Princess Luna moved through the dreamscape, it wasn’t really flying as there was no sense of motion but things were moving, in this case the small stars that represented dreams of all the ponies within Equestria.

She stopped at a few that were flashing to signal nightmares and she dispelled the nightmare so her ponies could sleep well. As she moved she was keeping an eye out for a specific dream for her sister had told her of the visitor to Equestria and the Princess of the Night was curious about this mare that was both familiar and yet a stranger.

IT took her a bit of time to find it but she found it near Princess Twilight’s dream, they looked almost the same except one thing that made the Princess frown. It was flashing with a nightmare faster than any she had ever seen. Concerned the Princess of the night approached the dream and entered it.

Slowly the world of the dream formed around her and she found herself standing in a sterile white hallway lined with doors and a few side halls and was lite by strange lights set into the ceiling. As she looked around trying to get her baring the dark Alicorn was startled by a loud drawn out scream coming from behind one of the rooms labeled “Lab 12”

Concerned and confused Luna slowly pushed the door open and recoiled at what she found. IT was easily recognized as Twilight strapped to a table and surrounded by four bipedal creature dressed in white wither masks on while being watched by a fifth biped. The dark Alicorn recoiled again in horror as she saw the biped cutting into the mare’s body as she screamed in agony and begged for them to stop which they ignored.

Lighting her horn the Princess of the Night fired the spell to dispel the nightmare, wondering how anyone could dream up something so horrible and then blinked in confusion as the dream remained. She tried again and nothing happened and the fifth biped looked over at Luna and blinked. “Security.” He called in a voice that sounded pleasant in sharp contrast to what was happening.

Luna blinked and a moment later something collided with the side of her head and she stumbled to the side and when she looked she saw another biped dressed in dark blue with a helmet that had a face plate covering its face and in its hand was some sort of blunt object.

“What?” Luna said in confusion, her brain couldn’t process that a dream just became aware of her and then physically attacked her and before she could react the dark blue biped lunged forward and struck the Princess again she stumbled.

The Alicorn lite her horn and fired a magical blast as the biped and sent it flying across the room and crashing into the far all. The princess smiled to herself. “I know not what you are but you would do—“She was cut off as she was struck from the side again stumbled. Looking she saw two of the dark blue bipeds one with the blunt weapon and another holding a small yellow object.

The Princes frowned and lit her horn but before she could fire off the spell the second biped fired the yellow object and two prongs struck the Princess and she cried out as electricity coursed through her body and she collapsed.

The first biped approached her and when the electricity stopped then first biped started to beat the princess with its weapon and then stopped and the electricity return keeping the Princess on the ground.

The Princess kept trying to rise or cast a spell or something but every time she tried the electricity ran though her body and prevented her from doing so as she listened to Twilight scream in the background and then all at once everything stopped.

Slowly the Princess collected herself and got to her hooves panting as she looked around her body sore. She found herself in some sort of cell and looking around she found Twilight curled in a corner crying. “I just want to go home….” She sobbed.

Carefully the princess approached the pony and reached out a hoof to try and comfort her. “What are you doing here?” monotone voice spoke behind her suddenly causing her to jump and spine around.

The princess blinked as she saw another Twilight standing on two legs and in some sort of dark green armor and staring blankly at the princess. Looking between the two Twilights the Princess opened her mouth to speak. “Twilight? Is that you?” She asked bewildered.

The Twilight tilted her head with the same blank expression. “And the creature speaks to me, Creature you have no right or purpose being here, leave now.” She said with the same monotone voice.

“Creature? Twilight what do you mean?” Luna asked her confusion growing.

Twilight tilted her head to the other side expression unchanged. “Why are you calling me that creature?”

“Calling you what? And why are you calling me a creature?” Luna asked.

“Because that is what you are and what is Twilight?” Twilight asked.

Luna blinked. “That is your name…” Luna said.

