Once the group reached everyone else, Dox informed Discord of their plans. Discord then teleported them to Canterlot. After a ton of questioning by the public and the guards in the castle, they realized Luna as the current leader, due to their laws. The party started soon after, as somehow, Pinkie Pie had alerted EVERYONE and organized a party within the span of the three hours that it took to quiet the public.

“How did she even do it?” Alex asked as he looked over the party from his alcove from where he could sit in peace.

“Don’t ask,” Dox said to Alex. “It’s Pinkie Pie. She’s a good friend to have. I mean, I know how you stand on the ponies in your world, but she’s a good one to know.”

“Plus she’s cute” Added the Lich from out of no where.

And then the dice started acting up… or should I say the Dice Roller Core started acting up. It glowed a brilliant red before Dox tapped the screen of the device. Out popped several holographic dice that swirled around before exploding in a flash of light. When everyone could see again, there was a black robe cloaked over Dox.

“What the hell?” Dox said. “Well then. I guess I got my cloak back….”

Yo, echoed the sound of the DM’s voice amongst all of the Displaced heads. Someone said the ponies were cute? Look at them now.

“Oh, My, God…” The Lich’s jaw dropped at what he saw.

All of the ponies had become anthros. All of them. They all even seemed shocked about it, not knowing what to do, or what happened.

“DM, what did you do?” Dox asked.

I turned them anthro. the DM said. I just thought it would be fun. I mean, at least now no one will have to worry about combat advantage. Oh, and I changed the houses so they can fit properly.

“Wait a second,” Dox said. “You did what? Is EVERYONE anthro now?!”

Yep. the DM stated. Have fun with that…. and your new powers.

“...Guys, remind for me to sick an Irnakk on DM later,” Alex said as he looked over the crowd, his eye twitching.

“Wait everyone is anthro…...SCREWBALL!!!!” Sarah bolted out of the room and ran towards where she left the filly.

“On second thought, I’ll make it ten,” Alex corrected himself, his eye now twitching like mad.

Dox just started laughing like crazy. That was until he saw Pinkie Pie and Maud walking up to him.

“Hey, we heard someone called me cute. Who was it?” asked Pinkie.

“That would be him,” Dox said, pointing to Asphyxious.

Dox couldn’t tell, but he thought he saw the Lich’s eyes, or eye, widen as they walked up to him then they both hugged him and give him a kiss on the cheek each.

“Umm, I don’t know what going on… But right now, I just don’t care” He said sounding a little to happy about what was happening. They then started to drag the Iron Lich out of the room, giggling all the way.

“...Dox, on a scale of 1 to 100, what do you think the chances are that DM released an airborne ‘love potion,” Alex deadpanned as he looked in the direction that Asphyxious had left.

“Well, considering that he’s a major troll,” Dox said. “About 2000. But then again, even he has his limits on evil. So, it’s doubtful, but highly possible.”

“Rriiight,” Alex said, then jumped off of the windowsill he had been sitting on. “So, do you know which way to the nearest restaurant is?,” Alex asked.

“Not a damn clue,” Dox said. “Hey, I just remembered something, Alex. When I first met you, I forgot to ask if you even had a token. Do you?”

“‘Fraid not,” Alex replied, “Though I’ve been meaning to ask you how to make one. You go enough free time to do so?”

“Yeah,” Dox said. “Just so long as Team Rocket doesn’t let out Arbok while I’m teaching you. I kind of promised her something.”

“I really don’t want to ask, do I?,” Alex deadpanned as he took a seat, ready to begin the token creating process.

“You really don’t,” Dox said. “Anyways, to make a token, you first need an item to represent you.”

Alex thought over what he could use for a few seconds, before a thought struck him. “Hold on a second,” He said as he changed back to human form, then reached into his pocket and pulled out a chunk of protodermis that he had found a while back. “Do you think you could mold this into something with your technomancy?,” Alex asked as he held out the metal chunk.

Dox took the chunk of protodermis and poured energy into it, resulting in it gaining the circuit board pattern. A small flash of light later and Dox was holding a small protodermis capsule. It looked much like the capsules that the Toa Mata came from. “Here ya go,” Dox said, handing the capsule back to Alex. “Now, the next thing is to say an oath. You also get to say how it activates. Like, you can either tell them to open it or something else.”

