I was unhappy with the first rendition but hurried it out anyway, I apologize I shouldn't have been impatient. The new chapter is mostly the same but added somethings I should have added the first time around. I'll make sure the chapter actually ready even if it is pushed late, everyone kind enough to read it deserves proper(as close as I can get) chapters.

Duncan groaned as he heard an alarm going off. Reaching over he found it to be his cell phone and it was set for six am. He blinked at it several times, his brain still not processing what was going on. On reflex he turned it off before rising from the bed.

“Hu…” He followed the small charger cable that was connected to some small antenna stand. There was a small note that said ‘You're welcome, see you at breakfast.’ signed MC. The writing was ridiculously sloppy and he almost wasn’t sure of what it said.

“Where the buck did she find a charger?” He blinked a few more times clearing the sleep from his eyes, shaking his head he rose to search for the shower. Tossing his clothes on the floor he jumped in the shower and let the warm water wash the pain from the previous day away.

Why did capturing cards have to be so hard, between The Time and The Arrow he was exhausted. Thankfully the squad had been willing to help with each one. Seems they were happy to have something to actually do. Apparently the Summer Harvest parade was the worst guard duty, and the cards were considered important enough to get out of the watches.

Mistress hadn’t returned yet but Starlight Song had actually ordered them to focus on the cards. Boom De-yada had jumped for joy after they were dismissed, he got stuck with watch for the parade the last year and was ‘Bored to Tears’

“At least that was another card down, four already.” Duncan muttered to himself turning off the water. When he came out he found that his clothes were cleanly folded and placed on the counter. Confused he picked them up and sniffed them, all clean, even with a bit of a lavender scent.

Quickly getting dressed he made his way down stairs, to find Jeff making pancakes again, with what smelled of sausage, and more eggs. Mistress was sitting at the table playing on a phone, a pink and white cased phone, that was fully charged and seemed to have pictures on it that she was scrolling though. She was still in her Morning Glory disguise.

“Where did you get the phone, and the charger?” Duncan asked taking a seat at the table. His robe top was still with Twilight. He sat down pulling out his phone looking over some of his photos, the screen still displayed a ‘No Signal’ notice at the top.

“My room, I packed light when I went to the Crystal Empire. You know how hard it is to update time without access to internet?” She turned the phone off sliding it to the side of the table. “So how was it while I was gone?”

“Exhausting, yesterday the Arrow card awoke. It started at random ponies from afar. The arrows pierced most of our defensive. We had to get Twilight to help. Even then the best her shield did was slow it down. That was when we started to work around the problem. Boom handed Snow a bag of grenades, flash bang mosty, and a few frag. She started doing strafing runs pushing Arrow out. Twlight and Spear Head kept us supported, S.H. is really good at healing. Twilgiht then started using simple smoke cloud spells to obscure us. I used the Dash on Snow then had her drop me from above as the card was distracted. Got hit on the way down once, grazed the leg, but sealed it.” Duncan looked rather pleased with himself. He took out all of his current cards, fanning them out to show them off.

“That’s impressive, I’m slightly upset you put Twilight in danger, but she is a strong mare, and its after…..” Mistress froze mid sentence. “Um do you know anything about the season two ending? No pony has had it on their mind, so I’m not sure what happened.”

“No idea, maybe try asking Twilight? Or get Spike to take a letter for you? I’m more worried how they are awaking so fast, normally there were days between card activations in the show. I wish we had Kero hear to explain what was going on.”

“Likely has to do with the ambient magic in the world. After all even in Cardcaptors Sakura, the world had very little access to active magic. Here just about every single creature has something. I’ll go chat with Twilight about the wedding if I can and your book, see what she has learned,” Mistress accepted the plate presented to her, Duncan thanked Jeff for making his before digging in. “So how goes integration with your squad, Equestrian Military prides itself on harmony in all aspects that it can. Or at least it did one thousand years ago.”

“Well turns out Twisted Spear, the guy who got turned into a baby dragon, was a member, it’s only been about three days so he hasn’t been released yet. They are still running tests on him to see if it can be fixed.” Mistress winced slightly as Duncan informed her, wasn’t the first time somepony had been hurt during a Displaced summoning, but it still was never fun.

