It was a fine day in Equestria, the sun was just raised, ponies were going about their business, getting to jobs and the younger denizens were getting to school. Meanwhile to the East of Van Hoover, in a large tree home, a lime green alicorn by the name of Meadow Dawn, slept in her bedroom, despite the sun rising behind a meadow on her flank as her mark.

She awoke with a start as the sound of a door knock echoed through the home. Dawn got out of the bed with a groan, husband still fast asleep, and walked down the couple flights of stairs to the front door.

When Dawn had opened the door, a yellow unicorn with glasses stood before her, glasses perched on his muzzle.
“Hello?” She asked, stifling a yawn but still sounding to herself like it croaked out.

“Hi, is this the home of Princess Dawn?” he asked
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“I am she.” She said simply, mind still trying to wake up and hoping she didn’t look it, before remembering she didn’t brush her mane.

“I’m one of the students over in Van Hoover in ancient history studies, and we came across this in one of our digs.” He said, reaching into a hoof-bag slung over his shoulder, pulling out and holding up an orb-like object. “We wondered if you would be willing to look into it, being an expert on these back a year or two ago.”

“I gave up on repairing magical relics.” She said, shaking her head, “When a single mistake nearly cost me my life and made me break a promise I made to a friend, I cut my losses. If you’re part of the classes, are you not able to find that out?”

“We’ve been trying ma’am.” He replied, sounding a little short at first before a small pause and a calmer reply came, “We can’t make heads or tails of it, and we figured it wouldn’t hurt to take a second opinion.”

She sighed internally, trying her best not to show it. It was frustrating to be landed a student who didn’t want to do their own research and present it, and it was very possible they were trying to gain status by using her position. Curiosity rose however, and she levitated the orb closer to herself with her horn magic.

The etchings were only barely visible, being severely worn. She frowned but tried to hide it as she intently looked at it. This kind of object was more likely to have magical writing on it and coding inside it she figured. Naturally, she’d have to look it over with magic, but she wouldn’t do it outside of her study room, assuming it would be studied at all.

A brief glance toward the unicorn and back to the relic and her conscience bugged her at their asking for help. Dawn knew she was expected to be a leader now, and she did not want to get a bad start to her new position. She thought back to her recent coronation, and she wondered if that was how they came to know she dabbled in relics for a year before deciding it didn’t matter.

“I’ll look it over and give you whatever clues I can find within three days. That’s all I can promise. A colt is on the way after all.” She said, smiling slightly as she thought back to that surprise.

“Thank you. Any leads you can give will be greatly appreciated.” He said, bowing before heading off back toward Van Hoover.

Dawn closed the door softly and let out her sigh. She was already awake now, and she knew she couldn’t go back to sleep. Her body wouldn’t let her unless her sleep was less than half her usual amount. Still, she worked on her morning routine, early it might be, and forced herself to eat a light breakfast of some toast for the growing foal inside her before going down to the main level’s study to investigate.

Dawn inspected the object, grabbing a paper and tracing what etchings she noticed on it to see if she could identify anything by itself. It was a dull process, but not extraordinarily difficult and entertained her until about noon as she nitpicked each empty space and extrapolated. She nodded to herself as she cleaned up her work with some projected etchings expected, color coding with green for confirmed and red for a guess based on her experience and moved on to start the magical evaluation of the spells imbued in the relic.

Suddenly, the spell matrices activated as she scanned it and the object lit up, humming and hovering on its own. Dawn yelped and fell back, genuinely surprised as she looked at the now glowing object, wondering what was going on and whether she should dive for cover

Stalwart awoke quickly at the yell. He was a trained guard in addition to her husband, and despite only half a night’s rest, swiftly got up and searched for his wife.

"Everything ok Dawn?” he called before coming to the study to discover the orb floating and his wife laying on her sides, forelegs propping herself up. “What's going on!"

The artifact lifted into the air as the room filled with wind and suddenly random objects started appearing. Chunks of stone, a table, a potted plant, all of them seemingly at random as the artifact started to shake and discharge more and more magic. Then all at once, a dark shape appeared in the room flying towards the two ponies, seeming to clutch something to its chest as another form also appeared, flying in the opposite direction.

Dawn gave a squeak of surprise, quickly using her magic to try and catch the one pony clutching something to slow them down. Stalwart stood in the path of the other form on accident, flying back at the impact into the wall as Dawn struggled to keep hold of her pony form she caught.

They stopped in midair, and Dawn saw the form she was carrying was large and rather than covered in fur had black chitin while the other one was purple. She had to release the magic, the cost of casting so suddenly and removing so much momentum draining her readily, and she watched both of them slide down the wall in a comical fashion.

Dawn, once she had set the two down, focused all her efforts on calming the magic of the relic, intending to fix the internal magical workings so none of it crossed, possibly causing the issue. She sighed in relief as the task was more easily completed than she feared, magic simply being used up rapidly in the device, and watched the portal close. She panted lightly for breath before turning to take stock of what happened to her home.

To her surprise, she saw Changeling Queen Chrysalis, looking over a small purple filly.

Dawn gasped, as she had never gotten to see more than the one changeling a part of Nightfall’s guild, and approached slowly. She had heard plenty regarding the changelings from Stalwart’s father, and Stalwart himself had some experience, but she didn’t know if that was just from war or if their day to day lives were different.

"Hello? Are you ok?" She asked, cautious but wanting to offer help if they needed it, having been clearly pulled from somewhere to her home.

Stalwart groaned as he tried to stand, feeling dizzy at the weight of what hit him, looking down at the purple thing that wiped him off his feet.

The purple pony was rubbing her head with what looked like a metal hoof.
"Who let a freight train into the castle?" She asked.

Chrysalis looked up at Dawn and blinked, holding the filly closer to her chest as she narrowed her eyes. "Who are you?"

"I'm Meadow Dawn, Alicorn of Hope.” She replied, leaning in slightly to them and offered a hoof. She was concerned of course, but it was also chrysalis she was dealing with, “Are you ok? I know healing magic if you or your foal need it."

Stalwart groaned and rubbed his head as he got up before he noticed the cutie mark and gasped, "Princess Twilight?! What are you doing here!"

"Wondering the same thing as you guard." Twilight blinked up at him.

"Alicorn of Hope?" Chrysalis asked, eyes narrowed.

"Yes,” Dawn nodded, ”I'm also a healer. Are you all right?"

Stalwart frowned before replying, "I'm in my home. Just so you- Dawn! Get back! That's Chrysalis!" He shouted, stepping past Twilight to protect his wife, moving to get between them.

