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// CHAPTER 35 (AKA: For worse or better...) 
// Story: A thing or two about changelings and their habits saga 
// by Young discord 
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A furious swarm of changelings was approaching Canterlot, or the cave entrance to be more precise but the Royal army wasn’t ready yet.
Shining armour was managing the troops
“Come on! is this how much your life’s worth to you?”
The troops were going at full speed, setting up the cathodes and anodes of the contraption that was going to visually display and enlarge the demonstration of the machine, Twilight this time was considerably less stressed as they already tried it out during the pony summit, although this thing was at least a dozen times bigger, it could be seen for miles.
Discord was up in Luna’s tower along with the younger sister and Queen chrysalis, they were to be the backup plan, should the army fail and Celestia was off to retrieve the machine with Mark.
“Well… here it is in all its shiny glory, what do you think?”
“It certainly looks the part but I’m more concerned about it working”
“Oh, don’t worry, it will…”
“That’s not the only thing I’m worried about”
“What, you think it might break? I can assure you I have put in extra-”
“I meant your health Mark, you seem very ill”
“It’s that obvious, huh?”
“I’m afraid so”
“Well… all I can say that it’ll all be fine in the end, trust me”
Celestia carefully lifted the glass domed machine and hovered it to the portal leading back to their world but there was only one problem.
The machine wasn’t going to fit through the portal doors.





Monty and pacifica sat next to each other all alone in a quiet deserted plain, to call this torture would be an understatement of all time.
After what seemed to be an eternity, Monty broke the silence.
“You knew, didn't you”
“...”
Pacifica was all alone now.
“Why didn’t you tell me?”
“Don’t…”
silence.
“What?”
Pacifica’s whispers were barely audible.
“Don’t… leave me…”
Monty could feel a shake.
Then another shake, and a second later another one.
Pacifica was crying, but this time it wasn't just a normal cry, when somepony cries, they cry loudly and honestly to let those feelings out, to let others know how they feel but this was different… this was a quiet, controlled cry, one of fear… Pacifica was too scared to give out any possible sound, because that would mean that she acknowledged the fact that Monty is going to leave her, she was so mortified that she was crushing her insides to be completely still and silent, but Monty knew… he could feel it.
“Idiot”
“S-sorry…”
“I will never leave you”
Monty could feel Pacifica’s head desperately trying to turn towards him.
“Really?”
“I can’t leave somepony I love”
Pacifica started to laugh, gradually transitioning into the loudest cry that Monty had ever heard in his life as the concept of just how close Pacifica was to being all alone had sunk in.
“So, let’s get out of this and show those changelings who they’re dealing with…
Monty focused his magic on the pendant that turned instantly into the pegazooka that fell to the ground beyond his reach.
“All right… now what?”
Pacifica who was already in her Rumble Suit and out of the ropes came up to Monty, her face wiped from her tears.
“Care to loosen my ropes too?”
Pacifica shook her head.
“No? what-”
But Monty never finished as Pacifica payed back something she owed him for a long time now.
The couple had their first true kiss.
It was nothing like the previous one, this one didn’t feel awkward or embarrassing at all, in fact it just felt… right... as it was finally in its place in this world just like their relationship was.
“Boy can’t we make decisions huh?”
Pacifica laughed and booped her snout with his.
“Any ideas on how to get to Canterlot before the army does?”
Pacifica had an idea or two…
“I can run there with my suit, maybe you could turn your Pegazooka into something?”
“What would make you think that?”
“Think about it, so far out items had the exact things we needed, mine turned invisible when I needed it, I could run fast when I needed it to, maybe yours is like that too…”
“Hmmm... maybe you've got a point, wouldn't hurt to try”
Monty grabbed his pegazooka, and closed his eyes.
“Focus your magic on the Pegazooka, close your eyes and think of what you need right now”
“I need… I need something to help me fly… a suit? no, wings! yeah! like awesome black wings! I always wanted black wings and like they could just be like floating feathers instead of being in one whole piece, that would be so cool!... did it work?”
“You tell me”
Monty opened his eyes, the Pegazooka that was on the floor was now gone, he looked around to see where it had gone to realize that he had a pair of badass black wings on his back above his own, the wings being exactly the kind that he wanted, an opaque black colour, sharp and they looked like an aerial mosaic of independent floating pieces.
“Oh my god! that’s so awesome! so I can have anything I want with this? Ok then!”
Monty closed his eyes once again and focused his magic on the wings.
“I want a cup holder!”
He opened up his eyes expecting to see one.
“No cup holders, huh?”
“I think the way this works is that it gives us only what we need the most at the moment”
“Oh well, one out of two isn't that bad I guess… hey, Pacifica wanna see which one of us are faster?”
Pacifica rolled her eyes, the answer was obviously her.
Mark burst high into the air whipping up a slim tornado of dust with a loud scream and Pacifica zapped at full speed towards the castle.





The Changeling army was nearly at its destination but the machine was nowhere any nearer to where it was supposed to be.
“Well, maybe we could teleport it to the other side” suggested Mark
“No, nothing can teleport across worlds, it can only be physically transported across the portal” replied Celestia
“Well, we have to do something, we have no time!”
Mark was right, Celestia grew tired of this folly.
“Screw the goddamn door!”
Celestia bombarded the wall, annihilating an entire half of the room revealing a portal that was easily big enough to fit through the machine.
Celestia rather than carefully levitating the thing through the portal she just threw it with excessive force.
Mark could only stand in awe at what had just happened.
Celestia’s furious gaze hit Mark
“This remains between us”
Mark nodded, there was no way in hell he’d disagree with such an angry Deity.
They crossed the portal into their world to reveal Celestia’s room now wrecked by the machine that was lying horizontally on the floor, rolling around.
“How fast can you gallop?”





The Canterlot army could already hear the enemy approaching, there was a light buzz in the air.
“What in tarnation is takin’ them so long!”
“That’s a good question, Applejack” Twilight answered.
“Don’t you worry, dearies, It’ll all be fine..”
“I hope so, miss Rose”
“INCOMING!”
One of the royal guards announced the arrival of two projectiles.
One of them was Monty and the other Pacifica.
Monty slammed down onto the ground causing a crater close to the mane 6 who were still trying to set up the contraption.
Seconds later, two sonic booms rattled the souls of everypony around.
Aunt Rose had never been so happy to see them before
“Pacifica! Monty! you’re both fine! Oh, I’ve been so worried about you! and so was Ma-”
“The army is almost here, what do we do?” panicked Monty but was caught by one of Aunt Rose’s famous hugs, not even Pacifica could got away from it.
If there was anything they had discovered, now was the time to tell Shining Armour.
“Have you managed to gather any other information that might come in useful?”
“Not much sir, all I know is that my dad is in that army”
“I will make sure to let the others know to bring him back safe and sound”
“No, you leave him alone, I will deal with him myself”
Pacifica was going through the possible options right now.
“The plan?”
“We need to use Mark’s machine but it hasn't arrived yet”
“The army is practically here” Monty replied “There’s no way they’ll make it in time… we're going to have a war”