“Well maybe Twilight can help him… her adjust, she is the only pony to have raised a dragon in several centuries. I’ll talk to her about it as well.” She opened an app on her phone and started adding notes to make sure she remembered what she need to talk about, her memory was normally perfect, but after the insanity that happened with Avarice, she wasn’t sure she trusted her own mind again… damn sexy sex god….

I miss him already too, maybe we can call him soon. Jeff thought to Mistress as he finished consuming his food and began clearing the dishes.

Sounds good. Mistress began musing, thoughtfully tapping her chin, as dozens of thoughts flooded her mind.

“Sounds good Ensign Starlight Song, my company commander, wants a word with you, we could probably get Twilight and get it all over with at once. She was not happy about the Pinkie Pie episode with Time.” Duncan banged his head against the table

“What?! Damnit that happened already, did it at least ‘appear’ correctly, did Pinkie keep doing it each time? Need to make sure Twilight learns all of her lessons.” Mistress looked a little worried at the news. Something that Duncan wasn’t use to seeing on the pony's face.

“Ya, ya, it happened both days Twilight and I remembered, you want to know the scary bit?” He leaned across the table hands folded smiling a bit evilly.

“What? No pony was hurt I hope?” Mistress was a bit confused by his display compared to his words.

“She said she was still having fun after four times.” He leaned back letting the information sink in.

“Nope, nope, nope not touching it. Doubt even Discord would want to.” She got up from the table passing Jeff the phone letting him take it over. “Let's get going, sounds like it’s going to be a long day.”

The pair walked along the road, Jeff returning to his post as Mistress’ hair, every so often Mistress would snicker at something that Jeff had captured on the camera, seems he had missed it.

After muster Mistress approached Starlight Song, who was standing alongside Phantom Thorns. She eyed the old pegasus, wearing a smile that hid a deep dislike of the pegasus. Starlight responded with a pleasant smile greeting the pony.

“Good morning, Duncan has told me you guys have had a busy couple of days. I apologize for not being present, but dealing with Displaced is my job and Avarice ended up really needing it… and I suppose I needed the short vacation.” Mistress continued smiling.

“Not a problem, Morning Glory. Since you are back, after cleaning quarters I was going to collect Recruit Duncan and Petty Officer Steal Will so we can sit down and figure out what is going on with these cards that belong to our new recruit.”

“Oh ok, we can do that. If it's all right, we can convene in your office, I’ll be collecting Twilight Sparkle.” Mistress responded, reading Phantom’s desire to respond she interrupted him. “She is the princesses’ student after all. She has a direct line to report the status of Ponyville and should be kept in the loop regarding details about the displaced. I don’t want any cliché events just because we tried to keep a secret.”

Jeff stop laughing, Mistress reprimanded him.

“Well that does make sense, ok ma’am if you’ll collect Twilight we will meet up at my office. Do you need directions?” Starlight nodded recognizing the bonus to keeping such an important pony in the loop. Thankfully the laws regarding Displaced were really fuzzy, she hadn’t even heard about them in here years of service.

“I’ll barrow Petty Officer Boom De-yada, he should know the area well enough.” Mistress smiled, ignoring the scowl from the Chief.

They parted way with Mistress pulling Boom from his area.

“Ma’am, not that I’m ungrateful but what are we doing?” Boom asked falling instep beside the displaced pony.

“Collecting Twilight Sparkle then going to a meeting. However that isn’t important. The reason I selected you to help, sense that is your real question, is because you’ve been helping Duncan the most.” She smiled keeping step watching the earth pony as he thought over it.

“Chief asked me to, that’s all. Duncan is a pretty all right dude, bit reserved but all right.”

“Thank you for taking care of him. Being displaced is scary and unsettling at best, a living nightmare at worst. Having a few friends should help him adapt.”

“Well ma’am, the equestrian military prides itself on its friendship and harmony.”

“I know,” Mistress smiled, then under her breath with a sigh, “I really know.”

It wasn’t long before they collected Twilight and made their way to the meeting. Boom remained outside in the hall relaxing, waiting for Duncan to get out.

The meeting was incredibly boring as it mostly consisted of Twilight or Starlight asking questions and Duncan answering them. He remembered most of the information about the cards. There were fifty-two cards, plus a special created card the “hope” card which is a fusion of two other cards.

