> A New Queen > by RainbowStir178 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Chapter One ; Change in Changeling > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter One A change in Changeling On a crisp day in the bad lands, a little nation of a parasitic species rest with their ruler, who is pacing back and fourth on her brittle hooves. This queen is the queen of the changelings. Her parasitic wings full of holes, as well as her long smooth mane, her brisk horn and her hard hooves and her sharp fangs grow on her teeth. Her subjects have the same traits, though smaller with a light blue consuming their eyes. The queens three green shaded eyes are full of concentration and annoyance as she paces on the desert floor. One long piece of her mane, always in front of her face genteelly blows in the warm desert breeze with the rest of her mane. The changelings rest, worn out and panting. The queen talked to her self, her voice echoed with a deep and high sweet voice. "How dare they defeat me with their ludicrous love! Making me look like fool! Wait till my subjects and I regain our strength..." A nearby changeling flutters it's wings a bit. This changeling was a bit taller, and had a black helmet and some armor almost merged within it's tough skin. It let out a bit of a screech and began talking in a scratchy high voice, "But, my queen, we are weak, and there seems to be no chance of us regaining it if we stay here.. " The queen stopped and pondered for a moment. "As much as I hate you guys talk back, you're right..But there is no way we can go back to Equestria and regain strength there..we need to go somewhere else..." She thought a bit more and had a sudden break through "I know a certain spell to transport to a different universe..YES! I can transport to a different universe...one full of love and regain my strength and we can then get our revenge on Celestia, Cadance, Shining Armor and that other absurd purple unicorn! " She began to laugh wickedly. The changeling captain began to speak again, "My queen, will any of us come on the journey?" "No, I will go alone, scope out the area and see if there is any sap we can suck the love from. Most likely someone close related to royalty so I can get close to them and defeat them like I did Celestia! And when I do, I will send all my subjects and they will wreak havoc amongst the kingdom and regain their strength and skill..THEN WE WILL TAKE OVER EQUESTRIA!" The heartless queen laughed manically again, and the captain changeling joined in with a high pitched screeching snicker. The queen ceases her laughter and lifts her hoof and bellows through the dry desert, "MY FELLOW SUBJECTS! YOUR QUEEN IS GOING TO TRAVEL THROUGH TIME AND SPACE TO A DIFFERENT UNIVERSE TO HOPEFULLY FIND A LOVE RESOURCE TO REGAIN OUR STRENGTH! THEN WE SHALL TAKE OVER EQUESTRIA!" The changelings cheer with hissing and a few screeches. The queen and the changeling captain walk over a few yards away from the group. "Are you sure, Queen Chrysalis...Perhaps I should go forth in your favor instead-" He was cut short by Chrysalis putting her hoof in front of his mouth. Her jagged horn glowed a slimy green and the glow became brighter and brighter. Sparks flew a bit and sweat ran down her face and finally, after five minutes of concentration, a multi-colored portal forms. Pigments of colors swirl around in the oval. " If I run into trouble, I shall inform you. You do know how to receive my calls, right? " "Of course, Queen Chrysalis! I get your sensory in my horn." Chrysalis nodded and smiled. She entered one hoof in the portal. The Changeling Captain saluted and bowed and Chrysalis stepped through the portal. It closed behind her as she stepped in. She used her magic and the surrounding colors began to shift and shape. Soon a blast of light happened. Chrysalis felt her body shift and change. She then fell to a grassy floor. The sun shined bright. Chrysalis held her head, then quickly snapped her limb back and stared at it. Instead of hoofs, she had thin long arms with sharp little fingers that were like claws. From her hand to her middle arm her holes still were shone. She got up on her legs. Used her magic to appear a mirror. Her magic emitted from her arms. She looked at them and smiled. Chrysalis looked in the mirror. She had a curvy, hour glass body in a tight, strapless dress that ran down to her feet and flared out. Near the bottom he dress had holes in it, showing bit of her skinny legs. Her smooth hair was the same style, it ran down her back down to her middle calves, still ragged and filled with holes and the little section of hair still ran down her face and ended near her stomach. Chrysalis crown was still visible atop of her head, black and flared with 4 sky blue orbs. Her eyes were big, and where three shaded orbs. Light green, then dark green, and then a thin black pupil. Shining pine green eye shadow is visible with her long dark eye lashes. Chrysalis smiled and she flashed herself her own pointy teeth in the mirror. She then made the mirror disappear in a puff of smoke. "Now, let's see the inhabitants of this realm..." Chrysalis then began to walk off through the soft, breezy, grassy field.. A little while after Chrysalis left her spot, a pink bubbly princess walked through the field with her little servant. The servant seemed to resemble a mutated giant peppermint in a suit. The princess herself had her sticky hair up in a bun and a blue sundress and yellow and pink decorative parasol. The princess stopped in her tracks and knelt down in the already impressioned grass. "Peppermint butler!" The gummy princess called and the servant came rushing with a duffel bag he was carrying earlier. She went through the bag and pulled out a strange looking device. A little satellite rotated at the top of the rectangular box, and lights flashed and buzzers beeped as it processed the essence. The princess gasped and stood up. "I need to get back to the Candy Kingdom! I believe my people, and the people of Ooo might be in danger.. I need to speak to an old acquaintance of mine.." The little servant replied, "Who might that be, princess?" The princess sighed and spoke carefully, "She is from another universe, and someone from her universe somehow managed to get to ours. I don't know how, it isn't scientifically possible, but apparently in her realm, it is.. I need to speak with her right away. I need to speak with Princess Celestia." ~ > Chapter Two ; An Overdue Acquaintance > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter Two An Overdue Acquaintance Not to far off from the field, an optimistic teenage boy in a aqua blue t-shirt, ocean blue shorts, a green circular back pack and a odd white hat that resembles a bear surrounds his head only showing his face is walking the field with his best dog companion This boy was special, not only has he defeated countless enemies, even the Lich- twice, And saved countless number of people, he is the only human in Ooo. His peach color dog ‘brother’ by his side, beat boxing. This dog isn’t no ordinary dog, of course. This dog seems to have the same qualities as a normal person, but he has a special power. The ability to stretch his body and limbs to different shapes and sizes. The two boys looked yonder to see the bubbly princess scurry down their direction. “Is that- It’s Princess Bubblegum! Princess! Princess!