The light faded from the room as Luna’s dreamwalking spell faded out. The occupants began to awaken one by one. Mistress was the last to stir, she blearily rubbed her eyes with a hoof, blinking she looked around the room.

“What’s going on?” She asked realizing something was off, she didn’t remember a sleepover with Luna.

“Oh nothing much, just helping to mend your frayed and guilt ridden mind through your dreams. You know, the usual,” Gilgamesh replied simply.

She blinked at him a few times trying to remember her dream, she did feel more rested than she had in a few centuries. She could recall phantom bits of the dream, the changelings… “What happened to Chrysalis?”

“With any luck, she should be arriving by puddle jumper soon. She agreed to surrender to Equestria, but we’ve got a few things to get set up before we make it official.”

“She agreed to surrender?! Tis wondrous news, I shall send for a guard at once.” Luna literally bounced out of the room with joy.

The three other occupants of the room just stared for a moment.

“I really hope she handles that subtly,” Gilgamesh commented.

“It is Luna…” Mistress stated.

Mistress scans show you are awake. We are waiting outside with Chrysalis. LT. CMD. Sparkle’s voice called over her token.

Come on in though the balcony. Mistress responded, yawning. “So you said dreams, what exactly happened? I remember confronting Chrysi and then… pain.”

Chrysi used a spell to make you feel the pain of the Changelings. It placed you in a coma, so Gilgamesh talked Chrysi into surrendering then we brought you to Luna for help. I am really happy that you are awake. Jeff answered giving Mistress a hug.

“Ah, well, all's well that ends well. Anything fun happen in my dreams?” She asked curious and smiling.

“Oh just finding out that you continually torture yourself with your past failures, that you’re not originally from a version of Earth like I thought, and that you’re likely two souls that have meshed into one body. Kinda thought you trusted me enough to mention those things, but maybe it just didn’t come up,” Gilgamesh answered with some sarcasm.

“...Damnit, it’s complicated…” Mistress’ face fell as she avoided eye contact with her friend.

“With us Displaced, it always is. I won’t pry any further if you don’t want.”

“It’s ok you are my friend and deserve some answers. From what Jeff and I have been able to figure out, with some help, when I was displaced my soul was in fact fused together, it happened just as Jeff and I were traveling to another world for a vacation. We woke up in a forest, my memories were in entire disarray.

“Jeff thankfully remembered enough to help me sort out my memories from our time at the academy. However everything here in Equestria, remembering the Displaced, knowing the show, understanding pop-culture references, hell even knowing the secret word to say to Duncan when he showed up. All of that were my memories of being a human on earth.” She sighed letting the information sink in waiting for his questions.

“...Huh. So… where are you from originally? What are you originally? And this was before we met, right?”

“Most of this is before I met you, however when we first met my memories were still messed up. Its why I didn’t recognize you at first. The memories came in bits and flashes. I am originally from both Earth and the Academy. I am originally both human and shapeshifter.” She answered.

“Huh. And this ‘Academy’ you speak of is… what?”

“Just another world out there in the multiverse. It is a magic city castle it is huge, think tokyo and bigger, they are dedicated to teaching magic in all of its forms. It is comprised mostly of guilds. They take missions both in the city and on other planes of reality.” She explained the answer just rolling off her tongue as if it were basic academic knowledge.

“So basically every anime and fantasy magic/mercenary school ever. Like Balamb Gardens, or Beacon Academy.”

“Yes but bigger, with countless individual schools. Its also not just fantasy, we have everything, technology, magic, even business schools.”

“Huh. Maybe I should stop by sometime and get some training. Or show everyone up if it turns out I’m that awesome.”

Mistress snorted as he said the last sentence. “Good luck. Literal Gods attend they even have a convention called God-con. Although I’m sure there are plenty of creatures in the guilds who would love a chance to fight you.”

“I have the physical strength to swing mountains around like baseball bats, can sprint faster than most automobiles, can temporarily stop time, can control the wind as easily as breathing, can summon down meteors capable of cracking planets in half, am able to teleport almost anywhere, have a sword that can cut everything from metal to memories, and have a partial understanding of how the entire universe works, among other abilities. I’d like think I’d be at least mid-tier amongst that crowd.”

