Nick placed Twilight back in the gem before retaking his body. They both knew what was at risk right now, and Nick’s magic control was needed severely at the moment. With the mark however, there was only so much magic he could supply. Nick turned to Iron Fist.

“Iron, what will happen if I complete the familiar contract with Twilight?” Nick asked.

“Hmm? Why would you want to do that?” Iron asked looking at Nick.

“I haven't really said anything about it, but having this limit on my magic is driving me crazy. Even with Silk and Trixie linking with me it’s only gave me access to maybe three percent of my power. And with the progress that I’ve made it might be less than that.” Nick said crossing his arms.

“WHAT?” everyone said in unison.

“Remember, I have no magic of my own, I simply make it. The limit on how much I can make depends on how much my body can handle channeling. The mark severely limits that. Even with everything that's happened I’m still much weaker magically then before coming to equestria, much weaker. If I didn’t have this mark my magical might would be much higher, I trained for two years before coming here in a world with absolutely no magic outside of my own, so I had nothing but my own desire to be strong to drive me to become stronger. Since coming here I have gained a real reason for getting stronger.” Nick said looking at Trixie causing her to blush and make herself small.

“Well... she’ll be able to summon you once a day, and have the ability to send you back to where she summoned you from. You also would be unable to harm her in any capacity. If you tried magic it would just bounce back at you, if you tried, say, punching her your muscles would lock up or go limp preventing you from touching her. You could also fully share magic with everyone connected to the mark.” Iron said smiling at Nick’s words. He wouldn’t be dying anytime soon, but at least if he did he knew his little girl was in good hands.

“So put bluntly, I wouldn’t be as useful a burning turd in a perfume shop if we needed to contain her if she got out of hand.” Nick deadpanned.

“Yup.” Iron said.

“Midnight, do you think you could contain her?” Nick asked.

“Pfft, with this staff you gave me? It would literally take a demigod to match me.” Midnight said with confidence.

“Alright, then Kenzin you ready?” Nick asked.

“Haaangover.” Kenzin said clamping his ears to his head.

“I’m on it.” Trixie said lighting up her horn and throwing a spell at Kenzin’s head.

“Who what where when why!!!” kenzin said shooting up.

“A little something I learned after a bad hangover, only being a hundred pounds doesn’t do you any favours as far as holding your alcohol.” Trixie said looking at her fingernails.

“So that's how much you weigh…” Nick said looking at his mare with a mischievous glint his eyes.

“Oh you little….” Trixie muttered looking at Nick making him chuckle.

“It’s alright Trixie, it’s all in the right places.” Nick said with a wink.

“Well, I guess we can get to it shall we?” Kenzin said summoning his avatar…. Making Nick’s eye twitch.

“Yyeesss” Nick said looking at the ten foot tall golden fox spirit.

“Alright set her loose and hop in.” Kenzin said moving his avatar’s tail over to Nick. Nick stepped in and let loose a beam of read magic that formed into a glob of energy before solidifying into Twilight. Nick had to refrain from making a pokemon quote in fear of sending the wrong message to Trixie.

“Ready?” Nick asked holding out his fist.

“Ready!” Kenzin said connecting his fist with Nick’s. The avatar doubled in size and gained a second tail.

“Uuughhh…” Twilight groaned as she got used to having a physical body again.

“Kenzin how are we doing this?” Nick asked.

“First we need to draw out the divine magic, we need to make her angry.” Kenzin said.

“Right.” Nick said. “Hey Twilight, when I’m done with you i’m going to fuck Celestia’s Fat ass!!” Nick shouted. Twilight hearing these words about her mentor made her mad, really mad.

“I’ll Kill you First!!” Twilight said turning around while her hair turned to fire and her fur turned white……….. and froze when she saw the giant avatar, “oh crap…”

“Now” Kenzin said and lunged at the screaming mare. He latched his magic onto her core and began ripping out the prominent magic. Twilight tried to fight it, but the magic was too strong, and her fear kept her from focusing. When they were done Twilight laid on her back panting with an orb of gold and red magic hovered above her.