"You don't say?” Chrysalis asked unphased, looking to him, “And you might you be, guard?"

Twilight blinked and looked between Chrysalis and Stalwart, taking the situation in.

"Not going to tell you.” Stalwart said as he took a defensive stance. He knew changelings used deceit. The less they knew, the safer they’d be. He said firmly to his wife, ”Dawn, get away from them. She's the queen of the changelings I’ve told you about."

"And nymph turned out not too bad,” Dawn replied, reminding him of her friend’s guild-member, “why can’t other changelings?"

Stalwart simply stood, on guard to protect his wife. He acted as if he hadn’t heard his wife and continued to be ready for whatever might happen.

"Ok, someone mind telling me what is going on?" Chrysalis asked, looking between the two of them.

"That sounds like a good idea.” Dawn said to her guest before turning to her husband who made no response to her earlier comment, “Stalwart, would you please show them to the living room while I clean this up?"

"Dawn, I-" he protested, standing firm as always.

"Please?” Dawn interrupted, appreciative of him doing his job and caring so much otherwise, “It's clear something is off, and despite the confusion, we have not been attacked. Let's play nice for now and see if we can settle this peacefully."

"I-” he hesitated, not liking the idea at all. Another glance to her face calmed him some, though it was clear it was against his better judgment. He turned to the others, watching chrysalis, “All right Dawn. Follow me you two.”

“Uh, ok?" Chrysalis blinked, standing and still holding the foal to her chest. Rather, she would have, if the foal hadn’t disappeared. "Gah! Violet where did you go?" She asked, looking around in surprise.

"Missing somepony?" Dawn asked as she turned, having already started to gather the things that came through the portal so she could try tossing just the rubble out the still closed window. She stumbled back as suddenly her vision was filled with a pair of pink slitted eyes!

"Hi! I'm Violet!" A cheerful voice said from right in front of Dawn.

Dawn started to smirk, then burst out laughing, seeing a filly being the one to surprise her so badly somehow putting her in a good mood.

Stalwart continued to wait for them to follow him out, but stayed quiet when he was ignored, turning to face the group. He didn’t care where they were, as long as he could keep an eye on them.

"Well hi there! you scared me pretty good! I'm Dawn." Dawn continued to laugh, dusting herself off and smiling.

The filly’s wings buzzed rapidly behind her as she smiled with a mouth full of pointed teeth.

"Violet don't be rude, I have told you not to invade people’s personal space." Chrysalis said.

The filly looked at her, letting Dawn see her fully. "What's personal space?"

Violet Flame was a curious looking thing to Dawn. She was a filly for sure, but she had insect-like chitin on her chest, upper body, and along her spine down to the tail. She noticed not just a horn but wings as well, though more transparent like insects and the horn was sharp at the end and curved. Dawn noticed their mane was a dark purple almost identical to Twilight’s, though with Chrysalis’ almost teal-green color in a stripe down the middle.

"I guess this is karma.” Dawn admitted, still smiling, “I had no concept of personal space until I was 10. I'll be right along once I get this rubble outside."

The queen grabbed the filly in her magic and started walking away with Stalwart toward the living room, talking to her about personal space as Twilight got to her hooves.

"Someone mind telling me what's going on?” Twilight asked.

Dawn opened the window, lifted most of the rubble out of the window to outside for her to handle later, and closed the window behind her, "Well, I was checking out a relic a student was asking me to look into, kinda like the bracelet I showed you, when it glowed and caught me by surprise, then you three fell into my study room."

"Bracelet? " She blinked before dusting herself off. "Also, not a fan of random vortexes opening up in my throne room."

Dawn turned back to Twilight, confused, then hesitated at seeing her, she seemed different. She took a moment to look Twilight over, noticing various scars and then the prosthetic limbs, "Twilight, what in the world happened to you!"

She looked at her blinking. She lifted her right leg and tapped her right eye, "grenade." She pointed at her left eye. "Knife fight." Lifted her left leg. "Landmine." She then shifted her back legs. "Building fell on me."

Dawn blinked several times in shock. "I... how? You were perfectly fine at my coronation a few months ago! Where the heck would you have faced a grenade or land mines anyway!"

"War is hell." She said. "And what coronation?"

Dawn blinked and eyed her cautiously. The answers so far were all too wrong for it to be the twilight of her world. She spoke up, wanting to confirm it, "You aren't the Twilight I know, are you."

"Probably not." She smiled. "Commander Twilight Sparkle. Former student of Princess Celestia, Element of Magic, and the Princess of Motherfucking Friendship"

Dawn laughed after she finished, not believing what she was hearing at first. Twilight cursing? Not a possibility on earth. "Well, good to meet you.Let's go to the living room and see if we can fill each other in."

"Sounds like a plan." She said smiling as she gestured with a hoof. "Lead the way."

Dawn nodded and led them to the living room where Stalwart stood across from the sofa where Chrysalis and Violet were, though out of sight.

They sat watching him, Violet sitting between Chrysalis’ front hooves as they both watched Stalwart. Dawn moved over to sit down on a chair opposite them while Stalwart continued to stand.

"So, while I don't quite know how it happened, it appears the relic I examined opened up a hole in our reality and pulled you three here. At least, if what Twilight just said is correct about her injuries. Do any of you know of travel between worlds that doesn't involve mirrors?"

Chrysalis and Twilight looked at each other then back at her. "Dimensional travel isn't anything new to us. No." Twilight said. "As for mirrors, such a… narrow way of traveling through dimensions as it only connects to one location."

Dawn blinked and looked at them in surprise, unsure what to say or do in light of this revelation. She knew of other dimensions but didn't think there was another method of travel other than with mirrors in her experience. She then realized that of course there might be other ways, just perhaps not common or available to her world’s rules.

"Yeah. Once it's noticed we are missing, a search will begin. Eventually, a rescue party will be sent to this dimension to get us and then a return trip will happen."

Stalwart turned to Dawn, still serious, and commented, "We need to tell Celestia..."

Dawn nodded, "I know Stalwart, I'll get a message sent so we can figure out what to do." She turned back to the trio, "I wasn't from Equestria myself, but I was under strict discouraging-"

"That you broke within a few months." Stalwart added with a smirk.

"-not to tell anyone I was from another universe." Dawn continued as if she hadn't been interrupted.

The alicorn looked at her legs and then waved her front hooves. "Sort of hard to hide I'm not from around here."

