Beeping caused Nuada to become aware of the world. The smell of antiseptic began to flood his nose as he tried to crack an eye open. The light was too bright and it took him a few minutes before he could see he was in a white room on a bed with a curtain around him. Looking around he saw a heart rate monitor hooked to him, and two vases of flowers, one had midnight blue roses, and the other had a mix of pink daffodils and red marigolds.

A groan escaped him as he tried to move and found his whole body aching, “What happened.”

“Doctor, one of them woke up.” A voice way too loud for Nuada called out.

“Oh, good.” A voice said back and an older mare walked into view.”Mister Nuada how are you feeling?”

“Like I got hit by a stampede of dragons.”

“A fair assessment, considering the evidence on you that you were struck quite hard several times by something several times bigger and stronger, and you almost died of heat exhaustion.” The mare doctor informed, getting Nuada to quirk an eyebrow at the slightly wrinkled puce mare in a doctor’s coat.

“Heat exhaustion? In the snow?” ‘Pretty sure I’d die of frost first considering the situation.’

“More common than you’d think sir. Ponies do it all the time from playing in the snow too hard and not realizing how much they’re exerting themselves.” The mare informed as she levitated his file from the foot of the bed. “Considering you had a run-in with the Winter Witch herself, you should consider yourself lucky to be alive.”

“Bronze! He was-!”

“He’s alive. Don’t get your tail all fluffed up.” The doctor rebuffed carelessly, getting Nuada to growl at her.

“Right so I take it you’re going to go let ponies who, I’m assuming are waiting for us to wake up, know that I’m up?” Nuada asked huffing.

“No.” She gruffly stated as she wrote something on his clipboard, the thought she was making negative notes on him made Nuada’s head get an anger tick.

“Why no?” Nuada asked in an irritated tone as the mare again wrote something else, adding another tick. ‘What are you writing? Want me to bite you?!’

“What I mean by no, is that you and the prince are under strict quarantine. You were just exposed to the most powerful ill-intentioned spirit in the known history of Equus, we need to have you monitored and separated until we can ensure neither of you are either possessed, mentally sabotaged, or cursed. And before you say they don’t exist like most of the unwashed or lied-to masses, curses do exist.” The mare said brusquely before she put his file back at the foot of his bed, and turned to leave. “Have a good night sir, we’ll check on you every hour.”

“Wait! What about Discord? Isn’t he considered a spirit?” Nuada asked dubiously, getting the mare to look at him as if he was mentally challenged. ‘I am SO biting you!’

“What backwater dolt told you Discord is a spirit? That’s like comparing Faust to a pebble. Beware, should the God of Chaos come for you dog.” The mare derided before leaving the room and turning off the lights.

“Bronze, your world is fucked up.” Nuada said to no one.

“Tell me about it.” Nuada heard Bronze’s voice all echoey in his head. “I mean, I thought it was bad enough, all mythical monsters everywhere. Cartoon physics. Ascending into a god against my will. It just keeps coming.”

“Bronze? When could you use telepathy?” Nuada asked aloud, trying to open the curtain only for an invisible barrier to stop his paws short of it by an inch.

“Since I spliced a small portion of my frontal lobe into yours about an hour ago.”

“That’s gross man.” Nuada stated blanching.

“Hey, I’m kinda a living mummy right now, being fed morphine, aspirin, about twelve other drugs in a cocktail, and more or less put in a plaster cast that absorbs ambient heat and gently puts it into me while my body regenerates from full-body frostbite. I kinda needed someone to talk to.”

“Okay I can deal with that I guess. So what do you think Celestia and the other Princesses are going to do about our quarantine?” He asked laying back down.

“It was mom who instituted it, and auntie who set it up. Apparently that hate-eating cold bitch is a seriously big deal in the world. She destroyed the entire country of Unicornia, which is now known as the Far Frozen. It took the Elements of Harmony just to stop her freezing the rest of the world after she recovered from her first encounter with the Fires of Friendship”

“I see, so we gonna go after her when we finish healing?” Nuada asked sensing for his master key, trying to call it to himself.