“Oh yes, you are definitely strong, even among those who attain immortality you could likely defeat a great deal number of them. I’m just saying that the difference of powers is that great, we have students from all over the multiverse, there are those out there more powerful than even you, potentially even more powerful than the old system admins, although I’ve never met any.” She explained. “I’ll talk with Star Swirl and see if we can arrange something for you. We have been focused on our world here our vacation turned out to be a bit more than we expected.” Mistress laughed a bit.

“Huh, cool. And I’ve met two Sys Admins. Well, a Sys Admin and an ex-Sys Admin. One of them kicked my ass, but he was kind enough to actually make a decent fight out of it instead of just smashing me into the ground.”

“Thats nice of him, you mean Aaron right?” Mistress asked, before Gilgamesh could answer there was a knock on the door to the balcony.

“Mistress?” Sparkle’s voice came from behind the door.

“Come in!” Mistress called, a green magic aura opening the door for the Alicorn. Sparkle was wearing her N7 armor, with her weapons holstered to her sides. She walked in turning so see Gilgamesh, a bit of confusion on her face, with a glint of scientific curiosity.

“Greetings, I am LT. CMD. Twilight Sparkle of the SR-2 Normandy. It is a pleasure to meet another displaced.” She stated with a salute and smile.

“Let me guess, another pony Displaced, this one working under Commander Shepard? Right under if, if your rank is any indication,” Gilgamesh guessed.

“Correct, always strange when a Displaced knows the Commander when I know you haven’t met.” She turned back to the door. “Nuada, Chrysalis, come in already and make friends.”

One human, who was white haired wearing hand woven brown tunic and pants very classical peasant, and a changeling queen walked in. Nuada approached Gilgamesh, to greet him, only to be interrupted by Chrysalis. “Mother! You’re awake, I am so sorry!” She ran over hugging Mistress and Jeff, who hugged her back.

“It’s alright, everything turned out well. Gilgamesh tells me you agreed to surrender and make war reparations, is it true?” She asked.

“We will make reparations, and we have released the love creatures. Gilgamesh said something of creating love crystals, we were hoping to speak with the princess regarding it. Right now though I am just glad that I didn’t cause a worse problem, are you sure you are ok?”

“Yes, I am actually feeling much better than normal, like huge weights have been lifted from my shoulders.” Mistress rose from the bed, Jeff was currently dropped across Mistress’ back, it seems he was still tired from the dreamwalk.

“Huzza the message has been sent!” Luna busted through the door drawing the eyes of everyone in the room. “Oh we were not expecting guests, welcome.”

Chrysalis glared at Luna for a moment before catching herself. She closed her eyes and performed the same breathing technique that Twilight was taught before opening them again. “Greetings, Night Princess. I wish to discuss terms of my Hive’s surrender before it becomes official. I should mention that food is the most pressing matter on the table and if a solution is not found within a month we will be forced to break any sort of peace treaties simply to survive.”

“Of course, I was told you seemed focused on that during the invasion. We will be happy to find a solution, Equestria’s top scientists will begin brainstorming on it.” Luna stated extending a hoof to the queen. “Shall we shake on it?”

Chrysalis extended her hoof in response but hesitated a moment. She then cautiously touched hooves and began to shake. “I… I’d all but given up on this sort of thing being possible. I hadn’t even entertained the idea for nearly one thousand years.”

“Yay my family is all back together, I’ll leave you two grown ponies to discuss everything. I’d really like to get back to ponyville and see Duncan, how did the training go by the way?” Mistress asked Gilgamesh.

“We got a nice start, but he’s got a ways to go. I think I might need to put the whole unit stationed there a workout so they’ll be better prepared for the kind of stuff that might pop up. Also, I’ll need someone to train him while I’m gone considering his combat preference,” he replied.

]“Oh what is his preference?” Mistress asked, she also noticed how Nuada had retreated to the back corner of the room as far from Luna as he could get. His aura crackling with hate. Mistress smiled as a thought crossed her mind from her earlier discussions.

“Deviator. Which means I’m going to need to find someone who can give him a style to deviate from. Also, sup with the boy in the corner?”

“Hello my name is Nuada, I had just summoned Sparkle here for help in my world. She then offered to bring me along on the trip to help Mistress Change. It is a pleasure to meet another human.” Nuada said, with his focus shifted his rage seemed to almost completely dissipate. “You are the first true human I’ve meet in over a thousand years.”