Stalwart looked on in surprise at the limbs while Dawn tensed but tried to keep calm. "Thankfully, you’re well known enough for experiments here. It might be passable as a time travel spell or something. You on the other hoof I have no idea what to do about, if Stalwart’s reaction is a measure to go by." She said apologetically toward Chrysalis. "Still, make yourselves at home while you're here ok?"

The queen was wrapped in flame and was replaced by a light blue unicorn with a black mane whose body was rather curvy and mark was a green heart. "Hiding will not be hard for me." She said with a slight upper Canterlot accent as if she was well educated.

"Dawn, this is bad. You have no idea what Chrysalis has done." Stalwart said, standing more rigidly.

The now unicorn arched a brow. "Oh? And what have I done?"

Stalwart stated with conviction about the invasion from almost a decade ago, and her replacement of Shining in the crystal empire after.

Dawn looked at the filly and smiled at her, hoping she doesn't get too uncomfortable. Stalwart was coming off far too strong in her opinion, and she could have sworn hearing it was Cadence who was replaced, not Shining. Perhaps he was so cautious that he wasn’t thinking straight she wondered.

She blinked. "My replacement of him? Hmm. Hadn't thought of that, though I was focused on other things. But yes, I did invade Canterlot in order to get food for my subjects, as we only had about two months’ worth of love stored if we did heavy rationing." Chrysalis said while the filly simply smiled looking around the room.

"Wait,” Dawn interjected, noticing an opportunity, “so if it was a food issue, why can’t we find a solu-"

"Dawn, go reach Celestia, we've taken long enough as is." Stalwart said, not wanting his wife to be distracted any further.
"Stalwart...” Dawn said with a sigh, then agreed, “I’m going, but I want to know more before rushing to conclusions." Dawn levitated the quill and parchment to write the message, writing quickly

Princess Celestia, I have Queen Chrysalis and Twilight in my home, but they’re different than the ones we know. Stalwart insists you want to be here because of how dangerous he thinks they might be, as they’re from another world. Please come when you can.

"I don't know how it is in your world, but back home, changelings are generally seen as parasites and monsters. Add in my spies reported large amounts of racism and fear of unknown people, and it was clear going to ask for help would result in a no or us being attacked. So rather than waste time with it, I took a direct route." Chrysalis explained.

Dawn nodded as she sent off the urgently marked, hastily written scroll by magic, "I can’t say I blame you for what you had to do. Considering I was not in Equestria at that time, and we don't know how different you are from our own world's versions. My message should be read relatively soon and we can sort out how to proceed when Celestia arrives."

"Hmm, well if it's like back home I expect to be detained and questioned for a couple of days." Twilight said

Dawn blinked and looked at her confused, "Why?"

"Because it's what we do with displaced."

Dawn looked on between them without understanding, "Like, visitors from other worlds are something you deal with often?"

"Not as often as us ending up displaced but often enough to have protocols in place."

Dawn eyed them with curiosity as Stalwart looked on with a little less hostility, "So, just how commonly does this happen? I mean, I don't know how often Equestria gets visitors here, but Celestia made me promise that word of other worlds couldn't get out or-"

A loud knock on the door could be heard as a familiar voice called out, "Dawn? We came here as soon as we could, where are they?"

Chrysalis pulled the filly closer to her chest without noticing she did so, and Twilight leaned against her.

Dawn called out, "We're in the living room Celestia! Don’t worry, they've been pretty friendly so-" She said as Celestia and Luna both came into the room.

"Where is Chrysalis, there's no chance she- Wait, Twilight, what happened?" Celestia asked, wings flared open before pausing as she saw Twilight, surprised at the extent of the damage

Luna stayed quiet and observing for the exchange so far, wings open like her sister.

Twilight waved with her cybernetic limb. "Yo Celestia, how's it going? Beautiful day we are having, yes?"

"You said they were different Dawn. You weren't joking." She said, looking over Twilight's prosthetics and scars.
"We want to hear how this happened," Luna said, eying everyone in the room while taking the hallway to sit down while Celestia went over to the remaining chair in the living room and looked at all three of them.

"And after that," Celestia added, "I wish to know how my student became damaged to this extent."

"Well I was sitting in my throne room, listening to a few reports about issues with the dam needing repaired in Ponyville." Twilight said. "When giant swirling vortexes opened next to me."

"I was playing with my daughter." Chrysalis said, still disguised.

Dawn nodded, "I was asked by a unicorn student of the academy nearby for a second opinion on the origins of a relic. I tried to turn him down, but I eventually agreed to just take a look. After a few seconds of holding it with my magic, it suddenly disappeared, and a hole opened up to the side, blowing debris into my room, along with these three."

"Hmm. Sounds like the spell matrix was damaged and absorbed your magic, which triggered it. Most likely wasn't anything to do with dimensions, but with a damaged matrix, it could have done something similar." Twilight said.

Dawn shook her head, "I don’t know of any ways to travel across worlds like that, but even so, perhaps we should contact Nightfall if-"

Celestia shook her head, "Remember the last time you got his hopes up Dawn. I think he will be best off without any more thoughts of returning home." She replied before turning her gaze to Twilight, "And what is it you three would require? We have no way to return you to your world."

"Oh, not a lot. A rescue party should be arriving anytime between now and several centuries down the line."

Dawn blinked a few times as Luna asked, "What kind of rescue are you expecting?"

"Military and at least one alicorn." She said. "Platoon strength with support vehicles."

Dawn dropped her jaw as the sisters looked at each other, "That’s insane! I... we can't have that many in a rescue squad come up or there'd be a panic-"

Celestia flexed her wing out, interrupting Dawn. "I understand your precautions, but it is imperative that no pony learns that there are other worlds. You surely know the dangers that can come of such knowledge."

"Um, no? Since our people keep ending up in other worlds or people from those worlds ending up in ours, it's a subject taught in school." She said. "And it's not like I can communicate with anyone back home to tell them not to roll up in Humvees with a Gunship in the air. Not to mention they will open the rift somewhere within 200 miles of our location, and is a giant rift in the air of pure light that soldiers pour out of. Not something easy to hide if it opens in a population zone."
Celestia and Luna looked at each other with grave faces, Stalwart appearing confused, and Dawn slightly horrified.
"We had hoped to keep this a secret, but it appears that is now impossible upon their arrival unless we find another way to send you back." Luna said.

"We will notify our magical academy to find a solution to this problem and hopefully sooner than what you speak of happens." Celestia said before turning to the unicorn mare Chrysalis, "and what are we to do with you? Are you guilty of the crimes our own Chrysalis is guilty of, or is this like the reverse world I had visited so long ago?"

