> Aura Blades
>  by Kris The Kris
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> No Longer Stoned
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In the Canterlot castle, a pair of statues stand alone among a large bush of roses, both in poses depicting them in action. One was a young looking woman in elaborate armor in the middle of swinging a huge scythe. The other being a young man in more ‘simpler’ armor in a middle of swinging a sword.

“This stone itches. How long have we been in her again?” A female voice whined.

“If you want to be honest, I lost count after one year…” A male voice grumbled.

A whine was heard in the link. “I wish those pony kids would get her sooner. The itch is getting worse! I really need to scratch my baaack.”

“I wish they get here too….quite frankly, I kinda need to pee…”

The sound of hooves on dirt was heard approaching. 

“Is that them? Is that  the super awesome pony kid trio?” The female voice asked in excitement, sounding like she was straining against the rock to see who it was.

When it was revealed to be just a guard, she moaned loudly. 

“No. It’s the super awesome guard….” The male voice muttered out of annoyance. “And by super awesome, I mean boring.”

“Go eat some oats and apples somewhere else you stupid equine monster!” The female voice cried out in rage. “You agree with me, too, right Q?” 

She directed this question towards the only other Sentient statue in the garden, a start 10 feet away. The very odd looking statue

The odd statue just chuckled, content to just listen in.

“Now be nice to the pony. He’s just doing his job…and no..I don’t agree with you,” The male voice sighed in response to the female voice.

“I don’t wanna be nice. It’s all Celestia’s fault we’re stuck here, not mine. I mean, I thought teaching Sombra the correct ways to use his powers would keep him from turning evil, not get even more evil.” The female voice huffed in anger. “When I get out, Flynn, I'mma punch the first Guard I see in the face and kick the next one in the butt.”

“I don’t understand how in the world did you think that teaching Sombra how to use his powers will prevent him from turning evil…” The male voice grumbled lowly. “And don’t do that. You don’t know where those things have been.”

“Neither do you..wait! I hear movement!” The female voice barked.

True to her word, the sound of multiple ponies walking closer was heard. 

Then they came into view, punctuated by the female voice screaming in joy. “The episode’s begun! We’re all gonna get freed and then I can go and kicks some guards and eat and scratch my bag and hug the little pony kids and keep scoots and have the best life ever!”

“Why are you so...urgh..I give up. Though, I am happy as well. Being a statue is pain in the butt and it’s been a while I actually trained.”  The male voice spoke calmly.

The female voice kept chatting happily, even as the little ponies and the big pony talked about them. 

“These two statues represent the darkness and light that exist in every ponies heart. They are respectively called ‘Shadow’ and ‘Light’.” The big pony, Cheerilee explained. “Over a thousand years ago, Shadow appeared in the kingdom of the dragons and overthrew their Emperor with only three attacks. She then sent the dragons in a battle against Princess Celestia and Princess Luna but it was too much for them. When all seemed lost, Light appeared and with his powerful techniques, he slew the dragons attacking and went straight for Shadow.”

The female voice snorted in amusement. 

“They engaged in a fierce battle that went on for days, one so terrible that it created the Badlands.”

“It wasn't that bad! And days? Seriously? What has Tia been teaching her pony subjects?” 

“You know how it is. You got to make stories so bloody interesting so ponies actually pay attention...though I must admit...it wasn't that bad.”

“On the fifth day, the Princess’ used the Elements of Harmony to turn them to stone. Afterwards, they cried for Light, who they saw as a great hero but also a casualty of Shadow’s callous nature.”

“Why do they act like you died, Flynn? You’re just frozen in stone for a thousand years.”

“I don’t know but I’m still mad they turn me into stone. They could've told me to move out of the way or something!”

“W-will Light ever come back, Miss Cheerilee?” One of the little ponies, a cute little redhead with purple glasses asked.

“No one knows but I heard one of the guards talking about a small legend that sprung up a few years ago.” 

“It only sprung up because Cadance touched your statue and she heard you singing, ‘I’m a Yankee doodle Dandy’!” The female voice yelled in a strangled voice.

“I thought we said we were never going to talk about that ever again,” The male voice hissed at the female’s voice.

The female voice just snorted at Cheerilee continued. “It is said that if someone of a pure heart was to touch his statue, they would be able to hear his voice.”

A light bulb sound effect was heard in the link. “Flynn, dude! These pony kids are pure enough. Tell them to let you out when they touch you!” 

“Right!”  The male voice spoke.

They waited with baited breath as the earth pony one with the bow moved closer to ‘Light’s' statue, raising a hoof up and putting it on his leg. 

“NOW!” The female voice shouted.

“LET ME OUT!” The male voice barked.

“AHHHH!” The pony kid kid moved away in surprise, bumping into and knocking over the pink earth pony that the female voice didn’t seem to like. 

It started a chain reaction that soon had all the pony kids on the ground.

“....I think you were too loud.”

“.......Oops…”

Discord was just laughing at the chaos they accidentally caused. 

“Shut up Discord! They might actually be hurt!” 

“Because of me…” The male voice sounded like he was sulking. 

“Miss Cheerilee!” The silver earth pony kid spoke up shakily from the pile. “I think I might be bleeding!”

“No, that’s mah nose.” The earth pony with the bow spoke up from the top of the pile, hold her nose. 

The female voice just sulked as all the ponies were led away to the medics. Afterwards, she turned her attention to the other statue. “Was that enough chaos to get you out, Q?” She spoke up, seeing a lot of cracks on the Discord Statue.

“From the looks of things, I assume it’s probably is,” the male voice replied at the sight of the cracks.

Discord started laughing as, in a flash, he broke free from the statue. “Ahhh, so much better~” He moaned, stretching himself into knots and scratching his back. 

“Oi, Q! You gotta let us out too!” The female voice yelled out at him. “You know how much chaos would be raised if they found out I escaped!”

“That and I did give you enough chaos to free you,” The male voice huffed slightly.

“Right you two are. As such-” The chaotic being appeared next to both the statues and poked them both on the head, causing hair-line fractures to appear. “-You’ll be freed if the Elements of Harmony are used again successfully. Ta ta~” The Draconequus Then disappeared in a flash of leaves.

“...I’m not going to tell him if you aren't.” The Female voice spoke up, seeing how Discord was gone.

“.....I’m not..” The male voice replied. “So...back to waiting?”

“Yeah. We’ll probably be free about tomorrow.” She muttered. “Stupid idiot didn’t do anything about the itch.”





“I CAN FEEL IT!” The female voice roared, seeing how chaotic things had become, with the ground looking like several different types of grass, some of the normal statues made of cheese, and the roses that surrounded them all dripping hot sauce. “CAN YOU FEEL IT?! THE FREEDOM WAVE IS COMING SOON!”

The female voice would receive a low snore in response to what she said. Apparently, the male voice was too busy sleeping to actually care about what was occurring at the moment. It was amazing the male wasn't woken up by the female’s voice roar.

"Mraaaaaaaaar!” She made a few strangled sounding noises as she saw a huge wave of light approaching. “IT’S HERE!!!!!!!”

She flinched in the stone as the wave hit them, the cracks widening greatly after it passed.

The scythe fell to the ground as the girl started flexing her fingers, stone falling off. The boy yelped in surprise and fell over in surprise, dropping his sword to the ground. He shook his head a few times and looked around.

“Wha?” the male muttered.

“WE’RE FREEEEEEE, FLYNN!” The female voice shouted behind him, her long white hair now flowing freely in the new breeze. 

“Free?” the male muttered before looking down to his hands. He placed one against his short blond hair and suddenly grinned. “WE’RE FREE! HAHAHAAHA!”

“I told you it’d would work!” The girl grabbed her scythe and jumped over him and landed on Discord’s old pedestal. “So, what are you gonna do now that we’re free?” The white haired girl asked, look back at the blond with green, energetic eyes. 

The blond look back to the girl with his blue-green eyes. “Me?” He spoke. “Well….I’m going to actually go use the bathroom,” He grabbed his sword and placed it in his sheathe. “...Wait a minute..do ponies have toilets?”

“Somewhere.” She muttered. “Me, I’m going to go and fulfill my one wish.” Her eyes sparkled. “I’m going to get a baby dragon!”

“.....You’re going to get a baby dragon?” He sweat-dropped. “Why am I not surprised?”

“I’m gonna go now, Flynn! It’s a long way to the dragon lands!” She double jumped up into the air before getting surrounded by air and getting pushed off toward the wall. “See ya in a few weeks Flynn! I’ll try to write!” She called out, going over that wall. “AHHH! SPIKY BUSHES! I FORGOT THAT PAIN HURTS!”

Flynn sweat-dropped. “See ya, Pecila,” he turned around and inhaled softly. “Let’s hope you don’t somehow get eaten…” He walked off toward the castle, feeling the urge for a bathroom grow.
> Chapter 0: The Convention
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--Over one thousand Years ago--

The sun was shining in Georgia as two female cosplayers stepped out of their hotel rooms, both ready for DragonCon.

One was dressed in purple armor and had a white wig. She was also rubbing her eyes. “Stupid contacts itch.” She bemoaned, walking down the hallway to the elevator on shaky feet….mostly because she was wearing high heels for her cosplay. 

The other was dressed in blue armor and had a blond wig. She was trying to fix her cape. “Stupid cape…” She grumbled, slowly trudging to the hallway. Her cape had came off of her costume and she was in the middle of fixing it. 

The one in the white wig noticed the caped one and almost immediately spoke up. “Catwolf? That you?”

The caped one stopped and look in the direction of the one with the white wig. “Kris?”

Kris gasped slightly before running over and hugging Catwolf, practically falling over due to the heels. “It’s good to finally meet you in person~ Now we can have a pokemon battle!” She grinned, showing off a slightly overgrown canine tooth. 

Catwolf chuckled slightly when Kris hugged her. “And to think, it only took what? A few years?” She grinned back.

“About six or seven, but that’s not important right now!” Kris stood up dramatically, though the image was ruined by her shaking legs. “We have to bond over the ancient female tradition of shopping!”

There was a ding as the elevator opened at the moment.

“See? The elevator agrees with me~”

“Then let’s go then~” 

Kris charged onto the elevator, tripping at the last second, her face slamming onto the floor of the elevator. “...I’m okay! No one saw that!”

“I did.” Some smart ass down the hall spoke up.

“No one saw that!”

“Saw what?” Cat hummed slightly, stepping into the elevator and moving to help her friend up.

Kris got up with Cat’s help, before leaning against the wall and holding her head. “I think my wig came loose.”

“Want me to try to fix it for you?” Cat questioned.

“I think I can get it.” Kris muttered as she started messing around with it. She seemed to have it somewhat fixed when the elevator doors opened up. “To Dragon-Con! Away!”

“Try not to run this time. You might end up falling on your face…again,” Cat chuckled.

“I’m not running.” She muttered under her breath as she slowly walked out, deciding to ignore the last word she said.

Cat simply shook her head at her friend and slowly followed behind her, going back to messing with her cape. Soon, they came to the Convention center, which was overflowing with people and cosplayers.

Kris just stared, feeling a bit self conscious and moving closer to Cat. “I should have finished my scythe…”

Cat huffed slightly. “I shouldn't had left my sword in my suitcase. Otherwise, it wouldn't have snapped in half…”

Kris gulped, gripping her lanyard slightly. “Wellllll, let’s go on in then.” She took a few tentative steps forward with Cat, wanting to stay close to her best friend. 

There was one thing that not many people knew about Kris and that was that she really didn’t like to be touched unless she engaged it or the person was someone she absolutely trusted. 

Being at something as crowded as Dragon-Con, she was a rather nervous wreck as the two moved through the crowd. So much so that half way through the crowd, she grabbed Cat’s hand. 

Cat didn’t stop Kris from grabbing her hand, understanding the female was most likely nervous. She just quietly hum slightly and looked around, taking a look around towards the people in the crowd. Unlike Kris, the female didn’t mind being around such a large number of people. She just hoped she didn’t catch the dreaded ‘Con Flu’. 

“There’s the Vendor Hall!” Kris whispered, pointing toward a big banner. “Let’s go there before all the good stuff get’s bought.”

“I wonder what they have,” Cat murmured quietly, wondering what types of things would be sold.

Kris started moving over to the doors with Cat, already peeking in when people left. “Probably lots of fantasy and sci-fi stuff. And maybe some pony stuff as well.”

“Ohh~ Fantasy stuff~” Cat cooed, peeking inside as well. “I need more fantasy stuff~”

“And new weapons.” Kris muttered as they entered. They were faced with an explosion of people, a lot of them cosplaying, and lots of tables and booths selling various items. “Let us engage the tradition.” She whispered loudly, smiling. 

“The ancient female tradition of shopping?” Cat grinned in response to Kris, who nodded in response.

“Forward march!” She whispered again, moving forward towards the first booth. 

Cat simply nodded and followed close behind her friend with a grin still plastered on her face. Soon, the two were on a whirlwind adventure of looking at items and taking pictures of other cosplayers, Cat getting in more pictures than Kris. 

Not that Kris minded. She was aware that Flynn, the character Cat was cosplaying as, was far more popular than a character that could be made on a free to play game. 

Eventually, they had looked at all the booths except one, which was being manned by an old man. Kris ignored the bad feeling she was getting in exchange for drooling over the various weapons he was selling. “Caaaaat. That guy has sharp things, well, except they really aren't sharp.”

“Are the sharp things shiny?” Cat questioned, poking her head over Kris’ shoulder to look at the weapons being sold. 

“Yas!” Kris started moving over to the booth to look at all the weapons, especially the scythes. “They’re on salllle!” 

“Shiny, sharp things on sale!? Oooooooohhhh~” Cat cooed and quickly moved towards the booth as well, eying the swords.

Kris was immediately drawn to a huge scythe that was, in her opinion, absolutely beautiful. It’s shaft was covered by purple ribbon while it’s pommel was a brilliant blue gem. The blade itself? It looked like the Brotherhood blade from Final Fantasy ten, only made for a scythe. “Oooooh.” 

Cat found herself eying a sword that reminded her something she would see Flynn using. The hilt of the sword was white. The white from the hilt seem to travel along the edges of the blade giving it appearance that it was highlighted with the color. The blade itself was entirely blue and didn’t seem to special. 

