//------------------------------// // Hearts and Hooves Day // Story: Equestrian Techno-Wiz // by Wildcard25 //------------------------------// At Canterlot castle, Iggy had just finished his bath and slipped into a cleaner pair of clothes. When he left for the parlor of the castle, to his surprise he found Twilight, her friends, and Spike with both princesses, "Hi Iggy." the girls greeted him. "Oh, hi girls," Iggy greeted them, "I didn't expect to see you here this early." "Well we wanted to come by and greet you ourselves." Pinkie explained. "I see." Iggy answered, as he took a seat and took a cup of tea from Celestia. As he sat close to Rarity, the unicorn caught a whiff and let out a relaxing sigh, "Iggy, you smell positively radiant today." "Well thanks I used my favorite body wash and deodorant Gizmo sent me in my trunk. It's very popular back in my world," Iggy admitted, until he heard his communicator beep, "Oh better take this. Gizmo, I read ya." he clicked his communicator. Gizmo appeared in the screen and spoke, "Oh there you are, sir. You look happy this morning." "Of course. Ever since you sent me my tools and such three days ago, being here has been more bearable to me." "I'm glad. Well I've contacted you because I've got some good news, and I've got some bad news." the robot explained. "Oh this is never good." Iggy said, feeling dismal already, while the ponies were curious. "Which do you want to hear first?" Gizmo inquired. "Give me the good news, that way I can be happy even for a moment." Iggy answered, feeling prepared for the inevitable worst news. "Well the good news is the portal's fully operational." Gizmo explained, knowing Iggy would love to hear that the most. "It is?!" Iggy gasped, "Yes! Now I won't feel like i'm stuck here with no way out!" "What's your bad news?" Twilight asked leaning over his shoulder. "Well for this I feel it's best I tell you in person, rather than on this side of the communicator." Gizmo explained. "You're going to come here?" Iggy asked curiously. "It's only right. Plus I can finally see this world you're in up close." the robot answered. "Well I'll be waiting." Iggy answered, as he ended his transmission. "This is cool, we can finally see how you got here." Rainbow said feeling excited. "Let's just hope nothing goes wrong like it did with me," Iggy said, until he saw a portal appear out of thin air which gave him the hint, "Stand back, girls. Here he comes." The group looked as they heard screaming emitting from it, and flying out of the portal was Gizmo who crashed onto the floor. The ponies cringed at the crash, as Gizmo spoke, "Please, help me up," Iggy went over and helped his robot back onto his wheel leg, where he regained balance, "Thank you, sir." "No problem, Gizmo. How do you feel after going through the portal?" Iggy asked. "Well I feel all in tact, so no problems." Gizmo explained. 'Thank goodness," Iggy sighed, "But how can we get back now if you've left the post?" "I brought this with me," Gizmo held up a remote like device, "This will reactivate the portal allowing us to get home." "Yes!" Iggy cheered, "Oh of course. Gizmo meet the friends I made in Equestria. I already introduced to you Twilight, Pinkie, Applejack, Rarity, Rainbow, Fluttershy, and Spike." "Ah yes, a pleasure to see the seven of you up close." Gizmo greeted them, only for Pinkie Pie to zip over and look at him. "Wow, I've never seen anything like you before." she said while inspecting him. "So this is a robot?" Twilight asked. "Correct," Iggy nodded in confirmation, before pulling Gizmo over to meet the princesses, "And let me personally introduce to you Equestria's Royal sisters, Princess Celestia and Princess Luna." "Welcome to Equestria, Gizmo." Celestia greeted him. "We hope you feel welcomed here." Luna added. "Thank you for your warm greetings, your excellencies." Gizmo tilted himself forward as his way of bowing. "All right Gizmo, lay it on me. What's the bad news?" Iggy asked wanting him to get it over with. "Well the thing is last night after fixing the machine, Jack came by for a visit." Gizmo began sheepishly. "Jack? Oh of all the rotten timing." Iggy groaned. "And to make matters worse, he saw the machine and activated it coming here." Gizmo continued. "What?!" Iggy cried, putting the ponies and dragon in shock. "But I was able to reroute the coordinates so he wouldn't end up at your location." Gizmo tried to lighten things up. "Jack Mcallister running loose here in Equestria?!" Iggy asked in outrage, "Of for the love of Chewbacca!" he realized