> A Walking Chestnut
>  by Netap
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> Chapter 1: A Chestnut in a field.
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It's such a beautiful day today! The sun is shining, The flowers are blooming, The birds are singing.
And all the talking ponies are running around in excitement.

Talking Ponies? Oh, You probably didn't get the memo.
This story doesn't take place in the human world.

Surprising I know, But it's fine. Sure my family probably misses me, And I was looking forward to getting my first paycheck, And I was planning on playing the upcoming Pokemon games, And I will never get to see how One Piece ends.
And I think I'm blabbering a bit.

I am currently a Chespin. That cute chestnut armadillo creature from the Pokemon X and Y games.
Sure, I used to be a human, But there isn't much I can really do about that.

Do I want to get home? Of course I do, I have so many things waiting for me back there.
Can I go home? I don't know.

I've been in this weird place for almost two weeks now. I can speak with animals and understand what they're saying, But when I tried speaking to one of those colorful ponies, All they could understand me saying was Chespin.

So I gave up on trying to communicate with them.

But ignoring all that, I'm really curious what's going on today.

I'll go ask the bunny.




On the outskirts of Pony Village, oh excuse me, Ponyville, there's an animal shelter.
Animal Daycare, Animal Nursing home, Animal vacation spot, whatever you want to call it.

It's run by a Yellow pony with wings, Some girl called Fluttershy, Stupid name I know.
I mean, Who names their daughter Fluttershy? I'll never understand these Pony naming conventions.
What's next? Sprinkle Flowerdust? Candy cane Popsicle? Orange Citrusblast?

What was I talking about? Oh yes, The animal shelter.

It's this two story house surrounded by bird houses. The rood is covered with bushes and plants to give it this look of a tree where many animals live.

It's a bit too cottagecore for my taste, But I guess everyone has their own style.

The problem with living on the outskirts next to the big spooky forest is that it takes a while to get there with my tiny feet.

Have you ever seen a Chespin? I don't have legs. My feet are connected directly to the torso.
Sure I can roll into a ball and roll around kind of fast, But I get dizzy after long distance rolling.

Have you ever tried rolling down a hill and then standing up when you reach the bottom? Imagine that but four times worse.

I can try and use Vine Whip to swing across like spider-man, Only problem with that is that the vines come out of the back of my neck, It's really uncomfortable getting pulled from there.
Did you ever get pulled from the back of your neck? Doesn't feel good does it.

After I reach the house of Fluttershy, The Uneven, Non geometrical, Architects nightmare looking house, I head behind it to a field where a bunch of the animals in area gather up.

You can see Squirrels, Opossums, Birds And even a bear cub waiting for his mother to finish a conversation.

I get it kid, You want to go home but Mom started talking to a friend from school she hasn't seen in months and your at the store, And a line is forming behind you waiting for the cashier but you don't want to hurry your mom up because she seems really happy talking with this friend of hers and you don't want to ruin the mood but you really want to go home so you won't hear the people behind you complaining that your clogging up the line.

But I'm not here for any of them. Only one animal here can tell me whats going on today that makes everybody so excited.

I'm looking for Angel Bunny.
He's just called Angel but you add the Bunny at the end to differentiate him from other creatures named Angel.
Like Angel Dove for example, She's named Angel too, Or Angel Koi who managed to swim out of a pet store all the way in Manehatten and ended up at the lake slightly outside of town.

You see, Angel Bunny is the personal protector of Fluttershy.
He calls himself that but he's really just her pet.

"Good morning Mr Chespin" I get greeted by some of the younger animals in the field. 
"That recipe for mushroom soup you gave us was great, Mom wanted to give this for you" I look at what the small porcupine gave me.

A pinecone with a flower dandelion sticking out of it.
I put it behind my back and feel it enter what I could only explain as a cartoon physics pocket. I'll explain more about that later.
Turning to look at The small porcupine going back to him mom, I see an older Porcupine waving at me and giving me a wink.
I give her a small wave back with a nod and continue my search for Angel.

He's Usually under a tree eating carrots or hanging out with Fluttershy. And since I don't see him here, I'll probably have to wait.

Sitting down in the shade of a large tree, I take out some berries from my cartoon physics pocket, or CPP for short.
My Theory as to why I have it is that Chespin, As most people might guess, Isn't a real animal.
He's a cartoon animal from a children game and TV series about catching monsters and going on adventures with your friends.

And cartoons like those have animal sidekicks with weird physic pockets.
Take for example a Cartoon dog, A normal dog is just a regular animal, But a cartoon dog can walk on two legs and act like a human. Sometime they even pull out object from nowhere, Usually for comedic effect such as taking out an entire pie from nowhere just to throw it at somebody.

My Theory is that this world runs on similar logic, If the naming convention is anything to go by, This place is based on Cartoon logic in some form or another. I mean, A Bear is having a discussion with an Owl a few trees left of me and I understand what they're saying.

"Hey Mr Chespin, We're playing kick ball, Wanna' join us?" A small Heron calls out to me, He holds a rubber ball in his legs.
"No Thanks kid, But tell your mother I said hi." I decline to join his game, I can't really kick a ball if I can barely move my tiny legs.

After a few minutes like that. I hear the guy I was waiting for hop over to me.
"You know, You can't ignore all of them all the time." It seems Angel Bunny found me.

"What the hell are you talking about?" I ask the white rabbit.
"You know what I'm talking about." He points somewhere with his paw and My eyes follow it. It's a group of Rodent ladies speaking with each other and giggling.
"What about them?" I ask the bunny.
"What about them? Dude they have an obvious crush on you. I know for a fact that Melina Porcupine has the hots for you. Why not give it a shot?" Angel says.
"You think I don't know that? I know they want a piece of me, I'm not blind. But they're not my type." I lean back.
"So what is your type?"
"Not Single mothers, that's for sure"

After a few more minutes of talking about my bizarre new love life, I ask the question I was hoping he could answer.

"Why is everyone excited? Oh yeah, I guess you never seen the Summer Sun Celebration. The Sun Princess makes a whole showing about lifting up the sun. You know how these ponies are, They get excited over anything." Angel Explains. "I'm sure you can come over and watch it, It's an open thing. Fluttershy is in charge of the music so I know that the smaller critters can come."

A Celebration where a pony princess lifts up the sun.
"Sure, I'll watch it. Sounds interesting" I tell him and pick myself up from the ground.
"Looking forward to see you there!" Angel shouts out after me.
I gave him a backhanded wave and leave the field.

I guess I know what I'm going to do tonight.
> Chapter 2: A Chestnut and an Apple Cart.
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The Summer Sun Celebration.
According to Angel it's a ceremony where the Pony Sun princess lifts up the sun with her magic powers.

Sound like a bit too much power in one persons hand.
What will you do If your nation is at war with her? She can just make sure the sun wouldn't shine in your country, ruining your countries agriculture. killing countless innocents in the process.

But that wouldn't happen because these ponies are all about friendship and happiness and rainbows and all that childrens morning cartoon stuff.
The Care bears will just hold their hands together and solve the problem or something.

I'm going on a tangent again, sorry.

Yeah so, The Summer Sun celebration is a glorified power play the the ruling class of Equestria, telling everyone that they hold their entire future in their hooves. But they basically disguise it as a celebration of sunshine and summer.

Now, I personally don't really care about the whole moving the sun shtick that they are showing off over there, However, A festival usually has food stands.
And I need Food.

Some of the critters in the forest near where I decided to make my sleeping hole have been generous enough to give me nuts and berries, There's also a fairly common edible root growing around that I take when I see one.

But I don't really know what is edible here and what isn't. I don't recognize more than half the berries that they gave me, And for the nuts I could recognize acorns and pinecones.

Now, I know how to start a fire, I know how to cook food, I know where to get water And if anybody starts asking about a cooking pot that went missing, I want you to know that I didn't steal it.
I borrowed it permanently.

And on the talk of stealing and borrowing, I am going to do something similar at the celebration.
You see, Its basic knowledge that Product is exchanged for goods and/or services.
I don't have any goods or services to exchange for the product that I need, Know commonly as food.

What I'm trying to get at, Is that I'm going to steal food. What better time to steal food then at a festival? The streets will be packed with people to blend in with, Nobody will notice a sandwich or two or twenty go missing?

And who really needs that food more? 
The Rich elite living in their civilized houses, using stoves and showers to take care of their needs, Throwing coins around because they can afford to spend it on the petty things in life.
Or The poor little forest critter, Trying his best to survive in the cruel wilderness of the outside world.

The answer is Simple, That forest creature, IE Me, Needs that food more than they do.




Walking down the small road leading from Fluttershy's cabin to the village of Pony. Ponyville is such a dumb name.
What's next? Horseland? Hooftown? These names are so stupid.

Ahem, Walking down the small road leading to Ponyville, I hear birds singing.
I can recognize some of them as well.
The one doing the falsetto can be considered one of my new neighbors, Swell guy.
I wonder how his wife is doing?

Back to what I was talking about, After a few minutes of walking with my tiny feet I reach the town proper.
A colorful place that still uses thatch roofing.

Just use flat concrete roofs like normal people.

Walking down the road, I get a few looks from passerby's, But I ignore them.
It's not like they matter, What are they going to do? Call pest control? I'd like to see them try.

Searching for a food stand is priority numero uno.
I look left, I look right. I even look up and down.

No food to be found, What kind of celebration is this? Where's the food? Where's the free samples? Where are all the places I can hide in to not get caught while I send out a vine to grab something from afar?

"Where is the food?!" I cry out to the world, Hoping for an answer to appear before me.
And an answer does come, In the form of a smell, Wafting by my nose, leaving the taste of a warm apple pie.

Now, I know there is food here, I just need to find it's source.

Following the source of the smell was not and easy endeavor. I had to duck and weave the mighty obstacles called legs. these ponies should really watch where they're going.
What would have happened to them If I was a small powerless child instead of a wild animal? Would they get arrested for running orphan an Orphan? The Little Match boy lays dead at their feet.
How would they feel after the lawsuit. Guilty on charges of manslaughter, Thirty years in prison! 

After dodging all the death traps that were left in my way, I found it. Inside the circular building in the center of town.

A cart with apple themed snacks. From Apple Pie to Apple Strudel, Apple Crumble to Apple Juice.
And best thing of all?
Nobody is watching the cart.
It's just me, The cart, And a ten meter gap between sleeping hungry and food for a week.
Now all I got to do is get closer, Hope that no one is around, And grab as much food I can in my pocket.

I take one step, Stop to check if It made any sounds, And then take another slow step.
I've got to be careful, Somebody might come and check on the cart If I make too much sound.
I've got to be very very quite.
Another Step, a little bit closer, Only a few more steps and I reach the best dinner I've had in almost fourteen days.
Just a few more steps.

"Listen Mayor Mare, I know that the ceremony itself takes place inside, But why move the cart outside, Where more ponies will see it?" A southern accent asks another.
"Because We need to keep the food for ceremony itself, If we put your cart outside, There will be no snack for the ponies who came here so late and want something to fill their stomach." A slightly older voice answered the first.
"I get that but- creek -What was that?" The younger voice stopped the older one.
"What happened? Did you hear something?"

Holding my breath, I hug myself to the underside of the cart, hoping none of the two voices will check to see what the sound was.
I can't believe I am so close to being caught.

"It was probably nothing dear, I'm sure you're just looking forward to having the whole town eat your food. This is your first year in charge isn't it?" The Older voice tries to calm down the younger, Please listen to her. There is nothing wrong with the cart, The sounds are in your head.

"Yeah, Yer' probably right. Sorry ma'am, May I be excused for the rest of the day? I think I need some time to calm down. It doesn't really help that The Princess herself sent an inspector to check everything. I'm prolly stressed." The young voice is leaving? Yes! Please don't check the cart.
Please  leave, both of you, I can't have witnesses here.

After another minute of talking between each other, I hear the clops of hooves leaving the room. Peeking from under the Cart, I see the coast is clear.
Operation Apple Cart is a go!

Putting inside my pocket as much food as I can, I grab a class of Apple juice to moisture up my dry throat, And take my leave.

This would have been a lot less stressful if Angel just told me that the celebration is in the middle of the night, and inside!
How will you see the princess lift the sun if your Inside a building?
And why were the Ponies so excited all morning, The celebration doesn't take place for another seven hours or so!

But none of that matters because, I, Chespin, The World greatest criminal mind, Managed to get away with my greatest heist yet!
Acquiring Dinner!




Taking the nearest exit from Ponyville, I briskly walk towards the lake outside of town. You see, on the outskirts of the lake there are several large trees.
Not large like redwoods, But the trunks are big enough to need several people to join their hands together to circle one of the trees.
I dug a hole under one of those trees and Made it my spot. My home you might call it.
Problem is, There is a big lake between that Tree and where I am right now.
And you can guess that this body isn't exactly made for swimming.

But don't worry, I already have a way to deal with this.

Two green vines extend out of my upper back, really close to my neck, And I send these tendrils of plant into the water, And I call out "Hey Clarisse! Come give me a hand!"
My voice ripples through the vines and into the water of the lake, A few seconds later, A large orange tentacle rises out of the water.

It flops about in the arms for a few seconds before slowly lowering and landing near my feet.
I climb on to the tentacle and grab it with my vine tendrils. Giving it two short squeezes as I do.
Now with me standing on the arm of the Giant underwater creature, It moves over the lake at high speeds, Forcing me to tighten my hold for a bit.

Around two minutes later It drops me off at the other side of the lake, Near the strip of trees where I made my new home.
Thanks Clarisse, Tell Hank I said hi!" I yell back at the tentacle, It gives me a small wave before it submerges under the water once more.

Quickly leaving the coast of the lake and Walking into a hole under one of the trees.
It's not that big, Only about four meters wide and two meters tall.
But for a small Chespin like I am right now, That's more than enough.

I take all the food out of my pocket and put it in a corner on the dug out cave.
I pass by a metal pot and pan, A bunch of cutlery that I also Borrowed indefinitely, and even a pillowcase that I filled up with grass and leaves.

It's not much, It doesn't even have a door, And if The tree ever falls over, It's roots will destroy my new roof, But it's all I really have right now.
It might not be the best, But it's enough to get by.

After telling a songbird outside to wake me up in five hours, I go to lay down on my grassy pillow. Belly now full with an Apple Muffin.


I then close My eyes and go to sleep.
> Chapter 3: A Chestnut at the Summer Sun Celebration.
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Waking up to the sound of a bird screaming at me isn't the most comfortable way to wake up, But it does pump you full of energy fast.
I know that because It just happened to me.

I asked one of the birds that lived nearby to act as a nice alarm clock for me. So I won't miss the Sun princess lifting the massive ball of flaming gas.
I guess that what I didn't expect was that the bird might have problems waking me up.

"What do you mean you've been pecking at me for ten minutes now?"
"I mean what I said! You wouldn't wake up when I called out to you when you told me. I thought something happened!" A Small Red bird yelled at me.
What was his name again? I don't remember.

"I'm up now, Everything is fine. Don't get your feathers in a twist."  So I overslept by ten minutes, It isn't that big of a deal, The ceremony itself starts in almost two hours from now, I'll have plenty of time to walk around the lake and into Ponyville in that time.

The Lake isn't even that big, It'll only take 20 minutes or so to walk halfway around it, An hour to make a full lap.
At least with my small feet it will.
Having Clarisse and Hank live in the lake is really great for me, Especially that they give me a ride across the lake, shortening the time it takes to reach my burrow.

And even if I need to walk around the lake, I won't really get extremely tired.
That's the bonus of being a powerful fictional monster that can withstand a direct hit by a struck and be unfazed.

I won't wake up Clarisse or Hank to take me across since they're probably sleeping. So I'll take the long way around.

"By the way, Why did you need me to wake you up so late?" The Bird asks me as it follows me out of my Home, A few crumbs of apple pastries around it's beak hinting to what it was doing when I didn't wake up.

"I'm going to that Summer Sun Celebration the Ponies are having."
"But why? What's so interesting about a pony celebration? They're always so loud and annoying." The bird asks again, Confused as to why I would want to go to the Sun Celebration.

"There are two reasons," I wait for the bird to nod before I explain "Reason one is I want to see the Sun Princess lift up the sun. How will something like that look? I can't lift up the sun, Is it different from a normal sunrise? Why is it so late at night? Why is-" "Mr Chespin." "-It taking place indoors? You-" Mr Chespin!" "-Wouldn't be able to see the sun rise if you're inside a bui-" "MR CHESPIN!!!" I pause to look at the bird that shouted at me.

After a few seconds of eye contact "Was I?" "Yes, You were rambling." Damn, I thought I could keep it down at least for this evening.
"What was the second reason?" The bird asks me after a few more minutes of walking silently around the lake, More Like I was walking, He was hopping forward.

"The second reason to go to the celebration? Well it's the food of course." I explain.
I might have managed to nab some food from the cart earlier today, But now, During the celebration, Everyone will be so busy looking at their princess performing an Astrological feat, They won't even notice that a few more muffins and apples went missing.
It's a genius plan, nobody will see it coming.

Walking around the rest of the lake in silence, We take a short stop because the bird needed to relax his legs for a bit. He does know that he can fly home right? He doesn't need to accompany me, or walk on the ground if he does.

As The small red bird that I still haven't got the name of was cooling his legs in the shallow waters of the lake coast, I take a seat on the sandy shore.

I spot some Fireflies flying above some reeds further ahead, I spot a frog hiding in a patch of grass, Some tadpoles are swimming around.
The Beautiful reflection of the moon on the surface of the lake, The Sky is clear and without clouds, The starts are shining both in the sky and in the lakes surface.

You can't get a view like that at Home. Only here, In this magical world that hasn't reached the industrial revolution yet, The skies aren't filthy with smog, The air is fresh and the plants are a healthy beautiful shade of green.

I Might miss my Dad, And he might be worrying his head off, Thinking I've been kidnapped or worse.
If only I had a way to send him a letter, Telling him I'm healthy and okay.
That he shouldn't worry about me so much.
I'm sure Uncle Calvin is making sure he's healthy.
They both probably think I'm in the sky with mom now, If only they knew...

After The bird finished his little late night swimming session, We continue our walk to The Center of Ponyville, Where the ceremony will take place.

"So, Why are you following me?" I decide to ask the bird.
"What do you mean? I'm not following you, We're just going in the same direction" Uh huh, Sure, Let's say I believe what he just said.

"Okay then, What's your name? You obviously know my name, Everybody around seems to know it, But I barely know any of you." I ask the small red bird that is definitely not following me.
"My name's Red, Red the Tanager. I obviously know who you are though. Everybody in the forest knows." I'm not that well versed with birds so I;m guessing Tanager is the type of bird he is.

"You're Mr Chespin, You're the mysterious new face that showed up out of nowhere at took residence by the lake. You were the talk of the forest for a whole week when you showed up," Red is jumping up and down, before taking a quick flight in a circle and landing on a rock two meters ahead, "It's not every day that somebody new moves in to the forest, and isn't a pony hermit or something"

I guess I am a unique character here. I remember waking up in my first day here terrified of what was going on.
It took four days for me to get my feet under myself and accept that I'm stuck here for the foreseeable future.
It was thanks to the animals here That I can even eat food here.
After I dug my burrow, A Family of Opossum gave me a pot and pan, The nice Crow gave me a set of silverware.

Even Angel managed to sneak a few carrots from Fluttershy's kitchen and gift them to me.
I practically owe these animals my life here.

When I was testing out what my Pokemon body can do, Hank and Clarisse taught me to use Vine Whip like small tentacles.
When I tried Rollout, A black bear helped me learn to stop the roll.
A mole taught me to use Dig so I could make my burrow.
A Rat showed me how to open my mouth correctly as a rodent, Indirectly teaching me the move Bite.

For A Pokemon, The only move I really learned by myself are Growl and Tackle, The starting moves of my species.




Walking into Ponyville proper, I see the streets are mostly empty, Only a few critters running around, playing on the pavement.
The Lamps on the side of the road are on, And I see the light at the center building are also on.

That is where the ceremony is after all, And If the chatting we can hear all the way from the other side of the street are anything to go by, The Ceremony should be starting soon.

I say goodbye to Red as he flies off to a window on a higher floor, likely to get a good vantage spot to swoop down and take some snacks.

As I head inside the building, I stick to the wall next to the entrance, keeping away from all the ponies that might trample me accidentally.

And from here I see it. In the corner of the hall where The Apple cart was several hours ago, A series of tables full of the tastiest treats my little rodent nose can smell.

As I walk slowly, Sticking to the wall, closer to the food tables. I Hear Trumpets.

Looking over to the crowd of ponies, I notice the Birds that Fluttershy had trained for the music of the ceremony be silenced by the blaring trumpet.
Why would you even do that? Why bring Birds to sing a melody if nobody will hear it over the blaring trumpet?
They really should have picked one or the other, Not both.

As the trumpet stops, An older mare walks on to the stage. I'm at least guessing she's older because of the grey air.

"Fillies and gentlecolts, As Mayor of Ponyville, It is my great pleasure to announce the beginning=" Hey I recognize that voice, She's one of the two ponies that almost caught me borrowing from the cart earlier, Thanks to her the younger one didn't investigate, Maybe I should give her a thank you present? "-Of the Summer Sun Celebration."

As the ponies are cheering in excitement for this wonderful celebration that's about to commence, I tip toe closer to the Food.
I notice Angel standing next to Fluttershy and the birds on a balcony and give him a small wave.
He seems to notice it if him Sneaking away from the balcony and towards the stairs is anything to go by.

"In just a few moments," Miss Mayor continues after the crowd stopped cheering, "Our town will witness the magic of the sunrise and celebrate this, The longest day of the year." Her speech continues.

So The Summer Sun Celebration is just a celebration for the Summer Solstice, That's a lot of work for a day where the planet tilts towards the sun more than any other time of the year.
Sure there might be magic in this place, But a summer solstice is just another summer solstice.

"And now, It is my great honor to introduce to you the ruler of our land, The very pony who gives us the sun and the moon each and every day, The Good, The wise, The bringer of Harmony to all of Equestria,-" As she gives this part of the speech, I see ponies getting ready to pull on ropes and open up curtains, I see Fluttershy about to get the birds to sing again, I even see the pony who blew the trumpet filling his lungs with more air, ready to blow on it again.

It was then That I not only reached the food tables, But so did Angel reach me.
He's so lucky having feet that barely make a sound.

"What are you doing?" He asks me as he jumps on to the top of my head, taking a perch of higher elevation?
"What does it look like I'm doing? I'm taking food." I answer the bunny who's standing on my head.
I never really had another person stand on my head, I might be shorter and stronger right now, But its different than lifting my little cousin on my shoulders.
Angel is only half my height though, And I barely feel him through the tough shell that I have on my head, so I guess he can stay if he doesn't bother too much.

And As Angel and I take bites from the delicious pastries on the tables, The curtains open up to reveal "-Princess Celestia!" As the mayor calls out.

But the princess isn't behind the curtain. 
And as the ponies in the crowd Whisper to themselves in confusion and some even in shock about the princesses whereabouts, I continue eating the pastries.

"They need to calm down, The Princess is probably just Putting on makeup or something. It's not like she's been kidnapped," I say out loud as the ponies whisper about the missing princess.
"I mean, If she really went missing, The Guards she brought  would have obviously known about it, wouldn't they? They're the royale guards, they protect the most important person of this country."

If she really went missing then the crown should hire better guards.

"Be calm everypony, There must be a reasonable explanation." Mayor Mare says to the crowd, trying to calm them down.
Even though she herself seems more worried then anybody else in the building, Really good on her. A Good leader should always think about the people before of themselves.
You just got a supporter Mayor Mare, I would vote for you in the next mayoral elections, But I don't think a forest creature can vote.

And while Mayor Mare did indeed manage to calm down some of the ponies, It all went away when a White Unicorn came out from the balcony where the princess was and proclaimed, "She's gone."
Great work, Get the crowd to panic even more.

"Can you pass me that bottle?" I ask Angel as I point to a bottle of water on the table, I can't really reach it without climbing the table, And I'm confident that if I did, The table will flip.
"Sure, Just grab me a slice of that cake over there." Angel responds as he hops off my head and onto the table, grabbing some paper cups and a bottle of water while I send out a Vine to pick up a plate with a square of Cinnamon Apple Shortcake.

And as Angel is hopping back with the water, A yell from the crowd makes him jump in surprise. Splashing both me and Him, Drenching us in water.
I place down on the table the now wet cake that Angel requested and look for the source of the scream.

And my eyes widen.

On the balcony, where Princess Celestia was supposed to come out, A blue mist has appeared.
The mist then suddenly expands to cover the entire balcony before flying off out of the building through an open window. And on the Balcony, where the blue mist just was, Stand a tall Black Horse.

Her beautiful blue eyes with a slit pupil, An elegant Platinum helmet with a black Unicorn horn passing through it. Black wing of a Pegasus, dark as the night sky.
And her Mane, A Mane made out of the blue mist that was just there before.

"Oh my beloved subjects-" The Black Horse opens her mouth and speaks with a voice sweet like honey but searing like venom "-It's been so long since I've seen your precious little, Sun-loving faces"

"What did you do with our princess?!" A voice yells in the crowd and I see a blue Pegasus trying to fly towards the Horse, only for another pony to grab their tail and stopping them in place.

The Black Horse laughs, That stereotypical laugh you hear from a villainess in a cartoon who thinks she's better than everyone. Using some mystical artifact to show those sniveling heroes that she should be feared, not ridiculed.
Or something along those lines, I haven't seen the original animated Ninja Turtles.

"Why, Am I not Royal enough for you? don't you know who I am?" She asks, Agitation showing on her pitch black face. "Does my crown no longer count now That I have been imprisoned for a thousand years?" She asks as she leans towards the Ponies near her, In this case, Fluttershy, Scaring away the songbirds in the process.

I see Angel tensing up on the table, Ready to run to her at a moments notice. Even drenched in water, with crumbs of cake sticking to his fur, he will protect his caretaker.

The black horse now turns towards the white unicorn that opened the curtains for the balcony "Did you not recall the legend?" She flick the Unicorns chin with her misty hair, "Did you not see the signs?"

"I did." a pony calls out from the crowd, gaining the attention of everyone in the room, "And I know who you are, You're the Mare In The moon, Nightmare Moon!" The Purple unicorn exclaims. Earning gasps from all the ponies around her.

"Well well well, Somepony who remembers me." The Black Horse, Nightmare Moon says "Then you also know why I'm here?" She asks the purple unicorn.

It's Obviously a rhetorical question, She looks ready to explain exactly why she's here.
Let me take a guess, If she was imprisoned on the moon for a thousand years. She's planning on imprisoning the Princess on the Sun for two Thousand.
Seems like something a cartoon would do.

"You're here to, to..." The Unicorn swallows her saliva and cowers down, making herself look smaller.

Nightmare Moon laughs, "Remember this day little ponies, For it was your last-" Holy Shit! Is she going to kill everyone here?! "-From this moment forth, The Night Will Last Forever!" Another evil laugh ensued, Followed by the dark blue mist floating above her head turning into a cloud and shoot lightning for dramatic effect.

"I need to get to Fluttershy" I hear Angel whisper And when I turn to check on him, I see hes running to the stairs.

So now I'm alone, Drenched in room temperature water, standing next to a table of soggy food, While what I can only describe as a cartoon villain is laughing maniacally on a balcony with lightning striking around her.

This was not how I expected my night to go.
> Chapter 4: A Chestnut doesn't want anything to do with the plot.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

So there I was, Soaking wet, Staring at a black horse with wings and a horn shooting lightning around the room and only one thought could really cross through my mind at that.

"I should go home" None of this was my business, With how this world has been working so far, I should just ignore the obvious evil bad guy, or girl in this situation. Technically she's an old hag since she's more than a thousand years old, But she also doesn't really look her age.

Even now I can see the Guards who were supposed to be guarding the princess are rushing towards her...
Without formation...
and now they're on the ground...
Does this land even have a real military? A Police force even?
These guys suck...

After knocking out the useless guards, Nightmare moon turns into more the blue mist and dashes out of the building.

This really isn't my problem.

But as I look over to Angel, Struggling to get up the stairs with his wet and slippery fur, I decide I should at least help him out a bit.
Walking over to the stairs, Staying close to the wall as I usually do, I reach them and help push Angel up.

"Don't push me, Carry me!" He shouts at me as he jumps on to my head.
I really don't have a problem with this, I am the one responsible for him being so slippery after all. It's the least I could do.

Walking up the stair with a small bunny standing on my head sounds harder than it actually is.
The problem was That I could only go one step at a time because of my tiny body.
If I was in my original body, This would have been over so quick.
A thirty second climb would have turned into five.

"Angel? Angel where are you? Oh where did you go?" As we get closer to the balcony where Fluttershy was with the songbirds, We can hear her calling out to Angel.
"Hurry it up! She's going to start worrying!" Angel taps my head with his food as he tells me to hurry it up.
I know it doesn't hurt and He weighs almost nothing, But he could at least be nice about asking.




Up on a Balcony overlooking the crowd, A yellow Pegasus with a pink mane is looking behind curtains and under carpets looking for her pet rabbit.

"Chespin Ches!" She hears someone calling out to her from the staircase behind her.

Landing on the floor, She slowly walks over to the doorway that connects the Balcony with the staircase.
Peeking over a corner, She sees her lovely little Angel.
Standing on top of an animal she never saw before?

First a Baby Dragon, Then Nightmare Moon and now this? Fluttershy really had a long and exciting day, she doesn't know if she can keep up with it all.

"Chespin, Pin ches." It told her that it and Angel were down on the ground floor eating from the buffet.

Oh she was so worried about Angel, But he was just hungry.

"Angel deary, next time you want to hang out with your friends, please tell me before hand, I was so worried about what might have happened to you." Fluttershy picks up her small white bunny and gives him a soft hug. 

She then turns back to the new animal, She's never seen something like that in any of her biology books. Maybe the princess's student that was here earlier might have an Idea.

"Chespin..." It says with a small lowering of it's head, Oh, It was worry that It worried her about Angel.
"It's fine dear, You should probably go back to your nest, with that scary black pony outside, I don't think staying around is safe." As she told the mysterious creature this, She got an Idea.

"Wait, Why don't you sleep in my home tonight? I'm sure Angel will be happy to have a friend over, And it will be safer for you as well. What do you think?" She asked.

The Green and brown animal looked at her, and then at Angel. "Ches?" It asked Angel with it's eyebrow raised.
Angel answered with a small squeak.

"Then I guess It's settled, Let us just stop by the library first, I think I need to pick up a book." Fluttershy then placed Angel on her back, where he quickly hopped into her mane to have something to grab. She then turned to ask the new critter if he wanted to sit on her back too.

"Ches Chespin" It doesn't look like it weighs Nine Kilos, And if Fluttershy remembers her math correctly, that's almost twenty pounds. But it did say it had no problem walking.




I Didn't expect my first meeting with Fluttershy to go like this, But it wasn't the worst scenario in the world, I could have found her dying in a ditch, That's a terrible scenario for a first meeting. 
You can't have a conversation when one party is bleeding out on the ground.

I don't know why we're going to the library, But at least I won't be sleeping on the ground for another night.

After a minute or two of walking next to the yellow pegasus and chatting a bit with Angel, We reach the Library, Which is surprisingly not empty.
Why are so many ponies gathered up here?

As we Enter the library, I notice that I can recognize some of the others.
There's the white unicorn who held the curtains on the balcony, Then there's the blue pegasus who tried to fly into Nightmare Moon And finally I can recognize the Purple Unicorn that identified the horse as who she was.
What is going on here? Is this a- Oh no...

Oh no no no no no no!
Nuh uh, No way! Nope!
I am not getting involved with this!

I know this world follows some type of cartoon logic, If the Nice animals and talking colorful ponies weren't enough to clue you in.
But an actual Hero group tasked with defeating a villain? Nope!
Why else would all of these essentially random ponies that barely know each other gather together in one place on the night when a millennia old evil has come to threaten the peace?

These are the main characters of a show...
And I just walked with one of them to the meetup with the others...
Fuck...




As it turns out, The purple unicorn, Named Twilight Sparkle. I'll never get used to those names. Learned about Nightmare Moon in a prophecy and the only thing that can stop her are these McGuffins called the Elements of Harmony.

"-But I don't know what they are, Where to find then, I don't even know what they do!" She tells the group.

I'm just glad That I seem to have been forgotten in the background, just how I like it.
As the heroes of this show talk amongst themselves, I pick up a book and flick through the pages. And I learn something amazing in the process.

The words are in english...
I can read and write here!

As I flip on to another Page, I feel something light tap my shoulder. I turn to look, It's Angel, He's pointing at the door and at ponies that just exited.
Most prominently, at Fluttershy.

"Put that book down, We need to hurry before she's too far to catch" Angel pulls on my arm, trying to get me to budge.

Now here I am in a dilemma, Do I follow Fluttershy with Angel, and help what I can consider my only friend in this place, or do I take this opportunity to read through some important books in the library, specifically survival and foraging.

Help a friend or Help myself?

"Hurry up! She's getting farther!"

If I stay here to read, I won't have to endanger myself by stealing from carts anymore, I won't have to ask for charity all the time, I could actually do something to make my life here easier.

"Fine, then! I'm going after her without you!" But I can always find another time to read through those books. My Friend needs me, Now.

"Wait up!" I call out after Angel as I catch up to him. We need to move fast to catch up with the speed those ponies are going.
But we don't need to catch up with all of them, Only one of them.

We can see them at the edge of the big spooky forest that's on the other side of the town from the lake, and.. wait a minute?

"What is she doing? She should know how dangerous the Everfree Forest is?! Hurry up Chespin!" Angel cries as he taps my head with his foot again. I'm sure he could have run ahead by himself and he could have caught up with her by now, But he brings up a good point.

Why is she walking with them into the spooky forest, And why is The purple one, twilight standing back.

By the time we reach the outskirts of the forest, They all walked into it already.
"It seems we we're late, nothing to do now but go home and wait for her to come back, Isn't that right Angel?" I ask the bunny on my head, Expecting to hear him say something along the line of "No! We need to go in ourselves!" or something like that.

Instead all I got was the sound of something soft hitting the ground and hopping towards the big spooky forest.

I quickly grab Angel with my Vine Whip.
"Let me go! I need to help her!" I struggle to hold him in place without hurting him.
"No! They are all adults, They know what they're doing! Stop Struggling!" I try and wrestle Angel to submission.

There is no way I am going into the dark forest! There is no way I am go to tail after the heroes as they chase after the villain of the story! I am NOT GOING!

After almost a minute, Angel stops struggling in my hold.

"Have you calmed down?" I ask the white rabbit.
"Yeah..." He says dejectedly as I put him down.

Now he's just sitting there, looking at the forest, he's obviously scared to go in. A different reason than mine, sure, But in this magical world, It's as good a reason you need.

I sit down next to him, maybe twenty centimeters away.
"Hey look, I know you want to help Fluttershy, I get it. But she's what? Twenty three? Four? She's a full fledged adult." I tell him to try and break the awkward silence. "She can take care of herself, And those other ponies are there to help her, Aren't they? She'll be fine, I'm sure of it." I tell him as I lean slightly closer to give him a pat on the back.