“What did you do to me?” Twilight asked with a shaky voice.

“We took out the divine magic Celestia had inside you, she can’t use it to control you in any capacity anymore.” Nick said grabbing the orb after he jumped out of the avatar.

“What?! I-Impossible! Celestia would Never-” Twilight stopped when Nick shoved the orb in her face.

“What does this feel like to you?” Nick asked, though there was little point. Twilight was a unicorn, and any unicorn or earth pony would recognize celestia’s magic in an instant even if they had never felt it before.

“I…..” Twilight had no words.

“Midnight is going to take you back to Chanterlot, if you disobey her she’ll bring you back to us. You’ll see in person what Celestia has done but first” Nick said reaching a hand to her, she tried to backpedal but stopped when she saw him offering his hand to her, “I believe we have a contract to finish.”

“What?” Twilight asked.

“Once you see for yourself in person what she is doing you’ll have no reason not to believe me. You’ll be more than welcome to come back afterwards. Now, are you ready?” Nick asked.

“You have to come with us!” Twilight pleaded.

“Sorry Sparky, but that ain’t happening. The best I’m offering is to complete the contract.” Nick said holding out his hand. Twilight stared at his hand for a long minute considering her options. Celestia actually did plant her magic in her, she couldn’t believe the one she thought of as a second mother would do that without her consent or knowledge. Being granted a portion of one’s deity's magic was considered a great gift and honor, so long as it was consensual, but like this? She could have been Celestia’s literal puppet without even realizing it! And if Celestia was willing to do that, then what else had she been doing behind her back?

“Ok, but you have to promise me a place if what you say is true, and if you’re lying then you have to come back with me.” Twilight demanded.

“Pfft keep dreaming bi-” Trixie began.

“Deal.” Nick interrupted her.

“WHAT!!” Trixie shouted.

“Alright.” Twilight said standing up. Brushing herself off she looked at Nick closely, he wasn’t bad looking for a non pony, and stood almost a full two heads taller than her. She didn’t get to see a whole lot under the cloak and jacket, but from what she could see, not even big mac would measure up to him. She reached out to take his outstretched hand and almost shivered when he took her hand. She could feel his strength that he held back in his grip. Twilight looked over at Trixie and gave her the stink eye, “lucky bitch.” Twilight muttered.

“Annd he's aaaalllll mine.” Trixie gloated. Silk cleared her throat making Trixie smile sheepishly at her, “well, our herd’s anyway.”

“Not property people.” Nick deadpanned.

“Sorry.” The mares said in unison.

“Anyway how do we do this.” Nick asked.

“I just need to infuse some magic into the marks and link them, hold on.” Twilight said lighting her horn making everyone tense.

“So how long will this take?” Nick asked.

“Done.” Twilight said.

“Well that was fast.” Nick said looking at the back of his hand, the mark was complete with Twilight’s cutie mark in the center.

“Hmm, well let's give this a try shall we?” Nick said taking a few steps back.

“Give what a try?” Twilight asked.

“Kaioken!” Nick shouted.

“Kaiowhat?” Twilight asked before she was nearly blinded by a bright red glow. Now that Nick no longer had any restrictions on how much magic he could make that he didn’t have prior to coming here, he wanted to test his limits. Activating the flight aura he channeled as much magic as he could into it, and the results were nothing to sneeze at. He knew he wouldn’t be able to contain this much magic like he was supposed to with this spell, and with as much magic he was now surrounded by a crimson aura that was so thick it was almost tangible, the aura spread around him about three meters and flowed upwards like a flame.

“What the buck?!” Trixie said nearly falling on her ass.

“Yeahaha!!!” Nick said shooting upwards and started flowing even more magic, his aura began to expand until he looked like a red star in the sky.

“By Inari, what is he?” Kenzin asked looking at the giant ball of magic.

“A show off that's what he is!” Trixie shouted.