“Not really, then apparently we have to attend a ceremony awarding Sparkle and Cinder titles for saving Equestria with them spreading Fires of Friendship across the country and stopping Asphodel and her windigoes from getting a hoofhold down here.”

“Cinder and Sparkle spread the Fires of Friendship, here, in your world. No way.” Nuada stated in disbelief. Not sensing his sword in range he growled in annoyance and settled for laying back down.

“Way, from what I heard, when they were found, they were snuggling in the snow as warm and fuzzy as could be despite the cold. One of the nurses mentioned the picture in the paper was beyond adorable.”

“I must be delirious or something as that can’t be happening.” Nuada started thinking back to all the crazy fights the two of them had on a regular basis.

“Look, I’m stuck here, unable to move even with my powers because Jeeves cut me off since he can do that when I’m not in my Personal Plane. I’m lucky he let me do the lobe splice. So I’m just telling it as I hear it. For all I know it’s just wild rumor mongering, and ponies are ridiculously bad at that.”

“True, they are pretty bad about that. I’m sure they did something else than what we’re thinking.” Nuada stated exhaustion taking him again, “I’m gonna go back to sleep, talk more laters.”

“Nononononono-PLEASE! They’ve got me on something that keeps me awake! I’m immune to sedatives! Don’t-you’re already asleep aren’t you?!” Bronze screamed into Nuada’s dozing brain. “FUCK YOU! I’m going to endlessly whisper raunchy things into your head while you sleep!”

[(X)]

“So~.” Cinder lilted suggestively at Sparkle.

“I TOLD you, to NEVER bring it up again!” Sparkle hissed at Cinder in their private shared suite in the castle. The Princesses both more or less forced them to, having decided the two were obviously a repressed couple beings they had sprouted so many Fires of Friendship across the country.

“I was just gonna ask when you think they’ll let us see Nuada.” Cinder asked with a grin and a wink from her place laying on the bed.

“Ugh...I don’t know! It’s been days! The Princesses told me that the quarantine would only last until every single spiritual and anti-curse scan had been performed and they were physically capable of leaving their confinement without aid.” Sparkle stated as she paced around, her wings twitching agitatedly. “If that unbelievably refined golem hadn’t told us that time dilation from this universe to any others was completely avoidable, I’d be even more worried about this.”

“What about that medi-gel stuff, couldn’t you use that on him?” Cinder asked, “At least get the healing out of the way.”

“That’s the best part, apparently the Zecora of this world has something even better than medi-gel! Using hydra gland secretions! Why hadn’t I thought of that, though I guess I have been neglecting my studies while fighting the Reapers.” Sparkle said as she levitated a milky blue potion out from a satchel. “I was told if I drink this, I’d get more powerful, or it’d heal me fully much quicker than Medi-gel could. Only downside is this is poison to non-alicorns, so it’s only useful to me.”

“What about Nuada? He’s not an Alicorn, last I saw he was a Diamond Dog.” Cinder asked while rolling to her hooves.

“He was more-or-less fine. From what I can tell of this world’s medical practices, he’s likely already physically able to leave, but the quarantine is still ongoing or Bronze is still regenerating. Speaking of which, it was potions like this that gave Bronze his healing factor….” Sparkle considered as she looked at the milky blue potion. “More power. A healing factor….”

“It might be worth it, I remember how hard it was to beat those collectors and you and Shepard said that the reapers are even tougher.” Cinder commented, “that and I’ll have all the more to love~.”

“Sh-shut up!” Sparkle blushed as she grit her teeth angrily at the tall succubus, who merely wagged her eyebrows. “D-don’t you give me those eyebrows!”

“I know~ you love it when I give you smokey eyes Sparkle. Your embarrassment and, dare I say it? Affection, are just endearing.” Cinder teased, before smiling genuinely. “When Nuada comes back, I’ll hold him down for you if you want.”

Sparkle snorted in amusement before she cleared her throat. “As if I’d ever go along with such a thing, brute.” Sparkle grinned jokingly, both mares giggling. “But yes...I can see the advantages outweigh the negatives, even if temporary weight gain is one of the side effects.”