What I didn't really expect from the usually sociable bunny was to hear quite sniffing.
He's crying right now, And I don't know how to deal with that.

"Do you..." What Am I supposed to do? I forgot that he's only a tenth of my age.
The Average life expectancy of a common rabbit is around eight to nine years.
I was Nineteen before I found myself here, And Angel, even if he acts mature, Isn't an adult rabbit at all. He's still a bunny, something around the rabbit equivalent of a teenager.
And he just saw his caretaker walk into a big scary forest with a bunch of strangers.

I know I probably saved his life by stopping him from following them.
I saved a friend from throwing his life away so carelessly!
I should be proud.

So why do I feel so empty?




After sitting in the middle of the path outside of where the ponies went into the forest for maybe half an hour, I start to hear quite snoring.
I look to my right and see that Angel cried himself to sleep.

I slowly pick him up in a Vine Whip and place him down gently on my head.

I don't think he had sleep before the celebration like I did. After the Adrenaline of everything that happened stopped pumping, he went out like a brick.

I know It's my fault he cried, The least I could do is put him to bed.

As I walk on the path leading from the Everfree Forest to Fluttershy's surprisingly close cabin, I can hear angel mumble something in his sleep, but I can't really manage to catch it.

After fifteen minutes of walking I arrive outside Fluttershy's cabin, I quietly push open the door and walk inside.
Looking at the decorations around the house, It's a lot less Cottagecore than I imagined, It's pretty nice actually.
But I'm not here to look at furniture.

I spot a little doggy bed with a carrot shaped plushy near one of the sofas.
I gently put Angel down in his bed and cover him with a small blanket.

As I turn to leave, I can finally hear what he's whispering, "~no, mommy, don't leave me~" Before he goes back to mumbling incoherently in his sleep.

Dammit Angel, Why do you need to make me feel bad about saving your life?

I walk out the door and silently close it behind me.

When I reach the dirt path outside, I pull myself into a ball and start rolling downhill.




After five minutes of Rolling I stop. In the Pokemon Games and Anime, the move Rollout is a physical damaging move of rock type, And one that Chespin can learn early on in the games.

Right here and now, It's just me rolling around as a ball, Kind of like the slowest Sonic The Hedgehog character. Maybe only around 80 kilometers per hour, Or fifty miles per hour for those who don't use the correct measurement system.

I stop when I reach the coast of the lake outside of Ponyville, and When I do I immediately fall on the ground.

My head is spinning and my eyes are dizzy. I really shouldn't have used Rollout for more than a minute.

But Dammit, I couldn't stand to be around Angel after that.

What a Terrible friend I am.





Two Weeks Prior





My Name is Samuel Cohen, I am Nineteen years old.
I Live in Haifa with my father and Brother.
I Graduated from High-school with an average of 78 on my diploma around eight months ago.
Six months ago I started my mandatory military service.
Last month I finished training and started my work.

It was a complicated but mostly safe part of the army, Using Satellite Imagery to locate military bases belonging to Hamas and Hezbollah and point them out on a map.

Tomorrow I am getting my first Payment from the army, A measly 1,200 shekel. But after two and a half years of service I'll be getting government paid tuition to the best universities in the state.

It should be another normal day today. Wake up, Take a shower, brush my teeth, get dressed, eat breakfast and catch the bus to the station.

So Why did none of that happen?
Why the hell am I in a forest?
Why am I only half a meter tall?
What the hell is going on?
"CHESPIN!"

I stop, I take another look at myself and open my mouth again.
"Ches, Pin."
I can't breath.
This Can't be happening! This isn't real!
Getting Isekai'd only happens in Novels to nerd who hate their life!

I DON'T HATE MY LIFE!!!
TAKE ME BACK!!!
WHY ME?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

After that I think I blacked out. Maybe it was the stress of the situation, But I was not in a good mood.
"WHY! Chesp-Why ME?! I DON'T WANT THI-pin ches!" I couldn't even finish sentences without hearing the wrong sounds coming out of my mouth.

I Don't want this...
I Just want to go home...




The sun has already set and I'm still in this forest. I wasn't trained for this type of stuff.
Give me a Map, A Computer and a before and after satellite image And I can point you to where the terrorists are hiding the hostages based on geographical advantages and car tracks.

Put me in a forest with no equipment in the body of a monster from a game I haven't played in years And I'm lost.
I can't do anything.

"Are you okay?" As I lie on my hard, unfeeling back, I hear a voice call out to me.
I turn over and I see a white rabbit.
"Chespin" Those aren't the words I wanted to say.

I'm not fine, I'm a grown man talking to a bunny in the middle of the woods and I'm pretty sure I'm having a panic attack.

"Is that your name? Chespin? I never heard of a name like that before! My Name's Angel, I'm kind of a big deal around here. Why don't you follow me, I'll introduce you to the other animals." I couldn't refuse his offer even If I wanted to.

So I followed him, And I talked with the other animals, And I managed to get my speech under control.
But I still can't go home, And there isn't anything I can do about it.

"Good Morning Mr Chespin" I get called to when I meet the other animals in the field behind the caretakers cabin.
"Thank you for helping us move Mr Chespin"
"Have this Mr Chespin, Mom wanted to give it to you"
"Good Afternoon Mr Chespin-"
"-Mr Chespin-"
"-Mr Chespin-"
"-Chespin-"
"Mr-"

My Name Used to be Samuel Cohen.
Now My name is Chespin.
And It's going to stay as Chespin until I can find a way back home.
But Until then,
I'll have to stick with Chespin.





Back In the Present





Lifting my heavy body from the soft ground of the lake beach, I start my slow walk back to my burrow.
Twenty Minutes Later I crawl Inside my hole and take one last look outside.

I should be happy I did because I was just shown the most beautiful thing I have ever seen.

A Large Pillar of light made up of six different colors is shooting up from where the Everfree Forest should be.
And When that pillar reached the sky, I saw it.

That must have been the second most wonderful sunrise I have ever seen in my entire life.

It doesn't beat waking up at four in the morning to climb up Masada just so see the sun rise over the dead sea and Jordan, But it's a close second.

Maybe I should hike up a mountain to see the sunrise here too.

Yeah, I think I'll like that.
And With those thought on my mind, I closed my eyes and drifted off to sleep.
> Chapter 5: A Chestnut started working out.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

When I woke up, The sun has already started to set.
It seems I slept through the entire day.

Thinking back on what made me so tired, Yesterdays events came to mind.

Waking up early, Doing my stretches, Look at the townsponies do whatever it is they do, Meet up with Angel behind Fluttershy's house, Borrow food in secret, Go home, take a nap, wake up and go to the town hall, eat free food, Black Horse appears, speak with Fluttershy for the first time, Find out who the main characters of this Cartoon world are, Stop Angel from running into the big dark forest, Take Angel back to Fluttershy's cabin, put him to sleep, Overwork my body by using Rollout on the way home, Go to sleep at sunrise.

I had a really long day yesterday.

But that also brings forth an even bigger problem.
This is a world with Cartoon logic.
And by the events of yesterday, I can guess that the plot has started.

I've already been here, as a half a meter tall fictional monster, And I have no clue as for how to get back.
I don't know even where to start looking!

But something I do know is that Yesterday, I used a Pokemon Move for five consecutive minutes and It almost knocked me out cold.

As I look down at my small arm, I come to the conclusion that,
I really am out of shape...




When Angel woke, his first thought weren't about how he was in his bed or why it was already two in the afternoon.
He was thinking of the safety of his caretaker.

"Fluttershy!" He cried out as he jumped out of his small bed, He rushes quickly rushes around the house, looking under pillows and outside windows.
Until he reaches a door.

"Please be here Please be here" He mumbled to himself as he slowly pushed the door open with all his small, rabbit might.
"Fluttershy, Are you here?" He asked the dark bedroom. He couldn't see anything inside, with the curtains closed and the windows shut.

He inched closer to the bed, slowly climbing up it before he checked under the blanket.
Seeing nothing under it, He quickly jumped towards the door outside!

He needs to go save her!

As he reached the door after jumping down an entire flight of stairs, He leaped outside only to crash into a soft, yellow wall.
"Oh Angel, you're awake. You slept through the whole day yest- Oh no, why are you crying? Please don't cry." Fluttershy kneels down to hug Angel as he cries into her coat.
"Everything is fine, Nothing is going to hurt you. Here, Why don't you tell me whats wrong?"

And so he told her, he told her about how he followed her to the entrance of the forest, of how scared he was she wouldn't come back, , about how~

And as he continued telling her his fears and worries he suddenly perks up.
"Chespin!" He shouts before grabbing Fluttershy's mane and dragging her out the door with him.

"Angel, Slow down, where are you taking me?" Fluttershy asked as she walked behind her little bunny rabbit.
"I need to apologize to Chespin!" Angel responded to her as he urged her to hurry up.

"Chespin is your new friend right? How come I haven't seen him around?" Fluttershy asked Chespin as they walked down the road towards Ponyville.
"He only arrived in the area two weeks ago and he lives on the other side of the big lake." Angel answered as he hopped towards a stand selling carrots.

Getting Fluttershy to buy two carrots, they continued on towards the lake.
"Angel, you know the lake is very big, and walking around it is going to take a while. It's getting late, Why don't you hang out with your friend tomorrow?" She looks at the lake in the distance, Only a few minutes away, but reaching the other side to where the trees are at will take a while.
The Sun will have already set by the time they reach it and back.

"It's fine Fluttershy, I know a shortcut to get across really fast" He told her as they reached the lake.
"Look Angel, I'm not sure if this is a good Idea, I need to start working on dinner soon and~" Fluttershy cuts herself off as she sees a Large purple tendril lift itself out of the water.

"Good Evening Hank, Can you get Fluttershy and I to Chespin's place, please?" Angel asked the purple limb.
"Angel, who is that?" Fluttershy asks Angel, She doesn't hang out near this side of Ponyville all that much other than to check on the growing tadpoles. She didn't know a creature like this lived there.

The purple tendril lowered itself to the beach, where Angel proceeded to walk on to it. Slowly, Fluttershy stepped on as well, And the they Moved.

As The Giant Purple Tentacle glided over the surface of the water at a speed faster than Fluttershy has ever moved, She crouched and held tightly to the surface she stood on.

After a minute of moving over the lake, Angel hops off the Tendril as Fluttershy stumbles after him.
"Please warn me the next time we start going so fast Angel, and who was that?"
Looking behind her she sees the limb give a wave before submerging itself under the lake once more.




Looking around, Fluttershy promised herself to come here again so she can meet all the cute animals that live on this side of the lake.
"Chespin lives right over there, Come on." Angel tells her as he drags her to follow him.

Walking to a tree with a den dug out underneath it, Chespin tells her to wait outside as he walks in with both the carrots.
Leaning down to take a peek at the inside of the den, Fluttershy is surprised with how big it looks.
There seems to be enough room for even her to fit in.
If she managed to get through the small entrance hole that is.

But even more surprising, Is what's in the den.
Fluttershy can spot a pot and pan, Several forks, knives and spoons. A Bucket filled with water and a pinecone with a flower.
She even spots a large hill of baked pastries near the back of the burrow.

But what both she and Angel don't spot, Is Chespin.

"Chespin, Are you here?" Angel calls out as he walks out of the empty den, Instead they get a different answer.
"Chirp chirp" Looking up, Fluttershy and Angel stop a red bird looking down at them from a high branch.

"He isn't here" The Bird tells them as it flies down from it's perch to land on one of the roots that act as a roof to the den.
"Then where is he?" Angel asks.

Fluttershy doesn't know why she's here, It seems Angel is perfectly fine.
As she turns to start heading home, she feels Angel grab her to stop her.
"Angel, I can't stay here for long, It's getting dark and I have stuff to take care of. You'll be fine on your own, You don't need me here. I'll come here with you when my schedule is empty." Fluttershy tries to start walking but Angel wouldn't let go.

"You can't just leave again! I need you here" Angel cries to her as tears start to glisten in his eyes, It looks like he'll start crying again.
"Five minutes and then we're going mister." Fluttershy tells him with authority, She can't follow him all day. She still doesn't know why she's needed here.

Following the directions the Bird gave the two, they reach a small clearing between the tree rows of trees that make up the small Lakeside forest.
In the middle of the clearing, the two spot something incredible.

A Small brown and green creature, With vines coming out of it's upper back.
The vines are hanged over a strong looking branch where they then act as a makeshift pulley system to lift up a large rock tied to their end.

And Chespin is lifting that rock by walking forward, carrying something that must be at least four times his weight.
As he struggles to move forward, One of the vines grabbing the rock snaps and the rock weight, now shifted all onto one vine, pulls Chespin backwards, Throwing him on to his back. The Vine that extended from his back disappears into motes of green light.

Before she can stop herself, Fluttershy runs in to check on the Chespin, Angel follows close behind.

"Chespin! Are you okay?" Angel shouts as he passes by Fluttershy to reach his friend.
Chespin turns to look at the white bunny, "Angel? What are you doing here? And of course I'm fine. I just stumbled a little."

"That was way more than a stumble, Are you sure your okay?" Fluttershy asks as she crouches down to check on Chespin.
"I'm fine, It happens all the time. I swear nothing's wrong"
"How long were you doing whatever that even was?" Angel suddenly asks.

Looking at the setting sun in order to calculate the time, Chespin answers "Maybe an hour or two"

Before he could stand back up, a new voice joins, "Don't listen to him, He's been doing that non-stop for an entire night and day. he only stopped once to eat breakfast before he continued." The Red bird told them.

"You did that for an entire day?!" Fluttershy exclaims in surprise, "I might not now who or what you are, But that can't be healthy for you! You are coming back with us, And you are not leaving Until I give you the go ahead, Am I understood?" 

"Why would I do that?" Chespin asks the yellow pony, confusion written on his face.

"Because we need to make sure you're healthy, I took a look in your home, Those bakes aren't healthy for someone like you." She tries to pull him up but Chespin struggles out of her hold.
"I am not leaving my hole, And don't you tell me what I can and can not eat!" Chespin exclaims as he jumps away from her.

"But why not?" Angel suddenly asks, pointing at Chespin's tiny legs, "Look at yourself, you can barely stand! You're going to collapse at any moment!" And true to his words, Chespin's legs are indeed shaking like twigs in a thunderstorm.

"Here," Angel gives Chespin the carrot he had Fluttershy buy on the way there,"I Wanted to apologize for how bratty and pushy I acted towards you during the Nightmare Moon fiasco. I hope that we can still be friends." Angel bows his head in apology waiting for Chespin's inevitable refusal.

Who would want to be friends with him? He's pushy and bratty and always acts like he's better than others.

"What are you talking about?" Chespin asks the bunny as he sits down to massage his feet and eat the carrot. "Why would I stop hanging out with you?"

"Huh? But I-" "Listen Angel, You're a kid. You might act mature and think you're a grown up-" Chespin look at Angel's surprised face as he continues "-but you're not. And for how childish I might act sometimes, I am unquestionably the older one here. Heck, I'm closer in age to Fluttershy than I am to you."

Chespin picks himself up a walks towards Angel, and when reaches him, puts his arms around the little bunny in a big hug.
"Can you really blame me for being an actual adult for once?" Chespin whispers to the small white rabbit in his arms.

"Listen, That's really sweet and all, But I really think you should get some rest" Red speaks as he interrupts the touching moment between the two.

"He's write, I really should go to sleep." Chespin lets go of the hug and takes another bite of the carrot.
Angel walks towards Fluttershy, Ready to go back to her house.
As the Pony and Bunny start walking the path around the lake, They hear Chespin call out to them.

"Wait! Fluttershy, I actually need your help with something." They stop to listen to the magical rodents request.

"Tell me what it is and I'll try my best to help you" the yellow pony tells Chespin.

"Thank you, Fluttershy." Chespin tells her, before continuing

"I need your help finding a way home."

> Chapter 6: A Chestnut with Neighbors and Muscles.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

After Fluttershy promised she'll check in the Library for a book to help me, I decided to listen to her advice and grab some rest.
According to Red I've been working out for hours without rest.
How did I not notice that so much time has passed?

When I wake up the morning after, I feel my muscles sore and my body heavy.
Which is surprisingly not as terrible as I imagined working out for almost twenty hours to feel. It's actually similar to how I felt when I had to train my body for two hours a day, four times a week back during training.

I never got super muscular like an action movie star, But I at least had abs. It wasn't an amazing, defined six-pack sadly, It was closer to a flat, four-pack, But at least I had something!

Looking at myself as a Chespin, I look like a plush doll, I don't seem to have any muscles even though I can flex my arms and stomach all I want here.
Actually, I don't think anybody here has had muscles. I'm pretty sure horses should have strong, defined muscles in their legs, But thinking back on Nightmare Moon, She also didn't seem to have defined muscles.

Is this actually part of the cartoon logic of this world? That even if you are super strong and muscular, you look the same as any other person in your species?

Or do none of these ponies go to the gym?
Strange, Isn't it?

Slowly dragging my heavy body to my mountain of NOT stolen food, which luckily for me is mostly bread and apples in different shapes.
Which is great. 
You see, Bread, is made out of Cereal, or Grains. Which are rich with Carbohydrates.
And apples, while not being full of Glucose, are a good supply of Vitamin C and Fiber.

And with the metabolism of a fictional, magical rodent with plant based magical powers. 
Eating an apple pie for breakfast is pumping my body full of energy!




From the forest behind the lake, grunts of effort can be heard all around. When something in a forest makes a strange noise, The curious critters come and check out what is making it.

Patricia the Opossum was on her way back to her nest when she heard the noise coming from a clearing up ahead. 
When she came to see what was making that noise, she didn't expect to see other animals hiding behind a bush, spying on the source of the noise.

Walking over to a bird she recognized, she decided to ask him what was going on.
"It seems that the kids over there found out what Chespin has been doing for the past two days, They've been watching him ever since." A Red bird told her, pointing with a wing at a group of young Porcupines and a Heron.

Seeing that the children are indeed looking behind the bushes into the clearing, she decides to take a look as well.
As she sticks her head into the bush and pushes it out of the other side, She manages to see the source of the sounds.

Chespin, The new neighbor that appeared roughly two weeks ago, is walking laps around the clearing carrying a rock on his back. If the amount of sweat dripping down his body is anything to go by, he's been doing this for a long time by now.

After a full lap around the clearing, Chespin drops the stone behind him and brings out two green vines from what to her seems like out of nowhere, "I didn't know he could do magic like that." Patricia says as she looks on with even more curiosity.

With the two vines now extending out of Chespin's back like two long, extra appendages. He starts flicking them around, As if trying to hit an invisible opponent.

After another five minutes of whipping those vines around, Chespin sits down on the ground for a full five minutes before he picks himself and the stone back up on his back and starts doing another lap of the clearing.

Deciding that she saw enough, Patricia takes her head out of the bush and notices that the crowd that she joined to look at Chespin with has grown a lot in the few minutes she's been watching him.

What was once a group of children, their parents, and her neighbors from the forest has grown to include animals from the other side of the forest, some frogs from the nearby lake and even a deer from the Whitetail woods.
All watching the mysterious new neighbor run around with rocks and whip vines around.

She's seen enough. Patricia might be curios old lady, but she doesn't have the time to spy on her neighbor more than she already has.
She has six children to take care of and her good for nothing husband can barely take care of himself!




Henry thought it was going to be another normal day today. Meet up with his friends behind Fluttershy's cabin and play with the rubber ball he found. He didn't expect to be dragged by his friends to watch Mr Chespin train his body like one of those ponies from the picture book!

He's so cool! he can lift up that rock like it's nothing! And he can do that thing with those vines that come out of his back! And-and sometimes, he tucks into a ball and moves Reeeeeeally fast!
He's just the coolest!
Chespin is just so awesome.
Is that what he's doing all the time? Is that why he never joined the kick-ball game with his pals?

Looking down at the rubber ball held in his Talons, Henry the Heron decided that he's going to be just like Mr Chespin when he grows up! He'll be so strong and cool and everyone will like him!

Saying Goodbye to his friends, Henry the Heron picks the ball with his feet and flies back to tell his mom what he's going to do tomorrow!
Now, He just need to find a waterfall to sit under and a tree to kick repeatedly.
That's what the picture books said to do after all.




"You want to bring an Animal into the Library?" Twilight Sparkle asked Fluttershy as she sat down near a table, a steaming cup of tea before her.

"Oh, yes, Mr Chespin is very far from home and he wants to know how to get back. I don't have any books about his species at home so I thought I might bring him here to help me look for a book to help him." Fluttershy told Twilight as she took a sip from from the cup, The hot tea almost burning her tongue in the process.

"I'm sure there's a book about the rarer animals in Equestria somewhere here, You don't need to bring him in order to find it, I'm sure." Twilight told her, But Fluttershy shook her head.

"I Promised Mr Chespin that I'll help him find a way back home. I can't find the correct book to help him If he isn't here Twilight." Fluttershy said.

She Promised to help Chespin, Helping to take care of his health is only one part of it, But in order to get him home, She needs his help finding a correct book.

"Look Fluttershy, I get it that you want to help out your animal friend, But you can't bring Animals into the Library." Twilight shook her head.
"But Twilight, Chespin really needs my help. How can I help him If I don't know what I'm looking for?" Fluttershy told Twilight gain, tears of worry flickering in her eyes.

Twilight, Seeing the tears forming in her friends eyes, Couldn't help but accept her request.
"On one condition! They aren't allowed to make too big of a mess of the place. And they need to stay clean, I don't want any muddy paw prints on my new floor. I only had this place for four days after all."

Seeing that Twilight agreed to her Request,Fluttershy gave her a quick hug before letting go in embarrassment.
"Thank you so much Twilight, I'm sure Mr Chespin will be very grateful for you allowing him to come. He's a very smart critter after all." Fluttershy said before she drank the last of her tea and exited the library.

Seeing her friend take her leave. Twilight thought about what books might help Fluttershy.
"Spike! Come help me look for books about animals with magical properties found in Equestria!" She called out to her Baby Dragon little brother, and started her own search for books.

Her new friend needed her help to help another friend. Princess Celestia will be so proud of her!
> Chapter 7: A Chestnut going on a hike.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

It was 2 in the morning when I woke up.
I decided to wake up this early for one simple reason.
I want to see the sun rise from the top of a mountain.
And not just any mountain.
But the tallest mountain that can be seen from Ponyville, Withing walking distance of course.

From the town of Ponyville, walking to the highest peak available, would take a pony approximately half an hour to reach the base of the mountain, and another hour to walk up it.

For me, It will take much longer to reach before the sun rises, So I eat an entire Pie, And take my leave quickly.

My fastest method of travel, after hours of testing over the past two days, Is using the move Rollout for thirty seconds, and then walk on my feet for five minutes before using Rollout again.
The breaks between uses of the move are to keep my vertigo low and my energy stable.

It turns out, That Using Pokemon Moves is more Tiring than actually moving.
By Using only Rollout, with the occasional Vine Whip for a sharp turn, I should be able to keep my Pokemon Energy, or Pokemon Power, PP for short, In check for a while before needing to rest.

By using this technique of Rollout and Walking, I managed to get to the bottom of the mountain in only forty minutes. Now Sure, The hard part begins when I actually start climbing. Rollout will be a lot less useful on an upward slope, But that's why I have Vine whip.

By Using Vine Whip while still inside of Rollout, I should be able to form a rudimentary slingshot, Where I will use the Vine Whip to throw myself forward as a ball.

I should have an hour and a half before the sun starts to rise. Let's get started!




Waking up early is normal for birds, Early Bird gets the worm and all that, And it's no different for Red.
Lately when Red wakes up, he sees his new neighbor, The Mysterious Mr Chespin, Doing laps around the clearing between the trees or rolling around as a ball around the lake, kicking up a cloud of dust in the process.
He was expecting to hear him Working out just like he did three days in a row.

But Nothing. No grunts of effort, Now Panting for breath, not even the weird sound he makes when he rolls into a ball.
It's actually quite today?

Something must have happened to him. And as any good friend and neighbor should, Red flies towards Chespin's burrow and checks inside.

It's the same as usual, Pillow, Pot, Pan, Forks and spoons. Even the pile of food he collected is still in the back, slightly smaller sure, but that's because it was eaten.
But Chespin isn't there.

Something must have happened for the usually calm and stoic Chespin to leave so suddenly? Did he move to a different Forest? He did seem to be from far away, with the unique accent he had. It was sometimes hard to distinguish his R from a W.

But for how little everybody in the forests surrounding the small town of Ponyville knew of Chespin, They were at least sure he wouldn't leave without telling anyone.

What If he's in danger?! Was he kidnapped by Poachers in order to be sold as an exotic animal? Or maybe he was training these past few days so he can get revenge on the person who stole his lover, That would explain why he was turning down and ignoring so many obvious signs! He wasn't a Heart-breaker, He was already Taken!

That Must be it! He needs to tell everyone that Chespin has gone to fight for the honor of a maiden! When he returns victorious, Bride in his arms, The whole forest will celebrate his success!

Yes!

And so Red the Tanager Bird flew away to tell everyone he knows.




"Chespin was seeing someone already?" Melina Porcupine, Single Mother and largest member of the totally secret and not at all obvious Chespin Fan Club, Asked in astonishment.

"I mean, It's the only possible conclusion, isn't it?" Red told her.

"It would explain why he never took you on with those offers you kept hinting at him." One Henrietta Heron told her friend.

"It also explains why he never smiles happily, It's only ever those small little curls of the lips form relaxation. He always seems to have something on his mind" Patricia Opossum added as she passed by, Carrying six children Opossum on her back as she does.

Hearing all that Chespin might already have someone, really put a damper on Melina's mood. But those are just rumors!
And they can, and will, turn out to be untrue! Chespin is single, he has to be! Otherwise he would have turned her down already.

She just needs to be more assertive in her moves. After her mate previous Boyfriend gave her a child and then ran away, she had to raise her little baby all by herself!
She doesn't necessarily need a partner in life, She took care of Malcolm fine for a single Porcupine.

But Just because she doesn't need a man, doesn't mean she doesn't want one.
She loves her little baby Malcolm, really, she does.

But the nights get lonely sometimes, and they get cold, And hugging her baby isn't the same as getting hugged by the big, muscular arms of that stoic, handsome rodent that moved in to the forest across the lake.

Hmmm, Just thinking about what he can do with those vines...

Come to Mama.




Almost reaching the top of the mountain, after an hour of rolling uphill at the speed of a moped, I reach a cave.

The Path up the mountain seems to stop at the mouth of a cave. Luckily, It seem that the other side of the cave also has an opening, leading to a natural balcony.

A perfect place to watch the sun rise.

As I enter the cave, I start feeling warm. I ignore it as there doesn't seem to be a fire anywhere, Only some steam coming off from a corner of the cave.
A natural hot spring perhaps, might dip in it before I head back.

As I pass through the cave, And sit down on the Balcony. I can see the mountains farther east start to brighten up.
Soon the suns first rays rise above the horizon, casting a blanket of warm orange light on everything it touches.

It... Fine, I guess.
I thought maybe it will actually look good. I guess I was wrong.
I never really was a nature view kind of guy, I guess the Summer Sun Celebration reminded me of home, when I climbed up Masada to see the sunrise over the dead sea.

I guess not even this magical world of beauty and friendship can beat home.

As I release a disappointed sigh at the thought of returning home, I feel my back get warmer again.

"It really is a beautiful sight, Isn't it-a Boyo?" I jump in surprise, How did I not hear anybody sneak up on me.

As I turn around slowly to see the source of the question, My eyes nearly pop out of there sockets in surprise.

"What's with that-a look? Is there something on-a my face? Is it my handsome visage that had all the beautiful ladies, from Campania to Piemonte, From the Northernmost point of Italia to the southernmost part of Sicilia!" I can't believe I'm not the only one!

"Or is it that I look-a like Tartaruga?" I'm not the only Human in this world!!

And as the orange tortoise with a shell full of burning coals looks at my shocked face, I guess he didn't expect the sudden hug I delivered him.

I don't care If it's burning me! 
I now know that I'm not the only one!!
There's still a chance to get home!!!

"Hey Boyo, We aren't on a first name basis yet, You don't just hug strangers you-a just met" The Italian Torkoal tells me.

"I'm so Sorry! I just thought I was alone here and I didn't know that other human like us made it here and that they're also pokemon and  that-" "Woah Boyo, Slow down there a minute, You said you're also human?" The Torkoal asks.

I nod fast as a reply, he seems to nod slowly in understanding. 
"I see, My name-a is Antonio Figlioccio, I've been a Tartaruga for maybe a month now." He's been here for a month?! I've only been here for maybe sixteen days, Seventeen if you count today believe.

"I see, It's a pleasure to meet you mister Figgliocio, My name is Samuel Cohen, But please call me Chespin." I extend out my hand to shake his before realizing that he's a tortoise.
He doesn't have hands.

Looking back at how much trouble my small feet and short hands were, I can say for certain now that I had it easy compares to Mr Figgliocio over here.

"ChesChes in that case, or Maybe Sammy? Sammy is a shortening of Samuel, Isn't it? Maybe you'd prefer Sam?" Antonio asks as he shoved my hand slightly with his front leg.
"Whatever is comfortable for you." I tell him, "Sam it is in that case."

I proceed to spend an hour talking with him about how he's been and what he's been doing for an entire month. Apparently I'm not the first Human turned Pokemon, Or weird animal according to him, that he's met since Arriving.

"Yep, There's that-a old British man, really sounds like that old timey British explorer you see in-a the TV. Looking at Lions in the Safari, Big white mustache, You know the kind I'm-a speaking of." Antonio tells me.

So There are at least three Pokemon in this Country, and I've been here the shortest amount of time between us.

After promising to visit him once a week, I take my leave from the cave.




When Red spotted Chespin come back from wherever he was sometime around noon, He decided to fly over to ask about how his duel with his romantic rival went.

But Seeing the uncharacteristically bright smile and the small hop in his strut gave him all the answers he needed.

For the first time in over two weeks, His new neighbor and fiend, Chespin, Was Happy.
> Chapter 8: A Chestnut in the library.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

When I returned to my burrow from my hike up the mountain. I expected the rest of the day to be simple and relaxing.

So much stuff happened without anything actually happening, you feel me?
I mean, I'm not alone! There are at least two more human turned Pokemon somewhere in Equestria, And maybe even more outside of it.

If I can find them, We can work together to hatch a plan to get back to earth! We could all meet up in the cave up the mountain because Mr Figlioccio can't really leave the place. Being a slow turtle and all that.

He didn't even know what Pokemon was, I had to explain it to him. He did know about The Legend Of Zelda and Donkey Kong, so at least he had some knowledge of video games, But it's still weird that he hasn't heard about Pokemon, It is the highest grossing media franchise after all.

Maybe he doesn't leave his house much? He did know older games, Maybe he doesn't really use technology. Is he a hermit maybe? That will explain why he lived in a cave on top of a mountain without any other people to talk to for over a month.

But he did say something about the other human turned pokemon he met, An old British guy who turned into a deer.
So it's a Chespin, me. A Torkoal, Antonio, and possibly a Stantler, the old British guy I haven't met yet.

As I was thinking about all the information that Antonio gave me with only an hour long talk, I hear the tapping of a hoof getting closer.
Looking outside my lair, I spot a yellow Pegasus and a white Bunny walking towards me.
Going outside in order to meet them, I ask what's going on.

"Good Afternoon Mr Chespin, Remember how you asked me to help you when we last met?" Fluttershy asked me as I walked towards her and Angel.
"Well, Twilight, The new librarian, agreed to let you come and help me look for a book that will find your home." Fluttershy smiled and Angel hopped off of her head, landing just in front of me.

"Yep, It's now our turn to help you!" He points his small front paw at me, likely trying to imitate a character he saw in a book or show once. 
Fluttershy nods her head as she continues, "Exactly, As the caretaker of the animals around here, It would be terrible if I couldn't help out every animal that needs help, Even if I don't know their species."

Looking up at Fluttershy, I am lost for words. She barely knows me, We only exchanged maybe two sentences before I asked for her help...
She really is the Element of Kindness.




The library this time gave off a different feeling than last time I was here, Maybe it's the lack of world ending villain, or maybe it's the fact that the Purple Unicorn in front of me isn't throwing around books looking for one specific cover.

Which is a terrible trait to have as a librarian, You can't just throw books around, you take them out slowly and place them on a table, not throw them around on the floor all willy-nilly.

But that doesn't matter, Seeing as the purple Unicorn, Twilight Sparkles, Still a funny name, Is looking over me with a magnifying glass that makes the eye looking through it look comically large.

"Okay Fluttershy, I've checked over these books while you weren't here, and I have to say." She said as she took her eye off the magnifying glass and let go of me, "I never seen any creature like this"

That doesn't really surprise me.

Now please move outside, I'll be looking for a book on alternate realities and how to get to them.

Walking away from the two talking ponies as they're reading through the mountain of books that Twilight has readied, looking for something they missed.

I walk towards a bipedal lizard that's organizing some books, Maybe he can point me to the right shelf.




As Spike was putting back in place a few books that Twilight forgot to reorganize, he felt a tap on his shoulder.
Looking to see who it is, He comes face to face with what he can only realistically describe as a hedgehog with green quills, or maybe a Big Weasel with a green shell?
It's not an animal that he's ever seen before, that's for sure.

"Hey dude, Do you know where the portals or teleportation magic section is?" It asked him. Now Spike, Spike knows this Library like the back of his claw, he has two if he wants to clean up after every mess Twilight makes, And  she makes a lot of mess.

But a Portal and Teleportation magic section doesn't exist here. However there is a shelf with books dedicated to the theories and study of spacial magic, Many of them older than even Shining Armor.

Telling the creature, He walks with him over to a ladder next to the shelf.
"You mind holding this While I grab your books?" Spike asks the rodent as he pushes the bookcase ladder over to the right section.

Climbing up the Ladder, Spike grabs three different books about Space Magic, and brings them down to the rodent.
Giving them to him, He thanks him and walk towards a small table, opening the first book and starting to read.

As he watches the rodent read the book, even grab a small stack of paper with a pen in order to write down some notes, He notices someone tapping his leg. Looking down, He sees the small white bunny that came over with Fluttershy and the green-shelled weasel.

Seeing the cute little bunny pulling on his leg and pointing at a bookshelf, Spike can't help himself but "Awww" At the cuteness of the little animal.

Seeing that he isn't understanding what the bunny is telling him, The bunny turns over to the green and brown weasel and squeaks out something.

Looking over his shoulder, down at the bunny, The Weasel nods and turns over to spike.
"Give him the biography of Lord Buzzwax the third, A Breezy noble from the fourth century of the solar calendar"

Looking at the weasel in surprise, Spike asks him "How did you understand what he said?"
Looking confused, the rodent returns with "How did you not? How come you understand what I'm saying but not him?"

"I don't know! Maybe it's because you're speaking Equish and he's speaking bunny talk?" Spike answered loudly, Grabbing the attention of the two ponies at the other side of the room.

"Spike, What's going on?" Twilight asks as she turns away from Fluttershy in order to check on the ruckus.
"This guy can speak with rabbits!" Spike yells as he points a finger at the brown and green rodent.

"This guy has a name you know. It's Samuel, But you can call me Chespin" Chespin told him.

