"Run that by me again," I said, still not fully understanding what Ra had said.

He chuckled. I had no idea he had a sense of humor. "I can see why you are confused, Josh," he said. "If you are feeling okay, walk with me. If not, I will stay here and answer your questions."

I looked at my self, and saw I was, indeed, in a bed. I got up easier than i had expected, but i did lose my balance for a while, but I did remain standing. "Let's go, then," I say.

"Then follow me." With that, I followed Ra outside my room.

"Okay, first question," I say. "Why does this place look like shit?"

"The castle," Ra said. "Yes, I should probably explain. I hope you like stories, Josh. This is a long one."

"I think I have time," I said. "Seeing as how the Order's won."

"Too true," Ra said before he sighed. "It all started three thousand years ago, when me and my five brothers, Obelisk, Slifer, Raviel, Uria, and Hamon, yes, the Sacred beasts are brothers to the gods, ruled our world together. But, as with everything, it was not to last. Hamon and the other Sacred Beasts gathered an army and attacked. As far as I know, they wanted all the power for themselves, and wished to kill me, Obelisk, and Slifer. We raised our own army, and won, though barely. Most of our army, actually, are the cards you have."

"What," I said in surprise.

"Yes. Thestalos, Chrono, the Reactors, every one of your monsters, was, for the most part, a portion of our army. Our Lieutenants, however, are locked in their cards here in our world. Anyway, back to my story. Our defeat is what sent us to Equestria, where the six of us became the six cards of legend. As for myself, I was a. . . special case. I was sent through a portal not to Equestria, but to Earth, and it was a time vortex as well, and I was sealed into a card, the same one you got in that Shonen Jump issue. It was luck you are here right now, Josh, as well as skill. Luck you found me, but your skill with strategies that made me pull Twilight's spell towards you, and bring you to Equestria."

"You're the reason I went there?!"

"Yes," Ra said. "It was one of the few times I knew what was going on back in Equestria, and they needed help, so when Twilight Sparkle cast her spell, I gathered enough energy to redirect it to bring you. It would seem my faith was well placed."

"Like hell it was," I say. "I failed. The Order took all of the Element bearers for their side, every single royal in Equestria, and practically killed me, and are doing who knows what to Equestria as we speak!"

"You are mistaken, Josh," Ra said. "You forget. I said Twilight and Chrysalis are here in the Spirit World with us. The Order, and three of my brothers by extension, do not have every bearer and royal. And, fortunately for us, they do not know where Obelisk and Slifer are in Equestria. I do, but, due to a curse Hamon laid on us, we can not be used by the same person. That means that someone else must have Obelisk's card, and a third must have Slifer's."

"I guess that makes sense," I said, arms crossed. "Now, where are Chrysalis and Twilight?"

"Follow me," Ra said. We walked again, coming to an intersection of four halls, two, to be technically correct, and turned right. "There is one other thing you should know, Josh," he said. "It is related to Twilight Sparkle."

"What do you mean," I ask.

"I think you know what caused this, but, when you three arrived, Twilight went through something. . . unexpected. Her soul was split in two. One was loyal to you, and wanted to bring the Order down."

"The other wants to be with Lone, and, by extension, the Order," I said. "God, can my life be anymore cliched now? Don't go smartass on me Ra, that's my job."

"I would have replied with 'I do not know'," he said. "Regardless, we had to put both Twilights under to ensure they did not kill one another. I should also say that every monster in your deck came here with you, and each that is capable of helping to heal has not been able to fix this. Not even Chrysalis has been able to do anything, and keep in mind how adept changelings are with mind magic."

Yeah," I said. "That's bad."

"You can not think of anyway to fix this?"

"Probably the most cliched way of fixing things in a Yugioh story and that's a duel," I say. "Or I guess I could do something else. Do spell cards work here?"

"Yes," Ra said with as much of a curious look as he could give. "Why?"

"No reason," I say with a grin as I think of a spell card. I just hope this works. "Make sure they're awake for it."

"I just hope whatever you are planning works, Josh. I heard your various comments on situations needing bunkers, including lesson zero grade Twilight and Alicorn Pinkie Pie. I have not had time to make one for anything you may plan, so please don't do anything that may destroy the castle and the surrounding area."

"I make no promises."

"I will have to live with that, I suppose," Ra said with a chuckle as we reached an elegant pair of double doors, along with the sound of yelling and bolts of magic flying, and the god sighed. "It seems they are awake," he said.

"On it," I say, opening the doors to reveal two Twilights fighting one another. "Spellbinding circle," I say, the trap card appearing in my hand, and stopping both alicorns in their tracks. "Better."

"You," the Twilight on my left, which looked more like the whole Twivine thing, how did that start, anyway, going. "I should have known you'd be here if the heretic queen was." And she's gone coocoo for cocco puffs.

"Josh, what are you doing," the other Twilight, this one closer to the actual one, asked. "I need to kill her so she doesn't go back and tell the Order we're alive."

"She will not be able to leave as long as I command she stay," Ra said, walking in behind me. "Magician, what happened," he asked the other duel spirit, Dark Magician.