Twilight’s head returned to its original position face still devoid of emotion. And Luna felt something seize her body and she was filled with searing pain and cried out. She wasn’t sure how long the pain lasted but it suddenly toped. “That is your punishment, do not return here.” Twilight said and suddenly the Lunar Princess found herself tumbling through the dream scape. She quickly righted herself and looked back at the dream in confusion as to what happened. She carefully approached the dream again but recoiled as she felt the searing pain start to build as she neared it and quickly moved back.

She stared at the dream that was still flashing with a nightmare before she sensed it was nearly time to lower the moon and had no choice but to leave the dreamscape.

Commander Twilight Sparkle sat at the table in the same spot as last night, across from her and shaking with a bit of fear sat Starlight Glimmer, The commander had been surprised to see the mare up early even if it wasn’t as early as Twilight got up it was still surprising.

And based on the small scream the mare had given when she saw Twilight at the table when she walked into the room she had been surprised as well and now they sat across from each other, one with a look of fear, the other with a friendly smile on her face and resting her chin on her fingers as they were laced together.

“Soooo….sleep good?” Twilight asked drawing it out and slowly Starlight nodded. “That is good to hear. “Twilight smiled more. “So I do find it so interesting that you are friends with the Princess and am just dying to know how that came about.” Twilight leaned forward. “Care to enlighten me?”

Starlight looked between the mare and the door and Twilight could tell she was trying to figure out if she could make it to the door. Twilight calmly drew her combat knife and started sharpening it. “I’m all ears.” She said not taking her eyes off the mare and the smile not leaving her face as she sat back and sharpened the blade.

The look the other mare made was priceless as her eyes shrunk to pinpricks and Twilight had to surpass a shiver of pleasure. “Well….y-you see a-after I e-escaped from….from my town I-I-I started to…s-spy on h-her to figure out…h-how to g-get my revenge….” The mare trailed off.

Twilight said there and after a couple of minutes she gestured with the knife for her to continue. And Starlight gulped loudly and Twilight nearly giggled in delight. “Well….I…I modified Starswirled…T-time Spell.”

“You did what?” Twilight interrupted blinking in surprise.

Starlight gulped loudly. “I…I figure out how to modified…Starswirlled the Bearded’s time spell….so….it lasted longer than a few minutes…and…and went exactly where I wanted…..” Twilight nodded, she’d never tell the mare but she was impressed by that.

“Well….I hid in the Map Room while she was…a-away and when…when she returned….” Starlight said and Twilight leaned forward genuinely interested in where this was going.

Princess Twilight Sparkle slowly woke up with a groan. She slowly sat up and gripped her head as it felt like it was going to explode. “What the hey happened last night?” She muttered as she slowly got to her hooves.

Carefully she made her way to her bathroom and splashed some water in her face hoping to clear her head before she began to brush her mane. “Twilight are you awake?” Spike said as he knocked and Twilight was sure the pounding was in her head as she made her way out of the bathroom.

“Yeah Spike I’m up.” She said as she opened the door. “Is everypony else up?”

“Well I saw Starlight earlier but I wasn’t sure if I should check of Commander Sparkle or not.” Spike said as he looked back at the door with the note taped to it.

Twilight nodded, she had a vague memory of their talk last night, she wasn’t sure what was said but she was pretty sure they were on good terms ago. “Just let her sleep I’m sure she is tired after the day she has had I’m sure she needs to deal with the stress.”

“Yeah alright, so shall I get breakfast started?” Spike asked.

“That sounds good.” Twilight said and smiled as she made her way out of the room. Together the two of them began to make their way down to the dining room, Twilight was looking forward to breakfast a she hope her headache would go away.

“YOU DID WWWWHHHHHHHAAAAAAATTTTTTT!!!!??!?!!?!” A scream she identified as the Commander’s came from a few floors below.

Twilight and Spike shared a look and then ran the rest of the way till they burst into the dining room and froze.

Starlight’s tail was pinned to the table by a knife of some sort and the table was against the far wall and turned so she was upside down looking absolutely terrified as the Commander turned and faced the Twilight. “YOU!” She teleported in front of the Princess and her hand shot out and wrapped around her throat as she switched to being a biped and lifted Twilight off her hooves. “IS IT FUCKING TRUE!?”

