“That’s for ignoring me for coffee!” I yelled as I took off out the door, a scream of rage following me. Now to make a clean-ish getaway!

As I was running, I reached into my bag and pulled out my pencil case already knowing which one I would grab. I pulled out a black gem instead. “Let’s see if this works! I call upon you who wields gravity. Kat Shifter, I need a little help!”

Up ahead, a black and red portal swirled into existence and an older girl with long blonde hair walked through. She looked around, spotting me and waving. “Hi there!”

“No time to talk got a mad Celestia on my tail!” I exclaimed as I grabbed her arm and started pulling. Which did absolutely nothing; she didn’t even budge!

“Running from her isn’t gonna make your situation any better,” she said, looking at me with a raised eyebrow. “It’s Celestia, she can usually take a joke… more often than not.”

I stopped tugging and gave her my most serious of faces. “She doesn’t when you mess with her coffee on purpose.”

Kat facepalmed. “You don’t mess with anyone’s coffee, crétin,” she sighed. “That’s just mean and inconsiderate. You should apologize to her.”

I let go and poked my fingers together. “Yeah.... About that.... I accidentally used all of her favorite shampoo and she turned me to stone. I doubt she’ll be any more accommodating with this.” I crossed my arms, “Besides, she ignored me and went for coffee instead.”

Kat just looked at me before quirking an eyebrow. She grabbed my arm and started dragging me back the direction I came. “Come on, you’re going to apologize. And don’t worry, there’s not gonna be any petrifications. We’re gonna settle this here and now.”

“Oh come on! You think this Celestia’s like yours!? This one was the one that got banished! She tried to frame her own sister!” I tried to dig my heels into the ground but had no luck.

“You have nothing to worry about. I nearly killed my Celestia and that was only because I stopped myself. Trust me, you’re in safe hands with me.”

“Knew I should’ve looked harder....” I muttered, pouting as I was dragged back into the dining room.

She pushed me in front of her, keeping her hidden for the moment as Celestia and Luna came into view. “Just apologize.”

Easy for you to say, you can just crush her with your powers. I ca-.... I’m a dumbass. I literally bought a gun only fifteen minutes ago. I hope I don’t have to use it here....

“See, ‘Tia? She came back to apologize,” Luna said as they spotted me. Celestia only growled in response.

“Um.... Y-yeah, I did. I’m sorry for putting wasabi sauce and rainbow in your coffee,” I said as I shifted from one foot to the other. “It was just a little prank in response to you walking away before I could apologize for using your shampoo....”

“See? Was that so hard?” Kat asked as she walked to my side and put her elbow up on… nothing?! “Everything is so much better when we all just get along.”

I stared at her for a second. I opened my mouth to say something and closed it, figuring that she was just using gravity as a plaything.

“Now there’s two of them! How long before we’re overrun with... whatever they are!? You should let me deal justice for this slight!” Celestia said, turning to Luna.

“Watch it, Celly,” Kat said darkly. “Keep acting like that and I will be a threat. I don’t take too kind to people abusing power and I especially won’t take that attitude from the pony who is supposed to be the example of pony-kind.”

“Like I said earlier: it’s not her that’s been running equestria for the past thousand years. Ponies are nocturnal now.” I said, trying to take a few steps back.

“Well then, I’ll talk to Luna and ignore little miss not-sunshine.” She turned her head towards Luna and smiled. “Hello Luna, how has your day been?”

“Don’t know yet, ‘Tia hasn’t raised the sun.” She replied, confusion and befuddlement evident on her usually serene face.

“Oh, well allow me.” Kat reached out her hand which glowed with a strange red and white energy. The moon slowly began to descend as the sun rose in the west. After another few moments, night had fully changed into day. “There, that’s better. A nice sunny day.”

The silence that pervaded was broken only by a cricket chirping. I noticed Celestia’s right eye twitch before she exploded into a blaze of fire and plasma and jumped towards us. Reacting just before I got scalded, I rewound time to when Kat was saying “Oh, well all-”

“Don’t, Kat. Don’t,” I interrupted.

She stared at me for a moment, then bopped me on the head. “Do not use time travel on me. It’s just rude.”

“Hey, it saved me from being burned alive didn’t it?” I glanced over at the princesses and whispered, “Now I have to rewind again thanks to you.”

She just rolled her eyes. “Can’t keep your powers secret forever. And the sooner you make nice with the princesses, the sooner you’re gonna be better off.”

I sighed, “Fine, I’d rather be put out like this than have them know I was the one who-” I closed my mouth, knowing it was too late to stop curiosity.

Luna finally asked the question after a minute of silence, “You were the one who did what?”

I kept my mouth shut, looking down at my shoes. Fucking lovely! Now I have to say it....

“What else have you done to insult my sister and I?” Celestia asked stalking forward a few steps.

