(Morning)

[Shalltear’s Home]

        Shalltear once again woke up in a cold sweat from reliving another part of her nightmares. This time however it wasn’t as long as the others were, but it was still annoying that this was the fourth time this happen. During the fourth time Luna did try to help her in the dream world, but due to how fractured her mind was. It was kinda hard to to keep the nightmares away from Shalltear while she was dreaming. Shalltear was about to throw something out the wind, until she smelled something was cooking down stairs.

        “Is someone cooking?” The Countess thought as she sniffed the air. To what she could smell it smelled like eggs, bacon, and french toast was being made. Like a bat out of hell, Shalltear rushed downstairs to see who it was that was cooking. At first she thought it was Octavia seeing how from what she told Shalltear she can cook, but when she entered into the room she wasn’t expect to see what was making breakfast.

        Standing in the kitchen was a girl about the same size as Luna with red hair, serpent like skin on her cheeks, pointy ears, was wearing a yellow shirt; along with a black skirt. What got Shalltear’s attention though was the lower part of the woman’s body being like a snake. Shalltear turned to her left to see Guardian and Screwball eating happily at the dinner table. “Um….care to explain why is there a lamia cooking in my house?”

“She’s like you,” the Guardian said between bites. “Another one of Celestia’s ‘reformees’, if you will.”

“Okay, so why is she here?” Shalltear asked only for the Lamia to use her tail to hand her a letter. “Oh, thanks.” she said as she began to read the letter for a few seconds before burning it. “Oh this is just great.”

“Something wrong?” Screwball asked, eating her breakfast like a dog, syrup dripping from your muzzle.

“Screwball, use your napkin.”

“Yes, Guardian.”

“Apparently she’s another victim just like me, only Celestia thought she was a monster attack her ponies along with two others.” Shalltear said she head towards the refrigerator. “And she wants me to bring them to school today to help them get a custom to how things are now.”

“School?” Screwball tilted her head, almost doing a complete three-sixty.

“Yeah seeing how I’m 15 years old I have to go to school. And so do the other three monsters that she sent me. Speaking of them where are the other two?” Shalltear asked as she open the door to the refrigerator. As she did she saw a girl made out of blue jelly wearing a raincoat and rain boots sitting in the fridge. “Well I found the other one.”

“Oh, a jelly girl, how quaint,” the Guardian commented with an impressed nod.

“Okay so we have a lamia and a jelly girl. I’m afraid to ask, but who’s the third one?” Just as she said that a loud crashing sound came from the living room. Shalltear rushed over only to find an young adult woman wearing a black long sleeve shirt, with horns on her head. At first she thought this one was an oni due to the horns and her skin being pale bluish grey. Well she wasn’t far off from it, as the woman stood the countess was taken by surprise by her eight legs, long tail, and had three claw like fingers on both of her hands. “And we have an Ushi-Oni...who crashed the living room.”

“A what?”

“A spider girl, Screwy.”

“Oh… ew.”

“Actually they’re kinda like demon spiders.” Shalltear said as she looked at all three monster girls. “Care to tell your names?”

“I’m Sally Roberts.” said the lamia still cooking over the stove.

“Rebecca Amamiya is my name.” said the ushi-oni shaking Shalltear’s hand.

“And I’m Janelle Dickinson.” said the jelly girl walking out of the refrigerator.  

“Oh ho ho, sticking to your original names. Kudos to you young women,” the Guardian praised.

“Well it’s not like these monsters have any original names like most monsters do.” said Rebecca moving from out of the living room, into the kitchen. “Plus it’s the name I was born with, and the name I’ll die with.”

“Cherish that,” the mare said, taking a sip of her tea. “Not everypony can say the same.”

“She does have a point.” Shalltear said, as she walked over to coffee maker to get some coffee.

“Then what’s your real name vampire?” Rebecca said while folding her arms. “From what Celestia told us you never gave anyone your real name, so I’m guessing you forgot it.”

“It’s Veronica...Veronica der Vogelweid.”

“What about you, Guardian?” Screwball asked. “What’s your real name?”

The mare smirked. “You already know my name. It’s the Guardian.”

“That’s not a name.”

“There are many different types of names, Screwy. Mine is just different from what you’re used to. That doesn’t mean it’s not my name.”