She blinked. "Depends what you mean by guilty?"

"Have you acted in a way that would bring harm to the ponies of Equestria or its kingdom?" Celestia asked.

"Well she did attack Canterlot, cocoon Celestia, conquer the city and later attack our ambassador. So, I sent flame troopers into the hive, burned half of it, captured her, absorbed the hive into the army, made her my second in command, and now we are here." She said. "That was oh, around 50 years ago. Hmm, technically she's still a prisoner of war." Twilight said.
Celestia looked at Twilight in a different light, not quite as soft as she originally had. "You... sent in fire magic on the changelings? That's-"

"Barbaric." Luna said simply.

"You haven’t seen footage of my world’s world wars. Still, that..." Dawn said, quiet and trying to distance herself from her emotions for the meeting after her prior horror.

"Oh no, no. Not magic. Most of the flame troopers are earth ponies. They have fuel tanks on their backs attached to flamethrowers. They have proven highly effective against certain creatures from the Everfree as well as certain dark magic constructs. Not to mention they are effective against swarms and certain hostiles we have dealt with from other realities."
"Just how many times do you go to other worlds?" Celestia asked.

"I think she's implying she gets a lot of visitors to her own world herself... right?" Dawn clarified, looking to them to ask.

"Well I've personally been to 15 other worlds. Chrysalis here 12, as for Equestria, a lot of our people have ended up on other worlds. We also get displaced randomly but often enough to have protocols in place. Also, I am counting unplanned trips not rescues."

Dawn opened her jaw, amazed. Celestia chuckled before replying, "Oh, is that all?" She paused, growing more serious in her expression before going, "I take it then, Twilight, that she is your subject and has your protection?"

"Well we have a kid, so I'd say more than subject." Twilight said. "And this has been personal experience of unwillingly going to other worlds. I have personally lead 753 missions to other worlds to get our people home. We have so much contact other worlds, it is taught about in school, including how to survive if it happens to them."

Celestia nodded, "Very well. Chrysalis, provided that neither of you endanger the good ponies of Equestria, there will be no issues."

"We will need to find a way to get you back to your home before the display you spoke of occurs. In the meantime, we have one question," Luna stated. "What risks are there to Equestria of any... less friendly forces coming because of your arrival here?"

"Unknown." She said " What brought me could have had weakened your barrier or it might not have. Or could sudden turn on again. Dimensional travel is finicky at times."

Celestia looked at them concerned, "And how would we be able to tell?"

"Tell what?"

"The barrier..." Dawn said, trying her hardest not to add 'obviously' to the end. She didn’t know as much about this and even she could infer based on what was said.

"Don't know. We have equipment that lets us check. But let's just say if reality starts to fall apart then your barrier is damaged. Also, Discord can tell. So, either or."

"Hm? Did someone ring?" a familiar voice said with a flash of light and a green hero's tunic and a chicken-sword, just behind Chrysalis.

Dawn visibly froze once again, trying to chuckle, "No Q, we-"

"Actually," Celestia interrupted, "We do have one favor to ask."

"Oh really?" he asked, snapping away his outfit while holding a blue rupee and tossing it over his shoulder, seeming to ignore that it turned into a cup of tea that ran away to the kitchen, "And what would this favooour be about? … Also, somepony here said my other name, I really need to look into that."

"Wait...you are actually related to the Continuum?" Twilight asked looking back at him.

Discord turned to look at her and gasped, "Twilight! What in Equestria happened to you? You're a cyborg!" He chuckled and snapped his fingers, assimilating the look of cyborg from teen titans while he replied, "I should have brought Fluttershy, I heard of a few birds who enjoy-"

"Discord." Celestia said sternly, trying to snap his attention back, "Can you please tell us if our world has been weakened to visitors from other worlds or dimensions like these three here."

"Oh, our barrier is perfectly fine. We will monitor it as we are worried of our world ending but all scans show the barrier is at 100% integrity. Add in the fact that it's only Equestria being affected, no other nations have reported displacement incidences. And the running theory is something or someone is pulling strings." Twilight said then looked back at Discord. "Also, yes, I am augmented... also not seeing the reference... bit rare."

Dawn chuckled, "It's ok Twilight, unless you were looking for adolescent crime-fighting entertainment."

"Well at least Sooooomepony understood." Discord said, poofing in a pair of small light flashes to stand on Dawn’s back in miniaturized form while wearing a suit of armor, treating Dawn as his steed, "I don't sense anything wrong with Equestria. I take my position of protecting my friends, especially Fluttershy, quite seriously! Speaking of which I really should get back to our weekly tea. Ciao!" He finished, blinking himself and Dawn away with him.

"Hmm, I'm usually well versed in what he refers to. Still remember his face when he dressed as a student from Hogwarts, and again when he called the Recovery Facility as SGC and I asked him if he knew Colonel O'Neil." She chuckled. "As for what he said, then unless some entity decides to do battle in this world with some threat from another reality then I'm going to say you are good, unless that artifact isn't done yet."

Dawn frowned as he left, wearing a bridle and saddle on her back and snorting, spitting out the mouthpiece that was barely in there at all. "I lived through a Q-napping. That's comforting."

Stalwart looked at her in confusion but said nothing as she made no move to take it off yet. He internally smiled a little. She could be so naive at times.

"That is a relief." Celestia said as if there was no interruption, Luna already turning to head out the door, "We will begin our preparations immediately. If you have any suggestions for how we can get you home before your rescue party is needed, I'm sure you know how to reach us."

When Dawn had been left behind with the outfit still on, Chrysalis covered the filly's eyes and Twilight smirked and laughed when she realized Dawn wasn't removing the outfit. "Also, I have no advice, as from what I can see your tech is way too low to build such a device. Just remember you have from now to possible decades to figure it out before rescue arrives."

Dawn noticed the act of Chrysalis covering the eyes of her foal and gasped quietly. She completely overlooked at such equipment was viewed as a kind of sensual adult outfit in Equestria and quickly took them off so she wouldn't make them uncomfortable, placing the saddle and such under the couch, behind the drapes the edges had for the time being.

Celestia nodded, "Even so, we do not want to take our chances. Try not to cause trouble or let this knowledge of other worlds to seep out." She said, letting the unspoken threat of punishment hang before she left Dawn's home.

"Will do my best but I make no promises. Just be happy my sentries weren't pulled through. They'd be harder to hide." She chuckled.

Dawn shook her head as she finished putting the saddle away and sighed, "So, that was... different."