“Well then Duncan, that answers most of our questions. You are free to go, Boom should be waiting for you. I’ll be staying here to discuss a few things with Ensign Starlight, and Twilight, have a good day.” Mistress directed Duncan to the door before settling in for more unpleasant matters.

“Yes, Morning Glory what else would you like to talk about?” Starlight asked as Duncan closed the door. He started down the hall alongside Boom who began singing a song.

“So what's the plan now?” Duncan asked as they approached a storage closet.

“Well once a week we have to clean a storage room and make sure it's organized. This week is our parade gear, since the Summer Harvest parade earlier, its been a mess. Most ponies don’t bother to put things away. So we now have to clean everything and put them away.” Opening the door Boom showed Duncan what he meant, uniforms and armour splayed everywhere and several flags were laid about.

“Huh well this shouldn’t be too hard, where do the flags go?” Duncan asked, picking up a flag and folding it. Folding it in half twice, then over again to form a triangle, tucking the extra bit to keep it held together.

“You’re good at that. Where did you learn to fold a flag?” Boom asked laying his own flag out to fold with hoof and mouth.

“Oh its the way they did it in my world. Normally there were rules about them touching the ground, I’m assuming these flags don’t have the same rule the way they were tossed about?” He started another flag starting to make a stack of them.

“Ya these are just squad flags, commandflags, ect. The equestrian flag has that rule. Its weird how much of your world seems to be similar here. What about if somepony defaces a flag?” Boom moved to sorting the armour trying to get the wooden crates they went in unburied.

“Well my country it wasn’t technically against the law. Freedom of speech was said to cover that. I never agreed with it. There was a state that tried to pass a law but it got overturned.” Duncan grew angry remembering the people of his world again, clenching the flag tight enough to turn his knuckles white.

“Its an offence punishable by community service. You can speak out and share your opinions. However, you live in Equestria, you respect its law, and symbols.” Boom explained lifting the armour sets into the wooden crates, each labelled with a size, inspecting them for damage as he did so, setting aside pieces for repair and polish.

“Sweet, well last flag and this place is done” Duncan reached for a flag that was black with a silver symbol on it. Only for for a pair of pink wings to sprout from it, taking flight the flag teleported past the window out of the room.

“That's not good,” Boom had a look of fear on his face, rearing back a little.

“What?”

“That was our Squad flag, Petty Officer Steel will be bucking angry, not to mention Twisted if he find out about it...” Boom torr out of the room galloping after the flag. Duncan running trying to keep up. Calling out to him to try and explain that the Move card was tricky and not going to get caught that way.

As they made their way out of the building they passed the rest of the squad working on cleaning the front hall. They looked just about done, shining some brass and polishing some wood. Boom didn’t even stop, accidentally knocking Spear Head over in his rush.

“What was that about?” Snow Drop asked helping Spear Head up. Duncan stopped to explain.

“The Move card possessed the squad flag. Its a tricky card chasing it wont do any good. We need a plan.” Duncan quickly explained look to the ponies for help. They all staring mouths agape as he explained.

“What are this card’s abilities?” Snow Drop asked slowly.

“Teleporting, and moving the object possessed, it's a trickster and unpredictable.” He answered.

“Perfect, lets go. Duncan you’re with Spear Head, I’ll catch up with Boom.” Snow Drop took off out of the doors, leaving a trail of snow filtering behind her. Duncan and Spear Head sprinted out after her, looking for a sign of the flag. It was currently hanging from the top of Town Hall.

“…but we didn’t form a plan!” He called out after her. She was unfortunately already out of sight.

Several hours later, all four squad mates sat in a pile on the ground back to back. They were all panting and drenched in sweat. They had chased it all around town; however the devious little card just kept messing with them.

Boom was sporting a nice lump on his head from where Spear Head used him as a stepping stone. Snow Drop was sporting a lovely shade of green from having a bucket of paint dropped on her. Duncan’s cloths had tears all over; they were larger but seem to slowly self-repairing. Spear Head’s horn was decorated in many colors when three young fillies decided he needed a makeover.

Even when they started form plans on their own it didn’t work. Duncan tried to use the Dash to outrun it, only to have it teleport behind him. His own inertia pushing him into several walls, and once the river.

“I told you this wasn’t going to work. It’s a tricky card, see it mocking us!” Duncan huffed finally recovering enough of a breath to speak. All eyes turned to the offending flag, which was in-fact mocking them. It swooped about in front of the hospital building. It would float near them, only to dash out of their hands if any tried to reach for it.

