After Loki and his group left through the portal, I looked left and saw that Sora was still in her new astral form, just hovering in the air like Rainbow does on clouds. She looks kinda funny since her clothes are acting like she is standing normally and not moving around with the direction she is.

“Looks like this is a permanent spell huh?” I ask her, Sora doing a backflip and hovering next to me.

”Looks like it. This is really nice, being able to appear to others instead of having to take control of our body.” she says, taking a seat in midair before smirking. ”Imagine all the pranking possibilities.” I just shake my head at that.

We get interrupted by the princess clearing her throat and getting our attention back to the situation at hand. Me and Sora both get serious expressions.

“S-so, what are you disappointed about?” Rainbow asks, clearly a little worried. The others also look worried and Celestia just looks curious. Me and Sora sigh.

“When Twilights came to you girls early about her problem of the friendship reports, what did you do?” I ask the girls. They see where I am going with this.

“W-we brushed her off and said it was no big deal.” Fluttershy whispers. I nod to her and Sora floats over to them.

”And why would you do that?” she asks the group, Celestia being curious as well.

“Well, we thought she was just being silly! She was freaking out about not sending a letter every week? Why would that be serious?” Rainbow says and me and Sora sigh again and shake our heads.

“To you, it wouldn’t be serious, but to Twilight, who has had a set routine and possibly mild OCD about practically everything to the point she has to have Spike triple check a checklist after double checking it? It might as well be the same as you getting a to chance to show off to the Wonderbolts, or for Rarity to be invited to a tea party in Canterlot by a group of nobles. It is serious to her.” I explain and the girls all look down in shame. Sora decided to add into it.

”How many of your guys problems has Twilight solved since moving here to Ponyville?” the girls all pause and think, not being able to find a definite number because of all she has done. Sora nods at their lack of a specific answer. ”And how many of her problems have you all helped with?” they all look to one another, but they can’t actually think of a single answer at the moment that would really count. Celestia looks surprised by this.

“So Twilight has been helping this town and all of you so much, yet you cannot think of a single problem of hers you have helped with?” the princess asks shocked. The Elements looks down again and nod in shame. Celestia goes to continue, but I interrupt her.

“Don’t start berating them princess. You are also responsible for this.” I tell her and she does a double take is confusion.

“Pardon?”

“Princess, how long has Twilight been your student for?” I ask her, Celestia barely thinking for a second.

“About eleven years, she is twenty and Spike is eleven.” She answers and Spike nods. I am actually surprised as Spike looks like he is in his early teens.

“And in her time as your student, Twilight has had a very tight schedule. Personal classes with you, regular classes at your school, time with her family, and just being Twilight and reading any chance she gets. She has put herself in a rut and routine and became complacent with it.” I explain and the others, expect Rainbow and Pinkie, see where I am going with this.

”Add on to the fact she has never really had any friends before, she doesn’t know what she should do. And that is terrifying to her. She is used to either having the princess or parents in control, till a few years ago when she was old enough to make her own decisions. But this is entirely new. It would be the same as if Applejack tried to farm an entirely new type of crop, or Pinkie trying to invent a new flavour of cupcake. It is out of her control.” Sora says. The gathered ponies all look to each other worried while Celestia looks a little ashamed of herself for not realizing this.

”Huh, this is actually reminding me of what happened with a duo of Kangaskhan cubs. They were so used to playing together in a certain part of the cave, that when they moved after a cave in from when an Onix went through, they were just too scared of the unknown to play for the longest time.” Topaz says. I quickly explain what those Pokemon are, the group surprised by what an Onix is.

“That is actually a pretty good analogy. Twilight was so used to her routine back in Canterlot, yet she does realize the importance of her friendships with all of you, so she is trying to merge her routine back at the palace with a new routine here in Ponyville. Her focal point being her friendship reports. And the fact that her new routine was in danger of being incomplete, she panicked and almost started causing problems so she could report of the aftermath through the guise of a report.” I explain and the gathered ponies and drake all look ashamed for letting it get this far.