the ponies and Spike were watching him stress out, and quickly regained his composure. "Is there something we should know, Iggy?" Luna pondered. "Yeah, who is this Jack Mcallister?" Rainbow asked suspiciously. Iggy sighed, "Jack Mcallister is my self proclaimed eternal rival." "Rival?" Rarity asked. "Rival in what?" Applejack asked in confusion. "In the field of science and robotics," Iggy explained, "We would always compete in anything scientific from science fairs, contests, you name it. I would always come in first, while he came in second. Eventually after coming in second to me too many times he developed a rivalry with me, and declared himself an evil boy genius." "Evil boy genius?" Fluttershy asked not liking the sound of that. "That's right. He would stop by my house on multiple occasions for a fight clash using our inventions. His parents think he just comes by to hang out, even my dad thinks we're just playing around with our inventions. Granted he's never witnessed us doing battle. Jack even developed a fascination for world conquest thinking by conquering the world he'll finally be recognized as the one true genius out of the two of us." Iggy added. "Sounds like a total drama king." Rarity replied at his description of Jack. Applejack whistled to herself while eyeballing Rarity, who scowled at her. "Well the good news is he may talk a big game, but really he's a scrawny childish whiny imbecile who's easily terrified." he chuckled to himself. "Seriously?" Twilight asked dryly. "Seriously." Iggy answered. "So then why do you feel him being here is a bad thing?" Spike asked. "Because if I return home and leave Jack here his parents will call my dad and ask him if he's seen him," Iggy continued, "Which in turn he will ask me if I saw him last." "So don't tell him where he is." Rainbow answered like it wasn't a big deal. "Rainbow." Applejack chided her on wanting Iggy to lie to his own dad. "I can't do that either," Iggy answered, "Though Jack's a jerk and is annoying as Jar Jar Binks," the girls looked oddly with no idea who that was, "He's still only human. Leaving him here would just be cruel." "I concur." Gizmo agreed. "Are you sure you don't know where you sent him here?" Iggy asked his assistant. "Sorry, but I don't know this land. Nor did I know where the rerouting could have taken him." Gizmo explained. "Well he shouldn't be too hard to spot in Equestria." Rainbow noted. "Yeah aside from you, he's as of now the only other human being in the land." Twilight added. "I'll be sure to put a word out in Equestria to keep watch for him." Celestia added. "Then you'll need a visual of him." Iggy said as he clicked on his communicator watch that displayed a head shot of Jack. "Shouldn't be hard to miss a guy like that." Applejack noted. "Yeah. Though of course I hope he doesn't turn up dead or anything. Then I would really have a hard time explaining it to his parents. Well we can't do anything about it right now," Iggy sighed, "Say we should give Gizmo a tour of Ponyville." "Ponyville?" Gizmo asked hoping he heard that correctly. "Not a bad idea, Iggy," Twilight smiled at his suggestion, "Besides this way both you and Gizmo can meet my brother Shining Armor, and my sister-in-law Cadence. They're coming in today." "Can they come Princess?" Fluttershy asked Celestia. "Yeah can they?" Pinkie asked hopefully. Celestia looked at Iggy and Gizmo, with Iggy smiling brightly, "I don't see why not." "Yeah!" Iggy cheered, "We'll meet you girls there. Gizmo, to the balcony." he raced out of the parlor. "Right behind ya!" Gizmo wheeled after his creator. The ponies and Spike followed them to one of the balconies, where Iggy was hovering in the air with his rocket boots activated. They watched as two small rockets popped out of Gizmo's back and allowed him to hover up into the air with Iggy, "We'll see you in Ponyville." Iggy called as he flew off with Gizmo following him. "He's not gonna get there before me!" Rainbow Dash called as she took off after them. Twilight sighed, "We better follow them." "Have a good day my little ponies." Celestia bid them adieu with Luna. As Iggy, Rainbow, and Gizmo were flying through the sky, Gizmo looked all around, "This land looks so incredibly beautiful." "You bet it is." Rainbow nodded in agreement. "Believe me I was just as shocked as you are." Iggy noted to Gizmo as they started touching down, before landing, with Iggy actually managing to pull to a safe stop. "Hey ya didn't crash." Rainbow congratulated as she landed. "One of my better landings." Iggy noted. "So