Monkey Business- Royal Pains
Fluttershy’s Cottage
“M-mom!?”
The single word was one thing that caught Sun off guard the moment that Fluttershy came down and saw this new figure that earlier, was presumed to be an intruder inside her cottage. To the pony, she couldn’t forget the face of her own mother. She had not seen her since she was three, where her father told her that she had something important to do in order to keep them safe. Seeing her now though was like opening the floodgates on her emotions.
“O-oh my… you’ve grown so much, my little butterfly.” The two of them soon embraced one another, hugging each other as tears of joy soon poured out from both of them. Sun himself though, was confused. The Faunus had no idea what was honestly going on.
“Um……”
“Oh, I’m sorry. Mom, this is my friend Sun. Sun, this is my mother, Raven.” Fluttershy corrected herself, trying to help fix the situation.
“I see… Fluttershy dear, can I ask you a question?” The Pegasus nodded her head for a moment with a smile… only for it to fade a few moments later. “Where is your father?” Fluttershy’s eyes began to tear up again, trying to wipe them away from her face with her wings.
“He’s…… Follow me, mother.” She sniffled a little, with both Raven and Sun following her. They did not know where exactly she was going or what exactly she wanted to show them, but with the sun almost up, the light soon lit up the sky and made where she was going visible. The Faunus himself was confused. Why would Fluttershy bring them here?
“Fluttershy? What’s wrong? Where’s Silver Wind?” Raven asked again. That was when Sun noticed her tapping her hooves. However, it did not sound like a hoof hitting the ground. It instead sounded like when Rarity was trotting inside the Carousel Boutique’s marble floors… Wait a second… Marble?
“Fluttershy? What are you standing on?” The Faunus asked. She stepped out of the way only to shown the overgrown roots of the tree and the grass below it. However, when Sun moved his hand over it, he uncovered something that shocked Raven to the core.
The grave marker of her husband. “Here lies Silver Wind. Calm, collective, and a caring father. You were taken away from us too soon. You will be missed…” Sun read aloud as he stepped away to let Raven see it for herself. Her eyes were letting loose tears of sorrow as she weeped for the fallen. Fluttershy herself did her best to try and comfort her mother while this was going on. She remembered that at one point in her young life, the pegasus wanted to be a tree. This was only after Mayor Mare told her that her daddy was with nature and the earth below their hooves. Fluttershy back then thought that if she was a part of nature, then she could hear her dad’s voice one last time.
Raven wanted to know how something like this could’ve happened, but ignore the urge to do so. She was grateful to be with her daughter again. That’s all that mattered to her right now.
Sun decided to leave them in peace for the time being. They needed the moment to themselves. However, when he opened the door, he found Discord staring at the scene with a shocked expression. “W-who is that?”
“That… is Fluttershy’s mother. Raven.” He told her. “We should give them a moment. Fluttershy just told her about her dad.”
“Oh? Then should I give them a bouquet of flowers?”
Sun smacked himself in the face at the thought of that. “No, you need to wait a little while. You can’t just barge in on a private moment like that. Plus, we got other things to focus on right now.”
“What other things?”
“Remember? We were going to have Reson and Honeydew meet Celestia. I would have Kreed come along, but he’s still in recovery.” Sun explained. “We had Twilight ask the Princess yesterday, so I was going to go over to the castle and see how she was before we meet her in person.”
“I can pop on over there right now and see how Bookworm is doing if that helps?” Discord offered, which the Faunus nodded his head in response. The Draconequus snapped his talon and disappeared in a pink puff of smoke as Fluttershy and Raven came back inside the house through the side door. The Faunus greeted them and took the time to explain the events that just happened with the Draconequus and also encountering Reson and Honeydew the day before. The only thing he left out was his personal encounter with Herobrine.
“So a changeling prince and princess are going to be seeing Celestia today?”
“Hopefully. Their bodyguard would be going with them if he was fully recovered. He’s pretty banged up after yesterday,” Sun told her. “So it’ll be me, them, and whoever else should come along.”
“My daughter should go with you,” Raven explained, catching Fluttershy’s attention. “Just to make sure that Discord doesn’t cause any chaos during the meeting. I can watch over Kreed while you are gone. When you get back though Fluttershy, we’re going to need to talk a bit. I have so many questions to ask, yet, so little time.”
“That sounds alright. Are you okay with this Fluttershy?”
