I don’t know why, but I was getting more nervous the closer we get to Twilight’s parents house. I am not sure why, but it was reminding me of when I was going to meet Lex’s parents for the first time. Maybe it was some kind of psychological reaction to meeting new adults of authority, especially that of close friends or unknown family. I sigh to myself as we pass another street and arrive at the street Twi’s parents live.

“So what made you decide to join us for Hearth Warming Nat?” Shining asks suddenly, making me jump slightly from how quiet everyone has been since we left the theater.

“Oh, Twilight invited me since I can’t spend the holidays with Lex and Adam. Back on earth we have a near identical holiday called Christmas that all our families spend together. We would make a huge dinner, share stories and trade gifts. I was kinda bummed that I couldn’t spend it with them again, so Twi offered to let me join you guys so I wouldn’t just be spending my time at the library.” I explain. Shining looks to his sister who nods with a smile and light blush.

The stallion just shrugs as we pass another couple houses before stopping at one. It was a relatively normal looking two story house with a porch, nice flower bed that was covered by snow, and a few windows around the front. Shining walks up and knocks on the door and I hear a woman calling from inside.

“One moment please!” Our group waits a bit before the door opens, revealing a slightly older looking mare with a light grey coat, a purple and light grey, almost white mane and tail, and light blue eyes. She was wearing a blue blouse beneath a purple sweater and grey pants. As soon as she sees who is at the door, she smiles and pulls her children in for a hug.

“Shiny, Twily, Spike! I was wondering when you three were going to show up.” She says with a smile before looking past them and seeing me and my team. I just smile awkwardly and wave. She just raises a brow at me and looks at her kids and Spike again.

“So, anypony care to introduce me?” She says, motioning to me and my team. Before the other three could start I walk up to her.

“Hello ma’am. My name is Natali. Twilight invited me to spend Hearth’s Warming with you guys since I can’t spend it with my family. Sorry if I am intruding on anything.” I say with a slight bow of my head. She looks me over, before looking at my team, in particular Topaz, before nodding with a smile and motioning for us to come in.

“It is no bother Natali, just make sure your friends are well behaved.” She says as we each wipe our boots off on the entry mat, my teammates included.

”You don’t need to worry about us Mrs. Sparkle. We know how to behave ourselves.” Selene says after wiping her paws and climbing back onto my shoulder. Velvet looks to her with wide eyes.

“You can talk?” She asks in surprise.

”Yes, we can, but you wouldn’t have been able to actually understand us if Twilight hadn’t used a translation spell of each of us when we met.” Topaz says, handing Spike her coat to hang up for her. Velvet looks to her daughter with a proud smile at this little bit of news.

“Velvet? Who’s there?” We hear as someone is coming down the stairs, who turns out to be Night Light. He has a greyish blue, azure I think, coat, a dark blue mane and tail and dark gold eyes. He was wearing a pair of black jeans, a blue t-shirt and had a brown overcoat on.

Upon seeing his children, the stallion quickly came down and brought his daughter into a hug then shook hands with his son and Spike.

“Twily! It has been way too long since we have seen you. And Shining I see you are keeping up with the training regiment I gave you a while back. Spike! You seem to have grow some since the last time I saw you.” He says with pride to them. As the Sparkle family all get back together I quietly make my way over to the couch in the living room and take a seat.

They look so happy to have one another here. I frown as I remember that my family is all over the multiverse right now. My family by blood are back on earth, and my siblings in all but blood are in their own versions of Equestria. I sigh silently and take out the photo of me, Adam and Lex and just let my mind wander. Selene sees my sad face and begins to nuzzle my cheek for comfort, Topaz and Chance sitting next to me with slightly worried expressions.

Twilight manages to break out of her fathers hold and goes to introduce me, before noticing me on the couch and then seeing my expression. The two parents see my look as well, but do a double take when Sora appears and places an arm around me. They both raise a brow and Shining and Spike tell them about Sora and my team as Twilight walks up. I don’t even notice her before she is sitting next to me.