“Dear Faust what have I let loose on Equestria……” Twilight muttered as she witnessed her Familiars full power.

“I forgot to tell him that spell burns off clothes if you put too much magic into it.” Midnight said with her eyes shrinking to mere pinprics.

“Angel bunny that was very mean. Now you apologize right now. If you don’t mind that is...” Fluttershy said in a failed attempt to scold her pet. For the past week he had been acting up, his less than pleasant attitude had gained him a reputation around the cottage with the female bunnies, and now that mating season had started for bunnies that reputation had done him no favors. After his latest failed attempt to woo a female that ended with him writhing on the ground questioning the integrity of his testicals, his resulting temper tantrum he decided to find the female while carrying hair remover, unfortunately for the male she had chosen for that season he was in the act with her when angel struck.

Now Angel Bunny sat pouting with bits of hair missing thanks to the hair remover that got on him when the other male resorted to pawdecuffs. Currently angel was tied up with grass with a large lump on his head with the bunnies he assaulted standing next to him complaining to Fluttershy, why she kept the little monster around baffled all the animals on the cottage. After beating the crap out of Angel bunny the male tied him up and dragged him to Fluttershy. Angel Bunny protested with his little chattering noises saying that the girl bunny had attacked him first.

“Even still, you know what you did was wrong, and you shouldn’t have been pressing your luck like that with her.” Fluttershy scolded. Angel bunny didn’t think he should be in this position, he was her personal pet!! The female bunnies should be begging him to mate with him!! Angel bunny struggled in his binds with no success.

“I’m sorry for what angel did, don’t worry, I’ll make sure he’s disciplined.” Fluttershy said picking up her Bunny, “alright angel, I think the best punishment for what you did is to ground you for the rest of mating season.” Fluttershy said as she took him up to her room and pulled out a medium sized dog cage modified to house Angel. Angel protested while trying to break free of his binds and from Fluttershy.

“I know it seems a bit harsh, but you need to learn not to do things like that.” Fluttershy said undoing his binds and placing him in the kennel. After locking the cage door she walked over to her bed and slipped under the covers, good night angel.” Fluttershy said as she turned off the lantern lighting the room.

Defeated and imprisoned angel slumped against the padded wall of his cell. The rest of mating season. He would not let this stand! He tried playing nice, but all that got him was a padded cell, all he was missing was a straight jacket and the set would be complete. Bouncing over to a tattered corner of his cell he waited for a few hours before he reached into a hole to reach his stash.

Two bunnies that had suffered Angels wrath hopped next to one another chatting. The events earlier had taken the mood out of both of them, and now they were just looking for their burrow. How dare Angel try to take his mate! And what he did to them had taken any desire to mate out of them, and with winter not far off it would be a bad idea to try while they were missing a good thick coat of fur. Now it was best that they make sure their burrow was extra insulated. They made their way to their burrow at the edge of the forest and tuned in for the night.

The Bunny couple slowly drifted off to sleep until they were in a deep dreamless slumber. The couple came to with a stir when something felt off. The male bunny woke to find himself completely bound with duct tape and greated with the sight of Angel bunny with a crazed look in his eyes towering over his bound mate. He struggled with angered chittering noises as iff to say, “stay away from her!!!” Angel Bunny simply smirked and turned to his prize. She was going to bare his young whether she liked it or not.

As Angel stepped over to her he heard a commotion from above, it sounded like something was…. Digging? Angel didn’t even have time to look up at the sudden burst of moonlight that shone down at them when a set of massive jaws filled with several rows of impossibly sharp teeth bit him in half. Looking up the other bunnies went pale at the sight before them. A large hound like creature swallowed their enemy in one bite. Their pupils became pin pricks as the creature looked back down at them. This was it, they were going to die. The large creature went down to take another bit, but froze.

