Twilight opened her eyes, she wondered what happened after being knocked out, she thought she was killed for being knocked out for so long. She looked up to find Celestia and Luna, along with Cadence and Shining Armor, bandaged from their injuries during the airship attack, with relieved expressions on their faces.
"Thank goodness your alright!"
"Wh..wha....what happened? IS PONYVILLE SAFE?! DID WE DEFEAT THE ENEMY?!!!!!" Twilight really wanted to know, for she was injured the worst, and wanted to know if everypony was okay.
"No, the ruler here took over, but he is being very kind to us by caring for us, we're going to be captives for a while however." replied Luna, her head was bandaged from the blow by Bowser Jr. it had cracked her skull, but she was recovering quickly.
Twilight then gasped when looking at her brother and sister in law. "What happened to you guys?" asked Twilight, horrified by the sight of bandages all over their legs.
"One of the airships had destroyed the crystal empire balcony, while we were on it. They even stole the crystal heart, I have it right here." Cadence explained that doctor reports said that there were broken bones in their legs, and pointed to the crystal heart, lying near a corner in the medical chambers.
Twilight wanted to say how she was injured, she was lucky to be alive. "I could have repelled the enemy from taking Ponyville, but when I was about to grab the victory, something struck me down, it was so forceful that I had blacked out a minute later."
"Well, we're glad you're alright, I thought you were dead!" replied Luna, admitting she feared the worst about her condition.
"I wonder what we're doing to do while in exile, or should I say, during our captive years." said Celestia, she was curious about what they would do, be doing lots of responsibilities? Or just having to rest until they fully recovered. But they knew that they would probably do something, they didn't know what though, they just needed to wait.
That's when a koopa came in. He had blue hair sticking up, a spiked blue shell, and had a wand with a blue magical gem at the end. "Oh, your all alive and awake! That is very good! I'm Larry, you'll be with me and the other koopa kids during your visit, or captive years, I don't get it, are you visiting, or are you captives? I can't remember."
"We're captives." said Shining Armor, his legs starting to wobble.
"Oh, then, come with me, you will get to meet the rest of the gang!" Soon the koopa left the room, and the alicorns weren't sure if they should follow him or not. But the first to work up the courage to leave and follow him was Twilight, the rest followed her out of the medical chambers.
Waiting for them was Larry and six other koopas, each with different color shells, some had hair and others didn't, and some wore clothing for what looked like an airship caption, and a ballerina. One koopa kid, the smallest and the youngest, liked to play with rubber balls as big as him, maybe even bigger than him by mass and width. One of them, the one with glasses and green hair, with the green spikey shell, according to Larry, not only is he totally insane, but his insaneness led him to get a pet that was more like a metal thing with sharp teeth, on a leash that was supposed to hold the creature down But he wanted it for a ride.
Another koopa kid, the one with the pink shell, and caption's hat for an airplane. He and another koopa kid, Larry saying that the other kid is Wendy O. both have the same color shells, both of them are spiked and bright pink. There was one called Morton Jr. he was the biggest of the koopas, he was grey with a black spiked shell, he sometimes couldn't control his mass, and when he had jumped into the air, and landed too hard onto the ground, the place would shake, like if an earthquake was happening. Then there was the craftiest of the koopas, Ludwig Van Koopa. His hair was blue just like his spiked shell, but his hair was long and stuck up to be shaped like a big mustache. He was very sneaky when he needed to be, he could out of the room by making a clone from his magic wand, and walk out of the room. He can also jump and then fly, but doing a flutter jumping sequence Yoshi does sometimes.
All the koopa kids had wands, with different color gems filled with unlimited power. They could use them for combat, or to make images of what is going on in the other countries. "Those is basically our powers, and we can clone ourselves and do much more!"
Celestia gets interested with one of their powers. "You can make images of the current events in other places?"
Confused from the question, Larry answers with the honest truth. "Yep, we sure can."
"Do you think you can show us the current events in Equestria for us?" asked Luna.
"Sure, Bowser, our ruler here, hasn't been seen for a long time! Maybe that's where he is." Soon the koopa kids used their wands to make one big image of what is going on in Equestria. The princesses eyes widen in alarm.
"What?! Who is that monster?!"
Larry looked down at the image, making sure he didn't cut off the spell, he confirmed the turtle being Bowser. The image moved on throughout cities in Equestria, where there were ponies fastened with neck shackles and hoof shackles, they had to work under whip cracking taskmasters. They were in huge pain, they hated their new life of forced labor, they wanted to be free again. That was when the spell was cut off by Morton Jr. "Did you find what you wanted to see?" he asked, hoping to not do the spell again, for he was tired.
"Yes, but I can't believe he would do that, to our subjects, they are beating them and making them do forced labor!" yelled Luna.
"Really?" said the surprised Larry. "He almost never does that! He usually does different stunts to get the princess in the nearby Mushroom Kingdom, kidnapping her or something, and lets us help fight of his nemesis, Mario, who is currently on vacation with his brother and the princess."
"Is there any hope for our subjects?!" asked Celestia, desperate for good news about their subjects.
"I think we spotted two creatures destroying the fortresses put up by the army that had nearly killed some of you and they were killing the taskmasters and guards in each city." replied Ludwig, he knew that there wasn't much hope for the country, but he knew Bowser might actually be defeated.
"For now though, you can recover here and be with us until your better? You know, I think you can even help us lead the people here to not worry about their leader, it's like if Bowser had forced you to switch kingdoms to rule, but we'll be here for support."
"Um, Larry, Bowser did that." said Wendy.
"Oh, well, I guess we'll just take care of you right now, after all, if you want to get better soon when someone or something dethrones Bowser, which usually happens all the time! You'll have to let us help you okay?"
"Sure." replied Luna, sort of feeling annoyed but grateful to be cared for by strangers from another land that they are in. But they knew they couldn't leave until the monster called Bowser is gone, or dethroned from Equestria. They knew that they would have to wait, but they have company, for they were not alone, they were with the koopa kids.