Twilight coughed. “Is what…true?” She choked out.

The Commander pointed behind her at Starlight who filched away as best as she could. “Did that bitch go back in time and change history causing multiple Wildcat Situations till it ended up being an extinction level event?” The Commander demanded.

Twilight froze, she hadn’t thought of how the Commander would react to learning the facts though she didn’t know what a Wildcat Situation was it wasn’t hard to figure out she meant the alternate timelines. “Ah…well….yes…but we fixed them and everything was ok.” Twilight quickly said and she felt the fingers close tighter around her throat making it difficult to breathe as the commanders eyes changed to red and started glowing.

“I don’t care if it was fixed! The fact is she did that and you did nothing! She faced zero consequences for her actions; do you know how long it took the EDF to deprogram her victims from her damn town? Hmm? The first one was finally deprogrammed and able to be reintroduced into society after a year, out of everyone from that town only four have been deprogramed of their brainwashing out of everyone in that town in the last three years.”

“Let her go!” Spike said and tried to pull the Commander off of Twilight. The commander looked down at the baby dragon as he tried to move the commander and she featured softened. She took a deep breath and her eyes switched back to normal and she let Twilight drop to the floor before rubbing her temple her eyes closed

Spike rushed over to Twilight and helped her to her hooves as the Commander took another deep breath. “I’m sorry you think I’ve done wrong but I haven’t, maybe it’s different in your Equestria but here I made the right call.” Twilight said once she caught her breath as Spike stood between the two of them protectively.

The commander opened her eyes and stared hard at Twilight. “You’re right this isn’t my homeland, it is yours and while I don’t agree with your choices they are yours to make for good or ill, I just prey your action don’t come back to kill you in the future.” She said calmly before turning and walking towards Starlight who flinched and trying to make herself as small as possible.

The commander gripped the hilt of the knife and pulled it free with ease and Starlight fell to the floor with a thud before scrambling to her hooves and diving behind Twilight, keeping the Princess between herself and the military mare. The commander calmly checked over the blade before it vanished from sight and her magic enveloped the table and placed it back where it had bee and she picked up what had fallen to the floor when the table flipped.

“My apologize for damaging your table and braking some of your property. I’d offer to pay for it but I don’t exactly have access to any funds her so the least I can do is clean up.” She said calmly as she took the broken items to the kitchen to throw them out.

Twilight looked at Starlight. “Are you ok? She didn’t hurt you did she?” She asked.

Starlight slowly shook her head. “n-no you arrived before she did anything besides throw the table and pin me to it with her knife.”

Twilight nodded and looked back towards the kitchen as the Commander returned. “We need to talk. “Twilight said firmly.

“Yes we do Princess; I think some things need to be cleared up.” The soldier said as she took a seat at the table and gestured for the Princess to take a seat. Carefully the Princess took a seat and Spike took one as well, and do to being too scared to leave so did Starlight. “Ok, we need to establish the differences between us I think cause right now we both seem to be expecting each other to act like ourselves and I think it is clear we are very different.” The Commander said resting her chin on her interlaced finger as she looked at Twilight intently.

“Yes I think that is a good idea, but how do we do that.” Twilight asked.

“I have the perfect way; we will compare an event we both faced in detail, one we haven’t gone over yet.” The commander said and Twilight nodded.” I have just the story and I’ll declassify it for you as it is a minor thing. I noticed the Crystal Mirror in one of the rooms hooked up to a machine and a book beside it so I take it we have both met Sunset Shimmer?” Another nod. “Alright then tell me how you handled her and the theft of the Element of Magic and then I’ll tell you how I handled it.”

Twilight nodded. “Alright well she stole the tiara when I was in the Crystal Empire….” Twilight told her the whole story including her return to do battle with the Sirens as well as ending up meeting her counterpart in the human world. “And well that’s it, I found it odd seeing myself but I got used to it as we were a lot alike though she was like I sued to be before going to Ponyville, I guess that’s why I wasn’t so shocked to see you now that I think about it.” Twilight said rubbing her chin with a hoof; Spike had gone and gotten those drinks and food during the story as he had been there for it so it was old news to him so they were all eating lunch while talking.