“Going with the cryptic excuse?”

“You still doubt my honesty? After everything I’ve done for you? Hmph, how rude.”

“Well I find it odd that pony would be displaced, not to mention she has a token. So you can help me but wonder what your real name is?”

The Guardian actually laughed there. “Me? You think me a Displaced?” She laughed some more before wiping away tear and calming down. “Ah, no my dear, I am most definitely not a Displaced. I’m just a simple Time Mare out on adventures. Though this token makes me wonder which you refer to. I’ve seen so many that I rarely find one that surprises me anymore.”

“Whatever you cryptic pony.” Shalltear said as she took a sip from her coffee. “Anyway Celestia want us to go to this school here in Ponyville.”

“How come?” Sally asked.

“It’s because we been encased in stone or sealed away for lord knows how long. And seeing how we all have little to no knowledge of how Equestria is now, we need a refresher course on how Equestria is now.”

“Well, that will be interesting. Considering Ponyville only possesses a primary school,” the Guardian said with a smirk.

Screwball giggled. “You guys are going to elementary school!”

“S-Shut up.” Rebecca said while blushing. “It’s not like we can go anywhere else to learn. I mean look at us, you think anypony would let us go to school with them without having to call the guards on us?”

“You raise a fair point. So… do you girls need me to walk you to your first day of school or are you gonna be big girls and go on your own?” she said with a smug smirk.

“You’re gonna keep doing this to us aren’t you?” Janelle asked.

“I’m old, dear, I can’t help it. You try being my age and we’ll see how you turn out.”

“Fair point. Come on girls, we have a school to go to.”

“I get the feeling this won’t end well.” Sally said as she followed the Jelly girl, the countess, and Ushi-Oni outside.

(Moments later)

[Cheerilee’s School]

“Dear god it’s 1st year of elementary school all over again.” said Shalltear trying to ignore the fillies and colts looking at them.

“Yeah, but only this time it full of ponies instead of humans.” said Rebecca trying not to break anything.

“This is embarrassing on so many levels.” Sally said hiding behind Rebecca along with Janelle.

“This is a new low even for me….I think that fat kid is staring at me.”

“So Celestia sent these four here to learn about Equestria?” asked Cheerilee trying to keep her composure. “H-How old are they?”

“Well,” the Guardian paused for a moment. “Biologically, the eldest is fifteen if I remember right. They have been alive for roughly fifteen hundred years, though. They’re still mentally their age, so it’d be close to have high schoolers in here.”

Screwball groaned. “You know, most fillies wouldn’t spend their free weekend from school at another school. This has to be considered torture on some planets.”

“It is, but let’s go into that another time. I’ll tell you the story some day.”

“So they’re old, but have minds of a 15 year old?”

“Yep, sums about most Displaced,” she replied with a cheeky smile.

“Alright, I guess that’s okay. I mean there’s nothing in the rules saying something about that, so I guess we have four new students to add to the class.”

“Would you like me to sit in for a while to clear up any… interesting questions?”

“Yes, that would be nice thank you.”

“Great another Q & A panel.” Shalltear said, as she held her stomach. “I can already feel like my gut is being punched again.”

“I sure the kids won’t be afraid of us,” Janelle said appearing from behind Rebecca. “I mean we don’t look that scary... well one of us is.”

“Bite me, slime girl.” Rebecca said as she tried to take a seat in the back, but ended up breaking it due to her weight. “My bad.”

Screwball and the Guardian sighed, simply taking a seat off to the side near Cheerilee’s desk.

“Okay class, now you’re all wondering why we have four….very interesting creatures in our classroom. Well I would like to say that not only will Shalltear be joining us for school, but her friends will also be joining us as well.” Cheerilee said as she turned her attention at Guardian. “If anypony have any questions they want to ask, feel free to ask their caretaker, the Guardian, for your answers.”

“What are they?” asked Diamond Tiara. “They look like the offspring of Discord, only more messed up and uglier.” she said causing her friend Silver Spoon to laugh.

“Note to self, scare the living hell out of them during halloween night. Or in the middle of the night.” The Countess said to herself.