“Like I said Sparkle, more to love! A big plot gets everypony going. Maybe it’d even get Nuada to give you more than glances.” Cinder encouraged. “Drink up, it’s not like we’re going anywhere.”

“At least he gives my plot glances.” She shot back as she opened the potion and began chugging it.

“Oh I can still feel the lust on him when he sees me, though he does hide it so well, better than you even.” Cinder said watching the princess turned soldier chugging the admittedly large bottle, beings Princess Celestia was the one to share it from her stash, since the sisters keep a personal store in case they get hurt.

Sparkle stopped half-through, gasping and panting. “Ugh, I forgot how much fluids ponies the sister’s size could consume.” Sparkle upturned the bottle again, chugging again as Cinder whooped and hollered encouragement to her own silent amusement. When she finished all two or so liters of potion, she sighed in relief, before perking up, blinking in surprise. “Wow. I feel like I could run a marathon right now.”

“Well how was it?” Cinder asked curiously after calming down from her chanting of ‘chug, chug, chug’.

“Odd, to say the least. It tasted like snozberries, mixed with milk and a little Zebrican red tea.” Sparkle licked her lips, her full stomach all that kept her from wanting more.

“Oh snozberries I love those.” Cinder said with a smirk, “We sometimes get those down in Tartarus as part of the trade arrangements.”

“Huh, from what you explained of Tartarus before, I thought you got almost nothing in exchange for your exile there.” Sparkle commented as her stomach gurgled and she felt a bit queasy, but she did just drink a huge volume of liquids, so she ignored it.

“Due to the lack of food down there, part of the treaty was getting food supplies, doesn’t always reach the outer ring but sometimes we lucked out.” Cinder sighed remembering her old life, “I need to go home at some point and see about helping my family.”

“That’s right...they were-whoa!” Sparkle shuddered, her stomach growling like mad as she held her barrel. “Food!” Sparkle shouted as she ran from the room.

“This can’t end well.” Cinder smiled, prancing after the little alicorn.

[(X)]

*beep….beep...beep*

“Shut off. Shut off. Shut off.”

*beep….beep...beep*

“DEAR FAUST ALMIGHTY! MAKE IT-oh he’s awake! ENTERTAINMENT! WAKE UP YOU JACKASS!”

“No I want more sleeps.” Nuada mumbled rolling over putting a pillow over his head.

“You’ve been sleeping for TWO DAYS! I’m GOING TO FLIP OUT IF YOU DON’T TALK TO ME! The Doctor and nurses aren’t even talking when they come in anymore~! I will find the BIGGEST, STRAIGHTEST tree, and SHOVE IT UP YOUR-!”

“Fine! I will talk to you, but next time you can use light hawk wings. Wonder how that would work, since they feel like very Order based energy.” Nuada mused wondering what an alicorn would look like using the wings.

“Order can go fuck itself. Chaotic Good all the way!”

“No wonder your cutie mark is a Celtic Boar.” ‘The Discording and his eyes are pretty clear evidence of what sort of god he is if his opinions weren’t clue enough.’

“I’ve conformed to reality long enough for one lifetime, I’m making reality conform to ME now...wow that sounded like a really asshole thing to say.”

“Yeah, kinda.” Nuada agreed with a grin, until the doctor opened the curtain and eyed him suspiciously.”

“Who are you talking to.” She demanded, and Nuada growled from his chest.

“Bronze, he’s communicating telepathically. Before you ask how, he did something with my brain while we were fighting to give us an advantage. Before you ask why he hasn’t bothered you or the nurses, he needs to be able to focus to make the link.” Nuada informed with a rude tone. ‘Bitch, just try something. I’ll bite your ear!’

“Yeah you tell that bitch!”

“Hm….” She hummed as she took his clipboard, writing notes on it again, making him even more irritated. “Well. If what you say is true, then he’ll confirm it when we crack him open in a moment.”

“Yes! Freedom! Air not from a canister!”

“Don’t get so excited Bronze, the air’s pretty stale in here.” Nuada said aloud, and the doctor huffed before she moved over to the curtain in the corner of the room opposite Nuada’s bed, and watched the doctor and a couple nurses all pull back the curtain to reveal a large white solid plaster cast in the shape of a pony that had to have been Bronze. “Ew...how itchy is that thing?”