The Commander nodded. “Alright so different then me, though I think I’ll need to go back to deal with these Sirens and to check up on my counterpart there to make sure nothing is going to happen.” She said and sat back taking a sip of her juice. “Anyway this is how I handled it.”

Commander Twilight Sparkle slowly opened her eyes and found herself lying on a sidewalk of all things as her senses slowly returned. With a small groan she sat up and gripped her helmeted head and then blinked as she looked down at her legs wrapped in camouflage like the PFDR with knee pads and combat boots on. Blinking she looked at her arm and found her arm...well looked like an arm, it was still cybernetics but it looked how they were supposed to look when place don a human. “Well then…that’s a thing.” She said before looking around to get her bearings. She was sitting under a statue of a horse rearing up outside of a large red building.

After a quick check she found no sign of hostile or really anyone around. She got to her feet with ease as walking like a biped was nothing new to her and looked down as she saw she was in fact human, or else something had gotten under her armor and managed to bend it. How human females walked around with them she had no idea as they seemed distracting.

Looking back at the stature she pressed a hand to it as saw light where she touched so that identified the portal. On the other side of it was a Rifle Team and two Flame Trooper with order that if anything that wasn’t her came through to try and capture it and if that proved impossible neutralized it. They also had order that if she wasn’t back in two days to come in after her but only stay one hour then return with or without her as she wasn’t putting her soldier in danger, the commander had experience with other dimensions so she was the best choice to go.

She tried accessing her magic and found she couldn’t feel it, well that meant this world didn’t have magic, no matter she had a pack with two days’ worth of food rations, her side arm, two frag grenades, two flashbangs, two breech charges and pound of plastic explosives with detonators and slung on her back was her rifle with a scope, grip and tactical flashlight so she was set with ammo for both her guns. She lifted her right hand and made a fist and a moment later her blade shot out of where her knuckles would be if it was an organic arm. The rest of her armor seemed to be there as well so her side arm was holstered on her chest and her knife on her left shoulder.

Unslinging her rifle the mare turned human scanned her surrounding once more. “Now then little thief where would you be hiding?” She said out loud before looking at the large building. “Right there.” She said and started to walk towards the side of the building. She he had been extremely pissed off at the Royal Guard for allowing a thief to get into the Castle and steal the keys to a super weapon and then get away, shew as just lucky she stumbled upon the thief who was identified as one Sunset Shimmer by the Princess herself. Twilight hadn’t been surprised to learn there had been students before her and frankly she was disappointed that the other mare had acted as she had, it was disgraceful.

Twilight reached a door on the side of the building and carefully looked through the window, inside were multiple civvies based on their clothes and it appeared to be a mess hall and judging by the lack of guards and their age this was some sort of school, that would make things a bit more difficult as if they were hostiles she could just shoot them but as civvies she had to avoid killing them if she could.

As she scanned the crowd she spotted on in a leather jacket and jeans with red and yellow hair and instantly recognized her target talking to two other humans that looked vaguely familiar to her. The thief was on the far side of the room so if she made entry normally her target could escape or the civvies could panic and get in the way, which left one option.

Going to the door Twilight crouched and pulled out one of the breech charged and a flashbang. She fixed the charge to the center of the door and they moved back along the wall a bit. She mentally counted down as she ready the flashbang then hit the detonator.

The charge blew the door nearly off its hinges and before the people inside could really react Twilight threw the flashbang in. as soon as she heard the detonation the human rushed the room. She ran past dazed and confused civvies as she ran for her target.

Her target was just recovering sight and hearing in time to receive rifle butt to the face and she went down. Twilight placed her foot on the other human’s chest and aimed her rifle at her head. “Where is it!?” She demanded as the rest of the humans removed and looked on in shock and horror at the gun toting human among them, they didn’t run as they were too scared to move but some did get on their cell phones.

“What, who are you what are you talking about!” The target demanded.

