As I sat in my seat on the carriage I decided to meditate. When I entered my Mindscape I saw my astral form. What I saw was a silver coated anthro alicorn similar looking to my human self. Except unlike on earth I was female and my right side was fully formed.

In my mind stood four other astral beings. One looked like Twilight Sparkle as I met her in Truth's domain, an anthro alicorn princess. The others were still a bit of a mystery to me.

One looked like an anthro alicorn version of Ayumi from X-Blades all the way down to the triple ponytails and white fingerless gloves. She introduced herself as Tempest Flare and explained that she took the body of Ayumi from my human memory and modified it for her use as it was one she liked and her original body was Twilight's now.

I knew the name of the next mare but she looked completely different from what I was familiar with. Her name is Nightmare Nova. Her looks were that of a Midnight purple coated Twilight Sparkle with feathered dragon-like wings and a smooth slightly curved black horn similar to Sombra's red horn.

A Royal purple mane and tail that moved in a nonexistent wind flecked with stars like the Tantibus finished off the darker than Twilight look. She stood taller than both Twilight and Tempe and was almost even with me. Though surprisingly, instead of being hostile like her mother, she was shy and friendly.

The last one was a mix of the last three and a Dragon/bleach Hollow. Like Nova she had a smooth and curved Alicorn horn but it was joined by two outward curving dragon horns that sprouted from behind her pony ears and ending in upward pointing tips that would act like organic cross-hairs for the spells coming from her horn. Her arms were covered in scales that ended in sharp claws instead of fingernails on her hands. Her upper torso was covered in a bikini-like pattern of scales that were a dark blue while near invisible clear scales covered the rest. This armored and covered her upper body while accentuating her figure as her groin and leg scales did the same for her lower body. Her wings had slightly tattered membranes and her wing bones were covered in a material similar to that of the mask covering her upper muzzle. said mask covered her face and alicorn horn in a white bonelike substance while two razor-edged forward facing bone spikes protruded from above her ears. These where similar to Ichigo’s Vasto Lorde hollowfied mask’s horns but the spikes where blood red and slightly shorter and the gaps were larger to fit her dragon horns. She introduced herself as Cristal, my Dragonoid persona and explained that the hollow armor was her battle suit and that it would show up as needed. The mask and wing coverings were just the minimal amount she was comfortable wearing in public.

As I met each I felt my mind being pulled into a darkness. And after learning of some of my different forms and names, I let my vision go black.

When I could see again I found I wasn't on Equis anymore and my body was not that of my Astral form but of my new Twilight form. (at this point to most others I still was just a unicorn but I wouldn't be for much longer.) I looked around and found that I was on the moon. While I floated just above the surface I started gravitating towards a large castle situated in the bottom of an old crater. I wasn't sure if Mom knew I was still among the living but I floated upwards reaching the only balcony that had a view of the planet below us.

I say us ‘cause on this balcony stood one of my mothers, Nightmare Moon and she knew I was there. She turned and stared right at me and then she rushed up to hug me. But with my real body still in the carriage she just passed through me. As she did she started crying tears of ice.

"Leave us specter of mine daughter, We can't bear seeing your grown up visage taunting us with what can not be!"

"Mama? Mama Moonie? Your crying. Why?" I asked as I reached out to try and wipe away the tears as they formed.

"Tempe? You answered us! Can it be?!" she said as I started fading from the astral plane and returning back into my physical body.

"I live Mama. You haven't lost me. The time is nearer that you think for us to be a family again. Look to the stars!"

"They're almost aligned! Has it truly been 1,000 years?!"

"Yes, Mama. I'll be in Ponyville when you return. Love you!" I shout as I felt a strong tug on my body.

"No don't go!" Moonie shouted as I faded away, "I love you too my little Tempe."

“Twilight, wake up! We're here!” Spike said as he shook me awake.

"Spike!" I growled

"What!"

"Remember my meditation sessions?"

"Yeah?"

"Well, you just interrupted one! Luckily I was about done anyway, but you should have recognized from the fact that I was still upright that I was meditating!" I said as I got out of the carriage. "If I was any deeper in you would've been hit full on like last time!"

"Sorry, Mom," Spike said looking away sheepishly still remembering the pain of my punch. 'If I hadn't pulled back last time I'd of had a broken jaw. As it was I still got knocked back into the wall from just the grazing blow. Though with my new height and weight I think I might just be able to withstand a full punch from Mom now.' He thought while getting out of the carriage as well.

"It's okay. I was just warning you for next time. Okay?" I said as I ruffled his spines.

"Okay ." Spike replied 'Still I think it's best I pay attention next time. Just in case.'

"Now, what do we have to do first," I asked as I spotted a certain pink pony walking up to us.

Pinkie's POV: My Pinkie sense had been driving me near insane today. What with it reminding me that Nightmare Moon would be returning tonight and that there was gonna be a new pony in town.

My transformation glamor was still holding up but it was getting weaker. I could feel my wings and horn start to reform, so I cranked up my chaos magic to hold up the spell. Thank Discord that I was able to vent the excess through my reality bending powers. Like right now Dakota is channeling me through the fourth wall to help him write for me. You're welcome by the way.

I walked up to Dakota/Twilight/Tempe/Nova/Cristal not realizing until that moment that this was the pony that I was looking for. And as I started to gasp in shock and recognition there was a purple hand over my muzzle.

My POV: Pinkie looked at me and started to gasp like in the show but using my Dragonoid enhanced speed I put my hand up to her muzzle and started talking.

"Vanilla ice cream and make sure to have 10 cakes ready with buttercream frosting, plus I can tell you're hiding it. Don't worry, so am I."I stated to her "I won't make you drop it just yet but remember this; Chaos will be free and hell will loose a monster, be ready by then. We'll need it sooner than you think."

Pinkie's POV: 'Oh shit, she knows I'm an alicorn and avatar of chaos! Discord will be free soon. That's gonna be a pain, cause he'll look for me and I really don't want to explain my young age just yet.’

This mare released my muzzle and I raced off to prepare for her party, I also grabbed two of my hidden stash of human vodka that I grabbed the last time I met my mirror self on Equisian Earth.

Both she and I could meet in our lucid dreams and exchange info of our lives. Sometimes we would give gifts to each other in those dreams and those gifts would come back with us when we woke up. That's how I had two cases of Russian imported vodka in Equestria.