“Frozen in stone?”

“No sealed in a time lock spell.” He glared at Luna, “It was a ten by ten white room with nothing.”

“Not the same Luna,” Gilgamesh warned. “Besides, I’m sure it was an accident of some kind.”

“She tricked me into the room, then left a shadow of herself to taunt me for the next 1000 years, I know it wasn’t ‘Luna’ but it was before she changed into Nightmare Moon’s form so it really stung when my sister did that to me,” Nuada explained.

“... Well, if this current situation has proven anything, it’s that it’s never too late to forgive and forget.”

“It’s going take a while to forgive that,” Nuada stated, “I pretty muched raised her and Celestia in my world, and then she did that to me. I recognize it was the nightmare forces but everytime I see her since I’ve gotten out the rage begins to overflow.”

“Hm, so you recognize it wasn’t really her fault but you still have trouble getting over it, huh? Normally I’d prescribe some family therapy, but I don’t think that’s an option considering you’re likely to try and hurt each other… Ok, I think I’ve got and idea!” Gilgamesh clenched his eyes together and strained for several seconds, getting odd looks from everyone, before finally exhaling. “Ok, I think it’s done.”

“What’s done?” Sparkle asked.

“Look at Luna for a moment.”

“Okay,” Nuada said looking at Luna. Despite himself, he couldn’t keep the thoughts of his own Luna out of his head and his anger began to rise. Suddenly, out of nowhere, a shovel sprang up and hit him in the face before disappearing.

“SUCCESS!” Gilgamesh cheered.

Nuada rubbed his nose, “And this does what for me?”

“Every time you get mad at any version Luna or Celestia, not counting if they’ve done something to actually make you upset in the last twenty four hours, that shovel will hit you in the face as a reminder to cut that shit out as well as kiss and make up with your own versions. It may not be the most sophisticated solution, but it’ll help until you get some proper therapy.”

“So everytime I get mad at Luna for, OW!” Nuada held his face as a shovel hit him.

“I liken it to spraying a cat with water every time it scratches up the furniture,” Gilgamesh explained cheerfully.

“I’m a cat?”

“Sounds accurate,” Sparkle said with a smirk.

Nuada glared at his companion, before sighing and deciding it wasn’t even worth the effort. He got smacked in the face again, causing Mistress to fall into a fit of laughter. Distracting Nuada from his new dilemma. “You were looking at me with a purpose, and now you’re laughing. You are the strangest human I have ever met.”

“Huh, that shouldn’t have happened. It was only supposed to work if you got pissed at any version of Luna or Celestia,” Gilgamesh commented. “Oh well,” he shrugged, “It’ll go away once you put all that behind you with your versions, so that’s some incentive, right?”

“It’s working just right, I was thinking how if it weren’t for Luna I wouldn't g---” Another shovel to the face cut him off.

“Thats it I’m thinking about... melons! Glorious big melons!” Nuada declared crossing his arms trying to enter a meditative state.

“Bosoms, melons, milk factories, busts, funbags, knockers, ballistics, boobies, jugs, nipples, jubblies, STONKING GREAT TITS!” Gilgamesh said before dropping to his knees and shouting to the heavens. “... Sorry, but I couldn’t resist that reference.”

Mistress had yet to stop laughing, at this point she fell off the side of the bed, landing on the floor with a thud. Between the bits of laughter she mentioned how Nuada was serious about melons. She laughed even harder.

“Tis strange to see her laugh so much and honestly, I am glad. Now then, I shall be departing with Chrysalis here, we have much to speak discuss.”

“Yes, please. I’d very much like to ensure the safety of my hive,” Chrysalis added. “And… I… I’m sorry for being such trouble hatchling. I swear I’ll make up for this and make you proud,” she said, smiling at the three displaced who raised her.

“Love Chrysalis, see soon.” Jeff stated from a mouth in Mistress’s hair, being just awake enough to see her leaving.

“Take care, come and visit us in Ponyville, you have another Uncle to meet.” Mistress said rising from the floor, finally not laughing any more.

“It’ll be tough, but nothing worth doing is easy. I’m sure you can do it, and I look forward to coming back next time to find the great Queen Chrysalis bring about a new era for both changelings and ponies,” Gilgamesh added.

Chrysalis bowed deeply to each one before leaving with Luna.