this is Ponyville?" Gizmo asked looking at the town they landed in. "Oh yeah. Coolest place there is," Rainbow boasted, "Unless you count Cloudsdale, oh and Canterlot as well." "How long will it take for the others to arrive?" Gizmo inquired out of his creator and Rainbow. "Hold your horses yall. We're right here." Applejack said as she and the others approached. "How'd you guys get here so fast?" Rainbow asked thinking they were going to take the train. "Princess Celestia let us take the carriage." Twilight motioned to the carriage pulled by two pegasus guards. "Oh, makes sense." Rainbow admitted. "So you ready for a tour of Ponyville, Gizmo?" Iggy asked. "Sure thing." Gizmo answered. "Well let's roll." Iggy said as he started skating off with Gizmo rolling after him followed by the others. As the genius and his robot rolled through Ponyville, Gizmo spoke, "This town looks very nice and clean." "Yeah. I haven't been here for more than a week and already I feel like I've been accepted into their society," Iggy explained, as he saw Cherilee the teacher pony, "Hey good morning, Cherilee!" "And a good morning to you too, Iggy." Cherilee greeted him back. Gizmo looked at his creator feeling impressed, "Wow. And here I thought they'd be panicking." "Like I said once they get to know you, they'll respect you. Oh there's another." he spotted Zecora the zebra resident of the Everfree Forest, who was buying some herbs. "Is that a zebra?" Gizmo asked. Iggy nodded as they rolled close to her, "Hey, Zecora, lovely weather ain't it?" "Lovely it is, Iggy my friend. The weather and this day nicely blend." the zebra answered in her rhyming habit. Gizmo turned to Iggy obviously confused at her speaking pattern, while Iggy shrugged seeing that was how she is. Soon Iggy pulled to a halt near a tree, as Gizmo halted as well, "The residents of this town certainly are unique, but I could've gone without most of them gawking at me." Gizmo noted feeling embarrassed. "Hey when I first visited this place they gawked at me too." Iggy stated. "Some still do." Pinkie added as she and the others caught up to them. "You boys move awfully fast on wheels." Applejack noted. "That's just the way we roll." Gizmo answered slyly. Pinkie laughed, "Oh that's a classic!" Iggy smiled, until he looked around the town square and saw pink and red heart banners, and balloons all around. And to top it off he saw multiple mares and colts closer to each other like they were an item, "What's with all the hearts?" he asked puzzled. "You mean you haven't heard?" Pinkie asked, "It's Hearts and Hooves day!" she cheered while wrapping a hoof around Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash. "Hearts and Hooves day?" Iggy and Gizmo asked collectively in confusion. "Yeah," Twilight continued, "It's a holiday in Equestria where you get to spend the day with your very special somepony." "I see." Iggy answered. "Don't they have something like this in your world?" Rainbow asked. "Oh yeah, except it's called Valentines Day." Iggy explained. "Valentines Day?" the ponies and Spike echoed. "That's right." Iggy nodded. "Well Hearts and Hooves day is the reason my brother and Cadence are coming to Ponyville," Twilight began, "They'd spend it in The Crystal Empire, but they'd prefer a more casual day here." "Must be nice to be with that special somepony." Iggy noted while looking dismal. "Something wrong, darling?" Rarity wondered. "Well it's nothing it's just there's nothing more embarrassing for a guy to be alone on such a holiday as this." he explained. "Don't worry, I'm sure we can find you a special somepony." Pinkie said, while ruffling his head. "Tempting, but I'm a human. Setting me up with a mare here would just look totally awkward." Iggy explained. "Hey I'm a dragon, and nopony has a problem seeing me with Rarity." Spike noted. "He's absolutely right, aren't you my little Spikey-Wikey?" Rarity nuzzled him. Iggy rolled his eyes before continuing, "Besides I already have someone special, but she's not here." The girls looked at each other before realizing who he meant, "Oh." they said collectively. "We're sorry." Twilight apologized for bringing him down. "It's not a big deal. Besides it can't be helped." he said trying to hide his despair. Gizmo seeing his creator in gloom couldn't let it continue, "No!" the group looked at Gizmo, confused at his outburst, "I refuse to just stand here and watch my creator wallow in depression. I'm going to see to it you enjoy this Hearts and Hooves Day." "And how're you going to do that?" Iggy asked