I was walking around the kingdom, wondering how I was going to do as a father, when I had an idea “Wait, I can time travel… and the tree amplifies my power tremendously… maybe…” just then, someone ran into me. I looked at the citizen, who ran past me, and saw a lot of people were running away from the direction of the marketplace.

“Monster!” one of them yelled as they ran by.

I looked around in confusion, I heard everyone yelling and screaming until I heard a loud pitched screeching sound. I slenderwalked over to the marketplace and saw the beast.

It looked like a giant bat monster that’s thrashing around. It slammed into buildings screeching in extreme pain. I saw someone in white holding on for dear life as it slammed into another building.

I slenderwalked to the creature and restrained it with my slendrils “What in the red hell is going on?!”

“Thank… ugg… you…” the being said. I looked and saw it was a woman wearing what looked like paladin armor. She had light brown hair and tan skin with bright blue eyes. She also looked a little green. The bat thing thrashed around against my slendrils.

I grunted and ever so slightly tightened my grip on the beast while helping the paladin down. She took some deep breaths before looking at me.

“Thanks.” she said.

I smiled before gesturing to the bat thing with my spare hand “I would like to know your plans with this beast, if you simply want to kill it, may I make it a proxy? I could use a mount.”

She looked at me oddly. “No, friend is coming.” as she said that I heard some running coming from behind me. I turned to see a man running towards us, he had back hair that had a top hat over it and a trench coat on. He had a staff in his right hand and an old black suitcase.

“Oh good you’re alive.” he said as he got closer to us and to the bat thing. “Is everyone alright?”

I shrugged “Well, aside from some of my subjects probably needing therapy, we are all fine, oh, and your friend looks a little nauseous.” I then looked to the bat thing, which was trying, and failing, to bite into my slendril “Knock that off.”

The man walked over to the beast and set his case down. He opened it and looked inside it… then walked into it. He disappeared for about ten seconds before re-emerging with some sort of cream. He took the stuff and started to rub it into the bats ear. After a few moments the beast started to calm down.

“There you go, this should ease the pain.” the man said.

I looked to the man before gesturing to the bat “Should I set him down, or will he start thrashing about again?”

Bob then walked out of a nearby pub and gawked at the bat monster “Well hello, you freaky thing you.” The man frowned at him.

“That’s rude.” he said as he finished with the cream. He then took the staff and tapped my slendrils a few times. They disappeared and reappeared near me as the bat thing shook a bit then licked the man. “You’re welcome.”

I looked to the bat creature and smiled “You know, it is actually rather cute, when it is not scaring my subjects. I don’t suppose that he holds a grudge against me for restraining him, do you? I just had to protect my subjects, it is sort of my job.”

The bat thing looked at me and sniffed me for a bit before the man looked at me. “Nah you're fine, wolfbats are really peaceful with amazing hearing, this one just had an earache.”

I nodded and smiled before petting it gently, Bob looking to the Wolfbat sadly “Sorry for insulting yah, big guy, When I get drunk I just speak without any filters.”

I then looked to the man and held out a slendril to shake his and the paladins hands as I rubbed the wolfbats tummy, it’s tongue hanging out like a dogs “I am Greg, who are you two?”

“Susan, and he’s Nick.” the paladin said.

“Hello.” Nick said as he went to his case and pulled out a large pear and set it near the wolfbat, who started eating it.

I nodded as I watched the wolfbat happily eating the pear “How would you like to live with me? I would love to have an animal companion, and my wife would most likely appreciate the company when I am away.”

“I think he already lives here.” Nick said. “Found his cave near here as we got here.”

I nodded “I know that, I was asking if he would like me to make him my pet. You know, you feed them, and love them, make them a part of your family?” The wolfbat looked at me and licked me, smearing me with pear.

I smiled and slenderwalked out of the pear before walking back up to the wolf bat “I’ll take that as a yes, mayhaps I should give you a name? Maybe Vladimir? Or Vlad, for short?”

The wolfbat waggled its butt eagerly before jumping and running in a circle. It then jumped up and licked my face, luckily it was no longer eating pear, unluckily its breath smelled very bad.

“That’s a yes.” Nick said with a smile as he closed the suitcase.

I looked to the two of them “So, how are you two here? I haven’t heard of a veterinarian and a paladin traveling my kingdom, and the Sylvari know the forests every visitor.”

“Magic.” Nick said while wiggling his fingers.

I looked to Bob, who was playing with green electricity in his hands as he played cat’s cradle. “So, Bob, I hear you have been drinking again?” I grabbed him by the ear “What the hell did I say about alcohol! That stuff is poison!” Bob looked to me with a sad expression, one that I knew all too well. “Oh...”

Bob sighed as he was released from my hand “I know you're worried, but I swear, I won’t drink it away next time.”

Susan took a step forward before Nick pointed at her. “I swear if you go and say anymore of that religion stuff, I’m not making your favorite dish for a month.” Susan frowned and crossed her arms, earning some clunks from the armor.

I let Bob walk to the Elder oak and sighed before looking to Susan and Nick, who were standing there uncomfortably “I suppose you want to know what all that was about, huh?”

“Night terrors.” Nick said. Susan looked at him as he shrugged. “I know what it looks like, seen many with it.”

“Right.” she deadpanned before giving me a sheepish smile.

I sighed “Let’s just say, our parents were so bad that they literally gave Bob PTSD. Our sister got out the first chance she got, and I don’t blame her.” I sighed “I still wonder where she wound up… she was wearing a skull kid costume…”

“Skull…Kid…” Nick said as he looked at Susan.

“You don’t think…” she started until there was a knock from the suitcase. Nick walked over and opened it.

“I feed the boar's.” a female voice said. It sounded… familiar.

“What about the thunderbirds?” he asked.

“You know they don’t like me!” the voice said. He frowned before I heard some grumbling. He looked up at the two of us.

“Right…” he said before looking down at the case and jumping into it, closing it.

I looked to Susan and gestured to the suitcase “So… what’s with the case? And why do I recognize… wait… Holly?! Are you in there?!”

Bob was sprinting at us the second I said my sisters name “Greg, did you see Holly?! Where’s sis?!”

Susan looked at us and pointed at the case. “Go look, mind the step.”

I slenderwalked to the case and opened it, Bob leaping inside as I followed suit. I stopped and saw that it was deeper then I thought as I heard a thud from below me.

“Ow~.” Bob said as I got down to what looked a kitchen/ workplace, different things that I didn’t know hanging from hooks and a lot of herbs. Bob looked around. “Okay… this is bigger than I thought.”

I nodded and pointed to the strange objects “Those look quite odd, even though I know my way around a kitchen, I can’t even begin to guess what they are for…”

Bob got up and walked to a door and peeked outside. “Okay, scratch what I said before, this place is really big!”

I nodded and looked outside before I sighed “It’s going to take forever to find Holly… if she is even here… It’s like a miniature world here!”

“Maybe… hey what’s going on over there?” Bob asked.

I looked over and saw what looked like a storm going on. Nick said something about Thunderbirds so… I grabbed Bob and slenderwalked over to the storm, hoping that whatever was going on was not TOO dangerous… as we got there I saw two Thunderbirds in the sky with one of them holding something in it’s talons.

“I’M NOT FOOD YOU OVERGROWN CHICKEN!!!!” I heard a female voice yelled out. There was a lighting bolt that hit the ground near us. “SCREW YOU! YOUR FOOD IS DOWN THERE!”

I looked and saw Nick floating two large and dead cows into view. The birds saw this and flowed down to them, dropping the being as they were a few feet off the ground. They took the cows and flew off somewhere, taking the storm with them. Nick walked over to me.

“Hey.” he said. I looked to Nick and hugged him as I saw the being draw closer, dressed as a black and white skull kid with Majora's mask on, but her color scheme reminded me of Midna's fused shadow form.

“Holly, is… is that you?” I asked.

The girl looked to me suspiciously “And just who the heck are you? How do you know my name?”

I looked to her and smiled “It’s me, Greg, remember how I cosplayed as Slenderman, and Bob as the mask?”

She gasped “W-what?! But… Why didn’t you come find me?!”

I looked down and mumbled “I had hoped you hadn’t been displaced, I knew you got a fiance recently… and… I didn’t want you to lose him.”

She grabbed me and began to shake me, her whole body floating off of the ground “I WAS ALL ALONE, IN THE FREAKING WOODS! OF COURSE I WANTED YOU TO FIND ME, DUMMY!”

“Er… I guess you have some… things to talk about so…” Nick looked around and started to back away. “I have other… things to do…”

Bob grabbed Nick and hugged him before noogying him affectionately “Nah, man, you're sticking with us till I can throw you guys a party!”

Holly looked to Bob and gasped “Oh my god, Bob! You look so different! Why are you black haired now, what the heck is going on?!”

“And can you let go of me please.” Nick asked.

Bob sighed and let Nick go before I smiled “Let’s just say you have got a new chance at life.”

Holly gasped “HOLY JESUS FUCK DID I DIE!?”

I waved my hands quickly “No! Nothing like that! You were just Displaced, turned into a whatever you cosplayed as with their powers!”

Holly looked to me a moment “So that fused shadow ring I bought did all this?! I didn’t expect all this for a buck fifty and showing off my boobs!”

