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// Prologue 
// Story: Shrek Singlehandedly Stops a Conversion Bureau Invasion 
// by Dr_Daggot 
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After months and months of careful planning and waiting, it was finally time.

Celestia had been watching the events in this strange, alternate world for years now, and had made her final decision:  that she and her sister,Luna, would  come and bring their gift of love and friendship to this strange land rather than watch its inhabitants kill each other. It was the only right thing to do, at least in Celestia's mind.

As she strolled down the halls of the extravagant Canterlot palace, she made her final preparations for her very first visit to the other world. She had her speech,  which she entitled her "Declaration of Salvation", memorized word for word. Inside her saddle bag was a sample of the purple potion that her student, Twilight Sparkle had spent countless hours perfecting: a potion that would rid anyone who drank it of their inner demons and their bizarre alien bodies and reconfigure them into a pony devoted to living in harmony with others.


" Sister. It is time. I'm going to be gone for at least three hours, so that means you're in charge around here", Celestia said as she entered Luna's room. Luna already had decided that she would not come, as she had important royal equestrian duties to attend to.

"You're going alone??" Luna asked, surprised that her sister would be going alone to such a bizarre and savage place.            

"If it would make you feel any better, I'll bring the two finest members of the Royal Guard to help keep me out of harm's way."
Celestia said as she called for her two most elite protectors: Captain Cloudfeather and Major Thundershield. 

Luna's concern seemed to fade after that.

"I bid you the best of luck, Sister." Luna said.

"Likewise" Celestia replied.

The three ponies continued onwards to the royal balcony, and when they reached their destination, Celestia warned her guards

"While this teleportation spell will teleport us to this new world, I cannot guarantee what location we will end up in. Be sure to be on your best guard, as we will most likely have to ask for directions. Are you ready to go?"

"Yes, your highness," the two guardsponies replied in unison.

"Very well"

Celestia's horn glowed in a bright, white light and in a flash, and then, the three ponies were gone.



When they reappeared, the ponies immediately felt the cold mud underneath their hooves; it didn't take long for them to realize that they were in a swamp. Almost instinctively, Cloudfeather and Thundershield began to scout out the area. Within a couple minutes, they returned to Celestia to report what they had found.

"Your highness, the tree cover is simply too thick to fly over, but I noticed what looks like a cottage not too far east of here. I recommend that we ask whoever lives here for directions" Cloudfeather suggested to his princess.

"Then let's get to it" Celestia replied.

And with that, the ponies headed eastward into the unknown.

After a short distance of walking, they saw the dwelling that Cloudfeather had saw and continued towards it.

As they kept on walking, Celestia couldn't help but smell something unusual. The smell was faint, yet constant, and was steadily getting stronger. 

It was the smell of..........    onions.