- What’s the hurry Bubblegum?” The boy called to the rushing princess. “Oh, Finn! I have a very important urgent- Uh- message to send to an old acquaintance of mine. I’m sorry boys, but I have to go!” The bustled princess replied, rushing past them till stopped by a reply from the coral dog. “Anything we can do to help, princess? You seem to be very rushed..” “I am, Jake. I am in a commotion, yes. I don’t believe there is anything you guys can help me with, yet-” The princess sighed and quickly surmised and then delicately replied, “Perhaps you should come with me, I might need you- BUT you must keep this between us, everything you hear and see, okay?” Finn and Jake nodded quickly, both thrilled about a new adventure. The Princess of the Candy Kingdom, the upbeat human boy, and the devoted dog made haste to the Candy Kingdom. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Queen Chrysalis was bustling through the field till she reached an entrance to a huge kingdom. Bubbles blew around which the origin was from giant mutated gumball machines blowing through a bubble blower, the sidewalk seemed to be made out of some sort of brittle, in fact, the whole kingdom seemed to be made out of some different substance than other kingdoms. Chrysalis walked inside, her un shown heels clicking on the sidewalk. She hide behind posts and buildings, taking in the surroundings. She noticed that the whole place seemed to be made out of some edible sweets. Chrysalis was in utter shock when she saw the citizens of this kingdom. They were all some sort of candy! She saw little gum drop girls giggling and running by, a lollipop lady of some sort waving out a window to some sort of walking and talking ice cream cone. The forest surrounding the barrier of the kingdom were a light rose, and seemed to be cotton candy. “Hmm, I better change myself to blend in better with the inhabitants of this kingdom..” Chrysalis thought. She closed her eyes tight and concentrated. Her eyes then shot open and her body turned white and began to form into a medium sized hard candy heart. She was a dark green, her eyes black ovals like some of the other inhabitants, her tiara still on and her arms and legs still having a few holes in them. She smiled looking down at herself and then looked around, hoping that her transformation didn’t cause too much attention, which it didn’t. “Perfect..” ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Princess Bubble and the boys entered the kingdom gates in a rush and quickly entered the castle. The boy and dog followed the princess through the castle, down hallways, and down a circular staircase down to the dungeon. The princess walked to a part of the stone wall and knocked three times on a stone. The wall shifted, rumbling and then it sunk in and slid over to reveal a wooden door with a pale, sparkling, heart shaped crystal atop of it. The princess opened the door an in the door was a circular room with a bunch of other wooden doors. All the doors had crystal atop of them in the shapes of certain objects. The one door Princess Bubblegum went to was one with two crystals atop of it, a crystal sun, and a crystal crescent moon. In the room was just a big, long mirror. “Boys, this is where the ‘Keep everything you see and hear between us’ thing comes in..” ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The sun shone brightly down on Equestria. The princess that lowered and rose the sun every dusk and dawn was in the Canterlot Castle in her royal chamber. The princess was not human, for she was an Alicorn; meaning half Unicorn and half Pegasus. Her soft multi-colored mane flowed elegantly and her eyes were soft. Her golden tiara and necklace glimmered with the purple gems upon them. She used her magic horn to lift up scrolls and read them peacefully in the thrown room. All of a sudden her sister, the princess of the night, burst into the room. Her midnight blue skin was a bit damp with sweat from running, her starry night mane flowed like her sisters, her blue eyes accompanied by light blue eye shadow were full of worry, and she began to speak in a worried and breathless tone. “Sister! ‘Tis a predicament! We must hurry!” The princess looked at her sister. “Luna, what is the matter?” “An old acquaintance of ours has made a comeback.. But it’s not good news..” “What? Who is it? What’s going on?” The princess of the day asked her sister. Luna looked at her sister with a look of blankness and said simply, “There is trouble in the Candy Kingdom.” ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Princess Bubblegum stared into the mirror, worried. The boys looked at the mirror and then to each other confused. When Finn was about to ask the princess what they were doing here, the crystals atop of the mirror glowed. Reflected in the mirror, were two giant ponies. A tall ,white one with her wings flared out, a long horn accompanied with a golden tiara with a purple gem, a necklace that was similar in style to it, and golden, what seems to be, shoes. Her violet eyes were concerned but stable, and her long mane flowed to the side, as if there was some breeze blowing it, were three colors; light blue, light pink, and light purple. Next to her was a bit smaller pony that had her wings flared out as well, a horn accompanied by a dark blue little tiara, a sort of sash wrapped around her neck with a crescent moon on it, and sparkling shoes on her hooves as well. Her mane flowed like the other pony, but it was a dark blue with a lighter blue aura surrounding it and little sparkles that look like stars where accord in her mane. Her face expression was stone, but behind her blue eyes, befell with a light turquoise eye shadow, hid worry. Finn and Jake where utterly shocked and confused. These ponies where non of what they have seen before. They were more elegant and more detailed and defined. The white unicorn broke into the silence like a gentle blade. Her voice was regal and smooth. “Princess Bonnibel Bubblegum. It’s been a long time since we last spoke, and I have assumed that this reunion isn’t an overdue ‘Hello’, as from what my sister told me, you sense trouble in your kingdom.” “Yes, Princess Celestia. I apologize that this reunion isn’t just a tardy catch up. I have told Luna that I sense trouble in my kingdom and my realm. Of course you must be wondering what connection or reason this has with you..” The white pony nodded delicately along with her ‘sister’. “Well, I was taking a stroll through a field, and felt a strange essence. I took out my ‘ELAF’, Essence Locator and Finder, and it was traced back to Equestria. This essence has a strange dark green tint to it. I have a sample trapped in the ‘ELAF’, please, check it out and tell me if you know what it’s about.” Princess Bubblegum takes out the ‘ELAF’ and hands it in front of the mirror. Princess Celestia’s horn glows a light yellow and the same aura surrounds the device and it goes through the mirror like it’s water. Celestia messed with the device for a bit and got the sample and used her horn to analyze