We all stared at her for a moment before Nick spoke up. “Better than what me and Susan did.”

I shook my head in shame “You really need to reign in yourself… he could’ve been a creeper instead…”

She shrugged as I got a good look at her. All I can say is that she was curvy, she had a DD-cup sized breasts like before but now…

“Hey sis, did your ass get bigger?” Bob asked. I looked and saw that she did have a bigger butt and wider hips, again curvy.

Holly looked to Bob and smacked him upside the head “My ass is my business! And why are you checking out my ass anyway, perv?!”

Bob shrugged “Hey, it’s pretty noticeable. Hey, how did you get into showing a merchant your breasts, anyway?”

Holly shrugged “He said he’d give me twenty bucks credit if I did. Who am I to give up twenty bucks off a purchase?”

“Right..” Nick said turning away from her, I saw him blushing a bit.

Bob smiled evilly before he looked at Nick “Oh Holly~ It looks like you have an admirer, maybe he’ll give you something for showing him-” he was cut off by a dark green flash that sent Bob flying away. I turned to see Nick leveling his staff and looked at me.

“He had it coming.” he said.

Holly was blushing like mad, her mask now at her belt for some reason as she looked everywhere but at Nick “U-ummm…. How about we get out of here, have that party we were talking about?”

I nodded and grabbed them all, slenderwalking back out of the suitcase as I set them on the ground, Vlad still sitting there patiently with Susan, and it seems Rose had come out to see what the commotion was. She looked to me, then to Holly, then to Nick “So… where were all of you?”

“In my home.” Nick said as he pointed at the suitcase as if it was common knowledge.

Rose looked into the suitcase and shrugged “Well, that’s actually the second strangest thing I have ever seen, Bob taking first.”

Bob looked to Rose, his face showing mock offence “I can hear you, you know!”

Holly smiled “I like this lady, who is she?”

I smiled “Rose, this is my sister Holly, Holly, this is my wife Rose and no, she is not fat, she is pregnant.”

Holly gasped and flew at Rose, hugging her shoulders excitedly “I’m an auntie!”

I smiled and nodded before walking over to Bob and Vlad, bringing them to the rest of the group as Rose smiled and walked over to me, giving me a tender smooch “So, what was it you were on the stroll thinking about, anyway?”

I looked to her curiously “How did you know I had to think?”

She giggled “Because I know you, you walk when you think.”

I nodded “Well, I was thinking, maybe we should travel forward in time? I mean, Nothing much is going to happen for a thousand years, and I want to make sure that we are around when Equestria stops being so… well, racist.”

“Really, this place is racist?” Susan said as she looked around. “It’s pretty here.”

I shook my head “No, we are in the Deer kingdom, known as The Faewood by us, and called the Everfree forest by the ponies. Ponies at the moment think that if it’s not a pony, than it’s evil, stupid, or a monster.”

Nick frowned a bit and muttered something under his breath before Bob spoke.

“Even Jinx and she’s a pony as well.” Bob said crossing his arms. Holly looked at him for a few moments.

“Jinx?” she asked.

I nodded “Think Jinx from league of legends, but ponified.”

Bob grumbled about the ponies for a bit “Damn hypocritical shitstains, that’s what they are.”

I sighed and looked to Bob “My concern is… do the tokens pull through time, as well as space?”

“What do you mean?” Nick asked as he started to pet Vlad.

I pulled out all of my friends tokens and showed them to the others “I can summon my friends with these… but if I go ahead about a thousand years, to where things get interesting with the ponies, will they still be summonable? I don’t want to lose them… or make them wait a thousand years to see me again...”

“Don’t know.” Susan said.

“Hey, didn’t Prax made something to talk to Jace?” Bob asked me.

I nodded “Yeah, I think he made a gateway…”

“Well, give him a call to give him the heads up and then port a thousand years and call him again.” Bob said to me. Holly looked at him shocked.

“That’s… actually smart of you.” she said.

I nodded and slenderwalked to the gateway, walking through it to find myself in jace’s world “Hey, Jace! You here? I need to tell you some stuff!”

As I yelled that something hit me in the back of my head and I fell onto the ground.

“By the makers man don’t do that!” I heard Jace yell. “I gave you something so that you can call me from there!”

I turned and saw him standing there in normal clothes and holding a weird hammer thing and a blunderbuss.

I rubbed the back of my head and sighed “I’m sorry, but I needed to tell you some stuff, and… I don’t think this is the kind of thing you say over long distance.”

“Does it involve me hitting you with my boom hammer?” he asked. He looked at me for a moment. “Something has happened, what happened?”

I smiled and looked him in the eyes “I am going to be a father. And I was wondering… would you like to be the baby's godfather?”

He stared at me for a bit before shrugging. “Sure, I’m already one to a demon prince of hell.” he looked up at the ceiling for a moment. “Kinda funny if you think about it.”

I nodded and laughed as I looked around awkwardly “Also, I was thinking of sending my kingdom through time. I’m going to check if time passes between us, after me slenderwalking forward a thousand years, then, if nothing happens, I’m going to do it. I have this feeling, that the changelings are going to try to invade us, I don’t want to face them for now, I need more time.”

“Okay… so you’re going to send your kingdom one thousand years into the future, yes?” Jace asked as he puts his weapons away.

I nodded as I saw the gateway flare to life again, Holly coming through and colliding face first into my forehead “Jesus Fuck! That bloody hurt!”

“Language.” Jace said.

Holly looked up at him before looking at me. “Who’s the giant guy?”

I smiled “Jace, this is my sister Holly, Holly, this is Jace, my best friend since being Displaced.”

“And I’m not a giant, I’ve seen giants and I’m not one of them.” he said.

Holly shrugged while floating in the air “I was talking about how freaking ripped you are, seriously, it looks like you could benchpress a freaking bus.”

“Right… anyway I don’t think time between our worlds is going to change much, you're just making your kingdom go forward right?” Jace said, ignoring Holly a bit.

I nodded “I’m going to give the citizens a chance to leave if they want, but I am going forward.”

“So it’s just your kingdom, the only way to make a difference if you make your universe move forward in time which you can’t do.” he said with a shrug. “I seen a lot but you don’t have the power to do that, most gods can’t.”

I nodded and waved to him “See you in a thousand years, or not, who knows, this time travel stuff is weird.”

“Just go.” Jace said with a wave.

I took Holly's hand and went through the gateway before I smiled “Let’s do this.” Holly nodded as she floated off and I prepared to give a speech…

“My subjects!...”

One... hour... later…

“... that is all.” I finished.

Several Deer, including Clover, picked up their things and left, however, the majority stayed I nodded and slenderwalked to the center of the Elder Oak with Bob, me equipping his mask form and activating my armor state as I grabbed the center of the tree, letting it’s power fill me as I Spread my power throughout the borders of our kingdom, creating a dome of slendril-like roots to encompass us and I began to slenderwalk us forward, I could feel time speeding up, it was working, but… I could also feel that something was colliding with the dome repeatedly, it was strong, angry, and fierce. Whatever it was, I wanted it nowhere near my people.

I focused and thickened the dome, strengthening its individual roots as well as adding more to it. I… I heard something…

‘Do not tressssspassss in our domain, fledgling. We shall dessstroy you!’

I grunted as the beings kept on pounding harder and harder on the kingdoms dome, making it shake and shudder.

“Having fun?” I heard someone familiar say.

“Jace? The hell?” I said.

“Magic my friend.” he said. “So, having fun?”

I looked around for him and grunted “I am not, whatever this thing is… it’s what ate me before, and it wants me dead now! If it weren’t for this tree’s boosting me, and Bob… I’d be dead already!”

Holly then appeared in the room as I spoke “Wait, this thing that’s shaking the whole place, it wants you dead?”

I nodded “It says I have trespassed into its domain, it… it’s really pissed off!”

“Well, want help?” Jace voice said.

I nodded as black blood leaked out of my mouth “Help would be VERY appreciated!”

Holly left the room and growled at the creature as she summoned a large, spear like flute.

“Well, I can help, bring your sister back in, don’t want to give her nightmares.” Jace said.

I nodded and sent out a slendril root, or slendroot, to grab her, it eventually reached her and I used it to pull her back into the room with me. “Holly, stay here!”

“Why!” she yelled. Before I could answer we heard a roar. Holly eyes widen and looked back. “What… the hell was that?”

I grunted as I struggled to keep the dome held together. “I don’t know, but here’s hoping it knows how to keep barriers sturdy!”

As I kept the barriers up as the thing pounded on them then… they stopped. I heard struggling and some sort of fighting before silence.

“I-I think it sto-” I was cut off by the sound of... something laughing, it wasn’t the thing from before, but the new creature. Then the sound of flesh being eaten.

‘Your ally may have won the day, fledgling… but we sssshhhall return! AND NONE SHALL STOP OUR RAGE!’ The sound of eating subsided as a new voice was heard, this one sent shivers down my spine.

“My Hunger… is sated… for now… we’ll meet again…” the creature faded from the dome as silence was heard for the rest of the way.

after the trip

“W-What was that.” Holly said, voice filled with fear. “The second thing I mean… I felt my life was going to end right there.”