Magic. He felt a magic unlike any he had ever felt before. Not a god, it barely even touched the roots of a god's great oak of power. But what this magic meant to him was insulting to say the least, especially since he was in the middle of a meal. Leaving the two bound Rabbits, the hound like creature gave a howl that sent dread into the hearts of every living creature that heard it, from the smallest of ants to even the alpha male manticore a mile away.

Everything that heard the howl felt a primal fear that made them want nothing to run for their lives. The only creatures that didn’t run were the other hound creatures, they simply ran over to the creature they knew as their alpha. The barks, growls and snarls his pack gave told him they felt it to, and were non to pleased, after all, challenging an alpha Garm was never a good idea.

Nick revelled in feeling of having his full power back, like seeing an old friend for the first time in years. The results of his training showed to, his power was now on par with a low tier demi-god. At this rate he might be able to take on Celestia some day, though he was somewhat doubtful, the possibility was there. Nick looked around at the aura he was projecting…. Maybe this was a bit excessive. He floated to the ground deactivating the aura. Nick landed on his feet but when he looked down, he noticed that all that was left of his clothes were the metal plating he had in them that had fallen to the ground.

“Dude, where's my clothes?” Nick asked covering up with some chitin plates.

“Yeah umm, the thing about the Flight aura is if you flow too much magic into it you’ll end up burning off any fabric they touch” Midnight said with a slight red tinge to her cheeks.

“You never told me you had that much magic!!” Trixie shouted walking over to Nick.

“You never asked.” Nick shrugged.

“Wow, that was enough Magic to go toe to toe with a four tailed Kitsune, I’m impressed to say the least.” Kenzin said walking over to him.

“Only a four tail huh? How far off am I from getting to a nine tailed?” Nick asked.

“Pfft, not even close, you would need to more than triple that much power to take on an eight tail, let alone one of the grand elders. There's only three of them for a reason.” Kenzin chuckled at Nick’s question, “though, if you were to nearly double it you might stand a chance against a six tailed Kitsune.” Kenzin stated.

“Well, that’s going to take a while, but at least I know where I stand there.” Nick said rubbing the back of his head,“Alright, Midnight when do you think you’ll be able to take Twilight back to Equestria?” Nick asked.

“We can head out by morning, I travel light, so there isn’t much to prep.” Midnight said walking over to Nick, “but first, what are we going to do with this?” Midnight asked looking at the solid sphere of Celestia’s magic still in Nick’s hand.

“Oh don’t you worry about this, I got something very special in mind for this.” Nick said looking at the small orb.

“Does this mean you need some new clothes…” Silk sighed looking at the scattered scraps of metal.

“Yeah… sorry about that silk, had I known I wouldn’t have done that. But, I have a few ideas that should help minimize the work you need.” Nick said giving her a reassuring hug making the silk drone blush a deep green as his abdomen brushed against her. She was going to have to have a talk with Trixie, waiting like this was driving her crazy!!

“Ok, but this time don’t go burning off you're good clothes.” Silk said giving a light glare at her mate.

“So um, can we get back to you're training Nick?” Iron asked.

“Sure, and don’t worry, I promise to hold back.” Nick said with some mischievousness in his eyes.

Nick was in the forge working on a new project. E had drafted the designs for the cloth parts and handed them off to silk. The orb of celestia's magic was currently locked up in a safe under the workbench. Twilight and Midnight had left this morning taking the route towards the Crystal empire. Trixie had retired to bed early yesterday after everything that happened.

Soon they would be heading off to the Kirin home land where this Martial arts master was, hopefully he would come out of the training with a great deal of skill. Nick hammered away at his project, the heat didn’t bother him too much thanks to the ventilation bringing in all the cold air from outside, but he had been working on this for several hours now, he slammed his hammer on the cooling piece of metal one last time before setting down.

Wiping the sweat off of his brow Nick removed his blacksmith apron and set his hammer on the workbench. He walked out of the forge to find Kenzin sitting next to it with a piece of wheat sticking out of his mouth and an open pocket watch in his hands.

“Hey Kenzin, do you think you could by any chance teach me that avatar technique?” Nick asked, he would love to learn it.