"Spike, It's normal for animals to be able to communicate with each other. We learned about this back at school, Cape Confetti's codex of Wilderness and Wonder, It's in the third lesson." Twilight told him as she pulled down a schoolbook from a shelf, giving it to Spike.

"No Twilight, I know that animals can communicate with each other, It's just that he told me what the rabbit wanted, and seeing that I understood what he said, and not what the rabbit said, wouldn't that mean that he has a unique, animal communication ability?" Spike tried to explain to Twilight. Who instead of agreeing with what he said, seemed to fixate on a different point.

"You can understand what He's saying?" Twilight asks as she looks at Chespin, now back to flipping through his book, stopping every once in a while in order to write something down.

"Yes! What? Do you not understand what he's saying? He asked for books about Teleportation and Portals, I gave him ones about Spacial magical theory. The bunny asked for a biography of an old noble from six hundred years ago by the way."

Hearing him say that, Twilight explained, "Spike, If you can understand what Chespin is saying, But we can't, Then maybe it's because your a Dragon? And also Teleportation and Portals? Why would he need those? Wouldn't he need an atlas in order to locate his home... Unless!" As she was thinking of all that, she gave Angel his biography about the old nobility, and quickly headed to another room, coming back with a chalkboard.

"Spike, Would you mind asking Mr Chespin a few questions for me and telling me what he's answering." Twilight asks Spike as she starts writing on the chalkboard.

"Umm, Sure? Why not ask him yourself though?" Spike asked Twilight, Confused as to why he needs to be the one to ask answer for him.
"It's because I can't understand him, when he speaks, all that comes out for me is different sounds that make out up his name, being Ches, Pin, Chespin, and even growls. It's like if a Turkey could only make the sounds of Tur, Key, Keytur, and gobble. I can't understand that, Fluttershy here can, but that's her unique and special talent," Twilight points her hoof at Fluttershy, still digging  through books about magical species, "But I just hear the Ches. You can understand what he's saying, Spike. This will make helping him get home way easier!" As Spike nods his head in understanding, still a bit lost as to why he can understand Chespin but Twilight can't, he agrees to help her ask the questions.




As I was writing down a note about artifacts and locations that magically connect two or more different points in space with one another, I hear the lizard call out to me.

"Hey, Umm, would you mind answering some questions?" The lizard, Spike if he remembers correctly asked him as he looked over his shoulder at the purple Unicorn, writing notes on a blackboard under the title Chespin.

Looking back at Spike, I agree to answer "Okay, cool. Umm, first question, What is your name?" Spike asked as he sees Twilight writing "NAME:" on the blackboard.

Placing a folded piece of paper as a bookmark, I close the book and bring my attention to the lizard and Unicorn.
"My Name is Samuel Cohen, But the people here call me Chespin." I tell him. He tells it to Twilight, and she writes it on the board.

"Okay, Sam then, How old are you?" Spike asked the second question as Twilight starts writing more on the Blackboard.

"I am currently Nineteen years of age, I'll be Twenty come November." Spike tells her the age of Nineteen, giving Twilight a shocked face.

"We're the same age?!" Twilight yells as she quickly turns to look at me, surprise painted on her face.

I didn't know she was also Nineteen, I thought she was older? Twenty two perhaps? Guess I was wrong. Maybe my guess for Fluttershy being Twenty four was also incorrect.

"Okay Twilight, Calm down, ask the next question" She whispers to herself pretty loudly, I can still hear her.
"Spike, Ask him what Species he is." Twilight says.

"What, Sp-" "I can understand what she's saying my guy, No need to repeat it for me. I'm a Human, I'm currently in the body of a Chespin." I tell Spike, "Chespin is the name of the animal I am right now, While in Reality I'm a human who's trying to get back to his Body and Home." As Spike repeats this Information to Twilight, She takes a pause.

"Did he say Human?" "Um, Yeah? Is there a problem with that?" Spike asked Twilight, Confused to her question.

Angel, hearing what's going on, Leaves his book on the table and hops on over.
"Your name isn't Chespin?!" He asked incredulously, "We've been calling you by the wrong name all this time?!"

"Yep," I tell him, "It never really bothered me that much because I at least knew who you were talking to, It's not like there are other Chespin here that will answer instead of me. It's like calling you Rabbit instead of Angel, I guess." Seeing Angel looking at me as If I just told him how babies are made is hilarious, "So your name Isn't actually Chespin? That's just the species of animal that you are?" Got it in one.

As I explain to Angel the difference between Chespin and Samuel, and why being called Chespin didn't bother me much. Twilight calls back to me.

"Sam, would you mind coming here for a sec and take a look?" She opens up a book and I walk over to check it.

What she shows me nearly drops me to my knees.

In an old book, a Very old book, written by a Star Swirl the Bearded.
On the book is a depiction of a magic mirror, that once every thirty moons, acts as a gateway to a world inhabited by bipedal, Hairless primates known as Humans.

"I'm guessing with that reaction you'll need to use this to get back home. I'm sure If I get the Princess involved we could figure something out, But I can promise you this!" Twilight smiles brightly as writes another note on the blackboard, one accompanied with a picture of a magical mirror, "You will be going back to the human world!" She Proclaims, "Spike, start writing a letter, We are going to need Princess Celestia's permission to use the magic mirror" Spike starts writing the letter, writing down whatever Twilight Sparkles tell him before he burn the paper in a small gout of sparkling fire, the smoke that's made from it flying out of the window and towards the big city in the far distance.

After that, we talk for a few more minutes, I tell her that I'm not the Only Human here, I tell her about Antonio in the mountain and she promised she'll take some time soon to go visit him, talk about his experience here and if he needs any help.

As I get ready to leave the Library and return to my den across the lake, I hear Twilight call out to me, "Listen, Sam, If you ever need help with anything, You can always come here. It must be hard being stuck in a strange body, lost in a strange place. If you ever, and I mean it, EVER need anything. Please come visit the Library. If it's a book or even just someone to Talk to, Me and Spike are here to help" She says and Spike nods.

Looking at the two, practically strangers, that are doing all of this just to help me get back home...
I'm lost for words, What can I say other than "Thank you." That will show how grateful I am fort their help.




As I walk down the path toward the Lake, Angel walking with me after promising Fluttershy that he'll be back before nightfall, he asks me a question.

"Are you crying?" I stop walking and look back at him in confusion.
Touching my cheek with a paw I can feel a wet dampness coursing down it.
Looking back at Angel I give him my answer.

"No, It's just raining right now." As he looks up at the sky, the decidedly cloudless, clear skies, he return with a "No it's not."
I just smile and ruffle his head, making him push his little bunny arms up to try and shake my hand off.

The rest of the walk back to my Den is accompanied by a small bunny complaining about his fur getting messy me laughing about it with him.





"So is your name Chespin, Samuel or Sam?" Not the time Angel.
> Meanwhile around the Globe, Episode 1.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Hello, and welcome to the first episode of Meanwhile Around the Globe.
Many people have been wondering, Are there any more Pokehumans in Equestria.
The answer is an obvious yes.

How many are there you might ask? That would be telling won't it.

With Chespin living near Ponyville and Torkoal in a mountain, Even with an Old British guy that hasn't been introduced yet.

But Equestria isn't the only place that got Pokehumans, The entire globe has been peppered by the author to spice things up.
Will all of them be relevant or useful?
No, We won't even see most of them in these special broadcasts.

But we will show you a few of the Pokemon that have appeared outside of Equestria.
Will they be important? Who knows.

Now, Grab a snack as we watch the wonder of Pokemon in Meanwhile Around The Globe, Episode 1.






In the Kingdom of Caninia.


In the streets near the edges of the city, A Diamond Dog is sneaking his way through alleyways and corners, Bends and twists.
All to get to a certain Warehouse.

When the Canine reaches the warehouse, He looks around to see if he was followed.
Seeing that the coast is clear, he knocks on the warehouse door.

The loud clanking of his knuckles on metal causes him to jump and take another look at his surroundings.

"What's the Password?" A Raspy voice asks from the other side of the door.

Turning back to the Warehouse, The Dog takes a note out of a pocket on his vest, As he opens it up to read its contents, it a strong gust of wind blows it away.

Seeing as the note with the password is gone, The Diamond Dog dejectedly turns around.
Only to stop when he feels someone's paw on his shoulder.

Looking at who it is, He sees another Diamond Dog flashing him a toothy grin before knocking on the door himself.

"What's the Password?" The Raspy voice asks again. This time, Instead of fiddling for a note, The other Dog answers for him.

"Koala Dung" That was the Password? The First Diamond Dog can't believe that such a stupid word was chosen as the password.

As the door opens, The two dogs walk into the Warehouse. 
Inside the large metal building, A large crowd of rough looking folk has already gathered, From Dogs to Minotaurs to even a few Griffons. All Citizens of the Kingdom of Caninia.

And as the last two Dogs walk in, All the gathered crowd looks towards the Stage where a short Dachshund looking Diamond Dog is walking on. 

The Dachshund stops next a small podium with a microphone. Tapping it a few times to gather everyone's attention. The Dachshund speaks.

"Ladies, Gentlemen," The Eyes of the short dog scan the crowd, looking at the rough and tough faces that stare at him without a shred of fear, "We are gathered here today because this government isn't working." Murmurs start to voice out in the crowd.

Continuing with his talk "Queen Proudpaws has pushed our nation on to a brink of a civil war, With her sister Princess Lanternlight building her own castle across a gorge and declaring her own independence from Caninia." The crowd nods as they listen, The recent months of politics has been rough on everybody involved, And all because Princess Lanterlight wanted to destroy a historical, national monument for her own selfish greed!

"And if the childish actions of Princess Lanternlight wasn't enough, Two more of the Princesses joined her. Our country is on the brink of civil war and we the people can do nothing but watch as our incompetent leaders throw expensive insults at each other as we starve in our poverty." The Dachshund continues, Earning agreements from several in the crowd.

"Well we have had enough,We have had enough of being relegated to the sidelines, We have had enough of being treated lesser than dirt by the ruling class!" The Dachshund raises his volume to be heard over the growing crowd.

"We Are the backbone of this country! We work down to the bone just for fools Like Princess Twinkletail and Princess Floppyears to take our back breaking work and throw it into another statue to send to the other's castle!" The crowd gets louder, Soon they start to chant "No more! No more!"

"No More will we be stepped on by the royals and elites! No longer will we be unheard! We will have a voice! LADIES! GENTLEMEN! I GIVE YOU LYCANROC!!!" The Dachshund roars as a set of doors at the back and perhaps the Scariest looking Diamond Dog that most of the crowd has ever scene walks up and takes the Podium.



Moving aside to give the scary Dog the podium, The Dachshund pulls out a microphone and activates it in order to translate Lycanroc's words to the few none Diamond Dogs in the crowd.

Tapping the Microphone twice, Lycanroc opens his mouth and-




That was just one glimpse into the way the world is changing with the addition of Pokehumans into the mix.

Let us now check out another story that's been going on.





In the City of Hippogriffia


Thunder Flashes over Mount Aris. The citizens of Hippogriffia cower in fear as guards escort them down towards a large chamber underneath the mountain.

Above ground, Hippogriff fly through the air, trying to get close to the metal ships that float high above their great nation.
Each soldier reaching close to a ship immediately gets blasted with a bolt of lightning coming from the largest ship of the floating fleet.

The ship of none other than The Storm King himself.

The Hippogriff don't stand a chance, All they could do is stall the invading fleet for as long as they can. Long enough for their loved ones to evacuate below the sea.

And as the sky gets shadowed by magical storm clouds, spreading above the city like a blanket of despair, A soft cry is heard from the bottom of the mountain.

A soft sound, Barely heard over the screams of the soldiers and the flashes of thunder, but it is there.
And slowly but surely it is getting louder.

"There are too many of them sir, We can't even get close!" A Hippogriff Soldier calls out to his commanding officer but receives no response.

"Sir?! Can you hear me Sir?!" He calls again, The response from his commander in to slump over onto the ground, revealing behind him a wolf-looking creature covered with blue fur and what the terrified Hippogriff could only consider a yellow helmet, Baring its fangs at him.
Fangs that flash with electricity.



Looking down at the red puddle slowly spreading from under the body of his officer, The Hippogriff Soldier takes a shaky step back, trying to recall all the lessons he had about how to deal with wolves.
Keeping his eyes on the wolves, He slowly reaches a wing towards a scabbard at his side.

He never thought he'd ever need to actually use the thing, But he was trained with the basics at Guard Academy.

Slowly pulling out the sword with his wings and entering a stance, He sees that the electric wolf also readies itself by stretching it's four paws.

At this time, at this moment.
It's just him and the wolf, And he knows that the moment he loses his focus on the target in front of him, his fate will be the same as the commander between them.

Taking a deep breath to calm his nerves, The Hippogriff times his exhale with the start of his dash.

The Wolf seeing that the fight has started, starts to discharge electricity from the yellow parts of it's fur before starting to run towards the soldier.

Moments before the two meet in a clash that they both know only one will leave alive from. The soft cry from before sounds again.

Before a huge wave of water crashes into the blue wolf and pushes it off a cliff into the ocean below.

Looking at where the wave came from, seeing as the battle is taking place high up on a mountain, The Soldier spots a pillar of water, rising above the city as a whirlpool or a twister. And at the top of the pillar, swimming in circles, shooting blue beams of magic from the antennae on the top of it's head, is the most beautiful sea serpent the soldier has ever seen.



As a small drop of hope makes its way into the hearts of all the soldiers seeing the sight, It is quickly quelled by a loud cry of fury, Followed by a bolt of lightning striking the Sea Serpent.

A bolt that came from below the mountain...

As the soft yet powerful cries of pain leave the serpents mouth, The Soldier's heart drops as he spots the shadow behind the Serpent.

A Shadow of four legs covered in electricity, and an open maw of pure, uncontrollable lightning ready to bite down on the Serpent. It's red eyes glowing with the power of an entire lightning storm as bolts of yellow and blue lightning shoot out from the electric wolf.

And as the fangs of raw electric energy snap shut around the neck of the serpent, It's soft cries ending with a sharp snap from the wolf. A single order is given to all Hippogriff Soldiers that can hear it.

"The Civilians have been evacuated, Commence the Retreat!" And so he flew.

He flew as far away as he could. Leaving the mountain he called home behind. Only a single image burned into his mind.

Those furious red eyes.

Those eyes of The Storm.




Ooh what a thrilling story that was. I can't wait to see more of these!

Sadly, Or luckily for some of you, We won't be saying any of these fellows anytime soon.

Thank you for tuning in to this episode of Meanwhile Around The Globe.
For the next episode we will return to your regularly scheduled program. 

Will Samuel go home? Will Antonio have any significant relevance to the story? Where is the Old British guy that's been mentioned lately? 

Find out soon in A Walking Chestnut™
> Chapter 9: A Chestnut takes a day to relax.
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It's been almost a week since I last spoke with Antonio, I'll be heading over there tomorrow to speak with him more.

And know that I know that there's a way back home, I just need to wait for Twilight Sparkle to do her part and I'll walk straight through the magic mirror, I'll be home in no time.

And as the sky is blue and the air is warm, I have decided to take a day off of working out and helping the other forest animals.

I think I know the names of half of my neighbors from the little forest across the lake, Still have some names and faces to meet near Fluttershy's cabin. 
And as a perfect way to relax today, I would go to the Library and read a book.

I should read a book about wilderness survival or primitive technology, Make my den a bit more lively, But I really want to check out the fiction section of this world. How will it differ from earth when Magic is real here?

I also really want to drink a cup of coffee. My storage of totally not stolen apple flavored food has run out and I'm back to eating wild berries and making some of the worlds worst mushroom soup.

I don't even have many ingredients to make it with, I have a pot, Water from the lake, I need to boil it so I try and start a fire, It takes a while, Wait for the water to boil before I put in Mushroom, nuts and some spices that I got from the Porcupine Lady, They look and smells like a mixture of Rosemary and Oregano, So it's fine.

Where was I? Oh yes, Actual real food. Hopefully I'll be able to borrow the kitchen in the library, Make myself something more edible. Although I might need to ask Spike for help with that, Don't know how hard It'll be to cook when My arms can barely go over my head.

And so with thoughts of actually eating something that doesn't taste like the forest floor, I leave towards the Ponyville Library.




Taking the scenic route, I arrive at the library around noon, Looking around to see if anybody is watching me, I knock on the door a few times before inviting myself in.

I wasn't invited, And I'm pretty sure that nobody is home, but If they didn't want me to come in and use their fridge, They should have locked the door.

Entering the library, I notice the place is as messy as last I was here. Books were once more strewn over the floor, open on the tables with nobody cleaning up after themselves.
Shouldn't libraries have those tables you place the book on when you finished reading, so The librarian can know that it should be placed back on the shelf?

Maybe I'm wrong, I didn't really go to libraries outside of school or my part-time job as an assistant librarian.

Carefully walking over the books I head towards the kitchen, Seeing once more that nobody is here, I gently open the fridge to check what's inside and...

"...Yes..." I can't help but say to myself when I see the vegetables in the drawer at the bottom, Lettuce, Cucumbers, Tomatos. And with the Butter a few shelves above combined with the bread on the counter outside the fridge.

I can make myself a Sandwich.

Grabbing the vegetables and butter and placing them on the counter, I move to grab a small stepladder, Probably used by Spike in order to reach what's on top of the counter when he's making his food.

Grabbing a plate from one of the Cabinets and a knife to cut the cucumbers and tomatoes, I get to work.

Placing four slices of bread on the plate, I spread butter on one side of each slice.
Grabbing a nearby cutting board, I place it in front of me as I move the bread aside for later.
Washing the vegetables in the sink before placing them Aside, I grab the now washed cucumber and start cutting it into small circles, And place them on two of the four slices.

Next up is the Lettuce, Just take a leaf, clean it a bit and place it on the bread without the cucumber slices, No need to cut here.
And Finally the tomatoes, Cut them up into circular slices before cutting them again into half circles, Place two half circles above each slice of bread with the cucumbers.
And Now, We close the sandwich, Taking the slices with the lettuce, I pick them up and lower them over the slices with Cucumbers, Placing the Tomatoes in between.

Now I have two sandwiches ready to ear, Grabbing the plate and moving it to a table, I return to the kitchen to clean up after myself.
By that I mean is that I returned the lettuce to the fridge, Threw the tomato into the organic trashcan and ate the entire rest of the cucumber before placing the cutting board inside the sink and doing a once-over of the counter with a wet rag on the counter.

Perfect, If someone comes in before I finish My Sandwich they'll think I cleaned the place to be nice, And if they don't see me eating the sandwich, they have no proof I was ever in the kitchen at all.

Truly, I am the worlds greatest criminal mind, First the Apple Cart, And now the kitchen.
What's next? Will I steal a large sum of money from a corrupt government official? 




Spike was tired, He helped Twilight and Applejack collect apples in the morning because Applebuck Season is starting soon, And she roped Twilight and him into helping her.

But that's not all, After they finished, Twilight received two tickets to the Grand Galloping Gala, And now all of their friends are hounding her in order to get the tickets.
He just managed to escape Rarity playing dress-up on him. He would have loved to stay and get to know her better, sure, But playing dress-up with frilly, fancy clothes just so Twilight will give her the second ticket?

No Thank you.

And so Spike returned to the Golden Oak Library, His new house, In order to get away from all the talk about that stupid Gala.

Entering the Library, Spike is surprised to find the floor which should be covered in books that Twilight forgot to clean has been cleared, all the books have been placed in stacks on the tables.

And more surprising is all the small creatures picking up books and cleaning the place. Seeing Fluttershy flying with a sponge, scrubbing the walls clean, Spike decides that the best course of action is to let Twilight deal with it.

Walking around the creatures towards the back, He notices something peculiar.

The Stepladder in the Kitchen has been moved.
Now, Spike might not have the worlds best memory, But he knows the kitchen like the back of his hand.
He has to seeing as Twilight can't cook to save her life.

But just when he goes to investigate who touched the Kitchen, He hears chattering from the dining room.
The room itself is just a table with four chairs around it next to a window, But It's where Spike and Twilight eat their food when they're at the library.

Walking towards the dining room, He peeks in to check who it could be before sighing as he sees It's just Samuel talking with Fluttershy's rabbit.

"So The Satellite uses extremely high tech camera technology to film the ground from thousands of meters in the air, And then send that footage back to us." Sam is heard explaining to Angel, "It is then my job, or the group I am with at the time, To locate any suspicious activity in the footage, Was that building always there? Did that car pass by more than four times? Why are those people so close to the border? Stuff like that, We send those findings out to the field to have someone out there take a look. Sometimes it's nothing, The car for example was just a Kid getting taught how to drive Stick-gear by his dad, he did a few laps and the satellite picked it up as suspicious, or sometimes, It's people smuggling weapons or drugs, and we arrest them before they can do any harm."

Samuel did say that He was a Human before he got to Equestria, Spike thought to himself, I guess it's normal that he had a job as-well.
But looking at pictures from far up? That sounds similar to how Ponies drew maps a long time ago, A Pegasus would fly up high with a pencil and a piece of paper and sketch out what they could see.

So Samuel had a job similar to that, interesting I guess.

Turning back towards the Kitchen in order to begin his investigation, Spike begins to walk to the sink before he hears the door to Library slam open.

Putting his Investigation on hold, He turn to see that Twilight is back.

"Fluttershy, Not you too." She says as she spots Fluttershy cleaning the library, singing a soft tune as she does.

"Oh, Hello Twilight, I hope you don't mind but we're all doing a little spring cleaning." Fluttershy tells her in her usual soft spoken tone.

Seeing that it's about the Gala Tickets again spike turns back to the kitchen.
Only to hear Twilight yelp as she's dragged outside by Pinkie Pie.

Seeing that he might need to help his big sister our, Spike follows her outside.

Once more, Putting the investigation on hold




After having a nice discussion about what I did back on earth, I bid Angel and Fluttershy farewell as I grab another Cucumber from the kitchen and start walking home.

I didn't have the time to read any books, Sadly, But I did have something good to eat and talked about Human stuff with Angel.

Seeing as I didn't get a chance to speak with Twilight about visiting Antonio with me tomorrow, I guess I'll go alone once more.

I didn't do much today other borrow the ingredients to make a sandwich and have a chat. I didn't go to my homemade gym, which is basically a bunch of stones and logs in a forest clearing. I didn't ask Clarisse or Hank to help me over the Lake, I didn't even use a single Pokemon move today.

It was a quiet and relaxing day.

Hopefully my time here stays that way Until I can go through the Mirror back home.

I wonder what Antonio likes to eat? I should get him something.




After A long day of talks about the Grand Galloping Gala and running away from all the townsponies, Spike and Twilight tiredly enter their beds and go to sleep.

Although Spike feels as if he's forgetting something.
Something about a Kitchen appliance that moved?

Welp, Whatever it is, It can wait. 
Now it's time for bed.
> Chapter 10: A Chestnut, A Turtle and a Dragon walk into a bath.
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Waking up early, I left my den and immediately started rolling towards the mountain Antonio lives in.

The Sun hasn't risen yet, I don't have much food in my den, and there are two hours of travel before I get to the cave.
Seeing as the Torkoal that lives up there is the only other human I met since I got to this world, He's the only one I can really talk to about stuff back home. 

Sure I can talk with Angel or Fluttershy, Maybe even Red and Spike if I really feel like it. But they won't really understand what it means to me.

I spent almost twenty years back on earth, and suddenly getting thrust into the body of a Pokemon in a world of magical talking animals, with cartoon characters living right next door. They might sympathize me, but they can't empathize me.

And that small but clear distinction is why I need to go up that mountain once a week.
I need something human in my life here.

Sure, The animals here speak human, and so do the ponies, but it's those small little things in how they act and interact with one another, that distinctly cartoon feel, that will never make them truly feel Human.

It has a name in graphic design and robotics.

The Uncanny Valley, Something that acts and even looks like a human will feel natural to a viewer - only up to a point.
These ponies, these Animals I live with, Everything here feels like that, They act Human, They sound Human, But they don't look human and I can not see them as such.

In the three weeks I spent here, I have received much assistance from both the Animals, and even recently from Fluttershy and Twilight Sparkle, But it all feels to warm and fuzzy. 
Too much sunshine and rainbows.
Too much like a cartoon.
And most of all, Distinctly Not Human.

Only the Torkoal by the name of Antonio Figlioccio has felt Human, He didn't look human at all, But perhaps the simple fact that he's just like I am in this situation, the fact that he is able to emphasize with it.

That makes him Human.




After making several stops along the way to pick up berries, nuts and some root vegetables I managed to recognize.

I hope Antonio likes Kohlrabi and Horseradish because that's what he's getting.
Though it is weird that Root Veggies, Which are grown during the winter, can be found in the wild here during summer.

Another weird thing to add about this world.

Walking into the entrance of a cave I look around in order to find Mr Figlioccio.

The Balcony overlooking the sunrise, Check.
The big basin of water in the corner which steamed last time I was here, Check.
Piles of Gold and Treasure guarded by a Dragon, Che- Wait what?!

Quickly hiding behind a rock before the dragon can see me, I start thinking of what the hell is going on?
Did that Dragon eat Antonio and take over this cave?
Am I going to die soon? I don't want to die! I want to go home and make my mom proud! I can't die here!

I need to get out of here, But how? If I run back towards the cave entrance the Dragon will notice me and I'll die.

What about sneaking out? No way. My tiny Chespin body cant sneak for it's life. The only reason I managed to get away from being caught by the Mayor and whoever was with her when I was stea- BORROWING, When I was Borrowing from the apple cart was because the hall was empty and I hid underneath the cart by hugging it, holding myself close to it as to not cast a shadow....

Wait, That might work.

Slowly extending the two vines from my upper back I pull them towards the cave wall behind me.
They only reach maybe seven meters, Ten if I try and concentrate on them. It isn't much, But to get from the rock I'm hiding behind to the cave wall, It's enough,

Slowly getting the vines to crawl on the ground like snakes, they reach the cave wall and latch onto a protrusion from the wall.

I sure am glad I started working out here, If I didn't I might not have been able to do this next bit.

Making sure that the Vines are holding tight to the wall, I lift myself up from the ground like Doctor Octopus's less successful copycat, Using the vines as makeshift arms to pull me towards them without touching the ground.

I can't use this technique to swing like Tarzan or actually walk like Doctor Octopus, It's closer in practice to using the vines as a sort of grappling hook.
I need the vines to hold on to something, And then I pull them back to me. By having the vines grab on to something with a larger mass and weight than me, It turns from me dragging the object towards myself to me being dragged towards the object.

I basically created the pokemon equivalent of the Hookshot from Zelda. Just less piercing and more tying around.

After a few tense minutes of slowly pulling myself towards the wall and slowly sneaking out the cave, I finally made it out.
With the Dragon none the wiser.

I really am a master of stealth.

And now that I'm finally out of the cave I can go and - "Hey, Sammy Boyo, What are you doing sneaking around like that?"

HE WASN'T EATEN?!




Sitting in the middle of the Cave with Antonio and the dragon, I learned that no, The dragon isn't a danger to him or me.

"Yep, Razer over here is just-a borrowing a part of the cave." Antonio said as he Dragon, Razer nodded before speaking.

"Yeah, Sorry for scaring you bro, I just needed a place to go for my Dragonsleep, It'll only be like ten years of hibernation or somthin'. Oh, and you can take something from the pile as an apology, no hard feelings right?" Now I feel bad.

This Dragon might look scary, but he didn't eat Antonio, He apologized for scaring me even though he did absolutely nothing and now he's offering me to take something from the pile of treasure in the corner?

"No no it's fine, I should be the one apologizing. I didn't know you moved in and started overthinking things, I'm sorry for profiling you, Let's start fresh." I tell Razer the dragon before I continue.

"My name is Samuel Cohen, I am a Human turned Pokemon just like Mr Figlioccio here, It is a pleasure to make your acquintance." I offer my hand for a shake.

"Well, My name is Razer, no last name, and I am a dragon, It's a pleasure meeting you" He moves his large claw closer to my hand before gently grabbing it with two of his fingers, we shake hands.

"Look at that, I told you he was a nice Dragon, wouldn't hurt a fly. Now, Why don't-a we enter the water, All this negotiating makes-a me want to slip into a hot tub." Antonio says as he picks himself up and slowly walks into the water basin in the corner.

Following after him, Razer and I also slip into the cold, cave water.

Well, It was cold for a few seconds before the pokemon which is used in Hoenn to heat sauna's enters the water. And the large shoots a beam of fire into the water further back.

What was previously a cold basin full of rain water that trickled through a few gaps further back in the cave to create this underground lake, Has turned into a Giant Hot Tub.

As I lean back, relaxing my body in the hot water I feel my muscles relax and the quills on my head droop down like wet hairs.

When was the last time I actually had a warm bath? I probably smell terrible as well. Lake water isn't the best thing to bathe in, I don't have soap and shampoo and the water is usually cold.

We spend the next hour talking about menial stuff, where we grew up, what we miss about earth, before Tony asks me a weird question.

"So, How is That-a war on drugs thing in America going on?" He asks, Making me stop for a moment.

The War on Drugs was a global campaign by the United States government with the goal of reducing the Drug Trade in America. 

Pretty much everyone knows that with the many laws that have been passed since the start of the campaign, making drugs more accepted and legalizing the use of many of them, The War on Drugs has been considered by many as an astronomical failure by the UN and American Government. 
Leading to the rise of the Opioid Epidemic.

Sometimes I'm glad that Drugs are Illegal where I'm from, If I ever feel bad about how my government handles things, I look at how the Americans are doing and I start feeling a lot better.

"What does the War on Drugs have to do with anything?" I ask Antonio.

"You know, The Elections for the most powerful man on the planet are coming up and I wanted to hear your opinion on the current President over there." Now I'm even more confused, The next US  presidential elections don't happen till 2024.
More than two years from when I was before arriving here.

"Umm, Well. The War on Drugs is over, pretty much. Drugs have been legalized in enough US States that killing members of Mexican cartels won't change anything." I tell him how I see it, or at least saw it.

"So soon? No way Reagan would let it end-a like this." Wait what? Wait just a second.

"Antonio, If you don't mind me asking,What year do you think it is? Back on earth I mean." I ask the Italian turtle, This question, which might seem like a normal question about how you feel with the politics in the news has raised a big red flag for me right now.

"What year is it? Why? Did you forget already? Hit-a your head on the way here?" The Torkoal jokes with a smirk on his face, but I really need him to answer the question.

"Antonio This is serious, What year is it?" I ask again.

Seeing that I'm not laughing at his joke Antonio becomes serious, "I don't know why you are-a so serious, But the year is 1988, Why did you need to know?" I freeze.

Nineteen-eighty-eight.

That's more than 30 years ago...
Fuck.
Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuck.
FUCK!

I need to get to twilight right now! I need to get that mirror right this instant!

Antonio has been here for almost a month longer than I have, If a Month here is 30 years back on earth!?
I need to get out of here! I really need to get home!
I-I-I can't stay here!
"Sammy calm down, Your panicking."
How long has it been? ten, twenty years? Is my father dead?!
Oh no.

Oh NO.

Oh Nonononononononononononononononnononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononono.

NOOOOOO!!!!!!




Looking at Samuel passed out on the ground has made Razer and Antonio scared for his safety.

"Grab him and take him to that-a town next to the big spooky forest, He lives nearby. I don't know what got into him but-a that cant be good. Look for Someone named-a Fluttershy, She can speak with animals-a he told me." Antonio tells the big red dragon, Prompting Razer to gently pick up the unconscious Chespin in his hands and fly with him out of the balcony.

Seeing the dragon fly towards the town of Ponyville, Antonio looks around for anything Chespin might need to feel better.

Antonio can imagine what's going through the younger mans head.
He Misses his home.
He wouldn't have made a climb like this if he didn't want to hang out with him. And the only reason he might have to do so is because Antonio is also a Human.

Hearing the sound of hooves hitting the cave floor, he turns around to see the newest arrival.

"Oh my, It seems I was late. I do apologize for that, sincerely. But may I ask what all that ruckus I heard was before dear Razer flew out?" An old British voice asks the Italian, the kind of voice you might find on a gentlemen from an old movie or show.

"You're late Picard, The kid I told you about was just here. I had-a Razer take him to Ponyville down there because he had a panic attack." Antonio tells the Human turned deer creature that just came in.

"Oh no, but, Did you just say the town of Ponyville? I shall go there right this instant, to greet our new friend." And with that declaration the deer with sticks as antlers left the cave, a few leaves falling off his head as he does.

Looking at the old man go, Antonio looks down at his short and slow feet and sighs before walking towards the balcony to check if he can see Razer and Sam. 

"I knew I shouldn't have brought up politics" he whispers to himself as he sits down on the balcony.
> Chapter 11: A Chestnut that Fainted.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

The Town of Ponyville was having a relatively peaceful morning.

The Colts and Fillies were going to school, The Mares and Stallions were heading to work, And a certain pink earth pony was bouncing her way down the street.

"Ooh, It's time to get the flour from the store, the white and fluffy flour to make the fluffy cakes~" She sang as she sprang down the street towards a store to grab Flour for Mr and Ms Cake.

As she was making her way down the street, she saw a large shadow on the ground, Curious as to what could make such a big shadow she looked up and- "DRAGON! DRAGON! A Dragon is Attacking Ponyville! Everybody Run! We're all going to be eaten!!!" She screamed, Alerting everyone of the fire breathing monster flying towards their town.

Looking outside their windows, The Ponies could also see the large dragon that the pony known as Pinkie Pie screamed of. Quickly closing their own windows and locking the door.

Now with the streets empty, The large red dragon landed in the middle of a street, looking around him for anypony to help.

"Hello? Is anybody here?" The Red dragon called out, Receiving no response from the ponies hiding in their houses.

But just because most ponies were hiding, doesn't mean that everybody was.
Exiting the library, A purple and green baby dragon ran towards the big dragon that just landed in the middle of town.

"Hey, You! Big Guy!" Spike shouted as he ran closer to Razer, "What are you doing here?" He asked once he got the larger dragons attention.

Looking down at the tiny baby dragon that approached him, Razer told him what he wanted, "I'm looking for this Chick named Fluttershy, Bro. I like, Really need her help."

Hearing that the big dragon isn't here to, as his name might imply, Raze the town to the ground, Spike offers to take him to Fluttershy's cabin.

"You'll do that Bro? Thanks, But like, I really need to hurry here, Sammy passed out and only Fluttershy can help him or something." Razer told Spike as he opened his closed claw, Revealing the unconscious form of the Chespin.

"Why didn't you say so sooner, Let me climb your back and I'll show you the way, It's way faster than walking." Spike said as he jumped and climbed onto Razer's tail, Which then moved to position him closer to his neck before the big dragon took flight once more.

Seeing the town from up on the dragon's back was way different from being on a hot-air balloon. But Spike didn't have the time to spend thinking about this new experience, A friend of his might be in danger.

Pointing towards the house near the Forest on the very outskirts of town, Razer followed Spike's directions and flew towards Fluttershy's cabin.




Leaving my bed, I did my morning routine before entering the living room and putting on a kids show for Daniel to watch when he wakes up.