I reasoned that if this could get me drunk it would get this new mare drunk too if she was an alicorn like she said. Little did I know just how wrong I was at that time.

My POV: "What was that! you moved faster than I've ever seen you move and then proceeded to basically tell a pony you favorite ice cream and be cryptic about some future events you've yet to tell me about!" Spike said pointedly as I looked around us for a path into town.

"You remember how I told you I was holding back when I would spar with Shiny?"I responded as we started walking into town towards the market.

"Yeah."he responded.

"Well I still I was still holding back my full abilities, but I let more of my natural speed out because like me that poofy-maned pink mare has been hiding her powers and even now I don’t think we’ve seen the full extent of what she’s capable of. We’ve only seen what she's shown the world."

"You mean?"

"Yep, that mare's an alicorn! She’s a Chaos aligned one, specifically."

"Well, crap."

"Yeah, but back to the business at hand. Where do we go first?"

"Well first up there's overseeing the food preparations so we should head over to see this Applejack mare at Sweet Apple Acres."

As we walked on I turned in the direction Pinkie Pie ran and saw Sugarcube corner in the distance. Even from afar the life-sized gingerbread house facade looked delicious. I understood why some fanfictions had one or more characters try to take a bite or chunk out of the unique architecture.

'If I had been dropped into this world with no prior knowledge I may have done the same. Though I may have found Pinkie and asked about it first if I wasn't starving by then.' I thought while walking.

I turned back to my son hands behind my head. "Let's go Spike. If my memory is right we do still need to meet the girls for Mama and Mommy to be freed."

"Right! But can we get something to eat soon I'm getting hungry.," the young drake said while rubbing his belly

"Just wait till we get there. If my memory is correct it'll be worth it."

20 minutes later
"I hope you're still hungry, Spike, ‘cause I think we're here and just in time for lunch from the smell of it," I said as we entered the property. I wasn't kidding about the smell. The scent of baked goods mixed with fresh apples permeated the air and made me want a snack myself. But as we got further into the orchard we started hearing something a little strange …

The sound of something being hit solidly greeted the ears of Spike and myself as we traversed down the road leading towards Sweet Apple Acres. The susurration of something shaking, followed by the sound of thudding accompanied the first sound in quick succession. "What is that sound?" Spike inquired as we continued our search for the Applejack who was in charge of meal preparations for the Summer Sun Festival.

"It's coming from deeper in," I said as I realized that I knew exactly what the noise was, though I held this information back to witness Spike's reaction.

As we headed toward the sounds we started hearing other things, like such as a mare’s grunt and a curse or two after a partially soft thunk. When we reached the source of the noises, we saw the one causing the unusual noises and I cast a muffling spell on Spike.

The mare in front of us was wearing just a light shirt and thin jeans and with that light shirt on I could easily estimate her bust even as she ran up to a tree and used her momentum to swing around a kick the thing with enough force to not only knock all the apples off the tree but also send a shockwave out from the point of impact that I could feel five yards away where I stood. She easily had a watermelon sized bust and then some.

Seeing this and the sweat sliding down her obviously toned figure, my own member started to become erect and hard, but thinking about her grandma as she appeared in the show back on earth and having her wrinkled, medicine-smelling ass and having the shriveled crone as a sexual partner, it shrunk back to normal.

As the apples fell, I decided to show off a little and let loose a bit more of my Dragonoid speed. I saw an apple that still was on the branch, but was about to fall and sprinted swiftly forth. As that apple fell, I jumped up and snatched it out of the air and landing next to this orange coated mare. She stood there as I took a bite from the apple. I had also dropped the muffling spell when I started moving so Spike would be able to speak as well but seeing me move even faster than earlier must of rendered him speechless.

Applejack's POV: Ah was just finishing up bucking the last of the east field before lunch when ah heard some pony walking up through the orchard. Since I was still working, ah decided to finish up with the tree in front of me and as ah hit it the apples started to fall. One was being stubborn and fell a little after the others. As ah watched it fall the mare who had walked up suddenly snatched the darn thing out the air and landed next to me and taking a bite from it. It ruffled my hidden feathers and ah felt a massive amount of magic flow off her in my horn. Ma and Pa were the only ones who knew ah was an alicorn and cast a spell on me to hide it so ah could live happily. Ah tended to not even notice my wings and horn when ah was working. But ah always had to be careful to wear clothes that hid them around my family. My grandma suspected since she was one herself but like me she kept it hidden from most. Ah could tell ‘cause of my darn magic sight. It would either give me a feeling of foreboding or a sense of unease, which then indicated to me that those ponies were dishonest and most of the time they were up to no good.

The mare looked at me and ah felt she was hiding something herself. She seemed different somehow, like she was not quite like a normal pony and as ah looked at her eyes changed for a moment. For just a second ah saw predatory slitted eyes, but right after it was gone.

My POV: "Hi, my name is Twilight Sparkle. I'm in charge of the preparations for the Summer Sun Celebration. Are you Applejack?" I said after I finished the bite of apple I had in my mouth and let my eyes shift for a moment. 'Huh, she's an alicorn too? Guess that means the mane six are all alicorns. Oh well, not a big deal just supports the fact that Lauren Faust said that I wouldn't lose them.'

As the farm girl stood there I suspected she could tell I was hiding my true form, but I also knew her secret so we were sort of even.

AJ's POV: "Yes ah am Miss Sparkle. We here at Sweet Apple Acres are proud to prepare the food for this year's celebration. And as ah can tell, you must be hungry would like to sample some of what we'll be serving?" Ah said as ah pointed at the apple in her hand.

"Well I don't know about you two, but I could use a big-ass lunch right about now," a male voice said from behind me. Not having heard anyone approach I wasn’t expecting anyone to just suddenly appear behind me so I started and jerked as though I had been hit with an electric paralysis spell and eeped in surprise.

My POV: After laughing for a bit at AJ's reaction I said, "Twilight is just fine. Miss Sparkle just makes me feel old. May I introduce you to my adopted son/little brother Spike. Don't worry about the shirt he's desensitized to nudity. Let's just say my family has a bit of a prankster streak and we would hide shirts all the time. So a thin t-shirt is nothing to him." The thoughts of the past brought a smile to my face and a tingling to my nethers.

AJ's POV: As Twilight told me all this, ah looked at the purple and green dragon in front of me and feeling ah was missing something. "Did y'all just call him your son and little brother?"