I took a few more back myself. Shit.... I think this is getting into gun territory.... “Uh....” I felt my face become heated. “I-I was the one who took a magazine from that one guard’s stash and put it in your newspaper?”

Kat chuckled, trying to hide it with her hand. “That’s...pfft, that’s a good one! Ahahaha!! I… I need to remember that one, hahaha!!”

Celestia leaned back, her cheeks becoming a bit more pink as she glanced at Luna. Clearing her throat she said, “I-I had thought my sister had been behind that....”

I put on my best ‘wait, what’ face. So.... No punishment?

“Hoo, that’s rich,” Kat said as she wiped a tear from her eye. “I applaud you, Miss… huh, actually I never got your name.”

“Uh... it’s Max, Max Caulfield,” I said distractedly. Seriously, that’s it?

“Odd name, but who am I to talk, right? Nice to meet you, Max. I’m Kat Shifter, as you know, and they call me the Gravity Queen.”

Celestia coughed. “Well, I accept your apologies. Please, don’t do that again.” She looked away in embarrassment, her cheeks a brick red now.

.... Oh, if I didn’t want to stay alive or outside a stone statue I’d so use this to get her to read more of them with me. “Okay, um.... We’ll just be going then.” I said, cheeks still flushed with heat.

“Not so fast,” Kat said. “Let’s just stay here for a bit. You’re going to be seeing a lot of these two and they no doubt will be seeing a lot of you. It’s best they learn about the Displaced along with you.”

“I’m not Displaced, I watched someone disappear and went over to buy something from the merchant the guy had been standing in front of,” I said, rubbing the back of my head. “I... kinda jumped in myself.”

Kat facepalmed again. “Wow, you really are a crétin.”

“Well excuse me for wanting some adventure in my life!”

“And can you say it’s been worth it?”

I gave Kat my best ‘You serious?’ look while bringing out my camera. “I overpaid for my camera. The guy was asking only thirty bucks and I gave him a hundred.” I set it back into its spot in my bag. “I only wish I had bought more film from him.”

“So is that a no?” Kat asked, not really sure. “You don’t sound all that depressed about being here, despite no doubt becoming a stone statue like most of us.”

“I hope no one else was petrified for as dumb a reason as me.... But yeah, I paid what I thought the camera was worth and even though I was genderbent I still think it was a good deal.”

“You used to be a stallion?” Celestia asked suddenly.

I looked over at her and said, “Yeah, huge change going from having an outie to an innie.”

“T.M.I.,” Kat muttered. “You’re still a Displaced, though. A Displaced is a human who was sent to Equestria via a special object and granted powers. Yours being time reversal and mine being power over gravity. There’s thousands of us out there amongst the Multiverse, each one calling an Equestria home.Whether that’s a good or bad thing depends on the human.”

“I don’t just reverse time. I can make it leap forwards some, though it does play backwards if I don’t focus on a specific object.”

“That’s how that bouquet was dead the next morning!” Luna exclaimed. “I had put an enchantment on it to make it last years.”

“Interesting,” Kat said as she put a hand to her chin. “You’ve got some potential, I can tell. Might have a good future here. Well, if you don’t get burned by Sunny over there.” She pointed her thumb at Celestia.

Celestia’s blush returned in full force and her mane moved to cover her face.

I shook my head saying, “I don’t think that’ll be a problem anymore... especially if I-”

“Say one more word in that direction and you’ll find out how high the atmosphere reaches,” said Celestia.

“I already know,” Kat bragged. “I’ve actually been to space and beyond.”

Huh... she really did like the magazine. Hmmm.... I think I know what to do. Making sure that Celestia couldn’t see me behind her mane, I silently walked over to her and stood only a few inches away from where I thought her snout was and waited, a small, mischievous smile on my lips. After a few minutes of silence Celestia moved her mane out of the way to see what was going on. I pounced, my lips meeting hers before she could react. I could see the confusion in her eyes as she tried to pull away, opening her mouth a little to try to speak. I dove in, french kissing her until she slowly closed her eyes and gave a small sigh, returning the kiss.

When I pulled back a few minutes later, I saw that Luna’s jaw was literally through the floor. “You might want to get a stone-mason to get your jaw unstuck before a fly gets in there,” I said with an impish smile.

Kat was fanning herself with an old-style asian fan. “Holy merde, that’s hot.”

I giggled as Celestia, her brain having given up trying to make sense, stammered nonsense.

“It was spicy too~!” I flung an arm over Celestia’s shoulders, trying to be as cheeky as I could be.

“I approve of this ship,” she said with a nod. She pulled out a large card with a ten on it. “Ten out of ten, Kat Shifter approved.”

Celestia, having gotten her faculties back, teleported away without another word.

“Aw, she’s shy,” Kat said with a cute voice. “How cute.”