Kris checked the tag for the scythe and took out the 60 dollars needed out of belt pouch while grabbing the surprisingly light weapon. “Let’s pay for it together, Cat~”

Cat grabbed the sword after noting that the blade also cost 60 dollars and pulled out the money needed. At what Kris said, she smiled warmly. “Ok~” 

Kris tossed the money over at the same time as Cat, the old man chuckling. “I hope you two enjoy~ the ride.” 

“Huh?” Kris blinked, thinking she heard him say something at the end. She shook her head in confusion and walked away from the booth with Cat. “Come on, let’s go explore the-”

They both suddenly started to feel light headed and nauseous. if they paid attention, they would have noticed other cosplayers collapsing.

“C-cat?” Kris gasped out, leaning on her newly bought weapon, looking over to her friend.

“K-K-Kris…” Cat groaned softly and fell onto the floor. 

Kris followed Cat to the ground, everything whiting out. 

All they heard was that old man’s chuckle.





Kris gave a low moan, somewhat coming to consciousness. She tried to roll over, thinking she was just in bed and what had just happened was just a dream.

That was sorely broken when she jumped up in pain, having cut her arm on the scythe she had bought...only now it was significantly more deadly with an actual blade. 

Kris held where her arm was cut before she realized something. “Why am I out in a field?” She asked, looking around at the small field. She also noticed the man unconscious next to her. 

She moved over and started poking his back. “Um, excuse me? Sir?”

The man gave a low groan and slowly opened his eyes. “Urgh...sir?” he murmured slightly and lifted his head up to look in the direction of Kris. “Who are you calling a sir?”

She immediately recognized the man. After all, Cat talked about him a lot. “Y-you’re Flynn!” She cried out in surprise. “What the hell!” 

“Flynn?” the man, that Kris identified as Flynn, cocked a brow at what the female said. “Did you hit your head or something? I’m not Flynn.”

“C-cat?” She questioned, fear slowly growing in the pit of her stomach. 

“No. Santa Claus. Of course, it’s me!” Flynn grumbled slightly. “....Wait..why does my voice sound weird?”

“...I think that’s because you’re a guy now.” Kris suggested, standing up.

Cat look to Kris then look down to ‘herself’. The ‘female’ stood up and started to pat ‘herself’. The ‘female’ eyes slowly widened before ‘she’ suddenly scream. “Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo-!”

“Gyeh!” Kris moved back in surprise, tripping over her scythe and falling on her rum. 

Then the pink ice fairy showed up. “Pecila, are you okay?” She asked with a light voice, looking to Kris.

Needless to say, Kris started screaming as well, though not in fear…

“-oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!” Cat was still screaming at realization that ‘she’ was now a guy.

“CUUUUUUUTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!” Kris was hugging the little pink girl so hard her face was turning blue. 

“-oooooooooooo!” Cat coughed loudly. “Ow..screaming hurts..” He grumbled lowly before looking in the direction of Kris. “Uhh?”

Kris dropped the girl and pranced over to Cat, whispering to him. “That’s Merrilee! You know that this means?”

“Nope,” Cat answered bluntly. “Not in the slightest.”

She huffed slightly, Merrilee trying to catch her breath. “It means I’m an actual Envoy of Gaia! I might have powers!” 

“......Soooo, you’re implying that we are currently the character we are cosplaying as?” Cat blinked a few times.

Kris nodded. “See if you can do Demon Fang!” 

Cat nodded and stood up, grabbing his sword. He inhaled slightly and closed his eyes. He felt the energy inside him started to build up as he tighten his grip on the hilt of the blade. He reopened his eyes and with a cry shouted

“Demon Fang!” A green projectile soared out of the blade and shot towards the direction that Cat was facing. Cat’s eyes sparkled at the sight of this.

Kris stepped back to watch, the adrenaline dropping slightly as she actually started to think. All that thinking vanished when she saw the demon fang. “So awesome…..” She gaped. 

“Sweeeeeeet~” Cat grinned slightly and started to bounce around in joy. Kris soon joined him. Of course, Merrilee joined in the bouncing of joy.

Soon, the excitement died down and they were left awkwardly standing in the field. Even the newcomer Eidolon wasn't saying anything.

Kris broke the silence with one question. “So, where do you think we are?”

“A field?” Cat answered with a tiny snort. 

Kris sighed. “Hey Merrilee, can you fly around a little bit and see if you can see any civilization? I wanna talk with my friend alone.”

Merrilee saluted before flying up and away.

“Cat, if we aren't on Earth anymore, we should probably go by our character’s names instead of our real ones.” Kris spoke up. 

“I would disagree but seeing as I am kinda of a guy now, I guess that’s a good choice,” Cat nodded slightly.

“So from now on, call me Pecila and you’ll be Flynn.” Kris, now Pecila clarified. 

“Right,” Cat, now Flynn nodded.

Pecila walked over to her scythe, picking it up and attaching it to her back. “Anyways, we should probably get walking. Don’t know how long we have till sunset.” 

“And god knows what creatures wander around here,” Flynn replied, placing his sword in its sheath on his hip.

Pecila started walking towards the trees, looking around as they moved. “Though, this place is pretty beautiful.” She muttered, referencing just how bright everything was. 

“Looks can be deceiving,” Flynn simply replied, glancing around the area while occasionally looking in the direction they were heading to.

After a few minutes of walking, they reached the edge of the forest, though it looked a little foreboding. 

That’s when Pecila brought up something. “How am I walking so well on high heels now?”

“That’s a pretty good question…” Flynn muttered. “....And how am I good at using a sword?”

Pecila was about to suggest something when Merrilee came charging back. “Pecila! Pecila’s friend! Come quick! Someone’s in danger!”

Pecila went serious, along with Flynn. “Lead the way.”

Flynn shifted his hand onto the hilt of his sword, waiting for Merrilee to lead them.

Soon, they were charging through the forest, following the pink Eidolon. They started to hear the screams of fear and broke into a clearing...where a Manticore was pacing around a shivering tree. 

“Leave the guy or girl alone!” Pecila yelled out, taking out her scythe. The beast looked over to the intruders.

“Or it..if it doesn't have a gender,” Flynn spoked, pulling out his sword.

“Whatever.” Pecila swung her scythe around, releasing four black energy balls that slammed into it’s face. 

It growled lowly, shaking it’s head. Flynn move towards the beast, stopping when he was a few feet from it. He swung his sword and yelled out ‘Demon Fang’, releasing the projectile towards the beast’s legs.

It roared in pain, even more so when Merrilee started pelting it’s hide with ice arrows. The manticore opened it’s eyes slightly before starting to flee.

“...Well, that was easy.” Pecila muttered, putting her scythe up. “Seemed famil….iarrrrr…...” She froze as she saw the person, no, pegasus that they saved glide down from the tree. The pegasus was white with blond, poofy hair with a trio of purple balloons on her flanks. 

“Thanks for the help~” The pegasus spoke up, approaching the shell shocked girl. “I thought that Manticore was going to eat all my pies! That would have just been terrible.”

Flynn jaw dropped, staring at the pegasus. He immediately shook his head a few times and forced a smile on his face. “Ah, you’re welcome,” he spoked, moving over to Pecila. “It’s the least we can do.”

“Yeah. Um….give us a minute.” Pecila dragged Flynn away a little bit, not noticing Merrilee floating over to talk to the pegasus. “Sooooo…..we’re in Equestria now….probably pretty far in the past….”

“How far are we talking? Weeks? Months? Years? Decades? Centuries?” Flynn questioned.

“Probably the last one…” Pecila sweat-dropped. “...Wanna try and change the future?” 

“......Eh...we got nothing better to do,” Flynn shrugs. “So might as well.”

