sunset blinked. He then noticed the cutie mark with the eternity circle. "You're a dimensional traveler."

Night Shade chuckled nervously. "Um… yeah."

Suddenly Sunset recognized Night Shade. "Oh my god! Night Shade! YOU'RE ALIVE!"

With that, Sunset seized Night Shade in a hug. "The Paradox prodigy! It's so nice to see you again! I can't believe this! This is wonderful news!"

Night Shade gaped in surprise. Joseph Torrus was actually happy to see him?

"Um… hi. I really didn't expect all this. Are you really changed?"

Sunset winked. "I sure am. I have a house, a family, and friends. This is literally the best place possible for any pony, or any person. Where is Daniel? Weren't you chilling with him last?"

Night Shade nodded. "Yes, I was. I am actually quite relieved to see you, Torrus, I thought we were the last good travelers!"

Sunset returned the nod, "And I thought Miranda, the firstborn, and I were the only good travelers. This is good news indeed."

Night Shade smiled, feeling relief creep into his heart. He sighed, "Well, that is good. By the way, is Legion really dead?"

Sunset nodded again. "He is. He is dead. However, have you ever heard of the operation called Astrol?"

Night Shade frowned. "I unfortunately did. We dragged it out of an arch-demon. So… you think Legion really double-crossed the Grand Devil?"

Sunset stroked his chin, "I think so… But enough about this! We can discuss this later, I think you have some friends who want to keep giving you the grand tour. Keep close to them, they will prove to be the best of friends any pony could have."

Night Shade was loath to leave the conversation hanging, but the smiles of the CMC convinced him otherwise.

"I'll be back at sundown, there's a pinkie party going on here in my honor, you know," called Night Shade as the CMC dragged him away.

Sunset just grinned. As Night Shade disappeared around a corner, Sunset turned around and trotted back inside of Twilight's house.

"This is interesting," he murmured, "I wonder if Daniel will show up, and maybe even Franklin… Perhaps there is a little bit more good in the multiverse than I previously had hoped… I hope to God that it is… I can only hope…"

Even before Sunset had finished those thoughts, a portal on the other side of town, just outside of the Everfree forest, opened up, and Daniel and Franklin walked through.

Note: The meeting of the dimensional travelers is drawing close! The suspense! Anyhow, keep that feedback coming in!