> No Need For Ponies
>  by GreatDragon AD
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> Chapter 1: No Need for Returning Inventions and New Magical Items, part 1
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               It was another beautiful day in mountainous outdoor regions of Okayama, Japan. The sun was shining, birds were chirping, and only a few white clouds were in the sky. The wooden guardians, Azaka and Kamidaki, stood in guard by the gate of the Masaki residence as they complemented this fine morning.

“Ho ho ho, isn’t this a lovely day, Kamidaki?” Azaka asked.

“Yes, indeed it is, Azaka.” Kamidaki replied.

“I wonder how Lord Tenchi is doing with his usual training with Lord Yosho.”

“Let’s hope he does not give too much trouble to the young lad.”

As to be expected, Tenchi Masaki was at the Masaki Shinto shrine, currently doing his morning sparring with his grandfather, Katsuhito Masaki (A.K.A Yosho Jurai).  As usual, both participants exchange sword blows with their bokkens, but his grandfather still had the advantage over him as he shows little of easily dodging Tenchi’s strikes.

“I see that you’ve gotten soft these days, Tenchi.” Katsuhito commented. “Don’t think that you can relax after you manage to defeat my old rival and somehow manage to survive facing against a space criminal that was after your mother’s life in the past.”

“You’re just saying that to hide the fact that you want to train me again since I’m on summer break, old man.” Tenchi replied as they continued their sparring. “At least I deserve some rest for everything I’ve been through.” They clashed each others' wooden swords as both push against each other with them.

“True, but you should be fully aware that you’re now a Juraian prince, and next to the throne. There’s not even little rest when there’s so much you need to learn, especially how to control your Light Hawks Wings’ Sword.”

Tenchi grit his teeth as their training testified. “I told you already that I don’t want to be a prince on a far off planet. All I want is to enjoy a peaceful life here. Besides, what good would my powers do if there’s nothing bad going on?”

A smirk appear across Katsuhito’s face as he said, “But that doesn’t mean you should let your guard down…especially NOW!” With that said, Katsuhito performed a leg sweep, causing Tenchi to collapse and fall on his rear.  He placed his hands on his hips and laughed with his eyes closed at Tenchi’s loss. “This is why I need you to train yourself more, maybe taking your whole summer break in improving yourself should suffice. Ha ha ha ha ha!”

But as soon as Katsuhito opened his eyes, he broke a sweat as soon as he noticed Tenchi in front of him with his bokken pointed very close to his grandfather’s neck. Tenchi smirked back at his grandfather. “Do you still think I’ve gotten soft, huh Gramps?”

Katsuhito slowly pushes down the point of his grandson’s bokken, placed a close fist close to his mouth and coughed a few times. “Okay, maybe you haven’t gone weak…yet. Guess I would say you can train once or twice a week to make sure your skills won’t rust.” Tenchi smiled with satisfaction after hearing that and accomplishing in getting back at his grandfather. Katsuhito placed his arm around Tenchi’s shoulders as he tapped his bokken on his own shoulder a few times. “Well, we should be heading back to the house for breakfast. We don’t want to keep Sasami and the others waiting now, don’t we?”

“Right.” Smiled Tenchi.

Both grandfather and grandson walked together as they climb down the steps of the shrine.

“You know I’m still better than you, since I took you down first.” Said the grandfather.

But Tenchi shot back, “No way! That leg sweep was really cheap and sneaky.”

“And it shows that you’re still unprepared. No Juraian prince should ever fall from an attack like that.”

With a shrug, Tenchi replied, “Oh, please…”


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We now focus at the Masaki household. In the kitchen, we see the cute and adorable little princess of Jurai, Sasami Jurai, cooking breakfast for everyone while the curious cabbit, Ryo-Ohki, rests on Sasami’s head as she stares down at her work. We hear Sasami humming to the song “I am a Pioneer” while frying some eggs. By the kitchen table, everyone’s favorite bumbling Galaxy Police officer blonde, Mihoshi Kuramitsu, sat by it as she looked over Sasami’s cooking and she started to drool a bit from her mouth. She suddenly got hit on the head by a closed fist belonging to her best friend, yet serious partner in galaxy crime fighting, Kiyone Makibi.

“Didn’t I told you to behave while we’re being guests here?” said Kiyone in a harsh tone.

A tear-eyed Mihoshi replied, “I’m sorry, Kiyone. It’s just that I’m so hungry. I can’t help it if I’m eager for Sasami’s cooking.”

Sighing, Kiyone said, “I guess I can’t blame you for that. We haven’t had much luck on job hunting these days and we’ve been low on funds again… BUT I CAN BLAME YOU FOR GETTING OURSELVES FIRED FROM OUR LAST JOB!!!”

“Eek! How would I know that giving the wrong change while I was behind cash register back at our McDonalds job would get us fired?”

“It's not just that. You even messed up one of the fryers I was working on when I told you turned up the temperature a bit for me.” Sasami could only sweat in exasperation as Kiyone showed her angst to Mihoshi.  Kiyone calmed down and sighed once more as she rubs Mihoshi’s head and apologizes to her of being too stern to her. “It can’t be helped, things happens like this as usual, for us that is. I feel we both are such a bother for staying over here again. I just hope Tenchi , his dad, and his grandfather don’t mind.”

“It's okay, Kiyone. You and Mihoshi are always good people to us so you’re always welcome here.” Said Sasami with a shy smile.

“Appreciate the kind words, Sasami. But I can’t help but feel we’re being freeloaders here.”

“Do not threat, Miss Kiyone.” Said the voice of the person entering the kitchen. “You and Mihoshi are all fine here. But I do know we have one true freeloader in this house that I have no need to mention her name.”

It was Ayeka Jurai, Sasami’s older sister, who spoke and just suddenly appeared in the kitchen. She holds a pen and a piece of paper as she currently tries to work on her next haiku, most obviously another one explaining her love for Tenchi.

“You’re finally here, big sister.” said Sasami.

Ayeka replied, “I apologize, Sasami. I would have come down sooner but I was currently stuck writing this new haiku.”

“Don’t tell me you were stuck in our room writing more of your haikus again.”

“Yes, indeed I have.”

“Ooh, I’m really curious what you’ve worked on so far.” Mihoshi added.

Sasami and Kiyone silently gestured not to ask her that to Ayeka. 

But it was too late, Ayeka heard Mihoshi clearly and beams with delight. “Oh, thank you for asking, Miss Mihoshi. I would love to share what I work on so far.”

Kiyone and Sasami sighed in disappointment knowing in what expect. Mihoshi is still unaware of why both of them are not approved of hearing Ayeka’s haiku. Ayeka clears her throat as she prepares to read her haiku:


“Oh, Lord Tenchi.


“My Knight in Shining Armor.


“Show me your True Love, Please.


“By Ayeka Jurai.”
	

Mihoshi applaud for Ayeka’s haiku reading, although she didn’t understand anything from what she heard. Kiyone and Sasami could face-palm in disgust. Ayeka bowed, thinking at least one person enjoyed it.

“Thank you very much.” She replied.

“Well, let me just finish cooking everyone’s breakfast.” Said Sasami.

Mihoshi placed an index finger in her mouth with curiosity. “By the way, where is Ryoko? I haven’t seen her all day.”

Ayeka turned her head in disgust, replying, “Hmph! Maybe she is outside in the open getting herself drunk in sake again, as usual.”

“Actually, you’re pretty close. I just met Ryoko at the hallway sneaking into the women’s hot springs with a new bottle of sake she just bought. She even invited me to bathe and drink with her but I kindly passed her offer.” Kiyone explained with a nervous smile.

“Grr, does that wench have no shame? I completely do not understand that space pirate. Why can’t she be more lady-like for once?”


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Just like Kiyone explained, wanted space pirate and sake drunkard connoisseur, Ryoko, was spending her morning drinking sake while having a relaxing bath at the women’s hot spring, that was made in a sub-dimensional space within the house’s bathroom which only women were able to enter. Ryoko, completely naked and having no shame in showing off her young body, relaxes as her floating tray passes her by. She takes the bottle of sake from the tray and fills a cup of it. She lifts it too her mouth and quickly drank it in one sip. Her face turns red for a little, feeling effects of the sake and exhales a mushroom shaped cloud with satisfaction.

“Ahh, that feels good. Nothing like a relaxing hot spring bath while drinking sake helps you to remove all that stress.” Said Ryoko to herself, completely relaxed. “I know it's too early for that but who’s complaining?” Ryoko paused for a moment and stares at the ceiling of the bath house. She suddenly grins widely. “You know, it would be even better if Tenchi somehow manages to get into this hot spring. Oh, the nasty, dirty things I’ll do to him if he ever showed up.”

Then Ryoko grin disappears and suddenly looks down towards the water seeing her reflection.

“Tch, who am I kidding? My chances with Tenchi are slim to none as long as all these girls are around… especially that uptight princess, Ayeka.” She added. Ryoko took another quick sip of sake and sighed. She paused again and remembers the all great moments she shared with everyone:  teasing everyone by claiming Ryo-Ohki is their daughter; the fun times at her first Summer Festival; their venture to Jurai; and her time in Earth’s past to save Tenchi’s mother, Achika, while enjoying a temporary high school life. “Still, without all of them, life would’ve been so boring. Hate to say it but I guess I’m grateful having them around sometimes…” with a disgusted face, she added, “Ugh, all this mushy stuff is almost making me hurl. I need another drink.”

As soon Ryoko was about to take another sip of sake, she stopped as she felt the entire bath house shaking. She quickly looks around in panic wondering what’s going on.

“What the Hell!?”


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Back in the kitchen, Sasami finally finished making breakfast for everyone.  She prepared a course of omelets, steamed rice, and cooked fish. Mihoshi giggled with glee by the table as she was ready to eat. Ayeka placed her close fist in front of her mouth and coughed a few times, gesturing Mihoshi to stop before eating. Just like the oblivious girl she is, Mihoshi did not notice and started to ready her chopsticks, but Ayeka coughed again but a little more loudly. 

Mihoshi finally paused. “Are you getting a cold, Ayeka? You should really check that.”

Sasami couldn’t help but chuckle from Mihoshi’s words, as well as Ryo-Ohki tilting her head with curiosity on what’s going on. 

Ayeka’s vein popped from the side of her forehead being annoyed from Mihoshi’s obliviousness. “Miss Mihoshi, I was only signaling to cease what you’re doing. It's impolite to begin eating when Lord Tenchi and Brother Yosho have not arrived!”

“Oh… Okay… But what about Ryoko? Aren’t we supposed to wait for her too?” the blonde cop asked.

“No need. For all I care, she should lock herself at the hot spring and dry up there like the mummy that she is.” The elder princess lifted the end of one of her sleeves to her mouth in disgust. “I wouldn’t want her here with her horrible bad breath from all that sake drinking.”

“Big sister! That’s not nice.” Sasami exclaimed.

“Well, it’s the truth.”

The sound of the door opening was heard knowing that Tenchi and his grandfather arrived.

“We’re home!” called Tenchi.

“Big Brother Tenchi! Big Brother Yosho! You’re finally here. And just in time too. I just finished making breakfast and its already set on the table.” Answered Sasami.

Katsuhito walked to Sasami, smiled at her and pats her head. “Thank you for your hard work, Sasami. Although we do apologize for making you all wait for us.”

Sasami happily shakes her head in disagreement. “Nuh-uh, you guys don’t have to be sorry. We know how important it is for you to train Big Brother Tenchi.”

Tenchi smiles to Sasami with satisfaction with his eyes closed. “But again, we do appreciate for everything you do in the house.” He said.

Ayeka looks nervously at Tenchi as she fiddles with her written haiku. “Ah, Lord Tenchi…”

Tenchi replied, “Yes, Ayeka?” Ayeka mumbles as she tries to get her words out. “Uh, could you repeat that?”

Ayeka finally said, “I was trying to say that I finished a new haiku for you and was wondering if you like to hear it.”

Suddenly, Tenchi’s stomach growled. Both Ayeka and Tenchi looked embarrassed.

Smiling nervously, Tenchi said, “Sorry about that, eh heh-heh.”

“No, it’s okay. I should apologize for not knowing how hungry you are. I’ll read it to you once you’re done eating.” Ayeka replied, while thinking, Ayeka, you’re such an incompetent fool.

Well, that went well…, snickered Kiyone in thought.

Tenchi and Katsuhito finally joined in by the table.  Tenchi looked as eager as Mihoshi as they finally get to eat. “I’m so starving. Finally, we get to eat. Itadakimasu!”

But without warning, a naked but completely wet Ryoko appeared above the kitchen table and fell on top of it causing everyone to jump in shock while messing up their meal.

The naked space pirate rubbed her, saying,” Ow! That was a rough landing. What the Hell just happened?”

She looks around and notices everyone else staring blankly at her with surprise. Katsuhito had his hand in the way in front of Tenchi’s eyes as Mihoshi went teary eyed over her destroyed breakfast.

“My breakfast…” said Mihoshi, sadly.

“Breakfast?” blinked Ryoko. “How did all of you end up in the hot spring?... Wait a minute.” She looks under herself and noticed she was sitting over everyone’s messed up breakfast. “Eww, gross. Guess you guys aren’t going to finish that huh?” she added sarcastically. She turn her eyes to Tenchi then she performed a sexual pose. “But you, Tenchi, can have your breakfast all over me.”

Ayeka regained consciousness and quickly slammed her hands on the table in anger. “How dare you say such shameful things to Lord Tenchi!? And please explain yourself how you appeared completely stark naked out of thin air in front of us!”

“How the Hell should I know? I was just relaxing at the hot spring until it started shaking like there was an earthquake then poof, here I am. You think I hold all the answers on everything that goes on here.” Ryoko explained.

“Why you obnoxious brute!”

With those words, Ayeka started stretching Ryoko’s mouth widely with her hands as Ryoko retaliated back doing same. Everyone was looking nervous and disgusted from what is happening as soon a loud voice with a megaphone tone is being heard throughout the house:

“Everyone, will you please come over to my laboratory. I have something I like to announce.”

“…Washu” said everybody in unison, knowing who the voice belonged to.

Time has passed and everyone managed to make it for the announcement from the self-proclaimed greatest scientist in the Universe, Washu Hakubi (but she prefers to be called “Little Washu” or “Washu-chan”). Katsuhito did not make it since he decided to stay over at the kitchen to clean up the mess Ryoko made from her sudden fall. As for Ryoko, she managed to take a quick bath at the hot spring and returned wearing her indoor clothes, which was a full body indoor dress with blue and yellow stripes that comes with its own tail. She really didn’t want to strangle Washu for what she did while being naked with mashed omelet between her thighs.

Washu made her appearance in  front of everyone with an eager smile on her face and her eyes closed. “Thank you all for arriving on my sudden announcement.” Everyone looked at Washu with annoyed expressions while some went for glaring instead.  Washu sweat a bit looking oblivious from everyone’s expressions. “What’s with all negative vibes I’m getting? Did I miss something here?”

Ryoko’s patience was wearing thin while one of her eyebrows twitched . She couldn’t hold her angst anymore and was about to yell at Washu. But Ayeka intervened and was the first to complain instead. “It’s because you messed up today’s breakfast!”

Ryoko got annoyed from Ayeka’s intervention. Washu could not understand of what today’s breakfast got anything to do with her.

“Oh? How so?” asked Washu as she crossed her arms.

“It’s because Ryoko was at the hot spring, drowning herself in sake as usual, until suddenly she was transported to the kitchen, ruined the food Sasami worked so hard on cooking by falling over it, and shamed herself by showing her completely naked body to Lord Tenchi!”

Washu blinked a few times then looked at Ryoko. Ryoko glares back with her arms crossed while tapping with her index finger. Washu smiled then suddenly burst into laughter. “Bwa ha ha ha! Seriously? Well, that’s one way to make scrambled eggs!”

Everyone was not amused with Washu’s own taste of humor, not one bit. In fact, they’re more like disgusted.

Scratching the back of her head, Washu replied, “Sorry about that. I was calibrating the dimensions in the house again. Didn’t mean to cause another flux.”

Ryoko stormed towards Washu that she had enough of restraining her anger. “Is that all you have to say? Maybe you should start thinking more seriously and could’ve at least informed all of us you were about to do these kinds of things beforehand.”

“Well, maybe you should stop drinking sake so early during the day.” Washu suddenly waves her hand in front of Ryoko with disgust. “Ugh, I can even smell your foul alcohol breath from here. Maybe your love for drinking prevented you from brushing your teeth too?”

Finally, everyone else laugh from Washu’s response. Ryoko’s vein from her head popped from anger and embarrassment. “That’s it! You’re gonna get it now!” Ryoko was about to tackle Washu, but Kiyone and Mihoshi quickly restrained before she did. Ryoko tried to resist. “C’mon! Let me whack at her once! She deserves it!”

“Guess that’s settled. Let’s head back to the kitchen.” Tenchi sighed.

Everyone else agreed and started to leave. Washu suddenly thrust her arm gesturing the group not to leave. “Wait! I haven’t even gotten to my announcement yet.” 

They all stopped and decided to give their attention to Washu although they would regret what they will about to hear. They mostly like guess it will be another new invention. 

Washu cough a bit before starting. “First of, as the greatest scientist in the Universe, I have created such imaginative and original inventions that would benefit everyone. But I must admit I had drawbacks and failures.”

After hearing that, this gave Ryoko a chance to strike back at Washu. “Like Mecha Washu.” She snickered.

Everyone else agreed on that past invention. Originally, Washu built a robot version of herself so she can and her creation would able to do work twice as fast. Only thing left for it to be finished was to place Washu’s personality. But it failed and instead was installed with Mihoshi’s, all because the scanner took a single strand of Mihoshi’s hair instead of herself. The robot caused so much trouble for everyone, but it was taken down. Washu didn’t gave up and decided to make a Mark II that failed also as it ended up with Ryo-Ohki’s personality. Washu took it really hard and ends up being frustrated from Ryoko pointing that out.

“Okay, I admit it was something I’m not too proud of.” Washu continued. “But Mecha Washu would have gone so well if it wasn’t for Mihoshi interfering my could-be prized work.”

Mihoshi scratches the back of her head and smiles nervously. Kiyone never forgotten that day and thought it would have been Hell on Earth for her if there were two Mihoshis in her lifetime.

“I can speak for all of us that we’re definitely satisfied with one Mihoshi and Washu in our lives.” Said Kiyone.

Washu places her hands on her hips and smiles with confidence as she shows her ego from hearing Kiyone’s statement. “True. Besides, there can only be ONE greatest scientist in the Universe and that’s me.”

“So what is this big announcement you speak, Wa—“ started Tenchi.

But Washu quickly interrupted him. “Ah! That’s Little Washu.”

Sweat dropping, he corrected himself. “Sorry. I mean Little Washu.”

“I’m glad that you asked. Since I haven’t come up with any new masterpieces, I decided to re-work on a previous one. By now, you guys can probably guess what it was since I mentioned I  was calibrating the dimensions in the house.”

Everyone thought for a moment but Tenchi was the first to realize what it was as he suddenly reacted. “Wait, you don’t mean…”

Washu chuckled and smiled with confidence with her eyes closed. “Indeed it is.” A spotlight was turned on and placed on the large machine a robotic eyeball and a large chamber connected to the machine. “Behold, my once great invention, the Dimensional Tuner. Been re-tweaking it as of late and will soon be called…”

“Dimensional Tuner Mark II? Heh-heh…” Ryoko said.

Washu got annoyed from Ryoko’s guess, crossing her arms into an X. “Wrong! I was going to name it differently for other reasons.”

“Why’s that?” asked Sasami.

Washu got close to the machine and placed her hand on it. “Since the machine was very delicate the last time it was used, it went out of control before I could even finish it thanks to certain people I’m now looking at.”

Sadly, Washu spoke the truth. The others felt embarrassed and ashamed for the trouble they caused that she was talking about. Knowing that this very machine has the capability in letting the user create their own reality in any way he/she wants, they were all eager to use it, especially Ryoko and Ayeka wanting their dream of having Tenchi to themselves to fulfill. Ayeka’s reality take place in a feudal Japan where she was arranged to be married to Tenchi but he ends up in a love triangle with her and Ryoko who was a demon bandit in her world. Ryoko’s reality had Tenchi as her partner in crime where they were known as infamous wanted bank robbers like Bonnie and Clyde. Kiyone wanted a world without Mihoshi while she wanted to be with Kiyone forever as they both end up in the same reality. More surprising was even Sasami taking part in using a machine and ends up making a reality where she is the cute magical girl known as Pretty Sammy.  All of them caused the machine to haywire after they placed their input and might have destroyed all of time and space. Luckily, Washu fixed the problem by letting everyone take part of their realities as she tried to delete them one by one.

“With that in mind, I made sure that this machine will not, I REPEAT, will not malfunction. Hell, it can even be Mihoshi-proof. Ha ha ha ha ha!” the little mad scientist exclaimed.

Ryoko sighed as she shows no interest of how could this machine could be any different now. “So basically its Dimensional Tuner Mark II Pro.” Washu quickly went for Ryoko and hit her head. “Ow! What was that for?”

“For being an idiot.” Replied Washu. “I was getting to the part of why it’s so different now.” Washu placed her closed fist in front of her mouth and coughed a few times. “While I was rudely interrupted, I was going to inform the machine’s newest feature.” Washu points out to the chamber that was installed for her machine. “I have installed a transporting chamber . With it, we now be able to transport ourselves to other existing realities as well as transporting anything from the end of one different reality to ours.”

Everyone paused for the moment as they try to process each word from Washu’s last statement then they gawked into realization.
“ Wait, Little Washu. You just mentioned other EXISTING realities. What do you mean by that?” asked Tenchi.

Washu chuckled with her eyes closed responding to Tenchi’s bewilderment. “It’s very obvious for the greatest scientist in the Universe such as myself. I meant that our original reality isn’t the only actual reality that we have.” Washu summoned her hologram laptop. With one press of a button, she summoned a holographic screen which shows a chart supposedly represents all the many realities they are connected. “Over the past week, I was looking deep into my sub-dimensional research. But one night, I suddenly discovered that they are many worlds out there, not just of our own. Each one is only somewhat different but still the same as ours. The differences varies from the small choices we make showing different results, or each person having a different origin but still have their original personality or relationship with others intact. There could be a ‘me’ who is actually an Earthling from America, or a ‘Tenchi’ being a director for a Sentai show.”

Everyone was in awe from Washu’s discovery.

“Amazing… How did you managed to find out about this?” asked Ayeka.

“I found an old book about studies on quantum physics. Its seems the Earthlings here are really on to something. Actually, I’m interested to explore this certain reality. It looked very complex but it could be the prime one of our reality. Can’t seem to study it now since the machine isn’t finished which is now called… THE ALL-PURPOSE DIMENSIONAL TRANSPORTER!!!”

Everyone didn’t like the machine’s new name at all by showing their nervous and unamused expressions. Washu’s forehead sweats a bit from their reaction.
“I say ‘Dimensional Tuner Mark II Pro’ was better than that.” Said a dead-panned Ryoko.

“Okay, so I need to improve on giving its new name. Anyway, I’m going to try to finish the machine.” Ryoko and Ayeka look like they were about to say something, but Washu suddenly pointed at them. “And no, you’re not going to use the machine right now. And if I catch you two or anyone else for that matter use it without my supervision, there’s going to be Hell to pay.” Ryoko and Ayeka made disappointed sounds and they started to leave while the others' joined with them. Washu went for Tenchi and Kiyone. “Tenchi and Kiyone, would you two stay for now. I need to ask a favor from you.”
> Chapter 2: No Need for Returning Inventions and New Magical Items, part 2
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        In the land of Equestria, which is inhabited by magical ponies and other mythological creatures, we find the small quaint town of Ponyville. It’s another sunny day as the citizens perform their usual daily routines. Well, it could be a PERFECT sunny day if it wasn’t for a certain weather pony dozing off on a cloud. A blue Pegasus with rainbow colored mane and tail with a mark on her flank that shows a rainbow colored thunder bolt slept soundly without any interruptions, until…

“RAINBOW DASH!!!”

The Pegasus awoke and was startled from the pony who was calling her. “Huh? Wha’?”

Rainbow Dash shakes her head to wake herself up more and looks down below from her cloud. She notices the source of the yelling and it was from one of her three friends.  Twilight Sparkle, a purple unicorn with dark purple mane and tail with light purple streaks and a mark of starlight shapes on her flank, was one who yelled as she looks seriously at Rainbow Dash. She was accompanied by her assistant Spike, a purple baby dragon, who is pulling a small cart filled with gems, and Rarity, a white unicorn with a violet mane and tail and three diamonds as her mark as well.

Yawning, Rainbow replied, “Oh, hey guys. What’s up?”

“What’s up!? Today was supposed to be a sunny with no clouds!” Twilight protested.

“I know. And your point is…?” Twilight Sparkle quickly points to the sky for her oblivious friend. Seems that there are still clouds around that Twilight thought Rainbow Dash have missed. “Oh, right, heh-heh. Was about to get rid of those after my nap.”

Twilight moans from being annoyed from Rainbow Dash’s negligence. “Your nap could have waited until you were done getting rid of those clouds. Is it too much to ask?”

“Honestly, darling, could you try to be more serious with your job as a weather pony?” said Rarity.

“Ugh, you guys are such wet blankets.” Rainbow replied, rolling her eyes in disgust. “Fine, just hold on a sec.” 

With a blink of an eye, Rainbow Dash flew out of her cloud as she started taking down all of the other clouds one by one except her own with flying kicks in such speed and grace. Finally, the sky is clear in just the matter of seconds then Rainbow Dash lands back on her cloud. “Sky’s clear. Happy now?”

Twilight Sparkle shows a smile of satisfaction seeing Rainbow Dash finally did her job. “Yes, very.” She said.

“And very good job at that too.” Rarity added.

Rainbow Dash shows her back to her friends as she lays on her cloud while resting her head on her front hooves. “Good. Just go on your way now. I got some Z’s to catch.”

With that said, Rainbow Dash went back to her nap.  Twilight Sparkle and Rarity trot along as they giggled from Rainbow Dash’s behavior.

“Sometimes I can’t understand about Rainbow Dash. She definitely needs a good lesson in manners and responsibility.” Said Rarity.

“I know, Rarity. But she means well still. She is who she is.” Twilight replied with a chuckle.

“I guess you’re right, Twilight.”

“Anyway, thank you so much for letting me join with you in one of your gem hunts. I’ve been very curious of how your unicorn magic works in searching gems. Not only I’ve done plenty of research but it’s thanks to you that you manage to find these stones.”

Twilight Sparkle opens up her saddle bag and show a good amount of clear transparent stones.

“No trouble at all, darling. It’s the least I can do for letting me borrow Spikey-Wikey here in helping on my ventures.” Came Rarity’s reply.

Rarity hugs Spike with one hoof around him. As to expected, hearts appear above Spike’s head showing his love for Rarity. “Anything for you, Rarity.” Sighed Spike with a dreamy expression.

“Although, I’m very curious about these strange stones. It won’t do me any good for fashion designs, remind you, but you seem awfully interested in them. Do you know something that I don’t know, Twilight?” Rarity asked.

Twilight Sparkle grinned eagerly from finally hearing Rarity ask her about the stones. “I’m glad you asked, Rarity. These stones are actually magic containers.”

Rarity tilts her head a bit not knowing what her friend is talking about. “Magic Containers?”

“Yes. In other words, they are stones that store magic in them. As you can see, these stones look transparent, meaning that they are new stones that haven’t been used to store magic yet. It's meant to store magic so others can use it, especially for those who don’t have magic as their natural ability. Starswirl the Bearded was the one who first discovered these stones and made use of them in his magical studies. These stones can be used for many purposes, depending what magic you store them, whether it's from unicorn magic or any other magic from a different source.”

“Oh dear, those stones ARE amazing. I never knew they can be that useful. But what on earth will you be using them for, darling?”

Twilight Sparkle smirks as she beams with such confidence. “Actually, I already do have something in mind for them. So this will be my greatest magical project yet, and I hope that I can show it to Princess Celestia.”

“Whatever it is that you’re planning, I know Princess Celestia will simply enjoy it. Just please don’t overwork yourself, would you? We can’t forget about what happened when you made that ability-enhancing potion.” Said Rarity.

Sighing, Twilight replied, “Ugh, don’t remind me. If I never made that potion, all the trouble Rainbow Dash caused from drinking it would’ve been avoided.”

Twilight Sparkle, Spike, and Rarity stopped by at a building in town that almost looks like a carousel. It's actually the Carousel Boutique, Rarity’s home and workplace as a fashion designer. Rarity uses her Levitation spell on the handle of the small cart Spike was pulling as she uses it to pull the cart herself.

“Well, this is my stop. Again, thank you so much in joining on my gem hunt.“ Rarity said as she places her front hooves on Spike’s cheeks and rubs her muzzle against Spike’s nose. “And thank you, my little Spikey-Wikey, for being such a big help.”

Spike starts floating in mid-air as he was charmed once again by his lovely crush. “Just doing my best as your gem hunting assistant, eh heh-heh.” 

Twilight Sparkle rolls her eyes in disgust then used a levitation spell to pull down Spike back his feet on the ground. They all gave their goodbye’s then Twilight and Spike go on in their way to the library. 

Spike rides on Twilight’s back as he moves close to her with curiosity. “So Twilight, what exactly you had in mind in using those stones?”

Smiling confidently, Twilight answered. “Oh you’ll see soon enough, Spike. In fact, my new project will be a great benefit for everypony.”

Once they arrived to Ponyville Library, Twilight’s current home and workplace, she sent Spike to do a few chores. Owlowiscious, Twilight’s owl companion, was soundly sleeping upstairs. He soon woke up once Twilight arrived. He happily hooted once he saw her. “Hoo!”

“Oh, good afternoon, Owlowiscious. Sorry to have woke you up. I’m just so excited in working on my new project.” Said Twilight.

“Hoo?”

“Well, I might need you of your assistance on this one. If I hurry with your help, I might finish the first prototypes by tonight. You don’t mind that even if it’s a bit too early for you, would you?”

“Hoo!”

“Great! Let’s do this then.”

She used her Levitation spell and picked up a few books and papers, then both went on their way to the laboratory downstairs under the library. 

It’s been some time since Twilight has been this excited in working on a new project. Of course, the last time she did was on that ability-enhancing potion Rarity mentioned before. She was doing pretty well until Rainbow Dash barged in. Normally, it’s something she would expect from her friend Pinkie Pie, being known of doing random visits to her home.  As soon as Twilight explained to Rainbow Dash on what she was working on, it did caught her interest. Being the opportunist that she is, especially when it comes to chances of improving her skills, Rainbow Dash gulped down the entire potion, and made her super-fast. She couldn’t help but to test her new-found speed as she flew through Ponyville, leaving destruction in her wake. But Rainbow Dash couldn’t stop there. She decided to perform a Double Rainboom - performing the incredible Sonic Rainboom flying trick twice at the same time. But the power behind the trick was too much, almost annihilating Ponyville entirely, and sent Rainbow Dash to another world. Even though she was lost in some unknown place, Twilight was quick on her hooves and managed to get Pinkie Pie to drink the same potion, which gave her temporarily power to bend space and time as she pleased, thus using it to rescue Rainbow Dash and return her back to their world. However, Pinkie Pie couldn’t help herself as she brought back a visitor which look like a small blue creature claiming to be someone’s imaginary friend. He was brought back to his home at “Forester’s” before Pinkie’s ability wore off. Ever since that incident, Twilight vowed never to concoct that potion ever again. But at least one good thing happened after hearing Rainbow Dash’s and Pinkie Pie’s experiences in other worlds - it made Twilight very curious on multi-world exploration, but she felt that this should be saved for some other time. She now focuses on the present as she preps her materials at her lab desk and begins working on her newfound project. 

A few hours go by and it’s already the afternoon.  Twilight took no breaks as she continued her work. So far, she managed to work with six stones and carved them into matching her cutie mark and the ones of her five close friends: a diamond for Rarity; a thunder bolt for Rainbow Dash; a balloon for Pinkie Pie; a butterfly for her other Pegasus friend Fluttershy; and an apple for her hard-working Earth Pony friend, Applejack. 

Right now, she was trying to finish chiseling the stone she was holding as she tries to make its shape into her cutie mark. Owlowiscious was currently napping as he already helped out Twilight for now. After a few more pounds from her hammer onto to the chisel both held by her levitation spell, she was finally finished.

Twilight wipes her forehead with her front hoof. “Phew! Finally done. Looks like I’ve gotten better at this. It’s a good thing I read ‘Sculpting Made Easy for Foals’ this time. I wasn’t too proud on how I sculpt that fake Crystal Heart back then at the Crystal Empire.”

“Aw, c’mon it wasn’t that bad. At least it was good enough to fool the crystal ponies there.” Said another voice.

“Maybe you’re right. I mean, it was my first attempt at it…Huh?”

Twilight just paused when she heard that somepony else was in the lab. She quickly turned and notice a pink pony with a fluffy pink mane and tail, light pink fur, and party balloons as her cutie mark.

“Hi Twilight!” said the newcomer cheerfully.

“Gah!” Twilight Sparkle got startled by her visitor’s sudden appearance and fell on her rear. “Pinkie Pie! What are you doing here? I thought I told Spike not to allow any visitors unless they have business with the library.”

Pinkie Pie giggled. “Oh silly filly, of course I have library business. Spike mentioned you haven’t eaten anything yet so I brought some baked goods from Sugarcube Corner.”

Pinkie Pie eagerly thrust a basket full of baked goods to Twilight closely in contact to her muzzle. Inside it holds some muffins, cookies, bread, and bottled milk. As soon as Twilight noticed all the food in the basket, her stomach suddenly growled.  She blushed from embarrassment since it growled so loudly.

“And looks like I was just in time too.” Said Pinkie.

Twilight chuckled a bit and picked up the basket with her Levitation spell and leaves it on the clear area of her lab counter. No matter how many times Pinkie Pie does this, there are times that Twilight enjoyed her friend’s positive yet random personality. It was what truly makes Pinkie Pie being Pinkie Pie.

“I appreciate for the nice gesture, Pinkie Pie.” Said Twilight. “I need to give my thanks to Spike too for being so considerate. Guess it wouldn’t hurt to have a little break right now.”

The unicorn prodigy begins rummaging through the basket to have her meal. Pinkie Pie starts looking around the lab, then suddenly notices the sculpted stones that Twilight managed to finish. Her eyes beamed widely as the stones caught her attention. She slowly trotted towards them and carefully picked up the one that resembles a balloon. “Ooooh, pretty!”