"How so?" Twilight asked

Dawn shook her head and stretched her limbs, "Well, Q never does the same trick twice from what I understand, and when Nightfall and I had stumbled into this world, we met under much less... tense... circumstances."

"Nightfall? And so, you are aware of the continuum and so is Discord?"

Dawn nodded, "A companion of mine, Nightfall. Neither of us were native to Equestria. As far as the continuum, there was a tv show that showed Discord, though then I knew him as a Q. I figure since he has the same responses as the one I saw and even the voice, they were probably one and the same... First time I heard him I yelped out 'Q!?', and he looked around and said, 'Hm? No pony here should know me by that name...' I swear he's just playing mind games with me knowing it scares me a little."

"Ah, our Discord has no connection to the Qs." She said.

Dawn tilted her head, "Why wouldn't they be though?"

"Because Q is a race of people who achieved their power while our Discord is the antithesis of our world created to keep the balance." She said.

Dawn blinked, "I... hadn't thought of that."

Stalwart shook his head, "Well, this is well above my head. I’ll go get some house things done while you… talk. What'll you want for lunch Dawn?"

"Yeah, took me a while to figure it out, a lot of observation, some guesswork and piecing together what he said over decades I've known him. Getting a straight answer from him when it's not something majorly important to current events or near future events is very hard to do."

Dawn chuckled, "Yeah. I bet. Thank you Stalwart. Would you make a Carrot Salad? Been craving something with a crunch lately. What about you three? What should we make for you?"

"Something with eggs and I'm going to guess you are both herbivores so don't have meat?" Twilight asked.

"Simple fruit salad will do for me" Chrysalis said.

"Daisy sandwiches!" Violet said.

Stalwart dropped his jaw in response at the question from twilight, while Dawn looked on in curiosity, "Nearly all the animals here have a degree of sentience, including cows selling their excess milk at some places. So, I've learned it's heavily frowned upon."

Stalwart looked to Violet and Chrysalis and nodded, simply heading to the kitchen to distance himself from the topic. He was still trying to pay attention, but if Celestia gave them a chance, he will try to abide by it.

"Ah, our world they are sapient but not sentient." She said. "Still most everyone is basically an herbivore except me." Twilight said chuckling.

"I understand that one. I ate nearly all meat back home myself. Cheeses and breads were the other two staples of my diet, but coming here, I was forced to adapt. I doubt you're an obligate carnivore now, are you?" Dawn asked, raising a brow.
"Omnivorous. I eat both equally. Bacon is particularly good."

Dawn looked up at the ceiling and let out a longing sigh, "Dammit. that sounds really good right now." She laughed and shook her head, "lemme guess, everything is better with bacon?"

"Pretty much, except ice cream. Don't ever mix ice cream and bacon." She gagged.

Dawn nodded with a smirk, "Yeah, I can imagine, but it doesn’t stop some from trying." She got up and headed to the kitchen, calling back, "So, what can we get you Commander?"

"Oh, just whatever. I'm not especially picky when not home."

Dawn nodded and went to the kitchen to help her husband and the two mare guests talked over their current situation as they waited.

Stalwart and Dawn eventually came out with dinner for everyone, and set them down on the low table between the furniture in the dining room before digging in politely. Stalwart still being cautious, and Dawn being concerned about what to do about their new guests.

"So, I am assuming I am confined here, since I can't exactly cover up myself well even with an illusion spell. My personality shines through." Twilight said as she ate.

"I doubt you're confined, she said nothing of the sort.” Dawn shook her head, “When I first came to Equestria, I was taken to magic kindergarten." Dawn chuckled loudly and shook her head feeling embarrassment at admitting such a thing
"Wow, I’d have thought you'd be given a private tutor rather than be sent to school where people would question everything. Not the best way to not draw attention."

"We-” Dawn chuckled, hesitating, “had a helping hoof. I was taught alongside the foals, which was odd, but decent enough. Still wonder why it wasn't a private tutoring myself though. Nightfall got boot camp by Blue Breeze- Oh, that reminds me, I need to talk to him still about those flying lessons."

Stalwart snorted, "I've only been reminding you every week for the last month..."

"Yeah. Still, for wanting to keep things secret, a method to get people talking was chosen."

Dawn chuckled, "Combine that with Nightfall competing in an annual Canterlot race and getting second place, then fighting some of the guard for entertainment for Luna, now having operated the Everfree Patrol guild for... two years now I think? We definitely didn’t get a way to do anything but stand out."

"Ah, the guard could always use training but… what do you mean for entertainment?"

Stalwart smirked, "Silver had a new way of fighting that he'd been showing his marefriend, Fire Storm. Luna got wind of it and it reminded her of some tournaments she used to have a millennium ago. So, she grabbed an earth pony, myself, a pegasus and a unicorn, to gradually go 1 on 1 with him, and if he won, 2 on 1, and then a final 3 on 1 should we have failed at some point by then."

"That... has to be one of the most breach of conduct for use of the guard I have ever heard. I could understand a demonstration but entertainment and a tournament? That's almost as bad as the Celestia that kept the guard around for eye candy and chose only the best-looking mares and stallions for the castle defenses."

Stalwart looked at her in blatant surprise, "Wait, what?!"

Dawn laughed, nearly spilling her salad onto the floor from where she had been levitating it.

"Yeah, one of the Equestrias I have been to, I noticed the castle guard seemed worse off than ours. Ours was dulled by centuries of peacetime but had decent training still. These ponies were a disgrace in every sense of the word because they were chosen for looks not ability, meant to be something nice for that Celestia to look at and enjoy like a piece of art. I had not an ounce of respect for that Celestia for that and her reasoning for doing it."

Dawn shook her head but chuckled, "Wow. That’s horrible, but fascinating, like there could be a completely different me out there."

"Like in Peonia." Stalwart chimed in solemnly.

"Oh... right." she said sadly.

Twilight looked between them. "So, seeing as Celestia basically put you two in charge of me what are the ground rules?" She asked switching subjects.

Dawn looked up to Twilight, "Well, this is a relatively peaceful land, though it's seen a force threatening that peace comes along about every year, save for Svikopi who took two."

"Similar to ours, generally peaceful with standard problems you get when dealing with other nations and such. Occasional world ending threat that last for a few weeks at most then back to the normal day."

Dawn chuckled, "I guess that does sound similar."

"Yeah, it does." Twilight chuckled back. "So, guessing I'm staying here or is there somewhere else in mind?"

