I was bored. No, that's not exactly right. I wasn't really bored, it was just dull at the moment. You see, if I'm not doing something, then I get bored pretty easily. It doesn't really matter what it is, from exercise to reading, or just talking to someone. There were a few reasons that I wasn't outright bored at the moment. For one thing I was at an anime convention, where a great many things were happening.

Another thing was that I had been messing with some of the people here. When I came here I had a couple bottles of some fake blood I had made. Yes, I made it. The reason being that I couldn't find any that would suit my needs. After I had messed with someone a guard approached me about it. I was nervous as hell that he was going to throw me out, but it turns out he was a cool guy. He told me that as long as no one got hurt, then I didn't have to worry about anything. The only condition is that if I saw people messing with security that I should get back at them. He'd told me that it happens more than it should and that because the culprits and everyone else is in costume it's easy to lose them. I agreed readily, not because he was giving me permission to mess with people, though that was an added bonus. No, it was because these people were hassling those meant to keep them safe and enforce the rules. It really ticked me off that people would do such a thing and I was glad to teach them a lesson.

And lastly, the biggest reason I wasn't bored was because I wasn't alone. I had come to the convention with my wife, Ashley. We were both dressed as our favorite characters, albeit with some inconsistencies. While she did grow her hair out for the occasion, she refused to dye her hair blue. Understandable, especially with hair as long as hers. So she was here as a raven haired Tashigi from One Piece. She was wearing the post-time skip clothes. It turned more than a few heads, some not liking it because it wasn't how Tashigi looked, but a good deal seemed stunned at how beautiful she was. Though she was always beautiful, then again I'm married to her so I'm kind of biased, but my point still stands.

Then there was my costume, I had dyed my hair because mine was short and seeing the character I was dressed as, as a blonde would have been weird. I was already getting slight glares. Probably because I wasn't wearing what was likely the most iconic piece of clothing the character wore. You see, I was dressed as Monkey D. Luffy. The rubber pirate, the person who defeated several of the Shichibukai, the captain of the crew who declared war on the World Government for taking one of their friends, the kid who broke into Impel Down and, while he failed in his mission, had escaped alive, and known as Mugiwara or, in other words, Straw Hat. The thing is, I'm not wearing a straw hat, but a fedora. Why? Because, at least to me, it isn't the type of hat, but the sentimentality behind it. This hat was a gift from my parents, who... I'd rather not think about it. They also made it, so a lot of love and care went into it. It's as important to me as Luffy's straw hat is to him, if not more so. The rest of my costume was the outfit he wore near the end of the Strong World movie. I had also painted his scar onto my chest. I knew no one would see it, but I wanted to cosplay as the post-time skip Luffy and I didn't want a bunch of strangers looking at my body.

As we walked through the different stalls, I looked around and saw several people wearing My Little Pony shirts. "I'll never understand the appeal of that show," I said.

"That's because you've never watched it, Sean. There's actually a good bit of action, not to mention a bit of adult humor and references kids wouldn't get. You know how you've always liked Greek mythology? Well there's a lot in that show," my wife said.

"True, I really can't judge it when I haven't seen it, though I doubt there's that much action." She just shook her head as we continued to walk. "As for the mythology, I might look at what's in it," I said. At this, she glanced at me with a slight smile.

We soon came up to a stall where there was a guy dressed as the Merchant from Resident 4. Right away two things caught my eye. They were Zoro's Shusui, as well as Tashigi's Kashu, on the table. Now, I know I'm dressed as Luffy and he is my favorite character from One Piece, but these swords were too awesome not to get.

I walked up to the man with my wife following behind me. He noticed and turned his attention toward us. "Anything I can help you with?" he asked with a raspy voice.

"Yes, how much are the swords?" I inquired.

He looked down at the two objects I had indicated, then back at me. His gaze wandered behind me and I followed his gaze to Ashley standing behind me.

Not seeing the harm in telling him, I said, "This is my wife, if that's what you're wondering."

"I see, your wife. I'll give you both of them for free."

To say that the two of us were shocked would have been an understatement.

I sputtered, while my wife asked, "Why would you just give these to us?"

"Think of it as a gift for the long relationship."

I stared at the man, "And how do you know how long we've been married?"

He cackled at this, "I don't! But if you don't want them I suppose I could find someone else."

"N-no, we'll take them. You just took us by surprise," I said.

The man smiled and picked up the items and handed them to me.

I turned to Ashley and asked, "Which one do you want?"

"I'll take Tashigi's Kashu. You can have Shusui," she said.

I nodded and handed the sword to her. She slid hers into the sword sash that she had come into the habit of wearing. I slipped mine into the belt I wore.

