Next morning, Celestia, Crescent and Luna sat in Palutena's room breastfeeding Palutena's foals quietly after Ava left. After she traumatised a stallion and forever turned a mare to the fillyfooler side, she announced that her work was done and with that she was gone. Twilight was also still recovering from her shock induced coma and sleeping the day away in the next bed over.

So far the day had passed pleasantly as Palutena was currently looking through a wedding magazine, when suddenly Crescent perked up and asked, “can you guys call me Luminescence or Lumi? I just think that it's much cuter than Crescent.” Luminescence clenched her eyes closed, nervously feeling her cheeks heat up in embarrassment,

“Of course, that's not a problem,” came a chorus of replies. Luminescence opened her eyes in surprise and beamed in appreciation.

'Thank you!” she added with a wide smile.

The serene atmosphere of the room was shattered as a hole floating in the air opened into the room, everyone turned to Palutena as if asking ‘was that you?’ Palutena shrugged just as confused as everyone else and then someone fell from the hole with a crash launching white feathers into the air.

Celestia, Luna and Palutena looked at each other, silently communicating as groans began emanating from the foot of the bed telling them that it hadn't been a soft landing. As Luna was the only one currently free of foals she made her way over to see what or whom had fallen through the hole. She approached the foot of the bed with caution, until she noted it was a young coatless seeing his slightly tanned skin and he also appeared to be a tailless Pegasus colt with a brown mane. She got closer and picked the poor boy up.

“Young colt, art thou alright?” Luna asked missing the look Palutena had on her face as she recognised the boy as Pit from the kid Icarus games. He had brown hair and was wearing a white toga, his white angel wings laid limp on the floor. He wore a laurel, a pair of gold gauntlets and brown sandal like boots. Under his toga was a tight blue shirt and bike shorts for modesty when he flew. Pit groaned and opened his eyes he looked around dazed, but when he noticed who was holding him up he jumped back in shock, “Princess Luna!?”

“Oh good thou recognise us, we wert worried thou had suffered head trauma.” Luna grinned cheerfully unaware of the reality shattering happening in his mind. Pit looked around spotting Princess Celestia breastfeeding, and a confused Luminescence, before he locked onto Palutena.

Palutena!? First it’s the Princesses, now her of all people and she looked shocked, wait is she also breastfee...eeehhh!? Pit thought as his mind froze. Palutena looked concerned after her initial shock, “young colt are you okay,” Palutena asked which shook Pit from his mental bsod.

Pit suddenly bowed deeply and exclaimed, “I am sorry for my rudeness Lady Palutena!” confusing Celestia, Luminescence, and Luna. Palutena sighed in exasperation.

“Celestia, Lumi dears, can you take our foals and put them to bed, you too Lulu I need to speak with this young colt alone.” Palutena asked causing Luminescence to blush at her nickname and they both nodded taking their foals as Palutena smiled warmly. Once they had made their way out of the room, Palutena's smile left her face leaving a stern and grim expression in its place.

Pit gulped nervously, “who are you? Tell me your name.” Palutena demanded.​

Pit went to answer, he was interrupted before he could answer, “you are not Pit, so do not lie.”

The lump in his throat got worse and slumped down in defeat, “my name's Diana,” he replied defeatedly.

“Come closer Diana.” Palutena ordered doing as he was told, he moved to the left side of the bed and once he got in range he was drawn into a tight hug that shocked him. He then heard sobbing coming from Palutena “it’s been a thousand years since I have last seen you Diana,” When Pit responded with a confused look on his face she added, “big sis’ it’s me Jean.”

“What!? But I only spoke to you last night! And how did you become an adult woman and Palutena” Pit exclaimed in shock and disbelief.

“The costumes you bought, probably from a guy that looks like he belongs in resident evil four,” a sceptical look from Pit prompted her to continue, “It's true, the multiverse is a strange place and that guy was a void dweller, a denizen of the world between worlds. So now that is out of the way I guess, that means I’m the big sis now and you’re the little brother?” Palutena chuckled ruefully.
Pit looked down at himself,

“Wait I switched sexes!?” Pit exclaimed when he finally noticed the change. Palutena chuckled as Pit hyperventilated.

“Took you long enough to notice, you get used to it,” she smiled down at him.