I sighed in exhaustion “I do not know… but I’m glad it helped us, I just hope it stays on our side…”

“I don’t know…” Holly said.

“How about we go see how everyone is doing?” I heard Bob say.

I nodded and removed him, letting him reform as we walked out to the kingdom, only to find that the roots had protected the kingdom and its citizens. I saw Fred come running towards me looking panicked.

“Greg, it’s Nip, she’s in pain!” he said.

I looked to Fred in shock before following him to the hospital, only to find Nip limping out of the place mumbling to herself. She saw us and started to limp towards us. As she got up to us and went to me and punched me very hard.

“You no touch Nip. Bad tall guy.” she said before limping off, saying something about checking her egg.

I looked to Nip while rubbing my arm in pain “I think she’s mad about me using the Elder Oaks power…”

“Don’t take this the wrong way but… I kinda want to hit you for doing that.” Fred said looking at the tree. “She said something about you touching her so I guess she’s part of the tree.”

I nodded and leaned over “Go ahead, hit me, I think I deserve it.”

Fred looked to me for a moment before he nodded and slugged me in the jaw, making me bite my tongue quite painfully. “There, now we are even. But you still have to make it up to Nip.”

Holly looked to me and frowned “Why don’t you just tell her why you did it? You said it was because you were worried about changelings, right? Well, tell her that.”

I nodded and slenderwalked to Nips door and knocked on it gently “Nip? May we please talk? I feel I owe you an explanation.”

“Yes…” I heard her say. I opened the door and saw her sitting on her bed with her egg in her hands, rubbing it… also naked.

I blushed and covered my eye areas out of reflex, this not affecting my vision whatsoever “Ummm… should I go while you get dressed? N-no, I need to explain this now.” Nip looked up at me.

“Why you cover your face?” she asked.

I sighed “I was hoping I wouldn’t be capable of seeing my friends lover naked, as that is improper. Anyway, have you heard of a creature called a changeling? They are creatures that feed on love by taking the place of someone you, or someone else loves. They were nearing our kingdom, and I needed to hide us from them, I knew that if I sent us forward through time, we could get the aid of the ponies. Who by this point will be much more open minded.”

“What’s a changeling, you have drawing?” she asked as she held her egg closer.

I sighed “Well, they can make themselves look EXACTLY like anyone, so the only way to tell if someone is a changeling is either by an anti illusion spell, or you know them very well, and they suddenly start acting different, as Changelings do not gain the memories of those they replace… Naturally they look like a pony with black carapace over their bodies and holes riddling them.”

She listened to my description before blinking. “I know Changeling! I met one a few days ago at bath house.”

I looked to Nip questioningly “You did? You… didn’t tell them where we all lived, did you?”

“No, she gave me card.” she said before standing up and walking over to the other side of the room. I stared for a moment as some of her parts… jiggled before turning away. She then stood in front of me with a card. “She said to call her if I wanted more needles.”

I shuddered as I realized she was talking about acupuncture. “Guh. I don’t get why anyone willingly has that done to them…” I then shook my head “Anyway, that bathhouse, was it one that Roc and Sam knew of, or was it out of the kingdom? I’m sorry to say that the card may no longer be good, if she exists in this realm.”

“I don’t know, want to try?” she asked.

I shrugged “Sure, I guess, if she is part of a hive around here, we may be capable of entering peace treaties instead of them having to start stealing love from us.”

She nodded, she turned around and did something to the card before putting it down, giving me a good view of her ass. She’s REALLY not making this easy! After a few moments mist came off the card and covered the floor of the room. The smell of a bath house filled the room as a the mist rises up for a moment. There in the spot of the mist was a female Changeling with a small box at her side. She looked around until looking at us.

“Hello.” she said with a smile.

I smiled and nodded “Hello, erm… could you tell me if you are native to this realm?”

“Nope.” she said as she set her box down.

I nodded “Well, I would like to speak with you after… well, after Nip. I really need to go and not see her naked.”

“Not good around naked girls?” she asked with a smirk.

“Also you nod a lot, you just nod.” Nip said.

I shyly shrugged “Well, I don’t have a face. So I can’t really smile or frown.”

“But you have mouth, and you can smile and frown, I seen it.” Nip said.

I frowned as I realised she was right “Okay, I’ll work on not nodding.” I then looked to the changeling “So, can you tell Nip about how changelings… eat?” I frowned “I am also looking for a way to make ties with the Changeling Hives, would you possibly tell me what they like?”

“For what changelings eat, depends on the hive really, to make ties with other hives don’t ask me.” she said with a shrug. “I just work at a spa that does acupuncture.”

I sighed “Well, it was nice meeting you, now in case Nip is going to want your services, I will leave. Needles unnerve me.”

She giggled a bit. “You make it out as if we are going to have some fun, also you should try acupuncture, you’ll feel amazing.” she tilted her head a bit. “There was one deer lady that enjoyed it a week ago.”

I shuddered “N-no, and that was most likely my wife…” I looked to Nip and smiled timidly “Umm… See you later!” I then made to leave. The last sight of her was her getting on her bed and laying down. I walked out quickly and sighed. She makes it so hard sometimes....

Literally, maybe Rose could help me out with this...wait, she’s pregnant… damn.

I slenderwalked to the restroom and decided to vent some steam, as it were.

one bout of masterbation later

I smiled and walked out of the restroom as I looked around, happily observing the area as Vlad came up to me and licked me again. “Hey there, fella! How are you!”

Vlad barked excitedly and ran away, looking like he wanted me to follow, I shrugged and followed him as I wandered into Bob holding down Holly, who was… less colorful than before… Oh shit.

I slenderwalked to them and clocked her over the head “Where the hell is Eris?” Oh god, I can’t believe I let them get turned into this… She is going to pay if anyone gets hurt.

Holly huffed sultrily ”why don’t you let me go, and I show you my… appreciation...”

Dear god she made her sex crazed!

Bob grunted as he kept restraining Holly. “Let’s not… and say we didn’t!”

I looked at the two of them and saw Nick’s suitcase near by… wait… I slenderwalked into it and started to look for him.

“Nick!” I yelled.

“Over here!” he yelled back. I turned to see him dealing with a big manticore. “What’s up?”

I pointed to the exit from here, my panic evident. “Eris got free! She’s messed up Holly! I need you to keep her from doing something that she would regret while I go find Eris!

“Oh… want her cured?” he asked. I stared at him for a moment as the words repeated themselves in my head.

I grabbed him excitedly. “Do it! I don’t like my sister sex crazed!”

“Let me go.” he said. I put him down and dusted him off. He walked over to his workshop and started searching for something until he found a flower that had a glow to it.

“This, is a Harmonia flos.” he said as he pulled two petals of the flower and looked at me. “A Harmony flower, grown near a tree of Harmony or a place filled with harmony, it took me some time but I learned of a way to making it into a potion that would deal with Eris magic, it works I tested it with Eris back home.”

I nodded and… damn it… I hummed an agreement and let him get to work on the potion. “I’ll go find Eris, wait… do you have one of those potions ready? I could use Bob’s help, but he’s busy keeping Holly from rutting the cities brains out.”

“Normally it would take about a week to make.” he said. I paled at the thought as he put it in some jar and poured something into the jar and cover it. There was an explosion in the jar as he removed the lid and… oh god the smell! He poured it into a vial and looked at me. “I can do it in thirty seconds, now got to get it into her… and I have a plan… don’t hate me for it.” he finished as he walked up to the trap door and opened it.

I slenderwalked to Holly, waiting for Nick as I waited for her to be cured desperately. He walked out of his suitcase and looked at her as she looked at him.

“You said she’s sex crazed?” he asked.

Holly smiled lewdly. “I would not say crazed. I’d say skilled, how’s about I show you?” She said as she broke free from Bob and began seductively… guh… smushing her breasts together.

“It’s so wrong for me to see this…” Both me and Bob said. Nick smiled at her.

“Sure, just looked down before giving you a kiss.” he said. Holly smiled as she looked down as Nick took the potion. He walked over to her as she looked up at him and he gave her a kiss. He looked at me and put up a finger to say one second. I watched as the colour washed over her body as they pulled away. “Feeling better?”

“WHAT THE HELL WAS I DOING?!” She said as she blushed uncontrollably, she then looked to me and Bob before she realized what had happened “Oh, I’m going to kill that bitch!”

“You’re welcome.” Nick said as he stepped back and closed his case.

I looked to Nick and sighed “I don’t know if I should praise you for a genius, or curse you for a bastard.”

Bob shrugged as he looked to Canterlot. “Should we be going to canterlot, to save the day, or something?”

“If we’re going with the timeline then Eris would be in Silver- I mean Ponyville, right?” Nick asked.

Bob shrugged “I never really watched the season two opener, started at season three.”

I looked to Bob in shock “How could you not watch the first two seasons? They were awesome.”

Bob shrugged, his hands in his pockets “Just never got around to it.”

“Can we please move on, if she’s in Ponyville then Susan would be heading there.” Nick said.

I grunted out an affirmative as I let out my slendrils to grab Nick, Bob, and Holly. Nick quickly made his suitcase fly to him before we slenderwalked to Ponyville.