I put my arm around her and pulled her close. We held each other until suddenly, my body start to feel like it was weakening. I looked at Ashley to see that she was in the same state. As my vision started blurring, I held onto her, afraid that we might be separated. I felt her grip tighten, most likely afraid of the same thing, but we were both losing consciousness and our strength was dwindling. Then, everything went dark.

I awoke to the feeling of bouncing off of something. As I landed, I bounced again slightly and then slid to a stop. I felt the ground, noticing that it was cobblestone, I realized a couple things. For one, why the hell didn't that hurt? Not that I was complaining that it didn't, but it didn't make sense. That should have hurt, again not that I'm complaining. The other thing was that I wasn't at the convention anymore. I seemed to be in a city, but it wasn't like any city I'd ever seen before.

Looking around I saw that Ashley wasn't here. "Ashley!? Ash!" I yelled. She wasn't anywhere nearby. 'If that bastard separated us I swear I'll find him and beat the shit out of him.' Standing, I walked over to a window and looked at my reflection. I was surprised to see that I still had the sword I got and was shocked that I looked exactly like Luffy. When I didn't see my hat I started to panic and reached behind my head. I sighed in relief, when I felt it hanging from the thread it was attached to. I then started to unbutton the jacket I was wearing and stared at my chest. I ran a hand over the scar and my eyes widened, it wasn't fake anymore it was real. "What the hell?" I muttered. I froze at the sound of my voice. It wasn't my voice, but Luffy's.

It was then that I heard a giant crash. Looking up, I saw what looked like a light rose bubble shattering like glass. Then, some strange things started descending on the city. They were human-like, but had insectile wings and I could swear that they had a horn on their heads. I was surprised when they suddenly seemed to catch on fire and started to descend on the city. I quickly ran into an alleyway so as not to get spotted by them. I didn't know what they were, but they were obviously bad news. It seemed to work as none of them came toward me. Once I didn't see or hear them anymore, I walked out into the street. Looking up, I was shocked to see several people with wings in the air fighting some of the strange, insect-like beings. I noticed that they were wearing outfits that looked similar to the Blue Angels.

Two screams caught my attention. There were two things distinct about them this time. They were nearby and from the sound of one of them was a child. I took off down the street in the direction the screams had come from. I soon found them on a lower street. Three of those strange creatures were advancing on two... people? I'm not sure if they were people because the older woman had light magenta skin with violet and light purple hair, while the young girl was a grayish violet with pale gold hair. The woman was wearing a purple dress with pink trims. The little girl was wearing a red blouse with a black skirt.

I took hold of the railing in front of me. 'Time to see if I really am Luffy.' Keeping a grip on the rail, I began to back up and was surprised to see my arms stretching. A wide grin spread across my face as I continued to move backwards and I said, "Gum Gum..." Once I was a good distance, I lined myself up with the strange creatures. Once I had aimed myself, I pulled myself forward and launched myself through the air. As I soared forward I yelled, "Rocket!!"

They all heard my shout and turned toward my direction. All of their eyes widened in shock and, before they could do anything, I slammed into the three creatures. We crashed into the ground with a mighty impact. Not feeling any pain, I immediately jumped to my feet and took a closer look at who I had tackled. They were a shiny black, with a horn, insectile wings, and had webbed tails. There were also holes in their legs and they didn't appear to have feet. I walked over to the two women. As I got near, I was shocked to see a horn on both of their heads and that they had tails as well.

Shaking it off, I held out my hand and asked, "Are you two OK?" She took my hand and I pulled her to her feet. As I grabbed her hand I noticed that it was rather fuzzy. 'She has fur? So is she part animal or something?'

She nodded somewhat stiffly, "How did you launch yourself like that?"

I heard a buzzing sound, "That's a question for another time. Come on!" I grabbed her hand and led her down the road and away from the sound. As we ran, I heard an odd clopping sound, like a horse was following us. I ignored it because since these things could fly, we were soon spotted and had a swarm of them chasing us. "Persistent buggers, aren't they?"

The woman gave me a flat stare and asked, "Was that a pun?"

I thought about it for a second and began to laugh. I laughed even harder when I actually heard my laugh. Why? Because it was Luffy's laugh! I absolutely love his laugh.

"Why in the world are you laughing!?" she shouted.

I looked back, "B-because I didn't mean it like that at all. Bug-gers." I started laughing again.

She looked ahead of me and yelled, "Is this really the time to be laughing!?"

I faced forward and saw that the creatures were blocking our path. "Not normally, but now's different." I pulled her forward and wrapped my arm around her waist. She let out an indignant shout, but I ignored her and stretched my other arm toward a building's roof. I heard the two gasp and saw the things blocking our path eyes widen in shock. Not giving them the time to react, I pulled us up to the roof, laughing my head off. Once on top, I picked her up and carried the two as I ran from rooftop to rooftop. As I ran, I asked, "You know what these things are?"

