The next morning, Princess Celestia found herself, Luna, Sunset, and a napping Gouram in her royal Conference Room as Kuuga stood before them while he held a pointer stick.
"Okay, Luna, Celestia. This might take all day to explain everything so I want all of you to stay at attention as much as possible. That includes you Daguva!" Kuuga pointed out to his brother as the white warrior leaned against his shoulders in annoyance.
"Grrr... I hate long conversations..." Daguva grumbled as he tapped a finger on the conference table.
"Now, as I was saying..." Kuuga then started to calmly explain to Celestia and Luna on how he found the Folder while Daguva continued to tap his finger in annoyance. But the unexpected came in an unusual way...
"Tag! You're it!" Surprise suddenly called out as the ghost suddenly poked Daguva on the crest before dashing off somewhere.
"YOU!" Daguva was about to go after her, but a quick glare from Kuuga made him begrudgingly sit down. He grumbled as he slumped into his seat having to endure another long conversation.
"As you can see from this display, it shows a variety of universes that are accessible to intrusions. So I tagged these universes vulnerable due to their weak dimensional walls!" Kuuga started to ramble while he used his pointer stick on some examples.
Tagged.
It.
Those two words suddenly sparked an itch on Daguva's crest as he scratched it, only for it to get worse as the words continued to haunt his mind until his black eyes snapped open with white veins.
"Daguva!" Kuuga called out, getting his brother's attention, "Something wrong?"
"No! No! Nothing's wrong!" Daguva assured as he leaned against his seat, but when Kuuga turned his back, Daguva looked around for a potential victim. He has no choice! He has to tag somebody!
"Eto... Eto... Eto..." Daguva muttered as his eyes searched for a target until he spotted Gouram snoozing away next to Sunset as she petted the metal stag beetle, "BINGO!"
"What was that?" Kuuga questioned as he turned his head with growing annoyance.
"Oh sorry! I was thinking we should play some Bingo after this meeting!" Daguva cheerfully lied as he folded his hands neatly with a way too cheerful expression in his eyes.
"Hmm..." Kuuga slowly returned his attention to the board as he kept a suspicious eye on Daguva before he started to discuss about Discord's release in the near future for rehabilitation to protect their world from danger.
Daguva's eyes turned steely as he glared at Gouram who flew to the chandelier for a quieter spot to nap. He snorted at this before he turned towards Sunset who was busy writing down notes from Kuuga's speech. Daguva invisibly grinned as he crept behind her and reached out his hand... only for it to be slapped away by Sunset as she glared at him before she smirked and silently pointed towards Kuuga.
Daguva chuckled in a rare, brief moment of evil as he sunk below the conference table and crawled under it while Luna and Celestia watched with bemused expressions. When Daguva reached Kuuga, he raised his hand and reached out to...
"Daguva!" Kuuga snapped in irritation, "What is it!?"
Daguva froze as his eyes shifted before he came up with the oldest excuse in the book.
"I need a bathroom break!" Daguva claimed before he rushed out of the room in a hurry as he slammed the door on the way out.
Kuuga hummed in suspicion as he walked over to the door, opened it, and leaned out to see Daguva chasing after various servants as they ran away from him! He sighed before turning towards Sunset who only whistled innocently while Celestia and Luna looked away as they found the ceiling suddenly very interesting.
"Ladies, what happened?" Kuuga growled as his belt sparked before he transformed into his Rising Mighty Form.
"Surprise started a game of tag!" Sonata cheerfully exclaimed while she and her terrified sisters ran from an enraged Daguva as he demanded to let him tag them.
"Tag? Really?" Kuuga deadpanned before he facepalmed, "Really, of all the immature-! Fine! I'll humor him and let him tag me so I can get back to the meeting!"
"Hold still you little ponies! I just want to tag you!!" Daguva shouted as he chased after the servants before they all made it into the Royal Kitchen.
"The Kitchen is a Safe Zone!" Surprise called out as she jumped in front of Daguva who stopped in front of the Kitchen in irritation.
"GRRRRRRR!" Daguva growled and turned away from the kitchen only to bump into Kuuga as he stood in front of his brother with a disappointing aura around him.
"Daguva, It is with great annoyance and irritation for the greater good of all Equestria, that I will allow you to tag me!" Kuuga stated as he stood tall awaiting for his brother to touch him.
Daguva sighed with great relief, "Finally! Tag you're i-"
He reached out to poke Kuuga, only for the red warrior to lean out of the way to the surprise of himself and Daguva.