"Well, she hatched me, but she was only eight years old at the time, so I'm kinda both," Spike nonchalantly told me. Causing me to feel a sight uncomfortable around him and the mare who, at the young age of eight years, had the power to hatch this guy out of what must have been a long sleep.

"Okay, so are ya hungry Twi?" Ah offered as a way of changing the topic.

My pov: "Yeah, this apple was just a snack. Oh and how much do I owe you for it?" I said as AJ walked over to a triangle and picked up a spoon.

"Two bits," she said.

I pulled the coins out of my pocket and handed them to her.

"What's with the triangle and spoon?" Spike asked and I smiled.

AJ's POV: "You'll see," ah said as ah rang the triangle "Soup's on! Come and get it!" and the ground started to shake.

My POV: After that I let the rest of meeting AJ go the same way as the show except when we ate I was just full. I still ate as much as in the show but due to letting loose on my restraint I had a bigger appetite letting me eat a lot more.

'Ok we know the food's gonna fill her up for sure but the clouds need to go,' I thought as we left Sweet Apple Acers.

"Hey, Spike, who's in charge of the weather?"

"That would be a mare named Rainbow Dash. It says she is the weather manager for the whole town," Spike told me as I scanned the sky for the rainbow maned pegasus.

"Well if she has such a high position then her employees must be fucking shit or just plain incompetent. Just look at the sky!" I said not one second before being crashed into by the mare I was just looking for and landing in a big mud puddle.

'Huuuu yep she's an alicorn,' I thought as I felt her horn touch my back as a phantom sensation. "I take it you must be Rainbow Dash?"

Rainbow Dash's pov: I had just woken up and realizing the date I raced out the door but as I took off I tripped and started to fall. As I straightened out I saw a purple unicorn right in front of my crash path! Without time to even yell out for her to get out of my way, I rammed into her and knocked us both into a mud puddle and loosening my hold on the spell I had to hide my horn. My morning wood didn't help things either though that was understandable as most female pegasi were actually futanari. As we stood up she asked if I was me and I replied.

"Yep, the one and only the most awesome mare and fastest Pegasus in all of Equestria Rainbow Dash!"

My POV:'Well the boasting is right at least' I thought and I went through how she still needed to clear the sky of clouds and she did it in 12 seconds if you counted her take off routine which I did. But in the air, it was the 10 she said. She then cleaned off the mud and messed up my mane like in the show. It was all pretty much in accordance with the show until the end of the meeting.

"Well, Rainbow, if you want to talk later I'll be here for the next couple of days at least. So when I get settled we'll talk about that thing I felt when you crashed into me." I said.

"Uh, ok? Well, bye!" she said as she raced off blushing.

"What was that about?" Spike asked.

"Well, Loyalty there is an alicorn just like the pink mare and Applejack. I'm pretty sure all the mares we'll meet today will be alicorns."

"How do you guess that?"

"This town has too much elemental magic to be from just normal ponies and the three we met so far only have enough to account for 3/5th of the excess. I can still feel that there are two more sources around and we're getting closer to one right now, so this Rarity must be one too."

"Huh makes as much sense as anything involving you, I guess."

As we entered the town hall we both stopped to look at a drop dead gorgeous white coated alicorn mare. And while she had a glamor up to hide her wings we could both tell even without my magic sight that this mare was a goddess.

"Hello there my name’s Twilight Spakle and-"

"Hupp- I'm in the zone here, Darling. I'll be with you in a moment."

Rarity's POV: I had just been putting the finishing touches on the decorations when I felt a massive power come through the door and guessed that this was the mare who had been sent to oversee the preparations. She walked up to say hello, but I warned her to let me finish.

As I put a ribbon on the middle column to fill in the empty space just right I turned around to face her and for a second I was shocked! Through my magic sight, I saw that this mare was an alicorn like myself! I wasn’t sure if I should reveal my secret and I decided to keep quiet about it. But the state of her mane was something I couldn't stay silent about.

"Darling, I am both shocked and appalled that you would walk through town with your hair looking so unkempt and disheveled! Come with me to my boutique and I'll perform an emergency TLC for your poor coiffure!"

"I don't want to be any trouble for you," Twilight protested and looking somewhat uncomfortable with how passionately I pursued fashion and the beautification of mares.

"Darling, I insist! I cannot in good conscience see your lovely hair in such a disheveled and unkempt state and not do my very best to help you look your best!"

We exited the decorated Town Hall and I felt my silky smooth hands wrap around Twilight's as I lead her to my boutique.

I watched as Twilight watched me as I smiled at the many Ponyville citizens and gave a cordial nod of my head in greeting many of them. Many of the homes and businesses of Ponyville had the appearance of a Swiss hamlet, with whitewashed boards criss-crossing and intersecting with each other diagonally to the frame of the house. The roofs appeared to be of thick weaves of straw, and many of the houses had wooden paneling around the doors and windows. The windows also frequently had painted shutters. Many of the houses also had flowering shrubs and flowers growing in rectangular plots that spanned the edges of their houses.

"Rarity, what was it that made you decide that you wanted to work in the fashion industry?" Twilight asked as we made our way to my boutique.

"Well darling, when I was but a young filly, there was a traveling beauty fair. I watched as they took a plain Jane of a mare and turned her into a real beauty who had stallions trying to woo her! I wanted to be able to transform a mare from something that was constantly taken for granted into a beauty who was able to turn heads! That is the reason why I work as a fashionista and not as something else.“ I took a glance at the reptilian boy walking just behind us with starry eyes and a goofy-looking smile before turning back to Twilight. “I can't help but notice that you have a most ... unusual companion accompanying you, is he your younger brother?"

My POV: “With Spike the brother thing is a bit complicated. See I hatched him when I became the princess’ personal student, thereby making him my son, but due to my young age, he is more of a younger brother figure. This has lead us to be something of both siblings and parent and child with each other. The roles for us both switch sometimes, but I wouldn’t have it any other way.”

Rarity POV: After hearing about the way my two companions accompanying me met, I found myself amazed to hear that the princess’ own student would visit our quaint town for just a simple event. Even if her mentor would arrive the next day and I confessed my opinions regarding the matter as we got closer to my home.

“You're the personal student of Princess Celestia! I’m honored that a mare of your stature and authority would deign to come to our humble hamlet just to oversee a little festival preparation. Especially since the princess will be here tomorrow to raise the sun on the thousandth year in celebration of Nightmare Moon’s defeat.”