“Now then back to the matter at hand, Ponyville.” Mistress stated. She looked at Nuada with a devious eye. The robed warrior held her gaze.

“Wanna train my brother on how to fight?” Mistress asked, looking away passively, rubbing a hoof on her chest, like it wasn’t anything.

"No.”

“Aw, come on! I know he would really really like to meet someone from Tenchi Muyo, he was a huge fan!” Mistress begged, she had grabbed the front of his robes and began violently shaking him.

He responded by smacking her hooves away and jumping back. “Your mood swings are ridiculous would you please act normal!”

“Why?” Gilgamesh asked.

Nauda turned to respond only to stop for a moment to process what he was seeing. Namely, Gilgamesh wearing nothing but a loincloth, posing as he flexed his pecs… with sparkles in the background.

“There aren't any normal displaced are there?” Nuada asked rhetorically. Sighing he turned back to Mistress, who while he wasn’t looking had shifted to be a copy of Gilgamesh, minus the sparkles. Closing his eyes he took several deep breaths. “Please tell me your brother isn’t this crazy?”

“Nah, he’s mostly a stick in the mud. Although he knows how to take a joke.... most days.” Mistress stated in her normal feminine voice.

“Can I get supplies off you if I agree, looking at some wood for construction, some form of electrical source or plans for one, electrical wiring, and apples,” Nuada listed off.

“I have a magic to electric converter I’ll send with him, I’ll also send the blueprints so you can upgrade from there. Apples I’ll see what I can do, don’t you have your own AJ to by them from?” She asked.

“What kind of power are we talking? I’m trying for 110 volt,” Nuada asked, “and yes but I am low on bits and need to take care of Ushio.”

“Eh, it currently only charges small devices, I have it set to use old earth usb, I mostly made it to charge a PSP I picked up in Toronto.” She started rubbing the back of her head with a hoof. “That may be easier to do, I have some pull with the princesses and can probably funnel bits over easier than apples themselves, or gems depending on what holds value in your world.

“Gems and bits are both good, looking at 10 bits or a ruby a day of training, that should cover what I need,” Nuada replied.

“...I wonder if the conversion rate is different but ya I think we can do that. As a show of good faith here is the first twenty bits.” She nudged jeff who lazily produced a bag of bits. Using her magic Mistress counted them out.

“Okay figure out how to get your brother to my world and I’ll train him in the Juraian style of sword combat,” Nuada said agreeing taking the bits.

"Sweet. I've given him a little bit of prep, like I said, but he still has a ways to go. You might be here for a while if considering he wants to be a deviator type," Gilgamesh explained. "I'd be willing to do it myself, but I'm a self-taught and imitator type. Not really any formal training here."

“I had to learn from a book and real world practice, not much better. Besides thanks to void travel, He can visit me so I don’t really need to worry about the Time lines.” Nuada responded. “Although several hundred years does give me a bit more practice than he has.”

"Only one hundred for me, but considering it was during a war and I fought something or someone almost literally every day, I'd like to think I've got some decent amount of practice in." Gilgamesh boasted. "Say, there's an idea! We should give the guards in Ponyville a show! Show them how two Displaced fight instead of me just beating them all over the place"

“Normally I would love to get a spar in, however I’m a bit exhausted and should get to my home dimension. Can I get your token, and a rain check?” Nuada asked.

"Meh, I understand. Here ya go," he said before tossing him a small brown medallion with a red symbol on it. "I'll give you my real when when me meet up again."

“As soon as I have one I’ll send it your way.” Nuada accepted the token and offered his hand to shake.

"Sure thing," he replied with his own firm handshake, causing Nauda to flinch a bit from his grip strength.

“To the Puddle Jumpa!” Mistress shouted excited to get home. Causing Sparkle to facehoof.

Author's Notes:

Sorry... I totally thought I had uploaded this chapter... 6months ago, I had some RL problems and Shinigamisparda and I have had scheduling conflicts. Which is why chapter 17 isn't quite ready yet, depending on life it will be done quickly fallowing one path otherwise, it will be a little bit and fallow another.

Thanks for all the favs and fallows in the interim.

Also its still more with Shinigamisparda and his story The Mighty Warrior of Epicness and its sequel, For Glory! For Equus! For Epicness!
(I will keep posting the links till everypony who reads this fallows them)

Thanks you for reading see you next chapter.(Soonish)