"I believe I heard that they were called changelings," she answered. She looked around and asked, "Do you even know where you're going?"

"Not in the slightest, but I figured away from them was good for the moment." There was soon buzzing behind us. 'Must of finally snapped out of it,' I snickered to myself. Green beams were suddenly being shot at us. I heard several sound like they hit something and the smell of smoke reached my nose. Glancing back I saw several holes in the coat I was wearing. 'Those bastards! Ashley made this for me! If it wasn't for the two I am protecting, I would stop and teach them a lesson,' I fumed.

I kept jumping rooftops until the air was filled with the changelings and I was forced to jump into an alleyway. The two screamed as we fell, but I turned my back to the ground. I sucked in as much air as I could and inflated myself, cushioning their landing. They slid off of my stomach and, once they were off, I deflated myself. Once I was back to normal I glanced at them. They were staring at me wide-eyed. "Yes?"

Snapping out of it, the woman asked, "How are you able to stretch like yourself like that?!"

"I'll explain some other time." I then began to pace, "How do we throw them off your trail?"

The woman looked at me in shock. "Our trail? What about you?"

I waved her off, "I'll be fine. I could probably take care of them. Now how to trick them?"

"Well," she started. I gave her my attention. "I know some illusion magic."

'There's magic here? Is that what those beams were?' I grinned, "That's perfect!" I reached into my pocket and pulled out one of the bottles I was carrying.

Seeing the bottle, she quickly covered the girls eyes, "Why do you have something like that!?"

I looked at her then the bottle, "Oh, no it's not what you think. This isn't real. It's just something I made to prank people with, but it seems that it will help with something more serious."

She slowly uncovered the young girls eyes, and asked, "It's just fake?"

"That's right. I can prove it to you. I made it to where it's pretty much juice. It tastes like strawberry," I told her. I undid the cap and held it out to her.

She just stared at the bottle. After a moment, a light yellow aura surrounded the bottle and it was pulled out of my grip. "Dinky, don't!" she yelled.

The girl, Dinky, didn't listen and took a sip of the juice. She licked her lips and smiled, "It's true. It tastes like strawberry, Amethyst!"

Amethyst hesitated, but took the bottle and took a tentative sip. Her eyes widened in surprise, "It does."

"Now if you just make it look like the two of you have stab wounds on you, I'll pour that on and near you."

"Stab wounds?" she asked, handing the liquid back to me.

I nodded, "Yes, it'll be easier to do that than slashes."

"Right." Her horn lit up, surrounded by a raspberry colored aura. As she focused her magic, several wounds appeared on them. One on their stomachs and one on their chest. She turned to the little girl, "Lay down Dinky." She nodded and laid on the ground. Amethyst then laid next to her.

I walked up to them and glanced at their backs. The 'wound' was there too. I lifted the bottle and poured the liquid on each spot the 'wounds' were at. Once I was finished with that, I poured some on the ground near them. After I was done with that, I drew my sword and did the same with it. I then, found a trash can and shoved the bottle down into it, so that if, for whatever reason they looked in it, they wouldn't see it.

I heard a clopping sound getting nearer. I walked back to them and hurriedly whispered, "Alright, I've finished. Be sure to keep your eyes closed and to not move." I stood, grabbed my sword and held it out, the 'blood' dripping off of it. I ran the blade on the ground so that they would hear where I was. 'Now to just wait for them to get here.'

Soon, the sound stopped and I saw shadows on the ground. I grinned and turned to face the changelings. When I had turned all the way around, I froze at what I saw.

[POV Change: Ashley]

I was in a horrible position. After I had regained consciousness from whatever had happened, I saw that I was in Canterlot in the middle of the changeling invasion. Thankfully, I had landed in somepony's yard instead of hitting the street. I'd been walking through the city, trying to get to the castle. As I was looking, I would help anypony that was getting attacked. It had surprised me that the ponies here were anthro instead of regular ponies. I would either get the changelings attention or, if I had to, incapacitate them with my sword, which had somehow become real, by slashing their wings and cutting their legs, so they didn't have any way of chasing them or me. Luckily, before I had been sent here I had practiced using a sword before. I was surprised at how sharp the sword was, as well as how fast and strong I was. Apparently, I had Tashigi's strength, agility, and even her abilities. I tried to use Soru several times and had managed to use it successfully a couple times. One thought never left my mind as I went through the city. That my husband wasn't on a different Equestria and that, even if he was, he was safe.

One of the rescues went south however. I had been so focused fighting several changelings, that I didn't notice when some of them had managed to sneak up on and restrain me. Now, they were taking me to the castle to see what Chrysalis wanted done with me. They didn't take my sword, probably because they figured since I was restrained I couldn't do anything, or the backpack I had at the convention. As we walked, there was a sudden noise down an alleyway. They ran over to see what the noise was and pulled me along with them.