“You just HAD to remind me! Eugh! Get it off! My hide needs to breathe!”

“Ha serves you right for making me wake up.” Nuada stated laughing at the shaking plaster.

“Oh he’s definitely awake if he’s making this much fuss. Start the saw nurse.”

“...Saw?” Bronze asked weakly, and Nuada paled as one of the nurses levitated a round surgical motorized bone saw, turning it on. “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH~!”

“Have fun with that.” Nuada said shoving a pillow over his ears as he began to watch with morbid curiosity.

“Why did I give them my world’s medical technology~! I KNOW if they didn’t have this thing they’d be using a precision cutting spell instead!” Bronze bemoaned frantically as the nurse ran the saw down his back. “Watch the wings! WATCH THE WINGS!”

Nuada snickered at his friend’s torment as he watched the doctor and nurses surgically remove the cast from the stallion, since the plaster had lightly adhered to his body and they had to peel it off in sections. Eventually, the screaming into his mind stopped and the stallion stared off into space once he was freed. Thoroughly traumatized. “So...how do you feel?”

“I want my mommy….” Bronze whimpered as the nurses checked him over, and Nuada blushed when one of the mares checked his groin for any persistent frostbite.

“Well, he checks out Doctor Triage.” The nurse who was checking his groin reported with a faint blush.

‘No wonder she’s such a bitch….’

‘No wonder she’s such a bitch….’

“Good. Last thing I need is to tell the night princess she’s not getting grandkids. You’re both free to go. Now get out of my bunker.” Triage sniped, releasing all the spells restraining them to their beds so subtly and practically stomping out of the room.

“I think she needs to get laid.” Nuada remarked.

“You did NOT just say that.” Both nurses sneered at the dog, making both Nuada and Bronze shy away in surprise. “She’s….” They both aimed their ears out the door, and then whispered. “Barren.”

“And has dead nerves.” The other mare said with a shiver.

“Well now I feel like a jerk. Anyway Bronze shall we?” Nuada asked indicating a wish for teleporting.

“Yes! Sorry if I end up splinching us with something.” Bronze jumped out of bed, startling Nuada.

“What? Then wait-!” Suddenly; Canterlot. With their legs in the ground. “...I can still feel my legs?”

“Whoopsie! Fixing.” Bronze seamlessly rose them out of the cobblestone as if it was liquid. “Kinda shoved us into some seams in the stone there. I’ve gotta learn how to use my powers again now.”

“Okay, that was scary, but the whole liquid rock thing was cool.” Nuada commented as he checked his paws for any clinging stone to his body. “Hey...wait….” Nuada realized something. “...Bare streets….”

Bronze got a light bulb as he clued in. “Clear skies….” He said as he looked at the sunny cloudless day.

“It’s actually fairly temperate….” Nuada waved a paw at his face, his fluffy winter coat making him feel warm.

….

“SPRING?!”

“SPRING?!”

“Did we just sleep for two months or something?” Nuada asked looking around at the pompous ponies prancing about with their noses in the air.

“I was awake the whole time! But...then again that might’ve made me delirious and hallucinate things.” Bronze admitted, suddenly warping them into a dark bedroom with a night motif. “Mom! MOM WAKE UP!” Bronze screamed hysterically, getting Luna to jolt awake from her bed, causing a shovel to smack Nuada in the face.

“I’ll be outside.” Nuada said leaping out the bedroom window triggering his Juraian armor so he could slow his descent and land safely in the statue garden.

“Hiya dog.” Came an utterly annoying voice, making Nuada groan.

“What is it Discord?” Nuada asked, glaring at the statued form of the Draconequus.

“Nothing really, just want to thank you for the show! I mean, really. That colt is a natural at Chaos. It’s good to have a pony who knows the finer things in life.” Discord wistfully commented. “This world’s become so interesting while I’ve been asleep.”

“Well we obviously didn’t do it for you.” Nuada shot back.