“Nah, I think she’s just going to get her riding crop and handcuffs out from under her old bed.”

“She has no such things!” Luna said, having freed herself from the floor.

I put my hand on my chin. “You’re right, unless she enchanted them they’ll be nothing more than dirt.... Maybe she’s buying more?”

Kat’s face burning red now. “I am so tempted to take you with me and have fun with you and my boyfriend.”

“Sorry, I’m a one-girl type of girl. Though I wouldn’t mind trading toys back and forth,” I said, pulling out the sponge. “I’d rather not be limited to this.”

“...that’s really not something you should be showing even when with friends,” Kat said, covering her deep red face. “It’s… just not. And you are surprisingly well adjusted to being a girl. Even Typhon has problems when he switches genders.”

“It’s not like it’s mine. I just... sorta shoved it into my bag after I took that one bath I can’t remember clearly. Besides, trying to survive in the Everfree took most of the fucks I had to give. I accepted my gender because I had no choice if I wanted to stay alive.”

“Aw, you’re first experience, that’s adorable,” she cooed.

“I had masturbated before then,” I huffed, my cheeks still red.

“But the first toy use is the most important,” she pointed out.

“Still doesn’t account for all twenty bottles,” I mumbled. Kat walked over to me and whispered into my ear, my cheeks burning by the time she was done. “I stand corrected....”

Luna cleared her throat, her cheeks black, “I think we should leave this conversation here for today.”

Kat giggled. “I think I like this world. Tell ya what, Max, anytime you need help or just want to chat, give me a call. I wouldn’t mind coming back a few times.” She leaned in and whispered into my ear, “And maybe I can get a little in return, hint hint.”

Ugh, why is she so cute!? I bit my lip. Fuck it, I’m listening to my body this time! I nodded tentatively. And then… she just had to make it worse.

“I might even bring Typhon along next time. We’ll get Celly involved… and put his cloning ability to good use.”

Cloning!? I thought, my eyebrows raising as my entire face turned red and something liquid travelled downwards from my nose.

“You’ll love it. And I can promise you,” she leaned even closer, her breath on my ear as she spoke with a sultry voice. “You’ll never be the same and always wanting more.”

With that, I fell over from too much blood rushing to my head, visions of being surrounded by hundreds of the same man floating through me.

Kat giggled. “Looks like someone’s getting excited for the future. But before I head off, what other totems do you have? I want to make sure you’re hanging out with the right crowd. Can’t let my future playmate get corrupted can I? That’ll be my job to corrupt you.”

After a few more minutes, I focused on what Kat said. “I’m leaving Pyramid Head and Alice alone. I have Typhon’s, Nemesis’, Samus Aran, Flynn, and The Fullmetal Alchemist’s. I have more but that’s what I can name off the top of my head,” I said.

“Hmm, there wouldn’t happen to be one of a Plumber’s badge, would there?”

“Um... yeah, I have three of them.”

“Does one of them say Ben 10?” she asked again.

I looked Kat straight in the eye, not saying anything for a few seconds. “Yeah, all three of them.”

Her eyebrow shot up. “Why do you have three of his totems? That’s just weird.”

I shrugged. “Must be different versions.”

“Uh huh… destroy them all,” she said with all seriousness.

“Destroy something I could use as money? Nope, not gonna destroy my money. I’ll put them apart from all the rest, though.”

“Alright, just never use them. My brother isn’t fond of helping other Displaced.”

I raised my eyebrow at that. “Since you know him, I’ll leave him be.”

“It’s just better that you don’t. Ben doesn’t help others and will basically just insult you the entire time for forcing him into another world. It’s just less of a headache. My brother just wants to be left alone.”

I nodded. “I’ll tell anyone I see not to mess with him.”

“Well, was there anything else you needed?”

Standing up I said, “Nope! But I’d like to snap a pic to commemorate my First Summon... or whatever you call it.”

“Sure,” Kat shrugged. “People tell me I’m very photogenic nowadays.”

Taking my camera out of my bag, I put an arm around Kat’s shoulders before turning the front towards us and snapping the photo. “Let’s see how it looks.”

I shook the picture a little then turned it so we both could see. “Aw... Luna photobombed us....”

“Is that the only thing you notice?” Kat said with a sly smile.

“Yeah, I felt you kiss my cheek when I pushed the button.”

“Well good, didn’t want my good work to go to waste. I suppose I’ll be seeing you later then, Maxie.” She gave me a seductive wink before opening a portal above herself. “Don’t have too much fun without me~.” She floated up through the portal and was gone.

“Now I won’t be able to sleep without some company, thanks to you,” Luna said as she walked away.

“Wait! I don’t have anywhere to sleep myself,” I said, turning to Luna.

“Yes you do. You’ll be sharing my sister’s rooms.”