As we reached the alley, my blood ran cold at the sight I saw. Standing in front of me, was Sean with his sword drawn with blood dripping off of it. Laying behind him were two unicorns. It looked like it was Sparkler and Dinky. As I saw this, I started breathing rapidly. Seeing my husband standing over their dead bodies was more than I could handle. I could feel myself getting light headed.

'No, no! I need to calm down!' I started taking deep, calming breaths. 'Sean.. Sean would never do something like this.' I looked at the blood on the ground. I squinted my eyes, something about it seemed off. It looked like blood, but there was something that didn't seem right about it. 'It might be the fake blood that he had with him.' I looked at the bodies, 'But then what about the wounds on them?' Then I remembered where we were and the things that were possible here. The two laying on the ground were unicorns. It could very well be an illusion to throw the changelings off. I took another breath to calm myself, and looked at my husband.

His face was completely pale and his whole body was tensed. He must be terrified of what I was thinking about the situation. I glanced at the changelings and, seeing they weren't looking at me, gave Sean a small smile. The effect was immediate. His eyes widened slightly, the color returned to his face, and his muscles relaxed. Raising his sword, he flung the 'blood' off and quickly sheathed it.

One of the changeling spoke up, "Don't move or the woman dies!"

The changeling behind me raised his sword to my neck. I saw anger flash across Sean's eyes, but he managed to hold himself back and lifted his hands in the air. One of them moved forward and restrained him. They didn't remove his sword either. They led him toward us, we then resumed walking to the castle. I saw one of the changelings pause and look down the alley. I started to get nervous that he was going to check the bodies. Thankfully, he began following us.

We soon reached the castle and entered where the wedding was supposed to be taking place. Looking around I saw the Mane Six standing to our left, stuck to the ground. They were all wearing their bridesmaid dresses. Standing at the alter was Cadance wearing a torn up dark pink dress with her cutie mark on her right hip. Her hands and hooves were bound, similar to the others. I then saw Chrysalis, who wore a green dress with a bunch of holes at the bottom. I also saw Spike in his tux and Shining Armor wearing his favorite uncle's uniform. Glancing up I saw Princess Celestia in a cocoon made from the stuff that was binding everypony.

Chrysalis spoke up, "Well, well, what have we here? What are you two?"

I focused on her and saw Shining Armor standing behind her. Seeing his expression, only one thought ran through my head at that moment. 'Oh no. I really hope Sean doesn't notice Shining Armor.'

[POV Change: Twilight]

I stared in complete shock at who, or rather what, had entered. The changelings had brought in two strange beings that looked so similar to us, you could mistake them for earth ponies. The only thing was they didn't seem to have fur or tails. Looking down I saw that they didn't have hooves either, but something similar to what Spike had, except they weren't sharp. Now that I thought about it, they looked rather familiar, but I couldn't place where I had seen them before.

I was pulled from my thoughts by the last thing I thought I would hear at a time like this. Laughter. Not even Pinkie would laugh at a time like this, so who in the hay was? I looked over and saw that it was the stallion that was laughing. He was bent over, he was laughing so hard. The mare standing next to him was giving him a disapproving glare. He looked up at us and only started to laugh harder. I glanced around to see that everypony was absolutely shocked at what was happening. Even the Changeling Queen was stunned.

"Sean! This really isn't the time!" the strange mare scolded.

"I-I'm sorry, Ash, but that guy's expression and t-then the looks on e-e-everyone's faces. I-I just couldn't hold it in," he continued to laugh his head off.

I was starting to get a little miffed and I could see the girls were too. Even Pinkie and Fluttershy were frowning at him. He was starting to remind me of a certain draconequus. Thinking about it, I started to wonder where the trickster was.

Snapping out of it, Chrysalis started walking forward, "So you think the situation you're in is funny."

"The situation? No. Everyone's expressions? Hilarious!" he said, continuing to snicker.

The Changeling Queen transformed into the mare by the door. Her hand began to glow as she started to cast a spell. The stallion abruptly stopped laughing, which, while I didn't know him, worried me a little that he suddenly stopped. He raised his gaze to Chrysalis and stared at her.

The strange mare, Ash he called her, shouted, "NO! Don't you do anything to him!"

This struck me as somewhat strange. From what she just said she seemed to know something about them, but how could she? Not even Celestia seemed to know who they were or what they wanted.

However, Chrysalis didn't pay her any mind as she continued to move toward the stallion called Sean. "I don't know who or what you are, but you will be mine," she said.

As she got close, Ash yelled, tears in her eyes, "Sean! Fight it! Don't let her in!"

The Changeling Queen got right in front of him and began to move her head toward him. She closed her eyes and pursed her lips, getting ready to kiss the stallion. What happened next shocked all of us.