Twilight Sparkle turns her head to Pinkie Pie, and said, “Be careful with those, Pinkie. They are actually my latest project.” She then takes a sip of her milk.

“You mean these Magic Containers?” Pinkie asked.

Twilight startled after unexpectedly hearing Pinkie Pie’s response. The surprise caused her to shoot the milk she was drinking from her nose and choked a bit. Pinkie Pie saw the whole thing happened and collapsed from her laughter taking over. “You shot milk from your nose! Always a classic!”

Twilight recovered and took a small deep breath. “Pinkie, how did you know about these stones?”

Pinkie Pie was done laughing as she regained her composure and wiped a tear from her eye from the uncontrollable laughter. “Sheesh, Twilight. Did you forget I was raised in a rock farm? I guess being an egghead doesn’t mean you’re good of remembering as much as an elephant does.”

Twilight sighed. “Right. But please explain.”

“Well, when I was a little filly, my daddy showed me this book on rare stones and he always mentioned how much he wanted to find Magic Containers. He really thinks he could earn a lot of bits from them plus keeping at least one as a momento. And I know they are Magic Containers becauuuse… *inhales deeply* 
“itshowsfromitscleartransparency,hasadifferenttexturefromotherstones,canbeeasilysculptedbutsalsodelicate,shapesfromcertainpartsshowmuchtheyagedfrombeingkeptunderground,andmakesauniquesoundaftertappingit. “ Pinkie ended her long unending sentence with a squee.

Twilight’s jaw dropped from Pinkie Pie’s sudden knowledge on the stones. Of course, she is usually caught from Pinkie Pie’s randomness, but never experienced all the amount of information she keeps from her past life. She shook her head to recover from her shock.

“I’m guessing your dad must have had a copy of ‘Stonecutter’s Encyclopedia of Minerals’ by any chance?” asked a nervous Twilight.

Pinkie Pie gasped. “You’re right! Been trying to remember the title of that darn book for years. By any chance you got a copy? I’ll buy it from you for ten bits.”

“You never cease to amaze me, Pinkie Pie, especially to have all that knowledge on minerals and suddenly forgetting a simple book title.”

Pinkie smiled. “It’s what I do.”

Twilight continues enjoying her meal but Pinkie Pie decided to bug her even more as she popped out beside her. “So whatcha’ gonna do with those Magic Containers, huh, huh, huh? Store levitation spells for Applejack so she can just pluck apples from trees rather than just bucking them? Have light spells in them so they work as night lights? The Cake twins would want one to help them sleep but maybe Fluttershy might need it more than them? Ooh, I know! How about storing that memory projector spell Trixie used when she had that Alicorn Amulet? I think it’s very useful for everypony whenever they forget something. Rainbow Dash could definitely use it to keep track with her weather pony duties?”

Sighing, Twilight replied, “All of your ideas sound tempting but none of them are what I had in mind right now.”

“Aww, I thought they were all good ideas. So what is it that you’re working on now for the Magic Containers?”

Twilight Sparkle finished eating a muffin and sipped some milk to wash it down. She calmly puts down the milk bottle and was prepared on what she will explain to Pinkie Pie. At least Twilight is always eager to give explanations and lessons on what she’s into.
“You are familiar with Fluttershy’s special talent in interacting with animals and other creatures, right?” asked Twilight.

“Yupperooni, I never seen any other pony able to do well with animals as good as Fluttershy is.” Pinkie replied.

“Well, that got me into thinking. What if everypony would like to know what animals are saying?”

“Duh! All they have to do is just rely on Fluttershy to translate for them.”

“True, but it will be too much for her handle, especially with her shy behavior and lack of self-confidence.”

Pinkie Pie understands what Twilight is pointing out. Fluttershy isn’t too good in being with other ponies besides her friends as much as she is good with animals. She also gets too worried in messing up, or too afraid of many eyes watching her. There have been rare occasions where she somehow confront her fears when it comes to her friends, but that doesn’t happen too often. 

“ Well, I have found a solution for that.”

“Teach animals to talk like us?”

Twilight Sparkle chuckles at that remark. “Actually, it’s quite the opposite that I had in mind.”

“Huh?”

“For the past few weeks, I’ve been developing a Translation spell. I managed to almost perfect it a few days ago. What it does is that the magic of the spell flows into the brain of the user. Once that happens, the spell does its work by translating anypony’s or creature’s words into our language.”

“So you’re saying the spell makes you hear them speak just like us?”

“Exactly! And not just that, the spell also causes the user to speak their language but in our minds it will still sound like we’re speaking normally. With it, it gives a 100% guarantee of complete communication.”

As soon as she heard Twilight’s explanation so far, Pinkie Pie started to grin widely and shiver with excitement. She burst out and bounced up wildly. “That is so super-duper amazing! Do me! Do me! I always wanted to ask this one question to squirrels. What do they actually think about flying squirrels? I wanted Fluttershy ask them for me but I’m afraid that she might hold back from giving me an honest answer so I always wanted to learn to speak squirrel.”

Twilight Sparkle used her levitation spell to catch Pinkie Pie and stopped from her excitement. Pinkie Pie noticed she lost her self-control and smiled nervously from embarrassment.

“As much as I want to, Pinkie, there are some flaws on the spell. First of all, the spell only works on the pony who performed it. Meaning it can only be done by unicorns, alicorns, or anypony who uses magic. Second, the spells takes a lot of magic to use, plus it only lasts for a while.” Twilight explained. Pinkie Pie started to pout after hearing that and gave a very sad look. “Luckily, that’s where the Magical Containers come in. With it, not only they can store the spell in them and let non-magic user in using them, but they can also amplify the magic several times making the spell last for a very long time.” Twilight added. Pinkie Pie regain her excitement after that and started bouncing wildly again. But she soon froze in mid-air once she saw Twilight Sparkle glaring her to stop. She smiled nervously again and slowly went back on the ground. “But there is something you can do for me, Pinkie Pie.”

“Ohh, what is it? What is it?” asked Pinkie Pie excitedly. 

“I might have these Magical Containers holding my Translation spell ready as my first prototypes before tonight. I wanted you to plan a Revelation Party and show these stones being tested in front of our friends. So let Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, and Rarity know about the party and that they are invited.”

Pinkie Pie moves her eyebrows up and down a few times. “Aaaand?”

Twilight Sparkle sighs. “Fine, you can also ask Fluttershy to bring a squirrel to be our test subject.”

“You can count on me, Twilight!” the pink part pony saluted.

With that said, Pinkie Pie zipped away and quickly went on to do her given task.

“Ugh, finally some peace and quiet. Might as well finish my meal since I still got more work to do before tonight.” Groaned Twilight. She once again rummaged through the basket of food and found a tube container that says Peanut Brittle. “Ooh, peanut brittle. That’s awfully nice of the Cakes for giving one of their best sellers.”

But as soon as she opened it, confetti shot out from the container which startled Twilight and fell on her rear once more. Pinkie Pie peaked out from the door and giggled. “Tee-hee-hee-hee-hee. Sorry, Twilight. I couldn’t help myself. Bye!” With that, Pinkie slips away.

“AAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUGH!!! PINKIE PIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEE!!!”

> Chapter 3: No Need for Returning Inventions and New Magical Items, part 3
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------


It was now night time at the Masaki Residence. Almost everyone is asleep at this time. Only reason it’s almost was because Washu was still doing the finishing touches of the new and improved Dimensional Cause-And-Effect Controller, aka Dimensional Tuner MK II Pro, or whatever name Washu still plans to give it once it’s finished. And she isn’t the only one awake at this hour too, as a certain space pirate will soon start her move. In Ryoko’s room, we see her looking like she is asleep, but soon opened her eyes and showed a mischievous grin on her face. Ryoko got out of her bed and quietly went towards her door and got out without a sound. She slowly tip-toed through the hallway as she snickered her way to the stairs

“Washu seriously thinks that her threats are going to stop me? Well, she won’t even remember on punishing me once I alter reality my own way again. I’ll even make sure nothing will get in the way between me and Tenchi this time.” She snickered.

“You know, you could have just float your way so you won’t even make a single sound.” Said another voice.

“Oh, you’re right. Why didn’t I thought of this in the first place…” Ryoko does a double take. “Geh!”

Ryoko finally realized that she was caught by none other than Ayeka. She was resting against the wall with her arms crossed hidden in her sleeves of her robe as she shows a stern look to her rival.

“Hmph, just like the space pirate scum that you are, you never learn your lesson. Which is why as a princess of Jurai, I took my own precaution in stopping you before you caused any more trouble.” Said Ayeka.

Smiling nervously, Ryoko replied, “Oh, hey princess. Didn’t expect you were waiting for me.”

“Enough of your foolishness, Ryoko. I know you wanted to use Washu’s machine but that’s not going to happen. Either you return to your room or you will suffer the wrath of this Juraian Princess.” Ryoko squints and looked at Ayeka with suspicion. Ayeka blinks a couple of times nervously from Ryoko’s staring. “Is something wrong?”

“Oh, is that your game, huh princess? You’re not fooling me. Not one bit.” Grinned Ryoko.

“Wha’, whatever do you mean by that?”

“You know what I’m talking about. You ain’t just patrolling to prevent me from going to Washu’s lab but you also wanted to use her machine as much as I do.”

Ayeka started to sweat immediately since Ryoko was right on the mark. She knew her rival was going to use the machine so she decided to stop her so that she could use it first. She couldn’t forget how her reality went. It was going smoothly with her marriage with Tenchi already arranged in her feudal Japan setting until the space pirate interfered. She thought she would redeem herself if she uses it once more before anyone else does. She shook her head and regained her composure. “Grr, that is not true. Stop putting words in my-“ Her mouth was covered by Ryoko’s hand before she could finish.

Ryoko placed an index finger in front of her mouth and whispers, “Ssshhhh, not so loud. You gonna wake up everyone if you gonna’ start being all high and mighty now.  Again, stop fooling the both us. How about this? We know we both want to use the machine, right?”
“Mmm-hmm.” Muffled Ayeka’s voice under Ryoko’s hand.

“Well, just this once, we’ll work together and share the machine between the both us. Seeing how Washu tweaked it and it’s just us using it, no way that it’s gonna mess up on us and will be easy for us to make our own separate realities. Agreed?”

Ryoko let go of her hand from covering Ayeka’s mouth. Ayeka is finally calmed and took a deep breath.

“Agreed. Be glad I’m doing this, although I have a strange feeling I’ll regret from letting you do this later on.” Said Ayeka.

And so, Ryoko and Ayeka formed an unexpected temporary alliance. It’s rare for them that they actually work with one another for other purposes besides anything involving saving Tenchi and/or the Universe. But they do share a common goal and it’s not easy for them to deny an opportunity of bending reality in their own image. But little did they know that they were noticed by a dark silhouette coming from one of the rooms. The girls already managed to go down the stairs without making a sound and reached the stair closet that leads to Washu’s lab. Ryoko and Ayeka looked at each other; both nodded their heads in agreement and entered the closet door. No matter how many times they entered Washu’s laboratory, the inside always look so spacious, easy to walk around, while surrounded by many of the vast machines and trinkets she made. It’s all thanks to using the sub dimensional space of the house. From what the girls can tell from experience, each area has its own sub-dimensional behind, which is also much larger than the original area for some reason, and Washu somehow can freely use it. It was thanks to her that she made a hot spring bath house in the sub-dimensional space within the house’s only bathroom only women can access to. Tenchi’s father, Nobuyuki Masaki, is the known pervert within the house and he’s always been trying to get a peek of the girls having their time in the bathroom, but unable to if they were in the sub-dimension of the bathroom .  It’s even worse for him whenever he still hears their voices while they’re in that said space, when enjoying their laughter and chit-chat were frustrating and taunting to him. 

Ryoko and Ayeka tread on quietly while Ryoko being the leader. But then Ayeka thought of something she didn’t realized until now.

“Ryoko?” said Ayeka.

“Yeah? What is it?” the space pirate replied.

“Hate to be rude, but is it alright if I ask you something?”

“Sure. What’s up?”

“It’s about Washu’s theory on the existence of other realities. Well, something occurred to me.”

“Go on, what about it?”

“Well, I noticed that you and Washu are somewhat similar in a few ways.”

Ryoko raised an eyebrow with a dumbfounded look. “Huh?”

“From physical appearance like both your hairstyles to your personalities sometimes. So it made me think that do you think there is a reality where you have Washu as your mother?”

Ryoko suddenly face-vaulted from shock after hearing Ayeka’s words. This is something she never expected to hear. She clenches her fist to Ayeka. “Seriously? No way there’s a chance in Hell that I would have that crazy bitch as my mom!”

Ayeka thrusts her arms down in defense. “I apologize for my assumption. The second reason I thought of this is because you hardly mentioned about your family, specifically your parents.”

Ryoko turned her head away and look disappointed. Ayeka blinked a few times from Ryoko’s sudden behavior. Did she tread on something that actually hurt Ryoko emotionally?

Ryoko rubs one of her arms. “I really don’t want to talk about it.”

“Oh my, I did not expect that I would intrude on something that might have been very serious to you.” Said Ayeka.

Ryoko sighs and place one hand on her head and the other on her hip. “It’s alright. You know what? Maybe its best I tell you about it. It’s something I really want to get out of my chest. Besides, I’m too embarrassed to tell this to Tenchi or the others.”

Ayeka was shocked. She and Ryoko have always been rivals for a long time and they hardly agree with each other. But this might be the first time she opens up to her.

“You really don’t have to.” Ayeka said.

“Seriously, you really need to hear this. Just promise me you won’t tell anyone, okay?”

Ayeka places her hand on to heart and nodded. “You have my word.”

“First of, I DO have parents. My mom and dad used to be rival space pirates. They always fight to see who’s the better criminal than the other. Nothing serious, just who can beat up the toughest thugs or steal the most loot. Thanks to their long rivalry, guess they finally fell in love and got hitched and soon after that I was born. Because of me, they retired from their space pirating and decided we all live on Jurai. 

“But it wasn’t so easy, pirating was my parents’ main source of income, and it was hard for both of them to find jobs since they were known ex-criminals. Then one day, my dad couldn’t take the trouble on our income anymore and decided he get out from retirement. He asked my mom to take care of me on her own while he was away. Ever since he left, he never came back. I was still a little kid back then and hardly knew what was going on, but my mom was so loyal to my dad and continued to support me even when things went on the deep end.

“As soon I got old enough to support myself, my mom decided to head out on her own. She still believes my dad is still out there somewhere in the universe. I was so scared on what’s going to happen, but she encouraged me to live on however I wanted, but promised she will come back with him soon. After that, let’s say life wasn’t so well for me and decided to take on the family business. The rest was history.”

Ayeka covers her mouth with her sleeve looking teary eyed. “That is a sad story. I never knew you went through such an awful path.”

Ryoko takes a deep breath and smiles. “Well, I feel a whole a lot better. But please don’t judge me, okay? Don’t you ever think I’m some sort of softie. Maybe my parents never made the right choices, but they took care of me nevertheless, damn it. Besides, once I was on my own, all the choices I made were my doing and had no regrets of being a space pirate, especially since it’s so much fun.” She takes Ayeka’s wrist and drags the princess with her. “C’mon, princess, we got our realities to make.”

For once, Ayeka was glad to have able to calm Ryoko by hearing her story. Even though she might have thought differently of her at one point, she made sure their relationship never changed as they head on to the machine.

“We found it!” exclaimed Ayeka.

“Well, this is it. All we need now is to decide to use it first.” Said Ryoko.

Ryoko and Ayeka stared at each other determingly as they knew how they will settle it.

“Are you thinking what I’m thinking, Ryoko?” the princess asked.

“If we settle it by Rock-Paper-Scissors, then yes. Let’s do this.” Replied the space pirate.

Ayeka pulls back fist held by her wrist. “Jan-“

Ryoko does the same. “Ken-“

“Pon!” they both called out in unison.

Once that was said, they threw their fist and revealed their weapons of choice of this battle. It soon revealed that Ayeka was the winner as she threw Paper against Ryoko’s Rock.

“Looks like I’m first Ryoko. Oh ho ho ho!” Ayeka exclaimed.

Ryoko was teary eyed in frustration. “Yeah, yeah, I know. Just go on and set up your stupid reality.”

Ayeka head towards the machine. She then looks back to Ryoko and said her final words. “By the way, sometimes you aren’t such a bad person. But maybe I’ll make you into a better one fitting for me in my reality.”

Ryoko grins at that. “Say that as much as you want, but I might have to make you into a miserable one in my reality if you do that.”

“Not so fast!” came two other voices.

Ryoko and Ayeka stepped back as they heard those voices. But then two silhouettes appeared behind the machine, one appearing on their own side of the machine. Ryoko and Ayeka were stunned as the two silhouettes revealed to be Tenchi and Kiyone.

“Lord Tenchi!?” said Ayeka.

“Kiyone!?” said Ryoko

“Didn’t expect you two would find us here, huh?” asked Kiyone.

Ayeka was at a loss for words. “Miss Kiyone…I…Lord Tenchi…uuhhh…”

And Tenchi was a bit disappointed. “Ayeka, I can’t believe you. I expected Ryoko would do something like this, but you’re in cahoots with her too?”

Ayeka could only lower her head in shame.

“Wait, don’t tell me you guys wanted to use the machine.” Said Ryoko.

“WRONG!” came another voice.

Out of the shadows, Washu appeared and she was not very happy with what was in front of her. She groans, showing all of her frustration towards Ryoko and Ayeka with her arms crossed, while one of her index fingers tapping it repeatedly.

Ryoko smileed nervously with a crooked face and sweatdrops. Shit! This is just Great! “Uh, hey Washu. How’s it going? Eh heh heh-heh…”

Washu thrusts her arms and slammed her foot down in anger. “I warned you all not to touch the machine without my supervision! But it seems you two are the only ones who haven’t learned their lesson from last time.”

Ayeka chuckled nervously and placed her arms down politely while looking away. “Well, this is surely an embarrassing moment.”

Ryoko also chuckled nervously and started scratching her cheek with her index finger. “It can’t be helped. What you expect us to do when we have a machine that can bend reality any way we want? Just wait and do nothing? Like Hell we will!”

Washu crossed her arms. “Hmph, this is just what I expected. Thus, this is why I asked Tenchi and Kiyone here to guard the machine just for tonight. They were the only ones I could trust in the house… unlike you two!”

“And there’s no way I want go through that stupid altered reality misadventure again. I mean, it was nice when I managed to get my reality. But no matter what I do, Mihoshi somehow intervenes. I still think Fate is playing a cruel joke on me.” Kiyone added.

“Well, Ryoko and Ayeka, do you have anything to say about this?” said Tenchi.

Both Ryoko and Ayeka were speechless. They have their heads down in shame as Ayeka is pressing her index fingers together, while Ryoko dropped her arms like they were a pair of heavy metal bars. They never expect something like this would happen. Actually, they did expect this deep down in their hearts. It’s just denied the fact of ever happening and hoped it never did, but the big shocker for them of Washu’s move of hiring guards to protect the machine. It was more embarrassing that she hired Tenchi to guard the machine. They definitely lost some good points in front of Tenchi. But Ayeka finally spoke out.

“Well, you see…the thing is…” Ayeka started, but then pressed her arms against her chest and pointed at Ryoko with her eyes closed. “Ryoko made me do it!”

“WHAT!?” exclaimed a surprised Ryoko.

“She was the one who wanted to use the machine most of all. She was convinced she can’t do it alone so she offered me that I use the machine first if I helped her.”

“Why you no-good stool pigeon! I knew I shouldn’t have trusted you in the first place.”

“Well, I rather let you take blame than to let Tenchi think I’m some sort hooligan like you are. Besides, you were the one who made the first move to sneak into Washu’s laboratory.”

“Grr! I thought we had a good moment after I told you my past. Guess I was wrong now. This the last time ever let you work with me!”

“Big Sister!” came a third voice.

Everyone stopped their argument and noticed who just shouted at Ayeka. Sasami also came out of the shadows while carrying Ryo-Ohki pressing against her chest. They both gave stern looks to the troublesome duo.

“Sasami? Why are you up this late?” asked Ayeka.

“I knew you were up to something when got up at this hour so I decided to keep an eye on you.” Her young sister replied.

Ryoko grins mischievously. “Ooh, busted by your own cute little sister. Serves you right.”

Ayeka smiles nervously. “Sasami, I can explain…”

“No need.” Sasami interrupted. “I saw the whole thing. I thought you were considerate for everyone in the house when you decide to stop Ryoko from sneaking in. But then she managed to convince you help her, or is it more like you originally going to use the machine too, and decided to take advantage of the situation by having Ryoko help you.”

Ayeka thought it was bad enough she was caught by her own true love, but she never thought it would be far worse than that being caught by her own family and being lecture by her own younger sister. That definitely kept Ayeka silent with her head and arms down in shame.

Ryoko snickers at this. “This is so rich! Sasami is here is a regular Sherlock Holmes. She is definitely no fool. Bwa ha ha ha!”
Sasami  then glared at Ryoko. “You’re still at the wrong too, Ryoko. Don’t think I have forgotten that you were the one convinced my sister to help.”

“Aw, c’mon, Sasami. You don’t have to be like that.”

“Mya, mya!” meowed Ryo-Ohki.

“You too, Ryo-Ohki!?” said Ryoko.

“Myaaaa!”

“You seriously think I’m mostly at fault at this?”

Ayeka snickered with her sleeved placed in front of her mouth. “Seems the tables have turned. Even your own little companion is against you.”

“Grr! Just you wait, Ryo-Ohki. You won’t get away so easily after you sided with the goodie two-shoes here. The next time you eat some carrots, I’ll make sure that I shove them down your throat.” Ryoko shot back.

Ryo-Ohki flinched from Ryoko’s threat and cried against Sasami’s chest. “How could do that, Ryoko? Saying such bad things to poor Ryo-Ohki. She was only concerned about you.” Said Sasami.

Ryoko crosses her arms and looked away. “ Hmph, I don’t care. Because of what of that cabbit did, she became traitor #2.”

Washu was at her wits end. “That’s enough! I can’t take this anymore. Seriously, I haven’t slept yet and all this drama is getting to me! Ryoko and Ayeka, you two are forbidden to use the All-Purpose Dimensional Transporter! And if I catch you two again, I’ll make to turn both of you into kappa and stay that way forever!”

“You know, all this wouldn’t have happened if you haven’t decided to work on that stupid contraption. You’re nothing but a half-rate mad scientist with a big ego that ends up creating ludicrous inventions that harms everyone in this house.” Ryoko replied.

Washu storms toward Ryoko. “What?!”

“You heard me, shorty!”

“Calm down, you two. We really don’t want another fight here.” Said Kiyone, trying to defuse the situation.

“Shouldn’t you be concerned about yourself too, Kiyone? Maybe you planned to use the machine yourself behind our backs since you kept mentioning how you didn’t want poor Mihoshi be involved with your life.” Said Ayeka.

Kiyone was dumbfounded. “Huh? You truly can’t mean that. Its true Mihoshi can be a menace to me at times. But I finally accepted her for who she is. I just wanted things to go right for once while I’m with her.”

The elder Princess pointed her finger at Kiyone. “Say all you want, but you can’t hide your desire of using the machine.”

“Quiet!” Kiyone shouted back.

“Why everyone has to be so mean to each other?” cried Sasami.

“Myaaa….” Added Ryo-Ohki.

“Everyone, stop arguing! This is getting out of hand!” Tenchi shouted.

On and on, everyone in Wahsu’s lab continued arguing to one another. There have been moments like this before, but not as bad as this time. Unbeknownst to them, Mihoshi appeared all half asleep in her pink tank-top and shorts while dragging her blanket and holding an empty glass. She ignored the bickering that’s going on as she confused it as the TV being left on. Then she finally reached to the control panel of Washu’s machine.

Mihoshi was still in a dazed while rubbing her eyes while yawning. “So thirsty… Finally, got to the sink.”

Washu was the first to notice and gawked as to what Mihoshi is about to do.

“Ack! Mihoshi!? Oy’, oy’, oy’, stay away from that!” shouted Washu. Everyone else stopped and they finally noticed what’s going on and reacted. But it was too late, with one press of a button from Mihoshi’s index finger, the machine started to malfunction. “Noooo!”

“Damn it, Washu! I thought you finally finished working with this blasted thing.” Said Ryoko.

“I did, but I forgot to restart the machine to have the new tweaks to take effect. But what’s happening with the machine now is much more different than last time.” Washu explained.

“Wasn’t it because no one put any input on the machine?” asked Tenchi.

“Could be.”

Kiyone shrugs. “Why! Why do have I end up with such a horrible partner?!”

Ryo-Ohki was startled from what’s happening with the machine so she let go from Sasami’s hold, scuttled away and hid behind Tenchi’s leg.

Mihoshi finally woke up. ”Oh, hey guys. Why are you all doing in the kitchen?”

“You stupid idiot!” shouted everyone in union.

Suddenly a huge flash of light came from the machine. All of the girls were the ones to be hit first from the light since they became like a wall in front of him. They all yelled in terror as the light de-materialized the girls right in front of Tenchi’s and Ryo-Ohki’s eyes, then the light blinded them. A few minutes passed by, Tenchi and Ryo-Ohki were unconscious on the floor but he soon woke up. 

Tenchi rubs his eyes to recover his vision after he woke up. “What happened… Wait, I remember. Mihoshi ruined Washu’s machine and all of sudden this flash of light came out of nowhere and hit the girls. I hope they are all right.”

Tenchi got up and was about to head where the girls were standing, but then he froze from where he was standing. Right in front of Tenchi’s eyes, what was once the spot where all of his friends were standing, now stood a pile of unconscious women that Tenchi not recognize…. What’s worse that they are all naked!

“No…way! Who are all these girls!?” Tenchi exclaimed.

The first girl he noticed had long purple hair with both a violet and pink stripe, British-Indian colored skin, and her body is balanced with C-cup breasts but her hips looked wide and thick. Although she has a young face, Tenchi can’t help but think that she is mature after looking at those hips. He took a double take when he saw her pubic hair. Being fully natural and unshaved, with a full triangle on the front crotch and covering both other lips of her vulva, that didn’t surprise him at all except indicating she was probably American. What did cause him to do a double take was the color. It was darker, but it matched the hair on her head perfectly, right down to the single pink and violet stripe!

The next girl Tenchi noticed had long fluffy pink hair with side tails, white normal skin, and her body almost matches as the first. The reason why it’s almost is because her hips aren’t as wide and thick as the first one but her breasts are a little bigger to make up for it plus she is a little taller than the first one. She too had a full all natural 70’s bush, and like the first, hers matched her head’s hair, and because her hair was fluffy, so was the triangle of her pubes, making it look a bit bigger and pooflier.

After her, there was this one girl with middle long hair with a hair-color style Tenchi never seen before. It looked like she had several different colors as if her hair had the colors of a rainbow. Her skin is lightly tanned so she looks like she spends outside beneath the sun a lot. Her figure is very athletic and has strong legs but it seems her breasts are the only ones that doesn’t match with her body since they are bigger than the first two girls he noticed, at least above D-Cup. But that’s nothing compare to her own pubic hair. Tenchi’s eyes became wide as dinner plates when he noticed her pubes’ colors. Like the others, it was a full natural bush, but what made him nearly fall back in disbelieve was that the bush was also rainbow colored, made of six colors – red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple – in vertical strips going down the triangle and vulva of the bush, with the red, orange, and yellow strips covering the right outer lip of the vulva, and the green, blue, and purple strips covering the left, making the whole thing look completely natural, and not dyed like he first thought.

Then Tenchi saw the most noticeable out of all the girls. This one girl had long blonde hair and had freckles on her face. But what makes her noticeable than the others is her large frame. She was very tall with lightly tanned peach colored skin, much taller than the others. Heck, she would make Tenchi look feebler than he ever was. Not just that, it’s very toned and muscular plus he never seen breasts that large. They are definitely bigger than her head or Tenchi’s. Not only that, but the triangle of her own full natural bush was also the biggest he’s ever seen, with the triangle of the dark brown pubes stopping just half-way up to her bully button. Tenchi gawked and gulped as he turns red from embarrassment after noticing those large round breasts and the big bush.

Just as he thought he would try to recover from seeing the last girl, blood came out of Tenchi’s nose as soon as he noticed the next one. This girl had breasts so big that they cover her abdomen, basically they are almost as big as her body. She has stylish long blue hair, a beautiful body with snow white skin and a waist so thin that gives her body an incredible hourglass shape, and long sexy legs. Unlike the others, her bush was trimmed into a nice heart-shape.

Tenchi can’t believe all of the girls he was seeing. He knew his friends are all girls and have seen them naked before and with bodies that normally leave any guy to blush, but these girls’ proportions and pube colors were something he never thought would be possible. Tenchi covered his eyes and wiped the blood from his nose, but tried one more peek just to be sure and noticed the last one of the group.
She was the most normal out of the others but her cuteness factor is beyond measure than the rest. She has very long light pink hair, light colored white skin, and she has a frail yet petite body as close to a ballerina’s figure and had B-cup to average C-cup breasts. Her pubic hair was also all natural like the others, except more normal looking, with the pubes color a darker shade of pink. Out of all the breasts and pubes he has seen, Tenchi felt relieved her breasts and pubes were both more normal than the others, but still made him blush since the breasts have such a supple shape and her nipples were very noticeable. But she has an aura that just couldn’t stop Tenchi from staring at her. He even looks closer and noticed she has such soft yet full pink lips. They’re not as full as the one with the stylish blue hair, but just the right amount of fullness that makes any boy want to kiss her.

Tenchi was in panic with so many questions running in his head as he paces back and forth. Who are these girls? What happened to his friends? And worse one of all: What is he supposed to do now?

Tenchi look back at the girls just to make sure he wasn’t dreaming. But then he noticed something about them. Seems that each girl has their own mark placed on each side of their hips, each mark different than the other. The one with the purple hair has a star with mini stars around it that have unique shapes. The pink one has three balloons as her mark. The rainbow hair one has a lightning bolt with rainbow color also. The blonde one has three apples as her mark. The blue one has three diamonds for hers. And finally, the light pink haired one has butterflies for her mark. 

Why all these girls have these marks? Does it have something to do about them or are they some sort of gang where they need to put tattoos on their hips?, Tenchi thought. 

Ryo-Ohki finally woke up and also noticed this group of girls which took the place of her familiar friends. She meowed curiously as she gets closer to them and sniff them. Tenchi finally snap out of his panic state and decided to take action. “I’m glad that you’re okay, Ryo-Ohki.” He said.

“Mya?” the cabbit meowed.

“Sorry to say this but looks like everyone disappeared and all of sudden these strangers took their place. I’m guessing it’s something to do with that flash of light from Washu’s machine.”

“Mya-oh…”

“Don’t worry. I have a feeling they are all right. Right now, we need to do something about these girls.” Tenchi looks at the girls once more and then blushes and gets a nosebleed again. He then holds his nose to stop the bleeding. “First of, we just can’t leave all of them unconscious here while they’re naked now, can’t we? Let’s go get Dad and Grandpa and have this mess taken care of.”

“Mya!”

And so, Tenchi accompanied with Ryo-Ohki and went out to retrieve his father and grandfather so they can take all these girls in good care before they awake. Hopefully, these girls might give them the answers he needed once they recover.

> Chapter 4: No Need for Returning Inventions and New Magical Items, part 4
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------


It’s night time in Ponyville. The inhabitants of the town seem to be in their homes fast asleep. However, only a few were out and awake as they were the ones invited for Twilight Sparkle’s event of revealing her latest magical project. We see Rainbow Dash trotting with Fluttershy, who is also carrying a squirrel on her back, just as Pinkie Pie requested to bring for the event. 

“Oh yeah! Can’t wait to see what new egghead stuff Twilight made this time.” Exclaimed Rainbow Dash.

“Oh my, I’m surprised to see you so excited about Twilight’s work, Rainbow Dash. Normally, you don’t seem to care as much as you are right now.” Said Fluttershy.

The rainbow Pegasus smiled nervously. “Well, ever since the ability-enhancing potion incident, it definitely made me respect her work even more now. And yes, I promise I won’t cause any more trouble like that time. Seriously, I don’t want to end up at that world with those super-powered creatures again. Wouldn’t you believe they were trying to take me as their pet and calling me ‘Antoinette’? Ugh…”

Fluttershy chuckled at that. “I say it was kind of cute that they did. “Antoinette” seems like a nice name too. At least you learned your lesson on using other people’s things without permission…I mean, if you don’t mind reminding you about it.”

“It’s okay. Believe me, I never gonna do that again. Even if I did, remind me to splash myself with a bucket of icy cold water, would you?”

“Okay.”

They soon met up with Rarity and Applejack. Their other two companions seem to be as eager for the event as they are.

“Howdy, y’all! How’re you girls doing?” greeted Applejack.

“Seems you two are read for the party too, huh?” asked Rainbow.

“I wouldn’t miss it for the world, darling.” Said Rarity. “You know I never miss a social event no matter how small it is.”

“I know Twilight means well, but I just can’t shake the feeling whatever new contraption she comes up it always lead into trouble. Progress is important, but you simply can’t rush these things.” Said Applejack.

“Now, now, Applejack. You should give Twilight a chance. Besides, I heard from Pinkie Pie on what’s she is working on, and in my opinion I think it’s completely safe.”

“Well, don’t count your chickens until they’re all hatched, sugarcube. We’ll see once Twilight test that new fangled whatever-it-is.”

Rarity turned her head away from Applejack in disgust. “My word, Applejack, why do you have to be so old-fashioned. Just like keeping up with the latest fad, you should keep up with the times.”

“Well, at least being old-fashioned still gets the job done.” The farm pony snorted back.

“For crying out loud, are we gonna talk politics or are we gonna head to the party? Stop wasting time and let’s get going, you two!” Said Rainbow Dash.

“If you don’t mind, that is.” Added Fluttershy.

They all finally continued their way and reached Golden Oaks Library. As soon as they got to the door, it opened and confetti shot out from the inside. The others were startled from the sudden surprise as Pinkie Pie popped out from the door.

“Glad you guys made it. Me and Twilight were waiting for you all so come right in. Just enjoy and relax for now until we’re ready to reveal her super-duper special project.” Exclaimed Pinkie.

Rainbow Dash chuckles. “Thanks for sudden welcome, Pinkie Pie.”

Rainbow Dash entered first as the rest followed. Suddenly, Pinkie Pie got in front of Fluttershy. “Ooh, I see you managed to bring our perfect guinea pig for our test. Well, it’s actually a squirrel but I wonder why they call test subjects ‘guinea pigs’.” Said Pinkie Pie with a squee.

