first thing I felt when I regained consciousness was cold...and wet. I opened my eyes and found myself lying on a muddy path of some sort, one that looked like it was used fairly frequently. Surrounding the path were trees that looked like they belonged in a highland area such as Scotland, said trees blocked out any chance of accurately identifying where we were.

"The hell?" I muttered.

"Ungh, what happened?" I heard Autumn say, I looked over to see her getting up and shaking her head, as if to clear her thoughts. In addition I could see Sunny, Garnet, Ruby, Thel and Breezy just beginning to stir. But the others were nowhere to be found.

"Is everyone alright?" I asked, I received responses of affirmation mixed with approval. I switched my pendant so i was a Toa once more "we need to see where this path leads" we began walking down the path and after few minutes we came to a small lake, we were walking past it when a massive pony, big enough to look down on Big Mac, barreled out of the trees and lept into the lake, disappearing into the water with a loud splash. I walked over to the waters edge and peered into the murky lake. I jumped back when the pony was launched into the air, held aloft by a giant orange tentacle, which was wrapped around the pony's left hind leg.

"Is that the best ye can do, ye nae-guid doaty balloon!?" the pony shouted in a thick, Scottish accent before turning his head and biting down on the tentacle with a very sharp set of teeth. He then pulled his head back, ripping out a large chunk of flesh and causing a giant squid to surface before promptly flinging the pony onto land, the pony spat out the chunk of flesh "*ptue* That could o' gone be'er" he said.

"Are you sure it's a good idea to go attacking a giant squid?" I asked, helping him up.

"Och, someone's gotta keep their numbers down, don't I?" he said "Blasted things are a bloody nuisance" he then charged back towards the water and spun around mid-jump before bucking the squid right between the eyes, the squid let out a shriek before all its tentacles went limp and it sank beneath the surface.

"What do you think o' that?" the pony asked as he climbed out of the water "Mr. Armour Wearing, Metal-Faced, Boot-Wielding, Clype-Dreep-Bachle, Gether-Upping-Blate-Maw, Blethering, Gomeril, Jessie, Oaf-Looking, Schooner, Nyaff, Plookie, Shan, Cider-Drinking, Gold-Faced Shilpit, Mim-Mouthed, Sniveling, Worm-Eyed, Hotten-Blaugh, Vile-Stooshie, Cally-Break-Tattie!?"

*POV 3rd person*

Aurora awoke with a start to find herself in a clearing in a lush jungle of some kind, she stood up and looked around, Minion and Vinyl were still unconscious, so she wouldn't stray too far. As she looked around she began to notice something, apart from the odd bird or oversized rat, there wasn't much in the way of wildlife. With nothing better to do she walked over to a log and sat down...
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"Well this sucks" she said after about five minutes of sitting on the log with her wings folded in front of her chest, suddenly she heard a chirping and looked down to see a small green spider-like creature with four legs and a set of fangs perched on the log next to her, looking up at her with curious eyes "What on terra are you?" she reached out a claw to pick it up, only for it to clamp its fangs down on her wrist before scuttling away, screeching as it went.

"You little shit" she said, rubbing the wound.

"Aurora?" she heard Vinyl ask, she looked over to see the white coated unicorn (that would take some getting used to) sitting up and looking around.

"I'm over here, Mum" Aurora said.

"Are you ok?" Vinyl asked, noticing Aurora's wrist.

"I'm fine" Aurora lied, Vinyl deadpanned.

"Aurora-Dawn Melody Scratch" she said, raising an eyebrow "you're 15, you should know better than to lie. come 'ere, let me have a look" Aurora sheepishly walked over and held out the injured wing, causing Vinyl to hiss with sympathy.

"Youch" she said "just a sec, I'll fix you up in no time" Vinyl pressed the center of her pendant and was surrounded by a white glow as she turned into her Toa form, with a mere thought she switched to the mask of healing and it began to glow, a similar glow surrounded the wound, only to flicker before fizzling out.

"Stupid mask, it's never worked properly" Vinyl said with a huff.

"Or the wound contains something it can't heal" Minion piped up from behind them, they turned to find him sat cross-legged with is eyes closed.