I let everyone go and looked around warily as I took out my sword, entering my armored state “Holly, Bob, stay on guard, who knows what Eris will do.”

Just as I said that, there was a searing pain in my back as I was slashed at by Eris, who had appeared behind me. Nick spun around and pointed his staff at her and blasting her into a building.

“Sorry!” he yelled before looking at us. “What?”

Bob looked to Eris and grunted “While I do love a bit of fun, do you think you could tone it down? You are causing others a great deal of stress.”

Nick looked around for a bit. “I don’t see Susan any-” Before he could finished Eris came out with a ball floating above her hand. She grinned and threw it at us, I moved to stop it but someone came up and cut it in half.

“No more balls!” Susan yelled as she held a greatsword in her hands.

Holly pulled out her flute again, this time the size of an ocarina, and had her two wisps appear “Let’s rock!” She rushed Eris and began assaulting her with the wisps as she played notes from her flute.

Bob also pulled out a weapon, a large mallet with a depiction of the Elder oak embossed on its surface as He slammed it down on the ground, causing roots to grow out from the ground to restrain Eris “Don’t you get it?! This fun is wrong, you are hurting people!”

Eris snarled at this before knocking him away and looking at Holly, a ball of blue and red fire appeared by her head.

“Look out! That’s some sort of hellfire!” Susan yelled before Eris threw to at Holly, sending her into the forest.

Holly PoV

Guh…. my head was on fire… oh wait, it really was. “Aaaugh!” I quickly summoned a gust of wind and blew away the flames as I looked around where I had landed, finding myself just outside some strange ruin “Ummm…. Okay, this was not in the show.” I then had an idea, most ruins have some sort of artifact, in Equestria… maybe there is something that could help with Eris? I flew into the ruins and began my search, mostly finding long hallways filled with what seemed to be pressure plates, most likely linked to deadly traps of some sort, that I simply floated over. I eventually found a large room, however, that caught my eye.

I floated into the room to see it was as dusty as ever and the blazers were cold. In the middle of the room was a coffin.

I felt a great deal of apprehension at this, did I really want to see what was in the coffin? While I could totally take anything undead, hell, I could use my mask if things got hairy and just annihilate whatever it was, but… I still didn’t want to SEE any form of undead monster or horror movie type creature that could be in that coffin… “Ah, screw it, came this far.” I flew over to the coffin and threw it open, hoping that whatever was inside would have something useful.

What I saw… was a woman with blue hair. She looked like she was sleeping. I stared at her for a moment before her hand grabbed my face and pulled me closer. Her eyes open as slitted red demon eyes stared at me.

“I’m trying to sleep.” she said angrily.

I looked at her blankly “There is a spirit of chaos wreaking havoc on the world… and your busy napping? Wow, I thought I was going to find something USEFUL here, guess I was wrong. Sorry for waking you up, granny.”

Her eye twitched a bit as she stood up, dragging me up with her. “Who are you calling granny, can a granny do this!” she yelled as she threw me into a few walls.

I laughed as I floated up “I assume you didn’t play Legend of Zelda, did you? I’m wearing two legendary relics, I could curse you five ways from sunday, saggy tits.”

She slowly walked out of the ruins with a frown.

“Curse me, you can try sprite.” she said.

I shrugged and put on my mask while activating my ring as I shook my head like a rattle, my power beginning to shift and change around her as I laughed, “See, I am not just limited to transforming curses, I could, oh… make you have to eat what you hate most just to survive?”

The woman just walked forward at me. Shrugging I cursed her. “So, I have to eat something that I hate to survive?”

I nodded “eeyup, but this one is worse than Usalia’s, it changes with your tastes, so there’s no easy way out, if you take too long, you will devolve into a mindless beast, then die.”

“Well, then I have to eat you.” she said as she walked a bit faster. “The only thing I hate to eat is flesh so… hold still.”

I smiled as I floated out of her reach “Or, you could ask me to remove the curse. I do know a song that’ll fix it, but… do I want to? Or should I reduce you to a glorified zombie?”

She didn’t say anything as she disappeared and was in front of me, grabbing me.

“You talk too much.” she said as I felt my body change. She floated down and pulled a mirror out.

“Now, how does it feel to be cursed?” she asked.

I looked to myself and laughed “Don’t expect me to be like this for long.” I then grabbed a flute and began to play the song of healing, turning my prinny body back to normal as a mask fell off of my face as I returned to normal. I pointed at her “We could do this all day, but there is still the fact that Eris is wreaking havoc with my friends and family, if you won’t help, I’ll just curse you again and leave!”

She stopped and crossed her arms and looked at me. Then a voice came behind me. “You are an odd one, you know that right?

I turned and saw the same woman floating a few feet off the ground watching me. I shrugged and laid back in mid-air as I began floating out of the ruins “I blame my parents.”

“Interesting.” she said looking around. “Where am I?”

I gestured to the door outside “I am pretty sure you are in the Everfree forest… err… or the Faewood, as the Deer call it.” I then went through it and gasped as I felt a massive burst of energy through the woods, as if someone very powerful suddenly became VERY angry… “Oh god, Greg!”

“Who’s that?” she asked as she went onto the ground. “Also you said Eris, where is she?”

I sighed and pointed towards ponyville “Greg, along with Bob, are my brothers… Greg is tremendously strong, stronger than me by a landslide, and that’s WITHOUT wearing Bobs mask form.”

“Funny.” she said before turning around. “Let’s go see what’s all the commotion, pet.”

Before I could say anything I felt something tug around my neck and saw a chain around my neck as she pulled me in the air.

I pulled the chain apart grunted, keeping the metal collar however, as it looked badass. “I’ll take you there, but I’m no one's pet.”

Greg POV

Bob was bleeding, bad, he had been taking the brunt of Eris's attacks, and I growled angrily as I held him close “Rest, brother, you fought well.”

Bob laughed “Heh, don’t think I’m through… I’m just going to be benched… for awhile…” he then reverted to his mask form, the magic he usually exuded now much fainter, but still noticeable.

I looked angrily to Eris as I walked toward her, my slendrils waving menacingly as I ripped my mouth open and drooled black ichor. “You have gone too far.”

“You defeated me before but now.” she said as that hellfire orb appeared again. “That have more tricks up my sleeve.” She then launched a barrage of hellfire at me.

I growled and launched my own fireballs at Eris, my rage pushing my powers to the edge, my Revenge the only thing on my mind as I slenderwalked behind her and grabbed her, slamming her head repeatedly into the ground before I threw her in the air, launching a black and white fireball the size of a truck at her, it exploding and sending her hurtling to the ground. “You hurt my brother, who only wanted to help you. Why should I hold back against one who harms such an innocent person?”

She looked back up at me with… green glowing eyes. She fired more of her hellfire at me. I swatted it away and was about to attack until something grabbed me.

“Stop!” Holly yelled.

I looked to Holly, who was accompanied by… a female Laharl? I always preferred Valvatorez… anyway, there was this demon woman looking at Eris like you would at someone who just kicked your kid in the shin, that is, she wanted to freaking KILL her.

“Hello Eris, how’s the demon magic you have?” she asked. Eris growled at her. “That good? Well sad to say, I’m taking my powers back.”

With that she made a claymore appear and charged at her.

I slenderwalked between them and grabbed Bob in his mask form, who I had left on the ground in my rage, and put him on my belt before I charged Eris as well, using my antimagic to keep her from teleporting around. She made a wall of hellfire in front of us but the female Laharl slashed through it frowning.

“Lame.” she said before kicking her in the stomach. Eris fell down to the ground before Laharl stepped on her throat. “Now, I’m taking my powers back.” With that she jammed her hand into Eris chest. She screamed in pain and thrashed around as Laharl pulled a demonic orb of power out of her and ate it.

Eris eyes blinked a few times as they went back to normal. She looked around confused.

I leveled my sword at Eris’s throat and snarled “Give me one good reason why I should not kill you.”

‘Whoa, hold up Greg, sure she has done many things that aren’t the greatest but killing her is going a bit far.’ Bob said via a telepathic link we shared when he was in mask form.

I growled for a bit before something hit me on the side, just barely hard enough for me to notice. I looked back to see the female Laharl putting down her foot and looking down at Eris.

“You, go sit in a corner.” she said. Eris was about to say something before Laharl pointed to a random direction.

I looked to Eris as she pouted and summoned a pair of walls in the direction she was told to go and sat down in it. She looked over her shoulder at me and I growled angrily. “I may be able to withstand a lot when it’s me getting hurt. But hurting my siblings crosses the line.”

“Says the one who brought them into a fight.” Laharl said. I glared at her as she didn’t look at me.

I raised my sword and easily chopped Laharls blade in half “If you want a better blade, you may want to watch what you say to me. My kingdom is FAR ahead of equestrians in smithing ability, and that was before this stagnant era of peace.”

“So, there’s no point for you here then.” she said as she tossed her broken blade away.

I smiled and laughed “I did not say that they had no use, they sit on a massive deposit of gemstones, and the very soil is imbued with magical energy here.”

‘Gemstones yes, but magic soil? We have that back home due to the Great Oak or did you miss that?’ Bob said.

‘I don’t trust this woman, I do not want her gaining too great an interest in the Faewood, also, the magic here is different, less wild. It may be a good idea to study it.’ I thought to Bob.