Fluttershy smiles nervously. “I don’t know either, eh heh heh…But you promised that this little critter here will be fine with whatever Twilight will using him on, right?”

“Don’t you worry your frail yellow wings, Fluttershy. Auntie Pinkie Pie promise your squirrel friend will be safe and sound. Cross my heart, hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye.”

Fluttershy gave she a stern look. “Again, I’m one year older than you.”

The group was now inside the library as they enjoyed the festivities. Applejack was enjoying the provided commodities like baked goods from Sugarcube Corner, bowl of punch, and such produce like apples and carrots. Fluttershy joins in and gives some food to her little squirrel friend as Pinkie Pie stares eagerly at the squirrel, showing how anxious she is to use Twilight’s magical item on him. Rarity mingles with Rainbow Dash.

“You know, Rainbow Dash, do you ever get tired of having that wild yet unruly mane and tail of yours? It doesn’t hurt to brush them thoroughly every now and then.” Rarity said.

Rainbow Dash raised eyebrow. “Excuse me?”

“In fact, maybe you should visit the Carousel Boutique tomorrow. I’ll personally have your mane and tail look very spiffy. Who knows? Maybe you might attract a fine young stallion for you to meet.”

Rainbow Dash turns her head away in disgust. “First of, my mane and tail look fine,  thank you very much. Besides, what’s the point of brushing them if they’ll get messed up from my fast flying? And second, I do not, REPEAT, do not need a coltfriend. Having one would just get in the way of my training at the Wonderbolts Academy and my job.”

“Well now, I was only trying to help, darling. You don’t need to be in such a huff to me like that.”

“Well, maybe you should chill out for once.” Rainbow then smirked. “In fact, all that stress from designing and taking care of your good looks is NOT doing good for your complexion. I think you’re getting wrinkles right now, heh-heh.”

Rarity gasps. “Really?” Then uses a levitation spell to hold up a mirror towards her face. “Where WHERE!?”

Rainbow Dash fell on her back in laughter. “Bwa ha ha ha! Can’t believe you fell for that! You really are worry art when it comes to your looks.”

“ Grr! Not funny, you careless brute!”

Rainbow Dash rushes to Rarity and stares her down. “Hey! Who are you calling a brute?”

They both started to argue as they cause trouble for the party. Applejack rushed in and stopped them before they go any further, being the peacekeeper that she is. Fluttershy sighs in disappointment from the scene she just seen since she usually avoids getting involved in such quarrels. A set of curtains were placed in front of everyone. Behind them, Twilight Sparkle prepares her presentation of revealing the finished prototypes of her project. She paces back and forth with anticipation while Spike sits on top of crate while snacking on a few gems.

“Okay, okay, settle down.  Everything will be fine. Just need to check to see if all is ready.” Twilight started while Spike munched on some snacks. “Spiiiike!”

Her dragon assistant gulps, then smiles nervously. “Sorry about that. Okay, list is ready.”

“Prototypes?”

Spike pulls out sheet revealing the finished magic containers. “Check.”

“Audience ready for Presentation?”

Pinkie Pie enters the curtain and smiles showing she did her job. “Crowd is warmed up and wearing to go, Twilight.”

“Check.” Said Spike.

“Subject brought for first testing?” asked Twilight.

Pinkie Pie pulls a curtain to Twilight, showing Fluttershy’s squirrel on the table. “Squirrel is on site, nuts and all.”

“Double check.” Added Spike.

Twilight smiled. “Great! Pinkie Pie begin introduction!”

“Yes, ma’m!” The party pony saluted.

Pinkie Pie got out and begins her introduction for everyone. “Thank you, everypony, for joining in on this special night. Twilight have an special funarooni project that I know all of you will love and she worked really, really hard on it. So without further ado, heeeeeeeeeeeereeee’s------“

“Just get it over with!” shouted Rainbow Dash.

Pinkie Pie speaks quickly. “Here’s Twilight Sparkle!”

Everypony stomped their hooves as Twilight Sparkle made her appearance after Spike opened the curtains for her. Behind her, there was the stand that holds the prototype stones she worked on all day, being covered by a sheet.

“Thank you all for coming here, everypony. Right now, allow me to explain what have I been working on for quite some time. –Ahem- First of, we’re all familiar in Fluttershy’s amazing special talent of communicating with animals that we admire, correct?” Twilight started.

Everyone looked at Fluttershy. All the attention made Fluttershy blush and smiled nervously while making a cute sound.

“Yeah, what about it?” came Rainbow’s reply.

Twilight continued. “Have you guys ever thought just once that you wish you be able to communicate with animals too?”

Everypony took a moment on that thought and agreed with one another, except Rainbow Dash who shrugged it off. “What’s the point? We have Fluttershy for that. And if you make everypony able to talk with animals, then that makes her special talent less special.” She exclaimed.

“Actually, I don’t mind at all. If everypony able to understand animals like I do, then they be able to know more about them and be closer with each other.” Said Fluttershy.

“Fluttershy, seeing you being easy-going still surprise me.”

“And that is what I’m trying to point out.” Twilight continued. “But communication with animals won’t stop there. I also want improve our relationships with international friends outside of Equestria and with other creatures by breaking the language barrier. That is why I’ve been working on a Translation Spell that will let us not only translate to us on what other foreign languages other beings speak,  but also make us speak in their language as well.”

“Simply marvelous! I always wanted to meet ponies from Prance. Well, my Prench isn’t half bad but I do want to speak with them to the fullest. So how does this spell works?” asked Rarity.

Spike brought a blackboard to Twilight Sparkle that shows a chart of how the Translation spell works. Twilight spoke again. “As you can see in this chart, the magic of the spell is sent straight to the brain of the user. Once the user is interacting with a fellow foreign speaker, the spell does its work. As soon as the spell recognizes the being’s language you’re not familiar with, its magic re-arranges the brainwaves and you completely hear him/her fully translated in their own words and accent. And as you speak with them, the spell re-arranges the brainwaves once more. You may sound like that you’re speaking your main language, but the spell is making you think that you are and that you’re actually speaking in your foreign friend’s language. Thus the spell gives 100% clear communication between both parties. In simple terms, you can talk to them and they can talk to you with no problems.”

Everypony understood Twilight’s explanation and show the excitement on their faces. Twilight settles everyone down as she is not finished. “However, there are some flaws on the spell. First, it takes a lot of magic to perform this spell. And second, it only lasts for a little bit, not even enough for a small conversation. Luckily, I found some very special stones thanks to today’s gem hunt with Rarity that will solve this problem. She managed to discover the very same stones used by many of Starswirl the Bearded’s researches, Magic Containers. They are transparent stones that are able to store any type of magic and amplify, and they were especially made to give non-magic beings the ability to use magic. Today, I finished the first prototypes of my newest project in which I now reveal to you all…”

Twilight pulled away the sheet and revealed the newly worked Magic Containers, each one made into pendants with the stones carved into everyone’s cutie marks. Everypony gasped and gazed at once as the transparent stones now filled with bright colored magic with colors that matches the cutie mark’s bearers.

“I call them Translation Stones. These once empty Magic Containers now carry my Translation spell. Anypony that wears these stones around their necks will instantly go through the effects of the spell with no problems or bad side effects. Thanks to the amplification properties of the stones, not only do they multiply the power of the spell by several times but also its duration. Just being prototypes and knowing how much magic it takes to perform the spell, I only used a little bit of magic for them and my guess is that they only last for a few days, but still work effectively. You’ll know that the stones lose its effect once its stored magic is gone, when its unique shine and color fades away until its completely transparent. With that said and done, I completely show my newest project.”

Pinkie Pie poses and presents the stones. “Ta-da!”

Applejack fixes her hat. “Hoo doggy! For once, I’m actually impressed with one of your magical inventions. Only on question remains to be answered: do they actually work?”

“I’m glad that you asked, Applejack. You are all lucky that you will witness the stones’ first testing phase. Pinkie Pie here happily volunteered in testing one of the stones so we will start right away.” Twilight explained.

Twilight Sparkle presents Pinkie Pie with her matching Translation Stone pendant. She tied it around Pinkie Pie’s next very carefully. Pinkie happily giggles as she takes a closer look at her stone. It shines so brightly and ominous that Pinkie couldn’t help but stare at it even more as she was charmed by it.

Twilight Sparkle clears throat. “Um, Pinkie?”

“Oops, sorry Twilight. Can’t help but stare it. It just looks so pretty.” Said Pinkie.

“Okay, then. Fluttershy, will you bring your squirrel friend, please?”

Fluttershy nervously, yet slowly, trotted her way up to Pinkie Pie and Twilight Sparkle. She couldn’t help but worry about the squirrel friend, even though they made sure nothing bad will happen to him. Spike prepared a stool for the squirrel to stand on so he and Pinkie Pie can meet eye to eye. Fluttershy took squirrel and safely placed him on the stool.

“Again, are you positively sure he’ll be alright?” The timid pegasus asked.

“Don’t worry, Fluttershy. He’ll be just fine.” Twilight replied.

“If you say so.” Fluttershy then focuses on the squirrel. “You just stand there and be a good little trooper, okay?”

The squirrel squeaked and nodded to what Fluttershy then she trotted back to her original spot. It seems her nervousness faded away a little knowing that she can trust her friends. Pinkie Pie and the squirrel focused at Twilight Sparkle.

“Go ahead, Pinkie Pie. Try talking to him.” Said Twilight.

Pinkie Pie squeed with delight. “Finally! Been meaning to ask this for so long.” She then clears her throat. “So, little squirrel, what do you think your cousins, the flying squirrels?”

The squirrel made a chatter of squeaks to answer Pinkie Pie’s question. Pinkie Pie looked dumbfounded, not knowing what he was trying to say. She cleans one of her ears with her hoof thinking she might not be hearing well.

“Could you repeat that?” she asked.

The squirrel repeats himself for Pinkie Pie but still she didn’t understood anything.

“Well, Pinkie Pie?” Twilight asked.

Pinkie Pie looked disappointed. “Sorry, Twilight. I got nothing.”

Twilight taps under her muzzle with her hoof. “Hmm, I know Pinkie Pie was speaking normally just now, so I thought the stones would work at least by translating the squirrel.” Twilight used her Levitation spell on the remaining stone pendants and brought them to the others and tied them around their necks. She also hers around her neck as well. “I might have you all test the others to see if they work. Let’s try again.”

The squirrel squeaks once more. Everyone look confused except for Fluttershy since she understood without needing her stone.

“Mines is not working.” Said Twilight. “Anything for you guys?”

“Nothing.” Said Rarity.

“Nope.” Replied Applejack.

“Nada.” Added Rainbow Dash.

“Mine didn’t work either. But I can still tell what he just said if you like.” Said Fluttershy.

Pinkie Pie got a stern look.“No! I want to hear it straight from squirrel’s mouth!”

Twilight Sparkle groans. “Why now? And I put so much effort on my presentation. Maybe they’re not carrying enough magic. Wait up.”

Twilight used her Levitation spell and took Pinkie Pie’s pendant. Pinkie Pie’s ears dropped, sat on her flank, and pouted knowing she had to wait. Twilight inspected Pinkie’s stone carefully. She then focuses her magic from her horn as she readies to cast it on the stone. The stone started charging the magic it’s receiving from Twilight as it continues to glow brightly. Pinkie Pie looked impatient as she looks back and forth anxiously, but finally she snapped.

“AAUUGH!! I CAN’T TAKE THIS ANYMORE!!!” yelled Pinkie.

With her patience broken, Pinkie Pie rushed to Twilight and took her stone away from her.

“Hey! I’m not done with it!” said Twilight.

Pinkie Pie wore it back around her neck then went for the squirrel once more. She then shakes the squirrel repeatedly and yells impatiently, “WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT FLYING SQUIRRELS!? TELL ME NOOOOOOOW!!!”

She left the poor squirrel dazed after all that shaking and yelling. The others were about to say something to Pinkie on her recklessness, but then Pinkie’s started glow very strongly.

Rainbow Dash points at Pinkie’s stone with her hoof. “What is up with your stone?”

Twilight Sparkle looked sternly. “Pinkie Pie! What have you done now?”

Pinkie Pie shook her head. “I didn’t do anything! I didn’t do anything!”

The squirrel scuttered behind Spike as they stared at what’s going on. Suddenly, a beam of pink light shot from Pinkie’s stone and hits Twilight’s horn. She flinches after the hit and collapses.

“Twilight!” Shouted her friends.

Twilight Sparkle groaned in pain. “Ugh! Oh no! Pinkie’s stone is draining my magic. Why is this happening?”

“Didn’t I told ya’ somethin’ bad was gonna happen when you mess with progress? Now look what’s happening to Twilight!” said Applejack.

Fluttershy curled up and made scared noises.

“Applejack, this is not the time to be right! We need to do something before things get any worse!” said Rarity.
Rainbow Dash readies herself to step in. “I’m on it!”

The rainbow-haired pegasus quickly flew towards Pinkie Pie and was about to kick away her stone, but the built-up magic from it worked as a barrier and pushed her away. She crashes on a book shelf by her back and landed on her flank. 

Spike quickly went after and helped her to get up. “Rainbow Dash! Are you okay?” he asked.

Rainbow Dash recovers and places her hoof on her head. “I’m fine… Didn’t saw that coming.”

All of sudden, everypony else’s stones shined brightly and shot out their own beams of light and hit Twilight’s horn as well. Everypony froze from where they were. Twilight groaned in pain even more as the other stones sucks her magic as well.

“Not good!” said Applejack.

Twilight had her eyes closed during all her suffering from the stones. But then all of sudden, her eyes opened showing glowing white eyes. It’s a sign that she is going through one of her magic outbursts again, just like what happened before during the entrance exam for Princess Celestia’s School for Gifted Unicorns when she was a little filly. She started floating off the ground and shrieked in fear. Everypony got startled and stepped back. Her current state made the stones take even more magic as the stone glowed brighter and brighter. They all shielded their eyes as the stones glow too bright for them to see, filling the room, even Spike and the squirrel. Then a burst of light ignited and everyone yelled in terror from the hit. The burst was so powerful that beams of light came out from every window and opening of the library, and can be seen from outside as it also made sudden loud sound.

Some time has passed since the burst of light. Owlowiscious was outside doing his usual outing for food whenever Twilight lets him free for the night. Maybe it’s because of his animal instincts, he felt something was not right. He quickly flew as fast he could and rushed back to the library. On the way, he noticed several ponies woken up from the loud noise and a bright light that came from the library. They were all baffled and confused not knowing where it came from, but Owlowiscious might have guessed something happened to Twilight and the others, and that he hopes he is wrong. He entered the top floor window in which Twilight usually leaves it open for him. It was dark and noticed Twilight’s bed was empty. Afterwards he flew downstairs where there was still light. The first thing he noticed was Spike was unconscious as the squirrel that was with him was fine but tried to wake him up. Owlowiscious landed on Spike’s belly and pecked on  his head a few times as he tries to wake him up. Spike soon regained conscious. He opened his eyes and noticed Owlowiscious.

“Hoo!” the owl greeted.

Spike backs away a few feet in fright. “AAAGH!.. Oh, it’s just you, Owlowiscious…Ugh, I kinda feel queasy for some reason.”

Spike closed his eyes and holds his head as he took a moment to recover. But then he remembers what happened…that burst of light. He soon jumped as he realized what the reason he was knocked out was. “Twilight and the others! I hope they’re all right.”

He, Owlowiscious, and the squirrel rushed to where their friends were. But suddenly they stopped from their tracks as they froze from shock. Their friends were there no more…instead they were replacing by six different ponies, all of whom were unconscious.

Spike places his hand in front of his mouth in shock. “Oh no… They’re gone! But who are all these ponies?”

Spike took a closer look at the group of ponies and realized that they are all mares. He notice one Pegasus with an awkward mane and tail style. It’s all silver and blown back but flow with spikes, also her mane had side-tails. She had gray fur and her flank had a strange cutie mark that look like it’s some sort of red-orange beam that it can be held like a weapon and behind it is a jug he never seen before that has some sort of foreign lettering. 

The next one was a Unicorn who looked like she has the same color of her mane, tail, and fur like Twilight, except her mane and tail does not have the light purple stripe and that she has a much deeper purple color on her mane and tail, as deep as a grape. Her mane is flat but she has side-tails, her long mane was tied to two thin lower ponytails and that she was wearing some sort of forehead piece. Her tail is also flat as her mane but still long. This Unicorn has a cutie marks that look like some old yet strong and healthy tree with flourishing leaves and light colored bark. 

Next to her lies a little filly Pegasus with her light bluish-green mane and tail. Her mane is tied into two high pigtails held by ornaments and her forehead is exposed showing some light blue marks. She has light pink fur and her flank is completely blank with no cutie mark. 

After her, there was another Unicorn, and her mane and tail stands out more than the others. Her red mane is tied into a long high ponytail and it’s as spiky as the mane of the grey Pegasus, maybe more so. The front of her mane has a unique style that almost like it’s shaped into a crab and its exposing her forehead, and also have side-tails. Her fur is hot pink and she has a cutie mark that looks like a holographic laptop with a crab on the screen. 

The last two mares are both Earth Ponies. First one has blonde colored mane and tail done in a fashionable style with slight curls while her mane is tied to a high ponytail and has slightly curled side-tails. Her fur looks like tan-colored and has a cutie mark of some sort of gelatin-like pink cube. 

The other Earth Pony has dark green mane and tail, both long and sleek. Her mane almost reminded him of Pinkie Pie’s mane when it goes flat. She is wearing a red headband on her forehead. Finally, her fur was green and her cutie mark looks like some sort of badge with the initials “GXP”.

After Spike finished inspecting each of these ponies, it’s safe for him to assume that they’re not anypony that he could recognize from Ponyville, maybe not anywhere in Equestria for that matter. He can’t shake the feeling that somehow that these ponies are out of this world. Owlowiscious and the squirrel look sad at Spike, showing how worried they were that their designated caretakers and their friends were now missing.  

Spike showed a determined look on his face. This is not the time to weep, he thought. He knows that he must take action for the sake of his friends. In fact, he knows what he must do. He quickly went for a parchment paper and quill and rushed into writing his letter to Twilight’s teacher and ruler of Equestria, Princess Celestia.

        “Dear Princess Celestia:

        “This is Spike. 
        “Something terrible happened tonight. Your faithful student, Twilight Sparkle, was just showing her latest magical project at the Ponyville Library to our friends Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, and Applejack. It involved storing a spell she recently made into Magical Containers. But things went bad when Pinkie Pie got in the way, and the stones started taking Twilight Sparkle’s magic and forced her into going to one of her magic outbursts, and caused a flash of light. 
        “When I came to after that weird light, everypony went missing and in their place is a new group of ponies I never have seen before. I don’t know what to do now that Twilight and the others are gone. Please come quickly the library!

“Your faithful subject,Spike”

Spike shows a worried look. “I really hope you can do something about this…”

Spike breathed his magical green fire, burning the written parchment as it is instantly sent to Princess Celestia. All he can do now is wait and hope for the best. One thing for sure, something must have happened for a reason that her friends disappeared and were replaced by these new ponies, hence they might know something about this. But he is assured that his friends are out there somewhere. Spike only hopes that they are all fine, wherever they are.

> Chapter 5 (Tenchi-Side): No Need for Human Pony Girls, part 1
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Tenchi was lying on his back, still wearing his training clothes. He looked like he was unconscious. He soon flinched, then opened his eyes slowly. He raised his upper body, then groaned while holding his head. “Ugh, what happened? All I remember is me, my Dad, and Grandpa taking care of those American-like women… Wait a minute. Where am I?”

He looked around and saw all of his girls looking safe and sound as if nothing ever happened to them. They are all smiling and welcome Tenchi. He looked relieved knowing that they’re all well and good. But as soon as he approach to them, the girls react as they looked down and noticed that they’re turning to stone from the feet upward. Tenchi froze in fear as he sees his girls suffering in agony as the petrifaction rose up slowly. Tenchi tried to move but to no avail his legs were not responding. Sadly, all of them are completely petrified into stone leaving them in poses of shock and a look of suffering on their faces. 

Tenchi shivered from the shock but now notices that they all started to crack. Little by little, their stone bodies break until all of them finally crumbled. Tenchi’s legs finally responded but only made him collapse to his knees as he went silent and tears flowed from his eyes. His girls all gone, something he never imagined that would happen. But then the piles of crumbled rocks of his lost girls started to shake. Dark shadows flowed out from each of the piles and formed silhouettes of the girls he found on that night. He looked at them in fear as the giant silhouettes formed glowing red eyes and mouths with wide, evil grins. They also had those weird marks on the sides of their hips, shown with its represented colors. 

As a sign of danger, Tenchi started to run. He ran as fast as his legs could carry him, but it was inevitable as the one giant silhouette that represented the girl with the sparkling star mark grabbed hold of him with its hand. Tenchi yell in fear as the silhouette stares at him eagerly with its wicked smile. It soon thrust Tenchi towards its mouth and swallowed him whole with Tenchi’s last shriek of life.


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“AAAAAHHH!!!” Tenchi woke up with a sudden yell as he rose up from his bed. He breathed heavily with a cold sweat after he awoken from such a horrible nightmare. He swore it felt real. The young man took a deep breath and stared out his open shaded window, showing the bright morning. He looked out for while as he was deep thought. Everything has been happening so suddenly since yesterday: Washu re-working her Dimensional Tuner; everyone arguing because of Ryoko and Ayeka sneaking in her lab to use it for their own reasons; Mihoshi messing up the machine, thus sending all the girls to who- knows-where; and a group of weird girls that took their place appearing after the accident. He still remembers how he, his father Nobuyuki, and his grandfather Katsuhito took care of the situation that night.


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“See? I told you everything that I said was true!” Tenchi said pointing out at the group of naked girls for his father and grandfather. 

        Being the pervert that he is, Nobuyuki turned red while nose bleeding after noticing all these strange girls. Katsuhito’s reaction was totally different from his son-in-law’s. It definitely shows on his face that he never seen girls like them before and was worried about what happened to the others.

         “Tenchi, Nobuyuki, we need to take them all into the house quickly.” Said Katsuhito.  

         “Really? Great!...  –Ahem- I mean, let’s do this then. How about we carry the one with the blue hair first? We definitely need all of us to carry her since she has THOSE lugging around, heh-heh.” said Nobuyuki. 

        Tenchi looked sternly at his father. Seriously, Dad, is that all you could think of at a time like this?, he thought. 

        Katsuhito crosses his arms and glares at his son-in-law, “Don’t try to fool this old man, Nobuyuki. The girls have disappeared to somewhere that we or any of them do not know of and we cannot do anything in our power to get them back, and you’re giving in to your selfish desires at such a critical time!?” 

        Nobuyuki scratched the back of his head while looking embarrassed, “Okay, I was only joking. Sheesh, just be glad that I’m here now that I’m off from work for tomorrow.” 

         “First off, it’s obvious that all three of us will have to carry the blonde one at once so she is the first to go. We will lay her down in the guest room. After that, me and Tenchi will go for the others while you go get some sheets to cover them before we take them to their rooms. Is that clear?”

        Nobuyuki look dumbfounded after what his father-in-law told him to do. Obviously, he doesn’t trust him enough to help carry the others. He sighed and dropped his arms and said, “Okay… First space girls now we have new ones from some sort of other world. What has become of my life? Am I just some sort of comedy relief for a Sci-Fi show?”

Tenchi couldn’t help but snicker from what his father just said, knowing he kind of deserve this treatment. They both joined Katsuhito and started carrying the tall yet muscular blonde girl with the apple marks. They struggled from knowing full well how heavy she would be from her size. During the time they were carrying her, Tenchi look worried wondering how the others are doing wherever they are. 

Katsuhito took notice of Tenchi and reassured him, “Don’t worry, Tenchi. Everything is going to be all right. I know you’re worried about the girls. But trust me, they should be fine. You know them more than anyone how resourceful they are. For now, let’s focus taking care of these newcomers. Hopefully, they might know more on this situation than we do.”

Tenchi felt a little better from his grandfather’s words. He took a deep breath and did his best in carrying the blonde girl.


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But still, I wonder how the girls are all doing. By now, Washu must have figured out a way for everyone to return home, Tenchi thought as he continues to stare at the window. But what if something went wrong…., he shook his head trying to ignore that thought, No. Grandpa said I need to trust them. They have to pull through somehow. 

He then notices Ryo-Ohki waking up from her sleep beside his bed. Since Ryoko and Sasami are gone, Tenchi was the only one she can stay close to. He thinks she is more worried about the others more than he is. ”Oh, morning, Ryo-Ohki.” he said to the cabbit. Ryo-Ohki meowed and stretched after her long sleep, then jump onto the bed and got close to Tenchi. He smiled and rubbed her little head as she felt pleased from that feeling. “You must be worried sick about the girls since last night, huh?”

“Myaa…” Ryo-Ohki responded sadly. 

“Don’t worry, everything will be all right somehow. Anyway, we should meet Dad and Grandpa and see how they’re doing after I freshen up.”

He got out of bed and the two both went out as Tenchi headed to the2nd floor bathroom. After that, he changed into his field clothes back at his room on the 3rd floor and headed back downstairs. Before heading down to the 1st floor, he decided to check his friends’ rooms that are now inhabited by these unknown ladies. He checked Ryoko’s room and noticed the one with the rainbow colored hair was resting on her sofa-like bed. She is also wearing Ryoko’s indoor clothes. Seems that his grandfather took care of clothing them by himself, knowing full well that Tenchi might not have been able to handle the task and that his father might have taken advantage of the girls. He then noticed the rainbow haired girl looked well in Ryoko’s clothes. Well, the hair color might have exaggerated somewhat with the colors of the clothes, but her body did fit well into them. But then Tenchi noticed the tail that is usually attached to the clothes. The once cat-like tail was no more, now replaced with what looked to be a horse’s tail, with colors matching with the girl’s hair. 

Tenchi shook his head in disbelief. He doesn’t remember Ryoko’s clothes changing into different tails before. Actually, he doesn’t know much about how fashion on other planets worked. He could guess that maybe the tail changes depending on the wearer. He could definitely compare Ryoko as a mischievous cat so he can safely assume that’s why she got the cat tail on her clothes in the first place. But why a horse’s tail for this girl?

Tenchi then focuses on the glowing stone placed on Ryoko’s short table near the bed and picks it up. It’s shaped based on the weird mark the girl has on the sides of her hips. He then remembers he and his grandfather found all these stones matching the girls’ marks right after they finished taking them to their rooms. His grandfather was the one who suggested leaving those stones to their designated owners by their marks. Tenchi couldn’t help but stare at the thunderbolt-shaped stone because of the rainbow colored glow it gave off, and was curious on what it could do. But he also remembers his grandfather’s warning on not to mess with it. He then put it back where it was and left the room. 

He decided to check the guest room where Kiyone and Mihoshi were sleeping over. The tall blonde girl and the one with the fluffy pink hair were now taking their beds. The blonde girl’s body is definitely taking too much of the bed she is on thanks to her large body and muscular physique, although it does not seem to bother her since she was still unconscious. She is still wrapped in the sheets from last night since there weren’t any clothes that could fit her. Although it seems his grandfather had tried placing on Kiyone’s clothes, but must have accidentally forced them in and noticed the shreds that remains of them lying around the floor. Tenchi face-palmed in embarrassment, having the image of his grandfather putting so much effort in clothing her in his head, hoping that he at least managed to put her in some underwear. 

He then notices the pink-haired girl wearing Mihoshi’s pink tank-top. He thought she would be wearing her long khaki pants too but instead was showing she is wearing a nice pair of panties. Tenchi blushed from noticing, but at least felt relieved that she isn’t completely naked anymore. He took a closer look and noticed that she has a nice smile on her face as if she was happily sound asleep instead of looking unconscious. Tenchi couldn’t help but chuckle from seeing her face and wonders what it was that is making her smile. It’s safe to assume that they’re okay for now.

Tenchi continue on to the next room, which were Ayeka and Sasami’s. This where they left the long light pink-haired girl and the blue-haired girl here as their room. Tenchi noticed his grandfather had trouble dressing the blue haired girl because of her incredible measurements in her curves. But he did manage to put her in one of Ayeka’s robes, specifically the one she wore when she first arrived to Tenchi’s home. The robes definitely made her look like the size of her breasts decreased because of the amount of clothing but they still managed to show some cleavage at least. Tenchi just covered his eyes with his hand as he blushed from noticing the amount of cleavage she has now. He then notices the long light pink-haired. His grandfather definitely knew what to do with her thanks to her petite body and decided to put her in Ayeka’s sleeping lingerie which almost look like a Chinese one-piece swimsuit. Tenchi blushed not from how exposed she is but how cute she is in said outfit. Tenchi turned his head away, feeling embarrassed in being in front of such a lovely lady. Finally done checking everyone and seeing that they’re okay for the time being, he then headed downstairs. 

After arriving down stairs, Tenchi finds his father sitting on the couch reading today’s newspaper. He grins eagerly noticing a certain sports article. “Current WBC Middleweight Champion, Takamura Mamoru, readies himself for his next title defense.  I can’t wait to see that match. With him, Miyata Ichiro, and that Ippo kid, this proves that it’s Japan’s time to shine in the boxing world, heh-heh.” he said.  

Tenchi leans over form the stairs, “Morning, Dad.” 

Nobuyuki turns his head to look back, “Oh, morning, Tenchi. You look better after what happened last night.”

Tenchi got off the stairs and got close to his dad. “Yeah, a little. I already checked those girls. They look fine for now. But what happened to the purple-haired one with the stripe. She wasn’t with the others.” he said. 

“For some reason, she looked far worse than the others, so your grandfather had to put her under special care at the shrine. He also mentioned that he wants you to see him as soon as you got up.” His dad replied. 

“What about you? What are you going to do?” Tenchi asked. 

“Eh, don’t mind me. Today’s my day off. All I want is some rest and relaxation. Is bad enough that I have put up so much stress at work but it’s far worse that the girls are all gone and we end up with some new ones in this house. If this keeps up, maybe I should start running an inn like your great aunt is doing.” Nobuyuki answered. 

Tenchi chuckled from his father’s simple humor since he can be witty at times. He head out from the house and went on his way to the shrine as Ryo-Ohki followed.

At the shrine, Katsuhito was inside as he watched over the purple haired girl who was unconscious but looked as though she is suffering. She is resting under a futon and is also wearing Washu’s indoor clothes. Katsuhito would have had trouble finding her clothes in her laboratory since it’s so vast and spacious but he somehow managed to find a clean set from the laundry. But the weird part of this was that this set of clothes was slightly larger than its original size, considering Washu being short and only taller than Sasami. He shrugged off that fact as he focuses on the care of his visitor. 

His grandson arrived and entered the shrine. “Hey, Grandpa.  I got here as soon as Dad mentioned that you need me.” said Tenchi. 

“How are the other girls doing?” his grandfather asked as he looked behind his shoulder to his grandson. 

“Still unconscious but they seem to be fine.” he answered, then kneeled beside his grandfather. Tenchi then noticed the purple-haired girl. She was unconscious as the others while resting on the futon, but she seems to be struggling with the heavy panting she is showing. Ryo-Ohki tilts her head and looks at the girl in curiosity. “Whoa, she doesn’t look alright. What happened to her?” 

Katsuhito prepped a damp rag and placed it on her forehead then sighed. “She has a minor fever. She’s even been speaking in her sleep, but I couldn’t understand what she was saying since she was speaking in English.” He answered. 

“Could she be American as well as the others?”

“I highly doubt it. It’s because I can sense a great power from this one. This is only a guess, but I think she might be the cause of what brought herself and her companions here. The poor thing must have over exhaust her power thus leaving her in this state. However, she is recuperating nevertheless, but it will take some time for her to gain consciousness. I feel pity on this one for what she might have gone through to get here like this.”

“That’s rough. Do you think the others have that kind of power you mentioned as well?”

“I didn’t have time to check the others, but it’s unlikely. This young lady is the only one I could sense out of the others. However, we can’t ignore the possibility that they do have some sort of power, but not as strong as this girl’s. But I’m more curious of the stones these girls hold. They seem to hold almost the same power as hers.”

Tenchi looks at the unconscious girl with concern. At first, he wanted to know the answers to all the questions about these girls. But being the caring person that he is, he was more worried of the condition of this poor girl. His grandfather notices his grandson’s concern. 

“Don’t worry yourself, Tenchi. She’ll be fine. She just needs rest before she regains conscious. And once she and the rest of these girls recover, we’ll find out more about the situation.” Katsuhito said with a comforting smile to put him at ease while he placed his hand on his grandson’s shoulder. “You should head back to the house. The others might be waking up soon, so you should check on them. I’ll be fine watching this one myself.”

Tenchi smiled, feeling somewhat relieved after hearing his grandfather’s words, nodded and said, “Alright. Still, thanks for everything, gramps.” Tenchi went on his way to the house as Ryo-Ohki decided to stay with Katsuhito. He feel satisfied to see his grandson back to his usual self.


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-WHOOSH-

         “HIYAAAA!!!”

        -BUMP-

        -CRASH-

         “Rainbow Dash! Are you okay?”

         “I’m fine… Ugh, didn’t saw that coming.”

        -ZZZZAAAAP X4-

        *slight pause*

         “Not good!”

        -FWOOOOSH- *bright light*

         “AAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!”


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“AAAHH!!!”

Rainbow Dash suddenly rose her body from the bed she was resting on after she woke up with an awful shriek. She pants heavily after going through the dream, recalling that night during her friend Twilight Sparkle’s demonstration. She remembers everypony got hit by that blinding light shot off from the stones they were wearing. She suddenly felt a headache coming on as she placed her left hand on her head. 

“Ugh, didn’t expect that flash of light would knock me out so easily. I hope the others are fine.” She said to herself. Rainbow Dash then decided to look around her new surroundings. It seems she was in some sort of bedroom – a nice looking room with the wood flooring and walls. She noticed she is resting in some sort of sofa which works as a bed. “ Hmm, nice fancy place I’m in. Somepony must have taken me in while I was out.” But then she noticed the clothes she was wearing.  It looked like some sort of blue outfit with yellow stripes on the sleeves. 