The Guardian smiled. “That’s a simple answer, Miss Tiara. They’re monsters. Not the kind that eat ponies, mind you, but monsters nonetheless. And you should know, it’s not a very good idea to make the big foals mad, wouldn’t you say?”

“Please, from what I heard from my dad they can’t hurt us ponies unless they want to go back into being statues.”

“....Guardian is it okay for me to eat her?” asked Rebecca as everypony in the room were shocked at what she said.

“You’re not making this any better Rebecca.” whispered Sally.

“What? She started it by calling offsprings of some guy named Discord.”

“No, I’m the offspring of Discord. They’re a bunch of people who are in need of a second chance of life. And they never agreed to not hurting ponies, Diamond Tiara, they agreed not to kill any,” Screwball said, sticking out her tongue.

“Temper temper,” the Guardian chastised.

“Um any other questions?” the teacher asked only for Applebloom to raise her hand. “Yes Applebloom?

“Do you and your friends want to join the Cutie Mark Crusaders?”

“Um….sure?” Shalltear said, as the country pony smiled with delight. Once her question was answered another pony raised her hand.

“Have you ever eaten a pony before?”

“Once, but that was an accident on my part.” said Sally, rubbing the back of her head. “I got lost in a forest for the past few months, and I was really hungry.”

“Are you a snake?” asked Scootaloo. “Because you have the tail of one, but not so much anything else.”

“I’m a lamia. We’re half snake, half human.”

“Who’s the weird looking ponies behind you all?” Twist asked. “Is she the taller one your mommy?”

The Guardian chuckled a bit. “No, honey, I’m no one’s mother. Not anymore.” Her voice was a whisper, being that only Screwball was able to make out, yet the monsters heard her quite clear. “I am the Guardian and this is my little friend, Screwball. We’re aliens.”

Screwball face planted. “I thought you had tact!?” she screamed, though it was muffled from her face being one with the floor.

“Any other question?” Cheerilee asked only for Diamond Tiara to raise her hand again. “Yes Diamond Tiara?”

“Why is Celestia even allowing these monsters into our school?” the rich filly asked in a disgusting tone. “For all we know they might have plans on killing us, or worse eat us. I mean even that snake over there said that she ate a pony, who to say they won’t eat us?”

“Hey she said it was an accident!” yelled Janelle while comforting the lamia.

“Accident or not she still ate an innocent pony. You expect us to believe we can be safe with you four freaks wandering around Ponyville?”

“Well,” the Guardian intervened, “perhaps if you don’t aggravate them they won’t kill anypony. Seems to be a good trade off.”

        Diamond Tiara said nothing, but gave a ‘humpth’ and looked in outside the window that she was sitting next to. “Okay, if they’re no more questions. Will our new students please find a seat, and we can begin today’s lesson?” Cheerilee asked as she turn her attention at the chalkboard. “Now today’s lesson we will be talking about addition and subtraction-.” before she could finish saying what today’s lesson was, there was a loud crashing sound coming from behind her. As she turned she saw Rebecca on the floor due to her breaking the desk she was trying to sit in, again.

“Um….it was like this when I got here.” Rebecca said, as the ponies in the classroom laughed.

“This is going to be a long school year for me.” Cheerilee thought as she went back to her lesson.

(three hours later)

[Recess]

“Well….that was an interesting three hours of awkwardness.” said Sally, as she coiled up to Shalltear.

“How do you think I feel? I threw up in class when the teacher called me up, and had me explain what addition was.” Shalltear said grabbing her stomach. “Ugh, I’m gonna need to drink a lot of blood after today.”

“Try this,” the Guardian said, floating what looked like a soda can over to her. “You should really see a therapist about your anxiety issues. It’s not healthy, even for the undead.”

“I don’t like therapists.” Shalltear said, as she finish drinking the soda like substance. “They always say that it’s your fault that this and this happened. Also I don’t have anxiety issues, anxiety has issues with me.”

She just shook her head. “Ah, youth. So brash and bold, never truly knowing what’s best for them. Don’t miss those years at all,” she said with a cringe look. “That was blood soda by the way. Very popular on Ventari Seven.”

“That would explains why it tasted like blood.” The Countess said as she balled up the can, and tossed it into the trash can. “3 point shot, still got it.”

“So what do we do know? I mean I get that it’s recess and all, but I have no idea what to do?” asked Janelle.