The Pegasus nodded, soon heading upstairs so she could help the two children get ready. While this was going on, Discord returned a few seconds later. “Okay, Sun. I got some good news and bad news.”
“What’s the good news?”
“The good news is that the Princess approved of the meeting and is expecting us within the next hour. The bad news though is that Princess Sparkle won’t be able to make it. Cadence told me that after being swamped with work over the past few days, she needed to catch up on her sleep.”
“Well, we can find a way to improvise right?”
The Draconequus nodded his head, saying that once the two younglings were ready, he could send them there immediately with a quick snap of his eagle talon. A few minutes later, Fluttershy came on down with both Reson and Honeydew. Both siblings had their manes perfectly brushed and Honeydew’s was even tied to where she had a ponytail in the back. With a quick goodbye to her mother, Fluttershy, Sun and the others disappeared in a pink cloud of smoke. She giggled a little, liking how much her daughter had become more responsible since she had last seen her.
Canterlot
Celestia herself was having quite an interesting morning. After receiving a letter from her student yesterday, the Alicorn had to clear her schedule of any appointments given the sounds of this incident she referred to as a likely emergency that could threaten the security of ponykind and her kingdom. Today, she had Discord stop by briefly to make sure that they were still on for the meeting before disappearing again. Something told her that she was going to need a strong cup of coffee by the time today was over.
“Clear the hall.” She told her personal guard, detecting a small bit of Chaos magic in the air while she rose from her throne. A few moments later, the “guests” arrived. Fluttershy, Discord, Sun (who had crashed into a nearby wall because of the sudden teleport) and two young changelings who she assumed were the kin of the late Queen Amaranth.
“O-oww… My face!” Sun groaned as he tried to get up off of the floor. Honeydew herself giggled in response to the monkey getting back up. “Oh, hello there Celestia.”
“It’s good to see you again Sun. Hello Everypony.” The Sun Alicorn greeted everypony in the room, lowering herself down to the size of the two younglings. “These two must be the ones that were mentioned in Twilight’s letter. I’m sorry for your loss. Losing your mother must be very hard for you or anypony at your age to be dealing with.” She then looked at Sun, eyes filled with the emotion of reason and care. “Sun, can you please accompany Reson and Honeydew on the way to Princess Luna? I want to talk to Discord and Fluttershy about the contents that were discussed in Twilight’s letter.”
Sun nodded his head, guiding the two younglings to the chamber of the Night Alicorn through the halls of Canterlot Castle. When they found Luna, she was looking over a strange Talisman like stone by the time they arrived. Studying it to see what strange magical properties that it might contain.
“Greetings, Luna.”
“As to you, Sun Wukong.” The princess greeted, soon being introduced to the two younglings. Luna herself allowed Reson to look at the Emblem that she was looking over a few moments ago while Honeydew allowed her to look at the pin that Fluttershy had used to hold her mane together. However, something lurked nearby, watching as it was about to make it’s “crash landing” in the middle of Luna’s Study.
“COWABUNGA!!!!”
Appearing on a surfboard, was another Discord? Yes standing of the surfboard was a exact copy of Discord himself. However something was off. For one thing, he felt powerful. Discord felt dwarfed by him because Chaos was literally falling from his skin. “10 out of 10.” A voice said as an astral project of Discord was seen holding a source card. “Hey Loki, by the way you been summoned.”
Loki looked around before removing his sunglasses with his tail. “Well hello.”
Sun sighed. “Discord, what are you doing here? You’re suppose to be in the other room talking with Celestia and Fluttershy.”
Loki blinked a bit at him. “Can you sense my magic-? Never mind, I’ll let this speak for me.” He pulled off his fang and then it started to speak.
I am Loki, Master of Chaos Defender of the balance!
Loki closed his hand. “Yeah I’m a displaced.”
“A Displaced Discord? That’s…… new.”
“Pardon me, but would you care to explain about this Displaced that you speak of?” Loki grinned a little, seeing the silver pin inside the mane of the young female changeling and the stone that the boy held onto. He had a perfect opportunity for a demonstration.
“Simple, where I came from so does… who are you?” Loki asked he decided to hand wave it with his talons. “It doesn’t matter, well there is universes and several like us exist able to call on another at a moments notice, I’m based on Discord, but the difference between us.” He held out his paw with the elements of disharmony in his hands. “This powers me as well as my former Discord.”
“I see. I’m Sun Wukong by the way.”