“Let’s do it then.” Pecila smiled. “We’ll be the best heroes ever!”





~~~~Present Day~~~~

Pecila sweat-dropped as she remembered her immortal words that would cause a lot of pain for them.

> Princesses, Eidolons, and Cubes.
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Flynn found that he was able to enter the castle rather easily. Apparently, the guards were trying to keep everything in order with the chaos that Discord had caused.

He was striding through the hallways, hearing some heavy hoofsteps nearby. And by near by, the ment on the ceiling. Flynn looked up with a sweat-drop, seeing a certain moon princess sleep walking/flying. 

The blonde contemplated saying something to the alicorn to wake her up but decided against it…then again… considering what happened years ago. The male started to look around, trying to see if he could find something to throw at the female. He paused and noticed what look like a basket of fruit sitting on a table. 

“Hm…” Flynn casually moved over to the basket and grabbed a banana from the basket. 

Glancing around, the knight tossed the banana directly towards Luna. He frowned when he missed. He silently cursed and grabbed another banana. Muttering something, he tossed the fruit at Luna once again, succeeding in hitting her.  He watched her with a small smirk on his face, waiting to see how she’ll react.

Luna sputtered a little when the yellow fruit hit her in the face before noticing where she was...again. “What foul beast attacks the Princess of the Moon!” She shouted, deactivating the spell that kept her up and flipping over as she landed on the ground with a thundering boom… that was kind of ruined when she heard a squishing sound under her back right hoof. 

She looked back, lifting her hoof slightly to see the remains of a banana. “What is this madness?” She asked, not using the Royal Canterlot Voice this time. Her gaze slowly drifted up to meet Flynn’s. 

Flynn placed his hands over his mouth as a huge grin slowly appeared on his face. The male tried to hold back his laughter. “Pfft... h-h-hey…”

“Hello again, Flynn.” Luna deadpanned, looking back to her hoof. “We expected this kind of prank from your friend Pecila, not from you.”

“Mhm. You know I should’ve placed three more bananas underneath your other hooves. Otherwise, you would have a nice pair of slippers!” Flynn suddenly burst out laughing. 

Luna just levitated the remains of the banana peel and dropped them on his head. “If thou is free, this means that the monstrous Pecila is free as well?” The Moon Princess asked Flynn, her voice hardening as she remembered just how much destruction the Necromancer caused after Discord’s defeat over a thousand years ago.

“Oh yeah. She won’t be here for a while. She went to go get a baby dragon or something,” Flynn answered, quietly snickering to himself.  

“We hope that she does not cause another revolt among the dragons.” Luna muttered. “Our Sister and we barely kept them from killing their emperor when he woke up weeks later.” 

“She won’t. Well I hope she won’t,” Flynn chuckled quietly, placing his hands behind his head. “So how have you been? Anything special happen while I was ‘gone’?”

“The Elements of Harmony chose new wielders for their powers and freed us from the darkness that had once hopelessly entangled my soul.” Luna giggled a little. “Though recently, our sister has told us about the chaos they caused at the Grand Galloping Gala.” 

“In other words, nothing much,” Flynn replied.

“For you, maybe.” Luna muttered under her breath, her amusement gone. 

Flynn saw this and frowned at this. “Hey. I didn’t mean it like that, Luna. I mean..ugh. I’m still kinda bitter about the whole becoming a statue thing.”

“We are sorry about that, it’s just-”

“We really thought you were going to kill Pecila that time.” A familiar voice spoke up from down the hall they were in, the owner walking up. It was someone Flynn and Pecila would recognize anywhere. 

It was Princess Celestia.

“Sister!”

“Well well…..if it isn’t sun butt,” Flynn snorted, seeing the female pony.

Celestia just smiled at the remark. “I see you learned some of Pecila’s… ‘creative’ nicknames while you were stoned~”

“Well considering I was stuck with listening to her, it’s not exactly a surprise that’s the case,” Flynn puffed his chest slightly.

“Well, next time, I’ll make sure not to hit you by accident.” Celestia trotted up to Flynn. “But really, it is quite refreshing to see you in the flesh again after a thousand years. Welcome back, Flynn.” 

“It’s great to be back,” Flynn smiled, looking between Celestia and Luna. 

Celestia smiled warmly at Flynn and Luna. “If only Pecila didn’t run from her punishment, this would be a true reunion~” 

“We wonder where the pest is anyways.” Luna spoke up, looking out the window. “And what chaos she is causing now.”

“She’s probably staying out of trouble.” Celestia looked out the window as well.

“Somehow, I doubt that,” Flynn replied, looking out the window as well. 




MEANWHILE!!

“You’ll never catch me alive, coppas!” Pecila yelled as she ran from the guards following her on the edge of Canterlot.

“You are under arrest!” The lead unicorn screamed with a slight twitch.

“I did nothin’ wrong!” Pecila exclaimed, taking a plain donut out of her side pouch. 

“Stealing ribbons, glue, and Breaking in and Redecorating Donut Joe’s shop!” The unicorn screamed again, throwing various items at her. 

“He needed to brighten that place up!” Pecila countered. “It felt too white!”

“THAT DOESN'T EVEN MAKE SENSE!”





“On the other hand, she could be causing trouble again.” Celestia mused with a chuckle.

Flynn sweat-dropped at that. “Hopefully, there’s no property damage.”

Luna looked to Flynn. “Is there anything thou wants to do now that thou is free?” 

Flynn placed his hand on his chin. “Well I was thinking about creating a new section of Knights.”

Celestia chuckled, walking closer. “My only stipulation to this new section is that you must do all the paperwork for it to be official. What say you sister?” Celestia looked to her younger sibling.

“I have no objections.” 

At the mention of paperwork, Flynn groaned. Paperwork. Just what he wanted to deal with after being trapped in stone. He, however, nodded at what Celestia said. After all, it can’t be that bad, right?..Right?

~

As soon as he saw the huge pile of papers, Celestia caught Flynn in a telekinesis right as he started running. Flynn was crying loudly, cursing his luck and Pecila. Why Pecila? Why not? He needed someone else to blame.





Pecila was gliding on the air away from Canterlot and the screaming guards, her arms spread out and a donut hanging from her mouth while over a random forest. “Mmmmmmmmmmm~” She sucked the rest of the donut in her mouth and swallowed it. “That random redecoration was just what I needed. Josh would be proud of me~” Pecila mused a little, remembering her brothers on Earth.”

She frowned slightly, a pang of homesickness hitting her. “...” She looked up at the sun. “You probably wouldn't have made the same mistakes…” She whispered before her small moment of sadness was ruined. 

“Pecila!” Pecila squeaked as she was tackled out of the sky by one of her most used Eidolons and slammed through some tree branches and into the ground. “You came back!”

The white haired girl just gave garbled sound of pain in response to the yellow dragon floating in the air above her. 

“You know, Merrilee and Serif thought that you were never gonna get outta that stone! “How’d you get out of there, anyways?” The little drake asked, floating above her. 

Pecila shook her head, sitting up and rubbing her back, unaware of the leaves sticking out of her hair. “Grimm, good to see you again~Could have gone without the ground slamming…” 

Grimm landed on her head, his tail wagging as he picked out some of the leaves. “All the others have been worried sick since we lost contact with you a thousand years ago, well, except Merrilee. She’s been hanging out with a pony named Pinkie Pie a lot. What happened?” 

Pecila flinched slightly when she heard about the pink party pony. “Well, I knocked out this big kingy dragon, all the other dragons got drunk and called me their empress, then went on a drunken rampage in Equestria.” She sweatdropped. “Then Flynn almost killed me and the Princesses stoned me and him.”

Grimm was quiet for the longest time. “Wow, your luck strikes hard again.”

Pecila huffed before leaning her head forward, letting the little Eidolon fall off. “You can go on back and tell them-”

Pecila went into a stance. “The beautiful, smart, and powerful Envoy, Pecila is back!”

“Sure. Tell them the unlucky idiot is back.” Grimm snorted with laughter, disappearing before the white haired girl could rage at him.

There was a yelp as a pulsing blue cube landed on her head. “Dammit, sky! Stop attacking me!” She screamed, sitting up quickly. 

After screaming at the sky for a few more minutes, Pecila turned her attention to the item that fell on her head. “The heck is this?” She raised an eyebrow as she heard a nervous sounding guy in her head.

"Uhh. This is the...Animorph...Wade. Call me...if you need any help?".

Pecila started moving the cube around some more in her hands before putting her head to it, trying to examine it with the RPG powers of highlighting the item. She smiled at what she got from it. 

“Huh.” She stood up, still holding the cube before mentally contacting Aelius, the one Eidolon that Flynn really got along with, calling him there. The Envoy made sure her eyes were closed when the sun knight appeared. 

“Hello again, Envoy. I see you and Flynn have been freed from your constraints.” Pecila opened her eyes to look up at the hooded knight. “What chaos are you going to start this time?”

“Ah, hush Aley~ I’m going to be on the straight and narrow now!” Pecila announced, though the one visible eye on Aeilus was unamused. “Anyways, I need you to take this to Flynn!” 

Peclia tossed the cube up to the Eidolon. “Tell him to do the RPG scan on it~”

~
Aeilus stared at the cube, examining it himself. It was full of power from the space between worlds and lands. It seemed to act like a key for Eidolons, only it seemed people like the Envoy had made them. He shook his head before vanishing, heading to the one that held his true key.

Flynn Scifo.
~

Pecila waved as Aeilus disappeared before taking off her scythe and reaching into the blade, where she actually kept most of her food. 

She pulled her hand out, holding a simple old style key that seemed to be just like her blade, only not sharp. Then she thought back to the power in the cube and started putting her own power as an Envoy into it. 

Then she spoke. “Yo, Need an Envoy of Gaia to kick some major butt for Good or Neutrality? Just use the key on anything with a lock and I’ll come running. Together, we’ll make Evil will regret ever coming around! Unless, you’re Evil. In that case, I’ll kick your butt.” Pecila spoke with vigor before it was full of power, glowing slightly. 

“...now what?” She asked, tossing the key up. When the key didn’t fall back down, she looked up to see a small portal closing. “...Wut.”





So much paper work. Who knew you had to sign over a thousand forms in order to make a new sect of the government? 

Flynn was just finishing up... when there was a bright flash right beside him. The bright flash caused the male to yelp loudly and knock over his paperwork in surprise. Hearing the loud thump of the papers, he groaned.

“Really?” Flynn grumbled.

“Flynn, the Envoy has found something of a strange power.” Aelius spoke with his normal deep tone as he put the blue cube on the table. He seemed unaware of just how much trouble he had just caused Flynn.

“Did she steal it?” Flynn muttered, pinching the bridge of his nose as he briefly look down to the blue cube.

“I do not feel that she took it from anything living or dead in my honest opinion. She may be incompetent, but she is not that stupid.” Aelius looked to Flynn. “She also said to ‘RPG scan’ it.” 

“I disagree about the stupid part,” Flynn grumbled. At the mention of the ‘RPG scan’, he raised a brow. “What in the world is a RPG scan?” 

“When I arrived, she had been removing it from her forehead. You may want to try that.” 

“...What?” That’s when another cube exactly like the one on the desk hit Flynn in the back of the head. “Ow.”

“...Well that is certainly odd.” Aelius picked up the second cube and put it beside the first one. They were an exact match. 
Flynn simply huffed and rubbed his head, eying the two cubes. He carefully grabbed them and examined them. “I’m not quite sure what these are but they remind me of somthi-”

That’s when he heard the voice just like Pecila. 

"Uhh. This is the...Animorph...Wade. Call me...if you need any help?".

Flynn dropped the cubes in surprise and nearly fell out of his chair, if not for Aelius catching him. “What in the world!?”

The cubes did nothing else… Then a key landed on Flynn’s head. 

“...I think I might be cursed,” Flynn spoked after a few moments of silence. When he grabbed the key, he would hear a surprising voice.

“Yo, Need an Envoy of Gaia to kick some major butt for Good or Neutrality? Just use the key on anything with a lock and I’ll come running. Together, we’ll make Evil will regret ever coming around! Unless, you’re Evil. In that case, I’ll kick your butt.” 

Flynn didn’t say anything. He look to the cubes and the key. He place his hand on his chin and closed his eyes. “..Yep. I’m cursed.”

“Should I call upon Kotonoha?” Aelius asked in concern. “This curse could be deadly.”

“Please do. I fear that someone may end up falling on me,” Flynn groaned quietly.

Aelius bowed before vanishing to get the fox. 

Flynn sighed and look to his desk, realizing his paperwork was scattered on the floor. He grumbled something lowly and stood up slowly. The male proceeded to try and gathered the sheets, occasionally looking to the key and cubes. 

“What purpose do you carry?” Flynn muttered before reaching over to grab the key. 

When he grabbed the key, Flynn stared at it for a few seconds. He looked around and noticed the door. With a hum, he proceeded to walk over to the door. When he was near it, he stuck the key in the lock and turned it. 

The light of a portal appeared in the doorway, much to Flynn’s surprise. Then Pecila flew out of it like a bat outa hell, slamming into the desk, flipping it over. After a second, the girl finally spoke. “Owwwww.” 

Flynn was not quite sure how to respond to this. He could possibly ask if his friend was alright. He could gasp at what he witnessed. He decided on a rather reasonable response. “WHAT THE HELL!?”

“Oh… Hey Flynn.” Pecila moaned. “How’d ja make a portal?” 

“How did you-urgh. I need a aspirin or something,” Flynn groaned lowly. 

“Does that even exist here in Equestria?” Pecila asked, sitting up before noticing the identical cubes. “...Flynn, did you somehow copy a cube that can call a cool person?” She asked. 

“Then tea or whatever the heck can help stop a headache,” Flynn grumbled. “And I didn’t copy the cube. I was smacked in the head by it.”

“That’s what happened to me!”

“I swear, this day can’t get any weirder!” Flynn had his hand over his face.

Pecila was about to call him out on that when she noticed Celestia in the doorway. “Hi Trollestisa!” She called out in cheer.

Flynn look to the doorway and groaned. “You know I should probably stop talking now.”

Celestia giggled. “You probably should, before an entire pony lands on you.”

“Jinx!” Pecila quickly called out.

Before Flynn could say anything in response or curse, a 6’ 1 dragon human hybrid landed on him while screaming. 

“HOLY SHIT! IT’S RAINING MEN!” Pecila yelled out, Celestia just laughing out loud.

“WHY MUST I BE THE ONE CURSED!?” Flynn screamed loudly.

That’s when Aelius returned with a foxy lady. “Flynn, I have-FIEND! LEAVE HIM ALONE!” The Eidolon was at the two men in a second, punching the half dragon in the face with a flaming fist of justice!... Unaware that the man was already unconscious from his head hitting the floor.

“Uh...I think you went a bit overboard…” Flynn muttered, seeing blood running out of the new person’s nose, though he was able to get a good look at him now.

He looked like a human mixed with a dragon alright, his arms up to his elbow covered in dark royal purple scales with a line of red scales extending from his middle fingers all the way to his neck and his legs covered in dark royal purple scales as well. He had a pair of huge leathery wings, both spread out far enough to touch both sides of the room. His ears were similar to a dragon’s, long and scaly along with a pair of dragon horns that curled up slightly. He also had long, shaggy red hair that extended to the middle of his back.