“We try to make friends....though that might be hard seeing how they’re keeping their distance from us.” said Rebecca.

“I bet if it was closer to Nightmare Night, you four would be amazingly popular,” Screwball giggled.

“Dude, I’m pretty sure we’ll win any Nightmare Night costume contest due to the way we look.”

“Too bad the it’s only August.” said Sally turning her attention at Guardian. “Hope I don’t sound rude or anything, but how old are you Guardian?”

“Don’t know, actually. I’ve been trying to figure it out ever since Screwball brought it up a few odd months ago. From my best ‘guestimates’, I have reason to believe I’m in my three hundred to four hundred thousands.”

“Wow, that is old. Hey you said were a mother once? Care to explain what that you whispered in class?”

“You weren’t supposed to hear that,” she sighed. “Screwy, why don’t you go find somepony to play with. Just don’t take too much of their money.”

“No promises~!” she sing-songed, propelling off to play with the other foals.

The Guardian turned back to the monster girls. “As I have said, I am old, very old girls. That means there is very little I haven’t done in my many years. Unlike me, however, my children… they did not have the capabilities of longevity.”

“Oh. I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to ask you that question if it made you uncomfortable.” Sally said with a worried expression face.

“It’s alright, my dear. It has been a long time since I’ve been anypony’s mother. There will always be pain, but it gets easier to deal with as time moves on.” The Guardian leaned back against the school house wall, a lone tear making its way down her cheek. “I simply wish you four never have to go through the pain of burying your own children.”

Shalltear, Rebecca, Janelle, and Sally looked at each other for a moment. Then back at Guardian as they all walked over to her and gave her a warm comforting hug. “You looked like you needed a hug.” said Rebecca.

The mare smiled. “You’re all so sweet. Now go on, make some friends or what have you. Allow this old pony to reminisce a little.”

The monsters nodded as they went off to play with Screwball, and the other ponies in the playground.

(Five hours later)

[After School]

        After recess and finishing up today’s lesson for the day. Our four monsters, and two ponies make their way into Ponyville to do some shopping for some food. While Vinyl and Octavia were busy trying to haggle some ingredients for a sour that Sally wanted to make tonight. The four monster were busy looking around the colorful town of Ponyville, mostly to get used to where everything was and where they could go to get what they may need later on.

“Man this place is colorful.” Shalltear said looking around at the buildings. “It’s like something from out of a child’s coloring book.”

“Well, on Earth this is child’s television show, so keep that in mind,” the Guardian said, browsing the stalls.

“Still it’s kinda of an eye sore if you’re not used to these bright colors.” said Rebecca looking through a stack of comic books. “Not to mention this place is parallel to earth. Only replace humans with ponies, along with the pony puns.” she said as she pulled out a comic book for an example. “Sider-mane? Really?”

“I liked that one!” Screwball said, snatching the comic like a dolphin grabbing a fish. “Ooh a first edition! Mine!” She scrammed off in a random direction, a trail of dust being kicked up as she ran.

"I get the feeling she might end up as one of those closet comic nerd later on in life.”

“That or she really loves comic books.” said Sally as she looked through another stack of comics. “What next, they gonna have X-Mane here as well?” she asked as she pulled out a comic with name she just said. “Never mind.”

The Guardian giggled. “You’ll get used to it, given time. And don’t mind Screwy, she’s a special case. She doesn’t look it, but she’s quite intelligent. Her curiosity is strong and her mind is open to any possibility. That was one reason I agreed to bring her along on my travels.”

“If you say so.”

“What do you mean this cost 20 bits?!” Vinyl yelled as Octavia was trying to calm her down. “Last time you said it was 4 bits each, now you’re saying it’s 20?”

“Look junky, it’s 20 bits each. Either you take the deal or leave it, other than that I’m not haggling with you anymore.”

        “Sir, maybe we can make a deal of some sort?” asked Octavia. “I mean surely you can’t expect a normal pony to pay that much for just two apples right?”

“Nope, not changing my mind, not get out before I-.” The colt behind the counter stopped as he pulled a bag from behind him, and start to back to two apples. “On second thought never mind, take them. They’re on the house.”