Alex took the capsule, and stared at it for at least a minute before beginning to speak. “For those who protect the innocent, fight the darkness, or need help themselves, you can call on me, the Omni-Toa of Kanohi, to help by opening this canister,” Alex intoned.

“Nice,” Dox said. “Now, can I have it real quick?” Alex nodded, and handed the canister to the changeling. “And now I do this.” Dox threw the canister, which vanished through a portal. Another portal opened up and sent a similar canister flying out of it. Dox caught the canister and put it in his pocket. “Alright, now it’s been scattered across the void.”

“CHHARBOK [DOX!!!!~]” Suddenly a large purple cobra pounced at Dox, wrapping herself around him. “Arboo~[It’s been so long~]” She started to growl impatiently, “char [You have no idea how hard it was to go without my mate.]”

“Alright then,” Dox said. “Now, if we could just go into another room, we could do the do, as it were.”

Arbok suppressed her urge to just pounce at him again, “[Alright, then, let’s go!]” Arbok unwrapped herself and bolted out of the room. “[Let’s go Doxxy~]”

And with that, Dox followed Arbok out of the room.

“...I’m surrounded by sex-crazed people,” Alex said as he looked where Dox had gone.

About 12 hours later, Dox finally emerged from the room he was in with Arbok, the pokemon still firmly wrapped around him.

“Hey Alex,” Dox said. “Where’s everyone else?”

“Dunno, I haven’t seen them” Alex said as he entered the room, “Which is odd, considering that I’ve been around a good portion of the city while you two were… busy.”

Arbok sighed, “Arboo [Can you really blame me, it’s been a while since I last saw my mate, I just couldn’t control myself.]”

“I’m pretty sure he can’t understand you, Arbok,” Dox said. “I’m lucky to know what you’re saying, and even more so to know you.” Dox cuddled the Arbok wrapped tightly around him a bit.

Arbok smiled, “Charr [True, even Sarah has trouble understanding me, the only pony I know that can understand me is that Fluttershy.]”

“Speaking of Sarah, let’s go find her and Tomas,” Dox said. “I want to see if the DM did anything to Screwball, and see how they’re taking it.”

“Arboo [Alright then, besides Weezing has been wanting to know who my mate is.]” Arbok gasped excitedly, “Charbok! [Maybe if I introduce you two, you guys could get along…. hopefully.]”

“I’m guessing you want for me to find Asphyxious, then?” Alex asked as he held up the Kadin.

“Nah,” Dox said. “We can all go look for him after we’re done finding Team Rocket, alright?” Alex shrugged in reply, but kept the Kadin out just in case.

“So, Arbok,” Dox started. “Can you find them? Or do we need Alex to use his mask?”

Arbok slithered off of Dox, “Arbo [Don’t worry I know this trick my father once taught me when I was an Ekans.]” Putting her head on the floor she waited there for a few seconds. “Char [I think they’re at the park? Probably it’s been awhile since I last did this.]”

“Alright then,” Dox said. “Everyone, hold onto me, I’m going to teleport us.”

Alex grabbed onto Dox’s shoulder, while Arbok squeezed a little tighter. Then, with a puff of shadow stuff, the trio teleported to the nearby park.

“WOBBUFFET!!!” Nearby, a blue blob was seen flying into a nearby tree, “waabaffet…” Burn marks were all over his body.

“Whoa!” Dox said. “What the heck is going on here?”

Suddenly, two vines wrapped themselves around the injured Wobbuffet, “Come on Wobbuffet, mom said you were supposed to help me train!” The vines picked up the injured pokemon, and slowly it started to spin him around. “Vine Whip!” The vines let go of Wobbuffet, causing him to fly off to a nearby tree.

“Screwball! Be gentle with Wobbuffet! He may have the best defence, but he is not indestructible!”

Walking towards the unconscious Pokemon, the filly revealed herself to be completely the same, only difference is that there are two vines sprouting from her back. “Sorry Mom, sorry Wobbuffet.”

“This fits into one of those ‘don’t ask’ areas, doesn’t it?” Alex stage-whispered to Dox as Screwball neared the downed Pokemon.