Walking to the fridge, I take four eggs and an onion before placing them on the counter.
Grabbing the green plastic cutting board, I cut off half of the onion before dicing it into little cubes.
After I'm done with that I take a pan from the drawer and put it on the stove, I pour a bit of oil onto it before turning the stove on and letting the pan heat.

Cracking two of the eggs, I start to whisk them until I see a few bubbles start to form, That's when I take the fluffy yellow liquid and pour it on the pan.

And The first Omelette is being made I start working on the second one, Whisking the other two eggs before pouring the onion cubes into it.

After a few minutes, Breakfast is served, I take out two plates and present them on the table, One with the basic Omelette, the other with the onion omelette.

While I'm waiting for Daniel to wake up, I place three slices of bread into the toaster.

Soon enough I hear him running down the hallway, His bright innocent face beaming with that gap filled smile.

Almost enough to forget that he isn't with us anymore.

The ghost of the hanged woman behind the walking corpse of the child weeps as I once again wake up from the familiar nightmare.




Landing outside of Fluttershy's cabin, Spike quickly got off of Razer before loudly knocking on the door.
He expected Fluttershy to come out quickly, but instead the door was answered by the white rabbit that she keeps around as a pet.

Angel, Seeing the two dragons outside of his house slowly closes the door before Spike catches it and calls out "Wait, We need Fluttershy, Samuel might be in danger!" That catches Angel's attention, And looking behind Spike at the bigger dragon, He spots an unconscious rodent in his grasp.

Quickly closing the door, he rushes back inside towards the still sleepy Fluttershy who is still in the process of waking up.
"*Yawn* Angel, Who-*Yawn*-Who was at the door?" She blinks a bit of her sleep away as she crawls out of bed.

Squeaking out a few words in a hurry, Angel rushes the now awake and alert Fluttershy outside.
Just as she opens the door to check on Chespin, She notices the large orange eyes above the maw of razor sharp teeth and she freezes.

"Fluttershy, Thank you so much." Spike says as he carries the limp body of the rodent in his arms, "Samuel passed out and he needs help. Only you can help him, Please!" Spike continues as he walks towards the stiff yellow pegasus.

Fluttershy doesn't answer Spike, Looking at the giant, pony eating monster that can burn the entire town in a matter of minutes, She passes out too.

Now with an unconscious Human turned Pokemon and also an unconscious Animal speaking Pony. Spike, Razer and Angel are in a predicament.

They can leave the bodies here while Spike and Razer call for help from someone like Twilight, But that leaves Angel to take care of both bodies, And the ponies might hide away from Razer.
They can leave Razer to stay with Angel to look over the bodies, Leaving Spike to call for help alone, Which might not be the best Idea with how slow Spike runs.
They can't send Angel to call for help since only Fluttershy and Sam can understand him.

They can all go to the town with the bodies, and hope to not cause a misunderstanding. Which seems unlikely with how all the ponies seemed terrified of the Large Dragon.

Which really only leaves Spike to go with Razer back to Ponyville to get Help, Leaving Angel with the bodies. Once the two dragons reach the town, The red giant will fly back to Fluttershy' cabin to help the white bunny while Spike returns later with help on his side.

Telling the plan to the two others and receiving a nod and agreement from Razer and Angel in response, Spike once more climbs up the giant dragon and the two fly back to town.




I woke up in an environment which can only be considered Apocalyptic.

There weren't any zombies or roving gangs of bandits.

It was a special kind of apocalypse.
A world split into three environments of hell.

I was standing on a stone circle a symbol resembling a triangle carved on to it, Most of the symbol seems to have disappeared under the weather of this place, But what I can see is that Each point of the triangle point toward a different zone in this hellscape.

The vertex to my right points towards a flat land, devoid of life entirely, cracks in the dry ground getting filled by an endless pour of rain, Lightning falling from the sky striking the dry earth, creating more crack in the process.
An Apocalypse of Lightning.

The vertex to my left points to a blazing inferno of scorching flames, The fire reaches so high I cannot see the clouds, The earth cannot be seen under the flames. Only a sea of orange, no sky nor ground, Only fire.
An Apocalypse of Fire.

And finally, The head of the triangle, pointing directly behind me towards a sea of white shrouded in freezing mist.
Snow and ice as far as the eye can see, The sky blocked out by a dense layer of fog, The cold is creeping towards me just by standing near it.
An Apocalypse of Cold.

Seeing that I cannot go anywhere, Lest I suffer one of the three kinds of hell in front of me, I decide to lay down on the stone platform I found myself on, And close my eyes once more.

And as I once again wake up from a nightmare, this time one that I never had before, I fail to notice the two bright yellow eyes staring at me from inside the frozen mists of the hell of ice and snow.




"Spike are you alright?" Twilight asks her little brother as he runs into the library, She saw him run outside when he saw that a giant dragon landed in the middle of town and she was too shocked to follow him.

"I'm fine Twilight, But Fluttershy and Samuel need your help, Right now!" Spike yells as he tries to grab on to Twilight and drag her outside only for her to leave his grasp. 

"Spike, Slow down, Tell me why you ran outside towards a dragon, what's going on with you today?" She asks the baby dragon.

"This is really not the time right now, We need to get to Fluttershy immediately!" Spike once again tells her, Too much in a hurry to help his friends to explain what's going on to Twilight.

And as Spike tries to get Twilight to follow him outside, He hears a loud swooshing sound before looking outside the window and seeing a rainbow trail in the sky flying towards Fluttershy's cabin.

"Oh no..." Spike says before quickly turning to twilight, "Okay listen, I went outside to see the dragon because he's the first dragon I saw that wasn't myself, but when I got there He explained that he's looking for Fluttershy because Samuel passed out and he was told she could help, So I went with him to Fluttershy's place to get her to help Sam, But when she Saw Razer, That's the dragons name by the way, She also passed out. Now both Sam and Fluttershy are unconscious and Rainbow Dash is on her way to kickRazeroveramisunderstanding Twilight we need to hurry!" Spike explains in one breath before taking a deep gulp of air before turning to Twilight again. 

"So can we go now?" The nod from Twilight is all the answer he needs before the horn on her head glows and in a flash of light the two find themselves halfway towards Fluttershy's house, Quickly running the rest of the way there.

As the Unicorn and Dragon get close, they can hear two familiar voices yelling out.

As they turn a bend and see the yellow Pegasus's home, They notice an Orange mare with a cowboy hat and a lasso running around a big red dragon while a blue pegasus with rainbow colored hair flies circles around its head.

"Stop you two, Stop!" Spike shouts at the two ponies attacking his new Dragon friend. But the two ponies can't hear him.

"Twilight, We need to stop them." Spike says and with a determined look on her face, Twilight's horn starts to glow before the hat on the earth pony's head gets yanked backward, pulling the mare along with it.

Seeing that Applejack looked to have been pushed away from the dragon, Rainbow dash starts to get aggressive. Delivering a kick to the nose of the giant dragon.

"Ha, How do you like that?" Rainbow Dash asks cockily as her foot connects with the dragons snout, "Don't you mess with us!" She shouts at the probably injured dragon before realizing.

He didn't flinch, And since when were those eyes so close? And where did his claw go? And what's that sou- With a flick of his finger, Razer launches Rainbow Dash towards the ground, Making her collide with Applejack and push the two ponies into a rolling ball of limbs and yelps.
The two ponies roll down the hill before they're engulfed in a purple aura and levitated apart.

"Oh Twilight, You made it just in time, We're about to teach this big monster a lesson." Rainbow Dash tells the purple Unicorn that just saved her butt.

"No No No! No more fighting," Twilight tells the Pegasus, catching her off guard, "You too Applejack, stop this nonsense." The orange earth pony looks at the big scary dragon which, as she just notices, isn't actually attacking them.

"But Twilight! That Dragon is holding Fluttershy hostage." Rainbow Dash tries to explain to Twilight, But the unicorn cuts her off.
"No Rainbow, The Dragon is looking after Fluttershy. He came here because Samuel passed out and only Spike and Fluttershy can speak with him."

"Who the hay is Samuel?" Rainbow asks, And now Twilight remembers that she never introduced the other elements to the Human turned monster.

"Never mind that Rainbow Dash, Twilight has a point. That Dragon over there never actually attacked us directly until you kicked him in the schnoz. And look over there" Applejack says as she points to a window behind the dragon on the side of the house where she can spot Fluttershy's pet bunny waving them over.

Looking at what her friend is pointing at, Rainbow dash suddenly feels a wave of guilt hit her.
Her friend could have been in danger and instead of helping her out, she attacked a dragon that in reality did nothing wrong.

As the group gets ready to head over to help Fluttershy and Chespin, they hear a series of clops behind them and an old man calling them out.
"Excuse me, Are any of you the Mare known as Miss Fluttershy?" An old man asks in an accent similar to Rarity, If only she was fifty years older and a stallion.

Turning around to see who it is that asked them that question, They're surprised to see a deer with what seems like small bushes instead of antlers.

"Mr Picard, What are you doing here?" The group now looks back at the Dragon that apparently could speak all this time.

"I can speak, Why would he be able to?" Spike grumbles in annoyance at his friends seeming stupidity.

"Oh Razer, my dear, I didn't see you there. My eyesight must be getting worse. Do you know where  a mare named Fluttershy is perhaps? I was pointed in this direction but no one answered me for sure. People these days, Absolutely no manners. Can't they help an old man reach his destination?" The Deer says with a small chuckle as he walks past Spike and the ponies and towards Razer.

"Yeah, Chick's inside, She passed out as well. You wouldn't know something about how to treat that do you?" Razer asks the Sawsbuck that's approaching him.

"She also passed out you say? Yes I can deal with that." He says before turning around and pointing at the blue pony, "You there, Bring me some Ethanol." He turns a bit more and points to the orange pony "And you, Bring here some Ammonia and fish oil" As the two ponies run to grab the items the weird deer asked of them, Leaving Twilight and Spike as the only remaining people there other than Razer and the Deer himself.

Turning to point at Spike, "Follow me, I could use another pair of hands, Mine aren't as stable as they used to be." He walks to Fluttershy's cabin, Leaving Twilight alone behind him.

After twenty minutes, Applejack and Rainbow dash return with what the deer asked and enter the Fluttershy's house with the requested chemicals.

Grabbing the bottles and taking them to the kitchen while Twilight and the rest watch over the knocked out Samuel and Fluttershy. Spike carries the bottles to the deer before placing them on the counter.

"Okay, Now I need you to do exactly as I tell you, No more no less. This is the hardest part of an operation, Am I understood?" The Deer with bush antlers asks Spike, who nods in affirmation.

"Good, Now follow my instructions, First you-" And so another hours passed before the strong smelling concoction that Spike made was placed inside the now empty bottle of Fish Oil.

Taking the bottle to the two bodies lying in the living room, Spike holds it under the nose of Fluttershy for a short few seconds before she jumps awake and starts to scratch her nose in irritation.

Seeing as Fluttershy woke up, Spike hovers the bottle under Samuel's nose, Even Angel backs off as he gets close.

After another short few seconds, Sam jumps awake and paws at his nose with tears in his eyes.

Seeing that the two are now awake, If rolling on the floor to try and catch an itch, Spike turns to ask the deer what it was he had him make.

"Oh that? That was just some home-grade Smelling Salts. They wake you right up in a jiffy. Although these ingredients aren't the medical grade I'm used to, so the irritation might be slightly worse" The Sawsbuck answered. "Oh, And I believe I never introduced myself, Did I?" That catches everyone's attention.

The Deer takes a short bow before standing straight and proclaiming, "I am Sir William J Picard, And just like this fellow over here-" He points at Samuel as he says so "-I am a Human."

The silence that came with that reveal was soon broken by the rainbow maned Pegasus asking what was on most of their minds.

"What the hay is going on right now?"
> Chapter 12: A Short discussion between a Unicorn and a Deer.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Looking at the ceiling of Fluttershy's home as I lay on the carpet, I ask myself what am I doing with my life?

I've been here for a bit over three weeks, And the only hint on how to get home is a magical mirror that only opens every thirty months.

When was the last time it opened? When is the next time it will be open?

Did the Princess even get Twilight's message?

And how much time has over there? If what Antonio claims is true, A month here is Thirty years there. But that can't be true can it?
What about my body back on earth? Did I fall into a coma? What about Dad? Who's going to take care of him?

I just Want to go home now...

And as that thought passed through my mind, as I lay on the scratchy carpet on the floor of a house I've only been inside of once.

A Pair of glowing blue eyes smile in a castle on the moon.




"So your name is William?" Twilight asked the Human turned Deer

"Why yes, As I said before, My Name is Sir William J Picard, I've been granted the title of sir by King George V himself after my wonderful duty on the field of battle, Yes yes." He nods as he tells Twilight before taking a sip of a cup of tea placed in front of him.

Hearing all of this, Twilight thinks back to what she knows about Humans. Which is to say, barely at all.
All the information she got from Star Swirl's book was a description of their anatomy and the knowledge that they do not have Magic in their world.
The only Human she met till now was Samuel, who she couldn't understand, and now William, who she can actually speak with.

She knows theirs another one in the mountain where the Dragon flew off to after everything was taken care of, But she never had the time to visit him.

She already sent Princess Celestia a message about the Human turned Pokemon as Sam called them, But the reply she got was not what she expected.

"Dear Twilight, Thank you for informing me of the troubles that plague you and your new friends.
I am joyous to hear that you have adapted well to your new life in the town of Ponyville,
In Regards to the artifact you wrote about, The Crystal Mirror, I am sorry to announce but I cannot help you with that.
The Portal will only open in 28 more months, I am sorry to tell you.
If there is any other way I can help you find a solution to your problem, I will.
Lovingly, Princess Celestia."

She can't help them. Twilight didn't deliver Sam the news yet, scared of how he might react.
His entire life was ripped away from him, And he won't be able to return home for at least two more years.
Even then the portal might not work. With him being a creature called a Pokemon, Who knows what kind of magic is affecting his body? Will the Crystal Mirror even take him to the right human world? Are there more than one human world?

Twilight won't be able to help him like this, And nothing in her library can help her either.

"Are you listening?" She snaps over to the voice that spoke to her, Remembering she was in a conversation with Sir William.

"Sorry, I've been pretty distracted lately. I have a question," Twilight asks the deer, "How long have you been here, in Equestria?"

"For how long have I been here?" The Sawsbuck asks himself, "Lets see, I went through a winter already, Maybe a year and a half, give or take?" So the Sawsbuck has been here for more than a year, How come she never heard of him?
A deer with tree branches for antlers isn't a common site, anywhere really.

"Chespin?" She hears Samuel say from the carpet on the floor.

"Yes I've been here for more than a year, Is there something you needed to ask?" Twilight doesn't think she can get used to seeing others understand the words coming out of the small green and brown rodents mouth.

"Ches, Pin Pin" Is all Twilight heard, But William obviously heard something different.

"It was 1921 If I remember correctly." That Answer seems to perk up the moping rodent.

"Chespin, Ches Ches Pin Ches" He said as he sat up, looking over to Twilight.

"He's asking about a magic mirror that can take him home." William translated for her, making Twilight cringe at what's to come soon.

"Ehehe, The Mirror, About that, Yeah-" She looks over at the Chespin, Seeing his big black eyes looking up at her as if she has the answer to all the questions in the world, "-The Mirror will be ready to take you all home soon, No worries, Haha!" She answers Samuel, Making a wide smile spread on his face as he picks himself up and hugs her tightly.

Returning the hug, Twilight can't help but feel terrible at what she just did.
She didn't mean to lie to him, She was going to tell the truth and everything!
But when she saw those two eyes, looking at her full of hope.
She couldn't take that smile away from him.

Letting go of the Hug, Samuel exits the door and Rolls into a ball before taking off. A small cloud of dust forming where he just was.

Looking back at the deer in front of her she sees a disappointed face.

"You shouldn't have gotten his hopes up, I know what he was thinking." He tells her, a scrutinizing look on his face. "He want to go home, He Loves his home, maybe more than anything else in his life. And you told him you can get him home." He explains to the Unicorn.

"You lied to him, It might have been to keep him happy. But when he discovers that the Crystal Mirror isn't going to work for him, He will blame you for it.
You just Promised him a way home, Hopefully you manage to deliver." He whispers as he picks himself up from the table and taking his exit.

As he reaches the door, he pauses and gives one last sentence "The thing I hate the most are those who bring others a Hopeless dream." He said in a serious tone, looking Twilight Directly in the eyes before he takes his leave.

Back in Fluttershy's cabin, Spike, Angel, Applejack, Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy look over to Twilight.
A silence spreads over the house before Rainbow Dash speaks up again.

"So can someone explain what was up with those two?"







Deep in the Everfree Forest.


Inside a cavern under the forest of the Everfree, A large Cocoon of leaves and spit open up.
Out of the Cocoon crawl a large Insect, The size of a short Pony, four stubby legs drag it out of its cocoon.

Looking around itself with its big orange eyes, It crawls weakly towards a webbed up Manticore that it tied up previously for this moment.

Tearing into the Manticore with it's beak-like mouth, It gorges itself on the beast.
Once the Insect is Full, it closes it's eyes and a faint purple and green glow flows out from its antennae.

As a faint hum emanates itself from the bug, It drags it's weak and emancipated body to a corner of the cave, Entering a deep sleep as the Psychic Message continues to emanate from it's weakened body.


The Pontiff has Awoken, Soon the Saint shall be released from his Prison.
And a new age shall fall on Equestria.



An Age of The Monster.


> Chapter 13: A Chestnut at a meeting.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

It's been a week since I've met Razer and William, Since then I've started visiting the library more to make my stay here a bit nicer.

According to Twilight, The Mirror that can take me back home is at The princesses Castle in Canterlot, She'll receive a letter when the Portal will open. I just can't wait!

Oh, And did you know? William fought in World War 1!? How cool is that?
And Antonio? He isn't as exciting, But he is Engaged, So he can get married when he gets to return to his home!
Hopefully we all return to our respective times, I don't really want to go fight in World War 2 When I find myself switching times with William.

But now that I know there's a way to get home, This place doesn't seem as bad anymore.

It's like an uncomfortable vacation, Sure, It's not fun, But it's a vacation, at the very least.

And as I am thinking all of this, I hear footsteps running towards my den, Taking a peek outside I see Spike, The baby dragon and Twilight Sparkle, The town Librarian, Running in my direction. Floating next to Twilight's horn, Is a letter.

I guess the time has come, If I'm getting a letter, Then it must mean the Portal is ready.

Goodbye colorful cartoon world, I Will Not miss you.

"Samuel, Thank goodness we found you." Twilight huffs as she stops running.

"Yeah, We got a letter addressed to you and we didn't want to open it." Spike added, wiping drops of sweat off his brow.

Wow, those two are out of shape. They should really work on their Stamina if a short kilometer run from Ponyville to here got them this tired.

Taking the floating letter, I eagerly open it, Excited at the prospect of finally going home, only to frown as I begin reading.

"Dear Mr Cohen,
We are writing you this letter in order to request your presence at the Royal Castle of Canterlot,
More will be explained when you arrive,
We Hope to see you soon,
Raven Inkwell"

Who the hell is that? And this also tell me nothing?
When am I supposed to arrive? 

Is this another part of cartoon logic? Like when someone says "So, Want to meet up?" And the party they're talking to immediately knows when and where to meet up?
Is that it?

I give the letter back to Twilight for her to read, And she immediately gives it to Spike without even looking.
He then proceeds to read out loud the whole thing.

That's kind of rude on her part, She could have read it and saved Spike the effort.
Dick Move Twilight. Dick move.




"You're presence has been requested?!" Twilight yells after she takes in what Spike read.

"Chespin Ches" She looks at the Human before looking to Spike for translation.

Taking a moment to understand why her eyes on him, Spike translates "He says That he's not going without knowing what it's about"

Looking at the Chespin as he walks back into his burrow, Twilight looks back to Spike, "You got all that from just those two sounds?" Spike looks at her confused, "Sounded like a full sentence to me" He tells.

Turning back to the human turned Pokemon, "Sam, you can't just ignore a request from the crown, You need to go, We can take you to the castle." Twilight tried to get the Chespin to see reason.

"Ches" she heard from the small cave dug under the tree that Samuel made into his home.

"He says he doesn't owe them anything, Not until he uses the Mirror to go home" Spike translated a full sentence out of a single syllable.

Having enough of this, Twilight sends her magic into the small den, grabbing the only living being inside and floating him out with her Magic.
"Listen up Samuel, you have been requested to present yourself in the royal castle, so you are going to present yourself in the royal castle, Now do I need to drag you there myself or are you going to act your age and walk with us?"

Looking the Unicorn in the eyes, The Chespin sighs before nodding his head resolutely.
Taking that as an agreement, Twilight lowers the human back to the ground.

As soon as he touches the ground he rolls into a ball and runs away.

Looking at the ball of green spikes rolling away from her, Twilight rubs her brow before going to visit a very specific pony.




I am not going to a castle, I am not speaking with stuck up royalty, and I am not listening to a letter from a stranger, no matter how much Twilight asks me to.

And as I roll between tree-roots and low branches, I hear the sound of air being displaced.
Stopping my roll as I look up, I rainbow trail criss-cross over the forest.

Wondering what that is all about, I fail to notice the light blue blur snatching me and flying with me out of the forest and towards a train station.

As I'm thrown out of the blue arms of the Pegasus that grabbed me, I'm caught midair in a purple colored aura.
As I'm trying to struggle out of the magical hold, I get tied up by floating ropes before being dragged onto the train by an unamused twilight, Followed by a giggling Spike.

As I'm thrown into a booth on the train, followed closely by the other two, I ask myself.

Why am I needed at the castle? And who the hell is Raven Inkwell?




An attempt at biting my way out of ropes, an annoyed Twilight and a train ride later, We get off at the City of Canterlot.

Is it supposed to be a reference to the King Arthur Mythos? But for horses because they Canter?
That's stupid.
The Naming convention of this world is stupid.

Getting dragged is a ball of ropes around the city by an angry unicorn also isn't as embarrassing as I thought it would be.
I'm not saying I like it, no.
But if I was in my original body, and the angry librarian dragging me around town didn't look like a pony and instead more like a human.
That'd be kinda hot, not gonna lie.

After awakening a fetish I didn't know I had, we finally reach the castle.
It's very big. I'm not very good at detailing things so that's all I can give you, really.

Entering the castle we are greeted by a white Unicorn with brown hair, "Twilight Sparkle, I presume you've brought Mr Samuel Cohen with you?" She greets Twilight, she didn't even give her name.

Now I might have a thing for smart and independent women, If Mayor Mare or Twilight were Human, I'd tap that.
With Consent of course.
But this Mare? Her looks hit all the check-marks, Well learned, Elegant but with that touch of nerdy cuteness, Glasses, Will look good dressed as a teacher, but her personality?

So far, Kind of a bitch.

"Yes Ma'am, He's right here" Twilight drags my tied body to the other Unicorn, who grabs me in her magical grip as well.
The least she could do is to grip harder to make up for dragging me all the way here.

"So this is him?" She says as she looks at me.

"Spike, Tell her to suck my dick!" I tell the dragon to translate for me.
With cheeks burning red, he turns to me and yells, "No! I'm not telling her that!" Which grabs the attention of the two unicorns that can't understand my words.

"Tell me what?" The white Unicorn asks the dragon, putting him on the spot.
Looking over at Twilight, She also seems curious as to what I just said.
Just translate it.

"Umm, He said that you look very good a-a-and he complemented your hair, yes, that's what he said." Spike tells her with a nod.

Looking back at me, the white Unicorn untangles the ropes and places me on the ground, her cheeks slightly red.
"You don't look too bad yourself, Mr Cohen. Now please, follow me." She starts walking, forcing Twilight, Spike and I to follow suit.

Walking down a corridor, we pass a number of door before the White Unicorn stops and ushers us in.

Looking around the room, I notice that we aren't the only ones here.
Sitting on a long table in the center of the room are three other individuals.
There's a White Unicorn with Blonde Hair who looks like he wants to be anywhere else but here.
There's a Pink pony with both Wings and a Horn, I believe that's called an Alicorn.
And Sitting at the head of the table,
A Bipedal Dog wearing a glasses and a Tie connected to his collar.

Taking a seat at the table, The white unicorn lady that guided us here closes the door and takes a seat to herself.
So why is she sitting close to me? I'm not going to try running away again, no need to keep a close watch.

I promise I won't try and run away.

because If I did try, I know I'll succeed, so It wont be me trying, it'll be me escaping.
Truly, the wordplay that I used to spread a sense of vague superiority.
I really am the worlds greatest criminal mind!

"Thank you all for gathering, Allow me to introduce myself, I am Duke Snifflepaw of Caninia and I have been asked by Queen Katherina Proudpaws to come here and get equestrian aid to stop a civil war from starting in our majestic land of Caninia" The Dog Introduces himself, Looking each person on the table in the eyes, Including me.

"Allow me to take it from here, Duke Snifflepaw." The white unicorn who say next to me rose form her seat before continuing to speak.
"Princess Celestia has agreed to send a diplomatic envoy to Caninia on the conditions that a treaty of peace and trade will be signed once we secure a peaceful solution to the rising tensions in the land." She suddenly gets interrupted by the White Unicorn Stallion that's sitting with us.

"Excuse me, but should we really be getting ourselves involved in a Civil War of all things? It would be different if Queen Proudpaws requested aid against an outside force, such as the MInotaur Kingdoms, But a war against their own country?
I believe that we as an outside influence should not interfere.
And even if we did, Who's to say Queen Proudpaws is just in this civil war?" He says as he drags a strand of hair behind his ear, "News travels fast, Duke Snifflepaws, The ones inciting for a civil war are none other than the workers themselves, are they not? Are you suggesting we, A nation with no positive ties to your country, send aid to a queen who calls on the aid of strangers and enemies in order to quell a rebellion of miners and farmers?" He leans back in his chair, keeping his cold and relaxed facade.

"Blueblood that is enough, Queen Proudpaws asked us for aid, Is it not the right thing to help someone who asks for it?" The Pink Alicorn asks the now named Blueblood.

"Cadenza, You know that I agree with you. But an old lady asks for help to carry her bags up a flight of stairs is one thing, Sending citizens to help a neutral, even sometimes hostile nation strike down on it's own citizens, Is a different thing all together." Blueblood told the Pink Alicorn, And from the context I got, Blueblood has a point.

Now, I don't know what's going on in Caninia, But a Civil war should be kept in the confines of the country fighting it. There's obviously going to be nations sending help to the group that they want to win, mostly because of either the political ideals or because they're puppet leaders, But that type of aid is kept to supplies and medicine.

You just don't send your army to fight in another countries civil war.
Because that war, isn't your war.

I don't know why I was called here, But I really don't see a point.

The only reason they possibly have for inviting me is because the side of the war that queen Proudpaws is against also has a pokemon.
There's no other reason I can think of.
And if they want me to join an envoy to stop a Civil war from starting, Then they got the wrong human.

I'm not going.




After another hour of sitting around the table silently, Listening to Blueblood and Cadenza argue about sending an envoy, With "Princess Celestia already agreed" refuted with "She Agreed on the clause that the Dogs will sign a treaty that doesn't exist", Followed up by "Isn't helping others the right thing to do?" Replied with "Is giving a single parent custody of a child after a divorce the right thing? No, But that's the law. It exists to keep us safe."

Now, You can probably guess who said what, But the gist is that Cadenza wants to help the Diamond dogs, and Blueblood thinks that that's a terrible Idea.

And if the Diamond Dogs were an allied nation asking for support against a terrorist uprising, I would have agreed with Cadenza.
But they're not, They're a nation with neutral ties, bordering on hostile, going through a Labour Revolt while two different leading parties comprised of three rulers each fight each other while the starving workers try and Unionize.

Now, I might not be the smartest guy in this room, But I'm for sure not dumb enough to think about agreeing with Cadenza on this matter.

There is now way I am going on a diplomatic Envoy to help these ponies.
I'll just go back to my den, Take a swim in the lake, And relax once I'm back in Ponyville.




How did it get like this?
Why am I here?
Why the hell am I on a boat heading towards another continent to help stop a civil war from starting.

"Cadenza, I don't know how you dragged me into this, But know that I will not interfere in your Diplomacy for the entire length of this trip"
"Blueblood, I'm sure you won't need to move a muscle, We will arrive In Caninia, stop the tensions from heating into a war, get Queen Proudpaws sign the treaty, and we'll be back before Hearth's Warming. How's that sound?"
"You say that, Cadenza, But when your plan fails and no other option presents itself to save this mission, You'll ask Me  to save your hide once more."

The White Unicorn and the Pink Alicorn lock eyes and I can almost see the dramatic tension rising through the air.
Who's going to throw the first punch?

"Good Luck Mr Samuel Cohen, The future of relations between Caninia and Equestria is in your hands." The White Unicorn mare says as she hands me a bag filled with stuff that I'll look at later, before she walks off the boat and onto the pier.

"All Aboard!" The Captain of the ship yells from where he stands, a group of Ponies wearing armor walk onto the boat and drag the gangplank up behind them.

As the ship sets sail out into the open seas, I ask myself one more time.


How did things get like this?

> Chapter 14: A Chestnut hates Sailing.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

As Twilight and Spike arrive back home in the library, Spike opens his mouth to give his opinion on what transpired in the past four hours.

"Don't you think it was kind of rude of you to drag Sam all the way to the castle, In ropes might I add, and then put him on a diplomatic mission across the ocean?" Spike asks Twilight, who lowers bags of new books she bought when she had spare time in Canterlot.

"Well, It was a request from the Princess, you can't refuse an order from the crown, Spike, Even if you really want to." Twilight explained to Spike, Which confused him.

"But it wasn't even from the Princess." That catches Twilight's attention.
"What do you mean?"

"Well, I would understand if it was on the orders of Princess Celestia, But she wasn't there. It was Raven Inkwell that sent the letter and held the meeting. The only actual royalty there were that Duke from Caninia, Princess Cadance and Prince Blueblood. And Blueblood sounded like he also didn't think it was a good Idea." Spike told her.

Twilight, thinking over what she just heard, looked back at what happened since she picked up Samuel at his cave.

He tried to run away, he was tied up in ropes and dragged across a city, he was seated in a meeting which seemed of great importance without any prior knowledge of what was going on, and then he was sent to the New Breezie port, surrounded by an armed guard nonetheless.

He really didn't want to go.
It might have looked like a child throwing a temper tantrum in her eyes, because she couldn't understand what he was saying and he looked so small, but Spike understood everything he said.

He was an adult who was humiliated and sent on an envoy for a nation not his own.

"Spike, Write to princess Celestia right now!" She shouts and Spike runs off to find a quill and paper.

She just hopes she isn't too late...




I Hate Boats, I get seasick very easily when I'm on them.
The slow ones at the very least, Smaller fast boats are okay.
Mostly because I'm too busy holding on to dear life when they jump over a small wave.

The more correct way to say it is that I Hate Being on Boats.
I love looking at them, They remind me of Grandpa.
He used to build realistic models of old ships from hundreds of years ago.
He gave me a model of one when I turned 18, It had 3 poles and 11 sails that unfurled downwards to open.
It some ship from the 17 or 18th century.

As I was reminiscing about my grandpa, another wave rocks the boat and I hold myself from throwing up.

When I get back to Equestria, I am going to ruin Twilight's life.
I Promise you this, Twilight Sparkle, you just made an enemy for life.
I'm sure I can hatch a plot to ruin her life on my way back from Caninia, I am the worlds greatest criminal mind after all.

"*Tap Tap Tap*" I hear knocking on the door to my cabin, Slowly shambling my nauseous body to the door, I swing it open, intending to hit whoever is on the other side.

I miss my shot to hit someone in the head with a swinging door, Apparently the doors here aren't even wide enough to hit someone.
Bummer.

I look at who it is and I see the pink pony from the meeting, Gorgonzola or whatever her name was.
She was a bit too optimistic so I immediately pinned her as the one in the wrong.
You can never be optimistic in Politics, take it from me, a guy who lives in a country that had seen 15 wars since it's founding, and those are the ones that were considered wars by the Ministry of Defense.

Have you seen the wiki page for the Nigerian civil war? The fucking Vatican was there! It was insane!

"Hello, My name is Princess Mi Amore Cadenza, but please call me Cadance, I thought it a good Idea to introduce myself before we reach Caninia." She gave a short bow and waited for my introduction.

Her name is literally I love Cadance What a stupid name.
I'll introduce myself as well though, It's the least I could do.

"Chespin" That's right, Chespin, Not the full name, politician don't deserve that!
These politician don't get Samuel Cohen, not after they treated me like this!

"Chespin? That's a unique name, is it perhaps Prench?" I close the door on her face.

I am not in the mood to hold a cheery, happy, lovely discussion with her.
Shambling slowly to a door in the corner of my cabin, I enter the bathroom and vomit into the toilet bowl.

Did I already say that I Despise sailing?
Because I do.




In the royal castle of Canterlot, Princess Celestia is sitting on her balcony, drinking tea with her younger sister.

Looking at Luna, she still hasn't gotten her body back to how it should look, She's still the size of a normal Pony, and her hair isn't flowing with magic like it should.

But she's getting there, she looks better than she did three weeks ago.

As she takes a sip of her tea, A Letter appears in front of her.

"Did Twilight send you another friendship lesson?" She hears Luna ask as she pick up the letter.
"Let's find out" She replies.

Reading over the Letter, Celestia blink and reads it over again, and a third time just to make sure she didn't miss anything.

"Lulu, would you mind reading this for me, I think I misread some words there" Celestia passes the letter to Luna, who proceeds to read the letter out loud, exactly as Celestia read it.

Taking the letter back and reading it one final time, She opens her mouth and shouts in The Royal Canterlot voice, a technique she hasn't used in nearly eighty years.

"RAVEN INKWELL!!!"




After a few hours of trying to fall asleep without success, I crawl out of the bed that's nailed to the floor so it won't slide around.
I crawl my seasick body towards the bag that the Bitchy Unicorn chick gave me when I got on this death trap of a boat.

Opening the bag, I check what's inside of it.
A bunch of Documents that mean nothing to me, A notebook with animals found in Caninia, A picture of the Unicorn striking what I could only guess is supposed to be an erotic pose, if her biting her glasses with her lips and the lipstick kiss mark on the photo are anything to go by, and finally, two tickets to some gathering called the Grand Galloping Gala.

I'm not stupid, I might not understand this world that runs on Cartoon logic as much as I do my own, But I understand when someone is flirting with me, most of the time at least, And  the last two object in the bag practically scream it.

Too bad she's not a Human, Because I don't think I'm going to sleep with a cartoon pony any time soon.

I might look like a Cartoon character as well, being a Chespin and all that, But I am a Human!
There is that whole Harkness test thing that sometimes comes up, but I'm going to wait before I try and use it.

As I think about how fucked up my love life is that my only two options are a Single Mother Porcupine who keeps giving me gifts without actually asking me out, and a Unicorn I met today and only spoke two sentences with.

Thinking about how stupid this all is, I grab the photo and walk into the bathroom.

Don't judge me, It's been almost four months since I last did this.

A mans got to do what a mans got to do.




Entering Princess Celestia's study, Raven Inkwell takes a seat in front of the desk.