Loki nodded his head, using a snap of the talon for the stone that was in Reson’s hooves and the Pin in Honeydew’s mane to appear in his talons. It wasn’t until Sun saw them that he realized that this Loki had Lance’s token. The token of his cousin.
“Now, princess,” Loki said as he walked towards a open window a couple of stories above the gardens. “Let me give you a demonstration on summoning a Displaced… BOMBS AWAY!!”
Quickly, Loki tossed both of the tokens onto the ground below, which upon contact began to pulse with magic. Sun tried to stop him, but wasn’t fast enough to do so.
After a while Loki tapped his feet. “Seems I might have miss fired…” A vortex finally opened up tossing out the two victims. “Well I stand corrected, something must be off about them or me.”
Soon, two different things occurred. The first thing was a series of runes that began to form into a single being as a male human with a sword on his back and red overcoat stood up from his position on the ground. The second was a bolt of lightning striking the ground as a blond teen with a blue overcoat and twin pistols arrived as well.
The Lightning boy was the first person to speak. “-The hell? Hey man, are you okay?”
“Y-yeah.” The Red haired swordsman replied. “Are you a Displaced?”
“Yep. I’m guessing you got summoned too?”
“Yeah and I’m betting whoever did it is up there,” The Redhead pointed at the tower, directly at Loki’s position. “I feel a high density in magic from the tower.”
“Well of course you can.” A voice rang out and appearing in a flash was “Discord”. “Hello, name’s Loki, Master of Chaos and Defender of Balance.” Loki said with a bow. “Before you ask... No, this isn’t my Equestria. I was summoned as well.”
“Summoned? By who-?”
“LANCE!!!”
The name caused the Azure striker to turn around. He recognized the voice. “Wait a second… Sean?”
“Holy crap man!! It’s good to see you. Oh and call me Sun. I kind of have a reputation here.”
“Heh… You always do wherever you go.” He chuckled, fist bumping his cousin again. “Oh right, Introductions. I’m Lance Walker. Also known as Gunvolt and The Azure Striker by the ponies in my world.”
“Sun Wukong. Faunus.”
“Nicko Nocte. Rune Slayer, pleasure to meet all of you-.” But before Nicko could finish, some pink smoke arose from behind him and what took form caused Loki’s heart to race.
“Hello boys… Names Eris. Nicko’s friend, partner, Daughter of Discord and Celestia where I’m from, Draconequus and Spirit of Chaos.”
Loki gave a smile. “Really spirit? Hey Discord come out and meet your daughter thing whatever.” The Astral projection of Discord appeared next to Loki.
“Yes.”
“Names Loki, the second and current god of chaos and this is my Discord the first god of Chaos, until the the elements of Disharmony went all fuse them together.” The Astral projection of Discord though, was annoyed by Eris’ hand passing though his body.
“Stop that.”
“Aww…” Eris pouted. “I wish I could touch him…”
“Eris,” Nicko whispered “Please behave yourself. This is technically what you wanted to call a “date” by your standards.”
“Ooh. Hehe… Sorry.”
Sun himself just sighed. “Okay, so let me get this straight. There’s four Displaced, including me, three versions of Draconequus and a one hundred percent likely of a chance that we would have Celestia come out here any-.”
SLAM!!!
“-minute.”
“Sun, what in the name of-!?” All four of the Displaced turned to see a shocked Fluttershy, Princess Celestia and this world’s version of Discord staring at them. “WHAT IN THE NAME OF ME IS GOING ON!!?!!?”
“Oh… right…… Maybe we should all come inside first. That way we don’t attract any attention.”
Nicko nodded his head. “I agree with Sun. If Loki didn’t catch their attention just yet, then Eris would definitely would.”
“Ok, I’ll be the one to start as I’m probably the one with the most experience, I am Loki, and this astral being is my Discord, I am the second god of chaos in equestria and a Displaced, what is a Displaced you may ask?” With a snap of a talon around the a bunch of small floating orbs appeared, “Pretend these are all universes, me sun, and the others come from one universe and been scattered around the multiverse… and beyond and now can summon one another via tokens, however I don’t want to brag I’ve learned how to open short universe wormholes..” Loki finished. “Now then they were answer anymore questions for you.”
“Yes. Am I to assume that you are a Displaced as well, Sun?” The Princess then asked.
“Yeah, but I had only been summoned twice. I had never really summoned any before and I didn’t know that the fang I saw earlier was Loki’s token until he told me.”
“Token?”