“Wait? Why was Princess Celestia and Luna here and whose foals where you holding,” Pit glared at Palutena.

“Welcome to Equestria dear brother, and the foals are your nieces and nephews,” Palutena explained with a smirk. Pit’s glare morphed into a grin as heard the news.

“That's great news... wait, I am too young to be an aunt!?” Pit responded with horror in his voice, “that’s uncle,[ i]brother” Palutena corrected with a giggle,“but wait, who's the father!? He better have put a ring on it!” Pit threatened.

Palutena's​ grin widened, “ Oh you mean like this?” She asked as she flashed her engagement ring.

Pit grabbed her hand and pulled the ring off of it and began inspecting it, before catching and reading the inscription on the inside of it. After a moment there was a pause in the muttered words as the ring fell from his hands while Palutena caught the ring as she enjoyed the look on Pit’s face.

Pit turned to see Palutena's smug smile, “you're a goddess, you married Princess Celestia! Is there anything else I am missing!?”

“Well fiancé is the more accurate term at the moment,” Palutena corrected Pit, waving a hand dismissively.

“You lucky bitch!” Pit exclaimed, “do you know how many people would kill to be in your shoes!? Wait! If you're engaged to her does that mean…”

Palutena sighed wistfully, “ Indeed, Celestia is the sire to my foals as I am to hers. Luminescence is also in our herd and pregnant as well, that's the thestral mare you saw. There is also galaxy-eyes photon dragon as well though she has been quiet for a while now.”

“Wait, you’re dating multiple women and one of them is a yu-gi-oh monster!?” Pit exclaimed glaring at Palutena.

“Oh please, monogamy is so stupid and unnatural.” Palutena waved him off, “We are all in a loving relationship with each other, that means all my herd loves me and each other. There is no cheating.” Palutena explained flicking Pit’s forehead as he calmed down. A feminine snort and a groan from the next bed caught their attention, “Mom~” Twilight groaned out “What happened?”

“Twilight dear how are you feeling? You fainted while I was in labour,” Palutena explained warmly, concern evident on her face. Seeing Pits questioning look Palutena quietly answered, “Celestia and I adopted her, the poor dear lost her parents as a filly indirectly because of me,” Palutena frowned. Pit gasped and started to tear up.

“What!? I missed the birth of my baby siblings!” Twilight whimpered and pouted. Before she knew it Palutena had pulled her over in her magic and was now hugging and comforting her.

“Come meet your uncle Pit,”Palutena suggested and directed her attention to Pit “Twilight, this is Pit, my younger brother. Pit, this is your niece, Twilight Sparkle.” Palutena introduced smiling warmly at them.

“ Hi,” Pit and Twilight awkwardly greeted each other.

“And you three eavesdropping ponies can come in and meet your brother-in-law Celestia and Lumi,” Palutena chided. Sheepishly Celestia, Luminescence and Luna walked in blushing at having been discovered.

“Wait, you’re marrying Luna as well!?” Pit exclaimed in shock.

“What? No. Luna is dating Twilight.” Palutena replied as Twilight melted with embarrassment.

“let’s try that again. A pleasure to meet you Twilight,” Pit said while sheepishly rubbing the back of his neck.

“Hello uncle!” Twilight exclaimed with a beaming smile and hugged him.

“So thy name's Pit, and thou art Palutena’s younger brother?” Luna confirmed as she smiled down at her mare friend.

“Yes, your Majesty.” Pit said starting to lower himself before Luna stopped him.

“No need to bow or refer to us with such formality, thou art family.” Luna announced still smiling warmly.

“Luna is correct, you are family, you don’t need to bow, but you do have to do one thing for us.” Celestia said as seriously as she could, Pit gulped nervously.

“Anything! What do I have to do?” Pit asked hesitantly.

“Tell us all of our beloved’s foalhood adventures!” Celestia crowed happily wearing a massive shit eating grin. Luna was also grinning and the two princesses ran off with Pit, with Twilight trailing behind floating in Luna’s magic like a queasy ragdoll. Luminescence trailed behind them.

Palutena sighed in exasperation as she returned to bed. I am so bored, I guess, I’ll do some admin and then some reading. Palutena thought with another sigh escaping her lips. Multiple monitors appeared in front of her, floating at eye level, each displaying information regarding her different spell shops over the multiverse.