He was wearing a metal cloth robe with a scimitar attached to his left hip. Beside him was a book bag that seemed to be bulging with various items. The spines going down his back, unknowing to the people in the room, were blood red.

Then one of Pecila’s keys plonked onto the guy’s head.

“...So...that happened.” Kotonoha was the first to speak. 

“Can someone do me a favor?” Flynn asked. Everyone in the room, save the unconscious dragon hybrid and Pecila, who had gotten rope from somewhere, looked to the knight.

“Get. Him. Off. My. Back.”

Pecila zoomed over with the rope at the ready!
> Half-Dragon and the Explanations!
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

When the newcomer became conscious again, there were five things that were obvious.

One, his head hurt like hell.

Two, wherever he was, it was loud.

Three, his back, arms, head, and legs itched a lot. 

Four, he was tied up.

And five, his nose hurt.

“Can I keep the half-dragon boy, pleaaaaaaaaaaaaase?” A female voice whined out loud.

“No,” a male voice hissed in response. 

“Can you at least untie me?” She whined. “I only pretended to make out with him.”

“And that highly disturbed the guards.” 

“Hey-mpf!”

“Ow, my head… Keep it down would ya? Ugh, where am I anyways?” Was what he said when he opened his eyes.

What he saw would probably be the strangest thing he would see in his life.

There was a blonde man dressed in elaborate blue and white clothes sitting in a chair, sipping on a tea cup. “This is marvelous tea, Princess~”

Right next to him on a pillow was a huge white horse with both a horn and wings and a blue, pink, and green mane that flowed in a non-existent wind. “Thank you, Flynn.”

Under the blonde’s chair was a young white haired woman in what could only be described as what a stripper would wear. She was also tied up and gagged… and protesting loudly. 

There was also a few unicorns in armor in the room as well, pointing spears at the newly awakened man.

He saw the color of the metal and laughed, “Ok, if you want me to break your spears keep pointing them at me, I mean really, using gold in spears?”

“Actually, it is magically enhanced gold,” One guard spoke up in response, poking him in the face.

The blonde turned his attention to man along with Celestia and placed his cup down. “Oh, you’re up? Good afternoon.”

“Hello blonde person. Still, using gold in spears is idiotic, why not use iron or steel?” He looked over at Celestia “Oh god, don’t tell me after I got hit in the head someone drugged me,” he groaned at this.

“Would being drugged up lead you to fall on top of me through rather odd means?” 

“I’m sure it would help if I actually knew where I was and why I was tied up. Also, why am I wearing this weird robe thing?”

“Because ya look hot in it!” Pecila spoke up, having eaten the gag.

“Pecila, please shut up,” Flynn sighed softly.

The guards looked over to Pecila as she yelled ‘NEVER!’ in response. “How did she-? We put a chain in that cloth!”

Celestia sighed, refusing to acknowledge Pecila. “What was the last thing you were doing, sir…?”

His ear twitched. “My name? No idea who you are so just call me Luke, and I was just walking to a job interview to work at an atomic accelerator when I tripped and fell, next thing I knew I was here. In a childrens show at that…” He said the last part quietly. “Then I hit my head or something.” 

Flynn didn’t say anything in response, processing what he heard. 

Celestia took on a contemplative look, seeming to be thinking about the situation. “Luke, it seems that you may have arrived here similarly as Flynn and Pecila here. Did you buy anything when you were heading to your interview?”

“No? The last time I bought anything was when I bought groceries. Now, can someone untie me please? I will literally push myself out of these ropes if you don’t.”

“Only if you agree not to go on a pony killing rampage when you’re free,” Flynn responded as he walked over, taking his sword out of it’s sheath. 

“Seriously? You’re asking me not to go on a killing rampage? What do you think I am, a serial killer?”

“LET ME HAVE YOUR HALF DRAGON BABIES!” Pecila roared before anyone could respond.

He looked at the other retrained occupant in the room. Confused and freaked out, he began to scoot away. Pecila was somehow dragging herself to him using only her teeth. Flynn groaned in annoyance and quickly moved over to Pecila. 

“You’re becoming one of those fangirls!” Flynn barked, stomping down on her back.

“But he’s a dragon!” Pecila whined, her movement being halted.

“Uh, what do you mean? Last time I checked I was a human…” His words died off as he noticed his hands.

Pecila went quiet before starting to hum the Jeopardy theme. Flynn casually joined in, along with the guards and Celestia.

Luke’s slitted eyes bulged as he saw his hands; you could even hear his neck creak as he turned to look at his back and legs.

“And that’s why we were worried.” Celestia had to point out.

His left eye twitched. “I’m not going to scream only because I half expected something weird to happen when I tried to get a job.”

“Anime?” Pecila questioned, much to the mild confusion of the guards and princess. 

“Oh god why, I look like something out of medieval mangas.”

“Don’t you mean video games?”

“The only game I even saw that had something like this was Dark Souls.” He started to squirm his way out of the ropes.

Celestia decided to ignore the strange conversation (And Pecila who was curled up at the moment) and ask Flynn about it later. Her horn flared before the poor knots were undone. “Luke, I regret to tell you this but there might be no way for you to go home to your world.” 

“Honestly, I don’t care. I didn’t have anyone there in the first place due to my own partial insanity which is mostly gone, and because my parents were killed. The only thing I regret was not being able to actually work with a Particle Accelerator.” Luke got up, stretching his wings out to their full wingspan as well as stretching his arms and legs.

“Well, that’s kinda sad,” Flynn grumbled slightly after what Luke said.

Celestia walked over and put a consoling hoof on Luke’s shoulder. “Luke, My sister and I will do whatever it takes to return you to your own world. Until then, you can do whatever you want.”

“Quite frankly I don’t want to go back. I already like this world more than Earth, especially because I can tell your guards need better types of metal for their weapons and armor.” He said.

“Ha-ha!” Pecila interrupted the somber and serious moment by trying to tackle Luke in a flying leap maneuver, having eaten through the rope.

“Ah, theres my bag.” He smiled as he pulled a roast beef sub from Subway out of his bag, dodging Pecila in the process..

‘SMASH!’ “Garble!” Pecila cried out in pain after her face hit the wall. 

Celestia snicked as the so called ‘Necromancer’ was writhing on the ground in pain, the guards joining her.

“Is that a sub?” Flynn eyes widened at the sight of the sandwich. 

“Yes, yes it is. Care for some?” Luke offered Flynn a third of the sub.

“Sure, thanks!” Flynn smiled, grabbing it while completely ignoring Pecila.

“Meeeeeeeeeeaaaat!” The downed girl wailed as a guard walked over with chains. 

“You can have some if you stop trying to hug me.” Luke offered.

Pecila twitched. “... So conflicted now.”

“You can have ONE hug as well. Thats all, after that I want to see if I can fly or breathe fire considering the wings.”

“Still conflicted!”

“Just ignore her.” Celestia, who was used to Griffon and Diamond Dog ambassadors eating meat, hummed. “She’s always like that.” 

Luke looked at the guards whom could smell the meat and had horrified expressions on their faces. Luke chuckled then pulled up his lip to show the guards he was an omnivore, but all they saw were his canine teeth.

“That’s not really giving them much faith in you.” Flynn pointed out with a laugh, taking a bite out of his sub.

“Hey, they’re sapient, I won’t eat them, just mess with them a bit.” Luke retorted as he took another bite of his sub. While eating, he noticed he had a tail which started to move towards the guards.

“Oh yeah!” Pecila suddenly spoke up. “Flynn, did you do the RPG scan of that cube!?” 

“RPG scan?” Celestia and the guards looked to the only other one who would understand that. 

“RPG scan?” Luke asked while smirking and pretended to hold something to his forehead.

“Pecila, what in the world is a RPG scan?” Flynn questioned, finishing off his sub.

“Maaaaaah! We went over this after the Sombra Incident!” Pecila barked, stuck on the ground due to the chains. “You put your head to the item and do the wibbly wobbly scan stuff!”

“Wibbly wobbly what?” Flynn blinked. “How in the world do you suspect me to remember that!?”

Luke just shook his head at this as he pulled a can of Sprite out of his bag and opened it.

“But it was really easy to do and just blends into the brain so we can do it without thinking!” 

“And when did the Sombra incident end?”

Luke walked over to Celestia and offered her some, which she carefully accepted .

“About 5 years before the Dragon Empress incident…” Pecila muttered in irritation. “Just put the stupid cube to your head and do the scanny stuff!”

Flynn grumbled something and looked to the last place he last saw the cube, which was the desk. He moved over to the furniture and grabbed the cube. He placed the small object against his head, muttering something about pushy fangirls. 

Luke frowned as he started going through his bag noticing some things that weren’t there before “Does anyone know why I have a large role of aluminum foil? Because I certainly didn’t have it before I came here. The aluminum ingot in here I did make though.”

“I dunno, but isn’t aluminum a precious metal here?” Pecila asked as all the information about the cube went into Flynn’s head, including it’s purpose.

“Yes, it was very, VERY expensive then because the silly medieval humans didn’t know how to smelt bauxite. It’s value to them made gold seem like its worth one penny.” Luke noticed Celestia giving the aluminum an odd look.

“Don’t tell anypony how to do it. It could destroy the economy as we know it!” Peclia exclaimed. 

“Oh god, they converted you! Also I don’t plan on tel- why is Celestia drooling right now?” Luke asked as he held his ingot closer.

“Because right now, you are holding something that could stop a lot of stuff.” Flynn muttered, rubbing his head. 

Luke pulled out some aluminum foil and started making a hat out of it, “So, aside from me holding something that could probably buy this castle, could I somehow learn if I have magic, can breathe fire, or can fly? Wait scratch that I know I can fly with these wings, they seem to be based off of human dragons after all.”

“THAT REMINDS ME!” Pecila started wriggling in the chains again. “I still gotta go adopt a baby dragon!”

Flynn ignored everyone for a moment as he dug into his pocket and brought out the keychain he had before the Convention incident. He stared at it for a moment and thought deeply about the ‘tokens’. He wrapped his fingers around the keychain and closed his eyes, putting energy into the keychain.

“I am Flynn Scifo, commandant of the Imperial Knights and the knight of justice. I protect the weak and fight those who would bring harm to the innocent.  If you require my aid, simply touch the keychain and call my name. I shall assist you as long as it abides by my code.”

After this, he dropped the keychain, watching it fall into a small portal and disappear.

Pecila gave a squawk of pain as a book with a weird eye symbol landed on her head. 

Luke was holding his arms out in a placating gesture while Celestia was trying to take his aluminum hat when a similar book fell into his open hands.

The same happened to Flynn as well and they all heard the same voice.

“I am the Tactician Robin, wielder of the Levin blade and master of the Arcane!  I am the greatest strategist the world has ever known, able to lead those to victory despite all odds!  Should you have need of my knowledge, write within this book your plight and I shall know of it!  Should your cause be worthy, you will have my help!”

“Name sounds familiar…” Pecila muttered, glaring at the book.

Luke had just given up and put the hat on Celestia’s horn and bent it to where should couldn’t remove it with magic “...I feel like I was just pulled into Dark Souls for some reason.”

Luna had walked into the room as he made that comment “Sister, we heard some odd noises comi- when did thou capture Pecila?”

“I believe around seven or so minutes ago and it wasn't really capturing her. It was more ... what’s the word?” Flynn replied, looking to the mare.

“Gagging for no reason?” Pecila whined, staring at the book. The symbol on the cover looked so familiar to her. 

“Restraining her?” Luke suggested while looking at Luna’s mane with curiosity.

“Yes. What he said,” Flynn gestured in the direction of Luke.

“When can I-?”

“Not for another hour.” Celestia interrupted Pecila’s question.

“Awww.”

Luna just blinked owlishly before looking to Luke. “And who is this newcomer?”

Luke just bowed and said “Luke Nightshade would be my name princess.”

Luna briefly looked to Flynn before responding, spreading her wings out. “Greetings, Luke Nightshade. We are Princess Luna, princess of the Night!”

“Errr, Princess this may be an odd question, but may I touch your mane? It reminds me of the galaxies and nebulae back home.” Luke asked walking over to her.

“You may!” 

Luke touched her mane and frowned when he felt an odd pulling sensation. Soon after, Princess Luna gained a bald spot. Luke freaked out and jumped away when his own hair started changing into ethereal fire. “Oh god, what the hell?!”

The guards, Luna, and Celestia were just staring at the bald spot and Luke. Pecila was oddly quiet.

“What did you do!?” Flynn barked, witnessing this. 

“HOW SHOULD I KNOW?!” Luke’s hair by now was completely ethereal and looked like flame, some parts of his hair turned purple and blue on the edges.

“Maybe you’re secretly a shapeshifter. Wait, is that how shapeshifting works? I don’t think so-ow! Why!? I’m making my head hurt questioning this!?” Flynn whined, rubbing his head.

“No! This is not how shapeshifting works! Surely you played enough games to know that they can’t turn into pure energy!” Luke said while trying to push the hair out of his eyes.

Celestia started laughing at what was going on, though Luna was puffing in anger. 

“Princess, if it means anything, it was really soft and felt like silk.” Luke said while trying with partial success to put the hair behind his horns.

“It is fine, Luke.” Luna grumbled, using her magic to mess with her hair to cover the bald spot. “It can be fixed with magic.”

Luke began grumbling in annoyance as he started rooting through his bag for a hair tie. He finally found a black one and tied his hair into a ponytail. 

Flynn was too busy groaning and whining about having a headache to speak. After a minute, he eventually stopped and sighed softly.

Luke pulled a bottle of motrin/aspirin out of his bag “Uh, need an aspirin or something?”

“Yes,” Flynn answered softly.

Luke handed him one for now and one for later.

“RUN AWAY!” Peclia threw the remains of her chains at Flynn before diving out a window. 

“...Should we be worried? Because I’m pretty sure I can figure out gliding while falling.” Luke said looking at the window.

“Only if she actually gets to the Dragon Lands again.” Celestia muttered, watching Pecila flail in the bushes outside the window.

“Considering this is Pecila, we don’t need to worry too much,” Flynn muttered.

“IT HURTS! WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME, PAIN!?”

“Err… Anyways Flynn, do you have any idea how to tell if I have magic?” Luke asked hopefully.

Flynn looked over to Luke, sweat-dropping when he heard Pecila. “I’m afraid not, Luna or Celestia might know.”

Luke asked Flynn lowly “What if I tried to concentrate something into my fingers and snap like Discord did in the show?”

“Go ahead and try,” Flynn shrugged.

Celestia, Luna, and the Guards took a step back. 

Luke began concentrating on trying to make something happened, and then he snapped.

At first it appeared nothing happened at all, but then there was a bright flash and a yelp of surprise from Luke.

Celestia rubbed at her eyes with a hoof before looking to Luke and her eyes widened with surprise at Luke’s new form. Flynn stared at Luke and blinked a few times.

He had one blue pony leg and one royal purple dragon leg and wings, discord's brown torso, a right human arm, a left gryphon arm, a head similar to Discord’s with two medium sized fangs and cream/pale yellow and blue eyes, dragon horns and ears that were royal purple as well. His hair was still there.

“Luke… You became a draconequus!” Celestia exclaimed. 

“Oww… Ok, let me deal with my headache first before telling me I’m now a different species.” Luke said as he found his bag and pulled out a motrin.