while crossing his arms. "Just leave it to me, and I'll be back in a flash." he burned rubber and sped off. "Gizmo!" Iggy called but his robot was already out of sight, "Oh that robot." "What do yall think he's gonna do?" Applejack asked the group who had no idea, while Iggy was just as confused. "We'll find him later," Twilight began, "Right now we gotta get to the train station and meet Shining and Cadence." "Ok." Iggy said as he reluctantly followed them, wishing he knew just what his assistant was planning for him. Soon they were at the train station, until Iggy looked down the track and saw what looked like a crystallized bullet train, 'Hmm, bullet train. A little more century.' he thought to himself. As the train pulled into the station, fanfare played on bugles. The door opened up and exiting were two guards, one of the standard Crystal empire guards, and Flash Sentry; an orange coated pegasus who Twilight met in the Crystal empire, and further in the alternate world. Since then every time she visited the Crystal Empire he was personally assigned to be her escort around the kingdom. Suddenly a red carpet rolled out, and walking out were Shining Armor and Princess Cadence. "Twilight!" Shining called. "Shining Armor! Cadence!" Twilight cheered as she went over and hugged her brother. "Twilight!" Cadence cheered as the tow nuzzled, and Iggy watched as the two princesses did some kind of special greeting. "Sunshine, sunshine, Ladybugs awake! Clap your hooves And do a little shake!" The girls laughed, until Twilight spoke, "I'm glad you two could make it." "Hey we needed a vacation anyway." Shining noted. Suddenly following behind the royal couple, was an alicorn filly that was very familiar to them. The filly's mane and tail were of four colors being pink, green, red, and white, while her eyes were turquoise, and her coat was sky blue colored. It was Gwyneira, or Neira for short. She was the Windigo Queen who once abducted Spike and tried to convince him to stay with her so her loneliness would be no more. But eventually she learned her lesson and used her magic to protect them from her rogue windigo followers, at the cost of her strength, but was reborn a filly and declared Shining and Cadence's adopted daughter. She had grown to about the age and size of the Cutie Mark Crusaders, due to some of her magic and strength returning to her. "Neira!" Spike cheered. "Spike!" Neira cheered as she galloped to the dragon and they hugged. "Neira!" the mane six called as they trotted over and hugged her. Iggy watched seeing how happy they all looked to see each other. Through their group hug, Neira noticed the human and asked, "Who's that?" Shining Armor and Cadence looked at where she was motioning to, and saw Iggy. Twilight knowing it was time spoke up, "Right. Come over here," she escorted them over, "Shining Armor, Cadence, Neira, I'd like you all to meet Iggy Douglas." "Hi." Iggy waved. "This is the human you've mentioned in your letter, Twilight?" Cadence inquired out of her sister-in-law. "That's right. Iggy, this is my older brother Shining Armor, my sister-in-law Princess Cadence, and Neira their little filly." Twilight introduced him. "A pleasure to meet you, Iggy." Cadence greeted the boy. "Yeah, nice to meet you too." Shining Armor raised a hoof and Iggy shook it. "Wonderful to meet you, your excellencies." Iggy bowed his head. "There's no need for formalities." Cadence giggled. Neira trotted up to Iggy, as the boy squatted down to her level. Neira after getting a good look at Iggy, smiled and placed her front hooves on his knees, "Hi." "Well aren't you an adorable thing?" Iggy asked as he ruffled the filly's mane, making her giggle. "It's nice that we could finally meet the human Twily's been writing to us about these last few days." Shining Armor said. "Well I'm glad I could finally meet you two as well," Iggy said as he stood up, "I'd introduce you to my assistant Gizmo, but that rolling bucket of bolts up and went off who knows where." "I'm sure you'll be able to introduce them to him later." Applejack noted. "Come on, let's show you around." Twilight suggested, as they all left the station. As they walked through Ponyville, the royal couple felt at ease seeing they don't have to worry about any royal duties for once. As they walked, Iggy was able to get to know more about the couple, "Whoa, sounds like you two had some wild wedding." Iggy chuckled. "You could say that again." Cadence nodded in agreement. "And this world you come from sounds exciting." Shining admitted. "Well it has