“Huh?....Well okay then, thanks.” Vinyl said as she took the apples and walked off, still confused as to what just happen.

Rebecca turned her attention at Shalltear who eyes were glowing while staring at the colt behind the counter. “Cheeky little minx.”

“Normally I’m against such blatant misuse of your powers, but… I’ll pretend I didn’t see anything. This time.”

“What? The guy was being annoying. Plus 20 bits for two apples each, that’s just to expensive for most ponies.” Shalltear said, while trying to act innocent. “Plus even if somepony saw me do that who would they believe? A 15 year old like me, or a money grubbing jerk like him?”

“They would believe the pony,” Screwball said, suddenly beside her. “They usually trust their own over the outsider.”

“Really? You would trust that guy who; from what I heard from a bunch of gossiping ponies, would rather sell his own mother than to give anypony else money?”

Screwball and the Guardian shrugged. “Ponies are a herd race. They keep to their own rather than branch out.”

“Oh joy this is going to be interesting if an angry mob is coming after us for something we didn’t do.” Rebecca said sarcastically. “Let’s just hope nothing weird happens that might lead them into thinking we’re the cause of it.”

“That’s why you’ll need friends. Especially very loyal ones. They’ll keep you safe from the prejudices of pony nature.”

“Who would want to hurt us?” Janelle asked only for her and her friends to hear a familiar annoying voice yell out at them.

“There they are daddy! Those are the five that kept hitting me with dodgeballs during recess!” Diamond Tiara said as she pulled a tan brown colored pony with black mane wearing a business suit up towards them.

“I told you to play, not antagonize!” the Guardian whispered harshly at the monsters.

“She started the war when she threw a rock at me. Not to mention Screwball joined in to defend us.” Rebecca whispered back.

The Guardian sighed. “Well, hopefully I can smooth this over before it gets too out of hoof.” She trotted forward a bit, putting herself in front of the girls. “Hello there, what can I do for you, fine gentle stallion?”

“Care to explain why my daughter is covered dirt and bruises?” the stallion asked, pointing to Diamond Tiara. “Because from what she told me she was attacked by four monsters and a pony with swirls in her eyes.”

“A simple recess game taken a tad too far, Mr. Rich. I assure you, no harm was intended upon your precious little… angel.”

“NO HARM! I LOST TWO OF MY FRONT TEETH!” Diamond Tiara yelled show Guardian a hole where her front teeth used to be.

“I said no harm intended,” she said, shooting the four girls and filly a glare. “I can gladly pay for any medical costs. And I can assure you that it will not happen again.”

“That means she gonna have the bill sent to Celestia,” Screwball whispered to Shalltear.

“I’m pretty sure she’ll be able to cover for it.” Shalltear whispered back. “Though I have a feeling that she going to lecture us about what happened at recess.”

“You better be lucky that I’m a reasonable pony, unlike some ponies.” Rich said as he began to walk away. “Make sure you keep those things on a leash.”

“Excuse me?” the Guardian asked. “Please tell me you did not just say to put four young girls on a leash.”

“Girls? Please, you expect me to believe that they can walk among us ponies. I mean look at them, they look like the pets of Discord and should be put on a leash.”

The Guardian took a long, slow breath. “Mr. Rich, I will tell you this only once, so please pay close attention. These four are lovely young women with a lot of heart who have been dealt terrible hands in life. Simply because they do not look like creatures you are used to does not give you any right to judge them as some simple monster. And another thing.” The Guardian bore into Rich’s eyes with the harshest glare he’d ever seen. “If you ever try to have them put on a leash or anything similar, I will come for you and skin you alive in front of your wife and daughter. No pony will do anything to my girls, do I make myself clear?!” By the end of her rant, she was directly in his face, true rage boring into him.

“C-Crystal clear,” Rich said as he turned around again. “C-Come along Diamond, I think we bothered them enough for today.”

“B-But dad!”

“No buts Diamond, we are leaving, NOW!” he said as they both walked off back to their home.

“Damn. She scary when she’s mad.” Janelle said hiding behind Rebecca.

“Wait, did she say we were her girls?” asked Sally.

The Guardian huffed, turning around and walking back into the market. “Come along, girls. We have shopping to finish.”

“Um...yes ma’am.” said the four monsters as they followed Guardian without a second thought.