“If it wasn’t so flimsy I’d just toss a few hand grenades. Boom. Done.” Boom moaned an ice pack held to his head.

“WE KNOW, Boom, you love blowing things up. If Twisted or Steel Will catch what has happened… A few more moments then we move out again. Duncan, what’s your plan?” Snow Drop asked earning a glare from the Displaced. He started standing up, hands on his knees.

“Alight, Spear Head, you’re good at sensing magic right?” Duncan asked, finally catching his breath.

“Yes, I can do that.” He responded also standing up. Closing his eyes he began focusing on the magic around them, a faint glow of light surrounded his horn.

“Good, ID the card, it should send a tell sign of where it’s teleporting to. Tell me and I’ll seal it when it arrives. Boom, you and Snow, dash in and try to catch it. It should teleport away again. Everyone on my mark.” Duncan readied his sealing sword, the rest of the team flanked him.

“Go!” Duncan waited next to Spear Head. Snow and Boom sprinted toward the possessed flag. It jumped up out of Boom’s reach only for Snow to fly after it, a trail of snow behind her. It teleported.

“Front Door!” Spear Head called out pointing a hoof at the front doors of the hospital. Duncan activated the Dash, moving like a bullet sword swinging. As the flag appeared it started to float up and out of Duncan’s reach.

Only to suddenly be stopped by an orange claw, too focused to notice, Duncan’s sword connect, “Move! Return to your powers confined. Move!”

In a flash the sealing circle encased the pink wings, returning the card to its sealed from. It floated before Duncan till he accepted it. Looking down he saw the claw that now gently held the flag. It belonged to an orange dragoness with purple spines.

She looks pissed… oh shite is that….? Duncan began back peddling.

“You fools let the flag be used as a BUCKING!! Play toy?!! I AM GOING TO BEAT THE FLANK OUT OF EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU!! NOW RUN” The Dragon threw a kick knocking Duncan back several feet. The dragon promptly lost balance and fell over. Ensuring the flag didn’t hit the ground, she landed on her back.

“TWISTED’s BACK!!! RUN!!” Boom turned tail leaving his squad behind; Snow was quickly after with Spear Head left unsure what to do. Twisted Spear returned to her feet, looking at the flag in her hand and Spear Head, she approached him.

“Fold this and return it to the storage room. Do well and I won’t rip you apart with my new claws.” She waited while Spear Head accepted it and carefully walked back to the guard building. Turning to the fleeing ponies, she called out after them, “GET BACK HERE YOU FOWLS!!!”

Duncan pulled himself back up gasping for breath, tears running from his eyes. Even with his new Displaced durability having the wind knocked out of him hurt. Blinking several times he saw two blurry pony figures approaching.

“You ok D?” Mistress asked offering a hoof to help him up.

“I’ll be fine. Good kick on that one. Glad to see him out of the hospital.” Duncan remained slightly hunched over still in pain.

“It would appear the mutagens that affected him did more than just transmute him. He can already walk.” Twilight mentioned unsure of what to do about the rampage as Twisted caught Boom De-yada and throw him into a flag pole, causing a second bump to grow on his head.

“And Kick.” Duncan forced a smile. “So what happens now?”

“He returns to the squad. Changed or not, he is still a member of the guard and refused to resign when we offered. Proper proud citizen that one.” Mistress looked on with a hint of pleasure; it was nice to see a loyal member of the guard.

“What about his condition? I haven’t seen a dragon in the guard.”

“That would be because I’m the first one to raise a dragon in Equestria’s borders in at least a thousand years possibly longer. The change is permanent, so he will be staying with me.” Twilight explained deciding to join Mistress and Duncan who were sitting on the steps in front of the hospital. Celestia was beginning to dip the sun under the horizon.

“You know about baby dragons having raised Spike right?”

“Yes. Although there is one part that is new… like the medics said genetically he is now a female.” Twilight cringed slightly; she had never dealt with somepony forcibly turned into the opposite gender.

“Ah, well does he want to be called a he or a she?” Duncan asked, not the first time he has had to deal with gender issues. There was that host for a podcast he really liked, Forest Rain. She caused a bit of confusion when she came out on air as a girl.

“He for now. He refuses to talk about it but we suspect this could lead to quite a few problems so he will be seeing a therapist once every two weeks.”