She looks disgusted as she tugs her outfit. “Eww, why am I wearing these clothes? Don’t they know us ponies don’t’ need to wear any. And how come I got these big bumps on my chest?...Wait a minute.” She paused as she finally noticed her front hooves are not there anymore. Instead they are replaced what look like to her are soft claws. Rainbow started building a cold sweat as she realized the condition she is in. “What happened to my front hooves? They don’t look right at all!” She said as she turns her “not-hooves”  back and forth hoping she was still dreaming. Rainbow Dash can’t help but feel worried about her body and need to be sure on her condition as she started removing her outfit. She is not used to being in this form which gives her some difficulty to remove it, but somehow managed to do so. She looks down at her own body….it’s actually far worse than she imagined as she stares at herself in shock with silence. She was completely furless, has arms now, has two big bumps in her chest with tiny yet puffy bumps that are in the middle of each big bump,  and what used to be her hind legs have now become long normal legs with somewhat thick thighs but the rest of the legs look toned and came with their own feet. 

“What in Celestia’s Horn happened to my body!? Oooooh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh!” she said in worry while staring at her own hands. She turned her head then suddenly faced a drawer with a large mirror. The moment she looked at her image in the mirror her face went pale and her jaw dropped. She suddenly freaked out as she let out a very loud shriek. She then collapsed on to the ground as she went into tears. What has she become? She recalls the time she end up in that weird world with that giant monster and those three super powered girls who were obsessed in making her into their pet. Did she become like one of them? No! She look entirely different than them, at least they didn’t have muzzles or those “un-sharp claws,”  but had those big yet round eyes. She did have a muzzle but it look very small. She looked around in panic while still in tears, but then notices her translation stone placed on the small table. 

Her fear suddenly changed into anger as she quickly picked it up and started yelling at it. ”GRR, THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT, YOU STUPID MAGIC STONE!!! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME!? WHERE AM I!? AND WHERE ARE MY FRIENDS!?”

As suspected, the stone did not respond. After throwing her frustration towards it, Rainbow threw the stone and suddenly lowered her head and rests it behind her crossed arms as she cried herself during this dire predicament. She blames herself for not getting rid of the stones much sooner before they absorbed Twilight Sparkle’s magic. If she did, maybe all of this might have been avoided.

Suddenly, she hears footsteps. The footsteps are drawing closer towards the door and could hear the one making those footsteps as it speaks in some sort of language she does not understand. Rainbow Dash quickly recovers from her weeping. This is definitely not the time to feel guilty about herself. Whatever it is coming to her, she quickly believes it might not be friendly; it might be possible that whatever is heading towards her could be what turned her into this hideous form. She looks around hoping to find something she could use as a weapon. She then notices a small lamp placed on a stand and quickly goes for it. After that, she rushes to door and puts her back against the wall, standing next to the door. The moment that door opened, Rainbow Dash strikes down her lamp onto the creature’s head. With a loud smash from the breaking lamp, the creature collapsed and hit the floor face first. She pants heavily after striking it down, but then pauses for a moment and decides to take a closer look of it.  She squats down and turned over the body. It looks like some middle aged person with glasses and a mustache. He looks kind of stupid looking to her, but Rainbow can’t help but feel sorry for him. But the deed was done and there is no turning back for her now. She needs to find her friends and figure out how they can turn themselves back to normal and find a way back home.  Rainbow exits out from the room, wearing nothing but her pair of light blue panties. 

As she got out, she staggered and tripped from the rush. Rainbow is still not used to having her new pair of legs. When she was a pony, she did stand on her hind legs before, but not this long, plus these normal legs are different than her hind legs, making it more difficult. Best way to handle this was to walk for now until she gets used to them. She got up and found herself in a hallway of sorts with various doors. She also noticed some stairs leading down at the end, obviously leading to the exit. She took a step forward but hesitated. She shook her head and said, “No! I can’t leave just yet. It’s most likely everypony else might be in this very same place. I’ll search around quickly before that weird guy recovers.”

She placed her hands on the walls for support as she tries her best at walking. Little by little, Rainbow was starting to get her new sense of balance with her current form, but not confident enough to move her hands away from the walls. She finally reached one of the doors she wants to check. With one hand placed on the wall, she removed the other one. Rainbow stared at her free hand and started to have a good feel of it as she makes it clench her fist and open her palm a few times, then finally wiggle her fingers. She chuckled nervously seeing her fingers move. “Well, at least these things will make it a lot easier to grip on stuff now, although I still wonder how us ponies are able to do that with our hooves.” she said. She gripped her hand on the door knob, turned it, and opened. As she enters the room, she looked around. From the looks of it, she found herself in another bedroom but with two actual beds.

But Rainbow quickly discovered a large figure covered in a few layers of sheets resting on one of them. Just when she managed to escape, she didn’t expect to find herself with another creature like the one before. She stood silent for a moment but it seems the large creature was not awake since it hasn’t made a sound. Knowing that she is in the middle of danger, she couldn’t resist on taking a closer look thanks to her curiosity.  She continues side stepping against the wall to keep her balance as she heads toward it until she noticed some familiar features. This one had a long blonde mane but what suddenly caught her eyes was the mark on its exposed hip. 

Three Apples!? Oh my gosh! Applejack!, she thought as she rushes towards her friend. Even after finding Applejack’s cutie mark, Rainbow knew it was her the minute she saw the freckles on her face. Applejack looked unconscious, but still breathing. The once blue pegasus couldn’t help but examine the rest of her body, so she started pulling the sheets away, revealing her current form. Oh no, not you too…, she thought after finding out her friend became one of those creatures as well. 

However, Applejack’s body type is much more different than hers. Her Earth Pony friend looked very large and muscular. The first thing Rainbow Dash thought of after seeing Applejack was that she resembled a female Minotaur. After that thought, she was trying to resist from her humor as she holds her laughter but couldn’t take it anymore. “Bwa ha ha ha ha! Wow, Applejack, I never knew you turned into some big muscle brained freak. Hate to say, it but you deserve it for doing nothing but work all the time, heh-heh! Maybe you should start holding seminars like that Ironwill guy.” she said after she removed a tear from her eye from the laughter. But then her enjoyment turned to disgust as soon as she noticed Applejack’s chest. She had those big bumps like she does, except Applejack’s were bigger…much bigger. “Whoa, guess you have those ‘things’ too. I want to say I feel sorry for you having them that big, but why do I have the feeling that I suppose to be jealous of this?” 

Out of curiosity, Rainbow took a feel from one of Applejack’s bumps. Rainbow’s eyes widen after she felt it. It feels soft but still very firm. “Wow, never knew that one of those things would feel soft, but a bit hard too, like it had some muscle behind it.” Rainbow then starred down at her own bumps and started taking a feel at them as well. Even though they’re not as big as Applejack’s, hers feel much softer. 
“Ha, guess mines feel much better than yours,” she said with a confident look. But a thought occurred after saying those words. “Wait, if they’re really soft, did I just mean that they’re plain fat? Eww, gross!” She had a disgusted look for moment before continuing. “Well, Applejack, I definitely can’t carry you with your size now, especially having ‘those’ around. If you’re here, then the others must be here too. Sorry, AJ, but looks like I gotta come back for-MMMMPPHHH!!!” Her words stop when something just covered her mouth and pulled her in. She panicked, but hesitated because of being caught off guard, then was drag into some closet.

As soon as she got in, Rainbow was turned and faced towards the being that pulled her in. “Ssshhhh…” she whispered with one un-sharp claw placed in front of her mouth. Being inside this close, it was a little dark, but Rainbow can still see what’s in front of her. This being is wearing some plain clothes, but she is wearing a top that shows off more of her skin. She then noticed her mane, all pink and fluffy, almost like cotton candy. Rainbow’s eyes widen as she made the connection. The being knew what Rainbow was thinking, so it let go of her mouth and smiled at her. 

“Pinkie Pie?” Rainbow asked. 

The girl she assumed to be one of her friends suddenly look teary-eyed as if she is about to cry then quickly hugged her. “Ooh, Rainbow Dash! I’m so happy to see you again! You don’t know how really, really scared I am after what I’ve been through.” said Pinkie Pie as she continues to cry on Rainbow Dash’s shoulder. 

Rainbow Dash felt relieved to finally meet up her close friend. After all the bad things that had occurred, she is glad that something good finally happened during her ordeal. “I’m glad to see you too, buddy.” She said as she pats the back of Pinkie Pie’s head to calm her. 

Pinkie Pie got over her worried state then looks at Rainbow Dash. “Looks like you turned human too like me and Applejack.” Said Pinkie Pie. 

“Human?...Ack!” Rainbow squealed as she noticed Pinkie Pie poking one of her bumps. 

“Ooh! Even your chest balloons are nice and big. Not as humongous as Applejack’s, but I bet yours are squishier. Oh yeah, I call them chest balloons because of them being round soft bumps on your body.” she then giggled as she continues to poke hers. 

Rainbow Dash showed a stern look, grabs her hand, and thrust it down. “Would you just quit it? And what the heck is a ‘human’?” she asked demandingly. 

“That’s what we are now, silly filly.” She answered. 

“And how can you be sure we all turned into these ‘humans’?”

“Do you remember Lyra Hearstrings?”

“That Unicorn who sits weird on benches at Ponyville Park?”

“Yuparooni. The very same.”

“What about her?"

“I knew her for quite some time. After that incident with Twilight’s potion, I kinda told her about what happened during the time I rescued you and about dropping that blue cutie to his home. Found out that she is veeeery into humans. I gotta say, she is so obsessed about them that she wished she could be one too. If she finds out about what happened to us now, she would be so jealous. And another thing-”

“Okay, okay, I get it. Just tell me straight to the point on how you know that we’re human.”

“Um, she’s been researching about humans for a really long time so she knew everything about them, like how they look, what they eat, what they do, stuff like that. She even claimed there was a time humans existed before Princess Celestia and Princess Luna ruled Equestria. Maybe thousands and thousands of years ago. I know it’s hard to believe but I think it was so cool if it was true.”

“Wow, I thought you’re the only random pony that I know, but I never expected we had one who’s much weirder than you are.”

“Hey! Don’t call her weird.  She prefers the term, ‘anthropologically interested.’ ”

“Fine, then. I’m sorry.”

Rainbow Dash lowers her head and stares down at her un-sharp claws. She felt relieved in finding out on what she has become, but still has more questions about her current form. Pinkie Pie lean closer and smiles. 

“Bet you want to know what those are, huh? They’re called ‘hands.’ They’re like paws, except they got these appendages that look like carrot sticks, called ‘fingers,’ and these thick ones resembling baby carrots are called ‘thumbs.’ Cool, huh?" Said Pinkie while wiggling her fingers. Rainbow Dash smiled and chuckled nervously. “Oh, and we don’t have muzzles anymore. We got ‘noses.’ They work just as good as muzzles, but don’t need to be attached to our mouths.” 

“Alright, enough with the trivia. Do you know about the others?” Asked Rainbow Dash.  

Pinkie Pie crossed her arms and went into deep thought then answered “Well, I did took a quick lookie-loo in the hall way before anyone saw me. Checked one room and found two human girls what looked to be Fluttershy and Rarity, but I can’t say for certain.”

“Did you check their legs if they had their cutie marks? I noticed me and Applejack still have ours in these forms.”

“So you knew that too? Good idea! I never knew you’re so smart Rainbow Dash. Maybe almost as smart as Twilight. But sadly, I didn’t get to see them since they were wearing full body clothes.”

“Heh, thanks. But have you seen our egghead too?”

“No, I haven’t. I’m sorry, Rainbow Dash. If it wasn’t for me from interfering Twilight while she was fixing my translation stone, this would never have happened.” Said Pinkie Pie while beginning to weep.

Rainbow Dash couldn’t help blame Pinkie Pie for what she said. She never seen her feeling this guilty before. She went close to Pinkie and pat her on the back. “Don’t blame yourself, Pinkie. At least we’re fine. But I know we can get through this somehow. C’mon, just perk yourself up for me, okay?” said Rainbow Dash. 

Pinkie Pie sniffed once more and regained her composure. “Okay, Rainbow. I’m really glad that I have you as my friend.” She said. 

“Well, we can’t take the others on our own if they’re still out of it. Our best bet is to find Twilight if she’s around. We’ll come back for the rest if she manages to wake up by the time we find her hopefully.” Said Rainbow Dash in deep thought while holding her chin. 

“Okay, then I’ll just bring my translation stone and-” Pinkie Pie was stopped by Rainbow Dash before she can say anymore by placing her open pal in front of her face. 

“Hold it. Don’t even think about doing that. Those stones were the ones that sent us here in the first place, and maybe turned us into these ‘human’ bodies. They were nothing but trouble. I hate to say it, but it looks like Applejack was right that something like this was bound to happen from one of Twilight’s experiments.” She said. 

Pinkie Pie took out her stone and looked at it with a pouting face. “Aww, but they look so neat. Twilight really worked her heart out on making these.” She said, then placed her stone on the ground. 

“Sorry, but who knows what any of those stones could do next if we keep them long enough with us. Now let’s get out of here. I noticed some stairs by the hallway, so let’s take them and see if we can find Twilight downstairs.” Said Rainbow Dash then got up from the ground. She staggered a bit, but soon regain balance. But then she saw Pinkie Pie suddenly lunge back with her legs then vaulted off the ground and stood on top of her legs with no problems. Rainbow Dash’s jaw dropped in shock. “Pinkie Pie….How did you managed to do that without messing up?” she asked. 

Pinkie Pie smiled with her eyes closed then answered with a giggle, “Guess I’m a fast learner.” Now Rainbow Dash started to feel jealous of her friend. She was supposed to be a great athlete, even though standing on two legs is difficult for her, but seems Pinkie Pie had the advantage over her thanks to her randomness. “By the way, you really need clothes since we’re furless now. Otherwise, you might end up catching a cold. But wait a minute, I was wearing clothes when I woke up so shouldn’t be the same with you?” asked Pinkie Pie. 

Rainbow looked nervous as soon as Pinkie asked her. But she hid her nervousness with a confident look, and with her arms crossed said, “Who needs clothes? Besides, we may be humans on the outside but we’re still ponies on the inside, and us ponies don’t need clothes.”

As soon as she was done saying those words, she paused as her nose twitched then suddenly sneezed. “Let me guess, you did have clothes on, but you threw them away just to check yourself out as soon as you woke up, huh?” said Pinkie Pie with a smirk, knowing she was right.

Rainbow knew Pinkie was right on the dot. She dropped her arms, lowered her head in shame, and gave a sudden nod from her head. Pinkie just pat Rainbow’s back and said, “It’s okay, you don’t have to hide it. Let’s just choose at least something from this closet and-” 

Rainbow Dash interrupted again and said, “No! Don’t make me wear clothes. I just don’t like wearing them since any of them I see don’t look cool for me. I’ll just settle covering myself with these sheets.”

Pinkie Pie shrugged off and said, “Suit yourself,” then offered her some sheets. After that, they took a quick look at Applejack’s unconscious body, nodding at her that they would come back for her soon, and went off to find Twilight.


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Tenchi finally arrived at his home. He stopped for a moment to catch his breath since he ran all the way there from the shrine without noticing. He must have got caught in the moment, seeing how eager he was to check on those strangers once more. After his small break, he placed his hand on the door knob and opened it. As soon as he got in, he was expecting to see his father on the couch still reading his newspaper, but he was nowhere to be seen. 

That’s funny. I wonder where Dad went?, He thought as he scratched his head, but then he heard footsteps coming from the stairs. He then focused and with surprise finds two of the strangers heading down. It was the one with the rainbow hair, now covered in one of the bedroom sheets, accompanied with the one with the pink fluffy hair. They were talking to each other in English, which Tenchi still couldn’t understand until they noticed him. They both froze from their spot as they’ve been caught, showing surprised looks on their faces. Tenchi just blinked with his mouth open. The two girls shiver in fear, causing the rainbow-haired girl to drop her sheet revealing her exposed breasts. Tenchi’s face turned completely red as soon as he saw her breasts, then went through a nosebleed. It was so bad that a large gush of blood flew out from his nose, causing him to collapsed. 

 “AAAAAAAAAAAAACK!!!” shrieked the girls as they yelled in fear and ran off towards the kitchen. Tenchi quickly recovered since this wasn’t the time to fool around. He was surprised to see these girls have finally awakened and who knows what these girls might do. He followed them and found them cornered by the kitchen sink. The pink one looks like she is in panic, while the rainbow one stood her ground to protect themselves. 

“Wait a minute, you two! I know this is all sudden since you just woke up, but I mean you no harm.” Tenchi said calmly as he approach to them. As soon as he took another step, the two girls reacted and skirmished through the kitchen drawers.  

The rainbow one went for a spatula while the pink one picked up a whisk. “We got weapons and we’re not afraid to use them!” said the pink one in English. 

The rainbow one paused for a moment and took a look at their so-called weapons, then look annoyed and yells at her companion, “You call these ‘weapons’? You think I be able to flip that guy with ‘this’?”

“It’s possible, eh heh-heh…” answered the pink one with a nervous smile, while rubbing the back of her head. 

The rainbow haired one snatched her friend’s whisk and said, “Oh really, now? Then suppose you be able to whip him into cream with that whisk you’re holding?”

“Hey! Give me back my weapon! You’re leaving me defenseless here!” said the pink one as she took hold of the whisk as both she and the rainbow one decided to have a tug-o-war.

Tenchi looked nervous seeing those two bickering while a bit of sweat trickled down from his head. Their bickering reminded him of Ryoko and Ayeka’s usual fights…maybe a bit too much. He just noticed that they spoke English like his grandfather said, so they really didn’t understand his previous words. He shook his head and mustered up with every bit of English he know and said, “Stoppu!” 

The two ceased from their fighting as they froze from hearing him spoke in their language as they turned their heads towards him. 

“Did that guy just said “Stop”?” said the pink one.

“Yeah, but very poorly.” said the rainbow one. 

Tenchi felt relieved as he took a deep breath after they understood his one word, then continued. “Puwrees, no fight. Mean no harm.” The two look confused from what he was trying to say, but then the pink one stared at his eyes for some reason. Tenchi thought his poor English wasn’t enough to convince them. There must be something for him that he can do to gain her trust. He placed his closed fist on his other open palm as he got an idea. “Wait here. No move.” He said to the girls before he rushed upstairs.


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Both Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie were bewildered from what just happened. They didn’t expect they would find another human so suddenly after they went downstairs, but it’s more surprising that this human just spoke to them in Equestria Common Speak, but poorly. But now that he left, Rainbow Dash seized the moment for them to escape. “C’mon, Pinkie Pie, let’s get outta here.” she said as she grabbed Pinkie’s arm and dragged her along. But after one step she stopped from her tracks. Rainbow turned back and saw Pinkie with such a serious face. “Pinkie, what’s wrong with you? This is our chance. We have to go!” said Rainbow Dash. 

“No!” retorted Pinkie Pie while she stomped her foot.

“No?”

“No!”

“Why not? I’m sorry but we have no choice but to come back for the others later until we come up a plan.”

“And I say we’re not leaving.”

“Why!? Are you serious?” groaned Rainbow Dash while scratching her head crazily with both hands.

“That nice guy said not to move, so we’re not moving.”

“Pinkie, you’re so naïve! You really think that human is nice? What if its lying?”

“Don’t call him ‘it.’ He’s a good colt…I mean, boy. And I know, he isn’t lying.”

“Oh, really? How do you know that?” said rainbow Dash in disbelief with her arms crossed.

“From the look in his eyes” said Pinkie Pie while pointing her eyes with her index fingers. “Somehow, he got the same eyes like Applejack’ whenever she wants us to trust her. Leave if you want to, but I’m staying.” After saying her words, she turned her head away from Rainbow Dash and crossed her arms.

Rainbow Dash handled Pinkie Pie’s stubbornness before from that time she had to forcefully take her to her surprise birthday party and it wasn’t easy. Once Pinkie Pie had something on her mind, she would stick to it no matter what. She scratched her head crazily once more and groaned loudly, “Fine, you win. But if something bad happens to us, don’t blame me but yourself.” 

Pinkie responded with a satisfied grin. Looks like Rainbow Dash lost to her this time as she crosses her arms with a grunt.


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Tenchi just got out from Ayeka and Sasami’s room. He was relieved to have found the pink haired girl’s stone while the large blonde haired girl was still unconscious. It took a bit of time for him to find it until he checked the closet that was left open. All he needed now is the rainbow-haired one’s. He rushed to Ryoko’s room until he tripped and face-vaulted to the ground. He was fine as he rubs his face to ease his pain, but what made him trip? He turned his head and was in shock to find his father unconscious with a broken bump on his head and a stupid look on his face. 

“Dad!” he shouted as he rushed to his father and started shaking him. “C’mon, wake up…. Aww, this is no good.”

He looks at his father with concern, but he took a deep breath as he knew what he is supposed to do. He raised his open palm and started slapping him repeatedly. Tenchi keeps calling out to his dad with each slap until finally a yell of pain came out from him, “YEEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOWWW!!!” 

“Dad, you’re awake!”

“Of course, I’m awake, you idiot. I’m in enough pain as it is after what that freaky rainbow girl did to me.” Nobuyuki place his hand on his head as he got up from the floor.

“What?”

“I was going to check on her to see if she was finally awake. Found out the hard way when she smashed my head with that lamp next to me. I was kind off guard as soon as I saw her topless, although she had a nice pair so at least that was something.”

Tenchi then noticed the broken lamp next to his father. He would have felt sorry for him but he couldn’t help but snicker imagining everything his father had went through. “You think this is FUNNY!?” yelled Nobuyuki. 

“Sorry, dad. I couldn’t help myself, heh-heh.” Tenchi answered. “But don’t worry. I got the situation almost taken care of.”

“Taken care of?” Don’t tell me you confronted that dangerous girl.”

“She’s not alone. The pink haired girl is with her too. But they’re fine for now. I’m just here for the rainbow girl’s stone.”

“Damn it, why is it that you end up without a scratch while little overworked me almost ends up with a concussion. Sometimes, I feel fate made me nothing more but its comedy relief.”

Tenchi started searching for the rainbow girl’s stone since it’s not on the table anymore. He finally found it lying around on the floor next to the wall. Looks like the rainbow girl had some sort of fit and threw it towards the wall. “I’m going to check on those two. Are you coming?” said Tenchi. 

“Nah, you go on ahead. I’m still suffering from the hit, so I need to lay low hear for now.” Tenchi ran out of the room. “But damn, she really did have a nice pair, heh” said Nobuyuki as he grinned from remembering that moment. 

Tenchi went downstairs and met up with the two girls. He was relieved to find them still here. He then offered their stones to them and said “Here. Take.” 

Both of them blinked and had confused looks, then looked into each other. “You had us wait just to give us back our stones? I don’t get it, but I definitely don’t want to mess with them again after what it did to us." responded the rainbow girl while waving her hand and shaking her hand. The pink haired hesitated but then reached for hers. “Pinkie! I really don’t think you should take yours.” 

“He was kind enough to give us our stones back. He must had thought that they were precious to us. So of course I’m taking mine.” Said the pink girl. She took her stone and placed around her neck like a pendant. Suddenly, the stone started to glow slightly bright. “Arigato gozaimasu <Thank you very much>.” She said.

Tenchi couldn’t believe his ears! Just when they were speaking English, the pink girl suddenly spoke Japanese so perfectly as soon as she wore her stone pendant. “Ah, you’re welcome…” Tenchi responded. 

The pink girl gasped then giggled in excitement. “You finally understood me! Yay! Ooh, now I can understand you too!” she said.

Tenchi did not suspect this as he looks nervously at the ecstatic girl then said “Yes, and surprisingly clearly too. I didn’t know you spoke Japanese that good when you two were actually speaking English.” 

Rainbow Dash looks dumbfounded not understanding a single word Tenchi and her friend are saying. 

“Japanese? So that’s the language you speak, but what’s English? Ooh, now I remember. Equestria Common used to be called English a long time ago.” Said the pink girl. 

“’Equestria what’?” asked Tenchi as he was confused once more. He wonders what is this “Equestria” she speaks of. “Still, I thought you and your friend don’t speak Japanese. It’s amazing that you speak so fluently.” He rubs the back of his head. 

The pink girl blinked and paused for a moment as soon she heard Tenchi’s words then said “Wait, you think I’m speaking Japanese? But I’m speaking Equestria… I mean, your English that you mentioned. You’re even talking the same language as I am right now.” 

Tenchi gawked as he looked stunned. “What!? But we’re speaking Japanese just now.” 

The pink girl froze for a moment, but then she grinned so widely that she jumped with excitement. “It worked! Twilight’s translation stone worked! This is totally superiffic!” After the pink girl said that, she started  jumping around with such energy as if she made some sort of great discovery. Tenchi stepped back, bewildered by the girl’s enthusiasm. 

As for the rainbow girl, she was completely ignored during the whole thing and didn’t understand a single word they were saying. But she somewhat knew what was going on the moment her friend started speaking that foreign language. She stomped her foot and thrust her arms down at the same time and yelled, “That’s it! I can’t take this anymore!" She then focused at Tenchi as he looks nervous, being glared at by the rainbow girl. She then thrust her open palm to him. Tenchi look at her then look at her palm confusingly. “Just give me back my stone, please?" she said in a huff. 

Tenchi finally guess what she wanted and gave her back her stone.  As soon she wore it around her neck, her stone glowed just like her friend’s. “I don’t like it when I’m ignored.” She said. 

The pink girl suddenly glomped the rainbow girl as soon she noticed she wore her stone. “Sorry about that, Rainbow. At least yours is working too. You don’t have to be a grumpy grump about it no more.” Said the pink girl, who then giggled with delight. 

“Heh-heh, you can cut it out now, Pinkie.” responded the rainbow girl. Tenchi was surprised to see the rainbow girl speak Japanese as well, but he finally understood what was going on. It looks like those stones do have some sort of power behind them, and it lets them understand what he is saying and vice versa. 

“Now I get it. Those stones actually lets you understand what I’m saying while they also lets you speak with me too.” He said.

“Ha, looks like we got ourselves another egghead.” said the rainbow girl. 

Then the pink girl came up to Tenchi, then leaned down towards him and held his hands. “I totally forgot to introduce ourselves while everything was happening so fast. My name is Pinkie Pie, but you can just call me Pinkie if you like.” She said then looked at her friend and gestured her to introduce herself as well. 

The rainbow girl then looked away for a bit and scratched the back of her head, then looked at Tenchi and finally spoke. “And I’m Rainbow Dash. Also, I’m sorry about my behavior earlier. I’m so not getting used to what’s happening right now.” 

Tenchi smiled and said “It’s okay. I understand. But you two definitely sure have interesting names.” But then he realized that Rainbow Dash is still topless. With one look at her chest, he turned red and blood shot out from her nose. The shot also made his head tilt back. Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash look surprised from what happened to him. 

“Eww, gross…” said Rainbow Dash as she flinched and look disgusted. 

Pinkie Pie look curious and asked, “What was that all about?” 

Tenchi recovered and plug his nose with his hand and asked nervously, “Ugh, sorry about that. But could you please cover yourself. Exposing your chest like that is kinda indecent.” 

Rainbow Dash responded with a confused look then looks down at her breast and lifts them up and said to Tenchi, “You mean these things? Is that what makes you shoot out red stuff out of your muzzle?” 

“I think that was blood, Rainbow.” Said Pinkie Pie with an ill look.

Rainbow Dash’s eyes widen, then flinched and started to squeal in panic. “Eww, eww, eww! That is sick. Fine, I’ll cover myself.” She then rushed to pick up her sheet. 

“By the way, what’s your name?” Pinkie Pie asked Tenchi. 

“Oh, my name is Tenchi. Tenchi Masaki.” He answered.

“Ooh, I get it. Tenchi being your name and Masaki being your family’s name. Just like the Cakes and the Apple Family.”

“Something like that, eh heh-heh.” Said Tenchi with a nervous smile. 

Rainbow Dash then returned with her sheet now covering her body. “There, better now?” Asked Rainbow Dash. Tenchi then nodded in agreement. “Good. Just don’t do that blood splurt from your little muzzle in front of me again.” 

Tenchi took note of that, but then remembered something “Oh yeah, I have one question for you, uh… Rainbow Dash, right?”

“That’s my name, don’t wear it out. What’s up?”

“Did you happen hit someone with a lamp?” he asked sternly. 

Rainbow Dash started to sweat bullets, while Pinkie Pie started to hold her laughter. “Uh, yeah, I did. Why’s that?” she answered. 

“He happens to be my dad.” 

Rainbow Dash quickly squatted and placed her hands on her head in shame. “Sorry, sorry, sorry. I didn’t mean it. I told you that everything that’s been happening was too much for me so I panicked.” She said. 

“It’s not her fault, Tenchi. She sees you and your daddy as monsters, but I already told her that you’re both humans.” Said Pinkie Pie.

Tenchi wasn’t prepared for that answer then said “Wait a minute. What are you talking about? The way you’re saying is like you two are claiming that you’re not human yourselves.” 

Pinkie Pie then put up a somewhat worried face then said, “Actually, about that…” But her sentence was cut short as loud voices started to come out from upstairs.

 “What the hay happened to me? I’m all meaty and furless. And did I just got huge or everything has gotten smaller here?”

 “My horn is gone! Why does my chest feel so heavy!? *gasps* I have two large globes of fat attached to me! Mirror, I need mirror!… Eeeek! My beautiful face! Ruined! I’m a mon-ha-ha-ha-ster!... Ooh, these lovely robes aren’t too bad at all!”

Another yell followed, along with whimpering.

“Seems like the others finally woken up, but what’s with Rarity? First she’s surprised, then shrieks in horror, and now she quickly recovered with fascination. Sheesh, decide already!” Said Rainbow Dash while looking up with frustration. 

Tenchi sighed and understood what Rainbow Dash had gone through now that things are happening too fast for him as well then said, “We might as well take care of your friends until they’re all calmed down. But once that’s taken care of, we definitely need a serious talk about everything that’s been going on.” It seems the two girls felt the same way too since they also wanted to know more of where they are now. They both nodded and all three went upstairs.

> Chapter 6 (Tenchi-Side): No Need for Human Pony Girls, part 2
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------


An hour or so passed by, and now Tenchi and his father were sitting by the living room in front of the five girls they put in their care, now all wearing their stones. Rainbow Dash went back to wearing Ryoko’s indoor clothes for two reasons: Making sure she doesn’t expose herself in front of Tenchi again; and the fact that even though she doesn’t have her tail anymore, somehow this weird outfit provides an artificial one that is similar to her original one. The blonde girl look embarrassed noticing how large she was compared to the others and she was currently wearing sheets tied to look like a toga. Rainbow Dash looks up to her friend with a smirk on her face. 

“How’s the weather up there, Applejack? Looks like you don’t need to be a Pegasus to reach the clouds with your size now, heh-heh.” She said. 

“You know I can squash you like a bug in this body, right Rainbow?” said Applejack with a stern look. 

Rainbow Dash’s eyes widen from Applejack’s threatening words. “Sheesh, Applejack, I’m just trying to lighten the mood here. Tension here is so thick that you could cut it with a cake knife.” 

Pinkie Pie’s eye beamed after hearing that and said, “Ooh, if tension is actually some sort of cake, wonder what it taste like? Vanilla? No, maybe chocolate. Wait, how about marble? Buttercream?”

Everyone in the room went nervous after hearing Pinkie Pie’s words. “Honestly, darling, thinking of food at a time like this. Shouldn’t you be a little more concern about this most dire situation we’re in?” said the girl with the fashionable violet blue hair. 

“I can’t help it, Rarity. We hadn’t eaten since we got here. When my tummy is all rumbly, food is all I can think of. Heck, I’ll even go for some of Derpy Hoove’s muffins.” Pinkie Pie replied with teary eyes. “And why you ask that? We should be relieved now that all of us are fine… well, until we know Twilight is okay.” 

Rarity showed a scrunchy look on her face then snapped back at Pinkie Pie “Not knowing of poor Twilight Sparkle’s whereabouts is one reason we should all be worried, but the biggest one is my current hideous appearance! I mean, look at me! I used to be beautiful, now I’m some sort of pale furless creature of flesh.” She then wallowed in tears with her hands covering her face. 

Tenchi was about to say something, but then Nobuyuki took action before he did anything and went after Rarity. He calmly took Rarity’s hand, patted it a few times and said to her “There, there, miss.  You seem to be a well-mannered lady. If you really are one, then you know you should show some diligence and self-control. And why you called yourself hideous with the current beauty that you have now? I think you look absolutely gorgeous.” Tenchi rolled his eyes knowing his father’s hidden agenda behind his actions. 

Rarity sniffed after crying, wiped her tears with her index finger then said “You really think so, kind sir?“ 

“I know so as I swear on my honor as a man.” Answered Nobuyuki with a nod and a serious look on his face. 

Rarity smiled feeling much better from his kind words. She then placed her arms around him and said, “Out of all the whatever-you-are’s out there, you must be the kindest yet caring one of all. Maybe if you were as young as I am, you could have been a great coltfriend.” 

Nobuyuki blushes with a perverted look on his face as he enjoys Rarity’s huge breasts pressing against him. But then paused and blinked realizing something. “Coltfriend? Don’t you mean boyfriend?”

But his time of paradise was cut short as Rainbow Dash intervened then punched him which sent him to the floor. “Get your filthy hooves… I mean hands off from Rarity!” said Rainbow Dash still shaking her fist threateningly. 

“Rainbow! What has gotten into you? How dare you hurt that awfully caring creature!” said Rarity, looking flabbergasted with her arms thrust down. 

“Caring nothing! Didn’t you notice the look on his face? He looks all weird and stupid as if he was enjoying himself while you were all close to him. I didn’t like it one bit. That guy had it coming.” Retorted Rainbow Dash while pointing at Nobuyuki. 

Tenchi definitely agreed with Rainbow Dash as he felt his father truly deserve it. The girl with the light pink long hair look nervously with her hands resting on her legs during this whole ordeal, then finally spoke, “Actually, I don’t think that was very nice of hitting the poor creature, Rainbow. You should apologize…well, if that’s okay with you.”

Rainbow look dumbfounded by her friend’s words then said, “You’re against me too, Fluttershy? Argh, am I the only one here who sees him as some sick, dumb-looking old geezer?” All the girls gasped from what they heard. 

“How can you call such rude names to him when he and this young man, in which I safely assume is his son, have taken care of us after arriving here?” said Rarity. 

“I call’em when I see’em. Heck, I bet Tenchi or whatever-his-name-is is just the same as his dad.” 

Tenchi felt somewhat ashamed from hearing Rainbow’s words. He can honestly admit that he is not a perfect guy at times.

“Now, Rainbow, let’s all be civil here. I can understand you’re being protective for all of us but maybe, just maybe you’re getting all worked up for nothing?” said Applejack, gesturing to Rainbow to calm down. 