"Like what?" Aurora asked. at that moment they heard a loud screeching and were promptly surrounded by large, four legged spiders with really large sets of jaws. Aurora spotted a familiar little spider-like creature amongst them.

"Oh shit" she said as the horde of Visorak began to close in.

Boris woke up feeling strange, he quickly deduced this as being due to the fact he was hanging upside down from a tree with a vine tied to his left leg.

"What the...?" he said.

"Well, the alternative was you get eaten by a hunting party of Silverclaws" He heard Scar say from somewhere to his left, he looked over to see Scar, in his Timberwolf form, sat on a platform of vines

"Where are we?" Boris asked.

"Storm Valley" Scar said "just, not the one we know, the trees speak differently"

"trees think-talk!?" Boris asked, pressing the center of his pendant and turning into a falcon before flying over to a branch and perching upon it.

"I'm a timberwolf, and a Toa of plant life" Scar said, deadpanning "anyway, they say that there is a pony settlement nearby"

"Are you sure it's a good thought-idea to go to a pony settlement-village?" Boris asked "if this isn't our home-Terra, then they might react-act adverse-badly to a timberwolf"

"Either that or let those guys eat you for lunch" Scar said, before pointing over the edge of the platform. Boris looked down to see a group of Silverclaws skulking around. "they don't know we're up here, they think we're still down there"

"Well then" Boris said, ruffling his feathers "discrete-quiet, or full blown Toa-hero?"

"Let's try and be as inconspicuous about this as possible" Scar said, standing up and calling forth some vines and walking along them as the made a makeshift bridge.

"A timberwolf and a falcon walk into a pony settlement-village" Boris said, shaking his head, before taking off "sounds like the beginning of a terrible-bad pun-joke"

*POV 1st person Vuur Koning*

I narrowed my eyes at the pony,

"care to run that by me one more time?" I asked, getting out my sword. the pony's eyes widened.

"Now now, laddie" he said, smiling nervously "let's not be too hasty, I was jus' pulling yer leg" i went to respond but Autumn shushed us both.

"Do you hear that?" she asked, I listened carefully and i began to hear voices approaching from the direction we were intending to head towards.

"I think it landed around here..." The voice was male, without a distinct accent, and as the sound of hooves got closer, another voice chimed in, this one female.

"I don't see why we need to go walking around here looking for some falling star, Stag."

"Come on, Double! It'll make a good souvenir! Besides, this might be the last interesting thing we do before seeing the Queen. You know how diplomatic meetings go."

There was a pause before the voice spoke up again.

"You're a moron sometimes, you know that, right?"

"That's just one of the reasons you married me."

The figures finally revealed themselves- a pair of royal changelings. As soon as they saw us they stopped dead in their tracks and stared at us.

*POV 1st person 'Stag'*

It took me a second to make sense of what I was seeing. The Kelpie, Ceffyl Dŵ and the two Pegasi was normal enough, but the rest were... frankly, I didn't have a clue, as the closest I could compare them to was a reptilian pony, a couple of mishmashes between dragon and ponies, and an anorexic Sasquatch or Yeti in armor, with a mask covering its face. I turned to my wife.

"Double, do you know what those are?"

She shook her head. Going on a hunch, I began howling in what little Primate I actually knew.

*POV 1st person Vuur Koning*

The two changelings spoke to one another in Japanese before the male turned to us and began howling like a monkey, i didn't quite know how to respond to that. I looked at the carnivorous pony but he just shrugged.

*POV 1st person 'Stag'*

The fact they were looking at me like I had gone crazy told me that my methods were... ineffective. I tried other languages before Double spoke again.

"Why not just try Common?"

"Double, I don't think that would work."

*POV 1st Person Vuur Koning*

after he'd finished babbling in a bunch of different languages I'd had enough.

"You know, I can speak Equish perfectly fine" I said "ich spreche Keimaehne, wenn Sie das bevorzugen. Eller jag kan tala Gryphonen" judging by the fact their jaws were on the floor, I'd say they could understand what I was saying.

the next few chapters were written in collaboration with Prince_Staghorn, and are set on his world