"I was trying to make a bridge between their minds," he replied, bowing, "so that I could try to fix this issue, but it woke both up, and they proceeded to try to kill each other. It is a good thing I had Queen Chrysalis go eat something, or she would have been in the crossfire."

"Such a shame," Twivine, that's what I'm calling the evil Twilight for ease, said. "I would have enjoyed showing Lord Osiris her chitin."

"And why do you want to be with the Order," I ask.

"Because Lone is with them," she replied. "And I would do anything to be with my beloved."

I sighed. Of course that's why. "Why," I ask. "I mean, he only wanted to be in a relationship because of status, he said so himself. He doesn't care about you. He'd only use you."

"I don't care," Twivine said as I prepared the spell card I had. "I'd rather be used by my love than be away from him!"

"Okay, this just took a turn for the creepy," I say. "By which I mean the sexually creepy way. Good thing I got this." With that said, I revealed the card in my hand. "I fuse Twilight and Twivine to form Alicorn Princess Twilight." Thank you polymeriztion.

I grinned like an asshole as Twivine said, with fear, hate, and horror on her face, "No! You can't fuse me back wth this slut!"

"Says the one who wants to be with a stallion who'll just use you for himself," both I and Twilight said before both versions of the lavender alicorn were sucked into a vortex. "Now I only hope this works."

"You planned on fusing the two in order to avoid a duel," Ra asked.

"Hey, I just woke up from a how long a coma?"

"Near three weeks," DM said. "The last to awaken, actually."

"Right," I said. "I just woke up from a three week coma or some shit, and I am not feeling like a duel right now, so excuse me if I decide to go Griff a little."

Both chuckled. "Fair enough," Dark Magician said.

"Indeed," Ra said. "And how is you sister, Magician?"

"Wait," I said. "He has a sister?"

"The monster you know as Dark Magician Girl," Ra said. "Though we all call her DG."

"Oh," I said. "Should have guessed that."

"She is well, my king," Magician said. "She's been looking over spells to help us find your siblings if we are able to return to Equestria."

"That is good, but tell her not to over exert herself like last time," Ra said. "We don't want another incident."

"Do I want to know," I ask.

"No," both replied.

"Okay, then," I said. "Does fusion usually take this long?"

"In this case, we have no idea," Ra said. "This is the first time it has been done without a spirit involved, so, if I were you, Josh, I would prepare for a duel."

"I will if I need to," I say. "I'm more in a mood for improvising if I have to duel right now. Where's Chrysalis, anyway?"

"She should be on her way back, if I'm not mistaken," DM said. "She only went to get something to eat."

"I thought changelings fed on love," I said.

"Happy Lover."

". . .Fair point," I say.

It was here the portal that had sucked up Twilight and vine spat one of them out and- holy shit. I suddenly want to have a herd. This Twilight seemed to be a mix of the last two, appropriate, I should think, as well as other features. To start off with, her hair had the same stripes plus the light green or whatever color the lighter stripe in Twivine's hair was, and the whites of her eyes seemed t have a slight, lime tint to them. Have I mentioned green is my favorite color? Anyway, she had on a, how do I put this? Hold on a second. . . . . . Oh, I know. Her outfit was form fitting, perfectly hugging her more voluptuous body without giving too much away, but it still had the same basic shape as the one Rarity had made for her before, well, you know. As for Twilight's new body, in more detail for you who want to know every little detail about someone's body, I know some of you exist, she was taller, close to Luna's height, actually, if not between that and Celestia, her breasts were bigger. They were once what I guess was A cup, keep in mind, I never really paid attention to size, and if I did, I didn't know how to separate them, to a DD, if not a third D on there. Her ass had become larger to scale with her body, and was, far as I could tell without, ahem, closer inspection, firm, but not too so. She fell on her ass as she fell out of the vortex, which closed behind her as she came out.

I walked over to her as she rubbed head, most likely trying to get rid of a headache, and held my hand down to help her up. "You okay, Twi?"

"I could be better," she said as she took my hand, and I helped her up. "But what do you expect when two halves of you are forcibly put back together," she said with a chuckle. "Thanks, Josh."

"My pleasure," I say. "And what do you feel about Mister Douche?"

"If you mean Lone, I got over him," she said with a small smile. "After all, they say hindsight is twenty-twenty, and some of the stuff he did makes sense now."

"Good to know you moved past him," I say. "Not for personal reasons, I want to point out. Anyway, Twilight, I want you to meet a friend of mine." With that, I moved, and gave her a clear sight of Ra. "Twilight, this is Ra, one of the three Egyptian God Cards, and the one who's been with me since the beginning, if you forget what happened in Canterlot. Also, he's one of the kings of the Duel Spirits."

"It is an honor to meet you, Princess Twilight Sparkle," Ra said with a slight bow. "Dark Magician Girl has told me much about you that I could not glean myself."

"You mean Dark Magician's sister?"

"OH, COME ON!"

The three chuckled at my misery. And I thought the rest of humanity were assholes for the most part. "Indeed," DM said. "Though Josh did not know it when he gave you your deck."