its fun and excitement in its own way," Iggy noted, until he heard revving up ahead, "Gizmo?" The girls hearing it looked ahead and saw Gizmo wheeling over before pulling to a halt, "Ah there you are, old chum." Gizmo greeted Iggy casually. "Where in the name of Spock have you been?" Iggy asked, while crossing his arms. "I know I suddenly took off, but there was something I just needed to do for you," Gizmo explained before he looked down seeing Neira poking at his wheel, "Can I help you?" asked feeling his personal space was being invaded. "What are you?" Neira asked as she poked at his wheel. "That's Gizmo, my robotic assistant." Iggy explained. "This is your assistant?" Shining asked as he and Cadence circled him in curiosity. "That's right. Gizmo, meet Shining Armor, Cadence, and their little one Neira." Iggy introduced them. "A pleasure." Gizmo nodded. "Now where did you go off too?" Iggy asked getting back to the topic. "Well I couldn't just let you spend this day on this particular holiday all alone. So I went back home and got you a little something," Gizmo explained, and motioned to a nearby tree, "You can come out." Iggy and the ponies looked at the tree Gizmo was motioning to, and stepping out from behind it was a human girl. And not just any human girl, but Cynthia Daniels; the girl of Iggy's affections. Upon seeing her, Iggy's face turned red, and his eyes widened like saucers, "Cynthia?" Cynthia smiled, "Hello, Iggy." "Cynthia!" Iggy cried as he ran to her and threw his arms around her, putting a blush on her face, "You have no idea how happy I am to see another human being!" He sobbed like a child. Cynthia smiled and hugged him back. Suddenly Iggy pulled himself together and looked at her, "But what're you doing here?" "Well Gizmo came to my house and informed me of what happened to you," Cynthia began, "After I processed all of it, I wanted him to take me to you, and what luck he was coming to get me anyway. Said there's a Valentines day type of holiday in this world as of today." "Gizmo?" Iggy gasped at his robot's deed. "You're welcome." Gizmo replied. "So this is Equestria?" Cynthia asked looking around. "Yeah," Iggy nodded, "Oh come here and meet my new friends!" he dragged her over to the group, "Everyone, meet Cynthia Daniels. Cynthia, meet my pony friends. There's Twilight, Applejack, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Shining Armor, Cadence, Neira, and Spike the dragon." "Nice to meet you all." Cynthia nodded her head with a smile, to be respectable. The group went over to see Cynthia, while Pinkie as usual bombarded her with questions, only for Twilight to use her magic to separate them, "So Gizmo told you about what happened?" Iggy asked. "Yes. Looks like another blunder in your experiment," Cynthia said, "No offense." "None taken, at least it's fixed now, but I can't go home just yet." he explained. "Because of Jack?" Cynthia asked. "Yup." he nodded. "I understand," Cynthia nodded, "I'm just gad to see you're ok. When I've been getting calls from your robot duplicate I was thinking you yourself were avoiding me." "Cynthia, I would never avoid you." Iggy explained. Cynthia smiled, "I know." she noticed Rarity was looking her over. "I must say darling, you are positively beautiful." "Oh go on." Cynthia answered in modesty. "No really, I never lie in such a matter. And Iggy thinks so too." Rarity smiled making Iggy blush. "Ok Rarity, you've said what you needed." he said feeling embarrassed. "Now that you have your special someone, you can spend Hearts and Hooves Day happy." Gizmo explained. "This is great! Thanks again, Gizmo." Iggy thanked his assistant and looked to Cynthia, "Oh Cynthia, I have so much more to tell you about this world." "Well I didn't have plans for the day. So I'm interested." she answered. "There's a good sweets shop in town where we can discuss it. Any of you fancy something sweet?" Iggy asked the group. "Oh it's been so long since I could have a simple milkshake." Cadence said eagerly. "Yeah. When you live in the palace it's hard to get casual eats. Even when you request it." Shining Armor added with a chuckle. "Well let's go!" Pinkie cheered as she led the way. Meanwhile out in the Badlands, Jack was crawling on the ground looking exhausted, "Can't go on for much longer." he groaned as his Mecha-Jacks walked at his side. "Boss you've been crawling ever since we started looking around." One of them noted. Jack looked up, "This way when I get exhausted I'll already be on the ground," he answered, only for his robots to roll