it. She stared blankly at and let go of her magic. Luna’s horn glowed a dark violet and it caught the device before it fell on the floor, earning a sigh of relief from Bubblegum. Luna spoke carefully to her sister, her voice was deep, soothing, and elegantly, “What is wrong, my sister? Whose or what’s magic essence was it?” She kept staring at the floor till slowly shaking her head. She began to speak with worry and seriousness in her voice that broke through like a bullet through glass. “Listen carefully, the thing that made that essence isn’t our kind. She is evil and tricky. The vile beastress that can disguise herself as anything and anyone. Her name is Queen Chrysalis. A few months ago, Queen Chrysalis disguised herself as Princess Mi Amore Cadanza. She tricked everyone, besides my faithful student, Twilight Sparkle. We didn’t listen, though… and she then banished Twilight to the Canterlot Caves, where she found the real Cadance. I was defeated by Chrysalis, Twilight was defeated by Chrysalis, but thanks to Cadance and her new husband saved all of Equestria with the power of their love.. Chrysalis feeds off love. She’s a changeling. She can change into anyone and anything. Please be careful. I will send Twilight and Cadance to you some time tomorrow, till then be careful.” Celestia’s glance turned to Finn and Jake and was followed by Luna. They took in their forms and then looked back to Bubblegum. Luna was the first to ask. “Who might these little creatures be?” Princess Bubblegum’s eyes opened in shock, she opened her mouth to answer but was cut off by the boys in question. “I’m Finn the human! A radical boy adventurer! And this is my best friend, Jake the dog!” Finn made jazz hands toward as if to present Jake. Jake pushed Finn’s arms away and walked up to the mirror and pointed a finger at them, his face trying to seem tough. “Yeah! And what are and who are you two!” Luna’s eye expression changed a bit to annoyance. Celestia just smiled warmly and replied, “I am Princess Celestia, the ruler of Equestria. I raise the sun every morning. This is my younger sister, Luna. She helps rule our kingdom and she raises the moon every night.” Princess Luna beckoned a loud echo, “CHARMED TO MEET-” Luna was interrupted by Celestia’s hoof pointing toward her snout. Luna’s face tinted a light pink with a whispered ‘oops’. She cleared her throat and begun again, “Sorry, It’s a pleasure to meet thee, Sir Finn the Human, and Sir Jake the Dog. As my sister hath mentioned, I am Princess Luna, the Princess of the night.” Celestia smiled, put her hoof to her mouth, leaned against the mirror toward the Princess of Ooo, the adventurer, and the magical dog, and whispered, “Don’t mind her, she is still getting used to talking regular speech.” Princess Bubblegum smiled warmly. Finn tilted his head in confusion a bit, and Jake just stared, trying to hold back a laugh. “You talk funny!” He said. Luna’s eyes went fully white and glowed, the background of the mirror turned dark with lighting and storm clouds, Luna hovered and yelled in her deep echoing voice, “WHAT DID THOU SAY ABOUT THY PRINCESS, KNAVE!” Jake stretched down, horrified he stared up at the princess quivering and whimpering. Before Finn was about to stand up to the princess, the clouds and darkness disappeared and the princess’s eyes returned to normal and she lowered back down laughing a bit to herself. Celestia just smiled and rolled her eyes amusingly. “It was just a little, how you say, ‘prank’ or ‘joke. Wee- I mean.. I apologize if I scared you a little too bad..” “Me? Scared? HA! Nah, I was just- just humoring you, that’s all!” Jake replied returning to normal size. Celestia broke in on the little fit of giggles, “All joking and introductions aside, Bonnibel, please be careful. Be on the look out for suspicious behavior of some people, but don’t go too crazy, or suspicion will arouse. My sister and I must depart now. Good luck, Bonnibel.” Their reflection warped and faded. Bubblegum turned to the boys. “Not a word about this situation to anyone, now, as Princess Celestia said, be on the look out for suspicious behavior, but don’t go too crazy- JAKE. If you suspect someone, come to ME first, don’t interrogate them.. Now, off you two go, I have other important Princess business to attend to. Bubblegum, AWAY!” Bubblegum ran out of the room and up the stairs. The two boys walked out of the room and the wall slid back in place. They walked up the stairs and walked out of the Candy Kingdom. Finn had his hands behind his head and elbows up. “Dude, we are so stepping up as adventurers,” “Heck yeah!” The two brothers brofisted and continue their walk. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Chapter Three ; Princess Duties > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter Three Princess Duties Meanwhile, in Equestria, Celestia and Luna were out on the balcony of the castle. The sisters stared out into the dusk landscape. “Sister, how can we send Twilight Sparkle and Princess Cadance to Bonnibel’s realm. Princess Cadance is running the Crystal Empire.. And Twilight might possibly leave without her friends.” Celestia sighed. “Hopefully, Twilight will understand it’s just her and Cadance’s job. As for Cadance, Shining Armor and you will run the empire for her absence.” “What!?! I don’t know how to run a kingdom by myself! Nor a kingdom with a different pony species than the one’s we know! Why should Cadance go with Twilight anyway, sister?” “Cadance has defeated Chrysalis once, and since you can’t run the kingdom by yourself, Shining Armor will help assist you. I trust Twilight and Cadance can defeat Chrysalis on their own. I also trust you and Shining Armor can run the empire. I’m sure it will be at the most a week.. Chrysalis is very deceitful..” Princess Luna nodded and sighed a bit. “Am I to be the one to give Cadance the news?” “It would be best, once you get there you can stay and get better acquainted with Shining Armor. It’d be best if you go now.” Celestia looked toward her sister. “Be careful, sister.” “I will, sister.” Luna began to walk out till Celestia stopped her “Wait- Why don’t you raise the moon before you go, I will re take the duty when you leave.” Celestia smiled at her sister. Luna smiled back and nodded. She left the balcony. A few moments later, the moon began to rise and Celestia lowed the sun. She looked down and saw her sister enter her chariot and fly off into the distance toward the North. Luna finally arrived at the Crystal Empire. The royal guards driving the chariot landed in front of the castle. Since It was night, her presence to the crystal ponies is unknown. Luna entered the castle and made her way to the throne room. There, Cadance and Shining Armor sat in the crystal thrones looking out the window at the night. Cadance quickly noticed Luna and trashed her body a bit and sat up straight. “P-Princess Luna!