“I feel like I’m going to need another aspirin,” Flynn groaned.

“Ugh, don’t mind me, just going to lay down on that table over there,” Luke said as he walked off, or rather floated off and didn’t notice.

“And I’m going to actually go do my paperwork,” With that, Flynn slowly moved over to his desk and muttered something about hating this day.

Celestia ordered the guards to watch Luke while she left to get the award ceremony finished for Twilight and her friends. She hummed slightly, thinking about what would happen if Pecila and Pinkie ever met.

Luna left to go to her room to fix her hair. 





In the Frozen North, five miles down…

Something was stirring, after a thousand years of sleep. 

The power of harmony had fluctuated in power.

It had awoken once more.

It opened an ethereal eye to the dark crystals that surrounded it. They had been absorbing the natural magic in the earth even before it was defeated. A red horn glowed as it focused on the powerful crystals, slowly draining the power and absorbing it. 

It needed the power. 

After all, it needed to take back it’s empire.





Outside Canterlot...

Pecila started at the open tome with an inkwell on the side and a quill in her hand. She had stolen both from a random rich pony she passed by. 

Oh well. They were rich and these things were dirt cheaps. Anyways...

There was someone on the other side of this book and she had to make a good impression. An idea popped into her head before she started writing. 


“Dear Diary,
Today, I killed a man.
Put a gun against his head, pulled the trigger, and now he's dead.
-Pecila”


> Ponies and Doggies
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Celestia glanced back at Twilight, her friends following behind her. She swelled with pride for her student, having not only saved Luna from the darkness but also saved all of Equestria from Discord’s magic. 

Of course, she never did it alone. Her friends were key to Twilight’s success as well. 

Celestia looked forward again as the group approached the room the two Displaced were residing in. “My little ponies, inside here will be two beings that may be disturbing at first, but they both have nothing but the best intentions for Equus.” 

Celestia opened the door to Flynn and Luke sitting at the desk, apparently finishing off the sub sandwich. 

Luke looked over to the door, waved with his human hand, and got back to eating.

Flynn did the same, having set aside his paperwork to eat.

“Discord!” All the girls cried out in surprise, though Rainbow Dash charged Luke.

“Seriously? Do I really look like Discord to you?” Luke asked as he simply put his hand on Rainbow’s forehead, stopping her charge.

“You probably changed how you look, Discord!” Rainbow Dash snorted, glaring at the draconequus.

“Quick to judge, eh?” Flynn snorted at what the pegasus said. 

“Seriously? This is what happened to me when I tried to use magic! Even if he did change his shape his eyes wouldn’t change, look at mine!” He showed them his white on slitted blue eyes.

All of the sudden a familiar keychain fell on Luke’s head and he sighed.

Rainbow Dash was jerked away by Applejack, who had the pegasus’ tail in her mouth.

“Calm down there, RD ‘seems like they’re tellin’ the truth.” Applejack said while pulling the pegasus back.

“But AJ!” 

“Hi!” Everyone looked to Pinkie, who had appeared on the table. “I’m Pinkie Pie, what’s your name?” 

Luke blinked, looking at her “Hello miss Pie, my name is Luke Nightshade.”

“And I’m Flynn Scifo,” Flynn replied.

Pinkie squeed before starting to chatter non stop to the two non-ponies about being excited, parties, and chocolate.

“Oookayy… anyways just because i’m a draconequus now does not instantly make me Discord.” He saw the almost hungry look on Twilight’s face as she looked at him, “No you may not study me.”

“Uh huh. Yeah. Ok. Of course,” Flynn was giving random responses to what Pinkie said, not entirely paying attention to the mare.

Twilight just kept staring at them, her mind currently not working. 

“Twilight, if you don’t stop staring at me, I will throw a piece of meat at you, specifically bologna,” Luke said pulling out a small pack.

Twilight blinked in confusion and backed up not knowing what bologna was, before finally asking, “What are you two?!” 

“Well, I was a human before I came to this world, still don’t know how by the way. Then I was half-human, half-dragon which I tried to use magic as, and now I’m a Draconequus. Flynns’ still a human though.” Luke said while showing his teeth a bit.

“Yeah, but I kinda grew a pair,” Flynn replied.

“And what is that supposed to mean?” Luke asked while looking at him and frowning.

“Before I came into this world, I was a female,” Flynn spoked with a straight face.

The mane six went silent at that reveal. 

“I’m actually sorry that you became a male,” Luke said as he started to dig in his bag.

Fluttershy flew over and put a hoof on Flynn’s arm, looking at him with those gentle eyes. Flynn raised a brow at what Fluttershy did and looked to the female. 

“Uh, yes?” Flynn spoke.

“You can talk to me if you ever need to get something off your chest.”

“Ok? Thanks,” Flynn nodded.

Luke pulled an Ipad out of his bag with a foldable keyboard and fistpumps the air in success.

Twilight grew curious. “What’s that? Can I see it?”

Luke frowned at Twilight. “It’s mine, thats what and no you can’t see it. You would probably go too far if I actually tried to explain what it was anyways.”

Flynn saw the Ipad and gasped at the sight of it. “No. Way.”

Luke smirked at him “Yes. Way. How did you think I would get a job at a particle accelerator without one of these? Though if we’re truly on another world I wish I had my laptop.”

“It’s been so long since I last saw one of those,” Flynn murmured. 

Twilight took on a confused expression when I mentioned particle accelerator.

“So, aside from the amazingness that is this,” Luke gestured at the Ipad and keyboard, “Mind if I join these knights of yours as a mage?”

Flynn eyes seemed to sparkle from Luke’s proposition. “Yes! Of course! That woul-” He paused and cleared his throat. “I mean… it would be an honor to have you join the knights.”

“Thats great!” Luke exclaimed, smiling broadly, “Now, what season were you on when you came to this world?” Luke asked while showing him his Ipad’s screen saver which was a picture of alicorn Twilight trying to teach some foals magic.

“You know, I don’t quite remember,” Flynn placed his hand on his chin. 

“I have the season four finale downloaded on here.” Luke said with a smirk. All of a sudden, a cramp hits and causes one of his wings to extend knocking over Celestia. “Ow Ow Ow!  Cramp!”

Flynn placed his hand on his face and shook it a few times. “Really?”

“Yes! It hurts a lot!” Luke cried while trying to rub the cramp out of his wing.

Rainbow Dash gave his wings an odd look while Twilight stared at the Ipad like a hungry animal.

Rarity was staring at Flynn’s clothes. Flynn looked over to Rarity with a confused gaze.

Luke got over his cramp, apologized to Celestia, returned the Ipad to his bag, and pulled out the sword that he had just noticed on his side. It was a white and black scimitar with a star shaped hilt, It was at least one foot and a half, and it also had the words ‘Umbra Niveus’ engraved in the center of the sword. 

The ponies moved back a little, not quite sure what he was going to do with the sword. Flynn eyed the weapon that Luke was holding. He was almost mesmerized by the appearance of the sword. 

“What a beautiful weapon,” Flynn murmured. 

“Thanks I guess, though this sword kinda reminds me of something I wanted when I was younger.” Luke said, testing the sharpness of his sword.

Flynn nodded his head slightly before noticing the ponies had backed up. He shifted his gaze back to Luke and whistled slightly before gesturing his head in the direction of the mares.

“Wha- Oh.” Luke said chuckling nervously as he returned the sword to its sheathe.

“We wouldn’t want you back in those restraints now, do we?” Flynn chuckled.

“No not really, so when can I walk through the city here and freak out the residents?” Luke asked.

“That’s up to you, my good sir,” Flynn answered.

“Let us go and freak out the locals! And annoy the nobles.” Luke whispered that last part to where only Flynn and Celestia could hear him.

A small smirk formed at the corner of Flynn’s mouth. “Just give me a few more minutes to finish this paperwork and I’ll be right with you.”

Luke looked to the six confused mares, trying to ignore the one glaring at him and the one who was shaking like she drank twelve cups of coffee- Don’t do it. Its not fun. Flynn returned his gaze back to the mares. He then realized something.

“What exactly brings all of you here?” Flynn asked.

Luke gave Celestia a look, yes that look; accusing her of bringing them here to see their reaction .

“Well, Princess Celestia brought us here to show us something. It would seem she wanted to show us you,” Twilight said.

“I don’t see why. We’re not that special,” Flynn huffed slightly.

“Yes you are! You’re not a known species on this planet! Where did you come from?” Twilight asked.

“A galaxy far, far away filled with sugar plums and rainbows,” Flynn answered.

“More like acid rain and hippies,” Luke said with a snort.

“Hippies aren’t that bad,” Flynn huffed.

“Never said they were, just… Odd” Luke replied.

“What’s acid rain?” Twilight asked innocently.

“...It’s basically when there’s so much pollution that it falls back down to the ground in rain and prevents plants and such from growing well.” Luke said.

“In other words, it’s very bad rain,” Flynn said.

“Wait. Flynn, is the weather and seasons like they are on Earth? Because if it’s not you know where I’m probably going.” Luke said.

“You mean if the weather and seasons here are like that on Earth? If so, it’s not exactly similar to Earth,” Flynn replied.

“...Thats what I said, also can we leave this stuffy room and go do something fun like call nobles fat?” Luke asked.

“Might as well. I finished the paperwork I need to do,” Flynn said as he stretched. 

“Yay!” Luke exclaimed as he pushed ponies out of the way to get to the door “Hey!” “Ow!” “Dag’nabit RD get offa’ me!”

Flynn shook his head slightly and followed the male, carefully making sure he didn’t bump into any of the mares along the way.

“Enjoy yourself, just try to avoid getting me more paperwork than I already have!” Celestia called after Luke, who had already bent a guard’s gold spear to make a point.

“We’ll try,” Flynn nodded slightly.

Luke was at the castle gates waiting for Flynn to catch up as he gave the guard there a jump scare “OGABOOGA!”

“AHHHH” The guard scream as he jumped.

Flynn shook his head slightly. “You couldn’t help yourself?”

The guard was glaring at Luke who was laughing “Nope. You know you want to as well!”

Flynn rolled his eyes at Luke. “Come on. Let’s go.”

Luke just chuckled and followed after Flynn. Flynn continued forward until he stopped a few steps outside of the castle. 





Luke looked around, genuinely surprised to see some lightbulbs in some shop signs and such, but not really seeing much other technology. Flynn looked around, having not taken the time to actually look at the city. 

Luke noticed a ‘Cyanide and Tea’ shop and broke out laughing, drawing the attention of several ponies who screamed and ran when they saw him. Flynn shook his head, watching the pony react to the sight of Luke.

“Not even a few minutes and you’re already scaring locals,” Flynn snorted.

“But they have a store with Cyanide and Tea in the same place!” Luke said pointing at it.

“That does-” Flynn look in the direction of the shop. “...Why?”

“I’ll go look for a metal exchange. I want some money.” Luke said, ripping off a bit of aluminum foil.

“You go do that. I’m going to buy a puppy,” Flynn stuffed his hands in his pocket.

“K’ay~” Luke said while doing his weird half walking, half floating thing. He saw a blacksmiths shop nearby and shrugged. “Close enough.”

Luke walked into the store. “Hello? Anybody there?” A gruff looking grey and brown earth pony walked out of the back “Whad’duya want?” He said not really looking at Luke.

“Uh, can I exchange some aluminum for some bits here?” 

The ponies eyes bulged. “Yes! Of course you can! How much aluminum are you giving and how many bits do you want?” 

Luke held out a 5x5 square of foil “500 bits?” The pony yelled “DEAL!” and threw the money at Luke after he got the aluminum. Luke walked out the store about 500 bits happier.

Flynn moved in a direction opposite of Luke, looking at the shop signs. The man noticed a pet store and stepped inside. The male smiled when he was greeted with the excited sounds of the animals inside. He walked forward and eyed the cages in the store as the animals bounced around in them, following his every move.  The male didn’t seem to noticed the light purple unicorn nearby, watching him in amazement with her blue eyes “What is he?” She murmured quietly.

Flynn stopped in front of one of the cages, eying the canine inside. It was a Border Terrier. From the looks of it, it was still a puppy. It had blue and tan fur with black eyes. The canine lifted its head up and barked, standing up. It bounced around, happy that it managed to get the attention of the male. Flynn chuckled slightly.The purple pony walked slowly up to him “Don’t worry… We’ll find your owner… If you have one at least.”

Luke was walking through Canterlot looking into stores, accidentally scaring civilians and calling the occasional snobbish noble who thought he was a monster, fat. Luke found the store that Flynn was inside and walked in, patiently hiding behind a tall ficus.

Flynn blinked and look to the purple pony. “Wait. What?” the pony jumped when she heard him speak “You can talk?!” The pony looked at him with bright, curious eyes. “Yes?” Flynn slowly nodded. “What are you? A monkey?” She began to fire off a lot of questions. Poor Flynn answered all the questions the pony asked him, looking more and more confused until he stopped her “Look, I’m not here to play 20 questions with you. I just want to buy a dog,” He gestured in the direction of the dog he wanted.

Luke peaked out from behind the ficus and threw a bag of bits at Flynn’s head. Flynn blinked when he got hit by the bag. He turned around and look to the bag before grabbing it. He took a peek inside and saw the bits. “How convenient,” he muttered before looking to the pony. “So can I have the dog now?”she thought a bit “Only if you pay for it.”

“How much?” Flynn answered, looking in the bag to see if he had enough to buy the dogfood and other assorted items.

The mare hummed a bit before answering, “50 bits. That should cover the dog. The first bag of food comes free with purchase, while the food bowl and water bowl come separate, so they’re about 5 bits each. The toys are 3 bits each.” 

“So that would be about 66 bits then,” Flynn said before nodding. “Yeah, I should be able to afford it.”

“Great! Here you go!” The mare said handing Flynn the dog’s cage and its accessories with magic.

Flynn grabbed the dog’s cage and its accessories after handing the mare the respective amount of bits. “Thank you, ma’am.” 

“Your welcome! Come back soon!” the mare said as Flynn began to leave.

Luke slipped out the door from behind the ficus before Flynn or the mare saw him. The dog panted slightly and barked happily when Flynn stopped a few feet away from the shop and opened the cage. As soon as he opened the cage door, the dog immediately bounced out and started to run around Flynn.

“Awe~ Looks like he likes you Flynn,” Luke said as he stepped away from the shop.

“Thank god. The last thing I need is a dog hating me,” Flynn chuckled as the dog stopped and looked to Luke.

“Hm?” Luke said as he noticed the dog looking at him “Oh by the way I threw the money at your head. So anyways, can we go exploring or something?”

“Yeah but, we’re going to have to tell Celestia first,” Flynn said as the dog moved over to Luke and started to sniff him. 

The ponies that were beginning to peak out of their houses saw Luke crouching down to pet the dog. The dog waved its tail and smiled slightly as Luke pet him. 

One of the closer ponies noticed Luke’s hair “Hey, that looks like princess Celestia’s hair!” another pony shouted “But he looks like Discord!”

When Luke heard this and noticed what was happening he paled and whispered to Flynn “Please don’t let this turn out like I think it will.”

Flynn looked like he was going to burst out laughing. “Oh. This is just wonderful,” the male snickered quietly, having realized what was occurring.

“Celestia didn’t want more paperwork! This is giving her a lot more paperwork!” Luke hissed at Flynn.