“The top sellers are in Rin’s city, Dark Magician’s home and Avarice’s world, Asphyxious’ is lagging behind. Perhaps a sale will help, let’s say 75% off all spells in celebration for my foals’ birth. And while I am at it, I’ll include a brand new release Teleportation Circle from Dungeons & Dragons and add the cure spell line from Final Fantasy. It won’t replace lost limbs but any other damage should be taken care of.” Palutena muttered as she worked. Her fingers danced across the screens inputting data and magic formulae, at inhuman speeds.

“Well damn that didn’t take long,” she sighed as she sent off some money to Avarice. She cracked her fingers and looked down the various books she had, and chose ten that piqued her interest. All were spell books except two, the second to last was the displaced book that lists displaced she was given by Dark Magician and the last one was a magic control text that ‘Tia had given to her. One of the exercises included was about trying to use the minimum amount of mana, a sort of efficiency exercise if you will.

First she began looking through the displaced book, for those who could train her or at least
provide a sparring opponent, she eventually came across a powerful Ronin who travels the multiverse looking for worthy opponents and had been known to fight dragons and gods and win.

Palutena was intrigued by Gilgamesh, she had always enjoyed the hammy multi-armed warrior and would love to meet him. She closed the book and searched the dreamscape far out into the ether where she found many alien dreams. As she looked through them seeing multiple ex humans, she spotted Rin fighting the goodly heroes in their stronghold. A young and angry Kat Shifter from that game Gravity Rush, living with a young boy wearing a blue hoodie with black hair that reminded Palutena of homestuck, that web flash series. Next she spotted a young blonde haired man talking with Dullahan from the golden sun games, then a handsome jack world. “Hey I think that might be the one my mother is working for.” Palutena muttered while she watched him eviscerate his enemies in arena combat.

Shaking her head Palutena refocused her search until she found something that tore at her heart, Celestia down beaten into the dirt and Gilgamesh enraged, he was fighting a demon she had heard of that once existed in her realm. The demon stood on two legs, and was as tall as Celestia was, wearing heavy armor and wielding a mace.

Feline in appearance, orange with black stripes and yellow slitted eyes, the demon was called Infernus. Palutena hadn't been directly involved in the fight against her world's version and his brother Voltar but had an idea of his power. She watched in horror as Gilgamesh destroyed the demons viciously, what could have angered him like that she wondered, and she rewound the dream and spotted the cause, Luna also beaten to a pulp. She returned to where she had left off and continued to watch with renewed vigor and routing for the Ronin. The battle, if it could be called that, ended with Gilgamesh smashing his mace into Infernus repeatedly, and as he pulled his mace back Infernus begged for mercy. Celestia tried to talk Gilgamesh out of killing him as he was better than that. “Oh 'Tia that's one of your best traits,” Palutena muttered to herself. Gilgamesh cured the demon so he could run away. Palutena sighed in relief, he is a good man. she thought before she noted the demon Infernus about to attack.

“No! You fool of a demon, stop!” But it was too late, Gilgamesh survived the attack and if he was pissed before he was now livid, he cut the demon cat to pieces before he jumped away, later coming back with an unconscious but still breathing Luna. I let out the breath I wasn't aware I was holding.

“It looks like he has anger issues as well, although in that case it was entirely justified. But so is my anger and mine is getting out of hand, I’ll invite him to the wedding perhaps and that handsome Jack.”

She left the dreamscape returning to reality and opened the other book that had the magic control exercise and read the instructions, they looked simple enough too bad it's probably going to be hard. she groused mentally.

So Palutena summoned her magic and levitated the books easily, sighing at her increased mana and strength, Maybe I should avoid absorbing anymore people until I get a handle on this, also new rule don't even think about it so casually, like they are just food. she thought grunting with effort to reduce her power output, “Graaaaaaaa,” she screamed as she struggled to wrestle her powers back.

A nurse stormed in, “Be quiet you’re disturb…” She didn’t get to respond further as books flew all over the room so she had to duck in cover, Palutena grunted again bringing the books back to herself before they hit a wall or window. Panting and laying them on her bed she sighed and exclaimed, “damn that was close!”