Sean reeled his head back and headbutted Chrysalis. The force of the impact sent her flying backwards. Everything seemed to move in slow motion as he then quickly turned around and bit, yes bit, down on the sword that was held at Ash's throat and ripped it from the changeling's grip. After tossing the sword away, he started knocking them out with quick, but powerful kicks. Once they were all unconscious, he stood next to the mare.

"Are you okay, Ashley?" he asked.

She leaned against him. She probably would have hugged him, if it weren't for the stuff binding her hands. I could see tears running down her eyes as she said, "I was so scared that she would take you from me Sean."

He smiled, "It's going to take more than her trying to worm her way into my mind to make me leave you."

This caused us all to look at him in shock. Before anyone could say anything there was a shout.

"How!?" We all looked at Chrysalis, who seemed pissed. "How did you resist me?!"

"Well for one, you transformed right in front of me. Not very smart of you," he said nonchalantly. This angered her even more. "The other is harder to explain and have no reason to tell you, Queenie."

At this Chrysalis charged magic in her hands and began to fire at them. Sean pushed Ashley out of the way and began dodging the beams. With the Queen distracted, I blasted the goo off of my hands and hooves. I began to sneak over to Cadance. As I moved, I kept an eye on Chrysalis. The stallion slowly moved closer to her as he dodged the beams she fired. When he was finally close enough, he spun around and kicked her into the wall.

He looked back and began to pull at the goo restraining him. We were all surprised to see him stretch his bonds as far as his arms would go before snapping back. "Damn, if I could just get this stuff off. Then, I would be able to fight better," he muttered.

I still had some slight reservations about these two, but he was fighting Chrysalis. Then again considering what just happened, anyone would probably attack her. Deciding to take the chance, I called out, "Hey!" He turned his attention to me. "Turn around." He looked at me in confusion, but complied. Once he had, I aimed at the goo and fired a beam. It hit and disintegrated the bonds holding his hands.

He raised them in front of himself and looked at them in shock. He smiled, "You think you could do that for Ashley?"

I nodded and looked at the mare. She turned away and held her arms out. I shot the gunk on her hands and she was free. She massaged her wrists and started to walk over to us. I continued moving toward Cadance until I was next to her.

Sean, however kept his eyes on where he had launched Chrysalis. Suddenly a beam shot out of the smoke, which he jumped out of the way of. Throwing off the coat he was wearing, he rushed forward as she flew toward him. They each threw a punch, which collided with each other. The force of the impact somehow created cracks on the floor. They kept pushing, trying to outmatch the other.

As they fought, Ashley just walked passed them and toward us. This shocked us a great deal, that she would just walk right by them. Still unsure of their motives, I moved in front of Cadance and charged magic into my hands.

Ashley saw this and she looked straight into my eyes. "You don't have to worry Twilight. I'm not going to do anything to her," she said with a smile. She then started to move to my right.

However, my mind was in overdrive and my magic faded from my hands. How in Equestria did she know my name? Nopony had said it since she had entered, so there was no way she should know it. I looked at her just as she jumped up at Princess Celestia. My eyes widened in shock, "What are you doing!?"

Instead of answering, she grabbed the cocoon and climbed up to the top. She stood up, drew her sword and raised it. Before I could say anything, she slashed where the pod connected to the ceiling. As it fell, Ashley jumped off of it before it hit the ground with a loud crash.

[POV Change: Sean]

As I pushed against the Changeling Queen, I was surprised at how strong she was. If I had been turned into the Luffy after the time skip then I should have a great deal of strength. True I wouldn't have complete control over it yet, but that should make it harder for her to fight me. A crashing sound got both of our attention. Looking over we saw that Ashley had gotten the woman hanging in the pod off of the ceiling. She looked similar to the pony she had told me about from that My Little Pony show. Princess Celestia I believe she said her name was. Ash then took her sword and ran it over the little window that was on it. Once she had run it down the whole thing, she sheathed the sword and knelt down. Grabbing where the tear was, she pulled it apart and helped Celestia out of it.

The Queen's eyes widened, "NO!"

Taking advantage of her diverted attention, I threw my arm upwards, her's moving with it. Before she could react, I threw my left arm forward and punched her in the stomach. The punch sent her crashing through the wall. I looked at the altar and saw that the lavender girl, Twilight I think, had freed the pink woman. As I started walking over to Ashley, I looked at Celestia. She was practically white, but I could see a tinge of pink in her fur. Her hair, or is it mane, and tail was purple, cerulean, pink, and green. It surprised me that it seemed to move without a breeze.

"Go to him," Twilight told the woman.

She walked up to the alabaster man and placed a hand on his cheek. I had to bite my tongue to not laugh at the expression on his face again. Her horn started to spark and a heart appeared. It floated over to the man's face and pulsed outward. Once it had vanished, the green glow had disappeared from his eyes and changed to cerulean. He shook his head and looked at Cadance.