"Wha?" Kuuga asked in confusion as he struggled to stand up straight, but his body refused to move!
Daguva raised an eyebrow and reached out to poke him again, only for Kuuga's body to keep moving out of the way much to the red warrior's discomfort.
"Okay! This is getting uncomfortable!" Kuuga groaned as he was bending at an unnatural angle. He finally managed to stand up straight and turned his body 180 degrees away from Daguva, "Go ahead!"
Daguva narrowed his eyes as he took out a billiard chalk and applied it to his right pointer finger and blew the excess chalk off as it gleamed in the daylight streaming through the window.
"I got a bad feeling about this..." Daguva muttered to himself.
He then quickly shot to his target intending to strike Kuuga and rid of the itch once and for all, but Kuuga quickly and frightfully jumped at the last second causing Daguva's finger to miss.
"NOOO! I can't be tagged!" Kuuga screamed and ran off with great haste.
Daguva's eyes briefly turned red as steam came out from where his ears used to be, "GET BACK HERE!"
He then immediately rushed after him with the same rate of speed with the sound of a zooming racecar as his legs became a clockwise blur.
"Where did that brother of mine went to?" Daguva grumbled as he slowly patrolled the halls as he passed a ponified medieval suit of armor.
As he left the halls to check the Royal Bathrooms as he knocked on them first to make sure no one is in there, the armor lifted his hand and opened the helmet's visor to reveal a terrified Kuuga.
"That was close..." He whispered as he slowly begins to remove the armor off him.
"THERE YOU ARE!!!" Daguva roared as he suddenly burst out from the bathroom surrounded by his own flames to reflect his growing aggravation.
"YEE-AAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!" Kuuga did a Luigi and quickly ran away in a random direction, exiting the armor in the process as it floated in midair for a moment before crashing down.
Daguva looked down at the armor for a moment and saw a strange symbol inside the armor. He reached out to examine it, but the armor suddenly got up and ran away from him with great haste.
"What in the world?!" Daguva muttered as he rubbed his eyes before he did a double-take on the fleeing armor, "Okay! New target!"
He cracked his neck as he winded up his arms and got into a runner ready position and sprinted after the armor!
Kuuga panted as he leaned against the wall to catch his breath.
"Why did Surprise, on the day of all days, started a game of tag?!" Kuuga wheezed until he heard a scream of pure horror as the clanking of metal armor echoed throughout the hall as it grew louder and louder like it was...
"Excuse me! Coming Through!" A voice echoed from a fleeting suit of armor as it rushed past Kuuga making him spin like a top.
"Do my eyes deceive me or did I saw a empty suit of armor running away?" Kuuga dizzily asked as he stumbled around before Daguva suddenly crashed into him and they tumbled on the floor before stopping at the conference room. Sunset stood at the front of the door with a mischievous smirk as the empty suit of armor came up and revealed itself to be a smiling Surprise!
"What? Sunset? You were in on this as well?" Kuuga weakly glared in disbelief as he struggled to get a knocked out Daguva off his back.
"Well, you were kind of boring us with your endless speech, so I asked Princess Celestia and Luna to use Surprise as a distraction so we can have the room to ourselves!" Sunset explained cheerfully, "They agreed because they just finished their royal duties, and they don't want to endure another 12 hours!"
Kuuga only groaned in displeasure as Sunset and Surprise glanced at each other before they brofist in victory.
"So, in conclusion to this... meeting..." Kuuga weakly spoke as he used the pointer stick like a cane as he struggled to stay up, "I suggest we should gain as many Displaced allies as possible and refortify our dimensional walls with Discord's help! That is if you don't mind princesses"
Celestia hummed before she turned to Princess Luna as they talked to each other quietly in discussion before they returned their attention to Kuuga.
"We'll think about it," Celestia answered while Princess Luna nodded in agreement.
"Very well, Meeting Adjorned!" Kuuga called out.
"YES! FINALLY!" Daguva cheered as he got up from his chair in excitement before poking Kuuga on the forehead quickly, "Tag! You're it!"
Kuuga blinked as the Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, and Sunset Shimmer teleported out of the room while Gouram flew out the window! His eyes immediately glowed before he was engulfed in darkness and lightning as he transformed into Rising Ultimate.
"Game on!" Kuuga stated as he cracked his knuckles and proceeded to chase after the players as he laughed in a heartful tone.