“Hmm? Oh you mean my spirit form? Sorry, but you wouldn’t be able to do it. Only a kitsune can, it’s a special magic that only exists in Kitsune blood.” Kenzin said with an apologetic tone. Kenzin’s words reminded Nick of something he had set out to do a long time ago, but had forgotten since coming here, and face palmed once he realized how many opportunities he had to obtain new genetic samples. Thanks to everything that had happened since he came here he didn’t really think about it.

Kevil was a major potluck of different creatures he could have acquired. Well, it was too late to go back now, but that didn’t mean he couldn’t start a new collection, he already had Trixie’s DNA about ninety nine more and he could resurrect unicorns should they ever go extinct.

“Hmm, in that case, would you mind if I tried something?” Nick asked.

“What would that be?” Kenzin asked.

“I can absorb the genetic material from almost anything, when I do I can gain some of their traits or even become what I absorb. If you let me, I would take a single drop of blood from you as material to use, I would be able to use Kitsune magic.” Nick said.

“.....huh?” Kenzin asked.

“Let me have a drop of your blood and I’ll be able to use Kitsune magic.” Nick deadpanned.

“Oohhhh, why didn’t you just say so?” Kenzin said stretching out his arm, “why not, I’d like to see what you can do with it.” Kenzin said.

“Alright, thanks Kenzin.” Nick said grabbing his arm and extracting the sample. The sample was a bit more complex than average, but nothing he couldn’t figure out.

“So what’s this project you're working on by the way?” Kenzin asked.

“Just some things to help keep me safe while looking awesome. Plus some training items and such. Now that this mark is no longer suppressing my power it opens up several possibilities. And since I’ve grown accustomed to having a lot less power and have learned how to make better use of what I have, I think it would be best to put some sort of limiter to keep it in check. After all I don’t want to blow us all up now do I?” Nick said.

“Yeah that would be a bad thing alright.” Kenzin nodded.

“Anyway, I hope to have it done by the end of the week before we head off. Won’t be able to work on it on the boat. Unfortunately I can only work on it for so long before the heat of the forge gets to me. So a nice break is in order.” Nick said enjoying the breeze going over his bare chest.

“Hmm, so you're able to get new powers by taking blood from others?” Kenzin asked.

“Yeah, why?” Nick asked.

“Then just go find a dragon and take some of it’s blood, they are completely immune to heat of any kind, and have scales that are so tough, they're second only to mythril.” Kenzin said.

“Really, do you happen to know of any nearby?” Nick asked.

“Hmm, I’m not all that sure to be honest. Most dragons tend to keep to themselves down south in their own lands. There are a few younger and middle aged ones that venture out for one reason or another, but this far north you would be a little hard pressed to find one.” Kenzin said.

“Damn, well i’ll find one sooner or later, for now I think I should go find Iron and Buckbeak, see if I can’t get a sample form them. But before I do can you show me how to use that aura thing?” Nick asked as he made adjustments to the magic focusing bones in his arms and hands by adding in a few veins of bone that generated Kitsune magic..

“Sure, to be honest it isn’t much different than a unicorn’s levitation spell, just merge the matrix with a shield matrix with some Kitsune magic and you're good.” Kenzin said.

“Really that simple?” Nick asked shocked that such a powerful spell was so simple.

“Sort off, once you merge the two spell matrixes and add the Kitsune magic in it turns into a completely new matrix with blank spots so you can add in some sub spells. For instance if I were to add in a magic blast spell into one of the blank spots I would end up using a crap ton of magic and fire off a massive energy blast.” Kenzin explained.

“Interesting. Hmm, yeah, you're magic is really different from anything I have felt before, almost alive… cool.” Nick said making an observation at the modified veins of bone.

“Yep, impressive isn’t it?” Kenzin more stated than asked.

“Yep.” Nick answered before shivering. The heat from earlier’s hard labor and the furnace was wearing off now. With his jacket burnt to less than ash and silk still working on his new clothes he decided to go with a look he hadn’t used since his last anime convention.