“You may also want to find a way to shield your thoughts from others, I could have heard them from a mile.” Laharl deadpanned.

Holly ran up to us and saw Eris and looked back at us. “Well… no one is hurt, surprisingly.” She then pouted a little. “But I was hoping to meet the mane six by now… you think they are okay?”

“They're fine, they're down the street to the left.” Laharl said quickly. “The other two will be here as well, about… two minutes judging their reaction time.”

Bob then sighed as he floated off of my belt and reformed into his body, blood still on his coat, and his usual green skin much paler as he fell onto his rear. “Guh… anyone know healing magic? I wanna be respectable looking for the girls. Don’t want them to faint at the sight of blood.”

Laharl walked over and put a hand on his shoulder and let go. “Wait a bit then go look for them, I don’t want to see the Princesses.” I saw for a moment that her features softened then she walked off. As she did something fell down and Holly made it float over to her. I turned to Bob and watched as the glow spread throughout his body in a darker green glow. His whole body shook at this.

“Ugh… I thought healing magic should feel all warm and stuff, that was cold.” he said.

I nodded and helped him up “Well, we should grab Eris, last thing we want is her getting put back into stone, I think she got the punishment she deserved about a hundred years ago.”

“Can I say something!?” Eris yelled. “You mean ten minutes ago, I don’t know what happened but… blarg I don’t want to go through that again.”

I looked to Eris and smiled before laughing “Well, that’s what you get for stealing powers from Demons, even I know that’s a bad idea.”

“How am I supposed to know that was a demon!” she yelled.

I deadpanned “The look of the power you stole gave no indication?”

“Not really.” she said.

I sighed “You know, for a chaos spirit, you are pretty dumb, I don’t see why Bob has a thing for you.”

Bob smacked me upside the head after leaping up “Oi! I might, but I’m dating Jinx right now!” I laughed as I looked over at Holly who was looking at the thing she grabbed and put it in her pocket.

“What’s that?” I asked her.

“Nothing.” she said. I stared at her until I notice the metal collar around her neck.

“Where the hell did you get that?! That looks all kinds of uncomfortable.”

“What? It looks cool… and it’s oddly comfortable.” she said with a smile.

I looked to her curiously “Was it that Laharl girl? If I catch you two doing weird shit I WILL kink shame you.”

“Not my type.” she said without missing a beat.

Eris then hid behind Bob as the Mane Six came running with Susan being dragged by Nick.

“What’s with you and running into demon empowered Chaos beings?” he asked her.

“Shut… up.” she groaned. “I went… into a wall.”

“Your one enemy, walls.” Nick said with a chuckle.

I saw Twilight look at me curiously as Fluttershy gasped and ran to me before slowing down and hiding behind her mane “Ummm…. A-are you… are you Father Ash Greg?”

I smiled warmly “Why yes, my dear. May I ask how you know my title? We have been gone a long time, from Equestria's perspective.”

Fluttershy smiled shyly and looked to me “My thrice great grandmother told my family about you… I just can’t believe how spot on the story was.”

“At least she didn’t tackled you like she did with Nick.” Susan said as she hobbled passed me.

“Oh yeah, I brought them out to help and I get tackled.” Nick grumbled.

I looked to twilight, who was staring at me “Oi, what’s up with Twily here?”

Rainbow Dash then flew up to me and gave me the stink eye “How do you know Twilight’s nickname? Are you a spy?”

I laughed aloud “No, I am a king, and should I see fit, I could help expand your society’s magical and smithing skills a thousand fold.”

“Well this is going to be intresting.” Nick said as he pulled out some bottles by Susan.

Twilight's eye twitched as she looked at me and she began to hyperventilate “Hey, cutie, breathe.” I kneeled so my head was level with hers and gently had her take calming breaths “Now, that better?”

Twilight nodded, then blushed “Ummm… thank you for the complement…”

Eris made gagging sounds in the background and I looked to her with a raised brow, hey, a new facial expression! “What’s your problem, aside from being stuck in stone for a thousand years? I really doubt you are in any position to be rude.” I then slenderwalked us to a far off location, about a mile and a half from yakyakistan. “Or should I not tell them about you having a chance at redemption and let them trap you in stone, again~?”

Eris looked to me in anger “What exactly do you mean, that I can be redeemed?” She pointed her eagle talon at me “I KILLED MY FATHER! I DON’T DESERVE REDEMPTION!... You showed me that what I did was wrong, so I tried to have my fun without hurting anyone… and I just messed it up!”

I sighed and rubbed my temples before looking at her “My brother can help you, but…” I pointed to her this time “You hurt him, and I will make you wish to be trapped in a statue again.” I then grabbed her hand and slenderwalked us to the mane six again, who seemed to be busy talking to Bob, them all looking rather… flushed… Oh dear god what was he saying?!

Bob slapped me on the back “And here’s the stud of the hour! So~ You going to soundproof my room now?”

I grunted “I hate you so much right now.”

He smiled and was about to say something before his hair lit on fire. He looked up and started screaming that his hair is on fire, right after he was encased in ice.

“Found your birds.” Susan said. Nick nodded as he finished tending to her.

I sighed and punched Bob hard enough to shatter the ice as I sent him flying into the hill behind us. “Yes, I will soundproof your room. And I am also removing the hot water from your showers.”

Bob gasped as his teeth chattered “B-but h-how w-w-will I warm up-p?” As he said this his hair caught on fire… again.

“Oi! You two stop that!” Nick yelled. I turned to see who’s doing that. Oh wow.

I laughed as Bob nonchalantly pulled a water bucket out of nowhere and dunked his head in it, putting out the flames “There we go. All better.” He then turned to the Phoenix and the… ice Phoenix. “Don’t do that again, or it’s Phoenix breast for dinner!”

The birds looked at him and the blue one snorted a bit, making a white cloud in front of it.

Bob pulled out what looked like a metal turkey baster and smiled evilly as he also pulled out a mallet. “Wanna push me? Cause I’ll go all the freaking way, bitch.”

“Please don’t tempt the Cryophoenix, or do you want this place to go through another ice age?” Nick said.

“The bird can do that?” Rarity asked him.

“No.” he said. Bob smiled evilly again. “She can do that a hundred times over than a normal ice age.”

The cryophoenix than froze Bob’s feet as he shouted “Aw come on! How about I feed you some corn, would that make you knock it off?”

The birds went back and forth freezing and burning him, glaring at one another as they continued.

“Oi! Stop that or you both won’t get any treats.” Nick said. Both of them cawed at him which was an odd sound, the phoenix sounded more of fire burning and the Cryophoenix sounded more like singing glass.

Bob then ran to the safety of behind me, as I laughed at the two Phoenixes. “You two remind me of this one couple I know, they always competed, but they actually really liked each other.”

The two birds glared at Bob as one of his feet froze to the ground and the other burning. I looked at Nick as he chuckled.

I smiled angrily at the birds. “Unless you want me to cancel your magic, I’d stop hurting my brother.”

“Not magic, in.” Nick said as he opened his suitcase. The two made a sighing sound and jumped into the suitcase.

I grumbled angrily as Pinkie Pie jumped out from behind me “What are you? I’ve never seen a creature like you before!”

Rarity then looked at me and seemed to look at me for the first time, “And what are you wearing, darling? Those rags-”

I held up my hand “I’m going to stop you there, this is my favorite coat, and they never need cleaning, and they repair themselves. So these ‘rags’ as you call them, while maybe not fashionable, are VERY functional.”

I then looked to Rainbow Dash, who had been uncharacteristically silent. “What's up, skittles?”

RD looked offended at this, seems skittles were a thing here “I don’t know what skittles are,” or not. “But my name is Rainbow Dash!”

I shrugged “I apologize, here, I’ll call you Dashie, for remembrances sake. Anyway, what’s bugging you?”

She sighed “Well, you seem to have this whole thing handled… did we even really have to go through all this?”

“Yes.” Susan and Nick said as they stood up.

Bob laughed before walking back to her. “Yeah, you did. Anyway, who here wants to celebrate at Canterlot? Maybe setup some meet and greets at our kingdom?”

“I don’t know…” a voice said. I turned to see the royal sisters standing there, Celestia’s eyes on me. “It’s been a while.”

I smiled “Why hello there, Celestia, I see that your sister has returned. It’s too bad what happened, but hey, at least the moon got to look adorable for a thousand moons.”

As I said this I saw some of the mane six make gestures to stop talking before face palming. I looked back and saw Luna’s eye twitched a bit.

“It’s also good to see you too.” Luna said through her teeth.

I raised my hand placatingly “Hey, I’m sorry for bringing it up, it was rude of me. I should not of mentioned it.”

Bob nodded sagely “Although you were right on one point, Luna is cutest royal.”

“May I?” Luna asked with a smile that looked happy but dripped with malice.

Bob looked to her in panic “What, i’m just saying I think you are pretty! Prettier than your sister! What, have you never been complemented before?!”

“I think she’s taking it the wrong way.” Nick said. I saw that everyone took a few steps back from him.

“Now then, I do have to ask… why are you here?” Celestia asked me.