"Wha? What happened? Is the wedding over?" he questioned, groggily.

There was a sudden shout, "It's all over!" We all turned to the hole in the wall and saw the Queen flying outside.

"Shining, cast your spell!" Twilight shouted out.

The Changeling Queen laughed evilly, "What would be the point in doing so!? My changelings are already in Canterlot and taking over!"

"No! That can't-" Shining began to focus and his horn flickered in a light rose aura. He let out a gasp of exhaustion, "I can't. I don't have enough strength to drive them back."

The pink woman walked up to him, "My love will give you strength." She wrapped her arms around him.

"As much as I doubt that, don't think that I'll let you do anymore than you already have." She then charged froward.

Before she could reach them, I drew Shusui and stopped her advance with it's blunt side. When the sword connected with her head, it made clanking sound. 'I thought so. When I punched her, it seemed that her body was solid. She must have chitin instead of skin.' I looked back at the couple, "I don't know if it will work, but I'll keep her busy while you do whatever you need to."

I then pushed her back and, turning Shusui forward, charged toward her. A sword suddenly appeared in her grasp and we clashed once more. Focusing my strength, I started to push her back. Our swords separated and I charged forward slashing at her. My attacks were sloppy and erratic, but I wasn't trying to get any of my attacks to actually connect.

She suddenly brought her sword upwards, knocking my sword out of her way. She then made a sideways slash.

Instinctively, I lowered my left arm and greatly focused my spirit into it. My arm suddenly turned black and I blocked the sword. We both stared at my arm in shock and I heard several gasps behind me. Before it could disappear, I knocked her sword away and kicked her back toward the hole in the wall. I then heard a strange sound behind me. Turning around, I saw the couple surrounded by a magical aura. I watched as the woman's dress seemed to mend itself and her mane began to move like Celestia's. The two started to rise up in the air and they began glowing.

I glanced back at the Queen to make sure she wouldn't interrupt. She started to stand up and her wings started to buzz, as she was about to take off. I raised my sword in preparation for her attack. Before she could move, a wall of pink phased through me. However, when it reached the Queen, it slammed against her and she was pushed out of the hole in the wall.

I walked to the hole and watched as she and her changelings were launched out of the city. As they disappeared from sight, I looked down at my left hand. Getting to where I would be able to use Luffy's abilities was going to be difficult. Forget Fourth Gear and Conqueror's Haki, just getting Observation Haki, Armament Haki, and Second Gear down was going to be hard enough. Third Gear shouldn't be too hard since it's just inflating the bones in my body. It would be the timing and the after effects that I had to worry about. A hand on my shoulder pulled me from my thoughts.

Looking over, I saw Ashley holding my jacket and smiling at me. Smiling back, I pulled her into a hug, "I'm so glad we weren't separated from each other."

She threw her arms around me, "Me too." Stepping back she held out my coat. "What happened?" she asked, an eyebrow quirked.

"As I was running from the changelings, they shot those magical beams at me. The coat blocked several of them from actually hitting me," I explained.

"I'm glad you weren't hit by any of them." She looked down at the coat, "I'll probably have to completely remake this," she said.

Behind us someone cleared their throat. Turning around, we saw Celestia and Twilight standing there. Looking past them, I saw that the others had left.

"Hey, sorry about the wall," I said.

"It's not a big deal. I don't mean to interrupt, but even though you helped us, and I thank you for that, I would like to know what your plans are," she said, her eyes narrowed.

I tilted my head to the side. "What our plan is? I suppose I do have a few ideas." I noticed the two tense slightly. I smirked, "Yeah, that fight took a lot out of me. I could do with some food, maybe rest for a bit. After that I'd like to get to know the people here." I nodded slowly, "Yeah that sounds like a plan."

Twilight looked at me slack jawed, while my wife gave me a disapproving look. Celestia just stared at me, a blank expression on her face.

Ashley slapped my shoulder, which didn't hurt, "You really shouldn't be messing around at a time like this. They obviously don't entirely trust us and you doing that won't exactly help."

I snickered, "Sorry, but they're way to serious right now. The invaders are gone and the wedding can continue."

"They don't know who or even what we are though. They aren't sure if they can trust us or not," she said.

I glanced at Celestia and saw that she had a small smile on her face. "Seems she's at least willing to give us a chance," I said.

Looking over at the monarch, Ashley saw her smile, "You're just lucky she seems to have a sense of humor and knew that you were messing around."

"Oh, I was completely serious. I'm pretty hungry and could use a rest. After that I would like to get to know everyone."

"Pony," she said.

"What?" I asked.

"They are ponies and they say everypony."