Palutena then sighed again closing her eyes and breathing in slowly and then slowly letting it out. She repeated the exercise a few times until she was calm. She stared at the nurse who currently laid prone on the floor shaking in fear of book themed retribution.

“Hey, are you okay there Miss?” Palutena asked in concern. While she was annoyed she had been interrupted, she was more concerned about having almost added another number to her already absurdly high kill count. The traumatised nurse ran out of the room, leaving Palutena to slump on her bed, Way to go you stupid bitch, traumatise the help why don’t you! she thought self deprecatingly. What were you thinking, practicing in a hospital of all places with your powers! Lux decided now would be a great time to chime in, ’Well it could have been worse, you could have taken out the whole of the hospital and most of Canterlot.’ She responded far to cheerfully.

Oh you’re back, what happened to you Lux? Palutena replied with a bit of an edge in her voice at the cheerful scenario the plaga had cooked up to try and reassure her,

’Oh you know keeping Mini Sharp at bay, keeping you alive and then having to rest once the hostile foreign body feeding on your magic was ejected from us,’ Lux retorted.

Well thanks I guess…. This is awkward. Look, I am sorry I was being snippy, I am just under a lot of stress right now.

Don't worry about it, I understand. And congrats on finding our sister/brother again.

thanks Palutena responded with a sigh, looking at her hands. All this power of mine is overwhelming me, I don’t want to simply just throttle through my spells, that lacks finesse and efficiency, plus a lot of the time it so damned overkill.

I can’t use a spell without it being a one hit kill. I mean dammit I transformed all the creatures in this world sans beasts into anthropomorphic ones. Do you know how much mana that takes, I sure as hell don’t! She thought as she got up and started pacing around her bed, I only know that I expended a lot of my mana just to do it and that was even before my unconventional feasting on god's and thousands of mortals. Palutena froze mid step at the foot of her bed, the revelation hitting her hard.

“I’m a monster…” Palutena muttered as she squatted down and held her head. “I may have been corrupted, but I still did those things! I stole thousands of lives! Their memories, their magic, stole them from their families and killed so many sapient beings and caused so much pain and fear!” Palutena exclaimed panicking before she felt a stinging on her cheek.

She turned to see Celestia glaring at her with tears in her eyes, Palutena placed a hand on her cheek, “you hit me?” she said quietly in shock. Behind Celestia was Luna with a nostalgic melancholy and a sad looking expression joined by Lumi, Pit just looked confused.

“You are not a monster Palutena, if you were a monster you wouldn’t care about the lives you have taken! And you certainly wouldn’t be beating yourself up about something ultimately not your fault…”

“But…”

“Not. your. Fault!” Celestia reiterated punctuating her words by poking Palutena's chest causing her breasts to jiggle, “it was the corruption, and I’ll tell you this I would never marry a monster, let alone fall in love with one.” Celestia declared as she pulled Palutena into a hug as Palutena began to tear up.

Tears streamed down her cheeks as she finally began sobbing into Celestia’s chest. Palutena wrapped her arms around her fiance. Celestia held her tightly and rocked her gently, cooing as Palutena repeatedly apologised and begged for forgiveness. Each time Celestia would respond, “I know.” and “I forgive you.” Hours passed as Palutena let out the pent up emotions she’d been holding in subconsciously and cried herself to sleep in Celestia’s embrace.

Luna, Pit and Luminescence sat in silence as Celestia tucked Palutena into bed.

“What happened?” Pit asked them in confusion.

“Palutena, just had an emotional break down.” Celestia began explaining.

“What could have caused that? Her life here seems perfect?” Pit asked confusion growing and becoming clearer in his voice.

“Pit. You must understand, Palutena has been trapped for a thousand years as a statue. With limited or no interaction for the first couple centuries. She recently escaped but since then it’s been disaster after disaster. She already has a kill count in the thousands, if not hundreds of thousands.” Celestia sat on the edge of the bed and gently stroked Palutena's head comforting her as she whimpered in her sleep.

“All defending those she cares about of course, her subjects in Ponyville and the Crystal Empire in another dimension. Recently she devoured the minotaur king and his army for trying to invade and pillage Ponyville. But the strain is getting to her, because at her core she is a kind person, you should know this as her brother, add to that Hades is plotting something, our wedding, the foals and helping others when she can, it's becoming too much for my Light,” Celestia sighed as she watched Palutena thrash about.