Spike sighs and grabs his cup of tea and drinks it all in one go. He then gets up and goes to the stairs.

“Where are you going Spikey?” Rarity asks.

“I’m going to check on Twilight and talk to her if she isn’t asleep. She is basically my big sis and I should have talked her down instead of worrying about myself. This is as much my fault as the rest of yours.” He says. The girls go to talk to him before Sora stops them and hovers to him.

”Spike, from one little sibling to another, you can’t always stop your big sis. I know there a few time I would love to talk Nat down from doing something dumb, but they need to learn their own limits and how to overcome them themselves.” she says, placing a transparent hand on his shoulder, barely keeping it from going through him.

”That being said, when your sibling oversteps her strengths and falls, you should be one of the first to pick them back up.” She says with a smile at him. ”Get going, even is she is asleep, having her little bro nearby will help. I would know.”

Spike nods and smiles at the astral Diclonius before turning and going up the stairs to his big sisters room. About a minute later Selene comes down the stairs with a smile on her little muzzle. She quickly takes her spot on my lap and curls up a bit to nap. I just chuckle and scratch her head.

“Well, this has been a rather enlightening talk.” Celestia says, standing up from her seat and getting ready to leave, before turning to the rest of us. “As Natali stated, this is a mess that could have been avoided had all of us been more considerate of Twilights perspective. As such I want all of you to begin to send friendship reports to me when and only when you find them.” She turns to me and my team. “Natali, Sorano, can you two keep an eye on Twilight and send my apologies to her?”

I give her a mock salute while Sora nods with a smile. She nods with a smile before walking outside and teleporting back to her castle. The others look to one another and nod.

“Well, we better get Spike. We got some letters to send!” AppleJack says before I stop them by extending ten Vectors, five with a scroll and the others with a quill and smirk at them. They look to the hovering items and nod. Applejack starts, the others adding their own sentence.

“Dear Princess Celestia...”
“Today we learned a little something about friendship...”
“We learned that you should take your friends worries seriously...”
“Even if you don’t think she has anything to worry about.”
“And that you shouldn’t let your worries turn a small problem...”
”into an enormously huge, Diclonius has to knock you out to protect the town and spell caster problem!”

I decided to add a little thing of my own at the end. ‘And that you should know when you have to be there for the ones you care about, be they family, partners or friends.’ After I wrote all that down on the scrolls, I roll them up and place them on the side table for Spike to send later.

After that, the girls all leave to do their own things, mostly think and I decided to stay home at the library to make sure Spike and Twilight are ok. I checked on them and found the duo fast asleep on her bed. I just smile and make sure they are covered up before placing a closed sign on the door and locking the library. I quickly and quietly make some dinner for me and my Pokemon to eat and then head down to the basement to continue some research.

For the past few days I have been researching the Diclonius Virus I can produce with my Vectors. Turns out if I concentrate on the virus itself, I can cause it to be produced as a pink, translucent liquid like extremely watered down pink lemonade. I was a straight A student in almost all of my science classes, specifically biology and medical science, so I was extremely curious about how the Virus works.

I spent the next few hours into the night researching and documenting how the Virus looks under a microscope as well as going over the notes of what I knew about the virus itself from the info given by Elfen Lied. I was curious, the Virus specifically infected human males and made it that their sperm could only produce Dicloni. Could it work the same way for stallions and make some kind of hybrids? Could it theoretically infect mares? These and many other questions I had written down on a separate sheet of notes. By the time I decided to stop, I saw it was around one in the morning.

I spent the next few days taking care of Twilight. We decided that after a potentially dangerous panic attack like that one, she needed some time to rest. I kept her home and Spike took care of things in the library, with Selene and Topaz doing most of his chores. The two of us would talk, she would help me with my research and me and Sora would answer some of her questions about Pokemon and the Dicloni. After three days, I decided to take her to the spa with Rarity and Fluttershy.

Turns out the Spa sisters heard what happened with Twilight having a panic attack and they offered to give her a full relaxation message so she would calm down. I all but forced her to take it, but she only did after I said I would join her. I noticed while we were in the sauna that my Vectors would actually become visible in the steam, which was odd as they are normally intagable.