I stared at her for a second, before I burst out into laughter. "Y-You can't be s-serious! T-they say that?" I gasped out.

"Yes they do. Unlike our world, where we are the only sentient beings, there are several different kinds. Like the changelings we just got done fighting," she said.

I slowly stopped laughing, "I suppose I see your point." I glanced at the other two. "I think you surprised them somehow." Ashley looked over and saw their shocked looks.

"How--" Twilight started. "How did you know that? And before you seemed to know about Chrysalis even though you just met her."

"Oh dear. That's going to take some explaining. I promise that I'll explain it, but it would probably be better if everypony," she glared at me as I snorted at the word. "else is here, so I can just explain it once."

Celestia nodded, "That's a good idea. After all we still have a wedding to do." She turned and left the room, Twilight following behind her. She kept glancing back at us with a curious look.

Once they were gone Ashley slapped my arm. This one I did feel, "Ow! Really? You got the haki down?"

"Not yet, I just focused on smacking you and it seemed to work. But, seriously? If she didn't have sense of humor, you could have made things very bad for us," she reprimanded.

"Sorry, Ash. I saw them tense up just from me saying I had a plan and couldn't help, but mess with them a little," I said, apologetically.

She sighed, "Just try to not do that in situations like that, please."

I wrapped an arm around her, "Sorry, hon." With my other arm, I took the sword I was wearing and held it out to her. "Here."

She looked at it, then up to me in confusion, "Why are you giving it to me? Didn't you want it?"

"It was one thing when it was fake, but it's real now. You actually know how to use the thing. You saw me wielding it. It might as well be a club the way I was swinging it around," I said.

Ashley took the sword and slid it next to her other one. "How about I tell you about everypony, so that you know what their names are?"

Before I could answer, a voice spoke out, "Hey you two." Looking over we saw the pink wo- mare I guess, if she's a pony, leaned in the door and said, "You both helped save our wedding. You're more than welcome to attend."

My wife smiled, "We'd love to."

As she left, I said, "I'd like to know their names so I can address them, but I think I'd like to learn about who they are myself. I'd also like to see if they need any help."

Ash smiled, "That's a good idea." We exited the room as a bunch of ponies began entering. Most likely to get the room ready again and fix the hole in the wall I had made.

We walked around the castle seeing if anypony needed any help. Surprisingly, for me anyway, all of the ponies that we had seen in the wedding hall were in charge of practically everything. The white unicorn mare named Rarity had already finished the dresses, so there wasn't anything to help with, not that I would have been any. The cyan pegasus with a rainbow mane was doing some kind of stunt called a Sonic Rainboom, so we didn't even look for her. Fluttershy, a yellow pegasus mare, was conducting a small choir of animals to play the procession, so there wasn't anything we could do to help her.

Applejack was in charge of making the food for the reception. I asked the orange earth pony mare if I could have a bit because the fight had drained a good deal of my energy. She was nice enough to let me and I thanked her. My wife asked if the mare needed any help, to which she gladly accepted. She told me where the last pony that might need help was and what her name was. Pinkie Pie was in charge of setting up the reception.

I found her jumping around outside setting up what looked like a party rather than a reception. She was, as you might expect, a pink earth pony mare. She seemed to have more energy than a kid that had ten cups of coffee. 'Should probably try to keep any caffeine away from her. If they have things like caffeine, anyway.' I walked up to her and asked, "Do you need help with anything?"

She turned toward me and gasped, "You are one of the new ponies that we just saw aren't you?"

"I'm a human actually, but yes I am. The other was my wife Ashley. My name's Sean," I introduced.

"That's what you're called?" Pinkie questioned.

I gave her a confused look, "What do you mean?"

She smiled nervously, "The Princess will probably bring it up when you talk to her." Her smile widened as she said, "It's nice to meet you, Sean. Where is your wife?"

"She's a really good cook, so she's helping Applejack with the catering," I told her. I was still wondering what she meant, but decided I would see if the Princess would bring it up.

"You are helping out even though you don't even know us?" Pinkie asked.

"Well you were just invaded. Even if it's only two extra people, I figured you could use the help," I said.

"That's very nice of you two. I've got almost everything done here, so I don't need much help. I mean, all I really have left to do is set up tables and chairs," she said.

"I'll help with that. It'll go faster with two people doing it." Nodding, she walked inside and over to where the tables and chairs were. She grabbed two tables and held them above her head. She also grabbed several chairs with her other arm and headed back outside. I stared after her, caught off guard by how strong she was. Grabbing several tables myself, I followed her back outside and placed them where Pinkie told me they were to go.

As we placed the last chair and table, Twilight and Cadance walked outside. Cadance walked over to Pinkie and started talking to her, while Twilight walked up to me.

"I thought you wanted to rest?" she said, her eyes narrowed slightly.