Sitting on the other side of the desk in the Princess that called her here, Princess Celestia.
And sitting in the corner of the room, drinking what seems like a carton of orange juice, is Princess Luna.

"Raven, I'm going to skip all the pleasantries and go straight to the point.-" Celestia told Raven as soon as she took her seat "-Did you place Samuel Cohen on the Diplomatic mission to Caninia?"

Confused as to where this is coming from, as Raven got the go-ahead from the princess to send whoever she thinks will be the most helpful, Princess Cadance because she's the princess of Love, might find it easy to come to a peaceful resolution,
Prince Blueblood, because once you disregard how he acts in public, he is the type of Pony to finish the job in the most efficient way there is, It might be in order to get it done sooner, but it could also be because he's a genius of the Political and Aristocratic social climate.
And Samuel Cohen was sent because of the rumors that the leader of the workers uprising, one self proclaimed President Lycanroc, can only speak with Animals and other Diamond Dogs, sounding to all other races that hear him as if he's grunting out syllables that make up his own name, Similar to Samuel Cohen and how the Dragons and the Animals around Ponyville understood him while for most ponies, other than the Element of Kindness, He sounded as if saying Syllables of Chespin.

Telling that to Celestia, Raven looks as the Princess in front of her slumps down in her chair.
"Raven," The princess starts tiredly, "You can't put Samuel Cohen on the mission, he isn't a citizen of Equestria." She explains.

Raven knew something like this would come up, so she brought out several document to give the princess.
Reading over them once, then twice, before giving them for Luna to read over, before getting them back.

Celestia hold her head in her hooves as she sighs.

"How did you, in two weeks, manage to give the Human, Samuel Cohen, full equestrian Citizenship, including the right to vote, and Run for council, added all together with six years where he pays no tax?" Celestia ground out.

"Well, I needed someone who could speak with President Lycanroc on the mission, and he seemed like the best optio-" Raven gets cut off by Celestia.

"I understand that, I mean, how did you do it in two weeks? We didn't even know he existed until a week after the Summer Sun Celebration." Celestia reiterates, having Raven give the simple answer of,

"I'm very good at my job, your highness" Celestia dropped her head on to the desk and groaned as Luna giggled from the corner.




I don't know how long I've been on this vessel, but the days seem to blur together, Looking outside the porthole on the wall, I see the sun shining brightly in the sky, the waves calm and low, a picture of a nice summer sky.

Truly, this is hell. There's no other explanation, I've died and this is my punishment.
I'll reread the book again! I'll pray before doing anything! Will that fix this?!
ANSWER ME!!!

But I got no answer, no sign of divinity to tell me what to do.

As I'm losing my mind on the second day of the voyage, I hear knocking on the door.
Running towards the door, I swing it open, revealing once more, Princess Cadance.

"Good morning, I've come to-  What happened to your face!?" She exclaims in shock.

Grabbing a mirror from somewhere, she floats it towards me.

My reflection can be nothing more than this accursed Cartoon Logic at work once more.
My eyes are a bloodshot red with dark circles underneath them, the fur on my face seems to have elongated into a scruffy beard, I look like an old crazy seaman.

Running quickly towards the bathroom to  get a better look, I climb up a few plastic boxes in order to see my reflection above the sink.

Dear God, I look like I'm going to hunt down a white whale because it ate my leg.

Quickly grabbing a Razor and shaving the beard off my face, I walk out of the bathroom to see Cadance looking at the Photo of the unicorn that came with the bag.

Her cheeks flushing red, she places the photo back where she found it, and silently walks out of the room. 
Once she exits the cabin, she says that breakfast is ready and that I'm invited to join them, before closing the door and leaving.

Did I tell you already that I hate Sailing on boats?
> Chapter 15: A Chestnut and a prince creating a conspiracy halfway across the ocean.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

After a number of hours just sitting on the floor of my cabin, I pick myself up and exit my room for the first time since we began sailing.

Walking down the hallway, I search for something to do to pass the time.
I pass by door that I don't care to open, A window that shows the outside sea, and even a taxidermied seagull.

Passing by a few more rooms I reach a door with a sign.
Opening the door without reading the sign, I am greeted with a hall filled with benches and the smell of canned food.

Walking towards the kitchen of the mess-hall I found myself in, I grab a can of food and open it without reading the label.
Grabbing a spoon to dig into the can of baked beans, I start eating.

Look at me, I'm in the middle of the Ocean, Half asleep because of seasickness, eating canned food straight from the shelf by myself.
I hate sailing.

After filling my stomach with food that I'm probably going to throw up later, I exit the empty mess-hall and continue my walk.

Walking out to the deck of the ship, I am hit by the smell of saltwater and sweat.
Looking around at all the ponies working this ship, moving boxes around and mopping the floor.

"Oh, You're that Mr Cohen that the document wrote about." I turn to see who addressed me to be greeted with the sight of Blueblood, The Unicorn that was placed on this mission with Cadance and I. 

Nodding my head to show that I am indeed Samuel Cohen, He asks for me to walk with him.

"Listen, Cohen, I don't like this whole diplomatic mission that Raven put us in and I am sure that you dislike it as well." He says and I nod in agreement, I shouldn't be here, on this ship halfway across an ocean, I should be laying in my cave, doing nothing but wait for the Portal Mirror to open and send me home.

"I don't know why Raven put you here," He stops his walk in front of a door, opening it he reveals a cabin bigger than mine, it even has a table!
I don't have a table...
"But I know that she overstepped her boundaries." Blueblood takes a seat next to the table and points me to sit in front of him.

"You see, Raven Inkwell is the royal secretary and archivist, she's Celestia's right hoof pony, and ask anybody who works in the leadership of Canterlot, they would all tell you that Raven Inkwell runs the castle." He grabs a bag of tea leaves and places them in a teapot, leaving it over a small magical fire to boil.

"While Princess Celestia rules all of Equestria as the princess of the day, recently joined with her long lost sister Princess Luna, the Princess of the night, They aren't the best at office-work." Blueblood continues to talk, "While Princess Celestia eats cakes and reads stories to foals, Raven makes sure that the crowns money reaches the right pockets." The teapot starts steaming.

Now that is interesting, Princess Celestia, who's been talked as the perfect ruler who can do no wrong, is actually delegating most of her job to this Raven Inkwell Individual, who is the one that makes the real choices.

"Now, I know you aren't a wild animal, you can obviously write and even understand what I'm saying, so Lets strike a deal." Blueblood pours me and him a cup of tea, we each take a sip.

Nod if you agree, But I want this envoy to go so far south, that Raven Inkwell will be fired from her position, hopefully forcing Auntie Celestia to do her actual job for once." I nod, I might barely know this Raven Inkwell pony, but they are the ones who put me on this cursed vessel.

I'll probably feel terrible for this later, but right now, Getting Raven Inkwell fired from her position is something I can really get behind.

So what if an entire nation has to go through a Civil war because of it.
I think Raven should have picked some better diplomats.

"Good, So here's the plan. I already spoke with Cadenza previously on how the mission will go.
The Diamond Dog kingdom of Caninia is currently pulling itself in three direction.
Queen Katherina Proudpaws and two of her sisters, Princess Fiona Floppyears and Princess Indiana Ambereyes who invited us to help quell the unrest in her kingdom, Being the one that we shall dub the traditionalists. They will be dealing with Cadance-." We both take another sip from the tea 

"-The second group, lead by Katherina's younger sister, Princess Jennino Lanternlight and the other two princesses, Princess Ambrosia Muffinbuns and Princess Moonbeam Twinkletail. The schism began because they disagreed with a decision Katherina made about refusing to mine a gemstone deposit that was found in the old royal mineshaft. We shall dub them the Separatists, I shall be the one in contact with their group." He takes another sip of tea before floating a few documents with pictures for me to look at.

It has basic information on each one of the princesses, and another two individuals That I guess I will be contacting, If the familiar Pokemon in one of the documents is anything to go by.

"The third group, the one you will be in contact with, is the Democratic Diamond Dog Union, or D3U for short, Lead by the self proclaimed, President Lycanroc and his right hand man, Sir Rockefeller." I look at the pictures of the two, One of them is obviously a human, A Lycanroc is a rock type Pokemon introduced in the seventh generation of Pokemon games, And sir Rockefeller is a bipedal Dachshund who looks not that much taller than me.

Grabbing a piece of paper and writing down a question with a pencil, I ask Blueblood what my job is supposed to be.

"Your job, If you wish to go with it, Is to make sure the D3U becomes an active threat to either the Separatists or the Traditionalists. We need this Diplomatic mission, who's single goal is to make sure a civil war doesn't start in the Kingdom of Caninia to fail so spectacularly bad, Raven Inkwell will have no choice but to either resign from her position or be fired." Blueblood explained with a smile, taking another sip from his tea.

"This mission, will be a dark stain on the clean record of Equestrian diplomacy, The first one in over 800 years, and I will make sure that all the blame, absolutely all of it, no matter what the blame is of, falls onto Raven." A sharp glint appears in Blueblood's eye as he down the remaining tea in his cup before smashing the expensive porcelain on the floor of the ships cabin.

"I want Raven Inkwell to lose any prospect of a future job at the castle, I want Princess Celestia to get up off of her throne and actually sign some papers once in a while! I Want The Nation Of Equestria To Be back to the glory that it was when the Princess was actually active!" He stands up from his seat, the shard of broken Porcelain spinning in the air around the room as the yellow magic of Blueblood's horn holds them.

"I WANT TO MAKE EQUESTRIA GREAT AGAIN!!!" The shards of porcelain fuse together to make a statue resembling a navigational star, pointing in the four cardinal directions directly behind Blueblood.

This might backfire me greatly in the future, Blueblood clearly isn't the most stable Individual if the sudden outburst is anything to go by, but I really don't care right now.

Extending a vine from my back, I grab Blueblood's hoof and we shake on a deal.


"I am sure that this will be the birth of a beautiful friendship" A smile stretches on my face.

I'm sorry Cadance, But I'm going to have to ruin your peaceful negotiations soon.

Raven Inkwell, You are done.
> Chapter 16: A Bunny and a Bug meet in a forest.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Sometime during the third night of the sail towards Caninia, A white rabbit woke up in Ponyville.

The Sun hasn't risen, All the ponies were asleep. And that night, Angel had a dream.

It wasn't his Usual dream of his mother leaving him on Fluttershy's doorstep as a baby, It wasn't even the dream he started seeing recently of Fluttershy and her friends entering the Everfree Forest to fight Nightmare Moon, never to return.

No, This dream was new, It was unique.
In the dream, Angel saw a monster.
A monster so large its form towered over the horizon, Its massive arms moving through the skies, the winds created shaping the land like a painter with a brush.
Its blue fur singed with flames that burned a dark yellow, and its glowing red eyes looking down at all living things in its sight.
It could be nothing more than a dream, Angel knew.
A monster like that could never exist in the real world, It would collapse under it's own weight, only the most powerful of magics could sustain it, and Angel knew that nothing like that existed.

But the monster wasn't the thing that woke him up, It was the voice.
"The Pontiff has awoken, Soon the saint shall be freed" Angel doesn't know what a Pontiff is, but it must be important if he dreamed of it together with such a monster.

But the thing about the voice that woke him up, wasn't the strangeness of it's context, or that he didn't know what one of the words means, But how it sounded like a whisper coming from outside.
Outside of his dream, somewhere in the real world.

And the Idea that something out there would whisper in his ear while he slept was scarier than any dream he ever had.

Jumping out of his small bed, he hopped up the stairs to check if Fluttershy heard it too, but when he reached her room, she was still fast asleep.

Going back down the stairs, Angel figured that it was just a scary dream and he was overthinking things.

Snuggling under his tiny blanket, Angel closed his eyes and just before he could fall back to sleep, he opened them.
"The Pontiff has awoken, Soon the saint shall be freed" He heard it again, but this time he was awake.

Looking outside a window to see if he could spot any pony creeping around the house, he is shocked to instead see groups of animals sleep walking towards the Everfree Forest.

Quickly going outside, Angel runs towards them to try and wake them up.
After nudging, pushing and even yelling at some of the animals to wake up, he reaches the outskirts of the Everfree.

A few more hops and he will be in the most dangerous situation of his life.

He could go back and try to wake up Fluttershy, but by the time they get back, all the animals will be long gone.
Angel will need to follow them into the forest.

Entering the Everfree forest for the first time is terrifying for Angel, the trees and leaves are so thick he can't make out the sky, and the hordes of sleepwalking creatures aren't really helping calm him down.

Seeing that he is in an undoubtedly dangerous situation, Angel asks himself one question, "What would Fluttershy do?"

After thinking over that question for a short bit, He reaches the conclusion that she would go ask for help, but right now is too late for that, so the second thing she would do is stiffen in fear before fainting, which won't help anyone right now.

So seeing as thinking like Fluttershy won't help anyone, He asks himself a different question, "What would Samuel do?"

According to Sam, he is part of the army from where he's from, and Angel knows that in the army they are trained to fight and protect each other, Seeing as Angel doesn't have the training that Chespin obviously has, He thinks of what else he would do.

Ignore the problem and hope it will go away? Angel can't do that! These creatures could be in danger, He doesn't know where they're headed.

There must be something he can think of that can help!

And as he starts to rack his brain for ideas, he bumps into the back of a snoring squirrel.
Looking around him, and seeing that the animals have stopped moving, Angel takes a peek ahead to see what going on.

He knew the Everfree was dangerous, but he didn't expect to see an insect the height of a tall colt to crawl weakly towards one of the sleeping animals. Open its beak like mouth and suck into it a pink and purple mist that's coming out of the sleeping creature.

He also didn't expect the creature to have the purple mist sucked out of it to collapse on the ground as it's legs gave out beneath it.

Walking to the next sleeping animal, the large bug does the same thing. It eats the weird pink mist, the animal gets weak and collapses, and the bug moves on to the next meal.

Knowing that he needs to get out of there, Angel quickly hops back in the direction he came from.

As he exits the group of sleeping animals, he suddenly finds himself floating backwards in a purple aura.
Floating towards the bug.

"And What have we here? A small bunny who couldn't sleep?" Angel hears an aged voice in his mind. Looking at the bug, he notices the orange tips of it's antennae glowing with a purplish-pink color.

"What are you doing? Let go of me!" Angel shouts at the creepy bug, Hoping it will release him from the magical hold it has on him.

"And why should I do that?" The orange bug asks, looking at the floating rabbit with a scrutinizing eye. "You know of my doings in this here forest, for what reason should I let you go? So you could run and tell all the other animals and men to steer clear of the woods?" The large moth leans down to look at Angel, "How will I get my food then?" 

Swallowing the saliva that's been forming in his throat, Angel quickly thinks of an excuse to be let go, but before he can give it, the bug continues.

"Let us two strike a deal, I ask you a question and if you can give me an adequate answer, I will let you go." The Moth tells Angel, and without waiting for his answer, it asks.

"Do you know a human?" Angel pauses, he knows human, he actually knows two of them.

Nodding his head upside down in the telekinetic grasp, Angel gives his answer. "I know a human, yes."

Seeing the eyes on the bug squint at him make Angel feel all the more smaller than he already is compared to the bug.
Knowing that his life might end at any moment because this Moth decided to do away with him.

"And who is this human?" The bug now asks, Now The easy answer is to give away Samuel. He knows he's a human and if he ever wanted to throw someone under the bus, He would be an easy target.

But Angel isn't the type of bunny to throw away a friend like Sam just to save his skin, and luckily for Angel, he knows another human.

"His name is William J Picard, He looks like a weird deer" Angel feels sorry for throwing out the old man like that, but it was either him or Sam, and Angel wasn't going to throw his Rodent buddy out like that.

"Sorry Mr Picard, But I'm not throwing Sam away, not like this at least", Angel thought to himself as the orange bug releases him from his telekinetic hold.

"Go Home, Little Rabbit. I am releasing you as I have ordained to." The Moth says as Angel picks himself up and start hopping away quickly, leaving behind him the still sleeping animals and the orange moth, but not before hearing the voice of the Orange Moth echo in his head once more.


The Pontiff has Awoken, Soon the Saint shall be released.


Beware, Little Rabbit, Of those who hide between your fleece.

> Chapter 17: A Chestnut has a makeover session.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

After Blueblood and I shake on the plan of ruining diplomacy, He brings out a briefcase from the corner of the room.

"We might be fellow politicians for next month or so, but you can not go around like that if you wish to be taken seriously" Blueblood said.
The meanest part wasn't that he indirectly called me ugly, or a politician, but that he said so as if it's a matter of fact.

Uncompromising in his decisions so far. He might be insane, but I kind of like this guy.

Clapping his hooves twice, he opens the briefcase and out walk two marionette ponies wearing wigs and maid outfits.
The doll with the green wig holds a bundle of cloth while the doll with a red wig holds sewing equipment.

"Now, these two are Mint and Pepper, puppets created as my two personal maid. You can't trust an actual pony to do important work, they always find a way to mess up the order. Mint and Pepper were made specifically to understand the orders perfectly." He explained as the green haired maid, Who I'm guessing is Mint places the different fabrics and cloths on a table she opened up.

The red haired puppet, Pepper taps my shoulder and moves her legs a bit, "She's asking you to extend your arms" Blueblood explained.

I did as she asked and felt a ruler press against my side under my arms, Turning around to check my other side, I hear Blueblood say something "I will be back to check on their progress soon, Do not worry Mr Cohen, By the time we're finished, you will look as good as you might ever be. I'll bring snacks" He then proceeds to leave the room, leaving me with the two wig wearing puppets.

Seeing the empty wooden eyes on the puppets should be scary, but with the wigs and outfits, and how they keep moving at all times, never really staying in the same place.
It makes them look pretty comical.




After twenty minutes Blueblood returns with a plate of crackers and a bowl of cheese dipping, to find me checking myself in the mirror, wearing a tiny brown suit with a lighter brown undershirt and dark green tie, creating a match for my new bodies color scheme.

Sadly I can't wear pants, seeing as I'm the height of a toddler.
I'm gonna have to be Donald Ducking it.

Placing the snacks on the table, Blueblood leans in to look at my new, and first, piece of attire in this new world.
Looking closely at the suit, opening it to check the undershirt and even untying my tie just to tie it again, Try saying that three times fast, he leans back and with a bit of magic, floats over a small badge which looks like the mark on his behind, and places it on my suit.

Looking again at my suit, he gives a slow nod, before taking a seat at the table and inviting me to join him.

"It's adequate, I guess. It could use some improvements but with the resources we have, It shall do." We both dip a cracker in cheese and eat in silence.


 

Later in the afternoon I bump into Cadance while eating more food from the kitchen.

"Oh, Chespin, I would like you sincerely apologies for my misconduct earlier today, I should not have looked at that picture you have, I understand the feeling of being away from a lover and the need to remember them. I actually have a photo just like that from my Fiance, I could show it to you if it will mend the bridge which I seem to have unknowingly burned" She gives bow and I can't help but feel sorry to her.

I kind of acted like a dick to her yesterday and this morning, She didn't deserve that.
I was mad at being put on this annoying boat against my will and being forced into this diplomatic mission, I shouldn't blame Cadance.
Now that I know that this Raven Inkwell is behind all of it, I would also like to start over.

"It's fine, I apologize for how I acted earlier, I shouldn't have taken my anger out on you, I'm sorry" There. short, simple, explains everything.
It's the perfect apology.

Cadance looks confused at me before saying "Chespin Ches Ches Pin Ches" What the heck is that supposed to mean? Is she trying to copy my language, this is So Funny!

Acting offended at what she said, I return with a furious "Ches! Pin Pin Ches! Ches Ches Pin Ches!" How dare she say that about my grandpa, this monster.

Looking scared at the outburst I had, she quickly corrects herself by saying "I am so sorry! I tried to apologize in your language but it seemed I offended you. Please don't be mad, I'll make it up to you!" She then runs out of the Kitchen.

Only to come back ten seconds later, grab a packet of Tofu and a can of soup and leave once more.

Maybe these two royals aren't as bad as I first Imagined.




Back in Canterlot castle, Princess Celestia is reading a report about sleepwalking animals outside of Ponyville when she receives a letter through the magic fire of Spike the young Dragon.

Putting her Important but boring work on hold, she takes a bit from a sandwich she had made beforehand before wiping the crumbs off her mouth with her wing and opening the letter.

Reading it, she is happy to learn that it's not Twilight who sent the letter, But Spike himself, who is curious as to the being of his friend.

A Friend who Raven Inkwell has sent on a diplomatic mission oversees to a nation with no formal allegiance towards Equestria or it's people.
Something she shouldn't have been able to do in the first place if she didn't give the Human equestrian citizenship.

Which Celestia thought to be impossible. circumventing a lot of rules to achieve such a thing was something Luna would do, Not Raven, who for nearly a decade has been the most dependable secretary she had.

But she managed to give him that citizenship with the use of an old law she wrote hundreds of years ago when she was drunk and never remembered to revoke.

Apparently, Giving a wild animal citizenship is possible if the animal in question is shorter than two barrels of grain stacked on top of each other and has been in a scandal.

Apparently being a Human turned into the animals knows as a Pokemon counts as a Scandal, and since Mr Samuel Cohen is obviously shorter than two barrels of grain, so it's all legal.

Even the tax thing that Raven did is legal, under an even older law that Luna and her wrote when they were still being taught by Star Swirl the Bearded on how to be Princesses.

Writing a reply to Spike, stating that Samuel Cohen is healthy, and according to a note she received from her nephew Blueblood, actually looking forward to reaching Caninia.

Sending the letter to the young Dragon, Princess Celestia decides she worked hard enough today and deserves a treat.

"LUNA! I'M Ordering food, do you want anything?" She shouts out of her window towards Luna's tower, and proceeds to write an order of stir fried vegetables and rice to pass on to once of her butlers to go grab.

Luna should have answered faster if she wanted something.

Leaning back in her chair she looks at the four papers she read and signed throughout the day, the half eaten sandwich on her desk, and the open ink bottle.

"I love being a Princess" She smiled and closed her eyes, catching a short nap.
Only to wake up hearing a loud slam on her window.

Quickly opening the window to see what's happening, she is greeted with Luna looking at her panicking.

"It's Gone!" She yells at Celestia, Grabbing her head and dragging her over to look outside the window.
Pointing at a spot on the moon, which started rising over the horizon, blanketing Equestria in night, Celestia asks what's gone.

"The Nightmare, the one that the elements of Harmony sent back to the moon! It's Gone!" The Princess of the night yells at her sister.

Sometimes, Celestia misses the days when all she had to worry about was If there was enough wine glasses at the Gala, at least that didn't spell major disaster to the land.

She still loves being a Princess.
> Chapter 18: A Chestnut Dreams of Home.
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Earth, IDF Communications and Logistics base, South, 2022.


"Good work everyone, Your work is done for the day, You can take the weekend off, Go visit your family. Shoshan, I heard your wife gave birth recently, congratulations. Isaac, I've been told your sister is getting married soon, go visit her. Oh, And Cohen, I want to see you in my office." The Sergeant  in charge of our Surveillance team tells us.

Why does he want to speak with me? Did I do something wrong? It's still my first month here, I really hope I didn't mess anything up.

Saving the Data on the computer and packing up my bag, I head towards the Sergeants office, knocking on the door.

"Come in" He called and I entered, I placed my bag on the side of the chair in front of his desk, and took my seat.

Looking around the room, I spot pictures of him in his younger days, back before his hair started to grey, A flower vase and an old landline phone.
On a shelf next to a book case filled with law books and bibles, There's a glass case, inside of it are a bunch of military badges.

"Samuel, Do you know why I brought you here?" The sergeant asks, as he leans forward in his chair to look me in the eyes.
"No sir, I do not" I answer truthfully, I do not know what I did to warrant my boss to call me here.

"I've noticed you haven't been going home on the weekends, Is there a reason for that?" He asks as he pulls a Cigarette out of a box, He offers me one but I turn it down.

I don't smoke.

Lighting the cigarette, He takes a pull before blowing smoke to the side, and immediately throwing the cigarette out of his mouth into a trashcan.
"Here in the Surveillance sector, we have what might be the most important job in the army, We make sure our soldiers aren't walking into ambushes, we make sure they get the right person, we make sure no weapons cross the border.
We are part of the reason the Syrians and Lebanese haven't tried starting another war.
And we need all our soldiers to be ready for duty, physically and mentally." He explains as he takes out another cigarette, takes a single puff and throws in away.

"I want you to go home, kid. Visit your Dad, take some time off." He tells me and points to my face. "Did you look at yourself, kid? The spots beneath your eyes make you look like a raccoon, You've been working more than any of the new Hogrim. As your leading officer, I am ordering you to go home for the weekend." He orders.

"Understood Sir" I answer, grab my bag and take my leave. I can't disobey a direct order, even if the order is to go home for the weekend.

Exiting the base, I see the bus taking the other enlisted to the train station, I look for a car that's also going in that way.

I am not going on a Bus.

After a few minutes, I managed to grab a ride to the Beit She'an train station, From there, its an hour more to reach Haifa and another thirty minutes of walking before reaching home.

Entering the apartment where I live with my dad, I take off my shoes, stand a minute in front of the vase next to the mirror, and head to my room.

Looking around I spot my old 3DS, my Nintendo Switch and even my old PC setup.
I haven't played with them in months, I still need to finish my New Super Mario Brothers U Deluxe save file, Never managed to beat Kamek, Too annoying.

Placing my bag on the floor of my room, I take off my uniform and throw it on top of the bag. Looking at my shirtless body in the mirror, I flex my muscles just to see how much my body changed in the past six months.

I actually have abs now!

Lying down on my bed, I close my eyes for a few second, reminiscing on the past six months in the army.
Only 22 more to go.

"Samuel, Is that you" I hear my dad call out from the living room, "Yeah" I call him back.

Maybe Sarge was right, I should have come back sooner.

I soon close my eyes and go to sleep.

And not once, Did I see Daniel or Mom this time, This might be a good thing for me.

And not once did I notice, the blue slit-eyes looking at me from a dark corner of my room.




Waking up to a loud knocking on my cabin door, I roll out of the uncomfortable bed and land on the cold floor of the metal cage called a ship.

"Wake the hay up Rodent! We're In Caninia, Get off the ship!" I hear an annoying sailor shouting at me to wake up.
I guess they noticed the missing food.
Checking my Cartoon pocket to find that the food I Didn't Steal is still there, I put on the suit that Blueblood's puppets made for me, and exit the room.

"You're awake, great, Get off the ship and take your rats with you." The cream colored earth pony sailor says as he looks down at me with disgust. On his hip is an illustration of an anchor.
Asshole.

Heading to the top of the ship, I meet up with Cadance.

"Good Morning Chespin, I apologize for yesterday. I baked you some cookies to make it up to you. The ingredients are from the pantry so I apologize if they don't taste very good, I'll make you more when we're back in Equestria." She floats over a plastic container filled with butter cookies.

She really didn't need to do this, I should apologize, I was acting offended because I thought it would be funny to see her reaction.

Opening the container, I grab a cookie and hand it to her. "I'm sorry for how I acted Cadance, Here, have one of these cookies I Made."

She looks at the cookie I'm handing her, and responds "Thank you for offering a cookie, Mister Chespin, I will gladly accept" She takes the cookie and bites it.

Seeing her face squeeze in what can only be disguised as disgust for the taste of the cookies, She coughs to hide her face behind her hoof.

Looking down at the cookies that obviously don't taste good, I smile as A plan to get information in the capital city starts to form.

Getting off the boat and meeting up with Blueblood and the Duke dog that I totally forgot was here with us, we enter a carriage and start heading to the City of Diamondia, the Capital of the Diamond Dog kingdom of Caninia.

And as my plan on how to get information in the kingdom continues to fester in my mind, a wide smile grows on my face.

I Truly am, The Worlds Greatest Criminal Mind.
> Chapter 19: A Chestnuts first day on foreign soil.
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Have you ever ridden a carriage?
Its uncomfortable, The wheels have no suspension to keep the cart on the ground.
Every little bump on the road is felt.
And the seats aren't comfortable at all, even with cushioning.

And it was in that uncomfortable ride that I spent an hour plotting on how to get the D3U to become a more active threat.
I never had any experience as an ambassador, And I can't talk with anyone here other than other humans and animals.

And for a lot of the time here, I'm going to have to be alone, With Blueblood with the Separatists and Cadance with the Traditionalists, leaving me alone with the Democratic Diamond Dog Union.

But, as luck would turn out, Cadance just gifted me a box of cookies.
Cookies that can be used as incentive for creatures that don't know good food.
Creatures Like Rats.




Reaching a tall hill overlooking the capital city of Dimondia, The Cart stops. The Horses, actual horses, not Ponies, but wild animal horses, refused to go further.

"C'mon you aggravating bums, it's only twenty more minutes!" The Stagecoach of the carriage yells at the four horses that pulled us.

"What is going on?" Cadance asks the driver, who grumbles how the horses refuse to move, Duke Snifflepaw wipes sweat off his brow at the inconvience that's being caused and Blueblood simply closes his eyes.

Peeking my head out the window of the carriage, "What's going on out here, why did we stop?" I ask the horses.

"You understand what we're saying?" One of the horses asks, And I nod in return.

"Well, You know how the capital is split in three factions, right?" A second horse tells, prompting a third horse to continue, "Yeah yeah yeah, that President Dog, Real Scary guy. Said that he'd make us into glue if we bring the Princesses any help. And seeing as your group is here to help Queen Katherina, Well"

The fourth horse finishes with "We Aint gonna become Glue, no Sir! You're gonna have to walk the rest of the way! We Ain't movin'!"

Sliding back into the carriage, I take out a piece of Paper from my CPP and write down what the horses said.

"So President Lycanroc doesn't want us here, Seems like he wants the Civil War to happen. Well, If we have to walk, then sadly we'll walk." Blueblood said after reading my paper, Lifting his luggage in a telekinetic grip, and exiting the carriage.

"I'm so sorry, your highness," Duke Snifflepaw and the Driver bowed as Cadance exited the carriage. "If we knew this would happen, we would've taken a different route."

"No need Sir Snifflepaw, I am sure that the walk to meet with Queen Katherina will be short, Seeing the City on the way there will help us think of a solution." Cadance answered the Duke, Lifting her own luggage and walking down the road.

Stopping next to me, She offers to carry me on her back, so I wouldn't need to run after them.

I begrudgingly accept.

I mean, My feet are very small, so I can't run very fast. And I'm not going to roll into a ball after them, That'll ruin the new suit.

So now I'm sitting on the back of a magical princess, as we, a group consisting of a Princess, a Prince, a Duke, and a Human turned fictional Rodent, Make our way to the capital city of Dimondia.

What can go wrong?




We soon reach the streets of the City, where the Dirt Road turns into paved stone, and the trees and hills turn into brick and mortar.

Duke Snifflepaw said to go to the older castle, the one made of Grey and Blue brick, as that's where Katherina is.

Looking at the Castle in front of us, We see that it's not the castle that Snifflepaw described.

Seeing as the castle in front of us is sparkling new, made of white marble and gold bricks.

"Perhaps the Duke misremembered the coloring, He did wear Glasses, Maybe he's color blind" Cadance, I don't think he misremembered, I think we're at the wrong castle.
You should try to be less optimistic at everything, this is a serious matter, I'm trying to get a pony to lose their job.

As our now smaller groups nears the entrance of the obviously wrong castle, We are stopped by a group of guards wearing Silver and Steel armor, holding shiny metal spears.

"Halt, State your business!" The lead guard yells as the group if Dogs surrounds us.

"My name is Prince Blue-" Blueblood gets interrupted by the guard, "Not you, The Alicorn! What is a Princess doing outside our castle"

Now with all the eyes looking at Cadance, I remember that this world runs on cartoon logic, So there are only two ways this could end.

One, We get invited in and receive a warm welcome by Princess Lanternlight, or Two, We get arrested and thrown into the dungeons.

And which one of these will happen all depends on how Cadenza answers this question.




I knew this would happen, But I still wasn't prepared for it.

As Cadance, Blueblood and I are seated in a dining room, A retinue of chefs enter the room and place plates upon plates of food on the table.

Looking to the other half of the table, I spot two empty chairs, and one occupied by a Bipedal Labrador wearing a pink skirt.

"I am once again, apologizing from the bottom of my heart on the misunderstanding with the guards outside, I hope you understand" The Diamond Dog said as she picked a plate with chicken wings and placed two on her own plate.

"No need to apologize, Princess Muffinsbuns," Blueblood told Ambrosia Muffinsbuns, one of the three princesses in charge of the separatists. "With the tensions rising in and around Caninia, It is only natural for you to keep your guard up at all times"

"Please Prince Blueblood, Call me Amber" She gave a smile and put some salad on her plate.

As The two of them talk, Cadance and I put food on our plates as well.

Salad and Pasta for Cdance, and for me.

I get to eat Meat.

For the first time in since I got to Equestria, For The First time in the past Month! I get to eat cooked meat!

Finally! Something that isn't Nuts, Berries, Roots or Baked Apples.

Real, Cooked, Red Meat!

Grabbing a plate with beef tenderloin dripped in red wine sauce with mashed potatoes, I take a deep breath to savor the smell.

So this is how you Dogs eat, You're not so bad Princess Muffinsbuns.
Currently My number one favorite Royal.

Followed closely by Blueblood and Cadance, of course.

Right as we all get ready to dig in, The Dining room door opens and in comes a Diamond Dog wearing a blue cloak and a red collar, Her look resembling an English Springer. A Type of Spaniel dog.

"Sorry for being Late, I only got the news that we had visitors and had to run down the tower, Excuse me." The Dog says as she bends leans with her hands on her knees to catch her breath.

As she looks up, she sees the us getting ready to start lunch.

"Oh, Excuse me again," She says as she takes a chair next to Ambrosia, "You probably know this already, But I am Princess Jennino Lanternlight, Ruler of this side of Caninia and one of six princesses. Well, Five Princesses now that Katherina is Queen" Princess Lanterlight introduces herself, "But please, Call me Jenn, I like to keep things casual around here" She says as she also grabs a plate of food from the table.

Now with only one chair left empty on the table, We look towards the last door, waiting to see if the third Princess will join us.

"Oh, Moon won't be joining us, She left to check on a town a few hours away, she won't be back till dinner" Jenn says as she sees us looking at the door.

"Oh, Well then, Allow me to introduce myself to you Princess Lanterlight,  My name is-" "Princess Mi Amore Cadenza, distant relative of the ancient Princess Amore of the Crystal Empire, Niece of Princess Celestia of Equestria, and a Pegasus turned Alicorn, Yes I know you" Jennino finished, gaining all eyes in the room back on her.

I'm just going to start eating, I can't wait for them to keep talking, I have a big juicy steak in front of me!

"Oh, Yeah I had to do a lot of research in order to get this whole Separation from Katherina possible, One such things I learned was the names and description of all current Royalty on the Global Circle." Jenn continues, "Sorry that I cut you out by the way, But seeing you reminded me of the lessons my tutor had to give me to memorise all of this."

Jennino keeps talking.

"And you are Prince Blueblood, Nephew of Princess Celestia and last remaining member of the ancient Unicorn Royalty Bloodline, Descended from Princess Platinum." She look to Blueblood and says.