Rainbow turned his head away from Applejack, not heeding her words. She then looked at Rarity and noticed her huge breasts. Rainbow blushed from the sight of them while giving a disgusted look, but she paused as she came to a realization. “And I know why that creep made that stupid look, it’s because of those freaky big bumps!” she said still with her disgusted look, while pointing at Rarity’s breasts. 

Rarity looks down curiously at her chest. Nobuyuki turned his head then whistled innocently, pretending that Rainbow Dash’s words weren’t true. “You mean these wretched things? I highly doubt it, Rainbow. I mean seriously, how any female creature could stand with these in the way. Even if you go on all fours, they would simply be in the way by dragging them. Plus with my size, they’re so heavy that they’re actually hurting my back. I definitely need to wear something specifically to support them. And finally, if your words were right then you’re assuming that the men in this strange world are actually attracted by them. If that was true, then my days of searching for a nice stallion would be over with.” 

Tenchi and his dad look confused yet embarrassed on how Rarity could explain about her breasts so openly without showing not even a bit of shame. 

“Speaking of all fours, if you look at ‘em from that perspective, they look more like a pair of cow udders.” Said Applejack while taking a good look at her breasts and pats them repeatedly from under her pair making them bounce. “Heh heh, they’re actually kinda fun to play with.”

Tenchi and his dad both started blushing even more with their eyes widen, even blood started to trickle down from Tenchi’s nose after witnessing what Applejack have been doing. Rainbow Dash gasped after witnessing Tenchi and Nobuyuki’s behavior. She points at them then ranted, “See? There he goes again. Even Tenchi is into it. He got blood coming out from his muzzle again.” 

Sadly, no one took attention to Rainbow Dash as the rest were into their own conversation. Rainbow Dash looks nervous from being ignored. “*gasps* Are you insinuating that I’m a cow because of these, Applejack? How could you be so mean?” said Rarity with teary eyes while making a duck face from making her lips stand out. 

Applejack was about to apologize but then something caught her attention. She noticed Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy standing on their hands and knees on the floor looking at their own chests. 

“You’re right, Applejack. They do look like udders, only with single teeny tiny nipples on each one. Mooooo!” Said Pinkie Pie, giggling while enjoying herself. Fluttershy looks at herself and sighed then said, “Sadly, mine don’t stand out since they’re so small.” 
Tenchi and Fluttershy couldn’t help but chuckle because of those two. Still Tenchi thought Fluttershy look so cute than ever from the position she was in. “Ooh, if these things are udders, then they must have milk in them too. I’m actually thirsty myself so maybe if I just squeeze them then…” 

Pinkie Pie grab hold of one of her breasts and was about to squeeze it, but Applejack stopped her as she placed her hand on her and said nervously, “I don’t think you should test that theory right now, Sugarcube… Well, at least not in public.”

Once again, Rainbow Dash couldn’t stand being ignored, so she then intervened. “Ugh! Would you all stop talking about those stupid things!? Am I the only one who feels embarrassed about them?” she said. 

“Come now, Rainbow, you should relax? It’s all in good fun.” Said Rarity while gesturing Rainbow to calm down while waving her hand up and down repeatedly. 

“Oh yeah, we should all have fun while we’re stuck in who-knows-where, huh ‘fatty’?” snapped Rainbow. 

Rarity stepped back as if she was hurt from Rainbow’s words and started tear up “How could you say I’m fat? You horrible beast!” She started to cry and covered her face with her hands. 

Rainbow felt ashamed and decided to apologize. “Wait, I didn’t mean it. It just all of you got me so riled up that I just got caught in the moment”.

Applejack went for Rarity to comfort her. “Well, I hope you’re happy, Rainbow. Now you got everypony’s attention.” She said with a scolding tone. 

“You really went too far this time, Rainbow” said Pinkie Pie with a disappointed look on her face. Fluttershy went teary eyed, noticing how Rainbow Dash could be so mean. Rainbow Dash looked around trying to find the words to fix all this hate towards her but then she gives up and started ranting. All the other girls end up arguing with each other. 

“Wow! They’re sure a weird bunch. Much stranger than our girls.” Said Nobuyuki. Tenchi tried to resist the tension going on with his arms crossed and one of his eyebrows twitching as their argument went on and on. Each of the girls was bickering one of another except for Fluttershy who is wishing for this entire horrible moment to stop.

Finally, Tenchi couldn’t take it anymore. He stood up at the same time thrust his arms down forcingly then yelled, “ENOOOOOOOOOUUUUGH!!!” The girls froze and stopped what they’re doing. His father was somewhat surprised, seeing his son standing up for himself to stop this commotion. Of course, he knew he has done before, but never witnessed it himself. Tenchi pointed at the girls then said, “Look at all of you! You’re bickering like immature little girls! And on what? Breasts? Yes, that’s what they are called - those things on your chest, if you don’t know!” All the girls look ashamed with their heads down. Tenchi continued. “I can understand that all of you are from some sort of unknown world I don’t know and end up here by some sort of accident, if I can safely assume. But my father and I have our own problems. Before all of this happened, last night six other girls who I’m very close to ended up arguing the same way you’ve done just now. But then, something happened. Those six girls disappeared and were replaced by all of you. As responsible men that we are even with all of what’s happened, we quickly took you all in, including your remaining friend, who is under my grandpa’s care.”

Rarity responded to Tenchi. “Wait! Did you just say our remaining friend? Are you referring to Twilight Sparkle? She has a purple mane with a pink stripe. Is she okay?” 

Tenchi nodded. “Yes, I’m talking about her. She has a light fever for some reason, but my grandpa said she is fine.” The girls showed relieved look on their faces. Pinkie Pie is all teary eyed being more relieved than the others. “I’m glad that you’re all well and that you’re happy to know that your friend is too. But the biggest reason we took care of you is because we were hoping that you would know anything about what has happened last night. At this very moment, those six other girls might be in some unknown world that they’re not familiar with, and I’m really worried about what’s happening to each one of them with every passing minute.” 

“Oh my…” said Fluttershy with worry. 

“Golly, uh…Tenchi, was it? We didn’t know this is was what you’re actually going through right now.” said Applejack. 

“We do deeply apologize for our rude behavior after finding out your current dilemma, Tenchi darling.” Added Rarity.

Pinkie Pie cried loudly after hearing Tenchi’s situation. 

Rainbow just paused, knowing that she feels bad after finding out about Tenchi’s story. She rubs the back of her head and said, “Yeah, sorry dude. I really feel like a total idiot right now after hearing about what happened to your friends. They do sound like they’re in the same boat as we are.” 

Tenchi took a deep breath and sighed, then said with a calm look, “It’s alright. I just wanted you all to know what’s going on. But apologizing won’t bring my six close friends back. So please tell us anything you know of how you got here.” Noboyuki showed a proud look to his son and thought, Tenchi, you sure have grown during your time with the others and everything that you’ve gone through. I’m really am proud of you, son. 

The girls nodded complying to Tenchi’s plea. “We tell you everything that we know, partner. You can count on us.” Said Applejack, then everyone else agreed to her words.

“Thank you, everyone. This really means a lot to us. But still…” said Tenchi. The girls took notice of Tenchi’s last two words, curious of what he was about to say. “Not to sound confused, but you girls are definitely weird. All of you behaving like you don’t know your own bodies, and all of this speak of colfriends, stallions, hooves, and whatnot. It’s like you’re not human to begin with, heh-heh.” 

The girls responded to Tenchi’s words with nervous chuckles. “From witnessing all of this, I thought all of you are horses to be more precise.” Said Tenchi with a nervous smile. The girls gasped as if they were offended from Tenchi’s last words. He then look at them curiously then said, “Is there something wrong?”

Rainbow Dash crossed her arms then said with an annoyed look, “Of course there is, stupid. You called us ‘that’ word.” 

“What word? I don’t understand?” responded Tenchi still looking around nervously. 

“Calling us ‘horses’ is strictly taboo to us…We prefer to be called ‘ponies.’ Well, I prefer the correct term being ‘Equian,’ but I guess ‘ponies’ is much simpler for common folk. C'est la vie…” responded Rarity with a few gestures that expresses her words. 

Tenchi just froze on the spot. Was he hearing right? Is this strange woman actually referring that she and her compatriots are actually four-legged animals? Tenchi looked as if something fall on his head and left his face with a dumb-looking expression. It was the same for his father, who also heard everything. 

“You’re kidding, right?” said Tenchi, still with his dumbfounded face. 

Pinkie Pie came forward to Tenchi with a nervous smile on her face then said, “That is what I was about to say to you, Tenchi, before the others woke up. It’s like Rarity said, we are actually ponies.” 

Those words left Tenchi in shock as he stepped back. Nobuyuki  gawked with his jaw dropped. “No! No! No! No! NO!!! You girls can’t be serious. No way is that true!” said Tenchi in panic as he walks back in forth, trying to process all this in his head. 

The girls looked concern on how Tenchi was coping. “Uh, I think you might have broken him, Pinkie. Seriously, I can’t blame him.” Said Rainbow Dash with her hand placed on Pinkie Pie’s shoulder. 

Nobuyuki start rubbing the back of his neck as he is pressured as his son then said, “It’s bad enough to know that the girls who went missing are actually aliens.” 

The girls gasped after hearing the sudden information. Applejack with her hands gesturing to pause then said, “Wait, wait, wait. Are you telling me your missing girls are actually illegal immigrants…or real straight from ‘science-fixture’ novel beings from outer space?”

“That’s science fiction, Applejack.” Said Rarity. 

“Don’t you dare start correcting my grammar, Rarity, or I’ll give you such a bucking. I didn’t ask you the question.” 

“Well, I never…Hmph.” Rarity crossed her arms and turned her head away from Applejack. Tenchi look somewhat panic as he moved back and forth, trying call himself during this whole ordeal then said, “First off, do you expect us to believe that all of you are actually ponies? This is too much to bear. I mean, you all look ’human’ right in front of me right now.”

Fluttershy witnessed everything that was going on. It looks like another argument would break loose. But hearing that Tenchi does not believe about who they really are somehow infuriated her. She couldn’t stand what she just heard then quickly stood up then yelled, “How dare you!?” Everyone stopped from where they are and took notice of Fluttershy. “How could you be so inconsiderate to say such things?” she said. She continued on as she walks slowly towards to Tenchi. “You explained to us with all your heart how worried and desperate you are for your friends and we were willing to cooperate. But then you suddenly let doubt take you after we told you who we really are. You should realize by now that WE are all in same situation as your friends, being lost in another world we do not fully know. “ She then approached Tenchi as he looked dumbfounded, pokes his chest a few times and said, “If you expect us to help you as we expect you to help us, at least believe us. We would never lie to anypony, especially during a situation like this. You got that?” 

Tenchi blushed a little in embarrassment, letting a cute girl like Fluttershy talk to him like that. Her friends stood still in shock from what just happened. Nobuyuki also joined in as well. 

“Whoa...” gasped Rainbow Dash.

Fluttershy shook her head and realized what she have done. It’s as if she end up in some sort of trance during her confrontation with Tenchi and finally woke up. She also blushed in embarrassment then she politely lowered her hands and quietly said to Tenchi, “I mean, if you don’t mind….Eep!” With an embarrassed squeak she went back to her seat. 

“Wow, that girl sure knows when to stand up for her friends whenever she needs to.” Said Nobuyuki while still rubbing the back of his neck. Everyone seems to calm down after that. 

“Like Fluttershy said, Tenchi, you just have to trust us for now. Sure, we all look human just like you in your eyes but we’re still ponies on the inside. But really, we end up having these bodies by the time we got here. Other than Fluttershy’s reason to trust us, you have to do so if you really want us to help your missing friends.” Said Applejack.

With all that was said, now Tenchi and his father were the ones lowering their heads in shame. They were right, he should have known better. Of course, the moment they told him they are actually ponies is what really made him doubt their words. Having girls from outer space living your home is beyond belief to other people until they know what Tenchi has been through the past year in his shoes. But actually meeting girls who are actually horses? Now that is completely farfetched. But even with that thought occurred, he should have believed them when he himself asked for their help. 

Tenchi look like he was about to break into tears then said, “Forgive me for my rude behavior before. You’re right, I should have known better. If I really wanted your help, I should have trusted you just as you are trusting me to help all of you.”  He wiped his eyes with his forearm, then bowed so low as possible to express his apology and said, “I’m very sorry!” 

The girls were definitely caught off guard from how much Fluttershy’s and Applejack’s words affected him, especially since this is the first time they seen such a different manner of expressing somepony’s apology. Pinkie Pie was the only one who did not hesitated as she went to Tenchi, placed her arms around him and hugged him. Tenchi regained his senses and noticed Pinkie Pie embracing him, which was so sudden. 

“There, there. It’s alright. As long you were sorry, then everything is all okie-dokie-lokie. All we wanted from you is to trust us. Is that too much to ask? Besides, we’re all friends here, aren’t we?” said Pinkie Pie with a calm look. 

Tenchi responded by breaking into tears once more. Never had he met someone so very forgiving. This made him thought that maybe he should really believe in them if they are actually such good people. The rest of the girls were touched by this moment, even Nobuyuki too. Rainbow Dash look like she was affected by this the most as if she was about to cry too. Applejack noticed her and with a sly look on her face she said “Rainbow Dash, are you actually crying from this? And I thought you said cool ponies don’t cry.” 

Rainbow Dash reacted quickly and wipes the tear in her eye then said, “Me, crying? Ha! That’ll be day. It’s just…uh…it’s just that I got dust in my eyes. Yeah, that’s right.” 

“Sure, it is. Heh-heh.” Applejack retorted. Rainbow Dash fumed after her excuse failed. Applejack went back focusing on Tenchi then asked “Now that’s settled, can you explain what that hoopla about your friends being aliens, sugarcube?” 

Tenchi looked nervous while scratching his cheek with his index finger after Applejack brought that up. “Well, it’s a long story, I rather have myself explain to you all once your friend wakes up. But yes, they are all alien beings not from this planet.  Actually, I’m not sure if all of you would believe it.” He said. 

Suddenly, Pinkie Pie beamed at Tenchi then said, “Is it because all these girls came to you by random fate? One being a notorious space pirate, two being intergalactic police officers, another two are actually princesses of a far off planet, and lastly a mad scientist who has a knack for making weird yet dangerous inventions?” 

Tenchi jaw dropped after hearing Pinkie Pie’s words. “Uh, that’s actually right!” How did you know?” 

Pinkie Pie tilt her head, smiled at Tenchi then answered, “Just a hunch.” 

Nobuyuki was just as surprised as well then thought, Some hunch, she is far better off as a psychic, if you ask me. 

Tenchi nervously asked the others while pointing at Pinkie Pie, “Is she always this random?” 

“That’s just Pinkie Pie being Pinkie Pie.” Said Rainbow. “Don’t worry, you get used to it."

Suddenly, Rarity jumped from realizing something important they have forgotten. The jump also made her heavy chest bounce. “Oh dear, where are our manners? With all of this going on, we completely forgotten to introduce ourselves.” She said with her hands clapped together then continued. “I guess you know Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash by now. Although I do hope they didn’t give you too much trouble now. Did they, Tenchi darling?”

“They were a handful when I first found them awake, but they were actually a great help after the rest of you recovered.” Tenchi responded with a confirming smile while rubbing the back of his head. 

“Actually, Rarity, he doesn’t know us much at all. In fact, he doesn’t know I’m an Earth Pony and Rainbow Dash is a Pegasus.” Said Pinkie Pie. 

Tenchi look confused after hearing that. “Wait, you’re saying you’re not just any ponies?” he said.

“Of course, in our world ponies come in various types, but the main ones we know are Earth Ponies, Pegasi, and Unicorns. Earth Ponies being known for their physical attributes, Pegasi for their wing flight, agility, and ability to walk on clouds and control weather, and finally Unicorns, like yours truly, who specialize in using their magic and intelligence.” Rarity explained. “Of course, ponies aren’t the only ones who inhabit our world. There are also various creatures whether they live in society like we do or in the vast wilderness.” 

Tenchi was bewildered by this. Not just that girls are formerly ponies but magical ones at that. Hearing this just as a tip about their world sounded like all this came straight from fairy tales and mythology. “But I guess further explanation would wait until we find Twilight Sparkle, who happens to be a Unicorn as well. I mean, you already look startled after hearing  what I explained” Rarity continued.  “Now let me introduce myself, I am Rarity. Like I said, I’m a Unicorn, but the most fabulous one you would ever see if I was back in my original form, and I’m a well-known fashion designer. But is it safe to assume that I look fabulous in this body to your kind, no?” With that said, she bend over, then did a pouty look with her lips puckering together doing a duck face.

Tenchi looked nervous and was about answer, but his father quickly answered first before he did. “Of course, you are, miss. Men all over the world would consider you as an idol from your beauty.” 

Rarity chuckled then said, “Why thank you very much, kind sir. Tenchi, I must say that your father is quite the charmer with his words.”

Tenchi shrugged and crossed his arms then said “You could say that.”

Rarity then presents Applejack to Tenchi. “And this *ahem* healthy lady is Applejack, she is an Earth Pony who help runs her family’s farm and apple orchard. “ she said. 

Applejack walked to Tenchi as he looks above to her. Actually seeing stand up right in front of him for first time actually overshadowed him. “Uh, hi ? Eh heh-heh…” Said Tenchi nervously with uncertain chuckle. 

Applejack smiled, took Tenchi’s hand, greeted him with a strong shake and said, “Howdy there, Tenchi. It’s a pleasure to meetcha’. Thank you and your dad here kindly for taking really good care of us. We do appreciate for your hospitality”

“N-n-n-n-n-n-no t-t-t-t-t-trouble a-a-a-a-a-at all-l-l-l-l.” said Tenchi as his words were in a mess from Applejack’s sudden handshake. 

Applejack realized what she is doing and stopped. She rubbed the back of her head, smiled nervously then said, “Oops, sorry about that. I guess I don’t know my own strength while in this body.”

Tenchi look dazed for a moment, but then recovered then said, “It’s okay.” Better be sure not to get into her bad side. Her strength might be close to Ryoko’s. Maybe even more.  

“Well, you should, Applejack, otherwise you be destroying these poor creatures’ fine home without even knowing.” Said Rarity. She continued as she presents the last one of the group. “And last but not least is this cutie that would leave you in awe, Fluttershy. She happens to be a Pegasus like Rainbow Dash, although she can be timid to new people, but once she gets to know you, she is very kind and caring. Back in our world, she is Ponyville’s expert animal caretaker.” 

Fluttershy hesitates to introduce herself as she rubs her arm nervously and with her head tilted down a bit while her eyes were looking away. “Hello …” she said with a soft voice.

Tenchi couldn’t help but smile from her shy behavior. “What’s that? Could you speak a little louder?” he asked. 

“I said… hello.” Spoke Fluttershy with an even softer voice. 

“Could you repeat that again?” asked Tenchi once more. 

Fluttershy responded with some squeak mumbling sounds. Tenchi can see why she has such a name but she chuckled seeing how cute she is without doing it on purpose. 

“I’m sorry, Tenchi darling, but please give her some time. The poor thing has been through a lot like we did since we got here.” Said Rarity. 

“I understand.” Responded Tenchi.

“Now then, its only courteous that you should introduce yourselves since we have done so already, if you may.” said Rarity as she and the others now have their attention on Tenchi and his father.  

Tenchi nodded as he prepares his introduction while Nobuyuki stood up to do his. “My name is Tenchi Masaki, I’m 17 years old, and currently a high school student who will go through his second year. I’m also under my grandfather’s wing as I help out running his shrine temple. And this man here is my father, Nobuyuki Masaki.” He said as he present his father. 

Nobuyuki bows then said “It’s a pleasure to meet all of you. You’re all welcome to stay in our home until we be able to find a way to send all of you back to your world. Speaking of that, I happen to be the designer of the house, since my job is being an architect, and very good one at that too if I do say so myself.”

Rarity look impressed as she clasped her hands together in delight. “Ooh, that is simply amazing. Your father even works in a professional field. Us fashion designers see architects as kin, but designing buildings instead of clothes. Nevertheless, it’s still consider an art.” She said. 

Nobuyuki look proud as he rubs his nose then said, “ Well, I hate to brag, but I’m really a high demanding person for the company I work for.” 

Tenchi shrugs seeing his father showing his ego but then focuses. “Well, that’s settled. I know you’re all worried about your friend, so I’ll take you to her at the shrine since my grandfather was taking care of her.” 

Pinkie Pie rushed to Tenchi and glomped him. “Thanks for doing this, Tenchi! It really means a lot to us!” She said with such excitement.

Tenchi smiled nervously at Pinkie Pie. He definitely can see that she is such an energetic girl. The others looked at Tenchi and gave them their expressions of gratitude. Well, he can’t blame them. They haven’t seen their friend since they arrived here. Tenchi then finally took them outside while his father stayed to clean up a bit and continue to recover from his concussion. As soon the girls took their first steps outside of his home, they all looked in awe of the beautiful surrounding landscape. They never expect to see a beautiful field in such detail.

“Oh my!” said Fluttershy, looking around with such wonder.

“I know that the first the thing I noticed when we arrived is that this world look oddly detailed. But I never expect to express such beauty through its nature. It’s simply marvelous!” said Rarity.

“This definitely fits in the ‘Awesome’ category.” Said Rainbow Dash.

“Hoo-wee! This one heck of hum-dinger world we’re in.” said Applejack.

“It’s nice and all, but I still prefer the ol’ paper art cartoony look back home.” Said Pinkie Pie.

“Well, I’m glad to see that all of you are enjoying the scenery. But maybe you should turn around and witness my dad’s handy work on our home.” Said Tenchi as she points back at his home.

They all took several steps forward to reach to Tenchi’s position then turn around. The girls were all fascinated from actually seeing the outside design of the Masaki household. They never saw such a large home with a unique display. From the roofing to the placement of the windows and angles, its look like it came straight from a rare painting.

Rarity squealed in excitement. “This confirms it! Your father is a true artist. Your house is simply divine.” She said with such enjoyment.
“I can’t honestly say I would live in such a big home like this, but I surely admire the look of it.” Said Applejack. 

“It’s almost as big as my home back at Cloudsdale… almost.” Rainbow Dash added.

“It’s beautiful!” said Fluttershy with delight.

“Aw, and I thought it would look like some sort sweet treat like Sugarcube Corner. But I have to admit that it does look nice.” Said Pinkie Pie.

“My dad would definitely appreciate your kind words. Anyway, let’s continue on. I’ll show you around the property along the way.” Said Tenchi.

They continued on their way while at the same time Tenchi presented them the various parts of property. Soon they pass by his carrot field. Applejack quickly took notice of it. “Sweet molasses! A carrot field! Did you actually grew this, Tenchi?” asked Applejack. 

“Sure did.” He answered. 

“I’m actually impressed. You definitely have a mighty fine carrot field here. For a high school student, why you never told us you’re a farmer too? Or did you keep that to yourself until you show this to all the other farm girls, ‘ey loverboy?” Tenchi turn red with embarrassment as he muttered a few words, but then Applejack pats his back a few times to calm him down. “Aw, I’m just messing with ya’, Tenchi. But again, I’m really impressed with the work you did here. Although, it doesn’t hurt to have a few apple orchard trees here and there.” 

Fluttershy looked curiously at the field and noticed how big it was. “I can understand that you, your father, your grandfather, and your six friends live in the same house. But isn’t this field a little too big to grow this much carrots? Sorry for asking if it bothers you.” She said. 

“Although one of my friends happens to be a child, she happens to be a great cook. She does use carrots in her recipes, but the main reason why is this big is because we happen to have a cute little creature belonging to one of them that happens to enjoy carrots and I mean a lot.” Tenchi explained.

As soon as Fluttershy heard those words, she suddenly rushed to Tenchi with excitement and such eagerness in her beaming eyes. “Really? Oh, I would love to see the cute critter. I wonder what he’s  like. Is he some sort space bunny? I love bunnies.” She said with anticipation. 

“It’s actually a ‘she.’ Her name is Ryo-Ohki. And yes, you could say she is some sort of space bunny. You’ll see her soon enough at the shrine, since she is accompanying my grandfather.” Said Tenchi after witnessing Fluttershy’s sudden behavior. 

She continues being anxious as she makes cute sounds while pressing her arms together. Of course, Tenchi would understand how excited someone would be to meet an alien creature, but this girl seems a little too excited in which got him concerned. “I see you’re little confuzzled there. Don’t worry, this is Fluttershy’s usual norm.” said Applejack. 

“Indeed, Fluttershy just adore animals. In fact, her special talent is that she is able to communicate with animals at such a level no other pony would have. But her adoration can be a little too much at times.” Said Rarity. 

“Yeah, she prefers being with animals more than being with ponies. Its kinda weird but you get used to it.” Said Rainbow Dash.

Fluttershy heard what her friends said then she step up, twiddle her fingers and nervously said with a blushing face, “That’s only partly true. I do enjoy being with other ponies.”

Pinkie Pie happily glomped Fluttershy and spoke in defense for her. “She does enjoy hanging out with other ponies….only if they were her friends. Is that what you’re trying to say?” Fluttershy was a little annoyed of her friend interfering but she didn’t want to show it, so she sighed and nodded in confirmation. 

Tenchi chuckled a bit after this then said. “Okay then, moving on now. The entrance to the shrine is just up ahead.”

The group finally reached the entrance to the shrine, which was a long stairway since it’s on top of a hill. All the girls looked up at the stairs with surprise, except for Applejack, in which she is able to look normally thanks to her height. 

“You mean we have to climb up all THAT!?” said Rainbow Dash with an annoyed voice while pointing at the stairs. 

Tenchi look nervously then responded “Uh, is there something wrong?” 

“Of course there is, dummy! You didn’t told us that your shrine thingy was on top of some mountain. Not all of us have gotten used to standing up straight in such a short time.” 

“Well, this area is composed of mountains and nature. But this is not a mountain, it’s just a hill.” Said Tenchi. 

“Whatever!” Rainbow Dash retorted. 

“Oh dear, I don’t think I would ever be able to climb this many steps. How can I possibly do that with these legs. Not to mention the front excess baggage I’m carrying if you know what I mean.” Said Rarity. 

“C’mon, guys. It’s not that bad.” Said Pinkie Pie in her effort to calm them down. 

“I agree with Pinkie Pie. Nothing solves anything more than a bit of elbow grease.” Applejack added.

“Easy for you two to say. You’re so tall you be able to skip a few steps and Pinkie Pie’s already gotten used to walking.” Snapped Rainbow Dash. 

“Umm, wouldn’t be alright if Rainbow Dash and I just fly up to the top?” said Fluttershy. Rainbow Dash then knocks the top of her friend’s head a few times and said, “Earth to Fluttershy, you forgot. We’re humans now so we don’t have our wings. It’s not like they would magically reappear whenever we want to.” 

Tenchi had to say something after all of this. “Alright, alright. Let’s do this then. Applejack, you help by supporting Rainbow Dash and Rarity. Pinkie Pie, you’ll be fine on your own. As for me, I’ll take care of Fluttershy.” He then turns his focus on Fluttershy. He gave her a calming smile and said, “Is that alright with you?” 

Fluttershy rubs her arm nervously while looking away being hesitant, but she finally answered. “Um, okay, I guess so.” 

Rainbow quickly confronted Tenchi , pointed her finger at him and said, “You better make sure you don’t do anything weird with her like that nose bleeding. She’s my best friend, and if you mess up, I’ll punch the daylights out of ya’.” 

Tenchi nodded nervously, then Rainbow Dash left, but she quickly turned back to him pointed him once more with a glare, then finally left. Tenchi is starting to understand more about this girl. He offers his hand to Fluttershy, who slowly took it and said, “She can be very tomboyish and stubborn, but she cares deeply about her friends. I’m sorry about Rainbow Dash, Tenchi. But she really means well.” 

“It’s alright. I kinda have the gist of how loyal she is.” He replied. 

“Oh, she really is. In fact, that’s why she…” Fluttershy continued, but then Rainbow Dash yelled, “No talking with each other, you two, just as long it doesn’t lead to any love-dovey stuff!” 

Tenchi and quickly shied away from looking at each other as soon as she yelled. Still, at least Tenchi is holding Fluttershy’s hand. For someone who never was human before, she sure has delicate hands. His grasp of her hand lets him feel how soft and warm they were. Tenchi somewhat blushed from the feeling and it seemed Fluttershy blushed too. Is this the first time a male actually held her? This wonders in Tenchi’s head, but he doesn’t want to make any sudden moves knowing how shy she is. 

Rainbow Dash is still watching them at a distance, but then Applejack took notice of her behavior. “Rainbow, aren’t you a little too protective of Fluttershy. I kinda guess you don’t trust him, but I see Tenchi as a nice guy.” She said. 

“You can’t be too careful not when my friends are involved. I mean, look at his dad. He must be as sly as he is.” Responded Rainbow Dash. 

Rarity smile widely hearing through the conversation then intervened. “Well, I think you’re the sly one, Rainbow.” She said. 

Rainbow Dash gave a confused look with an eyebrow raise and said with a certain tone “What you talking about, Rarity?”

“Well, I think you’re not being protective. For my assumption, I think you’re a little jealous of Fluttershy that Tenchi offered his help to her instead of you.” Said Rarity with a chuckle while tapping her chin with a finger. 

“Me? Jealous? Ha! No way. You think I actually like him?” Rainbow Dash quickly retorted. 

“Oh, I did not say that you like him. I only said he didn’t help you. Now you just said that yourself.” Said Rarity, seeing that she is enjoying every moment of this. 

“Grr! If I wasn’t holding this big log as Applejack’s arm, I would give you such a bonk on the head for starting this!” Said Rainbow Dash with a threatening tone. 

“Go ahead. If you can, darling.” Retorted Rarity, then both of them started glaring at each other. 

Applejack sighed as she was not happy about the situation she was in. “Celestia, how did I end up being the middle mare between these two?” she said. 

Pinkie Pie continue looking in awe at the nature surrounding the stairs. “The surrounding of trees here look amazing! It’s like something out of fancy portrait.” Everyone else start to join in and they all agree to Pinkie’s comment. Tenchi felt relieved that the girls are at least handling this well while heading up. Finally, they reached to the top and that they all are heading towards the Masaki shrine. 

“Well, this definitely looks…quaint.” said Rarity with confusion. 

“Hey, I thought this was a shrine. Shouldn’t it look, you know, big?” asked Rainbow Dash while looking at Tenchi with an unimpressed face and pointing at the shrine. 

“I don’t know what’s your way of how shrines are supposed to look in your world, but this is how the ones in our country look. Well, at least just ours.” Answered Tenchi.

Inside the shrine, Katsuhito was still watching over Twilight Sparkle. Ryo-Ohki was napping next to him until one of her ears went up after hearing the footsteps of the group. She  got up then faced at the direction of the entrance. Katsuhito noticed her reaction then said, “Ah, looks like Tenchi is back and not alone this time. Seems the other girls have finally woken up.” 

Ryo-Ohki meowed with excitement and rushed outside. Tenchi and the others noticed Ryo-Ohki heading towards them then she leaped and landed on Tenchi’s arms. “Sorry to keep you waiting, Ryo-Ohki. Just wanted to introduce you our new guests here.” Said Tenchi with a smile. 

“Myaa!” meowed Ryo-Ohki happily. 

All the girls gathered in as they looked amazed at Ryo-Ohki as she looks back at them with curiosity. “Aaaaaaaawwww!” they all said in unison, knowing how cute she looked. 

“Aren’t you just an adorable little thing.” Said Rarity then took hold of Ryo-Ohki and rubbed her against her cheek as the little creature enjoys the feeling from the rubbing. “And she has such a soft coat of fur too.” She continued. 

“Look, she has a cat face and goes ‘meow’ like one, plus she’s got ears and body of a bunny. Does that make her a cabbit?” Said Pinkie Pie. 

“Actually, you’re right. Good observation there. Well, that’s what her owner told me about her.” Responded Tenchi.  Rainbow Dash look at Ryo-Ohki at in awe also blushes from her sight. 

“Sweet molasses! So she’s the best of both worlds, huh? She really is a cute little critter.” Said Applejack while scratching under Ryo-Ohki’s chin which she also enjoys as well.  Applejack then passes Ryo-Ohki to Rainbow Dash then she said. “Here you go, sugarcube. It’s your turn to get a hold of her.” 

Ryo-Ohki meowed happily in front of Rainbow Dash while still held by Applejack. “Uh, okay?” said Rainbow Dash nervously as she picks up the cabbit. Ryo-Ohki tilts her head to the side and looks at Rainbow Dash with curiosity. Rainbow Dash blushed even more after seeing her do that then she slowly pulls Ryo-Ohki close to her and suddenly the little cabbit starts rubbing her head against Rainbow Dash’s chest.

Fluttershy squealed with delight after seeing that and she said, “You see that, Rainbow Dash? She really likes you. That is so precious.”

Seems Rainbow Dash couldn’t take all this cuteness anymore in front of her friend as she quickly passes Ryo-Ohki to Fluttershy and said in a fast pitch, “Okay , your turn.”  then turned away in embarrassment. Fluttershy picked her up as both of them blinked at Rainbow Dash in curiosity then she happily stared at Ryo-Ohki.

“Looks like you’re a bit too cute for Rainbow Dash, little one.” said Fluttershy. 

Ryo-Ohki responded with a happy “Mya!”

“Ooh, you’re such a wonderful creature. I bet you would be good friends with Angel Bunny back home.” Said Fluttershy while hugging her and sways her body from side to side with excitement. Tenchi witnessed the whole thing of the girls meeting Ryo-Ohki for the first time, but Fluttershy definitely showed how much she loves animals. 

“I’m glad that you all like Ryo-Ohki but we should head inside the shrine to check upon your friend.” He said. Every one paused for a moment and realized how long they were distracted, in which they felt embarrassed about. With Tenchi getting their attention, they head inside the shrine while Fluttershy still carrying Ryo-Ohki. 

> Chapter 7 (Tenchi-Side): No Need for Human Pony Girls, part 3
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As soon as they entered the shrine, the first thing they noticed was their friend Twilight Sparkle resting in a futon. They all rushed to her for a closer look. “I’m relieved to see that all of you are fine and showing life. Don’t worry, your dear friend only went through a minor fever. She already recovered from it, so she soon will be opening her eyes by now.” The girls all sighed with relief after hearing that. 

“Thank you so much for watching over her, kind sir. We were all worried about her condition. And you must be Tenchi’s grandfather, perchance?” Said Rarity. 

“It’s no trouble at all, miss. My family and myself would never ignore young ladies such as yourselves in such distress. And yes, I am. My name is Katsuhito Masaki. I hope my grandson and his ill-mannered father didn’t gave you all too much trouble, did they?” said Katsuhito. 

