Matt, Natalie, and NoLegs were sent to a mountainside. Or rather, a town IN the mountainside, to be more accurate. Swords and staves were sent flying in other directions like a bunch of small meteorites gone awry. And yes, they were still yodeling.

"We're gonna die!!" Natz shouted.

"No we're not! How many times did this happen?!" Matt yelled in response.

"Meow!"

CRASH.

A sparkling dust cloud emanated from the crash site, which sent many of the residents scurrying about. Some went to the crash site to see what the fuck happened while others rushed to safety.

"What are these things?" Asked a feminine voice belonging to one of the residents.

"I'm not sure, Cadence. But we must take them out of here." Replied a masculine voice.

"Ohhhh, my everything hurts..." Matt said as he put a hand on his head in pain. He saw a blur of pink and another of blue-white before him. And many other blurs of indiscernible color. The colors seemed to intermingle..or even spin really fast. Which one, well, he was unable to decide. He went for both.

"Are you alright?" Asked the pink blur. Its--no, wait, was that a her?--form was becoming clear enough to reveal splotches of purple and yellow on its supposed body. The background was...well, still kinda fuzzy.

"No...something sent us flying..." Natalie groaned, trying not to make a fool of herself. She did not even attempt to sit up because the pain hit her worse. If Matt thought he had it tough, she gave him a run for his money.

"'Something'?" Asked the blue-white blur.

NoLegs meowed, his eyes were wide with white and mere black dots. Sweat formed on him in shock. The blurs Matt and Natalie were seeing were not blurs in his eyes. Being a cat and the fact that his companions weren't cats, there was a dire need for a translator!

Matt's eyes finally cleared up for once and his jaw dropped. It stayed that way. In front of him stood two unicorns--the pink one had a long curly mane consisting of yellow, lavender, and dark pink. She had wings on her back starting in light pink and ending in more lavender. On her head sat a little gold tiara, and she had light pink eyes. The blue-white one had a mane of blue with a highlight of lighter blue. His body was white, and a shield adorned his flank. He had blue hooves and light teal eyes.

"Natalie! Get up, you have to see this!" Matt said as he tried shaking his mage-friend awake.

"Five more minutes, Dad..." Natalie groaned, shifting her arms a bit.

"I'm not your dad! Now get up!" Matt shouted in shock, continuing the shaking of his friend while simultaneously glancing between her and the unicorns. The unicorns glanced at each other in confusion before glancing back at the...talking things they happened to be investigating.

Natalie reluctantly got up and her eyes widened. She was seeing the unicorns Matt and NoLegs were seeing.

NoLegs meowed again. Apparently, he was tired and needed a nap.

"Um, hi..." Natalie said to the unicorns, not knowing what to expect.

"Hi to you too. Listen, we need to go back to the palace. Follow us." Said the pink unicorn, turning her head and pointing a hoof that had a golden horseshoe on it towards a particular structure in what was assumed to be the center of the town.

"Hey! Where'd my swords go?!" Shouted Matt in shock, quickly glancing around and standing straight up. The unicorns jumped a bit because he was in fact a head taller than where their horns ended when they stood straight up!

"M-My staves!" Natalie cried, mimicking Matt. Her panic was much more evident and she was shaking like a leaf.

NoLegs meowed yet again.

"There's no time for that." Said the blue-white unicorn before his horn glowed in a blue flash..and teleported everybody to the Palace settled in the middle of the town.

"Where are we?" Asked Matt, finally taking note that his surroundings consisted of nothing but crystals.

"You're in the Crystal Palace surrounded by the cold mountainside. It is way north of Canterlot where the Princesses of Day and Night rule all of Equestria. I am Shining Armor, and this is my wife Cadence. Who are you two?" Said the blue-white unicorn.

"I am Matt, and I am a swordsman. This is my friend Natalie, and she specializes in magic." Matt answered.

"Hi." Natalie said with a smile. She was waving at Cadence.

"You have a cat. Does he have a name?" Asked Shining.

"His name is NoLegs." Matt said before getting a glare from Cadence. "Hey! It's not like that! He was born that way!"

"He was?" Asked Cadence in shock.

"Yeah." Matt said as he pet the cat, who was purring loudly. "Besides, all the cats in our world had no legs."

NoLegs meowed when Matt stopped petting him.

"Natalie, you're awfully quiet." Cadence said as she eyed the mage.

Natalie looked pissed. She tried using Heal-More and it sputtered on her. In short, staves or no staves, she was weak again. You could say she envied Shining now.

"I take it these belong to you?" Shining said as he levitated a beat-up tree-staff with a crystal-like hook on its shape and a few tree leaves. Alongside that was a weakened sword with a huge blade and gold angel wings on its hilt. The sword had a bit of runic writing on the blade above the hilt, but just that bit. Two rubies adorned the hilt before the blade, and it had a red handle.

"Um, yeah. Gimme the sword, please." Matt said before he held Heaven's Gate. Natalie was given her Nirvana back.

Natalie was still stewing in her anger.