“Well, you didn’t~....” Discord hinted. “The boar comes running over the fields, to kill who might harm it. However it turns and flees before the night that comes, and cowers from it’s betters. While none can claim to be it’s master, the boar is wise, and stays free while still prey to it’s own decisions.”

“I hated that about you back home, you always were annoying, welp have fun as a statue. I hope the pigeons find you.” Nuada said walking away.

“Oh they have! And I have tracked every offender from the first to their current descend-.” *splat* “I KNOW THAT’S YOU FLUFFLES WORTH THE 97TH! I KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE!”

“NUADA!” Bronze screamed, the dog realizing the stallion’s head was sprouting from his chest. “We’ve been in quarantine for two months! You damn coma-prone ass! I was probably healed shortly after you went to sleep, but no~ you had to close your eyes when I was screaming at you to stay awake!”

“Bronze, get out of my chest.” Nuada said grabbing the pony’s head and yanking it away from him. The head pulled free and floated there. “Right, you’re nuts. So any clue where Cinder and Sparkle are? It’s probably best we head home.”

“Mom said they’re in Ponyville, they couldn’t take-.”

“AH~!” A random maid screamed bloody murder at the sight of the floating head and flew off. “GHOST~!”

“...Ugh...let’s just go.” Suddenly, Ponyville. “Welcome to Ponyville, population-.”

“AH~!” A random mare screamed bloody murder at the sight of the floating head and flew off. “GHOST~!”

“Bronze can you get your body over here, we don’t need to traumatize everyone even worse.” Nuada sighed as he began walking in the direction of Golden Oak Library, figuring that was a good place to start.

“Well, if you’d stop moving it’d be easier.” Bronze complained as his head flew along next to the diamond dog, causing all the ponies to stop their snow shoveling and other winter wrap-up activities and flee. “I mean, my body is still in your chest, you just caused the seam at my neck to separate since it was the path of least resistance.”

“You mean I did that, not you?” Nuada asked askance, and then shivered. “I...have a stallion inside me...get it out!”

Bronze blushed vividly at the phrasing. “Uh...oh...this just got awkward….” They both shifted around awkwardly. “Uh...no homo, kay?”

“Just get it out.” Nuada demanded as he pulled open his kimono’s chest, pointing at his fluffy fur for emphasis.

“But my body isn’t ready.” Bronze admitted in embarrassment.

“What do you mean it isn’t ready?!” Nuada demanded with anger.

“I mean it isn’t ready! I have to g-go back...inside you….” Bronze said with his ears back and cheeks flushed from the phrasing.

“...You are seriously making it hard for this situation to not be as awkward as humanly possible.” Nuada growled.

“Don’t you mean equinely possible?” Bronze asked rhetorically.

“Just do it!” Nuada shouted, and Bronze darted into Nuada’s chest, and the dog waited...and waited…. “Any second now!”

“Could you cool it?! I’m...kinda lost. I’m not sure what atoms my body’s been fused to. Just keep going to the library while I-well there’s my left wing...where’s the rest?”

“Goddamn it Bronze….” Nuada facepawed and sighed as he proceeded to continue on to the library.

“Nuada!” The diamond dog perked up at hearing Sparkle’s voice, but visibly wilted a bit at seeing it was Twilight instead. “It’s so good to see you! We were so worried when Triage kept reporting you were still in a coma and Bronze was still frostbitten.”

“Crap, so I WAS still frostbitten? Damn.”

“Rumors of our sickness was wildly overly exaggerated.” Nuada stated indicating he was fine.

“Oh, well in either case, Sparkle and Cinder have been living with me at the library. I’ll be sad to see them go, but a true friend knows when to let them leave.” Twilight said sagely. “Also. Cinder is really good with her mouth, you hold onto her.” Twilight winked, making Nuada blush as the mare trotted away, clearly still looking for a way to help with Winter Wrap Up.

“Oh yeah, forgot to warn you directly, my Twilight’s a flaming lesbian. Ever since she came out of the closet a few months ago, she’s just been...so...ew, you know? Nopony asks her what she was doing the night before, boom, she says it anyway. I don’t talk about my bedroom antics unless asked and even then not with strangers I’m not trying to encourage to boost their relationship. Oh hey, there’s my...uh...you don’t wanna know….”