By this point, we had reached my home. As I unlocked the door, I found myself reevaluating the mare and dragon standing behind me as I altered the designs in my head to do justice, not only of their physical body type, but also to express and enhance the personalities of my new acquaintances..

“Welcome, darlings, to the Carousel Boutique where I can take any pony from plain to chic, unique, and fantastique, no matter who or what they are!”

My POV: The boutique’s decor expressed femininity, with purples, light yellows, medium oranges, and pink colors, ranging from the color paint, to the fabric used along the walls. There were several makeup stations, with large mirrors and curtains surrounding each station. On the shop’s floor were ponyquinns with dresses of various fabrics and styles, ranging from the slinky, cascading fabric of a cocktail dress, to the elegant ballroom gown with ruffles, ribbons, and bows. This place sent a subliminal message that the owner of this shop was competent in bringing forth and enhancing feminine beauty and appeal and the varied selection of dresses further emphasized that the owner of this shop was prepared for many occasions in which a female might want to dress up. From a dress intended to emphasize and enhance the sexual appeal of a mare and increase her success in hunting a stallion or mare, to a gown intended to emphasize elegance and grace of a mare. To a gown designed to emphasize a mares beauty, while remaining modest and discreet. To appear as though she was born amongst the nobility, rather than appearing as though she was some high class hooker. Furthermore, there were several salon chairs in one corner of the shop. Rarity’s boutique was truly a mare’s one stop shop, if she was looking for beauty products and beautification services as well as dresses made for mares at whatever social event she might be attending. Needless to say, I stared in awe at the interior of Rarity’s boutique!

“Come on dear lets make you fabulous!” Rarity said leading me over to one of the salon chairs “I’ve always wanted to work with nobility, thank you for giving me that chance Twilight.”

“Your welcome Rarity just don’t turn my hair into something too ‘showy’. I’m only here for a week or so and I don’t want to turn too many heads while I’m here.”

“Understood darling. Now just relax and let me bring out the inner you!”

Rarity POV: Despite trying out several hairstyles, Twilight argued against a haircut that wasn't her usual bowl cut with the waist length hair curtain cascade that went down the length of her back.

"Fine, but I insist on making you something befitting your status as a high ranking government official of Princess Celestia's Royal Court. What you're wearing just screams 'academic bookworm' and not a ravishing, powerful lady of nobility! Now, if you'll go into the dressing room and I'll be with you momentarily to get your measurements," I instructed as I put away my hair care supplies.

"Yeah, about that ..." Twilight responded while fidgeting nervously.

"Is something wrong, darling?"

"You really shouldn't measure me right now," Twilight protested, looking away from my face.

"If you're worried about me talking to somebody else about your three sizes, you have my word that I shall not divulge the personal information of any of my clients. Why the very thought of committing such a breach of trust is appalling, darling!"

"Oh no, though I would appreciate you not telling anybody about my body measurements, that isn't why I told you not to take my measurements. I'm—" I watched as Twilight looked about her to ensure that there were no unwanted eavesdroppers to what she was about to say. "—an alicorn! I'm storing my extra mass in a hyperdimensional spacial pocket. These aren't my true measurements."

"I can see that," I replied as I drew the curtains closed and shuttered the windows and cast a locking spell that would only respond to my magical signature or that of Sweetie Belle's, and that if it was Sweetie Belle, I cast a relocking spell so that the door would lock up behind her after she came home from school. I also cast an illusion spell so that the ponyquinns that were placed before their respective windows would still be seen by the passersby. To the outsider, aside from what sunlight entered through my store windows, the shop would appear closed.

I was secretly grateful to Fluttershy for teaching me the illusion spells for occasions such as this, which required the utmost privacy and secrecy. "Alright, darling, I believe that you can release your true form," I informed my fellow disguised alicorn.

I saw Twilight smile uncomfortably. "I would love to, really I would, but if I released my true form, Princess Celestia would be able to detect that I am an alicorn. The time of my unveiling is not yet ripe. However, if you still want to get my measurements after I've revealed my true self unto the world, then I wouldn't mind if you measured me sometime after I've restored my true form."

"I see, but if you're hiding it, why was I able to see that you're an alicorn? Wouldn't Princess Celestia also be able to see that you're actually an alicorn and not the unicorn that you appear to be?" I inquired, not understanding how she had managed to escape detection by Princess Celestia.

"That's because I had my glamor at full strength along with layers of aversion spells and forget-me spells. I relaxed it here in Ponyville because I trusted that you wouldn't rat me out to Celestia before I was ready to take on my new form. I was also counting on the other alicorns present here in Ponyville not wanting me to inform Princess Celestia about them being alicorns, in exchange for their silence about my being an alicorn, otherwise we'd have more princesses than we already do," Twilight explained to me.
I covered my mouth with both hands and stared in disbelief that there was anyone who could hide anything from Princess Celestia. It was so astonishing that I felt faint as a result, whereby I summoned my beloved chaise lounge and reclined in its familiar and comforting embrace.

"I apologize if I've made you worry about me, darlings. I just find it astonishing that there is anyone who could hide anything from Princess Celestia," I explained while the young drake named Spike fanned me with one of my folding paper fans, with a faraway look in his eyes and a goofy-looking smile.

"There's a reason why she's Princess Celestia's protege, and why she has been bestowed with the title of being Princess Celestia's 'Most Faithful Student,' after all," Spike informed me. "She altered and innovated several of Star Swirl the Bearded's spells and even created several of her own for the purpose of storing her extra mass in a hyperdimensional storage pocket as well as creating a spell to mask her alicorn powers from Princess Celestia's sight."

"I see," I murmured, as the alicorns of Ponyville, including myself, completely understood the need to disguise our true forms from the sight of the common pony. I was certainly impressed with Twilight's capability regarding magic. While I, myself, was certainly no idiot, my passions ran more towards beautification, rather than understanding the mysteries regarding magic. Or the rapid accumulation of knowledge and information, as indicated by the 'intellectual' wardrobe style that Twilight was currently wearing.
Knowing I was safe for the moment, I dropped my glamor to help me recover from all the magic I had used, this in turn, caused both Twilight and Spike to pause for a second, but then they just disregarded my newly unbound wings and my slightly larger form.