Applejack shook her head and said “Nope. Both of them are all fine people. Although one of our own is still doing her best to trust them.” She then looks back at Rainbow Dash. 

Rainbow reacted by widening her eyes then responded, “Hey, you can’t be too careful. I mean, we’ve just met these humans.” Katsuhito blinked a few times with curiosity after hearing Rainbow Dash’s words. “Oh? I would have guessed that you’re not from this world, but from how you spoken it’s like you originally did not have those bodies.”

All the girls once again felt nervous from hearing that. Tenchi sighed and said, “It’s a long story, grandpa. We’re better off telling once this girl here wakes up.” As soon as Tenchi said those words, Twilight started to move her eyes and making waking sounds. 

“Speak of the devil, looks like she is coming to now.” Said Katsuhito. 

Twilight’s eyes were half-opened and started to mumble after waking up. “Mmm, what happened?” she muttered in English with little effort. 

“Slowly now, miss. You were very weak from whatever you went through. But it’s all right now, you’re in good care. Wait, this is awkward. The rest of you were all speaking perfect Japanese, but your friend here is speaking English.” Said Katsuhito with his hand placed on her futon. 

Twilight Sparkle rubbed her eyes then muttered “Ugh, all I remember is that I wanted to demonstrate my translation stones then…" she said then paused and looked around. The first thing she noticed was Katsuhito himself. Her eyes widen from surprise and jumped back. “WAAAH!!! Who are you? What are you?" she said with fright. 

Twilight then noticed her hands, then her jaw dropped from sudden shock. “Huh?” she gasped then started staring at her own body. Tenchi might have guessed this would happen. If these girls were actually ponies as they claimed, it’s no surprise that their friend would be in such a baffled state after finding out she is in a different form. The girls couldn’t stand watching Twilight suffering from this. She trembled tremendously from her sudden discovery. “My body! What happened to me?” she asked herself as she starts feeling her face. She stared back at Katsuhito. “D-d-did you do this to me?” she asked as her words starts to break while crying into tears. 

Katsuhito responded with a sad expression. With his long years of experience, he definitely understands the feelings of this sad yet scared girl but does not how to respond back to her since he does not know her language. He could only give her a sad expression. The others couldn’t take much more of this as they rushed for Twilight. 

Not able to recognize in them an instant, Twilight crawled back into a corner and flinched. “Stay away! All of you!" she shrieked. 

Rarity kneeled down, took Twilight’s hand and caresses it softly. “Shh, calm down, darling. It’s just us. Rest assured you’re in no such danger." Said Rarity now speaking in English. 

Twilight slowly opened her eyes as she soon recognized Rarity’s voice. “Ra-rarity? Is that really you?" she said while sniffing after crying as she placed her hand on her friend’s cheek. 

“It’s me, Twilight. Well, not fabulously 100% on the outside. But I’m still one and the same on the inside, nevertheless, plus we’re not a alone.” Said Rarity with a calming smile.  With a wave of her hand, she presents the rest of her companions to Twilight. 

“Even though, we’re not ponies right now…" said Fluttershy nervously. 

“We’re still safe, sound, and once again together like friends should." Said Rainbow Dash with her fist raised up to finish off Fluttershy’s words. 

“Everypony…" said Twilight Sparkle as she cries into tears. The rest bundled together as Twilight tried to place her arms around them for a group hug.

Tenchi and his grandfather witnesses a most precious moment they haven’t seen for quite some time: A reunion among close friends. The young man felt very proud and happy for bringing them back together with their remaining friend. 

“Hmm, we don’t get to see such priceless moments like these very often. But Tenchi, I’m very curious how you managed to take care of these girls after they awoke.” Asked Katsuhito. 

Tenchi sighed, crossed his arms and answered “It wasn’t easy. They definitely do not belong here from how they first behaved. Plus they claimed they’re not human to begin with. Call me crazy but I’m actually started to believe them.” 

Katsuhito chuckled after hearing that and pats his grandson on the back then said, “Whether they’re human or not, letting you to trust them is definitely the most important action to do in this kind of situation. I’m proud that you handled it so well.” After that, they both continue watching the girls.

“I’m so sorry, all of you. You girls end up in such a horrible situation because of me wanting to test my translation stones." Said Twilight as she continues to sob. 

“It’s all right, sugarcube. As long we’re fine and together like grapes on a vine, nothing matters more than that." Said Applejack while patting Twilight Sparkle’s head. 

“Besides, being human isn’t all that bad. Not only that, your translation stones wasn’t a total failure." Said Pinkie Pie happily. 

Twilight lift heard and stares curiously at Pinkie Pie after hearing what she said.  “Huh? You mean my translation stones worked? And what do you mean being human?" asked Twilight.

Pinkie Pie pointed at Tenchi and his grandfather. “Actually, those two and one other are real humans. They were the ones who took care of us while we were knocked out. Me and Rainbow Dash were the first ones to wake up. It was really scary as we thought that boy there was a mean monster. Well, we couldn’t understand what he was saying since he spoke funny, but for some reason he wanted us to calm down and…" Pinkie Pie continued. 

But Rainbow Dash placed her hand on Pinkie’s mouth to stop, then interrupted. “Let’s just say we had no choice but to trust him and we were surprised that he returned our translation stones. That’s when we were finally able to understand and speak with him once we wore them.” She said. 

Twilight gasped but that awestruck soon turn to excitement and started squealing cheerful noises. “Yes! Yes! Yes! They work! They work!”

“Well, she seems very happy now. That was a fast recovery.” Said Katsuhito with a smile on his faces and his eyes closed. 

“What’s that she is so excited about?” Tenchi asked Applejack while pointing at Twilight. 

“That’s her usual self whenever she finds out any of her whatcha-ma-call-it inventions work. She happens to be the one who made those translation stones. I tell ya’, she is so obsessed in coming up with new stuff as much as her book reading. Well, I admit I’m an old-fashioned pony and just prefer things stay the way they are. But seeing Twilight this happy that her stones work is good enough for me, especially after everything that she’s been through.”

Tenchi chuckled then said, “That’s good to hear. But her love for inventing and search for knowledge kinda reminds me of someone.”

Applejack smirked, placed her hand on Tenchi’s back then said “I bet my apple trees back home that you’re thinking about one of your friends now. Am I right?” 

Tenchi sighed and answered with a calm smile “Yeah…”

Katsuhito then took a closer look of Applejack’s stone. He rubs his chin then asked, “So you’re saying these stones that all of you are wearing gives you the ability to speak and understand beings speaking in a language foreign from your own?”

“Yup, you could say that.” Answered Applejack nervously. 

“That’s very impressive. You should be very happy for your friend that she is so gifted.” Said Katsuhito. 

“Don’t you worry about that, Tenchi’s grandpa. All of us already feel that way of her.” Said Applejack with a smile while rubbing the back of her head.  

Twilight went on showing how excited she is then said “I must inform Princess Celestia about the news. Spike, write me…" She paused as she realized that whatever she just asked won’t happen, and lowered her head. Her friends knew what she just gone through now. She then focused on Tenchi and Katsuhito and asked, “Excuse me, I just need to ask of something from both of you."

Tenchi and Katsuhito look confused as they did not understood what she was saying. Twilight started to look more worried. Then Katsuhito thought of something as he placed his closed fist on his open palm as a gesture of realization. He then searches within one of his sleeves and pulled out a stone in a shape of what looks to be a star. 

“I think this should help with our difficult language barrier. I kept it in safe keeping in case it belongs to you.” He said with a smile with his eyes closed as he returned the stone to its rightful owner. Twilight was speechless for a moment as she looks at her stone then looks back at Katsuhito. She smiled back then wore the stone around her neck as a pendant. 

“Testing… One, two, three. Is it working now?”  she asked. 

“We can understand you very clearly now, miss.” Katsuhito answered. Tenchi nodded to affirm as well. 

Twilight couldn’t help but to be excited once more after she was finally sure that her invention works, but she calmed down as she wanted to finally speak with Katsuhito and Tenchi. “First of, thank you so much in taking care of all us. It really means a lot me.” She said as she bows her head showing her gratitude. 

“It’s no trouble at all, miss. We’re just relieved that you and your friends are well and good.” Said Katsuhito. 

Twilight felt relieved that the two people in front of them are kind beings, then she asked, “I want to ask you something. By any chance you found anypony else besides us.” 

Katsuhito and Tenchi looked at each other then he said to twilight “You mean ‘anyone else,’ right? No, I don’t think so. In fact, my grandson Tenchi here was the one who found all of you and your stones in the first place.” 

Tenchi shook his head then said, “It’s true. There was no one else, just you six girls and your stones. Were you expecting someone else with you?” 

Twilight lowered her head in disappointment and said, “I see…”

Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie tried to comfort. “You must be worried about Spike…” said Fluttershy softly while stroking Twilight’s hair. 

Twilight nodded then said “Yes. I mean, he was there when the incident happened. I thought he was sent here and physically changed like all of us.”

Pinkie Pie also comforts Twilight with her hands placed on Twilight’s shoulders and said, “Aww, it’s okay. But look on the bright side, Twilight. If they haven’t seen him, there’s a pretty good chance that Spike is still back home.” 

“Thank you for saying that. I wish I can believe your words, but how could I if there isn’t any reassuring proof that he is?” Said Twilight as she tries to smile. 

“Well, if Spike was here, it would be nice if you made a translation stone for him too so he have no trouble speaking with our new friends.” Said Pinkie Pie. With those words, Twilight gasped and covered her mouth with her hand from a sudden realization. “Oh no, did I say something wrong? If so, I’m really, really sorry.” Said Pinkie Pie with worry. 

“No, it’s okay. In fact, you might be right about Spike still back in Ponyville.” Said Twilight assuringly. 

“I am?” responded Pinkie Pie with her head tilted to the side a bit. Everyone else looked at Twilight Sparkle curiously as to what she just come to. 

“When I was adding more magic to Pinkie Pie’s translation stone, she quickly took hers. But her rush from taking her stone separated the extra magic, which distorted the amplifying properties of her stone. That caused the magic power to multiply many more times until her stone affected the others, then hit the main source of the magic, which was me. That caused my Unicorn magic to go out of control and let out a powerful magical outburst, which then sent us here. Spike wasn’t affected by this because he wasn’t wearing a stone.” 

“Does that mean my little squirrel friend is safe too?” ask Fluttershy. 

Twilight chuckled from hearing Fluttershy’s response to that then said, “Yes, he’s fine too, Fluttershy. But there’s still some unanswered questions to this. When my magic goes out of control, its effects are unpredictable. But for some reason, it transported us here. It might have been the cause of our new forms. But the biggest question is why?” said Twilight while her hand was placed on her chin in deep thought.

Katsuhito started to laugh from witnessing this. “Miss, you sure have quite an imagination. I thought all of you are from a different world, and I was surprised at first after you mention all this talk about magic. Although I’m confused when you said ‘anypony’ instead of ‘anyone.’ It’s like you’re referring yourselves as horses.”  He said. 

As soon as the word “horse” was mentioned, all the girls gasped in shock. “Calm down, all of you. Nothing to worry about. You can’t blame my grandfather since he didn’t know.” Said Tenchi in panic. 

“Hmm, did I say something wrong, Tenchi?” said Katsuhito nervously while scratching his cheek with his index finger.

Tenchi sighed then answered to his grandfather “It’s a long story, gramps.”

“I’m guessing my friends told you the truth about us, huh?” said Twilight. 

“Mmm-hmm, although it was hard to believe that you’re all originally ponies at first until I witnessed their usual behaviors on how they were handling all of this.” Said Tenchi with a nod. 

Twilight chuckled then continued. “I can’t blame you. But it’s amazing that you’re all actually humans. I thought they were only myths and legends back in our world.” 

Katsuhito interrupted with the sound of him clearing his throat then said, “It’s not my business in interrupting, but we do have the right to know about what is truly going on, especially the ‘pony’ part of it.” 

Twilight showed a nervous look on her face from being embarrassed then said, “I apologize for the inconvenience. I might as well introduce ourselves. My name is Twilight Sparkle. And these are my friends: Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, and Applejack…”

She continued as she explained her story about herself and her friends. Tenchi knew about the part about the girls being magical ponies and that they come from a world where ponies and mythical creatures live together and that magic exists. But things started to sound more unbelievable as she went on. Twilight Sparkle was actually a pupil of the ruler of her home country Equestria, Princess Celestia, who happens to be an alicorn - a pony with all the properties of an Earth Pony, Pegasus, and Unicorn.

She and her younger sister, Princess Luna, rule together and that their magic is so strong that they control the time of day and night, with Celestia raising the Sun, while her sister does the same with the Moon. She also explained her story about Princess Luna once going rogue against her older sister, wanting the night to last forever, and taking on the form of the evil Nightmare Moon. She was sealed within the moon for one thousand years, until she was free from the magical seal, kidnapped her sister, and continued her goal of eternal night. But with Twilight and her friends being bearers of a magical power called the Elements of Harmony, they defeated her by freeing her from the dark power that was corrupting her. Thus, they saved Princess Celestia, as well as finally reuniting her with her younger sister. It seemed that the Elements of Harmony are the only line of defense against any dangerous threats in their world, and now that Twilight and her friends are lost in this newfound world, she was worried about her country’s safety while they are away. Twilight also explained of how all of this happened when she was demonstrating her magical stones that would help the wearer be able to speak and understand others that speak foreign to the wearer, when the stones properties were distorted and caused her magic to lose control.

“…So you see, it’s very crucial that we find a way to return our world. Of course, I feel that my magical outburst on the stones was the cause that sent us to your world and transformed us into humans.” Twilight continued. “But the only question is why? My magic has never done something like this before. It was close to the powerful magic used by an evil being that we know in our world as Discord.” 

Katsuhito look serious as he was in deep thought with his arms crossed, after hearing Twilight’s story. “Hmm, this is definitely a serious predicament that you’re in. We will try to help you and your friends in any way we can. I think it’s time that you should hear Tenchi’s side of his story. Would you kindly do so for these ladies, boy?” he asked.

Tenchi complied and started explaining everyone where they are and about him and the girls that went missing. It is a surprise for this lost group to end up in a world ruled by humans, but it is more shocking for them to find out that their sun and moon are raised on their own. Magic rarely exists in this world, which is why humans mostly rely on science and technology instead. That fact did definitely intrigued Twilight Sparkle’s interests. Tenchi continues and informed that they are located in a country called Japan, specifically in an area of Okayama composed mostly of mountains and nature. He does go to High School in the city limits, same for his father who goes to work as an architect. His grandfather runs the family shrine as the Masaki clan belongs to a long line of Shinto priests.

Tenchi then explained about the story behind the missing women who happened to be alien beings not from their planet. Ryoko was the first to meet Tenchi, who crash landed on the Masaki’s property. As she recovered, she claimed she was being chased by a mean space pirate, when the said space pirate arrived riding in a mech suit and ended up chasing them. But soon the mech suit had revealed the pirate to actually be a tanned blonde girl named Mihoshi, who happens to be an officer of the Galaxy Police (GXP). She was in the middle of duty arresting Ryoko, who was actually the real notorious Space Pirate. Ryoko tried to keep her innocence by asking Tenchi not to believe her, until Mihoshi revealed an actual wanted poster of her. Well, that lead to Ryoko chasing after them as she was going to kill them, but it all turned out as an act since she was just teasing them and decided to give herself in. Mihoshi was making her arrest until she messed up remembering her arrest codes. With both of their spaceships destroyed, they were stuck on Earth living with Tenchi until rescue could come. 

That didn’t end there as more alien girls end up staying with Tenchi. There was Ayeka and Sasami, a pair of sisters who happened to be the princesses of the planet Jurai. Ayeka arrived first after responding to Mihoshi’s distress beacon. It was revealed that Ayeka knew Ryoko for long time, as they often meet each other by random fate as longtime enemies. But during her time with the Masakis, Ayeka found out she was falling for Tenchi and just couldn’t stand having Ryoko in the way with her flirting with him all the time. Sasami soon arrived to pick up her sister, but she also decided to stay with Tenchi as well and become the house cook. After that, they met up with Washu, who was freed from her 700 year seal at the cave behind the Masaki Shrine. She happened to be a infamous scientist who claims to be “the greatest scientific genius in the universe,” but it turns out she was expelled from the Galactic Science Academy for creating dangerous inventions. Finally, Kiyone arrived as the last of the group. She was sent to Earth by her superiors at GXP HQ when they found out her partner Mihoshi might still be alive (as they first thought she was KIA during her chase with Ryoko). Mihoshi isn’t the best partner she could have because of her bubbly, “dumb-blonde” personality and being accident prone, but she was her longtime friend, nonetheless. After the confirmation of Mihoshi being alive & well, GXP HQ announced that the two were assigned to this part of the galaxy to continue their duties. 

Mihoshi moved out from Tenchi’s home and now lived with Kiyone in an apartment within the city limits of Okinawa, though they continue to visit him from time to time. Tenchi and the others had some great moments and many misadventures together until a serious matter arrived from Ayeka and Sasami’s home planet:  The Jurai Military had arrived to arrest the princesses for treason, and arrested Ryoko as well in the process for her past crimes. Tenchi and the others fought back to save the three of them, and ended up all becoming fugitives as a result. While on the run in deep space, they set course to Jurai to find out the reason behind the treason. They learned that news had spread that the legendary warrior of the Juraian royal family, Prince Yosho, had returned to his home planet to take the throne and become its rightful ruler. He also happened to be Ayeka and Sasami’s long lost older brother. Stories were heard of him being a skilled swordsman with a kind heart to match. But how could a man that is known for this trait decide to arrest his own sisters?

As they continued their journey, Katsuhito was still giving his training to Tenchi for the battle ahead. It was at that point he decided to finally reveal a secret that he kept for so long from him and the others: The man who claimed to be Yosho back on Jurai happened to be an imposter.  Turns out Katsuhito was the real Yosho all along. The reason he was away from his home world was because he crashed landed on Earth more than 700 years ago, and ended up in feudal Japan. But during his time on Earth, while witnessing the vast beauty of the land, he fell in love with a Shinto priestess, and gave up his reasons to return home. 

The identity of the impostor was none other than his old friend and rival, Kagato, who was thought to be dead after an incident that occurred between the two. Kagato had grew jealous of Yosho being a far better person than him and next in line to the throne, thus starting the coup. With the two royal guards of Jurai, the original Asaka and Kamidaki, revived and a plan set up, they pushed through the security and military power of the great planet until Tenchi was the only one to confront Kagato. It became a tough battle for him as he was facing a more experienced fighter than he was, but somehow he managed to pull through and defeat him. With Kagato’s last moments of life, he imagined Tenchi being the same as his old friend Yosho and regretted the wrong he had committed. 

Thus, Sasami and Ayeka’s parents return as rulers of Jurai, and the coup ended. After finding out Tenchi having Juraian royal blood from his grandfather, he became a possible heir to the throne. But he decided to stay home on Earth, just like his grandfather did, until he considers it. The rest of the group went on their separate ways after their long adventure, and Tenchi thought their time together was just like a carnival that would last forever. But as time passed by after his return home, all of the girls he knew came back. Once again, the carnival had started once more. 

Once his story was told, he explained the incident that occurred the night before of how his girls disappeared after Washu’s machine malfunctioned during the harsh argument. Twilight and the others showed different reactions of their own after hearing Tenchi’s story, but nevertheless they believed everything he has been through. 

“That was such an amazing story. It made me so excited-nervous after hearing it.” Said Pinkie Pie as she squealed in excitement.

Applejack concurred, “Hoo-wee! You sure had a humdinger of an adventure. Although it’s still hard to believe that you actually went into outer space with most of what you said happened there.”

“Oh my, it must be very frightening to venture somewhere you don’t know.” Said Fluttershy nervously while holding Ryo-Ohki very closely. 

“I’m surprised as much as all of you from what I experienced. But everything was fine as long as I had my friends with me.” Said Tenchi with a flattered look while rubbing the back of his head. 

“Mmm-hmm, ain’t it the truth.” Applejack replied with a nod.  She then focused on Rainbow Dash and asked, “What do you think of his tale, Rainbow?” Rainbow Dash seems quiet with her head down and was shaking a little. “You okay there, partner?”

“I’m okay…” she answered, then raised her head with tears in her eyes and continued, “It’s just that his story is so awesome…”

“Whoa, didn’t know you enjoyed it that much.” 

Rarity then came forward to Tenchi. He looked at her with curiosity from her sudden approach. She then held his arm and leaned her body on him as she presses her chest against him. “And after all the endeavors you went through, like running from the authorities and facing a horrible ruler, I never knew you’re such a rebel, Tenchi darling. But in the end you saved an entire planet, maybe even the galaxy, and in the end you found out that you have royal blood in you, making you a prince.” She giggled a bit as she continued,  “It’s like something out of a fairy tale. You don’t know how long I wanted to meet a real prince.” 

“But you already met Prince Blueblood back at the Grand Galloping Gala. Didn’t he count as a prince?” said Pinkie Pie.

But then her mouth was quickly covered by Rarity’s hand. “I thought I politely asked you and the others not to speak of his name ever again.” She said to Pinkie through her teeth. 

I’m guessing this girl had some sort of bad experience,  thought Tenchi. He then notices Twilight Sparkle doing some sort of awkward pose in front of him. She was on her hands and knees, lowering her head and upper body, as if she is trying to bow down to him. 
“Umm, Miss Twilight? What are you doing?” he asked. 

Twilight looks up to Tenchi with a smile and answered. “I’m bowing. Isn’t it the formal way when you’re in the presence of royalty? Unless, it’s different for you humans.”

“You really didn’t need to do that.”  He replied nervously while waving his hand up and down repeatedly to gesture Twilight to stop. “Sure, I may be a Juraian prince and I don’t often admit it. But I’m still a normal everyday person.”

Katsuhito chuckled then placed his hand on Tenchi’s shoulder and said jokingly, “Well now, Tenchi. It looks like you have a subject, and a very cute and mannerly one at that too. Although, she needs to practice on how to bow properly…well, at least the way our people do it in our country.”

Tenchi shrugged and said to his grandfather, “Not funny, gramps!” 

“Um, excuse me?” asked Twilight to gain Tenchi and Katsuhito’s attention. “I hope you don’t mind me of intervening, but it really concerns me of how your friends disappeared. You explained that they all vanished after some sort of machine malfunctioned.  I’m curious of how it runs. Is it magic powered?” 

Tenchi chuckled nervously then answered, “Well, I don’t know how it runs since I’m no good with science and inventions. But Washu, the scientist I mentioned from the group, made that machine. All I know is that all of her inventions are weird but the technology of our planet is nothing compared to hers. But I could guess that most of her inventions might have used a large power source.”

Twilight holds her chin in deep thought and asked, “Do you know what the purpose of the machine that sent your friends away was?”

“Well, originally it was supposed to change reality or create a new one by the user’s will.” Answered Tenchi once more. 

A loud “What!?” was heard in the shrine shouted by the girls. Tenchi and Katsuhito flinched from their loud reaction. For beings who claim to belong in a world filled with magic and mythical creatures, they didn’t expect these girls would be surprised to something like that. 

“Impossible! There’s no way this Washu person would be able to build a machine that could do something like that! If she did, then she would be powerful as Discord!” Exclaimed Twilight while having a hard time to process everything she just heard into her head.

“I can understand it’s kinda farfetched,” he replied, “but you have to believe me. Nothing is impossible for Washu. Plus that machine had caused such a difficult problem in the past. The first time it was used was the first time it malfunctioned, and it sent us into various realities my friends created from their input. Washu took care of the problem by going through each reality then delete them, one by one.”

The others started to have mixed feelings about what Tenchi said. 

“Shoot, if Washu was the one who made this infernal contraption, I’m starting to wonder why you and your friends still have such a dangerous person around.” Said Applejack. 

Rainbow Dash nodded in agreement, replying “If what you said is true, then all of this might have been avoided if she didn’t built that machine in the first place.” 

Fluttershy gave a stern look at both Applejack and Rainbow Dash and said, “Applejack and Rainbow Dash, you shouldn’t say such awful things to one of Tenchi’s friends. That’s not nice at all.” Ryo-Ohki meowed with an annoyed tone at the two, showing she agreed with Fluttershy. 

“I admit Washu overdoes her work and rarely realize the dangers of her inventions, but she is responsible enough to take care any problems they would cause. But some of her work did help us out at times. With that said, she isn’t all that bad.” Said Tenchi nervously while rubbing the back of his head.

Twilight sighed then said “You’re right. Sorry for doubting on your friends. But wait, you said ‘originally’ when you mentioned about that reality-changing machine. What she did do with it?” 

Tenchi looks up, taps his chin, then said “She did some modifications on the machine and explained that it would now be able to transport users to other existing realities. Still, I started to think she was crazy after hearing her theory about there being other parallel worlds.” Tenchi checks Twilight to see how she responds. 

She looks surprised but seems fascinated by the idea. “Well, that I can certainly believe! Your friend is definitely on to something. Us ponies never thought about traveling to other worlds, but it’s certainly a possibility. Trust me, I know two who actually have done it before.” Said Twilight then turns her head to Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie. The two girls looked nervous with their heads turned away from Twilight’s focus on them. “And now that we’re all here, that counts everypony else too. We just didn’t expect there will be some side effect during this ordeal.” She looks at one of her hands and turns it back and forth since she is still curious about her current form. But then she froze for moment as if she comes to another realization. Twilight quickly turned her head to Tenchi and asked “Tenchi, could you repeat to me when we arrived here?”

Tenchi was off guard from her sudden question which caused him to flinch, but he answered. “Actually, you guys appeared the instant my friends disappeared.” Tenchi flinched once more.  

The others flinched as well as soon as Twilight yelled “That’s it!”

Rainbow Dash took a deep breath then looks annoyed at Twilight and said “Don’t do that! I hate it when you go all Egghead happy like that! Anyways, what is it that you got so excited now?” 

Twilight had a confident look on her face and said, “I can’t confirm this since, as it’s only a theory, but this is a very assuring one of how we ended up here.” She then lifts one of her index fingers and continued “After hearing how powerful the machine that Tenchi’s friend, Washu, used and what it can do, my magic outburst must have synced with the power of her machine, hence causing my magic to send us here.” 

Everyone else started to look at each other as they try to comprehend what Twilight said.

Applejack stepped forward and spoke to Twilight for the others. “Are you sure about that, Sugarcube? Of course, your unicorn magic is powerful, but I doubt it actually sent us here. Tenchi did said that this Washu feller’s contraption went crazy. That might have sent us here instead. Sorry for being a naysayer though.”

Twilight lowers her head a bit and crosses her arms as she said, “It’s alright, Applejack, but I still support my theory. There could be no other explanation. But it’s not just that. The most incredible part of my theory is that both the machine’s malfunctioning and the stone’s amplifying my magic happened all at once – at the exact same time. Both of them were at a stalemate. Washu’s machine was supposed to transport to other realities, but since it malfunctioned, it had no information where it was sending Tenchi’s friends. My magical outburst is strong, but it’s too unpredictable since I had no control over it. However, both events happening at once, and somehow linked our worlds, causing the stones to detect the power behind the machine, then amplified my magic just enough to send us here. Which means, it also could be the same in Tenchi’s end. Having no designated location to transport your friends, Washu’s machine might have detected my magic back in our world, so in other words…” 

Twilight paused at that moment of her theory purposely to let everyone else try to guess where her theory is leading. Tenchi was curious of why Twilight stopped her theory from there, but soon realized what the rest of her theory was. He gasped with shock, placed his closed fist on his open palm then spoke “That the machine might have sent the others to your world!”

“Exactly!” Twilight responded, then continued with a smile “I’m impressed you noticed that quickly, Tenchi. You must be a quick learner.”

Tenchi chuckled a bit as he rubs the back of his head from being flattered by Twilight’s words. Finally, he found some relief after hearing Twilight’s theory of how all of this happened. At least for now he has a good guess of where the rest of the girls were sent to. For moment, he thought of how they are doing in a world ruled by mythical creatures and magic. Of course, he’s confident that they can hold on their own. The only thing he was worried of was how they would treat the inhabitants and vice versa.

Rarity with her arms crossed under her chest and said “Well, your brilliant mind shows no bounds so far, darling. And it’s awfully nice of you to give comfort to poor Tenchi here with your theory. But let’s not get our hopes up too much. It is as you said, it’s only a theory. Plus you still haven’t figured out why we’re transformed into humans after we arrived here in the first place.”

“I know but I can’t think of any other explanation. My theory has a high probability of being true although not proven. But yes, I still like to know why we end up in these forms.” Twilight responded. 

Just then, a loud growling can be heard within the shrine. Everyone reacted from the growl with a flinch, but the girls knew where it came from. Pinkie Pie held her stomach and smiled nervously with her tongue out while the other hand rubs the back of her head. “Sorry about that. I’m still hungry ever since we got here. Can we head back to Tenchi’s home and eat now that we’re all together again?” she asked with a chuckle. 

Rarity wasn’t amused from what Pinkie Pie did. She went toward her, placed her hand on Pinkie’s shoulder and said “Pinkie Pie, that is very rude. We’re all ladies here so at least show some dignity and act like one. A lady doesn’t allow herself to be uncouth by making such bodily noises.” After saying that, Rarity’s stomach lightly growled as well. Pinkie Pie did a broken smile as she tried to hide her laughter. “Oh dear, well that is embarrassing. I guess its natural even for a lady to show some sign of hunger.” 

Everyone in the shrine laughed after witnessing this. “Well, I’m glad all of you are well and good.” Said Katsuhito, then focused on Twilight and continued “Miss Sparkle, you are one very intelligent girl. I appreciate for sharing your theory and give us some relief for us of finding out where the other girls most likely are, besides assuming how all of you arrived here. But what’s important now that you girls are finally reunited. I understand you gone through such a struggle. For now, you’re welcome to stay at our home until we figured out how your group and our friends can return to their designated worlds.”

Twilight was speechless. This is only the first time she met Tenchi’s grandfather, but she didn’t expect him to be such a nice yet caring person. It is as if he reminds her of someone she fully respects and admires. She was about to make that weird bow but quickly stopped and might have guessed how a human properly bows. “Thank you so much. We’re very grateful for your care and hospitality.” She said while bowing her head. 

The rest of the girls noticed how Twilight thanked Katsuhito and followed as well by bowing their heads while leaning their bodies toward a bit. Katsuhito smiled as he witnessed how they show their gratitude and somewhat impressed how Twilight might have guessed on doing the proper bowing.

“Tenchi, if you will, please escort Miss Twilight and the others back to the house. They should be quite famished, so I expect that you and your father will give them a proper meal. Tenchi nodded and went for Twilight. She looks up to him curiously as he offered his hand to her then showed a friendly smile with his eyes closed. Twilight placed her hand on Tenchi’s, then slowly tried to get up from her sitting position. As she tries, she staggered from having not acquired her adjustment of being two-legged. Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie quickly went for her and caught her before losing her balance. 

Twilight looked flustered with her cheeks puffed up. “Ugh, how you suppose to move with these legs?” she said. 

“Simple, just put one hoof…I mean foot in front of the other. Even little ol’ happy me can do it.” Said Pinkie Pie with a smile. 

“Easy for you to say since you already got the knack for it. I’m still trying to this new walking thing and I barely managed it.” Said Rainbow Dash. 

“I know it’s difficult now. But remember you just recovered from a light fever. For now, you need to gain your strength before you try walking.” Said Tenchi. 

Twilight wasn’t too happy but, she had no choice. She sighed and asked Tenchi, “If that’s the case, is it alright that you could piggyback me to your place?” 

Tenchi didn’t expect to hear such a request from her. The others also felt the same way as well. Tenchi muttered nervously in a bit of gibberish. The only person that felt different about this was Rarity. It seemed that she was feeling a bit jealous. Fluttershy was first to have help climbing up the stairs by him, and then Twilight was next in a different method with more contact. 

As a true lady that she is, Rarity had been wanting that kind of treatment from a man, so there was only one thing she could think of. She then collapses on the floor and rests on her legs. “Oh heavens, for some reason my legs gave in. It must have been from climbing those dreaded stairs. Tenchi, could you be a dear and help me.” She said in such a manner of distress. 

“Don’t worry, I gotcha’.” Said Rainbow Dash as she takes Rarity’s hand and was about lift her up.

Rarity got annoyed and quickly went into a scuffle with her. “Rainbow, I did not ask for YOUR help.” She said as she turns her head away from Rainbow Dash and quickly moved her hand off from Rainbow’s hold. 

“I know, but didn’t you said before I was being jealous of Fluttershy being helped by Tenchi? Looks like it’s you who is feeling that same assumption.” 

With that said, it struck a nerve on Rarity. She suddenly bites the nail of one of her thumbs. “As much as I don’t trust the guy, I’m giving him a break to help Twilight since she needed the help…more than you do, heh-heh.” said Rainbow Dash with a satisfying snicker. 

“One of these days, you obnoxious hussy, you’ll rue the day that you bother this innocent yet beautiful lady.” Said Rarity through her teeth, then she blinked and noticed she was gnawing at her nail. “And why on earth I’m biting on this hard part of my, ummm... whatever-it-is.” 

Pinkie Pie pointed at Rarity’s thumb and said, “That hard part is called a nail, Rarity. And that big finger is a thumb. Guess the first thing we need to do after we eat is learn how to act more human while we’re here.” The rest of the girls were shocked to hear that, as if it was rare to them to see & hear Pinkie Pie make sense. 

“Agreed, but at least we should learn some manners while we’re at it as well. Especially, for some which I will not mention.” Said Rarity, then turning her head to Rainbow Dash, Applejack, and Pinkie Pie. 

“What?” the three said in unison, looking oblivious. 

Tenchi and Twilight witnessed seeing the girls in their usual engagement.

“Your friends sure are an interesting bunch, Miss Sparkle” said Tenchi with a nervous smile on his face. 

“True, but rest assured I can’t have anypony else but them as my true friends.” said Twilight in response. 

“Right…” said Tenchi with a nod, then continues watching the others bickering.

Twilight couldn’t help but notice how calm he was watching her friends. She cleared her throat gaining his attention. “Umm, a little help? I still can’t get up on my own, you know. Well, not just yet.” She said. 

Tenchi flinched noticing he forgot he was about help her. “Oh! Sorry about that. Got caught in the moment, heh-heh.” He said, then turned his attention to her and squatted, readying himself to carry her. Twilight hesitated for a moment but finally built some courage and placed her arms around Tenchi. 