Dawn hummed, "Well, I don’t mind you staying here for a while. I'll need to ask Celestia for some allowance for you three, though you could get a place of your own if you want. Stalwart?"

He shrugged, still hesitant about Chrysalis, but she was listening to Twilight for some reason. "I don’t mind. This home has several levels to it, maybe they could borrow the basement so we'd all have some privacy. Though we do have a spare room upstairs if needed..."

Dawn frowned slightly, "I suppose. It can wait to be a nursery until about a month or two before I'm due..."

"We are fine with the basement. I enjoy privacy as well." Twilight said.

Dawn nodded, "I'll help with cleanup or reorganizing if you wish. Just let me know what you need ‘n all that."

"Just a clear area to set up a command post of that's alright. Need to be able to monitor things in case of rescue. Also, would you mind if we improve security of this place while we are here?"

Dawn looked at her intrigued, "In what ways?

"Few cameras and motion detectors." She said. "External cameras and one on the basement door and motions detectors inside for at night or when it's just use here."

Dawn chuckled as Stalwart looks on confused, "Unless you go with some warding or sensory spells, you'll be hard pressed to find circuitry in this world, Commander. Believe me, I rather miss a lot of entertainment because of it."

"Oh, I have about 3,000 yards of power cables, circuitry, and other equipment, as well as a generator that can power it all plus spare."

Dawn looked at her with skeptical caution, "And that would be where on you exactly?"

"Pocket dimension."

"Oh yeah.” Dawn said, remembering how much she struggled to learn it. “Never did do well with those."

She blinked. "Really? It's a simple spell and takes next to no power to use one. Power only limits the size of the pocket."

Dawn blinked in surprise, then shook her head, "Perhaps it wasn't something urgent for me to learn. I only became a unicorn a couple years ago, and an alicorn a couple months ago... I have a lot to learn still."

"Well, could be our magic systems are different. What may be a simple spell back home may be an ungodly complicated affair here."

Dawn nodded, "I'd love to talk to you about that if I could. To return to the original topic at han-er, hoof... I'm concerned about the obtrusiveness of the technology, though I could see it being explained just by how you are in this reality..."

Stalwart, "I’d rather not have our home changed just yet. Our home is quite safe as is, and we've got the rest of the guard stationed in Van Hoover if we needed backup."

Twilight nodded. "Very well though I will be setting up equipment in the basement incase rescue arrives as I'm sure you'd like us to get in contact with them as soon as possible if they arrive." She said and looked at Dawn. "And what do you mean about your concerns of our tech?"

Dawn shook her head, "I'm sure it’s nothing but I try not to mess with the knowledge or advancements of a place if I'm dropped in it."

Stalwart laughed, looking at her with a knowing smile, "Says the mare who came into our world and fixed a telekinesis bracelet in her first two months of having magic, fixed several relics before that coma of yours, then learned healing magic and in-tandem spellcasting in another six months and still gives lectures on the subject... oh, and fought off Svikopi by shattering her horn, weakening him so the princesses could confine it and ascended to be my alicorn princess wife... Did I leave anything out?"

Discord, enjoying his tea, chuckled and muttered in Fluttershy’s home, “Minus one sin because this pony would be great at sinning.”

Twilight blinked and then whistled. "Impressive. Could use some one of your caliber in the army."

Dawn froze in place for a second, then looked back at her, "What do you mean?"

"My soldiers need to be tough. They are called in to handle the most dangerous of situations. Having a pony willing to shatter her own horn, something I'd imagine is extremely painful in this world like ours, to stop a threat? That is a very special level of duty and I'd give you a medal if you had been in my army."

Dawn blushed, "I mean, yeah, it was really painful, and I even passed out from it, but Starlight and I knew it was either that, or succumbing to a threat to Equestria and damaging those around us. In light of that, the choice was easy. Though I didn't think it’d put me as a princess..."

"Most people wouldn't be able to do what you did."

Dawn shrugged, "I do what I must to protect those I care about. That’s all."

Stalwart shook his head and went off to do the dishes, still surprised at his wife’s denial of her own achievements.

"And that's the type of quality I look for in my command staff and other high-ranking officers."

Dawn stood there, thinking for a few seconds. "My biggest concern if we entertained this, is my duty to Celestia and Luna now, as well as the ability to return here for Stalwart..."

"Well you couldn't really join the military anyways. I don't really have any authority here and you would be a foreign citizen."

Dawn chuckled, "A foreign citizen princess? Isn't that an oxymoron?"

"No. You are not a citizen of my Equestria and are a citizen of this Equestria and in fact one of its leaders."

Dawn opened her mouth briefly in understanding, "Ah. I wouldn't have thought the issue of a 'foreign citizen' would be considered. Still..." She sighed quietly, "I don't know why I’m so readily considering this, but to be frank, I don't have any duties here just yet. While I'm technically a leader, I'm still not much more than a placeholder at the moment. If it is something you wish to pursue, I'd recommend bringing it up with the princesses."

"Tell me, are you invited to functions and events as often as the others?"

Dawn shook her head. "I was invited to the Grand Galloping Gala before I became a princess but it wasn't my kind of thing anyway. Dressed up nice, but the highlight of the night was when Silver asked me to play "Thriller" from my memory so he could dance to it." She laughed loudly, "Oh goodness, the looks some of the ponies gave!"

Twilight nodded. "Designated survivor."

Dawn looked at her curious, "What do you mean?"

"You are the designated survivor. The Princess chosen to survive should some form of attack happen on the others and they fall. It is a foolish move to have your entire leadership in one room. That makes taking out everyone easy. We implemented a similar policy decades ago after an attack happened In Saddle Arabia. Their entire leadership was wiped out in a single attack, except for the deputy secretary of the treasury who had the flu and wasn't able to go to the event. In half a second, he became the leader of the whole country simply because he survived by not being with the others. You are this Equestria’s designated survivor, and will be kept away from most events that the other four will be attending in most circumstances."

Dawn hummed, "Perhaps. Somehow, I doubt they consider that intentionally."

"Well, seems that way to me, and is a very good policy to have as it ensures the government can continue to function. We use the same policy in the army, there is always at least two generals on video feed from other parts of the country during meetings so if something happens at the meeting at least two of the Command Staff are alive."

Dawn nodded and took a deep breath before letting it out slowly. "Well, it is what it is, but as much as I want to raise a family in peace, I hate just sitting around doing nothing too."

"You're a princess. Go out and do stuff. Hold charities, speak to the public, host an event, be a guest speaker somewhere, maybe settle a dispute or two."