I also noticed Twilight glancing at me more than once. I figured she was curious about the physical differences between my body and that of mares. Considering I don’t have fur to cover anything, I was lucky it was only mares in today. Though Rarity was inspired to make some new undergarments for me from just seeing me naked, so there is that.

Those two were just full of nothing but apologies to Twilight. Seems they needed this trip just as much as us with how stressed they have been after my scolding a few days ago.

After that, things just went back to normal for all of us, just with the girls being a bit more considerate of Twilight and me and Twi spend more time together. So far I haven’t found any more Tokens aside from Loki’s and no more Pokemon have appeared, so the only problems we have dealt with were Equestrian in origin. Before I knew it, it was time for the next episode to come around. Luna Eclipsed.

I had commissioned Rarity to make me a specific outfit. I know Adam would be proud. I got half of my hair coloured chocolate brown the night before and bought a single brown contact for it. Rarity made the outfit perfectly. The greyish brown jeans and belt were cut just halfway down my calf’s, where my long white boots would cover up. The mid length white and pink jacket and grey stripped shirt I had on fit just right to show a bit of my bust, being covered by a few black necklaces and my black gloves were just the right size. I even got a parasol that was near perfect. Just added a few details here and there and may have added an actual hidden blade for self defence for tonight.

For once, me and Sora both agreed that we looked good. Who knew we would look so hot as Neo?

Rarity was the first to see me in the completed costume and she almost fainted with how good I look. She was immediately inspired to make a ton of other outfits similar to it, so I made a rough sketch of the outfit of a certain convict and another of a cape wearing huntress from RWBY for her to use. She said they would work perfectly for some of her customers in Canterlot. I walked over to Fluttershys with a cloak over me so no one would see my outfit before tonight. She said she actually made little outfits for Selene and Topaz in spite of the fact she wouldn’t be participating in Nightmare Night.

Getting to her cottage, I saw Harry the bear walking up to the door. He noticed me as I walked up the path and met me halfway and gave me a literal bear hug. This guy is a big softy and my Vectors being far stronger than even Big Mac came in handy when he threw his back out a few days ago and needed a rough message to get better. We entered Fluttershy’s cottage together and found the butter yellow pegasus checking over a list of things for the night.

“Let’s see do I have everything for tonight?” She asks herself, before noticing as me and Harry walk into the living room. “Oh! Natali, your just in time. The costumes for Selene and Topaz are done and in the kitchen. I was just going over my supplies for the night.” I nod to her and enter the kitchen seeing the two outfit and I couldn’t help but giggle at the thought of those two in them.

The first was a little ninja outfit that was clearly for Topaz as it had two masks, one for her face and another for her other mouth. The other one took me a second to recognize, but it was a monarch butterfly outfit that would fit a tiny fox. I gather the two outfits in a bag Fluttershy provided before wishing her a safe night and giving another hug to Harry.

Getting back to the library, I release Topaz and Selene from their pokeballs and help them put their costumes on. They both commented on my outfit choice as well and the three of us waited for Twilight and Spike to get back from some last minute shopping before the holiday starts. We didn’t have to wait long as they got back not five minutes later. I made sure to keep my cloak on as I wanted to surprise them with my outfit of choice.

After a couple hours and Celestia lowering the sun, Spike walked out of his room in a dragon outfit. A dragon going as a dragon. Meta. Soon after we get a knocking at the door. Spike goes to open it and gets a certain jingle sung to him.

“Nightmare Night! What a fright! Give me something sweet to bite!” Call out the CMC in their own little outfits. I laugh a little as I see Pinkie popping out behind them in a chicken outfit.

“Pinkie? Aren’t you a little too old for trick or treating?” Spike asks, putting some candy in all their bags, getting a gasp from the chicken mare in response.

“Too old for free candy?!? Are you loco?!” She asks, before pecking at the bowl, taking half of the candy in it. I just laugh at her antics. After they left Twilight came down in her Starswirl the Bearded outfit. The cape and hat were then same as in the show, but she also wore a old scholars robe and necklace around her neck. I whistled at it, while Spike was confused by it.

