"So, Natalie. How did the cute little kitties in your world come to have no legs?" Asked Shining Armor. He'd been hearing recites of her and Matt's adventures, and they'd gotten over how Lance got his ass kicked to high heaven and back.

"Well, this ties with Akron, actually. So, might as well tell both." Natalie said with a grin. She recently re-learned her Fire spell and was working toward Thunder.

"So, in your world, a cat ruled?" Asked Cadence.

"Yeah." Matt answered with a nod. "She created Akron to ensure no creature would thrive in the world after he would have destroyed it."

"But me, Matt, and Lance stopped the would-be apocalypse." Natalie said.

"What about Anna?" Asked Shining.

"We did not meet her until the Forest Jewel got stolen...and she went and accused us for stealing it." Matt answered again, vividly recalling being 'slain by a child,' as Lance put it.

"She did?" Cadence asked.

"Yeah. And then cats brought the jewels together...and we had to stop GodCat, who saw the error of her ways." Natalie replied. "And then this thing went and abducted her to force the destruction of the world anyway!"

"What thing?" Asked Shining.

"We don't know. But we have a feeling it sent us here." Matt answered, slapping his hand onto his forehead.

NoLegs meowed. He had the 'feed me, my human slaves' look on his face.

"Then we have to stop it. But you need to regain your strength." Shining said.

"And clearly learn about friendship as well. You're a bit...too dis-unified if I dare say so myself." Cadence chimed with a nod.

"She's right." Matt said with a grin.

"And teach Lance not to be a pervert." Natalie scoffed, remembering the time she heard what sounded like him say 'Take your top off!' whilst in the Kitten Kingdom Ruins after she made a comment about the soaring desert temperatures.

NoLegs meowed again. He was purring loudly.

"Should we head to Canterlot?" Asked Cadence, whose wings spread out a bit.

"Sure." Matt said. "At any rate, we might be able to find Lance and Anna. We can't just sit around here doing nothing."

"I agree." Natalie said waving her Nirvana like she was in an angry mob of protesters.

"Eh, stay a week before we go. You were pretty roughed up by the crash." Shining said, concern in his voice.

NoLegs jumped onto Cadence and she pet him like no tomorrow. "Such a cute kitty!" Cadence cooed as her hooves rubbed his blue fur. He meowed as he got his petting.

"Okay. You have any training grounds for us?" Matt asked, standing up.

"Yes." Shining answered. "Why do you ask?"

"We want to get stronger so we can free GodCat." Natalie answered. "I mean, wouldn't you do the same thing had you been in our shoes?"

"She has a point." Said a Pegasus guard overseeing the matter.

Shining nodded, "Please escort them to the training grounds and see to it they don't get hurt too badly."

The guard did as instructed, leading the humans down several winding stairways and intricate hallways until, at last, there was the training ground in all its glory. Many colored crystals decorated the landscape, prisms of color dancing about and making the place shine.

"Niiiiice," Matt commented, "I wonder who maintains this sweet place."

"It's...." Natalie trailed off with her jaw dropping open and staying that way for a good thirty seconds. The sheer anatomy of this place rocked her to the core in awe.

Matt took one side of the arena and Natz took the other. Both readied Heaven's Gate and Nirvana; battle stances quickly being glued unto their forms.

For a good minute or two, neither moved. They eyed each other intently, waiting for the other sparring partner to strike. This single minute or so seemed like an eternity's worth of facing millions of rampaging GodCats to Matt; Natalie felt as if time froze just to mock her; the guard found himself paralyzed.

A bead of sweat snaked its way down Matt's forehead.

And when Natalie saw that bead of sweat despite the distance in which she and her friend stood, she quickly rushed forward and bonked Matt upside the head. He nearly fell over but regained his balance, swinging his sword only to miss the mage by a few strands of hair.

Natz bonked him again, this time from behind. Matt swung again and missed. "Natalie used Agility! Speed drastically increased!" Matt cried as Natalie whacked him again.

He slashed and this time actually made a small, thin cut on her cheek. "Oh HELL no!" Bellowed the mage as she started flinging fireballs at the swordsman. He slashed his sword left and right in order to deflect the fireballs. One fireball actually hit him square in the crotch. Matt ended up squealing like a chipmunk as he grabbed his family jewels and dropped Heaven's Gate in doing so.

"Who's being the bigger dick now?!" Natalie taunted in a cheerleader-esque tone of voice as a grin stretched across her face. She was charging up yet another fireball.

Matt promptly responded by throwing a Freezie at Natz and hitting her right between the breasts. She froze on the spot with a look of shock on her face. Grabbing his sword whilst downing three kiwis, he readied a Quick Slash. He rushed at the mage and was quick as the wind as adrenalin ran throughout his entire body.

Unexpectedly, she broke free of the ice right before the sword collided with her head and she grabbed the blade with her hands. Their eyes met and both combatants laughed it off before the training session officially ended for the day.