- I mean, Aunt Luna! I mean- Hello!” Cadance began in stutter and mumbles due to the surprise visit of her aunt. “Please, just call me Luna. I’d like to get more acquainted but that’s not what I am here for. There is serious business we need to attend to.” Luna began. Shining Armor quickly sat himself up, and bustled about in his seat and began like Cadance, “P-Princess Lun- I mean, Aunt Luna- I- Uh, HI!” Luna raised a brow at the huge grinned prince seated nervously in his chair. “Greetings Prince Shining Armor, please, as I have told Cadance, call me Luna; and as I also told her, there is serious business to attend to. Cadance, you must go see Celestia in Canterlot as soon as possible-” Luna was cut off by Cadance. “Why? What has happened? Is everything okay- Oh of course it’s not if you are here! Who is going to watch the empire! I can’t go I have a kingdom to run-” “SILENCE!” Princess Luna bellowed in the Canterlot Voice to quiet the worrying Cadance. “I will be watching over the empire in your absence alongside Shining Armor. When you get to Canterlot, Celestia will explain everything. Pack your things and get headed toward Canterlot. Shining Armor and I will let the civilians know tomorrow morning why you aren’t here and such.” Cadance nodded, sweating a bit scared. She looked at Shining Armor. He was sweating and looked more worried than she did. She put a gentle hoof on his broad shoulder, giving him soft eyes which brought him into comfort. She looked back at her aunt and nodded. “I will get ready right away.” ~~~~~ “WHAT! I CAN’T BELIEVE IT! Oh what could be wrong! Oh no, DID I DO SOMETHING? Is someone threatening attack against us? Do I need to take another test? What if I fail? What if it’s I’m behind on my studies? What if She wants me to move back into Canterlot to continue my studies?” The purple unicorn worried as she ran back and forth through her library. Her purple and green dragon assistant stood carrying her bags full of quills, papers, and books. He rolled his eyes, by now he got used to her being this paranoid. “Twilight, I’m sure it’s nothing that bad! Just because Princess Celestia sent a urgent message for you to meet her at Canterlot as soon as possible could probably be something good..?” “Good? GOOD? Are you kidding me, Spike! Of course it’s bad!” Twilight exclaimed into the baby dragon’s face and he fell over, spilling the contains in the bag. Twilight sighed and used her magic to telepathically put the contains back inside. She used her magic to strap on her bag to her back. “Well, I am off Spike, take good care of the library, I know you will. Owlicious will also help you. Bye Spike!” The purple unicorn waved to her baby dragon assistant and left the tree library and went off to the train station to Canterlot. “What’s wrong Princess Celestia!?!? Did I do something? Do I need to do something? Is there another test? Are we under attack? Is the Crystal Empire okay?-” The paranoid unicorn was silenced by the princess’s raised hoof. Before she could speak, another voice rang out from behind her. “Twilight?” “Cadance!!” Twilight exclaimed as the two ran into a big hug and proceeded to say in unison while performing the same movements, “Sunshine, sunshine, ladies bugs awake! Clap your hooves and do a little shake!” Celestia gave a little warm smile and soon her face returned to serious, breaking the fit of giggles. “Now, as you may know, this isn’t a little much needed reunion. No, our world isn’t in danger, but another is..” The two sister-in-law’s looked at the alicorn confused. They began to follow her as she walked slowly down the room full of stain glass windows “There are other realms, as you may know. As a very important ruler, Luna and I have communications with the other very important rulers, in case something like this were to ever happen.. There is another realm, or world, is in danger..” Celestia began. “I am, or used to be, very good friends with a ruler there.. But soon we had to go our separate ways as princesses.. And you see, it is our duty to make sure that the inhabitants of that world are safe, for the threat came from ours.” Twilight looked worried at the princess while Cadance stayed stone face, but had the look of worry deep in her eyes. Twilight bit her lip and began, “Who is making the threat? Anyone we know..?” Celestia nodded. “Queen Chrysalis.” Her words sliced through like a knife and the two younger ponies had look of shock in their eyes. Celestia continued, “She seems to have a urgent need of a love source for fuel for her and her subjects.. I have a feeling she may be after any of the princesses or queens in their world.. I also fear that she might find a greater source of evil to help her destroy our world and or theirs.. You see, their world has almost greater evil than ours.” Celestia turned to them, standing up right with her wings flared out. “I am making sure you two go to the world and stop Queen Chrysalis once again! I am sure you two can manage.” Twilight rose her hoof and began to speak, “Princess, what is the name of this world?” “The Land of Ooo.” Twilight looked sort of shocked. “But- from all my studies of other dimensions, worlds, and realms there wasn’t anything about-” Celestia silenced her with a raised hoof. “Of course there isn’t. There are other places than the ones in your books, Twilight.” Celestia’s horn glowed and a book appeared in thin air as the golden sparkles surrounded it and began to disappear as they fell to the floor. “This book has all the places Luna and I are associated with, Twilight. I know you would want to study up on the place yourself. I would like you to come back tomorrow afternoon. Cadance, you can stay with me in the castle till then.” Twilight and Cadance both nodded. Twilight put the book in her saddle bag and Cadance began to walk with Celestia to the hallway on the other side of the room. Twilight walked out of the castle, her mind full of shock and mystery. “The Land of Ooo….” > Chapter Four ; New Arrivals > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter Four New Arrivals Twilight was up the rest of the night studying on the Land of Ooo. She was very disappointed it didn’t go into much depth. “Ugh! This blasted book doesn’t get into much detail!” The purple unicorn exclaimed slamming the book closed. The baby dragon rubbed his tired eyes, being awake only due to Twilight’s studying and talking to herself. He yawned and began to speak tiredly, “What did it say?” Twilight sighed a bit. “All it told me was that Ooo was formed after a ’Great Mushroom War’ and all the survivors are mutated in some ways, didn’t explain in what ways. It also mentioned that there are series of princesses that rule their own kingdoms. From my knowledge and studies from studying on wars, it seems to me this ’Mushroom War’ was named after the mushroom clouds that form after an after math of certain explosives. I can only imagine what the people look like there..” Spike rubbed his eye and then spoke a bit worried yet tired, “Do you think they might not be friendly? I know I would be grouchy if I was mutated into some.. thing.” Twilight looked about unsurely, “I don’t know, Spike, but I sure they are! … Or at least some..” “Did you study on any other places?” Twilight nodded. “Surely! There was one that talked about one that was kind of like ours, except that instead of ponies, griffins, dragons, etc there were these weird creatures with hands and feet and walked on two legs. They were called, ’Humans’. There was a picture, but it was very strange.. But