I smiled “Well, Eris broke free again, and I had to clean up the mess, didn’t I? Also, who’s bright idea was it to put her in a PUBLIC garden, where ANYONE could fuel her powers by arguing in front of her?”

“Thank you.” Luna said as she looked at her sister. “I told you that it was a bad idea, but noooo~ you said it was fine.”

“Okay, this must be the only time I’ll say this but for once I agree with moonbutt and you.” Eris said to me.

Bob smiled “See? The sexy Chimera knows what my brother is talking about! Also, we were aiming to travel to right before Eris broke free, but the giant monster attacking us sent us off course.”

“Monsters.” Holly added.

“Also, it’s draconicus.” Eris pointed out.

Bob looked down sadly “I can’t pronounce that, I figured saying Chimera wouldn’t be as rude as mispronouncing your species.”

“It’s fine, but I’m not a chimera.” she said.

“It’s true.” Nick said. “Chimeras and draconicus, two completely different species.”

Bob pulled out a dictionary and a pencil “Ummm… there, I’ll just cross that out… add that in… there we go.”

I sighed and looked to Celestia “Look, I’m sorry for saying what I did, but seriously, your ponies could learn a lot from the Deer empire. A thousand years ago, we were eons ahead of your technology, hell, we learned how to create life! Do you really think that we could not help improve the quality of your citizens lives?”

I felt someone pull on my clothes, I looked over and saw Shy there. “U-ummm… you really don’t know what happened over the years?”

“Oh, and why should I do that, King of the Deer Empire, we should learn from who attacked my home five hundred years ago?” Celestia said.

I looked to her calmly “Do you think it was me who ordered that? Or some despot who thought that in my wife and my absence, he could make a grab at power?” I then calmly took out my sword and examined it “I shall take care of this false king myself, lest my wife learn about it and have undue stress, bad for the baby and all that.”

“I don’t know, but the fact that you say that is a bit of an insult to us.” Celestia said with a frowned. I stared at her until Bob tap me on the shoulder. I looked and saw that he had a cellphone.

“It’s for you.” he said.

I shrugged and took the phone, answering the call “Hello? Who is this?”

“Yo, Greg forgot to do something?” Jace said through the phone.

Oh shit, I forgot to call him “Sorry, mate, things went rather fast when I landed the kingdom in this time.”

“Right… hey are you near anyone, need to say somethings with ya alone.” he said.

I held out a finger as the universal gesture for ‘one minute’ and slenderwalked to the border between yakyakistan and the crystal empire.

“What’s up with you, you sound off.” he said.

I sighed “Well, Celestia has the memory of an elephant, paired with the temper of a bitch in heat. I swear, She is still mad at me! It’s been a thousand years!”

“... Dude, really watch what you say, in my world she’s my sister and I had a moment that I want to come over there and punch you, I’m not, and why is she mad at you?” he asked.

“Wellll…. I said she needed to go on a diet a thousand years ago… very aggressively. And I may of been rude to her on a few of her… views.” I said. I heard a sigh from him.

“Have you ever had a girlfriend before? You have a bad way you say things.” he said.

I nodded “Yeah, I can see that, that’s why I usually prefer the written word, I can read what I say before I actually say it.”

“You need to learn to think before you say, you’re a king and you need to know that if you’re not in your home things are different…” he paused for a moment. “You also said something as well, I have a feeling you did just recently.”

“I may of mentioned Luna, completely trying to say I was sorry about that, but… I think I blew it… I seriously suck at diplomacy… If it’s fighting? I got it handled. Magical theory? In the bag. But… anything that involves talking to people… not so much.”

“Right right… anything else?” he asked. I told him the rest… which I heard something hitting a table. “You told her that you’re kingdom is better than hers… you should let Rose deal with this and you keep your mouth shut… like hell I dealt with some people that will kill you if you say something like that.”

I sighed “I didn’t mean it like that! I meant that we could learn from each other! I mean, the ponies have harmony mastered here, the deer people need to learn to coexist much better!” I then felt something breathing down my back and I turned around to see a yeti preparing to attack “Fuck off, yeti, I’m not in the mood.” I then grew massive and threw it a long way away before shrinking back down to my normal size.

“You may have meant that but others will take it different way.” He said with a sigh. “You also, what just walk into one place and see nothing, don’t assume things before you see.” he said.

I nodded before smacking my head on the cave wall “Could we have more talks like this? I think I have more to learn if I want to help Rose… But not now, Bob and Holly are alone with Celestia, Luna, and the Mane Six...”

“Right, I’ll make a note to come over and teach you not to be an ass as a king.” he said as I heard a growl from his side, something big. “Got to go, have to deal with something.”

I sighed and slenderwalked to Bob to find everything was… not so bad, surprisingly. It seems that Holly kept tabs on Bob this time, though she kept her distance from Nick, I raised an eyebrow at this, kinda, and looked at Celestia.

“Finished with your phone call.” she asked.

I nodded and sat down “Look, I’m sorry for inferring that my kingdom was better, I did not mean to, and I do not even think that, while our tech is high end, we are very short on harmonious interactions with each other… In short, we need the ponies help, and we are happy to pay for it. With any knowledge we have amassed.”

“I see, also we aren’t, as you say ‘low-tech’, as you say, like I said these rogue Deer people attack us we did get some tech from them.” she looked over at Luna. “To the excitement of some.”

“Shut up.” she said before smiling.

I sighed again, gently grabbing my head “I… I’m so sorry… I knew that those who left were not all the greatest… but I never thought they’d raise such cruelty…”

“Hey, you have to look for the silver lining.” Luna said. Celestia groaned a bit.

“Um…” Fluttershy said as she passed me a photo. I looked at it and saw the banner that said ‘Canterlot Engineering contest’ and a mare that looked like Luna as a pegasus smiling with the first place trophy. “I think this is what she meant… kinda.”

I smiled as I saw the various inventions in the picture, some of them making me wonder if Gremlins were involved… but no, it was only Deer who left the kingdom, so it had to be ponies… though Prax was mad due to the fact some of his smaller inventions he worked with Vic was gone.

Bob looked at the picture and smiled as well “Is that Luna? She looks… smaller.” It was true, she seemed to be much shorter as a pegasus, if this was indeed her.

Holly looked to Celestia and smiled “From what I could see, the tech that the Deer took before leaving was lower grade, prototypes only, not the completed versions... maybe there are some things we can share after all?”

“Of course they are prototypes.” Luna muttered a bit. Holly looked at me and shrugged.

“So… party?” Bob asked at us. Pinkie smiled at this.

I smiled at my brother “It’s fine with me, but… I think Celestia and Luna should have a say too, don’t you? This is more of an occasion for her people than mine.”

“I’m fine with a party.” Luna said. Everyone else looked at Celestia, she sighed.

“Fine, but if we are going to talk our kingdoms how about I talk to someone who… knows what they are doing.” she said.

I nodded “Yes, that would be a good idea… umm… would you mind if My wife Rose joined the party? She handles most of the diplomacy, I handle the military side of the kingdom.”

“Yes.” she said, almost cutting me off. I shrugged.

“Hey are we bringing Nip and Fred?” Bob said.

I smiled “Yeah, let’s bring Prax too, maybe Father Ash as well?”

“Who’s Prax and Father Ash?” Holly asked. “Also Nip and Fred?”

I smiled “Prax is Praximus Vex, teacher to Starswirl the Bearded, and inventor of the Nyx cube, as well as most of the tech we use in our kingdom. Fred is the leader of the Nefereldens, and Nip is his wife, mate, err… I never asked what their situation was, I felt I would bungle up asking…Nip is the embodiment of the Elder Oak, and Father Ash is the first ever leader of the Deer, also, he is technically a ghost piloting a suit of robotic armor.” Out of the corner of my vision I saw Luna eyes light up a bit.

“Right...okay… I uh… got something to do first.” she said as she started to float off.

I shrugged and looked to Luna “Something I say excite you?”

“I have no idea what you are talking about.” she said with a smile.

I smiled and laughed “Playing dumb doesn’t suit you, but sure, I’ll go with it.”

I then slenderwalked to Everyone in turn and explained the situation, which was kinda bad since Nip was still naked in her room and Fred opened the door at that moment. Luckily I explained to them, and saw Nip get excited for a party.

I then began to wonder what Holly was doing and decided to Slenderwalk to her, staying out of her field of vision. I saw that she was floating up to a group of ruins that I have never seen before.

“Hey…” she said to Laharl who was sitting in a coffin.

“What do you want?” she asked as she looked at her.

“I… think you want this back.” Holly said as she pulled what looked like a photo from her pocket. It shot out of her hand and into Laharl’s hand as she looked at it, her features softened a bit.

“... thanks.” she said as she put it in her bikini.

“I guess I understand why you don’t want to see the princesses, since you’re their mother.” Holly said.

“In MY world… yes, here no.” the female Laharl said.

Holly then sighed and put her hands in her pockets “I really wish I could help you… is there any way I could get you back home?”

“Yes, let me sleep.” she said as she moved to into the coffin and pulled the top closed, putting a sign on the outside. “Also tell your asshole of a brother not to eavesdrop.” with that she closed the coffin.

Holly turned to me, and without a word, kicked me in the shin. I doubled over in pain as I clutched my leg “Okay, I deserved that.”