(Moments later)

After having a little shopping spree, and buy food for the house Shalltear and her friends return to the house that they live in now. As Shalltear was about to unlock the door, she notice that the door was already unlocked. “Hey did anyone remember to lock the door back before we left?” Shalltear asked.

“I think we might have been in too big of a rush to check. Shouldn’t be a big problem, Ponyville has a very small crime rate,” the Guardian assured.

Shalltear opened the door and hit the light switch. As she did she was taken by surprise the entire house was wrecked. To what she could tell it looked like someone was either looking for something valuable or something to eat. “Shouldn’t be a problem huh?” she said sarcastically.

“Well, I said it wouldn’t be a big problem.”

Screwball floated around, looking down at the wreckage. “Do you think somepony could have been trying to send you a message?”

“I doubt it seeing how they would of wrote out ‘get out of Ponyville, you freaks’ in blood on the wall.” Sally said, as she looked around the house. “I looked like someone or something was looking for something in here.”

“Anything come to mind?” the Guardian asked, using her magic to begin the clean up. “Could there have been anything they’d be so desperate to go after?”

“What is there to go after in here? If you haven’t notice this house was made two days ago. So I doubt will have anything valu-.” Shalltear stopped her statement as she looked at Guardian to see and smile right behind her. “I think I found out who did it.”

“Well that was quick.” said Rebecca turning her attention at the countess. “So who did it?” she asked, only for Shalltear to point at the visible smile behind Guardian. “Oh so that who did it.”

“Hmm? What? Who?” the Guardian asked, wondering why she was being stared at.

“Ever heard of the Cheshire Cat, Guardian?” Sally asked as motion her to look behind her.

“Unfortunately, why do you a… there’s one right behind me, isn’t there?” the Guardian asked with a deadpan.

“Straight up pumpkin head.” The cheshire cat as she made herself known to them all. Standing on top of Guardian’s head was a cat girl with purple and black hair. She was also wearing a somewhat kinky outfit that had the same color as her hair; only with color patterns. “Greeting roommates. My name is Suzy Anderson the second, it’s very nice to meet you all.” she said bowing to them all.

 “Oh good Death around, not this again,” the Guardian groaned, not looking very pleased.

“Oh dear, what seems to be the problem?” Suzy asked, as she levitated off of the pony’s head and onto a chair. “You don’t seem fond of us Cheshire Cats I take it?”

“I have had many occasions of meeting one of your kind… I didn’t enjoy a single one of them, though they most certainly did. Save for one, but that’s not a story I’m sure you’d want to hear.”

“Well unlike them I don’t mess around with other ponies, mostly because I got turned to stone just because I played a prank on Celestia.” Suzy said as she summoned a teapot full of tea, and a cup to pour it in. “And I hate to be the one that would piss you off.”

“I’ll get over it, I suppose,” the mare sighed. “I’ve already exploded on one pony today, I’d rather not make a habit of it. It’s odd really, usually I’m in quite control of my temper.” She went back to putting everything in it’s proper spot.

“Really? What happened that made you snapped?”

“You can ask her that later,” Shalltear said, as she appearing in front of Suzy with a angry look on her face. “Right now I wanna know why you’re here and why did you wreck my house?”

“Celestia sent me here, saying that she was sorry for turning to stone all those years ago.” Suzy said as she took a sip from her tea before continuing. “Plus she said I can start a new life here in Ponyville.”

“Well at least she’s fixing her mistakes that she made in the past.” Janelle said, as she started to fix the couch. “But why did you wreck the house?”

“Oh that wasn’t me. While I was busy being invisible, a pink color filly with a tiara on her head came in and wreck the place with a bunch of bulky stallions.”

“Seriously? And you just watch while this happened?” Shalltear said.

“And get my ass handed to me by them, if you haven’t notice I’m not up to full strength thanks to the elements. So I’m only good at making myself invisible, and sometimes able to break the fourth wall.”

“Please don’t,” the Guardian partially pleaded.

“The Guardian doesn’t like when the fourth wall is breached,” Screwball explained.

“I only use it to make myself invisible to the naked eye, or to escape. You would not believe how hard it was to keep myself out of Discord’s radar during his rule over Equestria.”