“Good, just make sure you hold me real good. Now, bring me your legs.” Said Tenchi with his hands ready. Twilight then slowly moved his legs one by one until Tenchi got hold of them. Now Tenchi is the one hesitating as the feel of her legs got to him. For a girl who look somewhat weak from a slight fever, he didn’t notice how thick her thighs are. Not just that, he also had a slight feel of her hips pressing against his wrists. Even though she is wearing Washu’s short pants in its largest size, they are still a little snug but that didn’t hold down her hips to stretch out. The others were oblivious of what’s going on but they were watching them in case anything bad happens. His hesitation was just for a few seconds, but gain back his focus and finally lifted himself with Twilight on his back. He heard a slight sound of worry from Twilight. “You okay back there?” he said in response. 

“Yes, I’m fine.” She answered. 

“Good. Girls, let’s be on our way.” With that said, everyone went out. 

The girls and Katsuhito were the first to exit out from the shrine, followed by Tenchi and Twilight. The light of the sun caught Twilight Sparkle off guard as she turned her head away with her eyes close. But as soon as she opened her eyes again, she was entranced by how amazing and beautiful the outside in this world looks. She was like in a trance as she starred at her surroundings. The stoned grounds of the shrine, its gate, the trees outside of it, the birds flying, even the beautiful blue sky… everything Twilight sees she couldn’t do anything but watch. 

“I’m guessing you’re surprised with the surroundings.” Said Tenchi. 

“More than that, I’m just completely in awe.” Answered Twilight. “It’s so beautiful and detailed.  There’s more than that but the atmosphere is so overwhelming that it’s making it harder for my mind to process.” 

“Guess that’s egghead talk for speechless. But yeah, we all kinda felt the same way when we first got out of Tenchi’s house.” Said Rainbow Dash to Twilight with a confident smirk.

But then Pinkie Pie intervened. “Except for me, I still miss that papery look back home. But I give an ‘A’ for effort for whatever reason Tenchi’s world looks like this…maybe too much effort since it looks like so much work was put into it.” 

This is the second time Tenchi heard Pinkie Pie mentioned the different views between his world and hers, but still couldn’t understand what she is saying. 

It still left him oblivious but then Twilight noticed and decided to clear this up. “Looks like you’re a little confused. Don’t worry, this is normal since Pinkie Pie usually does that. But I might have an idea on what she is talking about.” Twilight then continued as everyone went down the stairs. “Here’s an example: You understand how you see differently if you’re seeing a painting or a pencil drawing, correct? It looks totally different from the way you look at the world around you. I guess Pinkie Pie is trying to say that your world looks totally different than ours, but nevertheless they both exist… I think.”

Tenchi chuckled a bit and said, “I understand now. Still, if your world looks different than ours, now I wonder how my friends would react now that they’re in your world.”  Everyone moved on to the stairs but Twilight went silent after hearing his previous words.

As they go down the stairs, Twilight thought about something in Tenchi.  It’s only been minutes since I met this human but I’m already astounded of how he behaves. Since I met him, he’s only been thinking only about his friends and those around him. He really seems like a nice yet caring guy,  she thought as looked at Tenchi with a smile. She also feels relieved noticing how all of her friends are coping. She knew they would worry and panic being in a world not of their own, but they somehow managed to calm themselves and adjust to the situation without her help. It was all thanks to Tenchi and his family. She really wished she could repay them in some way for their help and hospitality. They finally reached the bottom of the stairs as Twilight continued to browse the area and enjoy what this world can offer. Then she took notice of the Masaki residence.

“Wow, is this your home?” Twilight asked in awe.

“Isn’t it marvelous, darling? Its looks like a small mansion. The best part is that Tenchi’s father designed the house himself. Not only is he an architect, but a charmer as well with his words. You should definitely meet him.” Said Rarity with such enthusiasm.

“It’s definitely big, alright. Maybe then bigger than my library home back in Ponyville.” Twilight continued.

“Wait, you live in a library?” Said Tenchi with surprise.

“Uh-huh. Not just that, Twilight and Spike runs it for Ponyville too. In fact, reading and studying is pretty much what she does most of her day.” Said Pinkie Pie with a smile, not thinking ahead of the outcome of her words.

“Hence why I call her ‘egghead’.” Said Rainbow Dash. Twilight lowered her head and was silent for a moment as her cheeks turn red from embarrassment. 

“Oh come now, dear.  It was all in good fun. You know very well how these two behave, even though they should be a little more considerate towards others.” Said Rarity while comforting Twilight.

“And this is why my brother Big Mac always tells me, ’If you can’t think ahead before opening your muzzle, then you’re better off keeping it shut.’ You get nothing but trouble if you ignore his words.” Added Applejack with a serious nod. 

“Anyway, let’s hurry inside. Don’t want all of you starving to death.” Said Tenchi as he opens the door to his house. 

As soon as he took a step inside, he froze as he realized something. He look to his new guests and remembered that they were all barefoot when they first got out of the house. He also felt embarrassed for not realizing sooner now that they already dirtied the floors of his grandfather’s shrine when they first came in to check on Twilight. 

“Okay, what is it this time?” said Rainbow Dash with a shrug. 

“I think you girls need a good rinsing on your feet before entering the house.” Said Tenchi nervously while tapping his index finger repeatedly to point at their feet. The others look down at their own feet and noticed they were covered in dirt and mud. 

“Great… Now you’re all picky like Rarity.” Rainbow Dash replied with a huff. 

“Oh dear. This is embarrassing. I was so excited being in this world that I completely forgot how exposed our …How you called them again? Oh right, ‘feet.’ How exposed our feet were. No wonder I had such an icky feeling while walking on these messy grounds. Also, may I add to Rainbow Dash that there’s nothing wrong if Tenchi is concern about keeping the floors of his home clean.” Retorted Rarity.

Rainbow Dash turn her head away from Rarity. She then tilts her head back and forth from the sides and mimics how Rarity said her words, mocking her in frustration. Tenchi left Twilight on the couch and was introduced to his dad. She then introduced herself to him while Tenchi took care of rinsing the dirt off from their feet with a bucket of water as each one step on the cement platform that was in front of the door to take their turn then enter the house after drying off. 

Twilight was already standing on her feet, as she immediately wanted to learn to stand her own while she waited for the others. But she was amazed from staring at the inside of Tenchi’s home. She was then welcomed by Tenchi’s father after coming out from the kitchen as soon as he heard his visitors arriving. 

“Why, hello there. You must be that Twilight girl the others kept mentioning.” He said with a humble grin. 

“Uh, yes, I am. And you must be Tenchi’s father I presume?” asked Twilight. 

Nobuyuki placed his hand on the back of his head. “Right you are, little missy. You’re definitely mentally quick on your feet. Still, you must be very lucky to have such caring friends. Even after they woken up, they were so worried about you once they knew you weren’t around the house.” 

“Believe me, I’m truly am. I wouldn’t know what I would do if anything bad happened to them. But I’m grateful for the hospitality and care you and your family have given us when we’re only just mere strangers.” She said while bowing slightly to show her gratitude. 

“Well, don’t you and your friends worry. You’ll be safe with us in our home until we figure out how we send you all back to your world. I’ll put my honor as a man on the line to make sure of that.” He said with confident look on his face with a slight snort from his nose while he places his closed fist to his heart. 

With that said, Twilight smiled, seeing already that Tenchi’s father was a very loyal yet caring parent.

Everyone else finally entered the house with their feet all clean and dried, with Rainbow Dash being the last person to enter. The others couldn’t help but chuckle about what happened between Tenchi and Rainbow. Both of them look flustered at each other. Twilight just turned her head toward them and wanted to know what was going on. “Umm, did I miss something?” she asked.

“Sure did, Twi’.” Answered Applejack. “Let’s just say Tenchi had a little trouble cleaning Rainbow Dash.” 

“It’s just a little rinsing and cleaning. What’s wrong with you?” argued Tenchi. 

“I’m sorry, okay? I just get a little pressured when someone is touching me.” Answered Rainbow. 

“A little pressured!? Afraid is more like it. You couldn’t even stay still for me as soon as I try to take hold of one of your feet.. Seriously, you didn’t have to kick me just for that.” He retorted. 

“Augh, how many times do I have to tell you? I said I’m sorry!” she yelled out of embarrassment with her cheeks turned red.

“Let me guess. Her fear of others having close contact with her kicked in, didn’t it?” said Twilight with a sigh. 

Rarity giggled. “I apologize for my rudeness. Still, you must admit that it’s amusing yet adorable at the same time. Somehow, those two look cute together.” Said Rarity but then her amusement soon turns to something else as she continued. “And yet, why do I find the sudden urge of jealousy when I see this?” 

Suddenly, Pinkie Pie gotten in the way of everyone and shouted with her arms raised, “Enough chit chat! I want to eat now! If I wait any longer, I might starve to death!” She then curled up expressing how serious her hunger is.

“Settle down now. I expected how hungry everyone was, especially the pink one here. Because of that, I made sure I cooked breakfast for all as soon you return. I got your meals all ready by the table.” Said Nobuyuki, while waving his hand up and down repeatedly to gesture them to calm down.

As soon as Pinkie Pie heard that, she showed a great big smile, ran towards Nobuyuki and hugged him. “Ooh, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you! You really are a really nice guy, Mr. Tenchi’s Dad!” She replied with great delight. 

Nobuyuki was definitely caught off guard by the pink-haired girl’s behavior, but it did make him chuckle a bit with such flattery.  “Actually, I don’t think you have to praise me that much until you try the food. I might be somewhat rusty since it’s been so long the last time I cooked. Well, hurry to kitchen now. Don’t want your meals to get cold.” He said.

With that said, every one headed to the kitchen.  They all have taken their seats but Nobuyuki decided to be a gentleman and present Rarity’s to her. “And here’s your seat, my lady.” He said with a smile. 

Rarity bowed very lady-like to Nobuyuki and took her seat then said “Oh, you’re such a considerate sweetheart, Mr. Masaki.” She then placed her hand on Nobuyuki’s cheek and rubbed it gently. 

“No need for the title, Miss Rarity. Call me Nobuyuki.” He insisted. 

“I wouldn’t dare call you by your first name. I mean, you’re Tenchi’s father and all, plus you’re the owner and architect of this wonderful home. It be so embarrassing if I did.” Responded Rarity, all flustered. 

“No, I insist. It be honor to hear it from such beautiful mistress.” Said Nobuyuki calmly with a bow. 

Rarity giggled with delight and said “Oh, Mr. Masaki you have such a way with words. You’re making me feel bad from taking all this praise.”

Everyone else looked nervous from witnessing this scene. Rainbow Dash places her index finger in front of her open mouth and gags. “All this lovey-dovey stuff from those two is just making me sick. Are you two trying to make this harder for us to eat?” she said. 

Tenchi definitely understand what Rainbow Dash is going since he knows how his father overdoes to just grab a woman’s attention that he likes so much. But then the girls look down at their meals. They look curiously at it as it is compose of a bowl of steamed rice and a cup of miso soup. Applejack didn’t look so happy since the meal isn’t much for her thanks to her large size. 

“Um, Tenchi? What’s this?” she said out of curiosity. 

“It’s steamed rice and miso soup.” He answered. 

“I can see this here is rice but not sure about the soup.” She said. 

“Well, miso soup is made of a certain type of bean broth.” He explained. 

“If you ask me, I don’t think I would have my fill with just this.” She retorted. 

Then the others showed mixed feelings to this. “Well, at least you humans eat healthy. I was worried about hearing the legends that you also eat…” said Twilight Sparkle nervously but was interrupted by Nobuyuki as he realized something. 

“Oops, forgot one more thing to add on the meal. Wait just the sec.” he said, then got up from his chair then went to the stove. He then took out a plate of grilled fish. “Can’t be a complete meal without the grilled fish.” He said with a grin. 

The girls gasped as they heard what Nobuyuki said except Twilight who finished her sentence with “…Meat.”

“Okay, girls, dig in” said Nobuyuki with a smile. The others hesitated from eating as soon as they see their grilled fish in front of them. But the one suffering the most of all is Fluttershy as she froze right on her seat. She stood there silently for a moment, took a deep breath, then shrieked with such fright. 

> Chapter 8 (Tenchi-Side): No Need for Human Pony Girls, part 4
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The others quickly covered their ears from Fluttershy’s loud yell. That definitely caught Tenchi and Nobuyuki off guard. 

“What’s wrong with her? It’s just grilled fish.” Said Nobuyuki. Tenchi punched his father’s arm for what he was about to point out. 

“Dad, you forgot they were originally ponies. Have you ever thought before cooking  that they don’t eat meat?” said Tenchi with a frustrated tone towards his father.  

Nobuyuki looked embarrassed. It seems that he completely forgot that important detail about them. “Oops. Sorry about that. But how am I supposed to remember that when they look very human right in front of me.” He said while rubbing the back of his head. 

The others went for Fluttershy to comfort he. “Are you okay there, Fluttershy?” asked Rainbow Dash who was the first to comfort her friend. 

“I’m terribly sorry. It was just so sudden. I didn’t know humans actually eat meat. But I feel bad even more for the poor fishies.” Said Fluttershy in a tearful way while she sniffs hesitantly as she is about to cry. 

“Oh, the poor dear. I can understand how Fluttershy feels about this. Serving us….ugh, cooked fish did caught us off guard, but Tenchi’s father didn’t mean no harm.” Said Rarity as she caresses Fluttershy’s hair to comfort her. 

Tenchi had been watching the entire event happening. He knew something like this would happen, but this proves how Fluttershy loves animals even more.  Ryo-Ohki was still held by Fluttershy as she meows concerningly as she tries to comfort her too. 
Twilight sighed because of the situation but knows how to handle this. “Fluttershy, do you remember how you took care of Harry the Bear?” she asked. 

“Oh, yes. Other than Angel Bunny, he is one of my most favorite animal friends to take care of.” Fluttershy responded.

“Good. Then do you remember that you sometimes give him fish too?”

“Yes… But I only do that whenever he doesn’t have any luck getting any on his own”

“Did you ever consider stopping to feed him any fish, even if it involves him taking some other animal’s life to feed his own?”

“Even if I hate it so much, no. It’s because I understand its part of nature.”

“In other words, you respected Harry’s natural diet, just like with all the other animals you care for.” Fluttershy nodded in agreement. 

“Well, you have to implement the same with Tenchi and his family. Its seems that humans are mammals too from what I’ve seen so far, and I assume they eat any type of nourishment, even if its meat. These people have shown their kindness and generosity towards us even if we’re not of this world. It’s the least we can do for them”

Fluttershy sighed, finally understanding what Twilight was explaining and said, “Okay, Twilight. I’ll try. But next time I hope they tell us ahead of time if they plan to cook *shivers* meat and not eat in front of me.”

Twilight Sparkle switched her focus to Tenchi and Nobuyuki. “You heard that, right? Please do that for Fluttershy’s sake. But we do apologize for her sudden behavior.” she said. 

They both look nervous as they look each at each other confusingly then Tenchi answered “Okay, I guess.”

Nobuyuki smiled nervously and rubs the back of his as he said, “We’ll make sure of that from now on. Again, sorry about my carelessness.”

Pinkie Pie looked happily relieved and said, “Yay! Glad that this is settled. Let’s eat.”. She then went back to her chair. “And since what Twilight said is true, you know what they say: eat like the humans eat.” She then picked up her grilled fish, lift it over her head and was about to put into her mouth. 

Fluttershy flinched with a panicked squeak seeing Pinkie Pie about to eat it, but Applejack intervened while pressing her hand down on Pinkie’s forearm that’s holding the fish. “I understand whatcha’ saying, sugarcube. But I don’t think we should do that.” She said with a stern but nervous tone.

“I know your heart is in the right place, Pinkie. Nevertheless, we can’t risk ourselves eating substances that isn’t that we normally eat, especially if its meat. Who knows what effects would give towards us. Again, even though we’re humans on the outside, we’re still ponies on the inside.” Said Twilight to Pinkie. With a heavy sigh, Pinkie Pie places her fish back on her plate and nods in understanding. 

“Awfully wise words, Twilight. No matter what happens, we need to keep our muzzles up and pull through this outcome.” Said Rarity.

“Uh, you mean chin, right?” intervened a nervous Tenchi as he points his chin to Rarity. “Oh…Right, I apologize for my in-correction, Tenchi. It’s hard to remember that you’re human while thinking like a pony.” Answered Rarity with a nervous smile. 

“Alright, enough with the encouraging chit-chat. Let’s just eat. We’ve been starving for who knows how long.” Snapped Rainbow Dash. Everyone else agreed as they went back to their seats. 

Tenchi and Nobuyuki put their palms together to wish to have their good meal but the girls were curious as to what they are doing.

“What are you doing? Meditating before a meal?” said Pinkie Pie who was the first to ask while placing her index finger to her mouth as a way to show her curiosity.

“It’s actually a mannerly way to begin a meal. You could say it’s a ritual of sorts to make sure we enjoy our food.” Answered Nobuyuki. 

Pinkie Pie smiled happily and responded “Ooh, kinda like saying grace.” 

“Do all humans do this?” asked Twilight Sparkle. 

“Not exactly. You see, all of you are in a world composed of many countries, in which everyone is different in pretty much everything, from their culture to their appearances. Although it’s difficult for us to accept one another because of that, but we do manage to do it somehow.” Answered Tenchi. 

“Fascinating, the way you explain it sounds like your world almost matches ours.” Said Rarity in such interest. 

“If you don’t mind, is it alright we show you how we pay our respects for our meal and then show us yours?” asked Twilight. 

Tenchi and Nobuyuki looked at each other in curiosity, then looked back at them with their own smiles. “I don’t see why not. Of course you can.” Answered Tenchi. 

Twilight showed an eager look then nodded to the others. “Okay, girls, let’s show them how we do this.” She said, then everyone held hands together.

“We show our gratitude on this prosperous meal to everything life has given us.” They said in unison.

“We give thanks to the Sun, raised by Princess Celestia, that gives us warmth.” Said Twilight Sparkle.

“We give thanks to our friends and family, for being there whenever we need them.” Said Pinkie Pie.

“We give thanks to the earth and the trees, for providing us farming folk.” Said Applejack.

“We give thanks to the skies, for being a place for Pegasi to fly and feel free.” Said Rainbow Dash.

“We give thanks to the animals, for making nature look so wonderful.” Said Fluttershy.

“And we give thanks to the Moon, raised by Princess Luna, that gives us the light of night.” said Rarity.

“As we expressed our gratitude, we will enjoy our meal and never forsake on what we have… by the magic of friendship.” They said in unison once more and all finished with a nod of their heads.

After the girls were done saying their grace, Tenchi and Nobuyuki were somewhat in awe. Of course, they are familiar of how people of different cultures showed their thanks for everything that they have. But somehow, their way had more meaning behind it. 

“That was very good, girls. Honestly, its little weird hearing that the Sun and the Moon in your world are raised by your rulers, I assume, but nevertheless its very thoughtful.” Said Nobuyuki. Tenchi nodded in agreement. 

“Why thank you, Mr. Masaki. I’m glad to hear that you two thought of it that way. Now would you kindly show us your way?” responded Twilight. The others focused on them as they are eager to know. 

“It’s almost the same as yours, but this how our people here in Japan do it. We place our palms together then give our prayers in our mind. We make sure we give a good moment for everyone in the household to finish their prayers.” Explained Tenchi. 

“And once we’re done, we say ‘Itadakimasu’ to finish it and begin eating.” Said Nobuyuki with a grin. 

Twilight looked a little confused then said, “Huh? ‘Itadakimasu’? What does that mean? Weird that the stones didn’t translate that word.”

Applejack looked confident and decided to ease Twilight’s confusion. “Honey, even your stones know they don’t need to tell us what that means. It’s pretty much saying ‘Let’s eat.’ Am I right, Mr. Masaki?”

Nobuyuki responded with a nod then said, “Good guess. Anyway, let’s just eat now before our food goes cold.”

Everyone else nodded and the girls said in unison “Itadakimasu” in such a cute way. Tenchi and Nobuyuki smiled from hearing them say it, then they were about to eat their rice. But they performed a double take as they witnessed how the girls were eating their meals. They were all holding their bowls and gnaw into it…as any other animal would do. But Rarity was the only one using a fork for the rice, which was given for everyone else with their own. 

“Guess this is to be expected since they claimed they are ponies.” Said Tenchi with a nervous smile and a hesitant laugh. 

But Nobuyuki is not amused. Even when he can be lazy, a bit clumsy, and somewhat of a pervert, he is not to be taken likely while he is the man of the house. Nobuyuki cleared his throat as a gesture in trying to get the girls’ attention but no one took notice. He then cleared his throat even louder. 

“Are you getting sick, Mr. Masaki, or do you need some water?” answered Rainbow Dash. 

“No…uh, Rainbow Dash, right? I’m not sick. I’m only trying to get you and the others’ attention. 

“How come?” she responded. The others stopped midway of eating their meal and gave their attention him. Nobuyuki gave a displeased look at them then silently present his bowl just to point out their way of eating. 

Rarity took to think of what he is trying to say but realized what it was as she glanced at her table manners differentiating to the others. The others look somewhat confused but Rarity decided to explain to them. “Girls, the reason Mr. Masaki is displeased is because of our table manners.” She said.

“What’s so wrong about it then? Said Rainbow Dash in a huff. 

“We need to remind ourselves that we’re not ponies anymore, for the time being that is. If we’re going to be living as humans, we need to behave like them as well if the opportunity of going out in public arrives. And to start on the right path, we need improve our table manners.” Said Rarity in a concerned tone. The others quickly took notice of what Rarity is trying point out and now feel awkward of this. 

“You might be right, Rarity. The least we can do while we’re here is learn how to blend in so to speak with the humans if that moment arrives.” Said Twilight nervously.  

“Especially if we don’t want to embarrass ourselves…” said Fluttershy. 

“Well, the first thing we should do is begin eating by using our utensils. These forks that Mr. Masaki has provided us should suffice. Is there anyone besides myself who hasn’t had any knowledge of using one?” said Rarity. 

“You don’t have to remind us, Little Miss Proper. Even if most of us don’t’ have the most perfect table manners as you are, us ‘human-in-training’ ponies at least know how to use a fork, spoon, or any darn simple tool if we had the opportunity.” Said Applejack with a groan.

“I’m sorry if I hurt your pride, Applejack, but I’m only asking for the wellbeing of the group. But if you’re so confident, then you and the others show me that you can.” 

“Fine, I will.” Said Applejack seriously. She picked up her fork , dug it into her rice, scooped a bit of it, place it into her mouth, closed it, and pulled the fork out of her mouth. As she chew her rice, she gestured Rarity that she proved herself. 

“Well, I guess you proved yourself, but your table manners still need much more improvement. Anyone else?” said Rarity as she takes notice of the others. Fluttershy nervously picked up her fork and did the same like Applejack, but in a hesitant way, but managed to have a portion of the rice in her mouth and started to build some confidence in her. Rarity look pleased with Fluttershy’s demonstration and clapped. It was Twilight Sparkle’s turn and she had no trouble using her fork. “Very good, Twilight. I’m guessing Princess Celestia taught you table manners as well?” she asked. 

“Not to brag, but she did showed me the different types of utensils and proper etiquette for those times I had banquets with her.” Answered Twilight with confidence. 

Pinkie Pie picked up hers then looks at it closely with one eye and her tongue out. She then shrugged her shoulders and used her fork with no problem. “Easy-peasy.” She said with a smile. 

Rainbow Dash heavily sighed and said, “Do I have to do this?”

“If you do not want to embarrass yourself in front of anyone, then you certainly must do.” Retorted Rarity. 

With a annoyed “Fine,” Rainbow Dash took her fork then carelessly used it. She had a normal portion of the rice. 

“That wasn’t so bad now, was it?” said Rarity proving her point. 

“Whatever, at least the rice is still good. I’m really impressed how it tastes is even it feels so sticky.” Said Rainbow Dash. 

“It must be from the way it was cooked. I can guess it was steamed, making the moisture build up for the rice to absorb, giving it that adhesive texture.” Said Twilight. 

“Maybe you should focus more on eating than giving lectures, Sugarcube.” Said Applejack nervously. Twilight smiled embarrassingly while rubbing the back of her neck. Nobuyuki feel satisfied that they are now behaving better. 

“Don’t worry. You girls will get used to it soon. But I hope that you’re enjoying your meals.” Said Tenchi. 

“We really do, Tenchi."

“Thank you and your father for giving us such a wonderful meal.” Said Fluttershy with a calm smile as she gives a carrot to Ryo-Ohki to feed her.

Little by little, the girls are starting to get accustomed to eating their meal. Pinkie Pie looks curiously at both her bowl of rice and her cup of miso soup. She then came up with an idea and decided to pour her remaining rice into the soup. She then took a taste and showed such an expression of enjoyment. “Wowee-zowee! You guys, you have got to try mixing the rice into the soup! It tastes even much better.” She said. 

Rainbow Dash took notice of Pinkie’s advice and decided to do it herself. She then took the taste and was also impressed. “She’s right! Never knew the taste could be so awesome.” Said Rainbow. 

Tenchi and Nobuyuki then realized what’s going and felt nervous on the girls’ doings, although it’s not as bad as how their earlier table manners were. Applejack and Twilight were the only ones who tried for their own reasons: Twilight for being curious to confirm Pinkie Pie’s idea is true; and Applejack just wanting to make her meal taste better. 

“Hoo-wee! That is some good stuff right there.” Said Applejack looking impressed. 

“Well, it is obvious that mixing two items would deliver better results most of the time.” Said Twilight. 

Rarity and Fluttershy were the only ones who didn’t tried Pinkie’s idea. 

“How come you two are not trying it.” Asked Rainbow Dash. 

“As much as I would like to try Pinkie’s idea, I don’t think its mannerly to do such thing. Actually, I think it’s simply childish. I prefer taking a bite of my rice then a sip of my soup in that order, thank you very much.” Answered Rarity with a huff. 

“I prefer to be safe and keep my meal as it is. Sorry about that.” Said Fluttershy in such a cute yet shy manner. 

“Well, at least everyone is enjoying their meal.” Said Nobuyuki. 

Then Rainbow Dash took notice of Nobuyuki’s chopsticks. “Mr. Masaki? What are those?” she asked. 

Nobuyuki then look at his chopsticks then answered Rainbow Dash, “You mean these? They are chopsticks. This is what we use as utensils instead of forks, it’s part of our country’s culture.”

Rainbow Dash then continued still showing her curiosity. “Really? That’s kinda cool. But how come you haven’t given us some?”

Nobuyuki rubbed the back of his head nervously then he said, “Not to be rude, but since you were ponies and all, I thought it will be easier for you to use forks instead.”

Rainbow Dash then smirked with confidence. “Is this a challenge now, huh? Alright, let me use them. If any human can do it, then I can too.” The other girls sure look with concern at each other. 

“Is this alright, Rainbow? I mean, it’s enough that we can use forks and this is just our first meal here.” Said Twilight. 

Applejack then place her hand on Twilight Sparkle’s shoulder then shook her head. “It’s no use, Twilight. Let her be. You know how Rainbow Dash is. Once she sees a challenge in front of her, she’ll take it head-on no matter what.” She said. Nobuyuki shrugged his shoulders and looks at Tenchi about the situation. Tenchi sighed then went for a new pair of chopsticks and gave it to Rainbow. She took hold of them, one on each hand then looked at one of them then the other by moving her eyes back and forth.

“Alright, what’s the first thing I need to do.” She asked. 

Tenchi demonstrated how are chopsticks are held and he said “First off, you have to hold them like this.” 

She then attempted to hold them like Tenchi does. “Now how you use them to pick and hold stuff?” she asked. 

“You then move the fingers you’re using that are holding on to the stick and try to make it clasp to the other stick.” He answered and then demonstrated doing that as well. 

“Okay” with that said, Rainbow Dash tried to do that as well. She had a few misses which made her build up her frustration. It took a few more tries, but she managed to get the hang of it. “Ha! See? No problem.” Said Rainbow Dash with confidence as she raised her head and her nose breathed out. 

Everyone else was amazed as they applauded to her. However, Rarity is the only one who isn’t even amused of Rainbow’s achievement and decided to intervene. “Marvelous performance, Rainbow. But I don’t think you should claim your victory so soon.” She said. 

Rainbow Dash responded with an awkward oblivious look on her face, with her head tilted to the side a bit, and her hands on the table and said, “What do you mean too soon? I managed how to use them. That’s good enough for me.”

Rarity then loosely grasped her hands and rested her chin on them as she spoke with a face so calm that she is hiding her true purpose. “All I’m saying is, darling, that you should put your skills to the test. Why not try using them to eat your rice? Although I won’t blame you if you think you can’t do it.” 

“Here we go.” muttered Twilight Sparkle responding to what’s going on. Applejack just placed her hand on her face and shook her head in disappointment from this. Fluttershy just looks around curiously as she is oblivious to what’s going on as Ryo-Ohki is by her lap still enjoying her carrot. 

“Who says I can’t do it? I’ll show you right now that I can and we’ll see who’s the one laughing.” Said Rainbow with determination.

Pinkie Pie shook in excitement then she lean towards rarity and said, “Ooooh, now you’re gonna get it.”

Tenchi and Nobuyuki are still witnessing what is going on, but they can’t believe the reason why. All this just so one could learn how to use chopsticks. But then Tenchi noticed Pinkie Pie who look liked she had some sort of idea and decided to get up from her chair and go through the same drawer that kept the utensils where Nobuyuki found the chopsticks. He was about to say something, but decided not to and decided to let her be as he assume she is not going to cause any trouble after getting familiar with her unusual behavior. 

Rainbow Dash picks up her bowl of rice and looks at it seriously as she holds her chopsticks readily. She is a little nervous as her chopstick hand is shaking a bit. She opened her chopsticks then, slowly moves them into the bowl, and tried to pick some of the rice. Finally, she somehow managed to get a good amount and took a bite. After one swallow, she then grinned confidently and laughed proudly. “Guess I’m the one who’s laughing.” Said Rainbow. 

Everyone else applaud for her achievement yet again. Rarity looks somewhat surprised that she managed to do it but regained her composure still looking un-amused. “I guess SOME praise is deserved for your LITTLE accomplishment. May I remind you that the rice is sticky to begin with which makes it so much easier for you to pick a mouthful.” She said in a pompous way. 

“You’re just jealous ‘cause I managed to do it. Why can’t you accept that I was the better mare?” said Rainbow Dash with a frustrated look. 

“You mean better woman. You’re not ponies for now, remember?” Tenchi intervened nervously. 

“Whatever!” she shouted. “Rainbow Dash, I did not like how you answered to sweet Tenchi here, especially how he and his family been awfully nice to us. But again, that last task was too simple, more like a warm-up per say. I only want to see you prove that your amazing skill is the real deal. Hence I’m suggesting a much better challenge.” Said Rarity with her eyes clothes and her index finger pointed up. 

Twilight Sparkle then placed her hand on Rarity then shook her head. “I think this is far enough. Can’t we just peacefully enjoy our breakfast before you start making this into a frustrating ordeal for all of us?” she said. 

“Why, Twilight? How could you think of me that way? I merely wanted Rainbow Dash to demonstrate her chopstick skills.” Said Rarity with a somewhat honest expression, although she looks like she is trying too hard to hide her true agenda. 

“Don’t worry, Twilight, It won’t take long. I’ll definitely snuff her out in a minute and then we can finally finish breakfast. Bring it on.” Said Rainbow Dash with a confident look. 

“We’ll see about that” said Rarity looking at Rainbow Dash with such annoyed eyes. She then focuses to Tenchi and asked, “Tenchi, darling, by any chance you carry olives in your lovely kitchen?” Tenchi nodded nervously. “Would you be a dear and kindly bring forth a few to that awfully brute of a girl?” she asked once more. 

“You’re really asking for a hoof sandwich, Miss Pompypants?” retorted Rainbow Dash. 

“Ooh, good one, but I think you mean knuckle sandwich.” Said Pinkie Pie, who then high fived Rainbow Dash. 

“Whatever, all I know is that I’ll make sure she’ll get what she deserves soon enough.” 

Tenchi went to get the olives kept in the cupboard, then poured a few in another bowl, and then served it to Rainbow Dash. Rainbow Dash looks nervously at her olives. 

“Go on, dear, or have you decided to back out since it’s already too much for you.” Said Rarity to Rainbow Dash with a slight chuckle held by her words. 

Rainbow Dash grits her teeth then yelled, “Rainbow Dash never backs out on a challenge. Just give me a moment, okay?” 

Rainbow lowers her herself above the level of the bowl and takes a close look at the olives. She then carefully held her chopsticks and draws them closer towards the olives. Finally, she tries clasping them on one olive slowly. The girls lean over as they look carefully. Tenchi and Nobuyuki just patiently waited for this to be over with as they look nervously at what’s going on. They have gone through such weird situations before, but never before on a fuss about using chopsticks. 

Her chopsticks finally touched on olive from clasping. “Got it!” she said as she look excited. But the moment she tried holding the olive, it slipped out from her chopsticks’ grasp. 

The girls look disappointed except for Rarity as she shows a confident look on her face. “Well, there you have it. It’s not easy to master such a simple foreign utensil in one try.” She said. 

“Wait, let me try one more time.” Said Rainbow Dash nervously. She tried once more but again the olive slipped out. That caused her to panic and tried several times until she somehow managed to pick it up. She looked satisfied for accomplishing it, but it didn’t last long as it slips out from her grasp again. “Aw, I almost had it… Grr, one more time! This time for sure!” she said with such a pout.

“Aw, too bad, Rainbow. Don’t worry, you’ll get it sometime. But it goes to show you shouldn’t think master one thing after trying it for the first time. It might teach you a bit humility.” Said Rarity with a satisfying smile. 

“Don’t start with me, Rarity…” said Rainbow Dash while speaking through her gritting teeth. 

“Besides, it’s not like anyone of us would be able to use it so early” continued Rarity but as soon as she said those words, everyone gasped as they noticed Pinkie Pie eating the same olives served for Rainbow Dash. Not just that, she was actually picking them up with her own set of chopsticks! 

“Mmm, these olives are scrumpty-omptoulous. Can I have some more?” Pinkie asked. The girls were just shocked just seeing how easily Pinkie is using those chopsticks when its actually her first time. 

“Give me those!” said Rainbow Dash as she took Pinkie Pie’s chopsticks. She then tried picking up an olive herself but she fails just like before. 

“Not like that, silly filly. You’re putting too much muscle into. You just have to pick them gently like they’re soft marshmallows like this.” With that said, Pinkie Pie took her chopsticks back and demonstrated how she picked the olives up. 