“Luna?” Celestia asked causing Luna to nod and light her horn as she placed her hand on Palutena's forehead. Though the whimpering remained the thrashing stopped.

Celestia's questioning look spurred Luna to explain, “I am sorry sister, I have tried my best but she still holds onto guilt and I can't stop the recriminations she's receiving.”

“Thank you for trying,” Celestia said with a sad sigh, before continuing,“You see she recently gained the ability to absorb people and assimilate their memories, magic and soul. While this is ultimately beneficial it also adds to the burden placed on her what with alien memories. At the time she gained this ability she was also corrupted and was being destroyed from the inside out, I am surprised she hasn’t snapped and gone insane under all the pressure. Even despite our support and her friends outside this dimension. She needs to rest, recuperate and see the Royal psychiatrist,” Celestia explained with a melancholic tone to her voice.

“Wait psychiatrist?” Pit asked confused, causing Celestia to add,

“Do you really think I could seal away my sister and everything would be hunky dory when she came back? No we had many issues even before Nightmare Moon and Doctor Calm Mind is not going to be the last one, I believe it will take generations to work out our issues.”

Celestia finished explaining and solemnly bowed her head,

“Ava, is. Was similar, she was quite emotional and a bit unstable,” Luminescence said sadly, “the stress got to her too which was compounded by having to deal with Die Leuchte, who had foalnapped her kids and kept threatening Eva’s herd.”

“Tomorrow, she can leave the infirmary, let’s all go on a quiet, calm retreat, with the foals, and our friends. Palutena definitely needs it, and certainly needs a distraction that isn’t life threatening,” Celestia suggested as she continued to still stroke the still whimpering Palutena.

Next morning Celestia, Luna, Luminescence and Palutena were carrying a pair of foals each with Pit and Twilight carrying picnic baskets while Rainbow and Chrysanthemum carried the blanket. As they made their way through Whitetail woods, dappled light shined down on them through the canopy and casting leaf like shadows over them as well as the woodland ground. They had been walking and conversing with each other for a while now and were just entering into a clearing next to a stream that quietly babbled over stones and pebbles.

Twilight set the picnic blanket down as the others set down their baskets filled with goodies pilfered from the royal kitchens much to the chef’s casturnation at the abrupt orders and the lack of so much as a warning.

Various sandwiches, cakes and pastries emerged from the depths of their basket prisons, Celestia licked her lips as a particularly big gateaux hovered in front of her, as she salivated she missed Palutena’s glare and got a swat upside her head, “ you’re not eating​ all of that cake,” Palutena chided as Luna nodded taking the cake away. Celestia pouted like a scolded filly as Palutena began handing out various sandwiches and delimeats.

Pit was shocked as he had expected the ponies to be purely herbivores or at least vegetarians.

“ Pally, why is there meat here?” Pit asked unnerved, Palutena raised a questioning eyebrow and hummed in acknowledgement.

“Oh yeah Ponies are omnivores, and meat is a larger part of their diet as monsters and beasts are more frequent. As such Equestria doesn’t have much farmland, because they have to be protected as farmland is normally outside the city walls.” Palutena explained absently.

“Is there something wrong Pit, do you not like meat?” Luna asked worriedly hoping they hadn't offended him.

“No. It’s not that, in fact I love meat as much as the next person, it’s just weird… .” he replied awkwardly

“Don’t worry Luna, in our old world Equines were not sapient and largely believed to be strictly herbivorous, however that is a misconception as all Equines are omnivores of opportunity meaning they would eat meat and small creatures if it was available.” Palutena explained for Pit.

“Oh! Okay, I am sorry we are causing you discomfort,” Luna apologised, as she went back to help set up an awning.

“No. No. It’s fine! I’ll get over it, it’ll just take some getting used to like other things,” He replied crossing his legs, Palutena shot him a look of sympathy and knowing.

Celestia smirked and stage whispered to Pit, “think of unsexy things, it helps it go down,” she said as she laid plates down before she leant back to her food plate that now had a substantial pile of deli meats, she smirked again at the flustered look on Pit’s face. Meanwhile the foals were now all clustered around Palutena and climbing on her. Their giggling filled the air as Celestia turned to watch. She smiled warmly as she continued to watch her brave foals as they climbed mount Palutena and Palutena playing with the ones still on the ground while Serenity Song and Verdant Fields flew around their mothers. Quartz Seeker sat on top of Palutena and Nova Flare decided that her shoulders were far enough. Harmony and Pandora laid in Palutena's lap napping.