My POV: Even though I had already seen past Rarity's illusion spell, I still couldn't help but be impressed with the amount of trust and courage it must have taken for her to dispel her illusion and reveal her true form of an alicorn female, rather than the unicorn female that her illusion disguised her as. This caused me to repeat my earlier statement about my own disguise,

"I really would love to reveal my true form to you, Miss Rarity, truly I would, but I need to gradually release the spells masking my true form, otherwise there is a high probability of a magic blast occurring which would have an even higher probability of harming either myself or others, and I'd really rather not have that happen, if I can prevent it, through the gradual release of my various spells.
“It’s ok, darling, I understand. I myself just dropped my glamor to help me restore my mana reservoir and to release the tension I’m experiencing due to the stress placed upon my mind and body, through the constant mana drain of discretely maintaining my illusion spell and worry about my true form being discovered. Though my glamor most definitely a simple spell when compared to your prowess and raw power in magic,” Rarity said stretching out on her lounger.

"There's a reason why she's Princess Celestia's protege, and why she has been bestowed with the title of being Princess Celestia's 'Most Faithful Student,' after all She altered and innovated several of Star Swirl the Bearded's spells and even created several of her own for the purpose of storing her extra mass in a hyperdimensional storage pocket as well as creating a spell to mask her alicorn powers from Princess Celestia's sight." Spike repeated. As if he didn’t already say that just a minute ago.

"Spike!" I cried out in an admonishing tone.

"What?" I heard him respond, sounding somewhat defensive.

"When you boast about the fact that I am Princess Celestia's protege and that I'm her 'Most Faithful Student,' it sounds like the bragging of some self-entitled Canterlotian noble! I'd rather let my actions speak for my character, instead of shoving my titles and authority into the faces of the people of Equestria. I understand that you take pride in serving someone so high in Equestria's government and my close, intimate association with Princess Celestia, but can you not boast about my titles and authority when I am around? Because whether or not you realize this, announcing my titles and authority to anyone within earshot might make us sound like condescending Canterlotian elitist nobility and may cause animosity against me by the people of Equestria, because you're boasting about what I have, and pointing out that they're lacking or inferior somehow."

"Ugh! Fine. I just really wish that you'd take more pride in your accomplishments, rather than being embarrassed and humiliated at having earned your title and authority," I heard Spike grumble, and looking upset with his arms crossed over his midsection and his brow furrowed in his frustration at my desire to be humble, rather than full of pride in my accomplishments.

Done telling my son\little brother off, I turned back to Rarity. “But yes, I am Celestia's 'Most Faithful Student,' and it is because I'd been assigned as her protege that I had to quickly figure out a way to hide my true form from her sight, magical or otherwise, as I don't care for the weighty responsibility that comes with being a Princess.

The title of Celestia’s ‘Most Faithful Student’ meant that I had more legal and authoritative power than the Canterlotian nobility and that if I wanted to, I could overrule and legally eradicate any noble’s laws that were not Crown backed. It also meant that I was the first line of defense against major threats like the one soon to arrive.

"So, yeah, once I've properly dispelled the spells masking my true form, then sometime within the following week, I'll be sure to drop by your boutique so that you can get my true measurements," I reassured Rarity as I cast a simple detection spell to make sure Rarity would be safe when I left. Though what came back surprised me a little.

Rarity's POV: "Rarity? You should reapply your disguise spells right now," Twilight suggested.

"Why is that, darling?" I inquired.

"Well, I'm sensing a small concentration of mana heading in the direction of your boutique. I would guess it's a colt or filly. I'm pretty sure that you don't want a secret like this getting out just yet,"

I hastily reapplied my illusion spells, so that to the naked eye, I would appear as a glamorously fashionable unicorn mare. I then proceeded to dispel the illusion magics placed upon the boutiques windows. Being an impeccable hostess, I opened the door to escort Twilight from my boutique. Twilight and I had to jump to the side as my younger sister Sweetie Belle recklessly charged into my boutique. "Sweetie Belle! We do not charge through doors like a rampaging minotaur!"

I blushed as I heard Twilight chuckle. "Bye, Rarity," I heard her give her farewell as she trotted off to go about her day. "Bye, Twilight," I called out, before closing the boutique's door before me.

"Rarity, Rarity! Pinkie Pie has sent us invitations to a party she's holding at the Golden Oaks Library! Apparently there's a really special pony here in town! I wonder what kind of pony she or he is?" Sweetie Bell informed me with youthful exuberance.

I tittered, wishing to have been there to see Twilight's reaction to our resident party pony. Especially some of the antics that Pinkie Pie can get into.

"Well, what are we waiting for! Let's go and welcome Pinkie Pie's guest of honor!" I pranced excitedly, even though I knew who the guest of honor was going to be, given that she had been in my boutique mere moments before.

My POV: I had to keep my excitement at encountering one of the fillies who would later go on to form the Cutie Mark Crusaders from being apparent. I looked down to check on my son, Spike, to see how he was faring and if he would crush on Rarity as much as his show's counterpart had. However, contrary to how he had behaved in the show back from my homeworld, he had just been silent. I was feeling a little concerned as he usually wasn't this quiet.

"What are you thinking about, Spike? You've been awfully quiet since our encounter with Rarity," I inquired, feeling a bit of concern for my son.

"Huh, what? Oh, I, um, I just can't believe that there is somebody that could look so amazingly gorgeous. I thought I had died and gone to Elysium! I mean, did you see how elegant and demure and well mannered she was? She's just perfect!"

"Oh, Spike," I gave him a sad smile. I could probably tell him that nobody is perfect, but would he even listen? I mean, considering how smitten he is with Rarity's beauty. Or would it cause friction between he and I, because of him rejecting the idea of Rarity not being perfect. I gave him a gentle shove on the shoulder. "Got a crush on her, huh?"

"Yes."

"Well, I'm sure that the next mare will be especially taken with you," I reassured him, as we headed in the direction of Fluttershy's cottage after having gotten directions from one of the locals.

"How so? The packet Raven gave me says this Fluttershy mare is in charge of music for the event."

"Remember, Spike, I came from a world which broadcasted the events of what is currently happening on our entertainment networks. Though, given how I was er, given Twilight's body and the knowledge I now possess, I'm not sure if or how much this reality will change now that I'm living in your mother's body." Having bodyjacked Twilight, I also inherited her memories. Though I didn't know how my theft of Twilight's body would affect major events or even possibly the world!

"Oh yeah, right, Dakota," Spike said using my human name to acknowledge this fact, not knowing of my thoughts at the moment, "But did you have to bring your human stuff with you?"