“Well with Cinder needing to absorb lust energy I can’t say I’m surprised but still don’t want to hear this.” Nuada said rubbing his temples as he found the Library and walked in. “Hello? Cinder, Sparkle?”

“Nuada?” Cinder’s voice came from the kitchen, wearing a ‘kiss the cook’ apron, and she beamed before bolting across the library with her wings. “Nuada~!”

“Hey there, how was staying with Twilight?” Nuada asked, “Did you and Sparkle enjoy the break?”

“Did we? Well, I won’t speak for Sparkle, but I had an absolute blast! Ponies here are so much more open to things what with this ‘internet’ thing broadening their horizons. And the porn. So much porn.” Cinder gushed excitedly, making Nuada sweatdrop.

“Um that’s good I guess.”

“Good?! Nuada, in our world, we’re lucky if a cuss doesn’t burn a house down, and underpants are a potentially lethal weapon. But this world, it’s so free! I almost don’t want to go back home! Please move your tree here!” Cinder pleaded, getting on her plot and holding Nuada’s kimono in her hooves.

“Cinder you know we have ponies relying on us over there, we can’t just leave. I mean we still need to make a trip to Tartarus and save your family.” Nuada said dropping to a knee and giving her a hug.

Cinder paused, blinking, and then wilting. “Oh...right...how could I forget?” Cinder asked in shock. “This place is dangerous...can we go home before I forget again...but can I bring a computer? And some of that super soft tissue?”

“Cinder!” Sparkle yelled from the basement stairs, “control yourself."

“Yes Princess!” Cinder said, relaxing out of Nuada’s hug. Nuada swore he heard a growl from the basement.

“Still antagonizing each other?” Nuada asked with a look.

“It’s more a game by this point.” Cinder winked and nudged Nuada with an elbow.

“Alright grab anything you need, but you know I don’t have power at my place yet so computers are gonna be useless for a while.” Nuada pointed out heading for the basement.

“Whoa, hey, wait~!” Bronze interrupted by poking his head and a foreleg out of Nuada’s back, pointing at Cinder. “I can totally give you a computer and a generator. Your subspace tree house thing already has signal from the Doorway I put there, so all you need is some swag.”

“Bronze, could you please pull yourself together already?” Nuada pleaded.

“Dude, chill, I’ve already got both hindlegs, a foreleg, my...uh...stuff, and all my internal organs. Keep your pants on.” Bronze grumbled as he sank back into Nuada’s back, Cinder shivering at the sight.

“Ew...that reminded me of some parasites in Tartarus….” Cinder shuddered as she followed Nuada to the basement, tossing her apron off on the floor.

“Parasite sounds about right.” Nuada mused as he was walking downstairs. Nuada nearly fell down the stairs as he saw Sparkle sitting on a couch reading. She now sat as tall as Celestia from his world, and her mane was flowing in an ethereal wind. Clouds of pink and lavender drifted through the dark purple energy.

“What happened here?” Nuada asked seeing that her N7 armor was off to the side and resized.

“Oh, Celestia shared some of her alicorn boosting potions with me. I’m essentially at my maximum natural potential now, but I can still get even stronger magically and physically if I train. But this is as big as I’ll get, so don’t worry about me hitting ceilings with my horn like Bronze did.” Sparkle reassured as she sipped some tea. “Apparently I reached my potential much faster because, funny enough, Celestia was giving me triple the prescribed dose.”

“You should’ve seen her in the first week! She got so fat~!” Cinder teased the princess-soldier who frowned disapprovingly at her. “It was so hot.”

“Don’t.” Sparkle warned.

“And don’t get me started on the boosted libido!” Cinder beamed, before she was suddenly launched up the stairs and the door slammed behind her by purple magic as Sparkle faintly blushed and facehoofed.

“Oh yeah...I forgot about the libido part. Then again my mares were jumping me constantly while I was on the potions.”

“Bronze, do you have all your body parts together yet?” Nuada asked in exasperation, getting Sparkle to look at him oddly.