“I know but it’s still wonderful,” Flynn kept snickering. “You look like Celestia’s and Discord’s love child. Hahahaahaha!”

A few nearby ponies only heard part of it “Celestia and Discord’s child?” Whispers began spreading through the crowd that had begun to gather “NOO! Not this! This is not happening!” Luke said as he flung open his wings and began flapping them, managing to get enough lift to glide towards the castle.

Flynn fell to the ground and started to roll around, laughing loudly. His dog tilted its head to the side, very confused as to what was occurring. After several minutes of laughing, Flynn managed to control his breathing. The male wiped his eyes and stood up and slowly walked back to the castle, occasionally snickering as his dog followed.

The ponies were extremely surprised about the size of wings, and couldn’t find out why they didn’t produce much wind, though that surprise lasted a moment before a few various reporters ran off to their respective companies.

By the time Flynn had gotten back to the castle, Luke could be seen hiding on top of the gates. Flynn looked to the male before his lips quivered slightly. Flynn once again started to laugh loudly. “Oh god! I’m going to pee my pants!” he laughed.

“Oh shut it! At least you don’t look like the love child of Celestia and Discord!” Luke yelled down right before a pair of Genji gloves fell on his head “OW!”.

Flynn kept laughing, falling onto his knees. His laughter grew when the Genji gloves fell on his head. “Hahaahaahaah!”

Luke pulled a can of soda out of his bag and threw it down at Flynn. Flynn was too busy laughing to have noticed the soda as it hit the ground next to his head and burst, soaking him.  Flynn yelped in surprise and jumped back. He look in the direction of the soda and shifted his gaze to Luke.

Luke was frowning at Flynn “You get soaked in soda for that!” he yelled as he began to glide towards the castle door from the gate house.

“But it’s going to take me God knows how long to get rid of the smell of soda!” Flynn whined as his dog moved over to him and licked his leg.

Luke was walking around looking for the throne room when he literally walked straight into Captain Shining Armor “Ow… Sorry, wasn’t watching where I was walking. You alright?” Luke asked looking at the Captain.

Shining stuttered a bit before saying, “Discord! How did you get ou- You’re not Discord,” he finished rather dully.

“Ding Ding Ding, we have a winner! Only took you one try compared to some of the element bearers.” Luke snorted.

Flynn was walking through the castle with his dog at his side “Luke? Where are you? I’m sorry for laughing.” Even though he was still snickering to himself about what was happening.

Luke walked past Shining, continuing on his way to find the throne room. “Well, bye I guess,” he said waving behind him, not hearing Flynn call out.

Flynn huffed slightly and started to head in the direction of throne room, assuming the male was going to head there to talk to Celestia. His furry companion followed close behind, sniffing everything in sight.

Luke walked down a hall which seemed to be close to the room he was in before when he tripped on something small and blue. “Jeez, who leaves random blue cubes in hallways? It’s like somebody wants me to trip,” he snorted as he picked it up, hearing how to summon Wade the animorph “Huh, well thats a thing.”

“Lukkkeee, where are you?” Flynn called.

Luke groaned, looking in front of him. “Turn around.”

Flynn stopped and turned around. 

Luke waved at him, holding the blue cube in his other hand.

Flynn waved back but stopped when he noticed the blue cube. He raised a brow and stuck his hand in his pocket, pulling out a similar cube from it. “Where did you get that?”

“It was in the middle of the hallway and I almost tripped on it. I swear, if this is Equestria’s version of a lego I won’t be happy.” Luke said pulling out the gauntlets, keychain, and key. “I’m starting a weird crap collection agency; at least its cool weird crap.” he put his things plus the cube into his bag.

“Cool crap with the ability to summon other beings,” Flynn replied, placing the cubes in his pocket. His dog gave a sudden bark when a pair of Genji gloves nearly landed on the puppy. Flynn looked over to the item and grabbed them.

“So uh, throne room, where is it?” Luke asked as he poked a gold vase in the hall.

“Follow me,” Flynn answered, walking off in a random direction with his dog in tow. 

Luke began to follow Flynn; he wasn’t too sure of where he was. He noticed that Flynn’s dog somehow managed to find a spoon and was holding it in its mouth like a pipe. Where exactly did that dog get that spoon?

Flynn, Luke and the puppy eventually reached the throne room after a few minutes of wandering.

“Is she holding court right now? Cause if she is, lets just go in. It would be interesting to watch their reactions,” Luke said as he looked at the overly ornate doors.

“I don’t think she is and are you sure about just waltzing in? She might get a bit annoyed,” Flynn spoked.

“You’re right, we should knock first. She probably won’t hear us over the sound of so much gold and silver in this door. I mean seriously, did the architect get bored and have spare metal leftover or something?” Luke said while he was cringing at the door.

“Are you really criticizing a door right now?” Flynn raised a brow.

“...Yes I am criticizing a door. Welp, my craziness is shining through,” Luke said chuckling a bit.

“Well… it’s not as bad as Pecila’s level of craziness,” Flynn muttered before moving over to the door and knocking on it. He had a bad feeling that Pecila may end up hitting him when they eventually meet again. 





Pecila was snoring loudly, laying in a tree, when she sneezed. On top of her head, Grimm was just laying there. They claimed to be tired but they were just lazy.

“Grahgg… no, momma, I don’t want to get up.” Pecila tried to roll over. “Scorpan, stop stealing mai cookies.” Well, she did… right onto the ground. “Ouch.”

Then a pair of Genji Gloves bounced off her head.

“Does everything hate me!”

“Apparently.” Grimm snickered at Pecila as she sat up, rubbing her eyes with the gloves still sitting on her head.

“I am the warrior, the master of weapons, the seeker of battle and adventure. To those who would require my strength to defeat thy foes, to crush opposing forces, put on these Genji Gloves and call out my name with the intent to summon me. If ye be without true malice in thy hearts, know that the mighty Gilgamesh will come to thy aid!”

Pecila blinked in surprise before taking the gloves off her head and putting them in her bag. “I really hope that is not golden Gilgamesh,” She whimpered, shaking slightly. 






There was no reply from the knock on the door, so he tried again only to get the same response.

“No luck?” Luke asked.

“Nope,” Flynn frowned slightly.

“Where to next then?” Luke asked as he contemplated trying to open the door.

“I’m not sure,” Flynn frowned. He seemed like he was also contemplating opening the door.

“Should we mess with the guards? I ran into Shining Armor earlier, so he might have warned them,” Luke said.

“And by we, you mean you,” Flynn said.

“What would you do if you didn’t join me? More paperwork? Write a haiku?” Luke asked with a snort.

“Play with my dog?” Flynn pointed towards the canine. 

“Fair point. Aren’t there side entrances to the throne room? Also, where did your dog get a spoon?” Luke raised a brow at the dog.

“I believe there’s one nearby. And, I’m not quite sure where he got that spoon from,” Flynn look to the dog as it barked. “I seriously need to give that dog a name though.”

Luke walked down the nearest side hall to find the entrance. “Hey you were right, there is a door here!”

“Huh? I didn’t know I was actually right,” Flynn blinked, having followed close behind Luke with his dog.

Luke opened the door and walked in, only to find a priceless picture of Celestia with her face shoved in a large chocolate cake “Uhh… We should probably go…” Luke said to Flynn.

“Why? Is there something-” Flynn walked in and immediately stopped when he saw the princess. “...Yeah… we should…”

Celestia looked up from her cake and saw the two, and at least had the decency to blush. “Uhm… How may I help you?”

Flynn look over to Luke and lightly nudged him as if saying ‘You tell her’. 

Luke gave Flynn that look that nobody likes and turned back to Celestia. “Uh, sorry to interrupt your cake eating, Princess, but I would like to get permission to leave Canterlot to explore.”

“We,” Flynn corrected.

“Ah, yes, We, would like to leave Canterlot and explore. That alright Princess?” Luke asked.

“I believe that should be alright if you’re to go. Just remember to take some base necessities,” Princess Celestia said.

“We will,” Flynn nodded slightly.

“Well, we’ll leave you to your… Cake,” Luke said 

“... I’m getting weird mental images I do not want to see,” Flynn groaned, turning around and quickly walking out. 

Luke followed quickly and only glanced around when he heard a ’splat’; only to see Celestia face plant in the cake again. Flynn’s dog whined loudly and followed the two males. He wanted some cake.





When news reaches Canterlot Castle.

Princess Celestia sat down to read the day's newspaper, curious about what had happened in the past 2 days, only to find the headlines on one Princess Celestia’s Secret Love Child? with a picture of Luke below it “... Why didn’t I think of this possibility,” she said with a sigh as she walked to the closest wall and started hitting her head on it “Whyyy…”
> Clothes, Ruins, and Selfies
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

As Flynn and Luke walked out of Canterlot,  they noticed a few things that changed quickly, like how well the roads were maintained and how silent it was. The road in  and out of Canterlot seemed to have patches of stonework in some places but mainly consisted of dirt and gravel.

“So, where should we go now that we have permission to explore, Flynn?” Luke asked as he picked up a small rock. He started to toss it from hand to hand, or hand to talon in his case.

“Give me a second here,” Flynn spoke, shifting his hands in his bag. He took a few seconds to shuffle through it before he took out a map and unfolded it. “Hm..”

“We’re still on the main road to Canterlot which looks like it doesn’t get much use,” Luke said as he threw the rock at a nearby tree.

“Indeed,” Flynn simply replied, focusing most of his attention to the map. His dog followed close behind, carrying a large stick in his mouth.

“... Your dog went from a spoon to a stick. Seriously, figure out what he wants,” Luke said as he gave the dog a vexed look.

“Repede obviously wants something in his mouth to make him look cool,” Flynn replied. The dog barked and nodded in confirmation.

“Well, Repede has just proven himself smarter than almost every dog on Earth. Congratulations, you’ve bought an intelligent dog, Flynn,” Luke declared with a slight flourish.

“I’m glad I made a smart choice… Also, I just realized I seem to understand Repede. Am I going crazy?” Flynn groaned slightly, pressing his hands against his face.

“... You’re in a land filled with talking multicolored ponies and asking somebody who is partially insane if you’re becoming crazy. Oh yeah, if you haven’t noticed yet, they converted you to saying ‘everypony’,” Luke said as he poked Flynn in the forehead with his gryphon claw.

“..True. You have a point there.. Wait... Oh man, I was trying to avoid saying ‘everypony’,” Flynn groaned.

“Wonder if they managed to convert Pecila yet?” Luke asked as they rounded a curve.

“Probably. That reminds me, I hope Pecila isn’t causing too much trouble.” Flynn briefly look up to the sky, wondering what Pecila was doing. . 





Pecila gazed around the forest she was in, looking rather confused. She quickly came to a conclusion.

“I’m completely lost.” 

Walking towards the nearest tree, she started to scale, hoping to find her bearings. Pecila looked around, spying a small town in the distance with a rather recognizable town hall.

“Huh, didn’t know I was so close to Ponyville. Maybe I should go over there and borrow some sewing supplies.”

‘Pecila, this is your conscious speaking, don’t steal from Rarity.’

“Ah, hush. I’ll pay her back later after I get a dragon.”

She jumped out of the tree, heading in the general direction of Ponyville.





“Oh yeah, did I ever tell you about the time Pecila threw somepony over Neighagra Falls for grabbing her from behind?” Flynn asked, looking at his map.

Luke snorted and then started laughing hard.

“Yeah, the stallion just grabbed her hips from behind, trying to claim the reward that Luna had put out for her capture. It was a big mistake.” Flynn chucked, thinking back. “She elbowed him in the face and screamed at him for five minutes before throwing him in the water.”

“I can definitely understand why she threw him like that then!” Luke wheezed out as his laughter petered out.

“And all the ponies there learned why they shouldn’t try to ambush a super-powered girl with autism. But that was right before Pecila jumped into the falls as well,” Flynn said, shifting his gaze back to the path the were traveling. 

“Seems legit. Though why did Luna have a reward for capture on Pecila?” Luke asked as he aimlessly gazed into the nearby forest.

“Well, it was right after the Sombra incident and Luna was a bit worried that she might have mental trauma from having to kill Sombra,” Flynn explained, thinking back. “Those were dark times for her.”

Luke simply nodded, not wanting to delve deeper into that train of thought. Soon after, he noticed something off in the woods to their left. He stopped Flynn and pointed out what appeared to be some ruins. “Any idea what that is?”

Flynn looked over to what Luke had been pointing at. He blinked in surprise to find an old, dilapidated stone house. “I’m not quite sure.”

“Well, we asked if we could leave Canterlot to explore, so here we go. I doubt there’s much left in there but hey, you never know!” Luke remarked as he floated towards the depreciated structure.

“Let’s just hope there’s nothing too murderous there,” Flynn muttered under his breath as he followed Luke with Repede in tow.





Pecila peeked into the boutique, watching as Rarity left to go, well, somewhere. She snickered quietly, opening the window and slipping in. 

Grabbing a pair of scissors, she headed over to the materials. “Time to get started.” 





Rarity returned home several hours later, having finished with her daily errands, only to find her work area totally trashed and her sewing machine on fire.

There was also a note in the middle of the floor, which Rarity slowly approached.



Sorry about the mess.

-Josh



Everypony in Ponyville heard Rarity’s scream of terror and rage.





“Ah, it feels so good to finally have some proper clothes~” Pecila sighed, rubbing down her new skirt. “I missed having awesome scarfs of awesomeness.”



She looked up. “Now then, I should get a map.” 

She suddenly jumped in surprise, feeling the book token vibrating from within her bag. “Oooh, got a response~!”

She snatched the tome out of her bag and opened it up to some pretty fancy handwriting that made her blocky letters look like chicken scratch. And that wasn’t even the first thing that dismayed her about the response.



I don’t know who you are, but know this. You are not writing in a mere book. This is my token, a tome which can be used to contact me throughout the multiverse. I’m willing to aid those who need my help.  However, considering your entry, I question your ethics. If you have such little qualms regarding the murder of innocents or the unjust, then refrain from contacting me further.
-Robin


“... Wow, first person I’ve met who didn’t get the reference,” She muttered as she took out an ink and quill. The white headed girl thought about what she was going to write before getting started. 


Well, for one, my name is Pecila. Two. I totally knew knew that, I mean your voice did say something along those lines. Three, I have totally good Ethics. I’m trying to be a hero after all. Four, It was a reference to Bohemian Rhapsody! Everyone’s heard of Queen! Five, I hate killing. I have killed one pony but I have regretted it ever since then and it’s been over a thousand fucking years! Six, I pity your lost sense of humor.
-Pecila



Pecila shut the book with a huff, now overly annoyed with the only other displaced she’s had contact with, other than Flynn and Luke of course. “I wanna go over there and slap him with a fish. I’m going to do that if I head over there.”

With her new future goal in mind, she took off, looking for a river to grab a fish.





“Oh come on! I can’t even find a river!”

Luke and Flynn heard a feminine scream emanate from the forest. Flynn groaned in realization that the scream was Pecila. 