“I didn’t ‘have’ to, but I wanted to, even if I wasn’t sure if I’d get much use out of it, because humans want to be entertained and we’ve built technology to help us do that. I also wanted to bring my old home world's weapons, to increase my chances of survival in a strange, unknown world. I’d rather use a weapon I know how to use, than a weapon that I don’t have the foggiest idea how to operate,” I replied and shifted the backpack from one arm to another, the contents rustling against each other. In it I had the items that I wanted to take with me before starting a new life in a strange new world. The solar and lunar katana hung from my belt, while the holsters for the handguns also were suspended from my belt. I didn’t really care if ponies recognized my guns as weapons. Most ponies could recognize a sword though, so only idiots and fools would think to antagonize someone with two blades that were three feet long. That’s half the thickness of most people’s torsos! Though for ponies, it was probably more like four fifths the thickness of a pony’s torso.

As we walked up to Fluttershy's cottage we heard birdsong coming from behind some bushes.

“Birds? That’s new,” Spike commented as I used a magic spell which would enable me and anyone in my party to see through opaque objects. I, was pleasantly surprised that some of the fanfiction written with regards to Fluttershy’s Stare had come eerily close to being right about the Stare’s true origin.

"I've gotta see this," we both said at the same time and giggled, me because I knew Flutters was in her vampony form and Spike because of the humor in that we both said the same thing at the same time. I thought it was amusing, sure, but I didn’t think it was funny enough to warrant a laugh. But that is why I’m me, and not a Spike clone or doppleganger.

I maneuvered the scrying part of the spell until Fluttershy, who was in her vampony form, came into view. It seemed to me, awfully careless of her to be partly undisguised like this. I mean, what if somebody came along and discovered that she is, in fact a vampony? Her appearance looked like how the show on earth showed her, but her wings were far larger, in reference to her bodymass to wing ratio, and she appeared to be in the upper 5 feet as far as height goes. Thanks to my alicorn sight, I could see her horn, which only served as further confirmation that this pony was definitely an alicorn mare.

Loosening the seal on my power a bit more, I grew to my 6 feet alicorn height and my horn lengthened as my eyes shifted into their Dragonoid state, slitted predatory pupils with dark purple irises.

"Hello there."

"Eep!" Flutters called out as all her bird friends flew away including the blue jay that she had been scolding for not singing in harmony with the rest.

Fluttershy's POV:“Now, Mister Blue Jay, I appreciate your desire to be unique and stand out from the crowd, truly I do, but if I’m to continue retaining you in Ponyville’s Avian Choir, then I need you to join the rest of the flock and sing in harmony with them,” I explained as patiently and gently as I could.

“Hello!” I heard a cheerful voice greet me unexpectedly from behind my back.

I squeaked in surprise as I had not been focusing on my surrounding environment, but instead had been focused on trying to explain to Mister Blue Jay why I needed for him to sing in harmony with his fellow avian choral members if he wanted to sing before the ponies of Ponyville. I hastily cast a spell to revert to my normal daytime appearance. I also had a short-term memory eradication spell prepared to cast, but the hand gripping my horn prevented the magic from being cast. It hurt, like a tweak of the nipples, but it also was kind of pleasurable as well. My second squeak of surprise transitioned into a guttural groan as pleasure coursed up through my spine and overwhelmed my brain.

My Pov: When I greeted Fluttershy from behind her back, I startled her and not wanting whatever magic that she was preparing to fire to be casted, I swiftly wrapped my hand around her horn and cut off the spell that she had been getting ready to cast.

I temporarily removed the seal for Cristal and felt my body Shifting, growing to nearly 8 feet in stature. The pegasus designed shirts that I wore, adjusted and adapted to the shift in wing structure as my wings transitioned from that of pegasus wings to the ribbed, leathery membrane wings of dragons. My dragon horns grew rapidly and strengthened the closer they grew to a fully grown mature size. My fur changed into overlapping scales, while claws grew from my hands. The shifting reached completion with the alicorn horn becoming smooth and featureless, rather than the engraved whorl in an ascending spiral. I also felt my teeth shift into that of a full carnivore, with sharp rows of pointed, flesh-rending teeth rather than the mix of sharp flesh-rending teeth and flat, dull vegetation-grinding teeth of herbivores, that was a distinct trait of omnivores.

After having finished the Shift into Cristal, I felt memories that I don’t ever remember having start surfacing in my brain. Some of those memories were of Twilight’s time as a general in the Nightmare War.

<< “Hold the line! Make them pay for every inch won with the blood of their slain! Make them pile the dead until they’re three times the height of a pony! Stand firm and be courageous, my brothers and sisters! Let’s make them remember us as honorable and worthy foes!” I shouted over the din of yelling soldiers, the clang of metal clashing against metal, the hum of magical shields or the crackling sizzle of offensive magic being cast. Fires burned around us, the heat and smoke causing eyes to water, and the sickly sweet smell of the dead caught within the burning conflagrations. The iron-y taste of blood greeted my taste, causing me to spit it out. Even as I fought, I felt a heaviness of heart at the sight of fallen brothers and sisters, knowing that we’ll never again laugh over a story, or drink ourselves stupid in celebration of being alive or the foes we’ve slain. We were exhausted, muscles burned with fatigue, breaths were short and rapid, but it was either fight and win and then rest, or rest in peace after having joined the rest of those who were slain on the field of battle.>>

Even back then, I was not the asocial polymath that the Twilight from my homeworld’s show portrayed her as. I had a deep, bonding relationship with Queen Chrysalis, well back then she wasn’t a queen but was officially a Princess. Of course, being as close as I was to her, I usually didn’t bother with that stuff-shirt nonsense such as titles and authority that adults were so keen on observing. I caused no shortage of scandal whenever I would just call Chrysalis, Chrissy.

A fascinating discovery that Chrissy and I have discovered is the fact that if a changeling with a deep relationship with somepony is separated from that pony with which they have the relationship, they can feed off of others, but they have to work harder to extract their nourishment and it isn’t as tasty as when they feed off of the ponies with whom they have a deep relationship with. I was surprised that Chrissy hadn’t targeted Cadance as an alternative food source, but she must have her reasons for not going after Cadance. Memories which aren’t mine surface, brief glimpses of Chrissy’s head looking through the window whenever Cadance foalsat Twilight. This current age’s Twilight’s body probably reminded her of the pony with which Chrissy had such a deep bond way back then during the Nightmare Wars. I suspect that it is the eerily similar appearance to that pony with whom she had such a deep bond with, which stayed her hoof from capturing me in order to take on my appearance and feed off of Cadance.