anyway, back to the whole Ooo thing. I am hoping when I get there I will hopefully find a book on their history.” Twilight looked over to see Spike had fallen asleep on the floor after her little rant. She smiled and levitated him with her magic to his little bed and tucked him in. She kissed his forehead and whispered, “Night, Spike..” Twilight entered the Canterlot Castle. Inside she found Celestia pacing back and forth and Cadance standing to her side watching her. Cadance had her saddlebag sitting next to her. Twilight stood on the other side of the pacing Celestia till Celestia turned her head toward her and straightened herself. “Have you got your things?” Twilight nodded and Celestia walked toward the doors toward the Canterlot Gardens. Twilight and Cadance followed. Celestia instructed while she walked through the garden into a isolated spot. “Now, Twilight, I am trusting you to make the spell to get back home, for I will not be there.” Celestia used her magic to pull out a book title, “Royal Spells For Equestrian Princesses”, and gave it to Twilight. “I know you have enough power to produce the spell, but you must study it when you get there, since there is no time now.” Celestia stopped and faced the two. “Now, when you get there, your bodies will change, don’t be alarmed it is natural when performing this spell.” Twilight broke in, “But, Princess Celestia, when reading that book you gave me said something about mirrors the princesses and stuff use to communicate with the others, it also mentioned one can travel through the mirror..” Celestia nodded. “Yes, but if you travel through the mirrors, your body remains in the same state, this would make your presence too obvious, and besides, I am sure you will find much fun in the body change.” Celestia smiled for the first time since yesterday. Her face returned back to stern. “Now, stand back while I perform the spell.” Celestia’s horn glowed and her face full of concentration and sweat, then a portal appeared. Colors swirled in the oval as some golden sparkles still died down. “Now, you both need to go to the Candy Kingdom and meet with Princess Bonnibel Bubblegum. Now go, and be careful, who knows what effects of the change will have on you and what it had on Chrysalis..” The girls nodded and entered the portal one by one. The colors of the portal swirled around them, then a flash of light engulfed them both. Their bones, organs, and skin shifted and changed. The both screamed in pain as it echoed throughout the swirling colors of light. The light became brighter and the girls both fell on the ground with a grunt. Twilight rubbed her head, then screamed and looked at her limb, and screamed again looking herself over. “What’s wrong Twi- LIGHT!” Cadance screamed as she also looked herself over. Twilight’s hooves were replaced with long skinny arms and legs, her horn was gone, her mane style remained the same but straighter and instead of all in one piece it was in string-like strands that flowed down to her middle back. She was wearing; a tan, v-neck argyle, long sleeved, sweater; a tan skirt down to her mid-thighs; socks halfway to her knees, and tennis shoes. Her skin was still the light violet like before, plus her horn was also gone, which made her even scream more. Cadance, like Twilight, her hooves were gone replaced with skinny arms and legs. Her hair was also the same style as well. She was wearing a white ball gown dress with a purple ribbon around the waist with a big, purple bow behind. She had puffed sleeves that had golden glitter swirls on them. The skirt of her dress had a light pink, thin, silk, cloth with the same gold sparkling swirls that emitted from the ribbon and flared to the side and stopped midway down the dress. Cadance still had her crown atop of her head and she also had white silky gloves up to her mid arm. Cadance was calmed down before Twilight, who was still breathing heavily and full of anxiety. “Twilight, Twilight! Calm down it’s okay!” The old foal sitter said hugging her sister-in-law in a hug and shushed her quietly like a mother to her child. Twilight soon calmed down, she took deep breaths and broke from the hug. “Okay… okay.. It’s fine, everything’s fine!” Twilight suddenly gasped and touched the middle of her stringy bangs. “WHERE’S MY HORN?! How am I supposed to use magic- WHAT IF I CAN’T! Oh no this is HORRIBLE! Celestia never said anything abo-” Cadance cut her off, putting her finger to Twilight’s lips. “Twilight! Shush! Aunt Celestia said our bodies would change, maybe you can still do magic.. “ “But that’s highly impossible! Without my horn how can I produce magic? YOU CAN’T. No one can!” Cadace concentrated hard, her eyes shut tight trying to produce some sort of magic. She opened her eyes when she heard Twilight gasp. “How is that possible!?! You can’t produce magic from your arms! There is no way you could! The energy in your arms and hands could never produce enough to perform magic!” “Twilight, look, they are! Try it!” “But- … fine” Twilight grunted and she concentrated her energy like she would with her horn. She felt the rush of energy go to her arms and she looked as she saw the violet aura cover her arms. “HOW!?!” She exclaimed again. She looked around, trying to find something to use her power on. She spotted a nearby rock and focused her energy on it. The rock then lifted with the same aura on Twilight’s arm. It quickly fell as Twilight stopped focusing on her energy and her arms returning normal. “THIS IS- I JUST CAN’T-” Twilight grunted frustrated. Cadance smiled warmly at her boiling sister-in-law. She let Twilight rant and go on about the theory of magic and how she kept persisting it was impossible. ~~~~~~ Chrysalis was trying to sneak around the kingdom full of mutated candy subjects. She hid quickly behind a wall when she spotted someone different from the rest of candy. This certain, ‘thing’, was more human like. She still had the traits of a candy person, being a light pink and her long, rose pink, hair seeming to be bubblegum due to it looking thick and sticky. She was obviously the princess of this kingdom due to have a golden tiara with a blue gem atop of the long stem in the middle of the crown, and also being a more human hybrid. She was also wearing a dark pink dress with a tight purple belt around the wait and puffed up sleeves at the shoulders. She was pacing back and forth and seemed to be waiting for someone or something. Chrysalis kept close eye behind the wall. Something tapped her shoulder and she turned quickly around. A giant cupcake with a mustache and huge muscle was leaning the wall giving Chrysalis a flirtatious eye. “Haven’t seen you around here, are you new?” He smirked Chrysalis didn’t have time for this. She closed her eyes and focused her powers into them. She re-opened her eyes and they were glowing a slime green and the light hit him right in the eyes. The cupcake man was stunned. His pupil and iris turned green and he began to walk the other way. Chrysalis smirked watching him go away and focused back on the Princess. She then saw two figures running up the princess. One seemed to have the same kind of body as the princess, but he had a light peach colored skin, wore