Next she turns to me, "I don't actually know who you are, Would you mind introducing yourself little buddy?" Did she just call me Little Buddy?
Just Because I'm cute doesn't mean I am a toy!
Although she also seems cool, for now, She also isn't a pony that walks on four legs, Might be nice to hang out with people that can use their hands while they walk.

Bipedal Supremacy and all that.

Grabbing a nearby napkin, I take a pen out of my CPP and write down my name.

"Samuel Cohen is it? Very well, My name Is Jennino Lanternlight, Princess of Caninia, and I would like to be your friend" She finishes with a bright smile, showing off her white canines.

I obviously agree, Having a friend with Royalty is always useful.

"What? That easy? Cool. Since we're friend now, I'll show you to your guest room after lunch. You two wouldn't mind If I keep him around for a while, do you?" The Princess asks the two Pony Royalty.

"Just a second Princess Lanterlight, I need to have a word with my associate here" Blueblood says as he grabs me by the shoulder and pulls me out of the room.

Before the door shuts behind us, Leaving Cadance alone with Jenn and Amber, I hear Jenn ask Cadance "So, Why are you here anyway?"

The Door to the dining room now closed, leaving Blueblood and I alone in the hallway outside.

"Listen Samuel, Change of Plans, You are to be with a Separatist while I take your spot with the D3U. You seem to already have built a connection with their leader, Hope this won't change the plan too much, Good? Good. Now back to business" After Blueblood looked me in the eye and told me all that, he opened the door back up.

I mean, I can take his spot here, sure, But I had this entire plan of building a network of spies by bribing the rat population that live in the city by giving them Cadance's bad cookies, Oh well.

Opening the Door to dining room, We see Cadance and Amber eating their food, while Jenn is leaning on her elbow, poking a meatball with a fork, pushing it around her plate.

Seeing us enter, Jenn calls out "Samuel, come, sit next to me, Moonbeam isn't here and this chair is comfier" Feeling a tap on the back, I see Blueblood nod to me, subtly pushing me to accept this deal.

As If refusing it could Spell the end to Operation: Get Raven Inkwell Fired.

Grabbing the seat next to Princess Lanternlight, I see that my plate of steak and mashed potatoes has been moved over, that's nice.

After twenty minutes, we finish eating, And Ambrosia Muffinsbuns guides us to a living room, with a pillows on the ground and a set of tea cups.

"So, Cadance already told me that Katherina called you here to make sure this Dispute isn't going to end in War. I get it, I really do, I also don't want war with my own Sisters." Jenn Starts as we all grab a spot to sit.

"Yes, While Katherina has been full of herself ever since she succeeded the throne, but she is still our Sister, I'm sure Moonbeam would agree with us if she was here" Amber continues, taking a sip from her tea.

"Yeah, that, But The people need jobs, and Katherina does- *BOOM*" As Jenn says something, A loud noise is heard from outside.

Quickly running to the window to see what's going on, We all look towards the giant Stone Spire that's jutting out of the ravine that runs in the middle of the city.

On top of the spire of stone, A Red and White Figure could be seen standing, Waving a flag in his hands.

"The Day has Come For the royals of this land to step down from their towers of ivory! We of the Democratic Diamond Dog Union Demand to be heard! If our demands aren't met by tomorrow at sunset, We will resort of drastic measures" As the figure on top of the stone spire shouts that, A Purple figure is pulled up with ropes to him.

"We will execute Princess Moonbeam Twinkletail, We will be taken seriously!" As he finishes his Declaration, The red and white Dog jumps off of the stone spire into the ravine, carrying a tied and screaming princess with him.

As we all look in shock at what has just transpired, We come to the resolution that,



This Peacekeeping Mission has turned into a Hostage Situation.

> Chapter 20: A Pink Heart has a stressful job.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Four Hours, Four Fucking Hours.
That's how long we've been in Caninia.
And Now look what's happening.

As the Equestrian Delegation and The Separatist Royals both run towards the Traditionalist castle, I ask myself What did I do to deserve this?

Blueblood and Cadance are actual Diplomats, they should be here, not me.
Amber and Jenn are Princesses of this land, It's their sister who is being held hostage, They should be here, not me.
So why in the name of God am I here? I have no reason to be in this Delegation, I don't represent Equestria in any way shape or form.

Oh, It's because you can translate what President Lycanroc is saying. So Can The Dogs, I don't need to be here!

The only reason Raven Inkwell had to send me on this stupid example of a diplomatic mission is because they didn't want me to just wait back in Equestria, Doing nothing but wait for the Crystal Mirror to open and send me back home.

Was me not doing anything but wait really that bad? I wasn't hurting anybody, I was just minding my own business, I wasn't even interacting that much with the Elements of Harmony, Only two of them, and even then maybe twice a week.

What I'm trying to get at, is that I am not supposed to be here, I am thousands of Kilometers away from the den I made my temporary home, and I am stressing my head off.

Is this some kind of punishment? Because I recognized that this world runs on cartoon logic and decided to stay away from the plot anyways? Is that it?
Some kind of way for Fate to make me proactive instead of passive?

God Fucking Dammit.




Princess Mi Amore Cadenza was not having an easy day.
It started when she woke up extremely early and tried to bake some cookies as an apology for Chespin, her new coworker.
It then got harder when she realized that the ship she was traveling on didn't have the ingredients to actually bake Anything, so she had to improvise.
The Cookies she made came out awful, but she promised herself that when she got back to Canterlot she will bake the best cookies she ever baked as an apology for how uncomfortable Chespin was during the voyage.
She must have said something bad without knowing if he avoided her for so long.

But it didn't stop with the cookies, When she finally arrived at Caninia she was shocked to see the carriage she will be taking is Horse-drawn. While yes, she understands that not everywhere has Ponies or other people who are strong enough to carry carriages, and will have to resort to wild animals to do such for them, but Cadance didn't have to like seeing Animals doing such cruel tasks.
Back in Equestria, Ponies moved their own carriages and the rich could hire Drivers to draw their carriage for them.

While the Idea of having a Pony draw somepony else's carriage might sound to some like a form of torture or slavery, The Drivers actually have a really good insurance plan and are payed very well. Mr Fancy Pants actually pushed to raise the minimum wage for Drivers after a series of storm exited the Everfree and made traveling on dirt roads between towns a lot less safe.

After an hour on the carriage, The Horses stopped outside the edges of the capital city.
According to Chespin, Who as it turns out can speak with animals, The Horses were threatened not to bring any outside body that could help stop a civil war from occurring by President Lycanroc.
So the group had to walk the rest of the way to the castle.

But as it turns out, There are two castles in Dimondia, When in which Queen Katherina rules, and the other which her Sisters built and moved to rule from.
She should have seen this coming, Hay! This should have been in the Report Raven gave her to get ready for the delegation in the first place!
So it seems now Cadance will have to improvise, something that sadly, she isn't very good at.

So when she reached the wrong castle, The one in which Princess Jennino Lanternlight rules, she thought that the mission will have to end early.
I'm sorry Celestia, But there's not much we can do if the rulers of the nation want us out.
But as luck would have it, Before her group could be kicked out of the city by the guards, a Princess came to their rescue.

While Princess Ambrosia Muffinsbuns wasn't the Royal she was here to meet, she was a royal nonetheless, and her words meant law to the guards.
After being invited to join her for lunch in the castle, the group where led to a dining room.

Now, Cadance was way out of her depth. She was tired from waking up early, her legs were aching from walking for half an hour into the city while carrying Chespin on her back, And now she was invited to lunch with a fellow Princess.

She wasn't ready for this, She was ready to meet and talk with Queen Katherina Proudpaws, Not Princess Muffinsbuns.
And more than that, the food that was served was... Meat.

Well yes, Cadance had some Vegan and Vegetarian options to pick from, That didn't change her discomfort at seeing other creatures eat meat.
While Ponies are an Omnivorous species, and there are no laws that outlaw the consumption of meat, that doesn't change that in Cadance's eyes, eating meat is eating something that was once alive.
And seeing not only Princess Muffinsbuns and now also Princess Lanternlight eat meat, but also Chespin and surprisingly enough Blueblood?!
While yes, he did only take a single Sausage as an added dish to his Creamy Mushroom Pasta, she still wasn't expecting him to do that.

Chespin sure, He seemed to be some type of rodent, they are known to eat almost anything available, from Fruit and Vegetables, to Meat and Seaweed.
Even knowing that her coworker can eat meat, doesn't mean Cadance has to enjoy the thought.

During the middle of the feast, Blueblood had to go outside and Speak with Chespin about something, leaving her alone with the two foreign princesses.
Though technically right now she is in their land, making her the foreign princess, but that doesn't matter.

While Blueblood and Chespin were outside of the room, Princess Lanternlight looked at Cadance and asked with a dry tone to her previously cheerful voice "Why are you here?"

Now with the tense silence surrounding her, Cadance took a quick look around the room and noticed something very important.
The Dining room didn't have any windows and only had three doors.
One leading to the hallway her group came from, One being the door where Princess Lanternlight entered from, and one being the door to the kitchen.

With the door she came from being behind her, and the door where the Princess came from being on the other side of the room, the closest door Cadance could run to in with the least obstacles is the one to the kitchen, which only leads deeper into the castle.

Cadance knew she should have listened more when Shining Armor taught her about ways to keep herself safe.
Always look for an escape route being one of the most important lessons he gave her.

For all intents and purpose, Cadance was trapped in a castle on foreign soil, in a nation with no official treatise of peace between said nation and her own, and she was being questioned by what could be considered a rebelling faction of the ruling class.

And that moment Cadance understood, that right there and then, she was in the most danger she has ever been in in her entire life.

So she spoke, She told Jennino and Ambrosia about Duke Snifflepaw, about Queen Katherina's invitation, about the fear she had of a civil war breaking out, and of the peace treaty she promised to sign should this delegation stop the civil war from occurring.
She told the two princesses everything. Because of one simple reason.

Princess Cadance was terrified.

She was not in any shape or form ready to be handling negotiations on foreign soil with a nation that has a neutral, bordering on hostile relations with Equestria.
She wasn't trained for this, This isn't like the trade negotiations she had with Minotopolis, The Minotaurs already have a peace treaty signed and are close allies to Equestria.

This mission, This Isn't anything like that.
And Cadance knew that she terrified of the thought that this mission will fail.
Not only will a Civil War start, But the ties between Caninia and Equestria will officially become hostile.

And when Blueblood and Chespin returned to the room, The tense atmosphere of an interrogation changed back into the warm atmosphere of nice lunch.

Jennino even tried befriending Chespin, Blueblood didn't seem to understand why but he supported Chespin getting closer with the princess. 
Perhaps he thought having Chespin get closer to the Princess will help negotiations, but Cadance knew the truth.

Chespin looked like a small Rodent, Something easy to capture and get rid of.
Jennino might truly want to get closer to the Green and Brown Diplomat, but there is an equal chance that she is doing so to change his loyalties from Equestria to Caninia.

Or hold him hostage if need be.

"Damn you Raven Inkwell" Cadance whispered to herself when nobody was paying attention.




Reaching the older castle, the one we were supposed to go to instead of the one we reached, we are once again stopped by guards.
Not because we weren't expected, but because of the two princesses that came with us.

Luckily someone had a brain in their head and told the guards to stand down and let us all enter.
After quickly walking through the halls of the old castle, we enter a throne room with a Blue Diamond Dog sitting on it.

Finally, after four hours we can finally start talking with the one that called this Delegation in the first place.

Queen Katherina Proudpaws.
> Chapter 21: The Queens Old Castle.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Queen Katherina looked like a bitch.

Not in the sense that she was a female dog, that was obvious enough.
But in the sense that she is currently looking down at us, The Group that she requested to mediate tensions in her country, and two of her own sisters.

Now, I don't know a lot about royalty, but usually when you invite people to your country you treat them with respect and civility, Not whatever is currently going on in the throne-room.

"Great," Queen Proudpaws starts as the guard escort lead us in front of her "Not only are you two hours away from the estimated time of arrival, you come in with them. Celestia really knows how to pick them." Fuck you too.

"In our defense Queen Kathe-" "Queen Proudpaws, It seems you don't even know the bare basics of high society, Pony.
When speaking to a royal you address them by their last name or title, Katherina is my first name, such that is NOT what you will call me" Queen Bitch interrupted Cadance.

Blueblood, who was looking at how Cadance was going to go about this moved forward to defend us before he too was interrupted by a royal.

"That! That right there is why we left." Jennino Lanternlight exclaimed as she walked towards the steps leading to the throne, Princess Muffinsbuns holding her paws in front of her mouth to hide a face of shock seeing the scene.

I feel like we shouldn't be seeing this, And if the uncomfortable face on both Cadance and Blueblood is anything to go by, they agree.
We shouldn't be seeing this Family Drama.

"Lanternlight, So you deci-" "Jenn! My name is Jenn Barghest Dammit! I'm your sister!" Jennino continued to walk up the stair to the throne, her face scrunched in a frown, "And now is not the time for your games of high society, You heard that Bastard, all of Caninia probably did, Our sister is being held prisoner and her life is at stake!" Princess Lanternlight finished as she stopped right in front of the Queens throne, Standing over her seated sister.

"Watch your tone Lanternlight" Queen Proudpaws said as she looked up at her sister, "I should have you arrested with treason for what you have been doing in the past year."

Feeling a tap on my shoulder, I look over and see a Diamond Dog trying to catch my attention.
A Golden retriever wearing a blue skirt and vest with pink collar.
"You're human right? Follow me." She whispered before walking towards a hallway off to the side where another Dog is waiting, A Husky with a red cape and purple collar.

As I focus back on the Queen and Jennino argument, I feel another tap on my other shoulder.

Seeing Blueblood trying to get my attention, I look over and he leans down next to me.
"Those two are Princess Fiona Floppyears and Indiana Ambereyes, Go with them, Me and Cadenza will meet up with you when we're done, We'll be at the Separatist castle." He then subtly pushes me towards the two Princesses, who have now been joined by Princess Muffinsbuns.

Quietly leaving the throne room and heading towards where the Princesses are, I Enter the hallway and spot Princess Floppyears waving to me from a room at the end of the corridor.

Entering the room I am spot not only Princess Fiona and Indiana, but also Princess Ambrosia and Duke Snifflepaws.
I look to the other side of the room where a board filled with maps and photos is standing.

Seeing Princess Floppyears pull up a chair for me to sit on, I decide to do as shes suggesting.

"Sorry to spring this on you, but this is why we called Equestria." The Husky in the room starts as she sits down in front of me, obscuring the whiteboard behind her.
"I would have requested military aid if I knew The D3U was going to be doing this." She looks me in the eyes and continues.

"I am Princess Indiana Ambereyes, And I am the one who sent Duke Snifflepaws to get Equestrian Aid." She continues, "It seems there has been a misunderstanding among your leaders. We asked for a Princess, Hoping that Celestia will come and help us, Not the sorry excuse of an entourage that was brought with you" I could hear the disappointment in her voice as her eyes look towards the Duke before focusing back on me, "You are a human as well, just like that Bastard Lycanroc, You will help us deal with this problem."

Oh... I get it.
This Ambereyes Princess used the name of Katherina Proudpaws to send Duke Snifflepaw to Equestria to request aid from the crown to deal with the D3U who have been getting more and more aggressive.
However Problems emerged when instead of meeting up with Princess Celestia, he was met with Raven Inkwell.
Who as it obviously turns out, had outdated information about the situations, therefore sending Blueblood and Cadance instead of the obviously correct choice she should have gone with.

Not Send anybody at all.

If I'm correct about all of that, the only reason I'm here is because Lycanroc is also a human.
If so, There is no reason at all for me to be here.
I could still be in the little burrow by the Lake, minding my own business waiting for the time I get to go home.
I could be relaxing on the coast, having a chat with Angel or Antonio, maybe finally get Power Up Punch to work.

But Noooo, I had to be brought here, away from the only place in this rainbow shit-hole of a world where I felt any sort of comfort.

"Fuck You, I am not helping you, I am going back to the ship." I say to the Princess in front of me, who obviously only heard "Chespin ches ches pin, Pin ches"

I stand up from the chair and walk to the door, "Huh, where do you think your going?" I hear Ambereyes ask as she spots me leave. My answer is to show her my paw making the vague impression of the Middle Finger.

"You dare to-" I shut the door behind me as she enters a tirade.

I am not her subject, I am not an Equestrian subject either. I am a human, I have an Israeli Citizenship, I serve in the IDF, But I'm also not a combatant, I'm a Data Analyst, I look at satellite imagery, I don't go into enemy lines with a gun.

I Really hate this, Every single moment of the past four days has been miserable. Except maybe when Blueblood gave me this suit, that was at least nice of him.

Walking back towards the Throne Room, I stick close to the wall and head towards the door that we entered from.
I give Cadance a small wave when I spot her looking at me from the corner of her eye before I sneak out of the Castle.

I fucking hate this cartoon world.




Moonbeam Twinkletail was terrified, She was supposed to be on her way back from one of the villages on the outskirts of the Kingdom, when her carriage was assaulted by members of the D3U, They beat her guards and took away her magic staff, Leaving her defenseless surrounded by enemies.

If she still had that staff, She could have beat them all up with the magic she's been studying, but as it turns out, getting Punched in the stomach makes it hard to hold on to a magical staff.

Soon she was captured and brought to an abandoned mine outside the Dimondia.
She was lead at spear-point towards a room dug into the cave walls, where she was then seated in front of President Lycanroc Himself.

And when Princess Moonbeam Twinkletail spotted the sharp grin stretching onto the criminals face, she knew she was in danger.


She was in so much Danger.

> Chapter 22: A Dog, A Cave and an Orange.
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Walking down the streets of Dimondia, heading to the castle of Jennino Lanternlight, I take a minute to ponder what I've been going through for the past month.

I was sent to another world as a cartoon animal, I made friends with a bunny rabbit, a giant lake octopus and a squid, I saw a cartoon villain from a thousand year old prophecy return in order to take over the land, I saw the heroes that will stop the villain meet and become the protagonists of this Cartoon-like world, I started working out again, I met two other humans that were brought here under similar circumstances as I, And now here I am.

On a whole other continent, acting as a translator for other humans. How am I a good translator? I just write on a paper note.
Wouldn't the other Human be able to do that too? And why do the ponies understand what William is saying? Why am I trying to wrap my head around all these questions, it'll just make me stress more.

I want to go home.
I want to see my Dad, at the very least tell him that I'm fine.
That he shouldn't worry, I'll be back soon.

Only around two and a half more years and I'll be back home.

I'll forget this entire experience ever happened, I'll finish my military service, Go to college, Get a degree, find a job, get a girlfriend, get married, have kids, grow old and then die at the age of 85.
Just as a Human should.





Deep underneath the castle of Queen Katherina Proudpaws, the group known commonly as the D3U is holding a very important hostage.

"You won't be getting away with this" A purple Diamond Dog growls out as she locks eyes with her captor.

Princess Moonbeam Twinkletail has seen better days, the studious princess of Caninia, the one who built schools and libraries so her nation could enjoy the same education as the richest of Dogs.

Now she is nothing more than a Hostage, a Prop in a Madman's plan to get rid of the elite of Caninia, bringing his so called Freedom to the masses.

The same Madman that is currently peeling oranges on the other side of the dark cavern she's being held in, the only source of illumination around being the lantern in the center of the room.

The Lycanroc peels off the last of the rind and chucks the now unpeeled Orange at the wall of the cave, letting it splatter, leaving a strong smell of citrus to float in the small cave deep below the castle.

"Why are you doing this" Moonbeam tried to ask, "Why are you holding me here? Do the people really mean that much to you? Or do you simply want to rule this kingdom." She said, hoping to at the very least get a reaction from the Human turned Pokemon.

Instead of answering the Princess's questions, The Lycanroc simply starts peeling another orange.

"Why do you keep ignoring me? Don't you have to give me a monologue, like all you criminals try to do?" She pushed once more, hoping for a reaction.

And she got it.

For the first time since stepping foot into the chamber of the cave holding Princess Moonbeam captive, he opened his mouth to speak.

"I never wanted to kill anybody" He said, Silencing any words that would have come out of Moonbeam's mouth, "But I wanted to be paid like a living person, not a slave" His Accent was weird to her.
A Mixture of south Equestria and North Griffonstone, A peculiar accent she only ever heard from the old Dogs that she met back when her Grandmother was still Queen.

"And we were so close to getting our jobs back," He continued, gaining a faraway look in his eyes as he stared at the ceiling of the cave, "When news arrived that the national guard was coming, I hoped that meant that the fight would be over. Why wouldn't I? I was young and Naive and believed the President cared about us."

In a swift move, he crushed the orange in his paw.
The pulp and juices dripping down his soaked fingers reminded Moonbeam flesh and blood, dripping down a hungry bear's claws as he mauls at his prey.

"They tried to stop us as well. We who had nothing more than old muskets and a dream, against the entire country.  I fought so I would be treated like a human being, and instead I got killed by those bastards" He turned to look at Moonbeam, His face set in a scowl as he continued talking.

"I died, and as if a blessing from above, I returned. I returned to life, in a place where workers still get treated unfairly, still the owners of the mines treat their workers like slaves, Still the ruling class turn a blind eye to the hardship of the common folk." He walks closer to Moonbeam before leaning down and placing his Paw on her shoulder before his claws pierce into her and he starts squeezing hard enough to draw blood.

"Still I need to fight for my freedom." And he lets go of the princess, her left shoulder now covered in orange juice and dripping blood.

Lycanroc, The Human Coal Miner turned Pokemon leaves the cavern holding Princess Moonbeam Twinkletail.

Leaving her alone with a slowly dying kerosene lamp and the smell of Citrus.





The walk from The Old castle to the New Castle must have been my longest walk yet.
The Distance wasn't that far, Climbing the Mountain to speak with Antonio and Razer is still a longer walk, But for that I can use Rollout and speed up the process.

I can't use Rollout while I'm wearing the suit Blueblood's weird puppet maids made for me, It'll ruin the only article of clothing I own.

But I made it, I am now in one of the guest rooms in Jenn's castle, Soon Blueblood and Cadance will be back and we can talk about what to do next. It's fair to say that the mission of stopping a Civil War from starting went down the drain pretty much as soon as we set foot in this country.

But, If Civil war does start, and Katherina, Jenn and Lycanroc will be fighting for control over the land.
I hope Jenn will win.
Katherina was such a terrible ruler her own sisters left her and started their own rule over the land, one which has Cheap and affordable Education and an open Job market.

And from the few things I know of President Lycanroc, not many of them are good.
He's charismatic, sure, you don't gain such a huge following by not giving inspiring speeches or whatever.
But he's also a Terrorist, which is universally agreed to be not a good thing.

*Knock knock knock*

I mean, Terrorist will try to call themselves Freedom Fighters in order to not need to acknowledge the fact that they are terrorists.

*Knock Knock Knock*

But what they fail to realize is that your not Freedom Fighters until you win and actually bring freedom.
And If your act of terrorism is Religious in nature as opposed to Political, then you aren't a freedom fighter at all, unless you mean the freedom of the soul, which usually means killing people of a different religious belief than you.

*KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK*

I mean, He started off as a workers Union, and if the note I got about this mission are to be believed, the D3U used to be a respected group when it first came around. Actually managing to gain the support if smaller towns far from the Capital of Dimondia.

"Just gas his room, he's a rat, what's he going to do"

If only the people outside my door could be quieter, I could have a few minutes to relax from this stressful job.

Good, They left. Now where was I? Oh yes, Thinking about what I would do if this country did enter a civil war.

Wait a minute, What's that smell?





When Jennino Lanternlight returned to her castle with Princess Muffinsbuns and the Equestrian Delegation, she was surprised to see the guards of her castle sleeping on the ground, the doors to her castle wide open, and most importantly.


An Equestrian Diplomat was missing.

> Chapter 23: Martial Law.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

"What the hell did you do?!" 

Deep in the abandoned mines beneath the capital city, Dimondia, A Dachshund was yelling at a group of taller Dogs carrying several burlap sacks.

"Y'See boss, We got told to get the Pony politicians and bring them here, so we did" One of the Dogs told the shorter Canine.

"I Understand that you fool! I meant What Did you do to get the Pony Diplomats, Who told you to get the pony diplomats, And why the hell, if you succeeded in that Foolish mission, are the pony diplomats not here?!" He yelled back, grabbing the fur on his head and stretching it, as if trying to tear it off.

The sack carrying Dogs looked at each other before simultaneously opening their mouths. 

"Alex told us to-" "-we grabbed sleep canisters and-" "-The Castle had bad security so we-" "-We grabbed this Rat thing then-" "-You're not mad at us are you?" The Dogs answered together in a jumbled mess of words.

The Dachshund, Sir Rockefeller, the right hand man of President Lycanroc and co-founder of the D3U took a deep breath.

He then promptly told the Dogs to go get Alex and throw him off a ledge.

Now with two problems taken care of, one of how to deal with the group of Idiots that apparently broke into Princess Lanternlight's Castle and Puppynapped a diplomat from Equestria. And second of dealing with the fool that told them to do that in the first place. Leaving him with problem 3.

How is he going to salvage the situation without having Equestria declare war on the D3U.

The Plan was going so well, Queen Katherina had no choice but to give the throne to Lycanroc.
The Political scandal of allowing them to kill Princess Moonbeam would ruin the public support of her.
The D3U Was in a situation where they win either way.

And now these stupid idiots had to go and ruin everything by kidnapping an Equestrian.

Caninia isn't built to go to war with the ponies, should any harm come to the Equestrian, it would cause an international incident where they, The D3U, would be the instigators.

Sir Rockefeller had to think of a plan to salvage this mess before Lycanroc will hear about what had happened and try and do something to fix it.

As much as Rockefeller supported the Dog, He knew that Lycanroc would just make things worse.
And Also, this is now a very delicate situation.

And if Lycanroc was going to be a Hammer, Sir Rockefeller had to be a Scalpel.





"What do you mean he's been taken?! Your job description is in the title, You Guard. How can you stand there and tell us that the main thing that you were supposed to guard, was unguarded?!" Blueblood was not having a good day.

It started when the Horse drawn carriage decided to stop outside of Dimondia. It then got slightly better with him and his cohorts leaving a positive impression on the royalty of the land.
Sadly the royalty that had the good impression is the group in opposition of the ones that invited them to Caninia in the first place.
The day then went from better back to worse by having Lycanroc, self proclaimed president and leader of the D3U, proclaim out to the city that he has Princess Moonbeam Twinkletail hostage, and will execute her in little more than 24 hours if Queen Katherina doesn't step down from her position as ruler of Caninia.

Given that all this information had to be translated by the Diamond Dog Princesses and Mr Cohen, he had to take it with a grain of salt at first. At least until they all went to the Traditionalist Royal Castle, where Queen Katherina Proudpaws and Princess Jennino Lanternlight got into a heated argument.
Samuel Cohen was taken for a talk with Princess Fiona Floppyears, that seemed to leave a sour taste in him if the face he made when he left the castle was anything to go by.

So now, Queen Proudpaws doesn't want Equestria getting into Caninian business, Princess Ambrosia Muffinsbuns has also been surprisingly quiet ever since they returned to the separatist castle, only for them to find that the castle was attacked, the guard knocked unconscious and Samuel Cohen missing.

This Entire mission was turning out to be more hassle than it was worth, and it hasn't even been a full day since the Equestrians arrived.

"Blueblood we have more important things to focus on, we need to get Chespin back" Cadance tried to tell the Unicorn.

Blueblood turned to look at the Alicorn, a retort ready on his tongue to lash at her.

All this trouble was her fault.
It could be blamed on Raven Inkwell for starting the mess and giving outdated information, It could also be blamed on Queen Katherina and Duke Snifflepaw for being awful rulers to the people, that three of the princesses decided to leave and form a  newer, and dare he say it, better faction.
If Queen Katherina wasn't so stuck up in her traditional views, Lycanroc might not have had such a large following.
If The Royal Family did their job correctly, they wouldn't be having the need to get His Country to clean up the mess.

But even with all these reasons, They could have been ignored if the Delegation never formed.
Raven Inkwell wasn't planning on going, so she had Him, Cadance and Samuel be the Diplomats on this mission.

Blueblood even told her that this was a terrible Idea and that they shouldn't be helping them, Samuel seemed to agree with him if how he was acting during the meeting was anything to go by.
Usually, If more than half of the delegation refuse to cooperate, the mission is then pushed to a different group, willing group.

If Raven Inkwell didn't have Celestia's Pupil and her pet dragon in the meeting, Cadance wouldn't have fought so hard to have this whole thing happen.
And Why did Raven even count Twilight Sparkles opinion on the matter, she wasn't even invited to the conference meeting!

It was Twilight Sparkle and Mi Amore Cadenza agreeing with Duke Snifflepaw that caused this entire thing to happen in the first place, So Blueblood feels fine with putting some of the blame on her.

Who did she think she was? A Pegasus who has ties to a long dead royal line from a forgotten Empire, why did she get a Horn? He was the one making sure things were running smoothly in Equestria, He was a descendant of Princess Platinum herself, His Magic is second only to the Alicorns and Twilight Sparkle.
He was the one that brought peace with the Minotaurs!
He was the one that opened trade with the Zebras!
He was the one that funded the building of the Equestrian Railways!
He was much more deserving of being in charge of Equestria!

So why did Celestia make her an Alicorn and not him?

And as Blueblood was about to tell this to Cadenza, he stopped.

He didn't think that way. He loved Cadance like Family, she was his cousin in all but blood.
He was never before jealous of her, or of Celestia's treatment of her, nor of Twilight Sparkle.

"Someone is attacking us" He spoke and started walking into the castle, catching the other royals off guard at his sudden change in behavior.

What previously looked like an Angry Manager has now become a Trained Soldier.
The sudden change in how Blueblood was acting, followed by his statement caught the attention of everyone in the area, before they all soon followed after him.

"What do you mean we are under attack?" A Guard Dog, quickly asked as he walked after him.

"It means that someone is trying to cause chaos. You must have felt it, haven't you. Sudden inexplicable changes of your behavior, sudden doubts and thoughts that you never would have considered. And all of that with this Situation in our hooves, this has to be a targeted attack. Someone, no, Something is trying to get Lycanroc's plan to succeed."

They entered what looked to be a classroom with a blackboard on the wall.

Grabbing a chalk in his magic, Blueblood drew a detailed, top down map of Dimondia, with the mountains surrounding the city as a border, the two castles as points of interest, and the massive ravine splitting the city in two halves. He even drew the rock spire that Lycanroc seemingly created.

"We need a rescue plan, We need soldiers, and we need to be fast. Who knows what Lycanroc might be doing right now." Blueblood said before pointing at a random guard, "You, Go to Katherina's castle and tell her to bring everyone here, The guards, the princesses, even the servants and cooks!"

The Guard Dog turned to look at Princess Lanternlight.
"Do as he says" she told him, before watching him run out of the castle.
"All of you, Listen. As of this moment, I am placing us under Emergency Protocol Number 14-1, during a national emergency, the leader of the nation, be it Queen, King, Princess, Prince or other, May take control of all aspects of the nation until such a time as the emergency is over. 
As Ruler of this nation, I am effectively placing us under a  form of Martial Law" Jennino Lanternlight told the now awake and surprised crowd of Dogs and few ponies around the room and outside of it.

"And now that we got that out of the way, As Ruler of this nation, I am placing Prince Blueblood Platinum of Equestria in charge of all military and financial decisions needed to end this farce." Now effectively Queen Jennino turned towards the surprisingly quiet Blueblood.

"I am putting a lot of trust in you, I want Princess Moonbeam Twinkletail back here safe, I want Samuel Cohen back here safe, and I want Lycanroc's head on a plate" She told the Unicorn, now temporary General AND Treasurer of the Separatist forces of Caninia.

"You have a week, Fix this" She then turned around and left the room.

A silence followed her exit before a Pit Bull wearing a Butler uniform clapped his paws to get everyone's attention.

"You heard her Majesty!" Before turning to over to Blueblood, "What do we do now General? What's the plan?" He asked, getting nods and even more question from the other Dogs in the room.

Even the two remaining Princesses in the room stood ready to listen to his orders.

Taking another quick look at the map he drew, "Okay, So here's what we're gonna' do-"
> Sexy Halloween Special.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

In a mountain range far from the lands of Equestria, a place that civilization has never crossed, lies a secret society of creatures, big and small, weak and strong, smart and dumb, all living together without any worry.

All except two inhabitants of that land beyond the mountain.

"Okay, and then I said, 'Greet Her? I Barely know her!' and everybody started laughing, it was hilarious I'm telling you." A Creature spoke, its body floating a meter above the ground, its body shaped like a chandelier and it's candles lit by a soft yet sinister purple flame.
Two yellow dots on its body act as eyes as it looked over the mountain it just climbed before turning to look at its companion.



"So yeah, we soon did the yoinky sploinky, the hooba dooba, the tarantula tango, you know the ones, and that was how I lost my virginity, how did your first time go?" The Human turned Pokemon asked.

"It's none of your business!" The second creature shouted at the first, it's face flushed with embarrassment, or perhaps Blood lust?
OoOoh SpoOoOoky.

"It's not like we have anything better to talk about, we are surrounded by nothing but mountains and valleys for hundreds of miles, it's not like someone will hear you. C'mon spill the beans, was it hot? Was it romantic? Did you remember to use a condom?" The Chandelure asked.

The Human's companion, a pony shaped creature covered in a black carapace and with a bugs wings sighed before it mumbled something under it's breath.

"What was that? I can't hear you from all the way up here" The Floating Chandelier responded, rising half a meter above where it previously held itself.

"I said that-~..." The Changeling mumbled the rest of the sentence, looking at the floor in embarrassment.

"C'mon, you can tell me, we're friends aren't we? We're pals, buddies even, you can tell me how it was. I bet it was sticky and smelly and you regretted it in the morning, a buddy of mine had his first time like that, It was back in college, what? Four, maybe five years ago? Who cares, he was studying for an engineering degree, nerd, what about you, C'mon you can tell me." The Chandelure spoke, trying to get the Changeling to answer his embarrassing, and even private, question.

"I said that I never had sex" The chanegling muttered a bit louder.

"Shout it, I can't hear you when you're speaking so softly." The Chandelier replied, getting on the nerves of the changeling.

"I SAID I NEVER HAD SEX sex sex" The changeling yelled at the human, his shout echoing between the valleys and the mountains, for all creatures to hear.

"What, you never had sex? You're a virgin? Yeah, i can see that, you're too shy to catch a fish aren't you? or do you swing the other way perhaps? It's fine I don't judge, I'm the dual wielder myself, let me tell you something, it's not gay if you don't find him romantically attractive, and it's also not gay as long as you ass isn't penetrated. I can teach you a thing or two if you want, might even take you myself if you wish, it's fine, you're not that bad looking I guess, for a Bug at least, I'm sure some big buff guy would love to pin you down on the ground and drill you like a carpenter, You already have all these holes on your legs, do you think I can fit it in there? Do they hurt or do they feel pleasure? Is it natural or is it a fashion statement?" The chandelier started talking again, embarrassing the poor changeling even more.

"Please stop talking please stop talking please stop talking" he closed his eyes and repeated to himself like a mantra, hoping to get the human to stop being so embarrassingly filthy.