“Well? What do you two think?” She asks, twirling a bit. Spike was still confused so I just saved him a little embarrassment.

“Nice job Twilight. I am going to assume you got the numbers of bells exact for Starswirls sake?” I ask with a smirk, earning a sheepish blush.

“Maybe...Anyways, are you going to show us your outfit now or what?” She asks excited. I just smile and have Selene and Topaz stand next to me and and pulled my cloak off like many, MANY movies and games do for reveals. Turns out, not that hard if it isn’t a sleeved cloak.

While the cloak is going by I grab and extend my parasol behind me and put on a small smile. Both of their jaws dropped and I noticed Twilight gaining a blush on her face.

“Oh. Wow.” She whispers and I can’t help but get a bit of a blush myself and hide behind some of my brown hair like Fluttershy.

“Do you guys like it?” I ask shyly, and Twilight dumbly nods while Spike snaps out of his shocked trance.

“Holy Luna! Nat, not to overstep my bounds or anything, but you look pretty hot.” He says, and I blush some more as a certain sister of mine appears beside me, laughing in the air.

”Hahahah! Thank you Spike! Finally someone other than me says it!” Sora says laughing. Unlike me she is actually in a different outfit. We learned we can manifest different clothes for ourselves in astral form so she is going as someone different. She has the roots and tops of her hair brown with the ends highlighted pink. She is wearing a pink and purple striped sweater with a hot pink skirt and brown boots, and holding a hot pink scythe.

Again, Adam would be proud. Sora pulls off being Betty pretty well.

“Nice look for you too Sora. So who are you two going as anyways? I assume chacacters from stories back home?” He asks and we both nod, me and Twilight having stopped blushing for the moment. Topaz and Selene said they would be watching the library for us tonight, so we walk out the library without them and Sora and I explain who our characters are as we go to the center of town where the others are. I notice as we are walking I am getting more than a few passing glances by the stallions in town.

Before long we reach where the others are, Pinkie going by with the foals with large sacks full of candy, and AppleJack manning the bobbing for apples barrel. I see Rarity coming up from the way her boutique was in a pretty good Bride of Frankenstein outfit. The others notice as we walk up and Rarity actually does a double take seeing Sorano in her costume.

“Oh my! Sora, you didn’t say you were dressing up yourself. This is a rather interesting choice, though I suspect the scythe has something to do with it?” Rarity asks as she walks to us. Sora smirks and decided to scare them. She closes her eyes and motions for them to get closer. They do and she opens her eyes, the pupils having turned slited like Spikes and her smile turns jagged. The mare jump back and shout in fright before Sora bursts out laughing.

”HAHAHAHAH! Oh, oh my Celestia, y-your faces! Ahaha!” she goes on with a few midair flips in her fit of laughter. While that is going on I quickly explain who Betty is in her story and Rarity understands reason for the fright and scythe.

“Ah have to say, the two of ya’ll look real good as your characters. But ya may wanna be careful there Nat. You may get the wrong kind of attention with that much out.” AppleJack says, pointing to my bust. I rub my arm and nod before buttoning up a bit more. Sora noticed that Twilight got a barely noticeable defensive look on her face after AJ said that and raised a brow at her.

We don't get to continue as Mayor Mare comes on stage in a clowns outfit. Me and Sora see this is going to be just like the show so we decided before hand to just enjoy ourselves before helping out Luna near the end of the night. After Luna arrived and then proptly left, Twilight went to comfort her while I got everypony to stop freaking out.

Me and Sora just walk around for a while, playing spider toss and using our Vectors for the pumpkin launch, before passing an alley and hearing a muffled scream. It wasn’t of anyone I recognize but I could tell it was a mares. Me and Sora rush into the alley and carefully look around a corner. What I see pissed me off.

Three stallions that I recognize as DumbBell and his friends cornering Derpy. They had put a muzzle on her and tied her wings up. It didn’t take a genius to know what was going on. Especially since her shirt and pants were ripped off. The three stallions were planning to rape her.