Holly crossed her arms and gave me the stink eye “That’s what you get!” She then flew away and I sensed she was heading for Bob, to which I sighed and set some gifts for Laharl on top of her coffin “If you ever need help, this ass wants to make up for his behavior.” I then left, having left my token on her Coffin before slenderwalking to Praximus Vex’s lab. I looked around to see that Prax and Father Ash were talking while he repaired Grub yet again, seriously, what is up with that golem and drinking liquids?

Prax saw me and smiled “Well hello, Greg, what brings you here?”

I smiled happily, sure that this would help Prax get out of his shell “I was wondering if you and Ash here would like to go to an Equestrian party, after I get Rose, I’m going to slenderwalk us all to the party.”

Father Ash laughed “A celebration sounds simply perfect! Count me and sir Praximus there!”

Prax sighed and looked to me “So, I have no choice, do I?”

I shook my head “Nope.”

Prax grunted “Then count me in.”

I then slenderwalked to Rose and smiled as I tapped her shoulder as she slept in her bed “Honey, we have to go.”

Rose looked to me drowsily “Wha? Where are we going?”

I smiled softly and kissed her cheek “A party with the Equestrian kingdom.”

Rose smiled and grunted as she got up “Let me see what I have for dresses that fit me now… By the Elder Oak I am massive now…”

I shushed her and cupped her cheek “You are beautiful, no matter how far along you get in the pregnancy, and besides, I know the perfect ensemble, I had it made before I slenderwalked the kingdom.”

Rose blushed and laughed “Well aren’t you a charmer.”

I smiled and got up, handing her a neighponese kimono specially made to fit her pregnant body, with space to grow.

Rose gasped “Oh, it is beautiful!”

I hugged her “Not as beautiful as you.” I then helped her dress, sneaking a kiss here and there as we walked to the town square, where everyone was gathered, I saw Nip was holding her egg in her hands as she wore an emerald dress. Fred was wearing a suit and Prax was wearing a small tuxedo, made with a hole for his tail. He also had his goggles on, which was a good idea, since it was going to be bright. “Everyone ready?” They nodded “Then let’s go!” I grabbed them all and slenderwalked us to ponyville.

The first ponies we saw was Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy, the latter jumped from the sound and hid behind her friend.

Rainbow Dash looked to Prax and raised an eyebrow “What the hay are you? Some kind of freaky mutant Diamond Dog?”

Prax harrumphed “I am Praximus Vex, and unless you want me to take offence, I’d refrain from relating my kind to Diamond Dogs. They enslaved my people for generations.”

“That’s a nice greeting, ‘Hi I’m someone and my race was enslaved by another race, thank you for saying that I look like them’.” a voice said. I turned to see Nick who’s wearing what looked like a steampunk gentleman's suit.

Prax grumbled and walked toward the refreshment table, looking for some punch.

Father Ash looked to Rainbow Dash “If you would, could you please apologize to Sir Prax? I dislike seeing him upset. He is a good friend of mine.”

Rainbow Dash rubbed the back of her head “Yeah… I think I’ll do that.” She then flew off to meet him, looking rather awkward.

I looked to Nick and smiled “So, how are you?”

“Fine amazingly, I’m not good at parties.” he said.

I looked around to see Father Ash had gone to converse with Fluttershy as he had a bird resting on his shoulder. Celestia and Luna were coming towards me in a straight beeline, to which I slenderwalked away with Rose, depositing us in the middle of a crowd “Stay in the crowd, stay out of the alicorns sight.”

Rose looked to me curiously “Ok, but you are telling me why later.”

I then walked over to Bob and saw he was in an eating competition with Eris and Pinkie Pie “Wow…” That was all I could say… Bob was winning by a landslide, even Eris couldn’t keep up. He simply would open his jaw with a cha-ching sound, and stuff it all in. I saw Susan, who was wearing a plain white dress, watching this… absolutely speechless.

I walked up to her and whispered “Add something spicy, and he won’t be able to eat it.”

She looked at me and shook her head, still speechless.

I smiled “Cat got your tongue?”

“Some what, I watched them do this for… an hour.” she said looking at her watch. I nodded and looked around and saw… robots? No wait they were golems run by magic, but… they were different from the golem's back home.. They had no soul… “Ummm… maybe I should go see Luna after all…”

I slenderwalked to behind the princesses and tapped Luna on the shoulder. “Hello.”

She turned around and looked at me. “Oh hello.”

“Why did you run?” Celestia asked me, frowning.

I looked down “Umm...taught behavior from my birthdays...let’s just say my parents were… avid drinkers.”

“Right…” Celestia said.

“So… you need anything?” Luna asked me.

I rubbed the back of my head “You know that these Golems don’t have souls, yes? That is extremely dangerous…”

“Of course they don’t have souls, soul magic is something almost unknown to most kingdoms, they are linked to a magic system that’s monitored for the party.” she said.

I looked to Luna curiously “Ah… I see. Then we definitely have something we could offer.” I said with a knowing smile “Prax has cracked the manufacturing of souls.”

“Well, I got to talk to him.” Luna said with a smile.

“So, can I talk to your wife?” Celestia asked.

I nodded and slenderwalked to Rose, who was looking around at the party as she winced a bit. I gently tapped her shoulder “Are you okay? I talked to the princesses, they want to talk to you now.”

Rose grunted “Why did you have me hide then?”

I rubbed the back of my head “I saw them making a beeline for us and panicked.”

“Right, well let’s go talk to them.” She said as she rubbed her belly a bit.

I nodded and slenderwalked us to the princesses as I smiled to them “Princess Celestia and Luna, I introduce my beloved wife, Mother Birch Rose.”

“Greetings Mother Birch Rose.” Celestia said.

Rose smiled “Oh, just call me Rose, Mother Birch is my title.”

I nodded and looked uncomfortable “Well… I’ll let you talk, I’d be of no help whatsoever here…”

“I’ll see you soon.” Rose said as she kissed me.

I kissed her back and began to walk off when I saw that Bob had finally finished eating...because all the food was gone. “What… the fuck.”

Bob shouted and jumped, his gut not even bulging a little “I is champion! EVERYBODY DO THE FLOP!” He then flopped face first on the ground, and for some reason, some of the more gullible ponies followed suit. I saw both Susan and Nick saw this and they both face palmed.

I picked up Bob and slapped him in the face lightly “You are too random!”

Rarity then chose this moment to talk, apparently she was observing my coat as I slenderwalked over here “However did I get here?”

I looked to her and smiled “Antimagic.” I then waggled my fingers as a tv static aura flared between them. “So, why were you studying my cloak?”

Rarity flipped her hair and smiled “Why, to see if your claims were true darling.”

I raised my eyebrow “You thought I was lying?”

She tried to charm me with a smile “Oh no no no no no, I was simply analyzing your suit to try and see if I could copy their enchantments.”

I shook my head “By the nature of these garments enchantments, I doubt it, they are based in antimagic.”

Rarity looked confused at this “Whatever is antimagic? I have never heard of it.”

I smiled “It is an energy of the opposing side of the spectrum of most magic, extremely dangerous for most beings to harness, but because of my nature, I harness it naturally. Antimagic can make spells and machinery shut down or otherwise stop working. Apparently Magic is crucial to most lifeforms, so much so that they are in extreme danger if they try to open themselves up to antimagic.”

Rarity looked a little scared at this as she released my coat “I suppose I should not try it then?”

I nodded “Unless you want to explode while in absolute agony, no.”

“Way to scare her Greg.” Holly said as she walked up beside me.

I shrugged “The truth is scary sometimes, that’s life.” I then looked to Holly “How are you enjoying the party?”

Holly smiled “I love it, I got to meet Spike, who was still a little queasy, and he is much bigger than I thought he’d be.”

I smiled “I never did get that, what was up with spike being so small? I mean, he was about Twilights age, give or take a few years.”

Rarity then looked to me curiously “How do you know Twilight and Spike? Have you met her before?”

I paused a moment before smiling “Well, we are beings whose power rivals, and in some cases surpasses, Eris, so… yeah, we know a few things.”

Rarity stared at me for a moment as she frowned a bit before Nick walked up to us.

“My dear, Greg here is a king and as a king he has ways to know things.” he said simply.

I nodded quickly “Yes, that’s it.” I then saw Luna was talking with Prax with an excited grin on her face “Excuse me, I have business with Prax and Luna.” here’s hoping she is not mentioning Starswirl… he’s still a tender subject.

I walked to Prax slowly, making sure not to slenderwalk and startle them, I eventually reached them and found that Prax was… actually smiling? “I must say, young one, it is quite impressive what you have managed with my prototypes.”

“Thank you,” she said with a smile. “It was hard with no blueprints but I had to make due.”

Prax nodded as he turned to me “If you don’t mind, I would love to show Lua my greatest invention thus far, would you mind, Greg? I do not know where Father Ash is currently.”

I nodded and slenderwalked to Father Ash, finding that he was meditating while covered in birds, Fluttershy was smiling and sitting on his lap “Excuse me, Father Ash? Prax wants to introduce you to Luna. Is that okay Fluttershy?”

Fluttershy looked to me and smiled “Sure, just let me get Hummingway and his friends.”