“Yep!” Sparkle yelped at seeing Bronze’s muzzle poking out of Nuada’s chest. “I’m coming out slowly. Do not yank on my head this time!” Bronze chided as he began slowly coming out of Nuada as if emerging from a sideways pool of water that didn’t cling to him. “Sup Sparky. My Space Aspect kinda got freaky after the freak out.”

“Yeah, obviously. You’re utilizing all sorts of quantum mechanics right now that would take a ridiculous amount of equipment and energy just to replicate.” Sparkle commented as she watched in fascination, humming. “Hey, Bronze, how would you feel about helping save a universe?”

“Do I get to shoot things?” Bronze asked with a stupid grin in a voice eerily similar to Joker’s.

“Lots of things. Shepard was trying to convince the earth council the reality of the threat of the Reapers. We’re not sure when they’re going to appear but we’re gonna need every able body fighter to stop them.

“Are they immune to quantum singularities?” Bronze asked seriously.

“They are resistant to some biotics, and magics not sure about singularities.” Sparkle said thoughtfully.

“No, no I mean actual star-eating black holes, the kinds that destroy entire systems.” Bronze clarified.

“Oh no they are affected by black holes like everything else, not sure how that would affect any planets they hit.” Sparkle replied.

“I could just swap a black hole from somewhere with the space immediately near a Reaper and we could eat popcorn from a minimum safe distance as we watch it get crushed by the gravity well.” Bronze suggested as Nuada moved to the couch and plopped down next to Sparkle as he poured himself tea.

“Good point, but are you ready to do that against a fleet that could harvest an entire galaxy?” Sparkle asked spreading her forehooves for emphasis.

“Meh, I’d just swap the black hole with a portion of each individual reaper, basically cripple individual ones instantly. It’d take a while, unless I had multiple black holes to work with. It’d mostly involve if my transport was fast and skilled enough to avoid enemy fire while I do my job, otherwise I’d just disperse myself into the constituent atoms in the region and do it.”

“Sounds like you’d be spreading yourself pretty thin.” Nuada said with a straight face.

“That’s seriously underplaying it Nuada. I had to fish around in your atoms to find all the bits of myself. If I disperse myself in the air, which is infinitely less dense than you, and worse, if I were to disperse myself into a vacuum? I don’t know how long it’d take to rebuild myself without using substitutions. Which is why I mentioned the ship idea first.” Bronze stated with a shudder. “I mean, what if I did that, and to come back, became a purely theoretical entity of pure mass? No genetics, nothing.”

“I Think I would rather you limit yourself. I already have ponies like Mistress Change, and Duncan to help as well, no need to try and win by yourself.” Sparkle said drinking some tea herself.

“Well yeah, that aside...do you have access to Geth weaponry?” Bronze was suddenly an uncomfortably close proximity with Sparkle’s face, making her gently push him away with a hoof.

“Um some, it’s hard to get ahold of but the commander did have some he kept in storage, assuming it wasn’t all confiscated by the alliance.” Sparkle said tapping her chin with her hoof. “To be honest though I’ve supercharged everyone’s guns with magic splicing, even Garrus let me upgrade his sniper rifle to fire cryo rounds to help with shattering armor.”

“Aw...because in Element Zero, my favorite weapons were the M-76 Revenant Light Machinegun, and the Pulse Sniper Rifle. They were good, and they were often logically available from a lot of enemies on drop.” Bronze mentioned. “That aside, I’d be glad to help. I also need some serious combat experience, if me getting my plot hoofed to me every time I go into a berserking rage tells me anything.”

“Well you can come visit my world, I’m taking Duncan on as a student, an extra wouldn’t be bad, though I would require you not use your powers, and fight and train as a ‘normal’ alicorn.” Nuada said, “though I might ask for supplies, feeding everypony gets expensive.”

“No worries, there’s enough heavily preserved crap from Terra to feed an army ten times over. And that’s not including all the fresh stuff Jeeves tosses into time stasis. Getting that time-locked freezer was a bitch.” Bronze grumbled as he sat down, only for Sparkle’s hoof to pop off his chest, leaving a beating heart to be seen that he quickly grabbed from Sparkle’s stunned-still hoof to cover up.