When the changeling opened his eyes, he found himself back in his bed, in his small burrow he dug into the side of a mountain.

It seemed the entire conversation with the floating chandelier was nothing but a weird nightmare.

As he tried getting out of bed, he bumped into something and fell.

"Mhm, good morning handsome, last night was amazing" A sultry voice said behind him, he stiffly turned around to see who it was.

His bed wasn't as empty as he previously thought, if the lump of sleeping bodies under his sheets were anything to go by.

"Oh hey buddy, it seemed you woke up, you kinda snapped last evening and started transforming parts of your body into all sorts of different things, it was incredible, you did this thing with your tongue where it split into two hands and massaged the insides of their body, it was so hot, why didn't you tell me you could do that?" A purple floating chandelier told the changeling after it floated out of his bed-sheets, revealing even more people under it. 

From Ponies to Griffons, from Minotaurs to Zebras, the changelings bed was filled with all manner of creature male and female.

"And hey, now when someone asks you how you lost your virginity you could say it was in the best orgy of your life, let's do this again soon, I'm off to get these guys water, hydration is important after something like this." The Purple Chandelure soon floated out of the cave, leaving the Changeling alone with a bunch of sweaty, naked bodies.

This was the worst (pronounced: best) day of his life.
> Chapter 24: Politics about Family.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Jennino Lanternlight was stressed, In the past four hours she had to dine with foreign dignitaries who were invited to Caninia by her older sister, only to then be kicked out of Caninia by her older sister, only for her to invite them instead to help her deal with a very troublesome situation she got her paws in.

Her younger Sister, Moonbeam Twinkletail, was kidnapped by members of the D3U, and in little more than 24 hours she will be executed if Katherina doesn't hand over the country to them.

And if Katherina refusing to even consider working with her to fix the situation, one of the Equestrian diplomats was also kidnapped, presumably by the D3U as well.

Jennino has no real options with Katherina refusing to cooperate. So she did what she thought could save her sister.

She enacted martial law and gave control of the situation to a diplomat with a plan.
This entire debacle might, no, it surely will come back to bite her in the future.

But as long as it gets her sister back, she will even declare war against the world itself.


Because that's what Family means to her.






I woke up by being thrown on to the cold hard ground.

"There, that's one problem dealt with" A voice said behind me before the sounds of a heavy metal door closing could be heard.

I decided to lie on the ground for a few more seconds, thinking about what the hell was going on.

"Okay, so I was kidnapped, Wonderful. What do cartoon character do to escape from a jail cell? Usually there's some obvious escape route in cartoons, grab the keys off a passing guard? Slip between the comically wide bars? Seduce the guards in order to switch places, with them being behind the bars and me being freed?" Why did I think of this? I'm so tired my mind can't even work properly right now.

It's been non-stop trouble since I landed in this country, Can at least one week pass before something bad happens next time?

Deciding that talking to myself might not be healthy, I open my eyes to take a look at my surroundings.

It's a cave, what is it with me being unconscious and caves?
But it's also not just any cave, no no no, that would be easy wouldn't it? No, This cave has a thick metal door covering the only exit, making this into some sort of vault.

The next thing I notice are the purple Dog slumped on the wall of the cave, the weird green turtle with a green rock as a shell, and the strong smell of oranges.

None of those seem helpful in a prison-break.

"Hello mister, do you want to be my friend?" I hear a young child ask me, I turn to look at the Green Turtle creature that waddled up to me.

"Mom said that strangers are just friend you haven't met yet, so now that I'm meeting you, you aren't a stranger anymore, your a friend now!" The rock turtle says as he pushes me with his head, poking me slightly from the crystal growing out of his head.

"Listen kid, I'm a bit busy right now, do you know a way out of here? I have somewhere important to be" I ask the turtle, Since he sounds like a child, If he knows a way out of here then I can regroup with Blueblood and Cadance and get out of here.

The turtle creature looks at me as if I just asked it the hardest question on the math exam.
Seeing that the turtle is busy thinking of an answer, might be because of turtles being slow and cartoon logic makes it so they're now also slow in the head, I think. 

I go and check the purple dog.

As I get closer to them, I hear the voice of a woman whispering coming from the dogs direction.

"...and then i use fireball and blow him up.... use a freeze ray and then.... grab him with telekinesis to...." What is she whispering about?

"Hey, you okay?" I ask the purple dog.

The Purple Dog, now aware of my presence looks at me as if she just showed something embarrassing.

"What? Oh, you're another animal, great. Something new enters this cell and I once again am made a joke, how would I, Princess Moonbeam the powerful ever escape this evil lair now?" The Purple Dog, now recognized as Princess Twinkletail that's been kidnapped by the D3U, waves her hand dramatically as if struck emotionally.

"Laid here to waste, my magic gone, and now only mouse as my company. Will this be my end? Or will I escape my torturous fate and find freedom, unbound by the chains of the evil President Lycanroc." She continues to monologue as she grabs hold of me and hugs me like a stuffed animal.

"Oh, Woe is she whose might knew no boundary but the loneliness of a cell" And she's still going.

I was told that Princess Twinkletail was the one that opened up all the public schools in Caninia, and even took a hobby researching magic.

Looking at the dramatic Dog holding on to me, I can't help but find that fact hard to believe.

"And now, with only this mouse as my companion, I shall die alone, cold, deep below the land I once called home." She ends with a dramatic collapse, as if a character in a theater show has been killed.

*sniff sniff* And now she's crying.
Oh no, she's crying.

"Mr mouse, I don't want to die!" She cries as she pushes her head into my stomach and wipes her now runny nose on it, ruining my only article of clothing in the process.

I should be angry, not at her for ruining my clothes, but at whatever turned me into a pokemon in this colorful yet annoying world.

but right now, I can't help myself but feel sorry for this Princess.
I myself might also cry hideously like her If I knew I was going to be executed by terrorist, and I haven't cried in years.

Giving her a soft rub on the head as she cries into me, holding me like a stuffed doll.
I might not like this treatment I'm getting, but I'll let it slide.

She needs this.





"Blueblood, what are you doing?" Cadance asked as she entered a room in the castle to find her cousin signing off on many different forms and papers.

Instead of answering her inquiry, Blueblood simply lifts a paper with his magic and handing it to her to read.

"The Trade Deal of- Blueblood what is this?!" Cadance exclaims as she reads the rest of the paper.

Smirking, Blueblood looks up from the mountain of paperwork he surrounded himself with.

"Cadenza, It's great for you to join me here, but I'm mighty busy, As you can see" He then pointed to the paperwork around him as he signed another form.

"What about Samuel? We still need to find him" She tried telling the Unicorn prince, only for him to reply with "Already done," Before he pushed another paper at her.

"By the authority vested in me by her royal majesty Jennino Lanternlight, I decree that the individuals known as President Lycanroc and Sir Rockefeller, are to be considered enemies of the state, and a warrant for their arrest has been issued? Blueblood you can't be doing this!" Cadance exclaims as she read the rest of the document handed to her.

"But I can, Under the law that Queen Lanternlight pulled on, I have full control over the economics and military of the kingdom of Caninia, or at least the half that recognizes Jenn as a queen." He explained before reading another document and placing it on a large pile, only for it to be taken away by one of his puppet maids.

"And to ease your mind, I already have everything to extract Samuel and Princess Moonbeam ready, however, need I remind you, that President Lycanroc said that he will be executing her at sunset tomorrow, as you can see outside this window, the sun hasn't fully set yet, giving us a bit over 24 hours to save them. 24 hours where I have full control over two of the most important facets of a kingdom. Money and Military." Blueblood explained, before handing over another document for Cadance to read.

"Do you see what that says?" He asked as she read the paper, "To you it might say the numbers of all the active soldiers in the country that are under Jenn's rule, I however see it as a sign telling me that if Caninia don't sign the agreement Raven Inkwell prepared, and Equestria decided to invade to get the deal by force, These Dogs won't have enough Horsepower to stop us." A glint appeared in his eyes as he wiped a strand of blonde hair off his face.

"I now have knowledge of everything military and financial in this castle with roughly 24 hours to go over it all" He bends over the desk in order to get a bit closer to Cadance, "I might be a Prince, I might be a Unicorn, But I'm a pony first and foremost, and don't let anypony ever tell you that I'm not a good politician." 

Now with his face mere centimeters away from hers.


 "Because I'm the best damn politician Equestria has"

> Chapter 25: A Wolf, A Chestnut and A Dog.
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The sound of gunshots rang out around the mountain, Miners ran up slopes of mud, their rifles hanging from their shoulders.

"We'll be able to reach that bastard Chafin soon and get our Jobs back! Just another Mile!" A middle aged man wearing overalls and covered in dust and sweat shouted over the loud noise.

The Year was 1921, In the American State of West Virginia.
With the Rise of Union Labor, Coal Mining Companies decided to hire Yellow-Dog Contract workers in order to save money on their work, subsequently firing all the workers who joined the then popular United Mine Workers Union.

With strikes breaking out in order for the miners to get their jobs back and demand for better pay, things soon got violent.

It was known as the Battle of Blair Mountain, The Largest armed uprising in the United States of America since the Civil-War.

"Just got to shoot him a bunch and we're done here, No Problem" Another older man chuckled as he pat a younger man on the shoulder.

That younger man had a head of orange hair and a stubble growing on his chin, his eyes we're tired from countless nights of waking up in the middle of them to hear screams and gunshots of other miners, but he marched on.

He wanted his job, he didn't want to be treated like a slave by the mine owners.

He Wanted Freedom, even if he had to fight for it.

Freedom Over Peace, That was the motto his grandfather taught him when he spoke of his time in the Union Army during the civil war.

His Grandfather fought for the freedom of others, and now here he is, fighting for a similar goal.

Jeremiah "Jeremy" Anderson was young compared to the other miners, only 25 years old, but he felt like being on that mountain, fighting the oppressive Coal companies to bring stable jobs to the people, That was something a hero would do.

Sure, he knew he most probably be thrown into a prison when the battle ends, armed uprising aren't exactly legal, but he didn't care.

For the past few months, Jeremy Anderson was a hero.
and as he climbed the mountain, his rifle dangling on his back, he failed to notice the homemade explosive being thrown next to his feet.

His last fought as the explosion took him were that same motto his Grandfather taught him.


Freedom Over Peace.






President Lycanroc was not only a leader for the workers and the poor of Caninia, He was a symbol.

A symbol of uprising against the oppression of the higher class, of struggling against a foe that seems impossible to triumph, and succeeding.

Those were the thought the members of the D3U had on Jeremiah Anderson AKA President Lycanroc.

Freedom Over Peace, The idea that they shouldn't lie on their backs and let the rich and powerful elite walk over them, They were the workers, they were the miners, the Backbone of Caninia, And they deserved more than what they got for their hard work.

When Rex Rockefeller, a bastard child of an aristocrat from Dimondia, heard of the strange Diamond Dog that stood in the center squares of towns and villages, preaching his Ideal that they, the people, should unionize and demand better treatment from the monarchy, He knew he found someone unique.

It takes a special kind of Brave (Or Stupid) To openly insult the ruling class of Caninia, not after what the late King Stardust did those who opposed him.

But to his surprise, not only did this Lycanroc fight back against the guards that came to arrest him, he won.
He beat the group of guards with strength unseen in other Diamond Dogs, and a unique talent that only the smallest percentage of Dogs have.

Magic.

When Rockefeller heard that Lycanroc could move rocks like a Unicorn with magic, he knew he had to meet him.
This might have been what he was looking for, A way to get back at the elites of Dimondia, those who looked down on him simply because his mother was a maid who had an affair with a count.

"You should be lucky I'm giving you the honor of keeping my name, Mutt"

How Rex hated that man, and how he hated how the name Rockefeller will forever be associated with that abusive Barghest.

And so Rex Rockefeller met with the Dog known as Lycanroc, and the two hatched a plan.
They will change the way Caninia treats their workers, then they will change how Caninia treats its citizens, and soon later, they will change the way Caninia is run.

A country run not by a family of elite fools who hadn't known a day of hardship in their lives, but by the ones who knew what the people needed more then those Nobles ever could.

A Democracy, a Country run by the people.

That was going to be the goal, a country where the leaders listened to the people, where the leaders were the people, and were the leaders could be replaced if the people deemed it so.

And with those thought in mind, Jeremiah Anderson and Rex Rockefeller started the group known as the Democratic Diamond Dog Union, The D3U.





It was around an hour after Princess Moonbeam started crying that she stopped, she fell asleep holding me in her arms like a teddy bear.

I squirmed out of the princesses grasp and looked back to see her sleeping on the floor, a snot bubble growing and shrinking with each breath.

I looked down at my suit, seeing it covered in snot and tears, I decided to take it off.
Hopefully Blueblood wouldn't mind making me another.

I turn to the green rock turtle that was in the cave when I woke up only to find him eating a part of the cave wall, slowly creating a tunnel.

Which remind me, I was getting used to only using two Pokemon moves, Vine Whip and Rollout, and only recently tried to learn Power-Up Punch, that I completely neglected the other moves I know and could learn.

How could I forget, It was perhaps the most useful move I had, And I only really used it once!
And seeing the Rock Turtle eat the wall reminded me of it!

I Can Dig!

I Dug the burrow I live in for crying out loud, Why didn't I think of this sooner?!

It might be harder to dig through rock instead of Dirt, But I'm sure I can make it!

"Hey kid, Move over a bit" I tell the turtle as I walk towards the wall it was eating from, The Green Rock Turtle creature moves over and looks at me.

"What are you doing mister? Do you also want to eat these minerals? They're very rich in Iron and Lead!" He tells me with a smile, His words pulling up a red-flag that I'll probably have to bring up with Jenn when I get out of here.
Lead Poisoning is a very serious issue.

I first Curl Myself into a ball, Making a white shimmer cover my body for a second before disappearing.
I don't need to use Defense Curl, But it'll make it so my tiny arms are harder to bruise while digging through the ground.

I don't know how deep we are, But there is Oxygen down here, so it's not too deep, I'll try and dig in a 35-40 degree upward tile, hopefully I'll reach the surface before someone checks on this cell.

And after another few Defense Curls, and a short stretch of my limbs, My arms and shell start glowing with a dim brown light, and when I touch the wall, It moves aside like I'm moving soft sand instead of Solid Stone.

"Okay, Lets do this" I start digging.





In the Castle of Queen Katherina Proudpaws, an Important Discussion is being held.

Not a discussion about how to deal with the D3U or how to rescue Princess Moonbeam, no.

A Discussion about what to do with Jennino Lanternlight proclaiming herself queen.

"I'm sure she has a good explanation for why she did it, maybe we should just ask her" Said Princess Floppyears, Her head resting on her paws, her elbows on the table.

"The Reason of why she did so matters not, Fiona, The facts are that she has commited Treason and must be punished." Queen Katherina spoke, ignoring the opinion of her younger sister.

The sad face that Fiona Floppyears pulled almost made Katherina Proudpaws break her character.

"I am a Queen, I need to lead this Kingdom like our father did, and his mother before him, If I could give you happiness, sister, I would, But my duty must come first" She told herself in her head, Katherina loves her sisters, more than almost anything.

She doesn't want to fight with Jennino, Nor does she want to keep Fiona away from Ambrosia, She wants Moonbeam to be safe and healthy, and she also wants Indiana to be more open with her feelings.
But sadly, Katherina is a Queen, and was raised on the traditional Diamond Dog Values.

She Doesn't want Jennino to mine the gem deposit she found because it was found in the Traditional Royal Mine.
She doesn't want Moonbeam to explore Magic, because of how dangerous it can be.
She doesn't want Ambrosia to go around the country without protection, with people like the D3U out there she will be in Danger.

Katherina wants her sisters to be safe, but she can't show them how she feels.
Because Katherina Proudpaws is a Queen, and a Queen must think of her nation first and foremost.
Even if the queen wants to spend one more holiday with her family, she simply doesn't have the time and luxury to afford to.

But as long as her sisters are safe, Katherina doesn't mind being hated by them.
It is the job of the Eldest Sibling to take care of their younger brothers and sisters, even if those brothers and sisters don't want to be taken care of.

Tuning back in to the table, Katherina managed to catch the end of what Indiana said, before suddenly the door to the meeting room slammed open.

Turning to see who it was that dared intrude on a royal meeting, she was surprised to find one of the Guards carrying a letter.

"It- It's from the Ponies, your Majesty" The Guard gave the letter to a servant in the room who brought the letter to her.

"You are dismissed" She told the guard, who was still huffing for air from running all the way over.

Opening the letter she was given, she read through what looked like military orders, before reading the signature at the bottom.

"-General Marshall Prince Blueblood Platinum" she whispered before throwing the letter on the table and ended the meeting "This Meeting is Adjourned, Indiana, Follow me, Fiona, you come as well, Snifflepaws, Go home. Everybody else, go back to your stations, we might be able to save Princess Moonbeam" She walked out of the meeting room, a small squad of Guards following her as she walked, soon joined by Indiana Ambereyes and Fiona Floppyears.

And as everybody exited the room, locking it behind them.
They all failed to notice a small magical puppet made of wood and metal, shaped like a small spider, crawl out of the envelope the letter came in.

And nobody would ever figure out what happened to the drawers of files containing classified information that simply disappeared that night.

Nobody but a certain Unicorn that has a talent of finding what he's looking for.
> Chapter 26: Digging a Tunnel.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Digging a tunnel is hard, you need to make the tunnel itself big enough to make room for the digging equipment while still keeping it stable enough so the tunnel won't collapse on itself, burying everything inside under tons and tons of rocks and stones.

Digging using the Pokemon move Dig is way easier.

It's tiring, sure, Digging upwards in an incline that will make it possible for someone else to crawl up is still hard.
You need to make sure the tunnel has enough room for the person behind you, make sure you won't get stuck and need a rescue mission, and overall you need to keep digging in the same direction.

One of the worse things that can happen when you're lost is to walk in a circle without realizing it.

Take being lost in the desert for example. You spend hours looking for some indication of where you are, you spot a landmark in the distance, let's say a large rock of some kind, you approach it only to find that you already approached that same rock from a different direction and you have just been walking around the desert for hours, no closer to a rescue than you were when you started.

That might not be the greatest example of walking in circles, I know that being lost in the desert has bigger problems than walking towards nothing, but It's the example I came up with so It's the one I'm using.

Where was I? Oh yes, The Pokemon move Dig.

Dig in the games was a ground type move that allowed the user to dig underground, making them avoid a large number of attacks, and a turn later pop up and deal a fairly high amount of damage.
In the Television series, the Move Dig is shown to allow the pokemon using it to burrow into the ground and move under it at normal walking or running speeds, depending on the pokemon using Dig at the time, of course.

Right now, I am digging at a slow pace of two meters per ten minute. For a walking speed, that is very slow and you might need to see a doctor. For a rodent, I Have no idea the average digging speed is for a creature like a mole, But I'm sure two meters every 600 seconds is extremely fast.

I could be going faster, I could simply dig upwards at a higher incline and reach the surface sooner, saving myself.
I know I could be digging farther every ten minutes. I simply haven't used Dig in almost a month, neglecting it in order to improve Vine Whip and Rollout instead.

Another reason for the slow process is that I'm digging through the same area three times, I need to make the tunnel big enough for not only myself, but also Princess Moonbeam Twinkletail to fit through.

I also am making slight turns when I reach really tough rocks, digging around them is faster than through them.

It's a slow and steady pace, I've been digging for a while now, Don't know how long, but the tunnel is looking good so far.
Sure, Moonbeam will need to crawl on all fours to get through it, but at least she won't be pressed between the ceiling and floor.

35 meters of tunnel down. Depending on how deep we are, I might need to spend an entire day digging.
A day that we don't exactly have, as Lycanroc proclaimed he will execute Moonbeam come sunset.

Hopefully Blueblood and Cadance will find a way to salvage this mess of a situation.

Crawling back to the cave where Moonbeam and the Stone Turtle are, I lean on the wall, obscuring my tunnel behind me in case somebody walks in and spots it.

It's been a long day, A Very long day.

And the Adrenaline is finally starting to run out, I really need to sleep.

Hopefully I'll have enough time to escape when I wake up...





The Carbunkappa watched as Chespin closed his eyes before he walked closer to the cave the Human dug.
Looking into it, and then looking back at the two sleeping mammals in the cave with him, The young Carbunkappa nods his head before walking towards a small, barely noticeable crack in the wall and squeezes through it.
His new friends need help, Even if one of them is grumpy and the other can't understand his words, He's going to help them.

Because it's never wrong to help somebody in need.

And with these nice, if naive, thoughts in his head, the Rock Turtle marched forward.





"Boss, A Note just came in." A Diamond Dog said as he entered a room where two of some of the most important Dogs of modern Politics are sitting at.

"Is it another request for security? Place it with the others, we'll read through them in a bit" Rex Rockefeller said as he signed a paper with his signature and placed it on top of a large pile of documents.

"It's from the castle sir" The Messenger Dog spoke again.

"Is Katherina giving us the kingdom? If not then throw it in away." Jeremy Anderson said while leaning back on a large crate filled with oranges and similar citrus fruits. Peeling one of the fruits in his claws before squeezing the juice into a bowel and throwing the pulp and skin into another.

"It's actually from Jennino Lanternlight's castle, She's proclaimed herself queen and is threatening to kill us all if we don't return princess Moonbeam unharmed." The Dog spoke again, quickly having the note snatched from his paws by Sir Rockefeller.

"She WHAT?!"





I wake up to the pitter patter of small rocks rolling on the floor. I Open my eyes to see that the tunnel I've spent hours digging yesterday is having it's walls chewed.

By green rock turtles.

"Oh, you woke up mister. I brought my friends and family over to help you dig this tunnel. They were hungry and had nothing better to do. Do you like it?" The young Turtle from before asked me as he walked towards me.

"I- I don't- Why? Why would you help me dig? You don't even know where I need to go? Why are you doing this?" I pick myself up from the ground and ask the turtle.

He looks into my eyes with his young, obsidian orbs, a twinkle of playfulness flashes in them before he speaks.
"You two look like you needed help, So I brought help. You obviously want to go home, you said so when you were sleep talking-" That's a problem I'll need to fix somehow "-And since you and the great enchantress Moonbeam are both mammals, that means you live on the surface."

Did he call the princess the Greta Enchantress? How does he know I'm a mammal? Did he- Never mind, I need to see how far he's dug.

"Thanks kid, you're a huge help" I say before I enter into the tunnel and walk to the far end of it.

Seeing all the rock turtles digging (or should I say eating?) the tunnel, I can see that even though they're a lot slower than my speed, the overall number of them means that they are actually digging the tunnel faster than I did.

"I'm going to dig ahead, See how much longer we need to go" I call out behind me, Getting a few groans and grunts from the turtles before I once more use Dig and the stone I touch crumbles into dust.

Now that I can simply dig for myself, without having to go through the same spot several times, I manage to dig two meters in a single minute!

Sure, That's closer to the speed of a crawling Chespin, trying to walk on all four of his short stubby limbs, But two meters per minute is insanely fast for digging.

After ten minutes of digging the stone turns into soil, and that is when I start speeding up.
Turns out, It's easier to dig through dirt than it is to dig through solid rock.

Who Would've guessed?

Another minute passes before I find myself popping out of the side of a hill outside of Dimondia.

Looking down at the length of the tunnel remaining, I make the simple calculation that at the current speed of digging, It will take maybe two hours before the tunnel is ready for Moonbeam to cross through.

A lot can happen in two hours, but at the very least I managed to exit.
Now I should maybe get Blueblood and Cadance to start digging from this side of the tunnel, meet up in the middle. Or maybe go back and look after Princess Moonbeam?

Personal Safety or The Life of another.
Save a Mostly innocent girl who hasn't done anything to earn the treatment she's receiving or myself?

Looking back at the tunnel I've dug and then at the city of Dimondia in the distance. 

I come to an easy conclusion.

One that I made back on that damned ship, sitting on a table with Blueblood, planning Operation Get Raven Inkwell Fired.

"I'm sorry Jenn, But I don't think I can keep your sister safe." I say out loud before looking at Dimondia in the distance "It's just that I need to be alive in order to return home, and seeing my dad is much more important to me than the success or safety of the royal family"

I use Rollout and head towards the City of Dimondia.
> Chapter 27: Freedom Over Peace 1
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Moonbeam Twinkletail awoke to a rough tap on her side. Opening her eyes she spotted the green turtle creature that was in the cave-room with her, "What are you doing Mr Turtle?" She looked around for a bit, "And where's Mr Mouse?"

The Turtle started walking towards one of the walls before looking behind it and signalling for her to follow with a wave of his head.

"Picking herself up from the rough surface of the cave floor, her nostrils quickly assaulted by the smell of oranges once more, she followed after the Carbunkappa as it lead her to a hole in the wall of the cave that Moonbeam is sure wasn't there previously.

"Is this what you wanted to show me?" She asked the turtle, It nodded and nudged her with its head to enter the hole.

"calm down, calm down, I'm going, what's so special about this hole that you-" And then she saw it.

The Light at the end of the tunnel.
In the most literal sense.

Before she knew it, she was crawling on all four of her paws towards the outside world.

And as she popped her head out of the ground on the surface, she was greeted by a horrible sight.





One Hour Earlier





I was rolling as fats as I could towards the new castle, I was sweaty, tired and hungry but I had to pass off the location of the tunnel I dug to Jenn before the D3U notice it's there.

Seeing the castle in the distance, I start rolling faster. The Green Spiked Ball that is my body catching speed before ramming into the castle doors and down the hallway, leaving a trail of dirt behind me.

I roll by some startled servants before slamming through another door, accidentally toppling a flower pot over but I keep rolling until I reach a final set of doors.

The two guards outside of the doors ready their spears at me but I pick up speed.

"Floofy, I don't think I'm trained for this" One of the guard dogs whispers to the other.

"Donald, Just protect the Que-" *CRASH*

Finally stopping my roll on the foot of the staircase leading to the throne upon which sits Princess Jennino Lanterlight.

"What is thi- Samuel?! Guards! Call for the ponies immediately, tell them that Sir Samuel has returned." She calls out to the pair of guards outside the now broken doors.

They look at each other before quickly running off.

I quickly take out a pen and paper from my Cartoon physics Pocket and write down what happened to me in since I was kidnapped.

"Moonbeam is safe then, Thank goodness." Jennino leans back on the throne before speaking again, "Sam, Could you please show me on a map where the tunnel exit is? I also want to apologize for how horrible your mission has been so far."

She soon gets a servant to roll a board with a map of Dimondia and its surrounding into the throne-room.

I head closer to the map to try and pin-point where the tunnel was dug when Blueblood, Cadance and Ambrosia enter the room.

"Mr Cohen, It's wonderful to see that you a-" Blueblood tried to say only to be interrupted by Cadance flying past him and into me, picking me up in a tight hug.

"I'm Sorry i'msorryi'msorryi'msorry I Am So SO SORRY!" She cries as she hugs me tight to her chest.

I understand that Ponies are more emotional than me, and with this world running off of cartoon logic that mean that two strangers that just met could become life-long best friend after an hour, but I really wouldn't consider Cadance a friend, at least not one that I would run to hug and cry into.

Now that I think about it more, Do I even have friends? I was too busy with schoolwork and my service to have any friends back on earth, at least any friends after middle-school.

Was Daniel my friend? He was my little brother, he was family, Does that make him my friend automatically?
Would I consider Mom my friend? I'm not sure... She's my mom, she is my family, we played together when I was little... Does that technically make her my friend?

Do friends need to play together?

If so what about Dad? I love Dad, He's the only family I have and I need to get back to him no matter the cost. And yet, Do any of those circumstances make him my friend?

Are Angel and Spike my friends? I'm not sure...

Angel's a good kid, he tries to act mature for his age but he's still a child at the end of the day.

And Spike? Spike is also a child, Sure he is definitely more mature than others his age, but I barely interact with him other than to translate what I'm saying, And I can just have Fluttershy do that for me instead...

Do I have friends?

I... I don't think I have any friends...

Antonio and William aren't really friends, they're Acquaintances that are stuck in the same situation as me, that is being humans turned into Pokemon.

Razer? I only really meet with him when I visit Antonio. He's a cool guy, maybe If I was around him more he could be my friend, but I'm also not sure.

What was I thinking about before this?

"I Promise you Chespin, As a Princess of Equestria, That you will be rewarded for your hard work! I'll never let those Dirty Dogs get anywhere near you ever again!" Oh yeah, Cadance is hugging me tightly.

"Ahem" Ambrosia coughs into her balled paw, gaining a look from Cadance soon after before realization struch her.

"... OH! Um, I was talking about the D3U, I meant no disrespect" Apperantly it's not a good thing to talk about "Those Dirty Dogs" when your in a castle ruled by one.

I wiggled out of Cadance's grasp and went back towards the map, soon being joined by Jennino and Blueblood.

The map itself is surprisingly detailed, with different coloring depicting where building and fields are.
Luckily for me, My duty in the Army isn't so different from this, just replace this map with a satellite or drone image.

Soon finding the field that I dug into, I tap on it with my hand.

"So that's where the D3U are located, or at the very least where Princess Twinkletail is held. Blueblood, You know what to do" Jennino said, Blueblood quickly perked up and a smile spread across his face, not one of joy or happiness, but of excitment.

"With Pleasure" He then quickly turned around and walked out of the room.

What did I miss when I was gone?





Jenn is now Queen, Blueblood is a temporary military and financial leader, The entirety of the Separatist army is staging a raid against the D3U who have been promoted from Political Activists to Active Terrorist Threat.

So in short, not that much changed.

Jennino is still a ruler, Blueblood is still trying to gain political power and the D3U are causing trouble.

Right now half of the guards and soldiers that follow Jennino are walking with me towards the field where I dug the tunnel out of the cave, the other half are with Ambrosia and Blueblood walking towards an old mine that dug into a cave near where the tunnel was.

Luckily all I need to do is show the Guards were I dug the tunnel and I can go back to the castle, Grab my stuff and join Cadance in heading back to that damned ship.

I need to remind myself never to step on a boat after we're back in Equestria.





Ambrosia felt her blood boil as her paws shivered.
She didn't need to join Blueblood in monitoring the attack on the D3U, she could have sat back in the castle, had a chat with Cadance, helped Jenn with her now mountainous workload.

But she had to be here.
Not because it was her job, no, she had Guards and Officers for that, But because she wanted to see the face those two Barghest  make when a sharp metal spear pierces THEIR CHEST!

If Rex Rockefeller and President Lycanroc think they can just kidnap her Sister and get away with it without a little bit of blood being spilled, then they must be dumber than a box of kittens.

And as Princess Ambrosia Muffinsbuns imagined all the way she could hurt the bastards that hurt her sister, A Diamond Dog in Silver and Yellow armor picked up a megaphone and started calling into the entrance of the mine where the D3U should be located.

"To all the members of the Democratic Diamond Dog Union who are in this Mine and hear this call, We Have you surrounded! Come out with your paws up and empty, you are all under arrest for the kidnapping of Princess Twinkletail, Attempted Regicide, Destruction of Public Property, Trespassing on Private Property, Theft, Illegal Occupation of owned land and many more! Come out Peacefully or we will use force!" The Guard Captain shouted before he backed up a few steps in order to be in line with his fellow guards.

A minute passed and nobody came out of the mine, Then two minutes passed and then Three, By the five minute mark the guards and even the two Royalty on the scene started to get nervous.

Was there another entrance to the mine that they did not know about?
Was this not even the correct mine? Did they already abandoned this mine and moved somewhere else before they could be caught?

"Send a group in and have them return in ten minutes" Blueblood told one of the Guard Captains before he recieved a salute and the guard ran to inform one of the groups that were readied beforehand and what to do.

"You're sending them in?" Ambrosia asked Blueblood.

"Yes, If they don't return in ten minutes then we will move on to plan C" Blueblood replied.

"And what is plan C?"

"Plan C is we collapse the tunnel, trapping them all inside." He answered, no hesitation in his voice.

Ambrosia turned to him instantly, "Plan C is WHAT?! No way am I letting that happen, My sister is still inside!"

"She won't be injured or trapped, The Tunnel Collapse will only block the entrance. You're sister as we know from what Samuel told us is deeper in the cave and already has an escape route dug out for her, she will be uninjured from Plan C"

Gritting her teeth, Ambrosia turned to look at the squad of five armored Diamond Dogs entering the Mine, "I don't like how you're doing this Platinum, But I'll let it slide as long as Moonbeam is unharmed." She growled out before soothing her features and and closing her eyes in order to calm down.

Only for her to suddenly open them up as a loud explosion sounded up behind her, Looking back she saw the dark pillar of smoke coming out of the far side of Dimondia, where the castle of Katherina lies.

"What? What's happening?" One of the guard asks as they watch the smoke float higher into the sky.

"What's happening," One of the guards near her whispers before pulling out a sword "Is Revolution!"
The Guard turned towards Ambrosia and shouted at the top of his lungs.

"FREEDOM OVER PEACE!" The Guard dashed towards Ambrosia with his blade swinging towards her.

Only for it to be caught in a golden telekinetic hold and thrust downwards into his own leg, toppling him onto the hard ground bleeding.
He was then dog piled by nearby guards who quickly subdued him.

"What the hell?!" One of the younger Dogs exclaimed, seeing one of her coworkers suddenly attack the princess.

"Well them," Blueblood said as he grabbed the bleeding Dog with his hold and floated him closer, looking into his eyes. "It seems we have a traitor"

As those words left Blueblood's lips, screams erupted from the guards farther away from the two royals.


"It also seems we have more than one."

> Chapter 28: Freedom Over Peace 2
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

"Hey Twilight?" Spike the Dragon says, hoping to gain his older sisters attention.

"What is it Spike? As you can see I'm kind of busy right now" The purple Unicorn answers while she taps a glass cylinder with a bubbling liquid inside of it.

The two are currently in the remodeled basement of the Golden Oaks Library. Twilight is using the now basement turned laboratory to find magical differences between Pegasus feathers and Griffon feathers. Thanks to Rainbow Dash and her visitor from out of town, Gilda the Griffon.

"Well, as we know Samuel is currently on the mission in Caninia, right?" The dragon starts.

"Yes Spike, Samuel is with Cadance and Prince Blueblood on a diplomatic mission to Caninia" She answers absentmindedly as she carefully places Rainbow Dash's feather into one of the glass tubes.

"Okay so I was thinking, Why don't we do something for him when he gets back. We both know he didn't want to go. So... Why not do something for him" Spike explained, thinking back to how Samuel was when he was dragged in rope to the castle.

"That sounds wonderful Spike, we can continue talking about this when I'm not occupied." Twilight Ground out as she carefully levitated another glass tube with Gilda's feather closer to the bubbling liquid.

"Sure sure, But I mean, what could we do? Only Fluttershy and I can speak with him, I don't think he'd like being around Rainbow Dash" Spike continued to say, thinking about how Rainbow Dash was the reason Twilight even managed to catch him in the first place.

"Spike..." Twilight said with a warning tone of voice as her eyes were glued to the Pegasus feather changing color from Blue to Grey in the bubbling liquid.

"And, I don't think he met Rarity or Pinkie Pie yet, so how would he even react to them being there?" 