“Well, it is about time you can be made useful. Maybe this will give you an actual job.” DumbBell says with a laugh. Derpy was crying on the ground and at that point something in me snapped as I remember something that happened to Lex a few years back. She wasn’t raped, but she did lose her virginity to some guy who only wanted bragging rights to his friends. Adam found him and put him in the hospital soon after. Now its my turn.

I walk around the corner as Sora flies to get the night guards that came with Luna. The skinny one, Score, notices me and I made sure to keep my buttons lowered to throw him off.

“Hey guys, looks like we got another one that wants to join in.” He says and the others look to me. Derpy sees me and silently begs for help. I just send her a soft smile before glaring at the trio, it wasn’t Lucy in terms of level, but it did make Score flinch.

“I am going to give you to the count of three to apologize before I clip your wings and leave you to die.” I say with seriousness, but they just laugh.

“You think a little mare like you can take us on?” Hoops asks, taking out a pocket knife. I don’t react and place a hand on the end of my parasol.

“One.” I grab and twist the handle and a loud click goes out. The Pegasi look confused by the sound.

“Two.” I slowly pull out the hidden sword with its sound of metal against metal. Hoops and Score actually flinch in shock. DumbBell does as the first part of his name says and does the dumb thing and takes out two batons.

“What you think a little piece of metal is going to scare us? I am going to enjoy having some fun with you.” He says and rushes forward. I just close my eyes before opening them, my eyes dulled and full of anger.

“THREE!” As the pegasus gets close I whip a Vector out, destroying his batons. He barely has time to recognize this before I attack, slicing cleanly through his wings and standing behind him. He doesn’t react for a second before screaming in pain and blood spurts onto my face from the stumps that held his wings. The other Pegasi step back, shaking as I walk forwards towards them.

“Buck this! I’m out!” Score says, but before he can fly, I wrap a Vector around his neck and lift him into the air. He begins to choke and gasp for breath before I throw him at myself and as he is sailing by, cut his wings off too as well as an ear. I look to the remaining stallion as he grabs Derpy and places the knife against her neck.

“Don’t move freak! Or this bitch gets it!” I don’t react and take a step forwards, Hoops putting more pressure on the blade, beginning to draw blood. I send two Vectors behind him. They slowly reach into him, but he doesn’t notice. I sheath my blade and he smiles thinking he has won, before seeing my ashamed face.

“I’m sorry, but it looks like you will be the first to die from my Vectors.” I say and he looks confused before feeling an intense pain in his right arm. He looks and finds his arm is on the ground. Derpy quickly gets away as I vibrate my Vector within him, causing him to throw up blood and soon a huge hole appears in his torso. He looks to me for a second before falling over, dead.

I walk over to Derby, taking my jacket off and giving it to her, not caring if a lot of my bust is showing from my tight shirt. She takes it before crying into my shoulder. We stay there for who know how long before we hear several hooves coming to us.

”Nat! I got the others! Are you two-“ Sora stops as she, Luna, Twilight and the Night guards come around the corner and see the carnage I made. I don’t react and help Derpy up, letting her lean on me the whole time. I wave a guard over and he tries to help only for Derpy to yelp and hold onto me tighter. I sigh and wrap my arms around her. I look to the princess who looks to the dead and bleeding stallions on the ground with disgust, but not because of their injuries.

“Twilight, where does Derpy live?” I ask, Twilight turning back to me from almost losing her dinner. She just motions for me to follow. I look to a guard and nod for him to follow as well. I then look to Luna and silently apologize for the mess. She just shakes her head and spits at the body of Hoops.

We walk out of the alley, a large crowd having gathered after hearing DumbBells screams. More than a few look in shock at Derpy’s state and the actual blood on my face. Sora and the other two Night guards keep the civilians at bay as the Elements and Mayor Mare walk up to us.

“What happened!?!” She yells, only for me to cover her mouth and glare at her, motioning to the still terrified Derpy. She softens her gaze and puts two and two together from her lack of cloths and the blood on me. Me and the others walk past her and the Guards make sure no one gets into the alley besides the mayor.