As Flutters looked at me with awe and what looked to be a slight bit of something else I noticed I had spaced out when she asked me something.

"I'm sorry could you repeat that. My mind was somewhere else just now."

Flutters' Pov: I sat and watched in awe as the alicorn mare before me shifted, her body growing a couple feet more in height as she shifted from an alicorn mare to an alicorn dragonoid. It had been one such dragonoid which had led a squadron of vamponies in the Nightmare War from a little over one thousand years ago!

The pleasure which I had been getting from my horn changed into pain as the dragonoid’s grip upon my horn tightened, the bone creaking under the stress it was being subjected to, nerve endings started to pinch and shooting hot lancing signals of pain to inform the possessor of this body that unpleasant things were being visited upon this body and to address the cause of the source of pain and attempt to get that pain to cease.

"Excuse me, My Lady, but would you release my horn? It is starting to hurt," I said, not noticing the far off look in my lady’s eyes.

“Huh? What was that?” The dragonoid mare inquired as her mind returned to observing her environment, rather than whatever thought or memory she had previously been thinking about.

I moaned in pain as I felt my horn continue making creaking stress noises, and I felt lancing pain surge throughout my brain and I feared that this dragonoid mare would snap my horn off before she let go.

My Pov:“Ow, ow, ow! You’re going to break my horn off, if you keep squeezing like that!” Fluttershy cried out in a pained tone of voice.
Hearing her cry out in pain, I came to the realization that I must have inadvertently tightened my grip sometime during my Shift. I quickly released her horn and felt guilty for having caused her pain, even though it wasn’t my intention to do so.
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“I’m so sorry! This is the first time in approximately one thousand years that I’ve made a full Shift, so I forgot that it causes my muscles to clench up! Here, let me take a look at it for any stress fracturing. Otherwise, you should be able to apply some horn-ache cream and be fine after awhile. I truly and sincerely apologize for the pain you have suffered at my hand and humbly ask your forgiveness for having caused you pain. I will pay for any medical care or medicines which you might require arising from this matter,” I apologized as I made a bright magical light so that I could examine Fluttershy’s horn for any stress fracturing.

Flutters Pov:When I heard the sincerity and earnestness in this mare’s vocal inflections, I chose to forgive her. I’ve always been optimistic about other ponies and the general inherent goodness within each of us, so it was pretty easy for me to choose to forgive this dragonoid mare. “I forgive you,” I said. My eyes widened at the mention of her having been out of practice for approximately one thousand years. Could this dragonoid mare really be the same pony who served as a War General during the Nightmare War? If so where had she been that she hadn’t fought on after our lady of the night had been banished? This mare couldn’t be her she just couldn’t!

“No! Do not mock me! It’s cruel of you to take my alicorn lady’s and dragonoid appearances! Do not sully her honor or my memories of her!” I screamed, baring my fangs in hostility at this—this impudent whelp! My eyes began burning red with unsuppressed rage.

“You are mistaken young one. I remember the end of the war and wondering what would happen to us seasoned war veterans now that half of the Equestrian Diarchy had been banished to the moon above. I remember a bright light. I remember seeing major events of Equestria’s history taking place as I was jettisoned through the timestream. I remember being born into this current age to my mother Twilight Velvet. Are you aware of the six gems used during the final battle between Princess Celestia and Lady Nightmare?

"Yes, the Elements of Harmony, right?" I answered as the image of six gems popped into my thoughts.

My Pov:“My mothers, Luna and Selene di Amor, prior to the start of the Nightmare War, let me encounter the Elements of Harmony in the hopes that one of the Elements might choose me as a future bearer for it. Two of the Elements did happen to select me to be a future bearer. The Element of Magic and the non-physical element of Destiny. Princess Celestia, in her grief at having banished her sister, used the Elements of Harmony to strike at what she only saw as one of Lady Nightmare’s war generals. The Elements of Harmony, for whatever reason, dismantled me at an atomic level and slingshot me to the modern era. My body was placed into the womb of Twilight Velvet, who gave me my name of Twilight Aurora Sparkle. During my entrance exam for admittance to Princess Celestia’s School for Gifted Unicorns, my magic surge awakened my Alicorn abilities and memories relating to my alicorn manifestation. I used heavy transdimensional magic and ancient arcane shielding spells in order to hide in plain sight. There are some things from about one thousand years ago that I’m not ready to face yet,” I explained to the buttercup yellow vampony alicorn mare. Her glowing red eyes dimming as she calmed.

“My alicorn form and memories traversed across dimension before resting within the strange and amazing form of a bipedal male. They called their species humans. The human male in which I found myself was named Dakota Keith Brown. When his dimension ceased to exist, I had encountered him in a dimension between his and ours in my pony form. The interesting thing is that he thought that he created me, instead of my alicorn aspect existing within the recesses of this human’s mind. When our physical forms fuzed, his memories became mine and my memories were added to his remembrance. Apparently, being able to transform into the various personalities housed within me, I also acquire their memories, skills, and abilities. It’s kind of confusing, especially with the human, Cristal, and I all having such strong personalities and each insisting that they’re the true personality. I’m a little worried, since I’m fairly certain that the brain isn’t intended to house multiple personalities, and certainly not as many as I apparently have. I just wish there was some way to meld the other personalities with mine without suffering from survivor’s guilt. I mean, since it is my mind and my body, naturally I’m the personality that should remain. I am a little disturbed that my mind has created such a complex personality for the dragonoid personality. I want to meld these other personalities with mine, but I’m afraid that if I sought professional help, then they might lock me away in some asylum, and that they’d simply drug me, rather than putting in time and effort to help me,” I continued confessing to the vampony mare. Though I had forgotten that Truth reworked my mind to accommodate Dakota and the others with ease due to the memory influx from Cristal.

Spike's POV: I’d known about Twilight’s multiple personality disorder for a couple of weeks. I was concerned for her mental well being, since she seemed to regard these various personalities as ‘real.’ She even had one she called Dakota, who was apparently a human, whatever the Tartarus that was!