Sunny Delight and Rose Light who were still grounded decided that they would climb onto their other mother. Celestia was surprised as two pairs of large adorable eyes looked up at her from her lap, Celestia squealed at the adorableness they displayed. She then picked them up and hugged them as Luna shook her head. Luminescence slumped and pouted in melancholy at being ignored by the foals.

That is until she felt a weight on her head, Serenity Song had landed on her and was nuzzling into her and trying to hug her with her tiny body. Luminescence picked her off her head and hugged Serenity, with a large smile on her lips. Verdant decided that Twilight looked like a nice landing spot and flew over her and dropped down onto her head.

“Ow!” Twilight whined causing everyone to laugh.

The rest of the day passed without further significant incident as they all ate.

It was almost time to change afternoon to evening and as Luna watched the foals playing on and around Twilight, she smiled at the tableau before her. Twilight looked up and smiled, she then stood and handed Palutena her wayward foal before moving over to Luna's side.

“Luna, enjoying what you see,” Twilight smirked at her.

“Of course my love, I was just caught up in my thoughts.” Luna replied absently as she stroked Twilight's mane.

“Oh, anything you want to get off your chest?” Twilight asked earnestly as she placed her hand on Luna's.

Luna pondered for a moment whether she should tell her, then she remembered how she had reacted yesterday, “no, not yet my dearest for I have yet to figure it out myself and how I will tell you,” Luna answered and kissed her.

“But don't worry as soon as I do you’ll be the first to know.” Luna reassured her, and though she accepted the explanation Twilight frowned, “ Okay, well, everyone has finished so let's go clear up and head back home.”

After they had finished clearing up they made their way back to through the woods and to their destination, Canterlot palace.

Upon reaching their destination several hours later. Raven intercepted them, she whispered something into Celestia's ear which caused her to smile and then left.

“Well 'Tia what was that about?” Palutena asked curiously.

“Oh, the wedding invitations are ready for us to start writing them and sending them.” Celestia explained cheerfully, Palutena's​ eyes widened in fear and tried to run but found herself floating in mid air encased in Celestia's magic.

“But 'Tia~” Palutena whined, “I hate paper work and I keep snapping the quills you keep insisting on using.” Her complaints fell on deaf ears as the foals and she were carried away to their bureaucratic fate. Luminescence followed behind shaking her head.

This caused Luna and Pit to laugh at Palutena's misfortune, “she never liked doing any kind of paperwork, I am glad one thousand years hasn't changed that, despite the other more drastic changes,” Pit lamented, she caught Luna questioning look, “you see Luna, I wasn't always the brother or even the youngest before coming here and Palutena wasn't a goddess yet, or even female. Fate saw fit to reverse our roles and separate us. And in her time here she already gained the hand of Celestia, is already a mother, is already to be married before me.” Pit sighed, “as you can tell I am quite bitter at my fortune in comparison.”

Luna sighed, “ I can sort of empathise Pit, I have always been in my sister's shadow and I let my jealousy corrupt me and attracted the nightmare to me. In my hour of emotional weakness she took me and turned me against my sister and by the time I realised it, it was already too late.

When I returned from my banishment and was subsequently purified, I found out that she had found somepony to love while all I had was the ranting of Nightmare Moon to keep me company. I was jealous at first and I would have fallen to that jealousy again, if Twilight hadn't also came into my life as someone more to me than a friend, as someone who loved me.

You can't hold on to that jealousy, young Pit, it is poisonous, it will only lead to pain and regret, you do not want to have to fight your kin let alone kin that can overpower other gods. Do not force your sister and yourself into that horrid position. Talk to her, like I wish I could have in hindsight.” Luna advised him seriously, Pit nodded taking in her words

“Thanks for the advice Luna,”

Luna cracked a smile, “though… you might have to wait before you can talk to her, perhaps once her fiancé lets her escape.” Luna joked causing Pit to chuckle.

Author's Notes:

Pit has arrived Huzzah!