Twilight fired a single shot an inch from her head enlisting a cry of fear from the gathered human. “Don’t fucking play games with me Sunset, I have no fucking problem extracting the information from you however I need so make this easing and fucking tell me where the Element is!” She said as she pressed down with her booted foot, letting the other human feel some of her weight.

The commander switched to combat mode so her eyes glowed red and she watched with supreme satisfaction as the Target’s eyes widened in horror. “Ah…I don’t have it, Fluttershy found it and gave it to principle Celestia. “

Twilight blinked at hearing the two names but shrugged it off. “And where is she?”

“In her office, down the hall fifth door on the right, it has her name on it.” The Target said.

Twilight remover her foot from the targets chest and she took a step back and the Target sighed in relief. “Thank you for your cooperation. “Twilight said with a friendly smile a moment before she kicked the target in the side of the head hard enough to knock her out cold causing the gather humans to recoil.

Twilight turned towards the double door that lead further into the building pausing before entering to look back at the wide eyed crowd. “Feel free to scream and panic after I leave the room, I’m won’t be here long.” She said and turned and walked through the door. Sure enough when the door closed the room behind her was filled with screams and the sound of running feet much to her enjoyment.

Twilight found the door she was looking for and put her rifle on her shoulder so it was aimed at the ceiling but kept her finger near the trigger, she was pretty sure this Celestia had nothing to do with the theft as the Target had seemed annoyed that she had it.

Inside she found a human that looked a lot like the Princess on the phone seeming to be calling for help. She jumped when the door slammed open and Twilight walked in. The Principle’s eyes widened in horror. “Relax I have no intention of hurting you unless you do something stupid.” She said waving a hand dismissively before reaching behind her to what was clipped to the bottom of her pack and pulled out a tiara that looked exactly like the Element of Magic but was made of aluminum and a plastic gem.

“I believe you have something of mien and I have something of yours and I’d really like mine back ‘kay?” Twilight said smiling as friendly as she could as she held out the fake tiara, still keeping her finger near the trigger.
The Principal looked between the crown and the gun carrying teenager. “ah…um yes…’She said not what to do but do as the girl with the gun wanted. She carefully opened a draw in her desk and pulled out the other crown and set it on her desk and stepped back.

“Thank you for your cooperation. “Twilight said friendly and set the tiara she had next to the Element and picked it up. She attacked it to her back and started to back out of the room. “Apologizes for disrupting your work but needed to get this back, you wouldn’t understand. Also sorry about the door to the mess hall, I needed to make a quick entry.” With that Twilight was at the door and turned and left the principle to collapse into her chair with relief.

Twilight made her way to the front of the school and walked out just as three police vehicles were arriving with their sirens blaring. The officers go out and aim the weapons at her. “Drop your weapons and put your hands in the air!” One said.

Twilight laughed and waved. “Sorry but I’m the one person you don’t want to fuck with!” She said with a laugh as she kept walking. One of them fired his weapon and it impacted her armor causing her to pause and look down at the hole. “Really?” She asked looking back up. “9mm hallow point? Seriously? You expect that to punch through my combat armor?” She said and laughed again as she started walking once more.

Two of the other cops fired shots that did as much damage as the first in that they did nothing to her armor and she reached the statue. “It’s been real boys! And don’t try to follow me! Bye!~~~~” She said and stepped through.

Twilight landed on her hooves and smiled at the gathered ponies and changelings. “Nothing gets past you.” She order and walk out of the room. She’d need to post guard on the Mirror for safety when its open but all things considered this mission as a complete success.

“So….you assaulted the school and injured Sunset and basically got the Element back through threats?” the Princess asked eyes wide.

“Yeah pretty much.” Twilight said with a chuckled. “Took me less then forty minutes from start to finish.”

Both ponies and the dragon stared at her wide eyed.

“What?”

Author's Notes:

here it is, the chapter I never got to make in the last story, how Commander Twilight handled Sunset Shimmer, huzza.

also got to see a bit of inside of her head and an appears of a certain thing that older readers will recognize I'm sure. she may or may not show up again.

anyways enjoy folks.