“You’re missing your family again, aren’t you?” She says quietly. I just nod to her with my sad face. She scoots closer and pulls me in for a hug, allowing me to rest my head on her shoulder as we both look at my photo. No matter how I try to ignore it, I can’t help but worry about them. I have summoned a couple other Displaced now and then to ask if they have heard anything about them, but I got no results.

“So, her siblings are in other versions of Equestria?” Night Light asks in surprise.

“The poor dear. I am glad she has Twily and her friends.” Velvet says with a sad smile. Shining nods to them and goes to talk more before being interrupted.

”Honestly if it wasn’t for Twilight and the rest of our team, I think Nat would be more closed off then after what happened after Nightmare Night.” Sora says, suddenly appearing next to them. Sora turns to the parents.

”Sorry for startling you. My name is Sora if Shining or Spike haven’t told you, I am Nat’s little sister.” she introduces herself to the couple. The duo nod as they turn back to me and Twilight.

“Twilight seems closer to your sister than anypony I have seen before. Well, aside from us.” Velvet points out. Sora nods to her.

”Same with Nat. Those two are both really awkward and didn’t have many friends aside from their family. I just wish they weren’t so dense so they would hurry up and notice.” Sora says with a sigh. Twilight’s family look to her in confusion.

“Notice what?” Night Light asks. Sora just turns to them with a blank expression before looking at me and Twi again.

”With any luck, you will find out soon enough.” She says vaguely before disappearing into my head again. Velvet, Night Light and Shining all raise a brow in confusion while Spike just sighs and rubs his eyes.

I am not sure how long we just sat there on the couch, but I really didn’t mind. It was nice, just resting against Twilight like this. I felt relaxed, safe, like I didn’t need to worry. I just chuckle to myself at that feeling. Looks like I am going nuts again. Eventually I lift my head off of Twi’s shoulder and put my photo away.

“Hey Nat? I forgot to ask, but what was it Princess Luna wanted to talk to you about before the play?” Spike asks as he walks up with Night Light and Twilight Velvet. I remember how Luna gave me the two tokens and I take them out of my purse to show the others.

“Luna and Blueblood found these tokens earlier in the week and Luna decided to give them to me since I am collecting them. Actually I was going to see if I can summon the ones these tokens belong to to see who they are and offer my help.” I say, standing and grabbing my boots. It wasn’t all that cold, just sweater weather, so I figures opening the portals outside would be fine as there was only so much room in the house.

“So you are going to open gates to other versions of Equestria to see who these tokens belong to?” Shining asks and I nod, going through the back door. I see as the others all follow me out, Shining having summoned his sword just in case. I nod and focus on the two tokens in my hands.

“I call upon the Sword of Equality and the Fairy of Justice.” I say. After a second the pendant and mask both begin to glow and two different portals open before me, one of them having the Fairy Tail above it while the other had a symbol of a red and black eclipse with a wolfs head starring forward.

Twilight and the others tense as we sense massive sources of magic coming from both portals followed by two other, smaller sources. I can sense that three individuals are coming from both portals, but two coming from the eclipse portal feel very familiar. Almost like Princess Luna’s and Rainbow Dash’s magic signature. I am not sure how long we waited there before the outlines of the people begin to form. Shining lights up his horn and puts up a shield around himself and his family as my Pokemon stand next to me and Sora taking control of my Vectors just in case.

The first ones to pass through the portals were the ones from the Fairy Tail portal. The first to come through was a woman around my height with blue hair with gold stripes in it, one brown and one yellow eye, wearing a orange, knee high dress with a white and gold jacket overtop. Attached to her waist was some kind of a rapier with a blue Fairy Tail symbol on it, the tails acting as the guard and her token was around her neck.

After her was a unicorn stallion the size of Shining Armor with a silver coat, shiny black mane, red eyes and was wearing a pair of black jeans and a blue t-shirt under a dark red jacket. This stallion looked familiar, but I couldn’t place where I have seen him before.

The last to come through that portal actually gave me pause. It was a purple cat with a pair of white wings coming from her back, wearing a blue and pink dress that fits her stature. She lands on the stallions shoulder upright and her wings disappear.