“Why am I not surprise?” Flynn shook his head in as Repede gave a confused bark.

There was a stillness in the air. “(Little text)Puppy?(Text)”

Repede whimpered and quickly hid behind Flynn in fear. He started to bark at Flynn and Luke as if saying ‘Protect me! I don’t wanna be eaten!’

“... Okay, lets check the house first, THEN we can go handle Pecila, that OK with you Flynn?” Luke asked, continuing into the abandoned home..

“That’s fine with me,” Flynn answered, following Luke along with a frightened Repede.

“Puppppppyyyyyyyyyyy” The sound of trees crashing into the ground was heard. 

Luke’s foot went through a floor board when he heard that “Holy crap! Also I’m stepping on something thats not part of the floor.” He removed his foot from the hole and rooted around until he found a smooth brass case. He opened it and found an old style pipe held within “Hey Flynn, found Popeye the Sailorman’s pipe!”

“Oh, that’s perfect for Repede,” Flynn said, currently looking over his shoulder in slight fear. Repede whimpered loudly.

Luke bent down and gave Repede the pipe before preparing to accept a swift death from Pecila as an unearthly silence started. Repede spat out the stick and shifted the pipe around in his mouth, currently shaking in fear that he may get hurt by Pecila. 

The group heard soft knocking coming from the front of the ruins. Luke called out in as feminine as a voice as he could “Yes? Hello deary, I don’t want any visitors right now, so if you could just come back later?”

“I heard a puppy! I want to pet and cuddle the puppy!” Pecila hissed from the other side of the door. 

“I’m sorry deary, there’s no puppy here. It may have been a stray on the road,” Luke called out in the same voice. He then briefly turn his attention and hissed,  “This is hard and she’s insistent.”

“Fine.” her huff was heard before there was silence, only broken by the sound of Pecila walking away. 

Luke looked towards Flynn with hope in his eyes. “Will we make it out alive?”

“I wanna say yes but then I would be lying,” Flynn sighed as Repede whined softly.

Luke registered this and looked up, making sure Pecila wasn’t watching them.

Pecila continued to walk away. 

“What is she doing?” Flynn asked.

Luke climbed up to the broken roof via some loose bricks to look outside. “She appears to be walking away, but you never know…”

“Knowing her, this is her way of trying to trick us,” Flynn muttered.

Pecila kept walking. 

“Well I’m coming back down just in case she turns around,” Luke said as he tried to climb down the wall, only to fall on an old table which broke with a loud crack.

Repede barked loudly in surprise. Flynn froze and silently prayed that Pecila didn’t hear that.

After a few seconds, there was a knock at the door. “Old pony lady, are you okay?”

“Help! I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!” Luke called out in his normal voice.

“Hold on!” Pecila kicked the door down.

“Oh, Luke,” Flynn groaned, placing his hand over his face.

“Ah!” She pointed at Luke. “You aren't an old pony!”

“No, I’m not!” Luke yelled as he pointed at her.

“Well that’s obvious because you look like Discord!”

“Not this crap again!” Luke called out, throwing his arms in the air.

“I know you’re not Discord because you don’t sound like Q!”

“I don’t sound like John De Lancie!”

“That’s what I just said! Is your hearing wrong or something?” 

“No, I just said I don’t sound like somebody from Star Trek, specifically the voice actor. What did you think I said?” Luke demanded, getting up.

Pecila growled in irritation before tackling Luke to the ground.

“Oi!” Luke shouted as he was tackled to his back from the remains of the table.

There was a loud crack of breaking boards and ‘vworp’ sound before both Pecila and Luke vanished. 




Luke fell onto a cold, stony floor with Pecila falling on top of his chest.

“Yeow!” Pecila screeched in pain.

Luke started coughing. “Godammit! My chest!”

“My butt… “

“How did that hurt you?! You fell on top of me!”

“My tail bone is very sensitive.”

“Yeah, and so is my actual tail right now… and so is my foot, I think I broke a claw off,” Luke said with a wince.

“Hey, where are we? And where’s Flynn?” Pecila asked

“I don’t know and I don’t know.”

“Now, who are you?”

“Uh, Luke. I tried using magic, I think I regret it.”

“So that’s what that noise was. Think you can do it to Flynn?”

“Do what to him?”

“Port him down here with us.” 

“No, trying to do magic turned me into a Draconequus. I didn’t pull us down here… by the way, where is ‘here’?”

“Well-”





“Oh crap,” Flynn cursed. The blonde man looked in the direction he heard the two vanish and approached the area, Repede in tow. He noticed something really small sticking out of the ground. He got on his hands and knees to get a closer look.

What he didn’t expect was the ‘vworp’ sound again and the sudden change of the floor to dark bricks. 

“What the f-!” Then Repede appeared on his back, giving a small bark.

“-I think we might have accidentally fallen into hell,” Pecila spoke up from nearby, “I thought Hell would be brighter.”

“It’s not warm enough to be Hell either,” Luke muttered in response.

“Did it freeze over? Oh yeah, Luke, have you made a token yet?” Pecila questioned.

“If I knew what that was, and if you weren’t sitting on my chest, I’d figure it out.” Luke said, grumbling a bit at the end.

Pecila gave a small whine, getting off him.

“Thank you,” Luke said as he stood up, dusting himself off.

“Flynn, you in here? I think Luke might make his token now.”  Pecila said with a slight smile.

“Like I said, I don’t really know what that is,” Luke repeated as he bent over to pick up the claw that broke off his foot.

“Flynn, you wanna tell him?”

“I’m too busy trying to figure out what just happened,” Flynn said.

“This is what I get for seeing a run-down house in the middle of the woods and wanting to explore .” Luke said with a sigh.

Pecila giggled. “A token is one of those things that you put a little bit of your magic or whatever into and then you say stuff and then toss it and then I think other people in other universes can contact us, Like Robin!” She reached into her bag and brought out the book, opening it up to where she and Robin had been communicating. 

“Oh, like these?” Luke asked, pulling Pecila’s key, Flynn’s keychain, and a few others.

“Yeah. You three all have one of these books~” Pecila hummed in happiness.

“So, I put magic or something into an object? Do ya’ think this would work?” Luke asked, holding up his broken claw. 

“I thi-” She was cut off as a glowing blue cube hit her in the face. “... blargle.”

“I swear someone up there really loves hitting us with tokens,” Flynn spoke up, having thrown said token at Pecila.

“Or, you know, it could just be you with your evil smirk,” Luke pointed out with a chuckle.

“Evil smirk? How rude,” Flynn snorted as Repede leap off his back and shook himself.

At that moment, the room they had fallen into was flooded with lights, much to the dismay of the three individuals. A foreign voice in a strange language started screeching as well. Pecila covered her ears out of fear, having hated loud noises her entire life. 

Luke could be seen curled up on the ground, clutching his ears with his hand and claw, groaning in pain. Repede was barking loudly, silently cursing himself for dogs having sensitive ears. Flynn simply groaned, covering his ears.

“Irkuibou aerouk! Irkuibou aerouk! Sorku'ot laet door aeudob! Tuaevt laeqo door aeudob!*”

Pecila cautiously uncovered her ears, staying silent. 

Luke was still on the ground groaning, though his ears were uncovered. “Ugghhh… What even was that?”

“Probably trouble...”

Pecila looked around the room they were in, noting the dark bricks and the general lack of decorations. There was a doorway on the other side of the room. 

Sovdlav dunukok, avadaudo lokualk.**

Pecila’s hair practically stood up at the voice. “Too screechy!” 

Luke cringed as he stood back up. “At least you have human ears, these things amplify sound!” He exclaimed as he grabbed his long, scaled ears.

Pecila snatched Repede off the ground, hugging the dog to her chest like a safety blanket. Repede gave a low groan when Pecila hugged him. ”Puppy, make everything better.” 

“S-so, Luke, y-you going t-to make your token n-now?” 

“So, just imagine putting energy or your life force into an object and say some ‘heroic’ words or something?” Luke asked as he held up his claw.

“Pretty much,” Flynn answered, Pecila nodding excessively.

Luke shrugged and said the first thing that came to mind as he imagined pushing energy into the claw.  The claw gave the illusion that it was on fire, though it produced no heat.

“I’m Luke Nightshade, Imperial Mage, and apparently a Draconequus. I intend to learn what I can to help the various worlds we have found ourselves upon, as well as help the myriad of humans out there. Call upon me and I will assist you to the best of my ability.” 

He dropped the claw into a hole that appeared at his feet.

“Oooh~ Flamey.” Pecila put Repede down, letting the dog run back to Flynn

“Well that was an odd experience,” Luke said as he blinked a few times, recovering from making the token. 

“Compared to...?” Flynn inquired.

“Ingesting Helium…”

“I’ve never been able to inhale helium,” Pecila muttered, walking towards the only doorway in the large room. Flynn followed closely behind while Luke followed them slowly.

They yelped however when three photos smacked into the displaced’ faces.

“Oh god, papercuts!”

“Sweet mother of God, my eye!”

“Why does it have to be the goddamn face!?”

All three of them already disliked this token and they hadn’t even looked at it clearly.

When they grabbed the photo, they heard the voice of the displaced.

"Time, the real final frontier. This is the token of Max Caulfield, the Master of Time. Its mission: to seek out those who would protect others and tear down tyranny; to boldly go before me so that I may be called when the time is right."

Pecila gave the photo an evil glare before she glanced back at the others. Flynn was staring at the photo with a deadpan look on his face. 

“A person who can control time might be useful,” She snickered.

“I don’t really like the idea of someone being able to control a base force of the universe, or multiverse it would seem, but hey, if you say so,” Luke said with a slight grimace.

“Especially when their token is a selfie,” Flynn added.

“Oh God I hadn’t noticed that, considering the back of it hit me,” Luke shivered when he noticed that.

Pecila smirked.

“Hey photo girl! Wanna help me and my friends explore some dark underground ruins?” Pecila asked, holding up the photo despite Luke and Flynn’s complaints.

> First Contact (Edited once)
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

WILL BE EDITED AGAIN LATER

We looked on as our first summoned person fell to the… floor? 

“Ah, we have our first displaced person!” Pecila cheered from nearby. 

“Oh shush Pecila. You summoned them without us saying anything,” Luke muttered.

“I still can’t believe you summoned someone with a selfy as a token,” Flynn grumbled.

“It was either that or a non-functioning camera,” she said as she looked around. “Why is the door near the ceiling?”

When the girl looked up she seemed to give us an odd look, though her gaze was lingering on Flynn.

“You’re the one acting like Spider Girl right now.” Pecila said, speaking up.

“To be fair you did summon someone who used a selfie as a token, Pecila, you should expect weird things,” Luke said with a snort.

“In fact, you should be use to weird things at this point,” Flynn said, placing a hand on his hip.

She raised a brow at us.

“Well I’m sorry that I happen to like weird things.” Pecila huffed as Repede gave a sharp bark from her arms. Then she looked up, “So your Max? Neato~ I’m Pecila.”

“I’m Luke Nightshade, former human.”

“Flynn Scifo. The puppy that Pecila holding is Repede.”

She snapped her fingers, “That’s where I remember that name from! You’re in Super Smash Bros. I got your token already.” 

“No, that’s Robin.”  Flynn said with a snort.

“Though that would be awesome if I was,” Flynn said muttering slightly.

“So, You called me to help explore some ruins? Oh yeah, if you didn’t listen to the token I’m Max Caulfield, master of time,” she said, pulling out a submachine gun.

“Well, yeah.” Pecila replied with a shrug. “I mean, your token said you had time based powers so you could pull us out of any traps we come across.”

“...Is that a gun?” Luke asked, looking at the submachine gun.

“Where did you even-urgh. I feel like I might end up getting another headache if I question it,” Flynn groaned.

“Yup!” she said with a grin. “It’s a PDW-57 from Call of Duty Black Ops 2.”

“Well, she probably got it out from the same place I keep my bag.” Pecila poked Flynn on the cheek.

her smile faltered as she gestured to the bag hanging over her shoulder, “You couldn’t see it?”

“See what?” Luke asked, raising a brow.

“My bag? It’s in plain sight. I’m not hiding it,” she said.

“Some of us were a bit busy, staring at the gun you are currently holding,” Flynn huffed.

“Well, sorry. You are a bit high up and I was near-sighted before… well, Comic-con.” Pecila rubbed her head a little as she put Repede down. 

“Well, aside from the gun, lets figure out what to do next.” Luke said, seeing a nearby door and walking over to it.

“Yeah, and if we find stuff, I’ll go kidnap Twilight.” Pecila spoke up. 

“Don’t kidnap Twilight. You already have a bad reputation,” Flynn groaned.

“Please don’t. She looked like she wanted to dissect and sanction my brain.” Luke said shivering slightly as he opened the door.

“Um.... How will I get through the door?” She asked from the ceiling.

“Climb up or down the wall? Depends on your perspective I guess,” Luke said walking into the room, which seemed to have various tables and safes around the walls and on the floor.

“Why not try jumping and thinking about being on the ‘ceiling’?” Pecila asked as she followed Luke with Flynn and Repede. “Also, Luke is mine, not yours. Mine!”


“Wait what? What do you mean I’m yours?” Luke asked, turning around.

“Well, I love dragons. You were half dragon when you landed on me, so it’s true love!” Pecila said, flailing her arms slightly.

“...Pretty sure I’m still half dragon, I still have the body parts after all, also reconsider your opinion of true love please?” Luke asked, as he opened the nearest table drawer.

“Not until I find a dragony guy with blue hair!” Pecila shouted as she hit a locked drawer with her scythe, breaking the lock.




*In another universe*

A certain blue haired dragon named Ryu sneezed.




“Max, you okay back there?” Pecila called out, after pulling the drawer out, a lot of dust fall out. 

“Yeah, I’m fine. Just taking care of something.” she called out, having remembered Pecila’s question

“Alrighty then- Oh hey theres a gun over here!” Luke called out, holding up a blue revolver.

“Why is there a gun of all things here?” Flynn questioned, having stayed back to watch Pecila and Luke.

“It was part of the trap I just disabled,” Max replied, currently near a wall, though she was still on the ceiling.

“Trap? You mean it’s cursed or something?” Pecila looked at the gun with some worry. 

“If this is cursed I’m still keeping it,” Luke said aiming it at a lock on the vault after checking for rust.

“NO DON’T! That one’s trapped,” Max shouted.

“Ok Ackbar, sheesh.” Luke said aiming it at the next one and firing, only the gun didn’t fire a bullet it fired a bolt of magic “...Mine.”

“God, you’re making me wish I had come as Tiffany Ryu.” Pecila was staring at the gun.

“Because of her ability to make hammers appear out of nowhere?” Flynn asked, eying the gun with a wary look.

“That too.” Pecila replied.

Max began to what looked like randomly shaking her hands “Okay, now there’s no more active traps in here.”

Luke carefully ‘reloaded’ the gun, and fired it again which released a lightning bolt “I like this gun, it’s a magic magnum that shoots magical elements~ It goes so well with my weird sword.”

“What was that?” Pecila looked back at Max. 

“I disabled all the traps in here,” She replied wincing a bit.

“Cool. Thanks.” Pecila looked toward another door. “Though I am a bit worried that there might be other things like in the Dwemer Ruins in Skyrim. Clockwork soldiers.”

“You fool! You’ve jinxed us!” Luke hissed, frantically glancing around.

“Darn it, Pecila! Did my Rps with you teach you to never do that!?” Flynn barked.

“Well, at least we know what might be- ow!” Pecila was interrupted by Repede biting her ankle.

“Um.... From what I can guess there’s one in that vault.” Max pointed at the vault Luke had shot.

“Erm… we should probably move on…“ Flynn said slowly, inching towards Pecila.