their eyeballs. Jack finally got up and looked around, "Oh who am I kidding? I don't even know where we're going, or where to go for that matter." he sighed. The robots sighed, until they started looking around, "Boss, we're not alone here." "What do you mean?" Jack asked not liking the sound of that. Suddenly they started hearing the buzzing of insect wings. They looked up and saw a swarm of black equine shaped creatures with insect wings, and holes in their hooves. At the sight of them, Jack screamed loudly and in fright, "Run for it!" he shouted as he started running, while his robots held out their arms which converted into blasters and started shooting at the creatures. Some of the Changelings took the hits, while others dodged the attacks. As Jack ran he saw some were heading for him, "I gotta take it to the air!" he called as his backpack released a jet that blasted him off the ground and was flying around, "Phew I should be in the clear." he looked back and saw three of the creatures right on his tail, "Or not!" he screamed and tried to out fly them, but two of them flew at his side and grabbed his arms, "Hey let go of me!" he demanded, "Guys help!" he looked down seeing his Mecha-Jacks were totaled. The third Changeling flew up to his face, "Our queen wishes to see you." "Your queen?" Jack asked nervously. "Yes," he motioned to the two, "Let's go." they flew off carrying Jack who was whimpering. They soon arrived at a cave and dragged him inside. Inside the cave, Jack looked and saw a whole swarm of the black creatures and hanging from the ceiling were green glowing cocoons, containing more of them who were either dormant or growing like a caterpillar in its metamorphosis phase. Suddenly his escorts stopped as they stood before him, "Behold the Queen of Changelings." one spoke up as the three side stepped revealing a very tall female looking Changeling who had a gnarly shaped horn, and with long unruly mane. She was Chrysalis, the Queen of Changelings who once tried to use the wedding of Shining Armor and Cadence to take over Canterlot, only to be foiled by the Royal couple. "Yipe." Jack cringed in fright. "Well, now what have we here?" Chrysalis asked in amusement as she approached the trembling teen. "Please, don't eat me!" he cried while cowering. "Oh don't be so dramatic," the queen rolled her eyes, "My changeling subjects spotted you lurking about our territory." "Lurking? I didn't mean to lurk. I didn't even know there was anybody else out here." Jack explained hoping to get mercy. "I'll be the judge of that." Chrysalis said, as her horn glowed with green magic, which made Jack's eyes widen in fright. When her horn touched Jack's head, a pool of his memories started flowing into her mind as she saw Jack's life flash before her eyes. What she saw that most intrigued her was his obsession with conquering this world in which he came from. Suddenly she stopped using her magic and recoiled on the floor. "Your highness!" a changeling gasped as he and another helped her to her hooves. "Are you ok?" another asked. "Never better," She answered, and looked back at Jack, "But I think I may have found us an ally of some sorts." "Ally?" Jack asked in confusion. "Yes. Through your mind I saw you have aspects for world conquest," she began, and he nodded nervously, "My boy, we share so much in common. What is your name?" "Jack Mcallister," he answered, "But who are you?" he asked. "Me? Why I'm Chrysalis, and furthermore your new best friend." she snickered, while Jack was still creeped out. Back in Ponyville at Sugarcube Corner, the group were enjoying some of the places sweet confections. Iggy and Cynthia were sharing a chocolate milkshake, as were Shining and Cadence. Spike was feeding Neira little cupcakes and playfully dipped cream on her muzzle, "So this whole land is populated by equines ranging from normal to mythological ones like unicorns and Pegasi?" Cynthia asked. "Correct, but in Cadence and the royal pony sisters case, alicorns." Iggy explained. "Iggy, you really have dived into a world of magic." Cynthia noted. "Got that right," Iggy agreed, "So I trust you can keep this place between us and not my father or your parents?" "Don't worry I won't. I mean this is something you can't exactly tell people even if it involves you." Cynthia noted that even with Iggy's reputation as a robotics engineer and inventor, not all his stories sound sane. "Thanks again. But listen even with Jack here I'd like to have you continue to visit me here so both of us can get to know this world. It's