Before I can focus on them, the individuals from the other portal come thought and I have to pause for a second. The three coming from the portal are all people I recognize. The first was, as expected, a version of Adam Taurus, his black jacket, jeans and red t-shirt being the same, as well has his Grimm mask. His sword and sheath were at his side and he had a pair of red and black bracelets on and a necklace with an odd red jewel around his neck.

After him was a girls with curly orange hair, a pink bow like Applebloom, and some really nice clothes that I know fit her. It was Penny Polendina.

Last was Rainbow Dash. No joke, their version of Rainbow Dash came through. She looked exactly like the one from here, but she looks a little more muscular. Not by much, but just enough to where I can see the difference compared to mine.

“Oh man, I wonder who summoned us this time.” Adam Taurus says.

“Yeah you said it dude. I wonder who would be the first to summon me.” The girl from the other portal says. At this, both of them pause and look to each other. Adam takes his mask off, showing a pair of shining silver eyes. While they are looking at each other, I am frozen. I know those voices. I sniffle a little bit, getting their attentions, and both their eyes widen.

“Nat?” They say together, and this all but confirms it.

“Adam? Lex?” I say as tears begin to form in my eyes. The duo nod and then turn to each other, as if they are just now noticing each other.

“How..? Who..?” Adam questions. They don’t get a chance to react before I wrap the two of them in my Vectors and pull them to me for a hug.

“ADAM! LEX! You’re ok!” I yell with tears in my eyes and tackle the two of them as they were being launched at me, the three of us falling in the snow. The two of them realize what is happening and hug back, the three of us staying on the ground, me and Lex crying as Adam struggles not to. I am not sure how long we stay like that, but eventually I lift us off the ground with my Vectors and give them both another, individual hug. I smile wide as they smile back.

“Oh man! I can’t even tell you two how happy I am to see you again!” I say.

“Same here sis. I can’t believe it. Though, in hindsight I shouldn’t be all that surprised, since the three of us sent out our tokens.” Adam says with a grin. I hear the snow crunching and see as Penny and Rainbow walk up to Adam and the other two step up to Lex.

“Adam, is that?” Penny asks. Adam nods and we all stand side by side.

“Penny, Rainbow. Meet my big sisters. Natali and Alexandria, or just Nat and Lex.” Adam introduces us to his companion.

“Sonbā and Echo. Say hi to my little sister and little brother, Natali and Adam.” Lex says to her friends. I turn to my group, all of them looking both shocked and happy.

“Guys, meet Adam and Lex.” I say simply. I smile as each of our group gets acquainted.

”Hey! Don’t forget me guys!” Lex and Adam look confused for a second before Sora appears next to me with a smirk. Both of they jaws drop at the sight of her.

“Sora?!” They yell in unison. Sora just nods and flaoats up.

”The one and only. Who did you expect? Mrs. Hyde?” she says with a smirk. The newcomer all look shocked so Shining and Spike explain to them who Sora is.

“How is this possible?! I mean I know you can take control over Nat’s body but how are you appearing right now?” Adam questions, and I see as Lex’s eyes light up green. I raise a brow at this but shrug it off.

“Well the first Displaced we summoned was a draconequus named Loki. He found out about Sora almost instantaneously and afterwards cast a spell on us to let either of us have an astral form for whenever the other is in control of our body.” I explain. Adam nods after a second and turns to see Rainbow and Penny talking to Shining while Lex’s friends, Sonbā and Echo I think, were talking to Spike.

“Ok that is cool.” Lex says suddenly, her eyes still lit up. “Looks like your astral form is the result of a combination of chaotic and Harmonious magic being combined properly to give you control over outside magic.” Lex explains. I look to her with a raised brow, wondering how she could tell that. She sees my look and elaborates.

“After I had to deal with something in my Equestria I found a chest that was sealed by a powerful spell. Turns out one of the versions of Master Mavis, the founder of Fairy Tail, sent out the chest that was filled with info on Fiore magic. I unlocked it and gained way more magic than I had when I arrived in Equestria. I have been practicing with my different styles of magic for the past couple months.”

“Yeah, Edward mentioned that you taught him Arc of Embodiment, but I was a little confused on how.” Adam says. I guess Edward is another Displaced they both met.