Dawn snorted before laughing a couple times, "I'm sure that'd work well enough at first. We'll see how I feel a year from now."

"Yeah. It's good to start small, get some people used to you and supporting you before moving onto bigger things."

Dawn shrugged, "I suppose so. Just feels like I should be doing more. Well, I should probably let you settle in, I still need to see if that relic is present as a clue for how to get you back if need be."

"Want me to help? It did drag me here after all."

Dawn looked at her intrigued, "I- I am curious about your insights. Sure. Why not?"

Twilight nodded and stood. "Plus, it would be best if I picked it up and handled it. Don't want to risk triggering it again, and I can touch it without any form of magic."

It was then that Dawn looked down and noticed the more claw-like appendages, "Oh, fingers! Damn it's been a while since I got to see those."

"Yeah, lost innate magic in my hooves when they were replaced, so I built in fingers." She said as she retracted them back into her hoof and then got up. "Go set up the basement however you see fit." She told Chrysalis who nodded as she stood.

"Where is the basement door?" Chrysalis asked

Dawn smiled, "I’ll show you the way, I trust Twilight can find the room again afterward." She said, leading toward the front half of the tree to the stairs downward.

The queen followed her, the filly on her back. "Any house rules?"

Dawn hummed, trying to think of any such rules, "I genuinely never had to think of any. We just clean up after ourselves if there's a mess, main floor is shared, maybe not going upstairs without invitation just like we wouldn't go downstairs with permission... Hm..."

"And I'll use this form when not in the basement." Chrysalis said, still a unicorn.

Dawn nods, "That might be prudent. So, who's the filly? She's cute." She chuckled, smiling up at them.

The queen smiled. "Her name is Violet Flame, and she is my and Twilight's daughter. Also, feel free to call me Chryssy when I'm in this form."

Dawn laughed, "Well met, Chryssy. As you’ve figured out, I'm Meadow Dawn, and it's nice to meet such a cute foal too."

The foal smiled wide from her place on Chryssy 's back.

Dawn kept her smile and showed them the way to the door leading to the basement. Opening it inward, she began taking the first steps down, Chrysalis following her.

Dawn showed them a gently lit circular room, sunlight coming in by a small circular window on the north and south. A circular table was growing out of the middle, complete with a lamp in the middle of that. A nice touch in Dawn’s opinion was an alcove like area along the opposite wall with shades that could serve as a bedding area with blackout curtains for privacy. "It’s a bit darker, like a cave till it grows upward into a room with bigger windows, but it's nice enough. What do you think? Needs more light for the filly?"

"Not at all, changelings are used to low light and can see in it just as well as you ponies see in daylight." Chrysalis replied

Dawn nodded, "I was hoping you might not mind. I understood changelings to enjoy the colder darker homes or caves to an extent.”

"Well, it's where we live and has many advantages since other species can't see in them well."

Dawn nodded. "If I get lost in a cave again, I'll make sure to ask for you." she winked before chuckling. "Where would you like help settling in."

"Oh, I can take care of it. Though for the sake of ease if you do come down, do you mind if we set up lights down here?"

Dawn chuckled, "Set up how you wish. As long as you're comfortable."

She nodded. "We will be. Don't worry. This is nicer than some places I've slept."

Dawn shook her head, not wanting to think about what would be worse for them then. "Well, if you say so, I'm glad. Do you have a different sleeping habits or does violet? Do we need a foal sized bed?"

"We are adaptable, and so sleep however needed, but usually in beds like ponies." She chuckled.

Dawn smirked, "Just trying to figure out if I'll hear noises at night or if a certain filly will do any exploring at odd hours of the night. "

"Depends on what you mean by odd, and I'm going with yes for the last one."

Dawn chuckled quietly, trying not to express how she wouldn't mind being woken up every now and then for bad dreams or the like.

"But I will make sure she doesn't run any experiments on you or your husband." Chrysalis added

Dawn looked at her confused, "Twilight or violet? ... and what kind of experiments?"

"Violet, and either biological or psychological." She chuckled. "Twilight would never experiment on anyone for any reason under any circumstances."

Dawn looked at Chrysalis intrigued, unaware of the filly's intelligence. "What, is she going to spread things out on my floor for me to step on?"

"Possibly, or adjust each clock in the house to be different from each other. Possibly rearrange the furniture in a mirrored fashion or flip the room upside down so lights are on the floor and furniture is on the ceiling. As for biological Experiments, it would most likely be to see the effect of certain things on your body, mane, feather, fur, blood, and saliva samples. "

Dawn looked at Violet with intrigue, "Well, look at you! That’s fiendishly creative."

She smiled wide. "Mom said I'm not allowed to run Experiments on the citizens of Ponyville or the animals after the last one caused a mare to have a slight mental break down and require treatment.

"She was dragged away by the Royal Guard after setting fire to a flower cart and proclaiming the daisies needed to be stopped before they could take over the town." Chrysalis said.

"As I said, a minor mental break down." Violet said happily.

Dawn laughed and shook her head, "I don’t know why I find that so funny, but yeah, probably for the best if she doesn’t, not till she learns more about ethics."

"We have been working on that, but she's too curious for her own good." Chrysalis sighed. "She has her mother's curiosity and my ‘whatever it takes’ attitude."

Dawn smirked, "Perhaps I can help with that at some point." She shook her head and headed back to the stairs, "Sorry, that was rude, I don’t mean to imply that you aren't capable of such a task."

"No, no, it's fine. You'd be surprised how often we have to compensate someone for something."
Dawn nodded, "Perhaps we should add some smoke detectors while Twilight is at it. I'll talk to Stalwart about the other security needs. And as far as the empathy and sympathy goes," she paused and looked at Chrysalis in the eye, "I really wouldn’t mind chipping in. I worry about being a good mother and... Well, I guess I'm impatient to learn you know?" She said, forgetting for a moment that Chrysalis could sense her fear and concern, perhaps heavily mixed with love and regret. "I hope we can get you home soon, Twilight is waiting for me."

She nodded. "Yes, I'll take care of things down here."

Dawn walked back to her study room, wondering what Twilight had found thus far.

The alicorn was standing on her back legs holding the artifact in her hands looking it over, she looked natural standing on her back legs as she did on her four hooves. "I assumed this scorched thing is the artifact?" She asked holding up a heavily burnt and partly metal item.

Dawn nodded, "It looks like it."

She looked it over. "Looks like some sort of attempt to make a teleporter that can be used by non-unicorns."