“I can!” Screwy waved her hoof in the air with a big smile. “Daddy’s good at what he does in every universe!”

“Well lucky you kid. So care to explain who you two are?” Suzy asked pointing at Guardian and Screwball.

“Ah yes, right. I’m the Guardian and my friend is the ever clever Screwball. We’re visitors here for the next few days.”

“Oh okay, so what about them?” Suzy asked pointing at Shalltear and the other monsters. “I know Celestia told me their names, but she never told me much about why they’re here.”

“Same reason you’re here. Celestia fucked up, so she giving us a new life here in Equestria.” Rebecca said fixing the dining room table. “Have to give her credit, at least she doing something about it. Instead of getting somepony else to do her work.”

“I like to think I had a part in that,” the Guardian said, restoring a vase. “I’m just glad my little sun is fixing what mistakes she’s made instead of making more. It gives me a little more hope inside.”

“Let’s just hope she doesn’t turn back to how she was before you came.” Shalltear said fixing the picture frames. “Lord know we don’t want to have to fight her, or worse.”

“I’m pretty sure you could take her, but I wouldn’t think about something like that anymore.” Sally said sweeping the kitchen floor.

“Tia will keep her word. None of you are in any danger from her.”

“It’s not her I’m worry about.” Suzy said, as she smile disappeared. “It’s Discord who I’m more worry about.”

“Isn’t he still encased in stone?” asked Rebecca.

“Yes, but Celestia is planning on giving him a second chance.”

“Don’t worry about that plan,” the Guardian waved off. “It’ll work.”

“Are you kidding me? After what he did to Ponyville 1,000 years ago and got me stoned, you expect for that plan of hers to work?”

“I do. Because it has worked in the past and will work in the future.”

“I’ll believe it when I see it.” she said as she vanished into thin air. “Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ll be sleeping until tomorrow.”

“Well….this has been an eventful day.” Rebecca said as she finished fixing the tables.

“Indeed it has. But it has been quite fun getting to spend a normal day again. I’d almost forgotten what a typical day could be like it’s been so long.”

“Well things are gonna be more interesting.” said Vinyl appearing next to Shalltear. “Apparently Twilight and her friends want to have a word with you five tomorrow, something about going over what’s going to happen at the grand galloping gala.”

“Dammit, I was hoping they would forget about that.”

“Well, I hope she’s not intending for Screwy and myself to be in attendance to her party planning party,” the Guardian quirked.

“I’m pretty sure she does, mostly because of you don’t look like how we ponies look like.” Vinyl said pointing at mirror. “Not to sound rude but you are on your four hooves.”

 “And? It’s not as if I am going to reveal the secrets of existence to her or something. Well, I could, but that would take days to lecture her on just the simple basics.”

“Still they might find you dangerous at the gala so you might want to head over there tomorrow.”

“Dangerous? Me?! I am no danger to anypony at all!”

“You keep a laser sword in your pocket,” Screwball pointed out.

“...they didn’t need that, Screwy.”

 “Just sayin’...”

“Case in point.” Vinyl said with a deadpanned expression on her face. “Just be there tomorrow to go over the plan or whatever she want to talk you all about.” she said as she vanished to her room.

“There goes sleeping in for the weekend.” Rebecca said entering back into the front room.

“Well, I suppose if we must. But I won’t be answering too many questions nor allowing any tests. Don’t need her freaking out anymore about my biology.”

“I’m sure she won’t be doing something like that to you.” Shalltear said as she just finished fixing the TV set. “I mean what’s the worse that can happen?”

 “....Seriously? Why do people say that?” asked Suzy as she appeared next to Screwball.

Screwball shrugged tiredly. “I dunno, maybe some people just like asking for trouble.”

“Possibly, well I’m gonna hit the hay. See you all in the morning.” with that the cheshire cat vanished.

“I think we can call it in for tonight, don’t you agree?” Shalltear asked as her monster friends nodded in agreement.

"Have good rest then girls. Screwy and I shall retire to the TARDIS.”

“Goodnight.” Shalltear said, as all four monsters; along with Octavia retired into their individual rooms for the night. Next Chapter: Chapter 6: Preparing for the Gala Estimated time remaining: 2 Hours, 18 Minutes