“Yep,” Dox whispered to Alex. He then turned towards the impromptu pokemon battle and shouted, “Hey guys! What’s up?”

Sarah looked at Dox with anger in her eyes, “YOU! Do you know how big of a scare that DM caused me?!” She then grabbed Screwball, pulling her into a hug, “I almost cried when I found out that she was alright!”

“Well, glad to see she’s okay, then,” Dox said. “Where’s Tomas?”

Sarah sighed and pointed behind her, “He’s over there training Weezing and Victreebel.”

“Thanks,” Dox said before walking over to Tomas. He surprised him by putting a hand on the unaware Tomas who was more focused on training than anything else. “Wassup, Tomas?”

“GAH!” He spun around and glared at Dox, “Don’t scare me like that.” Looking at the Arbok, who was still wrapped around Dox, “I see you and Arbok found each other.”

“Yep,” Dox said. “And we had a grand ol’ time. She’s a really great lady.”

Arbok blushed and looked towards the mock battle, “Charbok! [Hey Weezing, Hi Victreebel!]”

Weezing looked at the source of the shouting, instantly his gaze fell onto Dox, who arbok was still wrapped around, “Weez [So this is your mate…]”

Victreebel screeched happily, “VICTREEE!!! [Arbok! Is this the guy?]”

“Hi,” Dox said. “Yes, I’m the guy, Victreebel.”

Weezing looked at Dox with a serious expression, “Weezing [So you really can understand us.]”

“Yep,” Dox said simply.

Weezing nodded, “Weez [Good, so then you’ll be able to understand this perfectly,]” Taking a deep breath, he glared at him, “Zing! [Give a good reason as to why I should let you mate with my sister!]”

“You’re a little late to say that,” Dox said. “She’s a very good lady. Honestly, I’d move mountains to help others, worth it or not. Let me tell you, she is worth it. She’s a magnificent lady, she has a fire in her heart that I rarely see. It’s the type that says she’s a lover, but she’s not against fighting for what’s right. It’s one of the reasons why I even tried helping her a while back.”

Weezing stared at Dox, his expression didn’t change, “Weez [Do you at least know the proper Arbok mating traditions, did you even prove your worth to any of the team members?]” Weezing snorted, “Weez [If you didn’t, then I’m sure that you can prove your worth right here! With me as the judge.]”

Arbok looked at Weezing pleadingly, “Arboo [Weezing, please, I know you’re a mon of tradition, but is this really necessary?]”

Weezing looked at Arbok, shocked, “WEEZING! [Of course this is necessary! It’s Arbok tradition for your chosen mate to prove himself in front of your family, specifically your father, and since he isn’t here, it will have to be me!]”

“Arbok! [Exactly, my father isn’t here! So I don’t see why I should follow these silly traditions-]”

“No, Arbok,” Dox said. “If this is tradition, then I’d rather do it than not.”

For the first time, Weezing smiled, “Weez [Good, at least I know there is some type of honor in you.]” Weezing cleared his throat, “zing! [According to Arbok mating rituals, the chosen mate must prove his worth, by defeating the father, but since he is not here, I will be his substitute.]”

“Alright then,” Dox said. “Arbok, please let me do this.”

Arbok looked at Dox worriedly, “Arbok, [Dox please, you don’t have to do this, Weezing is Tomas’ strongest Pokemon.]”

“Well then,” Dox said. “I guess he’ll be a good match.” Dox then slipped Arbok off of him, along with his cloak and his hoodie, leaving a solid black shirt on his top. “I’m not going to use any of my items. And as assurance,” -Dox picked up his clothes and threw them. A small portal opened and let his clothes in.- “I won’t have any access to them.”

The two heads chuckled, “Weezing [Excellent, you are honorable afterall,]” Clearing his throat, he explained the rules, “[This battle will be just like any normal battle, no outside help, no items, no hints, just pure strength and magic.]” He looked at Dox, “[Are you ready, challenger? I will not be holding back.]”

“Then maybe I shouldn’t either,” Dox said. “I’m ready when you are.”