I nodded as she called away the birds and walked away, Father Ash looking to her fondly “She is a kind soul. I wish her the best in her future endeavors.”

I smiled “Well, I have a feeling she’ll be all right.”

Father Ash nodded as he grasped my hand “Let us be off.”

I slenderwalked us to Luna and Prax, a grin beaming on my face “I shall leave the introductions to Father Ash and Prax.”

Father Ash bowed to Luna “It is a pleasure to finally meet you, madame Luna, I have heard of your innovative skills and seen the Golems, I must say, I am quite impressed.”

“T-thank you.” she said with a smile on her, she looked like someone gave her the best christmas present ever.

Prax smiled “This is Father Ash, he is the first leader of the Deer, often referred to as their god-king, alongside the spirit of his wife, Mother Birch. I am still looking for a way to give her a body.”

Father Ash laughed and patted Prax on the back “I have told you, she does not need to have a body, she is with me always.”

Luna smiled at him as they chatted. I turned and let them be and saw that there was a crowd forming a little bit away. I saw RD heading over so I headed over to her. I tapped her shoulder with a slendril and she turned to see me down below “What’s up?”

RD smiled and pointed toward the crowd with her thumb “I think there’s a band playing there or something. Wanna check it out?”

I smiled and gave a thumbs up as I walked towards the crowd, wondering what the music was… When I got there I saw that it hasn’t started yet and on the stage was Nick and Pinkie. Pinkie was talking to him before handing him an acoustic guitar. He looked at it for a moment and sighed as he took it. He took a seat and started to tune it.

“Oh… this will be good.” Susan said as she and Holly walked up to us.

I looked awkwardly to Holly, still feeling bad about the Ruins “So, what exactly are we going to be hearing? Rock, country, Jazz?”

“You’ll see, also some magic.” Susan said.

“Also what’s up with that look?” Holly said. “You seem… awkward.”

I sighed as I rubbed where my eyes would be “I still feel like a jerk for eavesdropping.”

Holly laughed “What, you think i’d hold a grudge about that or something? I get it, you were worried about me, no hard feelings, just… don’t tell anyone, okay?”

I hugged Holly and smiled, tousling her hair “I missed you, sis.”

She grinned and slugged me playfully in the gut “I missed you too, bro.”

I smiled as I turned back to Nick finished tuning and looked out to the crowd.

“Mind the flames.” he said as he started to play.

At first he started slow as I was wondering what he meant about flames, I looked around and saw touches around to give light to the party. After a few seconds of playing he started picking up speed and became a bit louder as I saw the flames started to… dance a bit.

This point he picked up speed and started to play, the fire started to sway with the music as he got louder and started to grin, using his foot as a beat. Soon the flames started to jump out of the torches and took on forms of small creatures as they started to dance. Nearing the end Nick was smiling as he there was just the sound of the guitar and foot as he slowed down a bit and finished. He looked around with a smile as the flames went back to the torches, not burning the place.

I applauded as Bob walked onto the stage and whispered in nicks ear, to which he nodded and went back stage as Bob began to spin, the tornado getting bigger and bigger until it split into five different twisters, eventually forming five smaller Bobs as they smiled and began to play. “Look up!”

As Bob played, the green electricity arced into the air, forming a cloud that began to rain treats down unto the crowd, the clouds grew bigger and bigger as they began to show a scene, of a very familiar story… the clouds formed into three siblings, two male, one female, and a horrible monster, the siblings would fight back against the monster as it tried to break them apart from each other, only for the monster to get more angry and attack them, but the siblings would hold strong, together, they slashed and threw spells at the monster, eventually slaying it as they stood over the fell cloud beast, but then… they just faded into nothing but the words ‘Family is love.’

The crowd looked to bob in awe as he reformed into one self, smiling at me in particular “And love never dies!”

Everyone started clapping as Bob walked off stage.

I smiled as I looked to Bob and hugged him “There’s just one problem, Bob.”

Bob looked to me curiously “What’s that?”

I noogied him affectionately “There’s way more than three now.”

I then looked to Rose, who was clapping with Celestia. I walked over to her and gave her a kiss “How are you, my dear?”

Rose smiled “I’m ecstatic, I never knew that Bob was a musician!”

I laughed and nodded “Yeah, he likes to play music, though… I don’t remember him being so good…”

“Hey!” Bob said with a frown.

I laughed as Bob slugged me in the back “Oh, you know I was kidding!”

“Well, I have to say that was… interesting.” Nick said as he walked up. “Hope everyone enjoyed the music.”

I smiled “Well, that describes my family in a nutshell. We are definitely interesting.”

“Most families are, though I thought the whole fire thing would put on a good show.” he said with a smile.

Bob grinned as Holly floated over to us “Yeah, the fire thing was awesome, way better than a certain bird we know.” he glared at the suitcase.

“Hey now.” Nick said as he moved his suitcase behind him.

Bob shrugged “Hey, I dislike being on fire, or frozen, both suck.”

I smiled at Celestia “So, are things good between us, or am I still… well… a jerk?”

Rose looked to me curiously “Why would she think you are a jerk?”

I rubbed the back of my head “I may of accidentally inferred our kingdom was better, when I meant to say that our tech could help them out…”

“... this is why I deal with the talking.” she said.

I nodded “Yeah, give me an enemy to fight anytime, but a person to talk to, and I’m dead meat…”

“I can see that.” Celestia said with a smile.

I looked to Celestia and held out my hand “Can we have it be water under the bridge? I’d rather not be on your shit list.”

“Well, as long as you don’t talk during dealing between kingdoms than it will be water under the bridge.” she said as she shook my hand.

I smiled and nodded until I heard something pop from Roses direction, she grunted as she doubled over “Oh, don’t tell me…”

Rose nodded “Yeah… my water broke…”

I looked to Celestia in a panic “Where is a hospital?! We need a hospital!”

She looked around quickly as her hands glowed and our surroundings changed to a lobby of some kind. I looked around as things happened, when my brain caught up I was sitting down as everyone waited.

“You back yet?” Holly asked.

I grabbed Holly and shouted as I shook her “I’m going to be a dad! Halleluyah!”

Holly slapped me hard in the face “Snap out of it! Your wife is in there and she needs you to stay calm!”

Bob sighed as he paced “I wish I could help…”

I nodded and looked to the operating room “I wonder if my child will be a boy or girl…”

Eris looked to me curiously “You don’t know?”

I shook my head “Want it to be a surprise.”

“Say, where’s Fred and Nip?” Bob asked.

Just then, Fred and Nip walked up to us, holding a beautiful baby girl dragon with Ram horns “Well, I guess we have our answer, what’s the baby's name?”

Fred smiled “We named her Bella.”

Nip smiled and held up Bella, who giggled adorably “Say hi, Bella!”

Bella giggled and looked to me, reaching out to me. I smiled and offered her my pinkie, which she sucked on happily “Ptthhhppple.”

I smiled and sighed “Well, here’s hoping Rose and my baby is as cleanly born as Bella.”

Fred looked to me curiously “Cleanly born?”

I nodded “Born without problems.”

After a few minutes the doors open and the doctor walked out, letting out a sigh. He looked up and saw all of us staring at him. “Give her a few minutes before going in.”

I walked up to the doctor and gently grabbed his shoulders “Is my wife okay? Please tell me she’s okay…”

“Yes, she’s fine, also the baby is fine as well.” he said as he moved my hands off him. “Give her a minute to catch her breath.”

I smiled and cheered as I danced in place “I’m a dad~! I’m a dad~!” I then paused “Oh man, I’m a dad…”

“Please stop yelling, this is a hospital.” the doctor said as he walked off.

I walked over and sat down on the nearest chair as I waited for Rose to be ready, Prax, Luna, Celestia, and all of my friends and family there with me. “I… I’m going to be a father…”

Holly nodded “Yep, and I owe Holly ten bucks.”

I looked to him curiously “Huh?”

Bob grinned “I always figured one of us would be a parent first, with you being so busy all the time. Plus, you were kind of a stick in the mud.”

I sighed and gave him a slug in the shoulder, just hard enough to scoot him in his seat a bit “Jerk.”

Bob chuckled as Holly flew over to us “So, what do you think the baby will look like? I hope they look like Rose. No offense, but Greg ain’t exactly a looker.”

I deadpanned at her “And yet... I’m offended.”

“How about you go ask her.” Susan said as she peeked out of the door to the room.

I looked to Susan quickly and slenderwalked into the room where Rose was, I saw her in the bed with a blue blanket bundle in her arms, she looked up at me and smiled. “Want to see our son, my love?” She had me hold out my hands as she set my boy in my arms I looked to him and smiled as he giggled and smiled at me with his toothless mouth and his eyes sparkling.

It was then that I noticed, he had one eye that was blood red and had dark veins instead of red, the other was a brilliant green, like his mother's, and had normal veins “Why hello there little one, how are you today?”

My son babbled and let fly a fart. Then giggled and grabbed my face. “Bbbpppthhht.”

I laughed and looked to Rose “What is his name?”

Rose smiled and kissed my hand “I was hoping to ask you about it.”

I thought a moment “How about… Arvir?”

Arvir giggled and babbled excitedly “Avee! Avee!”