something I'd like to share with you, Cynthia." Iggy said as he clasped her hands in his. "Iggy," Cynthia gasped, while blushing, "I'd be absolutely delighted to explore more of this world with you." "Thanks. And the girls say this place has quite the festivities. A perfect chance to experience other types of culture and fun." he added. "I can't wait." Cynthia smiled. As the two chatted, the girls, Gizmo, and Spike watched them, "Wow, she really does like him." Rainbow noted. "'Like' is an understatement, Rainbow." Gizmo replied. "They look so cute together.' Pinkie cooed while watching them. "They sure do." Applejack admitted. "They look as if they really were made for each other, don't they Spike?" Rarity asked Spike who was holding Neira. "Yeah. They really do." He admitted. "Cute." Neira cooed at the sight of the two humans enjoying each others company. As the day was coming to an end, by Ponyville square Cynthia stood opposite of Iggy and the ponies, "Well I better get home." "When you get back don't forget to lock up the lab when you leave it." Iggy noted. "Right." she nodded. "And remember, I'm a call away." he held up his communicator, as she held up her own that he had given her when he first invented them. "I know. Well it was nice meeting all of you today. Hopefully I'll be back real soon so we can get to know more about each other." Cynthia said. "We'll be waiting." Twilight replied. Cynthia approached Iggy, "Iggy, stay safe will you?" "You know it." Iggy winked. "Oh and before I forget... Happy Hearts and Hooves day." She finished before pulling Iggy into a passionate kiss, which he willingly returned. The ponies, Gizmo, and Spike watched in shock at Cynthia's move, and that Iggy was going along with it. Among certain reactions, Fluttershy had a hoof to her mouth in surprise, Pinkie was grinning in excitement, Rarity was beaming with delight, and Cadence was shielding Neira's eyes, not wanting her to see such a thing. When the two humans parted, Iggy was lost for words before some slipped out, "Wowsers!" Cynthia giggled, before motioning to Gizmo who activated the portal. When the gateway opened, she jumped in where she'd return to the lab. Iggy stood there with a smile on his face from ear to ear, "Is he gonna be all right?" Applejack asked Gizmo. "He'll be fine." Gizmo assured as he wheeled over to his master and activated his jets. Once he was above Iggy he held onto his shoulders and flew off with him back to Canterlot. Meanwhile back at the Changeling cave in the Badlands, Jack was sitting beside Chrysalis. After a long talk between the two about each other and their worlds, Jack was ready to talk business, "So Chrysalis, this land is known as Equestria. Home to equine's ranging from earth, pegasi, and unicorn." "Correct." Chrysalis nodded. "And you changelings have the power to take the form of others and feed off others love?" "Right on the mark." Chrysalis chuckled in amusement. "And you desire my assistance so you can rule over this land? But now this is my question, what's in it for me?" Jack inquired curiously. "The very thing you desire the most. Conquest of your home world," Chrysalis tempted him, "With your genius and robots we can take Equestria for our own, and in return we will find a way back to your world using your arch rival's portal device, and help you take it over." "Now that's what I'm talking about," Jack snickered, "But there's one problem. Your changeling's busted my bots!" he pointed accusingly at them. Chrysalis turned to some of her minions, "Is this true?" "Yes your highness." one answered as they brought the broken Mecha-Jacks over. "My poor buddies." Jack sobbed in despair. "Not to worry," Chrysalis began as she rose up and approached the broken bots, "Let me show you what my changeling magic can do for you." her horn glowed with a green aura that shined over the broken robots. Suddenly the broken pieces started repairing themselves and soon the Mecha-Jack stood good as new, while sporting black armor to match the changeling look. "Whoa, guys." Jack gasped in surprise and feeling impressed. "And what these few cannot do, more can." Chrysalis said as she used her magic again on the robots and duplicated them making a dozen. Jack was jaw agape, before he closed his mouth and looked up at Chrysalis, "Chrysalis my queen, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship." "So we have a deal?" Chrysalis inquired. Jack got down on one knee and bowed his head, "I shall humbly fight by your side. Your majesty." Chrysalis snickered at her new partner.