Princesses Celestia and Luna are sitting on their respective thrones, looking bored. The guard at their right, however, stands forever alert. Jak notices him as the pony who questioned his release form the dungeon, Shining Armor, Twilight's older brother. All three pony's perk up as the other three enter. Shining Armor looks to the two Princesses and, once they give him a nod, drops his pike and runs to his little sister.
“Twily,” the stallion says, a huge grin on his face. His tone and stature quite a bit different from the gruff guard that Jak new. “It's great to see ya, lil' sis.”
Twilight does not respond. She just shakes in her brother's embrace.
Jak looks over as Shining Armor moves his sister to a foreleg's distance. “Twily,” the white unicorn says, “What's wrong?”
Twilight keeps shaking in what Jak recognizes as fear. He walks over to her. He speaks to her in a soothing tone. “Twilight, come on. You can tell us.”
Both Princesses have gotten up from there thrones and make their way to where Twilight is standing, trembling. Celestia kneels down next to her student and nuzzles her alabaster cheek against the purple one. “My faithful student, what is it that troubles you?”
Twilight looks up at her mentor with wide eyes. “We met her,” she says shakily. “We met her, and she was s-so scary.” She starts crying into the Princess's coat, tiny rivulets running down the stark white chest.
Celestia wraps a wing around her student squeezing her tight. “Shh. It's alright. Who did you meet, Twilight?” When no answer was forth coming, she turned her attention to Jak. “Who did you meet?”
Jak looks at the Princess, surprised by the anger in her voice at something that could reduce her student to tears. “S-she said her name was Jaq. She also said she was from my world. She was a purple unicorn, not quite as dark as Twilight, and she had a black mane. She said her magic can control creatures, like the dragon that attacked Ponyville and the timberwolves that got Fluttershy.”
“Did she have a cutie mark?”
Jak blinks at the unfamiliar term. “A what now?”
“A cutie mar-” Celestia allows herself a brief smile. “Of course, you would not know. A cutie mark is a mark that a pony gets on her flanks when she discovers her special talent. You do not have one. I assume that is because you just came here, but this 'Jaq' you speak of might have earned hers already. That is why I ask, does she have a cutie mark?”
Jak looks down to the ground. “I don't know, she was wearing a lab coat.”
Celestia's scowl deepens. “Damn it.” Twilight looks up in shock at her mentor's vulgarity. Celestia turns to Twilight's brother. “Shining Armor, have the rest of your guard search for a pony matching Jak's description of the infiltrator. Leave no room unchecked.” Shining Armor salutes before galloping out of the room. Celestia turns back to Jak, Twilight, and Daxter. “Now, I need to address the reason why I called you three here. First of all I would like to invite the three of you, the other Elements, and Spike to this years Grand Galloping Gala. I know the last one was a bit of a disappointment to you, Twilight, but I feel it will be better this year. As for you, Jak, I would like to honor you, there, for first saving Ponyville, and then saving the Elements of Harmony and the two Princesses. I will only do this with your permission, however.”
Jak looks up at the Princess. “Uh, sure. One question, though. What is a Grand Galloping Gala?”
Celestia lets out a small laugh. “It is a ball. Like a dance, I guess.”
“One problem. I can't dance.”
“Don't worry, you should be fine.”
“If you say so.”
Celestia's eyes sparkle. “I do. Now, I will give you the tickets. The Gala is in two months' time.” Her eyes suddenly become hard. “I will have my guard on the lookout for this Jaq character. For now I need you two to get back to Ponyville. I'm sorry to say, but I feel that you are going to have to save the town more than once.”
Twilight and Jak both bow to the Princess then, clearly dismissed make there way out of the throne room.
As they exit the room, Twilight dashes to a nearby empty room and closes the door. Jak watches her go, confused, before slowly following. He opens the door slowly, and sees Twilight quietly sobbing in the corner. Jak walks over to her and puts a foreleg around her shoulders. “Hey, it's going to be OK. This is nothing I haven't handled before. I promise, I will protect you.” He wraps Twilight into a hug and lets her sob into his shoulder. Twilight looks up into Jak's eyes with her own tear soaked ones. She leans forward until her lips meet his. Jak's eyes widen in shock before closing as he melts into the kiss. The stay in their embrace for a minute before Twilight abruptly breaks the kiss. She looks at him, wide eyed.
“S-sorry,” she stammers. She then bolts out the door.
“Well,” Daxter says, “that was completely unexpected, and by completely unexpected I mean totally expected.”
Jak laughs, at Daxter's joke and at his good fortune, before following Twilight, a skip in his step.
I can see some interesting things happening from this point on.
Signed,
Ambrosia M. Firehoof
DJ Lost B34Tz
1959715 the stage is set
1959718 Indeed.
Wait. But what about Keira?
1959908 thinks will be explained trust me
1959245 Aww…
1960140 sorry bud
1960176 Welp, there goes my "Get Outta School, Life, and Everything You Know and Please Leave All Relevant Belongings at the Door, Have a Nice Day Card"
And now that I have read this chapter…
…I am disappointed further that I wasn't there to say "I told you so".
MOTHER FUCKING MOAR!
1960363 at least you said something other than just MOAR
1960392 MOAR!
1960398 Dammit. and i knew that was coming
1960414 HAH MOAR!
1960417 ok ok ill start writing. when i feel like it
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Jak, Jaq... I see what you did there. Who would win in a fight, Metal Kor or Nightmare Moon?
P.S. Pretty decent story so far, I myself am gonna try my hand at a Ratchet and Clank crossover.
1979781 probably metal Kor. sorry. And dammit that was my next story idea
1980704 Oh, well mines gonna be set before the PS3 games so no Clank time-stop stuff :)
1982754 i think you might be stalking me
1982766 lol Nope, don't get your hopes up
1982775 maybe just reading my mind from afar. oh god what do you know
1982779 Everything, Mwahaha! lol Nah, probably just Discord messing around again...
1982791 yes *phew* that's it
1982806 Btw if u want to use Dr Nefarious as the main villain, feel free to use him. Might try someone... more obscure
1982855 I like making my own villains in crossovers
1982871 Ah ok sweet
1982892 yep original villains are so much more fun to write
1982917 Yeh suppose your right... trying to get a villain everyone likes perfectly right is hard.
1982933 yep i dont have to be restricted by them maybe going ooc
So that just happened. Jak just kissed Twilight even though he's got Kira. Really?
LET'S DO THIS! TIME FOR *pause for dramatic effect* EDITING!!!
(Princesses Celestia and Luna are sitting on there respective thrones, looking bored.) Change "there" into "their".
(His tone and stature quite a bit different from the gruff guard that Jak new.) Change "new" to "knew".
(“Twily,” the white unicorn says, “What's wrong.”) Question mark after "wrong".
(Twilight looks up at her mentor with wide eyes. “We met her,”) The sentence is over so banish the comma and replace it with a period please.
CONGRATS! THERE WEREN'T HARDLY AND MISTAKES
This chapter was pretty well thought out even though it was short. The ending...unexpected. The Gala...unexpected. Daxter throwing up...expected. 10/5 ninja stars /)
DJ-Pon3 approved
I read this in equestrian....
2034488 I am DJ d8 r4p3.
Good chapter 👍