As we encountered each of the Element Bearers, I felt her slowly begin to release the seals hiding her power. I’m also not really sure how to deal with her claim that Luna and Nightmare Moon are her ‘original’ mothers, or that tomorrow would see their return to Equestria after their thousand year banishment. I could feel the power pulsing off of her, like a ripple surges outward from a splash zone. The scary thing is that this was only a little of her full power. When Twilight shifted into a dragonoid form, the vampony alicorn mare with whom she had been speaking I overheard the vampony speak in reverence, addressing Twilight as ‘My Lady.’ I guess me shaking in the bush gave away my presence, since the vampony mare called out for me to make my presence known.

“I know you’re hiding in that bush! It isn’t very nice to eavesdrop, you know. Won’t you come out and stop hiding?” I heard the vampony mare call out.

Scared, I looked toward Twilight, unsure whether or not to obey the vampony’s request. I saw her nod her permission, so I stumbled out of the bush I had been hiding in, brushing off what leaves had attached to my body. I rubbed my left arm in a nervous gesture and focused my sight down towards the ground from the shame of getting caught hiding by the vampony mare.

Flutters POV:I grinned with excitement as a small, young dragon emerged from the bush which he had been hiding in. I flew over and swooped his cute, small, chubby body into my arms.

“Oh my gosh! Aren’t you just the cutest little guy!” I heard myself gush like some sqeeing fanfilly. “You are so amazingly cute and adorable! What’s your name, little guy?”

“My name’s Spike! And I’m not cute or adorable! I’m a guy, we don’t do cute or adorable!” I heard Spike protest and I squeezed him a little tighter in my embrace from how cutely he protested at being called cute! So adorable!

“Tell me something about yourself, Spike!” I gushed enthusiastically.

“Well, Princess Celestia sent Twilight here to oversee and manage the preparations for the upcoming Summer Sun Celebration festival. I came along because Twilight needs her Number One Assistant to help her get things done! ...” I listened attentively as he talked about meeting Applejack and Rainbow Dash.

“I met the most beautiful mare! She had sparkling azure blue eyes, her indigo hair was styled like an ocean wave, her eyeshadow was a light cornflower blue and really made her eyes pop and stand out from the rest of her beautiful face! She wore a light cyan t-shirt, a greyish violet skirt with three light cornflower blue diamonds with the middle diamond at the top, while the lower two are arranged diagonally lower to either side of the central diamond. She wore dark mulberry knee high boots and she had a triple light cornflower blue hairpiece. I could hardly believe such beauty walked among mortals, not only was she beautiful, but her sense of style and fashion was exceedingly excellent as well! Her name is Rarity, which suits her, since she is a rarity among women!”

“You’re pretty special as well. How did you become a Vampony?” I heard Spike ask. Twilight’s eyes were unfocused and she was muttering softly to herself.

“Well, Spike, I was born to vampony parents. And because of our longevity, us Vampony have to move every couple of decades, since we don’t age the same way that non-vampony do.” I explained to Spike. It probably wasn’t the exciting ‘pony gets bitten and becomes a vampony thrall’ story that he probably was hoping for, but I didn’t mind not having an exciting vampony turning experience.

My POV: While Fluttershy talking to Spike, I concentrated on the Bond I had with Chrysalis

Hey, Bug Butt, are you awake? I can't tell with how weak our Bond is right now.

Tempe? You live?! How? Why?

The power of the Elements propelled me forward through time and into this present age. I was propelled into an unicorn infant and so I was reborn into my current incarnation. I even remember seeing glimpses of you following my sister Princess Mi Amore Cadenza and I! You just couldn’t stay away from me, could you? I teased Bug Butt telepathically.
That was you? The little purple unicorn with your initial cutie mark was you?!

Affirmative. Also, just to ensure that you are informed, Mommy and Mama will be returning home after their thousand year banishment. Do you want to hook back up later?

You have to ask? Chrissy deadpanned, something extremely hard to do in this kind of mental link. I've been hungry for 977 years. Do you honestly think I'm gonna lose my biggest, most tastiest food source and best friend again!? Tartarus no!

Meet me at the Golden Oaks library in half an hour. Be sure to have a decent disguise for the next four hours afterward. Afterward we can reestablish our bond.

Ok see you soon. By the way, what should I call you this time? Dakota, Tempe, or something new?

My current incarnation’s name is Twilight Aurora Sparkle. I've got a baby dragon for an assistant now. His name is Spike. And before you tease me about his name, I was 8 when I hatched him. Oh, and how'd you know of Dakota?

I traversed across time and dimension and joined your indwelling alicorn form in the human world. I tried to give you hints that I was Chrysalis, but when you didn’t get the hints, I thought that perhaps I was mistaken. So after several years spent searching for you in the human world, I left that dimension. Remember Jessica?

Yeah?

That was me.

Oh.

Bye.

Bye, love you, see you soon.
You too silly.

After my telepathic conversation with Bug Butt, I refocused my vision and began paying attention to my surroundings. I discovered myself standing outside of the Golden Oaks Library with my seals and illusions reactivated and Spike by my side. Apparently, while I was having my telepathic conversation, my dragonoid ‘personality’ hijacked my motor skills and steered me in the direction of the Golden Oaks Library, after we departed the vampony’s company. I wondered if this next moment might parallel the scene shown back on Earth. I guess I’d have to open the door to find out. With that, I entered the Golden Oaks Library and braced myself for the ponies appearing suddenly from behind various pieces of furniture when the one being surprised has their eyes dilated from the light suddenly coming on. Well, that and the fun party that Pinkie Pie currently has set up inside of the Golden Oaks Library.

Author's Notes:

this is the longest chapter I've ever written i know there are still some errors when you find them please help me by posting them for me to fix and I'll get them done

The pov shifts are mostly done for now. I might make a few more chapters like this but for the most part I'll stick with me and spike. Oh that reminds me do you want a stand alone chapter telling how I told spike my life on earth and 1,000 years ago? If so I'll write one but it'll be a couple of months till I finish that. and thank you Pinkie you know it can be hard to write as you for most authors i just got lucky

yeah that wasn't luck and do you really have to make us all futa?

well as alicorns we inherent both genders as well as the three races and Draconian heritage.

ok but if my dad finds out before he is released...

dammit pinkie no spoilers!

that for what you do next chapter so there!

fine truce k?

oki doki loki hmm will he show up too?

dammit on spoilers pinkie!

fine! party pooper

sorry about that guess I've got work to do

tune in next time on...

YEAR OF THE DRAGONOID!