“Displaced can summon other Displaced by using their tokens. As a demonstration for Princess Luna, I used this stone and this pin to summon both Nicko and Lance.”
“Hello to you as well, Princess.”
“Wow… I never thought that a handsome one like you would have such dashing manners.” Celestia chuckled. “Care to introduce yourself?”
“Certainly. My name is Nicko Nocte and I’m a Rune Slayer. A Swordsman who fights with Runic Magic.” The Displaced demonstrated by conjuring a ring of red runes around his body. “I can use them for Multiple purposes to help me stay on my game and survive.”
“Well you are a videogame character, what's your score? 10,000?” Loki said with a laugh.
“I don’t play by scores.” Nicko replied. “How about Lance explain about himself this time, Loki?”
“Sure go ahead.” Loki said as he decided to to do something with a map that he kept on him. The Azure Striker, who was using his energy blade to clean out his nails while he was waiting looked back at Loki and smiled, putting the weapon away behind him under his coat. In the brief second that everypony sat it opened, it showed that this Displaced was armed to the teeth.
“Why thank you,” Lance replied to the Draconequus. “My name is Lance Walker, but my Codename that I go by is Gunvolt. As in that name, my powers revolve around my guns and my electricity that I can conjure because I’m an adept.” The boy even had some electricity crackle a little around him for a short amount of time before dismissing the lightning.
“Excuse me, but what is an Adept?” Discord asked, holding Reson and Honeydew in his lion paw and eagle talon.
“Adept’s are humans with Psychic powers. Mine is my electricity, but it doesn’t mean that’s the only thing I can do. Another Displaced taught me how to use energy blasts and sense the energy or “Ki” of others-.”
The Adept was interrupted by the warm humming of an artifact that hung around his neck. To him, this was the artifact of Max Caulfield. A Displaced that he had only met a few days ago. He could hear her voice, desperately calling him.
L-Lance, something huge just ca-came up and I n-need you here!
“I-i need to go! Something just came up! Sorry that I have to cut things short.” He replied, using the token to cut a rift through space as he disappeared in a flash of lightning. Loki sighed a little, disappointed.
“Well, that was a complete downer. I wonder why he ran off.”
“I can take a guess,” Eris said. “I did read his mind after all.”
“So did I, should I go help?” Loki asked.
“Nah, we should leave him be. After all, I think Celestia still has a few questions.” Eris asked, noticing the Princess tapping her hooves patiently. Once everyone in the room was focusing again, she let out a long sigh as she looked at the Discord she knew and the new Draconequus she now knew as Loki and Eris.
“So, Tirek and Starlight?” Loki asked. The question sounded strange to her.
“I’m guessing… Tirek was defeated? Man I got free doing season 2 this guy lucky most threats are already defeated…” Loki turned to Eris. “Everyone want to see me go super Chaos?” Loki asked.
“Where we’re from, it’s been seven years since Tirek’s defeat, our Equestria is Anthropomorphic, Celestia has a brother named Artemis, Twilight has a sister named Gleaming Shield and a few friends of ours have been known to cause more trouble than before Discord was reformed.” Eris explained. “Need I say more?”
“Mine isn’t Anthro. However, do to me, the Canterlot wedding didn't become a war zone, Changelings are now living among ponies with Chrysalis in the Equestrian Council, I took out Sombra, and I kinda beat Discord into reforming… yes I used Violence instead of kindness.” Loki said, silently apologizing to a startled Fluttershy and the Two changelings that were by her now instead of Discord’s paws. “Oh and Starlight been burned at the stake because I could see the future, Nightmare Moon been reborn as my daughter Nyx, oh and Tirek’s Dead.”
“O...kay. Speaking of which, the changelings you speak of though are the only difference between your Equestria and ours, Loki.” Discord told him. “There use to five queens that were the wives of one king, but when he died, the five of them took sides and formed alliances. Now, the Alliance that had Chrysalis and Mordred; Changeling queen of Anger, laid a Coup on the remaining colonies and killed the other queens. The two changelings that are with us are survivors and offspring of Queen Amaranth.” When the topic switched to the events of what happened, Fluttershy left the room with the children. That way, the events involving the incident don’t frighten them.
“Discord is right. But there is another thing that I just thought about,” Luna recalled. “Twilight’s letter recalled a red haired swordsman in black clothing with horns on his head and a mask over his face being the one responsible for these atrocious acts of war. Is it possible that it is a Displaced?”