Weezing bowed, “[I shall grant you a quick and honorable defeat]” Glaring at Dox, he took deep breath, “[Smokescreen!]” He released a thick black fog, covering the whole area. “[Gyro ball]” Spinning, he tackled Dox, a white ring surrounding his body.

“Heh, my move,” Dox said. He teleported behind Weezing and then hit him with a beam of energy from his right arm. “MAGIC MISSILE!” he screamed, shooting out a ball of energy from his other hand.

“[Double Team!]” Weezing then disappeared, only for a group of Weezings to take his place, “[Thunderbolt!]” All of the Weezing clones fired bolts of lighting at Dox. Only to result in a puff of shadow stuff.

“Over here!” Dox yelled at the Weezings. “I think it’s time I disappear!” Dox then started running around the Weezings at hypersonic speeds, kicking up a cloud of dust and hiding his exact location before disappearing entirely. “This is what happens when you mess with a wizard.”

The Weezings glared at the area around them, “[Scatter!]” Quickly all of the Weezings flew above the cloud of smoke, “[Sludge Bomb!]” Taking a deep the Weezings fired brown sludge all around the cloud. The Weezing in the middle started to prepare an attack, a orange ball started to form in front of him. “[Come on out Dox! Where’s your honor? Unless hiding is like a coward is who you really are?]”

“Nope,” said Dox from behind Weezing. “Just very sneaky and tricky.” Dox then grabbed Weezing and threw him into a tree, this ‘caused Dox to drop his invisibility spell. “If I was a coward, I’d have shot you in the back.” He then raised his right arm. “No, I’d rather shoot you in the face like a man.” A beam of energy came out of his arm, just barely missing Weezing by an inch. “Ready to give up? I could have aimed closer.”

“[Hah! A Weezing never gives up! We fight until the very end!]” Taking another deep breath, the orange ball appeared again, he launched a beam of pure energy to him, “[HYPER BEAM!!!]”

The beam made perfect contact, sending Dox flying backwards through several trees before finally pinning him against a restroom building in the park. When it stopped, Dox slumped off the wall, a mark where he had been pinned into it. He lay there, unmoving.

“ARBOK! [DOX!!!]”

Weezing floated in front of Dox, “[You’re stronger than I thought, but I’m afraid it’s all over.]” Turning his back away from him, he started to float away.

“Heh,” Dox laughed. “Ahah…. AHAHAHAHAHA! You think I’m done?” Dox slowly got up, a ring of energy forming on the ground beneath him, runes forming and slowly rising off the ground. “I’M JUST GETTING STARTED! AND YOU JUST FLOATED THROUGH A LIGHTNING RUNE!”

“[What?!]”

A giant bolt of lightning crashed down upon both Dox and Weezing. Dox, however, took the max amount of the damage, as he was standing in the middle of the rune when it triggered. Dust was kicked up from the explosion that resulted afterwards. Yet, when the dust settled, Dox was still standing in the same spot.

Weezing laid on the ground, unconscious, spirals on his eyes, “Weeez.”

“Arbok! [Dox!]” Arbok slithered across the field, a worried expression on her face, “Arr [Dox, are you okay?!]”

“I’m fine Arbok,” Dox said, now shifting through his pockets. He pulled out a red vial. “But I can’t say the same for Weezing.” He walked over to Weezing and poured the contents of the vial into his mouth. “Drink up guy, you’re going to be fine.”

Blinking, Weezing slowly started to float, “Weez... [Dox… I am sorry for the way I had treated you, truly you are worthy of being my sister’s mate.]” Weezing then started to laugh, “[It is a good thing we are not going by actual Arbok rituals, or we’ll be fighting to death instead!]” He looked at Dox with a serious expression, “Weez [Just please promise me you’ll take good care of her…]”

“Don’t worry, I will,” Dox said. “So, what now?”

“[Well you’re my sister’s mate! So there really isn’t much else, you have already proven yourself worthy in my eyes.]”

“Alright then,” Dox said. “Well, let’s go get everyone else. Actually, we still have to get Asphyxious while we’re at it. None of us really know where he went, though.”

“I can find him,” Alex said as he stepped into the clearing as Jovan, then looked around and let out a whistle at the damage the area had taken. “You two certainly let it rip,” He noted as he looked at the destruction.