Dawn looked at it curious, "Huh, well that’s rather amazing if it works... Ouch..." she reacted as she saw the burn damage, ears laying back on hear head for a second.

"Doesn’t looked like it was completed, and was probably abandoned. There is signs of very old scorching the previous dates, what's on it now is this was probably unstable before it was damaged." She said as she looked the whole thing over with a critical eye.

Dawn sighed, "Well, that’s comforting... think it might have been intentional?"

"Don't know. Could have been just some unicorn trying it and this was one of the failed prototypes. Disposal of magic items is very dangerous so most just store them after a certain point."

Dawn shook her head, "You don’t understand, there’s only been three unicorns in the last millennia who could create or fix relics. My ability came from the knowledge and ability of Svikopi, who came from the era of Starswirl. I only barely had enough innate ability left after that coma..."

She looked at her and blinked. "Ah, so a divergence. We have an entire section of the EMSD Facility just for handling and repairing relics like this." She said. "Though I think the older damage was from them testing it and it failing so was scraped. You were probably the first person to try and repair it."

Dawn hummed, thinking about the discovery of a division to creating and repairing relics. "So, wait, do your unicorns not have to match the frequency of the original caster in order to operate on it?"

She blinked. "What?"

Dawn looked at her confused. "Well, I guess that explains it. It's a huge limitation here."

"Oh yeah, while magic has frequency an enchanted item is able to be used by anyone who can activate the enchanted. Some need magic other simply touch and some our voice. Only time frequency really comes into play is... well, not many. Magic is magic. We all draw from the same source so to speak."

Dawn chuckled. "Here, magic carries signatures not unlike a pony's voice. No matter the pitch, there's certain consistent harmonies in the voice. Magic is much like that, and if not matched when trying to fix it or maintain it, creates ripples that can grow and break the spell or item itself.

"Oh. Only issue we have is magic surges or a spell being interrupted mid cast. That can either be ok to beyond bad."

Dawn looked off into the distance, thinking, "Curious..."

Stalwart called out, "All right Dawn, I have to get to my patrol, I'll see you tonight!"

"Though my assessment of what he was when I saw him was correct. He looked like a guard." Twilight chuckled.

Dawn smirked, "You can take the pony out of the guard, but you can’t take the guard out of the pony."

She chuckled. "I still find retired troopers who have been out of the army for a decade snapping to salute when I walk by."

Dawn chuckled, "It was weird when retired Captain Stone Wall did that to me at the wedding. Pretty much had to remind him he's my father now." She chuckled

"Father?"

"He's Stalwart's dad, so father in law. Think the relic has any clues to reproduce the effects?"
"Thing looks fried so down you won’t get much out of it besides a paper weight." She said.

"Hmmm..." she mused as she hovered it to herself, trying to investigate possible linework or residual spell energy.

"Interesting. Tell me do Alicorns have limited power here?" Twilight suddenly asked.

"In what sense?" Dawn asked, looking as confused as she felt.

Twilight was still standing as a biped with her hands behind her back with her back straight. "Well, your current power and your potential power are, well, you will be able to move the sun and the moon if need be, but not much else. It's odd to see that for an alicorn." She said looking at her with calculation

Dawn looked at her confused, "What do you mean? I'm just me. I doubt I'd want to move the sun or moon, but It's not as if I need to or can't cast other spells. I have my healing after all."

"Not what I meant. I meant you will be strong enough to move them and that means your other spells can be that strong as well. And you will definitely be strong then how I am now. but alicorns back home do not stop growing in power."

Dawn blinked multiple times, rather speechless, "I... well... How do you know I'd cap out at that much then?"

"Magic sight."

Dawn blankly stared at Twilight before needing to gesture with a hoof in a circular pattern, "And that does...."

"Lets me see how powerful magic users are and how powerful they possibly can be."

Dawn blinked, "Ah." She took a few breaths and shook her head, "I... both can believe it and can't at the same breath, if that's accurate I mean."

"It's not 100%, but it can give you rough idea of things as well as a few other things."

"Like what?"

"A basic idea of what the magic was used for. The aura changes based on things it's used for. Most people the aura stays the same as they use it for only levitation and such."

Dawn hummed, "I see. what about my healing magic, is that familiar to you at all?"

"I can tell you’ve done a lot of light magic, doesn't appear to be much combat magic. Mostly defensive and neutral." Twilight said.

Dawn nods, "There hasn't been a great deal of combat needed. That's really neat." She said sounding rather chipper.

"Yeah, as I said I can't know exactly what spells you used just the general type."

Dawn nodded, inexplicably impressed and in a good mood. She set down the artifact, she can't focus on it anymore with being analyzed so easily, but it was a joy to be understood so well.

Twilight blinked once. "Anyways as far as I can tell that items is destroyed, nothing more than a paper weight though I don't exactly have equipment to confirm."

Dawn chuckled, "I still noticed some residual magic and linework. It’s still possible to recreate it based on what remains I'm pretty sure, kinda like taking crushed remains of a radio, even if you're missing a piece or two, you can still make some inferences.

"True, though the radio doesn't usually cause magic rifts in reality that drag other people to its location. least not in my experience."

Dawn rolled her eyes with a smile. "You missed my point, but it doesn’t matter. I'll check what I can tomorrow and send it to Celestia. I don’t know how the magic works here fully yet, more by intuition, but they have scholars who can help and then I can execute the instructions."

"No, I do. I'm just warning you about messing with things like that, especially after it seems like someone already tried and failed with this version, so the way the magic is set up may be wrong."

Dawn hummed, furrowing her eyes slightly in concern, "I hadn't thought of that... hm. Well that’s disappointing. By the way, go ahead and install what you need to, but I’d ask if you could keep it unobtrusive, for Stalwart's sake. Smoke alarms would probably be wise after what I heard about Violet." She added, chuckling.

"Yeah we were going to set those up."

Dawn nodded, "It's nice to meet you Commander. I hope we can get you home soon." She said excusing herself to the small library afterward.

She nodded. "Likewise, Princess." Twilight said and headed for the basement.

Dawn kept to herself in the library by the window, reading fiction to wind down, enjoying her quiet time. She heard the basement door open and close and then things being moved around the house, and wondered what she was getting into.

Author's Notes:

Well Well Well we seem to found our favorite mad mare in another world but this time shes meeting a new alicorn.

Who knows what the future holds for the Commander?

well me and the co-author but thats beside the point.

anyways, i look forward to documeting this adventure as it unfolds and were learn about the "Meadow Dawn" and see how she stacks up as a Princess shall we?