“How does Spike feel about this?”

“Oh… NO! I forgot to tell him! Morning Glory, I’ll speak with you another time, bye!” Twilight galloped off to warn the baby dragon about their new roommate. Catching up to Twisted rather quickly Twilight picked her up in a magic grasp.

Twilight walked along Twisted who had insisted on being let down lest she learn to breath fire on the mare’s tail. Twilight sheepishly obliged, “Sorry got carried away, or rather you did, by me. Anyways, I just remembered that I left Spike at home and he might want to know that he is going to be rooming with a girl dragon.”

“Boy, I don’t care what the doctors say. I am a boy, I don’t want your runt getting the wrong idea.” Twisted snapped crossing her arms, she began tapping her arm. Twilight turned to glare a the dragon only for the glare to be returned. “If you think I’m going to be playing nice just because of this you’re wrong. I’m a guard and a stallion no matter what.”

“For being a guard in the Equestrian military you sure aren't acting harmoniously. I’m here to help you, Spike and I are the only two ponies in Equestria who know anything about your new body whether you like it or not.” Twilight didn’t let her glare down. They had arrived at the front door to the library.

“I am a guard, and I am harmonious in the guard. The wolf squad is the highest performing squad in Ponyville and tenth in all of Equestria. We got there by hard work and training together. That pet displaced of the Princesses just got handed a spot on our team. I’ll accept anypony who can prove themselves but him, he hardly knows how to fight.” Twisted gestured wildly showing his great displeasure.

“You are correct, and I find it odd. No pony I have spoken to before a week ago ever mentioned the displaced. Now I have several who have high ranking government jobs acting like it’s an everyday thing. Something is weird here, but the Princesses know what they are doing. If you’ll come in I’ll see what we can figure out, maybe we can research some answers.” Twilight was exhausted from the day, she had spent most of the meeting trying to steer the conversation to get some answers from Morning Glory. However every time she was about to ask a question the mare would start off on something else.

“Yay book work. Let's get inside I’m hungry those lilly sandwiches at the hospital were only so filling.” Twisted agreed letting Twilight enter first as she followed in.

“SPIKE!” Twilight called causing Twisted to cover her ears. She really hoped this wasn’t an everyday thing.

“Yes Twil….” The young dragon stopped part way through his sentence as he spotted the orange dragoness. His eyes grew to the size of saucers looking her over confused and surprised. “Hi.”
“Ug, this is what I didn’t want. Listen little dragon I’m a stallion, so don’t get any ideas I’m not into dragons, or colts. Now then I’m hungry what can I eat?” Twisted asked glaring at Spike.

“Twisted! Don’t be rude, Spike if you could get some gems for her..him,” Twilight corrected herself, “We have both had a long day.”

“Oh you’re that stalling that got changed during the fight, Twilight mentioned it. Well it’ll be nice having another guy around, this way I have some really good emeralds and rubies I’ve been aging.” Spike answered recovering, giving Twisted the benefit of the doubt. “Also don’t call me little I’ve been a dragon a lot longer than you.”

Twisted rolled her eyes, This, is going to… suck

Back at the hospital’s front steps Duncan and Mistress were relaxing.

“How is he really?” Duncan asked.

“Confused, a bit scared, and in a lot of denial. What you would expect, I’ll need to adopt a new person, I plan on being his therapist. I didn’t just make up my title about the Displaced. This is literally my job, few ponies should even know about us, even less work with us.” Mistress sighed lying down in the setting sun, accepting nuzzles from Jeff.

“Tired?”

“You have no idea. I was hoping as Morning Glory I could relax more. Seems too many ponies need to know about the Displaced. I think I’ll go as Tinker Bell for a while.” Doing a quick sweep of the area Mistress shifted into a blue unicorn stallion with brown mane. The cutie mark a gear and bell over an explosion.

“Is that a reference to who I think it is?” Duncan asked smiling.

“Ya, I loved that story way too much. Remember you don’t have to be a Pegasus to fly. Also gems work much the same way here, although I normally use gold wires instead.” He grinned as Jeff pulled out the phone, showing a picture of the Tinker Bell persona, without hair blasted, against a wall.Here

Author's Notes:

Let me know if there are issues so I can try and fix them and keep learning, this site has been very kind thank you all^-^