"Spike..." Twilight tried to catch his attention to be quiet as she wrote down the results of the Pegasus feather on a piece of paper before levitating Gilda's feather into an identical tube of liquid.

"So maybe, It could be just the three of us? Maybe invite Fluttershy and Angel since she can speak with him and the bunny hangs out with him sometime."

As soon as the Griffon feather enters the tube of liquid, it quickly starts to smoke, filling the room with the smell of coals and for some odd reason, rust. Quickly rushing out of the basement, coughing the smoke out of their lungs, the two catch their breath in the entrance to the library.

"*Cough* So *Cough Cough* What do you think? *Cough*" Spike manages to finish, hoping for Twilight to agree with his idea.

"Cough* What I think Spike *Cough*, Is that right now, *Cough Cough* Samuel is having a way better time than us *Cough Cough*"







I am Having a horrible time right now.

It all started when an explosion sounded from inside Dimondia, seeing as we are currently on one of the hills surrounding the city, the explosion must have been huge to be hear all the way over here.

That wasn't the horrible part, no, the horrible part was when one of the Guard Dogs in the small team that's following me to pick up Princess Moonbeam shouted something before he stabbed one of the other guards.

He was quickly stabbed back by the third Dog, but seeing as it was a team of three and now one of them is bleeding and the other is dead, that leaves them with only one Dog and myself.

"I don't know what's gotten into him" The one remaining Dog said as he looks down at the bleeding Dog, the one that killed the first guard, "But we can't leave him like this, Sir Chespin," He turns to look at me and that was when I knew that this day, the day that started with me trapped in a cave far underground is going to go from bad to worse.

"Could I task you with fetching the Princess by yourself" God Dammit!

Why is this happening to me?!

"Lets just get this over with" I whisper to myself before rolling to where I dug the tunnel.

If Fate or God or whatever is going to continue and make my life harder, then I should just be harder!
...
That sounded a lot better in my head.

What I'm trying to say is that if I'm not allowed to kick back and relax, then I should kick somebody to relax.
... That's not a good example.

Okay, Lets see how to explain this?
This world, Most of it at least as I have seen in Equestria, runs off of cartoon logic, story tropes you find in TV shows.

Group of heroes beat villain, power of friendship, characters doing seemingly impossible feats for simple comedic effect.

And what I can only guess is what's been happening to me for the past few days.

There is a famous trope in storytelling about an unwilling or reluctant character pushed out of their comfort zone into more and more situation that require them to do stuff they might be uncomfortable with doing in order to progress the story.

Probably one of the more famous examples of this trope is actually the main character from a Nickelodeon TV show called Avatar: The Last Airbender.

In the show, The main character, Aang, is portrayed as a pacifist monk who hates violence and is reluctant to become the Avatar, the only person that can stop a hundred year long war and save the world.
It is as the story progresses that Aang gets pushed into more fights and more situations where he must do stuff he doesn't want to, such as leaving his friend in prison or forsaking his own moral ideals.

Characters like Aang get entire shows to build up character.

But what's happening to me, right now? This is bullshit.
I'm not a cartoon character, My life doesn't follow the cartoon logic of this world.

I'm a Human, Not a Story Protagonist.
And perhaps it is me not being proactive in the month I've spent here that is the reason all this is happening to me.

I kept saying that I will be going home, But I haven't actually done anything other than get Twilight Sparkle, a character who is undoubtedly the protagonist of this Cartoon of a world, to find me a way home that will only be available a little over two years from now. It is me doing nothing but wait for these two years to pass that is why life keeps screwing with me like this.

A Character needs to be proactive to be good, a reactive character will be disliked by readers or watcher for "Not Doing anything to progress the plot". A reactive character is pushed by the plot, instead of the other way around.

So if I believe that the Cartoon logic of this world has seen me as too much of a reactive character, then I will simply need to be more proactive.

I'm not going to like it, But if it makes my life easier in the long-run, then I'll bear with it.

Now, I need to go rescue a princess.





Dust and Debris. That is all that was left of the Castle of Katherina Proudpaws.

"Do you think we got her?" President Lycanroc asks his partner, Rex Rockefeller.

Looking at the large pile of rubble where a few short minutes ago stood what some might consider a national monument, Rex hums in thought.

"I hope not too many got hurt, The servants didn't deserve this" Lycanroc continued, moving his paw to pick up an orange and start peeling.

Rex simply continued looking at the destroyed remains of the castle. The seat of power for the corrupt elite that rule the kingdom of Caninia, those that perpetuate the cycle of hatred between peasants and nobles.

"I mean, sure they worked for Katherina-" Lycanroc takes a large bite out of the citrus, the acidic smell bursting forth, making Rex wrinkle his nose in annoyance "- But they were just doing that to get paid, just like the rest of us."

"Jeremy," Rex opened his mouth to talk before closing it as a sound entered his ears.

*Cough Cough*

There was a survivor.

"Quickly," He yelled to the D3U members accompanying them "Dig for any survivors! Now!" The Dogs soon got to work digging through the rubble, soon joined by two Minotaurs and a Zebra.

"What will we do if she's alive?" Lycanroc asked as he looked at the D3U start their impromptu search and rescue mission.

Rex took a moment to think of an answer before replying.

"We will make sure she wont get in our way. Banishing her instead of killing her would make us look like the benevolent saviors that we try to be. And I'm sure that- Where are you going?" Rex interrupts his own line of thinking when he spots Lycanroc start walking away.

Throwing the rest of the orange in the air and catching it in his mouth, Lycanroc crushes the fruit between his jaws before licking the juice off his lips and turning to Rex, "My Little Star is telling me that there's a human nearby, I want to see him." Was his explanation before he continued walking in the direction of where the cave that the D3U held Princess Moonbeam is located.

His walk soon turned into a jog, and from there into a run, from running on two legs into running on four, and jumping over obstacles like a wild animal.

His Red eyes turning a dark green as he dashes and leaps in the direction of the other human.

Seeing that, Rex couldn't help but sigh to himself, "It would have been so much simpler without her in your head" before he loosened the collar around his neck and strode towards the wreckage of the castle. Intent on helping any survivors they find.





"I knew those Barghest were up to something, but BLOWING UP THE CASTLE?!" The Diamond Dog known as Princess Indiana Ambereyes yelled as she lead two of her sisters through a series of underground escape tunnels constructed under the castle.

It could only be considered a miracle that not only was Indiana unharmed, but so was Fiona and Katherina.

"How dare they..." Fiona Floppyears growled out as she followed her older sisters out of the escape tunnels.

Exiting the tunnel form a cave entrance hidden inside a forest of trees far from the buildings of Dimondia, The three princesses tighten the hoods they were wearing to hopefully hide their Identity.

"Ignore them for the time being, we need to make contact with the Equestrians. We join them and leave the country, we will get Diplomatic immunity if we go with them. We'll be safe" Katherina told the two, earning a shocked look from her youngest sister.

"You want to just leave?!" Fiona cried out, not wishing to believe the words that just came out of Katherina's mouth.

"I want you to be safe, At the very least you should leave with Moonbeam and Ambrosia, I'm sure the D3U won't chase you-" "Are you stupid?!" Katherina gets interrupted by Fiona once again.

"Not only do you want us to leave, but you want to stay?!"

"Yes, It is I that the D3U want, You and Ambrosia hold little to no power outside of being princesses, and Moonbeam is your two's closest older sibling, The D3U will leave you three alone, I can guarantee it." Katherina turned to Indiana.

"Indy, Can I count on you to get our sisters out of the country?" She asks her sister, who has remained silent since the three exited the tunnel.

Taking a look at the trees around her, Indiana Ambereyes walks to a branch hanging lower from one of the trees and snaps it off before turning back to her eldest sister and-
*Whack*
-Smacking her on top of the head with the branch, a few leaves falling off and landing on Katherina's head.

"Ow! Why did you do-" Katherina tried to say before she once again get smacked by the branch.
"Ow! Stop thi- *Whack* -Ow! Indi- *Whack* -Ow! Why are you- *Whack*"

After a few more smack with the branch she stops talking and starts rubbing the red spot growing on her blue head from where the Branch hit her repeatedly.

"There," Indiana said "Now will you stop being stupid for a moment and listen?"

Katherina rubs her head and nods slowly, tears pooling in her eyes.

"Good, Because I hate hearing you talk like that," Indiana said as she looks at Katherina rubbing her head and at Fiona looking on in shock, "Can't you see that attitude is the reason Jenn decided to leave in the first place?"

Taking her paws off her head, Katherina looks at Indiana, now kneeling in front of her on the ground.

"Look, you can't keep doing this, Trying and stop us from doing our own things and do everything on your own. We're family aren't we? Let us help you, at least now" Indiana spoke softly, leaning forward to rub her paw on her sisters head, were she hit her with the branch.

"Indy?" Katherina whispered before she felt a soft body tackle her from behind.

"Don't leave us! We're royalty too, It's our job to help the people, make their lives better. Not run away like kittens!" Fiona cried, hugging her sister from behind.

"Fiona I-" Katherina stopped talking before she hugged her sister back, soon the two were enveloped by the larger body of Indiana as she too joined the hug.

After a few minutes of crying and hugging, Katherina spoke.

"We need to meet up with our sisters, and we will stop President Lycanroc." 

*Sniff* 

"Fiona?"

"Yes?"

"Did you blow your nose on me?"

"..."

"No more hugs"

The group disentangled from the hug and started walking towards the city of Dimondia, Intent of joining up with their other sisters and putting an end to the D3U.
> Chapter 29: Freedom Over Peace 3
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Where was that tunnel?! I swear it was somewhere around here!

I'm on the hill where I dug the tunnel out of Moonbeams cave, But I can't find that damn tunnel!!!

Where is it? Where Is IT?!

I need to hurry up! The D3U are actually killing people!!!
I knew they were supposed to be Bad Guys, the antagonists of this plot in some form or the other.

But why did in the last week this story went from a CareBear-esque Cartoon to a young teen show like Orochimaru attacking the Hidden Leaf?!

Is this supposed to be the cartoon worlds way of saying things are changing? Going from Ben-10 to Alien Force all of a sudden?! Or is it just here in Caninia and when I go back to Equestria things will return to being childish and candy and rainbows and stupid?

Never mind all of that! I need to find a princess who has been trapped on the other side of a tunnel.


So where was that damn Tunnel?!






"Princess Cadance, Are all of your belongings ready for transport?" Jennino asked as she spotted Cadance walking up and down one of the corridors of the castle.

Cadance jumped is surprise when Jenn called her out "Oh! Queen Lanternlight, Don't you have errands to attend to?" Cadance tried to change the subject from what Jenn asked.

"It is fine, Delegating is a useful skill to have, But you haven't answered my question, are you and the other Equestrians ready to leave?" Jenn asked again.

After stopping in her walk back and forth from one end of the corridor to the other, Cadance moved her head as if she's thinking of an answer before sighing and replying "Yes, All the equipment and documents we brought with us are packed and ready to be moved back to the port town we first landed, We're just waiting on Blueblood and Chespin. I'm sorry we couldn't have done more to help."

"No No No, You have done more than enough!" Jenn exclaimed loudly, catching Cadance off guard with her sudden rise in volume, "It is me who should be apologizing to you! If only I was a better ruler, The D3U wouldn't have gotten as big as it had, making my sister invite you to help us."

Hearing this, Cadance swiftly replied with "No, You are a great ruler, Your subject look up to you and so quickly supported your rise to Queenship, I'm just sorry th-" Cadance was cut off by a sound coming from outside of the castle.

A few minutes before, a ground shaking explosion erupted from Katherina's castle, Now however, the sound was closer to a wild animal running through a busy street, destroying windows and signs, pushing people out of the way, the kind that is uncommon to hear but stays in your mind once you hear it.

Quickly running to the nearest window, Cadance and Jenn look outside to see.

"Is that...?" Cadance squinted her eyes in order to catch a better look at what was making all the noise.

Quickly looking at the figure that Cadance spotted, Jenn lean in only to exclaim, "It's Lycanroc!"

That quickly got Cadance's attention.

"How is he here? Shouldn't he be with Blueblood and Amber?"

"No Idea! The only way he cou- He was  Holding Moonbeam in a different Cave from where he himself was!"

"So Moonbeam was a diversion the whole time?! Almost all the guards this side of Dimondia are with Blueblood and Ambrosia to catch him and he wasn't even where they thought! But if he wasn't there,  Where is he going?"

Jenn listened to what Cadance told her with wide eyes, The Castle in barely protected, And Lycanroc seemingly blew up Katherina's castle, looking towards the direction he is headed...

"He's going to where Moonbeam is!" Jenn exclaimed in horror.

"That's good right? Blueblood practically has an army ready to take him down" Cadance asked.

"No! He's not going to Moonbeam, He's going to where she is, where right now another important person is. The only other known Human in Caninia." Jenn said, looking at the figure of Lycanroc running on all fours towards the hills outside the city of Dimondia.

Once what Jenn said registered with Cadance, she quickly jumped out the window and flew after him.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" Jenn screamed in shock.

Cadance stopped mid-air and turned to look Jennino in the eyes, and with a voice that lacked any of the fear or trepidation she previously felt as she walked the corridor, She said "Chespin is my friend, I am going to save him" And so she flew away. Chasing after Lycanroc.

Looking at the pink Alicorn flying farther away from the castle, Jennino couldn't help but mutter under her breath as she watched the Princess of Love go help someone who until a few days prior was a complete stranger.


"Those Damn Ponies, Always so friendly"






Where is that damn tunnel?!

I'm sure it was right here, You could see the top of the buildings in Dimondia so it should be around this area.
But I can't find it!

Why couldn't satellite imagery be invented yet? I at least know how to work with those.

In any case, The Tunnel should still be close by, All I need to do is keep searching.

"What are you searching for?" 

"A tunnel I dug that should-" Wait a minute.
Who asked that just now?

Turning around to find the source of the question, I am met with a pair of white furred paws with long, sharp, brown nails.
Looking a bit higher I am met with the face of a Pokemon.
A Lycanroc to be specific.

It's teeth looked as sharp as knives and his eyes were mostly red, with a single dark-green ring in the middle.

"Hello there" The Lycanroc said.

And I did the first thing that came to my mind at that moment.

"Pocket sand!" I yelled as I hit him in the knee with a Vine Whip before I used Rollout to get the hell away from there.

"Augh Dammit! Get back here!" He yelled before I heard him start running after me.

Rolling downhill means that I am moving very fast, and soon enough I find myself rolling through a small forest growing outside the city limits.

"I just want to talk!" I heard him call out after me, soon I arrive at a clearing between the trees and stop my roll.

I turn back to look at him as he enters the clearing.

"That was mighty rude of ya', I just want to talk" Lycanroc says as he stops a few meters away from me, far enough so I wouldn't be able to hit him with Vine Whip before he starts approaching.

"What do you want from me?" I ask, my eyes darting around the clearing searching for a plan to escape in case things suddenly get hostile.

"I'll repeat, I just want to talk with another human, because that's what you are, right? A human, just like me?"

"Yeah, okay fine then-" I say as I try to relax my posture before I look him in the eyes and answer.


"You wanted to talk? Fine, let's talk"

> Action Packed Holiday Special
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

It was a cold and snowy evening that heralded the call for action! The greatest hero of the Backlands was summoned to save the princess of Ponytown.

"Help us oh great hero!" The people called out to the sky, and from the darkness he arrived.

An Insectoid body, a head covered by a helmet hiding his secret identity.
On the hero's back were two retractable switchblades.





"Wait a minute" A Changeling wearing a bathrobe interrupted the story before taking a sip of his hot cocoa.
Turning to his friend, a floating purple chandelier, he asked a question.

"How is this story connected to the holiday season? And why are you wearing a Santa hat but also a necklace with a menorah? And are the candles being red, green and black supposed to represent Kwanzaa?"

The Human turned Chandelure turned around in midair, doing a spin before stopping on front of his Changeling buddy-pal-friend.

"Yes, It's called the holiday season, not just Christmas, that's kind of rude to all the other winter holidays. Sadly I couldn't find any Novy God memorabilia so this is all we have. Now Back to my story!" The  Chandelure yelled before he continued narrating his story.





Where were we? He was insectoid, yadda yadda yadda, here we are.

From the darkness of the city, the great hero Lokix heard the commotion and started his search.

The Princess seemed to have been kidnapped by the evil Princess Luna-.




"I don't think you can use her, calling her evil now is sort of defamation against a royal. That's a criminal offence"

Chandelure paused his story and turned to the Changeling again.

After breathing in a big sigh, Chandelure asked "Are you the one telling this story or am I?"

The Changeling merely sipped once more from his cup of Cocoa.

"That's right, now where was I?"




The Princess seemed to have been kidnapped by the evil Princess Loona, A totally original character and any resemblance parodying real life people is purely coincidental!

The Evil Princess Loona was holding the Ponytown Princess in one of her evil five star hotels!




"Five star hotels? really?" Chandelure sipped from his mug.

"Shut Up! It's my story!"





The Evil Princess Loona was holding the Ponytown Princess in one of her evil two star, rat infested, dirty kitchen, broken ice-cream machine resturaunts! No Five Star Hotels in sight!!




"Why not just put her in a dungeon in a tower, like a normal evil princess"

Chandelure shot a dark-purple ball of ghost energy at a window, shattering it.

"Point taken" Changeling replied.





The Princess was held in a dungeon!

And it was Lokix objective to save her!
 Do you have anything else to add?!




The Changeling calmly sipped from his Cocoa Mug as he watched Chandelure throw ghost balls and fire balls all over the small room they decorated for their holiday party.

"Do you have! Anything! To Add?!"

Changeling looked at Chandelure, before smirking and saying "Can you tell a better story?"

Chandelure burned down the house.
> Chapter 30: A Chestnut in his first real fight
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

"You wanted to talk? Fine, Let's talk" And as those words left my mouth, The subtle glow in Lycanroc's eyes dimmed and he sat down on the ground.

He stretched his back and shoulders before he leaned forward, placing his arms on his legs in a sort of cross sitting position.

"Look, Kid-" "I'm not a kid" I interrupt him. "I am nineteen, an adult, don't treat me like a child"

"Sorry, So, You're a human as well, obviously, your accent is strange but I can work with that, I wanted to just talk about human stuff, ya' know?" Lycanroc continues his talk.

I take a subtle look around, The forest clearing I'm in has plenty of ways to run away into, but Lycanroc is clearly faster than me, I won't be able to vine-whip up a tree because he could probably climb it, I won't be able to beat him in a fight, he's clearly stronger than me.

I'm going to have to play along with him for now until I get an opportunity to get out of here.

"So, Let's start with names. My name is Jeremy, What's your name?" Lycanroc introduced himself.
"My name is Samuel. My question now, Why are you doing this?" I return.

Lycanroc smirked at my reply before speaking, "So it's a question game now? Fine. I'm doing this to get my freedom" Lycanroc responded.

Freedom? "Caninia doesn't own slaves, what kind of freedom will you get by getting rid of the royalty?" I ask.

"Slavery isn't the only reason to want freedom kid-"
"Don't call me kid"
"-There are other forms of freedom out there. The Freedom to express your opinion, the freedom to learn, the freedom to earn a living, the freedom to work a job. Are those not all types of freedom?" Lycanroc continued talking, "Getting paid for the work your doing is the difference between being a Slave and being Free. There are no chains on our necks, but our wallets are held by a higher power-" He didn't stop talking "-I work my life away, practically slaving in the coal mines, and when We decide to Unionize we get thrown away and replaced! Is being paid what we're worth really such a wrong idea?! Do I not deserve to be paid a living wage? DO I NOT MATTER?" He screamed.

"Every day I slave away, digging rocks and stones to feed my family while I can barely even feed myself! This world is no different from ours kid-" "Stop calling me that" "-The rich get whatever they want when us workers die in obscurity from a disease we could have bought the medicine for TEN TIMES OVER If we simply got paid a few dollars more! ITS INSANE!!!"

He's still talking, no, rambling would be a better description for what's going on right now.
The man is mad, he's a terrorist trying to justify his acts to a sympathetic crowd.

Too bad I'm not a sympathetic crowd.

"Are you listening to me kid?" He's starting to get on my nerves. "Don't ignore me, we're both humans, are we not? We're both in this together" I can't take this.

"Don't lump me in the same basket is you," I finally interrupt him, "You kidnapped a young woman, barely twenty years old, and held her in a damp cave with no food or water. Stop trying to justify yourself, It's pathetic!" That's seem to shut him up.

"I don't care what reasons you have to do what you've been doing, I could actually care less. But no, what I care about is that you made a scared little girl cry." And that's the truth.

How could I call myself a big brother if I allow a bully like him to hurt young siblings.
Sure, Princess Moonbeam isn't a sibling of mine, but she is Jenn's. And it's a job of the older sibling to take care of the younger kids, even if they aren't his family.

And that is why President Jeremy Lycanroc won't win me over with his pathetic attempt at a recruitment pitch.

Because he made Moonbeam cry.

Lycanroc stares silently at me, looking straight into my unwavering eyes. "I see" He whispered to himself, "You were wrong Jirachi" what?

"I would like to make my wish now" He said with a flat tone of voice, his stare not leaving my eyes.

And as we both stood there silently, I could feel a soft breeze flow through the clearing before a bell chime was heard.
Immediately after, three light blue ribbons appeared floating around Lycanroc, one of the ribbons looked like it was also covered in soot, but the other two were in pristine condition.

The blue ribbons spun in the air around him, and I knew, deep down, that I need to stop him from making that wish.

Two green ropes of energy emerged from my back before whipping towards Lycanroc, He simply leaned to the left and avoided them.

I rolled into a ball and threw myself at a nearby tree, crashing into it and bouncing off at a slightly higher speed before I ricocheted into another tree, building up momentum every ricochet jump. Soon I was practically flying around the forest clearing faster than a hawk mid-dive, and with a final bounce, I shot forward towards Lycanrocs unguarded back.

And I hit!
And I moved him ten centimeters forward, barely even leaving a scratch.
...shit.

With a lightning fast paw, Lycanroc grabbed my head like a bowling ball and threw me away from him. I crashed into the ground, skipping a few times before my back slammed into one of the trees.

The floating ribbons started spinning faster.

I tried getting up, but a rock flew towards me and hit me in the stomach. It didn't hurt but it pushed me back onto the ground.

The ribbons seemed to blur together by how fast they were spinning. I need to stop this, whatever this is!

I once again tried to get up only for another rock to shoot towards me and knock me back down.

Looking up at Lycanroc from my place on the ground, I could see him smiling sadistically while looking at my downed form.
So much for trying to recruit me, I guess.

Wind chimes started sounding in the clearing as the Ribbons spun so fast they seemed to turn gold by the heat building off of them.
Wait no! Upon closer look, the ribbons really have turned gold.

A melodious voice sounds out around us, the voice of an innocent child made out of the dreams and wishes of those born under the starry sky.

"Your wish is ready, Jeremiah Anderson, Speak it out and it shall be granted" The voice said, before a transparent body appeared floating behind Lycanroc, whispering in his ear.

Jirachi, The Wish Pokemon.

"Of course," Lycanroc started as he grabbed one of the golden ribbons, the other two seemingly burning away in an invisible fire, "I wish for freedom to all the people of Caninia, from Dogs to Minotaur, from Zebra to Griphon, I wish for all of them to be free from the clutches of this dictatorship! I WISH FOR FREEDOM!" He screamed the last part out, and the golden ribbon in his paws also burned away, in a shower golden of sparks.

"Very well,  Your wish is my command" Jirachi whispered before she glowed a bright white light and flew off into the sky like a firework.

Like a shooting star.




All around Caninia, from the edges of the border, to the Equestrian ship docked near the ocean, to the capital of Dimondia, Every single creature could see the wishing star shoot upwards towards the heavens.




Lycanroc smiled calmly as Jirachi left the clearing, as if a great burden has been lifted off his shoulders. "Now, where were we?" he asked no one before he turned back to look at me.

"Oh, Right" He took a single step towards me, I tried to get up and escape but another rock slammed into me, pushing me back into the ground.

"tsk tsk tsk, not so fast" He clicked his tongue and shook his head as he took another few steps towards my downed form.

And as he inched closer to looming over me with his sharp claws and teeth, A single disgusting thought went through my head.

Is this how I die? In some nameless clearing after being beat to death by a fucking terrorist? Is this really it?

NO! I am not going to die here! I am going back to Equestria, I am going back to earth, And I am going to see my father again!!!

I am Samuel Fucking Cohen for crying out loud, I did not join the military just because it was required of me, I joined because I protect others.

And I will not be killed by some asshole with a freedom boner!!!

And as those thoughts passed through my mind, I felt a weird energy swell up inside of me, it reminded me of when the brown energy coated my arms while I used dig, or the green Energy when I use Vine Whip.
But this was different.

The whip was visibly thicker and moved faster.
No, Faster isn't a good word for it, it moved with visibly more force behind it.

Another pulse of energy built inside me and I finally realized what's happening.

I'm using Bulk Up, a fighting type move that boosts the users Physical Attack and Defense stats.

And since I used it twice, I should be twice as strong as I was, since in the games, a single boost to a stat strengthens the original stat by 50%.
Two boosts is 100%, three is 150% and the maximum boost of 6 times is 300% boost making the user four times as strong.

Lycanroc easily dodged the vine whip, even with the boost from Bulk Up won't change the fact that he is a fully evolved pokemon with higher base stats total.

Or in layman's terms, he's still stronger than me.

But I don't need to fight him, do I?

"So you got a little boost, did you? That's nice, I'm still going to hurt you for refusing to join me. Don't worry, It'll only hurt a little" He said as he continued walking closer to me, but that's fine.

As soon as he gets close, I'm going to throw dirt in his eye and Roll Out out of here. With my stat boost, I should be able to roll faster.
Hopefully.

"But it will all be over soon, With Jirachi granting my wish, my victory is all but assured, don't make this harder than it needs to be kid" And that's when I struck.

"DON'T CALL ME KID!" I yelled as I picked up the dirt from the ground and threw it in his face, with him looming over me so close I didn't miss.

A Vine whip emerged from my back and shot towards him. He dodged once more, but I wasn't aiming at him.
The vine caught on the a branch on a tree behind him. I pulled. And I swung myself into the air like I was shooting myself from a slingshot.

Usually, a move like this wouldn't work, but with Bulk Up now boosting my stats, I'm strong enough to fling myself with the vine-whip without tearing a muscle.

When I pass Lycanroc's shocked face, I throw a mock salute before I curl into a ball and Roll Out. 

"Why you!" He shouts as he quickly turns around to chase after me, but I'm already at the other side of the clearing, and as soon as I hit a tree and start ricocheting, then I'll pick up enough momentum to roll out of here faster than he can run.

"Get back he-" Lycanroc tried to give chase, but his shout was interrupted by a familiar voice. 

"Chespiiiiiiiiiin!!!!!" And with a mighty flying dropkick, Princess Mi Amore Cadenza joined the fight, sending Lycanroc crashing into the trees on the other side of the clearing.

And just after the pink Alicorn sent the human turned pokemon flying away with her kick, she landed on the ground in front of me and took an unfamiliar stance, her horn glowing with a light blue aura, her back legs in a wide stance with her front legs leaning closer to the ground, her wings opened behind her like a bird showing it's dominance.

"You stay away from My Friend!" She yelled as a blue barrier surrounded the clearing and a few trees around it.


It seem this fight isn't over, but at least I have back up.

> Chapter 31: A Chestnut and a Princess fight the President
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When Lycanroc chased Samuel into the forest, Cadence was worried she lost them.
A friend of hers is being hunted by the leader of the group which kidnapped princess Moonbeam, He was in danger and she couldn't do anything.

Cadence never really fought anybody outside of some sparing matches against her fiance, but she knew the basics of both Unicorn and Pegasus combat, so she could hold her own until actual guards arrive to reinforce her in the case of an attack.

But right now, she doesn't have her guards with her, all of them remaining on the ship they arrived in, leaving Cadence as the only pony available to stop Lycanroc and save Chespin.

But with the two of them under the canopy of the forest, she doesn't know where to go.

Until she saw a bright light shoot upwards like a beacon of hopes and dreams, a star shooting upwards leaving behind a trail to follow.

A trail leading right to President Jeremiah "Lycanroc" Anderson himself.




Wiping the blood off his pristine white coat with a tattered cape he picked up, Prince Blueblood turns to look at the beacon of light shooting upwards from the nearby woods. "Is that where Moonbeam is?" Princess Ambrosia Muffinsbuns asked him as she too cleaned a splattering of blood and grime off her yellow fur.

Looking closely at the beacon, Blueblood can only barely see his cousin flying towards it as nothing more than a purple and pink speck in the distance.
"I do believe so, let us hurry over then," Blueblood turned to look at the Diamond Dog Princess, 
"Shall we?"




Climbing out of the tunnel that was dug for her, Princess Moonbeam and her new friend, The Carbunkappa kid, looked towards the most visible landmark.

"What is that?" Moonbeam Twinkletail whispered to herself as she looked towards the beam of light shooting towards the sky a mere two hundred meters away from her. "Gah," The crystal-covered turtle voiced out in his turtle language, whatever that word meant.

"Whatever it is, The Great Princess Twinkletail shall take a look!" And with a bravado she didn't have, she picked up the Carbunkappa and walked toward the trail of starlight.




"Thanks for coming so fast, let's take him down," I say to Cadance, who even without understanding what I'm saying, nods her head.

As I continue to ricochet between the trees to add momentum to Rollout, Cadance's horn glows the same blue light as the barrier surrounding the clearing before boxes and pillars of hard light or whatever type of magic-made construct they count as appeared in the clearing.

"You!" Lycanroc screamed as he jumped back onto his feet "Why are you interfering?! You Equestrians are ruining everything!" He yelled as he leaned forward and ran towards Cadence, seemingly ignoring the constructs appearing around him.

And as he entered between several of the shapes, I took my opportunity.
Using the momentum I built with Rollout by ricocheting off the trees, I shot towards one of the nearby shapes Cadence created.

At the speed I was going, I was close to a redlining race car. I was fast.

And as my Rollout hit the magical construct, It shattered into shards and shot towards Lycanroc, who was forced to stop running towards Cadence and lift his arm to block the shards. I rocketed back into the tree line before ricocheting into another shape, shattering it, and rolling back to the tree line.

"Stop moving!" Lycanroc yelled as he dodged another barrage of magic construct shards, trying to keep me in his vision as I rolled around the edge of the clearing, bouncing between trees and constructs.

I decided to honor his wishes, by shooting past with a Rollout, narrowly avoiding his grab at me midair.
"Stop it!" He yelled as he lunged after my small form, I instead ricochet back towards him, hitting him in the stomach before he could react and shooting back towards the trees before he can catch me.

Growling in annoyance, Lycanroc stops looking for me and turns his hate-filled sights over to Cadence, who's sweating at keeping up the barrier whilst maintaining the construction of new constructs to jump off of.

With a feral grin across his face, Lycanroc starts running toward the princess.

With a final ricochet, I shoot towards Lycanroc, passing above him and exiting Rollout midair.
He quickly looks over his shoulder at me, only to get his torso and left arm caught by a vine whip.

"Huh?" He voices as the two green ropes of grass-type energy capture him, only for him to be sent dragging after me as I use the momentum from Rollout to drag him away from Cadence.




A dark fog hovered over the city of Dimondia as it floated toward the fight between the two humans.

The creature hidden in the fog has spent almost a month looking forward to getting its revenge against the ones who put it in the state it found itself in, and one of those humans was the perfect way to reach it, the more nights it spent spying on him, the more it was sure of it.

All she needed was the chance to take over his body when he is at his weakest. And it nearly succeeded when it learned of the anomalous time dilation between the reality he came from and its own, the only reason it failed was because of that dream of a reality made of three apocalypses, but it matters not.

Now he is fighting, actively weakening himself, making his body ripe for the taking.
It was difficult hiding from the newly freed princess of dreams, and it was hard manipulating the emotions of those around him to bring him into his predicament. 

But the simple thought of how intoxicatingly pleasurable it will be to see the faces of the other Spirits when they find out it won was enough to make the entire chain of events worth it.

Making Samuel feel negative was easy enough to do with him being paraded around Canterlot like a rabid animal, it barely had to work!
Making Blueblood think of ruining the mission with a petty revenge plot against the secretary took a lot less effort than it thought it would take.
Making Jeremy start his plan early by fueling his anger against the rulers was what truly made it all click.
With Lycanroc kidnapping Moonbeam, It knew that its plan was successful.

Not that clown Discord, not that psycho Cosmo, and not that fool Eris, but it!

Not Chaos! Not Malice! Not Pleasure! But Nightmares!!!

And all it needs to do is wait for Samuel to wear himself out against Lycanroc, and it will be her victory.




Cadence breathed heavily as she worked her unicorn magic Overtime, creating more and more constructs for Chespin to bounce into.

If someone told her a year ago she would be risking her life to save a rodent from a Dog with rocks in his hair, she would have asked if he was alright.

But now that her horn is burning from overuse, she can't help but think that maybe she should have listened more when she was in school.

Chespin once more shattered one of her constructs, her horn pulses a bit brighter to replace it.

"Yep, Unicorn Combat at its finest." Cadence thought to herself as another bead of sweat rolled down her brow.




Reaching a barrier in the forest, Moonbeam tries to look inside to see what's happening on the other side.
And as soon as she sees what's in, she quickly turns to hide behind one of the trees.

"He's in there" She whispers shakingly as she holds the turtle-like creature closer to her chest.

On the other side of that barrier, fighting what looks like Mr. Mouse and a Pink Unicorn, is President Lycanroc himself.

"We have to help them" She whispered to herself, looking at the trees surrounding her before taking a peak at the young Carbunkappa she was holding.

"This might hurt a bit," She told him as he looked up at her, "But I promise you that no harm will come to us," She looked into his eyes.
"Do you trust me?" Princess Moonbeam asked the crystal-covered turtle.

And when she received a nod in return, she smiled.




"Hurry up, We're almost there!" Indiana yelled as she ran towards the beacon of light, Katherina and Fiona running after her.




Blueblood and Ambrosia calmly strode towards the forest outside of Dimondia, where the beacon of light that stretches endlessly into the sky stands.

"When we arrive, You will pick up your sister and run whilst I rejoin Samuel and Cadence. Do we agree?" Blueblood asked as he entered into the treeline, Ambrosia nodded to his plan, looking forward to hugging her sister once she was safe.




High above the clouds, leaving after itself a trail of light, The Shooting Star of wishes, Jirachi, stopped in her journey.

High above the world, looking at the entirety of the country of Caninia, Jirachi giggled to herself.

A Wish of Freedom.

Her master truly was a funny one.

And with a bright explosion of light and stardust, The Wish Was Finalized.

"Jeremy Anderson," She began, her melodious voice like wind chimes on a peaceful day, reminding any who might listen of a zen temple or a shrine, "Your Wish, The Freedom of the people of Caninia, is ready." She took a short pause to close her small green eyes.

And when she opened them again, they shone a bright gold. "Your second wish has been granted," She said as two of the ribbons on her head burned away, leaving only one attached.

Looking at the single blue ribbon flopping on her crown, she pulled her hands to cover her mouth as she giggled again before disappearing in a shower of gold and blue sparks.


And the wish was granted.

> ATTENTION!!!
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