“I bet my money it is.” Nicko said, looking at Sun. He already had an idea of what they were referring to and then asked Eris to create a projection of the person he was thinking of. Soon, Eris conjured a holographic projection of the assailant that was described.
“Is it like this, Sun?”
“Yes, that is definitely it. His name is Adam Taurus and he is a very skilled and powerful swordsman. He is NOT one to be underestimated.” Sun said.
Loki raised his talon. “Question, can he turn a city into a giant fighting robot? Can he toss someone and let him explode? Can you make his imagination real?” Loki asked.
Eris snapped her talon again, showing a few segments of this figure fighting from what Nicko remembered from the ‘black’ trailer for RWBY as she allowed for Sun to continue. “Any source of energy you blast at him can be absorbed by his sword and be sent right back to decapitate anything in it’s path. Reson’s bodyguard, Kreed, had a first hand account of what happened and told us that he made short work of the queens. Decapitating the first two and having the last one die slowly.” Sun said. “Plus, he’s a Faunus like me. A faunus with the strength of a bull. I wouldn’t be surprised if he could cleave a mountain in half with a single strike like shown here against this Spyder bot.”
“Well, that’s definitely going to be interesting.” Eris said, looking at Nicko. “Are you sure that you want our help or do you think you got this? Because I think my parents are calling us for dinner.”
“It’s alright. I can handle it. But before you go, can I have your token? It seemed like Lance forgot to get yours earlier.”
“Actually, I stuck it in his pocket while he wasn’t looking.” Eris said as she handed the Rune Slayer’s mark to the Faunus before the two of them disappeared. Now, the only two Displaced in the room were Sun and Loki.
“So what should we do? You need any help with him… wait…” Loki remembered something. “Here This may help.” He pulled something out of his personal pocket dimension. “This gem was used by a tyrant from my reality to negate the powers of his opponents for a few minutes. Perhaps this would help you?”
“It can. But we would have to test it. Thanks Loki.”
“Your welcome also, here my token.” Loki gives him his fang. “If reality is being wrapped around you, it will negate it’s effects, mostly.”
“Okay, have a safe trip.” Sun said as he flipped his medallion token to the Chaos Spirit, waving goodbye as Loki disappeared into the void. Turning around now, Sun placed the gem and the fang in his pockets as he looked back at the Princesses and Discord. “So, where were we before-.”
“Auntie!!” Came the loud cry of a new individual as a white unicorn stallion with a blond mane trotted in proudly into the room. Unaware of the Faunus’ presence. “Some of the Delegates from the nearby towns have-. What the-!?”
“Uhh… Hi?”
“WHAT IS THIS BEAST DOING IN THE GRAND HALLS!?!” The pony bellowed, trying to blast Sun with his magic. However, the gem that Loki gave Sun began to glow and prevented the Unicorn from fully casting his spell.
“W-wha-!?”
“Prince Blueblood!!” Celestia roared back. “That is NOT how you treat a royal guest!!! Apologize at once!”
“Guest!? This thing is a guest?!!”
“I’m not a thing! I’m Sun Wukong, Nice to meet you.” Sun said, trying to chill a little as he watched the Unicorn flip out in a stressful manner. After the pony stormed out of the hallway, Luna told the Faunus that the Unicorn was Celestia’s nephew and her opinion, a stuck up snobbish brat that preferred to be one of royalty and noble status than one of the ponies that would be of the lower classes. It made Sun think of the rich and arrogant jerks that would become the target of Robin Hood. Or in Equestria’s case, as he was told, Robin Hoof.
Soon after that, Fluttershy came out with both Reson and Honeydew. At the perfect timing too. Celestia went on to say that for the time being as long as the two changelings don’t cause a panic, they could stay with Fluttershy and Sun. The same thing went for Kreed, despite the fact that he wasn’t here. As for the chance that their two other siblings were somehow still alive, the Princess told them that she would inform all of her guard of the current situation and if they come across anyling that resembled the description of both Yellowjacket and Lilly, she would notify them immediately.
“Now, I believe it’ll be best for this meeting to be adjourned. The Prince of Yakghanistan would be arriving within the next week, so it’ll be best for you two and Sun to stay low. Your presence might cause a disturbance if the Yaks see you.”
“No problem, your highness. Discord, you ready?”
“As always,” The Draconequus replied and with a quick snap, the five of them disappeared and left the Princesses in the room. All Celestia hoped for now was that with the discovery of the Displaced and everything else, that things in her kingdom won’t go spiraling out of control.
End Tail 7