"Can we stop talking about this," I say just as my stomach rumbled. Thank you, timing. "Not to mention get something to eat?"

"Of course," Ra said. "Follow me. Are you coming, Magician?"

"I think I shall stay here," he replied. "Should the medical facilities be needed, of course."

"If that is what you wish," Ra said. "Now, Josh, Twilight, follow me."

With that, the three of us left the room. "So, um, Ra," Twilight said nervously, "who are the other two gods?"

"I can answer that, in names, at least," I say. "First is Obelisk the Tormentor. In terms of role among the three, he's the bruiser, the one who is essentially a tank. Then there's Slifer the Sky Dragon, whose attack is based on how many cards are in one's hand. And ability wise, there's Ra, whose ability I have an entire strategy around. Mind if I explain it, Ra?"

"Not at all, Josh," he replied.

"Right," I said. "You see, his ability make sit to where you have to give life points to give him attack and defense, all but a hundred, and his other ability is you can give a thousand to destroy one monster on the field. My strategy is a simple one: turn the loss into a gain using the effect of Prime Material Dragon, whose effect turns any life point loss by effect into a gain. But that still has a flaw, a card I like to call megamorph combined with Copycat, who is able to gain a monster's attack. Just try and guess what I do with those two."

I could see the gears turning. One lesson I never teach, and one must learn for themselves: Use everything to your advantage, even if it is to buy time.

I chuckled. "Don't hurt yourself, Twilight," I said, chuckling.

"Oh, shut up, Josh," she said. She then put a finger on he rchin. "You know, I wonder where Chrysalis is."

"Try right here," Chrysalis said, coming from in front of us. She smiled as she got to me and wrapped her arms around me. "Hey, Josh," she said, and I could hear the playing in her voice. "Good to see you're finally awake."

"Thanks, Chrysalis," I said before blushing in embarrassment. "Um, Chrysalis, if it isn't too much trouble, do you mind backing off a little. It's nothing personal, I just want this to go slow. I don't even know why you're interested in me of all people."

"If that's what you want," Chrysalis said, pulling back, and she did look a little hurt, but she hid it quickly. "As for why, it's because you were one of the first nonchangelings to stand up for my race. Even when the alliance was still going, the Equestrians saw it as something we would break when it no longer suited us."

"I didn't," Twilight said, getting the attention of both if us and Ra.

"And why is that," Ra asked, curiosity in his voice.

"Because I actually paid attention to what she said when she attacked Canterlot. The only reason I stopped her was because I wanted Shining to be Okay. Honestly, at that point, I was just pretending to have forgiven the others."

"Then I guess this whole thing is your chance to get a little payback," I said in a joking tone, getting small smiles from the two mares. "Now come on, I haven't had a thing to eat in three weeks. I need to put something in my stomach."

"Come on, then," Ra said. "The dining hall is near."

"Thank you," I mumble as we continued. Within a few minutes, we made it to the dining area. Holy hell did it have a spread. I'm not even kidding. There were a variety of meats, plants, you name it, it was probably there. Anyway, Twilight and I got a plate each, picked our food, me going for a steak with a side of ten, grilled and marinated shrimp with some lemon slices nearby, while Twilight went with some kind of salad, Ra and Chrysalis not going for anything. We sat down at a table near the window, and I looked outside. Let's just say outside looked bleak.

"I'm guessing the war between you guys took a heavy toll here," I asked Ra.

"Indeed it did," Ra said with a sigh. "Most of the resources were destroyed, and the few civilians left here struggled to survive. They rejoiced when I returned three weeks ago, but it has not gotten better. The crops are barely growing, and the hunters barely find any meat. But, from what I have seen in the past three weeks, it is worse for Equestria."

"How," Twilight asked.

"That is for a later date, when you two are finished eating. But, for now, I suppose a few tidbits of information would not hurt. The first thing you must keep in mind is that time flows differently here than it does in Equestria, sometimes quicker, sometimes slower. Currently, we are moving faster, but only for another week here, and it will be slower, so not much has happened, only a week, really." Ra sighed. "I suppose i should begin with the fact that Osiris has turned Princess Luna back into Nightmare Moon, and Rarity, though still with her dragon traits, into her Nightmare form, and that Equestria has, surprisingly, went quickly with this, I imagine due to mind control, and of what I remember, Osiris plans on attacking other countries. Countries where you three have become stand out legends. Some would say even more than the Elements themselves, no offense, Twilight Sparkle."

"None taken," Twilight said.

"And this next one requires background a little," Ra said. "Josh, as you know, the Lightsworns area unique monster archetype. What you do not know, however, is that I have a daughter,yes, I would be surprised too, who is with them by force. And, as the second portion of the background, there is an old power whispered among us Spirits, one that is rare in nature. It allows a Spirit to merge with their duelist. There are only two in recent history, for me, that is. One is Ruin, Queen of Oblivion, with Princess Luna some three thousand years ago. The second involves my daughter. Her name and title were Celestia, Lightsworn Angel.

"She merged with Princess Celestia."