”Um, can someone please introduce us?” My eyes go wide as I realize my team has just been standing off to the side the whole time.

“Oops, sorry Selene. I guess we got too excited.” I say as I pick up Topaz and hold her, Selene jumping up to my head. I look back at my siblings to find their jaws on the ground again.

“You have Pokemon here?!” Lex yells in shock. I smile and nod at her, my teammates nodding along with me.

“Guys, meet Selene, Topaz and Chance. They have been showing up in Equestria seemingly at random, and have each been great friends.” I say, each of my teammates greeting the newcomers.

“Ok, those things look awesome.” Rainbow says as she flies over.

“Agreed. These creatures are more adorable than me, and that is no easy feat.” Echo says, flying over as well. I laugh a little as Selene jumps into Rainbow’s arms and nuzzles up. Despite herself, the pegasus couldn’t help but go ‘awww’. She blushes upon seeing all of us looking at her.

“None of you heard that.” She says sternly. All of us are silent for a second before we all burst into laughter. It took a while before all of us calmed down.

“Don’t worry Rainbow. We’ll be quiet.” Twilight says with a grin. Rainbow looks to Twi before hovering over and looking her over more closely.

“So you’re this world version of Twi huh? Weird. You look exactly like the one back home, but I feel there is something different about you.” She says, hovering above her. Twi raises a brow but shrugs.

“So, any real reason for our summoning Nat?” Lex asks.

“Not really. After I got your tokens I was just planning on summoning whoever they belonged to and to offer my token before we went to the party.” I answer.

“What party?” Penny asks.

”Its Hearths Warming right now. We got invited to a private party by the princesses. Actually, would you guys like to come? We told Luna we might be inviting some friends.” Sora says. The six newcomers all think for a minute before nodding with smiles.

“I’m in. There is no way I am leaving my sisters to go though this holiday without me.” Adam says with a smile. Penny and Rainbow nod behind him, agreeing.

“But, not all of you have some outfits that would work.” Night Light points out. The group all look to themselves before Lex laughs.

“No worries there. I can just use some of my abilities to make our outfits.” Lex says.

“Oh! If you can just get me some material, I can use my alchemy to make myself a dress.” Penny says with a smile.

“You have alchemy?” Sonbā asks in surprise. Penny nods and begins to go over how she and Adam met Edward.

After a couple minutes and a lot of catching up, Lex, Echo, Penny, Rainbow and I are in the living room, changing into our outfits. Lex used Arc of Embodiment and made some rolls of material and she and Penny both used their alchemy like from Fullmetal Alchemist to make their outfits for the night. I was shocked and embarrassed when Lex said we could change in the main room, before she used her Kaleidoscope spell with her Mirror magic to make some mirror panes around us to act like some change rooms. Once we were ready Lex said we could just tap on the mirrors and they would disperse.

While the five of us are changing in our mirror ‘rooms’, Twilight is up in her old bedroom changing with her mom. Shining, Spike, and Night Light are in changing in Shining’s old room, and Adam and Sonbā are changing in Night Light and Velvet’s room. Luckily Sonbā was Shining’s size so he was able to borrow one of Shining’s suits.

I tap on my mirror as I finish getting into my dress and see as Echo and Rainbow are done as well. Echo was wearing a new light blue and pink dress with little black shoes for herself. Rainbow was wearing a white dress with red cuffs and a blue collar with her cutie mark on the center of her chest and a black hooded jacket.

“Wow! You two look great! But what is with the jacket Rainbow?” I say as they see me.

“Same goes to you too Natali. I am not really into fashion, but even I can tell that black and pink are a difficult combo to pull off. As for my jacket, I want to surprise this worlds version of me.” Rainbow says, lounging in the air. Echo flies around me and ends up sitting on my head like Selene.

“What is it with you tiny creatures and sitting on my head?” I question with a smirk. Echo and Selene look to each other before shrugging.

“You’re comfy.” Echo answers simply. All of us just laugh a little at this response.