dark blue shirts, a light blue t-shirt, and some weird white hood of sorts covering his head only revealing his face. The other figure looked like some misshapen, rounded, orange dog with two big inverted black and white eyes above his jowls. Chrysalis looked closely at the one boy and she thought to herself, “Is this one of those ‘humans’ I’ve heard so much about through my travels..” She listened in closely to the conversation the three were having. “Princess, Princess! Did the-” The boy said before hushed by the princess. She began to speak, “Hush, Finn! We can’t let that secret out, remember! I told you it’s secret! You weren’t supposed to speak of anything or saw or heard!” “Oh,” said the boy, face reddened from embarrassment, “Sorry, but have they?” She shook her head, “No, I’m afraid not. They should arrive shortly.” “Well,” the boy named ‘Finn’ began, “Well, until they get here, I will protect you!” He exclaimed and held out his sword and did a heroic pose. The princess sighed a bit and rolled her eyes, “Oh, Finn, I know you want to protect me and all, but I think when they get here I’ll be fine, silly” She patted his head sweetly and he blushed. The dog seemed to give him a certain look with his eyes and smiled. Chrysalis smiled to herself and thought, “I think I found the innocent sap I was looking for…” ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ “And that’s why it doesn’t nor would it really make any sense.” Twilight stated while walking along the grassy field with Cadance. Cadance smiled amusingly and nodded. “I see.” “Now, did Celestia ever say where this, ‘Candy Kingdom’ is?” Cadance shook her head. “No, I thought that book she gave you would have said where it was.. “ Twilight grunted. “No, it didn’t. Barely told me anything at all! Gah!” Cadance took a look around the grassy field. “Sure is a nice place though, for having evil greater than ours.. What do you think the people would look like here?” “I don’t know, the book said the people here were demented due to some great bomb or something…” After a long walk, the two girls reached an area surrounded by pink, fluffy trees and a giant tree like castle with bubbles floating around, the source of it coming from giant deformed gumball machines sitting around the castle. From the inside it looks as if the people are mutated pieces of candy and that the whole kingdom was made of candy. Twilight looked around and exclaimed, “I know about mutation and all but, THIS IS JUST RIDICLOUS!” Cadance brought her hand to her face, knowing that another one of Twilight’s rants are sure to begin… > Sub Chapter ; Meanwhile.. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub Chapter Meanwhile… Meanwhile, in the Crystal Empire.. Luna and Shining Armor both walked out off the balcony after giving the information for the absent princess. Most of the crystal ponies were confused and worried, all talking to each other in low whispers. Some crystal ponies just shrugged it off and walked out. Luna sat on Cadance’s thrown while Shining Armor sat in his. Luna looked about awkwardly, she hasn’t really ever talked to Shining Armor much. “So, Prince Shining Armor-” Luna began till Shining Armor cut her off. “Please- Call me Shining.” He smiled to his aunt-in-law. She forced a smile back. “Ah, of course.. Shining, I say, how was the honeymoon?” Shining Armor smiled sheepishly. “Oh, it was good- great really.” “That’s, erm, excellent… So, do you enjoy running the empire with Cadance?” “Oh, of course! I love running it, especially with her by my side- I mean- not that I don’t enjoy it less running it with you, Princess Luna- I mean- Yes it’s great!” Shining Armor stumbled with embarrassment visible on his face. Luna nodded, warmness in her smile. “I understand, I am sure that Cadance will return soon..” “Why did she have to go, Princess Luna?” “Oh! Well, um, I am sure Celestia didn’t want me to reveal that information… but, I suppose I can make it vague but understandable.. You see, your wife and your sister are on a very important mission to save some other citizens in another location..” Shining Armor nodded. “I understand, thanks, Princess Luna.” Luna nodded and tried to ask casually, “So, what does thou- I mean what do you do for ‘fun’ around here?” Shining Armor looked toward the window and smiled big, “Well, there is lots of stuff to do around here for fun..” Princess Luna and Shining Armor were walking around the Crystal Fair. Luna’s eyes were full of wonder and amazement. Shining Armor glanced to her and laughed lowly. Some of the crystal ponies looked strangely at their temporary princess. Luna paid no attention to them since she was too busy looking around the fair with wonder. She then pointed to a Flugel Horn. “Your princess demands- I mean, What is this, uhm, instrument?” Luna asked examining the Flugel Horn. The skeptical crystal pony behind the stand began to answer, “It’s a Flugel Horn,… Princess…” “Why don’t you give it a try?” Shining Armor asked smiling Luna rose a brow and picked up the instrument. She blew into it and it produced it’s sound. Luna smiled with delight. “This is marvelous!” She exclaimed and started playing it. She began laughing and Shining Armor laughed with her. After a few more plays, Luna cleared her throat and genteelly placed the horn down. “Uhm- Thank you.” Her cheeks tinted a rose and she walked off with the smiling Shining Armor. Shining Armor looked over and saw the joisting tournament and dragged Luna over to it. They sat in the front seats and watched the joisting tournament. Luna rose a brow and was skeptical till she saw the first two tournaments. She was soon cheering along with the other ponies. “Yes! Great Job, Knight Starfury!” She cheered. After a few more tournaments the two left. Luna turned to Shining Armor, “Why, Shining Armor this has been some of the most fun I’ve had since last Nightmare Night!” Shining Armor smiled, “It’s not over yet, Luna!” Luna stopped in her tracks and looked warmly at Shining Armor, “You-… You called me Luna..” Her eyes were moistening. She has never felt so close to her nephew till now. Shining Armor’s eyes were shining with moisture as well. He went up to his aunt and hugged her tight. Luna accepted the hug. The Crystal Ponies around them cheered for the sweet bonding of Aunt and Nephew. “Now,” Shining Armor began, “Have you petted Crystal Sheep?” ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Chapter Five ; The Bubblegum Princess > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter Five The Bubblegum Princess “And that’s how this is impossible! I mean, it’s common sense! It’s just- UGH!” Twilight grunted, still standing at the entrance to the Candy Kingdom. “Of course it would alter one’s genes but it wouldn’t take it to THIS FAR.” Cadance was just staring off into the distance. She was in a trance of the strange candy type people and the fact Twilight was rambling off for about a half hour. “Cadance?” Twilight said, still a bit of anger in her voice “Hmm?” “Well, are we going to go into this… place” Cadance nodded and they entered the kingdom. The candy people were looking at the two new visitors with suspicion. Twilight whispered to Cadance, “Not only are they scientifically impossible, but their eyes are all strange, weird dark ovals…” Cadance looked at Twilight shocked, and Twilight look shocked too. They both shout-whispered to each other in unison “You’re eyes are like that too!” “Oh my Celestia! How did we NOT notice?” Twilight shout-whispered “Probably cause you were too busy going on how half the stuff here so far is scientifically impossible..” Twilight opened her mouth to say something but quickly shot a glare at Cadance who just smiled sheepishly. Halfway down the sidewalk, a figure scurries up to the two. She was about the same size as Cadance, she had long, rose pink, thick hair down to her mid-calve, a dark pink dress with a purple ribbon around the waist and puffed up sleeves like Cadance’s dress. The person also had light pink skin and a golden tiara with a turquoise gem on the top of the long stem in the middle. She began to speak, “Cadance, Twilight, is that you?” The two girls exchanged glances and looked back at the girl. Twilight was about to answer but Cadance covered her mouth and she spoke, “Yes, Are you Princess Bonnibel Bubblegum?” The girl nodded. “Yes, but please, just call me Bubblegum, Bonnibel and Princess are not needed for you two, now quickly, come with me into the castle!” Twilight and Cadance followed the princess into the castle. Once inside, Twilight broke through before a conversation could be started about the matter at hand, “See, THAT is about proper mutation..” Princess Bubblegum looked at her confused, “Excuse me?” “It’s just it’s scientifically impossible for the, ’people’ out there to be that mutated enough to come out like that.” “I beg to differ..” The princess began and started going on about mutation like Twilight did earlier and Cadance sighed to herself. After long, scientific facts, the princess ended, “You see, Twilight, different worlds have different laws of physics and scientific theory’s and revolutions and such..” Twilight stared at the princess for a bit till exclaiming, “FINALLY! Someone who has the love for science as much as I do!” Princess Bubblegum laughed, “Ah, yes, it is as much as a pleasure for me as well, not much people here have the love for science, you know..” Twilight nodded glumly, “Yeah.. Tell me about it..” Cadance broke in, “Anyway, all science a side, may we get back to the matter at hand..” Princess Bubblegum nodded, “Yes, of course.. Since you girls know about Chrysalis more than I do, let me know if you suspect someone is her, and since I know my citizens well, I can suspect suspicion and you can confirm it for me..” A candy citizen burst through the door. A red lollipop girl in a pink skirt, brown, curly hair in a ponytail and a pink bow in it was standing there. The lollipop girl exclaimed in a high pitched, lady like voice, “Princess- Princess! The Royal Council messenger is looking for you!” “Oh, junk!” The bubblegum princess exclaimed. “I’m sorry girls, I have to go, very important princess business to attend to..” The princess followed the lollipop lady out the door leaving the two alone in the royal chamber. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Princess Bubblegum followed the lollipop lady to a secluded place of the kingdom. The princess became confused. “Where is the messenger and why is he this far out?” The lollipop girl laughed, her laughs pitch went lower and lower.. She began to speak, her voice changed to a deeper elegant voice that echoed within itself, “Oh, Princess, you should know when someone isn’t really your citizen of your kingdom,” The lollipop girl’s hair changed to brunette to a dark blue green, her lollipop changed to a dark green black. She continued, “but what can you say, must be hard to keep track of so many inhabitants.” The lollipop girl changed completely with a flash of light. There, now, standing there was a woman. She had an hour glass figured, long dark green-blue hair with holes near the ratted ends and one thick strand of hair fallen in front of her face, her skin a tint of dark green-black, her eyes were three ovals of different shades, dark green, light green, and a black slivered pupil, with her eyes was dark green eye shadow. Her teeth were grown with two fangs in the front. Her dress was strapless, and was really snug on her body, the bottom of her dress flared around the feet with holes in it, revealing some leg. Her hands and arms had a few holes in them as well. On her head, there was a black crown with the stems flared out with light blue orbs on them. She laughed wickedly Princess Bubblegum stared at her in horror and stuttered pointing, “You- You- You’re- Queen C-Chrysalis!” The menacing woman laughed again, throwing her head back and threw it back forward when she finished, “That’s right, princess! I’m here to take your place and feed off the love of your little ‘hero’, of course, he wouldn’t be your hero anymore, more like my little slave after I’m done with him..” She laughed menacingly again. Princess Bubblegum’s eyes sunk. “No…not Finn..” The princess began to run and Chrysalis chuckled. Chrysalis pointed her arm toward the princess and a slime green aura covered her arm, then covered the princess’s legs dragging her back toward her. Princess Bubblegum screamed in fear as she was roughly pulled upward facing Chrysalis, standing over her showing dominance. Chrysalis smirked, flashing her fangs to Princess Bubblegum. Then, Chrysalis’s eyes glowed the same slime green and flashed Princess Bubblegum in the eyes. Princess Bubblegum screamed and was shaking madly, feeling her energy being furiously being pulled from her body. Tears rolled down her cheeks and she screamed in absolute pain, not being able to take her eyes away from the horrible Chrysalis. Chrysalis’s body began to slowly change, starting from the bottom. The bottom of her dress became a pink and began to become the same shape as Princess Bubblegum’s. Her hair started to turn pink and become bubblegum. After another long period of heartbreaking screams from Princess Bubblegum, Chrysalis’s eyes were the last thing to change, they changed to black darken ovals, the green aura around her eyes slowly faded and Princess Bubblegum collapsed on the ground. Her body was pale and limp. Chrysalis checked her pulse, she was still alive, just passed out due to the lack of energy in her body. Chrysalis nodded and smiled happily. Chrysalis used her magic to teleport the princess into the dungeon of the castle. Chrysalis quickly ran to the kingdom, giving out “Hello’s” and “Greeting’s” on the way to the candy people. She scurried down the castle to the dungeon. She quickly picked up the passed out princess. Chrysalis walked to the stone wall, knocked three times, and went through the wooden door and placed the princess in the middle of the circle of wooden doors. Chrysalis talked to herself, “Ah, the knowledge of this princess has also been consumed into my head as well- Whoa, I need to get used to this sugary sweet voice..” “Princess Bubblegum?” shouted a male voice. “Princess Bubblegum, are you alright? You seemed in a hurry?” “Uhm, yes! I’m just fine, don’t worry! I will be up in a minute,” Chrysalis replied walked out of the room and closed the door. The stone wall replaced it self