“Unbelievable! How is it even possible? I mean, how did she… how can she…augh!” said Rarity, who groaned and then gasped with one of her eyebrows twitching. 

Twilight Sparkle sighed then said “You should know by now as much as we do, Rarity. If it’s Pinkie Pie, anything is possible for her.”

With her arms crossed and a nod from her head, Applejack said with agreeable “Darn tootin.’” 

Tenchi and Nobuyuki started to hold their laughter then lightly chuckle from witnessing this event. 

“C’mon, Pinkie Pie. Show it to me again.” Asked Rainbow Dash. Pinkie demonstrated once more, but this time tossed the olive into the air then falling into her mouth. Rainbow Dash gasped and the others applaud. 

“Again, these girls can be weird, but they do mean well.” Said Nobuyuki. 

“Yeah, but it’s nice to watch them like this. Goes to show they can easily cope so well after ending up in our world.” Tenchi replied.

Just then, door can be heard opening from the front door. Tenchi’s grandfather arrived. “I’m here. Just wanted to see how our guests are doing. Plus I’m in need of my breakfast too.” He said. As soon as he entered the kitchen, he witness Rainbow Dash trying to use chopsticks just as good as Pinkie Pie while the rest is finishing their meals. Katsuhito laughed then said “Oh my, seems all of you are having fun already. I hope I’m not intruding.” 

Twilight Sparkle shook her head “Not at all, we’re doing fine. I hope those two aren’t bothering you. They can be a umm… handful if that’s correct. I just hope we’re not causing you any trouble for us being here.” 

Katsuhito smiled then he said, “Not to worry. As long as all of you are well and enjoying yourselves, it’s all good.” Katsuhito then walked to his chair and sat down. Nobuyuki then prepped his meal then served it. “Thank you, Nobuyuki. At least you’re showing that you can be useful at times.” He said. 

“What do you mean that? I can be useful whenever needed.” Retorted Nobuyuki nervously. 

Tenchi then started making green tea by the stove. “I’m making green tea at this time. If anyone wants any, let me know.” He said. 

“Oh, how thoughtful of you, Tenchi darling. I would simply love to have green tea. In fact, I always wanted to try it. Been curious about the oriental dishes in our world. Surprised that you make some here too.” Said Rarity with her hands clasp together. 

“Don’t like fancy tea but I guess it doesn’t hurt from trying. Count me in.” said Applejack. 

“I would like to try some too, please.” said Fluttershy politely. 

“Same for me, Tenchi. Maybe some tea will help us calm ourselves a bit.” Said Twilight, but then she started to look concerned, perhaps of what Rarity said earlier. 

“Ick, no thanks. Do you have any cold drinks?”Said Rainbow Dash but then suddenly Pinkie appeared with a couple of bottles of Ramune. 

“Found some!” said Pinkie Pie with such eagerness. 

“Sweet!” said Rainbow Dash. 

Rarity then gave a stern look to Pinkie Pie and said, “Pinkie Pie! It is not polite to go through other people’s things without permission. Learn to behave better.” 

Tenchi smiled calmly and said, “It’s okay. I mean all of you are our guests so all of you girls are all right to us.”

“Oh my! Tenchi’s politeness shows no bounds. You’re reminding me so much of my little Spikey-Wikey.” Said Rarity. 

“Thanks, I guess. If I remember correctly, that’s your baby dragon friend of yours.” Responded Tenchi. 

Twilight nodded and said, “That’s right. He’s been my trustworthy assistant ever since Princess Celestia place him under my care. If he’s the first to find your friends just like how you and your family found us, then I’m sure he definitely know what to do.”

Tenchi smiled. “I’m glad to hear that, at least that helps me think that they are in good hands. You must have good faith in him.” 

Twilight Sparkle calmly smile. “Yes, very.”

Applejack then decided to pick everyone’s dishes except for Grandfather Masaki’s as he just begun eating his meal. She then places them in the sink as she stands next to Tenchi. Once again, her large size almost overshadow Tenchi. 

“Took the dishes already? You really didn’t have to since you girls are our guest.” Said Tenchi nervously. 

“Nonsense, Sugarcube. You and your family already have done so much for little ol’ us. The least we can do for you kind folk is help around the house a bit.” Said Applejack. 

“Oh, thank you very much.” Said Tenchi. Of course, Applejack’s size sure intimidates him. In fact, Applejack’s chest is almost up to Tenchi’s height. But her actions definitely show that she is a nice girl she can depend on.  

Applejack rubs her chin then said, “In fact, how about I take care of making lunch for you all?” Tenchi looked at Applejack curiously.

“Sure, I may not look much, but I sure know how to cook. I bet I kinda overwhelm you with my current size. Am I right?” Said Applejack with a chuckle and lightly bumps Tenchi’s arm with her elbow. Even if she meant to lightly bump him, the force still pushed him away from Applejack a step or two. She reacted with a surprised expression on her face and went after him. She helped regain Tenchi’s balance by holding his forearms with her hands. Tenchi was even more shocked that he was after witnessing her strength, proving that her stature and somewhat muscular body isn’t for show. Of course, he is familiar with Ryoko’s unbelievable strength, especially since her nicely figured body fooled him, but seems Applejack isn’t used to her current body yet. “Gosh darn it! Sorry about that, Tenchi. Looks like I’m still not used to this meaty body of mine. Guess the first thing I need to know is how to control my strength.” Said Applejack as she lets go of Tenchi from her grip. 

Tenchi smiles nervously as he rubs one of his arms and replied “Uh, don’t worry about it. I understand. Just be sure to be more careful, please.”

Minutes later, everyone seems to be done from their breakfast, except for Katsuhito. He looks back to Tenchi while holding this morning’s newspaper. “Since the girls will be staying with us, why not give them tour around house? They sure need to be accustomed to their new surroundings while they’re here. You should go on ahead while your father and myself finish up here.” He said. 

Tenchi nodded and took the girls with him and first showed them the living room. “Here we are at the living room. Not much to say since almost all of the girls had our first conversation here.” He said. Suddenly, he noticed Twilight Sparkle and Rainbow Dash getting close to the flat-screen high-definition television monitor.

“Um, Tenchi? What’s this?” asked Twilight while pointing at the TV.

“That’s our HDTV.” Tenchi answered.

“HDTV?... Ah! You mean Television. So you do have it in your world too. But what the “HD” stand for?” she continued.
“High Definition.”

“Hmm, I’m guessing you mean that the televisions in your world have better quality in sound and picture than ours.”

Tenchi nodded.

“No way this could be a TV. It’s too flat. Ours supposed be big, squared and have lots of chunky metal parts in them.” Said Rainbow Dash with doubt.

“For beings from a magical world, I’m surprised you have Televisions too, but we used to have the kinds you have before in the past. It’s just we continue to progress our technology so much that we now make most things smaller and more compact, but still have the quality of its former models or even better. Look, I’ll show you.” Said Tenchi then picked up the remote control and turned on the TV.

The girls looks surprised as they watch it working. The TV is currently showing a soccer game between Tokyo and Osaka. They gasped as they noticed the quality of the picture and sound as if they’re watching the game in person.

“Wowee-Zowee! It’s so real it’s like you’re actually there.” Said Pinkie Pie with an amazed look.

“I cannot believe this has to be your world’s current technology. No, it must be some sort of special magic used to show such amazing picture and sound quality.” Gasped Rarity with her hand placed to her mouth.

“For once, I agree with Rarity. This has got to be some hocus-pocus magic.” Said Applejack, dumbfounded with one hand scratching her head.

“Haa…. Haa…*squeak*” Fluttershy was shocked that she couldn’t make any words.

“This is…so…AWESOME!!! It looks so real! Not just that, you humans look like you play such cool sports too! I know it’s too early for saying this, but I’m starting to like this world already.” Said Rainbow Dash with such an eager face. “What do you say, Twilight?... Twilight?”

Rainbow and the others then noticed Twilight in an awkward state. She just stood there watching the TV without moving a single muscle or making a sudden sound while being in such a blank state. A bit of saliva flows down from her mouth. Rainbow Dash tried to get her attention by waving her hand in front of her face but there was no response. 

“Um, I think she’s broken.” She said nervously. 

Applejack shrugged and sighed as the others followed with their own response to this. “You know what that means. Looks like her curiosity of how things work is about to kick in.” she said. Tenchi looked oblivious on what Applejack said, then she continued. “3, 2, 1,…”

Twilight suddenly awoke after the count. She smiled widely and rushed to the TV. She started feeling up around it as she squeals with delight. “Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh!” she said. 

“Hey! That’s my line.” responded Rainbow Dash. 

“This is incredible! I always thought Ponykind would continue further advances in science and technology, but you humans are totally in a whole new different level! I mean look at this amazing invention of multimedia! It’s only composed nothing more but a monitor but it’s able to function properly. I bet its using very thin electrical parts. The graphics and sound quality is so life-like that its hardware must be very powerful. Not just that, it also controlled remotely. I mean, it’s no surprise to me since I’ve seen televisions with remotes but the remote for this one is as thin as its monitor too. I bet it can even does all sorts of things.” She continued then squealed once more as she rubs her cheek against the side of the TV. Tenchi chuckled nervously seeing how Twilight behaves in such a way towards his TV. She is already started to remind of him of Washu of how curious she is towards Earth’s technology for being a primitive planet to her. But it’s the other way around for Twilight’s world being primitive and his being advanced. 

“Twilight! You should stop this nonsense. This behavior is un-lady-like. You’re embarrassing us in front of dear Tenchi.” Lectured Rarity but to no avail as Twilight only ignored her. 

“Guess she is back to her own little world now.” Said Applejack placing her hand on her forehead. 

“Tell me about it.” Responded Pinkie with a serious look and her arms crossed under her breasts. The rest turned their heads toward Pinkie Pie after what she said. They stare at her annoyingly. “What?”

“I’m sorry you had to see that, Tenchi. Twilight can’t control herself when it comes to science mumbo jumbo and knowledge doo-hickey stuff. Her love for that is almost as big as Fluttershy’s love for animals.” Said Applejack. 

“Excuse me but my love for animals isn’t THAT bad.” Retorted Fluttershy lightly. 

“It’s okay. But the surprising part is the more I get to know you girls, the more you remind me of mine.” Said Tenchi with chuckle as he rubs the back of his head. 

Twilight look to Tenchi and asks innocently “Is it alright that I can take it apart and find out how it works?”

“Twilight! That’s far enough. You have no right to disassemble this family’s belongings… Not until all of us get to see what kind of entertainment it provides. I’m very curious if they have soap operas.” said Rarity.

“No way! Let’s watch cartoons.” Said Pinkie Pie with eagerness. 

“Action and sports is all I want to see.” Said Rainbow Dash.

“I’m actually curious what shows this world has myself. Can’t go wrong with what Rainbow is asking but I sure would want to see if they broadcast any rodeo events or farming shows.” Said Applejack.

“Animal documentaries or shows about cute baby animals would be nice.” Said Fluttershy.

Tenchi was already overwhelmed of how all these girls are taking over the TV and it’s hard enough to deny them as they all look at him with their beaming eyes. “I’m glad that you’re all eager to watch, but you forgot that we’re in a middle of tour. It will have to wait until we’re done.” Said Tenchi nervously. 

“Awww….” They pouted in unison. This was too much for Tenchi. All these girls were cute in their own way, but when they reacted all at once, he thinks he might die from diabetes of how sweet they are if he frequently goes through these moments with them. 

The group finally continued with their tour, in which their next stop was standing in front of the staircase closet door.  Tenchi started to regret in doing this after seeing firsthand how the girls get easily amazed by a simple television. The girls look bewildered wondering why they stop in front of a plain closet door. “Is this part of the tour too? I pretty much assume this might be a closet. If so, I don’t think it’s worth showing us.” Said Twilight nervously while pointing at it. 

“Who knows, Twilight? It could be a door to some mad scientist’s lab.” Added Rainbow Dash jokingly with a chuckle as she taps Applejack with her elbow. Applejack couldn’t help but snicker from Rainbow Dash’s joke and seems like Rarity joined in too. 

Then the girls noticed Tenchi’s reaction. His eyes widened with surprise. “Uh, Tenchi? What’s with that dumb look you got on your face?” Said Rainbow Dash. 

“Wait a minute. Don’t tell me Rainbow Dash is right about this door leading to a lab?” Said Twilight with an annoyed look. 

Tenchi nervously rubs the back of his head and answered “Actually, both of you are right.” 

Both girls reacted from Tenchi’s response with a few blinking and a nervous “Huh?” in unison. 

“You see, this was our staircase closet, but ever since Washu moved, in she then fiddled with it.” Explained Tenchi.

“How much fiddling with it are you talking about?”

“It’s best to see it for yourself.”

Like so, Tenchi opened the closet door. The inside looked completely pitch black. All the girls stared at it carefully trying to see if they can notice anything. They all stared back at Tenchi nervously at the same time. “C’mon now, it’s not like something bad is going to happen if you enter. “ said Tenchi with an annoyed look on his face since he is no stranger to all the weird things that have happened in his life. He can assume the same for the others, but seems like that they have done so much in their world, it doesn’t hurt them to be cautious. Tenchi shrugged and with a simple “Fine…” he went inside himself. As soon as he went inside he completely disappeared. The girls jumped with such surprise as to where Tenchi has gone but Tenchi soon spoke. “It’s all good, girls. I’m okay. Just come on in.” he said. 

They all hesitated a bit but Rainbow Dash was the first to break. “If no one is going, then I’ll go first. Ugh, do I always have to be the brave one between all of us?” with that said, she rushed with her arms crossed in front of her face went into the closet. 

Applejack grunted. “Rainbow Dash really thinks we’re a bunch of pansies? I’ll show her, darn tootin’.” She then stomped into the closet. Twilight and Rarity look bewildered, and then they looked at each other, nodding in determination, and went in together. Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy were the only ones left. 

“Alright, Fluttershy. It’s our turn now. Can’t keep the others waiting.” Said Pinkie Pie with no worries on her mind. 

“Umm, that’s okay. You go on ahead. I’ll just sit by the couch safe and sound and wait for all of you.” Responded Fluttershy nervously.

“C’mon, don’t be such a wet blanket.”

“Well, I don’t think being a wet blanket is nice. Can I be a nice, warm, yet fluffy one instead?”

“If you want to be one then we have to go in.”

“Actually, I change my mind. Being a wet blanket is much safer.”

Fluttershy was going to head the opposite direction, but Pinkie Pie quickly grabbed her wrist and pulled her into the closet. With a sudden squeak of fear from Fluttershy, she followed by force. Fluttershy was now rubbing shoulders with Pinkie Pie as she wrap her arm around hers as she they walk through the darkness. Fluttershy tremble in fear not knowing what’s ahead.  Light finally appear showing their path and blinded both of them. 

Fluttershy recovered her sight, then squealed in panic. “I knew it was a terrible idea to go in this dark and spooky place…huh?” she said but then notice Pinkie Pie froze in her spot.  Her eyes widen and her jaw dropped as she gazed at what’s in front of her. Fluttershy blinks and wonder what’s with her. She then notices the others are in the same state as Pinkie, but Twilight’s eyes beam more than the others. Oblivious from the situation, she then focused on what they are staring at. She suddenly stood straight with her open palm up to her mouth and with sudden gasp she said, “Oh…My…”

All six girls were now in Washu’s laboratory, an overly large open space with the walls and floors are made of metal as many machines, counters, and unusual lab equipment take up the room. 

“Welcome to Washu’s laboratory.” Tenchi said. “This is where she does all her scientific work and spends most of her time. This also counts as her room as she has her own dormitory here.”

“Awesome…” gasped Rainbow Dash.

“*Whistle* Hoo-wee! This place sure have a lot stretching room.” Said Applejack

“My word, with all this room I could make several boutiques…. Wait, scratch that. I could make a giant shopping arcade.”

“Forget the room. Look at all the neato doo-hickeys and thing-a-ma-bobs here!” Squealed Pinkie Pie. “Someone stop me ‘cause I got the itch for some button pushing.”

“I don’t think that’s such a good idea, Pinkie Pie. We don’t even know what all these machines can do. But still, I can tell that this Washu has so much passion in her work.”

Rainbow Dash then places her hand on Fluttershy’s shoulder. “I don’t think Pinkie Pie is the only one we should worry about when it comes to new science-y stuff.” She said with a cocky smile then points to Twilight Sparkle. 

Twilight began taking deep breaths. She was heaving her chest so much from inhaling and exhaling that she had to restrain it by placing her hand to her chest. She quickly focuses on one machine to another a few times as a crooked grin suddenly appears on her face.

“So…much… SCIIIEEEENCEEEE!!!” she yelled out in excitement.

Twilight began to hop around ecstatically as she said several happy Yes’s. Tenchi looked dumbfounded. Applejack sighed then took matters into her own hands by grabbing hold of Twilight Sparkle’s forearms and kept her still. Twilight looked nervous after Applejack got hold of her. “Yes, you are all happy with the science-y stuff but you have got to learn some self-control, girl. You feel me?” she said. Twilight finally came into realization, smiled nervously and blushes in embarrassment. 

Tenchi smiles and chuckle nervously after witnessing that. He shrugged off the first time where Twilight Sparkle witnessed the TV but now he knows he really needs to be careful with her with anything involving technology. “As you can see from all these machines she made, I’m not exaggerating when I say she spends most of her time here.” He continued. 

“I must say that this Washu person really takes pride in her work. Never have I seen so many *ahem* ‘unique’ machinery. May I assume she must be one of the top students in her class from wherever she studied?” Asked Rarity. 

Tenchi shook her head and answered “Pride, she does have that. As for honors, no. I hear she was expelled from the Universal Academy of Science, then imprisoned for inventing creations that cause nothing but destruction, even far much that they would threat the entire Universe. Hence the reason why we found her sealed in the cave behind our shrine.”

Rarity gasped with her hand placed on her chest then said, “Oh dear, that was simply dreadful. The poor girl must have suffered during that whole time there. I bet it would be bad as being sealed in the moon. But she did behaved better while she was in your care, I hoped?”

“Well, she did somewhat. The academy did welcome her back with open arms after she helped us in stopping Kagato. Sadly, that didn’t last long as she ended up dropping out again after inventing another dangerous creation after she pledged during her return ceremony she would use her talent for peace.” Said Tenchi in a nervous tone. 

“I guess old habits die hard as they say, like Rainbow Dash’s habit of sleeping on the job for example.” Said Rarity with her hand placed on her mouth. 

“Or you nagging for every little thing.” Retorted Rainbow Dash sternly. 

“Or me popping out and say something very weird to stop an argument before it goes bad.” Intervened Pinkie Pie happily. Both Rarity and Rainbow Dash looked at Pinkie Pie nervously. “See? I just did it even now. Never fails.” She continued then showed a wide grin with her eyes closed.  

Tenchi can’t help but slightly laugh nervously from Pinkie Pie. They definitely have their own personality but out of all the six of these girls, Pinkie Pie seems to be the weirdest, but in a good way. She definitely has her own way of brightening the mood.

“It really is such an amazing yet spacious lab but how on earth she managed to make it from a mere staircase closet? I still think this was done by using very powerful magic. No science on our world could make this happen.” Asked Twilight Sparkle. 

Tenchi scratched the back of his head and shrugged as he answered Twilight’s question. “It does look like it was done by magic, I can’t blame you for being so curious about it. Honestly, I am surprised as you are, but I did endure a huge lecture from Washu on how she did it, but it was just too much to keep it all in my head, so I can only tell you a simple version of it.” Tenchi went on and explained.


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During her days at the Universal Academy of Science, Washu made a huge discovery. She was divulging into physics then wondered one thing, is there space within space. Sound simple at first but very complicated once you dig deep enough into it. To test that, she started making technology that would open up space which makes a portal that would go into it. With that, she finally proved her theory but never thought that the inside of space would be much larger than the space we live in. After much research, Washu theorized that the space we live in is the Main Dimensional Space where every living thing exist, but the space within it is so large that it’s what actually holds up our Main Dimensional Space. But since no one has ever discovered it yet, it is nothing more than a almost limitless place of nothingness, hence she calls it Sub-Dimensional Space and made it into her own technology. Think of it as the layer of our space. 

In the end, Sub Space is found all around us within our space. Even in the smallest space consisting a few square feet would have several mile radius of sub-dimensional space. This discovery holds vast possibilities, but can be dangerous in the wrong hands or worse… she has a theory that if the Universal population ever takes advantage of this technology, they will open up too many portals of Sub Dimensional Space which would break the very fabric of Time and Space, ending every single life as we know it until its only left into nothing. This theory has not been proved yet, but Wahsu really did not want to risk in testing to see if she is right.


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“So yeah, this technology is so incredible, but can be very scary if it’s used for the wrong reasons or might risk our entire existence.” Tenchi ends his explanation but with an unsatisfied look after trying his best for everyone to understand. The part about the risks in using sub space might not be true as it could have been a way by Washu to mess with him. However, his lecture might have done something to girls as he witnessed them with their jaws dropped in disbelief. They stood silent for few seconds. Tenchi was worried that he might have broken their minds in some way, although he should have been aware of that expectation since they were Equians from a world of magic with science and technology that has not reach the level of his world. “Uh, excuse me…?” he asked to the group. 

Suddenly, the girls ran the opposite direction and yelled “LET US OUT!!!” All of them panicked as they try to exit out of Washu’s lab, not knowing where the exit is. The girls then got separated and collapsed showing their own reaction after hearing Tenchi’s explanation.

“You just have to find out about this Sub Whatever Spacey thing Tenchi just explained, huh Twilight? Now I got a headache from trying to make it out and the only thing I understand from it is the possibility of risking everypony’s life while we’re here. I hope you’re happy.” Said Applejack in a frustrated tone while holding her head with both hands.

“Let me out! Oh please, let me out, let me out! I’m too young and beautiful to die! I have so many dresses to design, customers to satisfy. I haven’t even found the stallion of my dreams!” pouted Rarity pathetically.

Pinkie Pie makes panicking sounds as she tries scratching out the surface of a wall with her bare fingers.

Fluttershy sat on her rear with her eyes all white while streams of tears come out from the shock after what she heard from Tenchi.

“I thought this was the most awesome thing I ever heard of, but not anymore if it involves destroying the world. I wish we are back home now!” said Rainbow Dash in a broken state while lying on the ground by her side and all curled up hugging her legs that’s pressed against her chest.

“Sorry, sorry, sorry! I just wanted to know how it works. Is it too much to ask?” said Twilight while panicking in tears as she covers her shamed face with her hands.

Pinkie Pie suddenly stopped scratching the wall then noticed a panel with big blue button that shows an open palm glove as a symbol. “Maybe this button will get us out of here.” She said. 

Tenchi noticed Pinkie looking at the button then yelled “Oi, Pinkie! Wait! Don’t press that!” But it was inevitable, as Pinkie Pie already pressed it. Multiple long metal arms wearing toon-like gloves appeared from above them heading straight at the girls.

“Uh-oh…” said Pinkie Pie

“Now what?” said Rainbow Dash.

“Pinkie, what have you done now?”

“I just pressed this blue button. That’s all.” She answered.

“Honestly, I really don’t like how those twitchy hands slowly heading towards us.” 

Fluttershy shivers in fear as she barely mutters “No…”

“If any of you girls haven’t realized the dire situation that we’re in, I suggest one thing…. RUN!!!” yelled Rarity and so they did. 

They quickly scattered as they squealed in panic but the arms already gave chase and managed to catch up to them. Tenchi reacted by getting in the way of the arms’ path but was knocked away. Rarity hadn’t gotten used to running with her two legs while carrying the extra weight on her chest as she turns her head and noticed a few arms already catching up to her. 

“ Oh no, don’t you even dare.” She said as she shoo’s them away and managed to slap one of the hands but it was futile. Rarity shrieked as the arms managed to pull her up from her wrists. The arms then started to shake Rarity up and down repeatedly. It caused Rarity to stutter and her breasts to shake tremendously. 

Rainbow Dash took a quick glance back to Rarity as she continues to run but the embarrassing sight of the diva caused her to laugh. “Bwa-ha-ha-ha! Serves you right for getting on my nerves all day!” She couldn’t control her laughter that it caused her to trip and slam to the ground face first. She muttered a slight “ouch” then noticed the arms coming after her and freaked out. She crawled as fast as she could but it was too late as she was pulled from her ankles. An annoyed yet teary-eyed Rainbow Dash gave in as she was wisked away. She was then lifted upside down as it caused her one piece clothes to flow down showing off her panties. Rainbow Dash groans in unapproval of her demise while crossing her arms. 

“Rarity! Rainbow Dash! Are you two okay?” said Twilight Sparkle after noticing her two friends being captured by the mechanical arms as she continued to run while pulling Fluttershy with her. However, the others are already caught. 

Applejack was putting up a fight as she was trying her best to refrain the arms from grabbing hold her with her brute strength. “Don’t mind me, Sugarcube. I got this all under control until you figure out how to stop these dag’ nabbit contraptions. At least this big meaty body of mine is good for something.” She answered. 

“Do you think all the blood rushing into my head looks okay to you?” said Rainbow Dash sarcastically. 

“If you ask me, I say you definitely deserve it for pointing out my current shame but I’m in no better position as you are. Those naughty things stopped shaking me, but I’m still trapped and all that shaking ruined my appearance. Just look at me, my mane is a complete mess. My robes are in shambles, not to mention I’m already shaming myself in exposing these large round mounds of flesh. What possibly could get any worse?” retorted Rarity. A few other arms appeared and were heading straight at Rarity with their fingers twitching uncontrollably. “I just had to ask…” she muttered then shrieked loudly. Her shriek of terror soon turned into uncontrollable laughter as the arms already begun tickling her in almost every part of her body. “Hahahaha…. Make it stop… Hahahaha.. Please make it stop…” she said through her laughing. 

“Aww, I want to get tickled too. Why does Rarity get all the fun?” said Pinkie Pie after being caught and held up by her waist. 

“Pinkie Pie, why were you caught? Out of all of us, I thought you would be able to avoid being caught.” Asked Rainbow Dash. 

“Well, seeing how you and Rarity got caught, I thought it would be nice if I join in. Besides, it looks like you two are already having fun with those hands and you know how much I love fun.” She answered with a smile. 

Once again, Pinkie Pie has shown how unpredictable she is, Thought Rainbow Dash. 

Pinkie Pie continued while puffing up her cheeks with a jealous look. “Still, I wish I was in Rarity’s place right now. Look how happy she is.”

“Stop! Please stop! *continues laughing* If I laugh any longer, I think I’m going to die.” wallow Rarity. 

“Oh no! Fluttershy!” yelled Rainbow Dash as she noticed Fluttershy’s current situation. Fluttershy is still not used to running on two legs as she is the slowest and has the most difficulty to adjust than the others. Try as she could while whimpering with fear and worry as she is being chased by the mechanical arms, but suddenly she tripped. 

Twilight Sparkle saw what happened to her then rushed to rescue her. “Fluttershy, are you okay?” she asked. Fluttershy nodded but then she noticed the arms heading towards them then shrieked. Twilight Sparkled flinched as she shielded her friend but then the mechanicals arms suddenly stopped by just a mere few inches away from them.

After that, the rest of the arms who grabbed the others froze then freed them then they all retracted back where they came from. The girls were all bewildered of why the arms let them go then noticed Tenchi who somehow managed to push a button from a panel. He is trying to catch his breath after somehow recovering from his fall and ran with all his might to shut down the arms. 

“*Pants* Finally made it. It’s a good thing Washu taught me where the shutdown button is for these arms in case Mihoshi accidentally activated them. Are you girls okay?” He said. 

Rarity ran to while wallowing in tears, tripped then collapsed onto Tenchi with her arms around her. “Thank you, thank you, thank you, my knight in shining armor.” She said as she continued crying over Tenchi’s shoulder. 

“Do you mean Twilight’s big brother?” added Pinkie Pie. Rarity hissed at Pinkie Pie 

“This is not the time to make puns, Pinkie Pie. I’m busy being comforted by our hero. Also, have you forgotten who activated those dreadful arms, hmm?” The rest glared at Pinkie Pie as she widely grinned nervously in shame. Rarity looks back at Tenchi and says “ Now to give you your reward, my sweet prince.” 

Tenchi blinked obliviously from Rarity’s words, then realized what’s coming as she puckers her lips with her eyes closed and slowly gets close to him in order to give him a kiss. Tenchi look nervous with a bit of sweat pouring down from the side of his forehead. Out of nowhere, Rainbow Dash intervened as she pushed Rarity aside and hit Tenchi’s head with her closed fist. 

“Hey, what was that for?” groaned Tenchi in pain while placing his hand on his head with one eye closed. 

“Oh, you know why you deserve that. If it wasn’t for explaining about this sub-dimension thingy, we wouldn’t have panicked and end up being taken advantage by those metal arms in the first place.” Said Rainbow Dash in frustration. 

“Okay, I admit it was a mistake I made, but not everything I explained about the sub-dimensions might have been true. The part about destroying the fabric of time and space was a joke that Washu made up, so I thought we would have a laugh from it.” Admitted Tenchi but suffered another hit on the head by Rainbow Dash. 

“You could have said that sooner. Jeez, I’m starting to think you like to see us suffer from some cruel joke, like Discord.” She bickered.

Rarity finally recovered and got up on her feet. She then thrust her chest on Rainbow to push her away. “Hey, what was that for?” said Rainbow Dash. 

“You careless tramp! Did I asked you to interrupt my moment with Tenchi? I thought it was a good opportunity to woo him over for saving us. I admit, I was frustrated  to hear his words about this space thing was a mere joke, but he did make up by stopping our suffering from those awful arms that Pinkie Pie accidentally activated.” Said Rarity. 

“Oh, you want to fight about it now? I can take you on. Besides, I bet you can’t fight with those huge meatballs in the way.” Retorted Rainbow Dash with her fists raise up to her chest. 

“Oh, it is on now.” Answered back Rarity while pulling up one of her sleeves.

Twilight then intervened by getting in between the two and yelled “Enough!” The two girls stopped. Twilight took a deep breath then said, “ Look at you two, bickering because of something Tenchi and Pinkie Pie did. Remember that Tenchi and his family were the ones who took care of us when we arrived here. This is really not the appropriate time while we’re trying to recover and hope to find more details about our situation.” Rainbow and Rarity looked away in shame after hearing Twilight’s words. “Now what you have to say for yourself?” she added. 

They did nervous gestures and the both embarrassingly said “Sorry.” 

Twilight nodded and said “Good, now hug and make up.” 

They both gasped. “Do we have to?” said Rainbow Dash. Twilight called in Rainbow’s name through her teeth showing how serious she is. Both girls mumbled in frustration then hugged each other although they decided to whisper to each other.

“You know that this isn’t over, Rarity.”

“Oh, I completely agree.”

“I’m very sorry for Rainbow Dash and Rarity, Tenchi. They do tend to overreact, but they’re not bad girls.” Said Twilight. 

Tenchi panicked and raised his open palms up to her chest then said, “I should apologize as well. I really didn’t mean to scare you all from what I explained. But honestly, it’s pretty much what Washu explained to me.” 

Twilight Sparkle then held his hand and said, “Still, thank you for saving us.” Tenchi looked at Twilight and notice how nice of smile she has. He blushed somewhat looking how cute she is. “Well, there is one more question I like to ask” she added. 

“Twilight, don’t. I thought you already learned after what just happened” said Applejack sternly. 

“I know, Applejack, but this is important.” Said Twilight, who then looked back at Tenchi and continued. “Could you show us where you discovered us after we arrived here?”. This was pretty sudden to Tenchi, but it wasn’t a bad request at all. Twilight might be able to figure out something if she checked where he found them. He nodded with agreeing her request, then showed them the way. 

Tenchi finally took them to the Dimensional Tuner. The girls look in awe at it. The machine is completely shut down because of the last night’s haywiring. “So this is the machine you spoke of that sent your friends away before we arrived?” asked Twilight. 

Tenchi nodded and said “Yes, but it’s now completely shut off because of what happened last night.”

“Is it alright if I could approach it?” she asked. Tenchi guess it wouldn’t hurt seeing that the machine is currently inactive. Tenchi nodded and let her pass. Twilight Sparkle slowly approached the machine. She stared at the machine’s eye which was now shut. She went closer as she slowly placed her hand on the panel. It’s incredible that a machine made by one person could actually create new realities. She slowly rubs the panel. “Such amazing machinery. I do wish that I could try it one day…” she whispered. 

Rainbow Dash snickered then said, “There goes Twilight in her own egghead world again, heh-heh.” She then got elbowed on her arm by Applejack. “Hey! What was that for?” she complained. 

“You really don’t know your place, huh Rainbow? Can’t you give Twilight a break. Of course, I’m worried seeing her close to that weird contraption, but she already been through enough as it is.” Said Applejack.

Tenchi then approached to Twilight Sparkle and said, “Do you like to see where I found you now?” She looked at Tenchi, paused for a moment then nodded. After a few steps, Tenchi presented the same spot where he found the girls which was also the same area Tenchi’s friends disappeared. “This is it.” He said. 

Twilight bowed her head a bit to thank him for his cooperation, then squatted for a closer look on the ground. She hesitated a bit but finally placed her hand on the floor. She rubbed it a bit but then flinched as she went through a slight shock. The others look worried. “Is something wrong, Twilight?” asked Tenchi. 

She paused once more but realized that Tenchi was asking him. “No, I’m fine. Just felt a little nervous knowing this is the same place we first arrived to your world.” She answered. Twilight got back on her feet then said, “ Well, that’s quite enough for this place. We should continue your tour. I do not want to keep you waiting. Shall we?” Tenchi agreed, along with the others. 

“You said it. As cool and awesome this place is, it sure gives me the creeps. Let’s get out of here before something tries to torture us, most definitely something Pinkie Pie might accidentally wake up.” Said Rainbow Dash. 

“Oh, c’mon. It was just that one time. Besides, Rarity had all the fun with all that tickling she went through.” Retorted Pinkie Pie. 

“May I remind you, Pinkie Pie, that I wasn’t having any sort of fun. It was pure embarrassment under the hands of those dreadful things.” Added Rarity. 

“Don’t blame Pinkie Pie too much now. Just be grateful we weren’t hurt.” Said Applejack. 

Twilight Sparkle then looked at Tenchi. “I really appreciate you for helping us so far, Tenchi. With what we’ve seen so far, it will take some time for us to adjust in these bodies, but I have confidence that you will give us great care.” She said. 

Tenchi grinned while rubbing the back of his head and said, “It’s all good. Anyway, let’s get back on the tour.” And so, Tenchi guided the others and continued on with the tour of the household.