There was suddenly a loud screeching voice echoing through the ruins “Enolkovdav Pladadar uddaxudok! Roroukavk dho kikol karkaolk!*”

Pecila fell over, clutching her ears. Repede whined and placed his front paws over his ears.

Max’s smile left her face, “Did not see that one,” she said, frowning.

Luke and Flynn were similarly covering their ears. 

As Pecila was writhing on the ground, covering her ears, and as Luke and Flynn had been trying to block out the sound, various arachnid machines began climbing down from the ceiling.

They looked to be made out of stone but had six colored orbs floating around the center mass, all of the orbs being of different colors.

Max jumped onto the nearest spider to her and shot it as it tried to accommodate her weight on its back.

Luke groaned, standing back up because his ears were beginning to get used to the screeching voice “Bloody reptilian ears,” he grumbled.

Pecila sat up with a whine, taking out a key. “Imma destroy that speaker.”

“I swear I’m going to end up with a headache after this,” Flynn groaned before taking a second to look around.

Max looked down at us sitting there, “You know, there are things shooting at you.” she said as a spell whizzed past her ear. she dodged as several more flew through  the air where she had just been.

“I know about them! I mean, they are kind of-” She was cut off as a blast of ice hit her in the foot. “-glowing...“

Flynn didn’t respond. He simply grabbed the hilt of his sword and pulled the blade from the sheathe. The male shifted his gaze the blast of ice came from. He muttered something and quickly stood in front of Repede as flames engulfed his sword.

Luke’s head was hit with a blast of fire, and he turned around, switching his gun to his right hand and pulling his sword out into his left “That was hot.”

Pecila roared out as the key started glowing. “Sigrun, I call upon you!” 

A very big lady with huge katars appeared before rushing into the spider army, ice flying everywhere from her.

“I’m going to kill them all!” Pecila screamed, putting the key away and taking her big ass scythe off her back.

“Oi, save some for the rest of us!” Flynn barked at Pecila, grabbing Repede and placing the puppy in his bag. 

Luke strode towards the one that kept hitting him with fire bolts “Would. You. STOP THAT?!” he shouted as he slashed his scimitar at the arachnid machine, cutting into its core, which caused it to explode in a large plume of fire, leaving a very irate draconequus behind.

“YES! Shoot the orbs, you’ll have a good time.” Max shouted, pointing out the obvious.

“I know that. I happened to have one blow up in my face.” Luke said as he fired a few normal magic bolts out of the gun at a few of the constructs, one shot hitting the core of the one who shot Pecila’s foot, which made it blow up and freeze nearby mechs.

“Wasn’t that obvious?” Flynn cocked a brow. The male was swinging his sword in the direction of the spiders. As he swung his sword, flames erupted from the weapon and morphed into fireballs. The male lips move as he fired the fireballs in the direction of the orbs, whispering what sounded like ‘Hell Pyre’.

“Soul Bullet!” Pecila cried out as she sliced through a few spiders, just for a few orbs of darkness to pop off and smash into some others. 

The remaining golems on the ceiling spread out to surround Max, while she grinned the whole time.

The woman that Pecila summoned, Sigrun, jumped to the ceiling, slashing through a few spiders.

“Thanks.” Max said as she clipped an orb on one of the last three, sending them into oblivion, with Sigrun finishing the last ones.

Luke walked over to a ground level door that some spiders came out of “Well, I highly doubt theres anything ‘valuable’ left in this room, so I’m going to follow this path and see where it leads me.”

“I don’t know if that’s a good idea. We mi-nope. Not jinxing it,” Flynn said as Repede poked his head out of his bag and barked.

“I hope we find an Enderman.” Pecila spoke up, putting her scythe back as Sigrun floated back to the ground. Pecila was then smacked on the back of the head by Flynn.

“Smart man Flynn, smart man.” Luke said, pointedly ignoring Pecila’s minecraft reference as he walked down the tunnel.

“Anyone know healing magic?” Max call down.

“I might,” Flynn answered. He didn’t seem too sure about that. “Pecila sure doesn’t.”

“.... I’ll take my chances with the ice, then.” She said jumping into the hall.

Flynn shrugs before following Luke, placing his sword back in its sheathe. Pecila huffed in anger, following Luke.

The people would hear a thump and a low groan from farther down the hall “Owww… Guys be careful, theres a random oiled section!”

Max smirked and muttered, “Giggity.”

Flynn was quietly snickering.

Pecila smacked Max on the back of the head. “No. No talk of sex around the children.”

“I HEARD THAT AND I’M NO CHILD!” Luke shouted down the hallway.

Max rubbed the back of her head, ”If I was going to, I would’ve said I want Flynn’s d-” she was interrupted by another smack.

“Excuse me!” Flynn’s face immediately turned red at what Max said.

“I was talking about Repede, not you!” Pecila yelled back before hitting Max again.

“Awoo?” Repede tilted his head in confusion.

“And leave Flynn alone, she’s had enough to worry about over the past thousand years!”

Max look back at Flynn, interest evident on her face. “So you’ve had your gender swapped as well?”

“As well?” Flynn look to Max, still blushing.

“Yeah, I used to be a guy,” Max gave him her best bedroom eyes, “Looks like we’re-”

Pecila grabbed Max and pushed her away. “No. Don’t hit on my friend.”

Flynn was about as red as a tomato and was actually left speechless. He opened and closed his mouth repeatedly, unsure on how to respond. 

Max scoffed, “Fine, I’ll leave your studs alone.”

“They are not ‘studs’, they are human freaking beings you sexist ass!” Pecila snapped.

“Okay. But you haven’t denied that they’re yours~!” Max called out.

Luke had stopped at an open doorway, and looked to the group when he heard Max say that “...Oh god why.”

“... Before you leave, I will hurt you.” Pecila spoke up. “I don’t care if it’s physically or mentally, I will hurt you.”

“OKAY. Now before Max decides to say ‘kinky’ lets go explore this new room!” Luke said as he sprinted into it.

Flynn gave a small noise, following Luke at a rather slow pace. The male looked confused, shocked and a bit distress. Repede whined at this, worried that his owner might be broken.

Pecila hugged Flynn, rubbing his back. “It will be okay. The mean lady won’t touch you while I’m around to kick her ass.”

Max rolled her eyes. “I wasn’t going to unless he asked me to,” she said as she jumped to the ceiling again.

Pecila just looked up to glare at her.

Luke waited for the others to catch up to him, mainly because there was a robotic arm holding him in the air by his tail “...So, anyone care to help?”

Flynn moved in the direction Luke was in after hugging Pecila. He moved to where he heard Luke’s voice before stopping when he saw the male. “.....How?”

Max slowly reloaded my gun, being careful not to agitate her wound.

“Don’t ask me, because I seriously don’t know. I also don’t know why my bag is defying gravity either.” Luke said gesturing to the upside-down bag which didn’t seem to have anything falling out of it.

Max aimed carefully, “Try to get him to hold you up higher, I can almost-”

Sigrun just rushed in and slashed at the arm, damaging it. “Or we could do that.” Sigrun remarked.

Luke fell when the arm released his tail and landed on his face “Why does everything cause me pain?”

“Cause the world hates you?” Flynn asked.

Max opened up on the robot’s face, tearing through the metal and clay in a shower of bullets.

Sigrun grabbed Luke and jumped away. “Stay back.”

Once the clip was empty she reloaded again and trained her sights on it once again, holding her fire. “Man, fifty bullets and it still isn’t down?”

“Thats because you’re shooting a decoration.” Luke said as he pointed at where it was on the wall.

“.... I knew that.” Max said as she looked anywhere but up.

“Sure ya’ did.” Luke said as he dusted himself off.

Sigrun facepalmed. Flynn shook his head slightly.

Pecila put her finger to her lips, trying to listen. 

Thump thump thump-

“Footsteps?” Pecila questioned. 

Max turned to our right, kneeling down as she did so. “I hear them too....”

Pecila put a hand on her scythe, tensing up.

Something appeared in the doorway no one had been in. It appeared to be human but it was covered in thick golem-ish armor. It was also dragging a huge stone sword.

“...What is this? Skyrim?” Luke asked as he drew his sword and revolver again.

“I’ll distract it! You guys try to destroy it,” Max said as she started to shoot.

“At this point, it could very well be,” Flynn replied, pulling out his sword.

The bullets just started bounce off.

“Lets see... thick armor, large sword, bipedal machine… Aim for the knee joints to stop movement and aim for the wrists to prevent it from using its weapon.” Luke said, shooting a few Ice Bolts out of the revolver at the machine’s wrists “Man I love this thing!”

“Yeah. I’m just going to focus on the knee joints. Last thing I want to worry about is that thing dropping its sword,” Flynn muttered slightly before closing his eyes. He didn’t make any more to attack the being.

Max focused my fire on the thing’s head and neck, making it lift an arm to try to protect itself. “This feels like Shadow of the Colossus to me.” she said as she reloaded.

The humanoid groaned as the attacks hit it before it started lifting the sword, cracks appearing on it.

“Really? You’re not getting the Dwemer Ruins vibe from this place?” Luke asked with a raised brow.

“I am, I just- Whoa!” Max cried out rather anti-climatically as her leg was cut clean off at the knee.

“Holy hell! Your leg! The hell are we going to fix that?!” Luke shouted, jumping out of the way of the blade.

Pecila redirected the blade with her scythe, gabbing a key with her free hand. “Kotonoha, I call upon you! Heal Max!” Sigrun disappeared, only to be replace by a very foxy lady.

The floating fox lady went to Max, grabbing the cut off limb and using her magic to reattach it. “That will be 200 gold coins~” 

“....O divine spear..” Flynn said quietly, having quickly moved to avoid the blade. What looked like a glyph formed underneath the creature.  Spears composed of what looks like light appeared above the blond.

“Thanks, though I don’t have any money,” Max say as she stood back up.

“Well it’s good thing it’s not ObamaCare isn’t it Max?” Luke asked with a slight snort, firing another Ice Bolt at the cracks on the chestplate, hitting it and having ice form in the cracks, expanding as it was created.

The humanoid suddenly roared out, like it was in pain.

“That doesn’t sound like a construct. That sounds a LOT like a living creature.” Luke said as he strode forward and slammed the blunt part of his scimitar against the chestplate as hard as he could, which was the equivalent of 65 Lbs of force.

It got knocked back, the chestplate breaking off to reveal sparkling dark red fur. 

“... We made a mistake, didn’t we?” Max said, seeing the fur.

“Mainly you. That chestplate was made of granite, you’re lucky your bullets didn’t penetrate it. I listed ways to stop it if it was a construct, not lethal ways.” Luke said as he walked over to the furred creature, pulling the helmet off to reveal a cat-like head and face with a bit of fear showing in it’s wide eyes.

“I know what my bullets can and can’t get through. I knew I wouldn’t be more than annoying.” Max snarked, rolling her eyes.

“...” Flynn suddenly frowned before the magical glyph underneath the creature vanished. The male turned away from the others and placed his sword in his sheathe.

“Guys, we should probably still get the sword away from him or her.” Pecila pointed out. “I mean, what if she attacks in fear.”

“Going out on a limb and saying that, also visual guess here, that SHE retaliated because she was attacked first,” Luke said, gesturing to the female “Though you’re right about the sword…” Luke said as he bent down to pick it up.

Yet again, Flynn didn’t respond. He simply listened to the others in silence. It was rather strange for the blond to be so quiet. However, Pecila would pick up the fact her friend was upset. 

Pecila cautiously walked over to Flynn. “We’ll talk about later, ‘kay?”

Yet again, Flynn didn’t respond. He simply glared in the direction of the wall, grumbling something about a wasted arte.

Pecila rubbed Flynn’s back. Flynn, however, moved away.

“Why don’t we try talking  to her?” Max asked.

“Jesus… Christ… This is a damn heavy sword…!” Luke grunted as he picked it up and dragged it away, dropped it, and returned to the female with a sigh “Fair point Max.” He crouched down in front of her “If you can understand me nod once”

The cat blinked before one of it’s paws started glowing. 

Luke groaned and stood, backing up a bit, “I’m going to assume you understand me but just don’t like us or trust us?”

There was a flash throughout the chamber. “Working now?” The cat asked in scratchy English.

“Yes, it is. So, uh, sorry for attacking you without much reason.” Luke said to the cat, glaring at Max a tiny bit.

Max gave a sheepish smile, “Yeah, sorry about that.... Everything else had tried to kill us, so I just assumed. you would as well.“

“So far the only things that tried to kill us were mechanical spiders with elemental cores. The robotic arm had just picked me up by my tail for some reason,” Luke said with a slight frown.

“Kinda weird since dungeons like this usually have more enemies.” Pecila muttered. 

“You’ve jinxed us again. Thanks for that,” Luke said with a slight groan as he looked back to the cat “So, I doubt that you’re living here, and that there’s a reason for you to be here.”

“Yes, there was reason.” The cat said in scratchy English. “Disease on surface. Many dead.”

Max jumped and smacked Pecila on the back of her head, “Seriously need to stop that.” she landed and said, ”You just invited Murphy and his law in.”

“No, No, you’ve got it wrong, Murphy IS the law in this world, Max.” Luke said with a groan.

“I wondered where his book had gone.” Max joked.

Pecila rubbed her own head. “I was just pointing something out.”

“What did the disease do?” Flynn replied, ignoring the other three as he look to the cat. “And you came here to avoid the disease?”

“Not only one. Others came. Scientists and Civilians.” The cat replied. “Disease cause death and insanity.”

“Oh, so you’re not alone?” Flynn questioned.

“Not when asleep. My pod only one safe.” The cat looked to the floor.

Luke looked to the cat with sorrow in his eyes “...Thats terrible, where did the disease come from?”

“No cat knows. Just appeared. No affect Dogs. Only cats affected.” 

“I’m sorry for disturbing this place, none of us knew what it really was, but to make up for what we’ve done, would you like to come with us?” Luke asked, looking to the cat.

“No. Must find others. Must be alone.”

“But why must you be alone? Surely having people help you would be a great boon in your search,” Luke said as he sat in front of her.

“Maybe because of the fact she doesn’t exactly trust you,” Flynn muttered under his breath as Repede poke his head out of his bag.

“Or there’s secrets she wants to hide.” Pecila pointed out. 

“I still say it’s more so my reason,” Flynn grumbled slightly.

“We no trust outsiders.” the cat said, standing up.

Luke’s ear twitched when Flynn had said that, showing he had heard what Flynn had said “Any particular reason why?”

“Either way, this is starting to get above my paygrade,” Max said as she put away her gun.

“Bye, Max.” Pecila waved to her. “The contract is fulfilled. You can leave.”

Flynn simply just muttered something to himself, returning his gaze to the wall.

Max waved as she sank into a portal.

Luke stood from sitting in front of the cat and turned to Max “Goodbye Max, may you be free from the laws of Murphy~”

Max called out just before the portal closed, “Make sure Pecila isn’t too rough in bed you two~!”

“What the hell?!” Luke shouted, trying to shooting Max with an Ice Bolt before the portal closed, with no luck.

“Damn it!” Flynn growled and tried to fire a fireball from his sword at the portal, only to failed as well. 

“I WILL MURDER HER!”

The cat had heard what Max had said and understood it, which made her fall down laughing.

“Repede, get the kitty,” Flynn grumbled.

Repede eyes brighten at this before he leap out of Flynn’s bag. The puppy barked loudly and ran in the direction of the cat.

“Ahh!!! No!!!” The cat said, running from Repede.

Repede just kept barking, chasing the cat.

“Oh that reminds me, what’s your na- Why are you climbing up my back?” Luke asked as he looked to the cat.

She pointed at Repede “I no like dogs; my name is Strawberry.”