while she yelled back, “I just had to take care of some business…” ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Chapter Six ; The Who and What > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter Six The Who and What “Is anything wrong, Princess Bubblegum” The Banana Guard asked. “Oh! Erm, no, no, of course not! I just thought there was an intruder in the dungeon..” Princess Bubblegum said nervously. The Banana Guard eyed her nervously. “Well, Princess Bubblegum, if you thought there was an intruder, you know to contact us, right?” “Oh!” The princess said, sweating nervously, “Well, I didn’t think there was time, I didn’t want them to get away, but there was no one! No worries!” “Oh, okay then..” The Banana Guard replied, still looking a little bit unsure to her. The Princess awkwardly walked off till the guard stopped her. “Wait! The two guests are in the lab waiting for you.” “Guests- Oh! Uh- Yes! Of course.. Yes..” Princess Bubblegum said confused. Princess Bubblegum continued walking off and thought, “Guests? Oh yeah! There were those two girls there, I didn’t get a good look at’em.. Darn..” The princess found her way to the lab and took a deep gasp as she looked the the two. “Princess Cadance and Twilight Sparkle!” She screamed. The two girls looked at her confused. Twilight spoke, “Yes? Something wrong, Bubblegum? What did the council want? Was it anything to do with Chrysalis?” Princess Bubblegum stared at them till she shook her head, snapping her from her thoughts, and spoke, “Oh! Uh, yes! Yes.. They said they have the Chrysalis thing taken care of,” she began to push them out the door and ushering them out of the castle, “So there is no need for your services anymore! You best be on your way! Sorry for the rashness, bye!” She shut the gates. Cadance and Twilight stared at the gates. “What the-” Cadance said. “What was- Wha-” Twilight looked to a nearby candy person, “Is she always this.. This strange..?” The candy person looked at her confused and nodded, “Oh, yes! She always seems to be in a hurry now a days..” Twilight slowly nodded and looked back at the castle. Her stare was interrupted by a boy’s voice yelling from the distance. “Princess! Princess! Did they- I mean Anyone come-” He stopped when he he got closer to the two girls. He wasn’t alone, he had a orange dog with him, he was a bit chubby and his eyes were big and inverted, rested above his jowls. He and the boy both stared at the two, and the two girls did the same. Twilight slowly lifted a shaking arm and pointed, “You- You are one of those- Those humans I’ve read about, aren’t you?” The boy slowly nodded and began to speak, “You- You are the two from that one place- that- that one pony- lady is from- that said you were coming- T-Twilbit and Cardigan?” Twilight squinted her eyes, as well as Cadance. Cadance corrected, “Twilight and Cadance, dear..” “Oh!” The boy blushed. The dog finally spoke, pointing his finger up to the girls and walked up to them, “Yeah- Aren’t you the girls that are gonna try and stop this beast lady or somethin’?” Twilight nodded “Pff- Girls, fighting, what boloney, huh, Finn? The dog crossed his arms smirking. Finn said nervously, “Uh- I don’t know, Jake. They are from a different world than ours-” “Look!” said Jake, pointing to Cadance’s Tiara. “This one’s a princess! No way can this girl fight!” “What!” The human boy screamed. “No way! You can’t fight- You shouldn’t fight! Why, you should be at home running your kingdom- Oh my glob! Who- How- No way you can leave your kingdom alone-” “Aunt Luna and my husband, Shining Armor, are watching the Crystal Empire while I am here..” “Shining Armor? Pff.. What a stupid name-” Jake began till Finn broke in. “Jake! Don’t make fun of her husban- Husband? Wait, husband? You look like you’re about 16!” Cadance laughed a tad bit, “Yes, Aunt Celestia said that this world would make our bodies change, it does look like I am younger huh, Twilight?” “Tell me about it..” Twilight mumbled. “Well, why are you out here anyway? Shouldn’t you be inside?” Finn asked “We were, till Princess Bubblegum ushered us out in a hurry, saying the Royal Council has this handled..” “What? That’s weird, PB said that it was a quiet, down low kind of thing.. How did the Roy-” Finn began but was interrupted by the gates opening. “Finn! Good you are here! I needed you, quickly! Inside!” Princess Bubble pushed Finn inside, gave a short wave to the three and closed the gates. “What the- HEY! WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH MY BUDDY!” Jake yelled grabbing the bars of the gates. “I only need him for a short minute, Jake! It’s an experiment I am working on!” Princess Bubblegum yelled nervously. Jake lowly growled. Cadance put a hand on his shoulder for comfort. “Something doesn’t seem right..” Jake lowly growled. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ “Come on, Finn!” Princess Bubblegum said grabbing his hand and scurrying down the hall. Finn blushed a bit, “What’s this about princ-” Princess Bubblegum put a finger to his lips. “Ssh, It’s a secret! Now come on!” She insisted pulling him into the science lab. He looked around. Princess Bubblegum gave him a warm hug and he blushed even more, “Uh- Princess Wh-” He looked towards her and was suddenly stunned and blank. Princess Bubblegum’s eyes were different, they were big and had two dark green and light green iris’s and a long, sharp, skinny pupil. Her eyes glowed green and where sucking his force out. Chrysalis sucked out the love he was feeling for Princess Bubblegum. She smiled, her sharp fangs visible in the body of Bubblegum while she was sucking his love for her out. “This is too easy..” She thought. She then began to try and use her magic still to put the spell over him, and also made him think that they were working on an experiment. “Perfect..” She said.. Finn and Princess Bubblegum where exiting the castle. Finn and her were laughing and Jake quickly ran to his buddy. “Are you okay man?” Finn rubbed his eyes a bit, “Yeah, of course. PB was just checking out some serum on me to see if she can make a sort of energy serum..” “Yeah..” She said embarrassed, “But I seemed to actually do the opposite, Finn is kind of tired and drained.. Sorry, and sorry for rushing you two girls out, and just taking Finn from you, Jake.” She reached in her pocket and drew out a bag of dog treats. “Here, I am sorry, have these as an apology.” Jake snatched the bag and ate a biscuit and began to speak with a mouth full, “Yeah, well, don’t do it again.” He eyed her suspiciously, and then was in a total trance of the delicious dog treats and began to inhale them. Princess Bubblegum smiled and turned to the girls, “You girls can stay in the castle, if you’d like, I’d understand if you still want to scope the place out a little bit, but I assure you, the Royal Council has it taken care of..” Twilight and Cadance exchanged looks and nodded, “Sure, Bubblegum…” She smiled sweetly, “Great! Now, Jake, I suggest you take Finn home and make sure he gets some rest..” Jake nodded and escorted Finn towards home. Princess Bubblegum let the girls in and walked behind them. She glared behind her with a smirk, and a glint in her eyes.. ~~~~~~~~~~