I shrugged, "I do, but I thought it would be a good idea to see if anypony needed any help."

A small smile spread across her face, "Well, thank you for your help." I opened my mouth to say I didn't do much, but she continued, "Not just with this. You kept Chrysalis busy while my brother and Cadance combined their magic and used the spell that got rid of the changelings. You being there might have saved us from being completely taken over."

"I'm glad that their special day is still able to go on and wasn't completely ruined," I said.

"Yes, I'm glad it can still happen," she said.

Cadance walked over to us, "That Pinkie Pie is such a fun mare!"

Twilight giggled, "That's Pinkie. She's all about fun and having a good time." She looked at a list she had and checked something off, "Well that's everything. Let's see if the wall's been fixed."

The four of us started walking back to where the wedding was going to take place. When we reached the room, I was rather surprised to see that the hole was completely fixed. In fact, I couldn't even tell that there had been a hole there a little while ago. All of the chairs were set back up as well.

'Either they are amazing at their jobs or they have a great deal of control of their magic. Or both I suppose,' I thought. I heard hooves clopping behind us and looked over. I saw all of the other ponies and my wife walking to us. Ashley wasn't wearing the clothes she was wearing before anymore. She was now wearing sapphire blue dress that went down to her knees. When they reached us, I said, "You look beautiful Ash."

"Even though I don't look myself anymore?" she questioned.

I stepped forward and placed a hand on her cheek, "As long as your the woman I fell in love with, I don't care what you look like."

She smiled and pulled me into a kiss. I heard several 'aw's' from behind us. Looking over, I saw all of the mares, minus Rainbow Dash, were smiling at us.

"You two are so cute together," Cadance said. Several of the mares nodded in agreement.

We smiled, and Ashley said, "Thank you for the compliment."

The halls soon began filling with ponies walking to the wedding hall. As Shining Armor approached, Cadance quickly teleported away to avoid being seen before the wedding took place. All of us walked in as well. Me and Ash sat two chairs in from the aisle, while the mares walked up to the altar. Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, and Rarity stood on the opposite side of where the groom was standing. Fluttershy was outside on a balcony with several birds on a bird stand, with a conductor's baton in her hand. Twilight stood next to her brother and Spike standing by her.

'So instead of best man, it's best mare? I thought amusedly. Two unicorns sat next me and my wife, taking the two seats by the aisle. One was a blue stallion and the other was a gray mare. As the wedding began, with Fluttershy starting the procession, the two began tearing up and they leaned onto each other. 'Probably his parents,' I figured. As Cadance walked down the aisle, three... flower fillies I suppose, skipped in front of her. I felt a strange feeling in the back of my mind. It wasn't anything big, just a strange nagging feeling that I should look up. Deciding there wouldn't be any harm in it, I glanced at the ceiling. My eyes widened at what I saw. It seemed to be some kind of chimera, as each limb was from a different animal. He, at least I think it was a he, noticed my gaze and held his claw up to his lips. I wasn't sure whether or not I should trust this strange creature that was floating above everypony. Although the wedding was going on and I didn't want to cause a panic, so I didn't tell anypony. Emphasis on pony, I nudged my wife and, when she looked at me with a rather annoyed look, I gestured with my head at the ceiling.

Confusion spread across her face as she looked up. Her eyes widened and she clamped a hand over her mouth to keep from shouting out. She gave me a slightly worried look, which did nothing to boost my confidence on keeping quiet about him being there. Suddenly the ponies around us gave out a cheer. Looking back at the alter we saw that the wedding had finished.

The newlyweds walked out onto a balcony and waved at the ponies down below. Princess Celestia was talking to Twilight and the other five.

We both looked back at the ceiling and saw that the strange being was gone. We glanced at each other and walked toward the Princess. As we got near her, Rainbow Dash launched herself out the window and caused what I assume was the Sonic Rainboom that my wife had told me about. I paused for a moment and watched incredible phenomenon. I was brought out of my trance by Ashley grabbing my hand and pulling me forward. However, my pausing had caused us to miss her, as they all went down to where the reception was being held.

"Darn it, Sean. We need to talk to Princess Celestia about who it was that we saw. If he's still like he normally is, then we need to tell her that he's free," Ashley said.

"Who was that?" I asked.

"He's a draconequus called Discord. He's a spirit of chaos and disharmony. Last time he got loose he turned the Elements of Harmony the opposite of themselves and he can do practically anything he wishes with his magic," she said.

"So, wouldn't they realize if he had escaped?"

"With as much chaos the invasion caused, he might have just escaped and they haven't noticed yet."

I nodded and we headed toward the reception area where everypony was at. As we walked, the strange being appeared in front of us.

"Looking for Celestia?" he asked. "Allow me to help!" He snapped his talons and we disappeared from the hall.