“You know you should be glad you’re head is comfy like that. I am pretty sure we all know a certain yellow pegasus who would be jealous by that.” We turn as Lex comes out of her changing ‘room’ and all of our eyes go wide. I watched through Fairy Tail before, so I recognized the dress she was wearing. It was the same one Erza wore at the beginning of the Tower of Heaven arc. Her hair was done up the same way as well, her hair being kept in a small bun with her bangs in front of her face, just on the sides of her eyes. She can really make it work now since she has ‘filled out’ along with growing taller.

“Holy fashion statement! Lex you look awesome!” I say, grabbing her hands and smiling. She smiles back and does a few poses. I take out my phone and take a couple pictures before she hands me her own phone for me to do the same thing.

“I should have expected you two to be taking photos of each other.” We turn to the stairs as we see Adam, Shining, Spike, Night Light and Sonbā coming down. Sonbā was wearing a rather nice white suit with a red tie that matches his eyes while Shining was in a black version of it. Adam was still in his regular outfit, but at least he was wearing a tie. I roll my eyes at his lack of caring about what he is wearing, but at least it was rather appropriate.

“And we should have expected you to barely change anything.” Lex counters. We all chuckle at this again. We hear tapping and see as Penny’s mirrors disappear. All of us go wide eyed at her as her outfit looks really, really good. Penny’s dress was grey with light green symbols around the bottom, her brown straps around her shoulders, her boots being changed as well, turning them into high heeled versions that also reach near her knees. She also had a pair of black and green gloves on.

“Um, how d-do I look?” She asks shyly. I immediately grab both mine and Lex’s phones and take a photo of her, surprising the girl.

“Wow! Penny you look incredible!” Sora says, looking her over. Penny smiles and looks to Adam who is standing stock still, looking at her with wide eyes. They both remain frozen for a second and I look to Lex with a raised brow, earning a shrug in response.

“Um, Adam?” I ask, shaking his shoulder. He shakes his head and looks back to Penny with a slight blush on his face.

“Um, wow Penny. You look incredible.” He says, rubbing the back of his head. Penny blushes and looks at her dress, rubbing her hands together. I look to Lex and motion to the two of them with a grin. She smirks and nods in agreement.

“Well, all we need now if for mom and Twily to finish and we can head to the castle.” Shining says.

“You won’t need to wait long.” We turn as Velvet walks down in a rather nice looking pale blue dress with a sapphire necklace. I can see Night Light having a proud smile and blush at his wife’s attire. I chuckle at this and turn to the stairs again as I hear Twilight’s hoofsteps coming down. Once she gets in view though, I freeze.

Twilight was wearing an almost identical dress as the one she wore to the Gala in the show, but it looked so much better in person. The lower part of the dress and the collar were dark indigo and the torso being light blue, the bottom of it having stars around the bottom and one star hair pin with her hair being in a bun.

Twilight and I lock eyes and just stood still for a minute. We both looked each other over in silence, both of us tracing each other’s dresses, before Sora clears her throat loudly, getting both of our attentions. She just looks at us both with a raised brow. The both of our faces erupt into large blushes as we realize we have just been standing here for over two minutes.

“Ahem, sorry. You look beautiful Twilight.” I say with a smile and light blush. Twilight blushes as well and plays with her hair a bit.

“Thanks Nat. You looks great too.” She says with her own smile. The group stays silent for a bit after that before Lex let’s out a loud sigh and claps her hands.

“Alright! If that is everything, can we get going?” She says and all of us nod. I quickly return my pokemon to their pokeballs before we all walk outside. But before we can go very far Lex stops and seems to get an idea.

“Hold on everypony. How about I just teleport all of us to the main hall?” She says and the ponies from here look confused.

“But a teleportation spell of that magnitude would take tons of magical power.” Shining says with a little worry in his voice.

“Maybe for a teleportation spell with pony magic, but I am using a type of magic called Direct Line, which is used for fast paced teleportation. I have used it before, but this will be the largest group I have ever teleported before.” She says. I think about how Mest Gryder would use his teleportation magic and think it could work. I smile and nod before placing my hand on Lex’s left shoulder, Adam placing his own on her right one. After that the others all connect themselves, holding hands or placing them on the others shoulders. Once ready Adam and I nod to Lex who closes her eyes for a second.

“Direct Line!”

And with that, we are gone.