“Yeah,” Dox said. He then opened a small portal into the small pocket dimension that was his magic satchel and pulled out his things, leaving the cloak in the hammerspace. He put back on his hoodie and then started talking to the computer on his arm. “Hey, big guy, mind repairing things for me?”

Don’t expect me to do it again. Just this once. the DM said. The area around him started to rebuild itself, the bits of rubble floating back into the spots where they used to be before fusing into place.

“Thanks, big guy,” Dox said. “Alright, now lets go find Asphyxious.”

“On it,” Alex said, then closed his eyes and began to focus. After a few minutes of concentration, he finally said, “I’ve got three signatures that big enough, but unless he’s at the museum or someplace 1500 feet underground, the most likely place he’s at is over there,” And pointed in the direction of the castle with those last few words.

“Alright then,” Dox said. “Everyone grab hold, I’m going to teleport us again.”

Arbok slithered up onto Dox and wrapped around him, Alex grabbed a shoulder, Sarah and Tomas grabbed his other shoulder, Meowth was latched onto Dox’s arm, Screwball latched onto Dox’s back, Victreebell wrapped some vines around Dox, and Weezing bit onto Dox’s head. And with that, Dox teleported them all into the tower where Asphyxious was most likely residing.

They all regretted it instantly.

“Hmm, I don’t know how you girls did it… But it felt wonderful…”

In the room, were Asphyxious, Maud, and Pinkie. The two mares were naked and cuddling him tightly, their arms wrapped around his metal body, a thin sheet just barely covering them all.

“WHAT DID I JUST TELEPORT US INTO?!” Dox screamed at the top of his lungs.

Sarah screamed and covered Screwball’s eyes, “Hey, MOM! What’s going on?!”

Meowth began to laugh, Tomas looked away blushing, “Oh Arceus have we truly angered you this much.”

Arbok blushed and looked away, Weezing was seen looking away with his eyes closed muttering something about honor and disgrace, Victreebel was screeching, whether from embarrassment or delight no one knows.

Alex stared at the three for a few seconds, before finally twitching his hand upwards while exerting all the magnetic energy he could muster. A second later, there was only the two anthro ponies in bed, and a lich-shaped hole in the ceiling, the Iron Lich nowhere in sight.

Once Alex sent the Lich flying, he had two angry naked mares glaring at him. Alex looked back at them with the same deadpan look before swapping out to Nuparu’s form in only a few seconds, his proto-steel shield ready to block any incoming attacks.

Sadly, he didn’t count on Maud’s monstrous strength, as she punched clean through the shield and into Alex’s face. This knocked his mask clean off his face and him out, the shield dissipating into light and disappearing.

“IT WAS-AUGH-WORTH IT!!!” He shouted as the two ponies proceeded to pummel him.

Somewhere else, Fluttershy was looking after the two metal monsters that belonged to the Lich. They may have looked scary, but were really nice. Then she jumped when something landed next to them. She was about to call for someone, when the Iron Lich pulled himself out and growled to himself.

“Cankerworm, Seether, we have some metal ass to kick when we get back.”

Back with Dox and friends, Alex was getting the snot beat out of him, and the others were watching in shock.

“So, is anyone gonna try and stop this?” Dox asked. “Anyone? No? Just me? Okay, then.” Dox pushed everyone off of him and tried to grab at the two mares beating on Alex, only to be shoved away by Pinkie. Dox then grabbed the stone pony and threw her onto the bed, her sister following suit. He then pulled out a red-purple vial from his pocket and poured it down Alex’s throat, reviving him. It was obvious that Alex wasn’t fully up to snuff, though, as he moved around groggily like there was something still wrong with him.

“Ugh, hold on a second,” Alex said as he put on the Mask of Healing, sending a few of his masks clattering away, before transforming back into his ‘Dinosyus’ form. A few seconds later with the help of the Kanohi, and Alex was back to normal. “Thanks for the healing, Dox,” He said, then looked at the changeling and asked, “You wouldn’t happen to have any extra Bags of Holding or something similar, would you? I really need something to help carry my Kanohi,” He asked, pointing at the strewn Kanohi for emphasis.