Several ponies come by and try to comfort Derpy, but I just push them all away with my Vectors and keep the mare close. We soon arrive at her house and Twilight grabs a spare key from beneath a potted plant and unlocked the door for us. I take Derpy to her room while the guard says he will go to Derpy’s workplace and tell her boss she needs time off from this.

“Derpy?” She turns to me with puffy eyes. “Do you want me to stay here tonight?” I ask her and she sniffles and nods. I help her get washed up, cleaning myself from the blood as well, and get into some night wear and go to the living room with her staying close. I look to the mantle by the fireplace and see a photo of her, Dr.Whooves, Dinky and Sparkler all together. I take it off the mantle and smile at it as they all look so happy.

“Where is the Doctor and your daughters?” I ask, Twilight coming into the room with some tea.

“Time said he was going to be visiting Trottingham to see some colleagues about an experiment and the girls went with him to see what he has been working on.” She says shakily, taking a sip of her tea. I nod and think that may have been for the best. Dinky and Sparkler shouldn’t have to see their mom like this.

“Twilight? Can you head back to the library and get some spare clothes for me and get Selene to come here?” I ask her, the purple unicorn nodding before carefully giving Derpy a hug and teleporting away. I stay next to the grey pegasus, letting her just rest her head on my shoulder. Before too much time passes there is a knock at the door and Sorano says it is Luna, Twilight and Selene. I use a Vector to open the door and let them in, not moving from my spot next to Derpy. Luna walks in with a neutral expression, only for it to fall as soon as she sees me and Derpy.

Selene comes in and immediately jumps up to Derpy and begins to nuzzle the grey pegasus mare. Luna motions for me to talk to her in the kitchen and I ask Twilight to stay with these two. She nods and Derpy reluctantly lets me go. Going to the kitchen, Luna casts a silencing spell.

“Sorano gave us a report of what happened. She looked through you memories and told us what happened between you, Derpy and those stallions. Ordinarily I would berate any who would kill or clip Pegasi wings, but I agree that they deserved it. My sister may not agree.” Luna says, only for me to take my brown contact out and look at her, dead in the eye, with defiance. What I was going to say next was very dangerous, but needed to be said.

“If your sister tries to defend those sick fucks after what they almost did, then she doesn’t care about her subjects. I may not be a pony or Equestrian, but where I come from, there is a thing called karmic retribution. They got what they deserved. It will haunt me that I had to do it, but I would do it a thousand times more if it meant protecting my friends and even those I don’t know.” I tell the night princess. She looks at me for a minute before smiling at me.

“That is a response I haven’t heard before in all my time ruling.” ‘Luna’ says in a different voice, one I know as well. I cross my arms and motion for her to cut it out. She nods and begins to glow, taking the form of Celestia. We stare at each other for a second before the sun princess sighs.

“My sister called me after arriving at the crime scene. Like I said, I do not agree that you had to go that far, but I will not hold it against you for protecting one who needed it. Instead, I thank you for stopping three monsters in pony form from hurting an innocent mother while her family is away.” She says, bowing her head to me. I just stare at her.

“Like I said, a thousand time over for my friends. Derpy is a sweet mare that this shouldn’t have happened to.” I sigh and rub my head a bit. “I’ll be staying with her till her family gets back to make sure she is ok. Can you get your sister to keep a close eye on her dreams to ward off her nightmares?” Celestia nods and lowers the spell, the two of us walking back to the living room.

Not long after the princess and Twilight left, I take Derpy to bed and make sure she is comfy. I have Selene sleeping next to her and acting like a plushy for her to hug in her sleep. I took to sleeping in a small cot Derpy had in the Doctors lab after moving it into her room. I just lay there, wide awake and I keep thinking back to that fight.

’You did the right thing Nat. You don’t have to keep thinking about it.’ After Sora says that she appears and gives me a hug, laying in the cot with me. In her arms, in spite of being transparent, I feel a little better. It isn’t long before I fall asleep, nuzzling into the arms of my little sister.