Nick made his way inside his and Trixie’s cart and grabbed some baggy silk pants, some spare combat boots, and plenty of spare fabric Silk had left lying around. After poking a hole through the baggy pants Nick grew himself a long thick monkey tail along with a short but thick layer of black fur over most of his body except his head, neck chest and abs. He threw on the baggy pants and combat boots before wrapping his ankles waist and wrists in the spare silk he lengthened his inch long raven black hair until it was just above where his nipples would be if he still bothered having them.he made sure to thicken his hair as well. The end results was him looking like a character from one his favorite anime growing up with a slight color change.

Stepping out of the cart Nick was met with the cold mountainous air that barely fazed him now that he had grown some fur. He walked down the street looking for his intended targets.

“Come on Vinyl, we’ll find somepony, but we can’t go home to do so until we find Twilight.” Octavia said looking at vinyl who chose simply to look down at her coffee.

“Neon, big mac, Braeburn, quibble, Bushel, Thunderlane, even Derpy’s brother Caboose turned us down! All because they’re too scared to look me in the eyes Octavia.” Vinyl said.

“I know, and it’s their loss for their own superstition. We both know you don’t have any of Celestia’s magic in you. Yes you work for her, but so do I. besides, why would she put her magic in you without consent? That’s taboo in the pantheon.” Octavia said reaching over to her herd mate giving her hand a reassuring squeeze.

“I know, but… octavia, I’ve been thinking, this mission isn’t official, and we technically don’t work for her. Officially were just normal citizens on vacation. What if we, don’t go home? What if we just went back grabbed our stuff and moved here? Changed our identities? We wouldn’t have to deal with her anymore and maybe we would have an easier time finding a male?” Vinyl said.

“Honestly that does sound like a good idea.” An excessively masculine voice with a slighty scottish accent said startling them. A moment later a large minotuar sat next to vinyl blocking her into her booth.

“Hey who the buck are-” Vinyl started, only to stop when she heard Octavia speak up.

“It’s been a long time, sensei.” Octavia said with a none too pleased look on her face.

“It has Octavia, you’ve grown quite a bit.” Iron Will said looking over her.

“You look… younger?” Octavia said looking over the Bull that was not as old as she remembered.

“Just a change in appearance.” Iron said.

“Ah, so what do we owe this pleasure.” Octavia asked.

“Simple really, i want you to leave Twilight Sparkle and her familiar alone, or at the very least do not do anything with them that Celestia has ordered you to do, now, back to the subject at hand, this little mare here wanting to leave Equestria.” Iron said putting a hand on the Vinyls shoulder.

“Sorry, but that can’t happen, we would be on the run for the rest of our lives.” Octavia said.

“She’s right, we'd have never be able to live in peace.” Vinyl said with a sigh.

“Maybe not, see Twilight’s Familiar is traveling with me, and he’s learning fast. Fast enough that we are heading over to the Grandmaster for training.” Iron said, “and his magic is on par with a four tailed Kitsune. And that isn’t even the full story. Now I think we could come to a sort of agreement. You two are thinking about leaving Celestia, Nick and Trixie want a Full herd. You to would make perfect herd mates. You're looking for a male that’ll accept this mare without thinking she was one of Celestia’s puppets, Nick is just such a Male. if you're interested Meet us at the pier in three days.” Iron said getting up and leaving.

Octavia sat there for a long moment thinking about his offer, was it worth it? Not only would they be deserting, but they would also be joining one of Equestria's enemies. If they took the offer they could very well finally be in a herd, something they had both wanted since they were young fillies. But they could never return home. Octavia’s career as a famous cellist in Equestria would be over, and she would be branded a traitor. Vinyl would be able to continue her career as a DJ anywhere. She would be willing to do it if Vinyl was up for it. She need to talk with Vinyl about this.

“That bastard took my coffee.” Vinyl said looking down to take another drink.