“Nope, sorry,” Dox said, shrugging. “I honestly don’t even know how I got one. I think it might have something to do with biting Averice’s cloak. Not really sure. I could probably get you a backpack though. Let me check.” Dox opened another portal to his little ‘hammerspace’. He shuffled around for a little bit before pulling out a large backpack. It had the words ‘Bag Of Holding’ on it, but also had the words ‘Think Geek’ on it. He handed the bag to Alex, saying, “Here you go, it’s the best I got.”

“Thanks,” Alex said as he transformed back to human form, then put all of his Kanohi save for the Olmak in it before slinging it over his shoulders.

“All right,” Dox said. “So, who’s ready to go home?”

They all then heard the Lich yell as he smashed through the doors into the room with both his metal monsters by his side. “ALEX!”

“Yep!” Alex quipped as he slapped the Olmak on, then gave the incoming Iron Lich the one-fingered salute, careful not to let Screwball see the gesture he was making, before racing into a portal he had created, laughing like he was a madman in the process.

“When I find you I’m going to eat your soul!” He yelled after him just before the portal closed on him. A smaller portal then opened before a plastic refrigerator ‘L’ flew out of the second portal, which had closed in milliseconds, and attached itself to the Lich’s forehead. He then pulled it off and melted it in fire.

“Wow,” Dox said. “Jerk move. Hey, if it helps, he kinda left a portal signature. I could try and get the big guy to open a portal….. Or I could give you this.” Dox held out Alex’s token to Asphyxious. “I do suggest doing it back in your universe, though. I don’t want this one being destroyed by your rage. So, yeah. There’s also the fact that he doesn’t know you can’t leave once summoned, not until the universe wills it.”

Asphyxious then started to give off a evil laugh and took the token. “Oh, I know just what to do with this when I get back.”

“Yeah, have fun with that,” Dox said. “Asphyxious, our contract is complete. Later buddy!”

The Lich looked at Dox with wide eyes as he was being sent back. “Wait!, can Maud and Pinkie come with-” And he was sent back before he could finish.

Dox bowled over laughing. When he was able to breathe properly again, he said, “So, Team Rocket, you ready to go back yet?”

Meowth nodded, crossing his arms, “Yup, just say the words and we’ll be off.”

Arbok nuzzled Dox, “Arbo [You’ll come to visit, won’t you?]”

“Of course, Arbok,” Dox said. Then he turned to the rest of Team Rocket. “Hey, feel free to call me up if you need me or just want to talk. And if Arbok wants to see me, you let her, got it?”

Sarah smiled, “Of course, hey you’re part changeling right?”

“... Yeah?” Dox said. “What about it?”

She then turned towards Arbok, “hmmm….” Looking towards Dox, she smiled, “Oh nothing, just curious.”

“Alright then,” Dox said. “Now, if you’ll all stand together.”

Slowly they all stood together, Victreebel already inside her pokeball. “Ready when you are.”

“Alright,” Dox said. “Team Rocket, our contract is complete. Bye guys!”

A portal opened up behind them, Meowth looked and threw a small yellow gem at him, “Hey Dox, catch!”

Dox caught it and asked, “What is it?”

Meowth smiled, “It’s called a Chaos Gem, with it you’ll be able to use a small amount of chaos magic, nothing like Discord’s, but still pretty powerful.”

“Thanks!” Dox said.

One by one they all jumped into the portal, Arbok going in last. “Arbo [Goodbye Dox!]”

Dox waved as she left, saying, “Goodbye, love!”

A few seconds after they left, the DM spoke up.

Do you know anything about Changelings as a species?

“Somewhat,” Dox said. “Why?”

Then how did you not know that your DNA is compatible with pretty much everything? the DM said. The only thing you can’t mate with is a doppleganger.

“... Well damn.” Dox said.

Oh, and watch out.

“For what?” Dox said.

“Oh, Dox~!” said a sultry Pinkie.

“Damn it,” Dox said.

Author's Notes:

So again, this was a mass collab chapter with Darkstar709's Prepare for Trouble and Make it Double, Runic_Soul's A Displaced Mask Hunter, and ShadowsInTheDark's A Lich of Metal and Souls.
Another round of thanks for doing this with me, it was really fun.

And now, this is Music Mod, signing off.