“Ah Kirito can make a similar temporally stagnant field.” Sparkle said, “though I am confused where Kirito gets the energy to maintain everything he does.”

“Don’t question the magical Juraian Space Tree Sparkle. Just don’t. Tenchi Muyo is levels of dumb that not even I can comprehend.” Bronze stated as his ear twitched, and he popped it off to scratch the crease before popping it back on.

“I can explain some of it to you later, though it gets into overpowered realms pretty quick.” Nuada explained dismissing the topic with a wave of his paw.

“Good, don’t break Sparkle’s mind with ridiculous stuff like that. She’s gotta keep her powerful brain on important things. Like how she can utilize Pinkie’s Fourth Wall abilities.”

“You called?” Pinkie suddenly asked, poking her head out from under Bronze’s left wing.

“Nah, but it’s nice to see you Pinkie.” Bronze simply reacted, popping off his left foreleg to pat her on the head. “I missed you Pinks.”

Pinkie blushed as her hair straightened out, making Sparkle visibly freeze in panic. “Uh...yeah...sure Bronzie….” Pinkie then sank under his wing and was gone when he opened it.

“Ta da~!” Bronze hammed like it was a stage trick.

“Right so, Sparkle you ready to go?” Nuada asked rolling his eyes, “I’d like to get home and recover, though Bronze when that winter witch rears her ugly head, give me a call.”

“Be sure to...uh...how? Do you even have a token?” Bronze asked in confusion, only for a watch of some sorts to drop out of a trap door in the air into his hooves.

“Yeah Jeeves has it somewhere that’s how he found me way back when he through me at you and AJ.” Nuada said holding up his wrist showing the GXP communicator.

“Oh~! So this thing that Jeeves just dropped so conveniently into my hooves at the last second...yeah...I’ve gotta get him to stop doing that….” Bronze grumbled as he pressed the GXP watch into his chest and he absorbed it like his body was water subsuming something. “...Huh...that’s a much cooler way to store things.”

“That looks gross and I will never get use to it.” Nuada said a little green, “anyway, that was built by Starswirl so you can use it to directly call Sparkle or myself.”

“Hey~ Swirly! Old bat! How ya doin’~?!” Bronze suddenly started shouting into the air, pieces of the GXP watch covering his left eye and ear. “Still got them bells playin’ songs boi~?! He hung up! SO RUDE~!”

“Bronze can you not harass Starswirl, he’s very busy researching.” Sparkle said with a sigh.

“I just sent him information stockpiles on various universes to double-check if he’d like to in his spare time. He said it was unnecessary but nice of me.” Bronze beamed, making the two just utterly baffled when he did that, considering it seemed he just outright harried the old wizard just then. “Anywho, just grab me whenever, I’ll grab you whatever, okay ladies love ya bye-bye~!”

Suddenly; Subspace, and the door to Bronze’s cave closed behind them, with Cinder blinking in confusion next to them as Ushio and Bestla blinked at their sudden arrival in the dining room, and the door’s relocation from the spare room.

“Sparkle you got taller in the last five minutes.” Ushio stated confused looking at the extra door. A small crash brought everyone to the last spare room where a solar ‘generator’ was sitting surrounded by computers, powercords, desks, chairs, and a 24 pack of klinox brand tissues. Sparkle’s hoof met her face so hard, Bestla thought she broke her nose.

“Well...all this aside...who’s the hot dog? Where’s Nuada?” Bestla asked curiously.

“I’m here.” Nuada said as his diamond dog form melted away, revealing his normal human form. “Before you ask no, I don’t like shapeshifting, and the only reason I can do that is the Displaced Bronze, now let's go have dinner.”

“Tina! You fat lard, come get some dinner!” Bronze called from the dining room, and Nuada sighed before he saw Bronze’s door now in the spare room instead, and he winked from it before closing the door again.

Author's Notes:

And at last, the Hearth'smas arc has ended! Say hello to the drawbacks of Bronze's new BS powas!

Bedtime!

Chronological Next Chapter with Clockworklich! A Fox and a Batty Bat.